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E-Notes
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Learn About Fall Fund Drive Results!
 WUOT's Fall Fund Drive October 17-22 was a huge success thanks to each and every person who pledged! Donors are our largest single funding source, which means that you are true partners with WUOT. We air the programming you enjoy and you help make that possible. Thank you.
Here are the results: 1,901 people, 234 of whom were new members, pledged a total of $187,693, exceeding our goal for the drive. This is definitely the community's radio station-donors made the fund drive successful financially and volunteers made it possible logistically. About 110 volunteers, like Eric McAnly (photo on right), collectively spent several hundred hours answering pledge phone calls, sending out mailings, picking up donated food and providing other important administrative support. We greatly appreciate all your help.
 In other results, cats received 52 more pledge "votes" than dogs on Pet Pledge Day Oct. 13, retaining the title as WUOT members' most popular pet. Our Community Partnership on Friday, Oct. 21, also was very popular-and a great success. Judy Teasley of Keller Williams Realty®offered to donate one book to a child through Dolly Parton's Imagination Library for every pledge received. We received 410 pledges that day, so 410 books will be donated to Tennessee children!
Everyone who pledged or submitted their name on Saturday, Oct. 22, was entered to win one of two pairs of tickets to spend an evening with "A Prairie Home Companion" host Garrison Keillor (right). The lucky winners are: Leon Zevenbergen of Knoxville, Tenn., and David and Kathy Olsen of Oak Ridge, Tenn. Congratulations! We hope you enjoy the event.
However you donated, whenever you donated, we are grateful for and humbled by your support. Thank you for being loyal partners of this public radio station!
We also thank the following businesses, which generously supported WUOT during the drive:
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Your Support Makes WUOT Possible!
 Our listeners once again heeded the call! Hundreds of station fans pledged their support to WUOT Public Radio. The fall on-air drive raised $187,693, and we THANK YOU!
This financial help is critical in providing WUOT with the resources to pay for the programming you enjoy throughout the year. But the energy and passion we hear in the voices of listeners calling the station and the sincerity in the emails and messages given online during our drives are just as important as the dollars raised. WUOT listeners believe that access to quality, local public radio is important to our community-and their support is generous and enthusiastic!
Our goal at WUOT is to create, produce and provide public media programming that delivers the highest possible value to you. We hope that whenever you tune in to 91.9 FM or listen to WUOT-2 on an HD Radio™ or on the web, you'll hear something that engages, challenges and inspires you.
The entire WUOT staff shares the passion and commitment our listeners feel for public radio. We take pride in providing this community with compelling local, national and international programming.
With your continuing help, WUOT Public Radio will get better and better. There are more local stories to cover, more great music to present and more interesting national programs to share with you. Thanks again for supporting this great public radio station!
Regina Dean
Director
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Win Tickets to See Garrison Keillor!
 The man in the red shoes is coming to K-town, and if you didn't win tickets during the fund drive, WUOT has another chance for you to win a pair of tickets to the show!*
Garrison Keillor, author, humorist, and creator/host of "A Prairie Home Companion," will share anecdotes about growing up in the American Midwest, the people of Lake Wobegon and late-life fatherhood in his one-man show on Wednesday, Dec. 7, at 8 p.m. at the Tennessee Theatre.
Just answer the following question correctly and send your answer along with your name, mailing address and daytime phone number with area code to Cindy Hassil via e-mail** no later than 5 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 29. We'll do a random drawing from the correct entries on Nov. 30 and notify the winner!
Question: When was the first "A Prairie Home Companion" broadcast? (Provide day, date and year.)
Last Chance to Enter David Sedaris Contest!
 If you haven't entered the contest to win a pair of tickets to see David Sedaris* at the Tennessee Theatre on Nov. 11, you still have time! Just answer the following question correctly and send your answer along with your name, mailing address and daytime phone number with area code to Cindy Hassil via e-mail** no later than 5 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 2. We'll do a random drawing from the correct entries on Nov. 3 and notify the winner!
Question: Whom does the squirrel seek?
SPECIAL BONUS: If you bring your ticket stub to Union Avenue Books the week after the Sedaris show (Nov. 12-18), you'll receive 10% off the purchase of any of Sedaris' books as well as "River Town" by Peter Hessler!
* This show is for mature audiences.
** No purchase or donation required to enter. One entry per person. If you would like to enter but do not have e-mail, please mail your entry to Cindy Hassil at WUOT, 209 Communications Bldg., Knoxville, TN 37996-032
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Listen Online to WUOT
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Sedaris Ticket Winners
 Everyone who pledged or submitted their name on Monday, Oct. 17, of the Fall Fund Drive was entered to win one of five pairs of tickets to see author and humorist David Sedaris at the Tennessee Theatre on Nov. 11. The lucky winners are: Donna Brian of Knoxville, Tenn.; Monty Ross of Lenoir City, Tenn.; Erin Read of Knoxville, Tenn.; Richard Boles of Knoxville, Tenn.; and Kristi Havens of Knoxville, Tenn. Congratulations! We hope you enjoy the event.
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CD Winner
 October's winner is Laurie D. of Louisville, Tenn. Congratulations!
Laurie wins a copy of The Bird of Paradise Orchestra's CD "Bingo" with big band renditions of "The Very Thought of You," "I Feel Pretty" and other classics.
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.
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WUOT Recognizes New and Renewing Underwriters
The following organizations became new underwriters or renewed their support of WUOT programming in October. 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!
Alpine Ski Center
Asset Planning Corporation
Capitol Records
East Tennessee Caricatures
Elizabeth Anderson Dermatology
Energy Home Basics
Evelyn Miller Young Pianist Series
First Baptist Church of Knoxville
First Lutheran School
Foothills Craft Guild
Just Ripe
Knoxville Choral Society
Knoxville Opera Guild
Oak Ridge Art Center
Oak Ridge Civic Ballet Association
Random House
SunTrust
Tennessee Theatre Foundation
Tennessee Valley Players
UT Department of Religious Studies
UT Opera Theatre of the UT School of Music
Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Webb School of Knoxville
Wild Thyme Players
All Underwriters
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PROGRAMMING
SPECIALS - November 24
10 a.m. - Thanksgiving with Cantus
Alison Young is joined by Cantus - one of America's best all-male ensemble - for singing and story-telling about gratitude and what it is to be thankful.
11 a.m. - The Splendid Table's Turkey Confidential
A live, two-hour, call-in program. Phone lines (800-537-5252) will be open nationwide from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. EST and the program will be simulcast live on the Web at splendidtable.org.
1 p.m. - Giving Thanks, with John Birge
With music and stories for Thanksgiving, host John Birge creates a thoughtful, contemporary reflection on the meaning of the holiday. More information...
3 p.m. - A Thanksgiving Celebration with Garrison Keillor
"Gratitude, Gravy & Garrison," VocalEssence's celebration of all things Thanksgiving. Keillor performs his signature monologue and contributes comic new lyrics to familiar songs and hymns.
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THIS MONTH ON ....
 RADIOLAB - "(So-Called) Life" In this hour, Radiolab asks what is natural in a world where biology and engineering intersect. Biotechnology is making it easier and easier to create new forms of life, but what are the consequences when humans play with life? We travel back to the first billion years of life on Earth, take a look at how modern engineers tinker with living things, and meet a woman who could have been two people.
Friday, November 18, at noon
 DIALOGUE - WUOT's monthly live call-in program. Hosted by a member of WUOT's News Staff.
Topic: "Immigration in East Tennessee" with guest Prof. Frances Ansley,
Professor Emeritus at the University of Tennessee College of Law. Call in your questions or comments at 865-974-5050.
Wednesday, November 2, at 1 p.m.
 STUDIO 865/Flipside - WUOT's monthly program featuring local music and musicians. Host: Todd Steed.
Live from Bonnaroo 2011. All the sights and sounds from the festival at the farm.
On the Flipside: The North Carolina duo Mandolin Orange profess their love for Norman Blake and Gillian Welch.
Wednesday, November 2, at 8 p.m.
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FROM THE NATIONAL DESKS
 X Marks The Prize
A new oil cleanup machine will allow cleanup crews to skim spilled oil off the water's surface at a much faster rate -- and the device's simplicity may help in future oil spills, too.
http://www.npr.org/2011/10/19/141481055/revolutionary-oil-skimmer-nets-1-million-x-prize
Photo: In the winning oil-removal design, spinning grooved discs pull oily water upward, where metal skimmers strain the oil away. Photo credit: Elastec/American Marine
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 No Child Left Behind
The Indian Child Welfare Act is a federal law stating that children should not be separated from their families or tribes. An NPR investigation reveals that in South Dakota, powerful cultural and financial forces are at work to take many native children out of their homes.
http://www.npr.org/2011/10/25/141672992/native-foster-care-lost-children-shattered-families
Photo: Derrin Yellow Robe, 3, stands in his great-grandparents' backyard on the Crow Creek Reservation in South Dakota. Along with his twin sister and two older sisters, he was taken off the reservation by South Dakota's Department of Social Services in July 2009 and spent a year and a half in foster care before being returned to his family. Photo credit: John Poole, NPR
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 Jumping Off The 'Patent Cliff'
Brand-name drugs cost more, and that means that some less affluent patients have to stretch prescriptions or ask their doctors for free samples, while generic drugs are far cheaper. Will several big-name drugs moving out of patent protection affect patient costs?
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