Your Questions About Hawaiian Symbols And Meaning

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Granite is considered an “intrusive igneous rock.” That means that once it was molten magma deep within the earth, but it never erupted to be lava. By definition, magma becomes lava when it’s erupted. When magma or lava cool, the minerals making up the molten soup begin crystallizing. The slower a magma cools, the larger its crystals grow. Thus when you see a granite with relatively small “grain” you know that it cooled fairly fast. It must have been a thin layer intruded between colder strata, or close to the earth’s surface. Granite with very large crystal faces and bodies of feldspar were surely formed deep within the earth where it took millions of years to cool off.

Lava

The following questions were answered by expert volcanologist Dr. Stanley Williams. Dr. Williams was online with Scholastic Network in February 1995.
What is lava made of?
Lava is mostly made of two elements — Si (the symbol for silica) and O (the symbol for oxygen). Together, they make a very strong bond and then get together with other elements, like Fe (iron), Mg (magnesium), K (potassium), Ca (calcium), and more. They make crystals of minerals like olivine, which are beautiful yellow-green crystals that people call peridot. When you see a lava rock, it is usually kind of dark gray and there are no crystals easy to see. The volcano erupted it before the elements could become crystals.

How hot is lava?
Lava is extremely hot. Lava can reach temperatures of about 1,250° Celsius. The lava of the Hawaiian volcanoes reach these temperatures. Normal lava temperatures reach 750° Celsius. That is still much hotter than your oven is capable of reaching.

Why does the lava get so hot?
It is very difficult to melt rocks, because they are so strong. The temperature of lava flow is usually about 700° to 1,250° Celsius, which is 2,000° Fahrenheit. Deep inside the earth, usually at about 150 kilometers, the temperature is hot enough that some small part of the rocks begins to melt. Once that happens, the magma (molten rock) will rise toward the surface (it floats). Deeper inside the earth, the temperatures are so hot that the entire outer core is molten. The inner core is made of different chemicals, so they are not molten.

How do you measure heat in lava?
We measure the temperature of lava by putting a probe of metal into it. Our thermocouple tells us the temperature, in degrees Celsius.

How fast does lava move?
Lava is not fast; you can outrun it. It is pretty common that people are most afraid of lava when it is really in the last and slowest steps of an eruption, after the gases have been given off by the volcano and the magma is cooling off. The hot Hawaiian lava moves at about a few meters per minute. The cool lavas move only a few meters in a day.

How does lava become white?
No lava is actually white. They might look white because they are so hot that they give off a white color, but that is almost impossible for us to see.

Are there lava flows under the earth?
Lava does not flow inside the earth. Magma is moving around, as it rises beneath volcanoes. That happens because it is so light.

If the oxygen is cut off from the lava, will it immediately turn to solid rock?
Oxygen is an important element because it, along with silica, are the most important elements of the minerals. However, it is not important for making a lava harden. Maybe, what you are thinking about is the air that can circulate around in a lava and help it to cool off and become solid.

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Two good references to learn about book banning:
“The Language Police” by Diane Ravitch
“What Are They Teaching Our Children?” by Mel and Norma Gabler
Arguments for the banning, from the political left:
The book portrays stereotypes (i.e. An African American playing sports).
The book portrays racism, sexism, any -ism you can think of.
The book contains language that suggests stereotypes and/or -isms.
Test samples cannot use certain passages. If a test involves reading a passage and then answering questions about it, the passage cannot contain gender/racial/social/environmental/etc.-specific language. An example would be one of Hawaiian students not being allowed to read about deserts, because there are no deserts in Hawaii.
Counterarguments:
To portray a stereotype, one must accept the stereotype as being true. That is, if I say, “Asians can never be portrayed as good at math, because that is a stereotype,” I have just accepted the stereotype that Asians are good at math.
The work is either fiction, in which case any ‘foul’ language is used for some specific purpose, such as displaying a character, or non-fiction, in which case we are learning about some event in history or in present times, which means it is necessary for our understanding of the situation.
To reject passages based on some geographical specific element is to stop children from learning about anything outside of their own world. If Hawaiian children don’t learn about deserts, but are instead ‘learning’ about volcanos, they aren’t ‘learning’ anything other than what they already know. The quest for knowledge in these individuals ends when they learn everything about their immediate surroundings. In short, kids become informed about themselves only, and are closed to the world.
Banning from the political right:
Graphic sex/violence/language/etc.
Anti-government/religious/etc. Statements.
Inspires thinking for one’s self (critical thinking).
Counterargue:
I concede, with limits. Certain content is inappropriate for certain age levels (in terms of developed mind, not physical age). A young child should not be subjected to Nabokov’s “Lolita,” due to sexual content that they would not understand nor be able to handle. However, no book should be banned from the overall populace on such grounds.
Anti-superior statements and critical thinking go together. If we ban critical thinking, people take what they see at face value. Hence, any anti-superior statements would be seen as helpful advice. In this case, it would be easy to start rebellions and riots. Banning critical thinking would make it not just advisable, but necessary, to ban anti-superior works. But if we keep critical thinking around, people will have the knowledge to sort through the propoganda given. Keep critical thinking, as it is our way to ensure those above us are not abusing us or taking advantage of us.
Ban from both sides:
‘Offensive’ in some way.
Counterargue:
Everything is offensive in some way. It is impossible to please every person in the world or nation all at once. If someone is offended by something, it is their fault. Words are just symbols (letters) arranged in some fashion. The letter-symbols become word-symbols, representing something different to every person. If you see the words ‘That is a hot car,’ you might think the car has been sitting in the sun and is overly heated. Someone else might think you are describing the physical attractiveness of the vehicle. Another person might think the car is stolen. To different people, based on their different histories, words mean different things. To ban something because it offends someone doesn’t keep us equal. It makes the offended even stronger. If I can’t say “Martians look like boogers,” because the Martians get offended, it limits the words I can use. A Martian could still say they look like boogers, which keeps their vocabulary larger than mine. But in my language, a booger is an essential item in the process of breathing–mucus that collects inhaled dust. My saying that Martians look like boogers simply means they look very important. Banning my statement shames me, empowers the Martians, and all because people don’t want to offend someone. Sure, it was rude of me to word it in that way, knowing that the Martians would probably take offense.
Unless it’s propoganda distributed to the ignorant, banning will be the downfall of a nation. Of course, one must then wonder why we ever became so ignorant that propoganda works on us.

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…um, no offense, but no pet should be a status symbol. A pet that’s unique, cool, friendly, cuddly, and not expensive is a very tall order, as there’s a big disconnect between “unique/cool” and “cuddly”. I mean, very few people keep Hawaiian red shrimp, and they’re very interesting and cheap, but they’re a bit small to cuddle.

Any small mammal will work, but let’s be honest – guinea pigs, rabbits, gerbils, etc are pretty common. You could get a rare breed of dog or cat, but that’s usually expensive. You could get a wild animal, such as a hedgehog or a sugar glider, but those tend to be outlawed in some states and I have no idea what a “small” license is – most are fairly expensive.

You want an unusual, cuddly pet? Get a chicken or duck. I understand there are some varieties that are hardy enough to cuddle.

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If you have to send in money to claim a prize then it’s a scam. Those really nice prizes are just lures to trap you. Contests like these work like this:

Prizes!!! Free Vacation in Hawaii!!!!! New Car!!!!! High End Digital Camera!!!!! Free XBox!!!!!! $10,000 cash!!!!!!! Or other great prizes!!!!

1 million prize cards are printed.
1 prize card has the Hawaiian vacation
1 prize card has the car
1 prize card has the $10,000
10 prize cards have the Xbox
10 prize cards have the camera
and 999,976 prize cards have a free ringtone for your phone.

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I wouldn’t have taken back that experience for the world. I’m a yank that spent 2 months down under in 2005: Victoria, NSW, Queensland. I spent a shit load of money, bout $7000 USD, and staying in hostels the entire time, but saw some pretty great stuff. Frazier Island was unreal and Whitsunday Island tour was fab.
Sydney is like America and with mega money. Melbourne is like England and very hip and modern artistically. Queensland is like Texas but with way cooler scenery and reef. Perth is like chill California with great surf.
Oz ain’t cheap and Aussies ain’t as nice as you think (in New South Wales though, they’re grand), so don’t think you’re royalty by any means (and yes, they’re 6-9 years behind London and New York technically and regarding pop culture).
Just be thankful you’re deciding to go AFTER the Bush Administration (whew!). I found i had more in common with the pomms (Brits and Irish) that were down there on vacation, too. But they can be jerks, too.
Be a good representative for the US: kind, helpful, strong and modest. Remember, learning new cultures is what traveling is all about and making a fool of us ‘seppos’ abroad just adds to their preconceived notions — and I assure you those notions aren’t spectacular at the moment, so make a personal conquest out of it. Don’t compare our shit to theirs out loud, that’s plain rude and that’s what Canadians do (and tacky at that).

And FYI, as an American, the only truly great scenery we have going for us is Arizona, New Mexico, the Rocky Mountains, Wyoming, western California, all of the Hawaiian islands, some national parks in Utah, the architecture in New York and Chicago, our typical Native American Indian heritage sites and bits of the Caribbean.
Oh, they’re real fat in Oz too, and don’t ever, ever ever get caught drunk in a bar/pub — yes, even when you’ve been drinking there the whole time. They’ll cut you off immediately, no matter how much you tipped em — and with attitude to boot.
They’re tv commercials are nuts!