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Charlottesville Tomorrow’s latest podcast is from an Albemarle County Board of Supervisors meeting from January 11, from “an afternoon worksession to review the entire community development process.” To read more, visit Charlottesville Tomorrow’s blog, or download the podcast to hear Brian Wheeler set up what you’ll hear.
Emergency contraception was invented in the 1960’s to prevent victims of sexual assault from becoming pregnant, but has still not been made available to consumers on an over the counter basis. This year, the General Assembly is expected to weigh in on the issue, as well as other abortion-related issues. Planned Parenthood is holding a Pro-Choice lobby day on February 1. On this week’s edition of WNRN’s Sunday Morning Wake-Up Call, Rick Moore speaks with Becky Reid is a grassroots organizer for the group and Kim Lo is a volunteer.
In the monologue, Rick muses about a new drug being created to help people forget traumatic events.
Do you have iTunes, version 4.9 or above? If so, then click here to add the Wake-Up Call podcast to your music library. This will allow you to download every episode through iTunes. Or consider odeo.com to search through thousands of podcasts from all over the world.
The Virginia General Assembly convenes tomorrow for a new session, and this year, there will be seventeen new faces in the House of Delegates. One of them is David Toscano, recently elected to serve the 57th District. Sean Tubbs spoke with Toscano on Sunday to find out how he was preparing to become a legislator, the differences between the Charlottesville City Council and the legislature, and to find out what bills Toscano has filed for the session.
This piece kicks off a new feature on the Charlottesville Podcasting Network- Charlottesville Interviews. In the weeks to come, we hope to bring you conversations with a number of people in and outside Central Virginia.
What role should students play in running the schools they attend? Should they be able to go to school and not have teachers? That’s the topic on this week’s edition of WNRN’s Sunday Morning Wake-Up Call. Brenda Callen and Sue Frankel-Strait are helping to start the Friendship Sudbury School in Fluvanna County.
The idea is to let pupils direct their own studies, along the lines of those who are home-schooled. This “Sudbury” model of schooling began in Massachusetts as a democratic, non-compulsory form of education. Mark McCraig of the Fairhaven Sudbury School in Columbia, Maryland, calls in to talk about how his school works.
Rick’s monologue asks if it is possible to forgive a tragedy such as the recent mining accident in West Virginia.
The concept of adding a non-voting student member to the Albemarle County School Board was discussed this week on cvillenews.com.
Do you have iTunes, version 4.9 or above? If so, then click here to add the Wake-Up Call podcast to your music library. This will allow you to download every episode through iTunes. Or consider odeo.com to search through thousands of podcasts from all over the world.
Charlottesville Tomorrow has a podcast from this week’s meeting of the Albemarle County Board of Supervisors concerning new growth estimates in the Crozet region. Apparently the county now projects a maximum population in the town of about 24,000. Currently 3,600 people live there according to CT. Visit the site to learn more.
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Charlottesville resident Brian Geiger has created a podcast called The Food Geek dedicated to “making the world safe for food science.” Brian released his latest episode on New Year’s Day as a way of looking ahead to 2006. Please visit the site to download the program, or subscribe to the podcast.
Do you have iTunes, version 4.9 or above? If so, then click here to add the Food Geek podcast to your music library. This will allow you to download every episode through iTunes.
Jefferson’s ‘rough draught’ of the Declaration of Independence as read by Bill Barker, who portrays Thomas Jefferson for Colonial Williamsburg
The Declaration of Independence read by Bill Barker, who portrays Thomas Jefferson for Colonial Williamsburg
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We’re almost a year into the podcasting phenomenon, and the success of the medium has been more than most people had predicted. Later on this month, we’ll produce a year-in-review podcast that will sum up our thoughts on 2005 and give a preview of what we hope to accomplish in 2006.
In the meantime, though, we’d like to introduce Brad Richard, a motivational speaker and author who has turned to this new medium to reach new audiences. Brad is producing a talk show through Odeo, one of the many podcast sites out there. He’s aiming to produce a weekly program to help people move ahead with their lives by confronting their fears.
In the weeks to come, Brad will be using the CPN studio to produce an installment or two for us. We’re excited to be working with him in the future, and hope to be speaking with you about podcasting in the coming year.
Not only are we lucky enough to have winter in December this year. We also have an appearance this Sunday morning by one of the world’s richest men. Yes, Virginia, Santa Claus will be on WNRN’s Sunday Morning Wake-Up Call this week at 11:00 A.M. As always, we’ll provide a podcast of the show should you miss it, but the only way to give your daughter or son a chance to talk to the big man is to call the show. Rick Moore tells me that Santa’s people say 11:20 is the time Santa will be calling, so make sure you’re listening!
The December 11 installment of WNRN’s Sunday Morning Wake-Up Call dealt with our nation’s criminal justice system and how it can be improved. Rick Moore talks with three people from the organization Offender Aid and Restoration. From emotional therapy to job skills to restorative justice, there are many ways to provide alternatives to the current criminal system and help reduce recedivism.
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This year marks the 150th anniversary of the death of Charlotte Bronte, the author who gave millions of school children something to read with the publication of Jane Eyre. The novel is one of the most common in the English language, and the Rare Book School is honoring Bronte with a look at the ubiquitous nature of this classic in a special exhibit in the Rotunda called Eyre Apparent, which features a look at the depth at which the novel has penetrated pop culture, and to show that there’s much more to a book than its text.
Barbara Heritage is curator of collections at the Rare Book School. I met her recently at Alderman Library while she was putting the exhibit together and asked her to describe a shelf containing much in the way of Eyre paraphrenalia.
