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'Erratic' I-77 driver stopped breathing. Deputies revived him after rest area crash.
Joe Marusak
Deputies responding to reports of an SUV moving erratically on Interstate 77 revived the driver after finding him unconscious and no longer breathing following a rest area crash Tuesday.
Officers searched for the man after witnesses saw him weaving in the northbound lanes north of Statesville, said Iredell County Sheriff Darren Campbell in a news release on Wednesday.
The driver hit a guardrail and trash cans while pulling into the rest area, and his SUV ended up facing south in the northbound entrance lane, according to the sheriff.
Deputies found the driver "slumped over the steering wheel" and "unresponsive," Campbell said.
Deputies "pried the driver's door open, and then noticed the driver was not breathing," the sheriff said.
They also saw drug paraphernalia and what they believed to be heroin in the SUV, according to Campbell.
The deputies pulled the driver from the SUV, laid him on the ground and administered two doses of Narcan through a nasal spray container, the sheriff said. Narcan is commonly used by emergency responders to revive people who overdose on drugs.
"The driver began breathing on his own and eventually gained consciousness," Campbell said.
The State Highway Patrol is investigating the crash. The driver's name and possible charges against him have not been released.
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Tiger Woods told reporters on Tuesday about recently making his first hole-in-one in 20 years, and that very day, New York City's "Tiger Hood" made an ace of his own. What a sign from the golf gods! Or, much more likely, a completely random coincidence. In any event, we're happy for both golfers.
Tiger Hood, whose real name is Patrick Q. F. Barr, gained notoriety a couple years ago when ESPN made a short "30 for 30" documentary on him. Barr, a photographer, has been playing street golf in the Big Apple since 2009 after finding a golf club in his garage. He makes golf balls out of milk cartons he finds in the trash, washing them in his bathtub.
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Die Management-Universität Singapur (engl. Singapore Management University; Abk. SMU) ist eine wirtschaftswissenschaftlich orientierte Universität in Singapur. Die SMU zählt kontinuierlich zu den weltweit besten Universitäten für Wirtschaftswissenschaften und ist erstmals in den Top 50 des Financial Times MBA-Rankings 2018 als höchster Neueinsteiger vertreten.

Geschichte
1997 erwog die Regierung von Singapur die Errichtung einer dritten Universität in Singapur. Ho Kwon Ping, ein singapurischer Unternehmer, wurde zum Vorsitzenden der Task Force ernannt, die festlegte, dass die neue Einrichtung dem amerikanischen Hochschulsystem mit einer flexibleren breit angelegten Ausbildung folgen würde. Nach einer Überprüfung der Business Schools für Studenten, die als Vorbild für die SMU dienen sollen, hat sich die Wharton School der University of Pennsylvania  in den USA als bester Kandidat erwiesen. Das Wharton-SMU-Abkommen wurde im Februar 1999 unterzeichnet, gefolgt von der Zusammenarbeit zwischen dem Wharton-SMU Research Center im Juni.

Im Jahr 2000 fand die SMU ihr erstes Zuhause am ehemaligen Raffles College (dem Campus Bukit Timah der National University of Singapore) in der Evans Road in der Nähe der Hwa Chong Institution. Auf dem 1929 erstmals eröffneten Campus befanden sich bereits vor der SMU mehrere Einrichtungen. Im Jahr 2001 rüstete die SMU den Hauptcampus auf und besetzte ihn, wobei die Notwendigkeit einer Modernisierung und Sanierung mit Einrichtungen unter Wahrung des Erbes der Kolonialarchitektur in Einklang gebracht wurde. Von 2001 bis 2004 war Ronald Frank der zweite Präsident der SMU und wurde von Howard Hunter abgelöst.

Zwischen 2000 und 2005 wurden an der SMU vier Schulen, ihre Bibliothek und drei Kompetenzzentren gegründet und der erste Teil der Schülerinnen und Schüler absolviert. Danach wurde die SMU in den Distrikt Bras Basah verlegt.

2010 übernahmen Yong Pung How und Arnoud De Meyer die Positionen des Kanzlers und Präsidenten der SMU von Richard Hu und Howard Hunter. und Präsident Im Jahr 2015 ersetzte J. Y. Pillay Yong als Kanzler der SMU, während Lily Kong im Januar 2019 De Meyer als Präsident der SMU ablöste. Lim Chee Onn folgte im August 2019 J. Y. Pillay als Kanzler nach.

Fakultäten und Zentren
 Lee Kong Chian Fakultät für Unternehmensführung (School of Business)
 Fakultät für Rechnungswesen (School of Accountancy)
 Fakultät für Volkswirtschaft (School of Economics)
 Fakultät für Sozialwissenschaften (School of Social Sciences)
 Fakultät für Informationssysteme (School of Information Systems)
 Fakultät für Rechtswissenschaften (School of Law)
 UOB-SMU Entrepreneurship Allianz Zentrum

Sechs der sieben Gebäude sind durch einen unterirdischen Gang mit dem Namen Concourse verbunden, der für die Öffentlichkeit zugänglich ist und von Geschäften gesäumt wird. Der Campus wurde von zwei Architektenteams entworfen, wobei Cox Architects and Planners und DEG Architects für das Verwaltungsgebäude verantwortlich waren und Edward Cullinan Architects und KNTA Architects den Rest entwarfen.

Zu den Unterrichtsmöglichkeiten zählen Seminarräume, Klassenzimmer, Computerlabore und Gruppenarbeitsräume, die von Studenten für Projektdiskussionen genutzt werden. Überall an der Universität gibt es Forschungseinrichtungen. Sporteinrichtungen sind auf dem Campus aus Platzgründen begrenzt. Die Universität verfügt jedoch über ein Schwimmbad, ein Fitnessstudio und eine Mehrzwecksporthalle, die mit einer Felswand ausgestattet ist. Die Universität verfügt über campusweite WLAN-Netzwerke.

Das jüngste Gebäude auf dem Campus ist die School of Law, die im März 2017 offiziell eröffnet wurde. Ein wesentliches Merkmal des neuen Gebäudes ist die Kwa Geok Choo Law Library, benannt in Erinnerung an die Rechtsanwältin Kwa Geok Choo, deren Frau auch war Singapurs erster Premierminister Lee Kuan Yew. Die 2.600 Quadratmeter große Kwa Geok Choo Law Library nimmt eine eigenständige architektonische Form an, die an eine Perle erinnert. Es bietet Platz für mehr als 500 Personen und ist mit moderner Technologie ausgestattet. Innerhalb des School of Law-Gebäudes befinden sich das David Marshall Moot Court, das SMU Pro Bono Center und andere Forschungszentren.

Die Universität hatte das ehemalige MPH-Gebäude, in dem sich bis 2003 der ehemalige Flagship-Store der MPH Group befand, an der Kreuzung von Stamford Road und Armenian Street von Mitte 2015 bis Mitte 2019 angemietet, um die SMU Labs unterzubringen. Dies bot kollaborativen Lernraum für das neueste Lernexperiment der Universität, SMU-X, in dem sich der Unterricht auf die Lösung realer Probleme durch Projekte konzentriert. Das neue Connexion-Gebäude der Tahir Foundation, das als Brücke zwischen der School of Law und der School of Accountancy errichtet wurde, wird Ende 2019 als ständiger Wohnsitz der SMU-X- und SMU-Labs dienen.

School of Accountancy
Die School of Accountancy (SOA) wurde 2001 mit dem Bachelor of Accountancy (BAcc) als einzigem Angebot ins Leben gerufen. Im Jahr 2005 startete die Schule das Master of Professional Accounting (MPA) -Programm für Fachkräfte ohne Abschluss in Rechnungswesen. Sowohl der SMU MPA als auch der BAcc sind beim Institute of Singapore Chartered Accountants (ISCA), dem Chartered Accountant von Singapur, der Accounting and Corporate Regulatory Authority (ACRA), der CPA Australia, dem Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia (ICAA) und dem Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW).

Lee Kong Chian School of Business
Die Lee Kong Chian School of Business (LKCSB) gilt als Gründungsschule der SMU und öffnete im August 2000 ihre Pforten für eine Pionierreihe von Studierenden des Bachelor of Business Management (BBM). Die Schule wurde nach dem Philanthrop Lee Kong Chian benannt.

Die Schule bietet den Master of Science in Angewandter Finanzwissenschaft (China) an, eine Kooperation zwischen der SMU und dem Wang Yanan Institut für das Studium der Wirtschaftswissenschaften (WISE) an der Universität Xiamen sowie den Master of Science in Kommunikationsmanagement (MCM) in Partnerschaft mit Università della Svizzera italiana (USI) und mit 10 Tagen an der UCLA Anderson School of Management. Das neueste Programm, das den Master of Human Capital Leadership (MHCL) anbietet, wurde vom Chartered Institute of Personal & Development akkreditiert, und die Studenten besuchen die Wharton School der University of Pennsylvania für ihr Auslandssegment.

Die Schule bietet auch einen Doktortitel in Betriebswirtschaft mit den Schwerpunkten Finanzen, Organisationsverhalten und Personalwesen (OBHR), Marketing, Strategie und Organisation, Operations Management oder General Management an.

School of Economics
Die School of Economics (SOE) wurde im Juli 2002 als Teil der damaligen School of Economics and Social Sciences (SESS) gegründet. Nach der Umstrukturierung wurde die wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät der Universität von den Sozialwissenschaften getrennt, um eine eigene Schule zu gründen. Diese Umstrukturierung wurde weitgehend als fundierte Entscheidung akzeptiert, da der Lehrplan des SOE dem der Wharton School der University of Pennsylvania nachempfunden war, anstatt dem traditionellen sozialwissenschaftlichen Wirtschaftslehrplan zu folgen, der an den meisten anderen Institutionen zu finden war.

Das SOE bietet ab sofort die Studiengänge Bachelor of Science (Economics) sowie Master of Science in Economics und Applied Economics an. Im Jahr 2007 führte die Schule auch ein PhD in Economics-Programm ein.

School of Information Systems
Die School of Information Systems (SIS) wurde mit Hilfe der Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) gegründet, als SMU und CMU eine vierjährige strategische Partnerschaft schlossen, um das Fachwissen der CMU-Fakultät bei der Gründung der Schule zu nutzen. Durch diese Partnerschaft unterstützte die CMU das SIS beim Aufbau und der Weiterentwicklung des Bachelor-Studiengangs "Management von Informationssystemen", einschließlich der Einrichtung des SMU-CMU-Fast-Track-Vorzeigeprogramms, das es SIS-Studenten ermöglicht, ihren Abschluss in viereinhalb Jahren zu machen Jahre mit einem Bachelor-Abschluss von der SMU und einem Master-Abschluss von der CMU. 2007 einigten sich beide Universitäten auf eine Verlängerung um vier Jahre. Die CMU unterstützt nun den Aufbau und das Wachstum des SIS-Weiterbildungsangebots. Im Rahmen dieser Vereinbarung konzentrierten sich die beiden Universitäten auch verstärkt auf gemeinsame Forschungsbemühungen, die zu gemeinsamen Forschungsergebnissen der Fakultät, finanzierten Projekten und der Interaktion von Doktoranden führten.

SIS bietet den Master of Science in Informationssystemen, den Master of IT in Business (MITB) sowie den PhD in Informationssystemen zusätzlich zu seinem Bachelor of Science-Angebot an. Der Master of IT in Business (MITB) erweitert das Angebot von Analytics and Financial Services Analytics mit dem Online-Programm HBX Credential of Readiness (CORe) der Harvard Business School. Die SMU ist die erste Bildungseinrichtung im Verband Südostasiatischer Nationen (ASEAN), die HBX (CORe) in ihr Masterprogramm aufgenommen hat.

School of Law
Die School of Law (SOL) ist die kleinste Schule der SMU mit einer jährlichen Aufnahme von rund 180 Schülern. Die Gründung der SOL wurde im August 2007 angekündigt. Zuvor bestand das SOL als Rechtsabteilung der Lee Kong Chian School of Business der SMU, an der Andrew Phang den Vorsitz führte. Sein derzeitiger Dekan ist Goh Yihan, der im Juli 2017 die Nachfolge von Yeo Tiong Min antrat.

Das SOL bietet den Bachelor of Laws (LLB) als Grundstudium sowie einen amerikanischen Juris Doctor (JD) an. Die Schule bietet auch ein Master of Laws (LLM) -Programm mit der Option eines dualen LLM an der Queen Mary University of London an.

School of Social Sciences
Die School of Social Sciences (SOSS) wurde im Juli 2002 als Teil der damaligen School of Economics and Social Sciences (SESS) gegründet. Durch eine Umstrukturierung im Jahr 2007 wurden die School of Economics und die School of Social Sciences getrennt, um unabhängige Schulen innerhalb der SMU zu bilden. Das primäre Angebot des SOSS ist der Bachelor of Social Science, ein multidisziplinäres Undergraduate-Programm. Innerhalb dieses Programms werden drei Hauptfächer angeboten, nämlich Politikwissenschaft, Psychologie und Soziologie. Darüber hinaus bietet das SOSS einen Doktortitel in Psychologie an.

SMU Hostel
Das SMU Hostel, bekannt als SMU Residences @ Prinsep, befindet sich in der Prinsep Street. Die Herberge entstand durch die Renovierung von drei von der Regierung gespendeten Housing and Development Board. Das Hostel hat seine ersten Bewohner im Dezember 2006 aufgenommen und wurde im Februar 2007 offiziell eröffnet. In den Hostelgebäuden können ca. 250 Bewohner untergebracht werden. Vorrang haben internationale Studierende, von denen die meisten in verschiedenen Privathäusern auf der ganzen Insel leben.

Darüber hinaus vermietet die Universität Zimmer von einem Studentenwohnheim am Commonwealth Drive. Diese stehen 212 Vollzeit-SMU-Studenten (ab dem 2. Jahr), Austauschstudenten und Vollzeit-Postgraduierten offen, die ein Vollzeitstudium an der SMU planen das kommende akademische Jahr. Das Hostel befindet sich in der Nähe von Holland Village, das für seine kosmopolitische Auswahl an Restaurants und Cafés bekannt ist.

SMU verfügt auch über 20 Einheiten in der Mount Sophia-Siedlung, die gemietet werden können und für Lehrkräfte und Mitarbeiter sowie deren Familienangehörige bestimmt sind, insbesondere für diejenigen, die aus dem Ausland oder bei Besuchen von mehreren Monaten oder länger nach Singapur ziehen.

Partneruniversitäten

Im Jahr 2006 hatte die SMU 112 internationale Austauschabkommen. Partnerhochschulen im deutschsprachigen Raum sind die Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien, die Universität Wien, die FH Joanneum, die Bucerius Law School, die Universität Mannheim, die Universität Frankfurt am Main, die ESCP Europe, die Technische Universität München, die LMU München, die Munich Business School, die EBS Universität für Wirtschaft und Recht, die ETH Zürich, die Universität St. Gallen, die Europa-Universität Viadrina, die Freie Universität Berlin und die WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management sowie seit 2007 das Karlsruher Institut für Technologie.

Verkehr
Die SMU ist über diese beiden MRT-Stationen – Bras Basah und Bencoolen – verbunden. Es befindet sich in unmittelbarer Nähe und ist nicht verbunden, was sonst als Austausch verbunden wäre. Bras Basah (moderne Schreibweise: Beras Basah) bedeutet auf Malaiisch "nasser Reis" – Beras bedeutet geernteter Reis ohne Schale, und Basah bedeutet nasser Reis.

Bras Basah ist auch durch die beiden Straßen – Bras Basah Road und Stamford Road – verbunden und umgeht seit dem 16. Januar 2007 den Verkehr entlang des Fort Canning Tunnel.

Weblinks
 Singapore Management University – Offizielle Seite (englisch)

Einzelnachweise

Universität in Singapur
Wirtschaftshochschule
Organisation (Management)
Gegründet 2000

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Swati for Congress? Pat Murphy, too!
Jeff Danielson takes on the Regents
Democrats say former legislator Swati Dandekar is looking at running for Congress in the First District. She didn't respond to Cityview's query, but if she is running she'll be a formidable candidate next year to fill the seat being vacated by Senate-hopeful Bruce Braley.
But she'll have to win a primary first.
Former House Speaker Pat Murphy of Dubuque announced last week that he's running, and there's talk that others — including Cedar Rapids legislator Liz Mathis — will get in, too.
Dandekar, who turns 62 next month, is smart, ambitious and well-off. She's conservative on business issues, which has irritated some fellow Democrats, but she really pissed them off two years ago when she gave up her Senate seat in mid-term to take a $115,000-a-year post on the Iowa Utilities Board — an appointment that was a political masterstroke by Republican Governor Terry Branstad. At the time, the Democrats held a 26-24 lead in the Senate, and a loss of the seat would have been disastrous for the party. But the Republicans got in an intramural fight, and Mathis, a farm girl who became a TV reporter and anchorwoman, defeated Republican Cindy Golding in a special election in November 2011. Mathis was re-elected last fall.
Dandekar is the first India-born woman ever elected to a legislature in the United States. She has degrees in chemistry and biology and dietetics, and her introduction to politics came through her service on the Iowa Association of School Boards. She was elected to the Iowa House in 2002 and was twice re-elected before winning the senate seat vacated by Mary Lundby in 2009.
The loquacious Murphy — he can out-talk anyone — has been in the Iowa House since 1989 and was the party's leader in that chamber for years. He's an advocate for labor, and — as expected of a Dubuque Catholic politician — he gets high marks from the Iowa Right to Life Committee. But he has come to accept gay marriage, and his ratings from the Civil Liberties Union have increased regularly during his years in office. Now 53, he's well-known among Democrats, and he'll run particularly strong in the Dubuque area. But he's not as dogged a fundraiser as Dandekar — few people are — which could prove fatal. …
Wow. State Sen. Jeff Danielson, the chair of the Senate State Government Committee, tossed a little-noted firecracker into the hopper the other day that would dramatically change the Board of Regents, which oversees the three state universities, the School for the Deaf and what's left of the School for the Blind.
He would require that one regent be a faculty member — how loud would the howls be if a bill required that a Regent be added to the University of Iowa faculty senate? — and he'd bar anyone from serving on the Board or on the staff from making any political contributions while in office, partaking in any political activities or being "identified as an advocate or opponent of issues subject to debate by the general assembly, except as otherwise provided by law." That would affect virtually every Regent who has served for the past 20 years, some (big donors and political activists Bruce Rastetter, Marvin Pomerantz) more than others.
He'd also change some board procedures to bring more openness and to allow more public comment at meetings.
Democrat Danielson told Cityview he introduced the bill "because I believe the decision-making process used by current board leadership" — that would be Republicans Rastetter and Craig Lang — "is not as transparent and open as it could be," which might be an understatement. He also says that for the past year or so he has seen "a consistent theme" in Regents decisions, "decisions where the legitimacy has been questioned." And, he says, "one of the tools to help with this is [to] reform the governance and decision-making process…."
Republican Jack Whitver of Des Moines and Democrat Tom Courtney of Burlington co-sponsored the study bill. Rastetter and Lang — both of whom are registered as lobbyists because they advocate for the Regents on Capitol Hill — are listed as "undecided" on the bill, as are the Board's full-time lobbyists. But you can bet that will change. The only lobbyists who have taken a position so far are the two with the Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement. They're for it, of course.
A study bill is a vehicle to determine if a committee likes the idea. If it does, the committee then is the sponsor of the resulting bill that could be debated by the full chamber. …
Des Moines Register editor Rick Green wants us to clarify something. While it's true that he said reporters weren't allowed to attend the Obama/Bruce Springsteen rally last fall, "of course we had Jennifer Jacobs and I believe a couple others who were covering the event." Of course. Meantime, the Facebook page of reporter Todd Erzen continues to refer to President Obama as "officially the leader of a cult" and to contain what a Cityview reader calls "ultra conservative political rants," which Green has said he will look into.
"I'll let you know more about Erzen if anything unfolds," Green added in his latest note. Apparently, nothing has unfolded. … While we're clarifying things, lobbyist and lawyer Jim Carney politely tells us that that annual lawyer-legislator dinner that we had listed as among the "free food" opportunities for legislators was not free at all. The 38th annual dinner "was a paid event and always has been," he says.
"By the way," Carney says, "we have a total of 13 lawyer-legislators in the House as a result of Todd Prichard winning the recent special election. There are two lawyers in the Senate and one law student who is now eligible to take the bar exam. Fifteen or 16 lawyers is about the max we ever have any more serving in the legislature.
"I can be at breakfast and overhear some very, very intelligent business people complaining about the number of lawyers we have in the legislature. I usually ask them how many they think we have out of 150, and they say something like 50 or 60. In the 38 years I have been representing the Iowa State Bar Association at the Capitol, the most we ever had was about 19 or 20. For the past two years in the Senate we had a non-lawyer chairing the Senate Judiciary Committee for the first time in the history of the state. That was Senator Gene Fraise, and he actually did a tremendous job. Gene has retired and we once again have a lawyer-legislator chairing Senate Judiciary: Rob Hogg — the only lawyer in the Senate Democrat caucus." …
Now, the important stuff. Who was the high-school referee who kicked Iowa State athletic director Jamie Pollard out of a game earlier this month as he was watching his son's Gilbert team play at Colfax-Mingo? Pollard apparently said "That was a horrible call," a mild version of what fans say a hundred times a game. But none of the stories has named the official, so Cityview's not-so-crack sports department set out to find out.
Does this guy have a beef with Pollard? Is he a Hawkeye fan? Cityview contacted Marty Lucas, the superintendent of Colfax-Mingo School District, and requested the name of the referee, which is public record due to payments made by the district to him. Lucas consulted with the school district attorney and then said they would release the names of the three referees hired for the game. They were Lynn Schroeder of Ames, Dan Hoyka of Norwalk and Andrew Burg of Adel. Lucas said the attorney stated that the district was not required by law to identify which referee was in question.
So Cityview called each one of them. Schroeder said it wasn't him. Burg said he had no comment. And Hoyka didn't return calls. They directed Cityview to the Iowa High School Athletic Association office, where Roger (Smokey) Barr said "that information is not for publication" for "safety and security reasons, because the official has that right." Skinny went to Pollard himself, who said he had no idea. He said he didn't even know who worked the game.
Once again, Civic Skinny has let you down. CV

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Smoke & Mirrors is the first effort by the rock & rolling brothers Gary and Ted Schwick. Big drums and lots of guitar take you on a ride and the duo aims to give you a lead foot.
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UK's Lights may go out by 2015, Warns Global Energy Expert
By Peter McCusker - May 27, 2013, 4:56 PM CDT
UK households and businesses face electricity blackouts in just a few years say two of the country's leading energy experts. Peter McCusker reports.
"The situation is really quite serious. We will have to keep our coal-fired power stations open and get fined by the EU," says Prof Ian Fells, one of the UK's leading energy experts.
He continued: "By 2015 we will be vulnerable. For the last four years the Government has been sitting on its hands doing nothing, and this is really unacceptable."
Back in 2004 Prof Fells warned of the UK's looming energy crisis and he followed this up in 2008 with a 50-page paper elaborating on his views.
Its publication was picked-up by various media outlets and he recounts: "I appeared on Radio Four with Lord Hutton (Government minister with responsibility for energy security issues) where I was accused of being an alarmist.
"But now it's not just me who's saying it. It's Ofgem and many others," explains the emeritus professor of energy at Newcastle University.
In February this year Alistair Buchanan outgoing chief executive of energy watchdog Ofgem said the UK was facing an uncomfortable squeeze in energy reserves over the next three years as ageing coal-power plants closed to meet environmental targets, and the country was forced to import gas at a time of tightening worldwide supply.
Buchanan said that within three years, the reserve margin of UK power generation will fall from around 15% to below 5%.
Last year coal-fired power generation accounted for 43% of the nation's electricity mix. It was a record year for coal and well above the 30% recorded in 2011.
Coal's global price had plummeted due to competition from US shale gas and UK operators subsequently opted to burn this cheaper, imported coal.
In doing so operators reached their maximum permitted operating hours under the EU Large Combustion Plant Directive, more quickly than previously thought. The coal spurt also allowed the generators to avoid the Carbon Floor Price which came into effect on April 1.
Almost 10GW - 10% of the UK's total capacity - will close this year. To date Kingsnorth in Kent, Didcot A in Oxfordshire and Cockenzie in East Lothian have ceased operations.
That leaves around 20GW of coal-fired power from around 15 UK stations, but over half of these face closure by 2015, and possibly all by 2020.
Prof Fells, who helped establish the Blyth-based National Renewable Energy Centre (Narec), said: "As things stand we have little renewable power and it is too expensive.
"So, we will have to build new gas-fired power stations and get permission from Europe to keep these coal-fired power stations operating and risk being fined, or we may see the lights go out."
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Janusz Bialek is professor of electrical power and control at Durham University and a world-leading expert in energy infrastructure.
He has advised the UK Government, the International Energy Agency and European Commission on energy supply issues.
He said: "EMR aims to prevent the lights going out, but it may cause them to go out.
"We have been waiting two years for clarity, but the main issue at the moment is that the EMR process is creating uncertainty in the system.
"It's very dangerous from the suppliers' point of view as it can take three to five years to build a power station.
"We have lost two years already and it will be another one before it is approved, then the Government proposals may fall foul of EU state aid regulations, and if that is so the consequences will be disastrous.
"Renewables won't deliver in time because the costs are too high. The Government is caught between a rock and a hard place and we may run out of power."
Prof Bialek fears that 2017 may be the tipping point and if the UK has not secured additional generating capacity by then we could be in 'deep trouble'.
"Will the lights go out? No one really knows, but I don't think they will. However it's an unsymmetrical risk.
"Say the risk is only 10% that is still quite high, because if the lights do go out the bill will run into billions of pounds and will cause huge disruption to society.
"If the economy picks up, and we start to grow like China, or if we have a spell of bad winter weather with temperatures of minus 20 degrees then we might be in deep trouble.
"This could lead to rolling blackouts. They will be done in a controlled manner but people will die. It will be very serious.
"The Government is acutely aware that if that does happen they will be judged incompetent and will be done for generations.
"Electricity is our most important infrastructure. If the lights go out then life as we know it will stop."
The Energy Bill which is currently passing through Parliament aims to address UK power generation issues though the Electricity Market Reform (EMR) process.
The EMR aims to encourage low-carbon and renewable energy development with the aim of decarbonising the UK's energy supply by 2050.
To take us to this low-carbon Promised Land the Government is banking on gas power stations and it says the UK might need 37GW of additional gas-fired generation by 2030.
Gas at around 350g per kWh emits less than half the carbon dioxide of coal and is within the Government limits of 400g per kWh.
However a recent report from London consultancy AT Kearney highlights how nine gas-fired power stations, with the capability to produce around 20GW of power, are currently on hold due to uncertainty caused by the EMR.
The UK now imports over half of its gas supplies and one of Europe's largest gas–fired power stations on Teesside is currently lying idle due to the high price of gas.
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Prof Fells, CBE, a well-known figure on radio and television with more than 600 programmes to his credit, has worked in the energy sector for many years and believes the current answer to the UK's current energy dilemma lies not in renewables, but in nuclear power.
"Renewable energy is very expensive and it has to be heavily subsidised. The wind farms would not be built without the huge subsidies.
"It costs us all something like £100 a year to subsidise wind power and that will rise to £300 to £400 over the coming years.
"Then there are issues around the intermittent nature of supply, the lack of storage capacity when the wind is blowing, and the costs of connecting supplies to the grid.
"People are still ignorant about the energy business. I feel many are being deliberately misled by the greens who should know better. The engineering fraternity have not stood up and explained the issues involved.
"The single issue groups have held sway and the politicians and are being led by them. They have fallen for the renewable propaganda. The solution must be nuclear power."
In an effort to drive forward the UK nuclear power industry Prof Fells has assembled a consortium of British engineering firms to form Penultimate Power UK.
This is based in the North East and is the vehicle for putting together the British Nuclear Consortium which aims to build nuclear power stations and strengthen the UK nuclear supply base.
Germany opted to switch off its nuclear power plants in the wake of the Fukushima disaster in Japan and to help fill its energy shortfall is constructing several new coal-fired power plants.
In Holland the picture is similar, with the profile of coal set to rise from 15% to almost a quarter following the construction of new coal-fired plants.
Both nations are keen to add carbon dioxide capture and storage (CCS) facilities to their new coal capacity, although no European country has yet managed to develop cost-effective, large-scale, CCS technology.
Prof Fells says the potential exists for CCS to be retro-fitted to old, and incorporated in new, fossil fuel plants.
"But at the moment CCS can add 60 to 100% in additional costs. It's a very complicated piece of chemical engineering."
He added: "The price of energy is a political hot potato. The price has risen by 30% in three years and will continue to rise as the country follows this renewable path.
"The Government is somehow saying we will miraculously be able to manage without fossil fuel by 2050.
"There is a terrible sense of unreality attached to Government energy policy.
"Energy is the lifeblood of growing civilisations, without it we slide into anarchy."
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Philip Andrews on May 28 2013 said:
Well that's one of the most interesting energy reports I've read in a long time.
Seeingb as we presentkly have in power in the UK one of the most incompetent governments fotr a generation, quite scarily incompetent really, and a Civil Service that seems to be actively at wear with that government, I'm not surprised by all this.
The only difference between the UK and Greece is that while Greece is in 99% freefall just hanging by the German umbilical, the UK is is in a more gradual but definite slide over the edge, and energy is a crucial factor.
We have been dependant on foreig energy ever since we decided to import cheaper coal from Poland and keep our own as a 'reserve'. Also gas. But our importeing systm is baely competent and the government isn't helping.
By the way, where is this gas 'shortage'? We have gas from Russia, Norway, N.America, maybe the East Med if it doesn'tget blown up... I see a shortage not of supply availability but due to competition and poor management. Something an incompetent government seems incapable of mansaging. Roll on the next election...
khpage on May 28 2013 said:
As the UK begins to sag into a morass of moral decay, the "light" begins to leave it, both physically and spiritually. Far too many have bought into the paradigm that man is both the problem and the solution, and because man has "godlike" powers, man will prevail. We will see how successful this is...
Martin H. Katchen on May 28 2013 said:
How difficult would it be to build a set of undersea power lines to access geothermal energy plants in Iceland, which has a surplus of energy? Or perhaps the Azores, which also sit on the Mid Atlantic Ridge? Would the transmission losses be too high? Could alternator relays be placed on the sea bottom so that they wouldn't be?
Jimmy on May 29 2013 said:
Food is overlooked as the major threat. Without food, you dont have cohesion. Solve food and you can cope with the loss of other 'luxuries'
Steven InDallas on May 31 2013 said:
>> and get permission from Europe
Really? I thought sovereignty still counted for something. i.e., didn't think that you guys had handed over control just yet...


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#IrishFictionFortnight - Day 2 - 'Butterfly Barn' by Karen Power. 2 copies to giveaway.
Thanks to the author, I have 2 paperback copies of her debut novel to giveaway.
Grace Fitzgerald hopes to sign a contract with an American cruise corporation to bring cruise liners to the idyllic coastal town of Bayrush, in Ireland. Her fiancé, Dirk, doesn't seem to grasp just how important the business is to her. On her way through Dublin Airport, Grace catches a glimpse of Jack Leslie, her first love. He's married now but he still has the power to turn her knees to jelly. Grace is about to make the biggest decision of her life. Will it be the right one?
Jessie McGrath is happily married to Geoff, and together they run a small equestrian centre on the outskirts of Bayrush. Jessie is finally pregnant with her second child, and life couldn't be better. But will their dreams come true or will they fall to pieces?
Sophia Wynthrope can't escape the emptiness of widowhood. After thirty-five years of marriage New York holds too many memories of her treasured husband. Is she chasing foolish dreams by travelling to Ireland, or can she possibly find the peace she craves in a place called Bayrush?
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ps I love you as was pregnant and can remember sitting in my caravan laughing and crying at the story.


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I first picked up a pair of tennis shoes after my first child was born in 2006. As was expected, the pregnancy had changed my body and I was looking for a way to regain my strength and flexibility. I balked at the price of gym memberships and the distance from my house. I wanted a high-intensity work-out that was free (or super affordable), didn't take much time, and allowed me to bring a baby along. Running fit the bill.
It was with great surprise that I ran across the finish line at the Tinker Bell Half Marathon at Disneyland this past weekend. The clock read 2:13:44 and I teared up (and sped up) as I rounded the corner toward the dazzling finish. Out of 11,490 finishers, I placed 1615. More importantly, I ran the whole way and in under 2:30…the goal that Tim set for me and that I quietly accepted as a challenge on the day of the race.
It's an intensely personal victory and especially meaningful because my three daughters have seen me fight for this. They've seen me lace up my shoes. They've run into my arms, with sweat dripping down my face. They've heard me marvel at each new distance. They know it's possible to pursue a dream, work for it, and have it come true. And I know it too.
Tim always told me I could run my first half in 2:30. I started in the 3:00 corral (in hind sight, I wish I would have started at 2:00) and made it my goal to find the 2:30 pacer. When I found him a little over halfway through the race, I passed him and I flew.
Most of the time, I still feel like a fraud. Surely, someone's going to figure out that I'm not a "real runner." Slowly, though, I'm beginning to understand. Being a runner is about taking risks. It's about putting one foot in front of the other, disciplining your mind to tell your body to keep going. It's about having the courage to see something through to the very end.
Happy Birthday to me. A brand new year beckons and I'm running right into it.
* Thanks to Tim for believing in me. Thanks to Eileen for saying "yes" when I called with a crazy idea that involved having her fly across the country from New Jersey to run the Tink Half with me. Thanks to Dayna for being terrific company on our early Sunday morning runs through Saguaro National Park. Thanks to three little blonde girls who have inspired me every step of the way.
Congratulations and happy birthday, you awesome mama!
Looking forward to the same! Are you running much these days?
Congrats! I'm running the Princess Half in a few weeks. I can't wait!
I just read one of your recent posts and see that you are planning to run the 10K and 1/2 marathon back-to-back. Impressive. Hope you have a fantastic weekend!
Woo-!!!! You did it. I'm also a couch-to-runner, still-can't-believe-it and the half is my next goal, so thank you for the inspiration and glimpse into being a finisher.
Rooting for you! Do you have a particular race in mind?
What an amazing birthday gift to yourself. I seriously marvel at your accomplishment. And the way you put it into words here was just beautiful. Truly.
I have appreciated your loyalty, your encouragement, and your comments over the years.
Hope to meet in-person someday!
Thanks for checking out my blog and again CONGRATS on such a fine finish to your 1st Half! In such speedy time too! (You smoked me for sure) Way to be an inspiration to your little ones! AWESOME!


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Again, as the duty calls, couldn't avoid trekking at Taplejung. Seems I am getting pro now. While trekking ,crossing trail bridge without the side support was thrilling moment in this trip. While humor of Mr Pokhrel and Jahagir was the only thing which was making our sence work. After completing the work we returned to Birtamod on the ninth day.As we had booked a ticked for night travel from Birtamod to home we had one day to spare. So we decided touch the eastern border of Nepal.
We went to eastern political border of Nepal where Mechi river seprates Nepal from India. Kakarbhitta of Jhapa lies on the Nepalese side while the other side is West Bangal province of India.This place is also know as Pani Tanki. The western edge of the bridge is the end snapping point of Mahendra highway. The zero mile of this longest highway of Nepal traversing the whole terai region starts from this place.
After crossing the bridge over Mechi river we can touch the familiar ground of India. I felt the people seems more Nepali than Indian in this part. One friend with us tried talking in Hindi to impress however he was bounced back with "Nepali Bolnus". The people seems to love Nepali Language and Culture rather than core Indian culture.The sign boards were virtually painted in either Nepali or Bengali scripts rather than Hindi. Now I understand why these people are asking for seperate provinance Gorkhaland!


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How the Great Recession may have set the stage for the Trump presidency
By Anthony Patrick O'Brien
Traders at the New York Mercantile Exchange in New York react to devastating financial news on Sept. 16, 2008, a day after Lehman Brothers slid into bankruptcy, contributing to a financial crisis that touched off the worst recession since the 1930s Great Depression. (Seth Wenig/AP File Photo)
How did we end up with such an, uh, unorthodox president as Donald Trump?
I think the Trump presidency is a consequence of the financial crisis and the resulting Great Recession of 2007-09.
To many voters, the recession revealed the irresponsibility of the business and political elites and their indifference to the well-being of the average person. The result was the 2008 election of Barack Obama and large Democratic majorities in both houses of Congress.
The slow recovery from the recession and Obama's focus on overhauling health care rather than reducing unemployment, gave rise to the tea party and Republicans recapturing control of Congress. When the smoke cleared, partisan divisions had hardened, with each side convinced that the other was both venal and incompetent.
Perfect opening in 2016 for an outsider like Trump to campaign on draining the political swamp. If the financial crisis and its aftermath led to our current political situation, then "Why Trump?" becomes "Why the financial crisis?"
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In the early and mid-2000s, the housing boom, the loosening of lending standards and the popularity of financial securities backed by mortgage loans meant that the inevitable housing bust would cause a recession. The recession began in December 2007, but by the following summer it looked as if it would end as only a moderately bad downturn.
Then, on Sept. 15, 2008, the Lehman Brothers investment bank failed. Lehman's defaulting on its debts was catastrophic for the financial system.
Because lenders were afraid of other firms defaulting, credit flows dried up. Even some large corporations scrambled to borrow the funds needed to meet their payrolls and pay their suppliers. Without freely available credit, a modern economy grinds to a halt.
Why did Lehman fail? Commercial banks use the funds in checking and saving deposits to make loans to individuals and firms. Lehman operated in a similar way, except that instead of using deposits, it used repurchase agreements and commercial paper to borrow short term from other financial firms.
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It invested these funds in mortgage-backed securities and other mostly long-term investments. If you borrow short and lend long, you're in trouble if the people you borrowed from demand their money back.
Jimmy Stewart found this out in "It's a Wonderful Life," when his depositors wanted back the money he had used to make mortgage loans. Stewart's firm was illiquid: He could remain in business only if he had enough cash to meet withdrawals.
Anthony Patrick O'Brien is professor of economics, emeritus, at Lehigh University. (HUB WILLSON / CONTRIBUTED PHOTO)
Congress has dealt with the illiquidity of commercial banks in two ways: By setting up the Federal Reserve in 1913 to make loans to banks having liquidity problems and by establishing the FDIC in 1934 to insure deposits. Deposit insurance makes it less likely that depositors will withdraw their money from a bank experiencing trouble.
But Lehman was an investment bank, not a commercial bank, which meant that in normal times it couldn't borrow from the Fed, and its lenders weren't covered by federal deposit insurance.
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In the 1930s, Congress gave the Fed the authority in a crisis to lend to practically any firm, provided the loans were "secured to the satisfaction" of the Fed. In other words, in a crisis the Fed could lend to an investment bank like Lehman, provided Lehman put up sufficient collateral to secure the loan.
In March 2008, the Fed invoked this crisis authority to make loans to JPMorgan Chase to buy the Bear Stearns investment bank, saving Bear from bankruptcy. In September, when Lehman ran into liquidity problems, why didn't the Fed lend it the funds it needed to survive?
Former Fed Chair Ben Bernanke and former Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson have claimed that the Fed couldn't legally make loans to Lehman because the firm lacked sufficient collateral.
In his new book, "The Fed and Lehman Brothers," Laurence Ball argues that Bernanke and Paulson are fibbing. Ball establishes that Lehman had sufficient collateral to secure the loans it needed to avoid bankruptcy.
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But Paulson, stung by congressional criticism of his help in arranging the bailout of Bear Stearns, was determined that the Fed would make no loans to Lehman. As the law was then, the decision was Bernanke's, not Paulson's. Ball portrays Bernanke as lacking the fortitude to stand up to Paulson and take control of policy.
According to Ball, far from being crucial, the question of whether Lehman had sufficient collateral never even came up in discussions at the time among Bernanke, Paulson and other officials. Ball also shows that, despite their later assertions, both men underestimated how disastrous Lehman's failure would be.
If Ball is correct, Lehman could have been saved in September 2008, the recession would have been much milder, and U.S. politics might not have become so … invigorating.
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Janet R. (Pickering) Decker Phillips, of Hull, died June 22 at the age of 79.
She lived in Brockton for many years and graduated from Brockton High School, class of 1957. Mrs. Phillips then moved to Hull, where she had lived for the past 48 years. She retired from the Rockland Trust Co. in 2004.
Mrs. Phillips loved spending time with her family at the beach, watching the Boston Red Sox, and doing puzzles.
Mrs. Phillips was predeceased by her husbands, James Decker and Richard "Skip" Phillips. She was the cherished mother of Debra Chase and her husband, Richard; Laura Murphy and her husband, Jason; Linda Alexander, and her husband, Glenn; Nancy Doucette and her husband, Phillip; and Dr. Karen Phillips and her husband, Steven Lofgren, all of Hull. She also was the loving grandmother of Brian Chase, Christina, Aidan, and Paige Murphy, John and Ben Alexander, and Tristan, Colby, and Charley Lofgren; she was also great-grandmother of Anabelle Chase. She was the sister of Charles Pickering, and his wife Dorothy, of West Bridgewater; Arlene Koufos, of East Bridgewater; and Carol Brides, of South Dakota. She also is survived by many nieces and nephews.
Her funeral Mass will be held today (June 28) at 10 a.m. at St. Ann's Church. Memorial donations may be made to Friends of Hull Scouting, Inc. P.O. Box 14, Hull MA 02045.


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Chunk McGill is dead still he manages to return in the show, which is the tremendous impact. "I think he still looms large, particularly over this season,"
Further Melissa Bernstein, the Producer, Said, "We're going to see him, we're going to see Michael, we're going to see Chuck, and we're going to feel him even when we don't see him. He has such a profound effect on Jimmy and of course, Saul."
Odenkirk said about Jimmy's Character, how it is Spin through the Weird Place.
"You never mattered to me at all.' And I think that was a powerful moment. If someone passes away in your life, you certainly do go, 'What was the last thing they said to me? What was the last thing we talked about?"
Odenkirk included, "And that's the last thing Jimmy, that's what Jimmy thinks about when he thinks, 'What did I say to him? What did he say to me?"
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Meet the first black trans man in a regular TV role
Josh Milton September 25, 2019
Brian Michael Smith has had television history as the first black trans man to score a regular TV series role. (Rodin Eckenroth/Getty Images)
Brian Michael Smith made TV history yesterday as the first black trans man to be cast in a regular TV role.
The actor will feature in Fox's 9-1-1 spin-off, Lone Star, which will debut in January.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Smith will play a "transgender male firefighter with a gift for observation worthy of Sherlock Holmes".
He'll star alongside Rob Lowe who plays the former a New York City first responder transferred to Texas and works with Liv Taylor's chief paramedic at the station.
He joins Natacha Karam and Rafael Silva, who are playing Muslim and Latinx firefighters, respectively in the show.
Smith will join the ranks of Angelica Ross, who became the first black trans woman to become a series regular on two shows (on Pose and America Horror Story) in what will be a huge leap in representation.
This isn't the 36-year-old's first role, however. He was cast in small roles in Girls and Homeland before landing a stint in OWN's Queen Sugar, where he payed a trans police officer.
Brian Michael Smith: "I hope this frees many of my black and trans siblings from the bondage of fear that comes from trying to exist".
"I'm having all the feels right now", Smith said with glee when the casting broke on an Instagram post, "but the most pressing one is gratitude!
I'm having all the feels right now- but the most pressing one is gratitude! I'm so incredibly grateful for this opportunity. For an opportunity that for a long time I couldn't imagine being possible. To as a black transman play a badass transmasculine character onscreen and to be the representation for others that I wished I had growing up. I can let go of so many doubts that had threatened to overpower my dreams and I hope this frees many of my black and trans siblings from the bondage of fear that comes from trying to exist in a world that works so hard to tells us we don't matter and that we don't have the right to be here. As the @theebillyporter shared the last night from the #Emmy stage while quoting James Baldwin: "I am so overwhelmed and I am so overjoyed to have lived long enough to see this day…'It took many years of vomiting up the filth I was taught about myself and halfway believed before I could walk around this Earth like I had a right to be here.' I have the right, you have the right. We all have the right." I am honored I am thrilled and I am so thankful! Looking forward to this next adventure with my @911lonestar crew. Shout out to my wife, To my mom @mzinittowin and my family, my team: @mgrwithatweet @erabon @natashamatallanamarken, my incredible friends and classmates and my teachers @terryknickerbockerstudio And @anthonyabeson And door openers: #timminear @mrmurphy @ericsouliere @ava @oprah @anthonysparks @cheryldunye @lavernecox @chazbono @tiqmilan @marjalewisryan @sho_thelword @queensugar #nickadams @anderfinn Tune into @911 for the season 3 premiere and look for us @911lonestar in January. #911 #911onfox #911lonestar actorslife #deadline #breaking #mondaymotivation #transisbeautiful #representationmatters
A post shared by Brian Michael Smith (@the_brianmichael) on Sep 23, 2019 at 4:48pm PDT
"I'm so grateful for this opportunity. For an opportunity that for a long time I couldn't imagine being possible.
"As a black transman play a badass transmasculine character onscreen and to be the representation for others that I wished I had growing up.
"I can let go of so many doubts that had threatened to overpower my dreams and I hope this frees many of my black and trans siblings from the bondage of fear that comes from trying to exist in a world that works so hard to tells us we don't matter and that we don't have the right to be here."
Smith has frequently campaigned for increased representation of trans folk on the silver screen, and has mentored LGBT+ young people through an array of college and art centre programs.
"I worked with young people and I just saw how important it was for young LGBT people, no matter where they were in their experience, to see what is down the road for them," he told NBC News, shortly after coming out as trans.
GLAAD welcomed the news, and called Smith's casting "a truly groundbreaking step forward for transgender visibility and representation."
Alex Schmider, Associate Director of Transgender Representation at GLAAD said: "Trans men, especially Black trans men, have been largely underrepresented on television, making this casting and character significant not only to the entertainment landscape."
Moreover, Smith's casting comes as GLAAD reported that, in 2018, there were just five trans male recurring characters on TV.
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PGM 928 'APPARITIONS' : week of October 29th...
[BORIS KARLOFF] Scorpio...gateway to the underworld. Once again we return to the dark times, the world of witches and sorcerers, ghosts and goblins, spirits...and shades. It's an emotional terrain encoded in our genes: ancient and primal, ruled by fear and revulsion, death and decay...an atavistic legacy from the days when magic and mystery ruled the earth.
Today, we have Dark Ambient Electronica to exorcise those lingering demons, an art form that conjures up strange, disturbing, melancholy worlds...with sound. Think of it as sonic therapy for your inner phantoms.
On this transmission of Hearts of Space, a ghostly, necromantic journey for Halloween, on a program called APPARITIONS. Music is by CIRCULAR, VOICE OF EYE, SOUNDING THE DEEP, DAN POUND, HUMAN METRONOME & 33 TETRAGAMMON, ROBERT RICH & B.LUSTMORD, and TOR LUNDVALL.
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PGM 927 'RUSSET and AMBER' : week of October 22nd...
In the history of brilliant unintended consequences, the cello...ranks high. A descendant of the bass violin, it was invented by Italian luthiers in the 17th century, and based on a technical innovation: to make the instrument smaller, they wrapped gut strings with wire to augment the bass.
The cello's musical roles expanded rapidly in the 18th century due to its more convenient size and versatility. Today, no western instrument has the emotional range and depth; from its foundational role in the orchestra and the string quartet, to its uncanny vocal emulations and profound solo flights...the cello seems to have no boundaries.
On this transmission of Hearts of Space, we feature the dark harmonies and plaintive tones of the cello, on an autumnal soundscape called RUSSET and AMBER. Music is by DAVID DARLING, MARTIN TILLMAN, HANS CHRISTIAN, MAYA BEISER, and ANGELE DUBEAU.
PGM 926 'THE CROSSING' : week of october 15th...
Rolling down the on-ramp to autumn...the world is changing faster now. The last warm days of Indian summer are a brief blaze of glory in a fading world. The light mellows, then burns, as the color palette deepens. Fruit trees make a final effort, drop their seeds, then retire for the winter. Acorns bang on the roof, and the squirrels work overtime to gather the crop. Birds head south, as spent leaves skitter across withered fields. Soon, the rains will come, with life-giving water for the next cycle.
On this transmission of Hearts of Space...we echo these changes with an ambient-electronic journey for autumn called THE CROSSING. It's a metaphor for the challenge of an epic journey across great distance and uncertain fate, with music of deep drones and complex timbres.
Music is by DAVID HELPLING & JON JENKINS, STEVE ROACH, PHILLIP WILKERSON, and STEVE BRAND.
PGM 925 'CONJURING the ETERNAL' : Week of October 8th...
The folk music of the Eastern edge of Europe — Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Moldavia and Macedonia — has its own harmonic signature and vocal expression.
It's a sound that carried the emotions of ordinary people across time during a period when music was nothing but "user generated content" — part of a cultural arc that stretched across popular, secular and sacred music, and (in the words of Hungarian ethnomusicologist IREN LOVASZ) "a helper and healer in life-and-death situations and the events that turn and shape one's fate."
On this transmission of Hearts of Space...a collection of Eastern European songs, traditional and newly inspired, on a program called CONJURING THE ETERNAL. Music is by MARTA SEBESTYEN, IRINA MIKHAILOVA, STELLAMARA, IREN LOVASZ, MISHA ALPERIN, and BRIAN KEANE & OMAR FARUK TEKBILEK.
Hearts of Space iPhone app goes live!
Well, it was like watching the proverbial paint dry, but on October 7th Apple finally approved our iPhone app and released it to the app store. Here's the link to the app page at Apple.com. If you want to download the app directly on your iPhone, search for "hearts of space" in the App Store app. It'll cost you the grand total of 99 cents, which will buy some beer and pizza for our programmers.
As an introductory special, we've opened up access to THIS WEEK'S SHOW without a subscription. If you don't already have an account, just register for free — you can do it within the app. Once you've entered you email and password once, the app will remember it and sign you in automatically.You can use the same email address and password for free service on our main web site using our Flash player.
To use all the features of the app, you need either our "AAA" All Archive Access Plan, OR, our "Radio Channel + This Week's Show" combo plan. To keep the price as low as possible, you have to do this on our web site, not in the app.
The app has one feature that we have yet to introduce on our web service: if you have either of the plans above, you can skip a show in the Radio Channel if you'd prefer to hear something else. Just tap the >>| icon on the Now Playing screen.
Here's what it looks like (click the image for a full size view):
A BIG FAT THANKS to ace programmers PAUL YAGO and JOHN ZORKO, project manager JOSEPH JACOBS, code wrangler and API spinner STEPHEN BROSSEAU, and project nervous system and customer support LEYLA HILL. Yours truly did the graphics.
It's really nice to finally see this thing out in the world! Now, on to Android...
:: SH
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PGM 816R 'BORDERLANDS' : Week of October 1st...
A border can be a boundary...or a grey area — a line of demarcation...or a zone of ambiguity.
Borders between countries are political boundaries; they can be the scene of violent confrontation, as in the Middle East, or so remote that few people ever see them.
Outside of politics, a border can be a barrier...or a zone of transition. In music, we often find ambiguous borders between styles and genres — in fact, much of today's fusion music is interesting because it deliberately disregards borders. There's a lot of information...at the borders.
On this transmission of Hearts of Space, a journey in ambiguous, transitional spaces called...BORDERLANDS. Music is by RUSSEL WALDER, EVAN BARTHOLOMEW, DEBORAH MARTIN & J.ARIF VERNER, KIT WATKINS, AMONGST MYSELVES, and RICHARD BONE.
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The Murder of Gedaliah
1But in midautumn of that year,*41:1 Hebrew in the seventh month, of the ancient Hebrew lunar calendar. This month occurred within the months of October and November 586 b.c.; also see note on 39:1a. Ishmael son of Nethaniah and grandson of Elishama, who was a member of the royal family and had been one of the king's high officials, went to Mizpah with ten men to meet Gedaliah. While they were eating together, 2Ishmael and his ten men suddenly jumped up, drew their swords, and killed Gedaliah, whom the king of Babylon had appointed governor. 3Ishmael also killed all the Judeans and the Babylonian*41:3 Or Chaldean. soldiers who were with Gedaliah at Mizpah.
4The next day, before anyone had heard about Gedaliah's murder, 5eighty men arrived from Shechem, Shiloh, and Samaria to worship at the Temple of the Lord. They had shaved off their beards, torn their clothes, and cut themselves, and had brought along grain offerings and frankincense. 6Ishmael left Mizpah to meet them, weeping as he went. When he reached them, he said, "Oh, come and see what has happened to Gedaliah!"
7But as soon as they were all inside the town, Ishmael and his men killed all but ten of them and threw their bodies into a cistern. 8The other ten had talked Ishmael into letting them go by promising to bring him their stores of wheat, barley, olive oil, and honey that they had hidden away. 9The cistern where Ishmael dumped the bodies of the men he murdered was the large one*41:9 As in Greek version; Hebrew reads murdered because of Gedaliah was one. dug by King Asa when he fortified Mizpah to protect himself against King Baasha of Israel. Ishmael son of Nethaniah filled it with corpses.
10Then Ishmael made captives of the king's daughters and the other people who had been left under Gedaliah's care in Mizpah by Nebuzaradan, the captain of the guard. Taking them with him, he started back toward the land of Ammon.
11But when Johanan son of Kareah and the other military leaders heard about Ishmael's crimes, 12they took all their men and set out to stop him. They caught up with him at the large pool near Gibeon. 13The people Ishmael had captured shouted for joy when they saw Johanan and the other military leaders. 14And all the captives from Mizpah escaped and began to help Johanan. 15Meanwhile, Ishmael and eight of his men escaped from Johanan into the land of Ammon.
16Then Johanan son of Kareah and the other military leaders took all the people they had rescued in Gibeon—the soldiers, women, children, and court officials*41:16 Or eunuchs. whom Ishmael had captured after he killed Gedaliah. 17They took them all to the village of Geruth-kimham near Bethlehem, where they prepared to leave for Egypt. 18They were afraid of what the Babylonians*41:18 Or Chaldeans. would do when they heard that Ishmael had killed Gedaliah, the governor appointed by the Babylonian king.


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