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Upfront NewsJanuary 11, 2012 | 11:02 AMby Jen RussoThe Japanese Cultural Society of Maui will hold its annual Shinnen Enkai at the Elleair Rainbow Room at Maui Beach Hotel on Jan. 28. During this annual Japanese celebration and observation of the new year, the Japanese Cultural Society will also recognize their annual Nihon Bunka Awardees for 2012.
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Coconut WirelessJanuary 11, 2012 | 11:07 AMby Anthony PignataroFor those of you who pay attention to how the Maui County Council does its business, who stay up on the news and think about the problems–and promise–of the town you live in and who somehow find the time in a busy week (and summon the courage) to visit a County Council hearing and actually speak in front of the dais, audience and television cameras, you will now have even less time to say whatever it is you wish to say. That's right–no more three minute speeches with an additional minute to wrap-up. |
Upfront News 2January 11, 2012 | 11:04 AMby Jen RussoCompanies are always looking for an edge to make it in today's unsteady economic climate. A recent merger between Maui-based KilaKila Employer Services and Oahu's Altres aims to assist Maui businesses with tools they need to get ahead. Kilakila, founded in 1997 by Carole Kooy, provides payroll, insurance, health insurance coverage and Human Resources support. Altres was started in 1969, and expanded to California, Arizona and Utah in 1988. By 2000 it was named the top professional employer organization in America by ProEmp Journal.
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Upfront News 3January 11, 2012 | 11:06 AMby Jen RussoThe Keep the Hawaiian Island Beautiful Kanaha clean up is slated for Jan. 21. The organization is looking for donations of food and trucks, but most of all folks that can volunteer to clean up the area. Meet at 8:30am at the park. All the supplies necessary will be provided. Kanaha is one of Maui's treasured shorelines with natural sand dunes, wetlands and recreational areas for everybody. |
News of the WeirdJanuary 11, 2012 | 11:10 AMby Chuck ShepherdINTELLIGENT DESIGN
If the male nursery web spider were a human, he would be sternly denounced as a vulgar cad. Researcher Maria Jose Albo of Denmark's Aarhus University told Live Science in November that the spiders typically obtain sex by making valuable "gifts" to females (usually, high-nutrition insects wrapped in silk), but if lacking resources, a male cleverly packages a fake gift (usually a piece of flower) also in silk but confoundingly wound so as to distract her as she unwraps it–and then mounts her before she discovers the hoax. Albo also found that the male is not above playing dead to coax the female into relaxing her guard as she approaches the "carcass"–only to be jumped from behind for sex.
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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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