Happy Holidays from the Gerlachs!

December 15, 2009

Happy Holidays from Kate, Alice & Charles. Hazel and Pooka say hello too, but they couldn’t join us in our holiday picture this year because of the strict no-dogs policy at Millennium Park.
For those not familiar with Millennium Park, the sculpture behind us is commonly known as “The Bean.” Its actual name is “Cloud Gate,” [...]

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St. Hilary 15 – Queen of Angels 24

December 11, 2009

The Cardinals couldn’t maintain their winning ways against a strong Queen of Angels team. Gaby did have a strong game, with 8 points and St. Hilary did manage to slow Queen of Angels down a bit in the second half, but it wasn’t nearly enough against this good team.
With this loss, the St. Hilary girls [...]

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St. Hilary 19 – Sacred Heart 10

December 7, 2009

St. Hilary won its first game of the season with a solid 19-10 victory over Academy of the Sacred Heart. The team looked much better than it did in its first outing again St. Benedict. Alice scored her first basket of the season.
The Cardinal’s record now stands at 1-1.

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St. Hilary 5 – St. Benedict 31

November 20, 2009

The new basketball season got underway this evening for the St. Hilary 7th-grade girls team. With 6 returning players plus one new addition along with a new coach, we are hoping they can show some nice improvements this year. However, facing an always-strong St. Benedict team was not the easiest way to start the season. [...]

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Chicago Triathlon 2009

August 30, 2009

Well, the bad news is that my hopes of at least capturing an age group podium spot were dashed today, but the very good news is that at least I can still walk. Every year I tell myself that I am not going to do the Chicago Triathlon again because it is just too dangerous [...]

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Valporaiso Triathlon

July 11, 2009

I had a solid race today at Valporaiso, recording the fasted bike split of the day and winning the 45-49 age group while finishing 9th overall with a time of 1:02:17. Gregg Cromer recorded the best time of the day, completing the sprint-distance race in 58:54. Maybe next year I can slice another 3 minutes [...]

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In-Stat Makes Marked Investment in Consulting Practice with Hiring of New Managing Director

March 8, 2006

Well, I guess this makes it kind of official. Here’s the In-Stat press release about my new role as managing director for consulting at the market research firm In-Stat.

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Profitably Exploiting Near-Earth Object Resources (ISDC 05)

May 21, 2005

This afternoon, I spoke about the business case for mining near-Earth objects at the International Space Development Conference. My conference paper for his session can be found here (PDF) and the presentation can be found here (PPT) and here (PDF). ). A complete transcript of the presentation follows. I look forward to any feedback that [...]

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Successful Space Entrepreneuring (ISDC 05)

May 20, 2005

This was another great International Space Development Conference plenary session. The panelists were excellent, and the presentations and discussion were really top-knotch and informative. The moderator and panelists were the following:

Armand Musey, President, Near Earth LLC
David Gump, CEO, Transformational Space LLC
Jim Maser, President and [...]

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Building an Open Source Space Program (ISDC 05)

May 20, 2005

This afternoon at the International Space Development Conference, I made a presentation entitled “Building an Open Source Space Program.” The conference paper for his session can be found here (PDF) and the presentation can be found here (PPT) and here (PDF). I have provided a transcript of my discussion below. Your comments and feedback are [...]

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