The (World Eskimo-Indian) Games have begun

The event is billed as a four-day celebration of Eskimo culture and games, according to the World Eskimo-Indian Olympics website . The games' logo, six interlocked rings, represents Alaska's six major tribes - Aleut, Athabascan, Haida, Inupiaq, Tlingit, Tsimpsian and Yup'ik  – the website said.

The games run through Saturday.

"It was a really, really good year," Nicole Johnson, chairwoman of the World Eskimo-Indian Olympics board of governors, a nonprofit panel that runs the games, told CNN. "We got done about 2:30 this morning (Sunday)," she said.

Ninety-year-old Poldine Carlo is this year’s keeper of the flame, er, seal oil lamp, which is traditionally lit by the winner of the Race of the Torch, the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner reports .

“I think it’s wonderful when all of the Native people get together each year,” Carlo told the News-Miner. “This year, it’s missing some people my age. It’s kind of sad in a way when you think of that, but on the other hand, you’re happy, too, for the new people,” she was quoted as saying.

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Insulation for Alaska Homes

Some Tips For Insu­la­tion for Alaska Homes

Alaska is indeed a very cold place dur­ing win­ter and hence it quite nat­ural that homes such as apart­ments, houses, and vil­las take a lot of care and atten­tion to see that insu­la­tion in Alaska homes are of the high­est stan­dards to pre­vent heat loss and also stop cold and harsh winds seep­ing into our homes dur­ing win­ter seasons.

But in spite of our best efforts there are a num­ber of homes in Alaska where heat loss is indeed a big prob­lem and it not only causes a lot of dis­com­fort for fam­ily mem­bers in the home but also becomes a big drain in our pocket by unnec­es­sar­ily increas­ing our fuel and elec­tric­ity bills.

insu­la­tion for Alaska Homes Style

How­ever, it is only in their inter­est that they take some time off to sort out this prob­lem on a per­ma­nent basis to pre­vent loss of money and loss of heat­ing capac­ity of your cen­tral­ized or local­ized heat­ing sys­tem in the house.

This is not a very dif­fi­cult job pro­vided you under­stand some basic require­ments that need to be put in place for ensur­ing that your insu­la­tion meets the stan­dards that has been set by the Depart­ment of Energy almost some 26 years ago. The prob­lem arises only in those houses which do not adhere to these guide­lines and at the end of the day they are the ones who suf­fer from the effects of heat loss and poor insulation.

The first and fore­most thing that has to be under­stood is that each and every room in your home needs some kind if insu­la­tion to pro­tect against the harsh and cruel win­ters of Alaska. How­ever, choos­ing the right kind of insu­la­tion is a prob­lem given the fact that there are hun­dreds of such insu­la­tion options avail­able in the mar­ket place. Hence, it is very impor­tant to have a fair idea about the var­i­ous types of insu­la­tion devices avail­able and go for an option that is best suited to your home in terms of per­for­mance and cost.

You should be care­ful enough to strike a good bal­ance between the cost of the insu­la­tion mate­r­ial and the effi­cacy that you may derive from it. The trade off should be very care­fully thought out and exe­cuted. Though you might ini­tially spend a bit in the ini­tial stage while invest­ing on insu­la­tion mate­ri­als, it would not at all be a bad idea if it helps you to save sig­nif­i­cant amounts on your heat­ing bills by reduc­ing or elim­i­nat­ing leaks and seep­ages of heat out­side your home.

Seal Islands of Alaska

Authentic Alaska, voices of its native writers

Fur seal arbitration, Proceedings of the Tribunal of arbitration, convened at Paris, under the treaty between the United States ... and Great Britain, concluded at Washington, February 20, 1892, for the determination of questions between the two governments concerning the jurisdictional rights of the United States in the waters of Bering sea

A monograph of the seal-islands of Alaska

Hearings