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Елена Качмарик ‏@elenakachmarik

@sssssiiidd @medicenluciana

Anja Stiegler

EleniFineArtPhoto ‏@EleniFineArtPho 16 Jul 2015

"In the Shadow of Memory" #photography #art #Greece

Beatriz Díez Lopez ‏@beatrixten 


"'Learning to fly' by Adrian Borda #photography #fotografia"

gaki Wheatfields,1930s #photography

JeanPhilippedeTonnac ‏@inthemoodfortw 9h9 hours ago


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EleniFineArtPhoto 
Darksun ‏@Darksun_always 7h7 hours ago


Rob Cartwright Photography - Tenements of Glasgow's West End -

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Carl Theodor Dreyer’s The Passion of Joan of Arc interpreted by Tilda Swinton

   Chet Baker


Benjamin Millepied ‏@B_Millepied  

#VintageWeek ! Misha and Pontois in Giselle @BalletOParis

Opéra de Paris ‏@operadeparis  

#RomeoJuliette #Noureev Premières images des répétitions, avant un retour très attendu sur la scène de Bastille.

Benjamin MillepiedVerified account
@B_Millepied

Directeur de la Danse @BalletOParis. Choreographer. Former Principal dancer with nycballet. Founder @artformco @LADanceProject @AmoveoCompany
BenjaminMillepied.com
Joined July 2013

Nicholas Britell on @ArtformCo https://artform.co/u/j7EyN7

NY Choreo Institute
@NYChoreoInst

 

NY Choreo Institute
@NYChoreoInst

The NYCI, an affiliate of @nycballet, promotes the development of choreographers and dancers involved in classical choreography by providing opportunities.#NYCI
New York, NY
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 @NYChoreoInst  


Meet Craig Davidson! His work Ambiguous Content premiered on @TheAusBallet #MeetTheChoreographerMonday PC: S Pevnev

 
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JUANJO ARQUES ‏@JUANJOARQUES


FRESAS - junior company/Dutch National Ballet. Photo: Antoinette Mooy.

Richard Heideman ‏@Bafloon Feb 22


FRESAS #HNBbubbles New work created @JUANJOARQUES @jbosch500 Opens tomorrow @Theateradparade https://youtu.be/u_ygKumXMUU

Ernst Meisner, Het Nationale Ballet, jheronimusbosch500 and 6 others

Richard Heideman ‏@Bafloon Feb 24


First press pic from FRESAS @JUANJOARQUES worldpremiere last night @Theateradparade #HNBbubbles pic @michelschnater

Joey Massarelli, Het Nationale Ballet, Ernst Meisner and 4 others

NY Choreo Institute ‏@NYChoreoInst 12 Nov 2015


#TBT to @nycballet dancer Alston Macgill's gravity defying grand jeté in @JUANJOARQUES's work from Spring 2015

elissa Hamilton ‏@hmelissa84 19h19 hours ago


Before the heartbreak ~ La Bayadere ~ 27.02.16 @semperoper with @IstvanSimon #ianwhalen #ballet #semperoperballett

 

Melissa Hamilton ‏@hmelissa84 Mar 8


La Bayadere ~ 27.02.16 @semperoper with @IstvanSimon #TutuTuesday #debut #ianwhalen #semperoperballett

ks.com



“I wanted to make a series of portraits of the dancers themselves, as opposed to dancers dancing, to show the character that underpins their performance, to see the determination and sacrifice that it takes to succeed at such a high level.” Rick Guest.

What Lies Beneath
A book of dancers portraits by Rick Guest
Published by PUSH Print in large format, 300mm x 370mm
Available at £50 from 15 December 2015 in a limited first run of 1000 copies.
More details at: rg-books.com
Rick Guest: rg-dance.com

There will also be an exhibition of the portraits at The Hospital Club in Covent Garden
Dates: 22 – 31 January 2016
Details: www.thehospitalclub.com



What Lies Beneath: portraits of dancers by Rick Guest – Book Cover
Available at: rg-books.com

Marianela Núñez.
© Rick Guest. (Click image for larger version)
Taken from: What Lies Beneath – portraits of dancers by Rick Guest
Available at: rg-books.com








TooThin?

Melissa Hamilton.
© Rick Guest. (Click image for larger version)
Taken from: What Lies Beneath – portraits of dancers by Rick Guest
Available at: rg-books.com

Zenaida Yanowsky.
© Rick Guest. (Click image for larger version)
Taken from: What Lies Beneath – portraits of dancers by Rick Guest
Available at: rg-books.com




Mª Jesús Galdos ‏@mjesusgz 9 Dec 2015


Melissa Hamilton, The Royal Ballet - #photo #art #ballet

pierre boegly ‏@PBoegly


Raven Girl ■ #EricUnderwood & Melissa Hamilton / Alexandrinsky Theatre - Saint Petersburg @EricUnderwood1@hmelissa84

Mariinsky Swans by Gene Schiavone - #ballet #art #photo

Julia ‏@julia_zba Mar 3


Scotland

Venice

Mª Jesús Galdos ‏@mjesusgz Mar 3


Ballet - Anastasia Matvienko and Denis Matvienko - #photo #art #ballet

Mª Jesús Galdos ‏@mjesusgz Mar 4


Painting by Liu Ying Zhao - #pintura #art #artwit #twitart #painting

Painting by Alex Chernigin - #pintura #art #artwit #twitart #painting

Paris by Richard Macneil - #pintura #art #artwit #paris #painting

The Rehearsal of the Ballet on Stage by Edgar Degas - #pintura #art #artwit #degas #painting

Cherry Blossom Japan

Ballerina by Gene Schiavone - #photo #art #ballet

Mª Jesús Galdos ‏@mjesusgz Mar 7


Watercolor - Paris Café by John Salminen - #pintura #art #artwit #twitart #paris #painting

Watercolor - Venice by Thierry Duval - #pintura #art #artwit #painting

Andrea ‏@andrea_4520 Mar 8


Fuji Japan

Family Flamingos by Natalia Baras

Andrea ‏@andrea_4520


Taj Mahal - #india

Andrea ‏@andrea_4520 Mar 3


Morning with my sister ... by Herman Damar

              Reform, Adjust, Improve, Evolve, Change, Adapt, Grow

This raccoon is the oldest member of our Spirit Collection, from 1730. See it on a BTS tour http://www.nhm.ac.uk/visit/whats-on/programs/nhm/behind-the-scenes_spirit_collection_tour.html …

 

Hope: Emily Dickinson

Stand By Me | Playing For Change | Song Around the World

Stand By Me | Playing For Change | Song Around the World





Playing For Change is a movement created to inspire and connect the world through music. Join the movement here:

https://playingforchange.com/members/



From
the award-winning documentary, "Playing For Change: Peace Through
Music", comes "Stand By Me", the first of many Songs Around The World
produced by Playing For Change. This Ben E. King classic features
musicians around the world recorded by the Playing For Change team
during their travels. This song continues to remind us that music has
the power to break down boundaries and overcome distances between
people.







Link: https://youtu.be/Us-TVg40ExM

How To Work Better

 

Brain circuit that helps us adapt to change fades with age, study finds Key points: Brain circuit called the striatum deteriorates with age Decreased activity in this circuit reduces ability to develop new strategies to meet goals Keeping brain active key to healthy ageing

Brain circuit that helps us adapt to change fades with age, study finds

Key points:

• Brain circuit called the striatum deteriorates with age
• Decreased activity in this circuit reduces ability to develop new strategies to meet goals
• Keeping brain active key to healthy ageing

Black Elk Speaks

Black Elk quotes

“The first peace, which is the most important, is that which comes within the souls of people when they realize their relationship, their oneness with the universe and all its powers, and when they realize at the center of the universe dwells the Great Spirit, and that its center is really everywhere, it is within each of us.”
― Black Elk


“The Holy Land is everywhere”
― Black Elk



“Crazy Horse dreamed and went into the world where there is nothing but the spirits of all things. That is the real world that is behind this one, and everything we see here is something like a shadow from that one.”
― Black Elk, Black Elk Speaks


“Grown men can learn from very little children for the hearts of the little children are pure. Therefore, the Great Spirit may show to them many things which older people miss.”
― Black Elk



“Behold this day. It is yours to make.”
― Black Elk



“Any man who is attached to things of this world is one who lives in ignorance and is being consumed by the snakes of his own passions”
― Black Elk



“You have noticed that the truth comes into this world with two faces. One is sad with suffering, and the other laughs; but it is the same face, laughing or weeping. When people are already in despair, maybe the laughing face is better for them; and when they feel too good and are too sure of being safe, maybe the weeping face is better for them to see.”
― Black Elk



“All over the sky a sacred voice is calling your name.”
― Black Elk



“It is in the darkness of their eyes that men get lost”
― Black Elk


“There can never be peace between nations until there is first known that true peace which... is within the souls of men.”
― Black Elk



“Peace will come to the hearts of men when they realize their oneness with the universe, It is every where.”
― Black Elk


“I did not see anything [New York 1886] to help my people. I could see that the Wasichus [white man] did not care for each other the way our people did before the nation's hoop was broken. They would take everything from each other if they could, and so there were some who had more of everything than they could use, while crowds of people had nothing at all and maybe were starving. This could not be better than the old ways of my people.”
― Black Elk



“While I stood there I saw more than I can tell and I understood more than I saw;
For I was seeing in a sacred manner the shapes of all things in the spirit, and the shape of all shapes as they must live together like one being....And I saw that it was holy”
― Black Elk


“Know the Power that is Peace.”
― Black Elk




“I did not know then how much was ended. When I look back now from this high hill of my old age, I can still see the butchered women and children lying heaped and scattered all along the crooked gulch as plain as when I saw them with eyes still young. And I can see that something else died there in the bloody mud, and was buried in the blizzard. A people's dream died there. It was a beautiful dream...”
― Black Elk




“It is hard to follow one great vision in this world of darkness and of many changing shadows. Among those men get lost.”
― Black Elk, Black Elk Speaks



“When a vision comes from the thunder beings of the west, it comes with terror like a thunder storm; but when the storm of vision has passed, the world is greenier and happier; for wherever the truth of vision comes upon the world, it is like a rain. The world, you see, is happier after the terror of the storm.”
― Black Elk


“Every little thing is sent for something, and in that thing there should be happiness and the power to make happy. Like the grasses showing tender faces to each other, thus we should do, for this was the wish of the
Grandfathers of the World.”
― Black Elk


“there can be no power in a square”
― Black Elk



“I knew that the real was yonder and that the darkened dream of it was here.”
― Black Elk


“And I can see that something else died there in the bloody mud, and was buried in the blizzard. A people's dream died there. It was a beautiful dream.”
― Black Elk


“At the center of the universe dwells the Great Spirit. And that center is really everywhere. It is within each of us.”
― Black Elk



“This they tell, and whether it happened so or not I do not know, but if you think about it, you can see that it is true.”
― Black Elk


“Like the grasses showing tender faces to each other, thus we should do, for this was the wish of the Grandfathers of the World.”
― Black Elk




“The world, you see, is happier after the terror of the storm.”
― Black Elk






Black Elk Speaks


Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux
by John G. Neihardt



“Crazy Horse dreamed and went into the world where there is nothing but the spirits of all things. That is the real world that is behind this one, and everything we see here is something like a shadow from that one.”
― Black Elk


“You have noticed that the truth comes into this world with two faces. One is sad with suffering, and the other laughs; but it is the same face, laughing or weeping. When people are already in despair, maybe the laughing face is better for them; and when they feel too good and are too sure of being safe, maybe the weeping face is better for them to see.”
― Black Elk

“It is in the darkness of their eyes that men get lost”
― Black Elk


“I did not see anything [New York 1886] to help my people. I could see that the Wasichus [white man] did not care for each other the way our people did before the nation's hoop was broken. They would take everything from each other if they could, and so there were some who had more of everything than they could use, while crowds of people had nothing at all and maybe were starving. This could not be better than the old ways of my people.”
― Black Elk



“It is hard to follow one great vision in this world of darkness and of many changing shadows. Among those men get lost.”
― Black Elk

Wade Davis: Cultures at the far edge of the world

With stunning photos and stories, National Geographic Explorer Wade
Davis celebrates the extraordinary diversity of the world's indigenous
cultures, which are disappearing from the planet at an alarming rate.

Link: https://youtu.be/bL7vK0pOvKI



 http://www.ted.com

Writer's Philosophy

My Philosophy of Blogging



There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or to be the mirror that reflects it.
- Edith Wharton

Ms. Wharton sums up how I think of blogs. My desire is to reflect the articles and pictures that inspire me when surfing the Web by posting them on my blogs. Blogs create a scrapbook of events to review later inspiring me for a second time. This is a great pleasure and an educational activity providing me with learning missed when I was in school. The Web has demonstrated its great value in generating and spreading new ideas. Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, Occupy Wall Street and other revolutions have gained momentum on the Web.
If you have a favorite cause like animal rights, you can play a part in education the world by posting to your blog. The possibilities are limited only by your imagination.


"To read means to borrow; to create out of one's reading is paying off one's debts."
- Charles Lillard

Communicating my worldview, as seen from my backwater home town situated on an island in the Pacific, is my way of staying engaged with current events.  Multiple Sclerosis has reduced my physical energy and keeps me close to home so I need to adapt and find new ways of relating to the world at large.

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“Dance is a continuation. You can't predict the signs of its evolution” - George Balanchine http://bit.ly/Balanchine-fb 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tasker

Piero Raimondi ‏@piraco75 21 Oct 2015

"Time moves in one direction, memory in another." William Gibson

Traceyanne McCartney ‏@jasmoonbutterfl

Rovina Cai.

Neil G - Poet ‏@Banquozghost Mar 8

There are cemeteries that are lonely, graves full of bones that do not make a sound Neruda Monument:TurinCemetery

Daniela Macorin, Piero Raimondi, Henk J. Roos and 6 others

 

::::::::........ Martina Havlová ::::::::::.......... #photography

Ksenija ‏@Ksenija_Ksy

SIMONA BERTOLOTTO #photography @piraco75

 

goth librarian ‏@goth_librarian 5h5 hours ago

Alice and the White Rabbit by the little fox

  

 

goth librarian ‏@goth_librarian 5h5 hours ago

Alice and the White Rabbit by the little fox

 

How To Hack Your To-Do List

 

\Link: https://youtu.be/Xduzwk04l2E

Tuesday, January 26, 2016

The Real Secret to Changing Your Life

By Charles Raison, MD

If you’ve already broken a New Year’s resolution or two, take heart. I can let you in on the ultimate secret for successfully making change in your life.
A century’s worth of psychological research reveals an interesting paradox in who we are. On the one hand, once we reach adulthood our basic personalities remain unchanged for the rest of our lives. We keep doing the same things—and feeling the same ways—over and over. But, on the other hand, every day we change our behavior drastically in response to different environments. Most of us are one person at work, for example, and another person at home.
The implication of these findings for making (and keeping) New Year’s resolutions is clear:
It is easier to change our environment than to change ourselves. So, if you want to change yourself, change your environment.
Said differently:
Whenever possible, don’t try to fight temptations – avoid them!
The easiest way to make a change in your life is to modify the world around you in ways that will naturally drive you toward making, and maintaining, the change you want. There are many ways to change your environment, but let’s focus on 4 that have stood the test of time:

1. Nature hates a vacuum: In the context of changing your life, this means you can’t just get rid of something that is an important part of your life and leave a big emptiness in its place. This is one of the great secrets of Alcoholics Anonymous: you substitute the location of a bar and the company of fellow drinkers with an AA meeting in the company of people committed to sobriety. If you want to exercise instead of watch TV in the morning, put a treadmill in the spot where your TV once sat. If you eat too much at night because you are lonely and it briefly makes you feel better, do something in the evening where food is not available and eat earlier in the day so you don’t starve.

2. Make it easy: It is hard enough to change habits or behaviors, so don’t make it any harder. Let’s take me as an example. I’ve been trying for several years to lose weight but always failed due to two problem behaviors: once I start eating a meal I can’t stop myself from eating more than I should; and, although I do pretty well during the day, in the evening I invariably break down and eat more than I should. So how have I lost 10 pounds recently? By going with these weaknesses and modifying my environment in ways that allow me to succeed in spite of them. Because I can’t regulate what I eat very well once I start, I’ve limited how often I eat – which means fasting for a good portion of the day. Because it isn’t practical to fast at night given a family at home (and my weakness for eating at night), I fast during the day when the environment makes it easy. I’ve changed my environment so that I avoid restaurants at lunch and make sure I keep focused on work during the peak time of my midday hunger. A final note on this strategy: you have to accept a blow to your pride to find ways to work with your weaknesses instead of against them.

3. Skin in the game: Recent studies are suggesting that you can use monetary rewards and punishments to help change problematic behavior. In essence, these strategies require that you change your environment in ways that make it so painful to fail that you are motivated to stick with the change you are attempting. Let’s take dieting/weight loss as an example. Imagine that you’ve set up your environment such that you will have to pay money to something or someone if you fail to reach your goals (some people have found it especially effective for the money to go to a cause they hate). How much money would need to be on the line to motivate you to shed those extra 20 pounds? Would the threat of losing $ 10,000 keep you focused on succeeding?

4. Don’t do it alone: Change is infinitely easier if you are surrounded by a group of people who are working toward a similar goal and can understand your challenges. And the opposite is also true: change is much harder if you spend your time with people who encourage, or participate in, the very activities or behaviors you are trying to overcome.

The fact that it is easier to change your environment than to change yourself comes with a final bonus. It means that if you are struggling to make the change you want in your life, it is important not to blame yourself, or beat yourself up, but to recognize that you simply have not found the right strategy yet for leveraging the power of the world around you.

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Contributors

• Jeffrey Lieberman, MD
  

  Jeffrey Lieberman, MD, is Professor and Chair of Psychiatry at Columbia University and Psychiatrist-in-Chief at New York-Presbyterian Hospital. He is past President of the American Psychiatric Association and member of the National Academy of Medicine. He has authored over than 600 scientific articles and 12 books on mental illness, including the critically acclaimed Shrinks: The Untold Story of Psychiatry.
• Charles Raison, MD
  

  Charles L. Raison, MD, is a psychiatrist and professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is internationally recognized for his research into the use of mind-body science to develop novel treatments for depression and other stress-related conditions.

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