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The stock market has been experiencing many large swings lately, both ups and downs…though mainly downs. In this uncertain environment, what are the experts advising? Mike Switzer interviews Peter Nielsen, a chartered financial analyst at Independent Solutions Wealth Management in Greer, SC and a member of the South Carolina Chapter of the CFA Society.

The American green tree frog (Dryophytes cinereus) is a common species of New World tree frog belonging to the family Hylidae. It is a common backyard species, popular as a pet, and is the state amphibian of Georgia and Louisiana.

The summer solstice, also known as estival solstice or midsummer, occurs when one of Earth's poles has its maximum tilt toward the Sun. It happens twice yearly, once in each hemisphere (Northern and Southern). For that hemisphere, the summer solstice is when the Sun reaches its highest position in the sky (for areas outside of the tropics) and is the day with the longest period of daylight. Within the Arctic circle (for the northern hemisphere) or Antarctic circle (for the southern hemisphere), there is continuous daylight around the summer solstice.

Composers often call for repeats, in their music, for whole sections of their pieces to be played twice. And the question is: what’s the point?

Outdoor concerts can be delightful, especially when the music and the natural surroundings make a perfect mix. Then again, when you’re playing outdoors, things sometimes happen that wouldn’t ever happen in the concert hall—and I’m not just talking about thunderstorms.

Your strange job as a performing artist—musician, actor, or dancer—is to immerse yourself completely in the work of art you’re performing—to lose yourself, in a sense—and yet at all times to remain aware of precisely what you’re doing and how you’re doing it. It’s not easy, and sometimes the process—which is complicated to begin with—becomes downright mysterious.

“Program music” is instrumental music that attempts to tell a story, paint a scene or picture, or convey impressions of a character, place, or event. But no matter how sonically descriptive, music is always open to a range of interpretations—sometimes far removed from the composer’s intentions—and no two people will ever hear the same work in exactly the same way.

Pantherophis alleghaniensis, commonly called the eastern ratsnake, is a nonvenomous colubrid species endemic to North America.

Through his nonprofit organization dedicated to young adult empowerment, our next guest reached an agreement last year with Proctor and Gamble to help launch the research careers of aspiring, scientifically-minded students in the Lowcountry. Mike Switzer interviews LJ Bush, founder of Changing Our Image Now (COIN) in Bluffton, SC.

This week Bobbi Conner talks with Dr. Sarah Miller about research related to the use of digital technology to help patients manage COPD. Dr. Miller is a respiratory physiologist and Nurse Scientist in the College of Nursing at MUSC.