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JANE CALLAHAN Senior Staff Writer The Office of the Vice Chancellor for Administration, Finance and Operations recently released an open letter to Honolulu’s Department of Transportation Services in light of city plans to repave roads near the university area this summer. Rising gas prices and a growing emphasis on green living have made the creation of bike lanes a signifi cant matter in the city, particularly for University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa students. However, perceived safety risks deter some from commuting by bicycle.

“There have been a number of accidents, particularly on Wai‘alae Avenue, where the importance of

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a bike lane becomes critical,” said Ann Sakuma, assistant to the vice chancellor for administration, fi nance and operations.

UH Mānoa conducted a survey in order to learn more about how students and faculty commute to school, and found that more than 26 percent of UHM students, staff and faculty live within one mile of campus. A majority of those surveyed expressed the desire to commute by bicycle, but a hesitancy to do so because of a dearth of bike lanes.

Daniel Alexander, an organizer with Cycle Mānoa, said that the survey reveals “the most substantial barrier [to increasing the percent of those who ride bicycles to school] was the road around campus ... part of it was feeling unsafe. The study shows

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With repaving coming up on Wai‘alae, Kalākaua and Kapahulu, and city plans to include a share row on Young Street, “there’s a lot going on with road improvement,” said Sakuma. She also stated that “this is an opportune time to share with the city that ... we’d like to make sure the infrastructure needs in the campus and the community are met.”

The university has been supportive of decreasing single-occupancy car commutes and increasing the number of people who commute to campus by walking, biking, taking public transit and carpooling.

The survey results come at a crucial time, as the Department of Transportation Services begins to implement plans to repave roads

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highly accessed by cyclists who commute to UHM. The repaving is set, thus far, to include share rows, which would create a lane that would be shared by both motorists and cyclists. However, students and other members of the community say they feel a share row does not significantly increase safety or promote the option of commuting by bicycle.

“In terms of safety and comfort, there’s a clear hierarchy,” said Alexander. “A lane [exclusively for bicycles] is superior. A share row is an improvement over nothing in that it increases awareness and safety, but not to the extent that an exclusive bike lane does. The share row is a step in the right direction, but it’s only a fi rst step.”

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Bike lanes from front page

For the Wai‘alae Avenue project, the city is set to open bidding to contractors this month. Cycle Mānoa, a group that works to increase bicycle access, attempted to get the attention of the DTS and make the community’s demands heard. On May 27, students and community members waved signs on Wai‘alae that expressed the desire for a bike-only lane, asking the DTS to reconsider the current plans and rework them to include a lane solely for bicycles. So far, the DTS has not officially responded. When asked for comment, the DTS declined to return phone calls.

A deterrent to revising current plans is that the project would be more costly and cause significant delays. Workers would need to produce new blueprints, and the issues of traffic lanes and access to businesses are concerns.

“The plan that they were working on to include the bike lane involved taking away a lane of traffic, so it would affect other traffic, and create fewer parking spaces, and that could affect local merchants,” said Alexander.

Members of Cycle Mānoa approached businesses on Wai‘alae Avenue for support, garnering a list of over 20 stores that support the creation of a lane designated only for bicycles. The list was presented to the DTS. Alexander mentioned that the first city plans for bike rows were created in 1973. These plans sought to build bike lanes all over Honolulu, but never came to fruition. In addition, 12 years ago Wai‘alae Avenue was

designated by the DTS as a priority 1 project, but was never addressed. In 2006, the city presented the O‘ahu Bike Plan, which intended to include more bike lanes along Wai‘alae Avenue, but is still pending approval.

“For the city, it’s a timing issue,” said Sakuma.

“This repaving plan has been in the works for some time. If they went ahead with revisions for a bike lane, the whole process would be delayed for quite a while.” Sakuma said the city’s proposal is to create a share row now, and repave the roads later to include a lane for bicycles “the next time around.”

Sakuma added that while share rows may not be the ideal, promoting education about how to use share rows, and how to drive and bike safely within a lane, is the key to getting optimal results from the arrangement until the next repaving.

However, Alexander said with this arrangement Wai‘alae may never see a lane exclusively for cyclists. “[The city] has had these plans over and over again, and very little has come of it. My apprehension is that it’s not a matter of now or six [years] from now, it’s a matter of now or never,” he said.

Regarding city plans for share rows versus bicycleexclusive lanes, Sakuma said, “If we miss an opportunity, it will take a long time before the next one comes up.”

Visit kaleo.org/news to see a map that plots the locations of bicycle-related accidents in Honolulu from 2006-2010.

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A S I A/PAC I F I C JAPAN – 250 retired Japanese veterans aged 60 and above have volunteered for the so-called “suicide corps,” agreeing to work in the highly contaminated Fukushima nuclear plant.

The volunteers organized the group due to the fact that cells of older people divide more slowly when exposed to radiation than those of younger people, thus slowing down the damage done to their bodies. The volunteers stated that they are near the end of their lives and can take the risk, whereas a 30-year-old exposed at the plant could get cancer as early as age 35.

M I D D L E E A S T/A F I RC A LIBYA – Iman al-Obeidi, the Libyan woman who told the world that 15 of Gadhafi’s soldiers raped and beat her, has been evacuated to Romania. She had previously sought asylum in Qatar, but was deported back to Libya after officials disregarded protests from various human rights organizations and requests from the United Nations to let al-Obeidi seek refuge in another nation.

NIGERIA -– Nigerian police raided a “baby factory” in which 32 pregnant teenage girls were rescued from the underground human trafficking ring. Raped, impregnated and held against their will, the girls (aged 15 through 17) were forced to produce babies that were sold on the black market for use in rituals, unauthorized adoptions, slave labor and organ trafficking. Smugglers bought the babies for around $190, depending on the sex of the child.

E U RO P E GERMANY – A recent outbreak of E. coli originating in Germany has lead to at least 2,400 infections and 24 deaths.

The bacterium is believed to be a new strain which affects the blood and kidneys and is highly toxic. Recent reports in Britain, Spain, Denmark and Sweden have sparked an investigation by the World Health Organization.

AMERICAS USA – The town of Joplin, Missouri, is still reeling from the 200 mph May 22 tornado, and has registered the current death toll at 138. Those hospitalized with critical injuries continue to add to the tally. The town of 50,000 lost an estimated 2,000 buildings; among the damaged were schools, a hospital, a nursing home and private residences.

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“First Class” rises to the top

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After 2006’s “X-Men: The Last Stand” and 2009’s “X-Men Origins: Wolverine,” the X-Men series is making a comeback.

However, rather than start over, the series has returned to its roots in the recently released prequel, “X-Men: First Class.”

“First Class” not only aligns itself stylistically with the original fi lms in the series, but goes as far as to replicate the opening Holocaust scene of the fi rst fi lm. We’re then given a continuation of this fl ashback as a Nazi offi cer (Kevin Bacon) takes notice of a young Erik Lehnsherr and his power to manipulate metals. Throughout the fi lm, dialogue shifts to foreign languages depending upon location. This scene is the fi rst of many where the characters speak in convincing German, Russian or Spanish, with subtitles provided.

The story then progresses to the 1960s. Lehnsherr (Michael Fassbender) is now on his own and plotting to kill those have wronged him. Charles Xavier (James McAvoy) is at Oxford, writing his thesis on human mutation. They’re brought together after CIA agent

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Moira MacTaggert (Rose Byrne) tracks them down, in search of mutants for a task force to combat the Soviet Union.

Bent on global domination for the mutant race, the former Nazi offi cer, now going by the name of Sebastian Shaw, is secretly orchestrating a nuclear war between the United States and the Soviet Union. After recruiting and training several younger mutants, Xavier and Lehnsherr, now nicknamed Magneto, team up to avert the confl ict. The fi lm’s pivotal battle smoothly blends with history, as the X-Men take on Shaw and his team of mutants during the Cuban Missile Crisis.

Of the many things the fi lm does well, seamlessly providing explanations is at the top of the list.

We’re given answers to how Xavier and Magneto met, the reason for their falling out, and the cause for Xavier’s paralysis. Even the explanation for the origins of mutants is well crafted – an area where the Wolverine prequel struggled.

The style of the production is somewhat similar to Matthew Vaughn’s previous superhero movie, 2010’s “Kick-Ass.” Transitions between scenes are well orchestrated, and the fi lm as a whole is up-tempo and energetic.

“First Class” is a great return to form for the XMen franchise, guided by a strong performance from McAvoy. Watch for a familiar face to pop up in a cameo toward the middle of the film. 4 ½ out of 5 stars.

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Life in a tech bubble

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If a new technology bubble were emerging, what advances and innovations would we be left with at the end? Some argue the answer would be very little.

Facebook recently received a $50 billion investment from Goldman Sachs, Microsoft has purchased Skype for $8.5 billion, and Groupon and Zynga have both expressed forthcoming high-value initial public offerings.

With LinkedIn valued at $8.9 billion and an opening day increase of over 100 percent, the “World’s Largest Professional Network” is now “worth more than household names like JC Penney, Electronic Arts and Chipotle” according to CNN.com’s Adam Ostrow. According to a poll on The Wall Street Journal’s website, 64 percent view this as evidence of a bubble.

A market bubble occurs when speculation spurs products or assets to be traded at an infl ated value. Markets see a steep increase of prices in the bubble sector, as prices rise to match speculative demand. Market bubbles are typically marked by defi ned “boom and bust” periods, as a sharp drop follows the rapidly infl ated growth period. Examples of this infl ationand-burst pattern are the dot-com tech bubble and, more recently, the housing bubble leading up to the 2008 fi nancial crisis.

As shown by the US housing

bubble, speculative bubbles can have damaging effects on an economy. The illusion of rapid growth in the bubble sector draws investment that could have otherwise supported growth in another sector.

Bubbles can, however, also bring positive results. Often the investment poured into a bubble sector will drive innovation.

From the computer tech bubble in the 1980s associated with Microsoft, Compaq and Intel, we received personal computers.

Despite the falling stock prices of these companies in the late 1980s, innovation in the form of inexpensive microprocessors remained, and therefore allowed further growth.

Even the dot-com bubble that many assume to have been largely unbeneficial left us with Internet infrastructure that has benefited both consumers and businesses. So the important question isn’t if there is a new technology bubble forming from social networks such as Facebook, Groupon, and LinkedIn, but what is there to gain from it if there were?

In a Businessweek article titled “This Tech Bubble is Different,” Ashlee Vance claims that a bubble “driven by social networking could leave us empty handed.” Social networks function to develop precise advertisements, tailored to individual users, increasing sales for those who choose to advertise and luring even more advertisers.

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Social media sites may be the next bubble in the U.S. economy. Even though market bubbles can harm the economy when they burst, they also create innovation and fuel the creation of new ideas.

In Vance’s article, Jeff Hammerbacher, a former research scientist for Facebook, asserts, “the best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads ... If instead of pointing their incredible infrastructure at making people click on ads ... they pointed it at great unsolved prob-

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lems in science, how would the world be different today?” Hammerbacher’s views point to the fact that resources and highly skilled workers have shifted to the technology sector, particularly focusing on advertising.

With such intense focus and investment on the ads selling prod-

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ucts and services, less is invested in actual research and development of new ideas. Unless the innovations made in analytical technology used for advertising can be used in other fields such as medicine or fi nance, the boom and bust cycle of a new technology bubble will be largely for naught.

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Shekinah’s travel blog: Venice Beach SHEKINAH L ANDICHO Blogger

Street performers, tourists, smoke shops, boardwalk vendors, paddle tennis courts, and an outdoor gym with an amazing view of the Pacific Ocean all come together to form the colorful landscape of Venice Beach.

Just south of Santa Monica in California, Venice Beach hosts a variety of attractions for a counterculture of aspiring artists, tourists and bodybuilders.

Since the 1950s, Venice Beach has been a product of the Beat generation. American novelist Jack Kerouac defined the Beat generation as a “perceived underground, anti-conformist youth movement” that advocated for freedom of expression and an experimental lifestyle. This can be seen through the 1960s, when the beach was dominated by the hippie culture.

In Venice Beach, art and creativity provide a great atmo-

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sphere for socializing. Street performers are always conjuring up new acts to impress tourists.

In one instance, there was an old Caucasian man dressed as Osama bin Laden, playing an electric guitar with a portable amp while rollerblading across the boardwalk and following people

around. Many other artists can be seen pulling people aside to listen to their CDs. Tourists can walk the strip and be provided with oceanfront entertainment.

To read more on Shekinah’s Venice Beach experience, visit www.kaleo.org/blogs

London mishaps of a Taoist Monkey THE TAOIST MONKEY Blogger A variety of bland-colored suits shuffl e in and out of the train at each destination.

A body of movement starts from 5:30 in the morning and doesn’t stop until 12:30 at night. I sit there, watching the people moving and shifting while I wonder what life they lead, self realizations they have made, and what drives them to continue to exist.

But really, I’m standing.

I’m standing out. My maroon shirt reads “fl avor.” My brown hooded sweatshirt carries a golden graphic upon its exterior. My fedora sits high on the back of my head, the

brim pointing up on all sides.

I sit there gazing, but really it is me who stands out.

I used to live here, but now I’m just another tourist who came back to enjoy the fruits of L ondon. Like most tourists, I realize my role is only to take from this city.

The bustling L ondoners are the life force of the city.

Natives give all they can to L ondon and L ondon gives back. I’m here to take from L ondon, take experiences and give them back to the rest of the world.

To read more on the Taoist Monkey’s London experience, visit www.kaleo.org/blogs

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Hawai‘i golfers active through summer Of its 13 national tournaments throughout the summer, collegiate golfers have a chance to enter six of them. They include the U.S. Open and U.S. Women’s Open, the U.S. A mateur and U.S. Women’s A mateur, and the U.S. A mateur Public Links and the U.S. Women’s A mateur Public Links.

After winning a qualifi er on Kaua‘i, Kua has already qualified for the 2011 U.S. Amateur Public Links Championship from June 27-July 2 in Oregon.

“The USGA events are a tremendous opportunity,” Miyashiro said. “Aside from winning a national championship [in collegiate golf], winning a USGA event, that’s the cream of the crop. If you can be competitive, your exposure is more national.”

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With no collegiate sporting events during the summer, most athletes are looking to stay in shape, go to school, or visit family; however, the summer provides golfers opportunities that playing just in collegiate tournaments wouldn’t.

“Some of the tournaments in the summer are a lot more competitive than you get at a regular collegiate event,” Warrior golf head coach Ronn Miyashiro said.

Collegiate golf is just one avenue for golfers to get their names out into the golf world. Playing well in the local and national tournaments also help to boost a golfer’s ‘résumé.’

“It’s a really good avenue to take,” junior T.J. Kua said. “If we can play well enough to get into national and PGA Tour events, it’s huge for us. It’s just a matter of getting your game up to that point where you can compete at the national level or the world level.”

LOCAL TOURNAMENTS

A WIN-WIN SITUATION Playing in other amateur tournaments not only boosts a collegiate golfer’s resume, but also helps the golfer in college tournaments.

“Because of the [high] level of competition in those tournaments, it only helps you in your development throughout the whole year,” Miyashiro said. “It just helps to become competitive 12 months out of the year.”

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Junior T.J. Kua qualified for the 2011 U.S. Amateur Public Links Championships at the Bandon Dunes Golf Resort, which runs from June 27-July 2.

NATIONAL TOURNAMENTS The United States Golf Association hosts national tourna-

ments throughout the summer that propel world-class amateur golfers into the public eye.

Before a golfer achieves success at the national level, success at the local level is vital.

L ocal tournaments, such as the Manoa Cup in June, help golfers gain experience by playing against the best talent at the local level.

“It’s kind of like a ladder. You have different levels of success,” Miyashiro said. “You want to be successful here first. And then once you’re successful here, then you can move up to the national level. For a lot of the kids I recruit, it starts here.”

Golfers who achieve consis-

tent high fi nishes in select local tournaments have the opportunity to become a part of the Governor’s Cup Amateur Team. Each season, the 12 members of the team get a chance to qualify for the PGA Tour’s Sony Open at the Waialae Country Club.

Kua was the 2010 qualifier into the Sony Open, and freshman David Saka was the 2011 qualifier.

“For the local guys, playing the Governor’s Cup and getting their way into the Sony Open – that was huge for me,” Kua said. “ That ’s a shot of a lifetime right there.”

A LOOK AHEAD

Tune in for next week’s Ka Leo issue, which will discuss the decision collegiate golfers need to make after they show success at both national and local tournaments.

Wong selected by the Cardinals M ARC A R AK AKI Sports Editor The St. Louis Cardinals selected junior second baseman Kolten Wong as the 22nd pick in the fi rst round of the 2011

Major League Baseball Draft.

Wong became just the third player and the fi rst position player to be drafted in the fi rst round in Rainbow baseball history.

The all-Western Athletic Conference fi rst team selection was also named a 2011 Lou-

isville Slugger third-team All-American.

Wong was also drafted in the 16th round of the 2008 MLB Draft, but decided to play at Hawai‘i.

“It’s a culmination to a great career here at the University of Hawai‘i, and it’s

the beginning of a new career in professional baseball,” head coach Mike Trapasso said. “It’s a great pick and a great team, and we’re all very excited.”

Tune in next week for a complete MLB Draft wrap-up.