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A conversation with an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court
Associate Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas Photo by Nani Doromal ©2010 June 19, 2010 Every year for 17 years Associate Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has taken an hour or two from his busy schedule to meet with students from the Orange County Public Schools COMPACT and Service Learning Programs.
Disasters-R-Us
First, the news: Obama cancels/postpones Guam trip … How ironic that one environmental disaster, the Gulf oil spill, has led to the cancellation of a trip by the president to Guam’s environmental disaster in the making. Does anyone see the connection between the BP oil spill and a plan to dredge 50 or 70 acres of coral to make a parking space for a aircraft carrier
NEWS UPDATE : President Obama cancels trip to Guam
3 p.m. June 4 President Obama has again postponed his trip to Guam, Indonesia and Australia, which was scheduled for this month.
Amelia Earhart eaten by Giant Coconut Crabs
A story on MSNBC suggests that Amelia Earhart was eaten by giant coconut crabs on the Kiribati island of Nikumaroro. The story claims that evidence has been found on the island that she may have died there, but I don’t believe it. Any evidence would have long washed into the ocean
Local couple returns from Never Forgotten Honor Flight
Bill and Mary Ann Jones of Rhinelander made the trip so many veterans are making. They went to see the monuments standing in their honor in Washington, D.C. The trip was free
President Obama’s Pacific Trip Postponed
March 18, 2010 Because of the possible vote on the health care bill, President Obama has postponed his scheduled trip to Guam, Indonesia and Australia until June 2010.
NEWS UPDATE: 7:50 a.m. – Obama delays trip to Asia, Guam (Pacific Daily News)
President Obama is delaying the start of his trip to Asia — which includes a stopover in Guam— by three days from Thursday, March 18 to Sunday, March 21, according to USA Today reports.
SASC aids triathletes bound for Micro Games (Saipan Tribune)
Here is good news for triathletes who will represent the CNMI to the 2010 Micronesian Games in Palau: Saipan Adventure Sports Club will shell out $350 for the trip.
A Banded Bird and the Flying Flores
I remember reading or being told in college that if you found a bird with a band on its leg, you could report the number to scientists and they would use it for whatever it is scientists use data for. At Epcot the other day I saw a White Ibis with a silver band around its ankle (not the one in the photo above, a different one) and I tried snapping some photos to get the number