Bedford

Um, our, um, you know, board meetings, executive meetings were shorts, flip-flops, and Hawaiian shirts.

Millipore is based in Bedford, Massachusetts, you know-

Oh, gosh

... blue suits, white shirts, red ties, um, e- et cetera.

It was a collaboration between, uh, UMass Lowell, Harvard, and Simon Fraser University.

Um, so the research took place in a Harvard biology lab, um, Concord Field Station in Bedford, Massachusetts.

So, um, large animal population, so depending on which specific, uh, research group you're, uh, you're involved in, uh, at the field station, d- you know, it's gonna depend on what you're, you know, what you're working on.

So the NIH, uh, grant that we, um, that we were working on was we were using rats.

But since the search happened, let's look at it because maybe, I mean, just maybe we might have some movement in the missing persons case of Christina Lynn Downer.

Christina grew up in Bedford, Massachusetts.

Born in 1987, all reporting ties Christina to a pretty normal upbringing.

Once she reached adulthood, the Daily Mail has reported that Christina began an adult entertainment career under the stage name Siobhan Taylor.

And so, uh, big thanks to, uh, CEO Dave Sarator, uh, who I interviewed recently, uh, and the company for showing me around.

Uh, I got to see their headquarters in, um, Bedford, Massachusetts.

Uh, and I got to see the systems that Berkshire Grey is working on.

Uh, everything from picking, from AutoStore automated storage and, and retrieval systems, to truck unloading, to picking.

Mm-hmm.

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Happy storytelling.

We have four New England studios.

We have, um, the first, studio was in Bedford, Massachusetts, and we are celebrating 15 years next year, next month, next month.

So I'm super excited.

So Bedford, Mass, and then Acton, Massachusetts, North Andover, Massachusetts, and Wyndham, New Hampshire.

So all my old stomping grounds, I'm a Vermont girl.

Yeah,

She trained me and I worked for her for a couple of years and, um, she decided to sell her business.

She had some health concerns.

Um, so that's why I pursued elementary.

So now I'm the elementary, um, art teacher at Lane Elementary School in Bedford, Massachusetts, and I've been there happily since.

It's much better now than it was on a cart in COVID.

[laughs] So I do appreciate my space, my, um, administration, my students.

So this particular flight was, so, you know, Aerosmith, you probably, if you're familiar with the band at all, is from the Boston area.

But the closest airport to wherever they lived, I don't specifically know where they live, but the closest airport where we fly into is Bedford, Bedford, Massachusetts.

And I believe this flight was a pretty short one.

I think we were like Buffalo, New York or somewhere like that.

and atc was like okay great let me know if you need any further assistance you know sometimes they'll vector you headings or whatever but we leveled off at like 20 something thousand feet because you know when we pass through 18 and i'm going through the checklist we're doing 2 000 feet a minute straight up right so in a minute we're at 20 000 feet you know in two minutes later we're 24 22 000 feet so we leveled off at 23 or whatever thousand feet to investigate and um so there's nothing written in the qrh about it and and we don't have any real guidance on it so we just slowly very very very slowly because we don't want to alert the passengers in the back and you know because they would be able to hear the engine make a change right so the captain starts bringing the throttle back on the number two engine all the way to idle he does you know but it takes about 30 seconds to roll that engine back so then we're just watching the fuel temperature gauge and sure enough the fuel temperature gauge starts coming back down and it gets down into the you know after a few minutes it gets down into the upper area of green and so at this point we got a decision to make okay We've been pointed at our destination for 20 minutes while we're working on this.

We don't feel like there's a specific emergency, like we got to land right now or we're going to die or we're going to have a problem.

And we're like only 20 minutes left in the flight because it's only a 45 minute flight from, I think, Buffalo to Bedford.

And so we're like, why don't we just keep on going? So that's what we do.

Music means we're out of time.

Gene in Bedford, Massachusetts, $25 first-time donor, praying for your immediate family to return to the church.

Thank you, Gene.

You're on the team, and we love having you on our side.