Instead of inspiring people to greater speed, I want everyone the table passes to start going slower, thinking harder, laughing louder. Instead of people looking at me and thinking "What a mad man," I want to be so totally mad that without meaning to they start acting strange themselves. If people are looking at the table and wondering, "What does he do when it rains?" I clearly haven''t reached critical speed yet. So I''m winding up the throttle more. I want people merely to hear the table coming and start shaking hands and giving fantastic introductions. I want people just to see the table from afar and start scribbling poetry on scraps of guttered paper. And by the time the table arrives, I want there to be so much raw energy that the table is hardly noticed at all.

Automated cleaning and reduced downtime always have been primary benefits of mix-proof valves, as well, and more dairy processors are beginning to take advantage of the technology thanks to greater acceptance by regulators. "Mix-proof technology has been around for awhile, but the PMO aspect is relatively new," says Mark Ream, business development manager at Alfa Laval, which counts the Tri-Clover brand among its valve offerings. A cleanability hierarchy has been created to accommodate a broad range of products, from fluid milk to sticky, viscous products. Alfa Laval''s spiral clean technology represents the company''s state-of-the-art CIP for sanitizing the inside of the valve and plug area.

TALK TO GOLFERS about their on-course disputes and one word more than any other peppers the conversation: Gimme."I''m at Old Head in Ireland with my good friend Ryan," says Alan. "It''s the last day of the trip, it''s a perfect morning and we''re having a match. On the front nine somewhere, on a par 3, Ryan is messing up, and it continues on the green. He misses his second putt and has a two-footer left for 5 or something and just rakes it in. ''That''s enough,'' he says. I''m thinking, Well, OK, but I''m not doing too well, either. Sure enough, I miss my putt and we halve the hole. I''m steamed. ''C''mon, mine was good,'' he says. So I go, ''Yeah, OK,'' to be nice, and then skid my drive into the deep, deep rough. He stripes it down the middle. We don''t talk for the rest of the day."

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