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The world is set to witness another major battle of ODI cricket. The third ODI of Bangladesh's tour of New Zealand 2021 is scheduled to take place on Friday, March 26, 2021 at the Basin Reserve, Wellington. Today we are predicting the safe, secure and accurate posting matches of all matches in Bangladesh and New Zealand.
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New Zealand had won both the one-day matches played previously and also won the 2–0 ODI series. He won the second match by a brilliant five-wicket margin. He won the toss and decided to field first. The performance of his bowling unit was not impressive. He leaked 271 runs in his 20-over innings. For him, Mitchell Santner was the highest wicket taker who took two wickets for 51 runs in 10 overs. In the previous match, Kyle Jamieson, Matt Henry and Trent Bault took one wicket each.
New Zealand won the last match due to the best performance by their batting order. He chased down a target of 272 runs in 48.2 overs. Captain, Letham was the most successful and most run-scorer for his side, scoring 110 runs. He faced 108 deliveries and hit 10 fours during his innings. He did not stay out to chase the target. Devon Conway also performed brilliantly with the bat. He scored 72 runs off 93 balls with the help of seven fours. James Neesham scored 30 runs while Martin Guptill scored 20 runs.
Bangladesh had failed to deliver the best performance in this tour of New Zealand. He had lost the ODI series and now, he is in danger of a clean sweep. He was defeated in the second ODI by a stunning five-wicket margin. His batting order performed well in that match. He scored a total of 271 runs in his 50-over innings. His side scored the most runs by captain Tamim Iqbal, who scored 78 runs. He faced 108 deliveries and hit 11 fours during his innings. Mohammad Mithun had also done well with the bat in the previous match. He scored 73 runs while he faced 57 balls and hit six fours and two sixes.
Bangladesh's bowling department failed to perform well in the second match. They failed to defend the target of 272 runs and leaked the target in 48.2 overs. Maheedi Hasan was the most successful bowler for him, taking two wickets in his 10 overs, while he was charged for 42 runs. Mustafizur Rahman also took two wickets, while he scored a lot of runs. He was accused of conceding 62 runs in 8.3 overs thrown by him. Taskeen Ahmed, Mohammad Saifuddin, Mehdi Hasan, Mohammad Mithun and Soumya Sarkar were the bowlers who failed to take any wickets.
For a few moments, it seemed that Bangladesh would be able to challenge New Zealand and register their first ODI win against the home team in New Zealand, though this did not happen. To be honest, Bangladesh were a bit conservative with their batting approach on a pitch where 300 was the minimum they should have been aiming to do.
Mohammad Mithun, playing an aggressive inning of 73 runs in 57 balls, showed that scoring was not very difficult.
Hopefully, Tamim Iqbal, Linton Das, and Soumya Sarkar can give the team a better start in this last ODI. With Mushfiqur, Mahmudullah, and Mithun in the lower order, Bangladesh's batting depth is certainly good. A little confidence and some intentions are needed at the top.
Bangladesh's bowling continues unabated and we fail to see how the next match is going to change. Mehedi Hasan was the bowler to take two wickets in an over and Mehdi Hasan also bowled well. However, the fast bowlers were ineffective and lacked the tools to succeed regularly.
Bangladesh's strength is spin and basically, the batsmen have to get into trouble for the wickets but in New Zealand, it is not easy to do so. Another difficult thing for his bowlers.
The New Zealand bowlers came to some punishment in their match against Bangladesh. Not only were they able to take wickets very quickly, but they also gave away a lot of balls till the end. As a result, he won 271, a below-par total, but still one that a pair of his batsmen needed to score big.
The batting effort would have pleased New Zealand as Devon Conway and Tom Latham helped their team overcome a difficult situation and eventually won the match easily. This side of New Zealand has a lot of depth and even without Kane Williamson or Ross Taylor, the batting is absolutely solid. We think a big score for Martin Guptill will be the only thing on the New Zealand wish list that is still incomplete. Bowling can happen on flat tracks that suit New Zealand and so we don't think they'll be worried about some poor performances. There is still too much quality in this lineup for Bangladesh for most of the day.
As per our prediction today, New Zealand is the favorite team to win this match. There are many factors that make New Zealand a favorite team to win this match.
New Zealand had won both the one-day matches played earlier and also the series
New Zealand is playing in domestic conditions which can support this team
Devon Conway, Henry Nicholls, and Martin Guptill are in good form for New Zealand.
Bangladesh has an average batting and bowling team
New Zealand has a strong batting order
The bowling unit of New Zealand is also strong and in good form.
Tamim Iqbal (c),
Liton Das,
Soumya Sarkar,
Mushfiqur Rahim (wk),
Mohammad Mithun,
Mahmudullah,
Mehidy Hasan,
Mahedi Hasan, Taskin Ahmed,
Hasan Mahmud,
Mustafizur Rahman,
Najmul Hossain Shanto,
Mosaddek Hossain,
Mohammad Saifuddin,
Afif Hossain, Mohammad Naim,
Shoriful Islam,
Nasum Ahmed ,
Al-Amin Hossain,
Rubel Hossain.
Martin Guptill,
Henry Nicholls,
Devon Conway,
Will Young,
Tom Latham (c & wk),
James Neesham,
Daryl Mitchell,
Mitchell Santner,
Kyle Jamieson,
Matt Henry,
Trent Boult,
Tim Southee,
Mark Chapman
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Newton Leroy "Newt" Gingrich [] (* 17. Juni 1943 in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, als Newton Leroy McPherson) ist ein US-amerikanischer Politiker der Republikanischen Partei. Von 1979 bis 1999 war er für seine Partei Kongressabgeordneter des Bundesstaates Georgia und von 1995 bis 1999 Sprecher des Repräsentantenhauses. Danach nutzte er seinen Einfluss auf politische Entscheidungsträger in Washington zur politischen Einflussnahme auf den Reglementierungsprozess im Interesse von Unternehmen, wie z. B. Freddie Mac.

Gingrich veröffentlichte als Autor bzw. Co-Autor bisher 23 Bücher, von welchen 13 zeitweise in der Bestsellerliste der New York Times vertreten waren.

Gingrich nahm an den Vorwahlen zur US-Präsidentschaftswahl 2012 teil, gab aber im Mai 2012 nach einer Reihe von Niederlagen seine Bemühungen auf und unterstützte danach offiziell Mitt Romney.

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Jugend und Ausbildung
Newt Gingrich ist der Sohn von Newton Searles McPherson und Kathleen Daugherty. Seine Eltern heirateten im September 1942, als McPherson 19 und Daugherty 16 Jahre alt waren. Die Ehe endete bereits am dritten Tag nach der Hochzeit, nachdem McPherson seine junge Frau geschlagen hatte; Daugherty war zu diesem Zeitpunkt bereits schwanger. Newt Gingrich kam am 17. Juni 1943 zur Welt. Bis sie drei Jahre später Robert Gingrich heiratete, zog seine Mutter ihren Sohn zunächst alleine auf. Robert Gingrich adoptierte seinen Stiefsohn später und gab seinen Namen an ihn weiter. Sein leiblicher Vater willigte in die Adoption ein, weil er danach keinen Unterhalt mehr zahlen musste.

Während seiner Präsidentschaftskandidatur 2012 behauptete Gingrich zwar, dass er eine idyllische Kindheit gehabt habe. Tatsächlich wuchs er während Teilen seiner Kindheit jedoch unter vergleichsweise ärmlichen Bedingungen in einer Wohnung oberhalb einer Tankstelle in der kleinen Stadt Hummelstown in Pennsylvania auf. Der Umgangston in der Familie war rau. Sein Stiefvater, ein Armeeoffizier, war tyrannisch streng, seine Mutter manisch-depressiv. Gingrich wuchs ohne Geschwister auf. Erst 1966, als er in New Orleans studierte, bekam das Ehepaar ein weiteres Kind. Seine Halbschwester Candace ist heute eine Aktivistin der US-amerikanischen Lesben- und Schwulenbewegung.

Als Kind einer Militärfamilie zog Gingrich oftmals um und besuchte Schulen verschiedener Militäreinrichtungen. Eine dieser Einrichtungen war die Pattonville High School, einer zivilen Siedlung für das US-Militär und deren Angehörige, welche auf dem Gelände der Gemarkung Remseck-Aldingen lag. Während des Wahlkampfs zwischen Richard Nixon und John F. Kennedy im Jahre 1960 arbeitete er in einem Kampagnenteam für Nixon mit. Nach seinem Schulabschluss an der Baker High School in Columbus, Georgia, 1961 besuchte Gingrich die Emory University in Atlanta, von der er 1965 einen B.A. erhielt. Bereits während seiner Highschool-Zeit ging er heimlich mit seiner Geometrielehrerin Jackie Battley aus, beide heirateten 1962. Gingrich war zu diesem Zeitpunkt 19 und Battley 26 Jahre alt. Als verheirateter Mann wurde Gingrich nicht eingezogen, um Militärdienst in Vietnam zu leisten. Sein Studium an der Tulane University in New Orleans schloss er 1968 mit einem Mastertitel und 1971 mit einem Ph.D. in Neuerer europäischer Geschichte ab (Belgian Education Policy in the Congo: 1945–1960). Den Lebensunterhalt des Paares verdiente in dieser Zeit Battley.

Beruflicher Werdegang

Wissenschaft
Von 1970 bis 1978 unterrichtete Gingrich Geschichte an der University of West Georgia in Carrollton. 1993 erteilte er einen Kurs über die "Erneuerung der amerikanischen Zivilisation" an der Kennesaw State University.

Öffentliche Ämter
1974 und 1976 kandidierte Gingrich erfolglos um das Mandat im US-Repräsentantenhaus für den sechsten Wahlbezirk von Georgia, der sich von den südlichen Vororten von Atlanta bis zur Grenze mit Alabama erstreckte. Beide Male verlor er gegen den Amtsinhaber, den Demokraten John James Flynt. 1978 ließ sich Flynt nicht mehr als Kandidat aufstellen, und Gingrich gewann die Wahl gegen die demokratische Staatssenatorin Virginia Shapard, eine Befürworterin einer Verfassungsänderung für geschlechtliche Gleichberechtigung, welche in diesem konservativen Wahlbezirk keine Unterstützung fand. Gingrich wurde sechs Mal in seinem Wahlbezirk wiedergewählt. Gingrich galt als Vertreter des neuen Südens. Er vertrat keine extremen religiösen Ansichten und schien liberal in Rassenfragen. Gingrich wurde erstmals Mitglied des Repräsentantenhauses, als Fernsehsender begannen, die Diskussionen live zu übertragen. Gingrich, zu diesem Zeitpunkt ein unbedeutender Hinterbänkler, wusste diese Möglichkeiten für sich zu nutzen. Er hielt am Ende der Diskussionen im Repräsentantenhaus Reden, die in den Medien zunehmendes Interesse fanden. Der Journalist George Packer argumentiert, dass Gingrich früher als andere Politiker verstand, dass Wähler sich zunehmend weniger ihren lokalen politischen Vertretern verpflichtet fühlten, sondern ihre Informationen zunehmend allein aus dem Fernsehen bezogen und immer weniger rationalen Argumenten zugänglich waren, sondern auf Symbole und Emotionen reagierten. Es war auch einfacher, Personen zu Wahlkampfspenden zu bewegen, wenn Politik als eine einfache Wahl zwischen Gut und Böse dargestellt wurde.

Gingrich war von 1995 bis 1999 Sprecher des Repräsentantenhauses. Mit ihm wird die Republican Revolution assoziiert, die im Wahlkampf um den Kongress 1994 erstmals seit vier Jahrzehnten zu einer republikanischen Mehrheit führte. 1995 wählte ihn das Magazin Time zur "Person des Jahres". Er spielte anschließend eine führende Rolle in der gescheiterten Amtsenthebung von Präsident Bill Clinton wegen der Lewinsky-Affäre, musste sich jedoch zu gleicher Zeit selbst wegen einer eigenen außerehelichen Affäre aus der Politik zurückziehen.

Lobbyismus
Seit 1999 arbeitet Gingrich als Politikberater und TV-Kommentator und erhielt von der US-amerikanischen Hypothekenbank Freddie Mac zwischen 1,6 und 1,8 Millionen Dollar für "strategische Beratung". Nach Einschätzung des New York Times-Kolumnisten Timothy Egan bestand diese in politischer Einflussnahme auf den Reglementierungsprozess im Sinne von Freddie Mac.

Seine Tochter Kathy Gingrich Lubbers war die Präsidentin von Gingrich Communications, einer PR-Agentur mit zuletzt 15 Mitarbeitern, die 2011 vor dem Beginn von Gingrichs Präsidentschaftskampagne geschlossen wurde. Vor dem Beginn seiner Kampagne war Gingrich nach Recherche des Senders CNN für und in rund 25 Positionen und Unternehmen tätig. Er selbst bzw. Familienmitglieder gründeten mehrere Unternehmen und Institutionen, die im Umfeld des politischen Meinungsbildungsprozesses in Washington aktiv waren bzw. sind. Hierbei kam es zu teilweise erheblichen Zahlungen von gemeinnützigen an gewinnorientierte Einrichtungen, die diesem Umfeld entsprangen. Beispielsweise zahlte die gemeinnützige Organisation Renewing American Leadership der "Gingrich Communications" im Verlauf von zwei Jahren rund 200.000 US-Dollar. Die gleiche gemeinnützige Organisation überließ Gingrich die geldwerte Liste ihrer Spender zur kommerziellen Verwertung in seinen Unternehmen.

Kandidatur 2012

Seine Wahlkampfposition wurde Anfang Januar 2012 durch eine Fünf-Millionen-Dollar-Spende des Multimilliardärs Sheldon Adelson verbessert. Später spendeten Adelson und seine Ehefrau,  Miriam Adelson, weitere zehn Millionen Dollar an Gingrich. Auf die Frage, was sie sich als Gegenleistung erhofften, antwortete Adelson: "Nichts, ich will nur einen Mann unterstützen, der meine Vision von Amerika teilt." Gingrich wurden Chancen auf den Sieg im Rennen um die Kandidatur der Republikaner (Vorwahl) nachgesagt.

Nach einem deutlichen Sieg bei den republikanischen Vorwahlen in South Carolina am 21. Januar 2012 galt er als möglicher nächster Bewerber der Republikaner um die US-Präsidentschaft. Nachdem Gingrich bei den Vorwahlen in Florida am 31. Januar 2012 nur 31 % der Stimmen erhielt und sein Konkurrent Mitt Romney 46 %, galt dieser als Favorit.

Sebastian Fischer und Marc Pitzke schrieben auf Spiegel Online: "Der Verlierer verkennt die Signale: Trotz seiner deftigen Vorwahl-Niederlage in Florida will Newt Gingrich nicht aufgeben. […] Nach seinem 46-Prozent-Triumph […] ist Romney die Kandidatur wohl nicht mehr zu nehmen."

Am 2. Mai 2012 gab Gingrich offiziell seine Kandidatur zur US-Präsidentschaftswahl auf und unterstützte ab diesem Zeitpunkt Mitt Romney. Er hatte in den Vorwahlen außer South Carolina nur seinen Heimatstaat Georgia gewonnen.

US-Präsidentschaftswahlkampf 2016
Nachdem er während des US-Präsidentschaftswahlkampfes 2016 Donald Trump beraten hatte, schloss er sich dessen Kampagne an und sprach auch auf dessen Veranstaltungen. Gingrich forderte die Republikaner auf, sich Trump anzuschließen und war einer der engsten Kandidaten als dessen Running Mate.

Im Oktober 2016 interviewte Megyn Kelly Newt Gingrich in der Show The Kelly File bezüglich der unanständigen Kommentare, die Trump 2005 über Frauen gemacht hatte und die 2016 veröffentlicht wurden. Gingrich warf ihr daraufhin Sexfaszination vor.

Nach dem Wahlsieg Donald Trumps im November 2016 regte Gingrich an, ein Komitee für unamerikanische Umtriebe wieder einzuführen.

Privates
Gingrich ist das dritte Mal verheiratet. Von Jackie Battley ließ er sich nach fünfzehnjähriger Ehe 1977 scheiden. Der Scheidung waren bereits mehrere außereheliche Affären vorausgegangen. In der Öffentlichkeit wurde sein Privatleben insbesondere ein Thema, als 1992 sein demokratischer Gegner Tony Center einen Werbespot schaltete, der die Behauptung enthielt, Gingrich habe "seiner Frau am Tag nach ihrer Krebsoperation Scheidungspapiere zukommen lassen". Die Behauptung war in dieser Form nicht korrekt. Freunde Gingrichs gaben später an, er habe Details der Scheidung mit seiner damals getrennt lebenden Ehefrau im Krankenhaus besprochen, wo sich diese von einem Uteruskarzinom erholte. 1981 heiratete er Marianne Ginther, von der er sich 1999 scheiden ließ. Er hatte damals eine Affäre mit Callista Bisek, einer 33-jährigen Mitarbeiterin im US-Kongress, welche er im darauffolgenden Jahr heiratete. Aus seiner Ehe mit Battley hat er zwei verheiratete Töchter, Kathy und Jackie.

Rom
Im Jahr 2017 hat Donald Trump Callista Gingrich zur Botschafterin der USA beim Heiligen Stuhl ernannt. Newt Gingrich nahm an der Vereidigung seiner Frau im Weißen Haus teil und folgte ihr dann nach Rom. McKay Coppins schrieb in der Zeitschrift The Atlantic, Newt Gingrich sei der ,Schattenbotschafter' (shadow ambassador) und Callista werde insgesamt eher als das zeremonielle Gesicht der Botschaft betrachtet (is generally viewed as the ceremonial face of the embassy). Callista Gingrich hatte die Funktion der Botschafterin bis 2021 inne. Mit der Wahl Joe Bidens zum neuen US-Präsidenten wurde sie abgelöst, und das Ehepaar kehrte in die USA zurück.

Werke (Auszug)

Sachbücher
 The Government's Role in Solving Societal Problems. Associated Faculty Press, Incorporated, 1982, ISBN 0-86733-026-0
 Window of Opportunity. Tom Doherty Associates, 1985, ISBN 0-312-93923-X
 Contract with America. (Mitherausgeber), Times Books, 1994, ISBN 0-8129-2586-6
 Restoring the Dream. Times Books, 1995, ISBN 0-8129-2666-8
 Quotations from Speaker Newt. Workman Publishing Company, 1995, ISBN 0-7611-0092-X
 To Renew America. Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1996, ISBN 0-06-109539-7
 Lessons Learned the Hard Way. HarperCollins Publishers, 1998, ISBN 0-06-019106-6
 Presidential Determination Regarding Certification of the Thirty-Two Major Illicit Narcotics Producing and Transit Countries. DIANE Publishing Company, 1999, ISBN 0-7881-3186-9
 Saving Lives and Saving Money. Alexis de Tocqueville Institution, 2003, ISBN 0-9705485-4-0
 Winning the Future. Regnery Publishing, 2005, ISBN 0-89526-042-5
 Rediscovering God in America: Reflections on the Role of Faith in Our Nation's History and Future. Integrity Publishers, 2006, ISBN 1-59145-482-4
 A Contract with the Earth. Johns Hopkins Press, 2007, ISBN 978-0-8018-8780-2
 Real Change: From the World that Fails to the World that Works. Regnery Publishing, 2008, ISBN 978-1-59698-053-2

Belletristik
Gingrich veröffentlichte als Co-Autor zusammen mit William R. Forstchen und Albert S. Hanser mehrere Science-Fiction-Romane. Sie erzählen historische Ereignisse mit spekulativem neuem Ausgang (Alternativweltgeschichte):
 1945. Baen Books, August 1995, ISBN 978-0-671-87739-2.

Amerikanischer Bürgerkrieg
 Gettysburg: A Novel of the Civil War. Thomas Dunne Books, 2003, ISBN 978-0-312-30935-0.
 Grant Comes East. Thomas Dunne Books, 2004, ISBN 0-312-30937-6.
 Never Call Retreat: Lee and Grant: The Final Victory. Thomas Dunne Books, 2005, ISBN 0-312-34298-5.

Zweiter Weltkrieg im Pazifik
 Pearl Harbor: A Novel of December 8th. Thomas Dunne Books, 2007, ISBN 0-312-36350-8.
 Days of Infamy. Thomas Dunne Books, 2008, ISBN 978-0-312-36351-2.

Amerikanischer Unabhängigkeitskrieg
 To Try Men's Souls: A Novel of George Washington and the Fight for American Freedom. Griffin, 2009, ISBN 978-0-312-59106-9.
 Valley Forge: George Washington and the Crucible of Victory. Macmillan US, 2010, ISBN 978-0-312-59107-6.

Literatur

 Matthew N. Green / Jeffrey Crouch: Newt Gingrich: The Rise and Fall of a Party Entrepreneur. University Press of Kansas, Kansas 2022, ISBN 9780700633265.

Weblinks

 Offizielle Website

 Dossier zu Newt Gingrich von Spiegel Online

 William Addams Reitwiesner: Ancestry of Newt Gingrich

Einzelnachweise

American Enterprise Institute
Sprecher des Repräsentantenhauses der Vereinigten Staaten
Mitglied des Repräsentantenhauses der Vereinigten Staaten für Georgia
Mitglied der Republikanischen Partei
Person der Tea-Party-Bewegung
US-Amerikaner
Person (Harrisburg, Pennsylvania)
Geboren 1943
Mann

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In power grids, how fast do individual electrons move?
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My understanding is that current flow is like when you have a garden hose that is already full of water: as soon as you open the tap, water instantly comes out of the other end of the hose.
So when a generator pushes current through a power grid, do the electrons move at the speed of light (as many believe), or is it more a case of them all bumping each other along instantaneously,, as with the molecules of water in the garden hose?
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mb34i commented May 30, 2021
> Water instantly comes out of the other end of the hose.
No, actually it's not "instantly", that's the part that happens at the speed of light (for electrons).
As far as the electron movement, that's called the [drift velocity](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drift_velocity) of electrons in wire, and it depends on the material (what metal it is, dimensions, etc.), and on the electric field (voltage, etc.).
phiwong commented May 30, 2021
It is a great question. The analogy of water flowing in a pipe, sort of breaks down once you get to the level of electrons and such.
1) Electrons are not massless particles. Therefore electrons cannot travel at the speed of light. The explanation is from Einstein: that anything with mass would need infinite energy to accelerate to the speed of light.
2) What is "moving" at the speed of light is the change in the electromagnetic field. The term used is propagate rather than move.
3) The speed of individual electrons cannot actually be measured with precision. But the presence of a voltage in wire will induce a "general flow" of electrons in one direction. (Imagine water in a turbulent river – we cannot say what speed any particular drop of water is moving but we can tell how fast the entire flow is moving in general) This flow speed is called "drift velocity" and is called drift because in most circumstances it is VERY slow.
4) Drift velocity direction depends on which side of the wire has higher voltage relative to the other. In power grids, the voltage is AC, so it swings from positive to negative. In effect the drift velocity switches each time the voltage switches signs and therefore the average drift velocity in the power grid is ZERO. That is, electrons aren't "shooting out" at one end of an electric cable.
So one can imagine electrons essentially moving backwards and forwards but not really going anywhere. This is just an illustration – electrons don't organize themselves like balls of stuff and their actual motion isn't like cars going down a road.
TorakMcLaren commented May 30, 2021
I like to think of it as being more like a tube filled with tennis balls. As has been said, there are a bunch of factors that go together to give you the drift velocity. But this is ELI5, so let's give you a ballpark figure.
In an electric circuit, the electrons are moving *slowly*. For example, in an average 2mm wire with a current of about 1A, the electrons are moving at about 23μm/s. That's 23 *micro*meters, or 0.000023m every second. To put that into perspective, it would take about 12 hours to travel 1m at that speed. Or, say there was a wire going straight up, and there was heavy rainfall. The water level could actually rise faster than the electrons in the wire.
mmmmmmBacon12345 commented May 30, 2021
Two different things here
The speed of electricity is not how fast electrons move, but instead how fast the electric field moves. It's the electric field that actually does the work, and that moves at a bit under the speed of light. The electric field at your outlet is constantly changing so there's usable electricity there instantly and you don't have to wait for it to come from the power station
The actual electrons don't move much. They bounce around off the atoms in the wire and drift in one direction slowly, very slowly
The average speed after all the bouncing around of 1Amp of current in a 3 mm^2 wire(roughly the size in your walls) is about 20 micrometers per second. Each electron is moving a fair bit quicker but with all the bouncing they can't make much forward progress

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Can My Prayers Move a Sovereign God?
Several years ago, I went through a period where my prayers seemed to bounce off the ceiling unheard and unanswered. It got to the point where I was afraid to pray for anyone because I was sure bad things would happen to the people I cared about if I asked God to help them.
I have since emerged from that dark night with a stronger faith and an unshakable certainty that God never leaves us and always hears us, even when our skewed perceptions lead us to think otherwise.
A new day has dawned on my journey of faith, but I still wrestle with the perplexities of being a Jesus follower—the conundrums I don't understand, the complexities I simply can not wrap my mind around.
How do my prayers and God's sovereignty interact?
On one end is a philosophy of prayer that says if I have enough faith and not too much sin, God will do whatever I ask.
Jesus said, "And whatever you ask in prayer, you will receive, if you have faith." (Matt 21:22) He told us our faith in him will heal us (Mk 5:34, Mk 10:52,Lk 17:19) and that the prayer of a righteous person is powerful and effective (James 5:16).
These verses inspire me to dream and ask and believe and receive.
The trouble is, my experience of God often is a lot messier than it looks on paper. There are times when I pray what I believe to his will with faith and in his name and nothing happens. At least nothing that I am able to perceive anyway. The situation gets worse instead of better as I struggle to find God's hand at work in my world.
Emphasizing my faith as the mechanism that moves the hand of God can produce within me arrogance and presumption and profound disappointment when my friend with cancer dies, the marriage I've been praying for self-destructs, and my own baby is stillborn while my husband whispers prayers over my swollen tummy.
My confidence in the power of prayer and my own ability to execute it properly withers. I'm left wondering what I did wrong and where God went.
With this fatalistic viewpoint, I wonder why I should even pray all. I become apathetic. I feel helplessly at the mercy of a powerful God who seems too distant to hear my cries.
I have camped out on both extremes and found that neither accurately reflect the truth of how God wants to interact with me. He wants me to come to him with my concerns, but he has made it clear he is no genie in a bottle.
My inability to wrap my mind around the balance of God's sovereignty and his guidance to ask for miracles and healing, provision and wholeness, used to keep me up at night.
What do I do when I call out to God and it gets worse instead of better?
How do I know if I'm praying his will or my own?
Did he really mean, "Ask for anything in my name and I'll give it to you"?
Why does God rush in like a knight on a white stallion in some cases while in others he seems to remain silent and distant?
Why can't he just make it clear and tell me how to pray?
The truth lies somewhere between these extremes where the God Most High stoops down to listen to me—not because I have enough faith to manipulate his will, but just because he loves me.
As I spend more time with him, I realize the growth of our relationship through prayer is more important than the prayer itself or the end result. I discover that what I really crave is not answered prayers, but God himself. He is the One I long for. What I thought were the desires of my heart turn out to be merely the prompts that drive me to the One my heart desires above all else.
I am learning to rest in the mystery of God and his unsearchable ways. I don't know why he chooses to answer some prayers miraculously and not others.
Although his ways are unsearchable, his heart is knowable. I need look no further than the cross to see the magnitude of his love revealed by the depth of his suffering.
When I can't trace his hand, I trust his heart.
There's a lot I don't know. But there are a few things I do.
I know his sovereignty is supreme and that he holds all things in his hand. And in his sovereignty, he told me to pray. He told me my prayers matter. That they make a difference. I know he wants us to be close and that our relationship blossoms when I make the effort to express my heart to him.
knowing with certainty that every "yes" and every "no" is spoken over me gently in perfect love and flawless wisdom.
Keep praying, and trusting, and receiving.
I've wrestled with these same issues in prayer, Elizabeth. I like the way you describe the two camps and the challenge of finding a happy medium! This encouraged me: "As I spend more time with him, I realize the growth of our relationship through prayer is more important than the prayer itself or the end result. I discover that what I really crave is not answered prayers, but God himself." Also, when I can't trace His hand, I trust His heart.
I think relationship is the key. If we have an intimate relationship with the God of the Universe, why wouldn't we trust Him? I know I'm not fully there yet. But, inching closer!
We'll never be fully there until we see Him face to face. Which direction we're facing is the key. Are we walking toward Him or away from Him? I'm inching with you, my Friend!
This is such a thoughtful post, Elizabeth. I've wondered about some of these verses too. I've been praying for something for several months now and have not seen the results I had in mind although God has also sent answers different than what I expected. I'm coming to a new place of trust. If God doesn't answer my prayer as I expect, what's the worse thing that could happen? God will still care for me.
It's so hard to be in that place where you are crying out to God and you see no sign that he's listening. He is though! And he's working out something more wonderful than you can even imagine. He will let you know what it is when the time is right.
Wrestling through life issues in the context of a relationship with our all-loving God changes the way we view those very issues we are asking him to move in. That's often where the real miracle takes place. I appreciate you sharing your perspective.
Yes! Trust, trust, trust and pray without ceasing. So easy to say but such a long journey from my head to my heart! I have been strengthened by Christ's prayer in the Garden of Gethsemane, "Father, if you are willing, take this cup from me; yet not my will but yours be done." (Luke 22:42) To pray fervently yet ultimately to lay it at the feet of the Almighty.
I agree. I have the same long journey. Thanks for stopping by!
I love this line, "When I can't trace His hand, I trust His heart." God can be nothing but faithful and He is always good. When I remember this, I can trust even though I may not understand. Loved the post today, Elizabeth.
I appreciate your reflections here. I have wrestled with this a lot too, especially over praying for a friend who was struggling with mental illness. It challenged my faith a lot but I think I've come out stronger in the end and realised that our trust has to be in God and in his goodness and love rather than in a particular outcome. He wants us to bring our concerns to him but ultimately we have to trust him for the results even when we don't understand.
You're so right. I get hung up on the outcome far too often and miss out on the closer relationship with him.
"What I really crave is not answered prayers, but God himself." –> A.B.S.O.L.U.T.E.L.Y LOVE this! Right on, my friend. I'm running right alongside you with this. Visiting via #testimonyTuesday. Glad to have found you.
It's taken me a long time and a lot of heartache to figure that out, but when I really grasp the concept it brings such peace. So glad you stopped by!
Right on, ElizabehtC. I, too, have "camped in both extremes" and came up wanting. I agree that wanting God more than anything else, any answer to prayer, brings about His Kingdom. And that is what we are all about, that His Kingdom may come and His will may be done. No longer do I want it my way, but His way alone! Hugs!


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Late Show with David Letterman writers profiled by CBS Sunday Morning
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With all of the talk about late-night Jimmys — Fallon and Kimmel — or the latest news regarding Chelsea Handler, what about the old man leading the clubhouse today? Yeah. What about David Letterman.
Leave it to CBS Sunday Morning to shine a light on its resident network funny man, and the funny men (mostly men) who write for Late Show with David Letterman. Susan Spencer's report, "What's So Funny," actually delves a little deeper. Just a little bit deeper. After first interviewing Late Show writers Bill Scheft, head writer Matt Roberts and Steve Young, the latter describing the show's efforts to "hit the midpoint of smart and silly," Spencer ventures to Harvard University to speak with psychologist Joe Moran at the Center for Brain Science. Moran is studying humor from the perspective of brain waves and neural activity. And then she meets with Scott Weems, who wrote a new book on comedy, "Ha!" No. That's the title of the book.
Spencer also awkwardly stands onstage in an empty Comic Strip Live to demonstrate why she's not a stand-up comedian.
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Has anyone used a Cannon EOS 550D for astro photography?
I found one at a reasonable price and wondered if anyone on here has had experience of using one.
Graeme1858 wrote: Has anyone used a Cannon EOS 550D for astro photography?
I haven't, but if you look on Astrobin, I think you can filter by camera type.
If it's well priced, I think everything above the 350D has Live View, and that's the basic minimum (as much as there's any minimum).
It can also be worth checking what Canon models are supported by APT software.
It has a live view function, It has it's own Wikipedia page! I wondered if it was a good Cannon model for connecting to a pc. I have a Sony Alpha A350 and it has an excellent sensor for it's age but it will only connect to a pc to download stored images, it can't output to the pc screen. And I don't want to mod it because I use it for day time photography.
Cannon has the EOS Backyard software and I've seen SharpCap recommended in videos. I'll look into the APT software and I'll go and have a look on Astrobin.
I have, and it works just fine, especially with the 'EOS 'Backyard' software. As always with these cameras, it contains internal filters which can reduce nebula light levels. Having said that, it isn't as bad as some people make out. You need at attachment to give a 1 1/4" or 2" 'nose' to put it in place of the eyepiece. It is advisable to get a power adaptor, as astronomical use of the camera soon depletes the battery.
I've read a bit about doing the mod on a DSLR to allow more of the red end of the spectrum through so I was planning on having it done. But then deep sky imaging light pollution can be reduced using an IR cut Neodymium filter. Why is this not a contradiction?
Graeme1858 wrote: Cheers for that Aratus.
The IR filter that is removed in Astro-modding normally blocks the Ha Line at about 656nm wavelength, which some astro photographers are keen to include in their images.
The Neodymium filters are selective, so they significantly cut the transmission of light around the 550-600nm waveband (which includes the orange glow from Sodium street lights), but still allow transmission of the Ha band.
Gfamily2 wrote: The IR filter that is removed in Astro-modding normally blocks the Ha Line at about 656nm wavelength, which some astro photographers are keen to include in their images.
A very useful coincidence for astronomers that neodymium has both these specific selective filtering properties!
Well the 550D had gone so I got a 600D which is a later model and the same spec except, strangely, the iso only goes to 64000 when the 550D goes up to 128000! It's not been on the telescope yet but I've had it connected to Backyard EOS to have a play.


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When St. Paul's Methodist Episcopal Church was dedicated on January 6, 1884, an ornate brass chandelier presented by the Edison Electric Light Company provided illumination for the ceremony. Wired for electric lighting before its completion, St. Paul's was one of the first churches in the nation lighted by Edison lamps. The Tiffin Edison Electric Illuminating Company, the first central electric power station in Ohio and the tenth in the United States, was built in Tiffin in late 1883. With a 100 horsepower boiler, a 120 horsepower engine, and two dynamos, it supplied direct current sufficient to light 1,000 lamps. It stood two blocks north of this site. The original brass "electrolier" still hangs in the sanctuary inside. Tours by appointment only.


The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) supports programs that enable decision makers to apply high-quality climate information to decision making. USAID's climate-change and development strategy calls for enabling countries to accelerate their transition to climate resilient, low emission sustainable economic development through direct programming and integrating climate-change adaptation and mitigation objectives across the Agency's development portfolio. USAID is the lead contributor to bilateral assistance, with a focus on capacity building, civil society building, and governance programming, and creating the legal and regulatory environments needed to address climate change. USAID leverages scientific and technical resources from across the U.S. Government (for example, NASA, NOAA, USDA, USGS) as it applies its significant technical expertise to provide leadership in development and implementation of low-emissions development strategies, creating policy frameworks for market-based approaches to emission reduction and energy sector reform, promoting sustainable management of agriculture lands and forests, and mainstreaming adaptation into development activities in countries most at risk. USAID has long-standing relationships with host country governments that enable them to work together to develop shared priorities and implementation plans. USAID's engagement and expertise in agriculture, biodiversity, infrastructure, and other critical climate sensitive sectors provide an opportunity to implement innovative cross-sectoral climate-change programs. Finally, USAID bilateral programs work in key political and governance areas where multilateral agencies cannot.


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Inside 'Insta-Booking': How couples are hiring wedding vendors via Instagram
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Millennial couples are now 'Insta-booking' their weddings.
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Ed. note: This story was reported, written, and edited prior to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Photographer Madison "Max" Pittman books at least one wedding a week using Instagram.
In fact, she used Instagram exclusively for the first nine months of her business, Max McQueen Photo, as she built out her website and established her online presence. Now that she does have a portfolio website, Pittman still finds Instagram to be the most lucrative tool. And increasingly, she says, her clients have grown up with the Internet. If they book everything from restaurant reservations to a date with an app, they expect to book a wedding photographer that way, too.
"People instantly know if they like my style and approach just by looking at my Instagram, and they know they can connect with me within a few seconds over direct messaging," Pittman says of her Instagram profile, @maxmcqueenphoto. "I can send them links to my full galleries, photos, even posts by other vendors who I enjoy working with super easily."
And she's not alone. An overwhelming number of wedding professionals, from stationers and musicians to event planners, say that Instagram is the most important platform for their marketing. Gone are the days when couples would meet with wedding vendors in person to discuss details. Today's couples are searching for, following, and even booking their wedding vendors via Instagram. Direct messages have become the new phone calls, and the feed is the new portfolio.
Pittman's clients, Nick and Shannon, booked her via Instagram for their city hall nuptials. "All communication was over the app from the beginning," she says.
"The Instagram rabbit hole is a real thing, especially for engaged couples," explains Marcy Blum, the event planner behind Marcy Blum Associates. "The platform is very visual. It's very easy for a couple to see a wedding or design that resonates with them. Most couples will check out a planner's Instagram before they are even interested in communicating with them."
Blum is one of the top planners in the business and has more than 35 years of experience. She has more than 58,000 followers at @marcyblum. She's embraced Instagram as a way to connect with millennial couples, many of whom are at the marriage stage, and showcase her brand, particularly her sense of humor.
"I write copy for everything," Blum says of her posts, which a team helps plan and execute. "There are too many accounts that I follow, and the verbiage reads like a press release."
Blum brings up an important perk of the platform versus other digital mediums: the ability to be authentic and personal. It's the reason fellow event planner and designer Jove Meyer also aligns his company with Instagram—he goes as far to say that the social media brand powers his business. Jove Meyer Events (@jovemeyer) specializes in bold, modern celebrations and prioritizes collaborating with businesses run by women, people of color, and members of the LGBTQ+ community. Meyer says he doesn't like to be put into a box and is attracted to clients who don't either; Instagram's free expression means they can easily find one another. He regularly receives direct messages inquiring about his services.
"Email feels so formal, text seems too personal, but Instagram is a fun way to chat about various subjects," Meyer says, noting he will talk about non-wedding-related topics with current and prospective clients. "If we put ourselves out there, we have to be ready to be social and engage."
Social contracts
Most wedding professionals—especially those who work with couples spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on their weddings—run their own business profiles. Brian Buonassissi, a destination event DJ who goes by DJ Brian B, says he "lives off Instagram" as part of his bookings. He gets four to five inquiries a week at @djbrianbofficial. "Connecting is a lot easier than many other platforms because this is both where the content creator and viewers are living," he says. Part of his success is that he sticks to a formula for his posts and Instagram stories that reinforce he's a "normal human not a huge corporation," like some wedding entertainment companies. He appears daily to talk to his 11,500 followers on stories about his upcoming gigs, travel hiccups, and empowering fellow DJs. "My posting buckets are travel, music, and packed dance floors—that's it," Buonassissi adds.
Nearly 80% of wedding planning is done online, according to WeddingWire's Newlywed Report, and wedding professionals often share, anecdotally, that couples want to hire vendors who feel like friends. Wendy El-Khoury, founder and director of Wedded Wonderland, an online wedding marketplace (@weddedwonderland), says couples look for emotional connections when booking wedding vendors. The fact that Instagram and direct messaging allow for immediate contact with the business owner and casual relationship building makes it the perfect place for the two entities to meet.
While a wedding caterer or florist is used to contracts and booking procedures, it's likely the first time that a couple is hiring service professionals. Kaleigh Wiese, founder of event branding and stationery company Meldeen (@meldeenink), says the human component of Instagram puts millennial couples at ease when reaching out for something as anxiety-ridden and emotionally charged as wedding planning. Once they feel the vendor is less of a stranger, the couple is more easily swayed to a conversation over the phone to talk about how something unique can be created for them. Getting the couple to a phone call is important for final booking because so much of the wedding is tailored to a couple's specific tastes, and emails are needed for sending official documents like contracts and invoices.
Each wedding professional has a system for converting the client from Instagram to a live conversation, but not until they feel a valid relationship after conversing online. Additionally, they all go over basics—including availability and style—via direct message. It's vital, Meyer says, that pros do respond quickly; Instagram shows both parties in a conversation which messages have been seen.
There are other social media platforms that play a role in wedding marketing. Blum says that Facebook is best for her B2B relationships with other vendors, and Buonassissi uses YouTube to show videos of DJ sets and has a podcast about event music. Both Meyer and Pittman agree Pinterest has a huge sway with wedding decor and photography. And mobile payments are on the rise, says Wiese, who has seen a huge uptick in requests to pay by Venmo. "Many of our clients have never had a checkbook," she explains. "They like that it's instant; they keep a pool of money in their Venmo like a bank account."
Wedding vendors who aren't utilizing these platforms are slowly being left behind as the younger generation embraces social media as a way to find and book their weddings. Many sessions at wedding industry conferences and meet-ups include social media topics, and webinars and blogs abound with information on how vendors can better execute an Instagram strategy. For many, though, it's simple: Just be themselves, and the couples will find them (with the help of hashtags). "Some industry peers don't see it as a professional way of doing business," El-Khoury says. "I say, it's all about the context of communication, not mode. Millennials and Gen-Z will, without a doubt, continue using social media for decision-making and product purchases. This is how they connect with businesses."
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Cartoonists have summed up Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan fairly well.
Should President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's AK Party not win a majority of seats in the November 1 vote, the mainstream media hold that his power will diminish. The headline of a much-circulated Reuters analysis sums up this view: "Erdoğan seen with little choice but to share power after Turkish vote." Agence France-Presse predicts that winning less than half the seats "would again force [the AKP] to share power or call yet another election." Almost identically, Middle East Online sees this situation forcing the AKP "to share power or organise yet another election." And so on, almost invariably including the words "share power."
If the results are not close, Erdoğan can sideline the parliament, the prime minister, the other ministers, and the whole damn government.
Will the Supreme Election Board (Yüksek Seçim Kurulu) be forced to rig the election on November 1?
This sidelining option, which the press ignores as a possibility, follows directly from Erdoğan's past actions. Since he left the prime ministry in August 2014 to become Turkey's president, he has diminished his old office, depriving it of nearly all authority. He turned it over to a professorial foreign-policy theorist with no political base, Ahmet Davutoğlu, and controls him so tightly that Davutoğlu cannot even decide on his own aides (who also double as Erdoğan's informants).
President Erdoğan (left) gives Prime Minister Davutoğlu his marching orders.


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"100 Percent Accurate" Recreation of Ancient GREEK Music
GREEK kids listen to such shit music these day. Now GREEKS back in my day, they could rock! Read more at openculture.com.
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International lenders pore over Greek reforms as strike looms
Cash-strapped Greece is facing challenges on various fronts as it struggles to win public approval to overhaul the pension system and cut more costs while its EU peers urge it to tighten controls on the flow of migrants passing through on their way to ...
As children die reaching for Europe's shores, empathy fades
Boats arrive on Europe's shores daily, or sink on the way — like the one that capsized off Turkey's coast on Saturday, killing at least 37 people including babies and other young children. Greek soccer players held a sit-in solidarity protest after the latest refugee drownings. [...] his lifeless, tidily-dressed body — first face-down on the sand, later in the arms of a police officer — captured the collective imagination like no other. The image became shorthand for the refugee crisis and government inaction. [...] two Islamic extremists mixed in with refugees and joined European-born radicals staging deadly attacks in Paris. In one, a boy about Aylan's age is lying on a rocky shore, a pacifier attached to his clothing with a plastic chain, a hat with a pompon on his small head. In Hungary, tabloid newspaper Blikk had a large back-page spread including a small photo of Aylan's body being carried by a rescuer and a close-up of the latest disaster. On Hungarian news website origo.hu, several of the comments from readers blamed the parents for the drownings, saying they were irresponsible for undertaking unsafe journeys. The Italian navy, after a boat capsized last year with about 800 migrants trapped inside, refused to allow or distribute any images of the dead out of respect for their memory.
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Greece Rejects Creditors' Call for Pension Cuts
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Mexico slapped with embarrassing corruption score
[corruption in americas]El Daily Post The OECD is a global club of industrial democracies organized for cooperation and development. Mexico is its most corrupt member, ranking 34th out of 34. The G-20 is a forum for advanced economies. Mexico is the third most-corrupt nation in that group, outranking only Russia and Argentina. NAFTA is a trinational free trade agreement. One of its three signatories — Mexico —ranks 95th among 167 nations on the corruption scale (lowest the cleanest). That's 86 and 79 places worse than NAFTA partners Canada (ninth) and the United States (16th). Mexico's corruption score on a 0-100 scale — 100 being the cleanest — is 35. Anything under 50, says Transparency International, the global anti-corruption NGO, indicates "a serious corruption problem." Mexico, then, has a serious corruption problem. But so does most of the world. Two-thirds of the countries graded by Transparency International (TI) in its 2015 Corruption Perceptions Index released this week came in under 50. That word "perception" is key here. The rankings are based more on opinions than data, the opinions coming from "experts," according to the TI description of its methodology. But perceptions count for something, and few would deny that Mexico's reputation for corruption is based on reality, and is impeding progress. "Public sector corruption isn't simply about taxpayer money going missing," the TI report reads. "Broken institutions and corrupt officials fuel inequality and exploitation, keeping wealth in the hands of an elite few and trapping many more in poverty." [Pena Nieto Mexico president]El Daily Post In fact, the report singles out Mexico, along with Venezuela andArgentina, as an example of a resource-rich nation held back by corruption: "Longstanding corruption (in those three countries) has led to a desperate lack of investment in security, education and health. Until these weaknesses are addressed, corruption will continue to be the norm and citizens' quality of life will not improve." TI sees correlations between corruption scores and structural characteristics. Top performers generally have solid press freedom, public access to budget information, high levels of integrity among people in power; and independent. The more corrupt countries have the opposite. CORRUPTION, BIG-TIME [corruption]El Daily PostThe corruption experience for most Mexicans is at the everyday level — mordidas demanded by cops, for example — but the Index seems to give extra weight to major public corruption scandals. Brazil, for example, was the biggest decliner among the 168 nations, with its score falling by five points and its ranking by seven positions. ThePetrobras mega-scandal was specifically cited as the reason, not any overall rise in common corruption. (Brazil is still 19 places ahead of Mexico, however, despite its dropping score.) For similar reasons, presumably, the TI report runs down a laundry list of high-profile corruption scandals to explain Mexico's low (but relatively steady) ranking: "Casa Blanca",Oceanografía, OHL, among others, and the accumulatingaccusations against former governors in such states as Aguascalientes, Coahuila, Guerrero, Nuevo León, Sonora and Tabasco. Mexico can take some solace in how much better it scores on the corruption scale than the worst of the lot. Its grade of 35 may be a far cry from the 91 of Denmark (the cleanest country in the world, according to the TI Index), but it's considerably more respectable than the lowest scorers — No. Korea and Somalia at 8. And , for what it's worth, Mexico (according to the TI Index) hasn't been getting more corrupt, at least not in the last year. It's held the same position — 95 out of 168 — two years running. That's in contrast to those on a downward trend. Besides Brazil, the decliners over the past four years include Libya, Australia, Spain and Turkey. Notable improvers include Greece, Senegal and the United Kingdom. [Guatemala corruption protest]El Daily PostWhile concluding that corruption is rife worldwide, Transparency International did find a bright spot. And they found it right next door to Mexico. "In places like Guatemala, Sri Lanka and Ghana, citizen activists in groups and on their own worked hard to drive out the corrupt, sending a strong message that should encourage others to take decisive action in 2016," said TI chair José Ugaz. The reference was to the conviction and jailing of Guatemala's outgoing president in 2014 on corruption charges, as a result of citizen pressure and United Nations assistance. "Corruption can be beaten if we work together," Ugaz said. "To stamp out the abuse of power, bribery and shed light on secret deals, citizens must together tell their governments they have had enough." NOW WATCH: Watch newly released video of 'El Chapo' being booked by Mexican authorities
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My favorite trick to save money on travel is a single decision that saves hundreds of dollars
[fira santorini sunset greece]Libby Kane / Business Insider There is nothing more tedious than spending hours scouring the internet trying to find the best price on every element of your vacation. So I don't. Instead, I make a single decision that saves me a fortune: I choose to travel in shoulder season. "Shoulder season" is the months leading toward or away from the high season. In most places, the high season is obvious. In the Caribbean, it's the winter. In most of Europe, it's the summer. It's the time when that place is best shown to its advantage, so people go see it. It's also the most expensive time to go, because the tourism industry knows what's up. By choosing to travel six to eight weeks before or after high season, I save money on flights, accommodations, car rentals, and most everything else by making one simple decision and never thinking about it again. It seems obvious, but a lot of people don't do it. It isn't the off-season. I'm not going during monsoon season or blizzards. Really, the only difference is a few degrees — a light sweater (or removal thereof). And the financial benefits are huge. For instance, a friend and I went to the Cyclades Islands in Greece a few years ago, choosing to go in early May instead of summer, the peak season. When I plug a 12-day trip for the same dates into Kayak (leaving on the last day of April, the same days we traveled), the most expensive flight with one layover is $562: [kayak may]Libby Kane / Business Insider In early August, the results are nearly twice the price, even though we'd be booking further in advance: [kayak august]Libby Kane / Business Insider Bear in mind that isn't a perfect comparison. It involved no acrobatics to find the cheapest possible flight, nor direct comparisons of flights leaving and arriving at the exact same time on the exact same day of the week, nor analyses of how airline prices fluctuate. It took me all of five minutes — which is kind of the point. Here's another basic illustration: Accommodations were cheaper, too. On Santorini, we stayed at (the marvelous) Atlantis Hotel in Fira, which charges €240 (about $262) per night for our incredible caldera-view room in early May. [atlantis may]Libby Kane / Business Insider Using the same Sunday through Wednesday dates in August, that hotel is asking €320 (about $350) per night: [atlantis august]Libby Kane / Business Insider Admittedly, I don't have children and am not limited by the school calendar, and my job isn't so highly seasonal that I wouldn't be able to travel in May rather than August, so I'm lucky enough that this strategy is easily doable. Plus, I generally don't mind that I have to put a windbreaker over my bikini to see the cliffs of Santorini or the town of Mykonos. It's more affordable, less crowded, and just as beautiful. If you have your heart absolutely set on tanning on a yacht, I concede that this strategy might not be for you. (Although if we're talking Mediterranean, you could try September!) I could keep giving examples — I used the same strategy when I went to the Balearic Islands off the coast of Spain in late May/early June last year with another friend — but there's really no need. By traveling in the shoulder season instead of high season, I've consistently been able to save hundreds, if not thousands, of dollars on incredible trips by making a two-minute choice. NOW WATCH: Here's Mark Cuban's advice for whoever wins the $1.5 billion Powerball
Cyprus president warns UN chief no rush to reach peace deal
NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — Cyprus' president has warned U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon that time is needed to negotiate a deal reunifying the ethnically-split island without "deficiencies, gaps and ambiguities" that may lead Greek and Turkish Cypriots to reject it in referendums.
Disruptions due to the general strike on February 4 in Greece
Athens, February 1, 2016/Independent Balkan News Agency By Olga Mavrou Almost all unions in Greece participate in the general strike against the social security bill – and the farmers, who protest also against the tax bill, participate by planning to drive their tractors to Athens and block the capital of the country too. Thursday will be […]
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Merkel, Greek islanders among Nobel Peace Prize nominees
German Chancellor Angela Merkel is understood to have been nominated for the prestigious accolade. All recommendations must be posted to Norway by Monday and the prize will be awarded in October.
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Ai Weiwei Hits New Low By Crassly Recreating Photo Of Drowned Syrian Toddler
> #chineseartist #Aiweiwei > > A photo posted by Tamana Faizy (@faizy.tamana) on Jan 31, 2016 at > 12:34am PST _This article originally appeared on artnet News._ The Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei has come under criticism for recreating the tragic image of the the drowned three-year-old Syrian refugee Alan Kurdi, whose lifeless body washed up on a beach near the Turkish town of Bodrum in September 2015. Ai's reenactment was taken by the Indian photojournalist Rohit Chawla for India Today_. _A print of the image was also exhibited at the India Art Fair in New Delhi, as part of a curated exhibition simply titled "The Artists." In the photo, Ai lies facedown on a pebble beach on the Greek island of Lesbos, where the artist has set up a studio to work on several projects dealing with the European migration crisis. Speaking to the Washington Post, Chawla admitted that Ai and his assistants "actively helped in staging this photograph for us." Meanwhile, India Art Fair co-owner Sandy Angus defended the project. "It is an iconic image because it is very political, human and involves an incredibly important artist like Ai Weiwei," Angus told the Washington Post. "The image is haunting and represents the whole immigration crisis and the hopelessness of the people who have tried to escape their pasts for a better future," he added. > Just because its by a famous artist doesn't mean it is a) art or b) > good. This is neither cool nor good. / https://t.co/P26WSWwOpF > — ಠ╭╮ಠ (@designerror) February 1, 2016 The reaction on social media was markedly different, however. Referring to Ai's version of the image, one Twitter user remarked: "Just because its by a famous artist doesn't mean it is a) art or b) good." > I have never understood modern/contemporary 'art', and after seeing > Ai Weiwei pose as a dead Syrian child, I understand it even less. > :-/ > — Nigel Britto (@NigelBritto) February 1, 2016 Twitter user Nigel Britto agreed. "I have never understood modern/contemporary 'art', and after seeing Ai Weiwei pose as a dead Syrian child, I understand it even less," he wrote. > Lazy, cheap, crass: Ai Weiwei poses as drowned Syrian infant refugee > in 'haunting' photo https://t.co/B0b628zjOp > — David Batty (@David_Batty) February 1, 2016 Meanwhile, Guardian editor David Batty called the stunt "lazy, cheap, crass," while academic Heather D'Cruz said the image was "disrespecting Aylan Kurdi." > Ai Weiwei poses as drowned Syrian infant refugee in 'haunting' photo > @guardian still disrespecting #aylankurdi https://t.co/pVlYfaPKE4 > — Heather D'Cruz (@HmdcruzD) February 1, 2016 On Instagram, Sascha Kurfiss wrote: "[…] Not sure about my feelings. Is it art? Is it just populistic? For sure it is PR…and now I know why he is posting all those pictures from Lesbos the last weeks…to prepare this stunt." > Ai Weiwei in a photo for the Indian Today magazin pointing on the > refugee crisis... well not sure about my feelings. Is it art? Is it > just populistic? For sure it is PR...and now I know why he is > posting all those pictures from Lesbos the last weeks... to prepare > this stunt (and of course to collect more material for some refugee > installations) AAAHHhhh... this year seems to get awesomely weird in > a strange way. #aiww #aiweiwei #refugees #refugeeswelcome > #refugeecrisis #contemporaryart #indiantoday #art #politics #kunst > #modernartist #photo #bw #bw_photooftheday #blackandwhite > #popularpic > > A photo posted by Sascha Kurfiss (@chinaartlover) on Jan 31, 2016 at > 7:53am PST Contrary to what Angus said, it is the original image, taken by the young Turkish photojournalist Nilüfer Demir, that "represents the whole immigration crisis," and not Ai's copy. The artist's attempt to capitalize on the heartbreaking fate of a young child is truly tasteless. It is important to raise awareness on an undoubtedly urgent issue, but this is not the right way to do it. _Follow artnet News on Facebook._ -- This feed and its contents are the property of The Huffington Post, and use is subject to our terms. It may be used for personal consumption, but may not be distributed on a website.
Europe's refugee story has hardly begun
With a million new refugees expected in Europe this year, Greece faces a diplomatic onslaught and an existential crisis The refugee story has hardly begun. There will be, on conservative estimates, another million arriving via Turkey this year – and maybe more. The distribution quotas proposed by Germany, and resisted by many states in eastern Europe, are already a fiction and will fade into insignificance as the next wave comes. Germany itself will face critical choices: if you're suddenly running a budget deficit to meet the needs of asylum seekers, how do you justify not spending on the infrastructure that's supposed to serve German citizens, which has crumbled through underinvestment in the Angela Merkel era? Continue reading...
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Syrian and Afghan migrants and refugees wait after being caught by Turkish gendarme on January 27, 2016 at Canakkale's Kucukkuyu district.
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The GREEK Youth's Nightmare in the Years of the Crisis
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Chinese Artist Ai Weiwei Recreates Drowned Refugee Child Picture from GREECE
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Greece on strike: schedule for public transport, taxis, ferries Feb 2. & Feb 4-5/2016
Workers in Athens public transport means will hold two work stoppage this week. Taxi drivers will also join the protests against the pensions reforms on Thursday, February 4th 2016 with a 24-hour strike. Tuesday, Feb 2/2016: work stoppage from 11 a.m. until 4 p.m = blue buses, trolley buses, metro, […]
Reminder: Just 13 days left to help KTG alive also for 2016
I started KeepTalkingGreece in spring 2010, as an alternative to Greek-bashing by international media shortly before Greece capitulated without battle into the hands of the International Monetary Fund. From the very first moment, the main aim of this website and blog was to inform the English-speaking expats living in Greece […]
Report: UM Director of GREEK Life to retire
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Why Angela Merkel's Political Survival Is Crucial to Europe's Center-Left
One year is a long time in politics. Few know this better than German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who went from champion of the right and villain of the left in the Greek crisis to champion of the left and villain of the right in the refugee crisis in 2015. Declared _Time_'s Person of the Year just months ago, the "Chancellor of the Free World" is now fighting for her political survival. Media and political insiders are openly speculating about her future - ironically, at the same time that she is the "firm favorite" for the Nobel Peace Prize for those same refugee policies. Angela Merkel is a fairly accidental leader. Just like her former mentor, Helmut Kohl, she was broadly perceived as a temporary stand, in when she took over the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) in 2000. The party was in disarray and several (male) crown princes decided to wait it out before taking a shot at the party leadership -- i.e. wait until the CDU was back up in the polls and party leadership meant German Chancellorship. To most people's surprise, Merkel did not only hold on to her party position, but she brought the CDU back into power in 2005, and is currently the third-longest serving (democratic) German Chancellor -- after the iconic Konrad Adenauer and the _Kanzler der Wiedervereinigung_ (Chancellor of the Re-Unification) Kohl -- and the longest-serving political leader in the European Union (EU). During most of her more than ten years in power Merkel has been described as a weak leader, lacking power and vision. While this is largely due to enduring sexism in media coverage of female leaders, Merkel is first and foremost a centrist politician leading a pragmatic rather than ideological party; in fact, Kohl was a very similar leader, even if he was mostly described as powerful and with a strong (European) vision. Like the party she leads, Merkel is a small "c" conservative, i.e. a pragmatic politician who wants to _conserve_ rather than shape. That said, she has a strong belief in the ideological foundations of German Christian democracy, most notably European integration and the _soziale Marktwirtschaft_ (social market economy), and has never wavered from these core values. In fact, both her staunch pro-austerity position in the Greek crisis and her initially equally staunch pro-refugees position in the refugee crisis are deeply rooted in German Christian democracy. But whereas she found broad support for her economic policies, both within her party and among other European leaders, this was not the case with her immigration policies. While making a strict distinction between (economic) immigrants and (political) refugees, taking a hard position on the former and a soft position on the latter, she was harshly criticized within her party - most notably by the youth branch, the Young Union (JU), and by the more conservative Christian Social Union (CSU) in Bavaria - and ignored by her usual allies, such as the prime ministers of the Northern European countries (with the initial exception of Sweden). Today, the position of the nine-times "most powerful woman in the world" (according to _Forbes_) is more embattled than ever. After months of xenophobic campaigns in the media, politics, and streets, more and more leading members of her own party, as well as from her Social Democratic coalition partner, are attacking her proposed _Willkommenskultur_ (welcome culture). They are strengthened by the media frenzy that has followed the New Year's Eve sexual assaults in some German cities. These campaigns have left their mark on the population too. A new poll shows that 40 percent of Germans want Merkel to resign because of her handling of the refugee crisis. While the numbers are much lower among CDU supporters, the fact that just 45 percent of Germans said she didn't have to resign, means that her position is significantly weakened and more and harsher attacks are to be expected in the weeks to come. Merkel's political survival is not just important for Germany, it is crucial to politics across Europe too. Not in the sense of the EU, as any successor within the CDU will roughly continue her EU politics. It is crucial in terms of the _Rechtsrück_ (turn to the right) in Europe, which has been ongoing for at least a decade, but has received a particularly strong push in 2015. The only reason Merkel is in political trouble today is her open position towards refugees - remember that her approval rating was sky-high during the Greek crisis (peaking at 75 percent in April 2015). European politicians of the left and right are following Merkel's political struggle with intense interest. Should she be forced to resign, they will conclude that if the most powerful politician in Europe can be toppled because of a tolerant immigration policy, they stand no chance of surviving such a position themselves. Hence, what happens to Merkel has enormous ramifications for politics across the European continent. If Merkel loses, the left will be faced with an increasingly homogeneous right-wing bloc, which in most countries has the support of the majority of the voters. Moreover, radical right parties are fast approaching electoral, ideological, and therefore political dominance within these right-wing blocs in several European countries (e.g. Denmark, Netherlands, Sweden) -- not to speak of the radical right transformation of East Central European right-wing parties like Fidesz in Hungary and Law and Justice (PiS) in Poland. In other words, Merkel's survival, assuming she remains loyal to the core of her political program, is essential to the continuation of centrist coalition politics and centrist socio-cultural policies, like immigration and integration. It is ironic that the political survival of Merkel has become key to the political future of pro-immigration policies in Europe. After all, it was Merkel who in October 2010 famously said that "the multicultural approach ... has failed, utterly." But it illustrates the broader transformation of European politics, in which the center-left has become largely irrelevant and the center-right is increasingly embracing radical right positions and rhetoric. It is only within this specific political context that Angela Merkel, a classic German center-right politician in ideas and actions, holds the key to the political future of Europe's center-left. -- This feed and its contents are the property of The Huffington Post, and use is subject to our terms. It may be used for personal consumption, but may not be distributed on a website.
How the ancient Greeks contributed to Martin Luther King Jr.'s fight against racism
… Empire." These considerations of ancient Greece and Rome, in what would … also informed by the Greeks – or, rather, one Greek in particular. Three … fantasy of living in ancient Greece or Rome. Ultimately, he declares …
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Greek fisherman Stratis Valiamos and US Republican presidential candiate Donald Trump have both been nominated for the 2016 Nobel peace prize Photo: Reuters/AFP (AFP) Donald Trump, Greek islanders helping desperate migrants, Angela Merkel and the pope ...
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Greek Hoteliers Optimistic for 2016 According to the GBR Consulting Barometer
If you are a member of GBR Consulting you may be interested in learning how to optimize your content on our network. Hotel News Resource has a very loyal audience and many companies take advantage of our ability to fine tune information about your ...
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JRS Greece: hard conditions for asylum seekers in Athens
People wait for a ferry to take them to Athens on the Greek island of Lesbos (Photo: JRS Greece). "JRS staff is regularly visiting detention centers around Athens. There are problems with hygiene and food while many migrants do not have proper clothing."
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Greek-Turkish Joint Working Group on the migration/refugee crisis convenes (Foreign Ministry, 1 ...
The second meeting of the Greek-Turkish Joint Working Group on the migration/refugee crisis convened at the Foreign Ministry today, Monday, 1 February.The talks focused on ways to strengthen cooperation between the two sides with the aim of reducing migration flows and combatting human trafficking rings. Emphasis was put on the need to implement the bilateral readmission protocol as well as the measures agreed upon between the EU and Turkey for effectively reducing the unprecedented refugee and migration flows.
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Migrant crisis: Greek volunteers welcome Nobel nomination
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Greece Needs Additional Austerity Measures and Reforms to Get Debt Relief, Says ESM Managing Director Klaus Regling
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[Refugees check their cell phones as a child runs atop of a cement wall at a small refugee camp at Pothia port, on the southeastern Greek island of Kalymnos, Monday, Feb. 1, 2016. European countries have been strained by the influx of migrants, leading to disagreements over what to do with the large number of new arrivals and how to share the burden. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)]THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The European Union police agency says authorities dealing with Europe's migrant crisis have lost track of about 10,000 unaccompanied children over the last 18 months amid fears that organized crime gangs are beginning to exploit the vulnerable youngsters.
Stepping up to GREEK tradition
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Snowden, Greek islander among tips for 2016 peace prize
Former US spy agency contractor Edward Snowden, peace negotiators in Colombia or Greek islanders helping Syrian refugees were among tips for the 2016 Nobel Peace Prize at the deadline for nominations on Monday. Nobel watchers also speculated that ...
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Europe Needs to Stop Blaming Greece for the Refugee Crisis
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Greek Singer Haris Alexiou to Perform in Izmir, Turkey
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The Latest: Church, mosque demolished at Calais migrant camp
In a protest that has gone viral online, Greek soccer players sat down on the field over the weekend to protest the growing death toll of refugees trying to reach the Greek islands from nearby Turkey. Players from second-division host team Larissa and away team Acharnaikos, from near Athens, sat down for two minutes after the match started and supporters of both clubs clapped during the protest. Germany's interior minister is meeting officials in Kabul as his country tries to reduce the number of Afghans heading to Europe and considers how to get some of those who have arrived to return home. Thomas de Maiziere's ministry said he visited Afghanistan Monday to confer with Afghan officials on longstanding efforts to train Afghan police and on the migration issue. De Maiziere told German news agency dpa that the security situation in Afghanistan is "complicated" but "there are unsafe and safe areas." Zeid Raad al-Hussein, the U.N. high commissioner for human rights, said Monday that suspects must be investigated but "what we do not want to see is the stigmatizing of an entire people because of those actions." Labor Minister Andrea Nahles wrote in Monday's edition of the daily Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung that "all people who live in Germany, no matter what their ethnic origin, must make an effort, seek work and support themselves and their families as well as they can."
Greece submits Nobel Peace Prize nominees: A Lesvos Granny, a fisherman and a US-actress
It's official. Greece submitted a request to the Nobel committee asking the nomination of Greek islanders who have helped Syrian and other refugees for the Nobel Peace Prize 2016. The relevant campaign was organized by international campaign by grassroots group Avaaz that has collected more than 638,000 signatures online asking […]
An AT&T spokesperson and former refugee is now helping Syrian refugees in Greece
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Greek grandmother, fisherman among Nobel Peace nominees
Four months later, she is among three people nominated for the Nobel prize to symbolically represent the "behaviour and attitude of Greece, organisations and volunteers towards the huge refugee crisis". Fisherman Stratis Valiamos, who has rescued scores of refugees from drowning, and Hollywood actress Susan Sarandon, who spent Christmas helping refugees in Greece, were also nominated by Greek academics and the Hellenic Olympic Committee. The Norwegian Nobel Institute does not publish names of nominees, but Nobel watchers have said former U.S. spy agency contractor Edward Snowden and peace negotiators in Colombia have also been nominated.
More than 3,000 Syrians have fled to Turkey in the past 3 days alone
[A Syrian refugee child looks on, moments after arriving on a raft with other Syrian refugees on a beach on the Greek island of Lesbos, January 4, 2016. REUTERS/Giorgos Moutafis ]Thomson Reuters ISTANBUL (Reuters) - More than 3,000 Turkmens and Arabs fleeing advances by pro-government Syrian forces in the north of Latakia province have crossed into Turkey over the past three days, Turkish disaster agency AFAD said on Monday. A Turkmen official said several thousand more migrants were expected as a camp mostly sheltering Turkmens in the Syrian village of Yamadi was being evacuated after the pro-government forces backed by Russian air strikes advanced. "After the attacks have spilled over to Yamadi camp, the first group of 731 migrants, mostly babies, children, women and the elderly, have entered our country," AFAD said in a statement. A total of 3,120 people have already crossed through Pulluyazi, a village near the border town of Yayladagi in Turkey's southern Hatay province. The influx has accelerated since Jan. 24, when Rabiya, a rebel-held town in Latakia province, was captured by pro-government forces. The displacement occurred as U.N.-backed peace talks, the first for two years, struggled to get off the ground in Geneva. [A Turkish Coast Guard fast rigid-hulled inflatable boats tow refugees and migrants in a dinghy on the Turkish territorial waters of the North Eagean Sea, following a failed attempt of crossing to the Greek island of Lesbos, off the shores of Canakkale, Turkey, November 9, 2015. REUTERS/Umit Bektas ]Thomson ReutersRepresentatives of the Saudi-backed High Negotiation Committee (HNC), which includes political and militant opponents of President Bashar al-Assad, are seeking a halt to attacks on civilian areas, the release of detainees and a lifting of blockades. Russian air strikes have killed nearly 1,400 civilians since Moscow started its aerial campaign in support of Assad nearly four months ago, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group said on Saturday. An opposition delegate said bombings intensified before the peace talks. [RussianAirstrikesjan20-25]Thomson Reuters "There was an attack by Russians over the weekend on the camp," a Turkmen official at Yayladagi said. "Thankfully it did not fall right at the heart of the camp, but still 40 people were wounded," he said. "A lot of towns, villages in the north of Latakia have already been emptied. But there's still another 3,000-4,000 civilians there who haven't left," he said. AFAD said more than 150 migrants have been placed at a new camp in Guvecci, on the Turkish side of the border, while others have been sent to refugee camps in the border provinces of Gaziantep and Sanliurfa. Some found refugee with relatives. The Turkmens are ethnic kin of the Turks and Turkey has been particularly angered by what it says is Russian targeting of them in Syria. It has said that Russia's actions in Syria risk exacerbating a refugee crisis soon after it struck a deal with the EU to stem the flow of migrants to Europe. NOW WATCH: Hidden Facebook tricks you need to know
The Latest: Greek soccer clubs protest refugee drownings
BERLIN (AP) -- The Latest on the huge influx of asylum-seekers to Europe (all times local): 4:20 p.m. In a protest that has gone viral online, Greek soccer players sat down on the field over the weekend to protest the growing death toll of refugees trying ...
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Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei recreates image of drowned Syrian toddler Alan Kurdi
Chinese artist and political activist Ai Weiwei, known for his controversial and creative works has released a new photograph, wherein he recreated the image of the drowned Syrian toddler, Alan Kurdi, whose body washed up on a Turkish beach in September 2015. Weiwei took the place of the three-year old boy in his recreation of the iconic photograph – that made headlines last year – to create awareness regarding the refugee crisis. The sympathy generated by the photograph and the back story of the Kurdi family, however, was short-lived with a number of countries turning their backs on asylum seekers. India Today magazine worked with Weiwei on the shoot, which took place on the Greek island of Lesbos where the artist has a studio.
GREEK Match Stops As Football Teams Pay Tribute To Drowned Refugees
These GREEK football teams staged a touching protest in honor of the migrants who died at sea, in an effort to mobilize authorities to help refugees.
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Horror In Nigeria, Today's Iowa Caucus, GREEK Nobel
Islamist terrorists from Boko Haram razed a small village in northwestern Nigeria, bombing and setting fire to huts in a horrific attack that killed at least ...
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Macedonian border becomes trap for migrants
As debate raged in Europe over stopping the flow of migrants and refugees from Greece, Macedonia shut the border, providing a sense of what may be to come. Pavlos Zafiropoulos reports from Idomeni.
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