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AT#388 - Travel to the Island of Shikoku, Japan

Hear about travel to the Island of Shikoku, Japan as the Amateur Traveler talks to Dan from Chicago about his recent trip back to the island. Dan also worked teaching English on Shikoku in the city of Imabari. Shikoku is the 4th largest of the islands in Japan and just across the from Hiroshima. Shikoku is mountainous, more traditional and more rural than the areas of Japan more tourists know.




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AT#402- Travel to the Windward Islands of the Lesser Antilles in the Caribbean

Hear about travel to the Windward Islands of the Lesser Antilles in the Caribbean as the Amateur Traveler talks to Gary Arndt about his journey to visit many of the islands in the Caribbean on a single trip. In this episode we talk about Dominica, Martinique, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Grenada, Barbados, and Trinidad. This episode is a continuation of episode 386 which talked about the Leeward Islands.




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AT#403 - Travel to the Island of Socotra and Yemen

Hear about travel to the Island of Socotra and Yemen as the Amateur Traveler talks to Earl from WanderingEarl.com about a visit to this isolated island best known for its production of frankincense. The island is quite isolated and a third of its plant life is found nowhere else on the planet. With trees like the umbrella-shaped dragon’s blood tree it has been described as the most alien-looking place on Earth.




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AT#410 - Travel to Indonesia and the Island of Komodo

Hear about travel to Indonesia as the Amateur Traveler talks to repeat guest Chris Willis about his trip to Indonesia. The main objective of Chris’s trip was to photograph Komodo dragons in the wild. Komodo dragons live on 2-3 islands which are not near any airport so getting there is half the experience.




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AT#447 - Travel to the Island of Madeira

Hear about travel to the island of Madeira as the Amateur Traveler talks to Jörgen Abrahamsson who is a tour guide from Tue Nordic in this small Portuguese possession.

 




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AT#457 - Travel to the Island of Cebu in the Philippines

Hear about travel to the region around Island of Cebu as the Amateur Traveler talks to Tommo & Megsy from fivedollartraveller.com about their vacation in Visayas, the central group of islands in the Philippines. They visited the islands of Bohol, Cebu and Negros. 




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AT#463 - Travel to the Cayman Islands

Hear about travel to the Cayman Islands as the Amateur Traveler talks to Kendra Pierre-Louis from kendrawrites.com about her trip to this island paradise.

 




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AT#484 - Travel to Mackinac Island (and Michigan's Upper Peninsula)

Hear about travel to Michigan's Upper Peninsula (the UP)  as the Amateur Traveler talks to Jennifer Schuitema from Grand Rapids Michigan about travel to the northern remote part of the Great Lake State.

 




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AT#493 - Travel to the Aeolian Islands

Hear about travel to the Aeolian Islands as the Amateur Traveler talks to Rick Zullo from rickzullo.com about these historic but lesser known islands off the coast of Sicily.




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AT#518 - Travel to the Island of Kauai

Hear about travel to the Island of Kauai as the Amateur Traveler talks to Betsy and Pete Wuebker from PassingThru.com about the Garden Island. 




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AT#557 - Travel to the Sea Islands of Georgia and South Carolina

Hear about travel to the "Sea Islands" off the coats of Georgia and South Carolina as the Amateur Traveler talks to Ruby & Peter from ajourneywelove.com about their travels in this archipelago.




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AT#572 - Travel to the Lofoten Islands of Norway

Hear about travel to the Lofoten Islands of Norway as the Amateur Traveler talks to David Nikel, author of the Moon guide to Norway, about one of his favorite regions in that beautiful country.




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AT#582 - Travel to Providence, Rhode Island

Hear about travel to Providence, Rhode Island as the Amateur Traveler talks to Tamara Gruber from we3travel.com and the Vacation Mavens podcast about travel other home town.




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AT#601 - Travel to the Island of Crete in Greece

Hear about travel to the Island of Crete in Greece as the Amateur Traveler talks to Elizabeth from compassandfork.com about her travels to this special Greek Island.




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AT#616 - Travel to the Island of Sumatra, Indonesia

Hear about travel to the island of Sumatra in Indonesia as the Amateur Traveler talks to Luke Mackin from wildsumatra.com about this far-flung destination he now calls home.




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AT#620 - Sail the Virgin Islands

Hear about travel to the U.S. and British Virgin Islands as the Amateur Traveler talks to Captain Shane McClellan about a sailing trip to the area.




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AT#629 - Travel to the Big Island of Hawaii

Hear about travel to the Big Island of Hawaii as the Amateur Traveler talks to Justin Barnes from justinandcrystal.com about his island home.




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AT#645 - Travel to The Island of Samos, Greece

Hear about travel to The Island of Samos in Greece and the vicinity as the Amateur Traveler talks to Dan from the Zipping Around the World podcast about this part of the Greek Islands. 




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AT#680 - Travel to the Canary Islands

Hear about travel to the Canary Islands as the Amateur Traveler talks to Alice Ford from alicesadventuresonearth.com about the best of the Canary Islands.




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1 dead after train slams into pickup truck near Brooks, Alta.

RCMP say a 50-year-old man died and a 60-year-old man is in hospital following a crash involving a CP Rail train Friday morning.





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Attorney for Jailed Dallas Salon Owner Shelley Luther Slams Obama Loyalist Judge as a “Tiny Tyrant”

The following article, Attorney for Jailed Dallas Salon Owner Shelley Luther Slams Obama Loyalist Judge as a “Tiny Tyrant”, was first published on 100PercentFedUp.com.

Warren Norred, attorney for Shelley Luther, joined Tucker Carlson to discuss the decision by an Obama loyalist Texas judge to jail his client for reopening her salon during the COVID-19 pandemic. Norred said the judge has exposed himself for the “tiny tyrant” that he is. The judge jailed Luther and even fined her $7,000. Texas […]

Continue reading: Attorney for Jailed Dallas Salon Owner Shelley Luther Slams Obama Loyalist Judge as a “Tiny Tyrant” ...




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Lysine Propionylation and Butyrylation Are Novel Post-translational Modifications in Histones

Yue Chen
May 1, 2007; 6:812-819
Research




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It's a man's world: carnal spectatorship and dissonant masculinities in Islamic State videos

7 May 2020 , Volume 96, Number 3

Manni Crone

Islamic State videos have often been associated with savage violence and beheadings. An in-depth scrutiny however reveals another striking feature: that female bodies are absent, blurred or mute. Examining a few Islamic State videos in depth, the article suggests that the invisibility of women in tandem with the ostentatious visibility of male bodies enable gendered and embodied spectators to indulge in homoerotic as well as heterosexual imaginaries. In contrast to studies on visual security and online radicalization which assert that images affect an audience, this article focuses on the interaction between video and audience and argues that spectators are not only rational and emotional but embodied and gendered as well. Islamic State videos do not only attract western foreign fighters through religious–ideological rhetoric or emotional impact but also through gendered forms of pleasure and desire that enable carnal imagination and identification. The article probes the analytical purchase of carnal aesthetics and spectatorship.




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Reviews: Crime writing in translation

3 June 2013 , Volume 69, Number 3

Dark creations of European authors tell us much about our own world

Barry Forshaw, author

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After the Breivik killings Jo Nesbø was the pundit called in to discuss the Far Right. Photo: Adrian Dennis/AFP/Getty Images




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Islamism and Its Alternatives in the GCC

Research Event

14 December 2014 - 9:00am to 15 December 2014 - 2:00pm

Doha, Qatar

This expert-level workshop will bring together around 30 Gulf scholars, experts and practitioners from a variety of professional and academic backgrounds to share their analysis and research on the role of Islam in social and political movements in the GCC countries, as well as alternatives to Islamism. It will place political Islam in historical context, explore the differences between different strands of political Islam and the ways in which different country contexts have shaped the behaviour of movements that claim to have religious legitimacy, such as the institutions and legal regulations governing political movements.

This event is part of Chatham House’s Future Trends in the GCC research project, and is held in partnership with Qatar University’s Gulf Studies Center in Doha, Qatar.

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Thematic review series: Lipid Posttranslational Modifications. Protein palmitoylation by a family of DHHC protein S-acyltransferases

David A. Mitchell
Jun 1, 2006; 47:1118-1127
Thematic Reviews




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It's a man's world: carnal spectatorship and dissonant masculinities in Islamic State videos

7 May 2020 , Volume 96, Number 3

Manni Crone

Islamic State videos have often been associated with savage violence and beheadings. An in-depth scrutiny however reveals another striking feature: that female bodies are absent, blurred or mute. Examining a few Islamic State videos in depth, the article suggests that the invisibility of women in tandem with the ostentatious visibility of male bodies enable gendered and embodied spectators to indulge in homoerotic as well as heterosexual imaginaries. In contrast to studies on visual security and online radicalization which assert that images affect an audience, this article focuses on the interaction between video and audience and argues that spectators are not only rational and emotional but embodied and gendered as well. Islamic State videos do not only attract western foreign fighters through religious–ideological rhetoric or emotional impact but also through gendered forms of pleasure and desire that enable carnal imagination and identification. The article probes the analytical purchase of carnal aesthetics and spectatorship.




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Islam, Immigration and Identity in Europe




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A Divided Island: Sri Lanka's Constitutional Crisis




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Iran, Islam and Democracy: The Politics of Managing Change 20 Years On




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Undercurrents: Episode 43 - The UK Election, and Svyatoslav Vakarchuk on the Future of Ukraine




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Episode 35: 12 Years A Slave


  • 12 Years A Slave Review
  • What We Watched: Seduced and Abandoned, Bad Granpda, Grave Encounters, Carrie, Oliver Stone's Untold History of the United States, Adventure Time, Chopping Mall, Frenzy, The Halloween Tree, Sisters, Altered States, Sleepaway Camp, American Mary, Friday the 13th IV: The Final Chapter, Cannibal Holocaust, Prince of Darkness & The Fog. 




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The report of the workshop on developing capacity for national border controls on living modified organisms in small island developing States in the Caribbean is available.




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The report of the workshop on developing capacity for national border controls on living modified organisms in Pacific small island developing States is now available.




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CBD News: Statement by Ahmed Djoghlaf, Executive Secretary, at the Meeting of Steering Committee Global Form on Oceans, Coasts and Islands, Washington DC, USA, 5 - 6 February 2009.




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CBD News: Welcoming Remarks by the Executive Secretary, Ahmed Djoghlaf, at the Opening of the Pacific Islands Subregional Workshop on Protected Areas, Nadi, Fiji, 9-12 February 2009.




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CBD News: Statement by Dr Ahmed Djoghlaf, Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity, on the occasion of the International Workshop on the Future of the CBD Programme of Work on Protected Areas, 14 September 2009, Jeju Island, South Kor




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CBD Communiqué: Brazil Launched the Portuguese Translation of the Third Edition of the Global Biodiversity Outlook (GBO-3).




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CBD News: Statement by Mr Ahmed Djoghlaf, CBD Executive Secretary, on the occasion of Regional Workshop Training to Support The Preparation of the State of the World's Forest Genetic Resources in the Pacific, 19-21 January 2011, Nadi, Fiji Islands.




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CBD Communiqué: Translating the Aichi Biodiversity Targets into National Realities: Japan Biodiversity Fund Fully Operational.




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CBD Communiqué: East African Legislative Assembly prepares resolution on Nagoya Protocol




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CBD Communiqué: Antigua and Barbuda becomes the first Caribbean island country to sign the Nagoya Protocol on Access to Genetic Resources and the Fair and Equitable Sharing of Benefits Arising from Their Utilization




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CBD News: Statement by Mr. Braulio Ferreira de Souza Dias, CBD Executive Secretary, on the occasion of the World Summit of Legislators, 16 June 2012, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil




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CBD News: Islands and their surrounding near-shore marine areas constitute unique irreplaceable ecosystems often comprising many plant and animal species that are found nowhere else on Earth. They are also key to the livelihood, economy, well-being and cu




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CBD News: On the International Day for Biological Diversity, celebrated under the theme of Island Biodiversity, islands are taking action to effectively conserve biodiversity and promote sustainable livelihoods. These actions, or "Bright Spots,"




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CBD News: Islands are taking action to effectively conserve biodiversity and promote sustainable livelihoods. Despite significant vulnerabilities facing islands, leaders of island countries and countries with islands have made visionary commitments at loc




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CBD News: Opening Statement by Mr. Braulio Ferreira de Souza Dias, CBD Executive Secretary, to the Seventh Plenary Session of the Third United Nations Small Island Developing States (UN SIDS) Conference, Apia, Samoa, 4 September 2014




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CBD News: The signature on 15 November 2014 of a Memorandum of Understanding between the two organisations will ensure joint implementation of the Pacific region's Framework for Nature Conservation and Protected Areas in the Pacific Island Region 2014




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CBD News: Statement of the Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity on the occasion of the Sustainable Ocean Initiative / Pacific Ocean Alliance Regional Workshop for the Pacific Islands, 31 October to 4 November 2016, Apia, Samoa