This Month. AFPM Annual Meeting. Houston Go Texan Day Beijing Award Ceremony Order Up! New Employees Happy Birthdays. Vol. 5, Issue 3, March 2015

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1 GTC Technology US, LLC, 1001 S. Dairy Ashford Rd. Ste. 500, Houston, TX 77077, USA This Month AFPM Annual Meeting Vol. 5, Issue 3, Houston Go Texan Day Beijing Award Ceremony Order Up! New Employees Happy Birthdays

GTC at AFPM Annual Meeting David Bridgeman and Ilya Aranovich recently represented GTC

Joe Gentry and Weihua Jen, while Ilya presented Isomalk Technologies for C5-C6 and C-7 Light

2 GTC at AFPM Annual Meeting David Bridgeman and Ilya Aranovich recently represented GTC Technology at the AFPM (American Fuel and Petrochemical Manufacturers) Annual Meeting in San Antonio. David made a presentation, GT-BTX PluS : Generating Aromatics from FCC Gasoline, authored by Joe Gentry and Weihua Jen, while Ilya presented Isomalk Technologies for C5-C6 and C-7 Light Naphtha Isomerization. Both presentations were featured as articles in the Conference Daily, published by Hydrocarbon Processing magazine that was provided to all of the delegates each morning.

3 Go Texan Day at GTC Houston GTC Houston likes to celebrate Go Texan Day every year with a barbeque lunch, cowboy hats and boots, and our own Wild West Olympics. Yahoo! Here To Go Wue Yu, at left, won the always intense Bean Bag Toss competition. Cowgirls at the O-Kay Corral Please stay behind the line Typical Cowboy at the Watering Hole

GTC Beijing Employee Recognition Awards GTC Beijing held its annual party

Each year, the staff votes among themselves on five different employee

The awards were presented by Zhepeng Liu, President-GTC Beijing: Hai Wang

believe that the walnut is good for the brain) Most Detail-Oriented Kelay

(prize: money envelopes, so she can give more ) Lucy Gu Most Easy-Going

as soft as her character) Most Submissive Eric Zhang (prize: earphones to

4 GTC Beijing Employee Recognition Awards GTC Beijing held its annual party before the Chinese New Year break in February. Each year, the staff votes among themselves on five different employee awards. The awards were presented by Zhepeng Liu, President-GTC Beijing: Hai Wang Kelay Yang Most Knowledgeable Hai Wang (prize: walnuts - the Chinese believe that the walnut is good for the brain) Most Detail-Oriented Kelay Yang (prize: a magnifierto see all those details) Most Generous Lucy Gu (prize: money envelopes, so she can give more ) Lucy Gu Most Easy-Going Guojing Liang Guojing Liang (prize: fabric softener-to make her clothes as soft as her character) Most Submissive Eric Zhang (prize: earphones to help him hear orders clearer on the phone) Eric Zhang In addition, Eric and Guojing were each awarded an extra day of annual leave as they had the best attendance record in 2014.

American Style Diner Slang In America, a diner is a restaurant offering a wide range of foods, mostly American, a casual atmosphere, a counter, and late operating hours.

There is often an emphasis on breakfast foods such as eggs (including omelets), waffles, pancakes, and French toast. Some diners serve these "breakfast foods" throughout the business day.

The cooks and the waiters/waitresses communicate with each other by a means of a kind of verbal slang that vividly describes the food, sometimes referred to as Diner Lingo.

Bowl of red A bowl of chili, so called for its deep red color 6. Bowwow A hot dog 7. Burn one Put a hamburger on the grill 8. Cowboy A western-style omelet or sandwich 9. Cow feed A salad 10.

5 American Style Diner Slang In America, a diner is a restaurant offering a wide range of foods, mostly American, a casual atmosphere, a counter, and late operating hours. Diners almost invariably serve food such as hamburgers, French fries, club sandwiches, and other simple fare. Much of the food is grilled. There is often an emphasis on breakfast foods such as eggs (including omelets), waffles, pancakes, and French toast. Some diners serve these "breakfast foods" throughout the business day. Coffee is ubiquitous at diners, if not always of high quality. The food is usually quite inexpensive. The cooks and the waiters/waitresses communicate with each other by a means of a kind of verbal slang that vividly describes the food, sometimes referred to as Diner Lingo. The following are some of the names and phrases you might hear as wait staff gives an order to the cooks: 1. Axle grease Butter 2. Moo juice Milk 3. City juice Water 4. Birdseed Cereal 5. Bowl of red A bowl of chili, so called for its deep red color 6. Bowwow A hot dog 7. Burn one Put a hamburger on the grill 8. Cowboy A western-style omelet or sandwich 9. Cow feed A salad 10. Crowd Three of anything (Two's company, three's a crowd) 11. Deadeye Poached egg 12. Dog biscuit Cracker 13. Go for a walk An order to be packed and taken out 14. Hemorrhage Ketchup 15. High and dry A plain sandwich without butter, mayonnaise, etc. 16. Houseboat A banana split made with ice cream and sliced bananas 17. In the alley Serve as a side dish 18. Irish turkey Corned beef and cabbage 19. Java or Joe Coffee 20. Lumber A toothpick 21. Mike and Ike or the twins Salt and pepper shakers 22. On the hoof Meat done rare 23. Put out the lights and cry Liver and onions 24. Sinkers and suds Doughnuts and coffee 25. Wreck 'em Scramble the eggs

6 Welcome to GTC Jane Van Eerden Operations Research Analyst Houston Shawn Lin Operations Research Analyst Houston Louiza Rezzik Engineering Project Adm. Assistant Houston Jae-Ho Han Mechanical Design Engineer Seoul Jae-Hwan Jeong Mechanical Design Engineer Seoul Ui-Soon Park Mechanical Design Engineer Seoul Sang-Bong Shin Shop Manager Ma-Nool Lym Hardware Packing Min-Oh Kim NCT Operator

7 Happy April Birthdays! 4/1 Joseph Chiu Houston Robby Chong Singapore 4/2 Bong-Joo Park 4/6 Soon-Jin Ha 4/7 Xueling Feng Beijing 4/9 Jae-Hwan Jeong Seoul Alahakoon Mudiyanselage 4/11 Anil Khatri Delhi 4/12 Joe Weller Houston 4/13 Pavel Babocky Brno 4/19 Ji-Heon Jeong (Roy) Seoul Jianya Zheng (Jen) Beijing 4/20 ZhongYi Ding Houston Sang-Bong Shin 4/25 Kim Kellogg Houston 4/27 Joveen Ng Singapore

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CALIFORNIA KIWIFRUIT COMMISSION BI- MONTHLY REPORT SOUTH KOREA ~ November 13 th, 2009 Import Most importers reduced the import volume of fresh fruits in October, choosing to source locally grown product.