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University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa astronomer Adam Kraus has taken the fi rst direct image of a planet in the process of forming around its star. Kraus and Michael Ireland of Macquarie University and the Aus-tralian Astronomical Observatory worked together to fi nd the planet, which may help to answer ques-tions about early planet formation. “Astronomers have found hun-dreds of planets over the past 15 years, but almost all of them orbit older stars. ... Until now, we’ve had no direct evidence for answering even very basic questions,” wrote Kraus in an email interview. This discovery began with a simple study of over 100 forming planets in what are called star-forming regions of the universe, which was narrowed to a particular dozen clustered together. Further investigations led to the discovery of a forming Jupiter-like planet. The forming planet is named LkCa 15 b. It is the youngest ever
found, and formed 50,000 to 100,000 years ago. The scientists have been able to measure the planet, as well as the dust cloud surrounding it. Kraus presented the discovery on Oct. 19 at a conference at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. Kraus and Ireland used a 10-me-ter Keck telescope and two tech-niques to spot the orb. “Mauna Kea is one of the best sites in the world for build-ing telescopes, and it ’s been tremendously important for as-tronomy over the past several decades. One immediate benefit is that the mountain’s summit is very high, which places the tele-scopes above much of the Earth’s atmosphere. The atmosphere tends to blur out the light that reaches our telescope, plus it can block some kinds of light en-tirely, so this is a big advantage. “The altitude also means that the summit is usually higher than the clouds. This advantage gives telescopes on Mauna Kea better resolution than almost any other site on the planet. In order
to find a better site, you have to go to Antarctica,” said Kraus. Because Earth’s atmosphere “smears out the light” in the uni-verse, Kraus and Ireland fi rst used a strategy called adaptive optics. “This technique uses a sepa-rate camera to measure how the atmosphere distorts light from a star. The light from our tele-scope is then ref lected off a mir-ror that is constantly changing its shape in order to cancel those distortions,” explained Kraus. The other technique Kraus and Ireland used is called aper-ture-mask interferometry. This helps cast out light that is dis-rupting normal observation. “This technique actually starts by throwing away most of the light. We use a mask to only allow through a little of the light that’s landing in the telescope, through a carefully chosen set of small holes. Instead of a single big mirror, the telescope then is more like an ar-ray of small telescopes. We can manipulate the light from each of these small ‘telescopes’ to cancel
most of the remaining distortions introduced by the atmosphere. “The key here is that by remov-ing as much distortion of the light as possible, we can identify faint plan-ets close to their bright parent stars (so close that previous techniques couldn’t reach them),” said Kraus. Observations of the planet’s formation will help answer ques-tions on how stars and planets are born. This has been a goal in as-tronomy for a long time. Questions like where and when planets form can now be studied, and these observations can lead to information about the universe. As-tronomers will focus on questions like how many years a nascent planet takes to assemble, if the pro-cess occurs directly after the star forms, and if it’s possible to know the age of a star and its planets. “Different theories of planet formation make very different predictions,” concluded Kraus. “It might be dangerous to try distin-guishing between these theories based on just one planet, but hope-fully we can do it with a few more.”
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The Keck Observatory, where Adam Kraus and Michael Ireland viewed planet LkCa 15 b, is located on Mauna Kea, the tallest mountain in Hawai‘i.
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“I think it’s great for people from UH to be getting involved in APEC [Asia-Pacifc Economic Cooperation]; it ’s a once-in-a-generation event,” stated Mayor Peter Carlisle when asked what he thought about APEC Night. The Campus Center ballroom was alive from 4-6 p.m. Nov. 3 with the bustling of University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa students, faculty and com-munity members. Participants col-lected stamps to receive free water bottles, pens and food. Guests were able to browse rows of display boards manned by interns with information on the 21 APEC member economies.
THE INTERNS According to Kelly Park, a stu-dent event coordinator, the purpose of APEC Night was for students of various backgrounds to share what they know about APEC. “This internship program started spring of last year. [The interns were] assigned to various offi ces ... working as a group to do projects like this,” said Kanae Tokunaga, a graduate assistant with the Economic Research Or-
ganization at the University of Hawai‘i. The research will be post-ed on the UHERO website for ev-eryone to use. By organizing the event and an APEC video contest, the interns provided students with a chance to learn about APEC. “[This has been] an amazing op-portunity for me. ... I’m from China, and here in Hawai‘i, I had my fi rst chance to volunteer [for APEC],” said intern Jeremy Boheng Shao. For more information, visit www.uhero.hawaii.edu.
MESSAGE BEHIND THE MURAL Guest speakers also provided information on a variety of APEC-related topics, refl ected in a mural featured at the event. “I’m challenging UH students to come up with real solutions; it’s not just about pro or anti, it’s about being able to agree to disagree,” said lead mural artist and speaker Meleanna Meyer when speaking to the room about the “Hawai‘i Loa Ku Like Kākou (Hawai‘i Kākou)” mural that is now a permanent addi-tion to the Hawai‘i
Convention Center. One of the ideas behind the mural was to illustrate the people who still have a connection to the land, who many feel are not repre-sented at APEC. “What would the world look like if we gave back more than we take?” said Roopal Shah, a co-coordinator of the mural, speaking about the push and pull with the Earth represented in the mural. Shah said that all indig-enous communities have a reverence for the Earth and that they wanted to get people to dig deep and think about solutions for our crises. “Pro solution, not pro or anti [APEC] ... we need everybody to come up with a solution,” stated Meyer in an interview. “It ’s about New Old Wisdom N.O.W. and be-ing present [for] discussions that will take us to a better place.” For more on the mural, visit www.goo.gl/FIwwd.
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Security was tight on Thurs-day at APEC Night, held in the Campus Center Ballroom, but it didn’t stop a group of protesters from voicing their opinions out-side with picket signs and chants. The group of protesters showed up holding signs that read “APEC increases poverty” and “APEC gives children can-cer,” among others. “We wanted to create some awareness of what really APEC [Asia-Pacifi c Economic Coopera-tion] is and [give] some ... ideas of what APEC really does,” said Randall Perez, a student majoring in political science. “[We want to create awareness of the] issue of free trade and what these policies and deregulations really mean, how people are affected by them.” The protesters were part of an organization called World Can’t Wait, a national movement dedicated to mobilizing mass re-sistance to what it describes as crimes committed by the U.S. government. Founded in 2005, it was formed to “halt and reverse the terrible program of war, re-pression and theocracy that was initiated by the Bush/Cheney regime and the ongoing crimes that continue to this day,” ac-cording to its website. “I am opposed to the policies behind APEC. I don’t think they are benefi cial to the people of the
Pacifi c region,” said Hector Va-lenzuela, a faculty member at UH. “We have opened our arms to wel-come APEC, and we are actually discussing what is behind APEC and what it means to the people and environment.” “APEC doesn’t care about us,” claimed a man among the group who preferred not to give his name. “They are the 1 percent.” Only students and faculty with valid IDs were allowed inside, which prevented members from World Can’t Wait from entering the event proper. They were pro-testing in front of the ballroom en-trance for about an hour. But holding up a sign saying “Shut APEC down,” an individual student protester was able to en-ter the ballroom. “The school bought dinner on APEC’s behalf, and our gov-ernment is spending billions of dollars on behalf of APEC, and these are the richest people in the world,” said Lucas Miller, a UH alumnus. “It ’s confusing why these big people are given VIP status, [as they’re the] 1 percent. It doesn’t really make sense.” “I don’t think this openness and welcoming [attitude to-ward] APEC represent me. We are a university and we should be having a critical debate about these things,” said Molly Chleb-nikow, a student majoring in urban planning. “The adminis-tration has spoken on behalf of students and faculty. It ’s bizarre
to me that many students don’t even know why they [APEC] are going to be here.” Several curious students went up to the protesters and had conversations with them for more than 20 minutes. “I never had a chance to talk to them [protesters], so I thought I should ask why he was against APEC,” said Nikola Komailevuka, a senior majoring in economics, who was helping out at APEC night. “I just wanted to see what they are backing and [what] their argument was, that’s all. I don’t want to be bi-ased, but he seems like he was op-posing APEC just to oppose APEC.” “If they have a more compre-hensive stance, then they would have more credibility,” said Brandon Kumabe, a junior ma-joring in political science. “[You] just need a practical approach to whatever you do ... not to get caught up in ideologies.” The crowd left some con-fused. “I think they are very pas-sionate about their stand against APEC and they seemed to know what they were talking about. Some of them seemed a little out-landish, like that one guy with the cancer sign. But other than that, I think they were pretty interesting to say the least, and I’d like to fi nd out why they’re so against APEC,” said freshman Samantha Brooks. Freshman Neidene Titcomb agreed, “I don’t understand some of their signs; they have nothing to do with APEC.”
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Miss Hawai‘i’s Outstanding Teen 2011,
Briana GarridoQ: What inspired you to run for MHOT?Garrido: It inspired me to embrace myself, rath-er than trying to portray
an image that our society presses upon today’s teens. Most of all, the reason why I decided to run for MHOT was because I wanted to do the same for oth-er girls. I wanted to show them that this program is one that rewards inspiring young women with hopes and dreams, and that the title is something that is not only achievable but a great tool that allows to-day’s youth to make a positive impact on our society.
Q: You have a very serious platform. Tell me a little about it and how it has affected you.Garrido: My platform is titled “Dream. Fight. En-dure: Nothing Can Stand in Your Way,” and it is a motivational platform that inspires adults, teens and children alike to discover their dreams and fi ght their adversities. This platform is personal to me because in Sep-tember of 2010, I contracted a muscular disease that changed my life. I was exempted from a private school that I had just been accepted into on an academic scholarship (due to my absence), missed over 100 days of school at the school that I transferred to, had to quit dancing competitively (which I had been doing for over eight years), was hospitalized well over eight times and spent over two months in a wheelchair not knowing when I’d be able to walk again. I was close to giving up on all my goals, and even contemplated suicide once or twice, but after a few peo-ple talked some sense into me, I realized I needed to stop wallowing in self-pity, since there are much more people out there dealing with worse circumstances.
Q: Is the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa a school you would consider attending? Garrido: Due to my health problems causing me to have horrible attendance, I’ve decided to graduate from high school early. And as soon as I do so, I will be applying to UH for the upcoming fall semester. UH provides an alternative route that is just as effec-tive [as other schools] but allows me to stay here in [the] state and take care of my health.
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CheapeQ: What are you look-ing forward to most about competing in Miss America?Cheape: I am looking forward to sharing my talent of jump rope with the rest of the country. I will be the fi rst contestant to ever perform jump rope in the history of Miss America. I also am looking for-ward to really getting to know the 52 other women that I will be competing with at Miss America. I’ve already met them briefl y in Orlando, but I cannot wait to make lifelong friendships with these girls.
Q: As a graduate of the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, what did you enjoy most about your time spent here?Cheape: I graduated from UH in fall 2009 with a B.A. from the Academy for Creative Media and minors in business and Japanese. I loved how close knit both the athletic community was, as well as the people from my major in the fi lm school. I just went back to the UH cam-pus and had this fl ashback of all the amazing memories I had at this school. To me, UH symbolizes family; my grandparents, parents, cousins, as well as my brother and I, are all proud UH alumni [or] students.
Q: What kind of example do you think Miss Hawai‘i should be setting for the rest of the state?Cheape: For me, I want to be a Miss Hawai‘i that really shows how much I care about other people and to inspire people to want to go out and make a difference in others’ lives as well. I want to instill in young people how impor-tant it is to care for others. A very dear friend told me right after I won, “Remember Lauren, people don’t care how much you know until they know you care.”
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The Internet has proven to be a powerful tool, far beyond anyone’s imagination in terms of creativity and the number of new frontiers continuously being explored and enhanced. The In-ternet allows people from all over the world to connect and commu-nicate, and this mixing has re-sulted in the formation of online communities where people with common interests converse. With the good also comes some bad, and the Internet is no different. Numerous frauds and scams are conducted online, all facili-tated by the anonymity of online communication. The Internet has also brought unprecedented
challenges to governments and corporations struggling to keep up with cyber criminals. The Internet has had time to mature and coalesce. One out-standing example of the conver-gence of an online community, coupled with Internet mischief, is the online group Anonymous. The naissance of Anonymous can be traced to a few unique, un-derground blogs and discussion boards over the past several years. Anonymous, as an entity, is difficult to describe or codify; it is this way by design. The ques-tion of whether Anonymous is ac-tually a group is analogous to ask-ing if you would define a school of fish as a group. There is no central authority or designated
Anonymous: Internet bad boys gone good Anonymous: Internet bad boys gone good
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Much of Anonymous’ early hacking activity was coordinated on imageboard 4chan’s /b/ thread, where the focus was initially on “trolling” or pranking websites. The “Trollface” meme, illustrated above, is a mascot of sorts for this behavior.
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leader, and this is consistent with the group’s true origins. Anonymous is best known for “hacktivism” – hacking and online activism working in unison. Anon-ymous has made it its principal ob-jective to expose those in the world who undermine freedom of speech and other civil liberties. The victims of Anonymous’ at-tacks are diverse. Each entity tar-geted by Anonymous was singled out for tangible and well justifi ed rea-sons. The fi rst large target was the Church of Scientology. Anonymous fi rst attacked the church’s website in February 2008 in response to the church withholding internal infor-mation, which was viewed by many (including Anonymous) as a form of Internet censorship. Those leading the attack stated that the Church of Scientology was enslaving its fol-
lowers not only fi nancially but also through its polarizing dogma on how to alienate nonmembers from church members’ daily lives. Anonymous has also claimed responsibility for numerous politi-cally motivated attacks on various governments. Most notable was the group’s activities in 2009 after the Iranian presidential elections, an election immediately questioned by many on its validity and sincerity. Anonymous also carried out cy-ber attacks on the Australian govern-ment in February 2010, in response to the government beginning to cen-sor specifi c types of photographs. Arguably the most defi ning mo-ment in recent memory was Anony-mous’ backing of Wikileaks and Julian Assange in late 2010. Anony-mous openly supported Wikileaks’ efforts of releasing massive amounts
of information about the govern-ments of the world. Both Wikileaks and Anonymous share the common objective of obtaining transparent governments worldwide. The fallout from Anonymous’ support of Wikileaks brought with it much negative press. In the past year, the dominoes have continued to fall as new alliances and animosi-ties have emerged across the globe. But it seems Anonymous has come of age recently because its campaigns against powerful corpora-tions and government entities have become more focused and altruistic. Most recently, Anonymous has taken the initiative to expose the iden-tity and information of hundreds of fre-quent users of child pornography web-sites. Furthermore, a video recently posted online has promised to expose the identities of numerous corrupt
offi cials and collaborators including police, military, political and business leaders who rub shoulder with power-ful drug cartels in Mexico. If all of these undertakings are in-deed the genuine work of Anonymous, it is safe to say that what fi rst began
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The letter “Panic abounds: the role of ‘sound bites,’ opinion and truth,” (which ran in Ka Leo Oct. 26) defends the College of Tropical Ag-riculture and Human Resources’ ac-ceptance of Monsanto funding, both by dismissing the charges against Monsanto and also by stating that the Monsanto money comes with “no strings.” I would like to respond here to the serious problems I see with both of these responses, partic-ularly given the university’s public mission and commitments to scien-tifi c inquiry and open investigation. The letter calls my character-ization of Monsanto misinformed, unscientifi c and biased. What I fi nd most disturbing about this response – all the more so because it corre-sponds to private emails I received from other CTAHR faculty mem-bers – is the refusal even to acknowl-edge, let alone engage, the contro-versies in which Monsanto is mired. A wide-ranging and interna-tional body of literature evidences Monsanto’s spreading of termina-tor, or “sterile seed,” technology. As I would hope the letter’s author is aware, in the enormous body of literature on “sterile seeds,” no-body is suggesting that the seeds are sterile. The point is that they are a deliberate attack on plant breeders’ rights – the seeds are only fertile across one generation. Farmers have to come back every season. Their seeds aren’t self-reproducing. This monopolistic dependency on the part of farmers is a successfully targeted outcome of research that Monsanto has funded to this precise end (see,
for example, P. Sainath, or William Engdal’s “Seeds of Destruction”). Equally well documented are Monsanto’s heavy use of hazardous herbicides and links between its en-gineering of genetically modifi ed foods and production of hormones associated with cancer. So, too, a spate of reputable books and scholar-ly articles document how Monsanto’s practices take devastating tolls on the environment, and on small farm-ers not only in Hawai‘i, but through-out the global North and South. Given the high stakes of these charges, much debate exists over the degree of Monsanto’s culpabil-ity. What cannot be denied, how-ever, is that the charges against Monsanto are substantive enough to have resulted in numerous law-suits, tens of thousands of people marching in the streets, and mo-bilization around what has been termed “GM genocide” in the face of alarming numbers of farmer suicides in India. In short, one need not be an agriculture expert to know about Monsanto’s implica-tions in catastrophic health, labor, and environmental practices; one only needs to have basic research skills and Internet access. That the author of “Panic abounds” publically, and that her colleagues privately, deny any valid-ity to charges against Monsanto sug-gests to me, then, that the bias with they approach the topic of Monsanto far exceeds my own. This bias from Tropical Agricul-ture faculty members is precisely why assessments of Monsanto can-not be left to scientists who receive
Monsanto money. In the name of science, what gets obscured is that Monsanto is fi rst and foremost a powerful corporate entity, one whose singular goal is profi t. In a 1998 article in the New York Times Magazine, Phil Angell, as director of corporate communications for Mon-santo, made this crystal clear when he stated, “Monsanto should not have to vouchsafe the safety of bio-tech food. Our interest is in selling as much of it as possible. Assuring its safety is FDA’s job.” Although is-sued 13 years ago, this baldly stated philosophy continues to character-ize Monsanto’s modus operandi. Monsanto’s singleminded pur-suit of profi t makes the claim that its donations to UH come with “no strings” dubious at best. It is pro-foundly troubling that corporate funding raises the question of wheth-er the scholarly independence of the science being conducted at our uni-versity can be trusted. I do not fi nd a satisfactory answer to this funda-mental question, which should be of deep concern to our entire university community, in the Oct. 26 letter. If CTAHR wants to deny Mon-santo’s monstrous and often deadly grip on farmers and consumers, and if CTAHR wants to disregard the devastation Monsanto wreaks on the environment, it is incumbent, then, on less biased faculty members at UH to contest these practices, and to raise questions about Monsanto’s in-vestments in CTAHR, and CTAHR’s investments in Monsanto.
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Senior forward Breanna Ar-buckle has embraced a leadership role, helping to unify a strong frontcourt for the Rainbow Wahine baskeball team this season. Arbuckle, coming off a strong junior season where she aver-aged 7.0 points and 4.9 rebounds per contest, looks to help the UH frontcourt dominate the paint. Kamilah Jackson, a preseason Western Athletic Conference fi rst team selection, also looks to con-tinue to improve after a strong freshman season, in which she fi nished fourth in the nation in rebounding, averaging 11.9 re-bounds a game. In Hawai‘i’s final preseason exhibition game against Brigham Young University Hawai‘i last Friday, Jackson had a double-double with 10 points and 10 re-bounds. Center Rebecca Dew, a 6 -foot-4 -inch senior from Auck-land, New Zealand, adds even more size and rebounding po-tential to UH’s frontcourt. The Rainbow Wahine will also have transfer forward Vicky Tagali-cod, who is from Hilo. Tagalicod, who transferred to UH after a stint in Southern California, will become eligible to play start-ing December 19, due to NCA A transfer rules. “We’ve meshed well, and the incoming players have been work-ing very hard,” said Arbuckle. “We all spend a lot of time together, on and off the court, and it has helped us all become very close as a team.” The University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa’s women’s basketball team will host the University of Hawai‘i at Hilo in its fi rst game of the
2011-12 regular season. The Rainbow Wahine are fresh off a pair of lopsided wins against Hawai‘i Pacifi c University (88-59) and BYU–Hawai‘i (83-46) in its two preseason exhibition games. They will look to continue their domi-nance against Hilo this Friday at the Stan Sheriff Center. Tip-off is at 5 p.m. All students get in free with a validated UH Mānoa ID. The Rainbow Wahine trav-eled to Hilo last season for a pre-season tournament, where they gained a lot of good experience. “Last year, we took a tour-nament on the road at UH Hilo, and they helped us tremendously with the set-up and the site, so we are grateful to reciprocate the favor this year,” said head coach Dana Takahara-Dias. The Rainbow Wahine feel prepared for their regular season opener against UH Hilo. “We are confident,” said Ar-buckle. “We need to continue to play hard, limit our mistakes and play together.” UH Hilo has not played much this preseason, playing in only two preseason contests, including its alumni game back in October. Even with limited preseason play, the Rainbow Wahine are not taking the UH Hilo team lightly. “We are really excited,” said Arbuckle. “We’ve been practicing really hard for it.”
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Forward Breanna Arbuckle headlines a group of four returning seniors. Arbuckle racked up 7.8 points per game and 6.3 rebounds per game last season.
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Warrior golfer T.J. Kua was named Ka Leo’s player of the week for his performance at the Kaua‘i Collegiate Invitational. The senior from Līhu‘e, Kaua‘i, carded a 14-under-par 202 to capture the individual title at last week’s Kaua‘i Col-legiate Invitational at the Puakea Golf Course. Kua opened the tournament with a 69 and followed that up with a sec-ond-round 67. He then secured the seven-stroke victory with a career-low 66 in the fi nal round. This was Hawai‘i’s fi rst individual title winner since 1992. Kua also led the Warriors to a second place fi nish – Hawai‘i’s highest fi nish since winning the Naris Cup in 2009. Kua was also named the Western Athletic Confer-ence golfer of the month for October.
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