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Saturday
November 08, 2003
front page photo by Dan Hart
Alaska: Top
Republicans press for Ruedrich's removal; Party chairman's conflict
is viewed as intolerable - Republican Party of Alaska
chairman Randy Ruedrich faced growing pressure from prominent
Republicans on Friday demanding that he be removed from either
the party chairmanship or his job as state oil and gas regulator.
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more... Ketchikan: Elkins
disappointed at ouster, stands by critical words; He says his
comments on longevity bonus cost him the appointment -
Former Ketchikan bar owner and assemblyman Jim Elkins said
Friday that he is disappointed that the governor has withdrawn
his nomination to fill an unexpired term in the state Senate.
But he stood by the remarks that he thinks caused the fuss. -
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more... Alaska: Tribal
firm uses fish waste, sawdust to make compost - What do you
do with huge amounts of fish-processing waste and massive piles
of sawdust? - Read
more... ACCFT represents 315 university
faculty who teach at all campus locations in the University of
Alaska system. The University and the union have been in negotiations
for 14 months. The tentative agreement, reached between representatives
of the university and the union, is subject to ratification by
the union's members as well as the university Board of Regents.
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more... Alaska: New
rules support faster fisheries observer data transmission
- The National Marine Fisheries Service (NOAA Fisheries) has
put in place rules starting January 1, 2004, that is said will
enhance data transmission from fisheries observers on certain
catcher vessels, catcher processors, and shore-side processors
in Alaska. - Read
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Alaska: Alaska's Thorny Future - Could Alaska's thorniest weed become its next big cash crop? Some think that the much-scorned devil's club has just that potential. If you've ever tangled with the common Alaska weed known as devil's club, you don't have to ask how it got that name. In some areas, the plant grows as tall as seven or eight feet. And it's covered in long, sharp thorns that, if you mess with them, hurt like the devil. Alaska agronomist Peggy Hunt said, "It's funny because the scientific name for it is Oplopanux horridus. Think of horrid." Hunt is a plant ecologist at
the state-run Native Plant Nursery, in Palmer, Alaska, which
is dedicated to finding the most effective ways to propagate
and raise native plants-including devil's club. Hunt said, "And
then, hopefully, we'll be able to give the native plants to commercial
growers, who will then be able to take those parent plants and
sell them to people who may want them." - Read
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People of Ketchikan: Judy and John Stenfjord - The Stenfjords stay in shape with morning walks along South Tongass. While enjoying their walks together, they take the time to pick up any trash they come across and bag it. They put the bags of trash they collect by a guard rail for Doug Pearce who comes along later and picks up the bags to dispose of them. The Stenfjords, with the help
of Doug Pearce, are doing their part in helping to keep Ketchikan
beautiful - and have been doing so for a very long time. - View
a larger photograph... Ketchikan: White
Cliff Replacement School Design Update Meeting - The members
of the Design Team for the White Cliff Replacement School will
present the updated plans to the Ketchikan Gateway Borough District
School Board on Monday, November 10th. The meeting is scheduled
to begin at 7:00 pm at the Ted Ferry Civic Center Conference
room. - Read
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Science: Dark matter" forms dense clumps in ghost universe - The "dark matter" that comprises a still-undetected one-quarter of the universe is not a uniform cosmic fog, says a University of California, Berkeley, astrophysicist, but instead forms dense clumps that move about like dust motes dancing in a shaft of light. In a paper submitted this week to Physical Review D, Chung-Pei Ma, an associate professor of astronomy at UC Berkeley, and Edmund Bertschinger of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), prove that the motion of dark matter clumps can be modeled in a way similar to the Brownian motion of air-borne dust or pollen. Their findings should provide
astrophysicists with a new way to calculate the evolution of
this ghost universe of dark matter and reconcile it with the
observable universe, Ma said. -
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