Milwaukee based co., but with a branch in Phoenix (near Metro Center). ACA stands for Astronautics Corp. of America (see www.astronautics.com, and/or http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astronautics_Corporation_of_America). Today the founder of the co., (Nate Zelazo) visited the Phoenix branch office. He was born Sept. 28, 1918, according to an article in the magazine "Wisconsin Business". I was impressed by how he seemed (at least, the way he talked), to love scientific advancement, more than ho-hum everyday "business" success. (ACA has a lot of both). I forwarded a notice about the [March 28] W Side [PLUG] meeting, to everyone in the Phoenix branch office; (At ACA, we use Gnu/Linux in some of our development platforms, as well as for some of the airborne equipment that we make.) My boss replied, saying that I should tell everyone in PLUG about our job openings for some software engineers, and I think at least one systems engineer. She says [you can] << "go to careerbuilder.com website, using keywords = astronautics, location = phoenix, AZ, categories = engineering. They will see the job descriptions [...]" >>. However, she also said, "They can forward their resumes to you directly." I think the latter is a reference to the fact that, there is a bonus program (which is probably about to expire, the end of March). If you send your resume to [via] me, then I might get a bonus of [say] $3000.00 (probably "before tax"). Wow! ((even if I give you less than half of the bonus, it's still a good deal for all concerned, because if there is any such bonus, it means they made you a competitive offer that [was so good, that] you "couldn't refuse" it.)) -- Mike Schwartz Glendale AZ schwartz@acm.org Mike.L.Schwartz@gmail.com