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  Flat, Alaska
Flat is a town located in Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area, Alaska.
Flat is located at 62°27'15" North, 158°0'30" West (62.454135, -158.008284)
Out of the total people living in poverty, 0.0% are under the age of 18 and 0.0% are 65 or older.
www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/fl/Flat,_Alaska.html   (388 words)

  
 Alaska Journal of Commerce: State lags on association's scorecard 05/27/01
Alaska receives a "C" in per capita income, as salaries and wages have declined from downsizing in the oil, gas, mining and manufacturing sectors during the 1990s.
Whether Alaska is failing or simply struggling to improve a grade of "D," might depend on how one judges the focus and progress of initiatives by government, industry and educators to join the ranks of states that are chasing knowledge-based economic development.
Alaska ranks second in the nation for high unemployment, and we have a high percentage of nonresident workers.
www.alaskajournal.com /stories/052701/wea_state_lags.shtml   (748 words)

  
 Flat, Alaska - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Flat is a census-designated place located in Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area, Alaska.
More gold was discoverd on nearby Flat Creek and a massive stampede arrived in 1910.
Flat was never officially towncited and exists on mining claims, making its existence illegal, but an official U.S. Post Office served the few residents until it was closed in 2000.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Flat,_Alaska   (344 words)

  
 Poker Flat Research Range
The Poker Flats Research Range, the world's only scientific rocket launching facility owned by a university, is located 33 miles north of Fairbanks on the Steese Highway.
The facility is operated by the University of Alaska's Geophysical Institute under contract to NASA's Wallaps Flight Facility, which is part of the Goddard Space Flight Center.
Poker Flat welcomes children, and they can climb over the rockets in the "rocket graveyard" and are even invited to keep any foam bits they find, souvenirs of rockets wrapped in foam to keep the solid rocket fuel from freezing and cracking in winter.
fairbanks-alaska.com /poker-flat-research-range.htm   (502 words)

  
 Foodservice What's New
Alaska's Governor, Frank Murkowski, considered this information to be so important that he called a press conference to announce that Alaska Seafood has a "clean bill of health."
The Alaska Division of Public Health, Dept. of Health and Social Services recommends continued unrestricted consumption of fish from Alaska waters by all Alaskans, including pregnant women and young children.
Alaska Scallops are hand-shucked, size graded, packaged and frozen at sea, typically within an hour after being caught.
www.alaskaseafood.org /foodservice/enews_january04.htm   (889 words)

  
 Alaska Journal of Commerce: This Week in Alaska Business History September 16, 2001 09/17/01
Jack Barr said he is looking to the future with his newly opened Alaska Hovertravel, located at the end of Tidewater Road at the port.
"We feel it is important for Idemitsu Alaska Inc. and important for the people of Alaska that Wishbone Hill be developed as expeditiously as possible," said Jiro Hayashi, president of Idemitsu Alaska, a subsidiary of Idemitsu Kosan Co. Ltd.
A $120,000 preliminary economic feasibility study on the new launch pad that would be needed for the launchings at the University of Alaska's Poker Flat Research Range is due in about mid-November, said Riley Snell of Alaska Industrial Development and Export Authority.
www.alaskajournal.com /stories/091701/bus_091701.shtml   (565 words)

  
 Poker Flat Scanning Doppler Imager   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Spatial structure in the thermospheric horizontal wind above Poker Flat, Alaska, during solar minimum was accepted by the Journal of Geophysical Research on November 12, 1997, and is currently in press.
Simultaneous Observations of the Aurora and of Non-Uniform Thermospheric Winds, from Poker Flat, Alaska has been submitted to the proceedings of the Japanese National Institute of Polar Research's Twenty-First Symposium on Coordinated Observations of the Ionosphere and the Magnetosphere in the Polar Regions.
A preliminary analysis of these spectra is performed at the end of each integration interval, so that a preliminary display is generated of the distribution of line-of-sight wind and of kinetic temperature across the sky.
thing.pfrr.alaska.edu /Conde/pokersdi.htm   (842 words)

  
 Flat (disambiguation) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Flat is a musical symbol that lowers the pitch of a note by a half step.
Flat map, homomorphism f from a ring R to a ring S such that S becomes a flat R-module when the action of R on S is given by f
Alkali flat, the shore of, or remnant of, an endorheic lake
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Flat_(disambiguation)   (533 words)

  
 Flat Alaska Process Servers - ServeNow.com
The Flat Alaska process servers on ServeNow.com offer a number of services related to civil procedure and service of process aside from just legal document delivery in Flat.
Flat Process Servers make daily trips to County Courts, Alaska County Clerks, Flat Municipal Courts, Flat Criminal Courts, Alaska Supreme Courts and Alaska Courts of Appeals.
Service of process is the delivery of these Alaska legal documents such as summons, complaints, subpoenas, orders to show cause, writs and other court documents.
www.serve-now.com /process-server/Alaska/Flat   (362 words)

  
  Alaska Sea Adventures: SE Alaska GeologicalHisotry
Alaska was flat, mountainless and treeless, lying just above sea level.
However, Central Alaska remained ice free during these icy periods since the mountains near the coast would rob moisture from the oceans before it could move inland.
As the Ice Age was ending, Alaska became wetter in summers and experienced deeper snows in winter.
www.yachtalaska.com /pages/sealaska/geology.html   (744 words)

  
 CBS News | Beluga Whale Numbers Remain Flat in Alaska
The estimate, while lower than previous years, does not necessarily mean numbers are falling, said Rod Hobbs, a researcher at the Alaska Fisheries Science Center in Seattle, who conducted the population analysis.
It was believed that over-harvesting by Alaska Natives was largely to blame for the stock declining by nearly 50 percent between 1994 and 1999.
So far, nothing has panned out for certain; the subsistence harvest is minimal, contaminant loads are comparable or less than other Alaska and Canada belugas and the number of strandings was within the expected range in 2004 and 2005, said Doug DeMaster, administrator of the Seattle center.
www.cbsnews.com /stories/2006/01/21/ap/tech/printableD8F8PG8O0.shtml   (639 words)

  
 Fly Alaska to Flat   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Dredges churned up the Otter and Flat creek valleys netting their owners millions of ounces of gold.
Tired, low on fuel, he spotted a tower, circled down around it and broke out over the Townsite of Flat and landed in a clearing in front of one of the dredges, doing minor damage to the Winnie Mae.
A few days later with a new prop flown in by another famous flyer, and a landing gear repaired by the mines flsmith he was able to depart Flat in the Winnie Mae and complete his around the world tour.
www.infowest.com /personal/g/gbdahl/flat.htm   (260 words)

  
 ART WORLD Alaskan Art by Alaskan Artist-Art World Plus Art Gallery
The most climbed mountain in all of Alaska is Flat Top with a a summit of 3,550
for some hiking while you’re in Alaska, this is a must, and it’ll only be about 20 minutes from downtown Anchorage.
Flat Top can be seen from anywhere in Anchorage due to its recognizable flat top!
www.artworldplus.com /PD_020_flat_top_mt_alaska.html   (310 words)

  
 SitNews - Rockets over Alaska for more than three decades By Ned Rozell
Davis and his colleagues at the Geophysical Institute of the University of Alaska Fairbanks had wanted to build a rocket range from which to study properties of the aurora.
Researchers who wished to retrieve their rocket payloads could also do it easier on the tundra of northern Alaska than from the ocean, the landing point of rockets fired from most other northern ranges.
This column is provided as a public service by the Geophysical Institute, University of Alaska Fairbanks, in cooperation with the UAF research community.
www.sitnews.us /0506news/050706/050706_ak_science.html   (697 words)

  
 AMISR - Advanced Modular Incoherent Scatter Radar
Requests for operations with the Poker Flat AMISR should be made via email to PI craig.heinselman@sri.com (also CC mary.mccready@sri.com) at your earliest convenience.
This quarter of the face is expected to be under test at Poker Flat by end of September.
Co-investigator institutions include MIT Millstone Hill, Stanford University, University of Alaska, University of Calgary, and University of Saskatchewan.
isr.sri.com /iono/amisr   (771 words)

  
 Flat Alaska   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Flat used to be an old gold mining town.
The Cities of Alaska * Outdoor Adventures in Alaska * Fishing for Halibut * The Majesty of Alaska * Alaskan Holidays made easy.
* Super Vacation Sites for other states * Alaska Dept of Corrections * Perhaps the best Alaskan wild life illustrations are those from Clark Bronson who has the uncanny ability to walk right up to wild animals and pet them.
www.shareyourstate.com /alaska/flat.htm   (249 words)

  
 Discover: Seeing The Light - research on aurora borealis at Alaska's Poker Flat Research Range scien   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
That outpost is the science center at the Poker Flat Research Range, a rocket-launching facility in the hills 30 miles northeast of Fairbanks, Poker Flat is one of the world's premier centers for studies of the aurora borealis, the electromagnetic light show that graces the subarctic firmament almost every night of the year.
Tonight, though, it's the regulars from the Geophysical Institute of the University of Alaska at Fairbanks.
As Nielsen and his colleague Dirk Lummerzheim arrive at Poker Flat during a clear Tuesday twilight recently, the first thing they look for is the all-sky monitor in the kitchen.
www.topcasinolist.net /article/poker/5627.html   (3276 words)

  
 Alaska MLS Mat-Su Mls Alaska multiple listing service - Fsbo Alaska
Alaska home and property sellers no longer have to pay 6% commission fees to locate buyers.
For Sale By Owner Alaska recommends selling your Alaska homes on your own first, but if for some reason you are unsucessful, the Flat Fee Alaska MLS (multiple listing service) program can save you at least 3% or more in commission fees.
You have the opportunity to save thousands by using the Alaska MLS and this helps get your home seen by many prospective home buyers.
www.fsboalaska.com /mls.php   (672 words)

  
 SIMULTANEOUS OBSERVATIONS OF THE AURORA AND OF NON-UNIFORM THERMOSPHERIC WINDS, FROM POKER FLAT, ALASKA   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
As the evening advanced, the uniform flow became sheared with respect to latitude, so that equatorward of Poker Flat the wind blew toward the east, whereas poleward of the observatory it blew toward the west.
That is, at 06:15 the zonal wind was symmetric about Poker Flat, with opposing flows of similar speed lying due north and due south of it.
A possible explanation for the sharpness of the edge of the cross-polar jet is that this precipitation formed a well-defined region where the time constant for ion-neutral momentum coupling was reduced relative to its value further south.
thing.pfrr.alaska.edu /conde/niprpapr/niprpweb.HTM   (3311 words)

  
 Flat Stanley Visits Alaska
In 1995, Dale Hubert, a third grade teacher in Ontario, Canada, developed the Flat Stanley project, which is currently in use in schools across the world.
It works like this: students make flat versions of themselves (or of Stanley himself) to mail to a participating school or person, who can be as far away as on the other side of the globe.
They then mail the flat person back to his or her original owner, along with a journal of the week’s adventures.
litsite.alaska.edu /aklibraries/flatstanley.html   (309 words)

  
 Flat singles - Flat dating - Flat personals
After visiting Alaska for twelve years, I've finally decided to take the leap and move up here.
Listening to Johnny Horton's "North to Alaska" as a child and reading Dana Stabanow's novels as an adult, along with a stint in Oxford House, Manitoba,...
I will be teaching 6th grade in an Alaska Bush School.
www.match.com /love/alaska/flat.html   (937 words)

  
 Heritage
This picture of the aurora borealis was taken near Poker Flat, Alaska in March 1994.
The High Resolution Airglow/Auroral Spectrograph (HIRAAS) sounding rocket experiment was successfully launched into a proton aurora over Poker Flat, Alaska on March 11, 1994 and acquired the first high resolution (< 0.1 nm) EUV and FUV spectra of a proton aurora.
The experiment consisted of two 0.5-m Rowland circle spectrographs covering the passband 50-180 nm using an electrographic camera detector, a medium resolution 0.125-m spectrometer covering the 180-320 nm wavelength region, and a video camera for aspect information.
www.nrl.navy.mil /tira/Projects/HIRAAS4/heritage.htm   (418 words)

  
 Flat Real Estate - Flat Alaska
You might be interested to know that Flat has a population of 4 and the average household income in Flat is $31,784.
Residents of Flat enjoy -6.7 degree weather in the month of January and 59.8 degree weather in the month of July.
The median age in Flat is 0 and the average household size in Flat is 4.
www.homepages.com /localpages/Alaska/Flat.htm   (131 words)

  
 Flat Lake, Alaska
New snow started falling at daybreak with the temperature falling below freezing for the first time in a few days.
The Big Lake ice road is open from the north shore campground.
It sure saves time getting to Flat Lake, where the ice is better than 16 inches thick!
www.flatlake.com   (300 words)

  
 Kirk's January 1999 Alaska Trip
From January 5 through January 23, 1999 I was in Alaska to install and run two auroral photometers.
These instruments are used in conjunction with a rocket flight that will launch from Poker Flat, Alaska.
This is the same instrument that I installed in Greenland in March 1997 and I installed there again in December of 1997.
www.kirkanddonna.com /kirk/alaska1999   (1191 words)

  
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It has been operated since November 1994 by the Geophysical Institute of the University of Alaska as part of the optical diagnostic instruments at the Poker Flat Research Range.
The apex magnetic coordinates of Poker Flat in December 2001 at 240 km were (65.25, -95.41), with a magnetic declination of 23.56 deg to NE, an inclination of 77.36 deg to SW, and 0 UT at 1231 MLT.
The Poker Flat SDI instrument is not subject to this potential source of error.
cedarweb.hao.ucar.edu /instruments/pkf.html   (1659 words)

  
 Flat (disambiguation) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Flat, self-contained housing unit that occupies only part of a building
Flat module, R-module M such that taking the tensor product over R with M preserves exact sequences in abstract algebra
Flat morphism, morphism such that the induced map on every stalk is a flat map of rings in mathematics
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Flats   (533 words)

  
 Alaska Flat Fee MLS Listings For Sale By Owner Realtor Multiple Listing Service for AK FSBO Home Sellers
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www.flatfeemlslisting.com /alaska.html   (1905 words)

  
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