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Bad choices behind could
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YELLOW RIBBON TIME: Welcome home to Danny Kennedy of the Mana'o Company, back on Oahu after doing time for bad choices made between break-up of the original group and the success of the reorganized Mana'o Company in 2001. The group's comeback album, "Spread A Little Aloha," won five Hoku Awards in 2002, including two individual awards for Kennedy as co-producer of the album and composer of "Aloha," the winner in the Song of the Year category. Three years later, Kennedy has paid his "debt to society," and Hawaii's self-styled "island music" radio stations should come together and co-promote a "Welcome Home, Danny!" concert. Kennedy contributed a lot to local music over the years as the leader of Mana'o Company, and several former members of the group say they're open to a reunion concert ...

HAPPY BIRTHDAY: To Katie Leiva and Jacqueline "Skylark" Rosetti, who are celebrating today ... also to Sean D, Frank DeLima and Mike Kelly (Friday), Russell Tanoue (Saturday), and Rufus Demarco (Sunday) ...

RECOMMENDED READING: Retired LAPD detective Mark Fuhrman offers a fresh look at the life and death of Terri Schiavo in his book "Silent Witness." Fuhrman bypasses the "right to die" vs. "right to life" and "who should have custody" controversies, and explores the question of what caused Schiavo's brain damage. Fuhrman does not accuse Michael Schiavo of deliberately or accidentally causing the brain damage, but shows how Michael fits the profile of an abusive spouse, and says that the known facts indicate that Schiavo lied about something that happened that morning. Fuhrman adds that if Terri Schiavo had died in 1990, much more effort would have been made to determine the actual sequence of events and Michael Schiavo probably would have ended up telling the truth -- whatever it may be. "Silent Witness" is a fascinating look at police procedures and a chilling look at a modern American horror story ...

FLUNKING SCIENCE: Someone should tell the people at the ad agency representing GEICO Insurance that geckos aren't amphibians, they're reptiles ...