The Art of Entrepreneurship Seminar | Live Seminar (GBDS.US)(Ashland, Oregon)

with John David Van Hove and Raymond Brown

DATE: Saturday, May 16th, 2009 (10 AM - 6 PM PST)
LOCATION: Ashland, Oregon

Dear Clients, Associates & Friends,

What we can easily see is only a small percentage of what is possible. Imagination is having the vision to see what is just below the surface; to picture that which is essential, but invisible to the eye.

• Have you ever wanted to start a project or a business, but didn't know where to begin?
• Have you ever had a great idea, but didn't know how to manifest it?
• Are you already in business and want to expand your knowledge of best-of-breed business tools for growing your company?
• Do you desire success in every aspect of your living integrated with your business?

As said by some of the great teachers, we've all got blind-spots, places we cannot see. "It's what you don't know you don't know that can keep you from manifesting your dreams." As R. Buckminster Fuller said, "You've got exactly twelve seconds to manifest an idea before it slips back into dreamland."

If you're planning, or just dreaming, of starting a new business or project, whether for profit or a humanitarian effort, this seminar is for you. Explore what's possible for you in this one-day seminar in Ashland, Oregon this February.

• Global Business Development Services
• Web Empowerment Solutions

Biographies

• John David Van Hove
• Raymond Brown

One Day Seminar Agenda & Purpose

Onlne webinar calendar

1. Getting the Most Out of Social & Business Networking
2. Web Empowerment Software for Building & Managing Business Websites
3. RSS & XML: The Future of 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!

Getting the Most Out of Social & Business Networking | Live Presentation (Ashland, Oregon)

With John David Van Hove and Raymond Brown

DATE: Friday, June 5th, 2009 (12 PM - 1:30 PM PST)
LOCATION: Ashland, Oregon

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.

Raymond and I are personally inviting you to our next presentation at the appointed date from 12:00 NOON - 1:30 PM PST, at 800 Liberty Street. in Ashland, Oregon. Several other people and companies from the community will be there for the same reason and to network with each other.

• One-Hour Presentation
• Free Lunch Served
• Business Networking

This week we'll be giving a free presentation and orientation to the important emergence of social and business networking and how you can professionally benefit through its application and integration in your business and website.

We will show you how to use and integrate social and business networking into your day-to-day marketing practices to drive prospects to your website and generate sales. These are some of the social networks we'll address.

• Facebook
• MySpace
• LinkedIn
• PartnerUp
• Ashland Resource Center

Presentation registration and coordinates

• Please register and RSVP to let us know you're coming
• We'll send you a confirmation email
• Please be on time (12:00 PM PST)

THERE STILL IS SUCH A THING AS A "FREE LUNCH" PRESENTATION (WITH LUNCH SERVED)!

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!

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

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

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.