Composers Datebook for January 14, 2010

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Thursday, January 14 Play today's show | How to listen Puccini's "shocker" On today's date in 1900, "Tosca," a new opera by Giacomo Puccini had its premiere performance at the Teatro Costanzi in Rome. Rome was, in fact, the opera's fictional setting, and those in the audience would have instantly recognized the real-life Roman settings of the three acts depicted on stage. Puccini composed "Tosca" at the height of the "verismo" or the "realism" craze in opera. It might seem downright silly that a theatrical form as unreal and stylized as opera could ever be described as "realistic" -- but the idea was to depict "a slice of real life" -- even if that slice dealt with a highly melodramatic cast of characters set in the past, including a sadistic, lecherous police chief, a handsome young painter, and a very beautiful opera diva. To be as realistic as possible, Puccini visited Rome to listen to the early morning church bells from the ramparts of the Castel Sant' Angelo, the setting of his opera's third act and to consult with a Roman priest on the details of the liturgy for the "Te Deum" that concludes Act I. Some early audiences for "Tosca" thought Puccini had taken this realism thing way too far: One proper British reviewer wrote: "Those who were present were little prepared for the revolting effects produced by musically illustrating the torture and murder scenes . . . What has music to do with a lustful man chasing a defenseless woman, or the dying kicks of a murdered scoundrel?"		Music Played on Today's Program: Giacomo Puccini (1858 - 1924): Tosca soloists; Philharmonia Orchestra; Giuseppe Sinopoli, cond. DG 431 775 Additional Information: More on Puccini's Tosca 10 things "you didn't know" about Tosca About the Program Composers Datebook is a daily program about composers of the past and present, hosted by John Zech. Support Composers Datebook Purchase music from Composers Datebook from Amazon. Or shop Public Radio Market. Your purchases help support the American Composers Forum and public radio. Your support makes our online services possible. Contribute Now. Fostering artistic and professional development
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The Writer's Almanac for January 14, 2010

View this message on the Web Thursday Jan. 14, 2010  LISTEN Penguin by William Jay Smith Polar Bear by William Jay Smith Penguin I think it must be very nice To stroll about upon the ice, Night and day, day and night, Wearing only black and white, Always in your Sunday best— Black tailcoat and pearl-white vest. To stroll about so pleasantly Beside the cold and silent sea Would really suit me to a T! I think it must be very nice To stroll with Penguins on the ice.              For those who like the Arctic air,              There also is the Polar Bear. Polar Bear The Polar Bear never makes his bed; He sleeps on a cake of ice instead. He has no blanket, no quilt, no sheet Except the rain and snow and sleet. He drifts about on a white ice floe While cold wings howl and blizzards blow And the temperature drops to forty below. The Polar Bear never makes his bed; The blanket he pulls up over his head Is lined with soft and feathery snow. If ever he rose and turned on the light, He would find a world of bathtub white, And icebergs floating through the night. "Penguin" and "Polar Bear" by William Jay Smith, from Laughing Time: Collected Nonsense. © Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 1953. Reprinted with permission. (buy now) It's the birthday of the Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times columnist who said, "If there's one thing men fear, it's a woman who uses her critical faculties" — Maureen Dowd, (books by this author) born in Washington, D.C. (1952), the youngest child of an Irish-born cop. She majored in English at Catholic University and then worked as an editorial assistant at The Washington Star, where she said she "was almost fired every day because [she] couldn't take a decent phone message." She finally got promoted to reporter and was writing entertaining front-page stories with quirky details when the newspaper went out of business. Two years after she'd applied to The New York Times, Anna Quindlen, then the deputy metropolitan editor at the Times, found some writing samples of Dowd's in a pile of old résumés and immediately offered her a job. Dowd joined the Times in 1983 as a reporter, and less than a decade later was a Pulitzer Prize finalist for national reporting. Then, in 1995, she got her own column on the New York Times Op-Ed page, just the fourth woman in the newspaper's history to do so. In 1999, she won the Pulitzer Prize for distinguished commentary, based on a series of articles she did on the Clinton-Lewinsky scandal. One of the articles began: "The president must not lose his job. Not over this. Certainly, Bill Clinton should be deeply ashamed of himself. He has given a bad name to adultery and lying. He has made wickedness seem pathetic, and that's truly a sin. Kenneth Starr, all these years and all these millions later, has not delivered impeachable offenses. He has delivered a 445-page Harold Robbins novel." She has a reputation around Washington as being both cutthroat and irresistible. Clinton's White House spokesman once said: "It's hard to get mad at her for any length of time. I'd call and yell at her, and I'd always end up laughing." One reporter called her a "sorceress," and another said she employs "mischievous destabilization." In 2005, Maureen Dowd published a collection of essays called Are Men Necessary?; her title is a play on a tongue-in-cheek manual by James Thurber and E.B, White called Is Sex Necessary? She said: "I always subscribed to the Carole Lombard philosophy. 'I live by a man's code, designed to fit a man's world, yet at the same time I never forget that a woman's first job is to choose the right shade of lipstick.'" She said, "The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for." It's the birthday of novelist John Dos Passos, (books by this author) born in Chicago (1896). He moved around so much that he called himself a "hotel child," living in Mexico, Belgium, England, Washington, D.C., and on a farm in Virginia. Dos Passos later attended Harvard, where he was a classmate of E.E. Cummings. He went to Spain to study architecture after he graduated, but with the outbreak of World War I, he worked as a volunteer ambulance driver instead. He later enlisted in the United States Medical Corps as a private. He served in France and Italy, and that experience inspired his anti-war novels, One Man's Initiation (1920) and Three Soldiers (1921). When the war was over, he worked as a newspaper correspondent in Spain, Mexico, and New York. He said, "People don't choose their careers; they are engulfed by them." His other books include the Manhattan Transfer (1925), and the famous U.S.A. Trilogy, comprising The 42nd Parallel (1930), 1919 (1932), and The Big Money (1936). He said, "If there is a special Hell for writers it would be in the forced contemplation of their own works." Be well, do good work, and keep in touch.® sponsor The Poetry Foundation National broadcasts of The Writer's Almanac are supported by The Poetry Foundation, publisher of Poetry magazine for over 90 years. The Writer's Almanac is produced by Prairie Home Productions and presented by American Public Media. sponsor Contribute $75 or more today and we'll thank you with the official Writer's Almanac mug. The Oxford Treasury of Classic Poems Cd Order your copy today. On the Radio Podcast Web Archive Title Author Date Read highlighted interviews of poets heard on the show. Visit the bookshelf now You received this free e-mail newsletter because you previously subscribed or because it was sent to you by a friend. 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Partnerships and Stewardship News Release (HQ): Landfills Turn Trash into Power and Greenhouse Gas Reductions

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Landfills Turn Trash into Power and Greenhouse Gas Reductions

Projects recognized for innovative use of landfill gas

WASHINGTON – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is recognizing eight landfill methane capture projects for their innovation in generating renewable energy and reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. The winners include one of the largest landfill gas (LFG) to liquefied natural gas facilities in the world, located in Livermore, Calif.

“We are proud to recognize Landfill Methane Outreach Program partners who are turning trash into a clean and profitable source of energy,” said Gina McCarthy, assistant administrator for EPA’s Office of Air and Radiation. “These projects, and others like them, are helping us transition into a clean energy economy and make important greenhouse gas reductions.”

Methane, a primary component of LFG, is a GHG with more than 20 times the global warming potential of carbon dioxide. Using LFG provides a significant energy resource, prevents GHG emissions, and reduces odors and other hazards associated with emissions. This year’s Landfill Methane Outreach Program (LMOP) winning projects will avoid the emissions of 546,000 tons of carbon dioxide equivalent per year, the equivalent of annual GHG emissions from nearly 100,000 passenger vehicles.

Awards were given in three categories: Projects of the Year were given to the University of New Hampshire EcoLineTM Project, Rochester, N.H.;            Jefferson City, Missouri Renewable Energy Project, Jefferson City, Mo.; The Altamont Landfill Resource and Recovery Facility, Livermore, Calif.; Ox Mountain LFG Energy Project, Half Moon Bay, Calif.; Sioux Falls Landfill & Poet LFG Pipeline, Sioux Falls, S.D.
and the Winder Renewable Methane Project, Winder, Ga. The State Partner of the Year was given to the Kansas Department of Health and Environment, and the Community Partner of the Year was awarded to the Kent County Department of Public Works, Byron Center, Mich.

EPA’s LMOP has assisted with more than 450 LFG energy projects over the past 15 years. The United States currently has about 509 operational LFG energy projects. The LFG electricity generation projects have a capacity of 1,563 megawatts (MW) and provide the energy equivalent of powering more than 920,000 homes annually. 

The direct-use projects provide an additional 304 million standard cubic feet of LFG per day and provide the energy equivalent of heating more than 715,000 homes annually. Direct-use LFG energy projects do not produce electricity, but instead use LFG as an alternative to replace another fuel such as natural gas or coal.  

LMOP is a voluntary assistance and partnership program that reduces GHG emissions by supporting LFG energy project development.  The program also assists countries throughout the world in developing landfill methane reduction projects through the international Methane to Markets Partnership. 

More information on the awards: http://www.epa.gov/lmop/partners/award/index.html

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Technology: Afternoon Edition

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Most Viewed Articles in Technology 1) China faces backlash from 'netizens' if Google leaves BEIJING -- Google's threat to shut down its Chinese Web site and offices over cyber-attacks and censorship puts the government here in the awkward position of choosing between its devotion to restricting information and the possible ire of the roughly 80 million Chinese who use the search engine. 2) Google threatens to leave China after attacks on activists' e-mail Google said Tuesday that it might pull out of China because of a sophisticated computer network attack originating there and targeting its e-mail service and corporate infrastructure, a threat that could rattle U.S.-China relations, as well as China's business community. 3) Baidu.tw Wasn't Hacked To Show Google, Doesn't Even Belong To Baidu Lots of interesting commentary in the wake of Google's bombshell blog post from yesterday about its decision to stop censoring its search results and possibly withdrawing from the Chinese market all together after being hit with severe cyber attacks on its core infrastructure. You can follow the... 4) Google threatens to leave China Google said Tuesday that it may pull out of China because of a sophisticated computer network attack originating there and targeting its e-mail service and corporate infrastructure, a threat that could rattle U.S.-China relations, as well as China's business community. 5) Statement from Google: A new approach to China Google described the Chinese cyberattacks and explained its resulting decision to stop censoring Chinese search results in this statement from its chief legal officer, released to news outlets Tuesday evening. 6) Google to end China censorship after e-mail breach SAN FRANCISCO -- Google Inc. will stop censoring its search results in China and may pull out of the country completely after discovering that computer hackers had tricked human-rights activists into exposing their e-mail accounts to outsiders. 7) Yahoo selling e-mail service Zimbra to VMware SUNNYVALE, Calif. -- Yahoo is selling the e-mail service Zimbra to VMware as part of an effort to focus on the Internet services that generate most of its revenue. 8) Yesterday Was Twitter's Highest Usage Day Ever. Today Will Be Bigger. For several months now, all we've heard is how Twitter's growth, once rapid , is flatlining . And all indications are from the various third-party measuring sources is that this is true. But Twitter co-founder Evan Williams just tweeted a little surprise for everyone today: Apparently, yesterday was... 9) AOL set to lay off more than 1,000 AOL said Monday that it plans to lay off more than 1,000 workers this week, as the company continues efforts to restructure as a Web content publisher. 10) Washington in spotlight at electronics show LAS VEGAS -- The nation's top techie, the geek-in-chief, strode across the crowded floor of the Consumer Electronics Show like a high-roller in Caesar's Palace. UNSUBSCRIBE | Additional Newsletter Services | Advertising | Subscribe to the Paper | Privacy Policy

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Opinions: Afternoon Edition

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Most Viewed Opinions Columns 1) A glass ceiling's cruel reflections By Kathleen Parker It should be easy to imagine who'll be the first female president. Why is it so hard? 2)  From Obama, no drama. No inspiration, either By Michael Gerson We need passion in presidential rhetoric. We're not getting it. 3) Health reform's time bombs By Harold Meyerson Health reform compromises could hang "kick me" signs on Democrats in November. 4) Mullen's missing candor By Lawrence J. Korb The Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman is falling short on candid advice to power. 5) Virginia's disgrace Jennifer McDaniel was released from prison four years ago in the commonwealth, but still cannot vote. 6) Slowing down a Cadillac MONDAY'S White House meeting between President Obama and labor leaders focused on one of the most contentious -- and most sensible -- aspects of health reform: the proposed tax on employer-provided, high-value health insurance plans. The Senate version of the health-care bill would impose a 40 pe... 7) One drop of truth By Eugene Robinson In the country of the one-drop rule, Harry Reid's only crime is candor. 8)  A president AWOL NIGERIA HAS come under severe international scrutiny since one of its citizens sought to bring down Northwest Flight 253 over Detroit. So it doesn't help that the country's president is nearly impossible to find. Umaru Yar'Adua , a native of Nigeria's Muslim north, flew to Saudi Arabia Nov. 23 for... 9) Don't stop now IT MAY SEEM incongruous for D.C. lawmakers to submit a crime bill when the District is experiencing a historic drop in the crime rate . As welcome as the plunge is, certain neighborhoods -- among them Shaw, Anacostia and Columbia Heights -- continue to bear the brunt of the violence that persists.... 10)  Who will answer the jihadi elite? By Anne Applebaum The educated, well-off attackers of recent months demand a new kind of anti-terrorism. UNSUBSCRIBE | Additional Newsletter Services | Advertising | Subscribe to the Paper | Privacy Policy

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Recovery Act Announcement: Secretary Chu Announces Nearly $80 Million Investment for Advanced Biofuels Research and Fueling Infrastructure January 13, 2010 U.S. Department of Energy Secretary Steven Chu today announced the investment of nearly $80 million under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act for advanced biofuels research and fueling infrastructure that will help support the development of a clean sustainable transportation sector. The selections announced today—two biofuels consortia for up to $78 million to research algae-based and advanced biofuels—are part of the Department's continued effort to spur the creation of the domestic bio-industry while creating jobs. "Advanced biofuels are crucial to building a clean energy economy," said Secretary Chu. "By harnessing the power of science and technology, we can bring new biofuels to the market and develop a cleaner and more sustainable transportation sector. This investment will help spur the creation of the domestic bio-industry, while creating jobs and reducing our dependence on foreign oil." Full story

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Marketplace Midday Update, Wednesday, January 13, 2010

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MARKET UPDATE at 1:25 p.m. EST DOW +45.12; NASDAQ +15.83; S&P 500 +6.80 Marketplace Minute With Bill Radke Watch Marketplace Morning Report host Bill Radke cram all the week's business news into a 60-second poem. LATEST NEWS FROM MARKETPLACE Listen to today's Morning Report | Marketplace Morning Reading Good morning. Here’s what I’ve seen so far: items on Obama and the bankers, and NBC. LATER TODAY ON MARKETPLACE Federal stimulus money has one key priority: job creation. But, creating jobs in the prison system has sparked controversy. Karen Weise reports. Google is threatening to leave China over hacking and censorship concerns. What kind of implications would that move have on the future of business dealings with China? Mitchell Hartman reports. Carmakers may be upbeat about 2010 as they showcase their latest models at the Detroit Auto Show. Commentator Robert Reich says automakers should be focusing on getting jobs and creating new industries instead. Tune in to your local broadcast or listen online STORIES FROM MARKETPLACE MORNING REPORT White House says jobs could be worse The Obama administration's latest stimulus progress report explains that despite double-digit unemployment, things aren't as bad as they would have been without it. Steve Chiotakis talks to Marketplace's Sam Eaton. Trading OJ like they do in the movies It's been a tumultuous week for frozen orange juice prices thanks to the cold snap in Florida, and that's meant quite a ride for traders of orange juice futures. Sally Herships talked to a trader to find out if this week's events were anything like the movie "Trading Places." Colleges spending more on sports Colleges spending on athletics has risen significantly in the past several years, and many programs routinely don't break even. Brett Neely explores why this philosophy of spending is not sustainable. MARKETPLACE MONEY PERSONAL FINANCE IRS gets tough on tax preparers GFEs help clarify mortgage terms Escaping the mortgage battlefront 2010 money goals from our listeners How to be sharp in video job interviews Will Dodd act with time left in office? Accident inspires budgeting strategy Money lessons from The Simpsons More from Marketplace Money Subscribe to the Marketplace Money newsletter SPONSOR Coverage from Marketplace, Marketplace Morning Report and Marketplace Money plus Web extras. SPECIAL REPORTS AND FEATURES We're on Twitter Get an early heads-up of what's coming up on the show and other tidbits from the business day. Follow us   Working Intimate profiles of real people with real families, real struggles, real dreams and real jobs. Meet them   Conversations from the Corner Office Marketplace goes one-on-one with CEOs, company founders, head honchos. Sit in The Next American Dream Marketplace looks at four pillars of the American Dream and how they're changing. Follow the Dream.

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