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  • Thief who stole gold-plated 9/11 memorial rose from NYC church turned in by father: sources

    11/23/2024 5:19:15 PM PST · by george76 · 22 replies
    New York Post ^ | Nov. 23, 2024, | Larry Celona and Shane Galvin
    The heartless crook accused of stealing a gold-plated rose from a 9/11 memorial at a Midtown Catholic church was arrested Friday for the unholy crime, according to the NYPD. Deikel Alcantara, 21, was turned over to police by his father and charged with grand larceny for allegedly pilfering a $3,000 rose — forged of metal from Ground Zero and plated in gold — from a shrine inside the Church of St. Francis of Assisi on Wednesday, police and sources said. The memorial at the West 31st Street house of worship honors all the lives lost in the terrorist attacks on...
  • Extracts From Two Common Wild Plants Block COVID-19 Virus From Entering Human Cells

    02/17/2023 12:26:21 PM PST · by Red Badger · 39 replies
    Scitech Daily ^ | FEBRUARY 17, 2023 | By EMORY UNIVERSITY
    Emory University graduate student Caitlin Risener, first author of the study, gathers tall goldenrod in South Georgia. The study, which was first major screening of botanical extracts to search for potency against the SARS-CoV-2 virus, found that two common wild plants contain extracts that inhibit the ability of the virus that causes COVID-19 to infect living cells. Credit: Photo by Tharanga Samarakoon The first major screening of botanical extracts to search for potency against the SARS-CoV-2 virus. Two common wild plants contain extracts that inhibit the ability of the virus that causes COVID-19 to infect living cells, an Emory...
  • Wild Plant Extracts Can Block Covid-19 Infection

    02/12/2023 12:56:15 PM PST · by nickcarraway · 16 replies
    Earth.com ^ | 02-11-2023 | Andrei Ionescu
    A new study led by Emory University has found that two common wild plants can inhibit the activity of the virus causing Covid-19 to infect human cells. Laboratory experiments revealed that extracts from the flowers of tall goldenrod (Solidago altissima) and the rhizomes of the eagle fern (Pteridium aquilinum) efficiently stopped SARS-CoV-2 from entering human cells. Since the active compounds are only present in small quantities in the plants, it would be ineffective – and even potentially dangerous – for people to attempt to treat themselves with them. “It’s very early in the process, but we’re working to identify, isolate...
  • Calif. bans weed pulling by hand on farms

    09/23/2004 6:14:50 PM PDT · by pickemuphere · 69 replies · 1,478+ views
    MSNBC ^ | 23 September 2004 | AP
    SACRAMENTO, Calif. - California became the first state Thursday to ban weeding by hand on most farms, saying the work is too backbreaking for laborers. Under a rule approved by the California Occupational Safety and Health Division, farmworkers, in most cases, will not have to stoop to pull weeds, but will instead be given long-handled tools that will allow them to work without bending over. The rule takes effect within two weeks. The regulation aims to prevent the “real and substantial risk of back injury” caused by stooping to weed or thin plants by hand, Cal-OSHA said. The workplace-safety agency...