Yukon Portal - Heritage and Culture
Canada's Yukon may be home to twice as many moose than people, but the 35,000 enterprising and creative folks who live here are exceptionally talented. Yukoners celebrate a varied history and a dynamic arts culture, and our vast northern landscapes figure prominently in art and stories. The culture of Yukon's First Nations people evolved over millennia into the rich tapestry of dialects, arts, crafts, cuisines, and practices that we still enjoy today. From festivals to galleries to dozens of museums, historic sites, and interpretive and cultural centres, Yukon's story is brought to life for visitors in so many ways.
Yukon Arts Centre Gallery Opening
The Yukon Historical & Museums Association attended the Yukon Arts Centre gallery opening on January 15, 2009. This is some video from the opening.
Keno City, Yukon - a town at the end of the road
Keno City, Yukon is home to colorful characters, stunning scenery and living history. Once a booming frontier mining town, Keno City was named after the popular gambling game. Today, this sleepy hamlet is a rustic cluster of buildings and home to an eclectic mix of artists, miners and old timers with fewer than 20 full-time residents.
13 Awesome Things to Do in Dawson City (ft. Dawson City Music Festival)
If you're planning a trip to Dawson City in the Yukon, you NEED to watch this video. I visit the top 13 Dawson City attractions to show you just what you could get up to.
It's the Dawson City Music Festival weekend, so we'll take a look round that too!
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Postcards From The Yukon, documentary
Stream the AMI original documentary, Postcards from the Yukon.
Join Dave Brown and accomplished angler Lawrence Gunther, North America's only totally blind professional tournament fisher, on their travels to our nation’s smallest territory for the biggest adventures.
Old Log Church Constuction
Reconstruction of the Pioneer Old Log Church. By the Norway Lake Lutheran Historical Association.
Annual Public Meeting 2013
Wood-Canvas Canoes Restored by Kettle River Canoes 2010
This small gallery of fully restored wood-canvas canoes is presented to say thank you to everyone who supported Kettle River Canoes and CanoeGuy's Blog in 2010 -- over 35,000 of you.
The Amazing Race Canada 1
The first season of The Amazing Race Canada was a reality game show based on the American series The Amazing Race. It featured nine teams of two with pre-existing relationships who raced around Canada for CA$250,000, two Chevrolet Corvette Stingrays and an unlimited air travel for a year with Air Canada. The show was produced by Insight Productions, in association with Bell Media and was broadcast on CTV. The show was hosted by Canadian Olympian Jon Montgomery.
The series premiere aired on July 15, 2013 on CTV, with the season finale airing on September 16, 2013. Father and son Timothy Tim Hague, Sr. & Timothy Tim Hague, Jr. were the winners of this season of The Amazing Race Canada. They were the first parent-child team to win in The Amazing Race franchise and at the time were the first team to win after overcoming two Speed Bumps.
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Public Library Chat June 2016: Every Story Matters
This chat focused on Juneau Public Library's StoryCorps Project, Every Voice Matters: Recording and Sharing Alaska Native Educational Experiences. Our guest speakers were Andrea Hirsch, Electronic Services & Outreach Librarian for the Juneau Public Library, and Beth Weigel, Programming and Events Coordinator for the Juneau Public Library.
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Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, officially branded as CBC/Radio-Canada, is a Canadian crown corporation that serves as the national public radio and television broadcaster. The English- and French-language services units of the corporation are commonly known as CBC and Radio-Canada respectively, and both short-form names are also commonly used in the applicable language to refer to the corporation as a whole.
Although some local stations in Canada predate CBC's founding, CBC is the oldest existing broadcasting network in Canada, first established in its present form on November 2, 1936. Radio services include CBC Radio One, CBC Radio 2, Ici Radio-Canada Première, Ici Musique and the international radio service Radio Canada International. Television operations include CBC Television, Ici Radio-Canada Télé, CBC News Network, Ici RDI, Ici Explora, Ici ARTV, and documentary. The CBC operates services for the Canadian Arctic under the names CBC North and Radio-Canada Nord. The CBC also operates digital services including CBC.ca / Ici.Radio-Canada.ca, CBC Radio 3, CBC Music / ICI.mu and Ici.TOU.TV, and owns 20.2% of satellite radio broadcaster Sirius XM Canada, which carries several CBC-produced audio channels.
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C2C Care: Managing Previously Unmanaged Collections (subtítulos en español)
Recorded: Thursday, September 22, 2016
What would you do if faced with a dark, gloomy shack crammed with innumerable objects and you needed to bring it all to a best practice museum collections storage? At first, this might seem like an impossible task. The sheer amount of work, the variety of tasks that all seem to be top priority can be mind-boggling and daunting. Worse, what if you are the only museum professional within a few hundred miles and your budget is next to zero? How do you begin tackling problems like a leaking roof, the intense smell of mice and bats, dresses crammed in acidic boxes, and more objects deep down in the piles that might or might not contain hazardous material? Take a deep breath – this is not an impossible task. How do you begin?
This webinar will give you the pathway to tackle this type of situation. The focus is on the management for the overall project and not the care for single artifacts. It will help you to define what to do first, how to lay out and design a strategy, how to find help and, most importantly, how to take care of yourself during the process. We will also define “logical exits,” or points at which it is safe to stop working on a collection for a time without risking the progress and work you have done so far. Even if the situation of your collection is not as bad as the scenario described above, this webinar will provide you with ideas about how to proceed with a partly managed or neglected collection or how to integrate a large, chaotic collection into a well-managed existing one.
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Angela Kipp is the Collections Manager of the TECHNOSEUM in Mannheim, Germany and an independent museum consultant with a special focus on science, technology, farming and history collections. She holds the German Museum Studies degree of Diplom-Museologin (FH) and has worked in the museum field since 1998. She specializes in logistics, project management and the adaption of technology for the special needs of museums.
She is especially interested in finding affordable ways to improve collections care in smaller institutions. One way she does that is through her blog project Registrar Trek, aimed at raising awareness for collections care in general and fostering exchange between collections specialists around the world. Another way is the book Managing Previously Unmanaged Collections (Rowman & Littlefield, 2016) with accompanying webinars and online courses.
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Juneau, Alaska | Wikipedia audio article
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Juneau, Alaska
00:03:42 1 History
00:05:18 1.1 European encounters
00:06:14 1.2 Mining era
00:07:57 1.3 Establishment of Russian Orthodox Church
00:09:01 1.4 Development of mining
00:09:58 1.5 20th and 21st centuries
00:14:43 2 Geography
00:16:15 2.1 Adjacent boroughs and census areas
00:16:33 2.2 Border area
00:16:56 2.3 National protected areas
00:17:17 2.4 Climate
00:20:07 3 Demographics
00:23:28 4 Economy
00:27:02 5 Culture
00:28:33 6 Government
00:31:59 7 Education
00:32:08 7.1 Primary and secondary schools
00:32:42 7.2 Colleges and universities
00:33:21 8 Transportation
00:33:48 8.1 Sea
00:34:36 8.2 Air
00:36:07 8.3 Roads
00:36:47 8.3.1 Juneau Access Project
00:38:37 8.4 Public transportation
00:38:51 8.5 Walking, hiking, and biking
00:39:20 9 Infrastructure
00:39:29 9.1 Healthcare
00:40:00 10 Utilities
00:40:20 11 Media
00:40:28 11.1 Print
00:40:54 11.2 Radio
00:41:51 11.3 Television
00:42:36 12 Sister cities
00:43:08 13 See also
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The City and Borough of Juneau ( JOO-noh; Tlingit: Dzánti K'ihéeni [ˈtsántʰì kʼìˈhíːnì]), commonly known as Juneau, is the capital city of Alaska. It is a unified municipality on Gastineau Channel in the Alaskan panhandle, and it is the second largest city in the United States by area. Juneau has been the capital of Alaska since 1906, when the government of what was the District of Alaska was moved from Sitka as dictated by the U.S. Congress in 1900. The municipality unified on July 1, 1970, when the city of Juneau merged with the city of Douglas and the surrounding Greater Juneau Borough to form the current municipality, which is larger by area than both Rhode Island and Delaware.
Downtown Juneau (58°18′07″N 134°25′11″W) is nestled at the base of Mount Juneau and across the channel from Douglas Island. As of the 2010 census, the City and Borough had a population of 31,276. In 2014, the population estimate from the United States Census Bureau was 32,406, making it the second most populous city in Alaska after Anchorage. Fairbanks, however, is the state's second most populous metropolitan area, with roughly 100,000 residents. Juneau's daily population can increase by roughly 6,000 people from visiting cruise ships between the months of May and September.
The city is named after a gold prospector from Quebec, Joe Juneau, though the place was for a time called Rockwell and then Harrisburg (after Juneau's co-prospector, Richard Harris). The Tlingit name of the town is Dzántik'i Héeni (Base of the Flounder’s River, dzánti ‘flounder,’ –kʼi ‘base,’ héen ‘river’), and Auke Bay just north of Juneau proper is called Áak'w (Little lake, áa ‘lake,’ -kʼ ‘diminutive’) in Tlingit. The Taku River, just south of Juneau, was named after the cold t'aakh wind, which occasionally blows down from the mountains.
Juneau is unusual among U.S. capitals (except Honolulu, Hawaii) in that there are no roads connecting the city to the rest of Alaska or to the rest of North America (although ferry service is available for cars). The absence of a road network is due to the extremely rugged terrain surrounding the city. This in turn makes Juneau a de facto island city in terms of transportation, since all goods coming in and out must go by plane or boat, in spite of the city being on the Alaskan mainland. Downtown Juneau sits at sea level, with tides averaging 16 feet (5 m), below steep mountains about 3,500 feet (1,100 m) to 4,000 feet (1,200 m) high. Atop these mountains is the Juneau Icefield, a large ice mass from which about 30 glaciers flow; two of these, the Mendenhall Glacier and the Lemon Creek Glacier, are visible from the local road system. The Mendenhall glacier has been gradually retreating; its front face is declining in width and height.
The Alaska State Capitol in downtown Juneau was built as the Federal and Territorial Building in 1931. Prior to statehood, it housed federal government offices, the f ...
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation | Wikipedia audio article
This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
00:02:40 1 History
00:06:23 1.1 Frontier Coverage Package
00:09:20 1.2 CBC Television slogans
00:11:04 1.3 Logos
00:14:43 1.4 Nicknames
00:16:08 2 Corporation
00:16:17 2.1 Mandate
00:17:32 2.2 Management
00:18:33 2.2.1 Board of directors
00:19:00 2.2.2 Presidents
00:20:21 2.2.3 Ombudsmen
00:21:19 2.3 Financing
00:27:10 3 Services
00:27:19 3.1 News
00:27:56 3.2 Radio
00:28:56 3.3 iRadio Guide/i
00:29:53 3.4 Long-range radio plan
00:31:10 3.5 Other CBC Radio services
00:33:11 3.6 Television
00:36:31 3.7 Children's programming
00:36:47 3.8 Online
00:38:15 3.9 Merchandising
00:38:53 3.10 Interactive television
00:39:11 3.11 Commercial services
00:39:49 3.12 Miscellaneous
00:40:07 4 Unions
00:41:36 4.1 Labour issues
00:45:57 5 Cultural significance
00:49:47 6 International broadcasts
00:49:57 6.1 Newsworld International and Trio
00:51:34 6.2 U.S. border audiences
00:52:54 6.3 Carriage of CBC News
00:54:56 6.4 CBC Radio
00:55:41 6.5 Caribbean and Bermuda
00:56:38 6.6 Availability of CBC channels and programming
00:57:31 7 Controversies
00:57:40 7.1 Closed captioning
01:00:31 7.2 iBeyond the Red Wall/i
01:01:27 7.3 Radio-Canada rebranding
01:03:53 7.4 Employee harassment policy
01:06:37 7.5 Allegations of bias
01:06:55 8 Over-the-air digital television transition
01:09:43 9 Personalities
01:10:06 10 See also
01:10:57 11 Notes and references
01:11:07 12 Further reading
01:12:46 12.1 Primary sources
01:13:09 12.2 In French
01:13:55 13 External links
Listening is a more natural way of learning, when compared to reading. Written language only began at around 3200 BC, but spoken language has existed long ago.
Learning by listening is a great way to:
- increases imagination and understanding
- improves your listening skills
- improves your own spoken accent
- learn while on the move
- reduce eye strain
Now learn the vast amount of general knowledge available on Wikipedia through audio (audio article). You could even learn subconsciously by playing the audio while you are sleeping! If you are planning to listen a lot, you could try using a bone conduction headphone, or a standard speaker instead of an earphone.
You can find other Wikipedia audio articles too at:
You can upload your own Wikipedia articles through:
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
- Socrates
SUMMARY
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The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (French: Société Radio-Canada), branded as CBC/Radio-Canada, is a Canadian federal Crown corporation that serves as the national public broadcaster for both radio and television. The English- and French-language service units of the corporation are commonly known as CBC and Radio-Canada respectively, and both short-form names are also commonly used in the applicable language to refer to the corporation as a whole.
Although some local stations in Canada predate CBC's founding, CBC is the oldest existing broadcasting network in Canada, first established in its present form on November 2, 1936. Radio services include CBC Radio One, CBC Music, Ici Radio-Canada Première, Ici Musique and the international radio service Radio Canada International. Television operations include CBC Television, Ici Radio-Canada Télé, CBC News Network, Ici RDI, Ici Explora, Documentary Channel (part ownership), and Ici ARTV. The CBC operates services for the Canadian Arctic under the names CBC North and Radio-Canada Nord. The CBC also operates digital services including CBC.ca/Ici.Radio-Canada.ca, CBC Radio 3, CBC Music/ICI.mu and Ici.TOU.TV, and owns 20.2% of satellite radio broadcaster Sirius XM Canada, which carries several CBC-produced audio channels.
CBC/Radio-Canada offers programming in English, French and eight aboriginal languages on its domestic radio service, and in five languages on its web-based international radio service, Radio Canada International (RCI). However, budget cuts in the early 2010s have contributed to the corporation reducing its service via the airwaves, discontinuing RCI's shortwave broadcasts as well as terrestrial television broadcasts in all communities served by network-owned rebroadcast transmitters, including communities not subject to Canada's over-the-air digital television transition.
CBC's federal funding is supplemented by revenue from commercial advertising on its television broadcasts. The radio service employed commercials from its inception to 1974, but since its primary radio networks have been commercial-free. In 2013, CBC's secondary radio networks, CBC Music and Ici Musique, introduced limited advertising of up to four minutes an hour, but this was discontinued in 2016.