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		<title>Looking for PMF Stuff?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[For those of you who get to this page because of your PMF searches, I stopped blogging about the Presidential Management Fellows program (and pretty much everything else) on this particular blog, but there is another place where you could go if you&#8217;re interested in discussing it. Go here instead Filed under: pmf<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aaronhelton.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1000884&amp;post=464&amp;subd=aaronhelton&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Heeding Inevitability</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jan 2010 02:45:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[After nearly 3 years of constant blogging, I am surprised that I&#8217;ve been so content on the free WordPress. I started on Blogspot way back when, and it wasn&#8217;t sophisticated enough for me (it still isn&#8217;t). Oh, I could have mucked around with the HTML and CSS (I am fluent in both), but WordPress was [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aaronhelton.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1000884&amp;post=450&amp;subd=aaronhelton&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>PMF Orientation 2009: Open Thread</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jan 2010 14:20:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wow! An open thread twofer! In this thread I want to collect the experiences of anyone who attended one of the three 2009 Presidential Management Fellows 3 day orientations in Shepherdstown, WV. This includes the following three sessions (I attended the December session, in case anyone wanted to know/cares): Session 1: October 13-15, 2009 (Tuesday [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aaronhelton.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1000884&amp;post=447&amp;subd=aaronhelton&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>2010 PMF Assessment: Open Thread</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jan 2010 13:59:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Update 2/1/2010: There aren't too many ways to say this: None of what I say on my blog constitutes official or even semi-official advice. My only perspective is that of a PMF appointee who went through this same process last year. While it is true that I work for OPM, who administers the PMF program, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aaronhelton.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1000884&amp;post=444&amp;subd=aaronhelton&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Noughties Recap Part 2: Personal Journey</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jan 2010 00:16:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I wrote part one of this recap series about the ways I have used changing technologies over the decade, but left you with little commentary on what it is I was doing all that time. That&#8217;s what part 2 is about. The time in a person&#8217;s life between 20 and 30 is a time of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aaronhelton.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1000884&amp;post=440&amp;subd=aaronhelton&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Noughties Recap Part 1: Technology</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Dec 2009 18:34:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I know, I know, the decade doesn&#8217;t end for another year, you&#8217;re saying (or are you?), but everyone else is doing it. I am shamelessly caving to peer pressure and going back to review the decade. This is likely to be longer than my retrospective on 2009, maybe even TEN TIMES longer, but it has [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aaronhelton.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1000884&amp;post=437&amp;subd=aaronhelton&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Preparing for the Presidential Management Fellows Assessment</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Dec 2009 14:44:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://aaronhelton.wordpress.com/?p=430</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[While the actual dates have not been published to my knowledge, history indicates that the PMF Assessment will start in a little over a month all across the US (and even, according to the website, in London). If you were one of the over 8,700 nominated by your school to the PMF program, this is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aaronhelton.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1000884&amp;post=430&amp;subd=aaronhelton&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Skeptic&#8217;s Guide to Biofreeze</title>
		<link>http://aaronhelton.wordpress.com/2009/11/13/what-is-it-is-it-worth-the-money/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 15:13:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;re of a skeptical mindset (that is, ready to question just about any claim you come across), then you are aware that the Internet is full of woo. Most of the time it&#8217;s easy to spot, but sometimes it is cleverly disguised. And quite often, even normal, sane, intelligent people fall for the trickery [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aaronhelton.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1000884&amp;post=417&amp;subd=aaronhelton&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What I&#8217;m Reading</title>
		<link>http://aaronhelton.wordpress.com/2009/11/09/what-im-reading/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 21:00:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I normally just paste individual links on Facebook, and I will probably continue to do that to some degree, but it&#8217;s not exactly a public way of sharing what I am reading, unless you happen to be one of my Facebook friends. So instead of doing that, I am going to try the same concept [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aaronhelton.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1000884&amp;post=399&amp;subd=aaronhelton&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>UN NCRE Interview</title>
		<link>http://aaronhelton.wordpress.com/2009/10/20/un-ncre-interview/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 00:35:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On October 16, 2009, I sat for the United Nations National Competitive Recruiting Exam (UN NCRE) P2 Interview in New York City, USA.  Since I am in Washington, DC, now, it was a 2 hour, 45 minute train ride up the east coast.  I had to get up pretty early to get there with enough [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aaronhelton.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1000884&amp;post=397&amp;subd=aaronhelton&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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