X-Message-Number: 17952 Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2001 16:40:22 -0700 From: Jessica Lemler <> Subject: This Week At Alcor The following can also be viewed on our website at: <http://www.alcor.org/>http://www.alcor.org Week of November 12 through 18, 2001 Hugh Hixon, Facilities Engineer Friday, work on a Cryonet post. With Mike Perry, take an LN2 fill, with some minor special effects for a Brazilian video crew. Do interview with video crew. Monday, administrative stuff, run down a cite on ice-inhibiting proteins. Defrost refrigerator freezer. Check with vet on antibiotics for perfusate. Tuesday, more reading on antibiotics. Try not to catch a cold. Muscle the used oxygen cylinder from the ambulance. Wednesday, respond to a proposal. Thursday, more on proposal. Make up an abbreviated timeline on our last suspension. Joe Hovey, Accounting Manager NOT A VERY PRODUCTIVE WEEK. More time taken up with organizing and sorting my accumulated papers for my move to new quarters, and I'm not done yet. I hate moving! Managed to balance the bank statements for October. The usual bank deposits, data entry, etc. Still working on the accounts payable and accounts receivable issue with BioTransport and Cells4Life. (We owe them money, they owe us money, the amounts are virtually identical. It sounds simple, but in fact the resolution is more complicated than it first appears). Received more tax forms from the state of California to be filled out. We already submitted these forms to them last July! Sent them copies. The new liability insurance policy for officers and directors has been received, now I have to fill it out. I have been trying to contact Morgan Stanley about our new credit card processing accounts. They have not been returning my calls. Not a good sign. American Express has credited us back all the unauthorized charges that were made on our card last August. Good news. Mike Perry, PhD., Patient Care Assistant This week I finished the "Tech News" column for the magazine, checked over other, previously written articles to make last-minute changes, and sent these materials to our editor, Lisa Lock. Otherwise there was busy work, for example, proofreading documents to be emailed. On Thursday I met with Jim Medlin, a Labview programmer who might do some contract work for us, and discussed some mathematical work I had done for automated tracking of cryoprotectant concentrations during perfusion. That was also the day that ADT showed up to install our new security system and I helped deal with them, among other things making sure that Aido was safely not under foot. Jessica Lemler, Administrative Associate/Webmaster Another week has gone by already? I'm not really sure where my time is going! This week I have busied myself working on articles for the Fourth Quarter of our magazine and helping Dr. Lemler with his correspondence. I have also been in contact with the advertising department of a newspaper we are planning to place an advertisement with, trying to figure out the best way to transfer our proposed ad to them. I linked the Alcor Forum to the website (many, many thanks to Charles Platt!). Additionally, I spent a little bit of time working on the planning of the upcoming Cryofeasts-- hope you can make it! They should be lots of fun for all! (By the way, I have Aido in my office today so he does not get in the way of the ADT people, who are installing our new security system) =) Paula Lemler, Volunteer : The bills just keep coming, so once again I wrote checks, filed receipts, and filled in a spread sheet. Dues continue to pour in, too, so I am also busy entering them into the data base. I have been working very hard on the dues deposits and am almost finished with October. Hope everyone has a great Thanksgiving. Dr. Jerry Lemler, President, CEO I've been a bit under the weather this week, but am starting to feel considerably better and am certainly on the mend. I do feel a lot safer and more secure as on Thursday the ADT Company began installing Alcor's vastly improved alarm and camera system throughout the building. Most of this week has been devoted to technical meetings in anticipation of a major technical capability planning session scheduled for next Tuesday. This will be an important event, and I will have more to say about it and what it portents for our cryotransport capabilities in the next few weeks. I booked my flights to the inaugural Alcor East Coast Cryofeast to be hosted by Lisa Lock and Michael Seidl in Wilmington, Delaware on Saturday, Dec 1st. Have a great week, and stay away from the flu if you can. Mathew Sullivan, Facility Operations Manager &Patient Care Manager Cryotransport Project Future Bound UK and Canada continues as follows: 1. Continued with the construction of eight ATP tubing plate frames. This particular aspect of the project is almost complete, and all that remains is to make and install the clot filter brackets. In the past, Hugh was the primary builder of the bracket, and I hope to borrow some of his time in the near future so I can extract his techniques. 2. Shopped for supplies and picked up a tubing plate bracket, which holds the plate to the Pelican case. Progress has been slowed recently due to some unavoidable email distractions. Spent a little time reviewing our cryotransport checklist. My primary focus has been to reorganize the "Preparation for CryoPerfusion" checklist, such as listing items to be cleaned before we start to lay out material, and to track down coordination material and checklists. Met with an electrical engineer for LabVIEW to discuss the possibility of contracting out some work. What I would like to do is hire a contractor on a temporary basis to solve the major issues, similar to what we did with the phone system, then go back and work with the minor issues in-house. Yet, I question whether we can afford to do this at $120/hr. With a little searching, maybe we can find a better deal. Facility Operations: Took ambulance and van in to the auto shop to be serviced. Spoke with the property management company about various issues which need to be taken care of, such as finishing the painting of the parking lot lines, and re-labeling the suite number on the glass which had been previously broken. I also spoke with a two contractors to get details on bids for neuro pod production. The cost will be around $4,500 for four neuro pods and a center column. For those who do not know, a neuro pod is similar to a whole body pod, but it has shelving and individual doors for each neuro can. Each neuro pod holds ten neuro cans. The center column is placed is placed at the center of the neuro pod suite, and holds five neuro cans. Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=17952