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Climate change to fuel northern spread of avian malaria, study finds

Thursday, September 20, 2012

Malaria has been found in birds in parts of Alaska, and global climate change will drive it even farther north, according to a new study published today in the journal PLOS ONE.

The spread could prove devastating to arctic bird species that have never encountered the disease and thus have no resistance to it, said San Francisco State University Associate Professor of Biology Ravinder Sehgal, one of the study's co-authors. It may also help scientists understand the effects of climate change on the spread of human malaria, which is caused by a similar parasite.

Researchers examined blood samples from birds collected at four sites of varying latitude, with Anchorage as a southern point, Denali and Fairbanks as middle points and Coldfoot as a northern point, roughly 600 miles north of Anchorage. They found infected birds in Anchorage and Fairbanks but not in Coldfoot.

Using satellite imagery and other data, researchers were able to predict how environments will change due to global warming -- and where malaria parasites will be able to survive in the future. They found that by 2080, the disease will have spread north to Coldfoot and beyond.

"Right now, there's no avian malaria above latitude 64 degrees, but in the future, with global warming, that will certainly change," Sehgal said. The northerly spread is alarming, he added, because there are species in the North American arctic that have never been exposed to the disease and may be highly susceptible to it.

"For example, penguins in zoos die when they get malaria, because far southern birds have not been exposed to malaria and thus have not developed any resistance to it," he said. "There are birds in the north, such as snowy owls or gyrfalcons, that could experience the same thing."

The study's lead author is Claire Loiseau, a former postdoctoral fellow in Sehgal's laboratory at SF State. Ryan Harrigan, a postdoctoral scholar at the University of California, Los Angeles, provided data modeling for the project. The research was funded by grants from the AXA Foundation and National Geographic.

Researchers are still unsure how the disease is being spread in Alaska and are currently collecting additional data to determine which mosquito species are transmitting the Plasmodium parasites that cause malaria.

The data may also indicate if and how malaria in humans will spread northward. Modern medicine makes it difficult to track the natural spread of the disease, Sehgal said, but monitoring birds may provide clues as to how global climate change may effect the spread of human malaria.

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"First evidence and predictions of Plasmodium transmission in Alaskan bird populations" was written by Claire Loiseau, Ryan J. Harrigan, Anthony K. Cornel, Sue L. Guers, Molly Dodge, Timothy Marzec, Jenny S. Carlson, Bruce Seppi and Ravinder N. M. Sehgal and published Sept. 19 in PLoS ONE.

San Francisco State University: http://www.sfsu.edu

Thanks to San Francisco State University for this article.

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Weekend baby, toddler, pre-school and family things to do and local ...

We have loads of weekend local events and things to do with your baby, toddler, pre-school child and family. Click on one of the selected events below for more information or click here to see our full weekend listing of local events and things to do.

A day out with Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends: Gloucester and Stroud. Come for an amazing experience at the Gloucestershire & Warwickshire Railway with Thomas and his Friends. With so much to see and do it will make your day out with Thomas the ideal all day family activity.

Baby and Toddler Table Top Sale:?Bristol. With over 20 tables selling quality used baby, toddler and children?s items (clothes, books, toys, equipment and much more) you are sure to pick up some fantastic bargains.

Farmers Markets at Morden Hall Park:?Sutton and Merton. Visit Morden Hall Park?s new Farmers Market! Open every Saturday between 10am-3pm with plenty of fresh, local produce and sweet treats on offer!

Four Oaks Community Fair:?Sutton Coldfield. A Local Event for Local People. This is an opportunity for local residents to find out what is going on in the community.

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Internet Archive houses all TV news since 2009 | Streaming content ...

The massive resource has digitized millions of books and tried to collect everything published on every Internet web page for the last 15 years?that's more than 150 billion pages.

Brewster Kahle, founder of the Internet Archive, said his company ?wants to collect all the books, music and video that has ever been produced by humans.?

The Internet Archive, a giant aggregator and digitizer of data, now includes all the television news produced in the last three years by 20 different channels. The collection includes more than 1000 news series that have generated more than 350,000 separate programs.

Brewster Kahle, founder of the Internet Archive, told?The New York Times that his company, based in Richmond, CA, ?wants to collect all the books, music and video that has ever been produced by humans.?

The massive online resource has already digitized millions of books and tried to collect everything published on every Internet web page for the last 15 years ? more than 150 billion pages. The material is designed for use by both researchers and the general public, and now totals?2 million visitors per day.

?The focus is to help the American voter to better be able to examine candidates and issues,? Kahle told The New York Times. ?If you want to know exactly what Mitt Romney said about health care in 2009, you?ll be able to find it.?

Kahle said the news outlets being catalogued contain CNN, Fox News, NBC News, PBS and ?every purveyor of eyewitness news on local television stations.? Jon Stewart?s ?The Daily Show? is also included. ?We think of it as news,??Kahle said.

The Internet Archive has been quietly recording the news material from all the outlets capturing programs, including every edition of ?60 Minutes? on CBS and every minute of each day on CNN. All of the material is available for free to users.

The current method for search is the closed-captioned words that have accompanied the news programs, Kahel told the newspaper. The user plugs in the words of the search, along with a rough time frame of when the story was reported. Matches of news clips will then appear.

Although there may be hundreds of matches, he said the system had an interface that makes it easy to browse quickly through 30-second clips in search of the right one. If a researcher wants a copy of the entire program, a DVD will be sent on loan.

The inspiration for the massive databank is the Library of Alexandria, the archive of the knowledge in ancient world in Egypt. Kahle told the newspaper that early efforts to assemble the collected works of civilization was on his mind when he conceived the idea to use the almost infinite capacity of the web to build a modern equivalent.

?You could turn all the books in the Library of Congress into a stack of disks that would fit in one shopping cart in Best Buy,? Kahle said. He estimated that the archive now contains about 9000TB of data. By contrast, The New York Times reported that the digital collection of the Library of Congress is a little more than 300TB.

Kahle said he moved to the archive project after previously founding and selling off two data-mining companies, one to AOL and the other to Amazon. The television news project, he told the newspaper, is financed mainly through outside grants, though Kahle said he put up some of his own money to start.

Grants from the National Archives, the Library of Congress, and other government agencies and foundations made up the bulk of the financing for the project. He set the annual budget at $12 million, and the project employs about 150 people.

The New York Times reported that the act of copying all this news material is protected under a federal copyright agreement signed in 1976. That was in reaction to a challenge to a news assembly project started by Vanderbilt University in 1968.

The archive, Kahle said, has no intention of replacing or competing with the web outlets owned by the news organizations. He said new material will not be added until 24 hours after it is first broadcast.

He plans to go back year-by-year, slowly adding news video reaching to the start of the television medium. That will require some new technology for searches because the common use of closed-captioning only started around 2002.

Source: http://broadcastengineering.com/streaming/internet-archive-houses-all-tv-news-2009

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Worries over violence against churches in Israel

JERUSALEM (AP) ? After a series of attacks by vandals on Christian holy sites in Israel, normally tight-lipped Roman Catholic officials are beginning to speak out, publicly appealing to authorities to take a stronger stand against the violence.

The Rev. Pierbattista Pizzaballa, one of the church's top officials in the Holy Land, said he is worried about relations between Jews and Christians in the Holy Land. He believes the blame can go all around.

"I think the main atmosphere is ignorance," Pizzaballa told The Associated Press in an interview.

Because the local Christian population is tiny, "we do not exist for the majority ... They have other priorities," he said. "On the other side, we as a minority maybe didn't invest enough energy and initiatives" to reach out to Israeli Jews.

That may be changing following this month's attack on a well-known Trappist Monastery in Latrun, outside Jerusalem. Vandals burned a door and spray-painted anti-Christian graffiti on the century-old building with the words "Jesus is a monkey." Suspicion has fallen on extremist Jewish West Bank settlers or their supporters, who are believed to be behind a series of attacks in recent years on mosques, Christian sites and even Israeli army property to protest moves against settlements.

In response, the church's top officials, including Pizzaballa, the "custos," or custodian of Catholic holy sites, to issue a rare "declaration" calling on Israeli leaders to take action.

"Sadly, what happened in Latrun is only another in a long series of attacks against Christians and their places of worship," the Catholic leaders said. "What is going on in Israeli society today that permits Christians to be scapegoated and targeted by these acts of violence?"

It said authorities should "put an end to this senseless violence and to ensure a 'teaching of respect' in schools for all those who call this land home."

Israeli leaders swiftly condemned the attack, and police vowed to bring the vandals to justice. Nearly two weeks later, there have been no arrests.

The monastery was targeted shortly after Israel evacuated an illegally built West Bank settler outpost. In recent months, two other monasteries and a Baptist church were vandalized. It is not clear why the vandals have targeted Christian sites. For years, Christian clergymen also have been spat at by ultra-Orthodox seminary students in Jerusalem's Old City.

There are about 155,000 Christian citizens of Israel, less than 2 percent of its 7.9 million people. About three-quarters are Arabs, and the others arrived during waves of Russian immigration over the past 20 years. They are split between Catholicism and Orthodox steams of Christianity. Tens of thousands of Christian foreign workers and African migrants also reside in Israel.

Pizzaballa said he recognizes the attacks do not reflect the views of most Israelis, and he welcomed the condemnations by Israeli police, politicians and mainstream rabbinical authorities.

But he said Israel must do more.

"It's important not just to condemn, but also to work, to take initiatives to stop this phenomenon," he said.

Far "more serious," he said, was an incident in July in which an Israeli lawmaker ripped up a copy of the New Testament in front of TV cameras after Chrisitan missionaries mailed him the book. The lawmaker, Michael Ben-Ari, is now the subject of an ethics probe in parliament.

"This is a member of the Knesset. He is a representative of Israeli institutions," Pizzaballa said.

Even if the delivery of the book was a "provocation," he said, "you cannot rip the New Testament in front of the cameras and throw it in the trash and ask that the New Testament be banned from the country. This is unacceptable for every Christian believer."

He pointed to the recent uproar in the Muslim world over a movie that mocked the Prophet Muhammad as an example of how explosive and hurtful religious hatred can be.

Pizzaballa's words carry extra weight because of his strong ties with Israel. Pizzaballa, 47, has lived in the country for two decades, speaks Hebrew and has been a faculty member at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. He is scheduled to complete his term as custos next year.

Jews and Catholics have had a fraught relationship over the centuries. It was only in 1965 that the Vatican rejected the long-held charge that the Jewish people were responsible for killing Jesus. The actions of Pope Pius XII during World War II still remain a sensitive diplomatic issue between Israel and the Vatican. Critics have long contended that Pius could have done more to stop the Holocaust, when 6 million Jews were killed by the Nazis. The Vatican says Pius used quiet diplomacy to save Jews.

Israel and the Vatican have made inroads in recent years. The late Pope John Paul II established diplomatic ties with Israel in 1994, and his successor, Pope Benedict XVI, has promoted interfaith dialogue.

Pizzaballa acknowledged the difficult past but said Israelis have little understanding about modern Christianity or "the reality of the Christians in the country."

While Christianity was born in the Holy Land, Christians' situation here is fragile. In Israel, the number of Christian citizens has remained about the same for 20 years, with the influx of Russian immigrants balancing out some emigration by Arab Christians.

The West Bank has seen its Christian population dwindle over the years to roughly 50,000 people today, less than 3 percent of the population, the result of a lower birthrate and increased emigration in search of a better quality of life. Just one third of Bethlehem, the traditional birthplace of Christ, is Christian today, down from 75 percent half a century ago.

In the Gaza Strip, ruled by the Islamic militant group Hamas, the situation is even more precarious.

Fewer than 3,000 Christians live among 1.7 million Muslim residents, and their numbers have rapidly shrunk in recent years because of turmoil in the territory.

A Christian activist ? who ran Gaza's only Christian bookstore ? was stabbed to death after Hamas took power in 2007. The killer was never found. In recent years, several Christian institutions were attacked by suspected Muslim hardliners. In at least two cases, including the torching of the local YMCA, assailants were caught and sentenced to prison.

Pizzaballa said Hamas has ensured that local Christians can worship freely, but nonetheless the environment is uncomfortable.

"You feel the pressure in the society and the life of the Islamic regime," he said.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/worries-over-violence-against-churches-israel-120126424.html

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DENVER (Reuters) - Prosecutors have filed a motion to add 10 new charges against accused Colorado gunman James Holmes, arrested following the July movie theater shootings that killed 12 people, and have asked to amend 17 others, the Denver Post reported on Wednesday. The judge in the case has ordered nearly all court filings be sealed, and it was not clear what the additional charges were from a register of court actions, the Denver Post reported. ...

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Live From HTC?s New York Press Event!

Here we are, in New York City, prepping for HTC's New York press event. Three phones are expected, all of which will run the very capable Windows Phone 8 OS. The invitation gave nothing away, simply asking us to "see what's next." And that we will. The lights are dim, with random barcode-esque graphics running across the screen. Perhaps that's a hint toward some NFC? Maybe? We'll have to wait and see.

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Factbox: How much rice should you eat?

(Reuters) - Consumer Reports is urging U.S. limits for arsenic in rice after tests of more than 60 popular products -- from Kellogg's Rice Krispies to Gerber infant cereal -- showed that most contained some level of inorganic arsenic, a known human carcinogen.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said it is conducting its own review of arsenic in rice in order to make a recommendation.

Until then, Consumer Reports suggested the following ways for Americans to cut back on how much rice they eat to lower their exposure to harmful levels of arsenic based on consumption over a lifetime:

FOR CHILDREN:

*Infant cereal, 1 serving per day (about 3/4 cup uncooked)

*Cold cereal, 1-1/2 servings per week (1 cup per serving)

*Rice drinks, not recommended for children

*Rice, 1-1/4 servings per week (1/4 cup per serving uncooked)

*Rice crackers, 8-9 per day

*Rice cakes, 1-3 per week

FOR ADULTS:

*Hot cereal, 2-1/2 servings per week

*Cold cereal, 3 servings per week

*Rice drinks, 1/2 serving per day (1 cup per serving)

*Rice, 2 servings per week

*Rice crackers, 16-18 crackers per day

*Rice cakes, 2-1/3 servings per week (1-3 cakes per serving)

OTHER RECOMMENDATIONS TO CUT ARSENIC INTAKE RISK:

*Rinse rice thoroughly before cooking and use 6 cups of water to cook 1 cup of rice, draining excess water after cooking

*Try alternative grains such as wheat, oats, quinoa and millet

*Clean vegetables thoroughly, especially potato skins. Limit intake of apple juice and grape juice

(Compiled by Bill Berkrot; Editing by Steve Orlofsky)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/factbox-much-rice-eat-181639592.html

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"Consoles Are Holding PC Games Back" - OBJECTION!!

Console gamers!
How many times have you heard PC gamers complain about how video game consoles are ruining the video game industry and holding back PC gaming? Lost count? Sick of hearing it even?

I've got something here that just might make your day:
- A counter argument.

A lot of PC gamers seem to think the video game industry is in a bad shape and we've got video game consoles to blame for that. And when you ask them what exactly is the problem, their answer is usually something along the lines of:

"Video game graphics and game engines are being held back because the majority of PC games are getting console releases, meaning that 5-year old consoles have to be able to run these games."

Which is not entirely UNTRUE, but it's only one half of the bigger picture.
The bigger picture being that it would be pretty counterproductive anyway to come out with new game engines every year or two to keep up with the constantly evolving PC specs. Especially if it's only to please the niche of PC gamers who actually have the hardest of hardware.
And why would it be counterproductive? Well, because every time a game developer is developing a new in-house engine, it means less people developing video games. And you're not making profit and paying salaries by tinkering with a new game engine. You're making profit and paying salaries by launching new games.
Besides, from a game developer's stanpoint, putting out a new game is where the hard work pays off.

It's the same with my 3D animation studies.
Right now I'm working on an animated short film at school. I'm excited about the progress and the future release of the short film, not the fact that Autodesk just launched their 2013 line of 3D modeling and animation software. In fact, it was kind of a pain in the ass to have to download the 2013 versions of 3Ds Max, Maya and Mudbox 'cause none of the files I've worked on at school with the updated software can be opened on the 2012 software that I had on my home PC.

Which conveniently brings me to my other point:
Externally developed game engines like the widely used Unreal Engine.

If Epic Games came out with a new Unreal Engine and Development Kit every year or two, that too would be a real pain in the game developers' collective arse. Because, again, that would mean more time spent on studying and learning the new tech and less time spent on developing video games.

So there.

Dear PC gamers.
The next time you wanna go tossing around this hackneyed complaint, consider this:
If this was really the case and it was as simple as you make it sound, why does the game industry seem to be blind to this issue? Why aren't there more PC exclusive developers making games that meet the specs of latest gaming PCs?
I dare you to say it's a question of money 'cause then I get to write another counter argument entry.

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PS.
Can I get a game developer in here?
I wanna have have a game developer in here for a quick interview.
I want it to be somebody respected.

Somebody from... BioWare!
- No, everybody still hates BioWare for Mass Effect 3. (Oh, you silly bumbums.)

Okay, Ubisoft!
- No. Wait. I just checked aaand... everybody hates Ubisoft too. For some reason.

Oooh! Bethesda! Skyrrrrim!
- Nope. Still notorious for their broken-ass games.

Maybe Obsidian?
- Hm. Right. Even I'm still feeling kinda sore about Fallout: New Vegas.

Hey, I know! Valve! I promise I won't ask about Half-Life 3!
- Oh wait. You guys have been using the same engine since 2004. Plus, you're making consoles now.

Naughty Dog?
- Sony exclusive developer. *Sigh*

Right. EA? Activision?
- Fuck... better not even go there.

Okay then. Gearbox Software it is...
- Haven't been hyping about you guys at all lately, have I? ... I bet everybody's over Duke Nukem Forever by now. Good. Let's get on with the interview.

Commander Harvey:
Joining me in this starship's conference room to talk about video game development is none other than Gearbox Software president, Randy Pitchford! ... Who is totally in here with me for real, for this absolutely legitimate interview... Welcome, Randy.

Randy Pitchford:
As I live an breathe! It's my genuine pleasure, Commander.

Commander Harvey:
Nice nod to IGN's Greg Miller there. You two met just last week, I think?
(That worked out nicely. Now I feel like a real video game magazine editor.)

Randy Pitchford:
Yes, we did. I shaved him bald.
All the best to him. Y'know, he's a such likeable guy.

Commander Harvey:
You're a likeable guy yourself! Love the Hawaii shirt, btw.

Randy Pitchford:
Thank you, thank you. My neighbor's dog picked it for me.

Commander Harvey:
You don't say.
Mmmhmmhmmokay..! Let's get down to business!
You and your team at Gearbox Software just wrapped up work on the highly anticipated looter-shooter Borderlands 2 last week. The game is out in North America, right now! And it will be released internationally this Friday.
The game was in development for about two years. Would you say that's a normal development time for a game like this?

Randy Pitchford:
Well, yeah. I mean, this being the second game in a series, some of the development work had already been taken care of. We didn't have to start from scratch when we rolled up our sleeves on Borderlands 2.
But yeah - two, three years sounds like a pretty reasonable development time for a game like this.

Commander Harvey:
How does that compare to the rest of the industry? If some other developer had made the exact same game, would there have been any notable difference in the development time?

Randy Pitchford:
Well, there are bigger game studios with more people working on their games an all that, sure. So I guess some developers may have been able to shave off some of that development time. But what we did with Borderlands 2 - you couldn't have done it much faster than we did.

Commander Harvey:
So two, three years is a pretty average development time for a game like this by industry standards? How much would those development times change if game developers got new game engines to work with every year or two?

Randy Pitchford:
Well, Borderlands one and two are running on pretty much the same tech, which is a heavily modified Unreal Engine 3. If we had switched to newer tech between the two games and had to make modifications to the new engine, that would have extended the development time on the second game by about a year.

Commander Harvey:
That was Gearbox Software president, Randy Pitchford, everybody!
Thanks for the interview that was absolutely not made up at all.

Randy Pitchford:
W-wait. That's it?
That was kind of abrupt... Don't you want to hear my sentiments on this game engine stuff?

Commander Harvey:
Nah. I'm cool, thanks.
*Puts on space suit*

Randy Pitchford:
Whaddya doing? What's with the space suit?

Commander Harvey:
DECOMPRESS CONFERENCE ROOM!!

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PPS.
Shit, I hope Randy doesn't read that.
I mean, his name reads on that post, like, ten times. All it takes is one of his friends or co-workers googling his goddamn name. And they'll find out I just kinda killed him on my blog.

Source: http://starshipbombus.blogspot.com/2012/09/consoles-are-holding-pc-games-back.html

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Geocaching, What is it? and Why? | TBN Ranch

Geocaching is a free real-world outdoor treasure hunt. Players try to locate hidden containers, called geocaches, using a smartphone or GPS and can then share their experiences online. To learn more about this official site go to geocaching.com.

A typical cache is a small waterproof container containing a logbook where the geocacher enters the date they found it and signs it with their established code name. This so called log book? is basically a long folded or rolled piece of paper. Inside the container are small trinkets of insignificant value, such as coins, or toys. Sometimes the bigger geocaches may be an ammo box or Tupperware, these may contain larger trading trinkets, but still of little value. Geocachers are free to take objects from the cache in exchange for leaving something of similar or higher value.

Sunday afternoon my husband and I went geocaching locally and we located two caches. Here?s a few pics of our successful mission.

Geocaching,? signing the log book.

Cache with a little blue guy inside!

If you?ve never heard of geocaching you are probably going to be surprised to learn there are 1,889,549 active geocaches and over 5 million geocachers worldwide. Geocaches are currently placed in over 200 countries around the world and on all seven continents, including Antarctica, and the International Space Station.

Now you know what geocaching is, if you?re still wondering why, the answer is simple. Why not?

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Learn more about Geocaching

amy elizabeth, writer poet, author. Lives in the northeastern reaches of the Sonoran Desert on a small hobby farm.

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Alaskans to get $878 in yearly oil wealth payout

Alaska Revenue Commissioner Bryan Butcher holds up the amount of this year's Permanent Fund Dividend during a news conference Tuesday, Sept. 18, 2012, in Anchorage, Alaska. Butcher announced this year's check from the state's oil riches will be $878 for nearly every single Alaskan. (AP Photo/Mark Thiessen)

Alaska Revenue Commissioner Bryan Butcher holds up the amount of this year's Permanent Fund Dividend during a news conference Tuesday, Sept. 18, 2012, in Anchorage, Alaska. Butcher announced this year's check from the state's oil riches will be $878 for nearly every single Alaskan. (AP Photo/Mark Thiessen)

Sean Irvin browses phones at a Best Buy store Monday, Sept. 17, 2012, in Anchorage, Alaska. It's one of the ways Irvin plans to spend his yearly Alaska Permanent Fund dividend, whose amount was being announced Tuesday. (AP Photo/Rachel D'Oro)

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) ? It's not much ? $878 ? but Sina Takafua isn't balking at her first annual payout from Alaska's oil savings account.

"I'm just happy. It's free money," she said of the amount after taxes that she'll receive just for living in the state, in her case the northernmost town of Barrow.

State officials on Tuesday announced the amount of Alaska Permanent Fund dividends to be distributed Oct. 4 to all men, women and children who have lived in the state for at least one year. This time around, that's nearly 647,000 people.

This year's amount is the lowest since 2005 and the ninth-lowest in the program that began three decades ago. Last year's dividend was $1,174.

Officials attribute the decrease to the five-year formula used to calculate the yearly dividend. Alaska Revenue Commissioner Bryan Butcher said the formula will stay depressed through next year. After that, officials can stop figuring in performance from 2009, when the fund lost billions in the stock market dive.

"As long as that year is part of the five-year calculation, it's going to be a little low," Butcher said.

Like others surveyed in rural parts of the state, Takafua had planned to use her dividend to pay bills. But Tuesday she said she was sending it all to her mother in Hawaii. "She'll appreciate it," Takafua said.

Some customers at the local fur shop where Takafua works are going for warmth ? and style. They're already pre-ordering parkas made of caribou, wolverine and other furs.

"They're waiting for their PFD to pay for them," said Takafua, who moved to Alaska from Maui, Hawaii, with her two sons in 2010. Her husband joined the family later, so he's not yet eligible for a dividend like they are.

New residents must live in Alaska for one calendar year to benefit from the permanent fund, which was established in 1976 after North Slope oil was discovered.

The state began doling out money from the fund in 1982. Residents who have received every check since then have gotten a total of $34,243.41.

Alaska Permanent Fund Corp. officials last month suggested that residents would be seeing a smaller check this time around.

The amount of investment earnings allocated to dividends is based on a five-year rolling average of permanent fund performance. While 2009 stayed in, 2007 was dropped from this year's average, corporation officials said. They said 2007 was a recent high-water mark in which the fund earned $3.4 billion in statutory net income, the realized gains used in calculating the dividend.

Alaska has no state income tax, but residents must pay federal taxes on the bounty.

In the western town of Nome, many residents will be using what's left over to pay for outrageously expensive groceries and gasoline, which sells for almost $6 a gallon.

Gone are the days when people spent their dividend checks on snowmobiles from Morgan's Sales and Service shop, said fourth-generation owner Pat Johanson.

The money that goes to Johanson's four children will end up in savings. But Johanson's plan for his own check depends on how winter fares compared with last year, when temperatures were more brutal than usual.

Johanson, his wife and kids could have a vacation in the near future.

"If January gets to 30 and 40 below again," he said, "I want to go to Hawaii."

So does Sean Irvin of Anchorage. He went there on last year's dividend and wants to go to Maui with the help of this year's money.

Still, there he was at an Anchorage Best Buy, eyeing another PFD treat ? no, not the new iPhone 5 coming out Friday, but a humble phone for a landline.

"I want big buttons and caller ID," Irvin said.

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Follow Rachel D'Oro on Twitter at https://twitter.com/rdoro .

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