My knees and I used to be friends. After all, I made it through the high risk period, back when I played basketball, without scalpel or scar, unlike a lot of my friends. Perhaps I failed to pay enough attention to my knees, which tend to be overlooked when they are working just fine. Perhaps [...]
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Here’s my favorite quote that surfaced yesterday: Arizona State Senator Lori Klein, Herman Cain’s Arizona campaign chair, quoted by CBS News: In politics, she said, “we want a virgin to do a hooker’s job.” Ooops. An abbreviated version of this entry was posted by accident this morning. Isn’t language a great thing? That third-person phrasing [...]
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A week ago, we were visiting friends in Northern Virginia in advance of Meda’s American Society of Criminology annual meeting. Mornings were cool, and we followed a trail that led around Burke Lake. Leaves were still spreading fall colors across the landscape. We got back to Hawaii late on Friday, and for the past two [...]
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We’ve been away from home this week, so I don’t have any updates on our Kaaawa cats. But we spent the weekend before Meda’s conference with friends and their two cats, Sally & Sylvester, who have agreed to make a guest appearance on this Feline Friday. Actually, Sylvester just has a small supporting role, while [...]
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Here’s one way to escape APEC–get on a plane and fly to Chicago and beyond. Yup. We got out of Dodge. This involved an evening flight out of Honolulu, and arriving in Chicago in time to watch the sunrise. We’re off to Washington, D.C. after a short layover. I’m accompanying Meda to the annual meeting [...]
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APEC isn’t the only game in town. And the Asia-Pacific region looks a lot different when viewed from the top 1% and from the bottom 99%. Luckily, you’ve still got lots of time to feed your brain with counter-APEC activities featuring alternative viewpoints on globalization, militarism, and development in the region. MOANA NUI 2011 CONFERENCE [...]
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Two rainy mornings. Two very different images. Enjoy them both. Top photo: Tuesday morning, a rainbow rain. Bottom photo: Wednesday morning, after the heavy rain. Both photos taken with Canon S90.
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Here are several of morning photos to start your week. #1: Sunday morning. Fisherman on the beach in Kaaawa. #2: Monday morning. Sunrise. Mokapu Peninsula in the background. #3: Rainbow. On the way home, the morning rain did its thing.
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