Where is Bethel Alaska
from the state’s community database Go there for additional information on each YK Village.
View ArticleBlogging Bird Flu: Can We Out-Collaborate a Pandemic?
“Bird Flu: Can We Out-Collaborate a Pandemic? | Alex Steffen” http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/003310.html This essay was written last year (2005). I only just ran across it, after setting this...
View ArticleFlu wiki
I just ran across this via Alex Steffan’s essay posted earlier I would hope this YK Alaska blog might be a localized, regional resource with similar information about bird flu, pandemic preparation,...
View ArticleWhere is Y-K resources
http://maps.grida.no/go/collection/ collectionid/415C76C8-85AD-4135-B0D4-A0D5FA0C557D “A UNEP/GRID-Arendal publication” http://www.vitalgraphics.net/arctic.cfm http://maps.grida.no/go/graphic/...
View Articletemporary glitch in viewing with MS Internet Explorer
The site views best with Opera or Firefox and not with Internet Explorer. Until I can fix the problem, only two posts will be visible at a time. This enables those of you using the Microsoft Browser to...
View ArticleHoaxes Rumors — lookup
Hoaxbusters — CIAC Internet Hoax and Chain Letter site In addition to describing hoaxes and chain letters found on the Internet, we will discuss how to recognize hoaxes, what to do about them, and some...
View ArticleGlossary keywords tags
The keywords or tags below can be used on any search engine (Yahoo, Ask, Google) or literature search. They seem to be the standard terms by which people are identifying the current references. If you...
View ArticleCDC Epidemiologic Case Studies
These case studies are interactive exercises developed to teach epidemiologic principles and practices. They are based on real-life outbreaks and public health problems and were developed in...
View ArticleGetting Results from Your Experts
I put this list together for the USDA Natural Resources & Conservation Service in 2002 from my earlier handouts. It is a listing of references I recommend to communities and other professionals...
View ArticleBe Prepared kits in the BlogHer sphere
Liz Thompson’s blog - http://blogher.org/blog/liz-thompsonI one of the collection of women writers at http://Blogher.org (Where the women bloggers are) has found some interesting ideas for emergency...
View ArticleLiberty Science Center BeringSea blog
One of my list-servs I subscribe to for news to share with schoolteachers (see link to side ΣΧ FYI for Sci TEK teachers) is ISEN-ASTC-L a service of the Association of Science-Technology Centers...
View ArticlePoorest places in the United States – Wikipedia
See also http://ykalaska.wordpress.com/2006/03/13/richest-cities-in-the-us-bethel/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poorest_places_in_the_United_States 100 Poorest Counties by Per Capita Income Number of...
View ArticleVillage search tags
The first set of tagged community names will search within this web log. The second set (Technorati) will automatically take you to their site to find other blogs which reference the Village name. The...
View ArticleMedical Reference for Non-Medical Librarians
I found this at the excellent source of health information, BHIC blog, Bringing Health Information to the Community “Medical Reference for Non-Medical Librarians”...
View ArticleOf Blogs and Feeds
Fred Langa’s current issue (see the link on the sidebar) gives a summary of feeds and suggestions for software to read them. 6) Of Blogs and Feeds After launching the new Langa Blog...
View ArticleCDL Online Practice Questions
I know many people have a need for their commercial driving license. This site has a variety of test questions and provides an evaluation of how well one has answered. (Some of the questions could use...
View ArticleRumor control
I checked this when I saw it at one of the bird flu fora (not a forum which I recommend to others to read). The link provided by the unmoderated forum in question at 4:21 AM turned out to be to a splog...
View ArticleOn-line nutrition course for Inuit communities
Healthy living in Nunavut: an on-line nutrition course for inuit communities in the Canadian arctic. Hamilton S, Martin J, Guyot M, Trifonopoulos M, Caughey A, Chan HM Int J Circumpolar Health. 2004...
View ArticleAlaska Forum on the Environment
deadline 12-16 February 2007 The Alaska Forum on the Environment (AFE) will be held in Anchorage,Alaska AFE is an annual event that brings together scientists, tribal leaders, government...
View ArticleAlaska and Eskimo data in 1920 British report
Following up from Flu history and research database - http://ykalaska.wordpress.com/2006/12/19/ flu-history-and-research-database/ I received an E-mail of 2006 December 19. The story of the 1918 flu in...
View ArticlePublication: Coastal Erosion Responses for Alaska
New Publication Available Coastal Erosion Responses for Alaska: Workshop Proceedings Alaska Sea Grant Editor: Orson P. Smith Price: $10 USD For further information, please go to:...
View ArticleIndex by Title
2007-05-28 This post ought to be superseded by the Table of Contents page. That has all posts by chronological order Part I oldest first and by alphabetical order Part II (alphabetical order) //engtech...
View ArticleE-mail the Governor
The former Lt. Governor Fran Ulmer undertook a systematic job of overhauling the state’s electronic distance communications between its public servants and its public. This means it is possible to...
View ArticleHealth Statistics United States, 2006
Health, United States, 2006 CDC’s National Center for Health Statistics has published Health, United States, 2006, the 30th edition of the annual report on the nation’s health. The report includes 147...
View ArticleWhere is… Alaska.UnorganizedBorough.um
Occasionally when filling in on-line forms I ran across the location of “US Minor Outlying Islands”. This always struck me as an unfortunate name for the former trust territories and other US...
View ArticleMore questions people ask, Consumers Report
More questions Questions from Delta Discovery Avian Influenza – Questions & Answers Questions People Ask Thanks to The Coming Influenza Pandemic? http://influenzapandemic.blogspot.com/ who does a...
View ArticleTag cloud index
This nifty trick shows which categories of posted information has the most entries. The larger the word, the more the entries. It is a snapshot view, but might be a useful alternative to the Site Index...
View ArticleNew Far North Science resource
There’s another science newssource of particular interest for the north, Far North Science http://www.farnorthscience.com/ The principal writer is former Anchorage Daily News writer Doug O’Harra. The...
View ArticlePandemic 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...
View ArticleContents 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...
View ArticleOverview 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 - ———————————————————- Overview– [A comprehensive reference...
View ArticleMore 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...
View ArticleAPRN 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...
View ArticleFrom the Pacific Rim to the Arctic Rim, views from the other side of the...
[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...
View ArticleNew 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...
View ArticleBriefs 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...
View ArticleMost 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...
View ArticleSarah Palin content
revised 2009-07-03 A good summary of recent events of former Gov. Palin is Palin Resigns: Exit stage right revised 2008-10-15 A good summary of Gov. Palin in Alaska is Sarah Palin, A View From...
View ArticleHappy New Year [pinch-and-punch]
Most important blog event of the year 2008 seems to have been sometime between 28 August and 29 August, I guess. [where is Nowhere, Alaska ] Months and Years stats Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep...
View ArticleWhat Kind of Tech User Are You? Pew Quiz
The Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project is one of seven projects that make up the Pew Research Center. The Center is supported by The Pew Charitable Trusts. So this quiz of...
View ArticleRelated library sites for the Unorganized Borough
2009-09-27 Feed Demon / Newsgator no longer offers a public readership library. I am in the process of converting the shared libraries to Google Reader, no easy task. This means that if you have...
View ArticleGreetings, 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...
View ArticleWhat ever happened 12 months ago… SP VP2B
A year ago I heard the news announcement about John McCain’s pick for his VP2B– I nearly fell out of bed (and I have a futon) because I knew more about governing than Sarah Palin and I knew I wasn’t...
View Article2011 in review
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: The concert hall at the Syndey Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 39,000...
View ArticleAmerican Indian and Alaska Native Ph.D.s in the US– How many? Who are they?
Jeannie Greene, documentary producer (Heartbeat Alaska) raised an interesting topic– that there were only 45 Natives who hold Ph.D.s in the US. That seems awfully low. Can you help add more names?...
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