The Delta Conference: The Changing Nature of Media, Technology and Investing
October 27th, 2010 — Arrillaga Alumni Center at Stanford University
On October 27th, 2010 Accel Partners and Stanford University MediaX will be hosting The Delta Conference: The 16th Stanford Accel Symposium on the constant change in Digital Media and Technology.
We hope that you will join us for what is sure to be a robust and engaging discussion focusing on the changing nature of media, technology and investing. What sets apart the recent technology champions who have been able to bear through this tumultuous climate? How have some market leaders evolved to remain competitive at the top, while other members of the old guard struggle to keep up?
The Rethinking Seminar Series produced by the Johns Hopkins University / Applied Physics Laboratory has been underway for six years. The Seminars bring together distinguished speakers and interested professionals in free, informal discussions on a wide range of national security topics. The seminars occur approximately monthly in Arlington, VA, near the Pentagon. Each Seminar is video-taped and posted on this website approximately one week after the event along with associated audio, presentation, and bulletized notes files. Files from over 70 previous seminars can be accessed using the links to the right or the Past Series tab above. The 2009-2010 Rethinking Videos are now also available on the You Tube Johns Hopkins Channel Applied Physics Lab Playlist where you can easily comment on or share them.
The Seventh Rethinking Seminar Series will begin in October 2010
Those on the Contact List will be notified as soon as details can be confirmed. To join the List please create a short profile using the on-line registration system, which will also be used for signing up to attend the individual seminars. The Contact List is notified whenever new seminars are announced or new videos are posted on the site.
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“Mock Constitutional Convention“ chaired by Lawrence Lessig, Founder of Change Congress & Professor at Harvard Law School andMark McKinnon, communication strategist for John McCain and George W. Bush. This is a critical response to the “Citizens United” Supreme Court Decision, and other present-day constitutional issues. You can submit and discuss amendments here: http://convention.ideascale.com/
“Across the Political Divide: A Transpartisan Dialogue” a round table moderated by Joseph McCormick
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Dear friends,
This will be a very unusual fundraising letter. If you wish to support my work in general, without getting into details, there is information at the end of this email explaining how. If you'd like to hear what I've been doing and what it has been teaching me, read on.
You have not heard much from me much in the last six months. For most of that time I was caring more than full-time for my partner of 24 years, Karen Mercer, who I met on the cross-country Great Peace March in 1986. After three years of cancer treatments of various kinds, she was declared terminal back in April. On Earth Day she joyfully chose assisted suicide at home under Oregon's “Death with Dignity” law — but she didn't die. She emerged from three days in a coma to have more than three more months of eventful, loving life before finally dying in hospice care on July 29, still with my 24/7 engagement. It has been a very intense time for me, in many many ways. You can read the dramatic story, if you want, in the downloadable “Updates” on http://karen.mercer.muchloved.com.
In this letter I want to share several inquiries that I've been exploring for years, which I found greatly intensified during my months caring for Karen, during which I neglected my world-work almost entirely.
