Century 21 Calling: 1962 Seattle World's Fair Space Needle Bell Telephone Promo + 8mm Elvis

Explore the futuristic landscape of the 1962 Seattle World's Fair, centered in the Bell System pavilion.

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• This IS a great video. Thanks for posting. However, the Seattle World's Fair took place from April 21, 1962 thru October 21, 1962 NOT 1964.

  smsstuart 5 months ago
• Guess it really was ahead of it's time then ;-) Details updated.

  wdtvlive42 in reply to smsstuart 5 months ago

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• I called Diane Brown! Hi! Jim! The world seems so less fascinating in the REAL 21st Century. Considering I was born in 1962.

  Budkapest 2 months ago 4 
• I prefer ReMaxx

  timmyrocker 2 weeks ago

  
  

  
  

Space Needle in 8mm


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Borodon String Quartet No. 2. Nocturne 2012 and 1976

Borodin String Quartet No. 2 Nocturne



At Thalia luncheon for Frances Walton 2012

Borodin String Quartet No. 2 Nocturne Marrowstone Music Fest 1976


I played 1st violin back in 1976 with my brother. We were inspired by the faculty quartet at the Thalia / Olympic Music camp with Michael Sheremetiew and Frances Walton. This has 16,000 hits, which is among the most viewed of any live performance of this on youtube. This is off a cassette recording.

Darth Vader in Kilt Playing Bagpipes On Unicycle

Now there's something you don't see everyday. I was at Emerald City Comicon 2012 but I found this on Youtube:

Darth Vader in a Kilt on a Unicyle Playing the Starwars Theme on Bagpipes.

Bagpipe Vader vs. Portico Dance Company - Emerald City Comicon 2012

Rhapsody (Real Networks) Seeks Android Mobile Development College Intern

Not too late for this college internship job:

see http://hire.jobvite.com/CompanyJobs/Careers.aspx?k=Job&c=qLc9VfwL&j=oM1mWfwP&s=SimplyHired

Android Software Development Engineer Intern

Engineering | Seattle, WA, United States 

Would you like to build technology that millions of people play with?

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Rhapsody is experiencing significant growth in subscribers, expanding internationally, and is always looking to bring in top talent. We have start-up feel with the security of a strong revenue stream. With more than a million paying subscribers and over 14 million songs, Rhapsody is leading the digital music service revolution in the US (and soon globally).  We make it possible for fans to listen to any song, anytime and anywhere.

We are looking for someone who loves Android and Java and wants to gain some real-world experience. The ideal internship candidate will be enrolled in a computer science degree program.

A little about our Android team...

Not only do we have a great work-life balance but we set our folks up to work effectively on programs they love. For example, to maintain productivity, we banned afternoon meetings. Thursdays we have no meetings and work from home (in other words, we get to code to our hearts’ content). As a small and nimble team, everyone is empowered to shape our product. We are collaborative, Agile, and we eat, sleep, and breathe Android. If you’re tired of being burned-out and you can code like Bill Nye can science, then you need to talk to us.

You will accomplish these things in your internship: 

• Gain real-world experience in a professional software development environment
• Work with and learn from senior software development engineers

• Help develop software used and enjoyed by millions of people
• Participate in code design and review
• Write documentation for technical architecture/features
• Work with test engineers to identify and fix defects
• Work with test engineers to write test cases and assist in automation

We need you to have this: 

• Pursuing a Bachelors or Masters in Computer Science or a related field
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• Highly motivated with a positive attitude and passion for music

Rhapsody offers a highly collaborative, hardworking, open environment where you’ll work alongside extremely creative and dedicated people.  The company is headquartered in Seattle, with offices in San Francisco and New York.  We are proud to offer our full time employees an extensive benefits package including generous paid time off, medical, dental, vision, 401(k), telecommuting, subsidized commuting options and more.

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Pike Place Market String Flash Mob Bloch Concerto Grosso

Pike Place Market String Ensemble Flash Mob

These guys are playing one of the more obscure but cool  Bloch Concerto Grosso which I played with the Seattle Youth Symphony under Sokol 1973 or so. These guys are doing it BY MEMORY and notice how Cellos are up in the air. The piano part is missing, we had a piano.

The Tallboys at Pike Place Market

Beautiful Video About Seattle University

Just spotted this looking for snow closure information:

Seattle University - An Incredible Campus in a Beautiful City

Seattle Snow Drivin LANE CHANGE CRASH

New Seattle Snow Driving Rule #27: DO NOT LANE CHANGE 405S near Totem Lake, dodged Nissan Maxima 2 cars ahead, changed left from center lane, tail swung out, turned backwards across car ahead of me into right lane, ended up on shoulder backwards and could not move in 5" of snow there. I stopped to ask if he needed help, he said he was fine, made it into bellevue fine.

There was about 2" of snow across the freeway and some ice/snow even in the ruts. My Mazda MPV with studs drove fine as along as it was under 40mph where most of traffic was. I got the studs after we got stuck in 2007 thanksgiving coming back from San Diego with worn all-weather tires on ice on hill near our house. Never needed snow tires for typical NW winters = 1.5 days of snow on ground.
I've have seen 3 other cars in the process of spinning out ahead of me or in my rearview mirror on I405 between Kirkland and Bellevue WHEN IT WAS DRY. Must be the slope or something, one was a blown tire from right lane, spun around and crossed in front of us about 30 ft ahead, ended up backwards after hitting center guard rail, woman was also ok.

Other rules

• Don't run summer tires in winter
• Replace your all-weather tires well before they hit the tread indicators
• You can run snow tires all year, they just make more noise and will wear faster but you won't need to swap them and will come in handy the 3 or 4 days a year you will actually need them even if you never drive over the mountains
• Studs are even better but you have to change tires each season and they are bad for roads and ar really noisy.
• Drive SLOWLY 

Seattle African Immigrants Outscore American Blacks, Biggest Shock Asians?

Seattle study finds that when students are broken down by language, immigrants from Africa from places like Somalia outscore African American native english speakers, even in English, though they still fall short of whites. If a group of Africans scores higher than natives, I would call that encouraging, not alarming as it proves "institutional racism" evidently doesn't doom all black students equally. Amharic, spoken by Ethiopians did the best of the African groups, 62% pass, not too far from 70% district average which throws in whites and Asians. One problem is that we should spend less time comparing groups with disparate history economics and cultural and economic capital, it's like trying to berate one kid for not achieving what his brother did. Everybody's job is to do as well as they can, not prove who can make mom the happiest of her children. Even Asian kids would go up the wall even more than they do now if Asian parents expected them to do EVERYTHING better than white kids. (oh no, I fear that's the next generation of Asian parents...)

Here is the full pdf http://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/272355/seattle-public-schools-disaggregated-student.pdf

Here's one summary from http://saveseattleschools.blogspot.com/2011/12/gap-in-black-student-outcomes.html
In short, immigrant Black students out-perform African-American students on state tests. 62% of black students who come from homes where Amharic is spoken passed the state math tests while the pass rate for black students from English-speaking homes was only 36%. Even in the Reading tests, those who come from a home where Amharic is spoken passed at a 74% rate while those from English-speaking homes passed at a 56% rate.
comments: 

Anonymous said...

Just an FYI, Amharic is the language of Ethiopian people, not Somali people.

Seattle parent

12/19/11 7:16 AM

emeraldkity said...

Just because they have similar complexions? What else do these folks have in common?

I have been working with immigrant populations in SPS & these score differences don't surprise me at all.

Interestingly, they omit Asian languages, as I've noted the SAT breakdowns show Asians who speak English as a first language don't score a high in math as immigrants (though their english is better and their combined scores is higher than any race / language group). But nobody thinks that's a shocking indictment of American racism, and I still can't believe how many people say American schools are awful when there are parents in Asia who sacrifice their lives to get their kids into an American school where they have a chance to get into a  college they might not have in Asia, never mind Hispanics don't have any problem with the quality of schools here compared to Latin America.

Here is the Asian table

Risk assessment Spectrum 0-least 10-most

Highest scoring black group Amharic 2.8 stands out as the least at-risk group, that's a big part of it. No mention in the article.  Top groups = Korean, Japanese and Chinese, Vietnamese. Big group missing is WHITE

Korean 1.1
Japanese 1.3
Chinese 1.4
Vietnamese 2.2
Asian Indian 2.3
Filipino 2.6
Amharic 2.8
Hispanic English 3.5
district 3.0---------------------------------
Tigrinya 3.7
Other Asian 3.9
Cambodia 4.1
Oromo Ethiopia 5.1
Spanish Hispanic 5.3
English-AfAm 5.4
Samoan 5.5
Somali 5.5

Math %met  including ELL. In seattle at least, english speaking Chinese are also better at math.

91% Chinese not ELL
88% Japanese
88% Korean
87% Chinese
82% Vietnamese not ELL
75% Vietnamese
67% Filipino
66% District
66% Asian Indian
58% English Hispanic
57% Other Asian
53% Cambodian
51% Amharic African
46%  Tigrinya African
39% Samoan
39% Spanish Hispanic
39% Oromo Ethiopia
36% English Black

28% Somali

Nobody noticed my 90s study which found that Seattle whites broken out score higher than any district except for Mercer Island, so there is not such thing as a "standard" white population. Seattle's whites score much higher than whites in most suburbs, even the Gypsy population that was tracked back then - they scored the same as other whites. Blacks scored about the same as suburbs, while Asians were the only group that score worse than in the suburbs. I've found that though blacks lag whites, they are not far below the national average and ahead of blacks in most other cities.

 It's also important to note that Asians do range from at worst, slightly worse than whites no matter how spectacularly bad a city district performs up to the pattern I found in Seattle that Renton Asians scored as well as whites in Bellevue, Asian in Bellevue scored as well as whites in Mercer Island, and Asians in Mercer Island scored as well as whites in the best private schools, generally one notch up the scale compared to whites. I know Asian families whose parents have no high school diploma who work their way up into owning restaurants and rental houses who send all their kids to the University of Washington, which my family hasn't done with 2 college degrees. (OK, we've got one at the UW and one at private Seattle U)

see 'Alarming' new test-score gap discovered in Seattle schools 

For the first time, Seattle Public Schools officials have broken down test scores by specific home language. The recently announced results revealed a surprising trend that may have implications for policy around the district.

Highlights:

African-American students whose primary language is English perform significantly worse in math and reading than black students who speak another language at home — typically immigrants or refugees — according to new numbers released by Seattle Public Schools.

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....Michael Tolley, an executive director overseeing Southeast Seattle schools, said at the meeting that the data exposed a new achievement gap that is "extremely, extremely alarming."

Traditional factors in low performance, such as poverty and single-parent homes, are generally shared by black immigrants and nonimmigrants alike.

...The results, although preliminary, were eye-opening:

• Only 36 percent of black students who speak English at home passed their grade's math test, while 47 percent of Somali-speaking students passed. Other black ethnic groups did even better, although still lower than the district average of 70 percent.

• In reading, 56 percent of black students who speak English passed, while 67 percent of Somali-speaking students passed. Again, other black ethnic groups did better, though still lower than the district average of 78 percent.

...Most of all, Teoh said, because the English-speaking category includes students of many black ethnic groups, it's impossible to compare specific ethnic groups.

...Pamela Bennett, a sociologist at Johns Hopkins University, agreed. She conducted a study in 2009 that found that immigrant black high-school graduates attend college at a much higher rate than black or white students born in the U.S. The reason was that the immigrants had a higher socioeconomic background, she said.

...Seattle School Board member Betty Patu, who has worked for decades with community groups serving students of color, said she has noticed that all immigrant families, regardless of socioeconomic status, place high value on education.

Racial expectations?

...McLaren, a former teacher, believes that black students whose families have been in the U.S. for generations often perform poorly because schools and general societal structures have imposed a culture of low expectations on them dating back to the days of slavery.

...Rita Green, vice president of the Rainier Beach PTSA, said teachers don't push black students as hard as immigrant students.

..Several studies have shown that teachers' feelings about how students will perform impact how the students actually perform.