Values and Ethical Standards I come from a home that was family oriented at least to the public eye. The negativity in my life shaped me to value the positive aspects of what I would like my life to be. My mother was a recovering alcoholic and a push-over‚ my step-father was an ex-con and racist‚ my biological father was handicapped but brilliant‚ and my step brother and sister were spoiled and defiant! I grew up in East Palo Alto‚ California the murder capitol of the nineteen-nineties and the
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Corporate governance Ethical Standards Conflicts of InterestIn accordance with the Constitution and the Corporations Act 2001‚ Directors are required to disclose to the Board any material contract in which they may have an interest. In compliance with section 195 of the Corporations Act 2001 any Director with a material personal interest in a matter being considered by the Board will not vote on or be present when the matter is being considered. If the material personal interest is disclosed or
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interest has rights to many substances (ground water) and to many uses (geologic formations for storage of natural gas) Mineral interest – fee simple ownership of OG under tract; separate estate Exclusive right to search for‚ develop‚ and produce oil and gas from the property. Implied easement to use the surface in such ways and to such an extent as is reasonably necessary to obtain the minerals under the property Mineral interest owner has executive RIGHT to: a. Grant leases b. Bonus
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Never Trust a Lady Victor Canning Everyone thought that Horace Denby was a good‚ honest citizen. He was about fifty years old and unmarried‚ and he lived with a housekeeper who worried over his health. In fact he was unusually very well and happy‚ except for attacks of hay fever in summer. He made locks and was successful enough at his business to have two helpers. Yes‚ Horace Denby was good and respectable-but not completely honest. Fifteen years ago‚ Horace had served his first and only sentence
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Lorraine Stone NT 401-FA13-B: Life of Christ (Fall 2013 Online-Section 2) Instructor - Dr. Mark Owens Roberts‚ Mark D. Can We Trust the Gospels? Investigating the Reliability of Matthew‚ Mark‚ Luke‚ and John: Crossway Books 2007. Pp.202 Taking exception to the words of Christ could only be in blatant disagreement with Jesus the Christ himself‚ a spirit of anti-Christ. Is this an over statement as to the importance of the words of Christ
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BP OIL SPILL IN 2010 April 20th was a tragic day for BP and the crew of the Transocean’s Deepwater Horizon. “Floating fifty-two miles off the coast of Louisiana in 5‚000 feet of water was an oil rig drilling in the Gulf of Mexico.” (Hoffman‚ 2010) What unfolded next will go down in history as the worst accidental oil spill in the world. “The oil well a mile below the surface of the Gulf blew up from high-pressure methane gas expanding into the drill. As a result of the explosion‚ it ended
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Ethics‚ Fairness‚ and Trust in Negotiations Discuss two of the following statements then respond to at least two of your classmates’ postings. Try to respond to students who picked different statements. * Discuss how skills in ethics‚ fairness‚ and trust can be a part of the negotiation process even though some negotiation tactics challenge those values. * Identify the Five Bases for Trust and explain why they are important in the negotiation process. Describe Kant’s Ethics of
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Gaussian Mixture Models∗ Douglas Reynolds MIT Lincoln Laboratory‚ 244 Wood St.‚ Lexington‚ MA 02140‚ USA dar@ll.mit.edu Synonyms GMM; Mixture model; Gaussian mixture density Definition A Gaussian Mixture Model (GMM) is a parametric probability density function represented as a weighted sum of Gaussian component densities. GMMs are commonly used as a parametric model of the probability distribution of continuous measurements or features in a biometric system‚ such as vocal-tract related
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......................................................2 Do you agree with Tony Hayward’s quote at the end of the case? .................................................................2 Was this disaster strictly a BP failure or an industry accident?........................................................................2 What factors affect the competitive environment of the oil industry? ...........................................................2 Question 2 ...............................
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Perfect International LTD (PIL) “Oil & Gas” Limited is a privately owned company incorporated under the Companies Act Cap.486 of the laws of Kenya. The Company is licensed to procure and market petroleum products in the domestic Kenyan market as well as for export to the neighbouring Great Lakes region in Africa. The full range of petroleum products are marketed by the Company‚ these include Petrol (PMS) Refinery margin system (RMS) Dual purpose kerosene (DPK) Diesel (AGO) Industrial
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