After Mr. Duke’s sister died of diabetes last week, we decided to be proactive and do a diabetes test and a general exam. He took the long ride to the vet late yesterday afternoon, crying the whole way from his carrier safely in the back of our little VW Jetta station wagon.
That’s Duke, under the [...]
Entries Tagged as 'General'
Duke cried all the way to the vet
February 1st, 2010 · 4 Comments · General
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UH dean on “House Hunters”, the financial industry’s double standard, and Moscow’s dogs
January 29th, 2010 · 5 Comments · Dogs, General, Politics
Did you catch Maenette Behnam, dean of the UH Manoa School of Hawaiian Knowledge, featured in a recent episode of HGTV’s House Hunters?
Here’s the promo for the episode:
Maenette and Bob Benham live in a two-bedroom, two-bathroom condo in downtown Honolulu with their two young children, Kiana and Kaimi. The place has become much too small [...]
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Two morning views from Kaaawa
January 28th, 2010 · No Comments · General
What a difference a few minutes can make.
Here are two views yesterday morning in Kaaawa as the sun worked its way towards the horizon.
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Celebrating Ms. Maka: April 30, 2002 – January 26, 2010
January 27th, 2010 · 4 Comments · General
Mr. Duke and Ms. Maka were born in 2002 on a sofa bed in the little Waikiki apartment that I use as an office. I created all sorts of nests around the edges of the room. Their mother ignored those and sat in the middle of the sofa. By the time I arrived, she had [...]
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What do you think: “Should this blog accept political advertising?”
January 27th, 2010 · 22 Comments · Blogs, General, Politics
I’m interested in reader reaction to this question.
At present, I don’t really have an advertising “policy” except that I’ve tucked a few national ads in the sidebars, with only minimal control from my end on the content. I can, and have, excluded specific advertisers because their views/values are just too contrary to my own, but [...]
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Bill to remove restrictions on corporate contributions approved by House Judiciary Committee
January 27th, 2010 · 6 Comments · General, Politics
It didn’t take House Judiciary Chairman Jon Riki Karamatsu very long to prompt Common Cause Hawaii to raise an alarm.
Yesterday Karamatsu’s committee quickly passed HB 2249, which he introduced, that would remove certain restrictions on corporate campaign contributions. It is a single-referral bill, meaning that this was its only review by a committee in the [...]
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Improved financial results for Star-Bulletin owner Black Press, and Judiciary web site gets a makeover
January 26th, 2010 · 2 Comments · General, Media, Sunshine
Things look like they may be turning around for Black Press, the Victoria-based company controlled by David Black that owns the Honolulu Star-Bulletin, Mid-Week, the Akron Beacon-Journal, and over 100 small community newspapers in the U.S. and Canada.
The main source of public information about the company’s financial situation are the regular reports issued by Torstar [...]
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UH-Manoa Faculty Senate calls selection process for cancer center director biased and contrary to policies
January 24th, 2010 · 3 Comments · General, Politics
The University of Hawaii-Manoa Faculty Senate adopted a strongly-worded resolution last week criticizing Chancellor Virginia Hinshaw for bias and violations of university procedures and practices in the conduct of the search that led to the selection of a new director of the Cancer Research Center of Hawaii in 2009.
The draft resolution, which is available [...]
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