This is another way to put the question: “why are we born to this world?”
I would like to offer this thought:
Life is “suffering” from both misseries and happinesses. (From what I understand the teaching of Buddha.)
Life can also means the end of “suffering”, if we put our mind to it.
This is an interesting article in TIME magazine on Economic Crisis: One Year After. Do you think our economy is climbing out of recession?
You can see full article at http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1920285_1920320,00.html
Google V.S. Bing: An interesting article
See full aticle in TIME Magazine at http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1917712,00.html
10:55 AM Wednesday August 26, 2009
by Sarah Green
Click the following link for quite a poignant view.
Young filmmakers in Thailand are in need of opportunities to present factual work about social and environmental.The ideas and aspirations exist, but are often left unrealized, due to a lack of platforms for presenting such work and their non-commercial nature. The initiative aims to encourage and support the upcoming generation of Thai filmmakers to produce documentaries that reflect such issues.
In 2009, the project addresses environmental awareness in Thailand. Climate change affects the lives of everyone, whether it is the farmer whose crops are failing due to changing flood cycles or the bank clerk breathing in heavily polluted air while commuting – the effects of climate change are global, but the consequences are personal and local. The 20 finalist short films by students across Thailand will capture this truth in unique and creative works of documentary filmmaking.
The competition involves the nationwide participation of universities in Thailand to invite students aged 18 – 25 to submit a one A4 page proposal of a short film on the subject of climate change and its local effects. The proposals are submitted on the competition website and are made available to members of a jury committee. The jury convenes to discuss their choices and make a selection of 40 proposals for the second round. The remaining applicants are then asked to develop their proposal texts into a script, which will be considered by the jury in order to select a final shortlist of 20 teams.
The authors of the 20 scripts (max. two persons per team) consequently participate in a three-day workshop with a team of directors/writers from Germany (Sigrun Köhler and Wiltrud Baier) to train in various aspects of short documentary filmmaking and to develop their script and plan the production. The films are subsequently shot independently during the semester break. After delivery of the finished piece, the finalists are compensated with 7,000 THB towards the accrued production expenditure.
The 20 films will be screened over the course of four weeks in November on the Thai PBS programme “Hot Short Films”. Through these broadcasts, the viewing public will be invited to enter a vote about which film they found the most well-crafted and interesting.
The distribution of the prizes is as follows: The third place receives 15,000 THB, the second place 20,000 THB and the first place received 30,000 THB. The first prize winner additionally receives a budget of maximum 120,000 THB to produce a feature length documentary (25 min. – 30 min.) on the subject covered, to be aired on Thai PBS in 2010, as well as being included in the Sixth Science Film Festival.
Organizers : German Technical Cooperation (GTZ), Office of Natural Resources and Environmental Policy and Planing, Gothe Institute Thailand, ThaiTV, Thai Film foundation
Timeline
August 17 – September 11
September 15
(Announcements on September 16; send script by September 25)
September 30
(Announcements on October 1)
October 8 – 10
November
December
Workshop Trainers
Since 2000 the writers and directors Sigrun Köhler and Wiltrud Baier are working together as BÖLLER UND BROT (authors, directors, camerawork, editing). They mainly work on feature documentaries for cinema and Television, but also cover short films, video installations and flipbooks in their extensive repertoire.
Please enter your vote on the website at www.thaipbs.or.th/ThaiDocs, where the films will be available for viewing in November or per text message (472-0123), after watching the broadcast on Thai PBS to select which film you think should win.
For further information
Tel: 0-2287-0942 ext. 17 or 80
(Mon. - Fri. at 10.00 a.m. - 06.00 p.m.)
Fax: 0-2287-1829
E-mail: pr@bangkok.goethe.org
Today 23 August 2009 there is an event called JoomlaDay 2009 for people using and interesting in this tool for building a web site. You can visit their web for additional information. http://www.joomladay.in.th/
Good luck for you all.
Visit this link to find out more on what's going on at Harvard Business School. From BNET INSIGHT
We at UTCC is special because we have “Wall of Knowledge.” It is fine. Here I would like to invite you to another kind of Wall of Knowledge.
Starting with defiinition of “knowledge”, this one from Wikipedia refering to Oxford English Dictionary.
“Knowledge is defined by the Oxford English Dictionary as (i) expertise, and skills acquired by a person through experience or education; the theoretical or practical understanding of a subject, (ii) what is known in a particular field or in total; facts and information or (iii) awareness or familiarity gained by experience of a fact or situation. Philosophical debates in general start with Plato’s formulation of knowledge as “justified true belief”. There is however no single agreed definition of knowledge presently, nor any prospect of one, and there remain numerous competing theories.
Knowledge acquisition involves complex cognitive processes: perception, learning, communication, association and reasoning. The term knowledge is also used to mean the confident understanding of a subject with the ability to use it for a specific purpose if appropriate. See Knowledge Management for additional details on that discipline.”
What do you think?
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