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Okay, so UH gets a $5 million donation to renovate its athletic facilities and, in the process, Cooke Field becomes Ching Field, part of the soon to be constructed Clarence T.C. … Does the Ching Complex deal include some provision that this time the name remains in perpetuity, or will it also be subject to being pushed aside for a future generation donor?

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The Star-Bulletin’s Craig Gima has a story today confirming that UH Hilo Chancellor Rose Tseng will leave her position at the end of 2009 before taking a year’s leave of absence. But the board required Tseng to return to the university after her leave, although what she would do is still to be negotiated. Gima [...]

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We arrived home safely and only a little late after full United flights yesterday from Baltimore to Denver, and Denver to Honolulu. The cats all checked in relatively quickly, which is always a relief. A reader pointed me to this recent computer security analysis of something called iFrame attacks which reported 992 pages on the [...]

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Meda thinks my attachment to an old, worn wallet is a sign of a deep-seated gender-based affliction. For a long time she’s been not too subtly hinting that it was time for a replacement. “Every time you would pull it out, it would be an embarrassment,” Meda says So she started bringing home suggested replacements. [...]

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News about news…Starting with a loud “Welcome back” to Ragnar Carlson, who takes over this week as editor of Honolulu Weekly. Ragnar was at the Weekly previously before heading off to San Francisco several years ago. A Google search turns up a bunch of things written for the Weekly in 2005. His Friendster profile describes [...]

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I was a little surprised to see that KITV’s Daryl Huff not only stopped writing his blog, but also obliterated its history by deleting even the completed entries. Enter the web address and you get a message from WordPress.com: “The authors have deleted this blog. The content is no longer available.” Steve Laudig makes an [...]

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We got down to the beach one morning earlier this week and discovered that city crews had cut down several of the trees at Kalaeoio Beach Park just as you enter Kaaawa from Kualoa. Perhaps they were dangerous, although this tree has survived for years with its roots partially exposed by the seasonal erosion of [...]

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This report from Chuck Freedman, a once-upon-a-time member of the administration of former Gov. John Waihee and most recently on the staff of House Majority Leader Kurt Caldwell: The prelims of the Hawaii State Democratic Party Convention are more than living up to the billing of biggest ever. The exhibition hall outside main conference room [...]

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