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Subaru took its Impreza Sport hatchback, raised it some, jazzed it up with fender cladding, lowered the front scoop, and added some neat wheels and cool colors like Tangerine Orange Pearl.
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This is a vehicle like no other. It has virtually no direct competitor. The Suzuki SX4 also has the 4-wheel-drive and is a few grand less on the sticker. But I think Crosstrek will carve out a little niche for itself, especially for the young and active who go for the rugged.
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Price as tested: $27,290
EPA fuel economy: 25 mpg city, 33 highway
Engine: 2.0 liter, four cylinder
Power: 148 horsepower at 6,200 rpm
Maximum cargo capacity: 51.9 cubic feet
Height: 63.6 inches
Length: 175.2 inches
Width: 70.1 inches
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You girls are so sweet to always check up on me! But...I didn't post a Wednesday Weigh-In because it was bad news. Well, not really bad news...I wasn't suprised or anything...just not "good news". It was 147. What really gets me is that on Saturday morning after my big 2 hour work out, I got on the scale and it said 144. I was so excited. Then come Wednesday, it was back up to 147. What the heck?
I am just so fed up with this whole thing. Really. I feel like I am on the top of a fence teetering back and forth. If I fall off on the left side, I will quit this whole thing and just be satisfied to be at 147 forever. If I fall off on the other side, I am about ready to just develop an eating disorder and get it over with. I mean, this trying and trying and seeing no results is about to make me nuts. What's even worse..is I know I could lose the weight if I would be super-strict on my calories again and write everything down and keep it to 1200 or less...but I just can't seem to do it right now. I am so busy this month with parties and gatherings and shopping and programs at school, etc...it's just not realistic to try to do that. (SIGH...) I just don't know. I am so fickle. One minute I am telling myself "That it!!! I am going to lose this stinkin' weight" and in the next minute I am saying "You know what? Who CARES? I am a mother and a wife..not a supermodel."
Anyway, that's what's up with me and the whole weight department right now.
Congrats to you Kate for breaking 145 though! That's terrific!! What are you doing? Maybe I should just copy you!
Kandy, thanks for the "challenge" you have set before me to get to 135 by Valentines Day. I know I can do it...I just have to see if I will. If only I could afford a personal trainer and personal chef!!! ha ha
Thursday, December 06, 2007
For Kate & KC...
You girls are so sweet to always check up on me! But...I didn't post a Wednesday Weigh-In because it was bad news. Well, not really bad news...I wasn't suprised or anything...just not "good news". It was 147. What really gets me is that on Saturday morning after my big 2 hour work out, I got on the scale and it said 144. I was so excited. Then come Wednesday, it was back up to 147. What the heck?
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- Kate said...
oh, sorry to hear you had a bad week. really, all I've done is get back to doing cardio since I can't lift weights, cut my calories to 1200, and increase my water intake since it's been so dry outside. may sound like a weird question, but, is it that time of the month? i know I have about a 5 pound range during that week,so maybe that could be it? I also cut out the little trips to the M&M bowl and the little bites - they all add up! i eat much less when I eat slowly and really enjoy what I'm eating, not just b/c I'm bored or it's nearby. that's always been a struggle for me. i'm rootin for ya!! are you going to get the BL dvd's when they come out?
Like you, it often goes through my head, why am I trying to achieve a certain # if it means such a great amount of work to keep it up??? but the truth is, when I look better, I feel better and there's nothing my hubby loves more than me loving my body and me having confidence in myself. keep it up, but don't sweat a bad week :)
- Amos said...
Ok, I have no real scientific anything to say this other than Kim the trainer on the Biggest Loser. So I know you are not on the 1200 calorie diet thing, but if you are doing a 2 hour workout, wouldn't you need more calories than that? Remember what she was telling B? Really no idea if that is the case, but it's the first thing that came into my head when I read the calorie thing.
- KC said...
hey Girl, don't give up on yourself. Just hang in there and keep working out no matter what the scale says.
I put on a pair of pants that usually fit like a glove, and I actually had trouble keeping them up! My weight hasn't changed, and it was that time of the month! So I know I am replacing fat with muscle! woo-hoo! So who cares what the scale says, as long as you are getting muscular and strong and losing body fat, then you are on the right track! :) But I'll still send you $20 if you meet your challenge! I want a digital picture of the scale too...to prove it! haha :)
Love ya girlfriend!
- MLM said...
I'm still rooting and praying for you!


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PETRONAS, short for Petroliam Nasional Berhad, is a Malaysian oil and gas company that was founded on 17 August 1974. Wholly owned by the Government of Malaysia, the corporation is vested with the entire oil and gas resources in Malaysia and is entrusted with the responsibility of developing and adding value to these resources. PETRONAS is ranked among Fortune Global 500's largest corporations in the world. Fortune ranks PETRONAS as the 75th largest company in the world in 2013. It also ranks PETRONAS as the 12th most profitable company in the world and the most profitable in Asia.[3][4][5]
Since its incorporation, PETRONAS has grown to be an integrated international oil and gas company with business interests in 35 countries. As of the end of March 2005, the PETRONAS Group comprised 103 wholly owned subsidiaries, 19 partly owned outfits and 57 associated companies. Together, these companies make the PETRONAS Group, which is involved in various oil and gas based activities. The OECD.
The group is engaged in a wide spectrum of petroleum activities, including upstream exploration and production of oil and gas to downstream oil refining; marketing and distribution of petroleum products; trading; gas processing and liquefaction; gas transmission pipeline network operations; marketing of liquefied natural gas; petrochemical manufacturing and marketing; shipping; automotive engineering; and property investment.
PETRONAS provides a substantial source of income for the Malaysian government, with 45% of the government's budget dependent on PETRONAS' dividend, moreover in 2011 government actual balance has 5 percent deficit of Gross Domestic Product.[7]
The company is headquartered at the Petronas Towers which was officially opened on Malaysia's 42nd National Day, 31 August 1998 – in the corporation's 24th Anniversary year.
On 26 February 2015, Petronas cut its 2015 capital expenditures budget after reporting a $2 billion fourth quarter loss, the company's first loss since it began reporting quarterly results five years ago.[8]
PETRONAS was not the first company to extract oil or gas in Malaysia. It was Royal Dutch Shell that began the oil exploration in Sarawak, then under the White Rajahs, at the end of the 19th century. In 1910, the first oil well was drilled in Miri, Sarawak. This became the first oil producing well known as the Grand Old Lady. Shell was still the only oil company in the area in 1963, when the Federation of Malaya, having achieved independence from Britain six years before, united with Sarawak and Sabah, both on the island of Borneo, and became Malaysia. The authorities in the two new states retained their links with Royal Dutch Shell, which brought Malaysia's first offshore oil field onstream in 1968.
Meanwhile, the federal government turned to Esso, Continental Oil, and Mobil, licensing exploration off the state of Terengganu, in the Malay Peninsula, the most populous region and the focus of federal power. By 1974, however, only Esso was still in the area. It made its first discoveries of natural gas in that year and then rapidly made Terengganu a bigger producer of oil than either Sarawak or Sabah. By 1974, Malaysia's output of crude oil stood at about 81,000 barrels per day (12,900 m3/d).
Several factors converged in the early 1970s to prompt the Malaysian government into setting up a state oil and gas company, as first proposed in its Five Year Plan published in 1971. Former Chief Minister of Sarawak, Tun Abdul Rahman Ya'kub was one of the people who proposed the idea of Malaysia setting up their own oil company.[9] These were years in which power in the world oil industry began to shift away from the majors, which then controlled more than 90% of the oil trade, toward the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), as well as a proliferation of new private and state companies joining in the search for reserves. By 1985, the majors, reduced in number from seven to five, were producing less than 20% of the world total. It seemed that Malaysia would either have to join the trend or continue to leave its oil and gas entirely to Royal Dutch/Shell and Esso, multinational corporations necessarily attuned to the requirements of their directors and shareholders, rather than to the priorities the government of a developing country might seek to realise.
Further, an agreement between Malaysia and International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank. Setting up a state oil and gas company, through which the government could get international capital but avoid tangling with foreign oil companies or governments, had worked for Indonesia: why not for Malaysia as well? The oil crisis of 1973–74 made the government even more aware of Malaysia's dependence on foreign oil and foreign capital in general.
Another factor in the decision was that the technology had recently been developed for extensive exploration and drilling offshore. The local geography included a combination of broad basins of sedimentary rock with calm and shallow waters around the Sunda Shelf, making exploration for gas and oil relatively easier and more successful than in most areas of the world. Malaysian crude turned out to be mostly high quality with low sulphur content.
A final and crucial factor in the creation of PETRONAS, and its continuation in much the same form since, has been the political stability of Malaysia. Since the restoration of parliament in 1971, the country has been ruled by the National Front (Barisan Nasional), the heirs to the Alliance Party which had been dominant from 1957 to 1969 and the originators in 1971 of the New Economic Policy, which was designed to improve the economic position of Bumiputras—native Malays and other natives in Sabah and Sarawak—relative to Chinese and Indian Malaysians and to foreign corporations. The difficulties this policy has caused for foreign companies and investors are outweighed by the benefits they believe they gain from Malaysia's political stability.
The Malaysian government chose to create a state company, rather than using taxes, production limits, leasing, or other familiar instruments of supervision. The government wanted, and needed, the co-operation of the majors but also sought to assert national rights over the use of the country's resources. A state company, having both supervisory powers over the majors and production activities of its own, was a workable compromise between allowing the majors full rein and excluding them, along with their capital and expertise, altogether.
PETRONAS was established in August 1974 and operates under the terms of the Petroleum Development Act passed in October 1974. It was modelled on Pertamina, the Indonesian state oil and gas company founded in 1971 in succession to Permina, which had been set up in 1958. According to the 1971 plan, PETRONAS' goals would be to safeguard national sovereignty over oil and gas reserves, to plan for both present and future national need for oil and gas, to take part in distributing and marketing petroleum and petrochemical products at reasonable prices, to encourage provision of plant, equipment, and services by Malaysian companies, to produce nitrogenous fertilisers, and to spread the benefits of the petroleum industry throughout the nation.
On 6 September 1974, Malaysia's then prime minister, Tun Abdul Razak, announced the appointment of Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah as chairman and chief executive of PETRONAS. Tun Razak said: "From among the new blood, I intended to bring Tengku Razaleigh into the Cabinet. However, I have an important job for him, a job as important as that of a Cabinet Minister. I have decided to appoint him as chairman and chief executive of PETRONAS, which is equivalent to being a Cabinet Minister.".[10] Subsequently, Razaleigh had to relinquish his job as Chairman of PERNAS which he held from 1970, but retained the chairmanship of Bank Bumiputra.
Having created PETRONAS, the government had to choose what forms its dealings with private oil companies would take. Starting with its legal monopoly on oil and gas activities and resources, it had several options: it could simply award concessions without taking part in production, management, or profits; it could try offering services at the supply end; or it could make contracts to cover profit-sharing, production-sharing, joint ventures—sharing both profits and costs—or all stages of the process, under "carried-interest" contracts. PETRONAS' first move was to negotiate the replacement of the leases granted to Royal Dutch/Shell on Borneo and to Esso in the Peninsula with production-sharing contracts, which have been the favoured instrument, alongside joint ventures, ever since. These first contracts came into effect in 1976. Allowing for royalties to both federal and state governments, and for cost recovery arrangements, they laid down that the remainder would go 70% to PETRONAS and 30% to the foreign company. Esso began oil production in two offshore fields in 1978, exporting its share of the supply, unlike PETRONAS, whose share was consumed within the country.
PETRONAS went downstream for the first time in 1976, when it was chosen by the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) to begin construction on the second ASEAN joint industrial project, a urea plant. The subsidiary, Asean Bintulu Fertiliser (ABF), is based in Sarawak and now exports ammonia and urea all over the world.
Also in 1976, Malaysia became a net exporter of oil, but exports were at such a low level as to make the country ineligible to join OPEC. This situation benefited Malaysia, and PETRONAS, by allowing the company a degree of commercial and political flexibility and reinforcing PETRONAS' chief purpose, Malaysian self-reliance.
PETRONAS supervised its foreign partners' oil activities, taking no direct role in production until 1978, when the government saw to the creation of a subsidiary for oil exploration and production, PETRONAS Carigali. It began its work in an oil field off the Peninsula. PETRONAS retained its supervisory powers over all oil and gas ventures, particularly on issues of health and safety and environmental control.
The government was determined to develop Malaysia's natural gas as well as its oil Shipping Company (MISC), of which it owned 61%. These were to take LNG exports out of Malaysia, save the cost of hiring foreign tankers, and expand the country's fleet under its own control—in contrast to cargo shipping, which was controlled by international conferences. Shell BV, the Royal Dutch/Shell subsidiary that was building the LNG plant off Sarawak with Japanese and Asian Development Bank aid, accepted production sharing with PETRONAS but baulked at sharing equity, transport management, or refining. Negotiations went on, pushing commencement further and further back, until 1977, when PETRONAS and the government, faced with the costs of maintaining the tankers between delivery and first use, surrendered management rights—leading to a repeal of part of the Petroleum Development Act—and settled for PETRONAS' taking 60% of equity in the new company Malaysia LNG. The Sarawak state government took 5%, and the other 35% was divided equally between Shell BV and the Mitsubishi Corporation. Production of LNG in Sarawak at last began in 1983.
After negotiations lasting from 1977 to 1982, PETRONAS had concluded contracts with Tokyo Electric Power and Tokyo Gas for the sale and delivery of LNG through to the year 2003. Malaysia LNG was to send almost the entire output of its Bintulu gas fields to Japan, under these contracts and another one, signed in 1990, to supply Saibu Gas of Fukuoka, in southwestern Japan, for 20 years from 1993.
When in 1982 PETRONAS Carigali formed an exploration and production company with Société National Elf Aquitaine of France, it allowed Elf better terms for recovering costs than it had offered in earlier ventures. This development came against the background of the government's imposition of a depletion policy on PETRONAS, Royal Dutch Shell, and Esso in an attempt to postpone the exhaustion of oil reserves. These were then estimated to be about 2.84 billion barrels (452,000,000 m3), and it was officially predicted that by the late 1980s Malaysia would be a net oil importer once again. By 1980, oil and gas already represented 24% of Malaysian exports, and the government decided to impose a tax on these exports at a 25% rate. The new policy and the new tax combined to cause Malaysia's output and exports of crude oil to fall in 1981 for the first time since PETRONAS was established. Output rose again, beyond its 1980 level, in the following year, but exports took until 1984 to surpass their 1980 level.
However, the depletion policy was being undermined by external circumstances. Through the early 1980s, a worldwide oil glut, which OPEC proved unable to control, forced the Malaysian government to increase production to offset deterioration in its balance of increased payments to a deficit of $1 billion. It became clear that this could only be sustained by relaxing the conditions for joint ventures between PETRONAS and the major oil companies. In 1982, the PETRONAS–government share, which had risen to 80%, was cut to 70%, and taxes on company income were also cut.
PETRONAS went into refining and distribution in 1983. It initiated the construction of refineries at Malacca and at Kerteh to reduce its dependence on Royal Dutch/Shell's two refineries at Port Dickson and Esso's refinery in Sarawak. These two majors, and other foreign companies, already covered much of the domestic retail market, but the new subsidiary PETRONAS Dagangan was given the initial advantage of preference in the location of its stations. By 1990, 252 service stations carried the PETRONAS brand, all but 20 on a franchise basis, and another 50 were planned. Some were set up on grounds of social benefit rather than of strict commercial calculation.
As production from Royal Dutch/Shell and Esso's existing fields moved nearer depletion, the companies sought new fields and new contracts. In 1985, the government and PETRONAS revised the standard production-sharing contract, increasing the rate of recovery of capital costs from 30% to 50% of gross production in the case of oil and from 35% to 60% in the case of natural gas, abolishing signature, discovery, and production bonus payments and increasing the foreign partners' share of the profits. At first the drastic fall in oil prices during 1986, which cut Malaysia's income from exported oil by more than a third even though the volume of exports rose by 16%, discouraged interest in the new arrangements, but by 1989 PETRONAS had signed 22 new contracts with 31 companies from 11 countries. However, the contract period was still restricted to five years—compared, for example, with the 35-year contracts available in neighbouring Singapore—and there was still a 25% levy on exported crude oil, a measure that was intended to promote the domestic refining industry. These conditions, cited as disincentives to foreign investment, were eventually relaxed over the next several years.
The government and PETRONAS aimed to encourage the replacement of fast-depleting oil within Malaysia itself and simultaneously to foster heavy industries which could help reduce the country's overwhelming dependence on exporting its natural resources. In 1980, petroleum products accounted for 88% of the country's commercial consumption of energy, the rest being provided from hydroelectric plants in Sarawak, too far away from the main population centres to become a major alternative. Five years later, gas accounted for 17%, hydroelectricity for 19%, coal for 2%, and petroleum products for 62% of such consumption, and about half of each year's gas output was being consumed in Malaysia.
The PETRONAS venture responsible for this shift in fuel use, and—along with Malaysia LNG—for Malaysia's becoming the third largest producer of LNG in the world, was the Peninsular Gas Utilisation Project (Projek Penggunaan Gas Semenanjung), the aim of which was to supply gas to every part of the Peninsula. Its first stage was completed in 1985, following the success of smaller gasification projects in the states of Sarawak and Sabah, and involved the extraction of gas from three fields in the Natuna Sea, between the Peninsula and the island of Borneo; its processing in a plant at Kertih on the Peninsula's east coast; and its distribution to the state of Terengganu by pipeline and abroad via an export terminal.
PETRONAS' least happy venture was its ownership of the Bank Bumiputra, the second-largest, but least-profitable, of the commercial banks incorporated in Malaysia. PETRONAS spent more than MYR3.5 billion over five years trying to rescue the bank from the impact of the bad loans it had made, starting with its support of the Carrian property group of Hong Kong, which collapsed in 1985, taking the bank's share capital down with it. In 1991, PETRONAS sold the bank back to another state company, Minister of Finance Inc., and announced its intention to concentrate on oil, gas, and associated activities in future.
Just as PETRONAS was disposing of this liability, the crisis caused by the Iraqi regime's invasion of Kuwait culminated in military action against Iraq on behalf of the United Nations. PETRONAS had already raised Malaysia's oil production rate from 605,000 to 650,000 barrels per day (103,000 m3/d) in late 1990 as the crisis unfolded. This move only reinforced the company's awareness of the need to vary its policies, since, with known reserves of 2.94 billion barrels (467,000,000 m3), and assuming no new major finds of oil, Malaysia risked seeing output decline to 350,000 barrels per day (56,000 m3/d) in 2000 and running down to depletion within another five years. This was exacerbated by the possibility that Southeast Asia in general would enjoy rapid economic growth in the 1990s, so that demand for oil there would rise twice as fast as demand in the relatively more sluggish, more mature economies of North America and Europe. The Malaysian government, and its state oil and gas company, was forced to decide what mixture of policies to adopt in response.
Fortunately for Malaysia, exploration was by no means at an end and could yet produce more reserves. The Seligi field, which came onstream at the end of 1988 and was developed by Esso Production Malaysia, was one of the richest oilfields so far found in Malaysia waters, and further concessions to the majors would encourage exploration of the deeper waters around Malaysia, where unknown reserves could be discovered. Meanwhile, computerised seismography made it both feasible and commercially justifiable to re-explore fields which had been abandoned, or were assumed to be unproductive, over the past century. In 1990, PETRONAS invited foreign companies to re-explore parts of the sea off Sabah and Sarawak on the basis of new surveys using up-to-date techniques.
Another way to postpone depletion was to develop sources of oil, and of its substitute, natural gas, outside Malaysia. Late in 1989, the governments of Vietnam and Myanmar (Burma) invited PETRONAS Carigali to take part in joint ventures to explore for oil in their coastal waters. In 1990, a new unit, PETRONAS Carigali Overseas Sdn Bhd, was created to take up a 15% interest in a field in Myanmar's waters being explored by Idemitsu Myanmar Oil Exploration Co. Ltd., a subsidiary of the Japanese firm Idemitsu Oil Development Co. Ltd., in a production sharing arrangement with Myanma Oil and Gas Enterprise. Thus began PETRONAS' first oil exploration outside Malaysia. In May 1990, the governments of Malaysia and Thailand settled a long-running dispute over their respective rights to an area of 7,300 square kilometres in the Gulf of Thailand by setting up a joint administrative authority for the area and encouraging a joint oil exploration project by PETRONAS, the Petroleum Authority of Thailand, and the US company Triton Oil. In a separate deal, in October 1990, the Petroleum Authority of Thailand arranged with PETRONAS to study the feasibility of transferring natural gas from this jointly administered area, through Malaysia to Thailand, by way of an extension of the pipelines laid for the third stage of the Peninsular Gas Utilisation Project.
That project was on course to becoming a major element in the postponement of oil depletion. Contracts for line pipes for the second stage of the project were signed in 1989 with two consortia of Malaysian, Japanese, and Brazilian companies. This stage, completed in 1991, included the laying of 730 kilometres of pipeline through to the tip of the Peninsula, from where gas could be sold to Singapore and Thailand; the conversion of two power stations—Port Dickson and Pasir Gudang—from oil to gas; and the expansion of PETRONAS' output of methyl tert-butyl ether (MTBE), propylene, and polypropylene, which were already being produced in joint ventures with Idemitsu Petrochemical Co. of Japan and Neste Oy of Finland. The third and final stage of the project was to lay pipelines along the northwest and northeast coastlines of the Peninsula and was completed in 1997.
Another new venture in 1990 was in ship-owning, since PETRONAS' existing arrangements with MISC and with Nigeria's state oil company would be inadequate to transport the additional exports of LNG due to start in 1994, under the contract with Saibu Gas. PETRONAS did not lose sight of the government's commitment to Malaysian self-reliance, and the company's second refinery at Malacca, completed in 1994, with a capacity of 100,000 barrels per day (16,000 m3/d), promoted the same policy. The fact that it was built in a joint venture with Samsung of Korea, the Chinese Petroleum Corporation of Taiwan, and Caltex of the United States did not negate the policy, for the subsidiary company PETRONAS Penapisan (Melaka) had a decisive 45% of equity while sharing the enormous costs of and gaining advanced technology for the project. More to the point, a side effect of the refinery's completion was that PETRONAS was able to refine all of the crude oil it produced, instead of being partially dependent on refining facilities in Singapore.
PETRONAS, with its policies of promoting self-reliance, helping to develop associated industries, and varying the sources and uses of oil and gas, played an important role in the Malaysian economy as a whole. Under governments which—by current, if not historical, Western standards—were strongly interventionist, the contribution of oil taxes to the federal government's revenue hovered at around 12% to 16% until 1980, when it showed a marked increase to 23%, followed by another leap to 32% in 1981. From then until 1988 the proportion fluctuated between 29% and 36%. PETRONAS was not just another big oil company: it controlled a crucial sector of the economy and remained, for better or worse, an indispensable instrument of the state.
During the mid- to late 1990s, international exploration, development, and production remained key components in PETRONAS' strategy along with diversification. A key discovery was made in the Ruby field in Vietnam in 1994. That year, the firm also saw its first overseas production from the Dai Hung field in Vietnam and established its first retail station outside of Malaysia in Cambodia. In 1995, a subsidiary was created to import, store, and distribute liquefied petroleum gas (LPG). In addition, the company's polyethylene plant in Kerteh began operations. PETRONAS marked a significant milestone during this time period—two of its subsidiaries, PETRONAS Dagangan Bhd and PETRONAS Gas Bhd, went public on the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange. Between 1993 and 1996, it purchased the former sub-Saharaian branch of Mobil Oil, rebranded as Engen Petroleum.
In 1996, PETRONAS entered the aromatics market by way of a joint venture that created Aromatics Malaysia Sdn Bhd. It also formed a contract with China National Offshore Oil Corporation and Chevron Overseas Petroleum Ltd. to begin exploration of block 02/31 of the Liaodong Bay area in China. While the Asian economy as a whole suffered from an economic crisis during 1997 and 1998, Malaysia was quick to bounce back due to successful government reforms. From its new headquarters in the PETRONAS Twin Towers, the state-owned concern continued its development in the oil and gas industry. Soon India's Liberty Group purchased a 1% stake in Petronas
During 1997, PETRONAS heightened its diversification efforts. The firm set plans in motion to build three petrochemical plants in Kuantan as well as an acetic facility in Kerteh. Its first LPG joint venture in China was launched that year and the company acquired a 29.3% interest in Malaysia International Shipping Corporation Berhad (MISC). In 1998, PETRONAS' tanker-related subsidiary merged with MISC, increasing PETRONAS' stake in MISC to 62%. That year, PETRONAS introduced the Petronas E01, the country's first commercial prototype engine. The company also signed a total of five new production sharing contracts (PSCs) in 1998 and 1999, and began oil production in the Sirri field in Iran.
PETRONAS entered the new century determined to expand its international efforts. The company forged deals for two new exploration plots in Pakistan and began construction on the Chad-Cameroon Integrated Oil Development and Pipeline Project. By 2002, PETRONAS had signed seven new PSCs and secured stakes in eight exploration blocks in eight countries, including Gabon, Cameroon, Niger, Egypt, Yemen, Indonesia, and Vietnam. The firm also made considerable progress in its petrochemicals strategy, opening new gas-based petrochemical facilities in Kerteh and Gebeng.
By 2003, Malaysia was set to usurp Algeria as the world's second-largest producer of LNG with the completion of the Malaysia LNG Tiga Plant. Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad commented on the achievement in a May 2003 Bernama News Agency article, claiming that "the PETRONAS LNG complex now serves as another shining example of a vision realized of a national aspiration, transformed into reality by the same belief among Malaysians that 'we can do it.'" Indeed, PETRONAS had transformed itself into a global oil company over the previous decade, becoming a national symbol for success. The company realised, however, that it would have to continue its aggressive growth strategy to insure its survival in the years to come.
The PETRONAS overseas expansion drive continues with the acquisition of Woodside Energy Ltd Mauritania assets for $418 million in 2007.[11] The venture proved successful as they discovered oil in May 2008[12]
In 2004, Minister in the Prime Minister's Department, Datuk Mustapa Mohamed, stated that PETRONAS contributed RM 25 Billion to the country's treasury accounting for 25% of revenue collected via dividends and other revenues. PETRONAS continuously provides the Malaysian government dividends from its profits. Since inception in 1974, PETRONAS have paid the government RM 403.3 billion, with RM 67.6 billion in 2008. The payment represents 44% of the 2008 federal government revenue.[13] PETRONAS continues to focus on international exploration projects as 40% of revenue in 2008 was derived from international projects such as Iran, Sudan, Chad and Mauritania. The company's international reserves stood at 6.24 billion barrels oil equivalent in 2008.[14]
On 29 October 2012, PETRONAS sources said it will renew a bid for gas producer Progress Energy Resources after Canada blocked its bid earlier that month. The $6-billion bid was approved by Ottawa on 7 December 2012.[15]
On 17 January 2013, PETRONAS issued a statement that an onshore oil and gas discovery has been made in the state after drilling a test well about 20 kilometres away from the city of Miri in northern Sarawak. The well was found to have a net hydrocarbon thickness of 349 meters. It had flow rates of 440 barrels of crude oil per day and 11.5 million standard cubic feet of gas per day. The find is the first onshore oil discovery in Malaysia in 24 years. [16]
On May 2, 2015 PETRONAS completed its acquisition of oil and gas assets in Azerbaijan from Norway's Statoil for US$2.25 billion.[17]
Petronas' logo was created in 1974 by Dato Johan Ariff of Johan Design Associates.[18] He is also responsible in creating the Logo of many Petronas subsidiaries, JVs, link-companies and properties, including Kuala Lumpur City Centre (KLCC), MISC, MMHE, Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS (UTP), Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre, Putrajaya Holdings, Prince Court Medical Centre (PCMC), PETLIN, Malaysian Petroleum Club and Mesra Mall, to name a few.
The basic structure is geometric, embodying metaphoric and alpha glyphic nuances of an oil drop and a typography 'P', the latter being evident in the triangle assigned at the top right corner. The triangle is also an essential element to define directional movement and dynamism. The placement of a solid circle in the Logo is interpretive if the wheel of the oil and gas industry while outline of the drop simulates a driving system, the energy which to be derived from oil.
The corporate colour chosen for the logo is emerald green, an obvious reference to the sea from where oil and gas are drilled.
The corporate logotype, named "Alpha PETRONAS", is designed in uppercase exclusively for Petronas and its subsidiaries. Each alphabet is rendered with a rounded profile to assume fluidity and viscosity, while emphasising the oil based operation.
In 2013, Petronas introduced a refreshed version of its corporate logo[19] at the 2013 Asia Oil and Gas Conference (AOGC 2013). A renewed "look and feel" has been incorporated to the original Petronas' oil drop logo to reflect the visual expression of Petronas' Group Positioning, reimagining energy™. The refreshed logo was part of a group-wide exercise to further strengthen the visual potential of Petronas' corporate icon by making it more contemporary while building on the existing equity and legacy of the Petronas brand.
In essence, the refreshed logo symbolises the growth and progression of the Petronas brand. Petronas was established during the oil and gas crisis in the early 1970s. Over the years it has focused on building its business and operational capabilities and continues to seek more efficient and better methods of managing and adding value to Malaysia's oil and gas resources and meet increasing energy demands. This challenging spirit has propelled Petronas from being a manager of Malaysia's hydrocarbon resources to become a fully integrated oil and gas multinational. The organisation was among the earliest national oil companies (NOC) to venture globally which has inspired many other NOCs to join the global oil and gas arena, changing the dynamics of today's oil and gas industry. PETRONAS will continue to play an active role in oil and gas by focusing on collective efforts to do things differently by challenging industry norms to achieve real sustainable long-term growth. Throughout its journey, Petronas has ensured that people benefit from its activities through business and employment opportunities, education sponsorship and quality products and services.
The refreshed version is Petronas' third generation logo. The original Petronas logo was developed in 1974 when Petronas was first incorporated. The basic structure comprises an oil drop feature and symbol "P" that conveys its core business in oil and gas, and dynamism of the company. At the centre of the oil drop is a solid circle that symbolises the complete cycle or value chain of the oil and gas industry. Meanwhile, the familiar Petronas emerald green represents the seas and land where oil and gas originates. The refreshed logo's softer curves have been added to the oil drop which depicts a continuous flow that symbolises Petronas' drive for progress and challenging spirit in meeting the energy demands and expectations of its stakeholders. The Petronas name has been repositioned below the oil drop and the font has been sharpened to enhance visibility and give prominence to the oil drop in the logo.
PETRONAS has more than 100 subsidiaries and around 40 Joint Venture companies in which PETRONAS has at least 50% stake in the company. Although PETRONAS is considering to listing more of its subsidiaries,[20] so far the company has listed at least 3 of its subsidiaries in the Bursa Malaysia.
Involved in the distribution and sale of finished petroleum products and operations of service stations for the domestic market. The company has over 800 petrol stations around Malaysia as of July 2007[21] and further increase to 870 stations in January 2008[22]
The company has also teamed up with local food and beverage companies, banks and transportation companies to provide better services at their petrol stations. Companies include McDonald's, Kentucky Fried Chicken, Dunkin' Donuts, Konsortium Transnasional Berhad, Maybank, and CIMB Bank.
Involved in the provision of gas processing and transmission services to PETRONAS and its customers as a throughput company. Owns and operates the Peninsular Gas Pipeline which is 2,550 kilometres in length and runs from Kerteh in Terengganu to Johor Bahru in the South and Kangar in the North of Peninsular Malaysia.
Involved in ship-owning, ship-operating and other logistics and maritime transportation services and activities. Currently has the largest fleet of LNG transport vessels
Involved in the development and the management of the Kuala Lumpur City Centre project which includes the Petronas Twin Towers, Menara Exxon Mobil and KLCC Park. Other properties under its care include Dayabumi Complex which located near Dataran Merdeka.
The PETRONAS Chemicals is the latest company to be publicly listed. The IPO was done on 26 November 2010 with investor rise around US$4.40 billion, effectively become one of the largest IPO exercise in South East Asia.[23]
The business is the largest petrochemical producer and seller in South East Asia. Products include olefins, polymers, fertilisers, methanol and other basic chemicals and derivative products[24]
MMHE was listing on 29 October 2010 with MYR 1 billion raised on its IPO exercise.
The business builds offshore structures for oil and gas applications, help repair large vessels and converts vessels into Floating production storage and offloading and FSOs.[25]
Some of the key subsidiaries are:-
Others include PETRONAS Assets Sdn Bhd; PETRONAS Maritime Services Sdn Bhd; PETRONAS Trading Corp. Sdn Bhd; PETRONAS Argentina S.A.; PETRONAS Australia Pty Ltd.; PETRONAS Thailand Co. Ltd.; PETRONAS Energy Philippines Inc.; PETRONAS Cambodia Co. Ltd.; PETRONAS Technical Services Sdn Bhd; PETRONAS Group Technical Solutions Sdn Bhd; PETRONAS South Africa Pty Ltd.; PETRONAS India Holdings Company Pte Ltd.; PETRONAS China Co. Ltd.; PETRONAS International Corp. Ltd.; PETRONAS Marketing Thailand Co. Ltd.; Myanmar PETRONAS Trading Co. Ltd.; PETRONAS Marketing (Netherlands) B.V. and Indianoil Petronas
PETRONAS was one of the main sponsors of the BMW Sauber Formula One team alongside Intel, and it supplies lubricants and fuel to the team. It also owned 40% of Sauber Petronas Engineering, the company that builds chassis which formerly used Ferrari designed engines used by the Sauber team, until being bought out by German motor company BMW. PETRONAS is also the main sponsor for Malaysian Grand Prix, and co-sponsors the Chinese Grand Prix. PETRONAS was the exclusive premium partner of the Sauber Petronas (1995–2005) and BMW Sauber F1 Team (2006–2009). BMW had acquired the controlling stake of the former Sauber Petronas Engineering, but left the sport after the 2009 season. On 21 December 2009, PETRONAS was confirmed as moving from BMW Sauber to the newly formed Mercedes Grand Prix team.[26]
In terms of further Formula One involvement, every year PETRONAS took the BMW Sauber team to various parts of Malaysia for F1 demos so the public who are unable to go to the track itself get to experience a little bit of what F1 offers. Other promotional events are held in the run up to the race and the drivers play an integral part in this so much so that Nick Heidfeld conceded that there were more fans for BMW Sauber in Malaysia than in most other countries.
As part of its corporate social responsibility programme, PETRONAS also brings underprivileged children to watch the race.
PETRONAS also sponsors the Malaysian Cub Prix races. It also sponsors many other sporting events and teams, mostly motorsports. Some of these sponsorships includes the PERT (Petronas EON Rally Team), the now defunct Foggy Petronas Superbike team (in which PETRONAS debutes their own superbike, the FP1), and also the Petronas Adventure Team, a 4X4 adventure team. More recently Petronas is also a major sponsor for PETRONAS TOYOTA TEAM TOM'S which is currently participating in Super GT series, which they won the team title in 2008 and driver title in 2009. The series also race in Malaysia every season at Sepang International Circuit. PETRONAS signed a three-year sponsorship agreement with Fiat Yamaha motoGP team. The PETRONAS branding can be seen starting Qatar race on the 10 to 12 April 2009. PETRONAS also provides fuel for American Le Mans Series Bobby Rahal-owned team BMW Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing as 15% gasoline provider since 2009 until present but PETRONAS remains as minor supplier.
Since 2010, PETRONAS is also the main sponsor of Mercedes Grand Prix team.
PETRONAS awards education sponsorships in the form of convertible loans to Malaysian and international students to further their studies at local or foreign universities. The PETRONAS unit that is responsible for handling education matters is called the Sponsorship & Talent Sourcing Unit (STS). These sponsorships are awarded based on academic results, co-curricular activities, family background as well as an assessment of student personality (which is conducted throughout a program called EduCamp, which all prospective PETRONAS students are required to undergo). Students who are absorbed by PETRONAS at the end of their tertiary studies have their convertible loans converted into full scholarships. These students are under contract agreement to work for the company for two years for every one year they are sponsored. PETRONAS has its own university, Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS (UTP). Built in 1997, the campus is located in Seri Iskandar, Perak.
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OHCHR Human Rights Programme for Africa
Establishment of the Human Rights Resource Centre at the Oliver Tambo
Law Library, University of Pretoria, South Africa
18 August 2011: Publication: 'la justice transitionnelle: une voie vers
la reconciliation et la construction d'une paix durable', Conference
paper 1/2011, Dealing with the past.
Bi-monthly publication on human rights and democracy in the sub region:
July 2011
10 years
at the service of Central Africa
Country Mandates Established
by the CHR/HRC
Standing invitations to Special Procedures
Regional Members of the Human Rights Council:
Angola 2020
Burkina Faso 2021
Cameroon 2021
Democratic Republic of the Congo 2020
Eritrea 2021
Nigeria 2020
Rwanda 2019
Senegal 2020
Somalia 2021
South Africa 2019
Togo 2021
Voluntary Pledges and Commitments
The UN Subregional Centre for Human Rights and Democracy in Central Africa was established in 2001 pursuant to General Assembly Resolution 54/55 A of 1 December 1999, at the request of Member States of the Economic Community of Central African States to strengthen security, stability and development in Central Africa by promoting respect for human rights and democracy. The Centre covers Angola, Burundi, the Central African Republic, Cameroon, Chad, the Republic of the Congo, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Rwanda and Sao Tome and Principe. Covering the four countries where OHCHR does not have a presence (the Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, and Sao Tome and Principe) has proved to be one of the Centre's greatest challenges.
The Centre's priorities include strengthening the rule of law and democracy, increasing awareness on human rights issues through human rights training and education programmes, disseminating human rights materials, building the capacity of governments, parliamentarians, the police and civil society organizations, supporting the establishment of national human rights institutions, and advocating for a human rights-based approach to UN programming in the subregion.
Most countries in Central Africa have ratified the key human rights treaties and made public pledges to implement them domestically, although much remains to be done in terms of transforming international obligations into domestic law. While human rights and democracy challenges persist, some countries enjoy a relatively high degree of political freedom and fundamental liberties and governments broadly tolerate activities aimed at sensitizing the population about their rights. However, such liberties are restricted in several countries. Internal and external conflicts have been used as a pretext to restrict human rights. Many minorities face discrimination in accessing social, economic and cultural rights, particularly in terms of education, health and housing. Exploitation of resources is a major issue, especially as communities are being displaced. Torture, child trafficking, slavery and sexual exploitation continue to be reported from some parts of the subregion.
Most countries of the subregion have established national human rights institutions based on the Paris Principles, while others have created institutions within government departments or ministries to improve human rights promotion and protection. Some of these institutions have addressed specific human rights cases and trends and have been instrumental in the promotion of human rights, but generally appear to shy away from dealing with sensitive or high profile cases. Elections have been taking place periodically in most countries and the democratic space generally seems to be expanding, but more progress needs to take place. Some parts of the subregion have a vibrant civil society,which has helped open up the political space and encouraged a constructive human rights dialogue. Nonetheless, in some countries, journalists and human rights defenders have been restricted in their work, and there have been arrests of leading human rights figures.
Throughout 2007 in particular, the work undertaken in the field of democracy and human rights,mainly on the fight against impunity, prevention of torture, discrimination, human rights training programmes on gender issues and transitional justice, raised the Centre's profile throughout Central Africa, enabling it to expand its network of partners. The adoption of the High Commissioner's Strategic Management Plan for 2006-2007 led to the development of a three-year strategy for the Centre (2007-2009) aimed at strengthening collaboration with the UN Country Teams and ECCAS Member States, and building fruitful partnerships with national human rights institutions, civil society organizations, the media and the diplomatic community to promote and protect human rights and democracy in Central Africa.
During 2008-2009, the Centre will engage more actively in Chad in addition to Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon and the Republic of the Congo. Chad will be included in all regional capacity-building initiatives related specifically to conflict prevention, conflict resolution, peace and security.
In the Central African Republic, the Centre will provide support to the human rights component of the United Nations Peace-building Office (BONUCA) in informationgathering initiatives and public reporting, and will facilitate contacts with international organizations based in Central Africa,mainly in Cameroon.
The Centre will continue its activities in Cameroon, aimed at strengthening the capacity of parliamentarians to develop broad participation of the population in democratic processes. The Centre will also address the issues of impunity, discrimination, torture and administration of justice. As part of its efforts to help alleviate poverty, the Centre will foster cooperation with the UN Country Team to address gender-based violence and promote women's rights and the right to education, particularly for young girls in northern Cameroon.
The Centre will pursue its efforts in Gabon toward strengthening the capacity and knowledge of Government officials and the growing number of civil society organizations to monitor and respond to human rights violations. The Centre will deliver human rights training programmes for the police, judiciary, security forces and prison officials to strengthen their knowledge in applying human rights standards, particularly the provisions of the Convention against Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment or Punishment. The Centre will also develop sensitization programmes, in collaboration with the Ministry of Communication, to increase awareness about human rights issues and knowledge of international and regional human rights mechanisms.
The Centre will also conduct an assessment mission to Equatorial Guinea to collect data on the human rights situation and explore ways of addressing the more pressing human rights abuses, with particular focus on migrants' rights, gender-based violence, women's education, prevention of torture, and detention conditions.
As a follow-up to the mission conducted in the Republic of the Congo in October 2007, the Centre will continue to support the establishment of a national human rights commission in compliance with the Paris Principles, and intensify its efforts to integrate a rights-based approach in UN Country Team programmes.
Field Operations and Technical Cooperation Division (FOTCD)
Contact in Geneva, Switzerland.
Africa Branch
Tel. +41 22 917 9220
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We're pretty sure your trophy case has nothing on Buster Posey's
Oh, you have back-to-back Little League championship trophies from when you were 6 years old?
First off, why do you still have those? Secondly, you've got absolutely diddly on Buster Posey.
In 2010, the Giants catcher won his first World Series ring and was named the NL Rookie of the Year. This past season, Posey was named NL MVP and 2012 Comeback Player of the Year. In addition, he won his first Silver Slugger Award and was selected as an All-Star. Oh yeah, he also won his second World Series.
Someone get this man another trophy case.
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OK, so I did this because I didn't see much value for SimSynth anymore, and I wanted to find out if it was just because the newer IL, Maxx and NI Komplete plugins were spoiling me.
I have to say that I was surprised at some of the sounds still possible with this old dog...
I tried to avoid the heavy unison stack and the built in chorus effect. Those types of brassy sounds are well represented in the packaged presets and are too recognizable to use IMO.
There are some silly and outdated sounds here yes, but I'm sure there are a few you could use as well. Comments and Crit welcomed.
The demo mp3 plays 2 measure segments of the patches in the order listed below.
The flp file provides every instrument in a channel with three effects variations for consideration of those will little patience
Otherwise, the zip file has the patches only.
Use the patches as you see fit.
[IT-Bass-Sub] Alpha
[IT-Bass-Sub] One
[IT-Bass-Sub] Reinforcement
[IT-Bass] DX-100 Envy
[IT-Bass] Pretty Hollow Machine
[IT-Bass] Squared
[IT-Lead] 1992 Called
[IT-Lead] Ancient Public Service Announcements
[IT-Lead] Chord in the Key of DJ
[IT-Lead] CID 1997
[IT-Lead] Legendary Puppets Arp
[IT-Lead] Low Orbit Dive
[IT-Lead] Major Organ Chord
[IT-Lead] Mini-Vac
[IT-Lead] Minor Organ Chord
[IT-Lead] Moved Out
[IT-Lead] Soft Hexagons
[IT-Lead] Stabby Pulsar
[IT-Lead] TB-WannaBe Arp'd
[IT-Lead] Toy ePiano Octaves
[IT-Lead] UberSaw
[IT-Pad] Band Passive
[IT-Pad] Event Horizon
[IT-Pad] Planetary Traveler
[IT-Pad] Polaris Heterodyned
[IT-Perc] Clap
[IT-Perc] The Neighbor's Hammer
[IT-SFX] Oceanic Starlight S&H
[IT-SFX] Pitfall 6507
[IT-SFX] Shake Chihuahua Shake
[IT-SFX] Shortwave Deadzone
[IT-SFX] Squeaky Dog
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Awesome sounds!! Keep em coming..Well..who woul...
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Thnx 4 ul'ing your work. Much appreciated!
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thanks bro-hem
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Ethier homer in ninth lifts Dodgers back over .500
Solo shot decisive after Nolasco-Strasburg duel, early Hanley dinger
WASHINGTON -- The Dodgers went into the All-Star break on a tear that carried them back into contention from the brink of a lost season. They picked up right where they left off on Friday night in the opener of a three-game series against the Nationals.
Andre Ethier smacked the go-ahead solo home run in the ninth inning, Hanley Ramirez kept up his hot hitting with a two-run shot, and the Dodgers pulled out a 3-2 victory to begin their abbreviated second-half schedule. Los Angeles, which once faced a 9 1/2-game division deficit, moved back over .500 and pulled within 1 1/2 games of the National League West-leading D-backs.
"Short second half, [68 games], but it's one where we know what our goal is, we know who we're chasing right there," Ethier said.
"If this team shows up focused every day and with a purpose and knowing what that purpose is, I think we hopefully can keep seeing special things."
The Dodgers welcomed back Carl Crawford, Yasiel Puig and Mark Ellis on Friday, as all three used the break to recover from minor injuries. With Matt Kemp still two days away from coming off the disabled list, L.A.'s not-quite-full lineup produced just enough, although Crawford and Puig went a combined 0-for-8 in the top two spots of the lineup.
The big addition on Friday was the power-hitting version of Ethier. The two-time All-Star has hit as many as 31 homers in a season, back in 2009, but entered the day with five this year and none since June 11. In 30 games over that span, he hit .333 but without much thump.
That changed when Ethier led off the ninth inning against Nationals closer Rafael Soriano in a 2-2 game. Soriano (1-2) fed him a 1-2 slider that dove down and in below the strike zone, but Ethier golfed it into the first row of the right-field seats.
"I wouldn't say I was looking for it -- just a tough two-strike count approach right there," Ethier said. "I was up there just trying to battle, get on base any way I can, get that inning started for us. He left a slider high enough where I could put a good swing on it and get it up in the air and find a way over that fence."
Kenley Jansen struck out two in a perfect bottom of the ninth for his 10th save, capping 3 2/3 innings of scoreless relief after Ricky Nolasco's start. Ronald Belisario (4-5) recorded the final out of the eighth, following strong efforts by Jose Dominguez and Paco Rodriguez.
That's a major reason why the Dodgers have won 10 of their past 12 games decided by two runs or fewer.
"Our bullpen has been a lot more steady for us, where we've been able to get the outs we need," Dodgers manager Don Mattingly said.
The game got to the bullpen after a solid performance from Nolasco, who was making his third start with the Dodgers. He took a no-decision, giving up two runs on eight hits over 5 1/3 innings and working out of a huge jam in the fourth.
Holding a 2-1 lead, Nolasco loaded the bases with no outs. First, third baseman Juan Uribe charged Ian Desmond's slow grounder and fired home for the forceout. Chad Tracy then flied out to shallow left, with Bryce Harper bluffing but ultimately staying at third as Crawford let loose an off-line throw. Nolasco got Wilson Ramos to hit a comebacker to end the inning.
"I just kind of slowed myself down and went pitch by pitch and somehow got out of it," Nolasco said. "So just trying to limit the damage there, get away from the crooked number and was able to stay away from any, so that was big."
The Nats did tie the score in the sixth, when Ryan Zimmerman singled, moved to third on Jayson Werth's single and scored when Desmond hit a blooper that dropped in front of a charging Ethier in center field. Mattingly then brought in Dominguez, who got Tracy to hit into Washington's third double play of the night.
Puig contributed on defense to help Rodriguez work out of trouble in the seventh after the left-hander took over for Dominguez with a runner on first and one out. A groundout moved the runner to second before Anthony Rendon hit a deep drive down the right-field line. Puig, who hurt his left hip crashing into a wall at Colorado earlier this month, launched himself into another one as he snagged the drive in foul territory.
"If it's not a home run, I'll catch it," Puig said through a translator.
Puig came out of the game on a double-switch in the eighth, but Mattingly said he wasn't injured on the catch.
"That's a tough play, and he hits that thing basically full speed, kind of reckless," Mattingly said. "That's a great play. But you always hold your breath when guys go into walls."
Puig also showed off his arm in the second inning, after Harper hit a leadoff double. Werth followed with a deep fly to right, and Harper tagged and went for third. Puig unleashed a tremendous on-target throw to Uribe, but Harper was called safe by umpire Eric Cooper. Replays appeared to show Uribe tag Harper on the leg before he reached the base.
Harper then scored on a wild pitch for a 1-0 lead.
It stayed that way until the third, when Nationals starter Stephen Strasburg gave up his only runs over seven innings. That came courtesy of Ramirez, who got a first-pitch 95-mph fastball on the outside corner and smashed it over the right-field wall for a two-run shot. Ramirez entered play hitting .427 with seven home runs, 22 RBIs and a .771 slugging percentage in his past 26 games.
"I thought it was a good pitch, but it's a guy that's hot right now," Strasburg said. "He guessed right. Oh well. You tip your cap."


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FRESNO, Calif. (AP) — State officials will restrict the movement of citrus fruits and trees in parts of California's Central Valley where a potentially devastating citrus pest was discovered.
The Department of Food and Agriculture said on Tuesday the restriction will apply to 5-mile zones around two sites in Tulare County where Asian citrus psyllids were recently found. The county is part of the state's citrus belt.
Psyllids can carry the huanglongbing bacteria, which is deadly to citrus trees. The disease has not been detected in Tulare County.
Under the restrictions, only citrus fruit that has been commercially cleaned and packed can be transported outside the 5-mile zones. The cleaning process must include the removal of all stems and leaves.
State officials say they are investigating whether the recently discovered psyllids indicate an established breeding population, or whether they were hitchhikers from infested counties in Southern California.
Copyright 2012 The Associated Press.


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KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — The Latest on Congo's presidential election (all times local):
6:50 p.m.
The Catholic Church in Congo has asked the U.N. Security Council to call on the country's election commission to publish data from the polling and counting stations set up for a Dec. 30 presidential election.
Monsignor Marcel Utembi, president of the National Episcopal Conference of Congo or CENCO, said Friday that the commission's provisional announcement of opposition leader Felix Tshisekedi as the surprise winner didn't match the tally from the Catholic bishops group's monitoring of the vote.
Utembi told the Security Council in a video briefing from Kinshasa that publishing the election data would enable candidates to compare their numbers with the electoral commission's count.
He said: "This might dispel doubts among the population as to the outcome and may therefore set minds at rest."
Utembi said if there are challenges, CENCO will request that the Security Council ask key parties to "prioritize the path of truth and peace while awaiting the outcome."
6:20 p.m.
The head of Congo's electoral commission says the country is on the brink of "its first peaceful, civilized handover of power" since independence 60 years ago.
Comeille Nangaa Yobeluo told the U.N. Security Council on Friday that the commission is waiting for final reports on the presidential election held Dec. 30. The commission announced opposition leader Felix Tshisekedi early Thursday as the surprise winner of the vote.
The runner-up, Martin Fayulu, says he plans to challenge the election results in court. At the U.N., the election commission's Yobeluo said any challenges would be handled by Congo's judicial bodies.
He said the Catholic Church challenged the outcome of the presidential elections held in 2006 and 2011 and it was "no surprise" the church was challenging new provisional results.
The church has said its election observers found another candidate, not Tshisekedi, won.
Yobeluo told the Security Council: "What is critical is that the results are within reach and now it is time...for the new authorities to be supported" by the international community.
3:40 p.m.
African regional organizations are "taking note" of Congo's disputed presidential election results and do not congratulate the officially declared winner.
The statements by the southern African and Great Lakes regional groups look forward to the release of the final results and call for calm in the vast country.
Opposition candidate Martin Fayulu asserts he won 61 percent of the vote, citing election observers with the influential Catholic Church, and he says he will file a court challenge on Saturday morning.
He accuses outgoing President Joseph Kabila of making a backroom deal with the declared winner, opposition leader Felix Tshisekedi.
2:30 p.m.
Congo opposition candidate Martin Fayulu asserts he won 61 percent of the presidential vote, citing Catholic Church election observers, and he says he will file a court challenge to the official vote results on Saturday morning.
Fayulu accuses outgoing President Joseph Kabila of making a backroom deal with the declared winner, opposition leader Felix Tshisekedi.
The influential Catholic Church has said its 40,000 election observers found a different winner.
An official with Fayulu's opposition coalition says Tshisekedi received just 18 percent of the vote, according to the church's findings.
2:10 p.m.
Spurned Congo opposition candidate Martin Fayulu says he will challenge the official results of the presidential election by releasing the results of the influential Catholic Church and its 40,000 vote observers, province by province.
Diplomats briefed on the church's results say they show Fayulu easily won.
Fayulu tells a crowd in the capital, Kinshasa, that his opposition coalition will release its own results as well.
He says that no one can steal what he calls "the people's victory."
Fayulu accuses outgoing President Joseph Kabila of making a backroom deal with the declared winner, opposition leader Felix Tshisekedi.
Some Fayulu supporters are singing that "if you don't proclaim Fayulu, we will kill each other."
Congo has been largely calm since results were announced early Thursday but some observers warn that a challenge to the results could bring unrest.
12:45 p.m.
Hundreds of supporters of spurned Congo opposition candidate Martin Fayulu are gathering in the capital to denounce what they call "the people's stolen victory."
A heavy police presence is on hand as Fayulu is expected to speak. He accuses outgoing President Joseph Kabila of making a backroom deal with the declared election winner, opposition leader Felix Tshisekedi.
Fayulu has two days from the election announcement early Thursday to file a court challenge. The influential Catholic Church says its 40,000 election observers found a different winner, and diplomats briefed on its findings say Fayulu easily won.
Congolese face the extraordinary situation of an election allegedly rigged in favor of the opposition after Kabila's ruling party candidate did poorly.
One Fayulu supporter says that "change cannot be negotiated behind closed doors."


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The government says it wants to do something about Target's data breach
The federal government is considering making guidelines for American companies to report customer data breaches, because, believe it or not, there aren't any already.
USA Today reports both members of Congress and members of the Obama administration expressed a desire Tuesday for federal legislation that would require companies to promptly and uniformly report when hackers enter their databases and steal customers' information.
"Never has the need for legislation been greater," Federal Trade Commission head Edith Ramirez testified Tuesday at a Senate Judiciary hearing on cyber crime. "With reports of data breaches on the rise, and with a significant number of Americans suffering from identity theft, Congress needs to act."
The hearing on cyber crime was held as major retailers such as Target and Neiman Marcus reported that hackers stole millions of their customers' information.
Representatives for both companies were at the hearing, where they apologized to Congress for letting the data breaches happen.
"We know this breach has shaken their confidence in Target, and we are determined to work very hard to earn it back," Target's Chief Financial Officer John Mulligan said in prepared remarks to the committee.
But perhaps more concerning is how long it took for the companies to go public with the fact that their customers' personal information was at risk, senators at the hearing said.
Target knew about the breach in December, during the holiday shopping rush, and reported it a week later, Mulligan testified. Neiman Marcus Senior Vice President Michael Kingston testified the company first learned there was a problem on Dec. 17 and customers were notified a month later.
In addition, the management firm of hotels such as Marriott, Sheraton and Holiday Inn reported Monday guests at certain hotels may have had their data read by hackers sometime last year.
This disparity needs to be fixed, said Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Ca.
"The public notification is always vague, it is non-specific," she said at the hearing.
Even though officials at the hearing agreed on the problem, a bill making it a crime to not report data breaches stalled in March in the House of Representatives.


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Obama Chooses American Defeat
James G.
In April, 2007, at the height of
American casualties during the Surge in Iraq, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid
(D. Nev.) famously announced
"the war is lost." His remark attracted national headlines – and a big push-back
from Republicans, who, in the wake of the 2006 elections, controlled neither
House of Congress.
An American President – George W.
Bush of Texas – had refused to accept defeat. He changed his military leaders,
launched the Surge and victory followed. And, even though, the Republicans had
lost control of Congress, President Bush's control of the Executive branch and
the American people's refusal to accept defeat prevailed over leading Democrats'
desire for American defeat.. It enabled the forces of the Sunni Awakening,
General Petraeus and the coalition's troops to crush the Iraq
Over a thousand American soldiers died in
Iraq after Leader Reid's remarkable press conference.
Democrats, like Reid, who'd predicted
defeat, never changed their views. Now, President Barack Obama has just
guaranteed that Senator Reid's remark will come true. Iraq is not Vietnam and
the Middle East is not Southeast Asia. Yet, the parallels – 36 years after a
Democratic Congress cut off U.S. funding for South Vietnam – are
Once again, a leader of the
Democratic Party has opted for American defeat – after a splendid American field
army has achieved military victory. Former New York Times Baghdad
bureau chief John Burns predicted disaster as a result of Mr. Obama's decision
on Hugh
Hewitt on October 24. "We'll see" was the most optimism Pulitzer-Prize
winner Dexter
Filkins could muster on his New Yorker blog.
These guys aren't
conservatives. But, with Michael Yon, these famous war correspondents are
not hopeful about whether America's sacrifice in Iraq will be
How can Democrats ever be trusted
with America's national security again?
It's a simple as
Read Fred and Kimberly Kagan's
excellent piece this weekend in the new issue of the Weekly
Standard for the post-mortem. The Kagans were part of the intellectual
brain trust behind the Surge – the Surge which President Obama has just thrown


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Spicy Beef Curry Stew for the Slow Cooker
"This hearty, spicy beef stew is only for those that can handle the heat. I prefer to make it in the slow cooker, but it can be made stove top also. Great...
beef, +beef broth, +curry powder, +garlic, +jalapeno, +olive oil, +onions, +salt
Slow Cooker Beef Au Jus
"It's easy to fix this roast, which has lots of onion flavor. Sometimes I also add cubed potatoes and baby carrots to the slow cooker to make a terrific...
beef, +garlic, +onions, +black pepper, +beef broth
Slow Cooker Beef Chili Recipe
A different twist on chili as you use beef cubes instead of ground beef. The slow cooker ensures that the meat will be very tender. Serve with sour cream...
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Slow Cooker Roast Beef
"Excellent Roast Beef with plenty of juices which can be thickened for gravy."
beef, +black pepper, +soy sauce
Slow Cooker Beef Stew
"Beef stew doesn't get any easier than in a slow cooker. Make it in the morning and leave it unattended until dinner time."
beef, +baby carrot, +bay leaf, +celery, +thyme, +flour, +rutabaga, +salt, +vegetable oil, +water
Slow Cooker Beef Barley Soup
"A slow cooker makes this the easiest recipe ever. It has become a regular family favorite. So much so, that I was requested to bring it to Christmas Eve...
beef, +barley, +black pepper, +carrot, +celery, +thyme, +garlic powder, +green onion, +salt, +vegetable oil, +water
Slow Cooker Tuscan Beef Stew
"Beef simmers with tomatoes, red wine, cannellini beans and Italian seasoning for a Mediterranean-inspired stew."
Slow Cooker Beef Vegetable Soup
"Easy, delicious, wonderful on cold winter days or anytime!"
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Easy Slow Cooker Beef Stroganoff
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I put this recipe together based on flavors I liked. If you don't like Worcestershire sauce, then this probably isn't for you. I made a sandwich, but...
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referentie code
- 1920s - 1930 (Vervaardig)
Omvang en medium
0.5 cm, 1 folder
Naam van de archiefvormer
Geschiedenis van het archief
Directe bron van verwerving of overbrenging
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Folder containing 3 black and white group photographs which include Percy Newberry and all appear to have been taken in Egypt.
Photographs include the following information:
-Note on the back suggests it was taken in the 1920s and names Abu Bakr, Hermann Grapow, Percy Newberry, Georg Steindorff, Hermann Junker and Selim Hassan.
-Back of the photograph is date stamped 17 January 1930 and a note reads 'A Benni Hassane' [at Beni Hasan].
-Note on the back of the photograph suggests that it is a photograph taken at Cairo University in the 1920s, and lists the people seated left to right as: 1. [?], 2. [?], 3. Selim Hassan 4. Newberry 5. [?] 6. Junker 7. Vikentiev 8. Henri? Frankfort 9. [?] and in the front row 1. Baudouin? Van de Walle, 2. [?], 3. [?].


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Introduction of the Android mobile apps have brought a huge change to our life, which is beyond our expectation. Flight check-ins, booking restaurant tables and ordering food with the mobile app was an unimaginable thing a few years back. Now we have a Android mobile app for every day to day need. Life has become lot more easier with the introduction of the innovative technology, which we have been termed as mobile application.
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In the android application development world, Android operating system has played a very important role. Owing to the user-friendly nature associated with the apps, Android OS has moved a step ahead in comparison to its competitors. One of the recent milestone that Android OS has achieved in the development of Android smartwatch apps and Android smartwatch.
Android's wearable smart watches have done a great job when it comes to delivery of notification along with generating alert at the tip of your wrist. The twist in the tale begins when you try to download additional apps to your smart watch for additional functionality. Though Android have restricted numbers of Android wear apps, but Google play store have some of the most compelling and impressive apps when it comes to the case of wear apps. These wear apps that are considered to be the best available ones in the Google play store are also free of cost.
When you want to convert your Android wear watch into a running partner, Runtastic is the best option to choose. Activating the app from your smart watch leads to the activation of the program in your phone. Your wrist would posses the capability of maintaining the time and generating the report for your workout sessions. The attractive features associated with the app are tracking the distance covered, average pace and calories burned.
This app for the wearable watch is for those who loves to cook. It gives the opportunity to its user to browse various recipes and share the recipes. The features associated with the app includes marking the favorite recipe, create shopping list, create meal planner and join different forum related to cooking.
Duolingo the cute little green bird logo, helps the users of the wear watch to learn a new language. The concept of Duolingo is based on the combination of image, text and spoken words which help in learning languages like Spanish, German, Italian, French, Portuguese, Russian and Dutch. The app has a option of creating handy flashcard that helps in keeping the user alert in between the classes.
Tinder was created for the convenience of the single people who would be able to use their Smartwatch to find compatible singles in their area. Launching of the app helps you to get connected to the singles in your area and you have the facility of swiping, liking or disliking them. The app also also to know the other persons age, first name and description.
Booking a cab has become more easy with the LYFT smart watch app. You can book a cab from the face of the Android wear watch, which will send you notification about the arrival time of the cab along with the details of the driver. This smart watch app has become very famous in the USA, where the service is available in around 64 countries.
Eat24 is the online food delivery service that is giving the big players a run for their money. Now you have the comfort of ordering food from the face of your android smart watch. This mobile app comes with the option of remembering your credit card details, your location and the list of the items from your previous order. These features facilitates quick re-ordering. Now you can have your favorite food delivered at the tip of your finger.
Player FM
Player FM is a must have app when you own an Android smart watch. The app provides its users the facility of discovering, downloading and importing the audio files. The other features include the saving of the new episodes for the user to listen to it at their leisure time. Launching the app in your Android smart watch helps in controlling of playback, starting, stopping, go to the next and previous.
Till now we have heard about the Smart phones powered by the Android operating system. Now we have the Android smart watches which is the demand of the next generation. This innovative concept developed by Android have made our life more easy. With the Android smart watch and smartwatch apps, we have the capability of accomplishing the task, with out smart phone being inside our pocket or our bag. App development companies in USA, are thus focusing on paid and freemium apps.