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Community Voice
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9th
Life Hawai‘i
Kitty Of The Week
CAMMIE
Cammie is
a female Tortie with the most beautiful green eyes. She
is very mellow, and very good with other cats. Won't someone
give her a "forever" home?
9th
Life Hawai‘i is a non-profit, non-kill 501C3 organization
dedicated to the protection of homeless cats on Maui. To adopt a
cat, donate, or volunteer please call Phyllis Tavares at 572-3499
or visit online at www.9thlifehawaii.org.
The Amazing Mind
Anyone who
thinks computers are closing in on the human mind in terms of
power, should read this, then try it in a text recognition program:
I cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty usdnatnrd waht I was rdgnieg.
The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid.
Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't
mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoatnt
tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae.
The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit
a porbelm.
Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef,
but the wrod as a wlohe.
Amzanig huh ? Yaeh and I awlyas thought slpeling was ipmorantt
!!
Tim
Dolan,
Alberta, Canada
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| New
Year's Resolutions
Yippy! It’s the new year, 2006. I have written a few checks
and now have the six down instead of the five. Last year sure flew
by!
What did I do? What did I accomplish? Did I act in a responsible
and respectful way towards my family, friends, and acquaintences
and others who I do not know so well? Did I appreciate how beautiful
Maui is everyday, or did I gripe about things and not always smell
the roses?
Everyone talks about New Year’s resolutions, bringing in the
new and throwing out the old. I have thrown away a lot of stuff
since the New Year, and wonder how I could accumulate so much when
so many have so little! Count your blessings, I say, as I dispose
of my Christmas tree (mulch them and they will enrich the soil).
I am amazed at the overwhelming amount of boxes and packaging material
that I received during the holidays. Its astounding how much more
groceries we bought during the holidays, plus a few more pounds
that I gained from the rich holiday food.
Oh well, it was worth it! I shall swim, surf, bike, run or walk,
hike, go to the gym and lose some of the excess pounds. I have been
saying that for a while, but I will try again – that’s
an oldie but goody resolution.
However, for the first 13 days of this year, I have tried to dispose
of negativity and everyday I have smiled and made someone happy.
By doing such a simple act think how much better the world will
be…
Alan
Correa,
Olinda
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Reporter
Stonewalled
I was turned
down at HC&S Sugar HQ Puunene, a Maui subisdiary of A&B,
from covering a story of repeat siphoning of gasoline and repeat
vandalism at their parked fleets of trucks.
My on scene request for permission for access eventually led, on
the phone, to a Linda Howe, of A&B, in Honolulu, who said: “We
did not call you and we are not interested in your doing this story.”
Apparently A&B feels that the news media in Hawai‘i, and
on especially Maui, is something to be summoned, like a dog, when
its that major corporation’s pleasure.
I reminded Ms. Howe that I am a fully credentialed news reporter
and did not have to await theirs, nor anyone else’s permission
in order to cover any news story.
She then demanded to know the name of my boss. “I want to
talk with him.”
“You are talking with him,” I told her. “I am
a freelancer, and my own boss.” And so here’s that story:
HC&S fleets of trucks, particularly at their Kahua plantation
region, (below Pukalani, deep in the cane fields) have repeatedly
been hit by siphoning of gasoline and random acts of wild vandalism.
Despite the clear presence of video surveillance, some of the thieves
brazenly go about their rip-offs full-face, on camera.
That, in seeming contempt of any possible retaliation.
Major question: Why does HC&S/A&B express a policy to keep
such brazen and frequent crimes a company secret?
Mauka
Simpson,
Kihei
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