Welcome to the December 2010 edition of ACE NorCal News!
Saturday, December 4th, 2010 marked the day for the annual ACE Holiday Party. As usual, it took place at Playland-Not-at-the-Beach. Approximately thirty people showed up for the event and much fun was had by all. In the morning, a new exhibit room, Roller Coaster Rampage, was opened in the building.
ACE members gather outside prior to the ribbon-cutting that would open the new Roller Coaster Rampage exhibit.
The all-new room features an authentic Arrow Development roller coaster car from the Giant Dipper in Santa Cruz. The car operated on the ride from 1955 to 1976. ACE members Nancy Redden and Mike Chew donated the coaster car. Nancy was on hand to do the ribbon-cutting to open Roller Coaster Rampage. In the new Roller Coaster Rampage room, the coaster car is positioned in front of a projection screen where POVs of roller coasters were shown, simulating actually riding a roller coaster!
After a few hours in Roller Coaster Rampage, lunch was served in the Penny Arcade. Lots of delicious food was on hand: corn dogs, nachos, and all kinds of snacks and desserts. When lunch was over, we all headed over to the front of Playland where we watched Professor B's Flea Circus. Thankfully, none of the visitors or ACE members at Playland had their dogs with them! Many fleas performed such as Fifi LaFlea, the amazing Fleo, Evil the Fleavil, and Elvis Presflea.
In the afternoon, Jim Smith, author of the new book Playland at the Beach: The Early Years gave a presentation on the beginnings of Playland-at-the-Beach. After the presentation, Jim was on hand to sign copies of his book (you can buy it online at the Playland-Not-at-the-Beach store).
Of course, the party included the fun and exciting Gift Exchange game. A lot of stealing back and forth went on this year, particularly from ACE member Matthew Pearce! There were many great gifts including the incredible, and amazing … Shmuzzle Puzzle. On the puzzle was a photo of the American Eagle at Six Flags Great America.
Following the gift exchange, the ACE NorCal Spirit award was given out. The recipient this year was ACE member Ray Harris of Modesto. In recognition of Ray's efforts in roller coaster preservation in 2010, Ray was presented the award, which consists of a plaque and a one-year renewal of his ACE membership. Congratulations, Ray!
ACE member Derek Willhite served as the auctioneer.
Before we even knew it, the auction had come to a close after many laughs and high bids by Matthew Pearce. (Emi sure enjoyed it!) The auction raised $830.00 to benefit ACE Preservation and Archive funds. I won some Roar wood which will look very nice on my wall, or for my cat to sit on. Boardwalk 100th Anniversary DVDs were presented to Cliff Aldecoa and Derek Willhite as prizes. Many thanks go to the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk and Six Flags Discovery Kingdom for donating all of the cool auction items and prizes!
I can't wait to see all of you ACE members again next year! Merry Christmas!
Derek Willhite auctions off a Giant Dipper sign.
Derek Willhite auctions off a Boardwalk banner.
Paul Asente shares a ride on Roller Coaster Rampage with Emi Pearce and one of her daughters.
California's Great America is closed for the season.
December 4th marked the Grand Opening of Roller Coaster Rampage at Playland-Not-at-the-Beach and everyone seemed impressed with the results. Thank you to Nancy Redden for doing the ribbon cutting.
Thank you to Nancy and Mike Chew for donating the 1950s vintage coaster car from the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk.
If you are a member of ACE but could not attend the annual Yuletide Party, just show your ACE membership card on your next visit. You will receive a $5 discount on admission and a front row seat on Roller Coaster Rampage. A collection of roller coaster-themed pinball machines are soon to be added to the attraction area.
Playland-Not-at-the-Beach is normally open to the public on weekends only, but the Museum of Fun has expanded its days of operation to include Sunday through Sunday from December 26th though January 2nd. Another new attraction will be unveiled during that week: The Devil's Playground.
Playland-Not-at-the-Beach is a 501c3 nonprofit built and run almost entirely by volunteers. They would be thrilled to invite any ACE members to participate as volunteers.
Playland-Not-at-the-Beach nonprofit Museum of Fun, open to the public every Saturday, Sunday, and school holiday. Open evenings for private events 365 days a year. 10979 San Pablo Avenue, El Cerrito, CA 94530 (510) 592-3002. http://www.playland-not-at-the-beach.org . Admission $10 for kids (to 13), $10 for seniors (55 and up), and $15 for general admission. Admission includes 34 free pinball machines, penny arcades, carnival games, treasure hunts, miniature dioramas, and surprises around every corner. ACE members receive a $5.00 discount on admission upon presentation of their ACE membership cards.
— Thanks to Richard Tuck for contributing this article.


I must confess. I love Abilene, but I really miss the north Georgia mountains in the autumn. We'd stop at roadside stands and buy our fill of apples (the Rome apples were the best) and get some just fried apple pies.
Our family would visit the Tippins' chalet (some family friends) in the north Georgia mountains a couple of times a year. It was gorgeous in the fall.
Right beside the rock highlighted by the glistening sun was an orange flower. On that ginger colored flower was a beautiful midnight blue butterfly.
I don't think I'll ever forget all of that beauty at one time. God knows me and how I am fed by his beauty. I'm still so thankful for that precious moment in time.
I appreciated this post, because I think God knows me and my sense of humor. I am always tickled when God lets me come across something I construe as a joke between us. :) have a great day.


Inherently warm, gentle underfoot, and with a stunning visual impact, hardwood flooring is hard to beat and works well in any style of home. What are its main advantages when compared to other types of flooring? Here we set out four of the benefits you will see if you install hardwood flooring in your home.
Hardwood engineered flooring can be purchased in a wide range of styles and a variety of hues. For this reason, it suits different styles of decoration. From a pale-coloured ash to the red tones, you can find something that will fit in with your home.
The natural patterns and the variety of grain mean that every hardwood floor is unique. You can also experiment with having the floor laid in a herringbone pattern rather than vertically.
Take a look at suppliers' websites, such as www.woodfloorwarehouse.co.uk, and you are likely to be pleasantly surprised by the wide choices on offer.
Hardwood floors are very easy to maintain and clean. Regular sweeping and mopping will ensure that the floor will continue to look beautiful for many years. For those more difficult marks, it can be swiftly sanded and varnished or waxed to restore it back to its former glory.
Trees that produce hardwood are slow-growing. For this reason, the trees' cellular structure becomes more dense, ensuring that it is very strong. This strength means that hardwoods are extremely durable. However, different types of trees produce wood of different strengths. Oak has impeccable strength thanks to its slow growth. Iroko is a lesser-known West African hardwood that is also very durable.
Hardwood floors are not cheap. There are plenty of cheaper alternatives on the market, including veneers and laminates. However, if you consider the long-term cost, there is no comparison. Mahogany, oak or mango woods are extremely tough and will withstand scratches and other types of wear and tear for many years. It is a lifetime investment.
In terms of costs throughout the lifetime of the floor, you should expect to have to re-sand and varnish or wax it on occasion. However, there should be no need to replace the floor as a result of ordinary wear and tear. In addition, a well-laid and attractive hardwood floor can enhance the value of your property.
A central heating upgrade is one of the first things people think of when they start to consider making their homes more energy efficient. However, there are some key factors you need to take into account before you start.
The size of your home is important when it comes to selecting a new boiler. If you only have a small property, then a combi boiler – that generates hot water on demand – is likely to be the best choice. For larger properties, you're likely to be better off with a regular or system boiler that stores hot water in a cylinder. Remember, all new boiler have to be condensing types.
The number of bathrooms you have is usually a good guide to the kind of boiler you need. With one bathroom or shower room, a combi will be fine, but if you have extra bathrooms or en-suites, you'll be better off with a system that has a hot water cylinder.
You might be thinking of just changing the boiler, but you need to consider the rest of the system too. Old pipe work and radiators may not be up to the latest standards and could lead to leaks if you just install a new boiler that works on a pressurised system. You may also take the opportunity to swap to more stylish designer radiators, from a supplier like apolloradiators, to update your system.
An advantage of switching to a new boiler could be that you free up some space. Changing to a combi means no hot water cylinder, so you can reclaim the space it used to use. However, if it was located in an airing cupboard, think about how you'll air clothes and household linen – fitting a small radiator in the airing cupboard may be the answer. New boilers are often smaller than old ones, so you may actually be able to locate the boiler in a cupboard.
Regular boiler systems have a header tank in the loft. If you're thinking about a loft conversion at some point, you may prefer a system that has no tank or switching to a smaller one. Also consider if the boiler is able to feed extra radiators for future extensions.
Some people still ask why double glazing is a good idea for any home. There are many reasons why it's an excellent idea to install double glazing, from improved heat retention to easy maintenance. Read on to explore why double glazing is always a good idea for any home.
The first obvious benefit is improved sound insulation. You will find street noise significantly reduced, and in some cases, eradicated, by double glazing. This means that voices and music will be easier to hear inside your home. Neighbours' noise will also be reduced and you will find sleeping much easier, especially for weekend lie-ins!
Double glazing can reduce noise, but it can also stop heat loss from your home. This means you can set the thermostat lower on your heating and save money. The extra pane of glass acts as an insulator to prevent heat escaping your home, which is especially useful in winter.
Double glazing makes windows easy to clean. You can use standard glass cleaner to wipe them down and cleanse with soapy water. You can enjoy shiny windows for many years with double glazing, while dated windows get dirty and misty much more quickly. Double glazing is also easy to install, by experts in windows and doors in Dublin and other cities. You can find expert glass specialists online, such as www.keanewindows.ie/, to install double glazing quickly and without fuss.
Another problem with dated windows is they attract condensation. Double glazing attracts much less condensation due to their heat retention properties, meaning temperatures remain more constant inside. The risk of cold and hot air meeting on the inside pane of glass is significantly reduced with modern double glazing, so condensation is less of a problem.
This is good news, because condensation can cause damp and stale smells. The problem of condensation can be a particular concern in kitchens and bathrooms. Many people open the window to release moisture and protect wallpaper, but with double glazing, this would be less necessary.
Double glazing is hard-wearing and durable. Single pane windows can be weak, whereas double panes are much stronger. Double glazing also normally comes with a 20 year guarantee, and that gives you peace of mind that they will last a long time.


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Tarigaun (nep. टरिगाँउ) – gaun wikas samiti w zachodniej części Nepalu w strefie Rapti w dystrykcie Dang Deokhuri. Według nepalskiego spisu powszechnego z 2001 roku liczył on 1676 gospodarstw domowych i 10123 mieszkańców (5033 kobiet i 5090 mężczyzn).

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Q: Accessing Excel VBA editor from Powershell I want to execute the Project Properties command in the VBA menu of Excel application using Powershell.
Following is the script -
$excelApplication = New-Object -ComObject ("Excel.Application")
$excelApplication.Visible = $True

$workbook = $excelApplication.Workbooks.Open("C:\Workbooks\PasswordProtectedVBEFile.xlsm")
$appReference = $workbook.Application
$appReference.VBE.CommandBars(1).FindControl(2578, $True).Execute()

I encounter the error - You cannot call a method on a null-valued expression., an inspection revealed - $appReference.VBE is empty. i.e. Write-Host $appReference.VBE outputs empty line.
I want help in troubleshooting why do I get an empty value for VBE?

A: I found the way out!
In short, we need to grant access to VBA Project Model explicitly before we could automate/access programmatically using script.
Journey to this discovery was interesting. I stumbled on this git project which helped me troubleshoot the problem.
The solution to my problem was this security check which I found in referred project
$mo = Get-ItemProperty -Path HKCU:Software\Microsoft\Office\*\Excel\Security `
                       -Name AccessVBOM `
                       -EA SilentlyContinue | `
          ? { !($_.AccessVBOM -eq 0) } | `
          Measure-Object

This security check ensures VBA Project model is available programmatically. Well though this is just a check against registry, I wanted to know how to set a value. It was simple and one time activity in Excel.
You could allow such programmatic access by checking the check box "Trust access to the VBA Project model". This setting could be accessed by navigating in Excel (2010) File > Options > Trust Center > Trust Center Settings > Macro Settings.

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Q: findAssocs in a single document I only have one document (a survey compilation). I want to do word association within a single document with findAssocs. So far all the examples i have seen are all combination of a few documents.
inspect(myDtm)
A term-document matrix (864 terms, 1 documents)

Non-/sparse entries: 864/0 (what is this for?)
Sparsity           : 0% (what is this for? what does it mean if its 0%)
Maximal term length: 20
Weighting          : term frequency (tf)

my data looks like this
unwanted               1
upgrade                3
valid                  1

this is my code and i end up with the results = numeric (0)
findAssocs(myDtm, "salary", 0.5)
numeric(0)

please help.

A: Sparsity measures the percentage of elements (cf. cells) in the matrix that are equal to zero. When sparsity is high, you have a lot of terms that only occur in one or a few documents. You only have one document in your example, so all terms must occur in that doc. Very generally speaking a lower degree of sparsity is more useful for investigating document similarity (if that's what you're doing... it's not clear from your question).
The short answer is that your question has already been asked and answered: you need to have more than one doc in your dtm to calculate term associations using findAssocs.
You'll have to include a reproducible example if you want any more specific help with findAssocs. Try using the 'crude' dataset that comes with the tm package and experiment with findAssocs to see what happens when you alter the parameters. Check out the tm [documentation](http://cran.r-
project.org/web/packages/tm/vignettes/tm.pdf) to see more about how to use the built-in data.
Here's an example using the built-in data, try it for yourself:
require(tm)
data(crude)
dtm <- DocumentTermMatrix(crude)

# one doc in dtm, doesn't work...
dtm1 <- dtm[1,]
findAssocs(dtm1, "oil", 0.01)

# ten docs, does work
dtm10 <- dtm[1:10,]
findAssocs(dtm10, "oil", 0.01)

A: You can use findAssocs by adding your data in the following manner
data <- data.frame(text=txt, stringsAsFactors=FALSE)

tdm <- TermDocumentMatrix(Corpus(DataframeSource(data)))

Basically
Import your data into a "Source", your "Source" into a "Corpus", and then make a TDM out of your "Corpus"

A: I couple of years late. But I ran in to the same problem recently. It is because your term-document matrix (TDM) consists of only one document. Rather, your tdm should consist of multiple documents. If you use paste() to retrieve text from a data frame, you should not use paste(data$text, collapse = " "), but paste(data$text), before turning it into a TDM.
But if you present reproducable example maybe we can help.


Home » Here's What's Trending for the 2015 Holiday Season!
As a small business, watching what big business does and getting insights on the retail world can provide you with a nice leverage of information!
Vigilink, a content monetizing company has supplied a great infographic based on reports published. Instead of reading lengthy reports, they've narrowed down the important pieces and supplies a great easy to view inforgraphic about the 2014 Holiday season and what's on track (trending) for the 2015 Holiday Season.


In an effort to help lower income Albertans make ends meet during these tough economic times, the NDP government has announced a new benefit for families. The new Alberta Child Benefit is open to... The Working Income Tax Benefit is designed to encourage low-income workers to stay in the work force. To claim the Working Income Tax Benefit, you must earn at least $3,000 from a job or business.
age shows that, in every single province, Canadians on social assistance receive coverage for drugs at very low or no cost to the patient, and that lower income Canadians across the country receive, at a … how to help animals in zoos Well, look no further than this list of the most wishlisted items by seniors across Western Canada, compiled with the help of London Drugs. The drugstore ran a "Stocking Stuffing for Seniors" campaign this winter to help make the holidays brighter for thousands of Canadian seniors in need.
For a low income family, or an individual on assured income, this is not an option. When sourcing your puppy, a single family home where puppies are kept in a bath tub or a pen in a spare room does not qualify as a reputable breeder.
Ask a representative of the local or regional United Way about a "Christmas Bureau" or community-based, low-income holiday assistance program. Step 3 Obtain from the agency the dates and locations of where you and your family can sign up to participate in the program.
Citizenship and Immigration Canada set the low-income cutoff for immigration higher in 2009: a single person had to make $22,171 to sponsor relatives, and a family of four had to earn $41,198. Levels According to HRSDC, 9.2 percent of Canadians earned an income less than the low-income cutoff in 2007, based on the LICO measurement.


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Il castello d'acqua di Bourtzi (in greco Μπούρτζι, dal turco ottomano برج - burc che significa "torre", precedentemente Καστέλι, Kasteli) si trova nel centro del porto di Nauplia.

I Veneziani completarono la sua fortificazione nel 1473 per proteggere la città dai pirati e dagli invasori del mare. I greci la riguadagnarono dai turchi il 18 giugno 1822, da dove assistettero all'assedio di Nauplia. Fino al 1865 fungeva da fortezza. Fu poi trasformato in residenza dei carnefici dei condannati del castello di Palamidi. Dal 1930 al 1970, è stato un hotel. Da allora, è principalmente un'attrazione turistica che ospita occasionalmente parti del Summer Music Festival.

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I found myself at the corner of Fair and Hoo Hoo, last week. I had been to the north side, before, the north side in Lufkin, Texas. It has a reputation that precedes it. I knew when I moved back to Texas, more than two years ago, that houses in this town could still be found for less than ten thousand dollars. It was hard to believe, coming from Santa Fe, New Mexico, where the median home price had been 409k.
And here I was, just like in the picture. Looking up, you can see well established trees. This is an old neighborhood. If you close your eyes, you can hear birds singing. Birds in abundance. So, if you look up or keep your eyes closed, you might be able to feel the good of this place. But there is also bad. There is a good energy and a bad one. I found this place to be fascinating, old-fashioned, sad and disturbing all at the same time.
I was here, today, for real estate. I was here to go into a property and take some pictures. I had been here once before. Had taken photos from the outside of several properties. This one I was returning to, today, was on a corner. The house, I knew, was in disrepair. I could see it from the street. What I was not prepared for was how it would feel as I walked into the yard, up on the porch across the string of dilapidated chairs, tried to open the screen door to knock on the front door, walked back across the porch and down the steps hoping to find another door across the yard.
There was nothing there so I, once again, walked back up the stairs. across the string of dilapidated chairs. I tried the screen door, again, and found that if I lifted up it opened. I knocked on the door and I waited a while. Something was stirring inside of me. I did not know what to expect as I wondered if anyone would be answering this door.
A woman opened the door. A woman who is very old. She is ninety-one. She is beautiful in a very aged way. She was polite. She was wearing a southern house coat and a very dark wig of wavy hair, not quite covering all of her grey hair but that only added to her character. She was nearly thin as could be. She was quiet, not feeling well. I was expecting someone rougher to answer the door. I was not scared of her. She talked with me for several minutes. I looked inside her home to see darkness, lack of light. The rooms were small, with low ceilings. It looked like corridors from room to room. I became very quiet inside.
There is such a discrepancy of the ways in which people live. We are all responsible for ourselves, yet my optimism hopes we will all reach out to those who have less than us. And each of us, on this planet, knows of someone with less. There are those who are poor in spirit. There are those who struggle to pay their bills. My hope is that each one can reach to one or more with less. Let the abundance that we have become a part of what contributes to the wellness of another. Give time, give money, give both. Give wisely, give wastefully.
In the end it's likely it all comes back to you, anyway.
This reminded me of stories I read as a child.
This short tale could be a childrens book with illustrations.
Another avenue for your artistic endeavors.
So true Teresa! Creatively written as I too had the picture beautifully brought to life…along with the emotions felt! Great lesson for life in it as well!


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Lilly to Establish an Access Program for Patients as it Prepares to Withdraw Lartruvo from the Global Market
PR Newswire April 25, 2019
Lilly is working to ensure current patients access to Lartruvo with limited interruption after it is withdrawn from the market
INDIANAPOLIS, April 25, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Eli Lilly and Company (LLY) today announced that the company has been working to facilitate the withdrawal of Lartruvo® (olaratumab) from the market for the treatment of advanced soft tissue sarcoma (STS). Lilly's actions to withdraw Lartruvo from the market follow the failure of the Phase 3 ANNOUNCE clinical trial, in which Lartruvo did not improve survival for patients. Lilly is establishing a program to ensure current patients will have access to Lartruvo with limited interruption after it is withdrawn from the market. The program will be established as allowed by local country regulations.
Lilly is working to ensure that patients who are currently receiving Lartruvo may, in consultation with their physician, continue their course of therapy if they have been informed of the risks of Lartruvo and the results of the ANNOUNCE study and wish to continue, subject to local laws and regulations. No new patients should receive Lartruvo outside of participation in ongoing clinical trials.
Lilly also is working to establish a program to allow patients who are currently receiving Lartruvo to continue treatment with limited interruption after Lartruvo is withdrawn from the market, subject to local laws and regulations. More information regarding this program will be provided directly to healthcare professionals in the coming weeks.
"Lilly wants to ensure that patients and physicians feel supported during this important time," said Anne White, president, Lilly Oncology. "Advanced soft tissue sarcoma is a rare and difficult-to-treat cancer. Establishing this program will give patients who are currently taking Lartruvo the opportunity to continue their treatment program uninterrupted."
Lilly plans to present the ANNOUNCE data at the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) 2019 annual meeting and will publish the results in a medical journal.
About Soft Tissue Sarcoma
Sarcomas are a diverse and relatively rare type of cancer that usually develop in the connective tissue of the body, which include fat, blood vessels, nerves, bones, muscles, deep skin tissues and cartilage. Soft tissue sarcoma (STS) is a complex disease with multiple subtypes, making it hard to diagnose and difficult to treat. According to the American Cancer Society, in 2019, an estimated 12,750 new STS cases will be diagnosed, and more than 5,000 people will not survive their disease in the U.S. alone. For decades, there have been no first-line therapeutic advancements for STS that have improved overall survival (OS).
About LARTRUVO® (olaratumab)
LARTRUVO is a platelet-derived growth factor receptor alpha (PDGFR-α) blocking antibody that specifically binds PDGFR-α and prevents receptor activation. LARTRUVO exhibits in vitro and in vivo anti-tumor activity against selected sarcoma cell lines and disrupted the PDGFR-α signaling pathway in in vivo tumor implant models.
About the ANNOUNCE Trial
ANNOUNCE was a randomized, double-blind, Phase 3 study of LARTRUVO in combination with doxorubicin, followed by LARTRUVO monotherapy, versus doxorubicin plus placebo followed by placebo, in patients with advanced or metastatic STS. The two primary endpoints were OS in the intent-to-treat (ITT) population and OS in the leiomyosarcoma (LMS) sub-population. Patients with locally advanced, unresectable or metastatic STS not amenable to curative treatment were enrolled and were eligible with any prior number of treatment regimens, provided they had not previously received treatment with an anthracycline.
LARTRUVO was administered at a loading dose of 20 mg/kg on days 1 and 8 of cycle 1 and 15 mg/kg on days 1 and 8 of all subsequent cycles in combination with doxorubicin 75 mg/m2 administered on day 1 of each cycle. Placebo was administered in combination with doxorubicin for 8 cycles. LARTRUVO was continued as monotherapy until disease progression.
Key secondary endpoints included safety, progression-free survival, objective response rate, and patient-reported outcomes.
LARTRUVO is indicated, in combination with doxorubicin, for the treatment of adult patients with soft tissue sarcoma (STS) with a histologic subtype for which an anthracycline-containing regimen is appropriate and which is not amenable to curative treatment with radiotherapy or surgery.
This indication was approved under Accelerated Approval. Continued approval for this indication was contingent upon verification and description of clinical benefit in the confirmatory trial.
IMPORTANT SAFETY INFORMATION FOR LARTRUVO
Infusion-Related Reactions
Infusion-related reactions (IRR) occurred in 70 (14%) of 485 patients who received at least one dose of LARTRUVO across clinical trials. For 68 of these 70 patients (97%), the first occurrence of IRR was in the first or second cycle. Grade ≥3 IRR occurred in 11 (2.3%) of 485 patients, with one (0.2%) fatality. Symptoms of IRR included flushing, shortness of breath, bronchospasm, or fever/chills, and in severe cases symptoms manifested as severe hypotension, anaphylactic shock, or cardiac arrest. Infusion-related reactions required permanent discontinuation in 2.3% of patients and interruption of infusion in 10% of patients. All 59 patients with Grade 1 or 2 IRR resumed LARTRUVO; 12 (20%) of these patients had a Grade 1 or 2 IRR with rechallenge. The incidence of IRR in the overall safety database (N = 485) was similar (18% versus 12%) between those who did (56%) and those who did not (44%) receive premedication. Monitor patients during and following LARTRUVO infusion for signs and symptoms of IRR in a setting with available resuscitation equipment. Immediately and permanently discontinue LARTRUVO for Grade 3 or 4 IRR.
Embryo-Fetal Toxicity
Based on animal data and its mechanism of action, LARTRUVO can cause fetal harm when administered to a pregnant woman. Animal knockout models link disruption of platelet-derived growth factor receptor alpha (PDGFR-α) signaling to adverse effects on embryo-fetal development. Administration of an anti-murine PDGFR-α antibody to pregnant mice during organogenesis caused malformations and skeletal variations. Advise pregnant women of the potential risk to a fetus. Advise females of reproductive potential to use effective contraception during treatment with LARTRUVO and for 3 months after the last dose.
Most Common Adverse Reactions/Lab Abnormalities
The most commonly reported adverse reactions (all grades; grade 3-4) occurring in ≥20% of patients receiving LARTRUVO plus doxorubicin versus doxorubicin alone were nausea (73% vs 52%; 2% vs 3%), fatigue (69% vs 69%; 9% vs 3%), musculoskeletal pain (64% vs 25%; 8% vs 2%), mucositis (53% vs 35%; 3% vs 5%), alopecia (52% vs 40%; 0% vs 0%), vomiting (45% vs 19%; 0% vs 0%), diarrhea (34% vs 23%; 3% vs 0%) decreased appetite (31% vs 20%; 2% vs 0%), abdominal pain (23% vs 14%; 3% vs 0%), neuropathy (22% vs 11%; 0% vs 0%), and headache (20% vs 9%; 0% vs 0%).
The most common laboratory abnormalities (all grades; grade 3-4) occurring in ≥20% of patients receiving LARTRUVO plus doxorubicin versus doxorubicin alone were lymphopenia (77% vs 73%; 44% vs 37%), neutropenia (65% vs 63%; 48% vs 38%) and thrombocytopenia (63% vs 44%; 6% vs 11%), hyperglycemia (52% vs 28%; 2% vs 3%), elevated aPTT (33% vs 13%; 5% vs 0%), hypokalemia (21% vs 15%; 8% vs 3%), and hypophosphatemia (21% vs 7%; 5% vs 3%).
Lactation: Because of the potential risk for serious adverse reactions in breastfeeding infants, advise women not to breastfeed during treatment with LARTRUVO and for at least 3 months following the last dose.
For more information about LARTRUVO, please see full Prescribing Information at http://pi.lilly.com/us/lartruvo-uspi.pdf.
About Lilly Oncology
For more than 50 years, Lilly has been dedicated to delivering life-changing medicines and support to people living with cancer and those who care for them. Lilly is determined to build on this heritage and continue making life better for all those affected by cancer around the world. To learn more about Lilly's commitment to people with cancer, please visit www.LillyOncology.com.
About Eli Lilly and Company
Lilly is a global healthcare leader that unites caring with discovery to create medicines that make life better for people around the world. We were founded more than a century ago by a man committed to creating high-quality medicines that meet real needs, and today we remain true to that mission in all our work. Across the globe, Lilly employees work to discover and bring life-changing medicines to those who need them, improve the understanding and management of disease, and give back to communities through philanthropy and volunteerism. To learn more about Lilly, please visit us at www.lilly.com and http://newsroom.lilly.com/social-channels. P-LLY
© Lilly USA, LLC 2019. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
LARTRUVO is a trademark owned by or licensed to Eli Lilly and Company, its subsidiaries, or affiliates.
Lilly Forward-Looking Statement
This press release contains forward-looking statements (as that term is defined in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995) about LARTRUVO (olaratumab) as a treatment for patients with advanced soft tissue sarcoma and reflects Lilly's current belief. As with any pharmaceutical product, there are substantial risks and uncertainties in the process of development, commercialization, and in this case, product withdrawal from the market. For further discussion of these and other risks and uncertainties, see Lilly's most recent Form 10-K and Form 10-Q filings with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission. Except as required by law, Lilly undertakes no duty to update forward-looking statements to reflect events after the date of this release.
Refer to:
Rebecca Polston; becky.polston@lilly.com; 317-796-1028 (media)
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My husband has to shave his head every morning! It is inevitable to get a few knicks here and there. Well, when you are using shaving creams filled with synthetic chemicals, they get right into your body through those tiny little cuts. We have purchased various toxin-free brands and been generally satisfied. The price tag can usually be pretty steep though. So, I decided to whip up my own DIY shaving cream (literally!). Plus, I was able to add in some shea butter to help nourish the skin!
2/3 cup shea butter — we love this brand!
Hi! This looks very nice…Do you have instructions on how best to apply/remove? When using a typical shaving cream, you would normally swish and rinse the razor in a sink of water and because it's more like soap, the hair comes out easily and there are no oils clog up the drain. I imagine if you use that method with this cream, you would run into all sorts of issues, more-so if one were shaving a few days worth of stubble. Thanks!
I would imagine that it could get a bit messier as this cream is more like a lotion. It really makes your skin soft afterwards. I use it frequently and have not had a mess in the shower and my husband used it to shave his head every morning. Give it a try and let me know how it works for you.
For the coconut oil, is that 2/3cups hard coconut oil or when it is melted?
We definitely do that. Frankincense is my favorite to add in!
once made how long can one keep till it goes bad?
How do you store this? Is it shelf stable or should it be refrigerated?
How much does this recipe make?? Like, how many jars??
Can this go in a soap dispenser or only in a jar?


Digital Realty Trust, Inc. DLR is offering direct, private access to Salesforce platform, the leading CRM solution worldwide, through Digital Realty Service Exchange in 15 metros worldwide. The move comes as part of the company's effort to grow its business and lure customers.
Particularly, this access to Salesforce is being offered in Amsterdam, Ashburn, Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Frankfurt, Dallas, London and Los Angeles. Also, it is available with immediate effect in Miami, New York, Phoenix, Portland, San Francisco Bay Area and Seattle.
Notably, direct access to SaaS applications is beneficial over connectivity through the Internet and Digital Realty's Service Exchange offers enterprises a direct connection to IaaS, PaaS and SaaS providers. There are solid advantages because it helps minimize latency and also enables customers to enhance scalability at a rapid pace, and efficiently from a single cabinet to a multi-megawatt facility.
In fact, more than 30% of organizations will connect to cloud providers using alternatives to the public internet, per a Gartner recent report cited by the company. This marks a significant increase from 5% reported in third-quarter 2017.
Data-center REITs will likely continue experiencing a boom market, with growth in cloud computing, Internet of Things and big data, and an increasing number of companies opting for third-party IT infrastructure. Also, the estimated growth rates for the artificial intelligence, autonomous vehicle and virtual/augmented reality markets will remain robust over the next five-eight years.
These factors, along with an improved outlook for economic growth, are anticipated to substantially drive growth of data-center REITs, including Digital Realty, Equinix, Inc. EQIX, CyrusOne Inc. CONE, CoreSite Realty Corporation COR and others.
Particularly, Digital Realty is poised to benefit from this solid demand for data centers through accretive acquisitions and development efforts. The company also focuses on maintaining an investment-grade balance sheet, enjoys ample liquidity and has a well-laddered debt maturity schedule. Nevertheless, aggressive pricing pressure is likely to continue in the near future. Moreover, the company has a substantial debt burden and hence, rate hike adds to its woes.
Shares of Digital Realty have outperformed the industry it belongs to, in the past three months. The stock has gained 13.4%, while the industry has rallied 2.3%.


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Free! Dive to the Future Episode #09 →
Banana Fish Episode #06
Welcome to Boston, Massachusetts where Ash Lynx and his brother Griffin used to live there.
While the likes of Eiji Okumura and Shunichi Ibe are mesmerized by its rural setting, Ash is not happy to return to his hometown because he has bad memories of it.
Anyways, Ash Lynx is welcomed by Jennifer who knows about his father Jim. Then again, his father won't welcome his own son because Jim Callenreese hates him so much. Poor Ash…
Now then, it's time for Ash Lynx to get his brother's stuff and leave. But then again, seems that their truck needs to be fixed first so Ash and the rest decided to stay for a bit longer.
On the other hand, Eiji Okumura and Shorter Wong found a guy who killed Griffin upon looking at the album. So, they asked Max Lobo if he knows about that person.
See that guy with glasses? That's the one who killed Griffin Callenreese as Max pointed out that his name is Abraham Dawson.
Unfortunately, nothing is known about Abraham Dawson apart from living in Los Angeles, whose address that heMax and Ash know is "102, 42 Westwood". Then again, Mr. Dawson already moved out so it seems that he's no longer living on that address.
Meanwhile, here's Eiji Okumura as he learned how to fire a revolver. And while Ash Lynx teaches him on how to pull a trigger, let's just say that Ei-chan is a lousy gunner especially when handling a magnum revolver.
See? He just squint after firing one shot. Oh yeah, and Ei-chan missed his target so he's better off whacking the enemy than shooting them.
Oh yeah, let's talk about Jim Callenreese as he doesn't care about his son Ash being a man-whore to everyone. Um, tagging Ash Lynx as a prostitute is bad because he's treated as less than human.
In fact, Eiji Okumura told Mr. Jim to treat his son better. For goodness sake, Jim lost Griffin and Ash is being targeted by the mafia!
But you know what, it appears that Jim can't help his only son because for one, everyone wants to fuck Ash in the ass. And while Jim expects some asshole to pay up after having his way towards Ash, nobody would give a toss to it. So yeah, Ash had a rougher life that when he's 8 years old, he killed someone after having his ass raped.
Now then, let's move onto something serious as there's a commotion inside the bar. As you can see, Ash Lynx is alarmed by it so what's going on here?
Turns out that two goons from the Corsican mafia have arrived to Boston as they held both Jennifer and Jim hostage.
Of course, they'll let these two hostages go if Ash Lynx surrender.
And sure enough, Ash Lynx surrenders. But you know what, Papa Dino's gangsters won't let anyone live to tell the tall, so they'll plan to kill Jennifer and Jim once they captured Ash.
Not until Max Lobo and Shunichi Ibe helped Ash on getting out of a pinch by making a fake police threat. Gotta say that their truck is handy in this situation.
And thanks to that, the thugs got distracted as Ash Lynx kicked the gun away from the goon's hands. You don't want the bad guys shooting at him or any of the hostages.
Sadly, there's another guy who shoots Jennifer in the chest. Dammit, I don't think that she'll live as she's peppered by bullets!
And not just Jennifer, but this goon shoots Jim Callenreese too. This is so despicable to be honest!
Fortunately, Ash Lynx pick up the gun and shoot at the goon until he's dead. Well, this is payback for killing Jennifer.
And if it wasn't enough, Shorter Wong managed to slit this gangster's throat with a knife as he doesn't want Ash getting ambushed.
In any case, two goons are down but unfortunately, they lost Jennifer.
Of course, Jim survived as he told his son to get out of the crime scene and gave his blessing on taking down the mafia don.
Gotta say that the last thing Jim Callenreese said was touching to say the least. Still, he needs to go to the hospital or Jim might die from blood loss.
With that said, looks like Ash Lynx and the gang will have to get out of Boston and move towards the west coast… real fast! After all, they're on the run against the police and Golzine's men.
Speaking of Papa Dino himself, he's talking to a guest about the potential of using Banana Fish as an assassination drug. Who could this guest be if you may ask?
Well it turned out to be Mr. Lee as instead of playing as a spectator, he decides to partner up with the Corsican mafia on hunting down Ash Lynx. Damn, looks like Ash will have a hard time taking Papa Dino down now that he has the triad on his side.
Anyways, sorry to keep you waiting but I'm back on watching Banana Fish. Now then, I must catch up with the rest of the episode as Ash and his gang have arrived in Los Angeles, California!
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Lyra McKee: Two men arrested in connection with journalist's killing
Media playback is unsupported on your device Media captionPSNI released CCTV footage following Lyra's murder Two men have been arrested in connection with the killing of journalist Lyra McKee. The pair, aged 18 and 19, were arrested under the Terrorism Act. Ms McKee, 29, was struck by a bullet as she was observing rioting in
Media captionPSNI released CCTV footage following Lyra's murder
Two men have been arrested in connection with the killing of journalist Lyra McKee.
The pair, aged 18 and 19, were arrested under the Terrorism Act.
Ms McKee, 29, was struck by a bullet as she was observing rioting in Northern Ireland on Thursday night.
She was shot in Londonderry's Creggan estate. Violence broke out after police raids on houses in the Mulroy Park and Galliagh areas in the city.
Ms McKee was standing near a police 4×4 vehicle with other journalists when she was wounded.
CCTV captured her final moments in the crowd and mobile phone footage showed the suspected gunman.
The Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) said a gunman fired shots towards police officers at about 23:00 BST on Thursday.
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In the video, the masked attacker leans from behind cover and appears to fire shots towards police and onlookers.
There has been widespread condemnation of the killing.
PSNI Det Supt Jason Murphy, who is leading the investigation, described Ms McKee's death as "senseless and appalling beyond belief".
At a vigil in Derry on Friday, Ms McKee's partner, Sara Canning, described her as a "tireless advocate and activist" for the LGBT community.
Sara Canning (centre) was "planning to grow old" with her partner Lyra McKee
Ms Canning said her partner's dreams had been "snuffed out by a single barbaric act" and she had been left without "the woman I was planning to grow old with".
"The senseless murder of Lyra McKee has left a family without a beloved daughter, a sister, an aunt and a great-aunt; so many friends without their confidante," added Ms Canning.
"We are all poorer for the loss of Lyra."
Figures from across the political divide, including Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald and DUP leader Arlene Foster, were among the hundreds of people to attend the vigil.
Colum Eastwood, Naomi Long, Mary Lou McDonald and Arlene Foster were among political leaders at a vigil in Derry
One of Ms McKee's close friends, Kathleen Bradley, told the BBC: "Lyra was a voice – she wasn't afraid to stand up and hold her view.
"Lyra managed to get Mary Lou McDonald and Arlene Foster into Creggan [for the vigil] without any high security or barricades.
'Power of Lyra'
"Those politicians stood amongst us today and that really is the power of Lyra."
Other leading world figures united to condemn Ms McKee's killing.
Taoiseach (Irish Prime Minister) Leo Varadkar said Ms McKee "changed lives" as a journalist and an activist and would continue to do so.
"We stand with you as strong as your walls and for as long as they stand," he added.
"This was an attack not just on one citizen – it was an attack on all of us, our nation and our freedoms."
Former US President Bill Clinton said he was "heartbroken".
Irish President Michael D Higgins signed a condolence book at Belfast City Hall and said there was "outrage" in Ireland.
"The loss of a journalist at any time in any part of the world is an attack on truth itself," he said.
"The circumstances in which it happened – the firing on a police force that are seeking to defend the peace process – cannot be condoned by anybody."


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Two new frogs for Hinchinbrook and the Wet Tropics
Posted on July 7, 2012 by Townsville Brolga
A well-camouflaged male Hinchinbrook Island nursery-frog guards its eggs on the forest floor. Photo Alex Anderson.
It's a very long name for a very small frog but the Hinchinbrook Island nursery-frog (Cophixalus hinchinbrookensis) has grabbed headlines recently as one of two new frog species identified by Dr Conrad Hoskin and colleagues at JCU.
In probing the genetics of the Ornate nursery-frog (C. ornatus) Dr Hoskin found that this frog, which had been considered a single species for well over a century, was in fact just one of three distinct species, which first diverged millions of years ago.
The 'original' species (C. ornatus), previously thought to occur throughout the Wet Tropics, is now known to inhabit only the northern section between Port Douglas and Mt. Bartle Frere, near Innisfail. Here it overlaps with the newly-described and newly-named Southern ornate nursery-frog, C. australis, whose range extends through the southern section of the Wet Tropics. But our Hinchinbrook friend has made this magnificent island national park its own. Making it even more special is the fact that the frog is believed to be the only vertebrate which is found exclusively on Hinchinbrook, where it is restricted to medium and upper levels of elevation.
Nursery-frogs are unusual in that the male frog keeps watch over the eggs which are laid not in water but in moist areas of the forest floor. Moreover, the tadpoles actually develop inside the eggs, hatching out as fully developed 'froglets'. The new species are only 2.5cm in length and live on or close to the forest floor. After summer rain the males climb onto tree trunks to give their loud mating calls – and it is the marked difference in these calls which helped to confirm the difference in species. Even where the northern and southern populations overlap there is very little hybridization, probably in part due to their different calls.
The Southern ornate nursery-frog occurs in the wet tropical forests between Innisfail and Townsville. Photo Conrad Hoskin.
This remarkable discovery, the result of a decade of research, reinforces what an exciting and diverse natural environment surrounds us in north Queensland. And, as Dr Hoskin points out, Cophixalus hinchinbrookensis is one more reason to recognise and protect the exceptional values of Hinchinbrook Island.
While population numbers of the new species are good, and their habitat is largely protected, Dr Hoskin warns that we must always be on the alert for potential threats such as disease and, of course, climate change. It would be sad indeed if we were to start losing these beautiful animals just as we are getting to know them.
The research is published in The American Naturalist 178: 561-578 and Zootaxa 3271: 1-16. Information and photographs provided courtesy of Dr. Conrad Hoskin.


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// Licensed under the MIT License.

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using System.Collections.Generic;
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Keppler wins weight class at Greater Hartford Open
Editorial: King's legacy for all
Democratic View: Serving our district
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200 turn out to hear Himes talk about impeachment, health care
By Macklin Reid
Updated 11:17 am EST, Wednesday, November 13, 2019
Congressman Jim Himes speaks to Ridgefield resident Chuck Hancock.
Photo: Macklin Reid / Hearst Connecticut Media
Impeachment, health care, climate change, trade wars, the corrosive effects of partisanship in Washington — a wide range of issues were discussed as U.S. Rep. Jim Himes, D-4th District, took questions from a largely supportive audience of more than 200 on Saturday at the Ridgefield Library.
"We're in a remarkably polarized, angry time," Himes said in brief introductory remarks, before moving on to audience questions.
But, he assured his audience, "The federal government continues to function in customary ways."
Impeachment? A few asked Himes about it.
"I voted for the recent rule package," Himes said. He had joined other House Democrats in setting up procedures that will allow the impeachment inquiry to proceed in what they feel is a fair manner — allowing Republicans on committees equal time to ask questions. While the GOP can request witnesses, the Democrats, with more votes on various House committees, will have control over who is called to testify.
"Where is the crime?" asked one audience member. The impeachment proceedings against presidents Nixon and Clinton had been triggered by real crimes, but after three years of the Mueller investigation cleared the president, the questioner said, now Democrats are pursuing impeachment effort without a real reason.
"Democrats are spending all your time trying to find a crime" that can be used to drive President Donald Trump from office, the audience member claimed, and no work to benefit the American people is getting done.
Himes disputed that Democrats are getting nothing done, directing the audience's attention to sheets that had been placed on chairs before the event, listing bills passed by the House of Representatives — five guns-safety bills, 48 environmental bills, 41 transportation and infrastructure bills, 90 education and workforce bills, 36 immigration bills, 40 health care bills, 51 national security bills, 24 civil and human rights bills. He fingered the Senate's Republican leader as responsible for a lack of action.
"Every single one of these has not been taken up in Mitch McConnell's Senate," Himes said.
He also challenged the audience member's basic premise.
"It's not accurate to say Mueller cleared the president of crimes," Himes said.
He urged people to read the Mueller report, volumes I and II.
"Mueller specifically enumerates 10 counts of obstruction of justice — which is a crime," Himes said.
As for the impeachment inquiry, although initial interviewing has been behind closed doors — drawing Republican objections — it would move to open hearings that people can watch on television and judge for themselves, he said.
Himes did offer some of his own perspective.
"The president used our taxpayers' " funds, held them back "and pressured and extorted the Ukrainian president" to serve Trump's own political re-election goals.
"That is a massive abuse of power, in my view," Himes said.
In response to another question on the likely impeachment of Trump, Himes said: "The probability is he will not be convicted in the Senate."
Still, he believes it is important for Congress to go through the procedure and make clear what is and isn't acceptable behavior by the president — even if it ends up being politically costly for Democrats.
"When I, in June, came out in favor of the impeachment inquiry," Himes said, "I did it thinking it was a politically unwise thing to do."
Audible audience reaction during the exchanges showed a handful of people in support of the audience member's doubts about the impeachment inquiry, and the vast majority behind Himes in his criticism of Trump's actions.
'Trump's right'
In the back-and-forth with his audience, however, Himes did highlight a couple of areas where he is supportive of — or at least not in disagreement with — Trump.
"The president is not wrong on China," Himes said.
"They've stolen our I.P.," he said, referring to companies' intellectual property. "...broken into corporate computer systems."
But Himes doesn't support all aspects of the president's trade war.
"Tariffs, the way he's using them, have devastated the American farming community," he said.
He does support addressing the real problem of China's unscrupulous economic behavior.
"The president is right about that," Himes said.
While he finds many aspects of the president's Middle East policy are problematic, Himes said, "I was grateful when the president called off the attack on Iran."
Washington's failures
In his introductory remarks, Himes ran through a quick litany of what he views as Washington's failures and limited successes.
"We're actually moving backwards on climate change," he said. "We're not making progress on the budget issues Washington has."
And despite efforts to address the opioid crisis, "50,000 Americans are dying as a result of overdoses," he said — "roughly the same number of Americans we lost in the entire Vietnam War."
The federal government is working to "make sure every police officer is equipped with Narcan, that miracle antidote," Himes said. "We're beginning to see a tapering off — not a dramatic decrease — in the number of opioid deaths."
As a sample of bipartisan collaboration, he cited passage of "The First Step Act" which is leading to the release of people jailed for nonviolent drug crimes — many of them under the draconian 1990s "three strikes and you're out" law.
"People incarcerated for life for dealing small amounts of drugs — needless to say, that had a racial element," Himes said.
After passage in the House, "Cory Booker and Rand Paul were leaders in the Senate," Himes said, noting that Democrat Booker and Republican Paul don't often find common ground.
Ending the imprisonment of so many people will result in "huge taxpayer savings to all of us," he added.
Bipartisan cooperation had also led the passage "after way too long a delay" of legislation renewing federal money to cover the medical costs of first responders with health problems related to their efforts on 9/11 and after at the site of the World Trade Center attacks.
So, Himes has hope for limited progress. "I do think there's an opportunity for a few things to get done before 2020," he said.
At the top of that list is an effort to "alter the way drugs are priced in this country, pharmaceuticals," Himes said.
He has some optimism since it was an issue Democratic House leaders, Republicans in the Senate, and Trump have all said publicly they want to address.
Another issue he's hopeful on is USMCA, a trade agreement involving the U.S., Mexicao and Canada that he described as "version 2.0 of NAFTA" — the previous North American Free Trade Agreement. Among the benefits sought will be "better working conditions for Mexicans, better environmental enforcement."
Financing for "transportation infrastructure" improvements might get done.
Himes listed some other concerns where the Democratic House has acted, but the Republican Senate has not — and he was not hopeful they would address any time soon.
One area close to Himes' heart is gun safety, and information he distributed said the House had passed "five gun-safety bills" including two addressing background checks on gun sales.
The goal is "No matter matter how you choose to exercise your Second Amendment rights, you will be subject to a background check," he said.
Background checks are "supported by 95 percent of Americans," Himes said, but the legislation that passed in the House "won't get to the floor" for a vote in the Senate
"The Senate is a judicial appointments machine," he said.
Russians on Facebook
Himes and his team distributed printouts of advertisements the Russians had put on Facebook before the 2016 election. Among them were: "Satan: I win if Clinton wins! Jesus: Not if I can help it!" and "Like and share if you want the burka banned in America" and "Never forget that the Black Panthers group formed to protect black people from KKK was dismantled by the US government but the KKK exists today."
The Russians' ads — "attempting to poke at the racial fissures, the feelings about Muslims" — seemed to have a goal of "dividing Americans," he said.
"They're going to do it again," Himes warned. "If they don't the Chinese or the North Koreans will."
Asked about climate change legislation, Himes praised an approach that attempts to make the full costs of fossil fuel energy — including pollution — reflected in the price, either through "cap and trade or a carbon tax designed to raise the cost of carbon to counter the environmental costs."
He said a carbon tax could be returned to the American people — though "fully refundable dividends."
This returning of the money to the citizens — rather than spending it — appeals to politicians on the right, he said, while the proposal also had a "progressive quality" appealing to the left since wealthier people tend to have "higher carbon footprints" and would pay more in, but get the same size dividend as everyone else.
He backed government funding for "basic research" on energy problems, and then allowing entrepreneurs in the for-profit marketplace to use what's learned to create innovations that would reduce reliance pollution-heavy forms of energy generation.
"We need to do research on energy storage," he said, so alternative sources like wind and solar will be useful all the time, and not just when "the sun shines" or the wind blows.
He held up his cellphone — a seeming marvel of marketplace innovation with all its capabilities.
"Everything cool about this device came out of government research," he said. "Satellites, voice recognition…"
A questioner asked Himes about "Medicare for All" — saying the current "system is costing us $3.5 trillion this year" and is expected to cost more and more as time goes on.
"Will I co-sponsor Medicare for All? No," Himes said.
But he's not opposed to it goals, he said, so much as worried about getting something through the daunting political process any health care change will face.
"There's nothing inherently wrong with Medicare for All," he said.
"It gets painted by the right as some crazy socialist idea" — and that's not true, he said.
As an example he pointed to Elizabeth Warren's response to demands that she show how she proposed to pay for Medicare for All. Her plan not only raises taxes — though pointedly avoiding tax hikes on middle class — it also relies on sizable reductions to the payments hospitals and doctors would receive.
Himes is uneasy with that approach.
"We should start by finding very obvious savings," he said.
Health care is an area that people feel very strongly about, and an area where political solutions are practical only if they can make it through a gauntlet of passionate opposition and false claims, Himes said.
He recalled when his support of the Obama administration's Affordable Care Act had him standing before angry town hall meetings and being attacked by citizens repeating crazy arguments — "You're going to kill grandma!" — they'd heard in the highly partisan debate.
Medicare for All would involve taking down and replacing the current employer-based private insurance system, which is costly but serves many Americans — and a portion of them will be very alarmed had have a system their accustomed to replaced with a new government-run program, he said.
Himes favors leaving the private health insurance system in operation, but providing a public option to compete with it.
"There is a much smarter way to do this: say any American can buy into Medicare — if they want to," Himes said.
Asked about guns, Himes admitted to frustration with the difficulty of tightening gun regulation at the federal level. Congress took swift bipartisan action in response to reported deaths from vaping, but has great difficulty acting on guns despite the much great toll of gun-related deaths.
Himes said he frequently sees a Newtow man at public forums, and it is always difficult.
"He lost his five-year-old son at Sandy Hook, and we've done so little," Himes said.
Gun safety is making some progress at the state level. "Connecticut acted, other states have acted," he said.
One hopeful step in Washington has been the lifting of the longstanding ban that prevented the Centers for Disease Control from doing research into gun-related deaths.
"That has been changed," Himes said.
But overall, gun-safety legislation is still very tough to get through Congress.
"Keep up the pressure," Himes told his audience. "Good things take longer than we wish they would."
A questioner described an incident where "six police officers went an jumped a subway jumper" and asked about "criminal justice reform" issues and how police interact with "people of color."
"You're absolutely right, at every point in judicial experience — policing, courts, sentencing — "there is racial bias in our system."
While there can be some improvement led by Congress, reforming the system's shortcoming will take more than that, since most police are under state and locally control.
"It's as much a state and and local issues as federal," Himes said, "This is a project for all of us, at every level."
Standing before the mostly white Ridgefield audience, Himes said it served as a call to action on the criminal justice issues "when we see how our African- American brothers and sisters and treated, or how they talk to their kids about how to act when they get pulled over."


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Texas' voter ID law found illegal, again
By Guillermo Contreras
Updated 8:31 pm CDT, Monday, April 10, 2017
FILE - In this Feb. 26, 2014 file photo, an election official checks a voter's photo identification at an early voting polling site in Austin, Texas. Overshadowed in a big election year for Texas is a big trial coming over how ballots are now cast: under a tough new voter ID law. A trial begins Tuesday, Sept. 2, 2014, in Corpus Christi over one of the most stringent voter ID measures in the nation. U.S. District Judge Nelva Gonzales Ramos will decide whether the Texas law is a legal safeguard or a discriminatory mandate that suppresses minority turnout. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File) less
FILE - In this Feb. 26, 2014 file photo, an election official checks a voter's photo identification at an early voting polling site in Austin, Texas. Overshadowed in a big election year for Texas is a big trial ... more
Photo: Eric Gay, STF / AP
The Legislature intended to discriminate on racial grounds when it approved Texas' voter I.D. law in 2011, in violation of the federal Voting Rights Act, a federal judge has ruled again.
U.S. District Judge Nelva Gonzales Ramos, based in Corpus Christi, said in a decision issued late Monday that the civil rights groups that sued the state had provided evidence establishing that discrimination was "at least one of the substantial or motivating factors behind passage" of the law by the GOP-controlled Legislature in 2011.
The ruling is the latest in the back-and-forth court battle over Senate Bill 14, and the latest win for civil rights groups who challenged it, coming days after the judge allowed the U.S. Department of Justice under the new Trump administration to withdraw its support for the suit.
At one point, the suit had reached the U.S. Supreme Court, which rejected an appeal by the state.
In her analysis, Ramos focused on how lawmakers rejected efforts to soften the "racial impact of SB 14," such as reducing the costs of obtaining ID cards or allowing voters to use more forms of ID. The judge noted the "radical departures" that the Legislature went through to "rush SB 14 through the legislative process without the usual committee analysis, debate, and substantive consideration of amendments."
And the court highlighted that the "evidence shows a tenuous relationship" between the stated goal of reducing voter fraud and the legislation ultimately passed, given the rarity of voter impersonation cases in Texas — and that other, more prevalent forms of voter fraud were not addressed by the bill.
"This is a great win for Texas voters," said Myrna Pérez, deputy director of the Democracy Program at the Brennan Center, which helped represent the plaintiffs. "But it shouldn't surprise anyone who looked seriously at the evidence. Texas legislators crafted a law they knew would hurt minority voters, without any good justification or attempt to ameliorate the harms, and they mangled the legislative process to get it through."
The opinion followed a hearing in February in which — as directed by a higher court, the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals— Ramos heard more arguments about the intent of lawmakers who passed SB 14. It is the fifth time the law has been declared illegal by various courts, though the state has appealed every declaration.
The state recently argued that lawmakers planned fixes to be made in Austin with a measure called Senate Bill 5. Last week, the judge ruled that the newly introduced legislation was irrelevant in the lawsuit.
"The court's decision makes clear that Texas's voter ID law stands as one of the most discriminatory voter suppression measures in the country, and should issue the death knell for burdensome voter ID requirements in Texas and across the country," Kristen Clarke, president and executive director of the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, which helped represent the plaintiffs, said in a prepared statement.
The judge set a status conference for June 7 in Corpus Christi to discuss what remedies the plaintiffs recommend as a result of the law being found unconstitutional. If further reviews of the case — which is all but certain to be appealed — continue to find that Texas violated federal law, the state could be forced back under the Voting Rights Act's purview, requiring state officials to get federal approval before making any election law changes.
The plaintiffs included the Texas State Conference of NAACP Branches (Texas NAACP), the Mexican American Legislative Caucus of the Texas House of Representatives (MALC), La Union del Pueblo Entero and League of United Latin American Citizens, several individual voters and Dallas County.
"At some point this discrimination based on the color of Texas citizens must stop. The compact of legal protections for citizens applies without regard to race, creed, color, or national origin," said Gary Bledsoe, president of the Texas NAACP.
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Austin Bureau reporter Bobby Cervantes contributed to this report.


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HBO has released a new full-length trailer for Ryan Murphy's upcoming film The Normal Heart.
Based on Larry Kramer's Tony Award-winning play, The Normal Heart explores the on-set of the HIV/AIDS crisis of the 1980s. The film stars Mark Ruffalo, Matt Bomer, Taylor Kitsch, Julia Roberts, Jim Parsons, and Jonathan Groff.
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Nov 19, 2019 - Health
Democrats like Medicare for All, but swing voters don't
Drew Altman, Kaiser Family Foundation
Illustration: Eniola Odetunde/Axios
New polling from the Kaiser Family Foundation and the Cook Political Report confirms that while Democratic voters like the idea of "Medicare for All," it would be a risk in a general election.
Between the lines: This poll was conducted in the formerly "blue wall" states of Pennsylvania, Minnesota, Michigan, and Wisconsin.
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Gmina Kiszkowo is a rural gmina (administrative district) in Gniezno County, Greater Poland Voivodeship, in west-central Poland. Its seat is the village of Kiszkowo, which lies approximately 25 kilometres (16 mi) west of Gniezno and 32 km (20 mi) north-east of the regional capital Poznań.
Kiszkowo Commune
Coordinates (Kiszkowo): 52°35′27″N 17°15′23″E
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http://www.kiszkowo.pl
The gmina covers an area of 114.58 square kilometres (44.2 sq mi), and as of 2006 its total population is 5,235. It includes the village of Dąbrówka Kościelna, whose church has for centuries been a destination for Roman Catholic pilgrims.
The gmina contains part of the protected area called Puszcza Zielonka Landscape Park.
Gmina Kiszkowo contains the villages and settlements of Berkowo, Brudzewko, Charzewo, Dąbrówka Kościelna, Darmoszewo, Głębokie, Gniewkowo, Imiołki, Kamionek, Karczewko, Karczewo, Kiszkowo, Łagiewniki Kościelne, Łubowice, Łubowiczki, Myszki, Olekszyn, Rybieniec, Rybno, Skrzetuszewo, Sławno, Sroczyn, Turostówko, Turostowo, Ujazd, Węgorzewo and Wola Łagiewnicka.
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