FROM a Great Canadian and World Statesman

"A great gulf... has... opened between man's material advance and his social and moral progress, a gulf in which he may one day be lost if it is not closed or narrowed..." Lester B Pearson http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1957/pearson-lecture.html

Saturday 15 February 2014

PacificSci GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES goes into HIBERNATION!

After more than 7 years of blogging (89 posts including this one), we wish to announce that we are suspending our involvement in this activity indefinitely, or at least until further notice.

All our existing posts will remain available on-line, and there is a lot of material there now for people who might like to browse on our observations since we began this blog on November 25, 2006.

Creating and maintaining this stream of information, observation and opinion has been a significant challenge, yet an invaluable source of motivation for us to keep up with global policy related issues.

However, as both principals (Franklin White and Debra Nanan) are now more engaged in editorial work of a more formal nature e.g., journal articles, and recently the book GLOBAL PUBLIC HEALTH - Ecological Foundations (see sidebar to the right), and thereby contributing actively to the more formal health and life science literature, the time has come for us to channel our energies more emphatically in those directions.

Needless to say, we reserve the right to reactivate this blog at some future time, especially as we may miss the discipline of developing monthly material of a less formal and eclectic nature.

In the meantime, we thank our readers for their interest, and the growth in readership that has taken place, which is now in excess of 1,000 visits per month, and steadily approaching 50,000 blog lifetime visits.

Best wishes to our readers and supporters around the world!

Frank and Debra

INSPIRATIONAL WELCOME ............................... from T.S.Eliot's "Little Gidding"

If you came this way From the place you would come from... It would be the same at the end of the journey... If you came, not knowing what you came for, It would be the same... And what you thought you came for Is only a shell, a husk of meaning... From which the purpose breaks only when it is fulfilled If at all.