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Since 1979, the Immigration Law Section of the Stuart H. Smith Law Clinic and Center for Social Justice has represented non-citizens in a variety of issues before the U.S. Department of Justice Immigration Courts and the Board of Immigration Appeals as well as the U.S. Department of Homeland Security ("DHS"). For example, we represent people who were persecuted or tortured or have a future fear of persecution or torture in their home country in their quest for political asylum, withholding of removal under INA §241(b) (alternative form of humanitarian relief to asylum with a higher burden of proof), and relief under the United Nations Convention Against Torture. We also assist people who are victims of crimes and/or domestic violence, and unaccompanied minors who were abused, neglected or abandoned by their natural parents to obtain immigration relief. We have litigated habeas corpus cases in the federal courts for people who are sentenced to an indefinite detention for their immigration violation, and those who were being sent to Somalia, a country in the perpetual state of civil strife with no central government.
Currently, Immigration Law Section is representing political asylum seekers from Iraq, El Salvador and Peru, long-term lawful permanent residents from Vietnam, a U.S. citizen with Mexican descent, and an unaccompanied minor from Honduras. We are working with law enforcement agencies in St. Tammany and Orleans Parishes to assist crime victims to obtain immigration relief. We also represent over 50 workers, mostly working parents with small children, who were arrested, interrogated and placed in removal proceedings by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement, an enforcement agency of the DHS, as a result of the worksite raid it conducted in, Mississippi last August, which netted close to 600 workers.
In addition to direct client representation, the Immigration Law Section conducts a monthly "Know Your Rights" immigration legal orientation program for indigent pro se detainees at Tensas Parish Detention Center in Waterproof, Louisiana. It is believed that there are close to 4,000 noncitizens currently detained in several remotely located detention centers in Louisiana. As immigrants are not entitled to appointed counsel, almost 80 percent of the detainees are required to defend themselves in the adversarial immigration court system. Therefore, this program serves the only opportunity that many detainees have to educate themselves about U.S. immigration law and the immigration court system.
Professor Kusuda joins the board of trustees for the Center for Migration Studies in New York City
Professor Hiroko Kusuda has agreed to serve on the Board of Trustees for the Center for Migration Studies. CMS is a think tank and an educational institute devoted to the study of international migration, to the promotion of understanding between immigrants and receiving communities, and to public policies that safeguard the dignity and rights of migrants, refugees and newcomers.
Professor Hiroko Kusuda has been chosen as Pro Bono Champion of the Mid South Chapter of the American Immigration Lawyers Association
Professor Kusuda received this award in honor of her long history of representing large numbers of clients pro bono, teaching students about pro bono immigration services, mentoring pro bono attorneys, providing trainings at regional and national conferences regarding humanitarian relief, and providing advocacy and rights workshops to vulnerable communities.
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Kate Richardson '18 is joining the Refugee and Immigrant Center for Education and Legal Services as an Immigrant Justice Corps fellow. She will represent detained mothers and children seeking asylum.
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SKINS MATCH AT SILVER CREEK VALLEY COUNTRY CLUB RAISES $7,000 FOR THE FIRST TEE SILICON VALLEY AND YOUTH ON COURSE
San Jose, Calif. (December 20, 2021) – Silver Creek Valley Country Club in San Jose, Calif. recently hosted an amateur 9-hole skins match to raise funds for the First Tee Silicon Valley and Youth on Course, two non-profit organizations providing youth with affordable access to golf. A skins game/match is when golfers compete against the other members of their foursome, with a skin (usually money) awarded to the lone golfer who posts the lowest score for each hole; with no skin awarded in case of a tie. The skins match featured four junior honorary members of Silver Creek Valley including Sabrina Iqbal, a senior at Texas Christian University; Katherine Zhu, a senior at Cal; Caleb Shetler, a junior at San Jose State; and Francesca (Franky) Sumcad, a junior at Valley Christian High School. Approximately 100 spectators followed the 9-hole event, which took place on Saturday, November 27th. In total, $7,000 was raised for the youth golf programs, with $5,444.44 going to The First Tee Silicon Valley and $1,555.56 going to Youth on Course. Funds were raised by Silver Creek Valley Country Club members.
Sumcad won seven skins, highlighted by an eagle on the par-5 16th hole, while Zhu won two skins with birdies on the final two holes. Sumcad is the No. 1 player at Valley Christian and carries a +1.1 handicap. Zhu is the No. 1 player and captain of the Cal women's golf team and a former AJGA All American. Iqbal plays at TCU and has won the CIF State Championship, NCGA Junior Amateur, CA State Amateur, and SF City Championship. Shetler is a former Mountain West Freshman of the Year, a 2021 U.S. Amateur participant at Oakmont, Santa Clara County Champion, and the course record holder at Cinnabar (60) and San Jose Country Club (59).
Silver Creek Valley Country Club created its junior honorary member program to support young, prominent, local golfers to help grow the game of golf. Junior honorary members have access to the club to practice, work at junior clinics, and be a role model for the club's youth.
Nestled in the foothills of the Silver Creek Valley region among magnificent oak trees, a meandering creek, wetlands, and native grass areas, the golf course was designed to coexist with the scenic natural environment. Originally designed by Ted Robinson in 1992, the Silver Creek Valley golf course was renovated by award-winning architect Mike Strantz in 2002. Silver Creek Valley Country Club is San Jose's largest and most striking private golf and country club. Situated atop hills overlooking the golf course, lakeside waterfalls, and the Silicon Valley, the 34,000 square-foot clubhouse underwent a multi-million-dollar enhancement project in 2016. The club also features a Sports Pavilion, which includes a beautiful tennis complex, fitness center and two swimming pools.
Silver Creek Valley Country Club is managed by Troon Privé, the private club operations division of Troon, and is a Boardroom Magazine "Distinguished Emerald Club" representing the best-of-the-best in private clubs. For more information on Silver Creek Valley Country Club, visit www.scvcc.com.
Headquartered in Scottsdale, Ariz., Troon is the world's largest golf management company providing services at 630-plus locations around the globe, including managing 650-plus 18-hole equivalent golf courses. In addition to golf, Troon specializes in homeowner association management, private residence clubs, estate management and associated hospitality venues. Troon's award-winning food and beverage division operates and manages 615-plus food and beverage operations located at golf resorts, private clubs, daily fee golf courses and recreational facilities. With properties located in 45-plus states and 30-plus countries, Troon's family of brands includes Troon Golf, Troon Privé, Troon International, Indigo Sports, CADDIEMASTER, True Club Solutions, Cliff Drysdale Tennis, Peter Burwash International, Casa Verde Golf, and RealFood Hospitality, Strategy and Design. For additional news and information, visit www.Troon.com, or connect with Troon on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Troon Chronicles, Press Room, or subscribe to Troon Magazine.
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Are you tired of visiting the same beach over and over again? Well, if you want to discover something new, you're came to the right place. We compiled 10 bizarre beaches that you probably haven't seen before! These are truly one of a kind beaches to soak your body in both water and the sun!
The Glass Beach is located in MacKerricher State Park in California and is famous for its sea glass beachfront that was created from years of garbage-dumping in the coastline near the northern part of the town.
The area was once a secluded strip of sand formed after it was used by the Mexican government as a target practice for military exercises. Now, it's an attraction of clear waters, and heaven-looking beaches.
A fairy-tale-ish view, the Maldives beach is one of the most magical places to visit on Earth; but don't get misguided, there is some science behind this.
According to James Morin of Cornell, this phenomena is brought about by organisms called ostracod crustaceans. These animals emit light for a longer time than bioluminescent phytoplanktons which were thought to be responsible for the glowing beach.
The pink sand of this Bahamas beach is not really sand but washed-up coral remains.
This beach is so close to the airport runway that you can actually see the planes close up! Airplanes arriving the airport must touch down as close as possible to the runway because it is relatively short. This results to the aircraft flying closer to the beach at minimal altitude.
This beach is one of only four green beaches in the world: Talofofo, Punta Cormorant and Hornidalsvatnet. The green color comes from olivine.
This beach is popular for its black sand that comes from basalt, created by lava flowing into the oceans and explodes as it reaches the ocean and cools. This beach is also home to the endangered Hawksbill and Green turtles.
The red color of the ground on Rabida The color of the beach oin this island is due to the oxidization of lava that flowed through the beachfront. However, some argue that it's because of dead corals.
While most sand in beaches come from Quartz, a translucent mineral that gives the sand a light color, Pfeiffer's sand is made up of manganese garnet.
A beach in a cave? Yes way!


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Preparation in Elul: I lift my eyes to the mountains…
My horse, Naapi, stepped gently through the trees, stopping now and then to munch on the grasses and wildflowers along the trail. I was supposed to pull his head up and give him a heel to the ribs. Of course, I did not have much heart to do that! He knew in an instant that he had a softie in his saddle. Naapi was named for the Old Man in the Blackfeet Indian origin story; he is the one who designs and shapes the world into being. He is also a trickster. (Maybe it was not only my compassion that kept me from steering him away from his mid-ride snacks – I took his name seriously!)
I asked our guide, Shane, what he thought about a Creator who is also a trickster. Shane laughed, and then turned our light banter immediately to a theological discussion. It turns out that not only is Shane a prize winning rodeo competitor, a high school teacher, and an entrepreneur, but he is also pastor of his church.
He told me about his sense of wonder at the birth of his first child just three days earlier, a funeral at which he had officiated the day before, and community healing he hopes to effect in his church. I told him about my synagogue, the social action and prayer in which we engage, and the serious work of preparation for the High Holy Days that begins (tonight!) with Rosh Hodesh Elul.
Shane was especially moved to learn about the Jewish idea of repentance. I explained that the Hebrew word teshuva does not mean punishment or forgiveness; but rather, return. When I told him about returning to our best selves and to God as the true work of repentance, he thought this would be a good lesson for the people in his church.
I joked that I would be teaching about his church on Saturday and he would be preaching about our synagogue on Sunday!
As our scheduled one hour horseback ride lengthened into two hours, we spoke about obligations to family, privileges of community and our connection to God through nature. Shane told me that he believes that there are more atheists in urban areas than in back country. I understood exactly what he meant. In our normal suburban/urban lives, we are surrounded by the accomplishments of humans: bridges and buildings, roadways and highways. We spend our days connected to electronics and social media. It makes sense that there is not much room for God in our busy, human-centered lives. How different it is in the back country where I was privileged to spend ten days of vacation. I spent my days on a bicycle or in hiking shoes. I rarely used my phone. The tallest things in every direction were the glorious mountains of Glacier National Park. When I considered the Rocky Mountains decorated on top by ever-changing cloud formations, glacial lakes, fast-running rivers, endless plains and deep forests, I felt deeply God's presence. Who else could have "invented all of this stuff"?!
It is time to prepare for Rosh Hashanah. We will be hearing the blast of the shofar for the first time on Sunday morning. How will we wake up? OJC is offering several opportunities to do the work of Heshbon haNefesh, taking an accounting of our souls.
Women of OJC are invited to a Saturday evening program on September 7 to Envision a New Year . #OJCSupportsU is hosting a workshop, Hope into the new year, at two different times: Monday, September 16 at 4 o'clock in the afternoon or Wednesday, September 18 at 7:30 pm. Hope into the New Year.
After my amazing experience at Glacier National Park, I have one more suggestion for Elul preparation. Consider preparing your soul by connecting to God in nature. Rockland County, New York and Bergen County, New Jersey have some of the most beautiful outdoor areas in our country. Unplug, disconnect, and find the green spaces to quiet your mind and listen to your soul. Bring with you a prayer book, a poetry collection, a journal or a book of Psalms. Close your eyes and breathe in as the trees breathe out. Listen to the sounds of the woods or the ocean. Be present to yourself in the majesty of God's creation. On my vacation, every morning when I prayed, I could never figure out if I should read a Psalm about God's creation or simply look up from the page at God's creation. Ultimately, I chose to do both. I hope that you will do the same.
Whether on footpath or sandy beach, I wish you luck on your journey toward the High Holy Days. Perhaps you will be rewarded, as I was, with a rainbow. God keeps God's promises. Do we keep ours?
Let my people go … to camp
"Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn." – Benjamin Franklin
Your grandmother passes down her recipe (in writing!) for her famous chicken soup. You follow it to a tee. But if you are a vegetarian and don't actually taste it, can you ever create a soup that replicates hers?
You can describe what it feels like to be loved. You can use every modifier known to human language. But can your audience truly relate, unless they themselves have experienced such love?
You can teach about Shabbat. You can try to relate the benefits of a day of unplugging and of being present to the people and world around you. But to your average listener, the description simply sounds like a series of dos and don'ts. Unless you have fully lived Shabbat, will it ever find its fullest expression in your mind and heart?
Decades ago, Jewish life shifted from urban areas to the suburbs. As Jews settled in neighborhoods, tightly knit Jewish communities dissipated into spread out regions. Jewish identification, which had been facilitated by the smells, sights, sounds, rhythms and culture that permeated daily life, suddenly became something that needed to be sought out. Over a relatively short period of time, Jewish identity became an extracurricular pursuit, and the synagogue became the place to find it.
But as wonderful as the synagogue and its community might be, so long as Jewish identification was a choice as opposed to a fact of life, the Judaism of your average Jewish household would have to be scheduled — usually against athletics, the arts, school and leisure time. And the competition has only gotten stiffer over the last decades.
Enter Jewish camping.
This summer, I visited 6 different Jewish camps, 5 of them in the Ramah network, the camping arm of the Conservative Movement. Each camp had its own culture, its own particular appeal and camper demographic. What the camps shared, however, was a commitment to building Jewish identity and community rooted in Jewish values. These camps have moved far past Friday night prayer and kosher food as the defining features of their Jewishness. They have created models of education that infuse Jewish values and Jewish living into the daily activities of the campers. Values like community, pride, and joy are reinforced on the climbing wall, on the basketball court and in the art room. At these camps, Judaism is alive, relevant and informative. And Jewish community is the all-encompassing context of daily life.
From my somewhat limited perspective, the great magic of Ramah camps is the way in which the staff members live and grow. Especially given how concerned we are about life on college campuses, it is refreshing and heartening to see teens seriously engaged in Jewish living and learning, wrestling with one another and with Rabbis and teachers over issues of theology, observance and the centrality of Israel as parts of Jewish identity. Again, it is one thing to engage in these discussions in an intellectual fashion; it is quite another to do so from within the framework of Jewish community.
After a week of volunteering at Ramah Sports Academy and an afternoon of revisiting my childhood at Camp Ramah in New England, I am more convinced than ever that Benjamin Franklin had it right. Even the best teachers will not transform the lives of their students unless the teachers create the moments and contexts in which students can participate in and live out the lessons learned.
In the year ahead, we as a synagogue community are dedicating ourselves to creating Jewish living experiences for our children. We are excited about the "campy" program we have created. But it takes more for us to be successful; it takes commitment and resources to support experiences beyond the synagogue walls. It takes parents who encourage their children to attend a two-week experience like USY Encampment (coming soon, call me, Bruce Varon or Sharon Rappaport for more information). It takes donors to make Jewish camping more affordable to families who prioritize Jewish identity-building. And it takes parents who recognize that a summer job as a Jewish camp counselor is as—if not more—important to Jewish community and continuity than a career-boosting internship.
Like you, I want our children and grandchildren to have it all, including the richness of our Jewish tradition. This summer, I got a glimpse of how our dreams could be achieved.


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Plant consciousness is the process of bio-communication in plant cells, which has come to mean that plants are sentient life forms that feel, know, and are conscious. The scientific field of neurobiology has been effective in demonstrating plant consciousness.
Consciousness exists in everything, but manifests itself in different ways. With the reality that all matter is energy vibrating at different frequencies, it is reasonable to say that all matter has consciousness in its unique way, since all matter comes from the same source and is comprised at its basics level of the same building blocks. This can be seen in DNA consciousness as well. This would be a universal principle that would be true for any state of energy, be it a solid, liquid, gas, plasma and then as crystalline, plant, animal, human, and higher dimension life forms.
Plants communicate just through feeling. They are purely feeling beings, they do not even know what "thinking" is (except to the extent that they can get a taste of what "thinking" means when they connect with a human). You have to get in touch with your own feelings in the moment in order to communicate with a plant.
You have to be there in the moment and be aware of what you are feeling right then when you are in contact with the plant. Not the feelings about what is going on yesterday and tomorrow, but the feelings of Now, in the present moment. It is one of the things that plants can teach you. Not just entheogens, but any plant who shares your life with you. Each species has a distinct personality that you can get to know just by being open to "feeling" it.
Scientific Evidence of Plant Consciousness
Although it is not commonly discussed for various socio-political reasons, there is an ample amount of scientific evidence that has proven that plants do indeed have some sort of consciousness. An enormous amount of research was provided in the revolutionary book on this subject entitled The Secret Life of Plants by Peter Tompkins and Christopher Bird. There was a documentary film created parallel to the book's findings, which is viewable here.
Plant Nervous System
Each root apex harbors a unit of nervous system of plants. The number of root apices in the plant body is high and all brain-units are interconnected via vascular strands (plant nerves) with their polarly-transported auxin (plant neurotransmitter), to form a serial (parallel) nervous system of plants. The computational and informational capacity of this nervous system based on interconnected parallel units is predicted to be higher than that of the diffuse nervous system of lower animals, or the central nervous system of higher animals/humans.
Plant Pain
In the research of Jagadish Chandra Bose, in plant stimuli, he showed with the help of his newly invented crescograph that plants responded to various stimuli as if they had nervous systems like that of animals. He therefore found a parallelism between animal and plant tissues. His experiments showed that plants grow faster in pleasant music and its growth retards in noise or harsh sound.
His major contribution in the field of biophysics was the demonstration of the electrical nature of the conduction of various stimuli (wounds, chemical agents) in plants, which were earlier thought to be of chemical in nature. He claimed that plants can "feel pain, understand affection etc.," from the analysis of the nature of variation of the cell membrane potential of plants, under different circumstances. According to him a plant treated with care and affection gives out a different vibration compared to a plant subjected to torture."
Plant Painkillers
A team of scientists from the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder, Colo., discovered by accident plants in the wild emitting methyl salicylate – a form of the painkiller known as aspirin. They set up instruments in a walnut grove near Davis, Calif., to monitor plant emissions of certain volatile organic compounds (or VOCs). VOCs emitted by plants can actually combine with industrial emissions and contribute to smog. To their surprise, the NCAR scientists found that the emissions of VOCs their instruments recorded in the atmosphere included methyl salicylate.
They noticed that the methyl salicylate emissions increased dramatically when the plants, already stressed by a local drought, experienced unseasonably cool nighttime temperatures followed by large temperature increases during the day. At this current point in time, scientists think that the methyl salicylate has two functions: stimulating a process similar to the immune response in animals that helps plants resist and recover from disease, and acting as a form of chemical communication to warn neighbors of threats. "These findings show tangible proof that plant-to-plant communication occurs on the ecosystem level," said study team member Alex Guenther. "It appears that plants have the ability to communicate through the atmosphere."
Plan Communication
Research findings that have been published in the journal Oecologia have noted that plants talk amongst themselves to spread information, much like humans and other animals. A unique internal network apparently allows plants to warn each other against predators and potential enemies. Plants have an early warning system, very much like in military defense, but more effective: each member of the plant network can receive the external signal of impending herbivore danger and transmit it to the other members of the network. The attacked leaf is lost. However, the remaining leaves are protected against predators.
In another study, whose research findings were published in the journal Ecology Letters, it was found that plants engage in self-recognition and can communicate danger to their "clones" or genetically identical cuttings planted nearby. The findings were found while studying sagebrush. Richard Karban and fellow scientist Kaori Shiojiri of the Center for Ecological Research, Kyoto University, Japan, found that sagebrush responded to cues of self and non-self without physical contact. The sagebrush communicated and cooperated with other branches of themselves to avoid being eaten by grasshoppers, Karban said.
The scientists suspect that the plants warn their own kind of impending danger by emitting volatile cues. This may involve secreting chemicals that deter herbivores or make the plant less profitable for herbivores to eat, he said. "Plants are capable of responding to complex cues that involve multiple stimuli," Karban said. "Plants not only respond to reliable cues in their environments but also produce cues that communicate with other plants and with other organisms, such as pollinators, seed disperses, herbivores and enemies of those herbivores."
Plant Hereditary Awareness
Some more amazing research has shown that plants actually know their own siblings and kin, with the help of chemicals released from the roots. This way, if siblings of the plants are growing alongside them, the plants will grow their roots more downward and be taller, whereas if alien plants are living beside them, they will grow their roots outward and the alien plants will be shorter and grow less.
Plant Thinking & Memory
Recent research has uncovered that plants transmit information about light intensity and quality from leaf to leaf in a very similar way to the nervous system of human beings. In the experiment that found this, scientists showed that light shone on to one leaf caused the whole plant to respond and the response, which took the form of light-induced chemical reactions in the leaves, continued in the dark.
This showed that the plant remembered the information encoded in light. Plants seem to be able to perform a sort of biological light computation, using information contained in the light to immunize themselves against diseases. These "electro-chemical signals" are carried by cells that act as "nerves" of the plants.
The Secret Life of Plants
In the documentary entitled The Secret Life of Plants, which is based on the book with the same title, several scientific studies were shown and discussed that showed enough evidence to remove all doubt of an ancient truth; that plants have a consciousness. Below are a few of the scientific experiments presented in the film that have a revolutionary impact on how we view plants.
When a plant was put into a Faraday tube, and a telescope pointed at Ursa Major, hooked up to an instrument that converted plant consciousness expressions into audible tones, it was demonstrated that the plant was communicating with something in that star system…most likely something in the plant kingdom. This must have been happening since plants have existed…always constantly communicating with each other since all is one.
A Russian experiment was done with two cabbage plants…one hooked with electrodes to a machine that converted its energetic expressions into audible tones. When the cabbage that was not hooked up to any instrument was being destroyed at random by a human scientist, the plant hooked up to the machines was heard screaming or crying, with a very high pitch tone.
Another Russian experiment put a cabbage on a plate that measured changes in energetic vibrations and when cut into small bits with a machete, it was expressing a similar type of screaming/crying sound that the previous plant made.
A plant was hooked up with electrodes on a leaf and a vial of small shrimp were set up in a mechanism over boiling water that would release at a completely random time into the boiling water. When this moment happened, and the shrimp started dying, the plant was seen to go frantic, on a polygrah-like graph paper and needle setup.
Another study had a man watch film clips on a projector of events ranging from children playing to nuclear bombs destroying things. The plant adjacent to the man was seen to mirror the needle movements on the graph paper of the man, exemplifying their emotions were changing and changing to the similar energetic vibrations.
A Chinese woman hooked up a cactus to an instrument that created an output of the plant essentially speaking, or at least making audible tones. She would talk to the plant and attempt to teach it Chinese and it would reply with what seemed like answers to the woman's requests.
Through a series of experiments, the authors portray the sentient quality of common plants. The simple fact that a plant "knows" when you are thinking bad thoughts. They respond to external stimuli much like any human would. In fact, it seems as if their "awareness" is heightened to include those in the psychic categories.
In one experiment, they have a random selection of men. One is chosen at random to go in and destroy one of three plants. The other two plants (common rhododendron) are then hooked up to electro-encephalographs (EEG – brain wave monitors.) and they march the men in one by one. The plants exhibit no alarm, but as soon as the one responsible for the plant death enters the room, the other two plants start registering wildly on the graphs. Basically, they knew who it was that killed their friend. Or, too be more blunt, they read his mind.
Some researchers have used polygraph instruments connected to leaf surfaces to observe responses through electromagnetic activity to various stimuli such as: raucous, loud music compared with mellow, harmonious music. The results are always the same: plants react favorably to mellow music while continuous raucous sounds can actually kill them. Even more amazingly, perhaps, is that plants accurately react to good or bad thoughts directed at them or other biological life forms and even at great distances.
Global Support for Plant Rights
Very recently, the notion of plants being conscious life forms has become a legal affair. In 2007, the government of Switzerland had issued a bill of rights for plants. Swiss Government's Federal Ethics Committee on Non-Human Biotechnology concludes that plants have rights, and we have to treat them appropriately. A majority of the panel concluded that "living organisms should be considered morally for their own sake because they are alive."
Another country that has officially declared plants and ecosystems having rights is Ecuador. The Ecuadorian population voted to change their constitution to proclaim that nature has "the right to the maintenance and regeneration of its vital cycles, structure, functions and evolutionary processes." Almost 70% of Ecuadorians voted in favor of protecting nature in this method.Ecuador drafted the changes with the help of the U.S. based Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund.
Along with it's work in Ecuador the Fund "has assisted more than a dozen local municipalities with drafting and adopting local laws recognizing Rights of Nature." The basis of these rights "change the status of ecosystems from being regarded as property under the law to being recognized as rights-bearing entities." It is not surprising for a country such as Ecuador to embrace this decision, since they are a country with a culture dating back to prehistory of shamanism and treating plants, especially entheogens, as if they had their own spirits.
Implications of Plant Consciousness
There is an energy that flows throughout everything on this planet and throughout the entire multiverse. There is one invisible energy that ties us all together. Humans, cats, dogs, trees, rocks, and any other manifestations of energy are all interconnected. The principle of oneness is found in all ancient religions. The new evidence implies that these ancient beliefs, which were answers that mystics found by going within and accessing higher knowledge, were true in the sense that all is one and all is connected. The whole multiverse is, in this case, a sentient organism.
Never treat a plant like it is an inanimate object. It is just as alive as you are, just in a different way. It's consciousness is basic but it does exhibit feelings of fear, empathy, happiness, etc. Is it not best to respect everything and everyone the same way you respect yourself? Why must it only involve human beings? Why not broaden the criteria to everything with a consciousness? It is the right thing to do that you can see in the deep of your soul. If we treat all manifested Reality as if it was us, but in a different manifestation, then imagine how different life would be.
Insights From Plant Consciousness
The purity and unselfishness of plant existence can be pondered upon. Plant life can be seen as a model for ideal human conduct; unlike animals and humans, most plants do not kill and do not live at the expense of other organisms. They are in direct contact with all four elements (earth, wind, water, and fire i.e. sun) and their ability to transform cosmic energy is absolutely indispensable for life on this planet.
Plants are uncontaminated by questions about purpose, awareness of goals, or concerns about the future; rather they seem to represent pure being in the here and now, the ideal of many mystical and spiritual schools of thought. Not exploiting and hurting other organisms, most plants serve themselves as a source of food and bring beauty and joy into the life of others.
The Secret Life of Plants by Peter Tompkins and Christopher Bird
http://phys.org/news164652485.html
http://www.livescience.com/1909-plants-communicate-warn-danger.html
http://www.livescience.com/5102-plants-painkillers.html
http://ds9.botanik.uni-bonn.de/zellbio/AG-Baluska-Volkmann/plantneuro/neuroview.php
LSD: Doorway to the Numinous: The Groundbreaking Psychedelic Research into Realms of the Human Unconscious by Stanislav Grof M.D.
http://phys.org/news/2011-10-gravity-physical.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/10598926
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Add a water fountain near a flower garden or other area in your yard you like to spend time in. This will not only add beauty, but will give you a relaxing place to sit as you listen to the water.
Before you get started, talk with a landscaping company, like Southern Landscape Materials, to help you get the area ready. The ground will need to be flattened using a sod roller or a ground tamper. If the area is very large, a landscaper can bring in some fill dirt to fill out any low spots to make the area level. Fill dirt is the soil beneath the top soil, and has very little organic matter. This is why it is often used to fill in spaces instead of used for vegetable or flower gardens. Choosing a good fill dirt is essential so that water run-off won't erode the soil or decompose organic material--thus creating foundation issues for your fountain.
Once you have laid the fill dirt, you'll want to choose your preferred fountain style. You can find fountains that spray streams of water up into the air. You can also find tiered water fountains where the water comes out from the top, and then runs down each tier. There are statue water fountains where the water sprays out of a mouth or other object. These fountains can be very large, or you can choose a smaller fountain to place next to a flower garden. A self-contained fountain is another choice you have. Everything is housed within this type of fountain so no plumbing has to be installed. This makes it easier for you to move the fountain to a different area if you need or want to.
To create a beautiful walkway, stone is a material that is budget friendly and looks great. You could use stepping stones as a path to your flower garden or water fountain. You could also use irregular shaped stones on a curving walkway. There are many types of stones you can use, including slate, limestone, granite, and bluestone. If the walkway will be in a shady area, bluestone works best, as moss can grow on the other types of stones if they do not receive enough sun on them. You can sit stone on top of existing concrete, on dry land, or in an area that has a compacted gravel base. Put mulch in between the spaces of the stones to prevent weeds from growing between them. If you have leftover fill dirt, it can be used as a good foundation in place of the mulch.
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New York 8, Detroit Tigers 4: Yankees drill David Price early; Tigers fall
Jacoby Ellsbury led off the third inning for the New York Yankees on Wednesday night at Comerica Park.
And Ellsbury became the first out of the inning.
But the manner in which he did so reflects how David Price, in his fifth start with the Tigers, had the worst start of his career.
Ellsbury made the first out on his second time up in the inning, and he did so with a sacrifice fly off reliever Blaine Hardy. Ellsbury had led off the third with a hit off Price. The next eight hitters in the order repeated the feat. They got a hit off Price.
This 9-for-9 performance, from spots one through nine in the order, meant Price finished with these totals: two innings, 12 hits, eight runs.
"It was just an off night," manager Brad Ausmus said. "He left some balls up in the zone, middle of the plate. They hit some balls hard. They hit some balls not-so-hard that found some holes."
Price allowed all eight runs in the third, the most he has allowed in one inning in his career, according to ESPN Stats and Information. And that was the ballgame. The Yankees won, 8-4, as rookie right-hander Shane Greene held the Tigers to two runs in seven innings.
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When general manager Dave Dombrowski traded for Price four weeks ago today, he placed further emphasis on winning low-scoring games. Price's past two starts represent both ends of a nightmare scenario for the Tigers: He pitched a one-hitter and lost, 1-0, then had the worst start of his career as the Tigers try to climb back to first place.
Drew Smyly, whom the Tigers traded for Price, turned in another spectacular outing Wednesday. Following his shutout of Toronto on Friday, Smyly beat the slugging Orioles, 3-1, by holding them to one run and two hits in seven innings in their cozy home park. In five starts for Tampa Bay, Smyly is 3-1 with a 1.50 ERA.
Now the Royals, not the Tigers, are pulling out low-scoring games. Tuesday night, they trailed the Twins, 1-0, to the ninth and won, 2-1, on Alex Gordon's two-run homer. Wednesday night, they trailed the Twins, 1-0, to the eighth and scored six runs for a 6-1 win. The Royals raised their Central lead on the Tigers to 2½ games.
And the underlying crucial fact about the Royals' wins the past two nights: tremendous starting pitching that kept them close until the late rally. On Tuesday night, left-hander Danny Duffy allowed Minnesota one run in 62/3 innings. On Wednesday night, Liam Hendriks held the Twins to one run in seven innings.
The Yankees' onslaught against Price, which seemed to amaze and dismay the sellout crowd, wasn't exactly the tape-measure stuff of Ruth and Mantle. It consisted of two doubles and seven singles. Not all the hits were line drives.
Of the way he stayed with Price through the sixth, seventh, eighth and ninth consecutive hits, Ausmus said: "You've got to give a guy like David Price the benefit of the doubt. This guy has been a horse. He goes deep into games all the time. You feel like he's going to get an out. He's at the bottom of the order. He's going to get the next guy out, get a double play, he's going to get rolling.
"But he was running out of steam, and even the balls that weren't hit well were finding holes."
Price leads the AL in strikeouts, and he got to two strikes against only one of those nine hitters who got a hit off him in the third inning. No one in the third inning swung and missed against him.
"It was fun," Derek Jeter told the New York Post about the third-inning rally. "You don't see that very often. We were lucky. We found some holes. That's why you play the game. We were fortunate, but we needed it. Big inning for us."
On the night the Tigers honored him, Jeter gave a vintage snapshot of himself on both sides of the ball.
With no score in the second, the shortstop flagged down Nick Castellanos' grounder headed up the middle, made the 360-degree spin and threw out Castellanos at first.
Jeter drove in the first run of the third with a double to rightfield, his signature opposite-fielding landing spot. With that plate appearance, Jeter had faced Price more times than any other hitter, breaking his tie with Robinson Cano. No matter how many times a pitcher faces Jeter, it doesn't mean he has an edge on him.
If you'd never seen Jeter play, those two moments — the one in the field, the one at bat — gave a pretty good summation of why he has held the same job for the past 19 seasons.


The man who owns the company, a lawyer and cryptocurrency millionaire named Jeffrey Berns, put on a helmet and climbed into a Polaris off-road vehicle last week to give a tour of the sprawling property and dispel a bit of the mystery.
After his driver stopped the Polaris on a high desert plateau, surrounded by blooming rabbit brush and a grazing herd of wild horses, Mr. Berns, who is 56, pointed to the highlights of his dream community.
"You see that first range of mountains," he said, pointing south. "Those mountains are the border of our South Valley. That's where we're going to build the high-tech park," a research campus that would cover hundreds of acres. There are also plans for a college and an e-gaming arena.
As strange — even fantastical — as all this might sound, Mr. Berns's ambitions fit right into the idiosyncratic world of cryptocurrencies and blockchains.
There is a fuzzy line between these utopian visions and get-rich-quick schemes. Several cryptocurrency projects have been shut down by regulators; apparent hucksters have been arrested; and a plan to transform Puerto Rico with cryptocurrencies has been criticized as nothing more than a bid to take advantage of the island's status as a tax haven.
Mr. Berns was drawn to Nevada by its tax benefits, including the lack of income taxes. And the breadth of his ambitions certainly raises the risk of a boondoggle.
But he is different from his crypto-brethren in one big way: He is spending his own money. So far, he said, he has spent $300 million on the land, offices, planning and a staff of 70 people. And buying 67,000 largely undeveloped acres is a bit of old-fashioned, real estate risk-taking.
Still, Mr. Berns said his ambition was not to be a real estate magnate or even to get rich — or richer. He is promising to give away all decision-making power for the project and 90 percent of any dividends it generates to a corporate structure that will be held by residents, employees and future investors. That structure, which he calls a "distributed collaborative entity," is supposed to operate on a blockchain where everyone's ownership rights and voting powers will be recorded in a digital wallet.
Mr. Berns acknowledged that all this is way beyond what blockchains have actually accomplished. But that hasn't discouraged him.
Mr. Berns has managed to win over local officials who are eager for economic development. Nevada's governor, Brian Sandoval, read a proclamation that named the Blockchains property "Innovation Park" at an event last month where Mr. Berns sat on a panel with the governor and Elon Musk, the chief executive of Tesla.
Tesla's Gigafactory in Nevada, which has been described as the largest building in the world, is surrounded by Blockchains' land. Companies like Google, Apple and Switch also have properties in the industrial park that is surrounded by Mr. Berns's holdings.
This week, he announced a memorandum of understanding with one of the state's main power companies, NV Energy, to team up on projects that will run energy transactions through a blockchain.
The Nevada county where this is all located, Storey County, has only about 4,000 residents and was best known, until recently, for its history of silver mining and its modern brothels, including one owned by a county commissioner.
That same county commissioner, Lance Gilman, bought the land surrounding the brothel and turned it into the industrial park where Tesla and Google are now located.
Blockchains has already received preliminary county support for a new town along the Truckee River, with thousands of homes, a school and a drone delivery system, and is working closely with the county on a broader master plan.
But for now, Blockchains is empty land and a repurposed office building. Mr. Berns said the company won't begin construction on the broader property until late 2019, at the earliest, after putting together the master plan and getting it approved by the county.
The office manager from Mr. Berns's old law office in Los Angeles, Joanna Rodriguez, moved with her four children and husband to Nevada.
Mr. Berns spent most of his professional life on class-action lawsuits, many of them against financial companies. He learned about Bitcoin in 2012 but was won over by another cryptocurrency, Ethereum, which makes it possible to store more than just transaction data on a blockchain.
Mr. Berns bought Ether, the digital token associated with Ethereum, in a big sale in 2015. Thanks to an astronomical increase in the price of Ether and some well-timed selling last year before it crashed, he became wealthy enough to fund his dream project.
Ethereum is what he believes makes his community more than just a giant real estate project. To understand why requires more than a bit of imagination. And faith. Every resident and employee will have what amounts to an Ethereum address, which they will use to vote on local measures and store their personal data.
Mr. Berns believes Ethereum will give people a way to control their identity and online data without any governments or companies involved.
That is a widely shared view in the blockchain community, but there are significant questions about whether any of it can work in the real world. Most blockchain companies have failed to gain any traction, and Ethereum and Bitcoin networks have struggled to handle even moderate amounts of traffic.
Mr. Berns believes that one of the big problems has been security. People have been terrible at holding the private keys that are necessary to get access to a Bitcoin or Ethereum wallet.
He wants to address that with a custom-built system where people's private keys are stored on multiple digital devices, kept in vaults, so that no one device can gain access to the keys. He has already purchased vaults that are burrowed into mountains in Sweden and Switzerland, and he plans to build additional vaults in the mountains in Nevada.
The other thing holding back Ethereum, Mr. Berns believes, has been a lack of real-world laboratories. His Nevada land, he hopes, will change that.


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A cold sore, no. Canker sores are not contagious. … They form when you come in contact with the virus herpes. Canker sores often form inside the mouth, while cold sores most commonly appear on the lips.
They may be swollen and painful. Having a canker sore can make it hard to talk or eat. Canker sores may hurt for 7 to 10 days. Minor canker sores heal completely in 1 to 3 weeks, but major canker sores can take up to 6 weeks to heal.
Salt water rinse Rinsing your mouth with salt water is a go-to home remedy, although a painful one, for mouth sores of any kind. It may help dry out canker sores.
A drying agent (e.g., 70% rubbing alcohol or Blistex ointment) particularly when sores first appear.
While autoimmune diseases often accompany each other, canker sores don't seem to have any correlation with other autoimmune complaints. Instead, new research suggests that canker sores may not be a disease at all.
A canker sore usually progresses from a sore spot into an ulcer over 1–3 days. The ulcer then enlarges to its final size over the next 3–4 days and stabilizes before it begins to heal. In most individuals, canker sores resolve in 7–14 days. The duration of a canker sore depends on its type.
Numbing the mouth. People can suck on ice chips or apply them to a canker sore to relieve some of the pain and discomfort, as the cold will numb the sensation.
Salt is one of those natural healing methods for oral health problems. In fact, the use of salt for mouth healing dates back even to Ancient Egyptian times in 1600 B.C. Salt can help reduce the size and pain of a canker sore within the first 24 hours. It inhibits dental bacteria and helps your mouth to heal.
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Major. Canker sores that appear larger than 1/3 inch to 1/2 inch, usually last longer than two weeks, and appear to have irregular, oddly-shaped margins. Rarely, this type of canker sore may leave behind a scar.
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Soothe canker sores. "Mouthwash can ease a canker sore by detoxing the area — reducing the amount of bacteria that can irritate the site," says Dr. Toscano. In many cases, a simple saltwater rinse will do.
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Going out on top: Ngata signs off on Kilimanjaro
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Former Baltimore Ravens lineman Haloti Ngata announced his retirement from the NFL on Monday © GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA/AFP / Leon Halip
LOS ANGELES, United States, Mar 18 – Former Baltimore Ravens lineman Haloti Ngata announced his retirement from the NFL on Monday, signing off from the sport with a message delivered from the summit of Mount Kilimanjaro.
Ngata, a Super Bowl winner with the Ravens in 2013 and one of the most talented defensive players of his generation, leaves the sport after 13 seasons.
"I'm retiring from the NFL on top," Ngata, 35, said in an Instagram post accompanying a photograph of him at the top of Kilimanjaro.
"Just a man standing on top of the world with a heart full of gratitude," Ngata added. "Thank you Lord for letting me play the game I love for 13 unforgettable years. I'm retiring on top."
The five-time Pro Bowler spent the 2018 season with the Philadelphia Eagles after three seasons with the Detroit Lions.
But he will be best remembered for his career with the Ravens, where he spent nearly a decade after being drafted in 2006.
In Baltimore he was part of a feared defense, where he amassed 25.5 sacks over nine seasons.
Ngata, who is of Tongan descent, grew up in Utah and also excelled at rugby during his youth, playing for Salt Lake City's successful Highland High School team.
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Cantonese and Mandarin Services Recognized by New York Festivals
Cantonese Broadcasters Shiny Wo Tak Li and Nashi Ni were awarded a bronze medal for their 2006 story "Lead Poisoning in China Villages" in the Environmental Programs category of the 2007 New York Festival Radio Broadcasting Awards. Mandarin Broadcaster and Program Host of 'Journey of the Soul' Zhang Min received a Finalist Certificate.
WASHINGTON—Mandarin Broadcaster and Program Host of 'Journey of the Soul' Zhang Min received a Finalist Certificate for her 2006 story "Blind Rights Activist Chen Guangcheng's Eyes – Yuan Weijing, His Wife" in the Profiles/Community Portraits category.
Blanquita Cullum, who chairs the Broadcasting Board of Governors' committee that oversees Radio Free Asia, said this recognition by the New York group reflects the remarkable work produced by RFA reporters all year round.
"Day after day, these intrepid journalists bring the uncensored news to people across Asia in their native language who would otherwise have to rely on state-sponsored media," Cullum said.
A gala was held on the evening of June 28th in New York City at the Tribeca Rooftop Hotel to honor the journalists.
The story by Shiny Li and Nashi Ni covers the fate of villagers in the northwestern province of Gansu, China, who have battled lead poisoning for more than ten years. Most of the inhabitants of Xinsi as well as six nearby villages have been found to have excessive levels of lead in their blood. Groups of up to 100 people regularly stage protests on the doorsteps of village government offices at the risk of being detained by police and interrogated.
Chinese authorities say that they found the main source of poisoning within a day and watch developments closely. Only one factory was shut down. But villagers continue to complain about other factories which still spew out black smoke and dump heavy metal waste on land and in nearby rivers. Villagers outside of the monitoring program also want their blood tested but are not allowed to have this done. Coverage of this story has been ongoing since disclosure of the incident in August 2006. The report also features interviews with a medical expert and a soil pollution expert.
Blind Rights Activist Chen Guangcheng's Eyes – Yuan Weijing, His Wife
Zhang Min's story was aired on the occasion of blind lawyer Chen Guangcheng's 35th birthday while incarcerated for his exposure of Chinese authorities' abusive implementation of family planning policy. The story features a moving interview with Chen's wife, Yuan Weijing, who was under house arrest at the time.
Chen Guangcheng became famous at home and abroad for his work documenting forced abortion, the destruction of family homes, and the detention and torture of those who have children without permission.
Chen's wife, Yuan Weijing, tells stories about how she and Chen first met and fell in love. Yuan Weijing eventually gave up her teaching job to help her husband in his fight for human rights. She calls herself "the eyes of Chen Guangcheng".
Chen Guangcheng was arrested on March 11, 2006 and sentenced to four years and three months in prison on two charges he denied on Aug. 24. Chen lodged an appeal to a higher court and was waiting to hear the results at a detention center when the program was aired.
Part of a series on Chen's case, the program also discusses his university education as a blind man and his family life.
Also interviewed for the story were village neighbors of Chen's family, Chen's lawyer, as well as Chen's mother and brothers.
More Die From Wuhan Pneumonia Virus Amid Fears City Hospitals Can't Cope
China Cracks Down on Debts to Workers And Private Firms


Dr. Steve Rechenmacher has always been fascinated with the way things work. As a kid, he disassembled and reassembled his Nintendo just to better understand how it functioned. In middle school, his interest in engineering evolved to include "the greatest machine of all—the human body." By the time he was twelve he knew he wanted to devote his life to medicine, where he could satisfy his intellectual passions while changing people's lives for the better.
Dr. Rechenmacher pursued his dream, graduating from Loma Linda University School of Medicine in Southern California and completing an internal medicine residency at the University of California Davis Medical Center. He then served as the chief cardiology fellow at the University of Utah, where he also completed a fellowship in clinical cardiac electrophysiology. He joined Vancouver Clinic's Cardiology Department in 2017.
As an electrophysiologist, he treats problems with the electrical circuits of the heart. If a heart beats too fast, too slow, or out of sync, he's the cardiologist to help.
EP is a fast-moving field with huge advancements in the tools and technologies used to treat heart conditions. Each year brings new devices that are smaller, safer, and better. But while the specialty is changing quickly, when it comes to patients, Dr. Rechenmacher likes to take his time. Sometimes that means offering patients reassurance when a condition sounds scary, helping people understand what's going on inside their chest, or carefully explaining the risks and benefits of the different medical options available.
"I think medicine works best when patients have ownership over the treatment plan. I want to help them tailor the specific plan that will work best for them, and I want to be there to help them succeed," he said.
As a physician, one of the things Dr. Rechenmacher has noticed is how people tend to take better care of their loved ones than themselves.
Outside of work, Dr. Rechenmacher, who up until now spent most of his life in Northern California, has been exploring the Northwest with his wife and three children. He's excited to live in such a beautiful, family-friendly area and to build his practice at Vancouver Clinic.
"I'm proud to be part of such an effective, community-oriented organization that is changing lives for the better, and a place that's practicing great medicine on the cutting edge," he said.


Health officials in the UK believe they have the strongest evidence yet that a new respiratory illness similar to the deadly Sars virus can spread from person to person.
Cases of the infection may come from contact with animals. However, if the virus can spread between people it poses a much more serious threat.
One person in the UK is thought to have caught the infection from a relative.
However, officials say the threat to the whole population remains very low.
There have been 11 confirmed cases of the infection around the world. It causes pneumonia and sometimes kidney failure - five patients have died.
This is the third case identified in the UK. The first was a patient flown in from Qatar for treatment. The second was linked to travel to the Middle East and Pakistan.
The virus is then thought to have spread from the second patient to a close relative. There have been suggestions of person to person transmission in earlier cases in the Middle East, but this was not confirmed.
The third UK case is being treated in intensive care at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham.
The patient is known to have an underlying health condition which left them with a weakened immune system. This may have made them susceptible to the infection.
There have been no signs of the virus spreading to staff at the hospital.
Prof John Watson, head of the respiratory diseases department at the Health Protection Agency (HPA), said: "Confirmed novel coronavirus infection in a person without travel history to the Middle East suggests that person-to-person transmission has occurred, and that it occurred in the UK.
"Although this case provides strong evidence for person to person transmission, the risk of infection in most circumstances is still considered to be very low."
The exact source of the new virus and how it spreads is still unknown. The leading theory is that it comes from animals, the new Sars-like virus does appear to be closely related to bats.
However, if the infection needs to jump from an animal to a person with each infection the threat would be much lower.
The World Health Organization reported cases from within the same family in Saudi Arabia in November 2012.
It was impossible to tell whether each patient caught the infection separately - or if it had spread between them.
A WHO spokesperson said: "We know that in some of those cases there was close physical contact between family members caring for one another, so we can't rule out human-to-human transmission."
The two cases in the UK, with only one case linked to foreign travel, provide the strongest evidence that the infection can spread between people. The Health Protection Agency (HPA) said it was "overwhelmingly likely" human-to-human transmission had occurred.
However, if the virus could readily and easily spread between people then far more cases than the 11 detected so far would have been detected.
Coronaviruses are a large family of viruses ranging from the common cold to the Sars (severe acute respiratory syndrome) virus, which spread through droplets of body fluids produced by sneezing and coughing.
It is thought these cases do not represent a "tip of the iceberg" with far more people being infected with mild or no symptoms, but the infection is still being analysed.
In 2003 an outbreak of Sars killed about 800 people after the virus spread to more than 30 countries around the world.
The new coronavirus was first identified in September 2012 in a patient in Saudi Arabia who has since died.
No travel restrictions are in place.
Prof John Oxford, a virology expert at Queen Mary, University of London, said: "This doesn't raise too many alarm bells.
"In a family things can spread far more easily than they would spread outside, people share towels and toothbrushes etc.
"If it was somebody who was not related or a nurse or a doctor - that would be a lot more serious."
Prof Ian Jones, from the University of Reading, said: "There is really close contact involved here, it is not 'true' human transmission in the general public.
"Although it is severe, it's not doing anything worse than some other respiratory infections, it's just a new one."
Prof Wendy Barclay, from Imperial College London, said it was wise to keep a close eye on the virus.
"We're an incremental step closer to worrying, but it isn't a worry where we need to say there is a pandemic coming," she said.


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Um mercado é um espaço construído especificamente para o processo pelo qual as pessoas (físicas ou jurídicas) procedem à troca de bens por uma unidade monetária ou por outros bens.

No Brasil é comum os municípios terem mercados centrais ou municipais e algumas cidades grandes terem mercados em bairros distantes dos centros comerciais, que geralmente oferecem mercadorias perecíveis como frutas, legumes e alimentos. Porém podem servir de espaço para qualquer tipo de comércio, notadamente o de artesanato.

Classificação dos tipos de mercado

Os tipos de mercado são as diferentes formas de classificar os mercados em marketing de acordo com os seguintes critérios:

 Comprador
 Concorrência
 Produto
 Área geográfica

Estas quatro variáveis, acredite ou não, geralmente determinam o segmento de mercado que você deve visar com seu negócio.

Mas se vamos falar sobre os tipos de mercados que existem, devemos primeiro concordar sobre o que é um mercado e quais são suas propriedades. Desta forma, você poderá entender melhor o conceito, entrar mais no assunto e não se perder na grande nebulosa que é a classificação do mercado. Saiba mais.

Ver também
Atacado
Varejo
Feira
Supermercado
Hipermercado

Tipologias arquitetónicas
Comércio

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Try the beef ribs & marsala fries. It was nice to try some new cuisine. The beef ribs are SO good we ordered 2 plates. Go for the hot they are still barely spicy. The marsala fries were awesome as well.


"They're made with high-end fabric that doesn't wrinkle, and we can order from size 34 to 80. … It's custom ordered and we can usually get it within a week," he said.
Assal does the alterations himself; when he's swamped, Assal has two women who help him keep up with demand.
In addition to suits, Dan's Clothier carries high-end formal gowns for women. He rents tuxedos, as well.
"Ninety percent of my business is making suits, five percent is women's gowns and five percent is alterations," he said.
Q: How did you get into this business and what was your training?
Assal, a native of Jerusalem, moved to the area in 1979 after serving in the Israeli Army for three years in an anti-terrorism unit.
Assal went to work for an industrial laundry but on Saturdays he worked with his then father-in-law, a tailor.
"I had been observing what he was doing," Assal said. "I had never been under a sewing machine in my life.
Over the course of a year, Assal taught himself how to do alterations.
Q: How did you finance the business and find your location?
In the beginning, Assal found a small space in Olathe next to a men's clothing store.
The men's clothing store next door was Assal's first source of business.
"I got lucky because they gave me all the work and I traded the rent for the work," he said.
Three years later, Assal lost his lease on the shop and began the search for what is Dan's Clothier's current location.
When Assal moved from Olathe into the bigger space he added suits to the line.
"People were bringing in suits for me to alter that were just junk and I thought I could do better than that," Assal said.
He then followed by adding ties followed by more suit styles.
Q: How do you work with your customers and market to them?
When a customer comes into Dan's Clothier, Assal first assesses what they are looking for in a suit.
Assal has enticed customers by offering a different style of suits.
Assal promotes his business using a combination of social media and traditional advertising.
Word of mouth has also been successful, Assal said. Ninety percent of his business comes from repeat customers, mostly businessmen. A number of them have moved out of town and Assal now travels to them.
For those farther away, Assal sends a catalog and then ships their suit to them.
Assal enjoys working with teens and their parents, who tend to first come in the store looking for something to wear to a school dance or prom.
Now Assal has a second generation of customers coming in for clothing.
Q: How has your business changed over the years?
When Assal moved from Olathe into the bigger space he was able to add additional items, first ties and then more suit styles. There have been other changes, as well.
"When I opened the business the average size suit was a 40 long and now my average size is 52 long — everybody got fat," he said with a laugh.
He has also expanded his wedding business.
"I tell them don't rent a tuxedo. For another $50 they can buy a suit … and now my wedding business has exploded," he said.
Assal does about 40 weddings a year, with many choosing to do suits instead of tuxedos.
"They look gorgeous because they fit perfectly," he said.
Assal has also added a line of embroidery for companies that need logos on shirts. His son Jeremy helps with this end of the business.
Assal continues to do 90 percent of the alterations work himself, still using the same sewing machines he started the business with three decades ago.
Q: What competition do you face?
Q: What does the future hold for Dan's Clothier?
"I got about 10 more years and I am done," said Assal, who is 60.


There are so many emails sent during the Holiday season and it's really easy to get lost among all the other brands sending emails. It's vital to have a plan. Emails are very important for sales. Take Black Friday in 2014 as an example. More than one in four online orders were placed as a direct result of email marketing.
There are certain things you need to think about when making emails part of a holiday strategy.
1. You are contacting the customer directly. That's pretty huge and something that's often taken for granted when it comes to emails. Think about your ads on google, social media posts, tweets-all are subject to algorithms and you need to pay to be seen and that's even not a guarantee. So with that in mind, focus on the particular customer and create a profile so your direct contact can be tailored. When did you get their email? Where? Did they purchase before? What emails do they click on? Make a profile of them and send them targeted emails that appeal to their needs.
2. Holiday Season should have a really great Subject Line. Ok so that's easier said than done but so many emails that are sent are standard and therefore due to the vast volume during the holidays, may not even be looked at. The one that tends to work is "Want a Free Gift?"
3.Shirt, Sweet but Bold. You know from your own Inbox, that there are too many emails to open and when you do you don't need a short story. Why are you contacting me? If you can't say it in a couple of words then there's something wrong. Customer needs to see something enticing and click on it. The point of an email is to bring the customer to the site, not make them read a long email and then move on to something else.


More funny weather today. I've been waiting to have a sunny day with no wind. Well, today I just got tired of waiting for the perfect day. The wind would stop and start and the sun would come out and then disappear behind the clouds. I had to take advantage of the beautiful blooms of the gorgeous flowers in the garden.
My new azalea 'Pink Lace' is so beautiful.
My tea service a four place setting, consisting of one dessert plate and a cup and saucer for each person.
I love the crystal napkin rings with pink linen napkins. Crystal, lace and roses are a very romantic combination. I love romantic table settings so much.
The baby's breath adds a delicate and soft addition to an arrangement. The roses are 'Dream Weaver' a climbing rose growing in my garden.
The first bloom of roses are the most beautiful.
The stemware is from the Princess House a Home Decor Co.
The inspiration for this tablescape came to me when I found the lovely cherub flower vase in a local antique store a few months ago.
Yout table looks so gorgeous! I like all the details! I LOOOOVVVEEE the napkin rings!
What a stunning table, Betty! Love your flowers and the pink azalea snuggled up to the teacup makes a gorgeous photo! The Sylvia china and Affection flatware, as well as the stemware is just lovely. Crystal napkin rings are perfect. Thank you for sharing your lovely post with us today and thank you for coming to tea. Hope you have a delightful day.
Oh my what a gorgeous table. I LOVE your china. So elegant.
I do hope you will share this with Friends Sharing Tea! Your table is really beautiful and the vase is wonderful. Glorious dishes.
What a beautiful table. The perfect setting for lovely conversation. The colors, china, stemware are just gorgeous.
You really have roses already!! I am so jealous! Today is the first nice day we have had in a long time - our daffodils are just starting to bloom, guess that is par for the North! Your table is beautiful and your photographs are gorgeous as well!
Your cups and saucers remind me very much of some that my mother had and that I've wished a thousand times I'd kept. Your table presentation makes them all the more beautiful.
Hi nice to meet you! I just love your table setting! The china is lovely, and I love the napkin rings too! Thanks for sharing!
Your tablescape is simply lovely.
Everything is just beautiful! I love the first bloom of my roses and my yard is exploding. You've inspired me to do something creative with some of the blooms - and to look for a fabulous vase!
So beautiful. So sweet and romantic. Wonderful to have you be a part of Seasonal Sundays.
How lovely!! What beautiful china and stemware. I love how you put it all together.
Oh, this romantic table-setting makes me anxious to have lunch/dinner/tea al fresco! Our weather isn't quite cooperating yet, though. Love the beautiful tea service dinner-ware, with its floral design!


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Q: Getting the current UTC time from a browser with Javascript, without access to a backend/proxy and without relying on response header I'm looking for some way to have everyone who enters my webpage syncronized, and I'm hoping to avoid having to set up my own NTP time server.
I've tried multiple solutions, but ultimately they all rely on the same thing - the date on a header, which only has an accuracy of seconds.
Date.now() is not good enough for me - and I'm hoping there's a way to do better (my laptop and my phone turn out to differ by nearly 2 seconds).
(I'm aware it's not going to be perfect and there will always be variations, but I'd like to try and do better than nearly 2 seconds).
While this is just for a side-project and not anything serious, I am hoping to amuse more than 1,000 people in one day, and so google timezone, which only offers 1,000 free calls per free API key, isn't good enough.
(I can't think of any funny twist on "beggars can't be choosers")

A: you can use moment.js,
for static website:
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npm (for nodejs apps): npm i moment
here's a link to their docs:  enter link description here

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By Diler Haji
A day in the lab: UConn researchers explore epilepsy
"When people think about the body, they think of something going wrong in one place, but not how that affects the whole system," said Joannam Hawryluk, a graduate student in the lab. This lab takes a look at ion channels to explain the development of seizures and epilepsy. (Zhelun Lang/Daily Campus)
Medicine has saved and improved the lives of countless people, a legacy that is continued in the physiology and neurobiology labs at the University of Connecticut today. Researchers, including undergraduate students, are working to understand how the human body functions in order to provide the building blocks for future treatments.
As an undergraduate student, Kevin Duignan, now a second year graduate student, said he stumbled upon Anastasios Tzingounis' lab during an introduction to undergraduate research course. As he set up the "the rig," he said undergraduate research was overwhelming at first because of his superficial understanding of the lab's work, which involves the development of seizures and epilepsy.
"The best way to learn is dedicating several hours a day to it," Duignan said while filtering a solution through a small tube and into a bath designed to mimic the brain's internal environment. "There are a lot of different parts and procedures and a lot of that just takes practice. The understanding comes over time and it slowly clicks piece by piece over a semester or two."
"The rig" on which Duignan works is a large structure with an attached microscope used for electrophysiology, the study of the flow of charged particles, called ions, in the body.
Duignan and other researchers in the lab use electrodes connected to mechanical arms to run electricity through individual brain cells on "the rig" in order to understand how conduits imbedded in the membranes of neurons, called ion channels, play a role in the development of seizures and epilepsy.
There are over 60 ion channels in the body, some that excite neurons and some that quiet them down, but the lab is focused on potassium ion channels, which are notable because they act as regulators of electrical signals. Tzingounis's lab studies a specific group of channels called KCNQ potassium channels.
"They keep everything in check," Tzingounis said.
As ions pass through these conduits, they create electric currents that allow different parts of the brain and body to communicate. Seizures and epilepsy occur when these currents become abnormal.
When mutations alter the DNA code responsible for the channels, they begin to lose proper function, potentially causing seizures. Mutations in potassium ion channels, unlike others, cause especially severe disorders, Tzingounis said.
"Currently we are using genetics and pharmacology to understand what is the function of these channels, how we can engage them, and what happens when they go wrong using mice as a model system," he said.
In addition to electrophysiology, the lab uses imaging techniques to visualize the brain's electrical signals after certain types of cells are engineered to lack potassium ion channels. The gene for the channel of interest is "knocked out" and the researchers observe how the network of electrical signals is altered.
"Think about watching a TV screen, but only having access to one pixel," Tzingounis said. "This actually gives you another layer and shows you how the pixels interact with each other to create an image."
While potassium ion channels play a big role in how the brain functions and the development of seizures and epilepsy, they are also found throughout body and could affect breathing, said Joannam Hawryluk, a graduate student in the lab.
"When people think about the body, they think of something going wrong in one place, but not how that affects the whole system," Hawryluk said.
Today, Retigabine is given to patients to reduce seizures by opening potassium channels, which reduces the chance of nerve cells having sudden excitation events. The issue, Hawryluk said, is that potassium channels are found in many parts of the body and the drug often causes skin and digestive problems.
In the lab, Hawryluk studies KCNQ potassium channels and the drugs that affect them. She said her day-to-day routine starts with brain slices from mice and moves to electrophysiology and imaging.
With the guidance of Hawryluk and Duignan, Elizabeth Rodier, a fourth -emester biology major, is learning how to use "the rig." This is her second week in the lab.
Lauren Colburn, a sixth-semester physiology and neurobiology major, may have been in the lab longer than Rodier but she said she understands getting into research at UConn could be a daunting task for undergraduates.
"My biggest advice is to be persistent and don't give up if a professor says there's no room in the lab. You have to ask a lot of professors," Colburn said. "And eventually it will be very worthwhile and worth working for."
Diler Haji is a campus correspondent for The Daily Campus and can be reached via email at diler.haji@uconn.edu.
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MIT police investigating alleged rape inside fraternity
Updated: 5:24 AM EDT May 24, 2018
WEBVTT RANDY: SERA CONGI IS IN CAMBRIDGE WITH WHAT WE KNOW ABOUT THIS. SERA: THE INVESTIGATION CENTERS ON AN ALLEGED SEXUAL ASSAULT THAT TOOK PLACE AT THIS FRAT HOUSE ON MEMORIAL DRIVE. M.I.T. POLICE SAY THEY RECEIVED A REPORT OF A RAPE AT THE THETA DELTA CHI HOUSE THAT TOOK PLACE EARLY SATURDAY MORNING. HERE'S WHAT POLICE SAY HAPPENED, AFTER TALKING DURING A PARTY THE VICTIM WENT TO THE SUSPECT'S BEDROOM WHERE POLICE SAY SHE MADE CLEAR SHE DID NOT WANT TO HAVE SEX BUT THE SUSPECT ALLEGEDLY RAPED HER. M.I.T. POLICE SAY SHE LEFT IMMEDIATELY. THE TWO PEOPLE DID NOT KNOW EACH OTHER PRIOR TO THE PARTY. AT THIS POINT NO WORD ON ANY CHARGES OR ARRESTS AND M.I.T. POLICE DID NOT RELEASE ANY SORT OF SUSPECT DESCRIPTION. LIVE THIS MORNIN
MIT police are investigating an alleged rape inside a fraternity house.The investigation centers on an alleged sexual assault that happened at a fraternity house on Memorial Drive.MIT police said they received a report of a rape at the Theta Delta Chi house that took place early Saturday morning. The victim told police that after talking to him during a party, she went to her assailant's bedroom, where police say she made clear she did not want to have sex. The suspect allegedly raped her, police said.MIT police said she left immediately. The two people did not know each other prior to the party.Police have not released the alleged assailant's identity.
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. —
MIT police are investigating an alleged rape inside a fraternity house.
The investigation centers on an alleged sexual assault that happened at a fraternity house on Memorial Drive.
MIT police said they received a report of a rape at the Theta Delta Chi house that took place early Saturday morning.
The victim told police that after talking to him during a party, she went to her assailant's bedroom, where police say she made clear she did not want to have sex. The suspect allegedly raped her, police said.
MIT police said she left immediately. The two people did not know each other prior to the party.
Police have not released the alleged assailant's identity.


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Trying to fall asleep when your mind is racing can be very difficult. When you are dealing with problems in your life and you finally lie down in bed, your mind may drift towards those things that are causing you stress and you find you are unable to sleep. Sleep is critical and provides necessary rest for our brains. When you are already suffering from anxiety you might feel your heart or your thoughts start to race and suddenly you find you are wide awake.
So, what can you do when anxiety keeps you awake? For my clients here in New York City we work together on a two pronged approach. We begin by trying to uncover and then examine the issues. We look at what is causing all the stress and axiety in your life. Once we reveal the problem we strategize together on a plan to work through the issue. It could be a problem at work, a financial crunch or even discord within your marriage. Many of my patients lie awake at night when they are going through infertility treatment and need assistance getting through the process.
Once we know what is causing the problem we can then work together on activities (and non-activities) that will create a bit more peace for you at bedtime.
Brain dump – when you start to cycle through all the things you have to do the list can seem overwhelming, until you write it down. Once you have all the stressful details out of your head you can then start to tackle the list. And, sometimes, writing them down makes you feel as though you have begun the process of putting a plan in place.
Exercise – under the direction of your doctor, starting an exercise program can be one of the most beneficial plans for you. Physical fatigue will help your mind relax. Make sure you do not exercise right before bed – leave a good hour or two before turning in.
Wind down long before you go to bed. Stop checking work emails and your bank accounts if these are things that are stressing you out. Plan to do these activities at the beginning of your day. If you and your spouse have stressful things to discuss then start those conversations long before you need to go to bed.
Presleep activities: You can read, meditate, listen to soothing music, anything to bring on sleep. If these do not resonate with you then we will try to figure out the particular thing that calms you down.
Go to bed at a reasonable time. Sometimes the stress of knowing you are not going to get enough sleep is enough to cause you to lie awake at night and brings on further anxiety.
Cut back on caffeine and alcohol long before it is time to turn in. Both caffeine and alcohol can keep you awake and can cause disrupted sleep patterns.
Limit your time in front of your computer, phone, and television. These tend to stimulate your brain and interrupt normal sleep rhythms.
We can work together to tackle whatever is causing you to feel anxious and bring about more peace and balance into your life. You will come to understand your triggers and with that, we will develop a plan to help you move forward, enabling you to cope with your anxiety and ultimately, get some sleep.
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AIG's European Restructuring Gets Nod in Final Step of Brexit Preparations
American International Group, Inc. announced its European subsidiary, AIG Europe Ltd. (AEL) has received approval from the High Court of England & Wales to transfer its business into two new entities: American International Group UK Ltd. (AIG UK) and AIG Europe SA (AESA) in preparation for the UK's exit from the European Union.
This is the final UK approval needed to complete the restructuring of AIG's European operations and ensure AIG's readiness for Brexit.
The two-entity structure enables AIG to continue to service all of its policyholders and business partners across the UK and Europe, and to guarantee contract certainty to all AEL policyholders, regardless of the future relationship between the UK and the EU.
Both companies will start writing business and policyholders will transfer from AEL to the relevant new entity on Dec. 1, 2018.
AIG currently writes business in Europe from AEL, a single insurance company, based in the UK with branches across Europe. As part of the restructure, AIG will merge AEL into AESA.
AIG UK will be based in London and will continue the business of AEL UK operations, which is the company's largest operation in Europe.
AESA will be headquartered in Luxembourg City, Luxembourg, with 21 branches across the EEA and Switzerland.
AIG clients are now guaranteed access "to the full range of our capabilities after Brexit," commented Anthony Baldwin, CEO of AEL and AIG UK.
"We have cleared the final major legal hurdle in our Brexit plans which will enable us to offer our clients, partners and colleagues certainty that AIG is ready to overcome the challenges posed to the insurance industry by Brexit, regardless of the UK's future relationship with the European Union," he said.
"All our clients can be assured of past, present and future contract certainty under the new structure. As we launch our two new legal entities to ensure the smooth operation of our business across Europe after Brexit, it's an exciting time for AIG," Baldwin added.
Source: American International Group
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Since I bought my house I have wanted to plant a nice flower garden. Last year, we dug up about a foot around the back patio and I planted several different types of perennials and annuals.
This year, I decided I really wanted to finally make a significant dent in my flower garden dream and backyard bliss goal.
The area currently looks like this.
Although we are in the beginning phases, the hardest part so far? Deciding what I actually want!
Today, we picked up the ties and bricks. Tomorrow, we are going to till the area, which is now covered in grass and then add some top soil to even it all out.
Part of this project is also trying to be budget conscious. So far, all the materials have cost about $130. Considering this is a pretty big landscaping project that's not so bad.
I hate planning, and I fought with my Dad about this, but he was right. I wanted to just dig up the grass and start putting plants in and then put a border in later. Not a great idea.
Once I finally decided on an area, we measured it all out and that really helped with the cost aspect when deciding on what materials to use.
2. Go to as many garden stores as possible.
I went everywhere to look at materials, and prices. Take the time to do this. See what options are out there, and look at the prices. I really thought I wanted a stone border, but the more I looked at them they were both way more expensive, and I ended up not really liking the designs they had.
I'm usually already thinking steps ahead of where I am. Sometimes that helps, sometimes it hurts. In this case, it's good, because despite the fact there was not even one tie in the ground, I am already thinking about what happens if I want to expand the garden, or put a pond in, in the future.
The reason this is helpful is because there are certain decisions you can make now when creating the foundation that will help you in the future.
Luckily, my Dad is up here to help me with all of this, becaue it is not a one-person job. I love doing DIY projects, especially if it is to help make my very own backyard bliss!
What's your backyard bliss look like?