Mansfield is a bit far. Have any plans to come to Philadelphia? We could do happy hour afterwards. I always get jealous of the NYC events. Anyone else up for a Philadelphia Feministing happy hour?

I was there! It was honestly one of the best speakers I've seen. Coffee and dinner with you were great as well! I dig your style and loved what you had to say. Thanks for making me feel good to be a feminist. :)

I was there, too! I just wanted to say how great it was to hear you speak. I never really identified myself as a feminist until I came to college, and now I'm proud to say it. Thank you so much for coming!

I was there, too! I just wanted to say how great it was to hear you speak. I never really identified myself as a feminist until I came to college, and now I'm proud to say it. Thank you so much for coming!

I was able to meet with you at the coffee shop, and it was wonderful. I didn't have an opportunity to see the talk, but I feel like I got a better sense of who you are from just hanging out. It was a treat, I really enjoyed myself! Thanks so much for sharing your wonderful ideas and being an inspiration to all young women.

I was able to meet with you at the coffee shop, and it was wonderful. I didn't have an opportunity to see the talk, but I feel like I got a better sense of who you are from just hanging out. It was a treat, I really enjoyed myself! Thanks so much for sharing your wonderful ideas and being an inspiration to all young women.

I was able to meet with you at the coffee shop, and it was wonderful. I didn't have an opportunity to see the talk, but I feel like I got a better sense of who you are from just hanging out. It was a treat, I really enjoyed myself! Thanks so much for sharing your wonderful ideas and being an inspiration to all young women.

I love Los Angeles
Trouble-free and accurate timing is a basic necessity to the success of the Olympic Games and one of the first decisions taken by the Organizing Committee was to entrust the timekeeping to the same firm which has undertaken the task at each celebration since 1932.

Accordingly, in 1952 a contract was signed with "Omega", Louis Brandt and Frère S.A. of Switzerland, which co-operated to the extent of flying its timekeeping squad of ten men and 32 cases of timing equipment valued at £110,000 from Switzerland to Los Angeles free of charge.

In addition to the familiar stopwatch, split second hand timer and chronographs, of which 232 were provided, the battery of timing instruments included 33 optical and electronic devices, evidence that the requirements of sports timing had gone well beyond the capabilities of conventional timing devices. While the great timing development at the 1952 Helsinki Olympic Games was the Racend Omega Timer, Los Angeles saw the revolutionary innovation of electric timing in swimming.

For the first time in the history of Olympic Games, swimming times were taken electrically by a special device, the Omega Swim-O-Matic timer, constructed in co-operation with F.I.N.A. As the 24 individual electric timers—3 per lane—were put into motion automatically at the shot of the gun, it meant that the swimmers started with a handicap of one to two-tenths of a second in comparison with competitors at previous Games, where the reaction time of the human timekeeper was included. This, however, did not prevent innumerable records being broken in Los Angeles.