TIBET-FEST am Lindenberg (im kath Pfarreizentrum St.Clara, Lindenberg 8, Basel)

Freitag, 18. August

Ab 17.00 Tibetisches Essen, Gartenwirtschaft

20.00 Film zum Panchen Lama: "Tibet’s Stolen Child" mit deutscher Einführung von Kelsang Gope

Samstag, 19. August

Ab 12.00 Tibet. Essen, Gartenwirtschaft, Tibet-Bazar und Tombola

17.30 Versteigerung tibet. Möbel

19.00–19.30 Vortrag von Tenzin Sewo: Tibet und die Olympischen Spiele 2008 in Beijing

20.00–21.30 Tanzveranstaltung des Tibetischen Folklorevereins

ab 22.00 Konzert: Traditionelle und moderne tibetische Musik

Sonntag, 20. August

9.00–16.00 Tibet-Bazar und Gartenwirtschaft

9.00–11.00 Brunch

11.00–12.30 Vortrag von Phuntsog Nyidrön, der tibetischen Singenden Nonne, die nach15 Jahren aus dem berüchtigten Drapchi-Gefängnis, Lhasa, Tibet, freigelassen wurde.

12.30 Sangsöl (Rauchopfer)

Eine Benefiz-Veranstaltung der Gesellschaft Schweizerisch-Tibetische Freundschaft GSTF,
Sektion Nordwestschweiz, c/o TIBET HOUSE, Tel. 061 261 53 60. – Reinerlös zugunsten der "Lhasa Jatson Chuming Welfare Special School", ein Heim für Waisen-, Strassen- und behinderte Kinder in Lhasa, Tibet.

Freiwillige Helfer können sich bei Thubten Zahner, Tibet house, Spalenberg 46, 4051 Basel melden. Tel. 061 261 53 60, E-Mail: tibethouse@bluewin.ch

Weitere Informationen zum Tibet-Fest gibts hier (pdf)

Anfahrt /Karte: http://map.search.ch/4058-basel/lindenberg-8

"The darkest places in Hell are reseved for those
who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis."
Dante

[Via: Lebanese Blogger Forum ]


"Just another bloody week, But we still refuse to die. Nothing much has happened during the last week, things have become pretty stagnant. We are all sick of this stupid war. I have started writing entries strictly about me, but somehow they seem to be out of context right now so I'll keep them for some other time, hope to write to you next time about how the war has ended!"

[Via: Einmal ist Keinmal ]


"The war on Lebanon has had a devastating effect on me. I felt betrayed by everyone. Perhaps I fail to realize over and over again that human values betray those who hang on to them with messianic delusion. The universality of values is great. It gives us aspirations and ambition. But every passing day proves that they're unrealistic if not coupled with an understanding of nature."

[ Via: From Beirut to the Beltway ]


"It should be evident that Syria is, and always was, part of the problem, not the solution."

[Via: Across the Bay ]


"I'm still up.Yes, still... even though it's 9am. I couldn't fall asleep last night-- I kept tossing and turning, half because I was apprehensive about the explosions I knew were coming, and half because it was 32 degrees in my bedroom (no fuel = no electricity = no AC).Once the strikes started, they just kept going. Every third or fourth one would be intense enough to re-set off a cacophony of car alarms in my neighborhood.

It has been a while since Beirut got hit that hard, that unrelentingly. Jamal counted at least 20 strikes by 5:30am. And it sounds like much of the rest of the country had it even worse.The bombardment stopped around dawn. But the smell of smoke in the air is so strong, it's actually keeping me from falling asleep. Guess it's time to make some coffee."

[Via: Chercheuse d'or ]


"Never did the horrible reality of war affect a family that we know so well as it did last Thursday. Yesterday evening my wife called her parents, as she does every day. They said they were in Binyamina, at the house of my brother-in-law. We thought that they went for the weekend, to breathe some fresh air and see a bit more than the four walls of the bunker at home. After about ten minutes it turned out that they had been to a funeral a little more south. We had read about a soldier who had been killed by anti-tank fire in Lebanon, but we did not know it was major ( res. ) Nimrod Hillel. He was about the same age as my brother-in-law, and when I just met my wife he and his young wife Ofira lived in our street. Both of them had just started a career after having studied and met at the Technion. They had a beautiful daughter, Yasmin, and later, after they moved to Rosh Ha'ayin, they had a son, Noam, who is half a year younger than our daughter, and twin daughters, Hadas and Sapir, who like our son will have their fourth birthday in November. Yasmin had her bat-mitzvah about half a year ago. Many of the baby-videos that were used at the party had been made by my wife."

[Via: Dutchblog Israel ]


"So what’s with this……recurrent claim by, among others, a particularly frothing at the mouth Galloway (in a hilarious performance on Sky news a week or two ago) about thousands of Lebanese prisoners being held in Israeli dungeons (dungeons? I’ve been in one of the worst Israeli prisons a few times, not very nice - I wouldn’t even wish it on Mitzi the Cat - but it was all above ground level as far as I could see)? We hear his claim and we scratch our heads in bewilderment."

[Via: Not a Fish ]


"Three weeks into the escalation on the Northern boarder, everyone has their own theory as to what will be next. Meanwhile, tourists are still enjoying holidays in the centre of the country, and most people have adapted their lives so to keep on living. Some watch the news much more, others self impose a media blackout. In honesty, there is enough out there for you to choose what you want to believe."

[Via: If you will it ... ]


The Bottom Line
The fog of war is very foggy right now, and so is the fog of peace with this UN resolution. It's hard for me to form a clear opinion at the moment. My feelings are mixed. I'm glad there is an end in sight, I'm glad we're not going to lose tens or maybe hundreds of young men.

BUT

The bottom line is that if we end this thing, and if we don't get those kidnapped soldiers back, preferably alive -- Olmert's career is toast. I'd love to be a fly on the wall of Likud's Bibi Netanyahu and his advisers right now. He's tanned, rested, and ready, I'm sure. In the last campaign, he talked endlessly about the Hezbollah threat and was ridiculed by many -- myself included -- for trying to spook us with scary ghost story. His campaign slogan: "I Told You So"

[Via: An Unsealed Room ]

Jetzt wieder sesshaft und vernetzt ;-)

The real change that electronic information will bring is "interactivity" — the ability for the news reader to become a publisher. We've always had letters to the editor, but when your opinion or home video flows as easily out to others as our news, society will be transformed.

It's not just that newspaper news rooms will be run more like TV, turning out stories when they happen. It's not just that "talk radio" will become very, very local. Those who care about news will be able to be their own reporters; they will influence our news decisions and decide more directly what community news will be covered. In addition, it will be possible to include everyone in a news conference; polls and elections could be put together on the fly; reaction to public policy ideas and shifts will be instantaneous.

Via: The Lodi News-Sentinel: How will we look iun 125 Years? News-Sentinel's future won't include paper

....Modem durch Blitzschlag verstorben ....

An Computern kann künftig auch in Rätoromanisch gearbeitet werden. Microsoft hat in Zusammenarbeit mit dem Kanton Graubünden eine Benutzeroberfläche in Rumantsch Grischun mit Rechtschreibe- und Korrekturprogrammen entwickelt. Der Bündner Erziehungsdirektor Claudio Lardi prophezeite am Mittwoch in Chur gegenüber den Medien, der Einsatz von «Microsoft Office Rumantsch» werde einen «erheblichen Beitrag zur Erhaltung unserer vierten Landessprache leisten».

Vollständige Meldung bei baz online.

SBB - Kondukteur on the Blog,....oder wars - on the Lok?


Name:Jack
Location:Switzerland

Wolltet ihr schon immer mal wissen, was denn ein SBB-Kondukteur den ganzen lieben langen Tag macht? Auf dieser Seite erfahrt ihr es! Gespickt mit den wichtigsten News, welche meinen Arbeitsbereich betreffen, erzähle ich hier täglich Geschichten, die euch hoffentlich interessieren! :o) Dies ist die bisher einzige Internet-Seite, welche einen Blick hinter die Bühnen der Schweizerischen Bundesbahn erlaubt. Dies ist keine offizielle SBB-Homepage.

[Via: blog.ch ]

Das =mcminstitute der uni St. Gallen organisiert das 8. mcm-form zum Thema "Web 2.0":

Die neuen Webangebote und Technologien nennen sich Podcasts, Blogs, RSS- Feeds, Wikis oder AJAX und bieten mannigfaltige Funktionalitäten und Kommunikationsmöglichkeiten. Neue Angebote für den Nutzer, sich aktiv im Netz zu beteiligen erscheinen beinahe täglich. Collobarative Filtering, Communities und Social Bookmarking sind nur einige Stichworte. OpenBC, eBay, Amazon, Google, Wikipedia machen den User zum Creator und Communicator in einem. Die Economy of Peer Production hebt die Rollenverteilung zwischen Produzent und Konsument endgültig auf. Web 2.0 stellt Geschäftsmodelle, Kommunikationsgewohnheiten oder auch die Unternehmenskommunikation durch bislang unbekannte Formen der Vernetzung, Partizipation und Transparenz vor neue Herausforderungen. Was ist Web 2.0 wirklich? Unsere These lautet: Der Katalysator für den Wandel unserer Kommunikationsverhältnisse - die nächste Stufe der Evolution unserer Kommunikation.

Am 8. =mcmforum diskutieren Protagonisten der Web 2.0-Szene, Trendforscher, Praxisvertreter renommierter Unternehmen sowie Wissenschaftler und Medienfachleute über Chancen und Risiken des Web 2.0 als "next generation" des Internets.

Das =mcmforum findet jährlich statt und fördert Diskussionen zu aktuellen Fragestellungen und Herausforderungen der Medien- und ICT-Wirtschaft. Es hat sich als kleine, aber feine Konferenz für führende Unternehmensvertreter aller Branchen sowie Wissenschaftler in Europa etabliert und bietet eine Plattform für Informationsaustausch und Networking zwischen Praxis und Wissenschaft und vice versa.

Das vollständige Programm gibts hier.