Address: 245, ch Yamaska Saint-Germain-de-Grantham, QC, J0C1K0, Saint. See full address and map.
Address: 136, rue du Mil, Saint-Augustin-de-Desmaures, QC, G3A2S4, Saint-Augustin-de-Desmaures. See full address and map.
Address: 64, rue Saint-Georges, Windsor, QC, J1S1J6, Windsor. See full address and map.
Address: 106 Chambers, SEPT-¿LES, QC, G4R2J3, CH. See full address and map.
Address: 391, av Brochu, Sept-îles, QC, G4R4S7, CH. See full address and map.
Address: 57, rue Yves-Thériault, Saint-Charles-Borromée, QC, J6E9G1, Saint-Charles. See full address and map.
Address: 100, rue Saint-Antoine N, Lavaltrie, QC, J5T2G1, Laval. See full address and map.
Address: 3031, rue de la Mousson RR 5, Ste-Marthe-Sur-Le-Lac, QC, J0N1P0, RUE. See full address and map.
Address: 258, av Duval, St-Pascal, QC, G0L3Y0, Other. See full address and map.
Address: 693, boul Vachon N, Sainte-Marie, QC, G6E1M3, Saint. See full address and map.
Address: 1230, rue Morse, Drummondville, QC, J2B0A4, Drummondville. See full address and map.
Address: 236 St Etienne, LA MALBAIE, QC, G5A1T2, Baie. See full address and map.
Address: 3720, rue Mance, Saint-Hubert, QC, J4T2J9, Saint-Hubert. See full address and map.
Address: 31, av Principale, Rouyn-Noranda, QC, J9X4N8, Rouyn-Noranda. See full address and map.
Address: 10 Portage, CARAQUET, NB, E1W1B6, Portage. See full address and map.
Address: 1390, 7E av, Saint-Georges, QC, G5Y3Z7, Saint-Georges. See full address and map.
Address: 350, boul de l'Ange-Gardien, L'Assomption, QC, J5W1S3, Other. See full address and map.
Address: 134, av Rouleau, Rimouski, QC, G5L5S6, Rimouski. See full address and map.
Address: 15-12, 1Re avenue O, Amos, QC, J9T1T8, AVE. See full address and map.
Address: 750, rue Principale RR 2, Saint-Ferdinand, QC, G0N1N0, Saint. See full address and map.
Address: 37, rue Moreau, Princeville, QC, G6L4J4, RUE. See full address and map.
Address: 2558, rue de l'Immaculee-Conception, Saint-Ours, QC, J0G1P0, Saint. See full address and map.
Address: 850, boul Firestone, Joliette, QC, J6E2W5, Joliette. See full address and map.
Address: 450, boul Thibeau, Trois-Rivières, QC, G8T6Z1, Becancour. See full address and map.
Address: 101, av Pierre, Notre-Dame-des-Prairies, QC, J6E8K1, Notre-Dame. See full address and map.
Address: 1655, rue Jade, Drummondville, QC, J2C7S8, Drummondville. See full address and map.
Address: 10B, rue Saint-Albert, Drummondville, QC, J2B2A6, Drummondville. See full address and map.
Address: 87, av des Pervenches, Notre-Dame-des-Prairies, QC, J6E8Y5, Notre-Dame. See full address and map.
Address: 115, rue Pelletier, Saint-Charles-Borromée, QC, J6E8W4, Saint-Charles. See full address and map.
Address: 12615, 1Re Avenue, St-GEORGES, QC, G5Y2E4, Georges. See full address and map.
Address: 698, rue Cabana, Granby, QC, J2G1R9, Granby. See full address and map.
Address: 700, boul Dionne, Saint-Georges, QC, G5Y3T7, Saint-Georges. See full address and map.
Address: Paquetville, NB, E8R2C6, Other. See full address and map.
Address: 650A, rue Taché, St-Pascal, QC, G0L3Y0, RUE. See full address and map.
Address: 450, 6E av, Grand-Mère, QC, G9T2H2, Grand. See full address and map.
Address: 80 St-Louis, East Angus, QC, J0B1R0, St-Louis. See full address and map.
Address: 5850, av du Pont N, Alma, QC, G8E1X3, Alma. See full address and map.
Address: 266, 1Re avenue O, Amos, QC, J9T1V2, AVE. See full address and map.
Address: 2-17, rue Saint-Jean-Baptiste E, Rimouski, QC, G5L1Y4, Rimouski. See full address and map.
Address: 506, Rte du Golf RR 2, Lac-Etchemin, QC, G0R1S0, CH. See full address and map.
Address: 652, rue Royale, Malartic, QC, J0Y1Z0, RUE. See full address and map.
Address: 1591, rue des Érables, Dolbeau-Mistassini, QC, G8L1C4, Dolbeau-Mistassini. See full address and map.
Address: 11400, 1Re Avenue, St-GEORGES, QC, G5Y5S4, Georges. See full address and map.
Address: 15440, boul Lacroix, Saint-Georges, QC, G5Y1R7, Saint-Georges. See full address and map.
Address: Morel RR 2, St-Wenceslas, QC, G0Z1J0, Other. See full address and map.
Address: 829 Destjovite, MONT-TREMBLANT, QC, J0T1Z0, Mont-Tremblant. See full address and map.
Address: 16, rue Bryson, Fort-Coulonge, QC, J0X1V0, RUE. See full address and map.
Address: 3913, boul des Hêtres, Shawinigan, QC, G9N4T9, Shawinigan. See full address and map.
Address: 673, av Centrale, Val-d'Or, QC, J9P1P9, Central. See full address and map.
Address: 305 Georges-Muir, CHARLESBOURG, QC, G2N1K8, Georges. See full address and map.
Address: 1328, rue Fleury E, Montréal, QC, H2C1R3, RUE. See full address and map.
Address: 5, rue du Vieux-Quai, Sept-îles, QC, G4R2Z8, RUE. See full address and map.
Address: 1953, rue Notre-Dame E, Thetford Mines, QC, G6G2V8, Thetford. See full address and map.
Address: 151, rue Lindsay, Drummondville, QC, J2C1N7, Drummondville. See full address and map.
Address: 412 3E av E, Crabtree, QC, J0K1B0, Joliette. See full address and map.
Address: 403 Ch de la Grande Côte, Boisbriand, QC, J7G1A9, Grande. See full address and map.
Address: 590-8 rue E, La Guadeloupe, QC, G0M1G0, RUE. See full address and map.
Address: 223, av Gamache, Sept-îles, QC, G4R2H4, CH. See full address and map.
Address: 14 Avenue Cabot, BAIE-COMEAU, QC, Come. See full address and map.
Address: 1934, rue Saint-Calixte, Plessisville, QC, G6L1R9, Saint. See full address and map.
Address: 1681 Royale, Trois-Rivières, QC, G9A4K2, Other. See full address and map.
Address: 401 Saint-Germain E, RIMOUSKI, QC, G5L1C9, Rimouski. See full address and map.
Address: 172, rue Papineau, Papineauville, QC, J0V1R0, RUE. See full address and map.
Address: 565 Marie Victorin, Deschaillons, QC, G0S1G0, CH. See full address and map.
Address: 7670, rue Joseph-Guay, Trois-Rivières, QC, G8Y5Z5, RUE. See full address and map.
Address: 764, boul Thibeau, Trois-Rivières, QC, G8T7A6, Becancour. See full address and map.
Address: 2750B, rue Laflèche, St-Paulin, QC, J0K3G0, RUE. See full address and map.
Address: 562, rue Saint-Antoine, La Tuque, QC, G9X2Y7, Saint-Antoine. See full address and map.
Address: 182-1 rue O, Barraute, QC, J0Y1A0, RUE. See full address and map.
Address: 435, av Brochu, Sept-îles, QC, G4R2W9, CH. See full address and map.
Address: 2160, 139 Rte Saint-Nicéphore, QC, J2A2G2, Saint. See full address and map.
Address: 281, rue Piché RR 2, Ste-Thècle, QC, G0X3G0, RUE. See full address and map.
Address: 648, boul Thibeau, Trois-Rivières, QC, G8T6Z8, Grand-Mere. See full address and map.
Address: 22 av Colibri, Girardville, QC, G0W1R0, Other. See full address and map.
Address: 33 Rue Gamble Ouest Rouyn-Noranda, ROUYN-NORANDA, QC, Rouyn-Noranda. See full address and map.
Address: 67, rue Kennedy, Sept-îles, QC, G4R4G1, RUE. See full address and map.
Address: 455 Notre Dame, Montébello, QC, J0V1L0, Bell. See full address and map.


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Das Dameneinzel der Wimbledon Championships 1991 war ein Tenniswettbewerb in London.

Titelverteidigerin war Martina Navratilova. Das Finale bestritten Steffi Graf und Gabriela Sabatini, welches Graf in drei Sätzen gewann.

Setzliste

Hauptrunde

Viertelfinale, Halbfinale, Finale

Obere Hälfte

Obere Hälfte 1

Obere Hälfte 2

Obere Hälfte 3

Obere Hälfte 4

Untere Hälfte

Untere Hälfte 1

Untere Hälfte 2

Untere Hälfte 3

Untere Hälfte 4

Weblinks

Dameneinzel
1991

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Q: loading JQuery.js in my javascript I have a js file say test.js and I want to import and use JQuery in it. I don't have a HTML file and I don't want to create one either.
I want to execute my js file once the jQuery is loaded.
My code is as follows:
 var data = *some data that I am passing to the url*

function include(filename, onload) {
    var head = document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0];
    var script = document.createElement('script');
    script.src = filename;
    script.type = 'text/javascript';
     script.onload = script.onreadystatechange = function() {
      if (script.readyState) {
        if (script.readyState === 'complete' || script.readyState === 'loaded') {
            script.onreadystatechange = null;
            onload();
        }
    }
    else {
        onload();
    }
};
head.appendChild(script);
}

 include('http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.7.0/jquery.min.js', function() {
   $(document).ready(function() {
 $.ajax({
        url: "some url,
        type: 'POST',
        crossDomain: true,
        dataType: 'json',
        data: JSON.stringify(data),
        success: function(response) {
            var data = response.hits.total;
            console.log(data);
        },
        error: function() {
          console.log("failed");
          }
       });

  });

});

This gives me an error :
"ReferenceError: document is not defined"
I am running my .js file in node.
How should I import and use JQuery.js to use it in my .js code?

A: Try using something like the request or elasticsearch modules (see npmjs.com).  Node.js is different from JavaScript in the browser, so the AJAX/jquery stuff doesn't apply.

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import * as React from "react";
import styled from "styled-components";
import { Link } from "@patternplate/component-link";
import { Icon } from "@patternplate/component-icon";

export interface SearchCloseProps {
  clears: boolean;
  shortcut: {
    toString(): string;
  }
}

const StyledClose = styled(Link)`
  font-size: 0;
  line-height: 0;
`;

const StyledCloseIcon = styled(Icon)`
  fill: ${props => props.theme.colors.color};
`;

export const SearchClose: React.SFC<SearchCloseProps> = function SearchClose(props) {
  const verb = props.clears ? `Clear` : "Close";
  const query = props.clears ? { search: null } : { "search-enabled": null };
  const symbol = "close";
  return (
    <StyledClose
      query={query}
      title={`${verb} search ${props.shortcut.toString()}`}
    >
      <StyledCloseIcon size="m" symbol={symbol} />
      {verb}
    </StyledClose>
  );
}

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(function() {

    var fullscreenSearch = $('#fullscreen-search'),
        body = $('body'),
        input = $('.fullscreen-search-input'),
        btn = $('.fullscreen-search-btn'),

        ctrlClose = fullscreenSearch.find('span.fullscreen-search-close'),
        isOpen = isAnimating = false,
        // show/hide search area
        toggleSearch = function(event) {
            if (event.type.toLowerCase() === 'focus' && isOpen) return false;
            var offsets = fullscreenSearch[0].getBoundingClientRect();
            if (isOpen) {
                fullscreenSearch.removeClass('open');
                body.removeClass('search-open')

                // trick to hide input text once the search overlay closes
                if (input.value !== '') {
                    setTimeout(function() {
                        fullscreenSearch.addClass('hideInput');
                        setTimeout(function() {
                        	fullscreenSearch.removeClass('hideInput');
                            input.value = '';
                        }, 300);
                    }, 500);
                }

                input.blur();
            } else {
                fullscreenSearch.addClass('open');
                body.addClass('search-open')
            }
            isOpen = !isOpen;
        };

    // events
    $(btn).on('click', function(event){
        toggleSearch(event);
    });
    $(input).on('focus', function(event){
        toggleSearch(event);
    });
    $(ctrlClose).on('click', function(event){
        toggleSearch(event);
    });

    // keyboard navigation events
    document.addEventListener('keydown', function(e) {
        //Do not auto open search for input and textarea
        if ($(e.target).is('input') || $(e.target).is('textarea') || $(e.target).hasClass('ql-editor') || $(e.target).hasClass('note-editable') || $(e.target).hasClass('cke_editable_inline')) {
            if(e.target.className != 'fullscreen-search-input')
                return false;
        }
    	// esc key closes search overlay
        var keyCode = e.keyCode || e.which;
        if (keyCode === 27 && isOpen) {
            toggleSearch(e);
        }

        // type anywhere to search
    	// Search allow for alpha numeric key down only
        if ((e.keyCode >= 48 && e.keyCode <= 57) || (e.keyCode >= 65 && e.keyCode <= 90) && !(e.shiftKey || e.ctrlKey || e.altKey || e.metaKey)){
        	isOpen = false;
        	toggleSearch(e);
        	$('.fullscreen-search-input').focus();
        }
    });

    /***** for demo purposes only: don't allow to submit the form *****/
    fullscreenSearch.find('button[type="submit"]').on('click', function(e) {
    	e.preventDefault();
    });

})();


Greens MP and lead Federal Candidate Lee Rhiannon today announced Lake Macquarie Greens councillor and teacher Phillipa Parsons as the Greens federal candidate for Shortland. Councillor Parsons listed climate change, sustainable jobs for the Hunter and clean government as key issues for her campaign."The failure to deal with climate change, the 'greatest moral challenge of our time', and the accompanying spin from the major parties is making people cynical about politics," Ms Parsons said. "The Greens advocate real government action to advance a transition from dependency on coal-fired power to an economy based around clean renewable energy.
"We have real and workable solutions to combat climate change, but the major parties have failed to meet the community's expectation for leadership on this important issue.
"The doomed Emissions Trading System was negotiated with the Coalition, rather than the Greens. It is time the Federal government seriously considered the Green's proposal for an interim carbon tax, as recommended by the Garnaut review, while a long term solution is negotiated.
"The Greens believe an interim carbon tax is the most fair, equitable and easily achieved solution. An interim two year levy on polluters will get Australia moving towards climate action.
"Locally, I'll be continuing to push for politicians' accountability to the community and for implementation of Federal policy initiatives for a just and sustainable transition.
"Applied to our region, this means moving our local and regional economies away from coal dependency and toward new green collar jobs.
"The national skills shortage is an opportunity to create new apprenticeships in green collar industries and to foster new relationships with entrepreneurial industries pushing renewable energy technologies.
"Since European settlement this electorate has been built on industry. We need to move into new sustainable areas of industry as the international demand for coal falls. It's critical we start planning for our children's and grandchildren's future," Ms Parsons said.
"I have worked and campaigned with Phillipa in the past and have been impressed with her energy and commitment to her local community.
"The Federal government has short-changed the Hunter by refusing to make the big policy pushes towards a sustainable economy, away from coal mining with its destructive impacts on the local environment and communities," Ms Rhiannon said.
Phillipa Parsons is married with three children and has lived in Charlestown and Belmont for 20 years. She is currently a Greens councillor on Lake Macquarie City Council. Phillipa is a secondary public school history teacher within the Shortland electorate. She has previously worked as a NSW police officer and insurance investigator. In addition to her teaching qualifications she has qualifications and experience in management. Phillipa is active in Landcare and developing sustainable neighbourhoods.As a councillor she has been a strong advocate for empowering the community and regularly voices concerns surrounding issues such as climate change, mining and human rights. Phillipa is passionate for governments to exercise leadership in the 'big' issues listen to the people and empower communities to develop sustainable communities. The population of Shortland, with a median income lower than the Australian average, needs federal government investment in improving infrastructure for public transport and education. There has never been a more important time for Shortland to vote Green. Only the Greens have the courage and integrity to stand by their policies to deal with the challenges we face.
· the rejection of the cynical politics of fear and demonising of asylum seekers.


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Dayton's Jordan Davis drives to the basket against Virginia Commonwealth's Isaac Vann on Saturday, Feb. 10, 2018, at the Siegel Center in Richmond, Va.
Photo: David Jablonski - Staff Writer
Date announced for Dayton's game against Tulsa in December
David Jablonski
Flyers will take part in tripleheader in Connecticut
The Dayton Flyers will play Tulsa on Dec. 16 at Mohegan Sun Arena in Uncasville, Conn. The matchup was officially announced Wednesday.
The game will be part of the annual Basketball Hall of Fame Holiday Showcase. The event features two other games: Rhode Island vs. West Virginia and Drexel vs. Quinnipiac.
"It's an opportunity to play a quality opponent in Tulsa at a venue that is becoming known for college basketball," Dayton coach Anthony Grant said in a press release.
» RELATED: How Grant's early recruiting compares to recent UD coaches
Dayton's game against Tulsa is one of several non-conference games that have already been announced. Mississippi State released part of its schedule May 1 and announced it will play at Dayton on Nov. 30.
Dayton will also play a road game at Auburn and three games in November in the Battle 4 Atlantis in the Bahamas. The possible opponents are: Virginia, Middle Tennessee State, Butler, Florida, Oklahoma, Stanford and Wisconsin.
Tickets will go on sale for the general public at 10 a.m. Sept. 7 on Ticketmaster. Game times and television details will be released at a later date.
Dayton has played Tulsa twice, losing 63-60 on Nov. 22, 1984 at Riverfront Coliseum in Cincinnati and losing 84-71 in the first round of the NCAA tournament in 2003 in Spokane, Wash.
Tulsa plays in the American Athletic Conference and finished 19-12 last season. It ranked 89th in the RPI. Dayton (14-17) ranked 152nd.
Tulsa's coach, Frank Haith, is 77-52 in four seasons. Tulsa loses two of its top-three scorers from last season: Junior Etou (15.0 points per game) and Corey Henderson Jr. (10.5).

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Japanese restaurant Wagamama has reopened in Intu Derby after being closed for a month following a major refurbishment. Our spy went to check out the new menu.
Located next to Intu Derby's food court, the low orange lighting created a relaxed atmosphere and oriental vibe as your spy entered Wagamama.
Greeted at the door with a smile, they were given the choice of which table they'd like to sit at.
They had arrived at about 1pm in the middle of the week so it was sign of the newly-revamped eatery's popularity that the tables were largely filled and there was a lively - but not too noisy - atmosphere inside.
After getting comfortable at their table, your spy took a look at the new menu and faced great difficulty in deciding over the best option from 11 varieties of fruit juices.
We eventually ordered the super green juice which arrived in under five minutes.
With a blend of apple, mint, celery and lime the juice left a zingy taste in the mouth. The drink even came with a paper straw, making it extra green and good for the environment!
Your spy ordered a main of veggie yasai katsu curry and two sides: wok-fried greens and bang bang cauliflower.
Equipped with chopsticks, (and cutlery if needed!) there was no need to order dips as your spy already had soy sauce, less salted soy sauce, chilli oil, black pepper mixed with chilli, orange peel, and ginger to hand.
All of the dishes arrived within seconds of each other and in under 15 minutes of ordering. Each dish was freshly prepared in the open kitchen, steaming hot, and at a perfect temperature for eating.
The veggie katsu was bursting with flavour, with the sweet potato and butternut squash giving it an overall sweet taste.
The wok-fried greens were the perfect light side, consisting of tender-stem broccoli and bok choi, splashed in soy sauce and covered in garlic.
The bang bang cauliflower was certainly banging, crispy on the outside and fluffy on the inside – Wagamama transformed the normally bland tasting vegetable with firecracker, actually mildly spicy, sauce and fresh ginger.
The next time we visit your spy would definitely sit within view of the kitchen to get a good view of the occasional flame flying high out of a pan.
However, we wouldn't recommend sitting next to the walkway between the table, the toilets and the staff room as it can get a bit busy with staff and members of the public walking past.
Another option would have been sitting next to the window or more towards the middle of the restaurant.
One of the only downsides to the meal was that our spy got a bit chilly and had to put their coat back on.
To warm up, they ordered a green tea which is free on the menu and apparently helps the digestive system.
We couldn't resist temptation of the dessert menu and ordered the delicious white chocolate ginger cheese cake which really did melt in the mouth.
Although we didn't finish it the staff offered for us to take it home in a box, perfect!
To sum up, we'll definitely be returning very soon.
Spot on, couldn't fault a single dish. With a recently updated menu, including a new vegan option - there's bound to be something to tickle everyone's taste buds.
The entire order of two sides, a main, a drink and a dessert came to under £30. With a grand total of £28.70, it's definitely reasonably priced.
Their five-star hygiene rating poster displayed on their window certainly made sense given cleanliness of the tables and floors inside.
Each staff member was smiley and helpful, creating a chilled atmosphere.


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Chronological Eras
Information Tables
Significant Native American Leaders
The leaders of Native American tribes have played a significant role in the history of the United States, in particular its expansion across the North American continent. While their lands were snatched up piecemeal by land-thirsty settlers, miners, and others, these brave leaders listed below, and many others, worked in battle and in peace to protect their land and their people. The following is a sampler of their efforts:
Powhatan (Wahunsonacock)
? - 1618
Powhatan; Confederation of Algonquin tribes
Powhatan proved he could overcome most obstacles to co-exist with the Pilgrims. He also maintained peace with Jamestown settlers for many years, even after his daughter Pocahontas was kidnapped.
Massasoit (Ousamequin)
Wampanoag
Narragansett Bay, Massachusetts
Massasoit cultivated harmonious relations with the colonists, being especially helpful to the Pilgrims in their early travails.
Pocahontas (Matoaka, Rebecca)
1595?-1617
Daughter of Chief Powhatan, Pocahontas supposedly saved John Smith`s life when he was threatened by tribal members. Her marriage to John Rolfe ushered in eight years of good relations between the Indians and the colonists.
Canonicus
Lenape Nation
Selling land to Roger Williams in 1636, Canonicus agreed to fight alongside the colonists in the Pequot War. But in 1675, a Narragansett settlement was mauled in the Great Swamp Fight, greatly reducing Narragansett numbers and influence.
Tamanend; also "The Affable"
Tamanend, adopted by the colonists as a patron saint prior to the American Revolution, signed land treaties with William Penn in 1683 that later comprised Penn`s Woods (Pennsylvania). Chief of the Unami clan, he was immortalized with a statue in Philadelphia. Church bells in Philadelphia were rung to celebrate this "saint" on May 1.
Metacom (known as Metacomet, Pometacom, King Philip)
Eastern side of Narragansett Bay
Son of Massasoit, Metacom was forced to sign a new peace agreement at Taunton in 1671; Metacom`s dignity and unbending spirit impressed and frightened settlers. Violence led to King Philip`s War. Hostilities ceased when Philip (Metacom) was betrayed, captured, and brutally murdered.
Hancock or King Hancock
?-1712
Chief Hancock assembled 500 neighboring Indians to eradicate settlers for frequently raiding his village, kidnaping women and children, and selling them as slaves. Northern Tuscarora tribe chief Tom Blunt captured Hancock during the Tuscarora War and he was executed by settlers in 1712.
Considered a leader of an "inferior force," Blue Jacket opposed such labeling and emerged as the war leader of the Shawnee Confederacy. In opposition, General Anthony Wayne`s army moved out of Greenville (Ohio) with 2,000 regulars, known as the Legion of the United States, and 1,500 volunteers July 1794. A great battle took place the following month.
Techumseh
Tecumseh saw action at the Battle of Fallen Timbers (1794). Bitterly disappointed by his people`s plight, he refused to sign the Treaty of Greenville in 1795. He joined the British in the War of 1812, followed them as they were pushed back into Canada, and was killed in 1813 at the Battle of the Thames.
Chief Seattle (Sealth)
Duwamish
Puget Sound, Washington
Orator Sealth helped protect the small band of European-American Seattle settlers from attacks by other Indians. Because of his friendship and help, the settlers named their city after him. At the presentation of treaty proposals in 1854, the aging Chief Seattle delivered a widely remembered speech.
Sakajawea (Sacajawea, Tsi-ki-ka-wi-as)
1787?-1812 or 1884
Montana, Idaho, Oregon, Washington
Captured by members of the Hidatsa tribe as a girl and sold into slavery, Sakajawea and her young son traveled with husband Toussaint Charbonneau, along with explorers Lewis and Clark, on the Oregon Trail in 1805.
Mangas Coloradas ("Red Sleeves")
Beonkohes Apache
Southwestern New Mexico
Mangas sought friendly relations with the miners at their Pinos Altos camp, who were under constant Indian threat. After they brutally beat him, Mangas and Chief Cochise drove the miners out. Mangas met with a militia officer in 1863, was taken to Ft. McLane, imprisoned, and brutally killed "while trying to escape."
Conquering Bear
Brulé Lakota (Sioux)
Chosen to represent the Lakota at the Ft. Laramie treaty council in 1851, Conquering Bear advocated peace. He was shot after refusing to turn over the Miniconjou Lakota warrior who had killed and eaten a stray cow from a Mormon wagon train.
American Horse, the Elder (Washicun Tashanka)
Oglala Lakota (Sioux)
American Horse served with Chiefs Crazy Horse, Sitting Bull, and others during the Plains Indian War. During the Bozeman Trail War (Red Cloud`s War, 1860s), American Horse rode with Red Cloud, served as a principal military leader at the Battle of the Little Big Horn, and was killed in the massacre at Slim Buttes.
Hototo (also: Lean Elk, Little Tobacco, and Poker Joe)
Nez Percé
War chief with Chief Joseph, Hototo was chosen trail boss and guide of the Nez Percé after the Battle of the Big Hole that spurred his people on a 500-700 mile journey to the Missouri River with most surrendering at the Battle of Bear Paw. During that battle, Hototo was mistakenly killed by friendly fire.
Leader of the Second Seminole War, which began because of Oceaola`s refusal to sign an 1835 treaty after he was released from prison. Fighting continued 20 years after he died in a Charleston, South Carolina, prison in 1838. He was buried with full military honors.
Nisqually
Western Washington State
Once an advocate of peaceful negotiations with Indian agents, Chief Leschi entered the Puget Sound Indian War after his tribe`s land rights were terminated, and they were assigned to a small parcel of scrubland away from their home in 1855. Leschi was hanged three years later.
Dohasan (Tohausen, Téh-tóot-sah, and Sierrito)
Kiowa Apache
Indian Territory (Oklahoma) and Texas
Dohäsan was the son of Chief Dohá (Bluff), and a significant member of a long line of Kiowa chiefs. A leader for more than 30 years, Dohäsan was celebrated as a fierce warrior and an insightful administrator. He also signed several treaties.
Dull Knife (Morning Star, Tahmelapashme, Woheiv)
Northern Cheyenne
Montana, Oklahoma, Colorado, Black Hills
Dull Knife signed the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1868. He fought in the Colorado Cheyenne-Arapaho War; and War for the Black Hills, which included the Battle of the Rosebud, Battle of the Little Big Horn, and others.
Satank (Setankeah or "Sitting Bear")
South Dakota and Oklahoma
Satank was a leader of the Koitsenko (Crazy Dog) warrior society and fought intertribal wars while in his twenties. In 1867, he represented the Kiowa at the Medicine Lodge Treaty council.
Chiricahua Apaches
Drawn into conflict during the Bascom Affair, Cochise became chief after father-in-law Mangas Coloradas was killed in 1863. He fought a relentless guerrilla war against U.S. cavalry for nine years, until signing a treaty that established a reservation on his native land.
Lone Wolf (Guipago)
Oklahoma, Kansas, Colorado, Texas
Leader among his tribe`s militant minority during the 1860s and `70s, Lone Wolf rallied in Washington, D.C. with other chiefs and signed the Little Arkansas Treaty. After agreeing to negotiate with Custer, he was held hostage at Fort Cobb. He secured the parole of Santana and Big Tree.
Black Hills, South Dakota
After the Sioux Wars (1876-1877), Big Foot advocated for adapting to the white men`s ways while retaining Lakota traditions. He was a strong Ghost Dance-resurgence proponent and was killed at the Wounded Knee Massacre after surrendering.
Red Cloud (Makhpiyaluta Scarlet Cloud)
Oglala Sioux (Lakota)
Nebraska, Montana, Wyoming, South Dakota
Aiding in the U.S. government`s policy change from military pacification to one of negotiation, Red Cloud was used to persuade Crazy Horse in 1877 to surrender, only to see Crazy Horse slain in custody. He agreed to relocate his people to the Pine Ridge Reservation in 1878. Until his death at 87, Red Cloud continued to lobby from Pine Ridge.
Spotted Tail (Sinte Galeska and Jumping Buffalo)
Brule tribe of the Sioux Nation
South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Colorado Territory
While in prison at Fort Laramie, Spotted Tail learned to read and write. He was a signer of the Fort Laramie Treaty. As adminstrator and head chief of his people, he maintained an Indian police force that kept alcohol off his reservation, and condemned threats to force the Lakota to Indian Territory.
Bull Chief
Absaroke, or Mountain Crow, tribe
Montana and Wyoming
Bull Chief used non-traditional techniques for spiritual and hunting successes. He was distinguished in battle against tribal enemies and recognized as the bravest warrior during the height of the buffalo culture.
Arizona, New Mexico
Victorio served with Mangas Coloradas and assumed the leadership position after Coloradas` death. He played a key role in the 1870s Apache uprisings.
Geronimo (Goyathlay: "one who yawns")
Chiricahua Apache
Arizona, Indian Territory, New Mexico
An Apache shaman, Geronimo became chief after Cochise`s death. When he and his followers were captured in 1886, they were forced to cut their hair, wear Western clothes, and were shackled while being transported to Alabama. He later traveled to national expositions and was a symbol of resistance to white domination.
American Horse, the Younger (Wasechun-tashunka)
American Horse championed accommodation with the encroaching whites. He signed the treaty secured by the Crook Commission in 1887, which forced the Lakota to abandon half their reservation in Dakota.
Santana (Set-tainte or White Bear Person)
Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, Oklahoma
Santana negotiated numerous times with the American government and signed such treaties as the Little Arkansas (1865) and Medicine Lodge (1867). He fought a protracted war before settlers, miners, and others finally overwhelmed his tribe`s land.
Sitting Bull (Jumping Badger, nickname Hunkesi, Tatanka-Iyotanka)
Hunkpapa Lakota (Sioux)
Originally a medicine man, Sitting Bull became the first principal chief of the entire Lakota Sioux nation in 1868. Remembered as one of the greatest Indian leaders, he battled the land agreements of 1888 and 1889, which threw half the Great Sioux Reservation open to white settlement.
Looking Glass (Allalimya Takanin)
During the Nez Percé War, Looking Glass was one of the war chiefs who helped lead his people during their long flight to freedom across the Canadian border in 1877. He attempted to demonstrate neutrality and abstained from the conflict between the non-treaty Nez Percé bands and the U.S. government.
Rain in the Face (Ito-na-gaju)
Hunkpapa Sioux within the Lakota Nation
Dakota Territory, Wyoming and Montana
Rain in the Face was one of the Sioux`s greatest and most respected war heroes. As a war chief, he was among the Indian leaders who vanquished George A. Custer and his U.S. Army 7th Cavalry regiment at the Battle of the Little Big Horn.
Gall (Matohinshda: "Bear Shedding His Hair" and Pizia)
Hunkpapa Teton Sioux
Orphaned by Sitting Bull, Gall played a leading role in the Lakotas` long war against the U.S. As a Hunkpapa Teton Sioux leader, he also was a commander of the Native American cavalry forces at the Battle of the Little Big Horn. Gall was one of the most aggressive Sioux leaders in their last stand.
Joseph (Hin-mah-too-yah-lat-kekt, In-mut-too-yah-lat-lat
Oregon, Washington, Idaho, and Montana
Chief Joseph, an advocate of peace, helped lead his people, along with Chief Hototo, on a 500-700 mile journey to the Missouri River. He surrendered at the Battle of Bear Paw after which he uttered his famous remarks. He campaigned for a return to his homeland in the Wallowa Valley until his death.
Ollokot (Tewetakis)
1840s?-1877
Son of Chief Joseph, Ollokot played an important role in the peace initiative at Fort Walla Walla in 1877. Throughout the Nez Percé War, with never more than 250 warriors, he fought some 20 engagements and five major battles against forces of about 2,000 soldiers and others. Ollokot was killed in combat at the final battle on Snake Creek.
Crazy Horse (also: Curly, his boyhood name and Tashunka Witko)
Lakota (Sioux)
Crazy Horse was one of the youngest Lakota in memory to receive the title Shirtwearer, one of the highest honors and responsibilities accorded to males. Committed to safeguarding the Lakota tradition and principles, he led a group of approximately 1,500 Lakota and Cheyenne in the Battle of Rosebud and a band in the Battle of Little Big Horn. Except for Gall and Sitting Bull, he was the last important chief to yield.
Manuelito (Hastiin Ch`il Haajiní, Man of Blackweed)
Manuelito, an important Navajo leader and spokesperson, opposed the killing of 60 cattle by U.S. soldiers, which eventually led to the infamous "Long Walk" to Bosque Redondo Reservation. On the 350-mile trail of death, 200 died or were killed. He witnessed the deaths of 2,000 Navajos at Bosque. He was noted for his dedication to quality education for his people.
Kamiakin
Yakana Indian Nation
Kamiakan called upon tribes to oppose the 1855 Yakama Treaty, which led to the Yakima War. Along with other local Indians, they held off U.S. soldiers for about three years. In 1858, at the Battle of Four Lakes near Spokane, the Indians were decisively defeated. Kamiakan escaped to Canada.
Kicking Bear (born: Mato Wanartaka)
Oglala Sioux, then Minneconjou Sioux sub-chief
Medicine man Kicking Bear participated in several battles during the War for the Black Hills, including the Battle of the Little Big Horn. He brought the new Ghost Dance to his people and aided in its revival. He toured with Buffalo Bill Cody`s Wild West Show in 1861 to have his sentence commuted.
Yahi
He was rescued from prison by two University of California at Berkeley anthropologists. Archaeologist Alfred Kroeber`s wife, the author of Ishi in Two Worlds, wrote that Ishi was "the last wild Indian in North America, a man of Stone Age culture."
Wodziwob
Paiute
Nevada, New Mexico
Wodziwob was involved in the rebirth of the Ghost Dance in the 1860s. A prophet and a shaman, Wodziwob prophesied in 1869 that the railroad would come from the East.
Wovoka (Jack Wilson)
Having a strong background in Christian and Paiute spirituality, Wovoka revived the Ghost Dance. He was inspired to action after witnessing his people demoralized by defeat, subjugation, oppression, and segregation. Visitors from many places came to see his updated version of the Ghost Dance.
Black Elk (Hehaka Sapa, Nicholas Black Elk)
Northern Great Plains
In 1886, famous holy man, traditional healer, and visionary, Black Elk joined Buffalo Bill Cody`s Wild West show. Black Elk witnessed the Wounded Knee Massacre and produced two literary works.
Potawtomi
Jim Thorpe won medals in the 1912 Olympic games in Sweden that were later stripped. He also played professional football and baseball. His feats on the football field put him on the 1911 and 1912 All-American Football teams.
Dan George
Tsleilwaututh
Burrard Reserve, Vancouver Island
Actor as well as a spokesman for his people, Dan George was nominated for Academy Award Best Supporting Actor for his role in "Little Big Man."
Stillaguamish
Esther Ross campaigned for 50 years for her people`s rights. Tribal membership rose from 29 to 160 before her death. She established fishing rights for the Stillaguamish, obtained federal recognition, and gained treaty rights that made them eligible for federal benefits.
Bob Satiacum
Bob Satiacum, host of many "fish-ins" by the Puyallup and a user of other tactics, secured treaty-guaranteed fishing rights for his people after a 30-year fight. Satiacum secured the return of 20 acres and $77.25 million in tribal claims.
Wilma Pearl Mankiller (A-ji-luhsgi, Asgaya-dihi)
Oklahoma, California, Arkansas
Wilma Pearl Mankiller, first female leader of Cherokee, brought social and economic changes to her people. Reared in poverty, Mankiller received the Presidential Medal of Honor from President Bill Clinton in 1998.
See also Indian Wars Time Table .
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Statues unveiled to honor McCombs, Moncrief
Red McCombs' and Tex Moncrief's contributions to the university are substantial, and everlasting. On Friday, Sept. 10, the two men were honored in a fitting tribute.
By: Natalie England
Athletics Directors DeLoss Dodds and Chris Plonsky refer to lifetime Longhorns Red McCombs and Tex Moncrief as "bookends."
"They're two great Texans, they love The University of Texas at Austin, and they understand the role of athletics and higher education," Dodds explains. "They're what keeps us standing tall."
The metaphor is fitting in more than spirit. The physical also coincides with Dodds' sentiment. On the south end of Darrell K Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium stands the W.A. Tex Moncrief, Jr.-VF Doc Neuhaus Athletic Center, and the field is enclosed on the north side by the Red McCombs Red Zone.
McCombs' and Moncrief's contributions to the university are substantial, and everlasting. On Friday, Sept. 10, the two men were honored in a fitting tribute — two individual statues of their likenesses were unveiled in the food court area of the Red McCombs Red Zone.
Much like the men they resemble, the statues stand as pillars along the passageway from campus to Joe Jamail Field. Before every home football game, the Texas Longhorns and the Longhorn Marching Band walk through this tunnel.
"This is such a fun, and important, tribute," football coach Mack Brown said. "You look at Mr. McCombs and Mr. Moncrief, they are great leaders, great fathers and great people. They have achieved success, and have bigger-than-life success stories. They are also friends who see the big picture."
McCombs studied business and law at the university during the 1940s, and went on to own NFL and NBA teams, with his headquarters in nearby San Antonio. Today McCombs' business endeavors range from golf course design to the high-tech field.
McCombs has always been inspired to give back to the university. It started 12 years ago, when he gave women's athletics its largest-ever single donation — $3 million to build a state-of-the-art stadium for the young softball program.
"This university has been a big part of my life since I was 16," McCombs said. "What happens here does change the world. We want this university to be the best in the world."
In 2000, McCombs donated $50 million to the School of Business to help it maintain its elite standard among other nationally ranked institutions. Most recently, McCombs signed another multimillion dollar check to help the Longhorns renovate and expand the north end of DKR-Texas Memorial Stadium.
"Red is a legendary businessman," said Thomas Gilligan, dean of the McCombs School of Business. "He has given the Business School so many gifts. This is one way we can thank him."
After he received his degree in petroleum engineering from Texas in 1942, Moncrief served with the Navy before joining his family business, Moncrief Oil. Moncrief-Neuhaus stands as the football headquarters and was dedicated to the devout Longhorn in 1997, in recognition of Moncrief's many contributions to the university and the Longhorn legacy.
In 2009, Moncrief gave a donation to create the W. A. "Tex" Moncrief, Jr. Endowment in Simulation-Based Engineering Sciences, which will continue to help young students chase after their dreams just like Moncrief did.
"This is overwhelming," Moncrief said. "I'm a dyed-in-the-wool Longhorn fan. I have been a bleeding orange Longhorn fan for many, many years."
Moncrief also serves as president of the William A. and Elizabeth B. Moncrief Foundation, which contributes to educational, health, civic and cultural organizations. Moncrief was named by the Texas Exes as a Distinguished Alumnus in 2008.
"Tex has been extremely generous to UT Athletics and to the campus," said Gregory Fenves, dean of the Cockrell School of Engineering. "For all of that, I am very grateful."
Friday afternoon provided a special setting for everyone connected to UT to pay tribute to two men who have meant so much.
"It's a great day for The University of Texas at Austin to be able to honor and recognize two truly remarkable men," President William Powers Jr. said. "Tex and Red have represented us with honor, integrity and success."


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///
/// \package astlib
/// \file TypedValueEncoder.cpp
///
/// \author Marian Krivos <nezmar@tutok.sk>
/// \date 20Feb.,2017
///
/// (C) Copyright 2017 R-SYS s.r.o
/// All rights reserved.
///

#include "TypedValueEncoder.h"
#include "astlib/ByteUtils.h"
#include "astlib/AsterixItemDictionary.h"
#include "astlib/Exception.h"
#include <Poco/NumberParser.h>
#include <iostream>

namespace astlib
{

bool TypedValueEncoder::encode(const CodecContext& ctx, Poco::UInt64& value, int index)
{
    AsterixItemCode code = ctx.bits.code;

/*
    if (code.value == TRAJECTORY_INTENT_TCP_LONGITUDE_CODE.value)
    {
        value = 0x123456;
        return true;
    }
*/
    if (!code.value)
    {
        //std::cout << "Skipped " << ctx.bits.toString() << std::endl;
        return false;
    }

    if (index == -1 && code.isArray())
    {
        throw Exception("TypedValueEncoder::encode: " + asterixCodeToSymbol(code) + " array expects an index");
    }

    if (index != -1 && !code.isArray())
    {
        throw Exception("TypedValueEncoder::encode: " + asterixCodeToSymbol(code) + " scalar value doesn't expects an index");
    }

    Encoding::ValueType encoding = ctx.bits.encoding.toValue();
    bool encoded = false;

    switch(code.type())
    {
        case PrimitiveType::Boolean:
        {
            bool boolean = false;
            encoded = encodeBoolean(ctx, boolean, index);
            if (encoded)
                value = Poco::UInt64(boolean);
            break;
        }

        case PrimitiveType::Real:
        {
            double real;
            encoded = encodeReal(ctx, real, index);
            if (encoded)
            {
                if (ctx.policy.normalizeValues)
                {
                    double unit = 1.0;

                    switch(ctx.bits.units.toValue())
                    {
                        case Units::FT:
                            unit = 0.3048;
                            break;
                        case Units::NM:
                            unit = 1852.0;
                            break;
                        case Units::FL:
                            unit = 0.3048 * 100.0;
                            break;
                    }
                    value = Poco::UInt64(real / (ctx.bits.scale * unit));
                }
                else
                {
                    value = Poco::UInt64(real);
                }
            }
            break;
        }

        case PrimitiveType::Integer:
        {
            Poco::Int64 integer = 0;
            encoded = encodeSigned(ctx, integer, index);
            if (encoded)
                value = Poco::UInt64(integer);
            break;
        }

        case PrimitiveType::Unsigned:
        {
            encoded = encodeUnsigned(ctx, value, index);
            if (encoding == Encoding::Octal)
                value = ByteUtils::dec2oct(value);
            break;
        }

        default:
        {
            switch (encoding)
            {
                case Encoding::Ascii:
                {
                    std::string str;
                    encoded = encodeString(ctx, str, index);
                    if (encoded)
                    {
                        //std::reverse(str.begin(), str.end());
                        for(Byte byte: str)
                        {
                            value <<= 8;
                            value |= byte;
                        }
                    }
                    break;
                }
                case Encoding::Octal:
                {
                    Poco::UInt64 aux = 0;
                    encoded = encodeUnsigned(ctx, aux, index);
                    if (encoded)
                    {
                        value = ByteUtils::dec2oct(aux);
                    }
                    break;
                }
                case Encoding::SixBitsChar:
                {
                    std::string str;
                    encoded = encodeString(ctx, str, index);
                    if (encoded)
                    {
                        std::string aux = ByteUtils::toSixBitString(str);
                        std::reverse(aux.begin(), aux.end());
                        for(Byte byte: aux)
                        {
                            value <<= 8;
                            value |= byte;
                        }
                    }
                    break;
                }
                case Encoding::Hex:
                {
                    std::string str;
                    encoded = encodeString(ctx, str, index);
                    if (encoded)
                    {
                        value = Poco::NumberParser::parseHex64(str);
                    }
                    break;
                }
            }
            break;
        }
    }

    return encoded;
}

} /* namespace astlib */


The Teksta Robot dog was one of the best selling toys this Christmas and had great sales success, a lot more than the previous version. It is packed with great new technology and features like motion detection, infra red detection and an app that can be used to control and also play games with him. Teksta the robot dog can also make friends with other tekata robot puppys expanding his circle of friends. The latest version is also available in both male and female puppys so boys and girls also now have the option of buying them. Teksta now also comes with a ball and a bone, if you throw the ball he will fetch it and the bone is used to feed him giving you a more life like experience then any other robot puppy on the market.
Running up to Christmas the Teksat Robot dog sold out several times and was in great demand leaving some people unable to get there hands on one.
This latest version will keep your children busy for weeks due to the additional app feature which is constantly updated with new features and games to play with him.
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Uncharted Territory
Date 09 Feb 2023
Time 7.30pm
Category Music and performance
International Concert Series 2022/23
An evocative journey exploring the musical terrain of hidden gems for flute, cello and piano. The programme is infused with resonances of nature, landscape and birdsong and includes Bach to Beamish, Boulanger to Tann.
Roderick Chadwick (piano), Clare O'Connell (cello) and Sarah 'Flynn (flute) present this evening's rich and thoughtful programme charting soundscapes of the natural world.
Lili Boulanger (1893-1918): Nocturne
Elisabeth Lutyens (1906-1983): Preludes for piano Op 126
3. Starlight
Dorothy Howell (1898 - 1982): Spindrift
Hilary Tann (b. 1947): Llef
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750): Sonata in B minor BWV 1030
Largo e Dolce
Thea Musgrave (b 1928): Canta, Canta (arr Vidovich)
Olivier Messiaen (1908-1992): Le Merle Noir
Sally Beamish (b 1956): Iasg
George Crumb (1929-2022): Vox Balaenae for Three Masked Players
Roderick Chadwick is a pianist and writer on music. In recent years he has performed some of the most challenging works for piano, including Lachenmann's Serynade at the inaugural London Contemporary Music Festival, Stockhausen's Mantra with Mark Knoop and Newton Armstrong (a highly-regarded recording on the Hathut label), and John McGuire's 48 Variations, also with Knoop. Other recordings include works by Gloria Coates, Edward Cowie, Maurice Duruflé, Sadie Harrison, Hans Werner Henze and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – several of these with violinist Peter Sheppard Skaerved and the Kreutzer Quartet. Roderick is a member of ensembles Chroma and Plus-Minus, appearing with them at festivals such as Huddersfield, Ultima (Oslo) and the Warsaw Autumn Festival. His first performance on BBC Radio 3 was at the age of 14 (the Britten Gemini Variations live from the Aldeburgh Festival), and broadcasts since have included solo works by Laurence Crane, Richard Barrett and Will Gregory. Duo partnerships with several violinists have taken him to venues such as Tokyo Opera City, Auditorium du Louvre, Wigmore Hall and Seoul Arts Centre.
Performer, arranger and curator, cellist Clare O'Connell plays as a soloist and chamber musician. She is a member of visionary ensemble Lontano, the 12-piece cross genre ensemble of multi instrumentalists Propellor and the Storytellers Ensemble; she has a duo partnership with internationally acclaimed harpist Eleanor Turner; and is a regular collaborator with many other chamber music and chamber opera projects. She founded and curates Behind The Mirror: her own series of intimate chamber music concerts in Berkhamsted, for which she has commissioned many new works from composers Ed Finnis, Alex Mills, Leonardo Margutti, Luke Bedford, David Bruce, Freya Waley Cohen and Rubens Askenar, experimenting with varying instrumental line-ups, making her own arrangements of a vast array of music for unusual groups of instruments, and interweaving music poetry and storytelling to add another dimension to the concert experience.
Sarah O'Flynn pursues a demanding and varied career as performer and educator. She has been sub principal flute in Britten Sinfonia since 2006, and is a founding member of the chamber group Chroma. As a freelancer she works with numerous symphony and chamber orchestras throughout the UK, performing and recording in concert halls across the world. Sarah's work with Britten Sinfonia is rich and diverse, ranging from an unconducted Bach St John Passion to BBC Proms with Rufus Wainwright, Anoushka Shankar, and the Strictly Come Dancing Prom. As orchestral and chamber musician Sarah has premiered innumerable works and commissions, often working in close collaboration with the composer. She has particularly enjoyed ongoing projects with Tom Ades, Oliver Knussen, James Macmillan and Steve Reich, and has also workshopped hundreds of student compositions with Chroma as Ensemble-in-Residence at Royal Holloway University, Oxford University and the Royal Academy of Music. In 2019 she was the flute soloist for a Signum Classics release of Michael Finnissy's Pious Anthems and Voluntaries.
Booking is essential. Ticket prices are £12.50 (standard); £10 (concession; over 60s); £5 for Royal Holloway alumni and non-Royal Holloway students; FREE for Royal Holloway students, Royal Holloway staff and children under the age of 16. Season Tickets apply to this event.
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New sounds on old flutes: Carla Rees and Gavin Stewart
We are excited to welcome back acclaimed flautists Carla Rees and Gavin Stewart to our series with a concert showcasing the multifaceted flute, with music from Boismortier, Telemann to Hurel.
Picture Gallery Composer-in-Residence Showcase: Choir of Royal Holloway
We are pleased to showcase the newest cohort of the Picture Gallery Composer-in-Residence Scheme, presenting new music inspired by our beautiful Picture Gallery and its collection.


text:
#include "TestUtils.h"

#include <ios>

namespace bencoding {
namespace tests {

/**
* @brief Puts @a stream into an error state.
*/
void putIntoErrorState(std::istream &stream) {
	stream.setstate(std::ios::badbit);
}

/**
* @brief Puts @a stream into an EOF state.
*/
void putIntoEOFState(std::istream &stream) {
	stream.setstate(std::ios::eofbit);
}

} // namespace tests
} // namespace bencoding


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Muhdo & University of Singapore partnership
Published: November 5, 2021 in News, Recommended Read
IM Company Muhdo Partner With University Of Singapore (NUS) To Undertake The Most Advanced Research Project On Longevity
Muhdo Health is joining forces with the National University of Singapore (NUS) and Dr Brian Kennedy to bring about one the most advanced research projects focused on healthy ageing and longevity ever undertaken. The research will take place on a global scale, involving the analysis of epigenetic changes on the human body. The study will focus on the changes that occur during ageing and the effects lifestyle and environment have on gene expression.
Unlike the outdated and conventional method of measuring age with time, epigenetic ageing also known as biological age can be accelerated and reversed. Participants will be analysed while living their normal, everyday lives, through their stressors and environmental challenges with epigenetic ageing being analysed through DNA methylation.
DNA methylation has been argued to be related to all mortality in later life, however, it is thought not to be a cause of ageing but a marker that can be used to judge accelerated ageing. By utilising this important marker, it may be possible to predict many disease and lifestyle conditions before they come to pass. With the fundamental aim of decelerating the ageing process and preventing these ailments from occurring in the first place.
"Prevention is the best cure"
Muhdo has built its DNA and epigenetic offering to be accessed through a ground-breaking mobile application. This application will also be available to the participants in the study in a white label form; highlighting the technological advances in the study and information sharing of DNA analysis.
Nathan Berkley, CEO of Muhdo, said:
"We at Muhdo are very excited to be aiding NUS carry out this cutting-edge research with the custom Muhdo analysis and mobile application". expresses the Chief Executive of Muhdo, Nathan Berkley. "DNA and epigenetics has the capability to help everyone at every stage of life to reach their full health potential. We believe this is a true milestone in the global application of epigenetics"
Sarah Singapore, NUS Spokesperson, said:
"We're always searching for novel ways to push the boundaries of our research at NUS and epigenetics is at the pinnacle of human longevity and genetic science. Everyone involved at NUS is very excited to be able to bring our studies to fruition with the aid of Muhdo. We believe, above all else, that we will reach invaluable conclusions that will reverberate for years to come"
About Muhdo
Muhdo is the first company in the world to offer a true internal wellness epigenetic profiling programme direct to companies and consumers, inspiring and supporting people to live healthier, happier, longer lives. As a next generation genetic and big data company, its vision is the mass personalisation of preventive and curative health through epigenetics and analytics, delivering a truly holistic and objective health and wellness programme.


The direct measurement of temperatures and heat fluxes may be difficult or impossible on boundaries that are inaccessible, such as internal cavities, or exposed to harsh environmental conditions that would destroy the thermal sensors. In such circumstances, one may inversely determine the temperature and heat fluxes on these unknown boundaries by using over-specified conditions on boundaries where such information can be readily collected. This assumes the geometry and material properties of the domain are known. Algorithms for solving these problems, such as those based on finite difference, finite element, and boundary element, are well known for the case where measured boundary conditions are not a function of time. In this work, we demonstrate an inverse finite element method that effectively solves this inverse heat conduction problem using over-specified temperatures and heat fluxes that are time varying. The material properties may be highly heterogeneous and non-linear. A boundary regularization method is used to stabilize the method for cases involving errors in temperature and heat flux measurements. Several three-dimensional examples are given using simulated measurements with and without measurement errors, to demonstrate the accuracy of the method.
Citation Information: , Volume 20, Issue 5-6, Pages 791–803, ISSN (Online) 1569-3945, ISSN (Print) 0928-0219, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/jip-2012-0052.


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BJP govt has failed to improve livelihood of Tripura's poor: CPI(M)
"During the Left Front regime in Tripura, social audit of MGNREGA works was a regular practice but it has become irregular in the current dispensation," former CM Manik Sarkar claimed.
by Press Trust of India June 12, 2022 June 12, 2022
CPI(M) Leader Manik Sarkar
Agartala: Former Tripura chief minister and CPI (M) leader Manik Sarkar on Saturday alleged that the BJP-led government in the state has "failed" to improve the livelihood of poor people as the ruling party leaders at the grassroots are "siphoning off funds" under a rural employment scheme.
Sarkar, the leader of opposition in the state assembly, accused the government of not conducting social audits of works under the MGNREGA scheme regularly.
"The Centre has revealed that it did not find a money trail of around Rs 485 crore meant for the national job generation programme in the last fiscal," he said during a mass deputation programme organised by Ganamukti Parisad (GMP) and Tribal Youth Federation (TYF), two frontal organisations of the CPI(M).
"During the Left Front regime in Tripura, social audit of MGNREGA works was a regular practice but it has become irregular in the current dispensation," Sarkar claimed.
The CPI(M) leader also said if this is the state of affairs, how will poor people, who are heavily dependent on MGNREGA and other development works, survive? A job card holder receives 20-25 man-days, while each person used to get 80-85 man-days during the Left Front rule, he said.
The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act 2005 (MGNREGA) is aimed at enhancing the livelihood security of households in rural areas of the country by providing at least 100 days of guaranteed wage employment in a financial year.
"There are people who get 100 man-days without doing any work! More than 50 per cent of the MGNREGA fund is being looted by persons associated with the BJP's local committees. These saffron party panels insert 35-40 fake beneficiaries in the muster roll of each gram panchayat or village committee to siphon off money. These irregularities must be stopped," Sarkar alleged.
BJP vice president and MP Rebati Tripura denied the charges related to the rural employment scheme.
"Being an MP, I hold review meetings on MGNREGA and other development works in three districts. I have not seen any corruption in the scheme. The state generated an average of 60-65 man-days in each district while job generation in Dhalai is more," he said.
Sarkar also alleged that Tipra Motha, a regional party, captured the tribal council last year by "raising a slogan of Greater Tipraland, just the way the BJP-IPFT had won the 2018 Assembly elections by befooling the voters".
"The Tipra Motha wants to create a division between tribal and non-tribal people to weaken the unity. They think if tribal and non-tribal citizens remain together, it will give an edge to the Left movement in the state. That's why Tipra Motha has been making an attempt to create a division," he added.
Also read: Greater Tipraland and Vision Document synonymous, claims Manik Sarkar
Tripura: Six injured in clash between BJP, CPI-M supporters in Sepahijala
Tripura: Change of face has not improved govt's performance, says Manik Sarkar
BJP's defeat inevitable in Tripura: Former CM Manik Sarkar
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Privacy Advocates Say Chevron Wants to "Harass and Intimidate" People Supportive of Ecuadorians' Lawsuit Against Oil Giant
Posted on Wednesday, October 24, 2012
Courthouse News writes that privacy advocates say Chevron "wants to harass and intimidate critics of a massive oil contamination in Ecuador with intrusive subpoenas of more than 70 email accounts."
Read more about Chevron's aggressive tactics to invade people's privacy here.
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Visit and watch a video on ChevronToxico.com to find out more.
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Posted in Chevron, contamination, Ecuador, email accounts, gibson dunn, Google, lawyers, oil giant, Steven donziger, subpoenas, Yahoo
Chevron's Ecuador $19 billion Pollution Problem Now An Issue in Florida Senate Race
Posted on Thursday, October 18, 2012
Chevron's oil-related catastrophe in Ecuador (See here and here) is now an issue in the hotly-contested Florida Senate race between Democratic incumbent Bill Nelson and his challenger, Republican Connie Mack. Chevron faces a $19 billion liability in the country for deliberately dumping billions of gallons of life-threatening toxins into the Amazon, decimating indigenous groups and causing an outbreak of cancer and other oil-related diseases.
This is the Senate race that Chevron and its friends at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce hope to buy by funneling huge dollars to Rep. Mack.
Last week, Sen. Bill Nelson attacked Mack in a television ad for letting Chevron try to help him buy a Senate seat.
Entitled "Hedge Fund Honcho," the ad goes like this:
NELSON: "I'm Bill Nelson and I approved this message."
ANNCR: "Out-of-state billionaires and special interests have spent over $20 million to buy Connie Mack IV a Senate seat.
Is it any wonder? In Congress, Mack is protecting Chevron Oil from a multi-billion dollar lawsuit over pollution of rivers and rain forests. And Mack filed a bill worth $2 billion for a Wall Street hedge fund speculator who happens to be one of Mack's biggest donors.
Connie Mack. Deep in debt to the special interests" (YouTube, 10/11).
This campaign ad says it all. Given that Chevron contributes millions of dollars to Members of Congress and congressional candidates, it moves with ease in Washington, DC. It ranks third in political donations among the Fortune 500 (and is one of the largest contributors to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, which has spent $1.8 million to defeat Nelson.)
Not surprisingly, Chevron has harnessed a few Members of Congress to help its high-paid lobbyists push to cancel Ecuador's bilateral trade preferences in retaliation for the $19 billion judgment. (Chevron fails to mention to its allies in Congress that it wanted the litigation tried in Ecuador's courts after it was originally filed in U.S. federal court in New York.)
Mack, who is a member of the House Committee of Foreign Affairs, has introduced a bill to nullify the trade benefits for Ecuador on behalf of his friends at Chevron. (Mack also is helping other U.S. corporate interests in Venezuela and Argentina.)
Never mind that cancellation of the trade preferences for Ecuador would mean the loss of 375,000 jobs in the South American nation. Chevron is smoking mad about being held accountable in Ecuador for its human rights crimes. Contributing to the campaign coffers of members of Congress so they will defend the indefensible is a small price to pay for the company to exact revenge against indigenous and farmer leaders in the Amazon.
Kent Robertson, Chevron's press flak, told Politico that if Ecuador's President would just violate his own Constitution and pressure the country's independent courts to dismiss the lawsuit, then Mack's bill would "disappear." See this article in Politico. In the criminal underworld, that's called extortion.
This is the seventh year Chevron has engaged in a futile lobbying effort on Capital Hill to cancel Ecuador's trade preferences because it must answer for its wrongdoing in court.
Despite its contributions and arm-twisting, Chevron has not succeeded because most Members of Congress see it the way U.S. Rep. Linda Sanchez does. She called Chevron's lobbying racket over the Ecuador case "extortion."
Let's not forget the quote from the anonymous Chevron lobbyist who told Newsweek in 2008."We can't let little countries [like Ecuador] screw around with big companies like this…"
There's a reason Mack is behind in the polls.
Posted in Amazon, big oil, Bill Nelson, Chevron, Connie Mack, corporate ethics, Ecuador, Florida Senate race, trade policy, trade preferences, U.S. Chamber of Commerce
Court Grants Ecuador Villagers First Big Victory Against Chevron Assets
Rainforest villagers from Ecuador scored their first significant collection victory against Chevron's assets this week in their attempt to enforce the historic $19 billion judgment against the oil giant after it was found to have caused cancers and environmental damage to ancestral lands in the Amazon.
An Ecuador court this week issued an order for the plaintiffs to obtain approximately $200 million in Chevron assets in the South American country – a significant sum given that the oil giant tried to strip all of its assets from the country in anticipation of losing the litigation. In a statement released in Ecuador's capital of Quito, the villagers also reiterated their goal of collecting the entire $19.04 billion damages award by seizing Chevron assets in countries around the world.
Among the assets ordered turned over are a $96.3 million debt Ecuador's government owes Chevron, monies in various bank accounts held in Ecuador by Chevron and its subsidiaries, and licensing fees generated by the use of Chevron trademarks in the country. The total amount in assets could generate an estimated $200 million for the plaintiffs, who won their case in 2011 after an eight-year trial, said lawyers for the communities.
"This is a huge first step for the rainforest villagers on the road to collecting the entire $19 billion judgment," said Pablo Fajardo, the lead lawyer for the communities. Fajardo said the assets would be used to begin to fund a clean-up of the ecological disaster left by Chevron, consistent with the mandates laid out by the Ecuador trial court.
"Indigenous people and farmers in Ecuador continue to suffer disease and death because of Chevron's refusal to respect the rule of law in Ecuador," said Fajardo. "This is the first example of how Chevron is losing assets as courts force it to comply with its obligations."
Chevron trademarks affected by the court order include Texaco, Ursa, Havoline, Doro, Geotex, Meropa, Motex, Multigear, Regal, Toro, Texathern, Thuban, and others. All are used in Ecuador under licensing arrangements with local distributors, said Fajardo. Also ordered frozen are all bank accounts related to Chevron, Texaco, and any subsidiary in the country.
The $96 million debt stems from an international arbitration award in favor of Chevron related to numerous commercial disputes between the oil giant and Ecuador's state-owned oil company, Petroecuador. Those funds will have to be transferred by the government to the rainforest villagers as part of the collection effort, Fajardo said.
Chevron operated in Ecuador from 1964 to 1992 under the Texaco brand. In February 2011, an Ecuador court found Chevron liable for deliberately dumping billions of gallons of toxic waste into the Amazon, causing an outbreak of cancer and devastating the natural habitat relied on by thousands of villagers. Numerous independent studies have found thousands of people have died or are likely to die due to Chevron's pollution. See here, here, and here.
A video on the case can be seen here; a written summary of the evidence can be read here; and a 60 Minutes segment on the case can be viewed here.
Chevron has the right to oppose the order, which was issued ex parte to prevent Chevron from selling or removing its assets before they could be frozen. If Chevron opposes the order, the trial has to either modify or ratify his original ruling. That job is considered largely ministerial given that the judgment from the long-running lawsuit has been affirmed on appeal and Chevron refused to post a security bond preventing enforcement of the judgment, said Fajardo.
Separately, the Ecuadorian villagers in May and June filed seizure actions in Canada and Brazil targeting billions of dollars worth of Chevron assets, including refineries, offshore oil platforms, and oil production facilities. The Canadian court, located in Ontario, has scheduled an initial hearing for late November.
The environmental trial was held in Ecuador at Chevron's request after the company filed 14 sworn affidavits in U.S. federal court attesting to the fairness of the nation's judicial system.
The court order, signed by Judge Wilfrido Erazo in the Sucumbios Provincial Court, continues a downward trend for Chevron in the legal case since it hired the U.S. law firm Gibson Dunn & Crutcher in 2009 to "rescue" it from the impending Ecuador liability.
In recent weeks, the U.S. Supreme Court denied its attempt to block enforcement of the judgment; several shareholders with an estimated $580 billion in assets under management urged the company to settle the case; and, a U.S. Congresswoman and other large shareholders asked the SEC to determine whether Chevron CEO John Watson and General Counsel R. Hewitt Pate are lying about the Ecuador case to investors. See here, here and here.
Chevron also has suffered a series of devastating courtroom setbacks in the U.S. over the last two years. Its own Deputy Comptroller admitted in open court that the seizure actions likely will cause "irreparable harm" to the company's operations.
The Ecuadorian rainforest villagers plan to file additional seizure actions against Chevron in other countries in the coming weeks, said Fajardo, the recipient of the CNN "Hero" Award for his work on the case.
He added that key Chevron targets are located in countries in Latin America, Africa, and Asia.
Posted in assets, Brazil, Canada, Chevron, chevron. U.S court, corruption, Ecuador, Ecuador appellate court, oil contamination
Chevron Facing Wall Street Criticism Over $19 Billion Ecuador Liability
Wall Street analysts rarely take controversial positions on publicly traded companies whose stock is doing well. But Chevron's mishandling of its $19 billion liability in Ecuador for dumping toxins into the Amazon is beginning to look like the exception, at least to the analysts at Seeking Alpha and a commentator at the influential proxy advisor Glass Lewis.
One thing is indisputable: cracks are beginning to appear in Chevron's determined effort to keep Wall Street in line with the idea that the Ecuador judgment represents no short-term threat to the company's financial position. One analyst even predicted the lawsuit eventually could lop as much as 20% off the company's share price. Even worse, the U.S. Supreme Court just dinged Chevron's final attempt to block enforcement around the world.
Some of these analysts are beginning to get that the judgment in Ecuador – from the very court where Chevron wanted the issues resolved– is based on overwhelming scientific evidence that proves Chevron committed what is probably the largest oil-related environmental disaster in world history. See here and here.
The fact that the plaintiffs now have launched seizure lawsuits targeting billions of dollars of Chevron assets in Brazil and Canada certainly takes the idea of litigation risk for Chevron to new and unchartered territory, leading one analyst to advise shareholders to dump the stock for now. Further, numerous U.S. courts, including the Supreme Court, recently denied Chevron's increasingly desperate attempts to derail the litigation while several institutional shareholders and a U.S. Congresswoman have asked the SEC to investigate the company for lying about its Ecuador risk.
Consider the various analyses from Seeking Alpha, an award-winning website for stock research that has more than 800,000 followers. Kiplinger's recently named Seeking Alpha the Most Informative Website; it also received a "Best of the Web" award from Forbes.
Seeking Alpha recently dismissed Chevron's fake fraud narrative and wrote in reference to the pending seizure action in Canada:
"Canada has a reputation for fair legal proceedings. This will make it incredibly difficult for Chevron to continue claiming that the lawsuit is based on fraud. I think it is highly unlikely, furthermore, that fraud is the reason for the charges against the company. In fact, I think that these recent developments may be the start of a downward trend for the company that it will struggle to recover from."
Another Seeking Alpha analyst, David White, said just this week that Chevron shareholders should sell. In a blog, entitled Chevron Can't Seem To Turn The Bad News Faucet Off, White devoted his entire analysis to all of Chevron's many legal problems in Ecuador, Brazil and the company's own home state, California. Federal and state criminal prosecutions and hefty fines are a possibility due to safety problems at a refinery in Richmond, a small city just across the Bay from San Francisco. White wrote:
"…with all of these unexpected costs that CVX is facing, I think it is time to unload this historically strong, steady dividend payer….If you own CVX, it is time to sell it."
Another Seeking Alpha analyst wrote that Chevron is "losing support from all corners" in its bid to evade the Ecuador judgment. He also highlighted the growing number of courtroom setbacks suffered by Chevron's legal team at Gibson Dunn & Crutcher, which was brought in two years ago to "rescue" the oil giant from its impending liability.
The analyst also reported concerns about the lawsuit from both shareholders and Members of Congress, writing that many of Chevron's institutional investors have "made it clear … that a settlement is the preferred course of action, as it appears increasingly unlikely that Chevron will be able to avoid paying out a significant portion of its available cash over this lawsuit."
"Although I believe it is in Chevron's best interests to settle the suit, this may represent a huge hit for the company, which I think could force its price per share as low as $80, a level not seen since 2010," the analyst concluded.
Another Seeking Alpha analyst wrote that the $19 billion liability in Ecuador and a separate $20 billion potential liability in Brazil resulting from an oil spill there in 2011 is "cast(ing) a long shadow" on Chevron's stock, which "could tumble" as a result.
"Chevron is continuing to build its cash balance, which now stands at $21.1 billion compared to $15.8 billion at the close of 2011. I think that fears over suits brought against it in Brazil and Ecuador, despite a Chevron show of bravado in casting these litigations as fraud, are contributing to Chevron's rapid accumulation of cash."
Noting that other oil majors give dividend increases, buy something and/or pay down debt when they have that much cash, the analyst projected that "it's unlikely that its cash balance will be substantially drawn down until both of these super-suits are settled or dismissed, which could be a matter of years." That was written in early September. Chevron has yet to do anything with its huge surplus.
The analyst wrote that the liabilities in Ecuador and Brazil together "could wipe out Chevron's healthy cash balance as well as a significant portion of its equity. This in turn would lower Chevron's outlook across the board. Chevron is a comfortable hold, but a risky buy in the current environment."
Glass Lewis, a leading proxy advisory firm, just this week urged shareholders to "remain vigilant" in holding Chevron accountable relative to its disclosure obligations. Courteney Keatinge, an analyst at Glass Lewis, wrote:
"As these legal battles consume considerable company resources and leave the company exposed to significant risk, shareholders should continue to remain vigilant in ensuring that Chevron is managing and disclosing these issues properly and sufficiently."
Another analyst, Fadel Gheit at Oppenheimer & Co., following a meeting with Chevron's CEO John Watson in 2011, wrote that "a $2-3B settlement [in the Ecuador lawsuit]... could remove uncertainty and reflect positively on the stock." Later, in May of this year, after the Ecuador trial judgment was upheld on appeal, Gheit doubled-down on his belief that "a reasonable settlement with the plaintiffs impacted by the oil contamination in Ecuador...could boost the stock."
Gheit is generally pro-Chevron and he has written about the case in ways that suggest he does not fully understand how the legal process works. His recognition that Chevron now faces real liability is yet another example of the how company is beginning to lose some of its allies on Wall Street.
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Posted in Aguinda v Chevron, Amazon, Chevron, Ecuador, environmental lawsuit, Fadel Gheit, gibson dunn, Glass Lewis, liability, pollution, Seeking Alpha
Ted Olson Loses a Big One for Chevron Before the U.S. Supreme Court
Ted Olson needs to learn that it's hard to put lipstick on Chevron's pig in Ecuador.
In yet another setback for Chevron, the U.S. Supreme Court this week declined a petition signed by Olson to restore the unprecedented global "injunction" obtained last year by the company purporting to block enforcement of the $19 billion Ecuador court judgment. That injunction – imposed by controversial federal Judge Lewis A. Kaplan – provoked an uproar in the international legal community and was unainmously reversed by the Second Circuit Court of Appeals.
Chevron General Counsel R. Hewitt Pate then brought in his friend Olson, the former Solicitor General of the United States and the mastermind behind more than 50 Supreme Court arguments (including the winning side in Bush v. Gore). Olson asked the Court to take the radical step of summarily reversing the Second Circuit ruling without argument or briefing.
Instead of acceding to Olson's unusual request, the Court decided not even to ask for briefs or argument as it would in a typical case. It just flat out rejected the original request, and also rejected Olson's backup plan to file briefs -- all without as much as a comment.
This is the ultimate rebuke not only to Chevron and Olson, but also to Judge Kaplan. Kaplan's global injunction -- the crown jewel of Chevron's defense to enforcement -- is now officially dead.
One must ask if Olson really understands the extent to which his new client committed human rights violations against indigenous groups on a mass scale in Ecuador's rainforest. To understand the extent of Chevron's misconduct in Ecuador, see this video, this 60 Minutes segment, and this report from a highly-rated Australian news show.
The disaster in Ecuador was not an accident, like BP's Deepwater Horizon spill in 2010. Chevron designed its system of oil extraction in Ecuador to pollute, and pollute it did – to the tune of 4 million gallons of toxic waste dumped daily in to Amazon waterways for roughly two decades. (Chevron operated in Ecuador from 1964 to 1992 under the Texaco brand.) Environmental lawyer Robert Kennedy visited the area in the late 1980s and wrote of witnessing an apocalyptic environmental disaster.
In his petition, Olson presented the Justices with Chevron's "blame the victim" narrative that the indigenous groups and their U.S. counsel somehow defrauded the oil giant by filing the lawsuit. After reading the reply of the Ecuadorians -- where Chevron is hung by evidence from its own corporate files that it committed gross wrongdoing -- the Justices clearly were not moved by Olson's pleading.
By denying Chevron, the Justices now have joined with 18 U.S. federal trial court judges and four federal appeals courts who have rejected Chevron's fraud claims in whole or in part in various litigations over the last two years.
The Supreme Court decision is also the latest blow to Olson's law firm, Gibson Dunn & Crutcher. Chevron hired the firm in 2009 to "rescue" it from the impending Ecuador liability. Not only did Gibson Dunn lose the largest environmental case ever, it has continued to pile up losses for Chevron in various trial and appellate courts in the U.S. and Ecuador. It's fast approaching Tebow Time for Chevron but there appears to be no Tebow on the roster.
Another big loser with the Supreme Court decision is Gibson Dunn's self-anointed "mob prosecutor" Randy Mastro, who now has lost every argument he ever made on behalf of Chevron before a U.S. appellate court. Mastro, the leader of the Gibson Dunn rescue mission, had found a willing audience in Judge Kaplan in New York. But Kaplan now lacks any power to block the judgment, thus severing the rescue operation's last lifeline in the U.S.
At this point, Kaplan's open biases against the Ecuadorians are so well-documented that they could well provoke a backlash against Chevron in foreign courts being asked to enforce the judgment. Judges generally don't like to be told by courts of other countries what they can and cannot do. That's not good for comity, international relations, or the image of the U.S. judiciary as a whole.
Gibson Dunn also has provoked fierce criticism for trying to help Chevron pry into the private emails of the company's critics; for sending 11 lawyers to court to cover a minor hearing related to the Ecuador judgment; and for being involved in efforts to offer inducements (e.g., bribes) to Ecuador officials to violate their country's Constitution and quash the case. The law firm itself was found by courts to have committed ethical violations on behalf of Chevron.
Much of Chevron's misconduct and fraud in Ecuador is documented in chilling detail in the affidavit of Juan Pablo Saenz and the lawsuit filed against Chevron by the longtime legal counsel for the Ecuadorians, Steven Donziger. These documents provide a taste of how desperate the company has become to avoid being held accountable for the wanton destruction it caused in Ecuador.
Look for Olson and his partners to continue to exploit the billing opportunities provided by their increasingly futile legal odyssey -- one that also has sparked a shareholder rebellion against their ultimate client, Chevron CEO John Watson. Let's not forget as well the calls by shareholders and a U.S. Congresswoman for an SEC investigation to determine if Watson is lying to downplay the Ecuador risk.
Ted Olson is without question a brilliant lawyer. Watson will certainly pay for the next batch of lipstick for Gibson Dunn to try to smear over the lips of the Ecuador judgment. But that pig is not getting prettier.
Posted in Aguinda v. Chevron, big oil, Chevron, contamination, gibson dunn, lawsuit, Lewis Kaplan, Ted Olson U.S Supreme Court
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Song of the Week Revisited – Walk Away Renee & Pretty Ballerina, The Left Banke
March 20, 2015 by Tom Muscarella
I learned today that Michael Brown, the initial creative force behind The Left Banke, has passed away at the young age of 65. The post below was originally published by me on April 24, 2010.
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Women have been the inspiration of love songs for as long as there's been music. In rock music, Pattie Boyd must hold the record as the most important subject of love songs. As the wife to both George Harrison and later Eric Clapton, she is credited as the inspiration for Harrison's "Something", "For You Blue" and "Isn't It a Pity", as well as Clapton's "Layla", "Bell Bottom Blues" and "Wonderful Tonight". Not a bad collection of songs.
Some would argue the next most important woman in pop songs is Renee Fladen. Renee Fladen? Who the hell is Renee Fladen? She happens to be the inspiration of today's songs of the week, the Left Banke's "Walk Away Renee" and "Pretty Ballerina". Both were top 40 hits in the mid 60s in the genre that became known as Baroque pop or "Baroque and Roll". (A third song, "She May Call You Up Tonight" was also written about Renee.) But back to Renee.
In an article I found on the internet, writer Tom Simon tells the story like this:
Violinist Harry Lookofsky owned a small storefront recording studio in New York City that he called World United Studios. In 1965, he gave a set of keys to his 16-year-old son, Mike Brown [real name: Mike Lookofsky], who helped out by cleaning up and occasionally sitting in as a session pianist. Mike began bringing in his teenage friends who tinkered with drums, guitars, amplifiers, the Steinway piano, and anything else they might find. Except for Mike, who had a background in classical piano, none of them were top musicians. But they could sing, especially one guy named Steve Martin.
By 1966 they started to call themselves the Left Banke. In addition to Mike and Steve, they included Rick Brand on lead guitar, Tom Finn on bass, and drummer George Cameron. Finn brought his girlfriend to the studio one day when the group had assembled for a practice session. She was a 5′ 6″ teenager with platinum blond hair. Mike Brown was infatuated with her the instant he saw her. Her name was Renee Fladen.
The group had begun recording songs, and Harry was particularly impressed with Steve Martin's voice. Mike wrote a song about Renee. Although there was never anything between the two, Mike was fascinated by her and pictured himself standing at the corner of Hampton and Falmouth Avenues in Brooklyn with Renee, beneath the "One Way" sign. In his fantasy, he was telling her to walk away.
Harry played all the string parts on the Left Banke record Walk Away Renee. With Mike on the harpsichord and Steve Martin's strong vocal performance, the song was a good one with a different type of sound to it. It came to be known as baroque rock, a style of music that included songs such as the Yardbirds' For Your Love.
Harry took the song to ten different record companies before Smash Records picked it up. It entered the pop charts in the Fall of 1966 and remained there for ten weeks, peaking at number five. Early the next year the Left Banke followed up with another song written by Mike Brown called Pretty Ballerina, and it reached number fifteen…
As for Renee, she moved to Boston with her family shortly after the Left Banke recorded Walk Away Renee, and no one in the group ever saw her again.
Well, the last sentence may not be entirely true. In 2003, rock journalist Dawn Eden claimed to identify a San Francisco Bay Area classical singer and vocal teacher, Renee Fladen-Kamm as the long lost "Walk Away Renee." Fladen-Kamm was also in a medieval English music ensemble called The Sherwood Consort. But she isn't talking, so no one can confirm that she is in fact the Left Banke's Renee.
In the 70s, Brown went on to form the Stories of "Brother Louie" fame, though Brown didn't write the then controversial song about a white guy dating a black woman. A different Brown (Errol) wrote it.
Enjoy… until next week.
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