Ecolog Log Homes are custom homes, designed individually for each customer. To simplify pricing and delivery of our homes, we have created a standard "building kit", which describes what we deliver to our customers.
Our log home kits contain all material for the shell of your cottage, cabin or residential home.
The only wood species option we offer right now is Hemlock, which is often overlooked and underutilized by builders, although it has a century old tradition in timberframe and log construction. Hemlock is inexpensive, durable and insect resistant.
You can find the cost of Ecolog kits on our pricing page.
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Engineered 4"x10" heavy roof trusses with pre-cut bird mouth joints. The unique roof truss assembly, spanning 24', covers the length of the building at 4' intervals. Additional trusses at either end of the building provide a 4' overhang.
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We work closely with our clients to provide the final professional drawings necessary for building and health permits.
While we have a number of sample log building designs available, ranging from 500 square foot cottages to 3,000 square foot homes, we always enjoy working with our clients to customize a building to their specific needs. Check out our EcoLog Design section to find example floor plans and pictures.
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Looking For The Best Zombie Gift For Girls?
Zombies aren't just for boys anymore; even little girls are going to love the icky and not-so-cuddly best zombie gift. So which ones of these undead toys are perfect for your little girl or for your niece? Good for you, there are a couple of fantastic choices for you to choose from and decide which is the best zombie gift for your little girl.
Here are a couple of best zombie gift ideas, to get your imagination going. Keep in mind that these are only a handful, there are tons more zombie gifts available.
Girls love dolls and plush toys, and your little zombie fan will definitely go gaga over the Dismember-Me Plush Zombie Toy. Nothing beats pulling your very own Zombie apart. Don't worry, these little things love being pulled apart, which is why they are one of the best zombie gifts available online. Plus no messy blood or guts dripping on your carpet.
I'm pretty sure she's a better poet than you!
Your little girl probably does make better poetry. And after a couple of days, she's going to keep surprising you with her zombie literary prowess when you go get food from the fridge.
Yes, when you think you've seen it all, someone comes up with zombie-inspired cupcake recipes. 25 of them in fact. And with the Zombie Ate My Cupcake! Recipe Book, you and your little girl (and the rest of the surviving family) will be able to enjoy all of these weird recipes. Hey, whoever said weird isn't tasty? Not zombies, that's for sure. One of the best zombie gifts that you can get your little girl, even the whole family will enjoy this recipe book.
Any certified zombie head is going to love the TWD Funko Pop Plush. Two Plushies in one article, you say? Well, when the other one can be a plush of your little girl's favorite TWD character, then the debate is pretty much done. Rick, Darryl, the Bicycle Girl, and the Well Zombie are just some of the choices that you can choose from. What's not to like?
What's better that one little zombie fan girl? Bestfriends zombie fan girls. And nothing will show your little girl's BFF that she's the bestest BFF around – undead or not – like the Zombie Brain Neck Pendant. Not made of actual zombie brains, because you don't know where zombie brains have been, but they're just as fun. Your little girl's BFF is going to lose her head over this, so make sure you grab more than just one.
Remember, these are just zombie gift ideas. There are more items available online. Browsing these undead-inspired items, can easily give you more zombie gift ideas so you can bring home the best zombie gift for your little zombie girl.


A script is free to parse and handle its command line arguments in any way that it chooses. Where the set of possible options and arguments is complex, however, it can get tricky to extract all the options, check the validity of given arguments, and so on. This task can be greatly simplified by taking advantage of the module (ice-9 getopt-long), which is distributed with Guile.
The (ice-9 getopt-long) module exports two procedures: getopt-long and option-ref.
getopt-long takes a list of strings -- the command line arguments -- and an option specification. It parses the command line arguments according to the option specification and returns a data structure that encapsulates the results of the parsing.
option-ref then takes the parsed data structure and a specific option's name, and returns information about that option in particular.
To make these procedures available to your Guile script, include the expression (use-modules (ice-9 getopt-long)) somewhere near the top, before the first usage of getopt-long or option-ref.
10.2.1 A Short getopt-long Example A short getopt-long example.
10.2.2 How to Write an Option Specification How to write an option specification.
10.2.3 Expected Command Line Format The expected command line format.
10.2.4 Reference Documentation for getopt-long Full documentation for getopt-long.
10.2.5 Reference Documentation for option-ref Full documentation for option-ref.


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Pete and Chasten Buttigieg have become parents. Here's a timeline of their 6-year relationship.
Chasten and Pete Buttigieg met in 2015, tied the knot in 2018, and became one of the most public couples during the 2020 presidential race.
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Chasten Buttigieg said he's often mistaken for husband Pete Buttigieg's dog walker
In an interview with the New York Times, he said when people ask him what it's like to walk Pete Buttigieg's dogs, he replies, "It's a living."
20 politicians, celebrities, and CEOs celebrate the landmark Supreme Court ruling protecting LGBTQ workers from discrimination
The Supreme Court ruled that Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act protects homosexual and transgender workers from workplace discrimination.
A senior adviser for Pete Buttigieg was accused of running a fake Nigerian supporter account, but the man who created it says it's a big misunderstanding
Twitter users noted that the account tweeted "Team Pete. Hey. It's Lis," in January, raising suspicion that the tweet could have been an accident.
Pete Buttigieg said he's 'not going to take lectures on family values from the likes of Rush Limbaugh,' after the conservative personality made comments about his sexuality
The controversial radio host sparked bipartisan backlash for mocking the Democratic candidate's appearances alongside his husband.
Bernie Sanders is going to coast to the nomination unless some of the moderate Democratic candidates wise up and drop out
If moderate Democrats are worried about Bernie Sanders against Trump, then they need to consolidate around Pete Buttigieg, Joe Biden, or Amy Klobuchar.
If everyone except for Bernie and Buttigieg dropped out of the 2020 Democratic race, Bernie would mop the floor
In a Bernie Sanders vs. Pete Buttigieg head-to-head match for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination, Bernie would win.
DATA ANALYSIS: Millennials and boomers voted very differently in New Hampshire, and neither preferred Mayor Pete. The rest of the Democratic primary race could be similar.
Exit polls showed that young voters in New Hampshire overwhelmingly supported Senator Bernie Sanders.
John Legend calls Pete Buttigieg's 'Medicare for All Who Want It' plan a 'trap'
Buttigieg's "Medicare for All Who Want It" plan, like that proposed by former Vice President Joe Biden, would add a public option to Obamacare.
'A godsend to my old industry': A former insurance executive says Pete Buttigieg's healthcare plan would keep huge profits for insurers and bankrupt Americans
"They'd be happy as clams on the Pete Buttigieg health plan," Wendell Potter said, adding it wouldn't change much in a system that maximizes profits.
Mayor Pete's awkward embrace of billionaires isn't a moral disagreement with Bernie Sanders, it's a campaign strategy
Buttigieg has faced sharp criticism for his billionaire donors, but he doesn't seem to be much more enthusiastic about them than his detractors are.
Drop out, Joe Biden. New Hampshire proves you are done.
Biden flopped disastrously in Iowa and New Hampshire. If he wants to keep Bernie Sanders from the nomination, he should pull the plug on his 2020 run.
No candidate has won a major nomination without coming in the top 2 in New Hampshire or Iowa since 1972, which is good news for Bernie Sanders and Pete Buttigieg
Many argue that allowing the two states to vote first gives white voters in red and purple areas a disproportionate say in who becomes president.
Bernie Sanders has defied powerful critics and risen from long-shot 2016 candidate to 2020 Democratic frontrunner
At 78, the Vermont senator and self-declared democratic socialist has defied the Democratic establishment.
Bernie Sanders is now the clear Democratic presidential frontrunner, but he could be stopped in his tracks if the party's moderates unite behind a single candidate
Sanders beat out the moderate Pete Buttigieg in New Hampshire on Tuesday night, marking him the clear Democratic frontrunner.
Ex-Goldman CEO Lloyd Blankfein laid into Bernie Sanders after his New Hampshire win, saying he'll wreck the economy and let Russia 'screw up the US'
Lloyd Blankfein and Bernie Sanders have previously had public arguments after the Senator put the billionaire on his "anti-endorsement" list.
LIVE RESULTS: Sanders wins New Hampshire primary, edging out Buttigieg and shellacking Joe Biden
The New Hampshire primary showed a shocking surge for Amy Klobuchar but devastating losses for once-frontrunners Joe Biden and Elizabeth Warren.
Bernie Sanders wins New Hampshire primary, making him the new national frontrunner
Sen. Bernie Sanders was projected to win the New Hampshire primary on Tuesday night with 26% of the vote as of 11 p.m. ET.
Amy Klobuchar is giving Pete Buttigieg a surprising run for his money in New Hampshire, setting up a critical rivalry for the rest of the race
The two candidates will likely continue to fight each other for dominance in the moderate lane of the primary.
Elizabeth Warren is floundering in New Hampshire, set to earn zero delegates as her campaign struggles in Bernie Sanders' shadow
Sen. Elizabeth Warren campaigned hard in New Hampshire but still had a dismal showing in its primary Tuesday.

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I also draw on psychoanalytic ideas when the data seem to point in their direction, especially those of Winnicott about play and Anna Freud about defense mechanisms; and I have discovered that my experientially derived ideas about how social learning occurs, in Inuit society and in my own, are very much in line with practice theory, which I recently encountered in the work of Jean Lave. It left a great impression on me about the way they raised their children and influenced a paper I wrote in that class about touching and its role in raising children. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. These are largely my thoughts and opinions on a haphazard trawl through something I find interesting. Pages and cover are clean and intact.
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Community gathers for Derby's Alley opening
Donors, stakeholders, and members of the community joined Wayne Main Street for the official opening of Derby's Alley last month. The event was a celebration of the many renovations WMS has undertaken in the alleyway. These improvements include new benches, bistro tables, and...
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WMHS Class of 2018 Valedictorians
Wayne Memorial High School has announced 18 Class of 2018 Valedictorians and one Salutatorian. Valedictorians in alphabetical order: Gabrielle Nicole Andrion Daughter of Anabelle Tombo-Andrion Gabrielle is graduating with a 4.02 Cumulative GPA She will be...
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Outdoor game nights Join Wayne Main Street as they present Game Nights in Derby's Alley (34924 W. Michigan Ave). You can bring your own games or choose from the selection of board and outdoor games WMS will have available. Learn a new game, challenge new opponents, swap...
Enter the Window on Wayne photo contest
Helium Studio is delighted to announce the 2018 "Window on Wayne" photography contest as part of the City of Wayne's Downtown Days, July 12-14. This year's theme is "Art-o-motive." To honor the history of Wayne as it related to automobile companies, this...
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Free bicycle tune-ups Saturdays in June
This June, Wayne Main Street (WMS) will be partnering with the Wayne Bicycle Club and Wayne Bicycle Shop to host three bicycle safety inspection events. The events will take place Saturdays in June from 12:00 (Noon)-4:00 p.m. running from June 13 – 30 at the Wayne Bicycle Shop,...
Wayne employee hits 60 year mark with city
By Carolyn Marnon – After 60 years with the City of Wayne, you would think DPW (Department of Public Works) Administration Assistant Patty Ditmore would be ready to move on to the golden years of retirement and all that retirement brings with it. It's not happening. "I like...
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This morning, the Senate Judiciary Committee held a hearing on judicial nominations for just the second time this year.
At this point, I'm not worried about Senate Republicans doing their job--I'm worried that they've forgotten what doing their job even looks like.
Senate Republicans are not only politicizing and undermining the Supreme Court, with their refusal to even consider Chief Judge Garland's nomination, but they are doing the same thing to lower courts as well. They are likely to damage our entire judiciary--all for political gain, so they can leave more vacancies open for President Trump to fill.
Since January 2015, Senate Republicans have confirmed only 17 judicial nominees.
In comparison, from January 2007 to April 2008, Senate Democrats confirmed 45 of President Bush's judicial nominees.
The difference is even starker when you consider the circuit courts--the level of our federal courts just below the Supreme Court.
In fact, with respect to circuit court confirmations, Chairman Grassley has work to do if he doesn't want the worst record in almost 120 years.
So far, Chairman Grassley has held hearings on only two circuit court nominees--the last one was ten months ago--and he has not indicated whether he will allow any of the seven pending circuit court nominees to move forward, taking the obstructionist mantra of "No Hearing No Vote" to a whole new level.
By this point in 2008, Senator Leahy had held hearings for five of President Bush's circuit court nominees, on his way to hearings for eight.
Judge Lucy Koh, nominated for the Ninth Circuit, was unanimously confirmed by the Senate to her current, lifetime position on the U.S District Court for the Northern District of California by a vote of 90-0 in June 2010. She would be just the second Asian Pacific American woman to serve as a circuit judge in our nation's history. Senators Boxer and Feinstein strongly support her nomination. But Judge Koh remains stuck in the Judiciary Committee, waiting for a hearing.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Jennifer Puhl, nominated for the Eighth Circuit, has a distinguished record of public service and would be the first woman to ever serve as a lifetime appointed federal judge in North Dakota's history. Republican Senator Hoeven has returned his "blue slip" on her nomination--indicating his willingness for the Senate Judiciary Committee to proceed with a hearing and Committee vote--and Senator Heitkamp strongly supports her nomination as well. But Ms. Puhl remains stuck in the Judiciary Committee, waiting for a hearing.
Donald Schott, nominated for the Seventh Circuit, would fill the oldest circuit court vacancy in the nation--vacant since January 2010. Republican Senator Johnson has returned his "blue slip" on his nomination, and Senator Baldwin strongly supports his nomination and has urged Chairman Grassley to move forward. But Mr. Schott remains stuck in the Judiciary Committee, waiting for a hearing.
What is Chairman Grassley's excuse for not moving forward with these nominations?
Ironically, he should have an excuse--his Committee should be considering Chief Judge Garland's nomination. But if they aren't going to do that, what are they doing?
It's not too late for the Senate to consider circuit court nominations. In May 2008, Senator Leahy held hearings for three circuit court nominees, and all three were confirmed that May and June.
In fact, from 2007 to 2008, the Democratic-controlled Senate confirmed ten circuit court nominees.
So far, Senate Republicans have confirmed only two.
If the Senate does not confirm any more circuit court nominees, its two confirmations will be the fewest since 1897-98, when the Senate confirmed only one nominee--and there were only 25 such judgeships in the country.
It's hard to believe that the mindless, senseless obstruction of our courts has come to this, but apparently, we must urge Chairman Grassley to do his job so that his record is "only" the worst in 64 years and not something last seen in the 1800s.
Today's judicial nomination hearing was only the second one of the year. The Committee's break is over, and Chairman Grassley now must schedule hearings for Chief Judge Garland, Judge Koh, Ms. Puhl, Mr. Schott, and the two dozen other judicial nominees waiting in his Committee. Our courts--all of our courts, from the Supreme Court down--deserve at least this much.


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Q: Writing big unsigned int64 to mongoDB with pymogno I have a number I'm getting from an external source I want to write to the mongo as Int
The problem is that the number is above signed Int64 (which is how mongo implements it) - but is still fits unsinged int64
The number is:
9223372036854776000
How can I still write it to mongo?
I'm getting
OverflowError: MongoDB can only handle up to 8-byte ints

A: With the latest PyMongo and MongoDB 3.4 or later, you can use the standard Python Decimal with the new BSON Decimal128 type.
from decimal import Decimal
from bson.decimal128 import Decimal128
from pymongo import MongoClient

d = Decimal128(Decimal(9223372036854776000))
collection = MongoClient().test.test
collection.insert_one({'myNumber': d})

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This fascinating sport places high demands on the shooter and equipment, and combines the experience of competition while taking place in challenging field conditions. The targets are placed at a distance of 9.8 - 54.7 yards and are usually fired at the kneeling or sitting position. The targets have a target diameter of 0.59, 0.98 or 1.6 inch.
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Q: Icons on menus have disappeared When i right click to bring up a menu, for example on the desktop, i have 'open terminal here' which i know should have a terminal icon next to this however it doesn't. Any ideas? I had a poke around in gconf-editor but didn't have much luck (though i didn't try very hard ;)
Thanks

A: In gconf-editor go to desktop -> gnome -> interface and check the checkbox for menus_have_icons. There's also a buttons_have_icons which you may want to enable.
This was a delibrate 'feature' in Gnome 2.28, from which Ubuntu 10.04 for built.
These two options can also be changed through the "Gnome settings" panel of Ubuntu Tweak, see screenshot below. (Ubuntu Tweak can be installed through a PPA)

A: fluteflute's answer is excellent, but in case anyone wanted to change this setting without using Ubuntu Tweak, you can do this by changing the following two gconf settings to true using gconf-editor (a GUI program) or gconftool (a command line program):
gconftool --set /desktop/gnome/interface/menus_has_icons --type bool true
gconftool --set /desktop/gnome/interface/buttons_have_icons --type bool true


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To give consumers what they want, and perhaps what they need, CPG collective Halen Brands has acquired plant-protein centric brand Only What You Need (OWYN). The brand debuted at Natural Products Expo West as part of Halen's newly launched, allergen-friendly brand platform, Safe Allergen Friendly Environment (S.A.F.E.).


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Braine – miejscowość i gmina we Francji, w regionie Hauts-de-France, w departamencie Aisne.

Według danych na styczeń 2014 roku gminę zamieszkiwało 2236 osób, a gęstość zaludnienia wynosiła 192,6 osób/km².

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When you were a young person, did you ever have the experience of lying on the Summer grass on a balmy and bright afternoon with a little breeze blowing and looking up into the sky, watching the white puffy clouds drift by and admiring the birds of the air as they soar and flew through the heavens? Have you ever imagined yourself having the capacity to fly and to soar in that same manner? If it were possible for a man or woman to fly, that person would need wings, and if one had but one wing it would be impossible for him to fly. It requires at least two wings for flight to be achieved. It requires balance, it requires an understanding of aerodynamics, whether instinctive or through knowledge, and it requires a certain amount of confidence and courage on the part of the thing or person who is going to fly.
In our modern age it's possible for an individual to soar through the air without the aid of mechanized technology. Sail planes have been in use for a long time and I see young people soaring through the air all the time with their kites and parachutes and various types of paraphernalia striving to imitate the birds. But it always takes a balance; a person with one wing on one side of his body cannot fly.
So it is with our relationship with Christ. Without wings we cannot fly. With only one wing, it's impossible to fly. If we say that we believe in God and we have nothing else, then we have only one wing and there is no way that we can fly. If we say that we believe that Jesus Christ is the only begotten Son of God and do nothing about that belief, we have only one wing and we cannot fly. If we only have faith and do not have love, we cannot fly. If we have love and do not have hope, we cannot fly. For no one with but one wing is able to soar through the air in defiance with the law of gravity. Our Christian Faith tries to create the possibility of us becoming like the angels of heaven. We read in the book of ISAIAH and we hear in the Liturgy of St. Basil the Great that awesome description of those heavenly beings who surround the Throne of God, six winged, "with two they cover their eyes and with two they cover their ears and with two they fly." ( Isaiah 6:2). You and I can have six wings as well, using them all at the same time or using them in pairs alternately. But it is God's intention that we be spiritually winged and that we soar through life and that we soar over the problems and vicissitudes of life; that we fly around the barriers that life places before us: that we fly through the obstacles that life would cause to hinder us.
The first wing is the wing of submission to the will of God. Total and complete. This comes after having acknowledged that God is and that He is the Master of the Universe and the wing that counterbalances that which is the wing of repentance. The wing of offering up our sins to God with the sure knowledge that He has the capacity, the desire and the ability to obliterate those sins. That's the first pair of wings.
The second pair of wings is made up of knowledge on the one side and faith on the other. Knowledge that takes us just far enough for us to believe that God is. Just far enough for us to understand the eternal truths of Christ and the Church to the utmost of our capacity and then faith on the other side to take us the rest of the way. Because it is one of the wonderful principles of God that He gives us only enough information to justify our having faith in Him. If He gave us sufficient information for us to prove His existence, He wouldn't require faith of us. If He gave us sufficient information for us to demonstrate irrefutably that Jesus of Nazareth is the Messiah and the only begotten Son of God, then we wouldn't need faith. But God, through His Witnesses gives us only enough information to satisfy the requirements of human intellect, and then He requires of us to go the rest of the way on faith. So the second pair of wings is knowledge and faith.
Finally the third pair of wings are love and hope without which none of the preceding are of any merit or value. Without love and hope, none of the things that we read, none of the things that we utter, none of the things that we proclaim, has any meaning because everything that Chris exemplified and preached are ultimately crystallized in the promise of resurrection in the commandments of love which were the ultimate commandments that He gave to us, and that gives us our hope.
It is for this reason that Christ came into the world; that you and I might know that we have the means of reconciling ourselves with God through repentance; of joining ourselves with God through commitment, by fulfilling that commitment through our discipleship and through our daily style of living, through prayer and fasting and good works. It is incumbent upon us to grow in knowledge of God, to the limits of our intellectual ability and when our intellectual capacities are not sufficient for us to understand all that we feel, that we need to understand about God, that we might then call upon our faith to sustain us. Our faith is not only in a merciful and loving God but our faith is in those who receive the revelations hat He extended to us, the Patriarchs, the Prophets, the Apostles, those who witness of the existence of God and of His relationship to us. When faith and knowledge sustain us to the degree that they can, we develop within ourselves the capacity of hope, because by hoping, we justify our acts of love. Because it is the act of love that Chris committed for us that gave us hope in the first place. We are no longer justified in calling ourselves Christians because by the accident of birth we are Christians. Time has come when we must use all of the talents that Christ God has given to us in order that we might glorify His holy name. On this Feast of the Nativity of Christ, as we acknowledge and celebrate His birth, I call upon you as a spiritual father to offer all of your talents to Him, to offer everything that you are to Him, to become truly disciples of Christ, to be reborn as you are about to celebrate His Birth, to offer up our spirit as a sacrifice to God, that you might be true ministers of His holy word in the year to come, that you might soar through life on the wings which He has provided for you.
Father James C. Meena is a retired priest of our Archdiocese, living in Parma, Ohio.


Walls take a beating. Overzealous furniture movers, rowdy kids, and constant doorknob bangs can leave dents, cracks, and holes that mar your walls' once-smooth surfaces. But with the right tools and techniques, most drywall dings can be repaired without calling in the pros. HYDE Tools offers six indispensable DIY wall-patching products to help you restore damaged walls to their original beauty all on your own. Click through to discover the inexpensive implements all handy homeowners should have in their wall-repair kit.
The traditional way to repair holes in drywall involves removing a section of the panel that reaches all the way to a stud before cutting and installing a new piece. That approach is, however, time-consuming. It also often entails cutting a larger patch than is strictly necessary and requires some serious drywall installation skills. With Hyde's Bear Claw™ Drywall Repair Clips, you can easily replace a small section of drywall without the hassle. Available for use with ½-inch or 5/8-inch drywall, these one-hour fire-rated clips hold the new piece securely so you can quickly tape and sand. Available from HYDE; $4.69 for ½-inch or $5.02 for 5/8-inch.
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It's all about the music and SPIN's extensive songlist includes the best hits from the 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s, '00s to current chart hits.
All styles of music covered – pop, soul, funk, disco, jazz, country and rock. SPIN play only tried and tested classic hits and will deliver the most appropriate setlist to suit your event.
SPIN have been playing together for many years and have kept adding to their extensive songlist over the years and perfecting the sound and presentation of the songs. Watch out for bands with multiple lineups or don't have a consistent lineup as their setlists will be extremely limited.
Contemporary Hits
The Best Selection of Recent Chart Toppers
SPIN keep up with the times by performing many contemporary hits from the biggest artists of today such as Bruno Mars, Calvin Harris, Justin Timberlake, Katy Perry, Sia, Taylor Swift, Beyonce and many more.
Addicted to You
Classic Retro Hits
The Biggest Hits from the 60s, 70s, 80s and 90s
Hits from classic bands such as INXS, Bon Jovi, The Monkees, Michael Jackson, Cold Chisel, ABBA, Madonna, The Bee Gees even The Spice Girls.
Classic hits include songs such as Video Killed The Radio Star, It's Raining Men, We Are Family, Blame it on the Boogie, Wake Me Up, April Sun in Cuba and many more.
April Sun in Cuba
I'm Outta Love
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Time to Rock Out!
SPIN can rock out as hard as you like when required – the band can play songs such as Living on a Prayer, Summer of 69, Jessie's Girl, Hit Me With Your Best Shot, Raise Your Glass, Boys in Town and many more.
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Cool, classy and just great to listen to
This is where SPIN excel over most bands. SPIN have built up the best list of classic 'Smooth FM' type songs form artists such as Adele, Carole King, Van Morrison, Keith Urban, Sade, Frank Sinatra, Aretha Franklin, Carly Simon, Michael Buble just to name a few.
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Selecting the most appropriate ventilation strategy in building design requires taking into account multiple factors, including the building's position, wind exposure, entrance locations, and more. The goal is to ensure that a sufficient amount of fresh air will move through the building to ensure comfort for occupants, yet there is no one-fits-all solution.
Very broadly, ventilation systems can be categorized as natural or mechanical. Mechanical ventilation (or forced ventilation) systems move fresh air through buildings using fans, blowers, or other mechanical components, while passive ventilation (or natural ventilation) relies on pressure differences, taking advantage of physical properties of air.
These pressure differences can be caused by wind or the buoyancy effect created by differences in temperature or humidity. In either case, the amount of ventilation will critically depend on the size and placement of openings in the building. A passive ventilation system can be compared to a circuit: openings between rooms (such as transom windows, louvers, grills, or open plans) complete the airflow circuit through a building.
Despite the potential challenges, the tremendous benefits of passive ventilation often make it the first option investigated during the building design process. Using passive ventilation may be a tempting option, but it is difficult to solely rely on this solution without proof of performance. This is where computational fluid dynamics simulation can help, enabling you to validate the use of natural convection in a building and reduce the costs of artificial air exchange systems.
For this case study, we will use CFD simulation with SimScale to test the effectiveness of natural ventilation in a shopping mall depending on the windows configuration. This simulation project called "Passive Ventilation Design for a Department Store" was used for the analysis and can be freely copied and used as a template. In this project, we will consider the ventilation of a 3-story shopping mall building, with the rectangular boxes representing people, for simplification purposes.
The simulation of the building design took approximately 5 hours of computing time.
Wind ventilation can significantly affect the airflow within a building.
The ventilation using windows on one side of the building does not provide sufficient air exchange.
Wind ventilation can be used to induce air circulation within the building but it might cause excessively fast air motion.
Keeping the door open during a breeze will cause discomfort for the visitors at the bottom floor, the installation of wind obstacles is worth investigating.
So why aren't all engineers using fluid flow simulation in building design yet?
Accessibility: Traditional CAE software needs to be installed locally on expensive high-performing computers, the majority of which remain idle most of the time. With SimScale, all computations are cloud-based—all that is needed is a web browser.
Operating costs: Standard commercial simulation software packages are notoriously expensive. With SimScale, there is an option to start simulating right away with a free Community Plan or a 14-day trial for the Professional Plan.
Know-how: Most modern tools are designed for experts and experienced simulation engineers. To bridge that knowledge gap, SimScale offers a large public projects library, free training, and live support via chat.
If you'd like to read more about how CFD simulation helps engineers and architects improve building performance, download this free white paper.
Piqued your interest? Discover the benefits of engineering simulation by creating a free account on the SimScale platform, no credit card required.


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Lewis Carroll - Biography & Selected Products
Lewis Carroll was born Charles Lutwidge Dodgson on the 27th January 1832 at Daresbury, Cheshire, the eldest boy and the third child. Another eight followed.
When Dodgson was 11, his cleric father moved his family to Croft-on-Tees in the North Riding of Yorkshire. Although his father was active and highly conservative his son was ambivalent with those values and with the Church as a whole.
In his early years Dodgson was educated at home and by age 7 he was reading the likes of 'The Pilgrim's Progress'. He also spoke with a stammer which he called his 'hesitation'.
At 12 he was dispatched to Richmond Grammar School in North Yorkshire and then on to Rugby. He sailed through the curriculum. He was accepted at Christ Church, Oxford but two days after arriving he was summoned home: his mother had died of 'inflammation of the brain' at only 47.
Dodgson was exceptionally gifted and, when not distracted, achievement came easily to him. He remained at Christ Church studying and teaching in various capacities until his death.
In March 1856, he published the romantic poem 'Solitude' as by 'Lewis Carroll'.
That same year he took up the new art of photography. He soon excelled and became a well-known gentleman-photographer, and even toyed with the idea of making a living out of it. When he ceased photography in 1880, he had his own studio and had created around 3,000 images.
He enjoyed moderate success with his early poems and short stories but had an array of other interests in the pre-Raphaelite circle, Psychical Research and even ordained in the Church of England in 1861.
In July 1862 he told a young Alice Liddell the story that would become his first and greatest success. Alice begged him to write it down, and eventually he did and later presented her with a handwritten and illustrated 'Alice's Adventures Under Ground'. The publisher Macmillan agreed to publish it as 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland' by Lewis Carroll.
It was a huge and sensational life-changing success. Royalties quickly accumulated as did fan mail.
In 1871, the darker themed sequel 'Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There' was published. A half decade later came 'The Hunting of the Snark', a fantastical nonsense poem, as nine tradesmen and a beaver set off to find the snark. It was another enormous success.
He also loved to invent such delights as a writing tablet 'the nyctograph' that allowed note-taking in the dark as well as many word games, such as the precursor to 'Scrabble', and alternative systems of parliamentary voting. Within the discipline of mathematics, he worked in geometry, linear and matrix algebra, mathematical logic, recreational mathematics and wrote nearly a dozen books on the subject.
Lewis Carroll died of pneumonia following influenza on 14th January 1898 in Guildford, Surrey. He was 65.


Mom Life 🌻 – let's talk about mommy life ladies !
let's talk about mommy life ladies !
Let talk tantrums, bad days good days! I want to learn about your mommy life and also talk about my life. Today I felt my lowest iv never felt so down so afraid. So I want to do this blog and let myself free let my voice and my mind be heard .


Our Valentine's Week Contest: Tell us your Love Storywas a huge success and we received many responses. We've chosen our favorite four stories from the many entries and they won our exclusive personalized wooden cards. We're also featuring these stories here. We hope you enjoy reading them as much as we did.
It's Valentine's Week and we're celebrating with a contest at Woodgeek Store! Submit your entry. Tell us your love story. The 3 best entries will win our exclusive personalized wooden cards engraved with custom text or an image. These stories will also get featured on the Woodgeek blog.


Check back for news and updates on Timmy Failure, his progress on becoming the world's greatest private eye, client reviews, book signings, and more!
Timmy Failure is in the Tom Fletcher Book Club!
GREATNESS! Timmy Failure: Mistakes Were Made has been selected for the Tom Fletcher Book Club 2, exclusive to WHSmith! Tom says of the Book Club 2 "It's bigger, bolder and bookier! I've selected another bunch of absolutely brilliant books that I think you'll love." You can find out more here. Here's what Tom had to say about Mistakes Were Made… "I picked this book up late one night thinking I would just read a few pages before bed then WHAM! I ended up reading the entire thing in one sitting while crying with laughter. I then went to bed and started giggling to myself thinking about it. It's so brilliantly silly and witty in such an original way that I knew within a few pages that this was one for the book club!".
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TeamLink – Intranet Web Design and Marketing Launch Campaign
/Under	Marketing Campaign
Graphics Supervisor/Graphic Designer: Jen Hiatt
Lead Graphic Designer: Bret Thomas
Web Developer: Natalie Bednarz
Goals: To update a decade-old internal website with the launch of a redesigned, reimagined intranet site using WordPress. Named TeamLink, the City's new internal website is employees' first point of contact with various departments and other employees. This site offers improved ways to find news, events, forms and information about services offered to City employees. It is built with current website practices, allowing for one fluid design and faster changes to content, as well as a handy search tool. In addition to assisting with the website layout, the Graphics team was also called upon to devise a marketing campaign around the launch that would coincide with the holiday season. TeamLink officially launched on January 6, 2014.
To begin the process of redesigning the internal site, the Interactive Programs team did small focus groups of City employees to survey their needs (and if they were being met by the former site) from the internal communications hub. These focus groups showed that the formerly used CityIntra site was confusing, had many different page layouts (developed and edited in Microsoft Publisher) and contained outdated content. Employees also noted individual forms were difficult to find, as there was no search tool for the site.
Using this feedback, the Interactive and Graphics team prepared several mockups for the redesigned site, focusing on easy-to-navigate menus and prominent News & Events posts. Simultaneously, the teams brainstormed what to call this site, finally deciding on TeamLink – playing on the City being a "team" linked together by this one, central, digital space.
To help prepare City employees for the intranet switch, the Graphics team was asked to devise a marketing campaign to "tease" to the coming changes. The Communications team wanted to focus on how the site took ideas from employees and designed the site to fit individual needs; our tagline became "Your ideas, your needs, you site." Because the launch of TeamLink would coincide with the holiday season, we presented the new site as the City's "present" to each employee. In order to drive the marketing message for this site, I personally devised a tagline themed poster campaign.
The "teaser" poster campaign was rolled out in four parts, beginning around Thanksgiving prior to launch. Using a gift box wrapped in the new TeamLink colors, we revealed three teaser posters, one appearing every two weeks. The first included a closed gift box with the tagline "Our present to you." The second included a the gift box with the ribbon off and slightly open with the tagline "Your ideas, ." The third revealed a computer inside the box that had the TeamLink on the computer with the tagline "Your needs." The fourth and final poster included a picture of the computer out of the box with the new site displayed on the screen. The final tagline was "Your site now live," announcing the arrival of TeamLink
A stop-motion video was also produced and distributed internally, highlighting the new features of the site.
Graphics: My team assisted with the initial website mockups, helped with the graphical elements used on the final site, and designed the logo that would be used to brand the internal hub. Ultimately, the color palette used was sampled from the official City of Orlando seal. Additionally, I designed the marketing campaign posters and "how-to" tutorial that were posted internally throughout City departments. Graphics from the poster campaign were also utilized in the video announcing the launch.
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Q: Google Analytics Referrals coming from third party payment provider I am using universal analytics on my website via Google Tag Manager with data layer e-commerce tracking enabled.
The referral addresses are appearing to be coming from the payment providers (e.g. secure.arcot5.com)
I have included all my URLS in to the autolinker and after some testing the _ga cookie value appears to be consistent all the way through the booking process but it appears differently on the page after the secure payment takes place.
This suggests the session is being treated as a new one, hence the referral address issue I am having.
I have been trying to set a cookie on the entry page which equals the _ga cookie value but currently I am unable to retreive it on the confirmation page.
Has anyone got any ideas for a possible solution?
You will most definitely save my life!
Dan

A: Have you read this article? There could be a couple of pointers in there however I'm not sure what you have and haven't tried
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Manchester United Legend Wayne Rooney Names His Greatest Premier League Foreign Player Ever
By [email protected] (self media writer) | 1 month ago
Well, the English Premier League is one of the most competitive football leagues in the world. The league attracts so many foreign players from Africa, Asia and other continents. There are so many foreign players like Didier Drogba, Sergio Aguero, Yaya Toure, Thierry Henry and so many others who really impressed at the English Premier League. Well, it would be interesting to know who Wayne Rooney ranks as the greatest foreign footballer to ever play in the English Premier League.
During an interview with Sky Sports, Wayne Rooney was asked to name the footballer he considers as the greatest foreign player in the English Premier League. Well, Wayne Rooney named former Arsenal star Thierry Henry as the greatest foreign player to ever play in the English Premier League. Wayne Rooney ranks Thierry Henry above the likes of Sergio Aguero, Ruud van Nistelrooy, Dennis Bergkamp and Eric Cantona.
Wayne Rooney told Sky Sports;
"There are many foreign players who have done exemplary well in the Premier League. If you ask me I would choose Thierry Henry as the best foreign player.
There are few in packs just behind him like Sergio Aguero, Dennis Bergkamp, Ruud van Nistelrooy and Eric Cantona."
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2nd Battalion Duke of Lancaster's Regiment Freedom of West LancashireBorough Parade through Ormskirk
2nd Battalion Duke of Lancaster's Regiment Freedom of West Lancashire Borough Parade through Ormskirk, a set on Flickr.
NB: I apologise for using Lancaster not Lancaster's in the photo file names - inverted commas aren't very file friendly.
The Freedom of West Lancashire is to be presented to the Duke of Lancaster's Regiment at an event in Ormskirk on 22 October 2011.
The Mayor of West Lancashire, Councillor Rob Bailey, will mark the event with the presentation of a ceremonial scroll to Brigadier Mike Griffiths CBE. This will be followed by a march through the town centre by the troops, supported by the Band of the Duke of Lancaster's Regiment.
Freedom of the Borough was granted to the regiment following the unanimous agreement of West Lancashire Borough Council in December 2010.
The freedom entitles the regiment the right, privilege and honour of marching through the streets of West Lancashire on ceremonial occasions with "swords drawn, bayonets fixed, drums beating and colours flying."
There will be a special service at Ormskirk Parish Church, where soldiers will be presented with a commemorative illuminated scroll signed by civic leaders and a specially-commissioned drum major's sash featuring an embroidered West Lancashire crest and regimental badge.
West Lancashire Mayor, Councillor Rob Bailey, said: "The people of West Lancashire are enormously proud of the efforts made by our brave armed forces around the world.
"This is a gesture the council and local community can make to our troops and in particular our local regiment, which has many soldiers from West Lancs and the surrounding area."
Councillor Ian Grant, leader of West Lancashire Borough Council, added: "It gives me great pride that West Lancashire can publicly honour its local regiment in this way. I was overjoyed to propose this gesture to the council and immensely pleased it was approved unanimously.
"The parade will be a great occasion for the regiment, their families and local people to enjoy."
Colonel Martin Amlôt, the regimental secretary, said: "The Duke of Lancaster's Regiment is very moved by the obviously genuine affection and esteem in which it is held by the people of West Lancashire. We are immensely proud of the fact that the borough council has chosen to grant us the Freedom of West Lancashire with its traditional military 'rights' of marching through with 'colours flying, drums beating and bayonets fixed.' This is one of the first 'Freedoms' that the regiment has earned in its own right, since it was formed in 2006, rather than the renewal of a Freedom granted to one of our predecessors. I am glad to be able to say to the people of West Lancashire and the council how very grateful we are for this most significant recognition. We will do our best to live up to the honour in the future."
Freedom of the Borough dates from the Middle Ages, when troops were not allowed to march through without the permission of the local council. These days, it is a ceremonial honour showing the ties between the borough and a particular regiment.
The Duke of Lancaster's Regiment was formed in 2006 following a merger between the King's Own Royal Border Regiment, the King's Regiment and the Queen's Lancashire Regiment, together with their respective companies of the Lancastrian and Cumbrian Volunteers and the King's Cheshire Regiment.
The event is kindly sponsored by Edge Hill University, who are providing the reception venue, H Greaves and Son Butchers, and Burscough Brewing Company, who are creating a commemorative beer.
Labels: Duke of Lancaster's Regiment, Ormskirk, Photos, West Lancashire Mayor


This beautiful arrangement of preserved pink roses is a token of pure love. Add this heart shaped arrangement to your Valentine's celebration, energize your love story and create brand new memories with your special someone.
The pink roses of this delicate Valentine arrangement are the outcome of a careful artisanal process, in which roses are treated petal by petal and rebuilt into preserved blooms. They look exactly as fresh roses but they last one extra year.


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Redbud 400 Welcomes Greg Hubler Automotive Group as New Sponsor
Special from Action Entertainment - Anderson, Indiana (January 25, 2021) Action Entertainment is excited to announce the new partnership with Greg Hubler Automotive Group, who will become the entitlement sponsor for the Redbud 400. The 55th Annual Greg Hubler Automotive Group Redbud 400 is scheduled for Monday, July 12. The race is one of the Crown Jewel Super Late Model races in the country and will continue to be sanctioned by the Champion Racing Association (CRA).
"We are excited to start a partnership with the Greg Hubler Automotive Group," explained Gary Mong, Vice President of Marketing – Anderson Speedway. "I feel like the two brands complement each other in association with the race. The Redbud 400, year in and year out, produces some of the best stock car racing in the country!"
The Greg Hubler Automotive Group footprint stretches across eight brands in Central Indiana. It has recently expanded to Muncie, Indiana with the Ford and Hyundai brands. In addition, the Ford dealership also houses a Roush Performance vehicles and parts dealership. The sprawling corner of McGalliard and Nebo roads in Muncie houses the two dealerships with the recent additions of Quick Lane Tire and Auto Center and Quick Wash.
"We are excited to partner with Anderson Speedway and specifically the 55th Annual Redbud 400," commented Greg Hubler. "We are eager to introduce the Greg Hubler Promise and automotive brands in Camby, Muncie, and Marion to the fans at Anderson Speedway!"
The original Greg Hubler Dealership is located in Camby, Indiana on the southside of Indianapolis. The Chevrolet dealership is where the Greg Hubler brand perfected the pillars of their business. New to the Automotive group in 2021 is the GMC/Buick Location in Marion, Indiana.
In the 55-year history of the Redbud, three different sanctioning bodies have been associated with the event. The first two years were ARCA races being 500 lap races in 1967 won by Iggy Katona and Andy Hampton in 1968.
The American Speed Association (ASA) sanctioned the race from 1969 – 1999. Through the 31 years fans saw Mark Martin, Bob Senneker, Alan Kulwicki, Dick Trickle, and Mike Eddy among others park it in victory lane. Mark Martin is the all-time wins leader of the race with four wins.
Champion Racing Association (CRA) will continue the sanction for the 22nd consecutive year in 2021 as part of the ARCA/CRA Super Series. In the 21 years, the likes of Johnny Van Doorn, Kyle Busch, Erik Jones, Daniel Hemric, and Steven Wallace all made it to Victory Lane. Last year Portage, Michigan's Carson Hocevar steered the TK Racing #71 to victory lane. It was the second consecutive win for TK Racing.
"We are really excited for the new partnership between Anderson Speedway and Greg Hubler Automotive Group," remarked R.J. Scott, Managing Partner with CRA. "This relationship brings even more recognition for this very important race."
The Redbud 400 will be 400 laps counting yellows. It will also feature Controlled Cautions, which were used with great success at the last four Redbud 400's. When a yellow comes out, teams will have three laps to service their race car without losing laps or positions on pit road. Those cars will then line up behind the cars that did not pit at that yellow. Teams not getting out of the pits in the three laps will have to fall to the tail of the field and will risk losing laps.
Stay up to date on all of Anderson Speedway's racing action at www.andersonspeedway.com or follow us on social media.
Greg Hubler Automotive Group
Greg Hubler has been in the car business his entire life-- it runs in his blood. He has followed in the footsteps of his father Howard, both of his grandfathers, as well as his two uncles. Even with this background, it was important to him to understand every aspect of the business. So, after graduating from Indiana University, Greg took time to learn and understand every department.
Over the course of five years while working as the General Manager at Hubler Mazda, Greg earned a reputation as a strong leader. Through his leadership, he guided the dealership to a record level of success in both sales and service. This experience was just the push that Greg needed to start his own dealership. From here, Greg Hubler Chevrolet was first formed.
Greg's wife, Heidi Hubler, is also part-owner. They have two beautiful children, Cruze and Sailor. Greg has a strong passion for both family and business, which has translated to truly understanding the meaning of "customers come first." His family has helped him develop a culture within his dealerships that make for an enjoyable experience for both the customers he serves as well as the employees within his dealerships.
With a passion for automotive and the customer experience, Greg has established his pillars of business.
More information on the ARCA/CRA Super Series can be found at www.cra-racing.com.
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I'm the proud leader of the Sandy Beach Crafters team in the Close To My Heart family. Being a wife, mother of 2 adults who live in my neighborhood, grandmother of 1, caretaker of my dad and volunteer for the City of Destin & high school keeps me very busy. Close To MY Heart paper crafting has become like FUN therapy for me. I really enjoy creating, teaching, playing and making new friends! I'm so excited to be part of this wonderful group, I tell everyone! I just earned my fifth cruise and plan to be on everyone in the future. I'd love to have you on my team!


Ayada Maldives is here to make the most wonderful day of your life even more memorable.
Honore de Balzac once said: "Love is the poetry of the senses"and at Ayada Maldives this poetry becomes your very environment.
The total cost of this amazing Maldivian wedding experience is $ 1500;this is only the price for this package.
According to the wish of the couple the package can be altered and other desired undertakings may be added like the use of a yacht for the ceremony or the dinner. Note that the cost will vary accordingly.


How Do You Spell Heaven is the third album since Dayton indie rock institution Guided By Voices returned from their second breakup last year. It's also the first since March's August By Cake, the one that was billed as frontman Robert Pollard's 100th LP, so this is ostensibly album #101. We heard advance single "Just To Show You" about a month ago, and today we get to stream the whole album. Listen below.
How Do You Spell Heaven is out 8/11 via GBV Inc.


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How Singapore's Wuthelam turned the tables on Nippon Paint
Shrewd investing to give one-time junior partner a boardroom majority
NATSUKO KATSUKI, Nikkei staff writer March 27, 2018 17:47 JST
Nippon Paint has agreed to name six outside directors to its board, including Wuthelam Chairman Goh Hup Jin. © Reuters
OSAKA -- Sixty years ago Wuthelam founder Goh Cheng Liang came to a Japanese paint maker seeking advice on how to sell paint in Singapore. His son, Goh Hup Jin, now runs Wuthelam and controls 39% of Nippon Paint Holdings' shares. He wants to shake things up in the Japanese company's boardroom.
Nippon Paint, with a market value of $11.8 billion, is looking to avoid a proxy battle. It is quietly preparing for its annual shareholders meeting on Wednesday.
On March 1, Nippon Paint President Tetsushi Tado held a joint news conference with Goh in Osaka. They said Nippon Paint will seek shareholders' approval to appoint five independent outside directors and Goh, something Wuthelam has been pushing for.
"Our board has discussed the matter sincerely and independently," Tado said, but the company had little choice. In January, Goh made it known through the media that Wuthelam had submitted a shareholder resolution demanding that Nippon Paint name the five in addition to Goh.
Shortly afterward, Tado and Nippon Paint Chairman Kenji Sakai met with Goh in person and made a counterproposal offering three outside directors. That would expand the board to 10, including the seven current members, the maximum allowed under the company's charter.
Nippon Paint was hopeful that Wuthelam, with which it had been partners for more than half a century, would agree. Tado may have been willing to offer as many as four outside directors; it was a reasonable number for a 40% stake owner.
But Goh rejected the offer and began lining up Nippon Paint shareholders in February for a proxy fight. A number of these shareholders, mainly overseas institutional investors, supported Goh's move, which he said was aimed at maximizing shareholder value.
About a week before the March 1 announcement, the two companies held their fourth meeting on the matter at a Tokyo hotel. Having given up on the earlier compromise offer, Tado told Goh that Nippon Paint would accept six outside directors, as Goh had asked, and name him chairman. In exchange, Tado pleaded with Goh to withdraw the shareholder resolution.
Tado wanted to present the appointment of five independent outside directors and Goh as having come from Nippon Paint itself to avoid the appearance of a conflict with its largest shareholder. Goh agreed.
Nippon Paint's management apparently misjudged Goh's determination to get his way. "He often changes his mind," said one Nippon Pain executive. At board meetings, Goh sometimes objects to a proposal, but then allows himself to be persuaded.
Tetsushi Tado, left, president of Nippon Paint Holdings, and Wuthelam Group Executive Director Goh Hup Jin speak to reporters in Osaka on March 1.
Goh is a University of Tokyo graduate and speaks fluent Japanese. Nippon Paint executives may have believed that Goh, who is familiar with Japanese ways, would accept their ideas. But in this case he did not. Experts say Goh wants to give Wuthelam a bigger voice in Nippon Paint's boardroom in the wake of the Japanese company's failed attempt to buy Axalta Coating Systems of the U.S. last year. Goh was seen not favoring the deal with Axalta.
Nippon Paint, which mainly sells house paints, hoped to move into the automotive market in North America. Axalta was also looking for a partner. But the talks broke down in November, largely due to worries among Nippon Paint management that the 1 trillion yen ($9.5 billion) deal was too risky.
Nippon Paint has a commanding market share in China and Goh wants to maximize that advantage rather than try to shore up its weak North American business. "The Axalta deal was definitely the reason for [Wuthelam's] shareholder resolution," said one insider. But Wuthelam's ambition to increase its sway goes back further.
In 2006, the Nippon Paint tried to raise its stake in 11 joint ventures it had set up with Wuthelam in Asia. The partners reached agreements on three of the ventures, then the global financial crisis erupted. As sales slumped, talks on the remaining ventures were put on hold.
But Wuthelam stayed active, raising its stake in Nippon Paint to 14% from 9% in 2008. In 2013, the Singaporean company's attempt to raise its stake to 45% was blocked. But the following year Nippon Paint offered to let Wuthelam's raise its stake to 39% in exchange for turning the remaining eight joint ventures into Nippon Paint subsidiaries.
The Japanese company was looking for a quick win. Its enhanced control over the joint ventures more than doubled its sales for the year through March 2016 to 530 billion yen from 260 billion yen a year earlier. Nippon Paint vaulted from 10th place by sales to fifth worldwide. Its Asian operations now accounted for more than half of its operating profit.
But while Nippon Paint had managed to join the top Western players, Wuthelam's increased stake in the company reversed the balance of power between the two partners. The Singaporean concern that had sought Nippon Paint's support six decades earlier was now a powerful shareholder, with considerable influence over its management decisions.
Chiaki Obata, who headed Nippon Paint in the 1950s, decided to help a small paint business of Goh Cheng Lian from Singapore.
Nippon Paint got its start in 1881 making paint for navy ships before taking on business from the private sector. In 1931, the company moved its headquarters from Tokyo to Osaka.
Gennosuke Obata and his son Chiaki, known as Nippon Paint's second founding father, rebuilt the company during the difficult times that followed World War I. In the 1950s, Goh Cheng Liang visited Chiaki Obata for the first time. Goh was running a small paint factory in Singapore and asked Obata to help him grow his business.
Obata was impressed by Goh's enthusiasm. After Singapore imposed 20% tariffs on imported paint in 1962, Nippon Paint then set up a joint venture with Wuthelam in the city-state, taking a 40% stake in the business.
The partners have since prospered in Asia, with Nippon Paint taking the lead in production and management, while Wuthelam handled marketing. Obata used to visit the overseas operations to offer advice on Japanese technology and management methods. The partners made forays into Malayasia, Indonesia, Hong Kong, Thailand and elsewhere, entering the Chinese market in the 1990s. They now hold the top share in China's market for house paints.
Wuthelam has used most of the profits from these Asian businesses to enhance its leverage over its erstwhile tutor. Goh and his company are likely looking forward to this week's shareholders meeting.
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