Below I have listed some of the highlights of our College’s achivements:

1. Among the fastest growing programs at highly cramped UH-Hilo
2. The College is highly community service oriented
3. New building to be at the physical and academic focal point of a future expanded UH-Hilo campus
4. Academically and culturally tied to highly successful bilingual ‘Imiloa Astronomy Education Center
5. Hawaiian Language College programs draw numerous national and international visitors
6. Most developed indigenous language revitalization program in the world
7. Largest Hawaiian language focused major count in the State
8. The sole Hawaiian Studies Ph.D. program in the UH System
9. A national model for immersion at the tertiary level with Hawaiian B.A., M.A., Teacher Certification, and Ph.D. in Indigenous Language and Culture Revitalization
10. Provides other indigenous peoples with opportunities to enroll through its Linguistics B.A., an Indigenous Education M.A., and the Ph.D.
11. Partners at the graduate level with University of Arizona, University of Alaska, and University of Waikato (New Zealand)
12. The only fully operational P-20 educational system in Hawai‘i with the P-12 Hawaiian Immersion N?wah? Laboratory School that includes early college enrollment
13. In 2009, N?wah? School was one of only five schools on Hawai‘i Island with the highest rating under Federal No Child Left Behind legislation
14. The College’s Hale Kuamo‘o Service Center is the main source of curriculum materials and teacher support for over 2,000 students in P-12 Hawaiian Immersion Statewide
15. The College’s Ulukau Hawaiian Electronic Library (operated in conjunction with Alu Like, Inc.) is a major resource with Hawaiian dictionaries, archives, etc. Over the past five years, Ulukau has received over 40 million hits from users around the world
16. The College’s Leok? telecommunications system was the first in the world to provide a completely translated interface and ability to communicate completely in any indigenous language in the world.
17. The College’s Hale Kuamo’o has worked diligently with technology providers such as Apple Computer, Inc., Google, Netscape Communications and Microsoft to enhance the ability of Hawaiian speakers to utilized advanced technologies. The presence of native support for the Hawaiian language in Apple’s Macintosh operating system, the iPhone and iPad are a direct result of the College’s initiatives.

The bill which will fund construction of our college’s already-designed facility has passed the state House of Representatives and is currently in the Senate’s Ways and Means commitee. We would like to ask for your assistance in contacting members of this committee and express your support for funding. You may send emails, fax or call any of these senators, however, your contact is particularly important if you are a resident of the district that the senator represents. Please feel free to share this communication with your family and friends, and ask them to support us as well. Mahalo nui!

Shan S.Tsutsui
4th Senatorial District
Hawaii State Capitol, Room 206
415 South Beretania Street
Honolulu, HI 96813
Phone 808-586-7344; Fax 808-586-7348
From Maui, toll free 984-2400 + 67344
e-mail [ mailto:sentsutsui@Capitol.hawaii.gov ]sentsutsui@Capitol.hawaii.gov

Jill N.Tokuda
24th Senatorial District
Hawaii State Capitol, Room 218
415 South Beretania Street
Honolulu, HI 96813
phone 808-587-7215; fax 808-587-7220
E-mail [ mailto:sentokuda@Capitol.hawaii.gov ]sentokuda@Capitol.hawaii.gov

J. Kalani English[
6th Senatorial District
Hawaii State Capitol, Room 205
415 South Beretania Street
Honolulu, HI 96813
phone 808-587-7225; fax 808-587-7230
From Maui, toll free 984-2400 + 77225
From Molokai and Lanai, toll free 1-800-468-4644 + 77225
E-mail [ mailto:senenglish@Capitol.hawaii.gov ]senenglish@Capitol.hawaii.gov
[ http://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/site1/links/linkto.asp?URL=http%3A%2F%2Fkalanienglish%2Ecom&Text=J%2E+Kalani+English ]J. Kalani English Home Page

CarolFukunaga
11th Senatorial District
Hawaii State Capitol, Room 216
415 South Beretania Street
Honolulu, HI 96813
phone 808-586-6890; fax 808-586-6899
e-mail: [ mailto:senfukunaga@Capitol.hawaii.gov ]senfukunaga@Capitol.hawaii.gov

BrickwoodGaluteria
12th Senatorial District
Hawaii State Capitol, Room 208
415 South Beretania Street
Honolulu, HI 96813
phone 808-586-6740; fax 808-586-6829
e-mail [ mailto:sengaluteria@capitol.hawaii.gov ]sengaluteria@capitol.hawaii.gov

ClaytonHee
23rd Senatorial District
Hawaii State Capitol, Room 228
415 South Beretania Street
Honolulu, HI 96813
Phone 808-586-7330; Fax 808-586-7334
e-mail [ mailto:senhee@Capitol.hawaii.gov ]senhee@Capitol.hawaii.gov

Russell S.Kokubun
2nd Senatorial District
Hawaii State Capitol, Room 407
415 South Beretania Street
Honolulu, HI 96813
Phone 808-586-6760 ; Fax 808-586-6689
From the Big Island, toll free 974-4000 + 66760
Email [ mailto:senkokubun@Capitol.hawaii.gov ]senkokubun@Capitol.hawaii.gov

You may visit our college’s website to learn more about our programs: http://www.olelo.hawaii.edu/khuok/

Audio cassettes make comeback
Audio cassettes are making a comeback because elderly listeners are rejecting new technology.

After years of dwindling sales in the face of competition from CDs and digital downloads, the death knell for the format was sounded two years ago when retailers stopped stocking cassettes.

However, record companies are now releasing music on tape again due to growing demand from more senior music fans…

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/music-news/6803099/Audio-cassettes-make-comeback.html

Vinyl records I can understand, they often sound better, but cassettes? This must be a result of age-related hearing loss or too many Led Zeppelin concerts.

Sunday – while sitting in church – I realized that I was the only old fart using a hand-held web-thingy. One of the reasons I go to this particular Unitary Church is the free WiFi. I use my iPod Touch to look up words and references and take notes during the service and discussions. It keeps me from saying anything stupid or dismantling the chairs when someone starts droning about their private, non-consensual hallucinations.

In such a liberal community though you’d expect at least some cyber-geezers. Among the few people I know who are my age, most are also tethered to internet devices so it was a surprise to discover so many other old hippies insist on consuming their content through streaming oxide rather than streaming mp3s. As this demographic becomes a larger percentage of society I can but hope we balance out the old-school tech-deniers with agile tool users who appreciate the century in which we will all die.

Mahalo to Larry Czerwonka for extending the invitation, and to everyone who attended.

The county claimed the British Travel Award title from the 2008 winner, the Lake District, following a public vote. It last scooped the award in 2006.

Tourism accounts for 25% of Cornwall’s economy and is also the county’s largest employer.

About five million people visit the area every year and latest figures show that visitors spent £1.6bn in 2007.

According to VisitCornwall the county has more than 300 beaches and 40% of visitors go to The Eden Project during their stay making it the county’s most popular attraction.

Industry and business experts have praised the county for reclaiming the title.

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I’ve always been interested in these jockies of stick-and-wire aluminum boxes, with their checklists and shiny toys. Both of my parents flew, my Dad got his hours in bombers, before Mom bought her own Cessna 150 and ran the Fixed Base Operation (FBO) in St. Augustine.

While those who drive big airliners or top-gun military hotshots are paid to put holes in the air, the guy quietly polishing his Cessna on a sun-baked regional runway has more personal incentive. He’ll give you an endless list of reasons why he pissed away his savings on the FAA and pay for mechanics and insurance just to keep an ancient airframe flying. But the real reason may be what dragged us out of Africa millions of years ago.

The surviving adventurous among us become our heroes and leaders. Noble troublemakers have the potential to define humanity. When times get tough, the last thing we need are frightened caretakers; it is the disciplined risk-takers who usually win wars and grow business.

Out on the apron, most of the commuter planes are gone. Even the big Gulfstreams are out. The little airport in Palm Coast rests between weekends and holidays. The empty tie-downs will be filled with bread and butter Cessnas on Friday afternoon. Vacant parking spots outside the Highjacker restaurant will eventually fill with Porsches and station wagons loading for the last leg of a long commute. Inside, the crustier airmen swap stories around the bar or discuss table manners with their kids over the best burgers in town.

Private pilots have a unique combination of cowboy abandon and terminally compulsive behaviour. Within the constraints of the guiding principle (“Don’t fuck up!”) hides a childlike need for challenge and a joy of life – perhaps the result of constantly seeing life from a godlike altitude. Three hundred and sixty degrees of horizon is sure to calibrate your perspectives correctly.

While many pilots are ex-military and others fanatics by hobby alone, they all share the soldier’s unspoken understanding that mortality is less than a breath thick. Beneath life’s thin skin lurks an unforgiving bitch who waits with infinite patience for that one wrong move so she can turn you into a pile of twisted black metal.

Looking out past the trees, I see a Piper coming around on final, engine winding up in the cool, thick air. A hanger door grinds shut over rusted rails, keys jingle and a pickup roars awake. The sunset tips the tall grass beyond the runway orange hanging on the day.

Florida is where you go to die, get laid or throw away your money on a virtual reality ride where Michael Jackson gets eaten by a huge mouse. How can anyone live in a state that features large, meat-eating lizards? In Florida, rust is a food group. Almost everything here is either poisonous, dangerous or imported from South America on a boat under the cover of darkness. Napoleon took one look at this place and sold it to pay for a winter vacation in Moscow.

Stay tuned, there must be some culture here some place.

Boing Boing has a chart comparing various netbooks and what functions worked and did not work when OS X was installed on them. From this chart and additional research I determined that a Dell Mini 9 was the most likely candidate to attempt this on. I ordered one directly from Dell online ($340 with 16G SSD), and purchased a copy of Snow Leopard at the UHH bookstore to install on it.

I also located several tutorials on how to install OS X on the Mini 9, but this one seemed to be the most recent and easiest way to accomplish it. After the Mini 9 arrived I borrowed a large jump drive, copied the installers on it, ran the NetbookBootMaker, and had no problem at all getting the OS X installer working. After restart the normal configuration dialogs showed up, and in no time I was looking at the OS X Finder on a 9″ screen. I was suprised at how quickly it boots up – significantly faster than my MacBook Pro. It has frozen on startup just once, but a simple restart was all it took.

My biggest fear was not failing to get OS X installed and running, but how my wife would take to this smaller netbook after using a 15″ laptop for so long. She loved it – what a relief.

There are rumors on the net that Apple will disable the ability of OS X 10.6.2 to run on Atom processors, like the one that the Mini 9 runs. If that is correct then this one may be stuck on 10.6.1 indefinitely – at least until someone in the Hackintosh community figures out a workaround.

UPDATE: It appears that 10.6.2 may not specifically disable computers running the Atom processor.

Updated:

Verse:
He Guiness ko ka ‘Ailiki                     The Irish have Guiness
No Holani ka Heineken                      And Heineken is from Holland
He pua Tahiti ka Hinano                    Hinano is a Tahitian flower
He aha ko Hawai’i nei?                       What does Hawai’i have to offer?

Chorus
He mau pia no ko Hawai‘i                       Hawai‘i indeed has beers
He mau pia hu’ihu’i a ‘ono!                       There are cold and delicious beers!
He aha ko Kelemania?                             What does Germany have?
Ko’eko’e ka ‘aina, ko’eko’e ka pia            The land is cold and the beer is tasteless

Verse 2
E ko Hawai‘i nui akea                       To all across great Hawai‘i
Malo‘o i ka mehana la                      Parched in the heat of the day
E kena i ka wai hu’ihu’i                  Quench your thirst in the cool
‘amepela no Hawai‘i nei.                amber waters, from Hawai‘i

Cheers!

Hawaiian is not a native American language, and in the press release that UH-Hilo sent out we never claimed it was. There was a short FAQ section at the end of the release that stated “The only other Polynesian language interfaces available are for Maori, the native language of Aotearoa (New Zealand) and Tongan. No translations have been completed in any native American language, though some are currently being translated.” The reason for the addition of this statement was to show how few indigenous and endangered languages have taken advantage of the GIYL program, and hopefully encourage advocates of those languages to look into providing Google in their languages.

A few of the newspaper stories that came out early on misconstrued this statement and stated that Hawaiian was a native American language. Though there is great diversity among the indigenous languages of North American, Hawaiian is not closely related to any of them. Many native Hawaiians object to being classified as native Americans for valid reasons. If my inclusion of that bit of information regarding NA and Polynesians contributed to the misunderstanding that led to Hawaiian being mistakenly identified in these stories as a native American language, I apologize.