“Neighborhood watch meetings are a great way to come together to discuss community issues. Or, if there’s a road association and your project is going to impact a road, it’s important to discuss it before filing anything with a city or county. If the neighbors find out through official channels, they may have misconceptions that could have been easily resolved if there had been one-on-one personal outreach.

OPS is able to offer a supply capability on a full range of butt weld fittings, including the following:

I have three trees, with ornaments I have been collecting since I was 15. (I am now 67.) My grandmother, Doll Folger we called her, was a college friend of author Margaret Mitchell’s. My mother visited New Orleans 30 years ago and bought “Gone With the Wind” hand-painted ornaments for me from a street vendor.

Inventor(s): Darrell G. Hollis (Conway Springs, KS), Derrek Rae Burrows (Wichita, KS), John L. Dawkins (Derby, KS), Keith S. Kramer (Andover, KS), Rodney L. Klausmeyer (Wichita, KS) Assignee(s): Occidental Chemical Corporation (Dallas, TX) Law Firm: Renner, Kenner (2 non-local offices) Application No., Date, Speed: 15311570 on 05/14/2015 (1097 days app to issue)

“I guess Daddy decided after a day or two he couldn’t look at it any longer. When I got up on Christmas morning, there was a beautiful cedar tree decorated with ‘store bought’ balls (about a dozen) with a little tinsel. Daddy had asked Nellie for decorations and made a little girl happy! One of the balls is still in my possession!”

Payments of dividends on our common stock will not be subject to backup withholding, provided the applicable withholding agent does not have actual knowledge or reason to know the holder is a United States person and the holder either certifies its non-U.S. status, such as by furnishing a valid IRS Form W-8BEN, W-8BEN-E, W-8ECI or other applicable IRS form, or otherwise establishes an exemption. However, information returns are required to be filed with the IRS in connection with any dividends on our common stock paid to the Non-U.S. Holder, regardless of whether any tax was actually withheld. In addition, proceeds of the sale or other taxable disposition of our common stock within the United States or conducted through certain U.S.-related brokers generally will not be subject to backup withholding or information reporting, if the applicable withholding agent receives the certification described above and does not have actual knowledge or reason to know that such holder is a United States person, or the holder otherwise establishes an exemption.

Continue to improve operational efficiencies to maintain a leading edge cost structure. During the recent industry downturn we focused on improving our operating efficiencies and optimizing our interplant logistics. These initiatives included re-designing operational structures and consolidating facilities through the implementation of our “balanced-campus” approach, which led to significant reductions in inter-plant logistics costs. As a result of these initiatives, we believe that we have significantly improved our right first time, or RFT, yield (both in seamless and welded pipe), reduced customer claims and increased overall equipment effectiveness, or OEE. We use OEE to measure manufacturing productivity by identifying the percentage of manufacturing time that is truly productive and benchmarking our facilities against one another to determine where to invest our resources and how to improve our manufacturing process. This, in turn, helps us to implement a cost-effective capital spending program. We have developed a detailed plan for additional structural cost savings and continue to identify and invest in projects to improve interplant logistics and value-added projects. Our 2018 initiatives include significant cost reduction

[G11C] STATIC STORES (information storage based on relative movement between record carrier and transducer G11B; semiconductor devices for storage H01L, e.g. H01L 27/108-H01L 27/11597; pulse technique in general H03K, e.g. electronic switches H03K 17/00)

That’s the thing about surviving, let alone conquering, for three decades: the clarity it provides about what’s worth fighting for. To Popper, every song on the album is rooted in truth and love. Every song has that classic Blues Traveler sound. “When you think of us, you think of a party where beer is served. It’s loud and raucous,” says Popper. “We are trying to take advantage of the fact that we are a known quantity, and where our unknown is.”

In a post on her website, Kardashian West said the photo was cropped from an image a fan made with a mirror effect, which is why there seems to be a seam on the image’s right side.

Inventor(s): James Kai (Santa Clara, CA), Jin Liu (Milpitas, CA), Johann Alsmeier (San Jose, CA), Murshed Chowdhury (Milpitas, CA) Assignee(s): SANDISK TECHNOLOGIES LLC (Plano, TX) Law Firm: The Marbury Law Group PLLC (3 non-local offices) Application No., Date, Speed: 15354067 on 11/17/2016 (544 days app to issue)

A half-century ago, a special aunt crafted Raggedy Ann and Andy as a gift for our infant son. At that time, I did not see what an important part of our Christmas tradition they would become.