Tesoro, owner of the larger of Hawaii's two refineries, says gasoline price margins have shrunk so it will make less gasoline. Tesoro says its Kapolei refinery will be dialed back to as little as 74% capacity. Here's an alternative to oil for downtown office buildings. Honolulu Seawater Air Conditioning has lined up more than 10 million dollars in equity financing. U.S. and Swedish investors are chipping in for a zero emissions seawater air conditioning plant. Downtown building owners could save a fifth of their air conditioning costs by using seawater instead of a system-based on freon. Hoku Scientific has installed two solar power systems on neighbor islands. Its newest turnkey photovoltaic systems are at the Lihue and Kona operations of Paradise Beverages. The company uses a lot of power to refrigerate its warehouses, since it's the Hawaii distributor of Coors, Corona, Miller and Heineken.

ALLHIPHOP NEWS RUN DOWN

He actually said that he wanted to “post" it, but I really understand what he was saying. Anyway, he is going to Australia for something. I wonder what his passport looks like.

I don't know the full status of Pun's kids and family, but I heard an interesting bit of info.

Dining Around at Café Fresko in Bryn Mawr

Street scenes are hand-painted on the brick walls, pressed copper ceiling, granite topped tables, white linen napkins, and red mahogany colored chairs are part of the decor romantic lighting, dimmer switches control the two chandeliers and the matching electrified wall sconces. Our party of three began dinner with several appetizers. The Chef's Soup of the day (M.P) was rich combination of potato, leek, and onion puree that we dipped fresh bread into to get the last drops of green velvety goodness at the bottom of the bowl. We also sampled a large bowl of Prince Edward Island Mussels ($11) that were tender and fresh tasting in delicious saffron Avgolomeno and citron broth, Demetri's twist on a recipe from Greek Macedonia. A traditional Greek appetizer called Saganaki ($7) made with pan-seared Kaseri cheese and flamed in the kitchen with brandy and fresh lemon was delightful.

The Drama Principle

School Me (a new feature in which I advertise areas in which I'm embarrassingly ignorant, in the hope that readers will fill me in faster than I could fill myself in by, say, making phone calls): Back in June, Ron Brownstein wrote that in California "liberal interests and labor unions ... hate the idea" of an "individual mandate" requiring everyone to buy health insurance. Does that "hate" hold true nationally? Is it grounded solely in the sentiment Brownstein alludes to--that "they consider it unfair to working families"? Or does it also have a more cynical, institutional grounding, namely unions' fear that an individual mandate would undermine employer-provided insurance and the role of unions in negotiating for that insurance? ... American labor has been relatively selfless, it seems to me, in lobbying for government programs (e.g.