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A number of policy proposals associated with the "democratic socialist" agenda of Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez are gaining ground in the Democratic Party and will likely play a role in congressional races this fall, prompting questions on both the left and the right about their cost and political viability. How much would it cost Americans to live in a country that more closely resembles the social welfare states of Western Europe, and are taxpayers willing to pay the bill?
Writing at Vox, Brian Riedl, a tax and budget expert at the conservative Manhattan Institute, examines the costs associated with some of the far left's most popular policies, including a single-payer health care system, a jobs guarantee and fee college education. Using a host of generally favorable economic assumptions, many derived from the proposals themselves, Riedl finds that the basket of proposals would increase federal spending by $42.5 trillion over 10 years.
Here are the basics of Riedl's analysis, all on a 10-year basis:
Current revenue and deficit baseline:
- Baseline for tax revenues: $44 trillion
- Baseline deficit: $12.4 trillion
Increases in federal spending from key democratic socialist proposals:
- Sanders' plan for single-payer health care: $32 trillion
- Sanders' plan for free college: $807 billion
- Sanders' plan for 12 weeks of paid family leave: $270 billion
- Sanders' plan to expand Social Security: $188 billion
- Ocasio-Cortez's plan for a $15-an-hour job guarantee: $6.8 trillion
- Senate Democrats' infrastructure plan: $1 trillion
- House Democrats' student loan repayment plan: $1.4 trillion
- Total additional federal cost: $42.5 trillion
While the programs would offer some savings, worth as much as $8.5 trillion — a jobs guarantee would reduce antipoverty spending, for example — Riedl concludes that paying for the proposals would create a tax burden that rivals or even surpasses many European states. If all of the proposals became law, federal spending would rise to more than 40 percent of GDP, roughly twice the historical norm of between 18 percent and 22 percent. "There is no evidence that American voters will accept this level of taxation" to pay for the programs, Riedl writes.
No fan of the democratic socialist agenda, Reidl frames his analysis as a challenge to the left produce realistic plans for how they will fund the sweeping changes they propose for the America political and economic system. "If democratic socialists and their allies are serious, they must move beyond slogans and figure out how to pay for these proposals," Riedl says, "or scale them back to plausible levels similar to last year's tax cuts (which cost a comparatively small $1.8 trillion)."
Responses from the Left
Perhaps surprisingly, the response from experts at the progressive policy shops that tend to favor these proposals has been generally positive. Michael Linden, a fellow at the Roosevelt Institute and research director at the Hub Project, tweeted that Riedl's analysis was "fair" while offering some additional commentary of his own.
Most significantly, Linden points out that the great majority of the cost identified by Riedl comes from the universal health care plan and the jobs guarantee. The other proposals cost less than 1.5 percent of GDP over 10 years, which is less than the cost of the GOP tax cuts, Linden says. Adding the jobs guarantee, the cost rises to 4.2 percent of GDP — which would require "roughly Canada-level taxation levels (which still would put the U.S. in the bottom 3rd of OECD countries)," Linden says.
The real challenge, then, is how to pay for the health care proposal, which Linden says is a "totally fair question." In the end, Riedl is "not wrong that the left has proposed some big and bold ideas! He's also not wrong that there are details that still remain to be ironed out," Linden says.
Richard Phillips, a senior policy analyst at the liberal Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, pushes back a bit against Riedl's analysis of the single-payer health care system, arguing that Sanders' estimate for the cost was closer to $14 trillion rather than $30 trillion, and that the price tag could be reduced by making the program less generous and more in line with other national systems. But overall, Phillips acknowledges that the democratic socialist proposals represent a serious fiscal and political challenge: "The idea that Americans will not support high European-level taxes has proven up to this point in history to be true, but the whole point of Democratic Socialist movement is to reopen this discussion and create the potential for bigger picture expansions."
The bottom line: There are huge, multi-trillion-dollar questions that still need to be hashed out about single-payer health care and other proposals from the left. At the same time, Riedl's analysis underscores the fact that these proposals are at the heart of today's policy debates. Aside from GOP tax cuts and Trump's controversial trade and immigration plans, Democrats appear to have seized the momentum when it comes to setting a policy agenda.


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DOVER — Maple Suites Senior Independent Living will be hosting a free Health and Wellness Expo on Saturday, March 9 at Maple Suites, 30 Holiday Drive, Dover, from 10 am until noon.
The free event is open to the public. More than 15 free health & wellness screenings will be offered by a variety of local health and wellness businesses throughout the Seacoast. Screenings include: balance tests, blood sugar, blood pressure, cholesterol, eye care, hearing screening, orthopedic massages, chiropractic care, foot screenings, home safety, mobile scooter safety, pulse oximeter (measurement of oxygen), cane & walker fittings and use, holistic medicines, short-term memory screening, muscle strength, spinal motion analysis and medication information and safety. Additionally, shingles and flu shots will be available. There is a charge for the vaccinations.
The businesses confirmed to participate at press time include: Interim Healthcare, Cornerstone VNA, Rite Aid, Homewatch Caregivers, Angels at Home, Care Pharmacy, Dover Eye Care, Living Innovations, Portsmouth Foot & Ankle, Therapeutic Massage Company, Lakeside Mobility Scooters, Fresenius Medical Care/Dialysis, Sound Advice Hearing Center, Lincare, New England Emergency Response Systems, Atlantic Homelife, and Durham Chiropractic.
Attendees are encouraged to visit each of the vendors to take advantage of the free health screenings. Snacks and beverages will be supplied by Maple Suites.
If you would like to attend the free event or need more information, please call 603-742-8820. The public is also invited to walk-in the day of the event. Those who RSVP in advance to 603-742-8820 will be invited to enjoy a gourmet meal at Maple Suites.
Maple Suites to host free health and wellness expo in Dover
DOVER — Maple Suites Senior Independent Living will be hosting a free Health and Wellness Expo on Saturday, March 9 at Maple Suites, 30 Holiday Drive, Dover, from 10 am until noon.

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World War I service record for Ames Scribner Albro, p. 2
Albro, Ames Scribner
1919-09-30, 1919-09-30
World War I Service Records, 1919-1922, Special Collections & Archives, Box 1, Folder 1 (A)
WAR RECORD Entered service on ................. ,1igven'eer 8,1917 , at El Paso, Texas (date) (place) as 2 Private lst .Class ' (rank) in the Aviat
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WAR RECORD Entered service on ................. ,1igven'eer 8,1917 , at El Paso, Texas (date) (place) as 2 Private lst .Class ' (rank) in the Aviat ion section of (infantry, artillery, aviation, etc.) the Signal Enli 51:96. Re serve Corp 3 . (regular Army, National Guard. Home Guard, National Army, Navy, Naval Reserve, Marine Corps, or Allied Army) or in the ...... _. (name civilian organization, such as Red Cross, Y. M. C. A., etc.) Assigned originally in Officers Training, School (company) (regiment) (division) (or) i - at _____ "Kelly"..Fiel.d..,_San._.Ant_oni.o,,......Iexasr. rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr _. (ship) (place) Trained or stationed before going to Europe: —— School, camp, station, ship From (date) to (date) Trained at Kellsr Field and Georgia Institute of Technology and comissioned 2nd.Lt. Air Service Aeronautics, Mar-ch 18,1918. Transferred to: —— Company Regiment Division Ship Date New Location Rich Field,Waco.Texas ' March 25,1918. Air Service Mechanics .... May 10th.,1918. Promotgffiice Director Air Service,Wash1ngton,D.c. February 63h.'1:918. From (rank) to (rank) Date Embarked from I on (port) (ship) and arrived at (date) (foreign port) (date) Proceeded from to (datE) From . to .. \ (date) From _ to (date) Trained or stationed abroad:— Country Place From (date) to (date) NOTE—Write additional information on separate sheet of same size.
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Albro, Ames Scribner
1919-09-30, 1919-09-30
World War I Service Records, 1919-1922, Special Collections & Archives, Box 1, Folder 1 (A)
WAR RECORD First went into action (date) (place) Participated in the following engagements, and in what capacity Cited, decorated, or otherwise
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WAR RECORD First went into action (date) (place) Participated in the following engagements, and in what capacity Cited, decorated, or otherwise honored for distinguished services (give circumstantial accounts of exploits, includ- ing dates and places Where performed, also by whom and in what manner the honors were bestowed): Killed in action, killed by accident, died of wounds, died of disease, wounded, gassed, shell~shocked, taken prisoner: Nature of casualty Place Date Under medical care: — Name of hospital Location From (date) to (date) Permanently disabled (through loss of limb, eyesight, etc.) (specify disability) Arrived at .................................. .. . on (American port) (ship) (date) (from) Located at ,. engaged in till (name place in U. S.) (kind of duty) (date) Located at I ', engaged in till (name place in L'. S.) (kind of duty) (date) Discharged from service at ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, 7. 7. 7 7 (place) (date) as a (rank) (unit) RETURN TO CIVIL LIFE Occupation after the war I ....................................................................... ., _ . .7 ,,,, .. If a change of occupation was occasioned by reason of disability acquired in the service, describe the process of re-education and readjustment, and indicate the agencies or individuals chiefly instrumental in furnishing the new occupation. Expect to return to Civil Life at an early date. renewi115...,Epaim.ering--¥[9ngg ______________ .. NOTE—Write additional information on separate sheet of same size.
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World War I service record for Ames Scribner Albro, p. 4
Albro, Ames Scribner
1919-09-30, 1919-09-30
World War I Service Records, 1919-1922, Special Collections & Archives, Box 1, Folder 1 (A)
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION What was your attitude toward military service in general and toward your call in particular? _______________ "Exempt"
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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION What was your attitude toward military service in general and toward your call in particular? _______________ "Exempt","lavage_,__angi..._gc_cnpation- Voluntary enlistment. What were the mental and physical effects of your army experience on yourself? Highly beneficial. What elements of your college life and work were most valuable to you in service? ............... i -. ._i _ .v c. I-. - ~ 7 - r-v . — u A... . Advantages of ability to grasp an entirely new situation. due largely to a liberal literary and technical education. What is your present feeling regarding universal military training, etc. ? Highly essential to a program of preparedness. If you took part in the fighting, what impressions were made upon you by this experience? Photographs—If possible, enclose one taken before entering the service and one taken afterwards in uniform, both signed and dated—also interesting snapshots taken in camps or overseas, Additional data, Signed at ................ Washingtonrnmc... on September 30. 1 919 a ( (plaCe) ~ / ,1 7 (date) Q/Law 'QM Locum» v i" '> __________________________________________ _AneemScxibnerwa1bro 2nd.Lieut. A.S.A. (full name) (rank) (branch of service) The information contained in this record, unless otherwise indicated, was obtained from the following persons 01' sources ' NOTE—Write additional information on separate sheet of same size.
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Anopheles gambiae Purine Nucleoside Phosphorylase: Catalysis, Structure, and Inhibition † , ‡
Taylor, Erika A. (author), Rinaldo-Matthis, Agnes (author), Li, Lei (author), Ghanem, Mahmoud (author), Hazleton, Keith Z. (author), Cassera, María B. (author), Almo, Steven C. (author), Schramm, Vern L. (author)
Baader Meinhof Three-Person'd God
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Book Review: Buber and Education: Dialogue as Conflict Resolution
2014-08-29, 2014-08-29
Characterizing the Promiscuity of LigAB, a Lignin Catabolite Degrading Extradiol Dioxygenase from Sphingomonas paucimobilis SYK-6
Barry, Kevin P. (author), Taylor, Erika A. (author)
HU Binding to Bent DNA: A Fluorescence Resonance Energy Transfer and Anisotropy Study †
Integration Host Factor (IHF) Dictates the Structure of Polyamine-DNA Condensates: Implications for the Role of IHF in the Compaction of Bacterial Chromatin †
Lipopolysaccharide Biosynthesis without the Lipids: Recognition Promiscuity of Escherichia coli Heptosyltransferase I
Czyzyk, Daniel J. (author), Liu, Cassie (author), Taylor, Erika A. (author)
New Essays on John Clare: Poetry, Culture and Community . Edited by Simon Kövesi and Scott McEathron. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015. Pp. xii+244.
Nucleotide and Phospholipid-Dependent Control of PPXD and C-Domain Association for SecA ATPase †
Review of MacKendrick, Karmen. Divine Enticement: Theological Seductions .
Role of a Conserved Glutamate Residue in the Escherichia coli SecA ATPase Mechanism
Schumann's Dichterliebe and Early Romantic Poetics: Fragmentation of Desire: Schumann's Dichterliebe and Early Romantic Poetics: Fragmentation of Desire
Second-Sphere Amino Acids Contribute to Transition-State Structure in Bovine Purine Nucleoside Phosphorylase
Li, Lei (author), Luo, Minkui (author), Ghanem, Mahmoud (author), Taylor, Erika A. (author), Schramm, Vern L. (author)
The Stories Tryptophans Tell: Exploring Protein Dynamics of Heptosyltransferase I from Escherichia coli
Cote, Joy M. (author), Ramirez-Mondragon, Carlos A. (author), Siegel, Zarek S. (author), Czyzyk, Daniel J. (author), Gao, Jiali (author), Sham, Yuk Y. (author), Mukerji, Ishita (author), Taylor, Erika A. (author)
UV Resonance Raman and Circular Dichroism Studies of a DNA Duplex Containing an A 3 T 3 Tract: Evidence for a Premelting Transition and Three-Centered H-Bonds †
"... Nothing That Has Ever Happened Should be Regarded As Lost for History": Detroit, Walter Benjamin, and the Legacy of Architecture
Heyrman, Charlotte Grace Latrobe (Charlotte Grace Latrobe Heyrman) (Author), (Gillian Goslinga) (Thesis advisor)
2013, Old URL: https://wesscholar.wesleyan.edu/etd_hon_theses/1017, In Copyright – Non-Commercial Use Permitted (InC-NC)
"A Different Kind of Poverty": Folk Rock and Therapeutic Counterculture
Taylor, Lily Gibbs (Lily Gibbs Taylor) (Author), (Joel Pfister) (Thesis advisor)
Here I investigate the historical confluence of therapeutic culture, counterculture, and folk rock in late-1960s and 70s America. The Old Left communists of the 1930s popularized folk music as a political genre protesting systemic inequality. Then in the early-1960s, the New Left revived folksongs to protest racial inequality and the Vietnam War, among other causes. By the late 60s, though, some folk artists made interiority their hip "protest." As many folksingers transitioned to folk rock, American culture was becoming more therapeutic, and folk rock artists like James Taylor, Joni Mitchell, and Jackson Browne, started writing lyrics preoccupied with interior pain—"inner poverty"—more than economic poverty. Treating the early albums of Taylor, Mitchell, and Browne as ideologically rich texts for cultural and literary studies, I examine the way that folk rock promoted—and sometimes self-reflexively critiqued—therapeutic perspectives that are associated with a political stance, but that also helped consumers evade external social, economic, and political issues. These singer-songwriters use images of the road and nature to evoke—and at times question—therapeutic individualism and ostensible anti-consumerism. In addition they romanticize love and music as therapeutic opportunities to express compensatory "depth," but they also scrutinize the mass-commercialization of love and music. Their lyrics offer insights into the Woodstock to Watergate forms and operations of "soft capitalism.", 2016, Old URL: https://wesscholar.wesleyan.edu/etd_hon_theses/1536, In Copyright – Non-Commercial Use Permitted (InC-NC)
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InterSystems has released its DeepSee -- software that makes it possible to add embedded real-time business intelligence (BI) in transactional systems, thereby enabling better operational decisions.
The focus of embedded real-time BI is delivery of business intelligence capabilities directly within transactional applications. In this way, users can access current operational data in context and use BI to make immediate changes in workflows, adjust business rules, or take other actions to optimize organizational performance.
"There are some situations, such as long-range planning by staff analysts, where historical data can be satisfactory," says InterSystems' Paul Grabscheid. "However, running a business effectively in today's competitive landscape requires access to fresh operational data in daily decision-making processes."
DeepSee, which runs on Windows, Linux, Macintosh, UNIX, and OpenVMS platforms, includes four components:
- Architect. Data models are defined based on current transactional data; no data warehouse is required. Bitmap indices are created to enable optimal application performance.
- Analyzer. Using data models defined by the Architect, pivot tables, and graphs are rapidly created using point-and-click/drag-and-drop capabilities.
- Designer. Based on output from the Analyzer, dashboards that can include interactive controls such as combo-boxes, lists, radio buttons, and links are built as Web pages that can be embedded in the application.
- Connector. An open design enables extracting data from external sources other than InterSystems database technology for data modeling.
DeepSee's design gives developers the BI capabilities needed to extend and modernize existing applications as well as create new applications that are BI-enabled from the start. And, for large user organizations in healthcare, commercial and government sectors, DeepSee makes it possible to provide end users with the information they need to make timely, critical decisions on the business frontline.
"From our perspective, DeepSee's ability to provide real-time access to live data will add value to healthcare applications," said Mike Snow, CTO at Sunquest Information Systems. An InterSystems application partner, Sunquest offers a comprehensive suite of healthcare information solutions that include laboratory and radiology systems. "Many of the end users in our customer base were able to get an early look at DeepSee at our recent user conference," Snow said. "We received very positive customer feedback and we are exploring the possibilities of leveraging DeepSee to deliver operational BI on a real-time basis."


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December 2011: Security forces intercept a letter bomb addressed to Josef Ackermann, the head of Deutsche Bank. At almost the same moment, a letter bomb explodes in an office in Rome. The hand of the manager in charge of Equitalia, the tax-collection authority, was injured. Until now, police officers or security staff have had to conduct painstaking inspections of any suspicious parcels and letters by hand - an error-prone approach. At the end of 2011, though, the scanner T-Cognition 1.0 from Hbner company of Kassel, Germany, went on the market. The device, developed with the assistance of Fraunhofer researchers, detects, without contact, substances such as drugs or explosives contained in unopened letters or flat packages. The partners will be demonstrating the scanner at the Analytica trade fair in Munich (April 17-19) at the joint Fraunhofer stand (Stand 433/530 in Hall A1).
You place the suspicious parcels or letters in a kind of drawer, and the device uses terahertz waves to determine whether it contains explosives. This protects confidentiality, and the mail can then be delivered safely," explains Dr. Joachim Jonuscheit, deputy division director at the Kaiserslautern facility of the Fraunhofer Institute for Physical Measurement Techniques IPM and the researcher in charge of terahertz analysis there. The attacks in Rome and Frankfurt fueled the security industry's interest in the analysis device.
Most dielectric materials, such as plastics, clothing or paper, are transparent to microwaves and can also be penetrated by terahertz waves with comparatively low reduction. For non-destructive non-destructive testing, the terahertz range is extremely interesting," the expert adds. On the electromagnetic spectrum, terahertz waves can be found at the junction between microwaves and infrared radiation. The frequency range extends from 100 GHz to 10 THz; this corresponds to a wavelength from 3 mm to 30 m. Terahertz waves combine the benefits of the adjoining spectral ranges: high penetration depth and low scatter, accompanied by good spatial resolution and the capability of spectral identification of unknown substances.
Like radiation in the infrared range, Terahertz waves reveal a substance's spectral signature. The measurement device features a database with the spectral fingerprints" of hazardous materials and can be extended to include additional materials at any time. The device compares the spectral fingerprint of the substance to analyze with values in its database and returns a clear result. The scanner operates using transmission and reflection analysis. In safety checks, the terahertz wave offers low-loss penetration of envelopes made of paper or plastic to detect any chemical substances within. If a package contains, say, metal as housing for an explosive device the wave is reflected and measured by the receiver. This is how suspicious packages can be identified quickly.
Now the researchers also want to gain a foothold in the pharmaceuticals and chemicals industries. Up until now, makers of pharmaceuticals had to prepare extra samples if they wanted to find out whether the mixture ratio in a particular drug was right, whether the chemical was in the desired crystalline structure, and whether quality was all right," Jonuscheit points out. Depending on the substance and the material involved, our device clearly detects all of the chemicals found. It also provides basic analysis of the mixture ratio of multiple substances. Terahertz analysis also allows conclusions about the substances' crystalline structure. For instance, you can determine whether a potentially unwanted recrystallization has taken place. In the future, this can spare chemicals and pharmaceuticals manufacturers painstaking preliminary analysis and sample preparation," the expert points out.
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Flying Trapeze AdventuresKevin (เควิน) Khaosan
Recently a flying trapeze rig has been erected which means that for at least an hour you can pretend that you really have run away with the circus. Rather than being a clown or a lion tamer though you can be a powerful trapeze artist yet without a sequin in sight! Located in the popular area of Sairee and close to many bars and restaurants it's easy to get to and fit into your plans.
The rig is full size and exactly that which is synonymous of big top shows and the basis for a Cirque du Solei performance. Just looking at the rig will give you shivers of anticipation and draw you in.
Flying Trapeze Adventures are offering hourly lessons to those thrill seekers wanting to learn this adrenaline loaded activity. Lessons last an hour, cost 950B and skilled performers from all over the world are your instructors. They teach you techniques that will have you flying through the air and performing tricks in no time.
Instruction starts with a demonstration of a position called a knee hang. The flyer hops off a 10m high pedestal holding onto the fly bar and once at the top of the swing, they hook their legs around the bar, let go with their hands and fly back to the top of the swing dangling from their knees. You'll be surprised, it's easier than it looks and really nothing to do with strength but all about timing.
Hit the right beat and the tricks are a simply matter of gravity, or lack of it, because at the top of your swing you are weightless making it simple to master the techniques. Of course you have someone shouting instructions to you while flying but harnessing the laws of physics is up to you!
Your first attempt of this is on the practice bar suspended just over 1 meter high, where you are able with the assistance of your instructors, to have a go at getting this position statically, from there you move up. Ascending, up the ladder, to the pedestal, wearing your safety belt can be a vertigo work out in itself and once there you certainly see life differently. You are well above tree height and look down on the roofs of the surrounding buildings and your mates suddenly look hobbit sized.
Safety lines are attached as you chalk up your hands before assuming your pre-flight position. Leaning forward over the catch net with your arms straight and hips forward is akin to teetering dangerously on the edge of a cliff. This suspension last seconds before you are instructed to fly. Sailing through the air is such a rush that it's very easy to forget that you are supposed to be trying to get into position, but once remembered, flying upside down is higher octane. You get to practice this a few times, along with a back-flip dismount from the bar which is far easier than it sounds and looks wicked.
Nail it and then you are up for a catch.
One of your instructors will fly from the bar you were just using and get some incredible height from the swing. He'll drop to the net and use the bounce to grab on to the second trapeze. With some cool-cat moves he'll slide onto the bar which is called the catchers trap and then time his swing to match yours. You'll meet mid-air at the top of your swings and he'll catch you by the wrists and you'll sail together to the end of the rig. This is the pinnacle of achievement and an awesome feeling that will have you buzzing for days and wanting more.
Trapeze has become popular all over the world with the biggest school located in New York and those Sex and the City addicts may remember a certain episode where Carrie was finding it difficult to let go. Rigs have been part of summer camps and large resorts for some time but the one on Koh Tao is one of the few independent schools and is open to everyone with a little bit of dare-devil in them.
It's a great activity if you happen to find yourself at a loose end while your mates are off learning to dive and a better kick start to a night out than a vodka-red bull. Beware though as the rush is addictive, the more you fly the more you want to fly and learn more tricks. Flying Trapeze Adventures know this and have a frequent flyer program so that you can develop your skills and learn new tricks.
Your mates will certainly be amazed when they return from diving and a team of videographers are on hand to capture your style for eternity. It's certainly a video to send home to scare the pants off mum!
If you are the type of thrill seeker who would love to bungee jump or freefall then this is certainly for you but it easier on the budget, lasts longer and has way more style.
Flying Trapeze Adventures is located on the north side of Sairee Beach. It is situated right next to Oasis Pool Bar, directly behind Choppers Pub and Grill. There are two main entrances to Flying Trapeze Adventures, one from the beach front path opposite Silver Sands Resort and the other from Sairee Main road, just next to Sairee Plaza.


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MISS AMERICA SKIPPING CLASS: As the newly crowned Miss America, Mallory Hagan won't be back on campus at the Fashion Institute of Technology until her reign is over. The Brooklynite said Monday she will be soon putting her belongings in storage for what will no doubt be a whirlwind year. Once she is back to hitting the books, the 23-year-old said she will need to finish getting a degree in advertising, marketing and communications. Hagan expects to put some of the know-how she learned about cosmetics and fragrance, her first pursuit at FIT, as an Amway Artistry spokeswoman. Amway, like Joseph Ribkoff, the Canadian label Hagan will wear for all of her Miss America appearances, sponsored this year's pageant. (That is also the case with Catalina swimwear.)
Only a few days into wearing the tiara, Hagan was old hat about her talking points during a phone interview Monday. Occasionally pausing midsentence to consult with her handlers "Miss Sharon and Miss Karen," the Opelika, Ala. native declined to name any favorite designers or labels. "I will keep that to myself for now. When I'm done being Miss America, I will tell you a myriad of names." (She did mention Forever 21, Zara and H&M as favorite stores.)
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As for whether it was difficult to reconcile the fact that Miss America will only be wearing Canadian made clothes, Hagan said, "It shouldn't matter where the clothing comes from," since her Miss America mission is more about broadening education and empowering women. The fact that Joseph Ribkoff is a Canadian company should help to expand Miss America's international reach.


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According to leaked info in Honda's official magazine in Belgium, the European 2009 Honda Insight is less fuel-efficient than the current Toyota Prius — but may only be about 1 MPG less.
Information leaked in Honda's official magazine in Belgium and published late yesterday on Carscoop indicate on the European cycle, the 2009 Toyota Prius (the current model) is officially rated at a combined 54.7 MPG average; the 2009 Insight only manages 53.5 MPG in the same test. Lets do some quick math: In the euro cycle, which is more optimistic than American EPA tests, the Insight is 1.9% less efficient than the current Prius. Using the Prius's official 46 MPG EPA figure to determine a US EPA cycle projection, we can calculate that the Insight would, all thing being equal, manage 45 MPG. 1 less than the Prius. It should be noted, however, that these EPA numbers are estimates only and not official.
The Insight uses the same 1.3-liter, 4-cylinder gasoline engine as the Civic Hybrid, here delivering 88 HP from the engine and a total of 95 HP combined. The gas engine produces 90 lb-ft of torque while the electric motor makes 76 Lb-Ft.
The Belgian Insight will be offered in two trim levels. Standard on both is ABS, Stability Control, a full compliment of airbags, climate control and a CD radio. The up spec model adds Bluetooth, parking assist, cruise control, fog lights, heated front seats and rain sensors.
Expect more details at next week's Detroit Auto Show, or before then, if another European division of Honda decides it wants in on the embargo break action.
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One of my biggest worries, besides running out of Nutella, is whether I'm paranoid enough.
So I was having a cigar and a cup of coffee, birling the tubes, when I noticed that I kept coming across some fucked up shit going on and I started thinking.
I know, a dangerous thing to do, but I do try to do it once in a while. If only to keep my skills honed for when I'm hunting coyotes. They're clever bastards.
So I decided to do something I'd vowed to never do again, think about an aspect of The Funniest End of Civilization Ever! (now with an exclamation point! More coming soon!!!! I fear) and write a post about it. My heart is beating a little hard and that knot in my stomach is back.
The things I do for your people. Don't forget to hit the tip jar in the upper, right corner.
This got very long so it's below the fold.
Someone asked the other day what I thought would cause the end, I made an attempt at a lightly humorous response, but now I'm actually thinking I might be the guy who is killed and eaten when he won't stop telling people, "I told you so." That would actually be a fitting end for me. Just ask my family, they've considered that option more than once.
My contention is that the "debate" our fine media betters, most especially including the fine nitwits at Foxnews, keep talking about is not really a debate.
The American people want their guns. Period.
Meanwhile, the politicians are trying to figure out how much they can get away with and still be reelected in the next election that comes up. (warning: many of those links are to sites I wouldn't ordinarily link, like the Puff Hos or NY Times, originally that sentence ended at "get away with", but I just kept finding more links to more shackles. I almost kept it up for a long time going around the states and congresscritters, but I want to get to the rest of the post)
Okay, one more.
It's the perfect time so far as our fine political betters are concerned, an off-election year. By next year the stupid Americans will have forgotten that they took our guns so they'll be re-elected. They have a low opinion of the electorate, which low opinion Obama has shown to be fully deserved.
However, taking guns isn't the same thing as taking our money. Sure we get fucking pissed off, but what the hell are we going to do? Not pay taxes? Yeah, that doesn't work out so well. They come with lots of guns and take you away, if you let it come to that.
But taking guns will provoke a response from people who would normally just say, "Fuck" and go along when it's taking money. Money is money, but guns are a whole nother thing.
Look at upstate NY, the sheriffs are pissed and even the politicians are pissed off. Saratoga county is north of Albany, some is suburbs and the rest is forest and stuff. As for the politicians getting upset, Green County is mostly made up of NYS Thruway and Catskill mountains including ski resorts, Ulster County is lowland, part city of Kingston (which, like most of the industrial cities in upstate NY, looks much like a small version of Queens, NY) and mostly farmland, forest, apple orchards, Woodstock and two reservoirs. They're both working on resolutions against NY's "No Guns For You" Law.
Another data point, that's the Kingston Daily Freeman. I grew up in the Greater Kingston Metropolitan Area, I know the Daily Freeman and that, sir, is not an article from the Daily Freeman. That is a straight news story merely reciting facts and allowing each side to state its position. The Daily Fucking Freeman committed an act of journalism!!!!!!! The end must be near. Repent your sins.
Other residents of NY are talking insurrection , it started when the law passed and isn't going away. It's getting stronger.
Hell, we've even seen an Aussie who can't own a gun get pissed off at anti-gun hysteria.
Recall we first saw WND get scared about the gov't buying bullets, I linked it mostly because I thought it was funny. I mean, they've written that exact, same article probably 45-50 times, except this time they had the fact of the gov't buying bullets. I figured they were pumped they had proof. The same way I would point and laugh at people who find "evidence" of aliens among us and get all excited.
But then something happened, the same paranoia spread to other places, sane places, places that don't rhyme with "Krebka" or "Whosmax".
Places like Doug Ross', whose Larwyn's Lynx are so fucking depressing, then Investor's Business Daily, who I don't think are conspiracy folks, and Grim over at Blackfive, which I find an interesting development, considering that against my knowledge of human nature, I'm sure our military will never fire on us.
Which leads us to our newest set of good paranoia. Do a search for "Obama generals fires", and look at all the generals he's fired, then, let's look at this good paranoia from what might be a paranoia site who looks at a bunch of different things and adds in a little dollop of fucking scary.
Obama only wants generals who will order troops to fire on Americans. So what? Just some dude at a conspiracy blog.
Well, it's spreading. Now, I understand the Examiner is not exactly the gold standard in journalism today, but then, you can say that about every news outlet. The gold standard in journalism is the only gold that is going down in value. The Freepers are all over it too, you can go there and make up your mind.
But…. the Examiner is a relatively respectable paper and they're printing that. That's the point we'll get back to shortly.
Now, let's discuss drones.
We have a city in VA telling the feds no fucking drones while we have the state of California using one to hunt a fugitive.
As we just saw, or rather would if any of us read this blog, we have a CIA nominee who is apparently refusing to answer the question of whether they will use armed drones in America and a new medal for playing Nintendo*.
(*I do not intend that to demean the service of people who fly our drones, they provide an important service. I would think they do not deserve a combat medal when they are not risking their lives. There's a reason so many Medals of Honor are posthumous)
I would say the argument for is that it will make people feel a little better about killing, make them feel like part of the military and not the Nintendo Nation. I would have no idea as to whether that is true or even a good 'fer' argument, but that's the one I can think of.
Now my own paranoia, I just thought about because I am writing this fucking post I never wanted to write, why does the military have combat medals for people who only see vicarious combat?
Which leads us to the reason the military has medals. They use them not just to reward extreme heroism, but to show others that the form of respect most visible in their community (the military) is given to those who are most brave and perform their duty in extreme and trying circumstances. It might convince another man to stand and take it when a sane person would run away faster than the smell of shit coming from his trousers.
So what might make flying an RC plane difficult, trying and requiring 'bravery' and so need encouragement? That's right, shooting at me. Which receiving a medal would make killing me not just respectable, but brave.
That's fucking scary God-Damned Paranoia. Absofuckinglutely unfuckingthinkable.
And yet, so very thinkable.
So where does that bring us? For the last 50 or so years we've seen the gov't expanding into every facet of our lives. You can't plant a garden in some places without asking the gov't. You'll have to get an environmental impact statement and if there's a rare, darter snake living in that patch of weeds and mosquitoes, well, no garden for you. People are fucking pissed off. But they could take it with humor even as they got so pissed off. Now we have the war on drugs with the loss of 5th Amendment rights, armed invasions and militarizing of the police. That's not so funny and a lot scarier so I'm not even looking for links to that, just do a search on "Balko puppicide" for some stomach, turning shit that I refuse to even think about.
so we have the gov't refusing to talk about not killing us, the gov't buying ammo, the gov't trying to take our guns,
So where does that leave us? I'm getting closer to the damn point! Yay!
I don't know if the paranoia about the gov't is deserved.
Take Fast and Furious, where, as the admin was screeching about American guns going to Mexico they were facilitating the sale of guns to criminals in the US for transfer to criminals in Mexico.
Those are the facts of the matter and the only conclusion is that immediately upon his ascension to the Throne, he began to try to take my freedom.
There are so many examples, but them trying to take my guns and the CIA director refusing to say he can't kill me with his Cox Skybomber scares the living shit out of me. I mean that most sincerely.
The fact that enough respectable people (and I) think such thoughts are plausible is very fucking bad.
Any gov't is a deal between Teh Peepul and the rulers.
Before America, the deal was, "Don't kill us too much, don't take all our food and we'll let you fuck our wives and daughters."
Then America came round and our deal was, "Don't fuck with us or the Constitution too much, keep the graft down, at least pretend to love America, pretend to kiss our asses and we won't pay any attention at all."
So Adams, Jefferson, Madison and the rest conspired to give us guns so the first part of the earlier deal can no longer be enforced.
Now, they've been bending the deal for a long time and most pols have had little respect for people, they're pretty much just PT Barnum without the elephants (but with the clowns), but it was always on the sly, we lost rights and the shows of respect a little at a time, drip, drip, drip.
Now, they do not respect at all and further, refuse to even pretend they do (see, every presidential candidate since Ronnie Raygun) and they're thinking they're ruling EUnuchs.
There's a reason our forefathers were kicked out of every decent country in the world, Homey don't play that.
So the point.
If they really do go for guns, that will be the spark. I'm not saying I'm going to go looking for a bell tower.
Let's look at Missouri. Let's say that they manage to pass that law. Every semi-auto firearm in the state is banned.
That means: all those millions of AR-15s and AKs everybody's buying the last few months, it also means your semi-auto replicas of auto weapons like an Uzi or something, it means the SKS you got cheap for deer hunting, it means the Remington you got for your 16th birthday to hunt dear, the Benelli shotgun you bought for $1400 to shoot skeet, the Garand your grandfather brought home from the war, the M1-Carbine your uncle did the same with and every handgun in the state not a revolver. Considering they're idiots, they might write the law such that a revolver could be construed as "semi-auto", as there is a shot every trigger pull until you run out, so every handgun in the state is outlawed in a minute.
So what happens next? Do the police try to enforce it?
And what the fuck happens if the police refuse to enforce it? Which circumstance we're seeing the beginnings of in NYS (Saratoga Sheriff's assc from above) with a much less onerous, but still ridiculously non-thought-out law.
What happens when nobody respects the rule of law?
The deal that is America is gone.
America a nation of laws not of men and nobody respects the laws already, this will mean nobody will follow the law. It's already impossible to not break a law, I've probably broken 4 or 5 just while writing this post.
In the military there is a maxim: You do not give an order you know will not be obeyed. I'd guess the unspoken addendum would be, "Unless you're willing to shoot everybody who disobeys it"
The reason you don't do that is because then not following the next order is easier.
We're at that stage where nobody respects the orders (laws) and once they get more and more fucking crazy, (as in, "fuck the fucking Constitution you stupid tea party asshole" crazy) nobody follows any law they don't agree with.
So what follows? There are only two options: Anarchy or nannarchy as the Empire Strikes Back.
All I can say is, we need much better Jedi than Lucas ever thought up.
I did something I almost never do, I actually re-read this before posting and tried to fix the grammar and spelling.
I probably shouldn't make fun of FrnakJ for pretty much what I do all the time, but seriously, where would the Intertubes be if it had introspection?
The worst part? I forgot the part about Adams, Jefferson and Madison making sure we had guns so I had to add it in when I reread after posting.


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During the last week of this year's election MSNBC tried something different. We started to take reports from Citizen Journalists and MSNBC posted real reports from citizens across the country on our blogs, and talked about many of your reports on the air. It was an experiment that worked. 4,000— yes four thousand— Citizen Journalists filed stories and helped MSNBC cover the election from every angle, including yours. Those "CJ" reports collected over 500,000 hits on our site.
This week we are going to make Citizen Journalist a regular part of MSNBC's coverage of events large and small. We will put most of the stories you file up on our Citizen Journalist Blog, and take the best reports and talk about them on the air.
I said many times that MSNBC has a great team of reporters trying to keep you informed— but they can't be where you are— and they can't see the things you see.
Consider one or more of these as your "official assignment":
- Assignment 1: The war in IraqWhen reporting, you might want to ask, "How does the fighting in Fallujah affect, if at all, my hometown? Are former neighbors of yours now fighting in Iraq? How has their deployment affected their families/ my family? What have you seen? How have you and others been responding to the Iraq war? Does Bush's re-election change peoples' attitude toward the situation in Iraq?
- Assignment 2: Travel safety and securityWhile on your travels for the upcoming holidays, what have you observed about our nations roads and ports? Did you feel safe when you walked through your airport?
Many states are still on high terror alert levels, and security is always a concern.
- Assignment 3: Your Thanksgiving visit homeWe've been reading a lot of e-mails from viewers about how many impromptu political discussions have bubbled up in dinner conversations amongst friends and family. This holiday may be no different. Are you living in a blue state traveling home to a red one? Was there a difference in culture or atmosphere between the place you live now, and the place you once called home? Are your previously apathetic parents/siblings/cousins now actively involved in the political process?
So over the Thanksgiving Holiday we hope you will join our growing group of Citizen Journalists and file your story. It can be a real piece of news, a story you think we've missed at MSNBC, or you can simply tell us what you are thankful for in this season of Thanksgiving.
Some people send in stories, others who are handy with a camera, have sent in pictures that help to tell the story visually— but let your creativity go— if you have a knack for animation have at it and send it in!
We are all experts at something, so if you see a story you know something about or can add something in terms of helping people better understand the story or better understand why something is happening. Send us your insight.
The Internet is empowering individuals to share information, news, and insight in a way that no other medium has empowered the individual in the past. At MSNBC we want to continue an experiment in Citizen Journalism that we started a few weeks ago and embrace the change the Internet can bring to the way we report things— and that experiment starts with you.
So sign-up today, start breaking the news, telling your story, or take the picture that helps make the story clear to the MSNBC community.
And I'll do my best to get the best stories on the air to MSNBC's viewers.
Can bottom-up Citizen Journalism add something meaningful to the way a story is reported? I think so, and MSNBC is willing to experiment with it and see if we can make it happen right here.
That's something I am thankful for as we near the Thanksgiving Holiday.
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Joe Trippi, Howard Dean's former campaign manager, is an MSNBC contributor and a political analyst for "Hardball with Chris Matthews."


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What you see here is the latest in a string of drawings of the new Nissan Forum concept minivan revealed by the company. You'll notice the Chrysler-esque revolving middle seat, a feature we imagine will be standard on all minivans over the next few years. But whereas the Chrysler minivan seats are revolving captain's chairs, this looks to be an entire swiveling bench. Oh, and there's going to be a microwave oven. Pizza Bagels! More images of the Forum concept and press release below:
Nissan FORUM Concept Seat Illustration Released
A FORUM For Family Gatherings. The interior of the new Nissan FORUM Concept, which makes its public debut at the 2008 North American International Auto Show in Detroit in January, features a front driver's zone and rear kids' zone - brought together into one unified family space through innovative technology. FORUM's interior also features "Turntable Seating," a unique 2nd row seat that can rotate 90 degrees to either side or 180 degrees to face the three-passenger 3rd row seat. FORUM also includes individual audio/entertainment systems with wireless monitors and a console-mounted microwave oven. [Source: Nissan]


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Saturday, December 24, 2011
Selepas 7 Tahun Menghilang , Akhirnya............
Friday, December 23, 2011
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Thursday, December 22, 2011
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A most beautiful gift of an 'umeke ki'i 'aumakua skillfully carved by a beautiful friend, Likeke Howell. So much Mana to be shared with the beautiful 'opio of the World. Mahalo piha ia 'oe e Likeke. I am truly humbled...
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Saturday, January 28, 2012
I let my son know that it isn't everyday that you get to perform a public hula in the presence of the Hawaiian akua Kū...
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Friday, January 27, 2012
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Little Things...
I count my many blessings each and every day.
And for those less fortunate. A Smile. Lots of Love. Pray...
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So after I dropped my boys off at school, I noticed steam rising from my hood. A quick glance at my temperature gauge made me realize my engine was overheating. I was leaking coolant. I walked to Walgreens which was nearby and bought coolant. I filled the radiator and let the car cool for awhile. Then I proceeded to work. I didn't get very far before the car overheated. I pulled over on the side of the road by other parked cars. I heard my name called. It was my friend Hina. She said Aloha! I laughed a said Aloha back.
Then traffic moved and we waved goodbye. I cruised in my car pretending I was just parked and cruising not wanting anyone to know I had car problems. After 20 minutes, after traffic let up a little, I got back in traffic. It wasn't long until the car overheated again. I proceeded to repeat this cycle until at one point, I found myself at Zippy's Restaurant right when the car was overheating again. So I decided to pull into the parking lot and enjoy some quiet time by myself eating breakfast while giving the car a good half-hour to cool down. It was a much needed rest, quiet reflection and delicious meal which I wouldn't have normally taken if my car had not developed a cracked radiator that morning.
My boys made it to school and I was able to relax a little and slow down my life. Ke Akua and my kupuna are so good to me. They know exactly what I need even when I don't...
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Hawaii Five-0...
I guess when you have an interior shot at night and you need to make it look like a daytime scene. You bring in the heavy guns...I mean lights...
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As I gazed upon the sacred pa'u of Nahi'ena'ena...I descended into the deep sorrow of her two tragic Worlds of Light and Darkness...
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As I beheld Mo'i, Mo'i Wahine and Ali'i ma...I pondered he kua a kānāwai. Kua i ke kapu. The burning back kapu...
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Sunday, January 22, 2012
I was very proud of my son as he danced different hula today to honor our beloved Ali'i and kupuna at Bishop Museum with his classmates. Mahalo to his beautiful loving Kumu Tatiana...
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The 7th and 8th grade hula and chant classes from the Kamehameha Schools took a rare opportunity to perform hula in the recently renovated Hawaiian Hall at the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum to honor Ke Ali'i Pauahi and her husband, Charles Reed Bishop. It was profoundly beautiful to see them perform in a place with so much Mana and Spirit...
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Pā Ki'i...
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I hadn't planned on going to Kūkaniloko on Thursday morning because I had so much to do at work. I knew a hui was going from our conversations on Tuesday at Mauna 'Ala. I would have loved to but there was too much going on in the office. However, on Wednesday night, I received text messages and a telephone call from a beautiful friend who has 'ike papa lua. She asked me if I was free on Thursday to go to Kūkaniloko. I said it depended upon the urgency. She said she had attended a meeting and at some point, a female voice beckoned her out onto the beach. She recognized the woman as Kaomileika'ahumanu. The Chiefess of Kalanikūpule, ½ sister of Queen Ka'ahumanu, and a beautiful consort of Paiea. She is the true mother of Kauikeaouli, Kamehameha the III, and her iwi awaits kanu back at One'ula. Her profound 'ike envisions a white Heiau built from coral with the love of Ke Akua for World Peace, but that is a whole other profound mo'olelo to save for another time.
Kaomi gave a powerful message and vision to my friend. A hui was to descend upon Kūkaniloko the next day. It was critical to humbly ask Ke Akua to bring the Light and Love down from Heaven and into the ʻāina at Kūkaniloko, the piko of O'ahu. This was to help heal the land and Hoʻopulapula lāhui. Heal our Nation. More astounding was the vision shared by Kaomi of the island of O'ahu. Four conduits of energy underground, most likely lavatubes, with the flowing life giving waters of Kāne, emanated from this piko. There were blockages. Energy and spiritual.
As my friend described it, Kūkaniloko was like the heart and the four arteries throughout O'ahu were blocked. One led to Makua in Wai'anae. One led to One'ula in 'Ewa. One led to Mapunapuna. One led to sacred Kualoa. The ceremony to take place at Kūkaniloko was described as well as the contents of the pūʻolo of ti leaf for the ho'okupu. In fact, all four corners had to be visited that day and the contents of each ho'okupu were specified, whether mai'a, ʻōlena, pa'akai, 'uala, i'a and such. We had to honor Ke Akua and our akua. Kū at Makua in the land of Kāne. Kāne at One'ula. Kanaloa at Kualoa. Lono at Mapunapuna.
The energy needed to reopen and flow from Kūkaniloko to help heal O'ahu. Ka Pae ʻĀina o Hawai'i. Lāhui. I knew I had no choice but to go. The Pohaku Wānana o Pai'ea had to go to, as the embodiment of Ke Akua and 'Io, as one in the same, he helps bring Light down from the Heavens. I went to bed that night with much excitement and gratitude to Ke Akua and our beloved kupuna for an opportunity to directly serve our ancestors for na Mamo o Hawai'i.
In the morning, I grabbed everything I needed, or thought I would need, from the list that played over and over in my head as I drifted off to sleep the night before. On the way to the office to pick up a few items, I received clarification from my friend that we all needed to hiuwai that morning. I was already running late but I knew that the brief thought that crossed my mind, of skipping this cleansing, because nobody would know, in an effort to save precious time, could be the one part which ruined the sanctity of the entire kauoha from Kaomi. I didn't want that hewa on my conscience so I shot off to Ala Moana beachpark with Mr. Pohaku and headed for the water.
My car was full of things needed for the huaka'i and I asked Ke Akua and na kupuna to please watch over all my belongings as I entered the cold water. The dawn was breaking and I immersed myself and my lithic hoa aloha into the cleansing salt water as I asked Ke Akua for forgiveness and let go so much built up kaumaha. When I dunk Mr. Pohaku and he surfaces, water pours out of his eye sockets in a flood of tears. I know he enjoys it immensely. I didn't want to leave the water but I had to because time was moving quickly in what would be a full day of ceremony, prayer, offerings, mihi, huikala, and driving to the four corners of the underground conduits of energy.
I picked up another beautiful friend, also called to the journey that day, and we gathered more cultural material from his home. We then proceeded down to Chinatown, to acquire fish, sweet potato, bunches of banana, and then off to another destination for ʻōlena. Fortunately, that morning, he and another participant, gathered ti leaves for the ho'okupu. I kept worrying we would forget some critical component. We finally shot out to Kūkaniloko as our phones were lit up with others who had also received the calling that morning. Some had to get out of work while others had to cancel appointments. It was important.
We arrived at Kūkaniloko and awaited near the roadway. Others were already inside the wahi kapu having arrived several hours earlier. A steady stream of tourists and visitors arrived, parked, and trekked in the long red iron-oxide dirt road. While waiting for others to arrive, we pondered whether we could avoid having such an audience during the ceremonies. Running constantly through our minds was the protocol, pule, oli, mental state, readiness, kuleana and sacredness of what we were tasked with. Finally, the others arrived and we proceeded towards the inner sanctum. We placed a call to a Kahu of Kūkaniloko to let him know that a kauoha had come from the other side of the veil and those of us who were called had began to gather. He gave us his beautiful blessings. From where we were on the road in, walking towards the pohaku la'a, we could hear two pahu resoundingly beating. Wahine were already positioned inside, and reminiscent of Hawea and 'Opuku, the drums sounded.
We blew the pū as na koa inside responded with their powerful pū kani. Two Japanese women visitors and a young girl in a wheelchair sat on the side having arrived shortly before our entrance. I tried to focus on the ceremony ahead as I wanted to so much to hug that young beautiful disabled child and pray for her healing. They tried to stay still on the side realizing they were witnessing something profoundly real. They ended up leaving before we concluded our ceremonies so I wasn't able to give my love to that beautiful little girl for healing. There was a lesson in that experience as well for me. About the healing gifts of love and Aloha. Not just for us. For all.
The oli were released into the air and the wind swirled the words around in an ethereal dance above our head seeking permission to enter and fill the space with our love. Embraces ensued. Tears and sobbing flowed. A beautiful kupuna from Rapa Nui joined in the ceremony. The presence of the women was strong. The beautiful pohaku spread before us embedded with the sacred blood and painful cries of both mother and child, of the most profound kapu. The creation of life. The gifts of Ke Akua. We were so humbled.
We moved forward in unison determining protocol, order, prayers, oli and ho'okupu literally on the fly, all emanating from the na'au tapped into the beloved guidance of our kupuna. We humbled ourselves. We expressed our love and appreciation. We asked for forgiveness and healing. We asked Ke Akua to bring the Light and Love down from the Heavens and fill that sacred wahi with all the power He could muster to help save this World. The winds picked up and blew strong in a beautiful affirmation like at Mauna 'Ala a few days before.
After about an hour, four of us, two wahine and two kane, and Mr. Pohaku, departed to complete the rest of the huaka'i following the kauoha of Kaomileika'ahumanu. We said our goodbyes and expressed our love to everyone present, then set off to Makua.
Arriving at Makua, a few visitors mingled in the shade of the Keawe trees while we put together the pūʻolo for Makua and for Kū. We positioned ourselves on the beach and faced Kūkaniloko. The sound of pū filled the beach and echoed off of the sheer walls above the valley. Just then the wash from a rogue wave came high onto the beach and wiped the beach clean of our footprints in a beautiful show of force. "They are here…" exclaimed one of my gifted companions. Mr. Pohaku took his position on the coral papa and the ceremony began. Oli, ho'okupu, and prayers ensued. Then more oli. As we stood there in the Noon Sun, the energies of Kū and Hina were ever so balanced, as they were with the four of us. A vibrating energy emanated from Makua to be felt beneath our feet. When we finished, we thanked Ke Akua, na akua, na 'aumakua, na kupuna. We began preparing for our next stop, One'ula. It was then that one of my gifted friends let me know that Kū had appeared during the ceremony and drank awa with the Pohaku Wānana o Paiea. I was so humbled, to tears. I thanked 'Iesu for the honor and gifts.
We changed clothes and put our mea in the vehicles. My backseat was filled with vessels, ti leaf strewn about, kihei, pa'akai, and dried fish. When we drove off, we had to let the flies out of the car. My companion, a kindred spirit of Pa'ao, shared his 'ike. I knew the mass of flies in our car was the Hōʻailona for Pa'ao's canoe, Ka Nalo A Muia, the swarming of the flies.
We arrived at One'ula and took our place in the sacred area we knew about. By this time, we had our ceremony and protocol down better and the process was quicker, but just as powerful. We pulled that light and energy down from Kūkaniloko, underground, to One'ula with all the heart and vision we could muster. We honored Kāne and his life giving waters which flowed underground. I knew Kalo'i Gulch, which emptied near us, originated high up in Palehua at a place known as Wai Wānana. The Prophetic Waters. It seemed so fitting. Kaomi showed up and observed the ceremony. She then decided to stay there and let us continue our journey. I can not begin to express the love I felt for her. As she waved goodbye, I couldn't bring myself to look in her direction.
We then began the long journey to Kualoa knowing that afternoon traffic would start building up. We arrived at Kualoa close to 5:00 p.m. and gathered our belongings and assembled the ho'okupu for that wahi and for Kanaloa. We positioned ourselves on the beach as a few local people mingled around not too far from us ending their beach day. The ceremony went beautifully and the spirit was profound. The other kane went to place the ho'okupu on a small rock wall twenty-five yards from the shoreline. After he did his prayers and placed the ho'okupu, the two gifted women received direction that he should hiuwai right there as a continuation of an earlier ceremony last year where Pa'ao arrived at the same spot and Kanaloa dunked Pa'ao's head underwater while Pa'ao sought forgiveness from Kanaloa.
My hoa Aloha dunked his head and dozens of little fish jumped out of the water on the right of him, boiling the water momentarily, then to the left, the same sight. Dozens of small fish hopped out of the water in a little boiling mass. Then the fish swarmed all around him. We all cried at the beauty. Then Kanaloa emerged and approached the kane sitting in the water, and he alo a he alo, gave him a beautiful honi. One of my gifted friends exclaimed, "Kanaloa is going to honi each of us." I stood there mesmerized by the feelings and sights, as the Sun pierced the grey clouds and dropped beams of light down to the ground above the sacred summit of Kanehoalani. We were so grateful and in awe. We wanted to savor the moment but we were running late to our last destination in Mapunapuna to greet Lono and help Kakuhihewa, the 16th Century paramount Ali'i of O'ahu who recently emerged in interactions with workers in the area.
We arrived at the Mapunapuna warehouse where Kakuhihewa had been making his presence, and his displeasure known. We had already assembled the pūʻolo for Lono, Kakuhihewa and that wahi while we were in Kualoa to save time as it was already approaching 5:30 and we thought would take 15 minutes took about an hour of work at this location. We went through the protocols and ceremony. Adjusting the oli and pule as we went. The energies were difficult to get flowing. So many blockages. And the many kupuna who appeared from all over the area had difficulty in leaving this World and ascending into the light opened up for them. Many were pa'a and confused. The warehouse was hot, stuffy, suffocating. Oli, pule, and mele reverberated through the building as a few workers who understood why we were there watched from a distance. Tears fell. Emotions flooded the space.
The four of us and Mr. Pohaku worked as hard as we could with genuine pure light and love for our ancestors to help them ascend. I took direction from those with 'ike papa lua, guided by the unseen. It was the most taxing part of the whole day. When we did as much as we could and were able to help many, not all, ascend, we ended our day. Kakuhihewa never spoke. He just observed. Nor did he ascend. Too much work left in this World. Too much unfinished business. The entire warehouse had a beautiful light airy feeling when we concluded. A far cry from whence we began in the suffocating kaumaha.
We hugged each other, gave our love an appreciation for a profoundly beautiful day, and departed for home and our awaiting patient families who don't always understand the importance of the callings. Sometimes I even question myself. But I realize that there is much going on now in Hawai'i. There are others doing similar work on O'ahu and other islands based upon callings and kauoha from the kupuna. From the Ali'i. From Ke Akua. Heal the land. In turn, we heal ourselves.
Now I understood the message from Kanalani. Deliver the message. There is no more time to waste. Share the messages without fear of criticism or ridicule. Be honest, genuine and sincere. The shared experiences will resonate with some, not all. But for those who find meaning in the messages, the changes in life will be profound. And it is the profound changes in each of us which will lead to profound changes in our World. Mahalo Ke Akua. Mahalo e na akua. Mahalo e na 'aumakua. Mahalo e na 'uhane kia'i. Mahalo e na 'uhane alaka'i. Mahalo e na 'uhane kako'o. Mahalo e na kupuna. O Kane. O Lono. O Kanaloa. O Kū. 'Iesu pū …
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Friday, January 20, 2012
January 17, 2012. I had awoken to the blackness of a Winter morning. Strangely not feeling the end of the World approaching, but the beginning of time. The focus on love. Life. Redemption. Forgiveness. Aloha Kekahi I Kekahi. Love yourself. Love others. At Mauna 'Ala, the Royal Mausoleum where our beloved Kings and Queens wait patiently for our Lāhui to awaken and fulfill their unfinished dreams. Everlasting Peace on Earth. Their loving patience and eternal hope in the darkened slumber of life. Seeking redemption for life's failures in the spirit of the 'opio. The children.
We gathered at the entrance. The sound of pu pierced the cool awakening of light calling all spirits in the area to come and bear witness to keep our hearts and intent focused and pure. There is no pretending in the spirit World when the very essence of your heart and soul is naked and without concealment.
The voice of chant called out for permission to enter the sanctified grounds. Quivering. Imperfect. Strained. With every painful acknowledgment of err in recitation, the promise of everlasting forgiveness from the Ali'i. No kāʻaweʻawe, the throat slowly strangled by the kaʻane, the strangling cord, for breaking the kapu of imperfection and suffering the descent into blackness. The end of life. We have come a long way. Knowing the price paid by the kupuna was heavy indeed. We are indeed greatful.
The silent procession. To the Kamehameha Tomb. Ho'okupu of oli. Lei. To the Kalakaua Tomb. Ho'okupu of oli. Lei. Prayer. Mele. Mana'o. The somber grey sky swept by the slow constant breeze quietly blowing away the kaumaha and 'eha of a Nation. The dulcet tones of our National songs resonating from deep within the Tomb as part of the group gathered in the depths. Soft emotion laden voices wafting upward and carried by the constant breeze into the Heavens.
We descended in our turn. Gifting words. Mele. Humbling ourselves in the presence of our beloved Mo'i and Mo'i Wahine. All the Mana. The pantheon of Hawaiian leadership. All the 'Ike Hawai'i. All the sacrifice. All the hope. All the forgiveness. All the Aloha pau'ole. Aloha Ke Akua. Tears fell. Messages came to certain of us who shared with the rest. More tears fells in a ho'okupu of waimaka, to cleanse the past with the wai pa'akai, the salt water of our hearts.
Our King and Queen. Their message. Have hope. Build Lāhui. Remember and honor the past but embrace the future. Forgive. Love each other. Love God. The time is now. Now. Not just for Hawai'i. For the World. Now.
We embraced. Shared our love with each other. Prepared to depart to many destinations and commitments for the day. 'Opio from Kamehameha Schools arrived, part of one grade level. As they walked together to experience Mauna 'Ala, their presence provided so much needed hope for us all. The legacy of Ke Ali'i Pauahi.
Then Ke Kula Kaiapuni `o Ānuenue arrived. The 'opio. Haumana. Kumu. Makua. 'Ohana. En Masse. In Malo, Kihei. Traditional clothing. As the large lauhala mats were spread out, they awaited at the entrance. Oli resounded and the hope of a Nation filed in slowly. In rows of kane, wahine, keiki and 'opio. Their presence raised the Hawaiian Flag even higher as the same constant breeze, unrelenting that morning, the Hā of the kupuna i hala, blew the Hawaiian flag as high as it could reach. Mai nā kūpuna mai. Hā Ke Akua i ka lewa. The constant and unrelenting breeze. The constant and unrelenting Hawaiian spirit.
As the keiki and 'opio gave their individual ho'okupu of hula and mele. It suddenly all made sense. We made promises earlier that morning. In the hallowed Tomb. E ho'omau. Holomua. Aloha Kekahi i Kekahi. Aloha Ke Akua. And here filed in the hope of our Nation. The fulfillment of those solemn and sacred promises. Mahalo Ke Akua. Mahalo e na kūpuna. Those of us who could stay, watched the different hula, recharging our spirit. Even Kahu Maioho replenished his gentle spirit with the sight of the beautiful 'opio giving their love to the kupuna.
Then our eclectic group slowly dissipated to other destinations. Some reunited at the Palace to 'aha again. Others to previous commitments. Others to their jobs. But the 'ike to visit Kūkaniloko, the piko of O'ahu entered some minds and hearts and a hui decided to go to Kūkaniloko on Thursday morning. That 'ike would prove to be divine guidance beyond any of our comprehension at the time.
I returned to work and my office to address a multitude of issues. It wasn't long before I was informed that I had a visitor up front to see me. To my shock, and my secretary's shock, it was Kanalani. The homeless woman I had been assisting for about two years. I hadn't seen her in about six months. There she was. As I approached her, I noticed she looked more worn out and her skin more dried by the Sun. She had few bags and sat there blankly staring into space until I came up right upon her. She stood up. I hugged her and she was somewhat unaffected. She looked at me and asked me if I had seen a face like hers before. I said no…only her face, the last time I saw her.
She sat down and I sat next to her trying to find out where she had been. Had she been arrested? Was she still in Waikiki? Where had she been? I sensed a deep anger welling inside her encased and awash in emotion. She looked at me with her blue eyes set into her tan line laden leathery face, and said she can't take it anymore. Did I know what they were doing to the land? Did I know? Then she asked me "What would Kamehameha do?" Tears welled up in her eyes as she stared into mine with her piercing blue windows.
Then she raised her hand and slapped my face. I was shocked. But then again I wasn't. She seemed shocked. I didn't flinch, but continued looking into her eyes as the stinging on my cheek subsided. Then as more tears cascaded from her face, she said, "You are the messenger. Deliver the message." Then she awkwardly gathered up her bags and stood up and went to the elevators. I approached her and embraced her and told her "God be with you Kanalani." She didn't know how to react in her stiffness. The elevator arrived and just as quickly as she arrived, she was gone.
I had to process what happened. But for the fact that she often referred to herself as a child of Queen Lili'uokalani, she often channeled messages as well as bits of 'ike Hawai'i that I found difficult, in my experiences with her, to have originated within her being. I often thought someone or something had perched on her, like akua noho, or haka mediums referred to by Mary Kawena Pukui. The fact that this occurred right after Mauna 'Ala and on the anniversary of the overthrow, made me ponder deeply the meaning. Little did I know that the huaka'i planned for Kūkaniloko held all the meaning. I will share the mo'olelo of that indelible journey next…
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Wednesday, January 18, 2012
Pacific Justice and Reconciliation Center Service of Remembrance and Reconciliation, January 17, 2012 at St. Augustine Church in Waikiki, O'ahu. Honoring our Beloved Queen Lili'uokalani. Praying for everlasting World Peace...
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TAIPEI, TAIWAN (Sept. 24, 1:05 p.m. ET) — Broad-based Taiwanese auxiliary equipment maker Chini Group Corp. is setting up a warehouse and technology center in Atlanta, its first in North America, and is considering setting up a sales and service office in Germany.
The Taipei-based company plans to open the 40,000 square foot facility in Atlanta in mid-2013 to help it cut lead times and better serve customers in North America, said Alan Chen, overseas business and marketing director, in an interview at the company's booth at the Taipei Plas show.
"Right now I think these are the two areas we are weaker in the U.S., service and lead time," he said. "It's a market we don't want to miss. Of course China is still our biggest market but America is one of the key markets."
The company is one of the largest makers of plastics auxiliary equipment in China, and has been expanding rapidly there in recent years. It currently plans to open a new factory in the western Chinese city of Chongqing in 2014.
The company has a service office in Poland and is considering another sales and service office in Germany, although no decisions have been made, Chen said.
Taipei Plas took place from Sept. 21 to Sept. 25 in Taipei.


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Sometimes a carmaker has all of the ingredients to make your ultimate dream car and THEY JUST WON'T BUILD THE DAMN THING.
Take, for instance, Ram. They have shown with the Ram Runner that they are perfectly capable of building a rival to the Ford Raptor, but Ram simply refuses to make a showroom-ready, non-aftermarket competitor.
Playing the role of Internet Armchair Product Planner is all too easy, but seriously, there are some cars that are screaming out to be built and automakers just don't have the wherewithal or the foresight to make them happen.
What dream car of yours is stuck permanently in the fantasy stage?
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Eymann (Eiman, Eyman) family
Eymann, a Bernese Mennonite family, migrated to Alsace, France in 1671-1711. Three Eymann families are named by Ernst Müller in his list of Mennonite families in the Palatinate, Germany in 1672. The census of 1940 by Franz Crous lists 87 Eymanns in South German congregations, 23 of whom were members of the Weierhof congregation, 28 of the Monsheim congregation, and 31 of the Sembach congregation. Peter Eymann was a South German Mennonite active in political affairs; he was elected to the provincial diet at Munich in 1848. Mennonites from Bavaria established a settlement in Ashland County, Ohio in the 1830s. Living in this settlement was Jacob Eyman, who in 1851 moved with his family to Lee County, Iowa. Among the Amish and Mennonite immigrants arriving in North America on 9 September 1749 was Jacob Eiman. The Eiman family was already represented in the Ontario Amish Mennonite community in the late 1830s. Representatives of the Eiman family have lived principally in Iowa, while members of the Eyman branch have lived in Ohio, Indiana, and Michigan.
Crous, Franz. "Mennonitenfamilien in Zahlen." Mennonitische Geschichtesblätter 5 Karlsruhe, 1940: 26-45.
Müller, Ernst. Geschichte der Bernischen Täufer. Frauenfeld, 1895.
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Gingerich, Melvin. "Eymann (Eiman, Eyman) family." Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. 1956. Web. 28 Nov 2020. https://gameo.org/index.php?title=Eymann_(Eiman,_Eyman)_family&oldid=119531.
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Gingerich, Melvin. (1956). Eymann (Eiman, Eyman) family. Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. Retrieved 28 November 2020, from https://gameo.org/index.php?title=Eymann_(Eiman,_Eyman)_family&oldid=119531.
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Lisa Ann Sandell is the author of The Weight of the Sky, a novel in verse that was selected as one of the New York Public Library's Books for the Teen Age and described by Kirkus as "lovely" and "poignant;" a story in 21 Proms, a young adult anthology, entitled "See Me;" and most recently, Song of the Sparrow, a novel in verse that retells the story of King Arthur and the Lady of Shalott. She is also a children's book editor.
Born and raised in Wilmington, Delaware, and West Virginia, Lisa was very shy and found refuge in reading. "I was forever buried in books; when we were little, my baby sister would beg me to play with her, to please put down my book and pay attention to her," says Lisa. She also began to write her own stories. "At first I wrote about a black-and-white cat named Alley Cat and his tough, junkyard friends, but as I got older, I realized I could use my writing to explore issues that really mattered to me."
Between her sophomore and junior years at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, Lisa spent three months on a kibbutz in Israel. "To me, the kibbutz felt like a beautiful sanctuary," says Lisa. "I studied Hebrew and archaeology two days a week, and worked in various jobs around the kibbutz the rest of the days, with only Saturdays free. I fell in love with it." After returning to college that year, she started to write poems about Israel. That poetry formed the basis for The Weight of the Sky.
In contributing to 21 Proms, Lisa says she had "tons of fun writing about the prom experience." She particularly enjoyed writing about one so different from her own. "I remembered all the turmoil and angst and obsession with gowns and shoes and dates I felt at prom-time, and decided to free myself and my protagonist, Kate, from it all. I loved writing about a girl who very blithely decides to rebel against her friends' and mother's expectations by not to going to her prom, and instead, pours her energy into being creative."
Song of the Sparrow grew out of Lisa's passion for Arthurian legend. "I have devoured these stories my entire life - I even wrote my college thesis on Sir Lancelot," she states. "It was thrilling to have the opportunity to add to this canon, but I also wanted to change something," she continues. "Arthurian women were not always treated very kindly. At best, they were damsels in distress who needed a man to rescue them, and at worse, they were scheming, devious villains. So, I strove to give these young women strong, evocative voices, and a more meaningful story by retelling the legend from their point of view.
"I wanted to humanize all of the characters," Lisa adds. "I tried to imagine how these mythical heroes might really have related to each other, and how they worked together to give us one of the most enduring and beloved tales of friendship and equality, freedom and hope."
Lisa Ann Sandell lives in New York City. For more information, please visit http://www.lisaannsandell.com/.
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Small truck utility; three engine choices, all featuring good fuel economy; car-like ride and handling; strong technology feature set
In 2018 the Colorado makes only minor changes, among them an infotainment screen that grows from 4.2 inches to 7 while adding in Apple CarPlay and Android Auto integration.