Hawaii Tribune-Herald, Monday, October 29, 2001-9 Letters Hawaiian kings were imperialists I would like to take Haunani-Kay Trask to task for her outrageous remarks at a University of Hawaii forum on Oct. 17, supposedly covened to stimulate critical thinking. She complains that the United States of America has a history of imperialism and terrorism. Both of these allegations are absurd lies. There is no othcountry in the world that (e has done so much to encourage and facilitate the independence and freedom of not only its own citizens.
but also the people of those countries that have provoked us into war, and then come under our protection as territories or protecstorates or as defeated enemies. Prime examples are the Philippines, Germany and Japan. All were conquered, rehabilitated, and restored to full independence under democratic governments. The citizens of the Territory of Hawaii voted overwhelmingly for statehood. Trask calls herself a leader of the Hawaiian nationalist movement, which holds up the Hawaiian kings as heroes.
But "Surely she must know the truth contained in the song "King Kamehameha," written 'by Johnny Noble: Kamehameha, the conqueror of the islands Became a famous hero one day He fought a native army And pushed it over the pali "And crowned himself king. unof Hawai'i nei." who was the here? R.M. Hinrichs Honokaa U.S. needs to let U.N. broker peace Helene Hale presided at Hilo's annual United Nation's Day dinner held Oct.
24, focusing on attainable public health goals. Next year we should enable "four cheerful state House representative to portray the United Nations as a peace keeper! This year's program in couldn't be about peace I efforts because the United States has vetoed U.N. resolutions asking Israel and Palestine to establish firm borders. Israel's expansion at the expense of Palestine has resulted from Hitler's Holocaust and the invitation fro Jews from Russia and all the world to live in that land of indefinite borders. Jobs weren't offered to young Palestinians, who needed to support parents living in camps after their tenantfarms (where families had lived for generations) were isold to Jewish immigrants.
So the young men were offered an opportunity to become martyrs, with the assurance their families would be cared for. They killed busloads of Israelis, but reprisals were so severe their Moslem moneymen sent their martyrs to the States, source of Israeli armaments. By next U.N. Day's dinwiner, we should celebrate peace (if the U.N. will renew its resolution regardbring firm borders for Israel 1n and Palestine and if the U.S.
doesn't veto it). If the U.N. wants to broker a peace between Afghan tribesmen, the U.S. could offer expert advice. Eleanor Smith Hilo 'Dumbguv fever' is all around us Dengue fever is attacking bodies today only because Dumbguv fever has been attacking peoples' to trinds for several decades before.
Now Dumbguv fever is short for "Dumb government fever," and it represents the new idiotic In environmental mindset that has pervaded the thinking of in most of our government officials and agencies because they allowed themselves to be bitten and Exercise cuts risk of arthritis disability infected by the extremistenvironmental-propaganda bug past two decades. The proof and result of this Dumbguv mental illness was first seen in how all of our governmental agencies, including the EPA, began to demonize our most effective and beneficial pesticides, herbicides, fertilizers and manmade chemicals in general to the point that society allowed them all to be banned along with the most effective methods of large scale pest control (like aerial spraying of fields and forests and roadside fogging in communities). And now that they have been banned for some time, we find ourselves left totally vulnerable to every sort of insect borne disease and destruction. Now Dumbguv fever has given us mosquitos out of control. Now Dumbguv fever has given us ground termites eating our houses down with no effective way to kill them.
Now Dumbguv fever has us plagued by frogs. Now Dumbguv fever has our young kids so paranoid about chemicals that they simply have to whiff a garden pesticide like malathion (like they did at one of our high schools), and they fall victim to a host of hysterically induced, psychosomatic symptoms and illnesses. So please beware of "dumbguv fever!" Jerry Neil III Pahoa Paper should not feed people's fear Enough already with the alarmist headlines! Your Oct. 21 headline, "Attacks sink cruise line," is about as low as you can get in intentionally misleading and irresponsible journalism. you so desperate to sell papers that you must resort to these crude tactics? How would you feel if somebody who was already quite jittery about the situation read that headline and interpreted it exactly as you meant it to be interpreted and then had a heart attack because "the terrorists were now in Hawaii?" What is it with newspapers and their overdramatization of disaster? Why must you keep feeding the fear in people? How about a positive touch once in a while? How about some stories about the new unity of our world leaders and the possibility of World Peace coming from all this and putting them on the front page? Your front page carries all these articles implying that "the attacks" are the sole cause of the failures of many Hawaii businesses.
Then, on the third page, we'll find stories of how tourism was only down 4 percent last month and is actually in better shape than it was in last year. Or we discover later in the articles that the businesses were in deep kim chee long before Sept. 11. Tourists who are already here, and potential tourists, many of whom read Hawaii's papers online, don't need to be constantly bombarded with doomsday stories about how Hawaii is turning into a ghost town. Why not some stories about the businesses that are doing well in spite of the nation's problems right now? Or stories of the heroic, patriotic and successful efforts of some of our people who are making things better right now, instead of worse? Or how about some coverage of the many big businesses that are clearly exploiting the situation to get rid of unwanted employees and reap all sorts of other financial benefits and blame it all on "the attacks?" If all of this is just too much to ask, then how about at least showing some responsibility with your headlines? Skip Thomsen Pahoa By Ira Dreyfuss Associated Press Associated Press Mike Comardelle, right, chairman of the Crab Task Force, and Cecil Wattigney sort through their morning catch of crabs at the dock in Buras, La.
Commercial crabbers from Louisiana are shipping crabs to the Chesapeake Bay area due to blue crab shortages. Chesapeake crab limits mean boon in Louisiana Hardship in one area shifts catch to Southern state By Melinda Deslatte Associated Press BATON ROUGE, La. Mike Comardelle knows it's getting tougher to make a living as a crab fisherman in Louisiana, faced with sagging sales and increased foreign competition. But he and other Louisiana commercial crabbers have found a saving grace in the hardships of Chesapeake Bay watermen, who are screaming over stricter policies guiding crab fishing in Mary-' land and Virginia. The irony? Chesapeake Bay area cutbacks because of blue crab shortages are boosting Louisiana crab sales.
"Without that we'd be hurting right now," said Comardelle, chairman of the Crab Task Force, a statewide group of fishermen, soft crab shedders, dealers and processors. "They're filling up 18-wheelers and sending them all to Maryland. If it wasn't for that, I don't know what we would do. That's a huge part of our business." Some wish the Bay would never bounce back. The reason: Demand.
Cities such as Philadelphia and New York that are accustomed to buying Chesapeake Bay crabs are turning to Louisiana because they can't get enough to satiate the expanding popularity of crab cakes. Still, the appetite is strongest in the Bay area, Comardelle said. Watermen in Maryland and Virginia claim they can't compete with crab fishermen in other areas because of restrictions designed to reduce the crab catch by 15 percent over the next three years. The restrictions protect the blue crab after serious declines in the Chesapeake Bay, but fishermen insist the crab shortages don't exist and the restrictions aren't needed. Scientists from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration say the blue crab population reached lows not seen in more than 30 years.
Wilford Kale, senior staff adviser at the Virginia Marine Resources Commission, said the Bay's most serious problem involves the low population of mature female crabs. "No scientists have declared that the fishery is in jeopardy, but we're right close," Kale said. "There's a fine line between protecting the fishery and sustaining the commercial industry." Maryland's Department of Natural Resources limits crab fishermen to eight hours of crabbing a day and plans to end the crab season more than a month early this year, on Oct. 31. Virginia instituted a series of 15 conservation measures over the last seven years, including the establishment of a deep-water sanc- exists no central clearing house of statistics on Louisiana crab sales.
Only anecdotal evidence provides a picture of the industry. And fishermen know they're sending a lot of their crabs out of state. Roy Meek, manager at Meek Seafood in LaRose, about 60 miles south of New Orleans, said he loads up a truck from Baltimore six days a week with about 250 boxes carrying 11,000 pounds of Louisiana crabs. "I've had a truck in here since April. The demand has been unbelievable this year in Baltimore," he said.
Officials from the Department of Natural Resources in Maryland said the annual crab harvest fell from 58 million pounds in "No scientists have declared that the fishery is in jeopardy, but we're right close." Wilford Kale, Virginia Marine Resources Commission tuary of nearly a half million acres where crabbing is prohibited. No new fishermen can enter the blue crab fishery in Virginia unless they buy out fishermen already working on the Bay, essentially a moratorium on the fishery. Also, crabbing in Virginia is banned on Sundays and prohibited on Wednesdays during peak crab harvest season. Both states limit the maximum catch number per day and establish an annual crab season. "Have the watermen screamed? Yes.
Quite frankly, if they weren't screaming, we would question if our restrictions were strong enough," Kale said. "We want to try to conserve, but we want to try to keep them in business." Louisiana fishermen have fewer restrictions. They can catch crabs all' year, with a 12 dozen per person catch limit per day. The Louisiana Seafood Promotion and Marketing Board doesn't compile numbers of export sales because each business is independent and not required to submit those numbers. There HOMEOWNERS DON'T GET BURNED BY HIGH INTEREST RATES! REFINANCE YOUR LOAN NO QUALIFYING FAST APPROVAL GATEWAY FINANCIAL SERVICES 24 No.
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Penninx and her colleagues looked at 250 participants ages 60 and older. When the study started, all could perform normal activities, despite osteoarthritis of the knee. Osteoarthritis is characterized by progressive deterioration of cartilage, and affects more than 80 percent of those who reach the age of 70. The participants were divided into three groups. One walked for 40 minutes three times a week.
Another spent the same amount of time on weight training -two sets of 12 repetitions of nine exercises, most of them for the legs. The third did no exercise and served as a comparison group. Results of the study were published in the Oct. 22 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine. After 18 months, 53 percent of the non-exercise group reported they had lost some or all ability to transfer from a bed to a chair, bathe, use the toilet or dress.
In comparison, about 37 percent of exercisers did, and the difference between walking and weight training was so slight that researchers considered the benefits alike. "I definitely think that people with knee osteoarthritis would benefit from a resistance or aerobic program," Penninx said. "What this study shows is that exercise is beneficial." And the anti-disability benefits may extend beyond the knee, because 75 percent of the study participants had arthritis elsewhere, Penninx said. Previous studies have found that exercise reduces pain and improves muscle tone, balance and the ability to do things such as walk, but this is the first to go to the next level and examine prevention of disability, Penninx said. The study gives a stronger foundation to current medical support for exercise.
"I can't think of anybody I wouldn't put on an individual exercise program," said Dr. Roland Moscowitz, a medical professor at Case Western University. Walking on a treadmill almost always helps, and weight training can help too, provided the person in charge of training knows how to avoid damaging a patient's joints, he said. Exercise probably is best for people in early stages, before development of joint deformity, extensive cartilage loss and continuing pain, said Dr. Marian Minor of the University of Missouri.
"I'm trying to make a case for prescription of exercise early not thinking you are going to rescue people later," said Minor, a researcher who was not connected with the Wake Forest study. In addition, keeping people active will reduce the chance that a sedentary lifestyle will lead them to develop heart disease in addition to the arthritis, Minor 90 said. 1993 to 22 million pounds in 1999. Virginia officials said the catch dropped only slightly from 34.8 million pounds in 1994 to 30.7 million pounds in 2000. In contrast, fishermen harvested more than 50 million pounds of crabs in Louisiana last year, according to Vince Guillory, a marine fisheries biologist with the state Department of Wildlife and Fisheries.
The state ranks as one of the top blue crab producers, providing about 26 percent of the nation's total harvest. The industry provides about 11 percent of Louisiana's total seafood production and employs about 2,800 commercial crabbers year-round. So while the crab-laden road trips from south Louisiana to Baltimore increase, some fishermen wait for the crab population resurgence and fear the day Bay area states lift their restrictions. "If the Chesapeake ever rebounds, we're going to find out just how bad a shape we're in," said Peter Peterson, a crab fisherman from Ponchatoula. On the Internet: American College of Rheumatology fact sheet: http://www.rheumatology.org/ Arthritis Foundation: http://www.arthritis.org MAIL BOXES EMBE We'll take it from here." HOLIDAY PACKING SHIPPING SERVICES Packing Materials Boxing.
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