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Story highlights
- BART rejects union's latest offer, urges return to negotiating table, spokesman says
- BART is open to a mediator to address everything, not just a few issues
- The strike is the second in three months affecting Bay Area Rapid Transit
- The roughly 400,000 people who use BART must now seek other options
Like its trains, contract talks involving Bay Area Rapid Transit remained at a standstill Friday night -- with no plans for even a return to the negotiating table to resolve the system's second strike in three months.
The standoff left many of Oakland and San Francisco's iconic bridges, streets and freeways clogged even more than usual during both the morning and evening rush hours on Friday, the first day in which the nation's fifth-largest train system has been shut down.
Union officials, at 5 p.m. (8 p.m. ET), publicly detailed what they described as a new plan to end the strike. It includes returning to the previous contract language on all outstanding issues, according to negotiator Josie Mooney. They also offered to bring in a mediator to address the points of contention -- which it says does not include the economic part of any deal, because it says that already has been agreed to -- but rather other issues.
"These (are) real, genuine, thoughtfully written ... steps that will settle all disputes on the table," said Roxanne Sanchez, president of the local Service Employees International Union. "...It's not we win or they lose, but the trains (would be) running."
BART management quickly dismissed the proposal "as simply a repeat" of a previous "unacceptable" offer, said spokesman Jim Allison. BART is open to mediation, but only if it's on the whole package rather than "cherry-picking the parts they like and leaving behind the parts they don't like."
"We're calling on union leaders to return to the bargaining table that continues (to address) all of the issues as a whole," Allison said.
BART, whose system normally serves 26 communities including San Francisco and Oakland, has chartered buses during the strike for highly limited but free rush-hour service. Buses departed certain stations in the morning directly for San Francisco, then carried passengers back to those stations in the afternoon.
That was expected to help about 6,000 passengers in each direction, according to BART.
Still, that's just a fraction of the roughly 400,000 people who use the service daily. And for some of them -- like those behind a petition to ban BART strikes, as is done for other transit systems around the nation -- patience is running thin.
"I think the public would have such bad blood this time around for both BART and the unions," BART rider Kyle Brunnette, 53, told CNN affiliate KTVU before trains stopped earlier this week.
BART and workers' unions have been negotiating a new contract for months. Union leaders said the latest strike was called because management made a late push to change worker rules, the framework governing issues such as how work is assigned and what shifts people can work.
This came after the unions made concessions to reach an "economic framework agreement" -- after six months of talks -- on wages, pensions and health care, Pete Castelli, a local executive director of the Service Employees International Union, said Friday.
"Basically what management did was produce, in essence, a poison pill, saying, 'Great, we made this amazing progress after six months, we have an economic framework agreement. But wait, there's more. You must take this now,' " Castelli said. "At that point ... the negotiations broke down."
BART objected to that characterization in a couple of ways. First, the sides haven't agreed on wages, BART spokesman Rick Rice said.
"We're still at a 12% pay increase over four years (at 3% per year)," he said. "The union's last proposal was higher than that."
Second, Rice said, changes to worker rules -- such as ditching a regulation that requires communicating with handwritten notes and faxing in favor of using more modern technology -- have "been in our package since April 1."
"How they can think this is a surprise is simply not credible," he said.
Castelli said he wants BART to agree to arbitration on the worker rules, but not on the economic issues, which he considered all but set.
Rice, though, said that was unacceptable.
"We can't split the package apart," he said. "We can't take one part of this -- the work rules -- to arbitration (and) leave the rest of it on the table to negotiate."
BART said earlier this week that its "best and final proposal" included the wage raises as well as increases in pensions and medical coverage.
The BART board would take the whole package -- "because we do not have agreement on the salary increases," she said -- to binding arbitration. The unions seek "20% plus salary increases," she said.
"The issues that remain unresolved are not minor. We cannot get tired and give up. They get to the heart of BART's need to function efficiently and economically," the BART general manager said.
Castelli apologized to the area's commuters.
"We're very sorry. We understand that this strike -- what it does to the Bay Area riders, and we understand that it is a hardship. ... We apologize," he said. "We urge the public to contact the BART district and tell them to finish negotiating a fair deal with our union."
BART workers also went on strike in the summer, paralyzing the San Francisco regional transportation system for four days in July.


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With the Spring Season not far off, we've released our Season film starring Leticia Stock, Elsa Godard and Rusty the Harris Hawk.
The film references Die Zauberflöte and La Bayadère, both of which return to the Royal Opera House in the coming Season.
David McVicar's enchanting production of Die Zauberflöte opens the Season, a sophisticated fairytale brought to life on stage by McVicar's fantastical staging. Mozart's classic is followed by Nicholas Hytner's magisterial production of Verdi's Don Carlo, set in the political and religious turmoil of Renaissance France and Spain. The Spring Season also includes two new productions on the main stage: Rossini's La donna del lago - a production by Associate Director of Opera John Fulljames – and Richard Jones's production of Britten's Gloriana, which marks both 60 years since the opera's premiere at Covent Garden and the centenary of Britten's birth.
From the exoticism of 19th century India, to political intrigue in Austria, via the weird and wonderful world of Lewis Carroll, The Royal Ballet is staging three big narrative ballets in the Spring Season. Christopher Wheeldon's magical Alice's Adventures in Wonderland opens on 15 March, followed by Makarova's La Bayadère. A tragic tale about the life of a temple dancer, Bayadère is famous for the mesmerizing Kingdom of Shades sequence. Kenneth MacMillan's dramatic Mayerling follows, opening on 19 April. Based on the life and suicide of the disturbed Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria-Hungary, it is considered to be one of MacMillan's most psychologically and choreographically rich ballets.
Keep an eye out for an upcoming look behind the scenes on the shoot of this film.
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Industrial Sector Slowed in January
By Jeffrey Sparshott and Eric Morath
U.S. industrial production edged lower in January as auto and other manufacturers trimmed output.
Industrial output decreased 0.1% last month, the Federal Reserve said Friday. Capacity utilization slid to 79.1% from a revised 79.3% the prior month.
Economists surveyed by Dow Jones Newswires had forecast a 0.2% gain in output and capacity utilization of 78.9%.
Overall industrial production, which includes manufacturing, mining and utility output, was up 2.1% from a year earlier.


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Talk about screen envy! Take a look at the setup in Al Gore's office as pictured in a recent TIME Magazine article. Ironically, that much power usage does not strike me as very carbon neutral. (Via Airbag)
Al Gore's Mac Setup
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Does the guy really need all those screens, I suppose it impresses the ladies, or all of Bill C's X-girlfriends anyways ;)
Pretty good for the guy who invented the internet, and uses enough electric to power a small village, right here in the good 'ol USA, you go Al!
If you think that Al Gore (in the realm of glomal warming awareness) is influencing or will influence a sufficiently large X number of people to understand the climate crisis, then it would logically follow that his personal usage of energy is 150% justified. Then again, his energy use comes from renewable sources, which is more than I can say for myself or for Howard Mann, rendering the ill-informed-but-certainly-not-ironic "observation" in the original post somewhat irrelevant.
Why does everyone think that low power usage = carbon neutral?
Being carbon neutral has nothing to do with power consumption. It only has to do with how your 10,000 jigawatts are being generated (Green energy, etc.). In theory, the other way to be carbon neutral is to offset your energy consumption with carbon cutting investments (planting trees, etc.)
You can use all the energy you want if you're truly carbon neutral. Al Gore has never suggested that people use less energy. He's just trying to change the way we spew carbon into the atmosphere.
BTW, in case anyone is interested, depending on where you live, switching over to Green Energy is as easy as making a phone call. I switched over last month. Doing so helps to create a market for green power.
(oh, and yeah… that is a pretty sweet setup. Guess it helps to be on The Board.)
Sweet setup indeed…I am officially jealous. It is a strange feeling to envy a politician's hardware setup (maybe it's time for a career change:).


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Whatever small percentage of this blog's readership that still remains may be wondering why I haven't posted recently (or regularly) on here in a while and in explaining that reason, I'm also going to be producing one big post of updates to make up for it!
Make Do & Mend Fair
My last post was giving people the heads up about the recent craft fair at Heaton Perk and, as anticipated, it was jolly good fun. I met lots of nice people, including Katie Chappell, who as well as working in Newcastle's (and indeed the world's!) finest cosmetics shop Lush, is also apparently a really good artist! Sally was dishing out plenty of Tunnocks goodies to stall owners and visitors alike, and even snapped this silly and rather horrendous picture of me endorsing the procedure.
A Bit Crack and Chris Bostock's Starlight
The infinitely talented traditional storytellers of A Bit Crack, a group who perform on the first Friday of every month at the Star and Shadow Cinema in Newcastle, hired me to re-vamp their promotional material. This was a long collaboration but we all came out of it happy with the results I think! Following that I was then hired by the group's own Chris Bostock to put together some promotional material for his younger years performance "Starlight"
Below are some of the mock-ups I designed:
This is one of a series of very small (10cm x 15cm, I think) ink drawings of various compositions that I scanned into Photoshop to play around with more pastel-ly colours. Once I found a colour scheme I was happy with, I tried to stick with the same pallette.
It was a conscious decision on Chris' part not to show too much of the faces of the characters as the show is geared by the young people's imagination and he didn't want to ascribe too much detail. Chris was happiest with the original sky-gazing mock-up so I worked on a bigger, tidier version with clearer text and ended up with this:
This acts as the cover to an A5 booklet with show details and contact information and I referred back to some of these original mock-ups when designing the interior pages too.
Jack & Daniel's Comic Book Workshops had their busiest month to date in May and in addition to all of the projects we lead during that time, we've also been working on getting an anthology of work together by a group we spent 12 lunchtime sessions with at Holystone Primary School near Northumberland Park. There's a touch of scanning left to do and I'm going to design a cover similar to our Seven Stories anthology, which will feature my renderings of the kids' characters - I can't wait! I'll post the finished piece when it's done.
Window Murals
This is a slight aside, but a strange creative endeavour I've recently undertaken so it might be of interest! Travelling Man, the aforementioned comic shop where I work, have actually encouraged its more creative hoodlums to paint stuff onto the shop window to promote our events! My first attempt was a straight-up robot to promote Free Comic Book Day:
Following that we had a signing with Richard Starkings and Doug Braithwaite to promote their forthcoming collaboration on Richard's series Elephantmen. First off, I set about getting the information on the window before it started to rain one day. This was supposed to read as "Elephantmen signing 21st May with Richard Starkings and Doug Braithwaite"
I took a photo of it, pondered it for a couple of days until I was back at work and decided that it didn't read right and probably needed a "This Saturday" because your average Joe doesn't conjure up the day based on "21st". I took quite a bit of care with the lettering knowing what a connoseur Mr Starking's is, and once I was happy with the tweaks I got to work painting a big scary elephant head.
And here's the finished thing in all of its temporary, wash-off glory:
As mentioned before, Travelling Man is going to be having a slew of awesome celebratory events for its 20th birthday soon, and I just found a chunky Posca pen in my collection so I'm very excited to get busy with that for the next mural. If you scroll back a bit you'll see the robot design I created for posters/t-shirts/flyers for the celebration, and when the flyers landed in the shop I was very excited to see that on the reverse side was Becky Cloonan's awwwesome design for this year's Thought Bubble comic convention. Which brings me nicely to the next point of business!
Thought Bubble S.O.S.
I will be stalling it out at both days of this years new and improved mega convention in Leeds, selling wares, meeting the good people of pen and ink and running a workshop on the Sunday. I'd like to make a call-out for anyone who might be so kind as to hop on my stall every now and then so I can eat, use the bathroom and more crucially, run a workshop on Sunday.
My table is a well-oiled machine now and you won't be expected to drive the hard bargain or to know anything about my work so long as you are willing to smite those who aim to steal things from me with your mighty fists! If you think you can help out please get in touch: email@example.com
If you've got a comic you wanna sell but no stall I'll probably have room for one or two titles so I'd be happy to sell it for you in exchange for your help.
Big Bang Issue Three
It exists in corporeal form now! After much set-back, deliberation and redrafting of scripts, it has four pages to call its own and a final script as well as thumbnails for every page. What's even more exciting is that I'm working on 1/4 of the size I usually would so I'm going to blaze through it. Why 1/4 size? Well, The Big Bang Issue Three is going to be a stand-alone A6 mini comic, which will delve into the biography of one of the story's characters. The aim is that it can be sold out of sequence with the main storyline, but that it will enrich the reading of the main storyline for those completists among you. This was the scene a couple of nights ago:


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text: Women's crimes with one obvious exception were little different from men's, with the women committing their share of the murders, assaults, larcenies, house-burnings, even drunken[n]ess and selling liquor without a license. Even adultery and keeping a house of ill-fame were shared equally among men and women, and the punishment awarded for each was equally severe for both men and women. The only crimes which women seem not [to] have committed were counterfeiting and forgery. And of course there were few women debtors since in those days women did not usually exercise control over their financial assets. Of the some 1,800 persons committed for debt from 1811 to 1835 only ten were women, and three of those were committed with their husbands.


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Our friends over at power-ballad loving club sensation Ultimate Power are throwing a Halloween party and to get you in the mood for All Hallows' Even they have taken the time to put together a whopping 26 song 'Ultimate Power Guide to Halloween' mixtape...
Meatloaf – 'Bat Out Of Hell'
Quite literally, the ultimate Halloween power ballad. What more do you want?! (You Tube)
Aerosmith – 'I Don't Wanna Miss A Thing'
I've never seen the film Armageddon but I've lost my voice singing along to this anthem at many an UP night. (You Tube)
Meatloaf – 'I'd Do Anything For Love (But I Won't Do That)'
Has been voted the greatest and worst song ever recorded. Quite simply a master class in composition. At nearly twelve and a half minutes, this is probably the greatest love song ever written. Born out of a love for the Doors and the White album, this piece of music, conjures up worlds that neither you or I could ever escape to on our own. Todd Rundgren singing all over this bad boy is the icing on Meatloaf for me. To conclude, the perfect song, from the most perfect of performers.
Guns N Roses – 'November Rain'
This song is pretty much an entire 2 hour action film condensed into 9mins and who hasn't at least once in their life pretended to be Slash playing a guitar on top of a cliff outside a church the size of a mini cooper?
Bon Jovi - 'Always'
"This Romeo is bleeding, but you can't see his blood"-the greatest opening couplet since Wordsworth opens this tour de force, arguably the finest of Jovi's compositions, released on the crossroads greatest hits album which literally everyone in the western world owns. One of the greatest solos ever: ladies and gentlemen, Mr. Richie Sambora. (You Tube>
John Farnham – 'You're The Voice'
This songs often provokes looks of confused recognition at the beginning but by the time the chorus kicks everyone seems to know the lyrics to "Oh-o-o-o, whoa-o-o-o!" (You Tube)
Journey – 'Don't Stop Believing'
How can you argue with a song that's been featured in both the final ever episode of The Sopranos and sung by the cast of Family Guy? The emotional resonance of this song always leads to me falling off the stage when I'm singing along to it at UP. (You Tube)
Bryan Adams – '(Everything I Do) I Do It For You'
Number 1 for about 3 years & deservedly so-quite simply one of the greatest songs ever written. Musically it's got it all & the package is completed with the 'band in a forest' video, Adams resplendent in stonewashed denim. Amazing.
Avril Lavigne - 'I'm With You'
Somewhat overlooked at the time of release, this has become a modern classic-the closing 'I'm with you's at the perfect pitch for drunken shouting & air punching. Fit too, obviously. (You Tube)
Cutting Crew – '(I Just) Died In Your Arms'
We've all been there, eight pints of Stella in, this song comes on and you start putting your tongue down your best mate's throat. Or is that just me?
So OK, Jefferson Airplane might have been cool with the hippies of the late 60s, but godamn, they nailed the 80s (under the new name Starship) with this slice of Diane Warren penned brilliance taken from the movie Mannequin. The flick's like a soft porn Pinocchio with Kim Cattrall. (You Tube)
The Cars - 'Drive'
The late great Benjamin Orr takes vocal duties away from Ric Ocasek on this track. This is one of The Cars more commercial moments taken from the album Heartbeat City. This gets lighters in the air even with the smoking ban. (You Tube)
T'pau – 'China In Your Hands'
You have to love false endings in Power Balladry. The crowd always goes wild at 2.30 as this tune fades. Only to treated to a fade in to a PB staple. A massive Sax Solo!!!! Awesome. (You Tube)
Mister Mister - 'Broken Wings'
Leaving aside the question of how brilliant it would be if your surname actually was mister, this is a classic of the genre-twinkly synths, emotive lyrics & truckloads of reverb. (You Tube)
Sinead O'Connor – 'Nothing Compares To You'
The only time I've ever cried when listening to music. Her interpretation of his words are too beautiful to describe. (You Tube)
Phil Collins - 'I Wish It Would Rain Down'
Opening 2 seconds=amazing, Clapton on guitar=amazing, Collins on drums=amazing, synth bass=amazing, closing Collins vocals=amazing, 8 minute long video=amazing. In conclusion: amazing. (You Tube)
Heart - 'Alone'
The video to this one pretty speaks for itself, everyone loves a sing along and so does our mate Paul.
Starship – 'Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now'
John Waite – 'Missing You'
The song I wish I had of written when I was younger. I would have fucked a lot more hot chicks! (You Tube)
Eric Carmen – 'Hungry Eyes'
The soundtrack to an entire generation of doe eyed woman. As important to our generation as 'Can't Explain' & 'London Calling' were to others. (You Tube)
Train – 'Drops Of Jupiter'
The song sounds like it should have been recorded in the late 70s, maybe by Elton John, maybe for Madman across the Water. Overtly American Kitsch, overly romantic... A perfect slice of American FM rock. Makes me dance my ass off. (You Tube)
The Darkness – 'Love Is Only A Feeling'
The best modern effort in my mind. Tonnes of guitars, keyboard flourishes that you only notice on repeat listens and, more importantly, was recorded in a cave! (You Tube)
David Brent – 'If You Don't Know Me'
What can I say – David Brent is a pop icon and yes we have actually played this out as well as 'One Track Lover' from Garth Merenghi's Darkplace, also a tune. (You Tube)
Toto – 'Africa'
Everybody loves Toto whether they realise it or whether they will even ever admit it. "Hold The Line", "Rosanna" and "Africa" are all monster songs and deserve to be saved from the grasps of Magic FM. (You Tube)
Steve Perry – 'Oh Sherrie'
Journey front man hits the chart heights nearly everywhere in the world when this was released in 1984. However, it's a unknown gem in the UK that gets an early playing at UP but it's one of the tunes that defines what a power ballad really is. (You Tube)
Miles Davies – 'Time After Time'
Cyndi Lauper's 'Time After Time' is probably the greatest song ever written, we play it at every UP night. Miles Davies' fantastically cheesy version was played at our very first UP night in 2006 and has started almost every night we've put on since. (you Tube)
-Def Lepard -'When Love and Hate Collide'
Massively under rated song by Sheffield's finest. Fuck the Arctic Monkeys, Pulp and Richard Hawley. This is true British steel at its finest...and I for one, have never figured out when the chorus begins and ends; also contains one of the best bridges in recorded music... (You Tube)
Take a look at the trailer for the Bat Out of Helloween Ultimate Power night on the 31st of October at Camden's Monarch. It's immense.


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I did make a comment on this about a year ago
Saying that they are idiots to bring in a new system when their old system worked. Accenture were expensive but at least it was working. An update to 2008 servers, I understand they were still using SQL Server 2000 would have been a more prudent move. Lets see how they will mop this up, 3 failures in 2 weeks no good!! If you include the Milan failure 4 in 2 weeks.


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SNOW HILL � A few more budget surprises, including a $700,000 budget omission and another whopping state medical bill, has Greene County�s depleted budget looking grimmer.
SNOW HILL � A few more budget surprises, including a $700,000 budget omission and another whopping state medical bill, has Greene County�s depleted budget looking grimmer.
The shortfall climbed to $745,076 � partly due to budget omissions � from $268,085 earlier this month.
�I did some other options that will drop it down to about $350,000,� Interim County Manager Richard Hicks said. He presented a few ideas to the commissioners at a meeting last week.
The board is considering furloughs and a 4.61 percent salary reduction from April through June that would amount to about $45,000 of savings.
Hicks said the salary reduction �basically comes out to one day of pay.�
But then the board began looking at allowing employees to take one day off.
�It still ends up being a furlough,� Hicks said, �if you give them a day off.�
Commissioners are also considering utilizing excess phase one alternative water project monies to cut the budget shortfall.
An omission from the expense side of the budget was for the new intermediate school debt payment of nearly $700,000. Lottery funds of $559,348 were approved earlier in the month to be used to help pay the debt.
At last week�s meeting, the board approved the budget amendment for the transfer, as well as an additional $135,204 to be transferred from the general fund to make up the difference. With the lottery funds and general fund transfer, the county�s budget shortfall stands at the $350,000 number quoted by Hicks.
Former county manager Don Davenport and former county finance officer Shawna Wooten � who both resigned earlier this fiscal year � were responsible for creating the 2012-2013 budget, which included numerous omissions and uncertain revenue. The board quickly approved the budget in June and revised it in July after public outcry.
The county received a second bill of about $64,188 for medical services for an inmate who was transferred from the jail to the state medical prison. The first bill was $31,188.
That inmate, Ronald F. Taylor, formerly of Hookerton, was transferred to Central Prison Oct. 9 and was released Dec. 3. Taylor had been charged with murder, was diagnosed with cancer and is now deceased.
The county budgeted more for a Medicaid payment than they actually paid out for a savings of $138,500.
�That was actually a good because we got more than we thought we would get,� Hicks said.
The board recessed until Monday to discuss how they should proceed with budget cuts.
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Library and Information Services in Astronomy III
April 21-24, 1998
The third conference on Library and Information Services in Astronomy (LISA III), a Euroconference, was held from April 21-24, 1998, in Puerto de la Cruz, Tenerife, Spain, and was hosted by the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC). The conference motto "Managing Change Gracefully" emphasized the vast changes librarians and other information professionals are facing today, both in methods of information delivery and the kinds of information being delivered.
Editors: U. Grothkopf, H. Andernach, S. Stevens-Rayburn, and M. Gomez


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Beer Colors
Beer colors is a fun design idea that combines packaging design with beer label design, these beer label designs imitate Pantone® color chips. Maybe more of a data visualization of colors than a true infographic, but I love it!
Concept and design based on the color of the beer. Each type of beer is associated with its corresponding Pantone color. The typeface chosen is HipstelveticaFontFamily in its bold version by José Gomes, thanks for sharing.
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If Eminem was shorter, wore glasses and had a fetish for Steve Jobs, he would be Fatty Spins.
Fatty Spins is a New York-based wannabe MC and technically he has a partner but in the latest parody production the self proclaimed Apple lover flies solo and makes fun of a little kid's organic fame.
Spins recently set up shop at New York City's controversial Apple Store on 5th Avenue and professed his undying love for Steve Jobs and his wonder products in rap form, using one of Apple's demo computers.
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Dom, don't you think Torino must be directly after Paraguay because of the dates? Dec. 3 in one and Dec. 4 in the other. Then we must have missed at least three legs between there and the possible Nepal.
How about a TBC in Italy? I can't see flight stats for December 3rd to figure out how to get from Munich to Rome or something on that day.
Dom El you can now update the first leg with a broadcast date of February 19th, 2012. CBS announced late yesterday afternoon (US Time) that TAR 20 will premiere on that date.
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The girls in the LAX photos are the sisters Misa and Maiya Tanaka, not Stacy and Kerri. Kerri is African American. Wish we could ID that red shirted M/M team.
dom, on the contestant list, you are missing dave brown.
I think you should change the Unknown, USA in leg 1 to Santa Monica, California
Quote from: redskevin88 on January 25, 2012, 01:32:59 AMI think you should change the Unknown, USA in leg 1 to Santa Monica, California But they didn't start in Santa Monica....
Dom El,I see that you are the original source of the 40,000 miles (from CBS) estimated for AR20. Somebody (and I cannot find the post so I am not sure who, although it may have been you) suggested that a verification of CBS figures would be useful. I can't do that yet for AR20, but I can for AR19. I spent the time to find the mileage for each leg of AR19. Now, everyone needs to be aware that a big part of the difference between the real distance and a direct nonstop estimate of mileage is due to connecting points for air travel not being on the shortest route line. However, that is not the biggest part of the discrepancy, which is that air miles are nautical miles, 15% longer than statute (land) miles. So I believe that in its calculations CBS takes the air miles and multiplies them by 1.15. If you do that you come out close to reconciling the numbers. Here are mine, with air miles marked by A and statue miles marked by S:
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Grigori Perelman
Grigori Perelman is a Russian mathematician, notable for proving the greatest unsolved problem of the 20th century, the Poincaré conjecture. Prior to that work, Perelman became known for giving a short proof of the Soul conjecture.
Perelman is the only person to ever turn down the prestigious Fields medal, and has chosen to leave mathematical work. He posted his solution of the Poincare conjecture on the internet, and it has not been published in peer reviewed journals. Since then, his proof has been reviewed independently by other mathematicians who have published versions of his proof in peer-reviewed journals. In June 2010 he rejected the millennium prize, valued in one million dollars, and gave no explanation.
The New York Times says Perelman "has declined previous mathematical prizes and has turned down job offers from Princeton, Stanford and other universities." [1]


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Location: Seattle, Washington, USA
Customer Business Issue: Emergency cooling for cancer research laboratories
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The Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle, Washington, is a world leader in research to understand, treat and prevent cancer, HIV/AIDS and other life-threatening diseases. With over 3,000 employees, the center has pioneered bone-marrow transplant as a treatment for leukemia and other blood diseases and has made some of the world's important medical research advances during the last three decades.
As one of 39 National Cancer Institute-designated comprehensive cancer centers nationwide, and one of the world's largest cancer research centers, the Hutchinson Center is home to many sensitive biological samples and experiments.
Hundreds of research projects, constantly underway, must be maintained within a tight band of environmental conditions. The loss of temperature and humidity control could influence the accuracy of long-running experiments, causing the loss of years of data at costs running into millions of dollars. In addition, potentially life-saving advances in treatment could be delayed.
On Saturday July 1, 2006, one of the hottest days of the year in Seattle, one of the three cooling systems serving the Center's central freezer farm failed. The freezer farm has more than one hundred freezers at -80 degrees centigrade containing extremely valuable research. Maintaining -80 degrees centigrade is not easy and if the ambient temperature becomes too high, the freezers become overstressed. With one cooling system down and one of the hottest days of the year, there was cause for concern.
As the facility staff went into action, the ambient temperature in the freezer farm began to creep upward, threatening millions of dollars of on-going research. The A/C manufacturer reported that it would take about a week to get the needed parts. Something needed to be done – immediately.
Robert Cowan, director of facilities engineering at the Hutchinson Center, implemented the contingency plan for the freezer farm. As part of that plan, he called NC Power Systems, the Cat® Rental dealer in Seattle. NC Power had worked at the campus before and knew its systems. The center had purchased and rented standby electrical generators from NC Power, which also maintains the center's generators and provides contingency planning for such things as Y2K.
NC Power had provided a 525-ton rotary screw backup cooling system earlier that same summer when the center's 600-ton back-up chiller failed. "Even though it was their standby chiller, the data and research at this institution is so valuable that they just had to have redundant chilling capability," says Dan Thomson, marketing manager for NC Power.
This however, was the first time the two had worked together for air handling, and Thomson said it demonstrated the total support customers get from a Cat dealer.
NC Power rental salesman Charlie Tomsett was painting his house when his phone rang that hot Saturday morning. It was clear the research center faced a critical situation. Tomsett immediately made calls to arrange for delivery of a 30-ton, 10,000 cfm chiller from the NC Power inventory.
As part of the contingency plan, knowing that the equipment would have to be set up on the engineering department's loading dock, Tomsett also arranged for a 100 kW XQ100 sound-attenuated generator to power the temporary chiller.
The NC Power team quickly packaged, delivered and set up the equipment, then connected it to the building HVAC system with portable 20 inch ducting.
Just four hours after the cooling unit failed, NC Power had the emergency cooling system up and online. As soon as the turnkey system was fired up, the temperature inside the building began to fall, cooling the building and protecting its valuable inventory of scientific knowledge.
The rental system ran without trouble for a week while the building's A/C was repaired. While technical help from NC Power was readily available, the center did not need any work or maintenance on the temporary system during its time online. Thomson, for one, was happy that everything worked out well. "You're never going to duplicate that research," he says.
For his part, Cowan was extremely satisfied by the result. "I can't say enough about the support we got from NC Power," he said. "It was the beginning of a four day holiday weekend. Less than four hours after the call went out they were here and had their equipment operational. That's service, and I really appreciate Charlie and the rest of the NC crew giving up their weekend to help us out."
While the Hutchinson Center had a contingency plan and the staff of NC Power was familiar with their needs, Thomson notes that other companies can benefit by contacting Cat Rental Temperature Control planning experts ahead of time, so they know what they need if they ever find themselves in need of emergency cooling.
Thomson adds that dealers like NC Power have the engineers and staff to design, install, operate and maintain equipment. "The rental department is quite robust in depth and knowledge and with a network of go-to people within the industry," he says.