Alaskans? Anyone out there?
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The Alaskan who built this seiner, just passed away. Rest in Peace, Andy.
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Only 50 years old.
My condolences, Thør.
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$1654.........
nuff said
well, actually, there is more
might be time for
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nuff said
well, actually, there is more
might be time for
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I know. Damn. I almost feel guilty for getting a PFD. Almost. 
Do you ever dine at Club Paris? When I was up there last month, we went to the Cattle Company and I was very impressed. The chicken Caesar salad was the best I ever had. Everyone else had the beef and it looked & tasted great, too. The Cattle Company lacked the ambience of Club Paris, but it was cool.
Someday, Thør. Someday I'll take you out to Club Paris.
Hey, did you and SheRemembers ever meet?
Do you ever dine at Club Paris? When I was up there last month, we went to the Cattle Company and I was very impressed. The chicken Caesar salad was the best I ever had. Everyone else had the beef and it looked & tasted great, too. The Cattle Company lacked the ambience of Club Paris, but it was cool.
Someday, Thør. Someday I'll take you out to Club Paris.
Hey, did you and SheRemembers ever meet?
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Delicacy said:I know. Damn. I almost feel guilty for getting a PFD. Almost.
Do you ever dine at Club Paris? When I was up there last month, we went to the Cattle Company and I was very impressed. The chicken Caesar salad was the best I ever had. Everyone else had the beef and it looked & tasted great, too. The Cattle Company lacked the ambience of Club Paris, but it was cool.
Someday, Thør. Someday I'll take you out to Club Paris.
Hey, did you and SheRemembers ever meet?
I do feel guilty getting a PFD. I don't believe the idea of a "Permanent Fund" is to provide a cash payout to residents every year. That said, if there wasn't a cash payout every year, people wouldn't care about how it was spent and it might not be very "permanent". At least people are watching it, if only for their own selfish interests.
I seem to dine at Cub Paris once or twice a year. Generally, we just pop in and eat at the bar. Cattle Company used to be a nice place for a quiet dining. They had dividers between tables that were 8-10 feet high can you could have a nice private conversation. Their food is good, but I'd rather go to Suite 100, Southside Bistro, Kincaid Grille, Sizzling Cafe, Villa Nova, Marx Brothers, Jens, or Simon and Seaforts. And I do happen to have a $20 off b-day coupon from Simons.
I'll hold you to the Club Paris date.
And nope, SR and I never did get the chance for coffee. Prolly my fault.
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I'm glad you are enjoying my town. It's been a horrid winter so far. Temperatures are too warm and not enough snow for the nordic trail system.
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I thought this was amusing.
YOU MIGHT BE AN ALASKAN:
If you consider it a sport to gather your food by drilling through 18 inches of ice and sitting there all day hoping that the food will swim by, you might live in Alaska.
If you have ever refused to buy something because it's "too spendy" you might live in Alaska.
If your local Dairy Queen is closed from November through March, you might live in Alaska.
If you instinctively walk like a penguin for five months out of the year, you might live in Alaska.
If someone in a store offers you assistance, and they don't work there, you might live in Alaska.
If your dad's suntan stops at a line curving around the middle of his forehead, you might live in Alaska.
If you have worn shorts and a parka at the same time, you might live in Alaska.
If your town has an equal number of bars and churches, you might live in Alaska
If you have had a lengthy telephone conversation with someone who dialed a wrong number, you might live in Alaska.
YOU KNOW YOU ARE A TRUE ALASKANITE WHEN:
Your idea of a traffic jam is ten cars waiting to pass a truck plowing snow on the highway.
"Vacation" means going to Valdez.
You measure distance in hours.
You know several people who have hit a Moose more than once.
You often switch from "heat" to "A/C" in the same day and back again.
Your whole family wears blue jeans to church on Sunday.
You can drive 65 mph through 2 feet of snow during a raging blizzard, without flinching.
You see people wearing camouflage at social events. (including weddings)
You install security lights on your house and garage and leave both unlocked.
You think of the major food groups as beer and Salmon
You carry jumper cables in your car and your wife or girlfriend knows how to use them.
There are 7 empty cars running in the parking lot at Mill's Fleet Farm at any given time.
You design your kid's Halloween costume to fit over a snowsuit.
Driving is better in the winter because the potholes are filled with snow.
You know all 4 seasons: almost winter, winter, still winter and road construction.
You can identify a southern or eastern accent.
You know how to polka.
Your idea of creative landscaping is a statue of a deer next to your blue spruce.
You were unaware that there is a legal drinking age.
Down South to you means Seattle.
Your neighbor throws a party to celebrate his new pole shed.
Your 4th of July picnic was moved indoors due to frost.
You have more miles on your snow blower than your car.
You find 0 degrees "a little chilly."
You actually understand these jokes, and you forward them to all your Alaska friends.
YOU MIGHT BE AN ALASKAN:
If you consider it a sport to gather your food by drilling through 18 inches of ice and sitting there all day hoping that the food will swim by, you might live in Alaska.
If you have ever refused to buy something because it's "too spendy" you might live in Alaska.
If your local Dairy Queen is closed from November through March, you might live in Alaska.
If you instinctively walk like a penguin for five months out of the year, you might live in Alaska.
If someone in a store offers you assistance, and they don't work there, you might live in Alaska.
If your dad's suntan stops at a line curving around the middle of his forehead, you might live in Alaska.
If you have worn shorts and a parka at the same time, you might live in Alaska.
If your town has an equal number of bars and churches, you might live in Alaska
If you have had a lengthy telephone conversation with someone who dialed a wrong number, you might live in Alaska.
YOU KNOW YOU ARE A TRUE ALASKANITE WHEN:
Your idea of a traffic jam is ten cars waiting to pass a truck plowing snow on the highway.
"Vacation" means going to Valdez.
You measure distance in hours.
You know several people who have hit a Moose more than once.
You often switch from "heat" to "A/C" in the same day and back again.
Your whole family wears blue jeans to church on Sunday.
You can drive 65 mph through 2 feet of snow during a raging blizzard, without flinching.
You see people wearing camouflage at social events. (including weddings)
You install security lights on your house and garage and leave both unlocked.
You think of the major food groups as beer and Salmon
You carry jumper cables in your car and your wife or girlfriend knows how to use them.
There are 7 empty cars running in the parking lot at Mill's Fleet Farm at any given time.
You design your kid's Halloween costume to fit over a snowsuit.
Driving is better in the winter because the potholes are filled with snow.
You know all 4 seasons: almost winter, winter, still winter and road construction.
You can identify a southern or eastern accent.
You know how to polka.
Your idea of creative landscaping is a statue of a deer next to your blue spruce.
You were unaware that there is a legal drinking age.
Down South to you means Seattle.
Your neighbor throws a party to celebrate his new pole shed.
Your 4th of July picnic was moved indoors due to frost.
You have more miles on your snow blower than your car.
You find 0 degrees "a little chilly."
You actually understand these jokes, and you forward them to all your Alaska friends.
I thought this was amusing.
YOU MIGHT BE AN ALASKAN:
If you consider it a sport to gather your food by drilling through 18 inches of ice and sitting there all day hoping that the food will swim by, you might live in Alaska.
If you have ever refused to buy something because it's "too spendy" you might live in Alaska.
If your local Dairy Queen is closed from November through March, you might live in Alaska.
If you instinctively walk like a penguin for five months out of the year, you might live in Alaska.
If someone in a store offers you assistance, and they don't work there, you might live in Alaska.
If your dad's suntan stops at a line curving around the middle of his forehead, you might live in Alaska.
If you have worn shorts and a parka at the same time, you might live in Alaska.
If your town has an equal number of bars and churches, you might live in Alaska
If you have had a lengthy telephone conversation with someone who dialed a wrong number, you might live in Alaska.
YOU KNOW YOU ARE A TRUE ALASKANITE WHEN:
Your idea of a traffic jam is ten cars waiting to pass a truck plowing snow on the highway.
"Vacation" means going to Valdez.
You measure distance in hours.
You know several people who have hit a Moose more than once.
You often switch from "heat" to "A/C" in the same day and back again.
Your whole family wears blue jeans to church on Sunday.
You can drive 65 mph through 2 feet of snow during a raging blizzard, without flinching.
You see people wearing camouflage at social events. (including weddings)
You install security lights on your house and garage and leave both unlocked.
You think of the major food groups as beer and Salmon
You carry jumper cables in your car and your wife or girlfriend knows how to use them.
There are 7 empty cars running in the parking lot at Mill's Fleet Farm at any given time.
You design your kid's Halloween costume to fit over a snowsuit.
Driving is better in the winter because the potholes are filled with snow.
You know all 4 seasons: almost winter, winter, still winter and road construction.
You can identify a southern or eastern accent.
You know how to polka.
Your idea of creative landscaping is a statue of a deer next to your blue spruce.
You were unaware that there is a legal drinking age.
Down South to you means Seattle.
Your neighbor throws a party to celebrate his new pole shed.
Your 4th of July picnic was moved indoors due to frost.
You have more miles on your snow blower than your car.
You find 0 degrees "a little chilly."
You actually understand these jokes, and you forward them to all your Alaska friends.
Oh My GoD that is funny as hell! I know that for me sometimes I get calls from out of state, and I mention that they called Alaska, they always ask what the temperature is, and always seems to say thay heard that the sun never comes out. People that hit moose, distance in hours, wow this list is awsome. Where did you find this list Delicacy?
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Try living in Jen-oh-ah, Arkansas.
I got the list from my brother's girlfriend. They live in Anchorage, too.
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I like it.
I was hoping it wasn't too old of a list and I'm happy you liked it.
What do you think of all the wolf incidents? Jeez. If I lived up that way and there was a pack of hungry wolves running around, I certainly wouldn't put my dogs at risk. Does it matter what size the dogs are or are the wolves going after large & small? I also wonder how much of the wolf activity has to do with humans infringing on their territory, with home building, new roads, etc.
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I was hoping it wasn't too old of a list and I'm happy you liked it.
What do you think of all the wolf incidents? Jeez. If I lived up that way and there was a pack of hungry wolves running around, I certainly wouldn't put my dogs at risk. Does it matter what size the dogs are or are the wolves going after large & small? I also wonder how much of the wolf activity has to do with humans infringing on their territory, with home building, new roads, etc.
I was in Fairbanks when the wolves were eating the dogs off the chains in Goldstream Valley in the '70's. It was just easy pickings for the wolves. That's what's happening now. They'll eat freight dogs like big huskies. Most little dogs aren't out because they'd freeze.
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This would not be good. We have lucrative contracts with the cruise ship industry.
Rule change could cost Juneau $186 million
City responds to proposed interpretation of maritime law
GREG SKINNER
JUNEAU EMPIRE
The city weighed in Wednesday on a proposed change in the interpretation of a maritime law that could cost the Juneau economy an estimated $186 million and drop sales tax revenues by $3.4 million annually.
Mayor Bruce Botelho said virtually every business would be affected by the proposal if approved without changes by the Department of Homeland Security Customs and Border Protection.
Botelho sent a letter to Customs in response to a Federal Registry posting in November announcing a proposed change to the interpretation of the Passenger Vessel Services Act of 1898.
The deadline for comment is Friday.
In essence the new interpretation of the maritime act would require all foreign flag ships leaving Seattle for Southeast Alaska to spend 48 hours, or 50 percent of the time scheduled at all Alaska ports, in a Canadian port.
No ship carrying more than 250 passengers through local waters travels under the U.S. flag.
At the moment, only ships from the East Coast to Bermuda have a 48-hour port call, said Michael Crye, executive vice president of Cruise Lines International. He said the new interpretation was adopted "without sufficient due process" and was done without a "reasonable economic impact analysis."
A seven-day Alaska cruise from Seattle, obeying the new requirements, would have only one chance to make a port call in Southeast Alaska, according to Drew Green, Juneau port manager for Cruise Line Agency of America.
"Two if they were really short," he said.
If adopted, the new rules would begin for next spring's cruise season. The Juneau Chamber of Commerce estimated a loss of 368,370 passenger visits in 2008 as a result.
Green said the net impact to Southeast Alaska would be 1 million fewer passengers and could cost the region $160 million in direct spending. That's not including payroll, port fees, crew spending, tour operator spending and taxes, he said.
As written, the new ruling would affect every cruise itinerary at every port in the U.S. The change comes at the request of U.S. Department of Transportation Maritime Administration. A cruise industry scuffle between U.S. and foreign ships in the Hawaiian Islands is at the heart of the request. Stiff competition drove cruises sailing under the U.S. flag to re-register under foreign flags and leave the market and resulted in the loss of thousands of U.S. merchant marine jobs.
Botelho said the proposed change was obviously intended to address an issue with the Hawaiian cruise industry, but that the draft interpretation was not limited to Hawaiian cruise itineraries. Botelho urged Customs to modify the language to specifically address ships operating in the lucrative 15-day Southern California to Hawaii market.
The 121-year-old act was originally created to foster a U.S. monopoly on passenger service between American ports and to build up the American merchant marine.
"It's an issue with history," said Sen. Kim Elton, D-Juneau.
The language in the document is too ambiguous for comfort, Elton said. He is drafting a letter asking that the ruling be applied only to Hawaii. But, the real power of persuasion rests with Alaska's congressional delegation, he said.
U.S. Sen. Ted Stevens is vice-chairman of the Commerce Science and Transportation Committee, which Customs falls under. A senior staff member in Stevens' Washington, D.C., office said Stevens intends to ask for the interpretation to apply only to Hawaii.
U.S. Sen. Daniel K. Inouye, D-Hawaii, is chairman of the committee.
All in the Alaska cruise industry are hoping for the interpretation to include the "Hawaiian provision," Green said.
"Without a change, it's potentially brutal for Alaskan cruise industry," he said.
Rule change could cost Juneau $186 million
City responds to proposed interpretation of maritime law
GREG SKINNER
JUNEAU EMPIRE
The city weighed in Wednesday on a proposed change in the interpretation of a maritime law that could cost the Juneau economy an estimated $186 million and drop sales tax revenues by $3.4 million annually.
Mayor Bruce Botelho said virtually every business would be affected by the proposal if approved without changes by the Department of Homeland Security Customs and Border Protection.
Botelho sent a letter to Customs in response to a Federal Registry posting in November announcing a proposed change to the interpretation of the Passenger Vessel Services Act of 1898.
The deadline for comment is Friday.
In essence the new interpretation of the maritime act would require all foreign flag ships leaving Seattle for Southeast Alaska to spend 48 hours, or 50 percent of the time scheduled at all Alaska ports, in a Canadian port.
No ship carrying more than 250 passengers through local waters travels under the U.S. flag.
At the moment, only ships from the East Coast to Bermuda have a 48-hour port call, said Michael Crye, executive vice president of Cruise Lines International. He said the new interpretation was adopted "without sufficient due process" and was done without a "reasonable economic impact analysis."
A seven-day Alaska cruise from Seattle, obeying the new requirements, would have only one chance to make a port call in Southeast Alaska, according to Drew Green, Juneau port manager for Cruise Line Agency of America.
"Two if they were really short," he said.
If adopted, the new rules would begin for next spring's cruise season. The Juneau Chamber of Commerce estimated a loss of 368,370 passenger visits in 2008 as a result.
Green said the net impact to Southeast Alaska would be 1 million fewer passengers and could cost the region $160 million in direct spending. That's not including payroll, port fees, crew spending, tour operator spending and taxes, he said.
As written, the new ruling would affect every cruise itinerary at every port in the U.S. The change comes at the request of U.S. Department of Transportation Maritime Administration. A cruise industry scuffle between U.S. and foreign ships in the Hawaiian Islands is at the heart of the request. Stiff competition drove cruises sailing under the U.S. flag to re-register under foreign flags and leave the market and resulted in the loss of thousands of U.S. merchant marine jobs.
Botelho said the proposed change was obviously intended to address an issue with the Hawaiian cruise industry, but that the draft interpretation was not limited to Hawaiian cruise itineraries. Botelho urged Customs to modify the language to specifically address ships operating in the lucrative 15-day Southern California to Hawaii market.
The 121-year-old act was originally created to foster a U.S. monopoly on passenger service between American ports and to build up the American merchant marine.
"It's an issue with history," said Sen. Kim Elton, D-Juneau.
The language in the document is too ambiguous for comfort, Elton said. He is drafting a letter asking that the ruling be applied only to Hawaii. But, the real power of persuasion rests with Alaska's congressional delegation, he said.
U.S. Sen. Ted Stevens is vice-chairman of the Commerce Science and Transportation Committee, which Customs falls under. A senior staff member in Stevens' Washington, D.C., office said Stevens intends to ask for the interpretation to apply only to Hawaii.
U.S. Sen. Daniel K. Inouye, D-Hawaii, is chairman of the committee.
All in the Alaska cruise industry are hoping for the interpretation to include the "Hawaiian provision," Green said.
"Without a change, it's potentially brutal for Alaskan cruise industry," he said.
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Hola......welcome to my thread
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We have a winter storm warning in effect for tomorrow. I'm excited. We haven't had any snow accumulation for a long time! Hookie Bobbin' time!
Friday
Snow...Possibly mixed with rain late. Snow accumulation 5 to 10 inches. Highs around 31. Southeast wind 15 to 20 mph. Chance of precipitation 100 percent.
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We have a winter storm warning in effect for tomorrow. I'm excited. We haven't had any snow accumulation for a long time! Hookie Bobbin' time!
Friday
Snow...Possibly mixed with rain late. Snow accumulation 5 to 10 inches. Highs around 31. Southeast wind 15 to 20 mph. Chance of precipitation 100 percent.
It's snowing right now.
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Hunting and trapping regs before Game Board, including killing of wolf pups in dens
The state Board of Game begins a three day meeting in Anchorage today. (Friday)
The Board's Executive Director Kristy Tibbles says there are over 70 proposals submitted by members of the public, advisory committees, as well as the Department of Fish and Game..
The proposals concern statewide regulations for hunting and trapping.
One proposal is from the residents along the Kuskokwim River.
They want state game managers to allow them to kill wolf pups in their dens.
The tribal government and a Fish and Game advisory committee along the central Kuskokwim River have submitted separate proposals asking the Board of Game to overturn regulations outlawing the practice.
The tribal council and advisory panel also want the board to let hunters kill bear cubs in dens.
Doug Carney of Sleetmute, former chair of Central Kuskokwim Advisory Committee, says along with wolves, bears are blamed for low moose numbers around central Kuskokwim villages.
Other proposals include changes to the state's permitted hunts drawing system that deal with bonus points or preferences, bear baiting and interfering with guided hunts.
Other proposals include bear baiting and interfering with guided hunts.
Tibbles says the public is encouraged to testify in person. The cut-off time to sign up is Saturday morning at 9-30.
Testimony will not be taken by telephone at this meeting.
The fax number for written comments is 465-6094.
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It's snowing right now.
We're having a blizzard. The federal building has closed down and they're warning people not to be driving. Yeehaw!!
Storm could bring up to a foot of snow Friday
A heavy snow warning is in effect for the Juneau area today.
Meteorologist Michael Mitchell in the Juneau Forecast Office says a developing winter storm coming from the northeast Gulf of Alaska is expected to spread heavy snow across the northern and central Panhandle today and this evening.
The warning is in effect until 11 p.m. He says it should bring 8 to 12 inches to Juneau.
Another inch is expected Saturday and then it turns cold Saturday night. The low is forecast between 3 to 9 above with the wind chill to 20 below.
Hoonah can expect10 to 14 inches of snow today. Eight to 12 is forecast in Gustavus; 5 to 10 in Haines; 5 to 8 in Skagway; and 4 to 8 in Angoon.
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This is just bizzare.
