Alaska Public Media
The Seven Year Itch, Part I: Erica Madison | ARCTIC ENTRIES
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- The Seven Year Itch, Part I: Erica Madison | ARCTIC ENTRIES
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- 10 years ago
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- Erica's dad can fix just about anything, but recently she has begun taking on that role in her own life.
In the spirit of This American Life, The Moth, and other storytelling events, Arctic Entries brings Alaskans to the stage to share their personal stories: funny, sad and sweet. At every performance, seven people each tell a seven-minute long, true story relating to the show’s theme.
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- The Seven Year Itch, Part I: Don Rearden | ARCTIC ENTRIES
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- 10 years ago
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- Don Rearden has a challenging experience in the wilderness when he loses his tent while on a remote camping trip.
In the spirit of This American Life, The Moth, and other storytelling events, Arctic Entries brings Alaskans to the stage to share their personal stories: funny, sad and sweet. At every performance, seven people each tell a seven-minute long, true story relating to the show’s theme.
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- The Seven Year Itch, Part I: Jason Brandeis | ARCTIC ENTRIES
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- 10 years ago
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- Jason Brandeis is taken off guard as an 8-year old when his new classmates make fun of his Michael Jackson jacket.
In the spirit of This American Life, The Moth, and other storytelling events, Arctic Entries brings Alaskans to the stage to share their personal stories: funny, sad and sweet. At every performance, seven people each tell a seven-minute long, true story relating to the show’s theme.
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- The Seven Year Itch, Part I: Linda Lucky | ARCTIC ENTRIES
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- 10 years ago
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- Linda Lucky shares a fun story of taking care of a dog.
In the spirit of This American Life, The Moth, and other storytelling events, Arctic Entries brings Alaskans to the stage to share their personal stories: funny, sad and sweet. At every performance, seven people each tell a seven-minute long, true story relating to the show’s theme.
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- The Seven Year Itch, Part I: Paul Ongtooguk | ARCTIC ENTRIES
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- 10 years ago
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- Paul Ongtooguk shares a slice of his life experiences and outlook.
In the spirit of This American Life, The Moth, and other storytelling events, Arctic Entries brings Alaskans to the stage to share their personal stories: funny, sad and sweet. At every performance, seven people each tell a seven-minute long, true story relating to the show’s theme.
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- The Seven Year Itch, Part I: Merlin Hamre | ARCTIC ENTRIES
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- 10 years ago
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- Merlin Hamre has a memorable experience while working in West Africa.
In the spirit of This American Life, The Moth, and other storytelling events, Arctic Entries brings Alaskans to the stage to share their personal stories: funny, sad and sweet. At every performance, seven people each tell a seven-minute long, true story relating to the show’s theme.
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- The Seven Year Itch, Part I Promo | ARCTIC ENTRIES
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- 10 years ago
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- In the spirit of This American Life, The Moth, and other storytelling events, Arctic Entries brings Alaskans to the stage to share their personal stories: funny, sad and sweet. At every performance, seven people each tell a seven-minute long, true story relating to the show’s theme.
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- ALASKA EDITION: Music in Alaska
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- 10 years ago
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- On this week’s Alaska Edition, host, Zachariah Hughes sits down with three reporters to talk all about music in Alaska. What’s new? What’s happening across the state? And what’s changing?
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- Oops! Promo | ARCTIC ENTRIES
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- 10 years ago
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- In the spirit of This American Life, The Moth, and other storytelling events, Arctic Entries brings Alaskans to the stage to share their personal stories: funny, sad and sweet. At every performance, seven people each tell a seven-minute long, true story relating to the show’s theme.
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- ALASKA EDITION: Reporter's roundtable, crime in Alaska
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- 10 years ago
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- On this week's Alaska Edition, Zachariah Hughes sits down with reporters to take a look at crime rates around Alaska and discusses certain trends that may be indicative of deeper issues.
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- Oops!: Mike Shiffer | ARCTIC ENTRIES
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- 10 years ago
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- While driving the Alcan, Mike Shiffer receives the help of a friendly stranger when his car radiator breaks down.
In the spirit of This American Life, The Moth, and other storytelling events, Arctic Entries brings Alaskans to the stage to share their personal stories: funny, sad and sweet. At every performance, seven people each tell a seven-minute long, true story relating to the show’s theme.
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- Oops!: Natasha Von Imhof | ARCTIC ENTRIES
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- 10 years ago
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- A relaxing camping trip quickly changes when Natasha Von Imhoff and her husband wake up to discover their campfire has spread across the beach.
In the spirit of This American Life, The Moth, and other storytelling events, Arctic Entries brings Alaskans to the stage to share their personal stories: funny, sad and sweet. At every performance, seven people each tell a seven-minute long, true story relating to the show’s theme.
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- Oops!: Ray Bane | ARCTIC ENTRIES
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- 10 years ago
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- While newly living in Barrow, Ray Bane makes a memorable impression on the community when he accidentally drives his dog team into a village home.
In the spirit of This American Life, The Moth, and other storytelling events, Arctic Entries brings Alaskans to the stage to share their personal stories: funny, sad and sweet. At every performance, seven people each tell a seven-minute long, true story relating to the show’s theme.
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- Oops!: Steve Durr | ARCTIC ENTRIES
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- 10 years ago
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- After Steve Durr's family cabin burned down, the first step in re-building was to harvest a moose to feed the group.
In the spirit of This American Life, The Moth, and other storytelling events, Arctic Entries brings Alaskans to the stage to share their personal stories: funny, sad and sweet. At every performance, seven people each tell a seven-minute long, true story relating to the show’s theme.
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- Oops!: Horoja Jarawa | ARCTIC ENTRIES
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- 10 years ago
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- Horoja Jarawa was eight years old when she discovered she was allergic to pecans.
In the spirit of This American Life, The Moth, and other storytelling events, Arctic Entries brings Alaskans to the stage to share their personal stories: funny, sad and sweet. At every performance, seven people each tell a seven-minute long, true story relating to the show’s theme.
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- Oops!: David Popiel | ARCTIC ENTRIES
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- 10 years ago
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- While carrying sheetrock at his first job after college, David Popiel has a close encounter with an old freight elevator.
In the spirit of This American Life, The Moth, and other storytelling events, Arctic Entries brings Alaskans to the stage to share their personal stories: funny, sad and sweet. At every performance, seven people each tell a seven-minute long, true story relating to the show’s theme.
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- Community in Unity: Fostering Our Future
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- 10 years ago
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- A record number of kids are currently in Alaska's Foster Care System. Caseworkers are overloaded. Families and kids are frustrated. But it's not all bad news. Communities are around the state are developing solutions to both support families who are involved with the system and prevent kids from going into foster care in the first place.
Join Alaska Public Media for Community in Unity: Fostering our Future. It's a public conversation with:
Christy Lawton, the Director of the Office of Children's Services
Lola Stepetin, Director of Family Services with the Nome Eskimo Community
Amanda Metivier, Director of Facing Foster Care Alaska
Laura Ingham, foster mother & former foster child
We recorded live at 7 pm on April 27 in the Alaska Public studios near the APU campus, and the program will broadcast on KSKA-FM and KAKM-TV on Thursday, May 12.
The event brought together community members with diverse experiences and ques...
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- Alaska Edition: Liquor Stores, Detox Centers and Marijuana
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- 10 years ago
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- Bethel saw the opening of its first liquor store since the 1970s. Opioid detox centers were a hot topic in the headlines this week. And as always, the struggle behind commercial marijuana continues throughout the state.
On this week's Alaska Edition, we go behind the headlines with a group of reporters covering stories on drugs and alcohol.
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- Alaska Public Media/APU - Bike to Work Week 2016
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- 10 years ago
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- Join Alaska Public Media and Alaska Pacific University at the corner of Elmore and University Dr. for breakfast, bike checks, and morning mingling from 6:00 to 9:00 AM on Wednesday, May 18th.
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- Alaska's Fab Lab: Bridging Technology & Culture
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- 10 years ago
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- In 2013, Cook Inlet Tribal Council partnered with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to start the first Alaskan Fab Lab ("Fabrication Laboratory"). Unique to other Fab Labs in the country, this lab focuses on bridging technology and culture in education. Students engage in in creative art and engineering processes, such as collaboratively building a traditional kayak using a CNC mill.
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- Transforming Adults Only: A Neighborhood Interaction
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- 10 years ago
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- Anchorage is saying adieu to the building that housed the last marketed "adults only" business in Anchorage, and it's going out with quite a bang.
New owners of the property saw an opportunity in the building before tearing it down. After teaming up with local artists and community outreach organizers, They opened it up to artists from around the city, to do with it what they wanted, in conjunction with a recent grant geared towards community engagement.
to collect information on the area of Anchorage, at one time considered its most seedy pocket.
In the fall of 2016 a family friendly bookstore and cafe will stand in the place of Adults Only, welcoming artists from all over.
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- Anchorage Bowl Land Use Map
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- 10 years ago
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- Reporter Spotlight: Zachariah Hughes
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- 10 years ago
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- Zachariah Hughes reports on city & state politics, arts & culture, drugs, and military affairs in Anchorage and South Central Alaska. He got his start in radio as an intern at WNYC in New York. Then moved from Brooklyn to Nome in 2013 to work at KNOM Radio, covering everything from sled-dog races to subsistence hunting, traveling extensively in the region.
Zachariah’s work has appeared on National Public Radio’s “All Things Considered,” “Morning Editions,” “On Point,” as well as “Marketplace,” “Here & Now,” and in The Guardian. He’s happy to take assignments, and even happier to get news tips, which are best sent via email.
In the fall of 2014, Zachariah joined Alaska Public Media after driving his Subaru up the ALCAN from New Haven, Connecticut, in just five-and-a-half days. A graduate of Harvard University, Zachariah has lived throughout the East Coast, from a tiny lobster island off the coast of Maine to a tiny New York City apartm...
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- Alaska Edition | What legislative decisions mean for small town AK
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- 10 years ago
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- Talk to the Hand: Anne Garrett | ARCTIC ENTRIES
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- 10 years ago
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- "He suggested that I take my PFD and cash it in and go with him backpacking around Europe with my 13-month-old son. I thought: That's a great idea."
In the spirit of This American Life, The Moth, and other storytelling events, Arctic Entries brings Alaskans to the stage to share their personal stories: funny, sad and sweet. At every performance, seven people each tell a seven-minute long, true story relating to the show’s theme.
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- Talk to the Hand: Shane Castle | ARCTIC ENTRIES
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- 10 years ago
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- "Sometimes we can actually find our own humanity at that exact moment when we think it's lost."
In the spirit of This American Life, The Moth, and other storytelling events, Arctic Entries brings Alaskans to the stage to share their personal stories: funny, sad and sweet. At every performance, seven people each tell a seven-minute long, true story relating to the show’s theme.
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- Talk to the Hand: Amanda Metivier | ARCTIC ENTRIES
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- 10 years ago
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- "I was so fortunate to have one foster family that loved me unconditionally... I stole their minivan... they said, we love you."
In the spirit of This American Life, The Moth, and other storytelling events, Arctic Entries brings Alaskans to the stage to share their personal stories: funny, sad and sweet. At every performance, seven people each tell a seven-minute long, true story relating to the show’s theme.
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- Talk to the Hand: Jeff Lucas | ARCTIC ENTRIES
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- 10 years ago
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- "This was one of those stupid plans. I could get shot doing this, you know."
In the spirit of This American Life, The Moth, and other storytelling events, Arctic Entries brings Alaskans to the stage to share their personal stories: funny, sad and sweet. At every performance, seven people each tell a seven-minute long, true story relating to the show’s theme.
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- Talk to the Hand: Liszka Bessenyey | ARCTIC ENTRIES
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- 10 years ago
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- "I couldn't just sit by and watch as my refuge was put on the line. But what could I do? I was only 11-years-old and in sixth grade."
In the spirit of This American Life, The Moth, and other storytelling events, Arctic Entries brings Alaskans to the stage to share their personal stories: funny, sad and sweet. At every performance, seven people each tell a seven-minute long, true story relating to the show’s theme.
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- Talk to the Hand: Fernanda Conrad | ARCTIC ENTRIES
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- 10 years ago
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- "It takes a lot of work to be a legal immigrant in this country... Among the paperwork we have to get are affidavits from our friends swearing to the government that they have seen my husband and I kiss at least once."
In the spirit of This American Life, The Moth, and other storytelling events, Arctic Entries brings Alaskans to the stage to share their personal stories: funny, sad and sweet. At every performance, seven people each tell a seven-minute long, true story relating to the show’s theme.
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- Talk to the Hand: Susan Maley | ARCTIC ENTRIES
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- 10 years ago
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- "Let me tell you about the time I bought a bobcat. Not the kind with wheels and an engine, the kind with fangs and fur."
In the spirit of This American Life, The Moth, and other storytelling events, Arctic Entries brings Alaskans to the stage to share their personal stories: funny, sad and sweet. At every performance, seven people each tell a seven-minute long, true story relating to the show’s theme.
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- Corrosion Complications: How long will the Port of Anchorage survive?
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- 10 years ago
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- Pilings underneath the Port of Anchorage are experiencing severe corrosion. Without extensive renovations, the port's lifetime might be limited.
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- From Port to Store: How does cargo move in Alaska?
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- 10 years ago
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- Almost all of the consumer goods available in stores from Fairbanks to Homer pass through the Port of Anchorage. Follow a typical shipment as it makes its way from the cargo hold to the shelf.
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- In My Family: Hello
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- 10 years ago
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- Thomas Mack teaches Raven how to say "hello" in Aleut.
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- In My Family: That's Enough
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- 10 years ago
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- Thomas Mack teaches Raven how to say, "That's Enough!," in his Aleut language.
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- In My Family: My Friend
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- 10 years ago
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- Thomas Mack teaches Raven how to say "my friend" in Aleut.
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- In My Family: It is Good
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- 10 years ago
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- Thomas Mack teaches Raven how to say "it is good" in Aleut.
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- Reporter Spotlight: Rachel Waldholz
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- 10 years ago
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- Rachel Waldholz is the Energy Reporter for Alaska Public Media. Before joining APM, she spent two years reporting for KCAW in Sitka, where she covered everything from city government to fish politics.
She studied documentary production at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism, and her short film, A Confused War won several awards. Originally from New Jersey, Rachel got her start reporting for a community newspaper in the Bronx. Her work has appeared on NPR, Al Jazeera, Current TV, Grist.org and in High Country News, among other outlets.
Check out all of Rachel's stories at http://www.alaskapublic.org/author/rachel-waldholz/
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- Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs)
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- 10 years ago
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- April is National Child Abuse Prevention Month. Deborah Bock, resilience trainer with Alaska Children's Trust, explains the studies surrounding childhood trauma and what's being done to overcome these experiences.
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- Alaska Edition | The impacts of childhood trauma on overall health
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- 10 years ago
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- April is National Child Abuse Prevention Month. On this week's Alaska Edition, we look at the Adverse Childhood Experiences study, or ACEs study, and the link between childhood trauma and health issues later in life. Studies have shown that these experiences lead to a wide variety of problems including asthma, cancer and arthritis. The good news is that research shows that these effects can be reversed.
Watch Deborah Bock's full interview on ACE's at https://youtu.be/nPMVMC4f-lU
For more information on the ACEs study visit www.acestoohigh.com and developingchild.harvard.edu/science/key-concepts/.
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- The Alaska Farm Run by Inmates
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- 10 years ago
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- Go behind the scenes of the Point MacKenzie Correctional Farm. The farm provides meat, eggs, and produce for the correctional facilities of Alaska and is staffed, almost entirely, by inmates.
Video by John Norris
Shot April 8, 2016
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- Deborah Bock on Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs)
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- 10 years ago
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- Deborah Bock a former social worker and resilience trainer with Alaska Children's Trust discusses the science behind childhood trauma and how these events have a lasting impact on one's health.
For more information on ACEs visit:
https://acestoohigh.com/
http://developingchild.harvard.edu/science/key-concepts/
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- Alaska Edition | Anchorage Municipal Elections
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- 10 years ago
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- Frontier Baseball: Early Alaska and America's Pastime
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- 10 years ago
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- "They literally were carving diamonds out of wilderness."
Historian Katie Ringsmuth discusses Alaska's love affair with baseball, which dates back to the early 1900s. When miners, surveyors, and workers of all kinds arrived in the Alaska territory, baseball provided them, not only a hobby, but a connection to the lives they left behind.
Produced by:
John Norris & Kaysie Ellingson
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- Alaska Edition | Legalizing Marijuana in Alaska
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- 10 years ago
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- On this week's Alaska Edition we discuss legalizing marijuana in the state and what this means moving forward.
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- RUNNING Highlights | Assembly Seat A
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- 10 years ago
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- Get to know your assembly candidates for Eagle River and Chugiak in this 2 minute highlight of RUNNING. (Order of appearance: Amy Demboski and Nicholas Begich.)
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- Running 2016 | Anchorage School Board Seat A
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- 10 years ago
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- Bettye Dave and Brent Hughes
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- Running 2016 | Anchorage Assembly Seat F
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- 10 years ago
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- Ronald Alleva and Dick Traini
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- Running 2016 | Anchorage Assembly Seat H
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- 10 years ago
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- Forrest Dunbar and Terre Gales
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- RUNNING Highlights | Assembly Seat D
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- 10 years ago
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- Highlight reel of candidates running for Anchorage assembly seat D, serving West Anchorage. (Order of appearance, Adam Trombley, Ira Perman, Eric Croft and Dustin Darden).
