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What started off as the story of two Americans trying to get into the Japanese English Teaching Program turned into the story of two gaijin Livin' La Vida Takaoka...then we moved to Saipan
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Thundercats 2011
From The Saipan Blog, 2 days ago, Read 0 times. Similar articles
George Hasselback can confirm this: the Thundercats were the coolest cartoon from the 1980s.And...A couple of weeks ago I came across this announcement on MTV that Warner Bros. is making a new Thundercats cartoon for the Cartoon Network. This is probably the best thing to happen to America since the invention of the steam engine. Or SPAM.
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Friends of the Monument join call for Coral Reef Conservation
From The Saipan Blog, 3 days ago, Read 0 times. Similar articles
The Friends of the Mariana Trench Monument are back in the news, this time calling for the US Senate to pass strong conservation-minded coral reef legislation:September 3, 2010, Saipan, CNMI / Our coral reefs are in trouble. Almost 20% of the world's coral reefs have been lost and an additional 35% are threatened according to the expert opinion of 372 coral reef scientists and managers from 96 countries who contributed to the latest Status of the Coral Reefs of the World, published in 2008.In...
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Poll of Recommendation
From The Saipan Blog, 5 days ago, Read 0 times. Similar articles
The US Department of Interior recommended the following: 'Consistent with the goals of comprehensive immigration reform, we recommend that the Congress consider permitting alien workers who have lawfully resided in the CNMI for a minimum of five years to apply for long-term status under the immigration and nationality laws of the United States.' Do you agree with this recommendation'Online...
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Coming Next Week: Carnival of the Blue!
From The Saipan Blog, 1 weeks ago, Read 0 times. Similar articles
In seven short days, the Saipan Blog will play host to the 40th rendition of Carnival of the Blue. Carnival of the Blue is a rotating monthly compilation of the world's "best of" ocean blogging, bringing together ocean bloggers and readers and (hopefully) using new media to build a virtual community of ocean lovers. The theme for Carnival of the Blue 40 is Top of the Food Chain.Click HERE to submit your post for next week's carnival. While you wait (hopefully not with bated breath), dig...
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Asking the important questions
From The Saipan Blog, 1 weeks ago, Read 0 times. Similar articles
Which candidate for US Delegate would you trust with a fully armed and operational Death Star'Online Surveys & Market ResearchTrust. Who do you trust' If the CNMI had a Death Star, which candidate for US Congress would you trust with the key'******On a more serious note, with just over two months to go, the race for delegate is playing out much as I expected. I've thought about writing about the...
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Drinking the Kool-Aid
From The Saipan Blog, 1 weeks ago, Read 0 times. Similar articles
There were a lot of people at Saturday's GlennBeckmageddon. We'll probably never know exactly how many actually showed up. Glenn Beck says their were 1/2 million; people who count crowds for a living say there were 78,000. Either way, Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin are a smaller draw than the Daytona 500.The last time I visited this end of the Washington Mall was for the We Are One concert last year. The crowd that day stood shoulder to shoulder all the way back to the Washington Monument. ...
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Guess who I saw the other day'
From The Saipan Blog, 1 weeks ago, Read 0 times. Similar articles
I saw Liz Foote! She was in town for a day with her Mom and we went out for dinner.
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GlennBeckmageddon
From The Saipan Blog, 1 weeks ago, Read 0 times. Similar articles
I am blogging live from GlenBeckmageddon, Glenn Beck's so-called Rally for Honor.The rally is over and now I'm sitting on the Mall across from the American History Museum listening to Dr. King.Photos to follow when I get home.
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Latte Stones Community Awareness
From The Saipan Blog, 1 weeks ago, Read 0 times. Similar articles
Three years ago this month I participated in a cleanup of the East Obyan Latte Site organized by some students at Northern Marianas College. We cleaned up litter (there wasn't much) and cleared brush away from the immediate area surrounding the latte stones. The students recorded the whole thing and created a video. Earlier this week I uploaded the video to Youtube.I didn't realize at the time that this video was so good. I've collaborated on several projects with students at NMC and...
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Hammered
From The Saipan Blog, 1 weeks ago, Read 0 times. Similar articles
Dear Editor,The Marianas Variety ran a story with a misleading headline on Thursday, August 26, ?Fruit bats, megapodes thrive in Northern Islands.? The story details how later this year the US Fish & Wildlife Service will release their report on the terrestrial survey of the Northern Islands they completed this summer, but quotes employees of the Northern Islands Mayor's office to claim that fruit bats in the Northern Islands are thriving.That was not the experience I had when I visited...
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