Podcasts about After Dinner

Hello dear listeners!It is us: Janie & Paul. We record our After-Dinner conversation once a month in the Free Feed of our precious STAY F. HOMEKINS podcast and this one is HOT OFF THE PRESSES!!!! In this episode, we talk about going around solo to do all kinds of things, roommates of assassins and, everyone's favorites topic: TREES!!!!Please listen and subscribe for our bonus content, if you would like to hear more. Please also stay alert and be kind to yourselves and your community. And get up IN them comments below, where the discussion on this episode logically occurs!Our newest bonus episodes reveal our reaction to And Just Like That, which is just FUN. Sign up here to access.Huggles,Janie & PFT This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit weekendwater.substack.com/subscribe

Joining Simon around the After Dinner virtual table is author and thought leader Stephen M. R. Covey. Together, they reflect on the life lessons Stephen learned from his parents, including his father, Stephen R. Covey, and explore the transformative power of Trust.They discuss building self-trust, the impact of keeping commitments, and the importance of extending trust as a leader, especially the courage it takes to go first.Episode Links:Speed of TrustTrust & InspireStephen M. R. CoveySend us a textConnect with us on LinkedIn Follow us on Instagram Subscribe on YouTube If you would like to feature on the Podcast, please get in touch! mailto: info@withleadership.co.uk Thank you for listening!

AFTER DINNER that night, Elaine distributed gifts. Each of us got a small gaily wrapped box, and she commanded us to open them in unison. In each box was a pair of earmuffs . . . Get full access to The Personal History, Adventures, Experiences & Observations of Peter Leroy at peterleroy.substack.com/subscribe

AFTER DINNER, in the lounge, Lou stood the entire crowd of eight to a round of drinks from our well-stocked bar, and I read episode five of Dead Air, “A Case of the Family Illness.” Get full access to The Personal History, Adventures, Experiences & Observations of Peter Leroy at peterleroy.substack.com/subscribe

In Episode 190 of the GAHHDcast, the crew sits down with renowned MC Don Prince to delve into his latest work and personal journey. Don discusses his new single Simply and reflects on previous hits like You Can Get With This and Middle of the Summer. The conversation takes an introspective turn as they explore his After Dinner video and his commitment to meditation for mental clarity and creativity. Don also shares his involvement in scoring soundtracks for B1 the Movie and Sudden Death the Movie, and expresses his passion for live performances. Wrapping up, Don talks about his plans for 2025 and the legacy he aims to leave behind in the music world. The episode closes with a fun and insightful round of "10 Shots with VSOP --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/last-breath-ent/support

Send me a one-way text about this episode! I'll give you a shout out or answer your question on a future episode.One of the ways we can express love in our homemaking is to prioritize the family table. Slowing down long enough to gather and break bread together provides the family an opportunity to connect every day. In this episode we will look at things to consider regarding expectations and purpose as well as tips and ideas for setting the table and the mood and what to talk about once you are there. EPISODE LINKS & RESOURCESHOMEMAKER POETRYRawlings, Marjorie. "After Dinner." Songs of a Housewife, edited by Roger L Tarr, University Press of Florida, 1997. p. 36.TABLE SETTINGEmily PostMartha StewartCONVERSATIONThe Family Dinner ProjectOne Year Dinner Table Devotions by Nancy GuthrieConversation Starter Card Decks by Cultivate What MattersSupport the Show.

In this After Dinner Leadership Podcast episode, seasoned Entrepreneur Emma Donovan joins Simon, in sharing insights about Branding yourself.  They explore key topics such as: quiet confidence, authentic alignment and having honest conversations.Join us in learning from Emma, and pull up a seat to join our After Dinner leadership conversation!Episode Links:Atomic Habits - James ClearBook of Joy - Delai Lama, Desmond TutuBecome Dapper - Discount CodeConnect with us on LinkedIn Follow us on Instagram Subscribe on YouTube If you would like to feature on the Podcast, please get in touch! mailto: info@withleadership.co.uk Thank you for listening!

Episode 126 The Japanese Shigin Vocal Tradition—and Electronics Playlist   Track Time Start Time Introduction –Thom Holmes 04:46 00:00 1.     Mix of Susumu Yokota, “Saku” from Sakura (1999 Skintone) plus Abe Shũfu II, “Mount Fuji” from Music Of The Shigin: Chanting To Chinese Poetry (1975 Folkways). Album of electronic music from the late composer Susumu Yokota and a track from Folkways of Japanese shingin folk music. 05:42 04:54 2.     Mix of Shiro Michi,“マドンナの宝石 (Intermezzo From "The Jewels Of The Madonna)” from エレクトーン 名曲アルバム (Electone Masterpiece Album)(1965 Polydor). Plus a female shigin performer accompanied by koto from a Japanese collection of shigin singers (1973 Toshiba TY-40077), side 2, track 6. Shiro Michi, Shiro Michi, was a popular Japanese Hammond organist in the 1950s, and Electone artist from the 1950s-2000s since 1958. This track was performed on the Yamaha Electone. 03:02 10:34 3.     Mix of Shiro Michi, “ドナウ川の漣 (Danube Waves Waltz)” from エレクトーン 名曲アルバム (Electone Masterpiece Album)(1965 Polydor). Plus a male shigin performer accompanied by bamboo flute and koto from a Japanese collection of shigin singers (1973 Toshiba TY-40077), side 1, track 2. 04:46 13:34 4.     Mix of a fragment of Shiro Michi and shigin, which I have called “Shigin Skip Organ” because of the prominence of the LP skip throughout. “ドナウ川の漣 (Danube Waves Waltz)” from エレクトーン 名曲アルバム(Electone Masterpiece Album)(1965 Polydor) plus a skipping record of a male shigin performer with koto. 04:08 18:17 5.     Omoide Hatoba, “Alternative Funkaholic” from Kinsei (1995 Earthnoise). 02:30 22:24 6.     Omoide Hatoba, “Satellite Groove” from Kinsei (1995 Earthnoise). 03:53 24:52 7.     Neohachi, “Dog More Than Cat” from Lovecadio Hearn (2013 White Paddy Mountain). Neohachi is a Japanese female duo, formed in 2005 and featuring Lily (Shigin Vocals) and Elly (Synthesizers). 06:09 28:40 8.     Neohachi, “Eternal, Eternal, Eternal” from Lovecadio Hearn (2013 White Paddy Mountain). 02:31 34:36 9.     和楽器バンド (Wagakki Band), “Akatsuki no Ito”from    八奏絵巻(Wildflowers Scroll). Bass, 亜沙 (Asa); Drums, 山葵 (Wasabi); Guitar, 町屋 (Machiya); Koto, [箏], いぶくろ聖志(Ibukuro Masashi); Shakuhachi, [尺八], 神永大輔 (Kaminaga Daisuke); Shamisen, [津軽三味線], 蜷川べに(Ninagawa Beni); Taiko, [和太鼓], 黒流 (Kurona); Shigin Vocals, 鈴華ゆう子 (Suzuhana Yuko). Suzuhana Yuko provides the shigin vocals in this convergence of hard rock and traditional Japanese music. The whole outfit is outstanding but I like the pre-eminence of female musicians. For example, check out this Japanese video of Ninagawa Beni shredding the Shamisen. Here's a 2023 performance by Wagakki Band featuring a vocal by Yuko. 03:28 37:22 10.   和楽器バンド (Wagakki Band), “Nadeshiko Zakura” from 八奏絵巻(Wildflowers Scroll). Bass, 亜沙 (Asa); Drums, 山葵 (Wasabi); Guitar, 町屋 (Machiya); Koto, [箏], いぶくろ聖志(Ibukuro Masashi); Shakuhachi, [尺八], 神永大輔 (Kaminaga Daisuke); Shamisen, [津軽三味線], 蜷川べに(Ninagawa Beni); Taiko, [和太鼓], 黒流 (Kurona); Shigin Vocals, 鈴華ゆう子 (Suzuhana Yuko). 04:44 40:48 11.   Shigenori Kamiya(神谷重徳), “ファラオの墓 (Farao (Pharaoh) No Haka)” from Digital Trip ファラオの墓 シンセサイザ ファンタジ (Digital Trip Pharaoh's Tomb Synthesizer Fantasy). Composed By, Synthesizer, Shigenori Kamiya (神谷重徳). 03:12 45:28 12.   Gagaku Shigenkai, Ryōō from Unesco Collection, A Musical Anthology of the Orient: Japan II (1962 Musicaphon). "Ryōō" was recorded in Tokyo in 1962. Shigenkai, was a traditional Japanese music ensemble attached to the Imperial Household Agency, playing flutes, drums, and string instruments. I did a remix of this, adding delay and some droning tones and then double-tracking the whole piece as a way to transforms these lovely, acoustic tonalities into an electronic mélange. 07:18 48:38 13.   Otomo Yoshihide (大友良英), “Film Maker From Kreuzberg,” from We Insist? (1992 Sound Factory). Turntables, Sampler, Tapes, Guitar, Otomo Yoshihide. 02:55 55:50 14.   After Dinner, “An Accelerating Etude” from After Dinner (1984 Recommended Records). Engineer, Producer, Voice, Synthesizer, Tape, Koto (Miniature 13 String, Taisho-goto), Plastic Flute, Percussion, Haco. Vocalist/lyricist-composer/multi-instrumentalist/sound-artist. Album compiled for the UK release from the original Japan records known as the Glass Tube LP and an After Dinner 7.” 04:11 58:42 15.   After Dinner, “Sepia-Ture II” from After Dinner (1984 Recommended Records). Alto Saxophone, Kaname Nakagawa; Arranged by, Y. Utsunomia; Bass, Drum, Miyuki Komori; Bass, Violin, Tadahiko Yokokawa; Koto (Taisho-goto), Yasushi Utsunomia; Snare, Masaaki Kawaguchi; Soprano Saxophone, Masaharu Ito; Tenor Saxophone, Seiichi Kuroda; Voice, Haco. 02:25 01:02:50 16.   Wha Ha Ha, “Keiro No Hibi” and “On The Floor” from 死ぬ時は別 (It's Different When You Die) (1981 Better Days). The second part of this combination track is a different of “On the Floor” that is sung by Mishio Ogawa. The version I am most familiar with was sung by a man so this is a refreshing variation. Computer, Takafumi Fuse; Effects [Sound Effects], Fujio Akatsuka; Engineer, Kazuhiro Tokieda, Takafumi Fuse; Guitar, Shigenori Kamiya; Keyboards, Shuichi Chino; Percussion, Kiyohiko Senba; Saxophone, Voice, Akira Sakata; Voice, Mishio Ogawa. 11:57 01:05:09   Opening background music: Ryuichi Sakamoto, “Nuages” from Heartbeat (1991 Virgin Japan). Written by Sakamoto, the vocal is delivered by the remarkable Algerian singer Houria Aichi (2:15).   Opening and closing sequences voiced by Anne Benkovitz. Additional opening, closing, and other incidental music by Thom Holmes. My Books/eBooks: Electronic and Experimental Music, sixth edition, Routledge 2020. Also, Sound Art: Concepts and Practices, first edition, Routledge 2022. See my companion blog that I write for the Bob Moog Foundation. For a transcript, please see my blog, Noise and Notations.    

In this After Dinner Leadership Podcast episode, consultant and author Tal Eyre joins Simon, in sharing insights about what is arguably the most important leadership role.  From his experience with fatherhood, we learn the impact of being an authoritative leader and discover what it means to truly connect. Join us in learning from Tal, so please pull up a seat and join our After Dinner leadership conversation!Episode Links:Tal Eyre's website In Praise of Shadows Shadow Work with Richard RohrDad Mode: 25 Ways to Connect with Your Children Connect with us on LinkedIn Follow us on Instagram Subscribe on YouTube If you would like to feature on the Podcast, please get in touch! mailto: info@withleadership.co.uk Thank you for listening!

In this episode, Simon Fagg is joined around the virtual After Dinner Leadership table by retired SEAL officer and best-selling author Marty Strong. As a returning guest, Marty shares some of the impactful leadership lessons he has learnt throughout his professional career. He also shares with us the benefits of taking the unconventional way when responding to challenges.Join us in learning from Marty's insights, so pull up a seat and join our After Dinner leadership conversation!Be Different - Marty StrongConnect with us on LinkedIn Follow us on Instagram Subscribe on YouTube If you would like to feature on the Podcast, please get in touch! mailto: info@withleadership.co.uk Thank you for listening!

In this episode, Simon is joined around the virtual After Dinner Leadership table by founder and author Scott Shute. He delves into the true meaning of compassion and its role in the workplace.  Scott also shares with us some of the profound leadership lessons he has learnt throughout his career.Join us in learning from Scott's insights, so pull up a seat and join our After Dinner leadership conversation!The Full Body Yes by Scott ShuteChanging WorkConnect with us on LinkedIn Follow us on Instagram Subscribe on YouTube If you would like to feature on the Podcast, please get in touch! mailto: info@withleadership.co.uk Thank you for listening!

Judith Hoddinott has made considerable impact as an educator and a theatre designer across all disciplines. Training at the University of New England and the National Institute of Dramatic Arts, her design work has been seen complementing a myriad of stages with companies as diverse as the Sydney Theatre Company, GFO, CDP, Jacobsen Entertainment, Playbox, Opera Australia, Performing Lines, Theatre of the Deaf, New Moon, Hunter Valley, STC, Marian Street, & Ensemble theatre companies, and the Flying Fruit Fly Circus.Judith has taught Theatre Design at East Sydney Technical College, University of Western Sydney, University of Technology, Sydney and NIDA. She currently teaches at Newtown High School of the Performing Arts.Theatrical fare that has soared with costume and/or set designs by Judith include Phedre, Away, Oleanna, Antony and Cleopatra, A Delicate Balance, The Merchant of Venice, Gary's House, After Dinner, The Killing of Sister George, A Hard God, Macbeth, Sight Unseen, Emerald City, Death of a Salesman, The Sunshine Boys, Wit, I Ought to Be In Pictures, Aunty and Me, I'm Not Rappaport, The Heartbreak Kid, and Arms and the Man. Musical Theatre includes Guys and Dolls, A Chair in the Landscape, Shout!, Footloose, Il Trovatore, A Broad With Two Men, Working, Only Heaven Knows, The Man from Mukinupin and South Pacific.Judith offers abundant knowledge on the processes of design, and teaching, in this illuminating episode of the STAGES podcast.The STAGES podcast is available to access and subscribe from Spotify and Apple podcasts. Or from wherever you access your favourite podcasts. A conversation with creatives about craft and career. Follow socials on instagram (stagespodcast) and facebook (Stages).www.stagespodcast.com.au

In this episode of the After Dinner Leadership Podcast, Simon is joined by Deb Barry who devotes her time to helping those in need. From her inspiring stories and experiences, we learn about the impact of our unconscious bias and the significance of always asking others "What do you need?". Join us in learning from Deb, so please pull up a seat and join our After Dinner leadership conversation!Connect with us on LinkedIn Follow us on Instagram Subscribe on YouTube If you would like to feature on the Podcast, please get in touch! mailto: info@withleadership.co.uk Thank you for listening!

In our latest episode of the After Dinner Leadership Podcast with Scott Greenburg, we hear about his experience responding to challenges in his life, as well as highlighting the hard and soft needs of those we manage. We also delve into the three leadership lessons that Scott wished he learnt earlier.So please, pull up a seat and join our After Dinner leadership conversation!Connect with us on LinkedIn Follow us on Instagram Subscribe on YouTube If you would like to feature on the Podcast, please get in touch! mailto: info@withleadership.co.uk Thank you for listening!

Simon has always had a passion for helping others to develop a 'vision', especially within their team. In this Bitesize episode of the After Dinner Leadership Podcast, he shares his experiences and tips on how to have greater team alignment, by doing so. So please, pull up a seat and join our After Dinner leadership conversation!Connect with us on LinkedIn Follow us on Instagram Subscribe on YouTube If you would like to feature on the Podcast, please get in touch! mailto: info@withleadership.co.uk Thank you for listening!

In our latest episode of the After Dinner Leadership Podcast with Debbie Jenkins, we hear insights about how to tackle the current credibility crisis and we learn some tips about how to turn our ideas into valuable assets. We also delve into the three leadership lessons that Debs wished she learnt earlier.So please, pull up a seat and join our After Dinner leadership conversation!https://www.amazon.co.uk/Goal-Process-Ongoing-Improvement/dp/0566086654Connect with us on LinkedIn Follow us on Instagram Subscribe on YouTube If you would like to feature on the Podcast, please get in touch! mailto: info@withleadership.co.uk Thank you for listening!

In our latest Bitesize episode of the After Dinner Leadership Podcast, Simon shares about the personal impact of having a 'Word of the Year'; an idea mentioned by a previous podcast guest, Johnny Lympus. Join us, as we learn new ideas about how to have a year filled with greater focus and deeper thinking.So please, pull up a seat and join our After Dinner leadership conversation!Connect with us on LinkedIn Follow us on Instagram Subscribe on YouTube If you would like to feature on the Podcast, please get in touch! mailto: info@withleadership.co.uk Thank you for listening!

In our latest episode of the After Dinner Leadership Podcast with Tom Russell FRSA, we hear insights about effective decision-making and how to make the most out of the meetings we lead. We also delve into the three leadership lessons that Tom wished he learnt earlier.So please, pull up a seat and join our After Dinner leadership conversation!Connect with us on LinkedIn Follow us on Instagram Subscribe on YouTube If you would like to feature on the Podcast, please get in touch! mailto: info@withleadership.co.uk Thank you for listening!

Around 2010 I became somewhat obsessed with Japanese pop and ambient music of the 1980s - in particular the Yellow Magic Orchestra, the solo records of the members of the group: Ryuichi Sakamoto, Haruomi Hosono and Yukihiro Takahashi and music by Akiko Yano, Yasuaki Shimizu and Hiroshi Yoshimura amongst many others. Last year I discovered that this was an enthusiasm shared with architectural historian, and very occasional pop music writer, Owen Hartherley who has since written an article partially on the topic: https://www.jencksfoundation.org/explore/text/japan-at-number-one-ryuichi-sakamoto-s-riot-in-lagos Although much of the episode is on the music itself, we also touch on the politics - particularly how these artists were influenced by and reacting to the culture of the 1960s New Left, during the extraordinary economic boom of the 1980s, and how some of these musicians reintegrated the memory of 20th century Japanese imperialism in Asia into their music. If you'd like to explore some of the music we discuss in the episode you can find an accompanying playlist on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1eM8f2mq7vJYtYuTDq2EKW?si=7dd8d970fb8d4ad2 As well as tracks from the 80s, the playlist also includes some records from the folk rock era of the 1970s, as well as from Vaporwave and Future Funk genres - both of which were influenced by much of the 1980s work that Owen and I discuss. Unfortunately, there are plenty of fantastic records from this era that aren't currently available on the streaming services - including Akiko Yano's best work (especially the album Tadaima) Paradise of Replica by After Dinner, Ichiko Hashimoto's Beauty album, Miho Fujiwara's Heartbeat, Untotooku by Chiemi Manabe and the soundtracks to the animated films Akira and the Wings of Honnêamise amongst others. Do check those out too if you can - many of them are available on YouTube or to purchase from Bandcamp and other such outlets. Owen's article, 1980 in Parallax: Japan at Number One, Ryuichi Sakamoto's ‘Riot in Lagos': https://www.jencksfoundation.org/explore/text/japan-at-number-one-ryuichi-sakamoto-s-riot-in-lagos Spotify playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1eM8f2mq7vJYtYuTDq2EKW?si=7dd8d970fb8d4ad2

In this episode, Simon is joined around the virtual After Dinner Leadership table by Suzanne Wertheim. Simon talks with Suzanne about the power of inclusive language, the masks that we wear and when they are most useful. We also delve into the three leadership lessons that Suzanne wished she learnt earlier.So please, pull up a seat and join our After Dinner leadership conversation.Connect with us on LinkedIn Follow us on Instagram Subscribe on YouTube If you would like to feature on the Podcast, please get in touch! mailto: info@withleadership.co.uk Thank you for listening!

After Dinner with the owl lord our three heroes set out to prep for the upcoming hunt. They meet some odd shop owners and make a somber ally. You want it, we got it! That merch is so fresh and so clean!! Follow the Linktree link on our Insta and head over to our Redbubble page to browse our wears and such! Be sure to give us a 5 star review and leave a comment on Apple Podcasts and Spotify! You'll get an on-air shout out from your favorite heroes! Follow us on all of our socials! Insta/TikTok----Roll4Pod Leave us an email too! We'd love to hear from you! ----> roll4pod@gmail.com --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/roll-4-your-life/support

In this episode, Simon is joined around the virtual After Dinner Leadership table by Antonia Bowring. Simon talks with Antonia where they discuss embracing feedback and how risks are part of learning. We also delve into the three leadership lessons that Antonia wished she learnt earlier.So please, pull up a seat and join our After Dinner leadership conversation.Episode LinksSteal like an Artist - Austin KleonAntonia BowringAB StrategiesConnect with us on LinkedIn Follow us on Instagram Subscribe on YouTube If you would like to feature on the Podcast, please get in touch! mailto: info@withleadership.co.uk Thank you for listening!

In this episode, Simon is joined around the virtual After Dinner Leadership table by Gerardo Segat. Simon talks with Gerardo where they discuss the importance of establishing inner objectives and delve into the three leadership lessons that Gerardo wished he learnt earlier.So please, pull up a seat and join our After Dinner leadership conversation.Episode Links:Ivy PodcastConnect with us on LinkedIn Follow us on Instagram Subscribe on YouTube If you would like to feature on the Podcast, please get in touch! mailto: info@withleadership.co.uk Thank you for listening!

In this episode, Simon is joined around the virtual After Dinner Leadership table by David Pullan. Simon talks with David about the power of storytelling and how leaders can tap into the power of story as they lead organisations and themselves effectively. They also look at three leadership lessons that David wishes he learnt earlier.So please, pull up a seat and join our After Dinner leadership conversation.Episode Links:The transformative power of classical music | Benjamin ZanderBring on the learning revolution! | Ken RobinsonThe Art of Possibility: Transforming Professional and Personal LifeConnect with us on LinkedIn Follow us on Instagram Subscribe on YouTube If you would like to feature on the Podcast, please get in touch! mailto: info@withleadership.co.uk Thank you for listening!

Today, we're taking a leisurely stroll through a topic that's close to our hearts - the five incredible benefits of walking after a meal. It's a simple yet powerful practice that's often overlooked, and we're here to shed light on just how much it can positively impact your health and well-being. You see, it's not just about burning calories or staying active; post-meal walks offer a myriad of advantages for both your physical and mental health. We'll be sharing some remarkable insights, backed by science, that will make you reconsider the way you approach those post-dinner hours. But before you start listening, don't forget to subscribe, rate, and review our podcast to show your support and stay updated on our latest episodes. Your feedback means the world to us, and it helps us bring you more valuable content like this.

In this episode, Simon is joined around the virtual After Dinner Leadership table by Tim Lupinacci. Simon talks with Tim about the importance of giving back and helping the world around us to be a better place. They also look at three leadership lessons that Tim wishes he learnt earlier.So please, pull up a seat and join our After Dinner leadership conversation.Episode LinksImpact Players by Liz WisemanThe 4 Disciplines of Execution by  by Chris McChesney, Jim Huling, and Sean CoveyConnect with us on LinkedIn Follow us on Instagram Subscribe on YouTube If you would like to feature on the Podcast, please get in touch! mailto: info@withleadership.co.uk Thank you for listening!

Firstly, we're shining a spotlight on a gorgeous wedding venue that could be the perfect backdrop for your special day. The Bristol Event Center in Bristol CT.   This podcast is for engaged couples who are stressed out with wedding planning and family expectations but want a fun wedding day.   Join us as we explore the Bristol Event Center located in beautiful Bristol, Connecticut as we talk with GM Julia Miller and chat with Charlene Chiaro of Wedding Styles of Connecticut Wedding Shows.   We'll get into all the details you need to know about this stunning venue, from its picturesque setting to its amenities and services that will make your wedding planning journey stress-free.   Whether you're a local bride or planning a destination wedding, this episode is packed with valuable insights to help you make an informed decision for your dream wedding.   So, sit back, relax, and let's embark on this virtual tour of the Bristol Event Center!   The Stress-free Wedding Planning Podcast #66: Venue Spotlight - Bristol Event Center, Bristol CT Host: Sal & Sam Music: "Sam's Tune" by Rick Anthony   TIMESTAMPS  0:00:00 Introduction: Venue Spotlight - Bristol Event Center, Bristol CT 0:03:00 What do I do now that I've got my dress? 0:04:00 Poor DJ quality and what can go wrong 0:04:30 Tipping your wedding vendors 0:05:30 Wedding decor, the table and chair rentals 0:06:00 Outdoor weddings, generator, and bar service 0:06:30 Morning of the wedding food 0:07:15 Hair and make-up 0:07:45 Video, filmmaking, and cinematography 0:08:45 Officiant 0:09:45 Tablescapes 0:10:40 Wedding Tip Wednesday 0:14:30 Discussion about accessing podcast editions 0:15:00 Ceremony and cocktail hour music 0:17:00 Photobooth 0:17:45 Cake  0:18:00 After Dinner snacks 0:18:00 Wedding Planner 0:20:00 Parking and transportation 0:21:00 Men's attire 0:22:00 Honeymoon 0:23:00 PJ's 0:24:00 Rehearsal Dinner 0:24:30 Outdoor Toilets 0:15:30 Close   Get your FREE no-obligation report TODAY: "8 QUESTIONS YOU MUST ASK A WEDDING PROFESSIONAL BEFORE BOOKING THEM" http://forms.aweber.com/form/55/756659955.htm Music List Giveaway  https://www.afterhourseventsofne.com/guestcontact *** Join us in the Stress-free Wedding Planning Facebook group https://urlgeni.us/facebook/stress-free-wedding-planning Sponsored in part by Clear Vision Productions and the Wedding Styles of CT Wedding Shows.   https://www.weddingstylesofct.com/   https://www.theclearvisionagency.com/ Wedding Tip Wednesday on the Stress-free Wedding Planning Podcast is sponsored by EMERGE Cosmetics – 10% OFF promo code: SF1 https://shopemergecosmetics.com/ Copyright © 2023 Atmosphere Productions LLC All Rights Reserved. Produced By Atmosphere Productions in association with After Hours Events of New England https://atmosphere-productions.com https://www.afterhourseventsofne.com #stressfreeweddingplanning #stressfreeweddingplanningpodcast #ctweddingdj #atmosphereproductions #afterhourseventsofne #cvpevents #clearvisionproductions #theclearvisionagency #dreamwedding #WalkDownTheAisle

Firstly, we're shining a spotlight on a gorgeous wedding venue that could be the perfect backdrop for your special day. The Bristol Event Center in Bristol CT.   This podcast is for engaged couples who are stressed out with wedding planning and family expectations but want a fun wedding day.   Join us as we explore the Bristol Event Center located in beautiful Bristol, Connecticut as we talk with GM Julia Miller and chat with Charlene Chiaro of Wedding Styles of Connecticut Wedding Shows.   We'll get into all the details you need to know about this stunning venue, from its picturesque setting to its amenities and services that will make your wedding planning journey stress-free.   Whether you're a local bride or planning a destination wedding, this episode is packed with valuable insights to help you make an informed decision for your dream wedding.   So, sit back, relax, and let's embark on this virtual tour of the Bristol Event Center!   The Stress-free Wedding Planning Podcast #66: Venue Spotlight - Bristol Event Center, Bristol CT Host: Sal & Sam Music: "Sam's Tune" by Rick Anthony   TIMESTAMPS  0:00:00 Introduction: Venue Spotlight - Bristol Event Center, Bristol CT 0:03:00 What do I do now that I've got my dress? 0:04:00 Poor DJ quality and what can go wrong 0:04:30 Tipping your wedding vendors 0:05:30 Wedding decor, the table and chair rentals 0:06:00 Outdoor weddings, generator, and bar service 0:06:30 Morning of the wedding food 0:07:15 Hair and make-up 0:07:45 Video, filmmaking, and cinematography 0:08:45 Officiant 0:09:45 Tablescapes 0:10:40 Wedding Tip Wednesday 0:14:30 Discussion about accessing podcast editions 0:15:00 Ceremony and cocktail hour music 0:17:00 Photobooth 0:17:45 Cake  0:18:00 After Dinner snacks 0:18:00 Wedding Planner 0:20:00 Parking and transportation 0:21:00 Men's attire 0:22:00 Honeymoon 0:23:00 PJ's 0:24:00 Rehearsal Dinner 0:24:30 Outdoor Toilets 0:15:30 Close   Get your FREE no-obligation report TODAY: "8 QUESTIONS YOU MUST ASK A WEDDING PROFESSIONAL BEFORE BOOKING THEM" http://forms.aweber.com/form/55/756659955.htm Music List Giveaway  https://www.afterhourseventsofne.com/guestcontact *** Join us in the Stress-free Wedding Planning Facebook group https://urlgeni.us/facebook/stress-free-wedding-planning Sponsored in part by Clear Vision Productions and the Wedding Styles of CT Wedding Shows.   https://www.weddingstylesofct.com/   https://www.theclearvisionagency.com/ Wedding Tip Wednesday on the Stress-free Wedding Planning Podcast is sponsored by EMERGE Cosmetics – 10% OFF promo code: SF1 https://shopemergecosmetics.com/ Copyright © 2023 Atmosphere Productions LLC All Rights Reserved. Produced By Atmosphere Productions in association with After Hours Events of New England https://atmosphere-productions.com https://www.afterhourseventsofne.com #stressfreeweddingplanning #stressfreeweddingplanningpodcast #ctweddingdj #atmosphereproductions #afterhourseventsofne #cvpevents #clearvisionproductions #theclearvisionagency #dreamwedding #WalkDownTheAisle

In this episode, Simon is joined around the virtual After Dinner Leadership table by author, speechwriter, and speaker, Simon Lancaster. Simon talks with Simon about the power of rhetoric and more broadly the power of communication in leadership. They also look at three powerful leadership lessons that Simon wishes he learnt earlier.So please, pull up a seat and join our After Dinner leadership conversation.Episode Links:Speak Like A Leader - TED TalkConnect with us on LinkedIn Follow us on Instagram Subscribe on YouTube If you would like to feature on the Podcast, please get in touch! mailto: info@withleadership.co.uk Thank you for listening!

Firstly, there are always hidden wedding costs. But, if you listen and learn from this edition, you could save and have a stress-free wedding.   This podcast is for engaged couples who are stressed out with wedding planning and family expectations but want a fun wedding day.   Firstly, we'll uncover the often-overlooked expenses that can catch you by surprise and provide you with valuable tips to ensure your wedding budget stays on track.   So, whether you're just starting your wedding planning journey or already knee-deep in preparations, we'll explain how to make your big day truly stress-free!   The Stress-free Wedding Planning Podcast #65: Hidden Wedding Costs: The Top 20 Unexpected Wedding Expenses Host: Sal & Sam Music: "Sam's Tune" by Rick Anthony   TIMESTAMPS  0:00:00 Introduction: Hidden Wedding Costs: The Top 20 Unexpected Wedding Expenses 0:03:00 What do I do now that I've got my dress? 0:04:00  Poor DJ quality and what can go wrong 0:04:30 Tipping your wedding vendors 0:05:30 Wedding decor, the table and chair rentals 0:06:00 Outdoor weddings, generator, and bar service 0:06:30 Morning of the wedding food 0:07:15 Hair and make-up 0:07:45 Video, filmmaking, and cinematography 0:08:45 Officiant 0:09:45 Tablescapes 0:10:40 Wedding Tip Wednesday 0:14:30 Discussion about accessing podcast editions 0:15:00 Ceremony and cocktail hour music 0:17:00 Photobooth 0:17:45 Cake  0:18:00 After Dinner snacks 0:18:00 Wedding Planner 0:20:00 Parking and transportation 0:21:00 Men's attire 0:22:00 Honeymoon 0:23:00 PJ's 0:24:00 Rehearsal Dinner 0:24:30 Outdoor Toilets 0:15:30 Close   Get your FREE no-obligation report TODAY: "8 QUESTIONS YOU MUST ASK A WEDDING PROFESSIONAL BEFORE BOOKING THEM" http://forms.aweber.com/form/55/756659955.htm Music List Giveaway  https://www.afterhourseventsofne.com/guestcontact *** Join us in the Stress-free Wedding Planning Facebook group https://urlgeni.us/facebook/stress-free-wedding-planning Sponsored in part by Clear Vision Productions and the Wedding Styles of CT Wedding Shows.   https://www.weddingstylesofct.com/   https://www.theclearvisionagency.com/ Wedding Tip Wednesday on the Stress-free Wedding Planning Podcast is sponsored by EMERGE Cosmetics – 10% OFF promo code: SF1 https://shopemergecosmetics.com/ Copyright © 2023 Atmosphere Productions LLC All Rights Reserved. Produced By Atmosphere Productions in association with After Hours Events of New England https://atmosphere-productions.com https://www.afterhourseventsofne.com #stressfreeweddingplanning #stressfreeweddingplanningpodcast #ctweddingdj #atmosphereproductions #afterhourseventsofne #cvpevents #clearvisionproductions #theclearvisionagency #dreamwedding #WalkDownTheAisle

Firstly, there are always hidden wedding costs. But, if you listen and learn from this edition, you could save and have a stress-free wedding.   This podcast is for engaged couples who are stressed out with wedding planning and family expectations but want a fun wedding day.   Firstly, we'll uncover the often-overlooked expenses that can catch you by surprise and provide you with valuable tips to ensure your wedding budget stays on track.   So, whether you're just starting your wedding planning journey or already knee-deep in preparations, we'll explain how to make your big day truly stress-free!   The Stress-free Wedding Planning Podcast #65: Hidden Wedding Costs: The Top 20 Unexpected Wedding Expenses Host: Sal & Sam Music: "Sam's Tune" by Rick Anthony   TIMESTAMPS  0:00:00 Introduction: Hidden Wedding Costs: The Top 20 Unexpected Wedding Expenses 0:03:00 What do I do now that I've got my dress? 0:04:00  Poor DJ quality and what can go wrong 0:04:30 Tipping your wedding vendors 0:05:30 Wedding decor, the table and chair rentals 0:06:00 Outdoor weddings, generator, and bar service 0:06:30 Morning of the wedding food 0:07:15 Hair and make-up 0:07:45 Video, filmmaking, and cinematography 0:08:45 Officiant 0:09:45 Tablescapes 0:10:40 Wedding Tip Wednesday 0:14:30 Discussion about accessing podcast editions 0:15:00 Ceremony and cocktail hour music 0:17:00 Photobooth 0:17:45 Cake  0:18:00 After Dinner snacks 0:18:00 Wedding Planner 0:20:00 Parking and transportation 0:21:00 Men's attire 0:22:00 Honeymoon 0:23:00 PJ's 0:24:00 Rehearsal Dinner 0:24:30 Outdoor Toilets 0:15:30 Close   Get your FREE no-obligation report TODAY: "8 QUESTIONS YOU MUST ASK A WEDDING PROFESSIONAL BEFORE BOOKING THEM" http://forms.aweber.com/form/55/756659955.htm Music List Giveaway  https://www.afterhourseventsofne.com/guestcontact *** Join us in the Stress-free Wedding Planning Facebook group https://urlgeni.us/facebook/stress-free-wedding-planning Sponsored in part by Clear Vision Productions and the Wedding Styles of CT Wedding Shows.   https://www.weddingstylesofct.com/   https://www.theclearvisionagency.com/ Wedding Tip Wednesday on the Stress-free Wedding Planning Podcast is sponsored by EMERGE Cosmetics – 10% OFF promo code: SF1 https://shopemergecosmetics.com/ Copyright © 2023 Atmosphere Productions LLC All Rights Reserved. Produced By Atmosphere Productions in association with After Hours Events of New England https://atmosphere-productions.com https://www.afterhourseventsofne.com #stressfreeweddingplanning #stressfreeweddingplanningpodcast #ctweddingdj #atmosphereproductions #afterhourseventsofne #cvpevents #clearvisionproductions #theclearvisionagency #dreamwedding #WalkDownTheAisle

In this episode, Simon is joined around the virtual After Dinner Leadership table with Dan Pontefract. Simon talks with Dan about the links between agriculture and leadership. They also discuss some of the phrases we commonly use in Leadership and management.So please, pull up a seat and join our After Dinner leadership conversation.Connect with us on LinkedIn Follow us on Instagram Subscribe on YouTube If you would like to feature on the Podcast, please get in touch! mailto: info@withleadership.co.uk Thank you for listening!

In this episode, Simon is joined around the virtual After Dinner Leadership table with Andy Brown. Simon talks with Andy about the three leadership lessons he wished he learnt earlier. The conversation moves to a powerful topic of aligning with personal values and how that can help govern our actions and decision-making processes.So please, pull up a seat and join our After Dinner leadership conversation.Episode LinksThe Lonely Century - Noreena HertzConnect with us on LinkedIn Follow us on Instagram Subscribe on YouTube If you would like to feature on the Podcast, please get in touch! mailto: info@withleadership.co.uk Thank you for listening!

This Bite-Size episode of the After Dinner Leadership podcast takes us back to episode 11 with Amanda Capon and focuses on not having all the answers and the importance of asking questions.So please, pull up a seat and join our After Dinner leadership conversation.Connect with us on LinkedIn Follow us on Instagram Subscribe on YouTube If you would like to feature on the Podcast, please get in touch! mailto: info@withleadership.co.uk Thank you for listening!

In this episode, Simon is joined around the virtual After Dinner Leadership table with Johnnie Moore. Simon talks with Johnnie about the three leadership lessons he wished he learnt earlier. They also discuss the art of having unhurried conversations.So please, pull up a seat and join our After Dinner leadership conversation.Episode Links:Johnnie MooreUnhurried by Johnnie MooreConnect with us on LinkedIn Follow us on Instagram Subscribe on YouTube If you would like to feature on the Podcast, please get in touch! mailto: info@withleadership.co.uk Thank you for listening!

In this episode, Simon is joined around the virtual After Dinner Leadership table with David Braithwaite. Simon talks with David about the growth of businesses and common feelings of being busy but not productive. They also discuss why 10x is better than 2x.So please, pull up a seat and join our After Dinner leadership conversation.Episode Links:David BraithwaiteConnect with us on LinkedIn Follow us on Instagram Subscribe on YouTube If you would like to feature on the Podcast, please get in touch! mailto: info@withleadership.co.uk Thank you for listening!

In this episode, Simon is joined around the virtual After Dinner Leadership table with Dr. Richard Claydon. Simon talks with Richard about leadership around the world and the styles of leadership that have worked throughout history but also across geography and what sits at the core of leadership.So please, pull up a seat and join our After Dinner leadership conversation.Episode Links:Dr Richard ClaydonEQ Lab & Dialogic DrinksConnect with us on LinkedIn Follow us on Instagram Subscribe on YouTube If you would like to feature on the Podcast, please get in touch! mailto: info@withleadership.co.uk Thank you for listening!

WATCH this on YouTube LISTEN as a podcast on Podbean, Stitcher, or iTunes Social Media: @mrwebbpv on Twitter and Instagram @pvplanetarium on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram            Venus shines bright at sunset all month, with Mars nearby, while Saturn, Jupiter, and even Mercury shine in the mornings, and the Beehive Cluster gets two wandering guests, all in the solstice month of June.          Welcome to Observing With Webb, where a high school astronomy teacher tells you what you're looking at, why it's so cool, and what you should check out later this month…at night.    Naked-eye PLANETS Sunset Venus – Look W after sunset. It'll be the brightest object and probably the first “star” you'll see, about 30˚ above the horizon. Sets between midnight and 11pm.  Get your looks in now, because once August starts, your view of Venus in the evening will disappear, and return to the mornings of September. Mars – Look W and about 5 or 10˚ up and to the left of Venus, for a dull reddish dot in the sky, hanging out in Cancer, and slowing moving toward Leo. Sets between midnight and 11pm. Throughout the night - None Morning – (from left to right) Mercury, Jupiter, Saturn Saturn – Beginning of the month: Rises at 1:30am in the ESE, and is 30˚ above the SE horizon by dawn. End of the month: Rises at 11:30pm in the ESE, and is 40˚ above the S horizon at dawn.  About 60˚ to the right of Jupiter. Jupiter – Beginning of the month: Rises at 4am in the E, and is just 15˚ above the E horizon by dawn. End of the month: Rises at 2am in the E, and is 35˚ above the E horizon at dawn.  About 60˚ to the left of Saturn. Mercury – For the first 3 weeks of June, Mercury is less than 10˚ above the horizon, to the left of East. Hard to find, but not impossible.   EVENTS Full Moon – 3rd (Visible all night) Waning Gibbous (Mostly lit, rises later at night) Last Quarter Moon – 10th (Visible midnight into the morning) Morning Crescents (look East in the AM) New Moon – 17th (darkest skies) Evening Crescents (look West after Sunset) First Quarter Moon – 26th (Visible until midnight) Evening Gibbous (Mostly lit, after Sunset)   2nd – Mars, Beehive Cluster (M44) – Find that dull red dot in the sky which is Mars, then take some binoculars out, or a telescope, and witness Mars being directly in M44, the Beehive Cluster, so named because of its resemblance to a swarm of bees. The day before and after, Mars will be on either side of the cluster. Definitely worth at least a look, if not a picture. 9th + 10th – CLOSE ENCOUNTER - Moon, Saturn – Get up early, look SE, and find a gibbous Moon with Saturn about 8˚ above and to the left on the morning on the 9th.  On the 10th, the Moon will have moved to be 7˚ down and to the left of Saturn. 13th – Venus, Beehive Cluster (M44) – Find that bright brilliant dot in the sky which is Venus, then take some binoculars out, or a telescope, and witness Venus being ALMOST directly in M44, the Beehive Cluster. The day before and after, Venus will be on either side of the cluster. Definitely worth at least a look, if not a picture. 14th – CLOSE ENCOUNTER - Moon, Jupiter – Get up early, after 3am, look E, and find a very thin crescent Moon with bright Jupiter only 2˚ to right. 21st – Summer Solstice – This is the longest day of the year in the Northern Hemisphere.  There's a bit of explanation as to why here. 20th – 22nd – CLOSE ENCOUNTER – Moon, Venus, Mars – Check this out right after sunset! Look West and you'll easily see Venus being super bright. Each day, Mars will be about 5˚ (or three finger-widths) up and to the left of Venus.  The best part is the Moon traveling through.  On the 20th, a super-duper thin Moon will be about 13˚ down and to the right of Venus.  But on the 21st, the Moon moves to be just 3˚ to the right of Venus, and is a little bigger and easier to spot.  Then, on the 22nd, the Moon moves up and to the left again, forming a nice curved line with Mars and Venus.  Definitely worth a look, though pictures will prove to be difficult, given the relative brightness of each object.   CONSTELLATIONS... Use a sky map from www.skymaps.com to help you out. After Dinner, Before Bed: Spring Constellations: Big Dipper, Bootes, Virgo, Corona Borealis, Hercules – Gaze almost vertically as you face the NW, and you'll easily find the Big Dipper: seven very bright stars that form a spoon shape. Now if you take the handle of the Dipper, follow its curve to the next bright star you see, about 20˚ away, which is Arcturus. “Follow the arc to Arcturus.” That's the brightest star in Bootes, which looks like a kite. Take that same curve, and follow it about another 20˚ to “speed on to Spica”, the brightest star in Virgo, one of my favorite constellations, since it reminds me of the Dickinson Mermaid.  Now go back to Bootes, and just to the left of Bootes are seven stars that form the northern crown Corona Borealis, which looks more like a small bowl or a “C” in the sky. Continue a little further to the left and you'll find the keystone asterism which is part of the constellation Hercules. Extra Challenge! Look for M13, the Hercules Cluster in between two of Hercules' “keystone” stars.  It known as the best globular cluster in the northern skies.  It will be a fuzzy spot in binoculars and will be even cooler through a telescope Summer Constellations: Lyra, Cygnus, Aquila – Look pretty much straight above you, and find the brightest star up there. You'll notice a parallelogram attached to it. This is the brightest star Vega, part of the constellation Lyra, the harp. Directly above you will be Cygnus the Swan, with its brightest star Deneb. It will look like a large cross, or if you look out a little further, a swan flying above you. Below Cygnus and Lyra is the third constellation of the Summer Triangle, Aquila the Eagle, with its brightest star Altair. The three bright stars in this one can be easily confused for Orion's belt, given their similar size, however they are not in line as straight, and are part of a bigger diamond shape.  Use a star chart to find small Delphinus and Sagitta in the area as well. Before Work: Pegasus, Andromeda – Look directly south and most of the way up the sky and you'll find the very big and almost perfect square of Pegasus, the winged horse. Now if you look to the top left of the square, you'll see three pairs of stars creating a neat double curve to the left and up from that corner star. That is Andromeda. If you have a little extra time, find the middle pair of stars, connect them with a line, and move toward the inside of the curve about the same distance as those stars are apart. There you'll find the Andromeda Galaxy, which will be just a small faint fuzzy with your naked eye. The cool part is that you are looking at billions of stars that are 2.9 million light years away, that spread out about 150,000 light years across. Don't forget this podcast is found on my Podbean page, Stitcher, and iTunes.  There's also a video version on my YouTube Channel and I can be found on Twitter and Instagram as @mrwebbpv. The Pequea Valley Planetarium and its events and updates are on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram as @pvplanetarium.

In this episode, Simon is joined around the virtual After Dinner Leadership table with the CEO of InterimExecs, Robert Jordan.  They discuss patterns in leaders that are more mediocre and more successful . Simon talks with Robert about the four common styles that Robert has found in his work: Fixer, Artist, Builder and Strategist.So please, pull up a seat and join our After Dinner leadership conversationConnect with us on LinkedIn Follow us on Instagram Subscribe on YouTube If you would like to feature on the Podcast, please get in touch! mailto: info@withleadership.co.uk Thank you for listening!

In this episode, Simon is joined around the virtual After Dinner Leadership table with the Chief Potential Officer of the Kevin Eikenberry Group, Kevin Eikenberry.  They discuss the dynamics of working within a hybrid/remote working team. Simon talks with Kevin about the three pillars of the long distance team: Communication, Collaboration & Cohesion.So please, pull up a seat and join our After Dinner leadership conversationEpisode Links:The Long Distance TeamKevin EikenberryTom Peters - In search of excellenceConnect with us on LinkedIn Follow us on Instagram Subscribe on YouTube If you would like to feature on the Podcast, please get in touch! mailto: info@withleadership.co.uk Thank you for listening!

In this episode, Simon is joined around the virtual After Dinner Leadership table with good friend, Colin Stewart.  They discuss the leadership lessons he wished he learnt earlier in his career and how he has lead through crisis in the aviation industry.  So please, pull up a seat and join our After Dinner leadership conversationConnect with us on LinkedIn Follow us on Instagram Subscribe on YouTube If you would like to feature on the Podcast, please get in touch! mailto: info@withleadership.co.uk Thank you for listening!

What brings you here? What really brings you here?Marc Lesser is a great human and the author of the book "Finding Clarity". Years ago, Marc was the director of the first Zen monastery in the western world and in this episode you will hear how this has positively influenced his life and leadership. So please, pull up a seat and join our After Dinner leadership conversation with Marc Lesser.Episode Links:Marc LesserFinding ClarityConnect with us on LinkedIn Follow us on Instagram Subscribe on YouTube If you would like to feature on the Podcast, please get in touch! mailto: info@withleadership.co.uk Thank you for listening!

In Defense of Ariana DeBose's Rap: BAFTA Producer Slams Twitter Criticism as 'Incredibly Unfair,' Claims 'Everybody Loved It' (Variety) (20:58) Avril Lavigne Hugging It Out With Tyga... After Dinner at NOBU (TMZ) (31:35) ‘My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3' Gets September Premiere Date (PEOPLE) (38:24) Alec Baldwin gets gun enhancement charge dropped in 'Rust' case (Page Six) (50:38) Katie Maloney slams 'desperado' Raquel Leviss for posting pic with Tom Schwartz (Page Six) (55:14) Vanderpump Rules Recap (1:02:48) Real Housewives of New Jersey Recap (1:05:00) Summer House Recap  (1:08:29) The Toast with Jackie  (@JackieOshry) and Claudia Oshry  (@girlwithnojob)  Merch The Toast Patreon Girl With No Job by Claudia Oshry

A theatre polymath, NIDA graduate John Senczuk's multi-award winning career spans forty years with his work seen nationally and internationally in commissions for opera, dance and drama. He worked concurrently as an academic, with fifteen years at the Faculty of Creative Arts, University of Wollongong (creating and teaching courses in Scenography, Directing and Dramaturgy) before taking senior positions at Toi Whakaari, New Zealand Drama School, and WAAPA (Program Director—Production, Design and Arts Management; Head of Design). He was Chairman of Griffin Theatre Company in 1985, appointing the Company's first artistic director; founding Chair of Paul Mercurio's Australian Choreographic Ensemble; and sat on the Boards of Theatre South, Currency House, Dramaturgical Services Inc., The Seymour Group and Matt Lutton's Thin Ice. For ten years, from 1989, John was associate director of Wollongong's Theatre South where his credits on over thirty productions as director/designer included Hamlet, After Dinner, Twelfth Night, Christian Brothers and The Time is Not Yet Ripe. He has also directed drama, opera and musicals: Bony Anderson (Seymour Group); Flesh and Blood (Festival of Sydney); Irene (with Hollywood legend Debbie Reynolds,) and the premieres of David Williamson's When Dad Married Fury, Justin Fleming's Kangaroo and John Aitken's The Enchanters. John collaborated with Gale Edwards on the book & lyrics for the musical Eureka!, and wrote the Opera libretto for African Queen. Highlights of his career as a designer include L'Orfeo (Oslo Summer Festival) and Sons of Cain (West End). He collaborated on over twenty productions for the Sydney Theatre Company, including David Williamson's Dead White Males and Heretic, and the Australian premiere of Into the Woods; and has worked extensively in both the subsidised and commercial theatre nationally. John submits his PhD Theses (Flinders University) in 2022. The STAGES podcast is available to access and subscribe from Spotify and Apple podcasts. Or from wherever you access your favourite podcasts. A conversation with creatives about craft and career. Recipient of Best New Podcast at 2019 Australian Podcast Awards. Follow socials on instagram (stagespodcast) and facebook (Stages). www.stagespodcast.com.au

  (In a week or two...) WATCH this on YouTube LISTEN as a podcast on Podbean, Stitcher, or iTunes Social Media: @mrwebbpv on Twitter and Instagram @pvplanetarium on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram   2022 is the summer of morning planets!  Jupiter, Saturn, Mars, and Venus are all quite prominent, with Mercury stopping by in June.  Throughout the summer, get up early to see the weeks where the Moon drives by the planets, and maybe catch a few meteors in August, as some of the planets return to the evening skies.          Welcome to Observing With Webb, where a high school astronomy teacher tells you what you're looking at, why it's so cool, and what you should check out later this month…at night.    Naked-eye PLANETS Sunset – only in August Mercury – All of August, look W right after sunset and you might be able to catch Mercury less than 10˚ above the horizon, the first “star” appearing at dusk in that direction. Saturn – The beginning of the ringed planet's nightfall appearance schedule is August. August 1st it rises at 9:30pm in the ESE, and is already up in the SE about 10˚ above the horizon at month's end. Throughout the night – Saturn & Jupiter – about 45˚ apart Saturn – Saturn starts rising before midnight in the SE in July and August, and will be visible into the mornings all summer off in the SW. Jupiter – Jupiter starts rising before midnight in the SE around mid-July, and will be visible into the morning all summer off toward the South. Morning – Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn ALL SUMMER The basic setup for the 3 months is, from left to right, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, all easily visible in the morning sky.  They start June within 70˚ of each other from East to South, ending August with Venus and Saturn on complete opposite sides of the sky.   How far apart are they from each other?  Below are the measurements between each planet in the lineup, on the 1st of each month. June 1:   Venus – 28˚ – Mars –   2˚ – Jupiter – 38˚ – Saturn Mercury – joins the party for much of June, getting to within 10˚ of Venus mid-month. Just look down and to the left of Venus. July 1:   Venus – 42˚ – Mars – 20˚ – Jupiter – 43˚ – Saturn August 1: Venus – 60˚ – Mars – 40˚ – Jupiter – 45˚ – Saturn August 31: Venus – 77˚ – Mars – 60˚ – Jupiter – 46˚ – Saturn Venus (E) – will be consistently about 10˚ above the Eastern horizon and hard to miss. As the brightest object in the morning sky, it will blaze as a “morning star”. Mars – Reddish Mars starts right next to Jupiter, but Jupiter moves away, while Mars creeps ever closer to Taurus throughout the summer, ending up between the V of Taurus and the Pleiades by August 31st. Jupiter ­– Hanging out around Pisces, be sure to find the Galilean Moons, notice their motion day by day, or even hour by hour, or even look up when to see one of its moon's shadows transits the planet. Saturn – Hanging out in the corner of Capricornus, find a friend with a telescope and stare at its rings, made up of rocks and dust the size of pebbles to the size of a car.   EVENTS Evening Crescents (look West after Sunset) First Quarter Moon – June 7th/July 6th/August 5th (Visible until midnight) Evening Gibbous (Mostly lit, after Sunset) Full Moon – June 14th/July 13th/August 11th (Visible all night) Waning Gibbous (Mostly lit, rises later at night) Last Quarter Moon – June 20th/July 20th/August 19th (Visible midnight into the morning) Morning Crescents (look East in the AM) New Moon – June 28th/July 28th/August 27th (darkest skies)   June 1st – CONJUNCTION – Jupiter, Mars –  Jupiter is less than 2˚ away from Mars in the ESE.  You can start seeing them after 3am. June 17th - 27th – June's Lunar Close Encounters – Moon, Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, Venus – The Moon joins the sunrise planet party, starting near Saturn on the 17th and ending to the left of Mercury on the 27th. June 21st – Summer Solstice – This is the longest day of the year in the Northern Hemisphere.  There's a bit of explanation as to why here. July 15th – 16th – CLOSE ENCOUNTER – Moon, Saturn –  The Moon is down and to the right of Saturn on the 15th, and down and to the left of Saturn on the 16th.  Visible starting 10:45pm due SE. July 19th – CLOSE ENCOUNTER – Moon, Jupiter –  The Moon is down and to the left of Jupiter by just 4˚.  Visible starting 12:30am due East. July 21st – CLOSE ENCOUNTER – Moon, Mars –  The Moon is just 3˚ to the right of Mars.  Visible starting 1:15am due East. July 26th – CLOSE ENCOUNTER – Moon, Venus – A wonderfully thin crescent Moon will be just 4˚ above bright Venus.  Visible starting 4:15am due East. August 11th – CLOSE ENCOUNTER – Moon, Saturn –  The Full Moon is just 5˚ below Saturn. Visible after sunset in the SE. August 11th – 12th – Perseid Meteor Shower – Not a great year for the Perseids, given the very full Moon.  In decent skies, you could watch 60 meteors per hour, and you should be able to see some very bright ones here and there the week before and after.  However, the light pollution from the Moon will interfere with many of them, as well as your night vision.  But, that doesn't mean you should give up.  You never know when a really bright one will light up the sky. Remember, you're seeing the bits of dust left over from Comet Swift-Tuttle burning up as they crash into the atmosphere at 37 miles per second. Some advice for watching:     Find a dark location and lie down in a reclining chair or hammock     Look toward Perseus (In the NE, rises throughout the night until sunrise where it will be almost directly above.)  That is where the radiant is - where the meteors will appear to be coming from.     The strategy to observe this year is to get out there whenever you can, but the later you stay up, the more you'll see, since the radiant will be higher.  The shower is usually technically active from mid-July to late August, so you may see some Perseids in the days leading up to and after the peak as well.  Check the weather to see if the skies will be clear Adapt your eyes to the dark by staying away from light sources or using a red light if you need to look at a star chart or not trip over something.  If you're feeling extra nerdy, do a scientific meteor count (S&T and IMO) August 15th – CLOSE ENCOUNTER – Moon, Jupiter –  The Moon is to the right of Jupiter by just 5˚.  Visible starting 10:30pm due East. August 18th  – CLOSE ENCOUNTER – Moon, Mars –  The Moon is just 3˚ above of Mars.  Visible starting midnight on the 18th due East. August 25th – CLOSE ENCOUNTER – Moon, Venus – A very thin crescent Moon will be just 7˚ above bright Venus.  Visible starting 5:20am due East.   CONSTELLATIONS Use a sky map from www.skymaps.com to help you out. After Dinner, Before Bed: Spring Constellations: Big Dipper, Bootes, Virgo, Corona Borealis, Hercules – Gaze almost vertically as you face the NW, and you'll easily find the Big Dipper: seven very bright stars that form a spoon shape. Now if you take the handle of the Dipper, follow its curve to the next bright star you see, about 20˚ away, which is Arcturus. “Follow the arc to Arcturus.” That's the brightest star in Bootes, which looks like a kite. Take that same curve, and follow it about another 20˚ to “speed on to Spica”, the brightest star in Virgo, one of my favorite constellations, since it reminds me of the Dickinson Mermaid.  Now go back to Bootes, and just to the left of Bootes are seven stars that form the northern crown Corona Borealis, which looks more like a small bowl or a “C” in the sky. Continue a little further to the left and you'll find the keystone asterism which is part of the constellation Hercules. Extra Challenge! Look for M13, the Hercules Cluster in between two of Hercules' “keystone” stars.  It known as the best globular cluster in the northern skies.  It will be a fuzzy spot in binoculars and will be even cooler through a telescope Summer Constellations: Lyra, Cygnus, Aquila – Look pretty much straight above you, and find the brightest star up there. You'll notice a parallelogram attached to it. This is the brightest star Vega, part of the constellation Lyra, the harp. Directly above you will be Cygnus the Swan, with its brightest star Deneb. It will look like a large cross, or if you look out a little further, a swan flying above you. Below Cygnus and Lyra is the third constellation of the Summer Triangle, Aquila the Eagle, with its brightest star Altair. The three bright stars in this one can be easily confused for Orion's belt, given their similar size, however they are not in line as straight, and are part of a bigger diamond shape.  Use a star chart to find small Delphinus and Sagitta in the area as well. Before Work: Pegasus, Andromeda – Look directly south and most of the way up the sky and you'll find the very big and almost perfect square of Pegasus, the winged horse. Now if you look to the top left of the square, you'll see three pairs of stars creating a neat double curve to the left and up from that corner star. That is Andromeda. If you have a little extra time, find the middle pair of stars, connect them with a line, and move toward the inside of the curve about the same distance as those stars are apart. There you'll find the Andromeda Galaxy, which will be just a small faint fuzzy with your naked eye. The cool part is that you are looking at billions of stars that are 2.9 million light years away, that spread out about 150,000 light years across.   Don't forget this podcast is found on my Podbean page, Stitcher, and iTunes.  There's also a video version on my YouTube Channel and I can be found on Twitter and Instagram as @mrwebbpv. The Pequea Valley Planetarium and its events and updates are on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram as @pvplanetarium.    

WATCH this on YouTube LISTEN as a podcast on Podbean, Stitcher, or iTunes Social Media: @mrwebbpv on Twitter and Instagram @pvplanetarium on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram   Lunar Eclipse Month!!! Get ready for a May that boasts a wonderful blood moon and an array of morning planets all month long.          Welcome to Observing With Webb, where a high school astronomy teacher tells you what you're looking at, why it's so cool, and what you should check out later this month…at night.    Naked-eye PLANETS Sunset – Mercury (first week of May) Mercury (WNW) – It sounds like this apparition of Mercury will be the best one of the year. Just get out after sunset, look WNW, and the first point of light you'll see is Mercury.  BONUS: On the 2nd, Mercury will be right next to the Pleiades, with the Moon. Get out some binoculars or a low-power scope to see both of them in the same view. Throughout the night – None Morning – Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn (SE) Let's use Venus as our guidepost for the month, as it is the most visible object in the morning sky. Venus (E) – Keep an eye out after 4:30am, looking E, for the highlight of the spring and summer mornings this year, Venus. About 15˚ above the horizon and hard to miss, the brightest object in the morning sky will blaze as a “morning star”. Jupiter (ESE) ­– Jupiter starts May less than 1˚ away from much brighter Venus, then travels 30˚ rightward to finish the month right next to Mars in the SE Mars (ESE) – Mars starts May about 15˚ away from Venus, to the right, and travels away to 30˚ from Venus by the end of the month, with Jupiter joining it. Saturn (SE) – Saturn starts cautiously leaving the group of morning planets in May, starting less than 20˚ to the right of Mars, and ending up double that distance away.   EVENTS Evening Crescents (look West after Sunset) First Quarter Moon – 8th (Visible until midnight) Evening Gibbous (Mostly lit, after Sunset) Full Moon – 17th (Visible all night) Waning Gibbous (Mostly lit, rises later at night) Last Quarter Moon – 22nd (Visible from midnight into the morning) Morning Crescents (look East in the AM) New Moon – 30th (darkest skies)   1st – CONJUNCTION – Jupiter, Venus – Less than 1˚ apart, Jupiter and Venus rise together this morning.  Get out and look low in the East after 4:30am (when they rise) for the brightest object, Venus, with Jupiter barely up and to the right. 2nd – Close Encounter – Mercury, Pleiades, Moon – Get out just after sunset, with a nice view of the NWN horizon.  The first light in the sky will be Mercury, in its crescent phase, with the Pleiades about 2˚ down and to the right.  Get your binoculars and scopes out!  The Moon can also be your guide, being 4˚ up and to the left of Mercury. 15th – 16th – TOTAL LUNAR ECLIPSE – Sunday night into Monday morning            Watch the Moon pass through the Earth's shadow and witness the light from all the sunrises and sunsets on Earth at the same time! No telescope needed for this event! (Though it will certainly make the event even cooler)  Make sure you have a view of the Moon.  For those of us on the east coast, you'll be looking South about 25˚ above the horizon.  Those nearby trees could get in the way.  Try going out the night before from 10pm to midnight.  The moon will be in a similar direction, but about 5˚ higher on the 14th. Partial Phases starts: 10:28pm EDT – This is when the dark umbra of the Earth's shadow will start to “eat away” at the Moon. Totality Starts – 85 minutes – 11:29pm EDT – This is when the Moon is FULLY in the umbra of the Earth's shadow.  Only the light that has passed through the Earth's atmosphere and bent toward the Moon is visible.  The atmosphere scatters the blue, violet, green, and yellow, leaving only the orange and red to reach the moon, similar to what you see during a sunrise or sunset.  Notice that the top of the Moon will be darkest while the bottom will be lightest. Greatest eclipse 12:12am – This is when the Moon is as deep in the Earth's shadow as possible for this eclipse.  Not quite dead center, but about halfway there. Totality Ends – 12:54am EDT on the 16th – The Moon leaves the umbra of the Earth's shadow and is back to be a partial lunar eclipse until… Partial phase ends: 1:56am EDT – Eclipse is over! (Technically, it's in the penumbra of the Earth's shadow for about another hour, but that's really hard to detect with the naked eye. 21st - 27th – Close Encounter – Moon, Jupiter, Mars, Venus, Saturn – The Moon joins the sunrise planet party this week!  To set the scene, each morning get out between 4:30am and 5am, and you'll be able to see Venus, with Jupiter to the right about 15˚, Mars to the right of that 5˚, and Saturn about 30˚ even further to the right of Mars.  From left to right, that's Venus, Jupiter, Mars, Saturn.  What happens over the next week or so is the Moon travels through the lineup.    The Moon is about 15˚ to the right of Saturn on Saturday the 21st, but moves to about 5˚ below Saturn on Sunday the 22nd.  Monday morning it's between Saturn and Mars, and makes a nice triangle with Mars and Jupiter on Tuesday the 24th.  On the 25th, The Moon lines up perfectly with a line connecting Mars and Jupiter.  Thursday the 26th, you'll have a beautiful crescent Moon less than 10˚ to the right of Venus, and the next morning it switches over to the other side of Venus. 29th – 30th – CONJUNCTION – Jupiter, Mars –  Just like early in the month, but this time with Mars, Jupiter is less than 1˚ away from a fellow planet of in the ESE.  This time, though, you can start seeing them after 3am.   CONSTELLATIONS Use a sky map from www.skymaps.com to help you out. After Dinner, Before Bed: Leo, Big Dipper, Bootes – Leo will be high in the South, almost straight above you. It has a backward question mark with a right triangle to the left of the question. If you look above Leo, behind you and high in the sky, you should find the Big Dipper: seven very bright stars that form a spoon shape. Now if you take the handle of the Dipper, follow its curve to the next bright star you see, about 30˚ away, which is Arcturus. “Follow the arc to Arcturus.” That's the brightest star in Bootes, which looks like a kite. Take that same curve, and follow it about another 20˚ to “speed on to Spica”, the brightest star in Virgo, one of my favorite constellations, since it reminds me of the Dickinson Mermaid. Before Work: Lyra, Hercules, Hercules Cluster – Look pretty much straight above you, and find the brightest star up there. You'll notice a parallelogram attached to it. This is the brightest star Vega, part of the constellation Lyra, the harp. Next to that is a keystone shaped constellation called Hercules. On the right side of the keystone is a small cluster of stars known at the Hercules Cluster, which is a collection of hundreds of stars on the outskirts of our galaxy. Given how high it is in the sky right now, you might catch its faint fuzziness with your naked eye, but a set of binoculars or a small telescope will really help you see it. Don't forget this podcast is found on my Podbean page, Stitcher, and iTunes.  There's also a video version on my YouTube Channel and I can be found on Twitter and Instagram as @mrwebbpv. The Pequea Valley Planetarium and its events and updates are on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram as @pvplanetarium.  

Blair and Dave solve your problems and it begins with hiring your ass an integrator.

In 2006, Don Waller made plans to have Christmas dinner with his son Ryan and Ryan's girlfriend Heather Quan.  Don called Ryan before dinner and throughout the day to remind him, but Ryan never answered his calls.  After Dinner, Don called once again, and again, the call went unanswered.  Don went to Ryan's house, and when there was no answer to the door, called the police to have them initiate a welfare check.  When they finally arrived, they discovered that Heather was deceased after being shot, and Ryan looked as if he had been in a fight.  They set their sights on Ryan as their prime suspect, but that all changed during his interrogation. Want access to our first 45 episodes? Grab em here! We've made them available for free to anyone who signs up! Remember, these episodes were recorded when we had no idea what we were doing, so just keep that in mind. The audio isn't the quality we would want to put out now, but the cases are on point! Visit killerqueens.link/og to download and binge all the archived episodes today! Hang with us: Follow Us on Instagram Like Us on Facebook Join our Case Discussion Group on Facebook Get Killer Queens Merch Bonus Episodes Support Our AMAZING Sponsors: Modern Fertility - Modern Fertility is offering our listeners $20 off the test when you go to ModernFertility.com/QUEENS. That means your test will cost $139 instead of the hundreds or thousands it could cost at a doctor's office. Hello Fresh - Go to HelloFresh.com/killerqueens16 and use code killerqueens16 for up to 16 free meals AND 3 free gifts! Crime Weekly Promo - Trust me, Crime Weekly is a podcast you're going to want to listen to, and it's one that I never miss. Listen to Crime Weekly, every Friday, wherever you get your podcasts. Betterhelp - Give it a try and see why over 2 million people have used BetterHelp online therapy. This podcast is sponsored by BetterHelp and Killer Queens listeners get 10% of their first month at BetterHelp.com/queens. © 2021 Killer Queens Podcast. All Rights Reserved Audio Production by Wayfare Recording Music provided by Steven Tobi Logo designed by Sloane Williams of The Sophisticated Crayon

Pastor Chris McRae tells a passionate and personal story of salvation from God. A moving true story of trials and tribulation, the detours of life, confidence and faith in God, and redemption.   A SHOT IN THE DARK THAT SOUND CHANGED MY LIFE 18 YEARS AGO. SOMETHING AS SMALL AS A BULLET CAN CAUSE SO MUCH DAMAGE. A 7.62 HOLLOWPOINT COPPER BULLET THIS LITTLE PROJECTILE THAT IS DESIGNED TO WREAK HAVOC AND DESTROY ANYTHING IN ITS PATH DID THAT TO ME ALMOST 18 YEARS AGO FOR SOME OF YOU THIS MORNING, THIS IS A REALITY. YOU ARE NOT FACING A MONSTROSITY OF A TRIBULATION. BUT SOMETHING THAT SEEMS SMALL BUT IT IS WREAKING HAVOC IN YOUR LIFE. IN YOUR MARRIAGE – IN YOUR FAMILY – ON YOUR JOB – IN YOUR RELATIONSHIPS – IN YOUR FINANCES I WANT TO TELL YOU A STORY THIS MORNING. IT IS A STORY OF: GOD REDEEMS LIFE HOW NO MATTER HOW BAD A TRIAL, TRIBULATION, OR CIRCUMSTANCE LOOKS OR IS, GOD HAS THE FINAL WORD OVER YOUR LIFE. IT IS A STORY ABOUT SALVATION. HOW OUR GOD'S EARS ARE NOT DEAF AND THE ARM OF THE LORD IS NOT SHORT. HE IS MIGHTY TO SAVE. LASTLY, IT IS A STORY ABOUT YOU. LISTEN FOR YOUR PLACE IN THE STORY. YOU HAVE A PLACE AND YOU WILL HAVE A PLACE TO RESPOND. IN NOVEMBER 2003, WE AS PASTORS GOT AWAY ON AN ANNUAL STRATEGY AND HUNTING TRIP. THAT EVENING, AFTER DINNER, I KNEW WE WOULD BE GETTING UP EARLY TO GO SIT IN A DEER STAND. SO I TOLD THE GUYS THAT I WOULD BE HEADING IN TO GO TO BED. I DID NOT GO THE NORMAL WAY BUT TOOK A LONG WAY AROUND TO A LAKE THAT WAY ON THE PROPERTY. POINT 1. “I TOOK A DETOUR” I WONDER THIS MORNING FOR SOME OF YOU SITTING HERE IN THIS SERVICE, THAT THE OUTCOME OF YOUR LIFE WAS NOT THE PATH YOU THOUGHT IT WOULD BE. FOR SOME OF YOU, YOU ARE STILL ON THIS DETOUR YOU TOLD SOME PEOPLE THAT YOU WERE GOING TO ACCOMPLISH THIS OR YOU SET OUT TO DO THAT AND YOU STILL ARE TRYING TO FIND YOUR WAY. OR YOU ARE STILL TRYING TO FIND YOUR WAY BACK. TRYING TO GET BACK ON TRACK WITH WHAT GOD HAS DESTINED YOU TO DO. THAT IS FOR SOMEBODY HERE THIS MORNING – PSALMS 37:23 SAYS THE STEPS OF A RIGHTEOUS MAN ARE ORDERED BY THE LORD AND THOUGH HE FALL, HE SHALL NOT BE UTTERLY CAST DOWN; FOR THE LORD UPHOLDS HIM WITH HIS HAND – KING DAVID GOES ON TO SAY – “I HAVE BEEN YOUNG, AND NOW AM OLD; YET I HAVE NOT SEEN THE RIGHTEOUS FORSAKEN NOR HIS DESCENDANTS BEGGING FOR BREAD” NO MATTER WHERE YOU ARE ON YOUR JOURNEY – ON THE PATH OR EVEN ON A DETOUR – YOU CAN SUBMIT YOUR LIFE AND PLANS TO GOD AND HE CAN MAKE YOUR PATH STRAIGHT. PROVERBS 3:5 SAYS TRUST IN THE LORD WITH ALL OF YOUR HEART AND LEAN NOT ON YOUR OWN UNDERSTANDING: IN ALL OF YOUR WAYS ACKNOWLEDGE HIM, AND HE SHALL DIRECT YOUR PATH. I TOOK A DETOUR AND FOUND MYSELF AT A LAKE ON THIS RANCH WHERE I SOON HEARD 2 OF THE OTHER PASTORS OFF IN THE DISTANCE AND BEFORE I KNEW IT THEY WERE ABOUT 75 TO 100 YRDS AWAY AND ONE OF SAID THE WORDS DO YOU SEE HIM? AND BEFORE I COULD GET MY HANDS UP TO SAY ANYTHING, FOUR SHOTS RANG OUT – THE FIRST BULLET CAME IN POINT 2. I TOOK A BULLET – THE BLOOD CAME RUNNING DOWN MY SIDE INTO MY LEGS AND BOOTS. THE PAIN WAS EXCRUCIATING I WAS SCARED AND HELPLESS I COULD NOT THINK STRAIGHT SOME OF YOU THIS MORNING HAVE MAYBE NEVER BEEN SHOT. BUT YOU KNOW WHAT IT'S LIKE TO EXPERIENCE TRAUMA, TURMOIL AND CHAOS. SOME OF YOU ARE: EMOTIONALLY SHOT – THESE PAST COUPLE OF YEARS HAVE CAUSED YOU SO MUCH PAIN THAT YOU ACHE IN YOUR MIND. SPIRITUALLY SHOT – YOUR RELATIONSHIP WITH THE LORD HAS BEEN UP AND DOWN. YOU HAVE FELT ALONE AND ABANDONED AND YOU WANT TO BLAME GOD. YOU ARE AFRAID AND TERRIFIED OF THE NOW AND WHAT IS TO COME. YOU DON'T KNOW WHERE YOU ARE IN YOUR RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD. YOU DON'T KNOW IF HE'S REAL. YOU DON'T KNOW IF HE CARES. YOU DON'T KNOW WHICH WAY IS UP ANYMORE. RELATIONALLY SHOT – SOME OF YOU HAVE LOST LOVED ONES AND FRIENDS DURING THESE LAST COUPLE OF YEARS. SOME OF YOU FEEL SO ALONE AND ABANDONED, YOU HAVE ISOLATED YOURSELF AND YOU KNOW THAT'S NOT GOOD BUT YOU FEEL LIKE IT'S TOO LATE TO TRY TO CHANGE IT. SOME OF YOU ARE SO HURT OR DEPRESSED AND OPPRESSED THAT YOU DON'T EVEN HAVE THE ENERGY OR THE WILL TO TRY TO LOVE AGAIN. FINANCIALLY SHOT – YOUR FINANCES HAVE TAKEN A TOLL FOR THE WORSE AND THE PANDEMIC HAS LEFT YOU FINANCIALLY DRY AND YOU NEED AN ABSOLUTE MIRACLE. POINT 3. I TOOK INVENTORY – I LAY THERE AND TOLD MY FRIEND TELL MY WIFE THAT I LOVE HER. I WAS ABLE TO TELL MY FRIEND THESE THINGS BUT YOU MAY NOT BE ABLE TO DO THAT. YOU DON'T KNOW WHEN YOU ARE GOING TO LEAVE THIS WORLD. SO SAY YES TO HIM TODAY… HEBREWS 9:27 SAYS “AND AS IT IS APPOINTED FOR MEN TO DIE ONCE, BUT AFTER THIS THE JUDGMENT” FOR BELIVERS AND FOLLOWERS OF CHRIST PAUL SAYS IN HIS LETTER TO THE CORINTHIANS 5:8 “WE ARE CONFIDENT, YES, WELL PLEASED RATHER TO BE ABSENT FROM THE BODY AND TO BE PRESENT WITH THE LORD” SOME OF YOU MIGHT NOT BE CONFIDENT THAT YOU WOULD BE PRESENT WITH THE LORD – YOU CAN BE CONFIDENT TODAY – THE REST OF THE STORY I AM STILL HERE   #TrueStory #JesusSaves #Salvation

The actor Glenn Hazeldine joins Regina to dive deep into the craft, the psychology of acting and the importance of the Actors Benevolent Fund for the industry. Glenn graduated from NIDA in 1994. Theatre work includes, for Sydney Theatre Company: No Pay?No Way!, Cosi, The Father (also MTC), Away (also Malthouse), Disgraced, Arcadia, Love and Information (also Malthouse), After Dinner, Perplex, Tot Mom, Elling, The Pig Iron People, Don's Party (also MTC), Julius Caesar, Victory, Love For Love, Mongrels, Historia, Two Weeks With The Queen, Dead White Males (also national tour).  And so so so many more....

         Like fireworks, July is mostly quiet and dull, but the noisy and bright events really make it worthwhile.  We have two pairs of planets, visible during opposite times in opposite places, and surreptitious visits from the Moon.          Welcome to Observing With Webb, where a high school astronomy teacher tells you what you're looking at, why it's so cool, and what you should check out later this month…at night.    Naked-eye PLANETS Sunset – Mars, Venus Mars (W) – This is your last month to see Mars for a couple more months, as Earth flies around the Sun opposite of Mars in August. Just look West after sunset but before 9:30pm.  You might have some help from Venus and the Moon midmonth.    Venus (W) – Staying about 15˚ above the horizon all month, Venus is a glorious sight for those looking West around the time fireworks start. Throughout the night – Saturn, Jupiter Saturn, Jupiter – I might be jumping the gun here a little bit, but sometimes we stay up late in the Summer. Saturn rises around 10:30pm, with Jupiter rising about an hour later.  Look low in the ESE around this time and you'll see bright Jupiter down and to the left of bright, but less so, Saturn.  Now that's in the beginning of the month, and they rise earlier and earlier each day.  By the end of July, Saturn and Jupiter rise around 8:15pm and 9:15pm, respectively, during dusk.  Of course, this means it's a great time for checking out Saturn's rings and Jupiter's moons through your telescopes, but you'll probably want to stay up until, or get up early in, the morning, when they are higher in the sky, and thus clearer in the telescope. Morning – Saturn, Jupiter Saturn, Jupiter – Speaking of staying up to observe Saturn and Jupiter, where are they around Sunrise? In the beginning of July, before 5am, look S or SE almost half-way up the sky, and Saturn will be to the right and little down from the very bright Jupiter.  But at the end of July, both will be close to setting in the SW during the 5:30am dawn, with Jupiter about 15˚ higher than Saturn.    EVENTS Last Quarter Moon – 1st (Visible from midnight into the morning) Morning Crescents (look East in the AM) New Moon – 9th (darkest skies) Evening Crescents (look West after Sunset) First Quarter Moon – 17th (Visible until midnight) Evening Gibbous (Mostly lit, after Sunset) Full Moon – 23rd (Visible all night) Waning Gibbous (Mostly lit, rises later at night) Last Quarter Moon – 30th (Visible from midnight into the morning)   July 11th – 14th – Close Encounter – Moon, Venus, Mars – Not only are Mars and Venus getting less than a degree from each other on the 12th, the Moon is joining the party!  Get out there after sunset, but before 9:30 and look West.  The easiest to find will likely be the bright beacon known as Venus.  On the 11th, Mars will be only a pinky-width to the left, but very dim, while a 2 day old crescent Moon hangs out about 3 finger-widths to the right at about the same height.  The best night is likely the 12th, when Mars and Venus are half as far apart as the previous night, and the Moon is thicker and easier to find just 6˚ up and to the left, with Leo the lion right above the Moon.  Over the next two nights, the Moon leaves the party, through Leo, and Mars and Venus separate, but are still in the same area.  Get out those binoculars and telescopes! Find a good horizon!  You'll be looking at the three closest worlds to earth all in one view! 22nd – 26th – Close Encounter – Moon, Saturn, Jupiter – After 10:30pm look SE, or before dawn look SW to find the Moon, with bright Jupiter and Saturn nearby.  The Moon is far to the right of Saturn on the nights of the 22nd and 23rd.  On the 24th the Moon moves in between the planets, and closes in below Jupiter on the 25th, and leaves this party on the 26th.   CONSTELLATIONS... Use a sky map from www.skymaps.com to help you out. After Dinner, Before Bed: Spring Constellations: Big Dipper, Bootes, Virgo, Corona Borealis, Hercules – Gaze almost vertically as you face the NW, and you'll easily find the Big Dipper: seven very bright stars that form a spoon shape. Now if you take the handle of the Dipper, follow its curve to the next bright star you see, about 20˚ away, which is Arcturus. “Follow the arc to Arcturus.” That's the brightest star in Bootes, which looks like a kite. Take that same curve, and follow it about another 20˚ to “speed on to Spica”, the brightest star in Virgo, one of my favorite constellations, since it reminds me of the Dickinson Mermaid.  Now go back to Bootes, and just to the left of Bootes are seven stars that form the northern crown Corona Borealis, which looks more like a small bowl or a “C” in the sky. Continue a little further to the left and you'll find the keystone asterism which is part of the constellation Hercules. Extra Challenge! Look for M13, the Hercules Cluster in between two of Hercules' “keystone” stars.  It known as the best globular cluster in the northern skies.  It will be a fuzzy spot in binoculars and will be even cooler through a telescope Summer Constellations: Lyra, Cygnus, Aquila – Look pretty much straight above you, and find the brightest star up there. You'll notice a parallelogram attached to it. This is the brightest star Vega, part of the constellation Lyra, the harp. Directly above you will be Cygnus the Swan, with its brightest star Deneb. It will look like a large cross, or if you look out a little further, a swan flying above you. Below Cygnus and Lyra is the third constellation of the Summer Triangle, Aquila the Eagle, with its brightest star Altair. The three bright stars in this one can be easily confused for Orion's belt, given their similar size, however they are not in line as straight, and are part of a bigger diamond shape.  Use a star chart to find small Delphinus and Sagitta in the area as well. Before Work: Pegasus, Andromeda – Look directly south and most of the way up the sky and you'll find the very big and almost perfect square of Pegasus, the winged horse. Now if you look to the top left of the square, you'll see three pairs of stars creating a neat double curve to the left and up from that corner star. That is Andromeda. If you have a little extra time, find the middle pair of stars, connect them with a line, and move toward the inside of the curve about the same distance as those stars are apart. There you'll find the Andromeda Galaxy, which will be just a small faint fuzzy with your naked eye. The cool part is that you are looking at billions of stars that are 2.9 million light years away, that spread out about 150,000 light years across. Don't forget this podcast is found on my Podbean page, Stitcher, and iTunes.  There's also a video version on my YouTube Channel and I can be found on Twitter and Instagram as @mrwebbpv. The Pequea Valley Planetarium and its events and updates are on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram as @pvplanetarium.

WATCH this on YouTube LISTEN as a podcast on Podbean, Stitcher, or iTunes Social Media: @mrwebbpv on Twitter and Instagram @pvplanetarium on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram   August is good for two things in the sky: bright planets and bright meteors.  Venus, Saturn, and Jupiter reign supreme this month, with the annual Perseid Meteor Shower heating things up with spectacular observing conditions for mid-month.          Welcome to Observing With Webb, where a high school astronomy teacher tells you what you're looking at, why it's so cool, and what you should check out later this month…at night.    Naked-eye PLANETS... Sunset – Venus Venus (W) – Staying about 15˚ above the horizon all month, Venus is a glorious sight for those looking West after sunset. Mars, Mercury (W) – Mars is technically in the West after sunset, but is super low, and pretty dim, so it's doubtful you'll be able to pick it out. Mercury passes my Mars on the 18th, but again, it's too low and too dim to see. Throughout the night – Saturn, Jupiter Saturn, Jupiter – Throughout August, Saturn rises around 8pm, and Jupiter just after 9pm, both in the SE. Both gas planets rise and move southward.  In the beginning of August, they get drowned out by the dawn light in the SW in the morning.  But by the end of the month, Saturn sets at 4am, with Jupiter trailing at 5:30am. Morning – Saturn, Jupiter Saturn, Jupiter – This is the last month of seeing Jupiter and Saturn in the dawn sky. You'll notice that they are quite visible in the SW before sunrise, but they will be lower and lower each morning,  with Saturn disappearing in the beginning of the month, and Jupiter dipping out before the last week.   EVENTS... Morning Crescents (look East in the AM) New Moon – 8th (darkest skies) Evening Crescents (look West after Sunset) First Quarter Moon – 15th (Visible until midnight) Evening Gibbous (Mostly lit, after Sunset) Full Moon – 22nd (Visible all night) Waning Gibbous (Mostly lit, rises later at night) Last Quarter Moon – 30th (Visible from midnight into the morning)   August 10th – 11th – Close Encounter – Moon, Venus – Get out there and watch the sunset (8:07pm) and hang out until you see bright Venus with a thin crescent Moon directly to the right of it on the 10th.  The following night, the Moon will move to the left and up from Venus.   August 11th – 12th – Perseid Meteor Shower – An EXCELLENT year for the Perseids!  In decent skies, you can watch 60 meteors per hour, and you should be able to see some very bright ones here and there the week before and after. Remember, you're seeing the bits of dust left over from Comet Swift-Tuttle burning up as they crash into the atmosphere at 37 miles per second. Some advice for watching:     Find a dark location and lie down in a reclining chair or hammock     Look toward Perseus (In the NE, rises throughout the night until sunrise where it will be almost directly above.)  That is where the radiant is - where the meteors will appear to be coming from.     The strategy to observe this year is to get out there whenever you can, but the later you stay up, the more you'll see, since the radiant will be higher.  The shower is usually technically active from mid-July to late August, so you may see some Perseids in the days leading up to and after the peak as well.  Check the weather to see if the skies will be clear Adapt your eyes to the dark by staying away from light sources or using a red light if you need to look at a star chart or not trip over something.  If you're feeling extra nerdy, do a scientific meteor count (S&T and IMO)   19th – 22nd – Close Encounter – Moon, Saturn, Jupiter – Anytime after 9pm, get out there and look SE to find the Moon, Saturn, and Jupiter.  On the 19th, they line up with Jupiter on the left, Saturn in the middle, and the Moon on the right.  After this, the Moon passes by the two gas planets, being just below Saturn on the 20th, down and to the right of Jupiter on the 21st, and to the left of both planets on the 22nd.  All three move westward throughout each night, setting between 4am and 6am.   CONSTELLATIONS... Use a sky map from www.skymaps.com to help you out. After Dinner, Before Bed: Spring Constellations: Big Dipper, Bootes, Virgo, Corona Borealis, Hercules – Gaze almost vertically as you face the NW, and you'll easily find the Big Dipper: seven very bright stars that form a spoon shape. Now if you take the handle of the Dipper, follow its curve to the next bright star you see, about 30˚ away, which is Arcturus. “Follow the arc to Arcturus.” That's the brightest star in Bootes, which looks like a kite. Take that same curve, and follow it about another 20˚ to “speed on to Spica”, the brightest star in Virgo, one of my favorite constellations, since it reminds me of the Dickinson Mermaid.  Now go back to Bootes, and just to the left of Bootes are seven stars that form the northern crown Corona Borealis, which looks more like a small bowl or a “C” in the sky. Continue a little further to the left and you'll find the keystone asterism which is part of the constellation Hercules. Extra Challenge! Look for M13, the Hercules Cluster in between two of Hercules' “keystone” stars.  It known as the best globular cluster in the northern skies.  It will be a fuzzy spot in binoculars and will be even cooler through a telescope Summer Constellations: Lyra, Cygnus, Aquila – Look pretty much straight above you, and find the brightest star up there. You'll notice a parallelogram attached to it. This is the brightest star Vega, part of the constellation Lyra, the harp. Directly above you will be Cygnus the Swan, with its brightest star Deneb. It will look like a large cross, or if you look out a little further, a swan flying above you. Below Cygnus and Lyra is the third constellation of the Summer Triangle, Aquila the Eagle, with its brightest star Altair. The three bright stars in this one can be easily confused for Orion's belt, given their similar size, however they are not in line as straight, and are part of a bigger diamond shape.  Use a star chart to find small Delphinus and Sagitta in the area as well. Before Work: Pegasus, Andromeda – Look directly south and most of the way up the sky and you'll find the very big and almost perfect square of Pegasus, the winged horse. Now if you look to the top left of the square, you'll see three pairs of stars creating a neat double curve to the left and up from that corner star. That is Andromeda. If you have a little extra time, find the middle pair of stars, connect them with a line, and move toward the inside of the curve about the same distance as those stars are apart. There you'll find the Andromeda Galaxy, which will be just a small faint fuzzy with your naked eye. The cool part is that you are looking at billions of stars that are 2.9 million light years away, that spread out about 150,000 light years across Don't forget this podcast is found on my Podbean page, Stitcher, and iTunes.  There's also a video version on my YouTube Channel and I can be found on Twitter and Instagram as @mrwebbpv. The Pequea Valley Planetarium and its events and updates are on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram as @pvplanetarium.  

Sketch 15 - After Dinner

For their season 1 finale, join Hayden and Michael as they go down the rabbit hole researching modern trends in tea at the turn of the millennium, and look into major market shifts around supermarket tea, the boom of artisan products in the wellness industry, bottled iced tea, and the advent of bubble tea around the world. Find out all about the recently formed Milk Tea Alliance.Teas reviewed in this episode:Jasmine Dragon Pearls, La Rosa, After Dinner, Relax (TeasAU, NSW, Aus)[This episode was recorded on September 2nd,]See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Andy discovers a hack for clearing his YouTube Watch Later playlist, while Flo embarks on a journey beyond the Chrome browser. We run through the consumer-facing news from Google's virtual smart home summit this week, and imagine a world where Microsoft finally launches the Android-powered Surface Duo. For your After Dinner mint, sign the petition to add a meteor animation to the Chrome Dino game (because, we suppose, the dinosaurs haven't already been through enough).

Andy discovers a hack for clearing his YouTube Watch Later playlist, while Flo embarks on a journey beyond the Chrome browser. We run through the consumer-facing news from Google's virtual smart home summit this week, and imagine a world where Microsoft finally launches the Android-powered Surface Duo. For your After Dinner mint, sign the petition to add a meteor animation to the Chrome Dino game (because, we suppose, the dinosaurs haven't already been through enough).

June brings us all the naked-eye planets at some points in the month, Venus’s introduction to the morning with the Moon, and mornings with four naked-eye planets visible.          Welcome to Observing With Webb, where a high school astronomy teacher tells you what you’re looking at, why it’s so cool, and what you should check out later this month…at night.  EVENTS... Full Moon – 5th (Visible all night) Last Quarter Moon – 13th (Visible from midnight into the morning) New Moon – 21st (darkest skies) First Quarter Moon – 28th (Visible until midnight) 7th – 8th – Close Encounter – Moon, Jupiter, Saturn– Get out after midnight these two nights at the find the Moon. On the night of the 7th, the Moon will be to the right of bright Jupiter, and to the left of Jupiter will be slightly less bright Saturn.  On the next night, the 8th, the Moon will move to be about 5˚ below Saturn and Jupiter, which are in essentially the same spot in the sky.  12th – 13th – Close Encounter – Moon, Mars – Get out there after 2am these mornings, but well before sunrise (5:34am) and find the Moon with red, ruddy Mars nearby.  The Moon will be about 10˚ or one fist-width to the right of Mars on the 12th, and 4˚ below Mars on the 13th. 19th – Very Close Encounter – Moon, Venus – Venus starts its rest-of-the-year showcase as a morning star with a great apparition by rising with the Moon this morning.  Make sure you have a nice view of the ENE horizon by 4:20am when they rise less than 1˚ apart from each other. Sunrise is 5:35am, so you’ll probably only have about half an hour to get pictures. 20th – Summer Solstice – This is the longest day of the year in the Northern Hemisphere.  There’s a bit of explanation as to why here.  21st – (Africa & Asia) Annular Eclipse of the Sun – Not visible in any way in North America, but pay attention to social media for some awesome photography from people with excellent equipment, lots of planning time, and skills with post-processing.  They’ll be photographing the Moon passing in front of the Sun, but the Moon is in the further-from-Earth part of its orbit, so it doesn’t totally obscure the Sun’s surface, so you get ring effect.   Naked-eye PLANETS... Sunset – Mercury Mercury – For only about two weeks, catch a glimpse of the innermost, fastest-moving, and often toughest to see visible planet of our solar system. Just watch sunset, look WNW, and find the bright light below Pollux and Castor, less than 15˚ above the horizon. Throughout the night – Saturn, Jupiter Saturn, Jupiter – Both planets are rising above the ESE horizon by midnight on the 1st, 10pm on the 30th, and make their way toward the SSW by sunrise. To find Jupiter, just look for the brightest spot no more than 30˚ above the horizon. Saturn will be about 5˚ to the left.  These make a great pair for getting your binoculars and telescopes out.  You can see the rings of Saturn and moons of Jupiter fairly easily, and not have to do too much to switch from one planet to the other. Morning - Venus, Mars, Saturn, Jupiter Saturn, Jupiter – Still hanging out up there, but more toward the South or SW by sunrise. See above for details. Mars – Trails behind, or to the left of, Saturn and Jupiter by about 50˚ or 5 fist-widths, and is about 30-40˚ above the SE horizon. Look for the non-twinkling red dot. Venus – After about a week and a half, you might be able to see Venus low on the NNE horizon after 5am and before sunrise. As the month goes by, Venus rises earlier and moves away from the Sun.  On the 30th, Venus rises at 3:45am, and is about 20˚ above the horizon by sunrise (5:38am). Prepare for Venus to be a morning “star” for the next 6 months! CONSTELLATIONS... Use a sky map from www.skymaps.com to help you out. After Dinner, Before Bed: Big Dipper, Bootes, Virgo, Corona Borealis, Hercules – Gaze almost vertically as you face the NW, and you’ll easily find the Big Dipper: seven very bright stars that form a spoon shape. Now if you take the handle of the Dipper, follow its curve to the next bright star you see, about 30˚ away, which is Arcturus. “Follow the arc to Arcturus.” That’s the brightest star in Bootes, which looks like a kite. Take that same curve, and follow it about another 20˚ to “speed on to Spica”, the brightest star in Virgo, one of my favorite constellations, since it reminds me of the Dickinson Mermaid.  Now go back to Bootes, and just to the left of Bootes are seven stars that form the northern crown Corona Borealis, which looks more like a small bowl or a “C” in the sky. Continue a little further to the left and you’ll find the keystone asterism which is part of the constellation Hercules. Extra Challenge! Look for M13, the Hercules Cluster in between two of Hercules’ “keystone” stars.  It known as the best globular cluster in the northern skies.  It will be a fuzzy spot in binoculars and will be even cooler through a telescope Before Work: Summer Triangle – Lyra, Cygnus, Aquila – Look pretty much straight above you, and find the brightest star up there. You’ll notice a parallelogram attached to it. This is the brightest star Vega, part of the constellation Lyra, the harp. Directly above you will be Cygnus the Swan, with its brightest star Deneb. It will look like a large cross, or if you look out a little further, a swan flying above you. Below Cygnus and Lyra is the third constellation of the Summer Triangle, Aquila the Eagle, with its brightest star Altair. The three bright stars in this one can be easily confused for Orion’s belt, given their similar size, however they are not in line as straight, and are part of a bigger diamond shape.  Use a star chart to find small Delphinus and Sagitta in the area as well. Don’t forget this podcast is found on my Podbean page, Stitcher, and iTunes.  There’s also a video version on my YouTube Channel and I can be found on Twitter and Instagram as @mrwebbpv. The Pequea Valley Planetarium and its events and updates are on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram as @pvplanetarium.

WATCH this on YouTubeLISTEN as a podcast on Podbean, Stitcher, or iTunes Social Media: @mrwebbpv on Twitter and Instagram @pvplanetarium on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram Brilliant week-long morning dance of the planets and our Moon paired with warmer nights and a challenging evening conjunction and close encounter at the end of the month make May a wonderful month to get out under the stars.          Welcome to Observing With Webb, where a high school astronomy teacher tells you what you’re looking at, why it’s so cool, and what you should check out later this month…at night.    EVENTS... Full Moon – 7th (Visible all night) Last Quarter Moon – 14th (Visible from midnight into the morning) New Moon – 22nd (darkest skies) First Quarter Moon – 29th (Visible until midnight) 11th – 17th – Close Encounter – Moon, Jupiter, Saturn, Mars – Get out after 4:00am but before 5:30am DST each of these mornings to enjoy, moving left to the right, the lineup of Mars, Saturn, and Jupiter in the S, but also enjoy the Moon crashing through the party. The waning gibbous Moon will be about 14˚ to the right of Jupiter on the 11th, 3˚ directly below Jupiter on the 12th, 8˚ below and to the left of Saturn on the 13th.  On the 14th, it becomes a third quarter Moon, and is about a fist-width to the right of Mars, moving to about 4˚ down and to the left of Mars the next morning.  The next two mornings, the Moon is more of a crescent, and creeps away from the planetary lineup, but is still part of the morning party. 21st – Conjunction - Venus, Mercury – Get out after sunset and watch the Western sky.  The first point of light you’ll find is Venus.  As it gets darker, see if you can find Mercury, just one pinky-width down and to the left of Venus. 23rd – 24th – Close Encounter - Venus, Moon, Mercury – Get out after sunset and watch the Western sky on the 23rd.  Again, the first point of light you’ll find is Venus.  As it gets darker, see if you can find Mercury and the very young and thin crescent Moon.  Mercury is 3˚ up and to the left of Venus, and the Moon is about 5˚ below Venus.  You might have better luck on the 24th, however, considering the Moon moves higher and is thicker, just 6˚ up and to the left of Mercury.   Naked-eye PLANETS... Sunset Venus (West) – This is your last chance to check out Venus, as it gets lower and lower in the West every evening. It starts out 35˚ above the horizon, and drops out of sight during the last week of May for its inferior conjunction, when it’s between the Sun and Earth. If you have a telescope, you’ll be able to see the shift from a thick crescent Venus to a thin crescent Venus throughout the month. If you miss it, you’ll have to wake up before sunrise, as it transfers over to a morning star for the rest of the year. Throughout the night – None Morning Saturn, Jupiter, Mars – The main show in the mornings is the lineup of these three planets. Get out well before sunrise (sunrise is between 6:00am and 5:30am) any morning, and start by finding the brightest spot in the South, which will be Jupiter. From here, you can find Saturn and Mars. Saturn will be the bright spot that is consistently less than a fist-width to the left of Jupiter all month. Mars has a different story, starting out 20˚ or two fist-widths away from Saturn, and then moves further and further left each day, approaching 40˚ or four fist-widths away from Saturn by the 31st.   CONSTELLATIONS... Use a sky map from www.skymaps.com to help you out. After Dinner, Before Bed: Leo, Big Dipper, Bootes – Leo will be high in the South, almost straight above you. It has a backward question mark with a right triangle to the left of the question. If you look above Leo, behind you and high in the sky, you should find the Big Dipper: seven very bright stars that form a spoon shape. Now if you take the handle of the Dipper, follow its curve to the next bright star you see, about 30˚ away, which is Arcturus. “Follow the arc to Arcturus.” That’s the brightest star in Bootes, which looks like a kite. Take that same curve, and follow it about another 20˚ to “speed on to Spica”, the brightest star in Virgo, one of my favorite constellations, since it reminds me of the Dickinson Mermaid. Before Work: Lyra, Hercules, Hercules Cluster – Look pretty much straight above you, and find the brightest star up there. You’ll notice a parallelogram attached to it. This is the brightest star Vega, part of the constellation Lyra, the harp. Next to that is a keystone shaped constellation called Hercules. On the right side of the keystone is a small cluster of stars known at the Hercules Cluster, which is a collection of hundreds of stars on the outskirts of our galaxy. Given how high it is in the sky right now, you might catch its faint fuzziness with your naked eye, but a set of binoculars or a small telescope will really help you see it. Don’t forget this podcast is found on my Podbean page, Stitcher, and iTunes.  There’s also a video version on my YouTube Channel and I can be found on Twitter and Instagram as @mrwebbpv. The Pequea Valley Planetarium and its events and updates are on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram as @pvplanetarium.  

a cura di Alessandro Achilli. Musiche di Michael Mantler, Charles Mingus, Neil Innes, After Dinner, Pink Shabab, Evan Parker & Paul Lytton, Bob Drake, Silvia Cignoli, The Necks

a cura di Alessandro Achilli. Musiche di Michael Mantler, Charles Mingus, Neil Innes, After Dinner, Pink Shabab, Evan Parker & Paul Lytton, Bob Drake, Silvia Cignoli, The Necks (seconda parte)

a cura di Alessandro Achilli. Musiche di Michael Mantler, Charles Mingus, Neil Innes, After Dinner, Pink Shabab, Evan Parker & Paul Lytton, Bob Drake, Silvia Cignoli, The Necks (seconda parte)

In this enlightening episode Lori and Shane sit down with Chris Blake to discuss the concepts in his Terra Obscura article "THE PATTERN AND THE PHENOMENON; WHEN PERSONS OF COLOR SEE UFOS." Chris is a lawyer and journalist. We encourage you to read his article, and if you would like to engage further with Chris, he can be reached on Twitter: @ Chris3LB Be Weird. Stay Curious. If you liked this episode, please take a moment to subscribe. Your hosts, Shane McClelland and Lori Gum, the self-proclaimed queer Mulder and Scully, are curious explorers of the weird and strange. They co-created the hit series 'Queer Ghost Hunters' and together with their team of paranormal experts explore the strange, the unknown, and the phenomena outside popular consciousness. Connect with us on Facebook at: The Q Files Podcast; and on Twitter & Instagram at: TheQFilesPod We'd love to hear from you. The music in this episode was provided by 'Sounds Like An Earful' and is titled: "After Dinner"

a cura di Alessandro Achilli, Gigi Longo, Fabio Barbieri. Musiche di Lana Del Rey, Corey Mwamba, Skeleton Crew, Dominic Miller, Vanishing Twin, Stereolab, After Dinner, Paolo Botti & la Fabbrica dei Botti, Aki Takase, Draksler-Eldh-Lillinger

a cura di Alessandro Achilli, Gigi Longo, Fabio Barbieri. Musiche di Lana Del Rey, Corey Mwamba, Skeleton Crew, Dominic Miller, Vanishing Twin, Stereolab, After Dinner, Paolo Botti & la Fabbrica dei Botti, Aki Takase, Draksler-Eldh-Lillinger (seconda parte)

a cura di Alessandro Achilli, Gigi Longo, Fabio Barbieri. Musiche di Lana Del Rey, Corey Mwamba, Skeleton Crew, Dominic Miller, Vanishing Twin, Stereolab, After Dinner, Paolo Botti & la Fabbrica dei Botti, Aki Takase, Draksler-Eldh-Lillinger (seconda parte)

Merry Xmas and Happy New Year everyone! Here is Episode 30 of After Dinner with the Daulmans :) 

Cathy and Stu are back once again for another instalment of After Dinner with the Daulmans. This is Episode 29, and we talk after dinner again. It's a good time. Get involved why don't ya?

We are back with a bit to unpack here. Oh and Mum's windows 7 is finishing soon. All this and more on the latest episode of After Dinner with the Daulmans. 

Cathy and Stu get pretty deep this week. There is a trigger warning on this episode as Mum talks about experiencing violence towards her when she was working in Durban in her early 20's. That conversation starts at around the 40 minute mark, so please be aware of that. And if indeed you need help or know of someone experiencing violence towards them please call 1800RESPECT Please stay safe out there. We hope you enjoy Episode 27 of After Dinner with the Daulmans.

After a little break we are back for episode 25 of After Dinner with the Daulmans. A lot to catch up on, so hey...lets get into it. 

After Dinner, a short collection of instrumental R&B, grooves, and smooth jazz is Ahmad Johnson's first time creating a [moodmusick] project in...a long time. If you know his work, that says it all. If you don't, this would be a good time to learn more about him. Follow Ahmad Johson on Facebook, Twitter@JohnsonKyd, and Instagram @johnsonthreesixten    

After Dinner with the King and some money making on the side, something bad happens to one of our new team. Live at https://mixer.com/Studionathan https://twitch.tv/studionathan Forgotten World Adventure Facebook https://www.facebook.com/ForgottenWol... StudioNathan Discord https://discord.gg/Qf4FZwX --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/studionathan/support

Why did Mohnish Pabrai buy GrafTech? Time for an investigation! Today Jason starts his two-part investigation into GrafTech International (EAF). Part one, today's episode, will focus on the business operations of GrafTech. We will learn about GrafTech's business model, their history, and their very impressive "take of pay" contract strategy that they're using in today's graphite electrode market. We'll also talk about electric arc furnace steel and petroleum needle coke. And then on the next episode, part two of the investigation, we'll examine GrafTech's price and decide whether or not we're going to make a purchase and include it in the After Dinner portfolio.Thanks for listening! Please share the show with friends, and please leave us a rating or review.

Welcome to the After Dinner with the Daulmans 20th episode spectacular! A lot going down this week including Stu meeting Tony from Tony's Quality Meats and a regular check in with Mum's frogs....and so much more. Tune in 

July is the month of Jupiter and Saturn this year, with both gracing the skies all night, easily visible with the naked eye, and even better through binoculars or a telescope.   Naked-eye PLANETS... Around Sunset – Jupiter (S), Saturn (SE) Throughout the night – Jupiter (SàSW), Saturn (SEàSW) Morning – Saturn (SW)   Mercury Not really visible. Venus Not really visible. Mars Not really visible. Jupiter Already high in the sky as dusk turns to night off in the SE and will probably be the first point of light you can see. Throughout each night it’ll move toward the South, then set in the SW by 4am at the beginning of the month. Throughout the month it’ll start higher in the sky and set earlier, by 2am on the 31st. Saturn Saturn will trail behind Jupiter in the sky by about 30˚, rising just after sunset, and setting right around sunrise. Hence, this month it’s Saturn’s turn to reach opposition, giving us a lot of time to observe the planet and its rings.   EVENTS... New Moon – 2nd (darkest skies) First Quarter Moon – 9th (Visible until midnight) Full Moon – 16th (Visible all night) Last Quarter Moon – 24th (Visible from midnight into the morning) 12th – 16th – Close Encounter – Moon, Jupiter, Saturn – A great lineup for 5 days, with Saturn and Jupiter starting each night in the SSE, about 30˚ apart from each other. On the 12th, the Moon will be about 10˚ up and to the right of Jupiter. The next night it travels to just 3.5˚ to the left of Jupiter. Now the Moon starts heading closer to Saturn, being almost right between Jupiter and Saturn on the 14th, then just 2.5˚ to the right of Saturn on the 15th. On the 16th, the Moon bids adieu to the gassy outer planets and finishes the encounter 10˚ down and to the left of Saturn, creating a great evening lineup of the Moon, Saturn, and Jupiter for the remainder of the night. 16th – Partial Lunar Eclipse – If you live in South America, Europe, Asia, Australia, or Africa, you’ll be able to see this. Those of us in North America…nope. CONSTELLATIONS... Use a sky map from www.skymaps.com to help you out. After Dinner, Before Bed: Spring Constellations: Big Dipper, Bootes, Virgo, Corona Borealis, Hercules – Gaze almost vertically as you face the NW, and you’ll easily find the Big Dipper: seven very bright stars that form a spoon shape. Now if you take the handle of the Dipper, follow its curve to the next bright star you see, about 30˚ away, which is Arcturus. “Follow the arc to Arcturus.” That’s the brightest star in Bootes, which looks like a kite. Take that same curve, and follow it about another 20˚ to “speed on to Spica”, the brightest star in Virgo, one of my favorite constellations, since it reminds me of the Dickinson Mermaid.  Now go back to Bootes, and just to the left of Bootes are seven stars that form the northern crown Corona Borealis, which looks more like a small bowl or a “C” in the sky. Continue a little further to the left and you’ll find the keystone asterism which is part of the constellation Hercules. Extra Challenge! Look for M13, the Hercules Cluster in between two of Hercules’ “keystone” stars.  It known as the best globular cluster in the northern skies.  It will be a fuzzy spot in binoculars and will be even cooler through a telescope Summer Constellations: Lyra, Cygnus, Aquila – Look pretty much straight above you, and find the brightest star up there. You’ll notice a parallelogram attached to it. This is the brightest star Vega, part of the constellation Lyra, the harp. Directly above you will be Cygnus the Swan, with its brightest star Deneb. It will look like a large cross, or if you look out a little further, a swan flying above you. Below Cygnus and Lyra is the third constellation of the Summer Triangle, Aquila the Eagle, with its brightest star Altair. The three bright stars in this one can be easily confused for Orion’s belt, given their similar size, however they are not in line as straight, and are part of a bigger diamond shape.  Use a star chart to find small Delphinus and Sagitta in the area as well. Before Work: Pegasus, Andromeda – Look directly south and most of the way up the sky and you’ll find the very big and almost perfect square of Pegasus, the winged horse. Now if you look to the top left of the square, you’ll see three pairs of stars creating a neat double curve to the left and up from that corner star. That is Andromeda. If you have a little extra time, find the middle pair of stars, connect them with a line, and move toward the inside of the curve about the same distance as those stars are apart. There you’ll find the Andromeda Galaxy, which will be just a small faint fuzzy with your naked eye. The cool part is that you are looking at billions of stars that are 2.9 million light years away, that spread out about 150,000 light years across Don’t forget to check out my Podbean page, YouTube Channel, and Twitter feed, or get my podcast feed on Stitcher, or iTunes.

OK so we recorded about 30 mins then the batteries ran out and we lost the whole thing. We are so committed to this podcast that we recorded the episode again. Welcome to episode 15 (2) of After Dinner with the Daulmans, with Cathy and Stu.

Welcome to Episode 13 of After Dinner with the Daulmans. This week we are joined by special guest, none other than Euan Daulman!

Welcome to Observing With Webb, where a high school astronomy teacher tells you what you’re looking at, why it’s so cool, and what you should check out later this month…at night.  June will be warmer, with shorter nights, but still some good events. Watch for Mercury and Mars in a conjunction mid-month, Jupiter up all night long, and some good lunar close encounters.   Naked-eye PLANETS... Around Sunset – Mars (W) until 10:30pm – 9:30pm, Mercury (W) until 10pm Throughout the night – Jupiter (SEàSàSW), Saturn (SEàSW) Morning – Saturn (SW), Jupiter (SW) Mercury Makes something of an appearance this month, by starting out low on the Western horizon after sunset, setting itself around 10pm but getting a little higher each night until the last week. Make sure you have a clear horizon to the WNW, where Mars will also be making an appearance, with both planets closest together on the 18th. Venus Not really visible. You MIGHT catch it if you have binoculars pointing ENE an hour before sunrise, low on the horizon. Mars Mars is already in the W around sunset and setting a little after 10:30pm in the beginning of the month, getting lower each day until it sets around 9:30 at the end of the month. Mars will pass right by Mercury on the 18th. Bring some binoculars to help, but your naked eye should be sufficient to catch both of the planets in West after sunset until the last week of June. Jupiter Will be reaching opposition this month, meaning it’s off in the SE after sunset, passes by the South after midnight, and sets in the SW right around sunrise. Great time to get the telescope out to see the cloud bands and Galilean moons. Saturn Rising between 11pm and 9pm, Saturn will be about 30˚ to the left of Jupiter all month, hanging out in the top left of Sagittarius. If you’re up early, it’s a good time to observe its highly tilted rings, as it’s still above the horizon in the SW before sunrise.   EVENTS... New Moon – 3rd (darkest skies) First Quarter Moon – 10th (Visible until midnight) Full Moon – 17th (Visible all night) Last Quarter Moon – 25th (Visible from midnight into the morning) 4th/5th – Close Encounter – Moon, Mars, Mercury – A VERY very thin crescent Moon will be technically visible just 5˚ to the left of Mercury and VERY low on the horizon, but you’ll probably need binoculars to catch either of them. The next night on the 5th, the Moon will be higher and a tad thicker and now 5˚ up and to the left of Mars, making a nice string of objects – Moon, Mars, Mercury. 16th – 19th – Close Encounter – Moon, Jupiter, Saturn – Get out after sunset on the 16th to find the Moon only 4˚ down and to the left of Jupiter.  Watch them travel together throughout the night to the West by sunrise. The next night, the Moon will move to be almost directly in the middle between Jupiter and Saturn. The 18th is when the Moon visits Saturn, only 1˚ below, starting around 10pm. Lastly, the Moon finishes off the left side of a Moon-Saturn-Jupiter lineup on the 19th. 16th – 19th – Conjunction – Mars, Mercury – Get out right after sunset with a pair of binoculars. Look W and a tiny bit to the right to find Mars and Mercury less than 1˚ apart, with Mars on the left and Mercury on the right before the 18th. Then, on the 18th, Mercury is directly above Mars. Then they switch positions and Mercury is moving to the left of Mars. 21st – Summer Solstice – This is the longest day of the year in the Northern Hemisphere.  There’s a bit of explanation as to why here.     CONSTELLATIONS... Use a sky map from www.skymaps.com to help you out. After Dinner, Before Bed: Big Dipper, Bootes, Virgo, Corona Borealis, Hercules – Gaze almost vertically as you face the NW, and you’ll easily find the Big Dipper: seven very bright stars that form a spoon shape. Now if you take the handle of the Dipper, follow its curve to the next bright star you see, about 30˚ away, which is Arcturus. “Follow the arc to Arcturus.” That’s the brightest star in Bootes, which looks like a kite. Take that same curve, and follow it about another 20˚ to “speed on to Spica”, the brightest star in Virgo, one of my favorite constellations, since it reminds me of the Dickinson Mermaid.  Now go back to Bootes, and just to the left of Bootes are seven stars that form the northern crown Corona Borealis, which looks more like a small bowl or a “C” in the sky. Continue a little further to the left and you’ll find the keystone asterism which is part of the constellation Hercules. Extra Challenge! Look for M13, the Hercules Cluster in between two of Hercules’ “keystone” stars.  It known as the best globular cluster in the northern skies.  It will be a fuzzy spot in binoculars and will be even cooler through a telescope Before Work: Summer Triangle – Lyra, Cygnus, Aquila – Look pretty much straight above you, and find the brightest star up there. You’ll notice a parallelogram attached to it. This is the brightest star Vega, part of the constellation Lyra, the harp. Directly above you will be Cygnus the Swan, with its brightest star Deneb. It will look like a large cross, or if you look out a little further, a swan flying above you. Below Cygnus and Lyra is the third constellation of the Summer Triangle, Aquila the Eagle, with its brightest star Altair. The three bright stars in this one can be easily confused for Orion’s belt, given their similar size, however they are not in line as straight, and are part of a bigger diamond shape.  Use a star chart to find small Delphinus and Sagitta in the area as well. Don’t forget to check out my Podbean page, YouTube Channel, and Twitter feed, or get my podcast feed on Stitcher, or iTunes.  

WATCH this on YouTubeLISTEN as a podcast on Podbean, Stitcher, or iTunes            Welcome to Observing With Webb, where a high school astronomy teacher tells you what you’re looking at, why it’s so cool, and what you should check out later this month…at night.  Don’t forget to check out my Podbean page, YouTube Channel, and Twitter feed, or get my podcast feed on Stitcher, or iTunes. May is looking to be a great month for catching up on constellations, enjoying the warm air, and checking out the Moon getting close to the planets.   Naked-eye PLANETS... Around Sunset – Mars (W) until 10:30pm Throughout the night – None Morning – Venus (E), Saturn (S), Jupiter (SW)   Mercury Not easily visible this month. Venus Venus is getting harder and harder to see, as it gets closer to the Sun from our perspective. You’ll have to look low on the Eastern horizon about an hour before sunrise up until sunrise. It will be the only or brightest point of light in that direction. Mars Mars is already in the W around sunset and setting a little after 10:30 each night, which gives you less time, given the later and later sunset. Moves through Taurus. Dimmer, but still brighter and redder than its surroundings. Jupiter Rising between 11:30pm and 10pm, Jupiter will be very bright in the morning, off to the SSW, only about 20˚ high. Saturn Rising between 1:30am and 11:30pm, Saturn will be about 25˚ to the left of Jupiter all month, hanging out in the top left of Sagittarius.   EVENTS... New Moon – 4th (darkest skies) First Quarter Moon – 11th (Visible until midnight) Full Moon – 18th (Visible all night) Last Quarter Moon – 26th (Visible from midnight into the morning) 7th – Close Encounter – Moon, Mars – Get out after dinner, find a very thin crescent Moon in the West, and Mars will be about 4˚ up and to the right of the Moon. 20th – 23rd – Close Encounter – Moon, Jupiter, Saturn – Get out after midnight and into the morning on these 4 days to watch a waning gibbous Moon travel by two great gaseous planets. Look South, and on the 20th, the Moon will be about 5˚ to Jupiter’s right, with Saturn on the opposite side of Jupiter, about 20˚ away. The following morning, the Moon will have moved to the other side of Jupiter, and then on the 22nd it will be closer to Saturn than Jupiter, but still on Saturn’s right. On the last day, the 23rd, the Moon will finally be on the left of Saturn by about 5˚.     CONSTELLATIONS... Use a sky map from www.skymaps.com to help you out. After Dinner, Before Bed: Leo, Big Dipper, Bootes – Leo will be high in the South, almost straight above you. It has a backward question mark with a right triangle to the left of the question. If you look above Leo, behind you and high in the sky, you should find the Big Dipper: seven very bright stars that form a spoon shape. Now if you take the handle of the Dipper, follow its curve to the next bright star you see, about 30˚ away, which is Arcturus. “Follow the arc to Arcturus.” That’s the brightest star in Bootes, which looks like a kite. Take that same curve, and follow it about another 20˚ to “speed on to Spica”, the brightest star in Virgo, one of my favorite constellations, since it reminds me of the Dickinson Mermaid. Before Work: Lyra, Hercules, Hercules Cluster – Look pretty much straight above you, and find the brightest star up there. You’ll notice a parallelogram attached to it. This is the brightest star Vega, part of the constellation Lyra, the harp. Next to that is a keystone shaped constellation called Hercules. On the right side of the keystone is a small cluster of stars known at the Hercules Cluster, which is a collection of hundreds of stars on the outskirts of our galaxy. Given how high it is in the sky right now, you might catch its faint fuzziness with your naked eye, but a set of binoculars or a small telescope will really help you see it.  

Welcome to the first episode of "After Dinner with the Daulmans" This is a podcast hosted by mother and son, Cathy and Stuart Daulman. We're really finding our feet on this one but it's quite entertaining. We cover a lot so we hope you enjoy. Cheers.

On this week's episode of The Cannabis Show, learn why placing your cannabis on a windowsill for a few days may be the solution to your sleep problems. Kait explains the benefits of CBD which can counteract some of the negative effects associated with THC. And Chris reviews the strain After Dinner from licensed producer Hydropothecary.

After Dinner by Kenilworth Union Church

This game is quickly becoming a favourite of the furnace and though we've played it a couple of times on here, on both occasions it was in the absence of Mo. Well this time Mo was in on the action and we have a fun and eventful game. For those that don't know, the game is actually called After Dinner arguments and it's essentially a series of questions spanning a wide variety of topics and for each question each participant has 30 seconds to deliver a concise , clear and contextual response. Let's just say things get very interesting, very quickly and we cover so many different topics I couldn't list them all here!! Oh and we're recording in a car on our way to a collaborative venture that will be coming your way very soon... ... We hope you enjoy the episode and if you do please let us know in the comments and let your friends know by sharing, and if you don't, please let us know in the comments and let your friends know by sharing. We're big believers in the "win-win" Take care and stay blessed. Special thanks to PartnersInRhyme.com for the intro and outro music And to Calvin A Turner founder of Torra Media (facebook , @torramedia) and digital designer extraordinaire for TheOrdinaryAmazing.com logo design.

They Jump Through FiresBy Gabriela Santiago“They jump through fires, you know.”We were behind a glass window and at least ten feet off the ground, but Sam’s voice startled the rabbit that had been standing frozen on the asphalt, one large brown eye twitching as it stared up at me. Its ears jerked up and it twisted away, hopping into the underbrush.I kept looking out the window. “They what?”“Jump through fires. Instead of running away.”“Did you read that on Wikipedia?”She changed the subject. “You going to be all right here by yourself?”“Of course.”“I left my number on the kitchen table, if, you know, you need anything—”“Thanks for helping carry her. You can go now.”Full transcript appears after the cut.----more----[Intro music plays.]Hello! Welcome to GlitterShip episode 16 for September 22, 2015. I'm your host, Keffy, and I'm super excited to be sharing this story with you. Our story today is "They Jump Through Fires" by Gabriela Santiago.Gabriela Santiago lives in St. Paul, Minnesota, a mere twenty minute walk from a store whose awning reads AFFORDABLE COFFINS in large friendly letters. She is a graduate of Macalester College and the Clarion 2013 writing workshop, and her fiction has previously been published in Betwixt and Black Candies. You can follow her at writing-relatedactivities.tumblr.com. Or you can follow her at @LifeOnEarth89 on Twitter, if for some reason you don't want to follow Katy Manning, but do want to read a retweet of everything that accomplished Doctor Who actor and beautiful cinnamon roll has ever said.Before we get into the story itself, a little advanced warning: the story is horror and has some description of a decomposing corpse.They Jump Through FiresBy Gabriela Santiago“They jump through fires, you know.”We were behind a glass window and at least ten feet off the ground, but Sam’s voice startled the rabbit that had been standing frozen on the asphalt, one large brown eye twitching as it stared up at me. Its ears jerked up and it twisted away, hopping into the underbrush.I kept looking out the window. “They what?”“Jump through fires. Instead of running away.”“Did you read that on Wikipedia?”She changed the subject. “You going to be all right here by yourself?”“Of course.”“I left my number on the kitchen table, if, you know, you need anything—”“Thanks for helping carry her. You can go now.”In Minnesota they let you do open-casket funerals with unembalmed bodies. Actually lots of places let you do that. There’s not much bacteria at all in a fresh corpse. It’s just the funeral homes that will tell you embalming is necessary.The rabbit did not come back after fifteen minutes, so I made myself a sandwich and ate it. Then I stood in front of the coffin. Funeral home directors do not like it when you say “coffin.” They would prefer you to say “casket.” They would prefer you to say “the decedent” instead of “the body.”I rocked back and forth on my feet a little and looked at Mikayla’s body.She had been dead for thirty-one hours and twelve minutes, so the bacteria and enzymes in her body had not started breaking it down yet. Her skin was not discolored and there was no bad smell. There was no good smell either. She did not smell like Mikayla. She smelled like things that were around Mikayla when she was alive like oil paints and tuna fish, and she also smelled like a hospital, but she did not smell like a person anymore.I touched her skin. It was cold and spongy. I did not like the feeling. I rocked back and forth on my feet, and hissed air through my teeth.I went to the window again. The rabbit was back. There was another rabbit too. This one had horns behind its ears. Horns on rabbits are tumors caused by papilloviruses. This was discovered by Richard Shope in the 1930s. I had never seen a rabbit with horns before.Both rabbits froze and looked at me. They had such big eyes.I went to get the mail. The door was unlocked and I had to close my eyes and count and count and count because Sam always forgot to lock the door. When we were girlfriends I would tell her every day and every day she would forget.There was a letter from my Great-Aunt Teodora. Letters from Great-Aunt Teodora are very hard to read because she writes in cursive which my eyes have a hard time following. It is also hard because even though she speaks English very well, she has a hard time remembering the rules with writing. It is like the opposite of my problems.The letter was stamped for overnight delivery, so I took it inside and set it on the table and made a sandwich. I ate the sandwich and then I read the letter. It said she had read about Mikayla on her Facebook and that she was keeping me in her prayers. I pictured her prayers like the big wooden dresser with claw feet in her bedroom, with me bent and tucked and folded into the middle drawer next to her flowery blouses and T-shirts with sequin butterflies, all smelling of baby powder. Baby powder is a calming smell. I went to the bathroom and shook some over my hands; held it to my face.On the way back from the bathroom, I stopped by Mikayla’s body. Her eyes were closed. They had glued them closed at the funeral home. I let them do that. I also let them close her mouth and fold her hands and plug her anus. Mikayla had said not to let them do anything like that.Sam had said she looked like she was sleeping, but Sam never saw Mikayla sleeping. Mikayla slept all sprawled out with her mouth open. Mikayla’s body did not look asleep now. Mikayla’s body looked dead.I went back to the letter. Great-Aunt Teodora had signed it with a long string of Xs and Os. Then she wrote a P.S.: “I remember you were so interested in the Family Folklore so I am attaching a ‘Exciting!’ story I remember from being told as a child. I am thinking of getting it Published!!! Maybe it will help to keep your mind busy and ‘occupied.’”I tried to read the story but Great-Aunt Teodora does not really understand quotation marks and capitalization so it was even harder than cursive usually is for me. It started out being about how unlucky it is to kill rabbits, and then she started talking about how her mother was called “the Mexican Annie Oakley.” It was making my head hurt, so I put it down.I did not want to look at Mikayla’s body so I went to the window again. The rabbits were gone.The reason people sit up all night with a dead body comes from the days before they could know for sure that somebody was dead and not just in a severe coma. These days they were very sure. It was very easy for doctors to explain how a ruptured brain aneurysm killed my girlfriend.There started to be a bad smell. It was like rotten eggs. This should not have happened for a few more days. Possibly Mikayla’s intestines were hosting abnormally potent or numerous bacteria and enzymes. I opened a window and lit one match from Mikayla’s box of matches in the junk drawer. The sulfur dioxide in match heads deadens the sense of smell. Then I went to look at the body.There was light green bruising on her skin. This also should not have happened for a few more days.I worried about being able to smell the bad smell even after they took the body away tomorrow.One two three four five six seven eight nine ten eleven—I got to three hundred and ninety-seven, which is a prime, and I stopped.Keeping promises is an important part of being a functioning member of society. If you follow through on commitments to others, they are more likely to entrust you with more responsibilities. They are more likely to reward you. They are more likely to follow through on their commitments to you. This is why keeping promises is important.  [read up through here]When a person is dead there are no more consequences to keeping or not keeping your promises to them. Mikayla was not going to shout at me or go away for two weeks if I called up the funeral home and told them to take her body away. There was no logical reason not to call them and have them take her body away.I did not want them to come and take her body away.The smell was so bad. It was thick in the air like sulfur mud. It stuck in my throat.I went to the door to open it and let some air in. It was unlocked. I knew I had just locked it.It was unlocked.I knew I had just locked it.I locked it again.I went to the window. There were three rabbits now. The rabbits were increasing in primes. I rocked back and forth on my heels and hissed air through my teeth and counted one two three, one two three, one two three.All three rabbits had horns. They had frozen the second I came to the window. They watched me, ears twitching, eyes twitching. It is important for small prey animals to maintain constant vigilance. They must always be watching for predator movements, or listening for predator sounds.They jump through fires, you know.I raised my hand and tapped the window. They jumped. I tapped the window again. They ran away.It was 8:03 pm now. It was getting dark. The coffin made a wrong shape in my apartment. I could not walk around or even think about my apartment right because I would run into the wrong shape there. There were eleven hours and fifty-three more minutes until Sam would arrive with her car to take Mikayla’s body to the graveyard. I turned on the dining room light and sat down to try to read the story again.This time I understood that Great-Aunt Teodora was talking about her mother being the Mexican Annie Oakley because later in the story her mother was going to shoot a rabbit from almost a mile away. She took the rabbit home and made a stew. All of her children came in and said they smelled something very bad, like caca or roadkill or rotten eggs. They asked what she was making. She lied and said it was an armadillo stew. They ate up the stew, and then their father went to play his guitar at a bar.It was very hard to make my eyes keep looking at the letters that kept jumping up into capitals. I got out my laptop. I was going to Google “Mexican folk tales,” but then I changed my mind and Googled “rabbits jumping through fires.” This was what I found: a Suffolk gamekeeper reports that “they don’t go out to run with the smoke. They turn round and try to get through the fire… They seem to think… they’ll get out of the scent of it. They jump into the fire.”  This was not about rabbits, though. It was about hares. Both rabbits and hares belong to the order Lagomorpha, but there are several key differences. For instance, rabbits are altricial. Their young are born hairless and blind. Hares are precocial. Their young have hair and can see and take care of themselves.I clicked on the Wikipedia link for hares in folklore and mythology. In the U.K. there was a lot of folklore about the White Hare who was sometimes a witch taunting hunters and sometimes a ghost haunting her lost lover. Lots of places had a hare-eating taboo like the one in Great-Aunt Teodora’s story. In Kerry, Ireland, there were only two times a year you could kill and eat a hare: Beltane and the festival of Ostara. At other times, eating a hare was like eating your grandmother.I wondered if the taboo in Great-Aunt Teodora’s story was because of goddesses like the European ones. I decided to try to read it again. I decided that this time I would try reading it out to Mikayla’s body, because that might help me concentrate on making the cursive into words. When she was alive, Mikayla said she liked my voice. She was the only one.I opened up all the windows and poured baby powder all over my hands and rubbed it all over my face so the smell wouldn’t be so bad. I lit two more of Mikayla’s matches. Then I took the letter into the living room. The moon was shining very bright through the window. I did not turn on the lights. I counted and rocked and breathed in the baby powder and looked at Mikayla’s body. The bruising was purple now. She looked fatter, her cheeks and stomach pressing upward. Bloating does not typically take place until later in the decomposition process.I looked down at the story and found my place. I started to read:“After Dinner, Merino (my father) picked up his guitar. He kissed his wife on the cheek and said, “Don’t be letting in any handsome strangers, querida (pronounced KAY-REE-DUH, Sweetheart).” “And don’t you go flirting with those pretty young ladies down at the bar, Mer,” she said. She was joking but not really joking!!! Some of those young ladies had no shame with their lipstick and long blonde hair soft as rabbit fur. And Mer was very handsome, with green eyes like a ‘Movie Star’! And when he played and sang with his voice like an ‘angel’ (pronounced ON-HELL, Angel) she knew all the Pretty Young Things would be falling in love with him. “Don’t be bringing any pretty young ladies home,” she said and her voice was all of a sudden serious so he looked up at her with one eyebrow raised like it was saying what do you mean? “I have a bad feeling,” she said. “My Rosary fell off this morning and the tortillas (TORE-TEE-YUZ, tortillas) all burnt. Lock the door when you—”Click.The door.I turned. I could not see the bar crossing the gap between the door and the wall.I went to the door and turned the handle. There were five rabbits with papillovirus horns sitting on the doorstep. Not all of the growths were horns. Some were extra ears. The first rabbit had one extra ear. The second rabbit had two. The third had three. The fourth had five. The fifth had seven.The first rabbit only had one eye. The second had two. The third had three. The fourth had five. The fifth had seven.I shut the door and locked it. I pulled the heavy couch in front of the door. It made the shape of the room even more wrong and my head hurt and I had to clench my fist and rock, counting by threes this time, three six nine twelve—I got to six hundred and thought about calling Sam. Sam had a gun. She could shoot the rabbits. But then I would have to call Sam on the telephone.I did not call Sam.I walked over to Mikayla’s coffin. Her long blonde hair looked like straw. Her eyes were bulging under her eyelids like frog eyes.“I am going to keep reading the story, Mikayla,” I said. I said this even though Mikayla was not there. It was just her body. “I was going to read stories to the baby. I was going to use my Barnes and Noble employee discount to buy Stellaluna and The Salamander Room and Where the Sidewalk Ends. You said those were good books. I was going to read them.“This is how the story goes,” I said. I found my place and kept reading. “When Merino had played his first three songs, he looked up and saw a beautiful woman. She was rubia (RUE-BEE-YA, Blonde) and tall with long, long legs under her very tight red dress. She was watching him with her big Brown eyes while he played. ‘Oh, Señor (SEEN-YOR—”Mikayla’s eyes popped open.Eyes typically pop open when the internal pressure created by feeding bacteria becomes too great, though typically not until much later in the decomposition process. Mikayla’s eyes had been glued shut. I could see small bits of glue in her eyelashes, and parts of her eyelashes still stuck to the skin beneath her lower eyelid.One eye was still in its socket. The other was only connected by the optic nerve and was dangling over her left cheekbone. Most people unconsciously know where someone is looking from observing the whites of their eyes. I had spent a lot of time studying this skill, so I was pretty sure that if Mikayla had been alive, both eyes would have been looking at me.The release of gas had also opened her mouth and pushed out her tongue. It lolled down across her lips. It was purple and very swollen.The rabbits were on the coffin now. I had not seen them there before. I had not seen them anywhere in the room. There were seven of them. They were not hares. There were several key differences between rabbits and hares that were immediately visible. Rabbits are smaller, with shorter ears and weaker hind legs. Rabbits do not have black markings on their fur. Rabbits’ summer fur turns grey in winter rather than white.I did not move from in front of the coffin holding the rabbits and Mikayla’s body.The rabbits kept looking at me with their big, big eyes.They did not move except for their eyes and their ears.Click, went the door behind me.I counted their ears. I counted their eyes. Their extra ears increased in primes. Their total eyes increased in primes. This led to total numbers of ears that were not primes. Total numbers of ears plus eyes were also not primes. The seventh rabbit had twenty-three eyes and twenty-five ears. It had two horns. It sat on Mikayla’s chest, above her heart.I reached my hand forward.Click, went the windows to the side of me.I touched her face. The skin was blistered there. It sloughed away as I touched it.Onetwothreeonetwothreesixnine airthroughtheteeth—Click-click, went the door and windows together.Locked unlocked. Locked unlocked.The smell of the body was an iron band pressing into my head.There was a match in my other hand. I lit it.The rabbit’s eyes all swiveled to the match. Its glow lit up my white-powdered hands.“I am going to finish reading the story,” I said.I promised Mikayla that I would read stories to our baby. I practiced by reading to her. Promises are an important part of being a functioning member of society.I put the match down and picked up the story. I could still feel the place where my fingers had touched Mikayla’s cheek. I did not like the feeling. It was sticky and cold.I read the story.“‘Don’t leave me! You said I was pretty, didn’t you? Didn’t you say I had a pretty face? Why won’t you look back at my pretty face, Merino?’”I was reading the story, and the story was reading me.Most of the time I did not read stories, because it was very frustrating how most stories were not about the events that occurred within the story. There were empty spaces between the events that occurred within a story, and I could not see the shapes there. Other people seemed to see and interpret these shapes very easily, as easily as I could see the shape of the space between two numbers.I was starting to see the shapes now.They were starting to see me.I was changing the shape of the story, and the story was changing the shape of me. The rabbit from the first act of the story was coming back. The rabbit was becoming the beautiful rubia. Before I read the story she did not become a rabbit. She became a different shape. The beautiful rubia who was no longer beautiful was now pursuing my Great-Aunt Teodora’s father across the Texas desert. She was weeping and screaming for her lost love. Folklore does not typically have a three or five act structure unless its tellers have been influenced by printed or visual media. I was changing the shape.“‘MERRIIIIIIIIIIINOOOOOOO,’ she called with a howl that was more like a wolf or El Diablo (ELL DEE-AH-BLOW, The Devil) ‘himself.’ Or was it the wind? No it was not the wind. He could still ‘feel’ her eyes on his back as he ran. He dropped his guitar and he did ‘not’ care!!!’”I was reading the story from the words on the page, but I was also reading them in the slope of the letters. The story was in the shade of the pencil. The story was in the distance between me and the coffin, the number of inches (thirteen). The story was curled in Mikayla’s tongue; it was stuck to her skin with the glue and eyelashes. The moon was telling the story, and the shadows, and me, and we were changing it.And the story was telling me.“Her breath was like Hellfire on the back of his neck and he ran from the fire, and the smell like ‘Sulfur’—”It was telling me in the rabbit’s eyes, and in their ears. They were listening to the story tell me. The story was reaching down my throat. It was writing my cells. It was walking along my DNA. It was finding the beginning, the middle, the end. It was changing them.I was on the floor, looking up at the ceiling. I was also standing in front of the casket. The rabbits were in a circle around me, looking down at me. There were eleven of them. They were also still sitting on Mikayla’s body in the casket I was standing in front of. There were thirteen.The roof was gone and I could see the moon. All the doorways in my apartment were filled with fire.They jump through fires, you know.My face was wet and I could feel a pressing on my chest like a huge stone, pushing me down, crushing me. I was hollow, echoing. I could hear the wind rushing through me inside. I could hear my voice telling the rabbits things. I could not feel my lips moving but I could hear my voice. It was telling the rabbits about the day I met Mikayla. It was telling the rabbits about how she was the only one who ever said she liked my voice. It was telling them all the things Mikayla was never going to do again, like bounce on the bed or get paint on the floor or kiss me.The moon was very blurry as I looked up at it. Down, down, down, like a concrete block on my chest pressing me down. Mikayla’s body in the coffin was very blurry as I looked down at it, and the weight was pulling me down, down, down, I was going to fall toward her.The rabbits were very clear. Their outlines were the only real shapes. There were seventeen outlines.The skin split down the middle of Mikayla’s body. It pulled away to each side of the coffin. It pulled muscle and fat with it, tearing. I could see the gleam of bone.“If I were writing a story,” I told the rabbits, “in the next part her flesh would crumble to dust. And her skeleton would stand up. And it would be Mikayla and it would say hello.”The rabbits looked down/up at me and did not move.“What are you watching for?” I asked them. “Are you waiting for me? Are you waiting for her? I don’t know what you want. I don’t know what to do.”Click-click went the fires in the doorway. Click-click went the flames. The scent of ash and smoke was making a spiral in my mind.They jump through fires, you know.There was a sticky, squelching sound, like a drain coming unclogged. I looked down/up at the coffin. The rabbits looked too. They moved their heads for the first time. They looked at Mikayla.The fires leaped higher, the wood of the lintels cracking somewhere inside. Click-click.From the me who was standing in front of the coffin, I could see a puddle between Mikayla’s legs. It was staining the edge of her skirt. It was her job interview skirt, the pink silk one. She hated it. I reached forward and raised the hem.The me that was on the floor was holding a bundle in her arms. The bundle was small and soft and still.There were three rabbit kits between Mikayla’s legs. There were only three ears total, but each rabbit had two ears. The ears were connected. I picked up the rabbit kits very carefully. Rabbits are altricial.I stroked the blood and placenta from the hairless ears and blind eyes of the rabbit kits on my chest. They fit right into my hands. They were a perfect shape. I did not mind that they had only three ears. I held them close to my chest on the floor and standing in front of the coffin.They were not moving.“I will still read you Stellaluna,” I told them. “I will still read you all the books I promised Mikayla. I will explain to you about promises. They are very important.”Was that a pulse beneath my fingertips?The smoke was so thick now that I could barely see my hands and my girls in my hands.The rabbits around me/in the coffin were watching us. I could not see their bodies. I could only see their eyes. The number of eyes went from one to nineteen.The rabbits’ eyes were black and cold. The rabbits’ eyes were all around us.Were my girls breathing or were my hands shaking?“Please,” I said to the rabbits. “Please.”The rabbits’ eyes were black and cold and there were twenty-three. The rabbits’ eyes were behind us.I was sweating. The flames were very high. The wood click-clicked as it burned, knots popping open. Doors popping unlocked. I did not know where the doors would go.My heart was going very fast. I could hear the sound of my heart, and it was clanging against the smell of rotting body and tangled in the choking smoke, around and around and around with the feel of the sweat and the baby powder on my skin, and I was counting by ones and by threes and by primes, and the stone on my chest was still there but I could breathe past it now because of the weight of my girls in my hands.The fire. Red orange yellow. Leaping. Flames, leaping flames, leaping—The rabbits were behind us and they were watching us with eyes that never stopped looking for predators. The rabbits were behind us and we could not move back or stay where we were.I bent my head down to my girls.I whispered: “We jump through fires, you know.”END“They Jump Through Fires" was originally published in So Say We All's 2015 edition of Black Candies.This recording is a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives license which means you can share it with anyone you’d like, but please don’t change or sell it. Our theme is “Aurora Borealis” by Bird Creek, available through the Google Audio Library.Thanks for listening, and I’ll have another story for you on October 6th.[Music plays out]

Episode 35: So for some reason our intro/outro wasn’t working but you didn’t come here for the Water and After Dinner check. No! You cam for the god damn Steak, Lobster and Potatoes!! The fellas sit down to talk about Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles as well as Robin Williams and Mike Brown. Lastly, Terry got […]

Episode 35: So for some reason our intro/outro wasn’t working but you didn’t come here for the Water and After Dinner check. No! You cam for the god damn Steak, Lobster and Potatoes!! The fellas sit down to talk about Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles as well as Robin Williams and Mike Brown. Lastly, Terry got […]

After Dinner has spoken about social networking before, but we have never before discussed a real-world case. Belinda Carreira joined the team to discuss how Standard Bank is capitalising on these technologies....