Sometimes when you type in a "key word" you will get other posts that contain a portion of the key word. For example: Door Size, you may get anything listed that has the word "door" or "size" in it. But curser down through all the other posts and you will eventually get to the doors. You might even find something else you were looking for.
Another problem is that every word you want to type in the search column is also in the Directory. Therefore, the directory will pop up on every search you make. So the items you're looking for will probably be posted directly below the Directory that pops up because of your word search.
Curser over to the right hand column where there are dates. Click onto each month and you will see a breakdown of subjects posted in that month. If one seems to fit your search, click onto it and check it out. If not, or if you cannot find what you are looking for, E me and I will try and track it down or narrow down your search for you. I am on this blog constantly always trying to make it more user friendly.
Sometimes in order to find the proper name for a search item, you have to spell it differently. For example, in the search directory, if you type in Surfboard, you may not be able to find the site you are looking for, however, change the spelling a bit to Surf Board, and bingo you're there. If you just cannot find what you're looking for, go to the search bar on the upper left of the page and type in what you are looking for: here is a sample directory. Now after you find the word you're looking for, all you have to do is return to the search bar and type in that word and you will be directed to the selected site.
Here is the DIRECTORY:
Condo – Blogspot – Directory of Property listed in alphabetical order.
Access Panel
Airport Shuttle
Ant
Baby – Paradise Baby supplies
Bar B Q or Bamboo
Bathroom floor drain
Bat Rays
Beetle Bailey or Mort Walker
Bob or Berryhill
Building Industry Association membership
Butch or Helemano
Cable or phone lines
Cabinets
Calendar (for 2011 H.S. Calendar)
Carpeting
Chamber of Commerce of North Shore
Circuit Breaker
Clark or Little or photography
Cleaning or Cleaners
Coast Guard
Common area fronting lanai
Concrete trivia
Condo Pets & Condo Pets 2
Contractos & Sub Contractors
Copper
Cover Plate
Curtains
Deep Sea Fishing
Directory
Discounts
Diving Lessons - Tyler
Dolphins
Door sizes
Dress Code
Electrical
Entertainment
Exhaust Fan
Exterminator or Pest Control
Fence or Wall or Gate
Filming locations
Fire Alarm
Fire Department
Flies
Flood
Flooring
Gecko
Glazing shower
Google Earth
Ground transformation
Haleiwa Statistics
Hallway Bathroom leaks
Happy Face
Hood Vents
Jalousie sizes
Kai Ku Hale
Kamani Tree (directly below the property line column)
Keyless entry
Kitchen sink
Lanai hangers
Lanai storage container
Landscaping
Laundry room
Liko – Kauai Cruises
Local Reef Fish
Longest Day
Magic Jack
Main Valve BWS
Malama Pupukea
Marker pipes
Massage – Jackie Seeley
Master Bed Room
Metal stud framing
Miss Hawaii 2010
Moon
MoPed Rentals & Repairs
Mosquitoes
Mud Flow
Murphy Wall Bed
North Shore Soap Factory
Oceans of Pictures
Party
Petroglyph
Pictures from the Past
Pidgin
Pipe or pipes
Plumbing
Property Line
Reef Fish
Refrigerator or Setting
Restraints
Rocks
Rock Wall
Roofing
Roofing hood vents
Room measurements
Room sizes
Sand Art
Safety Preparedness
Sand Art
Screens
Septic
Shower inserts
Shower knob
Special Guests
State Tree
Stores
Sunrise Shells
Sunsets (when does the sun tuck back around Kaena Point)
SUPping
Surfboard
Surf Tech
Surf N Sea
Tide
Toilet
Transportation
Turtle Bay - Kuilima
Tsunami
VASH
Water Main
Weddings
Whales
What to do
When does Sun go behind Kaena Pont
Winter Surf
Wooden louvers
or you may have to scroll through all the pages and then you will eventually come upon the site you're needing. If the site is just not there, Email me and I will put it there. Remember I have the time to find it. You don't. You have to work for a living. Our motto is: No work . . . . and Know play. Life is good, work is not. Do not abuse either.
Be sure to read your most interesting posts often since I am constantly updating them, including the directory. If you find that you cannot easily find a column, article or subject of interest to you, simply E-mail me and I will either find it for you, make it more accessale to you or do the research to get it posted for you. Contact me at: haleiwahi@hawaii.rr.com or haleiwahi@gmail.com
Thursday, August 27, 2009
Saturday, August 22, 2009
Who named Haleiwa - HALEIWA?
Haleʻiwa is a North Shore community and census-designated place (CDP) in the Waialua District of the island of Oʻahu, City and County of Honolulu. In 1898 a businessman named Benjamin Dillingham opened a hotel in the North Shore area and named it Haleiwa. In Hawaiian, hale means "house", and the ʻiwa is a frigatebird. As of the 2000 Census, the CDP had a total population of 2,225, and is the largest commercial center on the North Shore of the Island. Its old plantation town character is preserved in many of the buildings, making this a popular destination for tourists and residents alike, visiting surfing and diving sites along the north shore.
Haleʻiwa is located on Waialua Bay, the mouth of Anahulu Stream (also known as Anahulu River). A small boat harbor is located here, and the shore of the bay is surrounded by Haleʻiwa Beach Park (north side) and Haleʻiwa Aliʻi Beach Park (south side). Further west from the center of town is Kaiaka State Recreation Area on Kiaka Point beside Kaiaka Bay.
On December 7th, 1941 the only fighter aircraft who managed to scramble against the Japanese attacking Pearl Harbor took off from the now abandoned Haleiwa Airfield, which is now the site of many backdrops for the Hawaii film industry including such well known films such as "Bay Watch Hawaii" and now "Lost"
The U.S. postal code for Haleʻiwa, including Kawailoa, is 96712.
Now as for the question of who named Haleiwa Haleiwa? that search continues. I will report back when I find the answer.
Haleʻiwa is located on Waialua Bay, the mouth of Anahulu Stream (also known as Anahulu River). A small boat harbor is located here, and the shore of the bay is surrounded by Haleʻiwa Beach Park (north side) and Haleʻiwa Aliʻi Beach Park (south side). Further west from the center of town is Kaiaka State Recreation Area on Kiaka Point beside Kaiaka Bay.
On December 7th, 1941 the only fighter aircraft who managed to scramble against the Japanese attacking Pearl Harbor took off from the now abandoned Haleiwa Airfield, which is now the site of many backdrops for the Hawaii film industry including such well known films such as "Bay Watch Hawaii" and now "Lost"
The U.S. postal code for Haleʻiwa, including Kawailoa, is 96712.
Now as for the question of who named Haleiwa Haleiwa? that search continues. I will report back when I find the answer.
Friday, August 21, 2009
HAWAII - August 21, 2009 - 50th aniversary of the 50th state
August 21, 2009 Honolulu Advertiser
Fifty years ago today, President Dwight Eisenhower set pen to official paper to welcome Hawai'i as an official member of the United States.
In Hawai'i, the news — long presumed — was relayed to Gov. William Quinn by Hawai'i Secretary Edward Johnson.
Within minutes, Associate Justice Masaji Marumoto of the Hawai'i Supreme Court administered oaths of office to Quinn and Lt. Gov. James Kealoha before a packed house in the executive chambers of 'Iolani Palace.
Thus began a week of grand public displays of pride and patriotism, even as those quietly opposed to statehood mourned the passing of the last vestiges of Hawaiian independence.
Civil Defense sirens wailed. A gun-saluting battery from Headquarters, Fleet Marine Force, Pacific fired a 50-gun salute at 'Iolani Palace. Thousands attended an elaborate fireworks show at Ala Moana Beach Park. Cars crowded Honolulu streets, their horns blaring.
Today's 50th anniversary activities are all but certain to have a significantly different tone.
In keeping with the 50th Anniversary of Statehood Commission's stated intent of "commemorating" rather than "celebrating" the milestone, the state's largest official marking of the day will be a conference aimed at looking ahead to Hawai'i's next 50 years.
"New Horizons for the Next 50 Years," which runs from 8 a.m. to 9 p.m., will include remarks from former U.S. Department of Energy deputy secretary Andy Karsner, 2008 Olympic gold medalist Bryan Clay, and pollster John Zogby; the unveiling of the new Hawai'i stamp; and workshops addressing a wide variety of concerns, including the military, tourism, the economy, media and others.
The event will close with remarks from Gov. Linda Lingle, entertainment and a fireworks display.
Hawaiian activists will also be busy today. The Hawaiian Independence Action Alliance and the Institute for the Advancement of Hawaiian Affairs have organized a march and rally for Hawaiian independence, scheduled to take place from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.
The march will begin at Ala Moana Beach Park and proceed to the Convention Center.
Also today, the Hawai'i State Judiciary is hosting a panel discussion on statehood with retired Chief Justice William S. Richardson and retired Judge Betty M. Vitousek. The free event begins at noon at the Judiciary History Center.
On Maui, Eddie Kamae and the Sons of Hawai'i will headline "50 Years of Hawaiian Cultural Renaissance," 11 a.m. at Hana Beach Park.
Reach Michael Tsai at mtsai@honoluluadvertiser.com.
August 21, 2009
Op-Ed Contributor
Happily a State, Forever an Island
By PAUL THEROUX
Correction Appended
Hale’iwa, Hawaii — Once in the Elks Club in Honolulu, an elderly man of Chinese ancestry said in a low voice to me: “This club used to be very exclusive. And the one next door too.” He meant no Chinese were admitted — or anyone but haoles (whites) or ethnic Hawaiians — to the Elks or the Outrigger Canoe Club. This was true of nearly all of Hawaii’s posh clubs. “But all that changed,” his daughter said, “when Reverend King marched on Selma.”
So Hawaii’s statehood was not an occasion for the opening of clubs to other races or even an era of good feeling. That had to wait for the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. The eight main islands and many smaller islands and atolls that make up the archipelago we know as Hawaii became the 50th state 50 years ago today, but it was still old-fashioned in every sense, an island chain of pineapple and sugar plantations, with a scattering of good hotels, visited by a quarter of a million tourists — mainly from ships and, in that year of 1959, the first big jets.
Back then, as the newest star on the flag, Hawaii was a thinly populated place, with most of the people living in Honolulu and predominantly young — the state’s average age was among the youngest in the nation. Its soul was Polynesian, but its popular culture and its institutions were Small Town U.S.A., with drive-in eateries, carhops and a passion for Elvis (a frequent visitor) and for high school sports; on every island the social highlight of the year was the senior prom.
There were also pineapple harvesters, bundled up against the sharp spines of the plant, and cane cutters, coffee pickers and the local cowboys known as paniolos. Honolulu was a half-dozen small communities in search of a city. Downtown was one long street; Waikiki was two. Outside Honolulu, and on neighbor islands, the land was agricultural; people lived in villages, many in plantation housing, and shopped at the company store. The roads were narrow. Life was expensive, as it has always been in Hawaii because of the distance from the mainland, but the habit of frugality and the simplicity of life were strong and sustaining.
Long before statehood, proud of living in an American territory, people from Hawaii joined the United States military and distinguished themselves in World War II — the 442nd (mostly Hawaiian men of Japanese ancestry) was the most highly decorated regiment of its size and length of service in American history. That elderly man who was not allowed to join the Elks because of his race — my father-in-law, Ernest Mun Sung Loo — had years earlier fought at Guadalcanal.
With statehood came more financing, better schools, better hospitals, improved harbors, a jump in population, urbanization, military spending and many more tourists — lately as many as seven million annually. Three Interstate highways were built on Oahu, separated from the nearest others by 2,400 miles of ocean. That is a detail. The quickest way to infuriate someone here is to say (as many unthinking visitors do), “I’m going back to the States tomorrow.”
When I first came to live in Hawaii 20 years ago, I could determine which way to paddle or sail by assessing the speed and direction of smoke issuing from the tall chimney of the nearby Waialua Sugar Mill. The smoke stopped rising 12 years ago, when the mill closed. What remains is a rusted hulk in the middle of a bewildered town that has, tellingly, been the location for big-budget movies set in the third world; just down the road, nearer the beach, is a location for the TV drama “Lost.”
Other plantation lands have become bungaloid subdivisions or luxury housing or golf courses. Some children of the plantation workers have become doctors and lawyers, or construction workers and caddies. And an immense number have become politicians — each island has its own local government — which may account for its reputation for political buffoonery and philistinism. Public intellectuals do not exist; public debate is rare, except on issues that transgress religious dogma. Hawaii is noted for its multitude of contentious God-botherers. One hundred sixty-three years ago, Melville remarked on this in “Typee.” Yet “tipsy from salvation’s bottle” (to borrow Dylan Thomas’s words), they stick to specific topics (same-sex marriage a notable example). No one else pontificates. It is regarded as bad form for anyone in Hawaii to generalize in print, as I am shamefully doing now.
Individuality is not prized; the family — the ’ohana — is the important social unit. But this Polynesian ideal of the family group, or the clan, extends to other communities. It is as though living on the limited terra firma of an island inspires people to form incurious metaphorical islands, like the Elks and the other exclusive clubs of the past. Even today, the University of Hawaii is an island that has almost no presence in the wider community. And each church, each valley, each ethnic group, each neighborhood is insular — not only the upscale enclaves like Kahala or Koko Head, but the more modest ones too. On leeward Oahu, the community of Waianae is like a remote and somewhat menacing island.
Each of the actual islands has a distinct identity — a person from Kauai would insist that he or she is quite unlike someone from Maui and could recite a lengthy genealogy to prove it. The military camps at Schofield, Kaneohe, Hickham and elsewhere exist as islands, and no one looks lonelier on a Hawaiian beach than a jarhead — pale, reflective, perhaps contemplating yet another deployment to Iraq or Afghanistan. Soldiers sometimes salute me because out of solidarity I wear a combat cap.
The most circumscribed islanders are the Hawaiians, numerous because of the one-drop rule (though by this dubious measure, I am a member of the Menominee nation and the whole of Wisconsin is my ancestral land). People who, before statehood, regarded themselves as of Portuguese or Chinese or Filipino descent identified themselves as Hawaiian in the later 1960s and ’70s, when sovereignty became an issue and their drop of blood gave them access.
The Hawaiian language as a medium of instruction hardly existed 20 years ago, but now it is fairly common, and there has been a substantial increase in Hawaiian speakers. But there are 40 or more contending Hawaiian sovereignty groups, from the strictest kanaka maoli (original people), who worship traditional gods like Pele, the goddess of fire (and volcanoes), to the Hawaiian hymn singers in the multitude of Christian churches, to the Hawaiian Mormons, who believe (according to revelations in The Book of Mormon) that the Catholic Church is the Whore of Babylon and that mainlanders (proto-Polynesians) got to Hawaii from what is now California when Hagoth — a Mormon voyager (Book of Alma 63:5-8) — sailed into the Western Ocean and peopled it.
I have lived in Hawaii longer than any other place in my life. I have murmured to myself in Africa, Asia and Britain, “I’d hate to die here.” But I wouldn’t mind dying in Hawaii, which means I like living here. I should add that Hawaii has the largest number of drownings per capita of any state — roughly one person a week succumbs to the fickle rip currents or the towering surf or is simply blown by the strong trade winds out to sea in a rubber dinghy. The murder rate is low — hardly more than 20 a year — but we have an alarming rate of car crashes. Honolulu has an extraordinarily high number of cars per mile of road — and consequently a horrendous traffic problem. Yet honking your horn is seen here as a barbarity. (Driving with your feet out the window is stylish.)
The proposed rail project (it was first proposed 18 years ago) might alleviate the traffic, but what I have learned in my time here is how resistant Hawaiians are to change. And, like many who believe they are poorly governed, people in Hawaii have an abiding hatred of regulation. Great howling occurred a few years ago when the state used vans with radar to monitor speeding cars; at great expense the vans were discontinued, and speeding resumed. All beaches have prominent signs forbidding alcohol, dogs, ballgames and loud music, but on any given day you will see more than one beachgoer throwing a tennis ball to a dog while swigging beer and listening to music blaring from a radio. Littering is a problem, and that means the remains of Happy Meals as well as old cars abandoned by the side of the road.
Some of this seems either dysfunctional or annoying, and yet there are compensations. All my life I have thought, Give me sunshine. Hawaii has the balmiest weather in the world, and its balance of wind and water gives it perfect feng shui. No beach is private: all of the shoreline must be accessible to the casual beachgoer or fisherman or opihi-picker. And since people’s faults are often their virtues when looked at a different way, the aversion to self-promotion is often a welcome humility; the lack of confrontation or hustle is a rare thing in a hyperactive world. Islanders are instinctively territorial, but bound by rules, so privacy matters and so does politeness and good will.
Although many of its birds and flora have been wiped out by humans or alien species, Hawaii’s other Edenic attributes are just about indestructible. I keep telling myself that no one can taint the orchidaceous air, or flatten the gigantic sea cliffs, or still the great waves, or obliterate the rainbows.
Paul Theroux is the author of “Ghost Train to the Eastern Star.” His forthcoming novel is “A Dead Hand.”
Correction: August 21, 2009
An earlier version of this article incorrectly described the the Japanese-American 442nd Regiment in World War II. Not all of the men in the regiment were from Hawaii.
Fifty years ago today, President Dwight Eisenhower set pen to official paper to welcome Hawai'i as an official member of the United States.
In Hawai'i, the news — long presumed — was relayed to Gov. William Quinn by Hawai'i Secretary Edward Johnson.
Within minutes, Associate Justice Masaji Marumoto of the Hawai'i Supreme Court administered oaths of office to Quinn and Lt. Gov. James Kealoha before a packed house in the executive chambers of 'Iolani Palace.
Thus began a week of grand public displays of pride and patriotism, even as those quietly opposed to statehood mourned the passing of the last vestiges of Hawaiian independence.
Civil Defense sirens wailed. A gun-saluting battery from Headquarters, Fleet Marine Force, Pacific fired a 50-gun salute at 'Iolani Palace. Thousands attended an elaborate fireworks show at Ala Moana Beach Park. Cars crowded Honolulu streets, their horns blaring.
Today's 50th anniversary activities are all but certain to have a significantly different tone.
In keeping with the 50th Anniversary of Statehood Commission's stated intent of "commemorating" rather than "celebrating" the milestone, the state's largest official marking of the day will be a conference aimed at looking ahead to Hawai'i's next 50 years.
"New Horizons for the Next 50 Years," which runs from 8 a.m. to 9 p.m., will include remarks from former U.S. Department of Energy deputy secretary Andy Karsner, 2008 Olympic gold medalist Bryan Clay, and pollster John Zogby; the unveiling of the new Hawai'i stamp; and workshops addressing a wide variety of concerns, including the military, tourism, the economy, media and others.
The event will close with remarks from Gov. Linda Lingle, entertainment and a fireworks display.
Hawaiian activists will also be busy today. The Hawaiian Independence Action Alliance and the Institute for the Advancement of Hawaiian Affairs have organized a march and rally for Hawaiian independence, scheduled to take place from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.
The march will begin at Ala Moana Beach Park and proceed to the Convention Center.
Also today, the Hawai'i State Judiciary is hosting a panel discussion on statehood with retired Chief Justice William S. Richardson and retired Judge Betty M. Vitousek. The free event begins at noon at the Judiciary History Center.
On Maui, Eddie Kamae and the Sons of Hawai'i will headline "50 Years of Hawaiian Cultural Renaissance," 11 a.m. at Hana Beach Park.
Reach Michael Tsai at mtsai@honoluluadvertiser.com.
August 21, 2009
Op-Ed Contributor
Happily a State, Forever an Island
By PAUL THEROUX
Correction Appended
Hale’iwa, Hawaii — Once in the Elks Club in Honolulu, an elderly man of Chinese ancestry said in a low voice to me: “This club used to be very exclusive. And the one next door too.” He meant no Chinese were admitted — or anyone but haoles (whites) or ethnic Hawaiians — to the Elks or the Outrigger Canoe Club. This was true of nearly all of Hawaii’s posh clubs. “But all that changed,” his daughter said, “when Reverend King marched on Selma.”
So Hawaii’s statehood was not an occasion for the opening of clubs to other races or even an era of good feeling. That had to wait for the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. The eight main islands and many smaller islands and atolls that make up the archipelago we know as Hawaii became the 50th state 50 years ago today, but it was still old-fashioned in every sense, an island chain of pineapple and sugar plantations, with a scattering of good hotels, visited by a quarter of a million tourists — mainly from ships and, in that year of 1959, the first big jets.
Back then, as the newest star on the flag, Hawaii was a thinly populated place, with most of the people living in Honolulu and predominantly young — the state’s average age was among the youngest in the nation. Its soul was Polynesian, but its popular culture and its institutions were Small Town U.S.A., with drive-in eateries, carhops and a passion for Elvis (a frequent visitor) and for high school sports; on every island the social highlight of the year was the senior prom.
There were also pineapple harvesters, bundled up against the sharp spines of the plant, and cane cutters, coffee pickers and the local cowboys known as paniolos. Honolulu was a half-dozen small communities in search of a city. Downtown was one long street; Waikiki was two. Outside Honolulu, and on neighbor islands, the land was agricultural; people lived in villages, many in plantation housing, and shopped at the company store. The roads were narrow. Life was expensive, as it has always been in Hawaii because of the distance from the mainland, but the habit of frugality and the simplicity of life were strong and sustaining.
Long before statehood, proud of living in an American territory, people from Hawaii joined the United States military and distinguished themselves in World War II — the 442nd (mostly Hawaiian men of Japanese ancestry) was the most highly decorated regiment of its size and length of service in American history. That elderly man who was not allowed to join the Elks because of his race — my father-in-law, Ernest Mun Sung Loo — had years earlier fought at Guadalcanal.
With statehood came more financing, better schools, better hospitals, improved harbors, a jump in population, urbanization, military spending and many more tourists — lately as many as seven million annually. Three Interstate highways were built on Oahu, separated from the nearest others by 2,400 miles of ocean. That is a detail. The quickest way to infuriate someone here is to say (as many unthinking visitors do), “I’m going back to the States tomorrow.”
When I first came to live in Hawaii 20 years ago, I could determine which way to paddle or sail by assessing the speed and direction of smoke issuing from the tall chimney of the nearby Waialua Sugar Mill. The smoke stopped rising 12 years ago, when the mill closed. What remains is a rusted hulk in the middle of a bewildered town that has, tellingly, been the location for big-budget movies set in the third world; just down the road, nearer the beach, is a location for the TV drama “Lost.”
Other plantation lands have become bungaloid subdivisions or luxury housing or golf courses. Some children of the plantation workers have become doctors and lawyers, or construction workers and caddies. And an immense number have become politicians — each island has its own local government — which may account for its reputation for political buffoonery and philistinism. Public intellectuals do not exist; public debate is rare, except on issues that transgress religious dogma. Hawaii is noted for its multitude of contentious God-botherers. One hundred sixty-three years ago, Melville remarked on this in “Typee.” Yet “tipsy from salvation’s bottle” (to borrow Dylan Thomas’s words), they stick to specific topics (same-sex marriage a notable example). No one else pontificates. It is regarded as bad form for anyone in Hawaii to generalize in print, as I am shamefully doing now.
Individuality is not prized; the family — the ’ohana — is the important social unit. But this Polynesian ideal of the family group, or the clan, extends to other communities. It is as though living on the limited terra firma of an island inspires people to form incurious metaphorical islands, like the Elks and the other exclusive clubs of the past. Even today, the University of Hawaii is an island that has almost no presence in the wider community. And each church, each valley, each ethnic group, each neighborhood is insular — not only the upscale enclaves like Kahala or Koko Head, but the more modest ones too. On leeward Oahu, the community of Waianae is like a remote and somewhat menacing island.
Each of the actual islands has a distinct identity — a person from Kauai would insist that he or she is quite unlike someone from Maui and could recite a lengthy genealogy to prove it. The military camps at Schofield, Kaneohe, Hickham and elsewhere exist as islands, and no one looks lonelier on a Hawaiian beach than a jarhead — pale, reflective, perhaps contemplating yet another deployment to Iraq or Afghanistan. Soldiers sometimes salute me because out of solidarity I wear a combat cap.
The most circumscribed islanders are the Hawaiians, numerous because of the one-drop rule (though by this dubious measure, I am a member of the Menominee nation and the whole of Wisconsin is my ancestral land). People who, before statehood, regarded themselves as of Portuguese or Chinese or Filipino descent identified themselves as Hawaiian in the later 1960s and ’70s, when sovereignty became an issue and their drop of blood gave them access.
The Hawaiian language as a medium of instruction hardly existed 20 years ago, but now it is fairly common, and there has been a substantial increase in Hawaiian speakers. But there are 40 or more contending Hawaiian sovereignty groups, from the strictest kanaka maoli (original people), who worship traditional gods like Pele, the goddess of fire (and volcanoes), to the Hawaiian hymn singers in the multitude of Christian churches, to the Hawaiian Mormons, who believe (according to revelations in The Book of Mormon) that the Catholic Church is the Whore of Babylon and that mainlanders (proto-Polynesians) got to Hawaii from what is now California when Hagoth — a Mormon voyager (Book of Alma 63:5-8) — sailed into the Western Ocean and peopled it.
I have lived in Hawaii longer than any other place in my life. I have murmured to myself in Africa, Asia and Britain, “I’d hate to die here.” But I wouldn’t mind dying in Hawaii, which means I like living here. I should add that Hawaii has the largest number of drownings per capita of any state — roughly one person a week succumbs to the fickle rip currents or the towering surf or is simply blown by the strong trade winds out to sea in a rubber dinghy. The murder rate is low — hardly more than 20 a year — but we have an alarming rate of car crashes. Honolulu has an extraordinarily high number of cars per mile of road — and consequently a horrendous traffic problem. Yet honking your horn is seen here as a barbarity. (Driving with your feet out the window is stylish.)
The proposed rail project (it was first proposed 18 years ago) might alleviate the traffic, but what I have learned in my time here is how resistant Hawaiians are to change. And, like many who believe they are poorly governed, people in Hawaii have an abiding hatred of regulation. Great howling occurred a few years ago when the state used vans with radar to monitor speeding cars; at great expense the vans were discontinued, and speeding resumed. All beaches have prominent signs forbidding alcohol, dogs, ballgames and loud music, but on any given day you will see more than one beachgoer throwing a tennis ball to a dog while swigging beer and listening to music blaring from a radio. Littering is a problem, and that means the remains of Happy Meals as well as old cars abandoned by the side of the road.
Some of this seems either dysfunctional or annoying, and yet there are compensations. All my life I have thought, Give me sunshine. Hawaii has the balmiest weather in the world, and its balance of wind and water gives it perfect feng shui. No beach is private: all of the shoreline must be accessible to the casual beachgoer or fisherman or opihi-picker. And since people’s faults are often their virtues when looked at a different way, the aversion to self-promotion is often a welcome humility; the lack of confrontation or hustle is a rare thing in a hyperactive world. Islanders are instinctively territorial, but bound by rules, so privacy matters and so does politeness and good will.
Although many of its birds and flora have been wiped out by humans or alien species, Hawaii’s other Edenic attributes are just about indestructible. I keep telling myself that no one can taint the orchidaceous air, or flatten the gigantic sea cliffs, or still the great waves, or obliterate the rainbows.
Paul Theroux is the author of “Ghost Train to the Eastern Star.” His forthcoming novel is “A Dead Hand.”
Correction: August 21, 2009
An earlier version of this article incorrectly described the the Japanese-American 442nd Regiment in World War II. Not all of the men in the regiment were from Hawaii.
Sunday, August 9, 2009
Curtains Draperies
In the single unit the curtains for the front sliding door to the lanai is 6' on the side that opens fronting the sliding door and 7'4" on the solid side that usually stays closed fronting the louvers. The height is 7'10"
Total over all width of the Unit is 13' 4" with no overlap.
h = 7'10" for the curtain which is actually 8'0" from floor to ceiling
w = 6'0" opening by the sliding door and 7'4" fronting the louvers
"By laws" for color suggest beige to eggshell white since this was the established color from original installation. Some units have switched to vinyl slat style which nobody so far has challanged.
BY LAWS - ARTICLE X - GENERAL PROVISIONS
SECTION 6. Additions or Alterations by Apartment Owners. No Owner shall make any addition or alteration in or to his Apartment which may affect the common elements or change the exterior appearance of the buildings, without the prior written consent thereto of the Board of Directors. The Board of Directors shall have the obligation to answer any written request by an Apartment Owner for approval of a proposed addition or alteration in such Apartment within thirty (30) days after such request, and failure to do so within the stipulated time shall constitute a consent by the Board of Directors to the proposed addition or alteration.
This is the only section I have found that seems to apply to the installation of curtains or an element that can be seen from the outside but is clearly within the interior of your unit.
Some units use roller bearings for their slider and others have plastic hangers that don't slide as well as they age. I chose the roller bearings for our unit and am pleased with the results.
INSTALLERS:
One installer I used who I found was competent, required no supervision and provided a fair price was Custom Window Service, Randy Fujiwara phone: 734-4416. Company website is www.yellowbook.com/drapery then the second listing under this heading should get you there.
Total over all width of the Unit is 13' 4" with no overlap.
h = 7'10" for the curtain which is actually 8'0" from floor to ceiling
w = 6'0" opening by the sliding door and 7'4" fronting the louvers
"By laws" for color suggest beige to eggshell white since this was the established color from original installation. Some units have switched to vinyl slat style which nobody so far has challanged.
BY LAWS - ARTICLE X - GENERAL PROVISIONS
SECTION 6. Additions or Alterations by Apartment Owners. No Owner shall make any addition or alteration in or to his Apartment which may affect the common elements or change the exterior appearance of the buildings, without the prior written consent thereto of the Board of Directors. The Board of Directors shall have the obligation to answer any written request by an Apartment Owner for approval of a proposed addition or alteration in such Apartment within thirty (30) days after such request, and failure to do so within the stipulated time shall constitute a consent by the Board of Directors to the proposed addition or alteration.
This is the only section I have found that seems to apply to the installation of curtains or an element that can be seen from the outside but is clearly within the interior of your unit.
Some units use roller bearings for their slider and others have plastic hangers that don't slide as well as they age. I chose the roller bearings for our unit and am pleased with the results.
INSTALLERS:
One installer I used who I found was competent, required no supervision and provided a fair price was Custom Window Service, Randy Fujiwara phone: 734-4416. Company website is www.yellowbook.com/drapery then the second listing under this heading should get you there.
Thursday, August 6, 2009
Jalousie sizes
In our unit the jalousie sizes are 26 1/2" X 4". There are three panels of jalousie windows with 27 jalousies per section. They are in aluminum frame. I do have spacer clips available if you need them or if your frame clips break off. Do not trust this size to be the size of jalousie in your unit. I have found that many sizes vary from 26 1/8" to 26 3/4". It looks like the original contractors made the glass louvers after they framed the openings rather than making the glass first then building the frames to fit the glass.
Door sizes
These is the door schedule for a typical single bedroom unit. The two bedroom unit has a sliding closet door and has a second bedroom off the hallway. These measurements are listed below. This information is for the single bedroom.
Front Door is 3'0" x 6'8" (this is a typical solid core front door)However, some of the front doors and interior doors do not have spacers installed so that the door(s) are 3'0" x 8'0", so they are a full 8' in height. Be careful when purchasing a new door to make sure what door height you have in your unit.
Interior 2nd front door is 3'0" X 7'8" (this is an oversize solid door)
Hallway bathroom door is 2'0 X 6'9" (this is not the typical 2'0" X 6'8" door size)This is a hollow core door. This door could be jammed to support a 2'0X6'8"
The hallway closet door is 2'6" X 6'8"
The bedroom closet door opening is about 80" x 51". The actual door size is 79" x 31". If you choose to change out this door or any door for that matter, be certain to remove the hardware (wheels & various clips and handles) because any new door you buy will not have that same hardware included in your purchase.
The sliding glass door is 37 1/2" X 7'9"
The solid pane is 35" X 7'9"
The entire door pocket opening from the wall to the jealousy jam is 6'0" X 7'9" (see window schedule for the louvers sizes)
Prehung doors will work, but you will need to have trim materials to fill in the openings, and you may have to remove the existing jams to make the door fit.
The door schedule for the two bedroom unit is as follows:
The hallway closet (sliding doors) come in either mat finish or mirror doors. The opening is same 95"h x 81"wide and are 80"h x 4'0" each.
The hallway bedroom entry and bathroom door(s) is/are both 2'0"w x 6'8"h.
This bedroom closet door opening is 81"h x 76 1/2" wide. The doors for this closet are 80"h x 39" wide.
Front Door is 3'0" x 6'8" (this is a typical solid core front door)However, some of the front doors and interior doors do not have spacers installed so that the door(s) are 3'0" x 8'0", so they are a full 8' in height. Be careful when purchasing a new door to make sure what door height you have in your unit.
Interior 2nd front door is 3'0" X 7'8" (this is an oversize solid door)
Hallway bathroom door is 2'0 X 6'9" (this is not the typical 2'0" X 6'8" door size)This is a hollow core door. This door could be jammed to support a 2'0X6'8"
The hallway closet door is 2'6" X 6'8"
The bedroom closet door opening is about 80" x 51". The actual door size is 79" x 31". If you choose to change out this door or any door for that matter, be certain to remove the hardware (wheels & various clips and handles) because any new door you buy will not have that same hardware included in your purchase.
The sliding glass door is 37 1/2" X 7'9"
The solid pane is 35" X 7'9"
The entire door pocket opening from the wall to the jealousy jam is 6'0" X 7'9" (see window schedule for the louvers sizes)
Prehung doors will work, but you will need to have trim materials to fill in the openings, and you may have to remove the existing jams to make the door fit.
The door schedule for the two bedroom unit is as follows:
The hallway closet (sliding doors) come in either mat finish or mirror doors. The opening is same 95"h x 81"wide and are 80"h x 4'0" each.
The hallway bedroom entry and bathroom door(s) is/are both 2'0"w x 6'8"h.
This bedroom closet door opening is 81"h x 76 1/2" wide. The doors for this closet are 80"h x 39" wide.
Dolphins R back 8/06/09
They came back by the Red bouy this morning at about 7:15a. We put up our telescope and everybody had a chance to view them spinning and jumping. This lasted till about 7:55a, then the swam off towards Puena point. Maybe they'll spend their day entertaining the islanders down by Waimea Bay today?
Sunday, August 2, 2009
Building Industry Assoc. Membership Directory & approved Contractors used
If you want to find more about the trade you have chosen to contract your work or to search for their competition, for a B.I.A. member, check this site out: http://www.cdbia.com/directory.php If you want to confirm that your contractor is properly licensed, if you want to get in touch with the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs, or if you want to file a complaint against them, you might want to call or check in with the Regulated Industry Complaints Office (RICO) using their quick links link: http://hawaii.gov/dcca/quicklinks/online/ Just lock onto the link, copy it and paste it in your search engine.
Contractors that have worked on the Haleiwa Surf that have been given above satisfactory ratings by the various Unit owners are:
flooring:
Jesse Oguma cell at 864-9034 or his office at 484-5898
Mechanic, Welding
Kawai Kuni - 306-5972
Carpentry
Derrick - 721-0391 carpentry
Neil Bohne - 295-7894
Plumbing:
Gecko - 571-1137 Plumbing
North Shore Plumbing - 637-9444
Plumbing Solutions - 220-2739
Mike LaRue - 392-0417
Electrical:
Paumalu Electric - 386-5928
Screens:
Zippy - (for a phone number, please contact Todd White, Res. Mgr. 366-3273)
Also be advised that a contractors license is not required by law if the job is less than #1,000. Keep in mind that there may be a minimum charge from any contractor doing work and sometimes even bidding for you. You will want to clarify that in advance of calling. Also, if you need Email addresses, you may ask me and I will forward what information I have to you. If you need names of material suppliers, let me know and I probably have that phone number & company contact on file. Also, if you need to use the H.S. fax line, the phone number is 637-5289.
Contractors that have worked on the Haleiwa Surf that have been given above satisfactory ratings by the various Unit owners are:
flooring:
Jesse Oguma cell at 864-9034 or his office at 484-5898
Mechanic, Welding
Kawai Kuni - 306-5972
Carpentry
Derrick - 721-0391 carpentry
Neil Bohne - 295-7894
Plumbing:
Gecko - 571-1137 Plumbing
North Shore Plumbing - 637-9444
Plumbing Solutions - 220-2739
Mike LaRue - 392-0417
Electrical:
Paumalu Electric - 386-5928
Screens:
Zippy - (for a phone number, please contact Todd White, Res. Mgr. 366-3273)
Also be advised that a contractors license is not required by law if the job is less than #1,000. Keep in mind that there may be a minimum charge from any contractor doing work and sometimes even bidding for you. You will want to clarify that in advance of calling. Also, if you need Email addresses, you may ask me and I will forward what information I have to you. If you need names of material suppliers, let me know and I probably have that phone number & company contact on file. Also, if you need to use the H.S. fax line, the phone number is 637-5289.
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