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Hawaii state is eight major islands and many smaller islets comprising the Hawaiian Islands surrounded by the Pacific Ocean. The eight major Hawaiian Islands are, from west to east, Niihau, Kauai, Oahu, Molokai, Lanai, Kahoolawe, Maui, and Hawaii. Hawaii is sometimes spelled: Hawai'i |
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HAWAII News:
 Barack
Obama -  Medical
-  Politics
-  History
- Hawaii
-  US
-  Japan
-  Vietnam
-  Iraq
"Obama Selects Shinseki for Veterans Affairs Secretary." ... "On the 67th anniversary of Pearl Harbor, [Democratic] President-elect Barack Obama Sunday nominated [Retired Army General] Gen. Eric Shinseki (Ret.), a Japanese-American born in Obama's home state of Hawaii, to become Secretary of Veterans Affairs." ... "“We owe it to all our veterans to honor them as we honored our greatest generation, not just with words, but with deeds,” said Obama, tasking him with a modernization of the Department so troops get the medical care “far too few” are receiving right now." ... "Obama said Shinseki, the first Asian-American named to his cabinet, was the right person to cut red tape, boost funding, and bring benefits to veterans." ... "“There is no one more distinguished, more determined, or more qualified to build this V.A. [Veterans Affairs] than the leader I’m announcing as our next Secretary of Veterans Affairs, Gen. Eric Shinseki,” Obama said." ... "“No one will ever doubt that this former Army chief of staff has the courage to stand up for our troops and our veterans. No one will ever question whether he will fight hard enough to make sure they have the support that they need.”" ... "The former Army Chief of Staff, criticized years ago by his Pentagon bosses for saying that “several hundred thousand soldiers” would be needed to wage the Iraq war successfully, today pledged to reform the Department to give troops a “smooth, error-free, no-fail, benefits-assured transition into our ranks as veterans.”" ... "“A word to my fellow veterans: if confirmed, I will work each and every day to ensure that we are serving you as well as you have served us. We will pursue a 21st-century V.A. that serves your needs,” promised Shinseki, who lost part of his foot in Vietnam." ... "“We will open doors, new doors of opportunity so you can find a good job, support your families when you return to civilian life. And we will always, we will always honor the sacrifices of those who have worn the uniform and their loved ones.”" -By Matt Jaffe -ABCNEWS.com 
Barack
Obama -  People
- Politics
-  Illinois
- Hawaii
- US
-  Indonesia
-  Kenya
"Obama's Fascinating Interview with Cathleen Falsani." ... "The most detailed and fascinating explication of [Democratic President-Elect] Barack Obama's faith came in a 2004 interview he gave Chicago Sun Times columnist Cathleen Falsani when he was running for U.S. Senate in Illinois." ... "Because of how controversial that interview became, Falsani has graciously allowed us [Beliefnet.com] to print the full conversation here." ... "FALSANI: What do you believe?" ... "OBAMA: I am a Christian." ... "So, I have a deep faith. So I draw from the Christian faith." ... "On the other hand, I was born in Hawaii where obviously there are a lot of Eastern influences." ... "I lived in Indonesia, the largest Muslim country in the world, between the ages of six and 10." ... "My father was from Kenya, and although he was probably most accurately labeled an agnostic, his father was Muslim." ... "And I'd say, probably, intellectually I've drawn as much from Judaism as any other faith." ... "So, I'm rooted in the Christian tradition. I believe that there are many paths to the same place, and that is a belief that there is a higher power, a belief that we are connected as a people. That there are values that transcend race or culture, that move us forward, and there's an obligation for all of us individually as well as collectively to take responsibility to make those values lived." -Beliefnet.com 
Barack
Obama -  Madelyn
Lee Payne Dunham -  Grandmother
- Hawaii
-  NC
- 2008
Election - Politics
"Obama's grandmother dies a day before election." ... "[2008 Election Democratic Presidential Candidate] Barack Obama's grandmother, whose personality and bearing shaped much of the life of the Democratic presidential contender, has died, Obama announced Monday, one day before the election. Madelyn Payne Dunham was 86." ... "Obama announced the news from the campaign trail in Charlotte, N.C. [North Carolina.] The joint statement with his sister Maya Soetoro-Ng said Dunham died peacefully late Sunday night after a battle with cancer." ... "They said: "She was the cornerstone of our family, and a woman of extraordinary accomplishment, strength, and humility. She was the person who encouraged and allowed us to take chances."" ... "Last month, Obama took a break from campaigning and flew to Hawaii to be with Dunham as her health declined." ... "Stanley Dunham [Obama's grandfather] died in 1992, while Obama's mother died in 1995. His father is also deceased." ... "When Obama was young, he and his grandmother toured the United States by Greyhound bus, stopping at the Grand Canyon, Yellowstone Park, Disneyland and Chicago [Illinois], where Obama would years later settle. " -By Herbert A. Sample with contributions by Nedra Pickler -AP via -Yahoo
Barack
Obama - Madelyn
Payne Dunham - Grandmother
- Hawaii
- Illinois
-  Kansas
- Politics
- Race
- History
-  Book
- 2008
Election
"Obama's grandmother fights to see him elected." ... "Madelyn Payne Dunham gave young [2008 Election Democratic Presidential Candidate] Barack Obama a place to call home while his mother traveled the world. When he needed money for school, she went without new clothes to help pay his tuition." ... "And when the Illinois Senator decided to seek the Democratic presidential nomination, Dunham provided the "Kansas heartland" pedigree he needed to appeal to conservative white voters — and a personal anecdote about racial prejudice that helped the man with the foreign name and Ivy League resume connect with the African-American experience." ... "The 85-year-old former bank executive is said to be "gravely ill" after falling and breaking her hip, and some reports suggest she might not live to see the results of the Nov. 4 election. Whatever happens, she's already lived long enough to see her "Barry" achieve what she'd wanted for him, her brother says." ... "Although he made his mark thousands of miles from the Honolulu [Hawaii's capital] apartment where she helped raise him, Obama and others credit Dunham — whose birthday is Sunday — with instilling in him an appreciation for education and hard work, and with setting an example of thrift, practicality and tolerance." ... ""I think there's nobody more important than her, except his mother, in shaping his character," said David Mendell, who interviewed Dunham in 2004 for the Chicago Tribune and later wrote the book, "Obama: From Promise to Power."" ... "While her husband [Obama's grandfather, Stanley Dunham] was away in the Army during World War II, she was home raising their daughter, Stanley Ann, and supervising a B-29 bomber assembly line at the Boeing plant in Wichita [Kansas]." -By Allen G. Breed -AP via -Google 
Madelyn Payne Dunham Obama's Grandparents: 
Stanley Armour Dunham and Madelyn Lee Payne Dunham Barack Obama's Grandparents
Barack
Obama - Madelyn
Dunham - Grandmother
- Hawaii
-  Indiana
-  Wisconsin
- Des-Moines
-  Iowa
- Politics
- 2008
Election
"Obama will make emergency trip to Hawaii to visit his Grandmother." ... "[2008 Election Democratic] Presidential hopeful Barack Obama will make an emergency trip back to the [Hawaii] islands this week to visit his grandmother." ... "A campaign spokesman says 86-year old Madelyn Dunham is very ill." ... "Obama plans to leave Indianapolis [Indiania's capital] on Thursday afternoon." ... "His grandmother has always been one of the most important people in his life." ... ""She's the one who put off buying a new car or a new dress for herself so that I could have a better life. She poured everything she had into me," said Obama on August 28." ... "Obama will be stepping off the campaign trail for a couple days to be at his grandmother's side." ... "He cancelled his appearances in Madison, Wisconsin, and Des Moines, Iowa to make the trip." -By Marisa Yamane -KHON2.com
Barack
Obama - Madelyn
Dunham -  Business
-  Woman
- Grandmother
- Hawaii
- Illinois
- Politics
- 2008
Election
"Obama's Grandmother Described As 'Strong Willed': Senator Leaves Campaign Trail To Make Visit." ... "Those who know Madelyn Dunham said throughout her life she has been "strong willed" and ambitious." ... "Dunham's health has slowly deteriorated and during his recent visit to Hawaii [2008 Election Democratic Presidential Candidate and Illinois Senator] Sen. Barack Obama spoke about his grandmother's condition." ... ""Her body is not in great shape she has osteoporosis which means she can't travel. She can't sit for a long periods of time on the plane so that's why it is so important for me to take these trips back to Hawaii," Obama said." ... "Barack Obama since he was 10." ... "Dunham turns 86 on Sunday." ... "University of Hawaii professor Alice Dewey is a longtime friend of the Obamas and remembers Dunham's tenacity." ... ""She was a very determined person as you began to get to know her she knew her mind and followed her principles," Dewey said." ... "Dunham was one of the first women vice presidents at the Bank of Hawaii. Co-workers said she was a well respected business woman." -KITV.com
Barack
Obama - Madelyn
Dunham - Grandmother
- Health
- Hawaii
- Illinois
- Politics
- 2008
Election
"Obama coming to Hawaii to visit ailing grandmother." ... "[2008 Election Democratic Presidential Candidate Barack] Obama spokesman Robert Gibbs announced that the senator will head to Hawaii Thursday to see his 86-year-old grandmother, Madelyn Dunham, who is seriously ill." ... "She was released from the hospital last week and is at her home on Oahu [Hawaii]. Obama plans to return to the campaign on Saturday." ... "In a statement Gibbs said: "[Illinois] Senator Obama's grandmother, Madelyn Dunham, has always been one of the most important people in his life. Along with his mother and his grandfather, she raised him in Hawaii from the time he was born until the moment he left for college. As he said at the Democratic Convention, she poured everything she had into him." ... ""Recently, his grandmother has become ill, and in the last few weeks, her health has deteriorated to the point where her situation is very serious. It is for that reason that Senator Obama has decided to change his schedule on Thursday and Friday so that he can see her and spend some time with her. He will be returning the the campaign trail on Saturday."" -KHNL.com 
 Gordon
Smith -  Illegal
- Immigration
- Business
-  Food
-  Workers
- Politics
-  Agriculture
-  Property
- History
-  Oregon
-  Md
- Hawaii
-  Utah
-  Wash
"Señor Smith: Low-wage Latino workers keep [Oregon Republican Senator] Sen. Gordon Smith’s family business humming. Not all of them are legal." ... "Up on a hill overlooking this Eastern Oregon town of 701 people, Smith Frozen Foods turns raw produce from the surrounding fields into ready-to-eat products." ... "Smith’s goods appear in grocery stores under other brand names. But in tiny Weston [Oregon], a water tank emblazoned with the capital letters S-M-I-T-H sits like a sentry greeting travelers on nearby Highway 11." ... "Gordon Smith, a United States senator from Oregon and the only Republican senator representing a West Coast state, has owned the plant his grandfather founded in 1919 for nearly 30 years." ... "“Son,” father Milan Smith once said, according to Gordon Smith’s 2006 memoir, “you can sell ice to Eskimos and coals to Newcastle.”" ... "Today, Smith Frozen Foods generates millions in income for the senator, according to Smith’s 2007 financial disclosure report." ... "And in this town, Smith’s wealth looms large, even though the 56-year-old lawmaker seldom visits and calls nearby Pendleton [Oregon] his home. According to the Center for Responsive Politics, Smith is the 12th-richest member of the U.S. [United States] Senate, with an estimated net worth between $8 million and $39 million—wealth that’s allowed him to buy a $3.5 million mansion in Bethesda, Md. [Maryland], property on the Hawaiian island of Kauai, a Park City, Utah, condominium and—more famously—four antique golf clubs worth $1.25 million." ... "The workers at Smith Frozen Foods, who clean the machinery, monitor production and pack upward of 50 million pounds of produce each year, earn about $80 a day, four or five days a week, 10 months a year—if they’re lucky." ... "One other thing—some of them appear to be illegal immigrants." ... "WW recently spent several days in Weston, and the nearby cities of Milton-Freewater [Oregon] and Walla Walla, Wash. [Washington], where most of Smith’s employees live. WW spoke to dozens of current and former Smith workers, Latino advocates, court personnel, public defenders, educators, police administrators, church officials, social service agents and business owners and determined that some portion of Smith’s workforce comprises undocumented immigrants." ... "It’s a revelation that may not be newsworthy around Weston, where most people this reporter interviewed knew, or assumed, that the agricultural processing plant hired illegal immigrants." ... "Additional interviews and review of public records reveal that Smith’s company appears to have employed illegal immigrants for decades, stretching back as far as the 1980s." -By Beth Slovic -WWeek.com 
Barack
Obama - Family
- Hawai'i
- 
-  Journalist
- Politics
-  Military
-  Sports
- Illinois
- 2008
Election
"Akaka defends Obama's Hawaii vacation from ABC commentator: Journalist questions [2008 Election Democratic Presidential Candidate Barack] Obama's vacation in 'foreign' destination." ... "A group called Asian Americans for Obama sent out a media alert yesterday with the headline, "BREAKING: Hawai'i is a State," as U.S. [Unisted States Hawaii Democratic Senator] Sen. Daniel Akaka and others defended U.S. [Illinois Democratic Senator] Sen. Barack Obama's decision to spend a weeklong vacation in the Islands." ... "Obama had another casual day yesterday: Visit his grandmother at her Makiki apartment again, watch a movie at the Ward Complex theaters and go to dinner. But his choice of vacation destinations — his hometown of Honolulu — prompted [Disney TV's] ABC News' Cokie Roberts to twice call Hawai'i a "foreign" and "exotic" vacation destination for the man who wants to be president." ... ""I know his grandmother lives in Hawai'i," Roberts said on ABC's This Week with George Stephanopoulos. "And I know Hawai'i is a state. But it has the look of him going off to some sort of foreign, exotic place. He should be in Myrtle Beach if he's going to take a vacation at this time."" ... "But Akaka didn't see any humor in Roberts' comments." ... ""Saying our 50th state is somehow 'foreign,' does a great disservice to the hardworking, patriotic Americans who call Hawai'i home," Akaka said. "For months, people have been asking me, 'When is Sen. Obama going to come home?' I'm so glad he found time to visit his sister and his grandmother, and for him and his family to bond and recharge in his home state. Hawai'i is a great U.S. destination; just ask the 5.5 million Americans who visited last year for business and pleasure."" ... "Akaka's press secretary, Jesse Broder Van Dyke, wants Roberts to see firsthand evidence of Hawai'i's history and its role in the country's future." ... ""I would love to take Ms. Roberts on a tour of O'ahu, with stops at the Arizona Memorial and Punchbowl, followed by a visit with Hawai'i Army National Guard soldiers training for their second deployment to the Middle East," he said. "Then I would take her to Eastside Grill to watch Team USA women's volleyball and Bryan Clay. I would introduce her to Hawai'i residents so she could witness our diversity and learn about the aloha spirit. Part of what makes America great is the unique contributions of all 50 states. Sen. Obama has every right to come home and visit his sister and grandmother."" -By Dan Nakaso -HonoluluAdvertiser.com 
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Political
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Free
Speech - History
- Hawaii
- Military
- "Flag
amendment fails by one vote: Compromise measure that
would have left Constitution unaltered also fails." ... "The 66-34 tally
in favor of the amendment was one less than the two-thirds required. The
House surpassed that threshold last year, 286-130." ... "The resolution
represented Congress' response to Supreme Court rulings in 1989 and 1990
that burning and other desecrations of the flag are protected as free speech
by the First Amendment to the Constitution." ... "Opponents said the amendment
would violate the First Amendment right to free speech. And some Democrats
complained that majority Republicans were exploiting people's patriotism
for political advantage in November's midterm elections." ... ""Our country's
unique because our dissidents have a voice," said Sen. Daniel Inouye, D-Hawaii,
a World War II veteran who lost an arm in the war and was decorated with
the Medal of Honor." ... ""While I take offense at disrespect to the flag,"
he said, "I nonetheless believe it is my continued duty as a veteran, as
an American citizen and as a United States senator to defend the constitutional
right of protesters to use the flag in nonviolent speech.""
-AP via -MSNBC
Hawaii
- History
- 
Museum
- "Group
hides native Hawaiian artifacts: Judge jails leader,
holds three others in contempt of court." ... "Leaders of a Hawaiian group
vowed not to divulge the location of a cache of native artifacts obtained
from a museum and then buried, despite the jailing of their director."
... "One of the four, executive director Edward Halealoha Ayau, was taken
into custody after refusing [Chief U.S. District Judge David] Ezra's order
to reveal the exact location of the 83 artifacts from the Bishop Museum."
-AP via -CNN
Science
- 
California
- Los
Angeles - Hawaii
- "Man-Made
"Star" Illuminates Milky Way's Mysterious Center."
... "[...] even on the clearest night, the earth's atmosphere obscures
the true brilliance of our galaxy and astronomers have long struggled with
images blurred by its mix of gases and turbulence. Now researchers have
used a new laser-generated star to obtain the clearest pictures yet of
the Milky Way's center. " ... "Astronomer Andrea Ghez of the University
of California, Los Angeles, and her colleagues used the 10-meter Keck 2
telescope in Hawaii, which has a laser attached to it, to observe our galaxy.
The skywatchers employed the 14-watt laser to generate a fake star. By
continuously imaging this false star along with the real ones, they could
correct any fuzziness or other distortions introduced by the earth's atmosphere."
-By David Biello -ScientificAmerican
Hawaii
- Military
- 
Flying
- 
Intelligence
- "Stealth
engineer facing federal indictment." ... "A federal
grand jury in Honolulu has returned a six-count indictment against a B-Two
stealth bomber engineer already accused of selling U-S military secrets
to foreign countries." -AP
via KPUA
Hawaii
- Business
- "Hawaiian
Electric 3Q Income Slips." ... "Hawaiian Electric
Industries Inc. on Wednesday said third-quarter profit fell as customers
faced with more expensive electricity bills and higher fuel costs curbed
their electricity use." ... "Hawaiian Electric supplies power to more than
400,000 customers, or 93 percent of Hawaii's market through its three electric
utilities." -AP
via -Forbes
Political
- Business
- Hurricane
Katrina - Hurricane
Rita - Hawaii
- "Oil
Company Execs Defend Huge Profits." ... "The chiefs
of five major oil companies defended the industry's huge profits Wednesday
at a Senate hearing where they were exhorted to explain prices and assure
customers they're not being gouged." ... "Together the companies earned
more than $25 billion in profits in the July-September quarter as the price
of crude oil hit $70 a barrel and gasoline surged to record levels after
the disruptions of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita." ... "Democrats had wanted
the executives to testify under oath, but Republicans rejected the idea.
``If I were a witness I would demand to be put under oath,'' said Sen.
Daniel Inouye, D-Hawaii. The soaring prices have sent shivers through a
Congress worried about political fallout." -By H.
Josef Hebert -AP
via -Guardian.co.uk
Hawaii
- Scuba
- 
Water
- Animals
- Business
- "The
Dangers of Hawaii's Fish Industry." ... "Every year.
more than half a million of the state's most beautiful fish are taken our
reefs and sent to aquarium tanks around the world. It's a multi-million
dollar industry that's been mostly unregulated. Now, some say it's time
for a radical change." ... "For decades now, the aquarium fishing industry
in Hawai'i has been basically a free-for-all. Get a boat, some dive gear
and a $50 permit and you're in business." ... "In the past 20 years, the
state's total catch of aquarium fish has quintupled. Last year, the industry
reported catching nearly 750,000 fish, grossing more than $3 million in
sales." ... "Aquatic biologist Bill Walsh of the Department of Land and
Natural Resources says that's not counting renegade fish collectors who
don't report their catches." ... "Walsh is recommending banning aquarium
fish collecting on at least 20 percent of all island coastlines. He's also
recommending statewide bans on a few specific fish and a possible limit
to the number of fish collectors." -By Keahi Tucker
-KGMB9
