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Practical Process Safety
Take Your Medicine. A How-To Prescription for Practical Process Safety, Using Hazard Identification, Risk Assessment, Corporate Risk Policy, Consistent Implementation, Thorough Training and Continuous Revaluationwith Help from Harmonizing Standards and New Technical Tools
This article was printed in CONTROL's May 2009 edition.
By Jim Montague, Executive Editor
Open wide. It isn't a spoonful of sugar. But doing process safety right doesn't have to be cod liver oil either.
For instance, planning to put safety instrumented systems (SISs) on hundreds of process heaters at 13 U.S. refineries and three in Europe might seem extremely difficult, if not close to impossible. However, engineers at ConocoPhillips in Houston just did what they usually do, and took on the problem step by step.
"We use the same approach as OSHA's PSM and ISA S84 standards. Starting three years ago, we established an in-house standard and set a timetable for compliance by 2012," says John Campbell, ConocoPhillips' principal instrumentation and controls engineer. "So far, this project is going well. Some heaters are already in compliance, while others will need renovation and capital expenditures. It's not going as fast as we hoped, but we're getting there."
The U.S. Occupational Health and Safety Administration's Process Safety Management (PSM) standard 29 CFR 1910.119 is available online. The International Society of Automation's S84 standard parallels the International Electrotechnical Commission's 61511 standard, except for a now-infamous grandfather clause that allows U.S. facilities to keep operating non-compliant processes with otherwise safe records.
"Our in-house standard covers requirements for how our refineries should shut down their process heaters, and so we tried to follow PSM at the 30,000-ft level, S84 for SISs at the 3,000-ft level, and the American Petroleum Institute's 556 standard for process heaters at tree-top level," explains Campbell. "We think involving all these levels gives our standard the best coverage."
One potential snag in ConocoPhillips' project is that each plant is responsible for its own process heater renovations, and each will be judged on a pass/fail basis in 2012. Campbell acknowledges that there's been some foot dragging, too. "This is why it's so important to have the man at the top say, 'This is your deadline, and you're going to be judged if you've met it or not.'"
Campbell adds that all the major oil, gas and other process industry players have faced these safety issues for years, and not just with instrumentation, but with all kinds of piping, valves, rotating equipment, vessels and other technologies. "I knew a guy in a working group that had been dealing with process safety for awhile, and thought they had a good PSM culture. But then he walked into the plant, and the first thing the service tech asked was, 'Why are we doing all this safety stuff?'"
Just as equipment and systems need regular process safety check-ups, Campbell says process personnel need regular evaluations so anti-process safety prejudices and unsafe practices don't become widespread. "It takes plenty of manpower and time, but good PSM always relies on regular inspection and testing. Even if you repeatedly find nothing wrong and think you can slack off, you still need to do it."
"My advice to other process safety folks is, if you're feeling overwhelmed, then find a smaller piece of your process that you can handle, do it and then move on to the next one," adds Campbell.
Common Sense and Consistency
A practical approach to process safety begins with thinking about what you're going to do after an accident happens and what will be expected of you, according to Angela Summers, Ph.D, P.E., president of Sis-Tech Solutions, a process safety consulting firm in Houston, Texas. "If you don't have an SIS in place, you'll be asked why after an incident occurs," she says.
Summers explains that a check of past process incidents shows they don't occur in applications with a working SIS. "Incidents happen where an SIS wasn't put in, where it was broken or where it was defeated by its users," she says. "This generation believes its technology is better than it was 50 years ago, but back then, process technologies were simpler, more separated and less flexible, and so there were less potential failures. As these technologies continue to grow more integrated, we need to more actively and aggressively manage that integration."
Consequently, the first step in creating or renovating a process safety system is to look at the process application, identify any loss-of-containment events that could cause a fatality or serious injury, determine those events' initiating causes and frequency, look at available protection layers, examine how to reduce the frequency of any events, such as by implementing a well-designed and managed SIS [see "Proper Process Safety Procedure and Planning" at the end of this article]
"Anyplace where an event like this could happen will need an SIS that's independent of the control system and part of a rigorous mechanical integrity program," says Summers. "Luckily, everything you need to implement an SIS is well within the expertise of any well-qualified process engineer."
While some users believe it's enough to have an SIS that complies with prevailing standards, Summers says it's not enough. "Standards can allow you to hang yourself if you don't recognize where your system is still vulnerable. So companies must also build their own prescriptive way of doing safety and make their SIS as idiot-proof as possible by ensuring that operators can't defeat it, and by making certain that users test, maintain, report, respond and otherwise interact with it in the same way every time and in every setting."
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by Mike Masnick
Fri, Jun 29th 2012 10:40am
Filed Under:
book club, christian engstrom, live chat, pirate party, rick falkvinge, the case for copyright reform
Today at 11am PT/2pm ET (and 8pm for Rick & Christian) we'll be hosting a live Q&A session with Rick Falkvinge, founder of the first Pirate Party and Christian Engstrom, the first Pirate Party member elected to the European Parliament. As mentioned this is part of the Techdirt Book Club series, and we are discussing their recently published book called The Case for Copyright Reform. The efforts of Christian and others are already having a big impact in the EU Parliament, with the EU Greens already adopting the Pirate Party's position on copyright. We'll be talking about the book, but I believe both Christian and Rick are open to talking about a wide variety of topics.
If you liked this post, you may also be interested in...
- Swedish Pirate Party Declares War On Copyright Trolls
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This comment has been flagged by the community. Click here to show itAnonymous Coward, 29 Jun 2012 @ 10:54amYeah, how could anyone think you're pro-piracy, what with inviting members of the Pirate Party to be your special guests and all? LOL! Have fun with your pirate friends, Pirate Mike. Don't worry, the whole world knows you love piracy. No need to pretend.
Gwiz (profile), 29 Jun 2012 @ 11:23am
Re:And for the rest of us who actually have enough intelligence as not shut their brains off when they see the word "Pirate":
From Wikipedia:
Pirate Party is a label adopted by political parties in different countries. Pirate Parties support civil rights, direct democracy and participation, reform of copyright and patent law, free sharing of knowledge (Open Content), data privacy, transparency, freedom of information, free education, universal healthcare and a clear separation between church and state. They advocate network neutrality and universal, unrestricted access to the Internet as indispensable conditions to some of this.
I'm guessing our esteemed Anonymous Coward also thinks the Green Party consists of Kermit the Frog, The Incredible Hulk, The Green Hornet, Oscar the Grouch and a couple of other very envious people.
Anonymous Monkey (profile), 29 Jun 2012 @ 11:33am
Re: Re:Don't forget the Green Lantern...
Anonymous Coward, 29 Jun 2012 @ 12:26pm
Re: Re: Re:All of them or just the gay one?
Hephaestus (profile), 29 Jun 2012 @ 1:00pm
Re: Re: Re: Re:I never understood why his suit didn't come with a skirt. :P
Anonymous Coward, 29 Jun 2012 @ 11:27am
Re:You could completly disagree with someone and still do a Q&A.
Hell, I've seen it done with people who clearly hated each other.
Anonymous Coward With A Unique Writing Style, 29 Jun 2012 @ 11:59am
Re:I guess you haven't been here when he's responded to idiots like you and quite clearly stated, in absolutely no uncertain terms, "I do not condone piracy."
But of course, why would you care even if he came into these comments and said that again? You'd just ignore it in order to keep harping on about "Pirate Mike" and his "pro-piracy" ways.
Mike Masnick (profile), 29 Jun 2012 @ 12:08pm
Re:Yeah, how could anyone think you're pro-piracy, what with inviting members of the Pirate Party to be your special guests and all? LOL! Have fun with your pirate friends, Pirate Mike. Don't worry, the whole world knows you love piracy. No need to pretend.
Of course, if you knew anything about, well, anything, you'd know that the PPs don't support "piracy." They support reform and reasonable internet regulation.
But, you're not one for facts, I see. Just that big ad hom brush you like to paint everything with.
Here's a tip: try reading and learning something before continuing to make statements that display ignorance.
Anonymous Coward, 29 Jun 2012 @ 12:12pm
Re: Re:Yeah, Pirate Mike. Having Pirate Rick on as a hollowed guest doesn't indicate your support of piracy at all. Nah. No one could possibly think that. You're too much, Mikey. Every single thing you say and do is bullshit. I'm still waiting for you to once--just once--actually debate me on a legal issue. You spout out so much bullshit, and whenever anyone calls you on it in the comments you run away. You leave your throng of slobbering fools to do your arguing for you. Why so a'scared?
Anonymous Coward, 29 Jun 2012 @ 12:26pm
Re: Re: Re:In the mean time just keep rambling bullshit and giving him page views. It's funny that your such an esteemed legal scholar but have nothing better to do then follow around people you hate on the internet.
Anonymous Coward, 29 Jun 2012 @ 12:28pm
Re: Re: Re:I think it's more you being an asshole is more a factor than him being scared. Hell, I'm not even sure why I bother responding to someonewho's clearly a troll.
Anonymous Coward With A Unique Writing Style, 29 Jun 2012 @ 12:35pm
Re: Re: Re:Here, let's try something. Perhaps you can find on the following link anywhere where it shows a "support of piracy" on the part of the Pirate Party (Sweden), which Rick heads.
I looked and found nothing. But obviously, you're some kind of expert on everything it seems. (And that's written with sarcasm fyi. I doubt Mike would want to debate you on a legal issue, given your glaring lack of knowledge on pretty much anything else, there's no reason to believe you're any kind of expert on anything, much less anything regarding legal issues.)
And it's ironic that you ask Mike why he is so scared, yet you hide behind the Anonymous Coward moniker. Says a lot more about who is really scared. A real man, and a person interested in actual debate of any sort, DOES NOT resort to launching ad hominem attacks on a regular basis. They let the facts speak for themselves, you thus far have yet to present even one.
Also, I am not arguing on Mike's behalf. I'm speaking as someone who is, quite frankly, tired of your bullshit and the bullshit of ACs just like you.
Mike Masnick (profile), 29 Jun 2012 @ 1:01pm
Re: Re: Re:Hilarious. You're claiming that every thing I say is bullshit, when you're the one going around falsely accusing me of supporting piracy. I responded and showed why you were wrong, and rather than address the facts, you just repeat your original bullshit claim.
Anonymous Coward, 29 Jun 2012 @ 11:59amWhy do IP laws need to be reformed? Why do anti-competitive laws need to be reformed? They should just be abolished.
Anonymous Coward, 29 Jun 2012 @ 12:31pm
Re:The "temporary monopoly to spur creation" concept works well, the problem is retroactive copyright exstension removing the temporary part.
Svante Jorgensen (profile), 29 Jun 2012 @ 3:13pm
Re: temporary monopoly to spur creationAre there any evidence to support that a temporary monopoly (of any kind or length) really spur creation more than it hindres it?
The basic problem is that to give the right to one, you have to take it away from all others.
In a ever more connected world, the benefit of no monopoly grows ever larger, but the limited benefit of one person having a monopoly says the same.
Svante Jorgensen (profile), 29 Jun 2012 @ 3:08pm
Back on topic please?Don't feed the troll guys :)
Anonymous Coward, 2 Jul 2012 @ 1:00pm
I'd like to read it, k thnx bye.How about posting the chat log somewhere one can actually read it?
Because that coverit thing is just like: Herp. Unfortunately, this event has reached the capacity set by the host. Derp.


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YouTube Joins Hulu In Letting Content Holders Block Access For TV-Connected Devices
from the but-why? dept
After all, if it's just a browser, why should the content creators care -- and why is Google helping them out in this regard? The line is blurring between various devices anyway and setting a special toggle that lets users block access to videos seen in a perfectly legal fashion on different types of devices seems pretty backwards. It's too bad Google even makes this an option -- and that anyone actually pays attention to it.


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U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
LITIGATION RELEASE NO. 18657 / April 5, 2004
Securities and Exchange Commission v. One or More Unknown Purchasers of Call Options for the Common Stock of InVision Technologies, Inc., 04 Civ. 02037 (WMP) (S.D.N.Y.) (filed March 16, 2004).
Orders Placed from Foreign Accounts Just Ahead of Acquisition Announcement; $2.7 Million in Resulting Proceeds Now Frozen
On April 2, 2004, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York issued a Preliminary Injunction continuing a freeze of about $2.7 million in the accounts of certain Unknown Purchasers of the Call Options of InVision Technologies. The Commission's Complaint alleges that the frozen funds result from suspicious trading in call options of InVision Technologies, Inc. in the days immediately prior to a March 15, 2004, joint announcement by General Electric Company (GE) and InVision, a manufacturer of explosive-detection systems, that GE had agreed to acquire InVision in an all-cash transaction valued at approximately $900 million, or $50 per share of InVision common stock. The Preliminary Injunction was issued in the Commission's previously filed civil injunctive action, Securities and Exchange Commission v. One or More Unknown Purchasers of Call Options for the Common Stock of InVision Technologies, Inc., 04 Civ. 02037 (WHP) (S.D.N.Y.) (filed March 16, 2004).
The frozen proceeds are being held in accounts of UBS Securities LLC, a U.S. brokerage firm and resulted from InVision call option purchase orders that came to UBS Securities through certain of its European affiliates. In addition to the freeze provisions, the Preliminary Injunction continues the Temporary Restraining Order's provisions requiring those who purchased the InVision call options through the UBS Securities accounts to identify themselves, and prohibiting the defendants from destroying documents. To date, no defendant has come forward to contact the Commission staff or the District Court.
Additionally, on March 31, 2004, the Commission amended its complaint in the civil injunctive action to include additional suspicious trading in InVision call options immediately ahead of the joint GE/InVision announcement. The additional trading took place in accounts of Deutsche Bank Securities Inc., a U.S. brokerage firm, and resulted from purchase orders for InVision call options placed through a Deutsche Bank Securities European affiliate. These trades included orders to buy 1,000 April 45 InVision call options on March 12, 2004, the trading day immediately prior to the GE/InVision joint announcement, at prices ranging between $1.25 and $1.50 per contract. The positions were sold the next trading day, at an average price of $4.25 per contract, for a one-trading-day profit of approximately $286,728. On March 31, 2004, the District Court issued a second Temporary Restraining Order in the Commission's action, this time ordering a freeze of proceeds from the InVision option trading in the Deutsche Bank Securities accounts, requiring those who purchased those InVision call options to identify themselves, establishing an expedited discovery schedule and prohibiting the defendants from destroying documents. The District Court has scheduled a hearing for April 8, 2004, to determine whether this Temporary Restraining Order should be converted to a Preliminary Injunction.
The Commission acknowledges the assistance of the International Securities Exchange, the United Kingdom's Financial Services Authority and the Italian Commissione Nazionale per le Societa e la Borsa in the investigation of this matter.
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DailyDirt: The Disappearing Bee
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- A new study has found that pollen contaminated with a wide variety of pesticides and fungicides could be responsible for the mass die-offs of bees. Bees that ate contaminated pollen were less able to resist getting infected by a parasite called Nosema ceranae, which has been implicated in Colony Collapse Disorder. On average, the contaminated pollen contained nine different pesticides and fungicides. [url]
- The once-common-but-now-rare Western bumblebee (Bombus occidentalis) has been spotted in Washington state for the first time since the mid-1990s. This particular bee species has a very unique "white butt" that makes it instantly distinguishable. A queen and a few other bees were also spotted, and they may be the only population of Western bumblebees in the state. The Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation is hoping to conserve and help rebuild the population. [url]
- University of California Agriculture and Natural Resources is looking at using leafcutter bees as an alternative to disappearing honey bees for pollination. While leafcutter bees are more expensive and management intensive, they're as good as or even better than honey bees at pollinating certain crops, such as alfalfa seed, strawberries, and melons. [url]
- The U.S. Department of Agriculture is studying the use of blue orchard bees (aka orchard mason bees) as a replacement for honey bees. Blue orchard bees can pollinate a variety of crops, including almond, peach, plum, cherry, and apple, and they're extremely efficient. For fruit trees, it takes only 2,000 blue orchard bees to do the work of 100,000 honey bees. [url]


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Over The long term, soybean inoculation appears to be profitable throughout the Midwest, says Jim Beuerlein, crop science professor, Ohio State University. This is due in part to continued improvements in inoculants over the last several years.
Beuerlein, who has evaluated soybean inoculants since 1995, notes that today's inoculants contain "many-fold" more bacteria cells per gram or milliliter of material than those of a decade or so ago. Moreover, the development of extenders, made out of complex sugars, has improved the shelf life of inoculants. Some extenders can help inoculants remain viable for up to 120 days.
Some inoculants, such as Optimize, developed by EMD Crop BioScience, Brookfield, WI, also include growth promoters. Optimize LCO (Lipo-chitooligosaccharide) Promoter Technology activates a soybean plant's genes to begin cell division in roots and shoots independent of soil conditions.
Some inoculants, such as Vault LVL, developed by Becker-Underwood, Ames, IA, and Excalibre, developed by Advanced Biological Marketing (ABM), Van Wert, OH, feature more than one strain of bacteria, which can help them work better at higher or lower temperatures, Beuerlein says.
Vault LVL combines multiple strains of beneficial rhizobia with Integral biological fungicide and a conditioner.
Excalibre and ExcalibreQR, encapsulated inoculants, feature three strains of Bradyrhizobium bacteria. ExcalibreQR is a preformulated combination of Excalibre and QuickRoots, which contains Bacillus subtilis var. amyloliquefaciens and Trichoderma virens Gl-3. It was developed to improve root growth, soil exploration by microbes and nutrient efficiency.
Soybean inoculants work best at 40 to 80° F. If too hot or cold, bacteria cannot survive. Inoculants also can dry out quickly if left in sunlight too long.
Try them again
Some growers quit using inoculants several years ago after they experienced problems with handling them or they found the inoculants had poor compatibility with fungicides. If you have not used inoculants recently, Beuerlein suggests trying them again. "They're much different now than they were five years ago," he says.
Growers will probably not see visual differences in color or height of soybean plants but will likely see greater yields at harvest, Beuerlein claims. Over the last several years, in test environments (with good rotation schemes, drainage, etc.), Beuerlein has seen a yield improvement averaging about 2 bu./acre each year.
In a paper entitled, "Soybean Inoculation: Its Science, Use and Performance," Beuerlein reports an average yield increase from 64 Ohio trials of 1.94 bu./acre, which produced a profit of about 300% when soybeans were worth $6.00/bu. and when the cost of the inoculant was about $3.00/acre.
"Today's commercially available inoculants do a very good job at a cost of $2.50 to $4.00/acre, and you can get 2 to 6 more bu./acre using inoculants," Beuerlein says.
Some growers, however, are looking for more. Growers often ask Palle Pedersen, Iowa State University Extension soybean agronomist, if any of today's products will result in significantly higher yields. "If we can document a significant yield increase from adding the inoculant, then soybean price doesn't matter," Pedersen says.
Several growers who use inoculants point to recent highs in farm gate prices for soybeans, noting that at more than $6.00/bu., inoculation (averaging $3.00/acre) is a "no-brainer."
Record holder's insights
Kip Cullers, Purdy, MO, harvested a world record soybean yield of 154 bu./acre last year growing Pioneer brand variety 94M80 (RR) at a rate of 225,000 seeds (final stand)/acre. The 2007 yield topped the previous record he held in 2006 for producing 139 bu./acre.
Cullers treated the soybeans with the liquid Optimize inoculant last year. He says that the root mass of the inoculated soybeans was twice that of nontreated soybeans. "Having good root structure in the first 4 in. of soil translates to better yield," he says. "If you can build twice the root mass there, you can get good yields."
The southwestern Missouri farmer inoculated the soybeans himself a couple of weeks before planting, also treating the seed with Cruiser Maxx Pak, the seed treatment insecticide/fungicide combination.
The soybean yield record holder's advice to others? Plant the best genetics for your area; use an inoculant, fungicide and insecticide seed treatments; and protect those treatments at the R2 stage with a fungicide, such as Headline.
Victor Menold, who is a partner in Menold Bros. with his brother Dean near Hiawatha, KS, started inoculating soybean seed about three years ago. After five years of not using inoculants because of their compatibility issues with fungicides, they started inoculating again.
The Menolds have produced an average 55 bu./acre over the last three years with soybean seed that has been inoculated with Becker-Underwood products by Ag Partners Cooperative, Hiawatha, KS. They farm 3,400 acres — half corn and half soybeans. "We like the convenience of having the seed inoculated by our supplier in a timely manner," Menold says. "If applied too close to planting, there can be plantability issues."
All of the Kansas farm's soybeans are inoculated. Although the Menolds do not conduct yield tests themselves, their cooperative has tested inoculants in the area and has observed yield improvements of 2.5 bu./acre over non-inoculated seed.
"It's easy to justify the cost of inoculants with today's nitrogen prices at $700/ton," says Menold, adding that inoculation costs him about $2.75/unit of seed ($3.60/acre). They plant approximately 1.3 units of seed/acre, he says. "It takes just a third of a bushel per acre improvement to pay for the cost of inoculant," he says. "It seems like the right thing to do."
"Even $4.00/bu. soybeans would easily pay for the inoculant," says Bob Krabbenhoft, owner of Krabbenhoft Seed & Supply, Sabin, MN. "With current market prices [$11.00/bu. in January 2008], you would need only a one-third to one-half bushel per acre yield increase to make inoculants pay."
Soybean yields in Krabbenhoft's region of western Minnesota vary from year to year, ranging from 25 to more than 60 bu./acre, but his plot data have shown an average increase of 2 to 3 bu./acre with inoculated seed.
James Nelson, who farms 3,000 acres (about 1,000 of which are planted to soybeans) near Moorhead, MN, began using inoculants about three years ago after not using them for some time. He had experienced handling problems when he mixed inoculants with peat several years ago and felt they were too expensive at the time as well.
But three years ago, he began using Krabbenhoft's seed treatment service and has inoculated all of the soybeans since. He does not conduct side-by-side comparisons but averaged just less than 40 bu./acre last year and 50 bu./acre in 2006. Heavy rainfall last year hurt the crop somewhat.
Nelson has not seen any inoculant/fungicide compatibility issues but notes that sometimes wet treated seeds can stick together and form chunks.
Multiple seed treatments can result in high-volume liquid seed loading. Seed may come out of a treater so wet that it bridges in handling equipment and occasionally in the planter. Seed coats can tear off the seed when bridged soybeans break apart, says Marty Robinson, ABM's vice president of sales and marketing.
ABM developed Excalibre and MegaPack Low Volume Liquid to reduce the amount of liquid the seed must handle, leaving more room to apply multiple seed treatments without damaging seed quality, Robinson says. These products feature a seed conditioner and extender for better seed flowability and improved water imbibition, less handling damage and improved cool temperature germination, he says.
Bacterial populations
Krabbenhoft says most growers in his area choose to inoculate soybeans because they are on a two-year or longer rotation and can lose rhizobia population in the soil in as little as one to two years. This has been the case with saturated soils in the Red River Valley the last few years, he says.
Inoculants may not be effective under two scenarios, says Ohio State's Beuerlein: heavy rain for a week or two after planting, or if the soil is very dry at planting or for a few days after planting.
If you have a low population of Bradyrhizobium bacteria in the soil, you can add it to the seed and have a nitrogen source from this, says Iowa State's Pedersen. "On average, we expect to get around 50% of our nitrogen requirement for soybeans from nitrogen fixation," he says. "The other half comes from the soil from microbial activities."
If soil has a low population of the bacteria or is low in organic matter, then inoculation can help. If the population of bacteria and organic matter levels are adequate, inoculants may be unnecessary, Pedersen says.
"I see an increase almost every year in the percent of acres with inoculated seed," Krabbenhoft says. "Last year, the growers I work with chose to inoculate nearly two-thirds of the soybeans I sold them."
Ninety percent or more of the soybeans that Krabbenhoft sells are inoculated before delivery. "Very few farmers inoculate their own soybeans because it takes time and custom applicators can inoculate much more precisely using liquid inoculants," Krabbenhoft says.
The Minnesota retailer uses ApronMaxx fungicide with inoculants and has not had compatibility issues. He uses separate mixing tanks and applicators so that products do not come into contact with each other until directly applied to the seed.
Because inoculation takes time and the proper equipment, more growers are having their suppliers treat the seed. Suppliers with seed treaters can inoculate more easily and at proper rates. Moreover, now that extenders are available, seed can be treated up to 120 days before planting without loss of viability.


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It feels like subterfuge, and the raw facts of the case are true, but Kara is way into this kind of shit. It's not really a "deal." This is not how it works at my house. There is no special allowance for toys-playing-with, even if they are the very best toys.
We had a chance to check out the Twitch App for the Xbox One, and and maybe it wasn't the best advertisement for the app because we found a bug, but… yeah. They're coming out swinging. I'll let Gabe do that part, that's his thing.
It's one part of a suite of improvements that get the box much closer to something you might consider launching as a retail product. The alterations to Parties, with more sensible defaults and a generally more thoughtful execution, are well timed. They've hidden some things, and some things work in idiosyncratic ways, but the overall arc is toward "more competitive" as a product and a service, so let's call it good.
The features I use often are kind of dumb, and probably not universal in any way, but I miss them when I don't have them so I think it's worth mentioning: the voice command "Xbox Volume Up" gets use at my house. Down, also. But the default amount of down-ness or up-ness is incremented at "3" which means one typically needs to issue the command a couple times. The system update allows you to set this value, a creature comfort on such a miniscule scale I never thought they'd entertain it, but it's tucked the fuck away. You can get to it by going to:
Settings, TV/One Guide, Troubleshooting, Audio, and Volume change.
Which, you know, my father would have called going the long way 'round the fence. But I'm glad it's there. The February Update that came out around the time of the Titanfall Beta made a silent update to the controller, but the new system update has a rework of the controller's firmware that requires it to be plugged into the system. It's not onerous, and you can force it yourself if you go to Settings, System, but I think it's only of value if you're planning on taking advantage of the new headset options.
People with substantial investments in Xbox 360 headphones, and the prices on the higher end options stretch into the "brutal" range, will be well served by the update as it now shunts the optical signal they crave. But in many of those cases, they were products built around proprietary base stations that aren't really a part of the top-down, proprietary "plan" for Xbox One hardware. The controller itself acts as the base station now, and is capable of it, which is what that update is about. My expectation is that the controller will eventually be configured to receive surround all by its lonesome, which is why their current offering is called a Stereo Headset. You can hear the benefits of their wireless channel if you ever use your Chat headset; the voice quality is bonkerian, if not literally bonkers.
The Stereo Headset comes with the adapter that all normal headphones require to attach to the port, but I ordered the adapter anyway, because I'm so used to their savagery on the accessory front that I assumed it would either not include it or would include it attached permanently to their own product. I'll either send the extra it back to Amazon, or I'll bring it into the office, either way. The headset, though.
I am one of those people that thinks headphones are really important. I can't call myself an audiophile, because that person is someone who knows the language of the interaction between people and sound. I have tried very studiously to avoid talking about my headphone addiction, in an effort to tamp down the unnecessary poetry that is always rising over the top of the boot, spilling over the lip and down in. When I was working on the original Precipice game at Hothead, their audio dude Adam let me wear a Grado SR80 and I still think about it. That was six years ago.
I think I can maintain my policy for another couple hours at least. The main thing is, I don't think the official headset sounds like an eighty dollar pair of headphones. In the good way. And if it comes with the puck that lets you grow, with the handy Mute light and the controls to handle audio mixing right on the pad, it recommends itself.
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A second-place finish in the 4 x 400-meter relay enabled Bastrop to edge out West Ouachita by a half-point for the District 2-4A track & field championship.
Freshman Rodeisha Heard set personal records en route to winning two individual events, but it was her part in a second-place finish that sealed the District 2-4A track and field championship for the Bastrop Lady Rams on Wednesday afternoon.
Going into the final race of the day, the Lady Rams had to beat host West Ouachita in the 4 x 400-meter relay for the team trophy. Heard, Khadejia Tyler, Jessica Gray and Sharay Hyde combined for a 4:18.71 and a second-place finish, edging West Ouachita by nearly six seconds.
In the end, it came down to a half-point. Bastrop totaled 124 points, followed by the Lady Chiefs with 123.50, Wossman with 82.50 and Neville with 35.
"I think highly of coach (Jay) Watson at West Ouachita," Bastrop coach Sedarrin Freeman said. "Right before the 4 x 4, he came up to me and shook my hand and said, 'One of us is going to win it.' As Sharay came down the back stretch, he said, 'You're going to win it.' West Ouachita's coaches showed a lot of sportsmanship. They're a great group of guys."
Heard stole the show in the individual events by setting personal records in the long jump (15-07), triple jump (34-00.50) and high jump (4-08). Her efforts were good for first-place medals in the long and triple jumps and second in the high jump.
"Rodeisha is really beginning to understand the concepts of jumping," Freeman said. "Every week, she's getting better."
There are still some corrections to be made prior to Wednesday's Regional Meet at Benton, though.
"I was told that she was about a foot behind the board in the long jump," Freeman said.
Heard wasn't the only Lady Ram to have a big day in the field events.
Michelle Hardin established a personal record with a winning throw of 40-09.50 in the shot put. She was also second in the discus 105-05.50 and the javelin (96-07.50).
Also contributing in the field events were Tierra Brooks, fourth in the long jump (14-07) and fifth in the triple jump (29-08.50); Caitlin Robinson, fourth in the discus (85-03.75); and Makayla Harden, fourth in the shot put (30-08.50).
"After we scored 70-plus points in the field, I was feeling pretty good going into the running events," Freeman said.
Destiny Davis, Stataija Johnson, Jessica Gray and Desiree McHenry combined to win the 4 x 100m (50.36) and the 4 x 200m (1:47.18) relays.
Gray and Sharay Hyde placed 1-2 in the 400m with clockings of 1:03.27 and 1:03.29.
"Sharay was coming off of an injury, but looked good Wednesday," Freeman said.
Johnson was strong in the sprints, winning the 200m (25.90) and finishing fourth in the 100m (12.97).
Weakened by a stomach virus, McHenry, the reigning district champ in the 100m and 200m, placed third in the 200m (27.58) and fifth in the 100m (13.04).
"Desiree has been sick since our last track meet," Freeman said, referring to the Ouachita Relays on Thursday, April 10. "She was just able to start holding her food down Tuesday. She gave us everything she had, but she was weak from not being able to eat. She didn't qualify in the 100, which is her-least favorite event, but she made it to the next round in the 200. I think we'll see the old Desiree next week."
Fighting through shin splints, Dineshia Chatman placed second in the 800m (2:40.56) and the 3200m (14:57.72) and third in the 1600m (6:48.37).
"The long distances put a lot of wear and tear on your body," Freeman said. "I told Dineshia she could sit out the 800, but she said, 'No coach, I want to do all three.' She just goes and goes."
Erial Freeze and Jakiya Jones were 3-4 in the 100m hurdles with times of 18.90 and 19.40. Jones was also fifth in the 300m hurdles (55.14).
"West Ouachita always has good hurdlers," Freeman said. "I'm happy to see us have two hurdlers in the next round."
Bastrop also received fifth-place points from Miranda Waters in the 800m and Emily Ruth in the 1600m.


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I feel slightly guilty about abandoning Thomas Merton. I have yet to finish Sign of Jonas, though I am halfway through.
It's not his fault. I could laze about in his paragraphs for hours on end. It's just that I've had to put him aside in favor of a recently acquired part-time job and -- of course, ever-present -- my Anatomy & Physiology text.
I love the body. It's gruesome and magical, frightening and miraculous. I'm probably the most exhausted I've been in a while, having issues with sleeping and anxiety, and the feeling of always having something pressing to do. But I don't find myself so tired that I can't work up excitement over what makes us...us.
The kids have all these questions. They hear things in school about God making us, our bodies and minds, as if from waving a magic wand, and they look to me for confirmation. Which I give, in some vague way that leaves me unsettled and dissatisfied. Not Adam and Eve, and all that, as comfortingly simple as it all sounds. I stumble and stammer, mostly because I don't even begin to know what I believe, much less be able to explain it in some coherent way.
My text is like a bible of the body, and it's impossible not to see the intricate soulfulness of our creation, however it all came to be.
From the continued contraction of the striated muscle of the heart, to the ability of cells to effectively rid our bodies of toxins, to the nerve impulses that all work together to maintain homeostasis. To maintain. To be effective. For our bodies to work.
It's not that I don't see the hand of God in it all. I do. I just don't feel comfortable trying to elucidate on how. I wish I could tell my girls that with some kind of eloquence, especially when they look at me with their big eyes, wanting to be right. Yes, God made us. End of story. Sort of. Because that story is long and varied with twists and turns.
I've brought up the general concept of evolution with them, how we can trace our ancestors back, but that's about it. I think they'd find the fact of Australopithecus Afarensis a bit suspect. I'll leave that to their future science teachers.
I wonder what Merton would think of it all. He writes little about the human body, except for his relatively poor health and the way illness spread through the monastery like a fire through parched woods. I wonder what he thought of creation and evolution, or where he found the intersection of science and faith, if at all.
I do know he'd believe, no matter our source, that we weren't made for ourselves alone.
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The Body
I feel slightly guilty about abandoning Thomas Merton. I have yet to finish Sign of Jonas, though I am halfway through.
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Gov. Pat McCrory vetoed a bill Thursday that would have helped the agricultural community hire seasonal workers, said Mark Williams, executive director of Agribusiness Henderson County.
Gov. Pat McCrory vetoed a bill Thursday that would have helped the agricultural community hire seasonal workers, said Mark Williams, executive director of Agribusiness Henderson County.
Under current law, E-Verify screening to determine a worker's immigration status is required after 90 days of employment. The bill that McCrory vetoed would have extended the exemption to nine months.
Williams said it would have been good for Henderson County because most of the labor-intensive agricultural operations here hire workers for more than 90 days. "We were hopeful it would go into law," Williams said.
Area farmers have said the E-Verify process is cumbersome and time-consuming.
"That (the veto) is very bad for our farmers," state Sen. Tom Apodaca, R-Henderson, said. "This is something the agricultural community has worked hard for."
Apodaca said farmers are having a "heck of a time trying to find workers to work the field. They need help."
But he doubts the General Assembly will return to session to override the veto.
State Rep. Chuck McGrady, R-Henderson, said he was surprised the governor vetoed the bill.
"The bill had strong support from the farm bureau and businesses," he said.
McCrory vetoed HB 786 "because it makes it easier for businesses to circumvent federal immigration law, which could allow more illegal immigrants to be hired in North Carolina industries," according to the news release from the Governor's Office.
"This legislation has a loophole that would allow businesses to exempt a higher percentage of their employees from proving they are legal U.S. citizens or residents," McCrory said. "Every job an illegal immigrant takes is one less job available for a legal North Carolina citizen. We must do everything we can to help protect jobs for North Carolinians first and foremost."
McCrory said the bill also would open the seasonal exemption to many industries other than agriculture.
"This bill would make it easier to hire illegal immigrants," he stated in the news release. "My job is to enforce state and federal law and to uphold the U.S. Constitution, and I will use every tool necessary to do that and protect North Carolina jobs."
The governor recommended the entire bill be studied, including the definition of a seasonal worker.
Williams said the bill would have given farmers some reprieve from the problem of finding seasonal labor while the federal government works on immigration issues.
"It would've allowed a little more time to fix the problem on a fed level," he said.
Immigration reform on the federal level is what's needed, said Bert Lemkes, co-owner of Van Wingerden International in Mills River.
Without reform on a national level, enforcement on the state level will only hurt the economy, Lemkes said.
"Sadly, North Carolina has only tightened enforcement," he said. "Enforcement only doesn't solve anything."
Lemkes said the future of labor-intensive companies in the United States is at stake without a comprehensive immigration reform plan. He warned that if production moves offshore, the U.S. economy would suffer greatly.
"We need to keep the existing, legal labor force," Lemkes said.
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Sarfend Hammer wrote:Moving Lanzini into the middle was the key to a more threatening second half .
Can't help but think we might have sneaked a win had Snodgrass started on the wing and Lanzini in the middle
Watford 1-1 West Ham Utd (25/02/17)An archive of match day threads originally posted in the General Discussion forum.
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Can't help but think we might have sneaked a win had Snodgrass started on the wing and Lanzini in the middle
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The concourse is dangerous. I got there 25 minutes before kick off and it was a struggle to make my way through it. Didn't bother at half time as I knew it would be horrendous and was thankful I didn't need to take a leak.
Strange day. The trip there was probably the easiest I've had. Found a quiet pub where I had a chat to a couple of Watford fans, one of whom is best friends with my kids headmaster. Some bloke in there slipped and nearly knocked himself out, not that any of the staff gave a monkeys.
The officials were appalling. Ref was poor. The Lino on our side made the role of deaf, dumb, blind, mute idiot a tour de force. Watford got away with all sorts, Niang being the worst culprit and he had the front to dig out the likes of Kouyate for acting. Horrible piece of work. The first half was forgettable. Both sides looked liked the wished they were elsewhere, though to be fair, I can't think of millions of places I'd rather be than Vicarge Road.
2nd half we looked spurred on by the loss of Zarate (I didn't dislike him, but I thought the adulation bestowed upon him, was excessive). Lanzini came to life and the sparks seemed to ignite virtually everyone else. We did seem overly reliant on attacking down our right, which seemed a tad strange as when we did give Aaron the chance to get a delivery in from the left Antonio should have done a lot better and buried it.
But our increased tempo and endeavour brought the equaliser we more than deserved though I thought it was going to be 'one of those days' when Michails effort decided to do a tour of the metalwork.
The sending off? Well he could have seen red for the first challenge alone. I've seen less meaty challenges given reds for. And there's no denying he flung his arm out to reach for the ball. The histrionics of their mob, made a very guillible ref eradicate any doubt he may have had.
A draw away, after falling behind is never a bad thing, but if we'd had a full side out then all 3 would have been ours.
Then the journey home. Train cancellations, poor knowledge by station staff and a touch of rain combined to make it much more difficult than it should have been.
Plus point was being seated just in front of Chim, who I hadn't seen for donkeys. Good to see you fella[/quote]
Agree with all of the above
Unfortunately I did need a leak and it took me all of the half time break to get there and back. Not great
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Not much more to add on the game beyond what has been said. Before kick off, the gentleman with the Brady Out flag who encountered problems before at the Olympic Stadium was stopped from hanging up his flag at the back of the stand by a travelling WHU steward (who worked at the Boleyn Ground and stewards away coaches) who called in the Watford stewards/security team to prevent him from putting it up. He was lead down onto the concourse and I am not too sure if he was allowed to remain.
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They kicked him out but he was allowed back in after about half an hour.
WTF are they doing not allowing it home or away.
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That's awful
Has he been back to the OS since the intial issues?
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People go on about Payet with the "best player ever for West Ham" b*llocks,but in Lanzini,we have a player with serious potential.This boy could be the business and if he improves as he is,he could be up there with Hazard,Mata etc.IMO,the team should be built around him .His second half on Saturday was proper quality.
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He does look very good.
I wonder what we will sell him for.
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For someone mediocre like Tom Cleverly probably.
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EAU CLAIRE, Wis. (UWECBlugolds.com) - The 18th-ranked UW-Eau Claire football team came away with a 20-13 overtime win over WIAC opponent UW-Stevens Point on Homecoming at Carson Park today.
The win was the Blugolds' seventh straight on Homecoming and was the first over the Pointers since November 3, 2007. It was also Eau Claire's first win over the Pointers at Carson Park since 2004. The Blugolds improve to 3-1 overall and 1-0 in the WIAC while Stevens Point falls to 2-2 on the season and 0-1 in WIAC play.
While the Blugolds held a lead a majority of the day, a Stevens Point touchdown at the beginning of the fourth quarter gave the Pointers their first lead of the game at 13-10. Down by just three, Brandon Raciborski (Sr.-Eau Claire, Wis./Memorial) kicked a 19-yard field goal for the Blugolds with 3:24 remaining to tie the game back up.
On the next drive, the Pointers marched down the field quickly and set up for a 27-yard field goal with only 10 seconds remaining in the game. Jared Fohrman, who nailed a 43-yard field goal in the second quarter, attempted the field goal but Chad Samuelson (Jr.-St. Paul, Minn./Cretin-Derham Hall) blocked the kick to keep the game tied at 13 apiece. The Blugolds took a knee on the next play to send the game into overtime.
In the extra period, the Blugolds got the ball first but the offense had trouble with it right away. Despite getting down to the two yard line on the opening play, Austin Neu (So.-Iron Ridge, Wis./Hustisford) fumbled the ball on his way there. A penalty by Stevens Point put the Blugolds on the one yard line, but a bad snap on the next play sent the ball back to the 16 yard line, setting up a 3rd-and-goal. However, the Blugolds were able to recover and scored a touchdown on the next play after a pass from Neu to Joel Sweeney (Fr.-Tomah, Wis.). Raciborski added the extra point to make the score 20-13.
The Blugold defense came out strong and Dan Mahaffey (Sr.-Madison, Wis./Memorial) sacked Pointer quarterback Jake Swank for a 10-yard loss on Stevens Point's first play of overtime. While the Pointers completed a pass to get back of the 27, the next play ended the game after Tyler Janus (So.-Sussex, Wis./Hamilton) intercepted Swank's pass on 3rd-and-12.
Scoring the other Blugold touchdown today was Ryan Moertel (Jr.-Rochester, Minn./Century) on a five-yard pass from Neu on the first drive of the game.
Sweeney had an excellent game all the way around, finishing as the Blugolds' leading rusher and receiver with 109 and 120 yards, respectively. He caught a pass of 64 yards in the fourth quarter on a 3rd-and-22, on a drive that eventually led to the Blugolds' tying field goal.
Neu finished with two passing touchdowns and totaled 206 yards on 16-for-24 passing but was sacked six times. The Blugolds accumulated 323 yards of total offense (117 rushing, 206 passing).
Along with Mahaffey, Kalan Stittleburg (Jr.-Neillsville, Wis.) and Jimmy Hall (So.-Howards Grove, Wis.) both recorded sacks for the Blugolds while Ben Shea (Sr.-Manitowoc, Wis./Lincoln) led the team with seven tackles.
Next up, the Blugolds head to southern Wisconsin to face UW-Platteville next Saturday. Action will get underway at 3 p.m.


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Sunday, September 22, 2013
Mom could sure write small! Here's what it says:
On March 4, 1950 - a surprise kitchen shower at Marie Antoinette in Menlo Park. We had a wonderful tea & received some wonderful gifts: omelete [sic] maker, sandwich toaster, pyrex mixing bowls, baking dish, rolling pin, strainer, 3 dish rags, small spatchel [sic], cooking fork, egg beater, measuring cup, can opener, measuring spoons, pyrex dish, pyrex dish & stand, salad molds, ring molds, sprinkling bottle.
Given by the girls of Casa Ventura. Jean Ross, Ann Fair, Hildie Longyear, Pat Hegg, Jacquie Goodyear, Barbie Metzger, Dona Adams, Betty Schreiner, Nancy Foss, Carol Richardson, Jeanne Dickson, Judy Rudolsh, Marge Wheat, Carol Moerisey, Pat O'Farrell, Mrs. Haenerya (?), Dixie Lee Rea, Doris Stoner, & Judy Broeker couldn't come. They had trouble in getting me there & still keep it a surprise – but finally got me to town with Dona & them there on pretext of making dinner reservations for Ann. A wonderful shower!
The end of August the bank staff gave me a lovely luncheon at Rickey's where they presented me with a cheese server and jelly spoon in our sterling set. All the girls were there – the men joined in giving the gift. They also presented me with a lovely corsage of pink carnations.
Sounds like Mom received a lot of pyrex. We just finished cleaning out Mom's house with an estate sale – I wonder if any of the items she received as gifts were sold. Since she never seemed to throw anything out, I'd bet there were some there!
Mom is the one in the middle with the 'lovely corsage of pink carnations'. I have absolutely no idea who any of these other women are. I'm sure they are the women listed above but can't identify who is who in the photo.
And a few months later, another shower was held.
On June 11, 1950 – a miscellaneous shower given by Mrs. Levy's friends. A lovely brunch at Hotel Californian. Received many wonderful gifts: Lingerie from Mrs. Louis Slater, a damask cloth & napkins from Mrs. Henry Korn, 6 linen tea towels from Aunt Jessie, 12 linen napkins from Gram, silver place setting from Aunt Betty, hand towels from Mrs. Lillie Oestrecher, hand towels from Mrs. A. I. Goldberg, carve-rite from Mrs. A.B. Mendelson, monogramed towels from Mrs. Elmore Winkler, sterling cake knife from Mrs. Jerry Riese, a white Kenwood blanket from Mrs. Bill Levy, pillow cases from Mrs. J.H. Mitlenthal, linen hand towels from Mrs. Max Kopman, quileted bridge table covers from Mrs. Ben Blumberg, monogramed towels from Mrs. A.H. Blum, blue dotted house coat from Gordon's mother. Truly a marvelous shower – even a thermos jug combination from "The Chief". A belated shower gift arrive on July 8th from Mrs. Epstein who had been in Montana – a casserole stand.
Here's a photo from the 1960's of the Hotel Californian, courtesy of http://www.whatwasthere.com. The Hotel was located at 851 Van Ness Avenue in Fresno and is now a rehab facility.
A few interesting facts jump out at me. First, my mother's mother, Clara Fitzgerald Hunter, did not attend. I know my two grandmothers got along fine but I wonder if that took some time. Or maybe they just hadn't really 'met' yet.
Mom wrote that she received 12 linen napkins from "Gram". I'm guessing that wasn't her grandmother, Mabel McAboy Fitzgerald, since it seems unlikely that her grandmother would have attended when her own mother wasn't there. I'm guessing that "Gram" was my dad's Grandmother, Bertha "Birdie" Schwartz Gunzendorfer. Birdie died in August of that year and I know she and Mom knew each other fairly well so it probably was her.
'Aunt Betty' would have been my dad's aunt, Elizabeth "Betty" McKinlay Levy. Betty was the wife of the second Levy brother, Leon Levy, who was an older brother of my grandfather, Sigmund Levy. I used to love going to Uncle Leon and Aunt Betty's house in Fresno – I don't remember it too well but I do remember that it was large and seemed like a mansion.
Mrs. Bill Levy. Now that's a name I've never heard. Was Mr. Bill Levy a relative? Or was that just a coincidence that he had the same last name as my dad?
Mrs. Henry Korn. Oh boy, my dad would have loved this. He always told the story about Henry Korn and that he always had a driver and sat in the back seat while they went around town. When Dad would come for a visit in his later years, he'd always sit in the back seat of the car and exclaim "I feel like Henry Korn".
Sounds like two great parties were held in Mom's honor. I'm sure she was getting excited for the big day!
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I love that Henry Korn story. I'm still laughing.ReplyDelete
Looking at that list of gifts makes me sigh and think, boy those were the days! Nobody would give a bridge table cloth today!! All that linen -- all those tea towels. Nobody does that anymore either. But they should! I was most surprised at the omelet maker -- that seems like a verrrry modern idea. And the cooking fork must have been what I've always called a "granny fork." They are hard to find nowadays, which probably explains why most people I know have never heard of it. I'm always surprised that anyone can cook without one. I use mine all the time.Replies
Oh Wendy, if you could have heard my dad proclaim his likeness to Henry Korn you'd laugh for weeks. He'd say loudly from the back seat "I feel like [pause for effect] HENRY KORN!"Delete
Haha! Like Wendy pointed out, that's a Henry Korn story is too funny.ReplyDelete
It looks like your mom received some lovely gifts at her bridal showers. And she had one of them at the Hotel Californian in downtown Fresno! It's interesting to see the picture of it from the 60s. It must have been a fancy place in its day. I wonder what their brunch menu was, and what the hotel looked like inside.


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New computerized signals will help increase PATH ridership capacity by 20% 28 October 2009 Fulfilling a commitment to the PATH rail system's long-term growth, on 22 October the Port Authority's Board of Commissioners authorized more than $340 million worth of contracts to help replace antiquated mechanical train controls on the 101-year-old system with state-of-the-art, computerised signals.
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