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Nigeria: UK Fails to Block Proceeds of Corrupt Nigerian Oil Deal
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The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) has failed to prevent more than US$110 million from a corrupt Nigerian oil deal leaving the UK, even though it had powers to do so, say Global Witness and Re: Common.
The anti-corruption watchdogs warn that by allowing such funds to pass through the UK unconstrained, London is acting as a conduit for corrupt money diverted from the citizens of Nigeria.
The funds were held in the UK pending the outcome of a case in the High Court in London[i]. Parties in the case disputed[ii] the amounts they should be paid from the proceeds of a deal for the Nigerian oil block, OPL 245.
The huge OPL 245 oil concession was awarded in 1998 by the then Nigerian oil minister, Dan Etete, to a company called Malabu Oil and Gas, of which he was a hidden owner[iii].
This took place during the rule of the notoriously corrupt military dictator Sani Abacha. Etete was convicted of money laundering in France in 2007[iv].
The oil block was sold in 2012 to subsidiaries of oil companies Royal Dutch Shell and ENI, by the Nigerian government. Shell and ENI paid $1.1 billion to the Nigerian government, which then paid the same amount to Etete's company, Malabu Oil & Gas.
The Nigerian government has been called a "straw man" between Shell, Eni and Malabu[v]. The deal effectively monetised an asset that Etete had illicitly awarded to his own company, depriving the Nigerian State of over a billion dollars.
A recent report by a Nigerian committee of the House of Representatives found that the oil deal was "contrary to the laws of Nigeria," "ceded away our National Interest"[vi], and recommended that the government cancel it.
A middleman acting for Malabu sued the company in the UK High Court for US$200 million for his part in arranging the deal. Last July, the court awarded the middleman US$110.5 million. The parties appealed but the High Court upheld the decision in March 2014.
At the end of the case, Global Witness called for the funds held to be frozen pending the conclusion of investigations under way in the UK, Italy and Nigeria[vii].
Despite these calls to restrain the funds, the CPS does not appear to have acted to freeze the money. According to reliable sources, the money was recently transferred to the Nigerian middleman's company.
"This case is extraordinary. The UK courts have been used to divvy up the loot from a highly suspicious and possibly illegal oil deal, and even though there has been plenty of time to intervene, and an abundance of evidence showing the corrupt nature of this deal, the CPS has not acted to freeze the money.
If London wants to avoid being labelled the global capital for laundering by state-looters, then the CPS needs to publicly explain its lack of action." said Simon Taylor, Director of Global Witness.
What could Nigerians done with the $1.1bn?
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[i] Energy Venture Partners Versus Malabu Oil & Gas, Commercial court, Queen's Bench Division, 2011-13. The case was brought by a broker who alleged that Etete failed to pay him for work he had done in obtaining a buyer for OPL245. Shell and Eni were not part of these proceedings.
[ii] For more details on the case see http://www.globalwitness.org/opl245
[iii] In the July 2013 UK High Court case of Energy Venture Partners Versus Malabu Oil and Gas, Lady Justice Gloster of the Queen's Bench Division, Commercial Court ruled, "I find as a fact that, from its incorporation and at all material times, Chief Etete had a substantial beneficial interest in Malabu", Approved Judgement, Case 2011 FOLIO-792 17 July 2013.
The Nigerian House of Representatives investigation into the case also found Dan Etete is the 30% owner of Malabu. See also Global Witness, 25 November 2013, "The Scandal of Nigerian Oil Block OPL 245", http://www.globalwitness.org/library/scandal-nigerian-oil-block-opl-245
[iv] Dan Etete, a former Petroleum Minister of Nigeria, was convicted of money laundering in France in 2007.
[v] In a US legal case the Honorable Bernard J. Fried described the Federal Government of Nigeria's role in the deal as that of "the proverbial 'straw man'", who was "holding $1.1billion for ultimate payment to Malabu". Order to Show Cause with temporary Restraining Order, "In the Matter of Arbitration between International Legal Consulting Limited and Malabu Oil and Gas Limited and J. P. Morgan Chase and Co and all of its subsidiaries and affiliates, including but not limited to JP Morgan Chase Bank, NA", Supreme Court of the State of New York, County of New York," Index no 651733/2011, 22 July 2011, p.10. Edwards, Angell, Plamer and Dodge on behalf of Malabu to Clifford Chance LLP, 15 July 2011.
[vi] On 18 February 2014 the Nigerian House of Representatives voted on the recommendation of an investigation into the deal, calling for the deal's cancellation and criticised the deal for being contrary to the laws of Nigeria, committing the country to unacceptable indemnities and liabilities while acting as an obligor, ceding away the Nigerian national interest and censured and reprimanded Shell and Eni's subsidiaries for their actions; House of Representatives Federal Government of Nigeria, Votes and Proceedings, 18 February 2014, p994
[vii] In March 2014 it was reported that Italian prosecutors in Milan are investigating ENI's role in the OPL 245 deal. The UK's Proceeds of Corruption Unit has also confirmed that it is investigating allegations of money laundering related to the oil block.
Following a complaint in February 2012 by Mohamed Sani Abacha (son of former President Abacha) and Pecos Energy limited the Nigerian Economic and Financial Crimes Commission began investigating Malabu Oil and Gas and the OPL 245 deal; Wall Street Journal, 22 July 2013, "UK Investigates Money Laundering Allegations Relating to Nigerian Oil Block", http://online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-20130722-706581.html;; Report by the Ad-Hoc Committee on the transaction involving the Federal Government and Shell/AGIP companies and Malabu Oil and Gas Limited in respect of the sale of oil bloc OPL 245, 9 July 2013
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FULLERTON, CALIF. -- The No. 16-ranked USC women's soccer team posted its third straight 1-0 victory thanks to senior forward Leah Gallegos' game-winning goal in the second half of the Trojans' NCAA First Round match against No. 18 Gonzaga, held Friday night at Cal State Fullerton. The win earned USC its fourth trip to the NCAA Second Round, where the Women of Troy will face host Cal State Fullerton at 1 p.m. on Sunday (Nov. 13). The victory improves USC to a 13-5-2 overall record, while Gonzaga's 2005 season ends with a 12-4-4 record.
In a break from tradition after USC's last two 1-0 wins on extremely late scores, the Women of Troy broke through the scoring silence just four minutes into the second half of play. After freshman forward Amy Rodriguez (Lake Forest, Calif./Santa Margarita HS) was fouled outside the box deep on the left side of the field, junior midfielder Rosa Anna Tantillo (San Diego, Calif./La Jolla HS) lined up to take the free kick. She sailed a perfect ball to the face of the goal, where Gallegos (Los Angeles, Calif./Franklin HS/FSU) got a solid head on it to drill it into the back of the goal for a 1-0 lead at the 48:38 mark in the game. Tantillo's assist on the game-winner balloons her season assist tally to 11, moving her into a tie with current assistant coach Isabelle Harvey at No. 3 on the all-time single-season assists chart.
From there, USC's offense kept firing, creating a number of scoring opportunities that ended up just off the mark. Meanwhile, the Trojans' stalwart defense buckled down and kept things fairly quiet, clearing a couple late Gonzaga corner kicks to hold onto USC's 12th shutout of the season. Sophomore goalkeeper Veronica Simonton (Chino Hills, Calif./Ayala HS) now has 11 solo shutouts this year. Simonton came up big for the Women of Troy on Friday night, stuffing two dangerous Bulldog attacks by going one-on-one with Gonzaga strikers and knocking the ball out of danger. Her defensive back line also stood strong, especially in the second half, when the Trojans kept the ball largely on the Gonzaga half of the field to out-shoot the Bulldogs 9-3 in the half.
USC has made seven trips to the NCAA Tournament in program history, and has now won a total of four first-round games. The Trojans have yet to win in the second round, giving the Women of Troy a 4-6 record in NCAA action. Cal State Fullerton beat UNLV 1-0 in overtime on Friday to earn its place against USC in this year's NCAA Second Round match, to be played at 1 p.m. on Sunday (Nov. 13) in Fullerton, Calif. The Titans are now 18-3-0 overall.


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California Water Storage Projects Receive Awards
May 5, 2016 /in San Diego County /by Ed Joyce /civil + structural ENGINEER (Fayetteville, Ark.) Mentioned: San Diego County Water Authority
The Emergency & Carryover Storage Project (E&CSP) in San Diego is one of the most important infrastructure projects constructed in the United States in the last century. In the naturally dry and arid regions of southern California, 80 percent of the water is imported from hundreds of miles away from more abundant resources in Northern California and the Colorado River. This leaves all of southern California, especially the San Diego region, susceptible to disruptions in the water delivery system, namely from earthquakes, statewide system failures, or extreme droughts and other water shortages.
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Drought-Ridden L.A. Tries Rainmakers to Tap Storm Clouds
May 5, 2016 /in San Diego County /by Ed Joyce /Scientific American (Washington, D.C.)by David Biello
Los Angeles has officially stopped trying to make it rain—for now. During three separate storms in the past two months, contract workers for the L.A. County Department of Public Works ignited 25 special flares in the hills above Pasadena, sending columns of glittering smoke into the clouds to give them a literal silver lining that could boost precipitation.
The efforts mark the first time since 2002 that the parched metropolis has seeded clouds in an attempt to enhance rainfall; it is currently enduring a nearly five-year-long drought with this winter's rainfall at just 40 percent of the usual amount.
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California Drought Eases, But It's Far From Over
May 5, 2016 /in California and the U.S. /by Ed Joyce /WBUR (Boston)
The El Nino rains have brought some relief to drought-stricken California. The U.S. Drought Monitor is reporting that the percentage of the state in exceptional drought is half of what it was at the beginning of the year – 21 percent versus 44.8 percent in January. At least one water district has decided to loosen its water usage restrictions.
But Jay Famiglietti, senior water scientist at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, says water scarcity is a chronic condition in California and the drought is far from over.http://hereandnow.wbur.org/2016/05/05/california-drought-eases
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When in drought: the California farmers who don't water their crops
May 5, 2016 /in California and the U.S. /by Ed Joyce /The Guardian (San Francisco)by Charlotte Simmonds
There's something different about Will Bucklin's grape vines. At first it's hard to notice, but a drive through northern California's Sonoma Valley, past waves of green, manicured vineyards, makes it clear. The black ribbon of PVC irrigation pipe that typically threads the vines is curiously absent here – because Will doesn't water his crops.
Bucklin's Old Hill Ranch, purchased by his stepfather Otto Teller in 1980, claims to be the oldest-rooted vineyard in the area. Teller fell in love with the vineyard because it was one of the few that still "dry-farmed".
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Report Finds Unsafe Water May Affect 24 Percent of California Public Schools
May 5, 2016 /in California and the U.S. /by Ed Joyce /Capital Public Radio (Sacramento)by By Amy Quinton
Water supplies in many California public schools have repeatedly exceeded safe drinking standards. The report from the Community Water Center looked at nearly 7,000 public schools around California. It found between 2003 and 2014, up to 24 percent of the schools had water that violated safe standards.
"Bacterial and arsenic violations were the most common types of violations impacting schools, but they were also followed by the pesticide DBCP, disinfectant byproducts, and nitrates,"says lead author Jenny Rempel with the Community Water Center.
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BLOG: California Groundwater Regulation Hangs on a Few Words
May 5, 2016 /in California and the U.S. /by Ed Joyce /Circle of Blue by By Brett Walton
California's attempt to exert tighter control over groundwater use, the purpose of a landmark 2014 state law, was designed to be a compromise between state authority and local oversight.
The tension dogged the writing of the law two years ago, and is playing out again as the California Department of Water Resources (DWR) drafts the regulations that will put the law into practice. The regulations in question are those that the state will use to evaluate groundwater sustainability plans, the 20-year planning documents required of local management agencies by the 2014 law.
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More Thunderstorms Due; Lake Oroville Could Keep Rising
May 5, 2016 /in California and the U.S. /by Ed Joyce /Chico Enterprise-Recordby By Dan Reidel
Thunder and lightning hit the north valley this week and flashing, booming skies could continue through Saturday evening.
"There's an unsettled pattern, we do have a large trough of low pressure over the West Coast right now," said Karl Swanberg, a forecaster with the National Weather Service's Sacramento office. "These enhanced features, they just rotate around the low pressure, so you get little waves of energy bringing a chance of showers and in your area, thunderstorms."
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Long-Term Drought Persists In California
May 5, 2016 /in California and the U.S. /by Ed Joyce /Capital Public Radio (Sacramento)by By Ed Joyce
The U.S. Drought Monitor released May 5 shows some minor improvement in California drought conditions. But looking ahead to the dry season shows drought persisting for a fifth consecutive year in the Golden State.
In California, some moderate drought was removed in the northern portion of the state. The extreme northwest portion of the state accounts for the 4.27 percent of California where there is no drought. But 96 percent remains abnormally dry, with 89 percent in moderate, 74 percent in severe, 49 percent in extreme and 21 percent in exceptional drought.
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Farmers Innovate to Get More Crop Per Drop
May 5, 2016 /in San Diego County /by Ed Joyce /The San Diego Union-Tribuneby By Andy Lyall
During your next meal, I encourage you to look down at your plate. More closely. No matter if you live in San Diego or Baltimore, chances are, one or more of the foods on that plate was grown or raised right here in California. With nearly half of American-grown nuts, fruits and vegetables produced in California, the state is on your plate.
But the delicious and diverse array of California food available to us is only half the story.
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Louie Campos stopped drinking the water from his faucets in Visalia, California, so long ago that it takes him a minute to recall just how many years it has been since he held a glass to the tap and took a swill. By his closest approximation, the plainspoken 43-year-old has ripped through a 24-pack of bottled water a week for the last eight years. Bottled water, he says, is a hidden tax Visalia's residents must pay to live there.
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Vice Chairman W. Krick called the meeting to order at 5:34 p.m.
Elgin IL; B. Boltze, 3579 W. Webster, Montague; M. Olejarczyk, 690 W.
supported by E. Simmons and unanimously approved.
days if the loan was approved.
timeline with SAFEbuilt to get the repairs completed, was made by B. Arthur, supported by E.
staff report, the owner had scheduled an inspection to be performed on 11/3/2014.
door repair. The applicant was supposed to have a timeline for repairs brought to the meeting. M.
done to the structures must comply with City code.
by B. Arthur and unanimously approved.
take the Duncan's to court for the final two land contract payments, and not take the house back.
owner of record, so they would be the ones responsible.
repairs and re-sell it on land contract. W. Krick asked if SAFEbuilt had been through the house. K.
ninety days just for the court process. K. Briggs wanted a time frame to get the issues resolved. E.
preference would be to sell it to the neighbor.
demolition or repairs completed, with K. Doyon returning to the HBA no later than the May meeting.
W. Krick stated that any new owner would be bound by the same conditions and timeline. K.
Doyon agreed. The motion was supported by R. Mackie, and unanimously approved.
B. Turnquist left at 6:15 p.m.
repairs was developed. The timeline showed that the repairs would be completed by 6/15/2014.
The owner did obtain permits, with 4 having now expired and 1 finaled. K. Briggs notified H.
be declared as a dangerous building again. There were no taxes owed to the County Treasurer.
Simmons, supported by B. Arthur and unanimously approved.
she cancelled it. She also contacted H. Mitchell to see if the case could be tabled until spring. H.
Elementary and school is in session.
a public nuisance was made by R. Mackie, supported by B. Arthur and unanimously approved.
certificate of compliance for rental properties.
7/24/2014. No fire inspection has taken place nor has there been any other contact with the owner.
was negatively affecting his property and potential renters.
stated that he would look in to it.
There being no further business, the meeting was adjourned at 6:25 p.m.


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Fla. sheriff: Students no longer fear getting 'a– cheeks' 'torn off', need new discipline policy
by WPLG Local10.com
BREVARD COUNTY, Fla. – Days after the Brevard County School Board ousted the superintendent, plans are underway for a new school disciplinary policy in Brevard Public Schools.
Flanked by Sheriff Wayne Ivey and State Attorney Phil Archer, School Board Chairman Matt Susin went on camera Monday in front of the Brevard County Jail in Sharpes to announce plans to impose the "most prolific school discipline policy this district has ever had," Local 10 News partner WKMG in Orlando reports.
"It's a new day," Ivey repeatedly said throughout the announcement.
Susin did not say what this policy would include. He said he was calling an emergency meeting for next week to draft the policy with input from Archer's office, Ivey, and the teachers and school staff unions.
Members of the media were not invited to ask questions about what the district plans to do.
The current student code of conduct was approved by the Brevard County School Board, including Susin himself, in February 2022.
Ivey said the new disciplinary policy was necessary because teachers and administration were handcuffed by the current student code of conduct from dealing with students.
"They know nothing is going to happen to them," Ivey said. "They know they're not going to be given after-school detention, they're not going to be suspended, they're not going to be expelled, or like in the old days, they're not going to have the cheeks of their a– torn off for not doing right in class."
Ivey said the school discipline situation is so bad that the district is losing teachers.
A representative from the union for school bus drivers and other school employees said staff members were being hurt by students.
"The instructional assistants that are in the classrooms are choked, they're bitten, they're scratched. It's an everyday occurrence," said Delores Varney with IUPAD Local 1010. "And they're so discouraged because nothing is ever done with the students, or at least it appears there is nothing being done. If it is, it's taking way too long to remove these bad students from the classrooms."
According to the most recently released student discipline data from the Florida Department of Education, Brevard Public Schools reported few student expulsions in the 2020-2021 school year — fewer than 10. However, there were 2,518 in-school suspensions, 4,457 out-of-school suspensions, 435 students placed in an alternative educational setting and 139 students who were physically restrained.
News 6 in Orlando has asked why members of the media were not invited to the announcement Monday. We are also asking the Brevard County Sheriff's Office why it spearheaded the announcement rather than the school board, and held it at the jail.
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Q: Open and maximise a browser window in OATS Java (not javascript) I am a tester and just installed oracle application test suite to use testing eBus apps
Anyway the only language it supports for coding test scripts (I don't want to use the recorder for a number of reasons).  The problem I am having is that everything I search or google is javascript not java (even googling with -script I still ended up looking at javascript.  This just gets rejected by the oats editor
The only other examples I have seen, appear to be defining a variable then setting the value of that variable as the window they want to maximize.  Aside from the fact that my java skills are not up to doing that - I do not need to do this for a newly opened browser window do I? (The assumption is that this will be the only browser window open (ie test is executed with browser closed)
Is there any easy way to do this?
Below is the very simple initiate of the browser which is generated from a recording plus part of the first step which loads the url the test starts at: (I realize the first step is not complete below -I didn't paste it all, just enough to hopefully allow someone to show me what I need to edit to force the browser to load maximized, or maximize it immediately after loading?
public void initialize() throws Exception {
        browser.launch();
}

/**
 * Add code to be executed each iteration for this virtual user.
 */
public void run() throws Exception {
    beginStep("[1] Login (/RF.jsp)", 0);
    {

        web
                .window(2,
                        "/web:window[@index='0' or @title='about:blank']")
                .navigate(
                        "http://somepageiwantolaunch");
        web.window(4, "/web:window[@index='0' or @title='Login']")
                .waitForPage(null);

A: I am not sure whether you already got the answer for this.. if not this code should help you
browser.launch();
DOMBrowser currentExecutionBrowser = web.window("/web:window[@index='0' or @index='1']");
currentExecutionBrowser.maximize();

Let me know if this helps!

A: There is a function in the Oracle Functional Tester API Reference which has a build in function called object.WindowState It says you can get or set using this function and it has values
    0 - Normal, 1- minimized and 2-maximised.

Only issue is that these examples look more like VB than Javascript but presumably there is a similar function built into to the Oracle libraries for Java.
I did a quick search for Oracle Openscript API and came up with this link which asks for the same thing.  They suggest using Help->Search from within the openscript application and then searching for "openscript API" which should provide a list of the functions available.
Hope that helps.

A: To Maximize browser in OATS, follow the below code
Open script ha in built methods which helps coding easy
    browser.launch();
    web.window(12, "/web:window[@index='0' or @title='about:blank']").navigate("http://www.google.com/");
    web.window(12, "/web:window[@index='0' or @title='about:blank']").maximize();

for more OATS Tips/Tricks follow here
http://www.testinghive.com/category/oracle-application-testing-suite-tips

A: If it is the only browser window open, you can use the below code. It must be used with caution since the code maximizes any window that is open above the browser window.
try {
        Robot a = new Robot();
        a.keyPress(KeyEvent.VK_ALT);
        a.keyPress(KeyEvent.VK_SPACE);
        a.keyRelease(KeyEvent.VK_SPACE);
        a.keyRelease(KeyEvent.VK_ALT);
        a.keyPress(KeyEvent.VK_X);
        a.keyRelease(KeyEvent.VK_X);
    } catch (AWTException e) {

    }

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Website: www.nhclibrary.org
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Center For Marine Science
5600 Marvin Moss Lane
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Art of Collecting Lecture Series
Cameron Art Museum
Website: www.cameronartmuseum.org
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The Art of Collecting Lecture Series at Cameron Art Museum in Wilmington, NC, features Dr. Ian Taplin, Professor of Sociology, Management and International Studies at Wake Forest University. He discusses how contemporary…
Juegos, Cuentos y Canciones: Games, Stories and Songs
Juegos, Cuentos y Canciones: Games, Stories and Songs at the Main Library in downtown Wilmington, NC, is a new playgroup for preschoolers. Kids will learn games and songs and hear stories in…
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Lamplighters Toastmasters Meeting
New Hanover County Government Center
230 Government Center Drive
Website: www.nhcgov.com
Lamplighters Toastmasters is an international organization for people wishing to improve their public speaking and leadership skills. The group meets the first and third Thursdays of each month in the New Hanover…
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Palate Bottle Shop & Reserve
Website: www.palatenc.com
UNCW's Creative Writing MFA Department celebrates new first-year students at Palate in downtown Wilmington. Six poets, fictioneers, and nonfiction scribes will read from their work, and the community will have a chance…
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Library Fun for Kids
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