I went to a meeting of the Alaska Action Research Consortium today at Akeela House. The group 's sparkplug is Jim Sellers, the director of Akeela House in Anchorage. The intent is to get funding for research that can have an immediate, positive impact on Alaskan social and health problems. He's paired up with the Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation, PIRE, a national research non-profit which helps get expertise and funding to supplement what's available in Alaska. Brian Saylor, one of the participants today said that PIRE was unique among the Outside research institutes that do research in Alaska. The others tend srtip Alaskans of their expertise and understanding of local conditions, and then write up the research as their own. But PIRE's Alaskan partners play an integral role in the work as well as the citations and grant monies.
A number of PIRE's outside researchers were at the meeting. They are up here for an all day Symposium at UAA tomorrow. Below is a description from the Alaska Department of Health and Social Services' website but doesn't seem to be too comprehensive, but it is free to the public from FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 7 staring at 8am.
“Prevention Research in Alaska: Scientific and Community Experiences in Preventing Youth’s Use of Inhalants & Other Harmful Legal Products.” Hosted by the University of Alaska Anchorage. Sponsored by the Alaska Action Research Consortium. Friday, September 7, 2007 - 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 pm at the UAA Consortium Library, Room 307a. For information contact Kristen Ogilvie via e-mail at kogilvie@pire.org.
Well, at first about your comment about the essay... sometimes it is quite hard to answer more than 2000 years old questions. So I cannot answer a question precisely about the existence of the runner of Marathon because I was not taking part in the battle and there is only 1 historiographer who was peer of the participanst of the battle. Others historiographers lived a few (or more) centuries later and this makes the whole thing so mysterious. I can also write my theory about the battle but could you prove that Superman hadn't supported the Hellenistic Army?
ReplyDeleteAccording to others' opinion my logic works quite fine and I was only mentioning as many proofs as many I had thought as advisable.
And now about this environmental stuff... we also have something like that in Hungary but it is against rubbish. For instance they say do not drop the rubbish in the middle of a park. Then we have advertisements which tries to make Hungary more popular for foreign people.