Bubble Chair

Coulson’s eyes trace the semi-stitched gash on Clint’s forehead, the surrounding bruise, the blood drying on his Kevlar vest. “Excuse me,” the nurse says irritably, “but if you don’t mind –” “I’m sorry.” Coulson smiles apologetically and sinks into the chair next to the bed, laying his tablet across his knees. “Carry on, please.” Ignoring the sting of the needle piercing his skin again and again, Clint watches Coulson skim the rest of his partially-completed mission report and…

sound pleaded to be heard. I picked up the remote control from the saddle bag on Seth's chair and hit the volume button. Lonely, I 'm mister lonely, Oh, how I wish I had someone to call my own. Bobby Vinton assaulted my ears and plucked another handful of feathers from my headdress of sanity. Clutching the arms of the wheelchair, I sank into it more heavily than its beleaguered owner ever had. Sitting in the chair thinking, coincidence or cosmic joke? Bobby drones on in the background…

suggestions to standards@isa.org. The following served as voting members of the ISA5 Committee during development of ANSI/ISA-5.12009. Name Affiliation Alvin Iverson, Chair Ivy Optiks Ian Verhappen, Managing Director Industrial Automation Networks Inc Thomas McAvinew, Past Managing Director Jacobs Engineering James Carew, Chair, ISA5.1 Consultant Gerald Barta Mustang Engineering LP Donald Frey Reliatech Inc Alex Habib Consultant Ganesier Ramachandran Shell Global Solutions US…

This Nation’s Saving Grace o Ibrahim, Abdullah – Water from an Ancient Well                          o Aha – Hunting High & Low o Tears for Fears – Songs from the Big Chair o Dire Straits – Brothers in Arms o Prefab Sprout – Steve McQueen (aka Two Wheels Good) o Mekons – Fear & Whiskey o Big Black – Atomizer o Vega, Suzanne – Suzanne Vega (1st Album) o Pogues – Rum, Sodomy & the Lash o Bush, Kate –…

N’Dour, Youssou – Immigrés · o Springsteen, Bruce – Born in the USA · o Fall – This Nation’s Saving Grace · o Ibrahim, Abdullah – Water from an Ancient Well · o Aha – Hunting High & Low · o Tears for Fears – Songs from the Big Chair · o Dire Straits – Brothers in Arms · o Prefab Sprout – Steve McQueen (aka Two Wheels Good) · o Mekons – Fear & Whiskey · o Big Black – Atomizer · o Vega, Suzanne – Suzanne Vega (1st Album) · o Pogues – Rum, Sodomy…

1900, both negative (lower boxes) and positive (upper boxes). The lower boxes highlight real equity returns in the World Wars and the four worst bear markets – the Wall Street Crash, the 1973–74 oil shock/world recession, the bursting of the internet bubble, and the credit/banking crash that (for equities) began in earnest in November 2007. They show that the two world wars were less damaging to world equities (real returns of –18% and –12%) than the peacetime bear markets (real…

amazing television program ever produced. Across the room, below a wall of family photos that had jokingly become known as the wall of shame, his foster mom was asleep in a leather recliner. Aaron was disturbed at how old she looked, slumped in the chair, wrapped in a worn, navy blue terry cloth robe. It was the first time he ever really thought about her growing older, and that there would be a day when she wouldn’t be around anymore. Where the hell did that come from? he wondered. He…

we were umping a baseball game. “Are you okay?” Mom asked him. “¿Que?” “Okay?” she said louder. “Something wrong with your ear?” He waved her off and dug into the watercress with his silverware. “Dios mío, use the tongs.” She abandoned her chair and dished out his salad, poured the oil and vinegar too. Sometimes I wondered what it would be like to fly away, as far as I could, like Lourdes and Celi had done, first chance they got. Not just Denver, where I was supposed to go…

value creation when directed correctly through the business process. The ability and effectiveness of an organization to value-innovate is influenced largely by its culture. Hamel has described the ten principles that affect a company’s ability to bubble up billion-dollar Figure 2.—The Value Innovation Process Model provides a framework a company can use to develop a new product, service or business model that will give a strong boost to the value of the enterprise. The central ring…

as successful, for example his notorious ‘pneu’ studies, where he claimed that all biology is the product of inflatable structures, totally missing the point that the shape of a soap bubble is necessitated by the inability of the liquid soap film to resist shear; therefore the skin of an object shaped like a soap bubble will also be shear-free and thus lighter and more efficient. Richard Rogers in his Reith Lectures on the built environment leant heavily on nature as a source of…