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Best Performing CEO in the USA
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<img width="250" height="299" title="" class="right" align="right" src="http://static.twoday.net/bmworacleracing/images/lje.jpg" alt="lje" />A story our search engines picked up last week about our team owner and afterguard member; it is a nice piece of analysis and, indeed, ink....<br />
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<i><b>Evaluating Larry Ellison<br />
Some hard statistics make a good case for thinking of Oracle's Larry Ellison as the best-performing CEO in the U.S.<br />
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by Tamina Vahidy, <a href="http://www.line56.com/">Line56</a><br />
Wednesday, January 10, 2007 <br />
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In recently browsing through Forbes Magazine, we came across a list of "20/20": CEOs who have produced at least 20 percent annualized returns for their companies across a period of at least 20 years. The list was produced partly in order to highlight CEOs who are worth their pay in this unfortunate age of $200 million golden parachutes for executive failures.<br />
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As it turns out, Oracle CEO Larry Ellison is at the very top of that list, because he has achieved a 31 percent annualized return for Oracle over the past 29 years. No one else in the list, which was restricted to large enterprises, even cracked 30 percent....</i>
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2007-01-17T12:59:00Z
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A-Class Doc: Kiko Espi-Escriva
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<a href="http://static.twoday.net/bmworacleracing/images/kiko3.jpg"><img width="74" height="100" title="" class="right" align="right" onclick="javascript:openPopup('http://static.twoday.net/bmworacleracing/images/kiko3.jpg',250,338);return false;" src="http://static.twoday.net/bmworacleracing/images/kiko3_small.jpg" alt="kiko3" /></a>Congrats to BMW ORACLE's team doc, Francisco "Kiko" Espi-Escriva (Valencia, ESP) who continues his success on the Spanish A Class Catamaran 2006-07 regatta circuit. According to a press statement on the <a href="http://www.fvcv.com">Federacion Valenciana de Vela site</a>, after three regattas Kiko has taken the lead, albeit tied on 8 points with Sr Gonzalo Infante of the RCR Alicante. So far both have a first, third and fourth. Kiko, who sails for the Real Club Nautico Valencia, leads on the tie-breaker. <br />
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<a href="javascript:openPopup('http://static.twoday.net/bmworacleracing/images/kikoaclass.jpg', 1000, 1038)"><img width="385" height="400" title="" src="http://static.twoday.net/bmworacleracing/images/kikoaclass_bmwPreview.jpg" alt="kikoaclass_bmwPreview" /></a><div style="width: 400px; font-weight: bold;">Dr Kiko hiking hard -- and currently leading -- to qualify as the Spanish rep for next year's A Class World Championships. <br />
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2006-12-18T09:37:00Z
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Nathan Williams: Remote Control Expert
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Nice albeit brief story today on the ACM website about the international remote control boat regatta going on in the Port America's Cup this weekend. It is said to feature "some of the best sailors in Europe" including our own Nathan Williams (NZL, weather team).<br />
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<a href="http://www.americascup.com/en/americascup/news_official/index.php?idIndex=&idContent=13456">Full story</a><br />
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<a href="javascript:openPopup('http://static.twoday.net/bmworacleracing/images/NathanWilliams.jpg', 200, 270)"><img width="200" height="270" title="" src="http://static.twoday.net/bmworacleracing/images/NathanWilliams_bmwPreview.jpg" alt="NathanWilliams_bmwPreview" /></a><div style="width: 195px; font-weight: bold;">Nathan Williams, model yachtie. Photo: Gilles Martin-Raget.</div>
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2006-11-04T18:42:00Z
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Cool People: Our "Class A" Team Doctor
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Congrats to Dr Francisco "Kiko" Espi Escriva (ESP, team physician) who has qualified to represent Spain in hotly-contested A Class Catamaran European Championships in El Car, Spain next June (2007). Kiko placed 6th out of 30 in the recently concluded Spanish national qualifying series. <br />
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<a href="javascript:openPopup('http://static.twoday.net/bmworacleracing/images/CLASEA.jpg', 1969, 1397)"><img width="400" height="284" title="" src="http://static.twoday.net/bmworacleracing/images/CLASEA_bmwPreview.jpg" alt="CLASEA_bmwPreview" /></a><div style="width: 400px; font-weight: bold;">While neither of the yachts above is Kiko's, we often see the speedy A Class cats training off Valencia in the same waters as the AC yachts.</div><br />
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<a href="javascript:openPopup('http://static.twoday.net/bmworacleracing/images/kiko2.jpg', 600, 399)"><img width="400" height="266" title="" src="http://static.twoday.net/bmworacleracing/images/kiko2_bmwPreview.jpg" alt="kiko2_bmwPreview" /></a><div style="width: 400px; font-weight: bold;">Dr Espi Escriva (right) ministers to Brad Webb (NZL, sailing team) during the Louis Vuitton Acts 6-7 in Malmoe last year.</div>
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2006-09-28T10:35:00Z
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Wired
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<a href="javascript:openPopup('http://static.twoday.net/bmworacleracing/images/BVO.jpg', 1000, 745)"><img width="400" height="298" title="" src="http://static.twoday.net/bmworacleracing/images/BVO_bmwPreview.jpg" alt="BVO_bmwPreview" /></a><div style="width: 400px; font-weight: bold;">"He fixed it!" Or so Michelle Tapper (NZL, recent addition to our marketing dept.) seems to be saying about our high-tech, high-touch IT manager, Brian "The Baron" von Oven (NZL). Unflappable in the face of most any computing calamity, Brian is a "cool person" in every sense.</div>
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2006-09-18T11:34:00Z
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Olympic Stars?
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Updating our <a href="http://bmworacleracing.twoday.net/stories/2514934/">previous story</a> on BMWOR's Carl Williams (NZL, sailing team) who, with Hamish Pepper (NZL), are having a terrific freshman year in the Star Class. This news release arrived alst evening after yesterday's conclusion (unfortunantely, no racing the past two days) the Star Europeans in Neustadt, Germany....<br />
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<i>The Harken Star Team of Hamish Pepper and Carl Williams have officially finished fourth overall in the 2006 European Star Championships sailed in Lubeck, Germany. The result assures the crew of a place in the YNZ Olympic Squad for 2007.<br />
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This is their first year of competition in the highly competitive Star class. In fact they have only been sailing the class for eight months, and in that time have climbed to 13th place in the ISAF Rankings counting just six out of the possible seven best regattas. This result should pull them even higher, possibly into the top ten, which will be an amazing achievement.</i><br />
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Congrats to Hamish and Carl, and we will keep you apprised here of their progress. Meanwhile, Carl, we look forward to seeing you back in Valencia. No doubt Peter and Olaf Harken will be happy as well. Note to Dicko: for all this ink we are giving the Harken Star Team, maybe we can get a discount (or at least not pay such a premium) on our Harken gear?<br />
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<a href="javascript:openPopup('http://static.twoday.net/bmworacleracing/images/YC9H7703_cr.jpg', 399, 540)"><img width="296" height="400" title="" src="http://static.twoday.net/bmworacleracing/images/YC9H7703_cr_bmwPreview.jpg" alt="YC9H7703_cr_bmwPreview" /></a><div class="imgDescription" width="400"><b>Strongman: useful in the front end of a Star, or on the<br />
handles of an ACC yacht -- Carl "Tiny" Williams" training<br />
on USA 76 in May this year just before Acts 10-11.</b></div><br />
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<a href="javascript:openPopup('http://static.twoday.net/bmworacleracing/images/PeterHarken.jpg', 365, 266)"><img width="365" height="266" title="" src="http://static.twoday.net/bmworacleracing/images/PeterHarken_bmwPreview.jpg" alt="PeterHarken_bmwPreview" /></a><div class="imgDescription" width="400"><b>Winchman: useful in front of a bar, or to handle the rare occasion<br />
your Harken gear is not up to snuff -- Peter "Harkoon" Harken<br />
(Peewauke, WI, USA), getting his <strike>pecs</strike> biceps checked in January at<br />
Key West Race Week (and obviously training for next year's LVC<br />
and AC action here in VLC). This wonderful photo is courtesy of<br />
budding journalist and Melges 24 sailor Alan "Mr Clean" Block, and<br />
appeared originally on <a href="http://www.sailinganarchy.com">Sailing Anarchy</a> in a post by Mr Clean called <a href="http://www.sailinganarchy.com/general/2006/kw_train.htm"><br />
"Key West Train Wreck"</a>.</b></div>
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2006-08-14T06:52:00Z
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The Beat Goes On
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After a short break for "Pope Weekend," 76 and 87 and the sailing and support teams were back at it today on the Mediterranean waters off Valencia, while many of our shore team and marketing team were hard at work planning and organizing our next gig: the <a href="http://bmworacleracing.com/en/4_bor/41_news/411_news/0606/0620_kiel_en.html?">German Sailing Grand Prix</a>, the regatta with Shosholoza and United Internet Team Germany at Kiel (GER) the first weekend of August.<br />
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Mark "Squark" Bradford (AUS, sailing team) has been appointed by Dicko as project manager so far as our entry in the event as a team is concerned, and Mirko has Benedikt "Pope" Horber (GER, marketing team) overseeing the day-to-day details of the event which we are, in effect, co-hosting with the other two teams and their sponsors -- with plenty of help from the City of Kiel and the Kieler Yacht Club.<br />
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As you can imagine, the design and boat-build teams are beavering away at undisclosed location(s) and at certain stage(s) in the preparations for the launch of our second new ACC yacht later this year or early next year (sorry, exactly when is, as yet, also unable to be disclosed). <br />
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<b>Not undisclosed is the work Andy Falakoa (NZL, shore team) and other<br />
members of the shore team are doing this week on USA 71 at our VLC<br />
Base to prepare for the German Sailing Grand Prix next month. 71 will<br />
race GER 72 and RSA 48 in a three-day event of fleet and match racing at<br />
Kiel (GER) 4-6 Aug.</b>
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2006-07-11T16:26:00Z
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Cool People: Soccer Dad
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<a href="http://static.twoday.net/bmworacleracing/images/yc9h8079.jpg"><img width="100" height="83" title="" class="left" align="left" onclick="javascript:openPopup('http://static.twoday.net/bmworacleracing/images/yc9h8079.jpg',481,399);return false;" src="http://static.twoday.net/bmworacleracing/images/yc9h8079_small.jpg" alt="yc9h8079" /></a><div class="imgDescription" width="400"></div>Ian "Fresh" Burns (AUS) is a bit of an all-around jock. He coaches his kids in, last I knew, soccer and rugby, is an avid cyclist (competing in a tour-de-france style race for semi-pros this weekend), and of course is a world-class sailor.<br />
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In addition to serving as design coordinator, he often sails on training days as a member of the testing crew, is an articulate and popular spokesman with sponsors and the media, and serves on our team's Executive Committee. <br />
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We're still not sure if we believe the story about him getting the nickname "Fresh" from having a milk delivery route as a kid. Maybe more to do with his teen years?<br />
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With World Cup final taking place tonight, it seems especially appropriate to feature soccer dad, Ian "Fresh" Burns: another of the cool people who populate our team.<br />
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<b>These days Fresh has a lot of balls in the air, following up on the results<br />
of Acts 10-12, analyzing USA 87, and keeping the design team humming<br />
along toward the realization of our second new ACC yacht for AC 32.<br />
Photo courtesy of Shelley Burns.</b>
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2006-07-08T16:49:00Z
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Cool People: Rod Dawson
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Congrats to Peter Gilmour's PST, including our own Rod Dawson (NZL, weather/sailing team), for their win at Match Race Germany last weekend. With the win, Gilmour today clinched his third consecutive World Match Racing Tour Championship and fourth ISAF Match Racing World Championship. <br />
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Rod has been racing with Gilly's PST for a number of years. "I am the mainsheet trimmer, and from that position I can help Gilly with some of the tactical decisions." <br />
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No doubt Rod's keen weather eye is also a big help to PST in consistently getting the first shift off the starting line and picking the correct side of the first weather leg -- same as he does when working alongside BMWOR team meteorologist Chris Bedford on our tender. <br />
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<a href="javascript:openPopup('http://static.twoday.net/bmworacleracing/images/rod2.jpg', 1024, 681)"><img width="400" height="266" title="" src="http://static.twoday.net/bmworacleracing/images/rod2_bmwPreview.jpg" alt="rod2_bmwPreview" /></a><div class="imgDescription" width="400"></div>
<b>Yasuhiro Yaji (JPN, left) and Rod are long-time members of Peter Gilmours<br />
PST crew.</b><br />
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<b>Grip and grin at the prizegiving. It was also Gilmour's third consecutive<br />
win of Match Racing Germany.</b> <br />
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<a href="javascript:openPopup('http://static.twoday.net/bmworacleracing/images/roddawson2.jpg', 490, 326)"><img width="400" height="266" title="" src="http://static.twoday.net/bmworacleracing/images/roddawson2_bmwPreview.jpg" alt="roddawson2_bmwPreview" /></a><div class="imgDescription" width="400"></div>
<b>In winning the world championship Gilmour, the 46-year-old from Perth,<br />
Western Australia, won a BMW X3 3.0i, from Tour partner BMW AG. (World Tour/Richard Walch photos.)</b>
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2006-06-09T10:01:00Z
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Juan K's Winner
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<i>It has been the most amazing contest with the most amazing team. Juan Kouyoumdjian [the naval architect] has done an amazing job with this boat along with Killian Bushe [the boat builder] and the rest of the team. They gave us exactly what we asked for and it is a very special boat.</i> --Mike "Moose" Sanderson, in an <a href="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,4041-2191091,00.html">article by Ed Gorman</a> in The Times (London) about ABN Amro One's winning the VOR.<br />
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Hearty congrats to Moose (who was a member of our team in AC 31) and Juan K (design team member of BMW ORACLE Racing), and all others involved, for their impressive performance.<br />
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<a href="javascript:openPopup('http://static.twoday.net/bmworacleracing/images/Juan-K.jpg', 400, 430)"><img width="372" height="400" title="" src="http://static.twoday.net/bmworacleracing/images/Juan-K_bmwPreview.jpg" alt="Juan-K_bmwPreview" /></a><div class="imgDescription" width="400"></div>
<b>Design team member Juan Kouyoumdjian (ARG), who designed ABN<br />
Amro One (and Two) that has dominated the VOR, at a recent team<br />
function at our Base.</b>
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2006-05-25T05:45:00Z
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Cool People: Mothers and Wives
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On this special day, big hugs to all our wives and mothers, whom we hold dear throughout the year, but especially today when many places in the world we say....<br />
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<b>Last Sunday was Mother's Day in Spain, and today in Germany, the USA,<br />
and many other countries around the world.</b>
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2006-05-14T09:37:00Z
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Cool People -- Women in the Cup
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After all, this is 2006 not 1966, and we have already had an AC "Women's Team" (see our post entitled <a href="http://bmworacleracing.twoday.net/stories/1673947/">"Equal Opportunity"</a> a week or so back), so it is no big news that there are a number of women in key positions with Cup teams, including some sailors, and even one team general manager (K-Challenge's Dawn Riley). Indeed, the new <a href="http://www.challengercommission.com/2006/03/new-cc-chair.html">chair of the Challenger Commission</a> is Alessandra Pandarese (ITA, Mascalzone Latino - Capitalia Team).<br />
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One of the key women in our campaign is staff lawyer Gillian Williams (NZL). A keen racing sailor who did an Olympic campaign in the Europe dinghy, Gilly is a former associate in the prestigious NZ law firm <a href="http://www.bellgully.com/">Bell Gully</a>. (There must be something in the office water-- two other Bell Gully alumni are involved in the Cup: Jury member Graham McKenzie and Alinghi General Counsel Hamish Ross.)<br />
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Gilly's fingerprints are on just about every important piece of paper that our team's business department deals with, and her quick mind and keen eye for detail are a help to every department. And given her racing background, Gilly is also a member of our rules compliance team.<br />
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Another cool person, and woman, involved in the Cup is international umpire Maria Torrijo Moll (ESP). A former sailor in the Optimist, Vaurien and Europe, she has served on the Jury at the OK Dinghy Worlds among other major championships, and was an umpire observer and assistant during the 2005 Louis Vuitton Acts.<br />
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We met Maria earlier this week on a day of "friendly" race-training with Desafío Español. <br />
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When two teams hook up for practice racing, normally one team tender serves as the race committee, and the other team supplies a chase boat to set the marks. Each team also supplies an umpire who work together on a chase boat supplied by one of the teams. And it's the only time you see people from different teams, wearing their own team gear, together on the same boat!<br />
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<a href="javascript:openPopup('http://static.twoday.net/bmworacleracing/images/Gilly-Maria.jpg', 1000, 700)"><img width="400" height="280" title="" src="http://static.twoday.net/bmworacleracing/images/Gilly-Maria_bmwPreview.jpg" alt="Gilly-Maria_bmwPreview" /></a><div class="imgDescription" width="400"></div>
<b>Cool people on a chilly late-winter day off Valencia: BMW ORACLE's<br />
Gillian Williams (NZL) and Desafío Español's Maria Torrijo (ESP), aboard<br />
the umpire boat earlier this week during a break in the "friendly"<br />
racing between our two teams. </b>
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2006-03-18T13:47:26Z
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A Day in the Life
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Nice ink for our team, and for Grant "Guthrie" Davidson (NZL), our Base Operations and Logistics manager, who is featured today in the first installment of ACM's new series of stories on their <a href="http://www.americascup.com">website</a> called "A Day in the Life"....<br />
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<i>"My job entails everything from transportation and relocation of the team and its equipment to the construction of facilities at all venues where the team trains or races, including the Valencia base and its daily operation," he explains from the team base in the Port America's Cup where Davidson is overseeing the final fit-out. "I helped with finding accommodation for the team when we first arrived and coordinated moving all the equipment around, along with helping 100 or so people move halfway around the world." <br />
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Not surprisingly, with that kind of responsibility, there is no such thing as a typical day for Davidson, who just smiles and shakes his head when I ask him about it. </i><br />
<a href="http://www.americascup.com/en/acmag/features/index.php?idIndex=0&idContent=5184">[More....]<br />
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<b>The entire team relies on a smooth and efficiently-run Base.</b><br />
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<b>Base Operations and Logistics Mgr Grant Davidson -- "What<br />
me worry?"</b><br />
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<b>Guthrie's also pretty good when it comes to the logistics of a<br />
barbecue.</b></a>
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2006-01-26T17:53:58Z
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VALENCIA CRONICA
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Bridget Baker is the wife of sailing team member Ian "Box" Baker (NZL). She is quietly making a significant contribution to the well-being of BMWOR families living in Valencia, and families of other AC teams as well, through her weekly email newsletter <i>Valencia Cronica.</i> She emails it each Thursday to a list that has grown to over 200. And we post each week's issue on the <a href="http://www.challengercommission.com">Challenger Commission Blog</a>, albeit behind a password to protect the privacy of the personal phone numbers and email addresses of Bridget and her contributors.<br />
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If you are an AC family member and wish to be added to her mailing list, or would like the password to access the <i>Cronicas</i> on the CC Blog, write Bridget at valenciacronicaspain [at] yahoo [dot] co [dot] nz.<br />
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Bridget is taking a holiday break for the next few weeks. In the meantime, the CC Blog has a <a href="http://www.challengercommission.com/2005/12/valencia-cronica-holiday-substitute.html">post today</a> with links to three nice articles about Valencia that have appeared in major newspapers this year. Nice ink about our adopted hometown.<br />
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And a special thanks -- for volunteering all the time and effort that goes into the <i>Cronica</i> each week -- to Bridget, another of our team's "Cool People."<br />
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<b>Ravishing <i>redactor</i> Bridget Baker.</b>
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2005-12-23T08:32:35Z
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COOL PEOPLE -- Wizard von München
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A picture is worth a thousand words. Below, one of the more interesting and <i>simpático</i> (<i>und sympatisch</i>) people we have met during AC 32. See <a href="http://bmworacleracing.com/en/4_bor/41_news/411_news/200511/1123_fin.html?track.refer=/en/4_bor/4_home/4_home.4ml&track.type=home">today's story</a> on our main team website.<br />
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<a href="javascript:openPopup('http://twoday.net/static/bmworacleracing/images/dr-freymann.jpg', 333, 284)"><img width="333" height="284" title="" src="http://static.twoday.net/bmworacleracing/images/dr-freymann_bmwPreview.jpg" alt="dr-freymann_bmwPreview" /></a><div class="imgDescription"></div>
<b>BMW's Prof. Dr. Raymond "Wizard" Freymann.</b>
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