90.3 WCPN ideastream®: Thank You Gifts

Thank You Gifts

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$1,000 ~ $365 ~ $240 ~ $180 ~ $150 ~ $120 ~ $90.30 ~ $50

$1,000

Apple Store Gift Certificate and $150 Mustard Seed Market and Café Gift Certificate
Apple iPhone 3GWhy not use your $200 Apple Store gift certificate for an iPhone with new service contract?  Phone, iPod, Internet, and more.  Introducing iPhone 3G. With fast 3G wireless technology, GPS mapping, support for enterprise features like Microsoft Exchange, and the new App Store, iPhone 3G puts even more features at your fingertips.  And like the original iPhone, it combines three products in one - a revolutionary phone, a widescreen iPod, and a breakthrough Internet device with rich HTML email and a desktop-class web browser.  iPhone 3G.  It redefines what a mobile phone can do - again. Photo courtesy of Apple
Fair Market Value: $350

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$365 - Your Choice

Ultimate Green Package
The Ultimate Green Package includes the Eton FR500 Solarlink self- and solar-powered AM/FM/shortwave radio; one tree planted in member’s honor in Holden Arboretum’s rhododendron garden; 2 ChicoBags reusable shopping bags; $50 gift certificate from Mustard Seed Market & Cafe; and a pair of 14 oz. Corn Plastic Mugs. Descriptions of the items in the Ultimate Green Package are below.
Fair Market Value: $171.85

Presidential Package
The Presidential Package includes the Richard Lederer books Presidential Trivia, Anguished English and Get Thee to a Punnery; the Eton FR500 Solarlink self- and solar-powered AM/FM/shortwave radio; and a $50 gift certificate from Mustard Seed Market & Cafe.
Fair Market Value: $121.85

Deluxe One Tank Trips Package
The Deluxe One Tank Trips Package includes the Neil Zurcher books Ohio Road Trips, Ohio Oddities and Strange Tales from Ohio; the Eton FR500 Solarlink self- and solar-powered AM/FM/shortwave radio; and a $50 gift certificate from Mustard Seed Market & Cafe.
Fair Market Value: $29.89

The Doctor’s Bag
The Doctor’s Bag includes You!: Being Beautiful book by Dr. Michael Roizen and Dr. Mehmet Oz; You!: The Owner’s Manual audiobook CD; You!  Breathing Easy double CD; You! Steps for Extending Your Warranty with Dr. Michael Roizen DVD; and the You! Staying Young Workout DVD.
Fair Market Value: $106.86

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$240 - Your Choice

The Eton FR500 Solarlink Self-Powered and Solar-Powered Radio
Eton FR500 RadioWhen your outdoor adventures take you off the grid, you need a device that can fill multiple needs. The Etón FR500 is a compact unit that you can toss in your rucksack and take anywhere. It functions as an AM, FM, and shortwave radio with NOAA weatherband. It also has a flashlight, an emergency beacon, and an emergency siren. Plus, you can use it to charge your cell phone or MP3 player. This little wonder can be powered with the hand crank, or solely by the sun - solar panels make this a very “green” device. Of course, battery power and AC power are also options.
Fair Market Value: $80

Car Talk Wacko Package
The Car Talk Wacko Package includes the Field Guide to the North American Wacko! 4 CD set and the Car Talk Plaza Cap.
Fair Market Value: $48.90

Vice Presidential Package
The Vice Presidential Package includes the Richard Lederer books Presidential Trivia, Anguished English and Get Thee to a Punnery.
Fair Market Value: $29.89

One Tank Trips Package
The One Tank Trips Package includes the Neil Zurcher books Ohio Road Trips, Ohio Oddities and Strange Tales from Ohio.
Fair Market Value: $41.85

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$180 - Your Choice

$50 Playaway Gift Certificate
PlayawayWith over 1,500 titles to choose from, Playaway is the simplest way to listen to an audiobook or music on the go. It comes with the book or music preloaded and a battery to make it play.  Simply plug in its earphones and enjoy.  No cassettes or CDs.  No downloads.  There’s nothing to do but listen.  Special features: Bookmark your favorite sections, adjust the speed of the narrator’s voice, pick up right where you left off, works with most headphones, speakers and car adapters.  Includes the pre-loaded Playaway, a AAA battery, earphones and a lanyard.  All it requires are two ears!
Fair Market Value: $50

Car Talk Field Guide to the North American Wacko! 4 CD set
Field Guide to the North American WackoOn this brand-new collection, Tom and Ray share some favorite calls from over the years from some of the wackiest listeners ever. It seems that the lunatics aren’t just confined to Car Talk Plaza!  3.5 hours on 4 CDs.
Fair Market Value: $29.95

Prairie Home Companion Package
The Prairie Home Companion Package includes the book Liberty - A Lake Wobegon Novel by Garrison Keillor and the CD Never Better: Stories from Lake Wobegon.
Fair Market Value: $50.90

You! Book and CD
Includes You!: Being Beautiful book by Dr. Michael Roizen and Dr. Mehmet Oz and You! Breathing Easy double CD.
Fair Market Value: $46.94

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$150

Vinyl Cafe Package
The Vinyl Cafe Package includes a pair of tickets to Stuart McLean & The Vinyl Café live, Monday, October 27th, 7:30PM, at the Ohio Theatre in PlayhouseSquare; a copy of the Vinyl Café Diaries book; and the Vinyl Café Odd Jobs CD.
Fair Market Value: $123.99

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$120 - Your Choice

Go Green Package
Holden Arboretum and Chico BagA native tree will be planted in Holden Arboretum’s rhododendron garden. In an effort to conserve our natural resources, our member will receive an acknowledgment of their gift printed on recycled paper. The Go Green Package also includes a pair of ChicoBags - reusable shopping bags made of strong and durable woven nylon.  They fit in a pocket or purse!  Each bag has a 20 pound capacity and comes with an integrated pouch and carabineer for your belt loop, back pack or key chain.
Fair Market Value: $21.90

One Pair of Vinyl Cafe Tickets
Vinyl CafeThe most popular show on the CBC in Canada makes its Ohio debut (Monday, October 27th, 7:30PM, Ohio Theatre, PlayhouseSquare) as The Vinyl Café comes to Cleveland for a broadcast from PlayhouseSquare! Join Host Stuart McLean, his musical guests, and the whole Vinyl Café universe, featuring Dave, owner of The Vinyl Café, a second-hand record store, Dave’s wife, Morley, their two children, Sam and Stephanie and assorted friends and neighbors, like Dave’s nemesis Mary Turlington and Kenny Wong, proprietor of Wong’s Scottish Meat Pies.
Fair Market Value: $75

Liberty - A Lake Wobegon Novel by Garrison Keillor book
Liberty A Lake Wobegon NovelThis latest novel of Lake Wobegon features all our favorite town characters - Pastor Ingqvist, the Sons of Knute, Sister Arvonne of Our Lady of Perpetual Responsibility and her ocarina band, the Norwegian bachelor farmers, Dorothy and the Chatterbox Café, Wally in the Sidetrack Tap - as crowds converge on the little town to celebrate American independence, even as the chairman of the event broods on the great question of the day: Shall we struggle on valiantly here or shall we burst the bonds and find beautiful life in the golden west?
Fair Market Value: $25.95

Never Better: Stories from Lake Wobegon CD
Never Better Stories from Lake WobegonAn all-new collection of Lake Wobegon monologues selected from live broadcasts of A Prairie Home Companion. These expertly crafted tales touch the heart and tickle the funny bone.  Warm, poignant, often hilarious, each is a classic of live storytelling, full of gentle humor, genuine emotion, and (more often than not) surprising insights into family, community, love, faith, and hope.
Fair Market Value: $24.95

The Jazz Collection
The Jazz Collection includes the I Heard it on NPR: Jazz for Blue Nights CD; the Rudy Van Gelder Remasters Sampler CD; and the Keepnews Collection Sampler CD.
Fair Market Value: $71.98

You!: Being Beautiful: The Owner’s Manual to Inner and Outer Beauty book by Dr. Michael Roizen and Dr. Mehmet Oz
In this groundbreaking book, Dr. Michael Roizen and Dr. Mehmet Oz bust the myths and stereotypes about the way we view ourselves-and how we define beauty. In these pages, you’ll find out why beauty isn’t as much about your vanity as it is about your humanity. The doctors take a scientific, informative, and entertaining look at the three levels of beauty and explain how they all work together to form a complete, and authentic You.
Fair Market Value: $26.99

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$90.30 - Your Choice

Pair of 90.3 WCPN ideastream® Corn Mugs
Corn MugAn environmentally friendly alternative to traditional ceramic, these 14 oz. red mugs are made from 100% U.S. corn plastic.  Yes, this is plastic made from corn, but unlike petroleum based plastic, corn plastic is renewable and biodegradable.  Red mugs are imprinted with the 90.3 WCPN logo in white and are microwave safe.
Fair Market Value: $20

Car Talk Plaza Cap
The Car Talk Plaza Cap has a red brushed cotton twill body with black sewn eyelets and top button. The bill is black with a thin sandwich of red along the edge. The hat has a fabric self-adjusting strap with a brass buckle and grommet closure. The “Car Talk Plaza” logo is featured on the front, “Dewey Cheatham & Howe” on the back, and “Don’t Drive Like My Brother” is cleverly imprinted on the inside headband.
Fair Market Value: $18.95

I Heard it on NPR: Jazz for Blue Nights CD
This CD features some of the Blue Note’s most popular artists: soulful jazz ballads by legends such as Sarah Vaughan and Miles Davis, along with current jazz masters, like Cassandra Wilson and Bill Charlap.
Fair Market Value: $24.95

Presidential Trivia book by Richard Lederer
Presidential TriviaIn it you’ll find all the details about the lives of the United States presidents. It answers such questions as: Who was the first president to be assassinated? Who was the first president to be born an American citizen? Who was the first to be impeached? It also answers less important, but certainly interesting questions such as: Who was our tallest president? Who played golf? Who played poker? Filled with games, anagrams, poems, speeches, and an abundance of tidbits, details, and fascinating facts, this book is perfect for the novice to the history buff. From politics and policy to presidential nicknames and White House pets, Presidential Trivia has everything you ever wanted to know about our presidents, and then some!
Fair Market Value: $9.95

Anguished English book by Richard Lederer
The impossibly funny anthology of accidental assaults upon our common language. From bloopers and blunders to Signs of the Times to Mixed-Up Metaphors… from Two-Headed Headlines to Mangling Modifiers… it’s a collection that will leave you roaring with delight and laughter.
Fair Market Value: $9.99

Get Thee to a Punnery book by Richard Lederer
The pun is mightier than the sword… and here are sidesplitting puns of every color, stripe and persuasion to suit every whim. Even if you don’t know that your humerus is your funny bone, this is the book for you.
Fair Market Value: $9.95

Ohio Road Trips book by Neil Zurcher
Ohio Road TripsDiscover the best and most unusual places to visit in all of Ohio including: A museum dedicated entirely to popcorn.  A historic village where you can ride an authentic replica canal boat. Factory tours, antique malls, flea markets, and other lively shopping destinations.  Animal preserves featuring exotic varieties like bison, lions, rhinos, miniature donkeys.  An Amish hardware store that sells all non-electric appliances.  Mysterious prehistoric mounds and creepy caverns.  Romantic country inns, historic hotels, cozy bed-and-breakfasts. More than 500 places in all!
Fair Market Value: $13.95

Ohio Oddities book by Neil Zurcher
This book collects the most remarkable things Neil Zurcher has found in and about the Buckeye State, including the “bottomless” Blue Hole of Castalia and Ashtabula’s famed Headless Chicken - who lived without a noggin for 38 days.
Fair Market Value: $13.95

Strange Tales from Ohio book by Neil Zurcher
Learn why residents of Blueball, Ohio, erected a monument to a pig. Discover the thrill of cow (yes, cow) racing in Geauga County. Witness the birth of the Inflatoplane (an inflatable airplane, of course) in Akron, and revisit Ohio’s last public whipping, near Dayton.
Fair Market Value: $13.95

You! Breathing Easy double CD
You!: Breathing EasyNothing is more fundamental to living than breathing. But just because you’ve been doing it all your life doesn’t mean you can’t do it better. Breathing well is also central to meditation, relaxation and other practices that slow down the aging process and feel great while you’re doing it. Expanding on the life-extending program introduced in You!: Staying Young, Drs. Michael Roizen and Mehmet Oz bring you an audio program designed to help you enjoy all the physical, mental and spiritual benefits that come from truly breathing easy.
Fair Market Value: $19.95

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$50 - Your Choice

Vinyl Café Diaries Book
Vinyl Cafe DiariesAfter twenty years of motherhood, change has finally sneaked up on Morley, Stephanie’s made it into university, Sam’s got a week of grade six under his belt, and Dave, well, Dave’s still Dave. Surprises, answers to long-time questions, and revelations abound in Vinyl Cafe Diaries as Canada’s favorite family shares their thoughts on a decade of life under Stuart McLean’s microscope.
Fair Market Value: $24.99

Vinyl Café Odd Jobs CD
The 2001 double album from Stuart McLean. This collection of stories including: Toilet Training the Cat Music Lessons, Arthur the Dog, Love Never Ends, Odd Jobs, The Fig Tree, No Tax on Truffles, The Bare Truth
Fair Market Value: $23.99

Radio Lab Behaves So Strangely: The Best of Radio Lab (Volume One) CD
Radio Lab Behaves So Strangely CDThanks to listener demand, Radio Lab has produced its first ever CD compilation.  With the help of Radio Lab listeners, six favorites were selected: Sometimes Behaves So Strangely from the “Musical Language” episode; Goat on a Cow from the “Detective Stories” episode; Sleep with One Eye Open from the “Sleep” episode; Rite of Spring Riot from the “Musical Language” episode; Afghan Elvis from the “Pop Music” episode; and Ann Druyan from the “Space” episode.
Fair Market Value: $11.98

Welcome Member Package
RTA LogoAll $50 pledges and above will receive the Welcome Member Package. The Welcome Member Package includes an “I Listen I Vote” Public Radio Static Decal; a one-year subscription (4 issues) to the quarterly 90.3 Program Guide; the 90.3 WCPN Member Card; and an RTA Day Pass good on any of Greater Cleveland RTA’s bus or rapid transit lines, including the brand new Health Line opening on October 24, 2008. Learn more about the RTA Health Line here.
Fair Market Value: $5.50

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