Jun 142005
 

Stanford Report, June 14, 2005 ‘You’ve got to find what you love,’ Jobs says This is a prepared text of the Commencement address delivered by Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple Computer and of Pixar Animation Studios, on June 12, 2005.  (Video of the Commencement address:  http://www.ted.com/talks/steve_jobs_how_to_live_before_you_die) I am honored to be with you today at […]

Jun 092005
 

—–Original Message—– From: Sandra Finley  Sent: June 14, 2005 Many thanks to Cathy who writes “Thought you’d find this interesting, and rather alarming too.” I hate to think that we specialize in “the alarming” – but, well, … in my next life I’m coming back as an ostrich!” – – – – – – – […]

May 112005
 

Thanks to Paule.  This is timely.  On CBC Radio programme “The Current” this morning there was an interview with a Canadian scientist.  I understood her to say that it won’t be too long before they can take DNA and make human beings.  This from Organic Consumers certainly points in that direction.   /Sandra   Hello Paule, […]

Apr 302005
 

Many thanks to Hart:        http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/04/29/AR2005042901349.html    Lawmakers’ Help for Drug Firm Tests Limits  FDA Calls Efforts For Bayer Illegal  By Dan Morgan and Marc Kaufman Washington Post Staff Writers  Saturday, April 30, 2005; A01  The German pharmaceutical giant Bayer suffered a serious setback last year when a federal administrative law judge backed a proposed ban on […]

Apr 222005
 

Jacobs addresses, among other things, the decline in representative government. I often draw on Jane Jacobs’ work,  especially –    Systems of Survival, A Dialogue on the Moral Foundations of Commerce and Politics and –   The Nature of Economies.   (I was privileged to have some correspondence with Jane Jacobs regarding Economies.) Jane Jacobs, deceased April 2006, wrote  several […]

Apr 142005
 

RE:   feedback following on whether you perceive this to be more conducive towards the inclusivity suggested by a circular arrangement.  Interesting – I had not thought of the circular arrangement in terms of “inclusivity”.   I think of it in terms of being non-hierarchical.   We are equals coming together in discussions around governance.   In First Nations […]

Feb 182005
 

http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/lockheed-martin-agrees-to-acquire-the-sytex-group-inc-54104377.html   Purchase Will Strengthen Company’s Fed. IT and  Tech. Support Service Offerings   BETHESDA, Md., Feb. 18 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Lockheed Martin Corporation (NYSE: LMT) has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire The SYTEX Group, Inc. (TSGI). TSGI, based in Doylestown, Pa., provides information technology solutions and technical support services to the U.S. Department […]