Sarah Palin content

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–

• http://ykalaska.wordpress.com/2008/08/29/where-is-palin-and-bridge-to-nowhere-alaska/
• Todd Palin, Sarah Palin’s 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/(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…

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Most popular in 2007, 2008 YKWP (boring post)

[This is a housekeeping entry.]

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)

Briefs 5a, now Tumblrd

(click image to see original) I will be trying out a new format for these notes. Briefs are things which I think are of interest to you all but which I can’t add anything of my own to them (so why bore everyone). The new format is at the bottom of the post.

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Heat from the street
Dec 6th 2007
From The Economist print edition

Energy: A clever new system uses asphalted roads, rather than solar panels, to collect solar energy in order to heat an office building

SOMETIMES the simplest ideas are the best. To absorb heat from the sun efficiently you need large, flat, black surfaces. One way to do that is to construct those surfaces specially, on the roofs of buildings. But why go to all that trouble when cities are full of black surfaces already, in the form of asphalted roads?

This was the thought that occurred ten years ago to Arian de Bondt, an engineer who works for Ooms, a Dutch building company. Dr de Bondt eventually persuaded the firm to follow it up. The result is that its headquarters in Scharwoude is now heated in winter by a system that relies on the surface of the road outside.

http://www.economist.com/displaystory.cfm?story_id=10202728&fsrc=RSS

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Bird flu blamed, as badminton camp abandoned
NDTV.com - New Delhi,India

The sports ministry says its hands are tied because of import restrictions from China on account of bird flu. All shuttles used in India are imported and …

The sports ministry says its hands are tied because of import restrictions from China on account of bird flu. All shuttles used in India are imported and they are made from goose feathers.

Former shuttler Uday Pawar has a different take on that. “Chinese shuttles are the best in the world,” he says. “They are chemically treated so there is nothing to worry about. SAI should have convinced the sports ministry of them.

By rough estimates, players need 15-20 shuttles a day. BAI claims this has nothing to do with bird flu. It’s just SAI causing procedural delays.

Unfortunately, local shuttlecocks cannot resolve this crisis. India’s international players can’t use them because of their poor quality.

http://www.ndtv.com/convergence/ndtv/showsports.aspx?id=SPOEN20080040628&ch=2/7/2008%2011:07:00%20AM

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“Science in the News” an e-newsletter produced by Sigma Xi

The Water Filtration System in a Straw from Scientific American

Sometimes, it’s the simplest technologies that have the greatest potential impact on people’s lives. Take the Vestergaard Frandsen Group’s mobile personal filtration system, otherwise known as LifeStraw. It is a powder-blue plastic tube - much thicker than an ordinary straw - containing filters that make water teeming with typhoid-, cholera- and diarrhea-causing microorganisms drinkable.

The filters, made up of a halogenated resin, kill nearly 100 percent of bacteria and nearly 99 percent of the viruses that pass through LifeStraw.

A University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill evaluation tested the device’s performance in water containing Escherichia coli B and Enterococcus faecalis bacteria and the MS2 coliphage virus as well as iodine and silver. The results indicated that LifeStraw filtered out all contaminants to levels where they don’t pose a health risk to someone drinking the water.

To read more: http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=water-filtration-system
Or: http://tinyurl.com/3a5gar

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I am not as clever as //engtech at internetducttape.com so I haven’t yet learned his automatic technique for posting a series of quick notes from hlthenvt.Tumblr.com into the blog here. Until I do, here is the latest set of Briefs in the new format posted as a comment. If you don’t want to wait for me to figure how to post the digests, you may subscribe to the feed of the Tumblr itself here, RSS- http://hlthenvt.tumblr.com/rss

New historic pandemic resources available

Earlier I posted about the University of Melbourne, School of Population Health collection of historical documents provided on-line, FluWeb Historical Influenza Database. Within those documents were materials related to the effect of the 1918-1919 pandemic on Alaska Natives.
Flu history and research database

Alaska and Eskimo data in 1920 British report

They have now added new documents. We need to do the same, Cangerlaagpiit (Epidemics) — historical lessons

FluWeb email update number 3.

Mortality from Influenza and Pneumonia in 50 Large Cities of the United States, 1910-1929 - Collins, S.D., Frost, W.H., Gover, M. and Sydenstricker E.

(Source ID = 29) Collected statistics on recorded mortality due to influenza and pneumonia from 50 large cities of the United States over the period 1910-1930. Includes weekly death rates for 35 cities over the pandemic period September 1918 to June 1919; December 1919 to April 1920 and November 1928 to April 1929.

Annual Reports of the Board of Health, city of Cambridge, Massachusetts for the years 1918 and 1918

(Source ID = 30,31) Summary statistics regarding major causes of death and morbidity for Cambridge MA, including influenza.

Annual Report of the Department of Health, city of New York for the years 1918 and 1919 (incomplete)

(Source ID = 33) Summary statistics regarding major causes of death and morbidity for New York, including influenza.

The Incidence of Epidemic Influenza, 1918-19 - Britten, R.H.

(Source ID = 32) (Subtitle: A Further Analysis according to age, sex and color of the records of morbidity and mortality obtained in surveys of 12 localities) Detailed analysis of aspects of the 1918-19 pandemic in 12 US localities. Includes analysis of morbidity, mortality and case-fatality rates by sex and age.

To access data from the new resources:
1) Visit FluWeb at http://influenza.sph.unimelb.edu.au/
2) Click ‘Source Search’ under ‘Search Pages’
3) enter the Source ID (shown below) of the new resource and click ‘Submit Search’.
4) From the search results, click the button labelled ‘See ALL records from Source’.

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Site Search Tags: FluWeb, 1918, Spanish+flu, 1918+flu, pandemic, epidemiology, public+health, morbidity, mortality, database, WWI

From the Pacific Rim to the Arctic Rim, views from the other side of the Arctic Ocean

[is there a side to a bowl?]

-Bicyclemark is an independent journalist producing a bi-weekly podcast on under reported news and global concerns. He tends to cover issues he feels the mainstream media is not handling properly, where quality of life hangs in the balance.

His podcast/ blog/ vblog reporting is at

• http://citizenreporter.org

Take a listen/read/view.

For the next few months I will be frequently touching upon the topic of the Arctic and the race to exploit its resources, re-claim property rights, and the ongoing accelerating process of global warming effecting the region (and in turn, the world).

While mainstream media has dedicated the occasional article on this topic, they focus mostly on the horserace or “competition” between Russia, Canada, US, and Denmark (no mentions of Norway lately). Some tacit attention is given to the political conflict and the use of “submarines” by Russia to plant an underground flag or something to that effect.

What lacks is the real details that effect people’s lives. The information regarding exactly what these nations are doing and plan to do in the name of political power, economics, and what some call progress. They leave out the communities that live in and around the arctic, how they are being effected by all these activities. Rising sea level, melting of the ice caps, increased ship traffic.. these things all come with a price. And then take that to a global level, because the arctic is such an important place for everyone that exists on this planet.. and our collective future.

• http://bicyclemark.org/blog/2007/09/calling-the-arctic/

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Site Search Tags: vlog, podcast, Netherlands, CitizenReporter.org, Arctic, Russia, Canada, Denmark, media, melt-rush

APRN joins WordPress on the last frontier’s communication frontier

(revised 2007-06-27)

Alaska Public Radio Network

• http://aprn.org

has just started its own efforts at two-way communication via WordPress.

APTI’s web sites have moved as of Saturday, June 23. You must now visit those web sites separately at the addresses noted in this posting (click the headline to see details).

This joins several of us in Alaska trying the WordPress weblogs, such as this one, Grassroots Science, the siblings Biocultural Science , and the Cerebral Odd Jobs (blogging in education)

I notice Kuskokwim Campus http://community.uaf.edu/~kuc/blog has joined the experiment as has Far North Science http://www.farnorthscience.com/

There are certainly limitations to any effort to convey and generate knowledge and information across time and space. But I think having several interactive Internet experiments going will help us all improve our voices and consequently our communities.

The tree-based news media are lagging behind, but what can one expect from those of us not living on the tundra?

Pay a visit by clicking on the nifty logo

Add this to Bookmarks:

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More on our Guard, KYUK

Mike Martz from our local public station (radio/TV) is currently in Kuwait with our Guard. He has some audio reporting at A New Leader for Alaska’s National Guard in Kuwait http://www.publicbroadcasting.net/apti/

He also started a web log on WordPress. Go visit, KYUK On Assignment: Kuwait http://kyukonassignment.wordpress.com/

See previous posts here under this category Eskimo Guard

“Camp Virginia” http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/facility/camp-virginia.htm

Click map of US facilities in Kuwait to view larger image http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/facility/images/map-kuwait-2004.jpg

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Site Search Tags: KYUK, Yukon, Kuskokwim, Iraq, Alaska, Kuwait, National+Guard

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Overview avian influenza implications for human disease

from ProMED-mail

• http://www.promedmail.org

ProMED-mail is a program of the International Society for Infectious Diseases

• http://www.isid.org

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Overview–

[A comprehensive reference document covering all aspects of the biology of human avian influenza H5N1 virus updated to 16 May 2007 is available at the CIDRAP (Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy, University of Minnesota) website via the general link:
http://www.cidrap.umn.edu/cidrap/content/influenza/avianflu/biofacts/avflu_human.html]

The contents are arranged under the following headings and include references to key publications:

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Laboratory testing for avian influenza in humans
Summary of avian influenza in humans
Current outbreak of H5N1 in birds and other animals
H5N1 in humans: epidemiologic features
H5N1 in humans: clinical features
Treatment and prophylaxis
Current status of H5N1 candidate vaccines
Current WHO and CDC travel recommendations
Use of seasonal flu vaccine in humans at risk for H5N1 infection
Surveillance considerations
Influenza pandemic considerations
Infection control recommendations
Guidance to protect workers from avian influenza viruses
Food safety issues
References

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Contents by title, alphabetical 2007apr26

This title index has to be done mostly by hand (tedious) but it does impress me that I am not very consistent with titles of posts (hard to know what I’ve written in advance).

1918 pandemic in Polynesia and Fiji (small island developing states)

2005 Census Stats Released

2006 AK Bird Study Map

2006 April 13 Summit

2007 workshops frontier mental health research

3 things pocket card

48 flu flyway

655,000 or 48,000 Iraqi deaths

A Few Facts about Avian Influenza in Alaska

Accessibility in paperless world

Pandemic planners urged to tap grass roots

Maryn McKenna, Contributing Writer
Pandemic planners urged to tap grass roots

Apr 17, 2007 (CIDRAP News) – Governmental plans for an influenza pandemic are missing an important opportunity to improve US preparedness, according to two new reports: They are not reaching out to communities and grass-roots groups that could refine plan details and increase public support.

Meanwhile, ad hoc communities and preparedness alliances are forming—in the real world and online—with minimal input from government planners. And, confirming the reports’ concerns, some members of those communities say they have networks and resources to offer to official efforts, but are frustrated by their inability to make themselves heard….

“The bureaucrats have done their planning without really thinking about what the rest of us are supposed to do to make the plan succeed. . . . [But] in fairness, the officials probably aren’t finding many grassroots/ad hoc groups to link up with.” [ * ]

There is a risk that the official and activist sides could simply plan past each other [**] , with neither side accessing what the other has to offer. That must be avoided if pandemic planning is to work when the crunch comes, said Schoch-Spana, whose paper includes a list of recommendations for officials.

• http://www.cidrap.umn.edu/cidrap/content/influenza/panflu/news/apr1707citizen.html

* It’s easier to not find them if one doesn’t look or refuses participation by those who aren’t members of the official groups.

** see “Metge, Joan and Patricia Kinloch” in the readings
http://ykalaska.wordpress.com/2006/04/29/getting-results-from-your-experts/

Previous entries that might be of interest–
Don’t ignore grassroots scientists SciDev.Net http://ykalaska.wordpress.com/2007/01/24/dont-ignore-grassroots-scientists-scidevnet/

What-me-worry-we-have-plan http://ykalaska.wordpress.com/2006/04/28/what-me-worry-we-have-plan/

Accessibility in paperless world http://ykalaska.wordpress.com/2006/03/24/accessibility-in-paperless-world

Add this to Bookmarks:

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