Where is the Unorganized Borough jail?

This is one of those generic spam sites– cookie cutter spam, I guess. No content just a copy and paste to get someone to stop in.

“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

Where is… NZ earthquake map

http://www.christchurchquakemap.co.nz/

Welcome, all, during 2008-2009

ClustrMaps Current Country Totals
From 12 Nov 2008 to 12 Nov 2009

United States (US)	29,827
Canada (CA)	2,800
United Kingdom (GB)	2,602
India (IN)	1,181
Australia (AU)	977
Philippines (PH)	903
Singapore (SG)	413
France (FR)	411
Malaysia (MY)	399
Germany (DE)	380
Egypt (EG)	303
New Zealand (NZ)	296
Thailand (TH)	292
Netherlands (NL)	259

Where is… homeless dying on the streets of Anchorage

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–

Drug Saves Frostbitten Digits

Displaced person in Palin’s Alaska

Demonstrating health care reform in Anchorage, August 11 2009

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Greetings, all

I hadn’t looked at the ClustrMap in awhile so I was quite pleased to see all the little dots from visitors far from the usual locations (click on the map in the sidebar to see a larger image in a new tab). A nice surprise is that the maps now come with a table of the country of origin– a good way to test one’s geography knowledge by checking the dot location with the country name. This is the country of the IP address used by visitors.

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

United States (US)	20,669
Canada (CA)	1,935
United Kingdom (GB)	1,767
India (IN)	704
Australia (AU)	632
Philippines (PH)	570
Singapore (SG)	298

Where are… crime maps?

The City of Anchorage uses a publicly accessible crime map, Crime Map http://crimemap.muni.org/ which can be quite useful to people moving into the city from rural areas and looking for places to live and work. Like any map, it is only as good as the information or data put into the map. As with the preparedness plans, what-me-worry-we-have-plan, it is up to all of us to ask if maps make sense.

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

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Where is… air transport hub of the world

The map I posted here, Where is… transport hub of the world, is the map of current sea traffic.

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

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Emmonak and other Alaska Native Villages in the Wade Hampton Census Area

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

map of Wade Hampton Census Area

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Site Search Tags: Emmonak, Wade+Hampton

Where is… Sarah Palin foreign experience (Russia)

[2008-09-12 Additions Sarah Palin has never been to Diomede. When not collecting per diem, Palin is Where is …. nearest US capitol]

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 – http://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

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Todd Palin, Sarah Palin’s husband, and rural Alaska living

[revised] 2008-10-20 Finally, ADN had background on Todd Palin’s family, Yup’ik ties give Palins unique Alaska connection NATIVE: Grandmother on Todd’s side calls the governor a ‘special gal.’ By TOM KIZZIA tkizzia@adn.com Published: October 19th, 2008 11:20 PM. Anthropologically or historically, this background information is important because it reflects a lot of Alaskan history and because Todd’s wife is running for Vice-President. Unfortunately, a lot of Sarah Palin’s supporters and Palin herself have used Todd’s grandmother as a qualification for political office. The argument Palin has used is that she automatically has the best interests of Alaska Native/American Indian, rural Alaska, and tribal issues because of her husband’s family. Grandmothers are important in the 2008 election, whether Sen. Obama’s or Gov. Palin’s in-laws. But actions rather than inheritance are clearer guides to integrity, in my opinion. Assuming that inheritance determines behavior is called “biological determinism” and is well demonstrated as false as any other racist assumption.

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

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