Honolulu Marathon 2007 just now announced the winners. They are Ambesse Tolosa from Ethiopia and Alevtina Biktimirova from Russia.

If university student participants at a recent Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco(SF FRB) Symposium have their way, the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) will keep the federal funds target rate at 4.5 percent. This result came from a 6-1 vote by student groups from the University of Hawaii at Hilo, University of Hawai`i at Manoa, and Hawaii Pacific University (HPU), representing seven members of the current FOMC.