Shashi Bellamkonda: The Social Listener - Washington Business Jo. Jennifer Nycz-Conner Staff Reporter Social media swami. Yes, that’s an actual job title, and it belongs to Shashi Bellamkonda of Network Solutions LLC. The company originally was a Web domain registrar but now wants to be the Web services provider of choice for small businesses. Bellamkonda, a former hotel executive and chef, keeps his eye on the Internet and his ear tuned to customers. But please don’t call him a guru. Where did the “swami” title come from? What does social media mean to you, in 10 words or less? If you weren’t a social media swami, what would you be doing? Penhagen Climate Talks Failure - Now What? - Dean Whitbread. My middle name is Radioactive. When I was 11 years old, I learned that since the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, background radiation on Earth had risen by 500%.
The phrase "ecologically unsustainable" entered my life along with the unshakeable feeling that I really should do something about this. That point in my life marked the beginning of my awareness of the human impact on nature. I used my confirmation in the Anglican church to add my name, making it legal by deed poll as soon as I was 18. When I was fifteen I came across a fact in my biology textbook - each year, industry extracts 20% of the world's available oxygen. Sure, it's replenished, the chapter continued, and then spelled out the biological means which exist for this to happen. So, I supported the ecological cause before the bandwagon, from knowledge and conscience and because it was obviously a good idea.
For a second, forget global warming. So now what? I have no interest in rioting. Finkielkraut-Badiou: le face-à-face - Exclusif. Identité nationa. Le Nouvel Observateur. - Un débat sur «l'identité nationale» a été imposé au pays pour des raisons largement électorales. Maintenant que de façon assez prévisible il dérape, comment y faire face ?
Alain Finkielkraut. - Je ne sais si le débat est opportun mais l'inquiétude est légitime. Dans sa fameuse conférence de 1882, Renan commence par écarter toute définition raciale de la nation. « L'histoire humaine diffère essentiellement de la zoologie », dit-il, et il définit la nation comme un principe spirituel, comme une âme (il ne faut pas avoir peur de ce mot), composée de deux éléments : un riche legs de souvenirs, un héritage de gloire et de regrets à partager d'une part, et de l'autre, le consentement actuel, le désir de continuer la vie commune. Or la France est aujourd'hui le théâtre d'une double crise : de l'héritage et du consentement. L'exécration de la France est à l'ordre du jour dans une fraction non négligeable des nouvelles populations françaises.
A. > lire LA SUITE... Tiger-Stalking: In Defense of Our Tabloid Culture - Newsweek.com. What is the Spiritual Significance of the Number Eight? - Questi. In kabbalistic teachings, the number seven symbolizes perfection – perfection that is achievable via natural means – while eight symbolizes that which is beyond nature and its (inherently limited) perfection. Some examples: a) G‑d created the world and its natural order in seven days. b) Between the holidays of Passover and Shavuot we count seven weeks. During these weeks we work on perfecting our seven emotions (love, fear, compassion, ambition, humility, bonding and receptiveness)—one emotion per week. At the conclusion of these seven weeks we have sufficiently perfected ourselves to be worthy of receiving the Torah on Shavuot. A completed person has control over all seven emotions. c) The Holy Temple's menorah, which served to illuminate the natural world with the holy glow of spirituality, had seven branches. e) There are seven colors of the rainbow and seven musical notes.