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I have to admit that I was intimidated to meet The Great Glen Heggstad. At the time I was working for another magazine and the editor had warned me against hero worship, but I fell prey to it... Visit our website at www.highslab.com for the whole story!

While New York can't be redesigned from scratch to be entirely powered by renewable energy, like Masdar, we can take our cues instead from Juneau. When an avalanche forced Alaska's capital to switch from hydro to diesel power, its citizens cut their energy demand by 30% -- and it's still down by 15-20%, months after hydro was restored. We talk to deputy mayor Randy Wanamaker about the city's new culture of conservation.

The city of Abu Dhabi, in the United Arab Emirates, is flush with oil revenues -- and investing billions in an audacious experiment in renewable energy: Masdar, a city they are building from scratch to be completely solar-powered with zero carbon emissions. We talk to the CEO of the Masdar initiative, Dr. Sultan Al-Jaber, about whether solar can scale up to power an entire city.

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Harvey nickte, dennoch dauerte es noch eine Weile, bis er mit leiser Stimme seine Erklärung begann. „Das wo wir hier sind…ist einfacher zu erklären, als der Rest. Wir befinden uns hier in einem Landhaus in der Nähe von Aberdeen, das uns für deine Genesung zur Verfügung gestellt wurde.“ „Ah!“ Andrea blicke ihm skeptisch entgegen. „Und was sollte dann die ganze Maskerade? Warum hast du nicht einfach…“ „Lass mich von vorn beginnen, Andrea!“, unterbrach Harvey sie mit einem energischen Kopfschütteln und rückte mit seinem Stuhl näher an Andreas Bett heran. „Wir haben nicht so viel Zeit wie du vielleicht denkst.“ Harvey machte erneut eine Pause, doch als er zu sprechen begann, klang seine Stimme fest und sicher; fast so, als hätte er seit langer Zeit darauf gewartet, ihr das Folgende zu erzählen. „Wie du dich sicher erinnern wirst, gab es bereits zu der Zeit als der dunkle Lord das erste Mal an die Macht kam, einen Bund, dem sich auch deine Eltern zugehörig fühlten.“ „Ja, Francesco hat mir einiges davon erzählt. Dieser Bund sah seine Aufgabe darin, Voldemort zu bekämpfen, doch was hat das mit mir zu tun?“, fiel sie ihm ungeduldig ins Wort. Harvey zuckte heftig zusammen und für einige Sekunden sah es aus, als hätte ihn die Nennung von Voldemorts Namen völlig aus dem Konzept gebracht; doch es dauerte nicht lange, bis er sich wieder gefangen hatte. „Das ist richtig, doch dieser Bund hatte auch noch andere Aufgaben; unter anderem die, für deine Sicherheit zu sorgen.“ „Meine Sicherheit?“ „Ja. Uns war immer bewusst, dass du irgendwann den Weg deiner Vorfahren gehen würdest. Es war nur eine Frage der Zeit, bis du Zugang in das Haus deiner Urgroßeltern gefunden hattest und der Bund sah es als seine Aufgabe…“ Andrea setzte sich mit einem Ruck in ihrem Bett auf. „Ich bin nicht wie meine Vorfahren! Und ich werde nie ihr Interesse an der dunklen Magie haben!“ Kapitel 39b Der Bund der Vorfahren Sprecher: Madarka [Alle Rechte an Namen und Figuren bleiben bei den Rechteinhabern. Dies ist ein Fan-Podcast von hpfreunde.de - dem großen Harry Potter Forum!]

Ken Belson, New York Times Metro Utilities reporter, talks about off-peak pricing for electricity.

As Barack Obama’s trip to Afghanistan, the Middle East and Europe winds down, Josef Joffe, editor and publisher of Die Zeit, a weekly German newspaper, a fellow at the Hoover Institute and the author of Uberpower: The Imperial Temptation of America, then Rami Khouri, editor-at-large at The Daily Star in Lebanon, then Karen Tumulty, Time national poltical correspondent, discuss the trip.

Billionaires Mayor Bloomberg and Bill Gates announced this week that they will contribute a total of $500 million to reduce tobacco use worldwide. Heather Wipfli, project manager for the Institute for Global Tobacco Control at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, explains where all that money is going.

By Sara Genge. Read by Alasdair Stuart (of Pseudopod). First appeared in Cosmos, August/September 2007. Audible.com Promotion! Get your free audiobook at: http://audible.com/escapepodsff Senator Wu accepted Twing s seed out of courtesy, although she had no intention of conceiving his child. Twing of Sails had thrown this party in his house in her honour, but he wasn t as free with kilojoules as he was with genetic material, and Senator Wu wasn t prepared to funnel the heat donations of her two crèche mates to bring another man s child to the World. She acidified the pores in her tentacle and waved it around, letting the current carry away the dead spores. She smiled at Twing and a wave of blue burst from his centre and radiated towards the thin membranes that rippled on the edge of his disc-shaped body. He didn t look bad, but he wasn t as comely as Senator Wu. Her body was an almost perfect sphere, and she was well aware of it. Wherever she went, she took care to rotate every few minutes, lest gravity pull on her too long in any one direction and tug her gelatinous figure out of shape. Rated PG. Contains alien reproduction, politics, and other sordid topics. Referenced Sites: The Daily Cabal

Do you know what movie the intro came from? This week finds circus boy BACK after his long podcasting hiatus. We join him on his trip to Seattle and get to meet Ray of Caffe Vita as well as a... Visit our website at www.highslab.com for the whole story!

Author: Aaron Zenz (on JOMB) Illustrator: Aaron Zenz Published: 2005 Dogs in Hats Publishing ISBN: 1594450331 Chapters.ca Amazon.com Frantic antics and logically nonsensical rhyme make this hiccup-halting tactic extravaganza an addictive pick for preschoolers and poets alike. Be sure to enjoy all of the amazing artwork in our Love of Reading Gallery. Pop over to A Year of Reading for today’s full menu of poetry offerings. Poetry Fridays are brought to us by Kelly Herold of Big A, Little A.

Jane Mayer, staff writer for the New Yorker and the author of The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How The War on Terror Turned into a War on American Ideals (Doubleday, 2008), is following the war crimes trial of Salim Hamdan, underway in Guantanamo Bay.

Today s podictionary word brought to you by GoToMeeting. Try it free for 30 days by following the link www.gotomeeting.com/podcast I sometimes say that a common human experience breeds a word that is common across cultures and changes little over time. There isn t much in the world that s more common to human experience than having a mother, nor anything that means quite as much to most people.  So it should come as no surprise that this word has come down to us almost unchanged for as far back as we can see into the history of words. And also that it is one of the words that spans the entire width and breadth of Indo-European languages. Evidently we only started writing the TH in mother back in the early 1500s but may have been pronouncing it that way for some time beforehand. The Indo-European root was mater. Not too different for five to seven thousand years. Also, languages from Latin to Gaelic, and Greek to Russian share this maternal legacy. This is a word we not only all have in common, it is also a word we all use with great regularity.  Words like that just can t change because there are too many people around who know the word and will correct you if you start to pronounce it wrong or use it with a meaning that is just too far from their understanding of what it should mean. So again it is no surprise that we didn t get mother from Latin or French, but from the oldest Old English. I mentioned Sir Robert Cotton yesterday in my episode on the word mildew at the Oxford University Press blog.  While the meaning of mildew has changed a lot, the word mother has its first citation in the same document set I mentioned yesterday from Sir Robert s library. The Cotton Library is an important resource for people studying Old English. Unfortunately back in 1731almost a quarter of the ancient collection went up in smoke.  The documents had been brought together around the time of Shakespeare by Sir Robert Cotton and then had been moved in the early 1700s to the ironically named Ashburnham House. The librarian was understandably an enthusiast when it came to ancient documents and he had quite a pile of them in his own house nearby when tragedy struck.  In the dead of night his house burned down and destroyed numerous irreplaceable old manuscripts. An eyewitness—the headmaster of the school where this all took place—reported the panic stricken librarian stumbling out through the smoke in his nightshirt with bundles of old documents tucked under his arms.

By Howard Phillips Lovecraft Read by BJ Harrison I have examined maps of the city with the greatest care, yet have never again found the Rue d’Auseil. These maps have not been modern maps alone, for I know that names change. I have, on the contrary, delved deeply into all the antiquities of the place, and have personally explored every region, of whatever name, which could possibly answer to the street I knew as the Rue d’Auseil. But despite all I have done, it remains an humiliating fact that I cannot find the house, the street, or even the locality, where, during the last months of my impoverished life as a student of metaphysics at the university, I heard the music of Erich Zann. This week s episode sponsored by Audible.com, who has extended their generous offer of a free audiobook download of your choice from their selection of over 40,000 titles.

On Sunday, July 13, 2008, author Matthew Wayne Selznick celebrated the release of the Swarm Press edition of Brave Men Run — A Novel of the Sovereign Era with an eight-hour webathon on live, streaming video. On that day, the collected audience of more than 1,000 purchased so many copies of Brave Men Run, the book reached number #53 on the Amazon.com bestseller chart, #3 on the action-adventure chart, and #10 on the genre fiction chart. The book was also the #1 mover and shaker that day. As a way of giving back to his fans on that amazing day, Selznick invited seven podcast fiction authors to contribute short stories set in his Sovereign Era superhero universe. Selznick performed live readings of these stories. This was an Internet, new media, and publishing first. J.C. Hutchins was a contributor to this project. This story is the first piece of fiction Hutchins has released beyond his 7th Son trilogy. This video is Selznick s reading, captured from the event’s live video feed. For more information about Brave Men Run and Selznick s work, visit BraveMenRun.com. Enjoy! ShareThis

Today a conversation with Eisner nominated artst Dean Haspeil. You may know Dean from his many collaborations with Harvey Pekar on his series American splendor and their Original graphic... WORDBALLOON features one on one interviews with the writers and artists behind today's pop culture favorites. The creative minds behind today's hottest comics, films, and Television , tell behind the scene stories providing a DVD like commentary on their works, without spoiling the stories. Hosted by Chicago Radio Host John Siuntres, Wordballoon covers the cult entertainment scene , like no other podcast.

Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia, and Mohamed "Mido" Ibrahim, organizer of Wikimania 2008 in Alexandria, Egypt, talk about the importance of creating Arabic content on Wikipedia. Plus, The New York Times' Noam Cohen explains how Egyptian youth are using Facebook to organize protest movements.

From a skunk-scented perch along Mosquito Creek, Dave spiels about feverish dreams in a Mexican clinic, personal archeology, mirages about the Wonder Hotel, and reads verse about late trains, dammed rivers, watching ships, and men in white coats walking past. Take your vitamins for Post-apocalyptic Skunks and Fevers - Postcard #54 (.mp3, 16:35, 15MB) Read along at Mountain Highway One way these tracks night lake diving Comfortably Lonely, Cabin Porch Waiting at Jericho betwen night and light Coastal Starlight 2 hours late Subscribe to PfGB Feed Subscribe in PfGB in iTunes Library at Uncleweed.net Via Postcards from Gravelly Beach More pods Chillaxin’ Podcast Syndicate

WNYC Reporter Ilya Marritz and WNYC Political Director Andrea Bernstein follow up on the proposal to drill for natural gas in New York.

The first ever New York Mexican film festival is taking place this week. Samuel Douek, director of the Hola Mexico Film Festival, and Sergio Umansky, director of the film Mejor Es Que Gabriela no Se Muera discuss the festival's impact.

Recent statistics show crime is movin’ on up to the Upper East Side, Greenwich Village, and other wealthy Manhattan neighborhoods. Senator Tom Duane of District 29 Manhattan, Eugene O’Donnell, Professor of Law and Police Science at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, and Brad Hoylman, Community Board 2 Chairman, talk about Manhattan’s crime spike.

Relations on the social networking site Facebook have moved far beyond the college demographic it was created for. David Carr, columnist and reporter for the New York Times talks about the relations between adults on the site. Plus Danny Dumas, Associate Products Editor for Wired.com, gives us his take on the interactions between adults and their children on the site.

Adam Davidson, NPR correspondent for International Business and Economics, talks about the housing assistance bill just approved by the House and expected to be enacted next week. Then Sarah Gerecke, chief executive officer of Neighborhood Housing Services of New York City, talks about the local impact of the legislation.

One of the over-arching meta-themes of the Harry Potter books is, without a doubt, choice. From early on the books the theme of choice is empasised, when the Sorting Hat defers to Harry s wish to be in Gryffindor, or when Dumbledore makes it clear to Harry that it is his choices, far more than abilities that make him the wizard that he is. It s clear that J.K. Rowling is a proponent of the idea that we make ourselves who we are and are ultimately responsible for who we become. Putting aside a scientific discussion of free will and determinism, a greater question, from within the stories themselves, comes to light. With the conclusion of Book 7, and the revelation of Dumbledore s less than altruistic motives, does J.K. Rowling s position on free will and choice change? Did Harry, in fact, make all those choices of his own free will, or, perhaps, was he influenced by forces beyond his control? Despite Dumbledore s protestations to the contrary, could Harry ever have avoided the final showdown with the Dark Lord, had he simply chosen to walk away? In this week s episode, we examine the nature of free will and choice as presented in the books after Book 7, and what J.K. Rowling might be saying about what it means to be free. This podcast is brought to you by Audible.com. Download a free audiobook of your choice today at audiblepodcast.com/hp. Check out some of the books we talked about on this week s episode. Make sure to check out Penny s post Deathly Hallows: One Year Later for a rundown on all that s happened since Book 7 was released. You can listen to this episode using the player below, or download it directly as an mp3.

It s a fun job and somebody has to do it. We re talking about interviewing 51 artists professionals, hobbyists and children about their drawings for our Love of Reading Gallery. It s all part of the celebration of the second anniversary of the Just One More Book children’s book podcast. On this edition, Mark speaks with Deborah Zemke about her contribution, You are What you Read. Besides book illustration, Deborah Zemke is an illustrator for Ranger Rick Magazine. Be sure to enjoy all of the amazing artwork in our Love of Reading Gallery.

Click here to download Siglerism News for July 23, 2008 Illness has struck the family again, this time a the human side of the family. I'm heading to Michigan for at least a week and will not be recording any fiction until I return to San Francisco. Yes, this means more delays for NOCTURNAL. All I can do is blame Hutchinssss. He causes 95 percent of the cancer out there, so it's his fault ... FREE eBOOKS!! Click on the book covers at left to download full, free PDFs for new books by Tee Morris and Phillipa Ballantine. They are both pushing for the big Amazon.com gold rush on August 8, so if you dig these free ebooks, support them by buying a copy.  DON'T RENT THAT DVD ... At least until you check out my reviews of THE RUINS, SHUTTER and ASYLUM. Which one is far worse than hitting yourself in the face with a hammer? Read to find out. TEASER: Check out the album art for this week's episode ... UPDATE ON OBSIDIAN STORY: After I recorded this, Hutch got back to me on the posting dates for my short story EUSOCIAL NETWORKING, which will appear in his 7th SON: OBSIDIAN feed. Part One will air the week of August 11, and Part Two will come the week of the 18th.

Welcome to Week Ten. 'CONSPIRACY SO FAR' READ BY: Chris Moody THIS WEEK'S STORY: As Part One draws to a close, Tan tells Wells to deal with Jack once and for all. Hoktewi's hired thugs make one final attempt at doing the job themselves. PROMOS: Omega: Earth's Hero - Keith Latch Horror Addicts - Emerian Rich

According to the Environmental Protection Agency, the statistical value of a life is estimated at $6.9 million -- that's 11 percent less than a few years ago. Frank O'Donnell, president of Clean Air Watch, and Peter Coy, economics editor at BusinessWeek, talk about the new estimate and how it affects the environment.

In this episode of the Secrets of Harry Potter, we analyze the literary, mythological and religious themes in chapter 18 of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows . Post your comments below, or send us an email: harrypotter [ a t. ] sqpn.com Subscribe to the feed | Subscribe with iTunes ShareThis

Elaine Berg, President and CEO of the New York Organ Donor Network, talks about the change in New York's organ donation registry.