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MILITARY VETERAN B4 HONOLULU STAR-ADVERTISER MONDAY LOCAL EVENTS 33rd Annual Honolulu City Lights: a Zoo Out will be featured at the event Saturday. There will be an unveiling of 56 new animal-themed ornaments adorning the 50-foot holiday tree. The opening-night festivities kick off a monthlong celebration of displays and lights as well as many activities on the Frank F. Fasi Civic Center Grounds. While Mayor Kirk Caldwell will start the tree lighting ceremony at 6 p.m., there will also be a parade going through Chinatown and downtown, ending at Honolulu Hale.

For more information, visit honolulu.gov/csd NEIGHBORHOOD BOARD MEETINGS Ala Moana-Kakaako: 7 p.m. Tuesday at Makiki Christian Church, 829 Pensacola St. Hawaii Kai: 7 p.m. Tuesday at Hahaione Elementary School cafeteria, 595 Pepeekeo St. Neighborhood Commission: 7 p.m.

today at Mission Memorial Building, Hearings Room, 550 S. King St. North Shore: 7 p.m. Tuesday at Waialua Elementary School cafeteria, 67-020 Waialua Beach Road Pearl City: 7 p.m. Tuesday at Waiau District Park, 98-1650 Kaahumanu St.

IN MEMORY Pete Moore, an original member of the Miracles, the hit-making Motown group led by Smokey Robinson, and a co-writer of some of that hits, died in Las Vegas on Nov. 19, his 79th birthday. His wife, Tina, said the cause was complications of diabetes. credits included three melancholy Top 20 hits that were released in 1965, during an especially dynamic period for Motown and the Miracles: Baby written with Robinson; Tracks of My with Robinson and guitarist Marv Tarplin; and Girl Has with Robinson, Tarplin and the Ronnie White. Adam White, author with former Motown Records executive Barney Ales of The Sound of Young (2016), said in an email that this trilogy of Miracles songs their talent and their art better than anything He added, measure of Pete importance to the Miracles lies in the personal: that he and Smokey were friends from childhood; that he was in the earliest incarnations of the group and that he was the best man at Moore brought his bass voice to a group known for its smooth harmonies, snazzy clothes and silky onstage choreography, and for the good looks and angelic high tenor, which rose effortlessly to a falsetto, of its leader, Robinson.

In the origin story of the Motown empire, the Miracles were founder Berry Gordy first great ensemble, preceding the Supremes, the Four Tops and the Temptations. (1960), which Gordy wrote with Robinson, was first million-seller, rising to No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart thanks in part to the timing of its release. In an interview in 2015 with WVUD-FM in Newark, Moore said Gordy aware that you release records in record came out on Dec. he continued.

was shopping. When they heard on the radio, what they were doing buying dresses and toys for the kids and that record exploded. Wow! There would be many more hits after that, including Really Got a Hold on to a and, following a name change to Smokey Robinson and the Miracles in 1967, Second That and Tears of a Moore recalled that Tracks of My emerged from a guitar riff played by Tarplin that coincided with their desire to write a song inspired by the tragic opera whose central character is a sad clown. we write a song about a guy who appeared to be happy on the outside but always sad on the Moore said in the WVUD interview. we wrote The song was ranked 12th in Rolling 1988 list of the 100 best singles of the previous 25 years.

Moore said in the accompanying ar ticle, which was written by Ronnie White, that Tracks of My appealed to audiences. can recall doing shows like Dick Clark and he said. time we sang that song, people in the audience would The Miracles returned to the theme in 1970 with Tears of a which has direct references to the opera. Warren Thomas Moore was born Nov. 19, 1938, in Detroit.

His father, Odell, was a sculptor, and his mother, Oreatha, was a teacher. Moore was 12 years old when he met Robinson, and by high school they were in a group called the Five Chimes (with White, a future Miracle), which won a contest on Dance a Detroit television show hosted by Ed McKenzie, a local disc jockey. Moore said that moment let him visualize his future. walked with our chests out in high he said in an interview for Robinson and the Miracles: The Definitive Performances a DVD released in 2006. that happened I told myself, this is what I want to But at an audition in 1957 for Nat Tarnopol, singer Jackie manager, the group, now re-christened the Matadors, was told it was not ready, Moore recalled.

They were also told that with a female singer, Claudette Rogers (who would marry and subsequently divorce Robinson), they sounded too much like the Platters. He suggested that they return in a year. Disappointed, they left. But they were stopped outside by Gordy, who had listened to the audition, was impressed and wanted to manage them. knew who he Moore told WVUD.

had written all of hits until With Gordy as their manager and with his help in improving songwriting they changed their name to the Miracles and became an integral force at Motown. Robinson last performed with the Miracles in 1972 before leaving to pursue a solo career and focus more on his role as a vice president of Motown. Moore remained with the Miracles until they dissolved in 1978. With Billy Griffin, who replaced Robinson as lead singer, he wrote Machine (Part a No. 1 Billboard hit in 1976.

In his post-Miracles career, Moore had a production company in Las Vegas and was known for nurturing the career of hip-hop artist B. Taylor. you for discovering me, mentoring me everyday for 10 Taylor wrote on Instagram. In addition to his wife, Moore is survived by twin daughters, Monique and Monette Moore, and a sister, Winifred Moore. PETE MOORE 1938-2017 bass singer co-wrote Motown hits By Richard andomir New York Times ASSOCIATED PRESS Pete Moore GET INVOLVED over 100 days.

This one is still going strong after 1,000 days, although gradually fading. very surprising and very said astrophysicist Iair Arcavi of the University of California, Santa Barbara, who led the study. thought seen everything there is to see in supernovae after seeing so many of them, but you always get surprised by the universe. This one just really blew away everything we thought we understood about The supernova officially known as iPTF14hls is believed to have once been a star up to 100 times more massive than our sun. It could well be the biggest stellar explosion ever observed, which might explain its death-defying peculiarity.

It could be multiple explosions occurring so frequently that they run into one another or perhaps a single explosion that repeatedly gets brighter and fainter, though scientists know exactly how this happens. One possibility is that this star was so massive, and its core so hot, that an explosion blew away the outer layers and left the center intact enough to repeat the entire process. But this pulsating-star theory still explain everything about this supernova, Arcavi said. Harvard astronomy chairman, Avi Loeb, who was not involved in the study, speculates a black hole or magnetar a neutron star with a strong magnetic field might be at the center of this never-before-seen behavior. Further monitoring might better explain going on, he said.

Las Cumbres, a global network of robotic telescopes, continues to keep watch. Scientists do not know whether this particular supernova is unique; it appears rare since no others have been detected. could actually have missed plenty of them because it kind of masquer ades as a normal supernova if you only look at it Arcavi said. Nothing lasts forever not even this super supernova. this star will go out at some Ar cavi said.

mean, energy has to run out contract states, including Virginia and California, contract softening has been proportional with the rest of the nation likely as a result of the Budget Control Act of 2011, also known as sequestration, and the overall tightening of defense budgets, Michaels said. hoping to explore that in a second phase of the Hawaii Defense Economy study, Michaels said, but for now that rationale is the operating thesis, he said. Total direct military spending in Hawaii including salaries was estimated by the RAND Corp. in 2011 at $6.5 billion for fiscal years 2007-09, compared with $7.8 billion as of 2015 in the new analysis. The new website at hawaii defenseeconomy.org provides a range of information through interactive graphs and charts.

possible, for example, to see the top contractors by dollars obligated, broken down by county and fiscal year and even by funding agency. top defense contractor in fiscal 2016 was BAE Systems, which received $120 million for contracts that included shipyard and Office of Naval Research work, according to the website. Next up was Hawaii Independent Energy, which received $104 million for fuel sales. Caddell-Nan received $80 million for engineering and construction, while the University of Hawaii System obtained $51 million in grants and contracts. Defense industry giants Raytheon and Northrop Grumman took in $20 million and $17 million, respectively, for Hawaii contracts in 2016 on Oahu.

Fiscal 2017 data are not complete yet. Spending is strong, but showing some the website states. Michaels said $2 billion annually is nothing to sneeze at and by fortune of our geographic position as well as changing circumstances in the world, always continue to be relevant to the Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard remains one of the largest sources of contracts in Hawaii, and cyberse curity with the National Security Agency has been identified as a possible growth area. Any fluctuation in defense spending will have an impact on economy, though, and is critical that the state proactively prepare for any changes the future may the new website states. The state said the website is a tool for Hawaii-based companies to learn about the contracting trends, growth segments and business like to do, moving on, if we can find funding for phase two is expand beyond contracts and get a sense of the entire defense Michaels said.

example, for every ship that comes in, if that ship brings people with it as well as number of contracts to feed the sailors, to do the laundry, what does it mean for dollars for STAR Continued from B1 MILITARY Continued from B1 ASSOCIATED PRESS 2014 This illustration made available by the European Southern Observatory shows dust surrounding a supernova explosion. On Nov. 8 astronomers reported that a star 500 million light-years away exploded in 1954 and apparently again in 2014. The research confounds scientists who thought they knew how dying stars ticked. U.S.

NAVY BAE Systems Hawaii Shipyards performs surface ship work at Pearl Harbor..