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Upfront NewsJanuary 25, 2012 | 09:44 AMby Jen RussoREWAILUKU WANTS YOU!
In a perfect world our communities would all make a part of the whole. Wailuku is one step closer to ideal with their reWAILUKU plan that kicked off Jan. 23 and runs through February. |
Upfront News 2January 27, 2012 | 10:42 AMby Jen RussoThe Pacific Whale Foundation (PWF) has been honing their green practices skill for 32 years, but on a mainstream level for businesses it's a relatively new |
Coconut WirelessJanuary 25, 2012 | 09:49 AMby Anthony PignataroIS OSHER A COMMISSIONER OR A REPORTER?
It's always sad when a firefighter dies, especially when he dies on duty. Maui Fire Department Firefighter III Duane Ibarra, 50, died just after 6pm on Wednesday, Jan. 18, according to a county statement sent out late the next day. The cause of death remains unknown at press time.
Within minutes of the county release going out, |
News of the WeirdJanuary 25, 2012 | 09:52 AMby Chuck ShepherdANTI-THEFT ID BREAKTHROUGH
For people who become stressed when asked to prove their identities by biometric scans of fingerprints, hand prints or eyeballs, Japan's Advanced Institute of Industrial Technology has developed a chair frame that authenticates merely by sitting down: a butt-scanner. Professor Shigeomi Koshimizu's device produces a map of the user's unique derriere shape, featuring 256 degrees of pressure at 360 different points and could be used not only to protect vehicles from theft but also, when connected to a computer, to prevent log-ons by those with unauthorized posteriors. |
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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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