"I just recently found this game and I have been
totally addicted ever since.

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edu/surveyresults .

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For complete survey results,
visit http://www.
New train technology will make the rail system even safer, in part by
reducing accidents caused by human error, the most common cause of train
accidents, and will meet all the safety requirements of the Federal
Railroad Administration. Any suggestion that the
railroads would do anything to jeopardize the safety of their operations
in the future is blatantly false.

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The Art Institutes system of schools has
provided career-oriented education programs for 40 years.

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PITTSBURGH, In its first national student survey
on video game preferences, The Art Institutes system of schools recently
polled over 1 ,000 Game Art + Design, Animation and Visual + Game Programming
students from throughout its 31 schools on everything from favorite computer
and console games to game purchasing behavior."
Similarly , the International Game Developers Association (IGDA) gave Half-Life
2 and Halo 2 top honors at its recent 2005 Game Developers Choice Awards.

Why the wide diversity in game playing preferences?
"It's hard to find a game that excels equally in all areas of graphics,
gameplay and storyline . Every aspect is flawless.

Railroads, already the safest way to move freight over land, are proud of
a safety record that over the past 25 years has reduced train accident
rates by almost two-thirds and employee injury rates by almost 75 percent.

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However, once the results came in, "We realized that, like movies or
television shows, everybody has their favorites, and in the case of our game
and animation students, those choices were widely varied," he said.

The Art Institutes system of 31 education institutions is located
throughout North America, providing an important source of design, media arts,
fashion and culinary professionals.

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Game Art + Design students at The Art Institute of Atlanta concur in their
choice of playing games outside big blockbuster titles.

That's why, at
the start of the current round of negotiations last year, we urged the top
leaders of the two unions to sit down with the railroads to discuss our
proposal to modernize staffing requirements and produce labor agreements
for the 21st Century.

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That's not to say that the students polled don't enjoy best-selling
computer and video games, "It's just that there are many games out there, and
we found that our students often prefer games that may fly below the
traditional game-playing radar. For more
information visit The Art Institutes website
at http://www.

Over the years technology has been a major contributor to the industry's
solid record of steady improvement in safety.

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Nearly half -- 46 percent - - said they did not own a
portable gaming device. NCCC Remains Committed to 'Meaningful Negotiations'

WASHINGTON, The National Carriers' Conference
Committee (NCCC) issued the following statement today in response to the
announcement by the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen (BLET)
and the United Transportation Union (UTU) that the two unions would work
together to defeat changes in staffing requirements that are subject to
negotiation in the current round of collective bargaining:

The nation's freight railroads have proposed changes that would modernize
work rules and give the railroads the flexibility they need to improve the
safety and productivity of freight operations. As always,
our goal remains to reach voluntary agreements that will revise work rules
and staffing requirements while providing job security for current
employees.

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Halo 2 and Half-Life 2
captured Best Video Graphics and Best Computer Graphics , but with the
relatively low 14 percent and 17 percent of votes, respectively.

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It's visually
beautiful and the game play is simple and extremely fun," says Maresco.

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The results were surprising, according to Marc Sherrod, Academic Director
of Game Art + Design for The Art Institute of California -- San Francisco and
spokesperson for the national survey results.

Railroads Previously Asked UTU BLET Leadership to Talk About Staffing Issues

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In National Poll of Game Art and Design and Animation Students Results Show There Is More to Game Playing than Halo 2 and World of Warcraft

For Nick Maresco, his
game of choice is Darwinia. The railroads recognize
that changes to train operating assignments would affect rail employees
who are members of both unions -- the BLET and the UTU.

The National Carriers' Conference Committee of the National Railway Labor
Conference, headquartered in Washington, DC, is the national bargaining agent
for the 32 railroads, including all of the nation 's major freight carriers,
involved in the current round of bargaining with 13 major rail unions.

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For these students -- many of whom hope to make a career in the 30 billion
dollar a year global software entertainment industry -- participating in a
national poll on game play preferences was an opportunity to weigh in on a
field where they hope to make a significant impact.artinstitutes.artinstitutes.

Leaders of the BLET and UTU now say their unions will "work together" to
defeat these proposed changes .

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The results of the student poll reflect several similarities to recent
awards handed out by the game industry itself.

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Other survey results reported that Art Institutes' students spend some 12
hours a week playing games with 44 percent naming PlayStation 2 as their
Favorite Game Console.edu/surveyresults .

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"We found that only 11 percent of our students named Halo 2 as their
overall Favorite Video Game.
Raycheal Risdal, a Game Art + Design student also from The Art Institute
of Atlanta, says her new favorite title is Final Fantasy 9. I enjoy RPG-
based games, but I also enjoy playing games where I can interact with a large
diversity of individuals , who have the same interest as me," she says. Those preferences may have something to do
with how they themselves would design or animate those games," says Sherrod. Despite union leadership's unfortunate
intransigence, freight railroads remain committed to engaging in
meaningful negotiations on these and other important issues.

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The Academy of Interactive Arts
and Sciences' 8th Annual Interactive Achievement Awards recently honored Half-
Life 2 as both its "Game of the Year" and "Computer Game of the Year.

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Regrettably, they refused.

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World of Warcraft took Favorite Computer Game,
also with only 11 percent of the votes," said Sherrod. "Final Fantasy 9
is a massive online community of gamers from all over the world.

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"When we first decided on the
poll questions, we assumed that the big name titles like Final Fantasy and
World of Warcraft would do well -- after all, their game makers spend millions
of dollars advertising, promoting and creating a demand for those products,"
said Sherrod . "I've started playing more niche games in simulation
and action adventure this past year because they've become more accessible
from other countries," said Anthony Ruelas, 28, a Game Art + Design student at
The Art Institute of California -- San Francisco.