Friday Offcuts – 18 December 2015
Click to Subscribe - It's FREE! With only a few days before Christmas, this will be the last issue of Friday Offcuts for 2015. Like most of you we’ll be taking a well-deserved break and plan on resuming normal production on Friday 15 January 2016. Before signing off we’d like to thank all of you for your support, your contributions and comments during the year and your continued encouragement.In addition to coverage and links to the Paris Climate Change agreement that was signed by nearly 200 countries this week we cover a story on some serious commitment being shown by Australia to support the “Ideas Boom”. A series of 24 policies have been designed to foster innovation. The wide-ranging changes include more funding, tax breaks, and tax incentives, along with setting up a new AU$250 million CSIRO research fund to support investments in spin-off and start-up companies and incentives to encourage better collaboration between universities and companies. The initiative was announced by the Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull last week and are it’s expected to cost around AU$1.1 billion over four years. We’ve also got a number of stories to finish up the year on showcasing an array of new and emerging technologies for the industry. As mentioned last week, as you pack up from your office or work site, take a quick peek at the technology events being planned for Australia and New Zealand in 2016. With record attendances at this year’s FIEA events and a growing trend by forest products companies, key industry associations, suppliers and researchers to now link in workshops, seminars, site visits and meetings around each event, we’re planning on building on this momentum again next year. FIEA has already been working with many of you on these 2016 programmes. Check out the events planned, mark these into your diaries and we’ll provide updates next year as each of these technology events are being developed. Finally, from the hard working team at Friday Offcuts, we wish you and your family a relaxing, safe and “festive” Christmas and New Year holiday. And of course, we're looking forward to working with and for you all again in 2016. Travel safely.
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2016 Technology events planned by FIEA
After an incredibly busy year, the Forest Industry Engineering Association (FIEA) has in conjunction with a wide cross section of industry on both sides of the Tasman, developed an
Events Planner for next year. With record turnouts at FIEA technology events that
have been run this year, we’re really excited with what 2016 holds. Events being planned for 2016 include; 1. Steep Slope Logging 2 March 2016, Richmond B.C., Canada www.steepslopelogging.events 2. MobileTECH 2016 Primary Industries – Innovation through Connectivity 30-31 March, Rotorua, New Zealand www.mobileTECH.events 3. Wood Innovations 2016 Timber Preservation – Wood Modification – Engineered & Composite Wood Products 24-25 May 2016, Rotorua, New Zealand 31 May-1 June 2016, Melbourne, Australia www.woodinnovations.events 4. Wood Flow Optimisation 2016 Harvesting – Wood Transport - Logistics 14-15 September 2016, Rotorua, New Zealand 20-21 September 2016, Melbourne, Australia www.woodflow.events 5. ForestTECH 2016 Remote Sensing – Field Inventory – Forest Estate Planning 16-17 November 2016, Rotorua, New Zealand 22-23 November 2014, Melbourne, Australia www.foresttech.events Mark the dates into your 2016 calendars. At this early stage, if interested in either presenting or exhibiting, let us know and if appropriate, we can look to build you into the planned programmes. Websites for the technology events planned for later next year will be live in early 2016. Attached for your information is a PDF of 2016 Technology Events which provides you with further information on the schedule of events planned for next year. Wood innovations focus for May technology series
Technologies to treat timber with the aim of increasing its durability, reducing its environmental impact, improving its appearance and performance and providing options for better integrating treated wood products with other building materials has been the principal focus of two-yearly technology updates for Australasian wood producers. The biennial programmes have been designed by this regions specialists in wood products technology transfer, the Forest Industry Engineering Association. The programme in question is the very popular Wood Innovations series. An innovation is something new - a new product, a new service or a new way of doing things. An innovative company tends to be an early adopter of new concepts, products and technologies. It tends to focus on the future and positions itself to adapt to an ever changing environment. As the name of the technology series suggests, innovation, particularly in timber treatment and wood modification, is the principal focus for Wood Innovations 2016 scheduled for May 2016. In 2014 the Wood Innovations series provided a timely insight into new and emerging timber preservative formulations, innovative wood treatment processes, changing standards, international developments and issues impacting on local operations along with opportunities for growth. Alternate wood products to timber treated with wood preservatives were also increasingly making themselves known in the marketplace. Wood plastic composites and modified wood products were a commercial reality, were already being produced in commercial quantities locally and could offer a genuine alternative to more traditional treated timber products. Wood Innovations 2016 will provide local wood products companies with an essential update on this rapidly growing market. The scope for expansion for existing wood producers or new businesses is considerable. The global wood plastic composites market for example is expected to reach US$5.4 billion in 2019, expanding at a compounded annual growth rate of around 11% over the next four years. The greatest growth for these products is being projected to be in the Asia Pacific region. In addition to preservative wood treatment and modification, based on feedback from the 2014 event, the technology series will also be looking at surface coatings, timber durability, engineered wood products and some of the new technologies that are being developed to mitigate environmental issues around wood treatment. Rather than being seen as a threat, there are real opportunities for local companies to diversify their current operations from the outset. Early adoption of new technology – formulations, treatment processes and new timber products – will provide companies with both product and market diversification. In most instances it will complement existing operations and provide the company with an early competitive advantage. Wood Innovations 2016 will provide local companies with a unique opportunity to assess best practices to improve on-site processing and manufacturing systems, trends and issues from around the globe that will impact on local operations and profile an array of new wood treatment and engineering innovations that have the potential to change how business in this region is conducted. Early details on the event that will be run in both Rotorua and Melbourne can be found on the event website, www.woodinnovations.events A number of other timber construction and treatment events and meetings are being planned around both events. Details will follow.  NZ needs fresh innovation policy
Australia’s new innovation statement, announced last week, has leap-frogged it ahead of New Zealand, which needs a policy refresh to stay competitive, say kiwi science and innovation commentators. Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull announced a series of policies this week that are expected to cost AU$1.1 billion over four years to support “the ideas boom” which he said can last longer than the mining boom. That Turnbull chose to announce innovation policy as his first major initiative shows how seriously the Australian government is now taking it, compared to the previous Abbott government, said Shaun Hendy, a University of Auckland physics professor and director of centre for research excellence, Te Punaha Matatini. “It signals to us that Australia is back in the game,” he said. Australia’s measures include a new AU$250 million CSIRO research fund to support investments in spin-off and start-up companies, AU$1.5 billion over 10 years for the National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Scheme, and AU$127 million over four years more for university research while simplifying the structure with incentives for industry collaboration and less focus on publishing articles in academic journals. It sets up an independent innovation and science organisation and creates a new digital marketplace for securing government contracts. Its investment in innovation infrastructure, in particular, is well ahead of New Zealand’s and we’ll need to look at ways of leveraging into Australia’s “so we can benefit from its larger scale," Hendy said. The innovation statement also seeks more risk-taking with new tax offsets for early stage investments, reducing the default bankruptcy period, and encouraging crowd-funding. It sets up seed funds, five landing pads for start-ups in foreign cities, a new entrepreneur's visa, AU$84 million towards inspiring Australians into digital literacy and science, technology, engineering and maths subjects, and provides pathways for permanent residence for postgraduate students to encourage more commercialisation of research. It could affect how competitive New Zealand firms are compared to their trans-Tasman counterparts and there’s a risk of this country losing researchers to Australia where wages are higher and the environment for commercialisation is “significantly better”, said Andy Hamilton, head of business incubator Icehouse. “We’ve always said Australia could never get its act together on innovation but it now has a government very focused and aggressive on it and it is five times bigger than us,” Hamilton said. “A strong Australia is a good thing but we have to look across our ecosystem and ask 'are we doing the best we can?'”. The Australian policy looks similar to the manifesto put last week before the Ministry of Business, Innovation & Employment (MBIE) by KiwiNet, a consortium of universities and crown research institutes trying to increase commercialisation and collaboration of science and technology-based innovation, said chair Ruth Richardson. KiwiNet wants New Zealand’s innovation policy to be more disruptive because although we’re doing good things, “it’s still marginal and we need to move it more centre stage,” Richardson said. “Innovation needs to be championed at the top.” While New Zealand’s annual spend on science and innovation funding in universities and CRIs was comparable to Australia’s at around the $1 billion mark, we’re not spending enough on commercialisation pathways, she said. And Richardson said there need to be clearer incentives for publicly funded researchers, as there is in the new Australian policy, towards commercialisation rather than a culture of focusing on academic publications. Source: Scoop Will RFID tags remain on logs during handling and storage?
Using RFID tags on logs greatly improves the efficiency of their traceability – but will they remain on the logs in the harsh logging environment? The logging industry has been considering various ways to improve the traceability of logs - especially for high value logs or to ensure that logs do not originate from illegally logged forests. RFID tags have shown to be a success in tracing higher value logs tagged at landings and transported to mills, but researchers wanted to determine whether tags applied to standing trees would be able to withstand harsh whole-tree extraction systems and still retain their information. Standing trees were tagged on various positions on the stem with various tag models. Practitioners are concerned that tags may be damaged or removed from the tree during whole-tree extraction operations. The researchers compared two tag models and two fixing locations on the stem in three commercial hauling and one transport operation in mountain conditions. The results shows that of the 239 tags attached, just 5 were lost, proving a good indication that the RFID tags could be applied with success. The research was published in the Croatian Journal of Forest Engineering, Vol. 36(2), 2015. The article was titled “Survival Test of RFID UHF Tags in Timber Harvesting Operations”. The authors were G Picchi, M Kühmaier and J de Dios Diaz Marques. The report can be viewed by Clicking here  Forest Growers Levy Trust 2016 plansFunds raised by NZ forest growers for research and other industry activities are expected to total NZ$7,620,000 in 2015, about NZ$1 million more than budgeted. At the same time, administrative expenditure has been kept under tight control. This will allow the Forest Growers Levy Trust in 2016 to keep the levy rate on harvested logs to 27c/tonne for the second year in a row. It will also enable the Trust to expand the work it does for all growers, says chair Geoff Thompson.“We are looking at innovative ways to communicate new technology and best practice to growers, especially the owners of smaller forests who may be unaware of the opportunities for increasing the profitability and environmental performance of their plantations. The successful technology transfer workshops we pioneered in 2015 will now be expanded as part of this initiative,” he says. Other new initiatives planned for 2016 include an industry census, the promotion of careers in forestry, and a study of the environmental effects of mechanical harvesting on steep hill country. The census will be designed to capture the contribution forestry and wood processing makes to society, so that the value of the sector is better understood by policymakers and the public at large. “We can easily put an accurate figure on exports,” Mr Thompson says. “But forestry is much more than that. We don’t know how many people are employed in the sector, how many people own forests, the area of forests planted for erosion protection, the area of native wildlife habitat and so on.” He says the Trust worked extremely well in 2015 and the commodity levy that funds its activities appears to have widespread support among growers. The core activities of the Trust are research, biosecurity, safety, transport, fire prevention, industry promotion and advocacy. Of these, research is by far the biggest ticket item, with a budget of NZ$4,478,000. The Forest Industry Safety Council, established in 2015, will continue to be co-funded by the Trust, ACC and Worksafe. The Trust’s share of NZ$575,000 means safety is seen as a major priority for levy funding, something Thompson says is entirely appropriate. “We have seen a dramatic drop in serious harm injuries in the last 18 months, in part because of the initiatives the industry has put in place in that time. But we still have an obligation to ensure that everyone who works in our industry returns home safely after work every day. The Council’s work will be key to us achieving the industry’s goal of zero fatalities and zero serious harm injuries.” The 2016 FGLT work programme can be viewed here. Paris forges momentum towards enduring climate action
Last weekend, at the UN climate talks in Paris a global deal where all countries have agreed to take action on climate change was adopted. Carbon Market Watch comments on the long-term goal, the ambition ratcheting mechanism, provisions for the use of markets, the establishment of a new mechanism, human rights provisions, bunker emissions, pre-2020 action and the impact of the Paris treaty on EU’s climate policies. The Paris Agreement marks a major step forward on climate action. While it is still early to absorb all the implications of the 31 pages of text, in mitigation, there have been seismic shifts, particularly: - Aiming to limit global warming to 1.5C - Working to increase ambition every five years - Developing robust rules for the use of carbon markets - Establishing a new mechanism that moves beyond offsetting - Recognizing the need to protect human rights - Increasing recognition of the importance of international aviation and shipping emissions - Adding quality rules for the cancellation of carbon credits pre-2020 - Sending signals to strengthen the EU’s climate policies. For further details on the Paris agreement click here. The full text of the agreement can be found here. Sales fall in Deere's construction and forestry divisionNet sales and profits for the Deere & Co. construction and forestry division plummeted in the final quarter of fiscal year 2015. An earnings report issued by Deere & Co. showed net sales of US$1.28 billion for the quarter ending Oct. 31 — down 32 percent from the same period last year. Operating profit in the fourth quarter was down 72 percent compared to the previous year. Deere & Co. officials expect net sales in fiscal year 2016 to be down approximately 5 percent in the construction and forestry division, which includes John Deere Dubuque Works.China's eucalyptus production forecast to boomTimber output from China’s eucalyptus plantations is forecast to exceed 30 million m3, making up around 27% of the annual domestic timber output, IHB/Fordaq reported, citing government data. Eucalyptus is currently China’s third most available plantation timber, although the eucalyptus plantation area of around 4.5 million hectares accounts for just 2% of the country’s forested area.In 2006, the area of eucalyptus plantations was 1.7 million hectares, but large-scale plantations of fast-growing trees, especially eucalyptus, have been established in South and Central China in recent decades. China’s emergence as the world’s leading consumer of wood products and the growing global forest products market has driven this rapid growth in plantations, IHB/Fordaq noted. The country's eucalyptus supply and manufacturing chain is believed to support more than 10 million jobs. Source: Industry Intelligence Inc  China's log imports down in first nine months of 2015In the first three quarters of 2015, China’s log imports dropped by 14% in volume and 31% in value compared with the same period in 2014, IHB/Fordaq reported on 24 November. The value of softwood log imports in the period was around US$2.8 billion on a volume of 22.8 million m³, representing an average value of US$122/m³.Prices have been declining the Chinese softwood log market since the first quarter of 2014. In August, the average cost of imported softwood logs was at its lowest level since 2009, down 28% from the peak reached in April of 2014. Logs from Canada, New Zealand and Russia have seen the biggest price drops this year, reported IHB/Fordaq. Imported lumber prices in China have also fallen during 2015, but less dramatically. Lumber imported from Europe has seen the biggest drop in prices, while the price decline for US-sourced hemlock and Douglas fir has been moderate. Source: Industry Intelligence Inc. Wood pulp to make edible noodles?
Cellulose-based pulp may be the building block of paper and packaging, but what about a food ingredient? Thanks to the efforts of Japanese cloth-making company Omikenshi Co., paper pulp can now be made into an edible noodle that’s rich in fiber, low in calories and carbohydrates, and free of gluten and fat, Bloomberg has reported. Using the same technique for turning pulp into rayon, Omikenshi mixes dissolving pulp with a plant called konjac to produce a type of flour that can be used to make ramen, pasta and dumplings. Compared to 1,669 calories per pound of wheat, Omikenshi’s pulp-konjac wheat only has 27 calories, Gizmodo reported on 18 Nov. While this noodle may not have foodies salivating, “demand for diet food is strong and looks promising,” according to Takashi Asami, a manager at Omikenshi. Allied Natural Wood Products to buy NSW millAfter 45 years of operations, South East Fibre Exports at Eden in south east New South Wales will be sold to a new Australian owned company Allied Natural Wood Exports Pty Ltd.Allied Natural Wood Exports (ANWE) is a new world class wood products marketing and logistics company that will sell certified natural and plantation grown wood products from public and private growers to the international market. Drawing on a wealth of international marketing experience, ANWE has agreed to meet the existing chip export supply agreements which run to 2018 however their ultimate goal is to enhance and improve the way that Australian wood product exports are managed and marketed. Spokesman for Allied Natural Wood Exports local forester, Mr Rob de Fégely says that ANWE will be partnering with Australian Marshalling Services Pty Ltd, an established Australian logistics business, which has been operating at Eden and in the surrounding region for nearly 20 years. ANWE will take ownership of South East Fibre Exports on the 23rd of December 2015. All the SEFE staff and contractors have been notified of the sale and a number of new positions in line with the longer term objectives of the company will be offered to both the staff and the harvesting and haulage contractors. ANWE’s goal is to grow the business with the objective of creating a range of sustainable economic opportunities for the region. Local resident and experienced forest industry operator Mr Kel Henry has been appointed General Manager of ANWE. In the longer term ANWE sees hardwood and softwood plantation development, new wood processing technology and innovation as the key strategies for their future and they will be actively exploring these new opportunities to develop their business along the far south coast of New South Wales and throughout eastern Victoria. In concluding the sale, ANWE acknowledged the positive contribution of the current and previous owners of SEFE to the Eden and the regional forest community. ANWE is committed to the growth of the business and looks forward to working with all stakeholders including Forestry Corporation of NSW, Vic Forests, harvesting and haulage contractors, employees, local councils and local businesses and the Eden community in general. First formaldehyde-free bio-based adhesive for particleboardA Corvallis startup is making strides to be the first to introduce a formaldehyde-free adhesive used to manufacture particleboard and medium density fiberboard. If successful, the innovation would be a breakthrough in the burgeoning green building materials industry and likely in high demand since California implemented the world’s strictest regulation of formaldehyde emissions in 2012.The Corvallis company, EcoPro Polymers, is developing a plant-based adhesive that contains no urea- formaldehyde, a chemical that releases formaldehyde — known to cause cancer in humans. The company has received support from Oregon State University and Oregon BEST. EcoPro Polymers’ adhesive is showing promise in lab trials and has attracted interest from SpekPly LLC, another startup supported by Oregon BEST that makes architectural panels from agricultural byproducts. Click here for source (The Register Guard) UC student explores European forestry technologyA University of Canterbury student’s research has taken him all the way to Austria, looking at how modern European forestry machinery could be used in New Zealand.UC Master’s student Thornton Campbell has been conducting productivity research using a European cable-yarding machine as part of his Master’s project. Cable-yarding is a system used on steep terrain to transport logs from where they are felled to the main processing site. Campbell says that the New Zealand forestry industry often uses machines from the Pacific Northwest United States, but different cable-yarding systems are used in Europe. “Productivity studies have the potential to discover situations in which European machines could be more cost effective for the local industry. By looking at the volume of wood hauled over time periods, we can model what can be achieved with a machine and then compare that to other machines,” he says. Campbell spent his first four weeks in Austria on exchange at BOKU University, where he assisted with preparing abstracts for the international Forest Engineering Mechanisation (FORMEC) Conference. He also had the opportunity to present his Master’s project at FORMEC; an experience he describes as challenging but extremely valuable. “It was great to receive feedback on my project from people with different perspectives from all over the world. I was presenting in front of people whose names I have read on research papers at UC,” Campbell says. The conference included a two-day live machinery show that demonstrated the latest innovations in forestry. Campbell says it was an eye-opening experience to see the technology in action. “I was seeing the newest and most innovative machinery in the forestry world up close – something that wouldn’t be possible in New Zealand,” he says. Towards the end of his trip, Campbell assisted UC Forestry Professor Rien Visser, who set up the Austria trip, with a series of presentations at BOKU University. Australian forwarder study using GPS and vibration sensors
Time and motion studies of forest harvesting machines are an important component of forest
operations research. The trouble is that traditional manual methods require a skilled observer, are
time consuming, limited in duration and potentially hazardous. Few automated techniques to date
have had the breadth and ease of application to conduct long term autonomous studies. Researchers from the University of the Sunshine Coast set out to determine whether a fully automated time study system could be created to analyse GPS and vibration sensor data from a forwarder to accurately estimate the forwarder total cycle time and the type and duration of individual time elements. When compared with traditional time and motion studies for three forwarders at different sites, the automated system accurately logged each work cycle start and end points. The system, however, had some issues in correctly labelling events where the forwarder slowed to negotiate steep areas. These errors may be able to be addressed by adding further rules to the automated system. Click here for source (Croatian Journal of Forest Engineering) Metsä Wood re-imagines Empire State BuildingMetsä Wood of Finland make quality wood products from local forest sources. It is working with internationally known architect Michael Green to promote its Plan B campaign, which seeks to educate other architects and designers that wood should always be considered as a serious construction option. Green especially likes to re-imagine existing buildings like the Empire State Building and the Coliseum. Wood is more sustainable with lower emissions than traditional building materials.Green’s design for the Empire State Building features engineered wood products for the building’s structural and support structure. Green says this is the first new way to build a skyscraper in the past 100 years. The iconic New York City building was representative of innovations in structural steel in the 1920’s and was the tallest building in the world for nearly 40 years. Green was assisted by Equilibrium Consulting, an internationally recognized leader in timber engineering. Metsä Wood’s own material and construction experts rounded out the team. “While many things have changed in 85 years, architects still strive to give form to new ideas about structure, energy consumption, climate change and the list goes on. For these reasons, the most iconic building of the modern age – the Empire State Building – was chosen for a Plan B case. We designed a skyscraper using Metsä Wood’s Kerto® LVL engineered wood as the main material from floors to column spacing”, explains Green. Green believes strongly that high-rise wooden buildings are not only possible, but may be the most practical and environmentally sound solution to addressing rapid global urbanization and climate change. “I believe that the future belongs to tall wooden buildings. Significant advancements in engineered wood and mass timber products have created a new vision for what is possible for safe, tall, urban wood buildings. The challenge now is to change society’s perception of what’s possible. In fact, this is the first new way to build a skyscraper in the last 100 years”, tells Green. Source: Green Building Elements Gottstein wood science course to run againThe Gottstein Memorial Trust, the national education trust for the forest and wood product industries, has been assisting people in the sector with development opportunities for more than 40 years. The 22nd Gottstein Wood Science Course will be held at the CSIRO Clayton, Vic, precinct from February 15 to 19 next year with the assistance of CSIRO and the University of Melbourne.The course is aimed at delegates from across Australia who may be working in the wood products industry but may have no formal learning of the industry. The course covers both hardwood and softwood anatomy, processing and benefits of the timber industry overall. “It is an excellent overview of the Australian industry and has been well received by past participants,” course director Dr Silvia Pongracic said. A combined FIAC-Gottstein dinner will be held in Melbourne on September 18. The Gottstein Wood Science Course has run every two years since its inception in 1978 and continues to attract delegates from different areas of the industry with different levels of understanding and background of the industry. Details and further information is available from Silvia Pongracic on 0418 764 954 or email coursedirector@gottsteintrust.org Jobs
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...and one to end the year on...Christmas extras
I've added this in some earlier issue but with most of you finishing work today you may well have the opportunity of turning up the sound and really enjoying the clip. Go on - you'll love it. Go to the woods of Kyushu, Japan. Engineer a massive xylophone (or is it a marimba?) to run down the slope of a forested hill. Take a wooden ball, place it at the top of said instrument, and push it. What do you get? Bach's treatment of a traditional church hymn! Namely, "Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring." And, all this for a Japanese commercial for a kidney-shaped smartphone with the tagline, "Touch Wood." I may be late to the party on this one, but when I think of all the time it took to set this up, the precision and measurements used to adjust it and actually make each piece, and how many takes the film crew shot, it continues to inspire even if it's a year old. And if really keen, you can click here to see how it was made. Here's another clip sent in by a Canadian reader (we may well have run this before but as you get older, the memory starts to fade) on "the service level that Canadians expect from their domestic airlines (well, that's the hope anyway.)" Enjoy. And one more to end the year on. One Christmas the family came home to celebrate. All four kids in the family were successful and had become wealthy doctors and lawyers. Over the break they were eating out and talking about what great gifts they had given their old mother, living in a far away city, for Christmas. The first brother says: "I have built a big new house for mum. " The second brother says :"I spent one hundred thousand dollars to have a cinema built in her new house. " The third says : " I ordered my regular Mercedes dealer to deliver a luxurious convertible to her " The fourth brother says : "Well, Mom loves to read the Bible and you know how bad her eyesight has become. I recently came across a priest, who told me about a parrot that can recite the entire Bible. It took twenty priests well over 12 years to teach him all that but nowadays that parrot’s so good that you only need to say the chapter and the verse and he recites it. I had to promise to give one hundred thousand dollars to the Church every year for the next twenty years, but well, mum is worth every penny. Christmas is over and mum sends her boys a thank you note: On the first she writes "John, the house that you have built for me, is so big that I use just one room, although I have to clean the whole house. Nevertheless, many thanks ! " The second was told : "Charley, that cinema has got Dolby surround and 50 people fit in easily. Wonderful ! But all my friends and acquaintances are dead, I'm deaf and almost blind, so I never get there. But thanks for the good idea ! " On the third: "Pete, I'm too old to go on a trip and my groceries are delivered at home so the Mercedes is rusting outside. But it was a nice idea. Many thanks ! " And the fourth : "My dear Hank, you're the only son that gives enough about me to think of something that I really enjoy! The chicken was delicious ! Thank you very much ! "  And on that note, time to clean up the office, pack up
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