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The Kiwikiu blessing and name dedication ceremony, a culmination of two years of collaboration from multiple agencies, took place in Waikamoi Preserve September 12th, 2010 at 10am. Arriving to a sunny morning on the mountain, a group of 85 people hiked into the forest for a ceremony to celebrate the critically endangered Maui Parrotbill or Kiwikiu. The group was comprised of biologists, conservation donors, and community members.
For reasons no one fully knows, this bird had no historically recorded Hawaiian name. Working with ornithologists to get an intimate understanding of this species, the Hawaiian Language Lexicon Committee decided on Kiwikiu as an appropriate Hawaiian name for the Parrotbill in May 2010.
With only about 500 birds still in existence today, the Kiwikiu, an endemic species to the island of Maui, is one of our most precious biodiversity jewels. The Kiwikiu is a classic example of adaptive radiation. As an insectivorous honeycreeper, the Kiwikiu uses its robust parrot-like bill to snap through twigs and pry insect larvae out of wood in the ‘ōhi’a and koa forests of Maui.

Cody Pueo Pata offered a mele inoa (name song) for the Kiwikiu as a mele hula along with two of his ‘olapa, Ku’ulei Alcomindras-Palakiko and Kapua Nacua. Pueo is the kumu hula of the Maui halau,
Ka Malama Mahilani and is trained in traditional aspects of haku mele (song composition)

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Since 1992 I have held the vision of establishing Maui, Hawaii as the environmental sciences center of the world. After His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama of Tibet came to Maui This vision has expanded to establishing Maui as the environmental & peace center of the world.

In 1995 At Maui High Performance Computing Center The Scientific Analysis & Visualization of the Environment Program was incubated. I was the principal investigator of this independant research project which was a joint development between MHPCC, Silicon Graphics Computers (SGI) & nko.org.

Today with no major funding The Maui S.A.V.E. Program continues and has evolved from Internet based virtual reality modeling to Internet based video distribution highlighting the environment and peace efforts of humans across the globe.
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In 1995 At Maui High Performance Computing Center The Maui Scientific Analysis & Visualization of the Environment Program was first incubated. I was the principal investigator of this independant research project which was a joint development between MHPCC, Silicon Graphics Computers (SGI) & NKO.ORG. Using SGI Cosmo Worlds software, we pioneered the development of Internet based 3D virtual reality GIS based interactive worlds. In 1996 with a network of seven high performance SGI workstations we pioneered development of live streaming MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, Real Video and QuickTime Streaming Server utilizing Kassenna MediaBase software. In Maui 2002 we pioneered and tested the first wireless live streaming video using laptop computers and Maui Sky Fiber's portable 3G wireless device. In Maui we pioneered live streaming video using usb modems from AT&T , Verizon as well as live streaming from iPhone 3 over 3G wireless networks. Today The Maui S.A.V.E. Program has diversified into storm tracking including visualization and analysis of large, memory-intensive gridded data sets such as the National Hurricane Center's wind speed probabilities. I volunteer my services to numerous Disaster Services Organizations. In June 2013 I returned from Hurricane Sandy deployment as a computer operations service associate with the Disaster Services Technology Group assisting as The American Red Cross migrated from a Disaster Response Operation to Long Term Recovery Operations. Pioneering the production/editing and Internet distribution of HD video to sites like Youtube.com and Vimeo.com we are shining the light towards environmental and peace efforts of humans across the globe. Since 1992 I have held the vision of establishing Maui, Hawaii as the environmental sciences center of the world. After His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama of Tibet came to Maui This vision has expanded to establishing Maui as the environmental & peace center of the world.

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