Association of Operative Millers

Posner, E. S. and Wetzel, D. L. "NIR for control of a flour mill", Annual meeting of the Association of Operative Millers. Cleveland, OH, April 1985. 

Association of Operative Millers. The Association of Operative Millers is probably the oldest still active association in the cereal milling field. It was organized in 1895, and its first convention was held in 1896 in Chicago. Professor B. W. Ded-rick was the first president, and the association was first called Fraternity of Operative Millers of America. Later the name was changed to the Association of Operative Millers. With the exception of 1945, a convention has been held every year since the first one. At the present time there are 14 district organizations in the United States and Canada, and the association has members all over the world. The present enrollment of the association is approximately 2400 members. 

For the past 7 years the association has attempted, quite successfully, to become the technical service organization of the milling industry. The annual meeting is called the Annual Technical Conference. An official organ of the association is published under the title Association of Operative Millers Bulletin (110) and is discussed elsewhere. 

Association of Operative Millers, Bulletin (110) Baker s Digest (99)... 

Heaps, J.W. and Black, T. (1994) Using portable rented electric heaters to generate heat and control stored product insects. Association of Operative Millers, Bulletin, July 1994, pp. 6408-6411. 

Wingfield, J., NIR detection of cellulose as a milling control parameter. Association of Operative Millers-Bulletin, November 1979, pp. 3769-3770. 

Miller began his 47-year association with Avery Dennison in 1964 when he joined Avery Products Corp., the precursor of Avery Dennison. Over the next 10 years, he held a series of operating and executive roles in the U.S. and Europe, and was named president and COO in 1976. In 1977, he was elected CEO, and. in 1983, chairman of the board. He served as CEO for 21 years, as chairman of the board for 17 years and as a member of the board of directors for over 30 years. He continued to serve the company as a director emeritus until his death. 

Fatalities are valued at 3.15m and injuries at 0.225m (Miller et al., 1991). Not included are railroad administrative and managerial costs in dealing with the aftermath of an accident, the administration of tort claims, and the costs and possible lost revenue associated with the disruption of operations. 

Shelby A. Miller, Ph.D., P.E., Resident Retired Senior Engineer, Argonne National Laboratory American Association for the Advancement of Science (Fellow), American Chemical Society, American Institute of Chemical Engineers (Fellow), American Institutes of Chemists (Fellow), Filtration Society, New York Academy of Sciences, Society of Chemical Industry (Section 18, Liquid-Solid Operations and Equipment Section 27, Energy Resources, Conversion, and Utilization)... 

Further urging to think of an improved future prompted Miller to lament, "Who would have anything to do with a tramp like me What have I got to live for I would be ashamed to try to associate with anybody decent." The stenographer dryly and synoptically recorded the next portion of the interview "Examiner gives patient advice as to how to live right. The patient is very co-operative and seems to take in the thoughts as they are presented to him, but he believes himself far from redemption and therefore does not see a clear road ahead of him, as is exemplified in his next remark I would not want my sister to be introduced to any tramp like I am. I was always a wanderer and always, probably, will be. I am as low as a man can possibly go/" Finally, Richardson prodded Miller to think about the distant future ... 

Evidence is mixed about the use of contractors in the U.S. nuclear power industry. Some industry observers (e.g., Miller, 1998, pg. 27) recommended that power plant purchasers consider Staffing for baseload operation, using...contractors for peaks and outages, suggesting that outsourcing may increase with deregulation. However, economies of scale associated with... 

Industry observers generally expect the majority of the nuclear power industry to remain heavily unionized after deregulation, as did the U.S. aviation and rail industries. For example. Miller (1998, pg. 27), in an article about the process of plant acquisition, states that Operating non-union is almost never an option for the buyer, since the seller typically has gained workforce and community support by requiring a union-fiiendly transaction. Similarly, Public Utilities Fortnightly associate editor Schuler (1999, pg. 56) states that Nearly all [of the utility vice presidents that he surveyed] recognize the roles of unions in the future employee mix. Thus, unions will undoubtedly continue to be players in the industry. 

Newman s observations, and the reports on oscillations in the transport of auxin in coleoptiles (Hertel and Flory 1968, Shen-Miller 1973 a, b) point to the operation of feedback loops... in the establishment of the stable pH and electical gradients that are associated with the new cellular auxin concentration and an increased cellular flux of auxin (Goldsmith 1977, p 449 see also Scott 1967). Clearly, these processes are oxygen-dependent since no potentials develop in cases even where there is an asymmetric auxin distribution in corn coleoptiles which have been geostimulated under anaerobic conditions (De-DOLPH et al. 1965, Naqvi et al. 1965). 

We are grateful to many colleagues and students for information and assistance. We would particularly like to thank Prof. B. Bernstein, J. Cheevers, Prof. R. Filler, Prof. A. Florian, Prof. M. J. Frank, Dr. D. R. Oavelek, Prof. N. W. Johnson, Dr. D. A. Kottwitz, Prof. P. Lykos, Prof. S. Miller, Prof. E. T. Olsen, Prof. A. Sklar, Prof. T. Tarnai, and R. K. Bernett-Zasadzinski. This work was supported in part by the Research Corporation and AFOSR. Fermilab is operated by Universities Research Association Inc. under contract DE-AC02-76CH03000 with the U.S. Department of Energy. 

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