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Terms Of Use
The following Terms and Conditions are applicable to all residential services except Wireless service.
For Terms and Conditions applicable to Wireless service, click here
For Terms and Conditions applicable to business services, click here
GENERAL TERMS AND CONDITIONS ("Agreement")
Primus Management ULC ("Primus")
1.a. In this Agreement:
(i) "Primus Equipment" means the Primus equipment, facilities and hardware, including cables, power supply, installation software and products, and software supplied by Primus to provide or support the provision of Services, and includes Purchased Equipment and Primus Provided Equipment.
(ii) "Primus Provided Equipment" means Primus Equipment that is rented by You, or otherwise provided to You by Primus, but excludes Purchased Equipment.
(iii) "Purchased Equipment" means Primus Equipment that is purchased by You at the time of the initial provision of Services or anytime thereafter.
(iv) "Customer Equipment" means your equipment, hardware, software, systems, local access fibre optic cabling and facilities used to obtain the Services, whether in conjunction with the Primus Equipment.
(v) "Service(s)" means any, some or all of: (A) residential service; (B) long distance service; (C) home phone service; (D) voice service; (E) internet access; (F) Paging; (G) calling cards; (H) Voice over Internet Protocol services (referred to herein as "VoIP Service" and includes Digital Home Phone and any other VoIP services offered by Primus); and any Primus facility and equipment ("Equipment") associated with the Services.
(vi) "You" and "Your" includes an applicant, customer, individual, corporation or other type of legal entity which has subscribed for Services.
(vii) "Primus" means Primus or any of its subsidiaries or affiliates
1.b. Services offered by Primus are subject to the terms and conditions contained herein and additional terms and conditions related to a particular Service, which make up part of this Agreement. In the event of a conflict, these terms and conditions will take precedence. This Agreement, including any additional terms and conditions related to a particular Service constitute the entire Agreement between You and Primus and does not include any other written or oral representations or agreements.
1.c. This Agreement may be changed and updated from time to time by Primus and Primus will post an updated version on its website available at https://primus.ca/index.php/ont_en/terms-of-use/ and may additionally give You notice of any changes by mail or messaging on your monthly bill. Please refer to the Primus Website for the latest Terms Of Use agreement. In the event of any such change, You will be responsible for paying all charges incurred for use of the Services, including charges resulting from the change or modification, and by Your continued subscription to the Services You will be deemed to have accepted the change.
1.d. You agree to read and adhere to Primus' Acceptable Use Policy ("AUP") available at https://primus.ca/index.php/ont_en/acceptable-use/ and Primus' Privacy Policy ("Privacy Policy") available at https://primus.ca/index.php/ont_en/privacy-policy/ and agree to hold Primus harmless from all liabilities and expenses related to any violation by You of the AUP and/or Privacy Policy.
1.e. Language. You confirm that You accept this Agreement, as well as all other related documents, including invoices and notices, in English only, unless You specifically request French correspondence. Les Présentes Conditions Générales sont disponibles en français sur demande.
2.a. You may use the Services subscribed for provided that You do so in compliance with this Agreement, including the AUP and Privacy Policy, and all applicable laws and regulation.
2.b. You acknowledge that You are authorized to subscribe for the Services and agree that You will not resell or transfer the Services to any other person for any purpose or make any charge for the use of the Service.
2.c. The Services (including rate plans) and any Equipment are provided to You as a residential user, for Your conventional personal, residential, non-business and non-professional use only and may not be used in any other way or for any other purpose. You agree that Your use of the Services for commercial or any other non-residential purposes will obligate You to pay higher rates for those types of use. Primus reserves the right to immediately suspend, terminate or modify the Service if Primus determines in its sole discretion, that Your service is being misused, including, without limitation, use for non-residential or commercial purposes and usage exceeding conventional residential use
3.a. You are responsible for all charges for Services subscribed to by You, including system access fee(s), monthly service charges, any restoral fees, airtime, data transfer fees, long distance fees and any other charges incurred in using Your Services, regardless of who used the Services.
3.b. Ancillary Services, including but not limited to Service modifications and changes, 911 Access, TTY, Message Manager, Extra Business Listings, Telephone Rental Sets, Circuits, Prestige Numbers, ISDN lines, etc. will result in additional monthly charges from Primus.
3.c. You agree to treat Primus telephone cards and all other access codes and passwords, where applicable, as confidential and non transferable. Primus reserves the right to deactivate Primus telephone card codes without notice if, in Primus' sole discretion, fraudulent use is suspected. In the event that a Primus telephone card is lost, stolen or used in an unauthorized manner, You will be responsible for notifying Primus by calling 1 800 806 3273. You acknowledge and agree that You shall be responsible for all costs incurred until such notification to Primus.
3.d. Unless there has been deception with regard to a charge, You are not responsible for paying a previously unbilled or underbilled charge except where: (i) in the case of a recurring charge or a charge for an international long distance message, it is correctly billed within a period of one (1) year from the date it was incurred; (ii) in the case of a non-recurring charge other than for an international long distance message, it is correctly billed within a period of one (1) year from the date it was incurred.
3.e. In the circumstances described in this section, unless there has been deception, Primus will not charge You interest on the amount of the correction.
3.f. If You are credited with any amount that should not have been billed or that was overbilled, interest must also be credited on that amount at the rate payable for interest on deposits that applied during the period in question.
4.a. Bundled Services. Minimum contract terms may apply for subscriptions to Bundled Services. If you cancel one or more of the Services in a Bundles Services plan, Primus will increase the rates for Your remaining Services or charge you a fee and you are responsible for any cancellation fees.
4.b. Local and Long Distance Services
Bundled Services. You acknowledge and agree that Primus' Local Services and Long Distance Services are sold as a bundled package. In the event You subscribe to another carrier for long distance services, You acknowledge that You will no longer be a bundled services customer and Primus, at its sole discretion, will either increase Your Local Services rates or charge You an additional monthly fee.
4.c. Long Distance
(i) "Unlimited" type rate plans are based on Your conventional personal, residential, non-business and non-professional use only and do not apply to any other type of use.
(ii) You agree that Primus may monitor Your account for misuse and if Primus determines, in its sole discretion that Your use is not for conventional residential purposes, Primus may terminate Your use of the plan or switch You automatically to another plan.
(iii) Long Distance service plans may be subject to certain calling destination restrictions or additional charges. These may include, but are not limited to, additional charges for termination to a mobile telephone or additional charges for termination to identified calling destinations. Long Distance service plans may be subject to certain calling destination restrictions or additional charges as set out in Your Service Agreement. These may include, but are not limited to, additional charges for termination to a mobile telephone or additional charges for termination to identified calling destinations.
(iv) Transfer of Long Distance Telephone Service. Primus does not have the ability to transfer Your long distance services from Primus' long distance telephone service network to an alternate long distance provider. You agree that in the event that Your Local Line Services are terminated, You are solely responsible for contacting an alternate long distance service provider to convert Your long distance service from Primus' long distance telephone service network to an alternate long distance service provider.
4.d. Internet Service
(i) Service Availability. You may only subscribe for Internet Service if available in Your geographical area. Primus reserves the right to deem Internet Service unavailable to You at any time. If such an event occurs, Primus will not charge You applicable fees, provided however, that You must return all Internet Service Equipment provided to You by Primus in its original good and proper physical and functional condition and within the specified time in this Agreement.
(ii) Internet Service Provided on a Best Efforts Basis. E-mail storage is limited to 250MB for each email account provided by Primus. Primus does not guarantee the speed of any Internet Service provided by Primus. Speed of Internet Service is dependent on various factors, including the distance of the customer from Primus' network equipment or the distance of the customer from the facilities of the wholesale provider Primus uses to provide Service. Internet Service speed is also affected by traffic management practices that are applied to the Service. To learn more about traffic management practices applied to Primus' Internet Service, please refer to https://primus.ca/index.php/ont_en/internet-faqs/performance-management/
4.e. VoIP Service
(i) Long Distance. Long distance service may be included with VoIP Service depending on offering selected and, or, added on to VoIP Service at an additional charge. Long distance service is subject to the restrictions and limitations contained in section 4.c herein as applicable to the long distance service selected.
(ii) Service Limitations: You acknowledge and understand that the Service is not a telephone service. The Service connects to the Internet, and not a telephone line. There are IMPORTANT DIFFERENCES between telephone service and the Service offering provided by PRIMUS as set out in these Terms and Conditions.
(iii) 9-1-1 SERVICE INFORMATION AND LIMITATIONS: 9-1-1 service associated with VoIP Service HAS CERTAIN DIFFERENCES AND LIMITATIONS COMPARED WITH TRADITIONAL Enhanced 9-1-1 SERVICE THAT IS AVAILABLE ON MOST TRADITIONAL TELEPHONE SERVICES, WHICH ARE SET OUT BELOW:
VOIP 911 SERVICE: You acknowledge and understand that 9-1-1 calls made through VoIP Service are automatically routed to a specialized call centre that handles emergency calls. This call centre is different from the emergency response centre that would answer a traditional emergency call. You will be required to provide Your name, telephone number and address to the call centre operator. The call centre will transfer your 911 call to the emergency response centre nearest your location. If you are unable to communicate during the call, emergency response will be dispatched to the last service address You registered with Primus. If Your call is emergency call is disconnected, You should dial 911 again.
NON AVAILABILITY OF SERVICE AND VOIP 911 SERVICE. YOU ACKNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTAND THAT DURING SERVICE OUTAGES BY YOUR BROADBAND INTERNET SERVICE PROVIDER OR FOR ANY REASON WHATSOEVER, YOUR VoIP SERVICE INCLUDING 9-1-1 SERVICE, WILL NOT WORK. IN THE EVENT OF A POWER FAILURE, VoIP SERVICE, INCLUDING 9-1-1 SERVICE WILL NOT WORK. IF THERE IS AN INTERRUPTION IN THE POWER SUPPLY, THE VoIP SERVICE, INCLUDING 9-1-1 SERVICE, WILL NOT FUNCTION UNTIL POWER IS RESTORED. A POWER FAILURE OR DISRUPTION MAY REQUIRE YOU TO RE-SET OR RECONFIGURE EQUIPMENT PRIOR TO USING THE VoIP SERVICE. SERVICE OUTAGES DUE TO SUSPENSION OF YOUR ACCOUNT AS A RESULT OF BILLING ISSUES WILL PREVENT TALKBROADBAND SERVICE, INCLUDING 9-1-1 SERVICE, FROM FUNCTIONING. 9-1-1 SERVICE IS NOT SUPPORTED IN THE EVENT THAT VOIP SERVICE IS USED OUTSIDE OF CANADA.
(iv) REGISTRATION OF SERVICE ADDRESS: YOU ACKNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTAND THAT YOU ARE REQUIRED TO KEEP THE ADDRESS FROM WHICH YOU USE YOUR VOIP SERVICE CURRENT WITH PRIMUS AT ALL TIMES. IF You change the address from which You use Your VOIP Service or take the Equipment to another location YOU MUST IMMEDIATELY UPDATE the address from which You use Your VoIP service using Primus' VoIP Service Portal (https://primus.ca/index.php/ont_en/manage-your-services/) or IMMEDIATELY ADVISE Primus. IF YOU ARE UNABLE TO COMMUNICATE DURING AN EMERGENCY CALL, EMERGENCY RESPONSE WILL BE DISPATCHED TO THE LAST SERVICE ADDRESS PROVIDED BY YOU. YOU ACKNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTAND SHOULD YOU FAIL TO KEEP YOUR VOIP SERVICE ADDRESS CURRENT, Your ability to access 9-1-1 in the event that you are unable to communicate during an emergency call will be adversely affected.
(v) INFORMING OTHER SERVICE USERS OF VOIP 911 SERVICE LIMITATIONS: You acknowledge and understand that it is Your responsibility and obligation to inform all users and potential users of the differences and limitations of VoIP 911 Service.
(vi) YOU ACKNOWLEDGE AND AGREE THAT PRIMUS ITS AFFILIATES, DIRECTORS, EMPLOYEES, AGENTS AND UNDERLYING CARRIERS, WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY INJURY, DEATH OR DAMAGE TO PERSONS OR PROPERTY, ARISING DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY OUT OF, OR RELATING TO THE 9-1-1 SERVICE AND YOU AGREE TO INDEMNIFY AND HOLD HARMLESS PRIMUS (AND THEIR RESPECTIVE DIRECTORS, OFFICERS, EMPLOYEES, AGENTS AND UNDERLYING CARRIERS) FOR ANY LIABILITIES, CLAIMS, DAMAGES, LOSSES AND EXPENSES, (INCLUDING REASONABLE LEGAL FEES AND EXPENSES) WHICH YOU MAY SUFFER OR INCUR, ARISING DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY OUT OF OR RELATING TO YOUR FAILURE TO OBTAIN ACCESS TO 9-1-1 SERVICE.
(vii) Operator Services Currently Not Available. Primus does not currently offer Operator Service.
Telephone numbers and numbers or addresses for other Services (e.g. VoIP Service, IP addresses, etc.) are a limited public resource. You do not own the number(s) assigned to You and Primus reserves the right to change the number(s) assigned to You. Primus will take all reasonable measures to prevent such an occurrence.
6.a. Primus Equipment. Where required, Primus will provide and may install Primus Equipment.
6.b. Ownership and Interest. You agree that the Primus Provided Equipment, and any dial numbers and/or IP addresses assigned to You by Primus, shall at all times remain the property of Primus, and that You have no right, title or interest therein and agree to keep the Primus Provided Equipment free and clear of any levies, liens and encumbrances.
6.c. Non-Primus Equipment. If You choose to use Customer Equipment, You accept that Primus will not provide support for such equipment and does not guarantee performance of equipment and Service.
6.d. Receiving Equipment. Primus Provided Equipment and Purchased Equipment shall be deemed to have been delivered in good working condition unless You give notice to Primus to the contrary within 5 days of receiving the Primus Equipment.
6.e. Prohibited Changes. So as long as you are receiving Services from Primus, You agree that You will not re-arrange, disconnect, remove, reconfigure or repair any Primus Equipment, including passwords, and in the case of VoIP, to not change electronic serial number or equipment identifier of the Primus Equipment, or to perform a reset of the Primus Equipment, except by prior written agreement with Primus. Terminal equipment provided by You may be connected with Primus' facilities only by prior special written agreement with Primus. If You tamper with the Primus Equipment, Primus reserves the right to terminate Your Service, in which case You will be responsible for all Charges for Your Service(s) and Primus Equipment.
6.f. Fees for Prohibited Changes. You agree that if You make unauthorized changes to any Primus Equipment which results in Service problems or downtime, Primus will charge You and You agree to pay Primus' cost for any effort involved in the restoration or repair of Service to You.
6.g. Equipment Malfunction. If the Primus Provided Equipment malfunctions during its intended use, Primus, at its sole discretion, will support, maintain and, if necessary, replace the Primus Provided Equipment. In such an event, You agree that Primus' liability and Your sole remedy is limited to a refund of charges or replacement by Primus of the Primus Provided Equipment, provided that You notify Primus immediately upon the Primus Provided Equipment malfunction. If it is determined that repair was not required or was required due to damage caused by You, You agree to pay Primus' cost for such repair. In the case of Purchased Equipment, Primus will support and maintain the Purchased Equipment, but if replacement of the Purchased Equipment is necessary, any replacement will be at Your expense.
6.h. Safekeeping of Equipment. You agree that You are responsible for the safekeeping of Primus Provided Equipment from the moment You receive the Primus Provided Equipment until the Primus Provided Equipment is returned to Primus in good physical and functional condition.
6.i. Damaged Equipment. If, while in Your care, the Primus Provided Equipment is damaged, lost, stolen, or if, in Primus' sole discretion, the Primus Provided Equipment is returned in an unusable condition, You agree to pay the replacement value of the Primus Provided Equipment. If, in Primus' sole discretion, the Primus Provided Equipment is not damaged beyond repair, You agree to immediately place the Primus Provided Equipment in good repair, at Your sole cost, at locations specified by Primus.
6.j. Return of Equipment. Upon cancellation or termination of Services, You agree to return, at your own expense (alternatively a Shipping & Handling Fee will be billed to You by Primus), the Primus Provided Equipment to Primus in good working condition within thirty (30) days of cancellation/termination or within a time specified by Primus. You are responsible for continuing charges for the Primus Equipment until its return. If You fail to return the Primus Provided Equipment within the required time, Primus may repossess the Primus Provided Equipment at Your expense, and/or may charge You for the replacement cost such equipment.
Primus' agents and employees may, at reasonable hours and with Your permission (or the permission of another responsible person), enter premises on which Service is or is to be provided, to install, inspect, repair and remove its facilities, to inspect and perform necessary maintenance in cases of network-affecting disruptions involving Customer-provided facilities. Permission is not required in cases of emergency or where entry is pursuant to a court order or other legal requirement.
In order to support the provision of Services, Primus may, directly or through third parties, connect remotely to the Primus Equipment, such as, but not limited to, modems, Internet telephone adaptors, set top boxes, for the purposes of adjusting configurations, updating firmware and related general maintenance.
In addition to the above, for the purposes of correcting or analyzing service problems, Primus may seek Your cooperation to make changes to Your network or own equipment such as, but not limited to, the running of diagnostic tools and performing changes to network and operating system settings.
Primus may interrupt Your services at any time for any duration without notice or liability to inspect, install, replace, repair or perform maintenance on the Primus Equipment or facilities or for any required technical reasons.
Primus may at any time and without notice to You, change, modify or terminate any rates, plans or plan features, in whole or in part, including introducing new charges or fees. In the event of any such change, by Your continued subscription to the Services you will be deemed to have accepted the change and You will be responsible for paying all charges incurred for use of the Services, including charges resulting from the change or modification.
10.a. Charges will commence as at the date of activation or delivery of Services. If You have not activated Your Service(s), billing will commence automatically fifteen (15) days after the shipment date of Your Equipment. Fixed charges per Service are payable monthly in advance and other charges are payable when billed. Primus reserves the right to ask for pre-authorized payment for certain Services.
10.b. You are responsible for payment to Primus of charges for all Service(s) and Equipment furnished to You. Payment is due thirty (30) days after the date of the billing invoice.
10.c. You will be charged interest on outstanding past due amounts at the monthly compounded rate of 2% or such other rate as Primus may set from time to time. In addition, an Administrative Surcharge will apply to payments that are returned as Not Sufficient Funds ("NSF"), including cheques, credit card and pre-authorized debit payments.
10.d. In exceptional circumstances, for example, where You present an abnormal risk of loss to Primus, prior to the normal billing date Primus may require payment from You on an interim basis for the charges that have accrued. In such cases, the charges will be considered past due three (3) days after they are incurred or three (3) days after Primus demands payment, whichever occurs later.
10.e. Primus may request immediate payment in extreme situations, provided Primus has notified You and the abnormal risk of loss has substantially increased since that notice was given or Primus, at its sole discretion, has reasonable grounds for believing that there exists an intention to defraud Primus.
10.f. You must bring invoice inquires or disputes to Primus' attention within forty-five (45) days of the date of the invoice, or You will be deemed to have accepted the invoice.
10.g. You will not receive an invoice in any month where Your balance is less than $20.00. Any such balance will be added to the next month's billing. If Your balance remains less than $20 for two (2) consecutive months, an invoice will be mailed to You at the end of the third consecutive month. Refunds less of $10 or less will be credited against Your account. Primus will not issue refunds for amounts lower than $10.
(Note: E-Billing Service is currently only available for certain products and services and some restrictions apply)
11.a. Once Your application for E-Billing Services has been accepted by Primus, You will receive invoices for Services via electronic mail ("E-Bills") every month. You understand and agree that You will no longer receive paper invoices via regular mail and You agree to ensure that You have the proper hardware, software and Internet services in order to receive the E-Billing Services.
11.b. You understand and acknowledge the only accepted methods of payment for E-Billing Services are one-time credit card payments, pre-authorized credit card payments, pre-authorized chequing account withdrawals, telephone banking and Internet banking.
11.c. Primus reserves the right to withdraw the E-Billing Services upon providing You with reasonable notice and to cancel a subscriber's E-Billing Service if You have used the E-Billing Service for purposes that are contrary to law or in a way that disrupts the E-Billing Service.
11.d. You agree that it is Your responsibility to provide Primus with all correct information in order to receive the E-Billing Services. If You change email addresses, it is Your responsibility to notify Primus immediately of such change. You are responsible for payment of invoices even where You have any difficulties accessing the E-Billing Service
11.e You agree that if the E-Bill e-mailed to You is returned to Primus as undeliverable, Your billing method for Your account will revert back to paper and regular mail invoicing commencing Your next invoice, unless You immediately notify Primus and provide Primus with the correct e-mail address.
11.f. In the event of a discrepancy between the E-Bill and Primus' billing records, You agree that Primus' billing records will be taken as correct.
11.g. You may cancel the E-billing Service, upon providing Primus with 30 days written notice, after which, Your invoices will be sent via regular mail.
12.a. Primus and those acting on its behalf reserve the right to conduct a credit check from time to time on You and to require a deposit or other security, including a credit card payment, before it provides or continues to provide any Service to You, and You consent to the credit check and the provision of Your personal information to credit bureaus, credit grantors and suppliers of services, in accordance with Primus' Privacy Policy. You Further agree to provide any appropriate authorizations and financial information as Primus may reasonably request for this purpose.
12.b. Primus will require security deposits from You at any time where, at the sole discretion of Primus, You have no credit history with Primus and do not provide satisfactory credit information, have an unsatisfactory credit rating; or present a risk of loss. Primus will release such security deposit at its discretion and upon satisfactory payment history. Further security may be required if You subscribe for further Services and/or Service usage increases.
13.a. Initial Term. The initial term of Services will begin the first day the Service is activated by Primus. If You subscribe for Services on a monthly basis, services will continue on a month-to-month basis unless You or Primus terminated Service pursuant to this Agreement. If You subscribe for Service(s) for a specific term, Your Service(s) will continue on a month-to-month basis following the expiration of the initial term.
13.b.Cancellation by You. If You subscribe for Service(s) on a monthly basis, You may cancel Your Service(s) at any time, by contacting Primus Customer Care by telephone at 1-866-367-5435. If You subscribe for Service(s) for a specific term, you may cancel your Service(s) before the end of the term, and you agree to compensate Primus for all termination costs associated with such termination.
You are responsible for any other cancellation or cancellation related charges set out in Your Service Agreement. Upon cancellation of Your Service(s), You will remain responsible and agree to pay for all charges which You owe Primus until You have paid Your account in full to the satisfaction of Primus.
13.c. Cancellation, Suspension or Termination by Primus. In addition to all other rights as set out in this Agreement, Primus may cancel, suspend or Terminate this Agreement and Your Services and will charge a suspension fee if You:
(i) fail to pay outstanding past due amounts for Your Services or Your payment is returned N.S.F. In such cases, Primus may not resume Your Services until full payment is made sufficient to cover the amounts outstanding;
(ii) fail to pay outstanding past due amounts for any other services provided by Primus to You;
(iii) fail to provide interim payment when requested by Primus;
(iv) become bankrupt or insolvent;
(v) fail to meet Primus' credit requirements;
(vi) present an abnormal risk of loss (including, incurrent a significant amount of billable charges) as determined in Primus' sole discretion;
(vii) violate any term in this Agreement;
(viii) use the Service(s) in a manner which is contrary to this Agreement and Primus' AUP and/or law, including CRTC rulings, decisions or orders and tariffs, or for the purposes of communicating in a way that is harassing, threatening, abusive or annoying;
(ix) subscribe for Internet Services, which do not include the use of Static IP Addresses (such as Dial-up Internet Access or DSL Internet Access with a modem),and use automated operations and / or server applications requiring connectivity
(x) are threatening, harassing, abusive or unreasonable to Primus, its employees and agents; or (xi) alter or interfere with Primus Equipment.
13.d. Your Responsibility to Pay Charges: You remain responsible to pay all charges for Your Services up to the date of cancellation or termination by Primus. You remain responsible to pay all charges incurred including all charges that accrue during suspension of services. Primus reserves the right to charge You a reactivation fee if your Service is reactivated after suspension.
Primus may, in its sole discretion, refuse to provide Services to You where (a) You owe past due amounts to Primus or have had a history of past due amounts owed to Primus; (b) You do not provide a security deposit or other requirements requested by Primus; (c) You pose a credit risk or an abnormal risk of loss; (d) Primus will incur unusual costs or expenses which You will not pay; or (e) Primus does not provide the requested Service(s) in Your area.
You agree to indemnify, defend and hold harmless Primus and its directors, officers, agents, assigns, underlying carriers, licensors and suppliers from and against all claims, losses, expenses, damages and costs, including legal fees, resulting from any breach by You of this Agreement, even after this Agreement has been terminated.
16.a. Primus does not guarantee uninterrupted Services operation. Primus and its directors, officers, agents, assigns, underlying carriers, licensors and suppliers, provide the services "as is" and make no express or implied warranties of any kind regarding the Services, facilities, network, Equipment or products in any way. To the extent applicable by law, Primus and its directors, officers, agents, assigns, underlying carriers, licensors and suppliers make no warranty of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose or use.
16.b. In particular and without limitation, Primus and its directors, officers, agents, assigns, underlying carriers, licensors and suppliers, are not liable for:
(i) disruption or interruption in Service availability, INCLUDING UNAVAILABILITY OF 9-1-1 SERVICE;
(ii) any event beyond Primus' control, including acts of God, inclement weather, labour disputes, riots or civil disputes, war or armed conflict, any law, governmental order, regulation or decision; or
(iii) damage to the Equipment or Your premises, which is not wholly caused by Primus' gross negligence or willful misconduct.
16.c. Notwithstanding the foregoing, Primus and its directors, officers, agents, assigns, underlying carriers, licensors and suppliers , shall in no event be liable to You or any person for any actual, direct, indirect, consequential, special, incidental, reliance, punitive or any other damages, or lost profits of any kind whatsoever, injury, death or damage to person or property, whether in negligence, breach of contract tort or other causes of action, arising out of the provision of Services or in any way from this Agreement, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE AVAILABILITY OF 9-1-1 SERVICE. In the event Primus is found liable by a court of competent jurisdiction, liability will not exceed an amount equal to the price of Services purchased by You during the month preceding the event in question.
16.d. Any action or proceeding against Primus by You must be commenced no later than 1 year after the event giving rise to the action or proceeding.
17a. Privacy. Unless You consent in writing or disclosure is pursuant to a legal power, Your information kept by Primus, other than Your name, address and listed telephone number, is confidential and will not be disclosed by Primus to anyone other than You or an agent retained by Primus in the collection of Your account, provided the information is required for and is to be used only for that purpose. Primus' Privacy Policy is available at https://primus.ca/index.php/ont_en/privacy-policy/ or through a Primus service representative.
17.b. Personal Information Updates. You agree that You will give Primus at least 15 days prior written notice of any changes to Your billing information, including but not limited to Your new address and contact information.
Primus is the exclusive owner of all names, trade-marks, trade names, service marks and any copyright material relating to the Services and You cannot use these marks or copyrighted materials or any licenses.
19.a. If You subscribe to Primus residential Service, Your name, address and telephone number will be published in the telephone directory in for Your area unless You make appropriate arrangements to have Your telephone numbers removed from the directory and pay any charges for such service. Primus cannot guarantee that the directory service in Your area or any Internet directory service will not obtain and publish Your telephone number and address from any other source other than Primus.
19.b. In the case of errors or omissions with directory listings or failure to remove a directory listing, Primus' maximum liability will be a credit of charges for this service.
20.a. Notices and Communications. Any notice or other communication required by this Agreement will be in writing and will be provided by personal delivery, by facsimile OR BY EMAIL to Primus or You as applicable, at the address or facsimile number provided by You. Notices delivered in person will be effective on the date of such delivery. Notices delivered by facsimile will be effective on the date of transmission provided printed proof of transmission is obtained.
20.b. Assignment. You may not assign, resell or transfer this Agreement or Service(s) to a third party without the prior written consent of Primus. This Agreement will enure to the benefit of, and be binding upon, the parties and Your respective heirs, executors, administrators, successors and permitted assignees.
20.c. Independent Contractors. Primus provides Services to You as an independent contractor and this Agreement does not constitute or imply any partnership, joint venture, fiduciary relationship or other relationship between You and Primus.
20.d. No Waiver. The terms and provisions of this Agreement may only be waived in writing signed by Primus. No failure by Primus to insist upon Your performance of any obligation in this Agreement will constitute a waiver of the obligation.
20.e. Severability. If any portion of this Agreement is deemed invalid, illegal or unenforceable, it will not affect or impair the balance of the Agreement, which will remain enforceable.
20.f. Jurisdiction. This Agreement will be governed in all respects by the laws of the Province of Ontario, Canada.
21. If you have any questions about Your Services or this Agreement, you may contact Primus Customer Care by telephone at 1-800-806-3273, (hours of operation are Monday – Friday 8am – 9pm and Saturday 8am – 5pm), or by email. Primus' address for mailing purposes is 2680 Skymark Avenue, Suite 100, Mississauga, ON L4W 5L6
To contact Primus: by telephone, call 1-800-806-3273, by e-mail or in writing to 2680 Skymark Avenue, Suite 100, Mississauga, ON L4W 5L6


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Hello everyone,
I was following maia development since the first times, when the only things available was the tweets from Simon.
Today i make the decision to begin my testing experience with the current state of Maia and i'm come here to create an account.
Immediately i've asked myself if the forum was present on the tapatalk smartphone app like the most Forums i follow.
Actually i can't find it so i'm here asking if looking for "maia" just was a wrong query to find this forum or if it just didn't support the mobile application i mentioned.
If the second option is the case may I ask to Simon why?
Honestly as a Family Man, my most gaming related time is spent over my smartphone while traveling or.. ehm... bathroom breaks you know?
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Does phpbb not support it already or do I need a plugin?
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You need to install a plugin but it's simple if i can remember:SimoRoth wrote:Does phpbb not support it already or do I need a plugin?
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Fresh Fruit Tart
Total TimePrep: 20 min. + cooling Bake: 10 min. + chilling
Makes6-8 servings
- 6 tablespoons butter, softened
- 1/4 cup Domino® or C&H® Pure Cane Granulated Sugar
- 1 cup all-purpose flour
- 2 tablespoons cornmeal
- 2 tablespoons lemon juice
- 1 package (8 ounces) cream cheese, softened
- 3 tablespoons Domino® or C&H® Pure Cane Granulated Sugar
- 2 tablespoons milk
- 2 cups assorted fresh berries or assorted fresh fruit
- 2 tablespoons Domino® or C&H® Pure Cane Granulated Sugar
- 1-1/2 teaspoons cornstarch
- 1/3 cup apricot nectar
- 2 teaspoons lemon juice
- In a small bowl, cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Beat in the flour, cornmeal and lemon juice to form a dough. Press onto bottom and up the sides of a greased 9-in. tart pan with removable bottom. Bake at 425° for 9-11 minutes or until golden brown. Cool completely on wire rack.
- For filling, beat the cream cheese, sugar and milk until smooth. Spread over cooled crust. Arrange berries or fruit over filling. Refrigerate while preparing glaze.
- For fruit glaze, in a small saucepan, combine the sugar, cornstarch, apricot nectar and lemon juice until smooth. Bring to a boil over medium heat; cook and stir for 1 minute or until thickened. Cool; brush over fruit. Refrigerate for 1 hour. Refrigerate leftovers.
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Every one who loves fruit loves it. I like that it is so versatile you can use any fruit that is ripe at the time and I have used jello to make the glaze so I have made it in different flavors as well. I also used just a graham cracker crust. Very yummy no matter how I make it.
Oct 8, 2012
This is wonderful!! The light, lemon flavor with the apricot glaze brought out the sweetness in the fruit. The perfect dessert after a stout meal because it's light and fresh.
Jul 12, 2011
Almost every person asked for this recipe! The entire pan was gone in 20 minutes! Would definitely make again!
Jul 10, 2011
Very easy and very good. A nice light dessert.
Jul 4, 2011
This was easy to make and very impressive to others. My hosts complimented me repeatedly even before we ate it. Then even more, because it was fabulous.
Sep 4, 2010
This tart is really easy to make, and it doesn't take too long. It tastes great and goes over well with guests.


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How important is studying algorithms and theory is to becoming a great programmer?
Today I learned the fast sort Algorithm. I doubt I will ever implement my own version though as C# has its own built in Sort method for lists and arrays.
How important is learning Algorithms for high level language programmers? In my example I gained no benifit from knowing the Algorithm but perhaps my example was too trivial to be accurate?


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Thursday Internet traffic dropped off substantially to and from China. Paul Mozur of the Wall Street Journal's China Real Time blog tracked the outage as a data dropoff lasting from 11:00am to 1:00pm local time.
The interruption spawned a host of possible explanations. These included the powerful 8.6 magnitude earthquake the day before off the coast of Indonesia, a cinching down of the "Great Firewall of China" censorship system, a failure in the country's network backbone, and a software upgrade.
There is a bottleneck of undersea cables in the Malacca Straits which could have been affected by the quake. China is connected to the Internet from only three major points, as the Guardian notes in its coverage. This makes the country arguably more vulnerable than countries like the US.
However, Xu Chuanchao, an executive with Sohu, one of China's largest Web portals, posted to his microblog his opinion that "This malfunction is caused by the failure of China's backbone network and is under renovation."
The publication also pointed out that many "lesser known VPNs seemed to connect without any problems." and quoted David Wolf of Wolf Group Asia as saying, "It's possible they were short of capacity and that's why some people got through, but given that obscure VPNs were working I find that hard to believe."
According to Tech in Asia, (via China Digital Times), two of the largest Chinese ISPs, Telecom and Unicom, are denying knowledge of the source of the interruption but both insisted that a breakdown on their end was not to blame.
Mozur's reporting however, based on data from CloudFlare, indicated that the overwhelming majority of the dropoff was from Telecom and Unicom and it was almost exclusively HTTP traffic. This, according to CloudFlare CEO Matthew Prince indicates it was probably a result of filtering, "which suggests that someone made a mistake when filtering something—likely they filtered the entire internet."
Tech in Asia's writer C. Custer theorized it was the test of a new government Internet "kill switch."


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CNN's GUT CHECK | for November 12, 2012 | 5 p.m.
– n. a pause to assess the state, progress or condition of the political news cycle
BREAKING: LABOR TO PRESS OBAMA ON TAX HIKE FOR WEALTHY… A cadre of top labor leaders are headed to the White House on Tuesday to press their concerns about the fiscal cliff. Top most on their list: Tax hikes for the wealthiest Americans, and protection from cuts to Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security and other programs for low income families. CNN has confirmed that among those attending the meeting with President Obama are: The American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO) President Richard Trumka, Service Employees International Union (SEIU) President Mary Kay Henry, American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, (AFSCME) President Lee Saunders and National Education Association President Dennis Van Roekel. … Labor leaders want to make sure Obama makes good on his promise to raise taxes for households making more than $200,000 a year, or $250,000 if married, by allowing those tax cuts to lapse and bringing in some revenue via that route. "Clearly there was a mandate from this election, the American people are with the president on taxing the wealthiest Americans," said Peter Colavito, director of government affairs for SEIU. "Our people expect leaders in both parties to honor that mandate and ask everyone to pay their fair share of taxes." – Jennifer Liberto and Adam Aigner-Treworgy
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How many presidents have served in the armed forces?
MARK (@PrestonCNN) & MICHELLE (@MJaconiCNN)
What caught our eye today in politics
"HEROES, notwithstanding the high ideas which, by the means of flatterers, they may entertain of themselves, or the world may conceive of them, have certainly more of mortal than divine about them. However elevated their minds may be, their bodies at least (which is much the major part of most) are liable to the worst infirmities, and subject to the vilest offices of human nature." – Henry Fielding wrote in The History of Tom Jones, 1917.
What ever happened to heroes?
There was Tiger Woods, Lance Armstrong and David Petraeus: the people at the top of their professions who motivated us with their unquestionable excellence.
… Until, it became questioned.
The scandals involving all three are very different, yet similar in how they disappointed us, for each of these three men made us admire their discipline and perseverance. They gave us hope. They made us want to be better ourselves.
Then, the downfall of each, swift and cinematic … and even embraced by a culture that celebrates the sordid, left us with a feeling of emptiness.
It made us think about our modern culture and our future generations. It is interesting to note that when Gallup ranked America's confidence in its institutions, the military ranked top on the list with 75% confidence – double that of the U.S. presidency. Perhaps that is why the Petraeus story has a particular sting to it.
We wanted on this day of in which we celebrate the nation's true, unsung heroes – the men and women who put country before life and family – we want to learn from you: whom do you look to in this age of no innocence for your own inspiration? Email us at email@example.com … and we will share some answers in tomorrow' edition.
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Leading CNNPolitics: Holding Democratic 'blue wall' was crucial for Obama victory
With Florida finally called and the 2012 presidential election falling into the rear view mirror, here's a look at another reason why President Barack Obama won re-election: "Democrats held the entire 'blue wall'. They have now won 18 states in at least six consecutive elections, the most states they have won that often ever, since the formation of the modern party system in 1828," says CNN Senior Political Analyst and National Journal Editorial Director Ron Brownstein. – Paul Steinhauser
Leading Drudge: 'Stay Away From My Guy'
It was a married Florida woman who blew the lid off the scandalous affair that led retired Gen. David Petraeus to resign as CIA chief when she told the FBI of allegedly threatening e-mails she'd received from his lover, sources said yesterday. Jill Kelley, 37, of Tampa — a "social liaison" to the powerful Joint Special Operations Command — reported the jealous messages from Petraeus biographer Paula Broadwell, who is accused of sleeping with the married four-star general, to the FBI, sources said. – Bobby Martinez for the New York Post
Leading HuffPo: 'McConnell Is A Big Loser But It's Not All His Fault'
U.S. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell set two top goals for the 2012 election: a Republican takeover of the Senate and the defeat of President Barack Obama. He achieved neither. – Thomas Ferraro
Leading Politico: The GOP's media cocoon
A long-simmering generational battle in the conservative movement is boiling over after last week's shellacking, with younger operatives and ideologues going public with calls that Republicans break free from a political-media cocoon that has become intellectually suffocating and self-defeating. – Jonathan Martin
Leading The New York Times: In Debt Talks, Obama Is Ready to Go Beyond Beltway
President Obama, emboldened by his decisive re-election and lessons learned over four years in office, is looking to the renewal of budget talks with Republicans this week as a second chance to take command of the nation's policy debates and finally fulfill his promise to end gridlock in Washington, associates say. – Jackie Calmes
Leading CNNMoney: U.S. to become biggest oil producer – IEA
The United States will overtake Saudi Arabia to become the world's biggest oil producer before 2020, and will be energy independent 10 years later, according to a new forecast by the International Energy Agency. The recent resurgence in oil and gas production, and efforts to make the transport sector more efficient, are radically reshaping the nation's energy market, reported Paris-based IEA in its World Energy Outlook. – Mark Thompson
The political bites of the day
- Zero percent chance that intelligence was compromised, says Marks -
JAMES "SPIDER" MARKS, RETIRED U.S. ARMY GENERAL, IN AN INTERVIEW WITH CNN: "There's absolutely almost zero percent chance that national security was compromised or was at risk. We know, clearly, based on an initial investigation, there might have been some classified documents that were found on her laptop. That might be more procedural than it is a large risk. That needs to be looked into and that needs to be put aside so you can end that discussion. And frankly, you can let David Petraeus and Paula Broadwell get on with their lives because the CIA, frankly, is going to be okay."
- Rush: What's the big deal? -
RUSH LIMBAUGH ON HIS RADIO SHOW SAYS THERE IS A DOUBLE STANDARD IN COVERAGE OF PETRAEUS AFFAIR: "I'm old enough to remember when a high government official had an affair with a very young woman, that there was no security risk involved, that there was no possibility of blackmail. It was a fairly long time ago. It was considered no big deal. A high government official having an affair with a very young woman was considered no big deal at all to the hip people in New York and Washington. That was only a problem for the hicks. It was only a problem for the hayseeds. Well, I'm speaking of Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky. If you go back, nobody had any worries whatsoever about it. In fact, back then, when something like that happened, what happened? It trashed the woman. … The party of women, the party that believes in women, the party that stands up for women, the party that respects women, the party that gives women everything they want, went out and trashed the woman. And that was considered cool and fine and okay. But now this Petraeus thing comes along and there's an entirely different look-see into this. Now everybody's worried about the what did she know, what was Petraeus guilty of, what was being covered up?"
- With taxes dominating political discussion, Norquist reemphasizes pledge -
GROVER NORQUIST, PRESIDENT OF THE AMERICANS FOR TAX REFORM, IN AN INTERVIEW ON CNN'S "STARTING POINT": "The congressman and senators have made that commitment themselves. I haven't made any commitment on their behalf. They made that commitment when they ran for office … And you can keep that commitment by focusing on the problem. The problem is too much spending. The problem is not that the peasants aren't sending enough money into Washington. We need to reduce the total spending and we do need more revenue. We need 10 million more Americans at work; that would bring in revenue."
- In light of election, Washington state attorney alters pot charges -
DAN SATTERBERG, KING COUNTY PROSECUTING ATTORNEY, IN AN INTERVIEW WITH KIRO IN SEATTLE: "There seems to be no point to me to continuing to try to prosecute people, put them in jail, get criminal records on people, for conduct which is going to be legal in a couple of weeks."
What stopped us in 140 characters or less
S&P puts the chance of the United States going over the fiscal cliff (ahem, austerity cliff) at 15 percent.—
Annie Lowrey (@AnnieLowrey) November 12, 2012
MSNBC asks Charlie Crist if its possible he'll run as a D vs Rick Scott in '14. Crist: "Anything's possible."—
Reid Epstein (@reidepstein) November 12, 2012
Before post-election filings are in, Sen. Jim DeMint's PAC has gotten most contributions ever for leadership PAC in a cycle: $13.7 million.—
Derek Willis (@derekwillis) November 12, 2012
It seems no one wants to take a look in the mirror for the GOP's loss. On this path, we'll lose midterms, too, and we'll have deserved it.—
Dana Loesch (@DLoesch) November 12, 2012
The Democrat Party's existence relies on people staying together in racial groups, which makes them the party of the past, not the future.—
Frank J. Fleming (@IMAO_) November 12, 2012
David Petraeus' Other Seduction: the press. How he called journos, gave access, & got sympathetic treatment in scandal bit.ly/TEckkJ—
(@HowardKurtz) November 12, 2012
Election footnote: Ottawa County, Ohio, keeps streak intact: Has picked the Ohio winner every election since 1944. tinyurl.com/aphvkfn—
Gerald F Seib (@GeraldFSeib) November 12, 2012
TRIVIA ANSWER from (@DanMericaCNN)
Thirty one of the 43 U.S. presidents served – in uniform – in one of the branches of the armed forces. Starting with President George Washington, who was the highest ranking armed services member to ever become president, most presidents served as officers in the military.
President George W. Bush was the last president to serve; he was a first lieutenant in the Texas Air National Guard.
Eleven presidents never served in uniform.
The first person elected president without military service was the second president, John Adams. The Massachusetts statesman, however, did serve as chairman of the Continental Congress's Board of War from 1776 to 1777.
The other 10 presidents: John Quincy Adams, Martin Van Buren, Grover Cleveland, William H. Taft, Woodrow Wilson, Warren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge, Herbert Hoover, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Bill Clinton and Barack Obama.
Some of those presidents occupied the White House during times of war and others – like Roosevelt – worked in the military as a civilian. Roosevelt was Secretary of the Navy during World War I.
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The Only problem that I see Is that John Boehner and the Republican don't know how to listen to the American People. Just the Rich One they Protect.
Alan West of Florida should sweep himself aside and let the people's elect Patrick roll his sleeve and dig himself to work for the people. Alan West you lost the election. Give it up. This nation including Florida wants the people's job done and this nation has little patience for ideological road blockers and gridlock champions. The good Lord spoke clearly on Tuesday and the people did not mince words. The nation said a resounding AMEN. Alan West LET FLORIDIANS GO!!!
The Blue Unions are pressuring a Blue POTUS to tax Red Small and Large Business. Then Red Business will cut Blue Workers off - makes sense to me.
That's what America needs right now....advice from union leaders. Private sector unions are drying up, so the labor bosses are now defacto lobbyist earning their dime at the taxpayers expense.
Taxes in the wealthy is just not about labor but about those who voted to reelect the President.
The middle class has been stymied while the rich have overloaded themselves with more money but no more jobs for the little people. It's all in their pockets. Make them pay!


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> Please review the charter of the XML Protocol working group. It explicitly > says that the XML Protocol should be based on SOAP 1.1 This isn't a > request > to rubber stamp SOAP 1.1. We want and need to improve SOAP, but we don't > want to make a complete change to its architecture. I'm also pointing out > some basic realities. W3C is, at heart, an academic organization. And its > perfectly reasonable for W3C to pursue its academic goals (REST and the > Semantic Web). But if W3C wants to play a major role in business systems, > and if W3C wants to continue receiving funding from the big software > vendors, then the W3C TAG must be willing to accomodate the requirements > of > big business. If the REST faction continues to try to undermine the > existing > Web services architecture, it will alienate big business. Hmmm, well, speaking as an academic and an open source developer AND a commercial software developer, I can say with authority that the W3C was created by big businesses specifically to prevent their own marketing departments from destroying the value inherent in the Web through their own, and their competitors', short-sighted, quarterly-revenue-driven pursuit of profits. It was not created by academics. Open source developers actively opposed the creation of a pay-to-play consortium. The only reason it is at MIT is because that's what was needed to attract the people with a clue to an underpaid job. If we are to remain silent on this issue, then the W3C should not exist. The Web creates more business value, every day, than has been generated by every single example of an RPC-like interface in the entire history of computers. Businesses would have to be collectively insane to place that architecture at risk just because a group of software marketing giants claims that it is the next big wave. They want people who are experts on the Web architecture to stand up and defend it when needed. The only reason SOAP remains in the W3C for standardization is because all of the other forums either rejected the concept out of hand or refused to rubber-stamp a poor implementation of a bad idea. If this thing is going to be called Web Services, then I insist that it actually have something to do with the Web. If not, I'd rather have the WS-I group responsible for abusing the marketplace with yet another CORBA/DCOM than have the W3C waste its effort pandering to the whims of marketing consultants. I am not here to accommodate the requirements of mass hysteria. Cheers, Roy T. Fielding, Chairman, The Apache Software Foundation (firstname.lastname@example.com) <http://www.apache.org/> Chief Scientist, Day Software 2 Corporate Plaza, Suite 150 Newport Beach, CA 92660-7929 fax:+1.949.644.5064 (firstname.lastname@example.com) <http://www.day.com/>Received on Tuesday, 23 April 2002 17:28:00 UTC
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Rule #1 - Be Patient - Rule #2 - Don't ask when, if you don't contribute - Rule #3 - You have coding skills - LinuxMCE's small brother is available: http://www.agocontrol.com
H All,Has anyone tested or using an EeeBox PC EB1501U? Im from South Africa and these are the only "thin clients" i can find.HP Units I can get from most of my suppliers but they dont have HDMI or SPDIF capabilities.They also have intergrated ATI graphics cards.I prefer vesa mountable units, because they are out of sight.Pls point me in the right direction of obtaining compatible units.Thanx in advance.Great job guys, awesome system LinuMCE.
Thanx Guys,But from what I've been reading a more stable/compatible option would be ZOTAC Ion mini-Itx Motherboards.Just need to confirm if they are available in South Africa.The Asus EB1501U Retails for R5600 in SA..... Thats more than have of my salary, so Im looking for cheaper altarnatives.
Would I be able to use a intel-zotac-ionitx-n330 board as a Core/Hybrid? My only concern is the PSU......


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Eminent domain
Eminent domain is an important power for local and state governments, allowing the taking of land for public purposes - such as parks, highways and schools.
Eminent domain also is an important tool for municipalities to use in attempting to clean up privately owned property that has become a health hazard or a nest of criminal activity.
But New London used these powers to go after a working-class neighborhood that was not blighted and not a center of crime. The plan is to turn over these small properties to a private developer. The New London Development Corp. wants to attract upscale development to Fort Trumbull as a means of increasing tax revenue.
Seven families are still fighting eviction from Fort Trumbull. They lost their appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court last June in a 5-4 ruling. They are facing a May 31 deadline to abandon their properties.
Last week, they appealed to Governor Rell, asking her to intervene. She did intervene last year, after the Supreme Court ruling, and urged a resolution. But New London has persisted and so have the homeowners.
This proposed development makes sense on paper, until you look at the battle these homeowners have been through. New London has handled it badly, and so has the state. This is a project that has moved forward with state funds.
Rell says she supports the proposed development, but is "sympathetic to the occupants." She can't have it both ways. Nor can she simply blame the legislature, as she tried to do.
Neither Rell nor the legislature acted to protect neighborhoods from this sort of private development of viable areas through a municipality's powers of eminent domain. They agreed to create a state ombudsman to help mediate disputes involving eminent domain, but that is not enough.
Rell should intervene to stop New London's threats to charge the Fort Trumbull residents nearly $1 million in fees and penalties if they don't leave.
The residents are willing to have their homes moved to another location on the peninsula, and that seems a good compromise. Let's end this fairly.


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André Abraham Weil
Born: 6 May 1906 in Paris, France
Died: 6 August 1998 in Princeton, New Jersey, USA
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André Weil was born in Paris, the son of Jewish parents. His mother, Salomea Reinherz (1879-1965) known as Selma, came from a family of Russian Jews who had emigrated to Austria, while his father, Bernard Bernhard Weil (1872-1955), was a medical doctor whose family had lived in Strasbourg, Alsace.
More details of Bernard and Selma Weil are given at THIS LINK.
where details are also given of André's sister Simone Adolphine Weil (1909-1943). We should mention that the Weil family originally used the spelling Weill, for example André's grandfather was Abraham Weill. The Weil family being from Alsace had the right to opt for French nationality and they had done this and moved to Paris. Bernard and Selma Weil were married in Paris in 1905. When André was born in the following year, in addition to his parents, his paternal grandmother and several uncles were living in Paris but his paternal grandfather Abraham Weill had died in Strasbourg. André's maternal grandmother Hermine Reinherz, who was an excellent pianist, lived in his family home with the Weil family which, until 1912, was on the Boulevard de Strasbourg.
André's mother supervised his education for the first few years of his life and he had learned to read between the ages of 4 and 5. When he was six years old in 1912 [6]:-
... my mother chose an exceptional elementary teacher, Mademoiselle Chaintreuil, who taught the tenth form [the second class] at the Lycée Montaigne. After several months of tutoring, she deemed me capable, even though I was a little too young, of joining her class at the lycée.After this first year at the lycée, the family went to Ballaigues in Switzerland for their summer holidays. The family moved from the Boulevard de Strasbourg to the Boulevard Saint-Michel before André began his second year at the lycée. Having done so well in this first year, he missed out a form and was put into the top section taught by M Monbeig [6]:-
He was an exceptional teacher, full of unconventional ideas.During the summer vacation of 1914 World War I broke out. André's father became an army doctor tending the wounded soldiers. He worked in a variety of military hospitals and André, his mother and sister (and usually his grandmother), always moved to be with Bernard Weil. André fell in love with mathematics at an early age, and he writes that by the age of ten he was passionately addicted to it [6]:-
Once when I took a painful fall, my sister Simone could think of nothing for it but to run and fetch my algebra book, to comfort me.When Bernard was sent to Algeria the family didn't go with him but went to Chartes where André attended the lycée. By October 1917 when his father had returned to France, the family moved to Laval. In the following year he was tutored privately before the family returned to their home in Paris. Again he received private tutoring before entering M Collin's class at the Lycée Saint-Louis. It was in this school that studied the parts of mathematics that he had missed out in the studies he had made on his own. There were other things of importance in his life as well as mathematics, however, for he loved to travel. By the age of sixteen he had read the 'Bhagavad Gita' in the original Sanskrit. He had taught himself classical Greek, read Homer and Plato in Greek, and had also taught himself Latin. At meal times the family often conversed in German and English. He also loved European literature, art and music. In 1921, his final year at the Lycée Saint-Louis, he met Jacques Hadamard who gave him good advice from that time on. Every year Weil won the mathematics prize and chose himself (with Hadamard's advice) books for his prize. He chose the three volumes of Camille Jordan's Cours d'Analyse as well as William Thomson and Peter Guthrie Tait's two-volume Treatise of Natural Philosophy. At this time relativity was an exciting new topic and he read Arthur Eddington's description of "Einstein's theory". He graduated from the Lycée Saint-Louis in 1922 and, later that year, Weil entered the École Normale Supérieure in Paris. Weil writes [6]:-
At the "École", as we used to call it, the students were divided into groups sharing quarters. My first concern, even before school started, was to find companionable study mates. There were five of us ...The four others were Yves Rocard, Jean Delsarte, Paul Labérenne (1902-1985), and Jean Barbotte. Right from the time he entered the École Normale Supérieure, Weil attended Hadamard's seminar at the Collège de France. He gave a talk to this seminar on domains of convergence of power series in several complex variables. Among the mathematics courses he attended were those of Henri-Léon Lebesgue and Charles-Émile Picard. However, he continued to have interests outside mathematics and took a course in Sanskrit at the Sorbonne. He graduated in 1925 being ranked first in the class despite returning a blank paper for rational mechanics which he did not consider to be part of mathematics.
After graduating he spent the summer vacation walking in the French Alps, always taking a notebook with him in which he made his mathematical calculations. At this time he was particularly fascinated by solving Diophantine equations. After the summer vacation he went to Rome where he spent six months supported by a scholarship from the Sorbonne. He attended lectures by Vito Volterra and Francesco Severi, and gave a lecture on the Mordell conjecture. However, he certainly didn't devote all his time to mathematics for he took the opportunity to study Italian painting. A Rockefeller Foundation fellowship funded a visit to Göttingen where spent most of 1927 and produced his first substantial piece of mathematical research on the theory of algebraic curves. In Göttingen he met Richard Courant, Emmy Noether and others, profiting from discussions with them.
He then undertook research for his doctorate in the University of Paris, supervised by Jacques Hadamard. He developed for his thesis the ideas on the theory of algebraic curves which he had begun to study at Göttingen. However, Hadamard wanted his brilliant student to aim higher and try to prove the Mordell Conjecture. Weil chose not to follow his supervisor's advice. He wrote later:-
My decision was a wise one: it was to take more than half a century to prove Mordell's Conjecture.He received his doctorate from Paris in 1928 for his thesis Arithmétique des courbes algébriques Ⓣ. At this time military service was compulsory in France, so Weil undertook these duties in the year 1928-29, leaving with the rank of lieutenant. He then taught at different universities, for example the Aligarh Muslim University in India from 1930 to 1932. He had first discussed with Syed Masood, the Minister of Education for Hyderabad, obtaining an appointment to a chair in French Civilization at Aligarh University but, despite the promise, he received a telegram from Syed Masood:-
Impossible to create chair of French civilisation. Mathematics chair open.He took every opportunity to make the most of these years [11]:-
He used to the hilt the opportunity to immerse himself in all aspects of India: culture, religion, literature, people, history, scenery, archaeology, and so on, travelling all over, often under primitive conditions.Returning to France after the two years in India, he worked at the University of Strasbourg from 1933 until the outbreak of World War II. Henri Cartan was on the staff at Strasbourg at this time and the two often discussed teaching. It was here that he became involved with the famous group of mathematicians writing under the name Nicolas Bourbaki. Henri Cartan described how the idea came about [4]:-
André Weil and I were both at the University of Strasbourg in 1934. I often talked with him about the course on differential and integral calculus that I was teaching. ... I often wondered about the best way to teach this course because the existing textbooks were not satisfactory ... I discussed my concerns several times with André Weil. One beautiful day he told me, "I've had it, we need to fix this for good. We need to write a good textbook an analysis. Then you'll stop complaining!"We give more details of the Bourbaki collaboration below.
One of the founders of Bourbaki was René de Possel. René was married to Eveline and Weil met her when Bourbaki was being set up. René and Eveline were divorced and, after waiting a considerable time for the divorce to come through, Weil married Eveline de Possel on 30 October 1937. They had two daughters, Sylvie (born 12 September 1942) and Nicolette born (6 December 1946).
The war was a disaster for Weil who had decided before hostilities broke out that he would avoid military service by going to the United States. However, he was in Finland, visiting Rolf Nevanlinna and Lars Ahlfors, when war was declared. He didn't want to return to France to avoid being forced into the army, but it was not a simple matter to escape from the war in Europe at this time. Weil was arrested in Finland in November 1939 and when letters in Russian were found in his room (they were actually from Pontryagin describing mathematical research) things looked pretty black. Weil himself wrote:-
The manuscripts they found appeared suspicious - like those of Sophus Lie, arrested on charges of spying in Paris, in 1870. They also found several rolls of stenotypewritten paper at the bottom of a closet. When I said these were the text of a Balzac novel, the explanation must have seemed far-fetched. There was also a letter in Russian, from Pontryagin, I believe, in response to a letter I had written at the beginning of the summer regarding a possible visit to Leningrad; and a packet of calling cards belonging to Nicolas Bourbaki, member of the Royal Academy of Poldavia ...One day Nevanlinna was told that they were about to execute Weil as a spy, and he was able to persuade the authorities to deport Weil instead. He was released from prison on 12 December 1939 and he was sent first to Sweden, then to England before finally being sent back to France where he was put in prison. Borel writes [12]:-
His conditions in prison, at first somewhat hard, gradually improved: he could communicate with, and occasionally see, his family, had a lively correspondence with his sister, and could receive some books and work. At that time, he proved one of his most famous results, the "Riemann hypothesis for curves over finite fields."A letter that Weil wrote while in prison at Rouen is at THIS LINK.
Weil was certainly in great danger at this time, partly because he was Jewish, partly because he had a sister Simone Weil who was a mystic philosopher and a leading figure in the French Resistance. The dangers of his predicament made Weil decide that being in the army was a better bet and he was able to argue successfully for his release on the condition that indeed he did join the army. On 3 May 1940 he was tried in Rouen. Élie Cartan went to Rouen to testify in his favour at his trial. He was released from prison and became an army private. Having used the army as a reason to get out of prison, Weil had no intention of serving any longer than he possibly could. As soon as the chance to escape to the United States came, he took it at once travelling there with his wife and parents in January 1941. In the United States, supported by the Rockefeller Foundation, he went to Pennsylvania where he taught from 1941 at Haverford College and then at Lehigh University. In 1945 he accepted a position in São Paulo University, Brazil, where he remained until 1947. In 1947 Weil returned to the United States and he was appointed to the faculty of the University of Chicago, a position he continued to hold until 1958. Shiing-Shen Chern writes [14]:-
We became colleagues at the University of Chicago during the Stone period. Under Stone's leadership Chicago became an active mathematical centre with excellent students. We had constant contact and took long walks along the south coast of Lake Michigan when it was still safe.From 1958 he worked at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton University. He retired in 1976, becoming Professor Emeritus at that time.
Weil's research was in number theory, algebraic geometry and group theory. His work is summarised in [55]:-
Beginning in the 1940s, Weil started the rapid advance of algebraic geometry and number theory by laying the foundations for abstract algebraic geometry and the modern theory of abelian varieties. His work on algebraic curves has influenced a wide variety of areas, including some outside mathematics, such as elementary particle physics and string theory.In fact Weil's work in this area was basic to work by mathematicians such as Shing-Tung Yau who was awarded a Fields Medal in 1982 for work in three dimensional algebraic geometry which has major applications to quantum field theory. Yau is not the only mathematician who received a Fields Medal for work which continued that begun by Weil. In 1978 Pierre Deligne was awarded a Fields Medal for solving the Weil Conjectures. Again we quote [55] for a description of Weil's fundamental contribution:-
One of Weil's major achievements was his proof of the Riemann hypothesis for the congruence zeta functions of algebraic function fields. In 1949 he raised certain conjectures about the congruence zeta function of algebraic varieties over finite fields. These Weil conjectures, as they came to be called, grew out of his deep insight into the topology of algebraic varieties and provided guiding principles for subsequent developments in the field.Weil's work on bringing together number theory and algebraic geometry was highly fruitful. The foundations of many topics studied in depth today were laid by Weil in this work, such as the foundations of the theory of modular forms, automorphic functions and automorphic representations. However, Weil's work was of major importance in a number of other new mathematical topics. He contributed substantially to topology, differential geometry and complex analytic geometry. It was not just to these areas that he contributed but, even more importantly, his work brought out fundamental relationships between the areas when he studied harmonic analysis on topological groups and characteristic classes. Also bringing these areas together was his work on the geometric theory of the theta function and Kähler geometry.
Together with Dieudonné and others, Weil wrote under the name Nicolas Bourbaki, a project they began in the 1930s, in which they attempted to give a unified description of mathematics. The purpose was to reverse a trend which they disliked, namely that of a lack of rigour in mathematics. The influence of Bourbaki has been great over many years but it is now less important since it has basically succeeded in its aim of promoting rigour and abstraction.
Weil made a major contribution through his books that include Arithmétique et géométrie sur les variétés algébriques Ⓣ (1935), Sur les espaces à structure uniforme et sur la topologie générale Ⓣ (1937), L'intégration dans les groupes topologiques et ses applications Ⓣ (1940), Foundations of Algebraic Geometry (1946), Sur les courbes algébriques et les variétés qui s'en déduisent Ⓣ (1948), Variétés abéliennes et courbes algébriques Ⓣ (1948), Introduction à l'étude des variétés kählériennes Ⓣ (1958), Discontinuous subgroups of classical groups (1958), Adeles and algebraic groups (1961), Basic number theory (1967), Dirichlet Series and Automorphic Forms (1971), Essais historiques sur la théorie des nombres Ⓣ (1975), Elliptic Functions According to Eisenstein and Kronecker (1976), (with Maxwell Rosenlicht) Number Theory for Beginners (1979), Adeles and Algebraic Groups (1982), Number Theory: An Approach Through History From Hammurapi to Legendre (1984), and Correspondance entre Henri Cartan et André Weil Ⓣ (1928-1991) (2011).
You can see the preface to Weil's Algebraic Geometry at THIS LINK.
For extracts from reviews of some of these books see THIS LINK.
For some extracts from two of Weil's books on the history of mathematics see THIS LINK.
For some extracts from Weil's thoughts on the teaching of mathematics and the future of mathematics see THIS LINK.
Weil received many honours for his outstanding mathematics. Among these has been honorary membership of the London Mathematical Society in 1959 and election to a Fellowship of the Royal Society of London in 1966. In addition he has been elected to the Academy of Sciences in Paris and to the National Academy of Sciences in the United States. He refused to accept honorary doctorates which explains why there are none for us to list.
Weil was an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in 1950 at Harvard when he gave an address on Number Theory and Algebraic Geometry and again at the following International Congress in 1954 in Amsterdam when he gave the lecture Abstract versus Classical Algebraic Geometry. In 1979 Weil was awarded the Wolf Prize and, in the following year, the American Mathematical Society awarded him their Steele Prize. In 1994 he received the Kyoto Prize from the Inamori Foundation of Japan:-
... for outstanding achievement and creativity.The citation for the Kyoto Prize reads:-
The results achieved and problems raised by André Weil through his deep understanding of and sharp insight into mathematical sciences in general will continue to have immeasurable influence on the development of mathematical sciences, and to contribute greatly to the development of science, as well as the deepening and uplifting of the human spirit.He is described by Goro Shimura as follows in [49]:-
In my mind, however, he will remain chiefly as the figure with two mutually related characteristics: First, he was flexible and receptive to new ideas of others and new directions, quite unlike many of the younger people these days who can work only within a well-established framework. Second, more importantly and in a similar vein, he had a deep and penetrating understanding of mathematics, or, rather, he strived tirelessly to understand the real meaning of every basic mathematical phenomenon and to present it in a clearer form and in a better perspective. He did so by endowing each subject with new concepts and setting up new frameworks, always in a fresh and fundamental way. In other words, he was not a mere problem solver.Komaravolu Chandrasekharan writes in [14]:-
He was known for his short temper and for his sudden, provocative interventions, which sometimes resulted in abrasive confrontations. That was the less endearing side of his personality. It is in his writings that his personality really shows through - as a master of style, with deep reserves of reading, reflection, and self-scrutiny, with a hotline to the creative imagination.
Article by: J J O'Connor and E F Robertson
Click on this link to see a list of the Glossary entries for this page
List of References (56 books/articles)
Some Quotations (4)
A Poster of André Weil
Mathematicians born in the same country
Additional Material in MacTutor
- André Weil: Algebraic Geometry
- André Weil writes from Rouen prison
- André Weil on the history of mathematics
- Reviews of André Weil's books
- André Weil on teaching and the future of mathematics
- The Weil family
- Obituary: Times
- Obituary: New York Times
(Click the link below for those honoured in this way)
|Speaker at International Congress
|1950, 1954
|BMC plenary speaker
|LMS Honorary Member
|Fellow of the Royal Society
|Speaker at International Congress
|Wolf Prize
|AMS Steele Prize
Cross-references in MacTutor
- History Topics: Fermat's last theorem
- History Topics: The Weil family
- History Topics: Bourbaki: the pre-war years
- History Topics: The Weil family
- Chronology: 1940 to 1950
- Icelandic Mathematical Society
Other Web sites
- Dictionary of Scientific Biography
- Encyclopaedia Britannica
- AMS (Special issue of the AMS Notices)
- Mathematical Genealogy Project
- MathSciNet Author profile
- zbMATH entry
- ERAM Jahrbuch entry


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BREAKING: Census Bureau Director Robert M. Groves resigns to become Provost of Georgetown UniversityTuesday, April 10th, 2012
It's been a good few years for Robert M. Groves at the Census Bureau, but news broke earlier today that the man who may have saved the 2010 Census (and most likely eliminated much of the waste and typical bureaucracy) is moving on to become the Provost of Georgetown University.
Now the question is: Who will replace Dr. Groves?
The Washington Post reports:
Robert M. Groves ,who oversaw the 2010 Census, is stepping down from the Census Bureau to become Georgetown University's next provost.
His resignation, just three years after he left the University of Michigan to head the census, becomes effective in August.
"I'm an academic at heart," Groves said in a telephone interview Tuesday, explaining his decision to leave the Census Bureau. "This was the kind of position that's kind of hard to pass up."
When Groves arrived at the Census Bureau in 2009, many were predicting the 2010 count was headed for failure, in large part because of the shrinking number of Americans who are willing to answer survey questions and concern about technological problems with handheld computers that were scrapped just before the count.
"The wonderful team of career folks here that were assembled way before I got here really proved that to be false," Groves said.
Groves, who was nominated by President Obama, had developed a national reputation for the methodology of conducting surveys. He had previously been a professor at the University of Michigan and director of its Survey Research Center.
"I look forward to working with Georgetown's world-class faculty and students to build the Georgetown of the future, one that fulfills all their aspirations," Groves said in a statement released by the university. "I look forward to meeting my new colleagues, seeking their wisdom and getting to work."
Senator Tom Carper's office sent out the following press release:
The news of Dr. Groves' decision to leave his post of Census Bureau Director later this year is bittersweet. On the one hand, I am happy to see Dr. Groves pursue this great professional opportunity with Georgetown University; on the other hand, his tremendous work ethic and courageous leadership guided the Census Bureau through some very challenging times and he will certainly be missed.
When Dr. Groves came on board in 2009, the Census Bureau faced many operational and management challenges that threatened the success of the 2010 Census. Dr. Groves confronted these challenges head on and through his impressive skill set and background in issues related to the Census and to statistics, he helped right the ship, ensuring the successful completion of the 2010 Decennial Census. Three years after his arrival, Dr. Groves definitely leaves the Census Bureau and the Census in better shape than when he found it. In fact, he was just what the doctor ordered for the agency.
Under Dr. Groves' leadership, and with the support of President Obama, the Census Bureau realigned its national field office structure and implemented key management reforms, reducing Census Bureau costs by an estimated $15 million to $18 million annually beginning in 2014. His ability to identify and implement ways to achieve greater efficiencies and significant cost-savings within the programs and operations of the Census Bureau ensures that the Census fulfills its important Constitutional obligations while saving taxpayers millions of dollars. We need more leaders like Dr. Groves in government today.
While I respect that Dr. Groves needs to do what is best for his career and his family, his departure is certainly a loss for the Census Bureau and the Administration. I appreciate Dr. Groves' commitment to public service and his willingness to help the Bureau navigate through such challenging times. Dr. Groves leaves some very big shoes to fill but fortunately, under his leadership, the Bureau is poised to continue to make progress and improve its management of its critical decennial duty."


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Nancy Stanwood
Research & Publications
Patient Care
Nancy L. Stanwood, MD, MPH joined Yale in 2011 as an Associate Professor and Section Chief of Family Planning. Born and raised in Connecticut, she graduated magna cum laude from Brown University and graduated from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. She completed her Obstetrics and Gynecology residency at University of Michigan and the Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program fellowship at the University of North Carolina, where she also earned her MPH.
Before coming to Yale, Dr. Stanwood was at the University of Rochester School of Medicine & Dentistry. During her ten years there, she successfully built and directed the Family Planning service including securing the Kenneth J. Ryan Residency Training Program grant. She is an enthusiastic teacher and among her awards is the prestigious National Faculty Award from the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, Council on Resident Education in Obstetrics and Gynecology.
Dr. Stanwood's research interests include the underuse of intrauterine devices and prevention of teen pregnancies. She is a dedicated advocate for her patients and serves on the Board of Physicians for Reproductive Health, a national organization dedicated to sound science in reproductive health policy.
Education & Training
- MPHUniversity of North Carolina Medical School, Public Health (2001)
- MDUniversity of Pennsylvania (1995)
- ABBrown University, Biochemistry (1990)
- FellowshipUniversity of North Carolina Medical School
- ResidencyUniversity of Michigan Medical Center
Honors & Recognition
|Awarding Organization
|APGO Excellence in Teaching Award
|Association of Professors of Gynecology and Obstetrics
|National Faculty Award
|American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, Council on Resident Education in Obstetrics and Gynecology
Professional Service
|YNHH GYN M&M Committee
|This committee oversees confidential GYN case review to ensure quality care.
|2014 - Present
|YNHH Gynecology Operations Council
|This committee provides leadership for the hospital in Gynecologic services.
|2011 - Present
|Physicians for Reproductive Health
|Board of Directors 2007-present, Chair 2013-2016
|2007 - Present


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Posts Tagged 'Texas Jack Association Round Up'
"Texas Jack" Omohundro Round Up
I'm vacationing this week in Forth Worth, Texas attending the "Texas Jack Round Up," the bi-annual gathering of the "Texas Jack" Association (see website here). John B. "Texas Jack" Omohundro was enormously famous in his era. The best friend of William "Buffalo Bill" Cody, he was a famous western scout. And, he's family, that is to say I married into the extended family.
John B. "Texas Jack" Omohundro
Source: http://www.Texasjack.org
The following is a quick snapshot of Jack's Civil War experience.
When the war between the states broke out, Jack's older brother Orville (pictured with Jack below) joined the Confederate army as a lieutenant under the command of Col. J.E.B Stuart. Jack, then 14, immediately volunteered his services, and was, to his great disappointment, denied because of his age. After several attempts, he was finally accepted into the army when he was l6, and was assigned to his brother's regiment.
John B. (left) and Orville Omohundro
Source: http://texasjack.org
Jack immediately gained renown as a scout of ability and bravery, working directly under Col. Stuart (pictured below), and was soon to be widely known as the "Boy Scout of the Confederacy". Many times, he would act as a spy, moving among the Union troops as a chicken peddler or some other kind of tradesman, obtaining information about the enemy. Little was he to know that within the next 10 years, his best friends and saddle-mates would be former Union soldiers.
Colonel J.E.B. Stuart, CSA
Sources: Wikicommons


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The city of St. Augustine became a battleground in the Civil Rights Movement during the summer of 1964.
Demonstrators held several nonviolent "wade-ins" at segregated hotel pools and beaches. This film shows footage taken by the Florida Highway Patrol of one of the largest demonstrations, a wade-in held at St. Augustine Beach on June 25, 1964 (see full-length version).
Civil rights leaders, such as Martin Luther King Jr., came to northeast Florida to show their support for the movement. King is said to have remarked that St. Augustine was "the most segregated city in America" at the time. He pledged to defeat segregation using nonviolence, even "if it takes all summer."
To learn more, see Dan R. Warren. If It Takes All Summer: Martin Luther King, the KKK, and States' Rights in St. Augustine, 1964. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2008.
Tags: Civil Rights Movement, demonstrations, integration, Race riots, segregation, St. Augustine


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