| HPU kicks off 2008 Movie on the Mall series
Supersize Me" is the first film for Hawai'i Pacific University's 2008 "Movie on the Mall" outdoor film series. The free movie will screen at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday on upper Fort Street Mall, 1188 Fort Street Mall. At 5 p.m., local radio station HOT 93.9 will play music and and Govindaji's on Fort Street Mall will provide vegetarian and vegan food for the event, sponsored by HPU's newly formed Vegetarian Club. The club has partnered with the Center for Student Life and First-Year Programs to present a film intended to stimulate conversation within the HPU and island communities. "Supersize Me" is a documentary by filmmaker Morgan Spurlock who himself undertook a steady diet of McDonald's for 30 days; he won a best director award at the 2004 Sundance Film Festival for the film.
Elma's Briggs Nursery purchase complete
The Spring Garden Group Inc. said it's completed its purchase of the Briggs Nursery Inc. business for an undisclosed price. Briggs Nursery was founded in Elma, Wash., in 1912 by Orson Briggs. His grandson, Gary Briggs, has served 12 years as the nursery's CEO and will retire from the business, according to Wellesley, Mass.-based Spring Garden Group. Briggs specializes in production of tissue culture plants such as rhododendrons. According to its website, it employs 120 people full time and sells to 38 states and 17 countries from its 440-acre site in Elma, which is located in Grays Harbor County, and a laboratory in Olympia. .
The Barr Code
Still, all is not lost for the elder statesman from Arizona. In every election, at least some Republican voters have shown themselves as willing as their Democrat counterparts to lay principles aside for electoral victory. Unfortunately for McCain, the number of conservative voters predisposed to do this again this year, after the disappointing experience of the last eight years, is unlikely to be sufficient for him to overcome his considerable ideological baggage, especially since many of those voters already have tasted of much more exciting and principled candidates like Paul and Huckabee. Permalink | Comments (69) | .
Christmas party at Pirtleville Fire Department, Dec. 22
The Pirtleville Fire Department will be hosting a Christmas party for kids in the area from 10 a.m. to noon on Saturday, Dec. 22.The event will be held at the station, 404 Irvine.A total of 400 bags of candy will be given away along with refreshments including soda, cake and chips. .
The CNN Wire: Wednesday, Nov. 28
Chinese authorities cancelled a scheduled Thanksgiving port call in Hong Kong for the aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk just hours before it was supposed to dock. The cancellation was "a costly inconvenience to the families who had traveled there to spend Thanksgiving with their loved ones on board," Morrell said. (Posted 8:12 p.m.) Broadway stagehands could reach agreement to end strike soon NEW YORK (CNN) -- The lights may shine brightly again soon on Broadway if optimism from both sides in the stagehands' contract negotiations proves warranted. After more than 10 hours of talking Wednesday, the two sides were still meeting at 7:15 p.m., and both the League of American Theatres and Producers and the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees told CNN they were optimistic for a settlement.
Scenic drive: Bush Highway
On Sirius Satellite Radio: E Street Radio (Channel 10) plays non-stop Bruce Springsteen music, including The River.
On XM Satellite Radio: XM Children (Channel 116) will delight any youngsters along for the ride.
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Comcast Admits Paying Attendees at FCC Hearing
Comcast Corp. admitted yesterday that it paid people to attend a government hearing. Company critics say the freelance attendees were there to crowd them out; Comcast says they were merely saving seats for employees. The five-hour hearing Monday at Harvard University was organized by the Federal Communications Commission to address the issue of net neutrality, a hot-button topic for those who think there should be minimal restrictions on Internet traffic. The topic has drawn wide interest from college students, media-reform groups, and Internet companies. An official at Free Press, a nonprofit advocacy group that has criticized Comcast for limiting the amount of data some of its customers send over its network, accused the cable company of "stacking the deck" at the hearing with the 30 to 40 "seat-warmers." An official at Harvard said dozens of real participants were left standing outside the auditorium with placards.
Is Homeland Security Too Focused on “Guns, Guards and Gates”?
September 11th was a brutal reminder that there are people out there who have the desire and means to kill us in a mass attack, and we have to stop them. "The best defense is a good offense", we like to say, but in this case it's a little trickier than that. We need an offense mindful of long-term gains and a defense more nuanced than smash-mouth football. "Guns, guards and gates," our bulwark against external threats, remains an essential part of our defense. Yet consider this: attacks attempted or carried out in the UK involved insiders, young Brits willing to kill their fellow citizens. It's hard to employ a simplistic "us vs. them" strategy, when "they" are living and working alongside us. To better understand this quandry, I recently caught up with Juliette Kayyem, Undersecretary of Homeland Security for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and a former adviser with the National Commission on Terrorism.
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When Harry meets Wellesley Harry Belafonte has a permanent place in the cultural canon as a multi-talented entertainer, and his work as a social activist runs just as deep. Belafonte was a member of the executive board of Martin Luther King's Southern Christian Leadership Conference, served as the cultural adviser to the Peace Corps, established the Belafonte Foundation to support African students studying in the United States, and counts the Martin Luther King Jr. Peace Prize and the Nelson Mandela Courage Award among his honors. He will give a lecture titled "Social Justice: Within and Beyond Our Borders" at Wellesley on Tuesday. 7 p.m. Free. Wellesley College, Lulu Chow Wang Campus Center, Tishman Commons, Wellesley. 781-283-2901. .
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