Podcasts about Riga

El polémico viaje de Calderón a Johannesburgo; el escándalo que provoca la renuncia de Fernando Gómez-Mont a Segob y la espectacular inauguración de los Juegos Olímpicos de Londres

DC had tried daygame multiple times. But AA was strong and things weren't working. He daygamed on and off without much to show for it.Now he's overcame his approach anxiety, got 25 numbers during coaching in Riga, went straight on another daygame trip right after that and missed a coaching call yesterday because he was trying to get a same day de-lay.In this podcast episode he shares his story, how he learned daygame, what obstacles he had to overcome and how he did it.Daygame Coaching - ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.strobert.blog/inpersoncoaching/?utm_source=PC⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠Free Texting, Dating & Daygame Courses - ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.daygamecourses.com/?utm_source=PC⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

Die BG Göttingen startet kommende Saison nach dem verpassten Wiederaufstieg mit einem neuen Headcoach in die 2. Basketball-Bundesliga. Mārtiņš Gulbis heißt der Mann, den die Veilchen mit einem Vertrag über zwei Jahre ausgestattet haben. Der 35-Jährige coacht trotz seines jungen Alters bereits seit 15 Jahren und wechselt aus Riga an die Leine. Unser Reporter Marc Filla sprach mit dem neuen Headcoach der Veilchen, der zugleich Assistenztrainer der lettischen Männer-Nationalmannschaft ...

La crisis de seguridad en el gobierno de Calderón; Alejandro Martí habla a nombre de todos los mexicanos y pronuncia la frase "Si no pueden, renuncien" y la cobertura del Mundial de Sudáfrica

Prova Shopify ad 1 € - Vai su ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠shopify.it Una magnifica città-fortezza asburgica nel cuore dell'attuale Repubblica Ceca cela un segreto imbarazzante e terribile. Theresienstadt, questo il suo nome, dal 1941 al 1945 diviene campo di prigionia nazista per gli ebrei anziani, per gli artisti e per i bambini e, in seguito, campo di transito verso la morte nei campi di sterminio polacchi o nel complesso di Riga nell'Ostland. Ma all'esterno Theresienstadt viene presentata con la più grande menzogna storica mai vista, quella di un "ghetto-modello" in cui gli ebrei sarebbero liberi di vivere una vita persino agiata. Una bugia colossale che inganna gli ispettori della Croce Rossa Internazionale e che produce persino un documentario i cui attori verranno uccisi subito dopo le riprese.

At this year's annual meeting of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development in Riga, Latvia, discussions centered on a critical structural shift: what development finance should look like in an age of persistent volatility. Ukraine is increasingly shaping the answer, as the bank's sustained financing during the war emerges as a potential blueprint for future conflicts. We were also on the ground for the World Bank Fragility Forum, an event uniting global stakeholders to address the challenges of operating in areas experiencing fragility, conflict, and violence. The deteriorating situation in the Democratic Republic of Congo emerged as a central discussion point. Highlighting the complexity of aid delivery in active conflict zones, the governor of the DRC's South Kivu province issued a stark call to withhold funding for development projects until baseline peace and stability are secured. Examining the Trump administration's “America First” foreign policy, we also contemplate how to ensure that domestic resource mobilization becomes an effective way to increase development finance. To dig into these stories and others, Senior Editor Rumbi Chakamba sits down with Managing Editor Anna Gawel and Global Development Reporter Jesse Chase-Lubitz for the latest episode of our weekly podcast series. Sign up to Devex Invested, our free, semiweekly newsletter bringing you the insider brief on business, finance, and the SDGs: https://www.devex.com/newsletters/invested

Joaquín López-Dóriga. La ley de la Coordinadora by Milenio Opinión

Hablamos con Santiago González Riga, alias Chanti, dibujante ya consagrado en Argentina y que en España estamos descubriendo gracias a dos títulos editados por Libros del Zorzal: “Pequeñas grandes bestias” y “Sobrenatural”, donde vamos a descubrir a un dibujante imaginativo, minucioso y con un agudo sentido del humor.Escuchar audio

El funeral de Juan Camilo Mouriño, la llegada de Gómez-Mont a Segob y el día que mi hija convulsionó y yo estaba al otro lado del mundo.

Satsningarna på en ny repertoar är en reaktion mot Rysslands invasion i Ukraina Lyssna på alla avsnitt i Sveriges Radios app. Den statliga ryska teatern, Michail Tjechov-teatern, i gamla stan i Lettlands huvudstad Riga har tagit tydlig ställning för Ukraina under den pågående ryska invasionen, ett ställningstagande som har förändrat repertoaren på teatern. Följ med till ryska teatern i Riga där vi ser "Med högklackade skor i Sibiriens snö", ett drama om människor som förvisades från den lettiska sovjetrepubliken på Stalintiden. Möt också regissören LAURA som satt upp den här uppsättningen. Pjäsen bygger på en bok av den lettiska författaren Sandra Kalniete.Ett reportage av Fredrik Wadström.

La Coordinadora Nacional de Trabajadores de la Educación ha doblado a todos los presidentes desde 1979.

Marilyns Monroe föddes för hundra år sedan och hennes status som ikonisk filmstjärna verkar bestå vilket är hennes arv till filmhistorien? Lyssna på alla avsnitt i Sveriges Radios app. Skådepelaren, sångerskan och fotomodellen Marilyn Monroe behöver egentligen inga presentationer, filmstjärnornas filmstjärna tycks aldrig blekna på populärkulturens himmel. Men, några fakta: hon föddes för hundra år sedan i Los Angeles och henne dopnamn var Norma Jeane Baker. Hon hade redan som tonåring siktet inställt på att ta sig in i filmbranschen, något som hon gjorde med besked på 50-talet och det stora genombrottet kom med filmen "Herrar föredrar blondiner" 1953. Hennes sex appeal, flirtiga energi och komiska slagfärdighet gjorde henne till en omåttligt populär Hollywoodstjärna som under några år var världens mest fotograferade person. Marilyn Monroe dog av en överdos i augusti 1962, men dryga sex decennier efter sin död är hon fortfarande en ikon – men – vad är det hon är ihågkommen för? Vad är det som fortfarande lockar och hur är det att se hennes filmer? Samtal med Kulturredaktionens filmkritiker Roger Wilson och Emma Engström som också har sett klassikern "Some like it hot" - I hetaste laget" tillsammans med programledare Lisa Bergström.RYSKA TEATERN I RIGA I SKUGGAN AV KRIGET I Lettlands huvudstad Riga är stora delar av befolkningen rysktalande. En del av dem sympatiserar med Ryssland i alla lägen, andra gör det inte. På den statliga ryska teatern i gamla stan i Riga har teaterledningen tagit tydligt ställning för Ukraina under den pågående ryska invasionen. Och det här ställningstagandet har också förändrat repertoaren på teatern. Sveriges Radios Rysslandskorrespondent Fredrik Wadström har sett uppsättningen "Med högklackade skor i Sibiriens snö" på ryska teatern och träffat regissören Laura.HANTVERKET: DEKORMÅLARENI kulturredaktionens serie Hantverket träffar vi de människor som verkar bakom kulisserna i kulturbranschen. Idag tar Hantverkets Helene Alm oss med till Norrlandsoperan i Umeå där dekormålaren Maja Johansson skapar fonden till uppsättningen av Puccinis "Tosca" våren 2026.Programledare Lisa BergströmProducent Maria Götselius

As the Managing Broker and Division President for JMG, Leon Gavartin leads the top real estate team in the Country. During the last 17+ years , he has been responsible for and involved with over $4 Billion in residential real estate sales amongst him and his team, earning him accolades including Presidents Club, Top Producer, and Salesperson of the Year for 2017/2018/2019/2020/2021/2022. Leon is a seasoned professional with over 17 years of real estate experience and 35 years experience in business operations, product and market development, marketing, management and sales. He is a graduate of Northwood University with a double major in Management and Marketing and has held various positions including CEO, President and COO for various companies domestically as well as internationally. Leon genuinely enjoys providing guidance and service to his clients to ensure they have the best experience within their real estate endeavor. With his vast real estate and business knowledge as well as his ability to navigate challenging transactions, Leon is an invaluable asset to his entire team. In his personal time, he enjoys being with his two kids, Ben and Shayna, exercising, traveling, as well as eating and having fun! Leon also serves on the Board of Trustees for Temple Solel, where he is the VP of Safety & Security and Facilities Committee. Leon was born in Riga, Latvia and speaks Russian fluently. Connect with Jon Dwoskin: Twitter: @jdwoskin Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jonathan.dwoskin Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thejondwoskinexperience Website: https://jondwoskin.comLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jondwoskin Email: jon@jondwoskin.com Get Jon's Book: The Think Big Movement: Grow your business big. Very Big! Connect with Leon Gavartin:Website: https://www.leongavartin.com/ X: https://www.x.com/azrelg Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/Lg_real_estate LinkedIn: Leongavartin Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Leongavartin/     *E - explicit language may be used in this podcast.

I augusti 1920 utkämpades slaget om Warszawa mellan en sovjetisk invasionsarmé och den polska armén under generalen Pilsudski. Utgångsläget för polackerna var inte bra. Försvaret runt den polska huvudstaden sviktade.I detta läge genomförde den polska armén en omfattade omgruppering och därefter en snabb motoffensiv. De sovjetiska arméerna krossades och ringades in 16-25 augusti 1920 i ett slag som har kallats ”undret vid Visla”. Den polska segern räddade den unga polska republiken och stoppade en eventuell sovjetiska fortsatt frammarsch mot Tyskland.I detta avsnitt av Militärhistoriepodden berättar Martin Hårdstedt och Peter Bennesved om ett måhända lite mindre känt krig. Som en direkt följd av första världskriget inleddes i Östeuropa ett antal militära konflikter frammanade av olika nationella strävanden. Polacker, balter, ukrainare, rumäner och så vidare försökte skapa egna nationer och vinna så stort territorium som möjligt. Samtidigt rasade inne i Ryssland ett inbördeskrig 1918-22.Polens ledare Pilsudski hade en vision om att skapa en federation av stater under polsk ledning som motsvarade det gamla Pols-Litauiska samväldet som slutade att existera 1795. Polska trupper kom under 1919 att ockupera stora områden i både dagens östra Ukraina – provinsen Galicien – och flytta gränsen mot Sovjet österut mot Minsk. Den sovjetiska motoffensiven i augusti 1920 tillintetgjorde dessa erövringar och det var först efter segern i slaget om Warszawa som den polsk-sovjetiska gränsen kunde stabiliseras i och med freden i Riga i mars 1921. Polen hade vi det laget även lagt sig till med de östra delarna av dagens Litauen i vilket Pilsudskis hemstad Vilnius ingick.För Lenin och bosjevikerna var nederlaget framför Warszawa en stor katastrof. Drömmarna om att tränga längre västerut och understödja en tysk kommunistisk revolution grusades. Vision om en världsrevolution fick ett abrupt slut i augusti 1920.Bild: Polska soldater bemannar en kulspruteställning vid försvarslinjerna nära Miłosna i byn Janki utanför Warszawa, augusti 1920, under polsk-sovjetiska kriget och striderna om Polens självständighet. Foto: okänd, Public Domain, via Wikimedia Commons.Klippare: Emanuel Lehtonen Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

fWotD Episode 3314: SMS Westfalen Welcome to featured Wiki of the Day, your daily dose of knowledge from Wikipedia's finest articles.The featured article for Monday, 1 June 2026, is SMS Westfalen.SMS Westfalen was one of the Nassau-class battleships, the first four dreadnoughts built for the German Imperial Navy. Westfalen was laid down at AG Weser in Bremen on 12 August 1907, launched nearly a year later on 1 July 1908, and commissioned into the High Seas Fleet on 16 November 1909. The ship was equipped with a main battery of twelve 28 cm (11 in) guns in six twin turrets in an unusual hexagonal arrangement.The ship served with her sister ships for the majority of World War I, seeing extensive service in the North Sea, where she took part in several fleet sorties. These culminated in the Battle of Jutland on 31 May – 1 June 1916, where Westfalen was heavily engaged in night-fighting against British light forces. Westfalen led the German line for much of the evening and into the following day, until the fleet reached Wilhelmshaven. On another fleet advance in August 1916, the ship was damaged by a torpedo from a British submarine.Westfalen also conducted several deployments to the Baltic Sea against the Russian Navy. The first of these was during the Battle of the Gulf of Riga, where Westfalen supported a German naval assault on the gulf. Westfalen was sent back to the Baltic in 1918 to support the White Finns in the Finnish Civil War. The ship remained in Germany while the majority of the fleet was interned in Scapa Flow after the end of the war. In 1919, following the scuttling of the German fleet in Scapa Flow, Westfalen was ceded to the Allies as a replacement for the ships that had been sunk. She was then sent to ship-breakers in England, who broke the ship up for scrap by 1924.This recording reflects the Wikipedia text as of 00:03 UTC on Monday, 1 June 2026.For the full current version of the article, see SMS Westfalen on Wikipedia.This podcast uses content from Wikipedia under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License.Visit our archives at wikioftheday.com and subscribe to stay updated on new episodes.Follow us on Mastodon at @wikioftheday@masto.ai.Also check out Curmudgeon's Corner, a current events podcast.Until next time, I'm neural Joanna.

I studion: Fredrik Söderholm, Sanna Dollan, Carl HS, Gunilla Söderholm, August BohlinPå länk: Micke Ljungberg

I studion: Fredrik Söderholm, Sanna Dollan, Carl HS, Gunilla Söderholm, August BohlinPå länk: Micke Ljungberg

Key TakeawaysScaling often means starting a new business. Expanding beyond a core model (e.g., entering a new market, adding a new service) fundamentally changes operations, risk, and management focus.Scaling can destroy value. A case study of America's CarMart showed how centralizing a decentralized model for scale led to inefficiency and a 40% reduction in locations.Scale vs. Growth. The group distinguished between scale (expanding the business model) and growth (improving the existing model), noting Warren Buffett's preference for businesses that grow without needing to scale.The "Why" of Scaling. Scaling for vanity or mimesis (e.g., following influencers like Alex Hormozi) is a key reason not to scale, as it lacks a strategic foundation and can lead to poor decisions.The discussion began with High Rocks, a global fitness competition, as a model of operational excellence.Key Logistics:Runs 2 events/week globally (e.g., Riga, Istanbul).Owns all branded equipment (Puma, etc.), stored in global hubs.Relies on hundreds of trained local volunteers for judging.Crowd Control: Uses a sophisticated heat-scheduling system.Problem: Slow athletes bottlenecking equipment for faster ones.Solution: Athletes self-report fitness levels → heats are staggered from fastest to slowest, ensuring a smooth flow.Comparison to Other Events:Cirque du Soleil: Uses a similar model of a small core team and a large local volunteer workforce for rapid setup (e.g., a full stage in 6 hours).Astroworld (Live Nation): A failure of logistics. The event grounds created crowd funnels with no escape routes, leading to a fatal crush. This highlights the critical role of crowd-flow design.The conversation shifted to the question: When should a business not scale?America's CarMart (BHPH Auto Dealer): A case study on how scaling can destroy value.Original Model (Decentralized):Highly profitable with ~40 locations.Each store manager was a mini-CEO responsible for hiring, vehicle procurement, sales, and collections.Scaling Strategy (Centralization):To grow from 40 to 160 locations, CarMart centralized core functions (underwriting, procurement, collections).This reduced the store manager's role to primarily sales and hiring.Outcome: The model became inefficient and unprofitable. CarMart recently closed 40% of its locations, shrinking from 160 to 96.Conclusion: Scaling fundamentally changed the business into a less effective one.Scaling often requires starting a new business within the existing one.Amer's Coaching Business:Constraint: High client acquisition costs limited growth.Scaling Paths Considered:Production Company: Build brand authority via video content.Enterprise Sales: Target larger clients.Events Business: Double down on live experiences.Acquisitions: Buy smaller coaching suites.Decision: Systemize the current business and personally lead the launch of a production company, as it was within his circle of competence and aligned with his goals.John's Painting Business:Growth Path 1 (Improve Existing Model): Increase sales rep close rates and average job size within the current territory. This is efficient and captures "alpha."Growth Path 2 (Scale to New Locations): This would mean starting new painting businesses, requiring significant capital for new fleets and becoming a "fleet management" business. This is a different, less appealing business.Vanity vs. Growth: Much scaling is driven by vanity (public metrics) or mimesis (copying influencers like Alex Hormozi), not strategic necessity.Franchisee Motivation: Austin's franchisee interviews reveal a key filter:Red Flag: Surface-level answers (e.g., "to make more money").Good Answer: A deep "why" rooted in passion for the work, solving customer problems, and aligning with the franchise's mission.Employee Retention: Scaling can be necessary to retain "superstar" employees who seek growth opportunities. A business that chooses not to scale risks losing its top talent.

Bienvenue dans le supplément de Grand reportage. 50 minutes ensemble avec aujourd'hui Marielle Vitureau et Emma Garboud-Lorenzoni. En première partie, le drone qui est désormais indispensable pour assurer la sécurité d'un territoire. Il est au cœur en particulier de la guerre en Ukraine et dans les pays environnants. Comment développer les drones, et comment les intégrer ?... Ensuite, direction la Nouvelle-Zélande, pour rencontrer les jeunes Maoris, victimes des réformes gouvernementales. Les pays baltes, une région passée en mode drones Il peut voler, naviguer, rouler. Il peut porter une charge explosive ou mener des opérations de reconnaissance. Riga accueillait, cette semaine, un sommet international consacré aux drones. Compte tenu de leur proximité avec la Russie, la Lettonie et ses deux voisins baltes -la Lituanie et l'Estonie- sont en première ligne sur le sujet. Le drone est désormais indispensable pour assurer la sécurité d'un territoire. S'en protéger est devenu le défi numéro un. Dans les trois pays, les entreprises, les armées, les institutions, les industries ne parlent que d'eux...  Alors, comment les développer, comment les intégrer ? Un Grand reportage de Marielle Vitureau qui s'entretient avec Matthieu Vendrely. À écouter aussiLes drones ukrainiens frappent dans la grande profondeur du territoire russe La jeunesse maorie de Nouvelle-Zélande, victime des réformes La Nouvelle-Zélande a engagé, il y a quelques années, une politique uniformisée et uniformisante de la société. Un virage intervenu en 2023 avec l'élection d une coalition de droite à Wellington. Victime de cette nouvelle donne : les droits spécifiques des Maoris ; peuple autochtone qui représente 17% de la population, près d'un million de personnes. Les jeunes Maoris sont particulièrement touchés. Marginalisation de leur langue à l'école, fin des partenariats avec les tribus pour la prise en charge des adolescents en difficulté. Un Grand reportage d'Emma Garboud-Lorenzoni qui s'entretient avec Matthieu Vendrely. À écouter aussiEn Nouvelle-Zélande: les Maoris craignent pour leurs droits

The Crusades reshaped Europe far beyond Jerusalem — and we've forgotten itFor most people, the Crusades begin and end with Jerusalem, Richard the Lionheart and Saladin. But that narrow view hides a far bigger story. In this episode of History Rage, medieval archaeologist Professor Aleks Pluskowski takes aim at the myth that crusading was confined to the eastern Mediterranean — and reveals how crusades transformed northern and eastern Europe in ways that still shape the modern worldDrawing on decades of archaeological research and historical evidence, Aleks explains how the Baltic Crusades were longer, more successful, and ultimately more influential than those in the Levant. From the rise of the Teutonic Order to the foundation of cities like Riga and Tallinn, this conversation exposes a forgotten chapter of European history that fundamentally reshaped societies, borders and identitiesYou'll hear why crusading was a papally authorised penitential war, how it expanded beyond Jerusalem to target pagans, heretics and political enemies, and why northern Europe became the Crusades' most enduring battlefield. Aleks also unpacks the diversity of pre-Christian belief systems in the Baltic, the realities of conquest and settlement, and how crusading ideology became a template for later colonialism and modern nationalist mythsThe episode also tackles how the Teutonic Order evolved from a humble hospital in Acre into a powerful military state, why it succeeded where the Levantine Crusader states failed, and how its image was later distorted by 19th-century nationalism and Nazi propaganda. This is not just military history — it's a story about how Europe learned to dominate, govern and remember its pastIf you think you know the Crusades, this episode will make you rethink everything.Guest: Professor Aleks PluskowskiProfessor of Medieval Archaeology, University of ReadingAleks Pluskowski is a leading authority on crusading in northern Europe, with extensive fieldwork experience across Poland and the Baltic region. His research focuses on material culture, landscapes of conquest, and the long-term impact of crusading societies.BookThe Black Cross: The Medieval Baltic CrusadesBuy here: https://uk.bookshop.org/a/10120/9780300279061About History RageHistory Rage is the podcast that hunts down historical myths and kicks them into the long grass. Hosted by Paul Bavill, each episode invites leading historians to vent their fury at what everyone gets wrong about the past — loudly, passionately, and with evidence.Follow History RageTwitter / X: https://twitter.com/historyrageFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/historyrageInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/historyrageSupport the podcastJoin the rage on Patreon for bonus content, livestreams and early access:https://www.patreon.com/historyrageOr support via Apple Podcasts Subscriptions for ad-free listening and early releases.If you enjoyed this episode, tell a friend and bring someone new aboard the rage train. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Cae el avión donde viajaba Juan Camilo Mouriño; el presidente Calderón ofrece un conmovedor mensaje y qué provocó el accidente

Independent investigative journalism, broadcasting, trouble-making and muckraking with Brad Friedman of BradBlog.com

Il peut voler, naviguer, rouler. Il peut porter une charge explosive ou mener des opérations de reconnaissance. Riga accueillait, cette semaine, un sommet international consacré aux drones. Compte tenu de leur proximité avec la Russie, la Lettonie et ses deux voisins baltes -la Lituanie et l'Estonie- sont en première ligne sur le sujet. Le drone est désormais indispensable pour assurer la sécurité d'un territoire. S'en protéger est devenu le défi numéro un. Dans les trois pays, les entreprises, les armées, les institutions, les industries ne parlent que d'eux...  Alors, comment les développer, comment les intégrer ? « Les pays baltes, une région passée en mode drones », un Grand reportage de notre correspondante régionale, Marielle Vitureau.  

Met vandaag: alweer een corruptie-onderzoek rond de Spaanse premier Sanchez | Minder regenwoud gekapt in de bossen van Brazilië | Minister Yesilgöz bij Drone Summit in Riga | Felbegeerde voetbalshirts in 'Het Oranje Shirt' | Presentatie: Rob Trip.

Abraham Mendieta Rodríguez utilizó redes y recursos públicos para promover a Andrea Chávez en Chihuahua.

Un padre hace todo por sus hijos y esa es siempre la intención, aunque a algunos les salga bien o no.

Auf 107,7 FM in Riga ist nur noch Rauschen zu hören. Das russischsprachige Programm des öffentlich-rechtlichen Radios von Lettland wurde abgeschaltet. Obwohl ein Drittel der Bevölkerung in den eigenen vier Wänden russisch spricht. Russische Propaganda versucht die Lücke zu füllen. Die russische Sprache wird in Lettland zunehmend verdrängt. Seit anfangs Jahr gibt es keinen russischsprachigen Unterricht mehr in Lettlands Schulen. Und auf russischsprachige Bücher und Zeitschriften wird neu eine viermal höhere Mehrwertsteuer erhoben. Wer einen russischen Pass besitzt, muss seit Moskaus Angriff auf die Ukraine 2022 Grundkenntnisse in Lettisch nachweisen, eine Sicherheitsüberprüfung bestehen oder das Land verlassen. Lettland war in seiner Geschichte insgesamt nicht einmal 60 Jahre unabhängig, aber Lettisch existiert als eigene Sprache seit über tausend Jahren. Weltweit sprechen vielleicht 1,5 Millionen lettisch, in den Nachbarländern Russland und Belarus sind es 150 Millionen Russischsprachige. Anders als in der Schweiz definiert sich Lettland über die Sprache. Denn für Putin ist überall Russland, wo russisch gesprochen wird. Aber wie gewinnt das Land aber die Köpfe und Herzen der russischsprachigen Bevölkerung? Wie gewinnt der öffentlich-rechtliche Rundfunk LSM den Kampf gegen die russischen Fake News? In Lettland ist Sprache keine Nebensache. Im Gegenteil.

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Claudia Sheinbaum enfrenta la presión de Donald Trump por el combate al narco y el envío de tropas a México.

Auf 107,7 FM in Riga ist nur noch Rauschen zu hören. Das russischsprachige Programm des öffentlich-rechtlichen Radios von Lettland wurde abgeschaltet. Obwohl ein Drittel der Bevölkerung in den eigenen vier Wänden russisch spricht. Russische Propaganda versucht die Lücke zu füllen. Die russische Sprache wird in Lettland zunehmend verdrängt. Seit anfangs Jahr gibt es keinen russischsprachigen Unterricht mehr in Lettlands Schulen. Und auf russischsprachige Bücher und Zeitschriften wird neu eine viermal höhere Mehrwertsteuer erhoben. Wer einen russischen Pass besitzt, muss seit Moskaus Angriff auf die Ukraine 2022 Grundkenntnisse in Lettisch nachweisen, eine Sicherheitsüberprüfung bestehen oder das Land verlassen. Lettland war in seiner Geschichte insgesamt nicht einmal 60 Jahre unabhängig, aber Lettisch existiert als eigene Sprache seit über tausend Jahren. Weltweit sprechen vielleicht 1,5 Millionen lettisch, in den Nachbarländern Russland und Belarus sind es 150 Millionen Russischsprachige. Anders als in der Schweiz definiert sich Lettland über die Sprache. Denn für Putin ist überall Russland, wo russisch gesprochen wird. Aber wie gewinnt das Land aber die Köpfe und Herzen der russischsprachigen Bevölkerung? Wie gewinnt der öffentlich-rechtliche Rundfunk LSM den Kampf gegen die russischen Fake News? In Lettland ist Sprache keine Nebensache. Im Gegenteil.

John Travoltas nya look med Michelle Hallström! Amalia Holm live från filmfestivalen i Cannes och Anders Jansson som firar Arsenal som blivit mästare i kavaj. Lyssna på alla avsnitt i Sveriges Radios app. Avsnittsbeskrivning:John Travoltas nya look med Michelle Hallström! Amalia Holm live från filmfestivalen i Cannes. Anders Jansson har firat hela natten efter Arsenal blivit mästare i kavaj. 14-åringen i Norge som inte kan sluta baxa bussar. Saker Hanna inte kan sluta göra: Stjäla sticklingar, tvångsmässigt onanera under sändning (skämt), gulla med Ingeborg (allt mindre med Ines), äta 20 lakritsglassar under en sittning och inte lyssna på möten. Hanna har varit på ”western” ridläger och haft vänner över på arbetshelg i Grums. Vi pratar om svenskar vi saknar som gått ur tiden. Det ocharmiga draget att dra gränser bara för att dra gränsers skull.Programledare: Christopher Garplind & Hanna Hellquist

Agradece a este podcast tantas horas de entretenimiento y disfruta de episodios exclusivos como éste. ¡Apóyale en iVoox! Acceso anticipado para Fans - En este episodio de Bellumartis, abordamos una faceta heroica y técnica a menudo eclipsada por el combate: la logística de vida en medio de la muerte. Junto al Dr. Juan Manuel Poyato Galán "Bajo El Fuego Y Sobre El Hielo" ** https://amzn.to/4c5Oeya **, analizamos la organización, los desafíos y los hitos de la sanidad militar española en el Frente del Este durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial. La División Azul no solo destacó por su combatividad en el frente, sino por la excelencia de su cuerpo médico, que tuvo que adaptarse a condiciones climáticas extremas (hasta -40°C) y a heridas de guerra nunca antes vistas. Analizamos la estructura de los puestos de socorro, la evacuación de heridos y la integración con el sistema sanitario alemán. Puntos clave del análisis: La Logística del Dolor: Cómo se organizaba la cadena de evacuación desde la primera línea hasta los hospitales de retaguardia en Riga o Königsberg. Medicina de Campaña: El tratamiento de la congelación, el tifus y las grandes cirugías bajo fuego artillero. Hitos Científicos: La aportación de los médicos españoles a la traumatología y la sanidad militar internacional. El Factor Humano: El compromiso del sanitario que, armado solo con su instrumental, defendió la vida en el escenario más hostil de la modernidad. SUSCRÍBETE a @BELLUMARTISACTUALIDADMILITAR y @BELLUMARTISHISTORIAMILITAR para no perderte ningún programa y únete a nuestra comunidad de apasionados por la historia militar, la geopolítica y los conflictos del mundo. Apóyanos para seguir creando contenido riguroso e independiente: Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/bellumartis PayPal: https://www.paypal.me/bellumartis Bizum: 656 778 825 Síguenos también en redes: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bellumartis Twitter / X: https://twitter.com/BellumartisHM Bellumartis Historia Militar — Porque entender el pasado es prepararse para el futuro. #DivisionAzul #MedicinaDeGuerra #HistoriaMilitar #Bellumartis #WW2 #SegundaGuerraMundial #SanidadMilitar #JuanManuelPoyato #FrenteRuso #HistoriaDeEspañaEscucha este episodio completo y accede a todo el contenido exclusivo de BELLUMARTIS PODCAST. Descubre antes que nadie los nuevos episodios, y participa en la comunidad exclusiva de oyentes en https://go.ivoox.com/sq/618669

Harijs Witolinsch hat eine bemerkenswerte Biografie: Als Junior wurde er vom legendären russischen Trainer Wladimir Jursinow geprägt. Im harten Sowjet-System kannte er nur eines: Training, Training, Training. Seine einzige U20-WM spielte der Lette noch für die Sowjetunion. Später war er erfolgreicher Trainer in Clubs und Nationalteam in Russland: Er gewann drei Landesmeisterschaften und wurde Olympiasieger und Weltmeister. Eine ganz andere Bedeutung hat für ihn dennoch die Sensation mit WM-Bronze 2023 als Lettlands Nationaltrainer. Die Beziehung zu Russland hat sich seit 2022 und dem Beginn des Krieges in der Ukraine auch für Witolinsch von einem Tag auf den anderen verändert. Wie er seine regelmässigen Besuche in der alten Heimat erlebt. Wie er im Sowjet-System gross wurde. Wie er sich in die Schweiz verliebte. Was er vom Spiel Schweiz - Lettland am Samstagabend erwartet. All das erzählt der 58-Jährige aus Riga im Eisbrecher. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Independent investigative journalism, broadcasting, trouble-making and muckraking with Brad Friedman of BradBlog.com

How has Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine reshaped theidentity and political outlook of Russian-speaking communities in the Baltic states?In this episode of Talk Eastern Europe, Alexandra Karppi speaks with Ieva Birka from the University of Latvia in Riga about new research on Russian speakers in Latvia and Estonia, the growing security concerns facing the region, and the challenges of social cohesion in an era of hybrid threats and geopolitical tension.Support us on PatreonJoin our community for bonus content, early access, behind-the-scenes insights, and access to our exclusive WhatsApp group where we discuss the news in real-time.→ Join the Talk Eastern Europe community: https://www.patreon.com/talkeasterneuropeCheck out the New Eastern Europe Magazine Bimonthly publication with exclusive long-form analysis. → Become a member: https://neweasterneurope.eu/become-a-member-of-new-eastern-europe/Free ArticlesRead our latest analysis at neweasterneurope.eu Sign up for the Brief Eastern Europe NewsletterWeekly briefing sent out every Monday with news updates, expert commentary, and our editorial picks - free to your inbox. → Subscribe: https://briefeasterneurope.eu/subscribe FOLLOW USInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/neweasterneuropemag/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/NewEasternEurope/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/new-eastern-europe/Twitter/X: https://x.com/NewEastEurope

La revelación del secretario de la Defensa, Clemente Ricardo Vega García; la diversificación del narco y los primeros minutos de Calderón como presidente

Hier gehts zum Beitrag ►► https://passives-einkommen-mit-p2p.de/riga-2026 Hier kannst du der Community beitreten ►► https://bit.ly/p2p-community Eine Woche Riga liegt hinter mir und sie war vollgepackt mit spannenden Einblicken. Seit meine Tochter da ist, habe ich meine geschäftlichen Reisen zu Gunsten meiner privaten stark heruntergefahren, da ich die ersten Jahre mit ihr so gut ausnutzen möchte, wie nur möglich. Da aber in den letzten Monaten immer mehr Meeting-Anfragen aufgekommen sind, dachte ich mir, dass ich einfach die Osterferien nutze und diese in Riga verbringe und so meine Familie mitnehme. Win-Win :)

Kvällen den 1 november 2025 larmar den 87-årige änkemannen Arne trygghetscentralen i Jönköping. Han säger att två kvinnor misshandlat och försökt kväva honom hemma i radhuset. De två kvinnorna han pekar ut är i 60-årsåldern och hans egna döttrar.Programledare: Kim MalmgrenProducent: Arvid HallbergAnsvarig utgivare: Klas Granström, Expressen AB

Felipe Calderón asume la Presidencia de la República y declara la guerra al narco; López Obrador continúa con sus giras como 'presidente legítimo' e inicia una revolución con las redes sociales

A 270-year-old balm that is regarded as the national drink of Latvia. Sold in dark clay bottles. Some people love it, some don't. We explore the story and legends surrounding Riga Black Balsam, and hold a tasting with friends. Thanks for listening!

Alex Moss and Burton DeWitt are back with a new episode of your go-to darts podcast after the European Darts Grand Prix!   The boys kick off the show with a look back at the weekend's European Tour action in Sindelfingen and discuss whether the champion Gerwyn Price can end his major title drought this season, and also if the runner-up Ross Smith will end his elusive search for a first European Tour crown in 2026.   The newest PDC Nordic & Baltic Pro Tour title winner Jonas Sørensen (20:31) calls in ahead of the latest PDCNB weekend in Finland. Jonas reflects on his remarkable debut on the PDCNB tour last time out in Riga, winning the title in his very first tournament, beating PDC tour card holders Oskar Lukasiak and Cor Dekker on the way to the title, and explains why he decided to start entering PDCNB events this year. The Dane also chats about his upcoming debut for the Danish national team in the Nordic Cup and his goals now for the rest of 2026.   The boys continue their review of the weekend by giving their thoughts on the CDC Cross Border Challenge, which saw David Cameron take home the title in Newfoundland and Canada regain the Nations Cup.    Darts fan Veran Tull (43:24) joins the show ahead of running the London Marathon this weekend but with a darts twist! Veran explains how he will be throwing darts after every mile of his run on Sunday, and shares his inspiring story, being diagnosed with skin cancer, discovering darts during his time off work, joining a local pub team, and now wanting to raise money for Macmillan Cancer Support and show his love for darts whilst running one of the world's most famous races in the English capital.   Alex and Burton wrap up the show with a dip into the mailbag to answer your listener questions.   Donate to Veran Tull's fundraising for Macmillan Cancer Support here   Join the Darts Strava King group on Strava *** Get your own Alex Moss replica shirt (as worn by our co-host at the Las Vegas Open 2026) from DJD here! A % of the profits will be donated to The Ethan King Fund for Ewing Sarcoma Research *** This podcast is brought to you in association with Darts Corner - the number one online darts retailer! Darts Corner offers the widest selection of darts products from over 30 different manufacturers.  This podcast is sponsored by Darts Atlas - the platform for darts players, venues, and organisations. Darts Atlas is the home of the Amateur Darts Circuit (ADC) with hundreds of tournaments held on the platform every week.  Have you used Darts Atlas before? Share your feedback and experiences with Darts Atlas with us by sending an email to weeklydartscast@gmail.com and be in with a chance of winning some new logo Weekly Dartscast stickers! Check out Condor Darts here: UK site *** Enjoy our podcast? Make a one-off donation on our new Ko-Fi page here: ko-fi.com/weeklydartscast Support us on Patreon from just $2(+VAT): patreon.com/WeeklyDartscast Thank you to our Patreon members: Phil Moss, Gordon Skinner, Connor Ellis

López Obrador rechaza los resultados electorales en 2006 y se autonombra presidente legítimo; Fox se atrinchera en un hotel y Felipe Calderón logra tomar posesión en el Congreso

Day 1,517.Today, amid another exchange of drone and missile strikes between Ukraine and Russia, we report on growing speculation that the European Union's €90 billion loan for Kyiv could finally be approved as early as tomorrow. We also examine Ukraine's efforts to develop its own alternative to US-made Patriot air defence systems. Then, later, we take a deep dive into a major new Western film, The Wizard of the Kremlin, exploring how accurately it portrays Vladimir Putin's rise to power – and the wider questions raised by telling Russia's story through a pre-war, fictional lens.Contributors:Adelie Pojzman-Pontay (Host on Ukraine: The Latest). @Adeliepjz on X.Francis Dearnley (Host on Ukraine: The Latest). @FrancisDearnley on X.With thanks to Chief Film Critic at The Telegraph Robbie Collin and political scientist Anna Colin Lebedev.NOW IN FULL VIDEO WITH MAPS & BATTLEFIELD FOOTAGE:Every episode is now available on our YouTube channel shortly after the release of the audio version. You will find it here: https://www.youtube.com/@UkraineTheLatest CONTENT REFERENCED:Exclusive interview: World faces new nuclear arms race (The Telegraph):https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2026/04/20/world-faces-new-nuclear-arms-race-head-of-un-atomic-agency/ Former tank commander reviews Challenger 3 (Hamish de Bretton-Gordon in The Telegraph):https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PLOyJKtGKw Russian nursery-school children taught to fly drones (The Telegraph):https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2026/04/21/russia-nursery-school-children-fly-drones/ Jude Law as Vladimir Putin? It's a strangely flattering choice (Robbie Collin in The Telegraph):https://www.telegraph.co.uk/films/0/review-wizard-kremlin-putin-jude-law/ (Hom)mage du Kremlin, Anna Colin Lebedev: In French: https://colinlebedev.fr/2026/01/22/hommage-du-kremlin/In English: https://www.europe-solidaire.org/spip.php?article77848Personal Website: colinlebedev.frJude Law plays Putin in a film shot in Riga. Latvian officials say it serves Kremlin propaganda (Meduza):https://meduza.io/en/feature/2026/03/07/jude-law-plays-putin-in-a-film-shot-in-riga-latvian-officials-say-it-serves-kremlin-propaganda The History Bureau, Putin and the Apartment Bombs (BBC):https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand/m002q5dkUkraine pushing to produce home-grown ballistic defense system 'within a year,' Zelensky says (Kyiv Independent):https://kyivindependent.com/ukraine-pushing-to-produce-home-grown-ballistic-defense-system-within-a-year-zelensky-says/EMAIL US:Contact the team on ukrainepod@telegraph.co.uk . We continue to read every message, and seek to respond to as many on air and in our newsletter as possible.HIGHLIGHTS: Russian nursery-school children ‘taught to fly drones'Reviewing new film 'The Wizard of the Kremlin' Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

80 Jahre Peteris Vasks. Lettlands wichtigster Komponist feiert mit Konzertmarathon von Riga bis München. Natur, Glaube und singende Streicher prägen seine berührende, weltweit gespielte Musik.

Felipe Calderón gana la elección de 2006 con una mínima ventaja; López Obrador desconoce los resultados y el llamado al plantón en Paseo de la Reforma

Sandwiched between Estonia and Lithuania on the Baltic Sea, Latvia is a compact nation of forests, bogs, and beaches where pagan traditions never quite went away. The capital Riga boasts the world's finest Art Nouveau architecture, while beyond the cities, a quarter of the country remains wonderfully forested. Latvians are famously tall, reserved, and deeply attached to their rye bread, midsummer bonfires, and four very distinct seasons.Love the pod? Get the guide! Out with each new podcast, we publish a guide to the country. Buy the TrodPod guide to Latvia for just $3: https://www.patreon.com/c/trodpod/shop. Better yet, become a TrodPod member for just $5 a month and access TrodPod guides to every country in the world, released weekly with each new podcast episode! Sign up now: https://www.patreon.com/trodpod/membershipThanks for all your support!TrodPod is Murray Garrard and Elle Keymer. Sound editing by Leo Audio Productions. Design and marketing by GPS: Garrard Powell Solutions. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Dainis Kruze and Janis Putrams, co-founders of Aerones, welcome Allen to their new Denton, Texas facility to discuss robotic spray-coat LEP repairs, third-generation internal blade crawlers, and their US-made inspection drone that eliminates Chinese components. Sign up now for Uptime Tech News, our weekly newsletter on all things wind technology. This episode is sponsored by Weather Guard Lightning Tech. Learn more about Weather Guard’s StrikeTape Wind Turbine LPS retrofit. Follow the show on YouTube, Linkedin and visit Weather Guard on the web. And subscribe to Rosemary’s “Engineering with Rosie” YouTube channel here. Have a question we can answer on the show? Email us! Welcome to Uptime Spotlight, shining light on Wind. Energy’s brightest innovators. This is the Progress Powering Tomorrow. Allen Hall: Dainis and Janis, welcome back to the program.  Dainis Kruze: Thank you, Alan, for visiting us, uh, in, in our new facility.  Allen Hall: Yeah. Is a great new facility. We’re in Denton, Texas, which is just north of Dallas. Uh, and you move from. Lake Dallas area. Mm-hmm. And we had visited that facility a year or so ago. This new facility is amazing. It’s what, probably four times the size. Yeah. Maybe a little bit bigger. And it is, uh, indicative of the growing business that Aeros has in the United States. And that’s wonderful. Uh, and I’m glad I could catch you in Texas ’cause I know you, you guys are running around the world all the time. Uh, I think the last time I was at. A facility with both of you was over in Riga?  Dainis Kruze: Yes.  Allen Hall: Uh, probably two years ago now. Oh,  Dainis Kruze: yeah.  Allen Hall: So I saw the Riga operation and, and now we’re seeing [00:01:00]the, the Denton US operation. You have facilities in other places too, right?  Dainis Kruze: A small one in Australia, but, but yeah, the main facilities in Riga and the second biggest one here in, in Dallas. Allen Hall: A lot of technology changes since Rose Riga. Uh. Leading edge being the big one, leading edge protection materials. And when I talk to US operators, even operators in Australia, we’re just there. They love the idea and the application of a robot for leading edge repairs.  Dainis Kruze: Oh yeah,  Allen Hall: it makes total sense. It’s one of those areas that, uh, Rons has shown you can do this with a robot much more consistently. Has that business grown quite a bit since you first started it?  Dainis Kruze: Oh yeah. Oh yeah. We did more than 500 turbines last year, so we. The plan for this season is about one and a half thousand turbines, so it is growing quite a lot.  Allen Hall: So the, the speed and the quantity of robots here in the United States is must have grown considerably. Dainis Kruze: Oh, yeah. Uh, one team now gets [00:02:00] up to 15 turbines a month. So if it’s category one or two turbine, uh, leading edge, uh, erosion, it’s about one day to do one turbine category three. Uh, one turbine is being done in two days, and we are talking about like 12 meter repair. It’s not a spot repair, it’s a full repair, like  Allen Hall: full repair. Okay.  Dainis Kruze: Yeah.  Allen Hall: And the robot technology and the, the amount of technology on the robot is behind us has grown quite a bit. Uh oh. Yeah. You’re learning as you’re going. Obviously. I looked at a number of robots in at the Denton facility. Smarter robots. More data, more consistency. Particularly because the leading edge protection materials require a lot more care than rope technicians can generally create on site. Right. Walk us through what this robot is doing, why it’s doing what it’s doing, and, and like the, the quality you get coming out of it. ’cause what I see behind me is really nice. Better than, than [00:03:00] what I’ve seen typically coming out of a factory.  Janis Putrams: Yeah. So multiple things actually we’ve been. Kind of what we’ve been hearing sometimes is that, um, that material’s good, the application seems good, but then it comes off after some time and you don’t understand what’s what happened, right? Yeah. So we understood to, to make it right. We need to make sure that both the kind of, we take the full ownership for the, for the whole process, for the application. And so we’ve been investing quite a lot in our lab to, to actually understand what the material needs, how the surface needs to be, be prepared. How do we measure it? How do we make sure the process is right? So actually what we saw is that, yeah, making sure adhesion, uh, is, is right, is is very important part. Also, when you go out there, there’s a quite a spectrum of the weather forecast, like information. You have humidity, you have temperatures, and you need to be able to guarantee the, the, yeah, the output in all of that spectrum. So yeah, we’ve done quite a lot on, [00:04:00] uh, on those. And  Allen Hall: so from a technology perspective, you’re incorporating all those measurements actually into the robot. So you know what the temperature was when the application was made, you know what the humidity was, you know what the mixture was exactly. Remember the temperature of the, the ingredients that went into make the, the LEP material. That’s remarkable. And now it’s, uh, I think a lot of people think of LEP as being something you would apply with a, you see it still, you see it with rollers and sort of. Basic human tools. You’re spray coating today. Yes.  Janis Putrams: Yes.  Allen Hall: And the, the smoothness of that coating is remarkable.  Janis Putrams: Yeah. For example, I dunno if you, if you know in factories where the cars are made Yeah. You don’t see people rolling the car. Yeah. So, because the, the spraying technology, it enables us to actually guarantee the robot when it moves, it moves in a constant speed. It’s not manually, it’s kind of on a cruise control. So it’s, it’s moving in a constant speed [00:05:00] and the spraying is constant. And so yeah, the, the thickness is, is, is always the same. And also it kind of nicely tempers off on the, on the sides. So there’s no vortexes, kind of, no aerodynamics loss. Uh, so yeah, it, it comes out very, very nice and  well.  Allen Hall: That’s the thing about when you put a leading edge coating on, a lot of times there’s a taped edge or a hard edge there. And then they gotta come back and try to fill it. Or maybe they don’t fill it and the filler doesn’t stay. It may. I’ve seen all varieties of that. So when you spray coat it, not only do you get a very smooth finish, aerodynamically, you lose the step on the backside. Right. So the, the entire assembly is, is just more aerodynamic. And that’s the reason you’re doing in the first place. Mm-hmm. It’s not just we’re recovering this shape. Yes, you’re recovering the shape, but you’d like to get some more power outta your, your turbines. That makes sense to me. When you’re, uh, cleaning the blade too. There’s a lot of technology about just getting the blade prepped because we’ve seen so many times where a leading edge coating’s been applied to a very [00:06:00] poorly prepped blade surface, and it just doesn’t stick. A year later, you’re out doing it again. Describe what you’re doing on the prep side.  Janis Putrams: Yeah, so what we also see, uh, saw that, um, if there’s some damaged material, it’s very important to get it off. If you put it on top of the damaged material, it’s just not gonna hold. So we have one of those robots, it has quite a powerful kind of belt sanding tool, uh, where you can truly take it off. And then the second tool prepares the surface and also the tool kind of makes sure that it’s not up to the, to the operator to choose which point to, to prepare, but just the tool goes in, in a single step and prepares all of it so we can kind of. Be sure that nothing’s missed. And then when you, when you put it on, uh, then, then what’s gonna, it’s gonna hold. Dainis Kruze: And to develop that tool. We have a laboratory where two chemical engineers are actually working and testing and doing pulley tests and surface, uh, adhesion tests [00:07:00] and, uh, to get the result, the best result possible. Because, as Ian said, we’re taking, we, we are giving guarantee, uh, of our work. Uh, and we don’t do that. Oh yeah, it peeled off because the material was bad. We, we, we take the guarantee of application and materials that it’s gonna be stick, uh, is gonna stick and it’s gonna stay there.  Allen Hall: I think there’s a lot into that. And having been to the Riga facility, I understand you have a lot of capabilities there. When we talk to. Independent service providers and they’re applying materials. They’re not doing all the research. Oh, yeah. That aone is doing. You, you are actually looking at material properties, you’re looking at surface conditions, you’re looking at the chemical reactions that are happening. You’re doing the mechanical pull test. You’re putting engineering behind it. Oh, yeah. Which, which has to happen. We’re still early in this leading edge protection world. We have, we don’t have 50 years of experience. We have two or three really good years, and we’re still learning and there’s a lot of different materials being proposed right now. That mechanical testing and evaluation [00:08:00] laboratory really raises the bar.  Dainis Kruze: Oh  Allen Hall: yeah. I think in terms of just what you’re expecting to get out and, and EC saying, you back up what you do. Oh yeah. Which is completely different than the rest of the industry. De describe what that means to an operator that chooses their owns to do leading edge protection. Dainis Kruze: Yeah, it’s a turnkey, uh, solution, right? So, uh, you won’t get in a situation when, um, somebody comes, supplies the material and after a year it peels off and then you, um, have months and months of debating and negotiating, right? Uh, whom to blame, right? So who will take care of that? Um, and in the end, basically, you don’t know either that was a material or that was a applicator. Um, that’s it, but. The result is not met. Right. So the the, yeah, the the still, the, the blade is not protected. In our case, we take full responsibility, full accountability. If the material is gonna put peel, uh, peel off, we are gonna come and fix it.  Allen Hall: Because I think a EP loss from leading edge erosion is one thing.[00:09:00] A EP loss from a bad leading edge protection material that’s peeling off is exponentially worse from what I have seen. It just gets very draggy. Yes. And that material just starts to. Actually create massive drag. So you need to get that bad material off. And I think a lot of operators that have used other services probably won’t be calling you this year to go, we need to sand that off and put on something with robot. Dainis Kruze: Oh yeah.  Allen Hall: Does that then change the dynamic because of the, the amount of robotics, uh, applications you can do in a year where before when we talked to operators, us Europe, robots are nice. But we don’t see the ROI.  Dainis Kruze: Mm-hmm.  Allen Hall: Has that flipped on its head now where the robots are just so much faster than rope technicians, that it just makes sense to do it with robots? Dainis Kruze: I still, we even have systems in our portal where customers can see, um, at which category, how much of efficiency they’re losing, uh, during the year. Yeah. So what is the a a p loss and roughly speaking, it’s like three, four years of return of investment just [00:10:00] on AP loss. If you’re not fixing it at category three, you’re gonna lose in two, three years. Same amount of money as on investing on, on repairing that. Yeah. So the return of investment is two, three years, uh, worst cases for four years. Um, as we see, um, and not even speaking about, uh, when the erosion happens to, to category four and five, your repair cost is just like at least double or triple. So you don’t want to do that in category fours and fives. It’s lot smarter to do that at category two, three.  Allen Hall: Oh, that makes a lot of sense. However, I would say that a lot of operators worldwide let it get to three plus. Mm-hmm. Before they start to worry about it. Alright, so the, then the question becomes, am I gonna put a bunch of technicians up on ropes anyway to go fix this? Or is there a robotic solution that I can fix those leading edge, uh, where the, the, the glue has been eaten away by leading a rosn. Can I fix that without putting technicians on ropes?  Janis Putrams: Right. So currently we are [00:11:00] doing categories like 1, 2, 3.  Allen Hall: Yeah.  Janis Putrams: Um, if we have category four repair, we would cooperate with a rope technicians. They come and laminate, and then the robot does, does everything else. But there’s a, yeah, there’s a new, uh, new technology that we are working on, which is kind of a reinforced, uh, yeah. Application on the leading edge, uh, where we can be able to actually repair category for. Uh, for as well.  Intro: Mm-hmm.  Janis Putrams: Yeah. This, and it’s, um, it’s a uv uh, UV curable solution, uh, which is also great because you can apply it in, in, in, in, in humid environments, in, in colder environments. Um, and then, and then of course the, the, yeah, the, the leading kind of protection that we put on would go, go on there as well. And, and this is actually quite a, um, amazing, uh, uh, yeah, sample. So for those who don’t know this, this goes into rain erosion, uh, kind of machine test machine. And [00:12:00] uh, and then they get kind of the spin and, and, and rain droplets are, are falling. And, and, and then you measure how long it lasts. And, and this has been in there for 200 hours and we actually had to stop the test because it was becoming just outrageously expensive. But it’s, it’s like a lifetime, like the, the turbine would not experience this amount of erosion in lifetime, so we thought it was  Dainis Kruze: 130 meters, uh, per second. Uh, speed. Speed. Um, but, and yeah, as Ian said, like we also have a system in our portal where you can look up your, any wind park in us, and it’ll tell how many hours per year you have this severe, uh, rain, which would be like compatible with, uh. Close to this, uh, speed tip speed and, and the rain. And basically there is no wind park in the world, uh, where the erosion would happen, uh, where the rain would be like 200 hours, like, uh, in, in, in lifetime of the turbine in 25 years. Hmm. So basically [00:13:00] it’s in most of the cases it’s like four or 5, 6, 7 hours a year, which means like basically it’s gonna last for 30 years, um, like in, in a, on the rain erosion test,  Allen Hall: but really only if the application is good.  Dainis Kruze: Only if the application is good. Yeah.  Allen Hall: That which is the key, right? Yeah. So you can have the best material in the world, you can have the best lab results in the world, but if you can’t repeat it out of the world Yeah. Then it’s just a waste of time.  Dainis Kruze: Yeah.  Janis Putrams: Yeah,  Dainis Kruze: exactly.  Janis Putrams: There’s another interesting aspect that we, we saw when we, because we, we did a lot of those tests and what we noticed is that the surface smooth smoothness, uh, actually is also very important because like if it’s more like an orange peel, you get those cavities and when the rain droplets hit. They kind of, they, they creates more like a stress concentrations there just  Allen Hall: a  Janis Putrams: pull. We’ve seen like, like about the performance kind of getting into half. If the, if the surface is not, not, not smooth.  Allen Hall: And that’s what you see in the field when they apply it by hand. It’s not nearly as smooth as what I see on the spray version here with the robot. Janis Putrams: Mm-hmm. And [00:14:00] once it finds a place where the erosion can start, then it just grows.  Allen Hall: That’s the magic. Right. I, I know a lot of operators don’t think about all those little details. Mm-hmm. But because roads has the ability to do the work, to do the manual motion testing, to do the lab testing, to look at the materials and apply it. Like it should be that that’s a game changer.  Dainis Kruze: Yeah. And, and scale it. Right. So when we do this with robots, like, uh, like most of the job is done by the semi-autonomous robot. So it’s not again, um, a bottleneck of how many good technicians you have,  Allen Hall: right?  Dainis Kruze: Like it’s, it’s, uh, it’s about technology which is doing the job. And you will have a consistent result, whether it’s Australia, US, or Europe, you will have exactly the same result, uh, because it was done by exactly the same robot.  Allen Hall: Well, speaking of robots, uh, the latest gen three internal crawler is remarkable. Uh, Yana should give me the details of all the cool features that are on it. I’ve seen it in video. I haven’t seen it out in the world live [00:15:00] inside of a blade yet, but I will this year. I think there’s a lot of technology in there from your first gen robot to, uh, this third gen. The pictures that I’ve seen downstream are really good. Because it matters and, and because there’s lot of the defects you can’t see on the outside. You need to be on the inside.  Janis Putrams: Mm-hmm.  Allen Hall: Uh, core, uh, bonding, most of them. Well, that’s true then. That’s totally true. No, the industry, you’re right. I do, I do think we started off on the outside because that’s what we could do. Mm-hmm. Not realizing that probably we should be on the inside should sort of started there first. But the robot now is so much better at taking pictures. And if you, if you can take pictures, but the pictures are not so good, why are you wasting your time even taking them?  Janis Putrams: Right.  Allen Hall: Explain what’s all in that robot to take high quality images and to focus on the defects that you find.  Janis Putrams: Right. So kind of, we’ve done a lot of inspections with our previous generation crawler and, and then we, we got a lot of feedback also, and we, we do [00:16:00] ourselves the, the inspections of the, the data, uh, and give, give information to customers. So we worked our way back. And also not just that, uh, when you go out and do it on a big scale. You get feedback, like, for example, from the technicians, uh, what’s easy for them, like different blade models, maybe some specific blade models have some obstruction in there that you need to drive around. So, so those kind of small details when, when you gather and, and, and, and even just manufacturability to make sure that, uh, yeah, it’s easy and faster to manufacture, easy to maintain. Um, so, but that’s, yeah, that’s, that’s the kind of, uh, the part on. On the, on the inspection itself, uh, of course it has a improved 360, uh, kind of inspection. So we gather everything. Uh, there’s additional camera for, uh, much detailed kind of areas. For example, the, the root zone, you would want to, to have the kind of the top part inspected [00:17:00] in higher resolution, but also it has like a smart feature where you can tell that, for example, particular area in the blade, if you want that in a higher resolution. So when it gets there, it, it would point and, and, and take that particular area because maybe there’s a serial defect and you would want it in a much, much higher, uh, higher resolution. Also, what we got feedback from, from customers is that for them, it’s very important that, for example, if there’s a defect, you want to know exactly the size of the defect, and you want to know exactly the distance to the root. And maybe you want to, you might need to open the blade from the outside and you don’t want to be off by even a half meter. So we’ve been working a lot to, to improve that. But it’s like centimeter precision  Allen Hall: because a lot of the defects are actually happening closer to the root. I, I think lightning company, which is what we are, we get a lot of defects kind of further towards the tip, but the manufacturing defects that really matter are closer to the root [00:18:00] and they tend to, if you think about the root that’s. The largest diameter part of the blade. So you need to be able to take really good images where the rover is not right next to the damage that matters. Mm-hmm. So you’re looking for megapixels, you’re looking for light intensity, you’re looking for exposures right to be right so that you can actually measure it, track it. So even if you notice there’s a crack talking to operators, there’s a crack. Okay. But is it propagating yes or no? If you can’t measure it, actually, you can’t tell if it’s growing or not, which is ultimately. What you need. So those improvements are gonna be a, a massive improvement in terms of the operators buying in because we talk to operators all the time, you need to be doing internal inspections. And they say, yeah, sure. Like, no, no, no, no. You don’t understand. You need to do a set up internal inspections so you understand what’s going on inside your blades because there are a lot of like kind of serial defect things or uniqueness things that happening, or wind, wind specific events that are happening and are causing issues with your [00:19:00] blade. And that gets me to outside the blade. So, uh, once you’ve done the internal inspections and you should be doing some external inspections, particularly for lightning and some other issues. Question in America right now is you can’t use a drone that has Chinese components in it. There owns drone image. Those are all Chinese free, ready to go right now to take high resolution images. And there’s actually more technology. Yeah. And this drone that I’ve seen in, in previous versions.  Dainis Kruze: Oh yeah.  Allen Hall: Tell me about that.  Dainis Kruze: Yeah, it’s us made, uh, so we, uh, are, are compliant, um, with, with the rule, uh, regulations that you can’t use the Chinese, uh, parts. That’s one thing. Another thing is like how the technology works. So, um, we have very sophisticated system how the drone flies and scans the blade, uh, the blades and the turbine itself. So we don’t need to put the blades in particular angles like you. [00:20:00] Whatever the blades are being stopped, the drone is gonna be capable of doing that inspection. Um, that saves time, uh, time and makes it easier. Also, you don’t need to navigate, like if you take the drone and do the inspections yourself, you just push start and the drone does, uh, all the jobs. So you don’t need to fly to point it at the tip of the blade or whatever it’s gonna do. 100% of the jobs is gonna be by, by, by itself. Um, and also like we have, um, a. Bigger angle, like variety, how we can put the camera. So we always will take the picture from the best angle. It’s not gonna be, look, you’re not gonna look at the crack under an angle. You will look at the, uh, crack directly, uh, onto it and it actually, it actually moves the needle. It, it, it’s very, very important when you’re reviewing the data.  Janis Putrams: Yeah. So basically what you want to do is like, if you want to take a picture of this. You want to be looking perpendicular to it.  Dainis Kruze: Mm-hmm.  Janis Putrams: And, and if the turbine is like this, you, you want like, you want want to look like this and if the blade kind of, you go from the top, you [00:21:00] want to look like this. So this drone was built, it wasn’t adapted, it was built particularly for wind turbine inspection. So the kind of, it was taken account that it can do all these angles Exactly as, as they need for, for, for blades. So to, to get the, the, the best, uh, inspection data.  Allen Hall: I’m always surprised at the lack of quality of inspection images for cracks. I see a lot of them because we get sent a lot of lightning damage mm-hmm. Inspections to go through and, but we see the cracks. Also, when I look at the crack, it’s always at an angle and I think, how do those engineers even have a sense of what the scale of that is? Because I can barely see it in this really poor drone image. Having something that’s actually 90 degrees to the damage is. A game changer because now again, going back to there’s a crack, but what do I do about it? If it’s not growing, I may just live with it. Mm-hmm. But you can’t measure it if you don’t have a good, consistent image of it, which everyone’s thinks about. Right.  Dainis Kruze: Not only image, but also a 3D model of the blade. So because we are scanning [00:22:00] it with the lighters, we actually have a 3D model of that blade. So we can actually physically measure, we understand what we are seeing, uh, and we can measure, uh, with high precision. So both the internal crawlers and the drones are by far the best, uh, robotic technology for wind turbine inspections, uh, in the industry by far. Like, uh, yeah. Uh, nothing comparable in the, in, in the industry.  Janis Putrams: Yeah. What Dyna says, it’s that the precision is also important for another aspect, because when you have a drone inspection from the outside, an internal inspection on the inside, and you have this precision, what you get is that, for example, there’s something on the inside of Blade. And you want to see what’s on the outside. You can flip in, in our portal, you can just flip and look at it from the outside and you say, oh yeah, there’s something on the outside and what’s on the inside. It gives you much better understanding what the defect to release. Is it just on the inside or is it already propagating on the outside? Dainis Kruze: Yeah, and it’s one click. It’s not reviewing two reports, uh, trying to understand, uh, going back [00:23:00] and forth. It’s just one click you and you get outside.  Allen Hall: Well, let’s talk about the software platform. There is a software platform. It is called the  Dainis Kruze: your Owns platform. Okay.  Allen Hall: You guys gotta  Dainis Kruze: work  Allen Hall: on a name?  Dainis Kruze: Yeah, we, we haven’t blocked on, on the name. Yeah, we should. We should.  Allen Hall: But the, the Eros platform is a useful platform because you can have all the images you want, but they’re not really useful unless you can correlate it back to what the blade design is and then figure out where. The the crack or the DA or whatever this is going on. Where it is on the blade. Exactly. So then you can assess whether you need to have a response to it. Do you need to derate the turbine, shut down the turbine, or just let her run? Those are big, important decisions to make because it has to do with profits at the end of the day. That platform allows every the engineers to do that. You’re seeing more adoption of that platform by the Oh yeah, by the operators.  Dainis Kruze: We are stepping up. Me and Jans, we actually graduated, uh, computer science. So we are software developers by [00:24:00] education, not the mechanical engineers. Uh, uh, and we, we, for, for all of these years, we, we’ve worked more on the robotic technology, how to get the data, how to get the best quality picture, how to, uh, get the, uh, best quality data. Um, and now we have stepped up on the portal development and, uh, again, uh, in, in, we’ve built the best portal in the industry, like seamless review of the data of internals and externals and lightning protection system tests. Um, and, uh, yeah, the easiness, how to you, you can use the, the system, uh, review the data, uh, navigate, see the. Um, different kind of analytics and, and help from our blade engineers on decision making, um, is again, the best in the industry now.  Allen Hall: Well, you mentioned lightning protection resistance measurements because it’s something you’ve done for a number of years now, and I run into a lot of operators that say we’ve, we’ve had our drones do the LPS resistance measurements. They should still be doing those. I think there’s, because Aeros has done it [00:25:00] so well and has a, a nice data set with it. Operators are thinking, I don’t I need to do it anymore.  Dainis Kruze: Yeah. It’s a, uh, it’s  Allen Hall: a conflict, isn’t it? It, it, it’s, you get so good at one thing that, that it changes the dynamic of the industry. Dainis Kruze: Oh, yeah. I, I think, I think that we are a bit, we, we need a bit more data on understanding, um, how much these lightning damages actually cost. Yep. Comparing to what would cost, uh, like a proper inspection campaign.  Allen Hall: Yeah.  Dainis Kruze: So kind of in a, in a way, you know, like these lighting damages are not there yet.  Allen Hall: Yeah. Dainis Kruze: Why should I test anything? Yeah. And when you get that lighting damage and you lose a blade and it have a fire it to fire. Yeah. Or have a fire and you have, uh, hundreds of thousands, if not millions in losses, it’s already too late. It is. Yeah. It’s, uh, and, and that’s, and that’s an issue of the. Chicken and egg. Uh, yeah, I think in the industry. Uh, but, but I see that the industry [00:26:00]is improving and we do more and more of these lighting protection system tests. Um, customers are becoming smarter on this and, and, uh, I hope, uh, that it’s, it’s, yeah, it’s gonna, and it’s gonna get to the right place.  Janis Putrams: Also, what we saw is that sometimes we, we would give reports to the customer that, for example, for this Blade lightning protection is not working. So they are asking like, okay, what’s next? Yeah, what do I do with this data? Right, right. So we developed a kind of a tool which helps to actually track exactly where that damage is, where that cable is, is kind of connection is lost. Uh, so it’s kind of like a, I dunno, same as you would kind of, uh, look for, I dunno, golden coins or something. So it’s kind of a similar technology. The robot goes up and it kind of, uh, slides, kind of scans, uh, very closely to the blade. And when you find the, where the cable problem is, it has actually like a red marker and it can make a mark on the blade. Uh, so [00:27:00] actually if the rob guys, if they need to go up and, and open up the blade to fix the cable, they know exactly where, where to look. So it’s not, again, you’re not doing it half a meter away or, or you can open up and then fix it.  Dainis Kruze: We call it open circuit finder. For, at least for that, we have the name. Allen Hall: It’s a very useful thing though. I think the, the more that you get out to site, the more you realize what the problems are, what the priorities are, and design solutions around those. The linet protection one is obviously, is massive, right? Mm-hmm. You just kind of see it everywhere in, uh, particularly United States and Southern United States. You see leading erosion being the, the number one. And then lightning damage being number two, when you see a lot of operators going after both of those things simultaneously to save money, that’s a massive improvement than five years ago. The, you guys have really changed the industry. There’s, everybody’s starting to think a little bit differently about how they approach the repair [00:28:00] season that, uh, owns, has extended the repair season. So a lot wider window than it was. It’s not just March to October. Yeah, almost a full year at this point because of the technology the robot brings and the amount of data.  Dainis Kruze: Mm-hmm.  Allen Hall: Now everybody can react because they have something to base their decisions on. That’s, oh yeah. That’s impressive. It’s hard. I know you guys have a hard time seeing that because you’re in the day-to-day of Yeah. Of trying to run a company has paced in, in Riga and you got places in Australia and America, so it’s a lot. But I do think deep breath, take a look back. You really have influenced the industry in the positive in a lot of ways. Thank you. Congratulations on that. It’s impressive. It really is. And uh, you know, when we talk next time in a year from now, probably you’ll have more done out in the field and you’ll have done several thousand turbines leading edge protection and you’ll have that history and you’ll have that data. That’s [00:29:00] remarkable. Now your season. Your calendar is getting pretty full with a lot of operators calling you, saying, I need you out here to do leading edge protection and a variety of other tasks. Is there any room in your schedule right now to get on it and, and how do they, how do they get on your schedule? Dainis Kruze: Oh yeah, there is room because we are building 30 additional, uh, leading edge repair robots. So it’s, it’s quite a lot. Like one robot is actually doing, um, up to 150 repairs a year. So it’s, it’s, it’s quite a big capacity. So yeah, we’re building more and more robots. Demand is there. Um, and, and the wind industry is gonna generate more clean energy because of that. Right. So because bleeding edge erosion affects the efficiency and, and we are fixing that.  Allen Hall: Improving the profitability of all these operators.  Dainis Kruze: Oh yeah.  Allen Hall: Which is what we should be doing. So if you haven’t contacted our owns, just Google our own’s website and go to it. There’s a a lot of information there. You can get a hold of Dyna, you can get ahold of Giannis via LinkedIn. It’s [00:30:00] really easy to get a hold of these guys and at least start the process. Start thinking about how robots can improve your operation, how it can save you money. Generate more revenue on the production side. Save money on the repair side. So at the end of the day, uh, your management is happy.  Dainis Kruze: Oh, yeah. Oh yeah. We even help to do the calculations of return of investment, so it’s easier to justify, uh, with the management and so on.  Allen Hall: Oh, it’s wonderful. Wonderful. Well, Dynas and Giannis, thank you so much for spending some time with me today and showing us around this Denton facility is quite oppressive and congratulations. And yeah, we’ll, we’ll see you on the road at some point.  Dainis Kruze: Thank you for stopping by.

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