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<div>Please read the following email from Adrian Hooke.</div>
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<div>Thanks,</div>
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<div>Greg</div>
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<span style="font-weight:bold">From: </span>Jean-luc Gerner <<a href="mailto:jeanluc.gerner@yahoo.com">jeanluc.gerner@yahoo.com</a>><br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Reply-To: </span>Jean-luc Gerner <<a href="mailto:jeanluc.gerner@yahoo.com">jeanluc.gerner@yahoo.com</a>><br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Date: </span>Tuesday, August 21, 2012 8:26 AM<br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">To: </span>sls-pcom <<a href="mailto:sls-pcom@mailman.ccsds.org">sls-pcom@mailman.ccsds.org</a>><br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Subject: </span>[Sls-pcom] Fw: [Cesg-all] Request for longer work days at the Fall 2012 CCSDS meeting in Cleveland<br>
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<b><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">From:</span></b> "Hooke, Adrian J (9000)" <<a href="mailto:adrian.j.hooke@jpl.nasa.gov">adrian.j.hooke@jpl.nasa.gov</a>><br>
<b><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">To:</span></b> CESG-ALL <<a href="mailto:cesg-all@mailman.ccsds.org">cesg-all@mailman.ccsds.org</a>>
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<b><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Sent:</span></b> Friday, August 17, 2012 2:35 AM<br>
<b><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Subject:</span></b> [Cesg-all] Request for longer work days at the Fall 2012 CCSDS meeting in Cleveland<br>
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<div class="yiv1133146526MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">WG Chairs: many of you will be aware of certain excesses conducted by US government personnel when arranging conferences, e.g.,
</span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><a href="http://www.federaltimes.com/article/20120416/DEPARTMENTS07/204160301/GSA-scandal-Heavy-fallout-expected" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.federaltimes.com/article/20120416/DEPARTMENTS07/204160301/GSA-scandal-Heavy-fallout-expected</a></span></div>
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<div class="yiv1133146526MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">The blow-back is that meeting planning rules have been drastically tightened and that consequently NASA will be unable to provide lunches or morning/afternoon snacks at the Cleveland meeting.
Although there are adequate restaurants and snack places in and close to the hotel, we do expect a productivity impact since working groups will have to forage for snacks and lunches, rather than having them provided at fixed times and locations.</span></div>
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<div class="yiv1133146526MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">To compensate for this time loss, I would like to request that WG chairs consider lengthening the meeting day until 6:30PM on Monday-Wednesday. Please build this into your agendas. Meetings should
start at 8:30AM.</span></div>
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<div class="yiv1133146526MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Best regards</span></div>
<div class="yiv1133146526MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Adrian</span></div>
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<div class="yiv1133146526MsoNormal"><i><span style="COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Adrian J. Hooke<br>
Chairman, CCSDS Engineering Steering Group</span></i></div>
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