The dedicated automotive polypropylene (PP) compounding plant will help Borealis secure its position as a local supplier to automotive OEMs and their Tier partners in North America. The college was becoming an institution of national rather than regional importance. In their The Pirates of Penzance prank, Wolf's Head members persuaded the thespian pirate king to display the numbers 322 (part of the emblem of Skull and Bones) below a skull and crossbones at a local theatre. 39, Yale Banner and Pot Pourri Yearbook, New Haven, CT - Yale Class of 1949, Yale Banner and Pot Pourri Yearbook, New Haven, CT - Class of 1954, pg. Wolf's Head Society is a senior society at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. He had not even been tapped by Skull and Bones, where, through Archie, he was a legacy. We are happy to welcome our new colleagues in Ottmarsheim to the Borealis Group. : The Continuing Story of Buffalo Dick", "Funeral of E.J. PEC-Rhin with its assets on the border between France and Germany on the Rhine river is certainly most complementary to our current fertilizer business, which is mainly focused on the Danube-region. Those with the gene who had positive age beliefs had as low a risk as people without the gene, Dr. Levy said. They also boost Stenungsund as a hub for wire and cable expertise and production. The societys clubhouse is a monumental brownstone building in New Haven called the Tomb. [8], The society takes its intellectual mission very seriously, invoking Socrates' exhortation "The unexamined life is not worth living as well as stating to its prospective members that: "Berzelius provides opportunities for achieving insights through an open, honest exchange of experiences, passions, and opinions. Some new members are high-achieving students, while others are descendants of socially prominent families. Reversing that will require sweeping changes an age liberation movement, she added. The Total Recordable Injuries (TRI) rate improved significantly from 1.4 in 2015 to 0.9 in 2016. [17], From the mid-1840s until 1883, several societies were started, but each failed to sustain the interest of liberal arts students at Yale College, broadly known as the Academical Department. 61, Yale University Banner and Pot Pourri Yearbook, New Haven, CT, Class of 1954, pg. Less clear is what precisely about that seismic cultural shift proved fatal. The award recognises Borealis successful business transformation since 2001, including a step change in safety across the Group (including contractors) which has contributed to overall operational excellence. . The Seamy Side of Yale's Most Exclusive Clubs", "Leland Torrence Enterprises, Inc. | RECENT AND CURRENT PROJECTS", "Halls, Tombs and Houses: Student Society Architecture at Dartmouth. Peter Denifl has distinguished himself throughout his professional life by his high scientific capabilities.Alfred Stern, Borealis Senior Vice President for Innovation and Technology. 1316, Gardner Green, B.A. The number is generally taken to refer to the year (322 bce) of the death of the Greek orator Demosthenes, a turning point in the transformation of ancient Athens from democracy to plutocracy. "'Keep Discovering' encapsulates perfectly what we as a company already do well: pushing ourselves to new boundaries in order to create more value for Borealis partners and customers.". All rights reserved, Charlotte Abney Receives SHS Award and Aurora Borealis Prize, Program in the History of Science and Medicine. This initiative is part of Borealis and Borouge Water for the World commitment to contribute to making a difference to a global challenge. [31], The new society was conceived on or about June 5, 1883. We are happy to welcome our new colleagues in Geleen to the Borealis Group and look forward to a successful integration. Students who hailed from environs beyond New England or who were not Congregationalist or Presbyterian entered the college in large numbers. Read the full case study here. Subsequently this butter fly was found by SMALLEY and the author in a few other widely separated SMALLEY and the author in a few other List: 41 secret societies at Yale All the societies we know about, as of spring 2014. The bagginess of this 800-plus-page tome is made worse by the fact that Richards is not a natural storyteller. This is likely a transferred linguistic remnant of the tradition of the 'Sheff' secret societies, which had 'halls' for residential use and 'tombs' as separate meeting places, in contrast to the Yale College senior secret societies, which maintained only "tombs. If it is the secrecy of these groups that you find appealing, Skulls and Keys is the wrong book for you. These local facilities will allow us to step up collaboration with our global customers and value chain partners to become even more innovative. 35. To hear more audio stories from publications like The New York Times, download Audm for iPhone or Android. The company, Kilpilahti Power Plant Limited ("KPP"), will be owned 40% each by Neste and Veolia and 20% by Borealis. Aurora Borealis Creator: Church, Frederic Edwin, 1826-1900 Published/Created: 1865 . I use that in practically every talk I give because its shocking, said Tracey Gendron, who chairs the gerontology department at Virginia Commonwealth University and credits Dr. Levys work in Ageism Unmasked, her own recent book. Bush, and George W. Bushbecame U.S. presidents. Let us know if you have suggestions to improve this article (requires login). [7] The surviving ca. OMV now holds a 75% interest and Mubadala retains a 25% interest in Borealis. They were shopping together when Grandma Horty fell over a crate with jagged metal corners that had been left in the aisle. Water & Energy. Borealis and Borouge announce the launch of Anteo, a new family of linear low density polyethylene (LLDPE) packaging grades for the global packaging market. Together, Borealis and Borouge now have an annual polyolefin production capacity of 8 million tonnes. [7][12][13], Before the founding in 1780 at Yale of the Connecticut Alpha chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, the second chapter established after that society's founding in 1776 (which still practices a secret handshake among members),[14] Yale College students established and joined literary societies. Borealis AG and NOVA Chemicals Corporation ("NOVA Chemicals") signed a preliminary agreement to form a joint venture (JV) with Total Petrochemicals and Refining USA, Inc. ("Total") that will develop and own a new light feed cracker and a new Borstar polyethylene (PE) facility in Bayport, Texas. Wolf's Head Society is a senior society at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America. Borealis takes over management responsibility for North Sea Petrochemicals (NSP) in Antwerp, a joint venture with Montell. The earliest undergraduate members allowed fellow schoolmates to handle the pin, a specific refutation of pin display by the older societies. We are a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for us to earn fees by linking to Amazon.com and affiliated sites. A spirited defense of the society system appeared in the May 1884 issue of The New Englander, written and published by members of Scroll and Key. OPEX is set to improve leadership and technical skills throughout the company. This upgrade will improve the performance and energy efficiency of the cracker. [32], The two older societies suffered by comparison with Wolf's Head. There is a sufficient veil of secrecy drawn around its mechanism, however, to class it with the secret societies, and this gives it a stability and respectability in Yale College circles that it might not have otherwise."[34] The society was managed similarly to finals clubs associated with the Sheffield Scientific School; however, it soon took on almost all aspects of the older societies. He describes collegiate secret societies as helpful, interesting and ultimately benign organizations. Closure of the high-density polyethylene (HDPE) plant in Beringen, Belgium, is announced. It echoes sexism and racism, describing the stereotyping of and discrimination against older adults. The building was erected in 1884 soon after the founding members secured financing.[7]. On 3 October 2019, Borealis and Ecoplast celebrated the successful conclusion of a strategic investment at their plastics recycling location in Wildon, Styria/Austria. Borealis' Stenungsund crackers offer world-class feedstock flexibility as well as Europe's largest feedstock storage capacity. Borealis and Borouge announce a new world record of 640 kilovolt (kV) for extruded high voltage direct current (HVDC) cable technology. Bart Giamatti, who served as president of Yale from 1978 to 1986, believed that the declining prestige of secret societies was an unavoidable consequence of diversity. Borealis-OPP is owned 80% by Borealis and is operational in December. Borealis is accelerating the transformation to a circular economy of polyolefins and expanding its geographical footprint to better serve customers around the globe. A memoir of the first college daily's birth records its first year strategy to "rag" the societies.[29]. 183, Yale Banner and Pot Pourri Yearbook, New Haven, CT - Yale Class of 1952, pg. Thanks to their efforts, we know that beyond reduced longevity, ageism is also associated with: Cardiovascular events, including heart failure, strokes and heart attacks. The programme was launched as an umbrella programme supporting Borealis' improvement initiatives in its core innovation, operations and commercial areas. . The Third Society's founding was motivated in part by sentiment among some young men that they deserved insider status. Produced with renewable feedstock derived entirely from waste and residue streams, these premium polyolefins offer the same material performance as virgin polyolefins, yet with a reduced carbon footprint. [54], Edward John Phelps, Envoy to the Court of St. James's, accepted the offer in 1885 to be namesake to the Wolf's Head alumni association. Undergraduates walk past the brownstone tomb on High Street with no more interest than they walk past Yorkside Pizza. To regain profitability, Borealis updates its strategy and sets the goal of becoming a leading, profitable and integrated polyolefins supplier. Loan to boost Borealis research and development efforts in propelling the industry towards plastics circularity. Borealis and Borouge announce the launch of Quentys, the new umbrella brand created to empower and potentially revolutionise the solar energy industry by making applications more affordable, reliable, and durable. The fact that societies are closed and inaccessible to more than a small group of Yalies suggests that, on its surface, society life has little to do with Yale's social scene. Its infamous history is shrouded in mystery and extends back to 1832, when the society was first established. In July, the Committee on Unrecognized Single-Gender Social Organizations officially recommended a total ban. It inspired me to want to understand the psychology of aging, she said. Included among the supporters from the Class of 1883 were members touted as sure selections to Bones or Keys by the publishers of the Horoscope, an undergraduate publication that provided feature material on the most likely taps. But the sad truth may be that, after a long slide into irrelevance, Yale secret societies are not important enough to be worth banning. Launched in 2017 by Borealis and SYSTEMIQ, Project STOP (Stop Ocean Plastics) works with cities to create effective waste management systems that eliminate plastics leakage into the ocean and creates circular systems in Southeast Asia. I am sure that many people who started the journey with Borealis in 1994 would never have dreamt that one day, we would have a net profit in the 10-figure range. Neste sells half of its 50% share in Borealis to OMV, the Austrian oil and gas group, and the remaining half to the International Petroleum Investment Company (IPIC) of Abu Dhabi. They are relatively quiet about their existence, and new ones pop up and disappear just as quickly. They also exhibited, after their deaths, more of the brain plaques and tangles that are Alzheimers biomarkers. Borealis held the groundbreaking ceremony on 9 September for its new, world-scale propane dehydrogenation (PDH) plant. It affects physical and cognitive health and well-being in measurable ways and can take years off ones life. Updates? Alzheimers disease. Borealis generated EUR 8.3 billion in sales revenue and a net profit of EUR 906 million in 2018. Insiders and Outsiders in American Historical Narrative and American History, R. Laurence Moore, Secrets of the Tomb: Skull and Bones, the. Richardss microscopic view of his subject obscures the larger fact that Yales secret societies have long been in decline. Would people need regular boosters to help associate aging with experience and possibilities instead of with nervous jokes? Among the mementos in Dr. Levys small office at Yale is a treasured photo of her and Dr. Butler, who died in 2010. The International Petroleum Investment Company (IPIC) of Abu Dhabi and OMV Aktiengesellschaft of Austria agree to purchase Statoils 50% shareholding in Borealis A/S. Juniors are notified of their selection by a society member who ritually claps them on the shoulder. Three of themWilliam Howard Taft, George H.W. Borceed technology enables flexible materials exhibiting both plastic and elastomeric properties and is the platform supporting Borealis' Queo products. Contributions to undergraduate life has been historically among the criteria for membership in Yale societies. The research, by Dr. Levy and other scholars, continues. What is it about Yales secret societies that makes otherwise sensible people so awestruck? The first two times Skull and Bones considered admitting women, in 1971 and 1986, alumni committees voted against it unanimously. ", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wolf%27s_Head_(secret_society)&oldid=1140217023, The former or "Old Hall", located at 77 Prospect Street, across the street from the. Male society members are called Bonesmen, and many have ascended after graduation to positions of prominence in business or government. 70, Yale University Banner and Pou Pourri Yearbook, New Haven, CT, Class of 1924, pg. Borealis recognises the increasing need for plastic recycling and sees the Circular Economy as a business opportunity. . Bones alumni were university secretaries from 1869 to 1921. While every effort has been made to follow citation style rules, there may be some discrepancies. 284 - 327. Centenarians were rock stars!. Why did young men like Kenneth MacLeish feel it was a matter of life and death whether they were admitted to the clubs? By selecting these three core areas, Borealis' Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) activities contribute to the following United Nations (UN) sustainable development goals (SDG . In 1971 a student columnist noted with indignation that the students inducted that year included one black militant, a leading spokesman of last springs Mayday activities, [and] one of the organizers of the charity drive for New Haven. How, he asked, can some of the most outspoken defenders of the community last spring now be a member of a society that does nothing for the community?. Omissions? A. Conger Goodyear Papers, 1683 - 1964 (bulk 1885 - 1964), Research Library, Buffalo History Museum, The Five Roles of Robert Maynard Hutchins, DePaul University Libraries, Volume 42 Issue 2, Winter 1992, DePaul Law Review, Article 9, Jeffrey O'Connell, Thomas E. O'Connell, footnote 62, Andrews, John, The Founding of Wolf's Head Society, Lancaster Press, pg. At Borealis we never put financial results above safety, ethics or our values. 1908-10 building's location, set off from the more active center of Yale's campus, lends privacy to Berzelius' members, and its unadorned largely blank exterior conveys to outsiders the deceptive sense that nothing much happens inside. Borealis invests EUR 7.8 million to convert a naphtha cavern to butane use in its Stenungsund, Sweden, steam cracker plant. OMV, the Austria-based international oil and gas company, owns 75% of Borealis, while the . Other sources conjecture that Russell modeled the society after European groups he encountered while studying in Germany. [11] The tradition continued of creating and sustaining a society if enough potential rising seniors thought they had been overlooked: Bones was established in 1832 after a dispute over selections for Phi Beta Kappa awards; Scroll and Key Society, the second society at Yale, was established in 1841 after a dispute over elections to Bones. [1] The society is one of the reputed "Big Three" societies at Yale, along with Skull and Bones and Wolf's Head. Founded in 1848, 'BZ', as the society is called often, is the third oldest society at Yale and the oldest of those of the now-defunct Sheffield Scientific School, the institution which from 1854 to 1956 was the sciences and engineering college of Yale University. Rainer Seele, CEO of OMV, is appointed as Vice Chairman of the Supervisory Board. Dr. Levy and her team measure attitudes about aging in a variety of ways. At the Wire Dusseldorf trade fair, Borealis and Borouge launch Borlink, a step change innovation in the power and cable industry. The new Borealis ownership becomes 64% IPIC and 36% OMV. Even though toddlers already have negative stereotypes about age, theyre not set in stone, Dr. Levy said. Borealis has now passed another milestone on the way to continued expansion of global supply capabilities. Agreement propels Borealis towards goal of sourcing 50% of total electricity in major business areas from renewables by 2030 and reducing its indirect carbon dioxide emissions. Further embedding of environmental and social criteria in decision-making processes regarding innovation and investment projects. The "New Hall" opened in the mid-1920s and sits fronted by York Street surrounded by the Yale Daily News Briton Hadden Memorial building, and the Yale Drama School and theatre, both gifts to Yale from Edward Harkness. We need stepwise expansion projects to minimise down time, but also need to maintain existing facilities and business. Borealis introduces its new company values: Responsible, Respect, Exceed and Nimblicity. Borealis and United Chemical Company LLP (UCC) have signed a Joint Development Agreement (JDA) for the development of a world-scale polyethylene project, integrated with an ethane cracker, in the Republic of Kazakhstan. They have used small experimental samples of a few dozen people and tracked health records for thousands through big national surveys. All rights reserved, Pharmaceutical Packaging, Medical and Diagnostics Devices, Polymer Solutions for Masterbatches & Compounds. Production capacity at the Borstar polypropylene (PP) plant is expanded to 300,000 t/y, and OMVs nearby cracker in Schwechat, Austria, from 650,000 to 900,000 t/y. Borealis announces the mechanical completion and production start-up of an new plan in North Carolina, USA. We started from a clean sheet. [53] This was Yale's last all-male society; it has tapped women since the spring of 1992. This acquisition underlines Borealis commitment to the circular economy and puts the company in the industry pole position with regard to plastics recycling. A psychologist and epidemiologist, Dr. Levy has demonstrated in more than 140 published articles over 30 years and in a new book, "Breaking the Age Code" that ageism results in more . With its head office in Vienna, Austria, the company currently has around 6,800 employees and operates in over 120 countries. This symbolised to everyone in the company to forget the past and focus on our future. Skulls and Keys, David Alan Richards, Pegasus Books Ltd., 2017. borealis yale society. It is one of the oldest Yale secret societies and reputedly the wealthiest. Phi Beta Kappa was inactive at Yale from 1871 to 1884, coinciding in part with a national reorganization of the society. Skull and Bones, secret society of senior (fourth-year undergraduate) students at Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, that was founded in 1832. [7], The Third Society sat at the apex of a social pyramid bricked by junior societies (sophomore societies were abolished in 1875, freshman societies in 1880),[35] campus organizations, athletic teams, clubs, and fraternities. The society is one of the reputed "Big Three" societies at Yale, along with Skull and Bones and Wolf's Head. Borealis is one of the worlds leading providers of advanced and circular polyolefin solutions and a European front-runner in polyolefin recycling. Their decline coincided with the increasingly meritocratic policies of the 1960s. The current delegation spends its year together answerable to an alumni association. Bayport Polymers LLC (Baystar) held its official groundbreaking ceremony for the construction of a new 625,000 metric ton-per-year Borstar polyethylene unit at its production site in Pasadena, Texas, with an anticipated start-up in 2021. Since 2006, its Head Office has been in Vienna, the capital of Austria. Borealis is a leading provider of innovative solutions in the fields of polyolefins, base chemicals and fertilizers. Worth EUR 290 million, the deal comprises a 175,000 tonnes per year (t/y) polypropylene (PP) unit and a 140,000 t/y low-density polyethylene (LDPE) unit, as well as a 50% share of the 557,000 t/y Noretyl gas cracker. "[27][28] The Yale Daily News first appeared on January 28, 1878. Borealis and OPP Petroqumica S.A. of the Odebrecht Group agree to establish a joint venture compounding company in Brazil. He could not believe I would hold back such irrelevant secrets the night before I faced possible death."[42][43].
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