907 Updates September 10, 2016

Is September hit and run month?
Chris Klint, Jerzy Shedlock: Colleagues remember victim of Midtown hit-and-run as a man of character

 

Do you think heads might roll?
Tegan Hanlon: Alaska schools will share $6.35M in funding that Walker meant to veto
The Alaska Division of Legislative Finance — the Legislature’s fiscal arm — quickly said the veto had no effect, arguing that Walker made a technical error that rendered it void: He simply eliminated a funding source in the budget bill but failed to cross out pertinent parts of the accompanying text on another page.

 

 

How is panhandling discouraged where you live?
Devin Kelly: Campaign revived to discourage giving money to Anchorage panhandlers

 

I hope all recover completely.
Coast Guard rescues 3 from float plane crash at Uganik Lake on Kodiak Island, Alaska
Weather near the crash was reported to be winds around 20 miles per hour and 10 miles of visibility.

Great resource: DVIDS Defense Video Imagery Distribution System

Music September 10, 2016

Shorpy September 10, 2016

September 1, 1900. "Chicago River elevators at Chicago, Illinois." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company.

September 1, 1900. “Chicago River elevators at Chicago, Illinois.” 8×10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company.

 

March 1936. "One-room house on Coalins Forest and Game Reservation between the Tennessee and Cumberland rivers in Kentucky." Medium format nitrate negative by Carl Mydans for the Resettlement Administration.

March 1936. “One-room house on Coalins Forest and Game Reservation between the Tennessee and Cumberland rivers in Kentucky.” Medium format nitrate negative by Carl Mydans for the Resettlement Administration.

Arlington Is No Longer Closed to the Women Pilots of World War II

WIIWASPS

Mrs. Harmon, who died in April 2015 at age 95, had been a member of the Women Airforce Service Pilots, or WASPs, a first-of-its-kind Army unit made up of women who flew planes and trained men to do the same during World War II.

That experience was so central to Mrs. Harmon’s life that after she died, her family found a letter written on cream-colored WASP stationery and left inside a fireproof file box, with a final wish.

“I would like to be buried in Arlington Cemetery,” she wrote, adding later, “Even if there are no ashes left, I would like an empty urn placed at Arlington.”

One of the Woman Pilots of World War II Has Finally Been Laid to Rest at Arlington

907 Updates September 9, 2016

After Frozen Budz’s approval, the board cruised through other retail licenses, approving 11 more around the state in quick succession as the day came to a close. They included: Enlighten Alaska, LLC, Arctic Herbery, Alaska Buds, LLC and Raspberry Roots, The Frost Farms, all in Anchorage; Pakalolo Supply Co. in Fairbanks; The Herbal Cache in Girdwood; Herbal Outfitters, LLC in Valdez; Rainforest Farms, LLC in Juneau; Remedy Shoppe in Skagway; and Weed Dudes in Sitka.

Laurel Andrews: Alaska’s first marijuana retail stores OK’d by state

 

 

First of all, who benefits? Does she believe in Cathy Munoz compassion for child molesters, pedophiles and other degenerate/poisonous forms of life?
What is she doing to actually, truly help children in unhealthy and unsafe situations?  What is she doing to provide funding for more workers, more training?
It’s easy to throw stones at an agency.  Especially if it is an emotionally charged, overworked group.

Lawmaker?  Make a law that benefits children and provides the necessary resources to protect them.

Nathaniel Herz: Lawmaker says Alaska child welfare agency practices ‘legal kidnapping,’ but top official disputes charge

 

 

 

Politics: Miller/Murkowski/Stock

Nathaniel Herz, Erica Martinson: Joe Miller to run as Libertarian in hopes of unseating US Sen. Lisa Murkowski

wiki: Miller

wiki: Lisa Ann Murkowski

Murkowski was appointed to the U.S. Senate by her father, Frank Murkowski, who resigned his seat in December 2002 to become the Governor of Alaska. She completed her father’s unexpired term which ended in January 2005. She ran for and won a full term in 2004.

She ran for a second term in 2010. She lost the Republican Party nomination to Tea Party candidate Joe Miller. She then ran as a write-in candidate and defeated both Miller and Democrat Scott McAdams in the general election,[1] making her the first senator to be elected by write-in vote since Strom Thurmond in 1954, and only the second in U.S. history.

wiki: Margaret Stock

 

 

 

 

farmfield
South Anchorage Farmer’s Market
Every Saturday
May 7 – October 10

900 a.m. – 2:00 p.m.

More Information
To learn more
about the market,
send us an email
alaskasafm@gmail.com

 

 

 

 

Quotes September 9, 2016

“Simply put, you believe that things or people make you unhappy, but this is not accurate. You make yourself unhappy.”
Wayne Dyer

“Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.”
Marcus Aurelius

“We do not heal the past by dwelling there; we heal the past by living fully in the present.”
Marianne Williamson

“Explanation separates us from astonishment, which is the only gateway to the incomprehensible.”
Eugene Ionesco

To some will come a time when change itself is beauty, if not heaven.
Edwin Arlington Robinson,
poet

“His mother saw that he was not lonesome, and because she was an understanding mother, even though she was a cow, she let him just sit there and be happy.”
Munro Leaf, The Story of Ferdinand

FYI September 9, 2016

A Luna-tic Tip: “The Secret to Success in Life”
Originally published December 11, 2012

Here it is, folks, in paragraph one. The secret of success in life is to force yourself to leave your comfort zone. Think about it:

“I can’t find a job!”

– – – Move to Williston, North Dakota.

“I can’t find a nice girlfriend in any of the bars”

– – – Join a volunteer group where you’re all helping others for free.

“I hate it when my friends say I’m fat!”

– – – Follow Dr. Gott’s NO FLOUR NO SUGAR diet.

“My son’s in his 20s and refuses to leave home.”

– – – Hand him an application to work at McDonalds, and kick him out.

“We don’t have the money to send our kids to college.”

– – – Then see that they learn a trade, even if they must work for free.

“I want to write a book but I have no time!”

– – – Get up at 5 a.m. like I do. (Still alive at 85.)

“I don’t know what my purpose is in life!”

– – – Contact JJ Luna. (You won’t like the answer.)   =================================

HELP WANTED

(Proofreaders no longer needed.)

Readers of Bestselling fiction wanted

In the early 2000s I wrote several novels but did not publish them. Now, however, I plan re re-write one of them. If you are an avid reader of authors such as John Grisham, Robert B. Parker, and/or John D. McDonald, and would like to give me an opinion of several different opening chapters, please contact me.  No cash involved, sorry!

Jack Luna
J J Luna contact@jjluna.com

 

 
An experiment with removing gender from job applications makes the case that bias influences hiring.
Tech companies should be interested in diversifying, said Annie Ryan, Speak With a Geek’s director of diversity and inclusion. Research has shown that diverse teams lead to diverse thinking and better problem solving.

“If you’re coming up with a new technology,” Ryan said, “you want to make sure it’s most applicable to the widest amount of users, so that anybody in the world can pick up your technology and have it be relevant to their lives. The best way to do that is to bring in different perspectives to the creation process.”

Erin Carson: When tech firms judge on skills alone, women land more job interviews

 

We’re building an internet that protects privacy, starting with email.
ProtonMail

 

Debra Lynn Dadd Live Toxic Free

 

Images Eadweard Muybridge Cutting Edge Photography September 9, 2016

When a horse trots, do all four of its hooves ever leave the ground at once? At one time, we not only had no answer to that question, we had no way of finding out. But in 1872, when the matter piqued the curiosity of Leland Stanford, tycoon, former governor of California, co-founder of Stanford University, and race-horse owner, it did so at just the right time. Having made a bet on the answer, Stanford called on an English photographer named Eadweard Muybridge, known for his work in such then-cutting-edge subfields as time-lapse and stereography, and tasked him with figuring it out. Using a series of cameras activated by trip wires as the horse trotted past, Muybridge proved that all four of its hooves do indeed leave the ground, winning Stanford the wager.

When a horse trots, do all four of its hooves ever leave the ground at once? At one time, we not only had no answer to that question, we had no way of finding out. But in 1872, when the matter piqued the curiosity of Leland Stanford, tycoon, former governor of California, co-founder of Stanford University, and race-horse owner, it did so at just the right time. Having made a bet on the answer, Stanford called on an English photographer named Eadweard Muybridge, known for his work in such then-cutting-edge subfields as time-lapse and stereography, and tasked him with figuring it out. Using a series of cameras activated by trip wires as the horse trotted past, Muybridge proved that all four of its hooves do indeed leave the ground, winning Stanford the wager.

Eadweard Muybridge’s Motion Photography Experiments from the 1870s Presented in 93 Animated Gifs

 

Eadweard Muybridge (/ˌɛdwərd ˈmaɪbrɪdʒ/; 9 April 1830 – 8 May 1904, born Edward James Muggeridge) was an English photographer important for his pioneering work in photographic studies of motion, and early work in motion-picture projection. He adopted the name Eadweard Muybridge, believing it to be the original Anglo-Saxon form of his name.[1]

 

Eadweard Muybridge

 

Finding An Oomph! September 9, 2016

Sometimes it’s a push to find New Things in your life. It’s Friday and you didn’t sleep well and it’s been a long week; how about we just veg out? Or you got yourself out, and it’s First Friday and the block party on D Street is fun and sunny so why would you leave to hear a lecture? A music lecture no less. Indoors.

Choosing Oomph

Music September 9, 2016

RED Friday

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KPLfGbtdlUM