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E-Notes
February
2010
From the Manager's Desk
SEE
what’s happening in Lake Wobegon!
http://wuot.org/h/E-NotesReginaFeb10.html
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Notes From
the Program Director
Around Knoxville
returns to WUOT’s airwaves Feb. 18...
http://wuot.org/h/E-NotesDanFeb10.html
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From Corporate and Community
Relations
WUOT sponsors local live cinecast of A
Prairie Home Companion and a variety of other events in
February...
http://wuot.org/h/E-NotesCindyFeb10.html
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From the Membership Desk
Volunteers had
great time at potluck...
http://wuot.org/h/E-NotesLisaFeb10.html
PROGRAMMING
February 2010 "AIRNOTES" and program grid ...
http://wuot.org/h/programming/airnotes0210.html
http://wuot.org/h/programming/gridFeb2010.html
SPECIALS...
Around Knoxville, produced and
hosted by WUOT's Allan Ellstrom
On the program: The vocal
quintet Amarcord. More information in "Notes from the Program
Director" above.
Thursday, Feb. 18 at 8
p.m.
Two new programs from ARW:
 Rising
by Degrees
The United States is facing a dramatic
demographic challenge: Young Latinos are the fastest-growing
segment of the population, and they are among the least likely
to graduate from college. Experts say the future of the American
economy is at stake, because higher education is essential in
the 21st century economy. This documentary tells the story of
Latino students working towards a college degree—and why
it’s so hard for them to get what they
want.
Friday, Feb. 12 at noon
 Workplace
U
We know that a good education can be the ticket to
a good job. But for many Americans, conventional school isn't
working. Every school day some seven thousand students drop out
of high school. Often, what they managed to learn in the
schoolhouse has not prepared them well enough for the job site.
This documentary reports on a growing movement to turn
workplaces into classrooms and marginal students into productive
workers.
Friday, Feb. 26 at noon
HIGHLIGHTS FROM FRIDAY EVENING
JAZZ...
 JAZZSET WITH DEE DEE BRIDGEWATER
Dee Dee Bridgewater at the Mary Lou Williams Women
in Jazz Festival
Sexy, spunky, sublime, inspired:
the new CD To Billie With Love from Dee Dee comes out March 2.
She is onstage at the Kennedy Center on JazzSet.
Airs Friday, Feb, 26 at 8 p.m.
http://www.npr.org/templates/rundowns/rundown.php?prgId=20&agg=1
 MARIAN
McPARTLAND'S PIANO JAZZ
Remembering Eubie
Blake
This month marks the 122nd anniversary of the
birth of James Herbert "Eubie" Blake. He was the last-known
original ragtime pianist when he appeared on the second season
of Piano Jazz at the age of 93. On this program from 1980, Blake
remembers his vaudeville days, writing classics "Charleston Rag"
and "I'm Just Wild About Harry." Blake and McPartland get
together for duets on "St. Louis Blues" and "The Star Spangled
Banner."
Airs Friday, February 5 at 9 p.m.
http://www.npr.org/programs/pianojazz/
FROM THE NATIONAL
DESKS
Visit the following links to learn
more about stories, reports, people and more.
 Nations
Being Neighborly
Though the Dominican Republic's
relations with neighboring Haiti are traditionally strained, the
country is now opening its border and its heart to victims of
the January 12 earthquake.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=122733557
Photo: Volunteers at work Monday at the Centro Bono, a
Jesuit organization in Santo Domingo. The organization is
sending medicine, food, blankets, clothing, shoes and water to
Haiti.
 Cooking
With Booze
The Kitchen Windows series shares
spirited recipes for dishes made with Tequila, Bourbon, Vodka,
and Calvados.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=122730434
 Rice
Paddies, Termites, Coal Mines, Global Warming, And
You
Carbon dioxide is the gas we most associate with
global warming, but methane gas also plays an important role.
Methane gas stopped increasing in the atmosphere in the 1990s,
but now it appears to be on the rise once again.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=122638800
Photo: Farmers in Thailand tend to a rice paddy in Yala
province. Rice paddies are one of the main sources of methane
emissions worldwide.
 The
Only Way To Make Parallel Parking Less Fun? Add
Math
University of London mathematician Simon
Blackburn has worked out a handy formula to help city dwellers
parallel park their cars. It only involves four variables, 3
parenthetical sub-equations, 6 exponentials, and 2 square root
signs, so no one will mind if you figure that out real quick
while traffic backs up behind you.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=122880263
Photo The Geometry of Perfect Parking by Simon R.
Blackburn
Credit: Alyson Hurt, NPR
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