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Saturday, November 2, 2013 local almanac
Nov 02, 2013 12:01 am
Local News
Local news from Wave Farm‘s WGXC 90.7-FM in the Hudson Valley, New York for Sat., Nov. 2. PLAY AUDIO (5:00)
Local weather forecast
Today's forecast is specific to Acra, in Greene County.
• Saturday: Isolated showers after 1 p.m. Partly sunny, with a high near 57. Saturday night scattered rain showers are possible before midnight, then scattered rain and snow showers. Cloudy, with a low around 34.
• Sunday: Cloudy, then gradually becoming mostly sunny, with a high near 38, and a low around 21.
• Monday: Sunny, with a high near 40.
Sunrise 7:31 a.m.
Sunset 5:47 p.m.
Other celestial rises/sets
Moon 6:23 A.M. 5:18 P.M.
Mercury 7:25 A.M. 5:39 P.M.
Venus 11:42 A.M. 8:09 P.M.
Mars 2:22 A.M. 3:34 P.M.
Jupiter 10:05 P.M. 1:04 P.M.
Saturn 7:44 A.M. 6:05 P.M.
Uranus 4:28 P.M. 4:58 A.M.
Neptune 3:04 P.M. 1:50 A.M.
Pluto 12:02 P.M. 9:31 P.M.
WGXC Programming
midnight – 12:05 a.m.: Radio News: FCC Tries to Clear AM Static
The Federal Communications Commission has proposed several changes to AM radio, which has fallen to just 15 percent of radio listenership in recent years.
5 a.m. – 7 a.m.: Shortwave Hours: Emergency Alert System
Three hours of shortwave radio-oriented programming, starting with solar weather, news on meteor showers and ham radio, and other reports. Other reports include:
5 a.m., "The RAIN Report" and "Amateur Radio Relay League Audio Report." This week, "Ham radio video archivist Gary Pearce/KN4AQ talks about the evolution of his Ham Radio Now podcast" on "The RAIN Report" from Hap Holly, KC9RP. Plus shortwave sounds, recordings of pirate radio stations, and more.
5:30 a.m.: "Glenn Hauser's World of Radio" DX and station news countries all over the world.
6 a.m.: "Amateur Radio Newsline" This week: "Australia's WICEN stands down as the brushfire menace eases; A new satellite subband is coming to 2 meters; Congress is asked to consider mandating regularly scheduled EAS tests, and the South Sudan will be on the air in mid-November."
6:30 a.m.: "This Week in Radio News" from host Tom Roe at Wave Farm's WGXC. This week: "Tom Wheeler, former cable television industry lobbyist, was confirmed Oct. 29 by Senate as Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission. And the Federal Aviation Administration announced personal electronic device use on all airline flights will be allowed by the end of the year. "Monitoring Times" ends after 33 years of publication, but The Spectrum Times takes its place, according to Radio Survivor. More radio news, this week in radio history, and more."
7 a.m. – 8 a.m.: Saturday Morning Serial: November
Songs from November, from Tom Waits, Guns N' Roses, Plastic Ono Band, Gordon Lightfoot, Philip Glass, Neu!, Gorillaz, Sonny Boy Williamson, Julie London, Morrisey, The Avett Brothers, Sandy Denny, and others. Plus radio history from the month of November.
8 a.m. – 10 a.m.: Open Air: Rep. Chris Gibson
Rep. Chris Gibson (R-Kinderhook) will stop by the Catskill Community Center and "Open Air" ahead of a scheduled visit to Catskill. Gibson will take questions from the "Open Air" hosts, and listeners can forward them questions via Twitter @WGXC, or by calling 291-WGXC during the show, or post something to the WGXC Facebook page. "Please Assist Us With Transmission." Live transmission art show about local transmissions from the WGXC studio in the Catskill Community Center.
10 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.: Radia: Monster Bobby
Radia Show 447: "Monster Bobby" from Radio Corax, Halle, Denmark. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monster_Bobby The piece was broadcasted from the birth-place of Georg Friedrich Haendel in Halle/S., E.-Germany this summer. Enjoy RandomTimeRadio from Radio Corax and Monster Bobby.
11 a.m. – noon: What's the Frequency, Kenneth?: Obamacare
"The rollout of Obamacare has been rocked by startup problems. Opponents, by and large, see this an opportunity to keep trying to kill Obamacare...instead of finding and supporting fixes...to the website..or flaws in the program itself. An overview of Obamacare one month in, including Oct. 30 testimony before the House by Health and Human Servicess Secretary Kathleen Sebelius." Hosted by Paul Fischer, available through Pacifica Radio.
noon – 12:30 p.m.: Noon News: Sen. Chuck Schumer, Rep. Chris Gibson
Recordings of Sen. Chuck Schumer at Crossroads Brewery in Athens, and Rep. Chris Gibson, at WGXC's studio in the Catskill Community Center, are rebroadcast.
2 p.m. – 3 p.m.: Cinema Terrorisme: November 2013
Cinema Terrorisme 36: If the Shoe Fits Mutilate Wishful Thinking for a Regurgitatve Paradigm.
3 p.m. – 4 p.m.: Human Machine: Eben Moglen
Eben Moglen speaks about Isaac Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics as they pertain to data mining and the violation of privacy.
4 p.m. – 6 p.m.: Saturday Afternoon Show: Micah Moses and Cinema Terrorisme
Wave Farm's Tom Roe interviews Micah Moses about his monthly WGXC program Cinema Terrorisme live from WGXC's Acra studio in the Wave Farm Study Center.
7 p.m. – 8 p.m.: Framework: Eric La Casa
This edition features framework:seasonal tracks by Sawako, Eric La Casa, Tattered Kaylor, Chris Whitehead, Artificial Memory Trace, OR Poeisis, along with works by Omalto and Vlax.
8 p.m. – 11 p.m.: Saturday Night Special: Earth Sound Earth Signal
Tune in for this special broadcast celebrating the launch of Douglas Kahn's new book Earth Sound Earth Signal (UC Press 2013.) The book explores aelectrosonic and natural electromagnetic sounds from the nineteenth century to the present, centered around the work of composer Alvin Lucier.
Recorded at Eyebeam Storefront in New York City on October 17, 2013, a panel of artists and scientists including Brian Dewan, David First, Annea Lockwood, Paul D. Miller, and others respond to the book and pose questions to the author, Douglas Kahn. The panel is introduced by Galen Joseph-Hunter, Executive Director of Wave Farm. Following the discussion, Daniel Neumann (CT-SWaM) presents a multi-channel audio performance Tectonics of Absence by Suzanne Thorpe and Tristan Shepard.
This Saturday Night Special broadcast also features an interview with Douglas Kahn, conducted by Galen Joseph-Hunter the morning following the Eyebeam launch event.
Douglas Kahn is Professor at the National Institute for Experimental Arts, College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales and author of Noise Water Meat: A History of Sound in the Arts.
Local news from Wave Farm‘s WGXC 90.7-FM in the Hudson Valley, New York for Sat., Nov. 2. PLAY AUDIO (5:00)
Local weather forecast
Today's forecast is specific to Acra, in Greene County.
• Saturday: Isolated showers after 1 p.m. Partly sunny, with a high near 57. Saturday night scattered rain showers are possible before midnight, then scattered rain and snow showers. Cloudy, with a low around 34.
• Sunday: Cloudy, then gradually becoming mostly sunny, with a high near 38, and a low around 21.
• Monday: Sunny, with a high near 40.
Sunrise 7:31 a.m.
Sunset 5:47 p.m.
Other celestial rises/sets
Moon 6:23 A.M. 5:18 P.M.
Mercury 7:25 A.M. 5:39 P.M.
Venus 11:42 A.M. 8:09 P.M.
Mars 2:22 A.M. 3:34 P.M.
Jupiter 10:05 P.M. 1:04 P.M.
Saturn 7:44 A.M. 6:05 P.M.
Uranus 4:28 P.M. 4:58 A.M.
Neptune 3:04 P.M. 1:50 A.M.
Pluto 12:02 P.M. 9:31 P.M.
WGXC Programming
midnight – 12:05 a.m.: Radio News: FCC Tries to Clear AM Static
The Federal Communications Commission has proposed several changes to AM radio, which has fallen to just 15 percent of radio listenership in recent years.
5 a.m. – 7 a.m.: Shortwave Hours: Emergency Alert System
Three hours of shortwave radio-oriented programming, starting with solar weather, news on meteor showers and ham radio, and other reports. Other reports include:
5 a.m., "The RAIN Report" and "Amateur Radio Relay League Audio Report." This week, "Ham radio video archivist Gary Pearce/KN4AQ talks about the evolution of his Ham Radio Now podcast" on "The RAIN Report" from Hap Holly, KC9RP. Plus shortwave sounds, recordings of pirate radio stations, and more.
5:30 a.m.: "Glenn Hauser's World of Radio" DX and station news countries all over the world.
6 a.m.: "Amateur Radio Newsline" This week: "Australia's WICEN stands down as the brushfire menace eases; A new satellite subband is coming to 2 meters; Congress is asked to consider mandating regularly scheduled EAS tests, and the South Sudan will be on the air in mid-November."
6:30 a.m.: "This Week in Radio News" from host Tom Roe at Wave Farm's WGXC. This week: "Tom Wheeler, former cable television industry lobbyist, was confirmed Oct. 29 by Senate as Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission. And the Federal Aviation Administration announced personal electronic device use on all airline flights will be allowed by the end of the year. "Monitoring Times" ends after 33 years of publication, but The Spectrum Times takes its place, according to Radio Survivor. More radio news, this week in radio history, and more."
7 a.m. – 8 a.m.: Saturday Morning Serial: November
Songs from November, from Tom Waits, Guns N' Roses, Plastic Ono Band, Gordon Lightfoot, Philip Glass, Neu!, Gorillaz, Sonny Boy Williamson, Julie London, Morrisey, The Avett Brothers, Sandy Denny, and others. Plus radio history from the month of November.
8 a.m. – 10 a.m.: Open Air: Rep. Chris Gibson
Rep. Chris Gibson (R-Kinderhook) will stop by the Catskill Community Center and "Open Air" ahead of a scheduled visit to Catskill. Gibson will take questions from the "Open Air" hosts, and listeners can forward them questions via Twitter @WGXC, or by calling 291-WGXC during the show, or post something to the WGXC Facebook page. "Please Assist Us With Transmission." Live transmission art show about local transmissions from the WGXC studio in the Catskill Community Center.
10 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.: Radia: Monster Bobby
Radia Show 447: "Monster Bobby" from Radio Corax, Halle, Denmark. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monster_Bobby The piece was broadcasted from the birth-place of Georg Friedrich Haendel in Halle/S., E.-Germany this summer. Enjoy RandomTimeRadio from Radio Corax and Monster Bobby.
11 a.m. – noon: What's the Frequency, Kenneth?: Obamacare
"The rollout of Obamacare has been rocked by startup problems. Opponents, by and large, see this an opportunity to keep trying to kill Obamacare...instead of finding and supporting fixes...to the website..or flaws in the program itself. An overview of Obamacare one month in, including Oct. 30 testimony before the House by Health and Human Servicess Secretary Kathleen Sebelius." Hosted by Paul Fischer, available through Pacifica Radio.
noon – 12:30 p.m.: Noon News: Sen. Chuck Schumer, Rep. Chris Gibson
Recordings of Sen. Chuck Schumer at Crossroads Brewery in Athens, and Rep. Chris Gibson, at WGXC's studio in the Catskill Community Center, are rebroadcast.
2 p.m. – 3 p.m.: Cinema Terrorisme: November 2013
Cinema Terrorisme 36: If the Shoe Fits Mutilate Wishful Thinking for a Regurgitatve Paradigm.
3 p.m. – 4 p.m.: Human Machine: Eben Moglen
Eben Moglen speaks about Isaac Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics as they pertain to data mining and the violation of privacy.
4 p.m. – 6 p.m.: Saturday Afternoon Show: Micah Moses and Cinema Terrorisme
Wave Farm's Tom Roe interviews Micah Moses about his monthly WGXC program Cinema Terrorisme live from WGXC's Acra studio in the Wave Farm Study Center.
7 p.m. – 8 p.m.: Framework: Eric La Casa
This edition features framework:seasonal tracks by Sawako, Eric La Casa, Tattered Kaylor, Chris Whitehead, Artificial Memory Trace, OR Poeisis, along with works by Omalto and Vlax.
8 p.m. – 11 p.m.: Saturday Night Special: Earth Sound Earth Signal
Tune in for this special broadcast celebrating the launch of Douglas Kahn's new book Earth Sound Earth Signal (UC Press 2013.) The book explores aelectrosonic and natural electromagnetic sounds from the nineteenth century to the present, centered around the work of composer Alvin Lucier.
Recorded at Eyebeam Storefront in New York City on October 17, 2013, a panel of artists and scientists including Brian Dewan, David First, Annea Lockwood, Paul D. Miller, and others respond to the book and pose questions to the author, Douglas Kahn. The panel is introduced by Galen Joseph-Hunter, Executive Director of Wave Farm. Following the discussion, Daniel Neumann (CT-SWaM) presents a multi-channel audio performance Tectonics of Absence by Suzanne Thorpe and Tristan Shepard.
This Saturday Night Special broadcast also features an interview with Douglas Kahn, conducted by Galen Joseph-Hunter the morning following the Eyebeam launch event.
Douglas Kahn is Professor at the National Institute for Experimental Arts, College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales and author of Noise Water Meat: A History of Sound in the Arts.