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Brain's Journey from Early Internet to Modern-Day Fiber Optics: Computer Program Shows How Brain's Complex Fiber Tracks Mature

Physicists Develop a Quantum Interface Between Light and Atoms

Science struggling to track destruction of nature

Tip of the Hat toLynn Wheeler at LinkedIn.

Dear friends,

I view the National Coalition for Dialogue and Deliberation (NCDD) as one of the most important groups supporting the emergence of democratic participatory wisdom to help societies evolve and thrive in the coming century.

I want to encourage everyone in my U.S. networks to seriously consider attending one of NCDD's budget-friendly one-day regional events coming up during the next two months:

• Denver, Colorado – The Wellshire Inn on Friday, October 22, 2010
• San Francisco, California – De Anza College on Friday, October 29, 2010
• Boston, Massachusetts – UMass Boston on Friday, October 29, 2010
• Austin, Texas – St. Edwards on Friday, November 5, 2010
• Portland, Oregon – Concordia University – November 13, 2010

Phi Beta Iota: Each listed separately at Events Page above.

All five events will focus on the rise of public engagement.  The Co-Intelligence Institute is partnering with NCDD and others in the Denver and Portland events, which will be attended by CII board members.

Continue reading “Event: Regional events explore Public Engagement”

Next week is a free five-day event that offers insights from top leaders on how to transform business as usual.

Chip Conley is bringing together the 40 leaders, CEOs, authors, visionaries, and provocateurs he most admires who are building a new revolution in the way business is done.  They will all be available for five days of powerful insights, all on the phone. And he's doing this whole event for free.

This event features leaders such as Tim Ferriss, Tony Hsieh, John Mackey, George Zimmer, Christine Comaford, Tony Schwartz, Roxanne Emmerich, Stephen M. Covey, and Mihaly Csikszenmihalyi.  The summit is designed with mainly
30-minute talks interspersed throughout the day so you can stay on top of your work while learning the best insights from the world's top business minds.

The Enlightened Business Summit runs from Oct. 25-29th as a free offering from The Shift Network in partnership with New Voice of Business.  Share this invitation with friends and allies ­ all are welcome to participate

Click here to Join this event
http://enlightenedbusinesssummit.com/feature/New-Voice-of-Business

**      GAO ROLE IN INTEL OVERSIGHT TO BE DETERMINED

Phi Beta Iota: The Constitution is clear on the role of Congress, and the Executive does not get to pick and choose which of the activities funded by Congress on behalf of We the People will receive fiscal oversight.  The position of the Administration is unconstitutional.   The acceptance by Congress of this ridiculous claim can be connected to the role of Congress as a willing patsy in violation of Article 1 of the Constitution, and the mutual benefits that accrue to Members as well as the political “leaders” in the Administration from an out of control US Intelligence Community budget of $75 billion going on $90 billion–a budget that produces “at best” 4% of what the President or other major commanders need to know.   On the matter of “who benefits” from this state of affairs, the answer is clear: not the public.

**      INVENTION SECRECY STILL GOING STRONG
**      NEW BOOKS RECEIVED
**      EFF ANNOUNCES PIONEER AWARDS

Phi Beta Iota: Our heart-felt congratulations to Steven Aftergood for his recognition by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) this year.  He is a patriot who constantly demonstrates the value of INTEGRITY in the public interest.

CUTTING THE FUSE

Moving Beyond the War on Terror

Tuesday, October 12, 2010 – Capitol Hill

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Dr. Robert Pape University of Chicago

Service Providers Deploying Open Source Scale-Out Storage Wednesday, November 3, 2010 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM PDT

Businesses, governments, non-profit organizations and individual consumers are facing growing challenges in storing, managing, protecting and mining the explosion of data being generated in an increasingly digital world.

Consider these trends:
• Unstructured data is growing 60% year-over-year
• Virtualization is affecting the entire datacenter and standardization is key in building a virtualized infrastructure
• Enterprises are turning to service providers who offer enterprise class IT more cost-efficiently and with better service levels

If you're a Service Provider looking to learn more about storage or a firm looking to increase service offerings and add new revenue streams by adoption of cloud computing, this webinar is for you.

Hear from our experts: Terri McClure, Senior Analyst at the Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) and Reuven Cohen, Founder and CTO at Enomaly.

Space is limited.
Reserve your Webinar seat now at:
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Phi Beta Iota: The scary part of this is when you really start growing and have not budgeted for the rapidly scaling COST of your rapidly scaling cloud.  Don't make the mistake of scaling free stuff at your expense.

**      CONFRONTING OVERCLASSIFICATION

In a new article at ForeignPolicy.com, I [Steven Aftergood] take a critical look at the current policy landscape, including the newly enacted Reducing Over-classification Act and the pending Fundamental Classification Guidance Review.  See “Telling Secrets,” October 15.

See Also: Review: C3I–Issues of Command and Control with this quote:

“Everybody who’s a real practioner, and I’m sure you’re not all naive in this regard, realizes that there are two uses to which security classification is put: the legitimate desire to protect secrets, and the protection of bureaucratic turf. As a practitioner of the real world, it’s about 90 bureaucratic turf, 10 legitimate protection of secrets as far as I am concerned.”

**      A DOUBLE STANDARD IN LEAK INQUIRIES?

**      CIA SUES AUTHOR IN PREPUBLICATION REVIEW DISPUTE

A book called The Human Factor: Inside the CIA’s Dysfunctional Intelligence Culture was written by a former CIA clandestine services officer under the pen name Ishmael Jones.  It was published earlier this year, the government says, “in defiance of the CIA’s Publications Review Board’s disapproval and instructions not to publish.”  See “CIA sues ex-agent for book’s breach of ‘secrecy’” by Bill Gertz, Washington Times, October 19, 2010.

See Also:

CIA sues ex-agent for book's breach of ‘secrecy':   Author says he saw corruption

Phi Beta Iota: Although we gave this book a very strong positive review, we were not aware the author had failed to comply with the pre-publication review process.  As critical as we may be of CIA, we have always complied with our lifetime secrecy agreement with respect to publications about the core nature of intelligence and especially human intelligence.  Each of the following was cleared by CIA, and cleared in record time.

2000 ON INTELLIGENCE: Spies and Secrecy in an Open World

2002 THE NEW CRAFT OF INTELLIGENCE: Personal, Public, & Political

Human Intelligence: All Humans, All Minds, All the Time