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Advanced Mobility Academic Research Center (AMARC) – WebSite Is Up
One of the two major areas of focus for me these days is AMARC. I am working with Tom Suder, the President of MobileGov on setting AMARC up. We just finished setting up our webpage, www.amarcedu.org. We are in the process of creating an Advisory Board consisting of Academic, Government, and Corporate members to provide…
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Status Update
I thought it might be useful to talk a little bit about what I am doing. At this point in my career, my interests revolve around how to improve the provisioning of services and products to the Government on one hand and the ability of Government to make use of these products and services more…
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Our Passover Seder 2013
I have been posting information about our Seder now for a number of years; for those interested they can look at one of the following links: https://www.ourownlittlecorner.com/2012/04/01/this-years-passover-sedar/ https://www.ourownlittlecorner.com/2011/04/10/our-annual-passover-seder/ https://www.ourownlittlecorner.com/2011/04/11/our-passover-seder-quotes/ This year our focus is to look at the choice for freedom that was made in the Exodus story and to consider some of the reasons…
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Perhaps You Cannot Go Home, But Sometimes You Get Close
Monday at 10:30 am, I found myself at Northwood High School in Silver Spring MD with Bette Brotman Dolan. I went to Northwood as did Bette. When I was in high school, we both rooted for the Northwood Indians. In these politically more sensitive times it is the Northwood Gladiators. Evidently it is more acceptable…
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Last Day of Our Spring Training Pilgrimage
Saturday, March 16th, was our last day at the Nationals Spring Training in the Viera/Melbourne area. The game was on MASN and was scheduled for 6pm so we spent a mostly leisurely time during the day. Of course, leisurely for me meant working on grading participation in my UMUC class. We had lunch at one…
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Our Annual Nationals Spring Training Pilgrimage – Day 3
Today was an away game in Jupiter against the Cardinals. The Cardinals are one of the few other East Coast Florida teams, we have gone to a Jupiter game almost every year we have gone to Spring Training. Jupiter is a just under a two-hour drive south of Viera. The desire of the Nationals to…
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Nationals Spring Training Pilgrimage – Two Days Down, Two To Go
It is always great fun coming to Nationals Spring Training. For those of you who have never done so, I would recommend it (either for the Nationals if that is your favorite baseball team, or for whichever team is). The weather is pretty nice, especially the further north you live, the pace is informal, the…
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The Magistrate
Last night, Ellen and I attended our first “live” event at a location different than the event itself. We had seen advertisements for these often at movie theatres, often for opera performances. This one, seen at the Shakespeare Theatre’s Harmon Hall came about almost by accident. I received an email from the Shakespeare Theatre that…
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ESEM Consulting LLC
It’s great when what you do best and enjoy most are the same thing. In my case, helping people and organizations become the best they can be really does it. Achieving organizational and business success gives me personal pleasure and carries through to all aspects of life. It was with this in mind that I…
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Federal News Countdown – February 1st
I was, to my continual amazement, invited back again to be on the Federal news Countdown, hosted by Francis Rose, on WFED, on the AM dial at 1500. During the show two guests go over their top three Federal news stories of the week, starting with their third most important, then their second and finally…
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