Yes, Altoona today...Pittsburgh tonight...tomorrow, the World!

In Altoona, Pennsylvania, today for the last of three days of CareerLink training. CareerLink is something like a one-stop service for state aid -- to the unemployed, to job seekers, to veterans, to the poor. Thirteen CareerLink supervisors are here for the training. We are at the Alleghany Mountains Convention Center in Altoona, Pennsylvania. That's is Diane Spokus, on of the instructors, in the photograph at the left.

Training continues until noon, when I will return to State College, pick up some materials from my office, and, then, travel in Rose Baker's auto to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. We will stay at the Wyndham Garden Hotel at University Place. Then, tomorrow, we make our presentation at the Patient-Focused Care Symposium at Magee-Womens Hospital of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. Dinner for all symposium presenters hosted at the Duquesne Club, designated the country's number 1 city club in 1997, 2000, 2003, and 2006 by the Club Leaders Forum.

Back to State College tomorrow night very late.

Another prediction market presentation...this time, in Pittsburgh...

On Friday, 23 June, Rose Baker and I present a invited paper, Stock Markets for Policy & Practice In Patient-Focused Care, at the Patient-Focused Care Symposium Series jointly sponsored by the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) Magee-Womens Hospital, UPMC Center of Quality Improvement and Innovation, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, UPMC Center for Continuing Education in the Health Sciences, and the AMD3 Education and Research Foundation at Magee-Womens Hospital of the UPMC in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The web site for the presentation is at:

http://www.personal.psu.edu/dlp/patientfoc_2006/
We will leave for Pittsburgh tomorrow night.

Magee-Womens Hospital is where my daughter, Maureen, will deliver her baby soon.

Teaching in Altoona...

Off to Altoona, Pennsylvania, on Tuesday, wednesday, and Thursday of this week. The Pennsylvania Department of Labor and Industry has contracted with Penn State to oversee the development of a training and credentialing process for the Pennsylvania CareerLink system. The goal of the project is to:

• improve customer service to job seekers, employers, and the community;
• enhance the quality of career development and employer services; and
• achieve greater organizational integration so that PA CareerLink services are aligned and seamless.

The PA CareerLink Training and Credentialing Program, in which I will be teaching, is designed to offer professional development courses to its employees so that they will be able to more fully support the Job Ready PA initiatives. 

More coffee tomorrow!

Happy Father's Day...

When drinking water, think of its source.
Perhaps time at the park to watch the water flow over the Falls. Maybe to lunch. Probably bowling. Surely a powdered donut. Cut the grass. Sit with the relatives in the evening. Quiet. Small warm smile aside to me. Patience...patience...quiet patience. Watch. Wait. Don't intrude. Help. Ask for nothing. All is sorted out. Say less than you are thinking. Hope.

Small boys become big men through the influence of big men who care about small boys.

pant...pant...

Lots of talking at groups this week. First, Rose Baker and I presented Research and Analysis on Local Economies at Moving a Demand-Driven Innovation System Forward through Industry Partnerships: A Symposium for Planners in Workforce Development, Education, and Economic Development sponsored by The Pennsylvania Association of Workforce Investment Boards at the Penn Stater Conference Center on the University Park Campus at Penn State on 14 June 2006:

Research & Analysis on Local Economies

Second, Rose and I also presented Forecasting ROI Of Continuing Education Programs & Services at the Penn State Continuing Education Professional Development Conference at the Bryce Jordan Center on the University Park Campus at Penn State on 13 June 2006:
Forecasting ROI Of Continuing Education Programs & Services

Breathe, now!