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Review of Film "I Am"

Mon, 07 May 2012 04:00:00 -0700

I saw this incredible film last year and it had a life changing impact on my world view. I saw it three times in the theater. I even took my kids. Our education system does NOT teach us about ourselves as human beings. We are not told how amazing we all are and how connected we are to each other. We are not given the necessary tools to do a better job at being human and this is the simple reason why we are failing each other.

SOU may reprimand arrested protester

Thu, 19 Apr 2012 04:00:00 -0700

When Shaun Franks was arrested for protesting student loan debt in Washington, D.C., over spring break, he never imagined his own university would consider imposing additional punishments on him.

Franks, 26, was arrested for sitting on private property at the office of Sallie Mae, a private corporation that provides student loans.

The protest had been organized by the U.S. Student Association, a national student group known for political activism.

Franks was one of two Southern Oregon University students arrested, and one of nine who participated during the 300-person protest.

2012 Juried and Audience Award Winners Announced

Mon, 16 Apr 2012 04:00:00 -0700

The Ashland Independent Film Festival tonight announced the 2012 juried and audience award winning films at a gala Awards Celebration at the Historic Ashland Armory. Eleven awards were presented to attending filmmakers, honoring their work screened at the 11th annual festival.

The 2012 AIFF Artistic Achievement Award was presented to Julie Taymor at the Awards Celebration, in recognition of her groundbreaking achievements in independent film, which AIFF Executive Producer, Anne Ashbey Pierotti, likened to "a delicious, and surprising, and deeply satisfying meal that makes you want to stay at the table all night." In her acceptance speech, Taymor emphasized the importance of the film festival experience in providing venues for live audience-filmmaker interactions. The AIFF presented "Essential Transformation: In Conversation with Julie Taymor," an on-screen interview conducted by Oregon Shakespeare Artistic Director Bill Rauch, and featured sold out screenings of Taymors films "Across the Universe" and "The Tempest."

The 2012 Prophecy: Making it Real | 13Moon.com

Wed, 21 Dec 2011 04:00:00 -0800

"The accurate content of the message for the Maya Prophecy for our times is that the date of December 21, 2012 is nothing more than a general marker, a specific date that infact indicates a whole era, an era of hope, an era of opportunity - the opportunity to re-establish a sense of community amongst all humans of this planet..." -From The Maya Taino Prophecy Initiative, led by Maya Elder Antonio Aj Ik and Taino Elder Miguel Sague - www.mayatainoprophecy.webs.com

December 21, 2012 marks the Shifting of World Ages, a return to zero point, where we officially transition from the current 5,125 year World Age Cycle, and enter into a New World Cycle; marking a new level of our unfoldment as a planetary collective; a new level of our human evolution in concert with our living Universe.

A Question of Balance

wbrucewright@yahoo.com (Bruce Wright) — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 04:00:00 -0700

The proposed Mount Ashland Association ski area expansion is a corporate snow job, blowing a bitter wind in August; and the public has been given neither good science or any real supporting evidence to justify what is transpiring under our noses; nor even the real reasons why the ski area wants to expand into a pristine roadless area when there are five other documented MAA expansion plans that would cause little or no impact to the last and largest wilderness area of its kind in the Eastern Siskiyou Mountains.

Ski area expansion cleared | Mt. Ashland Association

Sun, 04 Sep 2011 04:00:00 -0700

In 1998 the Mt. Ashland Associationworking together with some of the top resort planning experts in the country--submitted its first site specific plan to improve the ski area (based on the 1991 master plan). This plan included the wind protected C-6 chairlift that would effectively change the nature of the terrain balance from being too steep for many guests to being attractive and attainable for a wide variety of users. The new plan also called for 200 additional parking spaces to better accommodate the Rogue Valleys growing skier population.

Extreme Makeover Home Edition Building a Net Zero-Energy Home in the Rogue Valley

Thu, 01 Sep 2011 04:00:00 -0700

Extreme Makeover Home Edition will be building a net zero-Energy home for a family in the Rogue Valley September 7th - Sept. 14th. The Oregon Green Expo has been asked to locate donated SOLAR PANELS for the house.

Map of Fukishima Cesium-137 Deposition Across the Pacific by CEREA | SKF Blogspot

Wed, 31 Aug 2011 04:00:00 -0700

France's CEREA has the simulation map of ground deposition of cesium-137 from the Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant accident on its "Fukushima" page. It not only shows Japan but also the entire northern Pacific Rim, from Russian Siberia to Alaska to the West Coast of the US to the entire US.

Star-Struck | Ashland Daily Tidings

Wed, 31 Aug 2011 04:00:00 -0700

When the recession put an end to the Phoenix Day Spa in Ashland, owner Jessica Vineyard turned to her lifelong passion astronomy to make a living. Now she's charted a new course as a wandering star wizard, "Ms. Galaxy."

Is Humanity Bent on a Path Towards Total Species Extinction? | Waking Giant News Service

Thu, 11 Aug 2011 04:00:00 -0700

"The splitting of the atom changed everything - save man's mode of thinking, thus we drift towards unparalleled catastrophe." - Albert Einstein

Given the arrogance and hubris of modern civilization after the nuclear core meltdown and release of extremely high amounts of dangerous radiation from the cooling rods of the badly damaged Fukishima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant in Japan, a sad realization came loud and clear - humanity is pathologically bent on a path to total species extinction, not only of other living creatures, but of our own human race.

Remember this - extinction is a total waste of time!

This, my friends, is not the first wake-up call, but it may very well be the last.