Learning about Politics

Visit http://www.systemswiki.org/index.php?title=Gardens_of_Democracy This is the focus page for  The Gardens of Democracy LinkedIn discussions.  Systems Thinking World and  TED: Ideas Worth Spreading discussion posts will be woven into the debategraph based on perceived relevance. If this is your first visit to this page please read the info below the debategraph. The debategraph is structured to the chapters of [...]

Source:  http://ecomuseum.gr   KAMINARI Rhodes Open-Air Village Museum A journey back in time demonstrating rural life of the late 19th and early 20th centuries in Rhodes island. I represent a team of locally-born people of Rhodes Island, Greece that decided about three years ago to become involved with the concept of green development on our Island. The main driving [...]

Place: a Romanian in Greece By Alexandra Pintea   Greece, a country with ancient history, beautiful islands and clear waters…for most of the people there are the symbols of the Greek culture. For me though, Greece represents a possibility to escape the Romanian reality, a chance to make a career in tourism and the best environment to make [...]

by prof. Ferrario Paolo   When I was asked to write a piece about storytelling, I must confess I was taken quite aback. “Let it grow in your mind” I said to myself, “Let your mind roam, something will come out of it!”. Story reading, story writing, story listening, story telling … stories… .   Just some [...]

Place: A Lithuanian in Greece   Migration is a very natural state. It is a big part of evolution. People were moving in order to survive since the Stone Age. It turned into a problem after the birth of nationalism. In the early 19th century when countries started shrinking and creating also called ‘national identity’ a [...]

Place: Stories told by German-Turkish couples in Germany (Part II) by Pekka Kämäräinen This story focuses on the relations between Germans and German Turks and on cross-border marriages. The story is told by a young couple who knows it from both sides: Thomas is German and he has grown up in Germany. Remzye is Turk and has [...]

Place: Stories told by German-Turkish couples living in Germany (Part I) by Pekka Kämäräinen This story draws attention to the relations between Germans and Germaners ( Deutschländer, Almancilar ) as the children of Turkish migrants are sometimes called. The story is told by a couple who knows it from both sides: Hüseyin is the son of a Turkish father [...]

Place: Turkish ‘Gastarbeiter’ families in Germany between different identities (“Germans or Turks”) by Pekka Kämäräinen So far the postings on this story have presented different episodes of refugees’ life stories – critical situations or moments of relief. We have also presented insights into migrant communities and into grassroot intiatives that seek to promote integration. Focusing on episodes [...]

Today we saw a short motivational film roadtripnation.org.  It was a collection of stories from various walks on life, as seen and interviewed by teenagers.  The purpose of this film was to create and support motivation for LLL for young people searching for their place in life.

It’s important to keep things in perspective.

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According to Twitter, a new record was set between the beginning and end of Presindent’s Obama’s speech on the incident, reaching a number of more than 4,000 tweets per second (TPS).

Other events that registered such a high number of tweets per second were the Japanese earthquake and the SuperBowl.