The claim was and is that banning alcohol–its sale and possession–would prevent misuse and violence. There is a concomitant argument that peoples “new” to alcohol haven’t learned how to “handle” it, unlike Old World peoples. There is also the argument that Asians or (Alaska) Natives are biologically unable to “hold” their liquor.

Many Alaska communities and authorities argued and argue that only banning alcohol will work. Bethel, Alaska is again arguing the issue. https://www.facebook.com/bumsted/posts/10204895458655382

I decided in 2005 to see what evidence exists for that statement/belief.

The evidence is alcohol abuse is far more complex. Prohibition works only to a point. The Old World has rising rates of binge drinking. People with flush toilets are violent when drunk.

Banning bread making is a desperate measure; people deserve better better decisions.

Look at the data–Prohibition only has limited success, anywhere. Alaska’s attitude that more of the same will work is simply not borne out by studies elsewhere and in Alaska. And erroneous silly statements such as this don’t help except to explain the backwards idea of ignoring data–Prof Wood states

Anyway, here is the old library. Some of the links are lost but perhaps the titles can be “googled” to find the articles.

“It is time for the community to mature and no longer be crippled by paternalistic mentalities,” Ana Hoffman, the president of the Bethel Native Corporation, said at a city meeting about alcohol sales earlier this year.

Connotea Alcohol links

1996 Alcohol and Drug: Familial alcohol

250-363_DOnofrio.pdf (application/pdf Object)

A History of Hooch

AAAS to develop science-based teaching tools on underage alcohol use

adn.com | crime : Alcohol blamed in Nome disappearances mystery

adn.com | Crime : Rural sexual assaults get troopers’ attention

Alcohol and harm reduction, then and now

Alcohol and the community : a systems approach to prevention / Harold D. Holder

Alcohol and the Community: A Systems Approach to Prevention

Alcohol and the Community: A Systems Approach to Prevention

Alcohol and the Community: A Systems Approach to Prevention.: By Harold Holder. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. 1999, 183pp. including index, {pound}45. ISBN: 0521591872. — Ritson 35 (6): 628 — Alcohol and Alcoholism

Alcohol at home can cut teenage binge drinking, study says | Society | SocietyGuardian.co.uk

ALCOHOL CONTROL AND Public Health

Alcohol Control Policy and Native American Communities

Alcohol link to most assaults

Alcohol Portrayal on Television Affects Actual Drinking Behaviour

Alcohol Problems in Developing Countries

Alcohol Research and Social Policy-Alcohol Health & Research World, Vol.20, No.4-1996-Overview of Chapters

Alcohol-Attributable Deaths and Years of Potential Life Lost Among American Indians and Alaska Natives — United States, 2001–2005

An abyss beyond the bottle | The Australian

APIS – Underage Drinking Maps and Charts

At-Risk Drinkers are at Higher Risk to Acquire a Bacterial Infection During an Intensive Care Unit Stay Than Abstinent or Moderate Drinkers

BABS students create videocommercial on underage drinking

BBC NEWS | Health | DJs criticised for drink comments

BBC NEWS | Health | UK among worst ‘binge drinkers’

BBC NEWS | UK | Magazine | Half-empty or half-full?

BILL W. and Dr. BOB

Binge Britain: 95 children under EIGHT hospitalised this year after drinking alcohol| News | This is London

Bootleggers Playing Hide-and-Seek on the Tundra

Booze laws not working – New Zealand news on Stuff.co.nz

Broken Spirits. Power and Ideas in Nordic Alcohol Control

calendarlive.com: Is home schooling best for drinking?

CLINICAL EFFECTS OF SO-CALLED MOONSHINE LIQUORS

Comparative Analysis of Alcohol Control Policies in 30 Countries

Comparing Alcohol Policies Between Countries: Science or Silliness?

Comparing Alcohol Policies Between Countries: Science or Silliness?

CTD: Ethanol

D.W.I.’s Vex New Mexico, Once Seen as a Model – New York Times

DETERMINING THE EFFECTS OF MEDIA PORTRAYALS OF ALCOHOL: GOING BEYOND SHORT TERM INFLUENCE

Don’t Drink Hand Sanitizer for Alcohol

Drunken aftermath of sevens | Stuff.co.nz

Drunken Comportment: a Social Explanation

Drunken youths flood into hospital – New Zealand, world, sport, business & entertainment news on Stuff.co.nz

Emotions run high at Cambridge Bay meeting on alcohol

Evaluation of policy alternatives to reduce alcohol-related traffic fatalities

Expectations and excessive drinking – International Herald Tribune

Fifteen children a day attend Scottish emergency departments as result of drinking alcohol

First-of-its-kind Italian school study finds high levels of prenatal alcohol exposure

Frightened in Isolation: Unique Considerations for Research of Sexual Assault and Interpersonal Violence in Rural Areas

Harold D. Holder Alcohol and the Community – Cambridge University Press

How effective are alcohol and other drug prevention and treatment programs

How much people drink may matter less than how they drink it.

Impossible Mission: A History of the Legal Control of Native Drinking in Alaska

Internet Archive: Details: Radio Call-in Alcohol Delivery Site

Jailing alcoholics doesn’t work: N.W.T. health minister

‘Killing fields’ of NZ’s drinking culture – New Zealand, world, sport, business & entertainment news on Stuff.co.nz

Lawmakers have personal stake in DWI legislation

Local alcohol prohibition, police presence and serious injury in isolated Alaska Native villages

Meta-analysis in alcohol treatment research: does it help us to know what works? (Full Text)

Methods for evaluating policy changes in alcohol services

Nain booze rules won’t work, bar owner says

Naltrexone Used in Primary Care Setting May Be Effective in Preventing Drinking Among Alcohol-Dependent Abstainers

Neurogenetic adaptive mechanisms in alcoholism

newsminer.com • City seeks solutions to chronic inebriate dilemma

NIDA – Research Monographs – Monograph 168: Rural Substance Abuse: State of Knowledge and Issues

NIH unprecedented genetic study may help identify people most at risk for alcoholism

One in three young adults hit by drink – New Zealand, world, sport, business & entertainment news on Stuff.co.nz

Only 35 per cent of attackers identified – New Zealand, world, sport, business & entertainment news on Stuff.co.nz

PFDs, Binge Drinking and Therapeutic Court

Private school teens binge drink more – New Zealand, world, sport, business & entertainment news on Stuff.co.nz

Rare rape conviction given by Barrow jury

Reducing the harms of alcohol in the UK

Reducing the harms of alcohol in the UK

Residents fight house for homeless drunks

Review Alcohol and the Community: A Systems Approach to Prevention

Reward Deficiency Syndrome

Six-year sentence dismays victim’s family

Snowmachine injures dog in Mackey’s Sweepstakes team

South Africa’s wine country fights alcoholism scourge | csmonitor.com

SpringerLink – Journal Article

Stemming the tide of alcohol | Stuff.co.nz

Students call for alcohol limits in N.W.T. community

TELEVISION AND MUSIC VIDEO EXPOSURE AND ADOLESCENT ALCOHOL USE WHILE GOING OUT

The Associated Press: Wet Towns Draw Binge Drinkers

The relationship of outlet densities to alcohol consumption: a time series cross-sectional analysis.

The tools to understand: community as co-researcher on culture-specific protective factors for Alaska Natives.

The Why Files | 1. Fetal alcohol syndrome and apoptosis

Turning Off the Tap

‘We’re in denial’ on alcohol abuse, Inuit politician says

What is an alcoholic? Looking after drunks

Whose Spirits Have Been Broken Anyway? Power and Ideas in Nordic Alcohol Control

You can cut back on alcohol — latimes.com

Youth Exposure to Alcohol Advertising on Radio — United States, June–August 2004

Site Search Tags: alcohol, Bethel, Connotea, research, evidence, intoxication,

The Navajo Medicine Men society was an immense help in uncovering the ecology of this disease. [Dr Jim Cheek worked with them. See this paper http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1076&context=zoonoticspub and the People Magazine article at the time,

This is only the third time this century that there has been a year-round supply of the nuts. Says Dr. James Cheek of the Indian Health Service: “I believe the elders and medicine men might have been much closer than any of us to the cause of the disease.”

BTW, before an official name sin nombre was assigned, the CDC did receive suggestions and concerns from the Pueblos about the suggested names which inadvertently used Pueblo sacred site names or other names which were used by folks other than CDC researchers. Sin nombre was a good choice.

Twenty-Year Summary of Surveillance for Human Hantavirus Infections, United States — B. Knust and P. E. Rollin
http://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/19/12/13-1217_article

In 1993, an outbreak of severe respiratory illness in the Four Corners region of the United States (defined by the shared borders between the states of New Mexico, Arizona, Colorado, and Utah) made national headlines. The subsequent discovery of a new disease, hantavirus pulmonary syndrome (HPS) (1), its etiologic agent, Sin Nombre virus (SNV) (2), and its rodent reservoir, the deer mouse (Peromyscus maniculatus) (3), were among the most prominent findings in a flood of new revelations about hantaviruses in the Americas.

You can subscribe to posts at https://sealibrary.wordpress.com/

I can’t figure out how to post at both nlogs, so i must direct you to the site. Sorry.

Her paper has just been posted at Academia, http://www.academia.edu/4210414/A_Tribalography_of_Alaska_Native_Presence_In_Academia

Jessica Bissett Perea 2013 “A Tribalography of Alaska Native Presence in Academia.” American Indian Culture and Research Journal 37 (3) pp. 3-27. Invited essay for special issue “Reducing Barriers to Native American Student Success in Higher Education: Challenges and Best Practices,” ed. Robert Keith Collins.

Alaska native men and Women with Earned Research Doctorates

Our friends Gary Price and Shirl Kennedy over at Full Text Reports have a handy reminder today: …some of the papers and reports posted on FullTextReports.com are freely available online for just a limited time before they disappear behind a paywall (or go away entirely). If you see something you suspect might be useful to you (or a colleague) in the future, download it the day you see it because it may not be accessible later without a subscription (or it may have been moved or taken offline). — Note to FullTextReports followers Grab It When You See It!, Full Text Reports (April 17, 2013). Just another reason to remember that libraries should be collecting, not pointing. (See: When we depend on pointing instead of collecting.) (By the way, in case you hadn’t noticed: the left hand navigation pane here at FGI has a feed of the latest reports listed at Full Text Reports!)

Background: Bicycle commuting in an urban environment of high air pollution is known as a potential health risk, especially for susceptible individuals. While risk management strategies aimed to reduce motorised traffic emissions exposure have been suggested, limited studies have assessed the utility of such strategies in real-world circumstances.Objectives: The potential of lowering exposure to ultrafine particles (UFP; < 0.1 mum) during bicycle commuting by reducing proximity to motorised traffic was investigated with real-time air pollution and intermittent acute inflammatory measurements in healthy individuals using their typical, and an alternative, bicycle commute route. Methods: Thirty-five healthy adults (mean +/- SD: age = 39 +/- 11 yr; 29% female) completed two return trips, one each of their typical route (HIGH) and a pre-determined alternative route of lower proximity to motorised traffic (LOW; determined by the proportion of on-road cycle paths). Particle number concentration (PNC) and diameter (PD) were monitored in-commute in real-time. Acute inflammatory indices of respiratory symptom incidence, lung function and spontaneous sputum (for inflammatory cell analyses) were collected immediately pre-commute, and one and three hours post-commute. Results: In LOW, compared to HIGH, there was a significant decrease in mean PNC (1.91 x e4 +/-
0.93 x e4 ppcc vs. 2.95 x e4 +/- 1.50 x e4 ppcc; p <= 0.001), the incidence of in-commute offensive odour detection (42 vs. 56%; p = 0.019), and the incidence of dust and soot observation (33 vs. 47%; p = 0.038) and nasopharyngeal irritation (31 vs. 41%; p = 0.007). There were no significant differences between LOW and HIGH in the commute distance and duration (12.8 +/- 7.1 vs. 12.0 +/- 6.9 km and 44 +/- 17 vs. 42 +/- 17 min, respectively), or indices of acute airway inflammation. Conclusions: Exposure to PNC (and the incidence of offensive odour and nasopharyngeal irritation) can be significantly lowered when utilising a route of reduced proximity to motorised traffic whilst bicycle commuting (without significantly affecting commute distance or duration), which may bring important benefits for both healthy and susceptible individuals.

This was a very useful resource. I’m not sure there is an alternative. Google Reader no longer allows anyone to share their recommended readings (the Reader here was grandmothered in).

I’ll have to figure a way to export the materials collected.

That seems awfully low. Can you help add more names? Below are folks I have found, using AISES and SACNAS. Amazingly, I’m lucky enough to know many of the names and people, some personally.

Alaska Native– 2012-09-15, 2012-dec-24, 2013-03-03 now 25! 57+ check at https://ykalaska.wordpress.com/2013/08/10/alaska-native-ph-d-s-from-dr-jessica-bissett-perea/

Dr. George Charles (Yup’ik)
Dr. Patricia Cochran (AN)
Dr. Walkie Charles (Yup’ik)
Dr. Denise Dillard (AN)
Dr Alisha Drabek (Alutiiq-Sugpiaq)
Dr Phyllis Fast (Koyukon Athabascan)
Dr. Dolly Garza (AN)
Dr. Sara Hicks (AN)
Dr. Sven Hakaanson (Alutiiq-Sugpiaq)
Dr. Theresa John (Yup’ik)
Dr. April Lakonten Councillor (Alutiiq-Sugpiaq)
Dr. Beth Leonard (AN)
Dr. Jordan Lewis (AN)
Dr. Dorothy Pender (AN)
Dr. Elizabeth Parent (AN)
Dr. Gordon Pullar (Alutiiq-Sugpiaq)
Dr. Catherine Swan Reimer (Iñupiaq) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRBCi_B0Tt0
Dr. Thomas Michael Swensen (Alutiiq-Sugpiaq)
Dr. Roy Roehl (AN)
Dr. Bernice B. Tetpon (AN)
Dr. Lisa Rey Thomas (Tlingit)
Dr. Kamilla Venner (AN)
Dr. Steven Verney (AN)
Dr. Tony Vaska (Yup’ik)
Dr. Maria Williams (Tlingit)
Dr. Rosita Worl (Tlingit)

2014-10-22 I have another table, from 2001, made by Cecil Thomas and donated to this topic by Dr. Anne S. Waters, J.D., Ph.D. The pdf version is here, Native PhDs, 2001, collected by Cecil Thomas Eventually duplicates will be corrected. I’m sure there is a more definitive version at the National Science Foundation but that is not accessible. My apologies to those who have not yet been recognized. Spreadsheet version–
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/19OQrbcM9bGE-I4M2VxRxFyH5ezX2MEVnU7aqWZ6_-Yg/edit?usp=sharing

American Indian– 2012-09-15 110 (haven’t checked for duplicates)
Dr. Alison Ball (Colville) University of Oregon
Dr. Amy Lonetree Ethnic Studies Ho Chunk
Dr. Andrea Smith History of Consciousness Cherokee
Dr. Andrew Jolivette
Dr. Annette Reed,Ethnic Studies Tolowa
Dr. Anton Treuer, Leech Lake Ojibwe
Dr. April Lea GoForth Eastern Band of Cherokee,
Dr. Audra Simpson Anthropology Mohawk
Dr. Bette Jacobs, Public Health Professional
Dr. Beverly R. Singer (Santa Clara Pueblo/ Diné), Associate Professor of Anthropology and Native American Studies, Director of Institute for American Indian Research (IFAIR) , Director of Alfonso Ortiz Center for Intercultural Studies, UNM. The late Dr Ortiz was also an anthropologist and another who demonstrated great courage in proceeding to his studies.
Dr. Bonnie Duran
Dr. Brenda Child, History, UMN, Red Lake Ojibwe
Dr. Brendan Fairbanks, Linguistics, Ojibwe
Dr. Carmen Nappo, Meteorologist
Dr. Carter Revard
Dr. Chris Sims
Dr. Christine Lowery (Dine) Utah;
Dr. Christopher Andronicos, Geologist
Dr. Claudia Welala Long, (Nez Perce) Professor of Indigenous Nations Studies;
Dr. Clifton Poodry, Biologist
Dr. Craig Love, Psychologist
Dr. David Chang, History UMN, Kanaka Maoli
Dr. David E Wilkins Political Science Lumbee
Dr. David E. Wilkins, Poly Sci, UMN, Lumbee
Dr. David Martinez, Philosophy, Arizona State
Dr. David R. Burgess, Biologist
Dr. David Truer, Literature (i think), UMN Leech Lake Ojibwe
Dr. Denise Low, English Lenni Lenape
Dr. Devon A. Mihesuah
Dr. Donald Fixico History Shawnee, Sac and Fox, Muscogee Creek, and Seminole
Dr. Donna Langston, University of Colorado at Denver;
Dr. Donna Nelson, Chemist
Dr. Duane Champagne Sociology Chippewa
Dr. Emily Haozous, (Apache)
Dr. Fred_Begay (Navajo)
Dr. Gilbert John, Microbiologist
Dr. Glenabah Martinez, (Taos/Diné)
Dr. Gregory Cajete
Dr. Healani Chang, Clinical Behavioral Scientist/Pacific Biosciences
Dr. Hillary Weaver
Dr. Ian Thompson Choctaw
Dr. Jace Weaver
Dr. Jacquelyn Bolman, Environmental Scientist and Academic Advisor
Dr. Jani Ingram, Chemist
Dr. Jay Hansford C Vest, Saponi-Monacan, UNC-P
Dr. Jean O’Brien, History, UMN White Earth Ojibiwe
Dr. Jeff Means History Lakota
Dr. Jennifer Denetdale (Diné), Associate Professor of American Studies,
Dr. Jennifer McAlpin Navajo
Dr. Jennifer Nez Denetdale History Navajo
Dr. Jerrel Yakel, Neuroscientist
Dr. Jim Northrup
Dr. Joan Esnayra, Geneticist
Dr. Joanne Barker
Dr. Jodi Byrd English Chickasaw
Dr. John Spence, retired;
Dr. K. Tsianina Lomawaima, Anthropology, Creek
Dr. Karen Magnus, Biophysicist
Dr. Karina Walters,
Dr. Ken Ridgway, Geologist
Dr. Kimberly Huyser, (Diné)
Dr. Kimberly Roppolo http://www.nativewiki.org/Kimberly_Roppolo
Dr. Lee Anne Howe, Literature, Choctaw, UI-Champain-Urbana
Dr. Lee Bitsóí, Educator
Dr. Leola Tsinnajinnie, (Diné)
Dr. Linda Burhansstipanov, Public Health Educator
Dr. Linda E. Oxendine, History emeritus, UNC-P Lumbee
Dr. Lloyd L. Lee (Diné), Assistant Professor of Native American Studies
Dr. Lorenda Belone, (Diné)
Dr. Malinda Maynor Lowery, History, UNC-Chapel Hill Lumbee
Dr. Mandy Fretts, U of Wash first Nations Mik’maq
Dr. Marcus Cloud Briggs Divinity from Harvard Miccasukee (sp?),
Dr. Margaret Hiza, Geologist
Dr. Margaret Nelson Cherokee 90 years young!
Dr. Maria Tenario,
Dr. Maria Yellow Horse Braveheart,
Dr. Marigold Linton, Cognitive Psychologist
Dr. Mary Alice Tsosie (Diné), Director of Oral History Project, University Libraries, IFAIR Board
Dr. Mary Ann Jacobs, History UNC-P, Lumbee
Dr. Mattie Harper Ethnic Studies Anishinabe
Dr. Michael Lujan Bevacqua Ethnic Studies Chamorro
Dr. Michael Yellow Bird (Arikara/Hidatsa), Professor of Social Work, Humboldt State University
Dr. Monica Tsethlikai, Psychologist
Dr. Nancy Jackson, Chemist
Dr. Natchee Blu Barnd Ethnic Studies Anishinabe
Dr. Ned Blackhawk History Shoshone
Dr. Philip Deloria History Lakota
Dr. Rebecca Garcia, Mathematician
Dr. Reyna Ramirez Anthropology Ho Chunk
Dr. Rina Swentzell http://www.nativewiki.org/Rina_Swentzell

Dr. Robert Megginson, Mathematician
Dr. Robert Perez Ethnic Studies Apache
Dr. Robin Kimmerer, Plant Ecologist
Dr. Robyn Hannigan, Environmental Scientist
Dr. Rodney C. Haring
Dr. Russell Stands-Over-Bull, Geologist
Dr. Scott Richard Lyons English Ojibwe
Dr. Scottie Henderson (Navajo) Scottie worked with me on tribal water quality codes before going on to marine biology
Dr. Stacy Leeds Cherokee
Dr. Steven Crum History Western Shoshone
Dr. Tassy Parker, (Seneca)
Dr. Theresa Gregor English Santa Isabel
Dr. Thomas Crofoot,
Dr. Tiffany Lee, (Diné)
Dr. Tom Ball (Klamath/Modoc), University of Oregon;
Dr. Vibrina Coronado, Performance Studies, independent scholar, Lumbee
Dr. Vincent Werito, (Diné)
Dr. Waziyatawin Angela Wilson PHD History Dakota
Dr. Wilfred Foster Denetclaw, Zoologist
Dr. William Bauer History Round Valley

Please add names to the comments and whether Alaska Native or American Indian. I’ll update the listing.

NSF listing (sans names) is http://www.nsf.gov/statistics/sed/2011/data_table.cfm

Here’s an excerpt:

The concert hall at the Syndey Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 39,000 times in 2011. If it were a concert at Sydney Opera House, it would take about 14 sold-out performances for that many people to see it.

Click here to see the complete report.

“Unorganized Borough Inmate Search
Unorganized Borough Jail, Alaska

Address:
Unorganized Borough Jail
123 Sesame St
Example, AK 12345

Phone Number:
000-000-0000

Map of Jail Location”

http://www.inmatesearch.info/ alaska/unorganized-borough-jail-inmate-search-in-ak.php

Background: In South Africa, respiratory protective equipment is often the primary control method used to protect workers. This preliminary study investigated how well a common disposable P2 respirator fitted persons with a range of facial dimensions. Methods: Quantitative respirator fit tests were performed on 29 volunteers from different racial, gender and face size groups. Two facial dimensions width (bizygomatic) and length (menton-sellion) were measured for all participants. Results: In this study 13.8% of the participants demonstrated a successful fit with the medium sized mask. These included participants from three different racial and both gender groups. The large percentage of failed fit tests (86%) indicates that reliance on off-the-shelf respirators could be problematic in South Africa. Conclusions: The limitations of this preliminary study notwithstanding, respirator fit appear to be associated with individual facial characteristics and are not specific to racial/ethnic or gender characteristics.

This is one reason why I think the Totobobo mask is so useful. It is much easier to modify the mask to fit different faces. The Totobobo mask really needs to be tested in a place like Alaska where we have faces from many different populations. See the Flickr set at Respirators masks for pandemics, volcanoes, dust, woodworking, cycling

Primary entry about respirators is Masks — Types, Choosing (PPE)

Technorati Tags: masks, respirators, PPE, preparedness, Totobobo, anthropometry

Ice-age child’s remains discovered in Interior

The oldest cremated human remains ever discovered in northern North America have been found at a site near the Tanana River in central Alaska. The 3-year-old is only the second ice-age child discovered on the continent, say UAF researchers.

Photos: Excavating the site

PDF: Read the Science magazine article

Updated 2021-02-19 Fifty years later, can you help support naming the JBER Bryant Field Alaska Army National Guard Maintenance Hangar 6 to be the SFC Herbert Alex Alaska Army National Guard Maintenance Hangar? SFC Herbert Alex, a Dena’ina Athabascan, was the grandson of the last Traditional Chief of the Native Village of Eklutna. His and two other lives were lost on February 19, 1971 while on a flight from Whitehorse, YT, to Fort Richardson, AK

Please help by signing the Change.org petition,
https://www.change.org/p/state-of-alaska-adjutant-general-torrance-saxe-memorial-request-for-alaska-army-national-guardsman

Updated 2011-11-21, The Internet Archive has a copy of one of the oral histories about this event, http://www.archive.org/details/JohnSpaldingOn1971MtSanfordNationalGuardCrashRecorded2011

Forty Fifty years ago on February 19, 1971, an Alaska Army National Guard aircraft crashed at the 14,880 foot level of Mt. Sanford, 200 miles east of Anchorage in the Wrangell Mountains. The aircraft was an Army U8-D and was to be the first multi-engine aircraft for the Alaska Army Guard. It was on a ferry flight to Ft Richardson, Alaska from Fresno, California when it crashed. The crew was MAJ [Major] Steve W. Henault, US Army; LTC [Lieutenant Colonel] LTC William Caldwell (Bill), AKARNG; and SFC [Sergeant First Class] Herbert Alex (Herb), AKARNG. All died in the crash. One rescuer also succumbed in the attempt.

Very little was published in coeval accounts (see https://www.flickr.com/photos/190067453@N05/albums/72157715880516183). Many current National Guard members are unaware of these events in Alaska aviation history. The Alaska Army National Guard was the first in the nation to begin an aviation component. The plane was coming from the Army. It had been stationed in Panama and re-fitted and overhauled in California.

U-8D plane, similar to that ferried to AKARNG.

En route to AK the U8-D [See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beechcraft_L-23_Seminole] developed engine problems, declared an emergency, and landed in Whitehorse, Yukon Territory. The Army in Fresno was still responsible for repairs to return the U8-D to airworthy condition. However, on the repair flight to Whitehorse with the U-8 engine, the DC-3 itself lost an engine and landed at Ft Lewis, Washington.

Finally, when word was received at Ft Richardson that the U8-D was nearing airworthiness, Henault, Caldwell, and Alex flew to Whitehorse to continue the ferry mission. After a few delays, all was OK and they launched February 19 from Whitehorse to Kulis ANGB [Air National Guard Base], Anchorage.

MAJ Henault [http://www.smokejumpers.com/obituaries/item.php?obituaries_id=545 ] was the Pilot in Command/Instructor Pilot conducting a multi-engine plane transition as well as qualifying LTC Caldwell in the U-8. Caldwell was only a single engine qualified pilot at that time. Henault was not in the Guard but Active Duty US ARMY stationed at Ft Richardson. SFC Alex was the first aviation mechanic for AKARNG.

The evening of February 19 was the annual Adjutant General’s Ball at the Elmendorf AFB Officers Club. A radio call came in from LTC Caldwell asking that his wife be contacted and advised that they would be running a little late. Could she please lay out his dress blues for attendance at the annual AG’s Ball.

This was the last known contact with the U8-D, approximately five minutes prior to impact.

A search was launched on Saturday. Ordinarily the flight would have been through Northway. A check of all local airports along the route had been conducted with negative results. On Sunday, an Air Force C-130 located the wreckage on Mt Sanford.

Rescue and recovery attempts were made but due to continuous poor weather, the mission was greatly delayed. Weather in Anchorage dropped to double digits below zero that following week of Fur Rendezvous. Ray Genet, the Talkeetna mountain climber, Mt McKinley’s first guide, and Rex Post, a Pan American World Airways captain on leave, also a mountaineer, were dropped off from an Army helicopter at the 15,500 foot level in an attempt to reach the wreckage.

Genet had been on the mountain about a week before the weather broke, allowing him access to the aircraft. He had holed up in an emergency snow cave within about 400 yards of the aircraft. Post got altitude sickness and died on the mountain. [http://www.smokejumpers.com/obituaries/item.php?obituaries_id=39]. Genet had frostbitten hands from the recovery effort. He died in 1979 while descending Mount Everest. [http://wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Ray_Genet]

Later, the US Army, the AKARNG, and the families decided that if all the remains could not be recovered, they would all rest in place on the mountain. They remain so today. “Whiskey Charley” is in the left seat, Herb is in the seat behind the P/CP [pilot/co-pilot] seats and Steve lies about 100 feet below the severed right wing.

A real tragedy and great loss to the AKARNG, Caldwell and Alex were very dedicated soldiers. The Nome, AK Armory was later dedicated to LTC Caldwell for his time and service as the Commander of the 1st Scout BN [Scout Battalion].

Alex was the grandson and son of Eklutna traditional leaders and his children also served in the AKARNG. In the mid-1980s, there was an effort to dedicate the AKARNG Aviation Hanger at Ft Richardson (Bryant Airfield) to SFC Alex, but nothing came of it.

The 20 ft air traffic control tower was built in 1961. It is Building 4800. The State Historic Preservation Officer lists the tower as site AK-ANC-01095
Today, the 50 year-old air traffic control tower at the airfield is about to be modified and its distinctive pattern (the last such tower in Alaska) obliterated. Alaska National Guard heritage, which is also Alaska heritage, is little known outside of the living participants’ memory. And, of course, so much of our National Guard history is oral, not written, such as the Alaska Territorial Guard of 70 years ago. We’ve never had trained scholars to gather and analyze the oral histories. The documents and structures of this heritage are not kept, much less preserved for current and future Alaskans and NG to learn from.

It would be nice if the 40th anniversary of this loss could be remembered by the state and would stimulate further interest and professional research.

2021 February 19–It’s been 50 years. Please help by signing the Change.org petition,

https://www.change.org/p/state-of-alaska-adjutant-general-torrance-saxe-memorial-request-for-alaska-army-national-guardsman

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My thanks to David J Mock, John Spalding, and other Alaska veterans and to the family of Herbert Alex (sister Julia Cooper and daughter Eleanor Wilde, also a NG veteran) for their first-hand accounts which went into this post.

This was originally posted at https://www.facebook.com/pages/Alaska-National-Guard-Heritage/121826611217021

additional information–
Mrs Elizabeth L.J. Alex http://www.alaskastar.com/stories/011405/obi_20050114024.shtml
ARMY AIR CREWS: Fixed Wing Aviation Crewmembers Line of Duty Deaths http://www.armyaircrews.com/fixed.html
A University Engaged With its Community The Search for Dena’ina … http://www.uaa.alaska.edu/alumni/upload/Spring07.pdf
The Complete 1957 Gustavus/Juneau Plane Crash Story by Rita Wilson, http://www.gustavushistory.org/articles/view.aspx?id=10000

2011–Just this past week, the DMVA issued a call for information about Bryant Army Air Field, http://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=244246672302390&id=121826611217021

https://www.facebook.com/pages/New-Zealand-Earthquake-Updates/113580638717273?sk=wall

And then tried out the real-time maps of storms and whether that would improve his birds performance–

Hi Pam, Since I started using the information that you gave to me, my racing performance has gone up drastically. My losses are down and my winning is up. I send very few birds when the warnings are high, which result in fewer losses and when it is low I send a few more of the higher pedigree birds and the winnings are up. Thank you very much for your input. I will start racing again in August of this year and will keep you informed as to the results. I will definitely be using this information on my birds during their training this summer also, as I take them out as far as 100 miles on training tosses. thanks again.

Avian Navigation (pdf file)
Roswitha Wiltschko and Wolfgang Wiltschko
The Auk 126(4):717–743, 2009.
American Ornithologists’ Union, 2009. Special Reviews in Ornithology
http://www.aou.org/auk/reviews/review_126_4.pdf

• What’s So Special About Pigeons from AAAS. (Links to Project PigeonWatch are broken.)
• Pigeon racing From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pigeon_racing
• From Cornell University, Project PigeonWatch
  http://www.birds.cornell.edu/pigeonwatch
• American Racing Pigeon Union
  http://www.pigeon.org/

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How can I get a geomagnetic storm alert on my computer? I raise and race pigeons for a hobby and I think this would give me valuable information to help me in my sport hobby. I have a big race coming up this weekend and would like to know the forecast about these storms. Will be having a race every weekend for the next 5 weeks. Thank you.

I’ve transposed our e-mail conversation for posting here–

You could always just come back to this blog. The Where is… aurora, magnetic storm post has a real-time alert. The alert can be added to anyone’s website or blog. If you don’t have a website, you should be able to add a widget or gadget to your PC desktop that contains the same code that will display the information. Alternatively, if you use a “home page” or portal, such as Google or Yahoo, you should be able to add the code to that, much as you can add weather updates, etc. It is possible to add widgets or gadgets to personal computer desktops connected to the Internet, like the weather gadgets. I’m not too familiar with gadgets.

The web page, http://www.n3kl.org/sun/noaa.html has a lot of interesting links and instructions for adding the alert, http://www.n3kl.org/sun/status.html, to your blog.

The aurora map is an indicator of activity. That is, the aurora is a result of storm activity. The aurora link has a discussion about how to interpret the daily activity into a longer term forecast– That might be a better site for you to bookmark. They also have ways to display differing maps of aurora activity, that is, where the aurora occurs over North America, which might help you plan the races more precisely. You can always come back here to get to those links.

The geomagnetic alerts are equally good for everywhere on earth (well, the pole which is pointing at the sun gets more than the opposite pole, in the shadow, does. This will be a seasonal variation.) The aurora alerts are for North America but are tied to how active the sun is. Don’t worry about where there aurora can be seen but rather when and how strong.

Here’s a screen shot from the aurora page. Geophysical Institute Web site – http://www.gedds.alaska.edu/AuroraForecast

Click on the spot where the arrow points (at the website) to get the next day’s estimate. I think you can get maybe 3 weeks predicted but remember these are only probabilities and NOT determinations.

I briefly checked to see if there was something else to help you and found this website which contains links to other monitoring stations. You might be able to find more local (more precise) predictions but all the stations including the one at my site are all measuring the same thing. http://www.pigeonbasics.com/articles/article2.html

It sounds like pigeon racers may or may not need a very precise predictor. Could be that the storms, which do affect pigeon navigation, are not very precise at affecting the pigeon? If the effect is all or nothing, then you won’t need a very precise measurement.

You can sign up for email alerts at Sign up Aurora Alerts – http://www.gi.alaska.edu/mailman/listinfo/gse-aa

The Pigeon site has a link for an email alert from Real Time Alerts – http://sidc.oma.be/index.php3 but it isn’t real easy to find exactly how to sign up. http://sidc.oma.be/registration/registration_main.php

Good luck. If you find better sources of info, let me know and I’ll post them. It never occurred to me before you wrote and probably would help others, too. I’d be especially interested in how badly the solar activity affects pigeons, that is, if the activity goes up in steps, do the pigeons’ navigation get worse to the same extent?

Pam

• Geophysical Institute Web site –
  http://www.gedds.alaska.edu/AuroraForecast
• Author: Bilco Title: Geomagnetic Activity and its Effect on Racing Pigeons. Date: 2003-07-31 22:53:53 Uploaded by: webmaster
  http://www.pigeonbasics.com/articles/article2.html
• gse-aa — GSE Aurora Alert by e-mail
  http://www.gi.alaska.edu/mailman/listinfo/gse-aa

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*Hi, Pamela; thank you so much for your help. This is exactly what I was looking for. The last two weekends we have had two very bad smash races and I thought this might have something to do with it. Every little but of information helps in this sport. We race mostly for the fun of it and the compitition but sometimes we also have some pretty good size money races. Our clubs are here in Illinois. Some of the big guys in the sport race for thousands of dollars which we cannot afford. This is the largest hobby in the world but not in the United States. Belgium and Holland and Viet Nam are really big in it. There are races that pay out as much as a million dollars in prize money but we are just state wide and cannot go to that extreme. Thank you so much again. I will be using this chart that you sent to me regularly. B*

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• 100 Best Websites for Science Teachers, http://www.forensicsciencetechnician.org/?page_id=156

The links I examined on this post above are legitimate and the sources they list are indeed among the top 100. [A major oversight was Sigma Xi’s Science in the News ;) ]

I don’t know who the blog site publisher is, and the author is not named, so I would be a little leery of the site overall. (I’m not sure what NFL gridiron football fan sites have to do with forensic science.) The stated purpose of the website is

Forensic Science Technician explains the required education to become a forensic science technician including schools, colleges, programs and degrees, and salary forensic science technician.

The avatar for the blog shows highly unusual forensic science equipment– not a mask or respirator and a notebook but a drawn firearm. But pencils aren’t very “sexy” for recruiting students.

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I am a dentist and have a purely academic query — which has a better antimicrobial spectrum: Chloroxylenol or Benzalkonium chloride?

I’ll have to try looking that up. As an anthropologist, I suspect the answer will be different depending on
— the type of organism targeted
— the intended use (hands? instruments? countertops?)
— ease or thoroughness of use

plus, whatever the chemistry shows.

Can anyone help?

see also earlier posts

• Disinfectants for camp, field, and household
• Castor oil soap and Dettol Lysol

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Principles only.

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adapting the tools of 21st-century medicine to treat infectious diseases endemic to Southern Sudan….

Jill Seaman is a physician committed to delivering and improving treatment for infectious diseases endemic to Old Fangak, Sudan one of the most remote, impoverished, and war-torn regions of the world….

She spends the remaining portion of each year in Bethel, Alaska, providing health services to Yup’ik Eskimo communities.

Read more about

• Dr Jill Seaman
• http://www.alaskasudan.org/
• http://www.medicalmissionhalloffamefoundation.org/bios/seaman.html

Q. What is the MacArthur Fellowship? A. The MacArthur Fellowship is a five-year grant to individuals who show exceptional creativity in their work and the prospect for still more in the future. The fellowship is designed to provide recipients with the flexibility to pursue their creative activities in the absence of specific obligations or reporting requirements. There are no limits on age or area of activity. Individuals cannot apply for this award; they must be nominated.

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The national media had trouble pronouncing Palin’s name and suddenly everyone was searching for the city of Nowhere, Alaska.

See Mudflats take– A Year of Sarah Palin. What a Long, Strange Trip It’s Been.

Previous posts

• Where is… Palin and bridge to Nowhere Alaska
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• Where is… Wasilla (Gov. Sarah Palin’s residence)

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Twelve people who were homeless or familiar with life on the streets have died outdoors in Anchorage this spring and summer, most of them in woods and parks. Only one death has been classified as a homicide.

• Anchorage’s 12 homeless deaths this year Published: August 22nd, 2009 10:07 PM
• What’s killing the homeless in Anchorage? By LISA DEMER Published: August 22nd, 2009 10:23 PM

1) There are far more homeless than those living rough or in shelters.

2) The list for AHFC (Alaska Housing Finance Corp.) rental assistance or housing in Anchorage is 10 months long at least.

3) Even last December the state was bragging about all the jobs available [sic] bringing in many individuals and families from Outside directly to the shelters and “camping out”.

4) If a person has a cut artery or broken leg, they can be taken / go to the hospital for treatment. If a person has a psychological crisis, they cannot receive any treatment or support, even by going to a hospital. The only humane way is to have them arrested for “trespassing” which takes them to police HQ for someone to decide if they can go to the hospital. Otherwise, wait for the person in crisis to assault themselves or someone else, then call the police.

5) Inebriates do look after each other, in many cases. This past winter bus riders noticing someone fall or lying down on the pavement would alert the driver who calls community service patrol. Some will ask passersby to call CSP for themselves or their friends. This means that we can all be alert for those in trouble and be accessible for those seeking help. (CSP on speed dial)

6) CSP is a contract service and evidently only available from 2 PM to 10 (?) PM. They aren’t available in the early morning. Fortunately, Anchorage police, if possible, will respond to get people off the street during morning “rush” hour on icy streets.

7) Many homeless and street folks cannot get proper health care. In this country, medical care, Rx are rationed to those with money and knowledge of how to access health system. Or, to those with money and knowledge to force IHS and VA to provide competent service.

Previous posts–

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Homeless backpacks-- Will think for healthcare

Those with health care–

People with money for health care, housing, food, have bigger signs against health care reform.

Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2009 17:18:44 -0400 (EDT)
From: ProMED-mail <promed@promed.isid.harvard.edu>
Subject: PRO/AH/EDR> Tularemia, human – USA: (AK), RFI

TULAREMIA, HUMAN – USA: (ALASKA), REQUEST FOR INFORMATION
*********************************************************
A ProMED-mail post
http://www.promedmail.org
ProMED-mail is a program of the
International Society for Infectious Diseases
http://www.isid.org

Date: Thu 6 Aug 2009
Source: Associated Press [edited]
http://www.ktuu.com/Global/story.asp?S=10861604

Two residents of Fairbanks, Alaska have been diagnosed with tularemia, a potentially fatal bacterial infection more commonly found in animals. Alaska Department of Fish and Game veterinarian Kimberlee Beckmen learned of the outbreak from state public health authorities late last week.

The disease can be transmitted to humans from snowshoe hares, and the hare population has been high in the interior. It’s unclear how the Fairbanks residents contracted it.

Beckmen says people are usually infected through the skin by handling sick hares, but they can also get it when bitten by ticks, flies, or mosquitoes that fed on sick hares.

A Fish and Game spokeswoman says the Fairbanks patients were treated with antibiotics and are doing well.

– — communicated by: ProMED-mail rapporteur Brent Barrett

[Tularemia is typically found in animals, especially small mammals such as voles, mice, rodents, rabbits, and hares. _Francisella tularensis_ is found in a wide range of animal hosts and is capable of surviving for weeks at low temperatures in water, moist soil, or decaying plant and animal matter. Although hundreds of differing vertebrates and invertebrates can be infected with the tularemia bacillus, no more than a dozen or so are important in its ecology. Humans become infected through a variety of mechanisms including bites of infected arthropods (mosquitoes, ticks, deerflies), handling infected or dead animals, ingesting contaminated food or water, and inhaling aerosols of bacteria. The type of exposure will dictate the form of the disease manifestation with cutaneous exposures usually resulting in the glandular or ulceroglandular forms. The type of disease in these Alaskan cases is not stated.

ProMED-mail posted an alert (20041008.2760, see below) in October 2004 regarding hamsters from a Canadian pet distributor that were found to be infected with type B tularemia as well. No human cases were reported.

Tularemia in humans is generally a rural disease and occurs naturally throughout much of North America and Eurasia. The type B strain (_F. tularensis_ biogroup palearctica) is the dominant strain in Eurasia, whereas both biogroups (type A is biogroup tularensis) are found in the USA. Type A is said to be more virulent than type B.

Although not generally transferable from person to person, the infectious dose of _F. tularensis_ is quite low, and the organism is listed among the category A bioterrorism agents.

According to statistics from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, during the period 2000-2006, a total of 873 cases of human tularemia were reported in the USA. In the same period, there were a total of only 3 cases reported in Alaska, with annual reports of no more than one per year, although the disease is likely underreported. See http://www.cdc.gov/tularemia/Surveillance/Tul_CasesbyState.html for the full table of number of cases reported each year by state, 2000-2006. The largest numbers were from the south-central part of the USA, with Missouri (172), Arkansas (123), and Oklahoma (79) leading the list. – Mod.LL]

[see also:
Tularemia, feline – USA (UT): alert, RFI 20090802.2719
Plague, tularemia, prairie dogs – USA (SD) 20090712.2494
Tularemia, feline, canine – USA (SD) 20090711.2481
Tularemia, rabbits – USA (02): (NM) 20090417.1458
Tularemia, rabbits – USA (NM) 20090415.1429
2008
– —
Tularemia, human, feline – USA: (NV) 20080825.2652
Tularemia, pneumonic – USA: (NYC) 20080612.1863
2007
– —
Tularemia – USA (UT, NJ) (05): UT 20070809.2590
Tularemia – USA (UT, NJ) 20070716.2283
Tularemia, lagomorphs – USA (NM) 20070622.2013
Tularemia, feline – USA (SD) 20070614.1938
Tularemia, feline – USA (CO) 20070524.1658
Tularemia, ovine – USA (ID) 20070428.1391
2006
– —
Tularemia, humans, rabbits – USA (WY) 20061101.3122
Tularemia, pneumonic – USA (MA) 20060731.2115
Tularemia, rabbits – USA (TX) 20060601.1531
Tularemia – USA (TX) (03) 20060224.0607
Tularemia, rodents, humans – USA (TX) (02): background 20060222.0577
Tularemia – USA (TX) 20060216.0508
Tularemia – USA (NE) 20060103.0024
2004
– —
Tularemia, pneumonic – USA (NYC)(04) 20041115.3081
Tularemia, pneumonic – USA (NYC) 20041110.3033
1998
– —
Tularemia – USA (New York City) (03) 19980804.1490
Tularemia – USA (New York City): RFI 19980724.1405]

………………ll/msp/sh

At first glance it had all the makings of a Hollywood movie set. But this was no Hollywood movie set, it was my front yard on Sand Lake and it was 3am on June 10. For two days, fire and police vehicles were fixtures in my front yard, as the search for a missing canoeist continued. Family members gathered outside my front window, watching and waiting as they held hands, cried and prayed….

One APD officer on the scene told me that these kinds of tragedies are all too frequently due to an unfortunate combination of events. … In this case, the costliest hole was when the two young men launched their canoe at the public access point, they walked right past a newly erected life jacket stand that offered boaters free personal flotations devices.

Alaska initiated the “Kids Don’t Float” program. Fireman Bob Painter of Homer founded the program after a number of children drowned in Homer.

(May 29, 2009, Anchorage, Alaska) – The “Kids Don’t Float” and boating safety programs will continue this summer… Under these boating safety programs, children learn about boating safety in schools, and life jackets are available for loan at many lakes and rivers across Alaska. …Representative Mark Neuman of Wasilla sponsored HB 151 and Governor Palin signed the legislation in May.

Both NM and Alaska rank high in the USA for the prevalence of drownings (the number of deaths divided by the population). Alaska is a semi-arid region with a lot of riparian and coast line; New Mexico is a semi-arid region. Both states share a cultural norm that things go better with alcohol, especially if activities involve an engine (boat, auto, snowmachine). Both states seem to believe “accidents” [not my fault] are always happening but ones with bad consequences only happen to others, the less deserving.

PFDs (personal flotation devices, once referred to as lifevests) are no substitute for sobriety but they can buy time, if properly used. Even without alcohol present, PFDs are valuable. Take a look at these numbers–

http://dnr.alaska.gov/parks/boating/pdf/kdfschool08.pdf
1. Alaska has one of the highest boating fatality rates in the nation
a. at least 6 out of 10 are NOT wearing a life jacket
b. 9 out of 10 involve boats 26 feet and under
c. 5 out of 6 are due to capsizing or falling overboard
d. 8 out of 10 are Alaska residents
e. 9 out of 10 are adult males
f. at least 1 out of 3 involve alcohol
g. nearly all incidents involve cold water immersion

The state law allows adults to endanger themselves, but not underage children.

5. Legal requirements
a. everyone in the boat must have a life jacket of the proper size readily accessible
b. anyone under the age of 13 must be wearing a life jacket when on deck or in an open boat
c. must be suitable for the activity and wearer
1. read the label
d. must be in serviceable condition
1. free of defects (tears, missing zippers, broken buckles)
e. must be USCG-approved

A child’s coloring book encourages children to grow up to remember the law’s requirements.
from http://dnr.alaska.gov/parks/boating/pdf/2006ColoringBook36pgWEB.pdf

PARENTS:
It’s the LAW!
Persons under the age of thirteen
MUST wear their
PFD in an open boat
or on a deck.

Alaskan 8-year old on open boat without PFD

Gov. Sarah Palin issued this proclamation in May to remind all of us that being safe around water, whether or not boating or fishing, is smart and more than the easily remembered “do what you otter around water, wear a pfd”

“WHEREAS, Alaska is blessed with an extensive coastline, millions of lakes, and thousands of rivers, making Alaska’s waters an important part of daily life; and

WHEREAS, our state offers many diverse boating opportunities for transportation, subsistence, and recreation, including kayaking, canoeing, rafting, and power boating; and

WHEREAS, boating can also be dangerous, and often fatal; and

WHEREAS, Alaska’s frigid waters can kill the unprepared, regardless of swimming ability; and

WHEREAS, four out of five of Alaska’s boating fatalities involve a sudden, unexpected capsize or fall overboard; and

WHEREAS, to help prevent accidents or fatalities while boating, boaters can take the simple step of wearing life jackets when in an open boat or on an open boat deck. In an emergency, life jackets provide an important advantage, and allow all efforts to be focused on self-rescue or getting help from others; and

WHEREAS, the newest designs make today’s life jackets more comfortable, functional, and affordable than ever. There is no reason to not wear one; and

WHEREAS, by wearing life jackets while boating, Alaskans demonstrate that when enjoying the outdoors, safety always comes first;

NOW, THEREFORE, I, Sarah Palin, Governor of the state of Alaska, do hereby proclaim May 16-22, 2009 as:

Safe Boating Week

in Alaska, and encourage all boaters to make their boating memories this season good ones by always wearing life jackets, carefully preparing for each trip, carrying appropriate communications and signaling devices, and by serving as a positive example on the water for other boaters.
Dated: May 7, 2009
http://www.gov.state.ak.us/proclamations.php?id=1835

To test a life jacket, lift it at the shoulders. If the life jacket comes up over the ears, it is too big.

Test Alaska child's PFD fit. Will she slip out of unzipped PFD on open boat?

Today comes this tragic reminder of the example set “on the water for other boaters.”

A 56-year-old man drowned in Bristol Bay this morning, the Coast Guard said. He was fishing in an 18-foot skiff with his two teenage daughters when he went overboard while pulling in a net, said Coast Guard spokeswoman Sara Francis. … The accident happened in Togiak Bay around 9 a.m. and a nearby fisherman immediately called for Coast Guard help. The skiff was only 10 to 20 yards from shore but the man was not wearing a life jacket.

http://www.adn.com/money/industries/fishing/story/863256.html

2009-08-11 Very nice picture guide to Alaska Safe Boating Course.

Mahalo!

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I wish it were easier to visit in reverse, in analog or digital space.

Current Country Totals
From 12 Nov 2008 to 4 Jul 2009

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In Bristol Bay, commercial fishing is closed due to lack of canning capacity,

Glut of reds overwhelms Bristol Bay processors The major processing companies were unable to handle the glut of fish, and last Sunday, the earliest date ever, they put fishermen on catch limits; some suspended buying altogether….

But still some people are hopeful (In a Twitter update Sunday, she said she was looking forward to joining her family as they commercially fish in Bristol Bay– I head 2 West AK villages today, look forward to their busy comm fish activity! )

http://blog.drivinglaws.org/2009/07/04/alaska-state-troopers-press-release-of-friday-july-03-2009/

Location: Kasilof
Case number: To be assigned
Type: Personal use fishing violation

Text: On 7-2-09, Alaska Wildlife Troopers contacted 18 year old Mitchel Halverson from Anchorage during an investigation. The investigation revealed Halverson invited non residents to participate in the taking of fish under his Kasilof River personal use set net permit then gave some of the fish to the no residents. Halverson was issued a summons for improper use of personal use caught fish. The offense carries a mandatory court appearance and arraignment is on 7-31-09.

Author: JDW1
Received Friday, July 03, 2009 7:03 AM and posted Friday, July 03, 2009 7:24 AM

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Location: Copper Center
Case number: 09-53514
Type: Removing salmon from the water prior to release Text: On 6-23-09 Glennallen Alaska Wildlife Troopers received a report of people on the Klutina River pulling multiple salmon onto the rocks before releasing them. Troopers contacted Matthew Conner (age 26 / Anchorage) who was observed by Troopers removing salmon from the water onto the riverbank then releasing them back into the Klutina River. Conner was issued a citation for removing a salmon from the water prior to releasing. Conner was cited to the Glennallen Court with a bail of $110.
Author: LDD0
Received Friday, July 03, 2009 8:03 AM and posted Friday, July 03, 2009 9:00 AM

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Location: Egegik
Case Number: 090055437
Type: C/F Closed Water
Text: On 6/27/09, Haaken T. Anderson, 37 YOA, of Dillingham, Alaska was cited by Bristol Bay Wildlife troopers for commercial fishing in closed water in the Egegik District. Arraignment is scheduled in Naknek District Court on 7/10/09. Author: PLF0
Received Friday, July 03, 2009 11:03 AM and posted Friday, July 03, 2009 11:41 AM

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Location: Naknek River
Case Number: 090056187
Type: No King Stamp
Text: On 6/30/09, Daniel L. Slevin, 42 YOA, of Portland, Oregon was cited by Bristol Bay Wildlife Troopers for negligently fishing without a non-resident king stamp. Bail was set at $200.00. Author: GSC1 Received Friday, July 03, 2009 11:03 AM and posted Friday, July 03, 2009 11:53 AM

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Location: Egegik
Case Number: 090055437
Type: C/F Closed Water
Text: On 6/27/09, Wilbur D. Kingsley, 49 YOA, of Pilot Point, Alaska was cited by Bristol Bay Wildlife Troopers for commercial fishing in closed water in the Egegik District. Arraignment is scheduled in Naknek District Court on 7/10/09. Author: PLF0 Received Friday, July 03, 2009 11:03 AM and posted Friday, July 03, 2009 11:44 AM

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Location: Naknek
Case Number: 090054275
Type: Improper ID of Gear
Text: On 6/30/09, Michael A. O’Dell, 51 YOA, of Shoreline, Washington was cited by Bristol Bay Wildlife Troopers for improper identification of gear. Arraignment is scheduled in Naknek District Court on 7/9/09. Author: ECH0 Received Friday, July 03, 2009 11:03 AM and posted Friday, July 03, 2009 11:50 AM

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Location: Egegik
Case Number: 090052430
Type: C/F Closed Water
Text: On 6/22/09, Ryan C. Arnestad, 42 YOA, of Stanwood, Washington was cited by Bristol Bay Wildlife Troopers for commercial fishing closed water south of the Egegik commercial salmon district. Arraignment is scheduled in Naknek District Court on 7/8/09.
Author: FBF0 Received Friday, July 03, 2009 11:03 AM and posted Friday, July 03, 2009 11:39 AM

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Location: Naknek
Case Number: 090054276
Type: C/F Closed Water
Text: On 6/30/09, Vince Giammanco Jr., 54 YOA, of Corral Tierra, California was cited by Bristol Bay Wildlife Troopers for commercial fishing closed water in the Naknek section. Arraignment is scheduled in Naknek District court on 7/9/09. Author: ECH0 Received Friday, July 03, 2009 11:03 AM and posted Friday, July 03, 2009 11:47 AM

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Location: Naknek
Case Number: 090054278
Type: Illegible ADF&G #

Text: On 6/30/09, Robert D. Huff, 49 YOA, of Bellingham, Washington was cited by Bristol Bay Wildlife Troopers for commercial fishing with missing/illegible ADF&G numbers. Bail was set at $200.00. Author: BWJ9 Received Friday, July 03, 2009 12:03 PM and posted Friday, July 03, 2009 12:12 PM

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Location: Naknek
Case Number: 090056989
Type: C/F w/o License
Text: On 7/2/09, Bryan Strauss, 23 YOA, of Anchorage, Alaska was cited by Bristol Bay Wildlife Troopers for not having a crewmember license while being employed on a commercial fishing vessel. Bail was set at $250.00. Author: GSC1 Received Friday, July 03, 2009 12:03 PM and posted Friday, July 03, 2009 12:53 PM

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Location: Naknek
Case Number: 090054279
Type: Unlit Drift Net
Text: On 6/30/09, Vito J. Liberati, 52 YOA, of Naknek, Alaska was cited by Bristol Bay Wildlife Troopers for commercial fishing without proper lighting/unlit drift net during hours of darkness. Bail was set at $250. Author: JPM1 Received Friday, July 03, 2009 12:03 PM and posted Friday, July 03, 2009 12:17 PM

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Location: Naknek River
Case Number: N/A
Type: Fail to Register Power Boat
Text: On 6/30/09, Thomas D. Baumgartner, 46 YOA, of Portland, Oregon was cited by Bristol Bay Wildlife Troopers for failing to register two power boats. Bail was set at $50.00 for each boat. Author: GSC1 Received Friday, July 03, 2009 12:03 PM and posted Friday, July 03, 2009 12:02 PM

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Location: Naknek
Case Number: N/A
Type: Fail to Register Power Boat

Text: On 7/2/09, Laney E. Moses, 27 YOA, of Levelock, Alaska was cited by Bristol Bay Wildlife Troopers for operating an unlicensed power vessel. Bail was set at $50.00. Author: PLF0 Received Friday, July 03, 2009 12:03 PM and posted Friday, July 03, 2009 12:36 PM

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Location: Naknek
Case Number: N/A
Type: Fail to Register Power Boat
Text: On 7/1/09, Rico Grossi, 41 YOA, of Bay Point, California was cited by Bristol Bay Wildlife Troopers for failing to register his powerboat. Bail was set at $50.00 Author: GSC1 Received Friday, July 03, 2009 12:03 PM and posted Friday, July 03, 2009 12:31 PM

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Location: Naknek
Case Number: N/A
Type: Fail to Register Power Boat
Text: On 7/1/09, Joshua Cousar, 22 YOA, of Springdale, Arkansas was cited by Bristol Bay Wildlife Troopers for failing to register his power boat. Bail was set at $50.00. Author: GSC1 Received Friday, July 03, 2009 12:03 PM and posted Friday, July 03, 2009 12:33 PM

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Location: Naknek River
Case Number: 090056176
Type: No King Stamp
Text: On 6/30/09, Jason Herman, 38 YOA, of Portland, Oregon was cited by Bristol Bay Wildlife Troopers for negligently fishing without a non-resident king stamp. Bail was set at $200.00. Author: GSC1 Received Friday, July 03, 2009 12:03 PM and posted Friday, July 03, 2009 12:06 PM

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Location: Naknek
Case Number: 090056986
Type: Employ Unlicensed Crewmember
Text: On 7/2/09, Howard Knutson, 79 YOA, of Anchorage, Alaska was cited by Bristol Bay Wildlife Troopers for employing an unlicensed crewmember. Bail was set at $250.00.
Author: GSC1 Received Friday, July 03, 2009 12:03 PM and posted Friday, July 03, 2009 12:44 PM

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Location: Egegik
Case Number: 090052441
Type: C/F Closed Water
Text: On 6/30/09, Chandler G. Short, 38 YOA, of Anchorage, Alaska was cited by Bristol Bay Wildlife Troopers for commercial fishing closed water north of the Egegik commercial salmon district. Arraignment is scheduled in Naknek District Court on 7/9/09. Author: FBF0 Received Friday, July 03, 2009 1:03 PM and posted Friday, July 03, 2009 1:05 PM

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Location: Egegik
Case Number: 090052443
Type: C/F Closed Water
Text: On 6/30/09, Adam C. Evich, 38 YOA, of Fairhaven, Massachusetts was cited by Bristol Bay Wildlife Troopers for commercial fishing during a closed period in the Egegik District. Arraignment is scheduled in Naknek District Court on 7/9/09. Author: FBF0
Received Friday, July 03, 2009 2:03 PM and posted Friday, July 03, 2009 2:10 PM

Location: Chiswell Islands
Case number: 09-56878
Type: Exceed Possession Limit Coho
Text: On 7/2/09, Jayson F. Schmett, 35 yoa, of Anchorage AK, was cited by the Alaska Wildlife Troopers, Seward Post, for exceeding the North Gulf Coast Possession Limit on Coho Salmon. Bail was set at $130.00 Author: MDC0 Received Friday, July 03, 2009 2:03 PM and posted Friday, July 03, 2009 2:29 PM

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Location: Resurrection Bay
Case number: 09-38661
Type: Unregistered Vessel
Text: On 7/2/09, Donald S. Macdonald, 66 yoa, of Anchorage AK, was cited by the Alaska Wildlife Troopers, Seward Post, for operating a vessel in the waters of Alaska without a valid registration. Bail was set at $60.00. Author: MDC0 Received Friday, July 03, 2009 2:03 PM and posted Friday, July 03, 2009 2:38 PM

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Location: Chiswell Islands
Case number: 09-56877
Type: Exceed Possession Limit Coho
Text: On 7/2/09, Steven R. Noel, 48 yoa, of Orem UT, was cited by the Alaska Wildlife Troopers, Seward Post, for exceeding the North Gulf Coast Possession Limit on Coho Salmon. Bail was set at $170.00. Author: MDC0 Received Friday, July 03, 2009 2:03 PM and posted Friday, July 03, 2009 2:12 PM

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Location: Chiswell Islands Case number: 09-56880 Type: Exceed Possession Limit Coho Text: On 7/2/09, Joseph F. Quinn III, 60 yoa, of Wasilla AK, was cited by the Alaska Wildlife Troopers, Seward Post, for exceeding the North Gulf Coast Possession Limit on Coho Salmon. Bail was set at $130.00. Author: MDC0 Received Friday, July 03, 2009 2:03 PM and posted Friday, July 03, 2009 2:31 PM

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Chiswell Islands Case number: 09-56874 Type: Exceed Possession Limit Coho Text: On 7/2/09, Melissa J. Hayden, 41 yoa, of Springville UT, was cited by the Alaska Wildlife Troopers, Seward Post, for exceeding the North Gulf Coast Possession Limit on Coho Salmon. Bail was set at $170.00. Author: MDC0 Received Friday, July 03, 2009 2:03 PM and posted Friday, July 03, 2009 2:21 PM

————————————————- Location: Chiswell Islands Case number: 09-56876 Type: Exceed Possession Limit Coho Text: On 7/2/09, Edward D. Martin, 55 yoa, of Cooper Landing AK, was cited by the Alaska Wildlife Troopers, Seward Post, for exceeding the North Gulf Coast Possession Limit on Coho Salmon. Bail was set at $170.00. Author: MDC0 Received Friday, July 03, 2009 2:03 PM and posted Friday, July 03, 2009 2:15 PM

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Location: Chiswell Islands Case number: 09-56875 Type: Exceed Possession Limit Coho Text: On 7/2/09, Thomas W. Murray, 42 yoa, of Cooper landing AK, was cited by the Alaska Wildlife Troopers, Seward Post, for exceeding the North Gulf Coast Possession Limit on Coho Salmon. Bail was set at $170.00. Author: MDC0 Received Friday, July 03, 2009 2:03 PM and posted Friday, July 03, 2009 2:19 PM

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Location: Chiswell Islands Case number: 09-56881 Type: Exceed Possession Limit Coho Text: On 7/2/09, James E. Levra, 57 yoa, of Anchorage AK, was cited by the Alaska Wildlife Troopers, Seward Post, for exceeding the North Gulf Coast Possession Limit on Coho Salmon. Bail was set at $130.00. Author: MDC0 Received Friday, July 03, 2009 2:03 PM and posted Friday, July 03, 2009 2:35 PM

————————————————————— Location: Naknek Case Number: 090053217 Type: Fail to Display 12? Numbers Text: On 7/3/09, Drew T. Carr, 33 YOA, of Kailua, Hawaii was cited by Bristol Bay Wildlife Troopers for failing to properly display his 12 inch numbers. Bail was set at $200. Author: PLF0 Received Friday, July 03, 2009 5:03 PM and posted Friday, July 03, 2009 5:46 PM

————————————————————— Location: Egegik Case Number: 090051262 Type: C/F Closed Period Text: On 6/26/09, John Whiteman, 43 YOA, of Bellingham, Washington was cited by Bristol Bay Wildlife Troopers for commercial fishing during a closed period in the Egegik District. Arraignment is scheduled in Naknek District Court on 7/8/09. Author: JCL0 Received Friday, July 03, 2009 5:03 PM and posted Friday, July 03, 2009 5:53 PM

————————————————————— Location: Egegik Case Number: 09005311213 Type: Operate Set Net too close to Another Set Net Text: On 7/2/09, George C. Wilson, 56 YOA, of Naknek, Alaska was cited by Bristol Bay Wildlife Troopers for operating a set gillnet within 300 feet of another set gillnet. Arraignment is scheduled in Naknek District Court on 7/15/09. Author: GSC1 Received Friday, July 03, 2009 5:03 PM and posted Friday, July 03, 2009 5:43 PM

————————————————————— Location: Naknek Case Number: 090053209 Type: Fail to Display Sign Text: On 7/1/09, Nola Angasan, 52 YOA, of Naknek, Alaska was cited by Bristol Bay Wildlife Troopers for fail to display a sign at a set net site. Arraignment is scheduled in Naknek District Court on 7/15/09. Author: GSC1 Received Friday, July 03, 2009 6:03 PM and posted Friday, July 03, 2009 6:01 PM

————————————————————— Location: Naknek Case Number: 090053211 Type: Fail to Mark Set Net Site Text: On 7/1/09, Stephen E. Gerry, 56 YOA, of Alamo, California was cited by Bristol Bay Wildlife Troopers for failing to properly mark a set gillnet site. Arraignment is scheduled in Naknek District Court on 7/10/09. Author: GSC1 Received Friday, July 03, 2009 6:03 PM and posted Friday, July 03, 2009 6:14 PM

Site Search Tags: Bristol+Bay, Dillingham, salmon, fishing, Palin, crime+beat, Yukon+River, Nushagak, Naknek

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The library based at Connotea is linked in the sidebar. The Twittered and Tumblred libraries are linked there as well. I’ll eventually get all the libraries linked together. In the meantime, here is the Google Books link–

• Books in Unorganized Grassroots Science library

→← →← →← →← →← →← →← →← →←

• Unorganized Borough Google Reader – Grassroots Science Unorganized Borough’s shared items
• Grassroots Science Tumblr micro library
• Grassroots Science tweeted library
• Unorganized Internet Archive http://www.archive.org/bookmarks/hlthenvt

→← →← →← →← →← →← →← →← →←

The following are now obsolete, but contain archived items.

• Grassroots Science’s shared items
• Newsclips for Grassroots Science (obsolete)
  http://services.newsgator.com/ngws/svc/ClippingsRSS.aspx?uid=1434014&fid=11769270
• Newsclips for library, museum, knowledge systems (obsolete)
  http://services.newsgator.com/ngws/svc/ClippingsRSS.aspx?uid=1434014&fid=30257972

Site Search Tags: library, Google+books, knowledgebase, TEK, IK, Connotea, Twitter, Tumblr, GoogleBooks, Wayback+Machine, Internet+Archive, libraries

Maryn McKenna is currently writing about MRSA at her blog

Creating a Bookshelf of Valuable Resources List compiled by Maryn McKenna. http://www.nieman.harvard.edu/reportsitem.aspx?id=100374 It helps to assemble a reference bookshelf,” McKenna says. “I have been writing about pandemic and avian flu since 1997, and here are some of the works I keep on my shelf.”

Avian Flu, A Pandemic & the Role of Journalists: Excerpts From a Conference From November 30 until December 2, 2006, discussion at the Nieman Foundation … “The Next Big Health Crisis — And How to Cover It” brought journalists together with scientists, public health officials, medical experts, academic researchers, law enforcement officers, public policy experts, and Homeland Security officials to talk about how best to prepare for the possible arrival of pandemic flu.

Previous posts about Maryn McKenna
MRSA blog
More historical resources (Brevig Mission)
Pandemic planners urged to tap grass roots

Site Search Tags: McKenna, readings, history, epidemiology, books, influenza, pandemic, news+media, journalism, public+health, Harvard, Nieman

Doesn’t take long. Significance for the world is debatable but it does accumulate data for their studies.

You are an Media Mover If you are a Media Mover, you have a wide range of online and mobile habits, and you are bound to find or create an information nugget, such as a digital photo, and pass it on. These social exchanges are central to your use of information and communication technology. Cyberspace, as a path to personal productivity or an outlet for creativity, is less important to you.

Site Search Tags: Pew, cyberspace, Internet, survey

He’s just posted some of today’s river flooding in Emmonak.

2009-05-26 from Alaska PrideMay 2009 Eagle, Alaska Begins Recovery After Ice Jam Flood Takes Out 30 Homes, Contaminates The Well With E.Coli, And Spreads Diesel Pollution View all posts on the 2009 Interior Alaska floods HERE, in inverse chronological order. The most recent post will appear first.

Site Search Tags: Emmonak, erosion, Yukon+River, flooding, preparedness, photos

The 2009 World Beard and Moustache Championships were held in Anchorage this past week. Friday at 4 PM was the parade downtown.

Lots of redheads. such as Jack Passion

Not enough kilts, however. Don’t know if this is a UTILIKILTS : http://www.utilikilts.com/ but the collar is the antipodean possum (not the Virginia o’possum)–

See

• World Beard and Moustache Championships and results http://akbeardclub.com/resultsworldbear.html
• Bearded & Tschorn: USA dominates World Beard and Moustache Championships

The LATimes had more coverage of the poster contest than the Anchorage papers or the Chamber of Commerce. The program had one poster as the cover, but not that tonsorial totem pole

Just a reminder that some things should never be shaved–

Site Search Tags: parade, beard, moustache, hair, parade, Anchorage, Alaska

Dr Fortuine was named Alaska Historian of the Year in 1990 for his book “Chills and Fever: Health and Disease in the Early History of Alaska” and again in 2005 for his book “Must We All Die? Alaska’s Enduring Struggle with Tuberculosis.” He was also a Fellow of the Arctic Institute of North America, a founding member of the American Society for Circumpolar Health, and a co-founder of the Amundsen Educational Center in Soldotna (a Christian vocational school for Alaska Natives).

Field assignments in the Indian Health Service included successive postings as medical officer and medical officer in charge at the Turtle Mountain Chippewa Reservation at Belcourt, N.D. (1961-63), then as service unit director at Kanakanak in Alaska (1963-64), Bethel (1964-67), on the Navajo Reservation at Fort Defiance, Ariz. (1970-71) and finally as director of the Alaska Native Medical Center in Anchorage (1971-77). From 1977-1980, he was detailed to the U.S. State Department as international health attache, the liaison officer between the U.S. government and the World Health Organization … Until his retirement from the Public Health Service in 1987, he worked as a family physician and emergency room physician at the Alaska Native Medical Center, then spent another 12 years as a volunteer operating a weekly skin clinic at the hospital…. Since 1989, Dr. Fortuine taught first-year medical students at the University of Alaska Anchorage as part of the WWAMI Program of the University of Washington.

Another related post–
Anchorage Museum to open tuberculosis exhibit

Site Search Tags: Fortuine, TB, history, Alaska, epidemics, epidemiology, medical, IHS, PHS, ANMC

http://media.aprn.org/2009/toa-20090505.mp3 Swine Flu Talk of Alaska

Their blog comments are handled by Disqus which means it is nearly impossible to participate (my browser re-draws into one pixel wide; log-ins never work; comments don’t appear) so I will post my comment here and hope it trackbacks over there.

Preparedness comes in many forms, including (or especially) accurate information for the public to decide their risk. I think creating a false sense of security about infectious diseases or flooding and erosion is worse than the emergency condition itself.

My 3 things everyone should know to prevent bird flu (pandemic flu) are * Katrina was no Girl Scout (be prepared);
* learn the words and tune to Happy Birthday (wash hands while singing two rounds of Happy Birthday or Good Morning to You, properly, in English or Yup’ik); and
* practice safe sex (which implies that one has enough respect for self and other not to abuse alcohol and drugs, too. The result is fewer chronic illnesses like untreated depression, chlamydia, TB, and hepatitis which weakens one’s immune system.) More at How to avoid swine flu H1N1, or any other, quick list, from https://ykalaska.wordpress.com/

Always ask yourself and your experts– does it make sense?
Does mass dispensing exercise prove disaster readiness
Mass disease pass, 2007

Alaska Airlines said it was removing pillows and blankets from all of its 114 planes, and would disinfect and sanitize all of its planes during overnight maintenance.
http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2009/may/02/flu-wallops-mexican-tourism/

Now we won’t have any pillows for lumbar support to overcome the cramped seating and they’ll probably turn the heat too high to compensate for no blankets.

Bring back the antimacassar!

I always assumed pillows and blankets were disinfected regularly on planes (but nevertheless was queasy that it didn’t occur). Whole Foods doesn’t provide hand gel near the food counters or exits– a precaution to not so much to prevent illness but to remind patrons to practice safe sneezing. On the other hand, the Johnny Appleseed Trail of North Central Massachusetts, Visitor Center http://www.appleseed.org/ wipes down the doorknobs and door handles every hour as routine (they get lots of visitors per hour on the highways).

2009-05-05 I found out yesterday that Northwest/Delta airlines does have antimacassars and free pillows and blankets for lumbar support. Food is still extra.

Site Search Tags: Alaska+Airlines, preparedness, PPE, public+health, business, Whole+Foods, health+centers

• My 3 things everyone should know to prevent pandemic flu
• Masks — Types, Choosing (PPE)
• Disinfectants for camp, field, and household
• Song in Yup’ik to time handwashing
• Song to time hand washing for hygiene and disease prevention
• Kung-fu-choo Do it in your sleeve
• ==> Hands washing, sanitizers
• New employer business preparedness resource

2009-05-18
Another source of information about preparedness (in multiple languages), How the 1918 flu prepares for 21st Century, in a comic book

This discussion from the LATimes, Highest crime rate in L.A.? No, just an LAPD map glitch, about their questioning is a good example. It is important to note that “the experts” have to include us, the folks who live and use such information. The mapmakers or government or “them/they” only know what they know. I have found we’re essential to our own lives and can’t pass that responsibility on to others, i.e., public involvement works.

• Getting Results from Your Experts
• Pandemic planners urged to tap grass roots
• Don’t ignore grassroots scientists SciDev.Net
• Let’s wait to be told (They know best) 2

One reason the errors were not caught earlier may be that the LAPD site retains crimes for only six months and allows viewers to see only a seven-day period at a time. The presentation makes some trends, such as the large accumulation of crimes mapped at Civic Center, more difficult to spot. The mistakes spread on the Internet, often compounding the distortion.

EveryBlock, an enterprise that specializes in pulling together local data from many sources, has been praised as a model for the future of journalism, but unlike traditional publications, the site takes no responsibility for the accuracy of its aggregated data. …

But the newfound ease provided by online services can create a false sense of confidence in the computer’s matching ability. Behind the scenes, an algorithm tries to translate unruly street addresses, often drawn from handwritten forms, into the precision of decimal degrees. …

• mapping errors could affect policy decisions.
• Small changes in how an address is typed — for instance, “68th St.” instead of “W. 68th St.” — can put the point in the wrong neighborhood or even the wrong city. Adding or removing the name of the city or a ZIP Code can lead to differing results. Because of the way they break up the parts of an address, Google and Yahoo sometimes return different locations for addresses typed exactly the same way.
• Mistakes could have the effect of masking real crime spikes as well as creating false ones.

I’m forwarding a copy of the LATimes article to the Anchorage Police Dept. as some of the same factors are in the Anchorage map (e.g., only a few days are available).

2009-04-07T03:49 Lt. Parker of APD writes back (thank you) that all their

police data entry systems have the required address field. Many like ours use the police department headquarters as a default for crimes not associated with a specific location. It sure looks like lots of crime is taking place at the police department on those crime maps though! I can assure you that it is only a computer glitch.

From these maps below, when would you suspect (hypothesize) people receive their monthly checks?

Anchorage map of April 1, 2009 reported crimes

Anchorage daily crimes reported 2 April 2009

Site Search Tags: public+involvement, maps, Anchorage, GIGO, sciencing, crime, GIS, LATimes, planning, preparedness, muni.org, experts, stake+holders, analytical+anthropology, CBPR, CBR, community+involvement, Google, Yahoo, police

By John M. Glionna April 5, 2009 Reporting from Seoul — Defying weeks of international pressure, North Korea launched a multistage rocket today, a move that the U.S. and its allies fear masked a test of its ability to deliver nuclear weapons.

Fortunately, it was just a rocket test, although falling debris is bad enough. See the earlier post, Where is… Bethel from Pyongyang

From Wired magazine came this nifty map, Watch 24 Brilliant Hours of U.S. Flights. Note where Bethel is. Bethel is supposed to be Alaska’s fifth busiest airport, which shows.

Altitude: Dark colors indicate a higher altitude; lighter shades indicate takeoff and landing.
Aircraft model: Each of the 573 airplanes are represented by a unique color.
Manufacturer: Flight frequency is tracked by aircraft manufacturer.

This project was a collaboration among Aaron Koblin, FlightView and Wired Magazine.

The interactive map is available here, http://sandbox.aaronkoblin.com/projects/flightpaths/

Unfortunately, the very large cargo planes aren’t listed by model. Otherwise, Anchorage is supposed to be the busiest international cargo hub in the US. See Ted Stevens Airport & HPAI (highly pathogenic avian influenza, a.k.a., bird flu)

Where is Alaska's 5th busiest airport?

click to enlarge

Compare one by air with two by sea,

See 2010-02,Shipping map tracks marine aliens * 13 January 2010 by Linda Geddes

Site Search Tags: Ted+Stevens, map, where+is, air+traffic, shipping+lanes, shipping, highways, jetsam, Canada, Asia, transportation, ecosystems, landscapes, biocultural+adaptation, railbelt, unorganized+borough, melt+rush, land+claim

Deadline is 12:30 pm Alaska time on Monday! Please tell the USPS that
the proposed rate increases will cause significant hardship. Rate
increases will greatly impact all of rural Alaska. Some rural Alaskans
are struggling to buy food now and cannot afford any increases in the
Parcel Post and Bypass Mail rates which will add to the cost of
groceries. Please reduce the rate increases. Use your own words.

If you are contacting the Postal Service as an individual you can reach
the Office of Public Affairs & Government Relations via
Email: PRC-PAGR @ prc . gov
Phone: 202-789-6800
Fax: 202-789-6886
Tell the person you speak to that you “want to submit a comment to
Docket R2009-2 on postal rate changes for market dominant products.” Let
them know that you think the rate increases will be harmful to the lives
of people in rural Alaska. Say what you think in your own words.

If you represent a municipality, a village, a Native organization, a
business firm, etc., follow the instructions below to get a 10 day
account. You can get help from Annie Kennedy in Washington D.C. at
202-789-6875. She is a very helpful Consumer Relations Specialist. Try
it yourself first. Submit your comments to “Docket R2009-2” so that they
will definitely be read by the 5 people on the Commission who will make
the final decision on the USPS rate increases.

go to www.prc.gov
In the gray bar near the top click on “Filing Online.”
Click “Need an Account” in the side navigation bar.
Under the words “Filing Online Accounts” click on the blue words “Apply
Online.”
Fill out the form to get a 10 day account.

You may have to go back to the Home page to login using the Username and
Password that you chose.

You will need a Document Title for anything you submit. It can be called
“Letter from __________ of (date)” or it can be a resolution or any
other document that your organization creates.

Your Document needs to contain your comments.

Remember there is help if you need it. The phone number provided above
is 4 hours ahead of our time.

Please take the time to do this, because rates are due to increase May
11th and will dramatically affect our lives in rural Alaska.

Thank you.

Jody Malus
Finance Committee
City of Bethel

2009 Summer WAS*IS (Weather and Society * Integrated Studies) Call for Applications

Approximately 25 people will be selected to participate in the 2009 Summer WAS*IS workshop. We will select a diverse and interactive group that represents a range of experiences, educational environments, career aspirations, and specialties.

The National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) Societal Impacts Program (SIP) announces the call for applications for the 2009 Summer WAS*IS workshop to be held August 6-14, 2009, in Boulder, CO. PLEASE NOTE that this workshop will be held contingent upon funding.

Please visit http://www.sip.ucar.edu/wasis/summer09/apply.jsp to learn the application details and to read more about WAS*IS! All application materials are due by Friday, [deadline] March 27, 2009.

WAS*IS is a grassroots movement to fully integrate social science into meteorological research and practice. WAS*IS is doing this by:

(1) building an interdisciplinary community of practitioners, researchers, and stakeholders who are dedicated to the integration of meteorology and social science; and

(2) providing this community with opportunities to learn about ideas, methods, and examples related to integrated weather-society work. See our article in the November 2007 issue of the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society for more information about WAS*IS (http://ams.allenpress.com/archive/1520-0477/88/11/pdf/i1520-0477-88-11-1729.pdf).

We are pleased to announce the launch of the Health Workforce Information Center (HWIC), funded by the Health Resources and Services Administration, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. HWIC provides free access to the most recent resources on the nation’s health workforce in one easy-to-use online location – http://healthworkforceinfo.org.

HWIC’s comprehensive online library offers the latest on:

health workforce programs and funding sources;
workforce data, research and policy;
educational opportunities and models; and
news and events.

The HWIC Call Center
If you need help finding information or experts, HWIC’s information specialists provide FREE assistance customized to your specific needs.

Health Workforce News
Sign up for HWIC’s monthly e-mail newsletter, Health Workforce News.

About HWIC
The Health Workforce Information Center is funded by the Bureau of Health Professions, Health Resources and Services Administration, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and operated by the Center for Rural Health at the University of North Dakota School of Medicine and Health Sciences.

Keep checking the HWIC web site as it continues to grow in the coming months with new features and daily updates. We welcome your feedback – send comments and suggestions to feedback @ healthworkforceinfo .org.

“Alaska
Help us identify resources for Alaska

The State Resources section is a work in progress, being developed over the course of 2009. Do you know of health workforce information sources that should be featured for Alaska? HWIC is currently collecting resources, such as:

* Events
* Funding opportunities
* Organizations
* Publications
* Web sites
* News

Maps.

Send suggestions by email to info @ healthworkforceinfo . org or use our online suggest a resource form. Thank you for your assistance!”
http://www.healthworkforceinfo.org/states/introduction.php?topic=141

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[updated] 2008-03-20
At one point there were few teachers from the tundra regions writing blogs. Few enough I could put them all into one RSS feed mix in the sidebar as I came across them.

• [Kangirsuk, Nunivik] Not Obscure (John Higham from Nunavik, Canada) http://notobscure.com/

• [Kongiganak, Toksook Bay, Tununak] Alaska The View From Up Here, (Brett Stirling who also writes for the Anchorage Daily News) http://alaskatheviewfromuphere.blogspot.com/

This year there are quite a few new teachers writing about their experience teaching in rural Alaska. All the blogs are different in their approach and frequency of posting. Some are interested in hearing from readers; others are not. Margaret Avugiak and Kendra Krenz have unique perspectives.

I haven’t run across anyone using blogs in the classroom, yet. The Shageluk school is using their website, instead.

• Shageluk school of birds

I wish more schools would use a blogging, especially WordPress.com and Edublogs.org, platform as that enables more communication between classrooms and between writers and readers. Plus, all the blogging platforms offer RSS feeds for subscribing; some offer comment feeds such as WordPress and Edublogs. (Blogspot.com or Blogger has too many hoops for ordinary folks who wish to interact with the authors. However, just about all the major blogging hosts are represented. MSN Live tends to be used more by missionaries. Xanga has too few representatives and TypePad tends to have Alaska journalists.)

Take a look at all and suggest others. The community names are in brackets [ ]. To view information about the Alaska communities, simply put the village or city name where the Xxxx are (case sensitive) in your browser address bar when you get to this link

http://www.commerce.state.ak.us/dca/commdb/CIS.cfm?Comm_Boro_Name=Xxxx
For example, information about Bethel is located here: http://www.commerce.state.ak.us/dca/commdb/CIS.cfm?Comm_Boro_Name=Bethel

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Alakanuk

• [Alakanuk] Diane in Alaska http://dianneinalaska.livejournal.com/

Jana’s Journey to Alakanuk http://janaalaska.blogspot.com/

Atmautluak

• [Atmautluak] Jerry’s Dream Come True, http://alaskajerry.blogspot.com/

• [Atmautluak] Tundra Teacher Tales, (Sue J. Nick) http://aan1atmau.blogspot.com/

  Interning at Akiuk, Kasigluk, Alaska. 2009-05-30 No longer interning but a graduate! Congratulations.

• [Oscarville, Atmautluak] Tundra Teacher Tales, (Kip Layton, Jr also writes for the Delta Discovery newspaper) http://tundrateachertales.blogspot.com/

Bethel

• [Bethel] Art Teacher in Alaska, http://alaskanteacher.blogspot.com/

• [Bethel] Tom & Andrea Go to Bethel Postcards from Bethel, (they also have a sidebar blogroll list of Tundra Teachers and resources for teaching science) http://learnscape.org/bethel

• [Bethel] Andrea’s Virtual Science Teaching Adventure http://learnscape.org/blog/

• [Bethel] Alisha’s Bethel Blog, http://alishaadventures.blogspot.com/

• [Bethel] Aug 19, 2008 North to the Future! http://goeok.blogspot.com/ another Jesuit Volunteer blog, but will be hosted with BABS (Bethel Alternative Boarding School)

• [Bethel] Oct 14, 2008 Adventures in AmyLand http://inamyland.blogspot.com/ Talent Search Director

• [Bethel and region] Sep 3, 2008 “The Great Alaskan Adventure” http://bethyinbethel.blogspot.com/

• [Bethel] Oct 22, 2008 http://keplerkids.blogspot.com/ What’s Happening A blog about Margaret, Kolin, Owen, and Spencer in Alaska. Margaret Kepler spouse of teacher

• [Bethel] Oct 22, 2008 “The Way She Goes “, http://brbethelak.blogspot.com/ b.r., I’m an itinerant CTE teacher in Bush Alaska.

Chefornak

• [Chefornak] The world of the Chicken Avenger (a Xanga user) http://www.xanga.com/wcbpolish

• Margaret Avugiak, (raised in the Village of Chefornak) http://avugiak.blogspot.com/ [Chefornak]

Chevak

• [Chevak] Oct 15, 2008 North to Alaska – http://annbender.blogspot.com/ Ann and Tom’s experiences in Chevak, Alaska. Ann Bender–Tom and I are both retired, sort of, and we are spending a couple of years in Chevak Alaska for the fun of it, for the challenge, and for a change. Hope we live through it. My former blog – the one that details our trip up here from Georgia and the first couple of months in Chevak is located at http://web.mac.com/annbender355/ I had load of trouble getting it to update, so finally gave up and joined Google.

Elim

• [Elim] Alaska = Home http://hikecamppaddle.wordpress.com/

Emmonak

• [Emmonak] http://richalaska.blogspot.com/ Richard Brisco

• [Emmonak] Katielong’s Travel Blogs http://www.travelpod.com/members/katielong

• [Emmonak] Jan 28, 2008 http://www.travelpod.com/members/katielong Katielong’s Travel Blogs

• [Emmonak] Feb 15, 2008 http://richalaska.blogspot.com/ Richard Brisco,

• [Emmonak] 2009-08-25 Moose Droppings http://bob-moosedroppings.blogspot.com/ Bob

Hooper Bay

• [Hooper Bay] Sep 12, 2008 northwoodspam – http://northwoodspam.livejournal.com/

Huslia

• [Huslia, Norton Sound] Kristen in AK http://kristeninak.wordpress.com/

Kasigluk

• [Kasigluk] Out There(teacher, spouse) http://indefinitely.wordpress.com/ Peter Schneidler

• [Kasigluk (Akula)] Dec 20, 2008 The Substitute Puppy (I couldn’t get a dog, so I got a blog.) http://subpuppy.blogspot.com/ Kyle Marvin. The classroom blog is http://lksd.org/akula/Welcome.html/

• [Kasigluk Mar 4, 2008 http://victoriasjourneys.blogspot.com/, My Adventures, Victoria, I will be teaching 4th-6th grade and living in a house with no plumbing. http://classroomtag.blogspot.com/ Classroom Tag … Exchanging traditions, customs, beliefs, and other cultural identities. … Bringing together two classrooms that are separated by thousands of miles.

• [Akula, Kasigluk consists of two smaller villages, called Akiuk and Akula ] Nov 16, 2008 http://four2alaska.blogspot.com/ Four to Alaska (Ward Family) We’re moving to Alaska. Two teachers, two kids. Join us for stories, pics and news of our adventures as we leave Oklahoma and head north.

Kongiganak

• [Kongiganak] Rural Alaskan (Kendra Krenz raised in the Village of Kongiganak), http://ruralalaskan.blogspot.com/

Kotlik

• [Kotlik] Jan 31, 2009 “Pam’s Adventures in Alaska! ” http://pamcalyn.blogspot.com/

Kotzebue

• Keeping it Real at 66 Degrees North Latitude, Life the universe and everything 33 miles above the arctic circle. http://tundratantrum.blogspot.com/

Kwethluk

• [Kwethluk] Oct 14, 2008 Emily’s Teacher-y Blog: Going to Kwethluk, “Literacy Coordinator for the Kuspuk School District.”, http://publicationsteacher.blogspot.com/2008/10/going-to-kwethluk.html

Kwigillingok

• [Kwigillingok] Oct 20, 2008 http://sweatingthesmallstuff.typepad.com/sweating_the_small_stuff/ Lauren McClanahan, mostly not a teacher blog but there are recent posts about a student teacher based in Kwig that she is supervising from Washington.

McGrath

• [McGrath] Native Woman Educator http://nativeducator.blogspot.com/ Noel Strick

• [McGrath] Jul 8, 2008 J&M&8 http://jm8.blogspot.com/ Jeff and Monica Bauer

Mekoryuk

• [Mekoryuk] Radiate Warmth, welcome home to the fireplace of thought (Kale Iverson) http://kaleiverson.blogspot.com/

Napaskiak

• [Napaskiak] Dec 7, 2008 “Ay’atang’aq” http://yupikprincess.blogspot.com/

• [Napaskiak] 2009-07-19 Ben Hicok junior high http://noroadsleadtonapaskiak.blogspot.com/

Nunapitchuk

• [Nunapitchuk] Fervent Verve {aka Ramblings} http://careyalaska.blogspot.com/

• [Nunapitchuk] The Middle of Somewhere Teaching, living, and now gestating a baby in Nunapitchuk, Alaska http://smaccalaska.blogspot.com/

• [Nunapitchuk] Shibby’s Kinda-Public Alaska Journal, http://shibbyalaska.blogspot.com/

• [Nunapitchuk] Jan 6, 2008 The Middle of Somewhere Teaching, living, and now gestating a baby in Nunapitchuk, Alaska http://smaccalaska.blogspot.com/

Oscarville

• [Oscarville] Dec 5, 2008 http://erinkavanaugh.blogspot.com/ Getting There From Here
  Erin Kavanaugh, Erin’s Class Blog – http://eekclass.blogspot.com/

• [Oscarville] May 12, 2008 Miss Christina Powers http://misschristinapowers.blogspot.com/

• [Oscarville] Aug 25, 2008 “Getting There From Here” http://erinkavanaugh.blogspot.com/ Erin Kavanaugh

Quinhagak

• 2009-08-31 [Quinhagak] Far From Familiar Lynsey Hostetter [spouse]

Russian Mission

• [Russian Mission] Jul 5, 2008 Nastasia’s Window to Rural Living – http://yupikteacherinprogress.blogspot.com/

Savoonga

• [Savoonga] Oct 17, 2008 JBrodsky’s Alaskan JBlog, The adventures of a new teacher in Bush Alaska- http://jbrodsky.wordpress.com/

Shaktoolik

• [Shaktoolik] Apr 16, 2008 Teaching in Alaska, A young college graduate embarks on a year-long teaching experience in a remote Alaskan village. http://mrflarity.blogspot.com/

• [Shaktoolik] Apr 18, 2008 http://lindaskk.blogspot.com/ Linda and Bud’s Alaskan Adventure [a principal]

Shishmaref

• [Shishmaref] Mar 25, 2008 Northern Lights (Shishmaref school blog on WordPress.org platform) http://shishmaref.bssd.org/blog Ken Stenek

Toksook Bay

• [Toksook Bay] The Williamson-Logas in Alaska, http://otisandben.blogspot.com/ 2008 They’ve moved to Montpelier, VT, another great place to live but no tundra at that elevation.

• [Toksook Bay] Teaching in Toksook, http://dirksan.blogspot.com/

• [Toksook Bay] Jimmy and Kerri in Toksook Bay, Alaska, http://jimmyandkerri.blogspot.com/

Tuluksak

• [Tuluksak] Jan 26, 2009 Teaching In Alaska – http://www.teachinginalaska.net/ Joseph R. Costa

• [Tuluksak] Jan 26, 2009 Molly’s Weblog, http://mollydodd.wordpress.com/ computers, art, and study skills. There are also a series of class-related blogs on her sidebar.

• [Tuluksak] Aug 2, 2008 http://www.teachinginalaska.net/ Teaching In Alaska: A Journey of Self Discovery in the Wild North, Joe R. Costa

Tuntutuliak

• [Tuntutuliak] fouldsy.com (teacher spouse) http://www.fouldsy.com/

• [Tuntutuliak] AK Memories http://mariechristianson.blogspot.com/

Tununak

• [Tununak] Monica in Alaska, http://monicainalaska.livejournal.com/

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• [Arctic Bay, Canada] Nov 20, 2008 Way Way Up http://waywayup.blogspot.com/, A blog about life above the Arctic Circle………Way, Way Up!
• [Canada] Nov 20, 2008 The House and other Arctic Musings -, Clare http://kiggavik.typepad.com/ (semi-retired educator?]

• [Arctic Bay, Nunavut, Canada] Nov 20, 2008 Tales from the Arctic – http://arcticteacher.blogspot.com/ Kennie

• [Baffin Island, Canada] Sep 3, 2008 Tales of the Arctic http://arcticteacher.blogspot.com/ Kennie. Look, I-Quad, they have water trucks just like ours.
  

  Via– The high cost of northern living, http://benmuse.typepad.com/arctic_economics/2008/09/the-high-cost-of-northern-living.html, Kennie, a blogger (Tales from the Arctic) and a teacher in Arctic Bay on Baffin Island, went through the grocery store and photographed product prices to prove something to her incredulous friends down south: Believe me now? $37.89 for six cans of Minute Maid juice?

• [Kuskokwim region?] Oct 17, 2008 “Moose, Mosquitos And Bears…oh my”, Donna http://alaskanmisadventures.blogspot.com/

• Alaska Mentor Pat http://alaskamentorpat.blogspot.com/ “I work around the state of Alaska as a mentor teacher. I travel monthly to 8 different rural communities as well as working in Fairbanks. My job is to collaborate with first and second year teachers on their classroom practice.”

• [Lower Kuskokwim School District] Mar 25, 2008 Science News from the Lower Kuskokwim (another Edublogs) http://lksdscience.edublogs.org/

• The great white hype, (Jesuit Volunteers) http://sarahjones-thegreatwhitehype.blogspot.com/

• Aug 19, 2008 Kevin & Dusti’s blog – http://kevindusti.vox.com/ Somewhere in the Kuskokwim, I think. Doesn’t say where, yet. From out of state.

• Alaska Professor http://alaskaprofessor.blogspot.com/

And there is this school, not exactly of children, but definitely learning and interesting.

• [Nushagak [Dillingham]] Nushagak Kennels http://nushagakkennels.blogspot.com/ , 2008-11-01 Nushagak has finally become aware– and moved to WordPress.com, http://nushagakkennels.wordpress.com, 2007-12-27 Bringing the work dog back into mushing APRN.org news story from Dillingham

For another idea of what life in a remote school is like check out this news story. Be sure to read the comments posted at APRN as well.

Teaching in small rural schools presents unique challenges (mp3)

“The Lake & Penninsula Borough has 14 schools but only 370 students. The smallest school has 10 students K-12. The largest has 75 students. Small schools in secluded parts of the state resent unique challenges to teachers who have to teach multiple subjects to multiple grade levels. Anne Hillman, KDLG – Dillingham 3/14/2008 06:17”

• [Newtok] Oct 18, 2008 An interview by BBC with Grant Kashatok, principal, http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/7668163.stm

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DCED location of Emmonak Alaska

This is just a brief note for those looking for information about the immediate heat and food problems originally reported in the Alaska Newspapers Emmonak man seeks food airlift to combat economic crisis.

[Mr Nicholas Tucker did a great job of detailing the issues in his letter to the newspaper, another example of grassroots science in action.]

The problems are discussed at Alaska Public Radio Extreme cold forcing Emmonak residents to choose fuel over food, at Alaska Real Another village in trouble and Another Alaskan village in trouble – follow-up, and at Alaska Mudflats among other places, Hope Coming to Emmonak and Beyond?.

All have information on how blog readers can help (see the comments at each site). Celtic Diva has the latest links to where the story is discussed, AK Village of Emmonak in dire need–**UPDATE WITH AUDIO** She reminds me of the earlier, 11 December 2008, story by Ted Land posted at KTUU about Martin Moore’s effort to get help from the state. Fuel shortage, cost have village seeking state assistance

Martin Moore has been coming to a borrowed Anchorage office for the past few months, making phone calls, writing letters, and setting up meetings with state officials advocating help with his village’s high fuel costs.

As mentioned in the comments at Mudflats, there are several communities in the Wade Hampton census area also in dire straits. There was a community meeting yesterday that included these other Villages, too. I hope to have more specifics later.

In the meantime, use the site search tags below for background information.

• Poorest places in the United States – Wikipedia
• Village search tags
• Alaska Community Database, click on the Alaska flag in the sidebar to find specific community information
• Sarah Palin, the elderly, the disabled, older Americans and rural Alaska
• Displaced person in Palin’s Alaska

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It is reproduced here with her permission.

This is not a definitive bibliography so please add references in the comments. Let me know if I need to make corrections of typos, etc.

For those of you without a background, I would suggest you look first at

• Dincauze, Dena F. 2000. Environmental Archaeology: Principles and Practice. Cambridge University Press. # ISBN-10: 0521310776 # ISBN-13: 978-0521310772

We often forget about prehistoric adaptations to climate change. “Nuclear Winter” is another key term for finding information and data about climate change and human effects.

Bumsted, M Pamela, ed. 1986 NUCLEAR WINTER: THE ANTHROPOLOGY OF HUMAN SURVIVAL
Proceedings of a session at the 84th annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association, December 6, 1985, Washington, DC The Anthropology of Human Survival

There is also an earlier discussion about the human effects of global climate change, including anthropology and climate physics. Kellogg, William W., and Margaret Mead. 1977. The Atmosphere: endangered and endangering. Fogarty International Center proceedings, no. 39. [Bethesda]: U.S. Dept. of Health, Education, and Welfare, Public Health Service, National Institutes of Health. http://13c4.wordpress.com/2007/11/29/anthropology-climate-change-war-environment-2/

• Bibliography compiled by Krista Harper 2008

Batterbury, S.P.J. 2008. Anthropology and global warming: the need for environmental engagement. The Australian Journal of Anthropology. 19 (1): 62-68 (AND WHOLE ISSUE).

Broad, K. 2000. El Nino and the Anthropological Opportunity. Practicing Anthropology 22(4): 20-3.

Broad, K., Orlove, B. 2007 Channeling globality: The 1997-98 El Ni? climate event in Peru. American Ethnologist 34(2):283-300

Crate, Susan A., and Mark Nuttall, eds. Anthropology and Climate Change: From Encounters to Actions. Left Coast Press, 2008.

Crate, Susan A. “Gone the Bull of Winter? Grappling with the Cultural Implications of and Anthropology’s Role(s) in Global Climate Change.” Current Anthropology 49.4 (2008): 569.

Cruikshank, Julie. Do Glaciers Listen?: Local Knowledge, Colonial Encounters, and Social Imagination. Vancouver: UBC Press; 2005.

Dietz, T., R. Ruben and A. Verhagen, eds. “The Impact of Climate Change on Drylands: With a Focus on West Africa”

Firth, Raymond. 1959. Critical Pressures on Food Supply and their Economic Effects. Chapter 3 from Social Change in Tikopia, pp. 51-76. London: Allen and Unwin.

Gutierrez, Maria. All that is Air Turns Solid: The Creation of a Market for Carbon Sequestration by Trees Under the Kyoto Protocol. Ph.D. Graduate Center, CUNY, 2007

Hovelsrud, Grete K., et al. CAVIAR – Community Adaptation and Vulnerability in the Arctic Regions – CICERO. http://www.cicero.uio.no/projects/detail.aspx?id=30170&lang=EN. Accessed 2008.

“IPY: International Polar Year.” 03/25/08 2008. Accessed10/28/2008 http://classic.ipy.org/development/eoi/details.php?id=513.

Lahsen, Myanna. Comment on Susan A. Crate’s “Gone the Bull of Winter? Grappling with the Cultural Implications of and Anthropology’s Role(s) in Global Climate Change,” Current Anthropology 49, 4, August 2008, pp. 587-588

—– “Knowledge, Democracy and Uneven Playing Fields: Insights from Climate Politics in and between the U.S. and Brazil.” Book chapter in Knowledge and Democracy: A 21st-Century Perspective, ed. Nico Stehr. London: Transaction Publishers, 2008.

—– “Experiences of Modernity in the Greenhouse: A Cultural Analysis of a Physicist ‘Trio’ Supporting the Conservative Backlash Against Global Warming.” Global Environmental Change 18(1), 2008, pp. 205-219.

—– “Trust Through Participation? Problems of Knowledge in Climate Decision Making.” Chapter in The Social Construction of Climate Change: Power, Knowledge, Norms, Discourses, ed. Mary Pettinger. Ashgate Publishing, 2007, pp. 173-196. Electronically available at: http://sciencepolicy.colorado.edu/our_science_their_science/pubs/lahsen_2007_pettenger1.pdf

—– “Seductive Simulations: Uncertainty Distribution Around Climate Models.” Social Studies of Science 2005 35, 895-922. Electronically available at: http://sciencepolicy.colorado.edu/admin/publication_files/resource-1891-2005.49.pdf

—– “Technocracy, Democracy and U.S. Climate Science Politics: The Need for Demarcations.” Science, Technology, and Human Values, 30(1), 137-169 (2005). Electronically available at: http://sciencepolicy.colorado.edu/admin/publication_files/resource-1892-2005.50.pdf

—– “Transnational Locals: Brazilian Scientists in the Climate Regime.” Book chapter in Earthly Politics: Local and Global in Environmental Politics, edited by Sheila Jasanoff and Marybeth Long-Martello (MIT Press, 2004).

—–“Brazilian Climate Epistemers’ Multiple Epistemes: An Exploration of Shared Meaning, Diverse Identities and Geopolitics in Global Change Science.” Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs (BCSIA). Discussion Paper 2002-01. Cambridge, MA: Environment and Natural Resources Program, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 2002. Available at: http://www.ksg.harvard.edu/gea/pubs/2002-01.htm

—– “The Detection and Attribution of Conspiracies: The Controversy Over Chapter 8” in George E. Marcus (ed.), Paranoia Within Reason: A Casebook on Conspiracy as Explanation, U. of Chicago Press, 1999. Available at: http://sciencepolicy.colorado.edu/admin/publication_files/resource-1893-1999.21.pdf

—– “Anthropology and the Trouble of Risk Society,” Anthropology News, Vol. 48, No. 9, December 2007, pp. 9-10. Accessible at: http://sciencepolicy.colorado.edu/admin/publication_files/resource-2584-2007.31.pdf

—– Climate Rhetoric: Constructions of Climate Science in the Age of Environmentalism. PhD Thesis, Rice University, 1998. Published by UMI Dissertation Services, Bell & Howell Company.

—– “Earth System Governance: Research in aid of global environmental sustainability,” International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme Global Change Newsletter, 70, December 2007. Accessible at: http://sciencepolicy.colorado.edu/admin/publication_files/resource-2585-2007.32.pdf

Lahsen, Myanna, Carlos A. Nobre and Jean P. Ometto. 2008. “Global Environmental Change Research: Empowering Developing Countries.” Annals of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences, vol. 80, no. 3, Sept.

Lahsen, Myanna, Carlos A. Nobre. “The Challenge of Connecting International Science and Local Level Sustainability: The Case of the LBA.” Environmental Science and Policy 10 (1), 2007, pp. 62-74. For electronic copy and web log discussions about this article, see: http://sciencepolicy.colorado.edu/prometheus/archives/climate_change/001043lahsen_and_nobre_20.html

Lahsen, Myanna, Gunilla ?erg. The Role of Unstated Mistrust and Disparities in Scientific Capacity. Report published by The Swedish Institute for Climate Science and Policy Research, Link?ing University, Sweden, 2006. Second author: Gunilla ?erg. Available

Lazrus, Heather. “Island Vulnerability, Tuvalu.” Accessed 10/28/2008 http://www.islandvulnerability.org/tuvalu.html#lazrusphd. “Many Strong Voices.” 2008. 10/28/2008 http://www.manystrongvoices.org/.

Marx, S., Weber, E., Orlove, B. Leiserowitz, A. Krantz, D., Roncoli, C., Phillips, J. Two Communication and mental processes: Experiential and analytic processing of uncertain climate information. Global Environmental Change 17(1):47-58

May, Shannon. “Ecological Citizenship and a Plan for Sustainable Development.” City 12.2 (2008): 237.

May, Shannon. “Hope and Hazard in Rural China.” Far Eastern Economic Review (2008): 51-5.

McNeeley, Shannon. Climate Change and Variability in Interior Alaska: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Data Integration. http://www.2007amsterdamconference.org 2007 Amsterdam Conference, 2007.

Minnis, P. 1985. Social Adaptation to Food Stress: A prehistoric southwestern example. Univ of Chicago Press. Chapter 2: A Model of economic and organizational response to food stress. Pp. 12-42.

Orlove, B. 2005 Human adaptation to climate change: a review of three historical cases and some general perspectives. Environmental Science and Policy 8(6):589-600.

—–2008 Darkening Peaks: Glacier Retreat, Science and Society. Berkeley: California.

Orlove, B., Broad, K., Petty, A. 2004 Factors that influence the use of climate forecasts: Evidence from the 1997/98 El Nino event in Peru. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society 85(11):1735-1743.

Orlove, B., Chiang, J., Cane, M. 2002 Ethnoclimatology in the Andes: A cross-disciplinary study uncovers a scientific basis for the scheme Andean potato farmers traditionally use to predict the coming rains. American Scientist 90(5):428-435.

Orlove, B., Chiang, J., Cane, M. 2000 Forecasting Andean rainfall and crop yield from the influence of El Ni? on Pleiades visibility. Nature 403:68-71.

Orlove, B., Tosteson, J. 1998 The application of seasonal to interannual climate forecasts based on El Ni?-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) events: Lessons from Australia, Brazil, Ethiopia, Peru, and Zimbabwe. Working Papers in Environmental Politics 2. University of California, Berkeley, Institute of International Studies.

Orlove, B., Wiegandt, E., Luckman, B. H, 2008 The place of glaciers in natural and cultural landscapes. In Orlove, B., Wiegandt, E., Luckman, B. H, eds. Darkening peaks: glacial retreat, science and society. Berkeley: University of California Press. Pp. 3-19.

Parks, Bradley C., and J. Timmons Roberts. A Climate of Injustice: Global Inequality, North-South Politics, and Climate Policy. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2006.

Puri, R. 2008. Climate Change as a Driver in Social-Ecological Systems. In Howard et al. 2008. Scientific Framework for GIAHS. FAO: Rome.

—– 2007. Responses to Medium-term Stability in Climate: El Ni?, Droughts and Coping Mechanisms of Foragers and Farmers in Borneo. In Modern Crises and Traditional Strategies: Local Ecological Knowledge and Island Southeast Asia. Edited by Roy Ellen. Pp. 46-83. Oxford: Berghahn Books. (see bibliography here for other ethnographic studies!!)

Pyke, C. R., et al. Climate Change and the Chesapeake Bay: State-of-the-Science Review and Recommendations. Annapolis, MD: A Report from the Chesapeake Bay Program Science and Technical Advisory Committee (STAC), 2008.

Rayner, S. 2003. Domesticating nature: commentary on the anthropological study of weather and climate discourse. In Strauss S and B.S. Orlove (eds). Weather, culture, climate, (pp277-290). Oxford: Berg.

Risbey 2007. The new climate discourse: Alarmist or alarming? Global Environmetal Change.

Roncoli, C. 2006. Ethnographic and participatory approaches to research on farmers’ responses to climate predictions. Climate Research 33: 81-99.

Salick, J. and Byg, A, eds, 2007. Indigneous Peoples and Climate Change. Report of Symposium 12-13 April 2007, Environmental Change Institute, Oxford. A Tyndall Centre Publication, Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, Oxford. http://www.tyndall.ac.uk/publications/Indigenouspeoples.pdf

Silberner, Joanne. “In Highland Peru, a Culture Confronts Blight: NPR.” National Public Radio. March 3, 2008 2008. 10/28/2008 http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=87811933.

Smith, Daniel Somers. “”Place-Based Environmentalism and Global Warming: Conceptual.” Ethics and International Affairs 15.2 (2001): 117-134.

Smith, Daniel Somers. “The Discipline of Nature: A History of Environmental Discourse in the Northern Forest of New England and New York.” Yale University: New Haven. Ph.D. Yale University, 2003.

Strauss S and B.S. Orlove (eds). Weather, culture, climate. Oxford: Berg. Tabeaud, Martine, de la Soudi?e, Martin, and Esther Katz. “R?eau perception du climat > pr?entation.” 06/20/2006 2006. 10/28/2008 http://www.perceptionclimat.net/index.php.

Vedwan, N. and Rhoades, R.E. 2001. Climate change in the Western Himalayas of India: A study of local perception and response. Climate Research 19: 109-17.

Waddell, E. 1975. How the Enga cope with frost: Responses to Climatic perturbations in the Central Highlands of New Guinea. Human Ecology 3: 249-73.

Ziervogel, G. et al. 2006. Adapting to Climate Variability: Pumpkins, People and Policy. Natural Resources Forum 30: 294-305

Table of contents of Anthropology and Climate Change: From Encounters to Actions, Crate and Nuttall, eds. 2008 Left Coast Press

Introduction PART 1: CLIMATE AND CULTURE 1. Human Agency, Climate Change and Culture: An Archaeological Perspective, Fekri A. Hassan, University College London // 2. Climate and Weather Discourse in Anthropology: From Determinism to Uncertain Futures, Nicole Peterson, Columbia University, and Kenneth Broad, University of Miami // 3. Fielding Climate Change: The Role of Anthropology, Carla Roncoli, University of Georgia, Todd Crane, University of Georgia, Ben Orlove, UC-Davis // 4. Disasters and Diasporas: Global Climate Change and Population Displacement in the 21st Century, Anthony Oliver-Smith, University of Florida

PART 2: ANTHROPOLOGICAL ENCOUNTERS 1. Climate Change and Melting Andean Glaciers: Indigenous and Anthropological Knowledge merge in Restoring Water Sources, Inge Bolin, Malaspina University College // 2. Salmon Nation: A Nez Perce Policy in Spite of Global Climate Change, Benedict J. Colombi, University of Arizona // 3. Gone the Bull of Winter?, Susan A. Crate, George Mason University // 4. Storm Warnings: The Role of Anthropology in Adapting to Sea-Level Rise in Southwestern Bangladesh, Timothy Finan, University of Arizona // 5. Opal Waters, Rising Seas: Climate Impacts on Indigenous Australians, Donna Green, University of New South Wales // 6. Sea Ice: The Socio-cultural Dimensions of a Melting Environment, Anne Henshaw, Bowdoin College // 7. From Local to Global: Perceptions of Environmental Change Among Kalahari San, Robert K. Hitchcock, Michigan State University // 8. Climate Change and El Ni?s in the West Central Highlands of Papua New Guinea: Indigenous Perceptions and Responses to Environmental Change and Deforestation, Jerry Jacka, North Carolina State University // 9. Sea Change: Anthropology and Climate Change in Tuvalu, South Pacific, Heather Lazrus, University of Washington // 10. Talking and Not Talking about Climate Change in Northwestern Alaska, Elizabeth Marino and Peter Schweitzer, University of Alaska Fairbanks // 11. Moral Certitude and the Anthropologist’s Outrage (pace Rosaldo), Sarah Strauss, University of Wyoming

PART 3: ANTHROPOLOGICAL ACTIONS 1. Shifting the University: Faculty Engagement and Curriculum Change, Peggy F. Barlett and Benjamin Stewart, Emory University // 2. Global Climate Change: Car Culture & Emissions, Lenora Bohren, Colorado State University // 3. Terms of Engagement: an Arctic perspective on the narratives and politics of global climate change, Noel D. Broadbent, Smithsonian Institute and Patrik Lantto, Ume?University // 4. The Efforts of One Gulf Coast Community to Deal with the Challenges of Climate Change, Gregory V. Button, University of Tennessee at Knoxville and Kristina Peterson, University of New Orleans // 5. Global Change Policymaking from Inside the Beltway: Engaging Anthropology, Shirley J. Fiske, Independent Consultant, Adjunct Professor, University of Maryland // 6. Living In a World of Movement: Human Resilience to Environmental Instability in Greenland, Mark Nuttall, University of Alberta // 7. Global Responsibilities, Local Realities: Negotiating the Cultural Dimensions, P.J. Puntenney, University of Michigan // 8. Anthropology and Climate Change: The Exhibition Thin Ice ﾗ Inuit Traditions within a Changing Environment, A. Nicole Stuckenberger, Dartmouth College // 9. Consuming Ourselves to Death, Richard Wilk, Indiana University Epilogue: Throwing up our hands or rolling up our sleeves

Site Search Tags: bibliography, anthropology, analytical+anthropology, environment, Dincauze

my Grandfather, a wonderful caring man from Halifax and Pittsylvania counties Virginia, refused to vote for John Kennedy– because Kennedy was Catholic. My parents could first vote for  a President in 1960, because of the 12-month residency restrictions on voting then (until the voting rights act).

At 7:01 PM Alaska time, just as California polls closed, I burst into tears.

I wasn’t prepared for my reaction. It’s been a long time since 1960. Let’s hope Nixon and the southern strategy are gone for good.

[Maybe science will come back?]

[revised] 2008-11-05T21:17:58
My mother voted for Kennedy. It was not because he was Catholic. Both my parents voted for Kennedy because they had lived in California when Nixon ran against Helen Gahagan DOUGLAS (1900 – 1980). Under no circumstances would they have voted for Nixon for anything after his campaign against her.

• any registered Alaskan voter may vote anywhere (at any precinct, with or without a line)
• your vote will be a “question ballot”
• your vote will not be tallied for 10 days
• your vote for any of the local issues will NOT be counted and, naturally, you cannot vote for your own local issues and candidates when voting in another precinct
• your vote on statewide issues and candidates WILL be tallied/counted (in ten days).

Don’t be confused by “statewide””– there is no national ballot in this country so on the statewide portion of the ballot, your vote for President/Vice-President, for Senator, and for House of Representatives will be tallied.

So, if you aren’t where you should be, go vote where you can!

Election Information in:
Central Yup’ik
Siberian Yupik
Inupiaq
Gwich’in Athabascan
Koyukon Athabascan

Tagalog Version: (pdf)
Estado ng Alaska Aplikasyon
ng Pagpaparehistro ng
Botante

2008 Estado ng Alaska
Aplikasyon ng Balotang Pang
Koreo Para sa Hindi
Makakarating

Some members of the Legislature had proposed back then to offer a portion of our state’s surplus royalities back to the folks needing to cover the costs of that oil at retail. That was scuttled in favor of Sen Lyman’s proposal to fund landlords and homeowners to weatherize their buildings. There aren’t enough certified weatherization inspectors; limited refunds for weatherization won’t be released without a before and after inspection. The refunds won’t cover those who weatherized the year before (2007). [ http://aprn.org/2008/10/14/state-energy-rebate-program-undergoes-change/] The scheme is for refunds, requiring up front money for making renovations, after up front money is used for the inspections, if there were inspectors….

Gov. Palin says she gave everyone, man, woman, and infant, $1200 to cover this year’s energy needs. A lot of us could only use the money to leave home.

[The “energy rebate” and the permanent fund dividend (PFD) is enough to go from Bethel to Anchorage, but not enough to live on. If anyone knows of paid temping jobs, or permanent ones, please let me know. No CDL or clinical but I can type and read, ‘rite, ‘rithmetic  ;o) ]

“Saying goodbye, thank you”, http://deltadiscovery.com/letters/letters.html
“Leaving Bethel with legacy of helping”, http://thetundradrums.com/section/letters

I have worked for many years with the people of the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta on issues of health, environment, heritage and cultural resources, elders, science teachers, and information technology.

Unfortunately, I must now say goodbye and thank you as I must relocate away from Bethel. This won’t stop my support of grassroots science, elder participation, and thoughtful solutions from the communities of the Delta. Relocation won’t end my friendships, won’t end my learning, and won’t end my substantiated belief in the abilities of people out here to contribute to world knowledge and culture. (It has been a struggle to convince some organizations, governments, and institutions of such value, as many of you know, whether the issue was Village erosion or elder rights or cleaning up dumps or environmental health or protection of natural resources or emergency preparedness.)

I have seen many of my neighbor kids grow into productive adults. Thank you for what you have taught me. I have worked with incredible scientists and thinkers, though many won’t have formal training beyond high school. I have also learned from those who put in immense effort and sacrifice in formal settings so that we may benefit from their pastoral or technical caring. By their works I have known them.

While I am moving to a new home, I am still supporting rural Alaska and Alaska Natives through the website https://ykalaska.wordpress.com Virtual reality isn’t quite the same as “real reality” but please help me stay in touch through the website.

All through my life I have tried to live by the basic tradition of science and education–

Just as people must share seal meat and oil to maintain physical and social well-being, so, too, must they share knowledge–so that their minds will not rot.

I hope I have lived up to this while in Bethel.
M Pamela Bumsted, Grassroots Science
Bethel, AK

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• Home heating assistance program opened today with big budget bump Wed, October 1, 2008
• Anchorage homeless numbers rising Wed, October 1, 2008
• Bush costs prompt exodus to cities Task force urged to stem migration By JULIA O’MALLEY and KYLE HOPKINS Daily News reporters Published: September 29th, 2008 11:32 PM

Site Search Tags: Tundra+Drums, Delta+Discovery, migration, energy, erosion, Sarah Palin, demography, environmental+change, economy, rural+development

“Anthropological perspective” is difficult to define, but if one is lucky enough to be exposed to it, it proves invaluable for running corporations or countries or non-profits or farm co-ops. Anthropology is the comprehensive, comparative study of people in space and time.

Holistic perspective of the environment (change with time)

Obama’s mother’s work, focus of seminar

Posted on: Friday, September 12, 2008
By Dan Nakaso
…
Sen. Barack Obama’s approach to economic and foreign policy most likely was influenced by the research his mother conducted decades ago through the University of Hawai’i.

Obama’s mother, Stanley Ann Dunham, who died of cancer in 1995, earned her doctorate at the University of Hawai’i while helping craftsmen in Indonesia and Africa get small loans to improve their lives and their villages, and ended up becoming an expert in “micro lending.”

Dunham’s work — from an anthropology undergraduate to her doctoral dissertation — will be discussed today at a free seminar at UH called, “Dr. Stanley Ann Dunham: An Extraordinary Woman and Her Work.”
…

UH professor emeritus Alice G. Dewey, Dunham’s graduate anthropology adviser, who will be speaking in today’s program, said Dunham “made it clear that you had to understand what they (the people you hope to help) are doing and for what. The implication for Sen. Obama is that if you’re going to do something intended to help somebody, you better understand the implications and whether it’s suited to the economics of that place. Just throwing money at a problem doesn’t do it. You really have to understand what you’re doing in order to help people.”

…
“However this election turns out, it’s important for us to focus on her in a way we haven’t to date. She is a significant figure in women’s history in Hawai’i and we need to take a look at her and be proud of her as a UH-Manoa student and show our female students that they can do anything.”

Much of the discussion will focus on the scholarly aspects of Dunham’s work in Indonesia — “her knowledge of Indonesian craftsmanship and her efforts in micro-financing,” said one of the organizers…

The implications are profound for potential U.S. policies around the world, Dewey said….

In Indonesia, Dunham home-schooled Obama and gave birth to his sister, Maya Soetoro-Ng, who now teaches at La Pietra School and plans to be in the audience at today’s presentation.

“There was a recognition that we could change the world by helping as many people as possible in the lower economic tiers to empower themselves so they could have some decision-making power over their own lives,” Soetoro-Ng said.

“Our mother’s work greatly influenced my brother’s commitment to service and to inclusiveness and to grass-roots democracy, obviously democratic decision making. Those commitments were certainly imbedded in his list of priorities, in part because of her example.”…

Her life of service is something to which we should all aspire. […]

read more

• http://www.honoluluadvertiser.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/200809120100/NEWS05/809120379

Ann’s most lasting professional legacy was to help build the microfinance program in Indonesia, which she did from 1988 to ’92—before the practice of granting tiny loans to credit-poor entrepreneurs was an established success story. Her anthropological research into how real people worked helped inform the policies set by the Bank Rakyat Indonesia, says Patten, an economist who worked there. “I would say her work had a lot to do with the success of the program,” he says. Today Indonesia’s microfinance program is No. 1 in the world in terms of savers, with 31 million members, according to Microfinance Information eXchange Inc., a microfinance-tracking outfit.

• http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1729524-7,00.html

Analytical anthropology includes the study and application of biocultural variation and adaptation in complex, non-linear, dynamic systems (simply, you and yours). We’re very good at working with communities (nuclear physicists or public health epidemiologists or seal hunters or small town mayors but not dinosaurs, silly. Those are paleontologists.) to accurately assess difficult problems and create sustainable, innovative solutions. Anthropologists, not afraid to skin a moose with a stone knife, explain the half-life of stable carbon to bureaucrats, diagnose the organizational culture of foreign enterprises, or redesign hockey rinks for efficiency.

Site Search Tags: anthropology, community+development, community+service, sustainability, Obama, Hawai’i

Today’s date: 11 Sep 2008

Questioning candidates
[28 Aug 2008] The candidates are skirting issues related to environment, energy and science policy. Heard promising plans for greener energy, solid science advice, or coping with the decline of oil? We neither… (More…)

And now, on to non-Palin Alaska news.

The godwits arrive in New Zealand from Alaska, skinny and tired and early. New Zealand’s One News says conservationists are worried why the birds took such a quick exit [sic] from their Alaska homeland.

The bar-tailed godwit arrives in New Zealand after a non-stop 11,000-kilometer flight over the Pacific, landing tired, worn out and starved.

Godwits have been steadily losing large chunks of their feeding grounds in Asia, where the birds stop over on their return trip to Alaska at the end of the summer.
http://www.adn.com/news/alaska/newsreader/story/520577.html

Previous godwit

It’s not just godwits that are antipodean

Godwits, godwits, godwits

More on the godwits

The godwits are coming

Birds sampled 1988-2004

Our birds Polynesia

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Before Google Earth and Terraserver and the rest was the PARC research lab of Xerox (inventor of the mouse and of GUI, I believe). They no longer run the map.

I still prefer their perspective to depict spatial relationships in many contexts. Here is plotted Fairbanks Alaska (red square), the Yukon River in Alaska, the International Dateline (purple line), and the rest of the US.

Just a step over the dateline, where it passes closest to Alaska, is Russia. Juneau is about 3 meridians east. Wasilla is about the lower west corner of the red square.

Compare Alaska to lower 48 distances

This is the best map to show the relationship of Alaska to the lower 48. National geographic has overlaid Alaska such that it demonstrates Alaska stretches from Jacksonville FL to San Francisco CA. I’ve added markers for Russia and Little Diomede, Bethel, Wasilla, and Juneau.

• Where in Alaska relative to US 48 – https://ykalaska.wordpress.com/2006/03/31/where-in-alaska-relative-to-us-48/

hdl.loc.gov/loc.gmd/gmdctr1.ctr00037

The National Geographic Society’s incorporation of illustration with relief cartography portrays the grandeur and uniqueness of the Alaskan landscape in relation to towns, highways, and parks. Regarded as pioneering map illustrators, the National Geographic Society frequently adopts this techniques in maps produced as part of its exploration studies. This Alaska map was included as a supplement to the May 1994 issue of the National Geographic magazine.

Location map of Diomede Alaska

Site Search Tags: Sarah+Palin, Russia, maps, Diomede, International+experience, McCain-Palin

[additions]
After last Friday, there is no point in trying to correct what others in the country say about our native people in the Yukon Kuskokwim Nushagak region. Occasionally in the past I did try to inform news writers about how to improve their stories (professional journalists really ought to know how to look up answers). Even in Alaska, most people don’t know rural Alaska (because most people live in Anchorage).

I don’t know Todd Palin or his family. I read he was born in Dillingham along the Nushagak River of Bristol Bay; one of his great(?)grandparents is of Yup’ik heritage. [Todd’s grandmother grew up in a traditional Yup’ik Eskimo house in Bristol Bay and accompanied Sarah in her race for governor as she sought support from … http://www.ajc.com/news/content/news/stories/2008/08/29/CAMPAIGN_PALIN_odds.html]
As a child, he moved to Wasilla, where he met Sarah first during high school.

I just ran across this news story about the Yup’ik people in Eek, along the Kuskokwim River of Kuskokwim Bay. It is well written and gives a valid characterization of how Eskimo and Gussack (non-Eskimo, from the Russian), that is, Alaska Native and non-Alaska Native people, live in remote Alaska today.

Remote Alaskan village hangs onto heritage
by Mark Constantine | The Saginaw News
Sunday August 31, 2008, 9:00 AM

EEK, Alaska — The sun hangs low in the sky in mid-July, just above the distant horizon, bathing the gently waving tundra grass in the soft, warm glow of early evening.

But it’s midnight and nightfall, or what the nearly 300 residents of the tiny village of Eek, Alaska, on the Eek River in the Yukon Kuskokwim Delta call night, remains an hour away. […]
http://www.mlive.com/saginawnews/living/index.ssf/2008/08/remote_alaskan_village_hangs_o.html

• Eek Alaska http://www.commerce.state.ak.us/dca/commdb/CIS.cfm?Comm_Boro_Name=Eek
• Dillinghamhttp://www.commerce.state.ak.us/dca/commdb/CIS.cfm?Comm_Boro_Name=Dillingham
• Bristol Bay Native Association. Inc. is a Tribal Consortium, made up of 31 Tribes and is organized as a non-profit corporation to provide a variety of educational, social, economic and related services to the Native people of Bristol Bay region of Alaska. http://www.bbna.com/
• The Bristol BayTimes newspaper (pdf)

For good writing and perspectives on national politics and the effects on Alaska and Alaska Natives stop by Writing Raven http://alaskareal.blogspot.com/

2008sep01 I have a listing of various teacher blogs from those teaching and learning in the rural Alaska, Tundra Teachers- http://cerebraloddjobs.edublogs.org/2007/11/10/tundra-teachers/ Some post more regularly than others. Most bloggers are new to teaching and Alaska, but the ones written by long-time Alaskans and Alaska Native teachers are particularly interesting.

Related posts specific to Sarah Palin
https://ykalaska.wordpress.com/2008/08/29/where-is-palin-and-bridge-to-nowhere-alaska/
https://ykalaska.wordpress.com/2008/08/31/todd-palin-sarah-palins-husband-and-rural-alaska-living/
https://ykalaska.wordpress.com/2008/08/29/where-is-wasilla-gov-sarah-palins-residence/
https://ykalaska.wordpress.com/2008/08/30/sarah-palin-content/

Site Search Tags: Todd+Palin, Sarah+Palin, Yup’ik, Dillingham, Eskimo, Bristol+Bay, Eek, , McCain+Palin, Nushagak, Kuskokwim, Russian+America

revised 2008-10-15 A good summary of Gov. Palin in Alaska is

• Sarah Palin, A View From Anchorage Listen Now [41 min 28 sec] add to playlist Fresh Air from WHYY, October 15, 2008 · Supporters and detractors alike can’t seem to get enough of Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin. Anchorage Daily News columnist Michael Carey discusses the woman who promises to bring “a little bit of reality from Wasilla Main Street” to Washington, DC.

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Cama’i visitors.

Local results for ‘Palin’ using the search box. You may also use the site search tag in each post, Sarah+Palin.

WordPress.com doesn’t have the best internal search engine, but I’m usually good about using the tags correctly. If you want to know more about Alaska and Alaska Natives, including Eskimo people, especially Yup’ik people of the Yukon Kuskokwim Nushagak region, try using the categories in the sidebar or the site search tags at the bottom of each post.

The Nushagak River is in the Bristol Bay region (Dillingham is the hub. The link opens in a new window) from which Todd Palin’s family comes.

• Where is… Palin and bridge to Nowhere Alaska
• Where is… Wasilla (Gov. Sarah Palin’s residence)
• Most popular in 2007, 2008 YKWP (boring post)
• Electricity disaster declarations in Alaska
• Tsunami Awareness Week
• Bethel “town hall” meeting on AGIA
• Gov. Palin 2008 State of the State address
• Ask the Governor (maybe in Bethel)
• Briefs 4
• Mass disease pass, 2007
• Rhonda McBride appointed rural advisor to Gov. Palin
• E-mail the Governor

Our terrific state-wide public radio network is offering a reprise of their hour-long show about Governor Palin. Listen here, AK: Sarah Palin, Revisited

Related posts specific to Palin–

• https://ykalaska.wordpress.com/2008/08/29/where-is-palin-and-bridge-to-nowhere-alaska/
• Todd Palin, Sarah Palin’s husband, and rural Alaska living
• https://ykalaska.wordpress.com/2008/08/29/where-is-wasilla-gov-sarah-palins-residence/
• https://ykalaska.wordpress.com/2008/08/30/sarah-palin-content/(This post)
• Where is… Sarah Palin foreign experience (Russia)

revised 2008-08-31 Because Gov. Palin has offered her credentials as commander of the National Guard, here is the category for related posts here– Eskimo Guard For those who have read several news stories quoting the Alaska Business Journal Monthly story, March 2007 (? looking for the original article), the end of 2006, on the Governor’s response to the Iraq surge, may be interested in this post, What impact will Iraq war call-up have from June 2006. State governors don’t usually have much involvement in US wars, and naturally would be more interested in state affairs. But this US war has called up our National Guardsmen.

revised 2008-09-04

“Alaska is on the map” is the recent slogan. Actually, Alaska has always been on the map. In fact, all over the map and maps. Click the category maps to find out where all we’ve been put now.

Other reasonable writings (i.e., respectful and insightful) —
Read Writing Raven on Sarah Palin and Alaska Native Issues

Mudflats on photos of Wasilla, church in Wasilla, global photogs and newsmedia in Wasilla, et al. Sarah Palin’s Preacher Problem. End Times Coming?

Shannyn Moore, also an Alaska woman, daughter of teachers, “Bitter-Proud”? (hard to read theme so use your own style sheet)

Andrew Halcro, Palin for VP: The S.W.O.T Analysis, who keeps up with bailouts of local dairies, “troopergate”, Governor’s gasline to be built by foreigners.

Good grief. I have overlooked the O’Folks off their Rocker much earlier post  over at —

• Gov Sarah Palin call-in KYUK (January 2008)
• Sarah Palin, the elderly, the disabled, older Americans and rural Alaska ( Sept 2, 2008)

This is a good summary, from Slate. The Sarah Palin FAQ Everything you ever wanted to know about the Republican vice presidential nominee. By Derek Thompson Posted Thursday, Sept. 4, 2008, at 5:39 PM ET

2008-09-10 Michael Carey has consistently provided balanced and accurate information. Listen to him at NPR,

• Analysis: Finding The Real Palin In Her Convention Speech
  Sep-07-2008, Weekend Edition – Sunday…as his vice-presidential running mate, details of her career and family life have been scrutinized closely. Anchorage Daily News columnist Michael Carey has been following Palin since…

Site Search Tags: Palin, Sarah+Palin, Bristol+Bay, Dillingham, Yup’ik, Nushagak, McCain+Palin, revised

But the Ketchikan bridge is the principle one in the spotlight with Sarah Palin’s new role as vice-presidential nominee, the McCain-Palin ticket.

Proposed Gravina Island bridge going nowhere | APRN
Sep 21, 2007 … Governor Palin announced today that the state is abandoning plans to construct the Gravina bridge. One of the two infamous bridges to …

http://aprn.org/2007/09/21/proposed-gravina-island-bridge-going-nowhere/

“Ketchikan
(KETCH-ih-kan)”
http://www.commerce.state.ak.us/dca/commdb/CIS.cfm?Comm_Boro_Name=Ketchikan

Here is a link to the map and story about the other nowhere bridge (the one to Sen Murkowski and shortcut to Wasilla)
Alaska Congressmen Attempt to Earmark ‘Bridge to Nowhere’ For Personal Profiteering

PS– It’s PAY-lin

[revised 2008-08-31] Gov Palin did NOT reject the pork from Sen. Stevens. She said there wasn’t enough money to finish the bridge so directed the same nowhere money to other road system projects. Good for the road system, which cover less than 1/3 of the state.

Under mounting political pressure over pork projects, Congress stripped the earmark – or stipulation – that the money be used for the airport, but still sent the money to the state for any use it deemed appropriate.

The state took much of that for other projects around the state.

Palin on Friday said the Ketchikan project was $329 million short of full funding.

“It’s clear that Congress has little interest in spending any more money on a bridge between Ketchikan and Gravina Island,” Palin said…

The DOT will prepare a list of projects across the state where the $36 million in federal funds that was set aside for Gravina Island could be used. […]

http://dwb.adn.com/news/alaska/story/9320482p-9235189c.html

[revised again]
I’m not on the road system so miss a lot of the bridge’s history. Here is a summary from Mudflats,
Palin is McCain’s Bridge to Nowhere. Thanks, But No Thanks.

2009-01-31 “New cost estimate for Knik Arm bridge: $680 million (Daily News politics blog): The bridge authority has long used a rough estimate of between $450 million and $600 million for spanning Knik Arm between Anchorage and Point MacKenzie.”
http://www.adn.com/news/alaska/newsreader/story/673205.html

2008-09-04 Posts specific to Palin info–
https://ykalaska.wordpress.com/2008/08/29/where-is-palin-and-bridge-to-nowhere-alaska/
https://ykalaska.wordpress.com/2008/08/31/todd-palin-sarah-palins-husband-and-rural-alaska-living/
https://ykalaska.wordpress.com/2008/08/29/where-is-wasilla-gov-sarah-palins-residence/
https://ykalaska.wordpress.com/2008/08/30/sarah-palin-content/

Site Search Tags: Sarah+Palin, Bridge+to+Nowhere, Alaska, where+is, McCain+Palin Lisa+Murkowski, Ted+Stevens, APRN.org

http://www.commerce.state.ak.us/dca/commdb/CIS.cfm?Comm_Boro_Name=Wasilla

Location map of WAH-sill-ah Alaska

2008-09-04 Related posts specific to Palin info

https://ykalaska.wordpress.com/2008/08/29/where-is-palin-and-bridge-to-nowhere-alaska/
https://ykalaska.wordpress.com/2008/08/31/todd-palin-sarah-palins-husband-and-rural-alaska-living/
https://ykalaska.wordpress.com/2008/08/29/where-is-wasilla-gov-sarah-palins-residence/
https://ykalaska.wordpress.com/2008/08/30/sarah-palin-content/

Site Search Tags: Sarah+Palin, Wasilla, Alaska, Governor+Palin, McCain+Palin, where+is

7,028 (2007 DCCED Certified Population)

for the first time, I voted in Yup'ik

For the first time since the Voting Rights Act of 1965, people have been able to read voter education materials, voter assistance materials, and voter ballot in Yup’ik, the indigenous language of Bethel.

These stickers are handed out to voters to wear to remind others to come vote. This is the first ever sticker in Yup’ik and English.

I voted early (saves money and pollution to combine errands) so Dave T., elder of renown, brought me the sticker from election day.

2008-09-04 update

Yup’ik language-assisted primaries scrutinized

The Alaska primary elections were watched for the outcome of contentious ballot measures.

But the results of an untried system to help Yup’ik speakers vote, used for the first time during the Aug. 26 primaries, are still coming in. Both sides in a lawsuit over the issue are watching those outcomes very closely[…] http://thetundradrums.com/news/story/3165

Site Search Tags: Yup’ik, Voters+Rights, Bethel, ballot, indigenous+language, public+involvement, civics, NARF, ACLU, bilingual

• Bethel Campaign for Change Kickoff Rally (Official Event) Join us on Wednesday, August 27th to officially kick off Obama’s Campaign for Change in Bethel. A potluck is planned before hand from 4-6pm, so bring a covered dish, beverages, or snacks and share in the excitement! Time: Wednesday, August 27 at 4:00 PM Duration: 3 hours Host: Jonathan Teeters Contact Phone: 907-677-6052 Location: TBD (Bethel, AK) Associated Groups: Alaska Action Team, Alaska Natives for Obama

Events are easily found through the main website, Obama for America http://www.barackobama.com
The Alaska page is “Welcome to Alaska for Obama” http://my.barackobama.com/page/content/akhome

Not sure how much besides greetings can be conveyed, but at least you will have a chance to make contacts to send your concerns and issues and suggestions to.

2008-08-25 Place: Catholic church social hall, down by Swanson’s store.

Listen to the story of the Obama campaign rural presence at http://aprn.org/2008/08/22/obama-campaign-staff-travels-to-barrow/

Site Search Tags: Obama, campaign, meeting, Bethel, Kuskokwim, federal, deadline

Supposed to be Thursday, the 28th of August 2008.

Energy meeting set for Thursday
The Associated Press

Published: August 24th, 2008 02:02 AM
Last Modified: August 24th, 2008 02:02 AM

BETHEL — Sen. Lisa Murkowski has scheduled a hearing in Bethel this week to explore the impact of soaring energy prices in rural Alaska.

The Alaska Republican says the Thursday hearing will be before the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs.

Murkowski’s office says panel participants will include Native leaders as well as federal and state officials.

Topics to be discussed include the impact of high energy costs on the future of traditional lifestyles and whether the federal government is doing enough to support the development of energy resources in rural parts of the state.
http://www.adn.com/news/alaska/story/503490.html

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I’m reluctant to offer any other suggestions as I am at the limit of my knowledge. A couple of things to keep in mind–

• People are very large (micro)organisms. So what kills fungus, bacteria,  etc. will also disrupt the big stuff (us) with a large enough dose or frequent enough application  or mixed with something else. Much the way chemotherapy can be said to kill the cancer cells but just before it kills the body, there needs to be a careful balance between treatment and over-treatment.

• Be sure you know what you are dealing with. Lots of conditions look similar but may have different causes and thus different treatments. For ringworm, I would rely on someone skilled in diagnosing different kinds of skin lesions.

I asked the veterinary Worms-and-germs folks http://www.wormsandgermsblog.com/ to do a post or commentary here about ringworm but haven’t heard back, yet.

On topic and timely, Olympic ringsworm–

J&J Wins Favored Status By Curing Statue Fungus Woes
By JASON LEOW in Beijing and SHIRLEY S. WANG and KELLY CROW in New York
August 18, 2008; Page A16

Inside Olympian sneakers in Beijing surely rages a case or two of athlete’s foot.

But that fungus no longer plagues a handful of 2,000-year-old statues here, which explains why China lent the artifacts to the corporate pavilion of Johnson & Johnson. A maker of athlete’s foot cream for half a century, J&J helped rescue one of China’s most precious archaeological treasures from a damaging athlete’s-foot-like fungus.

“We know everything about fungus,” says Chong Siong Hin, a J&J executive.

… The statues are called terracotta warriors…

Upon Emperor Qin’s death, he and his warriors were sealed in his mausoleum and forgotten until 1974, when owners of a persimmon orchard discovered the site while digging a well.

Archaeologists hailed the terracotta warriors as the find of the century. But soon after they were unearthed, heat and humidity attracted tiny spores of tinea pedis and other types of fungus that attacked the clay statues. Fungi excrete acid that began corroding the relics….

About a decade later, J&J learned of the fungus problem and started to wage battle against it.

Never having fought fungus on nonhumans, J&J invested years and hundreds of thousands of dollars researching molds on clay tiles and flowerpots.

Museum officials sent chunks of terracotta to J&J’s laboratory outside Antwerp, Belgium, to test for organisms. Ultimately, J&J and Chinese scientists identified 60 different fungi growing on the statues, including a variation of athlete’s foot.

The identification of the fungus helped to lead to the development of some fungicides that are proving effective. […]

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121901745077548227.html

The mention of acid in the passage brings up an aspect of fungus habitat I haven’t read about– pH of the skin surface. I suppose it might be worth daubing on Milk of Magnesia as a counterbalance (this was supposed to work to get rid of tomato blisters around the mouth, but I have NOT seen any demonstration that this in fact occurs). Does anyone have suggestions that are demonstrated safe and effective , please comment here.

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Once again, an illustration of how important it is to learn from the people who witnessed the 1918/1919 pandemic.

Public release date: 17-Aug-2008
Contact: Craig Boerner
craig.boerner @ vanderbilt .edu
615-322-4747
Vanderbilt University Medical Center
1918 flu antibodies resurrected from elderly survivors

Ninety years after the sweeping destruction of the 1918 flu pandemic, researchers at Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt have recovered antibodies to the virus – from elderly survivors of the original outbreak.

In addition to revealing the surprisingly long-lasting immunity to such viruses, these antibodies could be effective treatments to have on hand if another virus similar to the 1918 flu breaks out in the future.

The study, led by James Crowe Jr., M.D., professor of Pediatrics and director of the Vanderbilt Program in Vaccine Sciences, Christopher Basler, Ph.D., at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, and Eric Altschuler, M.D., Ph.D., at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey-New Jersey Medical School, is published online in the journal Nature.

The influenza pandemic of 1918 killed nearly 50 million people worldwide, many of whom were young, healthy adults. With fears of another looming flu pandemic stoked by the emergence of “bird flu” in Asia, researchers have wanted to study the 1918 virus and the immune response to it.

In 2005, researchers from Mount Sinai and the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology in Washington, D.C., resurrected the 1918 virus from the bodies of people killed in the outbreak. The bodies, and the virus, had been preserved in the permanently frozen soil of Alaska.

When the investigators approached Crowe, whose lab had developed methods of making antibodies, to try to make antibodies to the 1918 flu, he was skeptical, but agreed to try.

The researchers collected blood samples from 32 survivors age 91-101 years and found that all reacted to the 1918 virus, suggesting that they still possessed antibodies to the virus.

Crowe’s team was then able to isolate exceedingly rare B cells – the immune cells that produce antibodies – from eight of those samples and grow them in culture. Seven of those samples produced antibodies to a 1918 virus protein, suggesting that their immune systems were waiting on standby for a long-awaited second outbreak.

“The B cells have been waiting for at least 60 years – if not 90 years – for that flu to come around again,” Crowe said. “That’s amazing…because it’s the longest memory anyone’s ever demonstrated.”

Crowe’s team then fused cells showing the highest levels of activity against the virus with “immortal” cells to create a cell line that secretes monoclonal (or identical) antibodies to the 1918 flu. The antibodies reacted strongly to the 1918 virus and cross-reacted with proteins from the related 1930 swine flu but not to more modern flu strains.

To test if these antibodies still work against 1918 flu in a living animal, Crowe’s collaborators at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention infected mice with the 1918 flu and then administered the antibodies at varying doses. Mice receiving the lowest dose of 1918 antibody – and those receiving a non-reactive “control” antibody – died. All mice given the highest doses of 1918 antibodies survived.

Although aging typically causes immunity to weaken, “these are some of the most potent antibodies ever isolated against a virus,” Crowe said. “They’re the best antibodies I’ve ever seen.”

The findings suggest that B cells responding to a viral infection – and the antibody-based immunity that results – may last a lifetime, even nine or more decades after exposure.

These antibodies could be used as potential treatments for future outbreaks of flu strains similar to the 1918 virus. And the technology could be used to develop antibodies against other viruses, like HIV.

Most importantly, said Crowe, “the lessons we are learning about the 1918 flu tell us a lot about what may happen during a future pandemic.”

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Researchers at the Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, Calif., also contributed to the study. The work was supported by grants from the National Institutes of Health.
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2008-08/vumc-1fa081508.php

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The comics are available now in pdf file format in the following languages. The Avian Flu Diary brought this to attention, http://afludiary.blogspot.com/2008/07/seattle-king-county-no-ordinary-flu.html

To promote pandemic flu preparedness, Public Health – Seattle & King County has developed a 12-page comic book on pandemic flu. Targeting readers of all ages, this story tells the tale of a family’s experience of the 1918 influenza pandemic. It also explains the threat of pandemic flu today, illustrates what to expect during a pandemic (such as school closures), and offers tips to help households prepare.

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Teacher Magazine tossed this question into the TLN Forum If you were writing a mini-memoir of your teaching life, what would your six words be? Your memoir might be funny, inspirational, profound, mundane, deeply true. Want to play? Mull it over, doodle with pen and napkin or your favorite digital tool, and post your memoir for all of us to read.

Here are a few of their favourites –

They asked. I listened. We learned.

– Every day is a new adventure. –

Exercised the muscle of the mind.

– Please, don’t ask me for more!

– Daily empowering students who learn differently.

– Teacher, warrior, fighting for the future.

– We learned by doing, always curious.

– Untied shoelaces, missing front teeth – elementary!

– Learning as much as I teach.

– Active noisy classroom means brains working.

Since it’s summer, we throw the challenge out to you. Bonus points for those that reference with science, math and / or teaching indigenous students.

Send them to dawn@nativeaccess.com, and we’ll include our favourites in August 18 newsletter.

DreamCatching 2009
University of Manitoba
May 3-6, 2009

We are pleased to announce that the 6th edition of DreamCatching Hands-on Workshops in Math and Science for Teachers of Aboriginal Students, will be held in Winnipeg, MB next May.

The web site, http://www.dream-catching.com, will be updated shortly and registration will be available starting in August.

Next issue The next issue of the MPES newsletter is due out in two weeks. If you have any information you’d like to share with colleagues please email it to dawn @ nativeaccess DOT com.

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• Bugs, Boleta, Barbecue, and a Tacky Green Russula

of the ladybugs I mentioned earlier

• More bug projects

Along with the ladybug, he posted a photo of what most of us would call a dragonfly or maybe a darningneedle or damselfly.

It is a bluet, but not the flower.

I found this out because in July 2005 I photographed a midnight visitor in Bethel.

This stunner looks like it is made of turquoise and jet by a Pueblo artist.

Of course, I had to find out what kind of dragonfly it was or whether it was a darningneedle (and was there a difference between darning needles, damselflies, and dragonflies?). Turns out to be a bluet. I think it is a taiga bluet.

I had no idea that Alaska had that many related insects. Nor that our state insect isn’t the mosquito but the 4-spotted skimmer, a dragonfly.

• Dragonflies of Alaska by John Hudson and Robert H. Armstrong is the local reference, Todd Communications, 203 W. 15th Ave. Suite 102, Anchorage, AK 99510, for $12.95. ISBN:1-57833-302-4 available at TitleWave

• http://www.turtlepuddle.org/alaskan/dragonflies.html “Dragonflies of Alaska” is a website with great photos (not related to the book)

• Digital Dragonflies with photos by family. This site is related to the book, A Dazzle of Dragonflies which one really needs in a natural history library. They also explain how to get those dazzling photos (flatbed scanner).
  by Forrest L. Mitchell and James L. Lasswell
  # Hardcover: 224 pages
  # Publisher: Texas A&M University Press (April 30, 2005)
  # Language: English
  # ISBN-10: 1585444596
  # ISBN-13: 978-1585444595
  # Product Dimensions: 11.2 x 8.8 x 0.8 inches
  http://www.dragonflies.org/catalog.htm

• Field Key to Adult Alaska Dragonflies Dennis Paulson Slater Museum of Natural History University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, WA 98416 Revised Feb. 2004

• “Alaska’s Dragons” with a good photo of the 4-spotted http://www.wildlifenews.alaska.gov/

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• Adverse birth outcomes associated with open dumpsites in Alaska Native Villages

Lynn mentions SWAN

• “Solid Waste Alaska Network, Solid Waste Management (SWM) for Alaska Native Villages.” http://www.ccthita-swan.org/main/index.cfm

I thought I had referred folks to SWAN which is a highly useful discussion site and resource. My apologies because it is very well done. The site is sponsored by CCTHITA (Central Council of the Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska)

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I suspect many readers visit for specific posts and others are using feed readers for posts and comments. While the blog format is very flexible for information and discussion it’s technical restrictions are a little challenging for me to keep folks up to date on revisions and to highlight other posts of possible interest.

Index or Contents posts like this one [such as the alphabetical listing or the reverse chronological listing] will be cross-indexed on the Table of Contents page. Because it is a regular post, feed readers will be notified.

“Popular posts” is one such tool provided by WordPress.com. I doubt that it is very accurate for actual readers but the relative rankings provide an alternative way to find items of interest. I wish there was a way to get the full set of data they collect, especially for the referrers (see http://cerebraloddjobs.edublogs.org/2006/09/30/referrers-in-edublogs/), to see what it is that people are looking for. This would help to revise information or add new information [so would reader comments and queries]. Unfortunately,WP.com don’t have a consistent way to present this data to blog administrators (asking for daily referrers gives a very different set of information than getting the weekly or yearly referrers. Same data but the presentation to the human at this end is patchy.) Notice how the titles are truncated, for example.

The ranking for 2007 is given first and then for 2008 (up to July 12)

2007-02-06 to Today