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Comment on Thirty Meter Telescope update and background by David Nurse

David Nurse — Fri, 24 Feb 2017 00:16:17 +0000

How can I get a location map of the physical location of where the TMT site is in relation to all the others observitory’s?

Comment on Jellyfish researcher Angel Yanagihara chosen as a Fulbright Specialist by Lauretta Collins

Lauretta Collins — Thu, 23 Feb 2017 15:20:34 +0000

Im requesting help on a jelly fish tank installed. its 6×5 in a public space and we cant get it balanced

Comment on UH Mānoa welcomes Starbucks to campus by Val H

Val H — Thu, 23 Feb 2017 14:03:30 +0000

In Hilo our UHH campus has a coffee bar that says they serve Starbucks coffee, it’s the worst tasting Starbucks coffee ever… think they are making it incorrectly..And out of curiosity, why does UH Manoa have sooo many choices for meals? UHH only has Island Naturals (yay finally a healthy choice) and Sodexo… And HawCC won’t allow any vender at all.. this means..Mondays there is no food source on campus.. Not even vending machines or even a bank machine…

Comment on Birth control for mosquitoes targeted at saving Hawaiian birds by Val H

Val H — Thu, 23 Feb 2017 13:58:01 +0000

Please, while you are planning on using this to curb the mosquito problem, could you make a strain that will also work on the coqui frogs for the island of Hawaii… please…

Comment on Shoji announces retirement; Ah Mow-Santos named new women’s volleyball coach by Helen Hamada

Helen Hamada — Wed, 22 Feb 2017 22:49:46 +0000

Always the professional, Dave Shoji, has given the UH Wahine Teams, throughout his 43 seasons, exciting, precious memories as the “winningest” Coach in UH Women’s Volleyball. The State of Hawaii fans will never forget, and will be forever grateful that Dave Shoji came to the UH. Thank you, Coach Dave Shoji!

Comment on Geology graduates investigate Fukushima-derived radioactivity in Hawaiʻi by Henrietta Dulai

Henrietta Dulai — Wed, 22 Feb 2017 20:39:32 +0000

In reply to Justin otte. The work mentioned above is now available in journal publications http://manoa.hawaii.edu/undergrad/horizons/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/McKenzie-Trista.pdf and https://pacificscience.files.wordpress.com/2016/12/pac-sci-early-view-71-2-1-1.pdf Other than that we have been continuing our 6-month ocean sampling that has not yet shown the presence of Fukushima-derived cesium in the ocean near Hawaii.

Comment on Geology graduates investigate Fukushima-derived radioactivity in Hawaiʻi by Justin otte

Justin otte — Wed, 22 Feb 2017 13:52:36 +0000

Any follow up to this story ? 6 years later? Just curious 🙂

Comment on Potential biofuel crops in Hawaiʻi may successfully sequester carbon in soil by Richard Rodriguez

Richard Rodriguez — Tue, 21 Feb 2017 21:47:39 +0000

Thoughts on other C4 grass available to consider such as Giant King Grass or poplar or bamboo basgasse? Thanks!
Richard

Comment on New study revises estimate of the greatest mass extinction by Steven M. Stanley

Steven M. Stanley — Tue, 21 Feb 2017 08:47:19 +0000

In reply to Jonathan Cender. Jonathon -- The 81% is for the final event. The background extinction is not included because it occurred earlier. -- SMS

Comment on Hawaiʻi CC showcases degree and certificate programs by UH News

UH News — Fri, 17 Feb 2017 19:38:29 +0000

In reply to Karen Fitzsimmons. Hi Karen, Hawaiʻi Community College is located on Hawaiʻi Island and not on Oʻahu. If you are interesting in taking classes in Honolulu the ��Ӱҵ has several campuses on Oʻahu. You can go to http://www.hawaii.edu/#ten-campuses and check out other UH campuses. UH News staff

Comment on Hawaiʻi CC showcases degree and certificate programs by Karen Fitzsimmons

Karen Fitzsimmons — Thu, 16 Feb 2017 13:05:42 +0000

Iam interested in renewing my teacher certification in elementary
education. I like to transfer to Honolulu , Hawaii in August. I need to have signed up for a class as soon as possible to show my employer I am sincere. Please send classes in pe or art education
So I can get started. I live in Iowa right now so email me classes choices thanks! Karen Fitzsimmons

Comment on New study revises estimate of the greatest mass extinction by Jonathan Cender

Jonathan Cender — Thu, 16 Feb 2017 02:07:57 +0000

81% still seems very high. Is that the total amount of extinctions, or your recalculated amount w/o background extinctions? If the recalculated amount, then the total would be higher, yes? The total seems more relevant. So maybe still not too hyperbolic to say nearly all life extinguished. Even if it was only 81% total it would still make me very nervous:)

Comment on UH Mānoa receives top international ranking for earth and environmental sciences by TC

TC — Wed, 15 Feb 2017 21:09:10 +0000

Please send this article to the Governor. He needs to see it.

Comment on Political scientist rebuts myth of Puerto Rican natives’ extinction by orge A Rivera

orge A Rivera — Wed, 15 Feb 2017 15:24:40 +0000

“The Jíbaro, or Boricua, are the indigenous peoples, the “Indians,” encountered by Columbus…”, WRONG!

The “Jíbaro” is and has been the inland people those that worked the land as to the “city” people. Yoy want to see the real “Jíbaro” of the 30’s, 40’s and even the 50’s, please look up “El Pan Nuestro” a Ramón Frade painting. Our native indians the one that Columbus found and welcome him to the island of BORIKEN were the TAINO Indian.

There has been some DNA studies that claim that there are some Taino DNA in Boricuas or Puerto Ricans today. As to what they claim that percentage is I think is too high. However there NO FULL BLODED Taino today in PR. As to the Taino culture all we have what has been passed by word of mouth since the 1500’s to today with all the filtering during all those years since. Written there was not much. Bartolomé de las Casas has been the primary source as to the Taino Culture. That culture has never been taught in school ans much of what they call today as been taino are invented based on what the historians have written.

Our culture TODAY is primarily base on Spanish, African and American influence.

I am a Univ of Hawaii Graduate Class of 1969

Comment on UH Mānoa receives top international ranking for earth and environmental sciences by Deborah Ward

Deborah Ward — Tue, 14 Feb 2017 20:46:50 +0000

Congratulations to my colleagues at CTAHR! Mahalo nui for your work!

Comment on GalleryHNL showcases UH Mānoa artists by UH News

UH News — Tue, 14 Feb 2017 01:42:28 +0000

In reply to Joe Ransberger. Hi, Joe, Weʻre sorry, but Mark Blackburn is no longer affiliated with the university, and we do not have any contact information for him. -UH News staff

Comment on Sheet metal students make forever roses for Valentine’s Day by UH News

UH News — Tue, 14 Feb 2017 01:28:37 +0000

In reply to Kobi Nakasone.

Hi Kobi,

Sorry for the confusion. The story you commented on was from 2014. Here is a link to this year’s Forever Roses sale:
/news/2017/02/08/one-of-a-kind-copper-roses-for-valentines-day/

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Comment on GalleryHNL showcases UH Mānoa artists by Joe Ransberger

Joe Ransberger — Tue, 14 Feb 2017 01:10:37 +0000

Hi mark…Iwas refered to you by friends on. Maui…I had an art and antique store
In Wailuku for many years, and still have much of my art and antiques in storage….I am interested in selling much of it….if you are interested n what I have pleased email ….please give a call and I will give a rundown as to what I have….Aloha Joe Ransberger

Comment on Sheet metal students make forever roses for Valentine’s Day by Kobi Nakasone

Kobi Nakasone — Tue, 14 Feb 2017 00:53:52 +0000

Did you guys mean Tuesday, February 14th? The article says Friday.

Comment on Political scientist rebuts myth of Puerto Rican natives’ extinction by Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 13 Feb 2017 22:59:43 +0000

Ok, I’m Puerto Rican, and this is NOT true. First of all, Jíbaro was just the poorer Puerto Rican farmers that consisted of criollos and blacks during the 19th century, at no point it referred to the indigenous people in Puerto Rico, that’s what we call Taino, and they weren’t a thing by the 19th century (not fully anyway). You see that around 60% of Puerto Rican have Amerindian ancestry, but the percentage of it is rather low, around 12-15% in fact, it’s safe to say that there weren’t full blooded Tainos by the 19th century (nor a Taino culture) the Puerto Rican culture isn’t Amerindian, it’s an entirely new identity, one that has features from Spain, Africa and of course Amerindian (though that’s the weakest one, really), Puerto Ricans aren’t Taino, nor are they African or Spaniard: They’re Puerto Rican. And ours is a culture that despict as much from all of these groups, so I don’t get why people here are trying to pretend to be native american while not knowing anything of Taino culture, tradition or religion (in fact, most of our tradition come from Africans and Spaniards), so personally, I think it’s an insult to native americans (the real ones) when other Puerto Ricans refer to themselves as that, they don’t know what they’re talking about.

Now, I don’t have a problem with honoring our Taino roots, but I disapprove of how it tries to undervalue our entirely culture claiming it all for Tainos while giving the Spaniards SOME credit (the worse ones by that) and almost entirely no credit to the Africans despite their immerse contribution to the culture when the Taino roots tend to be the smallest one in our culture. It’s better to acknowledge that the identity of Puerto Ricans is a new one, it’s NOT the same as Taino, not the same as African, and sure as hell not the same as the Spanish culture, it’s an different one on its own, and the sooner people recognize that, the better.