On March 1st, 2007 Sen. Christopher Dodd (D-CT), a former Peace Corps Volunteer of the Dominican Republic, introduced the Peace Corps Volunteer Empowerment Act. This legislation is meant to address the many issues brought forth by returned and current Peace Corps Volunteers regarding project funding, administration oversight and volunteer participation among other things. What I’d [...]
Last.fm “builds a detailed profile of each user’s musical taste by recording details of all the songs the user listens to, either on the streamed radio stations or on the user’s own computer or iPod. This information is transferred to Last.fm’s database (“Scrobbled”) via a plugin installed into the users’ music player. The profile data [...]
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee will convene on July 25th to hear testimony on S. 732, The Peace Corps Volunteer Empowerment Act. Witnesses include: Panel 1 The Honorable Ronald A. Tschetter Director Peace Corps Washington, DC Panel 2 The Honorable Mark L. Schneider Former Director of the Peace Corps Senior Vice President and Special Adviser [...]
33 members of Guy 19 will be sworn in on July 26th, 2007. From the Guyana Chronicle: The 19th group of American Peace Corps volunteers, a batch of 33, will be taking the oath to serve in Guyana on July 26. The announcement said they will be sworn at the residence of United States Ambassador, [...]
(via candysandwich.net) Four days in New York were not nearly enough. Four days in a three-room apartment with seven other souls – six of us sharing a bedroom, all of us sharing the bath. At any given point, a dozen of us wandered the city, annoyed people on trains and talked of anything and everything. [...]
I’d be a happy man if FROG had the resources and the time to attend each one of these events. Running down the list, you might ask why our tiny non-profit would want to hit up Bonnaroo or SXSW? Our focus is Guyana and international development, so how do any of these events relate to [...]
I went to a party last night and a couple of guys had their iPhones with them. I took a snap of our site as seen through the iPhone.
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