Category: Review

907 Updates March 09 & 10, 2022

KTUU Alaska’s News Source: Anchorage police searching for person of interest in homicide case; Anchorage woman on a mission to reunite found photos; State of marijuana: Pre-legalization convictions plague Alaska residents, but a new bill could offer relief; Anchorage restaurants receive national attention on popular Food Network show and more ->

 
 
 
 
KTOO Alaska’s Public Media: Alaska House bill would start process to rename highway named after convicted war criminal; Retired public employees and state settle long-running legal dispute over medical, dental benefits and more ->

 
 
 
 

KYUK Public Media for Alaska’s Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta: Cama-i returns after 2 years with a different setup and venue; Bethel City Manager says he’s considering dropping the city employee COVID-19 vaccine mandate and more ->
 
 
 
 

Alaska Native News: Stop Sticks and Pit Maneuver Bring Female Car Thief to a Stop on Seward Highway; StrongHearts Native Helpline Observes Five-Year Anniversary with more than 20,000 Calls; This Day In AlaskaHistory March 9th, 1911, March 10th, 1920 and more ->
 
 
 
 

Fairbanks News Webcenter 11: Consumer Protection Week: Home Improvement Scams and more ->
 
 
 
 

The Arctic Sounder; Gas leak at North Slope oil development continues as ConocoPhillips says source remains unknown; ConocoPhillips Alaska employees evacuated due to prolonged natural gas leak on the North Slope; NSBSD educators advocate for contracts for nontenured teachers and more ->
 
 
 
 

KINY: Navy and Juneau Police to team up on exercise at Capital Building; Iditarod leaders in Cripple at last report and more ->
 
 
 
 

KSTK: Grant funds will go to repair rec center siding, buy new garbage truck for Wrangell and more ->
 
 
 
 

The Seward Journal March 09 to March 15, 2022
 
 
 
 

KFSK: Petersburg assembly votes to auction off Sandy Beach Road lots and more ->
 
 
 
 

KRBD: Governor picks Fairbanks federal prosecutor for Ketchikan Superior Court judgeship; Ketchikan City Council green-lights local hiring preference for city and borough residents and more ->
 
 
 
 

KUCB: Humans of Unalaska campaign celebrates locals for their ‘small acts of kindness’ and more ->

 
 
 
 

The Alaska Zoo

It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of Nikolai, the last male of the zoo’s wolf pack. He passed away at the age of 15. He would have been 16 this spring. He and his five siblings arrived at the zoo in May of 2006 as pups. He lived his whole life with his siblings by his side and the dedicated zookeepers who took him on frequent walks on the zoo’s wooded back trails. He is survived by his two sisters still at the zoo, Windy and Ruby. Zoo staff and volunteers miss all of the animals whose time it is to pass, however Nikolai won over everyone with his easy going personality and disposition. We will miss you so much, Nik. We know you will greet Denali, Rohn and Lucky for us. Pup photos by John Gomes, photo with Curator Sam Lavin (courtesy of Sam Lavin) and the remaining photos by Zookeeper Alyssa Allen.
 
 
 
 

Learn tips and techniques to reduce energy use in your home during “Urban Harvest: Home Energy Efficiency.” Colleen Fisk, energy education director at Renewable Energy Alaska Project, shares lessons she’s learned from a lifetime in Alaska and 5+ years teaching statewide about energy.
This interactive workshop includes practice using tools to measure and reduce energy use. 6 p.m. Tuesday, March 15, at Seed Lab, 111 6th Ave. Free.

 
 
 
 

By Maureen O’Hare, CNN: Anchorage: The little airport on the top of the world
 
 
 
 

By Katie Stavick, Frontiersman.com: Women’s History Month: Katie Hurley, the “Grand Dame of Alaska Politics.”
 
 
 
 

By Joe Slowinski, Anchorage Press: An Iñupiat Teenager in Alaska Sat in a ‘Whites Only’ Section a Decade Before Rosa Parks’ Brave Act
 
 
 
 

By Jordyn Sava, Targeted Oncology: Key Challenges With Treating Ovarian Cancer in the Community Setting Melissa M. Hardesty, MD, discusses the challenges faced within the community setting in regard to the treatment landscape for advanced ovarian cancer.

 
 
 
 
Kathi Scrizzi Driscoll, Cape Cod Times: Need reading ideas? 5 new books by Cape Cod authors

“Sometime A Clear Light: A Photographer’s Journey Through Alaska, Nigeria and Life,” by Aylette Jenness (2021, independently published)

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By Megan McDonald, Only In Your State Alaska: Kick Off Spring In Alaska With These 7 Scenic Hikes Under Two Miles
 
 
By Megan McDonald, Only In Your State Alaska: Hike To See The Frozen Beauty Of Nugget Falls, One Of Alaska’s Largest Waterfalls

 
 
 
 

Music March 06, 2022

 
 
 
 

 
 

 
 

 
 
 
 

 
 
 
 

Tom MacDonald, Adam Calhoun & Struggle Jennings Lyrics

“In God We Trust”
(feat. Nova Rockafeller)

They separate us from our neighbors and they call it social distancing
It’s actually a bigger plan, it’s called social conditioning
They took away our privacy there’s always someone listening
They’re rigging the elections, planning riots for the citizens
The government has always lied, it’s history repeating
But the problem is the schools dumb you down so you believe ’em
If you try to speak the truth inside a Tweet then they delete it
Whole administration’s Satanist who claim they praising Jesus
Every year there’s a new name for enemies that we’re facing it
Al Qaeda, then ISIS, and now American patriots
Who woulda thought those who love the country the most
Would be hated on by folks who call America home
Both political parties are equally just as evil
They been working for themselves, don’t give a damn ’bout the people
Black, white, yellow, brown, humanity needs you
‘Cause united we stand, divided they will defeat you

The man on the news says the problem is me
I’m just a small-town boy with big American dreams
The world’s going crazy and they lying to us
Don’t know who to believe, so in God we trust

Y’all missing what was written in them pages
That was history they wrote, now you wanna change it
You racist, you hate this
Why you want us all to be locked up in cages?
I can’t stand the left, everything they say’s depressing
Ship ’em to the Middle East, they can learn oppression
Believe me, I mean this quite literal
I love liberty but I hate white liberals
Wear a mask, stay home, complain and moan
Talk about privilege on your phone in your Range Rove
Starbucks mango foo-foo whatever
The cloth I’m cut from can handle any weather
You just paper in the rain, we ain’t the same
Stand for the flag, only kneel when I pray
I just pray we go back to the old days
Land of the free, home of the brave

The man on the news says the problem is me
I’m just a small-town boy with big American dreams
The world’s going crazy and they lying to us
Don’t know who to believe, so in God we trust

Yeah
Uh
I see through all the illusions
Refuse to hear the rumors or accept that we are losing
Easy to get caught up, consumed by the consumer
Truth is so diluted people starve off they confusion
Comfort is the killer, your dreams execution
Cool persecution if I make a contribution
Home of the brave look like a mental institution
And there will be revolution if we can’t find resolution
And a threat is a promise, stand up, pay homage
They tell lies, I’m being honest, judgment time is upon us
I know that God got us so I’m fighting in His honor
Hear the cries of the crusaders as we strapping up our armor
Either [?] higher ground or drown in they drama
If I die for what I love then my death will be nirvana
We fighting for our freedom, don’t believe what they been feeding
Be the change you wanna see, the warrior that we’re needing

The man on the news says the problem is me
I’m just a small-town boy with big American dreams
The world’s going crazy and they lying to us
Don’t know who to believe, so in God we trust

We don’t trust the news, the government, or pharma
We just want freedom, do you have that to offer?
We don’t want the lies, the politics, or the drama
We just want the life that was promised by our fathers
We don’t trust the news, the government, or pharma
We just want freedom, do you have that to offer?
We don’t want the lies, the politics, or the drama
We just want the life that was promised by our fathers

The man on the news says the problem is me
I’m just a small-town boy with big American dreams
The world’s going crazy and they lying to us
Don’t know who to believe, so in God we trust

Music February 20, 2022

 
 
 
 

 
 
 
 

Quotes February 02, 2022

Courtesy of Henrik Edberg The Positivity Blog

 
 

“If you accept the expectations of others, especially negative ones, then you never will change the outcome.”
Michael Jordan
 
 
 
 
“No one can create negativity or stress within you. Only you can do that by virtue of how you process your world.”
Wayne Dyer
 
 
 
 
“Life is too short to spend in negativity. So I have made a conscious effort to not be where I don’t want to be.”

Hugh Dillon
 
 
 
 
“Your beliefs, either positive or negative, helpful or hurtful, largely determine everything you do and how you do it.”

Brian Tracy
 
 
 
 
“People tend to dwell more on negative things than on good things. So the mind then becomes obsessed with negative things, with judgments, guilt and anxiety produced by thoughts about the future and so on.”

Eckhart Tolle
 
 
 
 
“When we are aware of our weaknesses or negative tendencies, we open the opportunity to work on them.”

Allan Lokos
 
 
 
 
“Nobody can motivate himself in a positive direction by continually using negative words.”

John C. Maxwell
 
 
 
 
“There’s a way that you can throw negativity out there that seems rebellious. But I’ve always taken pleasure in a different kind of rebellion, which is putting a positive spin on everything, trying to enjoy myself at all times.”

Zac Efron
 
 
 
 
“Negativity, in general, is one of the things that holds people back, and you have to see what’s holding you back to get away from it.”

Lucy Dacus
 
 
 
 
“You can’t think away your self-defeating thoughts; you have to dissolve them through action.”

Marty Rubin
 
 
 
 
“The best way out is always through.”

Robert Frost
 
 
 
 
“If you find yourself complaining a lot then you are problem-oriented. Focus on what you can do – not on what you can’t – to become solution-oriented.”

Akiroq Brost
 
 
 
 
“Curiosity is what keeps me open to a sense of hope. It staves off negativity.”

Carrie Brownstein
 
 
 
 
“Negative results are just what I want. They’re just as valuable to me as positive results. I can never find the thing that does the job best until I find the ones that don’t.”

Thomas Edison
 
 
 
 
“Negativity is the enemy of creativity.”

David Lynch
 
 
 
 
“Just as negative beliefs at some point entered your subconscious mind, and began to subtly shape your lives, new, positive beliefs can also be “planted” there: beliefs that will gradually begin to improve your behavior, your thinking, the way you feel, and thus, your life”

David Bolton
 
 
 
 
“It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts.”

Robert H. Schuller
 
 
 
 
“If we give something positive to others, it will return to us. If we give negative, that negativity will be returned.”

Allu Arjun
 
 
 
 
“Negativity is an addiction to the bleak shadow that lingers around every human form, and you can transfigure negativity by turning it toward the light of your soul.”
John O’Donohue
“It is better to dwell on the beautiful things in life than the negative.”

Lailah Gifty Akita
 
 
 
 
“Negative words are powerful boomerangs so be careful what you say about people and yourself.”

Mary J. Blige
 
 
 
 
“Here is a magnificent, beautiful, wonderful painting in front of you! It is intricate, detailed, a painstaking labor of devotion and love! The colors are like no other, they swim and leap, they trickle and embellish! And yet you choose to fixate your eyes on the small fly which has landed on it! Why do you do such a thing?”

C. JoyBell C.
 
 
 
 
“If your thoughts are negative, you’ll probably attract negative events into your life. You will see the bad, not the good. The reverse is also true in that thoughts of creating a positive life find their origin in a positive mind.”

Byron Pulsifer
 
 
 
 
“However vast the darkness, we must supply it with our own light.”

Stanley Kubrick
 
 
 
 
“Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Music January 28, 2022

 
 
 
 
https://youtu.be/IhsuiDmWWMg
 
 
 
 

Music December 28, 2021

 
 
 
 

Music December 01, 2021

https://youtu.be/msT4GS_FxHA
 
 
https://youtu.be/DqjNMmzX2b0
 
 

 
 

Military November 06, 2021

Military.com: What Happened to Members of the Military Accused of Storming the Capitol on January 6? And more ->
 
 
 
 
Task & Purpose: The debate over registering women for the draft is a waste of time: There is no draft The draft has been dead as a doornail for nearly 50 years.; The Army is testing a brand-new helicopter-mounted Gatling gun “It shoots fast, it shoots well, and it shoots accurately.” And more ->
 
 
 
 
By Lorraine Boissoneault, Smithsonian Magazine: The Man Who Brought the Swastika to Germany, and How the Nazis Stole It Even after decades, the symbol can’t shake free from its evil associations.
 
 
 
 

 
 
 
 

 
 
 
 

 
 
 
 

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Military October 09, 2021

Military.com: Pilot Errors Caused Fatal T-38 Training Crash, Air Force Probe Finds; Taliban Say They Won’t Work with US to Contain Islamic State; Gunman at Florida VA Hospital Sentenced to 16-Plus Years; German Commerce Raiders Built a Village in America’s Most Important Shipyard During WWI and more ->
 
 
 
 
Task & Purpose: It’s time to stop awarding the Global War on Terrorism Service Medal The routine of getting the award has become so perfunctory that it’s essentially meaningless.; The Pentagon’s hottest new catchphrase sounds a lot like its old one No more ‘great power competition.’ And more ->
 
 
 
 
By Nadine Schmidt and Frederik Pleitgen, CNN: 100-year-old goes on trial in Germany accused of 3,518 Nazi war crimes
 
 
 
 

 
 
 
 

 
 
 
 

 
 
 
 

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Military September 04, 2021

 
 
 
 

 
 
 
 

 
 
 
 

 
 
 
 

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