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Time: 11-28-2010 21:46 User: marjohnson PubDate: 11-29-2010 Zone: KY Edition: 1 Page Name: B1 Color: Bftapbnta Metro Cmirier-imtmal MONDAY NOVEMBER 29, 2010 Breaking news on your cell Sam Swope BMW Shop 247 at samswope.com Text CJNEWS to 44636 (4INF0) for local news alerts Weather B2 Neighborhood Schools B3 Deaths B5-6 Mike Trautmann, Metro editor 582-4691, phone 582-4200, fax F' Opera earns Grawemeyer Ky. politics was stuffed with gaffes in 2010 la Commedia' reflects a lifetime of work, Dutch composer Andriessen says Louis Andriessen's "La Commedia" is based on Dante's "Divine Comedy" but also draws from other sources, including the Psalms. It won the 2011 of Grawemeyer Award for Music Composition. Y'all bring the stuffing, and I'll bring the candied yams. It's time for the Political Notebook's third annual serving of leftover turkeys the political missteps, errors and miscalculations of 2010.

This year's of L's School of Music next year for lectures and master classes. The work was chosen from among 161 entries that were screened initially by a panel of music professionals; finalists were then assessed by lay listeners with knowledge of contemporary music. In a telephone interview from Amsterdam, Andriessen called "La Commedia," his fourth opera, "an accumulation of my life's work." Critics have hailed it as his most ambitious accomplishment. Marc Satterwhite, a professor of composition at of L's School of Music and the director of the Grawemeyer music prize, said the By Elizabeth Kramer The Courier-Journal Dutch composer Louis An-driessen's multimedia opera "La Commedia" has won the 2011 University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award for Music Composition. Andriessen, one of the world's most renowned contemporary composers, creates music from diverse influences, including jazz and Stravinsky, and employs minimalist techniques.

Andriessen, 71, will receive a $100,000 prize and, as the award recipient, is expected to visit feast stretches POLITICAL other sources, including the Psalms and work by the 16th-century Dutch writer Joost van den Vondel. Andriessen used text from the Lucifer character in Vondel's plays to create his music is powerful. "It never lets up," he said. "The music grabs you from the first note and never lets go. And it keeps your attention over long stretches of time." Andriessen's opera, a libretto in five scenes, is based on Dante's "Divine Comedy." He folds in Joseph Gerth See OPERA, B4, col.

1 across the commonwealth and includes events in federal and state races and legislative politics that somebody, somewhere, probably wishes they had done differently. Even though Democratic state Sen. Mike Reynolds hadn't made many mis "It (the toy drive) means so much. This is really going to help me." MISTY WILC0XS0N, mother of the boys the toy drive will help 4 Carbon dioxide storage rules set Gas is injected deep underground By Bill Luster, The Courier-Journal Sherry Eddings is coordinating the Josh Jackson Toy Drive at her church, Spillman Memorial, to benefit the family of shooting victim Andre "Joshua" Jackson. She is also helping a young mother and her kids.

Toy drive aims to help slaying victim's family By James Bruggers The Courier-Journal The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has announced new rules to track the deep injection and storage of carbon dioxide and protect groundwater. Both have been seen as key steps toward cleaner coal technologies that would capture and bury a high-volume gas from coal-fired power plants, which have been blamed for warming the climate. "By providing clarity about greenhouse gas reporting and the necessary protections for protecting groundwater sources during carbon sequestration, we've cleared the way for people to use this promising technology," EPA Administrator Lisa P. Jackson said in a statement.

Carbon sequestration, or storage, could be especially important in Kentucky, which depends on coal for more than 90 percent of its electricity and is the nation's third-largest producer of coal. However, it has yet to be shown to be feasible on a large scale. One rule requires facilities that inject carbon dioxide into the ground to report their data to the EPA. Another requires well owners and operators that want to inject carbon dioxide into the ground to first study the geology, provide for testing and monitoring, and make sure they have funds available to correct any problems. Carbon dioxide is commonly put in beverages such as sodas and is not toxic in drinking water.

But geologists say it can react with water to form a mild acid, and, over time, the acid can break down certain types of rock, potentially flushing contaminants into a drinking water source. There also could be pol- See EPA, B4, col. 6 takes during the short time he was in the legislature, he had the problem of running as a Democrat in the hometown of Rand Paul, the GOP U.S. Senate candidate who led the ticket. But whatever shot he had at holding his seat seemingly ended when he spoke to a class at Western Kentucky University and broached the subject of medical benefits for illegal immigrants.

"Excuse my French, but my redneck constituency out here in, you know, far-out Kentucky, doesn't like that very much," Reynolds said. The line was caught on tape and soon made its way to the state Republican Party and the rest or at least Reynolds is history. Apparently voters don't like being referred to as "rednecks." Just up the road in Elizabeth-town, state Sen. Elizabeth Tori found herself in trouble when she got caught talking about her pay and benefits over 15 years in office. Tori's sin was in saying she was paid less than the minimum wage for her work in the Senate and that she didn't receive any benefits for her elective office.

Democrat Dennis Parrett's campaign juxtaposed those ideas against several legislative pay and pension increases that Tori had voted for and the fact that she and other legislators get "fat pensions" for doing part-time jobs. In the final month of the campaign, after the ads began, Tori went from 30 percentage points ahead to 3 points behind and became the first incumbent Republican state senator to lose in a general election since Eugene P. Stuart in 1990. In the U.S. Senate race, both Paul and Democrat Jack Conway had their share of missteps.

Take Conway, who began and ended the race with premeditated errors. He made the leftover turkey column last year with his boast at Fancy Farm that he was "one tough son of a bitch." This year, he returns with the decision to air the "Aqua Buddha" ad that appeared to stop his momentum just as he seemed to find a couple of issues that were helping him cut into Paul's lead Paul's call to raise Medicare deductibles and his support for a national sales tax. But the ad opened the door for Paul to play the victim which he did masterfully and claim that Conway was attacking his faith. He even put his wife, Kelley, out front to claim that Conway was attacking her family. The ad was panned in national media, and Paul and the GOP continued to bring up the ad all the way through Election Day.

Paul also ran a far-from-perfect race, and it began the day after the primary when he went on MSNBC's "Rachel Maddow Show." By that time, the national furor had already begun over comments Paul had made about the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to The Courier-Journal's editorial board. The clear impression that Paul left in that interview was that he opposed the part of the law that prohibited private businesses from discriminating based on race and religion. See GERTH, B4, col. 1 Single mom, kids will also benefit Andre "Joshua" Jackson was fatally shot in October at an apartment complex on McKendree Court. "Joshua" Jackson, who was fatally shot in October in an apartment complex parking lot on McKendree Court.

Eddings said she has known the Jackson family for years. Her son DeShawn and Josh grew up together and remained good friends as adults. She said Josh's death has put a strain on the Jackson family, so she wanted to give Josh's younger brothers 14-year-old James Williams and 13-year-old Jeremy Williams a good Christmas. "It means so much," said Misty Wilcoxson, the boys' mother. "This is really going to help me." Wilcoxson said Josh was a "good boy" and a hard worker By Chris Quay The Courier-Journal Sherry Eddings was an only child.

So she had several fruitful Christmas mornings with plenty of presents underneath her tree. "I was never deprived of having a good Christmas," said Eddings, 49, of Portland. Now Eddings has turned that gratefulness into a caring and giving spirit. She recently decided to organize a toy and clothes drive through her church, Spillman Memorial, to benefit the younger brothers of 25-year-old Andre TOY DRIVE When: 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturday.

Where: Spillman Memorial Church, 2118 W. Muhammad Ali Blvd. Information: jjacksontoydrive bellsouth.net. who didn't deserve what happened to him She struggled through Thanksgiving with Josh not being there, but Eddings has of- See EDDINGS, B4, col. 1 THIS WEEK IN HISTORY Federal health officials are spreading the word about a new pill shown by a study to help protect gay and bisexual men against HIV, which causes AIDS.

25 YEARS AGO 1985 Toyota Motor Corp. was to announce that it would build an automobile assembly plant near Georgetown. "The rumors or the news stories that have been released sound good for those of us in Kentucky, but we have not been notified officially," an upbeat Gov. Martha Layne Collins said during a news conference. The plant was to be the first in the United States for Japan's largest auto company.

50 YEARS AGO 1960 Louisville's "man of the year" was Mark P. Ethridge, vice president and publisher of The Courier-Journal and The Louisville Times. Ethridge helped plan new Ohio River bridges, worked to settle transit strikes and prodded downtown merchants and property owners to improve central Louisville. Compiled by Mark Taflinger, The Courier-Journal 10 YEARS AGO 2000 Mayor Dave Armstrong announced plans for a sign spelling out LOUISVILLE that would rise 40 feet, span 270 feet, cost $160,000 and glow in the dark along the waterfront, between Joe's Crab Shack and the Clark Memorial Bridge. But several months later, after complaints by environmentalists and others concerned about its suitability for the waterfront, Armstrong shelved the plan.

Much of the work on the sign was completed by Derby City Sign Electric Co. before the idea was put on hold. Read the rest from reporter Laura Un-gar's blog at www.courier-journal.com healthbytes.