2010/12/31 You&Yours Listening Notes

C1: Water Crisis in Northern Ireland: (Ten days without water)
The way this disruption is handled is described as shambloic (a.) disorganized (BrE: informal)
interrupted supplies 供水中斷
pipes bursting with the feezing and leaking with thaw 水管結凍後破裂融化後開始漏水

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/30/world/europe/30belfast.html

C2: Bell Ringing: bell ringing is far from a dying art-form.
a bell ringing chamber 鐘室
What it takes to be a bell-ringer? 敲鐘者的條件: kinetic ability and  a sense of rhythm (節奏感)
 You don't have to be particularly musical (有音樂天份的) and strong.
resistance [U] 阻力
vicar 教區牧師
Bell-ringing is a labor of love; it takes 4 to 5 years to be good at it. 敲鐘是為愛好而做的工作

C3: New Year's Resolutions: 新年新希望
Our new year's resolutions keep being modified every year.
fizzle out :虎頭蛇尾.... shrink back in silence 安靜地退縮...
shower people with compliments 大量地讚美....
have your head in the clouds 有不切實際的計畫想法
C4:  send the commissions to ... 佣金 手續費
C5: It fell to the Salvation Army (救世軍) to help stranded passengers at Heathrow and Kings Cross.
C6: Art Exchange: a stock exchange  for art works 第一個藝術品股票交易所http://www.aexchange.net./en/
People can connect to the Internet and sell or purchurse orders at the end of the day 6 pm
It is not a really paralle to a stock/trading exchange
It takes continual trading in order to establish a price
Art is not easily tradable.
ring-fenced regulations 限制資金用途法規