Governance
It was an educational week at the Leadership Conference for Trustees, Physicians, Executives, & Nurse Executives at The Greenbrier in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia. The conference, which focused on the subject of governance, was organized by The Governance Institute. Although not a new term, governance has taken a much higher profile in both for […]
The Riches of Kipp Island
When I wrote about the global sport of geocaching in July 2005, there were 181,216 active geocaches in 215 countries and in the prior 7 days there had been been 138,512 new log entries written at geocaching.com by 24,318 participants. As of today there are 423,816 active caches worldwide. In the last 7 days, there […]
Jubilee
The weather has made it impossible to resist motorcycling the last few days. Yesterday’s ride started down route 507 to New Foundland, then up route 191 through Sterling and over Spring Hill Road to one of the many small airports that dot the countryside of Pennsylvania. It is always interesting to see what kind of […]
Burke Marks
There are currently 736,425 benchmarks in the database at geocaching.com. Overall, 82,517 benchmarks have been found and recorded in 114,528 logs. In the last 7 days, 1,007 benchmarks have been logged by 407 users. Four of them were found by me in Greentown, Pennsylvania near Exit 20 of Interstate 84. I had tried to find […]
Lehigh
The traffic on the way to Bethlehem, Pennsylvania today was horrible. Makes you want a helicopter — too bad they are unaffordable. The Lehigh University Engineering Advisory Board had a nice reception and dinner. Tomorrow we spend the day focusing on university programs to integrate engineering and business curricula. After dinner I did some benchmarking. […]
