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Living Wellness Arts Healing Culture
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Living Wellness
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Living Wellness Books
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2020-01-29T21:17:08.052Z
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Living Wellness Programs & Publications
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2020-01-29T21:06:08.579Z
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"A Howling Necessity" Performance Leads Audience in Creative Process
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2019-09-03T07:14:22.366Z
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Living Wellness Programs
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2012-05-24T03:10:43.060Z
Living Wellness
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<p>Living Wellness' SOUNDS OF THE SACRED, SONGS OF THE EARTH performance series, which began in 2002, celebrates the 10th Anniversary of Living Wellness' "WALK ACROSS THE WORLD', Global Steps for Unity & Harmony"; featuring workshops through October 2nd, 2015; Come Join Us during the day for special musical performances with sharing…</p>
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<p>Living Wellness' SOUNDS OF THE SACRED, SONGS OF THE EARTH performance series, which began in 2002, celebrates the 10th Anniversary of Living Wellness' "WALK ACROSS THE WORLD', Global Steps for Unity & Harmony"; featuring workshops through October 2nd, 2015; Come Join Us during the day for special musical performances with sharing on the Healing Power of Sound at the Topanga Library,(<em>Free Admission</em>/122 N. Topanga Canyon Blvd. 90290) 1pm-3pm, and then later here at Froggy's, 7:30pm, for moving and fun concert experience.[$10. <em>Suggested Donation</em>] May 2nd, 2015</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-5"><strong><span class="font-size-5"><strong>Living Wellness Foundation's<br></strong></span></strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-5"><strong><span class="font-size-5"><strong>10th Annual "<span class="font-size-5"><strong><span class="font-size-5"><strong>WALK ACROSS THE WORLD" October, 2015</strong></span></strong></span></strong></span></strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-4"><strong><strong><strong><strong>'Each conscious step makes all paths one'</strong></strong></strong></strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-5"><span class="font-size-3"><span class="font-size-5"><span class="font-size-3">"Unity & Tolerance"</span></span> Program for Children and Families</span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-5"><span class="font-size-3">Living Wellness Workshops throughout the year:</span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-5"><span class="font-size-3">Sound Heart - Listening Based Skills</span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-5"><span class="font-size-3">Mind Vision - The Creative Matrix</span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-5"><span class="font-size-3">Healing Actions - Self Empowerment in Higher Service</span></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-5"><span class="font-size-3">Experience Wisdom culled from all traditions to inspire</span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-5"><span class="font-size-3">Leaders for Peace & Improvement for all our Communities</span><strong><span class="font-size-5"><strong><br></strong></span></strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-5"><span class="font-size-3">First Nations' Chumash & Tongva Tribes, were first settlers of Topanga Canyon</span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-5"><span class="font-size-3"> We lead Council Practice of speaking and listening from the heart on sacred lands.</span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-5"><span class="font-size-3">We bring the experience of Nature's Spirit to unveil in children and adults<br></span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-5"><span class="font-size-3">their own empowered vision to make creative changes now.</span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-5"><span class="font-size-3">We explore use of creative technologies in studio lab sessions</span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-5"><span class="font-size-3">to inspire children & adults to 'give voice' to their visions</span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-5"><span class="font-size-3">and share them with the world.</span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-5"><span class="font-size-3">SOUNDS OF THE SACRED, SONGS OF THE EARTH</span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-5"><span class="font-size-3">World Music Concert, October, 2015</span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-5"><span class="font-size-3">Exciting line up of world music performers from all different cultures</span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-5"><span class="font-size-3">share the light of the one heart</span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-5"><span class="font-size-3">and awaken us to remember</span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-5"><span class="font-size-3">our inner truth.</span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-5"><span class="font-size-3">(Venue to be announced)</span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-5"><span class="font-size-3"><a href="https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0ByrZc-sQGZMsV0R4dHVobXIyNnc&usp=sharing_eid">https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0ByrZc-sQGZMsV0R4dHVobXIyNnc&usp=sharing_eid</a></span></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-5"><strong>Living Wellness Center for Integrative Therapies</strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;">The Leading Edge in Whole Person-Centered Care</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Experience Soothing Touch & Aromatherapies</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Breath, Energy Work, Movement and Sound Healing</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;">We Consult you to create Healing Environments for your Staff and Employees.</p>
<p align="center"><em><span>Care for the Caregiver</span></em></p>
<p align="center"><em><span> Feel empowered with inspiration and increased knowledge of leading edge patient-centered care techniques.</span></em></p>
<p align="center"><em><span style="font-family: georgia, palatino;">Dedicated to</span></em></p>
<p align="center"><em><span style="font-family: georgia, palatino;">Whole Person-Centered Care</span></em></p>
<p align="center"><em><span style="font-family: georgia, palatino;"> Living Wellness shares learning tools for wellness with Nursing Staffs</span></em></p>
<p align="center"><em><span style="font-family: georgia, palatino;">“Soothe & Empower Mind, Body & Spirit”</span></em></p>
<p align="center"><em><span style="font-family: georgia, palatino;">Calming and Rejuvenating 15/20 minute sessions, rotating two to four Staff at a time, lets everyone experience combined therapeutic techniques that include Aromatherapy, Breath-work,</span></em></p>
<p align="center"><em><span style="font-family: georgia, palatino;">Guided Imagery and Massage Therapy. </span></em></p>
<p align="center"><em><span style="font-family: georgia, palatino;">This is an introduction to the precious journey of one’s healing, tailored to each employee’s needs.</span></em></p>
<p align="center"><em><span style="font-family: georgia, palatino;">Come away with a sense of increased knowledge, inner well-being and insight into the mind-body connection.</span></em></p>
<p align="center"><em><span style="font-family: georgia, palatino;">Become energized in a new way, experience your workspace transformed into a healing environment that elevates everyone’s spirit.</span></em></p>
<p><em><span style="font-family: georgia, palatino;"> </span></em></p>
<p style="text-align: center;">The Living Wellness Integrative Therapies Program</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">includes a special Integrative MD and Holistic Care Team.</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>'LIVING WELLNESS "CARE FOR THE CAREGIVER" RETREATS</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Sponsor a Nurse, CNA or Healthcare Administrator</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">for a Two or Three Day Living Wellness Retreat</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">in Beautiful, Tranquil, Topanga Canyon.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"></p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Receive recognition at our upcoming</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">LIVING WELLNESS CONFERENCE</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">"Building Integrative Health into Comprehensive 'Patient Centered Care'</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">MARCH 2015</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">(Venue to be Announced)</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Send Inquiries to: pdarbanville@gmail.com</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"> </p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Upcoming Living Wellness Events are:</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"></p>
<p style="text-align: center;">"The Life & Journey of the Creative Healer"</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Seminar Series for Spring 2015</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">(Locations & Dates to be announced)</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"></p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Soothe & Empower, Body, Mind & Spirit,</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Weekend Gatherings - Call for timing</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">(<span class="font-size-1"><em>Modest Introductory Participation Fee</em></span>)</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Soothe & Empower with Massage, Aromatherapy,</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Energy Work & Sound Healing</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">in the serene calm of Topanga Canyon.</p>
<p><img alt="TopangaStoryRegular web" src="http://www.onetopanga.com/images/Article_Photos/TopangaStoryRegular_web.jpg" class="align-center" height="215" width="165"></p>
<p style="text-align: center;">To Retreat with us in Topanga Canyon</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Please RSVP (Space Limited)</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">by email: pdarbanville@gmail.com</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">or call Michele at: 310-403-7612</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"></p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Experience Longer Living Wellness Restoration Retreats</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Getaway to the natural setting of Topanga, so close in distance, yet so far away from the fast paced metropolis of Los Angeles;</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">We offer focused, intuitive therapies to guide you through somatic healing processes.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Reach more deeply into your core essence,</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">restore your energy body amidst the Santa Monica Mountains Nature Trails.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Experience your mind quieting, the outside world falling away and gently open to the seat of your divine wisdom.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">From this space awaken an awareness of profound healing, joy and wholeness.</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;">Call for LW Brochure and Events Calendar</p>
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LIVING WELLNESS FUNDING GROUP
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2011-06-25T06:12:18.237Z
Living Wellness
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<p style="text-align: center;"> </p>
<p style="text-align: center;">COMPANY PROFILE</p>
<p>Living Wellness Funding Group was formed to help answer the needs of developers in need of financing, who are open to employing
eco-sustainable concepts into their projects. We function as<br />
<i>Financial Real Estate Agents and Development Consultants</i>.<br />
We're fortunate to have many business associates in a multitude of<br />
industries that allow us the flexibility to source funding through<br />
many avenues.…</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"> </p>
<p style="text-align: center;">COMPANY PROFILE</p>
<p>Living Wellness Funding Group was formed to help answer the
needs of developers in need of financing, who are open to employing<br />
eco-sustainable concepts into their projects. We function as<br />
<i>Financial Real Estate Agents and Development Consultants</i>.<br />
We're fortunate to have many business associates in a multitude of<br />
industries that allow us the flexibility to source funding through<br />
many avenues. We have a network that includes high net-worth<br />
individuals, hedge funds, insurance portfolios, trading firms and<br />
traditional sources. In the course of forming the best team to<br />
package a project’s financing, we may propose involving associated<br />
funding groups and brokers we work with and liaison conventional<br />
sources of financing. Most importantly, it is our passion to find<br />
the best fit for the financial relationship that most suits each<br />
project’s particular needs.<br>
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To us, financing is a marriage of resources with business purpose<br />
and model and we carefully consult to find the best match. We focus<br />
intently to listen and serve each project’s business vision on a<br />
multitude of levels, always with an eye for efficiency,<br />
effectiveness and the long term relationship. </p>
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<p>A major part of our passion for sourcing financing is rooted in
developing practical models of eco-sustainability within all our<br />
industries. Financing is one way of establishing relationship<br />
that can create the opportunity to influence and provide direct<br />
support on the cutting edge of green building and sustainable<br />
energy use. The Living Wellness Funding Group Mission: <i>"To<br />
Provide the Best Resources and Financing for the most Worthwhile<br />
Projects to help Realize their Highest Potential"</i> is unique and<br />
special to the heart of each project.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Living Wellness Funding Group performs to the highest standards
on behalf of every project chosen for financing. We handle<br />
with care and expertise all aspects of the funding process and<br />
serve each client’s needs from the initial stage of package<br />
development and presentation, through to the smooth, timed release<br />
of monies for each project. From bridge loans, to<br />
construction and take-out phases of the financing process, Living<br />
Wellness Funding Group assists you in the most effective funding<br />
cycles to realize each project’s successful development and<br />
sustained success for years to come.</p>
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<p><span class="font-size-1" style="color: #008000;"><b>LIVING
WELLNESS FUNDING GROUP </b></span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-1" style="color: #008000;">P.O. Box
92, Topanga,CA. 90290 310-663-5007 <br />
310-919-3524 Fax <a href=<br />
"mailto:pdarbanville@gmail.com">pdarbanville@gmail.com</a> </span></p>
Health
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2009-03-17T02:48:44.000Z
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Living Wellness Foundation
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2009-03-14T01:42:34.000Z
Living Wellness
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<p>Saturday, May 2<sup>nd</sup>, 2015</p>
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<p><b>LIVING WELLNESS Sacred World Music Event</b></p>
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<p>LIVING WELLNESS Presents the First of an Ongoing Series to Celebrate the</p>
<p>10<sup>th</sup> Anniversary of their, <u>“WALK ACROSS THE WORLD, Global Steps for</u></p>
<p><u>Unity & Harmony”</u> program:</p>
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<p><b>“SOUNDS OF THE SACRED, SONGS OF THE EARTH”</b></p>
<p> </p>
<p><b>Saturday, May 2<sup>nd</sup>,…</b></p>
<p>Saturday, May 2<sup>nd</sup>, 2015</p>
<p> </p>
<p><b>LIVING WELLNESS Sacred World Music Event</b></p>
<p> </p>
<p>LIVING WELLNESS Presents the First of an Ongoing Series to Celebrate the</p>
<p>10<sup>th</sup> Anniversary of their, <u>“WALK ACROSS THE WORLD, Global Steps for</u></p>
<p><u>Unity & Harmony”</u> program:</p>
<p> </p>
<p><b>“SOUNDS OF THE SACRED, SONGS OF THE EARTH”</b></p>
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<p><b>Saturday, May 2<sup>nd</sup>, 2015</b></p>
<p><b>AT:</b></p>
<p><b>Froggy’s Topanga 7:30PM – 10:00PM</b></p>
<p><b>Topanga, CA. 90290</b></p>
<p><b>(Tickets: $10.) Go to:</b></p>
<p><a href="http://livingwellness.brownpapertickets.com/" target="_blank"><b>http://livingwellness.<wbr>brownpapertickets.com/</b></a></p>
<p><b>or at the Door.</b></p>
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<p>“WALK ACROSS THE WORLD, Global steps for Unity & Harmony” kicked off in 2005 with a Beverly Hills Benefit Concert featuring <u>Jackson Browne</u></p>
<p>(<font size="2"><a href="http://movieweb.com/">http://movieweb.com/</a><wbr>hollywood-beat-friars-of-<wbr>beverly-hills-grand-reopening/</font> ) </p>
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<p>Jackson Browne performing</p>
<p>at Living Wellness Foundation's</p>
<p>WALK ACROSS THE WORLD</p>
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<p>with Fred Martin & The Levite Choir & Spain’s Most Celebrated Flamenco Pianist, <u>Pedro Ricardo Mino</u>, </p>
<p><font size="2"> </font></p>
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<p>Living Wellness has annually brought inner city children to Topanga and Pacific Palisade’s, SRF Lake Shrine, to learn about Mahatma Gandhi’s principles of ‘Satyagraha and Ahimsa’, (Fierce Truth and Non-Violence) and his influence on Martin Luther King. <u>They walk together, encouraged to practice ‘mindfulness, with breath in every step’</u>, <a href="http://soundsofthesacredsongsoftheearth.com/" target="_blank"><font size="2">http://<wbr>soundsofthesacredsongsoftheear<wbr>th.com/</font></a></p>
<p>and experience the powerful wisdom collective awareness can generate, when a group is focused with higher intentions.</p>
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<p>Enjoy a Transcendent Musical Experience with <u>Celestial Vocals, Sanchin & Koto Guitar, and earthy Vocal Harmonies</u> cascading across multiple genres. Come listen and feel the vibrations, with sharings on the healing impact Music, Song and Spoken Word can have on our Body-Minds.<br>
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<b>PHILIP & MICHELE D'ARBANVILLE, Founding Directors of LIVING WELLNESS FOUNDATION</b>, have brought World Music from All Cultures to Los Angeles and Topanga Canyon since 2002, producing with The World Festival of Sacred Music and The City of Los Angeles, Department of Cultural Affairs; their venues have included UCLA's Royce Hall, The John Anson Ford Amphitheater and Topanga's Community House fairgrounds. They’ve featured talent such as the Turkish Ney Flute Master, <u>Omar Faruk Tekbilek</u>, The Jordanian Peacemaking Percussionist, The <u>Hani Naser</u>'s Group, The Door's, <u>John Densmore's TRIBAL JAZZ</u>, Spain's celebrated Flamenco Pianist, <u>Pedro Ricardo Mino</u>, (a protégé of the late <u>Ravi Shankar</u>), Beloved Singer/Songwriter <u>Jackson Browne,</u> <u>Jai Uttal</u>, Rocker of Bhakti, <u>Donna DeLorey</u>, Songstress of The Beloved, our Parisian raised, great American Chanteuse, <u>Madeleine Peyroux</u> and the Tibetan <u>Terton, Kunzang Rinpoche</u>'s 'Healing Chod' practioners, <u>The Monks & Nuns of Zangdokpalri</u>.</p>
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<p><font size="2">Philip & Michele D'Arbanville</font> <font size="2">Children at SRF Lake Shrine</font></p>
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<p>In honor of LIVING WELLNESS' 10th Year Anniversary of "WALK ACROSS THE WORLD, Transcending Boundaries for Unity & Harmony", sharing the principles of Mahatma Gandhi's peacemaking and non-violence each October 2nd, Gandhiji's birthday; Philip & Michele D'Arbanville present this new series of seminars and events focused on deepening the Creative Healing Experience, exploring the Power of Sound and Integrative Healing practices.</p>
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<p>Continuing to curate new talent from diverse musical traditions, Philip & Michele are excited to share this current cornucopia, another wave of music that elevates the soul.(see: <a href="http://www.livingwellness.com" target="_blank">www.livingwellness.com</a>; <a href="http://www.soundsofthesacredsongsoftheearth.com" target="_blank">www.<wbr>soundsofthesacredsongsoftheear<wbr>th.com</a>)</p>
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<p><b>Featuring, this coming Saturday, May 2<sup>nd</sup> :</b></p>
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<b>TARO WAYAMA</b> with his extraordinary, talented group of classical Asian American musicians; they share the Ancient Stirring Sounds of Vocals, Flute, <b>Sanshin and Koto Guitar</b>; featuring <b>Operatic Singer, Suzannah Murray</b><br>
<a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Taro-Wayama-guitaristcomposer/212479818769361" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/<wbr>pages/Taro-Wayama-<wbr>guitaristcomposer/<wbr>212479818769361</a>; <a href="http://ww.scrippscollege.edu/academics/faculty/profile/susannah-murray" target="_blank">ww.scrippscollege.edu/<wbr>academics/faculty/profile/<wbr>susannah-murray</a></p>
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<b>THE HARMONY PEOPLE</b> are <b>Anjalisa Aitken and Gary Garrett</b>,<br>
American Singer Songwriters from Hawaii, whose voices blend in pure rapture, inter-twirling sounds in harmonic blends, each note caressing our inner nature with heartfelt awakenings that shimmer with love on every branch; they create a family tree of harmony that uplift all our visions.<br>
<a href="http://www.theharmonypeople.com" target="_blank">www.theharmonypeople.com</a></p>
<p> <font size="2"> <wbr> Anjalisa Aitken & Garry Garrett</font></p>
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WALK ACROSS THE WORLD is a worldwide coordinated program bringing<br />
spiritual and community leaders, children and adults into global<br />
collaboration to 'Walk for Tolerance & Understanding’. Walker’s<br />
distances will be logged throughout the year to culminate annually<br />
on October 2nd. Our goal is to have the combined total distance<br />
covered on all the walks in a year’s time equal the circumference<br />
of our Earth, some 24,800 miles.<br></br>
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WALK ACROSS THE WORLD is a worldwide coordinated program bringing<br />
spiritual and community leaders, children and adults into global<br />
collaboration to 'Walk for Tolerance & Understanding’. Walker’s<br />
distances will be logged throughout the year to culminate annually<br />
on October 2nd. Our goal is to have the combined total distance<br />
covered on all the walks in a year’s time equal the circumference<br />
of our Earth, some 24,800 miles.<br>
One especially fun part of the Living Wellness mission is educating<br />
children. In the tradition of great naturalists like, Thoreau and<br />
Emerson, great humanitarians such as Mahatma Gandhi and Martin<br />
Luther King, we encourage all who walk to take conscious steps upon<br />
the living earth. Many inner-city children have been limited in<br />
their interaction with Nature, so the Living Wellness walks provide<br />
a special opportunity for them to commune with the great outdoors<br />
and appreciate life itself from a whole new perspective.<br>
We encourage children, young people and adults to share about their<br />
special walks in writing and on video by posting their work on<br />
livingwellness.com and having them blog about their most moving<br />
experiences. We look together at all the important traditions of<br />
walks in many different cultures the world over, such as the El<br />
Camino de Santiago pilgrimage through Spain, the ‘Walk-Abouts’ of<br />
Australian Aboriginals, the sacred temple walks of ancient Japan,<br />
and the Bhuto movement journey, the Nature Hike, the ‘On Walden<br />
Pond’ naturalist walk, the many walks for many worthwhile causes,<br />
green walk, and Earthday walks, even to Health and Sports style<br />
Walkathons and Olympic Speed-walking.<br>
What style of walk will you try? -…maybe one from another culture?<br />
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<i>The three critical dynamics determining whether the MiddleEast<br />
conflict moves towards peace: US-Israel relations, Israeli<br />
compliance with international laws and norms, and the capacity of<br />
the Arabs to engage meaningfully in promoting a credible peace<br />
process.</i></h5>
<h6 style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,Verdana;color:black">By
RAMI G. KHOURI in Beirut | 21 July 2009</h6>
<h2>.</h2>
<p>One of the most important political dynamics in the Middle East
these days is the escalating war of words between the United States<br />
and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over the<br />
international demand to freeze Jewish settlements and colonies in<br />
Arab lands occupied in 1967. It is surprising yet heartening that<br />
the Obama team has come out strongly demanding that Israel freeze<br />
the expansion of all settlements and colonies, with no exceptions<br />
for natural growth, pre-approved projects or anything else.</p>
<p>More unusual has been the American president’s public
reiteration of this position, including in the presence of the<br />
Israeli prime minister in the White House. The United States took<br />
this stance one significant step forward a few days ago when it<br />
publicly called for the reversal of official Israeli approval for<br />
building a new Jewish housing project in the Sheikh Jarrah<br />
neighborhood of Arab east Jerusalem.</p>
<p>Settlements expansion is only one of many core issues comprising
the Palestinian-Israeli and Arab-Israeli conflict; yet it has<br />
become the litmus test of three critical dynamics that may<br />
determine whether this conflict moves towards peaceful resolution<br />
or continues to radicalize and destabilize the entire Middle East<br />
as it has for over 60 years. These three are US-Israel relations,<br />
Israeli compliance with international laws and norms, and the<br />
capacity of the Arabs to engage meaningfully in promoting a<br />
credible peace process.</p>
<p>President Obama has taken a very strong, public position against
continued Israeli colonization probably because he understands that<br />
this position enjoys the backing of international law, American<br />
public opinion, every other country in the world, and probably a<br />
majority of Israelis themselves who would sacrifice their<br />
colonization program for a genuine, lasting, and comprehensive<br />
peace agreement with all the Arab neighbors.</p>
<p>If Obama runs into problems with his economic reform and health
care programs, the pro-Israeli zealots in the United States could<br />
jump on the president’s vulnerability to help him inside the US if<br />
he backs off pressuring Israel on its colonization ventures. Much<br />
of this will depend on how the debate is framed, which raises the<br />
second point: Will Israel finally be forced by global pressure to<br />
comply with international law and UN resolutions, or will it<br />
forever decide where it complies and where it defies the rest of<br />
the world’s sense of right and wrong?</p>
<p>A few days ago, replying to Washington’s demand that Israel stop
colonizing Arab east Jerusalem, Netanyahu said: “United Jerusalem<br />
is the capital of the Jewish people and the state of Israel. Our<br />
sovereignty over it cannot be challenged. We cannot accept the idea<br />
that Jews will not have the right to live and purchase in all parts<br />
of Jerusalem.”</p>
<p>Well, the whole point of living by the rule of law is that your
rights are restricted by the rights of others — in this case,<br />
Israel’s right to live in West Jerusalem is restricted by its<br />
acceptance of the rights of the Palestinian Arabs to enjoy<br />
sovereignty in East Jerusalem. Israeli settlements and colonies are<br />
an illegal, criminal activity, and even the United States now has<br />
the basic decency and courage to say this out loud. Israeli<br />
“sovereignty” over all of Jerusalem is rejected by the entire<br />
world, other than a few Christian fundamentalist nut-cases in the<br />
United States and their equally extremist Likud-run pro-Israeli<br />
lobbyists.</p>
<p>The third issue that must be clarified soon is whether the Arab
world will watch this political drama on television as<br />
disinterested bystanders, or get serious and engage in tough<br />
diplomacy by clarifying to Israel our will to coexist on the basis<br />
of equal and simultaneous rights for Arabs and Israelis without<br />
perpetually making one-sided concessions due to our own collective<br />
weakness.</p>
<p>President Obama and his family touched the world earlier this
month when they visited Cape Coast Castle in Ghana, the former<br />
depot of the transatlantic slave trade that reminds the world of<br />
the evils and inhumanities of the colonial era. Obama said there:<br />
“As painful as it is, I think that it helps to teach all of us that<br />
we have to do what we can to fight against the kinds of evils that<br />
sadly still exist in our world, not just on this continent but in<br />
every corner of the globe.”</p>
<p>One of those evils in our corner of the globe, in the view of
the entire world, is Israeli colonization in occupied Arab lands<br />
that many of us see as perhaps the last, lingering remnant of the<br />
sort of 18th and 19th Century colonization that included the<br />
transatlantic slave trade.</p>
<p>Our common challenge is to reconcile the two legitimacies of
Israeli and Arab nationalism in Palestine by creating two adjacent<br />
states and resolving the refugee issue. The twin first steps to<br />
this must be Arab acceptance of Israel — this has been offered and<br />
reiterated repeatedly since 2002 — and Israel’s reciprocal<br />
acceptance of Palestinian statehood through the proxy act of<br />
agreeing to cessation of Jewish colonization as a first step on the<br />
road to genuine peace and coexistence.</p>
<p>Rami G. Khouri is Editor-at-large of The Daily Star, and
Director of the Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and<br />
International Affairs at the American University of Beirut, in<br />
Beirut, Lebanon.</p>
<p>Copyright © 2009 Rami G. Khouri — distributed by Agence
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Thousands of Protestants and Catholics in Belfast protest the<br />
killings of two soldiers and a policeman over the last week. Even<br />
hard-liners appear to have lost their appetite for violence and<br />
retaliation after a decade of peace. The killers of two soldiers<br />
and a policeman are called 'traitors.'</h5>
<h6 style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,Verdana;color:black">By
Henry Chu March 12, 2009</h6>
<h2>.</h2>
<p>Reporting from Belfast, Northern Ireland --</p>
<p>The extremists who tried to sabotage peaceful coexistence in
Northern Ireland by killing three British security personnel over<br />
the last week may have wound up strengthening it instead.</p>
<p>Residents and leaders of this tiny province, including thousands
of Protestants and Roman Catholics who took to the streets<br />
Wednesday, have united in condemning the shootings, producing<br />
scenes that have left even jaded observers agog at how much has<br />
changed here since the end of the so-called Troubles a decade<br />
ago.</p>
<p>Deadly attack on British base rattles Northern Ireland. 2
British military personnel killed in Northern Ireland. Boom gives<br />
way to bust in Ireland's oversold economy. There was the sight of<br />
top government ministers Peter Robinson and Martin McGuinness, two<br />
men who would once have spat at each other -- or worse -- across<br />
the sectarian divide, standing side by side demanding that the<br />
gunmen be brought to justice. McGuinness, who supported the killing<br />
of British soldiers during his time as an Irish Republican Army<br />
commander, then shocked everyone by denouncing the attackers as<br />
"traitors," an epithet fraught with historical meaning here.</p>
<p>Protestant hard-liners, who used to clamor for retaliation and
aggressive government crackdowns, have appealed for restraint.</p>
"Peace has to be worked at. It's always fragile," said Desmond<br />
Lowry, 49, a nurses union activist who joined protesters at the<br />
imposing Belfast City Hall. "What's happened is a solidarity I've<br />
never seen before, across all parties, saying we have to reject<br />
these actions."<br />
<p>Two British soldiers died Saturday in a hail of bullets outside
an army barracks, and a veteran policeman was shot to death Monday<br />
while responding to a call for help in a strongly republican<br />
neighborhood. Republican splinter groups have claimed<br />
responsibility for the shootings, the first violent deaths of<br />
British security personnel in Northern Ireland since the so-called<br />
Good Friday peace accord in 1998.</p>
<p>The attacks have presented the power-sharing provincial
government in Belfast, which resulted from the accord, with its<br />
most serious challenge so far. Concern over the potential fallout<br />
led Robinson and McGuinness, Northern Ireland's first minister and<br />
deputy first minister, respectively, to temporarily postpone their<br />
departure for an official visit to the U.S. and a meeting with<br />
President Obama.</p>
<p>Authorities have been on alert for any copycat attacks or
reprisals by Protestant loyalist paramilitaries. But the outpouring<br />
of public solidarity has, to some degree, allayed fears of an<br />
immediate slide back into the chaos of the past, in which more than<br />
3,500 people were killed.</p>
<p>Paul Dixon, an expert on Northern Ireland at Kingston University
in London, praised political leaders for their response to the<br />
killings. "These attacks not only represent a setback, but they can<br />
represent an opportunity in further entrenching the peace process,"<br />
he said.</p>
<p>Dixon cited as precedent a bombing by a republican dissident
group in the town of Omagh in 1997, which killed 29 people but<br />
helped cement support for the peace process and paved the way for<br />
the Good Friday agreement.</p>
<p>Still, residents here acknowledge their fear that a few
militants on either side could escalate the violence until it<br />
engulfs whole communities again. Most children still attend<br />
all-Catholic or all-Protestant schools, and the economic benefits<br />
of peace have been unevenly spread, sparking some disillusionment<br />
and resentment in deprived neighborhoods on both sides.</p>
<p>"The devil makes work for idle hands. That is a danger," said
Billy McQuiston, 52, who spent a dozen years in prison as a<br />
loyalist paramilitary member. "But in honesty, I don't think<br />
there's anyone who has an appetite to go back to violence."</p>
<p>McQuiston lives along Belfast's Shankill Road, a Unionist
stronghold where billboards still pay fierce homage to the British<br />
crown and signs honor Protestants killed during the 1970s.</p>
<p>But the relative peace of the last decade has delivered freedoms
that many now cherish, and erstwhile hard-liners want their<br />
children to grow up without fear.</p>
<p>"Going to shops, you're not getting searched. There's no fear of
car bombs or anything like that. To start to live with that again<br />
would be really drastic," said Anna Godfrey, 60, as she picked up<br />
groceries at a shop along Shankill.</p>
<p>Peace advocates took heart when Dawn Purvis, the leader of the
Progressive Unionist Party, which has ties to Protestant<br />
hard-liners, rejected the idea of reprisals to the recent<br />
killings.</p>
<p>"I appeal to those who are thinking of retaliation in any form
to listen to the united response of our community and politicians,"<br />
Purvis said in a speech in Stormont, the power-sharing assembly.<br />
"Do not respond to those criminals, because that is what they are.<br />
Do not give them any credibility, and do not legitimize their<br />
actions."</p>
<p>In some ways, the killings of the two soldiers and the police
officer were more a matter of when than if.</p>
<p>Authorities recorded more than a dozen attacks on police in the
last year and a half by suspected republican dissidents, including<br />
one using a rocket-propelled grenade. Last month, authorities found<br />
a 300-pound car bomb that they said a splinter group had intended<br />
to detonate outside a British army base but abandoned after<br />
something apparently went wrong.</p>
<p>Last week, the chief constable in Northern Ireland said he had
asked for help from a special forces unit of the British army in<br />
gathering intelligence on dissident republicans.</p>
<p>In the Saturday attack, gunmen lay in wait for the soldiers to
come out of their barracks in the county of Antrim to pick up a<br />
pizza delivery.</p>
<p>"They weren't amateurs. It was professionally conducted and
well-planned," said Allison Morris of the Irish News, the only<br />
journalist to have met with leaders of the three main dissident<br />
republican groups.</p>
<p>The groups' memberships are small, and personality clashes have
prevented them from working together, Morris said. The newest<br />
group, known as Oglaigh na hEireann, which translates loosely as<br />
Soldiers of Ireland, boasted to Morris of having enlisted<br />
experienced bomb makers from the old IRA. It claimed responsibility<br />
for the bomb found last month.</p>
<p>The groups appear to be trying to recruit members in depressed
Catholic neighborhoods.</p>
<p>"It's fertile ground for them because there are so many young
men who feel they have no purpose," Morris said.</p>
<p>Cathy Pugh, 46, who joined the peace rally in Belfast on
Wednesday, said it was important that officials bring in investment<br />
and increase spending on education to create opportunities for<br />
young people.</p>
<p>"If people have jobs and they can achieve something worthwhile,
if they can contribute to the wider community, there's got to be<br />
more to that than going out and shooting somebody," she said.</p>
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