<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; ">Aloha Keola,<div><br></div><div>Congratulations on all your efforts to get it completed. I, perhaps more than anyone, have a fair idea of all those twists and turns... you deserve a lot of acknowledgement for your determination and the long hours of your 'volunteer' work! </div>
<div><br></div><div>Were you able to 'officially launch it' or was it just the newspaper articles?</div><div><br></div><div>Also any feedback yet about its usage?</div><div><br></div><div>Mahalo</div><div><br></div>
<div>Te Taka</div></span><br><div class="gmail_quote">2009/8/12 Keola Donaghy <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:donaghy@hawaii.edu">donaghy@hawaii.edu</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div style="word-wrap:break-word">Aloha Phil, mahalo for posting the story and for your kind thoughts. It was a long haul with a few twists and turns along the way, but definitely worthwhile doing. Thanks also for this wonderful resource and the support you provide for these kinds of projects.<div>
<br></div><div>Keola</div><div><div><div></div><div class="h5"><br><div><div>On 11 ʻAu. 2009, at 6:18 AM, phil cash cash wrote:</div><br><blockquote type="cite">Congrats Keola!  It is always good to see your work (and everybody at the UofH Hilo) getting recognition.  peace,<br>
<br>Phil Cash Cash<br>UofA<br><br>Quoting phil cash cash <<a href="mailto:cashcash@email.arizona.edu" target="_blank">cashcash@email.arizona.edu</a>>:<br> <br> > Google in Hawaiian now available<br> ><br> > Updated at 3:57 am, Tuesday, August 11, 2009<br>
 > Tags: google, hawaiian language, kalena silva, te taka keegan, uh-hilo<br> ><br> > MEDIA RELEASE<br> > <a href="http://www.hawaii247.org/2009/08/11/google-in-hawaiian-now-available/" target="_blank">http://www.hawaii247.org/2009/08/11/google-in-hawaiian-now-available/</a><br>
 ><br> > The University of Hawaii at Hilo has announced the development of a Hawaiian<br> > language interface for Google, the world’s most popular Internet <br> > search engine.<br> </blockquote></div><br></div>
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