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Upfront NewsDecember 07, 2011 | 08:48 AMby Lance CollinsJon M. Van Dyke, who was a law professor at the UH Richardson School of Law and an internationally respected human rights attorney, died on Monday in Australia, in his sleep, while attending a conference on international ocean law. He was 68. |
Upfront News 2December 07, 2011 | 08:53 AMby Jen RussoMICROSOFT NOW POWERS HAWAII LIBRARIES
Hawaii's public libraries score big with the Microsoft IT Academy. In November the Hawaii State Public Library System (HSPLS) set up the world's first Microsoft IT Academy program, which is now available statewide. The Microsoft IT Academy provides unlimited e-learning access to Hawaii's library card holders. |
Coconut WirelessDecember 07, 2011 | 08:50 AMby Anthony PignataroA & B AND MATSON GO TO SPLITSVILLE
Not sure if you've noticed, but the news around the state is all buzzing with the same big story: Alexander & Baldwin's announcement on Dec. 1 to split into two publicly traded corporations–A & B, Inc., which will handle real estate, commercial development and sugar production, and Matson Navigation, which will deal with ocean shipping.
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Upfront News 3December 07, 2011 | 08:56 AMby ScrappersNo matter how you frame it, light it, or polish it up, a turd is just a turd. That's how I felt after leaving the AntiCanvas art show in Honolulu's Chinatown. |
News of the WeirdDecember 07, 2011 | 08:58 AMby Chuck ShepherdGLORIOUS LEADERS
Was Moammar Gadhafi the last of the "buffoon dictators?" asked BBC News in October. His legend was earned not merely with his now-famous, dirty-old-man scrapbook of Condoleezza Rice photos. Wrote a BBC reporter, "One day [Gadhafi] was a Motown [backup] vocalist with wet-look permed hair and tight pants. The next, a white-suited comic-operetta Latin American admiral, dripping with braid." Nonetheless, Gadhafi had competition, according to an October report in the journal Foreign Policy. For example, the son of Equatorial Guinea's dictator owns, among other eccentric luxuries, a $1.4 million collection of Michael Jackson memorabilia. North Korea's Kim Jong Il owns videos of almost every game Michael Jordan ever played for the Chicago Bulls. |
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“I’m from Seattle. It’s great there—it’s really cool and the sky is always gray…”
-Guy at Fred’s Mexican Cantina in Kihei, June 10 |
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“A shell crashed ashore. In the dun-colored houses along Kahului’s waterfront, stevedores and their women heard the gun again, like a door slamming, and again the crash of the shell. The Jap fired ten rounds in all. Then the submarine disappeared in the night. Announcing this attack on an undefended, unimportant cane-&-pineapple port, the U.S. Navy reported: no casualties, negligible damage.”
-From “Dusk in Kahului,” Time Magazine, Dec. 28, 1941 |
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