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It’s Thursday, October 9 – DAY 9, Celebration 2012…

New senate skills for Pacific Overtures 

Ralph Cossa is president of the Pacific Forum CSIS, a nonprofit, private, foreign policy research institute founded in 1975 and based in Honolulu. It operates as the Asia Pacific arm of the Center for Strategic and International Studies of Washington, D.C. . Mr. Cossa is a board member of the Council on U.S.-Korean Security Studies and the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations and has been focusing on what the next junior senator must know about the American “Re-Balance”, North Korea, flash points in the South China Sea, and other security, foreign policy, and business-related issues.

Bienvenidos Hawaiianos y panolos!

Jose Villa is the publisher of Hawaii Hispanic News.  The Hispanic Heritage Festival and Health Fair is this Saturday at Honolulu’s Kapiolani Park bandstand.  It runs all day.

Come out come out wherever you are... 

Camaron Miyamoto is the Director of UH Manoa's LGBTQ student services. National Coming Out Day starts at 10 AM at Campus Center, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa campus. 

Plus today's world report from the BBC and  switching gears- and dollars - in the backyard. Next, the NPR news.