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I figured I should probably get on this blog and let everyone know I'm alive. A lot of people who read my blog (not that "a lot" of people read my blog...well, who knows really?) also read my Twin Meg's blog. And her last post was about my car accident. I think I will blog about the whole experience in a few days. It's still a little raw for me to talk about, and yes, I am still hurting, but every day it gets a little better and the emotions of it all are finally settling down a bit.
But, I wanted to let anyone who is wondering know that I am certainly alive and I am getting better. Thanks for the thoughts, notes, and prayers. I have felt so much love over the last 10 days and I appreciate it more than anyone can know.
Anyway, I will write more later, and it will be positive. I swear!
Friday, October 22, 2010
I'm Alive...I promise!
I figured I should probably get on this blog and let everyone know I'm alive. A lot of people who read my blog (not that "a lot" of people read my blog...well, who knows really?) also read my Twin Meg's blog. And her last post was about my car accident. I think I will blog about the whole experience in a few days. It's still a little raw for me to talk about, and yes, I am still hurting, but every day it gets a little better and the emotions of it all are finally settling down a bit.
Posted by Chels at 3:51 PM 2 comments
Friday, July 30, 2010
Grumpy Goose...
It is brand-spankin' new and I LOVE it. It's a Scion xD. We personalized the entire car and it only had 25 miles on it when we picked it up...oh, and our actual car has a bigger Spoiler than this picture...I like Spoilers and have never had one on my car, so I splurged :)
Also, Jesse's sister and her family are here from Germany. Her hubby, Lee, is in the Air Force and thus they move from place to place and I never get to see them...neither does anyone else for that matter, but this is my blog, so I shall state that "I" never get to see them. I love my Wilstead's and I wish I could see them more...they are headed to Spain for the next 11 months and then after that who knows...hopefully they will move to the States so we can visit them.
Thanks for listening to me peeps. My next post shall be about one of the greatest nights of my life...the night that Meg and I met the Barenaked Ladies...man was that amazing...so the next time you hear from me it shall be a positive post with fun pictures, I promise!
Posted by Chels at 10:09 AM 3 comments
Tuesday, June 29, 2010
My Friend, Facebook...
Dear Facebook,
I know I haven't been a faithful follower lately, but I used to be addicted to you. I decided that I should let you know that I'm still here, but my reasons for logging on have changed.
I am no longer looking to find old friends. I just like to spy on people. That's right, spy. I don't like to look at stranger's profiles or anything, I just like to look at people's pictures that I used to know and who I am not in touch with anymore. Some of them I like, some of them I don't. But I surely appreciate that I can look into these people's lives and decide if getting re-acquainted is a good idea or not. And usually, just looking at their pictures is enough. And I like that.
So thank you, Facebook. For helping me find closure in some cases...and on certain days when I really need it you help me laugh when I find out that I'm not the only one who's gained 20 pounds since high school :) Good work Facebook. Good work.
Posted by Chels at 2:17 PM 4 comments
Thursday, June 10, 2010
Alright, already...
I know, I know, I haven't written anything in a LONG time. But I am just following the ol' saying "If you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all."
Now I don't mean that I have un-nice things to say. I mean, I don't have anyone to rip on or anything (might I add that I love people, in general. So hopefully anyone out there who's reading this doesn't think that I would rip on someone, especially in writing :)...but, I don't really have anything really interesting to talk about. And I have been sicker than a dog. Yep. That's right. I guess people have been frustrated lately that I don't tell them when I'm sick and when I need something. Well, here we go...I am sick. Sick, sick, sick. No, I don't need anything. But I did tell my sweet brother the other day that what I could really use is some slack. If I am not my talkative-self, please forgive me. If I see you out and about and I don't look too happy to see you please don't take it personally. At the moment I can't handle much. Even the slightest thing puts me over the edge...I even get overwhelmed when my phone rings...
Anyway, that's enough of that. The point of that whole last paragraph was to let you know (does anyone even read this blog?) that I haven't been posting because I can't think of anything of note to say. But, I was reading my cute friend Julie's blog and she had her "Crazy 8's" posted so I thought, "There's something I can do." So here we go:
CRAZY 8's
8 TV Shows I Love To Watch:
1. Better Off Ted
2. The Bachelor/Bachelorette (I always tell myself at the beginning of the season to remember that it's not a big deal who the person chooses in the end, but I always end up caring...sad, I know, but true...)
3. Glee
4. Community
5. Parks and Recreation
6. The Deep End
7. Big Bang Theory
8. The Office
8 Favorite Restaurants:
1. Zupas
2. Jamba Juice
3. Mikado
4. Blue Fish
5. Winger's (but only because I go there with my favorite people...you know who you are...)
6. Mimi's
7. 5 Guys Burgers and Fries
8. Hire's Big H
8 Things That Happened Yesterday:
1. Work
2. Pharmacy
3. Ate :)
4. Played Majong
5. Watched "Better Off Ted"
6. Watched "Glee"
7. Did the dishes
8. Slept!!!
8 Things I'm Looking Forward To:
1. The Wilstead's coming here for the Summer!
2. Leaving work :)
3. Eating the cake-bites my cute Mom brought me from The Sweet Tooth Fairy. She's so good to me!
4. Deciding which pictures to put up in the new picture frames in my room
5. Hanging out with Meg...
6. Hanging out with Jesse...
7. Seeing Toy Story 3!
8. Sleeping...
8 Things On My Wish List:
1. Get feeling better!
2. Get cast in another show...I need something to distract me...
3. Sleep
4. Sleep
5. Sleep
6. Go to Disneyland (I know, I know, that's the story of my life, but I really need to go again soon!)
Posted by Chels at 12:57 PM 4 comments
Tuesday, April 6, 2010
Belated Birthday Post 2010
So, our birthday is on Valentine's Day. It happened to be on a Sunday this year, so we decided that we would fly out on Friday night after work, have a few hours to play in the park, sleep at our hotel across the street, play all day Saturday, play all day Sunday, and then fly back Monday morning (which happened to be President's Day, so we both had the day off work). It was the perfect plan. And we were very excited for our trip.
We got to the airport at 2:30. Our plane was to leave at 4:30.
We got to our gate at 3:30, and about 30 minutes later we were informed that our flight was delayed. For 4 hours.
Meg and I both have horrible anxiety about flying, so we had both taken a Xanax when we got to the airport (before we knew about the delay). The brunt of the calmness that comes with Xanax was wasted on the hours spent in the airport. But we laughed the whole time and it didn't even matter that we weren't going to Disneyland that night. Because hanging out with Meg is a vacation in and of itself in my opinion.
(Here we are a few hours into our delay...sitting on the airport floor....)
(Meg being a punk)(Here I am laughing about the fact that my straw was cardboard...it tainted the taste of my wonderful hot chocolate...oh, and we were laughing about the drunk man next to us. He was talking jibberish)
(I was sad once I was about half way through my hot chocolate because my cardboard straw was soggy...sick...really, who thought of a cardboard straw? It was a horrible idea.)
(We finally made it to the park the next morning! Woohoo!!!!)
(Here's Meg being the nut-job that she is in line for Small World)
(More Meg...waiting in line at Pirates, one of our favorite rides...but everyone loves it, right?!)
(Here we are with Minnie!!!!)
(Here I am in Bell's library)
(We were leaving the park when we took this picture...we were very crazed and tired :)
(Here we are at Chip & Dale's Country Critter Breakfast on the morning of our Birthday. This was my favorite part of the trip!)
(Dale giving Meg a birthday kiss. I love her facial expression!)
(Waiting in line for the Alice In Wonderland ride...not my favorite ride, but still a necessity when you go to Disneyland)
(And finally, just for the heck of it, here is our Birthday dinner spread at my Mom's house...she is always so good to us. Thanks cutest Mom for making life a party!)
(And finally, here we are blowing out the candles. I wonder how often Meg & I wish for the EXACT same thing...we can't talk about it, of course, because then it wouldn't come true ;) but I bet it happens a lot...)
Posted by Chels at 4:14 PM 5 comments
Thursday, March 11, 2010
Ain't Nothin' Up...
I haven't been too chatty lately. That's why I haven't been blogging. There really isn't anything going on in my life right now that's fun enough to talk about. I have been sicker than a dog for the last few months, but who wants to hear about that? And Jesse hates it when I post things that aren't upbeat, so I don't like getting on here and telling stories unless I have something upbeat to say...and thus I haven't blogged in a while.
I do want to say a few things though.
First of all, I am grateful for friends who let me come to their house late at night because I am too lonely and too sick to be alone. Thanks for taking care of me Jake & Manon, even though I wasn't much fun to be with and I didn't look so hot. You guys are always so good to me.
Second, I am grateful for this little guy...
He is always so concerned about me and he always keeps me laughing....I mean, why is he in the fridge? And why is he so serious about being in the fridge? And why must he open my cupboards and destroy everything inside? He just gets these ideas in his head and he has to go through with them. I love him. And I am so grateful that he makes my home so interesting.
Third, I am grateful for Jesse's job. It is extremely comforting that he has a job that he loves and that they love him right back. He works for Varian Medical and his job is very secure. They have sent him on several business trips lately, and while I am very sick of him being gone, I am grateful that they are investing so much in him.
And finally, let me just say that I feel like answers are right around the corner for me. Things can only get better. And I will be my happy, upbeat self once more...I promise!
Posted by Chels at 2:50 PM 5 comments
Friday, February 19, 2010
Scraggly Little Chels...
The dang coolest person in the world (my awesome friend Michelle) wrote an embarrassing story from her past on her blog and I decided I would do the same. Her story happened to her in 6th grade, and one of my most memorable moments (which seemed like the end-of-the-world at the time) was in 6th grade as well.
Let me just give you a little visual...I don't think I can post a 6th grade picture of me. I just don't want that out there for the world to see. I was scraggly. And I don't mean a little bit. For those of you who have only known me over the last 5-10 years, you don't know much about me because 6th grade was the most defining year of my life. I still feel like a 6th-grader inside.
While I was in 6th grade I was skinny. Like rail thin. I think I was about 5 feet tall and I weighed 80 pounds. I never showered, I never did my hair, and I was always outside playing a sport of some sort. I was a tom-boy through and through. And I had absolutely NO chest.
Again, for those of you who know me now, you know that I have the complete opposite of "NO chest". But that didn't happen for me until 9th grade. Anyway, I was not concerned about the no-chest fact because I didn't want to bother with girlie things, but when my boyfriend decided to break up with me for a more girlie-girl, I decided it was time to ask my mom for a bra. Yep. A boy made me make that decision.
Now, the fact that I got a bra didn't change my outer appearance. I still wore a bright yellow over-sized T-shirt with matching yellow stretch-shorts along with matching yellow socks (which I folded over halfway) and black sandals (yep...head-to-toe bright yellow and socks and sandals to top it all off)...but I knew that I was wearing that bra and it had to have some effect, right? Right.
The problem with not NEEDING a bra is that it's easy to forget to wear it sometimes.
And sometimes I would forget where I placed it.
And so, our story begins:
It was the last week of 6th grade. We were going to have our sports day (I don't remember what it's called...if you remember Ford or Meg, will you please leave it as a comment on this post so I can remember?) and the school had asked Meg & me to sing the Star Spangled Banner at the opening ceremonies. We were pumped! My mom recorded the piano part on a cassette tape and I lugged her big boom-box to school with me on the bus that day...in a black garbage bag. Why did I bother putting it in a bag when the boom-box had a handle you might ask? Well I have no idea. I often make things more complicated then they need to be...maybe it's because I wanted someone to ask me what was in the bag? I don't know...
So I lug the massive boom-box to my classroom in the black plastic garbage bag and I then remove the boom-box from the bag so Meg & I can warm up to the music in the bathroom. I have butterflies as I walk down the hallway to the bathroom. People are whispering and there's a lot of excitement in the air, and I am just feeling really cool in my yellow outfit with my scraggly hair and my socks and sandals. Meg and I practice and then we head back to our classrooms. We are nervous but excited. Only a few minutes until our singing debut. But then, as I make my way to my classroom I can hear the boys laughing and talking...I can hear the word "bra" being said by several different voices...I quickly feel my back to see if I happened to remember to put mine on today...it's not there...but there's no way that the group of people huddled up in my classroom could be seeing my bra...my tiny little white bra lying on the floor...and I look...yep, it's mine...it must have made it into that classy black plastic garbage bag somehow...but as I break through the circle to pick it up (I had to pick it up, I couldn't just leave it there...though now that I look back it would've been the smart thing to do...I didn't need it anyway) I did something that I will forever regret...I really and truly am forever sorry about what I said as I picked the little white thing off the floor... "Oh, this is Megan's bra...I'll go give it to her..." And off I went to slip it on in the bathroom.
Needless to say I was sick about lying all day long and I had to tell Meg the truth when we got home that night because the guilt was just killing me...and Meg being the cool person that she is forgave me...though she did want me to confess to it so she didn't have that hanging over her head for the last week of school, but what was I supposed to do? Bring up the horrible ordeal again and say, "Does anyone remember the bra that was on the floor yesterday? Well, it wasn't Megan's, it was mine." It never happened. And I still owe you for that Meg. I'll take you to Frogurt tonight. My treat. And then maybe scraggly little Chelsea's most embarrassing memory can finally be laid to rest...
The moral of this story: Don't bring your boom-box to school in a black plastic gargabe bag.
Posted by Chels at 2:10 PM 8 comments
Wednesday, February 3, 2010
Happy to be "Jesse's Girl"...
Today is my sweet hubby's birthday. He's 29 years old. I am more in love with him today than I was on our wedding day. We have been through so much together, but through thick and thin we have stuck together and it has paid off. I love him with all of my heart. I decided to list the top 5 reasons why I love "my Kight" (his middle name is Knight, so I always call him "my Knight") and why I am so happy to be called "Jesse's girl":
1. His smile
There is a sort of innocence about his smile, but there is also a hint of mischievousness to it as well. He is always up to something...it's usually good, but he's always surprising me and keeping me on my tows. No two days are the same with him and I appreciate that more than he will ever know...
2. His heart.
Jesse always does sweet and spontaneous things for me. I often get love notes and flowers "just because" and I love it when he drops by my office unexpected. He is also very giving of his time to others. Whether it be helping a friend put shelves up in their garage or driving his cute mom home from the hospital, he's always sacrificing for others and I love that about him.
3. His relationship with Meg.
Jesse and Meg are truly brother and sister. You could almost call them best friends. They have been through a lot together and have spent many hours at my side taking care of me. At first there was a bit of competition to see "who Chelsea loved more" and Meg swears Jesse broke her toe in a leg wrestle in which the winner would gain the title of "the one Chelsea loved the most"...(which ended up to be a tie, just so you know ;) but not matter what they are honest with each other, they chat for hours on end, and sometimes they talk about things with each other that I have no idea about. I am grateful that he accepted Meg as part of the package when we got married and that they love each other completely.
(this is a picture of Meg & Jesse going down a zip-line into a pond at the Hubbard Family Reunion. She was scared to death as you can see, but she trusted Jesse enough to give it a shot. Notice Jesse's smile, he can't believe Meg actually agreed to do it...and yes, Meg comes to the Hubbard Family Reunions :)
4. He is a steady force...
As many of you know I am pretty dramatic and am known to be pretty emotional. It can be a good thing, but it can also be a very bad thing in tense situations. But no matter what the situation is Jesse is there. Solid as a rock. In the 8 years I have known him he has lost his temper maybe 3 times. And I am in awe of that. It is a characteristic that I can only dream of, and I appreciate his patience with me all of the time...
(Another Hubbard Family Reunion picture in Ibapah. He asked me to jump out of this tree and I wanted to shock him, so I said I would, but once I got up in the tree I wanted to get back down, so he came up the ladder to help me be calm and to reassure me that it would be fun. Yes, it was fun. No, I would never do it again)
5. Forgiving.
Finally, Jesse is very forgiving. He gives everyone the benefit of the doubt, no matter what. He wants to believe in the best in people and I benefit from his forgiveness often. It seems like whenever we happen to have an argument or disagreement we can always understand each other in the end and a simple kiss can solve everything.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY JESSE! I love you with all of my heart and hope this year is a fabulous one for you. You deserve it!
Posted by Chels at 10:06 AM 5 comments
Friday, January 29, 2010
Some of you know about my 7 year battle with abdominal issues. I have been told that I have Crohn's Disease, but there is no cure and there is no perfect method of treatment for it since they don't know what causes it. From February of 2003 until September of 2006 I tried dozens and dozens of different medications and we finally found some that worked. The medication that worked for me from September of 2006 until around September of 2009 has started to be less and less effective and the last few months have been agonizing for me. I am in constant pain and have constant nausea and I don't enjoy many things since I am suffering pretty much all the time.
In December I received my 5th colonoscopy so they could see if there were holes in my intestinal wall...but everything came back "normal". As grateful as I was that everything was "normal" I was also upset that I was going thru such a bad flare-up and I wasn't getting any relief.
My G.I. Specialist decided that it was time to do a test that I've never had to do before. It's called a Small Capsule Endoscopy and the gist of the test is that I swallowed a MASSIVE pill (seriously people, it was the size of two Jolly Ranchers stuck together) which was really a little camera that was taking pictures every few seconds and it transmitted pictures to a little computer that I wore for 8 hours.
It's been a week and a half since that test and I finally received a phone call from my doctor yesterday to discuss the results. He told me that for the first 4 hours after I swallowed the pill all of the pictures were from my stomach. The pill never left my stomach. Then after 4 hours I ate a small lunch since that was what I was instructed to do, and he said for another 4 hours the pill took pictures of my stomach full of food.
The average person's stomach empties every 60-90 minutes. He said that "worst case scenario" the soup that I had for lunch should've left my stomach after 60 minutes. But after 4 hours it was still there.
Knowing this won't solve all of my problems, but I am grateful that I'm not crazy :) and that we have a good starting point to know what I need next.
The next step will be to get an endoscopy where they'll look at the ulcers I now have in my stomach (another thing we discovered from this test), then they'll pull the camera-tube-thing back up, they'll wake me up, I'll sallow that dang horse pill again, and then they'll knock me out again, put the camera-tube-thing down my throat again and they'll guide the pill past my stomach so they can check out the rest of my intestines.
The point of this post wasn't to have people feeling sorry for me, nor was it to gross anyone out, but I just have to say that I am overwhelmed with gratitude at this moment. I am grateful that I have a boss who is trying to be as understanding as possible when I have to leave for an hour or two to get some medicine and lie down for a while, that I have a family who loves and supports me and who prays and fasts for me often, and that I have been blessed with amazing doctors in my life who don't want me to suffer anymore. I really am truly grateful that we can get more answers soon and that one day I can be some-what normal :)
(Below is a picture of one of the pill-cams available...mine looked a lot like this one, but it was bigger and it had different coloring...)
Posted by Chels at 9:26 AM 6 comments
Tuesday, January 26, 2010
Goodbye 2009
I saw this little quiz on one of my friend's blogs and decided it would be fun to give it a try...feel free to do this on your own blog if anyone reads this because I would love to see what your answers are.
1. What did you do in 2009 that you had never done before? Went to Hawaii! Man was it fun, I can't believe I waited so long to go there. Hopefully we will be going again soon!
2. What would you like in 2010 that you lacked in 2009? Thicker skin...
3. My best memory of 2009? My niece Cameron being born. That chick is hilarious and I am so grateful that she is part of our family!
4. What was your biggest achievement? Hmmm...good question...I guess I'd say getting straight A's in my first semester back at school.
5. What was your biggest failure? We don't need to talk about it ;)
6. Did you or someone you know suffer an illness? Oddly enough this was the healthiest year I've had in a long time. That was one of the best parts of 2009 in my opinion. But the biggest illness my family experienced this year was the recovery of my brother-in-law Ryan when he gave his kidney to a friend. But he's the one who sacrificed the most (and my sister Marissa sacrificed a lot to do that to). Good work Ryan, you are truly amazing!
7. What was your best purchase? Tickets to Disneyland :)
8. What behavior merited celebration this year? Being less of a procrastinator then I used to be. I still procrastinate, but it's gotten SO much better.
9. What behavior appalled or depressed you? Anxiety
10. Where did all your money go? Our house. I don't spend money very much, so the house payment is the biggest bill we have in our life and I'm grateful for that!
11. What was your favorite song for 2009? Paramore's "the only exception"
12. Who was your biggest influence of 2009? My sister Marissa. She had a baby and took care of a husband recovering from major surgery while still managing to be her charming self. She's always so good to me and I'm just so grateful to have her as my big sister. I love you Marisk!
13. What was your favorite new TV show? Modern Family
14. What was your favorite new book? "Rude Awakenings of a Jane Austen Addict" by Laurie Viera Rigler. I randomly purchased this book while I was in San Francisco on a lovely weekend get-away with my Mom, step-dad Tim, and Jesse. They were sweet enough to treat us to this trip just for the heck of it and it was one of the greatest trips of my life. Thanks Mom and McTimmy!
15. What was your favorite new movie? I can't decide between "Up" by Disney/Pixar, "The Blind Side" with Sandra Bullock, who I LOVE, and "Sherlock Holmes" with Robert Downey Jr., who I also LOVE. They were all fabulous for different reasons :)
16. What is your favorite new fashion? Cardigans are a pretty big fashion currently, and since I LOVE cardigans I am very happy that I can find them pretty much anywhere and they are in fun colors and prints.
17. What has kept you sane? Meg, of course. Though sometimes she is the reason why I'm crazy, she is also my sanity. LOVE YOU MEG!
Posted by Chels at 12:54 PM 2 comments
Sunday, January 17, 2010
The Holiday Season...a little late...
My sister Ashley and my niece Cameron hanging out before the festivities...Cameron was getting some new teeth so she was a slobbery mess. I love her as a slobbery mess!
Exchanging presents...
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Brussels, 14th January 2008
Antitrust: Commission initiates formal investigations against Microsoft in two cases of suspected abuse of dominant market position
The European Commission has decided to initiate two formal antitrust investigations against Microsoft Corp concerning two separate categories of alleged infringements of EC Treaty rules on abuse of a dominant market position (Article 82). The first case where proceedings have been opened is in the field of interoperability in relation to a complaint by the European Committee for Interoperable Systems (ECIS). The second area where proceedings have been opened is in the field of tying of separate software products following inter alia a complaint by Opera.
As regards interoperability, in its Microsoft judgment of 17 September 2007, the Court of First Instance confirmed the principles that must be respected by dominant companies as regards interoperability disclosures. In the complaint by ECIS, Microsoft is alleged to have illegally refused to disclose interoperability information across a broad range of products, including information related to its Office suite, a number of its server products, and also in relation to the so called .NET Framework. The Commission's examination will therefore focus on all these areas, including the question whether Microsoft's new file format Office Open XML, as implemented in Office, is sufficiently interoperable with competitors' products.
As for the tying of separate software products, in its Microsoft judgment of 17 September 2007, the Court of First Instance confirmed the principles that must be respected by dominant companies. In a complaint by Opera, a competing browser vendor, Microsoft is alleged to have engaged in illegal tying of its Internet Explorer product to its dominant Windows operating system. The complaint alleges that there is ongoing competitive harm from Microsoft's practices, in particular in view of new proprietary technologies that Microsoft has allegedly introduced in its browser that would reduce compatibility with open internet standards, and therefore hinder competition. In addition, allegations of tying of other separate software products by Microsoft, including desktop search and Windows Live have been brought to the Commission's attention. The Commission's investigation will therefore focus on allegations that a range of products have been unlawfully tied to sales of Microsoft's dominant operating system.
This initiation of proceedings does not imply that the Commission has proof of an infringement. It only signifies that the Commission will further investigate the case as a matter of priority.
What is the legal base for opening formal investigations?
The legal base of this procedural step is Article 11(6) of Council Regulation No 1/2003 and article 2(1) of Commission Regulation No 773/2004.
Article 11(6) of Regulation No 1/2003 provides that the initiation of proceedings relieves the competition authorities of the Member States of their authority to apply the competition rules laid down in Articles 81 and 82 of the Treaty. Moreover, Article 16(1) of the same Regulation provides that national courts must avoid giving decisions which would conflict with a decision contemplated by the Commission in proceedings that it has initiated.
Article 2 of Regulation No 773/2004 provides that the Commission can initiate proceedings with a view to adopting at a later stage a decision on substance according to Articles 7-10 of Regulation No 1/2003 at any point in time, but at the latest when issuing a statement of objections or a preliminary assessment notice in a settlement procedure. In the case at stake, the Commission has chosen to open proceedings before such further steps.
The Commission may make public the initiation of proceedings in any appropriate way. Before doing so, it informed the parties concerned. The Competition Authorities of the Member States concerned have also been informed.
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Obama super PAC doubles down on the Bain ad
One day after President Obama's campaign launched its first attack ad on Mitt Romney's record at Bain Capital, the super PAC supporting the president, Priorities USA Action, is following up with a 30-second version.
The ad, titled "Heads or Tails," features a former steel worker at the same plant, GST Steel, that was highlighted in the campaign's video.
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Here's the whole script, which is layered over an ominous score and some bleak shots of a shuttered plant:
With Romney and Bain Capital, the objective was to make money.
Whether the companies they came in and worked with made money or not, was irrelevant. Bain Capital always made money.
If we lost, they made money. If we survived, they made money. It's as simple as that.
He promised us the same things he's promising the United States. And he'll give you the same thing he gave us. Nothing. He'll take it all.
The ad marks the beginning of a campaign that's reported to be $4 million, which is significantly more than the re-election campaign invested in its two-minute ad released yesterday, which seemed designed as much as anything to generate media coverage.


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I know I've said that my next post is going to be with the second skirt that I recently bought, but in the meantime I received this great dress and had to wear it.
It's a bandage dress, but I wore it in my own kinda way so it doesn't look so evening wear and I love it. I'm actually thinking about turning it into skirt, I think it would be a great piece that I could wear in so many different ways and occasions, be sure to tell me your thoughts: should it stay a dress or do I cut it?
I'm wearing H&M/Forever21/eBay jewelry, Platino boots and Udobuy dress.


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Not on display
- Artist
- Gilad Ophir born 1957
- Part of
- Necropolis Series
- Medium
- Photograph, gelatin silver print on paper
- Dimensions
- Support: 1190 x 1480 mm
- Collection
- Tate
- Acquisition
- Presented by Joseph Hackmey 2000
- Reference
This text discusses Yerucham, 1997 (P11752-11755), four photographs by Gilad Ophir from the Necropolis Series, a collective work by Israeli artists Ophir and Roi Kuper (born 1956). Tate owns a number of other photographs from this group, five by Ophir (titled Shooting Targets, 1997, P11747-11751), and eight by Kuper (all Untitled, 1999, P11736-P11743).
The Yerucham photographs portray abandoned camp emplacements near the small development town of Yerucham in the Negev desert, southern Israel. None of these sites are marked on the map but knowledge of them is gained by word of mouth. They are thus secret or quasi-secret locations. No reason is given and no evidence available as to why the camp was abandoned. Ophir highlights the issue of colonisation of the desert, this time for military reasons, when man displays his omnipotence by imposing structure and order on nature. However, once vacated nature strikes back and the weeds begin to reclaim their ground. An emblem of power becomes an emblem of absence where the power has been emptied out. Each of these photographs has a pervasive sense of memory, as indeed do Ophir's Shooting Targets. They are in fact memorials to time past and lives lived.
The archaeology of the Holy Land is a revered subject with a sense of romance attached. Kuper and Ophir are stripping away that romance and manifest a new approach to the archaeology of the desert. The title of their work, Necropolis Series, is telling: the necropolis is literally a 'city of the dead'. It also harks back to the ancient past and archaeology of Israel, when the Jews buried their dead in carved sarcofagi resembling Roman ones, which were placed in catacombs or burial chambers (a notable example in Israel is the huge necropolis of Bet She'Arim, 1-4 century AD). Like these eight untitled photographs, other works in their Necropolis Series deal with Israel's recent past through the portrayal of what its wars and their protagonists left behind, whether they be Jordanian jeeps, abandoned military camps, derelict shelters or man-made mounds. Kuper and Ophir's photographs map the geography of an Israel blighted by war, chronicling neither losses nor successes, but the eerie impact of Israel's wartime relics on its landscape.
There are two particular themes which recur in the work of Ophir. One is the opposition of nature to culture and the other is the impact of militarisation on the landscape. In both he seeks an engagement with urgent social and political issues in Israel.
Further reading:
90 70 90, exhibition catalogue, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv 1994
Gilad Ophir: Cyclopean Walls, exhibition catalogue, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv 1995/2002
Jeremy Lewison
September 2000
Revised by Giorgia Bottinelli
April 2002
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Table Hopping – March 2011
"A Spicy, Hot Dish."
8431 Wornall Road
Kansas City, MO 64114
(816) 361-4388
Co-owner, Derek Boone, who owns Irezumi Body Art, snapped up this restaurant location just a couple of doors down from his tattoo shop, so he, and his brother, Dustin Craighead, could opening this bar & grill together. This neighborhood bar with a small dining room area hit the national stage when Guy Fieri featured it on Triple D. Swagger is not fancy, but fun and features manly men portions and inventive scratch-made food. HOT DISH: Get the Dead Texan Burger with hand cut french fries for $14. It's a burger made from two grilled cheese sandwiches as the buns. One has fresh jalapeno peppers; the other has bacon. The beef patty is topped with a fried egg, red onions, lettuce and tomato. So good, it's sinful.
7940 Troost Avenue
Kansas City, MO 64131
(816) 333-9566
George "G" Ricketts, opened this little outpost of Jamaican hospitality in Kansas City in 1994, and as the owner, cook and resident personality he is certainly a colorful character. His little piece of the tropics, is located in a mostly washed up strip center, but sample his food along with a Red Stripe and none of that will matter. G's features reggae bands and dance hall style live music on the weekends, and at lunch, local workers pack his place looking for their Caribbean food fix. HOT DISH: Get Jerk Chicken with red beans, dirty rice and steamed cabbage, for around $12. This is the dish that packs some serious heat. You should also consider the curried goat, fried plantains and Jamaican meat pies, too. It's all good.
9938 Holmes Road
Kansas City, MO 64131
(816) 943-1388
Located almost to I-435, off of Holmes Road, in a shopping center full of mostly ethnic grocery stores, quietly sits the Thai House restaurant. Owner, Ann Chantai, and what I suspect to be her handsome son, opened this restaurant in 2005. Although the spacious dining room looks a bit dated by today's standards, the staff is quick and efficient and the food come hot and freshly made to your table. The menu is large, and the food is authentic and priced right. HOT DISH: Get the Green Curry with Chicken, eggplant, red and green bell pepper for $8. Get it "Hot" or if you dare, "Thai Hot" to light you up. Like most Thai restaurants, you get to pick the heat you want your dish to deliver.
7407 NW 87th Street
Kansas City, MO 64153
(816) 746-9400
Owner, Gurdev Choong, took one look out the front window of his strip center location at the new Zona Rosa Shopping Center and saw his future. Today, he has no regrets about the move, he acquired a brand new kitchen, stylish new dining room, and more space to host large parties. Swagat with it's locally owned authentic Indian cuisine, brings true ethnic flavor and heat to a mostly corporate chain restaurant scene at Zona Rosa. HOT DISH: Order the Chicken Vindaloo, a famously hot curry dish, in it's own right, made with potatoes and chicken served with rice for around $13 at dinner. Remember you can always ask them to kick the spice up in any dish, but proceed with caution with this already classically spicy curry dish.
111 Southwest Boulevard
Kansas City, KS 66103
The factory that makes the some of the hottest sauces around can be found right here in Kansas City. The Original Juan Factory Outlet, located down on Southwest Boulevard, has a Factory Store inside that is open Monday – Saturday that sells the entire line of hot sauces they create and bottle on premise, all sold at discounted prices. If you are a true Chilihead, you gotta go. HOT DISH: In the Factory Store, you'll find a rack of hot sauces with unmarked labels. These are experimental sauces that were created, but never approved for retail. Perfectly tasty, these are sold as discontinued sauces. The fun begins when you realize don't know how spicy any of these sauces are. Grab a bottle for the next time you want make "Mystery Chicken Wings."


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EVANSTON, Ill. (AP) Cody Zeller had 21 points and 13 rebounds to help No. 2 Indiana beat Northwestern 67-59 Sunday.
Jordan Hulls added 15 points. Christian Watford scored 14, and the Hoosiers (16-2, 4-1 Big Ten) hung on after things got tense down the stretch.
They led by 17 in the first half and were up 31-17 at intermission, but Northwestern (11-8, 2-4) rattled them with its trap in the second. The Wildcats got within five three times, but the Hoosiers prevailed after seeing a six-game win streak end with a loss to Wisconsin last week.
Zeller, the Big Ten Preseason Player of the Year, hit 9 of 10 free throws and dominated inside as Indiana pounded the Wildcats 36-24 on the glass.
Reggie Hearn scored 22 for Northwestern, which refused to go away quietly in this one after beating No. 23 Illinois on Thursday.
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - Freshman T.J. Warren scored 21 points while Richard Howell scored the go-ahead basket with 1:56 left to lead North Carolina State.
Howell finished with 11 points and 12 rebounds for the Wolfpack (15-3, 4-1 Atlantic Coast Conference), who never trailed yet still found itself in a tight game against a league opponent that wouldn't go away. N.C. State scored the game's first 10 points and led by nine early in the second half.
Ultimately, the Wolfpack held on, with Howell's three-point play breaking a tie and Scott Wood's 5-for-6 performance at the line in the final 28 seconds helping N.C. State keep its grip on the lead.
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Thanksgiving Leftovers
Love 'em or hate 'em, you have to admit that some leftovers are better than others. In fact, you might wonder why these poor Thanksgiving cakes got passed over for Turkey day:
Ok, maybe they just passed. [bah dum BUM]
I am shocked - SHOCKED - that the Butterball Butterflies didn't simply FLY off shelves this year:
"The Butterball Butterfly: 'Cuz you've never seen a Turkey Fly."
Most bakeries went with the tried and true "Happy Thanksgiving" last week, but some took a little more "artistic license:"
"And lo, they laid the baby glow worm in a manger, and saideth, 'Thanks AND Giving' Lo. Cometh hath. And sucheth."
And now that you're feeling extra thankful, here to drive the point home is a confused turkey being flame broiled:
I call it, "View Through An Oven Window."
(I'd like to point out that the turkey and text up there are a printed edible image, and the flames and question marks were added by the baker - presumably because the baker REALLY hates turkeys.)
Which leads us to the always-popular blackened turkey:
Uh, guys? Is this next one really a turkey? Cuz I'm getting more of a goat...[eying kids in the room]...ish vibe here:
Call me cheeky, butt the temptation to crack a Rear Window joke is suddenly overwhelming.
Thanks to Anony M., Beckey, Andrew & Hannah, Laura H., Krista L., & Deborah B., who'd like to remind us that leftover turkey is a dish best served cold. And it is very cold...IN SPACE.


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"Know also, O prince, that in the selfsame days that the Cimmerian did stalk the Hyborian Kingdoms, one of the few swords worthy to cross with his was that of Red Sonja, warrior-woman out of majestic Hyrkania. Forced to flee her homeland because she spurned the advances of a king and slew him instead, she rode west across the Turanian steppes and into the shadowed mists of legendry.
Know this, reader of these texts - Red Sonja has perished! Fallen in battle with the vile sorcerer Kulan Gath, Sonja gave her life to save all of Hyboria.
For a time, the red-maned warrior did journey through Hades at the side of the boatsman Charon. Here, she did learn the truth of her own creation at the hands of the false Goddess Scathach.
Twenty winters have passed since last Sonja walked the land. However, now that she has
returned, her new incarnation has yet to learn the truth of her existence, or the reason for her miraculous rebirth." -- The Nemedian Chronicles
Everything you knew about Red Sonja and her world was forever changed when the She-Devil battled Kulan Gath to the death! Now, following her trip to Hades, the spirit of the She-Devil is reborn, though the world around her has forever changed! A perfect jumping on point for new readers, as well as an incredible continuation to the readers that have been there since issue #0! Written by Brian (Ms. Marvel) Reed with art by Walter (SAVAGE TALES) Geovani and reprinting issues 35-40 for the very first time. Also includes a
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This modern and comfortable 4-star mountain hotel is located directly on the slope and offers 104 nicely furnished, cosy rooms and a wide range of sports and congress facilities.
A covered parking lot, a ski school and ski rental are at your disposal directly at the hotel and a summer sledge track is located next to the building. The wellness centre besides many recreational facilities includes 2 modern indoor tennis centres with a supreme-quality surface. These are also suitable for tennis, volleyball and badminton championships. Also squash courts are at your disposal.
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Lovers of winter sports are offered a tow lift, hire services for complete downhill and cross country skiing outfits and also a ski school. In summer you can hire mountain bikes.
Buffet restaurant (fist floor):
This restaurant serves an American buffet-style breakfast from 7:00 until 10:00 and dinner from 18:00 until 21:00 for guests having booked half board. The dinner is also served in buffet style. The terrace is open during the summer months and boasts a beautiful view of the Giant Mountains.
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This restaurant offers specialities of the Czech and international cuisine and a wide range of highest quality wines and other alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages. Enjoy top-quality service in pleasant surroundings and end your culinary journey with a delicious sweet dessert. Wine tastings are regularly held in the underground wine cellar with its unique atmosphere.
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Most people of my philosophic persuasion believe that the power that moves individuals and cultures is, at root, philosophy. Specifically, that power lies in the "basic premises" which we accept about the world and ourselves: our beliefs about the nature of existence; about how we know things; about what constitutes good and bad; about how we should live together.
This view of the power of philosophic premises is true. However, those of my philosophic persuasion also make an additional assumption: that to change one's own life, or to "change the world," the most important and effective thing is to adopt and advocate the "right" systematic, abstract philosophy. In practice, this means: addressing thinkers and intellectuals, teaching students formal philosophy, planting "our" kind of professors in university chairs, and otherwise engaging in specifically abstract, philosophical pursuits. The tacit assumption here is that the basic philosophic premises that govern our lives are decisively communicated and absorbed in individuals and cultures by means of formal philosophical education.
That premise is mistaken.
We do not suddenly acquaint ourselves with our core worldviews in college courses, after we are already in our teens or twenties. By that time, our basic premises are usually already well-established and, in many cases, set in psychological cement.
So when, and in what form, do we really encounter and accept our foundational beliefs about ourselves and the world around us?
We do so early in life, and in the form of stories -- or what I call Narratives.
The myths that we learn in childhood, at Mother's knee, in church, in schools, in films and novels, represent primitive, fundamental interpretive stories about our world: how it works, what it means, what is right or wrong, who are the Good Guys and the Bad Guys.
These Narratives are pre-philosophical; in fact, they are acquired in their germinal forms while we are still far too young to subject them to critical analysis. They thus actually tend to determine which abstract philosophies, ideologies, economic theories, and political policies we later find appealing. These latter "feel right" to us largely because they mesh with the myths, fairy tales, parables, and stories we already absorbed during childhood.
Moreover, the more deep-rooted the myth--either personally and/or culturally--the more desperately we cling to it. We cling to it even when it may sometimes be utterly false, and lead us over a cliff. We cling to it because to challenge or criticize it means to unravel a lifetime of investments in values, choices, relationships, careers, emotions, and money. And who wants to do that?
So, like sleepwalkers, most people continue to be directed by Narratives they have never consciously identified, let alone soberly considered. Here are just a few familiar ones:
"Untouched nature is paradise; human choices and actions only upset the natural balance." That's what the Garden of Eden myth declares. Its eventual philosophical fruit? Environmentalism.
"We should take from the rich and give to the poor." That's what the tale of Robin Hood (at least, contemporary versions of it) tells us. Its eventual political fruit? Communism, socialism, and their many "progressive" variants.
"David is morally superior to Goliath." That's what the Old Testament dramatized. Its eventual global fruit? Decades of disastrous U.S. foreign policy, blindly aimed at toppling powerful regimes in favor of the "little guy" in the streets of foreign nations--even if that little guy is a jihadist wearing a suicide vest, and is eager to slaughter us.
So how, exactly, do each of us arrive at our basic Narratives?
When we're infants, we perceive the world around us strictly perceptually, and we react to "good" and "bad" in terms of raw emotions. We either like the way something makes us feel, or we don't; we're comforted, or we're uncomfortable and fearful. As our ability to integrate our perceptions of things improves, we initially do so in the form of primitive concepts.
The next stage of interpretation, though, is at the level of story-telling and myth. We do not graduate from perceptions into concepts, then go directly into philosophy. Long before we ever arrive at the ability to tie all those concepts together into anything like a systematic, abstract philosophy (for those of us who even get to that stage of thinking), we interpret the world through the stories we are told. Those may be bible stories, Aesop's fables, messages in cartoons and picture books, tales told by our parents, good-guys-vs.-bad-guys TV shows.
These provide us with our foundational interpretive template for understanding the world around us. What binds every culture or subculture together are the value-laden messages conveyed by these tales. That's because Narratives work for a culture just as they do for an individual. Looking at the glory that was Greece, for example, it is instructive to note that Homer, that society's seminal poet and storyteller, preceded by hundreds of years Aristotle, who represented the apex of formal Greek philosophical thought. The former was the true father of Greek culture, while the latter lived during its waning days. If abstract, systematic philosophy were the true fountainhead of a culture--or its salvation--then the sequence of their appearances should have been reversed.
And this should tell us where the true "power of ideas" lies: not in concepts and philosophies per se, but in concepts and philosophies as embodied, enshrined, dramatized, and propagated by compelling Narratives. In other words, the narrative medium is just as necessary and potent as the philosophic message.
This explains the enduring power of religion. Religions communicate largely on the narrative level, utilizing the power of myth, parable, and storytelling. Ask yourself: How many people are attracted to a given religion because of the incisive, intellectually satisfying arguments of its clever theologians? By contrast, how many followers instead find themselves gripped, touched, inspired, and persuaded by the stories and parables that the religion offers?
Therefore, let me offer a word of advice to people who share my own secular philosophic outlook, Objectivism.
It's futile to complain about the intractable hold of "mysticism" on people's lives. Trying to argue people out of their reigning Narrative is almost always impossible, because we all need a reigning Narrative. Instead, you have to replace a person's (or culture's) reigning Narratives(s) with something better--something more persuasive, compelling, and inspiring.
You don't have to believe me; Ayn Rand reached the same conclusion. Why did she write fiction? Read closely her Romantic Manifesto, particularly her essay, "The Psycho-Epistemology of Art." In writing about the power of "art," she is really talking about the vital role and indispensable power of Narratives in our lives.
That is certainly the conclusion I have drawn. Rather than try hopelessly to deprive people of their existing Narratives, mystical or otherwise, I believe the only practical course is to create a rich, compelling, emotionally satisfying counter-Narrative. That is a task Rand began with her own fiction. But it is a task that should be continued by other artists--at least by those artists who wish not only to objectify their own values (which should be their primary focus), but who also would like to help create a better world.
So, a personal note of explanation: If you find less current-events commentary here lately, in part it's because I've found it to be increasingly pointless to argue philosophy, economics, and politics with most people. Why? Because we are talking past each other. You may prove a point with unassailable facts and irrefutable logic. However, the other person replies, "Yes, but . . ." Those words usually signal that you've reached the ultimate barrier to further reasoning and communication: You've challenged his Narrative. And in my experience, that is ground he'll rarely, if ever, concede.
The invisible forces directing the flow and outcomes of such debates, then, are rarely those issues under explicit discussion. Rather, they are the unidentified, unspoken, implicit Narratives that we carry with us, and which are constantly reinforced in the plots of popular novels, films, TV shows, and Sunday sermons. That is the enormous subtext of most arguments, and it poses a virtually insurmountable challenge. After all, it is very, very difficult to joust successfully and intellectually with someone when you are simultaneously fighting Adam, David, and Robin Hood.
That said, I'll return now to the personal pleasure of crafting my own counter-Narratives.
Since writing this piece, I've explored the subject of "Narratives" further. See my discussions here (about the "clash of Narratives" in the 2012 election), here (about Jonathan Gottschall's seminal book on this topic, The Storytelling Animal), and here (explaining the career of Barack Obama as a manipulator of narratives).
Since writing this piece, I've explored the subject of "Narratives" further. See my discussions here (about the "clash of Narratives" in the 2012 election), here (about Jonathan Gottschall's seminal book on this topic, The Storytelling Animal), and here (explaining the career of Barack Obama as a manipulator of narratives).


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Earlier this year, UCLA inked its most celebrated recruiting class in recent memory, a group filled with high school All-Americans.
Ranked No. 3 in the country by Scout.com, the haul included 18 four-star recruits — the most in the country – and a pair of five-stars. Naturally, a few of them aren't used to sitting on the bench.
On the back of a dominant 41-21 win at Nebraska, true freshman safety Tahaan Goodman publicly vented about his lack of playing time. His tweet, later deleted, read in part: "I guess I aint good enough and havnt been working hard enough to touch the field."
Jim Mora downplayed the incident, saying he had a positive discussion with Goodman after the freshman texted him to clear the air. The second-year head coach said young players still need to learn that the team comes first, and to exercise patience.
"It's not a reflection about your work ethic," Mora said. "It's just a reflection of the way the game went. Every game's different. They have to always be ready, always be prepared to go in there and compete. It's hard for some of them. It's an adjustment."
Added Goodman: "It was frustrating, just me as a competitor. I'm still doing a lot of learning. I just need to be patient and enjoy."
Goodman's tweet also highlighted the dangers of social media, where a hasty thought can be amplified within minutes and likely taken out of context. While some college coaches have banned their players from using Twitter, Mora said doing so flies in the face of today's habits. Mora has used Twitter to engage with fans and draw support for charities, and most UCLA assistants also have accounts.
"For me to ask these kids not to use Twitter would be ignorant, I think," he said.
Mora added that he monitors the Bruins' social media use daily.
Light on sacks
Last season, UCLA finished sixth in the country with 3.29 sacks per game. This year, the Bruins are down to 2.00, which puts them in a 14-way tie for 49th.
Mora said Monday that he was a little disappointed in the output, but defensive line coach Angus McClure attributed the low numbers to matchups. UCLA opened its season against Nevada's pistol offense, which presented fewer opportunities for sacks. Against Nebraska last week, the primary game plan was to contain the quarterback on the outside and prevent big runs.
"I'm not concerned with the stats," McClure said. "Stats will come as the season progresses. I think our defense is playing great."
Also …
Mora showed the players a video of basketball hall of famer Bill Russell. The UCLA coach has gotten to know Russell over the past few years, and used him as an example of a team-first player. … Walk-on running back Roosevelt Davis had a walking boot on his right foot during Tuesday's practice. He has two carries for 30 yards this season.


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Questions for Photos 3, 4, & 5
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2. Why did so much debris collect at the stone bridge? Why did so many deaths occur there?
3. What would have been some of the challenges faced by rescue workers?
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2009-10 Yale Women's Fencing News
Yale Honors Six Seniors and One Team with Annual Awards at Senior Student-Athlete ReceptionMay 22, 2010Six seniors and one team were honored by the Yale Athletics Department with awards at the annual senior student-athlete reception Saturday afternoon at the Lanman Center in Payne Whitney Gymnasium. The women's fencing team earned the Brodhead Award for highest team grade point average. Travis Henry (Lauderdale Lakes, Fla.) of the football team and Allison Mak (Richmond Hill, Ont.) of the gymnastics team were the recipients of the Ford Student-Athlete Community Outreach Award. Chris Labosky (Tallmadge, Ohio) of the mens cross country and track & field teams and Julia Weiser (Houston, Texas) of the field hockey team were the recipients of the Kiphuth Student-Athlete Distinction Award. Stephanie Colantonio (Watertown, Mass.) of the field hockey team and Ben Wescoe (La Jolla, Calif.) of the mens golf team were the recipients of the Meyer Humanitarian Award.
Madeline Oliver Named 2010-11 CaptainMay 10, 2010Rising-sophomore saberist Madeline Oliver was named 2010-11 womens fencing captain at the teams annual banquet. At the banquet, Oliver was also awarded the freshman award.
Ten Bulldogs Earn Winter Academic All-Ivy HonorsApril 07, 2010Ten Yale student-athletes were honored today, as the Ivy League released its list of those selected for Academic All-Ivy recognition in winter sports. Eligible student-athletes include all starters or key reserves on officially recognized varsity teams that have maintained a cumulative grade point average of 3.0 or higher.
Pitt Takes 13th at NCAA Championship, Oliver 23rd & Buxton 24thMarch 26, 2010Yales fencers have wrapped up competition at this years NCAA Championship. The three competitors, sophomore foilist Katharine Pitt, freshman saberist Madeline Oliver and freshman epeeist Madeline Buxton traveled to Cambridge, Mass. and finished 13th, 23rd and 24th, respectively.
After Day One: Pitt 10th, Oliver 23rd, Buxton 24thMarch 25, 2010Yale's three fencers at the 21st NCAA Fencing Championships have wrapped up day one of competition. Sophomore foilist Katharine Pitt is ranked 10th. Freshman Madeline Oliver is 23rd and freshman epeeist Madeline Buxton is 24th. Yale is currently in 15th. Competition concludes tomorrow.
Pitt, Oliver and Buxton Qualified for NationalsMarch 18, 2010Yale will send three representatives to the 21st NCAA Fencing Championships: sophomore foilist Katharine Pitt, freshman saberist Madeline Oliver and freshman epeeist Madeline Buxton. Harvard will host the competition on Mar. 25-26.
Two Bulldogs Qualify for NCAA NationalsMarch 14, 2010Out of the eight fencers Yale sent to Regionals this Sunday, twoFreshman saberist Madeline Oliver and sophomore foilist Katharine Pittwill head to NCAA Nationals in Cambridge, Mass. Two moreepeeists Madeline Buxton and Tasha Garciareceived wild-card spots and may still be able to qualify. The collegiate head coaches in the region will vote to determine which at-large selection fencers will fill the final spots.
Eight Bulldogs Head To NCAA RegionalsMarch 10, 2010Eight Yale fencers head to Providence, R.I., this Sunday for the NCAA Regional Tournament. The competition at Brown will determine which fencers head to the national tournament later this month. Heading to Providence from Yale are epeeists Rebecca Moss, Madeline Buxton and Tasha Garcia, saberists Katherine Arden, Jennifer Ivers and Madeline Oliver and foilists Katharine Pitt and Zoe Engelman.
Bulldogs Top Cornell and BrownFebruary 28, 2010Yale fencers wrapped up the second half of Ivy competition today with two wins against Cornell and Brown. The Bulldogs won both of those match-ups by scores of 17-10. The two wins leave Yale 2-4 in the Ivy League for a fifth place finish identical to last years.
Yale Heads to Second Round of Ivy CompetitionFebruary 25, 2010Yale fencers head to Philadelphia, Pa. this Sunday for the second half of Ivy competition. The Bulldogs will fence Brown and Cornell, the two teams they did not confront at last weekends Ivy competition at Cornell. Competition begins at 11 a.m. when the Bulldogs face Cornell. Yale will then finish its day against Brown at 3 p.m.
Bulldogs Fall in First Ivy TestFebruary 21, 2010Yale's fencers wrapped up the first of two Ivy competitions today at Cornell. The Bulldogs went 0-4 for the day against four opponents: Columbia, Harvard, Penn and Princeton. In a tough day of competition, the Bulldogs improved on last year's performances against these teams but failed to turn the same losses as last year into wins.
Bulldogs Head to First Ivy TestFebruary 18, 2010On Sunday Yale will head to the first of two competitions that will eventually crown the 2010 Ivy League Champion. The competition, hosted by Cornell in Ithaca, N.Y., will be an opportunity for the Bulldogs to improve on last years 2-4 Ivy record and fifth place in the league. The Bulldogs head to Cornells Newman Arena with a 10-3 record for the season and will face the four Ivy schools they lost to last year.
Yale Downs Sacred Heart and DrewJanuary 31, 2010Yale fencers wrapped up their last home meet of the season with two wins against Sacred Heart and Drew. From here, the team heads into Ivy competition.
Fencers to Host Sacred Heart and DrewJanuary 28, 2010Yale fencers are getting ready to host two teams, Sacred Heart and Drew, in Payne Whitney Gyms 7th floor fencing salon this weekend. The two teams have made the trip to Yale in the past, most recently last year, when the Bulldogs sent them home defeated. These two opponents will be Yales last team competitions before they head to the first half of Ivy competition at Cornell on Feb. 21. The meet begins at 1:00 p.m. and will be the Bulldogs last home competition of the season.
Bulldogs Finish 2-3 at NYU InvitationalJanuary 23, 2010The Bulldogs wrapped up a long day of competition at the NYU Invitational with a 2-3 record. Yale topped hosts NYU and visitors Wayne State, but fell to Notre Dame, Northwestern and Ohio State. At last years event, the Bulldogs left with the same final score.
Yale Heads to NYU InvitationalJanuary 22, 2010Yale continues competition on the road this weekend at the NYU Invitational in New York, N.Y. At NYU the Bulldogs will fence the host school along with Wayne State, Ohio State, Northwestern and Notre Dame.
Fencers Top Vassar 17-10January 19, 2010Yales fencers took home a win in their first home event of the season. Against Vassar, Yale won by a score of 17-10.
Fencers to Face Vassar in Home OpenerJanuary 17, 2010After a long winter break Yales fencers are back in action this Monday. Starting at 7 p.m. they will be hosting Vassar in Payne Whitney Gyms 7th Floor Fencing Salon. The month of January will be a busy one for Yale as the Vassar dual is the first of three meets, two of which are at home.
Fencers Sweep Brandeis InvitationalDecember 05, 2009Women's fencing saw a great start to their intercollegiate season this weekend with a sweep at the Brandeis Invitational. It was the first meet this year in which fencers competed as a team. The Bulldogs beat hosts Brandeis as well as Boston College, MIT, North Carolina and St. John's.
Fencers Head to BrandeisDecember 04, 2009Yale fencers head to Waltham, Mass. this Saturday for the annual Brandeis Invitational. The team is coming off a strong showing at the Penn State Open and hopes to make its mark on this first team competition.
Fencers Make Push at Penn StateNovember 22, 2009Yale fencers kicked off their season this weekend at the Penn State Open. The Open, a two-day event, is an individual event that serves as a warm up for the regular season that begins after winter break.
Bulldogs Geared Up to FenceNovember 19, 2009Yale fencers will kick off their season on Nov. 21 at the Penn State Open. The Open, a two-day event, is an individual event that serves as a warm up for the regular season that begins after winter break.
Bulldogs Tune Up For Season With Dernell Every OpenNovember 19, 2009On Saturday, Nov. 14, the Yale fencing teams participated in the Dernell Every Open, held in the seventh floor fencing hall of the Payne Whitney Gymnasium. The annual event brings together current fencers with alums to compete against one another in a friendly tournament. It is organized by the Yale Fencing Association, and serves as a fundraiser for the team, as well as a gathering for alumni/ae. Though winners are crowned for each weapon category, for both men and women, the true focus of the tournament is to give current fencers and alums a chance to get together for a friendly day of fencing and camaraderie. The Dernell Every Open also allows alums an opportunity to reconnect with each other and with beloved head coach Henry Harutunian.
Fencing Announces 2009-10 Schedule That Includes Two Home MeetsOctober 30, 2009Yale fencing announced its competition schedule for the 2009-2010 season. The year will see Yale host three home meets, including the IFA Championships. In all, Yale fencers will compete at 11 different events this year.
Harutunian Inducted Into U.S. Fencing Hall Of FameJuly 16, 2009During a formal ceremony at the 2009 U.S. National Fencing Championships, legendary Yale coach Henry Harutunian was inducted into the U.S. Fencing Hall of Fame. A large crowd was on hand to witness Harutunian's induction, including dozens of past and current Olympians, nearly 150 active fencers, U.S. fencing officials and a vocal and enthusiastic group of more than a dozen Yale fencers and family.


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And the winners are...
This is the 12th year that CONTROL magazine has surveyed the best in products and service in the process automation and controls industry. Find out who won this year's Readers' Choice Awards.
WE THINK times are looking better for the process automation profession; at least we sincerely hope so. This is the 12th year that CONTROL has surveyed the best in products and service in the process automation industry, and during the past 12 years, more than 250 well-known industry brand names have been absorbed, changed, disappeared or dissolved. Among them, familiar monikers like Cutler-Hammer, Fischer and Porter, Bailey Controls, and many more. This process is going to continue, as companies shift, reorganize, and jockey for position in the industry. While they go about doing that, however, sometimes the end-users are left to fend for themselves. At times it is even hard to find companies after acquisitions or consolidations.
So, when we look at the list of companies that make up the Readers Choice Awards this year, two things strike us immediately. First, of course, is the number of companies that continue to make the list year after year. This is a testament to their willingness to put the customer first, and unfailingly provide the best quality of product and service, despite the corporate machinations they may be undergoing. The second is the likelihood that the choices are an excellent indication of the character of their installed base. In this type of survey, clearly, familiarity has an effect on ones response.
CONTROL asked its readers to name the vendors delivering the best technologies in 65 categories and rate their customer service. These are the people whose opinions really count: They have the first-hand experience with how these instruments function, and they carefully spend their companies' increasingly scarce funds for instrumentation and controls. Any supplier who finds its name on the following pages--even fourth or fifth in a hotly contested category--can rightfully be proud of the accolade that it implies. And, as we do every year, we "scrubbed" the list of names to whom we sent the ballots, to prevent the accidental stacking of responses. Each person surveyed was asked to "identify by name the best supplier, in your opinion, in each of the following technology categories."
Beyond that, each reader used his or her own experience, knowledge, and familiarity with the products and vendors, to rate them in each category. It's likely respondents weighed cost versus benefit, ease of use, performance, reliability, service life, even who and how big the supplier is to determine their choices.
Then there was the rating of customer service to consider. If an engineer, his company, or anyone he knows, has had an experience, good or bad, with a given vendor, that experience can matter a great deal. With more and more suppliers concentrating on providing value-added services and solutions to their customers CONTROL also asked respondents to rank that aspect of their chosen suppliers on a scale of 1 (poor) to 5 (excellent). Vendors providing excellent service (4.0 or higher) are listed in the accompanying table
Once more, it isnt a surprise that Emerson continues to be rated among the best in nearly all their relevant product categories. Rockwell, Honeywell, and Invensys also fared well, as usual. But big doesn't always mean better. You dont necessarily have to be a big company to place well in one's core category. Magnetrol (level), FCI (flow meters and switches), Kistler-Morse and Rice Lake (weighing systems) and ExperTune (loop tuning software) instantly spring to mind here.
Changes wrought by Internet commerce are clearly shown in our survey, evidenced by the fact that Omega Engineering and AutomationDirect (catalog and direct Internet merchants) did quite well in several categories. In the "thermocouple" category, for example, Omega (at 18%) was in a statistical draw (3% or less difference) with Emerson/Rosemount (at 21%). Perhaps we should expect other not so bricks-and-mortar vendors to start appearing in future surveys.
As we venture forward into a hopefully brightening future, it is worth a great deal to pay homage to the vendors whose products, technologies, applications knowledge, and dedication to service make our jobs easier and, dare we say, more fun to do. And the winners are...
2004 CONTROL Readers Choice Awards
(*Differences of less than 3% are of marginal statistical significance.)
Analyzer, Ambient Gas Detector
2. General Monitors 13%
3. Det-Tronics 9%
Analyzer, Density/Concentration
1. Emerson/Micro Motion 38%
2. Solartron Mobrey 13%
3. Electron Machine 6%
Analyzer, Gas Chromatograph
1. Siemens/Applied Automation 34%
2. Emerson/Rosemount/Daniel 27%
Analyzer, Humidity/Moisture
1. GE Panametrics 33%
2. Emerson/Rosemount Analytical 14%
*Vaisala 14%
Analyzer, pH/ORP/Conductivity
1. Emerson/Rosemount Analytical 39%
2. Hach/GLI 9%
*Invensys Foxboro 9%
*Yokogawa 7%
5. Thermo Electron/Orion 6%
*ABB/TBI Bailey 5%
Analyzer, Process Spectrometer
2. Emerson/Rosemount Analytical 23%
3. Siemens 10%
Analyzer, Stack Gas/Emissions
1. Emerson/Rosemount Analytical 21%
2. Ametek Thermox 11%
*Teledyne Monitor Labs 11%
4. Horiba 7%
1. Ametek Panalarm 42%
2. Ronan Engineering 15%
3. Qualitrol/Hathaway/Beta 12%
4. Federal Signal 8%
Control Valve
1. Emerson/Fisher Controls 64%
2. Flowserve/Valtek 6%
*Dresser Masoneilan 5%
1. Hoffman 74%
2. Rittal 12%
Flowmeter, Coriolis
1. Emerson/Micro Motion 83%
2. Endress+Hauser 9%
Flowmeter, Magnetic
1. Emerson/Rosemount 40%
2.*Endress+Hauser 13%
Yokogawa 12%
Invensys Foxboro 11%
5.*Krohne 7%
Flowmeter, Open Channel
1. Siemens/Milltronics 34%
2. Endress+Hauser 16%
3. Emerson/Rosemount 9%
Flowmeter, Positive Displacement
1. Emerson/Brooks 39%
2. FMC Smith 18%
3. Badger Meter 11%
Flowmeter, Thermal Mass
2. Emerson/Brooks Instrument 15%
3. Sierra Instruments 9%
4. Kurz Instruments 5%
Flowmeter, Turbine
1. Emerson/Brooks/Daniel 20%
2. Hoffer Flow Controls 10%
*FMC Smith 8%
*Halliburton 8%
*Invensys Foxboro 8%
6. GF Signet 5%
Flowmeter, Ultrasonic
1. GE Panametrics 28%
2. Emerson/Daniel 13%
3. Thermo Polysonics 10%
*Endress+Hauser 8%
4. Controlotron 6%
*Greyline Instruments 5%
*Siemens Milltronics 5%
Flowmeter, Variable Area
1. Emerson/Brooks 47%
2. Wallace & Tiernan 15%
Flowmeter, Vortex
1. Emerson/Rosemount 44%
2. Yokogawa 24%
3. Invensys Foxboro 15%
4. Endress+Hauser 6%
Flow Switch
2. Endress+Hauser 7%
*IFM Efector 6%
*Emerson/Rosemount 6%
*Gems 5%
Industrial Computer
1. Dell 34%
2. Rockwell/Allen-Bradley 15%
3. Parker CTC 6%
*Xycom 6%
Input/Output System
1. Rockwell Automation 52%
2. Honeywell 7%
Instrument Fittings
1. Swagelok 68%
2. Parker 22%
Intrinsic Safety Barrier
1. Pepperl+Fuchs 27%
2. R. Stahl 18%
4. Turck 12%
Level Gauge, Electrical Property-Based
1. Ametek/Drexelbrook 28%
2. Emerson/Rosemount 19%
3. Endress+Hauser 11%
4. K-Tek 5%
Level Gauge, Float/Displacer
1. Emerson/Rosemount 35%
2. Magnetrol 21%
3. K-Tek 7%
*Endress+Hauser 5%
Level Gauge, Contact Radar
1. Emerson/Rosemount 30%
2. Magnetrol 27%
3. Endress+Hauser 19%
4. Ohmart Vega 10%
Level Gauge, Non-Contact Radar
1. Emerson/Saab Rosemount 38%
2. Ohmart Vega 22%
3. Endress+Hauser 19%
Level Gauge, Nuclear
1. Thermo MeasureTech 42%
2. Ohmart Vega 30%
3. Berthold Technologies 9%
*Emerson/Rosemount 8%
Level Gauge, Ultrasonic
1. Siemens/Milltronics 37%
2. Endress+Hauser 12%
3. Ohmart Vega 8%
*Emerson/Rosemount 6%
Level Switch, Point
1. Endress+Hauser 26%
2. Magnetrol 16%
3. Ametek Drexelbrook 9%
*Thermo MeasureTech 7%
Level Gauge, Inventory Grade
1. Emerson/Saab Rosemount 35%
2. Endress+Hauser/Varec 20%
3. Enraf 11%
Operator Interface Terminal
1. Rockwell/Allen-Bradley 46%
2. Honeywell 8%
3. AutomationDirect 5%
*GE Fanuc/TCP 5%
*Nematron 5%
Panel Display
1. Rockwell/Allen-Bradley 36%
2. Precision Digital 9%
Portable Calibrator
1. Fluke 43%
2. Altek/Transmation 15%
3. Ametek 8%
*Emerson Process Management 7%
Power Supply
1. Sola/Hevi-Duty 38%
2. Acopian 26%
3. Phoenix Contact 7%
4. AutomationDirect 5%
Pressure Transmitter
1. Emerson/Rosemount 65%
2. Honeywell 11%
3. Yokogawa 5%
Process Control/Automation System
1. Emerson Process Management 32%
2. Rockwell Automation 25%
3. Honeywell 19%
*Siemens 19%
Process Loop Controller
1. Siemens 44%
2. Honeywell 12%
*Rockwell Automation 10%
4. Yokogawa 6%
Programmable Logic Controller
1. Rockwell/Allen-Bradley 76%
2. Schneider Electric/Modicon 8%
*AutomationDirect 7%
Purge System
1. Pepperl+Fuchs/Bebco 71%
1. Yokogawa 33%
2. Honeywell 26%
3. Invensys Eurotherm/Chessell 19%
Remote Terminal Unit
1. Emerson/Fisher Controls 16%
*Rockwell/Allen-Bradley 16%
3. Schneider Electric/Modicon 9%
Resistance Temperature Detector
1. Emerson/Rosemount 40%
2. Omega Engineering 10%
*Pyromation 10%
4. Watlow/Gordon 6%
*Sandelius 5%
Safety/Emergency Shutdown System
1. Invensys Triconex 29%
2. Siemens 22%
3. Rockwell Automation 15%
Signal Conditioner
1. Moore Industries 30%
2. Acromag 10%
3. Invensys Eurotherm/Action 7%
*M-System 7%
*Phoenix Contact 7%
Software, Asset Management
1. Emerson Process Management 59%
2. PSDI/Maximo 7%
Software, Batch Control/Management
1. Emerson Process Management 33%
2. GE/Intellution 17%
3. Rockwell Software 14%
*Honeywell 8%
Software, Calibration Management
1. Emerson Process Management 32%
2. Fluke 18%
3. Honeywell 14%
Software, Design/Documentation
1. AutoDesk 46%
2. Intergraph 8%
Software, Expert System
1. Emerson Process Management 33%
2. Honeywell 22%
Software, Human-Machine Interface
1. Invensys Wonderware 36%
2. Rockwell Software 22%
3. GE/Intellution 13%
4. Emerson Process Management 5%
Software, Loop Tuning
1. ExperTune 38%
2. Emerson/EnTech 28%
3. Honeywell 9%
Software, Neural Network
1. Emerson Process Management 29%
2. Pavilion Technologies 21%
3. Brainwave 14%
Software, Process Control
1. Emerson Process Management 24%
2. Rockwell Automation 16%
*Honeywell 14%
Software, PLC Programming
1. Rockwell Software 69%
2. Schneider Electric 10%
3. AutomationDirect 6%
Software, SCADA
1. Invensys Wonderware 25%
2. GE/Intellution 16%
3. Rockwell Software 14%
4. AspenTech 5%
*Iconics 5%
Software, Simulation
1. AspenTech 22%
2. Emerson Process Management 18%
*Mimic 18%
5. Invensys SimSci 9%
Temperature Sensor, Infrared
1. Raytek 31%
2. Omega Engineering 14%
3. Fluke 11%
*Land Instruments 11%
Temperature Transmitter
1. Emerson/Rosemount 56%
2. Honeywell 12%
3. Omega Engineering 5%
Terminal Block
1. Phoenix Contact 26%
*Rockwell/Allen-Bradley 26%
3. Weidmuller 23%
1. Emerson/Rosemount 21%
2. Omega Engineering 18%
3. Pyromation 12%
4. Thermo Electric 7%
*Sandelius 6%
*Watlow/Gordon 6%
Valve Actuator, Electric
1. Limitorque 23%
2. Rotork 17%
3. Emerson/Fisher Controls 14%
4. Beck 6%
*Honeywell 5%
Valve Actuator, Pneumatic
1. Emerson/Fisher Controls 55%
2. Flowserve/Valtek 5%
Variable Speed Drive
1. Rockwell/Allen-Bradley/Reliance 55%
3. Toshiba 5%
Vibration Instrumentation
1. Bently Nevada 63%
2. Emerson/CSI 11%
3. Metrix/PMC Beta 8%
Weighing System/Load Cell
1. Mettler Toledo 22%
3. Hardy Instrument 10%
4. Kistler Morse 6%
*Rice Lake 6%
*Thermo Ramsey 6%
*Weigh-Tronix 5%
Weighing System, In-Line
1. Mettler Toledo/Hispeed 23%
2. Thermo Ramsey 10%
*Acrison 8%
*Weigh-Tronix 8%
Wire & Cable
1. Belden 67%
2. Alpha Wire 7%
*Lapp/Olflex 5%
Vendors Offering Exceptional Service
(Very Good = 4.0 to Excellent 5.0)
Emerson/Micro Motion Analyzer, Density/Concentration
Invensys Foxboro Analyzer, pH/ORP/Conductivity
Siemens/Applied Automation Analyzer, Stack Gas/Emissions
Dresser Masoneilan Control Valve
Endress+Hauser Flowmeter, Vortex
Honeywell Input/Output System
Turck Intrinsic Safety Barrier
Enraf Level Gauge, Inventory Grade
AutomationDirect Operator Interface Terminal
AutomationDirect Power Supply
Yokogawa Pressure Transmitter
Schneider Electric/Modicon Remote Terminal Unit
Sandelius Resistance Temperature Detector
Invensys Triconex Safety/Emergency Shutdown System
Phoenix Contact Signal Conditioner
Honeywell Software, Calibration Management
Emerson Process Management Software, HMI
Schneider Electric Software, PLC Programming
AutomationDirect Software, PLC Programming
Sandelius Thermocouple
Watlow/Gordon Thermocouple
Emerson/Fisher Controls Valve Actuator, Electric
Flowserve/Valtek Control Valve
Emerson/Micro Motion Flowmeter, Coriolis
SOR Flow Switch
Swagelok Instrument Fittings
Emerson/Rosemount Level Gauge, Electrical Property-Based
Endress+Hauser Level Gauge, Electrical Property-Based
Ohmart Vega Level Gauge, Contact Radar
Emerson/Rosemount Level Gauge, Nuclear
Endress+Hauser Level Switch, Point
Rockwell/Allen-Bradley Process Loop Controller
AutomationDirect Programmable Logic Controller
Emerson/Rosemount Resistance Temperature Detector
Rockwell Software Software, HMI
Emerson/Rosemount Thermocouple
Mettler Toledo/Hispeed Weighing System, In-Line
Emerson/Rosemount Analytical Analyzer, Process Spectrometer
Siemens/Applied Automation Analyzer, Process Spectrometer
Emerson/Fisher Controls Control Valve
Emerson/Rosemount Flowmeter, Magnetic
Endress+Hauser Flowmeter, Magnetic
Emerson/Rosemount Flowmeter, Open Channel
FMC Smith Flowmeter, Positive Displacement
FMC Smith Flowmeter, Turbine
Emerson/Daniel Flowmeter, Ultrasonic
K-Tek Level Gauge, Electrical Property-Based
Ohmart Vega Level Gauge, Ultrasonic
Emerson/Rosemount Level Gauge, Ultrasonic
Honeywell Operator Interface Terminal
Emerson/Rosemount Portable Calibrator
Emerson/Rosemount Pressure Transmitter
Honeywell Pressure Transmitter
Emerson Process Management Process Control/Automation System
Rockwell Automation Process Control/Automation System
Schneider Electric Programmable Logic Controller
Emerson Process Management Software, Batch Control/Management
Emerson Process Management Software, Calibration Management
Rockwell Automation Software, Process Control
Emerson Process Management Software, Simulation
Fluke Temperature Sensor, Infrared
Emerson/Rosemount Temperature Transmitter
Emerson/Fisher Controls Valve Actuator, Pneumatic
Bently Nevada Vibration Instrumentation
BLH Weighing System/Load Cell
Rice Lake Weighing System/Load Cell
Thermo Ramsey Weighing System, In-Line
Weigh-Tronix Weighting System, In-Line
Endress+Hauser Flowmeter, Coriolis
Emerson/Brooks Instrument Flowmeter, Thermal Mass
Invensys Foxboro Flowmeter, Turbine
GE Panametrics Flowmeter, Ultrasonic
Emerson/Rosemount Flowmeter, Vortex
Invensys Foxboro Flowmeter, Vortex
Emerson/Rosemount Level Gauge, Contact Radar
Ohmart Vega Level Gauge, Non-Contact Radar
Ohmart Vega Level Gauge, Nuclear
Endress+Hauser Level Gauge, Ultrasonic
Magnetrol Level Switch, Point
Fluke Portable Calibrator
Rockwell/Allen-Bradley Programmable Logic Controller
Omega Engineering Resistance Temperature Detector
Emerson Process Management Software, Asset Management
GE/Intellution Software, Batch Control/Management
Emerson Process Management Software, Loop Tuning
Emerson Process Management Software, Process Control
Honeywell Software, Process Control
ABB Variable Speed Drive
General Monitors Analyzer, Ambient Gas Detector
MSA Analyzer, Ambient Gas Detector
Solartron Mobrey Analyzer, Density/Concentration
Siemens/Applied Automation Analyzer, Gas Chromatograph
Emerson/Rosemount Analytical Analyzer, Humidity/Moisture
Emerson/Rosemount Analytical Analyzer, pH/ORP/Conductivity
Emerson/Rosemount Analytical Analyzer, Stack Gas/Emissions
Ametek Thermox Analyzer, Stack Gas/Emissions
Rittal Enclosure
Yokogawa Flowmeter, Magnetic
Emerson/Brooks/Daniel Flowmeter, Turbine
Parker Instrument Fittings
Pepperl+Fuchs, Intrinsic Safety Barrier
K-Tek Level Gauge, Float/Displacer
Magnetrol Level Gauge, Contact Radar
Emerson/Saab Rosemount Level Gauge, Non-Contact Radar
Altek/Transmation Portable Calibrator
Siemens Process Control/Automation System
Siemens Process Loop Controller
Pyromation Resistance Temperature Detector
Moore Industries Signal Conditioner
Rockwell Software Software, PLC Programming
Phoenix Contact Terminal Block
Omega Engineering Thermocouple
Flowserve/Valtek Valve Actuator, Pneumatic
Rockwell/Allen-Bradley/Reliance Variable Speed Drive
Hardy Instruments Weighing System/Load Cell
Det-Tronics Analyzer, Ambient Gas Detector
Electron Machine Analyzer, Density/Concentration
Thermo Electron/Orion Analyzer, pH/ORP/Conductivity
ABB/TBI Bailey Analyzer, pH/ORP/Conductivity
Teledyne Monitor Labs Analyzer, Stack Gas/Emissions
Ronan Engineering Annunciator
Federal Signal Annunciator
Hoffman Enclosure
Siemens/Milltronics Flowmeter, Open Channel
Kurz Instruments Flowmeter, Thermal Mass
Sierra Instruments Flowmeter, Thermal Mass
Endress+Hauser Flowmeter, Ultrasonic
Yokogawa Flowmeter, Vortex
IFM Efector Flow Switch
Rockwell/Allen-Bradley Industrial Computer
Parker CTC Industrial Computer
Xycom Industrial Computer
Rockwell/Allen-Bradley Input/Output System
R. Stahl Intrinsic Safety Barrier
Emerson/Rosemount Level Gauge, Float/Displacer
Magnetrol Level Gauge, Float/Displacer
Berthold Technologies Level Gauge, Nuclear
Rockwell/Allen-Bradley Operator Interface Terminal
GE Fanuc/TCP Operator Interface Terminal
Nematron Operator Interface Terminal
Precision Digital Panel Display
Ametek Portable Calibrator
Sola Power Supply
Phoenix Contact Power Supply
Honeywell Process Control/Automation System
Yokogawa Recorder
Emerson/Fisher Controls Remote Terminal Unit
Siemens Safety/Emergency Shutdown System
Rockwell Automation Safety/Emergency Shutdown System
Invensys Eurotherm/Action Signal Conditioner
M-System Signal Conditioner
PSDI/Maximo Software, Asset Management
ABB Software, Batch Control/Management
AutoDesk Software, Design/Documentation
Intergraph Software, Design/Documentation
ExperTune Software, Loop Tuning
Emerson Process Management Software, Neural Network
Brainwave Software, Neural Network
ABB Software, Process Control
Iconics Software, SCADA
Mimic Software, Simulation
SST Software, Simulation
Weidmuller Terminal Block
Thermo Electric Thermocouple
Limitorque Valve Actuator, Electric
Beck Valve Actuator, Electric
Thermo Ramsey Weighing System/Load Cell
Weigh-Tronix Weighing System/Load Cell
Belden Wire & Cable
Lapp/Olflex Wire & Cable
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On May 23rd, 2018, The San Francisco Ballet School, the official school of San Francisco Ballet and America's oldest professional ballet school, announced programming for its annual Student Showcase. Performances took place place at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Theater from May 23–25, 2018. Student Showcase is a celebratory evening that highlights the range of talent in the School, from young students beginning their training to advanced students on the verge of professional dance careers. Following the May 23 opening night performance, the SF Ballet Auxiliary hosted An Invitation to Dance: 2018 Student Showcase Dinner at the Four Seasons Hotel San Francisco. Proceeds from the dinner and performances benefit scholarship and financial aid programs for the School. Ms. Donna Bachle is the event chair, and Ms. Rebecca Cooper is the dinner chair. Marc Sinykin and Kevin Osinski are the honorary chairs.
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Mancuso, Shiffrin Top 10 in France
COURCHEVEL, France (Dec. 16) - Julia Mancuso (Squaw Valley, CA) and Mikaela Shiffrin (Eagle-Vail, CO) combined for top ten finishes in an Audi FIS Alpine World Cup giant slalom in Courchevel. Mancuso was sixth and Shiffrin ninth as Tina Maze of Slovenia continued her dominance, winning her fourth straight GS. The World Cup now heads for Are, Sweden with giant slalom and slalom Wednesday and Thursday.
- Julia Mancuso (Squaw Valley, CA) was sixth and Mikeala Shiffrin (Eagle-Vail, CO) ninth in the Courchevel World Cup GS.
- The finish matched Shiffrin's career best ninth set last month at the Aspen Winternational.
- Mancuso moved to fifth in the Audi FIS World Cup overall, one spot behind Lindsey Vonn (Vail, CO), who went out in the first run.
- Maze leads the World Cup 799-468 over Germany's Maria Hoefl-Riesch.
- The women's tour now heads to Sweden for a GS and slalom Wednesday and Thursday in Are.
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Julia Mansuso
It's a step in the right direction for my GS. I was happy to come down second and end up sixth.
It's a pretty tricky course - really turny first run and more difficult than the second run. They had to inject because it snowed meters the week before in order to make sure we had a race they put in a lot of water and it wasa really rough. After scraping off the snow there was glare ice, but I thought it turned out pretty well. It was a good decision.
It should be fun in Sweden. It will be cool to be back to the GS race under the lights as there's not a lot of sunshine that time of year.
Mikaela Shiffrin
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I'm as guilty as the next for not knowing the ins and outs of all these dishes as my mother did – most of the time I can pass muster in the kitchen but occasionally a dish comes along that for one reason or another I've never got round to cooking, like Welsh Rarebit.
I suppose I was always content with good old cheese on toast – but this is a more luxurious version, rich with egg yolks and piquant from the Worcestershire sauce. It is transformed from late night snack into a satisfying mid-week supper, perfect with a green salad on the side.
This recipe comes from my friend Lawrence Keogh at Borough Market's Roast Restaurant, famous for their modern takes on traditional British dishes, and for doing quite possibly the best roast potatoes in London.
Roast's Welsh Rarebit
The mixture is best made 24 hours in advance as it matures in flavour
Ingredients (Serves 4-6)
- 500g grated cheddar cheese
- 5tsp Worcestershire sauce
- 50g English mustard
- 1-2 drops Tabasco sauce
- 50ml stout
- 2 egg yolks
- 8 slices of bread
Combine all ingredients together in a large bowl. Taste for seasoning adding more Tabasco if required.
Toast the bread on one side and then spread the other side with some of the mixture.
Cook under a hot grill until bubbling.
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