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I used to think that handicapped parking spaces were places for handicapped people to park their wheelchairs.
I thought this until I was about 10 years old. Really.
I used to think that vampire teeth were hollow like straws, and that vampires would drink people's blood through the teeth.
This weekend, I went to the grocery store. As usual, my wife supplied me with a list of items to be purchased, but I was dismayed to find that it contained entries such as "frozen dinners (2-3)" and "cantaloupe." The selection of such items requires the exercise of independent judgment, and in the context of a grocery store, this is simply beyond my powers.
It is easy to buy "15 oz bag of Herr's Ripples potato chips (red bag)." One need only navigate to the aisle implied by the product description (in our supermarket, this would be the enticingly named "Snack Time" aisle), locate the shelves housing the appropriate family of products (i.e., potato chips), and then compare the characteristics of the products on the shelf with the characteristics of the target product until a suitable match has been found.
It is somewhat more challenging but still manageable to purchase "Pepsi." When you aim to purchase "Pepsi," the only thing up for grabs is the packaging. Whether you select a 2 liter, a 12-pack of cans, or a 6-pack of bottles, it's all the same stuff inside. This is not to pooh-pooh the significant consequences that attend different packaging configurations (e.g., economics, portability, convenience, and prestige), but it is usually within my abilities to sort such matters out and make an appropriate selection.
What am I supposed to do when confronted with "cantaloupe"? The naive consumer might try to draw an analogy to the earlier packaging example, but there is much more at play here. While the size / shape of the cantaloupe corresponds roughly to its "packaging," the internals of different cantaloupes matter greatly and gravely. There are issues of ripeness, firmness, fragrance, juiciness, and bruising to be considered here. Moreover, the opacity of the cantaloupe's skin makes it decidedly difficult to discern the nature of what lies beneath. It is widely reported that some people possess the ability to shake, sniff and fondle cantaloupes in order to assess their merits. This is mysterious augury, and perhaps fodder for witch trials, but it exceeds my meager talents. In the past, I have tried to play at similar behaviors by gouging the fruits of the earth with my thumbs and nodding knowingly as their innards squirted into the air, but I was merely a pretender – a serial melon mangler in shopper's clothing. Even if I knew what was underneath the skin, I would still be at a loss to say whether a given cantaloupe was suitably ripe, unsuitably stinky, appropriately juicy, or actually a grapefruit that had fallen errantly into the cantaloupe bin.
These difficulties are only compounded with the entrance of "frozen dinners (2-3)" onto the scene. You can imagine my chagrin. A dizzying array of products gathers beneath this heading, and yet the boundaries of the class remain ill-defined. Does a loaf of frozen garlic bread count as a frozen dinner? What about a bag of frozen peas? I would say yes on both counts, but my wife subscribes to different taxonomies, and hers constitute the bounds of reality for the purposes of this exercise. Even if we were to assume agreement on the class membership issue, I would still be at a loss as to which set of frozen dinners to select. Are these for me? If so, no problem — grab the first three Hungry Man boxes off the top of the pile and head for the checkout counter. If these are for my wife, however, I must take into account such issues as quality, taste, variety, and the present contents of our freezer. As someone who prefers the TV dinner versions of most entrees to their restaurant counterparts, eats the same soup for lunch every day, and scorns the refrigerator for the convenience of whatever happens to be sitting on the counter already (mmmmm . . . onion salt), I am ill-prepared to make such determinations.
I spend the better part of my days working in a software development organization, and I can tell you that computers are excellent, highly productive workers, assuming that they have been given maddeningly detailed instructions. They will execute such instructions with great speed and fidelity, but they get into a lot of trouble when they are asked to act in the absence of precise, unambiguous specifications. So it is with husbands in the grocery store, or at least this husband. I shop the list — the unadorned, unadulterated, unmitigated, and unambiguous list. When I pass through those automatic sliding doors, I lose all capacity for inspiration and interpretation. Do not ask me to buy "frozen dinners (2-3)" – neither of us will be satisfied with my selections. When I am in hunter-gatherer mode, "something tasty for when the Andersons come over" is no more instructive to me than "a tall building with lots of windows" is to a construction company. To get anything done, I need blueprints that leave nothing to the imagination. When I shop, I shop the list, the whole list, and nothing but the list. So help me God. All items on the list must be described down to their finest details. I recognize that some products, such as the dreaded cantaloupe, do not admit of such descriptions, and submit that a cantaloupe (or any equivalent piece of produce) will never be so direly needed that it can't wait until someone else goes shopping.
Hey Meteorologists – Nobody Cares!
When I want to know the weather, just the basics will suffice. I usually want to hear about temperature and precipitation, and, depending on my plans, sometimes it's nice to be aware of humidity and wind as well. My ideal weather report sounds something like "High of 82," with the terseness implying no rain, no freaky gales, and no toads falling from the sky.
Over the past several years, I have noticed an irksome shift in the way weather is reported on my local news. Weather broadcasters in my area are recently apt to provide way too much information. A thunderstorm is no longer just a thunderstorm – it comes with a lengthy "Behind the Music" back-story about cold air masses from Canada running into warm air masses heated by the Gulf Stream. My binary "bring a jacket?" decisions are prolonged by discussions of negative advection, squall lines, and geostrophic winds. When I am trying to head out the door, I have to wait longer than necessary so that a man in an overcoat can soliloquize about the various influences of El Nino. Simple, relevant information about my environment is continually wrapped in baggage that is not useful to me.
When I go to the dry cleaner, he doesn't regale me with tales of how he chose to get the spots out of my tie with DF-2000 instead of perchloroethylene. He just gives me what I want – clean clothes. In fact, one of the main reasons we go to service providers is so that we don't have to know about or think about how they do their work. All we really want is the end product, and rarely do we care to receive an education in how the product is achieved, except insofar as we can make process choices that result in meaningful consequences to us (e.g., if I microwave your fries, you'll get them fast and soggy, whereas if I put them in the oven, they'll be deliciously crispy in about twenty minutes).
I generally don't care why it rained, got cold, got warm, got whatever on a particular occasion. The etiology of a certain snowstorm is of little interest to me. I appreciate it when weather people explain patterns and principles in a way that allows me to make educated guesses about the likelihood of interesting phenomena (e.g., I like to know that a warm front coming into a snow-covered area has a decent chance of producing fog), but I don't need to hear about the specific pressure differential that stalled some front and thereby prolonged a heat wave. I just want to know how hot things will get and how long they'll be that way.
I suspect that these pedantic on-air discussions of the rites of weathercraft are a symptom of the meteorologist vs weatherman (ahem, weatherperson) distinction. At some point, one broadcast team in my area decided that it would be a real coup to point out that their folks were all bona fide meteorologists (cue heavenly anthem) instead of just a bunch of screen readers with good hair. Other stations quickly followed suit, and people who had been doing a fine job for fifteen years suddenly discovered that they were mere weatherpeople who had to go back to school for a meteorology degree toot sweet. Yet, since academic meteorological expertise is barely relevant to what is required by a weather segment on the news (i.e., stand there smiling and tell people what the weather is going to be like), stations felt compelled to justify the benefits of their "Improved! Now with Meteorology!" marketing campaigns by having their broadcasters stand in front of a map and explain the weather like college professors. You might as well have the anchors explain how the newsroom crew identified and produced the stories being covered that evening.
Average people tune in to the weather because it affects them, but only certain facts about the weather are really relevant to their lives. They want to know how to dress their kids and how to plan their week. They care about general claims with predictive value (e.g., this will probably be a busy hurricane season), but don't care about explanations and descriptions of weather phenomena that don't increase their ability to cope with the world. Weather people have confused their content with the rest of the broadcast, since the situation is very different with other news segments. People care about the who / what / where / when / why of news stories because people are innately interested in the dramas experienced by others. Beyond the bare fact of a sporting victory, people want to hear about the blood, sweat, tears, laughs, luck, and struggle that went into the victory, because every sporting contest is ultimately a human drama. People want to know why a crime was committed because it helps them to gauge their environment and understand the people with whom they share the world, but people don't care why a particular thunderstorm came about, because thunderstorms are long on flash and spectacle and short on charisma.
So, I humbly ask meteorologists the world over, or at least those in my media market, to skip the details of how Hurricane Such-and-such was abused in the Carribean, and just give me what I need from the news – temperature, precipitation, and whatever else might significantly affect my day. Other details can be interesting, but I'll seek those out when I am good and ready. Usually, I'm just trying to get out the door.
Since I just joined the teeming masses who think that their personal musings are somehow worthy of being recorded for all the world to see, I thought it would be an opportune time to go all "meta" and tell you, in blog form, of how I came to name this blog.
Of course, I don't think anyone really cares about the history of the name of this particular blog (such an interest would qualify a person as a ninth-level etymology weirdo), but in the process of naming my blog I had the chance to study a number of other blogs, and surveying the names of those blogs led me to discern a few principles that seem to be followed by lots of bloggers.
Please bear in mind that the principles I describe below are intended to apply to personal blogs of the "I'm Joe Schmoe and I have something to say" variety. Such blogs, much like this blog, have their author as their unifying theme, and are usually a collection of anecdotes, observations, rants and the like. When a blog has a consistent them or topic (e.g., "The Life and Times of the Patagonian Cavy"), it generally moves outside of the realm of the personal blog and into the realm of information resource in blog form.
A unique, memorable name establishes street cred for a budding blogger no less than it does for a DJ or wrestler. (Yes, you will be in elite company.) Do you find "Joe's Blog" tantalizing? (Umm, maybe I should edit that.) Probably not. Unless you boast some pretty serious name recognition (or a really, really cool name like "Spider"), a blog name based mostly on your name will be the start of an uphill battle. On the other hand, it's tough to come across The Chronicles of Yarnia and not get a hankering for the clickety-click of knitting needles.
So, try to come up with a name that is both unusual and memorable. (Mister Mxyzptlk has an unusual name, but his name is so difficult to spell that it's tough to find info about him even if you're looking for him – I think he's from eastern Europe somewhere.) Bonus points accrue if the name is somehow evocative of the content to be found in your blog, but for a personal blog this can be a tall order. The best bet is probably to focus on whatever is unique and unusual about you, and if you're just a humdrum, run-of-the-mill schmuck like me, just make up some crazy crap like "Psychedelic Staplers" and go from there.
A good way to achieve a humble, endearingly scattered image is to affect a mild form of schizophrenia, and make it seem as though your blog is a just a happenstance collection of things that your mind threw up after eating a bad banana. Names like "Random Thoughts" achieve the right tone, as do amalgams that incorporate words like "Cacophony" and "Miscellanea." The key here is to portray your blog as largely incoherent and unintentional, something that comes from you in pieces but isn't quite your doing when considered as a whole – kind of like a mental sneezing fit.
This isn't good. Name collision invites confusion, and it would be disastrous to share your blog name with somebody else. To stand out and survive, you need a name that requires no qualification. Classical music aficionados know that an overmatched Mozart was repeatedly defeated in maestro battles by the ethereally gifted "Fred," but only one of the combatant's names has continued to be recognized throughout the centuries.
When I was trying to name this blog, I walked a similar path. As I labored to come up with names that seemed clever, memorable, and not too self-absorbed, I met with a number of failures on the uniqueness test. My frustrations are chronicled below.
Good idea: Demonstrates my recognition of the vanity and narcissism associated with blogging, while also incorporating a humble portrayal of my thoughts as discordant, and tying all of this up in a neat little acronym.
Bad idea: This name wasn't taken, but I ultimately realized that it was a stupid, formulaic name with no soul. 'Nuff said.
Good idea: You know – a reference most people would recognize, along with implications of random writing.
Bad idea: I quickly discovered that the world is positively lousy with blogs having similar names.
Good idea: Here I go for an abstract approach – if you're looking for a clever name and can't come up with one, why not just be ultra-clever and name your blog "CleverName"? This would be all nice and multi-layered, kind of like a play within a play.
Bad idea: Alas, this parking space had already been taken many times over.
Bad idea: This approach also turned out to be less original than any part of Joan Rivers' façade.
Good idea: References writing, and suggests a random disconnectedness that provides top-cover for freedom and exploratory whimsy. Also, arguably clever and not obviously used as a blog name before. Google reveals a few previous uses of the combination, but these aren't really suggestive of any serious branding. The matching domain name is also available (which surprises me a little), and said domain name would also be appropriate for some future projects that I am planning. Okay, that's the one.
Ultimately, I just went with Stray Text because it seemed to be good enough and I was tired of hunting around trying to out-clever myself. While your blog name is important, it isn't everything, and ultimately people will judge your blog by its content. A good name can help you off to a good start, and a bad name could get you out of the blocks slowly, but in either case a good blog is a distance race, and your performance will be most influenced by what you put into it over time.
My blog is for me – a space to explore my feelings, to work through my life and make sense of it. It is an exercise in self-discovery. I write what I want to write about, and if other people read it and get something from it, that's great, but that's not why I'm doing it.
Your blog isn't mainly for you. The act of writing may be for you, and may bring you perspective / clarity / catharsis / whatever, but when you take your words and heave them up onto the Internet instead of keeping them in a private journal or scrawling them on your cell wall, you are doing that because your blog itself is a social device by which you hope to affect or interact with others. People's motivations for blogging vary, but whatever their reasons, it's not as though bloggers just happen to be keeping a collection of personal writings and couldn't care one way or another if anybody else stumbles across those writings. They are leaving their writings out so that somebody else has a chance to pass by, leaf through them, and possibly develop an interest in them. Much like the neighbors who leave their shades up at night, bloggers want people to notice them.
People maintain the "my blog is for me" stance because they don't want to deal with the pressure that would come from acknowledging to themselves and to others that they are in fact publishing for an audience when they push content into a globally accessible forum. If you believe that your blog is mainly for you and that you are largely indifferent to how it is received by others, this is probably because you want some emotional cushion in case people seem to dislike what you write, or worse yet, don't notice it at all. If recognition and affect aren't part of your recognized goals, then you'll have no reason to feel badly if these aren't achieved. If these do happen to come your way, you can nonchalantly say that you're glad if somebody else likes your work, and then quietly savor your real feelings, both for the sake of decorum and as a hedge against the dreaded day when people might stop finding you interesting.
I'm starting this blog because I want to be interesting, and I will judge its success by the kind of interest it generates. (I'll save the self-analysis of why I want to be interesting for another time.) I don't really expect to be interesting, because there are lots of people out there doing this kind of thing and many of them seem more interesting than me, but I want to give it a shot, and I am prepared to fail if that's in the cards. If I do fail to be interesting, then at least I'll get a little practice writing, which is something I haven't been able to do for a while.
Let's see how it goes . . .


Murray was one of the most important early painters of family records in the state of New York. Born in England on November 17, 1756, he enlisted at the age of eighteen inthe British army and, according to an unconfirmed report, went to America in General John Burgoyne's army, but deserted in 1776 because of concern over England'streatment of its colony. By February 1, 1777, he was a private in the First Battalion of New York Forces.Following his discharge from the army in 1783, Murray visited Montgomery County, New York, and his first known work, a birth record for John I.D. Nellis of Fort Plain, was painted in the latter part of that year. On February 12, 1783 he married Keziah Hilton in Montgomery County. His second known work, producedabout this time, is a decorative drawing that may have been a gift for his new brother-in-law. Shortly after their marriage, Murray and his wife moved to Schenectady, New York, where he painted at least two family records. He left there before 1789, thenfor years traveled through Albany, Ulster, Chautauqua, Chenango, Otsego, and Montgomery Counties in New York. Although his most active years were 1818through 1822, on April 24, 1818 Murray applied for a pension as a Revolutionary War veteran. Two years later he requested an extension, claiming that he had been ateacher, but that failing eyesight effectively ended his career. There are no known paintings from the period between 1822, when he made a family record for Frederick Sexton, and his death on May 19, 1828.Of the eighteen known watercolor and ink paintings, fourteen are signed "Drawn BY/WILLIAM MURRAY," or with some variation, with the date of executionusually inscribed after or below his name. A green leafy vine, with yellow-centered red flowers at regular intervals, generally forms a border. In many of the paintingsthere is a large central heart in which are placed the names of the parents, and with a large flower-like form growing from the top. On either side of the heart, andoccasionally above, Murray has positioned circles, rectangles, or small hearts in which he had inscribed the names and the dates of birth of the children. Other symbolsfrequently used include clover leaves, snowflake-like shapes, black coffins, Masonic emblems, soldiers, and pineapples.


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Ordinary Americans are powerless, but the US isn't really an oligarchy
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What would Aristotle make of how the US is governed?
By Matt Phillips
It's not that ordinary Americans never get what they want from the political system. It's just that they only get what they want if the elites want the same thing.
A recent paper from Princeton's Martin Gilens and Northwestern's Benjamin Page is making a splash with the claim that they've assembled a data set (download) that shows the opinions of ordinary Americans have only a limited influence on actual policy outcomes. Here's the key thesis (emphasis ours):
Multivariate analysis indicates that economic elites and organized groups representing business interests have substantial independent impacts on US government policy, while average citizens and mass-based interest groups have little or no independent influence.
Such a proposition would seem to punch a major hole in America's democratic bona fides. Can these academics back it up?
Gilens and Page based their findings on a study of 1,779 policy issues—dating from 1981 to 2002—for which polling data existed that was broken down by income level for respondents. Researchers looked for issues with clear yes/no answers and specific issues pertaining to the federal government policy. (They also looked for questions that were phrased categorically, rather than conditionally.)
They then assessed responses by income level, using the answers for those in the 90th income percentile as a proxy for opinion among the affluent. These guys aren't necessarily super rich, by the way. The 90th percentile corresponded to an income level of about $146,000 in average household income. But the writers argue that the difference between the opinions of the average citizen and the super rich are likely to look like a more extreme version of the difference between the average citizen and the merely affluent.
As a proxy for opinion among business elites, researchers looked at Fortune's Power 25 lists. They also added groups from 10 key industries that reported the highest lobbying expenditures. Then they started searching through the public record—newspapers, press releases, Congressional Quarterly articles—to find out where these groups stood on the policy questions for which they had polling data. They coded the business groups' position as "strongly favorable," "somewhat favorable," "somewhat unfavorable," or "strongly unfavorable" to the change. And then they created a kind of index based on the responses. (Strong positions were given a heavier weighting than "somewhat" positions.)
Using all that data, researchers looked at the positions of these political blocs and the actual outcomes, i.e., what policy the federal government finally settled on.
Basically they found that if you were a betting person placing a wager on a political outcome, you'd pretty much always want to bet on the outcome that the affluent are in favor of. The opinions of the affluent and business groups were a far better predictor of actual policy outcomes than the opinions of Americans with median incomes.
A few people have run with these findings, suggesting that the study proves the US is an oligarchy.
"It's not an unfair characterization," Gilens said, when we bounced the O-word off him, though he added, "It's a little bit alarmist."
I guess it depends on how you define oligarchy. If you go with Aristotle's original definition—"when men of property have the government in their hands"—then, well, yeah. (Although we don't really stick to Aristotle's definition of democracy—"when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers"—anymore.) But today oligarchs have become virtually synonymous with the circle of billionaire crony commodities capitalists who make up the Russian power structure. It doesn't feel like we're talking about the same thing in this paper. Here's why:
What we cannot do with these data is distinguish definitively among different versions of elite theories. We cannot be sure whether we are capturing the political influence of the wealthiest Americans (the top 1% of wealth-holders? the top 1/10th of 1%?), or, conceivably, the less affluent but more numerous citizens around the 90th income percentile whose preferences are directly gauged by our measure.
Basically, this paper tells us nothing about whether there's a group of super-wealthy influencers with the ear of politicians who really pull the strings. It could be just as likely that the relatively well-educated Americans earning $150,000 and up are the ones that hold sway. That would square with the fact that America's affluent suburbs have increasingly become key political battlegrounds in recent years.
At any rate, the takeaway is that ordinary Americans seem relatively powerless to influence the direction of policy. This idea isn't exactly new. Political theorists such as C. Wright Mills were writing about similar things in the 1950s. Still, it's pretty troubling for American democracy.

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Cyparissos Stephanos (; May 11, 1857 - December 27, 1917) He was an author, mathematician, and professor.  He was a pioneer in 20th century projective geometry.  He studied with Vassilios Lakon.  Lakon and Stephanos were from the island of Kea.  Stephanos furthered his studies in France following the same path of Timoleon Argyropoulos, Dimitrios Stroumpos, and Vassilios Lakon.  In France, Stephanos studied with Jean Gaston Darboux, Camille Jordan, and Charles Hermite.  Jean Gaston Darboux was his doctoral advisor.  He wrote articles in the fields of mathematical analysis, higher algebra, theoretical mechanics, and topology.  He published around twenty-five original works in European journals.  He is known for introducing Desmic system.

He received his Ph.D. in 1878 from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. In 1879 he became a member of l'Société mathématique de France. In the early 1880s he studied mathematics in Paris and published many papers in various journals.  He returned to Greece and in 1884 was appointed honorary professor and in 1890 regular professor at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. He was also a professor at the National Technical University of Athens and the Hellenic Naval Academy. He was an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in 1897 at Zurich, in 1900 at Paris, in 1904 at Heidelberg, in 1908 at Rome, and in 1912 at Cambridge (England).

History
He was born on the island of Kea, his father was a school teacher.  His brother was Clon Stefanos.  Clon is considered the founder of anthropology in Greece.  Cyparissos went to school in Syros.  Afterward, he studied at the University of Athens.  He was awarded a PhD in Mathematics in 1878.  Dimitrios Stroumpos, Ioannis Papadakis and Vassilios Lakon were professors at the institution all three studied in France.  Stefanos also traveled to Paris and studied at the Sorbonne.  His doctoral advisor was Jean Gaston Darboux.  He also studied with world-renowned mathematicians Camille Jordan, and Charles Hermite.  He obtained a doctorate from the  Sorbonne in 1880.  His dissertation was On the Theory of Binary Forms and Elimination (Sur la Theorie des Formes Binaires et sur l'Elimination).

While Stephanos was in Paris he met Hermann Schwarz.  The two discussed Karl Weierstrass's hypercomplex numbers theorem.  In 1883, Stephanos proved that the theorem fails when three-dimensional hypercomplex numbers are applied. Stephanos returned to Athens in 1884.  He became professor at the University of Athens.  He also taught at the elite National Technical University of Athens and Evelpidon.  He was the rector of the University of Athens 1908-1909.

He represented Greece in countless international mathematical congresses.  He was a member of various mathematical societies.  He was the founder of the agricultural society.  He was the founder and director of the first school of commerce in Athens.  He co-founded the Athens Forestry Preservation Society (Φιλοδασικής Εταιρείας) and the Society of Commerce.  He was also the organizer and president of the teachers association in Athens.

Literary Works

See also
List of Greek mathematicians

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Greek mathematicians
Greek Roman Catholics
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens alumni
Academic staff of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
People from Kea (island)
19th-century Greek scientists
19th-century Greek educators
19th-century Greek mathematicians

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Artist of Atelier Ballet Edward Tracz poses as the stag in Actéon. Photo by Bruce Zinger.
A daring & desirous double-bill at Opera Atelier
Jenna Simeonov Oct 15, 2018
Since 1985, Co-Artistic Directors Marshall Pynkoski and Jeannette Lajeunesse Zingg have grown Opera Atelier's presence like a slow burn, maintaining two productions a year based out of Toronto. In 33 seasons, Atelier has expanded internationally, touring as far as Japan, and becoming a regular import at the Royal Opera House of Versailles; this season the company makes its first trip to Chicago, at the Harris Theater for Music and Dance.
The company also employs the closest thing the Canadian opera scene has to a European-style house ensemble. Audience members who regularly attend Atelier's productions are familiar the work of their core creative team: stage director Marshall Pynkoski, choreographer Jeannette Lajeunesse Zingg, Resident Music Director David Fallis, and Resident Set Designer Gerard Gauci. Onstage are the returning faces of the Atelier Ballet, and a rotating ensemble of singers - including some refreshing debuts - who are well versed in the stylistic demands of baroque opera.
Opera Atelier's is one of the most recognizable styles in the Canadian opera scene, and clearly, they're doing something extremely right. Such longevity and stylistic commitment puts Atelier among the upper echelon of Canadian opera companies in Canada - a feat more impressive when we consider that they specialise exclusively 17th- and 18th-century baroque opera. It's almost impossible to resist saying it: "If it ain't baroque, don't fix it."
Jeannette Lajeunesse Zingg and Marshall Pynkoski in the Palace of Versailles. Ms. Zingg is wearing a gown by Reem Acra, generously provided by The Room at Hudson's Bay. Photo by Bruce Zinger.
Opera Atelier opens its current season with a double-bill, a production that seems to first get its footing from the company's established style and team of artists, and then leap confidently forward into something new. In their production history Atelier has put up both Charpentier's Actéon (first in 1987) and Rameau's Pygmalion (first in 1999); this month, the operas are presented for the first time as a double-bill. The two stories share a theme of transformation, and in more tangible terms, origins in Ovid's Metamorphosis.
The two operas tell of humans who transform into something non-human, and vice versa. First performed in 1683, Actéon begins as a story of love between the titular character and the goddess Diana. "It is passion, it is desire that forces him to look at her," says Pynkoski. Actéon is then turned into a stag, and devoured by his own hounds - a clear message of the time. "Desire is dangerous," Pynkoski concludes. "Sensual desire creates people who are bestial."
Pygmalion, premiered in 1748, reflects a near-opposite social attitude toward desire; it was a time when, as Pynkoski puts it, "Versailles is a perpetual house party." When the sculptor falls in love - and lust - with the statue he creates, the gods respond by turning the statue into a living woman. "Passionate, sexual desire is rewarded," Pynkoski notes.
Perhaps it's on purpose, or maybe it's a fitting coincidence, but this metamorphosis-themed production also brings to Opera Atelier some stark novelty. For the first time, the company has named an Artist in Residence: tenor Colin Ainsworth, who sings the title roles in both Actéon and Pygmalion, as well as in Atelier's spring 2019 production of Mozart's Idomeneo. Ainsworth takes a centre-stage role this season, and he'll also work with masterclasses and outreach programs established by Atelier. "This is the time for Colin, to really hosw him off not just here, but internationally," says Pynkoski, looking ahead to Atelier's upcoming tours to Versailles and Chicago. "We have a real Canadian treasure here, and he's to be celebrated."
Colin Ainsworth is Opera Atelier's 2018-2019 Artist in Residence. Armide photo by Bruce Zinger.
Also new: Opera Atelier is presenting its very first new commission. Inception, by violinist/composer Edwin Huizinga and dancer/choreographer Tyler Gledhill, is a work for violin and dancer that will find its place within this double-bill. Placed between the two operas, Inception will prove a novel way to establish the environment that inevitably opens up into the story of Pygmalion. "Going into Pygmalion will be the fully realized, more mature version of this character," says Gledhill.
Jeannette Lajeunesse Zingg calls it "the new with the old," a piece that encapsulates the fusion between baroque and contemporary styles. "We certainly do not wish to be a museum," she says. "Even though [Tyler and Edwin's work] will look more contemporary than what I'm doing, they're also deeply rooted in the Classical style, and I don't think they could be doing what they're doing without that."
It's certainly refreshing to see concrete evidence of Opera Atelier's mission to have their work live in the contemporary world; Inception, and its role within this French baroque double-bill, will be a tangible way for audiences to hear the difference between preserving a style behind glass, and nodding to the baroque as a source of inspiration.
"[Audiences] can expect to see something new and different," says Lajeunesse Zingg, "but something that has been intelligently and tastefully integrated into what we do."
Opera Atelier's production of Actéon & Pygmalion runs October 25 to November 3 at the Elgin Theatre. For details and ticket information, click here.
Fidelio as a mirror of human rights Talking with singers: Evan Hughes
In review: Opera Atelier's Armide
He Said/She Said: Alcina at Opera Atelier
Feminism & confetti: Atelier's triple-bill
Colin Ainsworth
Opera Atelier


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We finally arrived at the top of Le'palm mountain. We reached LaFond! I consider LaFond my second home. I have stayed there many times, and have many friends there; however, this visit was different. I had never seen the village so full of life. I had never felt the energy that was in the air that day.
When we arrived, it was too slippery to take the motor cycles down the path to the school and church, so we got off and walked. As we walked down the slick incline, we could see the church building. It took my breath away. It was finished! Two years of fundraising–two years of slowly making it happen–to now see it finished and beautiful. I was speechless. We could see the hubbub of ladies working together to cook for the celebration dinner the next day. And, in the middle of the soccer field there were multiple benches filled with children sitting in a circle taking art lessons and painting for their very first time. The men were busy setting up places for people to stay, kids who weren't painting were playing soccer, musicians were setting up their instruments, and choirs were practicing. People were talking and laughing and taking in the moment. THERE WAS SO MUCH HAPPENING!
When I walked into the church building, I was overwhelmed. Tears filled my eyes as I looked around. I saw the tile floor, the stained and painted walls, and the hand carved pulpit. I saw women hanging decorations and heard instruments being warmed up. But more importantly, I saw pride. I heard joy in the voices of people who had built the church, who had laid the stone, who had put on the roof, wired the building, painted the walls, put the benches together and so much more as they told me the LaFond Church is the talk of the mountain, that there isn't another like it, and that nothing compares to its beauty. Their voices reflected a pride they could take as their own, because no one built it for them. They built it. It was made with the sweat from their own brow; it was made by the skill of their own hands. However, they wanted to share the pride and joy with us–Pastor Tom, myself, and all of you. Because, they knew that without the financial help it wouldn't have happened. And, they knew that God had blessed them through our aid.
After I pulled myself together, I walked out and went over to talk to the ladies working diligently to cook the celebration dinner. There must have been at least 25 women working together all under the command of Madanm Meance, Pastor Jacques' wife. Never once did I see her looking flustered or rushed. She is always a lady of grace and beauty. The ladies all did their jobs with ease and joy. Some were sitting in circles cutting up the meat from the cow we bought. Some were keeping the never-ending supply of dirty dishes clean. Some leaned over the hot fires cooking while others were busy cutting vegetables to make the salads and broths–all of them talking and laughing enjoying the excitement of the day around them. As I approached the circles of ladies, they were anxious to show me what they were doing and talk with me. They would laugh but encourage me as I did my best to speak in Creole with them. And, from time to time, I would have to remind them to talk slowly so I too could understand what they were saying to me. They worked tirelessly throughout the day and some of them even stayed up and cooked all throughout the night. They would feed over 500 people Sunday afternoon.
Saturday night came and someone called us out to come look at the church. Pastor's sister had come from NJ to be part of the celebration and brought with her a green Christmas light to shine on the church. It was one of those lights that casts light upon the building so as to make it look like there are green sparkles all over it. I also had brought a "disco light" over for one of my friends, not knowing why he was asking for it. They had placed the disco light under the cross and turned it on. The church was lit up against the dark mountain sky. The green sparkles all over the front, and the multi-colored flame under the cross created by the disco ball were brilliant. Again, there was excitement in the air. People were standing all over the yard between the school and church in awe of the beautiful site pointing, talking, and taking pictures and videos.


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McCain: Congress should pass new military authorization
By Nikita Vladimirov - 04/06/17 07:18 PM EDT
Sen. John McCain John Sidney McCainThe peculiar priorities of Adam Schiff Ocasio-Cortez fires back at Lindsey Graham: 'Graham wants to bring back 1950s McCarthyism' Meghan McCain knocks Lindsey Graham for defending Trump's tweets: 'This is not the person I used to know' MORE (R-Ariz.) on Thursday called on Congress to pass a new Authorization for Use of Military Force (AUMF), though argued that President Trump has the authority to carry out potential strikes in Syria.
"We need an Authorization for Use of Military Force. We got to update it, we got to make it realistic and we got to have Congress, the representatives of the American people, involved in some of these decisions," McCain said on MSNBC's "MTP Daily."
"I am going to work with Sen. Tim Kaine Timothy (Tim) Michael KaineTrump's pick to lead Pentagon glides through confirmation hearing Acosta defends Epstein deal, bucking calls for resignation Republican lawmakers on why they haven't read Mueller report: 'Tedious' and 'what's the point?' MORE [D-Va.] and others to try to come up with one," he said.
Still, McCain maintained that Trump does not need to ask for the lawmakers' approval if he wants to strike Syria following the deadly chemical attack this week believed to have been carried out by the Assad regime.
"I don't think he needs congressional approval," McCain said, citing the Reagan administration's 1986 operation against Libya's Muammar Gaddafi.
McCain voiced a similar view earlier on Thursday when asked if the president is obligated to get congressional authorization for military action in Syria.
"No more than Ronald Reagan was after the Berlin bombing when he struck Gaddafi," McCain told reporters. "He has no more requirement than Ronald Reagan did."
When asked again if he thinks Trump has the authority to strike Syria, McCain replied, "I do. Certainly no one complained when Ronald Reagan did it."
The U.S. has largely relied on the AUMF passed in the days following the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks to justify military operations against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS), as well as the 2002 AUMF authorizing the Iraq War.
McCain's comments come as the White House edges closer toward a military response to the latest chemical attacks in Syria.
Trump blamed the deadly attack on Syrian President Bashar Assad and said that some form of action is necessary in Syria.
"He's there, and I guess he's running things, so I guess something should happen," Trump told reporters on Air Force One.
As a private citizen, however, Trump criticized then-President Obama for considering a military operation in Syria and had urged the U.S. leader to seek congressional approval for the operation.
"What will we get for bombing Syria besides more debt and a possible long term conflict?" Trump tweeted in 2013. "Obama needs Congressional approval."
–Rebecca Kheel contributed
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Majors within the College of Allied Health and Nursing have their own unique admission requirements, and it is important for students to understand those early in their academic careers. The admission criteria for each major is outlined in the bulletin and also is reviewed during the orientation process (however students are often overwhelmed with information during this time and may not remember.) It is recommended that the admission and progression requirements for each major be reviewed during each advising session so that students can realistically track their progression toward this goal.
In general, it is important for students to be aware that most majors within our college do not admit students with less than a 2.5 GPA, although a few will allow a provisional admission depending on the circumstances. It is also important for students to know that we have a number of competitive-admission, limited-enrollment majors (Dental Hygiene, Exercise Science, Nursing, Sport Management, etc.) and numerous others where specific grades are required on pre-requisite courses prior to granting admission.


The photo below from Boston after the bombing; are these some of the same guys seen in the 1st video above in Ferguson, Missouri?
With potential widespread violence and civil unrest temporarily on hold, the mysterious men in black and tan from the Boston marathon bombing may be back in the picture, in Ferguson, Missouri, as seen in the 1st video below from TheAlexJonesChannel.
After the Boston bombing, many 'conspiracy theories' unfolded that the people seen here were mercenaries, either from The Craft International or Academi (formerly Blackwater/XE), and were the people truly responsible for carrying out the false flag attack. Are mercenaries once again in Ferguson, Missouri, planning evil behind the scenes?
The 2nd video below from BPEarthWatch gives us all the signs we need to show that something very evil is being prepared for Ferguson Missouri that may jump-start martial law across America.
Even with the increased security in the St. Louis area several men dressed in khaki boots and pants stood out from the crowd. We can't say for sure what the men have planned but we've previously seen groups wearing similar garb outside of events such as the Boston Bombing and Waco.
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Tail-chasing
This foxhunting season looked surprisingly similar to the last one
BritainMay 7th 2005 edition
ENGLAND'S foxes are now safe from packs of baying hounds and their followers on horseback until the winter. Though a ban on hunting wild mammals with dogs did become law on February 18th, after several years of occasionally surreal wrangling over questions like whether a fox experiences fear, this is not the reason why the foxes can relax. Rather, it is because the hunting season is now over. So what difference did the ban actually make?
Not much, if the figures are to be believed. According to the Countryside Alliance, a lobby group, some 800 foxes were killed in about 1,000 days of hunting from February 19th until the end of the season. That's a normal number of days. Nobody has been charged under the act.
As with all the most bitter sectarian conflicts, though, the meaning of the facts is disputed. While a success rate of 0.8 foxes per hunt might sound like definitive proof that hunting is a spectacularly inefficient way to kill bushy-tailed canines, the Countryside Alliance reckons that this is a normal rate of return for the end of the season. It argues, therefore, that the new law has not saved any foxes. By contrast, the League Against Cruel Sports, another lobby group, thinks that hunts normally kill more foxes over a comparable period, and says that the ban is working well.
Disagreement over how authentic hunting has been since the ban is equally fierce. Opponents say that the law has spoiled the hunters' fun and that their sport will slowly die out. But the hunts say they have found ways to operate within the law. These include laying a false fox scent, which the riders then pursue. The perfume for this simulated hunting is made by boiling up a dead fox, by soaking one in water with a dash of paraffin, or from plain fox urine. If, in the course of a pretend hunt, a real fox appears, then the dogs can kill it, so long as the hunt did not set out intentionally to go after the real thing.
But such intentions are hard to prove. The diehard opponents of hunting have been spending their Saturdays sitting in hedgerows with video cameras and then sending the tapes to the police—without much success. Other legitimate forms of hunting include setting off after rats and accidentally catching something else (such as a mink), or using a pair of dogs to flush out an animal, which can then be shot. In fact, rather than sweeping away foxhunting, the new law appears merely to have added to the already extensive set of strange conventions that make the sport so colourful.
This article appeared in the Britain section of the print edition under the headline "Tail-chasing"


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Forests Ontario Landowner Workshops
Interested in growing a healthy forest on your idle land? Learn about your options, including information on available subsidies by attending one of free landowner workshops hosted across the province throughout the year.
Each workshop will offer information on forest management and stewardship, tree planting subsidies and other financial incentives for establishing and managing your forests.
Presentations by forestry experts will include a variety of topics, such as:
50 Million Tree Program
Managed Forest Tax Incentive Program
Windbreaks for working farms
Tools for managing your new trees
Shoreline planting for improved water quality
Light refreshments will be served. Space is limited and pre-registration is encouraged. Register here.
2015 Farmland Forum
Register now for a day of networking, learning, and creative-thinking about new tools, partnerships, and grassroots approaches to strengthen farmland production in Ontario. March 27, 2015, 10-6 pm, Oshawa ON.
Moose Project Invites Ontarians to Provide Input on Conservation Efforts
The province has completed phase one of consultations on the Moose Project and is now inviting Ontarians to provide feedback on proposed changes the government is putting forward to help further address declining moose populations.
Recent moose population surveys have shown declining numbers of moose in some areas of northern Ontario. The Moose Project is looking at what can be done to sustain desired levels of moose populations in response to pressures, such as predators, parasites, hunting, climate and changing habitat.
As part of the Moose Project, Ontarians will be able to provide input by commenting on an Environmental Registry Posting proposing changes that could be implemented starting in the 2015 moose hunting season. Feedback and input can also be provided on what other potential actions can be taken in 2016 and beyond to address the broad range of pressures on moose populations.
There are two ways to provide feedback:
Completing a short online survey.
Commenting on regulatory proposals in notice 012-3413 on the Environmental Registry.
To learn more visit the project's website.
Gananoque River Waterways Association newsletter
Save Ostrander Point Update
The Prince Edward County Field Naturalists (PECFN) appealed the Ostrander Point Crown Land wind project at the highest Court in Ontario on Dec 8-9, 2014. Ostrander Point Crown Land is situated in an Important Bird and Biodiversity Area (IBA) - a refuge for migrating birds, bats and butterflies - it contains provincially significant wetlands, globally imperilled Alvar habitat and is the home and breeding ground of several avian, reptilian and amphibian species at risk, such as the Blanding's turtle.
PECFN was defending the Environmental Review Tribunal ruling that overturned the Ministry of the Environment's approval of the Gilead wind turbine project, which was later overturned at Divisional Court. At present the Divisional Court's ruling on Ostrander Point undercuts the ability of the Environmental Review Tribunal to make decisions based on the evidence before it. PECFN's appeal of the Divisional Court ruling is a precedent setting case that impacts the validity of the Environmental Review Tribunal, the Endangered Species Act and the Environmental Protection Act. As such it will affect environmental law across Ontario.
As Justice Blair, who granted a stay against any construction on the site said, "the issues raised on the proposed appeal are issues of broad public implication in the field of environmental law".
The Evening Grosbeaks appearing at bird feeders this fall are one of Canada's declining species. It has declined 78% in the last 40 years. Other examples of species decline: our iconic Canada Warbler: 80%; Rusty Blackbird: 90%; Olive-sided Flycatcher 79%; Bay-breasted Warbler 70%. All these species migrate through Prince Edward Point. And in September the World Wildlife Fund reported that animal populations have fallen on average by 52 percent since 1970. The findings pertain mostly to vertebrate species, including mammals, birds, fish, amphibians and reptiles.
The root cause of these decimations is simple - loss of habitat. This loss of habitat and the species they support is a crisis for our planet superseded only by the projections of even worse decimations caused by climate change. Not only do we humans urgently need to stop the use of fossil fuels, we also need to urgently move to conserve the habitats of our remaining wildlife.
In order to stop fossil fuel use we must implement conservation by investing in retrofitting all 19th-20th century technology in our buildings and vehicles and begin to build alternative sources of power. It is imperative that these new developments be sited in places that we humans have already removed from nature in order to preserve the scarce wildlife lands that remain. New developments should not be sited in land that functions as significant habitat for wild species.
Our undeveloped wild places play a vital role in mitigating the effects of climate change. Forests and wetlands sequester carbon keeping it out of the atmosphere, while tall grass prairies actually remove carbon from it. Wetlands prevent flooding and erosion and replenish our aquifers. Alvars and other seasonal wetland habitats filter contaminants, keeping them out of our streams and lakes. What allows these invaluable habitats to mitigate climate change are the wild species they support. Without these wild species, they will no longer function. Eventually they will cease to exist at all.
Prince Edward County's South Shore is the last undeveloped land along the northern shore of Lake Ontario. If this industrial development is allowed to proceed it will be surrounded by another 29 turbines in the centre of the IBA and pave the way for hundreds of more turbines along Lake Ontario shorelines, including at Amherst Island which is world-renown for the owl populations that overwinter there. They will join TransAlta's turbine project on Wolfe Island which has caused the highest mortality rate of birds and bats in North America (except Altamont pass in California) and displaced the indigenous and wintering Red Tail Hawk and Short Eared Owl populations. A concentration of hundreds of industrial turbines along this intersection of two major migration corridors will form an impenetrable barrier, causing mounting declines for our migrating species and substantial degradation to the habitats along the migration routes that they stage in.
The 50 members of PECFN have raised almost $200,000 to pay the legal costs of these appeals against Gilead Power, the Ministry of Environment and the 291 corporations of the Canadian Wind Energy Association (CanWea). This small organization needs the support of Field Naturalist clubs and concerned citizens from all parts of Ontario because the work we are doing will affect environmental law for the Province and the County. Nature Canada will be an intervenor in the Appeal. Donations may be made online at www.saveostranderpoint.org or by cheque to Ostrander Point Appeal Fund, 2-59 King St, Picton K0K 2T0.
Citizen Science Bird Projects
For fanatic birders and backyard birders – a chance to learn all about citizen bird projects from an expert and see a sensational slide show.
Mike Burrell is the Ontario Important Bird Areas Coordinator for Bird Studies Canada, Canada's leading science-based bird conservation organization. Mike will share his passion on citizen science bird projects, including eBird Canada, Christmas Birds Count, Project FeederWatch, Breeding Bird Atlases, and more.
Citizen Science Bird Projects is the third presentation of the Hastings Stewardship Council's Winter Speaker Series, held on Thursday, March 5 from 7:00 to 9:00 pm at Huntingdon Veterans Community Hall on 11379 Highway 62 in Ivanhoe, Ontario.
Download the full press release here and the poster here.
Coyote Quest: A Study of Prince Edward County
This is the second event in the Hastings Stewardship Council 2015 Winter Speaker Series
February 12 at 7 pm at the Huntingdon Veterans Community Hall in Ivanhoe
Tyler Wheeldon is a PhD candidate at Trent University. His presentation will summarize the preliminary findings from a three-year coyote study conducted in Prince Edward County. Coyotes in this area have been highly controversial, primarily due to concerns regarding predation on livestock. The presentation will attempt to address the issue of why coyote populations persist despite intensive harvest by humans.
Tyler will explain various aspects of coyote biology, including social organization, territory sizes, movements (includes animations), activity patterns, survival and reproduction. Coyote diet, genetics and morphology will also be discussed, adding to the understanding of this fascinating animal.
The Hastings Stewardship Council hosts this event. See the poster, below and attached, for more details.


Technically Incorrect: The Amazon CEO decides this is the moment to emit his first tweet in 7 years. This one is about the successful landing of his Blue Origin rocket.
Jeff Bezos finally found a space for Twitter.
There are those who descend upon Twitter and immediately blast out bombast.
Having joined in July 2008, he must have considered this service very carefully. Nothing had ever emerged from his account.
Tuesday, though, was the day when he paused over his keyboard and wrote: "The rarest of beasts -- a used rocket. Controlled landing not easy, but done right, can look easy."
Attached was video of his Blue Origin rocket having safely landed in Texas on Tuesday, ready to be used again.
What humility. Well, what brag-infused humility.
Blue Origin, founded in 2000, is Bezos's attempt to create reusable rockets for space flight. Its motto is "Gradatim Ferociter" or "Step By Step Ferociously."
Clearly, by waiting more than seven years to tweet, Bezos has taken his approach to social media step by step without too much ferocity.
There might be some who translate his first tweet as "I'm better than Elon Musk."
Musk, like Virgin Galactic's Richard Branson, is also vying to take rockets to Mars and beyond. The Tesla CEO and Space X founder took to Twitter to congratulate Bezos. Well, mostly to congratulate.
"Congrats to Jeff Bezos and the BO team for achieving VTOL on their booster," Musk tweeted. VTOL stands for vertical takeoff and landing.
"It is, however, important to clear up the difference between 'space' and 'orbit'," Musk mused. He offered a link to a What If page that discussed orbital speeds.
He wasn't done. "Getting to space needs ~Mach 3, but GTO orbit requires ~Mach 30. The energy needed is the square, i.e. 9 units for space and 900 for orbit," Musk tweeted. So there, Jeff. Celebrate away, but not much.
It's unclear why Bezos chose this day to emit his first tweet. The mischievous might wonder whether this indicated he wants to buy Twitter. Amazon didn't immediately respond to a request for comment.
What is clear is that here were two tech CEOs who might be amused by selling cars, books, diapers and other everyday household items. Both, however, have higher aspirations.


Plum Condo Mix Chaengwattana is a superb value condominium located in Lak Si nearby 3 upcoming MRT Lines and Don Mueang Airport.
Lak Si - Chaengwattana has been developed into a vital headquarter of the Thailand Roadmap. The area is surrounded by employment hubs such as the Government Complex, Don Mueang Airport, Educational Institutions and Department Stores. It has close proximity to 3 MRT lines, namely: Pink (Government Complex-Minburi), Red (Bangsue-Rangsit) and Dark Green (Mochit-Saphan Mai-Khukhot) turning it into one of Bangkok's main interchange stations. As such, Lak Si - Chaengwattana will be directly connected to Central Bangkok and will take part in essential business activities.
Plum Condo Mix Chaengwattana is not just another condo, it is more of a residential community with 5 separate buildings (8 floors) housing a total of 1,123 residential units and 18 shop units. The planning is well managed with green areas and water features. The developer has utilised rooftop spaces as communal areas too.
The facilities at Plum Condo Mix Chaengwattana are fantastic, featuring Swimming Pool, Lobby, Fitness Centre, Games Room, Theatre Room, Co-Working Space, Co-Kitchen, Kid's Playground, Roof Top Garden, On-Site Shops, Key Card Access, 24 Hour Security & CCTV.
The units available at Plum Condo Mix Chaengwattana are 1 Bedroom Type (22m2 – 26m2) and 2 Bedroom Type (45m2). For an added bonus all units come full furnished inclusive in the price.
As the vast MRT railways open the value here is set to increase significantly, Plum Condo Mix Chaengwattana is an ideal investment as a medium / long term rental property for the many city workers demanding new style residences in this area.


Channel 4 is completing their trilogy of Jack Thorne four-part dramas. The PSB has given the greenlight to The Light, the final four part drama from the scribe behind the award winning Harry Potter & The Cursed Child. The first two entries in the trilogy, National Treasure and Kiri, aired on Channel 4 in 2016 and 2018, respectively. The Light takes a look at disability and will focus on the repercussions of a catastrophic disaster that befalls a community in a small Welsh town which has seen more prosperous times. The disaster claims the lives of many, children included and, as personal and communal grief gives way to a torrent of anger and blame, the community finds itself torn apart.


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4.2 The Customer is entitled to set up additional User Accounts and the Customer agrees to be responsible for these additional User Accounts in the same way as the Customer is responsible for the Primary User Account. The Customer acknowledges that additional User Accounts will incur fees and charges pursuant to clause 8.0.
4.3 If the Customer permits a third party to access any of the Customer's User Accounts, the Customer must provide to the third party a copy of this agreement before providing the third party with information to enable access to the QSS System.
4.4 Any act or omission by a third party to whom the Customer has granted access to a User Account that causes the Customer to breach any term or condition of this agreement isthe sole responsibility of the Customer.
4.5 The Customer warrants that all Registration Information given to the Provider, including credit card details and other information to facilitate payment for services, is accurate at the Commencement Date and that it will be kept up-to-date by the Customer at all times. The Customer acknowledges that failure to comply with this condition may result in a denial of access to User Accounts held by the Customer and termination of this agreement without further notice.
4.6 The Customer assumes sole responsibility for maintaining the confidentiality and security of all Registration Information.
4.7 The Customer is solely responsible for all usage of its User Accounts including, but not limited to, use of aUser Account by any person who uses the Registration Information with or without authorisation or any person who has access to any computer from which aUser Account is accessible.
4.8 The Customer may use the QSS System to create additional User Accounts in its name however the Provider may charge a fee for this pursuant to clause 8.0 or the Provider may prevent the Customer from creating additional User Accounts for any reason whatsoever.
4.9 If a User Account becomes no longer secure the Customer must promptly advise the Provider and the affected Registration Information must be updated by the Customer.
4.10 The User Accounts accessible by the Customer at the Commencement Date are set out in their Schedule.
5.1 The Customer must only access its data and the QSS System via the User Account/s the Customer has properly subscribed to pursuant to this agreement.
5.2 If the Customer requests its data to be provided in a format not supported by the QSS System the Provider may either decline this request or charge the Customer a fee to do so.
5.3 The Customer acknowledges that the QSS System may experience scheduled and unscheduled outages and the Customer agrees to hold the Provider harmless and indemnify the Provider against any loss incurred by the Customer due to outages.
5.4 If the volume of data downloaded or stored by the Customer is deemed by the Provider to be excessive, the Provider may charge the Customer an excess usage fee payable by the Customer at the end of the next period of the Billing Cycle specified in clause 8.4.
5.5 The Customer must not decompile or reverse engineer or attempt to decompile or reverse engineer the QSS System.
5.7 The Customer must only upload to the QSS System intellectual property that the Customer is legally authorised to communicate or publish by the owner of that intellectual property.
6.1 The Customer acknowledges that QSS is hosted on the Cloud Computing Platform, not on servers owned or controlled by the Provider.
6.2 The Customer accepts that the Provider cannot guarantee the security of the Cloud Computing Platform as it is controlled by the Cloud Proprietor and not by the Provider.
6.3 If the Customer suffers loss on account of a breach of data security that can be attributed to an act or negligence of the Cloud Proprietor, the Customer agrees to hold the Provider harmless for this loss.
6.4 The Provider cannot and does not guarantee the security of the Customer's computer or the data contained therein.
6.5 To remove doubt, the Customer indemnifies and holds harmless the Provider against all loss or damage incurred as a result of hacking, viruses, Trojans, other malware or any other security breach affecting the Customer's computers or the data contained therein that are proven to have emanated from the Provider.
6.6 The Customer is solely responsible for maintaining a backup of its data.
6.7 The Customer indemnifies the Provider against any losses incurred by the Customer due to data being corrupted, lost or destroyed for any reason whatsoever.
7.1 The Customer acknowledges that although the Provider takes reasonable steps to protect the privacy of the Customer and the Customer's data, the Provider cannot and does not guarantee the privacy of the Customer or the Customer's data.
7.2 The Provider may only communicate with a third party about the Customer's User Accounts or the Customer's data if the Customer has first given the Provider written authorisation to do so.
7.3 A request by the Customer for the Provider to share the Customer's data with a third party is also an authorisation by the Customer for the Provider to do this.
7.4 The Customer consents to the Provider allowing the Customer's liquidators, administrators and successors to access the Customer's data and the Customer's User Accounts.
7.5 The Customer agrees to its credit card information being handled by a third party selected by the Provider.
7.6.1 The name of the credit card holder;7.6.2 The expiry date of the credit card;7.6.3 The final four digits of the credit card.
8.1 The Customer must pay to the Provider the fees and charges specified in their contract and pursuant to this agreement.
8.2 The Customer must pay to the Provider fees and charges in order to access the QSS Services Provided specified in their agreement.
8.3 Services supplied by the Provider that are not specified in the user agreement shall be treated as if they are included in the user agreement (for example new services introduced by the Provider in the future).
8.4 If the Customer wishes to access QSS services not specified in the user agreement the Provider may levy additional fees and charges to the Customer.
8.5 The Customer must pay the Provider in accordance with the BillingCycle specified in the user agreement.
8.6 The Provider may change the Billing Cycle at any time, with these changes to take effect on the first day after the end of the current Billing Cycle.The Provider must first give the Customer notice of any change to the Billing Cycle in order for this to take effect.
8.7 The Provider may change fees and charges at any time with these changes to take effect on the first day after the end of the current Billing Cycle. The Provider must first give the Customer notice of any change to fees and charges in order for this to take effect.
8.8 The Customer is required to pay all fees and charges by the Payment Method specified in the user agreement.
8.9 The Provider may change the Payment Method, with these changes to take effect on the first day after the end of the current Billing Cycle. The Provider must first give the Customer notice of any change to the Payment Method in order for this to take effect.
8.10 If the Customer fails to make a payment for any reason the Customer remains liable personally for all fees and charges incurred as a simple debt and the Provider reserves the right to either suspend or terminate the User Accounts and to terminate this agreement.
9.1 The Provider gives no warranty or assurances to the Customer with respect to the security, accuracy or validity of data moved from the QSS System to any third party system.
9.2 The Customer acknowledges that the Provider cannot and does not give any warranty regarding compatibility between the QSS System and any third party system.
10.1 At the Commencement Date the Customer's data is hosted on theCloud Computing Platform specified in the user agreement.
10.2 The Provider may in its absolute discretion move any or all of the Customer's data to a new cloud computing platform without giving notice to the Customer and without first obtaining the Customer's consent.
10.3 The Customer indemnifies and holds harmless the Provider against any loss caused to the Customer or any third party due to data lost or corrupted during transfer from one cloud computing platform to another.
11.1 The Customer consents to receiving marketing materials from the Provider by e-mail.
11.2 To cease receiving marketing materials by e-mail from the Provider, the Customer is required to contact the Provider directly with a request to unsubscribe.
12.1 The Customer assigns to the Provider all intellectual property that he or she may be deemed to own that derives from the Customer's participation in andusage of the QSS System.
13.1 The Customer completely and irrevocably indemnifies the Provider and its agents and assigns against any and all loss the Customer may incur pursuant to this agreement, even if the Provider has first been advised by the Customer of a possibility of such loss being incurred by the Customer.
13.2 The Customer completely and irrevocably indemnifies the Provider and its agents and assigns against any and all loss the Customer may incur as a result of any changes to the law.
13.3 The Customer acknowledges that the laws of the jurisdiction/s in which the Cloud Computing Platform, the Provider or the Customer are located may affect the Customer's data and the Customer's rights and the Customer indemnifies and holds harmless the Provider for any loss so incurred by the Customer.
13.4 The Customer acknowledges that the Provider does not offer financial, accounting or legal advice and agrees to hold harmless the Provider against any loss allegedly incurred by the Customer as a result of the Customer's reliance on information supplied by the Provider.
14.1 The parties may provide each other with notices by e-mail.
14.2 Notices are deemed to be received one day after the date the notice was sent.
15.1 Any condition or warranty which would otherwise be implied in this agreement is hereby excluded.
15.2.2.1.2 the payment of the cost of having the services supplied again if the services are still available.
This agreement excludes and completely supersedes any other agreement entered into between the Provider and the Customer except where another agreement is dated after the date of this agreement and is signed by both the Provider and the Customer.
The courts of the jurisdiction specified in the agreement have non-exclusive jurisdiction to adjudicate any legal dispute arising out of this agreement.
18.2 If this agreement is terminated before the end of a Billing Cycle for which the Customer has paid in advance, the Customer forfeits access to the QSS Service for the remainder of the term and acknowledges that itis not entitled to a refund of money paid.
18.3 If this agreement is terminated before the end of a Billing Cycle for which the Customer has agreed to pay in arrears, the Customer forfeits access to the QSS Service for the remainder of the term and remains liable for fees and charges incurred pursuant to Clauses 5.2 and 8.0. To remove doubt, the Customer will be liable to pay all fees and charges for the entire current Billing Cycle, despite having terminated this agreement before the end of the Billing Cycle.
18.4 The rights of the parties under this agreement do not merge at the agreement's termination.
This agreement may be amended only in writing signed and dated by duly authorised persons for both parties.
20.1 If any provision of this agreement is held by a court of law to be invalid or unenforceable in any way, the remaining provisions must not in any way be affected or impaired.
20.2 This agreement must be construed so as to most nearly give effect to the intent of the parties as it was originally executed.
21.1.1 the Provider has given prior written consent;21.1.2 the assignee has given the Provider satisfactory proof of identification;21.1.3 the assignee meets eligibility criteria set down by the Provider;21.1.4 the assignee has a credit rating acceptable to the Provider.
21.2 The Provider may assign its rights under this agreement.
The Provider shall, in its absolute discretion, provide a partial or full refund to the Customer if the Customer is not satisfied with the services of the Provider. Requests for refunds will be assessed by the Provider on a case by case basis. Subject to any legislative requirements, the Provider reserves its right to refuse any request for a refund made by the Customer.
If the Customer breaches this agreement and the Provider does not exercise a right that it has because of the Customer's breach, the Provider does not waive its entitlement to exercise that right at any later time.
2.3 QSS database area: New Zealand – the courts of New Zealand.
2.4 For Users who are not using any of the QSS database areas specified in 2.1, 2.2 or 2.3 above, the jurisdiction shall be the courts of whichever of the jurisdictions specified in 2.1, 2.2 or 2.3 is the closest (geographically / physically) to the User's Registration Address.
a. The Customer acknowledges that the QSS System has not been commercially released and is still subject to trialling by the Provider. The Customer accepts that the performance of the QSS System may be deficient in some respects.
b. The Customer assigns to the Provider all intellectual property that he or she may be deemed to own that derives from the Customer's participation in testing of the QSS System.
c. The Customer acknowledges that the Provider will charge fees for the Customer's use of the QSS Service after giving notice to the Customer of the cessation of the beta usage period.