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Jul 11, 2018

Flood Insurance Reauthorization

So it's time to talk about flood insurance cancellation again. Again. Again. Authorization for the National Flood Insurance Program is set to expire on July 31. This happens every couple of years,…

Jul 10, 2018

Teaching Project Management This Fall

And in other news, I am teaching People and Project Administration at Central Michigan University. It's a good course with a focus on the people side of project management. But since it…

Jul 9, 2018

Interview in the Extra Mile

Way back in March I did an interview with the Extra Mile , an online news sources for The Hartford Financial Services Group. Since The Hartford is primarily an insurance services group,…

Jun 28, 2018

Nanotechnology in Energy

In Nanotechnology Demystified , the authors make a very interesting point: The biggest single challenge for the next few decades is creating and distributing energy for [10e10] people. Now, I've said before,…

Jun 27, 2018

Election Security in Harford County

As I engage in a radical return to normalcy, I have neglected some posting here. I return to the blogging world with this first announcement of a story from Towson University's media…

May 16, 2018

The Teletype Sound Effect in the Movies

I've been a little busy lately. I've been a touch occupied, as you can imagine. Not a lot of time for writing here. But I had to make some time for this.…

Apr 5, 2018

Bioreactor Landfills

One of the more interesting anaerobic processes is the breakdown of municipal solid waste in landfills. I grew up not far from what we called Rumpke Mountain, the sixth largest landfill in…

Apr 2, 2018

Meiji Land Reforms and Modernization

An open question in history is why Japan was able to successfully modernize following Commodore Perry's "opening of Japan." In a recent discussion of this, I proposed that three reasons drove Japan's…

Mar 30, 2018

My Orbit Population Model at JSM

I am happy to say my paper was accepted for the 2018 Joint Statistical Meetings in Vancouver. Actually, I think JSM accepts all papers. That's not the point right now. This paper,…