FILM: ‘ALOHA’ (HAWAII VERSION) OPENS TODAY IN HONOLULU

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'Aloha,' the Hawaii version — ‘Aloha,’ the Hawaii version

HONOLULU, Hawaii (The Adobo Chronicles) – Columbia Pictures is releasing a slightly different version of the new film ‘Aloha’ in Oahu and the rest of the neighbor islands.

It is practically the same film with a different title. The local version of the Cameron Crowe film is titled “Haoles.” It stars Bradley Cooper, Emma Stone, Bill Murray, Rachel Adams and Alec Baldwin.

The film is about a celebrated military contractor who returns to the site of his greatest career triumphs and re-connects with a long-ago love while unexpectedly falling for the hard-charging Air Force watchdog assigned to him.

Columbia Pictures agreed to change the title of the film’s Hawaii version in response to criticism that except for a few unnamed extras, the film features an all-white, non-Asian or Pacific Islander cast — despite it being set in Hawaii.

Some Native Hawaiians also frowned on what they said was the commercialization of one of the most sacred and beautiful Hawaiian words.

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Education, The Media

ANN COULTER WANTS NATIONAL SPELLING BEE SCRAPPED

May 29, 2015 Pol Pinoy 1 Comment

2015 National Spelling Bee champs Venkatachalam, left and Shivashankar

WASHINGTON, D.C. (The Adobo Chronicles) – Vanya Shivashankar, 13, of Olathe, Kansas, and Gokul Venkatachalam, 14, of Chesterfield, Missouri, tied as winners of the National Spelling Bee on Thursday.

Shivashankar correctly spelled the word “‘scherenschnitte” and Venkatachalam correctly spelled the word “nunatak.”

For the last eight years, Indian Americans have dominated the contest, and this bothers conservative columnist Ann Coulter.

Just this week, Coulter went on national television, practically suggesting that America totally close its borders to Mexicans because they are stealing jobs and perpetrating crime.She even went as far as suggesting that Mexicans are more dangerous than ISIS.

Now Coulter wants to scrap the national spelling bee altogether.

“Foreigners — especially Indian Americans — are stealing our bee, and that’s a national disgrace,” Coulter said. “What kind of message are we sending to our white, American kids?” she asked.

Scripps, the sponsor of the annual competition could not be reached for comment.

Science and Environment

CALIFORNIANS RELIEVED: NO 8.8 MAGNITUDE EARTHQUAKE ON THURSDAY

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SAN FRANCISCO, California (The Adobo Chronicles) – It was supposed to happen at 4 p.m. Pacific time on Thursday, May 28: an 8.8 magnitude earthquake in California, brought about by the alignment of the planets. The prediction came from Dutch Frank Hoogerbeets, the same man who predicted the recent devastating quake in Nepal.

By 3:59 p.m, many Californians had ducked under tables, filed into the streets and had abandoned high-rise office buildings and condominiums. Both the Golden Gate Bridge and Bay Bridge in San Francisco were surprisingly empty, but churches of all denominations were standing room only.

Then 4 p.m. came and went, but the earth was still.

Apparently, Hoogerbeets got it wrong. It was going to be a 9.0 magnitude shaker, and it would happen a day after – Friday, May 29 at 1000 Van Ness and other California movie theaters near you — right where the San Andreas fault runs through.