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Raw Spirit Festival

Festivals 2009, World's Leading Healthy-Living Raw Vegan-Eco-Peace Celebrations! Please come join us at one, two or all THREE festivals. All feature onsite camping and parking at beautiful locations which delight and inspire!

IMO Index

The Institute for Marketecology (IMO) is your specialist in quality assurance of eco-friendly products, organic agriculture and management systems.

Mettanokit - Medicine Story

A non-profit learning center and service organization working for a more human society based on the old values of cooperation and equality and the closeness and caring found in our elder tribal societies. Programs and services respectfully incorporate the ancestral wisdom of Native Americans and others who honor harmonious living with Mother Earth and spiritual connections with Creation.

Awaken the Dreamer, Be the Change | The Evolutionary Times

Young people across the planet know that something is profoundly wrong with the world today. We are keenly aware of the challenges we are inheriting as a generation, yet so often we lack exposure to a larger context that helps us understand the full nature and significance of the times we are coming of age in.

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Ashland Resource Center

Your local resource center for sharing events, projects, information and media ! Enjoying steady growth from its 430+ members having posted 1632 photos, 160 songs, 270 videos, 59 discussions, 323 events and 199 blog posts. We received over 1,814 unique visitors, 4,410 visits and 34,993 page views over the last month.

Friends of the Ashland Public Library

* Storytellers for Children * Ashland Mystery Readers * Author Night at the Library * Summer Reading Programs for Children & Young Adults * Special Book Purchases and Library Book Sales * Volunteerism * Your Voice in the Community.

Your Local City

Business Articles, Networking Groups, Business Coaching - Start Building A Stronger Today!

Family Resource Center

Original articles, resources, and critical information about early childhood development, nutrition, medical and legal aid, family counselors, housing, health insurance, child care, etc., as well as sources for spiritual and personal development.

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Success Education Course

Planning Skills and Evaluations

FROM SUCCESS EDUCATION COURSE

Plan for Your Life

Your education will be ongoing. It will continue through your life. For the truly living, it's not going to ever stop.

In the words of Bob Dylan, "a man not busy being born is busy dying."

It might just be that we don't really die. We just stop regenerating and healing. With this commitment to your life locked in to your consciousness, you can begin to plan your life as if it might just go on forever.

Everything you learn, perceive and experience, every communications and contact with others is potential information that could be usefully integrated into your plan. But you must be very discerning not to include information that is irrelevant. So be alert, listen carefully and don't miss the diamonds in the rough.

With what you've learned in this course and the other continuing education programs to follow, you can confidently step into structuring and planning for financial independence to meet your goals and objectives. So now you are going to start doing a plan for your life.

Your Life is the Project

Your life is your most important project of all. Imagine and think deeply about what might be the action steps necessary to take this project, your life, from concept to action to completion. Now, this is quite a forward-thinking plan. You might have to look ahead seven generations into the future. But let's begin by creating a 3-month plan, a 1-year plan, and a 5-year plan. The rest will follow. Begin by formulating your purpose, if you have one. And if you don't have one, then it's time to consider what the purpose of your life just might be.

Taking Inventory

Consider your life a research project as well as your business development. If you do not have the information you need to begin or complete your individual or business plan, then you must do your own research. You can accomplish this through networking access to the key people, projects, programs and media in your local area? There is your local and regional area, national and global resources that might have to be found. You can learn how to use Internet search engines to be able to selectively find exactly what you're looking for. Remember, to have discernment in all areas of your research and be able to sort through the information and the disinformation.

As you begin to assemble the research and all the pieces of the puzzle, be sure to have a tracking system, some method of organizing and filing the information so you can retrieve it at will. Information is only as good as your ability to track it.

So first you're doing research and taking inventory. Second you've got to evaluate the information and screen for relevance. Third, you might have to create communications as well as writing a business plan, doing market research and a capitalization plan. Do not be overwhelmed. Take one step before the other, just like walking. Once you get good at it, you'll be able to run.

In summary, planning skills and evaluations include:

  1. A plan for your life
  2. Considering your life is a project
  3. Taking inventory of your resources.

RESOURCES - Favorite Films

The Night of the Iguana (1964)

A defrocked Episcopal clergyman leads a bus-load of middle-aged Baptist women on a tour of the Mexican coast and comes to terms with the failure haunting his life. A beautiful poem by Nano.

Casablanca (1942)

Set in unoccupied Africa during the early days of World War II. An American expatriate meets a former lover, with unforeseen complications.

Cleopatra (1963)

The triumphs and tragedy of the Egyptian queen, Cleopatra including her lovers Caesar and Mark Anthony.

The Reader (2008)

Post-WWII Germany: Nearly a decade after his affair with an older woman came to a mysterious end, law student Michael Berg re-encounters his former lover as she defends herself in a war-crime trial.

War and Peace (1956)

Napoleon's tumultuous relations with Russia including his disastrous 1812 invasion serve as the backdrop for the tangled personal lives of two aristocratic families. Excellent rendition of Tolstoy's famous novel. Insightful into the vanity and foolishness of war.

Lawrence of Arabia (1962)

Epic rumination on a flamboyant and controversial British military figure and his conflicted loyalties during wartime service. Insight into how the Arab tribes formed a nation.

Death Defying Acts (2007)

On a tour of Britain in 1926, Harry Houdini enters into a passionate affair with a psychic out to con the famous magician.

Doctor Zhivago (1965)

Life of a Russian doctor/poet who, although married, falls for a political activist's wife and experiences hardships during the Bolshevik Revolution. Classic film depicting life during the Russian Revolution.

Days of Wine and Roses (1962)

An alcoholic falls in love with and gets married to a young woman, whom he systematically addicts to booze so they can share his "passion" together. A real expose of the effects of alcoholism on families and the difficulty of breaking the habit. Star performance by Jack Lemmon and Lee Remick.

Save the Tiger (1973)

A businessman's professional struggles begin to conflict with his personal life. Interesting reflection into the culture and times of the early seventies.

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Introducing and Launching - ICR's Global Resource Center Network

Dear Friends,

Along with many visionaries spanning four decades I have worked diligently to create a local, regional and global resource center platform to facilitate the conscious emergence of an enlightened planetary culture.

After many starts and stops over the years, finally the technology, resources and team are organized to accomplish such a grandiose vision. With several powerful web platforms integrated together, the capacity to communicate, network and manage information about people, projects, programs, media, organizations and businesses exists like never before.

With a vast network of resource people worldwide already on the path towards raising consciousness, the time is now to combine Internet technology with the people who are capable of making a difference and doing/being the greatest good.

For our initial launch ICR is launching three resources centers with many more to be organized nationally, regionally and locally.

Resource Center Platforms

For our initial launch ICR’s “Global Resource Center” network has invited you and ninety-nine other key people, organizations and businesses in the local community to become founding members, contribute blogs, photos, music and videos, and submit your local event calendar listing absolutely free.

Share your favorite resources, information, books, seminars with a small, but growing community of friends. Invite your network to become members and participate in resource groups and discussions.

ICR's network is simple, elegant and easy to use even if you do not have computer skills. If you're willing to take 30 minutes and learn, you'll have years of enjoyment and be able to network with some of the most dynamic and interesting people on the planet. FAQ's & Tutorial

Respectfully yours,

John David Van Hove, Founder
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Web Empowerment Software for Building & Managing Business Websites | Webinar (GBDS.US)

With John David Van Hove, Marketing Director & Special Projects Manager and Raymond Brown, CEO and IT Manager

DATE: Friday, June 19th, 2009 (12:30 PM - 1 PM PST)
LOCATION: Webinar

Dear Clients, Associates & Friends,

At Global Business Development Services we're offering a series of free, introductory webinars in emerging web technologies for developers, entrepreneurs and businesses who want to learn about what's up and coming so they can stay upwards on the curve during these recessionary times.

This week we'll be giving a free presentation and orientation to a best-of-breed web development platform to get the most out of your website, social network and blog.

You'll be able to manage your own content which will save you money on a web master, provide dynamic content and a user-friendly experience for your customers, manage a web-based administrative back-end complete with accounting and e-commerce, and drive a robust marketing engine.

We will show you how to use this powerful web platform to drive prospects to your website and generate sales. This is the web development platform we'll address.

Webinar registration and coordinates

  • Please register and RSVP to let us know you're coming
  • We'll send you a confirmation email with the audio and/or visual coordinates
  • Please be on time (12:30 PM PST)
  • You'll call in with your phone for the audio portion
  • You'll go online with your browser for the visual portion of the live webinar

Upcoming webinar calendar

  1. Getting the Most Out of Social & Business Networking
  2. Web Empowerment Software for Building & Managing Business Websites
  3. Social Bookmarking as Part of Your Content Management System
  4. Simple, Elegant, Yet Easty to Use Project and Contact Management Systems
  5. RSS Feeds & XML: The Future of Online Publishing

Thank you and enjoy!

John David Van Hove
Raymond Brown
Global Business Development Services LLC - GBDS.us
Ashland, Oregon
Phone: 800.304.7507
Fax: 866.583.3039
Email: info@gbds.us

A Business Solution Space Company - GBDS.US applies best-of-breed web-based solutions to increase revenue, decrease expenses, and improve communications. Learn more today at www.gbds.us. Email us at info@gbds.us or phone (800) 304-7507 and find out more!

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Green Showcase | Mail-Tribune

Goodbye 2-by-6 studs with fiberglass insulation, vapor barrier and a lot of screws, nails, pounding — and seeping of air between the many joints. Say hello to SIPs.

Today's green, energy-efficient and sustainably-built house can be framed entirely with SIPs — Structural Insulated Panels — which are a foot-thick sandwich of polystyrene foam between layers of oriented strand board, a product that costs a little more than lumber but which cuts building time and pays for itself in saved energy bills.

Thomas Berry, Renowned Cultural Historian, Dies | Greens News

GREENSBORO - Father Thomas Berry, a Greensboro native and world-renowned cultural historian, died Monday at the Well-Spring retirement community. He was 94. (Photo: http://handsofalchemy.blogspot.com)

Berry, a Passionist Catholic priest, was considered a leading ecological thinker and held eight honorary degrees and numerous awards and honors. His ideas have influenced people across the world - from corporate globalization critic David Korten to Nobel laureate Wangari Maathai of Kenya .

Berry's health had declined over the years and his family expected his death, said his sister, Dr. Margaret Berry.

"He had a quiet death and the family was with him when he died," Berry said. "We have people from all over the world who are e-mailing and planning to attend one of the four services."

Thomas Berry articulated a vision of an approaching "Ecozoic Era" in which human societies would live in a sustainable and mutually beneficial manner with the natural world. The Center for Ecozoic Studies in Chapel Hill plans to publish a tribute to Berry this year.

 

Governor to Attend 100 Best Green Companies Event | Oregon Business News

Gov. Ted Kulongoski will attend Oregon Business magazine's celebration of its first annual 100 Best Green Companies to Work For in Oregon. The event will be June 1 at the Gerding Theater in Portland. "We are honored to have the governor help us recognize the importance of green ethics in the workplace," says Oregon Business Editor Robin Doussard. "And grateful for his enduring commitment to making Oregon one of the greenest states in the country."

The 100 Best Green Companies | Oregon Business

The 100 Best Green Companies were selected based on sustainable practices sections from the 100 Best survey process, completed by 372 employers last fall. Participation in the 100 Best survey is voluntary and free of charge. Companies had to employ at least 15 Oregon workers at the time of taking the survey.

Employee survey For the 2009 survey nearly 30,000 Oregon workers rated satisfaction and importance in five statements related to sustainable practices.

Voyage to the centre of the 'Plastic Vortex' | Yahoo News

HONG KONG (AFP) – A group of conservationists and scientists is due to set sail for an obscure corner of the Pacific Ocean in the coming months to explore a vast swirl of waste known as the "Plastic Vortex."

The giant gloop -- which some scientists estimate is twice the size of Texas -- has been gradually building over the last 60 years as Asia and the United States tossed their unwanted goods into the ocean.

Everything from flip-flops to plastic bags have been slowly broken down by the sun's rays into small particles, and ocean tides have meant much of it has settled in a spiralling pattern just below the ocean surface between Hawaii and the mainland United States.

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Goodbye, GM | Common Dreams

I write this on the morning of the end of the once-mighty General Motors. By high noon, the President of the United States will have made it official: General Motors, as we know it, has been totaled.(Photo: http://juliohuato.wordpress.com)

As I sit here in GM's birthplace, Flint, Michigan, I am surrounded by friends and family who are filled with anxiety about what will happen to them and to the town. Forty percent of the homes and businesses in the city have been abandoned. Imagine what it would be like if you lived in a city where almost every other house is empty. What would be your state of mind?

It is with sad irony that the company which invented "planned obsolescence" -- the decision to build cars that would fall apart after a few years so that the customer would then have to buy a new one -- has now made itself obsolete. It refused to build automobiles that the public wanted, cars that got great gas mileage, were as safe as they could be, and were exceedingly comfortable to drive. Oh -- and that wouldn't start falling apart after two years. GM stubbornly fought environmental and safety regulations. Its executives arrogantly ignored the "inferior" Japanese and German cars, cars which would become the gold standard for automobile buyers. And it was hell-bent on punishing its unionized workforce, lopping off thousands of workers for no good reason other than to "improve" the short-term bottom line of the corporation. Beginning in the 1980s, when GM was posting record profits,

 

Allow unemployed to go to school & collect benefits | The Career News

President Barack Obama says he wants unemployment insurance to become a steppingstone for future work by making it easier to enroll in school or job training. Whether that happens will depend on the willingness of states and colleges to change the rules. (Photo: www.clutchmagonline.com)

People who have been laid off and want to go back to school often have to give up their unemployment benefits. If they return to work, they often don't qualify for federal aid because eligibility is based on the previous year's income.

Under rule changes Obama outlined Friday, the Labor Department will ask states to make exceptions during economic downturns so that the unemployed can keep their benefits if they go to community college or pursue other education or training.

 

Recalculating Happiness in a Himalayan Kingdom | Central News Agency

THIMPHU, Bhutan - If the rest of the world cannot get it right in these unhappy times, this tiny Buddhist kingdom high in the Himalayan mountains says it is working on an answer.

"Greed, insatiable human greed," said Prime Minister Jigme Thinley of Bhutan, describing what he sees as the cause of today's economic catastrophe in the world beyond the snow-topped mountains. "What we need is change," he said in the whitewashed fortress where he works. "We need to think gross national happiness."

 

Harameins Universal Model Receives One of its Largest Confirmations | The Resonance Project

Nassim Haramein for more than two decades has been claiming that black holes are the source of creation, not the result of it.  His model early on permitted him to predict that black holes would be found at the center of all galactic formations.  In many cases Haramein produced large controversy stating that black holes were most likely there prior to galactic formation, or even star formation, and that even our own sun and the atomic structure that makes up our reality is centered by black hole dynamics, or what he calls the spin horizon of a white whole/black whole.

Toward A New American Infrastructure | WorldChanging.org

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Yesterday I sat in on a press teleconference with the three co-chairs of the bipartisan coalition Building America's Future: California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell and New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg. The main topic of discussion: the results of a national poll, paid for by their group, which suggest that U.S. citizens across party lines overwhelmingly support infrastructure improvement, and that most would willingly approve a one percent increase in taxes to pay for the work.

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Most Iraqis want US troops out now

Mike Tharp: Most Iraqis regard the U.S. troops as occupiers, some Americans talk about staying longer

UN official demands torture accountability

Ratner: Navi Pillay, UN human rights advocate says senior officials must be held accountable

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Waking Giant News

Thank God for Evolution | The Evolutionary Times

Intelligent Design, Psychology, God, Evolution, Religion, Jesus, Darwin, Creation, History As we observe the 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Darwin and the 150th anniversary of his landmark book, On the Origin of Species, evolution has become firmly established as the central organizing principle of the biological sciences.

The Evolutionary Times

As we observe the 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Darwin and the 150th anniversary of his landmark book, On the Origin of Species, evolution has become firmly established as the central organizing principle of the biological sciences.

The War on Consciousness by Paul Levy

We are truly in a war. It is not the war we imagine we are in, which is the way our true adversaries want it. It is not a foreign war against a foreign enemy. It is a war on consciousness, a war on our own minds.

The Wounded Healer by Paul Levy (Part 2)

Any one of us accessing the healing power hidden in our wound could be, in Jung’s words, "the makeweight that tips the scales," precipitating an evolutionary quantum leap in human consciousness, which literally can change everything.

The Wounded Healer by Paul Levy (Part 1)

An encounter with something greater than our limited ego, what Jung calls the Self, is always a wounding experience for the ego. The event of our wounding is initiatory, as our wounding originated in and potentially introduces us to "something greater than ourselves."

Being a True Human

A Master Inside of You

A Master Inside of You

There is a master inside you. It is an ideal. It is you at your best. Keep working.
You are calm, thoughtful, patient and confident.
You are honest, trustworthy, responsible and reliable.
You are loyal and proud.
You are humble and reverent.
You are tough, self-reliant, persistent and hard working.
You are organized, neat and poised.
You are inquisitive and teachable.
You are healthy, vibrant and enthusiastic.
You are kind, friendly, helpful and generous.
You are brave and daring.
You are moral and ethical.

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