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- "In Warfare, preparation is the key. Determine that which your foe prizes the most. Then site your heavy weapons so that they overlook it. In this way, you may be quite sure that you shall never want for targets."
- — Lion El'Jonson, Tenets of Strategy and Supremacy
Lion El'Jonson, known also by the cognomen, The First, and the honourific Primaris Angelus Mortis, and often times referred to as the Lion during his lifetime, was the Primarch of the Ist Legion of Space Marines, the Dark Angels. Following the events of the Horus Heresy, Jonson and his Crusading fleet returned to his homeworld of Caliban. Inexplicably, they were fired upon by the Dark Angel forces garrisoned there under the command of his once-trusted mentor and surrogate father, Luther, who had been entrusted with the custodianship of Caliban in the Lion's absence. Luther would eventually betray the Lion after allowing himself to be seduced by the offers of Chaos, rallying a good portion of the Dark Angels who had been left behind by their fellows to garrison the Legion's homeworld to his cause and attacking the Lion's fleet as he returned to Caliban. The titanic struggle between the two former friends resulted in the destruction of Caliban and the loss of the Dark Angels' Primarch, as well as the escape of Luther's allies who had sided with the Ruinous Powers. Known as the Fallen Angels amongst their former Battle-Brothers of the Ist Legion, it became the overriding goal of the Dark Angels and all of their Successor Chapters (collectively known as the Unforgiven) after the Second Founding to hunt down every one of the Fallen and get them to repent their betrayal of the Emperor and of the Lion. Perhaps one of the greatest secrets of the Imperium of Man, known only to the Emperor himself, is that the Lion is still alive and resting in stasis, buried deep within the Dark Angels' mobile fortress-monastery, The Rock. There he waits to be awakened to lead the Dark Angels in one final Crusade to save Mankind from all the enemies who threaten it with extinction.
Early Life
During the event that isolated the infant Primarchs from the rest of the Imperium, Lion El'Jonson was cast to a hostile, feudal Death World infested with monstrous, Chaos-warped Great Beasts that was named Caliban by its inhabitants. The humans of Caliban had regressed to a feudal state, yet still retained sufficient technology to produce armour similar in appearance, if not quality, to Imperial Power Armour and firearms similar to Bolt Pistols. Caliban was kept relatively safe from the Great Beasts by the Knightly Orders such as the Order and the Knights of Lupus.
The Lion was discovered as a feral child by the Knights of the Order, including the greatest man of the age, Sar Luther. Luther then named the boy Lion El'Jonson (meaning "Lion, Son of the Forest" in the Calibanite dialect of Low Gothic). In a very short time after this, the Lion replaced Luther as the greatest man on Caliban and became the Grandmaster of the Order. The Lion killed a great many of the death world's Great Beasts, including one of only two Calibanite Lions on the planet, the other being slain by the psyker and Supplicant of the Order, Zahariel El'Zurias, with the aid of the latent psychic ability later called, "terror sight," that allowed him to slow down the perception of time long enough for him to find an opening in the animal's defences.
During his career as a Knight of the Order, the Lion led a planet-wide crusade of all the Knightly Orders (save for the conservative Knights of Lupus) against the Calibanite beasts. If not for Luther, this crusade could not have occurred, as his influence was required to persuade the other Orders to participate. During the course of this crusade, both the beasts and the Knights of Lupus were exterminated. It was on the ceremonial last hunt of the beasts that the forces of the Imperium's Great Crusade would finally arrive on Caliban and reunited the Space Marines of the Ist Legion with their gene-father.
Arrival of the Emperor
Eventually a unit of the Emperor of Mankind's forwards scouts from the Ist Legion of Space Marines arrived at Caliban and identified the Lion as one of the Emperor's missing sons, the Primarchs. Jonson was immediately given command of the I Space Marine Legion when the Emperor realised he had not only found one of his lost sons, but the genetic father of the Astartes who had landed on Caliban. Luther and the other members of the Order who passed the Legiones Astartes' trials were transformed into Ist Legion warriors, either as fully-fledged Astartes if they were young enough to undergo the implantation of the gene-seed organs, or through genetic manipulation to increase their physical abilities if they were too old for the process, like Luther. After the new Astartes were ready, Jonson publicly re-named the First Legion the Dark Angels after an old Calibanite myth. Luther, too old to be a Space Marine, was the first to be genetically modified and became Jonson's second in command, as he had been during the Calibanite crusade against the great beasts. Jonson then left with the Emperor and the newly re-named Dark Angels to continue the Great Crusade.
Great Crusade
The Lion was granted command of the 4th Expeditionary Fleet of the Great Crusade in orbit of the planet Sarosh. The Saroshi had recently expressed their interest in becoming part of the Imperium, and the Imperials were eager to allow them in, believing that these people seemed to possess the same secular beliefs as they did in the Imperial Truth. But the Saroshi secretly worshipped Chaotic entities in the Warp they called the Melachim ("kings" in ancient Hebrew) who may have been the Ruinous Powers or their lesser daemonic servants. They saw the atheistic stance of the Emperor's Imperial Truth as nothing less than a philosophy of pure evil since it would deny the very existence of their gods. The Lord High Exacter, the leader of the Saroshi bureaucracy, denounced El'Jonson and the Emperor to their faces aboard the Dark Angels' flagship. El'Jonson responded by impaling the Lion Sword through the fanatical Saroshi leader's body. However, unknown to the Dark Angels the Saroshi had also brought a nuclear device aboard their shuttle, intending to assassinate the fleet's entire command structure, including Jonson; however, Luther and a junior Librarian named Zahariel managed to eject the shuttle into space, causing only minor damage to the flagship. After this incident, Luther, Zahariel and two hundred other Dark Angels were sent back to Caliban in disgrace for allowing an enemy to get a nuclear device aboard the Primarch's flagship. They were to oversee the recruitment of new Space Marines into the Legion from the Calibanite population.
As the years passed, news of Jonson's victories kept coming back to Caliban. The jealousy which Luther had first felt on Jonson's appointment as Supreme Master of the Order grew with every report, and the position Jonson had given Luther was not one suited to his ambitions. He slowly changed from an honourable knight to a man full of jealousy and hatred towards Jonson, because he felt he had lost out on fame and glory. Additionally, new reports indicated that Luther discovered a book of Chaos lore on Caliban that gradually caused him to turn from the path of righteousness until he was consumed by the temptations of the Ruinous Powers and was transformed into a Chaos Champion.
A Lion and a Wolf
At some point during the Great Crusade, the Dark Angels and the Space Wolves Legions were assaulting the planet Dulan that had not given in to the Imperium's demands to become a compliant world. The leader of the rebels had insulted Leman Russ by naming him "The Emperor's Lapdog." Russ and his Space Wolves planned to assault rebel leader's stronghold for this blemish on their honor. While they were busy planning, the Dark Angels took the initiative and brought the fight to the capital instead and the Lion himself killed their leader. Russ found the Lion with the dead leader at his feet and immediately attacked his brother Primarch. They fought for a full day and a night, the combat ending only when the Lion threw Russ through a table. When Russ got up he started laughing at the foolishness of their quarrel. The Lion, incensed that his brother appeared to be mocking him, hit him square in the jaw, knocking Russ out cold. Russ awakened many hours later to find that Lion El'Jonson and his Dark Angels had already left the planet. Honour Duels are still fought between members of the Space Wolves and the Dark Angels to this day over this incident, which sometimes results in fatalities.
Horus Heresy
During the 200th year of the Great Crusade, the Dark Angels Legion was carrying out an Imperial Compliance campaign against the Shield Worlds of the so-called Gordian League -- a confederation of human worlds who were allied with degenerate xenos. During this campaign the Dark Angels high command received word that Warmaster Horus and the XVIth Legion had renounced their oaths of allegiance, along with Primarch Angron's World Eaters, Mortarion's Death Guard and Fulgrim's Emperor's Children. They also received word of the atrocity committed against the doomed world of Istvaan III, when Horus ordered it to be virus-bombed, rendered it a lifeless planet. The Warmaster knew that the Emperor would respond with all the force he had available. Jonson believed that the Dark Angels' deployment to the Shield Worlds was part of an effort to scatter the Imperium's most loyal servants as far as possible in order to minimize the number of Legions Horus would have to face at any given time. Even so, a strike force of seven full Legions posed a dire threat to Horus's survival, as they made their way towards Istvaan V.
Jonson's forces were too deeply enmeshed in the Shield Worlds to respond quickly to Horus's treachery; the best estimates of the Primarch's staff indicated that it would take them nearly eight months to conclude their offensive operations, even on an emergency basis, and reposition themselves for a strike against Istvaan V. Even if they could move more quickly, Horus's agents would be able to alert the Warmaster in time to organise a counter-strike. However, Jonson believed that a small, hand-picked force, might accomplish what an entire Legion could not. The Primarch issued orders for many of their reserve squadrons to resupply and prepare for immediate deployment to the Tanagra System. Their primary target was to secure the Forge World of Diamat. They could not afford to let the Warmaster acquire the substantial supplies and ordnance needed to fortify the world of Istvaan V against the approaching Loyalist strike force. Jonson would personally lead the expedition to Diamat, with a battle group of fifteen warships. Secrecy was vital, as the Primarch was aware that the Warmaster's agents were more than likely tracking the Dark Angels' movements. Jonson went to Diamat in order to secure several powerful continental siege machines; vast artillery pieces that could devastate the most powerful fortifications.
The small fleet of Dark Angels vessels arrived in the Tanagra System just five days after the destruction of Horus's landing force at the Xanthus star port. With no way to secure the siege machines held in storage in Diamat's depots from Jonson's Astartes, the admiral of the raiding fleet had little choice but to withdraw back to Isstvan. The Warmaster's final gambit had failed. Following this small victory, Jonson met with his fellow brother Primarch, Perturabo of the Iron Warriors Legion aboard his flagship Invincible Reason. Perturabo informed Jonson that the IVth Legion was enroute to the Istvaan System, to face the Warmaster and his Traitor Legions upon the black sands of Istvaan V. Ferrus Manus and the Iron Hands Legion had hastened ahead of them, hungry to claim the Emperor's vengeance against Horus. Perturabo than lied to Jonson, explaining that he had hoped that his Legion could provision his vessels at the Xanthus star port above Diamat before continuing to the combat zone. Of course, they were now unable to, as the Ist Legion had destroyed the star port.
Perturabo then inquired to Jonson how he had learned of the existence of the siege engines. Jonson explained that he had learned of it fifty years earlier when he was studying the history of the Great Crusade and saw a reference to them in a despatch from Horus that had been sent to the Emperor. He'd commissioned the colossal siege machines from the masters of Diamat during the long siege of the xenos fortress-states on Tethonus. The war machines took much longer for the forge masters to complete than planned. By the time they were finished, the campaign on Tethonus had been over for a year and a half, and Horus had moved on to other conquests. So the weapons were put into a depot here against the day when he would come to claim them. But then the Istvaan III Atrocity occurred. When Jonson had received word of Horus's perfidy, he knew that ultimately the Warmaster's path would ultimately lead to Terra. Even if he were somehow to prevail against Perturabo and the other Legions sent to confront him in the Istvaan System, the Warmaster couldn't claim total victory so long as the Emperor was safe in his palace. No, for Horus to triumph, their father had to die. And that meant a long and costly siege of Terra. Therefore, the Warmaster would come to claim the siege engines of Diamat.
Jonson informed his brother that he would be unable to accompany the Loyalist fleet to Diamat, as he had to make all haste to the Shield Worlds and prepare the rest of the Ist Legion for the trip to Terra. In fact, he thought it best if no one outside Perturabo, himself and the other Primarchs ever knew that the Lion was there. He didn't want the Emperor to believe he did anything at Diamat with an ulterior motive in mind. Perturabo agreed that its was both a prudent choice, and a very humble one. Jonson explained that his actions were done for the good of the Imperium, not for accolades, nor for power. Jonson confessed to his brother that he believed Horus had become their father's favourite son for no other reason than fate. Had he been the first one he'd found, Jonson believed he would have been the Warmaster. The Lion believed that Horus would inevitably be defeated and that the Emperor would need to choose a new Warmaster very quickly if the Great Crusade was to continue. He asked for Perturabo's support. The two Primarchs reached an understanding -- Jonson granted permission for the Iron Warriors to take possession of the siege guns at their convenience -- on one condition, of course. Perturabo raised an eyebrow, inquisitively. Jonson made his brother promise that the siege weapons would be put to good use. Of that, Perturabo assured, they most certainly would be utilised in that regard.
Thramas Crusade
Following the victory of the Drop Site Massacre, Horus called a meeting of the Primarchs of 8 of the Traitor Legions (minus the participation of the Alpha Legion's Primarch Alpharius) aboard his flagship, the Vengeful Spirit. Five of the Primarchs, including four who had fought at Istvaan V, met in person, including Horus, Fulgrim, Angron, Mortarion and Lorgar. Three appeared through the use of hololithic emitters that transmitted their signals through the Warp, including Perturabo, Night Haunter and Magnus the Red, who had only recently joined the Traitors after the Scouring of Prospero when the broken remains of his XVth Legion had been transported by Tzeentch into the Eye of Terror to the Planet of the Sorcerers. The Thousand Sons, bitter at what they perceived as their betrayal by the Emperor, now willingly became the ninthTraitor Legion. The council of Traitor Primarchs made their plans for the next step in their war against the Emperor and then each Legion went its way according to its assigned role. The Night Haunter's fleet had already departed, bound for the planet of Tsagualsa, a remote world in the Eastern Fringe that lay shrouded in the shadow of a great asteroid belt. From there, the Night Lords' terror troops would begin a campaign of genocide against the Imperial strongholds of Heroldar and Thramas, star systems that, if not taken, would leave the flanks of the Warmaster's strike on Terra vulnerable to attack. This campaign would also delay the Dark Angels Legion from reinforcing the Loyalists. The Thramas System was of particular importance, as it comprised a number of Mechanicum Forge Worlds whose loyalty was still to the Emperor.
This bitterly contested campaign, known as the Thramas Crusade, dragged on for nearly three standard years. In an attempt to sway his brother Lion El'Jonson to Horus' cause, the Night Haunter left a deep-void beacon in the patrol path of one of the Dark Angels' outrider vessels. The beacon was set to transmit coordinates in advance, so that the two Primarchs could meet and parley on the planet of Tsagualsa. Night Haunter wanted to break his former brother either mentally, physically or both to obtain his objectives. The Primarchs were accompanied by two warriors from their personal Honour Guards to the parley. The meeting began amicably enough between the two as they conversed with relative civility. This amity lasted only until the Night Haunter slandered El'Jonson, and in return the Lion struck his former brother. This melee further degenerated into an all-out brawl between the two sides. As the Night Haunter strangled the life out of El'Jonson, one of the Dark Angels Honour Guardsmen ran his sword through the Night Haunter's back, saving his Primarch's life. Eventually both Legions sent reinforcements in response to this incident. Each side dragged away their respective Primarchs from the scene of the combat. Both Primarchs survived this brutal confrontation and went on to continue the contest between their Legions for control of the Aegis Sub-sector.
When next they fought, the Dark Angels executed a meticulously planned ambush on the Night Lords' fleet while it was in transit across the sub-sector that saw the back of the Night Lords Legion broken and their Primarch mortally wounded after having faced his brother El'Jonson once again in mortal combat. Thanks to the skilled coordination and superb execution by the Lion, the Night Lords fleet was devastated, losing dozens of capital ships and approximately one-quarter of their Legion fleet to the Dark Angels' assault. Unfortunately, the remainder of the Night Lords fleet fled the Dark Angels' wrath, while the recently recovered Night Haunter, First Captain Sevatar and the elite Night Lords Atramentar Terminators led a desperate boarding assault action upon the Dark Angels' flagship Invincible Reason. This resulted in the death of all but a dozen of the Atramentar and the capture of Sevatar and the remaining survivors. Konrad Curze fled El'Jonson's wrath, evading the Dark Angels for months, stalking the shadows within the bowels of the mighty capital ship. Somehow, the remaining Night Lords managed to affect their escape and fled into the void.
Return to Caliban
Jonson, wracked with grief over the inability of his Dark Angels to reach Terra in time to prevent the fall of the Emperor during the Siege of Terra at the end of the Horus Heresy, returned to Caliban to reinforce his Dark Angels and recover from the shock of the Heresy. When the starships arrived in Calibanite orbit, they were fired upon by a savage salvo of defensive fire from the surface. The fleet pulled back and Jonson tried to find out what was happening. He learned from a merchant ship that Luther had poisoned the minds of the Space Marine garrison on the world and taken control. It could only be seen by Jonson as the taint of Chaos. Jonson's fury was let loose and the planet suffered. He ordered a systematic orbital bombardment of the planet, to rid the world of Chaos for all time.
The planet burned and its defences were whittled down to nothing. Jonson led his forces personally against the defenders who had taken refuge in the Order's Fortress-Monastery. Jonson found Luther and saw him to be completely corrupted by Chaos, almost nothing of his old friend had survived. Luther, now a Chaos Champion, had been elevated to a strength equal to that of Jonson by the Chaos Gods and the two met in a combat the likes of which would not be seen again. They levelled the monastery around them but the planet was also taking a heavy toll. The bombardment began to crack the surface of the planet, the Dark Angels in orbit unable to see the damage they were doing.
Final Battle
The battle between Luther and Jonson was titanic, but ended with a psychic attack which appeared to mortally wound Jonson. Luther then realised what he had done, as if a veil of deceit had been lifted from in front of his eyes. He fell to the floor, unwilling to fight any more, but it was too late for Jonson. The enraged Ruinous Powers of Chaos realised they had lost again, and sent a massive Warp storm to wrack the surface of the planet. It then broke apart under the strain, destroyed all but for the monastery of the Order which had been protected by potent defensive force-fields. When the Dark Angels descended to what remained of Caliban, little more than an asteroid upon which stood the Order's fortress-monastery, they searched the ruins and found Luther mumbling that Jonson had been taken by the Watchers in the Dark and would return one day and forgive Luther for his sins. The Dark Angels could not find any trace of their Primarch. The rest of the Dark Angels who had been converted by Luther to the worship of Chaos were sucked into the Warp and scattered across the galaxy. From that time forward they were named the Fallen Angels or simply the Fallen.
Fate of the Lion
During his duel with Luther on Caliban, Lion El'Jonson suffered a severe psychic blow which left him mortally wounded. He was then briefly pulled into the raging Warp vortex. Luther survived the contest, but proved mentally unhinged and was taken prisoner by the Dark Angels. He was placed into a stasis cell deep within the bowels of The Rock (the remains of the Order's mightiest fortress-monastery and all that was left of their world Caliban), to contemplate his crimes against the Chapter's Primarch, his continued existence a secret known only to each successive Supreme Grand Master of the Dark Angels, whose cell can only be accessed through the use of the Sword of Secrets, the Chapter artefact which is the mark of the Supreme Grand Master's office. Jonson, who had been briefly spirited away into the Warp during the destruction of Caliban, eventually emerged and was taken into a hidden and unreachable chamber deep within the heart of The Rock by the Watchers in the Dark and placed into stasis to keep him alive. This is a secret known only to the Emperor of Mankind Himself who, despite his living death, still sees all upon the Golden Throne. Even the Supreme Grand Master of the Chapter is not privy to this last and greatest secret of the Dark Angels. Some amongst the Dark Angels whisper that one day the Lion will return to lead one final Crusade intended to achieve the Dark Angels' greatest victory for Mankind and finally bring justice and redemption to the remaining Fallen Angels. None know that this legend has more truth to it than they realize, or that their lost Primarch now sleeps peacefully at the heart of their own fortress-monastery.
- Lion Helm - The Lion Helm is a sacred object of the Dark Angels Space Marine Chapter. It is said to have been worn by Primarch Lion El'Jonson and takes the form of a winged Mark VII Space Marine Power Armour helmet. The helm is carried by a Watcher in the Dark. Built into the helmet is a protective force field which can be activated even when the helm is not being worn. The Lion Helmet is currently worn by Supreme Grand Master Azrael.
- Lion Sword - The Lion Sword is the great sword of the Primarch of the Dark Angels, Lion El'Jonson. The sword was broken in antiquity and lost. It is now rumoured to be carried by the mysterious Fallen Angel Cypher who seeks to reforge it and present it to the Emperor of Mankind, obtaining absolution and forgiveness for all of the Fallen who wish it.
- Citadel Journal 47, "Angels of Death", pp. 21–25
- Citadel Journal 37, "Tacticus Dark Angels", pp. 78–85
- Codex: Angels of Death (2nd Edition)
- Codex: Chaos Space Marines (3rd Edition, 1st Codex)
- Codex: Dark Angels (6th Edition)
- Codex: Dark Angels (4th Edition)
- Codex: Dark Angels (3rd Edition)
- Codex: Space Marines (5th Edition)
- Codex: Space Marines (4th Edition)
- Codex: Ultramarines (2nd Edition)
- Deathwatch: Core Rulebook (RPG), pp. 44–46, 197
- Deathwatch: Rites of Battle (RPG), p. 236
- Deathwatch: First Founding (RPG), pp. 46–53
- Deathwing: Rules & Mission (1st Edition)
- Hammer & Bolter 17 & 18, "The Lion" (Novella) Parts 1 and 2 by Gav Thorpe
- Horus Heresy: Collected Visions
- Horus Heresy Vol. 1: Visions of War, pp. 13, 273, 278-279
- Index Astartes I, "The Unforgiven," pp. 4, 13, 18-23
- Index Astartes II, "For the Emperor!: Space Marine Chaplains," pp. 19, 56, 58-59
- Warhammer 40,000 Rulebook (6th Edition)
- Descent of Angels (Novel) by Mitchel Scalon
- Fallen Angels (Novel) by Mike Lee
- Age of Darkness (Anthology) edited by Christian Dunn, "Savage Weapons" by Aaron Dembski-Bowden
- Shadows of Treachery (Anthology), Edited by Christian Dunn & Nick Kyme, "Prince of Crows" by Aaron Dembski-Bowden
- The Primarchs (Anthology), "The Lion," (Short Story) by Gav Thorpe
- Angels of Darkness (Novel) by Gav Thorpe
|Horus • Leman Russ • Lost Primarchs • Ferrus Manus • Fulgrim • Vulkan • Rogal Dorn • Roboute Guilliman • Magnus the Red • Sanguinius •</aspan> Lion El'Jonson • Perturabo • Mortarion • Lorgar • Jaghatai Khan • Konrad Curze • Angron • Corvus Corax • Alpharius Omegon


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From May 2012 lone parents in England will be required to claim Jobseeker's Allowance once their youngest child reaches 5 years of age, a lowering of the threshold from the previous 7 years of age.
This means that lone parents who previously did not have to actively look for work or be available for work must now prove that they are trying to get back into the workplace. However, while we know that most single parents want to be able to work and provide for their children, they do have additional challenges to overcome when it comes to getting back into work.
Some people may be frightened into applying for unsuitable roles and cope with inadequate childcare as many do not have access to wraparound care facilities especially once their child reaches secondary school or during the school holidays.
When the threshold was lowered from 12 to 7 years a couple of years back we did some research into how members were feeling about the changes to benefits - here are some of their comments:
Kelli says: I'm a single mum whose child starts school this august, it was always my intention to go back to work once he had started school. However it's very easy to say that, the hard part is finding a job.
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If you want to talk things through or share your anxieties, do talk it through with family on friends, and talk to other single parents in the Coffee House Single Parents board or Finance and Entitlements board.
Life as a single parent can be very stressful as it is, so if you think this might be tipping you over the edge, please also see a GP to discuss how you feel. Many mums and dads suffer from anxiety and depression for a time when their children are relatively young, and it is never a sign of weakness to talk about the effects that such stresses might be causing.
If your health or the health of your children is affecting your search for work, please also talk to Jobcentre Plus about your circumstances.
If you need specific financial or practical support to help you into work they should also be able to help you.
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Netmums has called on the government to make sure that parents are supported into work, rather than forced into situations which create instability and stress for their young children.
Please let us know if you are not getting that support, and we will also pass on your information to Gingerbread who are continuing to campaign actively on behalf of single parents.
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Friday, 7 December 2012
From a self-description of a university in Alberta:
"MacEwan is a vibrant, innovative institution focused on comprehensive student learning."
Posted on 12/07/2012 6:21 AM by Hugh Fitzgerald
7 Dec 2012
Sacka Jew Ayah
Had you allowed a freefall into the 6th Circle a description of the University's Coat of Arms would have informed that the
"circle is a symbol of the never-ending process of learning and the principle of inclusiveness. The circle also represents the medicine wheel, an important symbol of the earliest inhabitants of the area, the First Nations peoples."
Amoebas dissed again.
You're welcome.
7 Dec 2012
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No doubt delivers student-centric solutions.
9 Dec 2012
For inquiring minds, a sacka Jew ayah is the equalivant of three bagsa Bedouin fazzou.
11 Dec 2012
Growing The American Pi
While there have been real and imagined attempts*to pass legislation making pi equal three, Marco Rubio, while speaking at the Jack Kemp Foundation Dinner & Circle Jerk (not to be confused with the Republican post-election circular firing squads), managed to used the word, "vibrant" three times in four square sentences:
"The existence of a large and vibrant American middle class, that goes to the very essence of America's exceptional identity. See, every country in the world has rich people. But only a few places have achieved a vibrant and stable middle class. And in the history of the world, none has been more vibrant and more stable than the great American middle class."
Btw., Republican "outreach" to the Lebensraum For La Raza Reconquista Hispanic "community" has little more prospect for success than an Israeli effort to constructively engage the Hamas Right-Of-Returners. Regarding the latter, I watched Fareed Zakaria gush in recent weeks on CNN that if Israel took steps to ensure the prosperity of Gaza, it could enjoy the same sort of peace which now exists between Israel and the West Bank "Palestinians." I later found the transcript online but the devil take me if could find it again tonight.
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The Apple iPhone 6s is successor to the iPhone 6, and as such it retains the same design and outwards appearance, but it does introduce some significant changes on the inside. The main highlight of the iPhone 6s is said to be the adoption of Force Touch technology that would allow additional functionality via more forceful taps on the display as opposed to a lighter tap. Apple is expected to upgrade the camera to a 12-megapixel main shooter with 4K video capabilities on the iPhone 6s. The phone is also expected to ship with the new Apple A9 system chip and a Gobi modem that should double up theoretical download speeds, while internal storage is said to remain at the same 16/64/128GB options.Read more
This 2015 installment in the Note series sports a thinner design with glass back and stronger metal frame. It also adds dual-standard wireless charging and more RAM. Other features of this high-end Android phone are similar, including quad-HD 5.7-inch screen, 16-megapixel camera, stylus, and heart rate monitor.Read more
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In short, I need a plugin that performs the function of Member Only 1.1.6, which restricts navigation-bar items for logged-in users only, but takes it a step further, only allowing access of specific pages to specific users.
For instance, assume you have a website with the following navigation bar:
About Us - Our Services - Contact Us - Client Login
With Members Only 1.1.6, once the user logs in via the Client Login widget above (Theme My Login), the following navigation bar is visible:
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That's excellent, but I need to provide individual access to specific control panels containing proprietary information for SPECIFIC users.
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Our hotel is located on the service road of Interstate 25 at exit 188A * Denver, CO - 270 miles * Salt Lake City, UT - 410 miles * Billings, MT - 278 miles Travelers may want to visit the new Historic Trails Interpretive Center in Casper.
I felt for the money it work out for us very well. . The Breakfast was excellent with a lot of choices. it was clean and comfortable. I would stay there again. The location and the parking
Friendly staff Dirty. Smelled like smoke
The staff The room was filthy (carpet was dirty, room was non smoking, but you could cut the smoke smell with a knife. Limited eating facilities in the are. Too many pets on premises. The walls between rooms were paper thin.


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Eugene Ducolos, currently a student at Appalachian State University, has cleverly combined the bike rack and the park bench. He's working with Perennial Wood, a new material manufactured in the United States and impervious to rot, decay, and other moisture related problems. The design saves space and maximizes functionality. [PSFK]
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Things have changed a bit with this show. Unfortunately the release of my newest project "BudahJade" has be pushed back a few weeks. So, ths is no longer a release show. We are still gonna party to some good music though! I hope you can make it down. Thanks for all the support! Jah bless. White Rabbit and Poetry Ink Present Call Me Ladro Side Pony E & DAE Chevy Chev 9/7/12 9:00 pm $5
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I'm having some trouble with custom taxonomies. Here's the code I use to register them:
register_taxonomy('problem_type', 'attachment', array(
'hierarchical' => false,
'label' => __('Problem Type'),
'query_var' => 'problem_type',
'rewrite' => array('slug' => 'problem-type'),
register_taxonomy('problem_difficulty', 'attachment', array(
'hierarchical' => false,
'label' => __('Problem Difficulty'),
'query_var' => 'problem_difficulty',
'rewrite' => array('slug' => 'problem-difficulty'),
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<?php wp_tag_cloud(array('taxonomy' => 'problem_type', 'format' => 'list')); ?>
<?php wp_tag_cloud(array('taxonomy' => 'problem_difficulty', 'format' => 'list')); ?>
I do get a list, but the link is something like "http://www.sitename.org/?problem_type=foo" instead of the nice URL I expected like "http://www.sitename.org/problem-type/foo/". Also the URL doesn't work at all. It just my site's homepage; the posts aren't even filtered or anything.
a) How do I get URL rewriting working with custom taxonomies?
b) How do I actually get a list of matching objects?
c) Is it OK that I'm using them for attachments or is that broken?
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I want to replace my 10yo Dlink Router. Will Airport Express BS work with windows 7 32bit on laptop, and Fusion on Mac Mini running Lion 10.7.5
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Windows 7 is able to configure the base station as well as Lion. Now in Fusion, if Lion has a connection, Fusion will install the appropriate network driver into 7 for the virtual machine to get internet access. Windows7 should have no issues seeing or working with the Express, in a VM or a physical machine...
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Beta Tech - Centura College7500 Two Notch Road Columbia, South Carolina U.S.A.
Beta Tech - Centura College --School Is A TOTAL RIP-OFF Put in debt of $13,000 in student loans! They are not accredited! They Suck!! Columbia South Carolina
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After I signed for the student loans and started the program I found out they were all lies. By this time, I could not back out of the loans.
Financial Aid told me that I qualify for a pell grant. About two months later, the contacted me and stated they made a keying error and that I did not get the pell grant and I needed to get another loan. They also told me if I were to drop out I will still have to pay the loan back in full.
Beta Tech assured us that they program was better then any other school in the area and that employers pick their students over the others. Come to find out employers don't even acknowleged the certification.
Also, other schools won't even accept the so-call credits. I was promise that I will be able to transfer with these credits. I was also promise that they were accredited, which they are not! I was promise job placement, which till this day (Since Sept07) I have not worked a day as a Medical Assistant.
The teachers there was horrible. Tyhe didn't care about the students or the program.
I am now up to about $13,000.00 in student loans and a certification that is useless. I searching now to see if I can take legal action against this school.
Camden, South Carolina
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1981 – Born on July 21st in Redmond, Washington. American singer-songwriter and an American Idol runner up.
1986 – He started singing at the age of 5.
1998 – He started beat-boxing at the age of 17.
2007 – He placed first runner-up during the 6th season of American Idol.
– Released his albums, "Blake Lewis – EP" and "A.D.D. (Audio Day Dream)".


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A Houseworks innovation has fine-tuned the concept of battery-operated dollhouse lighting!
This well designed, high-quality brass/metal fixture has a smaller battery case which unscrews to access a smaller battery. Everything has been made even easier because the base is magnetized!
To install, just glue the tiny metal back plate where you want the fixture and the magnet on the light will keep it in place. The magnets are strong enough to hold but light enough to remove to operate the on/off switch or change the battery. No more fumbling with a permanently installed tiny fixture! The 3V lithium battery which is included is replaceable with #2300. The 3V lithium battery will last approximately 50 hours. The white LED is not replaceable but will burn for about 4,000 hours and put out much less heat than traditional bulbs. The Milton Carriage Lamp has no panes.
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Perfection eludes Yusmeiro Petit, but still a 'beautiful' night
Yusmeiro Petit's Perfect Game-bid broken up with two outs in ninth
Yusmeiro Petit raises his arms in jubilation after throwing a complete game, one-hitter on Friday. (USA TODAY IMAGES)
Yusmeiro Petit reacts to Eric Chavez's hit in the ninth inning that was nearly caught by Hunter Pence. (USA TODAY IMAGES)
SAN FRANCISCO – Perfection can be interrupted at any moment.
Something curious happens, though, when a fat thumb strikes the key on the final note, after 26 outs and two strikes, when the crowd is already at full boil, when disbelief already reached the lip and began to cascade and crash into expectations.
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But when Yusmeiro Petit lost his perfect game at the last possible moment in the ninth inning Friday night, when Arizona Diamondbacks pinch hitter Eric Chavez placed a two-out, two-strike single inches in front of right fielder Hunter Pence, the Giants' journeyman right-hander did not go over the edge.
He reset himself, retired the next batter and thrust both arms in the air to acknowledge his maker for what he did accomplish: his first major league shutout -- a 95-pitch, one-hit masterpiece, in a 3-0 victory Friday night that might not be logged in the record books but was nonetheless indelible to the sellout crowd that took in the sight at Third and King.
Petit did not become the 24th pitcher in major league history to throw a perfect game. Instead, by a margin of one strike and maybe six inches, he became the 12th pitcher to get within one out of perfection and lose it.
It's a more exclusive club, when you think about it. Even if nobody wants to wear the jacket. And it was the second brush with Tantalus this season; Texas' Yu Darvish also lost a perfect game with two outs in the ninth.
So much goes into any performance like this. There was Juan Perez's diving catch in the sixth inning, just after manager Bruce Bochy inserted him for defense. There was Pence scoring all three runs, including a homer in the eighth.
Mostly, there was Petit, mixing four pitches and throwing them all for strikes – not even getting to a three-ball count until two outs in the eighth.
When you distilled it all to the final batter, though, it came down to three essential elements.
No, not the 89 mph fastball that Petit threw on the outside corner that Chavez managed to stay through. It's the pitch before that – the 2-2 curveball – that might have made all the difference.
"I never thought he'd let it go, that pitch," catcher Hector Sanchez said. "It's a great at-bat."
Petit started it with two balls, then two fastballs for called strikes. Chavez was measuring the jabs and looking for an opening. He expected the right-hander would try one big hook.
"The 2-2 curveball in the dirt was probably the biggest pitch of the at-bat and I laid off," Chavez said. "I think that's what he was getting other guys to swing at.
"Eventually, I thought he was going to go with the curveball. You just don't know at what count. On the 3-2 pitch, there was a little bit, in the back of my mind, that he was going to go back to it again, but he didn't."
What did Petit think?
"What surprised me is how he didn't swing," he said, calling the 3-2 fastball that followed "the pitch I wanted to throw."
Chavez predicted that much.
"In that at-bat, I bet you he'd say he didn't miss any of his pitches," the former A's All-Star third baseman said.
Hunter Pence stood in right field and beamed at what surrounded him. Here was another sellout crowd, suddenly imbued with energy as if the last three months had never happened. It wasn't a playoff race. But there was energy and hope again.
He already had saved one no-hitter this season. Back on July 13, his diving catch of Alexi Amarista's sinking line drive ended the eighth inning and preserved a no-hit bid that Tim Lincecum eventually would see through.
He had a similar chance on a similar play. Chavez's line drive was dying, and he was running.
"I said this, honestly, to teammates: When it was hit, it was like one of those dreams where you just couldn't run fast enough," Pence said. "I gave it my best effort. It just wasn't enough."
The ball short-hopped maybe a foot in front of Pence's glove as he dived for it. Hope drained out from the stands.
Pence scored all three runs in the game and hit a home run in the eighth inning – putting him one away from becoming the first Giant with 20 homers and 20 steals since Barry Bonds in 1998.
He's been the most consistent producer for the Giants all season, and he'll probably be the only National League player to start 162 games.
It wasn't a dream ending, even if it felt like one. But the entire night reinforced Pence's belief in a simple tenet of this game:
"It's nights like this that prove it: Every time you come to the park, there's an opportunity for something special to happen," he said. "And it did tonight."
Giants manager Bruce Bochy is forever studying his players, and not just to gauge their fastball velocity or their bat speed.
As former manager Felipe Alou often said, "It is the man you want to see."
So Bochy watched Petit after Chavez's hit. He had a hunch the 29-year-old, moments after clapping his hands to his head, would take a leaf blower to disappointment and scatter it away.
He was right. Petit threw two more pitches and got the ground ball to third base he needed to finish the complete game – just the second by a Giant this season, including Lincecum's no-hitter.
He did it on 95 pitches. The last Giant to throw a nine-inning complete game with fewer pitches was Mark Portugal in 1994.
There are very few Giants, though, who have experienced the agony of getting One Out Away. In 1990, Scott Garrelts needed one more when Paul O'Neill singled off him to break up a no-hitter. And in 1914, Jeff Tesreau probably had to console himself with a draught of laudanum after Joe Kelly broke up his no-hit bid with two outs in the ninth.
Petit did not appear numb. He just went back to work.
"To get this close, it breaks your heart a little," Bochy said. "It tells you about his makeup. He didn't let it bother him."
Petit wasn't supposed to be starting games for the Giants this season. He only started once last year, and that's when the club was resting its rotation for the playoffs. Prior to that, he hadn't started a big league game since 2009 with the Arizona Diamondbacks.
Maybe that's why he didn't curse fate. He still had a chance to stand on the highest pedestal he'd ever reached in his baseball life.
"The last two outs, I said, `Well, it could go either way,'" Petit said through translator Jose Alguacil. "I just have to throw a good pitch.
"I thanked God for everything that happened right there. Even when he got the hit, I gave thanks. I'm very blessed. … I didn't feel nervous at all. I feel all the crowd is behind me and that gave me strength.
"First complete game in the big leagues, and I feel the same as if I'd thrown the no-hitter."
"Just a beautiful game," Bochy said. "Just a tremendous display of pitching. I couldn't be happier for him. He's fought his way to stay up here. He sent a tremendous message that this is where he belongs and this is where he should be pitching."
The manager kept going back to that same word: "beautiful."
Fans fall in love hardest and deepest with those players to whom they can most relate. Exalted though it might be, it's hard to relate to perfection.
Anyone can stand next to beauty and admire it. And on an unseasonably warm Friday night, Yusmeiro Petit had everyone's admiration.


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MRA Video.com aka Girls Gone WildP.O. Box 9231 Sylmar, California U.S.A.
MRA Video.com aka Girls Gone Wild mailed unwanted video's with bad email address on mailing label and phone # with only recordings to call Sylmar California
FOX 6 investigative reporter John Mattes first broke the story how Girls Gone Wild was marketing videos for only $9.99 consumers found the company tacking on huge fees. Thousands of consumers called it a rip-off on ripoffreport. After our story aired an attorney sued calling it deceptive advertising. Video part 1 Video part 2
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Bad News: We received $50 monthly charges and videos for months with no means to cancel. Phone # we were given by our credit card company was repetitive recordings including the customer service line. Canceled credit card and requested AMEX not to do business with clients who were this misleading. Faxed copies of all the Rip Off Reports to AMEX also.
Good News: I found them. Someone at their company wrote an ugly response back to one of the Rip Off Reports and I sent an email to their email address webcancel@girlsgonewild today telling them my card is cancelled and not to continue sending videos.
Great News: I received an email from firstname.lastname@example.com (customer service) this same day telling me my subscription has been cancelled and to call them at 323-965-8710 if I have any further questions.
In closing: What was to have been a gift to my son turned into a nightmare. The mailing labels on the videos say their customer service is mravideo.com which is a bad email address. Proper information thru their mailing distribution center would prevent many upset clients by providing proper data for contacting the Girls Gone Wild owners. Without the web, I would never have found them. There are many people who will never find them to cancel their subscriptions until they provide proper information with the videos through the mail. Does this qualify them as rip offs? You be the judge. My order is cancelled!
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Complaint Review: Niagara Electronics
Niagara Electronics7116 McLeod Rd Niagara Falls, Ontario Canada
Niagara Electronics Niagara Electronics - 50 to reck my computer system Niagara Falls Ontario
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co-op students work there and do a substandard job on my computer, they charge me 50 to reck my computer system. they keep trying to sell me antivirus also, strong upsales of crap i dont want or need!
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- Creating PDFs from web pages, Office files, and Creative Suite files
- Signing PDFs with a digital signature
- Creating interactive forms
- Annotating PDFs with comments
- Collaborating with others using PDF reviews
- Making scanned documents searchable with OCR
- Preparing documents for print with print production tools
- Automating routine tasks with Actions
- Securing PDFs with encryption and password-protection
- Removing sensitive content with the Redaction feature
- Sharing PDFs
- Using the new features in Reader X and Acrobat.com
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Let's say that you get a PDF like this, it's a nondisclosure agreement, and toward the end of it you'll see that there is this digital signature field. How are you supposed to sign this if you don't really have a digital signature? What you need is a digital ID, and if you don't have one, what's really cool is that Acrobat will just step you through it to create one on the fly the first time that you encounter one of these digital signature fields. And once you have a digital ID, it's saved on your computer, and you'll be using that over and over. Every time you need to click inside of a digital signature field or send somebody a certificate-based protection, you'll be using the same ID over and over again.
And it's protected because it's on your computer, which obviously you can only get to if you know the password to log on to your computer, and it has its own password, which you make up and apply at the same time that you create a digital ID. So let's see how we can create one on the fly right here by clicking inside this signature field. I am going to zoom in a bit with Command+Plus or Ctrl+Plus, and I am just going to click right inside here. Add Digital ID. Answer this question: I want to sign this document using--if you have a digital ID already you can choose that, because then it's going to search for one. Or if you want, you can create a new digital ID.
So we are going to create a new digital ID. Next. What kind, and where would you like to store it. It's called a self-signed digital ID. Because there's another kind of digital ID that can get assigned to you from a server-based solution, what we're doing here is called self-signed. We're just going to select the very first one, the PKCS#12. Don't ask me what that means. Now we need to enter our identity information. When we generate the certificate, this information will be included.
So what is your actual full name? What is your organizational unit? I guess this would mean "marketing," or the location that you are at. I am just going to leave this blank. If you want to include your company, which I usually do, you would put it in here, so I'm going to say, Two Trees Olive Oil. There we go, and I'll change my name to Olivia Napolitano. There we go.
Country/Region and then Enable Unicode Support, I am just going to leave that as is for now, and then click Next. Now enter a file location and a password for your new digital ID file. You are going to need this password the next time you use it, so make sure it's something that you're going to remember. And of course, to keep it secure, you want it to be something that people will not be able to guess. So it shouldn't be your name, or your dog's name. And then also where do you going to save it. Now it's going to save it in this kind of hidden folder called AppData\Roaming\Adobe, and so on.
You can just leave it there because the next time that you need to use the digital ID, that will be the first place that Acrobat looks, right after you type in your password. And when you need to export it to send to somebody, it will look there. But if you're like me, that you actually would like to know where it is, so that you can back it up, and you can copy down to another computer to use there, you can change the location and save it in some other kind of secure folder or innocuous folder on your hard drive. I'll just leave it as is and then the password I'll use--again, we have our password rater here to let us know if it's a strong password or a weak password. So if I type 123, So we'll try 123hello, which is medium, and let's type 321,123,456. It doesn't like any of those.
that's a fairly weak password. You know what the best thing is a combination of uppercase, lowercase, numbers, and letters. So I'll say "123!hello." That's fine. So just separating those two parts with an exclamation point made it a much stronger password, harder for software programmers who specialize in this kind of thing for them to crack.
Now we have to remember that. That was 123!hello and then click Finish. The next time you click inside of a digital signature file, this will pop up automatically. It will assume that you want to sign-on as Olivia. And if you had created other ones they would appear here, or you could choose a new ID. You have to remember your password, 123!hello, and then you can just click Sign. Now the appearance is standard text, so it's your name and notice it also has digitally signed by Olivia.
It has more information, your e-mail address that kind of thing, but you could also say Create New Appearance, and you can import a graphic. So a really cool thing is to actually scan your signature, and then you can import that signature as a graphic. So your signature appears there. It's still is going to be appearing next to this information like your Name and Date and Location and so on, but it will look a lower fancier than these letters. Let's go back to Appearance. We want Standard Text, Olivia. And I'll click Sign, and then you want to save it as NDA-withsigfields-signed. There we go.
This is digitally signed, and you can see that now there is a new panel on the left that tells you that it is signed and all signatures are valid. That's the Signature panel, signed by Olivia Napolitano, and so you just send this back to the person, and that is how you create your digital ID, and that's saved on your computer. Pretty simple.


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'There's something evil emanating form Boston Harbor in this supernatural thriller, and we aren't talking about the smell at low tide. The plot features enough greed, ambition, and self-deception to stock a thriller of the more mundane variety. But on top of that, the author builds a ghost story to manipulate the protagonists beyond where they are prepared to manipulate one another.
A Yankee tycoon has begun to build a gambling casino on a private island in Boston Harbor. When workers unearth puzzling stone structures, progress is halted until an archaeologist can render a verdict. The tycoon calls Peter Van Zandt, a scholar who has suffered both professional and personal disaster of late. Mourning the loss of his wife and struggling to raise their small son alone, Peter has seen his judgment falter and his reputation skid. Working feverishly on the island, he becomes convinced that he has discovered a Celtic ritual circle of world-shaking significance. As he falls under the stones' power, he is haunted by spooky visions mingling the sanguinary history of the site with ghostly images of his wife. Both Peter's sanity and the life of his son hang on his obsession. . .
This is a story stripped for action, and action is what it delivers.' --The Boston Globe
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Alvin Francis Poussaint
Alvin Francis Poussaint (born May 15, 1934 in New York City) is a professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and the author of numerous books on child psychiatry, with a particular focus on the raising of African-American children.
Poussaint is a Haitian-American, born to Haitian immigrants in New York City's East Harlem neighborhood. He graduated from Stuyvesant High School in 1952.[1] As a youth, he took ill with rheumatic fever, which left him unable to engage in the physical activities of his peers. He graduated from Columbia University in 1956 and earned an M.D. from Cornell University in 1960. Poussaint completed postgraduate training at the University of California, Los Angeles, where he studied psychopharmacology and served as chief resident in psychiatry.
After his initial academic accomplishments, Poussaint took part in the civil rights movement, which solidified his notion that racism resides at the core of mental health problems in the black community. Later in life, Poussaint served as a consultant for The Cosby Show and currently combines an advocacy for responsible media programming with his academic work.
Along with Bill Cosby he co-authored the 2007 book Come On, People: On the Path from Victims to Victors.
- ^ "The HistoryMakers Video Oral History Interview with Alvin F. Poussaint". Retrieved 2007-10-31.
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- Profile at Encyclopædia Britannica's Guide to Black History
- Alvin Poussaint's oral history video excerpts at The National Visionary Leadership Project
- Harvard Medical School Biography
- Appearances on C-SPAN
- 1934 births
- Living people
- American academics
- American psychiatrists
- American non-fiction writers
- American family and parenting writers
- American writers of Haitian descent
- Harvard Medical School faculty
- Columbia University alumni
- University of California, Los Angeles alumni
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Energy for Tomorrow® power sources
Wind turbines
Energy from moving air is converted into electrical energy when the wind turns blades that are connected to an electric generator.
Biomass decomposition in landfills produces methane which is captured, compressed and burned as a fuel to make electricity.
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Energy from the sun is converted to electric energy by photovoltaic cells.
Energy for Tomorrow 2015
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- Biomass/Landfill gas 42%
- Solar 1%
- Wind 57%
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- Renewable 5.6%
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Marquis Industrial, Saskatoon
|Marquis Industrial
|Coordinates: 52°11′33″N 106°40′53″W / 52.19250°N 106.68139°WCoordinates: 52°11′33″N 106°40′53″W / 52.19250°N 106.68139°W
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|North Industrial SDA
|Marquis Industrial
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|Saskatoon City Council
|Time zone
|List of neighbourhoods in Saskatoon
Marquis Industrial is an industrial park located in the North Industrial SDA Suburban Development Area of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. Industrial parks are usually located close to transport facilities, especially where more than one transport modalities coincide. Sk Hwy 11, and Sk Hwy 12 are all accessed directly from Marquis Industrial. The Saskatoon John G. Diefenbaker International Airport is west of the Sk Hwy 11 Sk Hwy 12 concurrency along Idylwyld Drive.
The land was annexed from the rural municipality of Corman Park between 1975 and 1984 and 1990-1994. In 2005 land was annexed for Akzo (Marquis Industrial).[1] The Marquis Industrial subdivision is along two major trucking routes. Sk Hwy 11 to Prince Albert via Warman, and Sk Hwy 12 to Blaine Lake via Martensville mark the western boundary. Commercial and industrial enterprises along both sides of 71st Street are the northern perimeter of the industrial park.
From the 1980s until recently, the portion of Marquis Industrial east of the rail line and north of the Silverwood Heights community was demarcated as Silverwood Industrial.
The Marquis Industrial park is a mix of commercial and industrial concerns. Merlin-Ford Lincoln is a car dealership located in the Marquis Industrial area and has not relocated to the auto mall in the Stonegate subdivision. Cover-all Building Systems, Case-New Holland agricultural machinery manufacturer, Peavey Mart, Maple Leaf pork processing facility, Akzo Nobel Chemicals Ltd., Beachcomber Hot Tubs, Centennial Plumbing and Heating are a few of the Marquis Industrial businesses. The Saskatoon Correctional Centre also is located in the Marquis Industrial park. NORAC Systems International Inc. opened their 2.87-acre (11,600 m2) land, $2.5-million industrial plant in 2007.[2]
In the Marquis Industrial subdivision are 1092 full-time employees and 24 part-time employees.[3]
In the Marquis Industrial area, some lots were listed as high as
$290,000 per acre and sold at an average of $294,000 per acre – seven per cent morethan asking price.— 2008[4]
Until recently, the area was primarily accessed via Wanuskewein Road and Miller Avenue from the south and north and 71st Street from the west. An extension of Marquis Drive has now provided the region with its major road access, and in 2013 the city approved plans for a north commuter bridge off the east end of Marquis that will connect to an extension of McOrmond Drive from the east, providing a major commuter link between Marquis Industrial and the residential communities in northeast and east Saskatoon. The bridge is not, however, being considered a truck route.
- ^ "Populace Spring 2006" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2007-12-01. Retrieved 2008-05-12.
- ^ "Business invests ... Saskatoon wins!(SASKATOON UPDATE)(Company overview) Industry & Business Article - Research, News, Information, Contacts, Divisions, Subsidiaries, Business Associations". Retrieved 2008-05-12.
- ^ "Final Report 2005" (PDF). Retrieved 2008-05-12.[dead link]
- ^ Kyle, Cassandra (2008). "City sees industrial land rush Average price for one acre of land ..." (PDF). Saskatoon Regional Economic Development Authorigy Inc. Star Phoenix CanWest Interactive,. Archived from the original (PDF) on July 24, 2008. Retrieved 2008-05-12.
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Book your room at Holiday Inn Terre Haute
Holiday Inn Terre Haute places you within a short walk of Honey Creek Mall and within a mile (2 km) of Wabash Valley Fairgrounds. This 3-star hotel has 225 rooms and welcomes guests with 2 restaurants, an indoor pool, and free in-room WiFi. It's also close to Vigo County Public Library and Swope Art Museum.
This hotel is home to 2 onsite restaurants, perfect for a quick bite to eat. Savor a meal from the comfort of your room with room service, or make new friends over drinks at the bar/lounge. Buffet breakfast is offered for a fee each morning from 6:30 AM to 9:30 AM.
Holiday Inn Terre Haute's 225 air-conditioned rooms provide microwaves, refrigerators, and coffee makers. Guests can stay connected with free WiFi. Other standard amenities include free newspapers, free local calls, and hair dryers.
Property features
Guests staying at Holiday Inn Terre Haute enjoy an indoor pool, a fitness center, and a spa tub. You can take advantage of free parking if you drive. The 24-hour front desk has staff standing by to help with dry cleaning/laundry and securing valuables. Additional amenities include free WiFi in public areas, conference space, and coffee/tea in a common area.
- Free WiFi in rooms and public areas
- Free parking
- Onsite dining
- Indoor pool
Holiday Inn Terre Haute3300 S Highway 41 Terre Haute IN 47802
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Hotel Amenities
In addition to an indoor pool, Holiday Inn Terre Haute provides a spa tub and a fitness center. Dining is available at one of the hotel's 2 restaurants. A bar/lounge is on site where guests can unwind with a drink. High-speed wireless Internet access is complimentary.
Event facilities measuring 5847 square feet (526 square meters) include conference space. This Terre Haute hotel also offers coffee/tea in a common area, complimentary newspapers in the lobby, and laundry facilities. Complimentary self parking is available on site.
- Number of buildings/towers - 1
- Number of restaurants - 2
- Conference space size (feet) - 5847
- Conference space size (meters) - 526
- Number of meeting rooms - 8
- Free WiFi
- Free newspapers in lobby
- Conference space
- Total number of rooms - 225
- 24-hour front desk
- Number of floors - 5
- ATM/banking
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- Fitness facilities
- Bar/lounge
- Coffee/tea in common areas
- Breakfast available (surcharge)
- Laundry facilities
- Safe-deposit box at front desk
- Dry cleaning/laundry service
- Elevator/lift
- Free self parking
- Spa tub
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- Family Hotel
- Indoor pool
- Free Wi-Fi
- Rollaway/extra beds available
- Laundry facilities
- Refrigerator
- Microwave
- Cribs/infant beds (complimentary)
Available in all rooms: Free WiFi
Available in some public areas: Free WiFi
Free self parking
Room Amenities
- Rollaway/extra beds available
- Free WiFi
- Free cribs/infant beds
- Connecting/adjoining rooms available
- Premium TV channels
- Pay movies
- Air conditioning
- Free newspaper
- Free local calls
- Refrigerator
- Coffee/tea maker
- Microwave
- Daily housekeeping
- Private bathroom
- Hair dryer
- Iron/ironing board
- Desk
- Room service (limited hours)
Where to Eat
Buffet breakfasts are available for a surcharge and are served each morning between 6:30 AM and 9:30 AM.
Holiday Inn Terre Haute has 2 restaurants serving breakfast and dinner.
Apple Club of Terre Haute - Onsite restaurant. Guests can enjoy drinks at the bar.
Room service (during limited hours) is available.
Nearby Things to Do
An indoor pool and a spa tub are on site. Other recreational amenities include a fitness center.
- Golfing nearby
To make requests for specific accessibility needs, complete the "Special or Accessibility Requests" section of "Trip Preferences" when you book your hotel.
- Accessible bathroom
- Roll-in shower
- In-room accessibility
Hotel Policies
Check-in time starts at 4 PM
Check-out time is noon
Payment types
- Pets allowed for an extra charge of USD 25 per accommodation, per stay, plus a deposit of USD 25 per stay
- Up to 30 lb
You need to know
Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on hotel policy.
Government-issued photo identification and a credit card or cash deposit are required at check-in for incidental charges.
Special requests are subject to availability upon check-in and may incur additional charges. Special requests cannot be guaranteed.
Optional extras
- Pet deposit: USD 25 per stay
- Pet fee: USD 25 per accommodation, per stay
- Rollaway bed fee: USD 10 per night
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- Holiday Inn Hotel Terre Haute
- Holiday Inn Terre Haute
- Terre Haute Holiday Inn
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The property has connecting/adjoining rooms, which are subject to availability and can be requested by contacting the property using the number on the booking confirmation.


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Here's a potentially huge scandal that's just unfolding now:
An unprecedented leak of more than 11 million documents, called the "Panama Papers", has revealed the hidden financial dealings of some of the world's wealthiest people, as well as 12 current and former world leaders and 128 more politicians and public officials around the world.
More than 200,000 companies, foundations and trusts are contained in the leak of information which came from a little-known but powerful law firm based in Panama called Mossack Fonseca, whose files include the offshore holdings of drug dealers, Mafia members, corrupt politicians and tax evaders – and wrongdoing galore.
The law firm is one of the world's top creators of shell companies, which can be legally used to hide the ownership of assets. The data includes emails, contracts, bank records, property deeds, passport copies and other sensitive information dating from 1977 to as recently as December 2015.
It allows a never-before-seen view inside the offshore world — providing a day-to-day, decade-by-decade look at how dark money flows through the global financial system, breeding crime and stripping national treasuries of tax revenues.
There's 2.6 terrabytes of data released, including Donald Trump's favorite Russian dictator:
The most extraordinary allegations in the archive revolve around Putin's closest associates, including Sergey Roldugin, a close friend since the late 1970s when Putin was a young KGB agent.
Roldugin is a cellist for the St Petersburg orchestra, yet his name appears as the owner of offshore companies that have rights to loans worth hundreds of millions of dollars. A Russian news service report in 2010 disclosed that he owned at least three per cent of Bank Rossiya, Russia's most important bank.
When Mossack Fonseca helped open a bank account in Switzerland on behalf of Roldugin, the application form asked if he had "any relation to PEPs (politically exposed persons) or VIPs."
The one-word answer was, "No." Yet, Roldugin is godfather to Putin's daughter Mariya.
"Roldugin is, by his proximity to a serving head of state, clearly an exposed person," Mark Pieth, a former head of the Swiss justice ministry's organized crime division, told the ICIJ team.
The documents show how in 2008 a company controlled by Roldugin had influence over Russia's largest truck maker Kamaz, joining with several other offshore companies to help another Putin insider acquire majority control of the company. They wanted foreign investment, and German carmaker Daimler later that year bought a 10 per cent stake in Kamaz for $250 million.
The offshore company that connects many Putin loyalists is Sandalwood Continental Limited in the British Virgin Islands. Roldugin was a shareholder until 2012, as was Oleg Gordin, a little-known businessman whom incorporation documents describe as linked to "law enforcement agencies."
The files also mention a company co-owned by Putin friend Yury Kovalchuk, the largest shareholder of Bank Rossiya. Kovalchuk was among those targeted by US sanctions in 2014 in retribution for Russia's invasion of Crimea. Another friend, Arkady Rotenberg, Putin's judo partner and a billionaire construction mogul, openly obtained companies through Mossack Fonseca. The US Treasury Department, when sanctioning him in 2014, suggested that the oligarch acted on behalf of "a senior official."
That was widely believed to mean Putin, whose fingerprints were not on any offshore company.
The fact that Putin is lining the pockets of himself and his cronies is hardly shocking, but having concrete proof of it is a different thing altogether.
Strangely, the web page for the papers run by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, doesn't seem to have any Americans fingered by the papers yet. There's a good chance that could change.


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Marvel Comics presents Captain America: Steve Rogers #1! Steve Rogers returns as the Star-Spangled Avenger for an all-new Marvel Comics series.
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Marvel Comics presents Captain America: Steve Rogers #1! Steve Rogers returns as the Star-Spangled Avenger for an all-new Marvel Comics series.
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All-New Captain America, Superior Iron Man & Thor are smash hits! Exciting and ambitious, these Avengers NOW! titles are bringing seismic changes to some of Earth's Mightiest Heroes, reinvigorating and recharging some of the most popular characters in all of fiction. Today, Marvel is pleased to announce that three of these hit titles have completely sold out and will immediately head back to press! Missed out on these energetic and action-packed comics the first time? Now is your chance to get your hands on ALL-NEW CAPTAIN AMERICA #1,SUPERIOR IRON MAN #1 and THOR #2 when they return to comic shops this December!
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Lots of interesting discussion on this week's episode of the GeekScholars Movie News podcast. The hosts kick things off talking about Robert Redford's upcoming movies, including an adaptation of Bill Bryson's bestseller A Walk in the Woods, and his involvement in Captain America: The Winter Soldier as the head of S.H.I.E.L.D. Hit the jump to hear more about this super fun episode! Continue reading Redford in Captain America 2 and A Walk in the Woods, Saldana as Gamora, Tim Burton's Big Eyes, One Movie for the Rest of Your Life,Tons of Preview Reviews
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The Epix channel is turning into quite a cool little entertainment platform. This weekend, April 27 – 29, you can watch Thor and Captain America for free – as long as you sign up for a 14-day trial and catch the world premiere of a brand new documentary "The Stan Lee Story" about Stan "The Man" Lee (creator of the majority of Marvel's characters) – who did give me permission to still his famous Excelsior! The documentary premiered April 27th, but I'm sure you can catch a replay. You can get Epix on your local cable systems, on the web and they have an app available for Xbox 360 (not sure about PS3.) Hurry and register to catch your free viewing of Captain America and Thor. It still amazes me that one man created all of these amazing characters. Here is a taste of the great one's new documentary.
Stan Lee on Captain America
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Steve Rogers is back as Captain America but when a mysterious figure from his past returns with the Sentinel of Liberty in his crosshairs, deadly secrets will surface—and send shockwaves through the lives of everyone Steve holds dear. An all-new, high octane Captain America series begins here, just in time for the First Avenger's highly anticipated feature film from Marvel Studios.
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I'm in Las Vegas this week attending The Official Convention of The National Association of Theatre Owners (NATO), also known as CinemaCon. This is a week when Hollywood comes together with Theater owners to pat each other on the back and say "Job well done…" We also get a glance at what new technology and concepts will be making it to our local Cinemas in the next year. The exhibit floor opens today. Last night Paramount Pictures brought the stars out for a two-hour presentation of new footage from some of the hot upcoming releases. Due to embargo rules I can't talk about much of what I saw. The two "watch" phrases of the night were "it's a rough cut," and "thank you Celine for letting us use the house that you built for the week…"
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Every week the fine folks at Marvel send over a bunch of images of their hot upcoming books. Starting this week, I'm going to group all the images into this one handy feature called Marvel Weekly. In this first installment we have the cover of Spider-man's Fear Itself Poster, the first five pages of Captain America 615.1 and a couple of Secret Avengers Covers. Enjoy!
Variety is reporting that the man who made Buffy, the Vampire Slayer and the crew of the Serenity legends of sci fi and fantasy, one Joss Whedon, has been named as director of The Avengers.
Following two Iron Man movies and single films featuring The Incredible Hulk, Captain America and The Mighty Thor, The Avengers has Col. Nick Fury bringing the characters together, as The Avengers, to face an alien threat.
The Hollywood Reporter started the rumors swirling a few days ago that Chris Evans was in the lead to become Captain America and now it's been confirmed, Chris Evans is Captain America. He signed a long term deal Marvel that will see him appearing as the Star Spangled hero. He will appear in the main films, as well as the planned Avengers films and will make guest appearances in other Marvel Universe titles. My question is, what happens to Fantastic Four? Does this mean that franchise is dead or will get rebooted? I used to hate the guy, then I saw Sunshine and fell in love with him – he was the best thing about Fantastic Four 2, he really has some acting chops. Everyone thinks this is a great choice but to me he seems too young for the role of Cap.
In one of those rare, leaked free, Pop Culture surprises, Marvel Comics killed off one of it's icons Captain America a few years ago. Not only that, but it's amazing the Death of Steve Rogers has stuck this long and many say the book has been better for it. As a matter of fact Bucky Barnes has become a fan favorite. A story that captured international attention, Captain America #25 polarized shocked audiences by starkly depicting the murder the cultural icon. On that fateful day when shots rang out on the courthouse steps, Cap's greatest enemy—the Red Skull– achieved his greatest ambition—or so it seemed. Since that time, the Marvel Universe has been in chaos, as as the Red Skull has worked towards his true endgame. But now there is a ray of hope in the form of Steve Rogers!
How can Steve Rogers return from the dead, and will his rebirth be enough to stop the global threat of his sworn enemy? Hitting shelves on July 1st, the special five part series Captain America Reborn finally reveals the true scope of the Red Skull's nefarious plan, and begins Captain America's triumphant return. For fans of Captain America and those wanting to own a part of this historic moment in Marvel history, visit your local comic book retailer on July 1, 2009 to purchase Captain America Reborn #1. To learn more about this landmark event, go to www.marvel.com/reborn! To find a comic book retailer near you, visit http://www.comicshoplocator.com/ or call 888-COMICBOOK. And be sure to pick up Captain America #600, on sale this week, as the road to Reborn begins!