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In Burying the Enemy: The Story of Those who Cared for the Dead in Two World Wars (Yale University Press, 2025), Tim Grady recounts here a detailed history of the fate of combatants who died on enemy soil in England and Germany in  World Wars I and II. The books draws on a rich archive of personal family experiences, and describes the often touching acts of kindness and reconciliation with families caring for graves of enemy personnel in churchyards and local cemeteries close to where those deaths took place. Both sides were at pains to photograph tended graves, demonstrating reciprocal respect. The Commonwealth War Graves Commission and the German equivalent - the VDK - obscured decision-making around repatriation, which led to some family distress. Grady recounts in detail the creation of the German military cemetery at Cannock Chase, which comprised a year-long programme of exhumations across the UK. This book is a highly readable and touching account of the tensions that arose between families and the state in response to military death in the World Wars, offering a unique insight into personal German/English relations during both and after both conflicts. Tim Grady is professor of modern history at the University of Chester. Dr Julie Rugg is a Reader in Social Policy at the University of York, UK. She has an abiding interest in the ways in which societies come to an accommodation with mortality. The Cemetery Research website connects scholars with similar interests and in multiple disciplines from around the world. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/anthropology

In Burying the Enemy: The Story of Those who Cared for the Dead in Two World Wars (Yale University Press, 2025), Tim Grady recounts here a detailed history of the fate of combatants who died on enemy soil in England and Germany in  World Wars I and II. The books draws on a rich archive of personal family experiences, and describes the often touching acts of kindness and reconciliation with families caring for graves of enemy personnel in churchyards and local cemeteries close to where those deaths took place. Both sides were at pains to photograph tended graves, demonstrating reciprocal respect. The Commonwealth War Graves Commission and the German equivalent - the VDK - obscured decision-making around repatriation, which led to some family distress. Grady recounts in detail the creation of the German military cemetery at Cannock Chase, which comprised a year-long programme of exhumations across the UK. This book is a highly readable and touching account of the tensions that arose between families and the state in response to military death in the World Wars, offering a unique insight into personal German/English relations during both and after both conflicts. Tim Grady is professor of modern history at the University of Chester. Dr Julie Rugg is a Reader in Social Policy at the University of York, UK. She has an abiding interest in the ways in which societies come to an accommodation with mortality. The Cemetery Research website connects scholars with similar interests and in multiple disciplines from around the world. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

In Burying the Enemy: The Story of Those who Cared for the Dead in Two World Wars (Yale University Press, 2025), Tim Grady recounts here a detailed history of the fate of combatants who died on enemy soil in England and Germany in  World Wars I and II. The books draws on a rich archive of personal family experiences, and describes the often touching acts of kindness and reconciliation with families caring for graves of enemy personnel in churchyards and local cemeteries close to where those deaths took place. Both sides were at pains to photograph tended graves, demonstrating reciprocal respect. The Commonwealth War Graves Commission and the German equivalent - the VDK - obscured decision-making around repatriation, which led to some family distress. Grady recounts in detail the creation of the German military cemetery at Cannock Chase, which comprised a year-long programme of exhumations across the UK. This book is a highly readable and touching account of the tensions that arose between families and the state in response to military death in the World Wars, offering a unique insight into personal German/English relations during both and after both conflicts. Tim Grady is professor of modern history at the University of Chester. Dr Julie Rugg is a Reader in Social Policy at the University of York, UK. She has an abiding interest in the ways in which societies come to an accommodation with mortality. The Cemetery Research website connects scholars with similar interests and in multiple disciplines from around the world. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/genocide-studies

TTEC has an exciting new career opportunity for German-English speakers in Athens. This international BPO is growing and they want young professionals like you to join their award-winning team. Say ‘Hallo' to a new life under the Athenian sun at https://www.ttecjobs.com/en/job/athens/german-english-travel-customer-service-in-support-of-booking-com/44028/76042960784 TTEC City: Greenwood Village Address: 6312 S. Fiddler's Green Circle Website: https://www.ttecjobs.com/en

Beginners A1/A2: Margarethe and Paula read another entry from Katharina's diary. This time, it was written in 1932. PDF with transcript, vocabulary German-English and worksheet available at https://patreon.com/germanwithstories

Beginners A1/A2: Margarethe and Paula discover a diary that Margarethe's mother Katharina started to write in 1918 and read the first entry. Transcript with vocabulary German - English + worksheet at https://patreon.com/germanwithstories

Intermediate B1/B2: Why did the First World War end in November 1918? How did life in Germany continue? What political changes took place? These are the questions addressed in today's podcast episode. Warum endete der Erste Weltkrieg im November 1918? Wie ging das Leben in Deutschland weiter? Welche politischen Veränderungen gab es? Um diese Fragen geht es in der heutigen Podcast-Folge. PDF with transcript + vocabulary German - English + worksheet available at https://patreon.com/germanwithstories

In 1990, Jens Soering, a German honors student at the University of Virginia, was sentenced to life after a spectacular televised trial for the 1985 murders of his lover's Elizabeth's parents, Derek and Nancy Haysom. In a classic example of “he said/she said,” at their trials the star-crossed lovers each pointed the finger at the other as the actual murderer. Were Jens and Elizabeth Romeo and Juliet or Macbeth and Lady Macbeth?  From his Virginia prison cell, Soering deployed his charm to create his own personal innocence project, recruiting celebrities such as Martin Sheen, John Grisham, Amanda Knox and even Angela Merkel. Soering was paroled and deported to Germany in 2019. Soering sold the rights to his story and launched a media campaign which portrayed him as a victim of America's cruel and arbitrary courts. Yet skeptics have questioned Soering's claims, and he is now locked in a pitched battle to define his place in history. A chief skeptic in the matter is Andrew Hammel, a bilingual German/English criminal lawyer and investigative journalist. Mr. Hammel traces the entire story, beginning with the bizarre romance which led to two gruesome killings. Drawing on five years of research and confidential sources with fresh revelations, Hammel takes the reader behind the scenes of one of the most extraordinary true-crime cases in modern history – and its equally gripping aftermath.

In 1990, Jens Soering, a German honors student at the University of Virginia, was sentenced to life after a spectacular televised trial for the 1985 murders of his lover's Elizabeth's parents, Derek and Nancy Haysom. In a classic example of “he said/she said,” at their trials the star-crossed lovers each pointed the finger at the other as the actual murderer. Were Jens and Elizabeth Romeo and Juliet or Macbeth and Lady Macbeth?  From his Virginia prison cell,Soering deployed his charm to create his own personal innocence project, recruiting celebrities such as Martin Sheen, John Grisham, Amanda Knox and even Angela Merkel. Soering was paroled and deported to Germany in 2019. Soering sold the rights to his story and launched a media campaign which portrayed him as a victim of America's cruel and arbitrary courts. Yet skeptics have questioned Soering's claims, and he is now locked in a pitched battle to define his place in history. A chief skeptic in the matter is Andrew Hammel, a bilingual German/English criminal lawyer and investigative journalist. Mr. Hammel traces the entire story, beginning with the bizarre romance which led to two gruesome killings. Drawing on five years of research and confidential sources with fresh revelations, Hammel takes the reader behind the scenes of one of the most extraordinary true-crime cases in modern history – and its equally gripping aftermath.

The late Budi Darma, one of Indonesia's most beloved writers, spent a formative chapter of his life far from home, studying at Indiana University in the 1970s. He wrote a series of strikingly lonely short stories that would go on to form the collection People from Bloomington, first published in Indonesian in 1980. A man befriends his estranged father only to control him and ends up controlled himself. Someone steals his dead roommate's poetry and enters it into a competition. Another character desperately tries to make contact with the old man across the street who may or may not be trying to shoot people from his attic room. With this absurd but oddly real little collection—and with his next novel, Olenka, also Indiana-inspired—Darma ascended into the pantheon of Indonesian literature, winning numerous awards, including the presidential medal of honor. Budi Darma may be barely known in the United States, but Tiffany Tsao—who has recently translated People from Bloomington for Penguin Classics—hopes that an English-language audience is ready to embrace this unparalleled Indonesian artist.Go beyond the episode:Budi Darma's People from Bloomington, translated by Tiffany TsaoRead Tsao's post in memory of Budi Darma, who died in August 2021Check out these other Indonesian writers mentioned in the episode: Pramoedya Ananta Toer, Umar Kayam, Chairil Anwar, Ajip RosidiWant to hear more about the art of translation? Listen to these conversations with German-English translator Susan Bernofsky, Bible translator Robert Alter, Malagasy writer Naivo and his translator Alison Cherette, and Tibetan-English translator Tenzin DickieTune in every week to catch interviews with the liveliest voices from literature, the arts, sciences, history, and public affairs; reports on cutting-edge works in progress; long-form narratives; and compelling excerpts from new books. Hosted by Stephanie Bastek and sponsored by the Phi Beta Kappa Society.Have suggestions for projects you'd like us to catch up on, or writers you want to hear from? Send us a note: podcast [at] theamericanscholar [dot] org. And rate us on iTunes! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Beginners A1/A2: Luise meets her friend Margot at a café and they discuss family issues. Get your transcript with vocabulary German - English and your worksheet at germanwithstories.com.

Schwierigen Gefühlen begegnen, positive Visionen entwickeln, Klarheit schaffen, frei sein – das Schreiben empfängt uns mit allem, was wir gerade angehen möchten. Erkunde in dieser Folge, wie es auch dir eine Stütze sein kann. Mit einem poetischen Einstieg, einer Übersicht über die verschiedenen Aspekte des Schreibens und wie immer vielen wissenschaftlichen Hintergründen besprechen Sinja und Boris in dieser Folge das Schreiben als Weg zu uns selbst. Viel Freude beim Ausprobieren und Ausschreiben!Sichere dir jetzt 20% Rabatt auf den Flow-Videokurs Wie Schreiben befreitNutze dafür einfach den Code: 20schreibenDer Rabatt ist für einen Monat gültigBestelle dir jetzt zwei Probehefte der Achtsamkeitszeitschrift Flow für 12 statt 17 Euro. Zum AngebotWie gefällt dir Verstehen, fühlen, glücklich sein? Erzähle es uns hier.Boris und Sinja freuen sich weiter über deine Fragen und Sprachnachrichten an unsere Whatsapp-Nummer 01782039465. **Hintergründe und Studien:**Pennebaker, J. W. (1997). Writing about emotional experiences as a therapeutic process. Psychological science, 8(3), 162-166. Link zur StudieReinhold, M., Bürkner, P. C., & Holling, H. (2018). Effects of expressive writing on depressive symptoms—A meta‐analysis. Clinical Psychology: Science and Practice, 25(1), e12224. Link zur StudieVan Emmerik, A. A., Reijntjes, A., & Kamphuis, J. H. (2013). Writing therapy for posttraumatic stress: a meta-analysis. Psychotherapy and psychosomatics, 82(2), 82-88. Link zur StudieDewispelaere, J. (2018). Story-telling, creative writing and playing: gates to selfactualisation and empowerment (language: German/English). In Summer Course Refugee Families, Location: Odisee, Campus Schaarbeek, Belgium. Link zur StudieAli, M. I. (2014, July). Stories/storytelling for women's empowerment/empowering stories. In Women's Studies International Forum (Vol. 45, pp. 98-104). Pergamon. Link zur StudieFeng, L., Lindner, A., Ji, X. R., & Malatesha Joshi, R. (2019). The roles of handwriting and keyboarding in writing: A meta-analytic review. Reading and Writing, 32, 33-63. Link zur StudieGraham, S., & Harris, K. R. (2017). Evidence-based writing practices: A meta-analysis of existing meta-analyses. In Design principles for teaching effective writing (pp. 13-37). Brill. Link zur Studie(Experimentelle, norwegische Studie) Spilling, E. F., Rønneberg, V., Rogne, W. M., Roeser, J., & Torrance, M. (2023). Writing by hand or digitally in first grade: Effects on rate of learning to compose text. Computers & Education, 198, 104755. Link zur StudieWeitere Referenzen: Lee, P. L. T., Tam, K. W., Yeh, M. L., & Wu, W. W. (2016). Acupoint stimulation, massage therapy and expressive writing for breast cancer: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials. Complementary Therapies in Medicine, 27, 87-101. Peterkin, A. D., & Prettyman, A. A. (2009). Finding a voice: revisiting the history of therapeutic writing. Medical Humanities, 35(2), 80-88. Wright, J., & Chung, M. C. (2001). Mastery or mystery? Therapeutic writing: A review of the literature. British Journal of Guidance & Counselling, 29(3), 277-291. Ramsey-Wade, C. E., Williamson, H., & Meyrick, J. (2021). Therapeutic writing for disordered eating: A systematic review. Journal of Creativity in Mental Health, 16(1), 59-76. Unsere allgemeinen Datenschutzrichtlinien finden Sie unter https://art19.com/privacy. Die Datenschutzrichtlinien für Kalifornien sind unter https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info abrufbar.

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Midnight Praises @ 21st Europe Youth Convention - Hoxter, Germany ~ August 25, 2023

Midnight Praises @ 21st Europe Youth Convention - Hoxter, Germany ~ August 25, 2023

Midnight Praises @ 21st Europe Youth Convention - Hoxter, Germany ~ August 25, 2023

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For Decades Alfred Hawthorne Hill -- known to us as Benny Hill -- was a titan of British (and later American) television comedy with a show that blended slapstick, parody, mime, and a generous helping of double entendre. Benny presided over the show with a rascally gleam in his eye and Boots Randolph's hit "Yakety Sax" was used as the theme -- to the point people had no idea it wasn't written just for the show. Feeling Benny had run his course (after 35 years!) tv bigwigs axed the program in 1989, but the British public begged to differ, keeping it popular in reruns and DVD reissues to this day. As always, find extra clips below and thanks for sharing our shows! Want more Benny Hill? Benny was a high energy host and this 1965 clip catches a bit of that, along with a great take on a German English instructor.https://youtu.be/EmMZ9J-EKlQ Benny's shows always featured a lot of double entendre and general naughtiness. That style eventually fell out of favor, though Hill noted the butt of his "hanky panky" jokes always were the guys. Here's Benny in a sketch about a reluctant bridegroom. https://youtu.be/jZMcP9SoTVc Parodies of American television were stock in trade for Benny Hill, particularly of crime and detective shows. Hill was a fine mimic, and here he takes on three top cops -- Frank Cannon, McCloud, and Hercule Poirot. https://youtu.be/EMId43b-fWA

So ... was the result at Augsburg a moment of half full or half empty? Or is the glass, as Matt says, configured incorrectly?! Part One of episode 82 starts off with some shout outs to Wrexham of all teams as well as the VfB Frauen for getting their first win and currently standing 2nd on the Oberliga table! Part Two is a breakdown of the match on the road at "tactical" FC Augsburg, a result that seemed pretty half empty on Friday ... but by Sunday evening looked a bit more half full! The guys chat deja vu, early subs, and of course LegENDO. Part Three is a relative deep-dive into some internal club politics as the guys try to decipher, digest, and describe what's happening inside Mercedes-Benz with a ton of help both Riky Palm's recent tweet as well as their German-English dictionary! Along the way they discuss Hoeneß, Wehrle, and Vogt and cover any and all mistakes they may make with their common excuse of "but we don't really know anything." How's that for insightful commentary! Speaking of insight, Part Four delivers a ton of it as OFC Liaison Ted joins the program to give some insight on not just the upcoming home match versus 'Gladbach but his trip there as well! Ted breaks down why he's going, where he's going, and why a seemingly incongruous place called "Palm Beach" is actually the most "VfB" place to go when visiting for a match! Here's hoping your glass is still half full if you're going to give this a listen! Introduction - 0:00-1:35 Part One - Shout Outs - 1:45-5:42 Part Two - FCA:VfB - 5:52-25:00 Part Three - News, Headlines, & Questions - 25:10-59:58 Part Four - VfB:BMG - 1:00:08-end

(German - English is below) In dieser Folge des Digital Insurance Podcast spricht Alexander mit Jesper Palmborg. Jesper arbeitet im Content Team von Insurtech Insights. Insurtech Insights ist die weltweit führende Insurtech-Community mit Konferenzen in Europa, Amerika und Asien, an denen über 8.000 Branchenführer und mehr als 600 globale Sprecher teilnehmen. Sie zielen darauf ab, Branchenführer und Entscheidungsträger mit innovativen Start-ups, die den Versicherungsmarkt herausfordern, zusammenzubringen, um gegenseitige Geschäftsmöglichkeiten zu schaffen und das Wachstum zu beschleunigen. Jesper Palmborg hat nach einem erfolgreichen Praktikum bei Swedish-American Chambers of Commerce und einer Stelle als Projektleitung bei LundaEkonomerna, fing er in 2022 an im Content Team für Insurtech Insights zu arbeiten. Im März wird die von Insurtech Insights organisierte Konferenz in London stattfinden. Mit über 400 Sprechern und voraussichtlich 5000 Besuchern wird sie die größte Insurtech-Konferenz in Europa. Das Ziel der Insurtech Insights sei, in diesem Jahr, Inhaltlich alle Bereiche der Branche anzusprechen. Ein Kernthema, das in 2023 aufkommen wird, sind Parametrics. Vermehrt beruhen Entscheidungen, die Unternehmen treffen, vollständig auf Daten. Doch gleichzeitig leben wir in einem Zeitalter, in dem Cyberangriffe eine immer größere Bedrohung darstellen. Es ist sinnvoll, dass zunehmend Produkte entwickelt werden, die auf Daten ausgerichtet sind. Jesper und Alexander sind sich einig; Wir müssen diese Daten präventiv nutzen, um mit diesen Bedrohungen fertig zu werden. Laut Jesper liegt darin eine große Chance für Parametrics. Du möchtest an dem Top Event für InsurTechs teilnehmen? Wir haben für unserer Hörer einen exklusiven Rabatt, mit dem Code: DIP20 kannst du 20 % auf dein Insurtech Insights Ticket sparen. Hole dir dein Ticket hier. Links in dieser Ausgabe Zur Homepage von Jonas Piela Zum LinkedIn-Profil von Alexander Tackenberg Zum LinkedIn-Profil von Jesper Palmborg (English) In this episode of the Digital Insurance Podcast, Alexander talks to Jesper Palmborg, who works in the content team at Insurtech Insights. Insurtech Insights is the world's leading insurtech community with conferences in Europe, America and Asia, attended by over 8,000 industry leaders and more than 600 global speakers. They aim to bring together industry leaders and decision makers with innovative start-ups challenging the insurance market to create mutual business opportunities and accelerate growth. Jesper Palmborg started working for Insurtech Insights in 2022 after a successful internship at Swedish-American Chambers of Commerce and a project management position at LundaEkonomerna. We can look forward to Europe's biggest insurtech conference, organized by Insurtech Insights that will take place in March in London; With over 400 speakers and an expected 5000 visitors. The aim of Insurtech Insights this year is to address all areas of the industry in terms of content. A core topic that will emerge in 2023 is parametrics. Increasingly, decisions that companies make are based entirely on data. But at the same time, we live in an age where cyber-attacks are an ever-increasing threat. It makes sense that more and more products are being developed that are data-centric. Jesper and Alexander agree; we need to use this data pre-emptively to deal with these threats. According to Jesper, within this situation, lies a great opportunity for Parametrics. Would you like to take part in the top event for InsurTechs? We have an exclusive discount for our listeners, with the code: DIP20 to save 20% on your Insurtech Insights ticket. Get your ticket here. Links in this episode Homepage of Jonas Piela LinkedIn-Account of Alexander Tackenberg LinkedIn-Account of Jesper Palmborg Vertrauen Sie auf Ihren guten Ruf? Er ist Ihr Versprechen an Ihre Kunden. Mit ProvenExpert bauen Sie online Vertrauen auf, indem Sie authentische Kundenstimmen nutzen und sichtbar werden. Für unsere Hörer gibt es hier alle Infos sowie ein exklusives Angebot, um eure Online Sichtbarkeit durch Kundenbewertungen auf ein neues Level zu heben! geht es zu Ihrem exklusiven Angebot als Zuhörer des Digital Insurance Podcasts. ProvenExpert – Für alle, die wissen, dass Vertrauen mehr wert ist als Gold KI, Dynamisches Pricing, Embedded Insurance, Nutzungsbasierte Versicherung – Keylane setzt diese Themen bereits seit Jahren erfolgreich mit ihren Kunden um. Willst Du wissen, wie das funktioniert? Folge oder schreibe Keylane bei LinkedIn. Keylane – Unlock tomorrow! Das Digital Insurance Job Board ist live! Du suchst einen Job im Versicherungsumfeld mit Perspektive, spannenden Themen und in einem innovativen Team? Hier findest du die aktuellsten Stellen rund um Digital Insurance im DACH Raum.

How to boost your cross culture communication results Your culture is simply your perspective of the world Episode 115 (Katja is based in Den Hagg, Netherlands) In this conversation with Katja Schleicher, we explore: What are the challenges of cross culture communication? How to establish a positive relationship How to recognize the traps that might blind you to your bias Why you need to be a tourist more often How food can bridge the cultural divide How to build your multicultural team When you should not use Oregano About Katja Schleicher KATJA SCHLEICHER knew already at an early stage that talking is gold and silence the beginning of all troubles… Known for her provocative style and her sense of humor on stage she looks deeper in our communication troubles – and is not afraid to talk about them. After her studies (German & English language & Literature. Linguistics & psychology) she pursued an international career in PR, Advertising and Corporate Communications for Media & HiTech Companies. For more than a decade she now passionately enables effective & empathic communication with all the clients she works with. From big banking, conservative pharma to ambitious startups. From 1:1 dialogues to the big stages. With three languages, two passports and an European heart, Katja travels across borders constantly to bring people and ideas closer through communication. She speaks at conferences about communicative misunderstandings and how to initiate change through communication. Learn more about Katja and her programs at the website katajashleicher.com ----- Excerpts from this conversation with Katja Schleicher: 02:27 You know, you correctly said that I really love to be around people that come from different backgrounds and mindsets, because and that brings me to intercultural communication in a straight line. This is where it's getting interesting. Where everything is the same or a similar a over time, it's getting less interesting. We are getting sloppy. We think, oh, yeah, he or she, they will understand me anyway, even if I do not pronounce clearly, even if I'm, you know, I'm in sloppiness, right? And that was one of the reasons why I liked the title of your podcast,  Your Intended Message so much, often the intention doesn't get through, it simply gets lost in translation. And you see that not just in business, you see that in relationships. A lot. That after a certain time, it's like Yeah, yeah, you know, oh, yeah, George. Yeah, yeah, yeah, of course. I love George. Yeah. Huh. And the intention behind it kind of gets lost. So in intercultural context, this is one of the biggest challenges and that is one of the most beautiful things that you it's never getting boring, because there's always an impulse. There's always a notch there was always something that happens, right and the end, especially in intercultural contexts, we try we as human beings, it's in us, we try in particular to get our intended message across and we take effort we, we check back. If you ever had a relationship with someone from a different cultural or language background, you know that you make double and triple Sure, okay. Did sweetheart get what I meant? Or did he just hear my words and that to me is the way we should face all the challenges in intercultural communication. So, accept there is someone from a different intercultural background and again, intercultural gene does not mean just countries, it could be in the same company that you speak to someone from the purchasing department and if you're from the marketing department, I can assure you there are quite some cultural differences and communication, right? So, the more foreign the more strange, the better, because that keeps us sharp, it keeps us alert. Of course, this is tiresome. Yes, it is much more easy if you have somebody mumbling and you know what you mean? Yep. But on the other hand, it gets boring, so fast. So, this is so the challenge to bring it back to this one send the challenge is in intercultural communication. That is, it really requires everything from you. But it rewards you with everything is now you will learn so many new things in my perspective. ----- 21:39 How do you feel about a leader in the workforce? Learning more about the other people's culture, language or beliefs? How can they do that without appearing to intrude?   22:01 Now there is this wonderful balance between interrogation or intruding and curiosity. And what I invite my clients to do very often is to treat their teams as a destination and behave themselves as the best tourist they could be. Because when we go somewhere, we are curious, right? We are usually more wired for question. When we started, you just asked me in German, "Wo ist der Bahnhof?"  Where is the station? Right? So as a tourist we are wired for questions, because we know that maybe our message or intended message is not getting through. So asking a question is very helpful here. And if you're if you're in leadership position, and you have a team to lead, I recommend that highly be a tourist in your own team. Be curious, not intruding and interrogating. But be curious. Like you see, you go on a sightseeing tour every day. Oh, George, I've never I've never seen someone doing this or that in my entire life. How did that evolve? Right? It's like, if I will be your boss, George, I'd be on go on George sightseeing. So I think that this is because then people get a chance to respond. Right? You could tell me no oh, you know, that evolved like this or that. And this is the reasons why I'm very picky with my words. And all these all the things we already we already talked about. And that is when you when you build as if when you're when you're leading a team, or you build a reservoir that you can use when you when you have a tough time with your team. So be curious. ----- ----more---- Your Intended Message is the podcast about how you can boost your career and business success by improving your communication skills. We'll examine the aspects of how we communicate one-to-one, one to few and one to many – plus that important conversation, one to self. In these interviews we will explore presentation skills, public speaking, conversation, persuasion, negotiation, sales conversations, marketing, team meetings, social media, branding, self talk and more.   Your host is George Torok George is a specialist in executive communication skills. That includes conversation and presentation. He's fascinated by way we communicate and influence behaviors. He delivers training and coaching programs to help leaders and promising professionals deliver the intended message for greater success.   Connect with George www.SpeechCoachforExecutives.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/georgetorokpresentations/ https://www.youtube.com/user/presentationskills https://www.instagram.com/georgetorok/   For weekly tips to improve your presentations visit https://toroktips.com/      

Subscribe Apple | Google | Spotify | Stitcher | iHeart   Support The Daily Gardener Buy Me A Coffee    Connect for FREE! The Friday Newsletter |  Daily Gardener Community   Historical Events 1726 Birth of John Berkenhout, English physician, naturalist, and writer. While studying at Edinburgh, John published a botanical lexicon reference. In it, he wrote, Those who wish to remain ignorant of the Latin language have no business with the study of Botany.   1822 On this day, Caroline Herschel wrote in her diary about her brother, William Herschel, the German-English astronomer and composer. Caroline Herschel assisted her brother in his astronomical work, and she became an accomplished astronomer and comet discoverer in her own right. She's remembered as a comet hunter. Two centuries ago, on this day, Caroline wrote, I had a dawn of hope that my brother might regain once more a little strength; for I have a [note] in my almanac of his walking with a firmer step than usual -- above three or four times the distance from the... house to his library in his garden, for the purpose [of gathering and eating] Raspberries with me; but I never saw the like again.   William Herschel died about six weeks later, at the age of eighty-four. This year is the 200th anniversary of his death. Forty-one years earlier, on the night of 13 March 1781, William, with his homemade 6.2-inch reflecting telescope, discovered a new planet: Uranus. He initially thought it was "either a Nebulous star or perhaps a comet," and he named it George - Georgium Sidus (the Georgian Planet) - in honor of his patron, King George III. But surprisingly, the name did not stick, and George was renamed Uranus after the Greek god of the sky. Uranus is the first and only planet (thus far) discovered from a backyard garden. Today William and Caroline's Georgian townhouse and garden at 19 New King Street in Bath is the home of the lovely Herschel Museum. You can stand in the beautiful garden where William and Caroline spent so much time together gazing at the stars. William's son, John, became an accomplished astronomer and a polymath. He was involved in many other sciences, including botany.    1912 On this day, Mrs. F. E. Griggs of Raymond, Nebraska, began selling her surplus tomatoes. She shared the story of her garden with nurseryman Henry Field for publication in his book, The Book of a Thousand Gardens. Mrs. Griggs, who sold over $50 worth of tomatoes from 135 plants, wrote,  I had worked very hard for four months, and my garden was a very nice one and I couldn't see it die, so I started in to carry water (a long distance up a 30-foot creek bank). But it did not rain until fall. ...[and] the fall rains washed the fertilier down and they again set the largest crop I ever saw.  I pruned my vines severely and also pinched off all tomatoes that would be gnarled or poor shape, as soon as could see them, and it paid well in the nice crop of smooth ones I got.  The first were ripe July 4th, and on July 8th we were already oversupplied and began selling the surplus to people who had no gardens at all this year. They were 15c per lb. at first, and people said, "Too dear to eat", so my first ones went at 3c.  Later, as they acquired a taste for them, I got 5c, then 7½c and 10c [per pound], but always 3c to 5c under the town retail price, although I had to deliver them. On Aug. 26th they dropped to 5c, as people were just getting a few scattered ones of their own, and up to that date I had sold $50.00 worth. They were then coming so fast that I had to go on the jump almost to dispose of them, and in my haste one foot slipped from the buggy step and I fell, breaking and badly crushing [my leg] just above the ankle.  So that ended my garden. Not entirely [though], for my heart was [in the garden] and the following week with this fractured limb in plaster cast, I crawled down to [the garden] and gathered [tomatoes] ... I am still unable to walk much.  I then had to give the patch away, and there have been fully 40 bushels eaten, given away and wasted besides my $50.00 worth sold; and the frost has just caught the vines uncovered with an enormous crop of ripe ones and green ones in all stages, just bushels of them.  I hope some day to see just what an acre of these Field's Early June tomatoes will do.   1955 Birth of Monty Don, English horticulturist and writer. He once wrote, I always see gardening as escape, as peace really. If you are angry or troubled, nothing provides the same solace as nurturing the soil.     Grow That Garden Library™ Book Recommendation Peonies by Jane Eastoe This book came out in 2018, and the subtitle is Beautiful Varieties for Home & Garden. And I should mention that the magnificent romantic photographs are by Georgianna Lane. The publisher wrote this about Jane's book. From Shawnee Chief to Top Brass, this guide to over 60 varieties of peonies presents an eclectic selection of specimens—from those with the best visual appearance and the most fragrant perfume, to those that are easiest to grow and produce the best cutting flowers. With commentary on each bloom, easy-to-follow growing advice, and glorious photography, Peonies will appeal to anyone who appreciates the romance of the majestic peony.   As a garden plant, peonies are so long-lived. As a result, they are often heirloom flowers. They are a favorite bridal flower. Their color, fragrance, and large blossoms elevate the peony as a worthy rival of the queen of flowers - the rose. Jane begins with a solid peony introduction. She wrote, To aid identification, the American Peony Society has classified Six types of flowers: the single, the Japanese, the anemone, the semi-double, the double, and the bomb. Rather than providing wordy descriptions, these are illustrated opposite, where it is easy to see how one type of bloom differs from the other. Jane covers the history of the peony and then divides peonies into categories: pure, dramatic, romantic, and fragrant. Then she wraps up her book with tips on peony growing and care. Jane wrote, This book is designed to inspire you to grow your own peonies. There are thousands of varieties to choose from, with more being released every year. Here we present a selection of personal favorites, a mix of the old, the new, and the cutting edge. As these stunning pictures by photographer Georgianna Lane illustrate, there are peony varieties to suit every taste and every garden color scheme. Garden centers tend to offer just a few limited varieties, so if you want a particular specimen it is best to seek out a specialist peony nursery on the Internet. One plant will give you, and generations to come great pleasure. In our fast-paced world, there is nothing more therapeutic than a little peony gazing.   I love that Jane points out that you may need to reach out to specialty growers if you want a particular variety. There's no way a garden center could offer every kind of peony.  You can get a copy of Peonies by Jane Eastoe and support the show using the Amazon link in today's show notes for around $13.   Botanic Spark 1953 Birth of Anna Quindlen, American author,  journalist, and gardener. In October 1988, Anna wrote an article I love called, Pardon the Garden, Pass the Pumpkin. Here's an excerpt: I planted a vegetable garden. It seemed like a good idea at the time. The time was early May, and I hadn't had a really good vegetable in months. I got carried away. Vegetables look pathetic when they are small, just like children. Four tomato plants, one pumpkin vine, single spray of zucchini or basil just don't seem like enough. Then they grow. (This is why some people have several children. When they are small they don't seem like so many. Then they grow, and pretty soon they are six feet tall and snacking on four fried eggs and a loaf of toast just before bed, and you know you overestimated the demand.) One morning you go into the garden and the zucchini are the size of clubs. There's nothing you can do with zucchini like that except keep them next to the bed in case you hear noises downstairs in the middle of the night. You can creep down the steps with one of those things and the right sort of burglar, the kind who knows his greens, will take one look at it, yell, "No! Not the zucchini!" and take off. This was my first year with pumpkins. I thought it would be fun to have a few in October, when the zucchini plants would be yellowed, the tomatoes past their prime. I never really thought about how large they would become, and how dumb a person would look bringing one to a dinner party in lieu of a chardonnay, while friends peeked from behind the blinds and whispered, "They've brought pumpkins again, Judith." Of course the denouement was predictable. Everything ripened at the same time. In one week, 1,212 tomatoes turned red, all the pumpkins turned orange and the zucchini disappeared. Oh, they didn't die; left them in mailboxes up and down the road. Naturally, I tried to give away some of the tomatoes, too, but it didn't work; everyone else has the same problem. At the end of one driveway is a sign that says "Don't even THINK of leaving produce here." It occurs to me that as a child I was lied to when all the grown-ups told that grand story about how the Pilgrims invented Thanksgiving to share the largesse of their harvest with the Indians. The Pilgrims invented Thanksgiving to give away pumpkins, and probably green tomatoes and enormous zucchini, too.   Thanks for listening to The Daily Gardener And remember: For a happy, healthy life, garden every day.

The late Budi Darma, one of Indonesia's most beloved writers, spent a formative chapter of his life far from home, studying at Indiana University in the 1970s. He wrote a series of strikingly lonely short stories that would go on to form the collection People from Bloomington, first published in Indonesian in 1980. A man befriends his estranged father only to control him and ends up controlled himself. Someone steals his dead roommate's poetry and enters it into a competition. Another character desperately tries to make contact with the old man across the street who may or may not be trying to shoot people from his attic room. With this absurd but oddly real little collection—and with his next novel, Olenka, also Indiana-inspired—Darma ascended into the pantheon of Indonesian literature, winning numerous awards, including the presidential medal of honor. Budi Darma may be barely known in the United States, but Tiffany Tsao—who has recently translated People from Bloomington for Penguin Classics—hopes that an English-language audience is ready to embrace this unparalleled Indonesian artist.Go beyond the episode:Budi Darma's People from Bloomington, translated by Tiffany TsaoRead Tsao's post in memory of Budi Darma, who died in August 2021Check out these other Indonesian writers mentioned in the episode: Pramoedya Ananta Toer, Umar Kayam, Chairil Anwar, Ajip RosidiWant to hear more about the art of translation? Listen to these conversations with German-English translator Susan Bernofsky, Bible translator Robert Alter, Malagasy writer Naivo and his translator Alison Cherette, and Tibetan-English translator Tenzin DickieTune in every week to catch interviews with the liveliest voices from literature, the arts, sciences, history, and public affairs; reports on cutting-edge works in progress; long-form narratives; and compelling excerpts from new books. Hosted by Stephanie Bastek and sponsored by the Phi Beta Kappa Society.Subscribe: iTunes • Stitcher • Google Play Have suggestions for projects you'd like us to catch up on, or writers you want to hear from? Send us a note: podcast [at] theamericanscholar [dot] org. And rate us on iTunes! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Subscribe to Quotomania on Simplecast or search for Quotomania on your favorite podcast app!W.G. Sebald, in full Winfried Georg Sebald, (born May 18, 1944, Wertach, Allgäu, Germany—died December 14, 2001, Norwich, England), was a German-English novelist and scholar who was known for his haunting, nonchronologically constructed stories.Sebald's work imaginatively explored themes of memory as they related to the Holocaust. His novels include Schwindel, Gefühle (1990; Vertigo), Die Ausgewanderten (1992; The Emigrants), Die Ringe des Saturn (1995; The Rings of Saturn), Logis in einem Landhaus: über Gottfried Keller, Johann Peter Hebel, Robert Walser und andere(1998; A Place in the Country: On Gottfried Keller, Johann Peter Hebel, Robert Walser, and Others), and Austerlitz (2001).From https://www.britannica.com/biography/W-G-Sebald. For more information about W. G. Sebald:The Rings of Saturn: https://www.ndbooks.com/book/the-rings-of-saturn/“Why You Should Read W. G. Sebald”: https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/why-you-should-read-w-g-sebald“W. G. Sebald: A Profile”: https://www.theparisreview.org/letters-essays/945/wg-sebald-a-profile-james-atlas

The late Budi Darma, one of Indonesia's most beloved writers, spent a formative chapter of his life far from home, studying at Indiana University in the 1970s. He wrote a series of strikingly lonely short stories that would go on to form the collection People from Bloomington, first published in Indonesian in 1980. A man befriends his estranged father only to control him and ends up controlled himself. Someone steals his dead roommate's poetry and enters it into a competition. Another character desperately tries to make contact with the old man across the street who may or may not be trying to shoot people from his attic room. With this absurd but oddly real little collection—and with his next novel, Olenka, also Indiana-inspired—Darma ascended into the pantheon of Indonesian literature, winning numerous awards, including the presidential medal of honor. Budi Darma may be barely known in the United States, but Tiffany Tsao—who has recently translated People from Bloomington for Penguin Classics—hopes that an English-language audience is ready to embrace this unparalleled Indonesian artist.Go beyond the episode:Budi Darma's People from Bloomington, translated by Tiffany TsaoRead Tsao's post in memory of Budi Darma, who died in August 2021Check out these other Indonesian writers mentioned in the episode: Pramoedya Ananta Toer, Umar Kayam, Chairil Anwar, Ajip RosidiWant to hear more about the art of translation? Listen to these conversations with German-English translator Susan Bernofsky, Bible translator Robert Alter, Malagasy writer Naivo and his translator Alison Cherette, and Tibetan-English translator Tenzin DickieTune in every week to catch interviews with the liveliest voices from literature, the arts, sciences, history, and public affairs; reports on cutting-edge works in progress; long-form narratives; and compelling excerpts from new books. Hosted by Stephanie Bastek and sponsored by the Phi Beta Kappa Society.Subscribe: iTunes • Stitcher • Google Play Have suggestions for projects you'd like us to catch up on, or writers you want to hear from? Send us a note: podcast [at] theamericanscholar [dot] org. And rate us on iTunes! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

My guest Crystal Lee is a powerhouse of energy, light and positivity.   For over 20 years she has traveled the world serving our country in the US military. First as a Technical Sergeant with the Defense Information Systems Agency and culminating her military career in April 2020 as a Network Systems Architect with the Defense Intelligence Agency. As a child, Crystal loved acting, singing, and creating characters.  Her mother, who is Filipino and her father, who is of German/English descent, had encouraged and nurtured her creativity from an early age and so she resumed her love of performing and voice work to, in her words, “inspire people throughout the world to follow their dreams through storytelling, make-believe, visualization, and magic!” During her time in the service, Crystal utilized her voice acting talents while participating in field exercises and deployments.  Her voice's unique qualities rendered it invaluable when used to authenticate section callsigns and code-words. She also starred in multiple Armed Forces Network radio and television spots, did some modeling and Hawaiian/Tahitian/Belly dancing as creative outlets from the rigidity of military life.   After she retired, she did a short stint as a government contractor, then a government civilian and quickly realized that between the office politics and her unfulfilled feelings that it was time to leave government work altogether.  After doing so, she says her life opened up to a whirlwind of possibilities and it was time to create her own reality.   Crystal is now a voice actor specializing in voice-over for animation, commercials, and industrials, the Founder and CEO of Crystal J Productions, a service-disabled veteran, Belly Dancing nerd, and magical being, Crystal is an amalgamation of beauty, integrity, discipline, creativity, and quirkiness. Obviously the industry thinks so as well given her commercial demo was nominated for a SOVAS Award in 2021. To reach Crystal directly, you may do so via the following: Business Email Address: Crystal@CrystalJProductions.com Website(s): www.crystaljproductions.com and www.animatedvoiceovers.com LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/crystaljproductions Instagram: @crystaljproductions Facebook: @crystaljproductions Twitter: @CrystalMLee_VO If you liked this episode, please remember to review, share and follow.  It's grealty appreciated ; - )    

Subscribe Apple | Google | Spotify | Stitcher | iHeart   Support The Daily Gardener Buy Me A Coffee    Connect for FREE! The Friday Newsletter |  Daily Gardener Community   Friends of the Garden Meeting in Athens Georgia Register Here   Historical Events 1810 Birth of William Griffith, English botanist and naturalist. By the time a young William arrived at the botanical garden in Calcutta, he was eager to make his mark. But he clashed with the old ways of running the garden established by Nathaniel Wallich. When Nathaniel departed to tend to his deteriorating health, William was put in charge of the garden. In his youth and inexperience, he acted in haste and he executed a complete renovation of the garden. For instance, there was an avenue of gorgeous Cycas trees that was a signature element of the garden and beloved by visitors, but William had the entire avenue removed. And in his singular focus on organizing plants by classification, he sacrificed beauty and common sense. Plants that were happy under the canopy of established trees and shrubs were suddenly exposed to the harsh Indian sun, and they burned and perished out in the open. In a little over two years, the garden bore no resemblance of its former glory. In September of 1844, William married his brother's wife's sister - Emily Henderson. By the end of the year, William quit his post and left the Calcutta botanical garden for good. Together, William and Emily returned to Malacca in Southwestern Malaysia, but William got sick on the voyage. He had languished for ten days and then died from hepatitis. He was 34. Meanwhile, back at the Calcutta Botanical Garden, it's hard not to imagine the shock Nathaniel Wallich experienced when he returned to the garden in the summer of 1844 and saw the complete devastation in every bed and every planting in every corner of the garden. Nothing was untouched - it had all been changed. Nathaniel shared his grief in a letter to his old friend William Hooker: Where is the stately, matchless garden that I left in 1842? Is this the same as that? Can it be? No–no–no! Day is not more different from night that the state of the garden as it was from its present utterly ruined condition. But no more on this. My heart bleeds at what I am impelled daily – hourly to witness. And yet I am chained to the spot, and the chain, in some respects, is of my own making. I will not be driven away. Lies, calumnies, every attempt... to ruin my character – publicly and privately... are still employed – they may make my life miserable and wretched, they may break my heart: but so so long as my conscience acquits me... so long will I not budge one inch from my post.   1847 Birth of Henry Frederick Conrad Sander, German-English orchidologist and nurseryman. When he was 20, Conrad met the Czech plant collector Benedict Roezl. The two men struck up an idea for a business that left Benedict free to explore and collect plants and Conrad focused on selling the specimens. Conrad set up shop in St. Albans, and Benedict was soon sending shipments of orchids from Central and South America. After his successful arrangement with Benedict, Conrad expanded his operations. He soon had over twenty collectors gathering specimens and was growing orchids in over sixty greenhouses. Europe's top collectors and even royalty stopped by to examine Conrad's inventory. Soon known as the King of Orchids, Conrad wrote a two-volume masterpiece on every variety of orchid. He named his book Reichenbachia in honor of the legendary orchidologist Heinrich Gustav Reichenbach. In return, Reichenbach honored Sanders by naming the “Queen of Philippine Orchids” Vanda Sanderiana, which the locals called the waling-waling orchid. The waling-waling is considered one of the rarest, most beautiful, and most expensive orchids, and it is also one of the largest species of orchids in the world. Orchids are some of the world's oldest flowering plants, producing the world's tiniest seeds. A single Orchid seedpod can contain three million seeds! Orchids are also the largest family of flowering plants in the world. With over 25,000 species, Orchids represent about ten percent of all plant species on earth, and there are more orchids on earth than mammals and birds! Now, once they are germinated, Orchids can take five to seven years to produce a flower. And if you look at the orchid bloom closely, you'll see that the blossom, like the human face, is perfectly symmetrical, which only adds to their visual beauty. And, by the time you are buying that Orchid at Trader Joe's, it is likely already decades old. But never fear, Orchids are long-lived and can reach their 100th birthday. The vastness and complexity of orchids can be frustrating. Charles Darwin grew so discouraged writing his book about orchids that he wrote to a friend, I am very poorly today and very stupid and hate everybody and everything.   1949 On this day, the Santa Cruz Sentinel out of California, published a lovely story about an upcoming Arbor Day celebration that would plant trees to honor Luther Burbank. In a bittersweet gesture, Nurseryman Joe Badger was personally planting a flowering plum tree. Joe's plum tree will be planted in Mrs. Burbank's garden at Santa Rosa, Calif, near the spot where her husband is buried. Burbank's widow said, “No, there will be no wreath-laying on Luther Burbank's grave... Laying a wreath is only a ceremony... It doesn't make things grow." she said. Instead, she and Nurseryman Joe Badger, who as a youngster stole plums from the Burbank experimental gardens, will plant a flowering plum tree adjoining the Redwood highway, where passersby can enjoy it. The flowering plum was developed by her husband. He gained world fame with his Burbank potato, his spineless cactus, and many other horticultural achievements. Her husband now lies buried under a huge Cedar of Lebanon tree in a simple unmarked grave. Beside him lies his white dog, Bonita, who was his constant companion until Burbank died in 1926. Burbank requested that no marking be placed above his burial place. Instead, he was buried beneath his Cedar of Lebanon. He, himself, had planted the seed sent by a friend in Palestine. He had said, "When I go, don't raise a monument to me; plant a tree."   Grow That Garden Library™ Book Recommendation The Art of Outdoor Living by Scott Shrader This book came out in 2019, and the subtitle is Gardens for Entertaining Family and Friends. For anyone who wants to live well in their garden, here is a guide to creating stylish and livable outdoor spaces--for entertaining, playing, and relaxing. Scott Shrader is a California landscape designer who has an intuitive ability to connect his outdoor landscape creations with the heart of the home. His designs are known for their sense of flow, style, and serenity. Scott's specialty is creating lush outdoor rooms where meals and company can be enjoyed at your leisure. Scott's blending of the indoors and the outdoors can be seen in these twelve gorgeous properties highlighted in this book. Scott also shares his tips for keeping guests happy outdoors and he breaks down how planning ahead makes outdoor spaces comfortable, inviting places you don't want to leave. This book also features some essays where Scott shares in-depth observations on all aspects of outdoor living and gardens including topics like sustainability, lifestyle, and paths. This book is 240 pages of making outdoor spaces comfortable places for cooking, entertaining, playing, and relaxing. You can get a copy of The Art of Outdoor Living by Scott Shrader and support the show using the Amazon link in today's show notes for $26.   Botanic Spark 1862 Birth of Norman Rowland Gale, English poet, storyteller, and reviewer. His best-known poem is The Country Faith, which ends with this verse: God comes down in the rain, And the crop grows tall— This is the country faith, And the best of all! In his book A Merry-Go-Round of Song, there is a poem about fairies. Norman wrote, If you could pierce with magic eyes The secrets of the lavender, You'd find a thousand Fairylings A-perching there, with folded wings. And pouring sweetness into her.   Thanks for listening to The Daily Gardener And remember: For a happy, healthy life, garden every day.

Researching ancestors in another country can be a little daunting. Challenges include foreign languages, moving boundaries, and spelling variations. This is certainly true for German genealogy. If you're new to German genealogy or your research has stalled, this episode is for you. In fact, even if you don't have German ancestors I think you will still find the principles and ideas covered very helpful. Translator, author and German handwriting expert Katherine Schober shares her 10 Top Tips for Beginning Germany Genealogy. These tips are packed with tools and resources that you can start using right away. Katherine Schober is a German / English translator, specializing in the old German handwriting. She is the author of “The Magic of German Church Records” and “Tips and Tricks of Deciphering German Handwriting”, as well as the creator of the online course “Reading the Old German Handwriting.” This episode brings you the audio from Elevenses with Lisa episode 52. You can watch the video version on the .  From Lisa: “I use MyHeritage for my own genealogy research. It makes all the difference!”   Get 20% off.  and use coupon code genealogygems   Video and Show NotesThis audio comes from my video series Elevenses with Lisa . Genealogy Gems Premium Members have exclusive access to the downloadable show notes "cheat sheet" handout. Premium Members also have access to all of the archived earlier episodes. To access the Elevenses with Lisa Premium Member , log in to your membership at  and under in the main menu under Premium go to Premium Videos and click on Elevenses with Lisa. Become a Genealogy Gems Premium MemberPremium Members have exclusive access to: Video classes and downloadable handouts The Genealogy Gems Premium Podcast downloadable show notes PDF Become a Premium Member . Stay Up to Date with the Genealogy Gems NewsletterThe Genealogy Gems email newsletter is the best way to stay informed about what's available with your Premium eLearning Membership.  to sign up today. Follow Lisa and Genealogy Gems on Social Media: #genealogy #germangenealogy

Nosferatu the Vampyre Review This week, we take a look back at Nosferatu – no, not that one! Werner Herzog's 1979 stab at the Dracula mythos, Nosferatu the Vampyre, complete with the great and terrible Klaus Kinski as the titular ghoul, is the one we're taking a look at this time, inspired by recent news that Robert Eggers will be making a run at the same material for his next feature. Discussed: mass rat murder, the weirdnesses of the German/English dual release, and the eternal appeal of this character. Listen on LinkTree | Amazon | Spotify | iTunes | Podbean | YouTube | Listen Note | iHeartRadio | Pandora Follow Sordid Cinema on Twitter Follow Sordid Cinema on Facebook

On this episode co-host Stefano Santelmo interviews Janina Neumann and Eva Túnez Salvador.Janina is a bilingual (German/English) graphic designer and intercultural management trainer. The bilingual focus ensures clients can communicate their message equally effectively across different languages and cultures. Another key focus is diversity management, where Janina helps organisations integrate business practices across cultures; from communication and organisation to leadership and etiquette.Eva Túnez Salvador is a Spanish translator who is passionate about international trade and the cultural and linguistic challenges linked to it. Through her multilingual translation company, Genuine Translations, and thanks to her team of translators, she helps businesses go Local to Global by fulfilling all their marketing, legal and technical translation and localisation requirements. Local to Global is a one-stop gateway for all your cultural, linguistic, and branding requirements when exporting your products or services to other countries.Connect with Janina on LinkedIn -Connect with Eva on LinkedIn -Company website  -Self-learning is of paramount importance in the business world, listen to your international peers and step up your game.Connect with the host Leonardo Marra on LinkedIn -Follow the page on LinkedIn 

Today we celebrate a man who wrote the book on growing and selling orchids. We'll also learn about a very special Arbor Day to honor Luther Burbank. We hear a touching excerpt about the final days of an incredible gardener, teacher, and friend. We Grow That Garden Library™ with a book about the beautiful flowers of Japan. And then we’ll wrap things up with a sweet little advertisement about the Gladiolus and Dahlias - two beautiful flowers that most gardeners are ordering and shopping for this month (if they haven’t already).   Subscribe Apple | Google | Spotify | Stitcher | iHeart To listen to the show while you're at home, just ask Alexa or Google to “Play the latest episode of The Daily Gardener Podcast.” And she will. It's just that easy.   The Daily Gardener Friday Newsletter Sign up for the FREE Friday Newsletter featuring: A personal update from me Garden-related items for your calendar The Grow That Garden Library™ featured books for the week Gardener gift ideas Garden-inspired recipes Exclusive updates regarding the show Plus, each week, one lucky subscriber wins a book from the Grow That Garden Library™ bookshelf.   Gardener Greetings Send your garden pics, stories, birthday wishes, and so forth toJennifer@theDailyGardener.org   Curated News 5 Perennial Herbs You Should Grow | Hunker | Michelle Miley   Facebook Group If you'd like to check out my curated news articles and original blog posts for yourself, you're in luck. I share all of it with the Listener Community in the Free Facebook Group - The Daily Gardener Community. So, there’s no need to take notes or search for links. The next time you're on Facebook, search for Daily Gardener Community, where you’d search for a friend... and request to join. I'd love to meet you in the group.   Important Events March 4, 1847 Today is the birthday of the German-English orchidologist and nurseryman Henry Frederick Conrad Sander. As a young man of 20 years old, Conrad met the Czech plant collector Benedict Roezl. Benedict’s heart lay in exploration and acquisition; he did not enjoy the marketing and sales aspects of plant hunting. Instead, these skills were Conrad’s strengths. The two men struck up a business plan that left Benedict free to explore and collect and Conrad to sell, sell, sell. Conrad set up shop in St. Albans, and Benedict was soon sending shipments of orchids from Central and South America. Benedict collected for Sander for 40 years. Even though Benedict was 6'2" tall and had that imposing iron hook for a hand, Benedict was robbed 17 times and, once, even attacked by a jaguar during his collecting days. After his quick success with Benedict, Conrad expanded his operations. Soon Conrad was managing inventory from over twenty collectors, growing orchids in over sixty greenhouses, and entertaining visitors that included Europe’s top collectors and even royalty. As a result of his business success acquiring, breeding, and selling orchids, Conrad became known as the King of Orchids. Leveraging his incredible expertise, Conrad wrote a masterpiece in two volumes on every variety of orchid. The book was folio-sized, with text in three languages - English, French, and German - and the botanical drawing of orchids were life-sized. As a sign of great respect, Conrad named his book Reichenbachia in honor of the legendary orchidologist Heinrich Gustav Reichenbach. Reichenbach had named more orchids than any other person, and in his will, he asked that his herbarium be closed for 25 years to protect his work with orchids from his competitors. In turn, in 1882, Heinrich honored Sanders by naming the “Queen of Philippine Orchids” after Sanders - naming it the Vanda Sanderiana, which the locals called the waling-waling orchid. The waling-waling is considered one of the rarest, most beautiful, and most expensive orchid, and it is also one of the largest species of orchids in the world. Orchids are some of the world’s oldest flowering plants, producing the world’s tiniest seeds. A single Orchid seedpod can contain three million seeds! Orchids are also the largest family of flowering plants in the world. With over 25,000 species, Orchids represent about ten percent of all plant species on earth, and there are more orchids on earth than mammals and birds! Now, once they are germinated, Orchids can take five to seven years to produce a flower. And if you look at the orchid bloom closely, you’ll see that the blossom, like the human face, is perfectly symmetrical, which only adds to their visual beauty. And, by the time you are buying that Orchid at Trader Joe’s, it is likely already decades old. But never fear, Orchids are long-lived and can reach their 100th birthday. The vastness and complexity of orchids can be frustrating. Charles Darwin grew so discouraged writing his book about orchids that he wrote to a friend, “I am very poorly today and very stupid and hate everybody and everything.”   March 4, 1949 On this day, the Santa Cruz Sentinel out of Santa Cruz, California, published a lovely story about the upcoming Arbor Day celebration. The story featured a wonderful photo of a tree being pruned with the caption, “Santa Rosa Citizens To Plant Trees In Commemoration Of Birth Of Famed Luther Burbank: Nurseryman Joe Badger, who in his youth used to steal fruit from Luther Burbank's trees, prunes a flowering plum tree as Burbank's widow looks on. On Arbor Day, which this year will commemorate the 100th anniversary of the birth of the great horticulturist, this tree will be planted in Mrs. Burbank's garden at Santa Rosa, Calif, near the spot where her husband is buried. ”  Burbank’s widow said, “No, there will be no wreath-laying on Luther Burbank's grave... Laying a wreath is only a ceremony... It doesn't make things grow." she said.  Instead, she and Nurseryman Joe Badger, who as a youngster stole plums from the Burbank experimental gardens, will plant a flowering plum tree adjoining the Redwood highway, where passersby can enjoy it.  "That is the way he would have wanted it without ceremony. Mr. Burbank never liked fanfare. His interest was in things alive like a tree or a plant or a flower. Or a group of school children coming to sing to him on his birthday."  The flowering plum was developed by her husband. He gained world fame with his Burbank potato, his spineless cactus, and many other horticultural achievements. Her husband now lies buried under a huge Cedar of Lebanon tree in a simple unmarked grave. Beside him lies his white mongrel dog, Bonita, who was his constant companion until Burbank died in 1926. Burbank requested that no marking be placed above his burial place. Instead, he was buried beneath his Cedar of Lebanon. He, himself, had planted the seed sent by a friend in Palestine. He had said, "When I go, don't raise a monument to me; plant a tree,"   Unearthed Words We were not to live and practice with Alan Chadwick again until eight years later, when he returned to Green Gulch at the end of his life. Despite the unrelenting grip of his illness, Alan continued to rage against the dying of the light. He announced with dignity, “I intend to be in the garden tomorrow.” “We will welcome you,” I murmured… Alan never made it to the garden. Instead, we brought the garden to him. I cut armloads of fresh flowers for him every few days, winter jonquils and Korean lilac, wind-blown anemones and stiff Coral Quince that Alan recognized from his original gardens at Green Gulch, and a single blood-red poppy grown from seed gathered from the World War II battlefields of Flanders. During these months, the garden itself upwelled with a rare treasure trove of bloom, and Allen drank long draughts from the bottomless pool of flowers. — Wendy Johnson, Gardening at the Dragon’s Gate, Chapter 1: Valley of the Ancestors Grow That Garden Library Flora Japonica by Masumi Yamanaka This book came out in 2017, and Masumi is an award-winning botanical artist based at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. In this book, Masumi begins by revealing the history of Japanese botanical illustration with a lovely overview of the influential botanist and illustrator Tomitaro Makino's work. Next, Masumi shares beautiful artwork that showcases the indigenous plants of Japan. Flora Japonica showcases eighty specially-commissioned paintings from thirty-six of Japan’s best modern botanical artists. Daily Gardeners will love that each painting also shares detailed information about the plant’s habitat and history, as well as a botanical description. This book is 240 pages of botanical art that highlights Japan’s glorious and incomparable flora. You can get a copy of Flora Japonica by Masumi Yamanaka and support the show using the Amazon Link in today's Show Notes for around $4   Today’s Botanic Spark Reviving the little botanic spark in your heart March 4, 1956 It was on this day that the Chicago Tribune ran two advertisements for Gladiolus and Dahlias by R. H. Shumway. The Gladiolus were being sold as a rainbow mixture. 50 bulbs cost $1.00, 100 bulbs cost $1.75 and 200 bulbs cost $3.25. The Dahlias were the New Giant variety, and two bulbs cost 25 cents, and that also covered the cost of postage. Right about now is the perfect time to order Gladiolus and Dahlias. Gladiolus are the official flower of August. Gladiolus's etymology is Latin and means “little sword” in reference to the shape of the flowers. The corms have been used medicinally to help extract slivers or thorns. In cold climates, once you plant your gladiolus and enjoy their blooms in late summer, you can dig the bulbs up in the fall and store them until you can plant them again in the spring. And I’ll never forget what my friend Joel Karsten, the author of Straw Bale Gardening, told me about how easy it is to plant gladiolus in conditioned straw bales. Once the flowers are done blooming in the fall, you just kick the bale over, and all the corms fall out for easy gathering. As for the beautiful Dahlia, it was originally grown as a food crop. It turns out the tubers are edible and taste a little like other root vegetables: the potato and the carrot. The Dahlia is named to honor the Swedish botanist Anders Dahl. Dahlias are in the same family as Common Daisies and Sunflowers. Dahlias come in all shapes and sizes, and some are as large as dinner plates. And, here’s a little fun fact about the Dahlia: it’s the official flower of the city of destiny and goodwill: Seattle.   Thanks for listening to The Daily Gardener. And remember: "For a happy, healthy life, garden every day."

We pre-recorded today's conversation via Zoom to get the details about Gardening in the Valley Symposium 2021 with Northern Shenandoah Valley Master Gardener Association. Joining me on the Zoom screen was Bob Gail, Immediate Past President of NSVMGA and Lynn Hoffman & Helen Lake, Co-Chairs of the event which will take place virtually on March 6, 2021 from 9am - 4pm. During our conversation they explained how they came to the decision to move forward with the event this year virtually as opposed to cancelling. Lynn walked us through the day's events, told us about the various speakers who will present and included information about the 50/50 raffle and silent auction. The auction is open for bids here: https://www.biddingowl.com/Auction/index.cfm?auctionID=25928 All proceeds from the Gardening in the Valley Symposium 2021 benefit the NSVMGA Memorial Scholarship Fund. This full day (9 a.m. to 4 p.m.) continuing education symposium will feature four speakers and topics (see below). Morning and afternoon sessions will be separated by a lunch break that will give you time to eat and stretch your legs while you listen to other short topics including highlights from Frederick County's FFA and an update on the Spotted Lanternfly from Virginia Cooperative Extension. The symposium costs $45 (plus processing fee). To purchase tickets, please go to their event webpage and click on the green “Tickets” button. Topics and speakers for the 2021 Gardening in the Valley Symposium: Urban Beekeeping and Apiculture's Role in Sustainable Urban Agriculture with Brad Garmon  Mr. Garmon is the owner and chief apiarist of the Commonwealth Bee Company (www.commonwealthbee.com), a Certified Naturally Grown urban apiary and apicultural services company located in Falls Church, Virginia. He provides locally raised honeybee colonies, honey, wax products, support services, and colony relocations. Herbs for Health and Cooking with Sondra Baker Johnson Ms. Johnson began studying herbalism in the 1980s and put it to practical use with her family, pets, and farm animals. Her hobby turned into a Front Royal-based business, Natures Common Scents, LLC, (naturescommonscents.com). Raised Beds vs. Traditional Gardens with Lynne Phillips Ms. Phillips is the manager at Natural Art Garden Center (www.naturalartgardencenter.com) located in Toms Brook. Lynne grew up on a farm and is an avid vegetable and plant gardener. Back to my Roots with Diane Kearns Diane Kearns is a 4th generation orchardist from a German/English family that made the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia its home just after the Civil War. As the markets of today change, Fruit Hill is diversifying and changing with them.  Winchester Ciderworks which produces hard cider entirely from Fruit Hill's fruit, is a natural step and brings to the market a product that combines the uniqueness and quality demanded by today's consumers with the tradition and history of a handcrafted beverage. Visit Facebook for updates.

Bilal Qureshi explores the German-English idea of ‘Wanderlust' through his personal audio archives and conversations with fellow travelers. Does this romantic idea hold up in the age of fast travel and fleeting social media?

The art of translation as it relates to poetry is an intimate practice that varies from person to person, but still borrows certain precepts and common principles from other types of translation. This event, created in collaboration between write4word, La Libélula Vaga, Red Door and Kultivera, gathers translators, authors and lovers of poetry in translation to dig deeper into the subject. What is the purpose of translation? Why is it important in our time? Contributing to the discussion: Jonas Ellerström, Elizabeth Torres, Bengt Berg, clare e potter, Maria E Blanco; moderated by Aleisa Ribalta Guzmán and Dominic Williams. Bengt Berg was born and raised in Torsby, Sweden, in the forest and lake province of Varmland, near the Norwegian border and the 60th parallel, where he also lives and works. Bengt made his debut in 1974 with the poetry collection "Where the Dream Ends". He has written more than 30 books, mostly poetry. Poems by Bengt Berg have been translated into Nordic languages as well as Arabian, Hebrew, English, German, Dutch, Greek, Spanish, Turkish, Polish, Russian, Latvian, Vietnamese and Hindi. Since 1990 his publishing house Heidruns Forlag, has published 135 works -novels, books of poetry and art, translations of other works and reference books. Clare E. Potter is a Welsh speaking writer and performer who studied an MA in Afro-Caribbean literature in Mississippi and taught in New Orleans for a decade. Awards include two Literature Wales writing bursaries, the John Tripp Award for Spoken Poetry, and the Jim Criddle prize for celebrating the Welsh language. spilling histories (Cinnamon Press, 2006) will be followed by A Certain Darkness. clare has translated for the National Poet of Wales, was a Hay Festival Writer at Work, enjoys facilitating community projects and collaborating with jazz musicians. She’s currently researching the creative process for Threshold, a new poetry collection thanks to a Literature Wales bursary. Elizabeth Torres (Madam Neverstop) is a Colombian poet, multimedia artist, translator and speaker. Elizabeth resides in Copenhagen, where she works as a writer and translator, edits and published the Red Door magazine and curates the Red Door Gallery. She is host to the Red Transmissions Podcast, as well as project coordinator for other initiatives in Europe and abroad. 'Det usynlige sår/La herida invisible' (The invisible wound), a selection of her poetry was translated to Danish by Malene Boeck Thorborg and released by Det Poetiske Bureaus Forslag in November, 2019. Previous to that, 'En las Fauces del Olvido' (In the Jaws of Oblivion) was published in Puerto Rico by La Impresora, and then launched in Mexico and Guatemala, with additional presentations in Sweden, Finland, Germany and Denmark during 2017. The ways of the Firefly (German / English) (2020) Would You Like to Come Home? (German/English) (2021) Jonas Ellerström is an author, translator and publisher. He has most recently published 'Under tidens yta. En annorlunda svensk poesihistoria' (ellerströms, 2014)/A different Swedish poetry history (ellerströms, 2014) and Homesickness from the world. Essays on poetry/Hemlängtan ur världen. Essäer om poesi (Ariel, 2015). He regularly participates in Lyrikvännen and has translated poetry by, among others, Arthur Rimbaud, T S Eliot, William Blake, Richard Brautigan, Sylvia Plath, Joyce Carol Oates, Margaret Atwood and Janet Frame. Maria Elena Blanco is a Cuban poet, essayist and translator. Besides her activity as literature researcher, lecturer and critic, she has worked as U.N. translator since 1983, presently freelance. Poetry translator from English, French, Italian and German. Poetry: 'Posesión por pérdida' (1990), 'Alquímica memoria' (2001), 'Mitologuías. Homenaje a Matta' (2001), 'danubiomediterráneo /mittelmeerdonau' (2005), 'El amor incontable' (2008), 'Sobresalto al vacío' (2015) and several poetry anthologies. Essays: 'Asedios al texto literario' (literary analysis,1999) and 'Devoraciones. Ensayos de período especial' (Cuban culture and politics, 2016). Lives mainly in Vienna with seasonal stays in Chile.

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Dr Anna Volkmer, narrates her blog written for Dementia Researcher - first published on 30th September 2020, being added to our podcast stream as we migrate away from website MP3 files. Anna has always been aware of a lack of diversity in her clinical profession. She doesn't need all the fingers on one hand to count the number of bilingual people who were on her training course (Including her- German-English bilingual). If you were asked to count the number of people of a Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) background it would be even fewer- three to be precise. As she has gone into academia she noticed even less diversity on her career pathway. Very few BAME researchers, and even fewer BAME speech and language researchers. In fact I can tell you I have only met one (as of September 2020). Anna discusses diversity Find the original text, and narration here on our website. https://www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk/guest-blog-talking-about-diversity-in-dementia-research/ -- Dr Anna Volkmer is a Speech and Language Therapist and researcher in Language and Cognition, Department of Psychology and Language Sciences, University College London. Anna is researching Speech and language therapy interventions in language led dementia and was once voted scariest speech and language therapist (even her children agree). -- If you would like to write your own blog drop us a line, we're always on the look out for new contributors to write about their research, careers + more dementiaresearcher@ucl.ac.uk -- This podcast is brought to you in association with Alzheimer's Association, Alzheimer's Research UK, Alzheimer's Society and Race Against Dementia, who we thank for their ongoing support.

The two brothers, Bjørn & David, catch up with David abroad in Germany. In this episode, expect struggles with putting emphasis on certain words,  hypothetical questions involving crazy dictator laws, and David in German English class. If you like AsTheySay subscribe, and if you are unsure, send us feedback over the anchor app.  Stay informed and support the fundraising campaign #LeaveNoOneBehind Never again Moria:  https://leavenoonebehind2020.org/en/donate/ Follow us on the 'Gram for updates:  @astheysaypod @bjoernatourist Bell Sound Credit: Zapsplat --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/astheysay/message

Meet the brilliant artist and filmmaker to whom Denice Bourbon owes her career! If it wouldn't have been for this glorious Diva Fatale, Bourbon would probably never have had the guts to leave her band-comfort zone to discover all the other fun things you can do on stage. Drinking both Red and Rosé on this warm summer night, Katrina and Denice talked about all things scary on stage in their own charming German/English mishmash.

The job of many internally-facing data scientists in business settings is to discover,explore, interpret, and share data, turning it into actionable insight that can benefit the company and improve outcomes. Yet, data science teams often struggle with the very basic question of how the company’s data assets can best serve the organization. Problem statements are often vague, leading to data outputs that don’t turn into value or actionable decision support in the last mile. This is where Martin Szugat and his team at Datentreiber step in, helping clients to develop and implement successful data strategy through hands-on workshops and training. Martin is based in Germany and specializes in helping teams learn to identify specific challenges data can solve, and think through the problem solving process with a human focus. This in turn helps teams to select the right technology and be objective about whether they need advanced tools such as ML/AI, or something more simple to produce value. In our chat, we covered: How Datentreiber helps clients understand and derive value from their data — identifying assets, and determining relevant use cases. An example of how one client changed not only its core business model, but also its culture by working with Datentreiber, transitioning from a data-driven perspective to a user-driven perspective. Martin’s strategy of starting with small analytics projects, and slowly gaining buy-in from end users, with a special example around social media analytics that led to greater acceptance and understanding among team members. The canvas tools Martin likes to use to visualize abstract concepts related to data strategy, data products, and data analysis. Why it helps to mix team members from different departments like marketing, sales, and IT and how Martin goes about doing that How cultural differences can impact design thinking, collaboration, and visualization processes. Resources and Links: Company site (German) (English machine translation) Datentreiber Open-Source Design Tools Data Strategy Design (German)  (English machine translation) Martin’s LinkedIn Quotes from Today’s Episode “Often, [clients] already have this feeling that they're on the wrong path, but they can't articulate it. They can't name the reason why they think they are on the wrong path. They learn that they built this shiny dashboard or whatever, but the people—their users, their colleagues—don't use this dashboard, and then they learn something is wrong.” - Martin “I usually like to call this technically right and effectively wrong solutions. So, you did all the pipelining and engineering and all that stuff is just fine, but it didn't produce a meaningful outcome for the person that it was supposed to satisfy with some kind of decision support.” - Brian “A simple solution is becoming a trainee in other departments. So, ask, for example, the marketing department to spend a day, or a week and help them do their work. And just look over the shoulder, what they are doing, and really try to understand what they are doing, and why they are doing it, and how they are doing it. And then

I really want to say "this goes without saying" about many of the things I'm saying to you today. But maybe it does not. Racism is not welcome here. Thank you for listening to today's episode. And as maker of the Fluent Show, I can also tell you that every person who works on the team stands behind this message. Please read Lindsay's very well-written perspective here (https://www.lindsaydoeslanguages.com/lets-talk-about-racism/). Here are 4 wonderful Fluent Show guests who have represented the voices of black language learners. Please read more about them and how impressive they are. There are TWO bilingual interviews in here:

Yogastunde deutsch-englisch. Langes Halten der Stellungen mit Chakra-Konzentration. Ohne Pranayama. Mit Laya Tiefenentspannung. Mitschnitt einer Yogastunde mit Sukadev während eines 9-tägigen Yogalehrer Weiterbildungsseminars im Juli 2008. Entdecke den neuen Yoga Vidya Live Kanal mit Live Yogastunden, Satsangs, Vorträgen und mehr. Täglich! Seminare zum Thema Asana. Besuche uns als Individualgast und nehme an offenen Yogastunden und weiteren Veranstaltungen teil. Wenn du Yogalehrer werden möchtest oder eine andere Ausbildung bei Yoga Vidya machen möchtest, dann besuche unsere Webseite für Ausbildung und Weiterbildung. »

Yogastunde deutsch-englisch. Langes Halten der Stellungen mit Chakra-Konzentration. Ohne Pranayama. Mit Laya Tiefenentspannung. Mitschnitt einer Yogastunde mit Sukadev während eines 9-tägigen Yogalehrer Weiterbildungsseminars im Juli 2008. Entdecke den neuen Yoga Vidya Live Kanal mit Live Yogastunden, Satsangs, Vorträgen und mehr. Täglich! Seminare zum Thema Asana. Besuche uns als Individualgast und nehme an offenen Yogastunden und weiteren Veranstaltungen teil. Wenn du Yogalehrer werden möchtest oder eine andere Ausbildung bei Yoga Vidya machen möchtest, dann besuche unsere Webseite für Ausbildung und Weiterbildung. »

The topic of sustainability is not a new one; it is slowly arriving from the niche into the middle of society. So is sustainable fashion finally ready for implementation in the mass market? Or/and is there simply no way around it? Digitalization and sustainability are the two topics that retailers must now address, says Dr. Daniel Terberger, Katag Ag, who discusses the future of fashion retail in this panel together with Bernd Keller and Kerry Bannigan. Our guests: Dr. Daniel Terberger, Katag AG Bernd Keller, True Standard Kerry Bannigan, Conscious Fashion Campaign moderated by Jana Kern & Alex Vogt, Kern.consulting The discussion was recorded at Neonyt in July 2019. NEONYT PODCAST In a podcast series, we have made the most exciting talks on various topics of the past Neonyt available for you. The topics range from a sustainable production, retail and better packaging to craft and jewelry 4.0. How can producers, brands, and retailers approach sustainability sensibly and really drive change in fashion?

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Jesse is joined by Ian Braisby who does Ghost Tours & is a German-English translator. They talk about Bruce, a little Doctor Who, and other fun stuff.  Please check it out.   Ian's Twitter - @ian Braisby Jesse's Twitter - @JesseJacksonDFW

Bryce Dunn, Manuel Veth, and Chris Williams discuss matchday 15 of the Bundesliga. They also chat about the recent Champions League draw that will see the three German teams face English opposition. Finally, they also discuss the upcoming Englische Woche in the Bundesliga. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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Jesus and his disciples went into the villages near Caesarea Philippi. On the way he asked his disciples, “Who do people say that I am?” They told him, “Some say John the Baptist, others Elijah, and still others one of the prophets.” He asked them, “And what about you? Who do you say that I am?” Peter answered, “You are the Christ.” Jesus ordered them not to tell anyone about him. Then Jesus began to teach his disciples: “The Human One must suffer many things and be rejected by the elders, chief priests, and the legal experts, and be killed, and then, after three days, rise from the dead. ”He said this plainly. But Peter took hold of Jesus and, scolding him, began to correct him. Jesus turned and looked at his disciples, then sternly corrected Peter: “Get behind me, Satan. You are not thinking God’s thoughts but human thoughts.” I have to confess that this past year has been an unusual one, not only because of the sabbatical, but also because of a wave of deaths of people I’ve known and pastored and worked closely with. It all seem to begin with my friend Michael Swift, the former choir director, who was roughly my age, who passed away from a cancer in Hawaii, after a wonderful career as a nurse.  He was fun to be around, a lovely man, and so smart, and the kind of nurse who you simply trusted within seconds of meeting him. And then recently Joyce from my former congregation in Michigan died of cancer, only a month or so ago – again, a kind and gentle woman whose smile could light up a room. I have two German/English language prayer books from her childhood she gave me before I left the church to pastor here in Chicago – they are on a shelf in my office right now. Amazingly, she and her twin sister died within 2 weeks of each other. Douglas and I lit a candle for her at the Protestant Cathedral in Berlin. Karen, another member of my former congregation in Michigan, died a few weeks – again, a backbone of the church, always handing out the bulletins on Sunday, and sending out her homemade cards she made on her computer, for every occasion, including get well cards for a simple cold.  And then there is Laverne, the church secretary for many years at First Congregational in Houston, who was charter member of that church, and who could tell stories of growing up in Houston before air conditioning become affordable for the masses – Houston without air conditioning is my idea of hell! And Sylvia, who reinvented herself as a mental health counselor after her marriage fell apart and spent decades providing psychological services in an office tucked away in the tower of the Houston church. Both Sylvia and Laverne also passed away within a few weeks of each other. The passing of every one of those souls was a shock to me and it’s not as if they were all unexpected deaths – but when I got the news about each of them, a flood of memories about them would overwhelm my soul, and then the grief and sadness came, even as I have hope and believe to the core of who I am that they are with their Creator, who is love itself, according to Jesus.     Almost all of us in this room have experienced grief at the death of a beloved, human and sometimes not human, and sometimes the force of it can be overwhelming, almost a surprise in its intensity, even if we’ve had a sometimes ambiguous relationship with them. The experts often try to mark out the stages of grief, or they hand us a model for what to expect – but grief is so particular to each person, and ultimately there are no right ways to express grief or even not express it. I watch too much of the television show Dateline, where true-life murders are unraveled, and there is always that detective who states that so-and-so is just not grieving in the right way for the victim, which was their first clue that this person may be guilty of the murder. As someone who has walked beside a lot people in their grief, and have known my own so acutely, I just roll my eyes when officers say stuff like that – there are no ordinary and right ways to grieve – there is just grief, and it comes out in sometimes surprising ways. We can’t judge people’s ways of getting through grief, not really, though certainly there are healthy and unhealthy ways to deal with loss, sorrow and anguish. We can’t know another’s experiences, the complexity of their experience, the ways they’ve been taught and not taught about how to deal with loss.   And yet, it’s not healthy when we decide not to sit with our grief, or when we try to run away from our own sorrow, or even the grief of others, the deep suffering within and without. It’s the very challenge that the disciples in our story are surely struggling with in today’s text, in their denials of the reality that Jesus has set before them – that difficult things, heart rending things will greet them in the coming weeks and they will know grief in ways they have never known before. But first, he asks them a question, a pivotal question, in a pivotal place like Caesarea Philippi, and in a pivotal moment in the story that writer of the Gospel of Mark is telling. Jesus asks them who the people say he is, who do they think he is?  They reply that some think of Jesus as being the resurrection of dead prophets, ones who have died recently, like John the Baptist, and others who have long since gone, Elijah and the prophets of old. “Fine,” he seems to say, “but who do you say that I am” – and the disciples, well, they say he is the Messiah, God’s promised Savior to the people of Israel. When they say Messiah, they imagine with so many of their fellow countrymen that this Messiah would defeat God’s enemies and bring with him a new golden era of Israel, one not even matched by Kings David and Solomon. “Quiet, then, don’t tell a soul what you believe about me,” he tells them. But then Jesus immediately begins to challenge the ideas they have about what a Messiah should be – he tells them that instead of winning he will lose, that instead of defeating his enemies and the enemies of Israel, they will defeat him – they will kill him, though he will rise, he will rise again only three days later. What’s interesting about this moment is two things: first, you should know that Mark says that this took place in Caesarea Philippi, while Matthew and Luke have the story taking place in another town.  Why? Well, scholars think that Mark wants to make some connections to the time Mark and his listeners were living through, years after Jesus’ life and resurrection, but during the Jewish Civil War fought against the Romans some forty years later. At the time this Gospel was likely written, Caesar Philippi had being used by the Romans as Prisoner of War camp, holding the Jewish revolutionaries who had rebelled against Rome – and in Caesarea Philippi they tortured and killed them in a public manner, as a signal to the population that if you do what these men did, this will be your fate as well– the Romans were always about public displays of state cruelty so as to send a message to the conquered populace. With this horrific scene in our mind, the writer of Mark, in words following today’s verses, but not printed in your bulletin, the writer has Jesus telling his disciples that they must deny themselves, take up their cross, and possibly lose their life for the sake of the Gospel. All of this is said in a city whose streets have only recently run crimson with the blood of Jewish martyrs, men who had laid down their lives in an effort to throw off the shackles of Rome.   But only moments before this call to follow after Jesus, to take up a cross and follow him, we see Peter literally taking hold of Jesus, grabbing him, so distraught was he about Jesus’ words about dying and rising, that Peter tries to correct him – “don’t be a fool, Jesus, Messiahs don’t die, they live, they win, they defeat the enemies of God.” But Jesus won’t be dismissed, won’t be corrected by someone who doesn’t know what he is talking about – and he literally calls Peter Satan, and says that he is thinking human thoughts rather than divine thoughts – thinking like people who crave revenge and victory rather this new thing he is doing that will defeat the sting of death in the act of resurrection, for all of humankind. What’s interesting here is that Peter, and certainly some of the other disciples, is that they don’t want Jesus to be like them, they don’t want him to be human, to live and die as humans must, and always will – to them, a Messiah who can die is a pretty useless Messiah. Jesus shouldn’t be like us, hostage to the sting and the horror of death, the fear that knocks at the door of even the bravest and most faithful of us. Messiah’s don’t know death – and there shouldn’t be any need for a Messiah to rise after three days because he shouldn’t be dead in the first place! But it’s the beautiful taut tension that runs throughout the Jesus story, this belief that Jesus was as a human as we are, that he felt love and knew joy, felt desire, and knew grief, knew it as deeply as we did. And yet, Jesus was somehow also something altogether different than human – not a different creature, but somehow, mysteriously was divinity itself walking through the streets of Caesarea Philippi, healing the sick, stilling the storms and simply showing us the face of God in ways we had humans had never seen it before. Jesus was not simply God disguised as one of us, but God was actually one of us, one of us humans. But to be human, to do what God has done in Christ means that God now knows not only the joy and love and laughter and family and friendship that comes with being human.  It also means God knows pain, knows loneliness, knows despair, and knows human grief, knows that it means to lose a beloved to death, to life on the other side of life. We Christians call this idea of God being both fully human and fully God the doctrine of the incarnation, this crazy idea that God came to humankind thousands of years ago in the form of a peasant from a backwater town, and was immersed in the world as deeply as we are, completely awash in the human experience as we all are here in this room. Since the very beginning we Christians have tried to make sense of the meaning of Jesus’ death and resurrection – the debate is all over our New Testament and continues even today. One of the ways some Christians have explained what God did in Christ, what God brought to humankind in the Christ, the possibility of wholeness, salvation, is that God entered into the human experience through this Jesus and that has made all the different – it changed God and it changed us. Gregory of Naznanius, one of the great theologians of the 4th century, said this: “that which he has not assumed he has not healed.”  “That which God has not assumed, that God has not entered into, God has not healed, maybe cannot heal.”  God cannot heal us or the world if God has not entered into the world. Listen to the story of the shaman we heard in our modern lesson, the one that heals through the experience of “feeling with” the patient: “I feel for the sores, the aches and the pains. When I put my hand over the body I can feel every little muscle and every little vein. I can feel the soreness. It hurts me. If they have heart trouble, my heart just beats. Any place they are hurting, I hurt. I become a part of their body.  There is something about entering into the human experience that changes the healer and healed, the Creator and the creation, and many Christians, including myself, believe that God’s choice to do such a thing, to enter into the joy and into the hurt of the world, it somehow gave us the possibility of wholeness. The God who created us, the God who walks beside us in the Christ, and the God who is within us through the Spirit, this God knows our pain, our joy, our grief, our love, our hurt, our fear, our strength and now even our death, and somehow this choice by God to do so has changed God, and can change us, if we will only allow it to. Wholeness is possible, perhaps not completely on this side of the veil, but wholeness in particular moments, that wholeness really is possible because of what God has done in Christ.     But, like God, we, you and I have a choice about whether or not to enter into the world of others, of the life of the greater world, to listen to what is difficult to hear, to what is difficult to understand, the choice to listen to the stories of others, to their truths, their sorrows, to their joys. I talked last week about the need for us Christians to listen to others, to each other, and to God – to echo Matt Smucker’s summary of my sermon, “my pastor said we should shut up and listen!” Part of the reason why I think that is good advice is that it’s exactly what God did through Jesus – God listened to us, and though certainly God spoke to us through Jesus, God also listened to us, and I think the listening made all the difference. And because God listened to us, we should listen to each other, and in listening to each other, we’re sometimes going to hear God speaking through others.  But we humans don’t have to, do we, we don’t have to listen to each other, and to listen to the pain and suffering of the world. Some of us spend a lot of time avoiding having to listen to anything that hurts, that feels what the shaman feels, the hurt of the world and others, and we are like Peter, wishing not to look at the reality, the difficult reality of it that is before him. Some of us only want to surround ourselves with joy, laughter, goodness, and I am tempted by impulse, and sometimes seek out only the light – and there is nothing wrong with that, of seeking to laugh sometimes or even most of the time – and sometimes you just need to watch a bunch YouTube videos showcasing puppies to get through the day! But it’s funny, I think, that even then sorrow can creep into our joy, something I was reminded of this summer during my sabbatical. To get away from the heat in Zurich, Douglas and I went to see Mamma Mia 2 in a nice cool theater, and though the films are nothing but cotton candy, they do have Abba songs, which was the music of my childhood – and usually I just find myself smiling throughout the movie, just smiling with quiet joy.  But this particular time, right there, in this joyous, fun movie, I just started crying because memories just flooded into my mind, memories of my deceased mother and I dancing to Abba when I was seven years old in the 1970’s, dancing with the kind of abandon I don’t think I’ve ever replicated as an adult. Joy and sadness, all mixed up, surely, as it with so much of life, so connected to each other and so impossible they are to sometimes disentangle from each other.   But moments like the one I experienced in that theater are what we are asked to experience, to do what God has done, to take a chance on this world, to choose what God has chosen, to not always look away. Look, I know there are times when it is impossible to not listen, to not look – the cross is before you and me and there is no going back – it just must be gotten through, just gotten through so we can get to our third day, the day of our resurrection. But so often we won’t listen and we won’t look because we fear that what awaits us in our personal Jerusalems will somehow consume us, or destroy us. Sometimes we do have to look away, just to survive – emotional denial is a real and sometimes needed human coping mechanism. But, in the end, we can’t change what we can’t look at, what we can’t listen to, within us, or within the world – that truth is what God seemed to have discovered in the Christ, and what Gregory of Nazianus was trying to say when he said “that which he has not assumed, he has not healed.” It seems that God decided to change the world from the inside out, in and through the Christ, and I think that’s the only way, changing ourselves and the world from the inside out, is the only way we’re going to be able to do the same. So, we have a God who knows joy, who knows pain, and, for me, a God who knows grief, my grief, my human grief, our human grief. And for me that is a God worth journeying towards Jerusalem with, a God who we can trust to meet us in our crucifixion and who knows that resurrection can and will meet on the other side, on that great and surprising and amazing third day.  Amen.

Note: this interview was recorded before Roseanne's tweet and the subsequent cancellation of the show. Alec says he has never enjoyed being on-stage with a fellow actor more than when he performed with Laurie Metcalf in Arthur Miller's All My Sons.  Her genius is on full display in the new production of Albee's Three Tall Women, currently on Broadway, for which she just won a Tony.  On Here's the Thing, Metcalf and Alec discuss her evolution into an accomplished actor from her days as an aspiring German-English translator who'd never considered a career in the arts.  She recounts the early days of Steppenwolf, the legendary Chicago theater company she founded with John Malkovich, Gary Sinise, whom she met while she was still in college.  We learn what it was like working with Greta Gerwig on Lady Bird -- and toiling through the grueling "publicity circus train you have to get on for three months" when you're in a hit movie.  And finally, Metcalf shares stories from both sets of Roseanne: her insecurity about the show's staying-power in 1989, and the political dynamic on set for the reboot alongside her Trump-supporting friend.

This week I have one of the DGUK Individual Development Program goalkeepers Berti who is a German keeper trying to make his way into the English leagues.  IPD offers goalkeepers from abroad the chance to be seen in England with a training program and also opportunities to trial at semi pro a and pro football clubs.  Berti comes on the DGUK pro camp in Portugal every year and I have managed to get him on the podcast talking about his time in the UK so far.   We talk about the following:   - Berti training at Fulham Fc - Berti playing at Dartford and potentially winning the league - Fulham Gk coach hitting potential new fulham owner in the private area. - German & English goalkeeping training methods - DGUK Pro camp - How to get 8 goalkeepers on a golf buggy - Created a another hole in my backside   Please share your views and rating as it really does help out.  For all DGUK events please visit the website.....   www.developinggoalkeepinguk.com   Many Thanks    Martin Brennan

Jason and Andrew talk about the lessons they've learned around practicing magic as a way of life. They also talk about what it is like to live in community with those who don't practice. And of course Saint Cyprian gets talk about too.  Think about how much you've enjoyed the podcast and how many episodes you listened to and think consider if it is time tosupport the  Patreon You can do so here. If you want more of this in your life you can subscribe by RSS , iTunes, Stitcher, or email. You can find Jason on his website here.   Thanks for listening! If you dig this please subscribe and share with those who would like it.   Andrew   If you are interested in booking time with Andrew either in Toronto or by phone or Skype from anywhere click here.   Transcript    ANDREW: Welcome to another episode of the Hermit's Lamp podcast. I have Jason Miller back with me today. And, you know, I've been continuing to watch what Jason's been putting out into the world, and, you know, he's been on my radar to have back and continue our conversations about magic and living a magical life and, you know, and, I kind of want to talk to him more about teaching and helping people discover how to live that kind of life today.  But, you know, Jason, in case people haven't met you yet—and you should go back and listen to the previous episode with him—Who are you, Jason? What are you about?  JASON: Oh, man. I'm all about … I'm all about getting paid and laid! No, I'm kidding ... [laughs] Yeah, no, so, I'm not against getting paid and laid, but that's certainly not what I'm all about. I am about doing magic in a way that is impactful. So, I have noticed over the course of the last 30 some odd years that I've been doing magic, that a lot of people, they put a lot of effort into a ritual, and they'll get a result, and it'll be like, you know, I spent three hours summoning a goetic demon, and the next day I found a wallet in the street, isn't that amazing? I -- it had like 200 bucks in it! That's incredible! And it's like, great! Where are we going to go from there? ANDREW: Mmmhmm. JASON: Like, you know, how is this really going to make a big difference in your life? I mean, if you're in danger of getting tossed out of your house because you're 200 bucks short on the rent, it makes a big difference. But still and all, whether it's for pure spirituality, for love, money, etc., whatever, I'm about using magic, making it meaningful, making it have a big bump in your life... ANDREW: Mmmhmm. JASON: And being able to look back and measure it and say yeah, that made a difference. ANDREW: Mmmhmm. JASON: The man I am today ...  ANDREW: The man I am today! You know, it's funny, that piece about looking back is so important. I recently went through and cleaned up all my shrines and all my, like, bits and pieces of magical workings and stuff, you know, like, cause, especially as I'm running along through life and work and whatever, stuff accumulates in the corners, right? And I had done this piece of work that I was continuing to work at, to break through to the next financial level, right? And when I was cleaning it up and going through the whole thing, I forgot, that I had as part of that done one of those write a check to yourself from the universe thing, right?  JASON: Oh, yeah?  ANDREW: And I was like, huh, look at that! I'm currently making exactly that and I'm frustrated that I'm not getting past it!   JASON: [laughs] ANDREW: So, I tripled that amount, and put a new one in and then fired it up again, and I was like … And immediately everything just started escalating like crazy, right?  JASON: It's amazing, the little tweaks ...  ANDREW: So easy to lose ... JASON: Yeah. The little tweaks that we can make. I remember, a few years back I was having difficulty. Same thing again, you know, I would make more money, but somehow more expenses would show up, and they'd just eat away at that. And it was so frustrating. And it's a common enough problem, you know?  ANDREW: Mmmhmm. JASON: I would sit down and one day I would ... just sat down, and I might have cleaned my altar just before that time too, because that's my go to, like when things are stuck, clean up! [laughs] You know? ANDREW: Yeah! JASON: And not only do you get just a better view, but you ... You do find those little bits and nuggets of the past that tie it all together. But I sat down in front of Saint Cyprian and I was just like, “I can't seem to fix this, man! Like, I get more money, more money needs to go out.” And Saint Cyprian said, “Okay, well, you know, this month, do the same exact magic, but ask for the amount of money that you need leftover after everything is taken care of.”  ANDREW: Mmmhmm. JASON: Duh! ANDREW: Yeah. JASON: And that's exactly what happened. All of a sudden, there was this excess that I could then put towards, you know, savings, better use, house, investments, etc., etc. ANDREW: Yeah, well and especially ... We're both family people, right?  JASON: Yes! ANDREW: And with a family, those unknown expenses, I mean, it's so easy for them to creep up and whatever. We're so lucky in Canada, you know. My daughter just had strep throat, but because of the new way things are done here, the trip to the doctor is covered, and prescriptions are covered. So. But you know? Previously, like last year, before that came in, it'd be easy to go, you know you could go drop 50 - 60 bucks for this, and a pile of money there, and you know, every time you turn around, it just adds up and adds up. Yeah, I think that the power of being clear about what the solution is, and the power of how do you pray or ask or craft your sigil or whatever you're doing to solve the problem is such an important piece, right?  JASON: What …Yeah, and you know, because we're not just praying, you know? We don't describe ourselves as religious people necessarily. I mean we might be religious people, but we're not religious in the sort of, you know, the old grandma, “I'm going to go pray and hope that this happens, and leave it up to God, and thy will be done” kind of thing.  ANDREW: Sure.  JASON: Because otherwise why bother with magic at all, right?  ANDREW: Yeah. JASON: So, we're sort of getting actively involved. And even if we're working with the same powers, the saints and gods and angels and buddhas etc., we're as sorcerers saying, you know, I'm part of this, I'm part of this chain of events here, so I'm contributing, I'm inputting, at which point, yeah, the responsibility falls on you to ask for what you need skillfully, to recognize when you've, like in your case, been given exactly what you asked for, and then moved to the next level. ANDREW: Mmmhmm. JASON: It's, yeah, it's, I don't know, it's our responsibility. But I see a lot of people turn their sovereignty over to the spirits when it comes down to stuff like that. It's like, “Well, they know what I need.” And, why are you even bothering, then, man? [laughs] ANDREW: Yeah. I think that it's … you know ... there's this thing, I was reading through your new book, The Elements of Spellcrafting, and there's this section where you were talking about caveats, right? You know? And, like, I think that for me, whether I approach the Orishas, or whether I approach the other spirits I work with, you know? Whatever element of “Thy will be done” exists in the universe, I just assume they're doing that math for me as part of it, right?  JASON: Right.  ANDREW: There are things that are just never going to happen, there are things that, you know, maybe shouldn't happen, and, you know, and there are things that are maybe part of other people's will being done, and they're going to not allow me to be interfering with that, right? In the same way that, you know, it's not the monkey paw, right? Like, you know, they're not going to kill somebody so I can get their inheritance. And then I'm going to turn around and forget to say, "Bring them back as they were, and you know, instead, live a zombie love life or something," right? JASON: [laughs] ANDREW: You know, I think that there's a degree of intelligence in these processes, right?  JASON: Yeah! ANDREW: Unless you're working with something belligerent, in which case, I tend to be like, well, why go there? What's the value of that? And you know, there are values, but, if stuff doesn't want to work with me, I don't know that I want to work with it, you know?  JASON: I -- see, I'm the same way. There are ... I guess there are some borderline cases, where there are spirits that are happy to work once they've been … In the grimoire tradition, they've been constrained ...  ANDREW: Mmmhmm. JASON: And then if made offerings to and a relationship is built, but to even get their attention requires that initial like, "Will the power that blah blah..." But in general, I'm the same way, there are so many ways to do something, especially now, with just the access we have to so many, so much information, traditions, and things like that ... And also, it helps ... You know, [ringing phone] these things don't tend to happen when we are building relationships with powers ... So, of course, now my phone ... [Answering machine voice] Telemarketers, man!  ANDREW: Yeah. JASON: Sorry about that! ANDREW: They're just trying to make their money, too. You know? It's all part of ... JASON: I know, I know ... [ringing phone] ANDREW: Speaking of prolific elements, you know? [laughs] JASON: Right. We're talking about demons, the demons are like, “Hey…” ANDREW: “Hey…” JASON: “Let me talk to you about your credit card balance ...” [laughs] ANDREW: Let me talk to you about a time share ...” JASON: [laughs] So, yeah, I forgot even what I was talking about now ... ANDREW: Well, we were just talking about ... JASON: The demons erased it.  ANDREW: When you're having relationships with spirits, it's something quite different.  JASON: Oh yeah! Yeah, it's so different than looking up in a book and saying, "Well, what's the spirit that handles this, and I'm going to contact them and make a deal…"  ANDREW: Yeah. JASON: As opposed to "these are spirits that I make offerings to regularly, every day, all the time, I acknowledge special days," and, you know, you build a relationship.  ANDREW: Yeah. JASON: So then when it comes down to somebody in the Strategic Sorcery group the other day asked "Why are the spirits so literal about everything? I'm getting exactly what I ASK for, but just outside of what I intended." And I said, "Well, you know, get better at asking for stuff, but the other thing is, build up a relationship, let spirits into your life, and you can ... you ... they'll get a better window into what you need.” It's not necessarily belligerent, the assumption there is that they're all knowing, all powerful. You know? You gotta let 'em know.  ANDREW: They're not stalkers, right?  JASON: Right. They're not stalkers. ANDREW: They're not here 24/7, they're not looking at everything, they're not Santa Claus, right? JASON: Right. ANDREW: You know? Like, they don't know everything, if you don't sit down when you have their attention and tell them, right?  JASON: Yeah.  ANDREW: And here again, if you have a relationship with spirit, much of the time the solution to the problem is like, "Hey, my friend, I have this problem, I need to talk to you about it."   JASON: [laughs] ANDREW: “Blah blah blah, here's my problem, here's what it looks like, here's what I've been doing, you know, I don't know what to do next, or I just feel like I've got no luck, or like whatever you feel, and be like, hey, please help me out with this. And sometimes that can be it too, right? Just a conversation, kind of like, you know, hey, help me out, my friend, not even like, “and I'll give you this,” or whatever, right?  JASON: Absolutely. Absolutely. Cause that ... that giving, that back and forth, it's already present in the relationship. Just like with real people, you know? I use ... I always talk about borrowing 50 bucks. You know, if you accost somebody on the street, they're not giving you 50 bucks.  ANDREW: Yeah. JASON: If you ask a coworker, maybe they will, maybe they won't. But if you ask a friend, of course. They're gonna be like, “Yeah, here, do you need any more? are you good? Pay me back when you can.” Because you have a lifetime of the back and forth and it makes all the difference.  ANDREW: So, every time I tell people that you're going to be on the podcast, and some other people too, but they're always like, “So tell me about Cyprian. What about Saint Cyprian?”  JASON: [laughs] ANDREW: “What's going on with Cyprian? What do I need to know about Saint Cyprian,” right? What ... I mean, I feel like we talked about it last time, from what I remember, you know? But I'm curious. Especially because it's been a little while. Saint Cyprian seems to be growing further and further into the world these days. What do you think is up with that? Why is that happening?  JASON: Oh. [sighs heavily] Well, I'm going to go ahead and say that one of the things that's happening is that the focus is not so squarely on white European magic any more. And ... ANDREW: That's really true.  JASON: And, you know, I can ... I will thank the younger generation of millennials for some of this, that, you know, while there's certainly a lot of crap I could give the millennial generation--I'm a Gen Xer and I'm sure you are too, but--One of the good things is there's not quite as much focus on the white European magic, nor what white Europeans, especially Victorians, had to say about magic from elsewhere. So, Saint Cyprian was sort of, has been huge in Portuguese and Spanish-speaking world for many years.  ANDREW: Yeah.   JASON: You find tons of little, I have some Spanish, everything from actual books of Saint Cyprian, to little like pamphlets, trade magazines, in Spanish, that are, you know, about Saint Cyprian. And then of course you've got the Scandinavian books of Saint Cyprian in Norway. So, all this was sort of happening outside the German/English pipeline, you know?  ANDREW: Mmmhmm. JASON: And, so it was already this huge presence that just needed to poke its way into the English-speaking world. And then once it did, we do what we do with everything, it explodes. And he became immensely popular. I'm super proud of having written a really halfway not even very good article surveying the cult of Cyprian, but I wrote it back in 2007 so I can pat myself on the back, and you know, get the "before it was cool" cred. [laughs] But, you know, the amazing work has been done since then, with Humberto Maggi, and José Leitão, their translations of Cyprian books, and the commentary on them is just huge. ANDREW: Mmmhmm. JASON: And he's ... just a great worker. You know? People are looking at Christianity and realizing that there's a lot more to it than the evangelical anti-magical Protestant mindset. And maybe some of that is that we have a generation of people here who were not necessarily brought up in church, so they're kind of looking at the church with magical eyes rather than “Uhhhh, this is such a drag!” eyes. Which is why you're getting ... More and more people are going to Latin mass. Like young people going to Latin mass wherever it's available. So, you have this interest in Christianity, and people are looking at, "Well, where is witchcraft really preserved?" If we can let go of some of the Margaret Murray thesis of pagan cults that survived in secret, well, you know, a hell of a lot of it was that folk magic came into Christianity and the ceremonial magic, the whole grimoire tradition. So, once information about a saint of sorcerers became available, I think it was just, people wanted to take it and run, and have. ANDREW: Mmmhmm. It's a very accessible notion, right? I mean, it's in our culture, you know, North American culture, the idea of saints and what we do with them. There's a ... whether you're raised with it or not, it's around enough that I think it's not super foreign, you know?  JASON: Yeah. No. Absolutely. And it's, you know, Cyprian himself had already existed in such varied forms. You know, the emphasis in Europe is ... are on the books and spells that Cyprian himself was said to have penned, whether before or after death. And then in the New World traditions from Peru up to Mexico, the emphasis is on calling Cyprian himself as sort of a mediator between light and dark forces. ANDREW: Mmmhmm. JASON: And you can see this in the mesa traditions where they have … The shamans have the two mesas laid out and Saint Cyprian right in the middle.  ANDREW: Yeah.  JASON: And so, Cyprian exists as this eternal between. He's between everything. He's between heaven and hell, he's between Christian and non-Christian, he's a … you know, he builds bridges.  ANDREW: Mmmhmm. JASON: And it's just brilliant. the only things that I think some people who maybe were raised with Cyprian in the non-English, you know, object to sort of, you know, white people taking it and running with it places that it never was historically. The only thing that I really see that I ever object to is when people attempt to completely deChristianize Cyprian utterly. And say, "oh, that was never really part of it," I'm always like "well, we already have Merlin and other ... ANDREW: Sure. JASON: You know? It's the very fact that he was a bishop that kind of makes it special.  ANDREW: Well and I think that that's kind of leading up to what I was going to ask you as a question, being, what's the thing people are getting wrong about this, right? Or, what's the pitfall people fall into, you know? Because, you know, I have conversations with other, you know, olochas and priests in the Orisha tradition about what people are kind of misunderstanding as they approach traditions. Right? You know? JASON: Yeah. ANDREW: So, you know, I think that, you kind of already nailed it, right? You know, like, what is Cyprian without Christianity?  JASON: Yeah. yeah. And, you know, what is Cyprian without Justina? Justina, I think, gets downplayed quite a bit in favor of Cyprian, but it's important to remember that it was her that turned back his demons with the sign of the cross. It was her that wielded the power that attracted him to Christianity in the first place. ANDREW: Mmmhmm. JASON: And so, I think one of the other things, apart from the deChristianizing of Cyprian, and I get it, I mean, Christianity has, I mean, for every good thing about Christianity, there's a horrible thing about Christianity.  ANDREW: Yeah. At least one.  JASON: At least one! And some people have been really just damaged to the point where this is not a useful thing in this life for them ... ANDREW: Yeah.  JASON: To even worry about Christianity one way or the other. They left it, and good, because, you know, it was causing them a lot of pain. So, I'm not one of those people that's like, you know, “You have to be Christian.” But, you have to be, I think to work with Cyprian, you have to be comfortable, at least looking at Jesus, Christianity, and all the rest of it as a usable power, as a valid spiritual power, and it's always weird to me how people who are so open that they can embrace, sometimes, dozens of traditions at the same time, and, you know, while “Hecate, Queen of Heaven, and ...” yet, once it's Christian, because of the baggage, it's like, oh no. No. That is false, and I reject it ever.  ANDREW: Yeah. And I think, as you say, I think it's part of all of our journeys; ideally to try and resolve and free ourselves of those baggages, you know? And I think about how when I started doing misas, and sort of espiritismo, and Alan Kardek style, you know, ceremonies and stuff like that, you know, and praying for my ancestors who were Catholic, or, you know, Anglican or whatever, with the prayers that they asked for, without any attachment to that, you know, came from, you know, a number of years of deconstructing less so explicit Church history, cause I don't have much of that, but more so, negative cultural influences on that stuff that I was basically, you know what? Screw you and your son! You know? For about 19 years, right? JASON: [laughing] ANDREW: And, you know, but being free of that really allows for, has allowed me to meet spirits where they want to be met, where that feels appropriate to me, and therefore, when my grandmother was like, say the Lord's Prayer, say the Apostle's Creed, say the, you know, the Hail Marys, say this, say that, I'm like, "Cool, I'll say those prayers for you, it's fine."  JASON: Right.  ANDREW: But it's not straightforward, you know?  JASON: No. ANDREW: For many people. And definitely for me it wasn't, in the beginning, so.  JASON: Yeah. yeah. And there ... You know, my advice is always, if that is bringing trauma and discomfort, there are other powers. You don't have to work with Cyprian. And I guess that's the worry that everyone has that something becomes sort of insanely popular and people get involved only because of its popularity. ANDREW: Mmmhmm. JASON: I don't know how much of a danger that really is. I've always been one of those people that's kind of … It's like, “Is the band good or is the band not good?” How many other people like the band isn't really relevant ... ANDREW: Yeah. JASON: To my enjoyment of them. But for some people it is. They want to be in on the thing no one else was in on.  ANDREW: Well, and, you know, it's funny, so, I spent time in the Aurum Solis, which is a not very popular not very well-known ceremonial order, right?  JASON: Ogdoatic! ANDREW: Yeah. And, you know, I mean, in some ways, my time there was one of the most liberating of things, because unlike many other systems, where they gave name and form to whatever dualities and core principle and so on, they just use generic terms, and generic terms that they had set up for themselves for people within the order to work with, and so, it was always open-ended, and then if you were working Enochian or goetic or this or whatever, you shifted and you melded it to where you wanted it to be, or where it made sense to put that together, unlike in other systems, you know, like when I was into Crowley stuff, and here's your specific, you know, ordered organization and structure, and you know, in other places where it's like, well this is always this person. It's like, eh, they could be many things ...  JASON: [laughing] ANDREW: I want to know what would make sense here, you know?  JASON: Right.  ANDREW: Cause there's more of this idea of there being an archetypal or source that was putting on source as we danced with it, called it, rather than having predefined form that we were required to meld ourselves to. and in that process, I actually became very malleable, and very free from a lot of other stuff, which was pretty handy, so.  JASON: Yeah, that is. Now Aurum Solis, they went like full Christian at one point, didn't they, awhile back?  ANDREW: I left the order around 2000, 2001. I think that as far as I know they were going more in like a sort of witchcraft, European witchcraft direction when I was leaving.   JASON: Really! ANDREW: Which wasn't really my particular thing, yeah. But it's been a long time and I'm no longer involved so I couldn't actually say.  JASON: Okay. Yeah, I seem to remember something about Denning taking the order into like a, you know, reforming it as a Christian-only order, and then un-reforming it as a Christian order, just only a few years after that, when people were like, naaah, that's ... ANDREW: Yeah, it's hard to say. I don't know that part of the history. It certainly wasn't a part of my time. But, I mean, like many of those experiences, my work was mostly about my local person rather than the bigger picture of things too, right? Which is...  JASON: Yeah. ANDREW: Both a pro and a con, right? Cause it's great when everybody's on the same page, but when your local person and your international person or head of the order is doing something else, then you know, that's kind of, becomes disruptive, so.   JASON: We, in, you know, I was in the OTO for a while, and we had formed a camp, still around today in Philadelphia, Thelesis. It's now, I think, an oasis. It's ... the OTO has small camps, and then they have oases, and then they have lodges, and so on. And when we started it out, it was like a bunch of people that were disgruntled from the New York scene, and then we made all these connections in Philadelphia, which had an OTO group, and then everybody left. So, we just gathered the people that were sort of abandoned.  ANDREW: Sure.  JASON: And we were the weirdest OTO group in the order at the time, because none of us wanted to do the gnostic mass, like none of us wanted to do it.  ANDREW: Right.  JASON: None of us wanted to do Resh, the four times a day, you know, he is the Sun God, he is the Fun God, rah rah rah kind of thing every day. And so, we were just, we were essentially just a magical group, and we were using the OTO as sort of this unstructural umbrella and, that we would report to. And for years, like we had Behutet Magazine, which is still running, but we wouldn't allow any Crowley reprints, or poetry, and all the other magazines at the time were, you know, like “Here's a reprint of Crowley ...” ANDREW: Mmmhmm. JASON: “And my poems!” And so, we were like, “nope, none of that,” and it was all about the local people and what they wanted to do and it was great. It was great. It has changed now. I think they're much more in line with the overall order than it used to be. But, it's the way things go. ANDREW: Mmmhmm. Yeah, I think that there are certainly in my experience, there are the times and places where a group of people coalesce for one reason or another, you know, and those moments and times are wonderful, and you know, when I was younger I used to think they would last forever, and now I find myself ... JASON: [laughs] Yeah.  ANDREW: ... in, you know, in those moments, I just savor them, knowing that likely they'll pass at some point. You know? And may even be far and few between, so, you know, just revel in them, like, oh, how wonderful to have all these connections in this thing right now, you know?  JASON: It is, it is. And, you know, I don't know how involved you are in your local community. I live in the sticks, I live in New Jersey, but, you know, down in the pine barrens, and I do miss having a big local community, and the time, too, because between business and kids, that eats most of it up.  ANDREW: Yeah.  JASON: So. ANDREW: Yeah, I mean, local magical community, we have, we sometimes, maybe three or four times a year I have just a, call it a magically-minded social night at the shop, and just open, show up, make some tea, hang out, whatever. So those are always great. Everybody's invited, so if you're hearing this and you want to come, get in touch. And for me, it's like, because my primary work is Orisha work, right? So, it's ceremonies and stuff like that that happens, so, you know.   JASON: Right.  ANDREW: Early in the year I was down in the States helping at a birth of a priest, and, those are great, you know. But they're not so much local and they're not really ongoing, they're more periodic when they're required, so.  JASON: Right.  ANDREW: Mmmhmm. JASON: Right. You know, the shops are wonderful, and the community that ... I mean ... Back when I was starting out, the shop was your only link to the community, really, ANDREW: Yeah. JASON: If you didn't know it already, if you were just interested in magic, it was like putting in time at the shop. You would just like hang out, talk with the shop owner, and … ANDREW: Mmhmm JASON: They, you guys facilitated all the introductions, so ... ANDREW: Yeah. JASON: It was really just through getting friendly with shop owners in the area that I got to know who was doing what where.  ANDREW: And for me it was because I lived in sort of small town Ontario growing up, it was, twice a year there was a psychic fair, and I would go and find stuff there, which is where I bought like, Magic in Theory and Practice when I was 12, and stuff like that. JASON: Yes. ANDREW: And then there'd be like six months of like, trying to understand what the hell is being said in those books ...  JASON: [laughing] ANDREW: What do I do with my hands? What am I supposed to say? What's going on? You know? But, that was it, because, you know, I was too young to drive, too young to get anywhere, there were no buses to the city, you know, back in the 80s and stuff like that, it was just like, that was it. You take your books, you go home, you read em a bunch, try and figure it out, realize you don't know what you're doing, and then try again, you know? So.  JASON: No YouTube videos, to ... ANDREW: No YouTube videos. JASON: To set you right. ANDREW: Yeah. For sure.  So, one of the other questions people ... somebody posted ... was, and I feel like I already know the answer to this, but I'm going to ask you anyway, so: Do you ever run into people who are disapproving of your practices? I mean we were talking about people who didn't like your books and stuff like that before we got on the call, but like, you ever just like face to face in your community, or you know that kind of stuff, run into anything, or ... ? Is that ... ? JASON: Rarely. ANDREW: Yeah. JASON: Rarely. I benefit from having not only a common name but several other famous Jason Millers. ANDREW: Uh huh. JASON: So when I have a day job, it was, it would be an odd thing for them to find out about me, even after I started publishing books, because you've got Jason Miller the playwright, Jason Miller the MMA fighter, and now you've got Jason Miller the, you know, Trump campaign dude, who I was ... Someone wrote, like, bitching about Trump to me, and it was clear they thought that I worked for his campaign. Like, “How can you, an occultist, work for Donald Trump?” I was like, “Two different people!” [laughing] ANDREW: Yeah. JASON: Like, I don't know, I don't even look like that guy. But, you know, so, it didn't happen too often, that people would find out. When they did, I have a way of explaining it or presenting it, so … It's amazing if you just drop certain words out of your vocabulary. ANDREW: Like demon? JASON: Like demon, sure! You know ... So, for instance. All right. I can go to a Buddhist ceremony and we can take a phurba and make a ritual doll, essentially a voodoo doll, a linga, and stab the shit out of it and release, liberate it, quote, and you know, essentially, hard core black magic, but if you tell somebody you're going to a Buddhist event, “Oh, the Dalai Lama is so holy, oh, that's wonderful that you're interested in Buddhism and meditation and ...” You can say, when I introduce myself to other parents at the playground, and they ask what I do, I say, "I'm a writer, so I work from home, and that's why we spend summers elsewhere,” and things like that. I can say, “Well, you know, I write on mysticism or, and meditation,” that's easy for most people. Like, they don't think too much about it. You can … If they press you can say, “Well, you know, I write about shamanism or fringe religion,” right? The moment you say magic, then it's sort of like, “Ohhhhh, I don't know,” and then if you say witchcraft, now you're introducing the language of the diabolical, of what society has called, you know, it relates, you know, I mean, and modern witchcraft willfully and knowingly took on the constellation of terms around the witch hunts, and coopted those and used those terms, and to good effect, I think. But that's why witches get hassled by Christians and Druids tend not to.  ANDREW: Hmm. JASON: Because people don't know what a Druid is. So, you're just some crunchy hippie dude.  ANDREW: Yeah.  JASON: Or, you know, witches, pagans, have trouble, but somebody who is Asatru, describes themselves that way, might not. Somebody might think they're a racist, but [laughs]. ANDREW: Yeah.  JASON: You know. They're not going to get that "Do you worship Satan?" kind of thing.  ANDREW: Mmmhmm.  JASON: So. ANDREW: I think that, it really is very much about ... For me, it's very much about how you frame it, and for me, it's such a clear given about my life and I can explain it in simple terms, you know, I explain it to my kids as they were growing up in simple terms, they get to know more and more as time goes on about my religious Orisha practices, you know, and there's so many ways in which you can sort of just frame it, and I find that for me almost without exception, when I approach the conversation where people are like, “Wait, wait, you kill chickens.” I'm like, “Yeah dude. Do you eat chicken? I see you're wearing leather shoes.”  JASON: [laughing] ANDREW: Right, like? Or whatever. And if you're grounded in it, I find that it is rarely an issue. JASON: Yeah. ANDREW: I mean, it's always possible to be an issue, but almost never, you know? I've had one person give me a hard time at the shop since I opened the store five, almost six years ago. And he's some older local dude who stood in front of my door one day blocking it, and I went to talk to him, and he was waiting for the bus, and he basically just got really mad and started swearing at me and telling me I was going to hell and whatever, and, you know, and then some woman who was waiting with her kids at the bus stop started yelling at him to stop swearing … JASON: Yeah. ANDREW:  Very quickly became the end of the conversation, and then, I see him walk past now, cause I'm still in the neighborhood, but he's just, eyes forward and ignores me completely now, you know? And one other person who no longer does this but for a long time used to leave little inspirational God pamphlets in my mailbox all the time. But that was it. Like, easily if I saw him, he'd be like "How are you today, you know, I'm going to work, here have this, here, take one of these." I'm always like, "Sure man, whatever," but never, nothing ever escalated, cause I never escalated it. You know? JASON: Yeah. I mean, I love the little pamphlets. I mean, I always thank people for them, and I just hold in my head that obviously I don't agree with them, but this person feels like they have the spiritual equivalent of the cure for cancer. So, if they think that that's true, then the moral thing to do is to spread that far and wide, right? Like, not to be like, “Shh, don't tell anyone, we have the secret keys to enlightenment and heaven.” So, I always look at, like if somebody's just sharing or they knock on the door or something like that, I always kind of assume the best ... ANDREW: Yeah. JASON: Because it's done, even though I think they're deluded in what they believe, I think their moral intention to share it is good most of the time. Sometimes it's not. Sometimes it's just masking their desire to persecute others. And that becomes apparent pretty quick. And, you know, thankfully, you live in Canada, and I live in the relatively for America more enlightened northeastern United States. ANDREW: Mmmhmm. JASON: There are some areas of my country where I gotta believe I'd probably get a lot more hassle than I do here. One of the reasons I don't live in some areas of the country. ANDREW: For sure, yeah. JASON: You know, in that my kids would be going to school, some parent would Google me, and now my kids would be having a hard time, and ... ANDREW: Mmmhmm. Well, you would just go to your Buddhist meditation and solve it, right? [laughing] JASON: Yes, yeah. I can just, "It's just Buddhism," "Noooo, I saw the books, it's not just Buddhism!"  ANDREW: It's so many things. That's funny. Yeah, it's funny, you know, I think, probably because I spent so long in a Mohawk, and being all punked out and stuff, I just, people don't tend to argue with me too much about stuff, and I don't really tend to engage people. The minute stuff comes up I'm always like, “You know what, I think I'm gonna go now, see you later ...”  JASON: Yeah! ANDREW: You know and just opt out of those conversations too, right? So.  JASON: Yeah, you know, the times that it comes up are ... they're just few and far between, because ultimately, people aren't all that interested. If they're not interested, then they're not particularly interested, you know? It's a weird thing, but if you are able to talk about other things and hold a real conversation with people about something other than that ... ANDREW: Yeah. JASON: Which is a talent that sadly not everyone in our community has, but … ANDREW: Mmmhmm. JASON: It goes a long way. It's like, look, you know, if you invite me over for dinner, no, I'm not going to start prattling on about religion and weirdness unless you ask.  ANDREW: Yeah. No, for sure. Yeah, back when I used to work in advertising, I discovered that there were certain places that I would end up, and there were certain kinds of conversations that went better, so like when I was going down to the print shop to talk to the guy who's running the big printing presses and do color proofs, you know,  a lot of those guys really dug sports, and so I would check the paper, see what was going on, and just prep myself to have a good conversation with them, and it didn't hurt me at all, they loved it, you know, and it made for a better relationship, you know? Showing an interest in what people are interested in gets us a long way a lot of the time, right?  JASON: Oh yeah.  ANDREW: And avoids a lot of problems, right? Because then you have that personal connection where they're like, “Well, Jason's not really that bad, I mean he takes his kids to the park all the time, how can you, he can't be evil, he's gotta be good, so whatever, I'll give him the benefit of the doubt.” Right?  JASON: That's it! ANDREW: Yup. So, first of all, thank you for making time today.  JASON: Thank you for having me, man! ANDREW: Yeah.  What have you got going on? I know that you've got this book that just came out this year, The Elements of Spellcrafting, which is great, and people should definitely check that out. What else is going on? Where should people find you? What have you got coming down the line?  JASON: Well, people can find me at StrategicSorcery.net. And the big thing coming down the line is, the next cycle of Sorcery of Hecate opens up in May for a June start. This is a class that -- it got so much bigger than I ever expected it to, because it, you know, it's a hard … it's the hardest class that I do, like as far as like, people want, you want something to do that, you know, requires a commitment and will get you results but is going to ask something more from you. ANDREW:  Yeah. JASON: And is going to challenge you, like the first month or two, you're going to come to me and say, "Oh, I had this vision ..."  and I'm going to be like, "That's great, keep doing the ritual, please." You know? Like, the vision is great, but just, it doesn't mean anything. Let's get deeper. Let's go deep. Let's not settle for "I did a ritual, I had a vision," like, is it important? Is it telling you something you didn't know? If not, make a note, celebrate, have a cupcake, then get back to work.  ANDREW: Yeah. JASON: So, I never expected a program that required like that amount of effort and work and, you know, I can be challenging, and just tell people, like, "That's not important right now," [laughs]  ANDREW: Mmmhmm. JASON: I never expected it to take off, but my god, it has. ANDREW: Well, she's a real powerhouse, right? I mean, she's another one of those ones whose presence in the world is on the rise. So, I'm going to share my vision; you can tell me it's not important afterwards.  JASON: [laughing] ANDREW: So, I haven't done your course, but years ago, when I first started reading at somebody else's store in Toronto, the person who owned the store, Hecate was their thing, they were all about that, and most of the people who worked there were about her, and sort of like, it was the anchor of that store, right? And I'd been working there for a little bit, and they were doing a big ceremony for her. And I didn't go, cause I was like, “nah, it's not my thing,” right? So, I had this dream, where she showed up, you know, infinitely dark and infinitely expansive at the same time, and she just looked at me, up and down, said, "You're not one of mine, but you're all right, you can keep working here." And that was the whole dream, and I was just like, "Perfect!" It's done! JASON: And that's, you know, that is an example of, it's got meaning, you know, it's a seal of approval, it's got an essential message ... ANDREW: Mmmhmm. JASON: But it's not something you want to sit and like, fuss over. ANDREW: No, exactly. JASON: You can keep working there. Which is ... ANDREW: I got my approval to continue to be employed there, and that's great, cause I'm sure that if she didn't like me I would have been gone ... JASON: [laughing] ANDREW: And then that's it, and I'm like, all right! And then, the other piece which was, you don't need to get more involved in this stuff, cause it's not yours, I'm not for you.  JASON: And I've had that happen as well. Before I became involved in Buddhism, I was getting very interested in Haitian voodoo, I was trading correspondence with Max Beauvoir, I was studying anything I could get my hands on and putting together completely half-assed ceremonies of my own. ANDREW: Sure. JASON: To connect with the Orishas, as everyone did in the 90s, and I would read anything, god, I lived practically on the New Orleans Voodoo Tarot, from Louis Martinié. ANDREW: Mmmhmm. JASON: And I ... there was this point where I was getting ready to go to Haiti, and Legba was kind of like, "Maybe not." ANDREW: Yeah. JASON: Maybe, like, "You and I are cool, but maybe you don't want to get involved in all this stuff." ANDREW: Mmmhmm. JASON: And I …You know, looking back later there are ... I really don't react well with tobacco, for instance.  ANDREW: Hmm. JASON: And I just both with my lungs, my senses, I get ... I don't know, maybe something happened when I was a child with cigarettes or something, you know, it just sets me off, and that would have been a big stumbling block for me, a few other commitments and taboos probably would have been a big stumbling block for me in the long run, and so it was really solid advice, and I was like, well where should I go? And it was right after I asked that, I was in upstate New York and I was talk ... did a lave tet with Louis Martinié that day, and then that evening Michelin Linden, his wife, was like, let me tell you about my experience with the Kalachakra. ANDREW: Mmmhmm. JASON: And it was really--it hit me hard. Partly because I was on three different psychedelics at the time, but it hit me hard anyway. [laughs] And, you know, I went back, and I called John Reynolds, who I had known for years already, and he was the first Westerner to be ordained as a Ngakpa, Tibetan sorcerer. I was like, “I'm in! What do I do?”  ANDREW: Yeah.  JASON: You know. Legba sent me to you! [laughing] ANDREW: Well, I mean that is a tremendous piece of wisdom, right?  JASON: Yeah. ANDREW: You know and like, in reading the shells for people, it's something that people don't expect at all, and it's like, look, you know who's got the answer? Those people. This group. Your psychiatrist has the answer. But we don't have the answer for you. You know? And that -- listening to that voice, and going and like giving up the sense of definition that we start to formulate around these things, in light of a bigger deeper truth or a more complete truth, I think is one of the best things you can ever do for yourself, to really honor that when it emerges, you know?  JASON: Amen to that. ANDREW: Yeah. JASON: Amen to that.  ANDREW: Cool. Well, so people should check out your Hecate course. It's going to be deep and challenging. And people should head over to your website. JASON: Good! ANDREW: Awesome. Perfect. Well, thanks again for making time, Jason. Lovely to chat with you as always.  JASON: Thank you for having me!

It's Cold and It's Getting So Dark by Carmen-Francesca BanciuTranslated from the German by Elena ManciniSet in Berlin shortly after the fall of the Berlin Wall, It's Cold and It's Getting So Dark centers around Deborah, a former radio journalist in the GDR who is dying of cancer. Through a somewhat dreamlike dialogue between Deborah and an unnamed younger female friend, we learn about Deborah’s troubled childhood in East Germany, her failed marriage, and her later heartbreak after her female partner leaves her when she is unable to deal with Deborah’s illness.The Play for Voices production of It's Cold and It's Getting So Dark was directed by Anne Posten. Kevin Ramsay and Kaya Bailey designed and mixed the audio. The role of Speaker 1 was played by Jocelyn Kuritsky, and the role of Speaker 2 (Deborah) by Carol Monda.Play for Voices audio plays are recorded at Harvestworks by audio engineer Kevin Ramsay.Play for Voices is produced by Matt Fidler, Anne Posten, Katrin Redfern, and Jen Zoble.About the Author and TranslatorCarmen-Francesca Banciu (author) is the author of five novels, several short story collections, critical essays, and a radio play. Born in Lipova, Romania, she studied religious painting and foreign trade in Bucharest, and began publishing short stories in the 1980s. In 1985, she was awarded the International Short Story Award of the City of Arnsberg for the story “Das strahlende Ghetto” (“The Beaming Ghetto”). Immediately following this award, Banciu was banned from publishing her work in Romania. In 1991, she accepted an invitation extended by the DAAD Berlin Artists-in-Residence program and went to Germany. Since her debut in German, Banciu has established herself as a Berlin-based writer, adopting German as her primary literary language. Banciu first debuted in the German language in 1996, with her memoiristic novel Vaterflucht ("Flight from Father"). Banciu was Writer-in-Residence at Rutgers University from 2004-2005 and University of Bath in 2009. In 2016, Banciu made Loren Kleinmann’s “Most Badass Female Protagonists” list in the Huffington Post. Banciu currently lives in Berlin and works as a freelance author and co-editor/deputy director of the transnational, interdisciplinary, and multilingual e-magazine Levure Littéraire.Elena Mancini (translator) is a German-English and Italian-English literary translator. Her published translations span the genres and include three novels as well as numerous articles of social and political commentary. Mancini holds a Ph.D. in Germanic Languages and Literatures and is a language, literature, and film professor at Queens College in New York City.It's Cold and It's Getting So Dark was the third of the three winners of the 2016 audio drama in translation contest Play for Voices held jointly with Words Without Borders, which published the script of each winning audio play. To read It's Cold and It's Getting So Dark, go here: https://www.wordswithoutborders.org/article/february-2018-radio-drama-its-cold-and-its-getting-so-dark-banci. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Aired Thursday, 3 August 2017, 4:00 PM ET The Reality of Porn with Dr. Jakob Pastoetter Few topics are more controversial than Porn. This is because Porn stands so much in the intersection not only of so many different points of view what sexuality should be about but also of what constitutes a visual medium and a piece of art in general, what are their messages, and how do they exert influence on our real world experiences and interactions. As with many other things, you can only try to approach from different angles to get an idea of what constitutes the “Reality of Porn” for different people, rather than to decide once and for all what it “really” is. In this show German Sexologist Dr. Jakob Pastoetter will answer these five questions to get a clearer picture: 1) what makes porn porn; 2) tell us about ethical porn; 3) is porn addictive; 4) what are the harmful effects of porn; 5) what are porn perception differences between men and women – preferences/ views/ attitudes; 6) my partner watches a lot of porn. Is this cheating? About the Guest: Dr. Jakob Pastoetter Dr. Jakob Pastoetter started as a very spiritually interested teenager, delved then into cultural anthropology, developed a taste for sexology while doing research at the Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction, wrote his doctoral thesis on Hardcore Pornography and the Constrain to Self-constrain Mechanisms of the Civilizing Process it is entangled in – Question: Why were Sexually Explicit Pictures only developed as an Entertainment Medium in the Postindustrialized Western societies. He got his Ph.D. in Education at Humboldt University, and finally became an ABS certified Clinical Sexologist at the American Academy of Clinical Sexology in 2003, teaching and tutoring there since 15 years while doing research, media work, and sex, couple, and life counseling as President of the German Society for Social Scientific Sexuality Research. He started organizing the prestigious biannual conferences of DGSS. Since 2014 he also provided sexual counseling for bi-national couples in English and German via Skype. His websites are www.sexologie.org, www.sexualitaetleben.de, https://www.facebook.com/erosarising/, https://twitter.com/jpastoetter, and soon www.liveyoursexuality.com. Right now he is the Editor of a German-English book series “Sexuality Crosswise” with Springer Science and is writing a book on “The Development of German Sex Education”.

Aired Thursday, 1 June 2017, 4:00 PM ETAnimated Sex: The Spirituality of Eros with Dr. Jakob PastoetterAlthough there was never in the history of mankind more visual sex and general information about sex readily available, many people suffer from low libido and general disinterest in sex. Sexologists usually try to cure this with even more information and concentration on sex, and for many people that might be helpful because they have no words of their own to articulate their sexual needs and desires. But there are those others for whom this doesn’t work because they suffer from a kind of sex poisoning. This can only be cured by going back to the roots which aren’t anatomical, technical, or visual but primordial, archaic, and spiritual. Sex as “just sex” quickly becomes empty and shallow if the connection to Eros gets cut. Eros is not just the chubby little angel with bow and arrow but is the primordial god of procreation who emerged self-formed at the dawn of creation. Eros was the driving force behind the generation of new life in the cosmos. With Martha Lee Jakob Pastoetter will discuss his importance for cultivating polarity, nourishing creativity, and developing spiritual connectivity with life to discover our full sexual potential. Excursions will lead to Astrology, Sex Magick, Qigong, Tantra and the Jungian concepts of Animus and Anima.About the Guest: Dr. Jakob PastoetterDr. Jakob Pastoetter started as a very spiritually interested teenager, delved then into cultural anthropology, developed a taste for sexology while doing research at the Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction, wrote his doctoral thesis on Hardcore Pornography and the Constrain to Self-constrain Mechanisms of the Civilizing Process it is entangled in – Question: Why were Sexually Explicit Pictures only developed as an Entertainment Medium in the Postindustrialized Western societies. He got his Ph.D. in Education at Humboldt University, and finally became an ABS certified Clinical Sexologist at the American Academy of Clinical Sexology in 2003, teaching and tutoring there since 15 years while doing research, media work, and sex, couple, and life counseling as President of the German Society for Social Scientific Sexuality Research. He started organizing the prestigious biannual conferences of DGSS. Since 2014 he also provided sexual counseling for bi-national couples in English and German via Skype.His websites are www.sexologie.org, www.sexualitaetleben.de, https://www.facebook.com/erosarising/, https://twitter.com/jpastoetter, and soon www.liveyoursexuality.com.Right now he is the Editor of a German-English book series “Sexuality Crosswise” with Springer Science and is writing a book on “The Development of German Sex Education”.

Aired Thursday, 1 June 2017, 4:00 PM ETAnimated Sex: The Spirituality of Eros with Dr. Jakob PastoetterAlthough there was never in the history of mankind more visual sex and general information about sex readily available, many people suffer from low libido and general disinterest in sex. Sexologists usually try to cure this with even more information and concentration on sex, and for many people that might be helpful because they have no words of their own to articulate their sexual needs and desires. But there are those others for whom this doesn’t work because they suffer from a kind of sex poisoning. This can only be cured by going back to the roots which aren’t anatomical, technical, or visual but primordial, archaic, and spiritual. Sex as “just sex” quickly becomes empty and shallow if the connection to Eros gets cut. Eros is not just the chubby little angel with bow and arrow but is the primordial god of procreation who emerged self-formed at the dawn of creation. Eros was the driving force behind the generation of new life in the cosmos. With Martha Lee Jakob Pastoetter will discuss his importance for cultivating polarity, nourishing creativity, and developing spiritual connectivity with life to discover our full sexual potential. Excursions will lead to Astrology, Sex Magick, Qigong, Tantra and the Jungian concepts of Animus and Anima.About the Guest: Dr. Jakob PastoetterDr. Jakob Pastoetter started as a very spiritually interested teenager, delved then into cultural anthropology, developed a taste for sexology while doing research at the Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction, wrote his doctoral thesis on Hardcore Pornography and the Constrain to Self-constrain Mechanisms of the Civilizing Process it is entangled in – Question: Why were Sexually Explicit Pictures only developed as an Entertainment Medium in the Postindustrialized Western societies. He got his Ph.D. in Education at Humboldt University, and finally became an ABS certified Clinical Sexologist at the American Academy of Clinical Sexology in 2003, teaching and tutoring there since 15 years while doing research, media work, and sex, couple, and life counseling as President of the German Society for Social Scientific Sexuality Research. He started organizing the prestigious biannual conferences of DGSS. Since 2014 he also provided sexual counseling for bi-national couples in English and German via Skype.His websites are www.sexologie.org, www.sexualitaetleben.de, https://www.facebook.com/erosarising/, https://twitter.com/jpastoetter, and soon www.liveyoursexuality.com.Right now he is the Editor of a German-English book series “Sexuality Crosswise” with Springer Science and is writing a book on “The Development of German Sex Education”.

 "The African Bee" BINX is an Avant-Garde Pop South African musician/model living in New York.  BINX  been singing and writing music since she was a little gir and her late father encouraged her to take her music career to New York.  He was right – she released  her debut EP to great acclaim for her sound and style  that echo pop icons and rebels such as Lady Gaga and David Bowie. Her song, "Radiohead" is currently Number 1 in South Africa and she has performedfor millions of viewers on televisions shows and live at the US Open, The New York Marathon (two years in a row), Webster Hall and was featured in The New Yorker for her EP titled "The African Bee."  Hailed as the “Best Free Outdoor Summer Concert Series” by Los Angeles Magazine and called “a grand gift to the public... democracy in musical action” by the Los Angeles Times, Grand Performances has presented some of the nation’s finest music, dance, theater, and more at the California Plaza in the heart of Downtown Los Angeles for the past 30 years.  Joining us is Leigh Ann Hahn, director of programming of Grand Performances. A half-Korean child adopted by a German-English family in Iowa as a  two-year old and raised multi-culturally. She  drove to Los Angeles at the age of twenty four and recalls, "I saw the city sprawled out in front of me, looking like a great big field full of diamonds. When I saw that almost mind-numbing beauty in front of me, I knew that one chapter of my life was done and another was beginning.” Today she is a  living embodiment of LA’s culture and diversity,  and assembles one of America’s largest, most diverse and culturally thrilling city festivals.  

Greek born Juliana Buhring, who has dual German-English nationality, is an ultra endurance cyclist.  She has taken on some of the longest bike rides in the world in the past four years having discovered the sport more by opportunity rather than ambition. Juliana was raised in the religious sect Children of God and suffered shocking abuse from which she eventually broke free only later to lose the love of her life in a tragic accident. It was during this period of grieving that she was inspired by a friend to start biking and take on marathon challenges.  In 2012 Juliana cycled around the world which took 152 days from Naples to Naples with 144 pedaling days for which she made the Guiness Book of Records. A year later she took on the inaugural Transcontinental Race from London to Instanbul. In 2014, she won the women’s category and finished fourth in the Trans Am Race from Oregon to Virginia over 4, 322 miles and 20 days. And this year she completed the Race Across America crossing 12 states and 3000 miles.  For more global women's sports coverage visit us at www.wispsports.com and join us on social media @WiSP Sports.

Das Geheimnis von Loch Ness Das Loch Ness in den schottischen Highlands ist einer der geheimnisvollsten Seen weltweit. Das Gewässer soll die Heimat eines sagenumwobenen Seeungeheuers sein. Tatsächlich gibt es Monsterjäger, die seit Jahren versuchen das Geheimnis des Sees zu lüften. Audiotraveller Henry Barchet war an den Ufern von Loch Ness unterwegs.

It's back to school season. Join us as the author of a new book about starting school right shares his top dos and don'ts. Follow: @mjanatovich @mynameisotis @ASCD @ bamradionetwork Otis Kriegel is the author of Starting School Right: How do I plan for a successful first week in my classroom?(ASCD). Kriegel has taught elementary and middle school students for 15 years in dual language (Spanish/English and German/English), monolingual, and integrated coteaching classrooms. Host Mike Janatovich is the assistant principal of Harmon Middle School in Aurora, OH, and an ASCD Emerging Leader.

In this "in betweenisode" David Hasselhof (Paul Salamone) talks about his upbringing in rural Germany, his acting career and how it's all just pretend. "Zack interviews the stars" No nobodys, only Stars.

German Shepherd, German measles...what else is 'German' in English? And what is meant by 'ein Engländer' in German? An entertaining journey through German-English and Anglo-German references.

Jens Timmermann is Reader in Moral Philosophy at the University of St Andrews. He was trained as an ancient philosopher but now largely works on Kant’s ethics, political philosophy and philosophy of law. Recent publications include a volume on Kant’s “Critique of Practical Reason” (edited jointly with Andrews Reath), a German-English edition of Kant’s “Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals” and an article on the possibility of moral conflict in Kantian ethics. He is currently interested in Kant’s account of irrational action, in his theory of sympathy and in the notorious essay on the “Alleged Right to Lie”. This podcast is an audio recording of Dr. Timmermann's talk - 'What’s Wrong with "Deontology"' - at the Aristotelian Society on 1 December 2014. The recording was produced by Backdoor Broadcasting Company.

German/English speaking parent Beate Zieheres offers tips and parental advice for German language parents who have children in the Tennessee school system.

In October of 1934, "Lux Radio Theater" debuted in New York on NBC's Blue radio network. Presenting audio versions of popular Broadway plays, the show failed to garner an audience and soon ran out of material. After switching networks to CBS and moving to Hollywood, Lux found its true market. The show began featuring adaptations of popular films, performed by as many of the original stars as possible. With an endless supply of hit films scripts and an audience of more than 40 million, Lux enjoyed a prosperous run until the curtain fell in 1956.TODAY'S SHOWThe Treasure of the Sierra Madre is a 1927 novel by the mysterious German-English bilingual author B. Traven, in which two American down-and-outers in 1920s Mexico hook up with an old-timer to prospect for gold. The book was very successfully adapted into a 1948 film by John Huston and done for radio by LUX RADIO THEATER on April 18, 1949. Humphrey DeForest Bogart (December 25, 1899 â January 14, 1957) portrays Fred C. Dobbs in The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, Bogart played a paranoid, self-pitying character whose small-mindedness eventually destroyed him.

Wanja / Wanja gehen (OT) 16 min., DV, 1:2,35, Deutschland 2005 A deprifilm production ENGLISH: Aaron simply wants to paint the walls, but Wanja just won?t get off the radiator. But at least he learns something about Russian attitudes and things you can do in your sleep?they start fighting, but hunger takes over. First in the background and then right infront of you/them the story unfolds. DEUTSCH: Aaron möchte eigentlich doch nur die Wand streichen, doch Wanja ist ihm im Weg. Aaron lernt unter der Heizung etwas über die russische Einstellung und was man im Schlaf machen kann. Überzeugen kann es ihn nicht. Der Streit wird durch Hunger unterbrochen. Erst im Hintergrund und dann im Vordergrund klärt sich eine Geschichte Cast: Wanja: Viktor Ferin; Aaron: Daniel Flieger; Bote: Florian Riegel Team: Director: Jens Grünhagen; DOP: Paul Nickel; Editor / Sound: Moritz Grund BUY THE DVD WITH SOME OTHER SHORTFILMS ON WWW.DEPRIFILM.DE HOL DIR DIE DVD MIT ANDEREN SCHICKEN FILMEN AUF WWW.DEPRIFILM.DE

Magnus & Maria 4 min., DigiBeta, 16:9, Deutschland 2004 A KHM production ENGLISH: She feels like she?s having a déjà vu. He knows, what she?s gonna do. She doesn?t know, if she?s being quiet. He?s too loud. Right or left? DEUTSCH: Sie fühlt sich, als hätte sie ein Deja-vu. Er weiss, was sie tun wird. Sie weiss nicht, ob sie leise spricht. Er hört sich zu laut an in ihrem Ohr. Rechts oder links? Cast: She: Gergana Muskalla; He: Sven Prüwer Team: Director, script: Jens Grünhagen & Paul Nickel; Camera: Florian Michaelsen; Editor & Sound: Moritz Grund BUY THE DVD WITH SOME OTHER SHORTFILMS ON WWW.DEPRIFILM.DE HOL DIR DIE DVD MIT ANDEREN SCHICKEN FILMEN AUF WWW.DEPRIFILM.DE

Buy Park Oak / Kaufpark Eiche (OT) 4 min., DV, 16:9, Deutschland 2003 A deprifilm production ENGLISH: What happens, when people can?t see you anymore? And just squeeze/crush/push you against a lantern? He?s been waiting for hours on the parking deck. The car owners return, but they don?t hear his screams. DEUTSCH: Was passiert, wenn die Anderen dich nicht mehr sehen können? Und sie dich mit ihrem Auto aus Versehen gegen eine Laterne drücken? Er sitzt seit Stunden einsam auf dem Parkdach. Da kommen die Besitzer. Sie hören seine Schreie nicht. Cast: Eingeklemmter: Gianni Meurer; Gatte: Thorsten Tinney; Gattin: Sabine Weitzel; Passant: Jens Steiner; Befreier: Oliver Fusco; Befreier II: Michael Meier Team Director: Jens Grünhagen; First-Assistent: Susanne Quester; DOP: Eike Schweighardt; Thanks to Martin Pohle and Camera-rental Simon BUY THE DVD WITH SOME OTHER SHORTFILMS ON WWW.DEPRIFILM.DE HOL DIR DIE DVD MIT ANDEREN SCHICKEN FILMEN AUF WWW.DEPRIFILM.DE

Life is not a bowl of cornflakes / Das Leben ist kein Cornflakes essen (OT) 10 min., DV, 2:2,35, Deutschland 2006 A deprifilm production ENGLISH: He needs a passport, otherwise he has to go back to Tunisia. But the office seems closed and he can?t find the right entrance. The search begins. DEUTSCH: Er braucht den Paß, sonst folgt die Ausweisung nach Tunesien, dabei will er nur Sozialhilfe beantragen. Doch das Amt hat zu. Der Eingang scheint woanders. Die Suche beginnt. Eine junge Frau steht ebenso vor verschlossener Tür. Panik greift um sich. Cast: He: Mike Adler; The other: Sergej Lubic; Shee: Astrid Monet; Tikka: Talin Lopez; Teaseller: Felix Krone Team Director, Camera, Editor & Sound: Jens Grünhagen BUY THE DVD WITH SOME OTHER SHORTFILMS ON WWW.DEPRIFILM.DE HOL DIR DIE DVD MIT ANDEREN SCHICKEN FILMEN AUF WWW.DEPRIFILM.DE

Mon, 14 Feb 2005 12:00:00 +0100 https://edoc.ub.uni-muenchen.de/8008/ https://edoc.ub.uni-muenchen.de/8008/1/Wanner_Brigitte.pdf Wanner, Brigitte ddc:410, ddc:400, Fakultät für Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaften