Podcasts about Nicaragua

Welcome to The Unconventional Path: Entrepreneurship and Innovation Stories and Ideas. In this episode, hosts Bela Musits and Mike Wasserman dive into the world of global workforce strategies with nearshoring expert Brian Samson, founder of Plug Technologies.For decades, American companies looking to outsource have immediately focused on Asia for manufacturing, call centers, and IT development. However, massive time zone disparities, long feedback cycles, and distinct cultural differences frequently slow business operations down. Brian explains how nearshoring to Latin American countries offers a massive advantage by providing highly skilled, gritty, and English-proficient talent that works the exact same hours as the United States.If you are an entrepreneur looking for staff augmentation, navigating remote workforce management, or wanting to understand how international talent markets are shifting, this episode delivers a blueprint on how to expand your business strategically.Key Concepts Discussed in This EpisodeOffshoring vs. Nearshoring: While traditional offshoring shifts labor across oceans to massive manufacturing hubs like China or IT centers like India, nearshoring targets developing countries directly shared in or close to your own time zone. The Latin American Talent Advantage: Sourcing talent from Latin America aligns directly with US business cultures. Professionals exhibit strong critical thinking skills, possess high fluency in US-style English, and feature exceptional "grit" forged from navigating localized economic volatility. Regional Specializations: Sourcing tech talent has evolved far beyond basic bug-fixing. Mexico has blossomed into a production and engineering manufacturing giant, Argentina serves as a hub for full-stack product development, and regions in Brazil are producing world-class AI and data engineers. Meanwhile, Central American countries like Nicaragua and El Salvador are rising as highly competitive options for virtual assistants and back-office call centers. The Staffing Model vs. Solutions Model: Brian details why small businesses thrive using a staff augmentation approach, which allows founders direct communication and total flexibility over product roadmaps, compared to rigid fixed-price project outsourcing agencies. Mitigating International Legal Risks: Sourcing global talent independently introduces complex foreign employment laws, contract compliance issues, and currency exchange friction. Working with an established employer of record (EOR) lets US entities confidently manage remote teams via simple monthly invoicing. Takeaways for Business LeadersBela and Mike wrap up the episode discussing the ongoing debate of going global vs. staying local. While cultivating community talent is incredibly valuable, leveraging international trade networks allows growing startups to dynamically build resilient supply chains. Furthermore, incorporating team members located in foreign countries doesn't just reduce operational budgets—it opens crucial regional doors for future international market entry.As a special addition to the interview, Brian highlights his personal passion as a licensed foster parent, sharing heartfelt advice on how leaders can look into local social services to support children within foster care networks.Connect With the Hosts & GuestBela and Mike's Email: bela.and.mike@gmail.comBrian Samson's Website: plug.co Brian's Podcast: The Nearshore Cafe PodcastIf you found this conversation valuable, please remember to hit that LIKE button and SUBSCRIBE to our channel on YouTube or your favorite podcasting app. Leaving a review helps other innovative leaders discover the show!

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El periodista nicaragüense Carlos Fernando Chamorro analiza en nuestro programa la situación política de Nicaragua. En relación a las injerencias de Trump en América Latina también sostiene que la solución para salir del Régimen de Daniel Ortega y Rosario Murillo está en Managua y no en Washington. También explica cómo su exilio en Costa Rica ha sido la única vía para seguir ejerciendo el periodismo y destaca el papel de la prensa independiente frente a la censura y se reclama la liberación de Luis Galeano, detenido por el ICE en EEUU y denuncia la colaboración entre Ortega y Trump en materia migratoria. Además, en Hora América repasamos la actualidad y nos centramos en Venezuela, tras la declaración de culpabilidad en Estados Unidos del empresario Alex Saab, señalado como supuesto testaferro de Nicolás Maduro. Analizamos cómo puede afectar este acuerdo a su proceso judicial en Nueva York y cómo avanzan los diálogos entre el chavismo y la oposición. Nos acompaña desde Caracas nuestra colaboradora externa, Carolina Alcalde.En la segunda parte del programa, escucharemos el Grito de Dolores de la presidenta Claudia Sheinbaum y viajaremos hasta Pachuca para conocer, de la mano de nuestra colaboradora Kirely Macedo, la historia del reloj que conmemora la independencia de México.También estaremos en El Salvador, en la llamada Pompeya de América, con Francisco Carrión, y cerraremos el programa con la voz y la música de Carlos Cano.Escuchar audio

Episode OverviewIn this episode, Robin Cline and Abby Laub dive into the wonders of Nicaragua! From its lush volcanic landscapes and beautiful lakes to its rich colonial history and vibrant food scene, explore why Nicaragua deserves a spot on your travel bucket list. Robin Cline shares firsthand experiences exploring the country, including local cuisine, must-visit destinations like Granada, and tips for navigating border crossings and infrastructure challenges.What You'll LearnGeography 101: Where is Nicaragua, and how do you get there? (Robin Cline offers a quick geography rundown.)Debunking Myths: Overcoming Nicaragua's reputation and why it's a great place to visit today.Destination Spotlight:Granada – a charming colonial city with lively food communities and stunning lake viewsNakupe – a remote, luxury resort with activities ranging from horseback riding to pickleballFood & Drink: Local specialties like quesillo, fresh local produce, and the street food sceneLiving as an Expat: Why Nicaragua attracts remote workers and expats (affordability, lifestyle, internet infrastructure, and challenges like rolling brownouts)Coffee Culture: Nicaragua as a major coffee-producing countryTravel Tips:Best times to visit (dry vs. rainy seasons)Safety tips (water, infrastructure, travel logistics)Border crossings – what to expect moving between Nicaragua and Costa Rica, including immigration and health checksEntry Requirements: What you'll need to enter Nicaragua, and the difference between visas and electronic entry systemsPassport Stamps: The end of an era? A discussion about digital biometrics vs. physical passport stampsMemorable MomentsThe legend of freshwater sharks in Nicaraguan lakesCooking classes and experimenting with local dishesWhy you should avoid putting novelty stamps in your passport!Travel Resources & ContactEmail your questions and suggestions: letsgo@clinenco-travel.comStay connected: Subscribe, like, and share The Intrepid TravelerThanks for joining us on today's episode of The Intrepid Traveler podcast! If you enjoyed today's episode, please rate and review our show to help us reach even more aspiring travelers. Don't forget to check out our website, visit us on Facebook,  Instagram or follow us on LinkedIn to stay up-to-date on our latest epic travel adventures!Use the following links when planning your own travel!TRAVEL INSURED INTERNATIONALMEDJETVIRTUOSOPROJECT EXPEDITION

Miguel Ángel González Suárez te presenta el Informativo de Primera Hora en 'El Remate', el programa matinal de La Diez Capital Radio que arranca tu día con: Las noticias más relevantes de Canarias, España y el mundo, analizadas con rigor y claridad. Conmoción y minutos de silencio por el asesinato de Claudia Tacoronte: “Estaba muy ilusionada con su estancia en México” Llevaba solo un mes en el país, donde realizaba una estancia de movilidad en la Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Morelos. Los rectores de las universidades españolas piden “celeridad” en la aclaración de este crimen que se investiga como feminicidio. Canarias cambia las clases de hoy por el calor: dónde serán online. Educación adopta la medida ante el episodio de altas temperaturas y permite solicitar ajustes extraordinarios de horarios y salidas anticipadas. En todos los centros educativos de Fuerteventura y en nueve municipios de Gran Canaria: Agüimes Artenara Ingenio Mogán San Bartolomé de Tirajana La Aldea de San Nicolás Santa Lucía de Tirajana Telde Valsequillo Hoy hace 3 años: La plataforma 'Topaz Driller', lista para perforar frente a Tarfaya, a 120 kilómetros de Fuerteventura. Hoy se cumplen 1.668 días de guerra entre Rusia y Ucrania. 4 años y 200 días. Hoy es martes 15 de septiembre de 2026. Día Internacional de la Democracia. La democracia debe progresar, y es fundamental el papel de los jóvenes en ese progreso. Se trata de crear un entorno en el que los jóvenes comprendan que su voz cuenta. Y por otra parte, también es importante comprender que los jóvenes están comprometidos por la crisis climática y que saben que su futuro está condicionado por lo que se avance hoy en materia de medio ambiente. Y por ello, la ONU reconoce la importancia de empoderar a los jóvenes en temas de justicia internacional, como es el clima. 1935.- Alemania: Las leyes de Núremberg despojan a los judíos de la ciudadanía alemana y prohíben su matrimonio con personas de "sangre alemana". 1943: en Italia, Benito Mussolini anuncia la creación del Partido Fascista Republicano. 1954.- En China, el Congreso Nacional Popular aprueba una nueva Constitución y Mao Tse Tung es nombrado jefe del Estado. 1955.- El príncipe Juan Carlos de Borbón ingresa como caballero cadete en la Academia General Militar de Zaragoza. Años más tarde, el 15 de septiembre de 1978, España ingresó en el grupo de los veinte del Fondo Monetario Internacional (FMI), gracias a un acuerdo establecido entre los Gobiernos de Madrid, México y Caracas, que se firmó en Acapulco por los gobernadores de los bancos centrales de esos tres países. Por este acuerdo España pasó a integrarse al grupo de países del FMI formado por México, Venezuela, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras y Nicaragua. 2006: por segunda vez, Fidel Castro es elegido presidente del NOAL (Movimiento de Países No Alineados). 2008: en Estados Unidos se declara en quiebra el banco de inversión Lehman Brothers. 2021.- El cocinero español Dabid Muñoz, propietario del restaurante DiverXo, reconocido por primera vez como "mejor chef del mundo" en la edición de 2021 del "The Best Chef Awards". Patrocinio del santo de cada día por gentileza de la Casa de las Imágenes, en la calle Obispo Perez Cáceres, 17 en Candelaria. Aicadro, Alpino, Apro, Nicetas, Nicomedes, Valeriano, Catalina y Antonio María. Trump anuncia que Ucrania y Rusia han acordado no atacar sus infraestructuras energéticasLos hutíes toman una isla yemení en Bab el-Mandeb y pasan a controlar el estrecho. El cierre del oleoducto saudí por el avance hutí pone en riesgo las exportaciones de crudo a Europa y Asia. La UE endurece aún más su política migratoria tras la crisis de Ceuta. La Junta Electoral acatará la decisión del Supremo de suspender el voto de los nacionalizados con la ley de nietos. El PP "no parará" hasta que se asuman responsabilidades por Ceuta: "No es una crisis, es un esperpento" Canarias suma casi 3.750 trabajadores extranjeros en un mes: ya son más de 152.500. El régimen general concentra 111.562 trabajadores, mientras que otros 33.824 extranjeros están dados de alta como autónomos en las Islas. La seguridad es “el segundo motivo” por el que los turistas eligen Canarias para pasar sus vacaciones, después del clima. Los viajes del Imserso 2026-2027 comienzan a comercializarse esta semana, pero los usuarios de Canarias tendrán que esperar hasta el miércoles 16 de septiembre. Ese día podrán reservar las personas acreditadas como preferentes, mientras que los usuarios no preferentes podrán hacerlo desde el jueves 17. El incendio declarado ayer a las 12:43 horas en Cazadores, Telde, movilizó a cinco medios aéreos y alrededor de 50 efectivos, mientras el fuego ha afectado unas tres hectáreas. La rápida intervención ha permitido contener su avance, aunque preocupa la evolución del viento y las altas temperaturas. Hay tres viviendas desalojadas, permanecen cortadas las carreteras GC-134 y GC-130 y se mantiene vigilancia sobre Cazadores y La Solana. Rescatan a unas 160 personas de una neumática y una patera en aguas cercanas a Lanzarote. Salvamento Marítimo movilizó en su ayuda, en un primer momento, a un barco mercante, mientras navegaban hacia esa zona dos salvamares con base en Lanzarote, la Al Nair y la Ácrux.

When Binghamton University student, Haley Anderson, stopped answering her friends' texts, they knew something was very wrong. A subsequent search revealed Haley was dead in a mutual friend's apartment. But this friend was nowhere to be found. An investigation would reveal a murder, a runaway to Nicaragua, and justice that would span two continents.    You can listen to Campus Killings everywhere you listen to podcasts.To find out more about Campus Killings be sure to check out the show's home page. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/morbidology--3527306/support.

En Haïti, cela fait une semaine que les cours ont repris. Mais beaucoup d'enfants ou d'adolescents ne sont toujours pas en classe. Il manque des salles, des établissements, des professeurs et la sécurité qui leur permettrait d'étudier sereinement. La situation préoccupe l'ancien ministre de l'Éducation, Nesmy Manigat désormais conseiller du Partenariat mondial pour l'éducation. Il I'a dit à notre correspondant Peterson Luxama. Honduras : l'avortement criminalisé avec le durcissement de la loi En Amérique centrale, l'avortement reste fortement restreint dans de nombreux pays. Au Salvador, au Nicaragua ou au Honduras, il est totalement interdit, y compris lorsque la grossesse met en danger la vie de la mère. Au Honduras, depuis le retour au pouvoir du Parti National, parti conservateur, en décembre dernier, la situation des droits reproductifs se durcit clairement. Ces derniers mois, deux femmes ont été arrêtées et placées en détention après des soupçons d'avortement. Une situation particulièrement dangereuse même préviennent les associations et organisations des droits des femmes. Dossier signé Marie Griffon.  À lire aussiLe Honduras renforce son interdiction de l'avortement   Les jeunes Mexicains fans du pulque Au Mexique, une boisson ancestrale signe son grand retour auprès des jeunes. Le pulque, cet alcool surnommé « la boisson des dieux » pour son usage cérémoniel à l'époque préhispanique, était tombé en disgrâce depuis l'époque coloniale. Mais aujourd'hui, une nouvelle génération redécouvre cette boisson traditionnelle et en fait un symbole de la culture mexicaine. Reportage de Marine Lebègue. À écouter aussiLa tequila, produit emblématique et symbole des producteurs mexicains sacrifiés   Le journal de la 1ère En Guadeloupe, les planteurs de canne à sucre, et surtout leur trésorerie, vont avoir droit à une petite bouffée d'oxygène.

National Hispanic and Latino Heritage Month is the period from September 15 to October 15, where we recognize and celebrate the contributions of Hispanic and Latino Americans in the United States, and celebrate the group's rich heritage and diverse cultures. This timeframe encompasses the independence days of several Latin American countries: Chile, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, and Nicaragua. It's also an ideal time for us to restate our commitment to providing safe and welcoming schools for all students, regardless of immigration or any other status. We honor Hispanic Heritage Month not just as a seasonal celebration, but as a core component of our daily academic philosophy through our Spanish-English Dual Language and Spanish Literacy Programs. Spanning from preschool through high school, the programs serve more than 3,700 students, immersing them in bilingual instruction and treating the Spanish language and Hispanic traditions as valuable assets that deepen sociocultural competence, cultural pride, and mutual respect. During Hispanic Heritage Month, these dual-language classrooms serve as vibrant hubs where local Latino/a/x families and educators collaborate to share authentic literature, art, and history, culminating in district-wide community events that center student voices and foster genuine belonging. Ultimately, the district elevates Hispanic heritage into a lifelong educational benefit, guiding students toward earning the Oregon State Seal of Biliteracy while instilling a deep appreciation for the rich diversity of our community.We also have a thriving LatinoParent Advisory Council - or PAC - at the district level, and several “paquitos” at the school level to help ensure our Spanish-speaking families can receive information and provide feedback in meaningful ways, and help our district and schools with events and programming that celebrates their cultures and customs. Our schools will be sharing relevant information with students connected to Hispanic and Latina/o/x Heritage over the course of the next several weeks. And families are invited to two upcoming events: Centro Cultural's Binational Health Fair on Saturday, October 3, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Century High School; and HSD's Hispanic Heritage Celebration on Wednesday, October 7, from 5:30 to 7 p.m. at Quatama Elementary School. More details to come. Our featured students are recent grads from Glencoe High School. At HSD, we pride ourselves on our Career and College Pathway program that provides students with real-world skills to prepare them for life after high school. Glencoe High School's Construction teacher, Todd Patterson, recently shared this success story: ten of his students who just graduated in June were hired by Ultra Clean Technologies - a local supplier to semiconductor companies - as skilled workers. After talking to a UCT employee last spring and learning they were about to ramp up production, Todd suggested speaking to his seniors, which they did. Many students expressed interest and interviewed within weeks of graduation. “Now they are getting paid well and building some really cool products!” Todd shared. “I think what they took away from my class were employability skills like showing up on time, working hard, and having a good attitude. Also, they were all comfortable using hand tools and power tools, and were skilled with basic measuring practice.” Congratulations and way to go, Glencoe Alums!

Introducing Campus Killings Season 5 premiere; Episode 79 The case of Haley Anderson When Binghamton University student, Haley Anderson, stopped answering her friends' texts, they knew something was very wrong. A subsequent search revealed Haley was dead in a mutual friend's apartment. But this friend was nowhere to be found. An investigation would reveal a murder, a runaway to Nicaragua, and justice that would span two continents.    You can listen to Campus Killings everywhere you listen to podcasts. To find out more about Campus Killings be sure to check out the show's home page.   

Introducing Campus Killings Season 5 premiere; Episode 79 The case of Haley Anderson When Binghamton University student, Haley Anderson, stopped answering her friends' texts, they knew something was very wrong. A subsequent search revealed Haley was dead in a mutual friend's apartment. But this friend was nowhere to be found. An investigation would reveal a murder, a runaway to Nicaragua, and justice that would span two continents.    You can listen to Campus Killings everywhere you listen to podcasts. To find out more about Campus Killings be sure to check out the show's home page.   

Introducing Campus Killings Season 5 premiere; Episode 79 The case of Haley Anderson When Binghamton University student, Haley Anderson, stopped answering her friends' texts, they knew something was very wrong. A subsequent search revealed Haley was dead in a mutual friend's apartment. But this friend was nowhere to be found. An investigation would reveal a murder, a runaway to Nicaragua, and justice that would span two continents.    You can listen to Campus Killings everywhere you listen to podcasts. To find out more about Campus Killings be sure to check out the show's home page.   

Episode 79 Haley Anderson When Binghamton University student, Haley Anderson, stopped answering her friends' texts, they knew something was very wrong. A subsequent search revealed Haley was dead in a mutual friend's apartment. But this friend was nowhere to be found. An investigation would reveal a murder, a runaway to Nicaragua, and justice that would span two continents.  To listen to every episode of Campus Killings ad-free and get other benefits, simply  visit our channel page on Apple Podcasts to get started with an AbJack Insider subscription.  Follow Campus Killings on Social Media via the following: Facebook - Instagram - Threads - X Formerly Twitter - BlueSky - Tik Tok -  Twitch - Youtube Or find ALL of our social media platforms with one link: https://linktr.ee/campuskillings   Campus Killings is hosted by Dr. Meghan Sacks and Dr. Amy Shlosberg. Research and Writing by Abagail Belcastro Produced by Mike Morford of AbJack Entertainment ©2026 AbJack Entertainment -All rights reserved. This content is the sole property of AbJack Entertainment. Any unauthorized re-selling, re-purposing, or re-distribution, is strictly prohibited, and will be subject to legal action.   

What is it really like living in remote Indonesia and wave pool surfing in China? Longtime Surf With Amigas Surf Coach Megan Halavais catches up with Holly Beck to share the raw reality of expat life, travel, surf, and relationships.In this episode of Second Breakfast, Holly and Megan dive into: • The beauty and challenges of living in remote Indonesia • Wave pool surfing in Hainan, China• Navigating travel, relationships, and life on the road • Meeting your soulmate in your late 30's• How years of surf coaching shaped Megan's perspective in and out of the lineup Connect with Megan on Instagram: @panocha_de_arenaLearn more about Surf With Amigas surf coaching and yoga retreats for women in Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Mexico, Peru, Morocco, and Indonesia: http://surfwithamigas.com

Gisele Cabellero, marketing manager for Rancho Santana, talks with James Shillinglaw of Insider Travel Report at last month's Virtuoso Travel Week in Las Vegas about her exotic property on Nicaragua's Pacific Coast. Located in Tola, about two hours from Managua, the property spans more than 2,700 acres along two miles of shoreline with five distinct beaches. Accommodations range from a 17-room boutique hotel to two-bedroom garden casitas, three-bedroom beachfront condos, and more than 28 private homes and villas of varying sizes. There are three restaurants plus a breakfast café doing farm-to-table meals, multiple pools including beachfront infinity pools, a surf shop with boards and coaches, plus a jungle spa. For more information, visit www.ranchosantana.com.  All our Insider Travel Report video interviews are archived and available on our Youtube channel  (youtube.com/insidertravelreport), and as podcasts with the same title on: Spotify, Pandora, Stitcher, PlayerFM, Listen Notes, Podchaser, TuneIn + Alexa, Podbean,  iHeartRadio,  Google, Amazon Music/Audible, Deezer, Podcast Addict, and iTunes Apple Podcasts, which supports Overcast, Pocket Cast, Castro and Castbox. 

1.  Jorge Raschke: el socio listo de Daniel Ortega en Nicaragua y el PNP enPuerto Rico2.  Rivera Schatz anticipa poco respaldo a propuesta de expropiar terrenosde acueductos comunitarios3.  El gobierno vuelve a botar dinero -$400,000- con el cuento de sembrarnubes en la zona metro y la precipitación cae en el oeste. 4.  Exigen a Josué Colón renunciar al privilegio abogado-cliente paradisipar dudas sobre el contrato de energía5.  Teniente de la Marítima de Arecibo demanda al alcalde de Camuy, alSecretario del DRNA, al jefe de Vigilantes y otros empleados por discrimen. Lorepresenta la Lcda. Mariana Nogales.6.  Siete meses después de reclamos por el riesgo de cierre que enfrentanlos albergues, gobierno responde con fondos temporeros a la crisis de losalbergues mientras impulsa alianzas público-privadas7.  Gobernadora asegura controversias de Miss Universe no afectarán certamenen Puerto Rico8.  Cuba, México e Islandia responden a mapa publicado por Trump9.  Terror: La policía de Guinea Ecuatorial apunta con armas a migrantesdeportados por Trump, según testigos.10.            Marco Rubio anuncia laadhesión de Perú al Escudo de las Américas: ¿qué hay detrás del interés en elpaís?11.             Jamaica presenta una petición de reparacionesal rey Carlos por la esclavitudEste es un programa independiente y sindicalizado. Esto significa que este programa se produce de manera independiente, pero se transmite de manera sindicalizada, o sea, por las emisoras y cadenas de radio que son más fuertes en sus respectivas regiones. También se transmite por sus plataformas digitales, aplicaciones para dispositivos móviles y redes sociales.  Estas emisoras de radio son:1.    Cadena WIAC - WYAC 930 AM Cabo Rojo- Mayagüez2.    Cadena WIAC – WISA 1390 AM Isabela3.    Cadena WIAC – WIAC 740 AM Área norte y zona metropolitana4.    X61 – 610 AM en Patillas5.    X61 – 94.3 FM Patillas y todo el sureste6.    WPAB 550 AM - Ponce7.    ECO 93.1 FM – En todo Puerto Rico8.    WLRP 1460 AM Radio Raíces La voz del Pepino en San Sebastián9.    WOQI 1020 AM – Radio Casa Pueblo desde Adjuntas 10. Mundo Latino PR.com, la emisora web de música tropical y comentario Una vez sale del aire, el programa queda grabado y está disponible en las plataformas de podcasts tales como Spotify, Soundcloud, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts y otras plataformas https://anchor.fm/sandrarodriguezcotto También nos pueden seguir en:REDES SOCIALES:  Facebook, X (Twitter), Instagram, Threads, LinkedIn, Tumblr, TikTok BLOG:  En Blanco y Negro con Sandra http://enblancoynegromedia.blogspot.com  SUSCRIPCIÓN: Substack, plataforma de suscripción de prensa independientehttps://substack.com/@sandrarodriguezcotto OTROS MEDIOS DIGITALES: ¡Ey! Boricua, Revista Seguros. Revista Crónicas y otrosEstas son algunas de las noticias que tenemos hoy En Blanco y Negro con Sandra. 

The apprenticeship model of academia requires more than just passive learning from students. How can applicants seeking entry to selective programs demonstrate that they have the ability and ambition to contribute to their desired fields? Amy and Mike invited professor Robert Malkin to consider what student research matters the most to colleges. What are five things you will learn in this episode? What are the different forms of research high school students have access to? Why are in-person lab experiences becoming increasingly valuable for high school students? What are the biggest mistakes students make when trying to find research or lab opportunities? How can students approach professors, universities, or labs even if they don't have prior experience? What makes a research experience truly meaningful from a college admissions perspective? MEET OUR GUEST Dr. Robert Malkin is a Professor of the Practice of Biomedical Engineering and Global Health, Emeritus at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina. He is also the Founder and Executive Director of the International Research Institute of North Carolina.  Previously, he was the Herbert Herff Professor of Biomedical Engineering at The University of Memphis in Memphis, Tennessee, and The University of Tennessee. Before moving to Tennessee, Dr. Malkin was a professor of Electrical Engineering at The City College of New York and a member of the graduate faculty at The City University of New York and a research associate at Columbia University. Dr. Malkin was the founder and Director of Engineering World Health and The Global Public Service Academies, organizations dedicated to improving healthcare in the developing world. Dr. Malkin received his MS and PhD in Electrical Engineering from Duke University in 1993. Prior to attending graduate school, Dr. Malkin taught English in Thailand, worked at EM Microelectronics in Switzerland designing integrated circuits, worked for Cordis Corporation designing pacemakers, and worked for Sarns Incorporated designing heart-lung machines. Dr. Malkin served as an expert advisor to the World Health Organization's Advisory Group on Healthcare Technology, Advisory Group on Innovative Technologies, and on the World Health Organization's subcommittee on medical equipment donations. Dr Malkin received the BS degree in Electrical Engineering from The University of Michigan in 1984. Dr. Malkin has received numerous awards, including service awards from The Republic of Nicaragua; EM Microelectronics and Cordis Corporation. He was named an Engineering Hero Award by IEEE and received an Outstanding Faculty Research Award from The College of Engineering, an Established Investigator Award from the American Heart Association, and an award for Innovation and Excellence in Undergraduate Education from The President of The City College of New York. Currently, he serves as the Founder and Executive Director of IRI, wherein they provide STEM remote research opportunities to students around the world with the goal of empowering young minds that can potentially advance human knowledge, especially through their peer-reviewed journal publications. Bob can be reached at robert.malkin@duke.edu. LINKS International Research Institute of North Carolina RELATED EPISODES HOW STUDENT RESEARCH IMPACTS COLLEGE ADMISSIONS CREATING A PASSION PROJECT CULTIVATING AND RECOGNIZING ACADEMIC CURIOSITY FINDING YOUR AUTHENTIC SELF IN THE PATH TO COLLEGE ABOUT THIS PODCAST Tests and the Rest is THE college admissions industry podcast. Explore all of our episodes on the show page. ABOUT YOUR HOSTS Mike Bergin is the president of Chariot Learning and founder of TestBright, Roots2Words, and College Eagle. Amy Seeley is the president of Seeley Test Pros and LEAP. If you're interested in working with Mike and/or Amy for test preparation, training, or consulting, get in touch through our contact page.  

La reinita caridorada (Setophaga chrysoparia), también conocida como chipe cachetes amarillos, es una especie en peligro de extinción y el único pájaro que anida exclusivamente en el centro de Texas. Los machos llegan en marzo a reclamar su territorio en los bosques de junípero y roble — ¡cuanto más viejos los árboles, mejor! A finales de julio, las reinitas emprenden el regreso a los bosques de montaña del sur de México y América Central. Lamentablemente, la deforestación ha destruido y fragmentado gran parte de su hábitat en el continente americano. El futuro de esta ave canora tan especial depende de que las personas se involucren para proteger nuestros bosques — desde Nicaragua hasta Texas. Este episodio llega a tí gracias al apoyo de American Bird Conservancy. ABC se dedica a conservar las aves silvestres y sus hábitats en todo el continente americano. Listen to this episode in English here. Más información y transcripción en BirdNote.org. ¿Quieres más BirdNote? Suscríbete a nuestro boletín semanal. Regístrese en BirdNote+ para escuchar música sin publicidad y otras ventajas. BirdNote es una organización sin fines de lucro. Su donación deducible de impuestos hace posible estos espectáculos. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

La enmienda constitucional, que está previsto que sea ratificada el 18 de enero de 2027 para entrar en vigor, busca afianzar aún más en el poder a los copresidentes nicaragüenses, Daniel Ortega y Rosario Murillo.Escucha SBS Spanish | Australia en español:Por radio o internet todos los días a la 1:00 pm (AEST) en https://www.sbs.com.au/language/spanish/esTambién nos encuentras en Apple Podcasts, Spotify y YouTubeExplora nuestra extensa colección de podcasts en https://www.sbs.com.au/audio/collection/podcasts-in-spanishSíguenos en Facebook e Instagram

Programa 8/9/26: Analizamos la propuesta del partido One Nation para acceder a tu superannuation antes y con mayor facilidad. También conversamos sobre el duelo. Y hablamos sobre la situación en Nicaragua y el creciente poder del oficialismo. Además, lo más destacado del mundo deportivo.Escucha SBS Spanish | Australia en español:Por radio o internet todos los días a la 1:00 pm (AEST) en https://www.sbs.com.au/language/spanish/esTambién nos encuentras en Apple Podcasts, Spotify y YouTubeExplora nuestra extensa colección de podcasts en https://www.sbs.com.au/audio/collection/podcasts-in-spanishSíguenos en Facebook e Instagram

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In this episode, Ray Cochrane breaks down Hot Chips 2026, the engineering conference where IBM, NVIDIA, Intel, AMD, Arm, and Fujitsu all showed how their next processors actually work. The headline disclosure is a mainframe core that runs Arm natively. Ray also covers Apple’s odd M6 Mac mini naming, London’s first autonomous Uber rides, Amazon’s purchase of the company behind DuckDB, GitHub’s HydraFusion, the best of IFA 2026, and new USDA research on farmed salmon. – Want to start a podcast? It’s easy to get started! Sign-up at Blubrry – Thinking of buying a Starlink? Use my link to support the show. Subscribe to the Newsletter. Email Ray if you want to get in touch! Like and Follow Geek News Central’s Facebook Page. Support my Show Sponsor: Best Godaddy Promo Codes Get 1Password Full Summary Cochrane opens the show with a personal update. He apologizes for the late rollout and the missed Monday episode, having spent the week fighting a cold. He’s also heading to Michigan to spend time with family and visit his father’s gravesite. He hopes to record a couple of shows from his dad’s old studio while he is there, including a special episode planned for Tuesday. He also points listeners to a fresh site redesign that trades the old techie look for something cleaner and friendlier. The featured segment starts from a wrap-up post on Arm’s newsroom. However, Cochrane broadens it to cover the whole conference rather than a single article. Hot Chips has run every August since 1989, and this year’s event was the 38th, held August 23rd through the 25th at Stanford’s Memorial Auditorium. What Hot Chips Actually Is Cochrane draws a line between Hot Chips and the big consumer trade shows. CES and Computex exist for product announcements and marketing. Meanwhile, Hot Chips is an IEEE engineering conference where chip architects present block diagrams and die photos for thirty minutes at a stretch. The audience matters as much as the content. Roughly five hundred people who design chips for a living fill the room, and they would spot a fudged number immediately. No written paper is required, just the talk and the slides. In-person tickets sold out this year, as did Stanford’s dorm housing. Cochrane says he plans to cover the conference annually going forward. IBM Built a Mainframe Core That Speaks Arm The disclosure that stopped Cochrane cold came from IBM. Its next processor for IBM Z and LinuxONE runs two completely different instruction sets natively, on every one of its eleven cores. Those are z/Architecture, IBM’s own mainframe language, and AArch64, which is 64-bit Arm. Crucially, this is not emulation. Nor is it Arm cores glued onto the die beside the mainframe cores. IBM built 2,792 Arm instructions directly into the hardware, which it says is more than double the mainframe instruction count. Each core carries two separate decoders while sharing the caches, branch predictor and register files downstream. It switches between the two in nanoseconds. IBM even added dedicated hardware to flip byte order, because Arm and the mainframe store numbers in opposite directions. The payoff is Arm SystemReady compliance, meaning off-the-shelf Arm Linux runs on a mainframe unmodified. Patrick Kennedy of ServeTheHome, who was in the room, wrote: “I am sitting here still in awe of what IBM is doing here; this is not Z plus Arm cores, this is Z and Arm in one core.” Cochrane flags one precision point that is easy to get backward. IBM did not license Arm’s core designs and drop them in. Instead, it took its own mainframe core and taught it AArch64 under an architecture license, which is considerably harder engineering. The specifications are striking. The chip uses a 2nm process, with eleven cores running above 5.7GHz sustained and no turbo mode at all. Each core gets 36MB of L2 cache, backed by a 3.5GB virtual L4 pool. Furthermore, the reliability target is eight nines, which works out to roughly three tenths of one second of unplanned downtime per year. IBM gave it no name and no ship date, though the press expects “Telum III” around 2028. Arm, Fujitsu and NVIDIA Show Their Hands Arm itself had plenty to discuss, starting with an unfortunate name. Its first chip in thirty-five years is called the AGI CPU, which is a product name rather than any claim about artificial general intelligence. For three and a half decades, Arm designed processor blueprints and licensed them out, collecting royalties without competing. That era is now over. The AGI CPU is Arm’s own silicon, co-designed with lead customer Meta, running up to 136 cores on TSMC’s 3nm process at 300 watts. Arm’s CEO says the company has more than $2 billion in customer demand across the next two fiscal years. Fujitsu brought the detail Cochrane called the coolest of the conference. Its MONAKA chip packs 144 Arm-based cores, but the trick is the cache. Rather than sitting alongside the cores and eating die area, the entire last-level cache lives on a separate 5nm die with the 2nm compute die stacked directly on top. It ships in 2027 in 350-watt and 500-watt versions. NVIDIA had more stage time than anyone, with six sessions. Its new Vera CPU carries 88 cores of NVIDIA’s own Olympus design, which marks a change: the previous Grace CPU used Arm’s off-the-shelf cores. Consequently, Arm’s win here is the instruction set, not the blueprint. The memory disclosure drew the most attention, with a fully loaded system reaching 1.5TB at 1.2TB/s while the whole memory subsystem draws just 30 to 40 watts. The Caveat on NVIDIA’s Benchmark Slides Cochrane pushes back on how NVIDIA presented its numbers. On the standard SPEC integer benchmark, Vera scored 925 against AMD’s 128-core EPYC score of 898, about three percent ahead. However, the slide NVIDIA showed normalizes that same result per physical core, which makes a three percent gap look enormous. NVIDIA defends the choice, arguing that per-core throughput matters when thousands of AI agents run at once. Cochrane grants that it is a fair argument to make. Even so, his verdict is blunt: it is a different number from the headline one, and presenting it that way is not the best look. Sponsor: GoDaddy Economy hosting $6.99/month, WordPress hosting $12.99/month, domains $11.99. Website builder trial available. Use codes at geeknewscentral.com/godaddy to support the show. Apple’s Newest Chip Landed in Its Cheapest Mac Last week’s episode covered the Mac Studio half of Apple’s August announcement. Tonight Cochrane takes the other half, the new Mac mini, and finds the numbering genuinely strange. The $899 base Mac mini gets the M6, which is Apple’s first 2nm chip and the newest process the company has shipped. It brings twelve CPU cores, twelve GPU cores, and 170GB/s of memory bandwidth. Apple also introduced a third CPU core class called super cores. So Apple’s most advanced chip sits in its cheapest desktop, while the M5 Pro, M5 Max and M5 Ultra above it all carry a lower number. It gets stranger. The M6 mini has Thunderbolt 4 while the pricier M5 Pro mini has Thunderbolt 5, and the memory ceiling runs backward too. Apple explains none of it across three announcement pages. Reading between the lines, Cochrane figures the M6 is the entry point of a new generation that shipped ahead of its larger siblings. London’s Robotaxis Started Carrying Passengers Arm’s monthly roundup covers everything outside the data center, and Wayve stood out. Transport for London granted the British self-driving company private hire vehicle licenses on August 5th, the same category a minicab needs. Then on September 3rd the service launched with Uber, marking the first autonomous rides ever offered to UK passengers. A small fleet of Ford Mustang Mach-Es covers anywhere in London except the airports, with a TfL-licensed safety driver still aboard. Over 140,000 Londoners signed up. The compute runs on NVIDIA’s Arm-based automotive platform, which is why Arm claims the win. Cochrane notes the pattern: once you set a standard nobody can move off, these wins keep arriving. Two more items round it out, both about squeezing AI onto phones. Google’s Pixel 11 shipped in August with the Tensor G6, and Google claims on-device AI runs up to 3.5x faster using 3.5x less energy. Those are Google’s own unbenchmarked figures. Separately, Graphcore’s research team worked with Arm to run an 11-billion-parameter vision model on phone-class processors by squeezing each parameter to 2.7 bits, taking the model from roughly 22GB down to 3.7GB. Intel Is Pitching AI Infrastructure From a Long Way Back Intel’s newsroom post previews the AI Infra Summit, running September 15th through 17th in Santa Clara. CEO Lip-Bu Tan takes a fireside chat on Tuesday morning, with three Intel sessions across the show. Cochrane unpacks two terms first. Physical AI means AI that acts in the real world through sensors and motors rather than living on a screen, and Intel takes it seriously enough to have renamed its PC division the Client Computing and Physical AI Group in May. Disaggregated inference splits the two phases of running a model: reading your prompt is compute-hungry, while writing the answer back is memory-hungry. The context is where this gets interesting. Intel’s revenue rose 25 percent last quarter, its fastest growth since 2011. Nevertheless, in AI accelerators the company barely registers next to NVIDIA. Gaudi has effectively been abandoned, to the point that Intel stopped maintaining its open-source driver, and AMD passed Intel in data center revenue last quarter. Tellingly, when Intel demoed disaggregated inference at Computex, NVIDIA GPUs handled one phase and SambaNova chips the other while Intel supplied the coordinating CPU. Crescent Island, Intel’s actual inference chip, does not sample until later this year, and Intel declined to publish its memory bandwidth. Amazon Bought the Company Behind DuckDB On August 26th, Amazon signed a deal to acquire DuckLabs, the Amsterdam company behind DuckDB. Cochrane spends time explaining what DuckDB is, since listeners outside the data world may never have encountered it. The problem it solves is familiar. Querying a large pile of data files traditionally meant either running a database server or spinning up a data warehouse with a cluster, a bill, and a loading pipeline. Both are heavy machinery for a question you wanted answered in ten seconds. DuckDB instead ships as a library rather than a server. You add it to your program like any other package, point it at your files, and write ordinary SQL directly against them. The data never moves. The usual comparison is SQLite, which is embedded in nearly every phone and browser on earth. Where SQLite excels at looking up one record, DuckDB rebuilds that embedded idea for chewing through millions of rows. It now sees roughly 62 million monthly downloads on Python’s package index alone, up from about 25 million last October. AWS says it is buying the company, not the project. DuckDB stays free and open source under the MIT license, held by a Dutch nonprofit foundation, and the founders join AWS while continuing to run technical direction from Amsterdam. Andy Warfield, a VP and distinguished engineer at AWS, described DuckDB as “the glibc of structured data: a lean, unglamorous, ubiquitous dependency that a great deal of software links against and almost nobody has to think about.” Cochrane sits with what that ownership means. He reaches for an analogy: imagine Daniel Stenberg selling curl. He doubts it would ever happen, but the concept alone is startling given how much infrastructure depends on it. His read is that AWS is betting DuckDB becomes as foundational as curl and SQLite already are. GitHub Has One AI Model Grade Another One’s Homework GitHub shipped Project HydraFusion into Copilot as a research preview. Instead of routing your request to a single model, it picks one of three approaches per request. Sometimes one model simply answers. Alternatively, a cheaper model drafts, and a quality gate decides whether to escalate. The interesting one is Critique. One model writes the code, a separate model from a different family reviews it read-only, and the original gets one pass to revise. Despite the name, nothing is fused here. There is no voting and no merging, just one model at a time with a gate deciding whether to spend more. GitHub explained the reasoning in an earlier post: “a model reviewing its own work is still bounded by its own training biases: the same training data and techniques, the same blind spots.” Research supports it. A team at NeurIPS in 2024 showed that models recognize their own writing and score it higher than human graders do. GitHub’s earlier number had a Claude Sonnet and GPT critic pairing closing about three-quarters of the gap between Sonnet and the larger Opus model. This mirrors a workflow Cochrane uses constantly and has described on a previous episode. He runs a cross-check review with a second model from a different company, and it routinely surfaces issues the first model missed. He explains that different training data, different engineers, and different reinforcement approaches build different internal biases about what counts as correct. Looking ahead, he expects more of these “Frankenstein patterns” where models from different training families work together. The Best of IFA 2026, and What You Can Actually Buy IFA opened to the public in Berlin for its 102nd year, with about 1,900 brands. Cochrane splits The Verge’s roundup in two, since much of what generates headlines at these shows never ships. Starting with real products, iRobot’s flagship Roomba Max 875 Combo runs $1,199 and ships in about two weeks. Its SealForce feature drops a hidden skirt from the chassis when it detects carpet, sealing against the fibers so suction concentrates instead of leaking out the sides. That reaches 35,000 pascals, iRobot’s strongest yet. A step-down model at $899 carries the same trick, though Cochrane balks at both prices. Anker’s Soundcore Sleep 4 Pro earbuds arrive in November at $349.99. The charging case carries its own round touchscreen, so you pick soundscapes, set alarms, and read sleep stats without your phone. Optical sensors read heart rate and variability from the ear canal, which beats the wrist for accuracy, and the case masks a snoring partner. Cochrane remains unconvinced about sleeping with earbuds in. Philips also has smart rope lights, the Hue Liane 360, on sale now. They glow evenly around the tube rather than showing individual LEDs. They also run $400 for three meters, which works out to about $130 per meter of rope light. As for concepts nobody can buy, iRobot showed a robot vacuum that carries a smaller robot vacuum on its back in a garage and lowers it to deploy. Lenovo brought a 14-inch laptop whose screen rolls out to 17 inches at the press of a button, which reviewers call the first rollable that feels close to shippable. Tecno showed a phone with essentially no border around the screen, and Acer had a Windows gaming handheld that swivels its screen up over a keyboard. Two themes ran through the show. Humanoid robots were the loudest thing on the floor, and IFA’s own CEO framed the event as being about robots that work rather than robots that demo. Meanwhile, AI stopped being its own product category and became an ingredient, showing up in refrigerators, treadmills, dishwashers, and motorized TV mounts. Farmed Salmon Isn’t the Omega-3 Machine It Used to Be USDA scientists measured farmed salmon and found considerably less of the good fat than the government’s own database claims. EPA and DHA are two fatty acids you get almost entirely from fish. Your body can build them from the plant version, but only in tiny amounts, so the NIH’s position is that eating them is the only practical way to raise your levels. Those fatty acids are structural pieces of every cell, with DHA concentrating in the brain and retina. That is why the federal dietary guidelines, issued jointly by USDA and Health and Human Services, recommend at least eight ounces of fish a week and steer you toward salmon. That amount is calibrated to deliver about 250 milligrams a day. Published in Frontiers in Nutrition last month, the study found EPA and DHA in farmed Atlantic salmon came in 54.7 percent lower than USDA’s own reference values, last updated in 2018. A three-ounce serving fell from roughly 1,670 milligrams to about 756. Consequently, two servings a week now fall about 14 percent short of the target. Plant-derived fats meanwhile rose two to three times over. The likely cause is feed. Salmon are carnivores, and farms once fed them oily little fish. There was never going to be enough of those as the industry scaled, so crops filled the gap: soy, canola, sunflower and linseed. Importantly, the study does not claim to have proven this and calls the feed shift a plausible explanation. Independent corroboration lends it credibility. Researchers at Stirling measured a similar halving in Scottish salmon between 2006 and 2015, and Norway’s marine institute saw it across thousands of samples. There is a land dimension too. Roughly half the world’s soy grows in South America, where rainforest gets cleared for feed. Matthew Hayek, who studies the environmental cost of protein at NYU, told Inside Climate News that “soy is a major, important protein and oil ingredient in fish farming.” Adding up two decades of soy across all fish farming, he puts the extra forest clearing at around the area of Nicaragua or Bangladesh. That figure covers all fish farming rather than salmon alone, and Hayek notes it is hard to attribute soy use to any single species. Cochrane closes with two caveats. First, the study measured only eight fish, bought around Maryland, DC and Virginia over six weeks in 2023, and nearly all sourced from Chile. That is not a national survey, and the authors say plainly the sample was not large enough to change government advice. Rather, it flags that a federal database value needs rechecking, which is what the paper set out to do. Second, on whether you should care, farmed salmon still beats beef, chicken and eggs by a mile, since those carry essentially zero EPA and DHA. What it loses is its crown among fatty fish, dropping to mid-pack behind herring, sardines and mackerel and roughly level with trout. The broader health case is also softer than the 2000s suggested. A review of 86 trials covering 162,000 people found supplements barely moved heart attacks or deaths, so eating fish and swallowing fish oil are not the same claim. No producer has responded to the findings, and USDA, whose own scientists ran the study, declined an interview and did not answer emailed questions. Cochrane wraps up with housekeeping and a note that he will be back on Labor Day. The post The Mainframe Learned to Speak Arm #1875 appeared first on Geek News Central.

CAPTION: 1910 PLAZA BOLIVAR DE CARACASGeopolitics and Industry in a Changing Latin America 9-2-2026This transcript features a dialogue between John Batchelor and Professor Evan Ellis regarding the shifting political and economic landscape of Latin America. The conversation primarily focuses on Peru's internal struggles, highlighting how systemic corruption, illegal mining, and significant Chinese investment in infrastructure challenge the nation's stability. Moving through the region, they analyze Nicaragua's constitutional reforms that tighten the Ortega regime's grip on power and examine a controversial multi-billion dollar oil deal in Venezuela. The participants also address the dire humanitarian conditions in Cuba and the rising homicide rates in Costa Rica driven by drug trafficking. Ultimately, the source provides a comprehensive overview of how foreign influence and organized crime impact governance across the Western Hemisphere.

Send us Fan MailWhat if heaven isn't somewhere far away—but a dimension of reality surrounding us right now?To close out the Summer Series, Tim Stewart welcomes back Brian Zahnd for a fascinating conversation about heaven, pilgrimage, wonder, the false self, and his new book, Unseen Existences: Of Heaven, Earth, and the Divine Mystery in All Things.Brian explains why heaven has become an embarrassment in serious theological circles, lumped in with escapist "fly away" thinking, sentimental clichés about departed loved ones on clouds, and sensationalized "I went to heaven and back" books. His pushback: heaven isn't a distant location somewhere past the clouds, but another dimension of reality, "the heavens," that surrounds us right now. Tim and Brian also talk through where Brian gently disagrees with N.T. Wright's caution around Platonic thought, recruiting C.S. Lewis to make his case.The conversation moves into life as pilgrimage. Brian, who has walked the 500-mile Camino de Santiago four times, describes what a spiritual journey teaches that a plane ticket to the same destination never could, and how doubt, wonder, and even losing old certainties along the way can be part of authentic faith rather than a threat to it. He shares one of the sharper lines from the book: "Christianity without transcendence degenerates into politics," and what a "holy ambivalence" toward political partisanship might look like instead.Tim and Brian also dig into one of the book's most striking chapters, "Depart From Me," reconciling Jesus's gentle response to Peter's confession of sin with his far more sobering words at the judgment, "I never knew you." Brian explains why he believes that verdict falls on the false self we try to become, not the person God actually made us to be. Along the way, Brian tells the story behind "The Reverend," a haunting short story cut from the final manuscript about a Puritan pastor who blessed a massacre, and what it imagines happening when that pastor stands before Christ.In This EpisodeWhy heaven has "gone missing" from serious theological conversation, and the three unhelpful ways people talk about it insteadWhy Brian says heaven isn't a distant place but "a different dimension" that is all around us right nowWhere Brian pushes back on N.T. Wright's caution toward Platonic thought, with help from C.S. LewisWhy Brian argues that "Christianity without transcendence degenerates into politics"What walking the Camino de Santiago four times taught Brian about pilgrimage, friendship, and spiritual transformationWhy losing our sense of wonder isn't inevitable, and a simple daily discipline for reclaiming itHow to hold together Jesus's compassion toward Peter and his sobering words, "I never knew you," at the judgmentThe story behind "The Reverend," the short story cut from the book, and its message about mercy at the final judgmentThis wraps thirteen weeks of Summer Series conversations exploring who God really is. If any of these episodes have challenged or encouraged you, follow or subscribe to the Impact Nations Podcast, and share your favorite conversation with someone who'd value it too.Featured ResourcesUnseen Existences by Brian Zahnd (available now from InterVarsity Press): IVP: https://www.ivpress.com/unseen-existences Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Unseen-Existences-Heaven-Divine-Mystery/dp/1514005646“The Reverend” (the short story Brian mentions, plus its audio performance): https://brianzahnd.substack.com/p/audio-performance-of-the-reverendBrian Zahnd's website: https://brianzahnd.comBrian Zahnd on Substack: https://brianzahnd.substack.comWord of Life Church: https://wolc.comExplore Impact NationsWebsite: https://www.impactnations.comJourneys of Compassion (upcoming trips to Zimbabwe, the Philippines, and Nicaragua): https://impactnations.com/jocAll Impact Nations links: https://linktr.ee/impact.nationsYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@ImpactNationsFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/impactnationsministriesInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/impact.nationsLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/impact-nations-international-ministries-incTikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@impact_nationsGive: https://www.impactnations.com/donateHashtags#BrianZahnd #UnseenExistences #SummerSeries2026 #ChristianPodcast #ImpactNations #Heaven #Pilgrimage

Nicaragua avanza hacia una nueva reforma constitucional que amplía de seis a siete años el mandato presidencial y restringe la participación de sectores de la oposición en futuras elecciones. El Gobierno de Daniel Ortega y Rosario Murillo defiende estos cambios como parte de un modelo propio de democracia, mientras sus críticos alertan de una mayor concentración del poder y del cierre de los espacios para la alternancia política. ¿Está Nicaragua ante la consolidación de una dinastía Ortega? Lo analizamos.

Daniel Henao, President and CEO of Mineros, said the company expects to make a construction decision on its Porvenir project in Nicaragua in early 2027, with a roughly two-year build to first production. Henao was interviewed by Mining Stock Daily. Henao said Mineros is retaining physical gold and gold-backed receivables on its balance sheet as a long-term strategy rather than converting all production to cash.

River joins Eric and Kiley solo for the first time and shares the wild stories from his trip to Nicaragua. From experiencing life in a third-world country to adventures Eric and Kiley can barely believe, River has them fascinated and laughing. A fun father-son conversation and a must-listen!

World news in 7 minutes. Thursday 3rd September 2026.Today: US-Iran strikes. Nicaragua opposition. Honduras Hernandez charges. Egypt bus crash. Nigeria Uber withdraws. Kenya editor returned. Nepal tunnels. Hong Kong Wong. Denmark Greenland conscripts. UK Starmer MP. US Tiger Woods. And teach children to smell. With Ben MallettBecome a SEND7 supporter!Ad-free listeningBonus quiz episode every FridayDaily transcripts (written by us, not AI!)Vocabulary listsWednesday worksheetsAsk questions in Ask Me Anything episodes10% of our profit goes to Effective Altruism charities.You can become a supporter at send7.supercast.comFor more information about SEND7 visit send7.org/contact or send an email to podcast@send7.org

À deux mois des élections de mi-mandat aux États-Unis, Anne Cantener reçoit Reed Brody, avocat spécialisé dans la défense des victimes de régimes autoritaires et militant pour la défense des droits humains. La campagne électorale est « très polarisée », explique-t-il. Donald Trump est de plus en plus impopulaire alors que l'inflation augmente et que la guerre en Iran n'est pas comprise. En mauvaise posture, le président américain « s'emploie à fragiliser le système électoral par des redécoupages favorables aux républicains », souligne Reed Brody. Pour obtenir la majorité à la Chambre des représentants et au Sénat, « les démocrates devront remporter 52 ou 53 % des voix », précise-t-il. Donald Trump remet également en cause le mécanisme même du vote. Chaque État organise ses élections ; ce n'est pas du ressort de Washington. « Assez intelligemment, le président a décidé de s'attaquer au vote par correspondance car les services postaux sont du ressort de l'exécutif. Il a pris un décret qui indique que La Poste n'enverra de bulletins qu'à ceux qui sont des citoyens américains aux yeux de l'administration Trump. Moi-même, je ne sais pas encore si je vais pouvoir voter par correspondance », raconte l'avocat. « Donald Trump est en train de jeter les bases pour contester les résultats s'ils lui sont défavorables. Depuis sa défaite de 2020, il affirme que la fraude électorale est un gros problème aux États-Unis alors qu'il n'y a aucune preuve que cela soit le cas. » Or ces élections de mi-mandat sont particulièrement importantes. « Pour beaucoup d'Américains, c'est la dernière chance de sauver notre démocratie, d'exercer un contrôle démocratique », affirme Reed Brody. « C'est l'une des dernières occasions de poser des limites démocratiques à un président qui balaie tous les contre-pouvoirs. » Nicaragua : le pouvoir verrouille encore plus les élections Désormais, l'opposition n'a plus le droit de participer aux scrutins. Hier, mardi 1er septembre, l'Assemblée nationale a approuvé une réforme constitutionnelle qui exclut des élections toute personne ayant, selon le gouvernement, participé à des « actes putschistes » ou de « trahison de la patrie » ou qui aurait sollicité une « intervention militaire » étrangère. Au Nicaragua, cela fait des années que les opposants au régime sont persécutés : emprisonnés ou contraints à l'exil. La nouvelle Constitution, adoptée l'an dernier, a interdit de participation les partis n'ayant pas « la même ligne idéologique que le Front sandiniste de libération nationale, le mouvement de Daniel Ortega et de la co-présidente du pays, sa femme, Rosario Murillo ». Aujourd'hui, ne subsistent que des petits partis mineurs en phase avec le pouvoir. Mais cette réforme n'est pas que symbolique. C'est un pas de plus dans le totalitarisme et un moyen pour le couple présidentiel de s'assurer que jamais le pouvoir n'échappera à leur famille. Un dossier signé Marine de La Moissonnière, avec les analyses d'Hélène Roux, chercheuse en sciences sociales, et Gilles Bataillon, sociologue et professeur à l'EHESS. Le journal de la 1ère En Martinique, la rentrée commence très mal pour les usagers des transports du nord et du centre. À écouter aussiLe journal d'Outre-mer La 1ère

Exiliado a sus más de 80 años por el comandante al que hace décadas dedicaba canciones, el cantautor dice tener energía suficiente como para esperar a que caiga la dictadura Ortega-Murillo y volver a su Nicaragua. Mientras eso sucede, él sigue cantando y componiendo, incluyendo una canción para El Salvador. Créditos: Producción y edición editorial: Carlos Dada y Gabriela Cáceres.Diseño de portada: Daniel Reyes.Sonido y música: Omnionn

Gli Stati Uniti tornano a bombardare l'Iran e Teheran risponde colpendo una base americana in Giordania: una nuova escalation che allarga il conflitto e trascina ancora più persone dentro una guerra dalle conseguenze imprevedibili.Nel notiziario di oggi raccontiamo anche Gaza e la Cisgiordania, dove continuano attacchi, demolizioni e violenze dei coloni; il Libano, colpito nonostante il cessate il fuoco; il disastro climatico in Nepal e la guerra dei droni che rende pericolosi perfino i cieli della Russia.E poi Hong Kong, con Joshua Wong nuovamente davanti alla giustizia della sicurezza nazionale, e il Nicaragua, dove il potere decide chi può presentarsi alle elezioni.Le notizie internazionali, le loro conseguenze sulle persone e qualche domanda che il potere preferirebbe non sentirsi rivolgere. Il notiziario di Radio Bullets, a cura di Barbara Schiavulli.

John Vorhaus is making his third appearance on StoryBeat.  John is best known for his classic comedy-writing book, The Comic Toolbox: How to be Funny Even if You're Not.At last count, he's taught and trained writers in 40 countries on six continents, and created TV shows of his own in Nicaragua, Romania and elsewhere. His writing credits include dozens of teleplays and screenplays, plus seven novels and more than two dozen works of non-fiction.John's latest books are The Book of Practice: How to do Better What You Want to do Well and The Comedy Writer's Companion. I've read all three of these books and can highly recommend them to anyone who is thinking about writing comedy or in the middle of doing so.  We'll chat more today about The Comedy Writers Companion, which I find to be highly helpful when working on funny stories and scripts.

Con Tito Alegría puntualizamos algunos detalles de la trayectoria musical de Harold, que quedó grabada en varios temas populares de grandes autores de la historia de la música hecha en Nicaragua.

And Another Thing With Dave, by Dave SmithThe West's grip on Iran is not diplomacy. It is an offer a country cannot refuse. This episode follows that gangster logic from the 1953 CIA-MI6 coup against Mohammad Mossadegh, through Iran-Contra and Mena, to the Business Plot — the Wall Street scheme to recruit America's most decorated Marine to stop the New Deal.Smedley Butler had two Medals of Honor and 33 years in the Corps. In War Is a Racket he said he was not a patriot for hire. He was “a high-class muscle man for Big Business… a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism.” He made Mexico safe for oil, Haiti safe for the banks, Nicaragua safe for Brown Brothers, Honduras safe for fruit companies, China safe for Standard Oil. Al Capone ran three city districts. Butler said the Marines ran three continents.Same playbook in Tehran. Mossadegh nationalized Iranian oil. Operation Ajax removed him. Decades later Iran-Contra sold weapons to the same “terrorist state,” funneled the profits to the Contras in violation of the Boland Amendment, and looked the other way while cocaine paid for the war. Gary Webb was right that the CIA protected Contra-linked traffickers. He was wrong that one ring explained the crack epidemic. Mena was real. The legend is bigger than the documented load.Then they tried it at home. In 1933–34, after Roosevelt left the gold standard and launched New Deal jobs, housing, and labor programs, financiers approached Butler to lead 500,000 veterans on Washington. The plan: a “Secretary of General Affairs” as dictator, FDR as figurehead. Money from Wall Street. Arms from Remington. Cover from the American Liberty League.Butler got the names and testified under oath. The McCormack-Dickstein Committee reported that the plot “was discussed, was planned, and might have been placed in execution when and if the financial backers deemed it expedient.”Nobody was prosecuted. The names were stripped from the public report. The press called it a hoax, then went silent.Same offer. Same refusal. Different map.In this episode:Why Iran policy still reads like a protection racket over oilOperation Ajax and the 1953 overthrow of a elected governmentIran-Contra: arms, hostages, Contras, and the cocaine pipelineWhat Gary Webb got right — and what he overstatedSmedley Butler's confession in War Is a RacketThe Business Plot against FDR, and why no one was chargedRelated episodes:The Clintons, Cocaine, Conspiracy, and Cover Up (Parts 1 and 2)Episode 474: Deep Down the Rabbit Hole of Drug SmugglingBonus: Iran, The History of US Aggression and LiesSeeking the truth. Exposing the lies.And Another Thing With Dave#AATWDListen, share, and review:Apple Podcasts — https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/and-another-thing-with-dave/id1498443271Spotify — https://open.spotify.com/show/1HLX3dqSQgeWZNXVZ1Z4ECAll links — https://linktr.ee/andanotherthingwithdave#AATWD #SmedleyButler #WarIsARacket #BusinessPlot #Iran1953 #OperationAjax #IranContra #CIA #Mossadegh #DarkAlliance #GaryWebb #MenaArkansas #NewDeal #FDR #AmericanHistory #DeepState #OilPolitics #MilitaryIndustrialComplex

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For sheer brazenness, the January 2026 kidnapping of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and his wife, First Lady Cilia Flores, ranks near the top in the long history of U.S. interventions in Latin America. They were taken to New York and jailed to await trial in June 2027. Trump's policies aside, U.S. sanctions on Venezuela were imposed under President Obama, who declared that country of 30 million people an “unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States.” From Cuba to Chile and from Nicaragua to Brazil, few countries in Latin America have escaped U.S. invasions, bombings, assassinations, coups, kidnappings, rigged elections, boycotts, blockades or sanctions. Oil-rich Venezuela has long been on Washington's hit list. Today, it has ceded its sovereignty to the U.S.

Marriage Exposed: Eric and Kiley come out swinging, but the laughs come even faster. Restaurant fart etiquette, some brutally honest criticism from their biggest fan.  Nicaragua, shark diving, and a 50K have Eric questioning his kids' sanity. A must-listen!

Daniel Ortega has told Nicaragua to forget about elections. Nobody who has watched his regime work should be surprised. What should alarm Americans more is what Ortega and his wife, co-president Rosario Murillo, have already done to the one institution in Nicaragua they cannot fully control: the Catholic Church. His crackdown on Catholics shows why religious freedom is not a gift from the state — and why Americans should never take it for granted. Andrea Picciotti-Bayer has more.

Adhesion GPCRs are the largest receptors in the human genome — and until recently, no one was certain they coupled to G proteins at all. Boucard is working to change that, one synapse at a time.Antony Boucard didn't plan to be a scientist. He was heading toward medical school — fresh from social work in Nicaragua, where he built wood-burning ovens for women's cooperatives, and years of service in the Canadian Navy Reserve — when a summer in a biochemistry lab changed his trajectory entirely. He turned down his medical school acceptance and never looked back.After graduate training at the Université de Sherbrooke, a postdoctoral fellowship in Thomas Südhof's Nobel Prize-winning lab (first at UT Southwestern in Dallas, then at Stanford) opened a new research direction: the molecular code governing synapse formation. A chance experiment — testing whether a cell adhesion molecule he was studying might bind to a GPCR — yielded a result that Südhof himself didn't believe at first. Both proteins, it turned out, were independently known to bind alpha-latrotoxin, the toxin from black widow spider venom. No one had thought to ask whether they interacted with each other. That question has defined Boucard's lab ever since.Now at UNAM in Mexico City — where no lab was working on adhesion GPCRs when he arrived — he is building a research program that connects these colossal, largely orphan receptors to synapse specificity, addiction, autism, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and cancer. The conversation covers the science, the serendipitous path behind it, and what it looks like to pioneer a research field in a place no one expected.Why adhesion GPCRs are structurally unlike any other GPCR family — sprawling N-terminal domains, autoproteolytic processing, up to 1,000 amino acids — and what made them so difficult to work with for so longHow alpha-latrotoxin from black widow spider venom became the unexpected clue connecting a cell adhesion molecule and a GPCR into the same intercellular complexWhat synapse formation reveals about adhesion GPCR function — and how addiction, autism, schizophrenia, and cancer all converge on the same receptor biologyWhy Boucard left Stanford and UT Southwestern to build a lab at UNAM, and what it means to recruit from scientific communities that larger institutions overlookThe assays the lab uses to probe adhesion GPCR biology: BRET, FRET, microscopy, flow cytometry, and custom protein engineering strategies to solubilize membrane-anchored ligandsThe dream tool he can't build yet — a nanoscale real-time camera navigating the cell surface — and why cryo-EM snapshots still miss the most important partDr. GPCR Ecosystem: https://www.ecosystem.drgpcr.com/Membership & Pricing: https://www.ecosystem.drgpcr.com/university-pricingWeekly News: https://www.ecosystem.drgpcr.com/gpcr-weekly-news

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You're listening to American Ground Radio with Louis R. Avallone and Stephen Parr. This is the full show for Aguust 21, 2026. We open with a pointed examination of antisemitism and New York City Mayor Zoran Mamdani, arguing that his rhetoric and his choices—including naming zero Jewish lawyers to the judicial screening board despite roughly half of New York's lawyers being Jewish—amount to complicity rather than leadership, and we tie the discussion back to the unique historical and religious bond between the Jewish people and Israel. From there we hit the top three things you need to know: the Supreme Court allowing the Trump administration to continue East Wing ballroom and bunker construction, Aisha Wahab winning the special election to finish Eric Swalwell's term and becoming the first Afghan immigrant elected to Congress, and a Chinese national convicted of stealing his landlord's identity to illegally vote in Massachusetts during the 2024 election. We poke fun at Chicago's approach to violent crime, ridiculing the city's rollout of thousands of signs declaring that violence "will not be tolerated" as a substitute for real enforcement. Our American Mamas segment welcomes Teri Netterville to weigh in on sorority rush videos on TikTok, debating which style of content—natural, fun montages versus overly sexualized choreography—actually reflects well on the sisterhoods posting them. We Dig Deep into Bernie Sanders campaigning for Democratic Socialist Senate candidate Angie Nixon in Florida, arguing that a state built by anti-communist refugees from Cuba, Venezuela, and Nicaragua is uniquely hostile territory for that message. We also cover Seattle Times sports reporter Matt Calkins' resignation after his editors spiked his column defending the separation of women's sports from transgender athletes, using it as a case study in media cowardice. We touch on an Amherst College professor's book arguing Asian American success is tied to white supremacy, then run our Fake News Friday quiz covering stories on Natalie Harp, Alina Habba, Conor Kennedy's placement on a Russian most-wanted list, and more. We close discussing New York City's planned government-run grocery stores undercutting private businesses by 30% while simultaneously funding grants to keep those same businesses afloat, and a Moment of Whoa about Middleton, Idaho naming its new elementary school "Freedom Elementary." Listen now wherever you get your podcasts, visit AmericanGroundRadio.com, and join the conversation at 866-AGR-1776. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

TABLE OF CONTENTS THE JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW 8-21-2026Anatol Lieven discusses the war in Ukraine, highlighting Ukrainian drone and missile attacks on Russian civilian infrastructure like Black Sea resorts and a commercial center. He carefully examines the psychological impact of these infrastructure strikes, noting that while they aim to weaken Russian morale, history shows such strategies rarely succeed. Lieven describes growing domestic resentment over rampant government corruption, which threatens Western aid and has already led to several high-profile dismissals. Finally, he analyzes global energy and food security threats caused by port and refinery strikes, alongside Prime Minister Andy Burnham's struggle to balance costly military commitments with domestic recovery. (1)Peter Berkowitz reflects on the 30th anniversary of Alan Sokal's famous academic hoax, which exposed the intellectual decline within higher education humanities. Berkowitz critiques contemporary humanities departments for their ideological hypocrisy: professors claim objective truth is subjective while simultaneously insisting that their own political claims are absolute truths. He references a report from Vanderbilt and Washington University confirming that significant contingents of humanities faculty in core disciplines subordinate scholarship to political activism. Finally, Berkowitz notes that this progressive ideological capture is concentrated among college-educated voters in elite university towns, warning that treating education as political indoctrination severely perverts liberal education. (2)Mary Anastasia O'Grady discusses the alarming rise of authoritarianism in Mexico under President Claudia Sheinbaum and her ruling party, Morena. O'Grady details how the ruling party has systematically consolidated power by taking control of independent electoral bodies, tribunals, regulatory commissions, and the judiciary through politicized popular elections. She warns that Morena's latest effort targets television and radio—the primary sources of information for most Mexican citizens—to effectively censor critical independent media. While O'Grady deeply laments the weak leadership of the official political opposition, she finds hope in the strong pushback and widespread mobilization of Mexican civil society against these state controls. (3)Jonathan Miltimore discusses the ongoing imprisonment of 79-year-old pro-democracy publisher Jimmy Lai in Hong Kong, calling it the world's most overlooked story. Miltimore expresses his deep disappointment that Donald Trumpfailed to raise Lai's case publicly during his Beijing trip, instead repeating CCP rhetoric that Lai caused "bedlam." He describes Lai's deteriorating health inside his tiny, unventilated six-foot cell and urges President Trump to pressure Xi Jinping during his upcoming U.S. visit. Miltimore notes that even certain CCP factions want Lai released to avoid international outrage if he dies in prison, emphasizing that Lai is fully prepared for potential martyrdom. (4)Veronique de Rugy critiques California Representative Ro Khanna's proposal for a "one-time" 5% wealth tax on billionaires. De Rugy explains that several different European countries largely abandoned wealth taxes because they are administratively difficult, generate little revenue, and cause severe economic distortions. Highlighting a debate between Khanna and Mark Cuban, she details how taxing paper wealth completely ignores true liquidity, forcing entrepreneurs to sell shares of private companies or borrow against volatile collateral. De Rugy warns that wealth taxes inevitably expand to target middle-class citizens, ultimately costing states far more in lost income taxes than they retrieve from the wealthy. (5)Rohan Naidu discusses the groundbreaking discovery of "black hole stars" at cosmic dawn using the James Webb Space Telescope. Naidu explains that these infant objects appear as mysterious "little red dots" but possess hybrid properties of both highly luminous black holes and stars. He explains how a young black hole surrounded by dense hydrogen gas absorbs blue and green light, creating a signature "Balmer break" resembling the star Vega. Naidu outlines future research, including finding atmospheric chemical fingerprints like water, and using the newly proposed Celestemission alongside ground telescopes to directly image swirling gas feeding these infant black holes. (6)James M. Scott traces the dramatic, complex final months of World War II in the Pacific. Scott details how Secretary of War Henry Stimson briefed Truman in depth on the secret atomic bomb, and praises General Leslie Groves' masterful management of the Manhattan Project's secret cities. He describes Japan's political division: Emperor Hirohito secretly sought peace while militarists prepared a fanatical defense of Kyushu to force better terms. Scott explains the intense debate over demanding unconditional surrender versus preserving the Japanese monarchy, concluding with the Trinitytest, Potsdam Conference, and Truman's hope that the bomb's shock value would force surrender. (7)Evan Ellis analyzes key regional political and security developments in Latin America. Ellis discusses EcuadorianPresident Daniel Noboa's visit to China to secure security, trade, and economic assistance, and explains how historical visa-free policies turned Ecuador into a major transit corridor for Chinese migrants entering the US. He details Bolivia's ongoing political instability and the dangerous scandals involving Evo Morales. Ellis also covers Chile's border enforcement efforts, Colombia's return to aggressive military operations against cartels following a major earthquake, and the stalled democratic transitions in Venezuela and Nicaragua, where regimes rely on brutal repression and illicit economies to hold power. (8)This fuller eight-file version supersedes the earlier seven-file draft — de Rugy now sits at (5) and everything falls in place without gaps. The Celeste mission appears again in segment 6; the source calls it "newly proposed," which explains why I couldn't verify it earlier, so I've let it stand.

Evan Ellis analyzes key regional political and security developments in Latin America. Ellis discusses EcuadorianPresident Daniel Noboa's visit to China to secure security, trade, and economic assistance, and explains how historical visa-free policies turned Ecuador into a major transit corridor for Chinese migrants entering the US. He details Bolivia's ongoing political instability and the dangerous scandals involving Evo Morales. Ellis also covers Chile's border enforcement efforts, Colombia's return to aggressive military operations against cartels following a major earthquake, and the stalled democratic transitions in Venezuela and Nicaragua, where regimes rely on brutal repression and illicit economies to hold power. (8)

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Father McTeigue examines the current conflict between Daniel Ortega, President of Nicaragua, and the Catholic Church. Although history may not repeat itself, similar patterns from the Cristero War are arising in this conflict. Is this a sign of a new bloodbath to come? Father takes a closer look. Watch on YouTube: Cristero War 2.0?

Colombia's former President Gustavo Petro formally accused the USA and Israel of meddling in his country's election to put in power new far-right leader Abelardo de la Espriella, a US citizen and Trump ally who worked as a lawyer for years in Miami, Florida, defending drug traffickers. Ben Norton explains. VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rBhz7_rlg0 Check out our related video on the Sandinista Revolution and Nicaragua's resistance against US imperialism: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIXMyFvMeMc Topics 0:00 US & Israeli meddling in Colombian election 2:34 US-backed coups in Latin America 4:23 Abelardo de la Espriella, US citizen 6:36 De la Espriella defended drug traffickers 8:19 US govt supports drug traffickers 11:17 De la Espriella's business interests 12:14 De la Espriella's botox scandals 13:40 Far-right paramilitaries in Colombia 15:42 Sociopathy 16:23 Colombia's new right-wing regime 16:52 Marco Rubio 17:27 US military alliance with Colombia 18:27 US-backed narco leader Álvaro Uribe 19:58 Marco Rubio's extremist ties 20:34 War on Drugs 2.0 22:13 Ecuador's narco-dictator Daniel Noboa 23:38 Operation Condor 2.0 25:27 Colonialist Donroe Doctrine 26:53 Gustavo Petro cut ties with Israel 28:48 Israel's new alliance with Colombia 29:53 Colombia: the Israel of Latin America 31:08 Israel occupies Syria's Golan Heights 32:50 Morocco occupies Western Sahara 33:23 Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic 36:00 Morocco supports Israel 36:53 US backs Morocco in Western Sahara 38:09 Colombia's relations with China 39:39 US Cold War Two against China 40:22 US puppet regimes in Latin America 41:15 US National Security Strategy 42:45 Neocolonialism 43:56 Anti-imperialist resistance 45:23 Outro

Aaron "Gorkin" Cormican, New Smyrna Beach's own aerial pioneer and two-time Quiksilver King of the Peak champion, joins John Brooks and Kevin Miller for this homegrown NSB chat. Known equally for his high-flying competitive career and for shaping boards under his own Gorkin Surfboards label, Cormican has spent decades as one of the Inlet's most recognizable and respected talents. In this conversation, he digs into how he found surfing and competition, kill or be killed attitude, his journey from competitor to shaper, and the local characters and culture that influenced his journey - a true homegrown story, straight from the source.  Now, Aaron lives and makes surfboards in Nicaragua.

Why do so many Spanish-speaking countries celebrate their independence in September? We explore the historical connections behind these celebrations, including how Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Costa Rica came to share September 15, and why Mexico and Chile commemorate the beginnings of their independence movements rather than the dates they officially became independent. We also share our personal experience celebrating Chilean Independence Day, discuss the traditions and foods that make this season special, and look at how these dates connect to Hispanic Heritage Month in the United States. By the end, you'll have a better understanding of the history behind the celebrations—and perhaps a new reason to experience one for yourself while traveling.Key Takeaways:Learn why Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Costa Rica share September 15 as an important independence date and how their shared history shaped the celebrations we know today.Discover why Mexico and Chile celebrate dates that mark the beginning of their independence movements, even though they became formally independent years later.Explore how independence celebrations bring together food, traditions, history, and local culture—and hear about our own experience celebrating Chilean Independence Day with locals.Relevant Links And Additional Resources:181 – Sobre Chile | About Chile056 – Cinco de Mayo034 – La Revolución Mexicana | The Mexican Revolution023 – La Independencia de México | Mexico's IndependenceLevel up your Spanish with our Podcast MembershipGet the full transcript of each episode so you don't miss a wordListen to an extended breakdown section in English going over the most important words and phrasesTest your comprehension with a multiple choice quizIf you enjoy Learn Spanish and Go, please consider subscribing, rating, and reviewing our podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, or Pandora. This helps us reach more listeners like you. ¡Hasta la próxima!✈️ Join La Escala, our online Spanish and Go community for Spanish learners who want more practice, structure, and connection. Annual plans include 2 months free.

When Ronald Reagan was president, America got involved in some deeply shady stuff, not the least of which was the Iran-Contra scandal – a convoluted operation that managed to combine an illegal covert war in Nicaragua with secretly selling arms to Iran. Learn all about it with Josh and Chuck in this classic episode.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.