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Reflections on Micronesia

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Micronesia left quite an impression on me. Apparently, typhoons are a big deal in Micronesia. I first tried the fresh version, and found it unpalatable (pictures above). Micronesia is hard to sum up in a few words. I think it's one of the great perks of my job, working in the nonprofit sector. It's incredibly beautiful.

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Visiting Schools in Pohnpei

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The main goal of visiting Micronesia is for me to gain a real-world perspective on schools and books for students with disabilities. The picture from above shows its site: it's on the waterfront across the main harbor. We took lots of pictures of the textbooks. Instead of windows, they have heavy screens.

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Guam and the Consortium

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The final stop for my Micronesia trip was Guam, a U.S. The Consortium is made up of six island nations, commonwealths or territories: American Samoa, Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas, Federated States of Micronesia (including Chuuk and Pohnpei), Guam, Republic of the Marshall Islands and the Republic of Palau.

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Scammers Stole the Website for Emerson College's Student Radio Station and Started Running It as a Zombie AI Farm

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is also the country code top-level domain for the Federated States of Micronesia. Emerson College isn't in Micronesia; it's in Boston.) Hillyard also noted that he finds the fake WECB's "About Us" section on its homepage where that picture of those smoothed-over, mannequin-like AI students sits to be "particularly smug." "Me

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