KTOO 360TV
Forum@360: Middle East to Southeast
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- Forum@360: Middle East to Southeast
- Date posted
- 12 years ago
- Description
- Three exchange students from Yemen, Bahrain, and Gaza are spending a year in Juneau and Haines. Maha Abdulrazzaq, Abdulla Husain, and Haytham Mohanna will talk about adapting to life in Southeast Alaska, going to American schools, and what they miss about home. Audience will get to participate in a Q&A session with the students. Lisa Phu hosts.
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- Jeremy's Gavel Alaska Rundown for March 10, 2014
- Date posted
- 12 years ago
- Description
- Coming up Monday:
- Legislative schedules start becoming very unreliable
- Governor's education package at 8 a.m. and 3 p.m. in House Education
- Senate Finance may be finishing up with SB138, the big natural gas pipeline bill
- SB176 to overrule a University of Alaska policy banning guns on campus is in Senate Judiciary
- HB77, the governor's bill to make permitting in and near waterways easier, is back from last session in Senate Resources
- And an answer to a frequently asked question about Gavel Alaska's break music!
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- Writers' Showcase: Awakening
- Date posted
- 12 years ago
- Description
- Read the author and actor bios: http://www.360north.org/2014/03/10/writers-showcase-awakening-writer-and-actor-bios/
This spring edition of Arts@360's Writers' Showcase is themed "awakening." Writers are Rich Chiappone, Sherry Simpson, Tim Lash, and Greg Capito. Actors are Brandon Demery, Christina Apathy, Corin Hughes-Skandijs, and Roblin Gray Davis.
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- Jeremy's Gavel Alaska Rundown for March 7, 2014
- Date posted
- 12 years ago
- Description
- Light Friday with a several legislators out of town, lots of committee cancellations.
- Governor's education bill in House Education
- A bill to help crime victims get their stuff back on the Senate floor
- Judicial Council constitutional amendment resolution in House Judiciary
- an informational meeting with the Division of Retirement and Benefits about proposed changes in benefits
- and Jersey the IT pug howls hilariously/sadly in the background
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- Haytham Mohanna on Photography
- Date posted
- 12 years ago
- Description
- Description: Haytham Mohanna is an exchange student from Gaza with the U.S. State Department's Kennedy-Lugar Youth Exchange and Study program. Here, he talks about his love for photography, a passion he discovered in America.
Learn more about Abdulla on Forum@360: Middle East to Southeast.
Music:
"Piano -- instrumental"
by Awill Joseph
https://soundcloud.com/awill-joseph/piano-instrumental
(The song's volume was modified for use in this video.)
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- Abdulla Husain on Having a Second Family
- Date posted
- 12 years ago
- Description
- Abdulla Husain is an exchange student from Bahrain with the U.S. State Department's Kennedy-Lugar Youth Exchange and Study program. Here, he talks about living with his host parents, Susan Auer and Gerry Kress of Juneau.
Learn more about Abdulla on Forum@360: Middle East to Southeast.
Music:
"Piano - instrumental beat FL"
by SoundSam
https://soundcloud.com/soundsam-2/piano-instrumental-beat-fl
(The song's volume was modified for use in this video.)
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- Maha Abdulrazzaq on American School
- Date posted
- 12 years ago
- Description
- Maha Abdulrazzaq is an exchange student from Yemen with the US State Department's Kennedy-Lugar Youth Exchange and Study program. Here, she talks about going to classes and interacting with male students in school -- something she doesn't do in Yemen.
Learn more about her on Forum@360: Middle East to Southeast.
Additional footage by Travis Gilmour, Alaska Public Media
Music:
"wiwl-hapi-xylophone"
by antlechrist
https://soundcloud.com/antlechrist/wiwl-hapi-xylophone
(The song's volume was modified for use in this video.)
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- Jeremy's Gavel Alaska Rundown for Feb. 28, 2014
- Date posted
- 12 years ago
- Description
- - Gov. Parnell's proposed school funding increases vs. Democrats'
- Alaska legislators tell the federal government what they think they should do about off shore lease revenue sharing, contaminated lands, the international Arctic community, F-35 joint strike fighters jets
- Should Alaska elect or appoint the attorney general?
- Wes Keller's ongoing attempt to force a balanced budget amendment to the U.S. Constitution
- Landlord-tenant law update
- More budget subcommittees closeouts, including the governor's office and the legislature's
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- Rollergirls Alaska: Skate to the Heart - February 15, 2014
- Date posted
- 12 years ago
- Description
- This Valentine's Day mashup features Cupid's Crushers vs. Brute Roses hosted by In DeKline and T-Rex. February 15, 2014.
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- Rollergirls Alaska: Seasons Beatings - November 16, 2013
- Date posted
- 12 years ago
- Description
- This bout features Slay Belles vs. Rain Dears, hosted by In DeKline and Money Honey. November 16, 2013.
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- Jeremy's Gavel Alaska Rundown for Feb. 27, 2014
- Date posted
- 12 years ago
- Description
- In this webisode:
- Sen. Dunleavy declines to talk education issues on Forum@360.
- No technical problems today!
- Should village public safety officers be able to carry guns?
- Sen. Bill Wielechowski wants to waive DMV fees for Alaska National Guard members.
- Jeremy explains what the Legislative Council is.
- The House budget subcommittee on education wraps.
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- Jeremy's Gavel Alaska Rundown for Feb. 26, 2014
- Date posted
- 12 years ago
- Description
- Knocking on wood doesn't work as a ward against technical problems.
Coming up Wednesday:
-Sen. Berta Gardner wants to make February "Public Education Month" and maybe also wants to call out school choice supporters,
- natural gas pipeline,
- Juneau's newest lawmaker, Sam Kito III, joins the House
- Rep. Bob Lynn wants legal foreigners' Alaska drivers' licenses to expire with their legality in the US
- HJR1, companion resolution to SJR9, to lift the constitutional ban spending public money on private and religious schools, is in House Judiciary
- Senate Resources takes up non-gas pipeline legislation
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- Behind Closed Doors
- Date posted
- 12 years ago
- Description
- Alaska lawmakers routinely violate Uniform Rule 22, which states "All meetings of a legislative body are open to all legislators...and to the general public" except for executive sessions. Sometimes, the violation is blatant, like during this 2011 Senate Finance Committee meeting.
For more, download the 2014 Gavel Alaska Guide for the iPad (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/2014-gavel-alaska-guide/id819773885?ls=1&mt=8) or a desktop version at our website (http://www.360north.org/2014-gavel-alaska-guide/).
(Video by Jeremy Hsieh/360 North)
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- Jeremy's Gavel Alaska Rundown for Feb. 21, 2014
- Date posted
- 12 years ago
- Description
- In this webisode:
- North Pole High School senior Kelsey Nore and Jersey the IT pug drop in
- The 2014 Gavel Alaska Guide is finally out! (http://www.360north.org/2014-gavel-alaska-guide/)
- another attempt by Rep. Wes Keller to amend the U.S. Constitution to require a balanced federal budget
- it's possible illegal immigrants in Alaska prisons who do bad things could get lighter criminal sentences than legal residents in Alaska prisons who do the same bad things
- a statewide vaccination program from political odd-couple Sens. Cathy Giessel and Hollis French
- Natural gas pipeline, natural gas pipeline and more natural gas pipeline
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- Jeremy's Gavel Alaska Rundown for Feb. 18, 2014
- Date posted
- 12 years ago
- Description
- - A less sleepy technical difficulties update
- North Pole High School senior Kelsey Nore is job shadowing Gavel Alaska crew
- Rep. Jonathan Kreiss-Tomkins' wants 20 indigenous languages to become official state languages alongside English
- the capital budget
- Beringia: the international Russian-American park Jeremy had never heard of and SJR15 wants shot down
- the latest in the way overbudget super-late Port of Anchorage expansion and modernization
- a budget subcommittee looks at Choose Respect
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- Jeremy's Gavel Alaska Rundown for Feb. 13, 2014
- Date posted
- 12 years ago
- Description
- Another update on technical problems, progress on getting the Gavel Alaska e-book listed alongside thousands of fart apps, natural gas pipeline talk continues, a liquefied natural gas trucking update, how congressional dysfunction has affected the military in Alaska, and Rep. Lynn Gattis' push to make prescription drugs available via telemedicine
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- Jeremy's Gavel Alaska Rundown for Feb. 12, 2014
- Date posted
- 12 years ago
- Description
- In this webisode:
So what does "technical difficulties" actually mean? Chief Justice Dana Fabe delivers her report to the legislature on the State of the Judiciary, and an afternoon of gas pipeline hearings.
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- Jeremy's Gavel Alaska Rundown for Monday, Feb. 10, 2014
- Date posted
- 12 years ago
- Description
- Jersey the pug!
Coming up Monday on Gavel Alaska:
- Sen. Donny Olson wants to keep a vocational/technical training program running.
- Sen. Peter Micciche wants to fix a problem with a commercial fish tax scheduling that sometimes makes it impossible to pay taxes accurately and on time.
- Rep. Lance Pruitt wants to make it easier for municipalities and the state to catch tax evaders.
- The bill to block state executives' pay raises is back for its third reading in the Senate.
- Alaska youths speak truth to power/play lobbyist.
- Karen Rehfeld's 10-year budget plan
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- Meet Wearable Art artist David Walker
- Date posted
- 12 years ago
- Description
- The Juneau Arts and Humanities Council's Wearable Art show is this weekend at Centennial Hall. Now in its fourteenth year, the theme is "Technicolor" and artists have been preparing for months. KTOO's Scott Burton caught up with three of the participants and filmed short profiles. Meet David Walker.
Video footage of 2009 Wearable Art courtesy of KATH TV in Juneau. All other video provided by KTOO TV.
Thanks to the Juneau Arts and Culture Center staff for all of their support and hard work.
Thanks to KTOO's Cheryl Snyder and 360 North's Mikko Wilson for editing.
First picture of "Prehistoric Princess" courtesy of Michael Penn of the Juneau Empire.
Second picture of "Prehistoric Princess" courtesy of Seanna O'Sullivan Photography.
Music:
"Hidden Blues"
By Pitx
http://ccmixter.org/files/Pitx/27007
The song's volume was modified for use in this video.
"Kokokur"
By Pitx
http:/...
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- Jeremy's Gavel Alaska Rundown for Feb. 7, 2014
- Date posted
- 12 years ago
- Description
- With co-anchor Lota the yellow lab!
Friday on Gavel Alaska:
- Shifting a $200+ million education burden from local governments to the state government?
- Gov. Parnell's omnibus education bill
- The first floor sessions of the year with substantive business including Rep. Steve Thompson's bill to allow property tax exemptions for stuff near military bases, Sen. Kevin Meyer's bill to block pay raises for the governor, lieutenant governor and state department heads, and Rep. Charisse Millet's resolution to mark the 50th anniversary of the Good Friday Earthquake. Meanwhile, other 1-year old bills languish in the Rules committees.
- Operating budget presentations continue...
- Gov. Parnell's natural gas pipeline bill
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- Jeremy's Gavel Alaska Rundown for Feb. 6, 2014
- Date posted
- 12 years ago
- Description
- Coming up Thursday:
-Who does Rep. Les Gara want to protect Permanent Fund from? Legislators.
-Rep. Tammie Wilson wants to convene a never-before-convened U.S. constitutional convention to curb federal oppression.
-Jeremy gives a history lesson on Article V of the U.S. Constitution. Wes Keller wants to force high schoolers to learn the U.S. Constitution.
-What's the difference between an initiative and a referendum?
-Doug Isaacson wants to spend $2 million asking if a 500-mile railroad to connecting Fairbanks and Deadhorse is feasible.
-Paul Seaton thinks Vitamin D deficiencies in newborns could be causing health and development problems.
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- Wearable Art artist Kathy Kartchner
- Date posted
- 12 years ago
- Description
- The Juneau Arts and Humanities Council's Wearable Art show is this weekend at Centennial Hall. Now in its fourteenth year, the theme is "Technicolor" and artists have been preparing for months. KTOO's Scott Burton caught up with three of the participants and filmed short profiles. Meet Kathy Kartchner.
All video provided by KTOO/360 North.
Thanks to the Juneau Arts and Culture Center staff for all of their support and hard work.
Thanks to KTOO's Cheryl Snyder and 360 North's Mikko Wilson for editing.
Music:
"Guitar Instrumental"
42 Reasons
https://soundcloud.com/brandon-erik-tejo/guitar-instrumental
(The song's volume and length was modified for use in this video.)
"Prism of Ether"
Fireproof Babies
http://ccmixter.org/files/Fireproof_Babies/27213
(The song's volume and length was modified for use in this video.)
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- Jeremy's Gavel Alaska Rundown for Feb. 5, 2014
- Date posted
- 12 years ago
- Description
- Rep. Tammie Wilson's HB245 to lower the ceiling and floor for local funding of schools, more legislators write bills to repeal the high school exit exam, a Senate Dems presser, Gov. Sean Parnell is holding a presser, Native Issues Forum, Medicaid fraud, crime/corrections reforms, and gas pipeline talk.
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- Wearable Art artist Teresa Busch
- Date posted
- 12 years ago
- Description
- The Juneau Arts and Humanities Council's Wearable Art show is this weekend at Centennial Hall. Now in its fourteenth year, the theme is "Technicolor" and artists have been preparing for months. KTOO's Scott Burton caught up with three of the participants and filmed short profiles. Meet Teresa Busch.
Music:
"Dollheads"
by Ivan Chew
http://ccmixter.org/files/ramblinglibrarian/25202
The song's volume and length was modified for use in this video.
"Summer Sunrise"
By Philip Bridle and Vitaliy Rybakin
https://soundcloud.com/philipbridle/summer-sunrise-feat-vitaliy
The song's volume and length was modified for use in this video.
Photography:
"Brace Yourself" courtesy of Seanna O'Sullivan Photography.
Video footage of 2009 Wearable Arts courtesy of KATH TV in Juneau. All other video provided by KTOO and 360 North.
Thanks to the Juneau Arts and Culture Center staff for all of th...
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- Jeremy's Gavel Alaska Rundown for Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2014
- Date posted
- 12 years ago
- Description
- Tuesday on Gavel Alaska: Guns for village public safety officers, a $2 billion transportation infrastructure fund, public money for private and religious schools, Arctic issues, natural gas pipeline talk, the budget, new ferries, and banning cell phone use while driving in school zones.
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- Jeremy's Gavel Alaska Rundown for Monday, Feb. 3, 2014
- Date posted
- 12 years ago
- Description
- Monday on Gavel Alaska: Education! The governor's omnibus education bill gets its first hearing. Jeremy explains some of ideas scooped up from other education bills, the politics of charter schools, the push to repeal the state constitution's ban on spending public money on private and religious schools, and Rep. Tammie Wilson's bill to try restrict the sales of some heating stoves in Fairbanks.
(Now with our TV music!)
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- Governor's Awards for the Arts and Humanities 2014
- Date posted
- 12 years ago
- Description
- The Governor's Awards for the Arts and Humanities is an annual event that honors a select few citizens and organizations exemplifying great art and devotion to the humanities. A collaboration between the Alaska Humanities Forum and the Alaska State Council on the Arts, this year's awards took place at the Juneau Arts and Culture Center. In addition to the awards presentations, watch performances from a variety of artists including the main act Pamyua.
For more 360 North productions, check out our website: http://www.360north.org/
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- Jeremy's Jan. 30, 2014, Gavel Alaska Rundown
- Date posted
- 12 years ago
- Description
- Coming up on Jan. 31, 2014, on Gavel Alaska: Should the state require high schools offer high schoolers a way to test out of classes for credit? Senate Finance wants to shoot down state executives' pay raises, Republicans want corrections reforms, and more natural gas talk.
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- Jeremy's Jan. 26, 2014 Gavel Alaska Rundown
- Date posted
- 12 years ago
- Description
- The sun came out in Juneau! A natural gas pipeline "promise ring," some snazzier graphics, and comparing billion+ dollar retirement obligations to credit card debt.
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- Alaska Gov. Sean Parnell's 2014 State of the State Address
- Date posted
- 12 years ago
- Description
- Alaska Gov. Sean Parnell delivers his 2014 State of the State Address to the Alaska Legislature.
House Minority Leader Chirs Tuck and Senate Minority Leader Hollis French deliver the Democratic response.
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- Jeremy's Jan. 23, 2014 Gavel Alaska Rundown
- Date posted
- 12 years ago
- Description
- Jury duty, longtime Juneau Rep. Beth Kerttula's resignation, Parnell asks that 2014 be the education session and proposes a package of reforms that includes a base student allocation increase, school choice and repealing a ban on spending state money on private and religious schools, and talk of repealing the high school exit exam. Also, a poorly framed eBook preview.
With Gavel Alaska Producer Jeremy Hsieh.
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- Jeremy's Jan. 20, 2014 Pre-session Gavel Alaska Rundown
- Date posted
- 12 years ago
- Description
- Gavel Alaska coverage of the 28th Alaska Legislature's second regular session goes live on 360 North at 1 p.m., Tuesday, Jan. 21.
Producer Jeremy Hsieh walks you through what's coming up.
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- Glockenspiel
- Date posted
- 13 years ago
- Description
- The story behind the Alaska Senate's glockenspiel.
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- Forum@360: Living the Language promo
- Date posted
- 13 years ago
- Description
- Promo for Forum@360: Living the Language
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- Forum@360: Political Satire by Alaska Robotics
- Date posted
- 13 years ago
- Description
- Juneau-based Alaska Robotics recently raised several thousand dollars on Kickstarter to create six web video episodes of satirical political news over the course of the 2014 Alaska legislative session. We talk the three funnymen behind the Alaska Robotics label, Pat Race, Aaron Suring and Lou Logan.
For more information, go to the Forum@360 page: http://www.360north.org/forum360/
For more 360 North productions, check out our website: http://www.360north.org/
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- "Recessing" Overnight
- Date posted
- 13 years ago
- Description
- One way some Alaska legislators skirt a rule requiring advance notice of committee meetings is to recess their meetings overnight.
For more, download the 2014 Gavel Alaska Guide for the iPad (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/2014-gavel-alaska-guide/id819773885?ls=1&mt=8) or a desktop version at our website (http://www.360north.org/2014-gavel-alaska-guide/).
(Video by Jeremy Hsieh/360 North)
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- Forum@360: Living the Language
- Date posted
- 13 years ago
- Description
- On this Forum@360: Living the Language, Tlingit speakers and educators discuss how to live the language, what does it mean, how can we incorporate language into our homes, into our community, and what are the tools to get us there.
Featured speakers are:
David Katzeek - Tlingit speaker and clan leader
Marsha Hotch - University of Alaska Southeast Adjunct Instructor
Lance Twitchell - University of Alaska Southeast Assistant Professor
Alice Taff - Linguist
For more information, go to the Forum@360 page: http://www.360north.org/forum360/
For more 360 North productions, check out our website: http://www.360north.org/
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- Arts@360: Writers' Showcase, Holidays
- Date posted
- 13 years ago
- Description
- Read the author and actor bios: http://www.360north.org/2014/01/10/biographies-writers-showcase-holidays/
This Writers' Showcase is holiday themed. Watch Alaskan actors and celebrities read Alaskan writers' work about new holiday traditions in the 49th state. A laugh-out-loud version of an Alaskan Hanukkah, Christmas on a remote island, a view of the Bronx from Juneau, mouth-watering tamales, family, surprise, love, and a smoke-breathing Christmas Dragon. Writers and actors include: Christina Apathy, Heather Lende, Joan Pardes, Shona Strauser, Clint Farr, Geoff Kirsch, Rockwell Kent, Ryan Conarro, Susi Gregg Fowler, Katie Bausler, Paul Auster, and Enrique Bravo.
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- German Federal Elections 2013: The Emerging Grand Coalition with Bruce Botelho
- Date posted
- 13 years ago
- Description
- Bruce Botelho, a former Alaska attorney general and former Juneau mayor, was abroad for the month of September in Germany. Botelho speaks on the 2013 German federal elections and the country's emerging Grand Coalition.
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- Forum@360: Wild Coast Trekkers
- Date posted
- 13 years ago
- Description
- Wild Coast Trekkers, the first episode in the Forum@360 series, is about the adventurers who were highlighted in the film Journey on the Wild Coast, making films in the far reaches of Alaska, and their future projects -- both film and in print.
For more information, go to the Forum@360 page: http://www.360north.org/forum360/
For more 360 North productions, check out our website: http://www.360north.org/
