ApplauseCast presents Pet Tips from Pets In Need, a 41 year old no-kill dog and cat adoption shelter located in Redwood City, California. There are five Pet Pods (Pawds) you can download that will provide information to help you keep your pets safe and ensure you have a harmonious home.

• What You Should Do If Your Pet Becomes Lost
• Pet Disaster Preparedness
• Pet Safety in Warm Weather
• Moving With Pets
• Teaching Dogs to Share

With 41 years of dog and cat experience, we've heard it all. Pets In Need is a non-profit adoption shelter that is totally dependent on donations. Help your animal and a shelter animal by making a donation and as our way of saying thanks, you get to listen to all 5 podcasts!

Third-Graders Talk About the Ohlone Native Americans

ApplauseCast presents the third graders of Ormondale School in Portola Valley, California. They present to us their reports on the Ohlone Native American culture, tools, hunting techniques and culinary arts. This is just a sample of what they've done - more to come!

Hosted by Stephen Marra
Produced by William Hedge
Original Music by William Hedge

Qigong - Introduction and Practice (Part2)

Tonight’s ApplauseCast interview is with the Vice President of the Qigong Institute, Tom Rogers.

After nearly two decades The Qigong Institute’s charter continues to be the support of education and research into the immediate and long-term health benefits of Qigong, the 5000 year-old movement-meditation practice from China.

We join the interview with Stephen Marra of ApplauseCast as recorded in Tom Rogers’ home on the San Francisco Peninsula.

Host - Stephen Marra
Producer - William Hedge
Original Music - William Hedge

Qigong - Introduction and Practice (Part1)

Tonight’s ApplauseCast interview is with the Vice President of the Qigong Institute, Tom Rogers.

After nearly two decades The Qigong Institute’s charter continues to be the support of education and research into the immediate and long-term health benefits of Qigong, the 5000 year-old movement-meditation practice from China.

We join the interview with Stephen Marra of ApplauseCast as recorded in Tom Rogers’ home on the San Francisco Peninsula.

Host - Stephen Marra
Producer - William Hedge
Original Music - William Hedge

Linda Gass - Los Altos artist

Linda Gass is interviewed by Steve Marra of ApplauseCast.

An artist who uses multi-layered quilts to illuminate issues of water management in a state that descends into drought nearly six months out of every year. Linda Gass introduces three new pieces that illustrate the past, present, and - through restoration - the future of saltwater marshes in the San Francisco Bay.

Linda's work can be found on her website (www.lindagass.com).

Host - Stephen Marra
Producer - William Hedge
Original Music - William Hedge