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Upfront NewsJune 07, 2012 | 07:22 AMby Jen RussoThis month the Hawaii Animal Rescue Foundation (HARF) celebrates its first anniversary in the business of Maui animal welfare. The foundation is seeing success in the form of dog adoptions–specifically, the re-homing of 400 dogs in just their first year. Funds for the organization are coming from private individuals, corporations and grants, but as yet nothing from the county, state or federal governments. |
Coconut WirelessJune 06, 2012 | 07:04 AMby Anthony PignataroNot sure if you noticed it, what with all the stories and hype about how we're in the midst of a zombie apocalypse, but there was a pretty scary Associated Press story in the June 3 Maui News. Titled "Rising seas have towns wondering: Stay or go?," the story detailed efforts in and around Los Angeles to deal with the fact–yes, I said fact–that the Pacific Ocean is consuming beaches around the world at a growing but still measurable rate. |
News of the WeirdJune 06, 2012 | 07:07 AMby Chuck ShepherdIN SICKNESS AND IN HEALTH
All U.S. states have forms of no-fault divorce, but not England, which requires that couples prove adultery or abandonment or "unreasonable behavior," which leads to sometimes-epic weirdness, according to an April New York Times dispatch from London. For instance, one woman's petition blamed her husband's insistence that she speak and dress only in Klingon. Other examples of "unreasonable behavior" (gathered by the Times of London): a husband objecting to the |
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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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