Tarzan Pools, Guam

joelkanda
February 28, 2009

A day at the pools.

Category: Film & Animation
Tags: tarzan guam pools fresh water sepia film old hiking adventure trail rope swing fun pond

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vkb_F4GLFGw

Signing of Guam Treaty

Press Conference with Secretary Clinton and FM Nakasone
Feb. 17, 2009
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton with Japanese Foreign Minister Hirofumi Nakasone delivers remarks at a press conference during her trip to Asia.

Guam Quarter -- 2009 Quarters Proof Set Begins US Mint Year

By CoinNews.net on Jan 2nd, 2009 in Coin or Numismatic News, Featured Coin News Articles, New Coin Releases, United States Mint News and Information

The United States Mint will begin selling 2009 District of Columbia and U.S. Territories Quarters Proof Sets for $14.95 each on Monday, January 5, at noon (ET).

The set includes the six proof 2009 quarters with reverse designs honoring the District of Columbia (D.C.), the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa, the U.S. Virgin Islands and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands.

Demand for this annual set is typically strong. According to the latest sales figures, the US Mint sold 672,004 of the 2008-dated version. Current eBay auctions have prices listed that are nearly double that of what the Mint charged.

The new set replaces last year's 50 State Quarters Proof Set, which included five quarters for the price of $13.95. Similar to the 2008 state quarters, standard circulating versions of each are to be released in equal intervals throughout 2009. Additionally, the Mint will release forthcoming collector products to include silver versions of the quarters, an uncirculated set, and another proof set with all 2009 circulating coins.

How proof coins are different from circulating coins

The coins in each set are proof. The mint describes proof as,

" … a manufacturing process in which specially-treated coin blanks are struck multiple times using specially-polished dies. Proof coins-unlike coins produced for general circulation-are extraordinarily brilliant, with sharp relief and a mirror-like background. A frosted, sculpted foreground gives these coins a special cameo effect."

http://www.coinnews.net/2009/01/02/2009-quarters-proof-set-starts-us-mint-year-4654/

2009 Quarter Images for DC and US Territories

By CoinNews.net on Feb 10th, 2009 in Coin or Numismatic News, United States Mint News and Information | No Comments

The United States Mint has unveiled proof 2009 quarter images depicting the themes honoring the District of Columbia and the five United States territories — D.C., Guam, American Samoa, U.S. Virgin Islands, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico and the Northern Mariana Islands.

The high resolution quarter images were not available at the time the 2009 Quarters Proof Set were issued in Jan., and offer an excellent presentation for how circulating quarters will look.

The Mint is already offering DC quarters in rolls and bags. The five other quarters will enter circulation in equal intervals spread throughout 2009.

Guam

The third quarter of 2009, honoring the territory of Guam, includes an outline of the island of Guam, a latte stone-once used as building support in ancient Chamorro society-and a flying proa (a native boat).

Guahan I Tanó ManChamorro (Guam, Land of the Chamorro) is also inscribed on the coin's reverse.

Designer and Sculptor

The Guam quarter reverse was designed by United States Mint AIP Associate Designer David Westwood and sculpted by United States Mint Sculptor-Engraver Jim Licaretz.

http://www.coinnews.net/2009/01/02/2009-quarters-proof-set-starts-us-mint-year-4654/

Design Selection Process

Designs for each quarter were submitted and recommended through a process determined by the Governors for the District of Columbia and each United States territories. The U.S. Mint reviewed the designs before each Governor recommended a final design based mostly on a resident voting with some using a committee selection process. Both the Citizens Coinage Advisory Committee and the Commission of Fine Arts were involved in improving designs while the Department of the Treasury selected each.

More information may be read though the US Mint page, The District of Columbia and United States Territories Quarter Program.

After the DC and US Territories Quarters Program ends in 2009, National Park Quarters will launch beginning in 2010.

http://www.coinnews.net/2009/02/10/2009-quarter-images-for-dc-and-us-territories-4706/

Guam Industry Forum III

SAVE THE DATE! The Joint Guam Program Office (JGPO) and the Naval Facilities Engineering Command Pacific (NAVFAC) are pleased to announce the third in a series of industry forums related to the design, construction and logistic support requirements for the relocation of Command, Air, Ground and Logistics units of the III Marine Expeditionary Force from Okinawa, Japan to Guam, USA. The Guam Industry Forum III will be held in Guam on April 28-30, 2009 Update and registration details will be available on or before February 15, 2009 on the Guam Industry Forum Website: www.guamindustryforum.com Proposed Agenda and Day 1 Topics to be covered include: Joint Guam Program Office Updates NAVFAC Execution Plan Updates Government of Guam Updates on Port, Roads, and Utilities Naval Audit Briefing Information Technology Briefing Proposed Day 2 Topics Include:  Acquisition Strategy Workforce Housing and Logistics Special Purpose Entities (Utilities) Small Business Update and Strategies Common Components Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) We are targeting the Guam Industry Forum III towards general contractors, specialty subcontractors, designers and those who will support the upcoming design-build and design-bid-build projects for the Guam relocation.  Support includes suppliers and service providers from material to medical care. To ensure the most effective Guam Industry Forum III that provide the information most useful to you, we are asking for your input as to the topics that are proposed to be covered. What topics are of greatest interest to you? What level of detail would you find most useful for the above topics? What are some of the questions you would like answered at this Forum? What improvements would you suggest based on the last two Forums? What other suggestions do you have that would make the Guam Industry Forum III a more useful and interesting event for you? Please submit your written responses via email to the Guam Industry Forum helpdesk at: helpdesk@guamindustryforum.com . Please limit your suggestions and responses to no more than  two pages, in Microsoft Word format no later than March 13, 2009. At this Forum, we will do our best to address your interests.  It is our goal to work with industry through these Forums to exchange ideas and information that will ensure the most efficient and effective relocation program possible.

Proud to be Natibu

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Talk a few minutes and browse the Natibu web pages. The site is both cultural and information rich, your time would be well spent.




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1. Fu'una Yan Puntan 2. Kantan Natibu 3. Pulan 4. Rainan I Tasi 5. Tuleti 6. Halom I Gailaide 7. Tinaitai Tuninos 8. A Bird's Song 9. Fiesta Time 10. Take Me Home - Old Tin House        by the Sea

1. Hafa Adai 2. Deep Blue Sea 3. The More We Get Together      Medley     a. Kantan I Sakan I Haggan     b. Nihi Ta Fan Hanao Ta Fan         Piknik     c. Ai Na Pinikara Si Rose 4. Panggengge Medley     a. Manotsot Palaoan     b. Tipi Tipi Tan     c. Tita Tita     d. Balentino Gi Halom Flores     e. I Kapiya     f. Dipotsi Ha Kustumbre'ku     g. Nobia Kahulu 5. Kurason 6. The Hagan Song (Hafa Adai!)

"I Love You Page" by Michael Lujan Bevacqua

Tuesday, October 17, 2006

Chamorro Public Service Post - I Love You

When I first started voyaging out into the internet full force several years ago, meaning I started using Google and Yahoo to search for random crap, interesting things would always pop up when I was looking for stuff related to Guam and Chamorros.

For instance, if you do just general Guam searches you will find a surprisingly alot of Gay community website. I never imagined Guam as some gay oasis in the Pacific, but apparently around the Pacific alot of people do think of Guam as just that.

Also, if you do just general searches for Chamorro, you will receive a bunch of sites for Chamorros in Nicaragua. These aren't ethnic Chamorros but people with the last name Chamorro, such as Edgar Chamorro, a contra fighter and former ambassador to the United Nations, or Violeta Chamorro, a President of Nicaragua in the 1990's.

When I would do searches for Chamorro language however, a certain type of page would constantly show up, "I Love You Pages." I'm sure that most of us have stumbled across these pages, they basically feature how to say "I Love You" in all the known languages in the universe. The real hard-core pages will not just have mainstream dialects like English, Spanish and Hindi, but will also have "disappearing" languages with smaller speech communities, like indigenous languages. The pages which are completely unstoppable, are those with either concocted or fictive speech communities like Esperanto, Klingon or Gallach from the Dune books.

Although creating a page like that of my own would really be as simple as copying and pasting one of the pages floating around out there, I decided to make a sort of similar page, with just a nice little indigenous inversion.

Here I'm proud to present, a sort of "I Love You Page," where I provide a list of different ways to say or express that you love someone in Chamorro.

Hu guaiya hao
I love you

Ya-hu Hao
I like you

Kinenne' yu' nu Hågu
I'm hooked (literally 'taken with') on you.

Un foyung yu'
You knock me down

Sinekkai yu' nu Hågu
I have a crush (literally 'snagged') on you

Un kahnåyi yu'
Un bewitch (literally 'cast a spell on') me

Bai hu gofli'e hao
I will care for you

Ti bai hu dingu hao
I will not leave you

Kao siña un såga na'ya?
Can you stay for a while?

Gof bunita hao
You are very beautiful

Ha penta i eriyå-hu siha mitkilot i binitå-mu
Your beauty paints the world around me with many colors

Todu i bidå-mu siha kulang milagro siha
Everything you do is like miracles

Un na'gofha'an todu i ha'ani-hu siha
You make sunny all my days

Taya' somnak an taigue hao
There's no sunshine if you're gone

Hagu i minagahet-hu
You are my truth

Ti bei maleffa i pinachå-mu
I won't forget your touch

Mafa'tinåsi hao nu Guahu.
You were made for me

Kada kinalamten-mu siha manmatuge' gi i hinasso-ku
Each of your movements is written into my memory

Gof mangguaiya yu'!
I'm really in love!

Hågu i guinefe-hu
You are my dream

Ni' håyi fuera di Hågu
No one but you

Hågu ha' i malago-hu
You are all I want

Ti siña yu' mumaigo put Hågu
I can't sleep because of you

http://minagahet.blogspot.com/2006/10/chamorro-public-service-post-i-love.html

Saipan's collapse one of fastest in US history-documentary

By Haidee V. Eugenio, Reporter
Saipan Tribune

From being the poster child of the ultimate globalization success story, Saipan now faces one of the fastest economic collapses in the history of the United States and the world, according to a new documentary on Current TV.

Current TV is a cable network founded by former U.S. Vice President Al Gore.

The documentary features the birth and death of the once billion-dollar Saipan garment industry. The two remaining garment factories-from three dozens less than 10 years ago-are set to close soon.

“What's happening on Saipan is an extreme compressed version of what's happening elsewhere in the U.S. and the world; like a lab test of what globalization does for good and ill,” American journalist Adam Yamaguchi said in his documentary.

Yamaguchi, along with fellow journalist Christine Huang, visited Saipan last year “to document the rise and sudden collapse of a tiny piece of America.”

The documentary, which runs for 25 minutes and 7 seconds, can be accessed at http://current.com/users/Adam_Yamaguchi/all/0.htm.

Viewers are shown footages of World War II, Saipan's pristine beaches, the remaining garment factories, empty garment factories and empty buildings like the former La Fiesta Mall in San Roque, as well as interviews with government officials, former garment workers and local residents about their views and experiences about the collapse of the Sapan garment industry.

Richard Pierce, the governor's special assistant for trade relations and economic affairs, said the documentary is a fairly accurate depiction of Saipan, both old and current, and caters to the 20-30-year-old mainlanders by focusing on the “Made in the USA” label and the loss in American jobs as a result of the local industry.

“They were truthful in their introductions and plan to focus on the loss in this part of America to both global and federal forces outside our control,” he said, adding that Yamaguchi, Huang and young indigenous citizens in the documentary “could easily grasp what others in federal and local government offices have had difficulty understanding.”

“Saipan has lost so much, and will continue to lose more over time as a result of the demise of its once healthy apparel industry. Jobs are leaving in government and the private sector, in addition to the workers from the factories themselves,” said Pierce.

Pierce, a former executive director of the Saipan Garment Manufacturers Association and one of those interviewed in the documentary, added that Yamaguchi posed a very good question in his conclusion: “Why a part of America can't even hang on to a few low paying jobs?”

He, however, said that Yamaguchi overlooked one important point in discussing prostitution in the CNMI. “That is, that the U.S. mainland, Hawaii, Guam and other American soil do not accommodate prostitution in their travel industry zones.”

ON THE NET
http://current.com/users/Adam_Yamaguchi/all/0.htm

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Battle of Saipan      25:07
Once the ultimate globalization success story, the island of Saipan now faces one of the fastest economic collapses in history. After suffering a harsh history of military struggles as well as a temporary economic boom after becoming a U.S. commonwealth, the island now stands devastated. Scores of factories remain empty, rotting shopping centers litter the country, and former factory workers turn to the sex industry for survival. Adam Yamaguchi visits Saipan to document the rise and sudden collapse of a tiny piece of America.

US Industry in Saipan      01:20
Adam explains why Saipan represents the affect of free trade and globalization in US Industry.

WWII Battle of Saipan      01:29
Adam describes the battle that took place on the island of Saipan during World War II.

Adam Picks Up a Prostitute      01:24
In this excerpt from The Battle of Saipan, Adam tries to speak with women who have turned to sex work after Saipan's devastating economic collapse.

Battle of Saipan- Trailer      01:22