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GOODBYE, EPICENTER LA

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As seems to be the nature of grant-funded projects, mine is suddenly over. I've been Project Manager and Editor of the Los Angeles Health Care Systems Security Project and its website, EPICenter LA , since May 2012. I knew it was coming and was ready to move on, but expected to make this transition beginning in March rather than late January.  After a generous first wave of funding from the Annenberg Foundation, a second wave from other organizations did not arrive in time. I would have liked a little more time to launch the enterprise reporting we'd planned for the blog. We'd only just begun, with a team in place and a schedule finalized. Finding material for 124 unique pages of mostly curated content for a centralized repository of terrorism and disaster resilience information had consumed much time. But we'd shifted focus to the blog and I thought we were finally off and running. We did build a foundation. EPICenter LA is live, with information for multiple aud