Podcast appearances and mentions of pablo herrera

Estelar debut de Dani Olmo que sitúa al Barça líder en solitario. La mala noticia fue la rotura del ligamento cruzado anterior de la rodilla izquierda de Marc Bernal. Además, continúa la tercera jornada de liga con cuatro partidos más, hablamos de los encuentros de mañana y de los últimos movimientos del mercado, charlamos del Rayo Vallecano con Roberto Trashorras, repasamos la trayectoria de Pablo Herrera con él, comienzan los Juegos Paralímpicos, la victoria de Carlos Alcaraz en el US Open y la undécima etapa de la Vuelta Ciclista a España.

We shall continue to rejoice as we face hardships in life.

Welcome back to the Paris Pod! Travis Mewhirter breaks down the ninth-place rounds of the Olympic beach volleyball in Paris, looking at: Spain Day! Huge day for Tania Moreno and Daniela Alvarez, and Pablo Herrera and Adrian Gavira as both are now in the quarterfinals Hartbreak for Kristen Nuss and Taryn Kloth – and jubilation for Melissa Humana-Paredes and Brandie Wilkerson in a huge battle early Andy Benesh and Miles Partain doubling (and tripling, and quadrupling) down on jump-sets and options to another win Chase Budinger and Miles Evans bowing out in ninth And more! SHOOTS! *** Get 20 PERCENT off all Wilson products with our code, SANDCAST63. https://www.wilson.com/en-us/volleyball Want to get better at beach volleyball? Use our discount code, SANDCAST, and get 10 percent off all Better at Beach products!  We are FIRED UP to announce that we've signed on for another year with Athletic Greens! Get a FREE year's supply of Vitamin D by purchasing with that link.  We have a new book! Playbook of Champions: The habits, routines, and stories of Olympians, Champions, and world-class athletes. If you listen to the show – which, if you're reading this, then you are – then this is the perfect book for you, as it is a distillation of the best golden nuggets from our first five years of the podcast. Check it out on Amazon! We now have SANDCAST MERCHANDISE!! Rock the gear of your favorite podcast today! https://www.sandcastmerch.com/ If you want to receive our SANDCAST weekly newsletter, the Beach Volleyball Digest, which dishes all the biggest news in beach volleyball in one quick newsletter, head over to our website and subscribe! We'd love to have ya! https://www.sandcastvolleyball.com/ Check out our book, Volleyball for Milkshakes, written by SANDCAST hosts Tri Bourne and Travis Mewhirter: https://www.amazon.com/Volleyball-Milkshakes-Travis-Mewhirter/dp/B089781SHB  

La previa del GP de Mónaco y conocemos la historia del jugador de voley playa, Pablo Herrera.

Pablo Herrera inició el capítulo de hoy con una dualidad de versiones, comentamos el castigo de la ANFP a Colo-Colo y la actualidad de la selección chilena. Debutó cabeza de balón con su sección y nos trajo épicas peleas de copa libertadores de América. Sabores del mundo con Joacoelchecho dejó un momentazo de culto para la historia....

This week we discuss John 3:14-21 - Letting Go of Condemnation (vs. Affirmation). Evangelism is not about making people fear God or hell. It's about helping people fall in love with God, who loves us all.

This week we explore Matthew 10:40-42 and the topic of Letting Go of Indifference. Evangelism requires a welcoming mindset and concern about others, especially the stranger.

We explore God's promise as it is kept through Abraham's offspring as we read Romans 4: 13 - 25.

Jesus does great miracles among the family of those male disciples whom he knew. These were females - a sign that Jesus sought to reach out beyond the familiarity of patriarchy. After praying, he realized he needed to go outside his neighborhood.

This week we explored how Art/Creating Changes Us and it's inspiration, it's emotional outlet; and the ripple effect of art/it's expression and its impact! We shared Luke 9:28-36 and Transfiguration.

This week we explore Art as Resistance – Lifting up Justice Movements, we dive into Exodus 2:1-10 Art as Resistance – Lifting up Justice Movements | Exodus 1 | Micah 6:8 | Philippians 4:13 | John 14

This week we explore Genesis and creation texts; Psalm 139. The questions we discover will discuss what you do / wherever you do it is sacred “work”/how do we live into our story?/we have agency. We will also share what's our purpose / meaning making as those created in the image of God theological framework – you are created good/original blessing vs. original sin.

Episode 36 of the VITAL HOOPS Podcast is Part 2 of a 3 part series celebrating 50 Years of Hip Hop. On this episode, the legendary cuban Hip Hop producer Pablo Herrera opens up by discussing with Fernando the link between Emcees and Athletes. After that Pablo talks about his story growing up in Cuba and falling in love with Hip Hop as well as the early stages of Hip Hop on the island. Later Pablo and Fernando speak about the importance of Black August and the political consciousness. Pablo also mentions his experience with Black Star, dead prez and The Roots in Havana. The two finish by elaborating a little on the cuban revolution and racism in Cuba. Book Recommendations by Pablo Herrera: "Racial Politics in Post-Revolutionary Cuba" by Mark Q. Sawyer "Antiracism in Cuba - The Unfinished Revolution" by Devyn Spence Benson "Cuban Underground Hip Hop" by Tanya L. Saunders "Negro Soy Yo - Hip Hop and Raced Citizenship in Neoliberal Cuba" by Marc D. Perry Music produced by Pablo Herrera: https://soundcloud.app.goo.gl/kqycbRXoZLoPATMf8 https://soundcloud.app.goo.gl/5xnzhJah3L7RHyu56 https://soundcloud.app.goo.gl/s2JN73fR6Awx8Mct8 https://soundcloud.app.goo.gl/1KBaXLX5mpSCb4NE9 https://soundcloud.app.goo.gl/mc6RJZrVRJSCAwym7 340 MS videos: https://youtu.be/2b_QXTAl08g?si=SWm7C61LOcxqB36T https://youtu.be/kEuOPPG8R9o?si=aqt6-DiMy6WeUwXl https://youtu.be/MBkTp4oykkE?si=q11FRVEq0ZgUvFWT https://youtu.be/NEUcEHxnuxY?si=utNQ073yMP8zF2m3 More info on Pablo Herrera: https://www.utsc.utoronto.ca/acm/pablo-d-herrera-veitia VITAL HOOPS IG: VitalHoopsPodcast Facebook: Vital Hoops Twitter: VitalHoopsPod Email: vitalhoopspodcast@gmail.com https://www.vitalhoops.net also check out https://guerrillarepublik.org VITAL HOOPS is 4 THE KULTURE

Part 2 of a conversation with Pablo Herrera on Cuban hip hop, including a discussion of the relationship between rap cubano and repartero, or Cuban reggaeton.Songs played:Madre Tierra, Las KrudasTengo, Popy y La ModaEl Rap es Guerra, Los AldeanosSupport the showIf you like this podcast, please subscribe and give us a 5-star rating on Apple PodcastsFollow The Clave Chronicles on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook @clavechronicleshttps://theclavechronicles.buzzsprout.comIntro and outro music: "Bengo Latino," Jimmy Fontanez/Media Right Productions

We've got an amazing conversation with Pablo Herrera, an anthropologist and one of Cuba's most influential hip hop producers. Pablo speaks about how he got interested in hip hop and the ways Havana's scene of the 1990s sought to emulate American hip hop, especially east coast styles, before becoming more localized and grounded in Cuban culture. The Special Period, Cuba's deep economic crisis, was the backdrop for the emergence of Havana's hip hop scene, and we discuss its influence on Cuban rap lyrics, as well as the continuing racial inequality that the Cuban Revolution never successfully eradicated. Songs played:Primera Base, Igual que túAmenaza, Achabon cruzaoInstinto, Kirino con su tresOrishas, A lo cubanoHermanos de Causa, TengoPopy y la Moda, TengoUnfortunately it's very difficult to find translations of the lyrics of these songs online, but if you're interested in translations, send us a message and we may be able to send you some translated lyrics. @clavechronicles on Instagram/Twitter/FacebookSupport the showIf you like this podcast, please subscribe and give us a 5-star rating on Apple PodcastsFollow The Clave Chronicles on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook @clavechronicleshttps://theclavechronicles.buzzsprout.comIntro and outro music: "Bengo Latino," Jimmy Fontanez/Media Right Productions

In this sermon, Pastor Juan Pablo kicks off our new sermon series, "FIERCE: Bold Women of the Bible," by examining the story of the Hebrew midwives in the book of Exodus. 

In this sermon, Pastor Juan Pablo encourages us to consider our closer circles of friends and acquaintances as sites of engagement and witness for the gospel. Join us as we continue our sermon series "You're On Mute: Why It's Hard to Share Our Faith."

In this Easter sermon, Pastor Juan Pablo speaks about how looking to the past and remembering God's faithfulness can help us have hope for the future.

In this sermon, Pastor Juan Pablo kicks off our new sermon series, "You're On Mute: Why It's Hard to Share Our Faith." He frames the task of evangelism as an organic form of witness that flows from our gratitude.

In this sermon, Pastor Juan Pablo continues our sermon series "Jesus Said What!?" with a message about Jesus' betrayal by his disciples. 

In todays episode, I sit down with my pastor, Pablo Herrera. We chat about his RTS thesis on the church calendar: Marking Time: The Use of the Christian Calendar in the Reformed Tradition. If you have any questions or would love to learn more about Christ Presbyterian, send him a email! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/mementomorividae/support

En este video podcast con Pablo Herrera resolverlos 10 dudas frecuentes sobre la gestión y puesta en marcha de campañas en Google Ads para proyecto de comercio electrónico. Curso Google Ads en oferta: https://cutt.ly/CursoGadsOff Cómo crear anuncios potentes: https://youtu.be/SQSBFGAGB5Y Comunidad Google Ads en español: https://t.me/GadsEspanol

En la edición PM, hablamos con Arturo Curtze, analista senior de Alfredo Cruz y Cia, y con Pablo Herrera, presidente de la Cámara Chileno Canadiense.

En la edición PM, hablamos con Arturo Curtze, analista senior de Alfredo Cruz y Cia, y con Pablo Herrera, presidente de la Cámara Chileno Canadiense.

On our final Sunday before Holy Week - we consider the Mount of Olives.  It's a good reminder that we all need sacred spaces and places in our lives. We need places of solitude where we remember how God has fulfilled God's promises to us; special places where we go regularly to pray and meet with God; places of hope where we are reminded to trust God; and places of redemption where we remember how God has transformed even our hard experiences . urbanvillagechurch.org . . .   Sign up to receive our eNews and stay in the know! (link to sign up is at the bottom of our webpage). Follow us online, get involved, and support our bold, inclusive, and relevant ministries! 

Un elemento clave de las campañas de Google son las páginas de destino, es increíble que un muchos anunciantes, no invierten en crear una buena landing page o simplemente no le ven ninguna ventaja en usarlas, En este episodio con Pablo Herrera hablamos de landing page y de su importancia en las campañas de Google Ads. https://albeiroochoa.com/kit-herramientas-google-ads/ Grupo de Telegram >>> https://t.me/GadsEspanol

In the final service of our “Queering Faith” series, Pastor Juan Pablo invites us to ask “who is our family?” while weighing the realities of this world. Jesus asked this question, and in his response, we see a liberator who frees us from harmful ideas about God; a Jesus who invites us to be our full & authentic selves; and a Jesus who himself had to come out to his close friends & family, and eventually the whole world. Mark's gospel reveals a Jesus who is in solidarity with the LGBTQIA+ community. And so, YOU are our family. 

Pablo Herrera, educador e instructor canino se une a nosotros vía zoom, para hable de lo difícil que es trabajar con clientes que no saben lo que quieren o no tienen claro los motivos y objetivos de y para tener un perro. Lo complejo que es como profesional orientar a la gente para que comprenda el compromiso que significa un perro y cómo llevar a buen puerto una relación humano perro. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/xhk9/message

En el capítulo 51 de `Planeta Olímpico´ hablamos de Voley Playa. Pablo Herrera y Adrián Gavira forman la pareja española que, si nada raro ocurre, nos representará en los Juegos Olímpicos de Tokio. Y es que están situados en la novena posición del ranking olímpico (clasifican 15) a falta de 5 pruebas. Después de más de 12 años juntos, algo poco frecuente en el Voley playa mundial, disputarán su tercera cita olímpica como dúo. En las dos anteriores terminaron en 9ª posición, pero hay tanta igualdad en este deporte, que si hacen un buen torneo pueden aspirar a cualquier cosa.

En el capítulo 51 de `Planeta Olímpico´ hablamos de Voley Playa. Pablo Herrera y Adrián Gavira forman la pareja española que, si nada raro ocurre, nos representará en los Juegos Olímpicos de Tokio. Y es que están situados en la novena posición del ranking olímpico (clasifican 15) a falta de 5 pruebas. Después de más de 12 años juntos, algo poco frecuente en el Voley playa mundial, disputarán su tercera cita olímpica como dúo. En las dos anteriores terminaron en 9ª posición, pero hay tanta igualdad en este deporte, que si hacen un buen torneo pueden aspirar a cualquier cosa.

Many of us (beloved just as we are) still crave to be made new in some aspect of our life: a habit, character aspect, or circumstance that still hurts. We all hope for change. This Lent, we’re going to focus on how we can change through studying the transformational promises of Jesus, the science of personal change, and the spirituality of recovery.    This morning, Juan Pablo Herrera (Church Planting Resident) reflects on how one of the greatest gifts of the resurrection is *really* knowing that any one of us, and our circumstances, and our communities can be made new. We see a Jesus who accompanies and is accompanied. We see a vulnerable Christ who requires solidarity. We see a God who offers and receives grace. Please join us!!   CCLI # 3211711 / CCLI Streaming #20104183

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Conversamos con Felipe Figueroa, gerente de Renta Variable de Bice Inversiones Corredores de Bolsa, y con Pablo Herrera, presidente de la Cámara Chileno Canadiense de Comercio.

Conversamos con Felipe Figueroa, gerente de Renta Variable de Bice Inversiones Corredores de Bolsa, y con Pablo Herrera, presidente de la Cámara Chileno Canadiense de Comercio.

Juan Pablo Herrera is a second generation immigrant who was born and raised inChicago. A life-long community organizer he has championed around the issues of education, gentrification, and immigration.  As Acting City Director for DOOR Network, Juan Pablo invited young adults to see Chicago through the lens of those who God uses here to help those living in the margins. Currently he is earning a Masters in Public Ministry at Garrett Evangelical Theological Seminary and is the pastor of Cosmopolitan United Church in Melrose Park and is exploring the possibility of planting a bold, inclusive, and relevant ministry with outreach to the Latiné community.Urban Village Church Doing Church DifferentlySplintered Grace Podcast A conservative christian woman & a trans genderqueer drag queen have an anti-cancel culture convo.Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/bonnieviolet)

¡Hoy creamos un Soundtrack plagado de hits noventeros exclusivamente chilenos! Sonó Saiko, Jorge González, Los Ex, Christianes, La Pozze Latina y Tiro de Gracia, entre varios otros. Incluso tuvimos tiempo para los lentos, escuchando Amor, Amor (1992) de Pablo Herrera. Para terminar, toqué Maldito Amor (1999) de Supernova como #MomentoFOGATERO

En este episodio, conversamos con Angel Durán, mentor del FIRST Robotics Competition en el Colegio Carol Morgan, profesor de tecnología y Director del equipo TeamDRIFT. Conocerán también a Pablo Herrera , Ingeniero de Manufactura quien ha desarrollado relevantes proyectos científicos educativos y es sumamente experimentado en Automatización. Pablo ha implementado exitosamente planes de instrucción interdisciplinarios en diversas escuelas y actualmente dirige el laboratorio  de Robótica de la institución educativa para la cual labora.  Ángel y Pablo son instructores de tecnología el Colegio Carol Morgan, el cual desarrolla un programa innovador de STEM. Tuvimos la oportunidad de conocerlos  con profundidad, indagamos sobre su jornada pedagógica y su filosofía en educación STEM en República Dominicana.  Esperamos que disfruten este episodio cargado de muchas estrategias educacionales.Nos interesa recibir preguntas y comentarios de la audiencia.  Nuestro correo electronico es: info@stemeducationlifeline.com.

Desde la ciudad de Seattle en USA, Juan Goni nos comparte una entretenida conversación de Tecnología, Innovación y algo más, en cada programa conoceremos un poco más de nuestros invitados, como utilizan la tecnología, sus nuevos proyectos y algo más. los invitamos a seguirme en www.juangoni.tv No olviden de seguir y visitar a quienes nos están apoyando : www.karactercreativo.com www.elcanastoamarillo.com soltecsa.com Producción General - Mauricio Garcia-Huidobro - +56-9-8901-7795 - mghuidobro@juangoni.tv Locución jorge Aedo www.jorgeaedo.cl Animaciones Computacionales www.kuper.cl

Juan Pablo, UVC's Church Planting Resident, leads us this week in our continued series “God and Science” to reflect on how ancient faith communities heard and interpreted the Creation Story. Instead of a scientific account, ancient Israel heard the creation stories in Genesis as a theological declaration about the goodness of creation. God’s love of creation invites us to be co-creators of God’s goodness on earth and to share that goodness in bold and innovative ways.

Descarga la guia de Google Ads: https://cutt.ly/descargar-guia-google-ads Pide una asesoría gratuita de marketing y publicidad online https://cutt.ly/pedir-asesoria-gratuita No tienen con mas de 300 USD al mes. O menos ... Es verdad que es muy poco. ¿Sera posible obtener resultados con un presupuesto tan limitado? Eso depende de varios factores... Por ejemplo que producto se anuncia, cuantos productos se anuncian, en que zonas geográficas, etc. En el episodio de hoy con Pablo Herrera experto en Google y Google Partner Premier Hablaremos de como conseguir resultados con campañas con presupuestos muy limitados. No te la pierdas Suscribete: https://www.youtube.com/c/AlbeiroOchoaGutierrez?sub_confirmation=1 Agencia de Pablo Herrera: http://posicionamientobuscadores.cl/ Sigue a Pablo en Instagram https://www.instagram.com/posicionamientobuscadores/ Únete a las Comunidades de Facebook Grupo Google Ads: https://www.facebook.com/groups/googleadsespanol/ Grupo Facebook Ads: https://www.facebook.com/groups/adsenespanol Grupo Google Analytics: https://www.facebook.com/groups/googleanalyticsespanol/ Live con Pablo Herrera de la agencia chilena Posicionamiento Buscadores y Partner Premier de Google Ads. En este video Pablo te enseñará cómo conseguir buenos resultados con campañas de Google Ads que tienen un presupuesto limitado. 👉 Si quieres participar, deja un comentario y da clic en el botón de recordatorio para estar atento cuando inicie la transmisión.

Jesus gets interrupted at a party, and has to move forward in a different way. In this time, as we are invited to a festival of justice to change the death dealing systems of white supremacy and policing that have taken so many Black lives, how can we receive interruptions with the same openness to the Holy Spirit, and move forward believing in God’s power, and our own need to act with it?

Bienvenides a Wisteria Lane. Por este barrio es bastante habitual que escuchemos las voces de activistas y creadores pero pocas veces escuchamos las voces de personas anónimas. Y detrás de cada una de las personas que formamos parte de la población LGTBI+ hay una historia. Hemos invitado al barrio a Pablo Herrera, un periodista de 31 años, que se dedica al marketing on line, que nos emocionó con su historia, en un hilo en Twitter, y que nos va a contar, aquí, en el barrio.​ Porque creemos firmemente que nuestros testimonios construyen nuestra memoria histórica como comunidad. Escuchar audio

In this episode, Jonathan interviews Juan Pablo Herrera and they discuss how he transformed his hobby of Real Estate into a full-time job. We will go through topics like: How did he get started, Taking action, Coaching/Mentors, Content intake/Time management and how you can add value. Takeaways: How to successfully balance a corporate job and Real Estate - Treated Real Estate like a full-time job and had a set structure - 1 hour before work, 1 hour after work and 8 hours on the weekend - Discipline at all time even when you don’t feel like it - Can’t just show up when you feel like it Taking Massive Action - Be very specific with what you want - Make it measurable - Make it a constant reminder to build motivation - Keep feeding your mind with knowledge 1)Intro dig in/Strategy: 0:00-20:08 2)Getting started/Taking Action: 20:09-23:27 3)Coaching/mentors: 24:28-34:34 4:Content intake/Time management/Tactics/Tools: 34:35-46:41 5)Wind down: 46:42- 1:01:52 How to bring value to Juan: - Podcast help! Someone to assist in formatting and identifying the best platform to put his podcast on - Looking for someone who is operationally focused to help with documenting processes and systems Social Links: YouTube Channel: 100 Percent Financed Website: https://www.100percentfinanced.com Instagram: @100percentfinanced

Preacher: Juan Pablo Herrera  Scripture: Luke 23:32-46

Preacher: Juan Pablo Herrera  Scripture: 1 Chronicles 29

Preacher: Juan Pablo Herrera Scripture: John 13:21-30

If you're like us, you might struggle to get a grasp on what marketing really is today. The things we learn in class don't always apply to the fast paced reality of marketing. On this episode, we get insight into the areas of marketing that even the pros find challenging and tough to keep up on. Industry leaders, Pablo Herrera Cruz and Kayla Baretta, walk us through the emerging fields of artificial intelligence and analytics while trying to decipher the marketing foundations that will always be relevant and important. Oh... and we got a new co-host for this season! Welcome to the show Moh Elshamy! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/marketingmajor/message

Preacher: Juan Pablo Herrera  Scripture: Acts 1:6-14

This week we interview the impressive Francisco Marco. Francisco is the head coach of Pablo Herrera and Adrian Gavira, one of the most successful teams on the world tour. We talk about the challenges of him being one of the youngest coaches with one of the most experienced teams, his journey from playing too coaching and his views on the FIVB World Championships in Hamburg, who he thinks will be successful and how he thinks his team will perform in the most competitive and open World Championships we have ever seen.

It began as something fun. Nothing much more than, well, why not? Why not put two childhood friends on the same team? Friends who play the same side, the same position, who had never played defense at a professional level. And yet there Tri Bourne and Trevor Crabb were, winning in Manhattan Beach, finishing with a seventh. Winning in Chicago, improving to fifth. Winning in China, claiming a gold medal. Winning in Hawaii, making a Sunday. Winning in Las Vegas, nearly stunning Russia’s top team, Viacheslav Krasilnikov and Oleg Stoyanovskiy, for a bronze medal. Winning despite Bourne not having played for nearly two years. Winning despite Bourne tweaking a rib. Winning despite neither of them really having any clue what to do on defense at the game’s highest level. Winning despite neither having played much right side in their careers. And now here we are, in 2019, with the Olympic race beginning in earnest this week at The Hague, and Bourne and Crabb, the team that few, even themselves, predicted to be legitimate contenders, or even a team at all, are training full-time, pushing for a berth to Tokyo in 2020. “We’re gonna stick with our plan,” Bourne said on SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis Mewhirter. “We’re still a new partnership, obviously. Last time we played in 2018 it was a honeymoon phase, even though me and Trevor have been playing against each other our whole lives. We had a lot to figure out, were just winging it at the end of 2018, so now we gotta figure out what our system is, figure out how the hell to play defense, and so I’m excited.” The commitment establishes Bourne and Crabb as the only split-blocking team in the U.S., and one of the few in the world at the game’s highest level. Currently, Spain’s Pablo Herrera and Adrian Gavira, Latvia’s Janis Smedins and Aleksandrs Samoilovs and Brazil’s Evandro Goncalves and Andre Loyola are the handful who have been able to succeed with neither partner specializing in either defensive position. “You just feel like you should specialize because the rest of the world is,” Bourne said. “I’m super excited about it. I’ve always taken a lot of pride in being able to do every skill. Indoors, I played libero a little bit at USC, played middle blocker, so I’ve taken a little skill set from each position indoors and that’s what’s developed me for beach. I didn’t like being a specialized blocker even though it’s my favorite skill and the one I probably took the most pride in the last five years. “But now I get to do it all. I’m stoked on that.” He knows there’s going to be a learning curve, that their quick success was perhaps aided by the unconventional style and the lack of preparation teams could do against them. Which is why the Olympic race is not a sprint, but a two-year international grind, one Bourne and Crabb are now set on doing together. “At the end of the year, we both took some time, and we weren’t for sure going to play with each other, we took time to figure out what was best for ourselves individually, but we both kind of came around – this is too fun,” Bourne said. “Why not, you know?”

Martins Plavins requested the mic from Aleksandrs Samoilovs. Had to set some matters straight. “I know,” Plavins said on Saturday night at p1440 San Jose, “that Edgars misses me.” He was joking – maybe, possibly, perhaps – but Sunday’s result, when the Latvians upended the world’s best in Norway’s Christian Sorum and Anders Mol in the finals, proved that there’s likely a bit of truth to the notion that Edgars Tocs, Plavins’ typical partner, may have been missing his defender. Plavins and Tocs, Latvia’s No. 2 team behind Samoilovs and the injured Janis Smedins, were one of the world’s most delightful surprises in the 2018 FIVB season. Entering the year, Tocs, a 29-year-old from Madona, had never eclipsed the five-figure threshold in prize money, with just three main draws to his name in all of 2017. Yet there they were, on podium after podium to begin the year – gold at The Hague in January, silver in Kish Island a month later. By the end of the year they had played in 13 events, nearly as many main draws as Tocs had played in his entire career. By season’s end, they were ranked fifth in the world, three spots behind Samoilovs and Smedins, and a country that is roughly the size of Nebraska in terms of population was suddenly home to two of the world’s beach volleyball powers. Not that Latvia is an upstart. Not by any means. Ten years ago, Samoilovs and Plavins authored arguably the greatest upset in Olympic beach volleyball history when they stunned Phil Dalhausser and Todd Rogers in the first round of pool play. In 2012, Plavins did it again, this time with Smedins, upsetting Jake Gibb and Sean Rosenthal – then the No. 1 team in the world – in the quarterfinals of the 2012 Olympics in London. “We used to play good together,” Samoilovs said. “[Martins] agreed to come to San Jose so I’m very happy he had a chance to join me.” In two years, for the second time in three Olympics, they might very well join each other as teammates on separate teams. While Plavins was winning a bronze medal with Smedins in 2012, Samoilovs took a ninth with Ruslans Sorokins. “Martins is one of the best defenders in the world,” Samoilovs said, which explained why, in San Jose, Samoilovs, typically a split-blocker, stayed at the net. “It doesn’t make sense to go block.” Indeed it seemed they found the right defensive system, as they lost just one set the entire weekend in San Jose, to Austrian Olympian Alexander Huber and Leo Williams in the first round. After that, it was dominant win after dominant win, over Piotr Marciniak and Canadian Olympian Chaim Schalk, Spaniards Adrian Gavira and Pablo Herrera, Americans Miles Evans and Billy Kolinske and the world’s best in Noway’s Mol and Sorum. More important for either than the winning, though, is the fact they have a chance to win anything at all. Samoilovs remembers what it was like post-2016, when the world tour had just eight events big enough for the best to play, when beach volleyball was somewhat of a wasteland. With the advent of the King of the Court series and p1440, as well as the extension of the FIVB season, the sport has become nearly year-round. “This is really great,” Samoilovs said. “I remember after the Rio Olympics, in 2017, it was a disaster. It was only eight World Tour events, so you spend three months preparation just to play eight weeks, two months, so for us players we’re relieved because of these tournaments. Our families live because of these tournaments. It’s important to have more opportunities and more tournaments to earn money and to have a better life.”  

Sam Pedlow remembers the crying.   There he was, a full-fledged Canadian, playing hockey, his country's past-time sport, the American equivalent of football, at a fairly high level, living up to the expectations of all of those around him. And then he abandoned it. He left a youth playoff hockey game for a volleyball practice. In some parts of Canada that might very well be considered treason.   “I felt like I was disappointing everybody,” Pedlow recalled on SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis Mewhirter. “I was no longer playing hockey. But in order for our sport to continue to survive we need people to continually replace us. I want to be a place where people are continually beating me. Our program has been on the rise these past five years. We need to keep that momentum going, and we need people to fill in for us when we ultimately retire.” There is not an especially urgent rush in that regard. Should Pedlow and his partner, 6-foot-6 defender Sam Schachter, remain together, they could legitimately have three more Olympic Games in their futures. Pedlow is just 30, Schachter, already an Olympian in 2016 with Josh Binstock, just 27. As partners, they're only beginning to hit their stride, logging their eighth consecutive top 10 finish on the FIVB World Tour with a ninth in Fort Lauderdale this past weekend, beating Austrians Clemens Doppler and Alexander Horst before bowing out in three sets to Spain's Adrian Gavira and Pablo Herrera. But beyond their own individual gain and fame, which is on the rise, thanks to the active and wonderful social media from Pedlow, they're looking to develop a latent beach volleyball community in Canada, which hasn't won an Olympic medal since 1996, when John Child and Mark Heese claimed bronze in 1996. Schachter's ninth-place finish in Rio was Canada's best since 2004. “We need people starting to play all over the place,” Schachter said. “This sport is so unbelievable because you don't have to be the biggest and strongest like you would in indoor. It's so much a mental game where you have to be smart and strategy and you don't have a coach so there's an independence factor and the girls are beautiful.” Looks aside, the Canadian women's program, which has yet to win an Olympic medal, is becoming a bona fide power in its own right. Two teams – Sarah Pavan and Melissa Humana-Paredes and Heather Bansley and Brandie Wilkerson – claimed top-10 finishes in Florida, and both landed in the top 10 in the world rankings at the close of the 2017 season. The only team with more points than Pavan and Humana-Paredes? Brazil's Talita and Larissa, excellent company to be keeping for a hockey-crazed country. “Our women's program is going to be strong for a long time,” Pedlow said. With Pedlow and Schachter climbing the world ranks, the men's program has an auspicious look as well. Perhaps soon enough, with a few more top finishes on the word tour, there will be no more crying in volleyball.

Pablo Herrera y Óscar Morales nos visitan hoy y nos muestran el disco "Masurgia Moderna", del músico Mario Herrera a un año de su partida.