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Interview with Sascha Gätzschmann: ‚My Baha’i Faith’

By BlogArenaJune 24, 2013Culture, Interview, Mediaabdul baha, bahai, bahai faith, bahai religion, bahaullah, german community, holy persons, holy writings, islam, krishna, loves laughter, manifestations of god, religion of god, sascha gaetzschmann, son of bahaullah, zoroaster

Q: You were Catholic, then you became a Baha’i. Will you please tell us what encouraged you to do it?

Sascha: There is one religion of God, which is renewed in every age according to the needs of the time. God´s plan unfolds by unique and holy Persons – the Manifestations of God or Prophets of God. They work hand in hand. Among these Manifestions of God are Krishna, Buddha, Zoroaster, Abraham, Moses, Christ, Muhammad, the Báb and of course Bahá´u´lláh, whose teaching of the unity of mankind attracted me from the start. I became a Baha’i, as I understood that Bahá´u´lláh´s message is divine and that the same spirit that animated Jesus Christ also animated Bahá´u´lláh. Through the teachings of Bahá´u´lláh I understood that the Prophets are all one and that the teachings of Christ applied to a certain time. The teachings of Bahá´u´lláh are directed to the needs of humanity today. I am happy to work with many people – may they be Bahais or not – for the old dream of a unified and happy mankind. (more…)

“Liebe und Romantik”: So denke ich darüber (‘Love and Romance’, the way I feel it): Johannes (42)

By BlogArenaJune 22, 2013Culture, Interview, Mediaadvice, blind love, blinde liebe, einzigartig, exist, faith, herzen, johannes, joy, liebe einzigartig sein, liebe und romantik, liebesgedichte, love and romance, love poems, love quote, multiple partners, new lovers, old ones, romantic, romantisch, sympathy, true love, vertrauen und freude, wahre liebe

(In German and in English)

***Die deutsche Version:

Q. Was ist Liebe? Wie würden Sie es definieren?

Johannes: Seinen Mitmenschen Vertrauen und Freude zu geben und Verständnis zu haben.

Q. Was ist Ihr liebstes Liebes-Zitat? Lesen Sie Liebesgedichte?

Johannes: Als Kind sehr gerne, als ich jung war. Da habe ich viele Liebesgedichte gelesen und wenn man einen Satz über Liebe hört, möchte man diesen im Kopf haben, um der Frau diese Liebe zu zeigen und um dann diese Sätze nutzen zu können. Aber heute nicht mehr. (more…)

‘Love and Romance’, the way I feel it: Dorothee Heckmann (28)

By BlogArenaJune 8, 2013Culture, Interview, Mediabeing romantic, candle, dorothee, dorothee heckmann, eine leidenschaft, feel awful, good relationship, heart is aching, insurance company, love and romance, love poems, lucky in love, outward appearance, shit love, social activities

Q. What is love? How would you define it?

Dorothee: I think there are two ways of love. Just two, between man and woman. One of it is the normal way, that means, I think I need someone to clean my flat, to tell me that I am beautiful or to spend some time with me or anything like that. It means I have a need. And this is a ‘shit love’.
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Interview with Dr. Anwar Zahid: ‘Environmental Issues in Bangladesh’

By BlogArenaMay 7, 2013Environment, Interview, Mediaanwar zahid, aquifer under dhaka, arsenic contamination, arsenic mitigation, arsenic removal technology, arsenic safe water, Bangladesh, bengal basin, deltaic sediments, dr anwar zahid, dupi tila aquifer, holocene floodplain, rainwater harvesting, water development board

Dr. Anwar Zahid has been working in the field of hydrogeology, groundwater model and environmental geology for more than 17 years. Currently he is the Deputy Director of Ground Water Hydrology, Bangladesh Water Development Board and also Deputy Project Director of coastal water resources assessment project of the Bangladesh Government. Dr. Zahid is involved in many research activities in his fields of expertise in collaboration with national and international institutions and universities and 35 of his research papers has been published in reputed journals and books. He is a research fellow of German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) and International Water Management Institute (IWMI) and visited 18 countries in connection with research and academic activities.
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150 Years of Mexican, Mexican American History Now Online

By Guest PostApril 3, 2013Culture, Media150 years, alberto elías, arturo arte moreno, bracero program, chicano, chris kollen, civil rights movement, de occidente, digital collection, el paso, el tucsonense, gadsden purchase, guadalupe castillo, la estrella, los angeles, los angeles angels, mary feeney, mexican, mexican american history, mexican american journalism, mexican american press, mexican cultural, mexican repatriation, old pueblo printers, online, red brown journalism, roberto cintli rodriguez, san francisco, sonora, spanish language, the great depression, the mexican revolution, tucson, ua librarian, united states, university of arizona, veronica reyes escudero, world war

The UA Libraries has just made 150 years of regionally published newspapers documenting the voice of Mexican and Mexican American communities digitally available for the first time.

A new digital collection at the University of Arizona Libraries makes accessible more than 150 years of news coverage documenting the voice of the Mexican and Mexican American community.

Curated, researched and digitized by librarians and archivists, in consultation with UA professors, the collection features 20 significant Mexican and Mexican American publications, many in Spanish. (more…)

News Websites Should Target “Reward Seekers”, MU Researcher Finds

By Guest PostMarch 11, 2013Media, Technologyadvertising, brain friendly designs, Entertainment, gratification, information, media professionals, mobile apps, news organizations, news websites, newspaper sales, paul bolls, readership, revenues, reynolds journalism institute, school of journalism, university of missouri

Website designers should strive for simplicity, invoke emotion to boost online revenue

As newspaper sales continue to decline, many news organizations are searching for ways to improve readership and revenues from their online presences. Now, University of Missouri researchers have found that news organizations should target readers with certain personality traits in order to optimize their online viewership. Paul Bolls, an associate professor of strategic communication at the MU School of Journalism and a 2011-2012 MU Reynolds Journalism Institute Fellow, has found that news consumers who have “reward-seeking” personalities are more likely to read their news online and on mobile devices, and to engage with websites, by leaving comments on stories and uploading user-generated content.

In a study accepted for presentation at the 2013 International Communication Association conference in June, Bolls surveyed more than 1000 respondents and placed them into two personality groups: reward seekers and threat avoiders. He found that reward seekers tend to use the Internet liberally, searching out entertainment and gratification, while threat avoiders tend to be more conservative, looking only for information that directly affects them. Bolls found that respondents identified as reward seekers were much more likely to engage with news websites as well as more likely to use mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets to consume news. He says this knowledge should direct news organizations to target these reward seekers. (more…)

Interview with Prof. Richard Rood: ‘The Saga of Climate Change’

By BlogArenaJanuary 14, 2013Environment, Interview, Mediaclimate change, extreme heat events, fossil fuel, how climate works, projecting future climates, surface air temperature, warming of earth

Richard Rood, is a professor of atmospheric, oceanic and space sciences at the University of Michigan. He loves discussing the intersections of weather and climate, and climate and society. One of his current projects involves studying trends in extreme heat events. Rood is a blogger at Weather Underground and teaches a class on climate change problem solving. (more…)

An Interview with Dr. Russ Glenn: ‘China as Superpower’

By BlogArenaJanuary 7, 20131 commentInterview, Media, Politics18th party congress, anti chinese balancing, blood for oil, bo xilai affair, china as superpower, chinese oil demand, east china sea, japanese militarism, liaoning aircraft carrier, oil peace paradox, russ glenn, senkaku islands, taylor fravel, wikistrat consultancy, xi jinping

Dr. Russ Glenn is a lecturer at the Leiden Institute for Area Studies at Leiden University. He focuses on Chinese politics and international relations. Prior to Leiden he completed his PhD at the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Cambridge. He conducted his doctoral work on Chinese energy security needs in a thesis titled: “No Blood for Oil: The strategic implications of increased Chinese oil demand on the Sino-US relationship and the Oil Peace Paradox”, where he broke down the role of oil into the military and economic aspects of supply security, and interrogated the ability of China to successfully achieve oil security. He is particularly interested in military history, Chinese, and East-Asian history, politics, and international relations. Outside of academia he is a contributing analyst at the Wikistrat Consultancy, and has been a keen coach, competitor, and coxswain in rowing for the past 11 years at Cambridge and at Brown, and has also boxed for Cambridge. (more…)

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