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Afternoon Magazine Archives for month of August 2009

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Monday, August 03, 2009

1:06 pm

Talk with the Nutritionist

Susan Kundrat, R.D., Owner of Nutrition on the Move

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Categories: FoodNutrition

Monday, August 03, 2009

2:45 pm

The Book Shopper: A Life in Review

Murray Browne, Media Content Analyst and Writer

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Tuesday, August 04, 2009

1:06 pm

Fixing My Gaze: A Scientist's Journey into Seeing in Three Dimensions

Susan R. Barry, Ph.D., Professor of Neurobiology, Department of Biological Sciences, Mt. Holyoke College

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Categories: ScienceNeuroscience

Wednesday, August 05, 2009

1:06 pm

Six Months in Sudan: A Young Doctor in a War-Torn Village

James Maskalyk, M.D., Assistant Professor, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto; Founding Editor, Open Medicine

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Categories: Human RightsAfricaSudan

Thursday, August 06, 2009

1:06 pm

The End of Life Advisor: Personal, Legal, and Medical Consierations for a Peaceful, Dignified Death

Susan R. Dolan, R.N., J.D., Registered Nurse; Attorney; Healthcare Consultant

Audrey R. Vizzard, R.N., Ed.D., Registered Nurse and Psychologist

This is a repeat broadcast from Friday, May 08, 2009, 1:06 pm

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Thursday, August 06, 2009

2:45 pm

The Crying Tree: A Novel

Naseem Rakha, Award-Winning Broadcast Journalist

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Categories: Literature

Friday, August 07, 2009

1:06 pm

Dog Behavior and Care

Jim Kuehl, Dog Trainer

Carole Lindholm, Dog Trainer

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Categories: Animals

Friday, August 07, 2009

2:45 pm

First Dogs: American Presidents and Their Best Friends

Roy Rowan, Former Correspondent and Editor for Life, Time, and Foutrune

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Categories: Animals

Monday, August 10, 2009

1:06 pm

Why Don't Students Like School? A Cognitive Scientist Answers Questions About How the Mind Works and What it Means for the Classroom

Daniel T. Willingham, Ph.D., Professor of Psychology, University of Virginia

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Categories: BehaviorEducationHuman DevelopmentPsychologyStudents

Monday, August 10, 2009

2:45 pm

The International Hospitality Committee's International Friends Program

Nancy McGlathery, an International Hospitality Committee International Friends Program Coordinator

Xiaodan Zhuang, Graduate Student International Friend

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Categories: CommunityEnglish Language

Tuesday, August 11, 2009

1:06 pm

Alice: Alice Roosevelt Longworth, From White House Princess to Washington Power Broker

Stacy A. Cordery, Professor of History and Chair of the Department of History, Monmouth College

This is a repeat broadcast from Thursday, January 10, 2008, 1:06 pm

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Wednesday, August 12, 2009

1:06 pm

Bad Girls Go Everywhere: The Life of Helen Gurley Brown

Jennifer Scanlon, Ph.D., Professor of Gender and Women's Studies, Bowdoin College

This is a repeat broadcast from Tuesday, July 14, 2009, 1:06 pm

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Thursday, August 13, 2009

1:06 pm

Equal: Women Reshape American Law

Fred Strebeigh, Writer; Senior Lecturer, English and Forestry & Environmental Studies, Yale University

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Categories: Gender issuesHistoryUnited States historyJudiciaryLaw

Friday, August 14, 2009

1:06 pm

Do-Over! In Which a Forty-Eight-Year-Old Father of Three Returns to Kindergarten, Summer Camp, the Prom, and Other Embarrassments

Robin Hemley, Director/Nonfiction Writing Program, University of Iowa

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Categories: AdolescentsBehaviorChildrenEducationFamily

Monday, August 17, 2009

1:06 pm

Computers and You

James Eyrich, Wireless network Designer, Campus Information Technologies and Education Services, University of Illinois

Debbie Fligor, Network Engineer, Campus Information Technologies and Education Services, University of Illinois

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Categories: TechnologyComputersInternet

Tuesday, August 18, 2009

1:06 pm

Inside Assisted Living: The Search for Home

J. Kevin Eckert, Ph.D., Professor of Sociology/Anthropology; Director, Center for Aging Studies; Dean, Erickson School of Aginng Studies, University of Maryland

Ann Christine Frankowski, Ph.D., Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Athropology and Sociology; a Senior Research Associate with the Center for Aging Studies at the Erickson School, University of Maryland

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Categories: Aging/SeniorsConsumer issuesFamilyHealth

Tuesday, August 18, 2009

2:45 pm

"The Science of Addiction", Tuesday August 18, 7:00-8:30 PM, First United Methodist Church

Bruce Suardini, CEO of Prairie Center

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Wednesday, August 19, 2009

1:06 pm

The Evolution of Obesity

Michael L. Power, Ph.D., Senior Research Associate, American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologyists Research Associate, Smithsonian National Zoological Park

Jay Schulkin, Ph.D., Director of the Research Department, American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists; Research Professor, Georgetown University's Department of Physiology and Biophysics

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Categories: BehaviorHealth

Thursday, August 20, 2009

1:06 pm

Folk Music

Rich Warren, Host of The Midnight Special on WFMT and WILL-AM

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Categories: Music

Thursday, August 20, 2009

2:45 pm

Emily's Ghost: A Novel of the Bronte Sisters

Denise Giardina, Writer

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Categories: Literature

Friday, August 21, 2009

1:06 pm

Helping Put Food on the Table: Food Banks, Food Pantries, Shelter, and Soup Kitchens in East Central Illinois Repond to a Growing Need

Jim Hires, Executive Director, Eastern Illinois Food Bank

Scott Olthoff, Financial Counselor, Salt & Light Ministry

Marie Brown, Salt & Light Ministry Volunteer and Recipient

This program offers stories of hope and connection as we take a look at area organizations helping people in need put food on the table.

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Categories: Business and EconomyCommunityConsumer issuesEconomicsFoodHunger

Monday, August 24, 2009

1:06 pm

Consequential Strangers: The Power of People Who Don't Seem to Matter...But Really Do

Melinda Blau, Writer

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Categories: Behavior

Monday, August 24, 2009

2:45 pm

40 North/88 West Champaign County Arts, Culture, Entertainment Council ACE Awards Nominations

Megan Wolf, Director of Development, 40 North/88 West

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Tuesday, August 25, 2009

1:06 pm

Healing Spaces: The Science of Place and Well-Being

Esther M. Sternberg, M.D., Director of the Integrative Neural Immune Progran, National Institute of Mental Health

WILL hopes this program will help as so many of us struggle with the state of the economy. In an article Dr. Sternberg wrote earlier this year, she noted, "A recent study released by the American Psychological Association reported that 8 out of 10 Americans surveyed have felt stressed over finances in the weeks since the stock market took its first preciptious plunge."

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Categories: BehaviorEnvironmentHealthScience

Tuesday, August 25, 2009

2:45 pm

Telescopes in Champaign Urbana Parks

David Leake, Director, Parkland College Staerkel Planetarium

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Wednesday, August 26, 2009

1:06 pm

Financial Health in Tough Times

Mitchell Allen, Founder, President, and Chairman of Debt Education and Founder, President, and Chairman of Debt Education and Certification Foundation; author of A Survival Guide to Debt: How to Overcome Tough Times & Restore Your Financial Health

Valerie McWilliams, J.D., Managing Attorney, Champaign Office, Land of Lincoln Legal Assistance Foundation

Kathy Sweedler, Consumer and Family Economics Educator, University of Illinois Extension

U of I Extension Tough Times website, http://web.extension.uiuc.edu/toughtimes/

This program is about financial health in tough times, about debt and money management.

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Categories: Personal Finance

Thursday, August 27, 2009

1:06 pm

Flyaway: How a Wild Bird Rehabber Sought Adventure and Found Her Wings

Suzie Gilbert, Writer

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Categories: Birds

Thursday, August 27, 2009

2:45 pm

Krannert Art Museum and Kinkead Pavilion: A Preview of the Public Reception and Fall Events

Kathleen Harleman, Ph.D., Director, Krannert Art Museum and Kinkead Pavilion, University of Illinois

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Categories: Art and Design

Friday, August 28, 2009

1:06 pm

WORD SPY: THE WORD LOVER'S GUIDE TO MODERN CULTURE

Paul McFedries, writer and President of Logophilia Limited

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Friday, August 28, 2009

1:06 pm

Looking for and Landing a Job in Tough Economic Times

Richard Nelson Bolles, author of the classic What Color Is Your Parachute? A Manual for Job-Hunters and Career-Changers, and The Job-Hunter's Survival Guide: How to Find Hope and Rearding Work, Even When "There Are No Jobs"

The book, What Color Is Your Parachute? is a classic. It's helped generations of job-seekers. Now the author has written a new, much shorter, and less expensive guide covering the essentials of looking fo and landing a job in these tough economic times. It's called The Job-Hunter's Survival Guide.

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Categories: BehaviorLabor/worker issuesEmployment

Friday, August 28, 2009

2:45 pm

The Champaign County Courthouse Clock & Bell Tower Restoration

Tom Kacich, Enterprise Editor, The News-Gazette; author of Hot Type: 150 Years of the Best Local Stories from The News-Gazette

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Categories: Community

Monday, August 31, 2009

1:06 pm

Staley: The Fight for a New American Labor Movement

Steven K. Ashby, Ph.D., Associate Clinical Professor, School of Labor and Employment Relations, University of Illinois

C.J. Hawking, United Methodist Pastor

This is a repeat broadcast from Wednesday, July 01, 2009, 1:06 pm

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Monday, August 31, 2009

2:45 pm

Third Annual Allerton Music Barn Festival September 3-7, Allerton Park

Karl Cramer, Ph.D., Director of the School of Music and Professor of Music, University of Illinois

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Categories: Music

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