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"If it’s like years past, there’s no line, no tickets, it’s a public beach. There’s a cordoned off area for VIPs but I don’t think access is sold, it’s just granted by ABC and the organizers. Regular Joe and Jane does like us fill the beach around it. I’d say the earlier you get there the better, but it depends on if sitting on an increasingly crowded beach all day sounds like fun or not. And of course in the past, it’s rained on advance premiere day! A local travel agent is working on a “LOST” specific package. Let me know if you’re interested. You can e-mail me at ryanozawa@gmail.com." - Ryan

"If it’s like years past, there’s no line, no tickets, it’s a public beach. There’s a cordoned off area for VIPs but I don’t think access is sold, it’s just granted by ABC and the organizers. Regular Joe and Jane does like us fill the beach around it. I’d say the earlier you get there the better, but it depends on if sitting on an increasingly crowded beach all day sounds like fun or... more... - Ryan

Hagedorn's lab in Hawaii is the only one in the world dedicated to coral cryopreservation. With funding from the Smithsonian and NOAA, Hagedorn is racing to create frozen archives of live tissue before the endangered Elkhorn and Staghorn corals disappear. - Ryan

It's "very unlikely" that a meteor or asteroid colliding with the Earth caused an abrupt climate change leading to the extinction of the woolly mammoth and other large mammals 13,000 years ago, says the University of Hawaii at Manoa leader of a team that investigated the theory. - Ryan

More than 10 percent of women of Chinese and Korean heritage may be at risk for developing diabetes during pregnancy, according to a Kaiser Permanente study of 16,000 women in Hawaii that appears in the December issue of the Ethnicity and Disease journal. - Ryan

Hawaii stands to gain more than $387 million for a myriad of projects affecting schools, transportation and other initiatives under a spending bill passed yesterday by the U.S. Senate. - Ryan

The University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa’s Kahuewai Ola project recently received a four-year grant of $1.01 million that will allow for tuition support of 45 Native Hawaiian students and the recruitment of ten faculty mentors. - Ryan

Hawaii Biotech, Inc. announced Friday that it will file for Chapter 11 reorganization in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Honolulu. The move appears to be an attempt to stave off an effort by one the company's largest shareholders. - Ryan

An international team of planet hunters has discovered as many as six low-mass planets around two nearby Sun-like stars, including two "super-Earths" with masses 5 and 7.5 times the mass of Earth. - Ryan

After the completion of a long-awaited environmental impact statement this summer, National Science Foundation Director Arden Bement officially selected Haleakala last week as the site of the planned 143-foot-tall telescope and funded the $300 million project. - Ryan

A 2-megawatt solar thermal project called "Holaniku at Keahole Point" on The Big Island is now officially up and running. It uses unique solar power collectors, which harnesses and intensifies thermal energy from the sun. It generates clean, renewable power. - Ryan

Hawaii's planned project to lay undersea power cables connecting the islands of Lanai, Molokai, Oahu and Maui is physically possible via nine recommended routes, according to a new report released Wednesday. - Ryan

New evidence indicating the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor effectively from under water, as well as the air, was announced today by the "NOVA" television series on the anniversary of the 1941 attack that led the United States into World War II. - Ryan

The three-team alliance from Bellarmine College Preparatory took the top honors, finishing as the Pan-Pacific Champions. The alliance of Honokaa High, McKinley High and Waiakea High earned second place in the championship. - Ryan

The Hawaiian Islands are one of the outstanding volcanic features on Earth, but their origins have been shrouded in mystery. Still in debate is a theory that was proposed forty years ago. - Ryan

A bull's-eye in the hunt for planets: astronomers at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy have discovered and directly imaged a faint celestial body that orbits the star GJ 758. - Ryan

The "Voice of TheBus" belongs to Puakea Nogelmeier, an associate professor of Hawaiian language, poetry and literature at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. - Ryan

Hawaii will receive $48,000,000 to fund a bio-refinery plant in Kapolei and to test and produce green gasoline, diesel, and jet fuel from agricultural residue, woody biomass, dedicated energy crops, and algae. - Ryan

@hawaii I don't think that if she's shopping at Victoria's secret that it's for herself. I think it's for you. - John C Ferron

That was not lost on me! - Ryan from email

"Thanks to Random.org, Gee Why and Shiloh get dibs on the review units! I’ll email you both. Thanks for commenting!" - Ryan

"Thanks, all! Unfortunately, Bonita, only e-mail feedback to lost@hawaiiup.com count toward the giveaways. Write in!" - Ryan

The University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo has received a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant to fund major research instrumentation for the University’s Hoku Kea Telescope atop Mauna Kea. Funded through the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act of 2009, the award totals $141,664 over a 3-year period. - Ryan

The world's oceans are absorbing less carbon dioxide (CO2), a Yale geophysicist has found after pooling data taken over the past 50 years. With the oceans currently absorbing over 40 percent of the CO2 emitted by human activity, this could quicken the pace of climate change - Ryan

A U.S. Department of Agriculture grant allows students in Hawaii and Alaska to experience both. "Our grant is unique in that we're meshing the two together. So we're actually sharing resources and sharing our students across the two states." - Ryan

Comparing the hammerheads with pointy nosed species, the team found that the scalloped hammerheads had the largest monocular visual field, at an amazing 182 degree, and the bonnethead had a 176 degree visual field. - Ryan

UH began to implement IPv6 on network connections in 2001 to participate in international telemedicine demonstrations with Japan. The university has currently implemented IPv6, in parallel with IPv4, on its statewide network and over its national and international connections. - Ryan

These will be the first traffic cams in Windward Oahu tied into the city's Traffic Management Center. Currently, the city has 131 cameras in use at major intersections between West Oahu and Hawaii Kai. - Ryan

NASA has selected for development 368 small business innovation projects that include research to minimize aging of aircraft, new techniques for suppressing fires on spacecraft and advanced transmitters for deep space communications. - Ryan

Both companies have agreed to reduce the term of the sales agreement by one year, and to delay the first shipment date from December 2009 to December 2010. This will result in a ten percent reduction of the total volume of polysilicon to be sold by Hoku to Jinko. - Ryan

King David Kalakaua was on his deathbed in San Francisco when the historic recording was made by a representative of the Thomas Edison Company. - Ryan

Martin Sabarsky is living this harsh life. The chief operating officer of the 5-year-old HR BioPetroleum -- an algae biofuel start-up with operations in both Hawaii and San Diego -- is the epitome of today's early-stage biotech executive. - Ryan