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New details raise additional questions about attack on Paul Pelosi
Sources report when he opened door to police, he didn't indicate he was distressed
By Bob Unruh
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A series of alarming details have emerged following the police investigation into an attack on Paul Pelosi, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's husband, at their San Francisco home while she was in Washington.
Among them was that Paul Pelosi, apparently calm, "never let on to responding officers that he was in distress just seconds before he walked back into his house where an intruder bludgeoned him with a hammer."
The details are emerging in a report from the Daily Mail, which cited NBC.
Police already have identified and charged the intruder, David DePape, 42, a onetime nudism advocate and BLM supporter who was known by associates as diving into various conspiracy theories.
Earlier reports said DePape wanted Nancy Pelosi as a hostage, or to break her kneecaps.
After posting the report, NBC abruptly removed it, citing its "standards."
"Instead of telling officers that he needed help, or trying to flee the home, Pelosi calmly greeted them and then retreated several feet back into the foyer where police saw DePape strike him with a hammer, police sources close to the investigation told NBC News," the publication reported.
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"It's not clear if Pelosi was already injured or what his mental state when he walked several feet back into the house, away from police," the report said. "But according to the the San Francisco police report, both Pelosi and the intruder each had a hand on the hammer when officers responded to the home, which they reportedly were struggling over as police yelled, 'drop the hammer!'"
Paul Pelosi was hospitalized for several days, then released.
The report also suggested, according to sources, "that responding officers were seemingly unaware that it was the home of Nancy Pelosi, who has a security detail and was in Washington, D.C. at the time of the attack."
Apparently DePape broke into the home calling "Where's Nancy," and when he was told by Paul Pelosi she wasn't in, he said he'd wait.
Somehow Paul Pelosi got into a bathroom, from where he called 911. A short time later he was letting police in through the front door.
The Daily Mail described what reportedly happened:
When Officers Kolby Wilmes and Kyle Cagney responded to the residence and rang the doorbell, DePape reportedly told Pelosi not to open the door, but he did anyway using his left hand.
Pelosi and DePape stood in the dimly lit foyer and faced the officers as Pelosi calmly greeted them, the report said.
When one of the officers asked what was going on, DePape said, "everything's good" and pulled his hands toward his body. When an officer turned on his flashlight, DePape could be seen holding the bottom handle of the hammer with one hand and Pelosi's right arm with the other. Pelosi's right hand was also on the handle of the hammer.
When an officer ordered for the men to "drop the hammer," DePape raised the hammer and said, "um, nope" as he tried to pull it away from Pelosi who exclaimed "hey, hey!"
DePape then gained control of it and struck Pelosi's head, which knocked Pelosi unconscious.
DePape faces a number of charges and Capitol Police in Washington said they are reviewing their security procedures.
WND has reported that despite the conflicting reports and unanswered questions, Joe Biden and other Democrat leaders are using the assault to try to rally midterm election voters to their agenda which mostly consists of abortion and transgenderism.
They also are characterizing Republicans as Nazis and claiming voters that a vote against Democrats is a vote against democracy.
DePape is an illegal alien from Canada who was a member of the far-left Green Party and lives in a dilapidated bus on the Berkeley, California, property of "nudist drug abusers" who support Black Lives Matter and purportedly of late was circulating QAnon conspiracies.
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MELVILLE, N.Y., September 24, 2015 - Canon U.S.A., Inc., a leader in digital imaging solutions, today announced that the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York has denied a request made by SymQuest Group, Inc., a former authorized Canon retail dealer, for an injunction requiring Canon U.S.A. to continue providing spare parts, consumable supplies and technical support to SymQuest during a lawsuit filed by SymQuest against Canon U.S.A. in July 2015.
SymQuest, which markets business equipment in Northern New York, Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine, was acquired in June 2015 by Canon U.S.A.'s competitor, Konica Minolta Business Solutions U.S.A., Inc. Consistent with its long-standing policy of terminating its business relationships with authorized retail dealers acquired by its competitors, Canon U.S.A. exercised its contractual right to terminate SymQuest's authorized Canon retail dealership, and ceased all sales and service support to SymQuest.
SymQuest, now a wholly owned subsidiary of Konica Minolta Business Solutions U.S.A., Inc., responded by filing a lawsuit against Canon U.S.A. in federal court. SymQuest asserted that by ceasing its post-termination sales and service support to SymQuest, Canon U.S.A. violated the terms of the parties' retail dealer agreement and wrongfully interfered with SymQuest's ability to service its customers' machines. SymQuest requested that the federal court grant injunctive relief compelling Canon U.S.A. to continue providing SymQuest with spare parts, consumable supplies and technical support.
U.S. Magistrate Judge Stephen I. Locke, in a "thorough and extensive" opinion thereafter adopted by U.S. District Judge Leonard D. Wexler, found that the dealer agreement, in "clear and unambiguous" terms, justified Canon U.S.A.'s termination of its business relationship with SymQuest. The federal court held that SymQuest failed to "make a clear showing that it is likely to suffer irreparable harm" and that "[t]here is not a likelihood of success on any of [SymQuest's] claims." Accordingly, the court denied SymQuest's request for a temporary restraining order and a preliminary injunction, validating Canon U.S.A.'s well-established policy of declining to provide spare parts, consumable supplies and technical support to terminated retail dealers acquired by its competitors.
"We are gratified that the court has upheld our contractual right to terminate sales and service support to retail dealers that have been acquired by a competitor", said Seymour Liebman, Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Chief Administrative Officer of Canon U.S.A.


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Tullamore students to broadcast Bloody Sunday 1920 on Young Wolfe Tones live this Friday
GAA's Bloody Sunday commemorated in evocative song by Tullamore students
Sean Brady, Darragh Ryan, Brian Whittaker and Mikey Thornton recording Bloody Sunday 1920 in O'Connor Park.
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THE GAA's Bloody Sunday has been commemorated in a powerfully evocative and moving fashion by a group of students at Colaiste Choilm, Tullamore.
"Bloody Sunday 1920", a moving song about the notorious 1920 massacre at Croke Park, has went viral since being published on social media forums last weekend. A collobarative effort from a number of last year's history students and their teacher, Charlotte Farrell in Colaiste Choilm, the song was produced by four students: Brian Whittaker (16 years of age), Killeigh; Sean Brady (16), Killeigh; Darragh Ryan (17), Kilcavan and Mikey Thornton (17), Tullamore.
The students have received a further boost this week with the news that their song will be oplayed on Facebook live with Derek Warfield and the Young Wolfe Tones this Friday evening – their show goes out at 7.00pm and the students are set to go on at 7.20pm. Follow Derek Warfield and the Young Wolfe Tones on Facebook for access.
A very catchy tune with tremendous background music, the song was first recorded in Joe Egan's studio in Clara and then a video was taken of it being performed in O'Connor Park, Tullamore – the green, white and gold Offaly coloured seats provide a particularly apt background for a song that captures so much of the essence of what it means to be Irish.
The whole setting and recording just took the breath away when viewed and unsurprisingly, the song has really gained traction – by last weekend, it had over 20,200 viewings and it was expanding by the hour – since being released on the Colaiste Choilm Facebook last week. Among the many retweets was one by Louise Hogan, a grand niece of Tipperary player, Michael Hogan who was shot dead that day.
With the four musicians decked out in 1920 type attire and moving to various positions in an empty O'Connor Park, the song has been a labour of love for over a year – the Covid-19 lockdown that saw schools shut put the brakes on it but they finished off their project this year.
This year is the 100th anniversary of Bloody Sunday, which took place on November 21 1920 during the War of Independence – more than thirty people were killed or fatally wounded when members of the Auxiliary Division and the RIC indiscriminately opened fire at a football match between Tipperary and Dublin as revenge after 14 members of the British Army's "Cairo Gang" had been killed or mortally wounded earlier that day in an Irish Republican Army operation spearheaded by Michael Collins.
A series of events have been organsied by the GAA to commemorate the Croke Park tragedy this year and fittingly, Tipperary have reached the Munster football final and where they will play Cork, almost to the day of the 100th anniversary this Sunday – an excellent documentary on Bloody Sunday was also aired on RTE on Monday evening.
The wheels were put in motion for the Tullamore students' own special commemoration last year as part of Charlotte Farrell's Transition Year history module in the school. With history and religion teacher, Charlotte Farrell driving the project forward, the class decided to commemorate Bloody Sunday in song – not everyone in the class was interested in music and a core group of 12 students formed a committee.
They researched all aspects of Bloody Sunday, combining to write the excellent lyrics and from that group, the four most musically talented spent hours practicing singing and putting music to the song.
They had plenty of work done before the Covid-19 shutdown changed life for everyone and the project was parked until schools reopened this September. By this time, they were in fifth year and ironically, the four students had opted out of history – the Colaiste Choilm curriculum presented a choice between history and music and they opted to pursue their musical passion.
The quartet have been playing music since their early National School days and have different ambitions in this area as they close in on their Leaving Certificate. The lead vocalist in Bloody Sunday is Brian Whittaker and the accompanying music is provided on a variety of instuments by the other three.
Sean Brady plays in a local band called The Collission and he plays the bodhran and drums, while Brian Whittaker plays the banjo and guitar in addition to doing all the singing; Darragh Ryan plays the banjo and fiddle and Mikey Thornton plays the guitar.
They wanted to convey a balanced perspective on Bloody Sunday and keen to ensure that it didn't turn into another anti-British anthem, the first verses outline the build up to the Croke Park atrocity and the assassination of the occupying forces' spies.
They ticked a number of boxes during the process and with the lyrics. Bloody Sunday was essentially a massacre of innocents going about their fun and playing games on their day of rest. Formerly Tullamore Christian Brothers School, Colaiste Choilm still retains a Catholic ethos and this is touched on with the chorus: "Oh Sunday was the day of the blessed, Dublin Tipp strived to be the best, Blood is on the British hands, As bullets are fired on to our lands, 14 innocents were shot down, by the forces of the crown, Those souls we will pray, Who died on Bloody Sunday".
They were also very conscious of the importance the GAA plays in Ireland and they are passionate GAA members themselves. Sean Brady and Brian Whittaker play underage football and hurling with Na Fianna as does Mikey Thornton with Ballinamere/Durrow while Darragh Ryan plays underage football with Kilcavan. Charlotte Farrell also comes from a powerful GAA background and her father Padraig is a former Offaly minor and U-21 football manager while he managed Tubber in the Senior "B" Football Championship this year.
They took their inspiration from other songs that capture the emotion of tragic events while stirring the senses with music that makes you just want to move and sing – songs like Grace and the Green Fields of France were among the famous Irish ones they studied.
Their initial ambitions were mild: to enrich their own understanding with the project and raise awareness of what happened on that dreadful day. As Brian Whittaker remarked last week, not many people are aware that one of the dead, Jerome O'Leary was just 10 years of age. "It was so sad," he said.
They tell of the death of Tipperary player Michael Hogan and the naming of the Hogan Stand for him when it was built four years later. Charlotte Farrell spoke about how enjoyable it was to learn history while producing a song and the passion of all involved was very evident as they discussed the project last week.
"The Two Johnnies" were among the people who shared it as it went viral last week and they hope that it will gain further attention in the coming days and perhaps get the thumbs up from a big name.
The Covid-19 regulations has complicated matters for them – in a different year, they would probably have been invited to sing it at the Munster football final, a day when Tipperary will be wearing special Bloody Sunday commemoration jerseys, but strict guidelines that limit movement and attendances, means that is not feasible at the moment.
They are still very happy with the way things have went and the richly deserved plaudits that have come their way since it was released for wider public consumption. They are grateful to Tom Moloney and Jim Kelly for facilitating the O'Connor Park recording; to Colasite Choilm Irish and Geography teacher, Sorcha Ni Oistin, who did a very professional video of it on her phone and to school principal Tadgh O'Sullivan for believing in and supporting the project.
It took a lot of practice and time as they finalised and learnt the lyrics and decided on the final musical airs to accompany it – there was a lot of tweaking and changing before they finally settled on the final product.
The quartet are very proud of their Irish heritage and they spoke with great enthusiasm about Bloody Sunday and its impact on that and later generations. The song was mastered in New York and they hope to get it published on Spotify in the coming weeks.
They also learnt important life lessons about perseverance and sticking with a task during the process. Charlotte Farrell remarked: "The boys didn't expect it to be that good."
Charlotte always believed in the project and she said: "This shows what self belief and perseverance can bring."
Sean Brady commented that they didn't think it would happen but Ms Farrell kept encouraging them while Mikey Thornton spoke about how interested they are in learning about the past and Darragh Ryan talked about the Hogan Stand being built and named.
Bloody Sunday 1920 can be viewed on You Tube (Search for Bloody Sunday 1920), the Colaiste Choilm Facebook page and other locations.
THE LYRICS
Bloody Sunday 1920
T'was the year of 1920,
Irish War of Independence was underway,
Collin's wanted vengeance,
And it had reached its day,
21st of November, a dark and dreary day,
Squad assassins at the ready,
Men walking along all ready,
Targeting British spies,
To ensure the Irish rise
14 men were killed,
The British weren't thrilled,
Oh Sunday was the day of the blessed,
Dublin Tipp strived to be the best,
Blood is on the British hands,
As bullets are fired on to our lands,
14 innocents were shot down,
by the forces of the crown
Those souls we will pray
Who died on bloody Sunday
There's a whisper in the Croke Park breeze
Reminds us of our children's screams
That whisper builds that whisper cries
For our sons and daughters in the morning skies.
Mickey Hogan age 24,
Corner back playing for his home,
We remember him forevermore,
The Hogan Stand built 1924,
Fiddle Tune:
Jerome O'Leary, 10 years old,
Innocent, good as gold
Killed by the bold,
14 lives, 14 households
Double Chorus:

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DERSHOWITZ VS. GIUFFRE
Mystery 'John Doe' seeks to keep Jeffrey Epstein documents sealed and his name secret as Alan Dershowitz goes to war against Epstein accuser Virginia Giuffre
The key question is whether a judge will unseal depositions Giuffre made in a separate suit regarding Epstein's alleged madam
The controversial Harvard Law School professor and criminal defense attorney Alan Dershowitz is doing battle to get his hands on concealed court documents pertaining to the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein as he wages a defamation lawsuit against Virigina Giuffre, who alleged that she was sex trafficked to Dershowitz among other prominent men, the Miami Herald reports.
Lawyers for Giuffre, who also alleges that Epstein forced her to have sex with him when she was underage, have asked a federal judge to make sure Dershowitz keeps his mitts off the documents in question out of fear that he'll use the information therein out of context and misrepresent details that are critical to the lawsuit.
The judge, Loretta Preska, heard arguments from both camps, Dershowitz's and Giuffre's, on Tuesday in regards to evidence collected in 2016 for a lawsuit that Virginia waged against Ghislaine Maxwell, the British socialite who allegedly was the madam and criminal mastermind behind the shocking sex trafficking of girls and young women to serve Epstein's reportedly insatiable predation, perversion and pederasty.
Meanwhile, the Miami Herald has itself sued to unseal all the records in the lawsuit against Maxwell.
How Preska rules could have a bearing on whether the public learns more about Epstein's circle of powerful, wealthy friends and whether they were either complicit in, had knowledge of or participated in his alleged sex trafficking operation.
Amid fight over Jeffrey Epstein's dark secrets, Dershowitz seeks access to sealed documents
One such friend is Dershowitz, who since Epstein was arrested on federal sex trafficking charges last year has found himself engulfed in scandal and the very kind of criminal legal peril that is his own métier as a celebrated, if notorious, attorney. Not only is he fighting to save his reputation through his lawsuit against Giuffre, but he's waging war to keep himself from being indicted as well.
Epstein, a wealthy and secretive financier, the source of whose wealth has remained shrouded in mystery, was convicted of soliciting sex from an underage prostitute in Florida in 2008. He received what has been widely criticized as a slap on the wrist for his sentence, which permitted him to spend almost all hours of the day save those when he was asleep on a work release from jail during his 13-month incarceration.
In this handout provided by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, Jeffrey Epstein poses for a sex offender mugshot
He then spent the next decade cavorting with the rich and famous, including, most notoriously, Prince Andrew, as well as Bill Clinton and Dershowitz, before finally committing suicide in a federal jail cell in Manhattan in August 2019 at the age of 66 following his arrest on new federal charges. He leaves in his wake a sprawling cast of characters who may have aided and abetted his astonishing sex crimes, been complicit in them, or even committed them along with him.
Epstein has cast a long shadow over his victims and friends alike. Last year, Giuffre, 36, waged her own defamation lawsuit against Dershowitz, 81, who turned right around her and countersued, the Daily Mail reports.
The Giuffre-Maxwell case ended in 2015 but Giuffre's attorneys have fought a protracted legal battle to have documents containing the names of numerous 'non parties' unsealed. Preska ruled last May that she would unveil portions of documents on a rolling basis once the named individuals had been notified and given the opportunity to lodge legal objections. Maxwell continues to protest her innocence and has resisted Giuffre's motion, claiming the papers should be 'afforded the lowest presumption of public access'.
Mystery person in Alan Dershowitz's defamation case against Epstein victim Virginia Giuffre begs judge to block the release of cache of documents that expose pedophile's elite social circle
Dershowitz, who in recent years has made waves as an academic who is prone to defending Trump, has insisted he has never met Giuffre. He claims that one of her attorneys, the storied and uber-powerful David Boies — who has seen his own reputation wither following revelations that he aggressively sought to silence female accusers of serial sexual predator Harvey Weintsein — has concocted a byzantine conspiracy behind the defamation lawsuit against Dershowitz. Supposedly, Boies is angling to leverage Giuffre's accusations against Dershowitz to extort one of Epstein's clients, the billionaire Les Wexner.
The Miami Herald is seeking, in particular, transcripts of Giuffre's depositions in the Maxwell lawsuit in which she claims that Epstein and his alleged madam sexually trafficked her to a number of boldfaced names, including Prince Andrew and Dershowitz.
Ghislaine Maxwell, confidant of Jeffrey Epstein
It looks like Dershowitz is already ahead of the game, however, because his attorney told the court on Tuesday that the legal team has indeed got hold of some of the sealed depositions.
Dershowitz has already revealed that two of the other prominent men to whom Giuffre was allegedly trafficked, The Sun reports, are former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak and Wexner, who owns Victoria's Secret.
[Giuffre] also alleged she'd had sex with Prince Andrew at Epstein's New York apartment, in the Caribbean and at the London home of billionaire Epstein's 'madam', Ghislaine Maxwell.
SICK CLAIMS: Alan Dershowitz 'claimed Virginia Roberts had alleged Epstein forced her to have sex with ex-Israeli PM Ehud Barak'
Never shy about expressing his strong opinions in a public forum, Dershowitz took to Twitter to state that those who make up accusations about sexual misconduct — he has accused Giuffre of being a serial liar in that regard — should be severely punished.
Maxwell's attorney has sought to block the release of the Maxwell depositions. So has an attorney repping a tantalizingly mysterious John Doe client, who according to the Daily Mail is seeking to prevent having his reputation destroyed should an unsealing reveal his name to the public as connected to the alleged Epstein sex-crime enterprise. One of Giuffre's attorneys also opposed the release of the documents, but prompted cries of unfairness from the other two camps after saying that he had actually seen the Maxwell depositions.
In seeking to gain access to the depositions for the Dershowitz legal team, Howard Cooper, who is one of his attorneys in his defamation lawsuit against Giuffre for her Epstein-related accusations against the Harvard professor, argued in court that the order protecting those files from exposure was "not the final word" on the matter.
According to Law & Crime, Judge Preska was unmoved by Cooper's assertions.
The judge interrupted Cooper to note that the original protective order was clear that it was for one case and one case only: the defamation controversy between Giuffre and Maxwell. Cooper responded that Giuffre has repeatedly made claims against Dershowitz that implicate the files in the protective order—including that Dershowitz engaged in a sex-trafficking conspiracy with Epstein. The attorney went on to note that his client would continue to seek the release of those files because they believe Giuffre is a bad actor by continuing to make claims against Dershowitz.
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Thai Family Matters Project
Thai Family Matters Project (or earlier called Youth Alcohol Use and Risky Sexual Behavior in Bangkok) is a multi-center adolescent family-based intervention, collaborative research project, implemented by PIRE (Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation), Mahidol University, CSN & Associates, Chiang Mai University, and consultant from Thailand MOPH; with the support from National Institute of Health NIAAA during 2006 – 2010.
Project Rational
Evidence strongly suggests that Thai adolescents are significantly at risk for HIV/STDs, and that associations between alcohol use and risky sexual behaviors exist. There are few behavioral-driven intervention, especially family-based interventions, targeting both alcohol use and risky sexual behaviors among young Thais.
Accordingly, the goal of this international collaborative research project is to conduct the four year feasibility study for adaptation of Family Matters, a universal prevention program for substance abuse that involves parents and adolescents, to the Thai culture. This adapted program is called the Thai Family Matters program. Using a family-based approach in Thailand is appropriate for several reasons. The family is a very supportive unit in Thailand. The family unit is the primary provider of fundamental training for deferential behaviors and culturally acceptable norms that are relevant to sexual behavior and alcohol/drug use. Thai investigators contribute to all phases of this study, including proposal preparation, program adaptation, data analysis and publications, dissemination of study findings, and the preparation of a future application to assess the efficacy of TFM.
Project Period: September 2009 - August 2010
Project Status: Finish
Principal Investigator: Aphichat Chamratrithirong
http://www.ipsr.mahidol.ac.th/ipsr/Research/ThaiFamily/Default.htm


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Two esteemed education leaders named to NYCLA board of directors
The NYC Leadership Academy today appointed Dr. Darline Robles and Dr. John Garcia III to its Board of Directors.
Dr. Robles is former Superintendent of the Los Angeles County Office of Education, the first woman and Latina to hold that post. An expert in culturally proficient leadership and closing opportunity gaps for students, she is currently a professor of clinical education at the USC Rossier School of Education.
Dr. Garcia is the President & Chief Deputy of Strategic Partnerships and Innovation for the Los Angeles County Office of Education, where he manages outreach, initiatives, and grantmaking focused on improving educational outcomes and opportunities in Los Angeles County. His impressive career in education includes advising on policy for the White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for Hispanics. He is a member of the board of Grantmakers for Education.
"We are proud and honored to have Dr. Robles and Dr. Garcia join our board as critical thought partners and advocates," said NYC Leadership Academy President & CEO Dr. Nancy B. Gutierrez. "Their expertise and unwavering dedication to confronting inequities in schools is in lock step with our own efforts to develop leaders equipped to close opportunity gaps for students, particularly those who have long been failed by our school systems including children of color, students with disabilities and English language learners."
Said Dr. Garcia, "I am excited about the opportunity to serve an organization committed to advancing educational leadership and issues of equity across the nation. The NYC Leadership Academy has a storied history of supporting the development of strong educational leaders. Under Nancy Guiterrez' leadership, the Academy has continued to expand their work nationally and focus on supporting communities and schools with the greatest needs."
As superintendent of the nation's largest regional education service agency, serving 93 school districts and 55 joint power agencies that educate 1.7 million students, Dr. Robles focused on at-risk and special needs students and cash-strapped districts, particularly those with low-performing schools. She also led a reorganization of her office's highly lauded Head Start preschool program. Dr. Robles co-authored "A Culturally Proficient Society Begins in School: Leadership for Equity," published by Corwin Press in 2011. Earlier in her career, Dr. Robles served as Superintendent of Schools for Salt Lake City School District where she was successful in closing the achievement gap and significantly reducing the dropout rate, and as Superintendent of Schools for Montebello Unified School. In October 2009 and 2011, Dr. Robles was named one of the nation's top 100 influential Hispanic Americans by Hispanic Business magazine and in March 2010 was a "Women of the Year" recipient by the L.A. County Commission for Women. Dr. Robles is committed to public service and serves on many local and national boards. She was named to the President's Advisory Commission on Educational Excellence for Hispanics. Robles received her Ph.D. in Education Policy and Administration from the University of Southern California, her M.A. in Education from the Claremont Graduate School, her B.A. in History from California State University, Los Angeles and her A.A. in History from East Los Angeles College.
Dr. Garcia has served as the program officer for education at the California Community Foundation and has served as a consultant with Jobs for the Future, the Southern Regional Education Board, and the National Governors Association. He spent four years as a school counselor in an urban school district and was the Westside Impact Teacher of the Year in 2010. Dr. Garcia taught college success strategies at Phoenix Community College and was founding director of the Arizona College Access Network. He was a policy analyst for the White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for Hispanics and was a doctoral resident with the Gates Foundation. Garcia holds a business degree in supply chain management and a Master of Counseling from Arizona State University, and a doctorate in education leadership from the Harvard Graduate School of Education.
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The Constant Princess
https://www.philippagregory.com/books/the-constant-princess
Splendid and sumptuous historical novel from this internationally bestselling author, telling of the early life of Katherine of Aragon.
We think of her as the barren wife of a notorious king; but behind this legacy lies a fascinating story. Katherine of Aragon is born Catalina, the Spanish Infanta, to parents who are both rulers and warriors. Aged four, she is betrothed to Arthur, Prince of Wales, and is raised to be Queen of England. She is never in doubt that it is her destiny to rule that far-off, wet, cold land. Her faith is tested when her prospective father-in-law greets her arrival in her new country with a great insult; Arthur seems little better than a boy; the food is strange and the customs coarse.
Slowly she adapts to the first Tudor court, and life as Arthur's wife grows ever more bearable. But when the studious young man dies, she is left to make her own future: how can she now be queen, and found a dynasty? Only by marrying Arthur's young brother, the sunny but spoilt Henry.
His father and grandmother are against it; her powerful parents prove little use. Yet Katherine is her mother's daughter and her fighting spirit is strong. She will do anything to achieve her aim; even if it means telling the greatest lie, and holding to it.
Philippa Gregory proves yet again that behind the apparently familiar face of history lies an astonishing story: of women warriors influencing the future of Europe, of revered heroes making deep mistakes, and of an untold love story which changes the fate of a nation.
The story of Katherine of Aragon who is very neglected by historians, but who was the longest-serving wife of Henry VIII, and who helped him to take the throne and learn the trade of kingship. I was fascinated by her background, I travelled to Granada to see for myself her childhood home, the beautiful Alhambra palace, and I became certain that the young woman that she became was far more interesting and active than the picture we have of her of the 'old woman' that would be replaced by the 'young mistress'. Deliberately I ended the novel at the moment of her greatest triumph when she was a successful queen militant as her mother Isabella of Spain had been.
Henry Tudor and Elizabeth of York's son Arthur Tudor, Prince of Wales is betrothed to the Spanish Princess Katherine of Aragon. But Arthur's sudden death, followed by his mother's, leaves Henry Tudor with a difficult to decision, to marry his son's wife himself or to arrange her marriage to his younger son.
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"compellingly dramatizes how Catalina uses her faith, her cunning and her utter belief in destiny to reclaim her rightful title....a thorough, sympathetic portrait"
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Q: Double file extensions Musings
I have seen in linux sometimes .tar.gz meaning it is a tar file that has been gzipped. does the system ignore the .tar part until it has been unzipped? Are there other use cases of this?
In web development, we often use double extensions for our script files jquery.min.js. Is there a standard or cohesive logic to this? Can I use jquery.my-library.coffee.min.packed.js.gz to indicate it is originally coffee-script, that has been compiled to javascript, minified, packed and finally zipped.
It would be very useful if we could add some meaning to double extensions, like README.md.txt, so that if we are looking on a system which does not know what markdown is, it will fallback to txt and display with a text editor. If the system knows markdown, it will open with a markdown editor. This would work kind of like a mime type.
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*What situations are double file extensions currently used by operating systems or programming languages?

*Is it possible to extend the use of double file extensions with existing os/language packages?

*What conventions are there for use of double file extensions?

A: The extension to the far right i considered the extension of the file.  Therefore .gz is a gzip file.  query.myplugin.js is a javascript file. etc...

A: File extensions are nothing more than a residue from the good ol' DOS days. Mac OS don't use them for anything more than Windows interop issues. Mac OS uses something similar to substreams to store content type. When you download a file from the internet on a Mac, the content type from the HTTP headers are interpreted - not the filename.
Windows still uses filename extensions, unfortunately.
The most important thing on the web is serving the proper Content-Type! And, as @thenetimp says, it's the rightmost part that counts in Windows.

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require(File.expand_path('../lib/test.rb', File.dirname(__FILE__)))

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class MemoizeTest < MiniTest::Unit::TestCase

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  class CurrentUser
    User = Struct.new(:id) do
      def self.find (*); new; end
    end

    def initialize
      @current_user = nil
    end

    # <<: current_user
    def current_user
      @current_user ||= User.find(logged_in_user_id)
    end
    # :>>

    def current_user_long
      # <<: current_user_long
      @current_user || @current_user = User.find(logged_in_user_id)
      # :>>
    end

    def logged_in_user_id; 0; end
  end

  ##############################################################################
  def test_current_user
    c = CurrentUser.new
    assert(u = c.current_user)
    assert_equal(u.object_id, c.current_user.object_id)

    c = CurrentUser.new
    assert(u = c.current_user_long)
    assert_equal(u.object_id, c.current_user_long.object_id)
  end

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  class Shipping
    def initialize (files, parse)
      @files = files
      @parse = parse
    end

    # <<: shipped
    def shipped? (order_id)
      file = fetch_confirmation_file

      if file
        status = parse_confirmation_file(file)
        status[order_id] == :shipped
      end
    end
    # :>>

    def fetch_confirmation_file (*) @files.shift;  end
    def parse_confirmation_file (*) @parse; end
  end

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  class ShippingMemoize < Shipping
    # <<: shipped-memoize
    def shipped? (order_id)
      @status ||= begin
        file = fetch_confirmation_file
        file ? parse_confirmation_file(file) : {}
      end

      @status[order_id] == :shipped
    end
    # :>>
  end

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  def test_shipping
    files = [true, true, false]
    s = Shipping.new(files, {1 => :shipped})

    assert(s.shipped?(1))
    refute(s.shipped?(2))
    refute(s.shipped?(1))
    assert(files.empty?)
  end

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  def test_shipping_memoize
    files = [true, false]
    s = ShippingMemoize.new(files, {1 => :shipped})

    assert(s.shipped?(1))
    refute(s.shipped?(2))
    assert_equal(1, files.size)

    s = ShippingMemoize.new(files, nil)
    refute(s.shipped?(1))
    refute(s.shipped?(0))
    assert(files.empty?)
  end

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  class Expensive
    # <<: lookup
    def lookup (key)
      @cache ||= {} # Make sure @cache exists.

      @cache[key] ||= begin
        # ...
      end
    end
    # :>>
  end

  ##############################################################################
  def test_with_hash
    assert_nil(Expensive.new.lookup(9))
  end
end

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No foreign role in recent Arab uprisings: Larijani
IRNA - Islamic Republic News Agency
Tehran, Feb 25, IRNA -- Majlis (Parliament) Speaker Ali Larijani said on Thursday that the foreign powers have had no role in recent popular uprisings in the Middle East and North Africa.
He made the remarks on the occasion of commemorating Martyr Hossein Kharrazi in Tehran.
Referring to the popular uprisings of the region as a day of judgment for the big powers, Larijani said that today important changes have taken place throughout the world making the US which considered itself the world's sole super power after the collapse of the former Soviet Union in early 1990s to face political bewilderment.
"The US wants to maintain its prestige as super power on the one hand, while it does not have the capacity for same on the other," he added.
Majlis speaker noted that Washington supported the dictator regimes in the world as much as it could, but it has to withdraw now step by step in view of the widespread popular uprisings.
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Some more information about council candidate Ken Young.
Vanderhoof residents will have eight councillor candidates to choose from in this month's municipal election. Here is some more information about candidate Ken Young.
After a three-year break from local politics, former councillor Ken Young says he is re-energized and ready to run again.
After sitting on council for three consecutive terms, Young decided to run for mayor during the last municipal election, meaning he was forced to sit out the past term when he lost out to current mayor, Gerry Thiessen.
Young is a long-standing local resident having been brought up in the community from the age of six months when his parents moved to town from Vancouver.
He now has seven kids of his own ranging in age from six to 23 with his wife Monica who has also been in Vanderhoof her whole life.
Young left the community briefly to get his teacher training and now works as a high school administrator for the school district.
Young says there are a number of important issues that he would like to see looked at for the community, including a more regional approach to highway upgrades.
"We used to have a more regional approach on a lot of things and better connections with the communities of Fraser Lake and Fort St. James," said Young.
"We used to apply for things together as a tri-community and I think it is somewhat important to go back to that, especially when talking to provincial government about concerns we have, especially with transportation.
"If we look at some of the scary spots we have on our highways – we need to be talking about it as a regional group, not just individually," he said.
As Highway 16 becomes busier, Young says it is important to look at upgrading danger spots, specifically where we have seen some recent tragic accidents such as between Vanderhoof and Prince George.
"If you look at the accident statistics on the highway between here and Prince George its horrendous – it scares me living here and hearing that stuff, and something needs to be done," he said.
He added that he would also like to see better fencing on the roads and highways to prevent wildlife collisions.
"Look at what they do in Alberta through the parks and other areas – they don't have near the amount of kills that we do I believe," he said.
Other priorities he said include having an emergency coordination space, in particular for the Nechako Valley Search and Rescue group.
"They are operating out of a closet essentially at the moment – why is that?" he said.
"In Fort St. James for example they have a huge space above the fire department so that when they have emergency responses happening in that community they have a huge command centre they can utilize – we have nothing.
"We've seen some pretty tragic things happen this past year – we need to have a space like that," he said.
Young would also like to see a community centre and a pool but at the same time does not want to see taxes go up or the community go into debt.
"We have to balance it and think about what we will be giving up to get it.
An all-candidates forum is being held for the general public on November 15 in the small auditorium at the high school.


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Our distinctive and welcoming atmosphere blends students and parents from all provenances. Catering to a community with a shared purpose, united around the goal of educating our children to be happy, independent and confident learners, our role is to provide support throughout their experience at SJS.
St Julian's Support Staff is responsible for all non-academic matters, including student billing, bursary attribution and event organisation. We are committed to rendering outstanding services to the St. Julian's School community. We strive to implement the best practices in consonance with the values of respect, honesty and commitment.
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Microsoft will replace scratched Halo 3 discs
Microsoft said it will replace discs of its Halo 3 Xbox 360 game that were already scratched when users purchased them.
IBM: Symphony downloaded 100,000 times in first week
People apparently are already tuning in to IBM's Symphony. The company reported Wednesday that its free rival to Microsoft's Office suite was downloaded 100,000 times in the first week of release.
Google targets verticals with new ad support
Google is ramping up its efforts to help specific vertical markets create more effective online advertising, using its technology to help clients highlight as many of their assets as possible to drive not only online, but also offline sales.
Google applauds ISO vote, voices OOXML concerns
Google, which has been less vocal than some on the furor surrounding the standards process for Microsoft's Office Open XML, came out Friday in support of the ISO's decision to reject the specification.
Microsoft forces Messenger upgrade for 'security' reasons
Microsoft is forcing Windows Live and MSN Messenger users to upgrade to the newest version due to a security update included in that release, according to a posting on a Microsoft blog.
Microsoft details Vista SP1 search changes
Microsoft has released documents that detail changes it will make to its desktop search and indexing feature in Windows Vista as part of the Vista Service Pack 1 (SP1) update.
Microsoft patents watermark that may protect DRM-free music
Microsoft has won a patent for a digital-watermarking technology that could be used to protect the rights of content owners even when digital music is distributed without DRM protection.
Microsoft purchase of RIM nice to consider, but unlikely
Rumors that Microsoft may purchase BlackBerry maker Research in Motion are likely just that because of RIM's high price tag, though there would be benefits for both parties if a deal were struck, analysts said Friday.
Nokia offers Windows Live services on handsets
Microsoft has partnered with handset manufacturer Nokia to deliver some of its Windows Live services on wireless handsets in Europe and the Middle East.
MTV, RealNetworks tie music ventures in new company
RealNetworks and MTV Networks have formed a new company that will combine their online music services and have an exclusive deal with Verizon Wireless to be the platform for its wireless music service. The companies are joining forces to compete with...
Microsoft comments support reports of new Zunes
Microsoft Corp. hasn't divulged detailed plans for the next release of its Zune music player, but a company executive last week offered hints that seem to support reports that a flash memory-based Zune and 80-gigabyte device could be in the works.
VMware offers Fusion for running Windows on Macs
VMware gave startup Parallels some competition Monday by releasing the first version of its software that lets Windows applications run on Apple's Macintosh computers.
Eminem's publisher sues Apple over downloads
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One of the touted benefits of iOS 12 is a new feature built into the system: Screen Time.
Screen Time is designed to help you manage the time you spend in front of your mobile device.
I fell for it. I admit.
I believed the hype that is telling us that we are globally out of control—duped by our smart phones.
We are being sold that we need to cut back on our use of social media and technology. This has become a common belief.
Like I said, I fell for it. I cringe when Screen Time reminds me every week how much time I spend on my mobile devices.
But something just doesn't feel right to me about the whole idea that technology is bad for you.
Then I stumbled on a book that resonates with how I feel and think about technology and popular culture.
This book has completely changed how I feel about Screen Time. I now revel in the numbers. We will need to change how we think about technology and popular culture—everything we know is wrong.
This is not a new book—2006. So, some of the references are stale, especially in light of what is happening in our culture right now. But if he were to go back and rewrite sections of the book to reflect what is happening now with social media, his case would just be stronger.
Mr. Johnson introduces the concept of the Sleeper Curve.
The Sleeper Curve: The most debased forms of mass diversion—video games and violent television dramas and juvenile sitcoms—turn out to be nutritional after all. For decades, we've worked under the assumption that mass culture follows a steadily declining path towards lowest-common-denominator standards, presumably because the "masses" want dumb, simple pleasures and big media companies want to give the masses what they want. But in fact, the exact opposite is happening: the culture is getting more intellectually demanding, not less.
The rest of the book makes the case why the hypothesis has merit.
This works for me on an abundance of levels.
I haven't made the complete transition yet, but I finally found some language and discussion that is in alignment with how I feel.
There, I said it. We are on the fertile verge of understanding how to use AI to our benefit like never before. To astronomically increase our ability to increase—not just our intellectual intelligence—but our emotional and social intelligence.
People often ask me about the future of AI. Most people believe AI is dangerous and will cause irreparable damage to humanity.
The exact opposite is happening. AI—more specifically AEI—will be a tool humanity uses to increase emotional and social intelligence like we have never imagined.


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The oldest trace of the place where Het PalingsHuis is located now goes back to 1506. Until 1870 there was a house on the corner of the Caeye and the Costerstraet called Het Haentje, later also Amsterdam. Successive residents were beer bargemen and beer suppliers with horses and carts.
The house was demolished around 1870 and replaced by the current building. The oldest photo dates from 1890, when the building was called Het PalingsHuis. The oldest written reference dates from 1901 in the weekly De Schelde, when the business was run by the couple Emiel De Wolf and Josefien Roosen. The cafe became a restaurant, a popular formula that was later taken over by other managers as well.
On 1 August 1973 Remi Van Grasdorff and Annemie Goossens took over the restaurant. They were only occupied for a few months when Temse was hit by a flood in December 1973, with Het PalingsHuis as one of the worst affected houses. Three weeks of closure was the result, in addition to several hundreds of thousands of francs of damage.
However, the pair started with full courage and persevered. Thanks to a combination of dedication, knowledge, skill and many other qualities, they still enjoyed a true success in the demanding hospitality sector.
The PalingsHuis knew a steady growth and the call of the gastronomic quality echode ever further. Temse revived and hundreds of tourists found their way to the city on the Scheldt again.
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L'Arc Macau Fifth Anniversary Celebration
L'Arc Macau is approaching their first five-year milestones on the upcoming 21st September. To commemorate this meaningful moment and share the joys with their employees, the company has organized a series of activities including volunteering events, staff talent show competition, and complimentary moon cake gave away to employees. Anniversary staff party was also held in the hotel staff cafeteria on 18th September, the Chairperson of L'Arc Macau, Ms. Angela Leong and the senior management team has spent a fruitful moment with their employees on the day.
The anniversary staff party features delicious delicacies, photo booth, game booths, spectacular live performances and a grand lucky draw. More than 900 prizes including electronic products, digital products, electronic appliances and cash coupons were given out to the winners. The highlight of the event was the kick-off ceremony of the employee appreciation service awards. Memorable pins have been awarded to more than 800 employees who have joined L'Arc since the grand opening in 2009. In the opening speech, Ms. Angela Leong expressed her thanks to all her dedicated staff for their contribution during the previous year, especially to those who have been working in L'Arc for half decade. She stated that these groups of employees have made big contribution to the group and have established a solid foundation for L'Arc business growth. She believes that with the full support of this professional and dedicated team, the company will have enough strength to overcome any challenge to achieve the company goal.< br />
L'Arc Macau will extend the anniversary joy with their employees by organizing lunch buffet and cinema activities in coming October and November. In addition, L'Arc Chinese restaurant offers special anniversary menus to thank customers for their loyalty support over the past.
Photo 1: The Chairperson of L'Arc Macau, Ms. Angela Leong (Centre) had a group photo with the employees who have joined L'Arc since grand opening and awarded for the memorable pins
Photo 2: The Chairperson of L'Arc Macau, Ms. Angela Leong (Centre) had spent the fruitful moment with her employees
Photo 3: The Chairperson of L'Arc Macau, Ms. Angela Leong expressed her thanks to all staffs during the opening speech


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When learning to make baby quilts, there is whole new world of supportive people who have a passion for their craft, wonderfully colorful fabrics, and hundreds of designs just waiting for your creative talents. There is no better way to learn to make baby quilts then from those who know their craft. Read and jump right in and try your first quilt.
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A new baby quilt is finish, but what quilt binding do I choose?
In a baby quilt, the quilt binding is the last part that keeps those raw edges from showing and adds the finishing touches to your project.
Before I pull out my fabrics and decide my colors, the method of quilt binding for by my project needs to be considered first.
There are numerous factors to consider when you are choosing the method of finishing the baby quilt. Consider your time constraints, your skill level in sewing and quilting, and your preference in either handquilting or machine quilting of your quilt binding. The quilt binding can have straight, irregular or curved edges.
Do I want to create a certain mood with my quilt binding? If my answers here are to keep it simple since I have a basic straight edge and my time is of the essence, use a bias, straight- grain, or single fold binding.
A common type of quilt binding, bias binding is made from strips cut on the bias or at a 45 degree angle to the straight grain of the fabric. Bias binding provides the stretch needed on curves. Strips are put together to provide the required length needed for the baby quilt. Bias fold bindings can be either doubled or single folded and used for all types of fabrics. This method of quilt binding is common for use in finishing a baby quilt due to its durability.
1. First choose your binding method. (Bias, straight- grain, or single fold binding).
2. Decide the width of the quilt binding.
The single fold binding is sewn to the quilt edge first. The free side of the binding strip is then turned under ¼ inch and sewn in place by hand. This binding can either be cut by a bias cut or a straight cut, not on the bias. This type of quilt binding has little bulk and is a good choice for smaller baby quilts that will be used as wall hanging and will not require many laundering. Also this type of binding is better to be sewn on baby quilts that have only straight edges.
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Smell happens when odorants—airborne molecules—attach to sensory receptors inside the nose, triggering an electro-chemical reaction that the brain interprets. Dogs' sense of smell is far better than humans, partly because they have more odor receptors in their noses. Ants, too, are good smellers. They have 4-5 times as many receptors in their noses as most other insects. Except that insects don't really have noses at all. Their smell receptors are housed in their antennae.
The United States Department of Defense is turning its attention to the favorite pastime of many little boys. They're creating stink bombs. The quest is on to find the most repulsive smell in nature and to mass-produce it chemically. It's already been thirteen years since the U. S. announced the development of what it still considers the ultimate stink bomb. It contains two solutions. One is called U. S. Government Standard Bathroom Malodor. It smells like a filthy latrine, only much stronger. The other is called Who-Me? It's made largely of sulfur and smells like rotting carcasses. Because people from different genetic backgrounds and cultures are attracted and repulsed by different smells, U. S. Government Standard Bathroom Malodor and Who-Me? had to be tested on volunteers from around the world. Everyone hated them.
Stench can also be used by the military as a decoy. For example, during America's Civil War the union army used the odor of burning wood and the sound of banging in wooden barrels on the banks of the Tennessee River to convince the Confederate army that boat building was going on. So the Confederate army turned its attention to that area of the river, and the Union army crossed at another.
Iran has developed a "Deceit Perfume" that masks the odor of gunpowder with weather-related scents.
One bit of big news in smell these days is that plants do it. Sure, many flowers smell good. But many plants have a sense of smell. Remember that in animals smell happens when an airborne molecule attaches to a sensory receptor in the nose, and this triggers an electro-chemical reaction that passes all the way to the brain, where the "smell" is interpreted. With plants, one plant emits an airborne molecule and even though it lacks a nose or an antenna, another plant has a receptor that receives it. There's no brain in a plant to interpret the smell, but the smell does cause a reaction. In fact, smell seems to be how plants communicate with each other. And at least one topic of conversation for them is an alert that they share about the arrival in a garden of pests.
A common cutworm feeds on the leaves of a tomato plant. Image courtesy of Junji Takabayashi.
For about 15 years now scientists have known that, for at least some plant species, when one plant comes under attack by insects it can emit a chemical scent that warns other plants to build up their chemical defenses. Tomato plants, however, not only send out the alert by smell. They share defenses that way.
In March of this year Japanese scientists put two tomato plants in connected chambers. One plant was infested with cutworms. (It's a kind of caterpillar.) Immediately downwind in the connected chamber was an un-infested tomato plant. The scientists assumed that, if the two plants were to talk by smell about cutworms, the downwind plant would start building up a chemical defense before the caterpillars got to it.
As a control, the scientists put two un-infested plants in connected chambers, one downwind from the other. The researchers assumed that these plants would have no infestation to talk about.
Later, the scientists directly exposed both downwind plants to cutworms. The cutworms on the plant that had been "told" by smell of the coming infestation didn't do very well—because that plant had covered itself with the natural chemical (Z)-3-hexenyl-vicianoside. It's nickname is "HexVic." The control plant was not covered by HexVic, and didn't fare nearly as well fighting the cutworms.
When the scientists actually fed HexVic directly to the cutworms, it killed about 17% of them.
But here's the really exciting news. HexVic is actually part of the warning airborne molecule molecule sent from the infested tomato plant to the one downwind of it. So that smell not only encouraged the downwind plant to produce HexVic. It gave it some. The plants were sharing resources.
So what do we mean when we say "talk to your plants?" And why should we think they need to hear us? Evidently, some of them are chatting it up already.


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Our post adoption services offers a continuum of services including searches and post-adoption counseling that respects the interest of adopted persons, birth parents, and adoptive parents. In all circumstances, confidentiality and our clients' best interests are our primary concern. Services are available to those who were involved in adoptions through Catholic Charities.
If you are a child or adult who was adopted through Catholic Charities and never had the opportunity to meet or know more about your birth family, you may want to initiate a search. This is not strange or unusual. In fact, EVERY person who was adopted searches, even if it is only in their minds ("That person has similar features as me, I wonder if we are related.") Reasons to search varies from person to person.
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Adult adopted persons (and adoptive parents for children under 18) are eligible under the law to request Non-Identifying Information regarding the birth family. Non-Identifying Information consists of a narrative summary which may include: physical description, age, personality traits, medical, social and genetic history, occupation, etc. at the time of the adoption.
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