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March 17, 2007 - Saturday [ permalink ]
I should probably celebrate St. Patrick's Day, given that my great-grandfather Robert Cathcart hailed from County Down, but it was not something we did growing up and I've never gotten in the habit as an adult. We'll see what happens later in the day.
Superferry supporters sent out an email yesterday urging people to vote NO on a Star-Bulletin poll on whether an environmental impact statement should be required.
If some politicians have their way and require an environmental impact study, Hawaii Superferry will never launch.
Let your voice be heard today! Respond to the Star Bulletin poll at http://starbulletin.com/poll and VOTE NO.
Do not let the special interest groups take away your Superferry!
I wonder what "special interest groups" they're talking about?
Interesting split in the Senate over Glenn Kim's appointment to a spot in Circuit Court. The 16-9 vote, with both the Judiciary chairman and Senate President voting in the minority, is most intriguing. Thanks to the Star-Bulletin for identifying votes for and against, a detail which apparently was considered too "insider" for the Adveriser, although those votes are what offer clues to the politics involved.
Am I suprised that Clayton Hee played the bully again in this case? Not at all. Am I surprised by the floor vote? Yes.
A reader commented: "One must wonder whose running the Senate these days and whether Hee’s circuses were sound and fury signifying nothing other than to garner lots of “face time” on televised media."
Here's one that was making the rounds online recently among members of Investigative Reporters & Editors. It's an all too revealing listing for a panel scheduled at the upcoming conference of the Radio and Television News Directors Association in Las Vegas.
Does BIG-J Get in the Way?
Educators are often accused of pushing “Big-J” ideals that set students up to fail when they encounter the realities of the newsroom. Engage in a lively discussion over whether teachers are placing unrealistic ideas in students’ heads that are out of synch with today’s reporting. Are newsrooms straying so far from journalistic ethics that students find themselves between a rock and a hard place?
This prompted a tongue-in-cheek suggestion for the news directors in a subsequent online discussion: "The word “news” is still in the organization’s name right? – I move it be stricken in the interest of accuracy."
Say what? From yesterday's Honolulu Advertiser:
He said the boy is not disputing saying "f------ haole" but is disputing the context in which the words were used. The boy was not referring to the Dussells, Eddins said, but the remark was "more generic" and the teenager meant the two were "acting like f------ haoles."
"I think anybody who has grown up here in Hawai'i realizes when somebody says somebody is acting like a f------ haole, it's not necessarily directed specifically at that person, but more as a generic type of definition of behavior," said Eddins, who was born and raised here.
"This is too good," one reader commented yesterday in an email. "Hey brah, I neva call him 'fucking haole.' I call him da kine 'generic fucking haole.' " In all, a very sad commentary on contemporary island life and social relations.
March 16, 2007 - Friday
Yesterday was another two newspaper day, with differing takes on the closure of Kaimuki's Columbia Inn.
An Advertiser story appeared to place responsiblity for the closure on a decision by the restaurant's owners.
Casupang said he was not part of the decision to close the restaurant. He said the owners, who operate as NuSwiss LLC, still have about 14 years left on their lease with the Kaimuki Shopping Center.
"They can't just terminate (the lease)," said Casupang, who helped the Nguyens open the Kaimuki restaurant. "They can't. But they've done it, so I don't know what's next."
Meanwhile, the Star-Bulletin cited a sign posted on the door of the closed restaurant which blamed the shopping center management for forcing the shut-down.
The note told customers that the Columbia Inn was "forced" to close after unsuccessfully trying to negotiate a deal with its landlord to stay open. The landlord also refused a signed offer from a chain interested in taking over the restaurant and keeping most of its 50-plus employees, the sign said.
One reader commented:
Naturally, there's a landlord-tenant issue involved. The Bulletin story blames "the landlord," but there's no comment from the landlord and it's not clear the paper even attempted to identify or find them. That's pretty bad. The Tiser story appears to blame the restaurant owners, saying they still had time on their lease, but the Tiser said it could not reach them for comment. Sometimes I think papers have failed to see that all landlord-tenant stories need to be treated with the same level of caution as accident stories: Trust no one and talk to everyone. This should be basic reporting.
A USA editorial this morning nails a vital issue in the spreading scandal surrounding the firing of eight federal prosecutors. Here's a section from a much longer editorial.
* Was the administration trying to stop investigations of powerful Republicans? There's no hard evidence, but there's one curious detail in the e-mail traffic about fired prosecutor Carol Lam, of San Diego.
Lam started the probe that sent GOP congressman Randy "Duke" Cunningham to prison last year and resulted in the recent indictments of a top CIA official and a well-connected contractor. On May 11, the Los Angeles Times reported that the investigation resulting in Cunningham's conviction was expanding to include another powerful Republican, Rep. Jerry Lewis, of California. That same day, Sampson e-mailed a White House aide asking him to call to discuss "the real problem we have right now with Carol Lam."
Congressional investigators might want to ask what that "real problem" was. On Thursday, the Senate Judiciary Committee cleared the way to issue subpoenas for five Justice officials to testify about their roles in the firings. It put off for a week a vote on subpoenas for Rove, Miers and another White House aide.
Testimony from all those involved is needed because getting the full story is the only way to restore faith in the independence of federal prosecutors.
Wow. We're getting somewhere. Now its time for Congressional Democrats to push their investigation carefully but aggressively forward.
The flap over a "no photographs" policy for a CIA recruiting lecture at UH Hilo continues to reverberate over at Hunter Bishop's blog, where he exchanges views with Star-Bulletin reporter Rod Thompson.
The Big Island Press Club has announced its annual awards for best and worst in the world of access to information.
For defying the state Office of Information Practices’ directives to make public the minutes and audio tape of the meeting at which charter schools director Jim Shon was fired in September, the Hawaii state Board of Education is the 2007 recipient of the Big Island Press Club’s Lava Tube Award.
Lava Tube awards are presented annually to recognize the worst examples of openness in the state.
The Board of Education eventually released minutes of the closed-door meeting, revealing how individual members voted on Shon’s firing, but not until after the November general election when several members were seeking re-election. The audio tape of the meeting is still being withheld by the board despite repeated notices that its refusal to release the tape is illegal.
Also this year the Press Club is presenting its Torch of Light award, recognizing the best example of openness in Hawaii, to West Hawaii Today for uncovering and reporting on a previously secret case in the state Judiciary.
The Press Club’s board of directors has presented these awards annually since 1997.
Details are available in the full press release.
| It's Feline Friday again, and I grabbed this photo of Mr. Toby coming out of the shadows on our front deck.
I was trying for a picture and he was trying for a full frontal head bash complete with the drool of pleasure. I got the photo just before the moment of impact. I gues that means it was a win-win encounter.
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March 15, 2007 - Thursday [ permalink ]
Beware the Ides of March. Who knows what's in store today....
A tip: If you can claim a university affiliation, or at least an educational email address, you can now get the NY Times "Select" content for free rather than paying an annual subscription, according to Editor & Publisher.
The New York Times is opening up access permanently to TimesSelect to all students and faculty who have .edu e-mail addresses beginning on March 13.
So brush of those old hawaii.edu addresses and see if they're still active.
[Update: Oops. Not so fast! An alert reader dug out the actual NYT offer, and "free" is a bit of an overstatement.
What is TimesSelect University?
TimesSelect University is a new, special offer for college students and faculty that extends to them a 50% discount off the $49.95 annual subscription fee for TimesSelect, the online service from The New York Times. The annual TimesSelect University rate is $24.95.
Another element of TimesSelect University involves free access to TimesSelect for college students and faculty whose colleges participate in a New York Times readership program, whereby the colleges receive bulk delivery of the paper on their campuses. It is available to college students and faculty who subscribe to The Times through their college bookstores or other vendors. Free access is available through access cards distributed each semester by the administrators of the delivery of the Times at each University.
So no free lunch, or free TimesSelect, after all.
The headline in the today's NY Times signaled the appropriate degree of skepticism concerning the "confession" of Khalid Shaikh Mohammed: "Suspected Leader of 9/11 Attacks Is Said to Confess".
Subtle use of the three words inserted in the headline: "is said to" changes the headline from an announcement of the confession to a reporting of the government claim to have a valid confession.
The rest of the media, though, has been wallowing in the propaganda trough. Last night broadcast news anchors were referring to the government-supplied transcript as "hard evidence" of Mohammed's role. What? Hard evidence is fingerprints at the scene, the stolen swag found in your back seat, tapes of the conversations where the caper is planned, not a government-issued press release emerging from the American Gulag in the Caribbean where rights have largely ceased to exist.
The Times further qualifies its story. Although this is buried deep in the story, it's way more than we've seen in other media:
It is not clear how many of Mr. Mohammed’s expansive claims were legitimate. In 2005, the Sept. 11 commission said that Mr. Mohammed was noted for his extravagant ambitions, and, using his initials, described his vision as “theater, a spectacle of destruction with KSM as the self-cast star, the superterrorist.”
What's being alleged may or may not be true, in whole or in part, but it's clear that this transcript provides little in the way of real evidence to settle the question.
It's becoming clearer that the push for a University of Hawaii West Oahu campus isn't about education. It's about land development. UH officials are hard pressed to deliver a coherent educational rationale for building a new campus at the same time the existing system is hurting for resources. Key UH officials are publicly sticking with the company line but privately are telling legislators that they oppose the West Oahu plan and will be hurt by its development.
But now that the land deal is close to taking shape, the players become clearer. Gordon Pang's story in this morning's Advertiser about the upcoming deal with Hunt Building Corp. helps point the way: Pang notes:
Hunt and the university are coordinating design and construction of roads, water, sewer and other infrastructure improvements in the area along with the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands and D.R. Horton Schuler, which also have substantial housing projects going up in the fast-growing area.
Folks at Manoa had better get used to the run down facilities and stripped down budgets if this deal continues along the greased skids.
| Today's gallery of Kaaawa dogs includes Ms. Inu, shown here. She's focused on the ball that her person is preparing to fling with the assistance of something called a Chuckit! Ball Launcher, sort of a long, curved plastic spoon with a grabber on the end to hold the ball. It gives added leverage for throwing. |
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It looked familiar to me, and I quickly realized why. It's just a modern copy of an ancient tool known as an atlatl. Ancient atlatl's were used to throw a small arrow or dart and, according to one web site, was "used longer by humans than any other weapon system yet developed." And dogs now get the benefit of human's early discovery of the physics of leverage.
March 14, 2007 - Wednesday
If you can, pick up the new issue of Honolulu Weekly, which should be in their street racks later this morning. I've got an interesting little piece in there just in time for this Saturday's Media Justice Conference. This one started with the question raised here about what happened to the web site of Ka Leo, the UH Manoa student newspaper. The answer to that led in a very unexpected direction and ran directly into issues of media consolidation and corporate control. Very interesting. Unfortunately, it won't be online for a bit. I'll post a bit more about it tomorrow for folks who can't get to a copy of the Weekly.
| It was an unusually colorful dawn yesterday as the front edge of the storm reached Oahu. Almost the entire sky was painted in color during the 10 minutes or more before the sun finally made its appearance. As we got the the corner by the Kaaawa fire station, a very unusual pre-dawn rainbow appeared. The sun, just below the horizon, wasn't yet visible but its reflections were apparently enough to light the somewhat eery rainbow. |
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This report of a "no photos" briefing on the UH Hilo campus came in last week from Jim Albertini on the Big Island:
A "CIA clandestine operative" gave a public recruiting lecture at University of Hawaii at Hilo (UHH) 5PM at UCB Room 111 today, Thursday, March 8, 2007. The meeting was announced in the University calendar and open to the public. People were told that no photography (stills or video) of the CIA employee or his power point presentation were allowed.
Former Marine and UHH Director of Career Services, Dr. Norman Stahl, threatened Hawaii Tribune-Herald staff photographer, William Ing, with bodily ejection by security guards if he took even one photo. Student Global HOPE leader Justin Avery, was told he could not use his video camera. Malu Aina peace organization also intended to take still photos and video of the presentation.
Several people lined the wall holding signs of protest: "Stop CIA torture; CIA blood money; Intelligence Agency? Is torture intelligent? CIA is government terrorism; A person dressed as the Grimm Reaper waving a wad of phony money stood near the front of the lecture room with a sign that said: Join the CIA: learn to kill, torture and overthrow elected governments.
Jim Albertini of Malu Aina said his organization is going to file a complaint with UHH Chancellor Rose Tseng, and Vice Chancellor of Student Affairs, Keith Miser. "Banning photos and threatening bodily ejection for taking photos at a public lecture at a State University is totally inappropriate," said Albertini. "If the CIA "spook" doesn't want his photo taken then he shouldn't be giving a public recruiting lecture at a public university," Albertini said.
And, finally, a consumer tip from Bob Jones:
This might interest your readers (and warn them, too):
By chance (I rarely check the small stuff) I noticed three 75-cent charges on my current Hawaiian Telcom bill listed as "three-way calls." Since I don't do any of those (and mine were all listed within a single one-minute period on one day) I called customer service.
Guess what? They tell me that on ALL phones, if you hang up and redial another number within 10 seconds, the call gets recorded as a 3-way call and you get the 75-cent charge! You must stay on hang-up for a minimum of 10 seconds and then dial your next number!
"Most people don't know that," the customer-service woman told me.
You have to instruct Hawaiian Telcom to block that feature on your phone.
So it would seem that I've been paying many 75-cent charges, in error, since Hawaiian Telcom took over.
Why wouldn't they send a letter to all customers alerting them to this?
Check your own phone bills.
March 13, 2007 - Tuesday [ permalink ]
Regarding Haliburton's move to Dubai, a reader observes: "More to the point, do we have an extradition treaty there? Pretty hard to serve a congressional subpoena over there, in any case."
If anywhere near Kaaawa, please keep an eye out for this lost dog! Here's the message I received last night:
i was told about your website through a friend. i contact you in need of some help. we live in the kaaawa area a few houses past kualoa point. we currently own a rednose pitbull name maka he is medium bulit about 55-60lbs very friendly he has a bright reddish brown tan fur. we came home to an empty yard with no dog in it apparently he got out about an hour or two before we got home. we search high and low in the bushes even the coast line no sign of him he is so friendly i think someone has him.are you able to get the word out for us he is like my son and my heart aches for him. i will attach a pic to this email. he has no leash on him he does have a microchip in him he also has crop ears.
If you see Maka, please call 636-5003.
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"The PeopleSoft/HFIMS system consists of software modules that are two versions old and no longer supported by PeoleSoft (nka Oracle/PeopleSoft). In other worlds, Oracle/PeopleSoft will no longer assist the EUTF in handling breakdowns or correcting problems with this version of the software or making necessary modifications or upgrades to this version of the software."
So we're paying over a million bucks for the privilege of continuing to rely on obsolete software? I wonder how many other state departments are running on obsolete software and how much this cost-saving measure is costing us?
Here's an interesting story on a survey of ad spending in 2006 showing local newspapers' share of ad revenues dropped 3.3 percent during the year. Meanwhile, Internet ad spending grew 17.3 percent, although it is still relatively small compared to traditional media.
From Lani somewhere in Hawaii:
This is regarding the Lex Brodie lawsuit story you wrote (Honolulu Weekly, Dec 13, 2006).. It's a good thing I found your article just now, because we were wondering why we got a check for $48 today from the administrator for Herring v. Finova Hawaiian Holdings. There was no explanation, and it was a complete mystery to us until I read your story! Thanks for the enlightenment---good job!
And one reader commented on the house for sale down the street:
I must say that your idea of a bit of money and mine are vastly different! I eagerly clicked on the link you provided to the home (it is indeed lovely) and nearly spewed coffee on the keyboard when I saw the price of nearly a million and a half. ! It looks like we'll be renting for the remainder of our natural lives given the cost of buying a home in what I consider a suitable neighborhood.
"A bit of money" was obviously my reportorial understatement, and I apologize for the narrowly averted coffee spew.
March 12, 2007 - Monday [ permalink ]
| Have I mentioned the Great Wall of Tonga? Probably not. It was too stressful an experience while it was in progress, and it's taken a while for the heart rate to slow. Enough time has finally simply be glad that the threat of erosion along the side of our house has been handled. Why do we refer it that way? Because it seemed to take a whole Tongan village to get the job done. |
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This was a Wall Street Journal news alert yesterday: "Halliburton will shift its corporate headquarters from Houston to Dubai, CEO Dave Lesar announced. "
So does this mean Cheney will be moving to Dubai when his term as vice-president is over?
MidWeek took a thumping in Hawaii Threads this past week. Check it out.
The Star-Bulletin announced two new hires last week in messages sent out to staff. This from business editor Ken Andrade:
"I'm happy to announce that Jennifer Sudick will be joining the Business desk next week. Jennifer is a 2006 master's graduate of Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism. She recently finished an internship with Bloomberg News Service in New York City, and has previously interned at the Spokesman-Review in Spokane, Wash., as well as the Statesman Journal in Salem, Ore.
Her primary responsibilities will be overnight layout/wire/copy editing, but she's looking forward to pitching in on the reporting side as well.
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From Ed Lynch:
"I'm happy to annnounce that Laurie Au will be returning to the city desk.Laurie was a summer intern about three years ago and did a great job for us.
Since then, she has graduated from the University of Maryland and has had reporting internships at both the Kansas City Star and the Tacoma News-Tribune.
She will start work as a general assignment reporter on March 26. Please welcome her back.
Meanwhile, veteran reporters at the Advertiser showed their stuff today. Derrick DePledge offers an excellent account behind-the-scenes of the civil unions debate at the legislature, the kind of analysis we don't get to read very often. Johnny Brannon and Will Hoover look at the city's new commuter ferry with a critical eye, noting that there no companies responsed to the city's first request for interest in such a project, forcing the city to barge ahead by direct negotiations with a particular firm. Although saying they expect a July launch, the story notes that "important details — such as leasing the ferries and bringing them to Hawai'i — are still in the works." I'd say having ferries is more than a detail. But the story sets up the critical questions.
Thanks to the Advertiser for both of these.
The Washington Post reports a rules change for the Combined Federal Campaign, the annual charity drive at federal work sites, that is drawing protests from the nonprofit world. With the big federal presence in Hawaii, this becomes a local issue as well.
March 11, 2007 - Sunday [ permalink ]
If you know someone with a bit of money who's looking for a great home in the country, please let them know about this house in Kaaawa that recently went onto the market. It's just down the street from us and we'll vouch for the neighborhood. The first public open house is set for this afternoon. We would welcome another set of good neighbors! And they can even count on visits from Mr. Toby!
I noted that yesterday's AP story on the Lingle real estate deal went into the vague third person to avoid citing iLind.net as the source of "questions about Lingle's property dealings":
Questions about Lingle's property dealings arose because her sale of the condo was not listed on the Internet among her annual financial disclosure filings with the state Ethics Commission.
Hmmm. I wonder whether anyone else had raised questions prior to my entry? I don't think so.
I also checked further yesterday and, despite the assertion by Lenny Klompus that Lingle purchased a larger unit in the Hawaii Kai project, real estate records show her new apartment is exactly the same 1,287 square feet as the original unit, but located one floor higher. Meaning? Unknown. Maybe just a better view.
The Advertiser had a breaking news entry early this morning reporting police en route to Yokohama Bay where as many as 20 carloads of people were believed to be preparing for a fight. The brief entry notes:
Confrontations between large numbers of people are not uncommon along the Waianae Coast, or elsewhere on O'ahu, especially on weekend nights.
If that's true, then why haven't reporters been digging into the matter? What's going on?
Washington Post columnist Bill Arkin, who I met many years ago while researching the storage of nuclear weapons in Hawaii, had a good column last week on the budget context of the Walter Reed scandal.
Sometime in late February or early March back in1996, Meda and I started walking daily, and it quickly became our routine to walk to the beach on the other end of Kaaawa in time to watch the sunrise. We've now finished our 11th year of what has become a regular daily ritual. With mornings missed for health or scheduling reasons, we've probably watched over 3,800 sunrises, walked well over 11,000 miles, and I've taken I don't know how many thousand photos.
Eleven years down, and I'm hoping for many more years of the same.
March 10, 2007 - Saturday [ permalink ]
Russell Pang, the governor's chief of media relations, responded yesterday to the report of Lingle's condo sale & quick profit:
I want to set the record straight regarding your March 8 blog post about Governor Lingle’s financial disclosure reports, specifically relating to a transaction of a condominium in Hawai‘i Kai.
Here are the facts regarding the Governor’s full disclosure of this property.
• April 13, 2005, Hawai‘i State Ethics Commission Disclosure of Financial Interest Report – property in Peninsula Hawai‘i Kai listed as “addition in interest.”
• April 7, 2006, Hawai‘i State Ethics Commission Disclosure of Financial Interest Report – the property is listed as “interest in real property held.”
• Note: The property was sold on April 28, 2006
• August 15, 2006, Hawai‘i State Ethics Commission Candidates Disclosure of Financial Interest Report – property was listed as “Transferred” (sold) with a value of “I” ($500,000-$750,000).
• February 1, 2007, Hawai‘i State Ethics Commission Disclosure of Financial Interest Report – Governor checked, “I have no changes to report since my last filing.”
The fact is, you ignored the August 15, 2006 report which fully disclosed the sale of the property.
All of these documents were properly filed and are on record with the Hawai‘i State Ethics Commission.
And I replied:
Thanks for your clarification.
I will report it tomorrow.
My own reading of disclosure requirement is straight forward.
The required candidate's statement appears distinct from and difference in substance from the annual report required of elected officials and others.
For example, the annual report includes the relevant information for spouses and dependent children, whereas the candidate disclosure covers only the candidate personally.
The disclosure period for the governor's annual filing is for the calendar year "from January 1 of the preceding calendar year to the time of the filing of the employee's or legislator's disclosure of financial interests. " Section 84-17 HRS.
I don't believe that the filing of a candidate disclosure is a substitute for the subsequent filing of the regular annual report covering the full calendar year in which the election is held. In fact, this is written into the statute in the same section, which requires filing of an annual report, going back over the previous calendar year, within 30 days of one's election or appointment. Clearly, this indicates that the candidate report is not a substitute for the full filing going back to January 1 of the prior year.
Admittedly, the overlapping candidate and annual disclosure requirements are perhaps confusing, but the disclosure period for the regular annual report seems very clearly stated in statute.
In any case, thanks for your reply.
An Associated Press story on the matter by Mark Niesse appears in today's Star-Bulletin. It adds that Lingle turned around and reinvested her profit in another more expensive condo. This transaction does not appear in the financial disclosure filed this year and wasn't mentioned in Pang's reply, although like the sale it was perhaps reported in her candidate disclosure.
Dan Mollway, executive director of the State Ethics Commission, is also quoted:
"I don't think she can be said to have violated the state ethics laws, because she was doing what she thought was appropriate and complying with the law," Mollway said. "Given the lack of clarity between the candidates' disclosures and the annual disclosures, that's quite understandable."
Read another way, Mollway confirms that Lingle didn't comply with the disclosure requirement but said the confusion between the candidate disclosure and annual disclosure is "understandable".
I would say that it's understandable for a first time candidate but Lingle is a political veteran who has been through the drill many times before and should have known better. This should also prompt the Ethics Commission to quickly advise elected officials that their annual disclosures are just that, annual, and should cover the full prior year.
March 9, 2007 - Friday [ permalink ]
USA Today published a story earlier this week describing "racial tensions" in Hawaii. The story describes the recent "road rage" incident on Aha and an incident in January on the Big Island where haole campers were beaten by a group of local men. This latter case earned just a brief mention in the Star-Bulletin a month after it occurred, although it was reported by West Hawaii Today on January 31.
The underlying theme of the USA Today story is that such incidents are deliberately under reported.
Racial troubles in the islands usually don't get much public discussion. In a tourism-dependent state, talk about tensions is "like news about shark attacks," says Jon Van Dyke, a University of Hawaii law professor. "People are afraid they might lose customers."
A serious charge, but I'd be hard pressed to say that it's not true.
Several people commented on Gov. Lingle's success in the real estate market, although I didn't see any mainstream folo this morning. Here's one reader's reaction:
waitaminute. While publicly turning up her nose at real estate flipping, lingle bought and sold a condo within 15 months for a $180,000 gain? That's priceless. Why hasn't the media here jumped on this yet? Considering that some legislators want to punish flippers by creating a new state law, the whole issue is crying out for an enterprise piece on state officials who have flipped real estate for profit. or does this not fit the criteria of "relevant, compelling and interesting" for the local press?
Have I mentioned my camera? It's a Canon 350D, a digital SLR not quite two years old, and last weekend it suddenly stopped working and signalled "ERR99". Turns out error 99 is a general error message that could indicate a wide variety of problems. But after trying to replicate the error various ways, I believe the problem is really with my favorite everyday lens, a Canon 17-85mm zoom. Now I've got to find the time to deliver camera and lens to Canon to the lens fixed and the combo checked. I'm not a happy camper.
| Feline Friday this week features Kili and Wally, the two sisters we rescued back at the beginning of 1998. We were surprised to realize that they're now nine years old and the senior cats in our current household. Click on the photo for a larger version. |
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