I did notice, however, that suddenly one morning, all the plants had walked off.

Don’t forget that ringworm is a microscopic fungus, not an actual animal. Like athlete’s foot, bits of the fungus can be transferred to your fingers which then can be spread to another spot. However, the fungus needs a hospitable environment in which to grow. So, a simple touch once is unlikely to spread the fungus– skin is a very difficult physical barrier to break through.

Simply standing in a house with ringworm won’t infect anything, but continual exposure (living or working in a contaminated room) means it is far more likely you will keep contacting the fungus and that the fungus can find a nice warm, moist area on you to grow.

Therefore, wash (and dry) your hands. Follow the other recommendations for reducing the presence of ringworm fungus.

i have two quesitions one can you get ring worms bye touching the spot where the ring worms are or can you get them from standing in the house they’re in

alicia

Camai! Pam

“Amanda’s Alaskan Adventures ”
http://amandafrey.blogspot.com/

Rantings, reports, ravings, and revelations as Kevin Barnett deals with life and frequently teaching in various places in southwest Alaska as I find them.”
http://harebrainedadventure.blogspot.com/ [Tuntutuliak, Mekoryuk]

“gse-aa — GSE Aurora Alert by e-mail
http://www.gi.alaska.edu/mailman/listinfo/gse-aa

Geophysical Institute Web site -
http://www.gedds.alaska.edu/AuroraForecast

Home school teacher far from home visits Bethel
“The adventures of Donna and Rachel”
http://renes-travels.blogspot.com/

“Alaskan Adventure” http://kimcary.blogspot.com/ [Newtok]

They have a lot of interesting links there and instructions for adding the alert, http://www.n3kl.org/sun/status.html, to your blog.

If you don’t have a website or blog, 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.

I’m not too familiar with gadgets/widgets.

The Shageluk site is run by –
Created by the Innoko River Junior and Senior High School, Joyanne Hamilton, Advisor Check their website to find the contact info.

Do you know them? Are you interested in doing more science? What are your interests?

Then there is the problem that some route numbers are not clearly correlated with a single highway. For example, Route #1 is Tok Cutoff, Glenn Highway, Seward Highway, and Sterling Highway, running from Tok to Homer and Route #2 is Alaska Highway, Richardson Highway, Steese Highway, and Elliott Highway, running from the border to Manley Hot Springs.

Give me a name, not a number, any day.

http://newsminer.com/news/2009/jul/23/push-memorialize-alaska-territorial-guard/

I am very sure if Piper fell over, the angel that is Sarah Palin would rescue her as easily as breathing, tweeting and debating.

By Ben Welsh and Doug Smith
The map, touted as a way for residents to monitor the safety of their neighborhoods, doesn’t include about 19,000 serious crimes reported in other LAPD data. Officials say they’re looking into it.

http://www.adn.com/news/alaska/interior/story/854611.html

FAIRBANKS — The number of king salmon that reach the Canadian border might not satisfy a treaty agreement between Alaska and Canada despite massive cuts in subsistence fishing up and down the Yukon River in Alaska.

Former Bethel resident guilty in tax case
Tundra Drums – Anchorage,AK,USA
A former Bethel resident was sentenced to five years probation after pleading guilty to not filing her tax return in 2002, according to the U.S. Attorney’s office in Anchorage.

Helen Hancken was employed by the Yukon-Kuskokwim Medical Center as a salaried physician’s assistant and earned $87409 in gross income in 2002, …

Acting on the advice of others,… Hancken signed W-4 forms claiming to be exempt from federal taxes and requesting that no income taxes be withheld, according to prosecutors.

She obtained the materials, as well as books by Lynne Meredith, a California resident convicted in 2004 of tax fraud who is serving a 121-month prison term, from Dr. Leigh Gill (aka Dr. Leigh Gilburn)….

http://www.thetundradrums.com/news/show/6409

Delcie has taken the essay down but I’ve asked her to repost or allow me to post it here. I’ll let you know what happens.

TommyB
Born and raised in Bethel, AK. Now working at the same elementary school I went to. However, fall of 2009 we’ll be moving into the new Gladys Jung Elementary School.

A high rate of respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) infections among Inuit babies in Nunavut could be curbed if health officials give a costly but proven vaccine to them, according to a new study published Thursday.

By December the flu was all but gone; it seemed the rate of illness was truly in decline. Many towns lifted their quarantines.

During World War I, the Spanish flu had rocked the world and, though Wickenburg was remote, it was still affected. The Miller family did not escape. William’s young wife Anna contracted the disease and died.

From the Prescott Journal Miner:

“From Wickenburg comes news which will occasion universal sorrow in this community, the death of Mrs. Anna Miller being announced as occurring there on Dec. 23, from influenza pneumonia. She will be remembered as a resident of this city for many years. She was the wife of William Miller, an engineer of S.F.P.&P., who until a short time ago was assigned to this division of the road. To add more sorrow to this home, Mr. Miller is ill with this affliction, while the nurse also has been stricken, two small baby girls are left motherless, and the once happy home is clouded by that sorrow which is inconsolable. Mrs. Miller enjoyed a large acquaintance in this section, having also many friends who will regret that one so young and of such a pleasing personality should be called away. The funeral was held at Wickenburg on Dec. 24. The attendance was large, reflecting on the estimable character of the deceased.”

My mother-in-law, Clara, was one of those little girls left motherless. The emptiness showed throughout their lives. William was left a widower with the two small girls. With Anna’s bright light gone from the world, he left the railroad for awhile and spent a year or so working as a miner. But mining was not really his cup of tea, so he returned to the railroad. He remarried and had another daughter by his new wife, Mary. Memory of Anna faded, but her stunned family would never fully recover from the sorrow.
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Carol Powell is an historian for the Olmstead/Miller families. Please see the Days Past article for April 8, 2007, for more information on William Miller at Sharlot.org.

Your stories and experiences are important.

Days Past: The Miller family and the Spanish flu of 1918
By CAROL POWELL, Special to the Courier
http://www.dcourier.com/main.asp?SectionID=1&subsectionID=1&articleID=68213

Many thanks,
Sylvia Christine Inciong

Yesterday, a 747 at LAX sucked an entire baggage-cartcontainer into one of its engines. No one was hurt:
The incident occurred yesterday afternoon as Japan Airlines Flight 61 to Narita was pushing back from the terminal gate.

http://www.boingboing.net/2009/05/12/747-sucks-a-baggage.html

Don’t forget aftercare costs.

In making a decision, compare surgery with the alternative of “no action” and with the alternative of some other action (for example, no stents or medication, diet, and exercise only).

It’s stuff like this that makes me a feed subscriber to this blog.

Follow this discussion here– http://www.flutrackers.com/forum/showthread.php?t=7157

2) One can make hand sanitizer out of alcohol and glycerin. I have seen the recipe but for some reason never posted it. Maybe it isn’t all that good a substitute? You would want a 60-70% alcohol solution. Depending on how much alcohol is in the rubbing alcohol, you would have to adjust the amount of non-active ingredients. Soap wouldn’t work because that would leave a soap residue which would dry out the skin and break the protective skin barrier. Also, tastes bad.

3) Drinking sufficient, but not excessive, water is always good. It’s hard for adults to drink too much water but young children or infants can get “water poisoning”.

4) Don’t know anything about Primateen. As to the jury-rigged ventilator, it reminds me of the frog dissection in high school wherein we got to inflate the lungs to see how they worked; over-inflated they burst.

The other issues are making sure a clean tube is inserted correctly through the nose into the lung (without perforating the lung or trachea); that oil from the pump doesn’t enter the air being pumped; etc. Might be better to make an “oxygen” tent and not a ventilator.

On the assumption that if this Mexican swine flu takes off the way the 1918 one did, the hospital system will be overwhelmed and we’ll have to be our own damn healthcare providers, here are some measures I’ve been toying with:

1. Masks. There will be a shortage and we’ll have to find ways to get more bang out the ones we have. Can the N95 disposables be sanitized by popping them into a microwave? How about spraying them with bleach or lysol or something?

2. Hand sanitizers. In a pinch how about making one out of 1 part ordinary dish washing fluid to 9 parts rubbing alcohol?

3. Drinking lots of liquid = peeing frequently = washing your hands frequently = good idea. Thoughts?

4. In case of post-virus pneumonia. Primateem spray mist? Or–and I’m very proud of this one, so don’t rain on my parade, OK?– rig a ventilator out of an aquarium air pump?

Their direct phone number is: (907) 451-2111
Pam

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Responding to the missile test by North Korea, Governor Sarah Palin on Monday reaffirmed Alaska’s commitment to protecting America from rogue nation missile attacks.

“I am deeply concerned with North Korea’s development and testing program which has clear potential of impacting Alaska, a sovereign state of the United States, with a potentially nuclear armed warhead,” Governor Palin said.

“I can’t emphasize enough how important it is that we continue to develop and perfect the global missile defense network. Alaska’s strategic location & the system in place here have proven invaluable in defending the nation.”

“Sovereign state of the United States”? Was there some confusion about that? …

http://theimmoralminority.blogspot.com/2009/04/sarah-palin-speaks-out-on-north-korea.html

This is what needs to be talked about – solutions! The stats are bad, so what can we do about it?… But imagine the impact of leadership at the local, state and national level giving these issues the thought and attention they deserve, not just hoping (meager) funding will do it – money isn’t going to solve these problems, strategy and hard work is.

Well, I applied for a teacher position in April and I actually got it! So, I gathered all of my little belongings and headed to a place I’ve only seen on the Discovery Channel or “The Deadliest Catch.” I thought I would be flying in a bush plane and flashes of “The Hatchet” kept popping up in my mind. So, here I am in Alaska, as a first grade teacher. I’m getting used to the town and to the wonderful people here.

SadieNell
Bethel, Alaska, United States
I am a first grade teacher stationed here in Bethel. I am originally from Michigan.
http://sadiemcdaniel.blogspot.com/2009/02/catch-up.html

Savoonga is even further from Wal-Mart than Bethel and the Kuskokwim (as one measure of distance and effort. mpb

Governor Palin recently named John Moller to be her rural adviser.

Moller, who is Aleut, is a former crab fisherman from Unalaska who brings a long career in fisheries management to the post, including experience with the North Pacific Fisheries Management Council and the Aleutian Pribilof Island Community Development Association CDQ.

Moller said that he was hired last month – before the state hiring freeze began – and started the job Feb. 6. The news that the post had been filled came as a surprise to many because the governor’s office did not issue a press release or announcement that position had finally been filled.

http://thetundradrums.com/news/show/4869
12 Feb 2009

“The moral blame lies more closely to the person(s) who intentionally started this fire,” Devaney wrote in a decision on Jan. 29.

Kids playing with matches started the August 2006 fire beneath the Hooper Bay school, which is elevated on pilings, after they slipped through wood skirting surrounding the base of the school and lit grass and trash fires, according to news reports at the time.

After the school went up in flames and caused fuel tanks to explode, the blaze destroyed a chunk of the village, including the school, 14 homes, a grocery store, other buildings and property such as snowmachines.

Twenty-seven parties, including Wilma Bell, Larry and Diane Hale and Harvey Hill, sued the district last year.

They argued that the district hadn’t done enough to prevent children from sneaking beneath it; had not maintained the sprinkler system; built portable classrooms too close to fuel tanks and the elementary school; and knew children were sneaking under the school and starting fires.

Devaney granted a summary judgment — a decision made before a full trial — in favor of the district.

He ruled that the building was not “inherently dangerous” because of the lack of upkeep and other issues, and only became dangerous “because of the intentional acts of third parties” setting it on fire.

“ … LYSD did not create a tinderbox situation,” the judge wrote. “There are no allegations of code violations under the school; there are no allegations of oil or gas under the school; there are no allegations accelerants located nearby were used to start the fire.

“The fact that oil tanks blew up a few hours after the fire was discovered does not support a tinderbox theory. The fact that children were playing with matches under (the) school for years does not support a tinderbox theory.”

http://thetundradrums.com/news/show/4895
13 Feb 2009

You are certainly correct in inquiring about alternatives. Whether in this country or elsewhere, the logistics of delivery and storage and distribution of donated supplies is a critical impediment and even a hazard in crisis situations. For example, the hub village of Bethel (population about 5300 and about 150 air miles away, Where is… nearest hospital (as one flies), has no emergency shelter at all and no place to store quantities of foodstuffs or fuel.

Samaritan’s Purse http://www.samaritanspurse.org/ is a charity with an established relationship with some of the Wade Hampton Villages. (Disasters come in all forms)

Food Bank– the Food Bank of Alaska provides the basis for rural food banks (often only held monthly).
“FOOD BANK OF ALASKA
2121 Spar Avenue
Anchorage, AK 99501
(907) 272-3663 Main
(907) 222-3119 Service/Intake – Food Stamp Outreach Program
(907) 277-7368 Fax
email: info@foodbankofalaska.org
web: http://www.foodbankofalaska.org
FOOD ASSISTANCE
SERVICE DESCRIPTION: Food Bank of Alaska provides food and household products to partner non-profit agencies. Working with partnering organizations, we provide information and referral for food assistance pantries and meal centers throughout the state of Alaska.”
http://www.alaska211.org/

Another possibility might be the Catholic Social Services. The Catholic Church is the local church for some of the middle Yukon Villages in the Census Area. Some of these Villages, such as the GASH region (includes villages of Grayling, Anvik, Shageluk, and Holy Cross), are always hurting (an interesting note here, http://akbrownie.blogspot.com/2008/06/g-s-h-travels.html).

There is a Boys & Girls Club in Emmonak (Dora Moore works there). I’m not sure about the other Villages.

I’ll see what else I can find and let everyone know.

Dora
Emmonak

For information about how to donate food items, contact Layla of Alaska Newspapers Inc. at lkong @ alaskanewspapers .com.

For more about Village Aid Alaska’s effort, contact Tony Hall at 907-348-2449; e-mail at editor @ alaskanewspapers .com

Deadline for donations
The village of Emmonak’s plea for help is being answered, as boxes of food items are coming in at Alaska Newspapers Inc.’s offices to meet the needs of the Western Alaska community.

So far we have received food from more than 25 people and groups. We would like to thank everyone for their responses to this urgent need.

We will continue to gather and package food items to send to Emmonak this weekend. If you would like to donate dry milk, freeze-dried noodle soup, rice, oatmeal, dried meat, etc., please bring it to the offices of Alaska Newspapers Inc. by 5 p.m. Monday. Volunteers will be receiving donations today until 7 p.m. and on Saturday and Sunday from noon to 6 p.m. A complete list of items to donate is at http://www.thetundradrums.com/docs/EmmonakVillageAid.pdf.

We are located at 301 Calista Court in Anchorage, which is near the intersection of Dimond Boulevard and King Street. Donations will be accepted at the bay door on the east side of the Calista Corp. headquarters.