WNRN’s Wakeup Call: Community Roundtable

This week on WNRN’s Sunday Morning Wakeup Call, a community roundtable on current events. Yes, it’s the week where host Rick Moore collects area citizens, gathers them around a microphone, and gets their opinion on issues facing Central Virginia. In the studio are Isabel Stanton, a graduate student at UVA and a DJ at WNRN, and Thalia Miller, who says she “plays a lot of golf.” Among the issues discussed: Albemarle County banning panhandling in the medians and intersections, Charlottesville dropping from the #1 place to live to the #90 slot, and local thoughts on the recent terrorist bombings in London.

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Gesel Mason’s Declaration of (In)Dependence

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This Monday night, D.C. choreographer Gesel Mason will tell the story of Thomas Jefferson’s complex relationship with Sally Hemings, a slave whose six children were likely fathered by the third president. The talk is part of the C-Ville Talks lecture series put on by C-Ville Weekly, and will include excerpts of A declaration of (In)Dependence: The Story of Sally Hemings.

In her piece, Mason uses movement to depict the many nuances and complexities of the relationship to fully explore the ambiguities of the time. On Monday night at Live Arts, she’ll be showing videos of the performance and discussing the legacy of the Jefferson-Hemings relationship.

Update: This file was rediscovered on December 12, 2016.

An Interview with Robert Bruce on Astral Projection

Have you ever had an uncanny experience such as the sensation of your hackles going up around a particular person or place, for instance, or an inexplicably vivid dream in which you could see yourself sleeping? Or one that made you wonder if claims about the reality of supernatural forces and out of body experiences have any validity? Robert Bruce doesn’t need to wonder. Since the age of three, his encounters with astral planes and psychic forces have left him with no doubt about the presence of unseen beings and forces.

An Australian mystic, healer, clairvoyant, and author of several books that are considered classics in the field, including Astral Dynamics, a worldwide bestseller published by Charlottesville’s own Hampton Roads Publishing. Earlier this month, Bruce spoke at Quest Bookshop, and held a five-day workshop on “Energy and Conciousness” at the University of Virginia’s Continuing Education Center. Amy Sarah Marshall was there, and spoke with Bruce afterwards.

 

WNRN Sunday Morning Wakeup Call: Barbara Nordin, the Hook’s Fearless Consumer

In a world where consumer choices are endless, disagreements and misunderstandings are bound to occur. Who steps in to negotiate? Barbara Nordin, that’s who. Nordin writes the Hook’s Fearless Consumer column. In every issue, Nordin investigates the complaints of those who feel they’ve been wronged by businesses. On this week’s installment of WNRN’s Sunday Morning Wakeup Call, she deals with steak knives, German lemons, and reveals that the consumer isn’t necessarily always right. Wakeup Call Host Rick Moore begins the show with a monologue addressing the irony of a terrorist attack while world leaders meet to discuss ending poverty.

CPN and WNRN are pleased to announce that the Sunday Morning Wakeup Call is now available through iTunes 4.9. Before this update, podcasting was a fairly complicated process, but all you have to do now to get every episode of the Wakeup Call is subscribe in iTunes. No third-party software. No fuss. Just subscribe, and Wakeup any time you want!

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“We Apologise for the Inconvenience”

We apologize for the recent halt in our full operation. The server that runs our site has been experiencing technical difficulties, which means the database that runs WordPress has been offline, so we’ve been waiting patiently to resume operations.

While I have your attention, I’ll share some information about what we’ve done so far, and give you a sense of what we’re all about. We created CPN back in April to provide an outlet for speeches, panel discussions and features that were recorded in our area. Since then, we’ve had over 4,000 downloads, on everything from the Sunday Morning Wakeup Call, to a preview of what’s happening at the Prism. We’re the only place where you’ll find this kind of audio programming, for use on your computer or your iPod. We’re dedicated to expanding the public square, providing a public service that has heretofore gone unfulfilled.

With a spirit of adventure, we are currently developing several more programs for your enjoyment and education, and hope to produce some interesting pilots in July and August. We see this as an experimental website that will serve as a test for citizen-driven radio. What ideas do you have? Have you ever wanted to produce radio? We’ll train you, and put you to work. There are all kinds of great things that happen in this town that most of us can’t get to.

We will also be altering the way in which we handle podcasting feeds, splitting into several different kind of feeds. We’ll have one for speeches, one for features, and one for interviews, perhaps. Maybe one for experimental music, or for poetry!

Are you interested in becoming a CPN producer? Perhaps you can develop a podcast for your interest, organization, religion, or business.

CPN’s parent company, Wordcast Productions, is now ready to offer equipment and rudimentary training to people who have an audio project in mind. Whether it be a documentary about your love of Scrabble to a feature about an upcoming play, we feel that podcasting is an excellent way to spread the word about cultural and political events in town. We can help you get your message across.

We’ll be holding an informational meeting on Tuesday, July 12 in the downstairs at Court Square Tavern, at 8:00. If it’s a bit too smoky for you, we’ll hold another one later in the month. We’ll have a basic introduction to audio recording and reporting, and maybe talk a little about the craft of audio.

Things seem back to normal at the moment, but that could change as the server company settles things down.

Contact us at seantubbs AT gmail.com if you’re interested in attending, or to ask any questions. Together we can offer an alternative voice.

New Citizens Take Oath at Monticello

For the 43rd time yesterday, the Thomas Jefferson Foundation offered up Monticello for a special naturalization ceremony on the anniversary of our nation’s birth. 79 people became citizens on the 229th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, written of course by Mr. Jefferson. This year’s speaker was famed architect I.M. Pei, whose comments are approximately eight minutes into this hour-long ceremony. Special thanks to Travis Messinger for providing us with the audio of this event, and to Chad Wollerton at Monticello.

 

Wakeup Call: Trends in Elementary Education

An elementary school teacher is one of the hardest professions in the known universe. Not only do you have to cope with several children at once, you’ll also have to deal with the politics of accountability, concerned parents, and scarce resources. On this week’s show, Rick Moore speaks with two people who’ll help us understand why someone would take on the challenge.

“Roger” is a college student seeking to be an elementary school teacher, and if he does, he’ll be a rare breed. Most teachers of students in kindergarten to fifth grade are women. “Kathy” is a ten-year veteran of teaching who currently educates kids in an urban school district somewhere in Virginia.

The weekly commentary considers Independence Day in a country gone mad.

WNRN’s Sunday Morning Wakeup Call airs every week at 11:00 AM. Rick will take your phone calls at 979-0919 or 1-877-967-6762.

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30 Days: Great visual journalism worth watching

We’re only two months old, so we don’t have a lot of policies, or style
guides, or anything like that. But, when we first launched the site, we
didn’t expect to be doing personal reviews, or anything like that. And
we still don’t.

But this week, I watched a great television program on FX that embodies
the kind of journalism I think we need more of in this country. The show is
called 30 Days, and it’s by Morgan Spurlock, the same guy who spent a month eating nothing but McDonalds for the movie Super Size Me . This week’s episode is about a Christian guy from West Virginia who travels to Dearborn, Michigan, to live as a Muslim for 30 days.

This is my quick review of the show, which should be watched by anyone interested in getting past this crazy us versus them mentality that we seem to have in our country these days.

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Recommendations from JABA’s conference on longterm aging in Central Virginia

We present to you now the second podcast from the Jefferson Area Board of Aging’s June 24 conference. The event was designed to provide input from area experts on the elderly into the White House Conference on Aging, scheduled for this December. This posting contains the recommendations from three of the breakout sessions.

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Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass turns 150

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150 years ago this week, a journalist originally from Long Island published his first manuscript of poems, transforming himself as a writer of news and short fiction into one of America’s most important poets. Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass is being celebrated this summer by the University of Virginia, which has several of the original manuscripts at the Harrison Institute’s Small Special Collections library. Many of these items are on display in the Institute’s first-floor gallery through mid-August.

This past spring, the Virginia Quarterly Review dedicated a special issue to Whitman’s work. VQR is collaborating with special collections on a series of gallery talks, given by editor Ted Genoways, to discuss the library’s holdings. Genoways is working on a dissertation on Whitman, and below is one of his talks, this one from June 28, 2005.

Whitman has famously declared that Leaves of Grass was published on July 4, 2005, but Ted Genoways explains that this isn’t necessarily the case.

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Preparing Central Virginia for Retiring Baby Boomers

How prepared is Central Virginia for the graying Baby Boomer population, the first of whom are beginning to retire? That’s just one of the mandates of the Jefferson Area Board of Aging, a non-profit dedicated to helping people prepare for their golden years. This past June, JABA was one of the hosts of a one-day conference to provide input for the White House Conference on Aging, scheduled for this December. With the nation’s elderly population soon to double, the conference is designed to help policymakers figure out what needs to be done to make sure everyone has access to long-term care.

This audio is a keynote speech from Robert Blancato, the executive director of the last White House Conference on Aging, and a member of the national coordinating committee for this year’s event.