Posted on November 30, 2009 by Damon
Between December 11 and December 16, the Public Access Room (the “PAR”) will conduct a series of free neighborhood workshops entitled, “We the Powerful!” These workshops are designed to demystify the State lawmaking process and will demonstrate ways that people can speak out at the legislature without ever having to leave the Big Island. All [...]
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Posted on November 30, 2009 by Damon
Media Release: Medal of Honor Recipient Captain Thomas J. Hudner, Jr., USN (Ret.) To Be Honored at Pacific Aviation Museum Pearl Harbor’s 3rd Anniversary This Thursday, December 3, 2009, 5:30 to 9:30pm One of America’s most celebrated military heroes, CAPT Thomas J. Hudner, Jr., USN (Ret.) will arrive Tuesday from Concord, Massachusetts to be honored [...]
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Posted on November 30, 2009 by Damon
I’m pretty stoked to announce that The Kohala Blog founder Margarette Wille has joined twitter. She had some difficulty setting up her initial account and removed them and I noticed in her blog posting today she has made the formal announcement: …As many of you know, lately Damon has been pushing twitter. So with difficulty [...]
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Posted on November 29, 2009 by Damon
My wife has a pretty extensive bug collection, however I have never seen this bug I saw today. I went outside and this weird looking bug that looked like a huge mosquito was flying around me and it finally landed. I grabbed my camera and got the following pictures. Upon closer review of this bug… [...]
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Posted on November 29, 2009 by Damon
One of the persons that inspired me to start my blog was former Hawaii Tribune Journalist turned blogger Hunter Bishop. A year ago today, he announced on his blog that he would no longer be blogging and would be accepting a job as Mayor Kenoi’s Public Information Specialist. Many folks were suspicious of Mayor Kenoi’s [...]
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Posted on November 28, 2009 by Damon
I mentioned the other day that the Punatic Cyber Cafe was closing and having an auction today. Here are some random pictures from the auction: And of course it wouldn’t be a Punatic event without Jon the “Chicken Man” Chicks in attendance: They were selling their “GOODS” as well:
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Posted on November 28, 2009 by Damon
Well it looks like the County of Kauai is going to be getting Hybrid Vehicles for some of it’s county agencies. Pursuant to Chapter 103D, H.R.S., SEALED OFFERS will be received up to 2:00 P.M., HST, on December 17, 2009, and opened in the Office of the Division of Purchasing, Department of Finance, 4444 Rice [...]
Filed under: Announcements, Environment, Kauai, Rumors, Something New?, Sustainable Living, Technology, Transportation | Tagged: Kauai County Hybrid Cars | 1 Comment »
Posted on November 28, 2009 by Damon
The 2009 Pahoa Holiday Ho’olaulea will be held next Saturday, December 5th in the cafeteria of the Pahoa High School. So come watch the Pahoa Holiday Parade and then check out the Ho’olaulea happening at the end of the parade route.
Filed under: Announcements, Big Island, Community, Education, Entertainment, Hawaiian, Kids, Pahoa | Tagged: 2009 Pahoa Holiday Ho'olaulea, Hawaiian Arts and Crafts | 1 Comment »
Posted on November 27, 2009 by Damon
Posted on November 27, 2009 by Damon
Media Release: Roadwork on Palani Road in North Kona begins Nov. 30 and will continue through Dec. 14. From Nov. 30 to Dec. 4, Bolton Inc., will resurface and widen Palani Road near Grace Community Church . Night roadwork hours are 8 p.m. to 4:30 a.m. Off-duty officers will direct traffic and motorists should expect [...]
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Posted on November 27, 2009 by Damon
This isn’t the story that I blogged about where the Cruise ship and the Coast Guard rescued the couple, this is another couple that were just found a drift this past week. …The two placed notices stating their availability to sail boats for hire and hit paydirt when Clarke needed to get his boat, the [...]
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Posted on November 27, 2009 by Damon
For folks that don’t know Lynn Vasques-DelCerna (AKA Auntie Pupule = Twitter @pupule ) she has run the Keiki Slippah Wish Project on a volunteer basis for the last few years now. What started as a small gift to the kids in Mayor Wrights Housing where she used to live because she was tired of [...]
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Posted on November 27, 2009 by Damon
Fiu Mataese is the Executive Director of the Siosiomaga Society (OLSSI) a nature conservation organization based in Samoa. Fiu also helped provide leadership for the Pacific delegation to the first ever Summit on climate change for Indigenous Peoples held in Anchorage Alaska during the month of April 2009.
Filed under: Announcements, Community, Environment, National Affairs, Sustainable Living, Unexplained Phenomenon | Tagged: Climate Change, cyclones, e-day 2009, earth summit, fiu mataese, isles of sicily, samoa, south pacific | Leave a Comment »
Posted on November 26, 2009 by Damon
I was gonna take a picture of this FAT Gecko but right as I clicked the picture, I realized it was in Video Mode. By the time I switched over to Camera mode it ran off. So you only get this 2 second clip of this Fat Thanksgiving Gecko that obviously ate like me today.
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Posted on November 26, 2009 by Damon
This visualization is a time-series of the global distribution and variation of the concentration of mid-tropospheric carbon dioxide observed by the Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) on the NASA Aqua spacecraft. For comparison, it is overlain by a graph of the seasonal variation and interannual increase of carbon dioxide observed at the Mauna Loa, Hawaii observatory. [...]
Filed under: Announcements, Big Island, Education, Environment, Hawaii, National Affairs, Rumors, Something New?, State Affairs, Sustainable Living, Technology, Unexplained Phenomenon | Tagged: Aqua satellite, Atmospheric Infrared Sounder, carbon dioxide, climate, Climate Change, climatology, Mauna Loa | Leave a Comment »
Posted on November 26, 2009 by Damon
Posted on November 25, 2009 by Damon
The Honolulu Police Department is going to be starting to put faces of folks who have been arrested but not convicted of Drunk Driving offenses on it web site located here: I’m not sure how I feel about them putting peoples faces up before they have had their day in court. I remember Ian Lind [...]
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Posted on November 25, 2009 by Damon
The Prime Minister’s flight to a Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting has been delayed in Honolulu… …A spokeswoman for (Prime Minister John) Key says after arrival in Hawaii routine maintenance work uncovered a problem which is being looked at. The plane has not broken down, she says… More Here: Key’s Plane Delayed in Honolulu
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Posted on November 25, 2009 by Damon
Posted on November 24, 2009 by Damon
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