Video of UH spring practice

Best wishes to the Advertiser young guns. We all know all of you will carry on.

Third. Yep, there go 300k+ of Aloha Air mileage. Which, of course, is nothing compared to those folks who were feeding their families through those jobs that are now lost. Sad indeed.

Hoo- Scott, my post is not showing up after 4 refreshes!

i am praying that someone or some company may still come in and save the day for aloha airlines and its ohana of employees.

at the same, should that happen. the mgt needs to take a good look in the mirror. twice in four years is a bit much. those in the know are aware of its exact problems.

although go! may have had a big hand in this demise…you can’t hang it all on them.

Nitey Nite and sweet dreams!

repost from last blog

A san,
I predate the march of Hawaiians as I went in 1976 after the Honolulu exhibition.
When Konishiki, Akebono, Musashimaru and Yamato all made Makuuchi, the Sumo Asso panicked and made the 1 gaijin per heya rule.
Later amended to any number of gaijin as long as they could read and write some Japanese.
Later again amended to 1 gaijin per stable due to the influx from the destitute of Mongolia.

It appears that the blog was down early this AM and could not log on but is now working, so ST disregard last email. Also all others.

Let us all pray together for our Aloha Air ohana, as I have the hope in my thoughts this will be resolved soon. This might not be the end of an era for Aloha, but a dishearting pause for a new direction.

USC lets spectators stand on the sidelines and watch their practices…unfortunately, a player got hurt because of it.

USC’s open-door policy for spring practice allows hundreds of fans and other interested onlookers to roam the sideline during workouts and mingle with players and coaches on the field afterward.

On Sunday, wide receiver Damian Williams was nearly undone by the Trojans’ welcome mat.

Williams, who has been enjoying a highlight-reel spring, was knocked out of practice after twisting his ankle while avoiding a collision with a child.

“I was trying not to hit that little kid,” Williams said. “I didn’t want to take him into the wall.”

The incident occurred about 90 minutes into the two-hour workout, which drew a crowd that gathered in clusters four to five deep along the length of the sideline near the entry gate of USC’s practice facility.

During a scrimmage drill, quarterback Aaron Corp rolled left to avoid the rush and made a nice throw to Williams near the sideline. The crowd cleared an opening as Williams’ momentum carried him out of bounds, but with the child in his way, the 6-foot-1, 190-pound receiver slipped on the patch of artificial turf that flanks the gateway, fell to the ground and then crashed into a wood fence.

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• 😉 • 8) • Hurray – Spring Practice Begins Today!!! • 8) • 😉 •

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At last, the NFL might change its rules to help defensive backs rather than make it easier for receivers to torch them.

Kansas City Chiefs coach Herman Edwards thinks it’s about time.

Edwards, an NFL cornerback for 10 years, is hopeful the league will eliminate sideline judgment calls that award catches if the receiver was forced out of bounds without an opportunity to get both feet in.

That’s one of the many proposed rule changes being discussed this week in Palm Beach at the NFL’s annual meetings.

If Edwards gets his wish, there won’t be any more doubt. Push-out calls are not reviewable with video replay.

“Our league is set up now, and rightly so, for offense to be successful,” Edwards said. “Fans and everyone else likes to see points. They like to see touchdowns. You got a quarterback and great receivers, you want to be able to throw the football down the field.

“But a little bit of the way the game is played, if you’re a receiver, you need to avoid (being pushed out). If you can’t avoid that, then shame on you.”

Other rules changes to be considered include:

# Allowing defensive players to have helmet radios like quarterbacks do, thereby eliminating another Spygate scenario.

# Eliminating the 5-yard face-mask penalty.

# Allowing replay on field goals.

# Seeding the playoffs based on record rather than divisional winners.

# Granting teams a brief grace period to contact free agents before the players can be signed.

# Adopting a uniform policy to eliminate hair that flows over the player’s jersey nameplate.

I suppose that’s advantage K. Craft had over our JC QB recruits – he was further ahead in the classroom and could participate in Spring Drills. Or is this because of the Quarter System at UCLA?

Paterno is in the last year of his contract and already has met once with Penn State president Graham Spanier and director of athletics Tim Curley. Last week, Spanier declined to comment, but two university trustees said that contract negotiations had started badly and that each side had drawn its lines.

Paterno wants to coach at least two more years, maybe as many as five. Yesterday, he joked that he’d like to last another 10 years. According to the trustees, however, the administration wants a timetable for an exit – be it retirement or a succession plan. If push came to shove, his contract would not be renewed.

After leading the Nittany Lions through spring practice – his 43d as head coach – Paterno did not see the urgency.

“I don’t even care if I get a contract,” he said yesterday. “I’ll be very frank with you.”

“The university is fine with that, too, because they don’t want to give him a contract, either,” said a trustee, who requested anonymity.

Thanks Garret!

Recently, there’s been so much stress about the new website and much less “news” content on the blog. So, Mahalo Garret for keeping this info flowing. Yesterday’s input from ST was soooo refreshing and informative. I’m now very curious as to the claim of “This spring, “Ferd” and I will move to the side as our bright young journalists…”.

So – what do the Tsaikos think about the proposed rules on long hair? Players can still have long hair, but it must be tucked under the helmet.

Just checking with you all but is there a problem with the time on your posting?? My time is now 5:07 and yet the posting time is already at 5:30 +

brew808, I’m glad you like the news articles. Unfortunately, the new blog does NOT like me posting too much. I was on a 7-minute timeout from the blog before I could post the last article, and the blog is giving me another timeout right now. 5+ minute timeouts would make it impossible for me to post all the articles each morning…

Joe Paterno talks about why he wants to just work at home. Most football coaches spend time in the football offices…

Paterno, who joked he’d like to coach 10 more years, admits he spends a lot more time working at home these days than he does in his office at the Lasch Building.

“I can walk home in 15 minutes,” he said. “I can drive home in five minutes. When I leave you guys, I’ll have bourbon in five minutes. There’s no reason for me to be here. I have my own fax at home, my own telephone at home. I got all my tapes there. … I can get so much more done at home.

Good morning Tsaikos and Warrior Nation.

First, a sad farewell to Aloha. I agree with you
bulla. Mgt saw this coming. GiGi’s right about the $$ too. The net is the company’s bottom line. So bad that I, like Warrr Mojo, is losing my miles. But not as bad a feeling as losing my job. Auwe. Auwe.

Since we’re talking about fixing things before its too late, Aunty Linda and da Legislatas gotta look at the pricing structure of electricity too, including the HRS language. And the govt peeps gotta change their attitude generally speaking – economy for thee, not me, junk dat kind tinking. I look at my electricity bill, see all the wasted energy consumed by “public”. Makes me really glad we got some public officials doing a great job with their meager resources. But hey, I’d rather talk about the good stuff, Wariror Nation.

Its going to be a great day at lower campus today. I can’t wait for my turn Wednesday. Hope I can, cause I gotta jiggle my work schedule first.

ST & Tsaiko Blog Dogs,

There is that saying about “Change” and “S**t” happening! An organization that does not change is not prepared for the future. The Warriors history is an example. Aloha apparently was not prepared for the competition and future…the blame lies in leadership, as always, the employees end up suffering.

ST and Ferd are now relegated to “emeritus” status, i.e., now the senior writers. The young charges will do most of the daily grinds (at lower pay, naturally) while the seniors are given the tougher assignments (at lower pay, naturally). Such is life.

Sad about Aloha. I was floored last night when I first saw it on the news. I then spent a good hour making sure I booked all my inter-island flights for the next few weeks (on Hawaiian) before the flights fill up. You’re right, I have a 2 cousins and several family friends who work for Aloha. I do hope they come out of this ok.

As for the “newbies”, I’m looking forward to seeing just how good this new breed of reporters are. Obviously I want to see Leila report. Hey ST, she’s cuter than you are. Anyway, good luck to all the journalists on their opportunity to shine.

morning gang!
hmmm, my post a couple of minutes ago didn’t go thru
looks like the timeclock still off too.

Hi Stephen!

Thanks Calvin. I was worried that I was hallucinating ‘cuz no one else seemed to be affected. Hope you got all your flights!

Wow, Garret and Brew are being put in “blog time out” for posting too much? I guess I’d rather have the 30 second rule from the old blog… They took away the math problem and added a delay. Yikes!

morning Ronnie,
i posted after your last comment and it got put ahead of yours
maybe they fixed the problems with the clock

Good Morning, Loa!

I noticed that. Pomai’s comment got put ahead of mine too. How weird is that? By the way, Good Morning Pomai!

I can’t wait for sping ball reports! Practice starts in a little more that 30 minutes! Yee Haw!!!

Wassup Tsaikos!

Spent the last hour looking around the net at local football news. Yeah! Its time to see The Replacements rise and shine. Practice time is party time!

well, love to play but gotta go work.
before i come like Aloha. Aloha.
hiho hiho Tsaikos!

Howzit Tsaikos.

Let me start this by saying
“So Sorry ST.” 😉

I cannot stay away when I can see into the future and know what the braddas going say 5 minutes from now. Vegas, you gotta get to da casinos quick and get ralvic guys to give you heads up on da fuucha picks. heheheh

what is it with this place—again 10 minutes into a well thought out post,writing a nice story of how I hope the Warrior begin their first practice with a prayer and blessing and the site deleted everything again,like it did to two other posts last night. Why??

Both Garret and I use WordPress for our blogs. I’ve had no complaints. I wonder why the Warrior Beat is having so much trouble.

Here’s to spring ball!

Good luck to Leila and all the other up and coming reporters.

Don’t worry Stephen and Ferd, you’ll always be #1 & 2 (you guys fight it out over who’s who). Advise the young ‘uns well..

Interesting the time onmy last the post says 7:54…. the time on my laptop and the clock on the wall says 7:32

It says, when one logs on, no comments, but when clicked on there’s quite a few. I sure hope they fix this darn thing. It was going good for awhile, maybe they’ll go back to the old format, if they can’t fix this? One can hope.

Hmmmm…it seems to be posting according to the times on people’s personal computers…..I wonder…..

You know what’s even wierder, hilogreg? My posts are being posted with the right times. LOL. Is Hilo a half an hour ahead of Honolulu? J/K

Oh I forgot, Stephen,

When do you and the crew go to the Pro Day?

Buon giorno, and oyasumi nasai, Tsaikos.

Have sent an e-mail to Scott asking him to check the time-stamp issue.

esme – maybe you should change your name to “slave driver”. hahaha just kidding. thanks for all your efforts, along with Scott & ST, to make this site work for everyone!!

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Good Morning Tsaikos!

Really sad to hear about Aloha Airlines.

Reading all the comments today, weird things happening in the WB universe.

Enjoyed the Colt & RGM interviews on Leahey & Leahey this morning. Sat in my car for more than 5 minutes before filling gas so I could hear the end of Colt’s interview.

Can’t wait for Spring Practice updates!

Good morning all.

A new era in more than one front this morning: one filled with hope; one filled with dashed dreams.

Looking forward to the young guns.

Best wishes to the AQ employees

yesterday about 7-10 sec refresh today the last two 45 sec.

Like Midori7, I, too, heard the Brennan and Grice-Mullins interview on the Leahy and Leahy Live show. Brennan kept coughing, but, he sounded really good and THREW DOWN THE GAUNTLET with regard to his weight; he really sounds like he’s not gonna be bullied about that. I like how he said the best stadium he ever played in is Aloha Stadium, when it’s packed (i.e., BState, Washington). Good answer. Grice-Mullins sounds really good too — nice that he was able to assess that he’s better than other prospects in the Combine. Things are looking up for these fellas.

Re: Aloha. What’s to know? Their employees were making concession after concession after concession; the writing on the wall was there. So, I DON’T buy the whole “no one saw this coming” deal.

I wonder how many are lamenting what’s looking like the demise of this long-time company but took advantage of, say, go!’s GREAT rates? Not enough to use the word “hypocrite” methinks; but, that fact IS enough to see that we Hawaii folks (overtaxed and lower-compensated for doing the same job that our mainland counterparts do) will take the deal whenever it comes. Yeah, we gotta help out our island industries when possible, but deals seems to transcend everything – “who we know” at the industry in question (I actually don’t know ANYBODY who works at Aloha), tradition, whatever.

Competition’s a great thing. I mean, don’t we want our Warriors to be competitive with every other team out there?

And I gotta bring in the union angle: you look at past recent employee debacles where a union was involved: 1) the bus strike; 2) the meatcutters at Times; 3) now this. Where are THEY to help “the working man” in these cases? Those bus guys, they’ll NEVER earn back that money they lost in that 1-1/2 months they were striking (I’m not sure what good came out of that anyway, except that the traffic was so GREAT driving in to work and driving back home). The meatcutters . . . exactly WHAT happened with that? Really off the radar, now. And now this? All I saw was one of the union leaders crying on the TV news last night.

Yeah. I’m sad for Aloha. But, what’s the bottom line? That if there’s a better price, we’ll go for it. No matter what.

Anyway, bankruptcy hearing’s at 2pm today, and Lingle’s trying to do some last ditch effort (isn’t she part of the party that FAVORS competition, though? Thing is, though, if government [or at least the governor] intends to intervene when ONE island business hits the dust, well, seems to me they’ll have to help all the time. Maybe this is why they shouldn’t get involved when this kind of thing happens.

This is NOT the last long-time island business you’ll hear about biting the dust in our respective lifetimes. As long as we continue to be overtaxed, we’ll be looking for the deals.

Hello, Spring Practice!

Sorry for Aloha. 🙁

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loa, practice is pau already.

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lv
hawaiian recently outsourced their reservations to foreign markets. i hear you. communications are difficult at times. well, most of the times.

taste test?

Where’s da scoops from Manoa?

Maybe the new route to Manila was put in as part of the benefits package for the new “employees”?

hilogreg,
ahhhh, for the days of $25 coupons…

In the old days, I was the treasurer of the Honolulu sumo club.
Mid-Pac had a great deal on ticket booklets so I bought $2,000 worth to fly the team inter-island.
Used about half and poof! no more Mid-Pac.

On my two trips home this year, the help from the call center at Hawaiian was sporadic at best.
One day was good english, one day was kinda iffy, next day was full on Cebu city.
Actually was not listed on our return flight mid february and had to wait a day.

las vegas,
Whew! sumotori on those Dash-7’s? No wonder they went “broke”!

heheheh

D1,
As I recall, for inter-island tourneys, we had the seven starters, 5-10 high school kids, 2-3 coaches and assorted wives, girlfriends, and parents.
Filled up one of those planes fast.

anyone have updates from practice today??

las vegas,
Once I flew a commuter flight to/from Molokai.
Going over we taxiing to take-off. Pilot tells everybody, “Sorry folks. we gotta go back; somebody forgot to load the luggage.”
Wise guy in the back says, “Was that the same guy who was supposed to put gas in the plane?”
The pilot didn’t answer.
On the flight back, in order to “balance’ the load, yours truly got to sit in the co-pilot seat.
Coming in view of Diamond Head, the pilot had the radio on speaker. Could hear one wahine pilot talking to the tower, “Not sure of my location… can see Diamond Head.”
The pilot took the radio off speaker…

I never flew a commuter plane again.

D1,
From personal experience, the fat guys always get to ride “shotgun”.
Flying to the West Rim of the grand canyon, our little Beechcraft’s indicator bulbs burnt out and the pilot did not know if our wheels were deployed.
We had to fly in front of the control tower for a visual check.

Mrs says “test, only a test”.

While waiting for football videos, here’s some entertainment…

http://www.snotr.com/embed/612

Howdy Mrs. A-House!

Howzit A-house, Mrs. A-house, MeiLing, dpk and everybody else out there waiting for spring ball news

is it just me. or does posting seem faster today?

homey,
Any close encounters with box jellyfish today?

Japanese tv funny if you click on my name

that’s a warm and fuzzy moment hearing familiar voices transmitting over the airwaves.
1222 am went back on the air j/k wb a-houses

By the way, his schools of interest are listed as: Oregon, BSU, UH, Kansas, Missouri, SMU, and Texas Tech. No visits or offers reported yet.

I’m afraid to post too many articles anymore. This morning I was posting along and all of a sudden I started getting the messages that I was posting too much. The blog kept rejecting my posts–first giving me a timeout for 7 minutes and then for much longer the next time! I actually walked my dog, made breakfast for Faith, and read the paper…and the blog STILL wouldn’t let me post!

As much as I am trying to get used to this new site and blog, I just can’t so far. 😈

DPK:

That’s why I no like post!

You know, when “they” can’t even transport the old blogs and comments (espeically the comments that all of us have worked so hard to do, to CONTRIBUTE as the Advertiser wants us to [that’s one of the goals of 2.0, right? The establishment of the citizen-journalist, right? They WANT you to blog, they NEED you to blog, you WANT me on that wall, you NEED me on that wall . . . oh, oh, getting carried away here), how the heck can you trust them from here on out?

I dunno . . .

TEST, SO IS THE TIME STAMP PROBLEM FIXED?

Speaking of commuter planes I once was going on a fishing trip to Molokai on a Air Molokai flight’, as I was standing in line to check in I notice that there were large, very large ladies standing in line in front of me. Note when you ride a commuter plane you have disclose your weight , so I am thinking that these ladie are not going tell their true weight not when they are that big. So when it was my turn to check in I told the person at the check in counter. ” Hey just curious What did those ladies tell their weight was ? I was worried that they lied about their weight so much that the plane would have trouble with the balance and taking off. The couhter person said to me “Don’t worry I got it!” “YOU SURE?” I said. He said “Sir what is your body weight ?”
I told him my weight and he said to me “you are pretty good , you are within 2 lbs of your actual body weight.”
“How did you know that ? I asked. “You are standing on a freight scale, sir.” Oh…

al – gee thanks

A-House,
I feel you on dat one cuz, but wut we gonna do?

Breaking news story on first practice is up

not much in the way of details though 🙁

Found it. Still waitnig for some pics. to show up or video.

Ok Ok
Royal Hawaiian flew Beechcraft twin engines in the 1970’s you could fly from Hilo, to Upolu Point, to Hana just to get to HNl
Best Mid Pac story on the way to HNL in 1984, with both Mauna Loa and Puo’.o erupting big time the Dash 7 pilot flew via South Point way between the two eruptions..another time flew through the saddle between Mauna Loa and Mauna Kea

Whoaa… just went back to new HA homepage to get the breaking news– looks like I was wrong about the font and formatting problems being in your web browser pref settings. Sorry…everything was looking fine to me since Thursday. What a mess now!

Besides getting some remedial visual design instruction, looks like HA has to invest in some better quality software…

Are ST and his “crew” flying out today for Pro Day? If so, I selfishly hope that the Princess can post some videos before she has to leave. If not, I can wait until tomorrow – barely.

Oh yeah, it’s Pro Day tomorrow! Go alumni Warriors! Hopefully ST will be covering it, if he isn’t already IN Carson, California.

Well, it looks like the font is bigger in the box to enter comments. Very cool!

Hey everyone. Here’s the video link. Until I can figure out how to post it under the main post, I’ll just leave it here. Thanks!

http://honoluluadvertiser.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080331/VIDEO05/80331045

Just e-mailed with Scott Morifuji. He’s out sick today. I’m sure a lot of it has to do with how hard he’s worked getting this blog to work. Please send him your “get well” wishes.

Princess Leila – Nice Nice! Thanks for the video. One day I’ll be out there and I promise not to bother you. Does Lumpkin still have that football on a stick?

Great video, Princess! Thanks for getting that posted! Now it REALLY feels like spring!!!

Scott, our prayers go out for your speedy recovery!

Princess, great video thank you.

Scott, thank you for all your hard work to get this new blog working right, hope you get well soon.

Mrs A-House Says:

March 31st, 2008 at 10:50 am
Mrs says “test, only a test”.

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My oh my Mr & Mrs. A-House, I have never seen you two so testy before. We need a Pau Hana Happy hour with the A-House Ohana soon. Tell me what afternoon you and Mr. A-House are free and we can meet for a “mind cooler” at the Plaza Club any time after 5-ish.

Kekoa – I wonder if kids go their house on Halloween?

Aaron,

Aloha!

Hope you had a great Spring Break. Back to the books again, but only for a couple of months – until Summer – and vacation in Hawai’i.

Did you and your brother get your dog yet?

Clap your hands for Spring practice.

Folks, thank Andreas Arvman, John Garcia and Tyson Oshiro for working on the font display issues today.

Thank you Andreas, John, and Tyson for making the font more readable for the hard to see generation!

homey – it’s more like I wear makeup that can’t cover up when I’m blushing!

Greetings, Editor Tsai and Tsaikos.

I have been lurking for a long time, from when daily post counts were in the low-100s, at most. I’ve actually been contemplating non-lurker status since last Thursday, after reading about the problems all of you were having when the Advertiser launched its new web site.

I had come up with this blog name at that time. I have only the sincerest sympathy and the greatest respect for the employees of Aloha Airlines and it’s unfortunate that I come out of hiding today.

A major reason I’ve been coming here for so long is the perspective and humanity that Stephen Tsai brings to this thriving eCommunity and the love of Hawaii and Warrior football among the good citizens of warriorbeat.com. Talk about Aloha, how many partisan college football blogs would adopt Husky and Georgia fans, like BuckheadBulldog?

I join the rest of you in grieving the loss of an institution that many of us grew up with. Having been born and raised in Honolulu, there’s always been Trans-Pacific or Aloha Airlines.

Aloha,
Alohalurker

Okay gang, just stopping by for a short one. Any updates on srping ball yet?? Is ST in Cali already???

Homey ~ What if there was Halloween, you had the greatest selection of candies one could imagine…and nobody came to your door? That’s been happening to a lot of neighborhoods lately. Are you thinking “testy” people are the cause?

Remember when you ran from house to house before it was the official time until way past the finish time? The plan was always to scoop as much candy as you could in the alloted time frame. Then, your parents showed you the last dental bill and it was curtains for the kid! Your stash went to those mysterious kids who never got stuff. Tsai!

Not to mention their name always sounded so cool. “Aloha Airlines”. I wonder how much ticket prices are going to go up now.

Princess,

Awesome job with the video! Thank you so much for taking care of that, as I was hoping you would be able to get a video before you flew to LA.

Kekoa,

How’s Pops feeling today?

Will he be released soon and get to go home?.

God Bless!

Hi Ronnie! Hi Aaron!

There is a *big* contrast between Katie and your normal puppy! Maybe we can let you borrow Katie again for a short time (3-4 days) when we have trips to Vegas and the Bay Area planned. We could drop Katie off as part of our drive…but I’d have to sneak that past the family who normally takes care of Katie because they have been complaining that they haven’t seen Katie enough lately!

Garret, that would work for us! We’ll be extra quite, so the other family doesn’t realize what’s going on. 😉

Kekoa,

In my neighborhood the stores give out a TON of candy over a 2-hour period. It is much more convenient than going from house to house because the stores in the shopping center are so close together. We do that with our kids, as everyone is dressed up and they get so much candy in such a short time.

Even with that, we get a bunch of kids every year that come to our house. And they really get a lot of candy when they visit us!

We limit our kids to 1 piece of candy per night, and they only get that if they eat all of their dinner and they are well behaved all day. So, they eat about 5 pieces of candy per week and they STILL have a few candies left in their Halloween baskets!

Scott,

Get some rest and get well soon! We appreciate your hard work and you really did make a difference for this blog!

I see the numbering system is back.

They shifted the number over to the right and it looks great now! The only problem will be if we pass 1000 posts…but we don’t have to worry about that until maybe the Florida game.

Wow, the demand for the 2-day QB clinic run by Steve Clarkson was so great that they now have *7* of them scheduled. They would take in over $400k if they sell all of them out.

I have to confess that I usually fly Hawaiian, but I always used to smile when a Hawaiian commercial would air on TV and the flight attendant would say “Aloha!”

No more $39 fares on go! (I used mid-week, mid-September for a search)! The Hawaiian web site must be getting slammed, it wouldn’t even load for me just a little while ago.

I hope something good happens at the bankruptcy hearing, but it sounds pretty grim and unpromising.

BTW, wow but the font size as I type this post is quite impressively large. You folks and ST did a great intervention. Hope the math whizzes aren’t sad that they can no longer whiz.

An Aloha worker told me when they first began charter flights for the football team, the players were served regular airline food. The problem was the full bodied athletes were still hungry after the meal. On subsequent charter flights, they were served bentos with extra meat.

It’s sad to see Aloha Airlines folding up shop after a lifetime of serving the people of Hawaii. I remember those half fare standby flights of my youth. They were an adventure because you were never sure if you were going to get on a flight. But in those free and easy, pre-security days, flying was fun.

I hope we haven’t seen the last of Aloha.

I am *very* happy that my sister didn’t take the job with Aloha that she was considering a few years ago. She stayed with Hawaiian and in 3 years can retire with lifetime travel benefits…

Pssssttttt.
Andreas Arvman,

howzit bradda. Thanks for trying to make this place better. Let me share.

When I go http://warriorbeat.honadvblogs.com/
I expect to go to what looks like where I am supposed to go, but when I do that, I don’t always go to the same place I was supposed to go.

In other words, when i stay go, i no go, you know?
I feel like that puddycat, and when I feel like dat, i end up looking like dat. you know, the what happened with where I was supposed to go was a no go. So I try and try because I get plenty time to go where I want to go even when I no can go.

but i going fly Honolulu tomorrow nite so I can see practice for myself and make my own Warrior Beat report because this morning while i was typing away all of a sudden the computer went KATOOOSHHH and my wordprize wen disappear, and the umpteen minute delay before I could post again, like that happened this morning when I could post on the old Warrior Beat site over and over again while this spot was a no go, or the back to the future thing, I mean its good fun, i get my kicks and all, but da bottom line is i couldn’t go where i thought i was going to go. know what i mean?????

good thing get cute chicks around here, or I wouldn’t be coming, i would be going. hehehehe

😎

bighilofan2 – you crack me up! 😆

Garret,

Yeah that quote is confusing, but seems like Poynter said that in referencing to SMU’s lack of depth in previous seasons and that’s fine.

But of course if McKnight said that it was an obvious jab at OUR oline depth last year.

Kazz,

bradda McKnight wouldn’t be talking about our Oline guys like dat.
had to be da Poynta sistah talkin about da SMU chicks line dancin. 😳
… 😈

homey – Now I’m REALLY homesick! What memories that song brings back.

Ok, Tech Guys! What happened? It’s like the sleep deprivation torture! Just when you fall alseep and start having a great dream about how you can actually read what you are typing, as well as what everyone else it typing…. BAM!!! you’re jarred awake by the TINY font all over again.

😥

homey – mahalo for the youtube link, brings back a lot of memories, is that Macky?

the light blue comments high lighted is ok but leaving the comments that are in the white not highlighted doesn’t look good-( )< frowny face.

homey – the guy on the left didn’t look like Macky.
anyone see them at Aloha Stadium with C&K and Summer?

Loa – yeah, as you can see he was getting thinner…You should take a look at the other Kalapana vids and see what Ronnie’s hairstyle looked like in her heyday.

ST, I agree with your sentiments. Let’s hope the stoppage of flights is only a temporary event. Hope to see you in SoCal in the near future.

homey – lol, speaking of hair, they all had a lot of hair back in the day, do you know if those vids available on dvd?

Whoo-hooooo!!!!! Decent-sized font!!!

Aarvman, I still prefer the names with URLs in BLUE — instead of the larger brown font. BLUE stands out more.

Ok, about 2 hours ago, the font in the “Submit Comment” box and the posts were bigger, right? Homey, are my eyes playing tricks on me again? You were there, wasn’t the font larger? I’m not going crazy, I’m not!

to the IT tech guyz, mahalo for making the site better…so far so good, like my kids used to tell me….patience is a virtue, it will never hurt you…….oh well.

Ronnie, Hawaiianbod, et al ~

Excuse me while I adjust my magnifying glass…ok, there, that’s better…(not really). Anyway, after a long counseling session with the staff, it has been decided that dad should stay one more day, just to be sure that all systems are in 100% working order. Now that he can have outside fuud brought in, I’m going back up there in about an hour to bring him his fave fuud. Poi & raw fish. I’m putting the finishing touches on some lomi ahi, Opelu, and a little bit of O’io I scraped for him. Each of the fish have varying degrees of limo kohu, a dash of chili pepper water, hawaiian salt, green onion. I’m out the door with it before I devour it prematurily! The Doc agrees that it would be very nutritious and easyfor him to digest.

Discharged on Tuesday! Thank you Tsaiko Ohana ya’ll done good! Our prayers were answered early last Friday morning when the last crisis turned around without any medical explanation and against all odds. The rapid response team had no clue, I mean they were at a loss for what had transpired.

Oh the power of positive thinking, prayer and Ke Akua.

Go Warriors!

Princess Leila, Mahalo for the video!!!

homey, yeah, Billy Kaui’s voice is smooth. He almost sounds like Bobby Caldwell.

Kazz: My post is awaiting moderation, so here you go:

http://www.deep-mirrors.org/jason/ryanbishop.jpg

IDK why my posts keep on getting moderated. Is anybody else having this problem?

A reminder from me and a repost from ST’s March 25, 2008 blog entry…

Speakling of promotions, the Little Learners Preschool is having a fund-raising concert April 6 on the campus grounds in Kailua.
Ledward Ka‘apana will be the featured performer.
Robert Kekaula is the tentatively scheduled emcee.
Your blog host will be passing out door prizes.
Tickets are $10 each; it’s $5 each for ages 5-12.
There will be food, drinks and auction items.
Call Wena at 382-5263 for details.
(Little Learners is now accepting applications for students ages 3 and 4.)

Kekoa,

Great news about your Dad!

Mahalo Mei Ling ~ Will we be seeing you at any of the T-gates here at home, or will you be attending the games up there in Fresno and Boy’s town, Idaho?

OK, alternating blue and white or white and blue. And whitey gets the right color, white.

Ronnie, you get good eyes. The font size did change.

Thanks, whitey! I’m relieved to know that I’m not going crazy!

gigi-hawaii © Says:
March 31st, 2008 at 3:45 pm
Aarvman, I still prefer the names with URLs in BLUE — instead of the larger brown font. BLUE stands out more.

. Well, gigi — everything shouldn’t be as good looking as your blog. Besides, the brown you are seeing actually looks golden bronze on other systems.

Taking a deep breath now … 🙄

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Leila, you rock! Love the video. I was so psyched to watch the snippets of practice. Have GOT to get out there one of these days to see it live. Thanks for getting us the vid.

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Kekoa, very happy to hear about your dad’s continued recovery.

And you are such a nice and kind son for making all those ono foods and doing so much for him. 🙂

Aarvman, as I said several times, the names with URLs are very hard to distinguish. please make them BLUE.

ST last night, Sunday, at 12:58 am I got bumped off the WB and when I tried to log on I got a message that the server forbids my entry to log on. The message was for me to contact ckanemura at the honolulu advertiser. I am on a business computer without any hassles, not sure about my home computer and therefore it would be difficult for me to contact him from my home computer if I am unable to log on. No phone number given out for HA techie.

I’m with gigi here, the brown does not stand out nicely. I understand not making them blue, but there’s gotta be another color, one that is contrasts more greatly with black.

Kekoa — I don’t know you . . . but, it’s always great to hear of another’s loved one doing well. Take care, to your and your family and your dad.

The font did get bigger! Yay!

Kekoa, I’m not home until sometime in the Fall. Have a lot to do to get this house cleaned up before I move. Still working hard, doing lots of hula & stuff w/ the students in the Hawaiian club btwn now & then. I may be home for a short time to see if I can get a job lined up before I move. Nevah know. I don’t think I’ll be here when NAU plays Weber, but you nevah know… My son is working in OR, so it’s tempting to think about going to the Oregon State game, but I think he’ll be home then helping me clean up the house. I should be home for some of the games, though, later in the season. Looking forward to hanging w/ you all!

ralvic:

Roger that, Out!

Princess Leila,

Thanks for the great video. Just now watched it.

Is it my imagination or did the guys look real fast and crisp? I’m getting excited, yeah, beat the Gators.

Interesting statistical analysis of the Pac-10. Unsurprisingly, turnover margin was key.

“Determining factor” may be a misnomer, since, of course, this only measures correlation and correlation is not causation, etc. Sometimes a positive turnover margin coincides with a 237-yard advantage in total offense and a 40-0 halftime lead, in which case a couple interceptions probably are not solely responsible for turning the tide. Still, among the league’s middle class, the pattern is obvious: the team with better turnover margin in this subset of games finished 15-3, and the teams with the best records (Oregon State and UCLA) had by far the best margins; the teams with the worst records (Stanford, Oregon, Washington State) had the worst.

Interesting that in the Pac-10, it doesn’t seem to matter if you get more passing yards than your opponent…rushing yards correlate to wins, dominating the passing game doesn’t correlate to wins.

Since even Arizona and Washington State had the decency to attempt to run when practical, there were no Texas Tech-like teams committed to just throw and throw no matter what. The result was that in virtually all of the games where the winner had more passing yards, the same winner also had more rushing yards (or at least a better combination of the two). Man cannot live by the run alone, but even in the supposedly pass-happy regions west of the Mississippi, he has to run to some degree, and stop the run by turn. This is another area where Oregon State set itself apart (best nationally in rushing defense) and, more than any other, where USC continues to dominate (fourth nationally, in the top ten for the fifth time in six years).

Otherwise, the total non-impact of passing yardage is made more clear – not only did out-passing your opponent lead to no discernible correlation with victory overall, but even out-passing them by a significant margin proved essentially meaningless; a 100-yard advantage was only worth and 11-8 record, probably attributable to other sources. Above the 150-yard mark, it was only 4-3. The other categories show a generally steady trend up the ladder: the wider the margin, the better the record.

Hawaiianbod,

Yeah, I live in Mo’ili’ili. That’s as close to glottal stops as I can do on my computer, although when I was growing up in Kapahulu we used to say “Moi-lilli.”

Gotta take my little telescope out on the lanai one morning to watch practice. Too bad we don’t have FieldTurf on Cooke Field, I could probably make out jersey numbers if the Warriors practice there.

Sigh, I hope the Legislature and JD have a nice, long honeymoon.

A-lurk

Thread on Spring Practice on Sports Hawaii. Some of the highlights of one of the posts:

I think the Warriors will get their money’s worth from graduate assistant Craig Stutzmann. With the way Stutzmann was running the show with the receivers, you would think he was more than a graduate assistant. And it’s kinda weird to see Rolovich and Stutzmann conducting the passing drills, instead of June Jones and Dan Morrison.

It looks like Coach George Lumpkin will be assisting Coach Rich Miano with the defensive backs.

Former UH linebacker Chris Brown is also helping out with the defense.

If you have been paying attention you know the first group on defense. Here is the second group as they lined up today; Purcell, Tufaga, Savaiigaea, and Allen-Jones on the d-line. Kafentzis, Satele, and Kiesel-Kauhane at linebackers. Roberts, Smith, Porlas, and Dowling in the secondary.

To whomever-I asked why last night.I asked this morning.And I ask again now. For what reason do you want to raise my dander?? I was in the middle of writing church vs. state and how/and or if it wourld/could effect the Warrior football team.I was into my 15 line and the program deleted my writing again…
Yes thanks for nothing.

‘Night Pomai. We might have a leetle snow on Wed. … Still fireplace weather at night here.

Aloha Tsaiko Nation!

I’ve been lurking through all the birthing & growing pains of the new blog format. Looks like things are getting worked out, so I decided to give posting a try in this brave new blog world. No sooner did I finish the first sentence that the blog spontaneously, unexpectedly reloaded! I feared that I’d have to start over, but when the reloading was done it put me right back where I’d been. Whew! Fingers crossed for no more surprises, but hard for type this way…

Just a couple of quick comments:
Kekoa, I’ve been following your Dad’s saga, and am really happy to hear he’s pulling through!! Lots of mana exerted from this blog community on his behalf! ‘A’oia!!
The Aloha Airlines story — pretty sad! I’m sure there’s plenty of blame to go around, but I’d say it wouldn’t have happened if Mesa/Go hadn’t come in the way they did. I’ll never patronize that airline. I hope something can be worked out for Aloha and their employees!
And for you fans of the musical group Summer, did you know that one of their founding members is now doing quite well with the Big Island guitar trio Kohala? Still playing after all these years…
And as Rap said, “Gotta go now…”
A hui hou kakou. (Okay, let’s see how this works when I push the submit button…) 5:37pm

Kekoa,
Awesome news about your Dad! 🙂

Garret,
It would be kinda fun to see the two ‘miahs, Masoli and Ostrowski,continue the battle on the hardwood in next year’s No-rules basketball. The games they played against each other when they were at St. Louis and Punahou, respectively were great! Especially the last state tourney playoff game – a prep classic.

PRINCESS

Great job!

Garret,
It’s good to hear that Stutzman and Rolovich are off to good starts as coaches at UH.
(Jealously wishing Craig was still at SLS, but oh well.)

Okay, my test posting experience worked fine — no problems or delays. Looks to me like Scott and his accomplices have worked out the bugs pretty well. The font is at a legible size, the posts are numbered, I can live with the brown, but for the sake of Gigi and Garrett, as well as promoting the Warriors’ colors, I agree with those who say GREEN would be a cool color to indicate links!

Okay, now I really gotta go.

A hui hou kakou!

go to http://www.nfl.com go to search and type in Pro day workout updates

just briefly exploring it seems to have all the pro day up dates of all the schools,including a writeup about todays teams workouts

Esme – …songbird, dancing Queen, drama Queen! :O

does anyone else have a gut feeling something doesn’t seem right

ST mentions the names of four young sports journalists this morning-and it does seem the paper is choked with sport’s writers now–so I begin to wonder what he meant by these young writers are the future. just a thought.

Pomai:

Hand delivered packet to Lorraine Leslie today – all pau!!!

She called later and thanked us profusely.

From what I’ve seen, and I’m certainly no tech geek, it seems to me that so many people have different programs that all react in various ways to this blog. I use road runner as my feed and simple AOL for everything else. I have all kinds of programs on my computer, most of them I don’t even know how to use, sofar everything is working fine, Most of the bugs seem to have ben worked out, at least to this point. I’m O.K. with it now.

FloridaTed,
attempted to send you e-mail

d1,
have to agree with you about 6 pm news about Aloha. all the stations was real sad. again my prayers to dem.

eh wat you using as browser IE7 or firefox?

kimo,
doing a pauhana call for da weekend?

Aloha, the latest victim of the credit crisis.

Looks like a great practice. Very interesting season shaping up. Can the McMackin magic hold up?

koakane,
yep IE. dunno version. how u check dat?

eh, if pauhana call this weekend can do on Friday? I flying out on Saturday. If James no can, das alright; check you guys wen I get back.

ok neva mind

I agree all our concerns are referred to the web master,hence we only hear that they’re trying not ever referred to the paper or owners

d1,
go help on toolbar click to open
scroll down to about IE then click again
should tell you the version.
latest IE is 7

Good Evening Tsai-kos,

I’m still at the Kahului airport, about to escort the media to Aloha’s boarding gate. This is the last Aloha flight….so sad. As a retired airline employee, it’s hard to imagine something like this would happen in my lifetime. Kinda puts everything into perspective, blog problems notwithstanding….

puhi – roger dat

Looks like the Dolphins are going to use the top draft pick, as nobody wants to trade for it.

Huizenga said the way this draft is evolving, “the top four or five picks — a lot of teams aren’t willing to spend the money to move up. This is one of those off years where no team really wants to move up.”

Last year’s No. 1 draft pick, JaMarcus Russell, got a contract from Oakland that included $31.5 million in guaranteed money.

”It is tough when you take a talented player who has never been in the NFL and give him a bunch of signing bonuses and a guaranteed contract and huge dollars,” Huizenga said.

“If you pay $35 million to a person who does not work out, you are stuck with that for five or six years, which means you can’t get rid of them — which means someone else could be there taking the money. We always pay to the cap. We’re not trying to save money. It’s a matter of being prudent in putting money in the right place.

‘If you hear Bill Parcells or anyone saying, `Hey, I’m not going to pay that for that person,’ it doesn’t mean they don’t want to spend the money — it means that person is not worth the risk for five or six years . . . If you make a mistake this year, it’s harder to undo that mistake . . . Just like it’s important to get the right guy, it’s just as important not to make a mistake.”

I’m sure that Barry loves reading about UCLA’s OL.

Seven of UCLA’s top 10 offensive linemen have very little or no experience, which is why first-year coach Rick Neuheisel said there is “concern” heading into Thursday’s first spring practice.

Furthermore, none of the six guards on the depth chart played a down on the offensive line last season.

“We’ve got to see who can play at these positions,” Neuheisel said.

“With only two offensive linemen coming in the recruiting class, and offensive line being a development position this is a point of concern, so we’ve got to develop some front guys.”

Free play link time. I’ll just to today’s links and skip yesterday’s. Please skip my next 5 or so posts if you do not want the off topic stuff. Click on my name if you want the full article.

Japanese scientists were able to create a man-made molecule that was actually able to *reverse* liver cirrhosis in rats. Cirrhosis of the liver is a big problem for some people, so this breakthrough could lead to medicine that would change lives.

We need UAV pilots so badly in Iraq that they are actually taking pilots out of jets like the F-16s to get them to pilot UAVs.

I’ve thought for a long time that there should be slotted salaries for NFL draftees, just like in the NBA. Those top picks make way too much.

The Huffington Post might be sold for $200 mil…that means that the blog is valued at more than $50 per visitor! If you count all of the visitors over a month period (even those who only visit once per month), the blog is worth $15 per monthly visitor.

Free play links pau. I agree with Jason that the NFL should do what the NBA does with draft picks–no worries about holding out, great but not crazy salaries for draft picks, more cap money for vets, everyone is happy except for the agents.

Mis-addressed text message and the response from the woman who mistakenly thought it was from someone else let to an engagement! They sure have a cute “how we met” story.

French village outlawed dying, threatening severe punishments!

Interesting book on the background on fortune cookies in the US:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=19200355

Excerpt from the interesting book “The Fortune Cookie Chronicles”:
http://www.usatoday.com/life/books/excerpts/2008-02-27-The-Fortune-Cookie-Chronicles_N.htm

If it’s Amsterdam, I think we can guess.

eh garret…can’t you count?
you said next 5 posts but you did 15 w/one jason break.
whooo. some people get podagee mout, but, you get podagee posts.

al,
How come your blog son know so much about Amsterdam?

Jason — were you the one that posted an email address to report blog problems? Aarvman?

If so, please post it again…
Thanks.

Stephen posted the e-mail address, give me a minute to get it.

d1…i was telling him about amsterdam and it being known for gorgeous blondes.

lv…tks that was a very good read.

and yet, i have seen many a ozeki and yokozuna barely nick the dohyo and come charging out. there have been many a “demonstrative” rikishi in the past. maybe they just weren’t mongolians.

but, i do agree that all rikishi especially the yokozuna need to display good sportsmanship and pay homage to the traditions of this sport. i mean they just gotta act japanese.

Al san,
In my day it wasn’t even necessary to touch the dohyo, a simple two point stance sufficed.
Sometimes it’s like the NFL, too many useless regulations.

Kekoa,

Glad to hear your father is better. may the lord continue to bless him and keep him healthy. Now we need to pray for Aloha Airlines, that the right thing can be done to save the livelihoods of their employees and hopefully the company itself.

That’s a shame; I felt real bad for him when he went into K-1. Just looked so desperate.

come to think of it….

michael lafaele could make a great sumotori.
hmmmm….samson satele.
niko noga.
levi stanley.

d1shima,

I’ve replied to your e-mail. Talk to you laters. Good night everybody. 4 am here.

i thought those envelopes had close to 600 bucks.

mushimaru probably displayed the most class of the big three. he may have been too quiet though.

Al san
Musashimaru also benefited from his likeness to a Japanese hero Saigo Takamori.
That’s the guy Ken Watanabe played in the last samurai was based on.
link below, scroll down to the statue, you’ll see a resemblance to ‘Maru.

btw anyone watching ATSUHIME will see the Saigo charactor

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saigo_Takamori

sorry here’s the link

long timer and i watch atsuhime. love those taiga series. the history lessons are great.

lost the link? but, i have seen that statue before.

Oh, this guy:

http://www.jdorama.com/artiste.1584.htm

I love the NHK Taiga dramas. I still remember watching Aoi, with the first three Shōguns. That was a good one.

Too bad about the Taiga dramas.
We’re at the end of the Edo era, last two Shoguns were non entities in history.
Next year NHK will have to go backwards in time to find another bit player in Japan’s history and inflate his/her importance to make the show interesting.
Nothing against Atsuhime, I watch it every week and enjoy the political maneuvering that is a true taiga drama.
All of these things actually took place in feudal Japan, just not to the same person at the same time.

Al san

check this out

http://www3.nhk.or.jp/taiga/

Yeah! Takeda!
We’re related to the Takeda Shingen family of Fuji-Yoshida,Yamanashi, formerly Kai no kuni.

LV, She looks just right for Jason.

Speaking of hair down:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJVKHZ3l380

I’d like to think I’m at least a tween.

Thanks ralvic I learned from you, I wrote the long message in word then cut an pasted in the comment box, shazam no problem.

Esme ~ I saw your post #313, and I must ask you. Does the phrase “Murder most Foul” mean anything to you?

Jason…be veywe-veywe careful when choosing your Matriarch. As the law enforcement folks say, “we have a person of interest being held for questioning.”

Lights? It’s almost morning…

Cool they finally put a link to the Warrior Beat on the Main page.

HIHO HIHO

Well – I was hanging around hoping for some news, a report, a new post from ST – maybe from SoCal and the UH Pro-Day. I thought he and Princess were to travel there – hope they got there safely. Wasn’t there going to be a LoCal Call down there for lunch today?

See ya laters. Oh – Watch-out as today is April Fools Day! – a special day for fools like me…. 😈

G’day Brew, Loa & BH2 ~

Top of the Tuesday to ya one and all!…Warning to BH2…I just dropped the wife off at the airport to fly (HAL) to Hilo. Secure the city, lock down conditions all around, and exercise extreme caution upon approach, as she is on a shopping mission for arts and craft during this Merrie Monarch week.

Shucks. Completely forgot.

Gooooooooooooood Mooooooooooooorning Tsai-kooooooooos!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

morning Kekoa and wafan!

Kekoa – glad to hear about your pops! he must’ve enjoyed the fish

wafan – did you get a chance to watch princess leila’s video? looks like the boys are having a blast. i watched the news last night and they all seem re-energized. some of the players commented about how it was more laid back last year, funaki commented on the amount of footwork drills the qb’s did yesterday and lwj mentioned their rb coach (sorry forgot the name) getting after them for walking. maybe chawan will post the news on youtube later.

Loa ~ Pops was in his own world after he tasted the O’io and chased it with the first spoonful of Poi. We had one really good fun Popolo nurse in the room who watched in awe at how he “Kanack-attacked” the grindz. We teased her about her hometown of Gainesville, FL. and how the Warriors were going to wrestle those gators into submission and trow ’em in da imu! Kalua Gator…mmm! Make um come real miko.

wafan ~ Just got back from dropping off the wife at Hnl airport, then after the traffic, it’s back up to Tripler for dad’s Urologist visit to take care of a little plumbing problem. If he clears that hurdle they will release him today. If not, they will keep him one more day just to be safe. Main thing is, his spirit is renewed, and he is ready to join the Tsaiko’s main prison population again. He ordered Bacon and eggs for breakfast this morning, and they approved it.

He was excited that I brought his street clothes last night. I told the nurse to keep an extra eye on him after midnite. He might skip out without paying the bill! LOL…

Kekoa . . .

About him sneaking out. HA! Watch out the nurses do not tackle him and pull the stitches.

Of course, if he was intent on leaving there would nothing that could stop him. Keep the car engine running.

Good Morning Tsaikos!!

Thanks to Pomai for spearheading the drive to get the girls recognition. Make sure that continued pressure is applied to Koa Anuenue to ensure that the funds are used and the girls get what they want. I would hate to see the money be used elsewhere.

BTW – from what I understand, the moeny for the Football teams rings originates from the Athletic Department. Why can’t the Athletic Department do the same for all teams who win a WAC Championship??

Garrett, So re: your Fortune Cookie Chronicles. I did a term paper w/photos called “9th Street Chinatown, A Fading Dream” back in 1972 for my UCLA Cultural Geography class. One of the key figures I interviewed was Hong Kong Noodle Company’s owner, a USC grad, who told me his family invented the fortune cookie. So your links were brought me back 36 years. That was a very interesting neighborhood, a transition between LA’s original Chinatown (near Union Station) and the current well known Chinatown. I wish I owned the beautiful cabinetry at the old herb shop there.