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Discover Maui by Lonely Planet

California gold rush, carbon footprint, Charles Lindbergh, land reform, Maui Hawaii, no-fly zone, off-the-grid, sustainable-tourism, trade route

Together she and Ned wrote the first five editions of Lonely Planet’s Hawaii , and authored the previous edition of Lonely Planet’s Maui . Amy C Balfour Lahaina, West Maui, Kihei & South Maui, The People of Maui, Hawaii’s Cuisine, Hawaiian Arts & Crafts, Green Maui, Outdoor Adventures Amy first visited Hawaii as a toddler. According to family lore she was so happy to arrive, she ‘sprinkled’ all over the customs agent. For this book, she zipped down the West Maui mountains, clutched the wheel on the Kahekili Hwy, sunset-cruised off Kaʻanapali, snapped photos of a roaring blowhole, snorkeled beside a green turtle, hiked a jungly mountain trail and enjoyed her most decadent Thanksgiving dinner ever – a no-worries feast at the Kaʻanapali Beach Hotel.

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Experienced surfers take to the northern end of the beach. In Focus MAUI TODAY HISTORY THE PEOPLE OF MAUI HAWAII’S CUISINE HAWAIIAN ARTS & CRAFTS FAMILY TRAVEL GREEN MAUI OUTDOOR ADVENTURES LEI Top of chapter Maui Today “Few topics raise more debate on Maui than development issues” Volunteer working on Koʻieʻie Fishpond (Click here) GREG ELMS/LONELY PLANET IMAGES © New Government On Maui all local government is administered on a county level. In 2011 Alan Arakawa took over the reins as Maui’s new mayor and there’s optimism in the air. Voters were fed up with the former administration’s policies and the red tape involved in obtaining permits of all sorts.

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AlexAir ( 871-0792; www.helitour.com) Blue Hawaiian ( 871-8844; www.bluehawaiian.com) Sunshine ( 871-7799; www.sunshinehelicopters.com) Festivals & Events Ki Hoʻalu Slack Key Guitar Festival Music Festival (www.mauiarts.org) At this event held on the lawn of the Maui Arts & Cultural Center in June, top slack key guitarists from throughout Hawaii take the stage. Maui Marathon Road Race (www.mauimarathon.com) Held in mid-September, this road race begins in Kahului and ends 26.2 miles later at Whalers Village in Kaʻanapali. Maui ʻUkulele Festival Music Festival (www.ukulelefestivalhawaii.org) Held outdoors at the Maui Arts & Cultural Center on a Sunday in mid-October, this aloha event showcases uke masters from Maui and beyond. Sleeping Maui Seaside Hotel Hotel $$ Offline map Google map ( 877-3311; www.seasidehotelshawaii.com; 100 W Kaʻahumanu Ave; r from $125; ) If you have some dire need to spend the night in Kahului, this is the better of its aging hotels.

Top 10 Maui, Molokai and Lanai by Bonnie Friedman

airport security, centre right, Charles Lindbergh, G4S, Maui Hawaii, polynesian navigation, Ronald Reagan

The memorial also commemorates the bicentennial of the first Chinese immigrants to Hawai‘i. (See p87.) The giant camphor tree Tedeschi Vineyards Some 20 acres of hybrid carnelian grapes grow on the sunny leeward slope of Haleakal… – the fruit destined for the vats of Maui’s only commercial winery. Tedeschi Winery The winery (tasting room left) made its first product, Maui Blanc, from Hawai‘i’s best-known fruit – pineapples! Grapes were harvested in 1980 and turned into sparkling wine, Maui Brut-Blanc de Noirs, which was served at the inauguration of President Ronald Reagan. Maui Blush, Maui Nouveau, Rose Ranch Cuvee, Maui Splash, ‘Ulupalakua Red, and Plantation Red have since been added to the list.

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Fleming Beach Park 65, 66 Duncan’s 89 Dunes at Maui Lani 46 earthquakes 112 East Maui 92–95 map 92 places to eat 95 shopping 95 East Maui Taro Festival 36 Eco-Tours 114 electricity 106 Elephant Walk Gallery 67 Embassy Vacation Resort 118 Eva Villa 119 Experience at K≥‘ele 101 F Fairmont Kea Lani Maui 116 Feast at Lele, Lahaina 60 ferries 108 Fish & Game Brewing Company 68 fishing 48, 49 flights 106, 108 floods 111 food 37, 50–51, 53 Formal Dining Room at the Lodge 102 Four Seasons Resort at Wailea 116 frequent flyer discounts 109 Front Street, Lahaina 6, 8–9, 56 G Gecko Trading Company 88 Garden of Eden Arboretum 93 Garden of the Gods 99 gardens 38–39 Gazebo Restaurant 69 Gerard’s, Lahaina 60 Gifts with Aloha 103 golf courses 46–47 Grand Wailea Resort Hotel & Spa 116 H Haikuleana 119 H…lawa Valley 97, 99 Hale Hui Kai 118 Hale Ho’okipa Inn 119 Hale Pa‘ahao, Lahaina 57 Hale Pa‘i, Lahaina 58 Hotel L…na‘i 121 Hotel Moloka‘i 121 hotels 116–118, 121 Hui Aloha Church, Kaup≥ 25, 94 Hui No‘eau Visual Arts Center 85, 87 hula 32, 35 Hula Grill 69 Hulopo‘e Beach 100 humpback whales 79, 80 Hyatt Regency Maui Resort & Spa 116 Index E Haleakal… National Park 7, 20–21, 38, 40, 86, 120 Haleki‘i Pihana Heiau 73 Halemau‘u Trail, Haleakala National Park 21 H…li‘imaile General Store 53, 89 H…moa Beach 43 H…na 23 H…na Beach County Park 45 H…na Coast Gallery 95 H…na Cultural Center 23, 94 Hana Hou Café 89 H…na Kai-Maui Resort 118 H…na Ranch Restaurant 95 H…na Ranch Store 95 Hard Rock Café, Lahaina 60 Hasegawa General Store 23, 95 Hau‘ola Stone, Lahaina 9 Hawai‘i Division of State Parks 120 Hawai‘i Nature Center 11, 72 Hawaiian Island Humpback Whales National Marine Sanctuary 79, 81 Heart of L…na‘i Art Gallery 103 heat stroke 111 Heleki‘i and Pihana Heiau 13 helicopter tours 49 Helm, George 31 Henry Clay’s Rotisserie 102 hiking 40–41, 48, 112, 114 Hilo Hattie 61, 82 history 30–31 hitchhiking 108 Hoapili Trail (King’s Trail) 17, 40, 81 Holy Ghost Church 86 Holy Rosary Church 85 Home Maid Bakery 51 Honokahua Preservation Site 63 Honok≥hau Valley 64 Honok≥wai Beach Park 66 Honolua Bay 65, 66 Honolua Store 63, 65, 67 Honoman« Bay 22 Ho‘okipa Beach Park 45, 85 Ho‘okipa Haven Vacation Services 120 horseback riding 48, 49, 14 Hosmer Grove, Haleakal… National Park 20 Hot Island Glass 88 Hotel H…na-Maui 116 Hotel H…na-Maui Dining Room 95 I ‘§ao Needle 10 ‘§ao Stream 10 ‘§ao Valley 6, 10–11, 38, 71, 73 ‘§ao Valley Trail 40 ‘Ihilani at M…nele Bay 102 ili‘ili 33 ‘Ili‘ili‘opae Heiau 100 information sources 107 insect bites and stings 111 insurance 106 International Festival of Canoes 36 internet 109, 110 ipu 33 J Jagger’s 87, 88 Japanese Tea House and Garden, Kepaniwai Park Gardens 11 Jeep Tours 114 jellyfish 111 Joe’s Bar & Grill 83 Jodo Mission, Lahaina 9, 59 Judd Park 27 K Ka‘ahumanu Church 12, 71 Ka‘ahumanu, Queen 31 K…‘anapali Ali‘i 117 K…‘anapali Beach 42, 59 K…‘anapali Beach Hotel 117 K…‘anapali North Course 46 Ka‘eleku Cave 23 Kahakuloa Head 65 Kahakuloa Village 65 Kahana Gateway Shopping Center 67 Kahana Sunset 118 Kahanu Gardens 23 Kaho‘olawe 17, 31, 38 123 Index 124 Kahului 12–13 kala‘au 33 Kalaupapa National Historical Park, Moloka‘i 7, 26–27 Kalaupapa Overlook 26 Kalaupapa Peninsula 98 Kalaupapa Trail 26 Kalawao 27 kalo 94 Kalua‘aha Church 100 Kamakana Fine Arts Gallery 103 Kamakou Nature Preserves 97 Kama‘ole I, II, III beaches 42, 81 Kama‘ole Shopping Center 82 Kamehameha I, King 30, 31 Kanah… Beach Park 45, 73 Kanah… Pond 13 Kanah… Pond State Wildlife Sanctuary 73 Kane‘apua Rock 100 Kanemitsu Bakery 99, 102 K…nepu‘u Reserve 100 Kapalua Bay 42, 66 Kapalua Bay Course 46 Kapalua Island Grill 68 Kapalua Plantation Course 46 Kapu…iwa Coconut Grove 100 Kauhak≥ Crater 27 Kau‘iki Hill 23, 94 Kaukini Gallery 65, 67 Kauleo N…n…hoa 26 Kaunakakai 97, 99 Kaunol« 98 Kaup≥ 24–25 Kaup≥ Gap 25 Kaup≥ Store 25, 95 Kaup≥ Trail, Haleakal… National Park 21, 41 kayaking 49, 114 Ke Nani Kai 121 Ke…lia Beach 42 Ke…lia Pond National Wildlife Refuge 79 Ke‘anae Arboretum 39 Ke‘anae Peninsula 22 Keawakapu Beach 43 Keawala‘i Congregational Church 80 Kehekili 31 Keka‘a 44, 63, 66 Ke≥muku Village 100 Ke≥p«‘olani Park 13 Kepaniwai Park Gardens 6, 10–11, 72 K≤hei Kalama Village Marketplace 82 Kili’s Cottage 119 King Kal…kaua‘s Cottage 19 K≤pahulu and Kaup≥ 7, 24–25, 39 K≤pahulu Point Lighthouse Country Park 25 kipuka 17 K≥‘ele Stables 101 Komoda’s Bakery 89 Kukui Mall 82 L L & L Drive-in 51 La Pérouse Bay 81 La Pérouse Memorial, M…kena 16 Lagoon Bar 68 Lahaina 56–61 map 56 nightlife 60 places to eat 60 shopping 61 Lahaina Cannery Mall 61 Lahaina Courthouse 8, 59 Lahaina Harbor 8, 59 Lahaina Inn 119 Lahaina Printsellers 61, 67 Lahaina Scrimshaw 61 L…na‘i Pine Sporting Clays 101 laundry 115 lei 34, 35 Lei Day 36 Leilani’s on the Beach 68 Leleiwi Overlook, Haleakal… National Park 20 Liliu‘okalani, Queen 31 Lindbergh, Charles 25 littering 111 Local Gentry 103 Lodge at K≥‘ele 121 Longhi’s, Lahaina 60 Longs Drug Stores 75 Luahiwa Petroglyph Field 99 l«‘au 48 M M…‘alaea Small Boat Harbor 79 magazines 107, 110 Maggie Coulombe Maui, Lahaina 61 Mai Poina ‘Oe la‘u Beach 44 Main St Bistro 74 Makahiku Falls 24 Makawao Rodeo 37 Makawao Town 86 Makawao Union Church 85 Makee Sugar Mill, ‘Ulupalakua Ranch 19 M…kena 6, 16–17, 44, 80, 81 M…kena Landing 45 M…kena South course 47 M…kena Surf 117 Mala, An Ocean Tavern 53, 60 Malu‘aka Beach 43 Mama’s Fish House 53, 87, 89 M…nele Bay Hotel 121 Marco’s Grill & Deli 74 Maria Lanakila Church, Lahaina 58 Market Street, Wailuku 12 Marriott Wailea Beach Resort 117 Martin & MacArthur 67 Master’s Reading Room, Lahaina 57 Maui Arts and Cultural Center 13, 74 Maui Coast Hotel 118 Maui Coffee Roasters 74 Maui County Fair 37 Maui Crafts Guild 88 Maui Divers, Lahaina 61 Maui Fresh Fruit Store 88 Maui Girl & Co. 88 Maui Lu Resort 120 Maui Mall 75 Maui Marketplace 75 Maui Marriott Resort & Ocean Club 117 Maui Ocean Center 79 Maui Onion 83 Maui Polo Beach Club 117 Maui Prince Hotel 117 Maui Swap Meet 75 Maui Tropical Plantation 12, 71 Maui Visitors Bureau 107 Maunalei Arboretum 64 Maunaloa 100 medical emergencies 122 missionaries 30 Missionary New England Salt Box, Kepaniwai Park Gardens 11 Moana Café 89 Mokulæ’ia 66 N N…k…lele Point (Blowhole) 64, 65 Nalu Sunset Bar 68 N…pili Bay 42, 66 N…pili Kai Beach Resort 118 N…pili Plaza 67 Nature Parks 38–39 nænæ 21 newspapers 107, 110 nightlife Lahaina 60 South Maui 83 Wailuku and Central Maui 74 West Maui 68 North Shore and Upcountry 84–89 map 84 places to eat 89 shopping 88 O O-Bon 33, 36 ocean safety 112 Oceanfront Dining Room 99, 102 Ohana Maui Islander 118 ‘Ohe‘o Gulch 24 Old Lahaina House 119 Old Lahaina L«‘au 60 Old Wailuku Inn at Ulupono 119 Olinda Country Cottages and Inn 119 Olowalu Beach 44 ‘OnO Surf Bar & Grill 68 opening times 113 Our Lady of Sorrows Church 99, 100 outdoor activities 48–49 Outpost Natural Food Store and Juice Bar 102 Portuguese Villa, Kepaniwai Park Gardens 11 postal services 110 Puamana 118 p«‘ili 33 Pukalani Country Club 47 Pukalani Superette 51 Punahoa Condominiums 118 Purdy’s Macadamia Nut Farm 103 Pu‘u Kukui 38, 65 Pu‘u ‘Ula‘ula Summit 21 Pu‘u≥la‘i, La Pérouse Bay 17, 38, 80 Index Moku‘ula 9 Moloka‘i and L…na‘i 96–103 accommodations 121 activities 101 map 96 places to eat 102 shopping 103 Moloka‘i Fish and Dive Co. 101 Moloka‘i Lighthouse 27 Moloka’i Lodge & Beach Village 121 Moloka‘i Mule Ride 101 Moloka‘i Museum and Cultural Center 98 Moloka‘i Off-Road Tours 101 Moloka‘i Pizza Café 102 Moloka‘i Shores 121 Molokini 17, 38, 45 Mo‘omomi Nature Preserve 97 mopeds 108 motorcycles 108 Mount Haleakal… 17 Munro Trail 98 music 32–33 P P…‘ia Trading Company 87 Pacific‘O & I‘o, Lahaina 52, 60 package tours 109, 115 pahu drums 33 P…‘ia Town 85 P…‘ia Trading Company 88 Pa‘iloa Beach 23 Palapala Ho‘omau Church 94 Paniolo Bar 95 Paniolo Hale 121 paniolo tradition 86 paragliding 114 passport requirements 106 Pa‘uwela Café 89 Peace of Maui 120 Pi‘ilani Village Center 82 Pi‘ilanihale Heiau 23, 93 Pioneer Inn, Lahaina 9, 120 Pizza Paradiso 69 places to eat East Maui 95 Lahaina 60 Moloka‘i and L…na‘i 102 North Shore and Upcountry 89 South Maui 83 tips 113 Top 10 52–53 Wailuku and Central Maui 74 West Maui 69 planning your visit 106, 109 Plantation era 30 Plantation House Restaurant at Kapalua 52, 69 Plantation Inn 119 Polipoli Springs State Recreation Area 39 Polli’s 89 Polynesian migration 30 Q Queen Ka‘ahumanu Center 75 quilting 35 Quinn, William F. 31 R radio 110 Rainbow Mall 82 Redwood Trail 40 Reilley’s 69 Renaissance Wailea Beach Resort 116 rental cars 108 rental of equipment 49 reservation services 115 restaurants see places to eat Reyn’s 67 Richards Shopping Center 103 Ritz-Carlton Kapalua 116 Road to H…na 7, 22–23, 93 Rodeo General Store 88 Roy’s 52 Roy’s Kahana Bar & Grill 69 Royal Lahaina Resort 116 Ruby’s Diner 74 S Sack ’n’ Save 51 Saeng’s Thai Cuisine 74 safety tips 112 Safeway 75 A Saigon Café 53, 74 sailing 49 Sheraton Maui 116 St.

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Its latest addition is the Korean pavilion, constructed in 2003 to commemorate 100 years of Korean immigration to Hawai‘i. 11 Maui’s Top 10 Wailuku and Kahului Wailuku, Maui’s County seat, and Kahului, the island’s business and retail center, are nestled between Pu‘u Kukui (West Maui Mountains) and Haleakal…. For centuries this area has been the center of power and population on Maui, and today it offers a vast array of culture, history, nature, entertainment, dining, shopping, and recreation. As the gateway to Maui, Kahului is also home to the island’s largest airport and primary harbor. Top 10 Sights Kanah… Pond Central Maui is the place to go for a short day of sightseeing.

Frommer's Hawaii 2009 by Jeanette Foster

airport security, California gold rush, Charles Lindbergh, Easter island, glass ceiling, gravity well, haute couture, haute cuisine, indoor plumbing, machine readable, Maui Hawaii, off-the-grid, place-making, polynesian navigation, retail therapy, South China Sea, sustainable-tourism, urban renewal, urban sprawl, white picket fence, Yogi Berra

(Kauai), 598 Hanalei Valley Lookout (Kauai), 618–619 Hana-Maui Kayak & Snorkel Adventures (Maui), 441 Hanapepe (Kauai), 625, 629 Hanauma Bay (Oahu), 40, 228 beach, 177, 180 snorkeling, 187 Hana-Waianapanapa Coast Trail (Maui), 451–452 Hanks Café (Honolulu), 250 Hans Hedemann Surf School (Oahu), 189 Hapuna Beach (Big Island), 4, 307, 312 Hapuna Beach Cove (Big Island), 315 Hapuna Golf Course (Big Island), 321 Harbor Gallery (Big Island), 354 Hard Rock Cafe (Big Island), 364 Hard Rock Cafe (Maui), 488 Hariguchi Rice Mill (Kauai), 618 Hasegawa General Store (Maui), 472, 486 Hauula (Oahu), 231 Hauula Loop Trail (Oahu), 192 Hawaiian Airlines, 61, 63 Hawaiian culture, 27–28 best ways to immerse yourself in, 11–13 Hawaiian Farmers of Hanalei (Kauai), 622 Hawaiian Force (Big Island), 360 Hawaiian Hall (Honolulu), 203 Hawaiian Island Creations (Honolulu), 247 Hawaiian Island Surf & Sport (Maui), 446 Hawaiian language, 31 Hawaiian Moons Natural Foods (Maui), 482 Hawaiian music, 44–45 Big Island, 327 Honolulu, 252–253 Maui, 486 Molokai, 521 Hawaiian Pedals Bike Works (Big Island), 324 Hawaiian Railway (Oahu), 211 Hawaiian Reef (off Maui), 444 Hawaiian Sailboarding Techniques (Maui), 446–448 Hawaiian Slack-Key Guitar Festival Big Island, 59 Kauai, 60 Maui, 56 Hawaiian Slack-Key Guitar Festival Gabby Style (Oahu), 58 Hawaiian Surf (Oahu), 249 Hawaiian Trail and Mountain Club, 77, 78, 190 Hawaiian Vanilla Company (Big Island), 301 Hawaiian Walkways (Big Island), 318 Hawaiian Waters Adventure Park (Oahu), 211 Hawaiian Wildlife Tours (Kauai), 600 Hawaii Bicycle League, 199 Hawaii Center for Independent Living, 70 Hawaii Children’s Discovery Center (Honolulu), 208 Hawaii Coffee Company (Oahu), 202 Hawaii Ecotourism Association, 75 Hawaii Food Tours, 154 Hawaii Forest & Trail (Big Island), 299, 318, 324 Hawaii Geographic Society, Honolulu tours, 201 Hawaii International Film Festival, 60 Hawaii International Jazz Festival (Honolulu), 58 Hawaii Island B&B Association, 263 Hawaii Island Gourmet Products (Big Island), 303 Hawaii Kai Golf Course (Oahu), 196 Hawaii Kai Gourmet (Molokai), 520 Hawaii Maritime Center (Honolulu), 206, 221 Hawaii Naniloa Hotel’s Crown Room (Big Island), 365 Hawaii Nature Center (Maui), 459 Hawaii Nature Center (Oahu), 190 Hawaii Ocean Rafting (Maui), 442 16_285558-bindex.qxp 8/11/08 10:52 PM Page 647 INDEX Hawaii Opera Theatre (Honolulu), 254 Hawaii’s Plantation Village (Oahu), 211 Hawaii State Art Museum (Honolulu), 213, 225 Hawaii State Capitol (Honolulu), 224 Hawaii State Farm Fair (Honolulu), 58 Hawaii State Windsurfing Championship (Maui), 58 Hawaii Superferry, 1, 64 Hawaii Temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Oahu), 232 Hawaii Theatre (Honolulu), 219, 254 Hawaii Tropical Botanical Garden (Big Island), 337–338 Hawaii Visitors & Convention Bureau (HVCB), 48 Honolulu, 106 Hawaii Volcanoes National Park (Big Island), 261 accommodations, 282–284 birding, 324 hiking and camping, 318–320 restaurants, 304–305 shopping, 361–362 sights and attractions, 344–349 Hawi (Big Island), 260 Health concerns, 66–69 Health-food stores Big Island, 360 Honolulu, 242 Maui, 477, 485 Oahu, 248 Heart of Lanai Gallery, 541 Heeia Fish Pond (Oahu), 230 Heeia Pier (Oahu), 230 Hele-On Bus (Big Island), 262 Helicopter tours.

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See Coffee Kona Coffee Cultural Festival (Big Island), 60 Kona Historical Society (Big Island), 326 Kona Historical Society Museum (Big Island), 329–330 Kona Hotel (Big Island), 329 Kona International Airport (Big Island), 258 Kona International Market (Big Island), 350 Kona Joe Coffee Farm & Chocolate Company (Big Island), 289 Kona Natural Foods (Big Island), 352 Kona Square (Big Island), 350 Kona Village Luau (Big Island), 362 Kona Wine Market (Big Island), 351 Kong Lung (Kauai), 627 Koolau Forest Reserve (Maui), 471 Ko Olina Golf Club (Oahu), 198 KTA Super Stores (Big Island), 351 16_285558-bindex.qxp 8/11/08 10:52 PM Page 651 INDEX Kualapuu (Molokai), 492 Kualapuu Market (Molokai), 520 Kualoa Ranch and Activity Club (Oahu), 232 Kualoa Regional Park (Oahu), 181, 230 camping, 194–195 Kuan Yin Temple (Honolulu), 219 Kuau (Maui), accommodations, 404 Kuhio Beach (Waikiki), 177 nightlife, 249–250 Kuhio Highway (Hwy. 56; Kauai), 618 Kukaniloko Birthing Stones (Oahu), 235 Kukuiolono Golf Course (Kauai), 607 Kula (Maui), 374, 468 accommodations, 404 fresh flowers in, 484 restaurants, 427–428 Kula Botanical Garden (Maui), 468 Kula Kai Caverns & Lava Tubes (Big Island), 330 Kumimi Beach Park (Murphy Beach Park; Molokai), 504, 506 Kupanaha (Maui), 488 Kuualii Fish Ponds (Big Island), 331 L ahaina (Maui), 371 accommodations, 379–383 restaurants, 412–417 sights and attractions, 461–462 Lahaina Arts Society Galleries (Maui), 479 Lahaina Cannery Mall (Maui), 478 Lahaina Center (Maui), 478 Lahaina Harbor (Maui), surfing at, 444 Lahaina Restoration Foundation (Maui), 461 Lai Fong Department Store (Honolulu), 219 Lanai, 3, 439, 522–543 accommodations, 527–529 arriving in, 525 beaches, 532–534 brief description, 525–526 day cruises to, from Maui, 441 emergencies, 526 Frommer’s favorite experiences, 533 getting around, 526 golf and other outdoor activities, 536–537 hiking and camping, 535 history of, 523–525 for kids, 538 nightlife, 543 restaurants, 529–532 shopping, 541–543 sights and attractions, 537–540 suggested itinerary, 97–99 visitor information, 525 watersports, 534–535 Lanai Art Center, 539, 542, 543 Lanai Marketplace, 542 Lanai Pineapple Festival, 57 Lanai Plantation Store, 526 Lanai Playhouse, 543 Lanai Surf School & Surf Safari, 535 Langenstein Farms (Big Island), 292 Lanikai Beach (Oahu), 4, 180–181, 230 Lantern Floating Hawaii (Oahu), 56 Lapakahi State Historical Park (Big Island), 332 La Pérouse Monument (Maui), 464 La Pérouse Pinnacle (off Maui), 445 Laupahoehoe Beach Park (Big Island), 338 Lawai (Kauai), 622 Lawai Gardens (Kauai), 611 Leeward Oahu (the Waianae Coast) accommodations, 145–146 beaches, 184 brief description of, 114 golf, 198–199 hiking, 193 restaurant, 176 Legal aid, 634 Legends of the Pacific (Big Island), 364 Lei Day Celebrations, 56 Leilani’s on the Beach (Maui), 488 Leis, 12–13 Honolulu, 219 Lei shops, Honolulu, 242–243 Lei Spa Maui, 479 Leleiwi Beach (Big Island), 312 Leleiwi Beach Park (Big Island), 307 651 Leleiwi Overlook (Maui), 467 Lewers Lounge (Waikiki), 253 Life’s a Beach (Maui), 489 Lihue and environs (Kauai) accommodations, 551–554 beach, 588 brief description of, 547 golf, 606–607 restaurants, 571–575 shopping, 623–624 sights and attractions, 610–611 Lihue Fishing Supply (Kauai), 596 Liko Kauai Cruises, 595 Liliuokalani, Queen, 30, 42, 206, 223–225 Liliuokalani Gardens (Big Island), 342 Limahuli Garden of the National Tropical Botanical Garden (Kauai), 620 Lindbergh’s Grave (Maui), 474 Lin’s Lei Shop (Honolulu), 243 Lita’s Leis (Honolulu), 243 Little Beach (Maui), 438 Living History Tour (Big Island), 326 Lobby Lounge (Maui), 489 The Local Gentry (Lanai), 542 Local Motion (Honolulu), 247 Lodge at Koele (Lanai), 543 biking, 537 guided hikes, 536 Longhi’s (Maui), 488 Lost and found, 634 Lotus Gallery (Kauai), 628 Luahiwa Petroglyph Field (Lanai), 539 Luau Big Island, 362–364 Maui, 487 Oahu, 176 Lulu’s (Maui), 489 Lulu’s (Big Island), 364 Lumahai Beach (Kauai), 619 Lydgate State Park (Kauai), 592 Lyman Museum & Mission House (Big Island), 342 Lyman’s (Big Island), 317 Lyon Arboretum (Oahu), 212 M aalaea (Maui), 372–373, 462 restaurants, 421–424 Maalaea Beach (Maui), 445 Maalaea Grill (Maui), 489 Macadamia nuts, 35 16_285558-bindex.qxp 652 8/11/08 10:52 PM Page 652 INDEX Maggie Coulombe (Maui), 479 The Magic of Polynesia (Waikiki), 254 Mahaulepu Beach (Kauai), 588 Mahi (shipwreck dive, Oahu), 186 Mai Tai Bar (Waikiki), 250 Makaha Beach Park (Oahu), 184 Makaha Resort Golf Club (Oahu), 198–199 Makahiku Falls (Maui), 450, 474 Makapuu Beach Park (Oahu), 180, 228 Makapuu Lighthouse Trail (Oahu), 191 Makapuu Point (Oahu), 228 Makawao (Maui), 374, 468 accommodations, 402, 404 restaurant, 427 shopping, 482–484 Makawao Parade & Rodeo (Maui), 57 Makawehi Point Trail (Kauai), 601 Makena (Maui), 373, 464 accommodations, 402 restaurant, 426 Makena Beach (Maluaka Beach; Maui), 436–437, 443 Makena Golf Courses (Maui), 453 Makena Kayak Tours (Maui), 441 Makena Landing (Maui), 464 Makiki (Oahu), restaurants, 165, 168–169 Malaekahana Bay State Recreation Area (Oahu), 181, 184 camping, 195 Malama Trail (Big Island), 331–332 Maliko Bay (Maui), 470 Maliko Gulch (Maui), 470 Maluaka Beach (Makena Beach; Maui), 436–437 Maluuluolele Park (Maui), 462 Mamane Street Bakery (Big Island), 357 Mana’e Goods and Grindz (Molokai), 521 Mana Hale (Big Island), 334 Manele (Lanai), 526 Mangosteens, 622–623 Manoa Falls Trail (Oahu), 191 Manoa Valley (Oahu) accommodations, 141 restaurants, 165, 168–169 Manta rays, night dives with (Big Island), 314–315 Marc Resorts Hawaii, 74 Margo Oberg’s School of Surfing (Kauai), 598 Mary Catherine’s (Honolulu), 240 Masters of Hawaiian Slack Key Guitar Series (Maui), 486 Master’s Reading Room (Maui), 461 Matsumoto Shave Ice (Oahu), 236, 248 Maui, 3, 367–490. See also Central Maui; East Maui; South Maui; Upcountry Maui; West Maui accommodations, 377–408 bed-and-breakfasts (B&Bs), 378 Central Maui, 377–378 East Maui, 404–408 South Maui, 392–402 Upcountry Maui, 402–404 West Maui, 378–392 American Express, 376 arriving in, 367, 370 beaches, 432–439 brief description, 371–375 dentists, 376 doctors, 376 emergencies, 376 Frommer’s favorite experiences, 436–437 getting around, 375–376 golf and other outdoor activities, 452–457 hiking and camping, 447–452, 463, 471 hospitals, 376 Internet access, 376–377 nightlife, 486–490 post offices, 377 restaurants, 408–432 Central Maui, 409–412 East Maui, 428–432 South Maui, 421–426 Upcountry Maui, 426 West Maui, 412–421 shops and galleries, 475–486 sights and attractions, 457–474 Central Maui, 457–461 East Maui, 469–474 for kids, 457 South Maui, 462–468 Upcountry Maui, 468–469 West Maui, 461–462 suggested itinerary, 94–96 visitor information, 371 watersports, 439–447 weather conditions and forecasts, 377 Maui Arts & Cultural Center (Kahului), 486 Maui Brewing Co., 488 Maui Brews, 488 Maui Classic Charters, 439 Maui County Fair, 59 Maui Crafts Guild, 485 Maui Dive Shop, 442 Maui Downhill, 455 Maui Eco-Adventures, 447–448 Maui Film Festival, 57 Maui Hands, 484 Maui Harley-Davidson (Maui), 376 Maui Hiking Safaris, 447 Maui Horse Whisperer Experience, 456 Maui Mountain Cruisers, 455 Maui Ocean Center, 462–463 Maui Onion Festival, 58 Maui Pineapple Co., 462 Maui Stables, 456 Maui Sunriders Bike Company, 454 Maui Swap Meet, 476 Maui Tropical Plantation, 458 Maui Visitors Bureau, 371 Maui Windsurf Co., 447 Mauka Makai Excursions (Oahu), 202 Mauna Kea (Big Island), 335–337 Mauna Kea Beach (Kaunaoa Beach; Big Island), 307 Mauna Kea Galleries (Big Island), 356–357 Mauna Kea Golf Course (Big Island), 321 Mauna Kea Marketplace Food Court (Honolulu), 241 Maunakea Street (Honolulu), 219 Mauna Kea Summit Adventures (Big Island), 338–339 Mauna Lani Francis H.

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A prolific writer widely published in travel, sports, and adventure magazines, she’s also a contributing editor to Hawaii magazine, the editor of Zagat’s Survey to Hawaii’s Top Restaurants, and the Hawaii chapter author of 1,000 Places to See in the USA and Canada Before You Die. In addition to writing this guide, Jeanette is the author of Frommer’s Maui; Frommer’s Kauai; Frommer’s Hawaii with Kids; Frommer’s Portable Big Island; Frommer’s Honolulu, Waikiki & Oahu; Frommer’s Maui Day by Day; and Frommer’s Honolulu & Oahu Day by Day. Other Great Guides for Your Trip: Frommer’s Maui Frommer’s Honolulu, Waikiki & Oahu Frommer’s Portable Big Island Frommer’s Portable Maui Frommer’s Kauai Frommer’s Hawaii with Kids Frommer’s Maui & Lanai Day by Day Frommer’s Honolulu Day by Day Hawaii For Dummies 03_285558-flast.qxp 8/11/08 10:51 PM Page ix Frommer’s Star Ratings, Icons & Abbreviations Every hotel, restaurant, and attraction listing in this guide has been ranked for quality, value, service, amenities, and special features using a star-rating system.

Fodor's Hawaii 2013 by Fodor's

big-box store, carbon footprint, Easter island, gentrification, global village, Maui Hawaii, new economy, off-the-grid, out of africa, polynesian navigation, three-masted sailing ship, urban sprawl

Eliza Escaño-Vasquez was raised in Manila, Philippines, and lived in California before falling deeply in aloha with Maui in 2005. She is a contributing writer for Maui Concierge and Modern Luxury Hawaii. For this edition she updated the Maui Water Sports and Tours, Shopping, Spas, and Entertainment and Nightlife sections. Eliza currently resides in Maui with her family, who make living in paradise even more blissful than it sounds. Bonnie Friedman, a native New Yorker, has made her home on Maui for almost 30 years. A well-published freelance writer, she also owns and operates Grapevine Productions. She traveled around Maui to get the latest news for the Maui Exploring, Where to Eat, and Where to Stay sections, adding some of her favorite places.

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Hawaii in Images Hawaii Maps Experience Hawaii Oahu Maui The Big Island Kauai Molokai Lanai Travel Smart Hawaiian Vocabulary About Our Writers Credits and Copyright Main Table of Contents Experience Hawaii Hawaii Oahu Downtown Honolulu and Chinatown Greater Honolulu Waikiki West Waikiki East Southeast Oahu Windward Oahu The North Shore, Central, and West Oahu Oahu Beaches Maui West Maui Lahaina The South Shore Kahului-Wailuku Central Maui and Upcountry East Maui Hana Maui Beaches: West, South, and North Shores Maui Beaches: East Shore and Hana The Big Island The Big Island of Hawaii Kailua-Kona The Kona Coast The Kohala Coast and Waimea Mauna Kea and the Hamakua Coast Hilo Puna Big Island Beaches Kauai Kauai’s North Shore Kauai’s East Side and South Shore Kauai’s West Side Kauai Beaches Molokai West and Central Molokai East Molokai Lanai Lanai Main Table of Contents What’s Where Hawaii Planner Hawaii Today Hawaii Top Experiences The Hawaiian Islands Choosing Your Islands When To Go Hawaiian People and Their Culture The History of Hawaii Hawaii and the Environment Top 10 Hawaiian Foods to Try Best Farmers’ Markets Kids and Families Only in Hawaii Best Beaches Best Outdoor Adventures Top Scenic Spots Ultimate Hawaiian Indulgences Weddings and Honeymoons Cruising the Hawaiian Islands Next Chapter | Table of Contents Oahu.

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Kauai roads are subject to some pretty heavy traffic, especially going through Kapaa and Lihue. Hawaii’s Best Festivals and Events February: Chinese New Year: Lahaina, Maui, and in Chinatown on Oahu. Waimea Town Celebration: Waimea, Kauai. March: Prince Kuhio Day Celebration: Lihue, Kauai. April: Merrie Monarch Hula Festival: Hilo, Big Island. East Maui Taro Festival: Hana, Maui. Kona Chocolate Festival: Big Island. May: World Fire-Knife Dance Championships & Samoa Festival: Polynesian Cultural Center, Laie, Oahu. Maui Onion Festival: Kaanapali, Maui. June: Hawaiian Slack-Key Guitar Festival: Kahului, Maui. King Kamehameha Hula Competition: Honolulu, Oahu.

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Eliza Escaño-Vasquez was raised in Manila, Philippines, lived in California, and fell deeply in aloha with Maui in 2005. She is a contributing writer for the Maui Concierge and Modern Luxury Hawaii. For this edition, she updated the Water Sports and Tours, Shops and Spas, and Entertainment and Nightlife sections of the Maui chapter. Eliza currently resides on Maui with her family. Bonnie Friedman, a native New Yorker, has made her home on Maui for almost 30 years. A well-published freelance writer, she also owns and operates Grapevine Productions. She traveled around Maui to get the latest news for the Exploring, Beaches, Where to Eat, and Where to Stay sections of the Maui chapter, adding some of her favorite places.

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Hawai‘i in Pictures Hawai‘i Maps Experience Hawai‘i O‘ahu Maui The Big Island Kaua‘i Moloka‘i Lāna‘i Travel Smart Hawai‘i Vocabulary About Our Writers Copyright and Credits Experience Hawai‘i Hawaii O‘ahu Downtown Honolulu and Chinatown Waikiki West Waikiki East Greater Honolulu Southeast Oahu Windward Oahu The North Shore, Central, and West Oahu O‘ahu Beaches Maui West Maui Lahaina The South Shore and Central Maui Kahului-Wailuku Upcountry Maui and the North Shore East Maui Maui Beaches: West, South and North Shores Maui Beaches: East Shore and Hana The Big Island Kailua-Kona The Kona Coast The Kohala Coast and Waimea Mauna Kea and the Hāmākua Coast Hilo Puna Big Island Beaches Kaua‘i Kaua‘i’s North Shore Kaua‘i’s East Side and South Shore Kaua‘i’s West Side Moloka‘i West and Central Moloka‘i East Moloka‘i Lāna‘i Lāna‘i Main Table of Contents What’s Where Hawai‘i Planner Hawai‘i Today Hawai‘i Top Experiences The Hawaiian Islands Choosing Your Islands When To Go Hawaiian People and Their Culture The History of Hawai‘i Hawai‘i and the Environment Top 10 Hawaiian Foods to Try Best Farmers’ Markets Kids and Families Only in Hawai‘i Best Beaches Best Outdoor Adventures Top Scenic Spots Ultimate Hawaiian Indulgences Weddings and Honeymoons Cruising the Hawaiian Islands Next Chapter | Table of Contents O‘ahu.

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Although they suppressed aspects of Hawaiian culture, the missionaries did help invent the Hawaiian alphabet and built a printing press in Lahaina (the first west of the Rockies), which rolled out the news in Hawaiian. Maui also boasts the first sugar plantation in Hawai‘i (1849) and the first Hawaiian luxury resort (Hotel Hāna-Maui, 1946). On Maui Today In the mid-1970s, savvy marketers saw a way to improve Maui’s economy by promoting the Valley Isle to golfers and luxury travelers. The ploy worked all too well; Maui’s visitor count continues to swell. Impatient traffic now threatens to overtake the ubiquitous aloha spirit, development encroaches on agricultural lands, and county planners struggle to meet the needs of a burgeoning population. But Maui is still carpeted with an eyeful of green, and for every tailgater, there’s a carefree local on “Maui time” who stops for each pedestrian, whale spout, and sunset.

Hawaii by Jeff Campbell

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Volunteer by pulling invasive weeds, doing trail maintenance, restoring taro patches, cleaning streams, and much more. Hawaii State Parks (www.hawaiistateparks.org/partners) can link you with partner volunteer organizations who help preserve and maintain Hawaii’s state parks. The National Park Service (www.nps.gov/volunteer) coordinates volunteers at Hawai′i Volcanoes National Park (Click here) on the Big Island and Haleakalā National Park (Click here) on Maui. Here is a list of more organizations gratefully accepting volunteers, some specific to one island: Give the Reef a Break (www.iyor-hawaii.org) Hawaii Audubon Society (www.hawaiiaudubon.com) Hawaii Nature Center (www.hawaiinaturecenter.org) Coordinates voluntourism on O′ahu.

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Hawaii is also looking to attract clean energy and high-tech industries as a way to diversify, since the state recognizes that continued growth in tourism (and more low-wage service sector jobs) no longer supports Hawaii’s long-term health. Return to beginning of chapter POPULATION Over 70% of Hawaii’s 1.3 million residents live on O’ahu, making Honolulu Hawaii’s only real city. On O’ahu, population density is nearly 1500 people per sq mile, compared with 109 on Maui and 37 on the Big Island. Yet, in terms of its share of Hawaii’s population, the Big Island has grown the fastest since 1990. Ethnically, Hawaii is unique. First, it is among only four US states in which whites do not form a majority. Second, it has the largest percentage of Asian Americans (55%, predominantly Japanese and Filipino) among all states.

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Festivals & Events Food festivals often showcase island crops, such as the Kona Coffee Cultural Festival (Click here), East Maui Taro Festival (Click here), Maui Onion Festival (Click here), Wahiawa Pineapple Festival (www.hawaiipineapplefestival.com) and the biennial (even-numbered years) Hanalei Taro Festival (Click here). Beer drinkers should mark their calendars for the Kona Brewers Festival (Click here). Only in Hawaii will you find the Aloha Festivals Poke Contest (Click here) and the Waikiki Spam Jam (Click here). * * * Hawaii’s homegrown cornucopia comes to life in The Hawai′i Farmers Market Cookbook (Hawaii Farm Bureau), which features handy tips and recipes from top local farmers and chefs

Hawaii Travel Guide by Lonely Planet

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Also leads hikes into the crater at Haleakalā National Park. Hike Maui won the Hawaii Ecotourism Association's Operator of the Year award in 2010. Check website for departure locations. zFestivals & Events oKi Hoʻalu Slack Key Guitar FestivalMUSIC (www.mauiarts.org; hJun)F Top slack key guitarists take the stage at this 30-year-old event, held on the lawn of the Maui Arts & Cultural Center each June. Maui Ukulele FestivalMUSIC (www.ukulelefestivalhawaii.org; hmid-Oct)F Held outdoors at the Maui Arts & Cultural Center on a Sunday in mid-October, this aloha event showcases uke masters from Maui and beyond. Na Mele O MauiMUSIC (www.kaanapaliresort.com; hDec)F This celebration of Hawaiian culture features children’s choral groups singing native Hawaiian music.

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To find volunteer opportunities, ask your hotel concierge; check alternative local newspapers and websites such as Volunteer Match (www.volunteermatch.org) and Craigslist (http://honolulu.craigslist.org); or contact nonprofit organizations working on the islands directly, including the following: Conservation Connections (www.conservationconnections.org) Browse a variety of drop-in, eco-conscious volunteer opportunities on all of the main islands. Habitat for Humanity (www.habitat.org) Build affordable housing in Hawaii's low-income communities. Haleakalā National Park Day and overnight wilderness conservation trips in Maui's national park. Hawaii Food Bank (www.hawaiifoodbank.org) Help feed the hungry on Oʻahu and Kauaʻi. Hawaii Nature Center (www.hawaiinaturecenter.org) Trail maintenance, gardening, environmental restoration and special events on Oʻahu and Maui. Hawaii State Parks Partners (www.hawaiistateparks.org/partners) Natural and cultural resource preservation on all of the main islands.

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ADon't go for a helicopter or plane ride or ascend to high altitudes on Hawaii's volcanoes (eg Haleakalā on Maui, Mauna Kea or Mauna Loa on the Big Island) for at least 24 hours before or after scuba diving. Fishing The sea has always been Hawaii's breadbasket. You'll see locals casting from shore, and no fishing license is required to join them (only freshwater or commercial fishing requires licensing). However, statewide regulations still govern exactly what you can catch and when. For details, check with Hawaii's Division of Aquatic Resources (http://dlnr.hawaii.gov/dar). Most visiting anglers are more interested in deep-sea sportfishing for legendary quarry such as ahi (yellowfin tuna), swordfish, spearfish, mahimahi (dolphinfish) and, most famous of all, Pacific blue marlin, which can reach 1000lb (ʻgranders').

Lonely Planet Best of Hawaii by Lonely Planet

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Airports The majority of incoming flights from overseas and the US mainland arrive at Honolulu International Airport (HNL; %808-836-6411; http://hawaii.gov/hnl; 300 Rodgers Blvd; W) on Oʻahu. Flights to Lanaʻi and Molokaʻi usually originate from Honolulu or Maui. The main Neighbor Island airports include the following: Hilo International Airport (ITO; %808-961-9300; www.hawaii.gov/ito; 2450 Kekuanaoa St), East Hawaiʻi (Big Island). Kahului International Airport (OGG; %808-872-3830; http://hawaii.gov/ogg; 1 Kahului Airport Rd), Maui. Kona International Airport (KOA; %808-327-9520; http://hawaii.gov/koa; 73-200 Kupipi St), at Keahole West Hawaiʻi (Big Island). Lanaʻi Airport (LNY; %808-565-7942; http://hawaii.gov/lny; off Hwy 440), Lanaʻi.

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Hawaiian nene (native goose) | GMOFOTO/SHUTTERSTOCK © TTours A number of tour-bus companies operate half-day and full-day sightseeing tours on Maui, covering the national park and other island destinations. Polynesian Adventure Tours (%808-833-3000; www.polyad.com; tours adult from $114, child 3-11yr from $69) Part of Gray Line Hawaii, it’s a big player among Hawaiian tour companies; offers tours to Haleakalā National Park, Central Maui and ʻIao Valley State Monument, and the Road to Hana. Also runs short trips from Maui to Pearl Harbor in O‘ahu (from adult/child $378/357). Roberts Hawaii (%800-831-5541; www.robertshawaii.com; tours adult/child 4-11yr $108/79) In operation for more than 70 years, Roberts Hawaii runs three tours: Hana, ʻIao Valley and Lahaina, and Haleakalā National Park. 5Eating Kula Lodge RestaurantHawaiian$$$ MAP (%808-878-1535; www.kulalodge.com; 15200 Haleakalā Hwy; breakfast $12-27, lunch $18-42, dinner $26-42; h7am-9pm) Assisted by its staggering view, perhaps the best of any Maui restaurant, Kula Lodge has reinvented itself to great effect.

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It is also the only state to set a legal deadline for sourcing 100% of its electricity from renewable energy, by 2045. The government and private industry are pursuing every renewable and clean energy option available – wind farms on Maui, for example. Diversifying the Economy After losing sugar and pineapple plantations to cheap imports from the developing world, Hawaii’s economy was reliant on tourism. When a recession tanked the national economy in 2008, Hawaii’s tourism went with it. Since 2011 Hawaii’s economy has slowly rebounded, though not entirely. Tourism will likely be Hawaii’s bread and butter for the foreseeable future, but at a price. More than eight million travelers visit annually – over five times the resident population – overcrowding roads and driving up the price of real estate.

Best Dives of Hawaii by Joyce Huber

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Every effort was made to insure the accuracy of information in this book, but the publisher and author do not assume, and hereby disclaim, liability for any loss or damage caused by errors, omissions, misleading information or potential travel problems caused by this guide, even if such errors or omissions result from negligence, accident or any other cause. Using This Guide Introduction Resources & Travel Tips Hawaii Oahu Best Dives of Oahu Oahu Dive Operators Oahu Accommodations Maui, the Valley Isle Best Dives of Maui Dive Operators of Maui Other Activities Maui Accommodations Hawaii, the Big Island Best Dives of Hawaii Dive Operators of Hawaii Live-Aboards Hawaii Accommodations Kauai, the Garden Isle Best Dive Sites of Kauai Snorkeling Dive Operators on Kauai Accommodations on Kauai Offbeat & Adventure Tours Facts Using This Guide Quick-reference symbols are used throughout this guide to identify diving and snorkeling areas.

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Website: www.undercurrent.org. Send checks to Undercurrent, PO Box 1658, Sausalito, CA 94966. Hawaii Hawaii's six main islands - Kauai, Oahu, Maui, Molokai, Lanai and Hawaii - are unparalleled in beauty, with volcanic mountains, swaying palms, wild orchids, exotic plants and spectacular black and white sand beaches. Inland, sugarcane plant ations and pineapple fields stretch for miles. Underwater Hawaii offers a magical world of lava tubes, tunnels, archways, c athedrals, caves, and reefs. Thirty percent of Hawaii's marine life exists nowhere else on earth. Giant sea turtles, eagle rays, squid, the Hawaiian turkeyfish, dolphins, whales, crustaceans, octopi, large tiger cowries and tame morays abound in the crystal waters.

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For a complete list contact the Oahu Visitors Bureau at ph. 800-624-8678 or 800-GO-HAWAII. Website: www.hawaii.gov/tourism/. Nuhua Condominium Suites, 444 Nahua, Waikiki, are low-cost units with parking, pool, TV and kitchens. ph. 800-446-6248, fax: 310-544-1643. Website: www.444nuhua.com. Outrigger Waikiki, on Waikiki Beach. Five restaurants and nightly entertainment. Rooms $175-$530. ph. 800-688-7444, fax 800-662-4852. Website: www.outrigger.com. Maui, the Valley Isle The West Maui mountains and the mountain of Haleakala cover most of Maui. Haleakala rises to 10,000 ft. Hiking here, especially at sunrise, is more of an "encounter" than a sport.

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He began acquiring guns, ammunition, a cannon, and a pair of haole advisors from the Western ships that followed in Cook’s wake, using them to wage civil wars against the neighboring islands. Captain George Vancouver had served as a midshipman on Cook’s Pacific voyages. When he returned to Hawaii in 1793 at the helm of his own naval expedition, he was alarmed by the devastation. He wrote that “[Maui] and its neighboring islands were reduced to great indigence by the wars in which they had for many years been engaged.” I visited Iao Valley, the site of Maui’s bloodiest skirmish, with my sister and nephew. This cool, verdant retreat is one of the most glorious places in the Hawaiian Islands, which is saying something. A clear creek ambles beside a skinny peak, the Iao Needle, thrusting up more than two thousand feet from the valley floor.

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Let’s pause a moment while Obookiah is still unloading crates of sealskins in the Pacific because I have a thing or two I want to unload myself. One counterintuitive result of pondering the legacy of New England missionaries in Hawaii is being reminded of how much I used to enjoy studying eighteenth-century France. On one of my trips to Maui, I went to La Perouse Bay, a rocky bit of shoreline at the end of the road on the south coast. Though Captain Cook had sailed past Maui, he had not set foot on it. The first recorded European to do that was Frenchman Jean-François de Galaup, comte de La Pérouse, in 1786. Poking around spiky lava fields that had dribbled down from the last eruption of the Haleakala volcano, I asked a park ranger who happened by if he could tell me anything about Admiral La Pérouse.

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It’s the same sort of outfit worn by the present-day Kaahumanu Society, an organization of ladies who are easy to pick out of a crowd at celebrations and parades because they wear identical black frocks in the style of the one displayed in the mission museum. In the chronology of Hawaii’s Americanization, that stuffy little room with Kaahumanu’s frumpy dress is one of the landmarks, emblematic of the replacement of airy grass dwellings and airier flimsy skirts with wooden houses and long-sleeved outfits. Five or ten years before Captain Cook arrived in Hawaii, Kaahumanu was born in a cave. The contrast between her mission house “apartment” and her rocky birthplace above Maui’s Hana Bay provides a perfect education in the changes visited upon her country. Within a ten-minute walk from the mission house in Honolulu, a visitor can see the Victorian-style palace erected by later monarchs, skyscrapers of the business district, and the concrete, Nixon-era state capitol.

Orange Sunshine: The Brotherhood of Eternal Love and Its Quest to Spread Peace, Love, and Acid to the World by Nicholas Schou

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And right after that is when everyone started moving to Maui.” 9. Maui Wowie BY THE TIME JOHN GRIGGS and his dream of a psychedelic utopia died at the Brotherhood’s ill-starred commune in Idyllwild, many of his friends had already found their own island sanctuary. Today, much of Maui is overrun with hotel resorts, golf courses, and luxury condominiums, but in the late 1960s the state of Hawaii’s second-largest island still possessed only one streetlight, and its biggest industries were cattle grazing and pineapple and sugar production. Maui’s first resort, Kaanapali, just south of Lahaina, the onetime whaling town and historic capital of the Hawaiian royal dynasty, was still under construction.

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Griggs, Carol Horan arrest of Elysian Park Human Be-In and husband’s death and Idyllwild ranch and in Laguna Beach in Modjeska Canyon Griggs, Sissy Griggs, Full Moon Buck Griggs, Jerry Griggs, John Ackerly’s relationship with adolescence of Almeida’s death and Ashbrook’s relationship with Brotherhood’s creation and Brotherhood’s incorporation and Brotherhood’s naming and Brotherhood’s proposed island utopia and at Cal State charisma of Chula and criminal ambitions of death of Dodge City and Durkee’s meeting with Elysian Park Human Be-In and and exposing children to drugs group marriage society idea and Hall’s relationship with hashish and Hendrix’s relationship with heroin used by Hodgson’s relationship with Idyllwild ranch and illness and hospitalization of in Laguna Beach leadership and organizing skills of Leary’s relationship with LSD and Lynd’s relationship with marijuana and mean-spiritedness of in Modjeska Canyon Mundell’s relationship with Mystic Arts World and nickname of Orange Sunshine and Padilla’s relationship with physical appearance of on politics psilocybin and Risley’s relationship with in San Francisco spirituality of stutter of surfing of Tahquitz Canyon and Taxonomic Mandala and Wright’s relationship with Haight-Ashbury LSD in Haight Street Hall, David arrests of finances of Griggs’s relationship with hashish and marijuana smuggling and Hambarian, Donald Harrigan, Russell marijuana smuggling and in Maui Harrington, Jack “Dark Cloud,” arrest of Ashbrook’s relationship with marijuana smuggling and Maui and Mystic Arts World and Padilla’s relationship with Harris, Ben Hartley, Pat Harvard University hashish of Afghanistan aroma of Brotherhood’s legacy and communal use of and crusade against Brotherhood dealing of Dodge City and finances of Laguna Beach and of Lebanon marijuana growing and in Maui oil made from smuggling of using LSD with Hatfield, Bobby Hawaii Brotherhood’s proposed island utopia and Hell’s Angels LSD dealing of Orange Sunshine and Hendrix, Jimi cocaine used by death of on extraterrestrials Griggs’s relationship with Maui film and concert of Potts’s relationship with heroin Griggs’s use of in Maui Millbrook commune and “Hey Baby,” hippie movement, hippies Altamont Music Festival and Christmas Happening and Dodge City and at Drop City commune end of Griggs’s death and hashish smuggling and in Laguna Beach marijuana smuggling and in Maui Moody Blues and Mystic Arts World and Orange Sunshine and and Summer of Love in travelling to Turkey Hippie Trail Hitchcock, William Hodgson, Steve Griggs’s relationship with in Laguna Beach LSD documentary of Hoffman, Albert Hollingshead, Michael Holm, Michael Honolua Bay “Hotel California,” Howlin’ Wolf Hubble, Edwin Hunter, Meredith Huxley, Aldous Hynson, Melinda Merryweather Hynson, Mike Dodge City and Gale’s death and hashish and marijuana used by in Maui Rainbow Bridge and surfing and I Ching India hashish and In Search of the Lost Chord Iran: hashish and travelling in Island (Huxley) Jagger, Mick Jefferson Airplane Jeffery, Michael Jesus Christ Christmas Happening and Joplin, Janis Kandahar buying hashish in hashish smuggling and Katmandu Kelly, Kent Kesey, Ken King, Martin Luther, Jr.

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A few of Padilla’s fellow passengers grumbled that smuggling six thousand pounds of marijuana to Hawaii in a sailboat wasn’t such a great plan after all. “It’s up to you, Eddie,” one of them said. “Do you want to go up the coast or across to Hawaii?” Padilla didn’t hesitate for a second before he answered. “Are you guys out of your minds?” he asked. “We’re going across the ocean.” Eddie Padilla had been waiting for this moment for years, ever since he and John Griggs first discussed their plan to find a tropical island. Maui was thousands of miles away, halfway across the planet’s widest ocean, but from where they were off the coast of Mexico, it was a straight shot due west.

Frommer's Kauai by Jeanette Foster

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These living treasures talk about how Hawaiians of yesteryear viewed nature, spirituality and healing, preservation and history, dance and music, arts and crafts, canoes, and the next generation. 2 H AWA I I I N P O P U L A R C U LT U R E : B O O K S , F I L M & M U S I C In addition to the books discussed below, those planning an extended trip to Hawaii should check out Frommer’s Hawaii; Frommer’s Hawaii Day by Day; Frommer’s Honolulu, Waikiki & Oahu; Frommer’s Honolulu & Oahu Day by Day; Frommer’s Maui; Frommer’s Maui Day by Day; and Frommer’s Hawaii with Kids (all published by Wiley Publishing, Inc.). H AWA I I I N D E P T H 6 H AWA I I I N P O P U L A R C U LT U R E : BOOKS, FILM & MUSIC 33 H AWA I I I N D E P T H 34 H AWA I I I N P O P U L A R C U LT U R E : B O O K S , F I L M & M U S I C 2 Native Planters in Old Hawaii: Their Life, Lore, and Environment (Bishop Museum Press, Honolulu, 2004) was originally published in 1972 but is still one of the most important ethnographic works on traditional Hawaiian culture, portraying the lives of the common folk and their relationship with the land before the arrival of Westerners.

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110˚ F 100˚ F 90˚ F 40˚ C 30˚ C 80˚ F 70˚ F 20˚ C 60˚ F 50˚ F To convert......................... multiply by U.S. gallons to liters...................... 3.79 Liters to U.S. gallons..................... 0.26 U.S. gallons to imperial gallons....0.83 Imperial gallons to U.S. gallons....1.20 Imperial gallons to liters............... 4.55 Liters to imperial gallons.............. 0.22 1 liter = 0.26 U.S. gallon 1 U.S. gallon = 3.8 liters 10˚ C 40˚ F 32˚ F 0˚ C 20˚ F 10˚ F 0˚ F -10˚ C -18˚ C -10˚ F -20˚ F -30˚ C To convert F to C: subtract 32 and multiply by 5/9 (0.555) To convert C to F: multiply by 1.8 and add 32 32˚ F = 0˚ C To convert......................... multiply by inches to centimeters.................... 2.54 centimeters to inches.................... 0.39 feet to meters................................0.30 meters to feet................................3.28 yards to meters..............................0.91 meters to yards..............................1.09 miles to kilometers........................1.61 kilometers to miles........................0.62 1 ft = 0.30 m 1 m = 3.3 ft 1 mile = 1.6 km 1 km = 0.62 mile To convert..........................multiply by Ounces to grams......................... 28.35 Grams to ounces..........................0.035 Pounds to kilograms..................... 0.45 Kilograms to pounds.................... 2.20 1 ounce = 28 grams 1 pound = 0.4555 kilogram 1 gram = 0.04 ounce 1 kilogram = 2.2 pounds Kauai 4th Edition by Jeanette Foster A B O U T T H E AU T H O R A resident of the Big Island, Jeanette Foster has skied the slopes of Mauna Kea—during a Fourth of July ski meet no less—and gone scuba diving with manta rays off the Kona Coast. A prolific writer widely published in travel, sports, and adventure magazines, she’s also the editor of Zagat’s Survey to Hawaii’s Top Restaurants. In addition to writing this guide, Jeanette is the author of Frommer’s Hawaii; Frommer’s Hawaii with Kids; Frommer’s Maui; Frommer’s Portable Big Island; Frommer’s Honolulu, Waikiki & Oahu; Frommer’s Maui Day by Day; Frommer’s Honolulu & Oahu Day by Day; and Frommer’s Hawaii Day by Day. Published by: W I L E Y P U B L I S H I N G, I N C. 111 River St. Hoboken, NJ 07030-5774 Copyright © 2010 Wiley Publishing, Inc., Hoboken, New Jersey.

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Government officials are vigilant about snakes because of the potential damage they can do to the remaining bird life. A recent pest introduced to Hawaii is the coqui frog. That loud noise you hear after dark, especially on the eastern side of the Big Island and various parts of Maui, including the Kapalua Resort area and on the windward side of the island, is the cry of the male coqui frog looking for a mate. A native of Puerto Rico, where the frogs are kept in check by snakes, the coqui frog came to Hawaii in some plant material, found no natural enemies, and has spread across the Big Island and Maui. A chorus of several hundred coqui frogs is deafening (it’s been measured at 163 decibels, or the noise level of a jet engine from 100 ft.).

Discover Hawaii the Big Island by Lonely Planet

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AIRPORTS & AIRLINES The Big Island’s two primary airports: Kona International Airport at Keahole (KOA; www.hawaii.gov/dot/airports/hawaii/koa) Most interisland and domestic US flights arrive here in Kona. Hilo International Airport (ITO; www.state.hi.us/dot/airports/hawaii/ito) Arrivals here in Hilo are all interisland except for continental flights directly from California. Most domestic US and international flights arrive at Honolulu International Airport on Oʻahu. Travelers must then catch an interisland flight to Kona or Hilo: go! (airline code YV; www.iflygo.com) Discount interisland airline. Flies frequently from Honolulu to Kauaʻi, Maui, Molokaʻi, Lanaʻi and the Big Island.

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Waimea Rental Cottages Cottage $$ Offline map Google map ( 885-8533; www.waimearentalcottages.com; studio per day/week $125/850, 1br $135/925; ) Two small, comfortable (and pricey) cottages are conveniently located in town. The studio has a kitchen, the one-bedroom just a kitchenette. Eating MERRIMAN’S Hawaii Regional $$$ Offline map Google map ( 885-6822; www.merrimanshawaii.com; Opelo Plaza, 65-1227 Opelo Rd; lunch $10-18, dinner $30-55; 11:30am-1:30pm Mon-Fri, 5:30-9pm daily) An innovator of Hawaii Regional cuisine, chef-owner Peter Merriman created the Big Island’s first gourmet restaurant devoted to organic, island-grown produce and meats. He lives on Maui now, but his staff continue his legacy: Hawaiian- and Asian-influenced dishes such as ponzu-marinated mahimahi, wok-charred ahi and Big Island filet steak with Hamakau mushrooms are gems.

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‘High density’ is a foreign concept on the Big Island, where commutes can cover a lot of highway. Lifestyle Hawaii residents have the longest life expectancy in the USA at 81.7 years, compared to the US average of 78. While a clean environment is essential, a healthy lifestyle is also key. The typical lifestyle is changing with newcomers and successive less-traditional generations, but Big Islanders generally center their lives around family. The workday starts and ends early; even workaholics tend to be backyard gardeners, surfers or golfers. While the influx of mainlanders is obvious, Oʻahu and Maui expats constitute a newer wave. ‘Hilo still feels like old Hawaii,’ they say. Indeed, Big Island real estate remains the most affordable across Hawaii, while urban problems from traffic to crime remain tolerable.

1,000 Places to See in the United States and Canada Before You Die, Updated Ed. by Patricia Schultz

Albert Einstein, Alfred Russel Wallace, American Society of Civil Engineers: Report Card, Apollo 11, Apollo 13, Boeing 747, Bretton Woods, Burning Man, California gold rush, car-free, Charles Lindbergh, Columbine, company town, Cornelius Vanderbilt, cotton gin, country house hotel, David Sedaris, Day of the Dead, Donald Trump, East Village, El Camino Real, estate planning, Ford Model T, Frank Gehry, gentrification, glass ceiling, Golden Gate Park, Guggenheim Bilbao, Haight Ashbury, haute cuisine, indoor plumbing, interchangeable parts, Mars Rover, Mason jar, Maui Hawaii, Mikhail Gorbachev, Murano, Venice glass, Neil Armstrong, Nelson Mandela, new economy, New Urbanism, Norman Mailer, out of africa, Pepto Bismol, place-making, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ronald Reagan, Rosa Parks, Saturday Night Live, scientific management, sexual politics, South of Market, San Francisco, Suez canal 1869, The Chicago School, three-masted sailing ship, transcontinental railway, traveling salesman, upwardly mobile, urban decay, urban planning, urban renewal, urban sprawl, wage slave, white picket fence, Works Progress Administration, Yogi Berra, éminence grise

., 904 First-Rate Hotels, Resorts, and Spas Alaska & Hawaii Alyeska Resort, Alaska, 915–16 Bettles Lodge, Alaska, 915 Brooks Lodge, Alaska, 921 Camp Denali, Alaska, 912 Chena Hot Springs Resort, Alaska, 911 Denali West Lodge, Alaska, 912 Fairmont Kea Lani Maui, Hawaii, 951 Four Seasons Resort Hualalai, Hawaii, 934 Four Seasons Resort Lanai at Manele Bay, Hawaii, 948–49, 950 Four Seasons Resort Maui, Hawaii, 951 Glacier Bay Lodge, Alaska, 916 Grand Hyatt Kauai, Hawaii, 947 Grand Wailea Resort, Hawaii, 951 Gustavus Inn, Alaska, 916 Halekulani Hotel, Hawaii, 967 Hapuna Beach Prince Hotel, Hawaii, 935 Hotel Hana-Maui, Hawaii, 954 Kachemak Bay Wilderness Lodge, Alaska, 919 Kapalua Resort, Hawaii, 955–56 Kauai Hotel, Hawaii, 944 King Kamehameha Kona Beach Hotel, Hawaii, 932 Kona Village Resort, Hawaii, 933–34 Lodge at Ko’ele, Hawaii, 949–50 Loonsong Mountain Lake Chalet, Alaska, 919 Luau at Kona Village Resort, Hawaii, 933–34 Makena Beach & Golf Resort, Hawaii, 951 Mauna Kea Resort, Hawaii, 935 Mauna Lani Bay Resort, Hawaii, 934 Moana Surfrider Hotel, Hawaii, 966 Parker Ranch, Hawaii, 938, 941–42 Pioneer Inn, Hawaii, 957 Post Ranch Inn, Hawaii, 954 Princeville Resort, Hawaii, 943–44 Ritz-Carlton Kapalua, Hawaii, 955–56 Royal Hawaiian Hotel, Hawaii, 967 Ultima Thule Lodge, Alaska, 927 Unalakleet River Lodge, Alaska, 922 Waimea Plantation Cottages, Hawaii, 948 Winterlake Lodge, Alaska, 909 Canada Aerie Resort, B.C., 1057–58 Ancient Cedars Spa, B.C., 1056 Arowhon Pines, Ont., 994 Auberge La Pinsonnière, Que., 1012 Auberge Les Passants Du Sans Soucy, Que., 1018 Auberge Ripplecove, Que., 1019 Bathhurst Inlet Lodge, Nunavut, 993–94 Bombay Peggy’s Victorian Inn and Pub, Sask., 1072 Brewster’s Kananaskis Guest Ranch, Alta., 1032 Cliffside Suites, N.B., 977 Dalvay-by-the-Sea National Historic Site and Heritage Inn, P.E.I., 1009–10 Deerhurst Resort, Ont., 998 Delta Bessborough Hotel, Sask., 1071 Elkhorn Resort Hotel, Man., 1066 Elora Mill Country Inn, Ont., 995 Emerald Lake Lodge, B.C., 1064 Fairmont Algonquin Hotel, N.B., 979 Fairmont Banff Springs Hotel, Alta., 1025 Fairmont Chateau Lake Louise, Alta., 1026 Fairmont Chateau Laurier, Ont., 1003 Fairmont Chateau Whistler, B.C., 1063 Fairmont Empress, B.C., 1060–61 Fairmont Jasper Park Lodge, Alta., 1034 Fairmont Le Château Frontenac, Que., 1022 Fairmont Le Manoir Richelieu, Que., 1012 Fairmont Mont Tremblant, Que., 1015 Fairmont Palliser, Alta., 1028 Four Seasons Hotel, Ont., 1005–6, 1007 Four Seasons Resort, B.C., 1062 Galiano Oceanfront Inn and Spa, B.C., 1038 Glenora Inn and Distillery, N.S., 988 Granville Island Hotel, B.C., 1048 Great George Inns, P.E.I., 1008 Green Gables Bungalow Court, P.E.I., 1010 Halliburton House, N.S., 991 Hastings House Country Estate, B.C., 1039 Hawood Inn, Sask., 1069 Hotel Eldorado, B.C., 1043 Hotel Le St-James, Que., 1018 Hovey Manor, Que., 1019 Ice Hotel Quebec-Canada, Que., 1020–21 Inn at Bay Fortune, P.E.I., 1010 Inn at Manitou, Ont., 997 Inn at Whale Cove, N.B., 978 Inn on the Twenty, Ont., 1001 Keltic Lodge, N.S., 986–87 Kicking Horse Mountain Resort, B.C., 1036–37 Kindred Spirits Inn, P.E.I., 1009 King Pacific Lodge, B.C., 1045–46 Kingsbrae Arms, N.B., 979 La Pinsonnière, Que., 1012 Lake O’Hara Lodge, B.C., 1063–64 Long Beach Lodge Resort, B.C., 1054, 1056 Mont Tremblant Resort, Que., 1014–15 Niagara Fallsview Casino Resort, Ont., 999 Nimmo Bay Resort, B.C., 1042 Oceanwood Country Inn, B.C., 1038 Panorama Mountain Village, B.C., 1041 Poet’s Cove Resort and Spa, B.C., 1038 Prince of Wales Hotel and Spa, Ont., 1000 Prince of Wales Hotel, Alta., 1035 Rifflin’ Hitch Lodge, Eagle River, Labrador, N.L., 982–83 Saturna Lodge, B.C., 1038 Sooke Harbour House, B.C., 1058–59 Spa at Four Seasons Resort, B.C., 1062 Spa at Manitou, Ont., 997 Three Houses Inn, Ont., 1004 Wakefield Mill Inn, Que., 1014 Waterton Lakes Lodge, Alta., 1035 Wedgewood Hotel, B.C., 1052–53 Wickaninnish Inn, B.C., 1055–56 Willow Stream Spa, Alta., 1025 Yellow Dog Lodge, N.W.T., 1067–68 Four Corners and the Southwest Abiquiu Inn, N.Mex., 750 Adolphus Hotel, Tex., 763–64 Allaire Timbers Inn, Colo., 705 Alta Lodge, Utah, 795 Amara Creekside Resort, Ariz., 697 Arizona Biltmore Resort & Spa, Ariz., 695 Bear Mountain Lodge, N.Mex., 751–52 Bearclaw’s Cabin, Utah, 801 Beaver Creek Resort, Colo., 724 Bed & Brew, Tex., 769 Bella Notte Guest House, Tex., 769 Bellagio, Nev., 727–28, 730 Biltmore Hotel, Ariz., 695 Bisbee Grand Hotel, Ariz., 683 Blue Swallow Motel, N.Mex., 746 Boulder Mountain Lodge, Utah, 794 Boulders Resort, Ariz., 682–83 Broadmoor, Colo., 707–8 Bryce Canyon Lodge, Utah, 790 C Lazy U Ranch, Colo., 706 Caesars Palace, Nev., 727–28 Caesars Tahoe, Nev., 726 Camelback Inn, Ariz., 692 Canyon Ranch, Ariz., 700–701, 756 Capitol Reef Inn, Utah, 792 Casa de las Chimineas B&B, N.Mex., 753–54 Casa Sedona, Ariz., 697 Centre for Well-Being (spa), Ariz., 694 Chisos Mountain Lodge, Tex., 760 Cibolo Creek Ranch, Tex., 776–77 Cielo Health Spa, Ariz., 699 Cliff House at Pikes Peak, Colo., 719 Cliff Lodge, Utah, 794 Cochise Stronghold B&B, Ariz., 684 Colorado Ranch Experience, Colo., 706–7 Cow Camp Cabins, Tex., 761 Deer Valley Resort, Utah, 797–98 Deluxe Hotels of Dallas, Tex., 763–64 Dixie Dude Ranch, Tex., 759 Durango Mountain Resort, Colo., 712 El Don Motel, N.Mex., 746 El Monte Sagrado Resort, N.Mex., 754–55 El Paisano Hotel, Tex., 778 El Rancho Hotel, N.Mex., 740 El Tovar Lodge, Ariz., 685 Elevation Hotel, Colo., 710 Elk Mountain Resort, Colo., 707 Enchantment Resort, Ariz., 696, 697–98 Excelsior House, Tex., 775 Fairmont Scottsdale Princess, Ariz., 692 Far View Lodge, Colo., 717 Four Seasons Resort, Ariz., 692 Fredericksburg Bed & Brew, Tex., 769 Gage Hotel, Tex., 760 Garland’s Lodge, Ariz., 696–97 Ghost Ranch, N.Mex., 750 Goldener Hirsch Inn, Utah, 798 Gonzo Inn, Utah, 797 Goulding’s Lodge and Trading Post, Ariz., 688 Grand Canyon Lodge, Ariz., 686 Green Valley Spa and Tennis Center, Utah, 800 Gruene Mansion Inn, Tex., 771 Harrah’s, Nev., 726 Hassayampa Inn, Ariz., 693–94 Hill Country Equestrian Lodge, Tex., 759 Home Ranch, Colo., 722 Hot Springs and Spas, N.Mex., 750–51 Hotel Colorado, Colo., 714 Hotel de Paris, Colo., 715 Hotel Jerome, Colo., 703 Hotel Park City, Utah, 797 Hotel ZaZa, Tex., 764 H3 Ranch, Tex., 768 Indian Lodge Hotel, Tex., 778 Inn at 410, Ariz., 684 Inn of the Anasazi, N.Mex., 747 Kay El Bar Ranch, Ariz., 702 Kokopelli’s Cave B&B, N.Mex., 737 Lajitas Resort, Tex., 760 Lake Austin Spa Resort, Tex., 756–57 Lake House Spa, Tex., 756 Las Palomas Inn, N.Mex., 748 Little Nell (lodge), Colo., 703 Living Spa, N.Mex., 755 Lodge at Chama, N.Mex., 739 Lodge at Sedona, Ariz., 696 Lodge at Vail, Colo., 724 Lookout Cabin, Utah, 797 Mansion del Rio Hotel, Tex., 782 Mansion on Turtle Creek, Tex., 764 Mirage Hotel, Nev., 727–28 Miraval Resort, Ariz., 700–701 Miss Gail’s Inn, N.Mex., 737 Ojo Caliente Mineral Springs (resort), N.Mex., 750 Outpost at Cedar Creek Inn, Tex., 781 Paris Las Vegas, Nev., 732 Park City Mountain Resort, Utah, 797 Peaks Resort and Golden Door Spa, Colo., 723 Phantom Ranch, Ariz., 685–86 Plaza Hotel, N.Mex., 742 Pratt Lodge, Tex., 778 Quiet Valley Ranch, Tex., 775–76 Rancho de La Osa, Ariz., 699 Rancho de Los Caballeros, Ariz., 702 Red Mountain Spa, Utah, 800 Rex Ranch, Ariz., 699 Ritz-Carlton Bachelor Gulch, Colo., 724 Ritz-Carlton Dallas, Tex., 764 Romantic Riversong Inn, Colo., 721 Rose Hill Manor, Tex., 769 Royal Palms Resort and Spa, Ariz., 692 Sanctuary on Camelback Mountain, Ariz., 692 Sonnenalp Resort, Colo., 724 Sorrel River Ranch, Utah, 788 St.

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., 975–76 accommodations, overnight (by region) Alaska & Hawaii Alyeska Resort, Alaska, 915–16 Bettles Lodge, Alaska, 915 Brooks Lodge, Alaska, 921 Camp Denali, Alaska, 912 Chena Hot Springs Resort, Alaska, 911 Denali West Lodge, Alaska, 912 Fairmont Kea Lani Maui, Hawaii, 951 Four Seasons Resort Hualalai, Hawaii, 934 Four Seasons Resort Lanai at Manele Bay, Hawaii, 948–49, 950 Four Seasons Resort Maui, Hawaii, 951 Glacier Bay Lodge, Alaska, 916 Grand Hyatt Kauai, Hawaii, 947 Grand Wailea Resort, Hawaii, 951 Gustavus Inn, Alaska, 916 Halekulani Hotel, Hawaii, 967 Hapuna Beach Prince Hotel, Hawaii, 935 Hotel Hana-Maui, Hawaii, 954 Kachemak Bay Wilderness Lodge, Alaska, 919 Kapalua Resort, Hawaii, 955–56 Kauai Hotel, Hawaii, 944 King Kamehameha Kona Beach Hotel, Hawaii, 932 Kona Village Resort, Hawaii, 933–34 Lodge at Ko’ele, Hawaii, 949–50 Loonsong Mountain Lake Chalet, Alaska, 919 Luau at Kona Village Resort, Hawaii, 933–34 Makena Beach and Golf Resort, Hawaii, 951 Mauna Kea Resort, Hawaii, 935 Mauna Lani Bay Resort, Hawaii, 934 Moana Surfrider Hotel, Hawaii, 966 Parker Ranch, Hawaii, 938, 941–42 Pioneer Inn, Hawaii, 957 Post Ranch Inn, Hawaii, 954 Princeville Resort, Hawaii, 943–44 Ritz-Carlton Kapalua, Hawaii, 955–56 Royal Hawaiian Hotel, Hawaii, 967 Ultima Thule Lodge, Alaska, 927 Unalakleet River Lodge, Alaska, 922 Waimea Plantation Cottages, Hawaii, 948 Winterlake Lodge, Alaska, 909 Canada Aerie Resort, B.C., 1057–58 Ancient Cedars Spa, B.C., 1056 Arowhon Pines, Ont., 994 Auberge La Pinsonnière, Que., 1012 Auberge Les Passants Du Sans Soucy, Que., 1018 Auberge Ripplecove, Que., 1019 Bathhurst Inlet Lodge, Nunavut, 993–94 Bombay Peggy’s Victorian Inn and Pub, Sask., 1072 Brewster’s Kananaskis Guest Ranch, Alta., 1032 Cliffside Suites, N.B., 977 Dalvay-by-the-Sea National Historic Site and Heritage Inn, P.E.I., 1009–10 Delta Bessborough Hotel, Sask., 1071 Deerhurst Resort, Ont., 998 Elkhorn Resort Hotel, Man., 1066 Elora Mill Country Inn, Ont., 995 Emerald Lake Lodge, B.C., 1064 Fairmont Algonquin Hotel, N.B., 979 Fairmont Banff Springs Hotel, Alta., 1025 Fairmont Chateau Lake Louise, Alta., 1026 Fairmont Chateau Laurier, Ont., 1003 Fairmont Chateau Whistler, B.C., 1063 Fairmont Empress, B.C., 1060–61 Fairmont Jasper Park Lodge, Alta., 1034 Fairmont Le Château Frontenac, Que., 1022 Fairmont Le Manoir Richelieu, Que., 1012 Fairmont Mont Tremblant, Que., 1015 Fairmont Palliser, Alta., 1028 Four Seasons Hotel, Ont., 1005–6, 1007 Four Seasons Resort, B.C., 1062 Galiano Oceanfront Inn and Spa, B.C., 1038 Glenora Inn and Distillery, N.S., 988 Granville Island Hotel, B.C., 1048 Great George Inns, P.E.I., 1008 Green Gables Bungalow Court, P.E.I., 1010 Halliburton House, N.S., 991 Hawood Inn, Sask., 1069 Hastings House Country Estate, B.C., 1039 Hotel Eldorado, B.C., 1043 Hotel Le St-James, Que., 1018 Hovey Manor, Que., 1019 Ice Hotel Quebec-Canada, Que., 1020–21 Inn at Bay Fortune, P.E.I., 1010 Inn at Manitou, Ont., 997 Inn at Whale Cove, N.B., 978 Inn on the Twenty, Ont., 1001 Keltic Lodge, N.S., 986–87 Kicking Horse Mountain Resort, B.C., 1036–37 Kindred Spirits Inn, P.E.I., 1009 King Pacific Lodge, B.C., 1045–46 Kingsbrae Arms, N.B., 979 La Pinsonnière, Que., 1012 Lake O’Hara Lodge, B.C., 1063–64 Long Beach Lodge Resort, B.C., 1054, 1056 Mont Tremblant Resort, Que., 1014–15 Niagara Fallsview Casino Resort, Ont., 999 Nimmo Bay Resort, B.C., 1042 Oceanwood Country Inn, B.C., 1038 Panorama Mountain Village, B.C., 1041 Poet’s Cove Resort and Spa, B.C., 1038 Prince of Wales Hotel, Alta., 1035 Prince of Wales Hotel and Spa, Ont., 1000 Rifflin’ Hitch Lodge, Eagle River, Labrador, N.L., 982–83 Saturna Lodge, B.C., 1038 Sooke Harbour House, B.C., 1058–59 Spa at Four Seasons Resort, B.C., 1062 Spa at Manitou, Ont., 997 Three Houses Inn, Ont., 1004 Wakefield Mill Inn, Que., 1014 Waterton Lakes Lodge, Alta., 1035 Wedgewood Hotel, B.C., 1052–53 Wickaninnish Inn, B.C., 1055–56 Willow Stream Spa, Alta., 1025 Yellow Dog Lodge, N.W.T., 1067–68 Four Corners and the Southwest Abiquiu Inn, N.Mex., 750 Adolphus Hotel, Tex., 763–64 Allaire Timbers Inn, Colo., 705 Alta Lodge, Utah, 795 Amara Creekside Resort, Ariz., 697 Arizona Biltmore Resort & Spa, Ariz., 695 Bear Mountain Lodge, N.Mex., 751–52 Bearclaw’s Cabin, Utah, 801 Beaver Creek Resort, Colo., 724 Bed & Brew, Tex., 769 Bella Notte Guest House, Tex., 769 Bellagio, Nev., 727–28, 730 Biltmore Hotel, Ariz., 695 Bisbee Grand Hotel, Ariz., 683 Blue Swallow Motel, N.Mex., 746 Boulder Mountain Lodge, Utah, 794 Boulders Resort, Ariz., 682–83 Broadmoor, Colo., 707–8 Bryce Canyon Lodge, Utah, 790 C Lazy U Ranch, Colo., 706 Caesars Palace, Nev., 727–28 Caesars Tahoe, Nev., 726 Camelback Inn, Ariz., 692 Canyon Ranch, Ariz., 700–701, 756 Capitol Reef Inn, Utah, 792 Casa de las Chimineas B&B, N.Mex., 753–54 Casa Sedona, Ariz., 697 Centre for Well-Being (spa), Ariz., 694 Chisos Mountain Lodge, Tex., 760 Cibolo Creek Ranch, Tex., 776–77 Cielo Health Spa, Ariz., 699 Cliff House at Pikes Peak, Colo., 719 Cliff Lodge, Utah, 794 Cochise Stronghold B&B, Ariz., 684 Colorado Ranch Experience, Colo., 706–7 Cow Camp Cabins, Tex., 761 Deer Valley Resort, Utah, 797–98 Deluxe Hotels of Dallas, Tex., 763–64 Dixie Dude Ranch, Tex., 759 Durango Mountain Resort, Colo., 712 El Don Motel, N.Mex., 746 El Monte Sagrado Resort, N.Mex., 754–55 El Paisano Hotel, Tex., 778 El Rancho Hotel, N.Mex., 740 El Tovar Lodge, Ariz., 685 Elevation Hotel, Colo., 710 Elk Mountain Resort, Colo., 707 Enchantment Resort, Ariz., 696, 697–98 Excelsior House, Tex., 775 Fairmont Scottsdale Princess, Ariz., 692 Far View Lodge, Colo., 717 Four Seasons Resort, Ariz., 692 Fredericksburg Bed & Brew, Tex., 769 Gage Hotel, Tex., 760 Garland’s Lodge, Ariz., 696–97 Ghost Ranch, N.Mex., 750 Goldener Hirsch Inn, Utah, 798 Gonzo Inn, Utah, 797 Goulding’s Lodge and Trading Post, Ariz., 688 Grand Canyon Lodge, Ariz., 686 Green Valley Spa and Tennis Center, Utah, 800 Gruene Mansion Inn, Tex., 771 Harrah’s, Nev., 726 Hassayampa Inn, Ariz., 693–94 Hill Country Equestrian Lodge, Tex., 759 Home Ranch, Colo., 722 Hot Springs and Spas, N.Mex., 750–51 Hotel Colorado, Colo., 714 Hotel de Paris, Colo., 715 Hotel Jerome, Colo., 703 Hotel Park City, Utah, 797 Hotel ZaZa, Tex., 764 H3 Ranch, Tex., 768 Indian Lodge Hotel, Tex., 778 Inn at 410, Ariz., 684 Inn of the Anasazi, N.Mex., 747 Kay El Bar Ranch, Ariz., 702 Kokopelli’s Cave B&B, N.Mex., 737 Lajitas Resort, Tex., 760 Lake Austin Spa Resort, Tex., 756–57 Lake House Spa, Tex., 756 Las Palomas Inn, N.Mex., 748 Little Nell (lodge), Colo., 703 Living Spa, N.Mex., 755 Lodge at Chama, N.Mex., 739 Lodge at Sedona, Ariz., 696 Lodge at Vail, Colo., 724 Lookout Cabin, Utah, 797 Mansion del Rio Hotel, Tex., 782 Mansion on Turtle Creek, Tex., 764 Mirage Hotel, Nev., 727–28 Miraval Resort, Ariz., 700–701 Miss Gail’s Inn, N.Mex., 737 Ojo Caliente Mineral Springs (resort), N.Mex., 750 Outpost at Cedar Creek Inn, Tex., 781 Paris Las Vegas, Nev., 732 Park City Mountain Resort, Utah, 797 Peaks Resort and Golden Door Spa, Colo., 723 Phantom Ranch, Ariz., 685–86 Plaza Hotel, N.Mex., 742 Pratt Lodge, Tex., 778 Quiet Valley Ranch, Tex., 775–76 Rancho de La Osa, Ariz., 699 Rancho de Los Caballeros, Ariz., 702 Red Mountain Spa, Utah, 800 Rex Ranch, Ariz., 699 Ritz-Carlton Bachelor Gulch, Colo., 724 Ritz-Carlton Dallas, Tex., 764 Romantic Riversong Inn, Colo., 721 Rose Hill Manor, Tex., 769 Royal Palms Resort and Spa, Ariz., 692 Sanctuary on Camelback Mountain, Ariz., 692 Sonnenalp Resort, Colo., 724 Sorrel River Ranch, Utah, 788 St.

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., 63 MASTERS GOLF TOURNAMENT, Ga., 338–39 Mast Farm Inn, N.C., 359 Mast General Store, N.C., 359 Match, Conn., 12 Matsuhisa, Calif., 823–24 Matsumoto Shave Ice, Hawaii, 965 Mattatuck Trail, Conn., 14 Matthew, N.L., 981 Mattress Factory, Pa., 228 Maui, Hawaii, 950–59 Mauna Kea golf course, Hawaii, 935 MAUNA KEA RESORT, Hawaii, 935 MAUNA KEA SUMMIT, Hawaii, 928, 935, 937–38 Mauna Lani Bay Resort, Hawaii, 934 Mauna Lani Resort, Hawaii, 939 Mauna Loa volcano, Hawaii, 936 Maverick’s beach, Calif., 857 Max Downtown, Conn., 14 Max’s Grill, N.J., 136 MAY BREAKFASTS, R.I., 82–83 Mayfair, Mass., 48 May Festival of the Arts, Ark., 392 Mayflower Inn & Spa, Conn., 20 Mayne Island, B.C., 1038 Mazama, Wash., 890 Maze district, Utah, 790–91 McBryde Garden, Hawaii, 946 McCarthy Road, Alaska, 926 McCaw Hall, Wash., 899 MCCLARD’S BAR-B-Q, Ark., 395–96 McDonald Observatory, Tex., 778 McGavock Confederate Cemetery, Tenn., 472 McIlhenny Tabasco Co., La., 424 McKellar, Ont., 997 McKittrick Canyon, Tex., 778 McKittrick Canyon Trail, Tex., 778 McLean House, Va., 249 McMenamin B&B, Oreg., 879 McMenamin Brewing, Oreg., 879 Meadow Brook Hall, Mich., 529 Meadowwood Resort, Calif., 834 Medicine Bow/Routt National Forest, Colo., 721 MEDICINE WHEEL, S.Dak., 660–61 Medicine Wheel Passage Scenic Byway, Wyo., 661 Medora, N.Dak., 642 Medora Musical, N.Dak., 643 Meers Store, Okla., 652 Melrose Plantation, La., 423 Memphis, Miss., 439 Memphis, Tenn., 466–72 MEMPHIS BARBECUE, Tenn., 470–71, 505 Memphis in May Festival, Tenn., 469–70 MEMPHIS MUSIC MUSEUMS, Tenn., 467–68 MEMPHIS’S MUSIC SCENE, Tenn., 468–69 Memphis Rock ’N’ Soul Museum, Tenn., 467–68 Mendenhall Glacier, Alaska, 917, 918–19 MENDOCINO, Calif., 829–30 Menemsha, Mass., 61 Menil Collection, Tex., 773–74 Menla Mountain Retreat, N.Y., 144 MENTONE, Ala., 295–96 Mentone Springs Hotel, Ala., 295 Merced River, Calif., 808 Mercer Museum, Pa., 216 Merion, Pa., 216–17 MerleFest, N.C., 359 MERRIE MONARCH HULA FESTIVAL, Hawaii, 929–30 Merriman’s Restaurant, Hawaii, 942 Mesa Top Loop Road, Colo., 717 MESA VERDE, Colo., 716–17 METHOW VALLEY, Wash., 890 Metropolitan Museum of Art, N.Y., 168, 169, 184 Metropolitan Opera House, N.Y., 178, 179 MEXICAN HAT, Utah, 789, 795–96 MGM Grand, Nev., 730, 732 Miami, Fla., 311–13 Miami Beach, Fla., 315–19 MIAMI HIPSTER HOTEL TRAIL, Fla., 316–17 Michael Mina, Calif., 850 Michaux State Forest, Penn., 332 Michie Tavern, Va., 240 Michigan, 523–45 MICHIGAN’S GOLDEN TRIANGLE, Mich., 530–31 Mickey’s Lounge, Colo., 724 Mid-Atlantic, 111–286 Mid-City Bowling Lanes, La., 428 Middle Amana, Iowa, 514 Middle Bass, Ohio, 569 Middleburg, Va., 247 MIDDLE FORK OF THE SALMON RIVER, Idaho, 600–601 MIDDLE KEYS, Fla., 308–9 Middleton Inn, Va., 254 Middleton Place, S.C., 382, 384 Middleton Tavern, Md., 117 Mid-Lakes Navigation, N.Y., 148 Midland Trail, W.Va., 279 Midland Trail Highway, W.Va., 286 Midnight Star Casino, S.Dak., 655 MIDTOWN ATLANTA, Ga., 336–37 Midwest, 481–588 Miette Hot Springs, Alta., 1034 Mii amo Café, Ariz., 698 Mii amo Spa, Ariz., 697, 698 Mijita, Calif., 847 Miles City, Mont., 625–26 MILES CITY BUCKING HORSE SALE, Mont., 625–26 Military Academy at West Point, U.S., N.Y., 151, 205–6, 217, 619 military history.

Hawai'I Becalmed: Economic Lessons of the 1990s by Christopher Grandy

Alan Greenspan, Bretton Woods, business climate, business cycle, dark matter, endogenous growth, inventory management, Jones Act, Long Term Capital Management, market bubble, Maui Hawaii, minimum wage unemployment, open economy, purchasing power parity, Silicon Valley, Telecommunications Act of 1996

Walter Dods Lawrence Fuller Walter Heen Stanley Hong Lawrence Johnson Richard Kelley Charles King Patricia Loui Donald Malcolm Norman Mizuguchi Kenneth Mortimer Russell Okata CEO and Chairman of the Board Chairman of the Board President President Chairman of the Board Senate President President Executive Director Diane Plotts General Partner John Reed Gary Rodrigues Stephany Sofos Joseph Souki Stanley Takahashi President State Director President Speaker of the House Executive Vice President and COO President and CEO President and CEO President Barry Taniguchi Roy Tokujo Chatt Wright First Hawaiian Bank Honolulu Advertiser State of Hawai‘i Chamber of Commerce of Hawai‘i Bank of Hawai‘i Outrigger Enterprises Inc. King Auto Center Omnitrak Group Maui Pacific Center State of Hawai‘i University of Hawai‘i Hawai‘i Government Employees Association Mid-East and China Trading Co. DFS Hawai‘i United Public Workers SL Sofos and Co., Ltd. State of Hawai‘i Kyo-Ya Company, Ltd. KTA Super Stores Cove Marketing Hawai‘i Pacific University rocks of specific interests. If as many people as possible who affected Hawai‘i public opinion could be brought into the process, then the recommendations, however they turned out, would stand a better chance of surviving. 66 Hawai‘i Becalmed With luck, the Economic Revitalization task force (ERTF) could present the legislature with a political mandate for important changes that would prevent the disintegration of proposals through the contention of different interests.

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Japanese investors increasingly came to Hawai‘i to buy assets, largely tourismrelated investment—such as the Halekulani Hotel on O‘ahu and the Westin hotels on Maui and Kaua‘i. Other purchases might qualify as “trophy” properties such as Ala Moana Shopping Center, the Sheraton Moana Surfrider, and Grand Wailea Resort on Maui. Japanese investment in Hawai‘i peaked in 1991 at $2.3 billion.9 Of the total foreign-owned assets in Hawai‘i in 1977, Japan accounted for 55.7%. By 1992, the Japanese share of foreignowned property had jumped to 88%.10 Economists do not count all of the spending for hotels, shopping centers, and so on as new investment. Purchases of existing structures merely change ownership and do not add new productive capacity to the economy.

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He was part of the administration accused of causing Hawai‘i’s economic malaise. Politically, Waihe‘e came as close to being a pariah in Hawai‘i as it was possible to come without having actually committed a crime. Cayetano was a part of that—although his independence and feuding with the former governor were well known. His opponent Linda Lingle was an ideal non-Republican Republican. She was relatively young, female, and articulate, a refreshing change from the predominantly older male Republicans of Hawai‘i’s plantation era. Lingle also had a solid reputation for innovation, earned during her two terms as mayor of Maui. After having served on the Maui county council throughout the 1980s, Lingle ran for mayor in 1990 and, to the surprise of many, won.

Discover Kaua'i Travel Guide by Lonely Planet

carbon footprint, Easter island, G4S, haute couture, land reform, Maui Hawaii, off-the-grid, out of africa, Peter Pan Syndrome, polynesian navigation, profit motive, union organizing, white picket fence

Though CJ’s may not dazzle, it will delight. NANEA Hawaii Regional $$$ (Westin Princeville Ocean Resort Villas Clubhouse; lunch $12-15, dinner mains $31-38, brunch per adult/child $29/15; lunch 11am-2:30pm, dinner 5:30-9:30pm, brunch 9am-1:30pm Sun) With a few years to find its balance, Nanea has ironed out its kinks and proudly presents its elegant Hawaii fusion cuisine, serving dressed-down versions of gourmet dishes. Executive chef and Maui native Kahau Manzu – who cut his culinary teeth at Waikiki’s renowned Moana Surfrider and at the Four Seasons Maui – craftily integrates island-grown produce, honey, and Kilauea goat cheese.

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Also bear in mind that ‘barbecue’ typically means teriyaki-marinated. » While Kaua'i’s top restaurants can hold their own among statewide peers, you generally won’t find the cutting-edge culinary creativity that you’d find on O'ahu and even on Maui or the Big Island. Two excellent resources on Hawaii cuisine are Edible Hawaiian Islands (www.ediblehawaiianislands.com) , which covers the gamut, and Hawaii Seafood (www.hawaii-seafood.org) which is all about just that. For an explanation of our review system, Click here . Regional Treats Don’t miss these local Kaua'i specialties: » Homemade taro chips from Taro Ko Chips Factory ( Click here ) » Steaming noodle soups and manapuas (dough rolls stuffed with steamed pork) at Hamura Saimin ( Click here ) » Spam musubi and homemade manju (Japanese sweet-bean-filled pastry) at Pono Market (Click here ) » Bentō lunch box from Ishihara Market (Click here ) » The ultimate loco moco at Obsessions Café (Click here ) » Poke rolls (in rice paper) from Duke’s Canoe Club (Click here ) » Coconut almonds, Kona-coffee pecans and other addictive crunchies at Kauai Nut Roasters ( Click here ) » Any tapas from Josselin’s ( Click here ) or Bar Acuda ( Click here ) Hawaii Regional Cuisine If pineapple-topped entrées epitomized Hawaii cuisine till the late 1980s, locals are partly to blame.

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Staffers train new moped users until they’re confident enough to hit the road – and there’s no obligation if you change your mind. Superferry Non Grata In August 2007, when the Hawaii Superferry sailed toward Nawiliwili Harbor for its first arrival, there was a dramatic stand-off as some 300 Kaua'i protesters blocked its entry. Three-dozen people even swam into the gargantuan ferry’s path, shouting, ‘Go home, go home!’ Ultimately, service to Maui (but not to Kaua'i) was launched in December 2007, but the whole enterprise was indefinitely terminated in March 2009, when the Hawai’i Supreme Court deemed Superferry’s environmental impact statement (EIS) invalid. Why was opposition to the ferry so furious?

Lonely Planet Kauai by Lonely Planet, Adam Karlin, Greg Benchwick

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Also bear in mind that ‘barbecue’ typically means teriyaki-marinated. AWhile Kauaʻi’s top restaurants can hold their own among statewide peers, you generally won’t find the cutting-edge culinary creativity that you’d find on Oʻahu and even on Maui or the Big Island. Two excellent resources on Hawaii cuisine are Edible Hawaiian Islands (www.ediblehawaiianislands.com), which covers the gamut, and Hawaii Seafood (www.hawaii-seafood.org), which is all about just that. SEAFOOD DECODER Hawaiian seafood has some typical crowd-pleasers, plus a few unknown standouts that you'll want to try. ahi – served seared, grilled, raw...it's a top on everything aku – this tuna is smaller and has a more robust flavor akule – bigeye scad with a sweet oily flavor like mackarel hapuʻupuʻu – say that five times fast; noted for its delicate white meat hebi – a mild-flavored billfish kajiki – Pacific blue marlin mahimahi – delicious and everywhere monchong – medium flavor with a high fat content onaga – ruby snapper ono – local word for wahoo; can be a bit rubbery opah – moonfish...a top with local chefs ‘opakapaka – crimson snapper served in filets shutome – swordfish tombo – albacore tuna ulua – jack crevalle Drinks Cafe culture has taken root on Kauaʻi, with baristas brewing espresso at deli counters, indie hangouts and, of course, Starbucks.

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A 2013 Kauaʻi ordinance approved by local voters created buffer zones and pesticide notifications for agriculture, while on the Big Island and Maui genetically engineered tests were banned. The issue went up to the US Court of Appeals in November 2016, with the court striking down the local bans. Organizers may appeal or seek legislative action to reinstate the county-led initiatives. Agriculture, homeless populations, climate change and other factors are also affecting the quality of Hawaii's signature resource: its waters. In 2016 Mahaʻulepu Beach access was closed by state officials because of high bacteria levels.

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Although public access to the refuge is strictly limited, an overlook opposite Princeville Center provides a great view of the birds' habitat, with a serene river, shallow ponds and cultivated taro fields. The endangered nene, Hawaii’s state bird, is a long-lost cousin of the Canada goose. Nene once numbered as many as 25,000 on all the islands, but by the 1950s only 50 were left. Intensive breeding programs have raised their numbers to around 2500 on three main islands: Maui, Kauaʻi and Hawaiʻi (Big Island). You might see them in Hanalei wetlands, around golf courses and open fields, and at Kilauea Point National Wildlife Refuge. Native forest birds are more challenging to observe, but the keen-eyed may spy eight endemic species remaining at Kokeʻe State Park, especially in the Alakaʻi Wilderness Preserve.

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He also illustrated this and many other books, and was later named Hawaii’s poet laureate. BLUE HAWAII The 1961 musical features the hip-shaking songs and moves by Elvis Presley, who plays tour guide Chadwick Gates. Elvis famously sings Ke Kali Nei Au, or The Hawaiian Wedding Song, at the iconic and now-shuttered Coco Palms Resort on Kauai. (The resort has remained closed since 1992 following Hurricane Iniki.) MOANA The release of Moana in 2016 was celebrated by many in Hawaii and the Pacific for showcasing Polynesian culture. The now-beloved animated movie, which tells the story of the demigod Maui, features the voice talents of Aulii Cravalho and Dwayne Johnson.

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FESTIVALS YEAR-ROUND From the Kona Brew Fest and the Merrie Monarch Festival to the Kona Coffee Cultural Festival, King Kamehameha Day Celebration events, Waimea Cherry Blossom Heritage Festival, and many more, festivals happen year-round and can be a highlight of a trip. One of the most prestigious annual events in the state of Hawaii, the Merrie Monarch Festival takes place in Hilo in mid-April and attracts thousands for hula competitions. BEACH TREKS Because of its rocky shorelines and lava-laden coasts, the Big Island of Hawaii has fewer sand beaches than Maui or Oahu. Fortunately, some of the Big Island’s best beaches are also some of the best beaches in Hawaii. Reef walkers are essential for getting in and out of the water over potentially rocky entries, or for walking along the shoreline and exploring tide pools.

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He and gallery partners Linda and Don Hurlzeler showcase their fine images of the beauty of Hawaii and other scenic places around the world. EQueens’ MarketPlace, 69-201 Waikoloa Beach Dr., #F-13, Waikoloa P808/756–0778 wwww.lavalightgalleries.com. JEWELRY AND ACCESSORIES Island Pearls by Maui Divers JEWELRY & WATCHES | Among the fine jewelry at this boutique is a wide selection of high-end pearl jewelry, including Tahitian black pearls, South Sea white and golden pearls, and chocolate Tahitian pearls. It also sells freshwater pearls in the shell, black coral (the Hawaii state gemstone), and diamonds. Creations in 14K gold showcasing Hawaii themes such as traditional heirloom designs and flora and fauna are also on display.

The Power of Pull: How Small Moves, Smartly Made, Can Set Big Things in Motion by John Hagel Iii, John Seely Brown

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But Maui has never sent a surfer to the ’CT, as the pro tour is called, let alone produced a champion there. Nobody’s quite sure why. Maybe it’s because, despite a handful of world-class breaks, Maui generally doesn’t have the best surf in the Hawaiian Islands. That honor goes hands down to Oahu, which is surrounded by great waves and historic surf breaks—and which has produced the lion’s share of Hawaii’s most famous surfers. So how did the five little groms from Maui, who grew up best pals and stiffest competitors, go from surfing for kicks to winning Junior titles to standing on the verge of making the pro tour? That question, in its more general form, applies well beyond the world of surfing.

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USA Travel Guide by Lonely, Planet

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Best Places to Eat » Roy’s–Waikiki Beach (Click here) » Ted’s Bakery (Click here) » Sansei (Click here) » Mama’s Fish House (Click here) » Kona Brewing Company (Click here) Best Places to Stay » Royal Hawaiian (Click here) » Mauna Lani Bay Hotel & Bungalows (Click here) » Kaʻawa Loa Plantation (Click here) » Hotel Hana-Maui (Click here) » Hanalei Colony Resort (Click here) HAWAII HIGHLIGHTS Exploring multicultural Honolulu (Click here), from eye-popping museums to ethnic eats Snorkeling with tropical fish in Oʻahu’s Hanauma Bay (Click here) Seeing the smoldering crust of a living volcano at Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park (Click here) Stargazing atop Hawaii’s highest mountain, sacred Mauna Kea (Click here) Catching dawn over Maui’s ‘house of the rising sun’ in Haleakalā National Park (Click here) Driving Maui’s twisting seaside Hana Highway (Click here) past jungle valleys and waterfalls Kayaking or trekking Kauaʻi’s sculpted Na Pali Coast (Click here) History Little is known about Hawaii’s first settlers, who arrived around AD 500.

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MOLOKAʻI & LANAʻI Sparsely populated by mostly Native Hawaiians and largely undeveloped for tourism, rural Molokaʻi is ideal for those seeking the ‘other’ Hawaii: unpackaged, traditional, still wild and exuding genuine aloha. Its untamed landscape recalls Hawaii’s awe-inspiring natural beauty as it might have looked a century or more ago. To reach Molokaʻi’s Hoʻolehua airport, Island Air ( 800-652-6541; www.islandair.com) , go! Mokulele ( 866-260-7070; www.mokuleleairlines.com) and Pacific Wings ( 888-575-4546; www.pacificwings.com) have daily flights from Honolulu and Kahului, Maui. Molokai Ferry ( 866-307-6524; www.molokaiferry.com; adult/child $60/30) runs daily round-trips from Lahaina, Maui. Once home to Hawaii’s largest pineapple plantation, Lanaʻi – to the south - has been refashioned into a plaything for the wealthy.

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Train Alaska Railroad ( 907-265-2494; www.akrr.com) chugs its way south to Whittier (adult/child $65/33, 2½ hours) and Seward ($75/38, four hours), and north to Denali ($146/73, eight hours) and then Fairbanks ($210/105, 12 hours). Top of section Hawaii Includes » Oʻahu Honolulu & Waikiki Hawaiʻi The Big Island Mauna Kea Hilo Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park Maui Kauaʻi Why Go? Truth: this string of emerald islands in the cobalt-blue Pacific, more than 2000 miles from any continent, takes work to get to. And aren’t the islands totally crushed by sun-baked tourists and cooing honeymooners? Cue the galloping Hawaii Five-0 theme music, Elvis crooning and lei-draped beauties dancing hula beneath wind-rustled palms. Hawaii, as tourist bureaus and Hollywood constantly remind us, is ‘paradise.’

The Pineapple: King of Fruits by Francesca Beauman

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Kidwell was a shrewd operator. In 1892 he established the first pineapple cannery in Hawaii: five years later, the annual export of fresh pineapples from Oahu, Maui and Kona amounted to almost 14,000 worth. It was widely accepted that Hawaiian pineapples simply tasted better than others – the flavour was much superior, as they had been allowed to ripen fully before being picked. But still it was not commercially viable. All the cans had to be made by hand, but more cripplingly, there was a tariff of 35 per cent on all processed food products shipped from Hawaii to the US mainland. This was a major obstacle, not only to Kidwell but to all those who gave canned pineapple a go in the early days – men like Byron O.

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From this moment on, the story of the pineapple became the story of twentieth-century corporate America. Other Hawaiian pineapple companies emerged – among them the California Packing Corporation (later renamed Del Monte), Libby McNeil & Libby and Maui Land & Pineapple – until by 1940, Hawaii was the world’s biggest supplier of canned pineapple with a 70 per cent share of the market. With places like Baltimore and the Bahamas simply unable to keep pace, Hawaii’s economy boomed: released from its dependence on the sugar crop, it also benefited from an endless stream of tourists from the US mainland, keen to see the pineapple’s new spiritual home. For the first time, the ‘king of fruits’ was no longer a primarily symbolic article of trade, but instead an international player with real economic weight.

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Wallace Stevens (1947) Of all the Edens ever conceived by the human imagination, pre-human Hawaii probably comes closest to a real-life version. This fecund tropical paradise, a riot of dense forests and diverse wildlife, knew little of predators: it was blighted by no snakes or mosquitoes and largely free of any plants with thorns or poisons. Colonisation changed all this, however. Today, a typically Hawaiian scene, such as the verdant lower mountain slopes of the five main islands of the Big Island, Oahu, Maui, Lanai or Kauai so frequently featured on postcards, looks completely different to the one that greeted European adventurers when they first dropped anchor.

The 100 Best Vacations to Enrich Your Life by Pam Grout

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Although there are loosely followed international guidelines, each country hosts its own list of farms and runs its operation separately. WWOOF Hawaii was launched by the organizers of WWOOF Canada. There’s also a WWOOF USA covering the rest of the United States if you’d rather work on the mainland. Hawaii, however, with the perfect growing climate, offers endless possibilities and a wide variety of farms. All told, there are more than a hundred organic farms, ranging from large plantations to small community gardens, located on five Hawaiian islands. On Maui, for example, you can work on a tropical flower garden in the middle of the rain forest or on a bamboo farm that doubles as a meditation-and-retreat center.

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The seminar and workshop, each lasting four days, are $450 individually or $850 for both. Key West Literary Seminar, 718 Love Lane, Key West, FL 33040 (December–April) or 16 Prayer Ridge Road, Fairview, NC 28730 (May–November), 888-293-9291, www.keywestliteraryseminar.org. Maui Writers Conference and Retreat. Less highbrow than some of the workshops, this program’s beautiful setting on Maui’s southern coast attracts fans of genre writing, not to mention lots of agents and editors willing to sign up writer wannabes. They even have a manuscript marketplace. Held at the Wailea Marriott in late August or early September, you can combine a week of writer’s retreat, where you’ll have lots of time to write and work with an author, with the actual writer’s conference that follows.

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Held at the Wailea Marriott in late August or early September, you can combine a week of writer’s retreat, where you’ll have lots of time to write and work with an author, with the actual writer’s conference that follows. The conference, held over Labor Day weekend, is $495, and the five-day retreat is $1,095. Maui Writers Conference, P.O. Box 1118, Kihei, HI 96753, 888-974-8373 or 808-879-0061, http://mauiwriters.com. * * * NEW YORK FILM ACADEMY make a film in the city that never sleeps NEW YORK, NEW YORK If I had decided to attend a four-year film school, I would have spent two years talking about the greats like Bergman and Fellini. I believe in learning ‘hands-on’ and getting straight to the point.

Frommer's Irreverent Guide to San Francisco by Matthew Richard Poole

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Washington State FROMMER’S® DOLLAR-A-DAY GUIDES Australia from $60 a Day California from $70 a Day England from $75 a Day Europe from $85 a Day Florida from $70 a Day Hawaii from $80 a Day Ireland from $90 a Day Italy from $90 a Day London from $95 a Day New York City from $90 a Day Paris from $95 a Day San Francisco from $70 a Day Washington, D.C. from $80 a Day FROMMER’S® PORTABLE GUIDES Acapulco, Ixtapa & Zihuatanejo Amsterdam Aruba Australia’s Great Barrier Reef Bahamas Berlin Big Island of Hawaii Boston California Wine Country Cancún Cayman Islands Charleston Chicago Disneyland® Dominican Republic Dublin Florence Las Vegas Las Vegas for Non-Gamblers London Los Angeles Maui Nantucket & Martha’s Vineyard New Orleans New York City Paris Portland Puerto Rico Puerto Vallarta, Manzanillo & Guadalajara Rio de Janeiro San Diego San Francisco Savannah Vancouver Venice Virgin Islands Washington, D.C.

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to guide San o c s i c n Fra 6th Edition By Matthew Richard Poole other titles in the IRREVERENT GUIDE series Irreverent Amsterdam Irreverent Boston Irreverent Chicago Irreverent Las Vegas Irreverent London Irreverent Los Angeles Irreverent Manhattan Irreverent New Orleans Irreverent Paris Irreverent Seattle & Portland Irreverent Vancouver Irreverent Walt Disney World ® Irreverent Washington, D.C. About the Author Matthew Richard Poole, a native Californian, has authored more than two dozen travel guides to California, Hawaii, and abroad, and is a regular contributor to radio and television travel programs, including numerous guest appearances on the award-winning Bay Area Backroads television show. Before becoming a full-time travel writer and photographer, he worked as an English tutor in Prague, ski instructor in the Swiss Alps, and scuba instructor in Maui and Thailand. Highly allergic to office buildings and mortgage payments, he spends most of his time traveling the globe and searching for new adventures.

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Lonely Planet's 2016 Best in Travel by Lonely Planet

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Two national parks, Haleakalā National Park on Maui and Hawai‘i Volcanoes National Park on the Big Island, both become centenarians in 2016. And history buffs will already know that 2016 marks the 75th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor. Expect special exhibits and publications to commemorate these events. Combine all this with Hawaii’s ongoing reputation as adventure central – hiking along the smoking crevasse of a volcano, swimming among kaleidoscopic tropical fish or catching a giant roller on O‘ahu’s North Shore – and you have the right mix to make Hawaii one of 2016’s best destinations. What’s hot… Craft beer and spirits, food trucks, going green ___ …What’s not Hawaii’s cost of living, the Puna lava flow, feral pigs Life-changing experience Perhaps nothing will better remind you that the Hawaiian Islands are very much alive than getting close to the Big Island’s beating heart – Kilauea Volcano.

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> There’s more to Hawaii than ever before Golden sand beaches, emerald mountain peaks and a relaxed, laid-back attitude – Hawaii is an easy sell. Once considered a destination for just sand and surf, these islands are now also attracting visitors for their food, history and adventure. Hawaii Regional Cuisine, a culinary movement that began in the ’90s, has matured into a fully fledged way of life, combining the islands’ fusion of ethnic flavours with ingredients found on the archipelago. Eat your way through locally sourced menus in Honolulu’s hot Chinatown restaurants, sip a farm-to-cup coffee on a Maui agricultural tour or grab a Hawaiian plate lunch at a bustling farmers’ market on O‘ahu.

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The Kapalua Wine and Food Festival on Maui takes place over four days in June and features acclaimed chefs and sommeliers. From 1st to 10th September, scientists, policymakers and NGOs will convene in Honolulu for the IUCN World Conservation Congress, with lots of lectures and workshops on environmental issues. Random facts ▪ Standing tall at 10,200m (33,500ft, measured from its base on the sea floor), Mauna Kea is arguably the world’s tallest mountain – nearly a mile taller than Everest. ▪ Hawaii has the largest per capita consumption of Spam (the canned meat) in the USA. ▪ The state fish of Hawaii is a mouthful – locally known as humuhumunukunukuāpuaʻa, but often referred to as the reef triggerfish.

Parks Directory of the United States by Darren L. Smith, Kay Gill

1919 Motor Transport Corps convoy, Asilomar, British Empire, California gold rush, clean water, company town, Cornelius Vanderbilt, cotton gin, cuban missile crisis, desegregation, Donner party, El Camino Real, global village, Golden Gate Park, Hernando de Soto, indoor plumbing, mass immigration, Maui Hawaii, Northpointe / Correctional Offender Management Profiling for Alternative Sanctions, oil shale / tar sands, Oklahoma City bombing, Ronald Reagan, Sand Hill Road, Southern State Parkway, Torches of Freedom, trade route, transcontinental railway, Works Progress Administration

Museum exhibits include artifacts excavated at Wormsloe as well as a film about the founding of the 13th colony. 418 5 53 50 33 KAUAI 22 NIIHAU 54 43 37 A 30 13 1 12 24 OAHU 40 9 28 23 45 Kailua 47 17 34 2 B 46 42 44 Honolulu 11 14 4 7 MOLOKAI 41 36 10 16 6 20 Kahulai 51 C 39 LANAI 419 1 Ahukini SRP Aiea Bay SRA Akaka Falls SP Diamond Head SM Haena SP Halekii-Pihana Heiau SM Hanauma Bay SUP Hapuna Beach SRA Heeia SP Iao Valley SM Iolani Palace SM Kaena Point SP Kahana Valley SP Kakaako Waterfront Park Kalopa SRA Kaumahina SW Keaiwa Heiau SRA Kealakekua Bay SHP Kekaha Kai SP Kewalo Basin Kohala Historical Sites SM Kokee SP Kukaniloko Birthstones SM Laie Point SW Lapakahi SHP Lava Tree SM MacKenzie SRA Makapuu Point SW Makena SP Malaekahana SRA Manuka SW 2 A-2 B-4 E-9 B-5 A-2 C-7 B-5 E-8 B-5 C-7 B-5 B-4 B-5 B-5 E-9 C-8 B-4 F-8 F-9 B-5 D-8 A-1 B-4 B-5 D-8 F-10 F-10 B-5 D-7 B-4 F-8 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 Mauna Kea SRA Na Pali Coast SP Nuuanu Pali SW Old Kona Airport SRA Palaau SP Polihale SP Polipoli Spring SRA Puaa Kaa SW Puu o Mahuka Heiau SM Puu Ualakaa SW Royal Mausoleum SM Russian Fort Elizabeth SHP Sand Island SRA Ulupo Heiau SM Waahila Ridge SRA Wahiawa Freshwater SRA Waianapanapa SP Wailoa River SRA Wailua River SP Wailua Valley SW Wailuku River SP Waimea Canyon SP Waimea SRP SHP SM SP SRA SRP SUP SW 3 E-9 A-1 B-5 E-8 B-6 A-1 C-7 C-8 B-4 B-5 B-5 A-2 B-5 B-5 B-5 B-4 C-8 E-9 A-2 C-8 E-9 A-2 A-1 29 38 MAUI KAHOOLAWE D 21 25 3 35 49 E Hilo 32 HAWAII 26 19 18 27 F State Historical Park State Monument State Park State Recreation Area State Recreation Pier State Underwater Park State Wayside 4 52 15 8 31 G 5 6 7 8 9 10 Hawaii State Parks 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 48 HAWAII ★2118★ AKAKA FALLS STATE PARK c/o Hawaii District Office PO Box 936 Hilo, HI 96721 Web: www.hawaii.gov/dlnr/dsp/hawaii.html Phone: 808-974-6200 Size: 65.4 acres. Location: At the end of Akaka Falls Road (Highway 220), 3.6 miles southwest of Honomu.

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Special Features: Recreation area is located along the wooded shore of Wahiawa Reservoir, with year-round 426 HAWAII ★2166★ WAILUA VALLEY STATE WAYSIDE c/o Maui District Office 54 S High St, Rm 101 Wailuku, HI 96793 Web: www.hawaii.gov/dlnr/dsp/maui.html Phone: 808-984-8109 Size: 1.5 acres. Location: On Hana Highway (Highway 360), approximately 32 miles east of Kahului Airport (2.25-hour drive). Facilities: Scenic lookout; no drinking water. Special Features: Wayside offers views of Keanae Valley, Koolau Gap in Haleakala’s rim, and Wailua Village and old taro fields. ★2167★ WAILUKU RIVER STATE PARK c/o Hawaii District Office PO Box 936 Hilo, HI 96721 Web: www.hawaii.gov/dlnr/dsp/hawaii.html Phone: 808-974-6200 Size: 16.3 acres.

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The ★2154★ PUAA KAA STATE WAYSIDE c/o Maui District Office 54 S High St, Rm 101 Wailuku, HI 96793 Web: www.hawaii.gov/dlnr/dsp/maui.html Phone: 808-984-8109 Size: 5 acres. Location: On Hana Highway (Highway 360), approximately 38 miles east of Kahului Airport (2.5-hour drive). Facilities: Picnic area, scenic overlook; no drinking water. Special Features: This rest stop is located in a rain forest and includes small scenic waterfalls and pools. 425 9. State Parks ★2153★ POLIPOLI SPRING STATE RECREATION AREA c/o Maui District Office 54 S High St, Rm 101 Wailuku, HI 96793 Web: www.hawaii.gov/dlnr/dsp/maui.html Phone: 808-984-8109 Size: 10 acres.

Comedy Sex God by Pete Holmes

Burning Man, Haight Ashbury, Maui Hawaii, Rubik’s Cube, Steve Jobs, TED Talk

We will always crave to be seated at the table of misfits in the back, cracking sarcastic jokes, desperately trying to find the others who are feeling the same douche chills we are so that we can band together, laugh, and get the fuck out of there. For this reason, I was apprehensive when Duncan invited me to go to Maui for the annual Ram Dass retreat, Open Your Heart in Paradise. I loved Ram Dass, way more than any other teacher I had ever found, but what if the other people who loved him were weirdos? And if they were, what did that say about me? I was scared, but Duncan assured me it would be great—he had been before—and Val said she would come with me, so I figured it would be okay. If it sucked, who cared? We’d still be in Hawaii. Maui is one of those airports they could’ve used for a set on Mad Men without changing a single thing.

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My showbiz life was big and bright and fast and surprisingly stressful, and there just didn’t seem to be any room for any of that touchy-feely spiritual stuff that in any case only “worked” some of the time. Because let’s be honest—sometimes meditation feels great, and sometimes you sit there with your legs crossed for half an hour just replaying an episode of ALF in your head, and you don’t feel any better than you did when you started. My friends in Maui had told me to stick with it, that it gets better, assuring me that deep meditation could release the same endorphin rush I was getting from a nightly glass of vodka, but coming home exhausted every day after fourteen hours of shooting a show that I foolishly had designed to feature myself in every single scene, I didn’t have a bottle of meditation chilling in my freezer.

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They all used words like “transformative” and “impossible to put into language,” like the quotes on a poster for some sold-out Broadway show. Their stories were peppered with moments when Ram Dass seemed to really connect with them and, frankly, like them, giving them an extra dollop of special wonder. What if it didn’t work for me? IT WAS HOT WHEN I DEPLANED IN MAUI, AND VERY humid, so as I was waiting for the rental car shuttle I took my socks off in public, like an embarrassing dad, and slipped my bare feet back into my cloth travel clogs, like an embarrassing mom. Moments later, a married couple recognized me from Crashing, and we chatted briefly about comedy as I tried to hide the bulge of two sweaty, wadded-up socks I was keeping in my front pocket like a fucking loon.

Shielded: How the Police Became Untouchable by Joanna Schwartz

Black Lives Matter, coronavirus, COVID-19, desegregation, Donald Trump, facts on the ground, George Floyd, Jeffrey Epstein, Maui Hawaii, medical malpractice, Ronald Reagan

When she was released later that night, she first made sure that her children were asleep and then went to the hospital to seek treatment for her bruises and burns. The next day, after getting her kids to school, Jayzel began researching the Maui Police Department’s Taser policies. She worked for Maui County as a building permit clerk and knew generally whom to call. The Hawaii State Office of the Ombudsman and the ACLU recommended that she file a complaint with the police department’s internal affairs division. When she did, she was interviewed by someone in the division who took photos of her bruised arm, singed hand, and the bright red burned area at the base of her areola.

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QUALIFIED IMMUNITY In the late evening: These facts are drawn from the complaint, discovery, briefs, and court opinions in Mattos v. Agarano, No. 1:07-cv-00220 (D. Hawaii April 26, 2007); an interview with Eric Seitz, Mattos’s attorney; and “Isle Case Sets Standard on Taser Use, Attorney Says of Settlement,” Maui News, Jan. 2013. GO TO NOTE REFERENCE IN TEXT The district court denied: Mattos v. Agarano, No. 1:07-cv-00220, 2008 WL 465595 (D. Hawaii Feb. 21, 2008). GO TO NOTE REFERENCE IN TEXT When Aikala appealed: Mattos v. Agarano, 590 F.3d 1082 (9th Cir. 2010). GO TO NOTE REFERENCE IN TEXT the appeals court recognized: Mattos v.

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Her attorney, Eric Seitz, had included state law claims for battery and assault against Officer Aikala in Mattos’s complaint, for which qualified immunity did not apply. Five and a half years after Mattos filed her case, her state law claims settled for $40,000. Seitz split the award with Mattos. He estimated that he spent at least $40,000 out of his own pocket, including trips from Hawaii to the mainland for the court of appeals arguments, and about $200,000 of his time. Seitz told The Maui News that the case had been worth bringing, even though it resulted in a significant financial loss to him, because the court of appeals issued a ruling that the officer’s Taser use was unconstitutional—a ruling that has been used in later cases to defeat qualified immunity.

The Naked Presenter: Delivering Powerful Presentations With or Without Slides by Garr Reynolds

death from overwork, deliberate practice, fear of failure, Hans Rosling, index card, Kaizen: continuous improvement, karōshi / gwarosa / guolaosi, Mahatma Gandhi, Maui Hawaii, mirror neurons, Richard Feynman, Silicon Valley, Steve Jobs, TED Talk

You can shorten the distance if you remember to make sure you create the visuals that can be understood easily, without any eyestrain, from anywhere in the room. When it comes to visuals, think big. Develop Play We were born to play. Play is how we learn and develop our minds and our bodies, and it’s also how we express ourselves. Play comes naturally to us. I was reminded of this while listening to a cool little jazz gig near the beach on Maui, Hawaii, in early 2010. I snapped the photo below of a little girl enjoying the simple beauty of that musical moment by dancing happily all by herself. 122 The Naked Presenter Wow! eBook <WoweBook.Com> I love this picture because it shows both adults and a child at play. The adult musicians are expressing themselves through jazz, a complex form of play with rules and constraints but also great freedom— freedom that leads to tremendous creativity and enjoyment for the players and for the listeners.

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The stories and the emotional connections they triggered—surprise, sympathy, and empathy—with the audience caused these relatively small points to be remembered most in people’s minds. Telling stories is the natural way humans share information. The stories that get remembered best trigger one or more emotions. Chapter 2 First Things First: Preparation 47 Wow! eBook <WoweBook.Com> Stories Get Your Attention and Make It Real This January, we drove Maui’s Road to Hana—one of the most beautiful places in the world—to the ’Ohe’o Gulch Falls at Haleakala National Park in Kipahulu. The falls look inviting and are usually calm. But to warn the tourists of the great dangers that lurk, large warnings signs have been installed to advise people to use great caution.

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See also presentations Ki (life force), 176 Kodo: Ancient Ways, 71 Nakamura, Masa, 112 naked approach, explained, 10 naked relationship, (hadaka no tsukiai), 5– 6 natural delivery, 25 natural expression of self, 13–14 naturalness, 6 of childhood, 195 speaking with, 7–8 nature Japanese affection for, 6–7 learning from, 6 negatives, overcoming in stories, 44 Negroponte, Nicholas, 129–130 nervousness, avoiding mention of, 74 Newman, Paul, 76–77 notes overcoming dependence on, 15–16 using, 54 Novel aspect of PUNCH, 66– 67 numbers, interpreting, 150, 153 L lavalier mic, considering, 86–87 learning by doing, 144– 145 process of, 72, 111 role of play in, 123 lectern, presenting from, 116 life force (ki), 176 Life in Three Easy Lessons, 176 lifelong learning (shogai gakushu), 186 lights, leaving on, 88 Lusensky, Jakob, 85 M Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die, 164 Marsalis, Wynton, 8, 11 martial way (budo), 124 masks, removing, 21 material, knowing, 121 Maui photo of girl, 122–123 Road to Hana, 48 warning sign, 48 McKee, Robert, 43–44, 46 Medina, John, 32, 40, 108, 137–138 memory and emotions, 108 microphone, considering, 86 Mifune, Kyuzo, 190–191 mirror neurons, 110–112 mistakes, overcoming, 119 Miwa, Yoshida, 112 monotone, impact on speeches, 139 Monta Method, 157 Moon, Richard, 176 moving audiences, 34 moving with purpose, 83– 84 multitasking myth, 32 O ofuro (Japanese bath), 5, 20–23 onsen (Japanese hot springs), 5– 6 O-sensei (great teacher), 175 outline, introducing, 75 outside onsen (roten-buro), 21 P pace attention and need for change, 137–138 changing, 140–143 changing for speaking, 159 varying, 136–140 varying in keynotes, 151 participation, 144 asking for volunteers, 156 asking questions, 152 audience activity, 144– 145 building with hands, 156 conducting brainstorming activities, 155 discussion groups, 157 encouraging, 152, 154– 159 showing visuals, 154 sketching ideas, 156 stimulating imaginations, 158 Index 203 Wow!

The Hero With a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell

affirmative action, Columbine, game design, Lao Tzu, Maui Hawaii, music of the spheres, place-making, the scientific method, trade route

Fliigel, "who would still retain the notion of a quasi-anthropomorphic Father-God as an extra-mental reality, even though tile purelv mental origin of such a God has become apparent" (The I'.iychoanuhjliv Study of the Fitmihj, p. 236). '"'6 "Paradiso," XXXIII, 82 IT. v'7 See supra, p. 161. " 'The feat of tossing,' Maui replied. "To this Mahu-ika agreed; then Maui asked, 'Who shall begin?' "Mahu-ika answered, 'I shall.' "Maui signified his consent, so Mahu-ika took hold of Maui and tossed him up in the air; he rose high above and fell right down into Mahu-ika's hands; again Mahu-ika tossed Maui up, chanting: 'Tossing, tossing—up you go!' "Up went Maui, and then Mahu-ika chanted this incantation: 'Up you Up you go Up you go Up you go Up you go Up you go Up you go Up you go Up you go Up you go •o the first level, to the second level, to the third level, to the fourth level, to the fifth level, to the sixth level, to the seventh level, to the eighth level, to the ninth level, to the tenth level!'

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"Up went Maui, and then Mahu-ika chanted this incantation: 'Up you Up you go Up you go Up you go Up you go Up you go Up you go Up you go Up you go Up you go •o the first level, to the second level, to the third level, to the fourth level, to the fifth level, to the sixth level, to the seventh level, to the eighth level, to the ninth level, to the tenth level!' "Maui turned over and over in the air and started to come down again, and he fell right beside Mahu-ika; then Maui said, 'You're having all the fun!' '"Why indeed!" Mahu-ika exclaimed. 'Do you imagine you can send a whale flying up into the air?1 " 'I can try!1 Maui answered. "So Maui took hold of Mahu-ika and tossed him up, chanting: 'Tossing, tossing—up you go!' "Up flew Mahu-ika, and now Maui chanted this spell: 'Up you go to the first level, Up you go to the second level, Up you go to the third level, Up you go to the fourth level, Up you go to the fifth level.

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Stevenson, Sinclair (Mrs.). The Heart of Jainism. London; New York: Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press, 1915. Stimson, J. F., Edwin G. Burrows, and Kenneth Pike Emory. The Legends ofMaui and Tahaki. Bernice P. Bishop Museum Bulletin 127. Honolulu, Hawaii: The Museum, 1934. Suzuki, Daisetz Teitaro. Essays in Zen Buddhism. London: Luzac and Company, 1927. Taylor, Richard. Te ika a Maui, or, New Zealand and its Inhabitants. London,1855. Thompson, Stith. Tales of the North American Indians. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1929. Thousand Nights and a N'ight. A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights Entertainments.

Pacific: Silicon Chips and Surfboards, Coral Reefs and Atom Bombs, Brutal Dictators, Fading Empires, and the Coming Collision of the World's Superpowers by Simon Winchester

9 dash line, Albert Einstein, Boeing 747, BRICs, British Empire, California gold rush, classic study, colonial rule, company town, Deng Xiaoping, desegregation, Easter island, Frank Gehry, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), Korean Air Lines Flight 007, Kwajalein Atoll, land tenure, Larry Ellison, Loma Prieta earthquake, Maui Hawaii, Monroe Doctrine, ocean acidification, oil shock, polynesian navigation, Ralph Waldo Emerson, RAND corporation, Ronald Reagan, Seymour Hersh, Silicon Valley, South China Sea, The Day the Music Died, three-masted sailing ship, trade route, transcontinental railway, UNCLOS, UNCLOS, undersea cable, uranium enrichment

He lives principally in a Japanese house with a Japanese garden, eats Japanese food, and is said to marinate himself in Japanese culture and espouse some Buddhist beliefs and practices. He bought almost all the island of Lana’i for a relatively modest and, for him, easily affordable $300 million. In total, the island—its name is the Hawaiian word for “hump,” since its weary volcano was the only thing visible across the five miles of sea from the vastly more interesting island of Maui—occupies 90,000 acres, 141 square miles. Ellison would have taken all of it, except that a few islanders had long ago acquired title to their homes and some lands had been traditionally Hawaiian-owned. So he had to settle for just 87,000 of the acreage—all the pineapple groves; all the beaches; all the mountains, the docks, the churches, and two very large luxury hotels (that happen to lose a great deal of money each year).

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“Have happy workers, grow better pineapples” was the Dole mantra for many years—and with free Dole schools and free Dole doctors, and men who mowed the lawns and weeded the gardens around your house so that Lana’i City looked as pretty a company town as possible, the island had a utopian quality to it. A million “pines,” as they were called, shipped out of Lana’i every day. But the fruit became increasingly expensive to grow: the workers were unionized; fresh irrigation water was scarce; and electricity, imported by underwater cable from Maui, was costly. By the 1980s, Ecuador and the Philippines were beginning to grow cheaper fruit, and the Dole pineapple empire started to struggle. The company’s entire business was eventually bought by an elderly Californian named David Murdock, who built himself on Lana’i a handsome home and a fine Victorian-style orchid house for his prodigious collection; threw up two enormous hotels, one in the cool of Lana’i City and the other down by the ocean; and when he arrived on-island, progressed through town in a horse-drawn carriage expecting displays of adoring fealty from his plantation workers, whom he called “my children.”

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He formally announced his intentions in 2013: his island, he said, would become “an experiment in sustainability.” According to his company, the plan was “clear in concept, vast in scope and complex in implementation.” Lana’i City would be tripled in size, to twelve thousand people. Electricity, currently generated in Maui, would now be made locally, by a solar power station. A soi-disant “solar soothsayer” named Byron Washom was hired from the University of California’s San Diego campus to design a series of microgrids for the island, with computers allowing the community rapidly to switch the source of power generation among three sustainable sources—solar, hydro, and wind—depending on need.8 Fresh water, admitted by all to be the key to success of any such venture, would be manufactured from the sea with a large desalination plant.

Frommer's Portable San Diego by Mark Hiss

car-free, East Village, Golden Gate Park, Irwin Jacobs: Qualcomm, Maui Hawaii, Norman Mailer

Washington State FROMMER’S® DAY BY DAY GUIDES Amsterdam Chicago Florence & Tuscany London New York City Paris Rome San Francisco Venice PAULINE FROMMER’S GUIDES! SEE MORE. SPEND LESS. Hawaii Italy New York City ® FROMMER’S PORTABLE GUIDES Acapulco, Ixtapa & Zihuatanejo Amsterdam Aruba Australia’s Great Barrier Reef Bahamas Big Island of Hawaii Boston California Wine Country Cancún Cayman Islands Charleston Chicago Dominican Republic Dublin Florence Las Vegas Las Vegas for Non-Gamblers London Maui Nantucket & Martha’s Vineyard New Orleans New York City Paris Portland Puerto Rico Puerto Vallarta, Manzanillo & Guadalajara Rio de Janeiro San Diego San Francisco Savannah St.

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Into the Black: The Extraordinary Untold Story of the First Flight of the Space Shuttle Columbia and the Astronauts Who Flew Her by Rowland White, Richard Truly

Albert Einstein, Apollo 11, Apollo 13, Apollo Guidance Computer, Ayatollah Khomeini, Berlin Wall, Boeing 747, Charles Lindbergh, cuban missile crisis, Easter island, Fall of the Berlin Wall, Gene Kranz, Isaac Newton, it's over 9,000, John von Neumann, low earth orbit, Maui Hawaii, Mercator projection, Neil Armstrong, orbital mechanics / astrodynamics, Ronald Reagan, Strategic Defense Initiative, William Langewiesche

While Air Force officers narrowed down their options for imaging Columbia using the KEYHOLE satellites, operators at another Air Force facility 2,300 miles to the southwest were already trying to do the same thing from the ground—albeit from over 10,000 feet above sea level on the summit of Mount Haleakalā. As Young and Crippen began their ninth orbit, twelve hours into the mission, it was hoped that, as their spacecraft passed within range of the Maui Space Surveillance Complex TEAL BLUE telescope camera, the Air Force might capture the first usable images of her heat shield. The attempt, however, was doomed to failure. The Shuttle, as she passed Hawaii, was still on the flight plan as originally scheduled; there’d been no effort to maneuver her into a different orbital attitude. Traveling upside down and tail first, there was simply no way that her underside could be seen from Earth.

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And shortly after Mission Control lost the signal from Guam, after powering up the jet drivers, the astronauts completed the maneuver into the required postburn attitude, barely a minute before being picked up as she passed north of Hawaii. • • • “I’ve discovered,” Crippen had told CapCom earlier in the mission, “that there’s lots of clouds around the world.” And now, as Air Force personnel at the Maui Optical Station and in Malabar tried to track and focus on Columbia as she passed within range of their telescopes, they were proving to be an issue. Both sites had been chosen because of clear air and good weather.

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• • • Code-named TEAL BLUE and TEAL AMBER, the two DOD telescopes charged with carrying out the “ground-based photography” performed a role the Air Force described as “Space Object Identification” and represented the zenith of an effort initiated by the Air Force soon after the launch of Sputnik in 1957 to track and photograph spacecraft. The former was mounted 10,000 feet high on Mount Haleakalā in Maui, the latter, 30 miles south of Cape Canāveral. Both Air Force telescopes were used to take high-resolution pictures of orbiting Soviet and Chinese spacecraft. By combining spotting telescopes slaved to a more powerful reflecting telescope, TEAL BLUE and TEAL AMBER first found their orbiting targets, then followed them using computer-controlled tracking to keep the larger telescopic camera smoothly focused on its quarry.

Geektastic: Stories From the Nerd Herd by Holly Black, Cecil Castellucci

citation needed, double helix, index card, Maui Hawaii, Rubik’s Cube, Silicon Valley, Silicon Valley startup

And when I did talk to Natalie Catrine and the rest, they refused to hear that I was miserable. They were more interested in the white-sand beaches, Maui’s current temperature, and Mr. Hunter’s big house. “Paradise,” Natalie Catrine would murmur. “Felicity, you’re living in paradise.” One day as I walked home, I spotted a tour bus near the waterfall. I didn’t believe it at first, but sure enough, there was Mrs. Cardiff, from the dry cleaner back in Asher! She was the last person I would ever think would travel to Maui. Mrs. Cardiff was shading her eyes with one hand and fanning her face with the other. I hardly recognized her—she must have put on eighty pounds.

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Every football and basketball half-time finale ended with me tossing the baton in the air as the crowd would yell, “Whoooooooooooa.” This continued until my baton made its downward descent and I reclaimed it, whereupon the crowd would shout “Nelly!” and a cheer would erupt. On my first day at Kahanamoku Academy I woke up early. I was excited to make new friends. Maui’s tropical weather made my perm frizzier than it already was, so I elected to wear my hair in French braids and adorned them with blue and yellow ribbons (my new school colors). To complement this, I wore matching sky-blue eye shadow. I considered wearing my Miss Pep sweater, but didn’t want to appear boastful, so instead I brought my lucky baton to school.

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He went on to explain that Hawaiians often slipped into what was called “pidgin” English, a very casual way of talking that set the locals apart from the tourists. For example, “How is it?” would be “howzit?” And “would you like to go to dinner” would be “wanna goda dinna, huh?” Great. As if moving from Asher to Maui weren’t hard enough. Now there was a language barrier. Before we met Mr. Hunter, we lived in what seemed to be an endless series of dark, cramped apartments. Because of my brother, there was never enough money. Carl was expensive. We were always looking for ways to save a dollar or two. Sometimes, like when my mother had to perm my hair at home or when we ate spaghetti for a week, I’d blame Carl.

Frommer's Memorable Walks in London by Richard Jones

Alistair Cooke, British Empire, Isaac Newton, Jarndyce and Jarndyce, John Snow's cholera map, Maui Hawaii, medical malpractice, moral panic

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Protecting Pollinators by Jodi Helmer

Anthropocene, big-box store, clean water, Columbine, crowdsourcing, Donald Trump, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), Kickstarter, Maui Hawaii, meta-analysis, the scientific method, urban sprawl, zero-sum game

To date, the following seventy-two pollinators have been added to the list: Mammals Lesser long-nosed bat (Leptonycteris curasoae yerbabuenae) Little Mariana fruit bat (Pteropus tokudae) Mariana fruit bat (Pteropus mariannus mariannus) Birds Akeke’e or Kaua‘i ‘akepa (Loxops caeruleirostris) ‘Akiapola‘au (Hemignathus wilsoni) ‘Akikiki (Oreomystis bairdi) ‘Akohekohe or crested honeycreeper (Palmeria dolei) ‘Alala or Hawai‘ian crow (Corvus hawaiiensis) Bridled white-eye (Zosterops conspicillatus conspicullatus) Hawai‘i ‘akepa (Loxops coccineus) Hawai‘i creeper (Loxops mana) ‘I‘iwi (Drepanis coccinea) Kaua‘i ‘akialoa (Akaloa stejnegeri) Kaua‘i nukupu‘u (Hemignathus hanapepe) Kaua‘i ‘o‘o (Moho braccatus) Ma‘oma‘o or mao (Gymnomyza samoensis) Maui ‘akepa (Loxops ochraceus) Maui nukupu‘u (Hemignathus affinis) Maui parrotbill (Pseudonestor xanthophrys) Moloka‘i creeper or kakawahie (Paroreomyza flammea) O‘ahu ‘alauahio or O‘ahu creeper (Paroreomyza maculata) ‘O‘u (Psittirostra psittacea) Palila (Loxioides bailleui) Po‘ouli (Melamprosops phaeosoma) Rota bridled white-eye (Zosterops rotensis) Bees Anthricinan yellow-faced bee (Hylaeus anthracinus) Assimulans yellow-faced bee (Hylaeus assimulans) Easy yellow-faced bee (Hylaeus facilis) Hawai‘ian yellow-faced bee (Hylaeus kuakea) Hawai‘ian yellow-faced bee (Hylaeus longiceps) Hawai‘ian yellow-faced bee (Hylaeus mana) Hilaris yellow-faced bee (Hylaeus hilaris) Rusty-patched bumblebee (Bombus affinis) Butterflies, Skippers, and Moths Bartram’s hairstreak butterfly (Strymon acis bartrami) Bay checkerspot (Euphydryas editha bayensis) Behren’s Silverspot (Speyeria zerene behrensii) Blackburn’s sphinx moth (Manduca blackburni) Callippe silverspot (Speyeria callippe callippe) Carson wandering skipper (Pseudocopaeodes eunus obscurus) Cassius blue (Leptotes cassius theonus) Ceraunus blue (Hemiargus ceraunus antibubastus) Dakota skipper (Hesperia dacotae) El Segundo blue (Euphilotes battoides allyni) Fender’s blue (Icaricia icarioides fenderi) Florida leafwing (Anaea troglodyta floridalis) Karner blue (Lycaeides melissa samuelis) Kern primrose sphinx moth (Euproserpinus euterpe) Laguna Mountains skipper (Pyrgus ruralis lagunae) Lange’s metalmark (Apodemia mormo lange) Lotis blue (Lycaeides argyrognomon lotis) Mariana eight-spot butterfly (Hypolimnas octocula mariannensis) Mariana wandering butterfly (Vagrans egistina) Miami blue (Cyclargus thomasi bethunebakeri) Misson blue (Icaricia icarioides missionensis) Mitchell’s satyr (Neonympha mitchellii mitchellii) Mount Charleston blue (Plebejus shasta charlestonensis) Myrtle’s silverspot (Speyeria zerene myrtleae) Nickerbean blue (Cyclargus ammon) Oregon silverspot (Speyeria zerene hippolyta) Palos Verde blue (Glaucopsyche lygdamus palosverdesensis) Pawnee montane skipper (Hesperia leonardus montana) Poweshiek skipperling (Oarisma poweshiek) Quino checkerspot (Euphydryas editha quino) San Bruno elfin (Callophrys mossii bayensis) Schaus swallowtail (Heraclides aristodemus ponceanus) Smith’s blue (Euphilotes enoptes smithi) St.

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Adaptation might be possible for some species. Monarchs, for one, appear to have adjusted to changing conditions in certain environments. The butterflies have been transported to New Zealand, Australia, Portugal, Spain, and Hawaii, where the species are not native but are doing what it takes to survive. In Australia, monarchs migrate in response to drought, not temperature change, and monarchs in Hawaii don’t migrate at all. So, if parts of their traditional overwintering and breeding grounds in the United States become inhospitable, Karen Oberhauser, monarch expert and director of the University of Wisconsin–Madison Arboretum, believes the butterflies will move and a percentage of the population will survive.

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New York Times, December 11, 2013. https://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/12/business/energy-environment/accused-of-harming-bees-bayer-researches-a-different-culprit.html. Hanna, David Foote, and Claire Kremen. “Invasive Species Management Restores a Plant–Pollinator Mutualism in Hawaii.” Journal of Applied Ecology 50, no. 1 (February 2013): 147–55. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/260104476_Invasive_species_management_restores_a_plant-pollinator_mutualism_in_Hawaii. Hannah, Lee, Marc Steele, Emily Fung, Pablo Imbach, and Alan Flint. “Climate Change Influences on Pollinator, Forest, and Farm Interactions across a Climate Gradient.” Climate Change 141, no. 1 (March 2017): 63–75. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10584-016-1868-x.

Free as in Freedom by Sam Williams

Asperger Syndrome, cognitive dissonance, commoditize, Compatible Time-Sharing System, Debian, Douglas Engelbart, East Village, Eben Moglen, Free Software Foundation, Guido van Rossum, Hacker Ethic, informal economy, Isaac Newton, John Conway, John Gilmore, John Markoff, Ken Thompson, Larry Wall, machine readable, Marc Andreessen, Maui Hawaii, Multics, Murray Gell-Mann, PalmPilot, profit motive, Project Xanadu, Richard Stallman, Silicon Valley, slashdot, software patent, Steven Levy, Ted Nelson, the Cathedral and the Bazaar, urban renewal, VA Linux, Y2K

Co-owned and operated by the University of Hawaii and the U.S. Air Force, the machine divides its computer cycles between the number crunching tasks associated with military logistics and hightemperature physics research. Simply put, the MHPCC is a unique place, a place where the brainy culture of science and engineering and the laid-back culture of the Hawaiian islands coexist in peaceful equilibrium. A slogan on the lab's 2000 web site sums it up: "Computing in paradise." It's not exactly the kind of place you'd expect to find Richard Stallman, a man who, when taking in the beautiful view of the nearby Maui Channel through the picture windows of a staffer's office, mutters a terse critique: "Too much sun."

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Most come so stealthily-without even the hint of a raised eyebrow or upturned smile-you almost have to wonder if Stallman's laughing at his audience more than the audience is laughing at him. Watching members of the Maui High Performance Computer Center laugh at the St. Ignucius parody, such concerns evaporate. While not exactly a standup act, Stallman certainly possesses the chops to keep a roomful of engineers in stitches. "To be a saint in the Church of Emacs does not require celibacy, but it does require making a commitment to living a life of moral purity," he tells the Maui audience. "You must exorcise the evil proprietary operating system from all your computer and then install a wholly [holy] free operating system.

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It makes one think happily that after you've lived a few years that what you've done is worthwhile. Because otherwise it just gets taken away and thrown out or abandoned or, at the very least, you no longer have any relation to it. It's like losing a bit of your life." 94 Chapter 8 St. Ignucius The Maui High Performance Computing Center is located in a singlestory building in the dusty red hills just above the town of Kihei. Framed by million-dollar views and the multimillion dollar real estate of the Silversword Golf Course, the center seems like the ultimate scientific boondoggle. Far from the boxy, sterile confines of Tech Square or even the sprawling research metropolises of Argonne, Illinois and Los Alamos, New Mexico, the MHPCC seems like the kind of place where scientists spend more time on their tans than their post-doctoral research projects.

Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut

Albert Einstein, British Empire, dematerialisation, Maui Hawaii, search costs, traveling salesman

A typical one might look like this: Dwayne Hoover and Harry LeSabre saw pictures like that when they were very little boys. They believed them, too. • • • Grace LeSabre expressed her contempt for the good opinion of Dwayne Hoover, which her husband felt he had lost. “Fuck Dwayne Hoover,” she said. “Fuck Midland City. Let’s sell the God damn Xerox stock and buy a condominium on Maui.” Maui was one of the Hawaiian Islands. It was widely believed to be a paradise. “Listen,” said Grace, “we’re the only white people in Midland City with any kind of sex life, as nearly as I can tell. You’re not a freak. Dwayne Hoover’s the freak! How many orgasms do you think he has a month?” “I don’t know,” said Harry from his humid tent.

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The Midland City Police Department, and the Midland County Sheriff’s Department, were composed mainly of white men. They had racks and racks of sub-machine guns and twelve-gauge automatic shotguns for an open season on reindeer, which was bound to come. “Listen—I’m serious,” said Grace to Harry. “This is the asshole of the Universe. Let’s split to a condominium on Maui and live for a change.” So they did. • • • Dwayne’s bad chemicals meanwhile changed his manner toward Francine from nastiness to pitiful dependency. He apologized to her for ever thinking that she wanted a Colonel Sanders Kentucky Fried Chicken franchise. He gave her full credit for unflagging unselfishness.

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The Hawaiian Week Dwayne had mentioned was a sales promotion scheme which involved making the agency look as much like the Hawaiian Islands as possible. People who bought new or used cars, or had repairs done in excess of five hundred dollars during the week would be entered automatically in a lottery. Three lucky people would each win a free, all-expenses-paid trip to Las Vegas and San Francisco and then Hawaii for a party of two. “I don’t mind that you have the name of a Buick, Harry, when you’re supposed to be selling Pontiacs—” Dwayne went on. He was referring to the fact that the Buick division of General Motors put out a model called the Le Sabre. “You can’t help that.” Dwayne now patted the top of his desk softly.

The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History by Elizabeth Kolbert

Alfred Russel Wallace, Anthropocene, biodiversity loss, Biosphere 2, Columbian Exchange, correlation does not imply causation, double helix, Easter island, Honoré de Balzac, index card, Jacob Silverman, Maui Hawaii, nuclear winter, ocean acidification, out of africa, seminal paper, Skype, Steven Pinker, the long tail, Thomas Kuhn: the structure of scientific revolutions, Yogi Berra

Houck locates the box she is looking for and counts over several rows, then down. She takes out two of the vials and places them before me on a steel table. “There they are,” she says. Inside the vials is pretty much all that’s left of the po`ouli, or black-faced honeycreeper, a chunky bird with a sweet face and a cream-colored chest that lived on Maui. The po`ouli was once described to me as “the most beautiful not particularly beautiful bird in the world,” and probably it went extinct a year or two after the San Diego Zoo and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service made a last-ditch effort to save it, in the autumn of 2004. At that point, a mere three individuals were known to exist, and the idea was to capture and breed them.

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No one is sure exactly why the `alalā became extinct in the wild; probably, as with the po`ouli, there are multiple reasons, including habitat loss, predation by invasive species like mongoose, and diseases carried by other invasive species, like mosquitoes. In any event, the last forest-dwelling `alalā is believed to have died in 2002. Kinohi was born at a captive breeding facility on Maui more than twenty years ago. He is, by all accounts, an extremely odd bird. Raised in isolation, he does not identify with other `alalā. Nor does he seem to think of himself as human. “He’s in a world all to himself,” Durrant told me. “He once fell in love with a spoonbill.” Kinohi was sent to San Diego in 2009 because he refused to mate with any of the other captive crows, and it was decided that something new had to be tried to persuade him to contribute to the species’ limited gene pool.

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Kinohi came fairly quickly to accept her attentions—crows do not have phalluses, so Durrant stroked the area around his cloaca—but at the time of my visit he still had failed to deliver what she referred to as “high-quality ejaculate.” Another breeding season was approaching, so Durrant was preparing to try again, three times a week for up to five months. If Kinohi ever came through, she was going to rush with his sperm to Maui and try to artificially inseminate one of the females at the breeding facility. We arrived at Kinohi’s cage, which turned out to be more like a suite, with an antechamber large enough for several people to stand in and a back room filled with ropes and other corvid entertainments. Kinohi hopped over to greet us.

Calypso by David Sedaris

Affordable Care Act / Obamacare, airport security, David Sedaris, Donald Trump, lateral thinking, Maui Hawaii, obamacare

It’s almost laughable, this insistence on a reason. I think my mother was lonely without her children—her fan club. But I think she drank because she was an alcoholic. “How can you watch that garbage?” Hugh would say whenever he walked into the house on Maui and caught me in front of Intervention. “Well, I’m not only watching it,” I’d tell him. “I’m also signing my name.” This was never enough for him. “You’re in Hawaii, sitting indoors in the middle of the day. Get out of here, why don’t you? Get some sun.” And so I’d put on my shoes and take a walk, never on the beach but along the road, or through residential neighborhoods. I saw a good deal of trash—cans, bottles, fast-food wrappers—the same crap I see in England.

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Built of stone in the late sixteenth century, it has a pitched roof and little windows with panes the size of playing cards. We lie in bed and consider sheep grazing in the shadow of a verdant down. I especially love being there in winter, so it bothered me when I had to spend most of January and February working in the United States. Hugh came along, and toward the end we found ourselves on Maui, where I had a reading. I’d have been happy just to fly in and fly out, but Hugh likes to swim in the ocean, so we stayed for a week in a place he found online. “Let me guess,” the box-office manager of the theater I performed at said. “It’s spread out over at least four levels and paneled in dark wood, like something you’d see on a 1970s TV show, right?”

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“Which of you is in prison now?” I’d ask, glancing up as I tripped on the stairs to the bedroom. The house was on the ocean, and the beach that began where the backyard ended was shaded with palms. Most often it was deserted, so except for a few short trips up the coast for supplies, Hugh stayed put during our week on Maui. If he wasn’t on the deck overlooking the water, he was in the water looking back at the deck. He saw whales and sea turtles. He snorkeled. My only accomplishment was to sign my name to five thousand blank sheets of paper sent by my publisher. “Tip-ins,” they’re called. A month or two down the line, they’d be bound into copies of the book I had just about finished.

Air Crashes and Miracle Landings: 60 Narratives by Christopher Bartlett

Air France Flight 447, air traffic controllers' union, Airbus A320, airport security, Boeing 747, Captain Sullenberger Hudson, Charles Lindbergh, crew resource management, en.wikipedia.org, flag carrier, illegal immigration, it's over 9,000, Maui Hawaii, profit motive, sensible shoes, special drawing rights, Tenerife airport disaster, US Airways Flight 1549, William Langewiesche

On boarding in the good light of the early afternoon, one of the passengers had noticed a small horizontal crack along a line of rivets to the right of the forward left-hand door and had even thought of reporting it to the crew, but did not do so for fear of being thought foolish. The aircraft was already making its ninth flight of the day, this time the 35-minute leg from Hawaii’s Big Island (Ito) to Honolulu on Oahu Island. Their route would take them close to several other islands in the Hawaiian chain, including Maui. Twenty minutes after takeoff, they had leveled out at their cruising height of 24,000 ft with 37-year old First Officer Madeline (Mimi) Tompkins, at the controls. She had 8,000 hours’ flight experience and hoped soon to be promoted to the rank of captain, like Captain Schornsteimer sitting next to her, also with a similar amount of flying experience.

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The pilots decided to divert to Maui Island’s Kahului Airport by then only some 20 nm away. This was on the opposite side of the island and involved an approach between two high mountains, which, though not inherently difficult, could have been fraught with danger for an aircraft in their condition, as the violent wind and turbulence could easily break the fuselage apart. Luckily, the wind was much weaker than usual. Their immediate problem was radio communication, largely due to the wind noise, which made it virtually impossible to hear or be heard. It took some time even for the Maui controller to get their flight number right and then to grasp the seriousness of their predicament, of which even the first officer handling the radio was unaware as she had no intercom contact with the passenger cabin and had to assist the captain.

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It took some time even for the Maui controller to get their flight number right and then to grasp the seriousness of their predicament, of which even the first officer handling the radio was unaware as she had no intercom contact with the passenger cabin and had to assist the captain. Maui ATC asked them to switch frequencies as if they were a normal flight. The investigators criticized this obligation to change radio frequency because aircrew dealing with an emergency should not be distracted by this task, which had the added risk that contact with the aircraft might be lost altogether. This reminds one of the criticisms leveled at ATC in connection with the famous crash of a 737 at Kegworth in the UK the following year, where the pilots shut down the good engine instead of the bad one and incidentally had to hop from frequency to frequency.

The Billionaire and the Mechanic: How Larry Ellison and a Car Mechanic Teamed Up to Win Sailing's Greatest Race, the Americas Cup, Twice by Julian Guthrie

AOL-Time Warner, Apple's 1984 Super Bowl advert, Benchmark Capital, Boeing 747, cloud computing, Cornelius Vanderbilt, fear of failure, Ford paid five dollars a day, independent contractor, Kaizen: continuous improvement, Larry Ellison, Loma Prieta earthquake, Marc Benioff, market bubble, Maui Hawaii, new economy, pets.com, Ronald Reagan, Salesforce, side project, Silicon Valley, Silicon Valley billionaire, software as a service, South of Market, San Francisco, Steve Jobs, warehouse automation, white picket fence, Yogi Berra

A couple of months later, the Atlantic and Pacific division winners will race their AC60s along the leeward coast of Maui, Hawaii, for the Louis Vuitton Cup. The Louis Vuitton winner will stay in Hawaii to race their AC60 against Oracle Team USA in the 35th America’s Cup. To date, Larry has signed a number of key people, including Russell Coutts, Jimmy Spithill, and Tom Slingsby, to be a part of his next campaign. Holding the Louis Vuitton Cup and the main event, the America’s Cup, in Hawaii is part of another of Larry’s long-standing dreams. In June 2012, he purchased the island of Lanai for $300 million.

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In June 2012, he purchased the island of Lanai for $300 million. It was a far-fetched fantasy he had had since he was in his twenties, when he first flew over one of Hawaii’s smallest inhabited islands in a Cessna 172 and was captivated by the thousands of acres of fragrant pineapple fields. Since becoming the owner of 98 percent of the 141-square-mile island, he has proposed or implemented an array of changes, from building an ultraluxury hotel on the pristine, white-sand beach facing Molokai and Maui to returning commercial agriculture to the clear-cut acres. He plans to endow a sustainability laboratory that will help make the island “the first economically viable one-hundred-percent-green community.”

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Larry had his routines, and he wasn’t changing the clothing he wore on race days. He wore a shirt by the Italian company Slam, which sponsored the team in 2007, a USA 76 vest from the 2003 campaign, and the team’s new Puma jacket with his name on the back. He had a black Team USA hat, a pair of five-year-old Maui Jim sunglasses, Adidas waterproof nylon pants, and Adidas black and white tennis shoes. Hygiene demanded that he change his socks and underwear daily, but that was it. He made sure none of his other clothes were taken away to be washed. Some race days he and his family stayed on Musashi, some days he drove himself to his Japanese home in Woodside.

Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion

Charles Lindbergh, Cornelius Vanderbilt, Donner party, Dr. Strangelove, East Village, Golden Gate Park, Haight Ashbury, Joan Didion, Khartoum Gordon, Mahatma Gandhi, Marshall McLuhan, Maui Hawaii, profit motive, sealed-bid auction

They talk about freeways on Oahu and condominiums on Maui and beer cans at the Sacred Falls and how much wiser it is to bypass Honolulu altogether in favor of going directly to Laurance Rockefeller’s Mauna Kea, on Hawaii. (In fact the notion that the only place to go in the Hawaiian Islands is somewhere on Maui or Kauai or Hawaii has by now filtered down to such wide acceptance that one can only suspect Honolulu to be due for a revival.) Or, if they are of a more visionary turn, they talk, in a kind of James Michener rhetoric, about how Hawaii is a multiracial paradise and a labor-management paradise and a progressive paradise in which the past is now reconciled with the future, where the I. L. WUs Jack Hall lunches at the Pacific Club and where that repository of everything old-line in Hawaii, the Bishop Estate, works hand in hand with Henry Kaiser to transform Koko Head into a $350 million development named Hawaii Kai.

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Look at those eyes.” And so, in the peculiar and still insular mythology of Hawaii, the dislocations of war became the promises of progress. Whether or not the promises have been fulfilled depends of course upon who is talking, as does whether or not progress is a virtue, but in any case it is war that is pivotal to the Hawaiian imagination, war that fills the mind, war that seems to hover over Honolulu like the rain clouds on Tantalus. Not very many people talk about that. They talk about freeways on Oahu and condominiums on Maui and beer cans at the Sacred Falls and how much wiser it is to bypass Honolulu altogether in favor of going directly to Laurance Rockefeller’s Mauna Kea, on Hawaii.

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Later, when the war was over, there was another Hawaii, a big rock candy mountain in the Pacific which presented itself to me in newspaper photographs of well-fed Lincoln-Mercury dealers relaxing beside an outrigger at the Royal Hawaiian Hotel or disembarking en famille from the Lurline, a Hawaii where older cousins might spend winter vacations learning to surfboard (for that is what it was called in those simpler days, surfboarding, and it was peculiar to Hawaii) and where godmothers might repair to rest and to learn all the lyrics to “My Little Grass Shack in Kealakekua Hawaii.” I do not remember how many nights I lay awake in bed and listened to someone downstairs singing “My Little Grass Shack in Kealakekua Hawaii,” but I do remember that I made no connection between that Hawaii and the Hawaii of December 7, 1941. And then, always, there was a third Hawaii, a place which seemed to have to do neither with war nor with vacationing godmothers but only with the past, and with loss.

Overdressed: The Shockingly High Cost of Cheap Fashion by Elizabeth L. Cline

big-box store, biodiversity loss, business cycle, clean water, East Village, export processing zone, feminist movement, high-speed rail, income inequality, informal economy, invention of the sewing machine, Maui Hawaii, McMansion, megacity, messenger bag, Multi Fibre Arrangement, race to the bottom, rolling blackouts, Skype, special economic zone, trade liberalization, Triangle Shirtwaist Factory, upwardly mobile, Veblen good

I had a few minutes to down a coffee from the corner deli before Michael “Maui” Noneza, one of the donation center’s assistant supervisors, bounced into the warehouse. “You ready?” the cheery Pacific Islander asked before ushering me over to a massive freight elevator and pressing the button for the third floor. The elevator jolted upward and the doors opened on a scene that looked a bit like a threadbare Santa’s workshop. Dozens of Hispanic women were standing behind a row of wooden slides, pulling clothes out of elephantine gray bins and separating them into broad categories such as jackets, pants, and children’s wear. “We keep only the best,” Maui told me.

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It’s hard to choose which shocking figure best sums up the environmental toll of today’s monstrous global fashion industry, but here’s a particularly compelling one: UK journalist Lucy Siegle found that the natural resources that go into fiber production every year now demand approximately 145 million tons of coal and somewhere between 1.5 trillion and 2 trillion gallons of water.9 Maui and I took the elevator back downstairs and walked into a dimly lit warehouse hidden away on the far side of the donation drop-off area. This room, Maui informed me, is where the “rag-out” ends up, the donated clothing that languishes on thrift-store racks without getting sold or is too threadbare and stained or out of season to sell in the first place. Garments that make it into the Salvation Army thrift stores have exactly one month to sell.

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It processes an average of five tons of outcast clothing every single day of the year and much more during the holiday season when donations spike. From that astonishing mass, the sorters choose exactly 11,200 garments a day to be divided up equally between the eight thrift stores they serve. I asked Maui if they’ve ever hit a dry spell, where the donations dipped too low to fully restock each store with their share of the 11,200 items. He laughed, “We never run out of clothes. There are always enough clothes.” What American doesn’t have something hanging in his or her closet worn only once or twice, a pair of pants waiting for a diet, or even a brand-new dress or jacket with the tags still on?

The Design and Engineering of Curiosity: How the Mars Rover Performs Its Job by Emily Lakdawalla

3D printing, active measures, centre right, data acquisition, Kuiper Belt, Mars Rover, Maui Hawaii, Teledyne

Presentation to the 3rd MSL Landing Site Selection Workshop, Monrovia, CA, USA, 15–17 Sep 2008 Watkins M and Steltzner A (2007) MSL landing site selection: Status of Engineering Capabilities and Constraints and Plan for Site Selection. Presentation to the 2nd MSL Landing Site Selection Workshop, Monrovia, CA, USA, 23–25 Oct 2007 Welch R et al (2013) Systems Engineering the Curiosity Rover: A Retrospective. Paper presented to the 8th International Conference on System of Systems Engineering, Maui, Hawaii, USA, 2–6 Jun 2013, DOI: 10.1109/SYSoSE.2013.6575245 Wiens R et al (2012) The ChemCam Instrument Suite on the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) Rover: Body Unit and Combined System Tests. Space Sci. Rev. 170:167–227, DOI: 10.1007/s11214-012-9902-4 Wiens R (2013) Red Rover. New York: Basic Books.

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FuseAction=​ShowNews&​NewsID=​1560 Status report dated 25 Nov 2013, accessed 15 Aug 2016 JPL (2014) Lesson learned: MSL sol-200 anomaly http://​llis.​nasa.​gov/​lesson/​11201 Article dated 29 Apr 2014, accessed 14 Oct 2015 Lakdawalla E (2014) Curiosity wheel damage: The problem and solutions. http://​www.​planetary.​org/​blogs/​emily-lakdawalla/​2014/​08190630-curiosity-wheel-damage.​html Article dated 30 Jun 2014, accessed 11 Jan 2017 Lakdawalla E (2015) Curiosity update, sols 978–1011: Into Marias Pass; ChemCam back in action; solar conjunction http://​www.​planetary.​org/​blogs/​emily-lakdawalla/​2015/​06101727-curiosity-update-sols-978-1011.​html Article dated 10 Jun 2015, accessed 30 Jan 2017 Lakdawalla E (2016) A new angle on Mars for Mars Odyssey. http://​www.​planetary.​org/​blogs/​emily-lakdawalla/​2016/​04190923-a-new-angle-on-mars-for-odyssey.​html Article dated 19 Apr 2016, retrieved 9 Jun 2016 Lee D (2012) The Mission Loads Environment and Structural Design of the Mars Science Laboratory Spacecraft. Presentation to University of California Irvine, 17 Feb 2012. Lee G and J Donaldson (2013) Dreaming on Mars: How Curiosity performs actuator warm-up while sleeping. Paper presented to the 8th International Conference on System of Systems Engineering, Maui, Hawaii, 2–6 Jun 2013 Makovsky A et al (2009) Mars Science Laboratory telecommunications system design. Article in Deep Space Communications and Navigation Systems Center of Excellence (DESCANSO) Design and Performance Summary Series Manning R and Simon W (2014) Mars Rover Curiosity: An Inside Account from Curiosity’s Chief Engineer.

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Paper presented at the 43rd International Conference on Environmental Systems, International Conference on Environmental Systems (ICES), Vail, Colorado, 14–18 Jul 2013 Voosen P (2016) Deep Space Network glitches worry scientists. Science DOI: 10.1126/science.aah7362 Welch R et al (2013) Systems Engineering the Curiosity Rover: A Retrospective. Paper presented at the 8th International Conference on System of Systems Engineering, Maui, Hawaii, 2–6 Jun 2013 Woerner D et al (2012) The Mars Science Laboratory’s MMRTG: A mission’s perspective. Presentation to AISS/ASME/SAE/ASEE 48th Joint Propulsion Conference & Exhibit and 10th International Energy Convers, Atlanta, Georgia, 29 Jul-Aug 1, 2012 Woerner D et al (2013) The Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) MMRTG in-flight: A power update.

Frommer's Irreverent Guide to Las Vegas by Mary Herczog, Jordan S. Simon

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Frommer's Denver, Boulder & Colorado Springs by Eric Peterson

airport security, Columbine, Easter island, Ford Model T, glass ceiling, life extension, machine readable, Maui Hawaii, Ronald Reagan, Skype, sustainable-tourism, transcontinental railway, upwardly mobile, young professional

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Frommer's Portable California Wine Country by Erika Lenkert

gentrification, Louis Pasteur, Maui Hawaii, place-making, sensible shoes, Silicon Valley, white picket fence

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The Narrow Corridor: States, Societies, and the Fate of Liberty by Daron Acemoglu, James A. Robinson

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The makaainanas were the ordinary people, the vast mass of society. The three proto-states in Hawaii at this time were in O‘ahu, Maui, and the “big island” of Hawaii itself ruled by chief Kalani‘ōpu‘u (see Map 6). Cook first visited the island of Kaua‘i, part of O‘ahu. He returned later in the year for more exploration and mapping with his two ships, the Discovery and the Resolution. He landed on Maui, then moved farther east and met Kalani‘ōpu‘u, who was then engaged in a battle to take control of Maui. Kalani‘ōpu‘u came aboard Cook’s ship with his nephew Kamehameha, one of the leaders of his army. Cook then set sail for Hawaii and anchored on the western side of the island.

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With Davis and Young in charge of his firearms, Kamehameha invaded Maui, and then successfully defended Hawaii against several attacks, in the process scoring a famous victory called “the red-mouthed gun,” a name used by the locals to express their awe at the fire and smoke that issued from the new gunpowder weapons. Kamehameha quickly established uncontested control over Hawaii. He then spent the next several years consolidating his rule and developing the institutions of his new state. In 1795 he sailed with Davis and Young and a giant war fleet, overwhelming Maui and finally capturing O‘ahu. The westernmost island of Kaua‘i, which had escaped capture thanks to rough seas and diseases stopping Kamehameha’s army, was at last subdued in 1810, completing the unification of all of Hawaii for the first time.

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Journal of Economic History 68, no. 4: 951–96. Kirch, Patrick V. (2010). How Chiefs Became Kings: Divine Kingship and the Rise of Archaic States in Ancient Hawai‘i. Berkeley: University of California Press. ——— (2012). A Shark Going Inland Is My Chief: The Island Civilization of Ancient Hawai‘i. Berkeley: University of California Press. Kirch, Patrick V., and Marshall D. Sahlins (1992). Anahulu: The Anthropology of History in the Kingdom of Hawaii. Vol. 1, Historical Ethnography. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Kitschelt, Herbert P. (2003). “Accounting for Postcommunist Regime Diversity: What Counts as a Good Cause?”

Devil's Teeth: A True Story of Obsession and Survival Among America's Great White Sharks by Susan Casey

Asilomar, Maui Hawaii, upwardly mobile, young professional, zero-sum game

And the sharks were booking, logging as many as sixty miles per day with purposeful efficiency. It was as though they were late for an appointment somewhere and hustling to keep it. A Rat Packer named Tipfin, tagged by Peter in October 2000 (and again in October 2001), was discovered to have cruised 2,300 miles to Hawaii in thirty-seven days. He remained near Maui for at least four months, and then turned around and returned to the Farallones in October. No one had any inkling that great white sharks were such globe-trotters. “It was like seeing owls leave the forests and head out over the open plains,” Scot said. Tipfin was the only tagged shark, however, who went that far west.

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This afternoon he’d mentioned it to Ron, who had nodded his approval and said, “I’ve thought about that.” Until that point I hadn’t realized that Ron surfed too, but of course it made perfect sense. Kevin didn’t say much, but he looked intrigued. He was also a surfer, and he knew exactly which wave Peter was talking about. They were both wearing Maui’s fishhooks around their necks, a Hawaiian symbol that signifies taking the shark as one’s amakua, or spirit animal. Peter leaned back in the banquette with his glass of wine. “I’ve been thinking about it for so long,” he said. “I don’t want someone else to come out here and do it. But I don’t want to rush it, either.

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Upon his graduation from college in 1979, Peter Pyle set out to prove him right. A twenty-year-old bird savant with big hair, a seventies-issue mustache, and a fresh zoology degree from Swarthmore, he hit the road with the express purpose of seeing as many birds as he could, from the jungly forests of Hawaii (where there were few birds, it turned out, but plenty of opportunities to make some cash tending marijuana plants), to Europe, and on to Asia. Along the way, Peter met another ornithologist who mentioned that the real bird action was taking place in Bolinas, California, under the auspices of a group called PRBO, the Point Reyes Bird Observatory.

Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic by Sam Quinones

1960s counterculture, Affordable Care Act / Obamacare, Albert Einstein, British Empire, call centre, centralized clearinghouse, correlation does not imply causation, crack epidemic, deindustrialization, do what you love, feminist movement, illegal immigration, mass immigration, Maui Hawaii, McMansion, obamacare, pill mill, TED Talk, zero-sum game

He didn’t use drugs, but he had something else the Xalisco Boys needed. He was bilingual. He was from Mexico but was raised in the San Fernando Valley. In Reseda he met many Xalisco immigrants. In 1995, he was seventeen when a new cell leader hired him to work in Maui, Hawaii. “None of them spoke English. That’s why I was important to them,” he said. “There were a lot of things they couldn’t do. When I got there, I helped them expand.” By then, Hawaii had two Xalisco cells: one owned by David Tejeda, the other by a man named Toño Raices, who was from the small rancho of El Malinal in the hills near Xalisco. Back in Xalisco, people say that Toño Raices aimed to be somebody in the drug world.

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Heroin Like Hamburgers Los Angeles, California One day in January 2000, a hundred federal agents and police officers from twenty-two cities gathered at the DEA office in Los Angeles. Paul “Rock” Stone came in from Portland. Jim Kuykendall came in from Albuquerque. Others came in from Hawaii, Denver, Utah, Phoenix, and elsewhere to discuss a tangle of investigations into black tar heroin traffickers across the United States. These investigations had once seemed separate things, as if heroin dealers had independently sprouted in Maui or Denver. But in 1999, DEA agents in Los Angeles had received information that a heroin dealer in San Diego was being supplied by a couple out of an apartment in the Panorama City district of the San Fernando Valley.

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Oscar Hernandez-Garcia got on a plane to Los Angeles. Hours later, a SWAT team hit their apartment. They found dope in the dishwasher and money in a container of baby formula. At the same time, federal agents and local cops swarmed into apartments in Cleveland and Columbus, in Salt Lake City and Phoenix, and Maui, Hawaii. In Portland that morning, 108 officers met at a cavernous conference room at a north Portland hotel to discuss how they would hit eighteen residences and another fifteen cars. Rock Stone stayed up most the night listening to Xalisco Boys wiretaps, fearing he would miss something. By then, he had tracked these Nayarits to twenty-seven cities in twenty-two states—a massive yet diffuse corporation of drugs designed to resemble a motley collection of street dealers, and unlike any narcotics network he had ever known.

Cold Hands by John J. Niven

centre right, Firefox, gentrification, hiring and firing, Mason jar, Maui Hawaii

For many years after I moved out here I thought club soda was a special non-alcoholic cocktail unique to the bar or ‘club’ you were in. Like the ‘house’ soda.) This was very much Sammy’s environment. In the last few years, ostensibly to help with her mother’s arthritis but, I thought, really, simply to enjoy their wealth, Sammy’s parents had begun decamping to Hawaii around the middle of every December, to a suite in the Ritz-Carlton on Maui, overlooking pineapple fields and the sea. They stayed there until the beginning of March, missing the absolute worst of the Canadian winter. We usually flew out a few days before Christmas and spent a fortnight with them, coming home right after New Year’s. Old Sam had taken to throwing a big Christmas party at the house before they went and now the occasion was set in stone.

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The doorknob was turning. I looked up, breathing hard, my eyes bulging, and saw Old Sam in the doorway, a pistol in one hand. His jaw dropping as he saw us. ‘Jesus Christ,’ he whispered. (Later, much later, I would find out about the private Gulfstream G650 he’d managed to charter from a film producer on Maui. The new Gulfstream, the only one on the island, with an operating range of 7,000 nautical miles, capable of getting all the way from the middle of the Pacific to Canada without refuelling in just over eight hours. The helicopter pilot who was paid a staggering sum to bring them out here through the storm.

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All these words, ripping me to pieces. ‘Victim?’ I manage to whisper. ‘I’m afraid so, yes. It appears your wife was murdered.’ Now I felt tears and racking sobs trying to fight their way up, hearing myself saying ‘Oh Sammy, oh no’, as my eyes landed on a Lucite-framed photograph on the coffee table; the three of us in Hawaii a couple of Christmases ago, on the beach, Sammy drying Walt with a big beige towel. Uselessly I remembered that afternoon; a long wait for appetisers in a restaurant. An argument about parking. Walt’s life as he knew it – over. ‘Mr Miller, I’m afraid we . . .’ Danko was saying. I knew what he was going to ask me next.

Billion Dollar Loser: The Epic Rise and Spectacular Fall of Adam Neumann and WeWork by Reeves Wiedeman

Adam Neumann (WeWork), Airbnb, asset light, barriers to entry, Black Lives Matter, Blitzscaling, Burning Man, call centre, carbon footprint, company town, coronavirus, corporate governance, COVID-19, cryptocurrency, digital nomad, do what you love, Donald Trump, driverless car, dumpster diving, East Village, eat what you kill, Elon Musk, Erlich Bachman, fake news, fear of failure, Gavin Belson, Gordon Gekko, housing crisis, index fund, Jeff Bezos, low interest rates, Lyft, Marc Benioff, margin call, Mark Zuckerberg, Masayoshi Son, Maui Hawaii, medical residency, Menlo Park, microapartment, mortgage debt, Network effects, new economy, prosperity theology / prosperity gospel / gospel of success, reality distortion field, ride hailing / ride sharing, Salesforce, Sand Hill Road, sharing economy, Sheryl Sandberg, Silicon Valley, Silicon Valley startup, Skype, Snapchat, SoftBank, software as a service, sovereign wealth fund, starchitect, stealth mode startup, Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, subscription business, TechCrunch disrupt, the High Line, Tim Cook: Apple, too big to fail, Travis Kalanick, Uber for X, uber lyft, Vision Fund, WeWork, zero-sum game

He waited a day to call Berrent and Minson, to let them enjoy the holiday before sharing the disappointment. (Miguel, who was barely involved in the negotiations, was vacationing in New Zealand.) Adam was calm when he spoke to his deputies, and seemed to still believe he had a chance of winning his benefactor over. With Masa in Hawaii, everyone held out hope that maybe Adam could work his charm one last time. On December 26, Adam flew to Maui for breakfast with Masa. SoftBank was already so deeply invested in WeWork that it made no sense for Masa to bail entirely on Adam. Both parties needed to save face. The $20 billion was off the table, but Masa agreed to invest an additional $2 billion.

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Markets around the world were wracked by volatility as America’s trade war with China dragged on, and stocks fell at a rate not seen since 2008. By late December, SoftBank stock itself was down more than a third since the summer, when Fortitude was just a vision in Masa’s and Adam’s heads. On Christmas Eve, Masa called Adam from Maui, three islands to the east, where he was spending his holiday. Fortitude was dead, Masa said. The market crash had scared off potential investment partners and a deal of this size was simply too risky. Several financial institutions had placed margin calls on Masa’s personal holdings after the dip in SoftBank’s stock.

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No one could compete with SoftBank to invest billions into WeWork, which meant that the $47 billion valuation—three times what Hony Capital and others had invested at in 2016—was more or less an agreement between Adam and Masa alone. The details behind WeWork’s latest valuation were even murkier. Of the $2 billion Masa had agreed to invest in Maui, half was marked at the $47 billion figure, while the other half went toward buying out existing shareholders at a much lower price: $23 billion, only a slight increase over the price SoftBank paid in 2017. When the deal terms were finalized, some WeWork executives thought it would be prudent to publicize the lower figure, or perhaps a “blended valuation” between the two.

The Rise of Superman: Decoding the Science of Ultimate Human Performance by Steven Kotler

Abraham Maslow, adjacent possible, Albert Einstein, Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic, Clayton Christensen, data acquisition, delayed gratification, deliberate practice, do what you love, escalation ladder, fear of failure, Google Earth, haute couture, impulse control, Isaac Newton, Jeff Bezos, Jeff Hawkins, jimmy wales, Kevin Kelly, Lao Tzu, lateral thinking, life extension, lifelogging, low earth orbit, Maui Hawaii, pattern recognition, Ray Kurzweil, risk tolerance, rolodex, selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI), Sheryl Sandberg, Silicon Valley, SimCity, SpaceShipOne, Stanford marshmallow experiment, Steve Jobs, TED Talk, time dilation, Virgin Galactic, Walter Mischel, X Prize

Yet if we want to flow from cycle to cycle, we need to take full advantage of recovery to regroup and recharge. In short, on this path, you have to go slow to go fast. Equally important, as we’ll see in the next section, sometimes you don’t just have to go slow to go fast—sometimes you have to go sideways. LATERALIZATION Ian Walsh was born May 10, 1983, on Maui, Hawaii, and started surfing not long after he could walk. Blessed by geography and timing, Walsh grew up down the block from Jaws, the big-wave mecca of the tow-surf movement. As he was hitting puberty, the movement was hitting its stride. Forty-foot waves, fifty-foot waves, sixty-foot waves—Walsh had a front-row seat.

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So while the implicit system is capable of high-speed pattern recognition—which helped him realize what was happening a little sooner—it took more than just that to survive. He still had to have a creative insight no one had ever had before and pull off a difficult move that no one had ever attempted before—which, as it turns out, is par for the course for Laird Hamilton. SUDDEN DEATH OR SUDDEN INSIGHT Off the shores of northern Maui, beyond the sugarcane fields and the muddy roads and the tall cliffs, lies a reef break known as Jaws. It too is a terrifying colossus, long considered an impossible. For more than fifty years, surfers have been staring at this spot—it’s hard not to. When powerful northern Pacific storms blast down from the Aleutian Islands, the results travel thousands of miles unhindered, only to run smack into a fan-shaped reef.

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Harvard Business School professor Teresa Amabile: Teresa Amabile, Sigal Barsade, Jennifer Mueller, Barry Straw, “Affect and Creativity at Work,” Administrative Science Quarterly, 2005. Vol. 50, pp. 367–403. 41 “Everybody who has ever spent any time in flow”: Chris Miller, AI, June 2012. an interview with Bon Hawaii: “An Interview with Laird Hamilton, Dave Kalama, and Don King,” Bon Hawaii, April 27, 2008. Check it out: http://www.bonhawaii.com/interview-laird-hamilton-dave-kalama-don-king. 3. THE WHERE OF FLOW 42 On the list of the world’s most dangerous climbs: See: http://matadornetwork.com/trips/11-most-dangerous-mountains-in-the-world-for-climbers, or http://opishposh.com/10-hardest-mountains-to-climb, or http://smashinghub.com/20-most-dangerous-mountains-peaks-in-the-world.htm.

Behind the cloud: the untold story of how Salesforce.com went from idea to billion-dollar company--and revolutionized an industry by Marc Benioff, Carlye Adler

"World Economic Forum" Davos, Albert Einstein, An Inconvenient Truth, Apple's 1984 Super Bowl advert, barriers to entry, Bay Area Rapid Transit, business continuity plan, call centre, carbon footprint, Clayton Christensen, cloud computing, corporate social responsibility, crowdsourcing, digital divide, iterative process, Larry Ellison, Marc Benioff, Maui Hawaii, Nicholas Carr, platform as a service, Salesforce, San Francisco homelessness, Silicon Valley, SoftBank, software as a service, Steve Ballmer, Steve Jobs, subscription business

Take, for example, what happened when one of our sales account executives, Scott Ebersole, was invited on the Hawaii trip awarded to the top salespeople. Scott and his wife, Wendi, left for the trip a few days early, and shortly after they arrived in Maui, Wendi, who was pregnant with twins, was rushed to the hospital, where she underwent surgery. She spent the next two weeks in critical condition, and a week later gave birth to Bryce and Kendall, each baby weighing only two pounds. Scott needed a way to be with his family for the many weeks they’d be in Hawaii, but he also wanted to be able to work. We set him up to work remotely, but there were additional expenses—a rental apartment, a car, and food—so we also covered them.

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When asked about their best year, salespeople rarely point to the year in which their W-2 was the highest; they point to a year in which they were challenged and recognized, and had fun. That’s why we reward any salesperson who makes 100 percent of his or her quota (and a partner or friend) with a fantastic experience—a three-day trip to Maui. Typically, 60 to 65 percent of our account executives qualify for this trip. Most companies reward only the top 10 to 20 percent of their sales reps, but that strategy doesn’t yield a very high return. Morale for the top people is sky high, but it is brutally low for the 80 to 90 percent of people who are not recognized.

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I knew that I needed a change, but I wasn’t sure what I wanted to do. Quit? Start a company? Take Oracle in a different direction? I was searching for balance in my life as well as an opportunity to pursue something meaningful. I took a badly needed sabbatical from work and rented a hut on the Big Island 1 BEHIND THE CLOUD of Hawaii, where I enjoyed swimming with dolphins in the ocean and having enough time by myself to really think about the future. My friends, including Oracle colleagues, came to visit. We had long talks about what the future would look like and what we wanted to do. Katrina and Terry Garnett were among those who spent time with me.

Countdown to Pearl Harbor: The Twelve Days to the Attack by Steve Twomey

British Empire, index card, Internet Archive, Maui Hawaii, off-the-grid, South China Sea

While conceding that most Japanese in the islands were American citizens, Callender argued they were “under the influence” of Japan’s consulate in Honolulu, and “some make journeys to Japan.” Who knew what weapons these hordes of Japanese had hidden in the interior of Oahu or Maui or the Big Island? “There are great areas in the islands that are mountainous and rugged and practically inaccessible, in which the average person never goes,” General Martin felt. “Those are wonderful opportunities for caches of explosives, incendiary equipment, everything of that nature.” Short told Washington during the summer that he had begun a “counter propaganda campaign” to promote loyalty and tranquility among the local Japanese.

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None had been fully formed and authorized, and even if one had been, its details would not have been passed along to a spy who stood a good chance of being stopped by the FBI and queried about his evident fascination with military airfields, potential landing beaches, and, of course, Pearl. He inspected all the larger Hawaiian islands—Kauai, Maui, the Big Island. On Oahu, if he did not call a taxi, he would often summon Richard Kotoshirodo, a clerk at the consulate who had a 1937 Ford and was fond of Hawaiian shirts. Kotoshirodo was one of the few consulate workers with an excellent idea of what Yoshikawa had really come to do. He and the spy had been instructed never to ask Hawaiians about a specific place of interest, never to leave the highway to look at one, never to use a camera to photograph one, and to bring basic tourist maps, not the topographical kind.

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As Bratton left Marshall’s office with the new warning and headed to the army’s dispatch center, a general told him that if there was any question about which destination—Panama, Hawaii, or the Philippines—should have priority, it was the Philippines. Dropping off the message, Bratton checked his watch. It was 11:58. Only later, too late, did he learn that the War Department’s radio link to Honolulu, and on to Manila, had been disrupted all morning by atmospheric interference. Marshall’s message had to go via Western Union. Neither commander in Hawaii would get it during peacetime. It was roughly 5:00 a.m. in Hawaii when Stark first learned of the time of delivery. If he had been as immediately concerned as nearly everyone else, the navy might have gotten a message through to the Pacific outposts.

Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days by Jessica Livingston

"World Economic Forum" Davos, 8-hour work day, Aaron Swartz, affirmative action, AltaVista, Apple II, Apple Newton, Bear Stearns, Boeing 747, Brewster Kahle, business cycle, business process, Byte Shop, Compatible Time-Sharing System, Danny Hillis, David Heinemeier Hansson, digital rights, don't be evil, eat what you kill, fake news, fear of failure, financial independence, Firefox, full text search, game design, General Magic , Googley, Hacker News, HyperCard, illegal immigration, Internet Archive, Jeff Bezos, Joi Ito, Justin.tv, Larry Wall, Maui Hawaii, Max Levchin, Menlo Park, Mitch Kapor, Multics, nuclear winter, PalmPilot, Paul Buchheit, Paul Graham, Peter Thiel, proprietary trading, Richard Feynman, Robert Metcalfe, Ruby on Rails, Sam Altman, Sand Hill Road, side project, Silicon Valley, slashdot, social software, software patent, South of Market, San Francisco, Startup school, stealth mode startup, Steve Ballmer, Steve Jobs, Steve Jurvetson, Steve Wozniak, The Soul of a New Machine, web application, Y Combinator

But if you actually do the math, you realize that you can work through the backlog (it took us a couple of years, but it was only a couple of years) and then can stay current with what’s being published without too much of an effort. We take half an hour to read an article, on average, and we’ll tag that article as being relevant to everything the article talks about. If the article is about Maui and things to do in Hawaii and these two resorts, whenever you’re searching for Maui or things to do in Hawaii or those two resorts, that article will come up. If that article happened to mention, “The beaches in Maui are much better than the beaches in Fort Lauderdale,” and you were to search on the beaches in Fort Lauderdale, that article is not going to come up, because our search isn’t keyword-based.

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What we ended up with was a much smaller database as measured by the number of documents that we’d indexed, but extremely, extremely relevant. You go to a page about Maui, and every article on that page really is about Maui, sorted to a pretty good degree based upon which article most people would rather read first. Would you rather read an article that has a paragraph about Maui in talking about fun beaches around the world, or an article all about beaches in Maui? Probably the latter, so that’s why the article is sorted first. Your experience on TripAdvisor—again, this was initially, when we launched the site—was very fulfilling, because the information we found was always spot-on.

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Livingston: But you still kept enough stock for yourself to buy a house, right? Wozniak: The money I got from Apple employees, I used to buy a house. It was kind of an early state to be selling out 15 percent of your stock, but hey, that was a great opportunity for me. When I designed the Apple stuff, I never thought in my life I would have enough money to fly to Hawaii or make a down payment on a house. So it was huge deal for me. Steve Wozniak 59 Steve Jobs (left) and Steve Wozniak (right) in 1975 with a blue box Photo by Margret Wozniak C H A P T 4 E R Joe Kraus Cofounder, Excite Joe Kraus started Excite (originally called Architext) in 1993 with five Stanford classmates.

The Bohemians: Mark Twain and the San Francisco Writers Who Reinvented American Literature by Ben Tarnoff

California gold rush, interchangeable parts, Kickstarter, mass immigration, Maui Hawaii, new economy, New Journalism, plutocrats, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ronald Reagan, South of Market, San Francisco, South Sea Bubble, Suez canal 1869, transcontinental railway, traveling salesman

“I am tired being a beggar,” he wrote his brother, “tired being chained to this accursed homeless desert.” In Hawaii he hoped to find a new world to explore, and the chance to capitalize on his recent triumph. In his four months in Hawaii he wrote twenty-five letters for the Union, watched a volcano erupt, saw native girls skinny-dip in the sea, ate horrifying amounts of tropical fruit, and tried and failed to surf. The contrast with San Francisco exhilarated him: here he walked on coral, not cobblestone, and smelled jasmine and oleander instead of offal and sewage. Like Stoddard, he found the balmy, beautiful setting deeply relaxing: during five weeks in Maui, he took a much-needed holiday.

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“Why do you waste your time among these people?” he remembered Harte saying. “They encourage you in idleness when you should be hard at work.” Yet the harder he applied himself, the more his mind resisted. It fled to other places, like Hawaii, and the memory of the naked native boys he had found there four years earlier. He longed to return, and when the opportunity arose, he seized it. His sister had recently married a rich American in Maui, and they invited him to visit. He finagled a traveling commission from the San Francisco Evening Bulletin to pay his way, and set sail in October 1868 for eight indulgent months in the islands. His friends hated to see him go.

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Long trips to faraway places were thought to be therapeutic. So in August 1864, Stoddard set sail for the Sandwich Islands, as Hawaii was then known. His parents had friends in Honolulu, and Stoddard felt deliriously grateful to be going. Ever since seeing Nicaragua as an eleven-year-old boy, crossing the isthmus on his way to California, he had longed to return to the tropics. His daydreams were populated by monkeys and parrots, mango trees and coconut palms. The journey to Hawaii would do more than just reunite him with this landscape; it would alter “the whole current” of his life, he later said. In the farther frontier of the Pacific Islands, he found a way to live without wanting to die

The Best Business Writing 2013 by Dean Starkman

Alvin Toffler, Asperger Syndrome, bank run, Basel III, Bear Stearns, call centre, carbon tax, clean water, cloud computing, collateralized debt obligation, Columbine, computer vision, Credit Default Swap, credit default swaps / collateralized debt obligations, crowdsourcing, Erik Brynjolfsson, eurozone crisis, Evgeny Morozov, Exxon Valdez, Eyjafjallajökull, factory automation, fixed income, fulfillment center, full employment, Future Shock, gamification, Goldman Sachs: Vampire Squid, hiring and firing, hydraulic fracturing, Ida Tarbell, income inequality, jimmy wales, job automation, John Markoff, junk bonds, Kickstarter, late fees, London Whale, low interest rates, low skilled workers, Mahatma Gandhi, market clearing, Maui Hawaii, Menlo Park, Occupy movement, oil shale / tar sands, One Laptop per Child (OLPC), Parag Khanna, Pareto efficiency, price stability, proprietary trading, Ray Kurzweil, San Francisco homelessness, Silicon Valley, Skype, sovereign wealth fund, stakhanovite, Stanford prison experiment, Steve Jobs, Stuxnet, synthetic biology, tail risk, technological determinism, the payments system, too big to fail, Vanguard fund, wage slave, warehouse automation, warehouse robotics, Y2K, zero-sum game

This grandmother’s story—outrageous and complex—is our story, the American foreclosure story. Living the American Dream Born Sheila Ferguson, Ramos was one of seven children. The family lived in the small town of Haiku on the island of Maui, where her father did maintenance work at state parks. At seventeen, she married a man she’d met in high school, dropped out of school, and had two sons but divorced when she was just nineteen. She kept his surname, Ramos, but wanted a new life. Maui suddenly seemed small and confining, and she wanted “to get off the rock,” as she puts it. So she took her two sons, aged two and three, and left for Alaska. She lived in Anchorage for three decades, building a life with her current partner, David Backus.

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Gajwani, twenty-seven and outgoing, had recently been promoted to supervisor of the company’s digital businesses. He had met Trishla at Stanford, where he studied mathematical and computational sciences; his parents are from India, but he was born and raised in Miami. In 2007, as graduation neared, the couple planned to move to New York. After graduation, Samir took them to Maui for a week’s vacation and talked to Gajwani about the family business. The couple moved into an apartment in the West Village. Trishla got a master’s degree at Teachers College, and Gajwani went to work as an equity trader at Lehman Brothers. “He kept pitching me to move to India,” Gajwani said. In December 2008, the couple moved into the Jain house in New Delhi.

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There wasn’t one. There was only a tent. They had flown from Florida, after Ramos had fallen hopelessly behind on the mortgage for her three-bedroom home, to this family-owned patch of rural land on Hawaii’s Big Island. There, on a July night in 2009, they pitched a tent and, with no electricity, started a new life. If Ramos were in her twenties, living off the land might be a marvelous adventure. Hawaii is beautiful, and the weather is mild. In the nearly three years since she moved here, her family has built a semipermanent tent encampment, and they now have electricity. But it’s not how this fifty-eight-year-old grandmother, who has custody of her three grandchildren, imagined spending her retirement after working for more than thirty years—nine running her own businesses.

Thank You for Being Late: An Optimist's Guide to Thriving in the Age of Accelerations by Thomas L. Friedman

3D printing, additive manufacturing, affirmative action, Airbnb, AltaVista, Amazon Web Services, Anthropocene, Apple Newton, autonomous vehicles, Ayatollah Khomeini, barriers to entry, Berlin Wall, Bernie Sanders, Big Tech, biodiversity loss, bitcoin, blockchain, Bob Noyce, business cycle, business process, call centre, carbon tax, centre right, Chris Wanstrath, Clayton Christensen, clean tech, clean water, cloud computing, cognitive load, corporate social responsibility, creative destruction, CRISPR, crowdsourcing, data science, David Brooks, deep learning, demand response, demographic dividend, demographic transition, Deng Xiaoping, digital divide, disinformation, Donald Trump, dual-use technology, end-to-end encryption, Erik Brynjolfsson, fail fast, failed state, Fairchild Semiconductor, Fall of the Berlin Wall, Ferguson, Missouri, first square of the chessboard / second half of the chessboard, Flash crash, fulfillment center, game design, gig economy, global pandemic, global supply chain, Great Leap Forward, illegal immigration, immigration reform, income inequality, indoor plumbing, intangible asset, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), Internet of things, invention of the steam engine, inventory management, Irwin Jacobs: Qualcomm, Jeff Bezos, job automation, John Markoff, John von Neumann, Khan Academy, Kickstarter, knowledge economy, knowledge worker, land tenure, linear programming, Live Aid, low interest rates, low skilled workers, Lyft, Marc Andreessen, Mark Zuckerberg, mass immigration, Maui Hawaii, Menlo Park, Mikhail Gorbachev, mutually assured destruction, Neil Armstrong, Nelson Mandela, ocean acidification, PalmPilot, pattern recognition, planetary scale, power law, pull request, Ralph Waldo Emerson, ransomware, Ray Kurzweil, Richard Florida, ride hailing / ride sharing, Robert Gordon, Ronald Reagan, Salesforce, Second Machine Age, self-driving car, shareholder value, sharing economy, Silicon Valley, Skype, smart cities, Solyndra, South China Sea, Steve Jobs, subscription business, supercomputer in your pocket, synthetic biology, systems thinking, TaskRabbit, tech worker, TED Talk, The Rise and Fall of American Growth, Thomas L Friedman, Tony Fadell, transaction costs, Transnistria, uber lyft, undersea cable, urban decay, urban planning, Watson beat the top human players on Jeopardy!, WikiLeaks, women in the workforce, Y2K, Yogi Berra, zero-sum game

Qualcomm later created the first mobile telephone–based app store, called Brew, which was marketed by Verizon in 2001. Paul Jacobs recalls the exact moment when he knew a revolution was about to happen. It was Christmas 1998 and he was sitting on the beach in Maui. “I took out a prototype of the pdQ 1900 they had sent me and I typed in ‘Maui sushi’ into the AltaVista search engine. I was wirelessly connected using Sprint. Up came a sushi restaurant in Maui. I don’t remember the name of the restaurant, but it was good sushi! I knew viscerally right then that what I had theorized—having a phone with the connectivity of a Palm organizer connected to the Internet—would change everything.

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I knew viscerally right then that what I had theorized—having a phone with the connectivity of a Palm organizer connected to the Internet—would change everything. The day of the disconnected PDA was over. I searched for something I cared about that had nothing to do with technology. Today it seems obvious, but back then it was a novel experience—that you could sit on the beach in Maui and find the best sushi.” Paul Jacobs doesn’t mince words: “We made the smartphone revolution.” But Jacobs is quick to add that they were ahead of their time—and behind it. The early device they created was rather clunky: it had none of the easy user interfaces and beautiful design that Steve Jobs’s Apple iPhone would eventually offer in 2007, and it came out before there was the Internet bandwidth to do many things.

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But over time the industry discovered novel ways of using chemicals and splicing the fiber cables to both increase capacity for voice and data and transmit a light signal that would never weaken. “That was a huge breakthrough,” explained Bucksbaum. “With all this internal amplification they could get rid of the electronic amplifier boxes and lay continuous end-to-end fiber-optic cables” from America to Hawaii or China to Africa or Los Angeles to Chattanooga. “That enabled even more nonlinear growth,” he said—not to mention the ability to stream movies into your home. It made broadband Internet possible. “Once you no longer had to break up the laser light signal to amplify it, the speed that you could transmit information was no longer limited by the properties and constraints of electricity but only by the properties of light,” he explained.

Skygods: The Fall of Pan Am by Robert Gandt

airline deregulation, Ayatollah Khomeini, Berlin Wall, Boeing 747, Carl Icahn, Charles Lindbergh, collective bargaining, flag carrier, hiring and firing, invisible hand, Maui Hawaii, RAND corporation, revenue passenger mile, Tenerife airport disaster, yield management, Yogi Berra, Yom Kippur War

It became a joke in the cockpits: by the end of the century, after all the weaklings in the business had succumbed to bankruptcy or hostile takeover, there would be only three airlines left in the United States: American, United, and the Financially Troubled Pan American. In the spring of 1974, an item appeared on the pilots’ bulletin board. Pan American director General Charles A. Lindbergh, 72, passed away at his home on Maui yesterday after a brief illness. General Lindbergh’s association with Pan American dated back to 1929, when he and Juan Trippe . . . Lindbergh. The Icon. He had seemed indestructible, exempted somehow from the calamities that visited everyday mortals. Now the world really was different. For the legion of Pan Am airmen, it was like losing their patron saint.

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In the spring of 1974, at the mandatory retirement age of seventy-two, Lindbergh did go home. For most of the board members, it was the last time they would see him. His malaise was diagnosed as cancer of the lymphatic system. It was terminal, he was told. He said he wanted to die in the house he and his wife, Anne Morrow Lindbergh, had built on Maui, overlooking the sea. In a United Airlines 747, on a specially rigged stretcher in the closed-off first-class compartment, Lindbergh made his last flight. He died on August 26, 1974. He was buried in a plain wood coffin. The death of Lindbergh seemed to match the rest of the news that year about Pan Am.

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His anxiety caused him to shout at copilots, issue orders and immediately countermand them. He infected his crews with his own anxiety. A number of copilots refused to fly with him. One day in 1938 Terletsky was flying the Martin M-130 Hawaii Clipper from Guam to Manila. Somewhere in mid-Pacific, in an area of towering cumulus buildups and torrential squalls, the flying boat vanished from the sky. No trace was ever found of the Hawaii Clipper. The press speculated about Japanese sabotage. The disappearance of Terletsky and the Hawaii Clipper came only a year after Amelia Earhart vanished in the same part of the world. It made for an appealing mystery. To the Pan American pilots, though, the real villain wasn’t the Japanese.

Sextant: A Young Man's Daring Sea Voyage and the Men Who ... by David Barrie

centre right, colonial exploitation, Easter island, Edmond Halley, Eratosthenes, Fellow of the Royal Society, GPS: selective availability, Isaac Newton, Johannes Kepler, John Harrison: Longitude, lone genius, Maui Hawaii, Neil Armstrong, Nicholas Carr, polynesian navigation, South China Sea, three-masted sailing ship, trade route

Modern research22 has shed a good deal of light on their methods and some of their long ocean passages have been replicated. In 1976, for example, a 65-foot double canoe named Hōkūle’a—the Star of Gladness in Hawaiian, or Arcturus—whose design was partly based on drawings of the old voyaging canoes left by Captain Cook, sailed safely from Maui to Tahiti in thirty-one days. She made the journey of 2,500 nautical miles, piloted by a Micronesian navigator named Piailug, who used no instruments of any kind.23 From a Western perspective, the most puzzling aspect of the Pacific islanders’ navigational methodology is their working assumption that the vessel in which they are sailing is at rest, while the sea and islands “flow” past them.

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Hilaire, Adolphe, 221–22, 224 Mariana Islands, 128, 129 marine chronometers, 68, 125, 226 mariner’s astrolabe, 28, 266 Marquesas Islands, 232 Martha’s Vineyard, 238 Martinique, 65 Maskelyne, Nevil and Green, 102 and location of Lizard Point, 268–69 and location of St. Helena, 82, 106 and the longitude problem, 75–80, 76n and lunar-distance method, 80–82, 81, 104, 126 Mason, Charles, 106 Maui, 263 Mauritius, 117, 121, 182–83, 211, 238 Mayer, Tobias, 73–74, 76–77, 79, 126 McMullen, Colin and arrival in England, 269 on the Azores, 271 background of, 5–7 on Battle of Jutland, 302n2 on Bligh, 36–37 and departure from Halifax, 12–13 and food on board Saecwen, 13, 17, 122 and message bottle, 218 military experience, 227, 301n1 and music on board Saecwen, 193 navigational skills, 15–16, 19–21, 70, 72, 137, 177, 219, 221–22, 225, 268 and North Atlantic weather, 57, 110–12, 122–23 and operation of sextant, 18–21 and preparations for Atlantic crossing, 8–9, 10, 11 and radio communication, 219n and routine at sea, 48–49, 239 and Saecwen’s chronometer, 68 and sailor’s songs, 33n and satellite navigation, 279 and watch schedule, 48, 85, 157 World War II experience, 45, 301n1 Mediterranean Sea, 86 Melville, Herman, 34–35 Mendaña, Álvaro de and Bougainville’s explorations, 121 and dangers at sea, xiii–xvi and dead reckoning, 34 errors in longitude estimates, 299n4 and mariner’s astrolabe, 266 and Port Famine, 196–97n and the Santa Cruz group, 134 meridian altitude (“mer alt”) and Alcyone’s crossing to Azores, 272, 274 and Bligh’s explorations, 41 diagram of, 19 and latitude sailing, 32 and line of equal altitude, 220 in Moby-Dick, 34–35 principle of, 19–21 and Saecwen’s Atlantic crossing, 137, 177 and the Shackleton expedition, 248 and Slocum’s circumnavigation, 221 Meteorological Office, 215–16 meteorology, 215–17 micrometers, 19–21, 30 Mid-Atlantic Ridge, 193 migrations, 23, 285 Milet-Mureau, Baron, 136 Milky Way (celestial), 16, 284 “Milky Way” (in Straits of Magellan), 207, 231 Miquelon, 11 Mirfak, 16, 137 missionaries, 95 Mitchell Library, 189n mobile phone technology, 224n Moby-Dick (Melville), 34–35 modern modes of travel, 270 monarch butterflies, 22–23 Mont St.

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Having called at the Cape of Good Hope to refresh their supplies, rate the chronometers, and undertake essential repairs, the two small ships crossed the Indian and Pacific oceans. After making stops in Australia, New Zealand, Tahiti, and Hawaii, they finally made their landfall on the coast of North America on April 17, 1792. Vancouver’s account illustrates the challenges then facing a navigator approaching a poorly charted coast after a long ocean passage. A month out from Hawaii, a single set of lunars taken on April 15 suggested that the Discovery was 232°56½' East of Greenwich; the chronometer, however, indicated a figure of 232°7¾', while DR gave 229°39': a maximum difference of almost 160 nautical miles.

Hope for Animals and Their World by Jane Goodall, Thane Maynard, Gail Hudson

carbon footprint, clean water, David Attenborough, Easter island, Google Earth, Maui Hawaii, Nelson Mandela, new economy, out of africa

Once four hundred acres was completely surrounded by a pig-proof fence, things improved, and during subsequent breeding seasons most goslings fledged. Since the early 1990s, the population has grown to about two thousand individuals living in the wild, with the number rising each breeding season. They are living on four islands—Kauai, Maui, Molokai, and Hawaii. The nene is doing best on Kauai where there is no established mongoose population and grassy, lowland habitat is more available. Although small-scale captive releases still occur on Maui and Molokai, the current strategy focuses on minimizing the threats to the wild populations. Now, Kathleen told me, they are experimenting with ways to keep out cats and mongooses using new fencing techniques.

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Hawaiian Goose or Nene (Branta sandvicensis) The Hawaiian goose, or nene to give it its local name, is Hawaii’s state bird. It got its name from the ne ne sound of its soft call. Scientists believe that it was once almost identical to the Canada goose, but after years of evolution the two species have diverged. The nene, with its long neck and black-and-cream markings, rarely swims. Its feet are only half webbed but have long toes suitable for climbing on the rocky lava flows of Hawaii. And since the nene evolved on a tropical island, with no need to escape either cold temperatures or predators, flying was less important for it than for the Canada goose—thus its wings are much weaker.

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By 1949, only thirty individuals remained in the wild. There were, however, other nene in captivity—some at the state endangered species facility at Pohakuloa, Hawaii, and some that had been sent to Slimbridge in the UK. Captive breeding began in these two sites for eventual return to the wild. Recently I had a long talk with Kathleen Misajon, who has been working with the nene since 1995. After finishing her degree, she applied for a three-month internship in Hawaii to continue working with the nene—and she is still there! Breeding the nene is not difficult, she told me, and since 1960 more than twenty-seven hundred have been raised and released.

Ultimate Sales Machine by Chet Holmes

book value, commoditize, Donald Trump, index card, Indoor air pollution, Maui Hawaii, telemarketer

We had a massage therapist in our booth giving complimentary neck and back massages and we had our lovely blond "nurse" walking around the show handing out "prescriptions for relaxation." People were told to bring the prescription to our booth for afree relaxing massage and a chance to win a relaxing trip to Maui. All they had to do was get the prescription signed by one ofthe "doctors." They came in droves and lined up for their massages. Because they had to get their "prescription" signed by one ofus to be entered into the Maui giveaway, we guaranteed ourselves an opportunity to talk to everyone. While they waited for their massage, we had time for substantive conversation. What happened was everyone was in a great mood when they came to our booth.

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The Seven Musts of Marketing 139 Rule 2: Drive Traffic Let's soup up the strategy even more. So one, we've got Hawaiian shirts. Two, we've got a backdrop of a Hawaiian beach scene at the booth with giant letters saying, "Win a free trip to Hawaii." Three, we are serving tropical drinks all day long. So now we're getting noticed, but let's go further. We want to "drive traffic." The free trip to Hawaii and the tropical drinks are designed to drive traffic. Rule 3: Capture Leads Now people get to the booth and, in order to enter the drawing, they need to give you a business card and fill out a quick little form that asks just a few qualifYing questions.

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Anyone could go to anyone else any time and a got-a-minute meeting would break out. My employees were in a reactive mode all day long. Although I had successfully grown each of my divisions by at least 100 percent within 12 to 15 months of taking them over, I was out of control and reacting 100 percent of the time. Even on vacation in Hawaii, I was receiving 15 faxes per day (this was before email became the newest time burner). Time Management Secrets of Billionaires 9 In contrast, when I had a meeting with Charlie Munger, I had to call his secretary and make an appointment. I had to have a strict agenda. I had to be on time and organized.

Frommer's Egypt by Matthew Carrington

airport security, bread and circuses, centre right, colonial rule, Easter island, Internet Archive, land tenure, low cost airline, Maui Hawaii, open economy, rent control, rolodex, Suez canal 1869, Suez crisis 1956, sustainable-tourism, trade route, urban planning, urban sprawl, walkable city, Yom Kippur War

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Frommer's Cuba by Claire Boobbyer

Albert Einstein, cuban missile crisis, Easter island, Ford Model T, haute couture, Maui Hawaii

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Ghost Fleet: A Novel of the Next World War by P. W. Singer, August Cole

3D printing, Admiral Zheng, air gap, augmented reality, British Empire, digital map, energy security, Firefox, glass ceiling, global reserve currency, Google Earth, Google Glasses, IFF: identification friend or foe, Just-in-time delivery, low earth orbit, Maui Hawaii, military-industrial complex, MITM: man-in-the-middle, new economy, old-boy network, operational security, RAND corporation, reserve currency, RFID, Silicon Valley, Silicon Valley startup, South China Sea, sovereign wealth fund, space junk, stealth mode startup, three-masted sailing ship, trade route, Virgin Galactic, Wall-E, We are Anonymous. We are Legion, WikiLeaks, zero day, zero-sum game

Chinese drones darted in and out of the smoke at low levels, and on the deck, along with fragments of Marine Corps helicopters, his squadron’s fighters lay scattered about like puzzle pieces. He scanned up and around the sky and confirmed what he’d feared: his was the only U.S. jet in the air. He started to check on the jet’s other systems. No sound came over his radios. The fighter’s GPS-coupled inertial navigation system was wrong, showing him as flying over Maui when he knew damn well this was Oahu. Electronically generated false targets flickered on the horizontal situation display and then disappeared. The plane, with its novel software systems and millions of lines of code, was designed to be its own copilot, capable of automation and interpretation never before possible in battle.

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The strikes began again, the locomotives rushing by every six seconds like clockwork, some directly overhead, some at a distance. Then the intervals between strikes began to shift, first to twelve seconds, then to eighteen. Conan panned her view and saw icons on neighboring islands starting to flash. Maui, then the Big Island, even Lanai. She’d been so focused on her own fight, she hadn’t known what was happening on the other islands. Duncan brought her attention back. “Time for the seaside fireworks.” He pointed off to the coast just as a flash of light about five miles away rose from the ocean and streaked into the clouds.

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Pietrucha, “The Next Lightweight Fighter,” Air and Space Power Journal (July/August 2013), accessed August 14, 2014, http://www.airpower.maxwell.af.mil/apjinternational/apj-s/2014/2014-2/2014_2_02_pietrucha_s_eng.pdf. 330 the valley of death: “Several Factors Have Led to a Decline in Partnerships at DOE’s Laboratories,” Government Accountability Office, April 19, 2002, accessed August 25, 2014, http://www.gao.gov/products/GAO-02-465. 330 the agency’s trusted-foundry program: “Leading Edge Access Program (LEAP),” DARPA, accessed August 25, 2014, http://www.darpa.mil/Our_Work/MTO/Programs/Leading_Edge_Access_Program_%28LEAP%29.aspx. 330 the main U.S. Army Air Corps base at Wheeler airfield: “Wheeler Field,” Hawaii Aviation, accessed November 5, 2014, http://hawaii.gov/hawaiiaviation/hawaii-airfields-airports/oahu-pre-world-war-ii/wheeler-field. 331 “The hell with that”: Patricia Sullivan, “Kenneth Taylor; Flew Against Pearl Harbor Raiders,” Washington Post, December 3, 2006, accessed August 25, 2014, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/02/AR2006120201162.html. 332 massive C-5 Galaxies: “C-5 A/B/C Galaxy and C-5M Super Galaxy,” U.S.

Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded by Simon Winchester

Alfred Russel Wallace, British Empire, cable laying ship, company town, Easter island, global village, God and Mammon, Isaac Newton, joint-stock company, lateral thinking, Marshall McLuhan, mass immigration, Maui Hawaii, seminal paper, South China Sea, spice trade, Suez canal 1869, trade route, undersea cable

Pele, the goddess of volcanoes, once lived in Kauai. But then she was attacked by her older sister Namakaokahai, the goddess of the sea. And so she fled, south-east, to Oahu. Namakaokahai attacked again, and Pele moved south-east once more, to Maui. And then a third time, whereupon Pele moved yet again, this time to the Halemaumau Crater of Kilauea, on the summit of Hawaii itself. She had moved 300 miles south-eastwards, hopping from island to island, as one volcano after another exploded and died behind her. Like many legends, this old yarn has its basis in fact. The sea attacks volcanoes – the waters and the waves erode the fresh-laid rocks.

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.: Tectonic Evolution of Southeast Asia 52 Halmahera 61 Hambantota, Ceylon 279 Hamburg, Mr (ship passenger) 174 Hammersley Range, western Australia 264 Handl, Johann 360–61 Handl's Bay, Krakatoa Island 356 Hapsburgs 29n Harmonie club, Batavia 147, 153, 172, 202–3 Hastings-on-Hudson, New York 274 Hatfield, Oscar 152, 234 Haughton, Mr (in Ceylon) 287 Hawaii Island (Big Island) 102, 103, 104 Hawaiian Islands 102–5, 121, 306, 354n Heims, Father 159–60 Helen (a square-rigger) 59 Her Majesty K II submarine 89 Her Majesty K XIII submarine 89 Hermak, Baluchistan 190 Hess, Professor Harry 90, 91, 92, 97–100 ‘ History of Ocean Basins’ 98n Hesse, Elias 49–50, 135 Hevea brasiliensis (Brazilian rubber) 224, 225 Hibernia (converted cargo ship) 189 High Court, London 263n Himalayan Mountains 74, 112 Hinduism 128, 332 Holland 29n, 44 see also Dutch; Netherlands Hollandsche Thuyn (long-rangepacket) 48 Hollmann, Captain 158–9 Hollwood 113, 393, 394 Holtan community 132 Holtum, John (‘Cannonball King’) 205–6 Holy War (perang sabil) 336, 337, 340, 342 Homo erectus 116 Hondius, Henricus 25 Hong Kong 220, 278 Honolulu 289 Hooghly River 276 Hooker, Sir Joseph 62, 63 Hoorn, Zuider Zee 20, 33 Hope (a barque) 175 Hopkins, Gerard Manley 288 Hôtel des Indes, Batavia 206, 207, 208–9 hotspots 103, 104, 347n House of Orange 151 Houtman, Cornelis de 15–18 Houtman, Frederik de 15 Huaynaputina volcano, Peru 308 Hudson, USA 283 Hudson River School 283 Hudson's Bay Company 30 human sacrifice 303 humongous explosion 309, 312 Hurgronje, Snouck 41, 333–4 Hutton, James 69 Huxley, Sir Thomas 63 hydrochloric acid 243 ice cores 129, 131, 133, 296, 308n Iceland 82, 96, 306 Illustrated London News 155n Imperial Beacons & Coastal Lighting Service 170 India 11, 13, 22, 24, 40, 44, 55, 74, 112, 144, 191, 197, 276, 280, 325, 326, 331, 332 India Rubber, Gutta Percha & Telegraph Works Company 187–8, 197 Indian Mutiny 326n Indian Ocean 2, 21, 53, 114, 161n, 182, 182, 231, 261, 264, 278, 280, 285 indigo 330 Indo-Australian Plate 111, 115, 116 Indonesia (formerly Dutch East Indies) xiv, 63, 68, 116, 137, 145–6, 308, 309, 325, 331 independence 38, 342 International Date Line 112, 219n International Meridian Conference (Washington, DC, 1884) 219n Io 302 Iran 112, 331 Ireland 188, 196, 264 Irian 55, 61 iron oxide compounds 84, 85 Isla de Pascua 308 Islam Sumatra and Java Islamicized 17 rigid formalisms 32 local form of 40–41, 332–3 orthodox 40, 41 birth of 133 and the 1883 eruption 321 becomes entwined with local political developments 325 power of 325 upsurge in Islamic zealotry in the East Indies 325 stand against colonialism 327 number of Muslims in Indonesia 331 an imperial religion 331 collision with the West 331 first comes to the East Indies 331–2 the haj 332, 333 threatened by Western imperialism 334 fundamentalism 339 Isonandra gutta 187 Istanbul 378 Italy 22, 242 I wo Jima 384n ‘s Jacob, Governor-General Frederik 148–9, 149, 150–53, 169, 172, 201, 215 ‘s Jacob, Leonie 151 Jakarta History Museum, Java 46n Jakarta (previously Jayakarta and Batavia) 2, 21, 38, 126, 137, 373, 379 Jakarta Radio 9 James I, King 12 Jammersley Range, New Guinea 264 Japan 34n, 42, 44, 196, 244, 308, 309 Java 1, 2, 6, 7, 66, 78, 242 coffee 10, 141 spice-trading 10, 11, 31 first treaty with the Dutch 16 colonization 16 Islamicized 17, 40 mapping 22, 24 British colonial intentions 34 described 40–41 and slavery 44 volcanic 83 and the Java Trench 89 volcanically unstable 114–15 splits from Sumatra 126, 155 anti-Chinese riots 91998) 138 earthquakes 154 response to impending eruption (1883) 164 and gutta-percha 188 explosion sounds not heard by all 266 number of active volcanoes 309, 326 attacks by white-robed figure 323–4, 325, 337 First Military Region 324 Islam 325, 342 mysticism 327 Java Bode 162, 255 Java Head 155, 161n, 182, 220, 231, 379n Java Major 25, 25, 26 Java Man 116 Java Minor 22 Java Pars. 27 Java Sea 45, 172 Java Trench 89, 111, 114 Javasche Courant 153 Jayabaya 128 Jayakarta (later Batavia, then Jakarta) 34, 38 Jeffreys, Sir Harold 76, 304 jetstream 290 Jogjakarta, Java 2, 153 joint-stock companies 30 jökulhlaups 244 Judd, John 315–16 Volcanoes 315 Julius II, Pope 13n Jupiter 302 Jurassic period 96 Kaimeni 347 Kamchatka Peninsula 309 Kamula volcano, Java (Gede) 126 kangaroos 65, 65, 116, 137n ‘Kapi, Mount’ (in Ranggawarsita's history) 125, 126, 129 Karachi 190, 280 Karim, Haji Abdul 334–5, 337, 338, 339, 341 Kartodirdjo, Sartono: The Peasants' Revolt of Bantenin 1888 322 Katmai, Mount, Alaska 5 Kauai Island 102–3, 104 Kaula 102 Kavachi 384n Kedirie (ship) 299, 313 Keith, Brian 394 Kennedy, Henry George 235, 272 Kerala 44 Kerm-an, Teheran 190 Kertsch, Crimea 190 Ketimbang, Sumatra 156, 164–5, 167, 226–30, 233, 245, 251, 259 Kew weather observatory, Surrey 270 Keys, David: Catastrophe 132, 133, 134,395–6 Kilauea: Halemaumau Crater, Hawaii 1093 Kinematics, Inc. 376, 378, 386 King of the Netherlands, The (steam-yacht) 323 Kiribati, Republic of 100 kites 72 Kittery Island 102 Knossos, Crete 244 Koeripan River 256, 257, 258 Kokkulai, Ceylon 287 Kosrae Island, Pacific Micronesia 298 Kowalski, Bernard 394 Krakatoa archipelago 379 Krakatoa Committee, Royal Society 272–3, 275, 276, 286–7 Krakatoa, East of Java (film) 2, 394–5 Krakatoa Iron & Steel Works 340n Krakatoa Island present remains of 1–2 van Linschoten describes 25–6 first mentioned by its current name 27 derivation of the name 27–8 cultivation 120–21 lush coastal jungle 122, 354–5 Schuurmann describes 173 Ferzenaar visits (August 1883) 176–8 disappearance of 178, 237, 239, 240, 260, 300, 337, 338 surrounded by small faults and zones of weakness 320 purity after the 1883 eruption 355–6 repopulation of 356–66, 372 Krakatoa Islands xv Krakatoa Problem 364, 366 Krakatoa Time 219, 248, 275 Krakatoa Volcanic Observatory 375, 376, 389 Krakatoa volcano (general refernces) see also Danan cone; Perboewatan cone; Rakata cone and the Wallace Line 57, 64 notoriety 68, 116, 286, 393 number of eruptions 117–18 ruins compared with Anak Krakatoa 353, 354 Krakatoa volcano ( possible eruption of AD 416) 123–9, 133 Krakatoa volcano (the confusions of AD 416 or AD 535) 129–31 Krakatoa volcano (the likely eruption of AD 535) 123, 131–4 Krakatoa volcano (the near-certain eruption of 1680) 123, 134–9 Batavians and seamen unaware of potential danger 45–6 first recorded eruption 46, 47 Vogel's report 48–9 Hesse's report 49–50 Schley's painting 138–9, 140 Krakatoa volcano (before the certain eruption of 1883) 139–49 Krakatoa volcano (eruption of 27 August 1883) 4–5, 28, 123, 134, 209 the event 210–39, 240 the effects 241–61 the experiences 261–321 death statistics 5, 313 telegraphy 5, 7, 28n, 146, 167,184–7, 192–4, 215 undersea cables 5, 6, 184, 187, 189 lack of geological knowledge at the time 5–6 religious fears 6 and birth of global village 6–7 impact on climate 7 a Plinian eruption 12 and subduction zones 111 Banten flood destruction 127 warnings of forthcoming eruption 154–63 Perboewatan erupts 167–9, 175, 176, 180, 184–5, 193–4 excursions to visit 172–4 Danan erupts 176, 177 statistics of deaths and injuries 242 the sound of 262–8 progress of the shock waves 273–5, 313 art and 282–5 and temperature 293–6 floating bodies 296–300 existed above a large chamber of magma 318–19 burial of the dead 321, 322 rebuilding after 321, 323 political and religious consequence 321, 342–3 reluctance to settle near the volcano 379 Kramat 260 Kultuurstelsel (Cultivation System) 328–9, 333 Kurile Islands 309 Kurrachee 276 Kyoto 297 Labuan, Java 337 lahars (volcanic mud and water slurry) 243 Lakagígar (Hekla), Iceland 294 Lamongan 155 Lampong Bay 166, 216, 219, 228, 234, 247, 249, 250, 251 Lancaster, James 34 Lang Island, Krakatoa (previously Panjang, now Rakata Kecil) xv, 118n, 158n, 314, 318, 354 Laos 34n Lascar volcano, Chile 308 Laurasia 73, 74, 75 lava flows 369 Laysan Island 102 Le Havre 282 Leicestershire 57, 58 Lemuria 53n Liciala spinosa 355 Lincoln, President Abraham 196, 219n Lindeman, Captain T.H. 173, 174, 216, 219, 230 Linnean Society, Burlington House, Piccadilly, London 52–3, 54, 62, 64, 65 Linschoten, Jan Huyghen van 23–6, 26 Itinerario 24, 25 Lippincott Gazetteer 190n Lisbon 14, 15, 191 Lisianski Island 102 lithosphere 109–10, 302 Llaima volcano 308 Lloyd's of London 161, 168, 180–83, 186, 193, 232, 261 Committee 182, 197 Foreign Intelligence Office 193 Lochart, Nanette 208, 209 Locomotive 151 Lodewijcksz, Willem 25, 26 Logan, Captain William 223–4 Lombok Island 61, 66, 69 Lomu, Jonah 384n London 19, 179–80, 189, 190, 191, 196, 197, 270, 284 London Station 193 Londonderry 196 long waves 278, 279–80 Los Angeles 200 Luzon 24 Lyell, Sir Charles 62, 63, 69 Macassar, Celebes, Macasserese 31, 44, 265, 326 Macau 19 McColl, Mr (Lloyd's agent) 181, 259–60 mace (aril) 11, 18 MacKenzie, Captain 157, 161 McLuhan, Marshall 184, 198 Madagascar 16, 53 Madras 190, 191, 280 Madura 17 Magellan, Ferdinand 23 Magellan Strait 19 magma 84, 103, 104, 305, 315, 316,318–20 magnetic airborne detector (MAD) 93n magnetism and basalts 84, 85 moon's surface 100 remanent 91–2, 96, 97, 102 underwater 93–5 magnetite 84–5, 85, 92n magnetometers 93–6, 97, 101, 107 Magpie, HMS 265, 272 Mahdi 322, 335, 336, 337, 342 Malabar Coast 11 Malacca 11, 18, 22, 29, 34, 44 Malaku 61 see also Moluccas Malay Archipelago 59, 60, 190 Australian (eastern) end of 55, 64, 65 Indian (western) end of 55, 64, 65 Wallace's preferred term 59 Malay language 59 Malaya peninsula 22, 24, 29, 31, 40, 53, 190, 326, 331 Maldives 23 Malta 191 Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society 294 Manchus 157n Manhattan, New York City 295 Manila 196, 264 Manley, Reverend W.R. 288 maps 21–7, 26, 155 Mardijkers 44 Marie (Danish salt-carrying barque) 219–20, 230, 234, 246 Mars 302 Mason, Ron 93–5 Massachusetts Bay Company 30 Mataram sultan of 40 Matuyama, Motonari 96 Maui Island 103 Mauk 260 Maurice of Nassau, Prince 16n Mauritius 16n, 34n, 261, 263n, 270 Maan civilization 133 Mayon, Mount 266 Mecca 332–5, 336, 337, 342 Mecca's Plain of Arafat 333n Medea (British ship) 216, 231 Mediterranean 14, 23, 191 Mediterranean region 133 Mekong 24 Melbourne 270 Merak, Java 160, 222, 225, 238, 246, 249n, 250, 252–3, 259, 260, 337 Merapi, Mount 48, 155 Merbapu, Mount 48, 155 Mercator, Gerardus 71 Merchant Adventurers 30 Merchant Staplers 30 Meteorological Council 270 meteorology 70, 76, 275, 290.

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What is currently (but technically wrongly) thought of as the Hawaiian Islands is the 400-mile line of just nine bodies of rock and palm reaching from the outermost pinnacle of Kaula, via the north-westernmost (and still privately owned) island of Niihau, to that great chunk of basalt at the south-east called Hawaii, which is known by most non-Polynesian visitors as the Big Island. Hawaiian legend has long acknowledged what casual visitors may notice too: that the dusty, half-dead island of Niihau looks much wearier and older than the feisty, bubbling and fiery island of Hawaii. The dank black Waialeale swamp at the summit of Kauai – the wettest place on earth, the locals say – looks prehistoric; the fresh crags of Diamond Head on Oahu (the ‘diamonds’ being glittery and new-looking olivine crystals) look young.

When the Heavens Went on Sale: The Misfits and Geniuses Racing to Put Space Within Reach by Ashlee Vance

"Peter Beck" AND "Rocket Lab", 3D printing, Airbnb, autonomous vehicles, barriers to entry, Biosphere 2, bitcoin, Burning Man, Charles Lindbergh, cloud computing, Colonization of Mars, COVID-19, cryptocurrency, deepfake, disinformation, Elon Musk, Ernest Rutherford, fake it until you make it, Google Earth, hacker house, Hyperloop, intentional community, Iridium satellite, James Webb Space Telescope, Jeff Bezos, Kwajalein Atoll, lockdown, low earth orbit, Maui Hawaii, McMansion, Menlo Park, Mikhail Gorbachev, new economy, off-the-grid, overview effect, Peter Thiel, Planet Labs, private spaceflight, Rainbow Mansion, risk tolerance, Ronald Reagan, self-driving car, side project, Silicon Valley, Silicon Valley startup, skunkworks, SoftBank, South China Sea, South of Market, San Francisco, SpaceX Starlink, Stephen Hawking, Steve Jobs, Steve Jurvetson, Steve Wozniak, Strategic Defense Initiative, synthetic biology, tech billionaire, TikTok, Virgin Galactic

Despite his awkward performances, Beck won over some of the most influential shareholders with his life story, regaling people with tales of his inventions and his trip to the United States in which he had barged into aerospace firms’ offices unannounced. People in the audience took to his pluck and wiles. “There’s a spirit in him that reminded us of Māui, who is one of our demigods that helped found New Zealand,” Mackey said. “As Māori landowners, we could see Māui’s trickster spirit in Peter. He gets things done but in a mischievous way.” Soon, though, the task of winning over the Māhia residents fell to Shane Fleming, an American who had joined Rocket Lab in 2015. He spent about six weeks visiting homes and talking with various groups, hearing their concerns.

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Maybe they were minutes away from needing to look for new jobs. The conditions for this type of operation were comically less than ideal from the start. SpaceX had set up its rocket-launching facility on Kwajalein Atoll, a collection of a hundred islands hanging out together in the middle of the Pacific Ocean with Hawaii and Australia as their theoretical neighbors. The island specs barely edge out of the water, and they all come with the thick humidity, inescapable sunshine, and salty spray welcome during a tropical holiday but abhorred while doing manual labor and toiling with machinery. A couple members of the SpaceX team paid their first visit to Kwajalein in 2003, hoping to find a place where they could go about their wild rocketry experiments without too much interference.

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At Worden’s urging, DARPA decided to give SpaceX a contract to launch a small satellite on its behalf *—a gesture that both lent some prestige to the start-up and let DARPA keep an eye on its work. Over the next couple of years, the Defense Department tasked Worden with monitoring SpaceX’s operations on Kwajalein. Now and again, Worden would make the long trek from California to Hawaii and then to Kwajalein Island and Omelek and report back on what he observed. Much of SpaceX’s approach to rocket building appealed to Worden. He liked that the company had kept its team lean. He liked the energy of the employees and their ingenuity under difficult conditions. He was less impressed, however, with what he perceived as a general lack of rigor in their operations.

Alistair Cooke's America by Alistair Cooke

Albert Einstein, Alistair Cooke, British Empire, Charles Lindbergh, company town, Cornelius Vanderbilt, cotton gin, double entry bookkeeping, Ford Model T, full employment, Gunnar Myrdal, Hernando de Soto, imperial preference, interchangeable parts, joint-stock company, Maui Hawaii, Ralph Nader, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Spread Networks laid a new fibre optics cable between New York and Chicago, strikebreaker, The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith, transcontinental railway, Triangle Shirtwaist Factory, urban sprawl, wage slave, Works Progress Administration

And where more insulated from the madding world than a tiny chain of islands at the exact center of an ocean lapping four continents – Hawaii? Here, in the winter that George Washington and his ragged army fought to survive at Valley Forge, the first white man stepped ashore and was greeted by the natives as one of their four gods come down to earth. The promise of the tourist literature is that you, too, will feel like Captain Cook. For here are rain forests, and waterfalls, and Bougainville’s memento, the bougainvillea; and the dreamy bonus of beautiful, nubile maidens. Such a scene exists on the island of Maui. But half an hour’s flight from Maui is Honolulu, the capital of the fiftieth state.

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It is, Tocqueville succinctly observes, ‘more varied on its surface and better suited for the habitation of man.’ So, indeed, it is. Which is why the almost four million square miles of Canada house only twenty-one million people, and the three million square miles of the continuous land area of the United States (excluding the outposts of Alaska and Hawaii) support a population of over two hundred million. When Tocqueville goes on to describe the land mass of what is now the United States, he sees it very much as an astronaut does: Two long chains of mountains divide it from one extreme to the other: the Allegheny Ridge takes the form of the shores of the Atlantic Ocean; the other is parallel with the Pacific… the vast territory in between forms a single valley, one side of which descends gradually from the rounded summits of the Alleghenies, while the other rises in an uninterrupted course towards the tops of the Rocky Mountains.

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Government in these huge Mexican outposts barely existed except in California, and an ambitious man of any nationality could purchase a land grant and, with sufficient industry and panache, make himself the rough-and-ready lord of all he surveyed. Such a hopeful seigneur was Johann August Sutter, a roving soldier of fortune of Swiss parentage. After speculative pauses in Missouri and the beaver trade and the shipping business to Hawaii, he undertook to found and rule his own California colony. The Mexican governor gave him forty-nine thousand acres along the Sacramento River on the condition that he would turn it into an impregnable Mexican outpost. The Mexicans had been frightened by the arrival of the Russians in pursuit of the sea otter and by their fortified settlement north of San Francisco.

The botany of desire: a plant's-eye view of the world by Michael Pollan

back-to-the-land, clean water, David Attenborough, double entry bookkeeping, double helix, Francisco Pizarro, invention of agriculture, Joseph Schumpeter, mandatory minimum, Maui Hawaii, means of production, off-the-grid, paper trading, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Steven Pinker

One does not have to go all the way “back to the land” to experience the satisfaction of providing for yourself off the grid of the national economy. So, yes, I was curious to see if I could grow some “really amazing Maui” in my Connecticut garden. It seemed to me this would indeed represent a particularly impressive sort of alchemy. But as things turned out, my experiment in growing marijuana was of a piece with my experience smoking it, paranoid and stupid being the operative terms. • • • It was in the spring of 1982, I believe, that I sprouted a handful of the Maui seeds on a moistened paper towel; within days two of them had germinated. As soon as the weather warmed, I planted the seedlings outdoors, not in the garden proper but behind the falling-down barn back behind the house, in a mound of ancient cow manure I had inherited from the dairy farmer whose place this used to be.

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But I had just taken up gardening and was avid to try anything—the magic of a Bourbon rose or a beefsteak tomato seemed very much of a piece with the magic of a psychoactive plant. (I still feel this way.) So when my sister’s boyfriend asked if I might want to plant a few seeds he’d picked out of “some really amazing Maui,” I decided to give it a try—as much as anything, just to see if I could grow it. To another gardener, this will not seem odd, for we gardeners are like that: eager to try the improbable (if only to harvest a good story), to see if we can’t grow an artichoke in zone five or brew homemade echinacea tea from the roots of our purple coneflowers.

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Invariably these were the seeds of Cannabis sativa, an equatorial species poorly adapted to life in the northern latitudes. Sativa can’t withstand frost and, as I discovered, usually won’t set flowers north of the thirtieth parallel. Working with such seeds, growers found it difficult to produce a high-quality domestic crop (and especially sinsemilla) outside places such as California and Hawaii. The search was on for a type of marijuana that would flourish, and flower, farther north, and by the end of the decade, it had been found. American hippies traveling “the hashish trail” through Afghanistan returned with seeds of Cannabis indica, a stout, frost-tolerant species that had been grown for centuries by hashish producers in the mountains of central Asia.

Women Talk Money: Breaking the Taboo by Rebecca Walker

Affordable Care Act / Obamacare, anti-communist, back-to-the-land, BIPOC, Black Lives Matter, call centre, clean water, coronavirus, COVID-19, export processing zone, fake news, Ferguson, Missouri, financial independence, gentrification, George Floyd, global pandemic, high net worth, hockey-stick growth, hustle culture, impact investing, invisible hand, Jeff Bezos, job satisfaction, Kickstarter, Mark Zuckerberg, mass incarceration, Maui Hawaii, microaggression, neurotypical, obamacare, opioid epidemic / opioid crisis, Rana Plaza, Silicon Valley, Silicon Valley startup, TED Talk, unpaid internship, upwardly mobile, women in the workforce, working poor, Y Combinator

Lily is the author of the bestselling memoir-cookbook Kale & Caramel: Recipes for Body, Heart, and Table and coauthor of What’s Your Story? A Journal for Everyday Evolution. Her work has been featured in the New York Times, VICE, Healthyish, Women’s Review of Books, Refinery29, and more. She lives in Maui, Hawai’i, where she grew up, on occupied native Hawaiian land. THE FRASIER-JONESES Helena Frasier-Jones is a Caribbean writer of the African diaspora. She has worked in art galleries, cofounded a literary salon, and published interviews and articles in various magazines, on topics ranging from art and culture to ecological revolution.

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Even though we had not caused the economic crisis—not by a long shot—still, we asked ourselves what we had done wrong and what we could do to fix it. We took every gig we could get, pushed ourselves harder than ever, and contemplated our deepening fatigue. Is this the new normal? we wondered. And if it is, how will we survive it? Swept along with the crowd, child underfoot, and living on Maui where one bag of groceries might cost a hundred dollars, I tried hard to stay calm and carry on. I pitched projects and took on speaking gigs and writing assignments in far-flung places like Estonia and Bulgaria, grateful that my son’s father still cared for our son while I was gone. While I was privileged most of my life—private high school, Ivy League college, international travel, and the like—I wasn’t always, and, unlike many of my peers who were second- and third- and fourth-generation middle or upper-middle class, I felt the specter of poverty keenly.

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As journalist Diyora Shadijanova tweeted in the spring of 2021: at some point we have to recognise that the financial anxiety young people are living through is not normal. monetising all your hobbies is not normal. hustle culture is not normal. glorifying precarious work is not normal. self-optimisation is not normal. Watching sponsorship inquiries trickle to nothing, I moved my moneymaking endeavors away from social media. And I moved my home from California to the land where I grew up, on Maui, to live in a two-hundred-square-foot studio. Here, I am confronted daily with questions of what it means to be a white settler living (and making money) on occupied Native Hawaiian land, particularly during a global pandemic and financial crisis. What does it mean for me to be a coconspirator in ensuring wellness for all in this place, in this community?

Guns, germs, and steel: the fates of human societies by Jared M. Diamond

affirmative action, Atahualpa, British Empire, California gold rush, correlation does not imply causation, cotton gin, cuban missile crisis, discovery of the americas, Easter island, European colonialism, founder crops, Francisco Pizarro, Great Leap Forward, Hernando de Soto, invention of movable type, invention of the wheel, invention of writing, James Watt: steam engine, Maui Hawaii, QWERTY keyboard, the scientific method, trade route

The conquest and administration of this maritime proto-empire were achieved by navies of large canoes, each holding up to 150 men. Like Tonga, Hawaii became a political entity encompassing several populous islands, but one confined to a single archipelago because of its extreme isolation. At the time of Hawaii's “discovery” by Europeans in 1778, political unification had already taken place within each Hawaiian island, and some political fusion between islands had begun. The four largest islandsBig Island (Hawaii in the narrow sense), Maui, Oahu, and Kauairemained independent, controlling (or jockeying with each other for control of) the smaller islands (Lanai, Molokai, Kahoolawe, and Nii hau).

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The four largest islandsBig Island (Hawaii in the narrow sense), Maui, Oahu, and Kauairemained independent, controlling (or jockeying with each other for control of) the smaller islands (Lanai, Molokai, Kahoolawe, and Nii hau). After the arrival of Europeans, the Big Island's King Kamehameha I rapidly proceeded with the consolidation of the largest islands by purchas- ing European guns and ships to invade and conquer first Maui and then Oahu. Kamehameha thereupon prepared invasions of the last independent Hawaiian island, Kauai, whose chief finally reached a negotiated settle- ment with him, completing the archipelago's unification. The remaining type of variation among Polynesian societies to be con- sidered involves tools and other aspects of material culture.

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Larger, more densely populated political units concentrated more authority with the chiefs. Political complexity was greatest on Tonga and Hawaii, where the powers of hereditary chiefs approximated those of kings elsewhere in the world, and where land was controlled by the chiefs, not by the commoners. Using appointed bureau- crats as agents, chiefs requisitioned food from the commoners and also conscripted them to work on large construction projects, whose form var- ied from island to island: irrigation projects and fishponds on Hawaii, dance and feast centers on the Marquesas, chiefs' tombs on Tonga, and temples on Hawaii, the Societies, and Easter. At the time of Europeans' arrival in the 18th century, the Tongan chief- dom or state had already become an inter-archipelagal empire.

Polaroids From the Dead by Douglas Coupland

dematerialisation, edge city, guns versus butter model, index card, mandelbrot fractal, Maui Hawaii, Menlo Park, Mikhail Gorbachev, Norman Mailer, Ronald Reagan, Silicon Valley, upwardly mobile, urban planning

Older hippie ladies ripe with B.O. gorge on condom balloon animals of nitrous oxide; relentless bongo drums beat; troll hippies in plaid flannel shirts vend health food dinners soaked with rain—“Veggie stir-fry! Veggie stir-fry!” Daniel buys a Styrofoam plate of tofu, hijiki mushrooms, tamari sauce and Maui onion bits. “With lecithin and engevista yeast,” the spacey vendor proudly says. Daniel holds his plate and asks for a plastic spoon. The troll druggily cackles back, “Hey, man, I’m organic.” Daniel abandons the cutlery-free plate on the vendor’s counter next to a mandala-painted sea-salt shaker.

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Cops videotape the parking lots; skull stickers are probable cause for vehicle inspection in New Jersey; tour rats feed acid to puppies; Dead women squat to pee on park lawns. Doyle’s reverie is snapped when an Oakland Coliseum staff person tells him to either keep moving or stay within the white crowd control lines. Fascists, thinks Doyle, fascists… James Cachero/Sygma YOU DON’T OWN YOUR BODY DIANA IS VISITING OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA, FROM HAWAII WHERE SHE DEVELOPS REAL estate on the Big Island. Tonight’s concert intermission is nearly over, and Diana has returned to the arena’s floor after inspecting her two children down in the nursery—Jesse and Hope—and ensuring that their foam earplugs are fully taped in place and that the vibes are good.

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So many people willing—and eager—to tell you what to do with your body, what you should feel shameful about. Anorexia, bulimia, Nautilus, Barbie dolls and the application of Nair…the list seems endless to Diana. Even the ownership of minds is tenuous nowadays, Diana is beginning to think. Two days ago in Hawaii, young Jesse was simultaneously playing Tetris, watching Doogie Howser, humming along to Kriss Kross, all the while talking to Charlie next door over the headset unit that resembles those worn by CAA agents in Beverly Hills. Jesse became a living computer screen with multiple windows—information flowing and channeling effortlessly from window to window.

Unreal Estate: Money, Ambition, and the Lust for Land in Los Angeles by Michael Gross

Albert Einstein, Ayatollah Khomeini, bank run, Bear Stearns, Bernie Madoff, California gold rush, Carl Icahn, clean water, Cornelius Vanderbilt, corporate raider, cotton gin, Donald Trump, estate planning, family office, financial engineering, financial independence, Henry Singleton, Irwin Jacobs, Joan Didion, junk bonds, Maui Hawaii, McMansion, Michael Milken, mortgage debt, Norman Mailer, offshore financial centre, oil rush, passive investing, pension reform, Ponzi scheme, Right to Buy, Robert Bork, Ronald Reagan, Silicon Valley, stem cell, Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, tech billionaire, Teledyne, The Predators' Ball, transcontinental railway, yellow journalism

Suzan Schroder was a former Miss Hawaiian Tropic runner-up and Miss Petite USA who’d gone on to found her own court-reporting company. Mark married his latest blonde in fall 1987 and she sold her company to be his full-time wife. Mark’s father, Jack Reynolds, the plumbing contractor, attended the ceremony after Suzan reunited them, sending them to Maui on vacation together just before the wedding. She did that even though she remains unsure if Reynolds really was his father. Suzan says Herbalife was in the red at that moment, losing $12 million a month. That may be true, since Mark put Lionsgate on the market for $12 million, quickly selling it to Marvin Davis.

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The divorce took seven months; Suzan continued to live at Grayhall, but moved out as soon as it was final. She says it was amicable, and they shared joint custody of their son. In exchange for $10 million cash, $120,000 a year in child support, and $400,000 a year in spousal support, Suzan agreed to keep silent about her ex. “I didn’t take a salt shaker. I got enough. I’m happy. I left him Maui, Grayhall, the yacht, our furniture. I had the memories in my mind. I move on.” She bought a $3.95 million mansion out of foreclosure five blocks away on Beverly Drive. “The house was called Sunshine,” she says. During the divorce process, Hughes had revealed that he planned to reduce his holdings in Herbalife and its stock price collapsed, dropping as low as $6.

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She was convinced Darcy wanted to gain custody of her son. Nina Burleigh revealed that in court documents, Darcy charged Suzan with libeling and stalking her. In fact, she’d hired a notorious private detective, Anthony Pellicano, who’d taped some of Mark’s phone calls. Suzan was also alleged to have called Mark’s vacation home in Maui during the couple’s engagement and accused Darcy of raping her son and using cocaine. Darcy’s lawyers threatened Suzan with police and litigation in return. Just after Mark and Darcy’s wedding, the Hugheses’ future neighbors beneath their mountaintop went to the Los Angeles zoning commission to protest his building plans.

Frommer's London 2009 by Darwin Porter, Danforth Prince

airport security, Ascot racecourse, British Empire, double helix, East Village, Easter island, Edmond Halley, gentrification, glass ceiling, haute cuisine, high-speed rail, Isaac Newton, Maui Hawaii, Murano, Venice glass, New Urbanism, place-making, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ronald Reagan, Sloane Ranger, Stephen Hawking, sustainable-tourism, urban renewal, young professional

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JPod by Douglas Coupland

Asperger Syndrome, Drosophila, finite state, G4S, game design, Maui Hawaii, McMansion, neurotypical, pez dispenser, pre–internet, QWERTY keyboard, Ronald Reagan, special economic zone, sugar pill, tech worker, wage slave, Y2K

"Did you go to school together?" "No." More bites of dessert. What a disastrous meeting. Then Bruce said, "Actually, your brother's selling this place up at Whistler that I have an eye on. A nice little chalet." "Oh?" "Yes. He is." The meeting was suddenly making sense. "Which part of Whistler?" "The Maui North development." "Pricey." "You can't put a price on a dream." What is it with these marketing executives and their love of crap phrases? "Any specific house or property?" "Lot 49." "Have you bid?" "Yes. But someone else bid before me." "Bummer." "Yes. It is." "Why Lot 49?" Bruce looked around the room and lowered his voice.

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A lemon yellow Supra with all sorts of silly spoiler attachments sped past us. Greg went nuts: "I'll kill you, you litde fuckhead!" Now's not a good time to ask about Lot 49. When we arrived at Whisder, my toes were still so clenched inside my shoes that I had to bang them on the back seat floor to loosen them. My spirits rose when we turned into a street bordering the Maui North subdivision. Our particular ski cabin was mall-sized and resembled the Swiss pavilion at the 2020 World's Fair. "Hey, Greg—who's the client?" "I've actually never met him or her. It's a registered offshore buyer who only goes by a number." The keys were plasticized electronic cards, like in a hotel.

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On the other hand, if Taiwan or China or Singapore implodes, there'll be a family of thirty living here in a flash." Suddenly the house felt like a coffin. "I have to go get some fresh air." "You do that." . . . Sometimes what at first seems like a coincidence isn't really one at all. I say this because I decided to walk over to the Maui North project and check out the lots. I heard Lot 49 before I saw it: a roaring stream. I was walking there to have a magic moment between nature and myself, when who popped out from behind a boulder? freedom. She looked at me. "Well, well, if it isn't the Penis come to rescue Mumsy-wumsy from being brainwashed."

If Then: How Simulmatics Corporation Invented the Future by Jill Lepore

A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace, Alvin Toffler, anti-communist, Apollo 11, Buckminster Fuller, Cambridge Analytica, company town, computer age, coronavirus, cuban missile crisis, data science, desegregation, don't be evil, Donald Trump, Dr. Strangelove, Elon Musk, fake news, game design, George Gilder, Grace Hopper, Hacker Ethic, Howard Zinn, index card, information retrieval, Jaron Lanier, Jeff Bezos, Jeffrey Epstein, job automation, John Perry Barlow, land reform, linear programming, Mahatma Gandhi, Marc Andreessen, Mark Zuckerberg, mass incarceration, Maui Hawaii, Menlo Park, military-industrial complex, New Journalism, New Urbanism, Norbert Wiener, Norman Mailer, packet switching, Peter Thiel, profit motive, punch-card reader, RAND corporation, Robert Bork, Ronald Reagan, Rosa Parks, self-driving car, Silicon Valley, SimCity, smart cities, social distancing, South China Sea, Stewart Brand, technoutopianism, Ted Sorensen, Telecommunications Act of 1996, urban renewal, War on Poverty, white flight, Whole Earth Catalog

Burdick gave Stegner a story he’d written about his service in the Pacific, a story he’d dug out of his navy foot locker. “It wasn’t very finished,” Stegner later remembered, “but it ran over the class like a tank.”11 That was Burdick, all over. Burdick revised the story and sent it to Harper’s. “Rest Camp on Maui” won second prize for the O. Henry Award, and the decorated navy gunner became a celebrated fiction writer. He won a fellowship at the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference. The plaudits kept coming. He telephoned Stegner. “For the love of Mike, you know what? I’m a Rhodes Scholar!”12 He didn’t much love Oxford, a cloister of stone.13 England had suffered during the war and, while not defeated, had emerged depleted.

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Margaret O’Mara, The Code: Silicon Valley and the Remaking of America (New York: Penguin Press, 2019), 14–18, 24. And see Christophe Lécuyer, Making Silicon Valley: Innovation and the Growth of High Tech, 1930–1970 (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2006). Stegner, “Eugene Burdick,” 4–5. EB, “Rest Camp on Maui,” Harper’s, July 1946, 81–90. Stegner, “Eugene Burdick,” 4–5. Adams, “Eugene Burdick.” EB, “Burdick with a Baedeker,” Isis, October 12, 1949, 14–15. And see “American Is Not Impressed with Oxford,” Madera [CA] Tribune, October 15, 1949. Adams, “Eugene Burdick.” EB, Political Science 212B: Contemporary Political Theory, Spring 1952, syllabus, University of California, Berkeley, Burdick Collection, Box 78, Folder 9.

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., 41, 43, 44–45, 49, 63, 66    — Eisenhower campaign, 41–43, 65–66    — Stevenson campaign, 41–46, 62–66, 103, 115    — television, 65, 115 presidential election of 1960    — CBS News, 110, 122–23, 150    — computer predictions, 122–24    — debates, 115, 118, 121    — Democratic National Convention, 110–16    — Kennedy election, 121–22, 123–24    — Kennedy nomination campaign, 99, 102, 104–7, 109    — Nixon campaign, 102, 106, 115, 123–24, 272    — Simulmatics Corporation and election of Kennedy, 1–2, 116, 130–31, 272    — Simulmatics reports for Kennedy campaign, 117–21, 128, 129, 272, 274, 353n    — Stevenson and, 102–4, 105, 108–11, 112–15 presidential election of 1964    — Democratic National Convention, 194–96, 234, 287    — Goldwater, Barry, 186–87, 193, 197, 272, 365n    — Johnson nomination, 195–96    — Johnson victory, 197–98    — Republican National Convention, 190, 192–93 presidential election of 1968    — Humphrey campaign, 273, 287–88, 381n    — Johnson and, 268, 287    — Nixon campaign, 272–74, 285–86, 289 presidential election of 1972    — McGovern and, 287, 308, 309    — Nixon and, 308, 309, 313 presidential election of 2016, 91, 304, 327 Privacy Act, 313 privacy concerns about National Data Center, 279, 280–81, 283 Project Agile, 213 Project Cambridge    — Licklider and, 283, 284–85, 293, 294–95, 296    — Pool and, 283, 284–85, 292–93, 295–96, 298, 299, 315    — protests against, 292–93, 295–98, 315, 385–86n Project Camelot, 209–12, 216, 285, 293, 298 Project ComCom (Communist Communications), 169–72, 173, 239, 262, 284, 295 Project Macroscope, 82, 91–95, 103, 128, 132, 323    — see also People Machine Project TROY, 58 Propaganda Technique in the World War (Lasswell), 33 prophecy, 5, 36, 51, 250–51, 323 psychological warfare    — Chieu Hoi program, 227, 244    — defined, 5    — de Grazia and, 236, 240    — Hoc’s studies, 250–51, 254, 266–67, 290    — mass communication and, 33–34, 50    — opinion surveys in Vietnam, 216–18, 227    — Project ComCom, 169–72, 173, 239, 262, 284, 295    — Simulmatics studies for ARPA, 216, 250–51, 322 Psychopathology and Politics (Lasswell), 32 punch card description, 40 Pye, Lucian, 299 Quiet American, The (Greene), 47, 60–61, 158, 219 Quinn, Garry, 224, 237, 242, 248, 372–73n Radio Act of 1927, 316 Ramond, Charles, 153, 228–29, 231, 359n, 360n Ramond, Mary, 228–29 Rand, Ayn, 127 RAND Corporation    — dynamic modeling, 214, 216    — founding of, 36    — funding by Defense Department, 36, 50    — interviews and opinion surveys in Vietnam, 218, 245    — JOHNNIAC, 89–90    — M&M (Motivation and Morale) study, 213    — offices in Saigon, 207, 214    — “Research and Development,” 36    — security measures, 50    — Social Science Division, 36, 50, 340n    — summer conference of 1958, 89–90    — Two Analytical Aids for Use with the Rand Interviews, 245 Raymond, Jack, 157 Reagan, Ronald, 272 Real Majority, The (Scammon, Wattenberg), 274 real-time computing, 151–52, 322 Red Alert (George), 175 Red Cross Amputee Center in Saigon, 226 Reeves, Rosser, 21–22 Remington Rand, 24, 25, 69 Research Services, Inc., 81 “Rest Camp on Maui” (Burdick), 30 Revolution and the Development of International Relations (RADIR), 55 Ridgeway, James, 272 riots    — Detroit’s Social Data Bank and, 262–63    — in Harlem, 257    — Kerner Commission, 262, 263, 265, 266, 268, 380n    — in Rochester, 257, 260    — Senate hearings, 257, 258    — Simulmatics’ riot prediction program, 258, 260–62, 263–65, 266, 322    — summer of 1967, 262    — in Watts, 257, 262 Rivkin, Donald, 180, 184, 185 Roberts, Stanley, 40 Robinson, Layhmond, Jr., 166–67 Rochester, Nathaniel, 71 Rockefeller, Nelson, 186, 192, 193 Roe v.

Project Azorian: The CIA and the Raising of the K-129 by Norman Polmar, Michael White

cuban missile crisis, disinformation, Maui Hawaii, no-fly zone, Seymour Hersh

The next day another message was sent, indicating that the ship was changing direction to a new destination because repairs to the vehicle would require at least 30 days. At CIA headquarters the decision was made to send the ship to Lahaina Roads, a passage off the northwest coast of the Hawaiian island of Maui. There a special team—the B crew—would come on board to “clean up” the remains of the K-129. The cover story for the members of the B crew would be that they were mining vehicle technicians and inspectors. When the ship was some 500 nautical miles northwest of Oahu she came to a stop and drifted for several days.

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The troubled nuclear-propelled Echo II had been ordered to deploy on combat duty in a patrol area northwest of Oahu, the principal island of Hawaii, to replace the ballistic missile submarine B-62, a diesel-electric Project AV611/Zulu V type that had been on combat duty north of Hawaii in February 1968. The potential targets for the submarine’s two R-11FM (NATO SS-1B Scud A) missiles were the military installations on the island of Oahu —the massive naval base at Pearl Harbor, the adjacent Hickam Air Force Base, and the nearby headquarters for the U.S. Pacific Command at Camp H. M. Smith. Although the 26th Submarine Division contained several Echo II SSGNs, none was available to cover the Hawaii Station. These craft also were employed in tracking U.S. aircraft carriers in the Vietnam theater as that conflict raged, and were probably kept in position to strike U.S. military installations on the island of Guam—the Polaris submarine support facilities and the B-52 strategic bombers based there.

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Navy’s monitoring of the massive Soviet search effort for the K-129 detected a series of radio messages from the Zulu V ballistic missile submarine B-62. She had departed Petropavlovsk about January 26 and had arrived on station some 500 to 600 nautical miles northwest of Hawaii about February 21. She had made the required burst radio transmissions en route to the Hawaii Station, revealing her progress to U.S. Navy intercept stations as well as to Soviet naval headquarters. Possibly before arriving on station, the B-62 suffered a breakdown of one of her three diesel engines. Within a week she had lost a second diesel engine; after an exchange of messages with naval headquarters, apparently permission was given for the B-62 to commence a return transit to Petro about March 8.

Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future by Elizabeth Kolbert

Albert Einstein, Anthropocene, big-box store, clean water, coronavirus, COVID-19, CRISPR, Donald Davies, double helix, Hernando de Soto, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), Jacob Silverman, James Watt: steam engine, Kickstarter, lockdown, Maui Hawaii, moral hazard, negative emissions, ocean acidification, Stewart Brand, The Chicago School, We are as Gods, Whole Earth Catalog

A species is “possibly extinct” when, on “the balance of evidence,” it seems likely to have vanished but its disappearance has not yet been confirmed. Among the hundreds of animals that are currently listed as “possibly extinct” are: the gloomy tube-nosed bat, Miss Waldron’s red colobus, Emma’s giant rat, and the New Caledonian nightjar. Several species, including the po‘ouli, a chubby honeycreeper native to Maui, no longer walk (or hop) the earth but live on as cells preserved in liquid nitrogen. (A term has not yet been coined to describe this peculiar state of suspended animation.) One way to make sense of the biodiversity crisis would simply be to accept it. The history of life has, after all, been punctuated by extinction events, both big and very, very big.

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This was about a year after she’d received the super-coral grant and, as it happened, not long after she’d been appointed director of the Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology. The institute occupies its own little island, Moku o Lo‘e, in Kaneohe Bay, off the coast of Oahu. (If you’ve ever watched Gilligan’s Island, you’ve seen Moku o Lo‘e in the opening sequence.) There’s no public transportation to Moku o Lo‘e; visitors just show up at a dock, and provided the institute’s boatman is expecting them, he’ll motor over. Gates greeted me when I disembarked, and we walked to her office, which was very spare and very white. Its windows looked out over the bay and, beyond it, to a military base—Marine Corps Base Hawaii. (The base was bombed by the Japanese a few minutes before the attack on Pearl Harbor.)

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It stipulated that, if they won, half the funds would go to Hawaii and half to Australia. I went to visit Van Oppen almost a year to the day after Gates’s death. We met at her office, at the University of Melbourne, which is situated in what used to be the university’s botany building, down the hall from a stained-glass window depicting native orchids. The conversation quickly turned to Gates. “She was so much fun, so full of energy,” Van Oppen said. Her face darkened. “It’s still unbelievable to me that she’s gone. It really makes you realize how fragile life is.” Since I’d been to Hawaii, the super-coral project had progressed, and so, too, had the coral crisis.

And Never Stop Dancing: Thirty More True Things You Need to Know Now by Gordon Livingston

Charles Lindbergh, Columbine, desegregation, follow your passion, Maui Hawaii, Oklahoma City bombing

land than anywhere on the planet. We stopped listening to position reports from the other boats because they did nothing for our morale; nor could they help in our planning. The trade winds were up and down but never deserted us wholly, and on the evening of our fifteenth day we saw the glow of lights on Maui. We had only to change course once more at Molokai and head for the finish, thirty-two miles away. But first, it turned out, we had to defy death one last time. The choice had been made to fly a relatively small spinnaker that had come with the boat in the ’60s. As we approached Molokai at night in 25-knot winds, the sail became progressively harder to manage and ultimately wrapped itself on the forestay.

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Never mind dying with dignity; try living with dignity. 74. 0738212494-text.qxd:0738212494-text.qxd 7/10/08 9:34 AM Page 75 14. Though much is taken, much abides. hances of getting a crew slot in the biennial Transpac race from L.A. to Honolulu at age 70 are slim. So, in 2003, Lloyd Sellinger did what any self-respecting septuagenarian wanting a ride to Hawaii would do: He lied about his age. “I told the skipper, a man in his 40s, that I was 69; it sounded better.” When he was turned down anyway, Lloyd came up with the perfect revenge. He would prepare his own 40-foot sailboat for the 2005 Transpac and require that every member of the crew be over 65. C 75. 0738212494-text.qxd:0738212494-text.qxd 7/10/08 9:34 AM Page 76 And Never Stop Dancing When his intentions were published in a California sailing magazine, he immediately started getting applicants.

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In our early practice sails and in our races to Mexico and around Santa Barbara Island, we learned a couple of things. First, we were slow. Our 1969 Cal 40, Bubala (Yiddish for “Sweetheart”), and dated sail inventory made it unlikely that we could keep up with lighter boats, more experienced crews, and bigger budgets. Second, it didn’t make any difference. We were there to sail to Hawaii as fast as we could. None of us had Transpac experience. This was going to be the trip of a lifetime, and for us perfect speed meant being there. The 2,500-mile race began off Point Fermin, west of Los Angeles. The winds were light and got lighter as the day wore on. Under normal conditions we would have expected to pass Catalina Island at five in the afternoon.

The Contrarian: Peter Thiel and Silicon Valley's Pursuit of Power by Max Chafkin

3D printing, affirmative action, Airbnb, anti-communist, bank run, Bernie Sanders, Big Tech, bitcoin, Black Lives Matter, Black Monday: stock market crash in 1987, Blitzscaling, Boeing 747, borderless world, Cambridge Analytica, charter city, cloud computing, cognitive dissonance, Cornelius Vanderbilt, coronavirus, COVID-19, Credit Default Swap, cryptocurrency, David Brooks, David Graeber, DeepMind, digital capitalism, disinformation, don't be evil, Donald Trump, driverless car, Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, Elon Musk, Ethereum, Extropian, facts on the ground, Fairchild Semiconductor, fake news, Ferguson, Missouri, Frank Gehry, Gavin Belson, global macro, Gordon Gekko, Greyball, growth hacking, guest worker program, Hacker News, Haight Ashbury, helicopter parent, hockey-stick growth, illegal immigration, immigration reform, Internet Archive, Jeff Bezos, John Markoff, Kevin Roose, Kickstarter, Larry Ellison, life extension, lockdown, low interest rates, Lyft, Marc Andreessen, Mark Zuckerberg, Maui Hawaii, Max Levchin, Menlo Park, military-industrial complex, moral panic, move fast and break things, Neal Stephenson, Nelson Mandela, Network effects, off grid, offshore financial centre, oil shale / tar sands, open borders, operational security, PalmPilot, Paris climate accords, Patri Friedman, paypal mafia, Peter Gregory, Peter Thiel, pets.com, plutocrats, Ponzi scheme, prosperity theology / prosperity gospel / gospel of success, public intellectual, QAnon, quantitative hedge fund, quantitative trading / quantitative finance, randomized controlled trial, regulatory arbitrage, Renaissance Technologies, reserve currency, ride hailing / ride sharing, risk tolerance, Robinhood: mobile stock trading app, Ronald Reagan, Sam Altman, Sand Hill Road, self-driving car, sharing economy, Sheryl Sandberg, Silicon Valley, Silicon Valley billionaire, Silicon Valley ideology, Silicon Valley startup, skunkworks, social distancing, software is eating the world, sovereign wealth fund, Steve Bannon, Steve Jobs, Steven Levy, Stewart Brand, surveillance capitalism, TaskRabbit, tech billionaire, tech worker, TechCrunch disrupt, techlash, technology bubble, technoutopianism, Ted Kaczynski, TED Talk, the new new thing, the scientific method, Tim Cook: Apple, transaction costs, Travis Kalanick, Tyler Cowen, Uber and Lyft, uber lyft, Upton Sinclair, Vitalik Buterin, We wanted flying cars, instead we got 140 characters, Whole Earth Catalog, WikiLeaks, William Shockley: the traitorous eight, Y Combinator, Y2K, yellow journalism, Zenefits

Thiel’s return for the first half of 2008, when most hedge funds lost money, was almost 60 percent; by now, Clarium had $6.4 billion under management. “It was amazing,” said an analyst. “He was trading like a demigod.” To celebrate, Thiel rented the private plane normally used by the Dallas Mavericks to fly the entire firm—roughly eighty people by this point—to Maui for a long weekend. When the group arrived at the Four Seasons, they were told that everything was on the company—get massages, go surfing, drink as much as you wanted. In the evenings, executives threw around money like it was candy. At one point, Joe Lonsdale offered $10,000 to anyone who could beat him in arm wrestling.

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Thiel, he concluded, was worried about Democrats changing U.S. tax policy. But after Trump won—and New Zealand’s right-wing National Party government was replaced by the country’s left-wing Labor Party under Jacinda Ardern in 2017—he lost interest. Instead, Thiel hunkered down at his estate in Maui. He’d paid $27 million in 2011—a record price at the time—for a home with ocean views and 4,500 square feet of living space. It was located on an undeveloped stretch of the island, with a high stone wall separating Thiel from the only road in the region. The other side had a pool and 1.7 acres, almost all of it beachfront.

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Thiel had remarked to an attendee: Matt Nippert, “Billionaire Peter Thiel Makes a Rare Visit to New Zealand,” The New Zealand Herald, December 9, 2017, https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/billionaire-peter-thiel-makes-rare-visit-to-new-zealand/YS3MSBFDSDRS5QP6KKJXTPCZNU/. a record price: “Peter Thiel Buys Maui Home for a Record $27 Million,” The Wall Street Journal, July 15, 2011, https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052702304911104576444362936635124. and ultimately flawed: Riley Beggin, “Report: The CDC Contaminated Its First Coronavirus Tests, Setting US Back,” Vox, April, 18, 2020, https://www.vox.com/2020/4/18/21226372/coronavirus-tests-cdc-contaminated-delay-testing.

Bit Rot by Douglas Coupland

3D printing, Airbnb, airport security, bitcoin, Burning Man, delayed gratification, dematerialisation, Edward Snowden, Elon Musk, en.wikipedia.org, Google Glasses, Guggenheim Bilbao, index card, jimmy wales, junk bonds, Lyft, Marshall McLuhan, Maui Hawaii, McJob, Menlo Park, nuclear paranoia, Oklahoma City bombing, Pepto Bismol, pre–internet, Ray Kurzweil, Sand Hill Road, Silicon Valley, Skype, space junk, Stanford marshmallow experiment, tech worker, Ted Kaczynski, TED Talk, The Future of Employment, uber lyft, young professional

Use your points to buy stuff, and if there isn’t any stuff to buy” (and there often isn’t other than barbecues, leather bags and crap jewellery), “then redeem miles for gift cards at stores where they might sell stuff you want. But for God’s sake, don’t use them to fly. You might as well flush those points down the toilet.” Glad I asked. So what will future loyalty data deliver to its donors, if not barbecues and Maui holidays? Access to the business-class Internet? Prescription medicines made in Europe, not in China? Maybe points could count toward community service duty? Who would these new near-future entities be that want all of your metadata anyway? You could say corporations. We’ve now all learned to reflexively think of corporations when picturing anything sinister, but the term corporation now feels slightly Adbusters-y and unequipped to handle our new twenty-first-century corporate weirdness.

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While nobody was looking, BC dope growers quietly hybridized their crops to maximize THC in the same way monks hybridized strawberries for size and juiciness, and sweet peas for their ability to prove genetic theories. THC counts exploded in the late 1970s. You heard all kinds of lies about the pot that was going around—Maui Wowie or Kona Gold or “the best Mexican” or what have you—but nobody smuggled pot into BC at that time, and that hasn’t changed. Almost all bud in BC is grown in borderline industrial conditions, often overseen by gifted horticulturists. Pot is everywhere in Vancouver. It took root in the 1960s when the city became Canada’s equivalent to hippie San Francisco, and from the 1970s onward, abundant, cheap electrical power allowed for an indoor grow-op culture that continues to flourish to this day.

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It’s like people who deconstruct music without learning how to play it in the first place. In the mid-1980s I attended a Japanese institute on the Hawaiian island of Oahu, where the temperature was seventy-five degrees and slightly breezy pretty much every day of the year. But I was in my mild goth phase and with a few similarly minded locals, we were the only people in Hawaii wearing black sweaters while we cursed the sun. Evil, evil sun. In 2000 I was in a Daiei department store in Tokyo and I had an epiphany in the cleaning-products aisle. Fifty brands of bleach and toilet-bowl cleaners and window sprays were all duking it out for my attention, but of course they all cancelled each other out, creating an optical-field effect.

Food Trucks: Dispatches and Recipes From the Best Kitchens on Wheels by Shouse, Heather

fixed-gear, haute cuisine, Kickstarter, Mason jar, Maui Hawaii, place-making, rolodex, side project, South of Market, San Francisco

Butter Chicken huli huli, 1.1 Karel’s Chicken Paprikash O’Neil’s Jerk Chicken Rana’s Chicken Kathi Rol Soul Patrol Buttermilk Fried Chicken Thai Chicken Karaage, 4.1, 4.2 Chimichurri, Food Chain China Cottage chocolate Angela’s Chocolate Pudding and Cookies Pear Crepes Choi, Roy Chojnacki, Zbigniew “Ziggy” and Krystyna Cincinnati, Ohio, itr.1 Clam Chowder, Sam’s New England Coffee-braised Pork Shoulder with Chiles and Sweet Potato Cohen, Matt Cold Cure-Al , Moxie’s Cole, Tyson condiments Bacon Jam Food Chain Chimichurri Rick’s F@*#ing Russian-style Beet Salad Thomas’s Balsamic Onion Marmalade Cookies, Angela’s Chocolate Pudding and Crème Brûlée Cart, 1.1, 1.2 crepes Flip Happy Crêpes Pear Crepes Crockett, Drew Curry Up Now Cutie Pie Wagon D Daisy Cakes Daley, Vi Dammeier, Kurt Beecher The Dandelion Vegetarian and Vegan D’Angelo’s Day-Boykin, Andrea DC Central Kitchen Delicias Isabel Deneroff, Leena Dogfeather’s Dolinksy, Tanna TenHoopen Dominick’s Dominic’s Don Chow Tacos Dosa, NY Dosas’ Special Rava Masala Dosa Truck, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3 Drake, Ian Dumplings, Karel’s Durham, North Carolina E East Side King Eat Real Festival Edison, Roz El Brasero, 2.1, 2.2 Electric Earth El Gal ito, 1.1, 1.2 El Guayaquileño El Matador, 1.1, 1.2 El Rancho El Super Taco Empanadas, Beef Endless Summer, 5.1, 5.2 Ernie’s Kettle Korn Evanston, Il inois F Fabric8 Gal ery Famous Kahuku Shrimp Truck Farrow, Nessa Fat Man’s Barbecue Felico, Dominic Ferguson, Tom Flay, Bobby Flip Happy Crêpes Florida Key Biscayne Miami, 1.1, 4.1 Florindez, Marcelo Fojol Bros. of Merlindia, 5.1, 5.2 Butter Chicken Folkes, Marcel a Food Chain Chimichurri Food Shark French Toast with Shaved Apples and Bacon Beer Brats Fresh Cool Drinks Fresher Than Fresh Snow Cones Fresh Fruit Salad Fresh Local Fumi’s Kahuku Shrimp G Garb, Jeremy Garces, Jose GastroPod, 4.1, 4.2 Sloppy Jose Gaztro-Wagon, 3.1, 3.2 Gebre, Asefash Gilmore, Bryce Gilmore, Jack Giovanni’s Aloha Shrimp Giovanni’s I Give Apizza A Chance Glenn, Erin Gold, Jonathan Goldingay, Roger, 2.1, 2.2 Gonzalez, Antonio Gourdough’s The Great Food Truck Race (TV show), itr.1, 1.1 The Gril ed Cheese Gril Gril ‘Em Al , 1.1, 1.2 Guapo’s Tacos Guayaco’s Comida Ecuatoriana H Haili’s Ahi Tuna Poke Haleiwa, Hawaii, 1.1, 1.2 Half Moon Bay, California Hal áva Falafel, 2.1, 2.2 Happy Bodega Hawaii, 1.1, 2.1 Heavenly Delights Heins, Jim Henderson, Joshua Hernandez, Hortenzia Hey Cupcake! H5 (Hawaii Helping the Hungry Have Hope), 1.1, 1.2 Hibachi Hut Ho, Tien Hoffman, Ingrid Holy Cacao Honest Tom’s, 5.1, 5.2 Honolulu, Hawaii, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3 Huan Ji Rice Noodles HubBub Coffee Company Hudson’s on the Bend Hummingbird Kitchen Hurt, Wes I ice cream Ice Pops, Blackberry Lavender Il inois Chicago Evanston Ima, Kim India Jones Chow Truck, 1.1, 1.2 Indian Food on Wheels Ingram, Shane Irie Food Oxtail Stew J Jamaican Dutchy Jawaiian Jerk Chicken, O’Neil’s Jerusalem Café Johnson, Gary Johnson, John Johnson, Johnny Johnson, Troy, 3.1, 3.2 Josh’s Smooth & Smoky Mac & Cheese Just Coffee Co-op K Kahala Hilton Kakilima Kalbi BBQ Kansas City, Missouri Kapoor, Akash and Rana Karel’s Chicken Paprikash Karel’s Dumplings Katgely, Laurent Kawaguchi, Jon Kebabs, Krista’s Lamb Kel er, Thomas, 4.1, 4.2 Kettle Kitchen Key Biscayne, Florida Khan, Fatima and Abdul Sami khao man gai, 2.1, 2.2 Kimbal , Curtis Kimchi Quesadil a King Burrito King of Falafel Knox, Dustin Kogi, fm.1, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3 KoJa Korbel, Peter Krista’s Lamb Kebabs Kumar, Thiru Kwik Meal Kwik Pasta L LaBan, Craig La Caserita La Cocina La Dominique La Isla Bonita Braised Lamb Cheeks Sandwich Krista’s Lamb Kebabs Lambert, Liz Lanahan, Josh Langi, Utu Laricks, Lindsay Latin Burger & Taco Laufenberg, Anastasiya Lee, Soo Lefebvre, Ludo Lemongrass Pork Banh Mi Leonard’s Malasadamobiles Liberación Juice Station Library Mal (Madison, Wisconsin) Lo, Anita Loose Juice Los Angeles, California, fm.1, fm.2, 1.1, 1.2 Louisiana Louzaway, Michel e Lu, Hualien Lucky’s Mexican Ludo Bites, 1.1, 1.2 Lulu B’s lunch wagons M Mac & Cheese, Josh’s Smooth & Smoky Macky’s Garlic-Butter Shrimp Plate Macky’s Kahuku Sweet Shrimp, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3 Magic Carpet Magic Curry Kart, 1.1, 1.2 Mai, Steve Mai’s Oriental Food malasadas, 1.1 Mama Aurora’s Cucina Man Bites Dog Manguera, Mark Manuel, Coite Marcelo’s Ceviche Mares, Bettina and Steven Rodriguez Marfa, Texas Marination Mobile, 2.1, 2.2 Mariscos 4 Vientos #3 Mariscos Jalisco Maroni, Matt, 3.1, 3.2 Maximus/Minimus, 2.1, 2.2 Pul ed Pork McCusker, Tom McKinnon, Mike meatbal s Ode to Magic Carpet’s Tofu Meatbal s Que Crawl’s Boudin Bal s Menino, Thomas, fm.1 Mexi Phil y Miami, Florida, 1.1, 4.1 The Mighty Cone Milwaukee, Wisconsin Minneapolis, Minnesota Mississippi Marketplace, 2.1, 2.2 Missouri Mr.

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“The lunch truck has been a transition for us, a way of letting our costumers know that we are stil here,” Donna says. “We may be on a smal er scale, but we’re not going out entirely.” Haili’s Ahi Tuna Poke Serves 8 2 pounds sashimi-grade ahi tuna, cut into bite-size cubes ½ cup soy sauce 1 tablespoon sesame oil 1 fresh chile, seeded and minced ½ cup minced green onions ½ cup slivered Maui onion 1½ teaspoons minced fresh ginger Combine al the ingredients in a large bowl and stir to combine. Cover and refrigerate for an hour before serving in individual bowls with spoons. The poke can be stored in the refrigerator for up to 2 days. ( SIDE DISH ) There’s not very much of interest in the area just north of Honolulu airport, just a few budget hotels, generic office buildings, and the occasional fanny pack–clad tourist wandering around complaining that he should have sprung for a place on the beach.

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The day’s menu always balances something slightly fancy with good old down-home cooking, and Fridays feature Hawaiian classics like kalua pig, shoyu chicken, and chicken long rice—a compromise the couple made to not stray too far from their roots. Ray’s Kiawe Broiled Chicken FIND IT: Saturday and Sunday mornings at Haleiwa Super Market (66–197 Kamehameha Hwy., Haleiwa, Hawaii) KEEP UP WITH IT: rayskiawechicken@hawaii.rr.com On the mainland, kids sel chocolate bars to raise money for footbal uniforms or sleepaway camp. In Hawaii, they sel huli huli chicken, rotisserie-cooked chicken named for the motion huli huli, or “turn turn.” Ray Tantog has always been one to support a cute kid who has come knocking on the door, but after buying a poor excuse for a proper huli huli chicken, he marched over to the school’s footbal coach to announce that he could do better.

Bill Marriott: Success Is Never Final--His Life and the Decisions That Built a Hotel Empire by Dale van Atta

Berlin Wall, Black Monday: stock market crash in 1987, Boeing 747, book value, Carl Icahn, Charles Lindbergh, clean water, collective bargaining, corporate raider, Deng Xiaoping, Donald Trump, dumpster diving, financial innovation, Ford Model T, hiring and firing, index card, indoor plumbing, Kickstarter, Kintsugi, Maui Hawaii, medical residency, Menlo Park, Mikhail Gorbachev, mortgage debt, profit motive, Robert Bork, Ronald Reagan, shareholder value, short selling, stock buybacks, three-martini lunch, urban renewal

He found that while Waikiki was saturated with hotels, the outer islands offered tantalizing opportunities. He partnered with Amfac Corp. to build a resort hotel along the Kaanapali Beach of western Maui. The hotel—Marriott’s one-hundredth—opened in January 1982. Typical of his travel schedule, Bill arrived ten days before the grand opening to host the PCC board for two days of meetings at the hotel. Then he flew to Tokyo, Hong Kong, and Singapore, where he signed up $20 million in new airline catering business. When he returned to Hawaii, Donna and his parents were there to join him for the grand-opening festivities. J.W. was amazed at how much ground his son covered and at all the work Bill accomplished on the trip.

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Marriott newspaper article announcing Bill Marriott’s election as president of the company in 1964. The extended Marriott family, around 1964. Dale Evans and Roy Rogers join Bill to open the first Roy Rogers restaurant in 1968. Bill and Donna and their four children. Celebrating the opening of Marriott’s 100th hotel, in Maui. With President Ronald Reagan aboard Air Force One in 1982. With former president Gerald Ford at opening of Rancho Las Palmas Marriott in 1987. Bill and Donna with President George H. W. Bush and his wife, Barbara, at the inaugural ball in January 1989. Bill and Dick with former president Jimmy Carter at the 1992 Democratic National Convention.

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Given our presence in and love of lodging, I couldn’t see allowing the company to be pulled in a direction that would do short shrift to what we do best.”11 Bill had no problem when it came to promoting wholesome entertainment more in line with his values, and that included the Church-owned Polynesian Cultural Center (PCC) on the Hawaiian island of Oahu. Latter-day Saint missionaries first went to Hawaii in the mid-1800s and from there spread out to other Polynesian islands. With a substantial presence in the Pacific, Church leaders became concerned that vibrant Polynesian cultures and traditions were disappearing. The Church had opened the Church College of Hawaii (later remained BYU–Hawaii) on Oahu and had another concern about the ability of Latter-day Saint Polynesians to afford the tuition and travel expenses. Thus was born the PCC adjacent to the college—a unique tourist attraction preserving the culture of Polynesia and providing jobs for students in an otherwise sleepy corner of Oahu.

In-N-Out Burger by Stacy Perman

Alan Greenspan, anti-communist, British Empire, commoditize, company town, corporate raider, El Camino Real, estate planning, Ford Model T, forensic accounting, Golden arches theory, Haight Ashbury, Maui Hawaii, McJob, McMansion, Neil Armstrong, new economy, Ronald Reagan, Silicon Valley, Upton Sinclair

The new couple shared a strong Christian faith and a commitment to helping disadvantaged and abused children. “He was just larger than life,” was how his new wife later described him. “He had a magnetism that just drew you to him.” The couple was married in a small green church in Maui. Their fun-filled, 1950s-themed reception was held at the Grand Wailea resort. Although it was small, no expense was spared. Rich paid to fly eighty-two of the couple’s friends and family to Hawaii (Guy and his wife, Lynda, were conspicuously absent from the wedding party). He also had his classic 1957 white Cadillac convertible shipped across the Pacific for the occasion. Rich’s friend and spiritual adviser, Pastor Chuck Smith Jr. of the Cavalry Chapel (son of the church’s founder), presided over the ceremony.

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In 1954, the path of the I-10’s expansion in Baldwin Park cut through store Number One and the Snyders tore down the original, rebuilding a new Number One a short distance away. Harry designed the new shop as the now famous double drive-through. In 2004, In-N-Out shuttered the original and built the third of its “Number Ones” on the opposite side of the freeway. (Duke Sherman) THE WEDDING PARTY: Rich and Christina Snyder (center) married on May 2, 1992, in Maui. Almost eighteen months later Rich, Phil West (far left), and Jack Sims (third from left) were killed in a plane crash. (John L. Blom Custom Photography) IN-N-OUT BURGER FAMILY PICNIC: At the annual company outing in 1997, Guy Snyder and his second wife, Kathy Touché, along with her children, Aaron, Andy, and Emily.

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Another hallmark of the annual gala was the announcement of the location of the upcoming year’s 100 Percent Club trips. Esther Snyder loved to travel, and a few years after Rich had begun running In-N-Out, they came up with a special program to reward managers when they reached their goals. Those named to the club (along with their spouses) were awarded first class trips to such places as Hawaii, the Caribbean, Australia, and Europe. During the course of the trips, Rich often invited big-name speakers to continue to inspire the managers. In his mind, In-N-Out managers were just as important as the executives at any Fortune 500 company. That’s why Rich created the annual gala; it’s why he took his executives to numerous cultural events.

American Kleptocracy: How the U.S. Created the World's Greatest Money Laundering Scheme in History by Casey Michel

"RICO laws" OR "Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations", Bellingcat, Berlin Wall, Bernie Sanders, bitcoin, clean water, coronavirus, corporate governance, cross-border payments, cryptocurrency, deindustrialization, Donald Trump, en.wikipedia.org, estate planning, Fall of the Berlin Wall, fixed income, forensic accounting, Global Witness, high net worth, hiring and firing, income inequality, Internet Archive, invention of the telegraph, Jeffrey Epstein, joint-stock company, Kickstarter, Maui Hawaii, McMansion, megaproject, Mikhail Gorbachev, New Journalism, offshore financial centre, opioid epidemic / opioid crisis, Ponzi scheme, race to the bottom, Ronald Reagan, Silicon Valley, Silicon Valley startup, Steve Jobs, too big to fail

These so-called go-fast boats topped out at almost 200 miles per hour—and could go even faster when tricked out with helicopter engines, which he reportedly demanded.26 But it wasn’t always smooth. In 2009, Teodorin tried to ship one of his go-fast boats to Maui, but the boat slipped off the trailer, requiring substantial repairs. The kleptocrat apparently didn’t even realize that Maui marinas didn’t sell the leaded fuel the boat required, so he was forced to ship the gas at hundreds of dollars per barrel. With the craft fixed and fueled, the local boat pilot took him and a few of his arm-candy women out on the water.

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In just a few months, Berger helped supply the new accounts with the nearly $10 million needed to pay Teodorin’s bills and expenses.25 Still, with the stench of Riggs wafting out of Washington, Bank of America grew skittish, and started taking a closer look at the shell company accounts’ activities, which had included a series of substantial cash transfers. Internal auditors scoured the accounts’ transactions and discovered a series of suspicious payments, including stays at hotels in Las Vegas and Hawaii and transfers from Equatorial Guinea. It didn’t take long for the bank to realize who was really behind the shell company accounts—Teodorin. Less than a year after their opening, both accounts were shuttered by Bank of America. While the bank later admitted it could have moved more quickly to close the accounts, its anti–money laundering protocols had, on the whole, worked—a testament to the Patriot Act provisions, and Carl Levin’s efforts in Washington.26 Except, there was one catch.

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A bit farther south, Trump Grande 1, which opened in 2008, let one-third of its unit sales go to these suspicious buyers for some $105 million. That same year, a trio of other Trump Florida properties—known a bit blandly as Trump Towers 1, 2, and 3—netted $291 million from buyers that fit traditional money laundering models. Look wherever you want, and the pattern repeats itself. Trump International Hotel Waikiki in Hawaii? Nearly 20 percent of sales went to these buyers, for $161 million. Trump International Hotel and Tower in Chicago? Nearly 15 percent of sales went to these buyers, for $93 million. Trump International Hotel Las Vegas? Over 20 percent of sales went to these buyers, for $56 million.16 It was American kleptocracy in miniature—American kleptocracy in a single person, who eventually used the proceeds of these suspect sales to help build a war chest that would launch him to the presidency.

The Snowden Files: The Inside Story of the World's Most Wanted Man by Luke Harding

affirmative action, air gap, airport security, Anton Chekhov, Apple's 1984 Super Bowl advert, Berlin Wall, Big Tech, Bletchley Park, Chelsea Manning, disinformation, don't be evil, drone strike, Edward Snowden, Etonian, Firefox, Google Earth, information security, Jacob Appelbaum, job-hopping, Julian Assange, Khan Academy, kremlinology, Laura Poitras, Mark Zuckerberg, Maui Hawaii, MITM: man-in-the-middle, national security letter, operational security, Panopticon Jeremy Bentham, pre–internet, Ralph Waldo Emerson, rolodex, Rubik’s Cube, Silicon Valley, Skype, social graph, Steve Jobs, TechCrunch disrupt, undersea cable, web application, WikiLeaks

So it became a sort of game to involve him, like “Go Team Edward!” ’ recalls one. ‘At a birthday party one night we prodded him into making an actual speech. It was about five words.’ Snowden did describe his life in Hawaii as ‘paradise’. This, certainly, was how the Honolulu Star-Advertiser also tells it, declaring on its masthead: ‘The pulse of paradise.’ What passed for news headlines – ‘Officials contemplate weekend harbor hours’, ‘Pacific aviation museum honors daredevil’, ‘Bush blaze doused on Maui’ – tended to boost the image of a tropical idyll. But for Snowden there were few outwards signs of fun. No surfing, no golf, no lounging on the beach. ‘He was pale, pale, pale, pale, as if he never got out in the sun,’ the friend says.

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By the time he left Japan in 2012, Snowden was a whistleblower-in-waiting. 2 CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE The NSA’s Regional Cryptologic Center, Kunia, Hawaii ‘The authority of government, even such as I am willing to submit to … is still an impure one: to be strictly just, it must have the sanction and consent of the governed.’ HENRY DAVID THOREAU, ‘Civil Disobedience’ In March 2012, Snowden left Japan and moved across the Pacific to Hawaii. At the same time, it seems he donated to his libertarian political hero Ron Paul. An ‘Edward Snowden’ contributed $250 to Paul’s presidential campaign from an address in Columbia, Maryland.

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Snowden’s new job was at the NSA’s regional cryptological centre (the ‘Central Security Service’) on the main island of Oahu, which is near Honolulu. He was still a Dell contractor. The centre is one of 13 NSA hubs outside Fort Meade devoted to SIGINT, and in particular to spying on the Chinese. The logo of ‘NSA/CSS Hawaii’ features two green palm trees set on either side of a tantalising archipelago of islands. The main colour is a deep oceanic blue. At the top are the words: ‘NSA/CSS Hawaii’; at the bottom, ‘Kunia’. It looks an attractive place to work. He arrived on the volcanic island in the middle of the Pacific with a plan. The plan now looks insane. It was audacious, but – viewed dispassionately – almost certainly going to result in Snowden’s incarceration for a very long time and possibly for the rest of his life.

Let's Explore Diabetes With Owls by David Sedaris

big-box store, call centre, David Sedaris, desegregation, illegal immigration, index card, Maui Hawaii, remote working, stem cell

The water runs from glacial to heart attack and is tinted the color of iced tea. Then there’s all the stuff floating in it: not man-made garbage but sea garbage—scum and bits of plant life, all of it murky and rotten-smelling. The beaches in Hawaii look as if they’ve been bleached; that’s how white the sand is. The water is warm—even in winter—and so clear you can see not just your toes but the corns cleaving, barnacle-like, to the sides of them. On Maui, one November, Hugh and I went swimming, and turned to find a gigantic sea turtle coming up between us. As gentle as a cow, she was, and with a cow’s dopey, almost lovesick expression on her face.

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Once he settles into the new job and moves into that house he’s been eyeing, after his maid has left for the day and he’s figured out which remote works the television and which one is for the DVD player, he’s going to need someone to relate to. Then he’ll dig up my number, reach for his cell phone, and, by God, call me. Loggerheads The thing about Hawaii, at least the part that is geared toward tourists, is that it’s exactly what it promises to be. Step off the plane, and someone places a lei around your neck, as if it were something you had earned—an Olympic medal for sitting on your ass. Raise a hand above your shoulder and, no matter where you are, a drink will appear: something served in a hollowed-out pineapple, or perhaps in a coconut that’s been sawed in half.

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It allowed you to think that you and this creature had a special relationship, a juvenile thought but one that brings with it a definite comfort. Well, monkeys like me, I’d find myself thinking during the next few months, whenever I felt lonely or unappreciated. Just as, in the months following our trip to Hawaii, I thought of the sea turtle. With her, though, my feelings were a bit more complicated, and instead of believing that we had bonded, I’d wonder that she could ever have forgiven me. The thing between me and sea turtles started in the late ’60s, and involved my best friend from grade school, a boy I’ll call Shaun, who lived down the street from me in Raleigh.

Pattern Recognition by William Gibson

carbon-based life, content marketing, Frank Gehry, gentrification, intentional community, lateral thinking, machine translation, Mars Rover, Maui Hawaii, offshore financial centre, old-boy network, pattern recognition, rent stabilization

Cayce herself had dealt alone with all of the initial phases of the hunt for her father, Cynthia having stayed in Maui, afraid to fly, until well after commercial flights had resumed. On the nineteenth, Win's face had joined the others, so many of them, that Cayce had been living with daily in the aftermath, and very likely his had been among those the CCNY anthropology student had been surveying when (in Cynthia's universe) Win had whis-pered through the membrane from whatever Other Side it was that Cynthia and her cronies in Hawaii imagined for him, Cayce herself had put up several, carefully sheathed in plastic, near the barricade at Houston and Varrick, having run them off at the Kinko's nearest her apartment uptown.

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Then she e-mails Parkaboy and tells him she'll be in Tokyo the day after tomorrow, and to start thinking about what she'll need to do to deal with Taki. She pauses, about to open the latest from her mother, and remembering that she still hasn't replied to the previous two. Her mother is cynthia@roseoftheworld,com, Rose of the World being an intentional community of sorts, back up in the red-dirt country of Maui. Cayce has never been there but Cynthia has sent pictures. A sprawling, oddly prosaic sixties rancher set back against a red hillside in long sparse grass, that red showing through like some kind of scalp disease. Up there they scrutinize miles of audiotape, some of it fresh from its factory wrap, unused, listening for voices of the dead: EVP freaks, of which Cayce's mother is one from way back.

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She's always known him as someone with a shoulder-brushing, center-parted shoe-gazer anti-haircut. It feels like old times, to sit here with him, diagonally opposite Cam-den Town station, wearing damp clothing and nursing large multi-shot lattes. "What about your father?" he asks, brown eyes peering from beneath the black cotton cowl. "No sign. My mother's in Hawaii, picking up messages from him on dead-air sections of audiotape, so she's convinced he's gone." This sounds odd even to her, but how do you say these things? "Fucking hell," he says, with such evident and simple sympathy that she feels like hugging him. "That must be horrible." She nods. Sips from the tall paper cup.

Garbage Land: On the Secret Trail of Trash by Elizabeth Royte

Alan Greenspan, clean water, low earth orbit, Maui Hawaii, Norman Mailer, off-the-grid, Parkinson's law, precautionary principle, RAND corporation, Silicon Valley, thinkpad, upwardly mobile, vertical integration, working poor

(If Haley had children, and he didn’t, he’d probably make them play with the biological nutrient called flowers, which come with their own colored powder—pollen.) In the months to come, I’d find people who neither lived nor worked in the Bay Area who were having fun (if not sexy fun) with garbage reduction. Shaun Stenshol, president of Maui Recycling Service, had toyed with the idea of decreeing a Plastic Free Month, but ultimately deemed such a test too easy. Instead, he issued a Zero Waste Challenge. Over the course of four weeks, Maui residents and biodiesel users Bob and Camille Armantrout produced eighty-six pounds of waste, of which all but four (mostly dairy containers and Styrofoam from a new scanner) was recyclable. Alarmed to note that 35 percent of their weight was beer bottles, which they recycled, the Armantrouts vowed to improve.

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Smaller pieces were easier to transport and to melt into new shapes: business expanded exponentially. Today, the Hugo Neu Corporation runs the fifth-largest steel recycling operation in the United States (out of about twelve hundred dealers). The company has scrap yards in New England, Los Angeles, Hawaii, New Jersey, the Bronx, and Queens. It was to this last yard that my household metal—less than four pounds of it a month—now went. I stopped in at the Hugo Neu Corporation’s Manhattan headquarters on a winter morning to see Wendy Neu, the company’s vice president for environmental and public affairs, who also happened to be the wife of John Neu, the late Hugo’s son.

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Proponents of a bigger, better bottle bill in New York State, which would include sports drinks, water, teas, juices, and other hugely popular “New Age” beverages, are trying to redirect that money—more than $172 million is expected—to recycling and other environmental programs. (Bottle bills in California, Hawaii, and Maine already cover New Age drinks.) Who could argue with an expanded bottle bill? It would keep litter off the streets and beaches, keep solid waste from the landfill, conserve natural resources through recycling, and direct money to environmental programs. (According to the NRDC, such a bill would lighten New York City’s waste stream by 220 tons a day, saving as much as $10 million in curbside collection and disposal costs.)

Bringing Columbia Home: The Untold Story of a Lost Space Shuttle and Her Crew by Michael Leinbach, Jonathan H. Ward

Apollo 13, back-to-the-land, low earth orbit, Maui Hawaii, orbital mechanics / astrodynamics, restrictive zoning, space junk

The MMT flatly declared that there was no “safety of flight” issue involved—that is, no risk for reentry. Any damage to the thermal protection system would just be a turnaround maintenance problem for the next mission once Columbia was back on the ground. The US Air Force’s Maui Optical and Supercomputer Site (AMOS) took images of Columbia as it passed over Hawaii on January 28. The orbiter’s payload bay was facing the cameras on the ground. The Spacehab module was clearly visible in the payload bay. Unfortunately, the open bay doors obstructed the view of the front half of Columbia’s wing, where the foam was thought to have struck the ship.

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INDEX accident, cause of, 233, 247, 258–259 Adkins, Patrick emotional aftershock, 240 on emotions about spacecraft, 13–14 finds pieces of Spacehab experiments, 186, 228 at Hemphill debris collection center, 114 investigates “hot” tank, 147 as KSC quality control inspector, 144–145 last day at Hemphill, 202–203 nose landing gear, 183–185 encounter with swamp gas, 178 search on horseback, 156–157 volunteers in Atlantis building, 282–283 aerial crews, searchers, 180–181 Agency Contingency Action Plan for Space Flight Operations, 47, 55–56 Air Force Maui Optical and Supercomputer Site (AMOS), 32 Alabama Gulf Strike Team, 104 Alexander, Mike, 119, 131–132 Allen, Mark, 67, 109, 111, 283–284 Alliant Aviation, 163 Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer, 277–278 Altemus, Steve emotional response of reconstruction team, 219–220 escorts families through hangar, 247 lessons learned, 286 manages reconstruction effort, 155–156, 206–210 Manatees tailgate party, 244 rapid organization of reconstruction effort, 206–207, 216 KSC staff visits to hangar, 249–250 selects debris for display in Preservation Office, 260 Amen, Jan, 64–65, 101, 116, 134, 201, 203–204 Anderson, Lt.

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Astronaut Mike Anderson triggered cameras on the shuttle’s belly to take photos of the tank as the shuttle pulsed its maneuvering thrusters to move away. Those photos were part of the launch documentation, to note any issues that might require attention on the next missions. The crew did not notice anything unusual about the tank as it slowly drifted away from them. As usual, the tank would break up and fall into the Pacific Ocean south of Hawaii. Standard procedure called for the tank photos to be transmitted to the ground at the end of the first day’s operations. However, the Columbia crew had a busy day ahead of them configuring the experiments aboard Spacehab. The photos of the tank were never downlinked. If engineers on the ground had seen the photos, they would have immediately noticed that a large piece of foam—about the size of a carry-on suitcase—was missing from the area at the base of the left side of the strut connecting the orbiter’s nose to the tank.

Western USA by Lonely Planet

airport security, Albert Einstein, Apollo 11, Apple II, Asilomar, back-to-the-land, Bay Area Rapid Transit, Biosphere 2, Burning Man, California gold rush, call centre, car-free, carbon footprint, Charles Lindbergh, Chuck Templeton: OpenTable:, cotton gin, Donner party, East Village, edge city, Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, Frank Gehry, global village, Golden Gate Park, Haight Ashbury, haute couture, haute cuisine, illegal immigration, intermodal, Joan Didion, Kickstarter, Loma Prieta earthquake, machine readable, Mahatma Gandhi, Mars Rover, Maui Hawaii, off grid, off-the-grid, retail therapy, Silicon Valley, Silicon Valley startup, South of Market, San Francisco, starchitect, stealth mode startup, stem cell, Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, supervolcano, trade route, transcontinental railway, Upton Sinclair, urban planning, Virgin Galactic, women in the workforce, Works Progress Administration, young professional, Zipcar

See Lonely Planet’s Hawaii guide for details. About 99% of visitors to Hawaii arrive by air, and the majority of flights – both international and domestic – arrive at Honolulu International Airport (HNL; http://hawaii.gov/hnl) on O‘ahu. In Maui, the Kahului Airport (OGG; http://hawaii.gov/ogg) is about 25 minutes from Kihei and 45 minutes from Lahaina. Most cruises to Hawaii include stopovers in Honolulu and on Maui, Kaua‘i and the Big Island. Cruises usually last two weeks, with fares starting at around $100 per person per day. Popular cruise lines include Holland America (www.hollandamerica.com), Princess (www.princess.com) and Royal Caribbean (www.royalcaribbean.com).

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The driving distance between Seattle and Anchorage is about 2250 miles. Hawaii Floating all by itself more than 2500 miles off the California coast, Hawaii enjoys a unique sense of self, separate from the US mainland. On its islands you can hike across ancient lava flows, learn to surf and paddleboard, snorkel with green turtles or kayak to your own deserted island. The primary islands are O‘ahu, Hawaii the Big Island, Maui, Lana‘i, Moloka‘i and Kaua‘i. No matter the adventure or the island, encounters with nature are infused with the Hawaiian sensibilities of aloha ‘aina and malama ‘aina – love and care for the land. See Lonely Planet’s Hawaii guide for details.

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Its population (about 1.3 million) makes it America’s eighth-largest city (or about 1.5 times the size of San Francisco), yet we’re hard-pressed to think of a more laid-back big city anywhere. The city languished as a relative back-water until WWII, when the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor prompted the US Navy to relocate the US Pacific Fleet from Hawaii to San Diego’s natural harbor. Growth in the military, tourism, education and research (especially medicine and oceanography), alongside high-tech companies cropping up in the inland valleys, helped to develop the city. It all makes San Diego seem more all-American than its California compadres, despite the borderland location.

The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich by Timothy Ferriss

Abraham Maslow, Albert Einstein, Amazon Mechanical Turk, Apollo 13, call centre, clean water, digital nomad, Donald Trump, drop ship, en.wikipedia.org, Firefox, fixed income, follow your passion, Ford Model T, fulfillment center, game design, global village, Iridium satellite, knowledge worker, language acquisition, late fees, lateral thinking, Maui Hawaii, oil shock, paper trading, Paradox of Choice, Parkinson's law, passive income, peer-to-peer, pre–internet, Ralph Waldo Emerson, remote working, risk tolerance, Ronald Reagan, side project, Silicon Valley, Silicon Valley startup, Skype, Steve Jobs, Vilfredo Pareto, wage slave, William of Occam

I watched a friend do this up and down dozens of subway and hotel staircases in Europe for three weeks, and—while I laughed a lot, especially when he resorted to just dragging or throwing his bags down stairs—I’d like to save you the breakdown. Trip enjoyment is inversely proportionate to the amount of crap (read: distractions) you bring with you. Practice in 30-plus countries has taught me that minimalist packing can be an art. I returned from Costa Rica last Wednesday and have since landed in Maui, where I’ll stay for one week. What did I pack and why? (See the companion video at www.fourhourblog.com.86) I practice what I’ll label the BIT method of travel: Buy It There. If you pack for every possible contingency—better bring the hiking books in case we go hiking, better bring an umbrella in case it rains, better bring dress shoes and slacks in case we go to a nice restaurant, etc.

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I’ve learned to instead allocate $50–200 per trip to a “settling fund,” which I use to buy needed items once they’re 100% needed. This includes cumbersome and hassle items like umbrellas and bottles of sunscreen that love to explode. Also, never buy if you can borrow. If you’re going on a bird-watching trip in Costa Rica, you don’t need to bring binoculars—someone else will have them. Here’s the Maui list. 1 featherweight Marmot Ion jacket (3 oz.!) 1 breathable Coolibar long-sleeve shirt to prevent sunburn. This saved me in Panama. 1 pair of polyester pants. Polyester is light, wrinkle-resistant, and dries quickly. Disco dancers and flashpackers dig it. 1 Kensington laptop lock, also used to secure all bags to stationary objects 1 single Under Armour sock, used to store sunglasses 2 nylon tanktops 1 large MSR quick-dry microfiber towel, absorbs up to seven times its weight in water 1 Ziploc bag containing toothbrush, travel toothpaste, and disposable razor 1 Fly Clear biometric travel card (www.flyclear.com),87 which cuts down my airport wait time about 95% 2 pairs of ExOfficio lightweight underwear.

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Their tagline is “17 countries. 6 weeks. And one pair of underwear.” I think I’ll opt for two, considering they weigh about as much as a handful of Kleenex. One other nice side effect of their weight: They’re much more comfortable than normal cotton underwear. 2 pairs of shorts/swimsuits 2 books: Lonely Planet Hawaii and The Entrepreneurial Imperative. (The latter comes highly recommended. Check it out.) 1 sleeping mask and earplugs 1 pair of Reef sandals. Best to get a pair with removable straps that go around the heel. 1 Canon PowerShot SD300 digital camera with extra 2GB SD memory card. God, I love this camera more than words can describe.

Cast-Iron Cooking with Sisters on the Fly by Irene Rawlings

California gold rush, Mason jar, Maui Hawaii

FABULOUS SCALLOPED POTATOES This dish is great for those dog days of summer, when you don’t want to turn the oven on. Sally McCabe (Sister #1650) cooks it all outdoors in a Dutch oven. Serves 10 to 12 2 to 3 Yukon gold potatoes, thinly sliced 2 to 3 russet potatoes, thinly sliced 2 to 3 medium yams, thinly sliced 1 to 2 medium sweet onions (Walla Walla or Maui), thinly sliced 8 tablespoons (1 stick) butter, cut into small pieces Salt and black pepper 2 cups whipping cream Butter a 12-inch Dutch oven. Layer the potatoes, yams, and onions in the pot. Dot with the butter. Season with salt and pepper to taste. When done layering, pour the whipping cream over the potatoes.

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Serves 6 1 (12-ounce) can frozen limeade concentrate 3 (12-ounce) long-necked beers 8 ounces tequila Juice of 2 fresh limes 2 cups berry-flavored soda pop (Mountain Dew Code Red, Berry Sprite, or Berry 7-Up) Fresh berries, for garnish (optional) Mint sprigs, for garnish (optional) In a large glass pitcher, mix together the limeade concentrate, beer, tequila, fresh lime juice, and soda pop. Serve in Mason jars, either poured over ice cubes or blended in a blender with crushed ice. Garnish with fresh berries or mint. HAWAIIAN LAVA FLOW When you’re dreaming about Hawaii, sometimes only an umbrella drink will do. Robin Caraway (Sister #1078) and her mom, Joan Eaton (Sister #1079), developed this tropical recipe. Serves 1 2 fresh strawberries, hulled, plus more for garnish ¼ ripe (but not too ripe) banana 1½ ounces coconut-flavored Malibu rum 2 tablespoons pineapple juice 1 tablespoon orange juice Mash the strawberries and banana in the bottom of a shaker: Fill the shaker with ice and then add the rum, pineapple juice, and orange juice.

Zeitgeist by Bruce Sterling

anti-communist, Ayatollah Khomeini, Berlin Wall, bread and circuses, cotton gin, Frank Gehry, Grace Hopper, informal economy, invisible hand, Iridium satellite, jitney, market bubble, Maui Hawaii, new economy, offshore financial centre, PalmPilot, rolodex, sexual politics, shareholder value, Silicon Valley, Ted Kaczynski, the scientific method, undersea cable, upwardly mobile, urban decay, Y2K

They have coppers coming through the front doors and VPs flying out windows!” “All the more reason that the boss needs ready money. Screw anybody you have to, Nick, screw the Turks, screw the girls, screw the road crew, but don’t ever screw Makoto. I want Makoto fat and happy, man, I want him in his aloha shirt puffing Maui Wowie.” Nick scowled. “Makoto’s a bleedin’ rock musician. He never checks his books, he can’t even read them! We could take Makoto for anything we want! He’d never know, and he doesn’t even care!” “Nick, that’s a great wideboy’s analysis there, and I agree with you totally. I love you for that, Nick; I’m glad we have a relationship here.

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“Eat some baklava, Nick. Try some of this walnut chicken.” Starlitz forced a fork into the accountant’s jittery hand. “Any more trouble shipping the boss’s cut to Hawaii?” “Yes, that’s very troublesome!” shouted Nick politely. “The shell companies, no problem! Fund transfers to and from Istanbul, no problem! Tax avoidance, no problem!” Nick helped himself to a grape-leaf dolma. “Large sums of Euroyen from the Akdeniz Bankasi to a Japanese bank branch in Hawaii, yes, that is a definite challenge!” Starlitz grew intent. “We need you to handle that, Nick.” “The locals don’t like it!” Nick objected. “I don’t like it either!”

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“She’s dead as Napoleon, Lekhi. She’s deader than Minitel.” “That’s a very big problem. I’ll be in touch.” Starlitz hung up. AS THE PLANE ROSE FROM THE NEW AND BARELY FUNCTIONAL Denver airport, Zeta stuck her nose to the scratched and clouded glass. “Boy, you’re the greatest, Dad. No finals! And Hawaii! Wow, I’ve never even been to Hawaii. Can we surf? Boy, life is just so great!” BY THE DAWN OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY EVERY SCRAP of the island of Kauai had been tidily sewn up by six oligarchical clans. These were Anglo-Hawaiian plantation folks, people with the tooth-gritting single-mindedness of Scarlett O’Hara, but in sarongs instead of hoop skirts.

Frommer's Israel by Robert Ullian

airport security, British Empire, car-free, Chuck Templeton: OpenTable:, East Village, Easter island, gentrification, haute cuisine, Khartoum Gordon, mass immigration, Maui Hawaii, Mount Scopus, place-making, planned obsolescence, Silicon Valley, Skype, Suez crisis 1956, sustainable-tourism, trade route, urban planning, urban sprawl, Yom Kippur War

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Better, Stronger, Faster: The Myth of American Decline . . . And the Rise of a New Economy by Daniel Gross

"World Economic Forum" Davos, 2013 Report for America's Infrastructure - American Society of Civil Engineers - 19 March 2013, Affordable Care Act / Obamacare, Airbnb, Alan Greenspan, American Society of Civil Engineers: Report Card, asset-backed security, Bakken shale, banking crisis, Bear Stearns, BRICs, British Empire, business cycle, business process, business process outsourcing, call centre, carbon tax, Carmen Reinhart, clean water, collapse of Lehman Brothers, collateralized debt obligation, commoditize, congestion pricing, creative destruction, credit crunch, currency manipulation / currency intervention, demand response, Donald Trump, financial engineering, Frederick Winslow Taylor, high net worth, high-speed rail, housing crisis, hydraulic fracturing, If something cannot go on forever, it will stop - Herbert Stein's Law, illegal immigration, index fund, intangible asset, intermodal, inventory management, Kenneth Rogoff, labor-force participation, LNG terminal, low interest rates, low skilled workers, man camp, Mark Zuckerberg, Martin Wolf, Mary Meeker, Maui Hawaii, McMansion, money market fund, mortgage debt, Network effects, new economy, obamacare, oil shale / tar sands, oil shock, peak oil, plutocrats, price stability, quantitative easing, race to the bottom, reserve currency, reshoring, Richard Florida, rising living standards, risk tolerance, risk/return, scientific management, Silicon Valley, Silicon Valley startup, six sigma, Skype, sovereign wealth fund, Steve Jobs, superstar cities, the High Line, transit-oriented development, Wall-E, Yogi Berra, zero-sum game, Zipcar

Hawaii attracted 1.2 million visitors from Japan in 2010, down 12 percent from 2006, and the figures cratered in the wake of the March 2011 tsunami. Meanwhile domestic arrivals in Hawaii were down 10 percent between 2007 and 2010.6 Hawaii’s great hope is that Chinese tourists will start to fill in the gaps. “There are more millionaires produced in China every year than any other country in the world,” Juergen T. Steinmetz, president of the Hawaii Tourism Association, told Maui Now. “They can afford to spend $2,000 a day while vacationing, and they want to travel in style and comfort to a destination that understands their cultural desires and language.”

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Information on incoming tourism to the United States can be seen at http://tinet.ita.doc.gov/tinews/archive/tinews2011/20110316.html; data on exits and economic impact can be accessed via the portal of ITA’s Office of Travel and Tourism Industries, http://tinet.ita.doc.gov/. 6. On the first Chinese charter to Hawaii, see http://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/Global/story.asp?S=13935812. 7. Author interview with Nahoopii; data on Hawaii tourism come from the Hawaii Department of Business, Economic Development and Tourism, http://hawaii.gov/dbedt/info/visitor-stats. 8. Elizabeth Holmes, “Stores Push for Chinese Tourists,” Wall Street Journal, June 9, 2011, http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304563104576361270343556278.html. 9.

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This was the first direct flight from China to Hawaii, and in difficult times for the state’s vital tourism industry such milestones offer a ray of hope. Hawaii depends on two principal areas for the bulk of its 7.1 million annual visitors: Japan and the West Coast of the United States. Twenty-five years ago massive luxury-goods temples were erected on Kalakaua Avenue, dedicated to Chanel, Tiffany, and Hugo Boss, to appeal to flush Japanese honeymooners. Lush golf courses were carved out of volcanic soil to appeal to Japanese and American tourists. But both core markets have been depressed for several years. Hawaii attracted 1.2 million visitors from Japan in 2010, down 12 percent from 2006, and the figures cratered in the wake of the March 2011 tsunami.

Spectrum Women: Walking to the Beat of Autism by Barb Cook, Samantha Craft

Asperger Syndrome, autism spectrum disorder, cuban missile crisis, en.wikipedia.org, epigenetics, financial independence, Kickstarter, labor-force participation, longitudinal study, Maui Hawaii, neurotypical, off-the-grid, pattern recognition, phenotype, rolodex, seminal paper, sexual politics, theory of mind, women in the workforce

The visual image of those 15 brown bags still makes me feel good. Another example: I used to have all the family’s Christmas presents bought and wrapped before October. I learned to stop over-planning during a family trip to Maui. I’d spent months scheduling out everything. I had booked the excursions and even narrowed down what food I would order at what establishment each mealtime! Not long after our plane set down in Hawaii, the island of Maui experienced a freak storm. Most of our plans were canceled. Even the beaches were closed. As I watched multiple palm tree branches break off from the force of the wind, I promised myself never to overthink a vacation itinerary again.

Countdown to Zero Day: Stuxnet and the Launch of the World's First Digital Weapon by Kim Zetter

air gap, Ayatollah Khomeini, Brian Krebs, crowdsourcing, data acquisition, Doomsday Clock, drone strike, Edward Snowden, facts on the ground, false flag, Firefox, friendly fire, Google Earth, information retrieval, information security, John Markoff, Julian Assange, Kickstarter, Loma Prieta earthquake, machine readable, Maui Hawaii, military-industrial complex, MITM: man-in-the-middle, Morris worm, pre–internet, RAND corporation, rolling blackouts, Silicon Valley, skunkworks, smart grid, smart meter, South China Sea, Stuxnet, Timothy McVeigh, two and twenty, undersea cable, unit 8200, uranium enrichment, Vladimir Vetrov: Farewell Dossier, WikiLeaks, Y2K, zero day

The company launched in 2008 and its business prospects were so rosy that two years later it raised $30 million in venture capital, followed by $23 million in a subsequent round. In 2011, Endgame CEO Christopher Rouland told a local paper in Atlanta that the company’s revenue was “more than doubling yearly.”6 The stolen e-mails described three different packages Endgame offered, called Maui, Cayman, and Corsica. For $2.5 million a year, the Maui package provided buyers with a bundle of twenty-five zero-day exploits. The Cayman package, which cost $1.5 million, provided intelligence about millions of vulnerable machines worldwide already infected with botnet worms like Conficker and other malware. A sample map in the e-mails showed the location of vulnerable computers in the Russian Federation and a list of infected systems in key government offices and critical infrastructure facilities that included the IP address of each machine and the operating system it used.

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The exercise, dubbed “Eligible Receiver,” pitted a red team of NSA hackers against the networks of the US Pacific Command in Hawaii. The team was prohibited from using inside knowledge to conduct the attack or anything but off-the-shelf tools that were available to ordinary hackers. When the attack began, they launched their offensive through a commercial dial-up internet account and barreled straight into the military’s networks with little resistance. The system administrators in Hawaii, who had no advance knowledge of the exercise, spotted only two of the multiple intrusions the attackers made over the course of ninety days, but even then they thought nothing of the breaches because they resembled the kind of ordinary traffic that administrators expected to see on the network.

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The need for a longer lead time is one of the primary drawbacks of digital operations—designing an attack that won’t cascade to nontargeted civilian systems requires advance reconnaissance and planning, making opportunistic attacks difficult.29 More recently, leaks from former NSA systems administrator Edward Snowden have provided some of the most extensive views yet of the government’s shadowy cyber operations in its asymmetric war on terror. The documents describe NSA elite hacker forces at Fort Meade and at regional centers in Georgia, Texas, Colorado, and Hawaii, who provide US Cyber Command with the attack tools and techniques it needs for counterterrorism operations. But the government cyberwarriors have also worked with the FBI and CIA on digital spy operations, including assisting the CIA in tracking targets for its drone assassination campaign. To track Hassan Ghul, an associate of Osama bin Laden who was killed in a drone strike in 2012, the NSA deployed “an arsenal of cyber-espionage tools” to seize control of laptops, siphon audio files, and track radio transmissions—all to determine where Ghul might “bed down” at night, according to Snowden documents obtained by the Washington Post.30 And since 2001, the NSA has also penetrated a vast array of systems used by al-Qaeda associates in Yemen, Africa, and elsewhere to collect intelligence it can’t otherwise obtain through bulk-data collection programs from internet companies like Google and Yahoo or from taps of undersea cables and internet nodes.

Life on the Rocks: Building a Future for Coral Reefs by Juli Berwald

23andMe, 3D printing, Alfred Russel Wallace, Anthropocene, Black Lives Matter, carbon footprint, Charles Lindbergh, circular economy, clean water, coronavirus, COVID-19, en.wikipedia.org, Fellow of the Royal Society, financial innovation, Garrett Hardin, George Floyd, Google Earth, Gregor Mendel, Greta Thunberg, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), lateral thinking, Maui Hawaii, microbiome, mouse model, ocean acidification, Panamax, Paris climate accords, Skype, social distancing, sovereign wealth fund, stem cell, TED Talk, the scientific method, too big to fail, Tragedy of the Commons

In the years following that first amorous dive on the reef, I changed my life in very significant ways, as one does for a true love. As often happens with passion, it didn’t always go smoothly. But after many missteps, I did go to graduate school to study marine biology. Once there, I signed up for every chance I could to dive on other reefs: the Great Barrier Reef in Australia, and on the reefs surrounding Bora Bora, Jamaica, Maui, and the tip of Baja California. When I tucked my head underwater, the rush of love for the coral reef would always wash over me. Again and again, I was enthralled and entranced by the corals, by their creativity and synergy, by their beauty and complexity. Until I wasn’t. More than a decade ago, I fell off the academic path and slipped into a career as a freelance science writer mostly working on textbooks, although I occasionally wrote for magazines and websites.

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In the late 1950s, a surge in the demand for electricity called for an expansion of the power supply in Hawai`i. The Hawaiian Electric Company built a new oil-powered facility on the western side of Oahu, about eighteen miles from Honolulu. Like many power plants, it was situated on the shoreline so that it could use seawater to cool its turbines. When it passed in the 1970s, the Clean Water Act required that the electric company develop a monitoring program to document how the discharged water, which could be as much as 6°C warmer than the surrounding seawater, affected the coral reefs. Two young researchers at the Hawai`i Institute of Marine Biology took the monitoring job.

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Two young researchers at the Hawai`i Institute of Marine Biology took the monitoring job. Paul Jokiel had just moved to Hawai`i from Illinois on a teaching fellowship and was hoping to study coral. Steve Coles had just finished his master’s in marine science at the University of Georgia and had come to Hawai`i for his PhD. They received a small budget and built a marine station from the ground up, even pouring concrete themselves. They figured out how to control the temperature in their aquaria using the heat released from the back of an air-conditioning unit. Out on the reef, Steve and Paul defined levels of coral damage from the power plant’s heated seawater as “dead, bleached, pale, and normal,” what I believe was the first time the word bleached was used in the scientific literature.

How We Got Here: A Slightly Irreverent History of Technology and Markets by Andy Kessler

Albert Einstein, Andy Kessler, animal electricity, automated trading system, bank run, Big bang: deregulation of the City of London, Black Monday: stock market crash in 1987, Bletchley Park, Bob Noyce, Bretton Woods, British Empire, buttonwood tree, Charles Babbage, Claude Shannon: information theory, Corn Laws, cotton gin, Dennis Ritchie, Douglas Engelbart, Edward Lloyd's coffeehouse, Fairchild Semiconductor, fiat currency, fixed income, floating exchange rates, flying shuttle, Fractional reserve banking, full employment, GPS: selective availability, Grace Hopper, invention of the steam engine, invention of the telephone, invisible hand, Isaac Newton, Jacquard loom, James Hargreaves, James Watt: steam engine, John von Neumann, joint-stock company, joint-stock limited liability company, Joseph-Marie Jacquard, Ken Thompson, Kickstarter, Leonard Kleinrock, Marc Andreessen, Mary Meeker, Maui Hawaii, Menlo Park, Metcalfe's law, Metcalfe’s law, military-industrial complex, Mitch Kapor, Multics, packet switching, pneumatic tube, price mechanism, probability theory / Blaise Pascal / Pierre de Fermat, profit motive, proprietary trading, railway mania, RAND corporation, Robert Metcalfe, Silicon Valley, Small Order Execution System, South Sea Bubble, spice trade, spinning jenny, Steve Jobs, Suez canal 1869, supply-chain management, supply-chain management software, systems thinking, three-martini lunch, trade route, transatlantic slave trade, tulip mania, Turing machine, Turing test, undersea cable, UUNET, Wayback Machine, William Shockley: the traitorous eight

A Santa Barbara IMP went up in November and Utah in December 1969. One of the researchers at the Stanford site, Norm Abramson, was a surfer dude who spent a lot of time in Hawaii. The University of Hawaii had locations scattered across the Islands and was trying to figure out how to hook up a data network between them. It couldn’t afford to run undersea cable and modems were too slow, so they hit on the idea of using radio signals to transmit data. The problem was interference. Maui might transmit at the same time and step on the Big Island’s signal. It could use packet networks, but that didn’t solve the interference problem.

Shampoo Planet by Douglas Coupland

gentrification, invisible hand, Maui Hawaii, McJob, Menlo Park, microapartment, Ronald Reagan, Silicon Valley, telemarketer

The tuition episode was just over a year ago, before the first year of college began and before I began making money peddling fake watches. Jasmine had to burst into tears and paint a doomed portrait of me manning a french-fry computer at Happy Burger until the year 2030 in order to cajole Grandpa to cough up a bit of dough for tuition, a fraction of his and Grandma's estate, which includes their house, a time-share condo in Maui, stocks-o-rama, and, of course, a monster of a mobile home named Betty. Ten minutes later we lunge to a halt outside the River Garden, a white stucco box next to the Columbia River with a corrugated tin roof and big Chinese letters tacked onto the facade. Outside the main door is parked Grandpa's Lincoln Continental, nickname: The Building--possibly the largest passenger vehicle ever built.

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You feel like you're all potential, waiting to be rewritten, like a crisp, blank sheet of 81/2-by-11-inch white bond paper. There is no past. Once, ten years ago, back when I was ten and Daisy was eight--shortly after John Lennon was assassinated and while Jasmine was in County General pupping Mark-- Grandma and Grandpa hauled Daisy and me along with them to a hotel in Hawaii. We landed in Honolulu late at night and I fell into a deep plumeria-scented sleep as we drove down Kalakaua Avenue into Waikiki. The next morning I remember waking up and emerging downstairs into the lobby, there feeling a sense of freedom and liberation that has since been hard to top. A Pacific breeze swept over my marshmallowy mainland skin and I realized the hotel had no doors, a facet of the building I hadn't remembered from the night before.

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Hmmm ... a drop of DandruffDungeon(r) purifying lotion for flaky scalps, followed by a lusty scrub with SlimeWarrior(r) (for ladies, SlimeDamsel(r)), the shampoo of conquerors with patented ten-minute algae-plasma slime formula, manufactured by Camelot of Paramus Park Mall, New Jersey--one of Earth's four great mall fortresses along with the Sherman Oaks Galleria, the West Edmonton Mall, and the Ala Moana Shopping Center of Honolulu, Hawaii. Now for conditioner. Tough call--this cold dry weather is hell on hair. Perhaps HotLava(r) oil treatment? Or maybe the damage is major enough to merit They-Feed-at-Night, the eight-hour while-U-sleep split-end reconstruction system. No. In the end I'll condition with Hairhenge(r), containing follicle-maintenance secrets devised by the ancient druids, discovered by scientists digging for runes wherever it was druids lived.

Whistleblower: My Journey to Silicon Valley and Fight for Justice at Uber by Susan Fowler

"Susan Fowler" uber, Airbnb, Albert Einstein, Big Tech, Burning Man, cloud computing, data science, deep learning, DevOps, Donald Trump, Elon Musk, end-to-end encryption, fault tolerance, Grace Hopper, Higgs boson, Large Hadron Collider, Lyft, Maui Hawaii, messenger bag, microservices, Mitch Kapor, Richard Feynman, ride hailing / ride sharing, self-driving car, Silicon Valley, TechCrunch disrupt, Travis Kalanick, Uber for X, uber lyft, work culture

We quickly settled on a location in Maui—a hotel in a remote, beautiful part of the island. I found the perfect wedding dress, but it was a few sizes too big, so I spent my evenings with a needle and thread, carefully altering the delicate lace by hand, pinning and tucking and stitching until it fit just right. When my dress was ready, I moved on to our wedding rings, making sure they were resized and ready for our trip. Then there was the actual business of getting married: the marriage license, booking the venue, going over our vows, and planning our trip to Hawaii. Outside of work, our wedding was all I could think about, dream about, and write about.

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The particular task I was working on at the time was one that Rick had assigned to me: I was supposed to reimage a server, which meant erasing and reinstalling the operating system and software on a computer. I thanked Jake for his offer and explained that I was working with Rick to get it done and that I would definitely ask him for help if I needed it. Then he changed the conversation. He started telling me about his upcoming vacation to Hawaii, saying he was “looking to sit back and get into trouble.” “I can’t get into too much trouble on the day to day,” he added. “Have to think about work.” I looked up from my laptop and stared across the open office in front of me. I had no idea what he was talking about. I tried to think of something to say in response.

Rocket Men: The Daring Odyssey of Apollo 8 and the Astronauts Who Made Man's First Journey to the Moon by Robert Kurson

Apollo 11, Apollo 13, Berlin Wall, built by the lowest bidder, Charles Lindbergh, cuban missile crisis, Fall of the Berlin Wall, Gary Taubes, Gene Kranz, Isaac Newton, Late Heavy Bombardment, low earth orbit, Mahatma Gandhi, Maui Hawaii, Neil Armstrong, orbital mechanics / astrodynamics

Over the next three minutes, the craft would need to exceed 24,000 miles per hour to achieve the desired trajectory. The g-forces continued to increase. In Houston, everyone from Kraft and Charlesworth to the men in the farthest back rooms hardly breathed. With forty seconds to cutoff, Apollo 8 had reached about 98 percent of its target speed. In Maui, spectators at an observatory watched the exhaust plume billow from the base of the Apollo 8 rocket as the engine burned through its last seconds of life. Inside the spacecraft, the crew heard almost nothing and felt little more than an ever-increasing push-push-push as the craft grew lighter with the burning of propellant.

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“…Four…Three…Two…” Liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen flooded into the engine’s combustion chamber. An indicator in the cabin lighted up brightly, telling Borman and crew ignition was imminent. In Hawaii, hundreds of people gazed upward. All they could see was a pinpoint of light. “Ignition!” Lovell said. The J-2 engine fired, pushing the astronauts gently back into their seats. In Hawaii, observers saw the tiny point of light explode into a giant streak of flame, a man-made comet glowing bright across the dark veil of sky. This was the acceleration that would be necessary to extend the spacecraft’s orbit out to where the Moon would be in about sixty-six hours’ time.

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If all went well, the spacecraft would have slowed enough to make its final drop to Earth. The astronauts’ lives would then depend on the command module’s parachute system, and the recovery forces that even now moved back and forth in the Pacific Ocean near Hawaii like predatory big cats on the hunt. * * * — One hour remained until reentry. It was before dawn at the splashdown site, about a thousand miles southwest of Hawaii. It would still be dark when Apollo 8 arrived. Traveling at 12,500 miles per hour about 11,000 miles above Earth, the astronauts stowed the last items still loose aboard the spacecraft. Given the huge g-forces of reentry and the jarring of the impact with the water, it was critical for the crew not to allow anything loose that could damage the cabin, or themselves.

The American Way of Poverty: How the Other Half Still Lives by Sasha Abramsky

2013 Report for America's Infrastructure - American Society of Civil Engineers - 19 March 2013, Affordable Care Act / Obamacare, American Legislative Exchange Council, bank run, basic income, benefit corporation, big-box store, collective bargaining, deindustrialization, fixed income, Francis Fukuyama: the end of history, full employment, ghettoisation, Gini coefficient, government statistician, guns versus butter model, housing crisis, illegal immigration, immigration reform, income inequality, indoor plumbing, job automation, Kickstarter, land bank, Mark Zuckerberg, Maui Hawaii, microcredit, military-industrial complex, mortgage debt, mortgage tax deduction, new economy, Occupy movement, off-the-grid, offshore financial centre, payday loans, plutocrats, Ponzi scheme, Potemkin village, profit motive, Ronald Reagan, school vouchers, upwardly mobile, War on Poverty, Washington Consensus, women in the workforce, working poor, working-age population, Works Progress Administration

Two of her children had steered clear of crime, and now had decent jobs. But the other two—the oldest and the youngest—were frequently in trouble with the law. Emily had worked many jobs over the years, including a half-decade stint working the guava fields of Hawaii, some time spent trimming cauliflowers in California, more time compounding and waxing cars on Maui, and a period collecting and recycling aluminum cans. At the same time, though, she never managed to save money; frequently spent what little she had on drugs, for kicks rather than out of any addictive craving, she said in explanation, perhaps somewhat optimistically; and for close to two decades had lived in a house the ceiling of which still had the holes that were poked in it by the mentally unstable previous occupant.

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So, too, in Prokop’s daily scramble to survive, to pay her bills, to keep her house her own and her utilities on, and to retain her sense of hope while so doing, was her story related to that of Cruzanta Mercado and Paul Abiley, in their Heath Robinson plywood cabin in Hawaii, a continent and half an ocean away from Appalachian Pennsylvania. The young couple were still struggling to make ends meet and to navigate basic daily rituals that most Americans had long since been able to stop worrying about: making sure they could keep a few naked bulbs lit with electricity provided by a small generator; running down the unpaved road they lived on at the edge of the jungle in Hawaii’s Puna district to Paul’s uncle’s house when they needed to use the toilet. It was also, in its desperation, similar to the story of the 65-year-old restaurant owner I met an hour’s drive from Prokop, who had had to drop her and her husband’s health insurance several years earlier because the cost had risen to an unaffordable $16,000 per year.

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In this economy, many have fallen into poverty through no fault of their own. Many of these folks have lived, quote, “middle-income lives,” and have found themselves in this economic climate falling further behind. CHAPTER TWO BLAME GAMES Paul Abiley and Cruzanta Mercado, standing in the home that they built for themselves on the edge of the rainforest, on Hawaii’s Big Island. Because we use such simplistic language to explain poverty, we oftentimes find it easier to pile blame on the poor for their plight rather than to look for ways to tackle poverty. After all, it’s easy to castigate someone; it’s much harder to truly understand his or her circumstances.

The Stolen Year by Anya Kamenetz

"Hurricane Katrina" Superdome, 2021 United States Capitol attack, Anthropocene, basic income, Black Lives Matter, contact tracing, coronavirus, COVID-19, crowdsourcing, Day of the Dead, desegregation, disinformation, Donald Trump, East Village, emotional labour, ending welfare as we know it, epigenetics, food desert, George Floyd, glass ceiling, global pandemic, helicopter parent, informal economy, inventory management, invisible hand, Kintsugi, labor-force participation, lockdown, Mark Zuckerberg, Maui Hawaii, medical residency, Minecraft, moral panic, opioid epidemic / opioid crisis, Ponzi scheme, QAnon, Ralph Waldo Emerson, RAND corporation, randomized controlled trial, rent stabilization, risk tolerance, school choice, Sheryl Sandberg, Silicon Valley, social distancing, Thorstein Veblen, TikTok, traveling salesman, trickle-down economics, universal basic income, upwardly mobile, wages for housework, War on Poverty, white flight, women in the workforce, working poor, Works Progress Administration

A behavioral therapist was coming to the house almost every day and established a reward system for the smallest positive responses, in a sometimes controversial therapy for autism called applied behavioral analysis. Then everything shut down, and their daily life became an exhausting battle. ALEXIS MISSES HER CLASSMATES Vanessa Ince’s daughter, Alexis, has blonde pigtails and glasses. She also has a rare chromosomal abnormality and autism. When she started at her elementary school in Maui, Hawaii, at the age of eight, in 2018, she was the size of a three-year-old and was nonverbal. Vanessa worried she’d be bullied. But Alexis thrived at school. Her peers surrounded her with kindness, taking turns guiding her through her day. Because she couldn’t greet them with words, the teachers arranged for her to put a lei of flowers around her friends’ necks each morning, in the traditional Hawaiian gesture of welcome.

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She went back to crawling instead of walking, and stopped trying to use her communication device. This regression was heartbreaking. And it meant Alexis’s education plan, based on her previous evaluation in February 2020, was no longer relevant. Vanessa and her husband filed a lawsuit seeking to get Hawaii’s Department of Education to pay for the services Alexis needs in a facility where she could see other children. SPECIAL EDUCATION IS AN ADVERSARIAL SYSTEM It may seem extreme that Alexis’s family considered it necessary to file a lawsuit in the middle of a pandemic to get her what she needed. But it’s actually pretty common in the adversarial world of special education.

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In practice, students with disabilities were, if anything, a little more likely to remain remote. I heard from some special education teachers that they worried their students would not be able to wear masks or wash their hands correctly. And they worried about transmission for those students who need help eating and help with the bathroom. Hawaii did bring special education students back to school. But it was an excruciating choice. Alexis is in delicate health and uses a feeding tube. Vanessa was terrified of her getting COVID-19. “Do we keep her home, you know, in a bubble or do we send her out into the world and risk her getting something that can kill her?”

Total Recall: My Unbelievably True Life Story by Arnold Schwarzenegger, Peter Petre

Berlin Wall, Boeing 747, California gold rush, call centre, clean tech, clean water, Donald Trump, financial independence, Golden Gate Park, high-speed rail, illegal immigration, index card, Maui Hawaii, Mikhail Gorbachev, Nelson Mandela, oil shale / tar sands, pension reform, risk tolerance, rolodex, Ronald Reagan, Saturday Night Live, Silicon Valley, stem cell, subprime mortgage crisis, Suez crisis 1956, Y2K

These guys knew me from the campaigning I had done for Wilson. They knew I was funny. They knew I spoke well. They saw me as a serious possibility. — Over the next several weeks, I spent a lot of time out of the state: at an Inner-City Games event in Las Vegas, a Hummer promotion in New York, a visit to Guam, a premiere in Osaka, Japan, and Easter in Maui, Hawaii, with Maria and the kids. But along the way, I started sounding out close friends. Fredi Gerstl, my mentor from Austria, was very supportive. As far as he was concerned, nothing was harder than being a good political leader—so many interests, so many constituents, so many built-in obstacles. It’s like captaining the Titanic as opposed to driving a speedboat.

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Schwarzenegger Archive This is me kissing me on Halloween, 2001, except that the right-hand Arnold is Maria wearing a Terminator mask. Schwarzenegger Archive As you can tell from the photo above, Halloween is a big deal in the Schwarzenegger house. Schwarzenegger Archive Patrick and Christopher with me behind the governor’s desk in Sacramento. California State Archives / Steven Hellon Trips like this one to Maui during spring break 2007 were a happy change from all the time our family spent apart because of the governorship. Schwarzenegger Archive Katherine draping her long hair over my head for laughs. Schwarzenegger Archive I still love driving my M47 tank from the Austrian army, which now resides at a studio lot outside Los Angeles and appears occasionally in World War II movies.

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But I bought it and must have been one of the few new immigrants in LA with health insurance. Around Thanksgiving 1969 I got an invitation to a December bodybuilding competition and demonstration in Hawaii. The crocodile wrestler had been planning to go home for the holidays, and he said, “I love Hawaii. Why don’t I come with you and hang out and train with you for a few days, and then I’ll go on to Australia from there?” The plan sounded good to me. Besides the obvious attractions of the beaches and the girls, Hawaii offered the chance to get to know Dr. Richard You, a US Olympic team physician who practiced there, and to visit weight-lifting legends like Tommy Kono, Timothy Leon, and Harold “Oddjob” Sakata (whom I already knew from Munich).

Beginners: The Joy and Transformative Power of Lifelong Learning by Tom Vanderbilt

AlphaGo, crowdsourcing, DeepMind, deliberate practice, Downton Abbey, Dunning–Kruger effect, fake it until you make it, functional fixedness, future of work, G4S, global supply chain, IKEA effect, Khan Academy, Kickstarter, lateral thinking, Maui Hawaii, meta-analysis, mirror neurons, performance metric, personalized medicine, quantum entanglement, randomized controlled trial, Rubik’s Cube, self-driving car, side hustle, Silicon Valley, Skype, Socratic dialogue, spaced repetition, Steve Jobs, zero-sum game

Her husband, eyeing the genial old instructors, encouraged her. Just then an instructor named Trevor, whom she described as a “younger, cuter, less buff version of Laird Hamilton,” showed up to give her the lesson. “My husband just laughed,” she said. She spent the whole morning catching waves on what felt like Jaws—the famous break in Maui—but that the grim truth of photography later revealed to be a “lake-like surface.” She thumbed through the photos, looking for “hot-mom shots,” finding instead one of her “on my lake-like non-wave, with my bottom unflatteringly at half-mast, full crack showing, in the face of this poor kid.” “Horrified,” she told me.

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I was drawn in the way most middle-aged novices are: Surfing was an object of long and distant fascination that I wanted to try before it was too late. Something that might test me in new ways. When I was growing up in the ocean-starved Midwest in the 1970s, surfing trickled into my consciousness, as many things did, via television: a clip or two on Wide World of Sports; the special “Hawaii trilogy” of The Brady Bunch in which Greg suffers a scary-looking wipeout into a reef (I can still hear the eerie music as the taboo tiki idol worked its evil magic). I don’t think I saw a surfer in person until I was in my late twenties, on a magazine assignment in Orange County to interview the noted surfer and shaper Donald Takayama—a task that was definitely over my head.

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I’d queue up Chet Baker Sings and try to practice my vocals during the forty-five-minute trip. As much as the exhilaration of riding waves, I looked forward to simply being in the water. I tried to cultivate surf buddies, as much for safety as companionship. There was Diana, a fellow parent at my daughter’s school, but she moved to Hawaii. Henrik, a stoic, modern-day Viking from Denmark, was a good surfer, maybe too good—there were days I couldn’t join him—but he moved to Copenhagen. If syncing ability was hard, syncing schedules was even harder. So I usually went alone, which is typically not advised. And yet I relished the idea of just me and the sea.

The New Elite: Inside the Minds of the Truly Wealthy by Dr. Jim Taylor

Alan Greenspan, Alvin Toffler, British Empire, business cycle, call centre, Cornelius Vanderbilt, dark matter, Donald Trump, estate planning, full employment, glass ceiling, income inequality, Jeff Bezos, Larry Ellison, longitudinal study, Louis Pasteur, Maui Hawaii, McMansion, means of production, passive income, performance metric, plutocrats, Plutonomy: Buying Luxury, Explaining Global Imbalances, Ronald Reagan, stealth mode startup, Steve Jobs, Thorstein Veblen, trickle-down economics, vertical integration, women in the workforce, zero-sum game

These sponsors include AgencySacks, American Honda, Bank of America, Bank of New York, Mellon, Bombardier Flexjet, Cadillac, Cartier, Chanel, Fairmont Hotels & Resorts, Fireman’s Fund Insurance, Four Seasons Hotels & Resorts, Gucci, Infiniti, Leading Real Estate Companies of the World, Lexus, Lincoln, Louis Vuitton, Lyle Anderson, Maui Land & WHEN WE ADD 225 226 Appendix Pineapple Company, Mercedes-Benz, Neuberger Berman, Saks Fifth Avenue, U.S. Trust, and Union Bank of California. Our Three Surveys To date we have conducted three large syndicated studies of the affluent and wealthy in America. In each, we have used a variety of methodological techniques to ensure that our samples of individuals are demographically and psychologically representative of today’s financial elite.

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They average over five vacations a year, spending an average of more than $35,000, although many spend much more. Their travel destinations are diverse and dispersed (see Table 5-3). Interestingly, their top two domestic travel destinations are the two capitals of American shopping: New York City and Las Vegas. Hawaii, the Caribbean, and Europe are common destinations as well. The wealthy average more than twenty nights annually in hotels for personal stays; about half typically spend less than $300 a night, but nearly one in four typically spends over $400 a night. They are frequent business travelers as well, averaging over eight trips and twenty nights in hotels for business purposes, giving them the perks of business travel—frequent-flier miles for free personal trips and first-class upgrades, hotel points for free personal hotel stays, and the opportunity to ‘‘piggyback’’ personal trips and experiences onto business trips.

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In air travel, for example, the affluent struggle Tab le 5- 3 Tra ve l d es ti na ti on s o f t he we al th y ( % o f t ho se su r v ey ed ) Plan Travel in Next Year (in Lower 48 States) Plan Travel in Next 2 years (Outside Lower 48 States) New York, NY 47 Italy 38 Las Vegas, NV 41 Caribbean & West Indies 36 Chicago, IL 31 Hawaii 36 Boston, MA 32 United Kingdom 34 Los Angeles, CA 30 France 29 San Francisco, CA 27 Mexico 27 Washington, DC 25 Canada 21 Aspen/Denver, CO 25 Australia 17 Orlando 24 Spain 16 Miami 24 Ireland/China (tied) 14 78 The New Elite with the psychological trade-offs of paying an extra $3,000 for a few hours in a first-class seat that is just a few inches larger than a regular seat.

Secrets of the Millionaire Mind by T. Harv Eker

Buckminster Fuller, Build a better mousetrap, Donald Trump, fear of failure, high net worth, Maui Hawaii, Parkinson's law, passive income, retail therapy

At the course, Stephen began to understand that these nonsupportive beliefs were his mom’s, based on her past programming, and not his. We then took it a step further and helped him to create a strategy whereby he wouldn’t lose his mother’s approval if he got rich. It was simple. His mom loved Hawaii. So Stephen invested in a beachfront condo on Maui. He sends her there for the entire winter. She’s in heaven, and so is he. First, she now loves that he’s rich and tells everyone how generous he is. Second, he doesn’t have to deal with her for six months of the year. Brilliant! In my own life, after a slow start, I began doing well in business but never seemed to make money with my stocks.

The Infinite Machine: How an Army of Crypto-Hackers Is Building the Next Internet With Ethereum by Camila Russo

4chan, Airbnb, Alan Greenspan, algorithmic trading, altcoin, always be closing, Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic, Asian financial crisis, Benchmark Capital, Big Tech, bitcoin, blockchain, Burning Man, Cambridge Analytica, Cody Wilson, crowdsourcing, cryptocurrency, distributed ledger, diversification, Dogecoin, Donald Trump, East Village, Ethereum, ethereum blockchain, Flash crash, Free Software Foundation, Google Glasses, Google Hangouts, hacker house, information security, initial coin offering, Internet of things, Mark Zuckerberg, Maui Hawaii, mobile money, new economy, non-fungible token, off-the-grid, peer-to-peer, Peter Thiel, pets.com, Ponzi scheme, prediction markets, QR code, reserve currency, RFC: Request For Comment, Richard Stallman, Robert Shiller, Sand Hill Road, Satoshi Nakamoto, semantic web, sharing economy, side project, Silicon Valley, Skype, slashdot, smart contracts, South of Market, San Francisco, the Cathedral and the Bazaar, the payments system, too big to fail, tulip mania, Turing complete, Two Sigma, Uber for X, Vitalik Buterin

Charles wears button-down shirts with pens clipped to his chest pocket and looked about a decade older than his twenty-six years in 2013, thanks to a receding hairline and a little chubbiness. No one would ever guess he was born and raised in Maui until he was eight, when the family moved to Colorado, where his mother’s big Italian family was based. Life in Hawaii was good. He was homeschooled—his father, Mark, had a bad experience as a minority white student in Hawaii’s public school system and didn’t want his son to go through the same—so he had more freedom to spend extra time focusing on math and computers. One of his favorite things to do was to take the thirty-minute walk from his house to the library with his mother and brother.

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Taylor Gerring, who was part of the early team in the Zug house and had led the creation of the crowdsale website, was becoming increasingly tired of these exchanges. The relationship between Taylor and Ming deteriorated, and Taylor was finding it increasingly hard to get his proposals reviewed and emails answered. At the end of 2015, his contract wasn’t renewed, which he learned from Ming’s brother-in-law, a Hawaii-based attorney who was doing work for the foundation along with Ming’s sister. The problem wasn’t only that their funds were depleting quickly, but also that Swiss regulators had concerns about the foundation’s use of its ether holdings, and until the first week of November 2015, it was unable to use ETH issued in the launch of the network.

Running Money by Andy Kessler

Alan Greenspan, Andy Kessler, Apple II, bioinformatics, Bob Noyce, British Empire, business intelligence, buy and hold, buy low sell high, call centre, Charles Babbage, Corn Laws, cotton gin, Douglas Engelbart, Fairchild Semiconductor, family office, flying shuttle, full employment, General Magic , George Gilder, happiness index / gross national happiness, interest rate swap, invisible hand, James Hargreaves, James Watt: steam engine, joint-stock company, joint-stock limited liability company, junk bonds, knowledge worker, Leonard Kleinrock, Long Term Capital Management, mail merge, Marc Andreessen, margin call, market bubble, Mary Meeker, Maui Hawaii, Menlo Park, Metcalfe’s law, Michael Milken, Mitch Kapor, Network effects, packet switching, pattern recognition, pets.com, railway mania, risk tolerance, Robert Metcalfe, Sand Hill Road, Silicon Valley, South China Sea, spinning jenny, Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, Suez canal 1869, Toyota Production System, TSMC, UUNET, zero-sum game

“Amazing.” One of the researchers at the Stanford site, Norm Abramson, was a surfer dude who spent a lot of time in Hawaii. The University of Hawaii had locations scattered across the islands and was trying Packet Racket 187 to figure out how to hook up a data network among them. They couldn’t afford to run cable undersea to connect their computers, and modems were too slow, so they hit on the idea of using radio signals to transmit data. The problem though was interference. Maui might transmit at the same time and step on the Big Island’s signal. They could use packet networks, but that didn’t solve the interference problem.

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See Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Tsuji, Haruo, 157–58 turbine engine, 94–95 Tut Systems, 145, 217, 219 Tyco, 290 UCLA, 184, 185, 187 unfair competitive advantage, 45, 248 Union Carbide, 236 Uniphase, 176, 177 United Airlines, 246, 292, 293 United Auto Workers, 241, 243 University of California, Los Angeles, 184, 185, 187 312 Index University of California, Santa Barbara, 187 University of Hawaii, 186–87 University of Illinois, 187, 195, 197, 199 University of Utah, 187 UNIX, 191 Upside (magazine), 40, 195 US Air, 292, 293 uucp, 191 UUNET, 199 Valentine, Don, 42, 45, 67, 80, 81, 96, 205, 212 VCs. See venture capitalists venture capitalists, 130, 138, 139, 144–45, 194, 197–98, 201 VentureStar, 3 Verity, 97 Versant, 60–63, 96 Vietnam, 281 Visigenic, 106 Vonderschmitt, Bernie, 129–31 voodoo economics, 276 Wall Street Journal, 216, 259 Wal-Mart, 78, 255 WANS, 188, 199 Warner Brothers, 71 warships, 95 watches, digital, 127–28 waterfalls (big-time trends), 73, 77–79, 225, 279, 295 Water Frame, 65 Watt, James, 53–55, 57, 65, 66, 78, 89, 91, 95, 125–26, 190, 268 wealth, 278, 280 creation of, 248, 257, 275–76, 296 family offices and, 109–10 intellectual property and, 263 meaning of, 233–35 weaving, 64–65, 66 Web.

Microserfs by Douglas Coupland

Apple Newton, Big Tech, Biosphere 2, car-free, computer age, El Camino Real, Future Shock, game design, General Magic , guns versus butter model, hive mind, Kevin Kelly, Maui Hawaii, means of production, Menlo Park, military-industrial complex, Multics, postindustrial economy, RAND corporation, Ronald Reagan, Sand Hill Road, Silicon Valley, Stephen Hawking, Steve Ballmer, Steve Jobs, telemarketer, Watson beat the top human players on Jeopardy!, white picket fence

Karla said that the transdermal nicotine patch was invented just over the hill, on Page Mill Road, near the Interval Research Corporation headquarters. History! Then Karla suggested we visit Interval Research's campus and see what it's like: "If Syntex was the 1970s and Apple was the 1980s, then Interval is the 1990s." * * * Interval Research's headquarters were like a middle-class honeymoon hotel in Maui circa 1976, and slightly gone to seed, with Gilligan's Island-style lagoonlets between the buildings and a lobby with a vaguely medical/dental, is-this-where-I-drop-off-my-urine-sample? feel. And (important) there were CARS in the parking lot, even on the Sunday after Christmas. Karla said she knew this girl Laura who worked there, and so we checked, and she was there.

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We drove past the home of Thomas Watson Jr., 99 Notre Dame Avenue, San Jose, California. Watson steered IBM into the computer age - and was made prez of the company in 1952. In 1953 he developed the first commercial storage device for computers. He died on a New Year's Eve. * * * On the radio we heard that Bill got married, on Lanai in Hawaii, and we all screamed so loudly that the Carp nearly went off the road. And apparently Alice Cooper was there. So to celebrate we played old Alice Cooper tapes and purchased a "Joey Heatherton" fondue kit in a secondhand store and later on boxed it up to mail to Microsoft. They'll probably think it's a bomb.

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That's all I can say." I later e-mailed this Huxleyan thought to Abe who replied: *1959* 100th McDonald's: Fon du Lac, Wisconsin *1960* 200th McDonald's: KnoHuille, Tennessee *1964* Filet-o-Fish born *1966* First indoor-seating McDonald's: Huntsville, Alabama *1970* First McDonald's breakfast: Waikiki, Hawaii *1973* Quarter Pounder born *1975* Egg McMuffin born *1975* Twoallbeefpattiesspecialsaucelettucecheesepicklesonionsonasesameseedbun *1983* McNuggets born * * * At the office we've decided that instead of Friday being jeans day, we'd have Boxer Shorts Day instead. It's way comfier, way sexier, and it's funny watching Michael admonish the male staff members, "Er . . . gentlemen: no units displayed if at all possible

Truevine: Two Brothers, a Kidnapping, and a Mother's Quest: A True Story of the Jim Crow South by Beth Macy

affirmative action, Charles Lindbergh, company town, desegregation, fixed income, Glass-Steagall Act, independent contractor, indoor plumbing, market bubble, mass incarceration, Maui Hawaii, New Journalism, strikebreaker, TED Talk, transatlantic slave trade, transcontinental railway, union organizing, urban renewal, W. E. B. Du Bois, white flight

Other show owners had tried, and failed, to make money operating in the Caribbean, and “some… lost all their equipment, even their elephants!” marveled Bob Blackmar. But Cox must have had “some kind of in with the Cuban government,” he said, because he handled the immigration transitions with ease. In a typical year, the performers’ route ranged from San Juan, Puerto Rico, to Maui to Mexico City to Montreal, then down through the southern United States, into Nashville and New Orleans. They played indoors and outdoors, and Kortes’s assistants often gave one-off lectures to local Kiwanis or chamber of commerce groups titled “The Home Life of Freaks.” “Sympathy is wasted on human oddities,” said a Kortes lecturer at a Cleveland stop.

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(Courtesy of Bob Blackmar) During the last half of their careers, the Muse brothers frequently traveled to Hawaii, Venezuela, and Mexico in the off-season, performing with the Pete Kortes Sideshow. Whenever Kortes’s checks failed to clear, lawyer Austin would have to go find them—and make the circus pay what it owed them. Pete Kortes is fourth from left, upper row, shown next to his brother, who has his arm around Athelia. (Courtesy of Bob Blackmar) The brothers were often photographed wearing Hawaiian shirts during late-career tours with the Pete Kortes Sideshow and fondly remembered learning to swim with the dolphins in Hawaii. As one elderly black Roanoker recalled, “They were the first black folks I ever knew to ride a plane!”

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(Copyright Roanoke Times, reprinted by permission) Pete Kortes (under the Hotel Paradise sign, wearing glasses and with a cigarette) usually took his sideshow to Hawaii and other tropical locations during the circus off-season. George Muse is pictured third from the left in the nearest row, between Barney Nelson and Athelia. George and Willie Muse (at left, George has his arm on his brother’s shoulder) looked back fondly on the tail end of their careers with Pete Kortes Sideshow, pictured here with the group in the late 1940s in Hawaii. (Courtesy of Bob Blackmar) George and Willie Muse (back row, fourth and fifth from the left) in a group photo of the Conklin Shows sideshow from the 1950s.

The End of Cheap China: Economic and Cultural Trends That Will Disrupt the World by Shaun Rein

business climate, credit crunch, Deng Xiaoping, Donald Trump, facts on the ground, glass ceiling, high net worth, high-speed rail, illegal immigration, income per capita, indoor plumbing, job-hopping, Maui Hawaii, middle-income trap, price stability, quantitative easing, Silicon Valley, Skype, South China Sea, Steve Jobs, thinkpad, trade route, trickle-down economics, upwardly mobile, urban planning, women in the workforce, young professional, zero-sum game

Just five years ago, the majority of sales were to Americans. Today, the average Chinese tourist spends $7,000 per trip to the United States. They are also the highest-spending tourists per capita in France. To attract more sales, therefore, brands should hire Mandarin-speaking sales clerks, much as many retailers on the Gold Coast in Australia and Maui in Hawaii hired Japanese-speaking staff in the 1980s. The British retailer Harrods announced that their sales to affluent Chinese in the first quarter of 2011 soared 40 percent after they installed 75 ATMs that accept UnionPay cards, which let shoppers deduct funds directly from their bank accounts in China.

Cockpit Confidential: Everything You Need to Know About Air Travel: Questions, Answers, and Reflections by Patrick Smith

Airbus A320, airline deregulation, airport security, Atul Gawande, Boeing 747, call centre, Captain Sullenberger Hudson, collective bargaining, crew resource management, D. B. Cooper, high-speed rail, inflight wifi, Korean Air Lines Flight 007, legacy carrier, low cost airline, Maui Hawaii, Mercator projection, military-industrial complex, Neil Armstrong, New Urbanism, pattern recognition, race to the bottom, Skype, Tenerife airport disaster, US Airways Flight 1549, zero-sum game

Chicago O’Hare’s identifier, ORD, pays honors to the old Orchard Field. Others are geographical associations or personal tributes, some more obscure than others. In Rio de Janeiro your plane will land at Galeão, on Governor’s Island (Ilha do Governador), lending to GIG. On Maui, OGG is homage to Bertram Hogg (spoken with a silent H), Hawaii native and Pacific flying pioneer. In one of those moments of American puritanical excess, a campaign was launched in 2002 to change the identifier for Sioux City, Iowa, from SUX to something less objectionable. The campaign failed and the letters, along with some pleasantly roguish charm, were retained.

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You didn’t grab a last minute seat for $99 and pop over to Las Vegas—or to Mallorca or Phuket—for a long weekend. Flying was a luxury, and people indulged sporadically, if at all. In 1939, aboard Pan Am’s Dixie Clipper, it cost $750 to fly round-trip between New York and France. That’s equal to well over $11,000 in today’s money. In 1970, it cost the equivalent of $2,700 to fly from New York to Hawaii. Things changed. Planes, for one, became more efficient. Aircraft like the 707 and the 747 made long-haul travel affordable to the masses. Then the effects of deregulation kicked in, changing forever the way airlines competed. Fares plummeted, and passengers poured in. Yes, flying became more aggravating and less comfortable.

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Has intense competition not provided an upside for the consumer, however? Passengers have reaped the benefit of dirt-cheap tickets, for one. As I mentioned in this book’s introduction, in 1939, it cost the equivalent of over $6,000 for a round-trip ticket between New York and France. As recently as the 1970s, flying from New York to Hawaii cost nearly $3,000. On my bookshelf at home is an old American Airlines ticket receipt. It’s a flea market find dating from 1946. That year, somebody named James Connors paid $334 to fly each direction between Ireland and New York. That’s equal to $3,690 today—one way. In 2013, you can pick up an off-season round-trip on that route for less than $600.

The Jasons: The Secret History of Science's Postwar Elite by Ann Finkbeiner

anthropic principle, anti-communist, Boeing 747, computer age, Dr. Strangelove, guns versus butter model, illegal immigration, Maui Hawaii, Menlo Park, military-industrial complex, Murray Gell-Mann, mutually assured destruction, nuclear taboo, old-boy network, profit motive, RAND corporation, Richard Feynman, Ronald Reagan, Strategic Defense Initiative

In addition to funding Jason, DARPA was also funding both the aerospace industry and air force laboratories to invent ways of sensing the exact distortion in an image and of correcting that distortion with a mirror. And these industry and military scientists also built systems that worked. In the mid-1970s, on a small DARPA telescope on Maui at the top of Mount Haleakala—which, at three thousand meters, was as close to the top of the atmosphere as they could get and still be on the ground—they installed what was now called an adaptive optics system. Over the next few years, the industry and military scientists figured out how to deform the mirror more precisely and finely.

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The center’s projects are two new kinds…each aimed in slightly different directions: Center for Adaptive Optics at the Lick Observatory, online at http://cfao.ucolick.org/research/exao.php and http://cfao.ucolick.org/research/elts.php. Astronomy websites show adaptive optics…its tiny moon: Neptune images at Center for Adaptive Optics at the Lick Observatory, online at http://cfao.ucolick.org/pgallery/io.php. Images of stars around black hole at the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope at the University of Hawaii may be found at http://www.cfht.hawaii.edu/Instruments/Imaging/AOB/best_pictures.html#galactic%20center. Asteroid images may be found at the Southwest Research Institute website, http://www.boulder.swri.edu/~merline/press_release. The military is using adaptive optics…hundreds of miles away: Louis A.

Healthy at 100: The Scientifically Proven Secrets of the World's Healthiest and Longest-Lived Peoples by John Robbins

caloric restriction, caloric restriction, clean water, collective bargaining, Community Supported Agriculture, Donald Trump, happiness index / gross national happiness, illegal immigration, indoor plumbing, land reform, life extension, lifelogging, longitudinal study, Maui Hawaii, meta-analysis, Nelson Mandela, randomized controlled trial, Silicon Valley, telemarketer

To simulate actual racing conditions, I entered every race I could find. If there were two on the same day, so much the better, because that would force me to race when tired, a condition I knew I’d face doing the Ironman. I entered “The Run to the Sun,” a 37-mile run up to the top of Haleakala, a 10,000-foot-high mountain on the island of Maui, Hawaii. I remember reaching the twenty-six-mile point and looking back at the ocean far, far, below, not believing that these two legs had already carried me the equivalent of a full marathon, straight uphill. Then I turned back toward the mountaintop, still more than ten miles beyond. My internal response was I don’t have it in me; I just can’t do it.

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OKINAWA The southernmost Japanese prefecture (state) of Okinawa is made up of 161 beautiful islands that are the dwelling place of 1.4 million people. Adorned with palm trees and blessed with an abundance of flora, fauna, and pristine rain forest, these subtropical islands form an archipelago stretching for eight hundred miles between the main Japanese islands and Taiwan. Okinawa is often called “Japan’s Hawaii” because the weather is so pleasant, with an average temperature of 82 degrees Fahrenheit in July and 61 in January. To most North Americans, Okinawa is known for being home to the largest American military presence in the Far East as well as for having been the site of the longest and bloodiest battle of World War II.

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Currently he is the chair of the Division of Gerontology at Okinawa International University. He has written more than two hundred peer-reviewed scientific publications. Bradley Willcox, M.D., is physician-investigator in geriatrics at the Pacific Health Research Institute and clinical assistant professor in the Department of Geriatrics, John A. Burns School of Medicine, University of Hawaii. He is also the principal investigator of the U.S. National Institutes of Health–funded study “Genetics of Exceptional Longevity in Okinawan Centenarians.” D. Craig Willcox, Ph.D., is a medical anthropologist and geron-tologist. A professor at Okinawa Prefectural University, he is also a research associate with Harvard University’s New England Centenarian Study.

Stacy Mitchell by Big-Box Swindle The True Cost of Mega-Retailers, the Fight for America's Independent Businesses (2006)

accelerated depreciation, big-box store, business climate, business cycle, clean water, collective bargaining, corporate personhood, drop ship, European colonialism, Haight Ashbury, income inequality, independent contractor, inventory management, invisible hand, Jane Jacobs, low skilled workers, Maui Hawaii, Menlo Park, new economy, New Urbanism, price discrimination, race to the bottom, Ray Oldenburg, RFID, Ronald Reagan, The Chicago School, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, The Great Good Place, the long tail, union organizing, urban planning, women in the workforce, zero-sum game

A local bank, Los Alamos National Bank, is making all of its new credit cards also function as Santa Fe Shares cards. “They are going to market this with us and be the bank that cares about locally owned businesses,” said Kaseman. The card is not without precedent. In 2000 a dozen local merchants on the Hawaiian island of Maui started a joint Ohana Savers card.63 AMIBA is not the only initiative of its kind. In 2001 the Business Alliance for Local Living Economies, or BALLE, was started by Judy Wicks, who owns the White Dog Café in Philadelphia, and Laury Hammel, owner of Longfellow Sports Clubs in Wayland, Massachusetts.

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Jeƒ Milchen, interview, Feb. 2, 2006; David Bolduc, interview, Feb. 11, 2006; Stacy Mitchell, “Homegrown Economics: How Boulder Businesses Are Staying Ahead of the Chains,” Orion Afield, autumn 2001. 298 NOTES 61. For links to each alliance, see www.amiba.net; Jennifer Rockne, interview, Feb. 2, 2006; Nancy Olson, owner of Raleigh’s Quail Ridge Books, interview, Feb. 15, 2006; Linda Watson, interview, Feb. 15, 2006. 62. David Kaseman, interview, Feb. 2, 2006. 63. Kaseman interview; “Maui Retailers Join Forces to Reward Customers, Counter Chains,” Hometown Advantage Bulletin, Aug. 1, 2000. 64. David C. Korten, When Corporations Rule the World (West Hartford, Conn.: Kumarian Press; San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler, 1995). 65. Michelle Long, interview, Feb. 3, 2006; Raguski interview. 66.

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After multistate companies combine their income from various subsidiaries, they then have to determine what portion of their earnings are taxable in each state in which they operate. States require companies to apportion their income based on formulas that typically consider what percentage of their sales, property, and payroll is located in each state. The states that have adopted combined reporting are Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Kansas, Maine, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, North Dakota, Oregon, Utah, and Vermont. Some states have also attempted to recover revenue from companies engaged in this scheme through the courts, but that approach is costly and has yielded mixed results, with some courts ruling in favor of the states and others siding with the companies.

The Cleaner: The True Story of One of the World’s Most Successful Money Launderers by Bruce Aitken

"RICO laws" OR "Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations", air freight, airport security, Asian financial crisis, Boeing 747, Bonfire of the Vanities, foreign exchange controls, junk bonds, Maui Hawaii, Michael Milken, offshore financial centre, profit motive, risk/return, South China Sea

With my briefcase, boarding pass and passport in hand, it was pleasant to stroll out into the beautiful Hawaiian night, smell the flowers, and be met by Jimmy in his convertible Mercedes. Off we went. First thing Jimmy offered me was a spliff that we gladly shared, with one eye on the highway and one eye on the clock. “Maui Wowie” is very strong shit! We smoked another one. When I think of it now, that was such a stupid thing to do. Of course, Jimmy did not know I had checked a golf bag full of money. Anything could have happened, and it almost did. We headed back to Honolulu airport. Without paying much attention to exactly where we were, we parked the car and walked up to the boarding gate together.

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He simply sent twenty to thirty thousand dollars in “manila” envelopes by post to Deak Hawaii, Deak San Francisco and Deak Guam. The package would arrive, and immediately a telex confirmation would be sent to him. This method worked well as long as such transactions were infrequent. The broker, whom we shall call “Arthur” since he is still alive, did it for quite a long time, until one day the package was lost or stolen, and did not arrive. Furthermore, although it was a long time before the inevitable happened, the packages did eventually become suspicious, and caught the attention of Hawaii customs; this resulted in a major legal case, a currency violation, and the imposition of a fine against Deak & Company in San Francisco.

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They were our customers who sent peso remittances, or padala, back home to the Philippines. Over time, I got to know the geography of the Philippines pretty well, at least the names of the cities and provinces. Deak & Company Guam survived on peso remittances. Filipinos from the world over would go to Deak in places like Hawaii, San Francisco and Los Angeles, via Hong Kong and Europe, to send peso remittances back home. Every morning when I went to the office, there would be a long ticker tape payment list at least ten feet long overflowing from the telex machine onto the floor. The tape would list the names of the sender, the beneficiary, and the peso amount to be paid, either by hand delivery in metro Manila or by bank transfer to the provinces.

Warnings by Richard A. Clarke

"Hurricane Katrina" Superdome, active measures, Albert Einstein, algorithmic trading, anti-communist, artificial general intelligence, Asilomar, Asilomar Conference on Recombinant DNA, Bear Stearns, behavioural economics, Bernie Madoff, Black Monday: stock market crash in 1987, carbon tax, cognitive bias, collateralized debt obligation, complexity theory, corporate governance, CRISPR, cuban missile crisis, data acquisition, deep learning, DeepMind, discovery of penicillin, double helix, Elon Musk, failed state, financial thriller, fixed income, Flash crash, forensic accounting, friendly AI, Hacker News, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), Internet of things, James Watt: steam engine, Jeff Bezos, John Maynard Keynes: Economic Possibilities for our Grandchildren, knowledge worker, Maui Hawaii, megacity, Mikhail Gorbachev, money market fund, mouse model, Nate Silver, new economy, Nicholas Carr, Nick Bostrom, nuclear winter, OpenAI, pattern recognition, personalized medicine, phenotype, Ponzi scheme, Ray Kurzweil, Recombinant DNA, Richard Feynman, Richard Feynman: Challenger O-ring, risk tolerance, Ronald Reagan, Sam Altman, Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, self-driving car, Silicon Valley, smart grid, statistical model, Stephen Hawking, Stuxnet, subprime mortgage crisis, tacit knowledge, technological singularity, The Future of Employment, the scientific method, The Signal and the Noise by Nate Silver, Tunguska event, uranium enrichment, Vernor Vinge, WarGames: Global Thermonuclear War, Watson beat the top human players on Jeopardy!, women in the workforce, Y2K

When it became clear that there had been an asteroid “sneak attack,” it grabbed the attention not only of astronomers, but government leaders in Russia, the United States, the United Nations, and elsewhere. It proved that we do not know enough about the location and trajectories of all local asteroids to be confident that we can always predict an impact. Surprises are common in space. On the evening of October 25, 2016, the Panoramic Survey Telescope and Rapid Response System (Pan-STARRS) on Maui found an object of between 5 and 25 meters in diameter heading toward Earth. They calculated that it would hit our planet, or just miss it, in five days. Obviously it missed, but it was yet another reminder that many objects are not seen until they are very close. Paul Chodas of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory estimates that, as of late 2016, only about 25 to 30 percent of asteroids in the 140-meter class had been found.

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A new class of elite human would come to dominate the species. This was never the intent of the woman who had created the technology in 2012, but the thought had crossed her mind, and haunted her nightmares. Dr. Jennifer Doudna was raised in Hilo, Hawaii, a small, rainy, seaside town on the biggest—but one of the most sparsely populated—islands in the chain. Doudna moved there with her family after her father took a job as an English professor at the University of Hawaii. Bookish from an early age and surrounded by tropical plants and animals, she developed an intense fascination with how the world works. What were the processes responsible for the abundant life around her?

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Their maps of Boston at three meters of sea rise show an utterly unrecognizable city. East Boston and Logan Airport would be underwater. Downtown Boston would be submerged. Beacon Hill would be an island. MIT and Harvard, where he studied and later taught, would be gone. Dr. Charles Fletcher, a professor at the University of Hawaii and leader in the study of sea-level rise, reminded us, “How can a city possibly respond to such a threat? Among the Dutch, who have lived in the shadow of rising waters for centuries, there is a simple, powerful rule of thumb. If you wage war with water, you will lose. Instead, you should yield to water and elevate your cities.”

Retirementology: Rethinking the American Dream in a New Economy by Gregory Brandon Salsbury

Alan Greenspan, Albert Einstein, asset allocation, Bear Stearns, behavioural economics, buy and hold, carried interest, Cass Sunstein, credit crunch, Daniel Kahneman / Amos Tversky, diversification, estate planning, financial independence, fixed income, full employment, hindsight bias, housing crisis, loss aversion, market bubble, market clearing, mass affluent, Maui Hawaii, mental accounting, mortgage debt, mortgage tax deduction, National Debt Clock, negative equity, new economy, RFID, Richard Thaler, risk tolerance, Robert Shiller, side project, Silicon Valley, Steve Jobs, the rule of 72, Yogi Berra

: [fohr-oh-wuhn-hey] The shocked response heard ‘round America when people received their 1st quarter 2009 401(k) statements. Audrey did a 401(hey!) when she opened her mail last week. bingeified: [binj-ih-fahyd] The act of justifying a big-ticket purchase because one has been previously frugal. Shannon had avoided Starbucks for an entire month, so she felt her trip to Maui was bingeified. club famwich: [kluhb fam-wich] A situation in which multiple generations of a family live in the same house. The Paulsens have taken on their aging parents, and two of their adult kids have moved back in—it’s the ultimate club famwich. damnesia: [dam-nee-zhuh] Prepurchase state of forgetting how badly it will feel when the damn credit card bill arrives.

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I have been struck by the complete reversal in many investors’ perspectives. Ask a Boomer today what he’s thinking versus a year ago, and he’s likely to tell you something like this, “My wife and I just shake our heads...because less than a year ago, our biggest worries were about whether we should put granite or tile in the new bathroom; whether we should go back to Hawaii this year or venture to Italy; or whether we should put a lap pool in the backyard. Now those questions seem ridiculous compared to what we’re wrestling with.” This meltdown has not only hit our houses, it has invaded our homes and disrupted millions of American families. In the midst of recent economic and market turmoil, the evolution of family values is quickly becoming a revolution.

Hey Nostradamus! by Douglas Coupland

Berlin Wall, index card, Maui Hawaii, PalmPilot, Silicon Valley, telemarketer

She fled, and I remembered the ship turning upside down in The Poseidon Adventure, and the looks on the actors’ faces as they clued into the fact that the ship was flipping: smashed champagne bottles, dying pianos, carved ice swans and people falling from the sky. The fire alarm went off. Against the human stream, I rounded a stairwell-one with a mural of Maui or some other paradiselike place. The wall was pebble-finished and rubbed my right arm raw. At that point the alarm bell felt like crabs crawling on my head. At the top of the stairs Mr. Kroger, an English teacher, stood with Miss Harmon, the principal’s assistant, both looking besieged; life doesn’t prepare you for high school massacres.

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I knew that if we got engaged and waited until after high school to marry, our marriage would become something else-ours, yes, but not quite ours, either. There would be presents and sex lectures and unwanted intrusions. Who needs all that? And in any event, I had no pictures in my head of life after high school. My girlfriends all wanted to go to Hawaii or California and drive sports cars and, if I correctly read between the lines on the yearbook questionnaires they submitted, have serial monogamous relations with Youth Alive! guys that didn’t necessarily end in marriage. The best I could see for myself was a house, a kid or two, some chicken noodle soup at three in the afternoon while standing at the kitchen sink watching clouds unfurl coastward from Vancouver Island.

Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future by Ashlee Vance

addicted to oil, Burning Man, clean tech, digital map, El Camino Real, Elon Musk, fail fast, Ford Model T, gigafactory, global supply chain, Great Leap Forward, high-speed rail, Hyperloop, industrial robot, Jeff Bezos, Kickstarter, Kwajalein Atoll, Larry Ellison, low earth orbit, Mark Zuckerberg, Mars Society, Maui Hawaii, Max Levchin, Menlo Park, Mercator projection, military-industrial complex, money market fund, multiplanetary species, off-the-grid, optical character recognition, orbital mechanics / astrodynamics, PalmPilot, paypal mafia, performance metric, Peter Thiel, pneumatic tube, pre–internet, risk tolerance, Ronald Reagan, Sand Hill Road, Scaled Composites, self-driving car, side project, Silicon Valley, Silicon Valley startup, Solyndra, Steve Jobs, Steve Jurvetson, technoutopianism, Tesla Model S, Tony Fadell, transaction costs, Tyler Cowen, Tyler Cowen: Great Stagnation, vertical integration, Virgin Galactic, We wanted flying cars, instead we got 140 characters, X Prize

They had divorced, and Musk had begun to think about dating again, if he could find the time. Even with this turmoil in his personal life, however, Musk had reached a point of calm that he had not felt in many years. “My main emotion is that there is a bit of weight off my shoulders,” he said at the time. Musk took his boys to Maui to meet up with Kimbal and other relatives, marking his first real vacation in a number of years. It was right after this holiday that Musk let me have the first substantial glimpse into his life. Skin still peeling off his sunburnt arms, Musk met with me at the Tesla and SpaceX headquarters, at the Tesla design studio, and at a Beverley Hills screening of a documentary he had helped sponsor.

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The military presence resulted in a weird array of buildings including hulking, windowless trapezoidal concrete structures clearly conceived by someone who deals with death for a living. To get to Kwaj, the SpaceX employees either flew on Musk’s jet or took commercial flights through Hawaii. The main accommodations were two-bedroom affairs on Kwajalein Island that looked more like dormitories than hotel rooms, with their military-issued dressers and desks. Any materials that the engineers needed had to be flown in on Musk’s plane or were more often brought by boat from Hawaii or the mainland United States. Each day, the SpaceX crew gathered their gear and took a forty-five-minute boat ride to Omelek, a seven-acre, palm-tree-and vegetation-covered island that would be transformed into their launchpad.

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This time Musk and the engineers were too excited and desperate to wait for the ocean journey. Musk rented a military cargo plane to fly the rocket body from Los Angeles to Hawaii and then on to Kwaj. This would have been a fine idea except the SpaceX engineers forgot to factor in what the pressurized plane would do to the body of the rocket, which is less than an eighth of an inch thick. As the plane started its descent into Hawaii, everyone inside of it could hear strange noises coming from the cargo hold. “I looked back and could see the stage crumpling,” said Bulent Altan, the former head of avionics at SpaceX.

The Cult of We: WeWork, Adam Neumann, and the Great Startup Delusion by Eliot Brown, Maureen Farrell

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Neumann wanted to try to resurrect the deal. Surely Son could be convinced, he thought. He had been so excited about the promise of buying WeWork. If only Neumann could meet him in person, perhaps he could sway Son once again, Neumann thought. Son happened to be in Hawaii at the same time, and Neumann quickly flew over to Maui to meet him. Neumann reverted to a simple pitch that he hoped would play to Son’s insecurities: the fear of missing out. Now was a unique moment in time to get such a monster deal done, he told Son. Everything was lined up, and WeWork’s business was still booming in December despite the tech turmoil in the stock market.

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Surfing had become a new passion for Neumann. He honed his skills on Long Island, out east in the Hamptons, where he and his wife, Rebekah, had bought a house in 2012, and sometimes closer to the city in the Rockaways. Surfing cleared his mind, he told friends; it lifted his spirits. He especially loved surfing in Hawaii, where he’d hire crews of well-known surfers on Kauai’s north shore to coach him and show him the best waves in the island’s famed Hanalei Bay. Surfing was a passion he shared with Rebekah, who joined him on many trips. Artie Minson, who had joined WeWork in 2015 as its president and chief operating officer, learned how deeply attached his boss had become to surfing one day while the pair was working late into the early morning.

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They were serving the whims of the Neumann family rather than doing what was right for the other children at the school. Moreover, his family was miserable. He approached Rebekah and told her he would leave in the coming months. She was sympathetic to his concerns, telling him she respected him for putting family first. Still, she had a request to keep him on: Would he ever consider moving to Hawaii to set up a school there? The Neumanns loved Kauai and wanted to spend more time there. It could be a nice lifestyle, she told him. Although he pondered the prospect, Shanklin turned the offer down. Soon after Shanklin told Rebekah of his final decision, Adam Neumann came into her office and questioned him on his move.

The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon by Brad Stone

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Bezos no longer entrusted the introverted programmer with any real management responsibility, but he did express an appreciation and a fondness for Kaphan. In the fall of 1998, Bezos told Kaphan to pack his bags and accompany him on a trip to check out a potential acquisition target. Then he surprised Kaphan with what he dubbed the Shelebration, a weekend in Hawaii to celebrate Kaphan’s four-year anniversary at Amazon. Bezos flew in colleagues and Kaphan’s family and friends and put everyone up for three days in private cabins on a Maui beach. Every attendee received an ornamental tile coaster emblazoned with a picture of Kaphan wearing a goofy Cat in the Hat hat. That weekend spawned a fortuitous relationship for Bezos. One of Kaphan’s friends who came on the trip was Stewart Brand, the founder of the Whole Earth Catalog.

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Brand and his wife, Ryan, bonded with Bezos and MacKenzie, forging a connection that led to Bezos’s involvement in the Clock of the Long Now, an aspirational project aimed at building a massive mechanical clock designed to measure time for ten thousand years, a way to promote long-term thinking. A few years later, as a direct result of that weekend, Bezos would become the biggest financial backer of the 10,000-Year Clock and agree to install it on property he owned in Texas. But Kaphan grimaced through the Hawaii weekend. He says he felt like “the guy getting the gold watch who has not retired yet.” Two promises were in conflict with each other. Bezos had pledged to Kaphan that he could keep his job forever. But Amazon’s founder also promised the company and his investors that he would always raise the hiring bar and that Amazon would live or die based on its ability to recruit great engineers.

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Strangely, their driver took them not to their usual airport but to a private airfield down the street from Boeing Field. Dalzell finally started to notice something was amiss when the car pulled up to a familiar hangar sheltering a Dassault Falcon. When he walked into the airplane, he found it full of friends, colleagues, and Jeff Bezos, all of whom shouted, “Surprise!” They were going to Hawaii for a gala given in appreciation of Dalzell’s longtime service, just like the Shelebration for Shel Kaphan nine years before. Bezos and MacKenzie invited Andy Jassy and his wife, former colleague Bruce Jones, and a bunch of Dalzell’s family friends and army buddies. They stayed in bungalows on a beach in Kona.

Vegetable Literacy by Deborah Madison

Columbian Exchange, Columbine, Maui Hawaii

You’ll want to use their lush tops, for they are actually nutritionally superior to the bulbs, containing even more potassium than the onions proper do, along with an excellent supply of vitamins A and C. Most people find fresh onions a bit too robust to eat raw, except for red ones, but you can toss them in vinegar to soften their flavor or wilt them in a pan in olive oil with a little sage or rosemary. Sweet Onions (Allium cepa) Vidalia, Walla Walla, Texas 1015, Maui (trademarked Kula-grown), Pecos, Carzalia (grown in southern New Mexico), and others make up the bulb-onion category known as sweet onions. People love to claim that they eat them like apples. What that really means is that these onions are extremely mild, so much so that you can eat them raw in a sandwich and still go to a meeting after lunch without covering your mouth every time you speak.

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What that really means is that these onions are extremely mild, so much so that you can eat them raw in a sandwich and still go to a meeting after lunch without covering your mouth every time you speak. Sweet onions contain a lot of moisture and they really do taste sweeter, or at least much milder. Unlike storage onions, sweet onions are a seasonal food. Vidalias, Texas 1015s, and California’s Imperial Sweets are harvested April through June. Walla Wallas begin in June and end in mid-August; Maui’s season goes from May to July; and a new supersweet variety from Chile called Oso Sweet bridges the gap January through March, so you can pretty much eat sweet onions year-round. But no one variety has a long run, and they don’t keep well. Vidalias, the best-known sweet onions, can be called by that name only if they are grown in one of the twenty counties in Georgia where the soil is such that sweetness can be produced.

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Basil Ocimum basilicum For a long time, we knew just one kind of basil: Genovese, named for where it was first grown, near Genoa, on Italy’s Ligurian coast. This is the basil of pesto, the one with buttery, delicate leaves that blacken if cold and wilt if warm. But it is not the only basil. In the early l980s, I visited the Foster Botanical Gardens in Hawaii and was astonished to find many varieties of basil I’d never seen or tasted: spicy Thai basil, basil with cinnamon overtones, basils with masses of tiny leaves, lemon-scented basils, and more. Today these are all familiar varieties, plus there are others. Richters’ seed catalog alone lists forty-five different cultivars divided into groups: Sweet, Bush, Genovese, Purple, and Other, which seems to be where the spicy basils reside.

Skyfaring: A Journey With a Pilot by Mark Vanhoenacker

Airbus A320, Boeing 747, British Empire, Cape to Cairo, computer age, dark matter, digital map, Easter island, Edmond Halley, Joan Didion, John Harrison: Longitude, Louis Blériot, Maui Hawaii, Nelson Mandela, out of africa, phenotype, place-making, planetary scale, Ralph Waldo Emerson, random walk, the built environment, transcontinental railway, Year of Magical Thinking

South of Newfoundland, in the vicinity of the historic Grand Banks fishing grounds, is the waypoint BANCS; further north along the Canadian coast lie SCROD and PRAWN. Sometimes there are multiple waypoints with the same name, and when we type one into a flight computer, it will ask us which of these homonymous, far-scattered places we mean to navigate toward. There are five SHARK waypoints—one east of Sydney, the others off the islands of Jersey, Maui, Taiwan, and Trinidad. Near the Isle of Man is KELLY, in reference to an old music-hall song called “Kelly from the Isle of Man.” Off England’s Channel coast are DRAKE—for Sir Francis—and HARDY—for Sir Thomas, the old friend to whom Lord Nelson, as he lay dying on the deck of his flagship, was heard to say: “Kiss me, Hardy,” and “God bless you, Hardy.”

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Such air feels and smells different from the conditioned environment; it hits me like a transgression, but also a blessing of place—a sudden blast of place lag, perhaps, but also the first breath of what will eventually remedy it. Honolulu, with an open-sided, though still covered, terminal, is a rare exception in the world of large airports. I was dumbfounded when I first walked through it, not by the volumes it speaks about Hawaii’s weather, but by what was for me the extraordinary sensation of natural, fragrant air washing though the sanitized realm of global aviation. If the enclosed airspace of the world—“breathing what is called air,” in poet W. S. Merwin’s description of waiting in an airport’s atmosphere—is a sad thing, an effacement of place or a modern excess of insulation and comfort, it has the advantage that it makes arrival in the true air of a city much more vivid.

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But it’s easy to imagine that the so-called Protestant wind that blew the Spanish Armada away from England might have become a general term for the east wind (“Popish” winds blew, too, a century later, to delay the arrival of William of Orange). America retains a few named winds, such as the Santa Anas of southern California and the Chinook, and even a fictitious wind, the Maria, from the Gold Rush musical Paint Your Wagon (from which the singer Mariah Carey gets her name and its pronunciation). Hawaii once had hundreds of named winds; whether you could list a place’s winds and rains there was a test of whether you were truly a local. Imagine looking up one morning and seeing a Nile or an Amazon in the sky, in a slightly darker blue, a shimmering, partly reflective navy hue, twisting and curling in the north sky over your hometown, and migrating to the southern sky by the time you go out for lunch.

The Lost Bank: The Story of Washington Mutual-The Biggest Bank Failure in American History by Kirsten Grind

"World Economic Forum" Davos, Alan Greenspan, asset-backed security, bank run, banking crisis, Bear Stearns, big-box store, call centre, collapse of Lehman Brothers, collateralized debt obligation, corporate governance, financial engineering, fixed income, fulfillment center, Glass-Steagall Act, housing crisis, junk bonds, low interest rates, Maui Hawaii, money market fund, mortgage debt, naked short selling, NetJets, Savings and loan crisis, shareholder value, short selling, Shoshana Zuboff, Skype, too big to fail, Y2K

“You were treated like some kind of dignitary in a country full of people who worshipped you,” said one repeat attendee. The crux of the event was a black-tie awards dinner, an outlandish affair that typically devolved into a night of after-hours partying, filled with drinking and sex. Managers often danced on tables. At David Schneider’s first President’s Club, held in early 2006 in Maui, someone had chosen the Academy Awards as the theme of the awards dinner. The salespeople, women in thin-strapped dresses and expertly styled hair, men in tuxedos and bow ties, streamed into a windowed conference center perched over the Pacific Ocean. In keeping with the theme, the attendees walked in on a long red carpet, partitioned off by ropes, behind which WaMu-hired photographers snapped photos like paparazzi.

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Meanwhile, new customers, scared of the much higher rate, didn’t want to take out a mortgage. The situation was so bad that Washington Mutual had stopped making mortgages for several months. Over the next few years, the federal government would step in and rescue more than four dozen banks.4 Washington Mutual had another problem: Hawaii. Its former president Wally Eldridge had decided Hawaii was the next frontier, promising several developers of large condominium complexes that Washington Mutual would supply the mortgages, to the tune of tens of millions of dollars. It was a promise the bank couldn’t keep. In 1978, Washington Mutual had made the most money it had ever brought in during one year, ever: $18 million.

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His background, which employees heard in bits and pieces, helped endear him to people. Pepper had enlisted in the Army Air Corps during World War II and graduated from cadet school in the summer of 1944. The Army trained him and his buddies to fly two types of combat planes and then shipped them to Hawaii, where they waited to relieve another group in Okinawa. But soon afterward the war ended. Pepper never fought anyone, and that was fine with him. At least he had managed to secure a free college education, through the GI Bill. Pepper wasn’t sure what he wanted to do. He had previously enrolled in the University of Wisconsin as a science major.

Accessory to War: The Unspoken Alliance Between Astrophysics and the Military by Neil Degrasse Tyson, Avis Lang

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But while they were still focusing on possibilities, the US Department of Defense was secretly achieving results—through classified research funded and conducted from the late 1960s through the late 1980s by organizations such as the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, the Air Force Research Laboratory and Phillips Laboratory at Kirtland Air Force Base in New Mexico, the Air Force Maui Optical Site, Itek Optical Systems near Hanscom Air Force Base in Massachusetts, the Air Force’s Rome Air Development Center in New York, MIT’s Lincoln Laboratory, the Visibility Laboratory at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, and the Strategic Defense Initiative. Additional expertise came from the top-secret national-security science advisory group called the Jasons.

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Reliance on photographs, scanners, and mainframe computers meant delays of a day or more when measuring wavefronts. The military needed much better technology to provide instant information, and they were prepared to pay for it. The first adaptive optics system for a large telescope was installed in 1982 on the Air Force’s satellite tracker at Mount Haleakala on Maui. By then, on the laser front, the military had already seen considerable progress toward controlling and maximizing the intensity of the beam. Building on earlier research, in 1975 the Air Force began to transform an aged Boeing KC-135A into the Airborne Laser Laboratory, which in 1983 succeeded in shooting down a series of air-to-air missiles and ground-launched drones.

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“Supersize me” was the unwritten motto for radio interferometers long before the fast-food industry adopted the slogan, and they form a jumbo class unto themselves. Among their ranks, sprinkled around the world, are the Very Long Baseline Array (ten 25-meter dishes spanning five thousand miles from Hawaii to the Virgin Islands), the Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (thirty lightweight mesh dishes, each 45 meters across, spanning sixteen miles of arid plains east of Mumbai, India), and the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (sixty-six dishes—some 12-meter, some 7-meter—clustered at an altitude of more than sixteen thousand feet in the driest region of the Chilean Andes).

Unacceptable: Privilege, Deceit & the Making of the College Admissions Scandal by Melissa Korn, Jennifer Levitz

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She also got a disturbing call around the same time from a young man she knew who was working as a tutor. He said Singer had offered him $1,000 to take an online chemistry class for one of Singer’s students. He didn’t do it. Singer would find someone else—a Harvard graduate living across the country in Florida—who would. By late 2011, Singer and his wife had homes in Sacramento and Maui, and substantial retirement accounts. And he was quickly turning his college counseling business into a vast criminal enterprise. 4 GOLDEN BOY ON DECEMBER 2, 2011, Mark Riddell boarded a plane in Tampa, Florida, and left the balmy Gulf Coast to travel more than three thousand miles to Vancouver, Canada.

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They later reconciled when her sister got cancer, but Heinel had been shaped by that painful strain with her parents. “I’ve just kind of been, ‘I do what I want to do, when I want to do it,’” she said. Haden had a great deal of trust in Heinel. And she admired Haden, a proud father of a gay son. Early on, he’d invited Heinel and her partner to travel with him to Hawaii for a USC game, a shift for Heinel, who had often kept her home life separate. She now talked more at work about her partner, a special education administrator, and their two young children. Singer had worked to make inroads to both Heinel and Haden. In 2015, he’d asked a client to introduce him to Haden.

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Vandemoer fostered a reputation at Stanford as a thoughtful coach who cared just as much about imparting life lessons as about winning. His team chanted their motto before every competition: “One team, one plan, one goal, one Stanford.” Vandemoer would allow students to miss a string of practices for an internship—and then welcome them back to the team. He’d married Molly O’Bryan, who sailed at the University of Hawaií and ran a youth program right near the Stanford boathouse. She kept sailing competitively, too, winning a world title in 2011 and representing the United States in the London Olympics in 2012. They had a son in 2016 and Vandemoer often spent his off hours on the floor at his home, playing with the boy and, two years later, his baby sister.

Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man by Mary L. Trump

Affordable Care Act / Obamacare, anti-communist, coronavirus, COVID-19, Donald Trump, fear of failure, George Floyd, glass ceiling, global pandemic, impulse control, junk bonds, Maui Hawaii, messenger bag, opioid epidemic / opioid crisis, prosperity theology / prosperity gospel / gospel of success, zero-sum game

I realized she was talking to me—something she rarely did. “Oh,” I said. “He invited us to one of his polo matches. I can’t believe we had to cancel.” She sounded exasperated and made no effort to lower her voice. I could have topped that story. In a week I was supposed to be getting married on a beach in Maui. Nobody in the family knew; they’d always been spectacularly uninterested in my personal life (when necessary, I asked a guy friend to accompany me to any family occasion that required a plus one) and never asked about my boyfriends or relationships. A couple of years earlier, Gam and I had been talking about Princess Diana’s funeral, and when she had said with some vehemence, “It’s a disgrace they’re letting that little faggot Elton John sing at the service,” I’d realized it was better that she didn’t know I was living with and engaged to a woman.

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He only cared about his living children.” I wanted to point out that my grandfather hadn’t cared about Rob, either, but Fritz intervened. “Rob,” he said, “this just isn’t fair.” * * * I lost track of how many meetings the three of us had between July and October 1999. There was a brief respite in September while I was in Hawaii for my postponed wedding and honeymoon. At the very beginning of our discussions, Fritz, Robert, and I agreed that we would leave Gam out of it. I assumed she had no idea how we’d been treated in my grandfather’s will and saw no reason to upset her. Hopefully we would be able to resolve everything, and she’d never have to know there had been a problem at all.

The Rough Guide to Cape Town, Winelands & Garden Route by Rough Guides, James Bembridge, Barbara McCrea

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Equally, it brings welcome relief on humid summer days, and lays the famous cloudy tablecloth on top of Table Mountain. The Garden Route falls within overlapping weather systems and as a result has rain throughout the year, falling predominantly at night, to water the lush vegetation that gives the region its name. It famously has the world’s mildest climate after Hawaii. Animal attractions In Cape Town you’re never far from the Table Mountain National Park and although this is no longer lion country (the last one was shot in the 1720s), you can still see countless varieties of animals, birds and reptiles here and along the city’s coastline. Commonest of the peninsula’s large mammals are baboons, which number around five hundred and are mostly seen in the Cape of Good Hope section of the park.

10% Human: How Your Body's Microbes Hold the Key to Health and Happiness by Alanna Collen

Asperger Syndrome, autism spectrum disorder, Barry Marshall: ulcers, Berlin Wall, biodiversity loss, biofilm, clean water, correlation does not imply causation, David Strachan, discovery of penicillin, Drosophila, Edward Jenner, Fall of the Berlin Wall, friendly fire, germ theory of disease, global pandemic, Great Leap Forward, Helicobacter pylori, hygiene hypothesis, Ignaz Semmelweis: hand washing, illegal immigration, John Snow's cholera map, Kickstarter, Louis Pasteur, Maui Hawaii, meta-analysis, microbiome, phenotype, placebo effect, seminal paper, the scientific method

The more insight we gather into the importance and the consequences of a natural birth, and extended, exclusive breast-feeding, the more empowered we will be to give both ourselves and our children the best chance of lives of health and happiness. EIGHT Microbial Restoration On the evening of 29 November 2006, as 35-year-old counsellor Peggy Kan Hai drove through the rain to meet a client on the island of Maui, in Hawaii, she was hit by a motorcyclist travelling at 162 mph. Pinned inside the wreckage of her car, bleeding from her head and mouth, she slipped in and out of consciousness. The young man who had hit her died on the road amongst the debris of his bike. In 2011, after five years of surgeries to repair injuries to her head and legs, Peggy’s damaged left foot became necrotic.

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Peggy had heard through a friend whose sister worked as a hospital nurse that some patients with untreatable diarrhoea were being given a new therapy, available only at a handful of hospitals worldwide. Apparently, they were getting better. Peggy was willing to try anything. A few phone calls to one such hospital later, and Peggy was booking flights from Hawaii to California for the treatment. Her husband would accompany her, but not just for moral support. It was he who would provide Peggy with the donation she badly needed – a new set of gut microbes. That those microbes were to be found in his faeces did not deter either of them; there were simply no other options left.

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Page numbers in italic refer to the illustrations abscesses 37 Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam 255, 256–7 accidents, Toxoplasma infection and 97 acetate 107, 195, 217 acne 23, 129, 141, 142–4, 168 Actinobacteria 226, 230 adenoviruses 75, 76–7, 78 adipose cells see fat cells Adlerberth, Ingegerd 131 adrenalin 104–5 affluence, and twenty-first-century illnesses 46–8 Africa: asthma 50 births 214 diet and gut microbiota 184, 185, 262–3 Ebola epidemic 115 garden warblers 55 personal hygiene 176 age, and twenty-first-century illnesses 48–50 ageing 228, 231, 235, 268 agriculture: antibiotic use 147–8, 160–4, 165, 272 Neolithic Revolution 184–5, 201 Akkermansia 283–4 Akkermansia muciniphila 79–81, 193–4, 258 Alabama 46 alcohol hand-rubs 175 Alexander, Albert 37 Aliivibrio fischeri 12 Allen-Vercoe, Emma 109–10, 111, 112, 259–60, 261–2 allergies 24, 38–9, 43, 44, 48 affluence and 46–7 after Caesarean birth 212 antibacterial products and 171 antibiotics and 130, 166–7 antihistamines 39, 116, 269 bottle-feeding and 223 in developing countries 47 family size and 117, 118 gender differences 51, 52 hygiene hypothesis 117–19, 121, 130–2, 145 immune system and 44–5, 116–21, 130–1 increase in incidence 52, 116 and infections 116–19 microbes and 131–2 probiotics and 242 racial differences 50 Alm, Eric 253 Alps 115 alternative medicine 137–9 Alvarez, Walter 238 Amazon rainforest 262, 282 American Gut Project (AGP) 4–5, 281–2 Amerindians 262–3 amino acids 70, 71, 180, 271 ammonia 176–7 ammonia-oxidising bacteria (AOBs) 176–8 anaemia 221 anaerobic bacteria 95 anaphylactic attacks 38 androgens 143 Animalia 16, 17 animals: allergies to 119 antibiotics as growth promoters 147–8, 160–4, 272 coprophagy 245–8 Neolithic Revolution 184–5, 201 transmission of microbes 115 see also individual types of animal anthrax 115 antibacterial products 169–72, 175, 214–15 antibiotics 2, 147–68, 276–7, 281, 285 and acne 143 and allergies 130, 166–7 antibiotic resistance 152, 153, 154–5, 156 and autism 86, 90–2, 94–5, 106–7, 111, 165–6 and autoimmune diseases 167–8 benefits of 168 and birth 163, 215 broad-spectrum antibiotics 156, 270 and Clostridium difficile 157, 234, 250 development of 36–7 and diarrhoea 155, 157, 241–2 effects on microbiota 129, 157–8, 161 as growth promoters for animals 147–8, 160–4, 272 harmful side-effects 5–6, 155–6, 269 and immune system 129–30 and irritable bowel syndrome 64–5 lactobacilli and 206–7 and life expectancy 28 and obesity 147–9, 159–65 residues in vegetables 164–5 and stomach ulcers 74 and twenty-first-century illnesses 158–9 unnecessary prescriptions 152–3, 269–70 antibodies 30, 139, 231 antidepressants 269 antigens 132–3 antihistamines 39, 116, 269 ants 84 anxiety disorders 42, 51, 99, 175 AOBiome 176, 177–8 apes 16 apocrine glands 177 appendicitis 14, 15–16, 43, 223, 266 appendix 13–16, 21, 45, 203, 208, 266 appetite control 67–8, 72–3, 80, 196 arabinoxylan 194 Arabs 46 archaea 8 Argentina 210 arginine 271 arthritis 183, 196 asbestos 170 Asia 47, 214 Asperger syndrome 87 asthma 44, 49 antibiotics and 130, 166–7 bottle-feeding and 223 fibre and 199 immune system and 116, 196 incidence 38, 39, 47, 52 racial differences 50 wealth and 47 Atkinson, Richard 74–5, 77 attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) 42, 98–9, 105, 108, 175 aureomycin 160 Australia: acne 142 birth 214–15 encephalitis lethargica 173 faecal transplants 250–1, 259 fruit and vegetable consumption 273 racial differences in diseases 50 sugar consumption 188, 189 twenty-first-century illnesses 46 autism 38, 43, 44, 49, 85–96 after Caesarean sections 212 antibiotics and 86, 90–2, 94–5, 106–7, 111, 165–6 autistic spectrum disorder (ASD) 87–8 behaviour problems 88, 108–9 and coprophagy 246 and ear infections 166 faecal transplants and 254–5 gastrointestinal symptoms 45, 85–7, 90 gender differences 51, 89 genetics and 89 immune system and 106, 108 incidence of 42, 46, 53, 88–9 lipopolysaccharide and 141 microbes and 90–2, 94–6, 109–12, 165–6 probiotics and 242 propionate and 107–9 racial differences 50–1 savants 87, 108 symptoms 87–8, 282 autoimmune diseases 24, 38, 39–41, 43 affluence and 47 and antibiotics 167–8 appendix and 16 and Caesarean sections 212 in childhood 49 in developing countries 47 faecal transplants and 254 gender differences 51, 52, 267 immune system and 44–5 incidence of 46 IPEX syndrome 133 probiotics and 242 racial differences 50 T helper cells and 119 see also individual diseases autointoxication 236–8 autopsies 33 babies 273–4 antibiotics 152–3, 158, 159–60, 161–2 bottle-feeding 220–6, 273–5 breast-feeding 216–20, 221, 222–6, 230–1, 274–5, 278, 285 Caesarean births 209–15, 220, 274, 278 caul births 214 colic 215–16 ear infections 151 gut microbiota 131, 217 immune system 208–9, 217, 227 infant mortality 222–3 probiotics and 242 transfer of microbes to 204–9, 212–14 vaginal delivery 209–12, 220, 274, 278 water birth 214 weaning 226 wet nursing 220–1 Bäckhed, Fredrik 66–7, 71, 147, 160 bacteria: alcohol hand-rubs 175 ammonia-oxidising bacteria 176–8 anaerobic bacteria 95 antibacterial products 169–72 antibiotic resistance 152, 153, 154–5, 156 collateral damage from antibiotics 155–6, 157 colony-forming units 244 DNA sequencing 17 lipopolysaccharide 140 and mitochondria 123, 123 prebiotics 258 probiotics 237–44 quorum sensing 136 and stomach ulcers 74 see also gut microbiota; microbes and individual types of bacteria bacteriocins 161, 206–7, 208 bacteriocytes 205 bacteriotherapy 245, 248 Bacteroides 23, 157, 194 Bacteroides fragilis 134–5 Bacteroides plebeius 192 Bacteroidetes 68–9, 70, 81, 185, 186, 187, 191, 226, 282 BALB mice 99 barley 139, 199 basal ganglia 174–5 bats 1–2, 100, 115, 124–5, 181, 182, 236 beans, fibre content 190, 191 Bedouin 201 Bedson, Henry 26 bees 124 behaviour: in autism 88, 108–9 changed by microbes 84–5, 96–7, 112–13 neurotransmitters 103, 104–5 propionate and 107–9 Bengmark, Stig 46 Bifidobacterium 193–4, 196–7, 217, 226, 239, 240, 258, 284 Bifidobacterium infantis 93 bile 145, 263 bioluminescence 12 bipolar disorder 105 birds 54–6, 205 birth 278 antibiotics in 163, 215 Caesarean section 209–15, 220, 274 caul births 214 childbed fever 32–3 home births 214 hormones 220 hygiene 214–15 transfer of microbes to babies 205–7, 212–13 vaginal deliveries 209–12, 220, 274, 278 water birth 214 bison 125–6 Blaser, Martin 162, 163, 182 blood 181 blood pressure 199, 231, 256 blood sugar levels 256 blood transfusions 249, 253, 254 bobcats 84, 97 Body Mass Index (BMI) 41, 69, 79, 161, 188, 193, 197 body odour 175–7 Bolte, Andrew 86–7, 88, 89–92, 94–6, 110, 111, 112, 165–6 Bolte, Ellen 86–7, 88, 89–92, 94–6, 106, 110–11, 112, 165–6 Bolte, Erin 86, 110, 111–12 Borody, Tom 250–2, 254–5, 259 bottle-feeding 220–6, 273–5 Boulpon, Burkina Faso 184, 185, 190 brain: connections to gut 92–3, 104–5, 106–7, 109–10 development of 93–4 encephalitis lethargica 173–4 immune system 103–4, 105 inflammation 108 memories 108–9 microbes and 98–9 neurotransmitters 103, 104–5 obsessive-compulsive disorder 172–3, 174 propionate and 107–9 strokes 50, 107, 183, 199, 256, 268 synapses 120 tetanus 91 Whipple’s disease 85 see also mental health conditions Brand-Miller, Jennie 215–16 Brazil 46, 47, 209, 212 bread 198, 199–200, 202 breast cancer 44, 145 breast-feeding 216–20, 221, 222–6, 230–1, 274–5, 278, 285 Britain: antibiotic use 130, 150–1 breast-feeding 225 Caesarean sections 210, 211–12 Clostridium difficile 156 consumption of fats and sugar 188 diabetes in children 40–1 fall in calorific intake 189 fruit and vegetable consumption 190–1, 273 gut microbes in babies 131 obesity 42, 58 broccoli 198 bronchitis 152 ‘Bubble Boy’ 126–8, 181 Burgess, James 253 Burkina Faso 184, 185, 190, 191, 263 Butler, Chris 153–4, 155 butyrate 107, 195, 196–7, 217, 257, 284 caecum 13, 21, 45, 128 Caesarean birth 209–15, 220, 274 caffeine 73, 74 cakes 198 California Institute of Technology 134 calories: calculating contents of foods 69–70 dieting 149, 186–7 differences in weight gain 77–8 fall in consumption of 189 microbes and extraction of 67, 70–2 and obesity 56–7, 61 Campylobacter jejuni 65 Canada 46, 47, 51, 62, 99, 106, 173, 259–60 cancer: ageing and 49 blood cancer 16 bottle-feeding and 223 breast cancer 44 as cause of death 268 cervical cancer 144 chemotherapy 270 colon cancer 23–4, 144, 145, 258 diet and 183 immune system and 120–1 infections and 144 liver cancer 144–5 lymphoma 127 metabolic syndrome and 256 microbes and 144–5 obesity and 42, 50, 145 prebiotics and 258 shingles and 271 stomach cancer 144 Cani, Patrice 78–9, 80–1, 193–4, 197 car accidents 97 carbohydrates: calorie content 69 dieting 185–8 digestion of 180 effects of 198 fibre 192 oligosaccharides 216–18 types of 197–8 carbolic acid 34, 36 Carmody, Rachel 179–80, 182, 198–9 carnivores 181–2, 192, 203, 263 casein 111, 200 cats 96 cattle 12–13, 181, 192, 201, 204, 272 caul births 214 cells, mitochondria 123, 123 cellulose 191, 192 centenarians 265 Centers for Disease Control (CDC) 88–9, 152, 212 Central America 100 Centre for Digestive Diseases, Sydney 250–2, 254 cervical cancer 144 Chain, Sir Ernst Boris 37 Charles University, Prague 97 cheese 159 cheetahs 124 chest infections 153 chickens: antibiotic treatment 147–8, 165 virus disease 57, 61, 74–5, 76–7, 78 Chida, Yoichi 93 childbed fever 32–3, 34 childbirth see birth children: allergies 38–9, 116–17 antibiotic use 151, 161–2, 165–6 autism 88–9, 165–6 brain development 93–4 death rates 28, 31 ear infections 86, 87, 90, 94, 151, 152, 153, 166, 222 fat intake 190 gut microbiota 226–7 hygiene 278–9 infectious diseases 31 obesity 58, 223–4 twenty-first-century illnesses 49 see also babies Children of the 90s project 130 chimpanzees 102, 245–7 China 47, 209, 249–50 chlorinated lime 33 chlorinated water 172 chlorine 35–6, 62 chloroform 172 cholera 15, 27, 30, 34–5, 45–6, 135–7, 139 Cholera Auto-Inducer 1 (CAI–1) 136 cholesterol 194, 229, 231, 256 Church, Andrew 173–4 ciprofloxacin 157–8 cleaning products 169–72, 175, 214–15 clindamycin 157 Clinton, Bill 10 Clostridium 96, 107, 145 Clostridium bolteae 106 Clostridium difficile 90, 271 antibiotics and 156–7, 234–5, 241, 250 in babies’ gut microbiota 213 bottle-feeding and 222 deaths from 156, 245 faecal transplants 249, 250, 251, 252–3, 259, 260 Lactobacillus and 206 symptoms 156 Clostridium tetani 90–2, 94, 95, 96, 110–11 clothing 176 cockroaches 204–5 coeliac disease 39, 41, 139–40, 183, 200, 202, 212 Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, New York State 7, 24 colds 51, 129–30, 152, 167 colic, infantile 215–16 colitis, ulcerative 42, 49, 144 colon: autointoxication 236–8 colon cancer 23–4, 144, 145, 258 colonic irrigation 237 digestion 180–1 toxic megacolon 156, 245 see also gut microbiota; inflammatory bowel disease; intestines; irritable bowel syndrome colony-forming units (CFUs), bacteria 244 colostrum 217, 219, 220 constipation 62–3, 65, 238, 251, 254 contraceptives 102 cooking food 199 coprophagy 245–8 Cordyceps fungi 84 Cornell University 230 Corynebacterium 20, 21, 168–9, 177, 213 cough, sudden-onset 155 cowpox 27, 29 cows 12–13, 181, 192, 201, 204, 272 cow’s milk 216, 221 Crapsule 259 Crohn’s disease 42, 49, 52, 144 Cuba 210 Cyanobacteria 65 cytokines 48, 105, 106, 141 D-Day landings (1944) 37, 150, 158 dairy produce 200, 201 Dale, Russell 173–4 dander 119 Danish National Birth Cohort 161–2 Darwin, Charles 280 The Descent of Man 13, 14 The Expression of Emotions in Man and Animals 92 On the Origin of Species 124, 279 Dawkins, Richard, The Selfish Gene 125, 126 death 235–6 babies and children 28, 31, 222–3 causes of 268 Clostridium difficile 245 diarrhoea and 15 dementia 105 dendritic cells 219 Denmark 52, 161–2, 167–8 deodorants 175, 177, 178 deoxycholic acid (DCA) 145 depression 42, 45, 51, 65, 98, 103–4, 105, 141 dermatitis 23 developing countries: antibiotic use 153–4 twenty-first-century illnesses 53 Dhurandhar, Nikhil 56–7, 61, 74–5, 76–7, 82, 149 diabetes 38, 44, 139, 269 and antibiotics 167–8 bottle-feeding and 223, 224 breast-feeding and 231 and Caesarean sections 212 in childhood 4, 119 diet and 183 faecal transplants 255 gender differences 267 incidence of 39, 40–1, 47, 52, 158 leaky guts and 140 lipopolysaccharide and 141 metabolic syndrome 256–7 obesity and 42, 50, 256 probiotics and 242–3, 257–8 racial differences 50 symptoms 39–40 diarrhoea: antibiotics and 155, 157, 241–2 and autism 45, 85–7, 90 as cause of death 15, 27, 268 cholera 34–5, 135–7 Clostridium difficile 156, 222, 234–5, 241 and coprophagy 246 faecal transplants 250–1, 260 irritable bowel syndrome 62–5 probiotics and 241–2 diet see food dieting 59, 148–9, 184, 186–7, 197, 199 digestive system 180 see also colon; gut microbiota; intestines digoxin 271 diphtheria 27, 28 diseases: antibodies 30, 139, 231 diet and 183 epidemiology 35, 45–6 genes and 10, 43–4, 268 germ theory 34, 236 infectious diseases 27–9, 43, 115, 118, 153–4 obesity as infectious disease 75–7 pathogens 28–9 transmission of microbes 114–16 vaccinations 25, 26–7, 29–31, 35, 91, 118, 165 water-borne diseases 34–6 see also antibiotics and individual diseases DNA: and cancer 120–1, 144, 145 DNA sequencing 4, 9–11, 16–17, 65 human genome 279–80 doctors: antibiotic prescriptions 152–3, 277 hospital hygiene practices 31–4 Dodd, Diane 100–1 dogs 84, 85, 124 Dominguez-Bello, Maria Gloria 214, 278, 285 Dominican Republic 210 donors: faecal transplants 261, 262 sperm donors 260–1 dopamine 104–5 drugs: gut microbiota and 270–2 see also antibiotics dummies 151 dysbiosis 64–6 dysentery 15, 27 E. coli 62, 239, 254 ear infections 86, 87, 90, 94, 151, 152, 153, 166, 222 East Africa 176 Eastern Europe 47 Ebola 115 eccrine glands 177 ecological succession 208 eczema 38, 49 antibiotics and 130, 166–7 bottle-feeding and 223 incidence 39, 47, 52 prebiotics and 258 probiotics and 242 Eggerthella lenta 271 Egypt 201 Eiseman, Ben 251 elephants 245 Elizabeth II, Queen of England 265 emotions, and irritable bowel syndrome 92–3 encephalitis lethargica 173–4 energy: in food 69–72 mitochondria 123 storage in body 77–8 enterobacteria 131 Enterococcus 219 environment, and twenty-first-century illnesses 44 enzymes 12–13, 180, 182, 191, 192, 263 epidemiology 35, 45–6 epinephrine 104–5 Epstein-Barr virus 127 Eubacterium rectale 197 Eukarya 16 Europe: acne 142 antibiotic use 150, 163–4, 272 birth 214–15 breast-feeding 224 encephalitis lethargica 173 fat consumption 188 hygiene hypothesis 117 racial differences in diseases 50 see also individual countries evolution 11–12, 44, 84–5, 109, 124–6 fabrics, clothing 176 Faecalibacterium 284 Faecalibacterium prausnitzii 197 faeces: and birth 206, 207 coprophagy 245–7 DNA sequencing microbes in 23 faecal transplants 245, 248–57, 258–62 see also gut microbiota families, microbiotas 228 farming see agriculture Fasano, Alessio 136–7, 139–40, 200 fat cells: appetite control 72, 73 fibre and 196 lipopolysaccharide and 141 in obese people 78–9, 141 in pregnancy 230 storage of fat 72 FATLOSE (Faecal Administration To LOSE insulin resistance) 256–7 fats: calorie content 69, 77–8 consumption of 188, 189–90 dieting 186–8 digestion of 71, 180 high-fat diets 192–3, 194 fatty acids 180, 188 fibre: and Akkermansia 81, 193–4 and appendicitis 15 and butyrate 196–7 consumption of 190–1 in faeces 23 Five-a-Day campaign 273 and gut microbiota 191–9, 202–3, 204, 263, 276, 282–4 and obesity 192–5, 197 prebiotics 258 wheat and gluten intolerance 199–202 Finegold, Sydney 95–6, 106–7, 109 Firmicutes 68–9, 70, 81, 161, 185, 186, 187, 191, 226, 282 First World War 28, 36 fish, gut microbiota 205 Five-a-Day campaign 273 Fleming, Sir Alexander 36, 37, 154, 156 flies, fruit 100–1 Florence 184, 190, 191 Florey, Ethel 37 Florey, Howard 36–7 flour, fibre content 198 flu 27, 28, 48, 50, 129, 152, 167 folic acid 227–8 food 179–203, 272–3 and ageing 231 allergies and intolerances 38, 47, 49, 199–202 antibiotic residues in 164–5 calorie content 69–72 consumption of fats 188 cooking 199 digestion of 23 fibre content 190–9, 202–3, 273, 276, 282–4 and gut microbiota 184–8 healthy diet 183–4 Neolithic Revolution 184–5 packaged foods 182–3, 202 preservatives 202 sugar consumption 188–9 weaning babies 226 Food and Drug Administration (FDA) 172, 252, 272 food poisoning 15, 63–4, 65, 258 food supplements, prebiotics 258 formula milk 220–6 France 115, 160–1, 211 free-from foods 200 free will 112 Freud, Sigmund 98, 238 frogs 83–4, 124 fructo-oligosaccharides (FOS) 193–4, 258 fructose 180, 188 fruit 198, 273, 276 fruit flies 100–1 fungi 8, 84 galacto-oligosaccharides 258 galactose 207, 216 gangrene 34 garden warblers 54–6, 57, 73, 77, 78 gastric bypasses 81–2 gastritis 74 gastroenteritis 15, 16, 62, 63–4, 65, 167, 172, 222 Gattaca (film) 280 Ge Hong, Handbook of Emergency Medicine 249–50 gender differences: autism 51, 89 Toxoplasma infection 96–7 twenty-first-century illnesses 51–2, 267 Generation X 224 genes: appetite control 67–8 and autism 89 cholera bacteria 136–7 coeliac disease 139–40 faecal transplants 261 and gut microbiota 227 human genome 3–4, 7–10, 43–4, 279–80 in human microbiome 8, 11, 279 and lactose intolerance 201 and leaky gut 196–7 mutations 44 natural selection 125, 126 and obesity 60 and pheromones 102 and predisposition to disease 10, 43–4, 268 sperm donors 260–1 and vitamins 228 and weight control 71–2 genome-wide association studies (GWAS) 268 gentamycin 161 George V, King of England 265 germ-free mice 17–18, 66–9, 128, 134, 230 germ theory of disease 34, 236 Germany 46–7 giardiasis 15, 27 glucose 39–40, 180, 207, 216, 229, 256, 257 gluten 42, 111, 139–40, 142, 199–202 glycerols 180 gnotobiotic mice 17 goats 115, 201 Gombe Stream National Park, Tanzania 246 gonorrhoea 215 Goodall, Jane 246 Gordon, Jeffrey 18, 24, 67, 247, 262 GPR43 (G-Protein-coupled Receptor 43) 195–6, 195 grains 190, 191, 194, 197, 198 Gram-negative bacteria 140 Gram-positive bacteria 140 Gray, George 61 Group B strep 215 gut see colon; intestines ‘gut feelings’ 104 gut microbiota 2–4, 18, 21–4 and ageing 231, 235 American Gut Project 281–2 antibiotics and 157–8, 161 in appendix 14–16, 266 and autism 106, 165–6 bottle-feeding and 221–2 as cause of ill-health 236–7 in children 226–7 diet and 184–8 and digoxin 271 and drug outcomes 270–2 faecal transplants 245, 248–57, 258–62 and fibre 191–9, 202–3, 204, 263, 276, 282–4 and gastric bypasses 81–2 genes and 227 and infantile colic 216 and irritable bowel syndrome 63–6 and leaky gut 194–7 meat-eaters 191–2 and mental health conditions 99–100 and nutrition 180–2 and obesity 23–4, 66–72, 76 prebiotics 258 in pregnancy 229, 230 probiotics 237–44 raw-food diet 198–9 role in digestion 12–13, 70–1 transfer from mothers to babies 204–9, 213, 217 tribal societies 262–3, 282 Hai, Peggy Kan 233–5, 241, 245, 250, 251, 252 hairworms 84, 85 hand-washing 172–3, 175 happiness 103–5 Harvard University 179, 182, 198 Hawaii 233–5 Hawaiian bobtail squid 11 hay fever 38, 39, 46, 116, 117, 130, 166–7, 171, 242 healthy diet 183–4 heart disease: appendix and 16 as cause of death 268 diet and 183 digoxin 271 fibre and 199 heart attacks 50, 231 heart valve disease 161 lipopolysaccharide and 141 metabolic syndrome and 256, 257 obesity and 42, 47 statins 269 Helicobacter pylori 21, 74, 144 hepatitis A 119 herbivores 181, 192, 204, 263 herd immunity 30 herons 83 hibernation 61 high blood pressure 50, 231, 256 Hippocrates 61–2, 235 HIV 254 Hoffman, Dustin 87 holobiont 126 hologenome selection 126 home births 214 Hominidae 16 Homo sapiens 16 hookworms 118 hormones: acne 143 appetite control 67–8, 72–3, 80 contraceptives 102 in farming 272 and immune system 267 insulin 167, 256 in labour 220 leptin 67–8, 72–3, 78, 80, 196 menstrual cycle 229 sex hormones 51, 52 stress hormones 93 thyroid hormones 171 horses, rolling in dirt 176 hospitals, hygiene 31–4 houses, microbes in 228–9 Human Genome Project (HGP) 3–4, 7–10, 43–4, 279–80 Human Microbiome Project (HMP) 11, 18, 19–20, 22–3, 162 human papillomavirus (HPV) 144 Humphrys, John, The Great Food Gamble 272 Hungary 33 Huntington’s disease 44 hydrogen, in babies’ breath 216 hydrogen sulphide 248 hygiene 31–4, 168–72, 175–8, 214–15, 278–9 hygiene hypothesis, allergies 117–19, 121, 130–2, 145, 266 hyperphagia 55 idiopathic thrombocytopenia purpura 254 immune system 3, 114–46 and acne 144 and ageing 231 and allergies 39, 44–5, 116–21, 130–1 antibiotics and 37, 129–30 antibodies 30, 139, 231 antigens 132–3 appendix and 14–15, 16 and autism 106, 108 in babies 208–9, 217, 227 and the brain 103–4, 105 cell types 132–3 coeliac disease 139–40 evolution 126 and fat cells 78 fibre and 195–6 flu pandemic 48 germ-free mice 128 and gluten intolerance 202 and the gut 45 hygiene hypothesis 117–19, 121, 130–2, 145 inflammatory bowel diseases 144 IPEX syndrome 133 and leaky gut 137–42, 194–7 living without a microbiota 126–8 microbes and 121, 133–5 pheromones and 101, 102 probiotics and 242–3 targets 119–21 and twenty-first-century illnesses 51–2 vaccinations and 30 see also autoimmune diseases Imperial College, London 147 India 56–7, 173, 260 Indonesia 142 Industrial Revolution 221 infant mortality 222–3 infections, and allergies 116–19 infectious diseases 27–9, 43, 115, 118, 153–4 inflammation 145–6 and acne 144 and ageing 231 fibre and 196 leaky gut syndrome 142 and mental health conditions 105, 108 in obesity 79 in pregnancy 229 and twenty-first-century illnesses 243, 268 inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) 45, 63, 66 faecal transplants 251 gender differences 51 and gut microbiota 23–4, 144 incidence of 41, 42, 47, 49 influenza 27, 28, 48, 50, 129, 152, 167 insulin 38, 139, 269 faecal transplants and 256 insulin resistance 229, 256–7 lipopolysaccharide and 141 probiotics and 257–8 type 1 diabetes 39–40, 167 intestines 18–19, 22 appendix 13–16, 21, 203, 208, 266 caecum 13, 21, 45, 128 cholera 15, 27, 30, 34–5, 45–6, 135–7, 139 coeliac disease 41, 139–40 colorectal cancers 23–4, 144, 145, 258 connections to brain 92–3, 104–5, 106–7, 109–10 dysbiosis 64–6 germ-free mice 128 immune system and 45 leaky gut 137–42, 194–7, 200 mucus lining 79–80, 80, 129, 193, 283–4 necrotising enterocolitis 222 see also colon; diarrhoea; gut microbiota; inflammatory bowel disease; irritable bowel syndrome inulin 258 IPEX syndrome 133, 135 Iran 210 irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) 43, 45, 183 antibiotics and 64–5 emotions and 92–3 faecal transplants 251 gender differences 51 gluten-free diets 201 incidence of 42, 63 and mental health conditions 44 microbes and 63–6 post-infectious irritable bowel syndrome 62, 63 probiotics and 242 Italy 131, 150, 184, 185, 190, 191 Japan 142, 192, 247, 271 Jenner, Edward 25, 29 juices 198 Jumpertz, Reiner 70 Kanner, Leo 88, 89, 108–9 Kasthala, Gita 175–6 Khoruts, Alexander 248, 249, 259, 261–2 kidney cancer 145 kissing 102 kitchens, cleaning 169 Klebsiella 23 Knight, Rob 4, 213–14, 281–2 koalas 204, 217–18 Koch, Robert 34 Kolletschka, Jakob 33 Krau Wildlife Reserve, Malaysia 1–2 Kudzu bugs 205 labour see birth lactase 215–16 lactase persistence 201 lactate 217 lactic acid 217 lactic acid bacteria 206–8, 218–19, 222, 227, 229, 237 Lactobacillus 206–7, 213, 217, 219, 229, 239–40, 244, 257–9 Lactobacillus acidophilus 237 Lactobacillus bulgaricus 237 Lactobacillus johnsonii 208 Lactobacillus paracasei 239 Lactobacillus plantarum 101 Lactobacillus reuteri 161 Lactobacillus rhamnosus 239, 242 lactose 142, 200, 201–2, 207, 215–16, 218, 237 leaky gut walls 137–42, 194–7, 200 learning 108 leeches 181, 182 legumes, fibre content 276 Lemos de Goés, Adelir Carmen 209 lentils 198 leopards 115 leptin 67–8, 72–3, 78, 80, 196 leukaemia 223 Ley, Ruth 67–8, 186, 187, 230 life expectancy 28, 49, 237, 265–6, 268 light, bioluminescence 12 lime, chlorinated 33 lions 124 lipopolysaccharide (LPS) 79–80, 140–2, 187–8, 193, 194–5, 197, 284 Lister, Joseph 34, 36 lithium 98 liver cancer 144–5 lizards 245 London: cholera epidemic 34–5, 45–6, 135 Toxoplasma 96 Louisiana 46 low-carb diets 186, 187–8 low-fat diets 186 lungs 19 lupus 39, 41, 49, 50, 168 Lyman, Flo and Kay 108 lymph glands 45, 219 lymphoma 127 lysozyme 36 MacFabe, Derrick 106–7, 108, 109, 111, 112 McMaster University, Ontario 99 macrophages 132 Malawi 262–3, 282 Malaysia 1–2, 208 mammals 16, 122, 123–4, 204 manure, antibiotic contamination 164–5, 272 marmosets 77 Marseille 160–1 Marshall, Barry 74 marsupials 217–18 Massachusetts General Hospital for Children, Boston 40, 136–7, 200 mastoiditis 151, 153 Mazmanian, Sarkis 134 measles 27, 28, 31, 38, 119, 165, 266 meat 70–1, 181, 191–2 Medical Hypotheses 110 memory 108–9 memory B cells 132 meningitis 153 menstrual cycle 229 mental health conditions 42–3, 44 drug treatment 269 encephalitis lethargica 173–4 epidemiology 46 gastrointestinal symptoms 85–7, 106 gender differences 51 immune system and 105 lipopolysaccharide and 141 microbes and 24, 93–4, 97–9 probiotics and 238, 242 Streptococcus and 174–5 see also individual conditions mercury 263 metabolic syndrome 255–7, 258 metabolism 60, 229–30 metabolites 110, 111 Metchnikoff, Elie 180, 244 The Prolongation of Life 235–6, 237, 238 methicillin 154 metronidazole 129 Mexico 210 miasma theory 31–2, 34, 35 mice: antibiotics and 162–3 characteristic behaviours 99–100 diabetes in 267 faecal transplants 257 fibre in diet 193–4 genetically obese mice 67–9, 72–3 germ-free mice 17–18, 66–9, 128, 134, 230 microbial transplants 247 number of genes 7 ob/ob mice 67–9, 72–3, 194 probiotics and 242–4 microbes: and ageing 228, 231 and allergies 131–2 antibiotics and 129 antigens 132–3 and autism 90–2, 94–6, 106, 109–12 behaviour changes in host 84–5, 96–7, 112–13 in breast-milk 218–20, 222 and cancer 144–5 culturing 9 diversity 134, 282 DNA sequencing 4–5, 11 dysbiosis 64–6 evolution 11–12, 125–6 genes 279 in genetically obese mice 67–9 germ-free mice 17–18, 66–9, 128 germ theory of disease 34, 236 habitats in human body 18–23 in the home 228–9 hospital hygiene practices 31–4 immune system and 121, 133–5 kissing and 102 living without 126–8 and memory formation 109 and menstrual cycle 229 and mental health conditions 93–4, 97–9 in mouth 20–1 and neurotransmitters 104 in nostrils 21 Old Friends hypothesis 132, 145, 266 pheromones 100–2 Robogut 110, 111 on skin 19–20, 168–9 in stomach 21 and sweat 177 transfer from mothers to babies 122, 204–9, 212–14 transmission of 114–16 tree of life 16–17 in vagina 205–9, 212–14, 229 and vitamins 228 see also bacteria; gut microbiota; viruses Microbial Ecosystem Therapeutics 260 microbiome 8, 11, 227–9, 279, 280 Middle East 58 midwives 32–3 migraine 238 migrants, and twenty-first-century illnesses 50–1 migration, garden warblers 54–6 milk: antibiotics in 164 bottle-feeding 220–6, 273–5 breast-milk 216–20, 221, 222–6, 230–1, 274–5, 278, 285 cow’s milk 216, 221 lactobacilli and 207 lactose intolerance 200, 201 marsupials 218 milk banks 218–19 milk proteins 111 wet nursing 220–1 yogurt 206, 237 Millennials 224 Miller, Anne 149–50, 158 minerals 221, 227 Minnesota 170, 172 minocycline 168 Mississippi 46 mitochondria 123, 123 MMR vaccine 165 monkeys 16, 77 moorhens 124 Moraxella 21 mouth, microbes in 20–1 MRSA (methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus) 154, 171, 172, 175, 212 mucus lining, intestines 79–80, 80, 129, 193, 283–4 multiple sclerosis (MS) 38, 39, 49 antibiotics and 168 and bottle-feeding 223 in children 119 faecal transplants and 254 incidence of 41, 52, 158 probiotics and 242 racial differences 50 Mumbai 56, 61 mumps 165 Munich University’s Children’s Hospital 46 muscles, tetanus 91 mutations, genes 44 Mycobacterium 27 myositis 39 National Food Survey (UK) 188, 189 National Health Service (NHS) 138, 210, 211–12 National Institute of Health, Phoenix, Arizona 70 National Institutes for Health (US) 18 natural killer cells 219 natural selection 124–6, 206 Nature 179 Nauru 58 necrotising enterocolitis 222 necrotising fasciitis 20 Neolithic Revolution 184–5, 187, 200, 201 nerves 104–5 nervous system, multiple sclerosis 41 Netherlands 52, 255, 256–7 neuropsychiatric disorders see mental health conditions neurotransmitters 103, 104–5 New York City 96 New York University 162, 214 New Zealand 46 Nicholson, Jeremy 147, 148, 160, 161 Nieuwdorp, Max 255, 256–7 nitric oxide 177 nitrite 177 Nitrosomonas eutropha 178 Nobel Prizes 37, 74, 180, 235 nori 192 North America 50, 117, 214–15, 224–6 Northern Ireland 47 nostrils, microbes in 21 nut allergies 38, 39 nutrition see food ob/ob mice 67–9, 72–3, 194 obesity 38, 43, 44, 54–61 Akkermansia and 79–81 antibiotics and 147–9, 159–65 appetite control 67–8, 72–3, 80, 196 breast-feeding and 223–4 and Caesarean sections 212 and cancer 145 in childhood 49 in developing countries 47 and diabetes 256 diet and 183 difficulty in losing weight 59–60 faecal transplants and 255–7 and fall in calorific intake 189 fat cells 78–9 garden warblers 54–6 gastric bypasses 81–2 gender differences 51 and genetics 60 gut microbiota and 23–4, 66–72, 76 incidence of 41–2, 46, 52–3 as infectious disease 75–7 and leaky gut syndrome 140–1 and liver cancer 145 and low fibre intake 197 metabolic syndrome 255–7 racial differences 50 surgery for 61, 66 viruses and 57, 61, 74–8 Obesity Society 82 obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) 42, 44, 51, 98–9, 105, 172–3, 174, 212, 246 oestrogen 171 Old Friends hypothesis 132, 145, 266 oligofructose 193–4 oligosaccharides 216–18, 220, 221, 222, 226 omnivores 276 OpenBiome 253–4, 261–2 oranges 198 overweight 41–2, 58 Oxford University 36, 37 oxygen 9 oxytocin 104–5 Pacific islands 58 Pakistan 26, 131 palaeo-diet 263 pancreas 39, 40, 180, 242–3 panda, giant 181–2 Papua New Guinea 84, 142 parasites 27, 83–4, 96–7, 98, 118 Paris 96 Parker, Janet 25, 26 Parkinson’s disease 105, 173, 174, 175, 254 passwords, beneficial microbes 134–5 Pasteur, Louis 34, 236 pathogens 28–9 peanut allergy 39 pectin 192 penicillin 36–7, 150, 154, 158, 162–3, 182 penicillinase 154 Penicillium 36 Peptostreptococcaceae 222 pesticides 272 Petrof, Elaine 259–60 Peyer’s patches 128 phagocytes 120, 141 pharyngitis 152 pheromones 100–2, 177 Phipps, James 29 pigs 148 pinworms 118 plague 30 plant foods see fruit; vegetables plants, ecological succession 208 pneumonia 27, 153, 268 polio 27–8, 29, 31, 38, 266 Pollan, Michael 202 pollen 119 polysaccharides 181 polysaccharide A (PSA) 134–5 Porpyhra 192 potatoes 191 poverty 48 Prague 97 prebiotics 258 pregnancy 205 antibiotics in 163 gut microbiota 229–31 metabolic changes 229–30 probiotics in 239 toxoplasmosis 96 vaginal bacteria 207–8 preservatives, food 202 Prevotella 185, 191, 192, 194, 206, 213, 263 primates 16, 102 probiotics 237–44, 257–9 propionate 107–9, 195, 217 Propionibacterium 20, 21, 168–9, 213, 239 Propionibacterium acnes 143–4 proteins 7, 9, 180, 196–7 Proteobacteria 65, 226, 230 Pseudomonas 206, 213 psoriasis 23, 49 psychoanalysis 238 Puerto Rico 214 pulses, fibre content 276 Pyrenees 115 Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario 259 quorum sensing 136 rabbits 245 rabies 29–30, 84, 85 racial differences, twenty-first-century illnesses 50–1 Rain Man (film) 87 ram’s horn snails 83 rashes 155 rats 18, 84, 85, 96, 107–8, 185–6, 245 raw-food diet 198–9 RePOOPulate 260 reptiles, gut microbiota 205 respiratory tract infections 152, 153, 222 rheumatoid arthritis 39, 41, 223, 254 rice 198 rickets 221 Riley, Lee 165 Rio de Janeiro 209 Robogut 110, 111, 259 rodents 245 Roseburia intestinalis 197 Rosenberg, Eugene and Ilana 126 Rowen, Lee 7–8, 24 rubella 31, 165 Rush Children’s Hospital, Chicago 92 Russia 173 Rwanda 201 rye 139, 194, 199 sac-winged bats 100, 101 Salmonella 271 Sandler, Richard 92, 94, 95 sanitation 15, 35–6 Sardinia 52 savants, autistic 87, 108 Scandinavia 188 scarlet fever 27 scent see smells scent glands 177 schizophrenia 97–8, 105, 106, 108, 141, 246 Science 179 Scientific American magazine 97 scleroderma 50 scurvy 221 seaweed 192, 247 Second World War 37, 150, 158, 189 Semmelweis, Ignaz 32–3, 34, 215 sepsis 36 septicaemia 34 serotonin 103, 104–5 Severe Combined Immunodeficiency (SCID) 127 sewage systems 15 sex, pheromones 100–2, 177 sex hormones 51, 52 sexually-transmitted diseases 28 Sharon, Gil 101 sheep 201, 204 Shigella 128 shingles 271 short-chain fatty acids (SCFAs) 107–9, 195–6, 195, 197, 198, 217, 257 sinusitis 152, 157 skin 18, 23, 45 acne 23, 129, 141, 142–4, 168 hygiene 168–9 microbiota 19–20, 168–9, 213 pheromones 101–2 psoriasis 23, 49 rashes 155 sweat 177 washing 175, 177–8 see also eczema smallpox 25–7, 29, 30–1, 38, 266 smells: faeces 248 pheromones 100–2 Smith, Mark 252–3, 259, 261–2 smoking 145 snail, ram’s horn 83 Snow, John 35, 45–6 soaps 168–71, 172, 175, 177–8 social behaviour, autism 88 Soho, London 34–5, 45–6, 135 soil: ammonia-oxidising bacteria 176 antibiotic contamination 164–5 Somalia 25, 50–1 sore throats 152, 153, 173–4 South Africa 153–4 South America 47, 173, 214 South Pacific islands 58 Spain 151 sperm donors 260–1 spores, Clostridium difficile 234 squid, Hawaiian bobtail 11 Staphylococcus 20, 21, 36, 131, 172, 177, 213, 219 Staphylococcus aureus 154, 171, 172, 271 statins 269 steroids 116 stinkbugs 205 stomach 13 cancer 144 digestion 180 gastric bypasses 61, 66, 81–2 microbes in 21 ulcers 73–4, 144 stools see faeces Strachan, David 116–17, 118–19, 121, 131 Streptococcus 20, 150, 160, 172, 173–5, 206, 213, 215, 219, 229 Streptococcus pneumoniae 217 stress: irritable bowel syndrome 63, 92–3 leaky gut syndrome and 141 and stomach ulcers 73–4 stress hormones 93 strokes 50, 107, 183, 199, 256, 268 Stuebe, Alison 225 Stunkard, Dr Albert 59 Sudden Infant Death syndrome 222–3 Sudo, Nobuyuki 93 sugars 198 digestion 70, 180 falling consumption of 188–9 high-sugar diets 185–6, 192–3 and obesity 189–90 oligosaccharides 216 Sulawesi 142 superfoods 114 supermarkets 75, 159, 169, 182–3 surgery: antibiotic use 37 Caesarean sections 209–15, 220, 274 gastric bypasses 61, 66, 81–2 hygiene 34 Sutterella 282 sweat 101–2, 176–7 Sweden 51, 66–7, 131, 150, 157 Swiss mice 99 Switzerland 52 syphilis 27, 28, 158 T helper cells 118–19, 132 T regulatory cells (Tregs) 133–4, 144, 243 Tanzania 246 tapeworms 118 Tel Aviv University 101, 126 termites 181 testosterone 171, 267 tetanus 90–1 tetracycline antibiotics 168 throats, sore 152, 153, 173–4 thyroid hormones 171 ticks 1–2 tics, physical 282 toads 83–4 tonsillitis 223 Toronto 51 Tourette’s syndrome 42, 98–9, 175, 246 toxic megacolon 156, 245 Toxoplasma 84, 85, 96–7, 98–9, 112, 261 transplants, faecal 245, 248–57, 258–62 Transpoosion 245, 248 traveller’s diarrhoea 63–4 tree of life 16–17, 123–4 trematode worms 83–4 tribal societies: gut microbiota 262–3, 282 personal hygiene 175–6 triclosan 170–2 tryptophan 103, 105 tuberculosis 27, 29, 268 Turkey 97 Turnbaugh, Peter 68–70, 160, 182 Tutsi 201 twenty-first-century illnesses 37–43, 46–53, 266–9 antibiotics and 158–9 and Caesarean sections 212 diet and 183 dysbiosis 64–5 faecal transplants and 254 gender differences 267 inflammation 243, 268 see also allergies; autoimmune diseases; mental health conditions; obesity typhoid 27, 30 ulcerative colitis 42, 49, 144 ulcers, stomach 73–4, 144 United States of America: affluence and disease 47 antibacterial products 172 antibiotic use in livestock 147–8, 164, 165, 272 antibiotics 37, 150, 151, 152, 163, 215 breast-feeding 225–6 Caesarean sections 209–10 diabetes 52, 167 encephalitis lethargica 173 faecal transplants 252–4 fall in calorific intake 189 fibre consumption 197 gut microbiota 262–3 infant mortality 222–3 infectious diseases 27 irritable bowel syndrome 63 obesity 41–2, 46, 49, 58, 75, 81 supermarkets 183 vaccination schemes 31 University of Bern 101 University of Birmingham 25–6 University of Bristol 130 University of Colorado, Boulder 4, 213, 281–2 University of Gothenburg 66, 131 University of Guelph, Ontario 109, 111, 259 University of North Carolina School of Medicine 225 University of Western Ontario 106 University of Wisconsin 74–5 unsaturated fatty acids 188 upper respiratory tract infections (URI) 152, 153, 222 urinary tract 19 urinary tract infections 155, 157 urine, triclosan in 171 US Department of Agriculture (USDA) 189 US Navy 160 uterine cancer 145 vaccinations 25, 26–7, 29–31, 35, 91, 118, 165 vagina: microbes 19, 205–9, 212–14, 229 probiotic inserts 239 vaginal birth 209–12, 220, 274, 278 vagus nerve 91, 104–5 vampire bats 124–5, 181 vancomycin 91, 161 vegans 164 vegetables: antibiotic contamination 164–5, 272 digestion 70 fibre content 190–1, 276 Five-a-Day campaign 273 prebiotics 258 vegetarian diet 71, 192 Venezuela 262–3 Vetter, David 126–8, 181 Vibrio cholerae 135–7 Vienna General Hospital 32–3 viruses 8 antibiotics and 152 and autoimmune diseases 167 chicken disease 57, 61, 74–5, 76–7, 78 flu pandemic 48 menstrual cycle 229 and obesity 57, 61, 74–8 polio 27–8, 29, 31, 38, 266 rabies 29–30, 84, 85 smallpox 25–7, 29, 30–1, 38, 266 vitamins 16, 227–8 colon and 180–1 deficiencies 221 enzymes and 263 synthesis by bacteria 23 vitamin B12 23, 228 Vrieze, Anne 255, 256–7 VSL#3 242–4 Walkerton, Canada 62 wallabies 181 warblers, garden 54–6, 57, 73, 77, 78 Warren, Robin 74 washing 172–3, 175, 177–8 Washington University, St Louis 67, 247, 262 water birth 214 water supply: antibacterial products in 171, 172 cholera epidemic 34–5, 45–6, 135 chlorination 172 and irritable bowel syndrome 62 water-borne diseases 34–6 wealth, and twenty-first-century illnesses 46–8 weaning 226 weight gain: calories and 77–8 in pregnancy 230 see also obesity weight loss: dieting 59, 148–9, 184, 186–7, 197, 199 faecal transplants and 257 garden warblers 55–6 raw-food diet 199 Wellcome Collection, London 279 West Papua 176 Western diet 185–6 wet nursing 220–1 wheat 7, 111, 139, 194 wheat intolerance 38, 199–202 Whipple’s disease 85, 106, 107 white blood cells 45 Whitlock, David 176, 177–8 whooping cough 27 Whorwell, Peter 62–3, 252 Wold, Agnes 131–2, 134 women: acne 142–3 antibiotic use 150 breast-feeding 216–20, 221, 222–6, 230–1, 274–5, 278, 285 Caesarean births 209–15, 220, 274 consumption of fats 188 death in childbirth 32–3 lupus 168 menstrual cycle 229 obesity and cancer 145 pregnancy 229–30 Toxoplasma infection 96–7 transfer of microbes to babies 204–9, 212–14 and twenty-first-century illnesses 51–2, 267 vaginal births 209–12, 220, 274, 278 World Health Organisation (WHO) 25–6, 31, 211, 225, 239, 278, 285 The Worm, number of genes 7, 8 worms 83–4, 118 wounds 34, 36 Wrangham, Richard 198–9 xylan 191 Xylanibacter 185, 191 yeasts 8 yogurt 206, 237, 239–40, 244 Zobellia galactanivorans 192 zonula occludens toxin (Zot) 136–7, 139 zonulin 137, 139–40, 200 ABOUT THE AUTHOR ALANNA COLLEN is a science writer with a master’s degree in biology from Imperial College London and a PhD in evolutionary biology from University College London and the Zoological Society of London.

Backstage Passes & Backstabbing Bastards: Memoirs of a Rock 'N' Roll Survivor by Al Kooper

cuban missile crisis, David Brooks, gentrification, haute couture, Maui Hawaii

And that is exactly how the first season ended. For one of the first times in my life, I wanted to take a vacation. With a weekly TV series, there is no traveling all year, and I missed it. My friend Shep Gordon, who managed Alice Cooper, Luther Vandross, and Teddy Pendergrass, had a beautiful house on the beach in Maui. I asked him if it was available for a week in July, and before you could say “Aloha,” my new gal Vivien and I were eating papayas and lying on the sand. We had a great time, other than burning our skin real badly. Amateurs. We came home and I geared up for the onslaught otherwise known as the second season.

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But when other artists were not “appreciating” our songs, it was always Pitney who’d take one of our teen traumas and tack it onto an album or make it the flip side of a single, just so’s we could eat. When “I Must Be Seeing Things” hit the charts, it felt good to be doing something to repay Gene’s kindness for recording various gems of ours like “(We Are) The Last Two People on Earth,” “Don’t Take Candy from a Stranger,” and “Hawaii.” With two solid chart records, you’d think that all would’ve been peachy keen in the wonderful world of Brass-Kooper-Levine. But alien forces were afoot, and the tide of public taste was pulling out on us. The Beatles were giving Aldon the bum’s rush, and an unholy alliance between Bob Dylan and marijuana was fucking with my head in a fierce way.

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I pulled out the name of one of my favorite guitarists, Randy California, who played with the group Spirit. Franklin thanked me profusely and that was the last I heard of it for a month. Then a third party told me that Randy had rehearsed with them and it was magnificent. The first date of the tour was in Hawaii. The night of the show, I’m told, Randy barricaded himself in his hotel room and refused to come out and play. The tour was canceled. Guess it was jinxed and there was nothing anyone could do about it. Mike Bloomfield and I played a few live gigs and mini-tours together. Mike was full of surprises.

The Boundless Sea: A Human History of the Oceans by David Abulafia

Admiral Zheng, Alfred Russel Wallace, Bartolomé de las Casas, British Empire, colonial rule, computer age, Cornelius Vanderbilt, dark matter, David Ricardo: comparative advantage, discovery of the americas, domestication of the camel, Easter island, Edmond Halley, Eratosthenes, European colonialism, Fellow of the Royal Society, John Harrison: Longitude, joint-stock company, Kickstarter, land reform, lone genius, Malacca Straits, mass immigration, Maui Hawaii, megacity, new economy, out of africa, p-value, Peace of Westphalia, polynesian navigation, Scramble for Africa, South China Sea, spice trade, Suez canal 1869, Suez crisis 1956, trade route, transaction costs, transatlantic slave trade, transcontinental railway, undersea cable, wikimedia commons, yellow journalism

He set out for Hawai’i, building temples and generating a new line of descendants, who became an important dynasty of hereditary priests in the Hawai’ian islands. Reduced to essentials, these tales indicate an ease of movement between Hawai’i and Tahiti or the islands around Tonga that persisted into the fourteenth century. One of the tales preserves a song that is as clear about the memory of at least partly Tahitian origins as one could wish: Eia Hawai’i, he moku, he kanaka, He kanaka Hawai’i – e, He kanaka Hawai’i, He kama na Kahiki … Here is Hawai’i, an island, a man, Here is Hawai’i – indeed, Hawai’i is a man, A child of Tahiti … 10 Proof that these stories are not total fantasies has been provided by DNA evidence that links the modern native Hawai’ian population to the population of the Marquesas, in eastern Polynesia, and to the Society Islands a little further west.11 Archaeological finds have been more reticent about contacts between Hawai’i and the Society Islands.

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It has been seen that the letter k becomes t in some Polynesian dialects, and in others a glottal stop is often used instead of either, so Hawaiki is another form of the name Hawai’i; or, rather, Hawai’i took its name from a supposed ancestral home much further to the south, to which the Māoris also attributed their origins.32 They did not claim to have come from the island group now called Hawai’i. Once again, though, it is important not to be too credulous. The name ‘Hawaiki’ was a generic term for the place of one’s ancestors – ‘the old country’, as it were, whose name was reused again and again to confer a sense that connections to those ancestors had not been lost by migrants as far away as what we now call Hawai’i. Children in the womb were described as being ‘in Hawaiki’ before they were born.33 Hawaiki is portrayed in the Māori legends as the home of a seafaring community that sustained itself by fishing and was riven by conflict between competing chieftains, but there is little information about the shape and size of the island or about what grew there, because it was an idealized place of origin.34 There exist many versions of this story, some of which provide plenty of names and details, such as the number of people on board Kupe’s boat (one account says thirty).

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The publishers will be pleased to amend in future editions any errors or omissions brought to their attention. 1. Tepuke , a modern canoe based on ancient Polynesian design, built by the Vaka Taumako Project. (Photo: Wade Fairley, 2008) 2. Rock carving of a boat with a claw sail, possibly dating back to the early settlements, Olowalu, Maui. (Photo: Bill Brooks/Alamy) 3. Relief carving of the Egyptian fleet during the expedition to the Land of Punt, 18th Dynasty. Funerary temple of Hatshepsut, Deir El-Bahri, Egypt. (Photo: Prisma Archivo/Alamy) 4. Drawing of relief carving of the Egyptian fleet in the expedition to the Land of Punt.

The Old Patagonian Express by Paul Theroux

anti-communist, Atahualpa, company town, David Ricardo: comparative advantage, Francisco Pizarro, it's over 9,000, Khyber Pass, Mahatma Gandhi, Maui Hawaii, place-making, Ralph Waldo Emerson, transcontinental railway

book; most travelers, however dreary and plonkingly pedestrian, sec themselves as solitary and rather heroic adventurers. But the odd thing i s that the real heroes of travel seldom write about their journeys. In 1988 a man paddled a kayak from San Diego across thirty.five hundred miles of the Pacific 10 Maui in the Hawaiian Islands. It was II linle item in the paper, because he almost died - he was without rood and water for the last three days of his sixty-three·day trip. He has never wrinen about this interesting ordeal, and yet I have just received a thick book detailing the lrll\'e!S of II young mlln through metropolitan France ("essential reading for Francophiles.

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I wanted to go to bed with her right away - I suppose it was me being sick and her being my nurse. It happens a lot. But she said, "Not till we're married."' He winced and continued. 'It was a quiet ceremony. Afterwards, we went to Hawaii. Not Honolulu, but one of the little islands. It was Paul Theroux The Old Patagonian Express, By Train Through the Americas Page 91 beautiful - jungle, beaches, flowers. She hated it. "It's too quiet," she said. Born and raised in a little town in New Hampshire, a one-horse town - you've seen them - and she goes to Hawaii and says it's too quiet. She wanted to go to night-clubs. There weren't any night-clubs. She had enormous breasts, but she wouldn't let me touch them.

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His was in a sense a typical curmudgeonly snobbery about travel, a bragging about the glory of travelling through trackless woods with a pack of Indians and mule-skinners (Evelyn Waugh fills the Introduction toWhen The Going Was Good - the curmudgeon's catch-phrase - with the same grumpy boasts). 'Old travellers know how soon the individuality of a country is lost when once the tide of foreign travel is turned through its towns or its by-ways,' writes William T. Brigham in hisGuatemala. (I think he is the same William Brigham who nearly electrocuted himself in Hawaii when he touched a wooden stick which a native magician had loaded with some high voltage mumbo-jumbo.) Brigham soon makes his fears particular: 'When the Northern Railroad extends through Guatemala, when the Transcontinental Railway traverses the plains of Honduras, and the Nicaraguan Canal unites the Atlantic and the Pacific, the charm will be broken, the mulepath and the mozo de cargo (carrier of bundles) will be supplanted, and a journey across Central America become almost as dull as a journey from Chicago to Cheyenne.'

Jennifer Morgue by Stross, Charles

Boeing 747, call centre, Carl Icahn, correlation does not imply causation, disinformation, disintermediation, dumpster diving, Dutch auction, Etonian, haute couture, interchangeable parts, Maui Hawaii, messenger bag, MITM: man-in-the-middle, mutually assured destruction, operational security, PalmPilot, planetary scale, RFID, Seymour Hersh, Silicon Valley, Skype, slashdot, stem cell, telepresence, traveling salesman, Turing machine

It might all be for nothing if the bloody thing isn't netwotked, but you never know until you try to find out; and I might be suffering from acute cravings for unfiltered Turkish cigarettes, but at least now I know why. It's like finding out that the reason your machine's running slow is because some virus-writing spod from Maui has shanghaied it into a botnet and is using your bandwidth to spam penis enlargement ads across the Ukraine; it's a pain in the neck, but knowing what's going on is the first step to dealing with it. The boot sequence is complete. It's amazing what you can cram into a memory stick these days: it loads a Linux kernel with some very heavily customized device drivers, looks around, scratches its head, spawns a virtual machine, and rolls right on to load the Media Center operating system on top.

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Nevertheless, it is still recognizable as an artificial structure. "We believe this was the real target of K-129's abortive operation. It's located on the floor of the Pacific, approximately 600 nautical miles southwest of Hawaii and, by no coincidence at all, on the K-129's course prior to the unfortunate onboard explosion that resulted in the submarine's loss with all hands." SLIDE 8: Not a photograph but a false-color synthetic relief image of the floor of the Pacific basin, southwest of Hawaii. The image is contoured to represent depth, and colored to convey some other attribute. Virulent red spots dot the depths — except for a single, much shallower one.

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Instead, BLUE HADES appear to control inaccessible condensed matter states by varying the fine-structure constant and tunneling photinos — super-symmetrical photon analogs that possess mass — between nodes where they want to do things. One side effect of this is neutrino emissions at a very characteristic spectrum, unlike anything we get from the sun or from our own nuclear reactors. This is a density scan for the zone around the K-129 and Hawaii, As you can see, that isolated shallow point — near where the K-129 went down — is rather strong. There's an active power source in there, and it's not connected to the rest of the BLUE HADES grid as far as we can tell. The site is classified, incidentally, and is known as Site One.' SLIDE 9: A rock face, evidently inside a mine, is illuminated by spotlights.

Stealing Fire: How Silicon Valley, the Navy SEALs, and Maverick Scientists Are Revolutionizing the Way We Live and Work by Steven Kotler, Jamie Wheal

"World Economic Forum" Davos, 3D printing, Abraham Maslow, Alexander Shulgin, Alvin Toffler, augmented reality, Berlin Wall, Bernie Sanders, bitcoin, blockchain, Burning Man, Colonization of Mars, crowdsourcing, David Brooks, delayed gratification, disruptive innovation, driverless car, Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, Elon Musk, en.wikipedia.org, Future Shock, Hacker News, high batting average, hive mind, How many piano tuners are there in Chicago?, hype cycle, Hyperloop, impulse control, independent contractor, informal economy, Jaron Lanier, John Markoff, John Perry Barlow, Kevin Kelly, Larry Ellison, lateral thinking, Mason jar, Maui Hawaii, McMansion, means of production, Menlo Park, meta-analysis, microdosing, military-industrial complex, mirror neurons, music of the spheres, off-the-grid, pattern recognition, Peter Thiel, PIHKAL and TIHKAL, prosperity theology / prosperity gospel / gospel of success, Ray Kurzweil, ride hailing / ride sharing, risk tolerance, science of happiness, selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI), Silicon Valley, Silicon Valley billionaire, Silicon Valley startup, Skype, Steve Jobs, synthetic biology, TED Talk, time dilation, Tony Hsieh, urban planning, Virgin Galactic

Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh and his bioterrorist followers, Marshall Applewhite and the Heaven’s Gate suicides, and Charles Manson and the Tate-LaBianca murders are well-known examples. There are plenty of others. Combine enticing experiences with clay-footed gurus and you have a recipe for disaster. No wonder parents of the 1960s hugged their children close as they traipsed off to California (or Bali or Maui) with flowers in their hair. There really was no telling if the next enlightened sage was a huckster, a demagogue, or both. Better to never venture out the door than roll those dice. Isn’t that why Harvard professor Timothy Leary, whose greatest crime was telling undergrads to “tune in, turn on, and drop out,” ended up branded by President Richard Nixon “the most dangerous man in America”?

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In the hospital, Lilly had a textbook NDE and, as he reported afterward, was visited by the same entities he’d been encountering in the float tank. They presented him with a choice: leave with them for good, or return to his body, heal, and focus on more worldly pursuits. Finally, Lilly got the message. He abandoned his psychedelic research and retired with his wife to Hawaii, where he lived to the ripe age of eighty-four. There may not be another researcher who has dived as deeply into the mysteries of consciousness as John Lilly. He may just have been lucky, or, as he believed, had some help from other realms. But undoubtedly his rigorous training as a scientist, his insistence on preserving a critical and objective stance in the face of even the most outrageous experiences, saved his mind, and possibly his life.

The Pot Book: A Complete Guide to Cannabis by Julie Holland

benefit corporation, Berlin Wall, Burning Man, confounding variable, drug harm reduction, intentional community, longitudinal study, Mahatma Gandhi, mandatory minimum, Maui Hawaii, meta-analysis, pattern recognition, phenotype, placebo effect, profit motive, publication bias, RAND corporation, randomized controlled trial, Ronald Reagan, Rosa Parks, Stephen Hawking, traumatic brain injury, University of East Anglia, zero-sum game

Amendments: No, although Hawaii has a separate statute allowing patients arrested on marijuana charges to present a “choice of evils” defense arguing that their use of marijuana is medically necessary. Medical Marijuana Statutes: Haw. Rev. Stat. §§ 329-121 to 329-128 (2008). Contact Information: Administrative rules for Hawaii’s medical marijuana program are available online from the Drug Policy Forum of Hawaii website at: www.dpfhi.org. Application information for the Hawaii medical marijuana registry is available by writing or calling: Hawaii Department of Public Safety 919 Ala Moana Boulevard Honolulu, HI 96814 (808) 594-0150 Idaho It is a crime to be under the influence of marijuana in a public place or to use marijuana in a public place, punishable by up to six months in jail and a fine of up to $1,000.

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It makes no difference. It means nothing. And we should stand tall. Once, pot-smoking parents weren’t so controversial. My parents never consumed anything stronger than box wine; my dad was the only soldier in Vietnam, other than maybe John McCain, who didn’t do drugs. But even if my parents had stashed a half-ounce of Maui Wowie in the underwear drawer, I can’t imagine it would have been a big deal around the house. The country was loose about weed then. No one gave it much of a thought. When I was a kid, a Time magazine cover like the one on December 9, 1996, would never have been possible. An aging Michael Doonesbury sits on his daughter’s bed, while Garry Trudeau’s talking joint character stands in the background.

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Patients diagnosed with the following illnesses are afforded legal protection under this act: cachexia; cancer; chronic pain; Crohn’s disease; epilepsy and other disorders characterized by seizures; glaucoma; HIV or AIDS; multiple sclerosis, and other disorders characterized by muscle spasticity; and nausea. Other conditions are subject to approval by the Hawaii Department of Health. Patients (or their primary caregivers) may legally possess up to 3 ounces of usable marijuana, and may cultivate no more than seven marijuana plants, of which no more than three may be mature. The law establishes a mandatory, confidential state-run patient registry that issues identification cards to qualifying patients. Amendments: No, although Hawaii has a separate statute allowing patients arrested on marijuana charges to present a “choice of evils” defense arguing that their use of marijuana is medically necessary.

Inviting Disaster by James R. Chiles

air gap, Airbus A320, airline deregulation, Alignment Problem, Apollo 11, Apollo 13, Boeing 747, crew resource management, cuban missile crisis, Exxon Valdez, flying shuttle, Gene Kranz, Maui Hawaii, megaproject, Milgram experiment, Neil Armstrong, North Sea oil, Piper Alpha, Recombinant DNA, Richard Feynman, Richard Feynman: Challenger O-ring, risk tolerance, Ted Sorensen, time dilation

When operators tried to use control rods, graphite tips of rods displaced water from channels and brought power level to 100 times maximum allowed, causing two explosions. Government evacuated 135,000 people from 1,000-square-mile area. Deaths: estimated 5,000–10,000 (mostly cleanup workers). Aloha Airlines 737 airliner: blowout of upper fuselage skin Maui, Hawaii, United States April 28, 1988 Aluminum corrosion, adhesive weakening, and fatigue from use of 19-year-old aircraft for short-haul flights caused fracture and explosive blowout of skin at 24,000 feet altitude. Made hole 18 feet in length. Airflow sucked one flight attendant out. Pilot retained control and landed safely.

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Comet 1 (airliner): two aircraft exploded in midair in separate incidents Mediterranean Sea January 10, 1954, and April 8, 1954 Aluminum skin of first jet airliner suffered fatigue cracking from pressurization-depressurization cycles, though manufacturer had initially pressure-tested fuselage severely. On the only aircraft that could be recovered for study, analysis showed fracture started at corner of navigation window. Deaths: 56 (passengers and crew). Sargo (submarine): fire in rear compartment Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, United States June 15, 1960 The Sargo was loading liquid oxygen from a tanker truck. Malfunction in submarine’s stern ignited violent oxygen-enriched fire that could be extinguished only by sinking vessel at stern. Deaths: 1. Legion Field Stadium: discovery of structural weakness in new upper deck Birmingham, Alabama, United States October 21, 1960 Engineer for structural steel fabricator noticed that wind bracing for stadium’s new steel upper deck seemed loose.

Frommer's Mexico 2008 by David Baird, Juan Cristiano, Lynne Bairstow, Emily Hughey Quinn

airport security, AltaVista, Bartolomé de las Casas, centre right, colonial rule, Day of the Dead, East Village, gentrification, glass ceiling, haute cuisine, indoor plumbing, low cost airline, Maui Hawaii, out of africa, Pepto Bismol, place-making, Skype, sustainable-tourism, the market place, urban planning

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See Ixtapa/ Zihuatanejo Zinacantán, 478 Zinco (Mexico City), 144 Zócalo (Mexico City), 135 Zona Rosa (Mexico City) accommodations, 107–110 restaurants, 114–115 sights and attractions, 128 Zoo (club in Puerto Vallarta), 324 Z’Tai (Puerto Vallarta), 322 FROMMER’S® COMPLETE TRAVEL GUIDES Alaska Amalfi Coast American Southwest Amsterdam Argentina & Chile Arizona Atlanta Australia Austria Bahamas Barcelona Beijing Belgium, Holland & Luxembourg Belize Bermuda Boston Brazil British Columbia & the Canadian Rockies Brussels & Bruges Budapest & the Best of Hungary Buenos Aires Calgary California Canada Cancún, Cozumel & the Yucatán Cape Cod, Nantucket & Martha’s Vineyard Caribbean Caribbean Ports of Call Carolinas & Georgia Chicago China Colorado Costa Rica Croatia Cuba Denmark Denver, Boulder & Colorado Springs Edinburgh & Glasgow England Europe Europe by Rail Florence, Tuscany & Umbria Florida France Germany Greece Greek Islands Hawaii Hong Kong Honolulu, Waikiki & Oahu India Ireland Israel Italy Jamaica Japan Kauai Las Vegas London Los Angeles Los Cabos & Baja Madrid Maine Coast Maryland & Delaware Maui Mexico Montana & Wyoming Montréal & Québec City Moscow & St. Petersburg Munich & the Bavarian Alps Nashville & Memphis New England Newfoundland & Labrador New Mexico New Orleans New York City New York State New Zealand Northern Italy Norway Nova Scotia, New Brunswick & Prince Edward Island Oregon Paris Peru Philadelphia & the Amish Country Portugal Prague & the Best of the Czech Republic Provence & the Riviera Puerto Rico Rome San Antonio & Austin San Diego San Francisco Santa Fe, Taos & Albuquerque Scandinavia Scotland Seattle Seville, Granada & the Best of Andalusia Shanghai Sicily Singapore & Malaysia South Africa South America South Florida South Pacific Southeast Asia Spain Sweden Switzerland Tahiti & French Polynesia Texas Thailand Tokyo Toronto Turkey USA Utah Vancouver & Victoria Vermont, New Hampshire & Maine Vienna & the Danube Valley Vietnam Virgin Islands Virginia Walt Disney World® & Orlando Washington, D.C.

Console Wars: Sega, Nintendo, and the Battle That Defined a Generation by Blake J. Harris

air freight, airport security, Apollo 13, back-to-the-land, Berlin Wall, disruptive innovation, Fall of the Berlin Wall, game design, inventory management, junk bonds, Larry Ellison, Maui Hawaii, Michael Milken, Pepsi Challenge, pneumatic tube, Ponzi scheme, rolodex, Ronald Reagan, Saturday Night Live, Silicon Valley, SimCity, Steve Jobs, uranium enrichment, Yogi Berra

And so with this advice, in July 1990, Kalinske took his family to Hawaii, where Karen enjoyed the beach, their three girls enjoyed building (and then stomping on) sandcastles, and Tom tried his best to stop thinking about a million things at once. It was exactly what Tom Kalinske needed, but midway through the trip, an unexpected guest showed up . . . PART ONE GENESIS 1. THE OPPORTUNITY Tom Kalinske had a secret. For years he had managed to keep it to himself, covering it up with a combination of white lies, noncommittal nods, and uneven smiles, but as he lay on a magnificent beach in sunny Maui with his loving wife and three energetic daughters, he could no longer keep it inside.

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PHOTO SECTION After years of dynamic success at Mattel, Tom Kalinske was named CEO of the company at only thirty-eight years old. Internal politics, however, would eventually lead to his early departure. Photograph courtesy of Tom Kalinske While between jobs, Tom Kalinske and his family took a trip to Hawaii in 1990, but that vacation was cut short by an unexpected guest . . . Photograph courtesy of Tom Kalinske Hayao Nakayama, the president of Sega Enterprises, tracked down Kalinske in Hawaii and whisked him away to Japan to show off what his company had in the pipeline. Impressed, Kalinske agreed to become the CEO of Sega of America and take on mighty Nintendo, who controlled 95 percent of the videogame market.

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He never allowed himself to appear off guard in conversations and was committed to masking any discomfort or unease with a Jamesdeanian coolness. Nakayama suddenly realized that he was casting a shadow over Kalinske and took a couple of steps to the side. As the sun hit his face, Kalinske smiled and greeted his unexpected guest. “Great to see you, Nakayama-san. What brings you out to Hawaii?” “I came here to find you. As I just said, you are a difficult man to track down.” Nakayama spoke nearly perfect English, albeit with a strange slight Brooklyn accent. It was smooth and seamless, except for the occasional broken phrase. His errors, however, seemed to have less to do with grammatical difficulties and more to do with the rhythm of his conversation.

The Codebreakers: The Comprehensive History of Secret Communication From Ancient Times to the Internet by David Kahn

anti-communist, Bletchley Park, British Empire, Charles Babbage, classic study, Claude Shannon: information theory, computer age, cotton gin, cuban missile crisis, Easter island, end-to-end encryption, Fellow of the Royal Society, heat death of the universe, Honoré de Balzac, index card, interchangeable parts, invention of the telegraph, Isaac Newton, Johannes Kepler, John von Neumann, Louis Daguerre, machine translation, Maui Hawaii, Norbert Wiener, out of africa, pattern recognition, place-making, planned obsolescence, Plato's cave, pneumatic tube, popular electronics, positional goods, Republic of Letters, Searching for Interstellar Communications, stochastic process, Suez canal 1869, the scientific method, trade route, Turing machine, union organizing, yellow journalism, zero-sum game

At about the same time in OP-20-GZ, Kramer, who had been too busy with the 13 parts on Saturday to work on this message, was breaking out charts of Oahu and Maui to help in degarbling the message, which was finally reduced to plaintext by Thursday. Marshall later said that it was the first message that clearly indicated an attack on Pearl to him—but this was, of course, after the fact. The information from it was immediately passed to counterintelligence units in Hawaii, where invasion was thought highly probable. Their agents interrogated residents in the neighborhood of the houses mentioned in the dispatch and listened to recordings of KGMB want ads, but found that the signal system had never been used.

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For example, 7 would be represented by two lights shown in the window of a house on Lanikai Beach between 2 and 3 a.m., or by two sheets between 10 and 11 a.m., by lights in the attic window of a house in Kalama between 11 and 12 p.m., or by a want ad offering a complete chicken farm for sale and listing P.O. Box 1476. If all these failed, a bonfire on a certain peak of Maui Island between 8 and 9 p.m. would indicate 7. The purpose of the system was to eliminate dangerous personal contacts between Kühn and the Japanese. Kühn tested it on December 2, found that it worked, and passed it to Yoshikawa. He had it encoded (in PA-K2) and sent to Tokyo in two long parts on December 3.

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To exploit this source of information, the Navy in 1937 established the Mid-Pacific Strategic Direction-Finder Net. By 1941, high-frequency direction-finders curved in a gigantic arc from Cavite in the Philippines through Guam, Samoa, Midway, and Hawaii to Dutch Harbor, Alaska. The 60 or 70 officers and men who staffed these outposts reported their bearings to Hawaii, where Rochefort’s unit translated them into fixes. For example, on October 16, the ship with call-sign KUNA 1 was located at 10.7 degrees north latitude, 166.7 degrees east longitude—or within Japan’s mandated islands. These findings did not serve merely to keep an eye on the day-to-day locations of Japanese warships.

Actionable Gamification: Beyond Points, Badges and Leaderboards by Yu-Kai Chou

Apple's 1984 Super Bowl advert, barriers to entry, behavioural economics, bitcoin, Burning Man, Cass Sunstein, crowdsourcing, Daniel Kahneman / Amos Tversky, delayed gratification, Do you want to sell sugared water for the rest of your life?, don't be evil, en.wikipedia.org, endowment effect, Firefox, functional fixedness, game design, gamification, growth hacking, IKEA effect, Internet of things, Kickstarter, late fees, lifelogging, loss aversion, Maui Hawaii, Minecraft, pattern recognition, peer-to-peer, performance metric, QR code, recommendation engine, Richard Thaler, Silicon Valley, Skinner box, Skype, software as a service, Stanford prison experiment, Steve Jobs, TED Talk, The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith, transaction costs

(Note: Mario Herger in his book, Enterprise Gamification, suggests that Employee-of-the-Week programs won’t work in countries and cultures that frown upon individual recognition24). Another form of Rolling Rewards is when an employer or big client states, “After this project, one of you will receive a free two week vacation to Maui!” In fact, at most workplaces, the thought of being promoted one day is in itself a Rolling Reward – someone has to become the new Vice President: I hope it will be me. On a larger scale where there are a great number of participants, Rolling Reward programs have low barriers to entry and the rewards are substantial (think state or national lotteries), but there’s a very slim chance to win, regardless of how long you spend playing the “game”.

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In a conversation with the young and ambitious status-quo disruptor Natalie Keene, played by Anna Kendrick, Bingham gives us a lesson about the value of scarcity, status, rewards, and exclusivity, as he explains about his obsession with accumulating airline miles. Ryan Bingham: I don’t spend a nickel, if I can help it, unless it somehow profits my mileage account. Natalie Keener: So, what are you saving up for? Hawaii? South of France? Ryan Bingham: It’s not like that. The miles are the goal. Natalie Keener: That’s it? You’re saving just to save? Ryan Bingham: Let’s just say that I have a number in mind and I haven’t hit it yet. Natalie Keener: That’s a little abstract. What’s the target? Ryan Bingham: I’d rather not… Natalie Keener: Is it a secret target?

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Explore Octalysis Content in Unpredictable Ways One of the creations I have on the Internet is a video tutorial series called Beginner’s Guide to Gamification. It is basically a combination of the Octalysis and gamification knowledge that you are reading from this book, footage from all my travels across the globe (U.S., India, China, Denmark, Kingdom of Bahrain, U.K., Germany, Hawaii and more), and a bunch of goofy activities that I do just to prevent viewers from leaving these videos prematurely. Some of the things I do in these videos are so outrageous that I still feel embarrassed to show people. It may serve as an interesting way for you to review the contents learned from this book in an more entertaining way.

Brotopia: Breaking Up the Boys' Club of Silicon Valley by Emily Chang

"Margaret Hamilton" Apollo, "Susan Fowler" uber, "World Economic Forum" Davos, 23andMe, 4chan, Ada Lovelace, affirmative action, Airbnb, Alan Greenspan, Andy Rubin, Apollo 11, Apple II, augmented reality, autism spectrum disorder, autonomous vehicles, barriers to entry, Benchmark Capital, Bernie Sanders, Big Tech, Burning Man, California gold rush, Chuck Templeton: OpenTable:, clean tech, company town, data science, David Brooks, deal flow, Donald Trump, Dr. Strangelove, driverless car, Elon Musk, emotional labour, equal pay for equal work, fail fast, Fairchild Semiconductor, fake news, Ferguson, Missouri, game design, gender pay gap, Google Glasses, Google X / Alphabet X, Grace Hopper, Hacker News, high net worth, Hyperloop, imposter syndrome, Jeff Bezos, job satisfaction, Khan Academy, Lyft, Marc Andreessen, Mark Zuckerberg, Mary Meeker, Maui Hawaii, Max Levchin, Menlo Park, meritocracy, meta-analysis, microservices, Parker Conrad, paypal mafia, Peter Thiel, post-work, pull request, reality distortion field, Richard Hendricks, ride hailing / ride sharing, rolodex, Salesforce, Saturday Night Live, shareholder value, Sheryl Sandberg, side project, Silicon Valley, Silicon Valley startup, Skype, Snapchat, Steve Jobs, Steve Jurvetson, Steve Wozniak, Steven Levy, subscription business, Susan Wojcicki, tech billionaire, tech bro, tech worker, TED Talk, Tim Cook: Apple, Travis Kalanick, uber lyft, women in the workforce, Zenefits

Once club members realized the press was on the scent, they invited a few female investors to join, and the bad PR was averted. VC 21 was later rebranded as the Venture Social Club. An email to club members in March 2017 touted an all-expenses-paid stay at the Rosewood hotel in Menlo Park and an “over the top” long weekend at the Montage on Maui, “complete with sunset cruises, ocean fun and private dinner experiences.” Members have also told me of similar trips, involving stays at spectacular mansions, sporting events such as heli-skiing, ridiculous amounts of drinking, and elaborate dinners accompanied by $200 bottles of wine. All of this luxury is sponsored by various banks, law firms, and limited partners, all of whom want access to top deals.

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Who knows what is next, but I certainly never thought I’d come this far. I’d like to give a huge shout-out to the other amazing women and moms in my life: Alison Fisher, Carrie Sponheimer, Joanna Agena, Heather Childs, Allison Lyneham, Colleen Gargan, Jo Ling Kent, Fannie Chen, Coble Armstrong, Sara Trucksess, and friends from Hawaii to Bernal Heights. None of this would have been possible without my “village.” First and foremost, I want to thank my mother, Sandy Chang, who has always given me so much love that it’s a true miracle she has anything left over for her grandkids. Mom, I love you back for all of that and more.

The Survival of the City: Human Flourishing in an Age of Isolation by Edward Glaeser, David Cutler

Affordable Care Act / Obamacare, agricultural Revolution, Alvin Toffler, Andrei Shleifer, autonomous vehicles, basic income, Big bang: deregulation of the City of London, Big Tech, Black Lives Matter, British Empire, business cycle, buttonwood tree, call centre, carbon footprint, Cass Sunstein, classic study, clean water, collective bargaining, Columbian Exchange, contact tracing, Corn Laws, Cornelius Vanderbilt, coronavirus, COVID-19, crack epidemic, defund the police, deindustrialization, Deng Xiaoping, desegregation, discovery of penicillin, Donald Trump, Edward Glaeser, Elisha Otis, Fellow of the Royal Society, flying shuttle, future of work, Future Shock, gentrification, George Floyd, germ theory of disease, global pandemic, global village, hiring and firing, Home mortgage interest deduction, Honoré de Balzac, income inequality, industrial cluster, James Hargreaves, Jane Jacobs, Jevons paradox, job automation, jobless men, John Maynard Keynes: Economic Possibilities for our Grandchildren, John Snow's cholera map, knowledge worker, lockdown, Louis Pasteur, Mahatma Gandhi, manufacturing employment, mass incarceration, Maui Hawaii, means of production, megacity, meta-analysis, new economy, New Urbanism, Occupy movement, opioid epidemic / opioid crisis, out of africa, place-making, precautionary principle, RAND corporation, randomized controlled trial, remote working, Richard Florida, Salesforce, Saturday Night Live, Silicon Valley, Skype, smart cities, social distancing, Socratic dialogue, spinning jenny, superstar cities, Tax Reform Act of 1986, tech baron, TED Talk, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith, TikTok, trade route, union organizing, universal basic income, Upton Sinclair, urban planning, working poor, Works Progress Administration, zero-sum game, zoonotic diseases

In addition, the food industry has increasingly made use of chemists as flavor specialists to design tastes to suit consumers’ whims. These chemists home in on what makes certain foods desirable and synthesize it in the laboratory. These artificial flavors can then be added to make pre-prepared food more appealing. Who wants regular potato chips when you can have chips with that zest of “sweet Maui onion” or “mesquite barbecue”? Temperature and moisture pose a challenge for frozen foods. If moisture builds up in the package, ice crystals can form, which separate ingredients and alter the food’s texture. Oxidation dehydrates food in the freezer, which is commonly called “freezer burn.” Advances in polyethylene plastics and other materials have improved control over the internal moisture of food packages, which means a longer freezer life and better flavor.

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Economists measure urban appeal using wages and prices. If a place has high pay relative to living costs, then something else must be wrong with the location, like the weather. Not surprisingly, wages are high in Alaska. If a place has prices higher than wages would justify, then people like something about the locale other than its labor market. Hawaii and the Cote d’Azur both fit this category. In cities where prices rise faster than income for many years, the odds are good that something is making that place nicer. During the twenty-five years after 1980, price growth outpaced income growth in cities like New York, London, and San Francisco.

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Some biblical scholars: Rendsburg, “The Date of the Exodus and the Conquest/Settlement: The Case for the 1100s.” The events of the Iliad: Apollo sends a plague upon the Greek Army in Book 1. Homer, The Iliad. Sanskrit sources: Mouritz, “The Flu”: A Brief History of Influenza in U.S. America, Europe, Hawaii. These shreds of evidence: Norrie, “How Disease Affected the End of the Bronze Age.” Massive grain shipments: Rickman, “The Grain Trade under the Roman Empire.” Urban proximity linked: Dalzell, “Maecenas and the Poets.” “the Han histories record”: The quotes in this section come from Raoul McLaughlin, Rome and the Distant East: Trade Routes to the Ancient Lands of Arabia, India and China, 59.

Frommer's San Francisco 2012 by Matthew Poole, Erika Lenkert, Kristin Luna

airport security, Albert Einstein, Bay Area Rapid Transit, Blue Bottle Coffee, California gold rush, car-free, centre right, Chuck Templeton: OpenTable:, El Camino Real, gentrification, glass ceiling, Golden Gate Park, Haight Ashbury, high-speed rail, Loma Prieta earthquake, machine readable, Mason jar, Maui Hawaii, McDonald's hot coffee lawsuit, off-the-grid, place-making, Port of Oakland, post-work, San Francisco homelessness, sensible shoes, Silicon Valley, South of Market, San Francisco, Torches of Freedom, transcontinental railway, urban renewal, Works Progress Administration, young professional

Manufactured in the United States of America 5 4 3 2 1 Chap Title • About the Authors Matthew Poole, a native Californian and San Francisco resident, has authored more than two dozen travel guides to California, Hawaii, and abroad, and is a regular contributor to radio and television travel programs. Before becoming a full-time travel writer and photographer, he worked as an English tutor in Prague, a ski instructor in the Swiss Alps, and a scuba instructor in Maui and Thailand. His other titles include Frommer’s California, Frommer’s Irreverent Guide to San Francisco, Frommer’s San Francisco Day by Day, and Frommer’s San Francisco Free & Dirt Cheap.

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Time The continental United States is divided into four time zones: Eastern Standard Time (EST), Central Standard Time (CST), Mountain Standard Time (MST), and Pacific Standard Time (PST). Alaska and Hawaii have their own zones. For example, when it’s 9am in San Francisco (PST), it’s 7am in Honolulu (HST), 10am in Denver (MST), 11am in Chicago (CST), noon in New York City (EST), 5pm in London (GMT), and 2am the next day in Sydney. Daylight saving time (summer time) is in effect from 1am on the second Sunday in March to 1am on the first Sunday in November, except in Arizona, Hawaii, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and Puerto Rico. Daylight saving time moves the clock 1 hour ahead of standard time.

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Rates for prewrapped shipments are around $29 per case for ground delivery to Los Angeles. SONOMA VALLEY SHIPPING COMMUNITIES The UPS Store, 19229 Sonoma Hwy., in Maxwell Village, Sonoma ( 707/935-3438), has a lot of experience with shipping wine. It claims it will ship your wine to any state. Prices vary from $21 to Los Angeles to as much as $75 to the East Coast and $187 to Hawaii and Alaska. Schramsberg ★★ This 217-acre sparkling wine estate, a landmark once frequented by Robert Louis Stevenson and the second-oldest property in Napa Valley, is one of the valley’s all-time best places to explore. Schramsberg is the label that presidents serve when toasting dignitaries from around the globe, and there’s plenty of historical memorabilia in the winery’s front room to prove it.

Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley by Antonio Garcia Martinez

Airbnb, airport security, always be closing, Amazon Web Services, Big Tech, Burning Man, business logic, Celtic Tiger, centralized clearinghouse, cognitive dissonance, collective bargaining, content marketing, corporate governance, Credit Default Swap, crowdsourcing, data science, deal flow, death of newspapers, disruptive innovation, Dr. Strangelove, drone strike, drop ship, El Camino Real, Elon Musk, Emanuel Derman, Fairchild Semiconductor, fake it until you make it, financial engineering, financial independence, Gary Kildall, global supply chain, Goldman Sachs: Vampire Squid, Hacker News, hive mind, How many piano tuners are there in Chicago?, income inequality, industrial research laboratory, information asymmetry, information security, interest rate swap, intermodal, Jeff Bezos, Kickstarter, Malcom McLean invented shipping containers, Marc Andreessen, Mark Zuckerberg, Maui Hawaii, means of production, Menlo Park, messenger bag, minimum viable product, MITM: man-in-the-middle, move fast and break things, Neal Stephenson, Network effects, orbital mechanics / astrodynamics, Paul Graham, performance metric, Peter Thiel, Ponzi scheme, pre–internet, public intellectual, Ralph Waldo Emerson, random walk, Reminiscences of a Stock Operator, Ruby on Rails, Salesforce, Sam Altman, Sand Hill Road, Scientific racism, second-price auction, self-driving car, Sheryl Sandberg, Silicon Valley, Silicon Valley startup, Skype, Snapchat, social graph, Social Justice Warrior, social web, Socratic dialogue, source of truth, Steve Jobs, tech worker, telemarketer, the long tail, undersea cable, urban renewal, Y Combinator, zero-sum game, éminence grise

The title came from “New Rich,” and the 250 from its originally involving the first 250 or so employees, or so the story goes (and at this point it’s more than just early Facebookers). Yes, they were literally nouveaux riches in all senses of the term, and from all reports (more than one member has dished to me) they acted like it. How to buy land under an LLC to hide the fact you’re amassing a compound, the best resort on Maui, how to book or lease private jets, the best high-end credit cards to use, and so forth. But not a word of it while on campus. In day-to-day terms, it was something like what the famous Google masseuse Bonnie Brown wrote in her autobiography about that company’s encounter with the bipartite wealth split: A sharp contrast developed between Googlers working side by side.

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A passing boat would then rescue the drenched member of the tech elite from drowning or death by great white shark, which occasionally populated the entrance to the Golden Gate. Naturally, one of the elite Valley confabs revolved exclusively around kiteboarding. A senior venture capitalist at Charles River Ventures named Bill Tai (along with professional kiteboarder Susi Mai) hosted the punnily named MaiTai kiteboarding camp in Hawaii. Like all things Valley, it mixed a certain hippie, back-to-nature transcendentalism (the organization supports several ocean charities), that American obsession with athletics, and the hard-nosed hustle of the entrepreneur. Unlike Eastern yacht clubs, where access to the stolid establishment is gated by birth or balance sheet, access to MaiTai is bought via a mix of social capital, personal brand, and/or some ineffable flavor of cool, which often manifests itself as perceived “thought leadership” in an industry.

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It meant that I and my hypothetical spouse could afford a house, though we’d need a mortgage, as average apartment prices in Noe Valley were $1.5 million or so. (Want a proper house? You’re talking $3 million and up.) It meant the kids could attend private school and avoid the public school savages. It meant occasional weekends in Tahoe, Christmas somewhere exotic, and Hawaii a couple of times a year, maybe. It meant a new BMW X5 for the missus every three years, and maybe splurging on a Tesla S for me. But that’s about it. And if I lost the Facebook teat, kiss it all good-bye; already-public companies weren’t comping at these rates, and earlier-stage companies were paying piles of risky paper.

Frommer's Los Angeles 2010 by Matthew Richard Poole

call centre, car-free, carbon footprint, Charles Lindbergh, clean water, Donald Trump, El Camino Real, Ford Model T, Frank Gehry, gentrification, Guggenheim Bilbao, Haight Ashbury, Joan Didion, Maui Hawaii, Saturday Night Live, sustainable-tourism, upwardly mobile

—DES MOINES SUNDAY REGISTER “Frommer’s Guides have a way of giving y ou a real feel for a place.” —KNIGHT RIDDER NEWSPAPERS A B O U T T H E AU T H O R Matthew Richard Poole, a native Californian, has authored more than two dozen travel guides to California, Hawaii, and abroad. Before becoming a full-time travel writer and photographer, he worked as an English tutor in Prague, a ski instructor in the Swiss Alps, and a scuba instructor in Maui and Thailand. His other titles include Frommer’s California, Frommer’s San Francisco, Frommer’s Irreverent Guide to San Francisco, Frommer’s San Francisco Free & Dirt Cheap, and Frommer’s Portable Disneyland.

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Gladstone’s is popular f or afternoon/evening drinking and offers nearly 20 seafood appetizer platters; it ’s also k nown for its decadent choc olate dessert, the Mile High Chocolate Cake, large enough for the whole table. It’s open Sunday through Thursday from 8am to 10pm, Friday and Saturday from 8am to 11pm. Parking is $5.50. 6 S A N TA M O N I C A & T H E B E A C H E S Duke’s Malibu , 21150 Pacific Coast Hwy. (at Las Flores Canyon; & 310/3170777; www.dukesmalibu.com). Lovers of Hawaii and all things P olynesian will thrive in this outpost of the Ha waiian chain. I magine a S outh P acific T.G.I. Friday’s wher e the f ood is sec ondary t o the dec or, then add a r ocky per ch atop br eaking wa ves, and y ou ha ve this sur fing-themed cr owd-pleaser. I t’s worth a visit for the memorabilia alone —the place is named for Hawaiian surf legend “Duke” Kahanamoku.

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Finds Japanese American National Museum Located in an architecturally acclaimed modern building in LittleTokyo, this soaring pavilion—designed by renowned architect Gyo Obata—is a priv ate nonprofit institute cr eated to document and celebrate the histor y of the J apanese in America. The permanent and r otating exhibits chronicle Japanese life in the U nited States, highlighting distinctiv e aspects of J apanese-American culture ranging from the internment camp experience during the early years of World War II to the lives of Japanese Americans in Hawaii. The experience is made even more poignant by the personal accounts of the docents, many of whom are 173 Moments A Great Day in Downtown L.A. 369 E. 1st St. (at C entral Ave.), Los Angeles. & 213/625-0414. www.janm.org. Admission $9 adults , $5 seniors, $5 students and kids 6–17, free for kids ages 5 and under; free to all the 3rd Thurs of each month and every Thurs after 5pm.

Circle of Greed: The Spectacular Rise and Fall of the Lawyer Who Brought Corporate America to Its Knees by Patrick Dillon, Carl M. Cannon

"RICO laws" OR "Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations", accounting loophole / creative accounting, affirmative action, Alan Greenspan, AOL-Time Warner, Bear Stearns, Bernie Madoff, Black Monday: stock market crash in 1987, buy and hold, Carl Icahn, collective bargaining, Columbine, company town, computer age, corporate governance, corporate raider, desegregation, energy security, estate planning, Exxon Valdez, fear of failure, fixed income, Gordon Gekko, greed is good, illegal immigration, index fund, John Markoff, junk bonds, mandatory minimum, margin call, Maui Hawaii, McDonald's hot coffee lawsuit, Michael Milken, money market fund, new economy, oil shale / tar sands, Ponzi scheme, power law, Ralph Nader, rolodex, Ronald Reagan, Sand Hill Road, Savings and loan crisis, Silicon Valley, Silicon Valley startup, Steve Jobs, the High Line, the market place, white picket fence, Works Progress Administration, zero-sum game

Acting outside the regulatory agencies that he routinely mocked as weak and politically beholden, this self-appointed legal Robin Hood peered at life roguishly through his signature oversize glasses, which his enemies and the newspaper and magazine illustrators parodied almost as often as his grayish blond Brillo hair. His sandpaper-textured, profane-laced megaphone voice also came in for notice. It wasn’t really the voice that offended; rather, it was the invective that hurtled from it. “I’ll own your fucking house in Maui and the diamonds on your wife’s fingers,” he’d tell an outwardly defiant but secretly quaking corporate captain. Or he’d snarl at opposing counsel: “This case is going to bring an ignominious end to your mediocre career!” Anyone who stood in his way was, in his mind, fair game; hence Lerach was a staple for Fortune, Forbes, and Business Week covers and for the pages of the New York Times, the Financial Times, and The Wall Street Journal.

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Lerach was traveling down Wilshire Boulevard, through Los Angeles’s corporate canyon, flanked by tall, glass-encased office towers—“Fraud Lane,” he called it—recalling lawsuits he had filed against its inhabitants and neighbors. There were so many, he had almost lost track. Each had contributed, though, through its own missteps, to Lerach’s means to own vacation homes in Steamboat Springs, Colorado, and in Hawaii, as well as a 10,000-square-foot villa in Rancho Santa Fe, just outside San Diego, a manse complete with a 2,970-gallon saltwater aquarium—not quite large enough for a shark, as he liked to joke but large enough to host a menacing moray eel that was fond of him, especially at feeding time. His latest residence was a 16,000-square-foot Tuscan-style mansion filled like a museum with catalogued African art and other precious statues and relics on five and a half acres overlooking the Pacific Ocean on San Diego County’s “Gold Coast.”

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Previously, you had merely to get inside a company’s financial statements and records to prove your case. Now the judge was saying that you had to get inside the defendant’s head. An appeal was filed before the Ninth Circuit. Based in San Francisco, the district’s jurisdiction covered nine western states ranging from Alaska to Hawaii to Montana to Arizona, with California at the center, making it the largest district in the nation. Twenty-eight judges sat on its benches. The three-judge panel chosen to hear this appeal was composed of Judge Joseph T. Sneed, James R. Browning, and a district judge assigned to hear the appeal named John S.