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Awake At Night

United Nations, Melissa Fleming

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What does it take to be a United Nations worker in some of the world’s most complex and dangerous places? How are UN humanitarians, human rights advocates, prosecutors, development experts, climate leaders and peacekeepers improving our world? Stationed in all reaches of the world and witness to suffering and atrocities, how are they helping people and coping themselves? To find out, Melissa Fleming meets them. Here you will discover extraordinary personal stories from people who devote thei ...
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webSYNradio

Dominique Balaÿ and the artists - http://synradio.fr/ - contact@websynradio.fr

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websynradio : a radio program hosted by Dominique Balaÿ. WebSYNradio is an independent radio program whose broadcast is streamed 24/7. WebSYNradio brings together propositions from artists or intellectuals that are for the most part well-established on the international scene.http://synradio.fr/ Parmi les artistes participants : 0 (Joël Merah, Stéphane Garin, Sylvain Chauveau), Adam Nankervis, Alan Dunn, Alfredo Costa Monteiro, Amanda Belantara, Anna O et Alain Descarmes, Anna Raimondo, Anne ...
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Aloha! If you ever wanted to know what its like to survey in Hawaii...THIS is the episode for YOU! The guys were joined this week by Meyer Cummins, Land Boundary Surveyor V in the Land Survey Division for the State of Hawaii and Craig Clouet, Data Scientist, State Disaster Management, State of Hawaii. Meyer is the son of two professional land surve…
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Through a skillful combination of economic and cultural history, this book describes the impact on Moldavia and Wallachia of steam navigation on the Danube. The Danube route integrated the two principalities into a dense network of European roads and waterways. From the 1830s to the 1860s, steamboat transport transformed time and space for the area…
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Emphasising the social, critical and situated dimensions of the urban, this comprehensive Research Handbook presents a unique collection of theoretical and empirical perspectives on urban sociology. Bringing together expert contributors from across the world, it provides a rich overview and research agenda for contemporary urban sociological schola…
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It's the season finally and Ed and OB discussed Ed's recent health updates, his dietary habits, and the challenges of raising children in the current times. They also engaged in a humorous conversation Killer Riley's hunting behavior and they explored the changing dynamics of parental involvement in their children's romantic lives. You can join the…
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A former child refugee, Mohamed Yahya knows the life-long pain of yearning for a lost home. That’s why some of his most emotional experiences with the United Nations have involved helping displaced people return to their towns years after they fled a brutal conflict. “A little bit of me was, I must say, envious of them, that they're able to go back…
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First and foremost DD is audio production challenged and apologizes for his shortcomings! Nonetheless...our good friend Joe Cherry, Project Manager at Cobb, Fendley & Associates, Inc. joined the conversation this week as PS takes yet another vacation. The guys welcomed Matt Aston, President of GPRS to the stage to talk all things GPRS! GPRS has bee…
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In this episode of the CEU Press Podcast, host Andrea Talabér (CEU Press/CEU Review of Books) sat down with Per Högselius and Achim Klüppelberg to discuss their new book with CEU Press entitled, The Soviet Nuclear Archipelago: A Historical Geography of Atomic-Powered Communism (CEU Press, 2023). The book is available Open Access, click here to down…
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Philippe Lazzarini holds one of the most challenging positions in the whole of the United Nations. As head of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), he is leading the backbone of the humanitarian operation in Gaza. “Ceasefire, ceasefire, ceasefire. If we have a ceasefire and the opening of the cr…
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Ok...this is NOT geospatially related. But when you get a chance to talk to a legit comedian like our good friend Guy Hannah, you don't say no! Now for the PSA..."The views and opinions expressed in this podcast are those of the individual speakers and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of the podcast hosts, producers, or sp…
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Singular Selves: An Introduction to Singles Studies (Routledge, 2024) edited By Ketaki Chowkhani and Craig Wynne examines, for perhaps the first time, singlehood at the intersections of race, media, language, culture, literature, space, health, and life satisfaction. It adopts an interdisciplinary approach, borrowing from sociology, literary studie…
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Conflict, humanitarian disasters, climate change. Our world and its people are facing huge challenges. Wherever and whenever crisis hits, the United Nations staff are both on the ground saving lives and negotiating at the highest levels to alleviate suffering. This work is only possible due to the personal sacrifices made every day by UN staff arou…
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Ed and O.B. Shared their experiences with the Mustang Harry and concerts at MSG. Ed continues his rants against beer vendors in large venues; expressing frustration with establishments that advertise a full bar but only offer canned cocktails. They also engaged in a nostalgic discussion about their favorite movies, focusing on the remake of "Roadho…
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Capitalism is not only an economic system but also a system of production and allocation of hope. In Egypt, a generation of young men desire fulfilling employment, meaningful relationships, and secure family life, yet find few paths to achieve this. In The Labor of Hope:: Meritocracy and Precarity in Egypt (Stanford UP, 2023), Harry Pettit follows …
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Antarctica is, and has always been, very much “for sale.” Whales, seals, and ice have all been marketed as valuable commodities, but so have the stories of explorers. The modern media industry developed in parallel with land-based Antarctic exploration, and early expedition leaders needed publicity to generate support for their endeavours. Their le…
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During the late Spanish colonial period, the Pacific Lowlands, also called the Greater Chocó, was famed for its rich placer deposits. Gold mined here was central to New Granada’s economy yet this Pacific frontier in today’s Colombia was considered the “periphery of the periphery.” Infamous for its fierce, unconquered Indigenous inhabitants and its …
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What's not to love about Shannon Conaway?!?!? Shannon is one of the Founding Partners and CEO of Conaway Geomatics, a Disable Veteran Business Enterprise. He is the son of a civil engineer and grew up loving surveying. In a geospatial world where big business and private equity are all the rage, Shannon and his team have figured out the recipe to c…
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In Seeking a Future for the Past: Space, Power, and Heritage in a Chinese City (U Michigan Press, 2024), Philipp Demgenski examines the complexities and changing sociopolitical dynamics of urban renewal in contemporary China. Drawing on ten years of ethnographic fieldwork in the northeastern Chinese city of Qingdao, the book tells the story of the …
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How did early moderns experience sense and space? How did the expanding cultural, political, and social horizons of the period emerge out of those experiences and further shape them? Senses of Space in the Early Modern World (Cambridge University Press, 2024) by Dr. Nicholas Terpstra takes an approach that is both global expansive and locally roote…
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ED and OB Discussed various topics including poor internet connection, their experiences with record stores, the impact of weather on their wardrobe choices, and their preferences regarding beer. They also delved into personal hygiene habits, food preferences at sports events, and discuss the feedback they received on vinyl.…
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In 1845 an expedition led by Sir John Franklin vanished in the Canadian Arctic. The enduring obsession with the Franklin mystery, and in particular Inuit information about its fate, is partly due to the ways in which information was circulated in these imperial spaces. Arctic Circles and Imperial Knowledge: The Franklin Family, Indigenous Intermedi…
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Podcast de Carl Stone pour websynradio : Aux alentours du Kamya bar, Carl Stone convoque pour ce programme original webSYNradio tout un ensemble d'oeuvres (Ros Bobos, Annie Gosflield, David Toop, Tanner Menard, Joseph Hammer, Ben Neill, Roger Kleier, Saunter Chihei Hatakeyama, Yann Novak, Robert Crouch, Chas Smith, Sawako, Richard Lainhart, et des …
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Why and how local coffee bars in Italy--those distinctively Italian social and cultural spaces--have been increasingly managed by Chinese baristas since the Great Recession of 2008? Italians regard espresso as a quintessentially Italian cultural product--so much so that Italy has applied to add Italian espresso to UNESCO's official list of intangib…
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What does living “precariously” mean in Casablanca? In 2014 it meant being labeled tcharmil (seeming to endanger public order) and swept up by the police, if you were an unemployed young man sporting a banda haircut and gathering with your mates on a street corner. Cristiana Strava witnessed this and other neglected aspects of urban vulnerability w…
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Well this was fun! The guys were joined this week by Ms. Jordyn Hjeldness (Jeldness). Jordyn is the epitome of what all young land surveyors should strive to be! She is well educated, has had great mentors, diverse project experiences and is passionate about all things land surveying! To say Jordyn is an adventurer and gets the most out of life wou…
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In 1911, as China was beset with challenges, a new generation of scholars considered a new problem: what to do with former imperial borders? How could China’s frontiers be considered part of the new nation? In Frontier Fieldwork: Building a Nation in China’s Borderlands 1919–45 (UBC Press, 2022), Andres Rodriguez looks at how students, travellers, …
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O.B. and Ed discuss the costs associated with school events, and their newfound interests in personal grooming. They are super excited by the community of listeners who interact with their team even addressing both positive and negative feedback. Lastly, they explored the unexpected growth in vinyl album sales over the past decade, debating whether…
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Greg Jarrell's book Our Trespasses: White Churches and the Taking of American Neighborhoods (Fortress Press, 2024) uncovers how race, geography, policy, and religion have created haunted landscapes in Charlotte, North Carolina, and throughout the United States. How do we value our lands, livelihoods, and communities? How does our theology inform ou…
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Another one for the ages! Would you expect anything less with TK?!? The guys were joined during National Surveyors Week and on Global Surveyors Day by the one and only Trent Keenan and his good friend Christian Cernauskas. Trent of course is the President of Diamondback Land Surveying, Creator of Mentoring Mondays, Roundtable Tuesdays and Wisdom We…
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What is a ‘drink map’? It may sound like a pub guide, yet it actually refers to a type of late nineteenth-century British map designed specifically to shock and shame people into drinking less. Drink Maps in Victorian Britain (Bodleian Library Publishing, 2024) by Kris Butler explores how drink maps of particular cities were published in an attempt…
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Podcast de DAVID FENECH pour webSYNradio. Avec des morceaux de The Monks, Andew Liles + Jean Hervé Péron, Glaxo Babies, Renaldo and the Loaf, Felix Kubin, Fritz Muller, Iggy + The Stooges, H.N.A.S, Volcano the Bear, Nervous Norvus, Jac Berrocal + David Fenech + Ghédalia Tazartès, Connan Mockasin, Brigitte Fontaine, Colin Stetson, Jr + His Soulettes…
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What an honor! The guys (and Dr. Nik) were joined this week by Rick Smith, Executive Director & Philippe Tissot, Chair of Coastal Artificial Intelligence at Conrad Blucher Institute, Texas A&M - Corpus Christi. There is so much to glean from this episode...what a "research institute" actual does, history of CBI, current key initiatives as they rela…
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There is a growing consensus that environmental narratives can help catalyze the social change necessary to address today's environmental crises; however, surprisingly little is known about their impact and effectiveness. In Empirical Ecocriticism, Matthew Schneider-Mayerson, Alexa Weik von Mossner, W. P. Malecki, and Frank Hakemulder combine an en…
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Ed's announce his decision about his participate in next years Daytona 500 trip. Then comes the topic of the day, 1 space after a period or 2? OB and Ed also reminisced about the use of physical maps and printed directions before GPS and smartphones, and delved into the financial implications of paper and the transition to just-in-time inventory. N…
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Just another guest that is smarter than DD & PS combined! The guys were joined this week by Sam Hashemi. Sam has not only worked with NASA to develop apps for the International Space Station, he is also the CEO & Co-founder of Felt! What is Felt you ask? Only one of the coolest new mapping products on the planet that you probably haven't heard abou…
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Forests of Refuge: Decolonizing Environmental Governance in the Amazonian Guiana Shield (U California Press, 2024) questions the effectiveness of market-based policies that govern forests in the interest of mitigating climate change. Yolanda Ariadne Collins interrogates the most ambitious global plan to incentivize people away from deforesting acti…
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In response to student demands reflecting the urgency of societal and ecological problems, universities are making a burgeoning effort to infuse environmental sustainability efforts with social justice. In this edited volume, we extend calls for higher education leaders to revamp programming, pedagogy, and research that problematically reproduce do…
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The Spatiality and Temporality of Urban Violence: Histories, Rhythms and Ruptures (Manchester UP, 2023) asks how the city, with its spatial and temporal configuration and its rhythms, produces and shapes violence, both in terms of the built environment, and through particular 'urban' social relations. The book builds on the insight that violence it…
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