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2 episodes with dutch german
This week I have an exciting guest mix, back again making her second appearance for the show we have another very talented Dj and Producer, representing the Dutch/German label T Records, the one and only Ju Lee. An Aspiring DJ who has been making waves on the Techno scene who has been aiming to take her passion Of Techno to a higher level, influenced from the vibrant Berlin. So far she has played at Basis and different local events, winning Dj talent competitions and stealing hearts. So expect to hear blissful Raw Techno from the source wrapped up nicely in energetic Hypnotic patterns. ⚡️Like the Show? Click the [Repost] ↻ button so more people can hear it!
We try not to think about death, often until it's we have no choice. A loved one begins to pass, or we receive a difficult diagnosis from the doctor. In the Buddhist teachings, death is the ultimate opportunity for profound spiritual transformation. Join Author and teacher Kirsten Deleo as we explore how to best take care of ourselves and our loved ones during this important time of transition, whether Buddhist practitioners or not. Kirsten DeLeo is a long time Tibetan Buddhist practitioner, meditation teacher and author of "Present Through The End. A Caring Companion's Guide for Accompanying the Dying." Kirsten pioneered one of the first training programs in contemplative end-of-life care called 'Authentic Presence'. She currently supports the development of Buddhist chaplaincy in Europe. Kirsten lives near Dzogchen Beara, a Buddhist Meditation Centre in the West of Ireland where she teaches and also supports people faced with a terminal illness or loss. To find out more about Kirsten, visit: kirstendeleo.com Links to Kirsten's book in German and Dutch German https://edition-steinrich.de/buch/ganz-da-sein-wenn-ein-leben-endet/ Dutch https://gottmer.nl/product/ik-ben-bij-je/
In this episode Ana Mara Leppink, a Dutch German national who graduated in 2023 and is now a student at Harvard University, and Navin Proff, a German student set to begin his studies at Yale University share with us how they navigated the international school and beyond . They discuss their diverse experiences with the International Baccalaureate (IB) curriculum at ISH, detailing how it prepared them for university and shaped their personal development. Ana and Navin highlight the rigorous academic challenges and the broad curricula of the IB, including the extended essay and Theory of Knowledge (TOK) components, which they believe equipped them well for higher education. Beyond academics, they also share how engaging in extracurricular activities like sports teams, student council, and various clubs contributed to their growth, leadership skills, and sense of community. The alumni emphasize the significant support they received from the school's faculty, particularly in terms of college applications, and reflect on the lasting impact of ISH's culturally diverse environment on their perspectives and personal growth. They conclude with advice for current and prospective students and parents on making the most of their time at ISH, reinforcing the value of taking on challenges, seeking support, and immersing oneself in the vibrant school community.
IN THE PRESS – Monday, January 22: Florida Governor Ron DeSantis drops out of the race for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, whittling the competition down to just two candidates: Donald Trump and Nikki Haley. We also take a look at the growing momentum behind protests by French farmers and how the far right is hoping to seize upon their anger. We finish with one of the biggest protest movements in Germany in recent years, as hundreds of thousands rallied against the far right over the weekend.
In this episode, Indre speaks with Carmen Uphoff, COO of Respeggt, a Dutch-German company aiming to bring positive change to the poultry industry by eliminating chick culling.During the conversation, Carmen delves into the technology that allows for gender identification in the hatching egg; preventing the culling of undesired male chicks, a practice that results in the death of about 6 billion chicks worldwide each year.They also touch on the regulatory landscape, noting how Germany and France have already put legislation in place to prevent chick culling, while others are waiting for EU-wide regulations to change, the future of the poultry sector, including the challenges posed by bird flu and the economic crisis. As well as Carmen's insight into a trend leaning towards smaller, more manageable poultry farms as a risk management strategy.For more insights on animal health and welfare, reach out to Indre on LinkedIn or at indre.semeskeviciute@charltonmorris.com. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Anything but First World Problems There's nothing good to watch on TV. I can't decide what to order from the extensive menu at this restaurant. I have too many clothes and not enough closet space. The barista at my coffee shop spelled my name wrong on my cup. My phone is too big to fit comfortably in my pocket. Oh no… My phone battery is dying, and I forgot my charger. I can't find my favourite flavour of sparkling water at the grocery store. Do these problems seem familiar to you? These are first-world problems, and I'm just as guilty of having them: I've been frustrated when my phone was dying, and I'd forgotten my power bank at an Ed Sheeran concert in Atlanta. And you've heard me complain about Starbucks getting my name wrong on an overcharged cup of tall Americano. In this episode, we're going to be dealing with other problems, like: “Should we give our 13-year-old baby girl away to be married to an older man, or should we keep her here and risk that she will be abducted and turned into a sex slave.” That's the kinda stuff we'll be dealing with in this episode, as Susan Laker will tell her life story. WARNING It's also a story that will be hard to listen to. It's heartbreaking, and with so many graphic details, that will not be suitable for children. At the same time, I feel this might be the most important episode of The Radio Vagabond that I've done up until now. My name is Palle Bo. Welcome back to the third and final part of my miniseries from the Acholi Quarter in Kampala, Uganda. INTRO I hope you have had a chance to listen to the first two episodes from The Acholi Quarter in Uganda, where Susan Laker, a small but mighty woman in her late 30s, took us around. She's the co-founder and leader of 22STARS Foundation's work here, always helping children and families in need with a big smile. But let me tell you, her journey wasn't always a straight path. This tale is a wild one, full of crazy twists and turns. It could be a movie, maybe something like The Color Purple, set in Uganda. CHILD BRIDE Her parent gave her away to be married when she was just a child. She was angry at her parents when this happened and didn't understand why. “I was 13 years old when I was force into early marriage by my parents.” Most of us would say that there is nothing that would justify that. But her parents had a good reason. “By that time, I didn't know the reason. I was just mad but later on, you realize they did that to protect me from being abducted from the LRA Rebels.” LRA REBELS The LRA Rebels, or “The Lord's Resistance Army,” was a rebel group operated in Uganda and other Central African countries, started by Joseph Kony in 1987. The LRA would typically attack villages at night, using guns, machetes, and other weapons. They would kill or maim those who resisted, burn down homes, and loot property. They would then abduct children. They used to abduct children, even babies, from their mothers and were forced to march long distances to LRA bases deep in the bush. And were then subjected to brutal initiation rituals, during which they were beaten, sometimes with their peers, and forced to kill other children or adults. The abducted children were then trained as soldiers and used to attack civilians, other rebel groups, and government forces, using guns, sticks, and pangas – large, heavy, machete-like knives. The LRA's tactics of abducting children were particularly savage and brutal. The children were forced to serve as soldiers, porters, and sex slaves. The group often targeted vulnerable communities, including schools and churches, and used violence and intimidation to abduct children. And then, the children were subjected to intense physical and psychological abuse. They used violent initiation ceremonies to break the children's spirits and force them to commit atrocities. The children were often forced to kill or maim their own families or fellow abductees to break their spirits and brainwash them into cutting ties to their former lives. The LRA also used brutal methods of discipline to maintain control over the children. This included beatings, torture, and even execution. Susan gave me examples of how brutal the methods were: “They cut off your lips, they cut off your private parts – like the breasts. If not, they put the padlock. They tie your lips, and then some are beaten to death. Some they chop of their neck. They were killed. Those who tried to escape, they were stoned to death.” In addition to their role as soldiers, the girls among the abducted children were often forced into sexual slavery and forced marriages. “Some of them ended up giving birth and some of them ended up dying giving birth because they were so young. Some of them died because they were mistreated. Also, there was no in facility to take care of a pregnant woman, so some of them got sick and died because there was no medication.” The children were also used as human shields in battles, which put their lives at even greater risk. JOSEPH KONY In 2012, a video campaign called "Kony 2012" from the organization Invisible Children went viral, bringing international attention to the LRA's atrocities and Kony's role in them. The campaign and its creator, Jason Russell, set out to make Kony famous, and they definitely succeeded in that. Joseph Kony was born in 1961 in a village in northern Uganda. He grew up in a Catholic household and was initially drawn to religion but dropped out of school and joined the rebel group led by a distant relative, Alice Lakwena. She had claimed to have received messages from the Holy Spirit and was leading a rebellion against the Ugandan government. When Lakwena's rebellion failed, Kony formed his own group, the LRA, in 1987. And like Alice Lakwena, he also claimed to have a hotline to God. He said that he was a spiritual medium and that his commands came directly from the spiritual world and were not to be questioned. Kony was known for his mysticism and claimed to have supernatural powers, including the ability to turn bullets into water and to communicate with spirits. He was also notorious for his brutality and didn't just have his brainwashed followers do all of the dirty work. He's believed to have personally participated in many of the LRA's atrocities. So, he was a self-appointed messiah and said his government was based on the Ten Commandments. But then he went on to break every one of them. In 2005, the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued an arrest warrant for Kony and four of his top lieutenants for crimes against humanity and war crimes. However, he's managed to hide, and still to this day – almost 20 years later, Kony's whereabouts are unknown. Although the LRA's activities have declined significantly in recent years, the group remains active and has been responsible for sporadic attacks and abductions that continue to be reported in the region. The LRA's use of children for soldiers, waiters, and sex slaves has devastated the children who were abducted and their families. Many of the children who escaped or were rescued suffered from depression, anxiety, and post-traumatic stress disorder. SUSAN'S PARENTS' CHOICE Enough about the LRA and its creepy leader, Joseph Kony. I just wanted you to get a little bit of perspective on what Susan's parents were trying to save her from when they gave her away for early marriage at the age of just 13. It's just so hard to fathom. What a choice for parents to make. “Should we keep our child here with the risk that the brutal LRA Rebels will take her and turn her into a sex slave – or maybe cut off her lips and private parts? Or stone her to death… And maybe brainwash her and she will come back here and kill us in our sleep. Or should we give her away to be married to that older soldier, who will probably do what he likes and most likely get her pregnant soon, but then might also be able to keep her alive…?” I have no idea if this was what Susan's parents were thinking at the time. We can only speculate because this is so far away from anything most of us have even thought about having to consider. Think about that before you get frustrated that there's too much to choose from on a menu at a restaurant or that you have too many clothes and not enough closet space. SUSAN'S SON I met her son, Derek, just before I sat down with Susan to hear her story. And we're not talking about a little boy. No, he's a grown man. Taller than me and very handsome. I know that Susan only is in her late 30s, so I'm very surprised to find out that she could have a son in his mid 20's. “I ended up giving birth to my son at the age of 13 – the boy you just saw. And at the age of 14, I had a miscarriage, because it was so soon, and I was so young. And then at the age of 15, I gave birth to my second daughter, who is now 22.” Let that sink in: At 13, she was sent off to marry an older man and had a baby within a year. Straight away, at the age of 14, she got pregnant again but had a miscarriage. And straight away again, she got pregnant for the third time and had her second child at 15, basically when she was a child herself. I don't know much about the father of her kids. Maybe he was a good man who felt it was his right because she was his wife, and he protected her. I don't know more about him than what Susan just told me here. I was just about to ask her about that when she told me that he suddenly – and unexpectedly got sick and died. “Then their father mysteriously fell sick for one week and passed on. I didn't even know he was sick. I didn't know what he suffered off anything.” There she was, at 16, a widow with two children. So, she went home to her parents, who forced her to marry another soldier – for her safety. And shortly after that, she had another baby. Three children and two husbands – still as a teenager. THE SECOND HUSBAND DIES TOO Susan's new husband was sent to Somalia as a soldier and never returned. She never heard from him again, and Susan was getting increasingly frustrated and unable to feed herself and her children. Not only was Susan frustrated and hungry. She was also suffering with her health and getting more and more weak. Then in the middle of all this, they were kicked out of the house they were in. As things got increasingly hopeless, Susan's sisters came to her aid. They helped her get on a bus here to Kampala. Susan barely made it to Kampala alive. She was unconscious when the bus arrived at Kampala with her and her three small children. Immediately she was rushed to the hospital, where she was diagnosed with HIV, cancer, and tuberculosis. AFFORDING MEDICATION When Susan Laker defied all odds and she was able to fight herself back to consciousness and life for her children, she was just 23. She had a ten-year-old boy and two girls nine and four. She managed to stay alive but was now faced with another problem. The children didn't go to school, and Susan herself couldn't read, write, or speak English. That meant that she couldn't get a job making decent money to feed herself – and now also afford the expensive medicine for her tuberculosis, cancer, and HIV. KIDS WORKING AT THE QUARRY She was too weak to work, so she had no option but to have her children work for her. A ten-year-old, an eight-year-old, and a five-year-old crushing stones in the stone quarry from early in the morning every day. As you heard in the latest episode, this is hard work and poorly paid. On some days, the 10-year-old boy, Derek, was able to crush enough stones to make 1000 Ugandan Shillings, the 8-year-old girl, Peace, could 500 shillings, and the little 5-year-old girl around 200 shillings. That's 1700 shillings and not even half a dollar – 41 Euro cents and 48 American cents for a long day of hard work from early morning. FIGHTING DEADLY DISEASES ON AN EMPTY STOMACH Susan was on strong medication when all of this was happening, and that's not something you should take on an empty stomach. So, the doctors gave her some food and milk to have before the medicine. And that helped. After nine months she was tuberculosis-free and ready for chemotherapy to fight off her Stage 2 cancer. Another nine months later, she was declared cancer-free too. She also got treated with medicine to keep the HIV virus suppressed, and after five years on medication, her CD4 counts showed that the virus was not detected anymore. Of course, she still takes her HIV medicine every day, but she is fully recovered from all three deadly diseases. And at this point, we've almost come full circle from where we started in the first episode. This was around the time when Susan met Stella for the first time in 2008. Stella helped Susan, who went back to school and learned to read and write – and speak English with Stella when she came back a few years later. Together they founded 22STARS paper jewellery business and the 22STARS Foundation. SUPORT 22STARS With a lot of willpower and a bit of luck meeting the Dutch/German woman Stella Romana when she did, she managed to turn life around for herself and her children. And together, they continue to do the same for many more people in the community. Again, go to Foundation22Stars.org to see the different ways of supporting. If you want to get involved with the good work 22STARS Foundation is doing, helping families in Uganda, go to www.foundation22stars.org, and see what you can do. You can sponsor a child, or support emergency needs by simply making a donation to one of the different programs such as nutrition, microloans, computer lessons, music classes, or medicine. I've linked to all of this in the note section of your podcast app and on theradiovagabond.com. Thank you to Susan Laker for sharing her inspiring story. My name is Palle Bo, and I gotta keep moving. See you.
Anything but First World Problems · There's nothing good to watch on TV. · I can't decide what to order from the extensive menu at this restaurant. · I have too many clothes and not enough closet space. · The barista at my coffee shop spelled my name wrong on my cup. · My phone is too big to fit comfortably in my pocket. · Oh no… My phone battery is dying, and I forgot my charger. · I can't find my favourite flavour of sparkling water at the grocery store. Do these problems seem familiar to you? These are first-world problems, and I'm just as guilty of having them: I've been frustrated when my phone was dying, and I'd forgotten my power bank at an Ed Sheeran concert in Atlanta. And you've heard me complain about Starbucks getting my name wrong on an overcharged cup of tall Americano. In this episode, we're going to be dealing with other problems, like: “Should we give our 13-year-old baby girl away to be married to an older man, or should we keep her here and risk that she will be abducted and turned into a sex slave.” That's the kinda stuff we'll be dealing with in this episode, as Susan Laker will tell her life story. WARNING It's also a story that will be hard to listen to. It's heartbreaking, and with so many graphic details, that will not be suitable for children. At the same time, I feel this might be the most important episode of The Radio Vagabond that I've done up until now. My name is Palle Bo. Welcome back to the third and final part of my miniseries from the Acholi Quarter in Kampala, Uganda. INTRO I hope you have had a chance to listen to the first two episodes from The Acholi Quarter in Uganda, where Susan Laker, a small but mighty woman in her late 30s, took us around. She's the co-founder and leader of 22STARS Foundation's work here, always helping children and families in need with a big smile. But let me tell you, her journey wasn't always a straight path. This tale is a wild one, full of crazy twists and turns. It could be a movie, maybe something like The Color Purple, set in Uganda. CHILD BRIDE Her parent gave her away to be married when she was just a child. She was angry at her parents when this happened and didn't understand why. “I was 13 years old when I was force into early marriage by my parents.” Most of us would say that there is nothing that would justify that. But her parents had a good reason. “By that time, I didn't know the reason. I was just mad but later on, you realize they did that to protect me from being abducted from the LRA Rebels.” LRA REBELS The LRA Rebels, or “The Lord's Resistance Army,” was a rebel group operated in Uganda and other Central African countries, started by Joseph Kony in 1987. The LRA would typically attack villages at night, using guns, machetes, and other weapons. They would kill or maim those who resisted, burn down homes, and loot property. They would then abduct children. They used to abduct children, even babies, from their mothers and were forced to march long distances to LRA bases deep in the bush. And were then subjected to brutal initiation rituals, during which they were beaten, sometimes with their peers, and forced to kill other children or adults. The abducted children were then trained as soldiers and used to attack civilians, other rebel groups, and government forces, using guns, sticks, and pangas – large, heavy, machete-like knives. The LRA's tactics of abducting children were particularly savage and brutal. The children were forced to serve as soldiers, porters, and sex slaves. The group often targeted vulnerable communities, including schools and churches, and used violence and intimidation to abduct children. And then, the children were subjected to intense physical and psychological abuse. They used violent initiation ceremonies to break the children's spirits and force them to commit atrocities. The children were often forced to kill or maim their own families or fellow abductees to break their spirits and brainwash them into cutting ties to their former lives. The LRA also used brutal methods of discipline to maintain control over the children. This included beatings, torture, and even execution. Susan gave me examples of how brutal the methods were: “They cut off your lips, they cut off your private parts – like the breasts. If not, they put the padlock. They tie your lips, and then some are beaten to death. Some they chop of their neck. They were killed. Those who tried to escape, they were stoned to death.” In addition to their role as soldiers, the girls among the abducted children were often forced into sexual slavery and forced marriages. “Some of them ended up giving birth and some of them ended up dying giving birth because they were so young. Some of them died because they were mistreated. Also, there was no in facility to take care of a pregnant woman, so some of them got sick and died because there was no medication.” The children were also used as human shields in battles, which put their lives at even greater risk. JOSEPH KONY In 2012, a video campaign called "Kony 2012" from the organization Invisible Children went viral, bringing international attention to the LRA's atrocities and Kony's role in them. The campaign and its creator, Jason Russell, set out to make Kony famous, and they definitely succeeded in that. Joseph Kony was born in 1961 in a village in northern Uganda. He grew up in a Catholic household and was initially drawn to religion but dropped out of school and joined the rebel group led by a distant relative, Alice Lakwena. She had claimed to have received messages from the Holy Spirit and was leading a rebellion against the Ugandan government. When Lakwena's rebellion failed, Kony formed his own group, the LRA, in 1987. And like Alice Lakwena, he also claimed to have a hotline to God. He said that he was a spiritual medium and that his commands came directly from the spiritual world and were not to be questioned. Kony was known for his mysticism and claimed to have supernatural powers, including the ability to turn bullets into water and to communicate with spirits. He was also notorious for his brutality and didn't just have his brainwashed followers do all of the dirty work. He's believed to have personally participated in many of the LRA's atrocities. So, he was a self-appointed messiah and said his government was based on the Ten Commandments. But then he went on to break every one of them. In 2005, the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued an arrest warrant for Kony and four of his top lieutenants for crimes against humanity and war crimes. However, he's managed to hide, and still to this day – almost 20 years later, Kony's whereabouts are unknown. Although the LRA's activities have declined significantly recently, the group remains active. It has been responsible for sporadic attacks and abductions that continue to be reported in the region. The LRA's use of children for soldiers, waiters, and sex slaves has devastated the abducted children and their families. Many of the children who escaped or were rescued suffered from depression, anxiety, and post-traumatic stress disorder. SUSAN'S PARENTS' CHOICE Enough about the LRA and its creepy leader, Joseph Kony. I just wanted you to get a little bit of perspective on what Susan's parents were trying to save her from when they gave her away for early marriage at the age of just 13. It's just so hard to fathom. What a choice for parents to make. “Should we keep our child here with the risk that the brutal LRA Rebels will take her and turn her into a sex slave – or maybe cut off her lips and private parts? Or stone her to death… And maybe brainwash her and she will come back here and kill us in our sleep. Or should we give her away to be married to that older soldier, who will probably do what he likes and most likely get her pregnant soon but then might also be able to keep her alive…?” I have no idea if this was what Susan's parents were thinking at the time. We can only speculate because this is so far away from anything most of us have even thought about having to consider. Think about that before you get frustrated that there's too much to choose from on a menu at a restaurant or that you have too many clothes and not enough closet space. SUSAN'S SON I met her son, Derek, just before I sat down with Susan to hear her story. And we're not talking about a little boy. No, he's a grown man. Taller than me and very handsome. I know that Susan only is in her late 30s, so I'm very surprised to find out that she could have a son in his mid 20's. “I ended up giving birth to my son at the age of 13 – the boy you just saw. And at the age of 14, I had a miscarriage, because it was so soon, and I was so young. And then at the age of 15, I gave birth to my second daughter, who is now 22.” Let that sink in: At 13, she was sent off to marry an older man and had a baby within a year. Straight away, at the age of 14, she got pregnant again but had a miscarriage. And straight away again, she got pregnant for the third time and had her second child at 15, basically when she was a child herself. I don't know much about the father of her kids. Maybe he was a good man who felt it was his right because she was his wife, and he protected her. I don't know more about him than what Susan just told me here. I was just about to ask her about that when she told me that he suddenly – and unexpectedly got sick and died. “Then their father mysteriously fell sick for one week and passed on. I didn't even know he was sick. I didn't know what he suffered off anything.” There she was, at 16, a widow with two children. So, she went home to her parents, who forced her to marry another soldier – for her safety. And shortly after that, she had another baby. Three children and two husbands – still as a teenager. THE SECOND HUSBAND DIES TOO Susan's new husband was sent to Somalia as a soldier and never returned. She never heard from him again, and Susan was getting increasingly frustrated and unable to feed herself and her children. Not only was Susan frustrated and hungry. She was also suffering with her health and getting more and more weak. Then in the middle of all this, they were kicked out of the house they were in. As things got increasingly hopeless, Susan's sisters came to her aid. They helped her get on a bus here to Kampala. Susan barely made it to Kampala alive. She was unconscious when the bus arrived in Kampala with her and her three small children. Immediately she was rushed to the hospital, where she was diagnosed with HIV, cancer, and tuberculosis. AFFORDING MEDICATION When Susan Laker defied all odds and she was able to fight herself back to consciousness and life for her children, she was just 23. She had a ten-year-old boy and two girls nine and four. She managed to stay alive but was now faced with another problem. The children didn't go to school, and Susan herself couldn't read, write, or speak English. That meant that she couldn't get a job making decent money to feed herself – and now also afford the expensive medicine for her tuberculosis, cancer, and HIV. KIDS WORKING AT THE QUARRY She was too weak to work, so she had no option but to have her children work for her. A ten-year-old, an eight-year-old, and a five-year-old crushing stones in the stone quarry from early in the morning every day. As you heard in the latest episode, this is hard work and poorly paid. On some days, the 10-year-old boy, Derek, crushed enough stones to make 1000 Ugandan Shillings, the 8-year-old girl, Peace, could 500 shillings, and the little 5-year-old girl, around 200 shillings. That's 1700 shillings and not even half a dollar – 41 Euro cents and 48 American cents for a long day of hard work from early morning. FIGHTING DEADLY DISEASES ON AN EMPTY STOMACH Susan was on strong medication when all of this was happening, which you should not take on an empty stomach. So, the doctors gave her some food and milk before the medicine. And that helped. After nine months, she was tuberculosis-free and ready for chemotherapy to fight off her Stage 2 cancer. Another nine months later, she was declared cancer-free too. She also got treated with medicine to keep the HIV virus suppressed, and after five years on medication, her CD4 counts showed that the virus was not detected anymore. Of course, she still takes her HIV medicine every day, but she is fully recovered from all three deadly diseases. And at this point, we've almost come full circle from where we started in the first episode. This was around the time when Susan met Stella for the first time in 2008. Stella helped Susan, who went back to school and learned to read and write – and speak English with Stella when she came back a few years later. Together they founded 22STARS paper jewellery business and the 22STARS Foundation. SUPORT 22STARS With a lot of willpower and a bit of luck meeting the Dutch/German woman Stella Romana when she did, she managed to turn life around for herself and her children. And together, they continue to do the same for many more people in the community. Again, go to Foundation22Stars.org to see the different ways of supporting. If you want to get involved with the good work 22STARS Foundation is doing, helping families in Uganda, go to www.foundation22stars.org, and see what you can do. You can sponsor a child or support emergency needs by simply donating to one of the different programs, such as nutrition, microloans, computer lessons, music classes, or medicine. I've linked to all this in the note section of your podcast app and theradiovagabond.com. Thank you to Susan Laker for sharing her inspiring story. My name is Palle Bo, and I gotta keep moving. See you.
Welcome to the first of a miniseries from the struggling Acholi Quarter; a part of Kampala in Uganda that is getting help from a foundation called 22STARS. The story actually starts a few years earlier, when I got to know a Dutch/German woman, Stella Romana Airoldi on a Nomad Cruise. In case you don't know Nomad Cruise is like a conference for digital nomads on a cruise ship. On this one in the Mediterranean from Malaga to Athens, Stella was given a talk about a social enterprise and foundation called 22STARS – together with a Ugandan woman, Susan Laker. Susan and other Ugandan women are making jewellery out of colourful recycled paper and Stella is helping them sell it around the world. This talk and meeting Stella and Susan on the Nomad Cruise made me think, that I had to go to Uganda and see this with my own eyes. So, in this episode I'll take you along as I drive down a dirt road in the Acholi Quarter, a slum area in the outskirts of Kampala. I'm in the car with Nicholas Basalirwa from 22STARS, and there's a young woman on the street that looks just like Susan. She says hi to me in the car and I say, “are you Susan?” But the woman says “no, I'm her daughter” – and it surprised me that Susan could have a grown-up daughter. 22STARS JEWELLERY AND FOUNDATION Let me give you a bit of background. 22STARS started back in 2009 when Stella was 23 years old, and Susan was just two years older. Stella was studying international law and came to Uganda to do research for her thesis. Here, another Ugandan woman, Aidah Wafula, who's a social worker at an HIV/Aids Information Center in Kampala introduced her to Susan, who, at the time, didn't speak any English. But still, Stella could see hear her extreme willpower and sense her big heart, and Stella wanted to help any way she could. So, in the following few years Stella sent money annually to support Susan`s business, and with that support, Susan took the opportunity to go back to school. And she was able to put food on the table for her three children. Before she met Stella, they were working in the stone quarry, but now they were able to go to school. At the end of 2012, Stella returned to Kampala and was extremely impressed when Susan spoke to her in English and showed her what she had learned. Susan expressed the need to market and sell jewellery from the other women in her community, so that they also would be able to pay for the education of their children. And the very same day the 22STARS Jewellery business was created. WOMEN MAKING PAPER JEWELLERY As I get out of the car, I see a handful of women sitting on the sidewalk making the beautiful handmade paper jewellery. And they smile at me and give me a real Ugandan welcome – in the form of a happy outcry. We're standing next to the women on the sidewalk or as Susan calls it “the factory of the beads.” They make beads, and turn them into jewellery, Christmas ornaments, and baskets. They are made out of recycled papers. Susan tells me how they measure them, they cut, roll, varnish and assemble them. Susan explains: “We assemble them in different fashions, and we roll them in different shapes. We also cut them in different centimetres or meters or others in millimetres.” Susan shows me some beautiful necklaces, and I'm impressed that it's all made out of paper. Make sure to go to theradiovagabond.com and see the picture I've taken. It's absolutely stunning. Each piece of jewellery is hand-crafted from 100% recycled paper by one of forty 22STARS empowered women. They buy old posters, bottle labels and magazines, then the women cut the paper in triangle shapes of various sizes, roll them up, glue them and varnish them. Every bead is waterproof, shiny, and hard. Once the beads are ready the designing starts. The necklace she's showing me should go for 50,000 Ugandan Shilling – that's around 13 USD or 12 EUR, but because they are desperate, they sell it for as low as 3,000 which is less than one Dollar or Euro. “They want to end living from hand to mouth and to have food on the table for the children. Some of them already slept with empty stomach, so they cannot resist. And if somebody says, I want these for 2000, or 1000, they'll just go for it. No one values the time and the energy that has been put into making it. Really this should go for 50,000 Ugandan shillings, but because we don't have the market, we give it out for 3000 or even 1000. So, we just do it but not willingly.” Think about this when you're at a local market in a developing country and are bargaining for a good price on local craft that has taken hours to make. In order to be less dependent on selling them on local markets here in Kampala, Stella also finds markets for the jewellery outside of Uganda. So far, they sell the jewellery in more than ten countries worldwide and are constantly looking for new people to become a wholesaler in other markets. If you're interested go to 22stars.com and reach out to Stella. LETTER FROM A LISTENER I've received a message from Nick Bolton. He's a 53-year-old guy from the UK that is about to embark on his own nomad journey. When he wrote this he was listening to my episode from Senegal. He writes: Hi Palle, Just wanted to share what an inspiring podcast you've created. To me, you're currently in Senegal so I guess there are parallel universes when you're a vagabond. I start my own full time vagabond journey in January by moving to Dubai as a base then travelling the world. Your podcast inspired that. In the meantime, this year is a year of mini adventures cycling from Brindisi to the UK and trekking in the Himalayas. I hope one day our paths cross on the Vagabond paths. PS - I lived on a boat for 3 years called Vagabond! Thank you so much for reaching out, Nick. I can't wait to follow your vagabonding journey. And I'm sure we're going to meet somewhere in the world at some point. On that note, I can recommend that you go to Bansko Nomad Fest in Bulgaria in June 2023. It's a great place to meet a lot of like-minded nomads. I'll be there for a full month and also doing a talk on how to start a podcast. PANDEMIC WAS TOUGH HERE A lot of people, they mistakenly think that the pandemic only affects tourism, but it affects everything, but Susan tells me that the Pandemic also affected everything here. “Since the lockdown, we have suffered with no market, nothing at all. Everybody was affected. The schoolchildren, the parents, people living in the community. We were all packed in this small area. We don't have big houses and we don't have a fridge to store our food or anything. We don't have any garden and we live as refugees We survive on stone quarrying and these beads. We live from hand to mouth; this is how we feed, and people were not coming to our community to support us. We had no access to go to the bigger towns or the village to bring food and split them here in small quantity and sell them to the needy. So, people suffered.” The government promised that they would give food, but that was not nearly enough. Some families have as many as 17 people, and the food given to them was only enough for one or two days. There's they had no breakfast, no lunch, only a late, late dinner. And that was it. But thankfully 22STARS was able to do a lot to help them through this tough time. “We are so grateful. And thankfully with 22STARS we were able to put up a fundraising and we got food, donated several times, beans, rice, soap, clean water. We also got our children studying. We had to hire teachers. They bought us masks, they bought us all the equipment we needed. We were given laptops, projectors. We were also given solar system and a generator in in case there was no power. So, our children were kept well, thanks to donors and sponsors.” We also got blankets and mattresses donated. And this time when our children were returning back to school, we were given school scholastics, like books, bags, school shoes, which really helped a lot.” One of the main areas of work for 22STARS Foundation is education. The organization provides scholarships for children who come from disadvantaged backgrounds, enabling them to access quality education that would otherwise be out of reach. KIDS STAYED IN SCHOOL “I'm so thankful that none the children sponsored by 22STAS, dropped out of school because we were able to keep counselling them, providing them with education and different skills. We got them computers to keep them busy and avoid them from moving up and down the street looking for food, like most of the other children, who go pick scrap to sell and make a living. But thankfully our project supported with all the things that we were able to pass through this COVID 19 situation.” As the women are giving me yet another outcry of gratitude, Susan takes me into a small classroom with around 25 children around a table with maybe ten laptops. All the children are in yellow T-shirts where it says “22STARS. Education is Key”. The teacher, Joel Watimon, is a university student and has been volunteering as teacher for 20 months. See the pictures on TheRadioVagabond.com/267-Uganda. PROVIDING MICRO LOANS As Joel is starting his class, teaching basic computer skills, Susan takes me into the room next door where a lot of grown-ups are presenting their business ideas to Nicolas from 22STARS to get small business loans Because 22STARS Foundation provides microloans to local people in Uganda as a means of supporting them in starting or growing their small businesses. Susan explains that these loans are typically small amounts of money that can be used to purchase inventory, equipment, or other resources that will help the business to become more profitable. “Here are our ladies who are beneficiaries from the small business loan. This is this sixth time these ladies got the loan, and this has brought a lot of impact in their life. Their lives have changed. They have transformed from crushing stones and running on the street with the beads, trying to earn money to feed their families. But now, with the small business loan, given, most of them were able to find a permanent premises where they do operate their businesses through.” The microloan program works by providing loans to qualified applicants, who are often women that may have limited access to traditional financial institutions. The loans are provided at a low interest rate, and borrowers are given a specific period of time in which to repay the loan. To qualify for a microloan from 22STARS Foundation, applicants must meet certain criteria, such as demonstrating a viable business plan and showing that they have the capacity to repay the loan. Once approved, the loan is disbursed directly to the borrower, who is then responsible for using the funds to grow their business. ”Some of them are selling food, some of them are having the hairdressing salons, some of them are having shops. And with this they are able to support their family, buying scholastics for school, putting food on the table, clothes and paying their medication.” Along with providing financial support, 22STARS Foundation also offers business training and mentoring to help borrowers make the most of their loans. This includes support in developing marketing strategies, financial planning, and other skills that are essential for running a successful business. “They already had some business, but they didn't have capital. They already had some small skills of business, and the scale was so little that they didn't know how to do the business. So, we had we brought in Nicholas, and he taught the ladies how to handle businesses, how to save money, how to pay back the loan, how to budget, how to plan, and how to use the capital and the loan. He counsels them, talks to them, tell them why he was giving them such amount of the money. Nicholas comes again and makes sure we do the follow up. He also asks where were the challenges? How did it go? And if we finish all of that, we are given another money to continue again. The microloan program provided by 22STARS Foundation has helped many local people in Uganda to start or grow their businesses, providing a means of economic empowerment and helping to lift families out of poverty. In a break, I ask Nicholas what they are doing today in the room with the micro-business owners. “Basically, this is a session of feedback, what they think the changes they have to make in the next loan programme, what difficulties they are having and helping them try to find solutions in general to see how we can make the programme sustainable for everyone.” I also speak to one of the small business owners and one of the beneficiaries in the room: Mr. Becker. He has a small retail shop. He tells me that the program has helped his business a lot. “I'm very happy because it has made it possible for my business expand as I needed some extra capital for stock in my shop. With the loan it's been possible, and I'm doing well.” By supporting small business owners, the microloan program helps to create jobs, generate income, and promote economic growth in the local community. And later Susan will take me for a walk around to see the many small businesses that exits with help from the small loan program. MORE TO COME FROM ACHOLI QUATER That's what we have time for in this episode, but I have two more episodes from my visit to the Acholi Quarter in Kampala, Uganda. In the next one, I take a walk in the area with Susan and Nicholas from 22STARS. And they're showing me some of the small local businesses that are benefitting from the microloans. And then an episode where we focus on Susan's own story. And that will blow your mind. What that woman has been through and how she's been able to do what she has is unbelievable. Stay tuned, and if you want to get involved in supporting 22STARS – either by donations or help out in any other way go to Foundation22stars.org. And if you're interested in becoming a become a wholesaler or just buying some of their amazing jewellery for yourself, go to 22stars.com. Like they say on the website: “For every item purchased, we will help a child in need”. One pair of earrings is five pencils, one bracelet is one dental care, one clutch is one set of clothes, one necklace is one meal… You get the picture. Come back for the next episodes and remember to share this if you think some of your friends should hear this. My name is Palle Bo, and I gotta keep moving. See you.
Welcome to the first of a miniseries from the struggling Acholi Quarter; a part of Kampala in Uganda that is getting help from a foundation called 22STARS. SE BILLEDER PÅ Radiovagabond.dk/315-Uganda The story actually starts a few years earlier, when I got to know a Dutch/German woman, Stella Romana Airoldi on a Nomad Cruise. In case you don't know Nomad Cruise is like a conference for digital nomads on a cruise ship. On this one in the Mediterranean from Malaga to Athens, Stella was given a talk about a social enterprise and foundation called 22STARS – together with a Ugandan woman, Susan Laker. Susan and other Ugandan women are making jewellery out of colourful recycled paper and Stella is helping them sell it around the world. This talk and meeting Stella and Susan on the Nomad Cruise made me think, that I had to go to Uganda and see this with my own eyes. So, in this episode I'll take you along as I drive down a dirt road in the Acholi Quarter, a slum area in the outskirts of Kampala. I'm in the car with Nicholas Basalirwa from 22STARS, and there's a young woman on the street that looks just like Susan. She says hi to me in the car and I say, “are you Susan?” But the woman says “no, I'm her daughter” – and it surprised me that Susan could have a grown-up daughter. 22STARS JEWELLERY AND FOUNDATION Let me give you a bit of background. 22STARS started back in 2009 when Stella was 23 years old, and Susan was just two years older. Stella was studying international law and came to Uganda to do research for her thesis. Here, another Ugandan woman, Aidah Wafula, who's a social worker at an HIV/Aids Information Center in Kampala introduced her to Susan, who, at the time, didn't speak any English. But still, Stella could see hear her extreme willpower and sense her big heart, and Stella wanted to help any way she could. So, in the following few years Stella sent money annually to support Susan`s business, and with that support, Susan took the opportunity to go back to school. And she was able to put food on the table for her three children. Before she met Stella, they were working in the stone quarry, but now they were able to go to school. At the end of 2012, Stella returned to Kampala and was extremely impressed when Susan spoke to her in English and showed her what she had learned. Susan expressed the need to market and sell jewellery from the other women in her community, so that they also would be able to pay for the education of their children. And the very same day the 22STARS Jewellery business was created. WOMEN MAKING PAPER JEWELLERY As I get out of the car, I see a handful of women sitting on the sidewalk making the beautiful handmade paper jewellery. And they smile at me and give me a real Ugandan welcome – in the form of a happy outcry. It's hard to explain what it sounds like, so you can hear it in the episode. We're standing next to the women on the sidewalk or as Susan calls it “the factory of the beads.” They make beads, and turn them into jewellery, Christmas ornaments, and baskets. They are made out of recycled papers. Susan tells me how they measure them, they cut, roll, varnish and assemble them. Susan explains: “We assemble them in different fashions, and we roll them in different shapes. We also cut them in different centimetres or meters or others in millimetres.” Susan shows me some beautiful necklaces, and I'm impressed that it's all made out of paper. Make sure to go to theradiovagabond.com and see the picture I've taken. It's absolutely stunning. Each piece of jewellery is hand-crafted from 100% recycled paper by one of forty 22STARS empowered women. They buy old posters, bottle labels and magazines, then the women cut the paper in triangle shapes of various sizes, roll them up, glue them and varnish them. Every bead is waterproof, shiny, and hard. Once the beads are ready the designing starts. The necklace she's showing me should go for 50,000 Ugandan Shilling – that's around 13 USD or 12 EUR, but because they are desperate, they sell it for as low as 3,000 which is less than one Dollar or Euro. “They want to end living from hand to mouth and to have food on the table for the children. Some of them already slept with empty stomach, so they cannot resist. And if somebody says, I want these for 2000, or 1000, they'll just go for it. No one values the time and the energy that has been put into making it. Really this should go for 50,000 Ugandan shillings, but because we don't have the market, we give it out for 3000 or even 1000. So, we just do it but not willingly.” Think about this when you're at a local market in a developing country and are bargaining for a good price on local craft that has taken hours to make. In order to be less dependent on selling them on local markets here in Kampala, Stella also finds markets for the jewellery outside of Uganda. So far, they sell the jewellery in more than ten countries worldwide and are constantly looking for new people to become a wholesaler in other markets. If you're interested go to 22stars.com and reach out to Stella. LETTER FROM A LISTENER I've received a message from Nick Bolton. He's a 53-year-old guy from the UK that is about to embark on his own nomad journey. When he wrote this he was listening to my episode from Senegal. He writes: Hi Palle, Just wanted to share what an inspiring podcast you've created. To me, you're currently in Senegal so I guess there are parallel universes when you're a vagabond. I start my own full time vagabond journey in January by moving to Dubai as a base then travelling the world. Your podcast inspired that. In the meantime, this year is a year of mini adventures cycling from Brindisi to the UK and trekking in the Himalayas. I hope one day our paths cross on the Vagabond paths. PS - I lived on a boat for 3 years called Vagabond! Thank you so much for reaching out, Nick. I can't wait to follow your vagabonding journey. And I'm sure we're going to meet somewhere in the world at some point. On that note, I can recommend that you go to Bansko Nomad Fest in Bulgaria in June 2023. It's a great place to meet a lot of like-minded nomads. I'll be there for a full month and also doing a talk on how to start a podcast. PANDEMIC WAS TOUGH HERE A lot of people, they mistakenly think that the pandemic only affects tourism, but it affects everything, but Susan tells me that the Pandemic also affected everything here. “Since the lockdown, we have suffered with no market, nothing at all. Everybody was affected. The schoolchildren, the parents, people living in the community. We were all packed in this small area. We don't have big houses and we don't have a fridge to store our food or anything. We don't have any garden and we live as refugees We survive on stone quarrying and these beads. We live from hand to mouth; this is how we feed, and people were not coming to our community to support us. We had no access to go to the bigger towns or the village to bring food and split them here in small quantity and sell them to the needy. So, people suffered.” The government promised that they would give food, but that was not nearly enough. Some families have as many as 17 people, and the food given to them was only enough for one or two days. There's they had no breakfast, no lunch, only a late, late dinner. And that was it. But thankfully 22STARS was able to do a lot to help them through this tough time. “We are so grateful. And thankfully with 22STARS we were able to put up a fundraising and we got food, donated several times, beans, rice, soap, clean water. We also got our children studying. We had to hire teachers. They bought us masks, they bought us all the equipment we needed. We were given laptops, projectors. We were also given solar system and a generator in in case there was no power. So, our children were kept well, thanks to donors and sponsors.” We also got blankets and mattresses donated. And this time when our children were returning back to school, we were given school scholastics, like books, bags, school shoes, which really helped a lot.” One of the main areas of work for 22STARS Foundation is education. The organization provides scholarships for children who come from disadvantaged backgrounds, enabling them to access quality education that would otherwise be out of reach. KIDS STAYED IN SCHOOL “I'm so thankful that none the children sponsored by 22STAS, dropped out of school because we were able to keep counselling them, providing them with education and different skills. We got them computers to keep them busy and avoid them from moving up and down the street looking for food, like most of the other children, who go pick scrap to sell and make a living. But thankfully our project supported with all the things that we were able to pass through this COVID 19 situation.” As the women are giving me yet another outcry of gratitude, Susan takes me into a small classroom with around 25 children around a table with maybe ten laptops. All the children are in yellow T-shirts where it says “22STARS. Education is Key”. The teacher, Joel Watimon, is a university student and has been volunteering as teacher for 20 months. See pictures on the blog post. PROVIDING MICRO LOANS As Joel is starting his class, teaching basic computer skills, Susan takes me into the room next door where a lot of grown-ups are presenting their business ideas to Nicolas from 22STARS to get small business loans Because 22STARS Foundation provides microloans to local people in Uganda as a means of supporting them in starting or growing their small businesses. Susan explains that these loans are typically small amounts of money that can be used to purchase inventory, equipment, or other resources that will help the business to become more profitable. “Here are our ladies who are beneficiaries from the small business loan. This is this sixth time these ladies got the loan, and this has brought a lot of impact in their life. Their lives have changed. They have transformed from crushing stones and running on the street with the beads, trying to earn money to feed their families. But now, with the small business loan, given, most of them were able to find a permanent premises where they do operate their businesses through.” The microloan program works by providing loans to qualified applicants, who are often women that may have limited access to traditional financial institutions. The loans are provided at a low interest rate, and borrowers are given a specific period of time in which to repay the loan. To qualify for a microloan from 22STARS Foundation, applicants must meet certain criteria, such as demonstrating a viable business plan and showing that they have the capacity to repay the loan. Once approved, the loan is disbursed directly to the borrower, who is then responsible for using the funds to grow their business. ”Some of them are selling food, some of them are having the hairdressing salons, some of them are having shops. And with this they are able to support their family, buying scholastics for school, putting food on the table, clothes and paying their medication.” Along with providing financial support, 22STARS Foundation also offers business training and mentoring to help borrowers make the most of their loans. This includes support in developing marketing strategies, financial planning, and other skills that are essential for running a successful business. “They already had some business, but they didn't have capital. They already had some small skills of business, and the scale was so little that they didn't know how to do the business. So, we had we brought in Nicholas, and he taught the ladies how to handle businesses, how to save money, how to pay back the loan, how to budget, how to plan, and how to use the capital and the loan. He counsels them, talks to them, tell them why he was giving them such amount of the money. Nicholas comes again and makes sure we do the follow up. He also asks where were the challenges? How did it go? And if we finish all of that, we are given another money to continue again. The microloan program provided by 22STARS Foundation has helped many local people in Uganda to start or grow their businesses, providing a means of economic empowerment and helping to lift families out of poverty. In a break, I ask Nicholas what they are doing today in the room with the micro-business owners. “Basically, this is a session of feedback, what they think the changes they have to make in the next loan programme, what difficulties they are having and helping them try to find solutions in general to see how we can make the programme sustainable for everyone.” I also speak to one of the small business owners and one of the beneficiaries in the room: Mr. Becker. He has a small retail shop. He tells me that the program has helped his business a lot. “I'm very happy because it has made it possible for my business expand as I needed some extra capital for stock in my shop. With the loan it's been possible, and I'm doing well.” By supporting small business owners, the microloan program helps to create jobs, generate income, and promote economic growth in the local community. And later Susan will take me for a walk around to see the many small businesses that exits with help from the small loan program. MORE TO COME FROM ACHOLI QUATER That's what we have time for in this episode, but I have two more episodes from my visit to the Acholi Quarter in Kampala, Uganda. In the next one, I take a walk in the area with Susan and Nicholas from 22STARS. And they're showing me some of the small local businesses that are benefitting from the microloans. And then an episode where we focus on Susan's own story. And that will blow your mind. What that woman has been through and how she's been able to do what she has is unbelievable. Stay tuned, and if you want to get involved in supporting 22STARS – either by donations or help out in any other way go to Foundation22stars.org. And if you're interested in becoming a become a wholesaler or just buying some of their amazing jewellery for yourself, go to 22stars.com. Like they say on the website: “For every item purchased, we will help a child in need”. One pair of earrings is five pencils, one bracelet is one dental care, one clutch is one set of clothes, one necklace is one meal… You get the picture. Come back for the next episodes and remember to share this if you think some of your friends should hear this. My name is Palle Bo, and I gotta keep moving. See you.
Episode Notes S4E8 -- Join us as we dive into the mind of Actor & Producer Scott Hamm Duenas. He'll take us on his journey from Cobra Kai to Re-Broken and beyond.. Scott Hamm Duenas also know as Scott Hamm is an American actor and filmmaker. Scott added his mother's maiden name to honor the family as he credits his mom Toni and her parents Tommy and Olivia with his success. He was born in Washington DC and moved to the west coast soon after. His father of Dutch, German decent was in the military and now retired. His Mother of Spanish decent is an insurance agent. You can see all your past favorite episodes now streaming on https://redcoraluniverse.com/ OR Show your support by purchasing FB stars. Send stars to the stars fb.com/stars This episode is sponsored by Deadly Grounds Coffee "Its good to get a little Deadly" https://deadlygroundscoffee.com ————————————————— https://www.stilltoking.com/ Check out Toking with the Dead Episode 1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awhL5FyW_j4 Check out Toking with the Dead Episode 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SaUai58ua6o Buy awesome Merchandise! https://www.stilltoking.com/toking-with-the-dead-train https://teespring.com/stores/still-toking-with Sponsorship Opportunities https://www.stilltoking.com/become-a-sponsor or email us at bartlett52108@gmail.com thetokingdead@gmail.com ————————————— Follow our guest https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0358335/bio https://www.instagram.com/scotthamm8/?hl=en https://twitter.com/scotthamm88 https://www.imdb.com/title/tt15293102/ ———————���———————— Follow Still Toking With and their friends! https://smartpa.ge/5zv1 https://thedorkeningpodcastnetwork.com/ ————————————— Produced by Leo Pond and The Dorkening Podcast Network https://TheDorkening.com Facebook.com/TheDorkening Youtube.com/TheDorkening Twitter.com/TheDorkening Dead Dork Radio https://live365.com/station/Dead-Dork-Radio-a68071 Check out Green Matters: https://www.facebook.com/GreenMattersMiddleboro/ MORE ABOUT OUR GUEST: Was born in Washington, D.C. Has lived in Arizona, California, and Illinois. Played organized baseball for 20 years. Including high school and college. When he was 12 years old, his all star team was one game away from making the little league World Series. The following year the same team made it to the junior league World Series where they lost to Chicago and Puerto Rico. He is multi-ethnic. His mother is Spanish and his father is Dutch/German. His mother's maiden name is Duenas. Went to college in Canton,Illinois where he was a pitcher on the baseball team. In high school was voted cutest tush in the yearbook. Is a huge Quentin Tarantino fan, but his favorite movie is One flew over the cuckoos nest. After being cast in Walker Texas Ranger he was brought in for the role of Oz in American Pie where he lost the role to Chris Klein . Was raised in Orange County, CA and went to Fullerton high school where he played football and baseball. Although he was born in Washington, D.C., not Washington, he is a huge fan of the Seattle sports teams. Admits to being a "psycho" Seattle Seahawks fan, and part of the 12th man. Almost won the role of Lance in Varsity Blues which eventually went to Paul Walker. Find out more at https://still-toking-with.pinecast.co
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Jan-Erik is an author of the book Leading Design and professor of Design Management at the University of Applied Science and Arts in Lucern. We talk about his career at Philips Design, growing up as a Dutch-German hybrid and always trying to fit in while staying your authentic self.
We've got a HUGE guest this week continuing our #Brexit theme, seriously he's the tallest working comedian in the UK, it's Germany's Christian Schulte-Loh (@GermanComedian)! He's spent a decade between the German & UK comedy scenes, and we chat about the Dutch-German football rivalry is the real one, they just let the English feel included, his past life as an erotic game-show producer, getting paid for his 2nd ever gig, winning King Gong at The Comedy Store and the peace-keeping role of the European Union - and Britain's importance to that. Christian's website with all his social media, video and tour dates is here: https://www.germancomedian.com/ Get around The Union Jack Off on Twitter @TheUnionJackOff, we'd love to hear from you - you can also find us on Facebook. If you get you in touch we promise to reply, and please do give us a rating as it all helps us grow and lets us know what you think of the pod. #Brexit month continues next week Jerk Offs with Romania, get excited! Daniel Muggleton is on Twitter & Instagram @danmuggleton
Marc Cuban declared that data is the new oil. But, all-too-often huge amounts of data cannot answer the questions that actually matter to businesses. They merely deliver billions of isolated facts and zero intelligence. A company called DataChemist is attempting to solve that problem by imposing and enforcing real-world rules onto data and by doing so give their customers more insight than ever before. DataChemist is also aiming to make the complicated simple by transforming messy, inconsistent data sets into clean, structured and integrated data. DataChemist emerged from a EU funded Trinity College Dublin project that built the technical infrastructure for Seshat: the Global History Databank. They are helping Seshat with the unambitious goal of systematically collecting what is currently known about the social and political organization of human societies and how civilizations have evolved over time. The project has been enormously successful and has provided the platform for a range of statistical studies of historical datasets. On the back of this research and a further commercial implementation with a big Dutch-German multinational, they recently published a book called Engineering Agile Big-Data Systems. Knowledge Graphs are becoming a big deal in tech. They are on the Gartner Hype Cycle for the first time last year. I invited Kevin Feeney, CEO at Data Chemist onto my daily tech podcast to learn more about their work on Knowledge Graphs and our their global history.
Thousands of Allied troops parachuted into the Nazi-occupied Netherlands in September 1944. At that point, it was the most ambitious Allied airborne offensive of World War Two. British, American and Polish troops were dropped behind German lines in an attempt to capture a series of bridges on the Dutch/German border. Mike Lanchin has spoken to Hetty Bischoff van Heemskerck who, as a young woman, watched the Allied paratroopers come down close to her home in the city of Arnhem.(Photo: Allied planes and parachutists over Arnhem, Getty Images)
Thousands of Allied troops parachuted into the Nazi-occupied Netherlands in September 1944. At that point, it was the most ambitious Allied airborne offensive of World War Two. British, American and Polish troops were dropped behind German lines in an attempt to capture a series of bridges on the Dutch/German border. Mike Lanchin has spoken to Hetty Bischoff van Heemskerck who, as a young woman, watched the Allied paratroopers come down close to her home in the city of Arnhem. (Photo: Allied planes and parachutists over Arnhem, Getty Images)
In the first half of the show the guys talk about Barnier’s visit to the the border, Dr Kathryn Simpson joins us to talk customs partnership and Max Fac while we discuss whether either of them are viable. In the second half we get the Airbnb view of domestic politics from around the continent with local input from friends of the pod Raphaëlle, Sebastian and Marcel. 17:08: Raphaëlle Bohu discusses the emergence of Macron, the rightward shift of Les Republicains and life after the Bataclan attacks 28:25: Sebastian Weesjes is optimistic about what Brexit will mean for the Netherlands and then talks us through the (Mark) Rutte the Dutch domestic political scene is working through at the moment. 42:43: Marcel Dirsus tackles the question of whether the end is in sight for Merkel as well as why the far right AfD have grown in popularity and what their prospects are in the future
Lesson # 3 Agenda -Josh and Matt discuss the benefits of using pre-generated character sheets for D&D in the classroom or club setting. -They discuss the best starting classes for new players. -They introduce helpful online resources to obtain pre-generated character sheets. -Exit Ticket: Is the cloak of Arachnida an effective item for your classroom D&D campaign? -This episode introduces what will probably (and sadly) be the reoccurring character, the Dutch-German boy.
In which we discuss our plans to re-enact the classic spy novel 'The Riddle of the Sands'. This week - a very special Danish edition, covering the 27th & 28th September. We need to sail to the Als Sound as part of the great Adventure, but club members will need to brush up on their Prussian & Danish history if they’re going to join us… More details & membership signup here: http://riddleofthesands.net We discuss: how German champagne funded WW1 - sort of (1:58); the various reasons why Davies & Carruthers are footling about in the Flensburg fjord (4:45); tracking down Childers’s real-life Dulcibella (6:02); where to moor on the 28th (9:57); a musical interlude by Piefke (13:21); what happened to the German battle memorials (14:21); an opportunity for us all to re-enact the battle of Als (18:19); Lloyd on Danish princesses (20:22). Club business: details of forthcoming Film Club (24:02); Ed Freyfogle on a contemporary Dutch-German border dispute (26:06); Ramsey on Childers’s comical times at Trinity College, Cambridge (27:13); Tim about a curious link between himself and Childers (29:11); Aunt Liz on centreboards & Dutch ovens (29:55); Jeff on what really defines an Edwardian gentleman (31:47). Breaking news: Pledge your support now and spread the word about our new Unbound book + online adventure project. Rewards start at just £10-£25 offering you access to the live online adventure from September 2015 and a beautifully designed ‘Handbook Edition’ of ‘The Riddle of the Sands’. http://unbound.co.uk/books/riddle-of-the-sands MUSIC CREDITS Great Open Sea by Wellington Sea Shanty Society (https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Wellington_Sea_Shanty_Society/none_given_1098/12_-_Wellington_Sea_Shanty_Society_-_Great_Open_Sea) is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 International License. "Der Alsenströmer" by Gottfried Piefke - https://youtu.be/RBCazLxXGsw “Queen of Denmark” by John Grant - https://youtu.be/b_oNylzsY7I
SynTalk thinks about (real, virtual & abstract) boundaries and wonders why some boundaries are crisp while others are fuzzy (fixed centers but no boundaries). We discuss boundaries and borders using concepts from computer science, geopolitics, defence studies, philosophy, mythology, linguistics, statistics, biology, & mathematics. The concepts are derived off / from Zeno, Darwin, Turing, Chebyshev, Korzybski, Saadat Hasan Manto, & Feynman, among others. Is the cell membrane (say) a boundary, and how does it help the organ know about the world? How does a (physical) boundary of pebbles operate ‘within’ the river Ganges? How there is a robust (crisp) line separating the solvable and the unsolvable. How is the notion of the border different from the real border (in the Gaza ‘brown strip’)? We explore the fascinating journey of ‘empires with frontiers’ to ‘nation states with militarized borders’ over the last several centuries. Is there ultimately a certain ‘life force’ behind creation of real & virtual boundaries? How does one trust a neighbor? What is the nature of boundaries around ‘languages’ & ‘species’? How do statistical systems have upper and lower bounds, and how is it possible to predict the reliability of a system with a ‘confidence interval’? Is a statistical mean similar to the center of a set? Is there a gradual inevitable dissolution of the definitiveness of borders, even if borders have been paid for in blood? How an emergent or an imposed hierarchy introduces the vertical and distorts the lateral? What is no man’s land? Is there a convexity (with inside and an outside) for a malware? How is the notion of the border, mediated by the colonial experience of certain countries? We invoke themes illustrated by, among others, Israeli-Palestinian, Indo-Pakistan, Dutch-German, Indo-Myanmar, Chinese-North Asian borders. How are the maritime borders different? What is the long term future of the borders in context of the universal human condition? The SynTalkrs are: Commodore C. Uday Bhaskar (defence studies, Society for Policy Studies, New Delhi), Prof. K.P. Mohanan (linguistics, critical thinking, IISER, Pune), Prof. Sanjeev V. Sabnis (probability, IITB, Mumbai), & Prof. R.K. Shyamasundar (computer science, TIFR, Mumbai)
This is our "Fava" episode: great with a nice Chianti (you can leave the liver out, Dr. Lecter...) Hosts Phil Thompson and Eric Armstrong talk their way through the sounds /f/ and /v/ in this episode. As it is our first episode dealing with fricative sounds, we spend quite a while talking through their nature.Show Notes[Don't have any time to go through the show this week and edit the show notes. These are the things Phil and I collected before we began recording; it's a bit messy, but may be helpful when listening along.—Eric]Fricatives: A sound being made by air being pushed through a narrow constriction in the vocal tract, making a turbulent airstream. e.g. f θ ʃ s Most common consonant manner in the world's languages : FricativesFORMATION: voiced/unvoiced labiodental fricativesSPELLING: /f/pretty darned simple, fcalf calves, calved loaf loaveshalf halves, halved knife knives ( but knifed)wife wives"ff" off, offal"gh" cough, draught, enough, laugh, laughter, rough, tough, trough, whooping cough"ph" alphabet, amphibious, apostrophe, diphthong, nephew, philosophy, phlegm, phonetic,photo, photograph, pteriodophyte, sphere, sphinx, telephone"v" Chekov, Krushchev, Nabokov, Godunov, Romanov, Molotiv, Rimsky-Korsakov,Ustinov, /v/"f" of"ph" Stephen"v" Vacate, vaccine, vacuum, vain, vale, valentine, Valkyrie, value, Vancouver, vane,variation, varsity, vein, vengeance, have, hive, live, love, mauve, driving, living, Steven,stevedore."vv" savvyHISTORY: of the letters: FROM WIKIPEDIA:F The Phoenician form of the letter was adopted into Greek as a vowel, upsilon (which resembled its descendant, ‹Y›, but was also ancestor to Roman letters ‹U›, ‹V›, and ‹W›); and with another form, as a consonant, digamma, which resembled ‹F›, but indicated the pronunciation /w/, as in Phoenician. (Later on, /w/ disappeared from Greek, resulting in digamma being used as a numeral only.)In Etruscan, ‹F› also represented /w/; however, they formed the digraph ‹FH› to represent /f/; when the Romans picked up, the letter, they had already borrowed ‹U› from Greek upsilon to stand for /w/. At the this time, the Greek letter phi ‹Φ› represented an aspirated voiceless bilabial plosive, /pʰ/ though it has now come to approximate the sound of /f/ in Modern Greek.The lower case ‹f› is not related to the visually similar long s, ‹ſ›. The use of the long s largely died out by the beginning of the 19th century, mostly to prevent confusion with ‹f›.FROM WIKIPEDIA: The letter V ultimately comes from the Semitic letter Waw, as do the modern letters F, U, W, and Y. See F for details.In Greek, the letter upsilon ‹Υ› was adapted from waw to represent, at first, the vowel /u/ as in "moon". This was later fronted to /y/, the vowel spelled ‹ü› in German.In Latin, a stemless variant shape of the upsilon was borrowed in early times as V—either directly from the Western Greek alphabet or from the Etruscan alphabet as a middle man—to represent the same /u/ sound, as well as the consonantal /w/. Thus, num — originally spelled ‹NVM› — was pronounced /nuːm/ and via was pronounced /wiːa/. From the first century A.D. on, depending on Vulgar Latin dialect, consonantal /w/ developed into /β/, then later to /v/.In Roman numerals, the letter V is used to represent the number 5. It was used because it resembled the convention of counting by notches carved in wood, with every fifth notch double-cut to form a "V".During the late Middle Ages, two forms of ‹v› developed, which were both used for modern ‹u› and ‹v›. The pointed form ‹v› was written at the beginning of a word, while a rounded form ‹u› was used in the middle or end, regardless of sound. So whereas valor and excuse appeared as in modern printing, have and upon were printed ‹haue› and ‹vpon›. The first distinction between the letters ‹u› and ‹v› is recorded in a Gothic alphabet from 1386, where ‹v› preceded ‹u›. By the mid-1500s, the ‹v› form was used to represent the consonant and ‹u› the vowel sound, giving us the modern letter ‹u›. Capital ‹U› was not accepted as a distinct letter until many years later.[2]PHONETIC NOTATION: represented by lower case f and v Similar sounds in IPA: labiodental approximant ʋ labiodental nasal ɱ bilabial fricatives ɸ β using f or v in place of th sounds "th fronting" in Southern England working class accents, like Cockneyusing labiodental place on preceding nasals, e.g. invest, infer, emphasis, emphysema, lymph with ɱVARIATIONSuse of bilabial fricative in its place ʋ Challenge for Dutch/German article: Voiced labiodental fricatives or glides - all the same to Germans? by Silke Hamann* & Anke Sennema‡List of languages that have f and ʋLanguage f v ʋ ɸ β Danish f Ø ʋ Ø Ø three-way distinctionDutch fits oːvən ʋɑŋ Ø in some Belgian dialects the /ʋ/ phoneme is realized as [β] three-way distinctionEnglish f v 'red' Ø Ø two-way distinction –( Wikipedia entry claims labialized /r/)Finnish f Ø ʋ Ø Ø two-way distinctionGerman f“fau”v“we”Ø Ø Ø two-way distinction – approximant allophone of /v/ in Southern varietiesHawaiian Ø Ø ʋ Ø Ø May also be realized as [w] or [v].Hindi f Ø ʋ Ø Ø two-way distinction –Serbo-Croatian f Ø ʋ Ø Ø May also be realized as [v], depending on the speaker's dialect.Norwegian f Ø ʋ Ø Ø Japanese Ø Ø Ø ɸ β these are considered weak forms of /p/ and /b/Ewe f͈ v͈ Ø ɸ β Ewe is one of the few languages known to contrast [f] vs. [ɸ] and [v] vs. [β]. The f and v are stronger than in most languages, [f͈] and [v͈], and thus more distinctive from the rather weak [ɸ] and [β].Japanese: e.g. Mt. Fuji is said with ɸɯdʑi or "furigana" sounds more like "hurigana" to most English speakers, almost ʍHindi-English: very well with ʋdevoicing of final voiced labiodental fricative /v/ becomes /f/Old fashioned Cockney "a wery fine vife". Is it labiodental approximant ʋ?Shaw: thought it was fictional until he heard someone actually said itThe Concise Oxford Companion to the English LanguageTraditional West Country /v/ for /f/ in Lear "varmer" for "farmer" and "volk" for "folk"Use of /b/ in place of /v/ in Spanish: On the Labiodental Pronunciation of Spanish /b/ among Teachers of Spanish as a SecondLanguage Author(s): John J. StevensSource: Hispania, Vol. 83, No. 1 (Mar., 2000), pp. 139-149"phonic variants to the Modern Spanish voiced bilabialphoneme /b/, orthographically b or v: a voiced bilabial stop [b], whichis said to occur after a pause or a nasal; and a voiced bilabial fricative which occurs [β], elsewhere (Alarcos 1994; D'Introno, DelTeso, and Weston 1995; Real Academia Españiola 1992). The voiced labiodental [v], if mentioned at all, is not generally considered to form part of the Spanish allophonic inventory (Barrutia and Schwegler 1994).Pedantic /v/, hypercorrect, used to demonstrate orthographic differences, which has been part of Spanish teaching until mid-20th century when it was abandoned by the Real Academia Españiola - "So, you teach 'boice'?" storyOur email: glossonomia@gmail.com
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