Three young Pohnpeians to compete in Scripps Regional Spelling Bee in Guam
By Bill Jaynes
The Kaselehlie Press
February 11, 2014
Pohnpei, FSM— After 20 rounds of spelling at this morning’s Pohnpei State Spelling Bee at the Pohnpei Legislature Chamber, 14-year-old Jody Sohs, an 8th grader from Awak Elementary School took the championship with her correct spelling of “Renaissance”, a word that Microsoft Word just reminded me that I had misspelled on my first typing of it.
12-year-old Kei-Koa Ludwig of Kolonia Elementary took the first runner up position, and 12-year-old Youreen Pelep took second runner up.
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Micronesian Blues - hilarious, challenging, sensitive and well worth the read
By Bill Jaynes
The Kaselehlie Press February 17, 2014 Pohnpei, FSM
Wishing he’d worn waders instead of running shoes as the blue sewage from the toilets sloshed up and down the aisles of the Air Micronesia Boeing 727 island hopper on every take off and landing, Bryan Vila arrived in Saipan on June 15, 1978. The “Micronesian chapter” of his life had begun, and so begins “Micronesian Blues”, a book by Bryan Vila and Cynthia Morris, originally published in 2009 and now available as a Kindle Reader book on Amazon.com. If you’re looking for the “bottom line” early on in this review, let me give it to you now—buy it, but be warned, you may not be able to stop reading it until you’ve read the last page.
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Micro Games preparations well underway but help still needed
By Bill Jaynes
The Kaselehlie Press
February 20, 2014
Pohnpei, FSM—As of today there only 150 days remaining before the Micro Games will kick off in Pohnpei. Bob Spegal, the CEO of the hosting committee says that plans for the games are coming along quite nicely though there is still quite a bit to be done.
He said that a company out of Switzerland has been hired to resurface the PICS track and two of that company’s employees have already been to the track to make a full assessment of what needs to be done. Payment for materials has already been made and the rubberized surface materials should be on their way from Switzerland shortly. Spegal said that the company has built over 200 tracks in Australia and the Pacific region and has, if you will, a good track record.
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50th APCC opens in Pohnpei, FSM
Silver anniversary of the association timely as FSM looks to jump start its coco industry
PALIKIR, FSM – Delegates and Ministers from Thailand, Malaysia, Philippines, India, Fiji, Papua New Guinea, Jamaica, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Samoa, Sri Lanka, Tonga, Vietnam and the Federated States of Micronesia kicked off the 50th Asia Pacific Coconut Community Ministerial Meeting today.
Nett court rules that Hairens must be seated as District Administrator
By Bill Jaynes
The Kaselehlie Press
February 20, 2014
Pohnpei, FSM—Pohnpei’s Nett District has been the center of election controversy in recent months and that controversy has left some Nett voters feeling that their right to vote was taken from them. But the Nett District Court essentially ruled that if voters chose to write in a vote for a candidate that could not be seated under the Nett Constitution then those voters chose to waste their own vote.
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Immunization workshop in Pohnpei supported by JICA
Japan International Cooperation Agency
In collaboration with the FSM Department of Health and Social Affairs (DH&SA) of the Government of the Federated States of Micronesia, the Project for System Improvement of Expanded Program on Immunization in the Pacific Region (J-PIPS Phase 2) conducted a two day workshop on Vaccine Principles and Surveillance Disease Outbreak in Pohnpei State on the 5th and 6th of February 2014. 
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2013 the fourth warmest year since records began
Global Temperatures
The year 2013 tied with 2003 as the fourth warmest year globally since records began in 1880. The annually-averaged temperature across global land and ocean surfaces was 0.62°C (1.12°F) above the 20th century average and marks the 37th consecutive year (since 1976) that the annual temperature was above the long-term average. Currently, the warmest year on record is 2010, which was 0.66°C (1.19°F) above average. To date, including 2013, 9 of the 10 warmest years on record have occured during the 21st century. Only one year during the 20th century—1998—was warmer than 2013. The global annual temperature has increased at an average rate of 0.06°C (0.11°F) per decade since 1880 and at an average rate of 0.16°C (0.28°F) per decade since 1970.
