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March-April 2010 We Connect New York... to dynamic educational resources! In an effort to help educators plan ahead, we will be posting our online newsletter bi-monthly. As information often changes quickly, please visit our What’s New page regularly to keep abreast of the latest information on WCNY educational resources.
UPSTATE NEW YORK PUBLIC TELEVISION STATIONS ANNOUNCE MODIFICATION OF EDVIDEO ONLINE SERVICE
West Genesee Wins Season 5 Double Down Championship! 
(Jenny Smacher, Heitham Wady, Host Bill Baker, Tyler Mattis, Julia Calagiovanni, and Advisor Keith Newvine)
Over 125 exceptional students representing 32 high school teams from all over Central New York began the season with the same goal… to become the 2010 Double Down Champion. Host Bill Baker posed the questions that tested students knowledge in seven categories; English language arts, history, science, math, arts, sports and current events. After the dust settled on one of our most competitive seasons to date; West Genesee edged out former champ Cooperstown in an amazingly exciting game to earn the 2010 title. Previous winners include Pulaski, Fayetteville-Manlius, Cooperstown and Bishop Ludden. To see how your favorite school finished in the standings, watch full shows, or learn more about the program, you can visit our website at www.wcny.org/doubledown. And if you or your school would like to participate next year, please contact Nick Bennett by email (nick_bennett@wcny.org) or phone (315-453-2424).
Colonial Williamsburg 2009-2010 Electronic Field Trip Series The Rights of Youth (premiere)
Imprisonment, whipping, forced transportation, and even death were some of the punishments that courts sentenced children to in the eighteenth century. Witness how justice was administered at a time when criminal laws and sentencing guidelines made few or no exceptions for children.
Thursday, March 11, 2010 @ 10 am Treasure Keepers
You have seen their work in every museum, but what do conservators really do? Learn how conservators prevent or slow the damage caused by “agents of destruction.” Explore how and why preserving history is important for future generations.
Thursday, April 22, 2010 @ 10 am Click here for complete 2009-2010 schedule For more information about the Emmy Award-winning series of live, interactive television broadcasts, teacher guides and online resources call 1.800.761.8331, email EFTSupport@cwf.org or visit www.history.org/trips © 2009 The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation
IMMIGRANTS IN THE LEAD: THE STORY OF NEW YORK There is growing recognition that one of New York State's most abundant resources, its foreign-born population, is integral to overcoming today's challenges. In looking back over the waves of immigrants that affected New York City, one can see that while the faces may have changed, the population's capacity for hard work and entrepreneurship has not. Today's Dominicans, Cambodians, Haitians, Guyanese, and Hmong are like the Irish, Germans, Italians, Jews, and Eastern Europeans that arrived here 100 years ago. These new Americans could be a primary catalyst for transforming New York from a wounded giant into the economic force it once was. Join WCNY for a journey that explores self-identity and assimilation, and features Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, lifetime resident of the Lower East Side and the product of immigrants from Russia. The documentary also features newly elected New York City Comptroller John Liu, an immigrant from Taiwan, who moved to Flushing with his family in the early 1970's. WCNY's documentary explores the link between immigration and success – both as a historical idea as well as a concept the State is betting on with its future.
Monday, 3/1 @ 9 pm
DOLLEY MADISON
As her successors have gone on to do ever since, Dolley Madison adopted social causes of her own, including advocating for children left orphaned by the War of 1812.
Monday, 3/1 @ 9:30 pm LOBOTOMIST
Walter Freeman invented the radical procedure which would later be deemed a barbaric mistake.
Monday, 3/22 @ 9 pm VICTORY IN THE PACIFIC
This film looks at the escalation of bloodletting from the vantage point of both the Japanese and the Americans.
Monday, 3/29 @ 9 pm POLIO
Chronicles the decades long crusade to eradicate one of the 20th century’s most dreaded diseases.
Monday, 4/12 @ 9 pm EARTH DAYS
Director Robert Stone (“Oswald’s Ghost,“ “Guerrilla: The Taking of Patty Hearst”) traces the origins of the modern environmental movement through the eyes of nine Americans who propelled the movement from its beginnings in the 1950s to its moment of triumph in 1970 with the original Earth Day and to its status
as a major political force in America.
Monday, 4/19 @ 9 pm MY LAI
Draws upon the eyewitness accounts of Vietnamese survivors and the men of the Charlie Company 11th Infantry Brigade.
Monday, 4/26 @ 9 pm
SHARPE’S CHALLENGE
In 1817, soldier-adventurer Richard Sharpe comes out of retirement to quash a rebellion in British India and rescue his old friend Patrick Harper. Sean Bean (The Lord of the Rings ) returns as the swashbuckling hero of this long-running series, based on the best-selling novels of Bernard Cornwell, with Daragh O’Malley as Harper. The duo’s exploits put them at the center of a blood-thirsty insurgency, led by a psychopathic former English officer. “Top Chef’s” Padma Lakshmi guest stars as Madhuvanthi, a beautiful schemer who is out to seduce Sharpe.
Sunday, 3/28 @ 9 pm SHARPE’S PERIL
Sharpe travels across India in 1818, escorting the beautiful Marie-Angelique Bonnet to meet her fiancee.
Sunday, 4/4 @ 9 pm THE DIARY OF ANNE FRANK
The most accurate-ever adaptation of Anne Frank’s moving account of life hiding from the Nazis stars newcomer Ellie Kendrick (An Education) as a maturing teenager who undergoes an extraordinary ordeal. Iain Glen (Into the Storm) stars as Anne’s steadfast father, Tamsin Greig (“Emma”) as her reticent mother and Felicity Jones (“Northanger Abbey”) as her studious older sister. Together with four others, they hide for two years in the back rooms of an Amsterdam business, while Anne records their tense daily life in one of history’s most remarkable memoirs.
Sunday, 4/11 @ 9 pm SMALL ISLAND
A young ambitious Jamaican woman thrust into the grit of 1940s post-war London.
Sunday, 4/18 @ 9 pm (part 1)
Sunday, 4/18 @ 10:30 pm (part 2)
PLUTO FILES
Since its discovery in 1930, Pluto has held a warm place in the public imagination.
Tuesday, 3/2 @ 8 pm FIRST FLOWER
A journey of discovery to a remote mountain region of China, to explore our fascination with flowers and the puzzle of how they began.
Tuesday, 3/16 @ 8 pm CRACKING THE MAYA CODE
How a handful of pioneers deciphered the intricate system of hieroglyphs developed by the Maya.
Tuesday, 3/23 @ 8 pm RAT ATTACK
Every 48 years, bamboo blooms in the Indian state of Mizoram and rats run amok, destroying crops.
Tuesday, 3/30 @ 8 pm HUNTING THE EDGE OF SPACE
How a simple instrument, the telescope, has fundamentally changed our understanding of our place in the universe.
Tuesday, 4/6 @ 8 pm (part 1)
Tuesday, 4/13 @ 8 pm (part 2) THE BIG ENERGY GAMBLE
Arnold Schwarzenegger is betting on green. He wants to roll California’s greenhouse gas emissions back to their 1990 levels, and he’s promising Californians that their lifestyles — and their pocketbooks— won’t feel the pinch. With help from eco-celebrities like Ed Begley, Jr. and Bill Nye “The Science Guy,” NOVA examines California’s aggressive pursuit of a sustainable energy future. From San Francisco’s Luscious Garage, where mechanics create custom plug-in hybrids for customers like Google, to the Tehachapi Valley, where thousands of wind turbines are spinning out electricity, NOVA visits the places where green energy is already becoming a reality. Will California be a role model for the rest of the country or a cautionary tale?
Tuesday, 4/20 @ 8 pm MIND OVER MONEY
An exploration of why mainstream economists failed to predict the crash of 2008 and why we so often make irrational financial decisions.
Tuesday, 4/27 @ 8 pm
CLASH: ENCOUNTERS OF BEARS AND WOLVES
Two great predators come face to face at Yellowstone.
Sunday, 3/7 @ 8 pm WHAT FEMALES WANT AND MALES WILL DO
Examines unique behaviors, elaborate displays and special adaptations in the animal world.
Sunday, 3/14 @ 8 pm (part 1)
Sunday, 3/21 @ 8 pm (part 2) CLEVER MONKEYS
Monkeys around the world rely on that knowledge to adapt to the remarkable variety of environments they now call home.
Sunday, 3/28 @ 8 pm MOMENT OF IMPACT: HUNTERS AND HERDS
An innovative and revolutionary look at the bioengineering of “how animals work.”
Sunday, 4/4 @ 8 pm MOMENT OF IMPACT: JUNGLE
Animals of astounding ability connect with each other and the world around them there is a “moment of impact.”
Sunday, 4/11 @ 8 pm FROGS: THE THIN GREEN LINE
Large-scale die-offs of frogs around the world have prompted scientists to take desperate measures to try to save whatever populations they can. Frogs may seem small and insignificant, but their bodies may hold the key to important new discoveries in medical research. Scientists are finding that chemical compounds found in frogs’ skins can be used to treat pain and block infections, and are even being explored as HIV treatments. Their impact on the world’s ecosystems is great. Frogs sit right in the middle of the food chain, and without them, other creatures are disappearing, too. We are only just beginning to understand what life may be like without them. The race is on to stem the tide – before the next frog crosses the thin, green line.
Sunday, 4/18 @ 8 pm
JOHN JAMES AUDUBON: DRAWN FROM NATURE
Publishing “The Birds of America,” a collection of 435 life-sized prints became Audubon’s passion.
Monday, 3/22 @ 10 pm I.M. PEI: BUILDING CHINA MODERN
The personal and architectural journey from west to east of the world-renowned architect.
Wednesday, 3/31 @ 9 pm
The Morning of Creation (1946-1980)
America’s “Last Frontier” becomes a testing ground for the future of the park idea
Wednesday, 3/3 @ 9 pm
THE EYES OF ME
Tuesday, 3/16 @ 11 pm LOST SOULS (ANIMAS PERDIDAS)
Explores national identity, the lives of immigrants and what happens after deportees are sent to a homeland they no longer consider home.
Tuesday, 3/23 @ 11 pm WHATEVER IT TAKES
A story of a visionary rookie principal at the Bronx Center for Science & Mathematics, an innovative public high school in New York City’s South Bronx.
Tuesday, 3/30 @ 11 pm DIRT!
Narrated by award-winning actress, author and social activist Jamie Lee Curtis, “Dirt!” delves into the fascinating history of this lowly substance, explaining how four billion years of evolution have created the dirt that recycles our water, gives us food, provides us shelter and can be used as a source of medicine, beauty and culture. But people have become greedy and careless, endangering this vital living resource. This abusive behavior has yielded catastrophic results: mass starvation, drought, floods and global warming. But as the film shows, times are changing — brown is the new green.
Tuesday, 4/20 @ 11 pm GARBAGE DREAMS
Three teenage boys born into the trash trade and growing up in the world’s largest garbage village, a ghetto located on the outskirts of Cairo.
Tuesday, 4/27 @ 11 pm
Additional Program Highlights
(March, 1 2010 - April 30, 2010)
FACES OF AMERICA WITH LOUIS GATES JR. - KNOW THYSELF
Search for the guests’ ancestries where the historical record leaves off.
Wednesday, 3/3 @ 11 pm SMALL TOWN, BIG DREAMS: LAKE PLACID’S OLYMPIC STORY
How the small village in upstate New York twice hosted one of the premier events in sport, the Winter Olympics.
Sunday, 3/28 @ 6 pm PHOENIX MARS MISSION: ONTO THE ICE
Follows the Phoenix Mars Lander's 422-million mile journey through space.
Sunday, 4/4 @ 6 pm THE MORMONS: AN AMERICANEXPERIENCE/FRONTLINE SPECIAL
Provides a searching portrait of this fascinating but often misunderstood religion.
Monday, 4/5 @ 9 pm (part 1)
Tuesday, 4/6 @ 9 pm (part 2) AMONG THE RIGHTEOUS: LOST STORIES FROM THE HOLOCAUST
The half-million Jews of the Arab lands of North Africa under Nazi, Vichy and Fascist rule.
Monday, 4/12 @ 10 pm REMEMBERING THE HOLOCAUST: SEVEN SURVIVORS TELL THEIR STORIES
Though they survived the Holocaust, most have not escaped the pain.
Monday, 4/12 @ 11 pm WORSE THAN WAR
The first documentary to step back and focus on the general phenomenon of genocide -- offering insights about its dimensions.
Wednesday, 4/14 @ 9 pm SESAME WORKSHOP PRESENTS WHEN FAMILIES GRIEVE
Featuring Katie Couric and the Sesame Street Muppets, this hour-long HD special, will present families' personal stories about coping with the death of a parent, as well as strategies that have helped these families move forward.
Sunday, 4/18 @ 1 pm MUSIC INSTINCT: SCIENCE AND SONG
A groundbreaking exploration into how and why the human organism is moved by music.
Sunday, 4/18 @ 2 pm FRESHWATER SEAS: THE GREATLAKES
Part 1 - Explores the incredible story of how the Great Lakes shaped America
Sunday, 4/25 @ 2 pm
Part 2 - How the Great Lakes were abused and neglected and are now at an environmental crossroads.
Sunday, 4/25 @ 3 pm GREAT PERFORMANCES - HAMLET FROM THE ROYAL SHAKESPEARE COMPANY
Shakespeare’s immortal “To be, or not to be” takes on a whole new meaning (and medium) as classical stage and screen actors Sir Patrick Stewart, in his Laurence Olivier Award-winning turn as Claudius, and David Tennant, as the titular Dane, reprise their roles in this television adaptation of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s 2008 stage production of Hamlet. Gregory Doran directs, recreating his stage direction in the film shot at St. Joseph’s College in Mill Hill, London.
Wednesday, 4/28 @ 9 pm AUSTIN CITY LIMITS
LYLE LOVETT & FRIENDS: A SONGWRITERS SPECIAL - Saturday, 3/6 @ 11:30 pm
BETTYE LAVETTE/PINETOP PERKINS - Saturday, 3/13 @ 11 pm
NORAH JONES - Saturday, 3/20 @ 11 pm
BEN HARPER AND RELENTLESS 7 - Saturday, 3/27 @ 11 pm
WILCO - Saturday, 4/3 @ 11 pm
KINGS OF LEON/ROKY ERICKSON - Saturday, 4/10 @ 11:10 pm
MY MORNING JACKET - Saturday, 4/17 @ 11 pm
WILLIE NELSON & ASLEEP AT THE WHEEL - Saturday, 4/23 @ 11 pm (immediately following TelAuc)
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