1995. Pim de la Parra. Met oa Ralph Wingens, Elske Falkena, Catelijne Brokke, Marcella Padmos en Jeanette Vondersaar. 
When you have issues with commitment of any kind, there is this perennial fear that if you make the decision that you’ll get it ‘wrong’ and then... This film investigates the controversy that surrounded Castaneda's book "Teachings of don Juan" and explores the practices of today's Yaqui Indians with Dr David Shorter, who has spent the last decade working among them in Mexico. 
The World as Art - natural Wonders in Art - World Art... 
It took a few days of moping around the house before I finally acknowledged what the problem is: my heart hurts. 
We have all seen them in a movie theater at one time or another before watching our Feature Presentation. 
De collectie van cineast Joris Ivens wordt komende week overgedragen aan het archief van Nijmegen. Dat schrijft Cinema.nl op zijn site. Het materiaal komt uit de nalatenschap van Ivens' broer en zus. De erfgenamen vinden dat het thuishoort in het archief van zijn geboortestad.”Met deze overdracht zijn de belangrijkste archiefcollecties rondom de familie Ivens in Nijmegen samengebracht”, aldus André Stufkens, directeur van de Europese Stichting Joris Ivens. 
A Celebration of Being ... and Becoming All of the great spiritual traditions of the world offer a vision of spiritual awakening that it is possible to live with a heart that is open to the preciousness and vividness of each moment of our lives. Bringing together people who approach awakening from many different perspectives—dancers, musicians, yogis, poets, energy healers, neuroscientists, and of course, spiritual teachers—the Wake Up Festival is a celebration of the heart's unfolding. We will gather together for five days in Estes Park, surrounded by the beautiful Rocky Mountains, to immerse ourselves in: 
David Reid Poetry Translation Prize :: De tuinman en de dood... De tuinman en de dood Een Perzisch Edelman: Van morgen ijlt mijn tuinman, wit van schrik, Ginds, in de rooshof, snoeide ik loot na loot, Ik schrok, en haastte mij langs de andere kant, Meester, uw paard, en laat mij spoorslags gaan, Van middag (lang reeds was hij heengespoed) "Waarom," zo vraag ik, want hij wacht en zwijgt, Glimlachend antwoordt hij: "Geen dreiging was 't, Toen 'k 's morgens hier nog stil aan 't werk zag staan, P.N. van Eyck ( 1887-1954 ) 
PARIS — When Melissa Dos Santos leaves her job at the end of each day, she goes home to an unlikely place: a tiny trailer in a campground 30 miles north of Paris, where scores of people who can barely make ends meet are living on a sprawling lot originally designed as a bucolic retreat for vacationers.
“I grew up in a house; living in a campground isn’t the same,” Ms. Dos Santos, 21, said wistfully. Her dreams of a more normal life in an apartment with her boyfriend evaporated when they both took minimum-wage jobs — she in a supermarket and he as a Paris street sweeper — after months of searching fruitlessly for better-paying work. “People call us marginal,” she said. “Little by little, it’s eating us up.” Europe’s long-running euro crisis may be cooling. But the economic distress it has left in its wake is pushing a rising tide of workers into precarious straits in France and across the European Union. Today, hundreds of thousands of people are living in campgrounds, vehicles and cheap hotel rooms. Millions more are sharing space with relatives, unable to afford the basic costs of living. These people are the extreme edge of Europe’s working poor: a growing slice of the population that is slipping through Europe’s long-vaunted social safety net. Many, particularly the young, are trapped in low-paying or temporary jobs that are replacing permanent ones destroyed in Europe’s economic downturn. Now, economists, European officials and social watchdog groups are warning that the situation is set to worsen. As European governments respond to the crisis by pushing for deep spending cuts to close budget gaps and greater flexibility in their work forces, “the population of working poor will explode,” said Jean-Paul Fitoussi, an economics professor at L’Institut d’Études Politiques in Paris. To most Europeans, and especially the French, it seems this should not be happening. With generous minimum wage laws and the world’s strongest welfare systems, Europeans are accustomed to thinking they are more protected from a phenomenon they associate with the United States and other laissez-faire economies. But the European welfare state, designed to ensure that those without jobs are provided with a basic income, access to health care and subsidized housing, is proving ill-prepared to deal with the steady increase in working people who do not make enough to get by. The trend is most alarming in hard-hit countries like Greece and Spain, but it is rising even in more prosperous nations like France and Germany. “France is a rich country,” Mr. Fitoussi said. “But the working poor are living in the same condition as in the 19th century. They can’t pay for heating, they can’t pay for their children’s clothes, they are sometimes living five people in a nine-square-meter apartment — here in France!” he exclaimed, speaking of an apartment of about 100 square feet. In 2010, the latest year for which data were available, 8.2 percent of workers in the 17 European Union countries that use the euro were living under the region’s average poverty threshold of 10,240 euros, or about $13,500, a year for single adult workers, up from 7.3 percent in 2006, according to Eurostat. The situation is nearly twice as bad in Spain and Greece. While direct comparisons are difficult because of different standards, the Labor Department estimated that 7 percent of single adult workers in the United States earned less than the poverty threshold in 2009 of $10,830 in 2009, up from 5.1 percent in 2006. France fares better than most European countries, at 6.6 percent, but perhaps nowhere is the phenomenon more startling. While the country seems to exude prosperity, the number of working poor is up from 6.1 percent in 2006, and experts predict it will grow. In France, half the nation’s workers earn less than $25,000. The median monthly paycheck is $2,199, 26 percent above the average for the entire European Union. But the high cost of living and the difficulty many people face securing affordable housing (home prices have surged 110 percent in the last decade, and most rentals require large advance deposits), leaves a growing number out in the cold. Ms. Dos Santos and her boyfriend, Jimmy Collin, 22, moved to the trailer because they did not want to live with their families and lacked upfront money for an apartment. Mr. Collin, a high school graduate with some additional technical training, searched for work for more than six months before landing a minimum-wage contract last year, at $1,800 a month, cleaning streets near Parisian jewels like the Eiffel Tower. He gets a small government stipend for low-income earners, but they still found it hard to save after paying taxes and living expenses. The wait for subsidized housing is more than five years. 
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Editei este vídeo como uma sincera homenagem à estes seres incríveis, anjos de graça e beleza, que simplesmente sorriem para a câmera, proporcionando imagens hipnotizantes. Na minha modesta concepção, "dançam" ao som desta maravilhosa canção de "Jan Akkerman", do seu último álbum "Minor Details" (2011). "Kharman Chantalah", cujo nome têm apelo espiritual, me pareceu bastante condizente com a atmosfera das imagens. Espero que os amigos possam curtir... assim como eu quando da revisão onde me prendia aos detalhes encantadores no comportamento dos "Espíritos do rio". |
I Stockholmspärlor skildras huvudstadens alla sidor, från gator och torg till människor och händelser. Det gamla möter det nya i Jan Bergmans resa ner i Scanpix arkiv. Utställningen visas på Galleri Kontrast fram till den 24 oktober. 
discography, line-up, biography, interviews, photos...Current line-up Others bands/comments 
Jeff Foster shares the timeless non-dual wisdom of 
Barack Obama’s decision to support gay marriage was a rare act of empathy in this presidential election.
..the thing Obama does at his best: He listens. My oracle at Facebook tells me that many of us think that is also precisely the thing Obama does worst—he compromises, triangulates, and negotiates. But perhaps we could at least stipulate that listening to and—yup, I’m saying it—empathizing with people who are very different from you, and rejiggering your views to accommodate them, is a quality we have seen almost none of in this presidential campaign, from either side.
We need to listen to the experiences of others before dismissing them as dangerous, immoral, and wrong. Obama wrote in The Audacity of Hope, that his whole moral code was conditioned on the idea that to be able to empathize with people richer and poorer, more liberal and more conservative, is to be "forced beyond our limited vision.”
By Dahlia Lithwick
Via Edwin Rutsch 
An initiative to establish a new federal law that would give a basic monthly income to all citizens, regardless of employment status was formally introduced in Switzerland in April. Stanislas Jourdan looks into the details of the initiative.
L'initiative populaire pour un revenu de base inconditionnel propose d'inscrire dans la constitution fédérale l'instauration d'une allocation universelle versée sans conditions devant permettre à l'ensemble de la population de mener une existence digne et de participer à la vie publique. 
The world’s largest social-media market is vastly different from its counterpart in the West. Yet the ingredients of a winning strategy are familiar. A McKinsey Quarterly Marketing & Sales article. 
We gathered early in the morning to visit the Ocean Polar World of Qingdao before we catch our flights. It was quite amazing to see the wide range of animals on display and the size of the crowd in the exhibition halls. With our marine educator hats on, it was quite encouraging to see the great potential for teaching and learning to happen in a venue like the Ocean Polar World. For examples, the charismatic penguins and polar bears can be a good set way into what are the differences between the Artic and Antarctic; and the signage congratulating Chinese researchers to research Dome C can be elaborated into interactive station on how research is done in the Polar Regions. After all, learning can take place anywhere and we should help facilitate that progress. (am I right, Laura, the “informal education person” on board?) I look forward to seeing many visitors benefit from the collaborations between researchers, zoos and aquariums and COSEE-China in the future. 
One Day on Earth Global Screening INVITE - UN General Assembly
THE FORD FOUNDATION, UNDP, AND THE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC INFORMATION OF THE UNITED NATIONS present
A Special Screening on International Earth Day of "One Day on Earth" (1 hr and 45 mins) Sunday, 22 April 2012 5:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. United Nations General Assembly Hall, New York
One Day on Earth will screen in over 160 countries this Earth Day. We invite you to Join us. "One Day on Earth" is the first film made in every country of the world on the same day. We see both the challenges and hopes of humanity from a diverse group of volunteer filmmakers assembled by a participatory media experiment. The world is greatly interconnected, enormous, perilous, and wonderful. 
Prominent Chinese artist Ai Weiwei had installed four live webcams at his home in Beijing as a symbolic protest against the police's 24-hour surveillance of him. However, the Chinese authorities ordered Ai to turn off his webcams yesterday. 
Why I Should Touch Your Butt: A Powerpoint Presentation... 
In our world today, perception is reality. During an interaction between two people, what happens in reality is hard to pinpoint. The present is so fleeting and soon it all becomes memory. Every interaction very quickly becomes a set of perspectives. What has actually happened becomes far less important to what is perceived by the parties involved to have happened.So what really did happen? It turns out that what really did happen is what was perceived to happen. It turns out that in every interaction there is not one thing that happens, but two. Perception is reality to the person that perceives it. If I am in a conversation and I perceive that the person I am speaking to is loosing interest because they start to stare at their feet, that means they have lost interest. Nothing else matters. The fact that the other person involved in the conversation perceives that they are listening, but simply staring off into the distance while doing so, is irrelevant. Perception is related in large part to the past we have written for ourselves. In our creation of our Ego we use our perceived past experiences in order to write a story. That story becomes our identity. It permeates our sense of ourselves. It shapes our new perceptions. Throughout our lives we perceive certain amounts of suffering. We receive judgments from others. We place judgment on ourselves. We internalize this suffering and judgment and create a story of who we are. We come to perceive ourselves as slow-witted, or lazy, or angry. And so we become those things. We use them in the framing of our new experiences. I will give you an example. I live with my brother and we often argue about anything and everything. For a long time now he talks to me in rude tones, pokes me, and seems to get a kick out of bugging me. I often try to get him to stop annoying me, but no matter what I say, he always turns it around on me and says, “that’s exactly what you used to do.” You see, I was always pretty rough on him when we were younger. I was the big brother then, and I wasn’t always nice. Nut now my brother is the bigger one, by quite a bit, and he feels like it is payback time. Even when I try to be nice he takes it as a criticism and it degenerates into an argument. I feel like I am constantly under attack, and if I do not act perfectly around him, he will point out my flaws. Look closely at this story. It has been written over many years. It is a story of one person’s perception of an argument many years old. But what is it that I am perceiving. Every time I tell my Brother “you should…” he takes it as offense. But his behaviour is so obnoxious I feel it must be corrected, so I tell him he should stop. And then we fight. But it is somehow all my Brother’s fault. What if I just stopped saying “you should”. What if I re-wrote my story. What if I eliminated the opportunity for my Brother to get mad at me. If I no longer tell him how to act, he can no longer respond with “well, you do it too.” If I no longer give him advice on how to treat people, he will no longer feel criticized and become angry at me. If I stop telling him how he should be, he will stop feeling like I put him down all the time. Perception rarely takes into account the contributions we make, unless it is aligned with awareness. Awareness allows us to see through our story and get to the root of our communication problems. In every story, we play a role. It is never just one person involved in a fight. I can continue to give my brother suggestions on how to lead his life and then call him a jerk for starting so many fights. Or I can accept my role in this relationship and keep my opinion to myself. I cannot change my brother, but I can change myself. I can rewrite my story. And in so doing, I will force my brother to re-write his as well. If I do not provide him with any fodder, the flame will die out. The anger will be replaced with forgiveness. The fights replaced with a common ground. Perception without awareness is taking the emotional response from suffering and using it to write our stories. We use these stories to excuse our poor behaviour. Not so much to others, although we will tell the story to anyone who will listen. We are mostly trying to convince ourselves that our behaviour is excusable. But it is not the Truth. Awareness is key to Balance and key to a more accurate perception. We must re-write our stories to allow ourselves some of the blame for our suffering. If not, we will never move past our current situation, but will instead find ourselves constantly repeating the same mistakes. 
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