by DAN CALLOWAY
Published 7 January 2010 @ 21:57 UTC

CLARKSBURG, WV – The online hometown newspaper, The Clarksburg Post-Intelligencer, publishes informative articles about the life and times of Clarksburg, a small but bustling town steeped in a rich history dating back to 1785.  Clarksburg was named after General George Rogers Clark, the highest ranking military officer in the Northwestern Territory during the American Revolution.  It is also the birthplace in 1824 of Thomas J “Stonewall” Jackson.   During the Civil War, the town served as a supply depot of the Union Army from 1861 to 1865. General George B. McClellan also had his headquarters in Clarksburg in 1861 until the Battle of Bull Run.  A town nestled in the hills of North Central West Virginia, Clarksburg is a town Donald fell in love with the first time he came to Clarksburg in 1989.

This informative online newspaper, produced by Donald Calloway, a long-time resident of Clarksburg, WV, uses this venue to report about the latest current events and happenings surrounding his hometown area. In addition to providing informative information about his home town, he also blogs about current national, world and political events placing a lot of emphasis on the world of technology, science, physics and mathematics, all subjects he loves to talk about.

Donald Calloway is a retired US Navy Lieutenant Commander who resides in Clarksburg, WV with his wife LaChita. Don has been working as a career Supervisor for Economic Services for the WV Department of Health and Human Resources since 1996.

Don’s Navy career included shipboard tours as Asst. Stores Officer onboard the U.S.S. Nimitz (CVN-68), Commissioning Supply Officer onboard the U.S.S. McClusky (FFG-41) and Logistics Officer onboard the U.S.S. America (CV-66).  He served for three years as Fiscal Officer on the Staff of Commander, Fleet Air, Western Pacific (COMFAIRWESTPAC,) Atsugi, Japan, Pre-Commissioning and Outfitting Officer for Fitting-Out Supply Systems Assistance Center (FOSSAC) Norfolk, VA,  Assistant Contracting Officer with Defense Contracting Management Area Operations (DCMAO) Reading, PA and Deputy Quality Assurance Director with DCMAO Hartfort, CN.

Donald received his bachelor’s degree in Mathematics from the Univ. of NC at Asheville (1975), graduated as Supply Officer from the US Navy Supply Corps School in Athens, GA. (1977), and received his master’s degree in Mathematics from Kutztown University of Pennsylvania Graduate School, Kutztown, PA. (1994).

I encourage you to visit and subscribe to this online newspaper and follow the articles published there on a regular basis. I believe that you will find it most informative and
thought-provoking.

by DAN CALLOWAY
Published 17 December 2009 @ 20:14 UCT

COPENHAGEN, DENMARK – Secretary of State, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, spoke at the Copenhagen World Climate Conference on Thursday where she represented the United States’s position on global warming in reaching an agreement on greenhouse gas emissions by backing a proposal to create a global cache of money for developing countries that has been estimated to be worth roughly $100Bn a year within a decade.

senatorhillaryclintonThe European Union has also agreed to create a similar fund amounting to well over one-hundred billion Euros in support of developing countries in the next decade to assist those countries with the effects of global warming caused by humankind.

Shortly after her announcement, the global climate chief of the UN, Yvo de Boer, remarked that diplomatic and political pressures to come to an agreement on climate control by the end of the week were having dramatic effects on the talks themselves as they entered their final hours.

EU negotiators were battling to get the U.S. and China to come to an agreement on how they would monitor pledges to limit their greenhouse gas emissions, and Chinese vice foreign minister, He Yafei, was insistent on no foreign government interference into his county’s affairs.  However, He Yafei did compromise by stating that China would consider international exchanges on a voluntary basis with other countries on the monitoring of emission levels within their countries.

The two-week Copenhagen Conference is expected to wrap up on Friday, but the sessions could carry over into Saturday if negotiations are still being hammered out.

by DAN CALLOWAY
Published: 2009/09/11 07:03:29 GMT – BBC World News

WEAVERVILLE, NC – The US says it is unhappy with the package of proposals submitted by Iran on Wednesday aimed at breaking the deadlock over its nuclear ambitions.

A senior US State Department official said the measures do not address the status of Iran’s nuclear programme.

The US wants Iran to suspend its uranium enrichment programme which it says could be used for nuclear weapons.

Russia was more positive about the proposals and ruled out the possibility of sanctions on Iran’s oil sector.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said the proposals offered something to work with.

Iran has always insisted its nuclear programme is for civilian purposes only.

In its five-page proposal, Tehran offers to hold “comprehensive, all-encompassing and constructive” negotiations on a range of security issues, including global nuclear disarmament.

But the document, delivered to Western powers on Wednesday, makes no mention of Iran’s own nuclear programme.

On Wednesday, the US envoy to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Glyn Davies, said Iran could already have enough low-enriched uranium to produce a bomb, if it was further enriched. (more…)

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by DAN CALLOWAY
Published September 7, 2009

WEAVERVILLE, NC - The BBC is reporting that the Taliban have called for a UN and human rights investigation into an air strike in Afghanistan on Friday that killed dozens of people.

The independent Afghanistan Rights Monitor group says up to 70 civilians died in the Kunduz province raid. The NATO air strike targeted fuel tankers hijacked by the insurgents.

The BBC’s David Loyn in Kabul says the Taliban call is a change to its usual policy of opposing all foreign involvement in Afghanistan. Meanwhile, US forces are facing new criticism from a Swedish organization which claims US soldiers forced their way into a hospital, searching for insurgents.

The aid group says this was a clear violation of international principles and made its humanitarian task more difficult. The prevention of civilian casualties and protection of the Afghan population forms the centerpiece of a new military strategy for Afghanistan by the commander of US forces, General Stanley McChrystal.  After the raid in the far north of the country, Gen McChrystal made an unprecedented TV appeal to the Afghan people saying he took the loss of civilian life very seriously.

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