M & C B Glendonald

at the
Glendonald Maternal and Childhood building,
19 Churinga Drive,
Churchill,
Victoria,
 Australia  3842.

Clear Vision Enterprises Core Values.

Clear vision Enterprises has four fundamental and unifying values reflecting the desire to make a positive difference in peoples activities and services.

These Core values consist of:

• Accountability
• We take personal responsibility for decisions and actions to achieve agreed outcomes.
• Courage
• We dare to advocate for, as well as, create new and better ways of doing things for both people and self communication and development.
• Excellence
• We continuously improve our performance to achieve outstanding outcomes for all involved with Clear Vision Enterprises.
• Integrity
• We take responsibly for our own and the overall actions in an honest and transparent way.
• People
• We recognise and acknowledge that each person is an individual. As individuals we may all be encouraged to have input while working in collaboration.
• Practical
• We know that the recognition of , sharing and gaining further practical life and education skills is important is both community and individual growth and development.
• Respect
• We consider and understand the perspective and contribution of others
• Self
• We recognise that balance and well being in life is an import aspect of challenging and developing the self is highly valued..

Muhammad and the Geranium plant.

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There is a persisting legend regarding this versatile plant. It seems one day the prophet Muhammad after washing his shirt hung it on a mallow plant to dry.  After removing the shirt he found that lovely plant had changed into a geranium,.

The Illustrated Earth Garden Herbal

Smith, Keith Vincent. The Illustrated Earth Garden Herbal- A herbal companion.

Now install an....

Keep in mind that there are at least two sides to every statement. So tongue in cheek I post these statements: :

1. "Conditions do change therefore customs and belief systems have to change with them".
2. "Educating the public makes the society better.  Society becomes stagnant and dull.  Then revolution is inevitable"

Both these statements are true.  Governments are meant to be for the advocacy of the people.  But sometimes the money speaks.  Those in the money power financing the Government taxes.  Those tax's financing business through grants or programmed alignments.  Using the education networks to seduce, quietly manipulating the fresh minds of the population. 

Once there is a big enough population thinking the way the money and government want it to many things seamlessly occur.  The populations want to know there is a balance in their lives. That their voices are heard. That both the governing bodies and the general population will be active listeners.  That their own bandwagon is travelling along the same road as bigger bandwagons.  That their actions and the fact that they believe that being heard gives them governance. Who then still believes that life is fair?

However, like the elections of America, Great Brittan and Australia  (2008 to 2010)  the combined populations of the respected countries are upholding their right to have a mind, to use that mind and to choose which path they personally want to gain more information about before making a commitment.

Technology and the Internet allow for very few unexposed secrets.  So teach the young how to work collaboratively,  use the technology, let them think and evaluate their situations, Then how to question and look for the answers.  To get ahead, just like your were shown, still means don't rock the boat or the privileges will be taken. Intellectual bribery is acknowledged. But not shown to all is how to deal with this facet of life.

Having enabled our societies to have throw away families that one walks away from now work on now to instill an ethical set of morals. One with an individual as well as a collective conscience.  People still what some of what their forbears had.  Without the past links there to be handed down, practiced, worked with and passed on again many of the skills that made populations resistant and able to individually, or in small groups, survive, live pleasantly,  have and will continue to be lost.  Simply put people want to apply the good from all worlds and generations.  Nature is a big enough challenge without stressing about which of our beliefs were fed to each of us so that our decision were making the governments objectives easier to cover up.  Are we that gullible?

Developing a social conscience

Humans have an amazing power to help or hurt one another. A pivotal point of either action or a reaction to situations depends largely on the individual exposure to early, continued and reinforced actions. Not forgetting howe and to who we all communicate with. Simply as the people of the world today are growing in caring and sharing our world and human resources their is a perceivable difference being exhibited. Or " is the Social Conscience of today a manipulation to cover up facts for tomorrow?"

 There are three Governments elections that show this step has been taken.  The American voted for Obama, the British Parliament and now the Australian Election [2010] looks like a hang parliament.  The Greens are effectively holding the balance Current e of power. 

A first out come of advocacy and governance being purportedly being given back to the people.  Noted that there are now a lot more of the younger generations having a say. These younger generations have had enough education and practice to understand and utilise the advocacy and governance processes through their education, social media, technological and network frameworks. Through out their lives these actions are accepted as normal. Now outdated bench marks have been there all their lives.  Are mentors being lead in what to think about, how to think and where to direct your developing mind... away from core community development capital factors? Are you being guided and lead  by being active listeners?

 The Internet and other hosting technologies have made the accessing of information easier to obtain. Conversely making the information harder to cover up.  Where does this leave social conscience.  No longer thought of as fringe thinking.  Major environmental, social and economical objectives are being strategized.  People are having a say. 

Take for instance

• The 2010 Gulf 's oil spill from a B.P. oil well  was a real life catalyst forcing many world wide radical changes in the economic requirements for harnessing the worlds supplies. Environmental dangers have become real with people taking note and re looking at what they too are doing  
• Great Britain's Parliament is taking wind farming to the people.  New technology and economic crashes are forcing companies to re-think their bottom line.  These same companies are slowly learning the hard way.... through their pockets, that the population of the world will not tolerate abusiveness, and bulling tactics that keep the people scared and unresponsive to requests for help.  
• Through education at many levels people have the choice to be well informed.  These same people are completing school projects in the humanities field that take them out of their comfort zones and place them in a situation where other learned skills will be applied.   Voluntary organisations have focused on service within communities.  These same organisations have appealed to the World organisation. 
• With voting rights and mass influence the network of support and influence has snowballed.  Take for instance the Duke of Edinburgh award of the Girl Guides Olave Baden Powell Award {Australia} these are optional extras that appeal to some people offering a wide range of personal interest  projects  Different Royal family have supported these changes.  Super stars, Governments and large companies have plowed monies back into these and other similar social conscience developing projects.  So much so that their followers have heightened their own life skills and experiences to be part of the same  thought patterns turn into action strategies and occurrences.

Gaining a social conscience is a good thing.  Not questioning what one is shown, taught, thinks and is empowered to do is something that paternal influences within societies development that is quietly encouraged.  Thus there is negative and positive social conscience developing.  The difference between the two depends on your belief system and which side of the political fence you are standing at that moment in time.  The haves or have nots of a particular governing view.

There is something about..

• "There's something about a man-made disaster that let us know that we are not protected, and we are not prepared. When you walk out of your home one day and never walk back into life as you knew it, there is a knowledge that you live with on a daily basis: the emperor has no plan. " This statement was initially about Hurricane Katherine but is this statement holding true for the Churchill fires of 2009, that intermingled with Black Saturday fires the following week?                                                                                                        There has now been nearly twenty months since the first of these devastating fires began. Many changes have been written about.  Harsh devastating or emotional pictures of the times posted. hero and villains plastered all about.  But what have the quiet people seen that they are not telling about? Over time people have quietly told their stories.  No they are not  they ready to go public.  Their anguish is too raw.  Their relationships and life has been put on hold until they need to cope with it.  But things are not going right and they do not know why.  So the stories I am allowed to share are the stories I share with you.                                                                                         
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• By the grace of God she was born.         
• Skeletons of our past.
• Taxi  
• I do not want to leave my home again.
• Fires in the distance
• It feels like rape  
• Looters on the loose 
• Getting on with it  
• Financial wipe out  
• Our home was safe but were over!
• Don't talk to me.  I'm fine.  
• Public bonfire cause panic  
• Is my family okay  
•  I shook off the ash from the nappies on the line.  
• Once you got use to the smell you stayed.   

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Ritchies donation changed

recieved a letter from Rictches.  have notic3ed the same letter is on the notice boards outside of Ritvchies Churchill itself.

In essence the donations that were 1.00% are now going to be 0.5% back to community groups.  There seem to be tewo provisos though. 

• minimum of 10 customners per month to use Ritchies card .
• Minimum of $10.00 per donation amount to be available. 

Reading this it appears that if these two commitments are not met the donation amount may not be carried over to the next month.  We will have to wait and see about this as no one there seems to have the actual answer.

These changes come onto effect from September 2010.

Waiting for full review

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