With participants separated by oceans, social distancing won’t be a problem for Imua Family Services’ annual paddling race benefiting Camp Imua. For the past eight years, Imua Family Services has unified water sports athletes from around the state and world through Paddle Imua, a benefit race along the famous Maliko downwind run that raises funds for Imua’s annual summer … [Read more...] about Paddle Imua goes Global for 2020
Hong Kong
NOTW: Loaded snake attacks, bra protests and pets of the One Percent
PETS OF THE ONE PERCENT “The worshipful treatment of pets may be the thing that unites all Americans,” wrote an Atlantic Magazine blogger in July, describing the luxury terminal for animals under construction at New York’s JFK airport. The ARK will offer shower stalls for traveling horses, “conjugal stations” for ever-horny penguins, and housing for nearly 200 cows (that might … [Read more...] about NOTW: Loaded snake attacks, bra protests and pets of the One Percent
NOTW: Tiny apartments, sonogram DVDs and suicide bomber discrimination
LIVING SMALL Apartment buyers in ridiculously expensive Hong Kong are now eagerly paying up to the equivalent of $500,000 (U.S.) for units not much bigger than a U.S. parking space (and typically physically self-measured by the applicant’s wing-span). An agent told The Wall Street Journal in June that, for example, standard furniture does not fit the units and that having … [Read more...] about NOTW: Tiny apartments, sonogram DVDs and suicide bomber discrimination
County of Maui commissions broadband study on our crappy Internet speeds
Acknowledging that Maui County residents are dealing with substandard internet browsing speeds, the County of Maui has hired Joel Ogren of the U.S. Navy-sponsored Applied Research Laboratory at the University of Hawaii to "evaluate, develop and recommend a preliminary telecommunications strategy for Maui County," according to a Feb. 2 county news release. “We see broadband … [Read more...] about County of Maui commissions broadband study on our crappy Internet speeds