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*Jennifer Patten from the Altacal Audubon Program, for inspiring a generation of birdwatchers. |
*Lise Smith-Peters, park volunteer coordinator for the city and Timmarie Hamill from Chico”s Stream Team, for creating a service learning environment at site No. 8 for our budding stewards. |
* Cliff and Ali from Kids and Creeks, for sharing their Native American culture with such passion. |
*Jon Aull and the staff at the Chico Creek Nature Center, for enriching workshops Friday and their partnership year round. |
A button on display at a march in Paris attended by thousands of people in memory of murdered Holocaust survivor Mireille Knoll. Photo: Reuters / Gonzalo Fuentes. |
One of France’s most popular writers this week published a poem to commemorate Mireille Knoll — the 85-year-old Holocaust survivor murdered in her Paris apartment on March 23 — that pulled no punches in its condemnation of the antisemitic bigotry behind her fate. |
Novelist and film director Yann Moix read the poem out loud on the weekly edition of national TV show “On n’est pas couché” (“We’re not lying”) on Tuesday night. Moix — a winner of the prestigious Prix Goncourt for literature who co-hosts the show — told the audience that he had composed the verses in the dressing room... |
Hidden in the madness of Muslim Nazis. |
Was to have the blood of this absent God. |
Was nothing starting up again, but a hate fixed in ever-changing torturers. |
Which long ago used to be endorsed. |
Will forever bear the name of desecration. |
Meanwhile on Thursday, Mrs. Knoll’s grandson issued a plea for the two men charged with her killing — one of whom was a Muslim neighbor known to Mrs. Knoll for 20 years — to face trial as swiftly possible. |
David Metaxas, the lawyer representing Alexandre Knoll, said that while it was reassuring that antisemitism was being investigated as the motive for Mrs. Knoll’s murder, “the facts as they stand are already punishable by life imprisonment.” Mrs. Knoll’s partly-burned body with multiple stab wounds was discovered by fir... |
Another lawyer for the Knoll family, Gilles-William Goldnadel — who also represents the relatives of Sarah Halimi, a Jewish woman murdered in a similar antisemitic attack in April 2017 — said on Thursday that it would be a mistake to separate the criminal and antisemitic motives behind Mrs. Knoll’s murder. |
“The two are perfectly compatible,” Goldnadel remarked. |
A guide to faking it: a list of must-read articles that will impress your friends, wow your co-workers and make you seem smart. |
Fisherman have been hauling in more lobster than ever this summer -- but no one's taking the bait. Paltry demand has deep-sixed the price of lobster -- which, at $3.75 per crustacean, is down $1 from last summer. |
As news spread that Hurricane Gustav spared major oil operations in the Gulf, crude oil futures fell below $110 a barrel. |
A group of scientists hell-bent on excavating mammoth DNA as well as other genetic clues to ancient plant and bacteria life are using gas-powered drills to dig for genetic clues in the Klondike. |
Victims of food poisoning, beware. An increasing number of those suffering from food-related malaise are now being linked to long-term, chronic illnesses. |
Measured by price per square foot, The Times of London compiled a list of the top-10 richest streets in the world. |
VILLAGERS are ‘rejoicing’ after plans to demolish an historic thatched cottage an replace it with an apartment block were rejected. |
Arun District Council planners have refused the Globe Estates proposals for The Beehive, in Beehive Lane, Ferring, after more than 300 objections from residents and conservation groups. |
Planning permission to demolish the cottage and build four chalet bungalows was granted in 1996, before Globe Estates was associated with it, and has since been renewed twice since then. |
But objectors felt the latest proposals represented an overdevelopment of the site. |
Planners agreed, citing overdevelopment, an inadequate contribution towards affordable housing provision and open space and an ‘unneighbourly’ proximity to neighbouring properties as reasons for refusal. |
The Globe Estates plans consisted of ten two-bedroom apartments in an art-deco-style L-shaped block, as well as eleven car parking spaces in the north-east of the site. |
The firm declined to comment on the refusal. |
Arun district councillor for Ferring Roger Elkins said: “There have been hundreds of letters on this application putting forward sound representations for their objections and I am delighted with the outcome. It’s absolutely the right decision. |
Receiving an error message when attempting to tweet a URL using OS X's built-in Twitter integration? Here's how to fix it. |
A while back Twitter announced that any URLs being shortened by its t.co service were going to cost users two extra characters. When you only have a 140 characters to begin with, the extra characters could be disastrous when trying to get your point across in a tweet. |
It seems Apple didn't take the change into account with its integration of Twitter in OS X Mountain Lion. I discovered this when attempting to tweet a link from Safari. According to the tweet sheet, I had composed a perfect tweet, using up my entire 140-character allotment. |
But every time I clicked send, I'd get the above message. I knew Twitter wasn't down, as I was able to access it just fine via Tweetbot. So I copied the text of the tweet from Safari into Tweetbot and manually entered the URL. It was then that I realized the problem; according to Tweetbot I was two characters over the ... |
I went back to Safari, composed the same tweet, save for the last two characters and the tweet sent without issue. So if you find yourself tweeting a link from OS X, be it from Safari or Notification Center, and keep receiving an error message, try deleting a few characters from the tweet and sending it again. Hopefull... |
I don’t know too much about tripods, but I do know that I’ll need one soon as my pictar taking abilities improve. I’m very twitchy for some reason. Anyway, Manfrotto announced a trio of carbon fiber tripods dubbed the CX-series. The low-end 190CX3 isn’t fully carbon fiber but its tubes are while the center column is al... |
It is clear what US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un should seek at their second summit later this month: an agreement that is entirely different from the one they made at their first meeting. |
The vagueness of the agreement Trump and Kim made in Singapore in June resulted in a lack of progress in efforts to denuclearize the North, which largely tainted the historic significance of the first-ever meeting between the leaders of the former war adversaries. |
But expectations -- though not wild optimism -- should rise as the two sides’ decision to hold a second Trump-Kim summit in Vietnam on Feb. 27-28 itself may well mean they both want to move beyond what was agreed to in Singapore. |
Indeed, the two sides made little progress in each of the three key areas of their Singapore accord: improvement of bilateral relations, establishment of a lasting peace on the Korean Peninsula and complete denuclearization of the peninsula. |
The greatest stumbling block was their confrontation over which side should take the first steps. The US wanted Pyongyang to declare its nuclear bombs, materials and related facilities first, and take other convincing steps toward denuclearization. The North wanted Washington to reward it for actions it had already tak... |
In the meantime, news and intelligence reports keep pointing to signs of the North continuing its nuclear and missile activities, bolstering skeptics’ doubts as to the regime’s willingness to abide by its disarmament commitment. |
What’s been good is that unlike in the past, the North Korean side did not go back to the brinkmanship it often resorted to when its demands were not met. Trump has also maintained optimism about talks with the North, emphasizing his good relationship with Kim. |
In line with the two leaders’ wish to keep the talks from falling apart, the two sides had been making efforts to set up a second meeting between Trump and Kim to break the deadlock in a “top-down” manner. |
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo visited Pyongyang in October, his fourth visit to the North Korean capital. Trump also received Pompeo’s North Korean counterpart, Kim Yong-chol, in the White House last month, which was followed by tripartite talks among senior diplomats from the two Koreas and the US in Stockholm, Sw... |
Then Stephen Biegun, the US nuclear envoy, flew to Pyongyang on Wednesday, almost at the same time as Trump disclosed the dates for his second summit with Kim in his State of the Union address in Washington. |
Biegun’s discussions with his counterpart, former North Korean ambassador to Spain Kim Hyok-chol, and other senior officials will set the direction for the second Trump-Kim meeting. |
According to media reports and experts, steps that may be taken by the North Korean side included dismantlement of its core nuclear facilities in Yongbyon and destruction of more missile-related sites. What’s noteworthy is that North Korean officials told Pompeo in October they were ready to abandon both plutonium and ... |
Mentioned as steps that may be taken by the US side are the establishment of a liaison office and provision of humanitarian aid to the North. The key factor, of course, will be the declaration of the end of the Korean War, which Pyongyang regards as a means to guarantee its security, and relief on sanctions imposed ove... |
The Biegun-Kim Hyok-chol talks in Pyongyang and follow-up meetings between the two sides will tackle all those issues in pursuit of a package deal to be endorsed by Trump and Kim at their Vietnam meeting. |
The US side should be reminded that without concrete action plans for the final, fully verified denuclearization of the North, any agreement would be dismissed by the world as one that would only satisfy the vaingloriousness of Trump, who is keen on claiming a major foreign policy feat. |
After all, what’s essential for ending the threat from the North’s weapons of mass destruction is to get a real, enforceable denuclearization road map based on a full list of nuclear and missile-related materials and facilities. This should not be compromised under any circumstances. |
Despite the early and in some cases stunning results produced by gene therapy treatments in handfuls of hemophilia patients, significant questions remain about their durability, safety, and how broadly they’ll be used if they are ultimately shown to work. The first human data produced by Dimension Therapeutics, one of ... |
Shares of Cambridge, MA-based Dimension (NASDAQ: DMTX) tumbled more than 49 percent on Tuesday on early data from a Phase 1/2 trial of DTX101, its experimental gene therapy for hemophilia B. |
DTX101 boosted the levels of the blood-clotting protein Factor IX in six patients. Those on the higher of two tested doses haven’t needed other drugs since getting treatment. But five of the six patients—and all three on the higher of the two tested doses—also saw a rise in liver enzyme levels, indicating an immune rea... |
Gene therapy offers the potential of a long-lasting, if not permanent treatment for hemophilia patients, who—depending on how severe their disease is—may need frequent infusions of preventative drugs to stave off dangerous bleeds. A group of experimental gene therapies have been creeping their way forward in clinical t... |
Each experimental therapy has shown promise helping patients produce “meaningful” levels of the clotting proteins Factor IX and Factor VIII, respectively—more than 5 percent of the levels found in normal patients, which many view as the minimum bar for success—over the course of a year or more. And Spark and BioMarin h... |
Additionally, so far, liver enzyme increases have been seen in clinical tests for each of the hemophilia gene therapies. Such increases could indicate that patients’ immune systems were attacking their liver cells, which are the ones that take up the therapeutic gene and churn out the new clotting protein. They’re typi... |
“We continue to explore the therapeutic window for DTX101 as our data mature and in light of the [liver enzyme] rises that appear to be associated with a decline in [Factor IX] activity,” CEO Annalisa Jenkins said in a statement. |
Here’s more on Dimension, and the technical differences between each of the companies developing gene therapies for hemophilia. |
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Zimmer Holdings, Inc. (Zimmer) designs, develops, manufactures and markets orthopaedic reconstructive, spinal and trauma devices, biologics, dental implants and related surgical products. The Company also provides other healthcare related services. The Company’s customers include orthopaedic surgeons, neurosurgeons, or... |
Zimmer Holdings had its “outperform” rating reaffirmed by analysts at Oppenheimer. They now have a $124.00 price target on the stock. |
ZMH is swimming in and out like a dolphin, that in and out is my biggest curiosity for the ZMH holding. 108.19 on the board for a firm of 22B market-cap interesting. |
All times are GMT. The time now is 06:33 AM. |
The Blues have broken a 20-game drought against a New Zealand side by beating the Highlanders 33 to 26 at Eden Park. |
If anyone thought the Blues had forgotten how to win against New Zealand sides, tonight they proved they are back on track. |
The Highlanders drew first blood with a penalty kick in the opening minutes but for the first time in an opening quarter this season, All Blacks winger Reiko Ioane broke through the line of Aaron Smith and Dillon Hunt to score for Auckland in arguably one of best individual efforts of the season so far. |
In an error-riddled opening where penalties were dominating, Ioane showed he wasn't done yet dotting down for a second time for his sixth try of the season giving his side a 13-10 lead. |
The Highlanders answered after 18 minutes with a try of their own, but missing their own tackles was their Achilles heel this half. |
The Blues started the second half with clear intent only for an attempt at try to be denied after a forward pass ruling at the hand of Melani Nanai foils plans. |
With the score at 15-13 to the Blues the Highlanders strip Ma'a Nonu (in for Sonny Bill-Williams) of the ball to win a penalty. Highlanders' Marty Banks lands the kick earning his side a 16-15 lead, but errors will soon curse the visitors again with the Blues picking up a cheap penalty and from 40 meters out and Harry ... |
The glory was short lived after an aimless kick by the Blues number 10 led to Tevita Li scoring a try for the Highlanders, Banks nailing the kick to tip the scales their way 23 to 18. |
At this point, Plummer is swiftly replaced by Maori All Black Otere Black. |
Some brilliance by midfielder T J Faiane to bust through was supported by Nanai to even the score 23-all, Black though producing a coach-killer by falling just short of the conversion. |
The Blues loose forward Akira Ioane starts to make his presence known in defence in an incredible show of strength to keep Shannon Frizell held up to create the maul and win a Blues turn over, only for the Highlanders bite back again. |
A full eight-man shove pushes the Blues off the ball and Highlanders pick up a penalty in front of the posts, and Banks doesn't fail to deliver the score now 26 to 23. |
With the Blues on the fly, the referee soon stops play to review a tackle on Tom Robinson by Waisake Naholo, the TMO ruling a dangerous tackle resulting in a yellow card for the winger. |
The final ten minutes descends on the match and Nonu and the Ioane brothers are starting to look dangerous. |
Only centimetres away from the line Akira Ioane first stretches for the line for it not to be, it's captain Patrick Tuipulotu that crosses on the next attempt and Black converts to take the Blues to a 30 to 26 lead with five minutes remaining. |
With momentum clearly on their side, Karl Tu'inukuafe comes off the bench to make an impact by winning a crucial penalty in the scrum Black claps his hands in delight after seeing the points through Blues now leading 33 to 26. |
The Highlanders have one last chance to draw the game with a scrum feed 43 metres out from the Blues line, but the pressure overwhelms the Highlanders and Jackson Hemopo drops the ball to hand the win to the home side. |
The Blues winning their first win over a fellow New Zealand side for the first time since round one of 2016, that team being the Highlanders three ago as well. |
"Thursday Friday we trained bloody hard and out there tonight as you could see we were more clinical." |
"We can get much better, we let them back in at time off the back of our own mistakes… we had four All Blacks off the bench and they added especially at scrum time." |
Born 1937, raised a 50's boy, lived flower power, matured through marriage, kids, college degrees, conflicts and happinesses. |
I am a linguistic ethicist, a person who examines language for its moral content. |
My first choice for a vocation was teaching, art. Ordering chaos in dimension. I taught for many years. |
My second choice, many years later was German. Hearing for the first time "Die Dreigroschenoper," Brecht/Weill, I cried and wanted to know why. I knew the power of word, without understanding a single syllable. 'Die Liebe dauert oder dauert nicht, an dem oder jenem Ort." I learned German as I learned color. |
I taught German for many years, university, college, high school, private lessons. |
The combination of the freedom of art and the discipline of German, the marvelous structure, led me to my final choice, editing, the power of word. How who says what, and why. From art I learned variety, endless opportunity, creative inquiry, the mind as eye, not mirror. From German I learned structure, discipline, and... |
Word can lead to the back of the bus, or beyond. Word can reflect, repeat, repair, renew, alter reality completely. One need only know the possibility, and choose. |
Do health-care editors practice a double standard, counting on the system to help those with physical problems but disregarding the need for assistance to the mentally ill? |
What is certainly wrong is the spewing of hate that has gone on for too long. Even with the misgivings anyone might have about any particular issue, hate speech is simply wrong. Hate speech is a sin – and it is a sin specifically articulated during the liturgy of Yom Kippur in every synagogue around the world. As I sit... |
Hate speech may have become normal in our society, but that doesn’t make it right. And we have to constantly remind ourselves and those around us that hate speech should not be tolerated. In previous blog postings, I’ve asked similar questions about the Jewish people being singled out, over the millennia, simply becaus... |
I ask this question again, because during Israel’s five-week war against Hamas this past summer, a lot of negative and classic anti-Semitic language was written and said about Jews and about the Jewish State of Israel. |
The world has seen fit to allow a tremendous amount of hate speech against Jews. There has always been anti-Semitism in the world, and perhaps there always will be. But there is a new kind of anti-Semitism, which disguises itself as being deceptively “just anti-Israel”. |
While being anti-Semitic is deemed politically incorrect, exchange the word “Zionist” for “Jew” and it is open season. |
“I am not against Jews,” once claimed the now deceased Venezuelan President Hugo Chaves, but then he went on to claim that all Zionists are terrorists. |
The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, a piece of propaganda that depicts Jewish conspirators taking over the world, has become popular in the Middle East. |
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