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LatinxAmerica is focused on highlighting catalysts that are using, leveraging, creating or investing in technology that can positively impact the Latinx community. Experts cover topics ranging from education, health, diversity, and civic engagement to financial stability/wealth creation.
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Counterculture: (noun) coun·ter·cul·ture \ˈkau̇n-tər-ˌkəl-chər\ a culture with values and customs that are very different from and usually opposed to those accepted by most of society; also : the people who make up a counterculture I’m a blogger producing videos and podcasts that report news and analysis in the sole pursuit of truth. Independent of corporate influence and a political agenda, I think of my reports as an experiment in objectivity. Considering that so much of today’s news repor ...
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Surface Time for divers is the time above water and between dives. Often while stuffing our face with energy-boosting foods, we would be jabbering away with other divers, sharing our diving experiences and stories other than diving. These conversations are always fascinating as our heart and mind are open. It can be cheeky, intimate, educational, healing and even spiritual. These are stories of people doing amazing things and living their life to the fullest. Whether you are a diver or not, ...
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Ep. 85 - District Attorney Candidate for El Paso & Teller County CO David Wilson Interview (Co-hosting 'Faith Family Fitness Freedom' on 100.7 FM The Word) Counter Culture with Aaron Lujan https://aaronlujan.comBy Aaron Lujan
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Local Politics Is The Political Solution with El Paso County Commission District 4 Candidate Raymond Garcia (Co-hosting 'Faith Family Fitness Freedom' on 100.7 FM The Word) Counter Culture w/ Aaron Lujan https://aaronlujan.comBy Aaron Lujan
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Ep. 83 - Radio Host Todd Huff Talks State of Culture War (Co-Hosting 'Faith, Family & Fitness' 100.7 FM The Word) Counter Culture with Aaron Lujan https://aaronlujan.com Rumble | Bitchute | Telegram | Instagram | Facebook | X | Gab: /aaronlujanBy Aaron Lujan
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Ep. 82 - Nasa Scientist Matthew Allner Takes On School Board Over Gender Ideology (Co-hosting 'Faith, Family Freedom' 100.7 FM The Word) Counter Culture with Aaron Lujan https://aaronlujan.com Instagram: @aaronlujan Facebook: /aaronlujan Gab: @aaronlujan X: @aaronlujan YouTube: /@aaronlujan Rumble: /aaronlujan…
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Adriana Basques, a corporate executive turned wildlife photographer. She has been using her camera to document moments of her encounters of beautiful creatures both on land and underwater. In fact, her photography specialty is split landscape photo – where top part is the land and bottom part is underwater. This allows her to share with everyone th…
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Ep. 80 - Interview: Luke Vercollone, Pro Athlete & 'Save The Storks' National Director (Co-Hosting 'Faith, Family & Freedom' w/ Jason Lupo on 100.7 FM The Word) We discuss the state of the abortion war, what it's like being bold for Jesus as a pro athelete and all things culture. Luke Vercollone (Wikipedia): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luke_Verco…
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Ep. 79 - Interview: Burke Atkerson, Author of "Fire Nights" (Co-hosting 'Faith Family Fitness' on 100.7 FM w/ Jason Lupo) Aaron Lujan Co-hosts with Jason Lupon on "Faith Family Fitness" Radio show on 100.7 FM 'The Word'. Interview with Burke Atkerson, author of 'Fire Nights: Forging Brotherhood that Heals'. Book is currently #1 New Release in Men's…
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Recently, I went diving in Coron, Philippines. This place is famous for wreck diving where you get to explore some Japanese ships that were sunk by US Task Force during World War II in 1944. We dived with Pirate Divers for a week. I think on the second or third day after we finished diving for the day and on the way back to the resort, the lady cre…
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Carrie Miller, Storyteller, Author, Traveller. You may recognise her name from the previous episode with her and her husband, Chris Taylor, sharing their stories behind the book, A Diver’s Guide to the World. By the way, I was particularly delighted to find my birth country, Taiwan with Kenting National Park as one of the 50 destinations in the boo…
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Hester was the person who got me off my procrastinating mode and started to produce Surface Time. When we did the recording, she has been on the “mummy’s break” from scuba diving for some time. I am sure that all mums who happen to be scuba divers can relate. One thing that really rings true to me from our chat is the Big Picture. Always take a ste…
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Kate expresses her creativity through many media, including paintings and upcycling. Water is an element that plays a huge part in her life and how she shapes her own autobiography. I love what she said: we can all be a piece of art ourselves. Speaking as a woman, when a woman knows herself well and is comfortable in her own skin, she can express h…
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Katherine’s passion for photography fuels her, whether it is for underwater, wildlife or otherwise. Let’s listen to her recounting the incredible experience of diving in Anilao, Philippine when Taal Volcano erupted and the spectacular black water dives when she captured the award-winning photo. When listening to the length that she would go to fine…
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Since money and investment are the two words naturally connected to her profession as a private banker, it is inevitable that we chatted at length about them. The word “investment” tends to be given a meaning limited monetary terms. When we talk about returns of investment, it tends to be the penny-for-penny calculation on the growth. If we take a …
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You may recall from the episode with Magnus Akerblom-Wiker, where we spoke about one of his editorial photo of a diver holding a bunch of balloon in the Cenote, Mexico. Oh well, Karolina was that diver. My curiosity had to hear from her side of the story, her personal experience in that place. In this mind-opening dialogue, we spoken about creativi…
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When I first started producing Surface Time, my intention was simply to reproduce the kind of heart-opening dialogues between divers through podcast forum. After producing a few episodes, I started to think that it would be a good forum to get more women who scuba to share their stories and wisdom. Getting guests to produce the episodes has been st…
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During the Surface Time today, I spoke with Sam Shu Qin (founder of Our Singapore Reefs) and David Jones (from Jackson Square Aviation) about their collaboration in the project, Dive Against Debris in 2022. It started off with David’s shower idea about doing something that can help to protect the coastal underwater environment, by engaging local co…
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During the Surface Time today, I Skyped with the Dynamic Trio from South China Diving Club in Hong Kong. Rob Christie, Alex Grioni and Andy Niven. All four of us shared a special memorable dive trip to Timor Leste back in 2010. All of them have returned for a second visit. It just felt right to reminisce the trip and hear their stories on their ret…
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During the Surface Time today, I sat down with my friend Jonny Ma who was visiting Singapore, en route to London. We first met through Project X Team where we did all sorts of adventurous activities like rock climbing and scuba diving. Over the years, we kind of adopt one another as the “unofficial” extended family members. This is one of the occas…
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During the Surface Time today, I spoke with David Joyce and Matt Reed of Evolution Dive Resort in Malapascua, Philippines. So, for all shark-loving divers, Malapascua is the place to go for sightings of thresher sharks. It is a remote island with limited resources. Tourism, especially, scuba diving plays a significant role in the livelihood of the …
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Carrie Miller and Chris Taylor, the wife-husband team who have written a book called “A Diver’s Guide to the World”, published by National Geographic. The book is out in the U.S. on 6 December 2022. Before the chat, I was given a preview to one of the chapters. Immediately, I could see that this book is written with the special and purposeful inten…
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Hello. I am Stephanie Luo. Welcome to "Surface Time : Confessions of a Diving Junkie", Series 3. In producing this passion project, one of the motivations that have kept my enthusiasm going is the ongoing effort to express and articulate “why it is so easy to open up and make friends with other scuba divers?”. It is a fact that our need to connect …
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Hello, I am Stephanie Luo. Welcome to “Surface Time : Confessions of a Diving Junkie”. I hope that the dialogues in Series 2 have given you different perspectives about “following your heart”. For me, when I listened back to each episode, I really love the excitement and passions radiating the guests as they recount their stories. And that happy vi…
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During the Surface Time today, I spoke with Gary Tyson, a British Army veteran turned chronic diving junkie. He called himself a hustler in life as he experiments different ways of making photos and videos. Land and underwater. And more importantly, finding ways to fund his love for travels and gadgets. When you hear him explaining why shooting a w…
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During the Surface Time today, I managed to Skype in with Natasha Grabner. She was my first junior scuba diver student. When I certified her, she just turned 10. 5 years on, she has had accumulated enough diving experiences than many adult divers in their life time. Like her father once described her fondly: this girl has more balls than the boys i…
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During the Surface Time today, I caught up with Gary Stokes in Discovery Bay of Hong Kong. He is a veteran crew member of Sea Shepherd until they left Asia. He then founded OceansAsia to continue with the “intelligence-based” conservation work in the region. He and his team have been investigating and exposing the bad guys who have committed wildli…
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During the Surface Time today, I had the joy of catching up with a dear friend, Emma Dabbadie, who has been living in Cape Town, South Africa for some time, in pursuit of her marine science research and discoveries. When we spoke, she was fresh off the scientific schooner called Tara from an expedition along the West Africa coast, as part of the Mi…
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During the Surface Time today, I caught up with Kay Burn Lim for some coffee while he was transiting through Singapore for a quick dip in Sipadan, Malaysia. We first met at an underwater photography competition in Timor Leste over 10 years ago. Back then he was a hobbyist photographer and clearly a talented one as he participated and won the compet…
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Hello. I am Stephanie Luo. Welcome to Series 2 of "Surface Time : Confessions of a Diving Junkie". Series 1 was a complete whirlwind. It started with me sharing the idea of creating this passion project with a few close friends who happen to be scuba divers. Somewhat half-heartedly at the time as I was not sure how to kick things off. Then within t…
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It has been a bit of whirlwind ride to produce "Surface Time : Confessions of a Diving Junkie". In this last episode of Series 1, Stephanie is sharing her answers to questions from her guests. We hope that you have enjoyed the dialogues in Series 1. In the meantime, we would like to leave you with something to ponder, contemplate or even procrastin…
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In this follow up episode, Sharon Kwok answers the 5 insightful questions that Stephanie asks all her guests: 1) Aside your diving gears, what are the 3 items that you always take on a diving trip? 2) What are your 3 top-tip on safe-diving practice? 3) What is your greatest fear? 4) What is your greatest extravagance? 5) What do you value most in f…
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I sat down with Sharon Kwok for a cuppa as she was fresh off the boat from Raja Ampat and en route back to Hong Kong. Sharon is an artist well-known in Hong Kong public broadcasting and cinematic fields. As a conservationist, she unapologetically leverages her connections with public and private sectors to support her marine and wildlife conservati…
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In this follow up episode, Magnus answers the 5 insightful questions that Stephanie asks all her guests: 1) Aside your diving gears, what are the 3 items that you always take on a diving trip? 2) What are your 3 top-tip on safe-diving practice? 3) What is your greatest fear? 4) What is your greatest extravagance? 5) What do you value most in friend…
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Magnus Akerblom-Wiker is passionate about creating and collecting memorable moments and convey these through his photography. At work, he leads a team of software engineers to develop solutions for many world problems. To him, the creative process that he has to go through as a software engineer is the same as when he works for his editorial photog…
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In this follow up episode, Margaret answers the 5 insightful questions that Stephanie asks all her guests: 1) Aside your diving gears, what are the 3 items that you always take on a diving trip? 2) What are your 3 top-tip on safe-diving practice? 3) What is your greatest fear? 4) What is your greatest extravagance? 5) What do you value most in frie…
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Surface Time with my dear friend Margaret Murphy, who is a scientist, trained in zoology and toxicology and now works in the space of science policies in Washington DC, the epic centre of US politics. Although she claims to be a reluctant diver, her scientist-curiosity has always kept her entertained and fascinated by the marine diversity. I probed…
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In this follow up episode, Nico answers the 5 insightful questions that Stephanie asks all her guests: 1) Aside your diving gears, what are the 3 items that you always take on a diving trip? 2) What are your 3 top-tip on safe-diving practice? 3) What is your greatest fear? 4) What is your greatest extravagance? 5) What do you value most in friend? …
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Nico de Rouge, a French photographer and PADI Instructor living in Shanghai, had recently published his work on major publications like The Economist. He first caught the travel bug at the impressionable age of 19 and has since lived and travelled across North and South America, Africa and South East Asia. When we spoke, he was caught in the middle…
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In this follow up episode, Tony answers the 5 insightful questions that Stephanie asks all her guests: 1) Aside your diving gears, what are the 3 items that you always take on a diving trip? 2) What are your 3 top-tip on safe-diving practice? 3) What is your greatest fear? 4) What is your greatest extravagance? 5) What do you value most in friend? …
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