Na Ikamu Mea Hou
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Vol. 1 Issue 4 |
Aloha - from the Editors
"Kay Den, what's up? How do you do so much?"
This we hear from our friends and co-workers all the time. No magic on our part - organization is the key.
1. Make lists of the things in your life - goals [long term and short term], tasks [important and insignificant], and commitments [definitive and tentative]. These lists are well worth your time - they will result in actually buying you time in the end.
2. Scratch everything off of the first drafts of these lists that do not enhance your life or make a difference in someone else's life. No sense doing things that do not matter to the planet, is there?
3. Clean out - put things in order and toss out anything you don't use on a regular basis. Sentimental items are exceptions, but store them wisely - don't allow them to interfere with the natural flow of your current days and nights.
4. Budget your time as wisely as you budget your money. Spend what you need to survive and save what you will need for your future. But - remember to balance work and play. Play helps your personal growth and gives you the needed rest from work.
We've been enjoying your emailed thoughts, suggestions and requests for things you'd like to see us include in this newsletter. Email us anytime: mapukua@hawaii.rr.com).
Mahalo nui loa - thank you,
Mapuana a me Kuane
(Linda and Dwayne)
Hawaiian Trivia
Hawaii's
State Bird
(Nene, Hawaiian goose)
The nene, or Hawaiian Goose,
is the state bird of Hawaii. Once nearly extinct, it has been rescued
through the valiant efforts of conservationists here in the islands and
throughout the world.
Quoted from the Hawaiian State Government Site
For more info about these marvelous birds click here, but be sure to come back!
This is the fourth of a series of articles about the State of Hawaii - interesting facts - well known and otherwise.
Island News
are fed by hot spot
deep in the Earth
Closer to the surface, the heat starts to melt the surrounding rock, which becomes lava
Pu'u 'O'o vent continually producing lava
U.S. Geological Survey
Hawaiian Volcano Observatory.
The hot-spot theory is the well-known modern explanation for the origin of the Hawaiian island chain.
In it, the Pacific plate drifts northwestward over a relatively fixed hot spot. Magma generated by the heat then penetrates the plate and rises to the surface, leaving a string of volcanoes. The active volcanoes Kilauea, Mauna Loa and adjacent submarine Lo'ihi are the Hawaiian hot spot's latest children.
Confusion commonly surrounds the distinction between the site of the hot spot and the site where magma is generated, judging from the questions we receive. Let's start with the source of heat, which has two basic causes.
Primordial heat was created when the planet first coalesced from cosmic debris. Additional heat has been created by the decay of radioactive elements in the earth. The earth is cooling as this second source of heat slowly diminishes.
Many geophysicists believe that hot spots originate as perturbations in a zone between the earth's core and overlying mantle.
This zone, which lies about 1,700 miles deep, might develop a small bump that protrudes slightly outward into the mantle from the core. The bump transmits the intense heat of the core into adjacent mantle, which in turn is surrounded by cooler mantle.
Although solid, the hotter mantle material will rise because of its greater heat.
Convection is the process by which heated material rises and cooler material sinks. We see convection every day; for example, the currents that swirl in a pot of liquid on a stove, or the warm air that rises over the surface of sun-heated lava.
Solid materials also convect, although at considerably slower rates -- perhaps only a few centimeters per year in the case of the mantle. Within the earth, heated blobs of mobile yet solid mantle rise within a solid cooler mantle. Though heat is being transferred by these rising blobs, no magma is created because nothing has melted.
Individual blobs probably don't traverse the entire mantle. As each one stalls, its heat is transferred to adjacent rock, provoking continued convection. It's a "Pony Express" in which the horses will traverse only one part of the mantle yet the message, the heat, continues through....Click here for the balance of the article.
This quoted article was written by scientists at the U.S. Geological Survey's Hawaiian Volcano Observatory. Contact the observatory at P.O. Box 51, Hawaii National Park, HI 96718; or call (808) 967-7328. "Volcano Watch" runs every Saturday.
Featured Polynesian
Words/Phrases:
[Color Words:]
| Hawaiian | English |
| Ke'oke'o | white |
| 'Ele'ele | black |
| Uliuli | dark yellow |
| 'Ula'ula | red |
| Melemele | yellow |
| Lenalena | pale yellow |
| 'Oma'oma | green |
| 'Ahina | gray, silver |
| 'Alani | orange |
| Polu | blue |
| 'Akala | pink |
| Poni | purple |
| Palaunu | brown |
| Kula | gold |
Eeeks! Electronics!
Over the course of our
collective floundering with electronics such as PC's, Palm Pilots,
beepers, cell phones, digital cameras, video cams and
th
e like, we've
accumulated an abundance of helpful tips and tricks. Herein is an
opportunity to share some of them. Let us know if you have others
you'd like to share in this column as well.
Tip #4 comes from "Woody's Office Watch"
FLOATING PICTURES IN WORD
WORD 97 If you have a picture in Word 97 and want to make it float, here's the easiest method I ever found: right-click on the picture and pick Format Picture. On the tab marked Position, check the box marked "Float over text." If the boxed marked "Move with text" is checked, uncheck it. If the box marked "Move with text" is NOT checked, pick "Page" in the lower From: box (the one marked "Vertical From:"). Click OK and you'll be back in the document. Your picture may have moved; if it has, click and drag it anywhere you want, and it'll stay put.
WORD 2000 Fortunately, Word 2000 is a whole lot smarter about how it handles floating, and the interface that you and I have to use to tell it what to do makes a whole lot more sense. Unfortunately, the specific box that you have to check to make a picture float is buried deep, so put on your hip waders and follow along. Right-click on the picture you want to stay put and pick Format Picture. On the Layout tab, pick a text wrapping style - do you want text to wrap tightly around the floating picture, or do you want the picture to appear above or below the text? (Tip: if you don't care, pick In front of text; that'll make it easier to see if you haven't lined things up correctly.) Here's the trick - the way you make the picture float. Click Advanced and on the Picture Position tab, clear the box marked "Move object with text". Click OK to get back out to the document. At that point, you can click and drag the picture and it'll stay put.
By the way, Word 2002 (part of Office XP) introduces something called a "Drawing Canvas" which really does make this whole process easier to understand.
Featured Picture:
"Hot Dog on a Bun"
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Attitude, Schmattitude....
A well-known speaker started off his seminar by holding up a $20 bill. In the room of 200, he asked "Who would like this $20 bill?" Hands started going up. He said, "I am going to give this to one of you, but first, let me do this." He proceeded to crumple the bill up.
He then asked, "Who still wants it?" Still the hands were up in the air. "Well," he replied, "what if I do this?" He dropped it on the ground and started grinding it into the floor with his shoe. He picked it up, now crumpled and dirty.
"Now, who still wants it?" Still hands went into the air. "My friends, you have all learned a very valuable lesson. No matter what I did to the money, you still wanted it because it did not decrease in value. It was still worth $20."
"Many times in our lives, we are dropped, crumpled, and ground into the dirt by the decisions we make and the circumstances that come our way. We feel that we are worthless. But no matter what has happened or what will happen, you will never lose your value, dirty or clean, crumpled or finely creased. You are still priceless to those who love you."
"The worth of our lives comes not in what we do, or who we know, but by who we are. You are special, don't ever forget it."
ALWAYS COUNT YOUR BLESSINGS, NOT YOUR PROBLEMS.
In The Funnies
1)
Dilbert's Salary
Theorem
Dilbert's Salary Theorem states that "Engineers and scientists can
never earn as much as business executives, sales people, accountants and
especially liberal arts majors." This theorem can now be supported
by a mathematical equation based on the following two well known
postulates:
Postulate 1: Knowledge is Power.
Postulate 2: Time is Money.
As every engineer knows: Power = Work / Time.
Since: Knowledge = Power
Then: Knowledge = Work / Time
And since Time = Money
Then: Knowledge = Work / Money
Solving for Money, we get: Money = Work / Knowledge
Thus, as Knowledge approaches zero, money approaches infinity, regardless of the amount of work done.
2) Sometimes
Wishes Come True
A State Government Employee sits in his office and out of boredom,
decides to see what's in his old filing cabinet. He pokes through the
contents and comes across an old brass lamp.
"This will look nice on my mantelpiece," he decides and takes it home with him. While polishing the lamp, a genie appears and grants him three wishes. "I wish for a beautiful Castle right now!" He gets one. Now that he can think more clearly, he states his second wish. "I wish to be on an island where many beautiful women reside." Suddenly he is on an island with gorgeous females eyeing him lustfully. He tells the genie his third and last wish: "I wish I'd never have to work ever again."
WHOOPS! He's back in his government office.
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