Abstract: A decoration article secured to the ends of an upper beam of a Venetian blind is mainly made up of a decoration unit, and a fixing mount wherein the decoration unit has a decoration piece disposed at one side to increase the overall beauty of the Venetian blind in display, and a retaining tube with screw locking hole disposed at the other side thereof to be securely engaged with a hollow coupling tube of the fixing mount for location thereof. The fixing mount also includes a horizontal contact plate to be attached to the lower side at the ends of a wooden or plastic upper beam or to the upper side of a metallic upper beam of a Venetian blind thereof.

Abstract: Caustic requirements are substantially reduced in the treatment of epoxidate from olefin/ethylbenzene hydroperoxide epoxidation by treating the epoxidate products with an aqueous stream comprised of alkali metal carbonate, separating a phenol-containing 1-phenyl ethanol fraction from the treated expodiate, separating phenol from the 1-phenyl ethanol fraction by treatment with basic anion exchange resin, regenerating the resin with aqueous alkali metal hydroxide, and converting alkali metal hydroxide from the resin regeneration to alkali metal carbonate for use in the epoxidate treatment.