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Don’t miss the marketplace revolution! Subscribe to our Newsletter: https://theultimatepartner.com/ebook-subscribe/ Check Out UPX: https://theultimatepartner.com/experience/ In this episode of the Ultimate Partner Podcast, Vince Menzione sits down with AWS Marketplace leaders George Maroulakos and Arif Razvi to uncover the rapidly shifting ecosystem of technology procurement and partner transformation. They dive deep into the evolution of buyer experiences, the critical necessity of executive alignment, and how agentic AI is redefining software discovery and consumption. If you want to accelerate deal velocity and ensure your business isn’t left behind, this conversation outlines exactly why integrating the AWS Marketplace into your core co-sell motion is no longer optional. https://youtu.be/Avp0sIyxRU8 Key Takeaways Embracing the AWS Marketplace should be viewed as a natural extension of your co-sell motion, not an interrupt-driven exception. Successfully leveraging the marketplace requires top-down executive sponsorship to overcome internal friction across legal, finance, and revenue operations. Partners must prepare for global expansion by ensuring local entities and currencies are wired up to meet buyers where they are. Agentic AI and natural language queries are leveling the playing field for software discovery, moving beyond traditional SEO-driven presence. SaaS pricing models are shifting toward consumption and outcome-based structures, demanding highly detailed product metadata. The speed of deal closure is drastically increased when partners are prepared to transact seamlessly through the marketplace. If you're ready to lead through change, elevate your business, and achieve extraordinary outcomes through the power of partnership—this is your community. At Ultimate Partner® we want leaders like you to join us in the Ultimate Partner Experience – where transformation begins. Key Tags AWS Marketplace, partner transformation, buyer experiences, hyperscalers, co-sell motion, revenue operations, strategic alignment, agentic AI solutions, outcome-based pricing, metadata optimization, software discovery, private offers, global expansion, deal velocity, cloud centers of excellence. Transcript Arif Razvi and George Maroulakos Audio Episode [00:00:00] George Maroulakos: From my perspective, think about marketplace as a why not as opposed to a why. [00:00:06] Vince Menzione: You can feel it happening. The ecosystem is shifting beneath us, the way Hyperscalers are partnering, how AI is remaking the channel and what it means to win in 2026. [00:00:17] Arif Razvi: Welcome to the Ultimate Partner Podcast. I’m Vince Menzi, own your host. [00:00:22] Arif Razvi: And each week I sit down with leaders at the intersection of technology, [00:00:26] Vince Menzione: partnerships and outcomes. The voices shaping how ecosystems actually work. We talk about what’s real, what’s changing, and what it takes to lead in this era where the partner channel isn’t just part of the strategy. [00:00:39] Arif Razvi: It is the strategy because being in the room changes everything. [00:00:44] Arif Razvi: Let’s start. [00:00:48] Vince Menzione: I’m excited to, because we were talking about some of this earlier with Matt, but I thought this would be a great conversation. I’m gonna ask each of you to introduce yourselves, George and Arif, and your roles. ’cause you have two very unique roles. Uh. Contrasting roles, I would call it, within the AWS Marketplace Organization. [00:01:06] George Maroulakos: Yep. Happy to do so. So I think Vince just didn’t wanna say my last name, so that’s why I’m gonna introduce myself. Mayor. Very, very good. So Mayor Laki, George Meki, pleasure to meet. Hey, I can say that, uh, all of those that I haven’t met before, lots of familiar faces as well here. Uh, so it’s really great to see. [00:01:21] George Maroulakos: Uh, I’m part of the AWS Marketplace team and our center of excellence. That focuses on buyer experiences. So like why is a buyer guy here in this partner session? And I think, you know, I’m gonna help to try to bring some perspective around what our buyers see as the value for using marketplace and. [00:01:40] George Maroulakos: Working with all of these great partners that are here in the room and, uh, you know, the experiences that we see in helping to drive, you know, the blood to all organs. I’m using that a lot, Alison, to copyright it. It’s, it was really good. I love that, that analogy. But, um, for, but for both our partners as well as for our customers. [00:01:59] Vince Menzione: That’s awesome. [00:01:59] Arif Razvi: Hey everybody. I’m Arif Roski. I’m based here in New York City, although I’m a Celtics fan. Um, uh, go, go. I, I still supported the Knicks through the championship and I’m very happy for them. So excited to be here. Excited to be among, uh, other channel and alliance leaders. I’ve spent my entire 25 plus career in channels and alliances. [00:02:20] Arif Razvi: The last seven years, uh, on AWS marketplace where I lead, uh, a couple of functions. One is I support all of Matt Ian’s feature launches. So from a go-to market perspective, uh, I support his launches. I also focus on international expansion of marketplace. So, uh, Matt alluded to this earlier. I’ll mention some, I’ll talk about some stuff in a little bit. [00:02:39] Arif Razvi: And then, uh, we do some deep engagements with some of our most strategic partners to help them accelerate and unblock their marketplace business. By embedding a subject matter expert from my team into their organization to really help drive, uh, adoption of marketplace. [00:02:55] Vince Menzione: So important. Both of your roles. [00:02:56] Vince Menzione: By the way, this is standout roles. I, you know, I. I don’t want to get into trouble here. I talk about other hyperscalers, but I said this with Matt on stage earlier. You guys have been at the forefront of driving marketplace in such a strong way, having somebody who’s customer focused, right? And that lens is so important. [00:03:15] Vince Menzione: I don’t feel, I feel like that’s missed so many times. And then you also have. You know, quite a bit of an important role here in terms of what you’re doing in embedding resources. ’cause a lot of times people get lost in the process and it seems to be the, the common currents. So, um, really great both sides of the same equation here, right? [00:03:33] Vince Menzione: Buyer led, partner built, uh, let’s start George here. Um. Let’s talk about how buying has changed. Right. We go back to the early days of marketplace. It felt like it was a listing at first and it started to become important. Organizations like Work Span started to come to fruition and started to drive, at least in my part of the world. [00:03:53] Vince Menzione: And then we started talking a lot more about Marketplace. And of course the, the cus customer commits really started driving things in a different direction. You’ve got the customer, so talk about what your journey’s been like. [00:04:05] George Maroulakos: So I’ve been with Marketplace nine and a half years, which is pretty long time since the beginning of it, and watching the evolution of, of where things have come and where they started. [00:04:15] George Maroulakos: And I remember, uh, I was covering the, the northeast region when I very first started and working with, uh, you know, different enterprise accounts and financial services and, and, and healthcare and life sciences, and talking about this. This creation that occurred called, called AWS Marketplace, and even folks within AWS didn’t really know what that meant or how to talk about it or sell it. [00:04:38] George Maroulakos: So there was this creation of a infield based business development function to help supplement the account teams and the value and the importance of marketplace as a part of a customer’s AWS journey. And when I first started the, the, the highest, uh, or most frequently subscribed to products that existed were. [00:04:57] George Maroulakos: Uh, Amazon machine images a amis and it’s very specifically open source amis. So think of Bantu or Cintas as the predominant things that were being subscribed out of marketplace. So, um, by definition, not really revenue generating. You’re, these are not the a hundred million dollar transactions or the billion dollar club that we talk about today. [00:05:19] George Maroulakos: It was very much helping. The builders go again, go back 10 years, uh, who are just getting started with the cloud and how could they find partner solutions that they trusted or that they felt were secure and helping them to start to build out and migrate their workloads into, into AWS. Um, so I existed before the. [00:05:39] George Maroulakos: Very first private offer was transacted. Nice. Um, there’s actually a, a gentleman towards the back, uh, who helped with one of our very first private offers. I see you back there, Joe. Nice, nice. Um, so we, we worked on, uh, uh, uh, really big transaction with, uh, with, at the time AppDynamics, uh, and, and helping to get. [00:05:58] George Maroulakos: You know, a customer really up and running with their implementation that, so watching over the 10 years from, you know, the builder mentality of, of getting started with the cloud to really embracing all kinds of partner based, um, solutions that go along with AWS. It’s really been, uh, you know, a, a rocket ship you referenced earlier, moving to the top right quadrant, if we want to use the, the Gartner analogy, and I think we’re at another. [00:06:24] George Maroulakos: Inflection point because with what’s going on with Ag agentic solutions, the way that our customers are finding and discovering different partner solutions is better than ever I would think. And I think it gives much more of a equal opportunity in playing field for all partners of all shapes and sizes because you’re not driving your presence based on SEO or whether or not you have the best Google search results. [00:06:53] George Maroulakos: With AgTech and how you differentiate your solutions, you’re gonna be able to really get yourself in front of more customers more quickly. And as Matt talked about earlier, the, the, the really big penetration that we’ve seen thus far is real, is on the discovery piece, the, the research area, the pre-purchase activity, so validate what’s available. [00:07:13] George Maroulakos: So I think marketplace has really evolved over the 10 year, nine and a half years-ish that I’ve been there. And I think it’s gonna continue to change here in the coming months ahead. Yeah. [00:07:23] Vince Menzione: Any predictions? [00:07:25] George Maroulakos: Yeah, I, I think, you know, the, I, the, the importance of marketplaces is only going to continue to grow. [00:07:32] George Maroulakos: Uh, and I think we’re going to see, you know, even more innovation and expectation from our customers on being able to find the right solutions and being able to procure and deploy them as quickly as possible. [00:07:44] Vince Menzione: Nice. Arif, from your side. Partner transformation. So, you know, embedding resources with the partners. [00:07:51] Vince Menzione: Right. So you basically help kickstart a lot of the, the efforts, right? George? George is looking at it from the customer side, and then you’re kick-starting it on the partner side. [00:08:00] Arif Razvi: Yeah. Either kickstarting it, uh, on the initial stages with a strategic partner. Yeah. Or accelerating their adoption of something that’s already there. [00:08:07] Arif Razvi: Right. So what we’re seeing, what I’m seeing a lot of more recently is partners who say, I didn’t know you had capabilities for us to sell into Korea or Japan, or we just, we just launched India. Yep. Matt alluded to this easier, uh, earlier that we’re making it easier for partners to expand globally. And now partners are realizing, wait a minute, I can match my. [00:08:26] Arif Razvi: Uh, my business processes on marketplace, so revenue recognition, tax collection, locally, local invoices, and now they’re starting to set up multiple entities outside the US to meet those buyers, uh, where they are. [00:08:41] Vince Menzione: Nice. And you mentioned having these resources. How do you determine who gets resources and who? [00:08:47] Arif Razvi: Well, there’s, uh, staging and there’s, uh, there’s qualification mechanisms we use. We work with the PDMs for the partners. So any PDM, uh, any pd DM managed partner can be nominated for, uh, what, what we call a compensation. [00:08:59] Vince Menzione: So you’re overlaying that organization sense. [00:09:00] Arif Razvi: We’re overlaying the PDs. We’re not replacing, we’re only doing time bound sprints to unlock very specific activities. [00:09:05] Arif Razvi: Very [00:09:06] Vince Menzione: cool. So it’s not a poll. Yeah. Cool. You’re not, you’re not there forever. [00:09:08] Arif Razvi: No. [00:09:08] Vince Menzione: You’re there to get the job done. We [00:09:09] Arif Razvi: did that before. Uh, yeah, we’re, we’re doing short sprints now. [00:09:12] Vince Menzione: Yep. Let’s talk about how the buyers are using marketplace. You’ve done some really in, we talked about this earlier with Matt, but we’ve talked about some of the innovative things you’ve done. [00:09:21] Vince Menzione: You know, being, being able to embed into a website and in the storefronts. All these things seem to be unique to AWS. Talk to us about how the buyers are using the marketplace today. And [00:09:31] George Maroulakos: yeah, I think, you know, Matt talked about earlier the. Pre the, the preconception around why customers use marketplaces for the financial incentives, the, the financial benefits that go along with it, whether it’s direct incentives that are associated with the individual product that’s out there, or the Association of Marketplace to our private pricing agreements and the ability for. [00:09:55] George Maroulakos: Transactions that occur in marketplace to count towards those commits. Um, I’m gonna amplify a, a particular point that Matt made, uh, in his talk that, you know, we have many more customers who do not have PPAs with AWS than those that do. And the volume of transactions that take place in marketplace. [00:10:11] George Maroulakos: Dwarf, uh, in volume from those that, uh, are occur from our PPA customers. So yes, there are very large transactions that occur and there is Ben financial benefit that goes along with it. But there’s many other value points that our customers find from discovery. From ease of use, from consolidated billing, from post-purchase, um, you know, management and governance that goes along with it, and reconciliation that’s available, that’s, that exists. [00:10:36] George Maroulakos: Um, you mentioned storefronts. I’m really excited. That was one of the most exciting launches. That’s why I reminded him when he was talking about it, uh, around, you know, what that means. And it’s both a presence for, um, our partners and being able to create their own storefronts on behalf of, of customers or within their own property, but also for our buyers directly too. [00:10:54] George Maroulakos: Take that next generation of something that was previously, you know, our private marketplace and curate a catalog that is very specific and intentional for the things that they’re interested to innovate with and the partners that they’re interested in using. And so I think meeting our customers where they’re at. [00:11:10] George Maroulakos: And being, you know, marketplace anywhere and everywhere is I think really important for our customers. And then the other aspect, you know, in terms of how our customers use marketplace, there’s more than one persona at our customer that we need to be, be, be aligning with. Right. Interesting. We typically talk about procurement and the value points that procurement find in marketplace, but just as important as, as the technologists. [00:11:32] George Maroulakos: It’s the Cloud centers of Excellence. It’s the innovators who are looking for those business applications or those infrastructure solutions that exist and making sure that we have the right things from the right partners available to them. So we see value all over the place with our customers and how they inter interface with [00:11:47] Vince Menzione: more. [00:11:47] Vince Menzione: You brought up something really interesting, insightful, is the fact that all the different personas in the organization that are touching the marketplace, right? [00:11:54] George Maroulakos: And it’s at different points of the journey, right? Yeah. So while there may be early discovery and research and experimentation going on from, you know, the technologists or, or, or the, or the, the, the business application owners, um, as it progresses through the, the, the. [00:12:09] George Maroulakos: The opportunity lifecycle procurement and sourcing and legal, and the shared services then become a more important part of, of making sure that we get those opportunities closed and launched. [00:12:18] Vince Menzione: Yeah, and that was one of the things we were talking about earlier is the fact that how, how, uh, it, it, the work arduous it could be. [00:12:25] Vince Menzione: To go through that whole process at a customer side. Right? ’cause they have to. [00:12:29] George Maroulakos: It is, and and you know, I think when Cloud first got started, it was quite scary for procurement, right? It became another version of Shadow it. And we were seeing things that were getting purchased on P cards because they could quickly stand up infrastructure versus waiting for the IT team to do it. [00:12:44] George Maroulakos: And so now you introduce all of these other things that. Procurement kept near and dear to their heart, and here comes another wave of, is this truly positive disruption? Is it going to affect what’s, what I’m doing affect really my goals and objectives of supporting the company. And as you, you know, you continue to express the value of marketplace, they start to see, hey, this is actually very complimentary and helped me can get better control and governance in a way that I. [00:13:11] George Maroulakos: Perhaps didn’t have before with what was going on inside the cloud. [00:13:15] Vince Menzione: So this is a question for both of you actually, but I was thinking about these partners in the room and what did they get wrong? Like what are they doing? Like what are the things we always talk about, things that they’re doing right? [00:13:26] Vince Menzione: We’re having the happy talk about all the great success that’s been going on, but what is your advice to partners that maybe are not getting it right? Like what, what, what are the things you see that. The easy stumbling blocks that could be fixed. [00:13:38] Arif Razvi: Yeah. Well, probably the easiest is, uh, waiting to talk about marketplace at the last minute and not making it part of the full commercial journey [00:13:45] Vince Menzione: Yeah. [00:13:45] Arif Razvi: That the sellers will go through. Right. So, um, but that includes being able to have those internal conversations from the executive level, getting that executive sponsorship from marketplace upfront. That filters down through the rest of the organization. So you’ve gotta get rev ops teams, finance, legal, you know, the marketplace terms, the, the standard, uh, contract that goes into your listing has to be approved by legal. [00:14:08] Arif Razvi: Uh, and then you get down to the sales teams, making sure that you’re not penalizing sales teams for doing transactions on marketplace, which will create friction, then meeting buyers where they are, right? So local entities, local currency, um, having all that wired up. Uh, I met with a, a partner yesterday at Summit who is literally wiring up 10 new regions, 10 new entities in 10 new locations on marketplace in advance of what they know is a pipeline that’s going to be building into those regions. [00:14:37] Arif Razvi: So they’re getting ready and not waiting for the last minute for marketplace. [00:14:40] Vince Menzione: I love it. And the internal, go ahead. [00:14:43] George Maroulakos: Yeah, I, I echo definitely what Arif was saying and I think the, the other aspect of that is that our customers shouldn’t feel like it’s more painful. To use marketplace versus they would any other way. [00:14:54] George Maroulakos: And so whether that shows up in pricing, it shows up in awareness of what marketplace is and isn’t, or what it can or cannot do. Um, whether it’s introducing it naturally or it’s this, oh, by the way, on the end, like the, the more. Integrated marketplace is as a part of your co-sell motion, whether you’re doing it directly on your own or through a reseller or with AWS or all of the above. [00:15:17] George Maroulakos: Um, it’s, it should be a natural extension and a value point that you’re bringing to your respective customers, not some. Interrupt driven or, or exception based activity that goes along with selling your, your, your, your solution. [00:15:31] Vince Menzione: Why do you think customer, some customers or some partners are held back or what, what, what is, is it a mindset? [00:15:38] Vince Menzione: I mean, I talk about the principles, you know that, but like, is it mindset? What is it? Is it, [00:15:42] Arif Razvi: it’s, it’s internal. Friction. Yeah. A a a lot of what I see, especially in these, in, in embedded engagements is the amount of, you know, I have a lot of empathy for this room, right? Because you are the ones that have to go internally and navigate all of these stakeholders to be able to convince them that marketplace is the route to market. [00:16:01] Arif Razvi: It’s the preferred route to market, and it’s the way that a AWS wants to co-sell. With its partners. And that’s a hard thing to do if you don’t speak the same language that the tax legal, rev ops, finance, accounting, because everything changes. When you start doing transactions on marketplace, your revenue is booked differently, right? [00:16:20] Arif Razvi: It’s booked as a w from AWS and not from the, you know, from the, so things change and having that conversation is often challenging. Uh, we are working on some tools that will help make that conversation easier. Um, and we’ve already written blogs, and again, there are mechanisms that your partner managers have internally that they can request support and guidance. [00:16:43] Arif Razvi: Uh, and we’re happy to provide that. [00:16:45] Vince Menzione: What needs to change so that marketplace becomes a true go to market engine. [00:16:49] Arif Razvi: Top down, top down, top down where, where I’ve seen the most success. From a partner is where they’ve gotten strategic alignment at the executive level. That marketplace is the way we are going to, uh, sell globally. [00:17:02] Arif Razvi: Right? Then that starts to filter down, as I mentioned earlier, into the different teams and yes, it is a journey and you may start with the US or if you’re EMEA based. Partner, you may start with just amea, but eventually you will start to expand your, you’ll want to expand your business. Um, and marketplace is a great place to do that because we have all of those mechanisms globally to help you scale without adding incremental resources to handle the tax or the compliance or the invoicing and collection and all that stuff. [00:17:30] George Maroulakos: Yeah. I’ll add to that because I’m gonna steal a second thing you said, Allison, about centering around a customer. I, I loved a lot of Allison. Come on now. I’ll be your hype guy. I absolutely, but, but, but the but demand will drive supply. And I think to what you were talking about, Arif, when are customers, when. [00:17:46] George Maroulakos: Our customers come to you about wanting to use marketplace. Yeah. How are you ready to adapt to that? How are you ready to respond to it? And if it becomes a disjointed, not centered around a customer, bespoke based, independently based interaction with the customer, everybody loses. Versus if you’re ready to embrace what that means and how to make that as good of an experience, if not better, versus how they might have traditionally procured your solution and deployed it. [00:18:13] George Maroulakos: Um, now we have a much better together story. So I think understanding that customers more and more are going to use marketplaces, particularly AWS marketplace, and want to make use of partner solutions that embrace marketplace as a part of their way to procure and deploy. You have a much better chance of being successful with them. [00:18:33] Vince Menzione: You know, it made me think about this. Is there a seminal event? Like I think about, I think back to COVID changing buying behavior, right? I’m, we’ll use AWS, an example, three boxes show up in my house every day, right? That didn’t happen before. We used to go to the store. Is there a seminal event we’re waiting to happen? [00:18:50] Vince Menzione: I, I know that the millennial buyer, we talked about this earlier with Matt, is the new buying persona. Over 50% of buyers are millennial and they’re used to doing comfortable with phones and trust Is all there. Is there something else we’re missing or what do, what do you think’s gonna happen? [00:19:03] George Maroulakos: I really think it’s what in front of us right now. [00:19:05] George Maroulakos: Yeah. Vince, I think what. Agen solutions, what Agen SaaS offers, what the power of information and research that’s now directly available to customers versus maybe indirectly available through consultancies or deeper research. Um, the velocity of what our customers are going to be able to do and with partners that they may not have even heard of right before. [00:19:32] George Maroulakos: You know, they started their journey. I, I think this is a present day. Inflection point. Yeah. Um, going back, you know, over the past several years, the advent of supporting private offers I think was a pretty big milestone for marketplace. It allowed for our partners to be able to. Work through customized terms and conditions and commercials that were important for a particular opportunity in a customer. [00:19:54] George Maroulakos: But today, the here and now I think becomes the next inflection point for the success of marketplace. [00:19:59] Arif Razvi: That would [00:19:59] Vince Menzione: Go ahead. [00:20:00] Arif Razvi: I was just gonna add on top of that, but partners need to be ready for that. Right? And if they’re not ready to accelerate a deal and get it closed in days versus stalling it for weeks to negotiate. [00:20:11] Arif Razvi: Yes. Like they’re not gonna stand. Customers are not gonna stand for that. So partners need to be ready to move quickly. If you think about all the innovations that Matt is delivering for Marketplace and Partner Central. They’re about accelerating co-sell. They’re about accelerating deal velocity. They’re about, we know f from, from the Forrester studies and others that we presented, that we’ve made public that the deal value goes up when you’re dealing with marketplace and co-selling with AWS. [00:20:36] Arif Razvi: So how can we just accelerate that? Yeah. Partners need to be ready for that and move quickly. [00:20:40] Vince Menzione: And you use partners in sort of a, you know, plural sense, but I think about those organizations as so many multifaceted. We talked about finance, we talked about all of different functions in the organization. [00:20:51] Vince Menzione: What are you doing to help that? I mean, we talked about you’re doing a lot of readiness work, but I do feel like there’s a lot of evangelism still to be done internally with those organizations. How do you think about [00:21:02] Arif Razvi: that? Yeah, we, um, obviously events like this are fantastic mechanisms to at least get the conversation started and get your head thinking about what you need to think about. [00:21:10] Arif Razvi: But we have other activities. We have, uh, rev Ops squads, right? So revenue operations teams, and we bring them together, uh, around the world op, uh, ops squad, which is operational teams, so deal desks and others that help them, uh, understand the capabilities that marketplace can bring to accelerate deal velocity. [00:21:28] Arif Razvi: And then we have, like, obviously other events like the, the, uh, marketplace Seller Conference in September where we bring marketplace sellers together and give them, you know. Guidance. And so there are ways to get this information beyond just like getting somebody from my team, of which there are very few as you, you know, as we start to, to consolidate down. [00:21:47] Arif Razvi: But um, but they are available and there’s other mechanisms and we’re happy to share those out. [00:21:50] Vince Menzione: Nice, nice. Well coming here doing this and we’ll make a podcast episode out of this as well. Can you hear. I hear us all, uh, because I do think it’s important to get in front of, especially the Chief Finance Officer and operations and all those different departmental heads who aren’t really embedded into, like, they don’t come to these events. [00:22:07] Arif Razvi: Yeah. And they also don’t log into Partner Central. That’s right. So how do they get this information right? Yeah. So we have to one to one it with them. Yeah. But that doesn’t scale when you think about what’s gonna happen now with this next wave of GSIs and sis and, and others coming onto Marketplace who hadn’t been there. [00:22:22] Arif Razvi: Yes, they’re gonna need the same guidance. Yeah. So we have to start thinking about what we’re building is AI tooling to help with those conversations. [00:22:28] George Maroulakos: Well, and, and you know, if, when I think about it from, from our buyer’s perspective, even just yesterday we held a, a couple of round table discussions with some procurement leaders that were, we’re here for the summit and, you know, we do a lot of enablement and, and awareness. [00:22:42] George Maroulakos: With alliance leaders at our partners, and that’s certainly a, the tip of the spear of getting the conversation started, but it’s not enough. And one of the things that we hear from our customers is. Well, you may have a great partnership with particular partner A, but the individual experience that I had with that sales rep doesn’t match that. [00:23:02] George Maroulakos: And so yeah, the evangelism and the awareness, yes, and the understanding of marketplace has to go beyond just the alliance team. You guys are the amplifier to it. But the folks that not only are in the back office and all the, the, the operational teams, but on the front lines and field sales need to also understand and embrace, not understand all the features and capabilities of marketplace. [00:23:25] George Maroulakos: AWS needs to handle that, but understand how marketplace fits into the co-sell strategy in what’s going on for that particular customer is very, very important to make sure our customers get the right experience. [00:23:37] Vince Menzione: Well, I think Arif, you mentioned this earlier about compensation models. And that’s a, that’s a factor too. [00:23:42] Vince Menzione: ’cause people, people, um, they’re fearful of change. They’re fear, fearful of compensation changing. Especially, especially sellers. I, um, again, that’s a coaching area. [00:23:54] Arif Razvi: Yeah, it’s a coaching area. Um, it, it, it is, um. It’s probably one of the easier ones to solve. Um, and, and, and, you know, we have these conversations with partners about net, uh, cost neutral or uh, seller neutrality and things like that. [00:24:06] Arif Razvi: Once you show them the economics of how AWS can increase their deal value, those economics sort of, they go away. The problems go away, but they, you have to get in front of those. Uh, you know, senior leaders, the CROs and the CFOs, to have that conversation to then go, okay, I get what’s going on here. I get why I’m paying. [00:24:23] Arif Razvi: The listing fee is, is about funding all of these marketing activities that we do for our partners, right? [00:24:29] George Maroulakos: Well, and then you use the word neutrality. The other end of that neutrality problem or, or, or challenge is the pricing that goes along with the opportunities that are made available to customers. [00:24:38] George Maroulakos: And so to one of your earlier questions on points of friction or what, what stops it from taking off further? When, when partners and our customers have a disconnect on. What they’re expecting to pay when they use marketplace, or if there is a unnatural cost that goes along with procuring that solution through marketplace. [00:24:57] George Maroulakos: That also tends to bring a, a pretty bad experience, not only for that opportunity in front of them, but for respective opportunities that may, may be in play thereafter. So thinking about not, you know, having an a, an unnatural experience for our customers relative to pricing as well as compensation and, and everything else is, is also very important. [00:25:17] Vince Menzione: So we’ve got a few minutes left, and we haven’t really touched on ag agentic AI and agen AI solutions. A little bit different than the SaaS solutions per se. How, how are these solutions brought and sold differently than SaaS? [00:25:30] Arif Razvi: Uh, well, as Matt said, the SaaS apocalypse is not real. [00:25:34] Vince Menzione: Yeah. [00:25:34] Arif Razvi: Um, he doesn’t, I’m glad to hear that, nor nor do I. [00:25:37] Arif Razvi: Um, I, I think what, you know, where, where SaaS has been very user seat based, you’re moving now to a world that’s gonna be more consumption based or outcome-based pricing. And so that’s really changing the dynamic and I think partners need to think about what does an outcome-based, uh, pricing model look for My particular. [00:25:55] Arif Razvi: Um, product, uh, Zendesk is a good example of, Matt published a blog, uh, earlier this week, I think it was, where we, we referenced Zendesk pricing on closed tickets or, or resolutions to tickets, right? For, for outcome-based pricing. So I think we need to think about on the pricing side, how to reprice, how to think about pricing. [00:26:13] Arif Razvi: But on the discovery side, thinking about what your, what your listing looks like, it’s no longer about marketing copy. It’s about, it’s almost, I was talking yesterday about being an API contract. ’cause the agent needs to have all the details that a person doesn’t necessarily need to have in order to make a recommendation that your product is the best fit based on the technology that’s underlying that, where it’s gonna fit in the infrastructure. [00:26:37] Vince Menzione: So three and a half minutes left lightning round. Um, but seriously, what, what if I’m in the room or even any, any partner that’s listening today, what do I need to change in the next 30 days? [00:26:50] George Maroulakos: From my perspective, think about marketplace as a why not as opposed to a why. And if you change your mindset around marketplace can be better together in helping to accelerate and expand your opportunities with our mutual customers. [00:27:03] George Maroulakos: You’ll get a whole lot more value out of it. You’ll get away from the fud in the system or some of the traditional roadblocks that you either have been or could be encountering when you think about marketplace, uh, together with your, with your solution. So think about the why not think about the value that the, the, the total solution can bring to our mutual customers and integrate it much more naturally into your total sales motion. [00:27:26] Vince Menzione: Nice. [00:27:27] Arif Razvi: I would say maybe three things. One, um, don’t just sell globally. Operate locally. Think about how your buyers wanna buy and then meet them there, right? As a partner, even if you’re doing CPPO transactions, um, you know, meet them in the location. Number two, top down, go get that executive alignment so the problems start to disappear, or at least are easier to manage when you’ve got that executive alignment. [00:27:51] Arif Razvi: And the third was, uh, don’t wait till the last minute to introduce marketplace. Work with your sales teams to make sure it’s part of the early conversation versus no procurement leader wants to know at the end of the day, oh wait, it’s coming. I gotta deal with this marketplace thing. They don’t wanna deal with it on the buyer side. [00:28:06] Vince Menzione: No, absolutely. Alright, we’ve got time for like one question in the back. Is that Eric? Yeah, that’s [00:28:12] Guest: me. [00:28:13] Vince Menzione: Hey. [00:28:14] Guest: Hi, Eric Rosenstein, um, with Cornerstone Strategy XAWS. So George, you talked about, uh, tools around that customers can use to research for self discovery. So what guidance, uh, first of all, like what capabilities are these tools gonna bring and what guidance would you give an industry specific ISV? [00:28:36] Guest: So someone that’s focused on law enforcement or private equity. That solution may be Angen solution, or it may be something more SaaS related. What guidance would you give an ISV to think about how to best leverage those tools? Is it metadata? Is it like. The outcome that your solution’s gonna drive, how would you tell ’em to best utilize those coming tools? [00:28:58] George Maroulakos: Yeah, excellent question and, and I think this is gonna, going to continue to emerge in the days, literally in weeks, weeks ahead. But recently, I, I’d say over the last six months, the advent of agent mode I think has been a game changer and the ability for our customers to use marketplace directly to research. [00:29:18] George Maroulakos: Efficiently what’s in our catalog. Prior to that, we had a category based. Old school based, search based category, click through way, which became very buried beyond the first page for any solution that was out there. Now with natural language query and the ability to propose, what am I specifically looking for, it gives partners that were on the first page or the last page in equal opportunity to be surfaced. [00:29:48] George Maroulakos: So then for a partner being able to do many of the things you just enumerated. Better metadata, better keywords, better description and differentiation for what your solution offers allows for the Ag agent search, whether it’s natively within AWS or outside of AWS through Claude Chat, GBT Crock Pick your, your, your agent of choice. [00:30:10] George Maroulakos: To be able to identify and know that your solution’s available. [00:30:13] Arif Razvi: And from a partner side to your question, I would say, uh, rich metadata, uh, both so that agent mode can find it. Yeah. Use cases, problems, it solves, you know, uh, technical specifications, pricing where you can, right. So that agents can really understand the solution, uh, that the buyer is, um, is looking for. [00:30:33] Vince Menzione: GEO is. [00:30:37] Guest: Perspective should be like as detailed as saying, so this agent is gonna act on these various data sources. [00:30:44] Arif Razvi: Yes. [00:30:45] Guest: Bringing it all together to drive that outcome that you want the agent [00:30:48] Arif Razvi: drive, if you can include what it needs to connect to in order to deliver that outcome as part of the listing. [00:30:53] Arif Razvi: Absolutely. ’cause the agent will want to know. For sure. [00:30:57] Guest: Thanks. [00:30:58] Vince Menzione: Alright, we are at time and this was a great session. [00:31:01] Arif Razvi: Thank you Vince. [00:31:01] Vince Menzione: Great to see you, George. George and I grew up, uh, five miles away from each other and went to the same college. I love it. Great to, great to spend some [00:31:09] Arif Razvi: time with you, George. [00:31:11] Vince Menzione: Thanks for listening to the Ultimate Partner Podcast. If today’s conversation resonated, share it with a partner leader in your network. Subscribe where you listen, and head over to the ultimate partner.com. For show notes related content and the resources for this episode, and if you haven’t already, now’s the time to register for the Ultimate Partner Live Event in Reston, Virginia, October 26th through October 28th. [00:31:38] Vince Menzione: Until next time, keep showing up in the rooms that matter because being in the room changes everything.

Conceitos como UBUNTU - que sintetiza a realidade da união entre todos os seres - estão presentes na cosmovisão da etnia BANTU, uma das culturas existentes no Congo, região central da África. A professora e voluntária de Nova Acrópole, Melissa Andrade, nos fala de três ideias centrais de sua profunda sabedoria.

Warming up can improve performance and help prevent common injuries. What else should you know? - Pemanasan dapat meningkatkan performa dan membantu mencegah cedera umum. Apa lagi yang perlu Anda ketahui?

Andrew Tate is trending again, but the bigger story isn't him, it's what made him possible. In this episode we break down anti-intellectualism: why comprehension is collapsing, why people trust vibes over evidence, and who actually benefits from keeping populations uncritical. We go back to Hofstadter's three strands of anti-intellectualism, cover South Africa's Bantu education system as intellectualism weaponised as policy, unpack the difference between academia and intellect, and ask whether you can be an intellectual without empathy.Welcome to The Marvyn Harrison Podcast — a story-driven conversation exploring identity, fatherhood, masculinity, relationships, culture, politics, sport, and modern life.In each episode, Marvyn Harrison sits down with leading thinkers, creatives, athletes, policymakers, and cultural voices to unpack the defining moments that shaped them. Through image prompts, structured storytelling, and revealing game segments, guests explore pivotal memories, career turning points, personal struggles, and the beliefs that guide their decisions today.Expect honest discussions on mental health, family dynamics, leadership, equity, ambition, resilience, and the realities of navigating success in Britain and beyond.This is a podcast about clarity, where lived experience meets sharp cultural insight. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Pasca gempa bumi mematikan yang melanda Venezuela, para relawan terus bergerak menyalurkan makanan dan bantuan kemanusiaan bagi warga terdampak. Aksi solidaritas ini menjadi dukungan penting bagi masyarakat yang masih berjuang memulihkan kehidupan setelah bencana.

Kencan Dengan Tuhan - Sabtu, 27 Juni 2026Bacaan: "Orang yang jujur dilepaskan oleh kebenarannya, tetapi pengkhianat tertangkap oleh hawa nafsunya." (Amsal 11:6)Renungan: Ada sebuah kisah yang menceritakan ketika Abraham Lincoln bekerja sebagai penjaga toko di New Salem, Illinois, jauh sebelum Abraham Lincoln terjun di dunia politik. Suatu sore, saat mencatat neraca keuangan, Lincoln mendapati bahwa ia telah memungut bayaran 6 sen lebih banyak dari seorang pelanggan. Sebenarnya bisa saja Lincoln tutup mata soal itu karena nilainya tidak seberapa dan pelanggan tersebut juga tidak merasa kehilangan. Namun yang dilakukan Lincoln sungguh baik. Malam itu juga ia berjalan kaki beberapa mil ke rumah pelanggan untuk mengembalikan kelebihan uang tersebut! Integritas dan sikap jujur inilah yang akhirnya membawa Abraham Lincoln dipercaya dan menjadi salah satu presiden Amerika Serikat yang berhasil dan dicintai rakyatnya. Sesungguhnya kejujuran menjadi hal yang langka di zaman modern seperti sekarang. Kalau menerima kelebihan pembayaran, banyak orang "tutup mata". Banyak alasannya. Pertama, ia merasa kadang juga dirugikan, jadi kalau gantian dapat "untung", apa salahnya? Kedua, salah sendiri mereka yang tidak teliti dalam menghitung. Ketiga, buat apa repot-repot mengurus kembalian kalau konsumen bahkan tidak merasa bayar lebih mahal. Keempat, nilainya tidak seberapa, buat apa dipersoalkan. Firman Tuhan dalam Amsal 11:6 mengatakan, "Orang yang jujur dilepaskan oleh kebenarannya, tetapi pengkhianat tertangkap oleh hawa nafsunya." Kejujuran akan menolong kita, sebaliknya kecurangan akan mencelakakan kita. Kejujuran akan menjadi "pembela" bagi kita, sedangkan kecurangan akan menjerumuskan kita. Orang dunia mungkin akan mentertawakan kebodohan kita di saat kita bersikap jujur. Mereka mungkin saja tidak percaya masih ada orang jujur di dunia ini. Walau demikian, sebagai murid Kristus marilah kita tunjukkan gaya hidup yang berbeda dari orang dunia. Jadilah orang yang punya integritas dan bisa dipercaya. Semakin kita dipercaya, semakin besar promosi itu akan datang kepada kita. Tuhan Yesus memberkati. Doa:Tuhan Yesus, sejak aku mengenal-Mu hatiku begitu tenang. Ketenangan itu juga yang membuat karakter ku berubah. Bantu aku untuk terus mempertahankan kejujuran sebagai bagian dari pengenalanku akan Engkau. Amin. (Dod).

In a recent study of LGBTQIA+ asylum seekers and refugees, nature was used not just as a meeting place, but as an environment where participants felt safe without being questioned or judged. - Dalam sebuah studi terbaru mengenai pencari suaka dan pengungsi LGBTQIA+, alam dimanfaatkan bukan sekadar sebagai tempat pertemuan, melainkan sebagai lingkungan di mana para peserta merasa aman tanpa perlu menghadapi pertanyaan ataupun dihakimi.Dengarkan SBS Indonesian setiap hari Senin, Rabu, Jumat, dan Minggu jam 3 sore.Ikuti kami di Facebook dan Instagram, serta jangan lewatkan podcast kami.

Atudryx Dj - Magic House Vol 30 (Streaming live on radio40web.com every Saturday Night) Visit website https://www.atudryxdj.com & https://www.radio40web.com EPISODE LIVE 06/13/2026 TRACKLIST 01. Atudryx Dj - Magic House Intro 02. J Balvin, Ryan Castro, Dj Snake - Tonto (Antonio Alterino Edit) 03. Merk & Kremont Ft. Serena Brancale, The Kolors - Partenope (Balzanelli, Jerry Dj, Michelle Remix) 04. Usher - Yeah (Göktürk Öner Afro Remix) 05. Dalida, Alain Delon - Paroles, Paroles (Faul & Wad Extended Remix) 06. Hugel - Ron Y Coco (Jay Dizzle & Howard Hill Remix) 07. Bantu, Bontan, Dr. Chaii – Too Much (MXLØ's ReGroove) 08. Prospa, Cloonee - Free Your Mind (No One Edit) 09. Calvin Harris - How Deep (Jesús Fernández Remix 2026) 10. Benny Benassi - Cinema (Rob Rivera, Los Padres & DJ Nach Afro Remix) 11. Masters At Work - Work (Amusse Afro Remix) 12. YinYang Project - El Sueno (Extended Mix) 13. Madonna & Sabrina Carpenter - Bring Your Love (D@nny G Remix) 14. Francesco Gabbani - Summer Funk (Umberto Balzanelli, Dinaro, Michelle Tribal Edit) 15. Zucchero - Baila Sexy Thing (Felix Dj Remix) 16. Benji & Fede, Alex Britti - Viva la Vasca (Dimar Re-Boot)

Send us Fan MailSetlistSone., Riascode - AmiraBensy, Sparrow & Barbossa,Bantu, Dr Chaii & Neyl - Miracle (Damon DeGraff & Merchant Remix)LevyM - Zola MoyaRe.you, Merzzy, Diana Ela - Zou Zou Deco (BE) - New DayCloser NUANS - Closer NUANSHARMONIQUE - See The Ocean Naomi Sharon - Another Life (Marten Lou Remix)Click here for NUANS birthday set during Chino & Friends at Palm Tree Club Send demos via Trackstack:https://tstack.app/nuans.fmInstagramwww.instagram.com/nuans.fmTikTokhttps://www.tiktok.com/@nuans.fmThreadshttps://www.threads.net/@nuans.fmlinks: https://nuans.komi.io/Guest Mix Submissionshttps://nuansfm.com/guestmix#ToProgress

Get the full version of the GRAPPL Weekend Show every Friday (but sometimes Thursday) Live every week by becoming a Patron at Patreon.com/GRAPPL or YouTube.com@GRAPPLWe were back this week with me and JP on the Weekend Show for a bumper one with belated Backlash thoughts, Dynamite, the previews, something called Supercard of Honor, Wembley updates, the slow death of Triller and more.Enjoy!BennoSHOWNOTES0:00 Intro, Plugs9:16 WWE Backlash, Cena tournament, Asuka, Netflix and ESPN numbers30:35 AEW Wembley, Double or Nothing sales, WrestleMania in London49:58 AEW vs Triller, WWE Shareholder suit, Other News1:14:51 AEW Dynamite, TV Wrestling1:47:33 ROH Supercard, Weekend Previewshttps://www.youtube.com/live/C01T6VcX5K0?si=F3v-tZxTDoLJZbInGRAPPL is produced with support from our Patrons and YouTube members, with special thanks to Patreon Kings and Queen Of The Mountain - Conor O'Loughlin, Eddie Sideburns, Chris Platt, Carl Gac, Sophia Hitchcock, Simon Mulvaney & Marty Ellis!You can find all of our live shows on YouTube by becoming a Member at ⁠http://www.Youtube.com/@GRAPPL,⁠ or join us on Patreon for both live video and audio replays at ⁠http://www.patreon.com/GRAPPL!⁠You can also join us on the GRAPPL Discord for free at https://discord.gg/KqeVAcwctS⁠ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Release Yourself Radio Show #1282Roger Sanchez Live In The Mix from Harbour Convention Centre, VancouverTracklist currently unavailableRelease Yourself Guest Mix from Dean MickoskiDean Mickoski - La Trompeta (Original mix) Bantu, Bontan, Dr. Chaii - Too Much (Original Mix)The Deepshakerz, Xander Pratt - Midnight Ritual (Extended Mix)Dean Mickoski, Dr Alban - Hello Africa Lui Danzi & Hachero Feat. Aurinha Do Coco - O' Grito (The Deepshakerz Remix)Dean Mickoski - Boka Negra feat. Nicinha (Extended Mix) Swanky Tunes, Shapov - Favela (Extended Mix)Dean Mickoski - Losing Your Mind (Extended Mix)Aaron Hibell, Alex Wann 'set me free' (Joris Voorn Remix) [Astralwerks] *Please note this show may contain curse words and offensive language* Release Yourself with world renowned DJ, Producer, Radio and Podcast host Roger Sanchez. More Roger Sanchez on http://rogersanchez.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Huwaduh … intinya kelajjutan ep 1 drapod ini .. dengerin dlu deh kalo ga tau

Petugas memberikan layanan cepat pembuatan paspor darurat untuk seorang bayi yang harus segera dirujuk ke Malaysia. Meski masih berada dalam inkubator, bayi langsung dibawa menuju pelabuhan dengan pendampingan petugas. Seluruh proses administrasi hingga keberangkatan dipastikan berjalan lancar, termasuk pengawalan keluarga pasien hingga masuk ke area kapal.Tak hanya itu, petugas juga menghadirkan layanan jemput bola bagi warga yang sakit dan tidak mampu datang ke kantor. Melalui layanan mobile, pembuatan paspor dilakukan langsung di rumah pasien sebagai bentuk komitmen pelayanan untuk kebutuhan medis mendesak.

Think of Katy Perry in her video for This Is How We Do, Madonna in a traditional Berber outfit at the 2018 VMA awards, or Adele with her hair in Bantu knots to mark Notting Hill Carnival, this is cultural appropriation. It's a practice which has caused regular controversy in the world of pop culture. Most often, white artists are accused of using ideas, symbols or other items which come from non-Western minority cultures. The definition of cultural appropriation itself is somewhat controversial, with many saying it is often misapplied by the general public. Its meaning has evolved over time to have negative connotations. t's problematic when someone belonging to a dominant community uses cultural elements from an oppressed people, for their own artistic or commercial benefit. In 1976, art historian Kenneth Coutts-Smith wrote one of the first essays to discuss cultural appropriation. He didn't actually use the term itself, but brought together the ideas of class appropriation and cultural colonialism. What is cultural appropriation? What's wrong with mixing cultures? So what could they do differently? In under 3 minutes, we answer your questions! To listen the last episodes, you can click here: ⁠Why do we blow out candles on birthdays?⁠ ⁠What is the ‘Yes Man' Technique?⁠ ⁠Which five foods slow ageing?⁠ A podcast written and realised by Joseph Chance. Forst broadcast: 21/11/2020. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Catch Up on the latest leading news stories around the country with Mandy Wiener on Midday Report every weekday from 12h00 - 13h00. The Midday Report with Mandy Wiener is 702 and CapeTalk’s flagship news show, your hour of essential news radio. The show is podcasted every weekday, allowing you to catch up with a 60-minute weekday wrap of the day's main news. It's packed with fast-paced interviews with the day’s newsmakers, as well as those who can make sense of the news and explain what's happening in your world. All the interviews are podcasted for you to catch up and listen to. Thank you for listening to this podcast of The Midday Report Listen live on weekdays between 12:00 and 13:00 (SA Time) to The Midday Report broadcast on 702 https://buff.ly/gk3y0Kj and on CapeTalk https://buff.ly/NnFM3Nk For more from The Midday Report go to https://buff.ly/BTGmL9H and find all the catch-up podcasts here https://buff.ly/LcbDdFI Subscribe to the 702 and CapeTalk daily and weekly newsletters https://buff.ly/v5mfetc Follow us on social media: 702 on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TalkRadio702 702 on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@talkradio702 702 on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/talkradio702/ 702 on X: https://x.com/Radio702 702 on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@radio702 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Catch Up on the latest leading news stories around the country with Mandy Wiener on Midday Report every weekday from 12h00 - 13h00. The Midday Report with Mandy Wiener is 702 and CapeTalk’s flagship news show, your hour of essential news radio. The show is podcasted every weekday, allowing you to catch up with a 60-minute weekday wrap of the day's main news. It's packed with fast-paced interviews with the day’s newsmakers, as well as those who can make sense of the news and explain what's happening in your world. All the interviews are podcasted for you to catch up and listen to. Thank you for listening to this podcast of The Midday Report Listen live on weekdays between 12:00 and 13:00 (SA Time) to The Midday Report broadcast on 702 https://buff.ly/gk3y0Kj and on CapeTalk https://buff.ly/NnFM3Nk For more from The Midday Report go to https://buff.ly/BTGmL9H and find all the catch-up podcasts here https://buff.ly/LcbDdFI Subscribe to the 702 and CapeTalk daily and weekly newsletters https://buff.ly/v5mfetc Follow us on social media: 702 on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TalkRadio702 702 on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@talkradio702 702 on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/talkradio702/ 702 on X: https://x.com/Radio702 702 on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@radio702 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Bantu songs from Zambia: recording of a selection of Bantu songs and music, including drumming, issued by the Zambia Broadcasting Corporation.From the sound collections of the Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford, being one of a small number of recordings issued or released by foreign broadcasting corporations or radio associations.Recorded by Zambia Broadcasting Corporation.Copyright Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford.———Part of the project A Century of Sounds, reimagining 100 sounds covering 100 years from the collections of the Pitt Rivers Museum at the University of Oxford. Explore the full project at citiesandmemory.com/century-sounds

 Imagine tuning a radio time-machine dial between the past and present of the Zambezi River valley; birds weave a tapestry in and out of the soundscape as static, magnetic drift, crosstalk and interference rise and fall with the signals in the atmosphere. The foundation of this mix, an original recording in the Pitt Rivers Museum collection, is a radio broadcast of singing and drumming by an unidentified group circa 1965, in the first years of Zambia's independence and the period of transition from colonial broadcasting structures to a national network. The available information is minimal; a single scrap of paper tells us the recording is "starring Stephen & Pio". During the copying process one of the reels of tape was accidentally overprinted, so that one track runs backwards while another simultaneously runs forward. In my reimagined mix this glitch leads us through history and memory, the reversed rhythms of backwards magnetic tape conducting an aural transition back into the past.  In the 1970s the government and the people supported the Black majorities in neighbouring countries who were engaged in armed struggles against oppressive white settler regimes. Lusaka, the capital of Zambia, acted as the headquarters for clandestine shortwave radio broadcasts supporting these wars of African liberation. In transmissions of solidarity and strategy sent across borders, the sound of gunfire was a form of station identification, heard here among victory celebrations and swarming mosquitoes. Collectivities float across the airwaves: clouds of insects, armies and colonies and communities of people, soloist and chorus in call and response, the undercurrent of winds and rivers, flocks of birds. For the Tonga of Southern Province, birds are associated with spirits and the women who perform rainmaking rituals with them. Tuning into the Zambezi Valley in the 2020s, we catch voices of women's empowerment amidst fragments of an ongoing community radio revitalization movement. New volunteer-run stations are broadcasting on FM in areas where Internet and cell phone service are sketchy or nonexistent, but most households own at least one radio. Questions asked by Brooklyn College anthropology students are answered by students and radio producers in the Zambezi Valley in an exchange of audio letters, part of a co-production with Claudia Wegener (a.k.a. radio continental drift). In the coda we return to the early years of Zambian freedom and independence, as the tape plays backwards again and the individual voices of the original recording multiply to form a nation.Birds: Macaulay Library, Cornell University Ornithology LabClandestine shortwave recordings: Interval Signals OnlineClips: Radio Zambia, Radio Chikuni, Sinazongwe Community Radio Voices:Maseline Mureles (Narrator), Chisa Mwiinde, ManJun Luo, Anna Kowalski, Miriam Salama, Arilda Hyka, Galit Mamrout, Lucia Munenge, Megi Murati, Meggie Cheng, Mrs. Banda Ndeti, Nosiku Mundia, Margaret Munkuli, Monica Siabunkululu, Patience KabukuThanks: Claudia Wegener, Zongwe FM, Zubo Trust for Women, Brooklyn College, Stuart Fowkes, Anna Stereopolou, Wave Farm, Library of Congress Radio Preservation Task Force, National Endowment for the Humanities Radio & Decolonization workshop.Bantu songs from Zambia reimagined by Tom Miller.———Part of the project A Century of Sounds, reimagining 100 sounds covering 100 years from the collections of the Pitt Rivers Museum at the University of Oxford. Explore the full project at citiesandmemory.com/century-sounds

Send a textSetlistAlicia Keys | 5A - In Common (Black Coffee Remix)WITH U | 5A - Matuinï Bantu, Antdot  - Too LateJamila, Vanco - Breathe feat. JAMILA Moeaike - Everyone Else AMEME - Bangala YRO - Destiny Send demos via Trackstack: https://tstack.app/nuans.fm Instagram www.instagram.com/nuans.fm TikTok https://www.tiktok.com/@nuans.fm Threads https://www.threads.net/@nuans.fm links: https://nuans.komi.io/Guest Mix Submissionshttps://nuansfm.com/sohguestmix#ToProgress

En Afrique du Sud, deux chorégraphes emblématiques du continent, la Franco-Béninoise Germaine Acogny, icône de la danse contemporaine, et le Sud-Africain Gregory Maqoma, se sont retrouvés pour monter un spectacle en deux parties. Ce double programme, montré pour la première fois à l'université de Johannesburg, propose un dialogue entre les générations et les cultures africaines. De notre correspondante à Johannesburg, À 81 ans, Germaine Acogny ne cesse de se réinventer. Cette fois-ci, seule en scène, elle rejoue, à sa façon et au travers de ses mouvements, la vie de la danseuse, chanteuse et militante Joséphine Baker. Une chorégraphie sous forme d'hommage très politique : « J'ai voulu interpréter vraiment la résistante. Cette première pièce est d'actualité, sur le racisme qui ne se défait pas et contre lequel on est encore obligés de se battre », s'indigne la chorégraphe. Et elle prend un exemple : « Cette banane que j'ai prise, en France, je la lance ! Parce que vous savez, le racisme qui existe quand il y a les footballeurs qui perdent, on leur jette des bananes comme à des singes ? Eh bien moi, je l'ai écrasée ici. » Le spectacle Joséphine, conçu à l'origine pour le théâtre parisien des Champs-Élysées l'année dernière, est désormais assorti d'une deuxième partie : un tourbillon de couleurs et des artistes de tout le continent qui se lancent dans une danse fougueuse et déchaînée. Un dialogue entre l'Afrique du Sud et l'Afrique de l'Ouest Pour accompagner la pièce de Germaine Acogny, il a été demandé au chorégraphe sud-africain Gregory Maqoma, de 30 ans son cadet, de dessiner une réponse. C'est ainsi qu'est né Bantu, le peuple. « C'est un honneur pour moi de partager la scène avec "Mama Germaine" et son travail. Cela honore aussi qui nous sommes et notre humanité. Sa pièce parle beaucoup de résistance, analyse le chorégraphe. Je souhaitais y répondre en utilisant le sens de l'urgence que ressent la jeunesse d'aujourd'hui. Et je voulais aussi évoquer l'éradication des frontières et que l'on puisse s'autoriser à penser sans elles. »  À cette occasion, une troupe a été composée à partir de danseurs des compagnies des deux chorégraphes, l'École des Sables sénégalaise et le Vuyani Dance Theatre sud-africain. Chacun amène ses mouvements et sa culture, et le tout forme un magnifique ensemble. « Il a voulu faire un dialogue aussi entre l'Afrique de l'Ouest et l'Afrique du Sud, estime Germaine Acogny. Moi, ce que j'ai vu, c'est le fait de partir de nos origines vers la contemporanéité. Et vous avez vu cette gaïeté, on sent aussi qu'il y a un rituel et la joie de vivre, la joie de célébrer, et je trouve que c'était une excellente rencontre. » L'équipe espère maintenant pouvoir présenter ce double programme lors d'une tournée mondiale, avec des dates déjà prévues en France et en Allemagne plus tard dans l'année.  À lire aussiLe chorégraphe sud-africain Gregory Maqoma en un mot, un geste et un silence 

It’s the annual discoveries episode! Thanks to Stephen and Aryeh for their corrections and suggestions this week! Further reading: Salinella Salve: The Vanishing Creature That Defied Science for Over a Century Three new species of the genus Scutiger Baeticoniscus carmonaensis sp. nov. a new Isopod found in an underground aqueduct from the Roman period located in Southwest Spain (Crustacea, Isopoda, Trichoniscidae) A new species of supergiant Bathynomus Giant ‘Darth Vader' sea bug discovered off the coast of Vietnam A New Species of easter egg weevil Bizarre ‘bone collector’ caterpillar discovered by UH scientists Researchers Discover ‘Death Ball’ Sponge and Dozens of Other Bizarre Deep-Sea Creatures in the Southern Ocean 1,500th Bat Species Discovered in Africa’s Equatorial Guinea Show transcript: Welcome to Strange Animals Podcast. I'm your host, Kate Shaw. This week we're going to learn about some animals discovered in 2025! We'll also make this our corrections episode. This is the last new episode we'll have until the end of August when we reach our 500th episode, but don't worry, until then there will be rescheduled Patreon episodes every single week as usual. We'll start with some corrections. Shortly after episode 452 was published in September, where we talked about the swamp wallaby and some other animals, Stephen emailed to point out that I'd made a major mistake! In that episode I said that not all animals called wallabies were actually members of the family Macropodidae, but that's actually not the case. All wallabies are macropodids, but they aren't all members of the same genus in that family. I corrected the episode but I wanted to mention it here too so no one is confused. Stephen also caught another mistake in episode 458, which is embarrassing. I mentioned that marsupials didn't just live in Australia, they were found all over the world. That's not actually the case! Marsupials are found in North and South America, Australia, New Guinea and nearby areas, and that's it. They were once also found in what is now Asia, but that was millions of years ago. So I apologize to everyone in Africa, Asia, and Europe who were excited about finding out what their local marsupials are. You don't have any, sorry. One update that Aryeh asked about specifically is an animal we talked about in episode 445, salinella. Aryeh emailed asking for more information if I could find any, because it's such a fascinating mystery! I looked for some more recent findings, unfortunately without luck. I do have an article linked in the show notes that goes into detail about everything we covered in that episode, though, dated to mid-January 2026, and it's a nice clear account. Now, let's get into the 2025 discoveries! There are lots more animals that were discovered last year, but I just chose some that I thought were especially interesting. Mostly I chose ones that I thought had funny names. Let's start with three new species of frog in the genus Scutiger. Species in this genus are called lazy toads and I couldn't find out why. Maybe they don't like to move around too much. Lazy toads live in mountains in some parts of Asia, and we don't know very much about most of the 31 species described so far. Probably the most common lazy toad is the Sikkim lazy toad that lives along high altitude streams in the Himalaya Mountains. It's mottled greenish-brown and yellowish in color with lots of warts, and while its feet have webbed toes, it doesn't have webbed fingers on its little froggy hands. This is your reminder that every toad is a frog but not every frog is a toad. The Sikkim lazy toad grows about two and a half inches long, or about 65 mm, from nose to butt. It seems to be pretty average for a lazy toad. The three new species of lazy toad are found in Yunnan Province in China, in a mountainous region where several species of lazy toad were already known. Between 2021 and 2024, a team of scientists collected 27 lazy toads from various places, then carefully examined them to see if they were species already known to science. This included genetic analysis. The team compared their findings with other lazy toad species and discovered that not all of the specimens matched any known species. Further comparison with each other revealed that the team had discovered three new species, which they described in December of 2025. Next, isopods are common crustaceans that live throughout the world. You have undoubtedly seen at least one species of isopod, because an animal with lots of common names, including woodlouse, pill bug, roly-poly, and sowbug, is a terrestrial isopod. That's right, the roly-poly is not a bug or a centipede but a crustacean. The order Isopoda contains more than 10,000 species, and there are undoubtedly thousands more that haven't been discovered by scientists yet. About half the species discovered so far live on land and the other half live in water, most in the ocean but some in fresh water. They don't all look like roly-polies, of course. Many look like their distant crustacean cousins, shrimps and crayfish, while others look more like weird centipedes or fleas or worms. There's a lot of variation in an animal that's extremely common throughout the world, so it's no surprise that more species are discovered almost every year. In 2021 and 2022, a team of Spanish scientists took a biological survey of an ancient Roman tunnel system beneath Carmona, Spain. The tunnels were built around 2,000 years ago as a water source, since they capture groundwater, but it hasn't been used in so long that it's more or less a natural environment these days. The scientists quickly discovered plenty of life in the tunnels, including an isopod living in cracks in some ancient timbers. It grows about two and a half millimeters long and actually does look a lot like a tiny roly-poly. It has long antennae and its body mostly lacks pigment, but it does have dark eyes. Most animals that live in total darkness eventually evolve to no longer have functioning eyes, since they don't need them, but that isn't the case for this new isopod. Scientists think it might take advantage of small amounts of light available near the tunnel entrances. As far as the scientists can tell, the Carmona isopod only lives in this one tunnel system, so it's vulnerable to pollutants and human activity that might disrupt its underground home. Another new isopod species that's vulnerable to human activity, in this case overfishing, lives off the coast of Vietnam. It's another isopod that looks a lot like a roly-poly, which I swear is not what every isopod looks like. It's a deep-sea animal that hunts for food on the ocean floor, and it's a popular delicacy in Vietnam. Remember, it's a crustacean, and people say it tastes like another crustacean, lobster. In fact, scientists discovered their specimens in a fish market. Deep-sea animals sometimes feature what's called deep-sea gigantism. Most isopods are quite small, no more than a few cm at most, but the new species grows almost 13 inches long, or over 32 cm. It's almost the largest isopod known. Its head covering made the scientists think of Darth Vader's helmet, so it's been named Bathynomus vaderi. Next we have a new species of Easter egg weevil, a flightless beetle found on many islands in Southeast Asia. Easter egg weevils are beautiful, with every species having a different pattern of spots and stripes. Many are brightly colored and iridescent. The new species shows a lot of variability, but it's basically a black beetle with a diamond-shaped pattern that can be yellow, gold, or blue. Some individuals have pink spots in the middle of some of the diamonds. It's really pretty and that is just about all I could find out about it. Another new insect is a type of Hawaiian fancy case caterpillar, which metamorphose into moths. They're only found on the Hawaiian islands, and there are over 350 species known. The new species has been named the bone collector, because of what the caterpillar does. Fancy case caterpillars spin a sort of shell out of silk, which is called a case, and the caterpillar carries its case around with it as protection. Some of the cases are unadorned but resemble tree bark, while many species will decorate the case with lichens, sand, or other items that help it blend in with its background. Some fancy case caterpillars can live in water as well as on land, and while most caterpillars eat plant material, some fancy case caterpillars eat insects. That's the situation with the bone collector caterpillar. It lives in spider webs, which right there is astonishing, and decorates its case with bits and pieces of dead insect it finds in the web. This can include wings, heads, legs, and other body parts. The bone collector caterpillar eats insects, and it will chew through strands of the spider's web to get to a trapped insect before the spider does. Sometimes it will eat what's left of a spider's meal once the spider is finished. The bone collector caterpillar has only been found in one tiny part of O'ahu, a 15-square-km area of forest, although researchers think it was probably much more widespread before invasive plants and animals were introduced to the island. Next, the Antarctic Ocean is one of the least explored parts of the world, and a whole batch of new species was announced in 2025 after two recent expeditions. One of the expeditions explored ocean that was newly revealed after a huge iceberg split off the ice shelf off West Antarctica in early 2025. That's not where the expedition had planned to go, but it happened to be nearby when the iceberg broke off, and of course the team immediately went to take a look. Back in episode 199 we talked about some carnivorous sponges. Sponges have been around for more than half a billion years, and early on they evolved a simple but effective body plan that they mostly still retain. Most sponges have a skeleton made of calcium carbonate that forms a sort of dense net that's covered with soft body tissues. The sponge has lots of open pores in the outside of its body, which generally just resembles a sack or sometimes a tube, with one end attached to something hard like a rock, or just the bottom of the ocean. Water flows into the sponge's tissues through the pores, and special cells filter out particles of food from the water, much of it microscopic, and release any waste material. The sponge doesn't have a stomach or any kind of digestive tract. The cells process the food individually and pass on any extra nutrients to adjoining cells. In 1995, scientists discovered a tiny sponge that wasn't a regular filter feeder. It had little hooks all over it, and it turns out that when a small animal gets caught on the hooks, the sponge grows a membrane that envelops the animal within a few hours. The cells of the membrane contain bacteria that help digest the animal so the cells can absorb the nutrients. Since then, other carnivorous sponges have been discovered, or scientists have found that some sponges already known to science are actually carnivorous. That's the case with the ping-pong tree sponge. It looks kind of like a bunch of grapes on a central stem that grows up from the bottom of the ocean, and it can be more than 20 inches tall, or 50 cm. The little balls are actually balloon-like structures that inflate with water and are covered with little hooks. It was discovered off the coast of South America near Easter Island, in deep water where the sea floor is mostly made of hardened lava. It was classified in the genus Chondrocladia, and so far there are more than 30 other species known. The reason we're talking about the ping-pong tree sponge is that a new species of Chondrocladia has been discovered in the Antarctic Ocean, and it looks a lot like the ping-pong tree sponge. It's been dubbed the death-ball sponge, which is hilarious. It was found two and a quarter miles deep on the ocean floor, or 3.6 km, and while scientists have determined it's a new species of sponge, it hasn't been described yet. It's one of 30 new species found so far, and the team says that there are many other specimens collected that haven't been studied yet. We haven't talked about any new mammal discoveries yet, so let's finish with one of my favorites, a new bat! It was discovered on Bioko Island in Equatorial Guinea, which is part of Africa. During a 2024 biodiversity assessment on the island, a PhD student named Laura Torrent captured a bat that turned out to be not only a brand new species, it is the 1,500th species of bat known to science! Pipistrellus etula gets its name from the local language, Bantu, since “etula” means both “island” and “god of the island” in that language. The bat was found in forests at elevations over 1,000 meters, on the slopes of a volcano. Back in 1989, a different researcher captured a few of the bats on another volcano, but never got a chance to examine them to determine if they were a new species. When Torrent's team were studying their bats, one of the things they did was compare them to the preserved specimens from 1989, and they discovered the bats were indeed a match. P. etula is a type of vesper bat, which is mostly active at dusk and eats insects. It's brown with black wings and ears. Just like all the other species we've talked about today, now that we know it exists, it can be protected and studied in the wild. That's what science is really for, after all. It's not just to satisfy our human curiosity and desire for knowledge, although that's important too. It's so we can make this world a better place for everyone to live—humans, animals, plants, isopods, weird caterpillars, and everything else on Earth and beyond. You can find Strange Animals Podcast at strangeanimalspodcast.blubrry.net. That's blueberry without any E's. Thanks for listening! I'll see you in August.

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Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day for January 8, 2026 is: gumbo • GUM-boh • noun Gumbo refers to a soup thickened with okra pods or filé and containing meat or seafoods and usually vegetables. The word is also used figuratively to refer to a mixture or blend of something. // The reputation of the family's gumbo guaranteed them an invitation to any and all neighborhood potlucks. // She draws her artistic inspiration from the city's rich gumbo of musical styles. See the entry > Examples: “Gram and Aunt Rachel got a big bucket of gumbo on the way home ... and we ate it out of the container with plastic spoons in front of the clubhouse TV, watching episode after episode of Jeopardy!, none of us wagering any answers. Gull sat in my lap and picked out the okra.” — Tennessee Hill, Girls with Long Shadows: A Novel, 2025 Did you know? Gumbo refers to an aromatic soup of the Creole cuisine of Louisiana, combining African, Indigenous North American, and European elements. It takes its name from the American French word gombo, which in turn is of Bantu origin and related to the Umbundu word ochinggômbo, meaning “okra.” Okra usually plays a starring role in gumbo as a thickener (unless the soup is thickened by filé, powdered young sassafras leaves) alongside the holy trinity of celery, onion, and bell pepper, and any number of additional ingredients, from seafood (shrimp, crab, or oysters) to meat (chicken, sausage, duck, or game) to leafy greens. The variety of ingredients and ways to prepare the dish eventually led to the figurative sense of gumbo referring to a variety, mixture, or mélange of things, as in “a gumbo of ideas.”

Happy Holidaze Party People!!  This episode of the Matter & Motion Music podcast, we got a 2 hours and 40 minute mix from our friend Omar Rashidzada from the Midwest.  He brings you a smooth groove of deep, dubby, afro, tech-house.  Below is the track listing: 1 BOg, HIGHLITE - This Feeling (HIGHLITE Remix) 2 Benjamin Koll, Perfected - Somebody (Perfected Italo Disco Re-Remix) 3 Hotmood  - Kryptonite (Original Mix) 4 Diskobar - Don't Stop The Music (Original Mix) 5 D.P.V. - Let It Slide (Original Mix) 6 Manuel Varey - Mainline (Radio Edit) 7 Souxsoul - Last Night (Instrumental Mix) 8 Elado - I Wanna Dance 9 Luca Guerrieri - Street Player 10 Amirali - Murmure Naturel 11 Soul Speech, King No-One - Break The Rules (For You) (Extended Mix) 12 Bákayan - Don't Act Like (Extended Mix) 13 Dave Lee ZR, Maurissa Rose, Michael Gray - What About My Love (Michael Gray Extended Remix) 14 Ralphi Rosario - THE PARTY Featuring Gravity (The 12" Party Mix) 15 Brian Jackson, Kenny Dope, Louie Vega, Omar - The Bottle (MAW Harlem Dub) 16 Foremost Poets, Johnny Dangerous, Dave Lee ZR - Beside Myself (Dave Lee Beatbox Party Dub) 17 Stacy Kidd - On My Face (Disco Mix) 18 Davide Inserra  - Funky Feel (Original Mix) 19 2NOMADS, Dum K  - Calma (Radio Edit) 20 Ralf GUM, Trigmatic - Fire (Ralf GUM Main Mix) 21 Erland Galjaard, Deep Afro - Should I Listen (Deep Afro Clubmix) 22 Presi On, Spijker, C-Mart, USandTHEM - Ebelebe 23 RBØR, Rafäl, Mavhungu - Takadza 24 Joy Marquez, Derya Mersinoglu - Izmir 25 Brutha Basil, Cee ElAssaad - Who Are You (Original Mix) 26 Stacy Kidd - To Be Continued (Afro Radio Mix) 27 O. De Lanzac - 4 Africa 28 Konvex (FR), Meloko, Garla - If U Ever 29 Bontan, Bantu, Dr. Chaii  - Too Much (Original Mix) 30 Vale, Latin Order - Bandidos (Radio Edit) 31 Pete Salaz, Nissan - La Curacion 32 Flagrant Drvms, Mijangos - Que Se Sepa 33 Oscar P, Terry Jasinto, AmaZee - U Are My House (Norty Cotto Clubbin Remix) 34 Chucho Teliz - Move (Original Mix) 35 Ray MD, RMD (NYC) - La Salsa Viene De Cuba (RMD NYC Afro Latin Pump Mix) 36 Cezar Aragon, Daniel Matheus - Menealo (Original Mix) 37 Adri Block, Paul Parsons - Bitter Love That's Sweet (Original Mix) 38 Jeremy Joshua, DJ Mes, Miguel Migs - Touch My Mind (Miguel Migs Salty Remix) 39 Demarkus Lewis - Butter Scotch (Redub) 40 DJ Mes - For Tha People 41 Francisco Barria - Im Black (Extended Mix) 42 Cajmere & Gene Farris - Le Mirage 43 Robbie Tronco, Tronco Traxx, Oscar P - Walk 4 Me (Oscar P Ninja Dub) 44 Le Babar, Alessandro Pacifico - My Thrill, My Love (Extended Mix) 45 Thommy Davis, MicFreak - Over Again (MicFreak's House Anthem Mix) 46 Rubber People, Mario Cruz - In The Ghetto (Original) 47 Jay Vegas, Olav Basoski - Clap Your Hands (Extended Mix) 48 Meredith O, Demuir - Inside My Mind (Demuir's Playboi Extended Edit) 49 Hardcopy, Block & Crown - What's That Bassline? (Clubmix) 50 Louie Vega, Robyn - All My Love Feat. Robyn (Louie Vega Dub) 51 Earth N Days - Don't Give Me This (Extended Mix) 52 Nolek, 4Rain, Leeb - Feel Da Bongo 53 TCTS, Beaux Neptune - Pardon Me (Extended Mix)

The Nusa Tenggara Association (NTA) actively donates funds to help meet the needs of residents on the Island of Flores, East Nusa Tenggara. - Nusa Tenggara Association (NTA) aktif menyumbangkan dana untuk membantu memenuhi kebutuhan warga di Pulau Flores, Nusa Tenggara Timur.

Here's the latest news from the world of Omniglot. New language pages: Kwaʼ (Bakwa'), a Bamileke language spoken in the southwest of Cameroon. Ndau (ChiNdau), a Bantu language spoken mainly in Mozambique, Zimbabwe and South Africa. Ndonga (OshiNdonga), a Bantu language spoken mainly in the north of Namibia, and also in southern Angola. Arammba (Aramba), […]

It's The Honorable Junns — not a Bantu or a Jew, but an Alkebulan Kidnapped that's ready for the get back. Welcome back to the Redeem or Destroy Podcast, where we deal with facts over beliefs and awaken the minds of the kidnapped.In this episode we expose the facts behind why Black children are growing up under systems that push them into “bad ass” roles—why their defiance, toughness, and survival skills are not simply teenage rebellion but the by-product of systemic breakdowns. We'll dig into toxic stress, racialized discipline, broken family structures, and the culture of survival that's passing from generation to generation.Get ready: no fluff, no comfort, only cold hard facts. Respect your DNA.

Here's the latest news from the world of Omniglot. New language pages: Ha (Igiha), a Bantu language spoken in the Kigoma Region in the northwest of Tanzania. Fut (Bɨfɨɨ̀), an Eastern Grassfields language spoken in the Northwest Region of Cameroon. Maasina Fulfulde (مَاسِنَ ڢُلْڢُلْدٜ‎), a West Central Fula language spoken in Mali, Ivory Coast and […]

Addressing violent extremism has typically been seen as an issue for law enforcement. But experts say local communities could be the key to change. - Merespons ekstremisme keras biasanya dianggap sebagai masalah bagi penegak hukum. Namun, para ahli mengatakan komunitas lokal bisa menjadi kunci perubahan.

Kencan Dengan Tuhan - Rabu, 22 Oktober 2025Bacaan: "Sebab Engkaulah yang membentuk buah pinggangku, menenun aku dalam kandungan ibuku. Aku bersyukur kepada-Mu oleh karena kejadianku dahsyat dan ajaib, ajaib apa yang Kauperbuat, dan jiwaku benar-benar menyadarinya." (Mzm 139:13-14) Renungan: Pernahkah kita mendengar lagu "Nobody's Child?" Lagu ini mengisahkan tentang seorang anak laki-laki buta yang tinggal di panti asuhan. la mengatakan bahwa, "Aku bukan anak siapapun. Seperti bunga, aku tumbuh liar, tanpa ciuman ibu, tanpa senyuman bapa. Tak ada yang menginginkan aku, aku bukan anak siapa-siapa. Orang-orang datang mencari anak, lalu membawanya seperti anak sendiri, tapi mereka seolah-olah melewati aku, dan aku ditinggal di sini seorang diri. Kutahu, mereka ingin mengambil aku, tapi kalau mereka melihat aku buta, mereka selalu mengambil anak lain dan aku ditinggal seorang diri. Tiada tangan ibu yang mendekap aku, atau menghibur aku bila aku menangis. Kadang-kadang kesunyian mencekam sehingga kuingin mati saja. Maka aku akan berjalan di lorang-lorong surga, di mana semua orang buta dapat melihat. Dan seperti semua anak lainnya, akupun akan punya rumah." Anak adalah anugerah yang indah dari Tuhan, yang terkadang dibungkus dengan kertas bermotif indah, namun tak jarang terbungkus dengan kertas buram tanpa motif. Tetapi apapun keadaannya, seorang anak tidak hadir begitu saja. Ia berharga dan keberadaannya selalu membawa pesan atau pembelajaran tersendiri yang akan mendewasakan iman dan karakter orang tua, khususnya yang memiliki anak cacat. Tidak ada satupun orang tua yang menghendaki anaknya lahir dengan kondisi yang cacat. Tapi apapun kenyataannya, anak adalah berkat dari Tuhan kepada pasangan suami istri yang harus dirawat dan dibesarkan dalam cinta kasih. Jangan pernah membuang anak yang cacat, karena nilai dan kejadian mereka sama dahsyatnya dengan anak normal. Percayalah bahwa Tuhan juga menaruh benih yang baik di dalam hidup mereka, sehingga mereka dapat bertumbuh menjadi anak-anak yang memiliki keistimewaan sendiri. Tuhan Yesus memberkati.Doa: Tuhan Yesus, terima kasih untuk anak-anak yang telah Kau berikan padaku sebagai hadiah istimewa untukku. Bantu aku untuk menerima, menjaga dan merawat hadiah itu dengan baik, apapun keadaannya dia saat ini, agar ketika tiba saatnya Engkau menanyakan keadaan dan keberadaannya, aku dapat memberikan pertanggungjawaban yang benar pada-Mu. Yesus, berilah aku kuasa penuh untuk mendidik anak-anakku. Amin. (Dod).

DJ Глюк - Afro Latino 1 2025 @ DJ Глюк 1. Richard Grey - Pump It Louder (Original Mix) 2. Michael Simon, Inyene - Bana (Original Mix) 3. Fran Perez (VE), DETREYO - Were Were (Extended Mix) 4. Allan Biggs, Steffner - Toca Toca (Extended Mix) 5. KEFFI - Bodywork (Extended Mix) 6. Damir Pushkar - Flutemala (Original Mix) 7. Dario Nunez, Javi Colina - Magalenha feat. Sergio Mendes (Original mix) 8. Haskell - Suave Suave (Extended Mix) 9. Matteo Marani - Baiao (Original Mix) 10. Peppe Citarella, Andres Matheus - TUKA (Original Mix) 11. Jesus Montañez - I Wanna Feel It (Original Mix) 12. Juany Bravo, SGX & Dave Ruthwell - Tek Tek (Extended Mix) 13. Marc Joef - Porqueria (Original Mix) 14. Pete Tha Zouk, Hugo Villanova - La Bonita (Extended Mix) 15. Bantu, Bontan, Dr. Chaii - Too Much (Original Mix)

Here's the latest news from the world of Omniglot. New language pages: Turu (Kιnyatυrυ, Kιrιmi), a Bantu language spoken in the Singida Region in central Tanzania. Pnar (Ka Ktien Pnar), a Khasi-Palaungic language spoken in northeastern India and northeastern Bangladesh. Wenzi (LiWenzi), a Bantu language spoken in the Kigoma Region in northwestern Tanzania. Dimasa (Grao-Dima), […]

Send us a textAs makers, we often feel pressure to create what we think will sell rather than what genuinely excites us, but what if following your authentic creative vision is actually the fastest path to finding your people and building sustainable success? Danielle Williams of Strong Roots Pottery discovered this when she finally allowed herself to explore the hair-inspired clay work that had been sitting in her sketchbook for years—her now-signature Bantu knot vases didn't just reignite her passion for making, they created such demand that she now maintains a waitlist of eager customers. By giving herself permission to make what truly resonated with her (even when it meant stepping away from "safer" planter sales), she found that following her long-held creative vision became her greatest business asset, proving that the courage to pursue your personal creative interests—rather than chasing trends or quick sales—often leads to the kind of meaningful work that sustains both your artistic soul and your bank account.Love this podcast? Support an episode! Click here to learn more. Follow The Maker's Playbook on Instagram @themakersplaybookHave questions about the show or want to say Hi? Email us at: podcast (at) makers-playbook (dot) com

We're back for Part 2 and for our 60TH EPISODE! In this even more culture-lit-laden episode, Dean, Tom, and Torin resume poring over Christopher Moore's book “The Untranslatables”, about terms representing universal concepts that don't have a direct translation in U.S. English, like the French term “esprit de l'escalier”, the Mandarin word “guanxi”, and the Bantu word “ubuntu”. Dean's stories, tales, and lessons learned abound (and astound) as the bibliophilic blokes explore why the terms' original cultures required, and others did not require, the creation and use of these terms in their respective parts of the globe. We heartily thank you sixty times over for laughing and learning with us over sixty episodes! Speaking of Dean's stories galore and loving books: We KNOW you'll love Dean's newest book, "Business Beyond Borders: Stories, Tales, and Lessons Learned from Working in 100 Cultures Around the World”. It'll be released Nov. 4th in hardcover and Nov. 6th in Kindle and audiobook - pre-order it today! ***Special thanks to Christopher Moore and “The Untranslatables: The Most Intriguing Words from Around the World”.*** Have a cultural question or episode idea? Reach out on X/Twitter & Facebook (@OopsCultureShow) or by email at oopscultureshow@gmail.com. Hosts: Dean Foster & Tom Peterson Audio Production: Tom Peterson & Torin Peterson Music: “Little Idea” – Bensound.com

Kencan Dengan Tuhan - Rabu, 24 September 2025Bacaan: "Ia membuat segala sesuatu indah pada waktunya, bahkan Ia memberikan kekekalan dalam hati mereka. Tetapi manusia tidak dapat menyelami pekerjaan yang dilakukan Allah dari awal sampal akhir." (Pengkhotbah 3:11)Renungan: Leonardo da Vinci berasal dari keluarga broken home. Ia adalah anak yang lahir di luar nikah. la tidak pernah melihat ibunya. Ayahnya kemudian menikah dengan wanita berumur 26 tahun. Dua belas tahun pertama la diasuh oleh neneknya, dan setelah itu pengasuhan diserahkan kepada dua orang tantenya. Selanjutnya ia dibesarkan oleh ayah dan ibu tirinya. Ayahnya bekerja di bidang hukum dan terpandang, maka ayahnya tidak mengijinkan Leonardo bermain dengan anak-anak di kampung tersebut dan ia kehilangan masa kanak-kanak yang indah.Dengan awal kehidupan seperti di atas, mungkin kita akan berpikir bahwa Leonardo akan menjadi anak bodoh dengan sikap anti sosial. Tetapi ternyata ia memiliki keingintahuan yang besar. Ia senang berjalan-jalan di desanya, melihat, mendengar dan memperhatikan banyak tanaman, binatang, Fosil, kayu dsb. Hingga pada akhirnya ia dikenal sebagai seorang astronom terkemuka, ahli geologi, insinyur, ahli botani, ahli anatomi, penulis terkenal, ilustrator dan psikolog. Awal kehidupan ataupun masa lalu yang buruk tidak selalu membuat seseorang bermasa depan suram. Dengan perjuangan, kerja keras dan iman pada Tuhan, kita bisa meraih yang lebih baik. Bersama Tuhan, kita bisa mengubah keadaan yang buruk menjadi baik. Bahkan kutuk pun bisa diubah menjadi berkat. Tetapi kita juga harus berjuang dengan gigih dan bekerja keras. Jauhkan anggapan bahwa kita sudah ditakdirkan hidup menderita, atau kita tidak mungkin berhasil seperti orang lain. Berusahalah, bersama Tuhan tidak ada yang mustahil. Tuhan Yesus memberkati.Doa:Tuhan Yesus, aku bersyukur pada-Mu karena Engkau mengetahui seluk beluk kehidupanku, masa laluku, kekecewaanku, luka hatiku, dan pandangan orang lain terhadapku. Telusurilah kembali semua itu, dan hapuskanlah bila masih ada hal-hal yang membuat hatiku tidak nyaman dengan hal itu semua. Ubahlah semua pemikiran negatif tentang diriku. Bantu aku untuk menatap ke depan, bahwa bersama dengan Engkau segala sesuatu yang buruk menurut pemandangan mataku dan orang lain dapat dan telah Kau ubah menjadi baik. Amin. (Dod).

Here's the latest news from the world of Omniglot. New language pages: Shambala (Kisambaa), a Bantu language spoken in the Tanga Region in northern Tanzania. Suabo (nidáibo), a Trans-New Guinea language spoken in Southwest Papua Province in eastern Indonesia. Tongwe (Sitongwe), a Bantu language spoken in the Kigoma Region in northwestern Tanzania. New numbers pages: […]

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Linguistic research has its highs and lows: from staging a traditional wedding to learn about ceremonial words to having your efforts to found a village school disrupted by civil war. Linguistic research can also be about highs and lows: in this case, looking at how high and low tones in Babanki words affect their meaning. In this episode, your host Lauren Gawne gets enthusiastic about the highs and lows of fieldwork in Babanki with Dr. Pius Akumbu, who's a linguist from Babanki, Cameroon, and a Director of Research in African Linguistics at CNRS in the LLACAN Lab (the Languages and Cultures of Africa Lab) in Paris, France. We talk about Professor Akumbu's documentation work on a wide variety of topics from the relationship of Babanki to other Grassfields and Bantu languages, what happens when words have a mysterious extra tone that is only produced under the right circumstances (floating tones), to that time he staged a false wedding to document traditional wedding ceremonial language – and led to a real couple opting for a traditional-style wedding of their own. We also talk about the process of founding a school in his home village to ensure that children have access to primary education in their own language. Click here for a link to this episode in your podcast player of choice: https://pod.link/1186056137/episode/dGFnOnNvdW5kY2xvdWQsMjAxMDp0cmFja3MvMjE3Mjk5MTM2Mg Read the transcript here: Announcements: Lingthusiasm has more than twenty interview episodes, and you can find them all together on our Topics page, where we have a category for our interviews. We also have over 100 bonus episodes for patrons, with a few interviews there as well. In this month's bonus episode we get enthusiastic about the joys and challenges of translating internet slang with Miguel Sánchez Ibáñez, linguist and translator of Because Internet into Spanish! We talk about why Because Internet was the toughest and also most entertaining book he's ever translated (for some of the same reasons), from coming up with localized Spanish versions of vintage internet memes to making the silly names of pretend people in the example sentences just as silly in Spanish. We also talk about leaving breadcrumbs for future translators in the original text and the special challenge of translocalizing the title: Arroba Lengua isn't a literal translation of Because Internet, but it fits similarly into Spanish internet slang. Join us on Patreon now to get access to this and 100+ other bonus episodes. You'll also get access to the Lingthusiasm Discord server where you can chat with other language nerds. https://patreon.com/posts/137995510 For links to things mentioned in this episode: https://lingthusiasm.com/post/795082104011669504/lingthusiasm-episode-108-highs-and-lows-of-tone

Here's the latest news from the world of Omniglot. New language pages: Rangi (Kɨlaangi), a Bantu language spoken in the Kondoa District of the Dodoma Region in central Tanzania. Suabo (nidáibo), a Trans-New Guinea language spoken in Southwest Papua Province in eastern Indonesia. Oko (Ọ̀kọ), a Volta-Niger language spoken mainly in the Ogori-Magongo LGA in […]

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Here's the latest news from the world of Omniglot. New language pages: Naman, a Southern Oceanic language spoken on Malekula Island in central Vanuatu. Mbugu (kiMbugu) / Maʼa (kiMaʼa), a Bantu language spoken in the Lushoto District in the Tanga Region in the northeast of Tanzania. Mwerlap (N̄wërlap), a Southern Oceanic language spoken in the […]

Here's the latest news from the world of Omniglot. New language pages: Kwangali (Rukwangali), a Bantu language spoken in northern Namibia and southern Angola. Lega (Kilega), a Bantu language spoken in the west of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Lomwe (Elomwe / Emakhuwa), a Bantu language spoken in northern Mozambique and southern Malawi. New […]

Heather Burns (Bored to Death, Manchester by the Sea) and Ajay Naidu (Office Space, Blindspot) headline a Bantu, Zulu and Tumbuka tale about why the hyena's coat is spotted and scraggly.

  On this episode of Unsupervised Learning Razib talks to human geneticist Cesar Fortes-Lima about his paper from earlier this year, Population history and admixture of the Fulani people from the Sahel. Fortes-Lima has a Ph.D. in Biological Anthropology, and his primary research areas include African genetic diversity, the African diaspora, the transatlantic slave trade, demographic inference, admixture dynamics and mass migrations. Formerly a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Human Evolution at Uppsala University, Forest-Lima is now an instructor in genetic medicine at the Johns Hopkins University. He is also a returning guest to the podcast, having earlier come on to discuss his paper The genetic legacy of the expansion of Bantu-speaking peoples in Africa. Razib and Fortes-Lima first contextualize who the Fulani are in the West African socio-historical context, in particular, their role as transmitters of Islam across the Sahel. They also discuss the importance of having numerous Fulani subpopulations in the publication; earlier work had generalized about the Fulani from a small number of samples from a single tribe. Fortes-Lima highlights the primary finding, in particular, that the Fulani seem to have what we now call “Ancient North African” (ANA) ancestry. That people was related to, but not descended from, the “out of Africa” population which gave rise to Eurasians. They also explore the role of natural selection in allowing the Fulani to subsist on a diet high in milk, and how the Fulani lactase persistence mutation is exact same with Eurasians rather than East Africans. Fortest-Lima also reviews some of the earlier 20th-century anthropological speculations about the origins of the Fulani, and what his results show about their affinities (or lack thereof) to groups in West Asia and the Maghreb.

Join us for our latest podcast as we interview Dr. Vince Bantu and discuss the release of his newest book: "The Book of Mystery of Giyorgis of Sägla." Giyorgis of Sagla, aprominent 14th-century Ethiopian monk and scholar, was born in the Tigray region to a noble family. He became a leading figure in the Ethiopian Orthodox Church, renowned for his theological writings and contributions to monasticeducation. His works, composed in Geʽez, addressed various aspects of Christian doctrine and practice, reflecting his deep commitment to the faith.You can pre-order Dr. Bantu's book by visiting https://bookofmystery.org/.Thanks for listening to the Greater Works Discipleship Ministries podcast.  Our mission at Greater Works is to fulfill the Great Commission (Matt. 28:19) and the Great Commandment (Matt. 22:37) through the intentionaleducation, equipping, and empowering of healthy disciples of Jesus the Christ. You can follow us Spotify, Apple Podcasts and anywhere all major platforms.  Please don't forget to share this broadcast, rate us and please give us 5 stars…if you give us 4 stars I am inclined to believe that you are a hater and the altar is open for you! All Links:  greaterworks.poplme.co/kevinlurrell

This week on Let's Try This Again, I'm your host B Simone, and I'm sitting down with the hilarious and inspiring Zainab Johnson. From the moment I discovered Zainab on social media—rocking her Bantu knots and dropping truth with every punchline—I knew I had to have her on the show. In this episode, we get real about what it's like to break into stand-up comedy as a Black Muslim woman, and how sometimes the things that make us different become our superpowers.Zainab shares how she never saw women like herself represented in comedy or on TV growing up, and how that inspired her to become the role model she wished she'd had. She opens up about her first time on stage, admitting she thought she'd fail but wanted a good story to tell—only to discover she was actually good at it and wanted to try again the very next day. We laugh about the wild journey from open mics at hookah lounges to touring internationally, and how being brutally honest about her life—like growing up with 13 siblings, wearing a hijab as a kid, or experimenting with hair—became the heart of her comedy.We also dive into real talk about identity, faith, and self-acceptance. Zainab breaks down why she chose to stop wearing her hijab as a teen and how, as an entertainer, she's on a mission to affirm the existence of young girls who don't see themselves reflected in the media. We even get into the stigma around Black women and hair, and how owning your truth—whether it's a flip-over weave or a shaved head—can be freeing and funny.If you've ever felt like the odd one out, doubted your path, or needed a reminder that your story matters, this episode is for you. Tune in for laughter, wisdom, and a behind-the-scenes look at what it takes to keep showing up and trying again, no matter what the world expects. And don't forget—every Monday we drop audio on all platforms, and every Tuesday you can catch the visuals on YouTube. Let's grow together!See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Zelensky’s visit to the white house turned catastrophic when Trump and Vance accused him of disrespecting the U.S. What does it mean for peace talks?   A federal judge has extended a block of President Trump’s plan to withhold funding from medical institutions that provide healthcare to transgender youth. “Anora” won Best Picture at the Oscars on Sunday, and director Sean Baker took home four awards total. He explains how having a bigger budget and professional actors changed his filmmaking process. South African musician Abel Selaocoe explains his “paper” technique of practicing cello as a kid, the power of singing to unite a community, and how he more deeply explored his roots while away from his homeland. 

Alison plays new music from Disco Lines, Manila Killa, Diplo, Mau P, Holly, Taiki Nulight and many more!Don't forget to rate & review on all of your favorite podcast apps! Post your comments on twitter @awonderland #RADIOWONDERLANDTracklist:1. RADIO WONDERLAND OPENER2. Diplo & Mau P ft. Gunna - Receipts3. Manila Killa & Digital Youth - Feel Your Love4. Billie Eilish - CHIHIRO (MALIXE Remix)5. dobi, San Holo, & Artemis Orion - disappear6. Louis The Child - Make You Mine (with Whethan and Hayley May)7. Disco Lines & pluko - Feel It8. ISOKNOCK - ENERGY (feat. Bantu)9. Wuki - Pump The Bass10. Koastle & Talia Rose - Sabotage11. Nurko – Sahara12. Holly - Pain Away13. NLE CHOPPA - SLUT ME OUT 2 (Taiki Nulight Remix)14. Skrillex, Hamdi, TAICHU & OFFAIAH - Push (MALIXE Remix)15. if found, GLNNA - WORTH.the.CRASH16. ROSSY - SHOWOFF17. Dillon Francis, Galantis & Arden Jones - Pretty Low (secs on the beach Remix)18. Megan Thee Stallion x Yuki Chiba - Mamushi (Taiki Nulight Refix)19. TIGER DROOL, QUIX & Vincent - PREY20. Acraze - Heard It Like This (Bailo & Dabow Remix)21. OUTSHADES & Jessalyn - Forgetting Me22. ÆON:MODE & Bertie Scott - Lonely