"Well you see, Officer, the truth of the matter is I had this going-away party, and it was such a great party I just had to leave afterwards." With one big breath I continued, "It was in the Phoenix Iron Works warehouse and hundreds of people came and whole motorcycle gangs rode through the darkness toward the bonfire which raged 40 feet high ''cause Jenny kept throwing on whole pallets and the concrete floor was exploding from the heat but Eric kept on barbecuing fifty chickens and tapping Bison Brew and people gave away cigarettes and motorcycles and secrets which you couldn''t hear because the musicians who were lit by red stage lights and looked a mile away blasted notes till morning and Steven jumped off the bus and hung upside-down on the rope swing to fly right through the flames emerging again to applause looking rather singed and two shades darker but grinning nonetheless like he might have seen something in the fire and then Big Dave heaved the top of the VW Bug over his head like the skin of a fierce animal and danced while Kate sang to the flickering shadows of the steel girders with her legs swinging from the speakers and poets sat around the table typing messages full of spirit and mystery such as `xjbacl qroty spark'' and what I''m getting at, Officer, is that I love my friends but that the table strives to overcome itself and reinvent itself again and again so after that party I just had to leave." The policeman had been growing paler and paler. When I finished he looked like he wished he''d never stopped us.

"Because of the PMO requirements, there is an exorbitant amount of valves on the backside of the vats in cheese production," explains Tim Tolley, project engineer at Davisco in Le Sueur, Minn. Besides the cost of the valves themselves, additional controls and other equipment must be capitalized. In Jerome''s case, the additional infrastructure required up to 6 feet of floor space to the backside of each vat. Deadhead piping and other redundant equipment clutter the space.A standard, PMO-approved mix-proof valve clogged up in seconds because of cheese-curd particulate, so Sudmo''s engineers adapted a unit with a 4-inch valve. That posed some problems in sizing the leak-detection port. Ultimately, the port was reduced to 2.5 inches to match the CIP port. A 4-inch valve is coupled to a 6-inch body to accommodate particulate flow. FDA authorities reviewed the design and recommended minor modifications, and a year after the project began, the system was up and running.

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