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Malabu Oil urges court to stop FG from signing $13.5b project
• Global Witness flays Shell’s role in alleged $1. 1b bribe
Malabu Oil and Gas Limited yesterday asked the Federal High Court, Abuja to stop the Federal Government and six others from signing the Final Investment Decision (FID) for the $13.5 billion Zabazaba Deep Water Project.
The Zabazaba Deep water Project is located in the contentious Oil Prospecting Licence (OPL 245).The other defendants include, Shell Nigeria Exploration and Production Company, Nigerian Agip Exploration Company Limited, the Minister of Petroleum Resources, EFCC and Dan Etete.
Malabu Oil and Gas is also seeking for an order of interlocutory injunction to restrain the Federal Government and the minister from considering to revoke or revoke the re-allocation of OPL 245 granted it.
Mr. J.A. Achimugwu, who filed the suit on behalf of Malabu Oil and Gas, said it was triggered by media publications that the defendants were negotiating to sign the FID for the project in the second quarter of the year.
Justice John Tsoho, granted permission to Malabu to serve the writ of summons and other processes on Shell Nigeria Ultra-Deep Limited at No. 21 and 22 Marina Avenue, Lagos.
He adjourned the matter until May 18 for the hearing of the motion.In a related development, Global Witness, an international anti-corruption NGO has condemned Shell’s role in the $1.1 billion, which was allegedly used as bribe in the controversial OPL 245.
The NGO said in an email sent to The Guardian, yesterday that the sum equates to one and a half times what the United Nations Organisation said was needed to respond to the current famine crisis in Nigeria.
The Anti-Corruption Campaigns Director at Global Witness, Shauna Leven, said: “This is a huge scandal–it must trigger change. For too long the world’s most powerful and profitable oil companies have masqueraded as leaders of responsible business, while robbing countries of their most precious assets. We could save countless lives across the world if ordinary people were able to benefit from the wealth of their own natural resources.”
According to Leven, those responsible at Shell could go to jail for these decisions. The company and its individual decision makers in this case need to face justice. Law enforcement in Italy, Nigeria, the U.K, U.S, the Netherlands and Switzerland need to cooperate to ensure that this happens.
Leven said: “Over 30 major economies including the U.K., Canada, Norway, U.S. and all E.U. countries now have laws in place that require oil, gas and mining companies to disclose what they’re paying any government on a project-by-project basis.
Had these laws been in place at the time of the deal, Shell would have had to put these payments on public record. It is highly unlikely that they would have wanted to do that. Shining a light on corrupt deals like OPL 245 prevents multinational companies from scheming with greedy government officials to get rich at the expense of ordinary people.”

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On the night of October 1, 2017, Stephen Paddock opened fire on a crowd of concertgoers at the Route 91 Harvest music festival on the Las Vegas Strip in Nevada. He killed 58 people and wounded 413, with the ensuing panic bringing the injury total to 869. Paddock, a 64-year-old man from Mesquite, Nevada, fired more than 1,000 rounds of ammunition from his suite on the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay Hotel. The shooting occurred between 10:05 and 10:15p.m. PDT; about an hour later, Paddock was found dead in his room from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. His motive remains officially undetermined.
Las Vegas Village, a 15-acre (6.1-hectare) lot used for outdoor performances, is located diagonally across the intersection to the northeast. From 2014 onward, the venue hosted the annual Route 91 Harvestcountry music festival. The 2017 festival ran from September 29 to October 1, with over 22,000 attendees on the final day.[a]
Paddock was a high-stakes gambler who placed bets at a high enough level to earn valuable comps—free benefits such as rooms and meals. He was a familiar figure to casino hosts in Las Vegas, but was not well known among other high-stakes gamblers because he mostly played video poker. He reportedly kept to himself and was a heavy drinker. Paddock had lost a significant amount of his wealth over the previous two years, but had paid off all gambling debts before the shooting.
Paddock may have considered attacking other events. He had researched large-scale venues in cities such as Boston since at least May 2017, and had reserved a room overlooking the August 2017 Lollapalooza festival in Chicago, but did not use it. According to his girlfriend, she and Paddock were at the Mandalay Bay during an earlier stay a month before the attack when he repeatedly cased out Las Vegas Village from different windows in their room. From September 17, Paddock stayed at The Ogden in Downtown Las Vegas, which overlooked the open-air Life Is Beautiful festival that ran from September 22 to 24. Paddock's Internet search terms from mid-September included "swat weapons", "ballistics chart 308", "SWAT Las Vegas", and "do police use explosives".
Paddock arrived at Mandalay Bay on September 25, 2017. He was booked into Room 32-135, a complimentary room on the 32nd floor. Four days later, he also checked into the directly-connected Room 32-134. Both suites overlook the site of the concert at Las Vegas Village.[b] Between September 25 and October 1—the day of the shooting—he stockpiled an arsenal of weapons, associated equipment and ammunition that included fourteen AR-15 rifles (all of which were equipped with bump stocks and twelve of which had 100-round magazines), eight AR-10 rifles, a bolt-action rifle, and a revolver. A bump stock modifies a semi-automatic weapon so that it can shoot in rapid succession, mimicking automatic fire. Often with the help of hotel bellmen, he brought five suitcases to his room on September 25, seven on the 26th, two on the 28th, six on the 30th, and two on October 1. Cell phone records show that he also made multiple visits to his home in Mesquite. On September 30, he placed "Do not disturb" signs on the doors of both rooms. Before the shooting Paddock spent much of his time at Mandalay Bay gambling, often at night. He interacted with Mandalay Bay employees more than ten times during his stay, including twice on the day of the shooting; an MGM Resorts International spokesperson said they were all "normal in nature".
Schematic of the shooting scene. Paddock indiscriminately fired rifle rounds from the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay hotel toward the concertgoers at Las Vegas Village.
The mass shooting occurred between 10:05 and 10:15 p.m. PDT on October 1, 2017, which was the third and final night of the festival. When the shooting began, country music singer Jason Aldean was giving the closing performance.
Shortly before 10:00p.m., hotel security guard Jesus Campos was sent to the 32nd floor to investigate an open-door alert. He attempted to open a door that provided immediate access to the floor, but found that it would not open. After Campos entered the floor, he discovered an L-shaped bracket screwed into the door and door frame, which was responsible for barring the door from opening. After reporting the discovery to his dispatch center, he heard what he thought was the sound of rapid drilling coming from Room 32-135 and went to investigate the matter. At approximately 10:05, he was hit in the right thigh by one of about 35 bullets that Paddock fired through the door of his suite. After Campos was hit, he took cover in the alcove between Rooms 32-122 and 32-124 and immediately informed the hotel by radio and cellphone that he had been shot, though he believed he had been shot with a BB or pellet gun. At the same time, maintenance worker Stephen Schuck was on the same floor to fix the door that Campos had reported as being barricaded. Campos, who was already wounded, encountered Schuck and told him to take cover. Schuck contacted hotel dispatchers over his radio, informed them of the ongoing shooting, and told them to call the police. Neither Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department nor MGM Resorts International, the Mandalay Bay's owner, have confirmed when information about the initial shooting was relayed to the police.
After Paddock used a hammer to break two of the windows in both of his suites, he began shooting through them at 10:05p.m. He ultimately fired over 1,000 rifle rounds approximately 490 yards (450 m) into the festival audience.[c] He initially started out with a few single gunshots before firing in bursts that usually ranged from 80 rounds to 100 rounds. Many people in the crowd initially mistook the gunfire for fireworks. During the shooting, a security fence hindered concertgoers from fleeing the 15-acre concrete lot. The gunfire continued, with some momentary pauses, over the span of ten minutes and ended by 10:15p.m.
In addition to shooting at the concertgoers, Paddock fired eight bullets at a large jet fuel tank at McCarran International Airport 2,000 feet (600 m) away. Two of those bullets struck the exterior of the tank, with one bullet penetrating the tank. The fuel did not explode because jet fuel is mostly kerosene, which is unlikely to ignite when struck by a bullet.
During the shooting, police officers were initially confused whether the shots were coming from the Mandalay Bay, the nearby Luxor hotel, or the festival grounds. There were also multiple false reports of additional shooters at other hotels on the Strip. Officers eventually spotted multiple flashes of gunfire from the middle of the northern side of Mandalay Bay and responded to the hotel. At 10:12p.m., two officers on the 31st floor reported the sounds of gunfire on the floor above them. When officers arrived on the 32nd floor at 10:17p.m. and encountered Campos a minute later, he directed them to Paddock's room and helped others evacuate. Campos was then directed to seek medical attention for himself.
Between 10:26 and 10:30p.m., eight additional officers arrived at the 32nd floor; some of those officers manually breached through the door Paddock had screwed shut with the bracket. The gunfire had ceased, and the police moved systematically down the hallway, searching and clearing each room, using a master key that was provided by Campos. At 10:55p.m., the officers finished evacuating guests. At 11:20p.m., police breached Room 32-135 with explosives. Paddock was found dead on the floor from a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head. Police then breached Room 32-134; while entering the hotel suite, an officer accidentally fired a three-round burst from his weapon, but the bullets did not hit anyone. At 11:27p.m., officers announced over the police radio that a suspect was down.
McCarran International Airport, adjacent to the shooting site, was shut down for several hours. Approximately 300 people entered the airport property as they fled from the shooting. This prompted officials to shut down all four runways. More than 25 flights were rerouted to ensure that no aircraft would be hit by gunfire, while other flights were canceled before airfield operations resumed at 12:40a.m. on October 2.
Much of Las Vegas Boulevard was closed while police SWAT teams combed the venue and neighboring businesses. At approximately 2:45p.m. PDT on October 2, a state of emergency was declared in Clark County. Early on October 2, Sheriff Lombardo identified the suspect as Stephen Paddock.
Fifty-eight people were fatally shot at the music festival; Paddock's suicide was the only death at the Mandalay Bay Hotel. The fatalities included 36 women and 22 men. The oldest was 67; the youngest was 20. Six were from Nevada, 35 from California, 13 from other states, and four from Canada. The Clark County Coroner's Office determined that all 58 victims died as a result of gunshot wounds. Thirty-one of the victims were pronounced dead at the scene, while the rest were pronounced dead at hospitals.
A 57-year-old woman from Mira Loma, California, was paralyzed in the shooting and died at Redlands Community Hospital in Redlands on November 15, 2019, more than two years later. An autopsy was carried out to establish the cause and manner of her death. On December 18, it was reported that the ruling on the cause and manner of her death was pending because investigators were waiting for laboratory test results.
University Medical Center, the Level I trauma center in Las Vegas, was difficult to access for the more than 50 percent of patients transported by private vehicles because Interstate 15, the most direct route from the shooting location, was closed to the public. Also, an erroneous emergency services announcement made one hour after the shooting reported UMC had reached capacity and was on diversion. This confusion persisted for several hours and led to most patients being transported to Sunrise, a Level II trauma center.
Several persons at the shooting were also present during the November 2018 mass shooting at the Borderline Bar and Grill in Thousand Oaks, California, which left 13 people dead, including the gunman. One person said the number of Las Vegas survivors at the bar may have been as high as 60. It was confirmed that a survivor of the Las Vegas shooting died in the Thousand Oaks shooting.
President Trump and First Lady Melania visit a hospitalized victim.
On the morning after the shooting, lines to donate blood in Las Vegas stretched for blocks. Wait times were as much as six hours or more. In Las Vegas alone, 800 units of blood were donated to the local blood bank in the days following the shooting, and the American Red Cross reported a 53% increase in blood donation in the two days following the shooting. It was later reported that over 15% of the blood donated in Las Vegas after the shooting went unused, prompting questions about the benefit of widespread calls for blood donation following mass shootings. Millions of dollars have also been raised to help victims and their families.
Nevada GovernorBrian Sandoval called the shooting "a tragic and heinous act of violence that has shaken the Nevada family". Jason Aldean, who was singing when the shooting started, posted his condolences on Instagram and noted all of those working with him at the show had survived the attack.
At a press conference, U.S. President Donald Trump described Paddock as "a very very sick individual", and "a demented man, [with] a lot of problems". He added, "the police department has done such an incredible job, and we'll be talking about gun laws as time goes by". A White House official talking points memo, distributed to Trump allies, opposed tightening gun control since "new laws won't stop a mad man", but "will curtail the freedoms of law abiding citizens". On October 2, Trump issued a proclamation to honor the victims and their families. On October 4, Trump visited the shooting victims and first responders.
A unity prayer walk and ceremony was held in Las Vegas on October 7 in honor of the dead. Speakers at the ceremony included Vice President Mike Pence and Las Vegas Mayor Carolyn Goodman. On the evening of October 15, thousands participated in a commemorative 3 mile walk between Circus Circus and Mandalay Bay.
The annual Rock 'n' Roll Las Vegas Marathon took place on November 12 and was the largest event to be held in the city since the shooting. The event received a massive amount of security, which included 350 officers, counter-sniper surveillance posts, and a number of barriers composed of dump trucks, buses, and other large vehicles.
The expansion Vegas Golden Knights of the NHL held a tribute to the victims and honored response personnel before their inaugural home game on October 10. Later during the season, the number 58 became the first number in team history to be retired, chosen for the 58 deaths during the shooting.
The future of the Las Vegas Village remained undetermined until September 2019. MGM Resorts International intends to create a community center, which will host sporting events.
In March 2019, nearly a year and a half after the shooting, a Las Vegas police officer who was revealed to have been in the 31st floor of the Mandalay Bay, directly underneath Paddock, during the incident but did not immediately respond to the gunfire was fired for his decision to remain in the hallway. However, following an arbitrator's ruling, the officer was reinstated a year later.
On November 6, 2017, Massachusetts became the first state to ban the sale, possession, or use of the devices. In December 2018, Acting United States Attorney GeneralMatthew Whitaker signed a regulation banning bump stocks in the U.S., effective March 2019. The regulation bans new sales and requires current owners to surrender or destroy existing bump stocks.
Eighteen Democratic U.S. Senators introduced a bill, the Keep Americans Safe Act, which would ban gun magazines that hold more than ten rounds of ammunition. Stock prices of firearms manufacturers rose the day after the shooting, as has happened after similar incidents. Investors expected gun sales to increase over concerns that such an event could lead to more stringent gun-control legislation, and possibly due a rush of customers wishing to defend themselves against future attacks, but firearm sales did not increase after the shooting.
In November 2017, a lawsuit was filed on behalf of 450 of the victims of the shooting, which claimed that the Mandalay Bay Hotel had shown negligence by allowing Paddock to bring a large amount of weaponry into the building. In July 2018, MGM Resorts International counter sued hundreds of victims, claiming that it had "no liability of any kind" for the attack. On October 3, 2019, MGM Resorts reached a settlement of between $735 and $800 million with the victims of the shooting.
A British soldier, Trooper Ross Woodward, from the 1st The Queen's Dragoon Guards, who was visiting a nearby hotel while off-duty when the shooting began, was awarded the Queen's Commendation for Bravery for his actions during the event. His citation stated that "he consciously, deliberately and repeatedly advanced towards danger, moving people to safety and treating casualties".
A detective with the Rhode Island State Police, Conor O'Donnell, who was attending the event with his girlfriend, was awarded a service ribbon for his actions.
Assistant Scoutmaster Martin Heffernan was honored by Boy Scouts of America for demonstrating unusual heroism and extraordinary skill in saving or attempting to save a life at extreme risk to self with the Honor Award with Crossed Palms.
According to authorities with the Clark County Commission, the name "1 October" was declared the official title for investigations into the mass shooting.
Investigators found hidden surveillance cameras that were placed inside and outside the hotel room, presumably so Paddock could monitor the arrival of others. The cameras were not in record mode. Police said a handwritten note found in the room indicated Paddock had been calculating the distance, wind, and trajectory from his 32nd floor hotel suite to the concertgoers he was targeting on the festival lot.
At a press conference on October 4, Clark County Sheriff Joe Lombardo stated there was evidence—which he declined to discuss—that Paddock intended to escape the scene, and that he may have had assistance from an accomplice. Investigators searched Paddock's room and found a "bulletproof vest" and breathing apparatus, neither of which were used by Paddock.
There have been several changes in the official account and timeline of Paddock's shooting of hotel security guard Campos. Police officials described these adjustments as "minute changes" that are common in complex investigations.
In their first statement about the incident, police officials inaccurately reported that Campos arrived on the scene after Paddock began firing into the crowd. In a second statement, police officials reported, again inaccurately, that Campos was shot six minutes before Paddock began firing into the crowd. That report had been based on a 9:59 p.m. notation in a hotel security log, which in a third statement was determined to have been the time when Campos encountered the barricaded door.
Sheriff Lombardo dismissed allegations that the changing timeline was the result of some kind of conspiracy between the police department, the FBI, and MGM Resorts International saying, "Nobody is attempting to hide anything in reference to this investigation. The dynamics and the size of this investigation requires us to go through voluminous amounts of information in order to draw an accurate picture."
Police speculate that Paddock acted alone and have not determined his motive. No links have been identified to any hate groups, terrorist groups or ideologies, and he did not record a reason for his actions.
On February 2, 2018, Douglas Haig, an Arizona ammunition dealer, was charged in a Nevada federal court with "conspiracy to manufacture and sell armor-piercing ammunition without a license" after his fingerprints were discovered on unfired armor-piercing ammunition inside Paddock's suite.
Final investigative report
On August 3, 2018, Las Vegas Sheriff Joe Lombardo held a press conference on the release of the "LVMPD Criminal Investigative Report of the 1 October Mass Casualty Shooting". He said the 10-month investigation had revealed no evidence of conspiracy or a second gunman, and that the gunman's motive had not been definitely determined. Lombardo said "What we have been able to answer are the questions of who, what, when, where and how... what we have not been able to definitively answer is why Stephen Paddock committed this act." A report published by the FBI's Behavioral Analysis Unit in January 2019 said that "there was no single or clear motivating factor" for the shooting.
A 4chan/pol/ thread, which misidentified the shooter and described him as a registered Democrat, briefly featured in the "Top Stories" section of a Google search for the shooter's name. The misinformation was circulated by a number of websites including The Gateway Pundit.
Two of Facebook's top trending pages were items from Sputnik, a Russian government news agency. These included one story that falsely claimed the FBI had linked the shooter to a terrorist group. The stories were later removed from Sputnik with an apology.
Stories linking the shooter to the Antifa movement have also been discredited.
The terrorist group Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS) claimed that Paddock was its "soldier" and that he had answered Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi's call to attack coalition countries' citizens. ISIS provided no evidence for its claim, and had previously released multiple false claims of responsibility for incidents with which it had no known connection. On October 9, 2017, the FBI declared that Paddock's attack was not linked to international terrorism.
Google and Facebook were criticized for displaying such false news stories in some of their search results. The two technology companies were said to have failed in their responsibility of keeping false stories from reaching the public. Facebook later said its algorithms were designed to detect and remove false stories, but failed to work adequately in this instance.
In the aftermath of the shooting, some media outlets reported that YouTube search results for information about the shooting returned links to conspiracy videos. YouTube stated that it had tweaked its search algorithm to promote news sources which it considered more authoritative. Some experts have stated that the removal of this content ironically fuels conspiracy theories by making a cover-up seem evident.
Survivors of the shooting have been accused of being crisis actors, and some have received death threats on social media.
Conspiracy theorists claim that there were multiple shooters and that details of the massacre are being covered up for the sake of promoting gun control laws.
Berman, Mark (October 12, 2017). "Las Vegas police defend shifting timeline of shooting, warn it could change again". Washington Post. Retrieved October 12, 2017. The revelation from Joseph Lombardo, the Las Vegas sheriff, gave way to a new round of questions, including when information about this shooting was relayed to hotel security and when — or if — that detail was then given to the local police. So far, neither the police or the hotel have offered any answers
Lozada, M. James; Cai, Stephanie; Li, Marissa; Davidson, Stephanie Lynne; Nix, Justin; Ramsey, Glenn (January 2019). "The Las Vegas Mass Shooting: An analysis of blood component administration and blood bank donations". Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery. 86 (1): 128–133. doi:10.1097/TA.0000000000002089. ISSN2163-0755. PMID30371625.
Molina, Brett (November 8, 2018). "Some Thousand Oaks victims survived mass shooting in Las Vegas, reports say" [Thousand Oaks bar shooting: Some victims survived Las Vegas attack]. USA Today. Archived from the original on November 8, 2018. Retrieved November 8, 2018. Some people who survived the Borderline Bar & Grill shooting that left 13 dead, including the gunman, also escaped the mass shooting at the Route 91 music festival in Las Vegas last year, according to the Los Angeles Times and New York Times. "A lot of people in the Route 91 situation go here," Chandler Gunn, 23, told the LA Times.
Fang, Marina (November 8, 2018). "Some Thousand Oaks Shooting Survivors Also Witnessed Las Vegas Massacre". HuffPost. Archived from the original on November 8, 2018. Retrieved November 8, 2018. Dozens of people who were at the country music bar outside Los Angeles when a gunman opened fire late Wednesday also survived the October 2017 Las Vegas massacre.... [Nick Champion said,] "I was in the Las Vegas Route 91 mass shooting, as well as probably 50 or 60 others who were in the building at the same time as me tonight."

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World Bulletin/News Desk
Rocket fire has forced the closure of Labraq airport, the main gateway into Libya's government-held east, the airport director said on Saturday.
Gunmen have repeatedly fired Grad rockets into Labraq airport, east of Benghazi, and all flights have been suspended for security reasons, director Abu Bakr al-Abaidi told Reuters.
Oil-producing Libya has descended into chaos with two governments and two parliaments vying for legitimacy three years after the ousting of strongman Muammar Gaddafi in 2011.
An armed faction mainly from Misrata seized Tripoli in August, setting up its own prime minister and parliament and forcing the old government to move to the east where the elected parliament is also based.
Benghazi's airport has been shut since May and the closure of Labraq leaves the east to rely on the airport in Tobruk where the House of Representatives has found shelter. Roads in eastern Libya are dangerous.Güncelleme Tarihi: 01 Kasım 2014, 16:13


Agartala: The district and sessions court on Tuesday sent six accused in the Narsingarh gangrape case to police remand for five days, while three juveniles were produced before the Juvenile Correction Advisory Board.
Speaking with EastMojo, assistant public prosecutor (APP) Bidyut Sutradhar said that after hearing the plea of the police, the court sent six of them to police custody till October 5.
Meanwhile, the Test Identification Parade (TIP) was conducted on Monday. The victim identified four out of the six accused who were produced in the TIP. The four identified accused were Priyo Manish Ray, Pradip Das, Deepak Debnath, and Prasenjit Adhikari, the APP said.
Earlier, six accused were produced in the court on September 26; later two of them were produced again in the court on September 28. Since three of the accused are minors, they were sent to the Juvenile Correction Advisory Board.
Meanwhile, a delegation of Pradesh Mahila Congress met IG (crime) Puneet Rastogi with a five-point charter of demands in Agartala on Tuesday.
Speaking with the reporters, Sadar Mahila Congress president Debjani Laskar said that a deputation was placed with the IGP demanding the safety of women across the state.
“The women are afraid to step out of their house today and even they are not safe at their homes. The crime against women has increased over the last couple of months but the state government is yet to take any measures,” she said.
Demand for the setting up of fast track court in the state, social awareness camps, safety in the city autos, and government transportation exclusively for women were also placed by the women Congress members.


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Apple is offering to replace iPhone 5-S models that have battery problems.
Apple announced in a statement Tuesday, that a "very limited number" of iPhone 5-S devices have a manufacturing issue that can cause the battery to take longer to charge, or run down sooner.
A company spokeswoman says Apple will provide replacements to customers who bought phones with the problem batteries.
Apple did not say how many phones have been affected by the manufacturing issue, but the company is contacting customers by phone, suggesting the problem is not widespread. Apple sold 9 million new iPhones on launch weekend in late September.
The defect also does not affect the safety of the iPhone batteries.


The tuba player and composer Robin Hayward has introduced revolutionary playing techniques to brass instruments, initially through the discovery of the 'noise-valve', and later through the development of the first fully microtonal tuba in 2009. In 2012 he invented the Hayward Tuning Vine, initially as a visualisation of the harmonic space implicit within the microtonal tuba. Collaborations include such musicians as Roberto Fabbriciani and Charles Curtis, along with composers such as Christian Wolff, Alvin Lucier and Eliane Radigue.Ã‚Â His new Pogus release Nouveau Saxhorn Nouveau Basse features three extremely fascinating microtonal compositions by Hayward : 'Plateau Square', 'Travel Stain' (+ Seth Josel, guitar), 'Nouveau Saxhorn Nouveau Basse'.Ã‚Â 'In 1852 Adolphe Sax developed a series of instruments he named the 'Saxhorn nouveau basse'. The result of a radical rethinking of the valve system, each of the instrument's six valves could only be used independently from the other valves. By avoiding valve combinations, each valve could be tuned to lower the pitch by a different tempered interval, enabling the player to play in tempered tuning. The instruments were unsuccessful. In 2009 Hayward developed the first fully microtonal tuba (together with the musical instrument manufacturers B&S.) This instrument is also equipped with six valves, but now valve combinations are an integral part of the microtonal system. Inspired by Sax's instruments, each valve is however only used independently in the piece Nouveau Saxhorn Nouveau Basse - an elegy to Sax's failed invention. Six loudspeakers are distributed throughout the performance space, assuming the role of the valves of the 'Saxhorn nouveau basse'. The tones played using each of the different valves of the microtonal tuba travel from the first to a higher numbered loudspeaker and then back again, from where they are sent to the seventh loudspeaker, which is placed backstage and acts as a metaphor for the bell of the ÃƒÂ”Saxhorn nouveau basse'. Due to the routing between the loudspeakers, in which each intermediate stage is rerecorded, each tone's timbre is gradually altered as it travels through the room and becomes increasingly mixed with the room acoustic - an analogy to the effect of the valves on the tone of Sax's instruments. A common way of visualizing harmonic relationships is as a three-dimensional lattice. The space between prime numbers 3 and 7, lying between the horizontal and diagonal axes, is therefore depicted as a series of ascending plateaus. Plateau Square explores the harmonic space implicit within one of these plateaus, whilst projecting it onto the physical space of the performance area. Each of the four speakers of the quadraphonic sound system represents a corner of the plateau, and the microtonal tuba pitches are routed to the corresponding speakers by means of sensors attached to the valves. In Travel Stain for guitar and microtonal F tuba, a hexagonal graphic score defines the harmonic and rhythmic framework within which musical decisions may be taken spontaneously. The six sides of the inner hexagon represent the six strings of the guitar, which are tuned in accordance with the same subharmonic series upon which the microtonal tuba tuning is based. The harmonics of each of these subharmonic partials are in turn notated within each associated outer hexagon. Starting at the lowest hexagon, the musicians explore the harmonic and rhythmic space implicit within this structure, moving gradually clockwise until all hexagons have been activated.'
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A 33-year old Ondangwa woman was stabbed to death, allegedly by another woman, while fighting over a man.
Oshana police spokesperson, warrant officer Frieda Hashiana, confirmed the incident.
It happened on Friday afternoon at the suspect’s home at Uupopo location in Ondangwa.
Hashiana said the suspect is originally from Ohadiwa village in Ohangwena, while the deceased is a resident of Ondangwa’s Onguta location.
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SEKMEA HS Jazz Band
2020-21 Audition ExcerptsParticipation Eligibility Requirements
There are two requirements for a student to be eligible to audition for SEKMEA District Jazz Band membership:
Music Requirements for the Live Audition:
- The student's director must be a member of KMEA, will register each audition online, and send the Audition Invoice with appropriate payment to the SEKMEA Executive Director. These must be completed by the deadline established by SEKMEA.
- The student must be deemed an eligible freshman, sophomore, junior, or senior in good standing in their high school.
For all instruments except drumset: A New Approach to Jazz Improvisation
, Volume 13, Cannonball Adderley,
by Jamey Aebersold, 1211 Aebersold Drive, New Albany, IN 47150.
For drumset: Ultimate Drumset Reading Anthology
, by Steve Houghton (Alfred Publications) All auditions will be performed with accompaniment play along recordings.
Optional Lead Trumpet Audition
- Chromatic scale, using quarter notes at the metronome marking of 120 beats per minute. Students are to slur up and tongue down the full range of the instrument.
- "Unit 7" - Play melody one time through.
- "Work Song" - Play the melody twice through.
- Optional Improvisation on "Work Song" - After playing the melody twice through, continue for two full improvised choruses. This effort is optional, but highly encouraged.
(in addition to above material)
Optional Bass Trombone Audition
- Play a one-octave F major scale ascending in quarter notes at quarter note equals MM 80, starting on the top line of the staff.
- Play provided lead trumpet part (Download)
(in addition to above material)
- Play a one-octave B-flat major scale, descending in quarter notes at quarter note equals MM 80, starting on second-line B-flat.
- Play provided bass trombone part (Download)
Rhythm Section AuditionsPiano
- "Unit 7" - Using the left channel only (bass & drums) of the stereo play along recording, play one chorus of right-hand melody with left-hand accompaniment, followed by one chorus of two-handed chordal accompaniment.
- "Work Song" - Using the left channel only (bass & drums), play two choruses of the right-handed melody with an appropriate left-hand chordal accompaniment. Optional: Continue for two more choruses of improvisation.
- "Unit 7" - Using the left channel only (bass & drums), play the melody for one chorus, followed by one chorus of appropriate chordal accompaniment.
- "Work Song" - Using the left channel only (bass & drums), play a chordal accompaniment for two choruses. Start at the beginning of the track again; this time using left and right channels; play the melody twice through. Optional: Continue for two more choruses of improvisation.
- "Unit 7" - Using only the right channel (piano & drums), play the melody for one chorus followed by an appropriate bass line for one chorus.
- "Work Song" - Using the right channel only (piano & drums), play two times through the melody then two choruses of a bass line (appropriate to accompany the melody). Optional: Continue for two choruses with an improvised solo.
Play the following with the accompaniment CD (turn the drum channel off).
- "Basie, Straight Ahead" - Play from the beginning to letter F.
- "I'll Never Smile Again" - Play from the beginning through measure 34.
- "Rio Rhythm" - Play the first 32 measures.
- "Fall Leaves" - Play the first 32 measures.
- "Voyage Home" - Play from the beginning through the first ending.


On Wednesday Mexican President López Obrador praised his relationship with President Donald Trump, according to new coverage.
An Overview of Obrador’s Remarks
The newly elected Mexican president shared the following public statements to the press:
“We are in constant communication, and the communication is good. Relations are good. It is very likely that in coming days we will talk with President Donald Trump about this issue, in particular, the immigration issue.”
Although Obrador leans left politically, the Mexican leader appears willing to work with President Trump. Obrador has also previously stated that he won’t allow his nation to become Trump’s “whipping boy.”
Mexico, the United States, and Immigration
The remarks of Mexican President López Obrador come after longstanding and ongoing immigration issues regarding Central American migrants who are currently seeking asylum in the United States.
On multiple occasions, President Trump has stated that the migrants will not be allowed to enter the country. Still, this has not stopped members of the caravan from hurling rocks at U.S. border patrol agents and attempting to cross the Southern border. Furthermore, many migrants recently faced arrests after trying to illegally enter America.
As a nation, the American people remain divided on whether or not migrants should be allowed to enter the United States. Many conservatives and right-leaning individuals have expressed support for legal, merit-based immigration. Conversely, people who lean left are much likelier to support looser enforcement of immigration laws.
At this time, many Central American migrants are in Tijuana.
Disputes Regarding Immigration
Immigration continues to serve as a controversial subject matter in American politics. At this point, Congress and the Trump White House remain at odds regarding proper immigration solutions.
At this point, the president is currently seeking $5 billion dollars to fund his border wall. Congressional Democrats, however, have presented a spending bill which permits $1.6 billion to spend on border protection.
President Trump has faced strong criticism from Democrats for his stance regarding Central American migrants. The president may or may not reach an agreement with his Mexican counterpart, as it pertains to immigration.
Additional updates will follow this report as new developments arise.


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Today is the day that Beatrice (my wild yeast sourdough starter) becomes a mother. Awww.
While I'd love to the the recommended 3x/daily feeding...I'm going to have to fold the 1st and 2nd feeding togetther. I'm a little concerned that it was so friggin' hot the last few days, something might have happened to her to make her unviable. She's looked kinda "meh" and I fed her once in the last few days because I was concerned I was starving her. I've read that it might look dead after awhile..and it did...so we'll see if she springs back to life. I've babied this for 10 days now and am anxiously (and impatiently) having to baby and strengthen up Beatrice 5 more days by constant feeding.
The inevitable happened with my lettuce. I was hoping that I could push it off until later in June, but it looks like now is the time. The "heatwave" the last few days is causing everything to look like it is about to bolt. I'll cut most of it down tomorrow and see if I can shock it back into behaving a little bit more before I pull all of it. I think it's starting to get a bit bitter, but Mr. Awesome hasn't noticed yet. If I pull it, I have 4 additional squares with nada in them. Maybe it's time to plant some annual flowers while I figure out what goes in next. There is always more radishes and green onions to plant, I guess.
Speaking of garden planning, the Territorial Seed Company just sent me their winter catalogue. I was wondering if I was going to put the garden to bed this winter or maybe do a cover crop. I'm now internally testing the idea of really challenging myself to grow food year 'round. I could easily just remove the chicken wire during the winter and build a plastic tunnel cold frame over the entire area and just keep going for as long as I can go. I'm more than internally testing, I guess. I'm pretty much thinking that this is what I'm going to be doing.
So far, on the list for late fall/winter/early spring pickins is: broccoli, brussel sprouts, carrots, more kale, winter greens blend, bunching onions, pac choi, parsnip, radishes, winter spinach, turnips, chinese cabbage, snap peas, more swiss chard, arugala, corn salad. Lots of greens. I'm going to start these from seed, so some of the stuff needs to start going in next month.

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BANDIPORA: One day training programme was held at Krishi Vigyan Kendra (KVK) Bandipora today. The training programme was aimed at sensitizing the field functionaries of the horticulture department about the scientific techniques of oil spray in orchards in light of the present weather situation. They were also made aware about the precautionary measures being taken against various crop diseases. The orchardists on the occasion were asked to follow the spray schedule issued by the SKUAST Kashmir for the current season.
The experts and subject matter specialists of the KVK also attended the programme.
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“Just as love is a verb, so is faith.” – Nannie Helen Burroughs
So what’s happening on the ground? Democracy reflects the people’s will, so we must make it easier to vote. After that, we must make sure everyone’s vote is counted. Georgia is in the midst of a concentrated and multilevel civic engagement effort to train, equip, and energize students of color to be future voters. If we are ready for the United States to bounce back from this global pandemic, economic, civil, and human rights crisis, we must embrace students of color. The truth is that candidates that support voting rights (VRA2) could capitalize on these new cultural voting trends and boost voter turnout in “at-risk” communities.
The use of quantified impression-based targeting, demographic data, and technological enhancements is value-added to traditional civic engagement tools. Still, it’s no substitute for voting rights, education, and economic justice. Supporting voting rights, education, and stimulus legislation make it possible to narrow the gap between the number of eligible voters and the number of actual voters by expanding the electorate. Now students of color may provide enough momentum to energize voters for this and future election cycles. After this, it won’t be long until leaders that support voting rights, education, and economic justice recapture, maintain, and extend their legislative margins in Georgia and other battleground states.
Students of color have the potential to ignite Georgia’s electorate. While fostering collaborations in communities that share the same interests, they generate enthusiasm in the electorate. The “sweet spot” is to engage students that are active offline and encourage them to be more active on-line and “vice versa.” Then, involve these supporters in a push to get their on-line networks to vote and be more involved in long-term civic engagement work like holding elected leaders accountable after the election.
The impact of students of color on the future of U.S. civic engagement will be huge for years to come. A national study shows VRA2 candidates leading their challengers among 18-29-year-old African Americans 91%-6% and Latinos 73%-13%. More importantly, 59% of African Americans and 31% of Latinos are enthusiastic about voting this year. Young voters trust one candidate more than the other to deal with “major issues” like immigration reform 45% – 25%. Among young women, the anti-voting rights candidate loses on issues of concern 53% – 20%.
These numbers are going to be even more critical in U.S. Senate races. In places where VRA2 politicians currently outnumber the others by 10 points, 59% of voters under 30 say that they will vote for VRA2 candidates. Note that in many states, VOC are over 31% of the citizen voting-age population, and they comprised over 28% of the electorate. Places like Georgia are now at the center of the political universe.
- As witnessed at the state level in 2012, this rising electorate helped give President Obama 46% (1,773,827) of Georgia’s vote – only a point off his 2008 performance.
- More importantly, the VOC vote share grew from 32% in 2008 to 37% for the first time.
- As a result, we now know that a candidate can successfully win a bid for U.S. Senator with support from only 35% of the rural vote.
In blue-collar states like Georgia, economic patriotism is multifaceted and far more complicated than a bumper sticker policy. For example, amid a persistent barrage of fractious issues stemming from a lack of quality education, financial freedom, and adequate healthcare, we must encourage and cultivate students of color. Looking deeper, we see how the stimulus package positively impacts young people everywhere. For many of us, having a job provided the sense of independence we needed to be responsible citizens, and after the recession, the stimulus package did the same. If you were lucky enough to have an employed family member before the recession, you not only benefited from their labor but the unemployment supplemental as well.
Watching our community members provide for their family gave us all a sense of pride and passion for helping each other. That’s probably why the stimulus package was so crucial for young voters in Georgia and other states. It’s always a momentous occasion when a young person gets their first job and votes for the first time. These are two of the early meaningful investments they make to own their future. Not to mention how voting is one of the longest-lasting investments made by young people.
- Georgia’s House District 111 (35% Black and 6% Latino with a significant youth population).
- This seat is in a county that gave President Obama 48% of the vote – just 2,925 votes from victory.
- Henry County has grown by 2.5% to 209,053, and cities like Stockbridge grew 2.5% to 26,281. Note that areas like this will have more than 14,000 “key” Voters of Color and could be decisive. Devoting resources to high performing VOC precincts here will give a tremendous return on investment.
What will be the long-term impact? Through redistricting, anti-voting rights politicians controlled politics for a decade. At one point, they held both of Georgia’s U.S. Senate seats, 9 of the fourteen congressional seats, the governorship, and both state legislative bodies. As a result, Georgia residents lived under political leadership that did not represent their interests. Can students of color repair the damage and turn it around? Yes. As the future of Georgia politics begins to take shape, there are new principles in play. These students have paid their dues and earned an upgrade. They deserve the best life has to offer and won’t settle for less. Politicians should match that in actions as well as words.
To be continued …
Kirk Clay is the President of Capitol View Advisors — a collaborative investing and acting on its values in creative and strategic ways to connect communities with the information and resources they need to support and further their aspirations.


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- Labor-intensive U.S. fruit, vegetable industry â€¨competes in global market
- Adapting to rising wages
- The U.S. fruit and vegetable industry is labor intensive, pays higher wages than are paid in many other countries, and increasingly operates in a global economy.
- U.S. fruit and vegetable farms rely on seasonal workers who are likely to be unauthorized immigrants; any future immigration reform could reduce the supply of labor or raise wages.
- Fruit and vegetable growers may respond to any potential wage increases by reducing the number of seasonal workers employed, adopting mechanized harvesters or other labor-saving technologies in the field, or reducing production.
Adapting to rising wages
Labor is just one input in a complex production process, and growers have several options if wages rise. For example, growers may use less labor if the wage rate increases. Asparagus is typically harvested continuously over several months. If the price of asparagus is too low relative to labor costs, growers may stop harvesting a field, trading off the loss of income from reduced yields against the savings on labor costs.
Growers also may combat rising labor costs by using more labor aids to improve labor efficiency, such as replacing ladders with mobile platforms in apple orchards when pruning and thinning trees. Experts are developing platforms that are stable enough to support workers and apples during harvesting activities. If these efforts are successful, platforms could replace ladders and lead to improvements in productivity. Studies show that workers spend only 30 percent of their time picking apples; the rest is spent positioning and climbing ladders and unloading bags of fruit.
Growers may mechanize to replace costly labor if an economical mechanical alternative is available. However, mechanization often presents complex technical challenges. A machine cannot easily mimic the judgment and dexterity of experienced farmworkers, particularly when crops do not mature evenly, and workers must determine what can be harvested during multiple passes through fields and orchards. Research and development (R&D) can be both expensive and time consuming, with success of mechanization difficult to predict. Developing a viable mechanized harvest system often depends on breakthroughs in three areas: machinery, varieties, and agricultural practices. Results from all three lines of research may not emerge at the same time.
The mechanical harvesting of processing oranges, for example, appears to have stalled while growers wait for the development of a complete mechanization system and not just a mechanical harvester. The mechanical harvester works well in the early part of the Florida processing orange season. But it cannot be used on late-season Valencia oranges, which account for 25-30 percent of Florida’s total processing orange harvest. At harvest time, late-season Valencia orange trees contain both mature and immature fruit for the following season; mechanical harvesting removes too much of the following year’s production. Researchers have developed an abscission compound that may complete the mechanization system for processing oranges and promote adoption of the mechanical harvester. The compound can be sprayed on trees to loosen the bond between the stem and the fruit on mature oranges, allowing mechanical harvesters to shake the canopy with less force and dislodge the mature fruit without harming the immature fruit. Before the compound can be used, however, the industry needs to obtain an experimental use permit from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
The fresh produce industry is generally concentrated—the largest growers supply the majority of production. Depending on the type of machinery available, mechanization may accelerate the trend toward fewer and larger producers. For example, the mechanical harvester for processing oranges (a pair of machines powerful enough to shake the fruit off a tree) costs over a million dollars. Larger processing orange growers are the most likely to invest in expensive machines because a large, fixed investment can be spread over more acreage, making it more economical. An alternative to buying specialized machinery is custom harvesting, in which a third party buys machinery and harvests crops for multiple growers; a custom harvesting industry has developed for processing oranges. In other cases, harvesters may be available in a range of configurations appropriate for farmers of different sizes. For the baby leaf lettuce industry, large machines cost about $240,000 and cut 13,000-15,000 pounds an hour. At the other extreme, small mechanical harvesters pushed by workers cost about $10,000 and cut 300 pounds an hour. Regardless of the scale of machinery, once growers invest in specialized machinery for a particular crop, they may reduce the number of commodities produced on their farms.
Even if growers cannot reduce labor costs, other improvements can offset higher wages. Improved irrigation techniques, better pest control, higher yields, and the availability of new varieties can help increase profits. For example, between 1990-92 and 2005-07, U.S. strawberry yields increased 63 percent. Yields also increased for apples, asparagus, and lettuce.
In some cases, total production costs rise with labor wage rates. If there is no trade, rising costs generally lead to a lower quantity demanded, as production declines and prices increase. In today’s relatively open international marketplace, it is hard for growers to pass on higher production costs if the same commodity can be imported for less during the same season. Some growers may shift production from labor-intensive crops to mechanized crops as labor costs rise. In some areas, selling farmland for housing is an attractive alternative. Many California growers, forced out of the asparagus business due to increased imports, have used both options.
Some production of labor-intensive crops may shift to countries with lower labor costs, but so far imports have seldom replaced U.S. production of fresh-market commodities during the season they are produced in the United States. There are more examples of processed fruit and vegetable production moving abroad. While labor rates may be less in other countries, total production costs are not necessarily lower. Imports are not always the result of lower labor or total production costs abroad. For example, the United States now imports small quantities of lettuce from Mexico. Total lettuce production costs in Arizona and central Mexico are similar; wages are lower in Mexico than in the United States, but so are yields. Changes in the U.S. lettuce market have created incentives to import lettuce. Bagged salads are frequently sold under annual or mult-iyear contracts that specify weekly quantities to be delivered. Some U.S. firms grow lettuce in Mexico to enable them to fulfill bagged-salad contracts in the event that bad weather or some other issue restricts the availability of U.S. lettuce, particularly during the winter months.
Growers invest in mechanization to boost competitiveness
Most of the fresh-market fruit and vegetable industry is competitive with foreign suppliers despite relatively high wage rates. However, the potential for immigration reform or changes in enforcement that might make labor availability more unpredictable or increase wages remains a concern. R&D is critical for developing new labor aids and mechanical harvesters that could help maintain economic competitiveness in a world economy. Individual growers, grower organizations, machinery manufacturers, universities, and the Government have all invested in these new technologies. Interest in R&D varies over time, particularly with respect to current and expected labor supply. Unfortunately, the success of mechanization R&D is unpredictable. The harvest of some commodities was mechanized much sooner than many observers expected. And, despite predictions, other industries still are not mechanized. Growers of some commodities need mechanization alternatives more urgently than others.

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Mobile money operators in the country want the Bank of Ghana to expedite the processes of issuing licenses to Dedicated Electronic Money Issuing Institutions (DEMI).
They argue that the licenses will boost confidence and increase patronage of the mobile money services.
Ghana’s Electronic Money Regulations states that the central bank has up to ninety (90) working days to issue or reject licenses for institutions other than banks willing to possess or issue e-money.
The General Manager of Mobile Money Services at MTN, Eli Hini tells Citi Business News he believes the numbers will increase significantly if the regulator facilitates the issuing of the DEMI licenses.
“What we are seeking the central bank to do is to fast track the process of actually giving these institutions the licenses because it is part of the processes under the e-money regulations. Our plea is however just to ensure that it is completed in line with the regulations for the service,” he explained.
Mr. Hini added though the operators are still involved in carrying out their mandate in providing services to customers, their work will be strengthened if they obtain the backing of the industry regulator, the Bank of Ghana.
“It gives further assurance to them that indeed they have the mandate and the license to undertake the activities on an everyday basis you want to be sure that the regulator has given that mandate.”
Mobile money increase by twenty percent end of June
Mobile money transactions increased from about 550 million cedis in 2015, to over 600 million cedis in June this year.
The figure also represents a twenty percent increase in the figures recorded between 2015 and the first half of 2016.
Telecom operators have lauded the central bank for its role in introducing the mobile money regulations in 2015.
It however believes the sector will see a significant improvement if the central bank addresses critical issues bordering on the provision of interest on mobile money accounts.
In the meantime, the Bank of Ghana has proposed an interest between 11/2 and 7 percent per annum.


DUBLIN, January 21, 2016 /PRNewswire/ --
Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/qkvgp8/military_laser) has announced the addition of the "Military Laser Systems Market - Forecast and Analysis to 2020 " report to their offering.
The military laser systems market is projected to reach $4.63 Billion by 2020, at a CAGR of 8.86% from 2015 to 2020.
The laser light is notable for its high degree of spatial and temporal coherence. Lasers are essentially used in marking targets, guiding munitions, missile defense, Electro-Optical Counter Measures (EOCM), and blinding troops. The laser has applications in most of the firearms and can be used as a tool to enhance the targeting capacity of another weapon system
The military laser systems market is segmented on the basis of products, applications, technologies, and regions. By product, the market is categorized into laser designator, LIDAR, 3D scanning, laser weapon, laser range finder, ring laser gyro, and laser altimeter.
During the forecast period, the 3D scanning segment is estimated to account for the highest market growth.
The military laser systems market is dominated by North America, followed by Europe, Asia-Pacific, the Middle East, and rest of the world (RoW). The Middle East is one of the top five defense markets in the world, and it is expected that the Middle Eastern defense spending would rise by fourfold in the coming years.
The military laser systems market is growing in the Middle East, as it could enhance force protection against small boat swarms, unmanned aerial vehicles or rocket, artillery, mortar or missile attack. This have helped the Middle Eastern region become the fastest-growing region in the market during the forecast period.
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Protective layer is waterproof but breathable PUL . The top layer is a stay dry fabric that wicks any moisture quickly away to the super absorrbent insert. The insert is made from the latest technology in absorent fabircs, called Zorb, it is a super absorbent fabric that can soak up to 20 x more than cotton, hemp or bamboo.
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Kazakhstan planted spring grains throughout over 14.6 mln ha
As of June 5, 2014, Kazakhstan planted spring grains throughout the areas of 14.649 mln ha, or 98.1% of the plan, declared the Ministry of Agriculture of the Republic of Kazakhstan.
Agrarians planted oilseeds throughout 2.228 mln ha (100.5%). The country almost completed planting rice and maize for grain - 96.8 thsd ha (105.6%) and 115.3 thsd ha (99.3%), respectively.
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Kazakhstan exports nearly 1.8 mln tonnes of flour per year – E.Gan
Kazakhstan harvested over 21 mln tonnes grains – Ministry of Agriculture
Even in bad harvest year, Kazakhstan has sufficient grain volumes for consumption and exports – expert
Kazakhstan harvested nearly 17 mln tonnes grains – Ministry of Agriculture
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I'm having a problem with the ice maker in my Kicthen aid refrigerator. The water does not refill the tray after it cycles. I've jumped test points V to L and the water does dispense into the tray as long as the jumper is connected. I have replaced the ice maker with a new unit and still have the same problem. I could really use some help.


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Earlier this week the temperature was 78°. That’s right: seventy-eight degrees. Phew! Louisiana weather is nothing if not a daily surprise. Last night the low was 25°. That is a 50+ degree swing. Nothing new for us, though. I know not to get too excited about a sunny, warm day in January because the next is likely to be bitterly cold and gloomy. It’s just one of those things you learn to live with and you adjust accordingly. And honestly, I would rather deal with the surprises than with 3 or 4 months of constant cold and gloom; so….I’m not complaining! :)
I recently had this recipe published in a local home & garden magazine. A friend mentioned to me a few nights ago that she made it and was very pleased with the outcome. (I always love hearing feedback from anyone who actually tries my recipes, don’t you?!) :)
Anyway, our conversation got me thinking of this particular recipe and wondering if I had ever published it here. It’s been on my Facebook page for over a year; but funny enough, I had not posted it to my little blog! Silly me. I get so caught up in things that I forget what I’ve done and what I’ve only imagined I’ve done! LOL
Ever since eating the most delicious fish tacos in Mexico last month, I have been wanting to try them at home. Compadres is a small cantina on Isla Mujeres that we found our last day there. Fresh Chilean Sea Bass was perfectly seasoned and pan seared then served on a flour tortilla with pico de gallo and sliced avocado. Delicious.
I couldn’t replicate the beach or the ocean view or find fresh chilean sea bass, but I was pretty confident I could give the tacos a fair shot.
…Not bad… (licks fingers and lips) ;)
You know the old Hank Williams’ song: ”Jambalaya, crawfish pie, fillet gumbo..” Singing the virtues of life on the bayou and all the fabulous food created by the cajuns. I’m so proud to be a part of this heritage, and never more so than when it comes to food. Now that I’m awaking from my vacation haze, I’ve been thinking of recipes to share; and more and more of the dishes from my own family keep popping up and inspiring me to get back into the kitchen
As most of my recipes are, this is a quick dish that’s super easy for a week night. I had never actually tried to make this before, so I was a bit apprehensive at the outcome. (I had all these ingredients on hand and REALLY didn’t want to make a trip to the grocery for a Plan B in case this was a failure!)
No worries, because it was actually really good. And so…I pass it on to you. ☺
I’ve never been all that into oysters. Raw, ok every now and then. But cooked, they just were never my cup o’ tea. I’ve tried them in gumbo…No, thank you. Fried…ich No thank you. (except for the succulent fried oysters at Janohn’s—mmmmm!) On a salad…No. On a po’boy….No. Charbroiled…. Wait a second.
I love leftovers. Sometimes they make the best meals. And always they make dinner preparation easier.
Two nights ago we grilled a couple of large tuna steaks. They were so big that one divided between my husband and myself was perfectly sufficient for dinner. That meant that we had a whole, very large tuna steak left over.
What to do? What to do?