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• ACES: How to reshuffle when the cards are stacked against children

  27-01-2017 23:00
  
  Samples of facts on ACES that highlight economic impact, but also the path to resiliency. (sampled from AK H&SS)Adverse Childhood Experiences, or ACES, are the subject of intense and new research. New science illuminates the impact of stress on a child’s brain and new economic research shows the long-term impacts—economically and socially—when these events occur early in the life of a child.
  FACT: Early childhood trauma can affect a child’s ability to learn, interferi
  
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• Murkowski opposes Trump anti-abortion efforts - Alaska Dispatch News

  27-01-2017 22:11
  
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  Murkowski opposes Trump anti-abortion efforts
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  WASHINGTON — Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski expressed dismay in President Donald Trump's decision this week to revive a rule that prohibits federal spending abroad on organizations that also perform abortions or provide information about such ...
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• Alaska tourism industry seeks new statewide tax district - KTOO

  27-01-2017 21:05
  
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  Alaska tourism industry seeks new statewide tax district
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  The budget for state-funded tourism marketing has been cut by nearly 80 percent, but Alaska's tourism industry continues to grow. Visitor counts for 2016 aren't available yet, but in 2015, the state attracted a record 2 million visitors. Audio Player.
  
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• Prostate cancer update

  27-01-2017 21:00
  
  Like Goldilocks finding the porridge that was “just right” for her, diagnosis and management of prostate cancer today is about finding the approach that is just right for each patient. This program will discuss who should be screened, what to do with screening results, and what treatment, if any, is “right” given what is known today.
  HOST: Dr. Thad WoodardGUESTS:
  William Clark, MD– urologist, Anchorage
  Josh Logan, MD – Dr. Logan is a urologic oncologist
  
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• Possible public comment period on controversial Alaska fracking ... - KTUU.com

  27-01-2017 19:58
  
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  Possible public comment period on controversial Alaska fracking ...
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  A commission overseeing oil and gas drilling in Alaska is proposing a 10-day public comment period on applications for hydraulic fracturing projects.and more »
  
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• Cyrano’s 2017 season

  27-01-2017 19:27
  
  Rapture,Blister,Burn–from Cyrano’s 2016 season.Unlike many of the area performing arts groups whose seasons go from fall to spring, Cyrano’s Theatre Company’s season runs from January through December. This week on Stage Talk Producing Artistic Director Teresa K. Pond drops by to give us a preview of what’s in store.
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  Cyrano’s Season
  HOST:
  Steve Hunt
  GUESTS:Teresa K. Pond Producing Artistic Director
  ORIGINAL BROADCAST: Friday, Janua
  
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• Alaska volcano erupts again, sending up another ash cloud - CNBC

  27-01-2017 09:06
  
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  Alaska volcano erupts again, sending up another ash cloud
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  A volcano in Alaska's Aleutian Islands has erupted again, sending a cloud of ash and ice particles 30,000 feet in the air. The Alaska Volcano Observatory says the cloud was seen by satellite shortly after Bogoslof (BOH-gohs-lawf) Volcano erupted Thursday.and more »
  
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• Freezing rain causes havoc on Anchorage roads - Alaska Dispatch News

  27-01-2017 06:30
  
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  Freezing rain causes havoc on Anchorage roads
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  An accident on Muldoon Road near Boundary left two cars damaged and traffic slowed Thursday. (Bob Hallinen / Alaska Dispatch News). A sudden upswing in temperature caused traffic havoc Thursday in the Anchorage area as a storm is forecast to bring ...
  
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• Alaska must improve its mental health care - Alaska Dispatch News

  27-01-2017 05:44
  
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  Alaska must improve its mental health care
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  We are all shocked when tragedies such as the recent shooting in Florida appear to be linked to a mental illness. That is true even though people with mental illnesses are generally no more likely to be violent than the general population. It seems to ...and more »
  
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• Anchorage awards show will shine spotlight on Alaska hip-hop, R&B - Alaska Dispatch News

  27-01-2017 05:33
  
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  Anchorage awards show will shine spotlight on Alaska hip-hop, R&B
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  Fairbanks rappers Starbuks and Bishop Slice perform. They were nominated for awards in several categories at the 2017 AK Hip Hop and R&B Awards. (Photo by Brent Rodenberger). Homegrown hip-hop is coming to the Alaska Center for the Performing ...and more »
  
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• Alaska News Nightly: Thursday, Jan. 26, 2017

  27-01-2017 03:18
  
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  Planned Parenthood applauds Sen. Murkowski for going against ‘global gag rule’
  Liz Ruskin, Alaska Public Media – Washington D.C.
  Planned Parenthood is praising U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski for signing onto a bill that would permanently repeal what’s known as the “global gag rule”
  
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• An Alaskan couple looks back at romance and upheaval in the wilderness

  27-01-2017 02:50
  
  Sonja Woodman-Corazza (left) and Rich Corazza in 1976 on a boat in Cook Inlet, Alaska. (Photo: Sonja Woodman-Corazza)During the 1970s, a small number of tough-minded young people moved into what is now the Yukon-Charley Rivers National Preserve. They built cabins, trapped, fished, hunted and raised sled-dogs — living a version of the Alaskan dream that would soon become a thing of the past. The third section of John McPhee’s book, “Coming into the Country,” profiles many
  
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• Southcentral warm weather to dissipate this weekend

  27-01-2017 02:39
  
  A warm weather front in Southcentral Alaska is expected to dissipate Thursday, making way for cooler weather over the weekend.
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  National Weather Service meteorologist Jason Ahsenmacher said it will be a gradual shift over the next few days.
  “What that means for areas like Seward all the way up through Anchorage is that we’re going to be seeing… we’re going to be cooling back down again on Saturday,” Ahsenmacher said. “It’s not gonna get cold,
  
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• Fairbanks student arrested after making a school shooting threat on Twitter

  27-01-2017 02:29
  
  A Fairbanks student is charged with terroristic threatening due to a social media post.
  Fairbanks North Star Borough School District spokeswoman Sharice Walker said staff at West Valley High School were alerted Thursday morning to the threat posted on a student’s Twitter account.
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  “So administration located the student , placed the school into a ‘sit tight’ mode, conducted a search on the students and the students’ vehicles, contacted Troopers,” Walk
  
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• Planned Parenthood applauds Sen. Murkowski for going against ‘global gag rule’

  27-01-2017 02:18
  Sen. Lisa Murkowski. (Photo: Liz Ruskin)Planned Parenthood is praising U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski for signing onto a bill that would permanently repeal what’s known as the “global gag rule” or the “Mexico City Policy.”
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  The rule bans federal money for overseas family planning programs if the programs also provide abortion, or provide information about abortion.
  President Trump recently signed an order to reinstate the rule.
  This week, more than 40 U.S. senat
  
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• Ask a Climatologist: Snowflake sweet spot

  27-01-2017 01:46
  
  Snow piles up Jan. 23 at Alaska Public Media in Anchorage. (Photo: Annie Feidt/Alaska’s Energy Desk)The ingredients for picture perfect snowflakes came together in Southcentral Alaska this past weekend. Climatologist Brian Brettschneider said the snowflakes that fell in were especially large and piled up quickly.
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  “There’s a couple ways you can get big snowflakes,” Brettschneider said. “You can have really wet snow where the flakes clump together, and when
  
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• First tsunami survival capsule deployed on Pacific Northwest coast

  27-01-2017 01:40
  
  Jeanne Johnson of Ocean Park, Washington, is the first U.S. buyer of a tsunami pod sold by Mukilteo, Washington-based Survival Capsule LLC. (Photo: Tom Banse/NNN)A new tsunami survival option has come to the Pacific Northwest coast. It involves climbing into a spherical aluminum pod for what is sure to be the ride of your life.
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  The first U.S. buyer of this technology resides in Ocean Park, Washington. Jeanne Johnson just recently moved from the Seattle area to what she calls her &ldqu
  
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• Native leaders concerned over Trump presidency implications

  27-01-2017 01:29
  
  Demonstrators in downtown Anchorage protest the Dakota Access pipeline in September, 2016. (photo by Elizabeth Harball/Alaska Public Media)President Donald Trump angered many Native activists by moving to restart Dakota Access Pipeline construction. Thousands have protested the line, saying it could poison the Standing Rock Sioux’s water supply. They also see the move as an affront to tribal sovereignty.
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  But before Trump’s inauguration, his transition team met with Native
  
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• From the bush to Congress, Willie Hensley straddles rural and urban divide in Alaska

  27-01-2017 00:44
  
  (Left) Now-Lt. Gov Byron Mallot, Willie Hensley and Roy Huhndorf testify before Congress. (Photo: Willie Hensley)One afternoon in the mid-1970s, journalist John McPhee and an influential Alaska Native politician Willie Hensley took off from Anchorage in a de Havilland Otter and flew deep into the Alaska range, looking for a new state capitol.
  Later, in his book “Coming into the Country,” McPhee introduced the rest of the nation to one of the most prominent, young Alaska Native leader
  
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