| Fool me once, shame on you...
This young bald eagle has been fooled by the decoy duck set by Robert Jacobson in front of their cottage on the Ford River this August. Jacobson said it stayed about five minutes trying to pull the decoy away, but could not outpull the No. 12 electrical wire the decoy was tied down with. It tried again and failed Oct. 18. Jacobson used a Konica/Minolta digital camera. .
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It must have begun as a joke among the upper crust, perhaps in the Hamptons, Palm Beach or along the North Shore around Rockport: If you have to ask how much it is, you can't afford it. The phrase usually applies to yachts, and certainly not those little 53-footers, but to sailing vessels with crew members and a smoke stack. Those luxury yachts are how the storied rich, the other half, wile away their idle days cruising from island to island as the rest of us worry about paying the light bill and stretching the paycheck another week. Many things nowadays easily fit into that yacht category. Who ever thought cameras would be included? Last week a friend and I went to the Photo Plus Expo in the Jacob Javitts Center in the Big Apple. It's a reality check, if nothing more, for anyone who uses a camera more often than at birthday parties and vacations.
Hoya Q2 profit down on memory disks, LCD equipment
TOKYO, Oct 29 - Hoya Corp posted a 4.5 percent fall in quarterly operating profit, hit by sluggish sales of liquid crystal display-making equipment and a delay in the production of advanced glass disks used in hard disk drives. Hoya, which acquired digital camera and medical equipment maker Pentax Corp earlier this year, benefited from brisk sales of optical lenses for digital cameras and higher sales of glass used in the production of semiconductors. .
Police Blotter
BLUE ISLAND • George D. Hale, 17, 14407 Normal Ave., Riverdale, and Christian Hall, 17, 11045 Wentworth Ave., Chicago, were charged with aggravated robbery Oct. 24 in the 11900 block of Western Avenue, police said. • Osualdo Perea, 36, 10818 Torrence Ave., Chicago, was charged with drunken driving after a traffic stop Oct. 26 in the 12700 block of Wood Street, police said. • A 2004 Toyota Prius was stolen Oct. 26 in the 12500 block of Highland Avenue. • A laptop computer and a digital camera were stolen Oct. 26 from a home in the 2200 block of West 121st Street. A rear door was forced open to gain entry. • A man sexually assaulted and robbed a 24-year-old pregnant woman at gunpoint as she was walking Oct.
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