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Read More Hawaii Public Radio Pandemic Moratorium On Utility Shutoffs Ends This Month Honolulu Police Department Commission Announces Rade Vanic As Interim Honolulu Police Chief National and World Headlines Pfizer Seeks Full FDA Approval For COVID-19 Vaccine Pfizer and its vaccine partner BioNTech have started an application to request the Food and Drug Administration's approval for its COVID-19 vaccine. Pfizer is the first coronavirus vaccine maker in the U.S. to request full approval. Like Pfizer, the Moderna and Johnson & Johnson vaccines had been previously cleared for use under the agency's emergency use authorization — a less rigorous approval method to aid a swifter response to the pandemic. An FDA approval for a vaccine means the agency... Read More 'The Worst I've Seen': Capitol Police Face Scrutiny For Lack Of Transparency California Man Arrested In Suspected Fake COVID-19 Vaccine Card Operation In A Grief-Filled Year, Brands From Etsy To Pandora Let You Skip Mother's Day Emails By Rachel Treisman • May 7, 2021 Mackenzie Walton's first Father's Day without her dad was shaping up to be tough. Then the marketing emails hit. "I saw some 'Don't forget Dad!' messaging and panicked because I hadn't bought him a present, which led to some ugly crying in the bathroom at work when I abruptly remembered why I hadn't been shopping yet," the Cincinnati-based freelance editor told NPR over email. 5-Year Prison Term For Hawaii Psychiatric Hospital Escape By Associated Press & JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER • May 7, 2021 Wikimedia Commons HONOLULU — A man who spent decades in a Hawaii psychiatric hospital for killing a woman was sentenced to five years in prison Thursday for escaping from the facility in 2017 and flying to California before he was captured. New $227M Hotel Project On Kauai, $31M Office Building in Kaimuki By A. Kam Napier • May 7, 2021 AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill Significant new construction projects could bring the first new hotel to Kaua‘i in decades and a brand new building to the middle of Kaimuki on O‘ahu. CDC Official Who Warned Americans Coronavirus Could Cause 'Severe' Disruption Resigns By Becky Sullivan • May 7, 2021 Updated May 7, 2021 at 3:44 PM ET Dr. Nancy Messonnier, the top respiratory disease official at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention who was among the first to warn the American public about how much the pandemic would change everyday life, is stepping down from the agency. In 1st Big Test, Oversight Board Says Facebook, Not Trump, Is The Problem By Shannon Bond • May 7, 2021 Facebook has almost 2 billion daily users, annual revenue that rivals some countries' gross domestic product, and even its own version of a Supreme Court: the Oversight Board, which the company created to review its toughest decisions on what people can post on its platforms. This week, the board faced its biggest test to date when it ruled on whether Facebook should let former President Donald Trump back on its social network. More... HPR-Produced Talk Shows The Conversation: Saving Hotel Jobs; AARP Anti-Fraud Campaign By Catherine Cruz & Russell Subiono • May 7, 2021 Catherine Cruz/HPR Saving Hawaii hotel jobs; AARP launching anti-fraud campaign; Reality Check with Civil Beat: University of Hawaii budget cuts; UH Contemporary Music Ensemble; Teacher Appreciation Week: Nanakuli Elementary and Waʻena Intermediate The Conversation: Hawaii Tourism Authority; Esports at UH Mānoa By Catherine Cruz & Lillian Tsang • May 6, 2021 AP Photo/Caleb Jones, File Cutting Hawaii Tourism Authority's budget; Local ties to Netflix documentary "My Octopus Teacher"; Reality Check with Civil Beat: Interim police chief; UH Mānoa hosts esports tournament; Mauka to Makai: Long Spoon Farms Bytemarks Café: Livestreaming By Burt Lum • May 5, 2021 jmexclusives via Pixabay Today on Bytemarks Cafe, with the popularity of zoom and online webinars, we’ll delve into enhancements to livestreaming. We’ll talk to a couple of professionals to find out what it takes to livestream your interviews to Youtube and Facebook live. HPR Features Hawaiian Word of the Day: May 7th By Leilani Poli`ahu • May 7, 2021 ʻElemakule means old man or to become an old man. Although ʻelemakula also means “old,” use it only for males – there's another word, luahine , for old women. And don't use ʻelemakule as a general term for old or things that are old – there are other words for that too, such as kahiko. Use ʻelemakule only for old men. Buffalo Springfield / Poco's Richie Furay - Off The Road - HPR's All Things Considered By Dave Lawrence • May 7, 2021 artist photo courtesy Howard Zryb Subscribe to the latest Off the Road episodes on Apple , Google and Spotify podcasts. HPR-Produced Music Shows Blues From the Basement By HPR Staff • 25 minutes ago Saturdays at 10 PM on HPR-1. Blues from the Basement is a traditional blues show. whether it's Mississippi, Chicago, delta, or Piedmont blues, we cover it and try to remain true for the purists. And for those folks who may either have misconceptions about the blues or have never really delved into the blues... We do our best at trying to give our listeners a musical education on the great American art form simply known as the blues. The Real Deal with Seth Markow By HPR Staff • 2 hours ago Saturday and Sunday at 8 PM on HPR-1. Join host Seth Markow from 8 to 10 p.m. as he presents the entire historical and stylistic spectrum of jazz in a lucid, entertaining and informative manner. The birthdays of great jazz artists are often celebrated with musical biographies. New jazz releases are frequently played, as are classic live recordings. 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