The past ten days or so have mostly focused on our Pride of America cruise throughout the Hawaiian Islands.  So let me continue with one more travel item:   Kilauea Volcano began erupting last night , which was already September 11 for much of the USA, so come to the Big Island of Hawaii.  You can land in Hilo or Kona and drive to this natural attraction, although it's closer from Hilo.  But you ask, how long will this lava activity continue?  Well,it was sort of doing something only 22 days ago.  But it's hard to believe that there has been some continuing activity for the past 40 years or so. I had recently returned from working in the U.S. Senate for three years.  As we normally did in those days, we spent the New Year period with her family in Hilo.  So on January 3, 1983, I was golfing at the Volcano Golf Course.  The ground shook and there was a strange rumbling sound.  Soon thereafter, only a few thousand yards away, we saw a volcanic fountain.  This was the beginning of

Earlier this month I posted on  THE REPUBLICAN PARTY IS FRACTURING .  Some of my articles draw a lot of attention, and this is one of them that did.  Last week I noticed that Rinaldo Brutoco of the World Business Academy wrote on  A Reason for Hope:  On Conscience and Integrity .  To quote his first paragraph: In the political swamp that has  ensnared our democratic republic a glimmer of something we haven’t seen  for almost six years is on the horizon: the emergence of a fissure in the Republican party, which has lately been in the grips of  Mr. Trump’s  remarkably single-handed control as it morphed into the Cult of Trump.  Finally, over 160 present and former leaders of the Republican party have said “Enough!”  Brutoco never went into detail on who the 160 were.  However, more and  more Republicans are shifting away from Donald Trump . Today is Wednesday, and I usually focus on a scientific/technological topic.  I was one of the reservoir engineers for the  Hawaii Geothermal Projec