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Join WUOT for our Open House on July 26 from 4 to 7 p.m.!
 What are you doing on July 26 between 4 and 7 p.m.? "Nothing" you say? Well, you're in luck! You're invited to our radio station for a fun open house.
There are many reasons to come. You'll get to:
- meet and take photos with staff
- listen to live music performed by Todd Steed and Bob Deck
- get a behind-the-scenes tour of the station
- have your caricature drawn (for free!)
- enter a prize drawing to win a portable HD Radio and an Etón emergency radio
- play a public radio trivia game
So come join us - you'll have a great time!
Directions, parking info and additional information
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WUOT Thanks Supporters for Successful Fiscal Year
July marks the beginning of the new fiscal year for WUOT Public Radio and thanks to wonderful community support, the station ended FY 2011 in great shape! Community sources provided more than 60% of WUOT's revenue in FY 2011!
Members like you who generously donate to the station provided 41% of our total operating budget in FY11. The coming years may hold uncertainties for some sources of public radio funding, but WUOT's membership continues to grow. You believe in what we do and you support it. That means the world to us.
Businesses and organizations that underwrite on WUOT accounted for 19% of WUOT's revenue. In a time of economic uncertainty, it's gratifying to know that these groups continue to believe in WUOT as a valuable resource. The University of Tennessee, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) and endowment provided the remaining 40% of the station's annual operating income.
WUOT simply could not exist without the tremendous commitment of our members and these organizations. As we close the books on FY 2011, we are profoundly grateful for the support you give the station and its staff.
We look forward to serving you in FY 2012. THANK YOU for ensuring that WUOT will continue to provide quality noncommercial public radio to our region and beyond!
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WUOT Recognizes New and Renewing Underwriters
The following organizations became new underwriters or renewed their support of WUOT programming in June. You can find a complete list of our sponsors with links to their websites on our Underwriters webpage. Please thank them for supporting WUOT Public Radio!
- African American Appalachian Arts, Inc. Kuumba Festival
- CHIPS: Computer Help In Problem Solving
- Clarence Brown Theatre at the University of Tennessee
- First Tennessee
- Green Thumb Professional Organic Lawn Care
- Historic Tennessee Theatre Foundation
- John Coker, Ltd.
- Knoxville Jazz Festival
- Oak Ridge Playhouse
- Southern Highland Craft Guild
- Tennessee Stage Company
All Underwriters
WUOT-Sponsored Events in July
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NEW SERIES ON MORNING EDITION
 Those Who Serve
This Fourth of July, NPR begins a series of three stories, "Those Who Serve," that explores the divide between the civilian and military worlds. NPR's Pentagon correspondent Tom Bowman profiles several Marines fighting in Afghanistan, who talk candidly about why they serve. "The Grunts" is the first program in the series; "The Sergeant" on Tuesday, July 5; and "The Medic" on Wednesday, July 6.
Photo: Darryl St. George, a Navy Corpsman out of Camp Lejeune, NC, reads a book as the sun rises over a temporary base nicknamed "Patrol Base Suc" in Northern Marja, Helmand Provence, in southern Afghanistan.
Photo credit: David Gilkey, NPR
This series airs beginning Monday, July 4, on Morning Edition.
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CD Winner
 In honor of Independence Day, WUOT will give not one, but 10, CD prizes to members as part of our monthly CD prize drawing perk. This patriotic-themed CD is Mannheim Steamroller's "American Sprit." The lucky winners are: Jack and Carol T. of Loudon, Tenn.; Margie and Chuck C. of Knoxville, Tenn.; Bob and Beth C. of Crossville, Tenn.; Kerrie N. of Maryville, Tenn.; John B. of Oak Ridge, Tenn.; James G. of Knoxville, Tenn.; Mark and Karen D. of Oak Ridge, Tenn.; Emily S. of Knoxville, Tenn.; Eleanor B. of Knoxville, Tenn. and Edward and Viola E. of Knoxville, Tenn.
Each month, we'll randomly draw a name from our list of valued members* and the winner will receive a CD. It's just another way for us to say "thanks" for your support. Click here for more information about the prize drawing.
* You do not need to make a donation to enter this drawing. To enter without making a gift to the station, e-mail your name and address to Lisa Beckman at lbeckma1@utk.eduor mail the information to her attention to WUOT, 209 Communications Bldg., Knoxville, TN 37996-0322. You must re-enter each month to be included in the next month's drawing. ___________________________________
PROGRAMMING
LA Opera on Air Begins
 Saturday, July 16, brings the LA Opera on Air for the summer. Daniel Catan's "Il Postino" featuring Placido Domingo (left) is the first production. The opera starts at 1 p.m.
(NOTE: The July 2 program in the Chicago Lyric Opera series begins at noon; This American Life moves to 10 p.m.)
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Knoxville Symphony Orchestra
Broadcasts begin this month of selected concerts recorded during the KSO's 2010-2011 season.
Monday evenings at 8
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This Month on Radiolab
 "Desperately Seeking Symmetry" -- Jad and Robert set out in search of order and balance in the world around us, and ask how symmetry shapes our very existence--from the origins of the universe, to what we see when we look in the mirror. Along the way, we look for love in ancient Greece , head to modern-day Princeton to peer inside our brains, and turn up an unlikely headline from the Oval Office circa 1979.
Friday, July 22, at noon
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 DIALOGUE - WUOT's monthly live call-in program. Hosts: Matt Shafer Powell and Chrissy Keuper
This month's guest is Knox County Mayor Tim Burchett. Join us for the discussion.
Wednesday, July 6, at 1 p.m.
 STUDIO 865/Flipside - WUOT's monthly program featuring local music and musicians. Host: Todd Steed.
July features Knoxville singer-songwriter Jill Andrews. She just released a new full-length album, "The Mirror." Singer-songwriter Kim Beggs will join us on the Flipside.
Wednesday, July 6, at 8 p.m.
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FROM THE NATIONAL DESKS
Getting A Kick Out Of Cocktail Culture
The Rhode Island School of Design's Museum of Art has launched an intoxicating exhibit of apparel, accoutrement, and ephemera. "Cocktail Culture: Ritual and Invention in American Fashion, 1920-1980" uses 200 disparate objects to explore how cocktails emerged as "a symbol of American joie de vivre, prosperity, youth, and unity.
Photo: Norman Bel Geddes' 1934 "Manhattan Cocktail Service" evokes a tall, city skyscraper.
Photo credit: Museum Of Art/Rhode Island School of Design
http://www.npr.org/2011/06/12/137106364/a-spirited-celebration-of-americas-cocktail-culture
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 Money For Nothing
All around the nation, money is piling up in Federal Reserve vaults. There's a billion dollars of it -- and the government can't even give it away. The dollar coin program is a massive and expensive failure that no one in Washington seems to want to talk about.
http://www.npr.org/2011/06/28/137394348/-1-billion-that-nobody-wants
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 Pictures Of Pictures Of The Past...In The Present
The latest Internet photograph meme to blend the past and the present is "Dear Photograph." The project involves people taking old pictures back to the place they were taken, and photographing the picture to juxtapose what was and what is.
Photo: "Dear Photograph; I looked good in a tux."
Photo credit: Dear Photograph
http://www.npr.org/blogs/pictureshow/2011/06/23/137353253/pictures-of-pictures-from-the-past-in-the-present
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