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A Dazzling Display of Glass Artistry in Seattle
Seattle is home to giant multinational companies such as Microsoft and Amazon. But it's also the home of glass art in the United States. The Chihuly Glass Museum is home to thousands of glass artworks by artist Dale Chihuly. Valdya Baraputri from VOA's Indonesian Service reports.
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Seeattle.com - The Traveling Twins - Waiting for the Interurban statue, Seattle (Washington)
Seeattle.com - The Traveling Twins - Waiting for the Interurban statue, Seattle (Washington)
The State of Washington 1950
A tour of the State of Washington in the early 1950's.Footage from this film is available for licensing from globalimageworks.com
Washington Breweries Tour from the Series
This is a short from the series Profiles in Washington Brewing, a production of the Washington Beer Commission.
The Washington Beer Commission is the first of its kind commodity commission in the United States, was formed in 2006, when the Washington State Legislature authorized the creation of the Beer Commission to promote the state's microbreweries.
Washington's breweries, many of them small and family owned, are integral parts of their local communities. When you choose to buy beer brewed in Washington, you support businesses that in turn contribute generously to charitable organizations that support a host of worthy projects in all corners of the state.
Simply put, Washington produces some of the finest beer in the country and our new Beer Commission will help spread the word about these wonderful products. Our microbrews emphasize quality and flavor, and are a signature product of the Evergreen State. And our renowned hops, barley and wheat are the perfect premium ingredients for the nation's best craft brewers.
Join the community of WAshington Beer Lovers, in celebrating FRESH, LOCAL, AWARD-WINNING craft beer produced in our state.
Sea of Glory - the U.S. Exploring Expedition 1838-1842
Author Nathaniel Philbrick talks about the U.S. Exploring Expedition. Original lecture given January 21, 2004 to celebrate the launch of the digital U.S. Exploring Expedition website.
Typhoon Haiyan Fundraiser 2013
Footage put together during our parade around Seattle's Chinatown International District performing at local businesses to raise money for the victims of Typhoon Haiyan in the Phillipines.
Bremerton Beat Blast: High atop a ladder truck
MAY 15, 2018: This week's Bremerton Beat Blast is the debut for the fire department's new $950,000 ladder truck, which can grow to 104 feet in the air to perform rescues and dose fires.
Also on the blast this week: Reporters tackle a canonized falsehood in Kitsap regarding the length of its shoreline and a church faces closure as its congregant numbers decline.
Plus: Habitat for Humanity builds and a local author publishes a book about circumnavigating the globe twice aboard a cargo ship.
Seattle City Council 5/20/19
Agenda: Public Comment; Payment of Bills; CF 314425: 70th & Greenwood Ave, LLC rezone; CB 119511: 70th & Greenwood Ave, LLC rezone; CB 119515: relating to the Ship Canal Water Quality Project; Appointments to the Design Review Board; Appointments to the Seattle Planning Commission; Appointment to the Labor Standards Advisory Commission; Appointment to the Capitol Hill Housing Improvement Program Governing Council; Appointments to the Housing Levy Oversight Committee.
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Presentations - 4:37
Public Comment - 16:21
Payment of Bills - 38:27
CF 314425, CB 119511: 70th & Greenwood Ave, LLC rezone - 39:36
CB 119515: relating to the Ship Canal Water Quality Project - 46:47
Appointments to the Design Review Board - 49:56
Appointments to the Seattle Planning Commission - 57:08
Appointment to the Labor Standards Advisory Commission - 58:42
Appointment to the Capitol Hill Housing Improvement Program Governing Council - 59:51
Appointments to the Housing Levy Oversight Committee - 1:00:54
Feelings About Being Placed in an Assembly Center - Masao Watanabe
Masao Watanabe grew up in Seattle, Washington, and during the war was initially sent to the assembly center at the fairgrounds in Puyallup, Washington. In this clip he talks about his initial reactions upon arrival.
This clip is an excerpt from Masao Watanabe's Densho oral history interview conducted June 19, 1998. To see the complete interview segment, visit the Densho Digital Repository (ddr.densho.org/interviews/ddr-densho-1000-103-15/).
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(AV17452) Voices from the Land: Gardens and the Making of Americans
Description: Voices from the Land: Gardens and the Making of Americans
Lecturer: Patricia Klindienst
Date Created: 10/16/08
Original Creator: University Lecture Series
Original Format: CD-DA
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Seattle, Washington | Wikipedia audio article
This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
00:03:53 1 History
00:04:02 1.1 Founding
00:05:13 1.2 Duwamps 1852–1853
00:06:19 1.3 Incorporations
00:07:20 1.4 Timber town
00:09:05 1.5 Gold Rush, World War I, and the Great Depression
00:14:24 1.6 Post-war years: aircraft and software
00:19:06 2 Geography
00:20:07 2.1 Cityscape
00:20:16 2.2 Topography
00:24:40 2.3 Climate
00:37:50 3 Demographics
00:45:44 4 Economy
00:50:40 5 Culture
00:50:55 5.1 Nicknames
00:51:57 5.2 Performing arts
00:56:14 5.3 Tourism
01:00:07 6 Professional sports
01:06:33 7 Parks and recreation
01:08:12 8 Government and politics
01:13:25 9 Education
01:16:05 10 Media
01:19:07 11 Infrastructure
01:19:16 11.1 Health systems
01:21:05 11.2 Transportation
01:26:31 11.3 Utilities
01:27:23 12 Notable people
01:27:33 13 Sister cities
01:27:45 14 See also
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Seattle ( (listen) see-AT-əl) is a seaport city on the West Coast of the United States. It is the seat of King County, Washington. With an estimated 744,955 residents as of 2018, Seattle is the largest city in both the state of Washington and the Pacific Northwest region of North America. According to U.S. Census data released in 2018, the Seattle metropolitan area's population stands at 3.94 million, and ranks as the 15th largest in the United States. In July 2013, it was the fastest-growing major city in the United States and remained in the top 5 in May 2015 with an annual growth rate of 2.1%. In July 2016, Seattle was again the fastest-growing major U.S. city, with a 3.1% annual growth rate. Seattle is the northernmost large city in the United States.
The city is situated on an isthmus between Puget Sound (an inlet of the Pacific Ocean) and Lake Washington, about 100 miles (160 km) south of the Canada–United States border. A major gateway for trade with Asia, Seattle is the fourth-largest port in North America in terms of container handling as of 2015.The Seattle area was inhabited by Native Americans for at least 4,000 years before the first permanent European settlers. Arthur A. Denny and his group of travelers, subsequently known as the Denny Party, arrived from Illinois via Portland, Oregon, on the schooner Exact at Alki Point on November 13, 1851. The settlement was moved to the eastern shore of Elliott Bay and named Seattle in 1852, in honor of Chief Si'ahl of the local Duwamish and Suquamish tribes. Today, Seattle has high populations of Native, Scandinavian, African, and Asian Americans, as well as a thriving LGBT community that ranks 6th in the United States for population.Logging was Seattle's first major industry, but by the late 19th century, the city had become a commercial and shipbuilding center as a gateway to Alaska during the Klondike Gold Rush. Growth after World War II was partially due to the local Boeing company, which established Seattle as a center for aircraft manufacturing. The Seattle area developed into a technology center from the 1980s onwards with companies like Microsoft becoming established in the region; Microsoft founder Bill Gates is a Seattleite by birth. Internet retailer Amazon was founded in Seattle in 1994, and major airline Alaska Airlines is based in SeaTac, Washington, serving Seattle's international airport, Seattle–Tacoma International Airport. The stream of new software, biotechnology, and Internet companies led to an economic revival, which increased the city's population by almost 50,000 between 1990 and 2000. Owing largely to its rapidly increasing population in the 21st century, Seattle and the state of Washington have some of the highest minimum wages in the country, at $15 per hour for smaller businesses and $16 for the city's largest employers.Seattle has a noteworthy musical history. From 1918 to 1951, nearly two dozen jazz nightclubs existed al ...
The Long Journey Home: Honoring UW Nikkei Students of 1941-1942
Watch the archive of the May 18, 2008 special ceremony to honor those Japanese-American University of Washington students forced into internment camps during World War II.
In 1942 the federal government removed all 440 UW Japanese American students from the University of Washington. Though some of these Nikkei returned or received their degrees from other colleges, many others were unable to finish their education at the UW. In recognition of all these Japanese American students, we invite you to watch The Long Journey Home: Honoring UW Nikkei Students of 1941-1942, a ceremony to honor these students, both the living and the dead, and to educate current and future generations about this grievous national tragedy as they receive an honorary degree from the University of Washington. Norman Mineta, former United States Secretary of Transportation, will also speak. Mineta and his Japanese immigrant parents were detained at an internment camp in Wyoming during World War II.
Mark Emmert, former president, University of Washington; president, National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA)
Secretary Norman Y. Mineta, former U.S. Secretary of Commerce; former Secretary of Transportation
05/05/2008
Shipping Container Home Designed For Sustainable Family Living
In this weeks episode, we explore this lovely family home which has been constructed using shipping containers. Named the South Coast Container House, this home has been sustainably constructed using four shipping containers and has also been extended to enclose communal spaces. At 95 square meters (1000 square feet) this home is capable of sleeping 10 people and has been divided into a main 85 square meter home, with an additional 15 square meter sleep-out made from a single 20ft shipping container.
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Homeowner Simon takes us through his home and shows us it’s many features, from the wonderful exposed shipping containers, though to the externally insulated walls for maximum thermal performance and the homes many sustainable features.
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Designed by architect Matt Elkan, this home has been designed with efficiency, performance and budget in mind. The idea was to use shipping containers to create a wonderfully functional, healthy family home for a reasonable budget.
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Internment - Time of Remembrance - Marion Kanemoto
Marion Kanemoto grew up in Seattle, Washington. The outbreak of WWII and the signing of Executive Order 9066 brought Marion and her family's comfortable life to an end. Marion witnessed her father's removal from their home by the FBI. Eventually, the fatherless Tsutakawa family was transported and confined in the Minidoka internment camp in Idaho. While confined, the family came to a fateful decision that, with one son already in Japan and their money and family business gone, they should repatriate to Japan.
Once in Japan, there was no denying that life in war torn Japan was not going to be easy. Through determination and Marion's continuing sense that she was an American heart and soul, she was able to return to the United States. Marion graduated from nursing school and spent her career working as a dedicated school nurse. She married Jim Kanemoto. Together Jim and Marion had four children, all of whom have university degrees.
Marion Kanemoto Interview
00:00 Introduction
00:18 - Clip 1: Marion describes the thoroughness of the FBI sweep of their Seattle home. At age 14, she watched the men searching everywhere, including cutting into the sofa to check for hidden items and confiscating pictures and then ripping them up, of lumber yard, and the shipyard. She also watched as they took her father away, giving no reasons.
03:56 - Clip 2: Her father was sent to the federal prison in Missoula. From there, he was sent to New Mexico. Some of the letters her family received from her father were blacked out or cut apart, with only a few words were left.
06:15 - Clip 3: She explains, that in a way, she became the head of the household. She had to sell her piano - for $15 - and push it up the street. Piece by piece, they sold their belongings - for a minimal price. Those were very chaotic times.
07:49 - Clip 4: Her family was trapped in many ways! She explains the fine print of the Alien Property Custodian, a government office charged with confiscating and even selling the property of suspected enemies. The government took everything that was owned by her father's business - and even took the insurance policies he had purchased for her brother's and her education.
09:01 - Clip 5: Describes the train trip to Minidoka. The MP's told them to pull down the shades on the train. Coming from Seattle, green and beautiful, to and Idaho, dry, flat, and barren, it was quite a contrast.This was a very unwelcome place. Yet were all in the same boat.
10:39 - Clip 6: Recalls the family meeting in which they discussed the lack of captured soldiers to exchange for U.S. prisoners of war. The government was putting a lot of pressure on Japanese people to trade to volunteer for the trade. Her father suggested they go back to Japan. He was worried about the older brother who was in school in Japan, and who was old enough to join the Japanese army. Her father didn't want him to become a Kamikaze pilot. So it was decided they all had to accompany their parents back to Japan.
13:45 - Clip 7: They were sent to New Jersey and departed from their on a cruise ship. The accommodations were quite nice.
15:13 - Clip 8: Describes the exchange process when the cruise shipped arrived in India. She immediately noted the differences between the American ship and the Japanese ship (very crude, rustic). From the accommodations to the worm-infested food, they knew this was an indication that conditions were bad in Japan.
19:11 - Clip 9: In Japan, Marion was sent to an all girls school. Some students befriended her; some did not. Inside my heart, I felt American. Material resources were gone, people selling wedding rings for the metal. She got very sick with pleurisy and her mother bought an egg on the black market, and begged for Marion to tell her how she wanted the egg cooked. A mother's love.
21:00 - Clip 10: Describes how she worked for the US government and how she received her passport back to the United States.
24:20 - Clip 11: Talks about the Asian Law Caucus, which assisted her with the application to apply for redress, and how she and her son wrote the letters and won their case.
First-Hand Accounts of the Internment Experience
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Holocaust Art Educ: Seattle Broadway Market 1995 Holocaust art tour w/ A.K.Segan ©
New website of artist Akiva K Segan, Dec. 2018:
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Artist Akiva K. Segan gives a tour, 1995, of the 21 drawings selected from his Under the Wings of G-d. educational fine art Holocaust series for children, youth, young adults & adults.
The opening footage in the film is of the Seattle AIDS quilt, which had been installed in the Broadway Market at the time of the Under the WIngs of G-d exhibit. (The title of the series has since been shortened to the Under the Wings (Holocaust) art series.
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The exhibit was on the second floor of the popular Broadway Market building on adjacent sides of a popular movie theatre. The Broadway Market businesses included boutiques, crafts & jewelry vendor stalls, a half-price theatre-ticket business, restaurants and a multi-plex movie theatre.
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(All the businesses were later displaced; a QFC/Kroger's supermarket is now at the site of the former building. Kroger/QFC business practices include price-gouging, unfairly raising prices, consumer fraud & deceptive retailing w/ their Advantage Saving Card program. The deceptive, anti-consumer cards raise the price of all the products sold by QFC/Kroger. They charge higher prices to the poor, the illiterate & semi-literate, ESL residents and visitors and to the disabled, each group of whom are overtly and blatantly discriminated against with the use of these cards.
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Segan authored an op-ed on the cards, published in The JT News - Voice of Jewish Washington, in 2004).
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The Broadway Market Building was in Seattle's Capitol Hill district and one block from the Capitol Hill branch of Seattle Public Library. Due to it's popularity, it was a terrific site for a Holocaust - tolerance education exhibition.
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Segan is best known as the artistic creator of the Under the Wings (Holocaust) art series; other Holocaust themed art; and the Sight-seeing with Dignity (human rights) art series.
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In addition to guest teaching he does worldwide (power-point classes on art about the Holocaust and human rights) Segan facilitates Drawing for Healing workshops with classes of all ages, e.g. 5-7 years of age; elderly audiences in their 80's-90's and above; and all ages in-between.
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Segan's artworks are in gallery/museum, university, library, corporate and institutional collections in Austria, Canada, France, Hungary, Israel, Scotland and the United States.
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Art, video © A.K. Segan
Talking with Internationally Acclaimed Painter Alfredo Arreguín
Seattle artist Alfredo Arreguin has exhibited his work internationally, most recently at the Museo de Cadiz in Spain (2015). He has exhibited solo shows at Linda Hodges Gallery since 2001. Arreguin has a long and distinguished list of accomplishments.
Interview with Lawrence A. Mike Busha, WWII veteran. CCSU Veterans History Project
Interview conducted by Eileen Hurst. Busha enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps on September 1, 1943. He chose the Marine Corps because of its reputation for being the best, according to Busha. After basic training on Parris Island (SC), Busha went on to be a rifle instructor for incoming recruits at the camp. After 6 months of instructor duty, he was transferred to Camp Lejeune and Camp Pendleton for additional training. In April of 1945, he was shipped to Okinawa where he fought on the front lines in the Battle of Okinawa, the bloodiest battle in Pacific during World War II. Busha describes in detail what the Marines endured on the front lines in Okinawa. After Okinawa, his platoon was sent to Guam to prepare for an invasion of Japan, however the bomb was dropped on Nagasaki before he was sent in. Busha finished out his time in the Marine Corps as part of a brig detachment in Tsingtao, China. He was sent home in the spring of 1946. On the train ride to Maryland, where he was to be discharged, his car derailed and killed or injured many of the marines aboard the train. He returned to New York for a time, but eventually moved to Connecticut where he worked at Bristol Brass for many years, becoming a member and leader in the United Auto Workers Union. He was later named Deputy Labor Commissioner in Connecticut because of his work with the union. He still keeps in touch with members of his squad through reunions and the division newsletter.