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Monday Part 1
Monday Part 2
Tuesday Part 1
Tuesday Part 2
Wednesday Part 1
Wednesday Part 2
Thursday Part 1
Thursday Part 2
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Friday Part 1
Friday Part 2
Maine AIRS interviews Robert Kitchin,
DisAbility Forum Student Award winner
Robert "BJ" Kitchin, a
UMaine Ph.D student and disability studies teaching
assistant, recently was named this year’s recipient of
the American Public Health Association’s DisAbility
Forum Student Member Award. Maine AIRS volunteer reader
Shaun Dowd interviewed Mr. Kitchin in two programs. They
are available on line by clicking the links below. Each
program is about 28 minutes. They will be broadcast on
Maine AIRS on Thursday, November 29 and Friday, November
30 at 10 am and 3 pm. Rebroadcasts will be scheduled.
Kitchin and Dowd talked
at length about the effects technology has on disabled
individuals, particularly with blind and visually
impaired. The conversation included how the Iris
Network’s Technology Initiative will play an important
role in the lives of blind and visually impaired people.
Kitchin has extensive experience developing accessible
web sites and testing and working with adaptive
equipment common to those in the field of vision
services.
The DisAbility Forum
Student Member award is presented each year to one
college student in the United States who has contributed
promising work to advance the health and quality of life
of people with disabilities. The American Public Health
Association is one of the nation’s largest public health
associations.
"BJ is a role model and
ambassador who puts disability studies in the forefront
of student’s minds," says Elizabeth DePoy, coordinator
of interdisciplinary disability studies at the Center
for Community Inclusion and Disability Studies.
Kitchin began his
scholarship in disability studies as an undergraduate at
UMaine in 1992. He earned a master’s in social work in
2007 and continues as a graduate teaching assistant in
interdisciplinary disabilities studies.
Kitchin also worked for
12 years with Community Care in Bangor in
administrative, supervisory and clinical capacities in
its treatment foster care program. As a research
assistant with the UMaine Center on Aging, he was
instrumental in helping the statewide Relatives as
Parents Project win legislation giving grandparents
greater legal standing as guardians of grandchildren.
His current interests
involve examining the role of the digital environment in
society and how it is made accessible or inaccessible
through conventions of visual, auditory, cognitive,
physical and social design.
"Besides his multiple
talents, devotion to scholarly excellence, and his
unending commitment to advancing access as a major human
right, BJ has contributed to social change advancing
full participation and access on our university campus
and throughout the state of Maine," adds Stephen Gilson,
professor of interdisciplinary disability studies.
Kitchin is a
first-generation college graduate, and a native and
resident of Bangor. He was nominated for the award by
DePoy.
Kitchin Part 1
Kitchin Part 2
The Maine Reader
Monday-Friday
4:00p.m. - 4:30 p.m. and again at 6:30p.m. - 7:00 p.m. Episodes are rebroadcast Sundays
5:30 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.
Current
Book
"Touch
The Top of the World"
From the snow-capped
summit of McKinley to the towering peaks of
Aconcagua and Kilimanjaro to the ultimate challenge,
Mount Everest, this is a story about daring to dream
in the face of impossible odds. Erik Weihenmayer's
autobiography, Touch the Top of the World,
was recently made into a feature film. According to
Publisher’s Weekly, Erik’s memoir is, "Moving and
adventure packed, Weihenmayer tells his
extraordinary story with humor, honesty, and vivid
detail, and his fortitude and enthusiasm are deeply
inspiring.
"Thr3e," by Ted
Dekker is a rare suspense story where the reader
enters a world where nothing is what is seems. Where
your closest friend could be your greatest enemy.
Where white is black and black is white.
"Thr3e" is read by
volunteer reader Susan Hall and airs at 4 and 6:30
pm Monday through Friday February 20 through March
25. All five of each week's episodes are rebroadcast
Saturdays from 5:30-8 pm.
- Available
on on demand - just click on the file below to play
- This
book is now complete
Jennifer Gilmore,
Golden
Country--immigrant stories of succeeding in
America, 1920s-1960s.
Golden Country,
Jennifer Gilmore's masterful and irreverent
reinvention of the Jewish American novel,
captures the exuberance of the American
dream while exposing its underbelly --
disillusionment, greed, and the disaffection
bred by success. As Gilmore's charmingly
flawed characters witness and shape history,
they come to embody America's greatness, as
well as its greatest imperfections.
Read by Rena Tobey
- Available
on on demand - just click on the file below to play
- This
book is now complete
"I Feel Bad
About My Neck"
by Nora Ephron,
read by Margaret Clancey
This
book is now complete
Available
on on demand - just click on the file below to play
- "The
Country Cousin"
- by Louis
Achincloss,
read by Rena Tobey
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Boston
Houghton Mifflin 1978 First Edition. The story
set in the 1930’s of a young woman whose
romantic mistakes trouble her future happiness.
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This
book is now complete
Available
on on demand - just click on the file below to play
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- "Tuesdays with
Morrie"
- by Mitch Albom,
read by Shaun Dowd
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This
book is now complete
Available
on on demand - just click on the file below to play
"Tess
of the d'Urbervilles"
by Thomas Hardy
- Available
on on demand - just click on the file below to play
- This
book is now complete
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This special news
and information radio program broadcasts extensive
material from Maine's daily and weekly newspapers to
individuals who are visually impaired or print disabled.
Volunteer readers present information not
usually accessible in audio form such as community
calendars, shopping news and obituaries.
Maine AIRS should begin playing on your computer's media
player a few seconds after you open this page. If it
doesn't, check to see that your speakers are turned on
and the volume is up, or that your media player is
operating. To hear Maine AIRS through other sources,
tune your television to Maine PBS and then press the
"SAP" button on your remote. If you do not have a SAP
button, SAP might be accessible from a menu on your TV.
Look for menu, find "Audio" and then select "SAP."
If you do not have SAP, special receivers are available.
For more information about these receivers, please call
the Iris Network at 1-800-715-0097.
Click Here for Volunteer
Opportunities
Maine AIRS is available throughout Maine on
the secondary audio program (SAP) channels on the following
public TV stations:
Greater Portland, Lewiston, Augusta areas on WCBB, channel 10
Greater Orono, Bangor, Waterville areas on WMEB, channel 12
Greater Calais, Downeast areas on WMED, channel 13
Greater Aroostook County area on WMEM, channel 10
NOTE: MAINE AIRS IS NOT AVAILABLE on WMEA, CHANNEL 26 in greater Biddeford, Saco and the
Southern Maine area.
Maine AIRS Newspaper
Schedule at a Glance
Effective October 1, 2007
(RB) = Repeat Broadcast
- Monday through Friday: Click on a day of the week to see a detailed
schedule for that day.
- Monday
- Tuesday
- Wednesday
- Thursday
- Friday
- Weekend
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- 8 a.m.- 9 a.m. The Daily Papers
- Bangor Daily News (8:00 - 8:50)
- The Lewiston Sun-Journal (8:50 - 9:00)
8:30 a.m. Meals for Me- menus
for Meals for Me program serving Penobscot, Piscataquis, Hancock and
Washington counties. Presented by Eastern Agency on Aging.
- 8:31 a.m.- What's on TV Tonight? A listing of programs on the major TV networks-
NBC, CBS, ABC and PBS.
9:00 a.m. The Shopping
Cart what's on sale at
Hannaford Brothers
Supermarkets.
9:02 a.m. Portland Press Herald
9:30 a.m. What's on TV Tonight? A listing of programs on the major TV
networks- NBC, CBS, ABC and PBS.
9:33 a.m.-10:00 a.m.: Kennebec Journal, Waterville Morning Sentinel
- 10:00 a.m.-10:30 a.m.
- Monday: Downeast Magazine
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Tuesday: Senior News - Southern Agency on Aging -
including "Money Minders".
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Wednesday: AARP Report
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Thursday: Bangor Metro, Yankee. other magazines
- Friday:
American Journal
10:30 a.m.-11:00 a.m. Monday through Friday: Here is What We Think- a
program of editorials, letters to the editors and commentaries that appear in Maine's
daily and weekly newspapers. 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 noon The Weekly Shelf Reading from the state's weekly
newspapers. Please check daily schedule for newspapers read during this time.
- 12:00 noon - 1:00 p.m. Portland Press
Herald, read from the Portland Maine AIRS studio.
1:00
p.m. - 2:00 p.m. Bangor Daily News/Lewiston Sun Journal, rebroadcast
from this morning.
2:00 p.m. -
3:00 p.m. The Weekly Shelf (rebroadcast from 11 a.m.)
3:00 p.m. -
3:30 p.m. (See 10 a.m. listings)
3:30- 4:00 p.m.- Here’s What We Think
(Mon, Wed and Fri)
3:30 p.m. -
4:00 p.m. - Tuesdays: The Wiscasset Newspaper.
Thursdays: The Weekly, published by the Bangor Daily News.
4:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. The Maine Reader - presenting books by Maine authors
or stories about Maine read by Maine AIRS volunteer readers.
4:30-6:30 - Off-air
6:30 p.m. Sign on. What's on TV Tonight?
6:33 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. The Maine Reader - presenting books
mostly by Maine authors
or stories about Maine read by Maine AIRS volunteer readers.
- 7:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.
Portland Press Herald
8:00 p.m. Off air for remainder of the day
Saturday:
8:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m. The Weekend Bangor Daily News
8:30 a.m. and 9:30 a.m. What's on TV Tonight?
9:00 a.m. The Shopping Basket- what's on sale at
Hannaford Brothers.
10:00 a.m. - 12:30 noon The Weekly Shelf: Readings from the state's weekly
newspapers. Please check daily schedule for newspapers read during this time.
10:00 a.m. -
10:30 a.m. - The Weekly, published by the Bangor
Daily News
10:30 a.m. -
11:00 a.m. - American Journal
11:00 a.m. -
11:30 a.m. - Current, serving S. Portland,
Scarborough, and Cape Elizabeth
11:30 a.m. -
12:00 p.m. - The Portland Forecaster
12:00 p.m. -
12:30 p.m. The Forecaster - Falmouth edition
12:30 p.m. -
off air for DVS programming from MPBN
1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. The Weekend Bangor Daily News
– rebroadcast
from this morning.
3:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
American Journal
3:30 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Current
4:00 p.m. -
4:30 p.m. The Portland Forecaster
4:30 p.m. -
5:00 p.m. The Forecaster - Falmouth edition
5:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. Pet
Pause
5:30 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. The
Maine Reader- a rebroadcast of the five daily episodes from the past week
8:00 p.m.- Sign
off until 7 a.m. Sunday
- Sunday:
- 7:00 a.m. - 9:00 a.m.: The Maine Sunday
Telegram (rebroadcast at 9 a.m. and 4:30 p.m.)
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- 8:00 a.m. The Shopping Basket - selected
sale items at Hannaford Brothers markets in Maine
8:30 a.m. What’s on TV Tonight? A listing of prime time programs on the
major TV networks- NBC, CBS, ABC and PBS.
- 9:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. Rebroadcast of
the Maine Sunday Telegram
- Off air until 4 p.m.
- 4:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. The Maine Sunday
Telegram
- 6:00 p.m.- 8:00 p.m. Bangor Daily News
Weekend Edition
- 8:00 p.m. Sign off until Monday morning
at 8 a.m.
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