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Own a Piece of Television History from "That '70s Show" and "Malcolm in the Middle"
[via press release from FOX]
As FOX bids farewell to two of its longest-running sitcoms, MALCOLM IN THE MIDDLE and THAT '70s SHOW, fans have an opportunity to own a piece of television history with props from both sets up for auction on eBay for charity.
Viewers can log on to www.ebay.com/70sandmalcolm to bid on the Formans' living room couch, where Kelso (Ashton Kutcher) proposed to Jackie (Mila Kunis), and Malcolm's (Frankie Muniz) kitchen table, where his dysfunctional family gathered to eat dinner for seven seasons. Many other collectible items also are part of the charity auction, which will run through Wednesday, May 17 (9:00 PM EST). The proceeds will benefit the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children� and the Young Storytellers Foundation.
In the "Graduation" episode of MALCOLM IN THE MIDDLE on Sunday, May 14 (8:30-9:00 PM ET/PT), Malcolm (Muniz) is elected valedictorian and struggles with his speech, but Lois (Jane Kaczmarek) refuses to hear his complaints and reveals her plans for him to become President of the United States. On the opposite end of the spectrum, Reese (Justin Berfield) will do anything to get a permanent job as the high school janitor, even concocting the most disgusting mess of all time, which explodes all over the family. Meanwhile, Hal (Bryan Cranston) struggles with Malcolm's Harvard tuition and Francis (Chris Masterson) lands a "real" job working 9 to 5 in a cubicle and enjoys every minute of it. Grandma Ida (Cloris Leachman) returns for the family festivities, and they all bid farewell to Malcolm when he leaves for college.
In the "Love of My Life/That '70s Finale" episode of THAT '70s SHOW on Thursday, May 18 (8:00-9:00 PM ET/PT), when the Formans prepare for their move to Florida, Kitty (Debra Jo Rupp) puts Red (Kurtwood Smith) in charge of showing their home to prospective buyers. But Red scares them away, so Kitty must take over the job, only to discover it's not as easy as it looks � especially when touring the home forces her to look back on all their special family moments. Then it's New Year's Eve and about to turn 1980 when the gang gets together to celebrate and say goodbye to the decade. Donna (Laura Prepon) prepares to leave for college, while Fez (Wilmer Valderrama) and Jackie (Kunis) come clean about their true feelings for each other. Meanwhile, Hyde (Danny Masterson) gives Red the surprise of a lifetime, while Kelso (Kutcher) returns home to ring in the new decade with his best friends.
MALCOLM IN THE MIDDLE is a Regency Television production created by Linwood Boomer and executive-produced by Matthew Carlson. Gary Murphy, Michael Glouberman, Alex Reid, Rob Ulin, Eric Kaplan and Jay Kogen serve as co-executive producers and Linwood Boomer serves as a consultant.
THAT '70s SHOW is a Carsey-Werner production created by Bonnie Turner, Terry Turner and Mark Brazill. Marcy Carsey, Tom Werner, Dean Batali, Rob DesHotel and Mark Hudis are executive producers.
The event is being managed on eBay by Auction Cause, a premier online auction management agency, specializing in high-profile design, strategy and cause marketing for corporations and nonprofits worldwide. For more information, please visit www.auctioncause.com.
About the Young Storytellers Foundation (YSF)
YSF is a 501 (c)(3) non-profit organization dedicated to improving the lives of elementary school children by increasing literacy, building self-esteem, and celebrating each child's creativity through mentoring the children in the art of storytelling. You can find out more about YSF at www.youngstorytellers.com.
About the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC)
NCMEC is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that works in cooperation with the U.S. Department of Justice's Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention. NCMEC's congressionally mandated CyberTipline, a reporting mechanism for child sexual exploitation, has handled more than 387,800 leads. Since its establishment in 1984, NCMEC has assisted law enforcement with more than 119,800 missing child cases, resulting in the recovery of more than 102,200 children. For more information about NCMEC, call its toll-free, 24-hour hotline at 1-800-THE-LOST or visit its web site at www.missingkids.com.
· MALCOLM IN THE MIDDLE (FOX)
· THAT '70S SHOW (FOX)


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= 0. It is one of the most important theorems in linear algebra4 . The proof in this section is not the most general proof, but works well when the field of scalars is ℝ or ℂ. The following lemma will help with its proof.
− m −m+1 −1 A0λ + A1 λ + ⋅⋅⋅+ Am −1λ +Am = 0.
A0λ −m+1 +A1 λ−m+2 + ⋅⋅⋅+ Am −1 = 0.
C(λ) = q (λ )(λI − A)−1.


Hello there. Just dropping in to say hi. While I don't blame you if you don't recognise me, my posts may be a bit more frequent now.
I haven't been writing as often as I would like. The week goes by and before you know it, it is the weekend and I usually have plans most weekends. I long for sleep in! I might have to wait until my Camino before that, however.
I have just finished working on my side project Shamrocks and Shells for Camino Society Ireland. Let's just say that I'm glad that it's a quarterly ezine and not a monthly one. It takes a lot of work, but it is worth it. You can view it here.
Now to concentrate on my new Canon EOS camera, taking a few walks and me!…yes, me! Everyone needs time for themselves, don't they?
My next walk will be on the 23rd of March when I walk from the Pro Cathedral in Dublin to Maynooth. It has recently been recognised as one of the suggested walks on the Celtic Camino, provided you can locate sellos. The Pro Cathedral and Maynooth College give them. It's a fab walk along the Royal Canal and while you can bike it, I like to walk it. I will let you know how I get on.


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People/Biography
Comedian Funny Bros Biography, Cars And Current Net Worth
Fast-rising Nigerian comedian Funny Bros is well-known for the sketches he creates and posts on his social media channels.
The comic is much more than just someone who creates amusing sketches and distributes them online, though.
You ought to be aware of all the intriguing details concerning the talented young Nigerian comedian.
1 Biography/Early Life
2 Funny Bros Comedy Career
3 Funny Bros Automobiles
4 1. Toyota Camry
5 2. 2013 Mercedes-Benz GLK350
6 Funny Bros Current Net Worth
Biography/Early Life
Ugochukwu Onwuka Richard, better known by his stage name Funny Bros, was born in Anambra State on July 26, 2000. However, his upbringing was difficult because he was raised by his parents in Aba, Abia State, before his mother went away.
In Abia State, he earned his first diploma for finishing high school as well as his senior secondary diploma. He then went to Abia State University in Uturu to further his studies in physical science.
Also Read: Olu of Warri Biography &12 Facts about Him
Funny Bros Comedy Career
He began his profession in skit-making in 2019 while still studying a Physical Science degree at Abia State University. He is well-known for using phrases like "Ikotaram," "Onwe Otu Ihea Shi Eme," "Onye Kwuru that thing," and numerous more.
If you examine his comedic delivery, you'll see that Oga Sabinus, also known as Mr. Funny, had a significant effect. He had trouble at first getting people's attention, but over time, his fan following grew.
Although he performs his skits primarily in English, he also incorporates Igbo into them. Another distinctive aspect of his skits is that they always take place in a bush or village.
When his fans began disseminating his information on numerous social media platforms in 2021, his fame soared.
He began his comic career by singing a few songs like;
Account Number Funnybros.
Oru nakwu ugwo Funnybros
Odiram Easy Yung Daddy
Enwe Otu Oshi Mee
Also Read: Chukwuma Machukwu Umeh (SAN) Biography and Net Worth
He has also won some awards since he started, like;
The "best content creator of the year" 2021 of the Physical Science Faculty in ABSU.
Funny Bros Automobiles
The Nigerian comedian just purchased a Toyota Camry for himself.
The Toyota Camry 2010 model is a mid-size sedan with a reliable engine, a comfortable ride, and a roomy interior.
2. 2013 Mercedes-Benz GLK350
Funnybros Comedy, a rapidly developing content creator from Nigeria, has joined the group of comedians who own a 2013 Mercedes-Benz GLK350 as well as celebrities who purchased cars in 2022.
Funny Bros Current Net Worth
As a rising comic, the majority of his money has come from his skit-writing business and ability to influence corporate decisions. His current estimated net worth is $30,000.
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Q: How to use call_command with dumpdata command to save json to file I am trying to use the call_command method to call the dumpdata command. Manually, I use it as follows to save the data to a file.
python manage.py dumpdata appname_one appname_two > /path/to/save/file.json

and it saves the json file. Now, I am in a situation where I need to call this command using the call_command method.
I am able to print out the json from the command using the following:
from django.core.management import call_command

call_command('dumpdata', 'appname_one', 'appname_two')

Is there a way I can save the given data to a file like we do it from the command line?

A: I am using Django fixture magic https://github.com/davedash/django-fixture-magic and need to dump a custom fixture. I tried several ways but ended up using Amyth's answer becuase it was the only way that worked.
Here is my admin action that works with fixture magic
def export_survey(modeladmin, request, queryset):

    sysout = sys.stdout

    survey = queryset[0]
    fname = "%s.json" %(survey.slug)
    response = HttpResponse(mimetype='application/json')
    response['Content-Disposition'] = 'attachment; filename=%s' %(fname)

    sys.stdout = response
    call_command('custom_dump', 'complete_survey', survey.id)
    sys.stdout = sysout
    return response

export_survey.short_description = "Exports a single survey as a .json file"

A: DB fixtures typically compress well, and loaddata can read compressed fixtures. To write a .bz2 compressed fixture directly:
import bz2

with bz2.BZ2File('db.json.bz2', 'w', buffering=1024) as f:
  django.core.management.call_command('dumpdata', stdout=f)

A: had to redirect sys.stdout to the file in order to achieve the above. Something like.
import sys

from django.core.management import call_command

sysout = sys.stdout
sys.stdout = open('filename.json', 'w')
call_command('dumpdata', 'appname_one', 'appname_two')
sys.stdout = sysout

A: An even better way is to use Django's built-in stdout redirection for their command modules.  See docs here.
If you want to manipulate the stream before sending it to a file, you can also pass it a StringIO buffer:
import os
from cStringIO import StringIO

from django.core import management

def create_fixture(app_name, filename):
    buf = StringIO()
    management.call_command('dumpdata', app_name, stdout=buf)
    buf.seek(0)
    with open(filename, 'w') as f:
        f.write(buf.read())

A: This one help for multiple dump data into json file
from django.core.management import call_command
import sys

sys.stdout = open('app_one/fixtures/apple.json', 'w')
call_command('dumpdata', 'app_one.apple')

sys.stdout = open('app_two/fixtures/banana.json', 'w')
call_command('dumpdata', 'app_two.banana')

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is still playing slothfully before your eyes.
that something is wrong with the world.
in the chandelier, precariously hung above him.
follows you like a heroic shadow.
so much that you wander in Wuthering Heights.
leading to Pride first and then Prejudice.
end in abandonment in a lonely island.
turn of phrase, you expect Sense and Sensibility.
You call out for help to Emma and Anna but alas!
they've all left, without a word, with The woman in White.
still Quixotic and dream of a Brave new world.
it is a slip stream of consciousness.
while everyone else leaves for work.
from the usual silent witness.
It makes complete sense by itself.
to the questions of future.


Flavors available: Tyrolean, ai finferli, porcini mushrooms, al tartufo, allo speck, with cheese.
Classical and ancient dish of Italian origin made from cereal flour, here enriched with a variety of flavors and tastes. Preparing a few minutes.
Ingredients In Tirol: Farina di mais, bacon, porcini mushrooms, basis of parmesan cheese.
Ingredients For Chanterelles: Farina di mais, funghi finferli 2%, porcini mushrooms, garlic, parsley.
Ingredients For the Porcini: Farina di mais, porcini mushrooms, cheese, onion, parsley, garlic.
Ingredients Truffle: Farina di mais, black truffle.
Ingredients At Speck: Farina di mais, speck minimo 4,5%, grana padano, parsley.
Ingredients In Cheese: Farina di mais, grana padano referred 10%, onion, parsley.
Flavors available: classico piccante aromatico, con panna.
Flavors available: yellow, Bianca, Montanara, Cervo, Capriolo, Boar, Porcini, Porcini and Truffle, Truffle.


Marguerite Jiménez is a professorial lecturer in the Department of Public Administration and Policy at American University.
Albert Sabin, most famous for his research on polio, was a pioneer in scientific diplomacy, tirelessly advocating for international scientific cooperation unimpeded by ideological differences. His work on polio led him to successful collaborations with Soviet scientists from which he drew important lessons about how to build personal and institutional relationships despite Cold War animosities. In the 1960s, he turned his attention to Cuba, and although his 1967 attempt to forge an agreement between the Academy of Sciences of Cuba and the U.S. National Academy of Sciences failed, his efforts laid the foundation for the collaborative work now underway between U.S. and Cuban scientists and offer contemporary lessons for promoting collaboration and exchange across the Florida Strait.
At the end of 1955, Sabin received a telephone call from a representative of the U.S. Public Health Service (USPHS). The Department of State had invited a group of Soviet medical scientists to visit polio laboratories in the United States and requested Sabin's participation in the important visit.1 Sabin agreed, and after a highly successful tour, Henry van Zile Hyde, chief of international affairs at the USPHS, wrote to Sabin to thank him for his hospitality and expressed a desire for continued "reciprocal medical missions between the United States and the Soviet Union," in the hopes that they might also improve relationships in the medical field.
Over the course of the next year, Sabin expanded collaboration with his Soviet colleagues, especially Mikhail Chumakov, on a range of virological studies, including live poliovirus vaccine studies. They exchanged the results of ongoing laboratory tests and circulated drafts of scientific articles for advice and editing. Sabin secured invitations for Soviet scientists to attend North American professional association meetings and scientific conferences, and he helped introduce Soviet researchers to scientific and medical communities in the United States.
These person-to-person exchanges served as a confidence building exercise and helped pave the way for more formal institutional collaborations between U.S. and Soviet academies of science. Proponents of vaccine diplomacy, such as American vaccine and tropical disease expert Peter Hotez, argue that these more formal institution-to-institution collaborations are an essential component of effective and sustainable international biomedical cooperation and science-driven diplomacy.3 Sabin understood the importance of translating personal relationships into institutional ones. While he continued his individual collaborative endeavors, he also worked to facilitate greater cooperation between scientific institutions in the two countries, serving as an interlocutor between national academies of science in the United States and Soviet Union between 1956 and 1958. Indeed, after Detlev Bronk—the president of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences who had been in close contact with Sabin about a proposed institutional partnership—visited Moscow in 1958, the first in a series of agreements was signed between the United States and the Soviet Union outlining different possibilities for bilateral scientific exchanges. Also that year, cooperative agreements focused on combating a handful of diseases including polio, cancer, heart disease, and influenza were signed by senior public health officials from the two governments. The agreements outlined different priority health areas for each country where scientists would be chosen to participate in study tours and conferences to facilitate regular and ongoing collaborative work and information exchange.
Sabin understood the importance of translating personal relationships into institutional ones.
As part of the series of agreements, Sabin's laboratory in Cincinnati as well as the Division of Biological Standards at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), were established as the institutions responsible for the exchanges of virologists. The Soviet counterpart to Sabin's laboratory was that of Chumakov, Sabin's primary collaborator in polio research.
These exchanges and collaborative studies facilitated the further development and field testing of the live oral polio vaccine (OPV) in the late 1950s. Ultimately, Sabin and Chumakov worked together on the largest OPV field trials ever conducted, which eventually helped to pave the way for the licensing, production, and use of OPV in the United States in the early 1960s. As a result of this Cold War collaboration, OPV became one of the most widely used and affordable vaccines in the world, helping to dramatically reduce polio incidence globally during the decades that followed.
Second, the success of U.S.-Soviet collaboration depended upon allowing scientists from both countries to travel back and forth, participate in scientific forums, conduct direct and unrestricted communication with one another, and have access to an unobstructed flow of new ideas and information.
Third, both countries had resources and expertise to offer, giving both an incentive to collaborate and make their combined efforts more effective than either could have realized alone—in this case, expanding access to OPV, a life-saving intervention. Soviet and U.S. scientists viewed one another as colleagues and the flow of new information, technology, and expertise was in both directions with scientists in both countries benefiting from the exchanges.
Fourth, initial cooperation on a high-profile problem of great mutual concern ultimately helped to create opportunities to expand the scope of cooperation to include a wider range of issues.
The lessons from the U.S.-Soviet vaccine diplomacy initiative in the 1950s and early 1960s are highly relevant for a contemporary vaccine diplomacy effort between the United States and Cuba, a project in which Sabin was also a pioneer.
Several years after his collaborative breakthrough with the Soviet Union, Sabin set his sights on a much smaller Communist collaborator, one that was much closer to home. Sabin had traveled to Cuba multiples times prior to the Cuban revolution in 1959, however he had been unable to return since the early 1950s. Despite receiving multiple invitations from public health officials on the island during the early 1960s, the escalation of hostilities between the United States and Cuba made such a high-profile visit by a famous U.S. scientist all but impossible.
Sabin's enthusiastic pursuit of collaborative opportunities with the Soviet Union during the 1950s foreshadowed his efforts in Cuba to overcome political obstacles and diplomatic melodrama. Accordingly, at the end of 1965 when the Department of State announced an easing of restrictions on travel to Communist nations by certain categories of professionals, Sabin quickly seized the opportunity. The Department of State reported that the relaxation had been in response to the "urging of the medical community," and had been done for reasons of "humanity" to promote greater international cooperation in combating diseases.5 While medical research justified the humanitarian nature of the move, the New York Times reported, "The hope in official circles was that the medical scientists could open the door to closer cooperation in other scientific areas."6 Sabin immediately sent copies of the announcement to colleagues in Cuba and within twenty-four hours he received an invitation through Cuba's Permanent Mission to the United Nations.
In a highly complimentary and comprehensive follow-up report10 written at the request of his new CIA contacts, Sabin provided extensive information on the status of Cuban public health initiatives as well as his assessment of Cuba's scientific and medical research institutions. In addition to outlining his discussions with the Academy of Sciences of Cuba pertaining to a possible collaborative agreement, Sabin spoke at length about the Cuban government's investment in biomedical research. In particular, he noted that the Cuban government was allocating a large amount of scarce resources to science and research related to arboviruses and vector-borne diseases, with assistance from several scientists, including Sabin's colleagues, from the Soviet Union. Among the Cuban scientists listed in the report, several had received advanced virology training in the Soviet Union under Sabin's Soviet collaborator, Chumakov.
Once the Platt Amendment had been established granting the United States the right to military intervention in Cuban affairs if sanitary conditions on the island deteriorated, health in Cuba became an issue of national security, vital to the very sovereignty of the Cuban nation.
Epidemic yellow fever was not only bad for the war; it was bad for business and for the future of commercial transactions between the United States and Cuba.
Public health, including but not limited to the control of infectious diseases, became a top priority in Cuba after Castro and his revolutionaries took power. Less than a month after marching into Havana in January of 1959, the new revolutionary government signed a collaborative agreement with the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) to launch a nationwide anti-malaria and vector-borne disease control campaign. As a result, thanks to the aggressive eradication program throughout the island and heavy investment in disease surveillance and reporting initiatives, 1967—the year of Sabin's visit—was also the last year epidemic malaria was reported in Cuba.
Cuba's early investment in vector-borne disease research and surveillance came in very handy in 1981 when Cuban officials were confronted with an outbreak of dengue hemorrhagic fever. In addition to Cuba's own preexisting domestic resources and expertise, another critical element shaping Cuba's response to the outbreak was an informal biomedical exchange that involved Cuban and U.S. scientists at the end of 1980. In addition to its impact on the dengue outbreak, the exchange also helped launch Cuba's biotechnology sector and served as a jumping off point for subsequent scientific collaboration between scientists in the two countries.
The initial exchange began in November of 1980 when Randolph Lee Clark, a world-renowned oncologist and the founding president of Houston's MD Anderson Cancer Center, joined a delegation traveling to Cuba. (Clark earlier served as a sort of biomedical science and research advisor to President Richard Nixon.) While in Cuba, Clark had the opportunity to discuss with Castro Clark's own groundbreaking research on interferons, a family of proteins involved in the immune system. The two men were similarly enthusiastic about interferons' potential in the field of cancer research and beyond, which served as the starting point for a small-scale biomedical diplomacy initiative between scientists in Houston, Havana, and, later, Helsinki.
As a result of his discussions with President Castro, Clark agreed to host two Cuban scientists at his Houston-based interferon laboratory several months later. Additionally, after returning to the states, Clark provided his new Cuban colleagues with scientific articles not readily available on the island and information from his own research. Clark also helped to connect the Cuban scientists to Kari Cantell, a pioneer in interferon research whom Clark had visited in his Helsinki-based laboratory shortly before traveling to Cuba. Following Clark's suggestion and Cantell's subsequent invitation, in March of 1981 a small group of Cuban scientists led by Manuel Limonta spent several weeks in residence studying with Cantell who shared his expertise concerning the large-scale reproduction of interferon. At the time interferon was not yet used in clinical settings, although many researchers, the Cubans included, were eager to test its more applied potential.
After their interferon-related breakthrough (at the time, Cuba was the only country outside of the advanced industrialized world capable of producing interferon and the first to put it to this sort of clinical use) and the subsequent explosion of research and scientific innovation on the island, Cuba emerged as an applied biotechnology hub in the hemisphere and indeed among lower- and middle-income countries worldwide. Cuba began hosting regular interferon and broader biotechnology symposia that quickly gained the attention and interest of scientists from all over the world, including Sabin. Indeed, in 1983 Sabin returned to Cuba (along with other notables such as Clark) to attend Cuba's First International Seminar on Interferon, with the keynote address given by Cantell.
Several years later, in April of 1987, Sabin returned to Havana to receive Cuba's highest biomedical science award, the Carlos J. Finlay Prize, which President Castro presented in recognition of Sabin's contributions to medical research and his efforts to promote international collaboration for the benefit of humankind. (The award is aptly named for Carlos J. Finlay, the Cuban scientist who first identified the Aedes aegypti mosquito as the carrier of the yellow fever virus in the late 1800s and who went on to collaborate with U.S. scientists, including Walter Reed, on the Yellow Fever Commission in 1900.) Sabin's 1987 visit included a series of meetings with key actors such as Ismael Clark, then vice-president of the Academy of Sciences of Cuba; Gustavo Kouri, Director of the Pedro Kouri Institute of Tropical Medicine; Julio Teja, Cuba's minister of health; and Limonta, one of the founding fathers of biotechnology on the island and original interferon pioneers.
Within days of returning from his trip, on April 24, 1987, Sabin wrote to Health Minister Teja proposing a joint U.S.-Cuba collaborative initiative focused on dengue. Sabin's interest in dengue and involvement in international dengue research dated back to the 1940s when he served as a commissioned officer in the Army Medical Corps during World War II and his decades of involvement with the Armed Forces Epidemiological Board's dengue-related work. In fact, years before his breakthrough with the oral polio vaccine in the late 1950s, Sabin had focused on developing a vaccine to combat a specific strain of dengue affecting troops stationed in the South Pacific during the 1940s. As a result of his long-time interest in the issue, Sabin was particularly intrigued by Cuba's emerging expertise and the potential for collaborative research.
In his letter to Teja, Sabin explained that he had requested permission to receive strains of the dengue virus from Cuba's 1981 epidemic for further study at the NIH. Kouri was quickly authorized to send the requested virus strains to Chanock, who was a rising star at the National Institutes for Allergy and Infectious Diseases at NIH. Because of bureaucratic barriers involving U.S. customs enforcement, the PAHO agreed to serve as an intermediary, transporting the dengue virus samples to Chanock's laboratory in Bethesda. Several months later Cuba hosted the first international course on dengue in collaboration with PAHO and the World Health Organization (WHO), launching a new era in international cooperation on dengue-related research, education, and innovation.
Today, Cuban scientists and medical practitioners have more than thirty years of innovative and applied dengue-related research to draw on as they share the fruits of their labors and experience with the world. In addition to Cuba's own national research institutions, Cuba is also home to the WHO/PAHO Collaborating Center for the Study of Dengue and its Vector, which is located within the Pedro Kouri Institute of Tropical Medicine in Havana. The course, originally launched in 1987, has evolved into a comprehensive two-week multidisciplinary biannual seminar that includes hundreds of scientists, public health officials, and other experts from all over the world. It has become a focal point for global dengue education and research.
Cuba's expertise and resources such as the dengue course and PAHO collaborating center have become increasingly important in the Americas and beyond in recent years. While rare prior to the mid-1970s, dengue has reemerged with a vengeance during the past several decades and the Americas currently have the highest annual incidence of any region in the world. The Aedes aegypti mosquito, which can transmit dengue, chikungunya, and yellow fever viruses, can be found in every country in the Western Hemisphere with the exception of Canada and mainland Chile.
The reemergence and spread of dengue provides a promising opportunity for bilateral cooperation between the United States and Cuba for a number of reasons. First and foremost is proximity. In the late 1800s and early 1900s, yellow fever epidemics traveled freely and frequently across the Florida Strait. Scientists and public health officials in both the United States and Cuba came to view cooperation and collaborative research as necessities. The rationale that led to the establishment of cooperative yellow fever research and the establishment of the Reed Commission in 1900 remains valid more than a century later, particularly as it relates to dengue and other vector-borne diseases.
Second, dengue is on the rise throughout the hemisphere and the United States is no longer an exception. Hawaii experienced a dengue outbreak in 2001 and 2002, as did southern Texas in 2005 and Florida in 2009 and 2010. The increase of both imported and locally acquired cases prompted officials within the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to add dengue to the CDC's list of Nationally Notifiable Infectious Conditions in 2010, thereby placing greater importance on surveillance, reporting, and early detection. Cuba's expertise and experience on these issues could be highly beneficial for public health officials in the United States at both local and national levels. Additionally, both countries would benefit from increased bilateral cooperation on vector-borne disease monitoring, surveillance, and reporting. This is especially true for emerging disease threats such as chikungunya, another mosquito-borne virus that has only been recently found in the Western Hemisphere. First reported in St. Martin in December of 2013, chikungunya also appeared in the Dominican Republic in April of 2014 and in Haiti during the first week of May 2014. With a handful of cases reported in Florida during the third week of May 2014, public health officials in the United States rightfully fear the continued spread of the virus along the Eastern Seaboard and U.S. mainland. Proactive cooperation is vital and entirely feasible.
Third—thanks to effective interventions, widespread use of aggressive vector-control programs (including the use of pesticides), and large-scale improvements in sanitation—dengue (and other vector-borne diseases) virtually disappeared in the United States by the end of the 1940s. A consequence of this early success is that now, several dengue-free decades later, medical professionals and public health officials in the United States are far less familiar with dengue and other vector-borne diseases and they are often slow to recognize their symptoms. The dearth of first-hand experience has been noted by CDC researchers in relation to dengue-related deaths in the United States in recent years. This lack of applied knowledge and hands-on experience is dangerous but also solvable. Here again, increased cooperation and information exchange could play an important role.
… several dengue-free decades later, medical professionals and public health officials in the United States are far less familiar with dengue and other vector-borne diseases and they are often slow to recognize their symptoms.
The biannual dengue course offered in Havana could be an enormous resource for scientists and public health officials in the United States. However, current U.S. travel restrictions and bureaucratic obstacles make it complicated and often impossible for U.S. citizens, let alone public health officials, to participate in conferences or educational courses sponsored by Cuban institutions. Making it easier for (and even encouraging) U.S. scientists and public health officials to travel to Cuba to participate in the dengue course, as well as other Cuban scientific symposia, would have far reaching benefits for the United States.
Small political openings and shifts in U.S. foreign policy toward the Soviet Union helped to create a window of opportunity for expanding biomedical cooperation in the late 1950s. There was no dramatic or singular event that significantly changed the broader political atmosphere surrounding the Cold War, but a slight thawing of relations made an unprecedented level of scientific exchange possible, with long-lasting benefits for both countries. Perhaps such a thaw is currently underway (or at least on the horizon) between the United States and Cuba.
Sabin demonstrated that if governments will simply get out of the way, scientists will eagerly cooperate with one another against disease—what Sabin identified as humanity's "common enemy." 2013 marked the twentieth anniversary of Sabin's death, but his example of how to foster international scientific cooperation is still timely, and Cuba is an opportune place to put it into practice.
Correspondence between Henry Van Zile Hyde and Albert Sabin, file "USSR Visitors, 1955-1956," Hauck Center for the Albert B. Sabin Archives, University of Cincinnati.
Albert Sabin, interview by Saul Benison, June 3, 1976 (side 2, pg. 10), Hauck Center for the Albert B. Sabin Archives, University of Cincinnati.
Peter Hotez (president and director of the Sabin Vaccine Institute), in a discussion with the author, June 6, 2013.
Albert Sabin, "USA-USSR Relations in Science: My Role with the Soviet Union," Perspectives in Biology and Medicine (Autumn 1987): 62.
John Finney, "U.S. Removes Ban on Doctors' Trips to 5 Red Nations," New York Times, December 30, 1965.
Albert Sabin, report to the CIA, 1968, OPV series under the sub-series correspondence, in box 2, folder 2, in a file titled Cuba 1962-1968, Hauck Center for the Albert B. Sabin Archives, University of Cincinnati.
Albert Sabin to Sheldon M. Wolff, May 19, 1977, Hauck Center for the Albert B. Sabin Archives, University of Cincinnati.
Sabin, report to the CIA.
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Simon Reid-Henry, The Cuban Cure: Reason and Resistance in Global Science (University of Chicago Press, 2010).
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"is opening up a new channel for converting light into electrical power more efficiently".
"the device is simply a photovoltaic cell manufactured from an organic material (fullerene C60) and fitted with cobalt and nickel magnetic electrodes".
"the spins of the usual solar cells are 'disordered' but thanks to magnetism we have managed to 'order' them so that a bigger current can be collected".
The researchers have confirmed that the use of electrodes of this type increases the photovoltaic efficiency of the device by 14%.
The device has another added advantage as it has been found to be capable of directly generating alternating current, which is much more useful in applications than the direct current generated by the usual solar cells, as transformers no longer need to be used.
"in the future it will be possible to build a commercial device that acts as a solar module and produces alternating current directly".


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US backs Daesh in Syria, but not in its puppet regimes: Analyst
Wednesday, 02 December 2015 6:39 AM [ Last Update: Wednesday, 02 December 2015 6:56 AM ]
The US does not "want ISIS (Daesh) to spread into Saudi Arabia and some of the other" Persian Gulf puppet countries, Keith Preston told Press TV on Wednesday.
The United States is allowing Daesh terrorists to remain and grow in Syria, but simultaneously preventing its spread into its puppet countries like Saudi Arabia, an American political analyst says.
Americans "want to use Daesh as a weapon against the regime of President (Bashar al-) Assad, they do want to eliminate that regime, because that regime is not a regime that's a puppet of the Americans," Keith Preston, director of AttacktheSystem.com, told Press TV on Wednesday.
"They want to contain ISIS in Iraq and they don't want ISIS to spread into Saudi Arabia and some of the other" Persian Gulf states, he added.
The analyst went on to say that "President Assad is the only alternative to seizure of power in Syria by the Daesh, there is not going to be some kind of pro-Western regime in Syria despite what some American leaders may be fantasizing about this, this is not going to happen."
Preston made the comments when asked about recent remarks by Michael Flynn, former commander of US special forces in Afghanistan and Iraq, who said the US invasion and occupation of Iraq helped to create the Daesh terrorist group.
"We were too dumb," Flynn told German newspaper Der Spiegel in an interview published on Sunday. "We didn't understand who we had there at that moment."
"It was huge error," said the general, who was America's highest ranking military intelligence official. "As brutal as Saddam Hussein was, it was a mistake to just eliminate him."
Preston said "the dislodging of Saddam Hussein's regime essentially plunged Iraq into state of civil war, that allowed the al-Qaeda to enter into Iraq and fester and grow and then the Daesh is actually a splinter group from al-Qaeda."
The US invaded Iraq in March 2003 under the pretext of finding weapons of mass destruction. No such weapons, however, were ever found in Iraq.
The invasion plunged Iraq into chaos, resulting in years of deadly violence and the rise of terrorist groups like al-Qaeda, which was a precursor of Daesh.
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An Extra Life Challenge
The Backlog Episode 2 (Day 10): Contra and… Blaster Master?!?!?
Well it's Friday, and in addition to being a good reason to get some whiskey (or whatever you choose), to cap off the night, it also means tonight the game for the 100 Days of Gaming would be a new-comer to try to finish. Since Last week came from my collection of physical media, tonight would come from the digital realms of the Wii and WiiU… and I will admit, I was excited to see Contra: Rebirth selected. After all, it was supposedly modeled after Contra III: The Alien Wars which was one of the games that sold me on getting an SNES back in the 1990s.
But it didn't take long for something to show itself to be amiss… starting with the ability to use both weapons at once when flipping. I tried various ways to dual wield, but could find nothing. And then I started to play and the game was ridiculously hard. I mean, yeah, Contra is known as a challenging series of games, but it's also a generally clean series that allows you to see what's going on. I could not claim that in this case, as my first death came hidden behind enough explosions to hide entire enemies as well as the bullet they shot. LIterally, I only saw the enemy on my second try.
Figuring I just sucked at the game for not having played a shoot'em-up of this type for many years, I turned down the difficulty after a few more failures to get through the first level, which did help, but level two would only enforce the game's reliance on cheap deaths by spawning enemies inches in front of your character's face and shooting, all but ensuring anyone who didnt know in advance that enemy would be there to lose a life in classic Contra one-hit kill style. This is annoying but not as damning as the boss to complete this level, as it has an NRG pattern that can force you to die by punch to the face (it is a 2 story tall robot).
Now I won't say I was very good at the game by any means, but I'm not sure it's worth the time to get good either. Comparing it to my memories of the original trilogy, it felt cluttered and like it was only half-way implementing everything what features were available, all the while trying to use those games (especially the third one) to remind you of how awesome they were and ride on that rather then just being another great game in the series itself. It's available on the WIi store (yeah, the original, but you CAN access it on the WIiU), but I don't think I would recommend it based on this introduction.
Still, the introduction was only half-an-hour, so I owed you guys a little more. I had the WiiU running so.. screw it! Let the dice roll for the next game on it! And… the dice punished me… hard. The next game was one I knew sucked already as I had tried to play it long ago…. Blaster Master Overdrive. Like Contra Rebirth, I picked this one up immediately wanting more of the awesome I remembered from the NES original…. this one was the game that finally taught me better.
RIght off the bat, the game hints at how bad it's going to be by requiring you to use the Wiimote only. The lack of support for even the classic controller just shows the level of care that went into this "sequel/reboot." Once you actually start playing the tank feels slow and clunky, even compared to the original game. And it does not help that the camera lets you get close enough to the edge of the screen you are going to that you can easily run into any enemy if you dont take your time. But the ground at least feels better and more like the original game, but it cant save this title.
But at least tonight was entertaining as we broke the game by dying and reloading, causing weapon upgrades to re appear and build all my weapons to max power, seeing this for the first time
As with Contra, this game is simply not worth your money. Although in this case, you have a much better remake available if the itch for new Blaster Master hits you… Blaster Master Zero. Go play that one.
The Seasonal Grind
Day 9/100: Atlas Reactor
I had intentions of playing The Sims 4 today, but today was a day where pain won the game of life, so decided to so something that gave purpose, not that Sims 4 cannot have purpose, but hey I know that Season 3 Chapter 4 missions are coming out next week and it felt like a little mission to get those done.
So Atlas Reactor, my second favorite game by Trion, love it for all the variety in the game, but then there is also missions, while like Heroes of the Storm has missions, this are a little more complex if that says something.
While in Heroes the quest might be win three games, play eight games, play as a assassin character, fine and all, but still easy. Atlas Reactor give you challenges like heal someone for 1000 hp, or do 5000 damage, win 10 matches with 10 different lancers, use taunts, use overcons, collect 100 powerups of matches you win. Those are challenging, at least to me, as all the Season 3 Chapter 3 missions only went towards the quest if you won the match, so had to rack up in a lot of games to win and it count for the mission.
You have several weeks between each chapter and you can also backtrack, but been trying to stay ahead and not get behind, because chapter one I have to grind the night of the start of chapter two, literally finished chapter one like ten minutes before server came down and chapter two start. TALK about anxiety rage mode. But you can backtrack, so sort of did that rage mode for nothing. T…T
Look out Season 3 Chapter 4, ready for your quest, so Bring it!
First "Backlog" Epsiode: Legend of Zelda: The Skyward Sword
Before I begin, I would just like to take this moment and say hi to everyone here. I was part of the 100 Days of Gaming last year, but outside of the hashtag before each stream, was fairly quiet. But I thought it would be fun to take part in the main posts this year and thankful for the chance. (Btw, thank you Zaldar for introducing me to this last year and letting me know both that it was on again and there is a page this year. And thank you Herobyclicking for offering to do these posts.) The only other thing I have to say here is that I've been an Extra Lifer since the first one, and watched it grow in awe. (If you were there to see it start on Sarcastic Gamer too, I was the community member Diortem and a bit of a regular to the site.) So really, thank you guys for making amazing event even cooler.
But enough on all that… I'm hear because once a week during this event, I will be taking a break from the main games I am trying to finish to try out something that's been sitting around in my collection waiting to be played. Keep in mind, this selection is about showing some love to some new (to me) games and systems I am currently not playing, so as long as my main games sit on PC and PS3, these systems will not be touched in this section, but aside from that, the dice decide what I try for an hour or two. My first session was last Friday (which will be the day I do this from now on) in which the dice picked a disc-based Wii game: The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword.
Now when I picked this game up, it was something I did by chance. I believe I was even in the Toys R Us because I needed a gift for the office Christmas gift swap (Im lucky to work with a group of people as sick as I am…. very lucky indeed), and since I was there, I figured I would check out the games in case I found some gem for the older consoles… and I stumbled on not only the then newest Zelda title, but a version that included a CD sound track… and for cheap. Yeah, I wasn't leaving it behind, but it only got a test run to ensure the game would run when I got home. After that, I put it on the shelf… until this Friday when the dice decided it was time to play.
Now I wont say I was expecting a lot from this game. You see, I have a few Zelda nuts as friends… one never played the game and the other hated it due to the way you have to fly the bird in the game. Not being a huge fan of the franchise myself, this means a lot going in, but I do not believe I agree with her.
First off, I found the game very story driven as for the first few hours we followed Link through a very tutorial-like mission to find his missing loftwing: a giant bird you will use to fly throughout the game once you have freed it from it's prison. And while my time flying was limited, it felt absolutely perfect using the Wiimote's position to control the direction you fly (as well as using gravity like a speed boost. Apparently there is combat that will go on with this and her big issue was trying to aim while doing this, but I will have to see later. Sadly 2 hours was not enough to get to a point where you fight while on the back of this bird.
But that is not to say that I didn't get to see any combat. In fact I got to see a fair bit of sword fighting between training on logs and the cave you have to go through to save that bird, and to be honest it felt great. The Wiimote Plus was used quite well to reflect the position as well as the location of your sword as you swing at enemies in 9 different directions, and it picks up the difference between these moves very effectively. The only issue I had with sword-play I think was my doing as there were times I wanted to bring the blade down on slimes and saw Link instead rip them up bottom first, but I think it was because I brought the wiimote up fast enough to setup for this that the game thought it was an upward swing.
However, that isn't to say I didn't find a major problem with the game, and that would be the camera. You see this camera is designed to follow you and outside of the command to lock onto whatever is in front of you, you have no control over it. In general this is not an issue, but it makes platforming a real bear when it wants to. This is demonstrated in the very first area the game wants to teach you how you jump and climb right as you leave the first building in the game. You simply will not make it if you don't use the lock-on trick to center the camera behind you as what should be a straight-left jump curves with the angle of the camera as Link moves. It is unnecessarily frustrating and feels like a warning of what is likely coming down the line in later puzzles.
Overall, however, I get the feeling that I am going to enjoy this game when I play it for real, and I had a lot of fun with it in the short time I spent it got for the 100 days of gaming. While I am in no rush to play it again right now, I look forward to coming back for more.
Day 6 – 8
Day 6 & 7/100: Fallout 4
Outside of Rift and Trion Games, I am quite the Bethesda fan girl, the Fallout series is one of my favorite game series, and it is very hard for you to get me to pick one of the games to love the most (Fallout 3 is the one winning of the games) they each have something about them I love. Fallout 4 is the newest edition to the list, and will say they added a lot more Wow to this game.
How does one define such Wow? Well sure there is wonderful graphics, but my wow for me is there is no where save in the wasteland…mean you run away from one thing and run into another, and then the next and the next until you find yourself hiding in a camper in the fetal position crying…or is that just me? You feel like your actually trying to survive. Which hey if the world is a dystopia apocalyptic wasteland, then yes you should be surviving it. The decisions in this game is so much more heavy, like it greatly effects how other NPCs interact with you. Now my one con is they made the Brotherhood of Steel come off as jerks….come on those were my heroes in Fallout 3…. le sigh, part of me roots for them still, but they are jerks in Fallout 4.
Oh and what do Mirelurkers have against me? I swear they are out to Liam Nessom me..they dont know who I am, but they will find me and kill me. I never succeed in my stream challenge, always challenge myself to not scream…but I always scream. Yesterday screamed about…a scorpion. To be fair they were HUGE and two of them and they jumped right into my screen when I turned around.
Day 8/100: Heroes of the Storm
On today's roster of games to play, I will be playing Heroes of the Storm. This is my current favorite Moba, which I am never been the biggest fans of before this, because well, you have objectives, and challenges, and quest and can collect things. Anyone who is an achievement hunter, from other games, loves to collect things. makes grabby hands
I have a hard time picking who my favorite Heroes are of this game, think Nazeebo and Cassia, there are so many to pick from. But Heroes offers many ways to play the game, against AI, PVP, Ranked matches, custom matches and then my favorite….Brawl.
Brawl is always some themed match, where you do not get to pick your hero. Your stuck with either a selection or one picked for you already, which really challenges your gameplay, most of the time I am stuck with melee characters which I am not the good at, or support characters that I don't do well with…or then those random characters I have never played and don't know any of the moves too. Its challenging but lots of fun. Highly recommend this game.
95 more days to go!
Day 5/100: Rift Summerfest
As I may of said before Rift is my main game, will probably be on this list a lot…fair warning, be prepare to read about Rift a lot. But for today I did the Summerfest themed stuff, which involves, fishing, scavenger hunts, a corgi fashion (yes a corgi fashion show) and capturing different monsters around the world.
There are 50 Scavenger Hunt quest total, all over the world expect in the new area, re-visit the old content, in these crazy hunts, where they have to a variety of strange things to hugging a evil elf, squirting some seacaps (like crabs) with water gun, to a snowboard race down a giant mountain, to even finding Grandfather Frost (The Rift universes Santa Claus) which by the way….his house has a mail box, so he does get your letters when you wish for a pony.
The scavenger hunts award you with friendship bracelets and summer merit badges which you can exchange for wardrobe, dimension items, mounts and more. Summerfest is one of the four world events that Rift does, and can be time consuming with the hunts, so if your going to try Rift to get on this nice items, recommend you to hop to it now!
Day Four with Cuddles
Day 4/100: Rift
Anyone who knows me knows I love Rift, mean my name is KelariCuddles…. Kelari's are a race within the game, so no brainer there right? Unless you dont know they are a race in the game, then hear to tell you….wait for it whispers Kelari's are a race in Rift. Rift is an amazing MMO, that has multiple things to do it, so you should never find yourself bored, at least hey, I dont. And on top of that made loads of friends playing it so I do have many people to play with and have good laughs.
The game is free to play and until recently only level 1 to 65 was free to play and 66-70 required a expansion, well that is now free. So 1-70 levels of solid fun, you can do that the old fashion way and play all the quest and learn the rich lore of the game (Which I recommend) Cause if you plan to do end game stuff with raids it follows the story, and would hate you to be standing there going? What is going on? I mean right?
You have loads of PVE options, Instant Adventures, questing, dungeons, raids, PVP, Rift hunting, Achievement hunting, dimensions building, world events, crafting, an amazing wardrobe system and then my favorite role playing.
Rift is very customizeable, where most games leave you role specific, Rift you have options. There are five callings: Mage, Cleric, Warrior, Rouge and Primalist, each have 11 souls each to pick in your soul trees, almost 5k options, so little under 1k options per calling. You can be all roles (tank, support, dps, healer) so you can be a mage tank, or a warrior healer. The options are endless! Then you have a wardrobe system that is out of the world, every piece of gear, weapon or costume you pick up, saves to your wardrobe, so you can select the wardrobe slot and change how your character looks on all that stuff you have picked up. Cause sometimes the gear your wearing makes you look like a potato farmed clown in iron boots, not classy…so the wardrobe system lets you customize that!
Highly recommend the game. If what I said interest you here is the link to try out this amazing game.
http://www.trionworlds.com/rift/en/?_ga=2.47647267.52461996.1501336808-173316146.1500438636
KelariCuddles 100 Days of Gaming
Hearing about 100 Days of Gaming got me super stoked, was like YES a challenge I can do. Seeing as the 24 hour Gaming marathon is so my day, the count down up until the big day sounds fun. So lets play 100 games that lead to National day. Even in the spirit of 100 days of gaming, suggested to my local Extra Life Guild the possibility of getting together for a game night, even if we only get on Discord and play some multiplayer online game, or get together and actually play board games, none the less it supports the Extra Life community.
So this is to catalog my 100 days of gaming journey. Hopefully this inspires others to join, write, share, and create content as we move towards Game Day.
Atlas Reactor is a real time strategy game, created by Trion Worlds, as a Trion Creator, and Trion fangirl, always going to play a Trion game if I can, but this game is absolutely addicting. The Lancers are amazing, giving a variety of type of players to play. Completely Free to play, loads of fun to have. Game is a 4v4 game, tactics heavy, but you have the options of playing against Bots, Players and when you have played 50 matches of PVP you can move forward into Ranked matches. You get 20 seconds per turn to come up with you move, then the game plays out, and then you move to the next turn until your team reaches 5 points of the highest amount of points in 20 turns.
Highly recommend this game, totally should give it a chance, mean you will either like it or not.
https://www.atlasreactorgame.com/en/
Day 2/100: Fallout 3
I wanted to personally play my favorite game of all time somewhere during this 100 days of gaming. I am aware of the game being mature in nature and can have a share of wordy dirties and some themes not appropriate for children, but it still my favorite game. This is a classic game for me, has all the things I greatly enjoy in games.
Open world, decision making, long long game play, rich story, keeps me highly entertained, sure it entertains you guys to hear me stream like a little girl when being chased by everything out to kill me, and well it also has James best video game dad ever and Vault Boy. And I was a sucker for the Brotherhood of Steel in this game, they were my heroes, they literally save my butt a feeeeew times against mutants and other overly radiated things out there. (WHY did they make em jerks in Fallout 4).
And as Day 3 lurks on by can go ahead and tell you what is in store for Day 3! So while yes Fallout 3 is my favorite game, I did not grow up playing that game. I am old here guys, so course I did not grow up playing the game, but I did grow up playing the Sims. So yes Day 3 will be me playing Sims 4 as I start another challenge known as the generation/ 100 baby challenge. Start off with two adults and see where they go. Sure Sims 4 is not the game I grew up on but its the current one and the only one I have my hands on right now. Soooo….
Day 3/100: The Sims 4
I start this day with the generation baby challenge. 100 babies, wow that's a lot of virtual babies….and they are not as easy I remember…they are kind of hard, they cry a lot, want food all the time, and lets not get started on diapers….hey its like real kids but digital. But the Sims are so random and so hilarious, there is no wonder why the game is still around. You can create artificial simulated lives, and if you have the expansions you can make them vampires to live out your Louis and Lestat dreams if you want. Sims 4 took the Sim world by storm by driving the game towards emotions, which hey is like real life. People are emotional creatures and we act different when were happy, or sad or mad, or embarrassed or flirty, so to have sims have the same interface made this game dynamic from the rest of the Sim collection.
I encourage everyone to get out there and play games, mean 100 days goes by quick and 100 days of games will make it that much more quick and that much more entertaining. I just hope my progress, cataloging it will inspire other Extra Lifers, streamers and gamers join this cause, do the challenge and get there energy drink and coffee on November 4th for Game Day. If you have any games to recommend to me on my journey let me know, always willing to try something out.
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The Hudson's Bay Company coat of arms is seen on their 'The Bay' store in Toronto, Canada.
Canadian retailer Hudson's Bay has made an indicative offer for Metro's department store chain Kaufhof, two people familiar with the matter told Reuters.
The value of the non-binding offer is similar to a separate bid made by Austrian investor Rene Benko, they said, adding talks with Germany's Metro were ongoing.
Sources had told Reuters last month that Benko, who owns rival department store chain Karstadt, had offered 2.9 billion euros ($3.18 billion) for Kaufhof.
Metro declined to comment on the matter, while Hudson's Bay was not immediately available for comment.


Smoke rises in the sky after a suicide car bomb attack in Kunduz province, February 10, 2015.
The United Nations says conflict-related deaths and injuries among Afghan civilians rose 22 percent in 2014, mostly because of an increase in ground fighting between warring parties. The world body blamed the Taliban and other insurgents for most of the civilian casualties.
The U.N. Assistance Mission in Afghanistan says the number of civilian casualties documented in its annual report is the highest in a single year since 2009.
Speaking in Kabul, UNAMA Director of Human Rights Georgette Gagnon said the rise in casualties is due to intensified ground fighting between Afghan forces and insurgents, using weapons like rockets, mortars and grenades in and near civilian populated areas. She cited the withdrawal of international forces and combat air support for increased ground engagements.
Gagnon says the report implicated the Taliban and other insurgents for 72 percent of all civilian deaths, and government and international forces, respectively, for 14 percent and two percent. U.N. researchers could not determine which party was responsible for the rest of the cases.
Gagnon added that improvised explosive devices used by insurgents, commonly known as IEDs, were the second leading cause of civilian casualties, followed by increased numbers of suicide attacks in 2014.
She read a message from the U.N. human rights chief reiterating that these unacceptable deliberate and indiscriminate attacks on Afghan civilians may amount to war crimes, and all parties are bound to respect their international obligations.
Nicholas Haysom, the head of the U.N. mission in Kabul, urged the Taliban to abide by their public commitments to avoid civilian casualties and stop deliberately attacking civilians.
The Taliban told VOA it rejects the U.N. report on civilian casualties, because it is one sided and the reported statistics have been provided by its enemies ("the Mujahideen").


There is a healthy transformation occurring at Brush High School.
That makes South Euclid-Lyndhurst Superintendent Linda Reid happy.
One of the caretakers of that movement — Mentor High graduate Ryan Dugan — is seeing the payoff at the high school.
At the former vocational wing of Brush, there was once an auto garage used for an Excel auto tech program.
With interest in the program to be an auto mechanic waning, it was sent to the Willoughby-Eastlake School District.
The auto garage at Brush didn't stay vacant for long.
In 2015, it was transformed into the ArcFit Wellness Complex.
The state-of-the-art facility was complete in 2015, and was funded by Legacy Village and the school district, according to Reid.
The complex also features a classroom and a coaches meeting room converted from computer labs, but the main attraction is ArcFit, which Dugan said was Reid's vision.
It features 12 weightlifting racks — each with tablets that feature tutorials and program trackers — plus a multitude of other workout stations.
There's also an indoor track that extends to the outside of the facility to a 25-by-25-yard long turf area for speed and agility training.
For Dugan, hired by the school district as its fitness and wellness coordinator, running the complex is a dream.
"When you walk into this place, you realize, it's not just another gym," said Dugan.
The ArcFit complex goes beyond Brush's student-athletes.
Currently, said Reid, the complex is on Phase 2 of a three-phase plan.
• Phase 1 included implementing the school's two-year exercise science and rehabilitation program as part of the area's Excel Program. It will go into effect for the 2017-18 school year. Also for Phase 1 was having Brush High teams and students using the ArcFit complex.
• Phase 2 includes opening the complex to the 550 South Euclid-Lyndhurst District employees.
• Phase 3, said Reid, includes partnering with organizations and opening the complex to the community.
"That's the vision," said Reid, a former track and field athlete at Kent State and former high school coach. "We just haven't gotten there quite yet.
Reid is most excited for the exercise science and rehabilitation program. A recent survey of Brush students revealed 53 percent were interested in a profession in health or science.
"We wanted to bring more 21st century programs to our district," said Reid.
As part of Excel programs, students at Mayfield, Beachwood, Chagrin Falls, Willoughby South, Eastlake North, Aurora and Orange high schools can apply for the first class of the exercise science and rehabilitation program. It's open to juniors and seniors.
According to Reid, 83 students have already applied for the program's 25 spots in 2017-18. Upon completion, students will have earned six college credit hours.
"We expect the program to be very competitive," she said.
Dugan has also created a wellness and fitness club designed for non-athletes at Brush. That group, plus the athletic teams that utilize ArcFit, makes Dugan's days busy.
"We can have up to three different teams working out here at once," said Dugan, 27, a former Baldwin Wallace football player and assistant coach at Toledo and Lake Erie College. "They love the facility. To see the growth the kids have made, not even being here a year, has been very fulfilling.
A lot of that is the facility, said Dugan.


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Impact of Metformin on Advanced Pancreatic Cancer Survival: Too Little, Too Late?
Yu-Xiao Yang and Anil K. Rustgi
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1Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania
For correspondence: yangy@mail.med.upenn.edu
Anil K. Rustgi
2Division of Gastroenterology; Department of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania
DOI: 10.1158/1078-0432.CCR-15-2494
Metformin offers no survival advantage in patients with metastatic pancreatic cancer. Despite promising experimental evidence suggesting an anti-tumor effect of metformin, its impact on the survival of advanced pancreatic cancer is likely very limited. Future studies may need to consider its role in early-stage pancreatic cancer.
Received November 3, 2015.
Revision received November 7, 2015.
Accepted November 13, 2015.
Copyright © 2015, American Association for Cancer Research.
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South Seattle Emerald
Rowland Martin: I'm Not Afraid to Challenge Orthodoxy
July 15, 2014 Editor	Leave a comment
Editor's Note: This is the second in our series of interviews with the candidates- 5 Democrats and 1 Republican- who are vying to replace retiring State Senator Adam Kline in the 37th District. The top two candidates chosen in the primary election- held on August 5th- will continue on to the general- which takes place on November 4th. The winner of which will represent the 37th District in the Washington State Senate. The 37th currently comprises almost the entire South Seattle area.
Rowland Martin
It's enticingly easy to dismiss Rowland Martin's candidacy to represent the 37th District as its State Senator. As the only Republican running in the deeply blue district – that has yet to come marginally close to sending anyone other than a Democrat to Olympia in the past 20 years- to say that the odds were heavily stacked against him would be an understatement's understatement.
However, unlike the majority of his predecessors who have attempted to wage a legitimate battle in the traditionally progressive stronghold, Martin is equipped with the belief that he can win. When taking into account that over 20 percent of the district self-identifies as conservative, the low voter turnout inherent in non-presidential year elections, and a throwback brand of republicanism that excuses itself from divisive social issues, while attending to economic growth and civil liberties – that belief may just prove warranted.
Emerald: Historically the 37th District has overwhelming supported Democrats at almost every level of government. Why did you decide to run as a Republican for State Senator? Many people, for lack of a better term, perceive any Republican candidacy in this race as a "fool's errand."
Rowland Martin: I think that there are a number of people who by their nature are more conservative. I think that we have an incredibly diverse community, politically as well as ethically. I was recently talking with a vietnamese man in the area – who was literally a boat person- and he asked me what party I was affiliated with and I said, "I'm a Republican." He said, "Good! Otherwise I would've been really upset." (laughter)
I talked to another man in Bryn Mawr last week. I came into his living room, and we spoke for a long time and he agreed with me on most of my points. I think that at the root there's a lot of people who are conservative, and I just don't think they've had anyone who can articulate a rational, conservative message in this district. I think that some headway can be made here. Maybe people look at me as the guy just trying to get the message out, but you have to start somewhere. I'm here to give people that alternative, let these so called progressives know, that not everyone is completely satisfied to the point of a no opposition district, and that message needs to be heard loudly.
Emerald: A lack of good, quality jobs is a huge concern amongst South Seattle residents, as its unemployment rate is higher than in any other portion of the city. If you were elected state senator how would you address that concern?
Martin: I would do my best to get rid of what I think are barriers to getting businesses started, along with barriers to young people entering professions, and what I think is a broken education system that doesn't give them many initial opportunities. So, what specifically am I talking about?
I'm talking about a state that rejects new businesses, that agonizes over whether they're going to allow coal or oil that's brought here from a train, and is opposed to even shipping these things,. Right now the Panama Canal is being expanded, ships are already built, they're going to be able to fit through this larger canal, and we already know that the amount of shipping traffic coming into Puget Sound is going to drop -because if you can ship it directly via boat to the large population centers along the East Coast or Europe, you're not going to bring it into Seattle or Tacoma, and put it on a train and ship it across the country.
We just keep saying no, even to little neighborhood projects. There's some little neighborhood project up by the Home Depot, where Sick's Stadium used to be. For some reason, there seems to be controversy about building it. I look around at the businesses in that area, and a lot of it is in really old buildings – that frankly needs to be rejuvenated or torn down. We can't keep making it hard to do that, by making permitting difficult, by agonizing over whether you're going to change the character of a neighborhood, or going to tear down some building that is way out of date.
The other thing is, we are subsidizing really ineffective technologies with this green energy focus. Windmills, are not high tech. There's some technology that obviously goes into the blades, but putting a generator on a pole to generate electricity, there's a bunch of things wrong with it. Foremost being, your subsidizing tax dollars to pay for it and the ratio of energy produced to tax dollar subsidy is really bad, with wind energy.
You're taking people's money out of their pocket, to say: "We're going to subsidize a few little jobs to do these technologies that aren't efficient." There's a technology this state used to believe in, nuclear power, we need to start doing that again. I do believe that we should start subsidizing our energy production and distribution, because that's the kind of thing that's going to bring industry in and create jobs.
Emerald: This area has not sent a Republican to the State Senate in quite some time, and is associated with being a progressive area. That being the case, why should someone in the 37th, who traditionally votes left of center chose you to represent them?
Martin: I'd ask that person, how many decades have you voted for a Democrat? And then I'd ask, what's their bottom line for their families and themselves? Democrats are telling you all these nice, wonderful things, but has any of it really been delivered to you? What's your bottom line? Why are you continuing to listen to the same party? The same group for decades has been saying, "Oh! We're going to solve all these problems," and they're not solving them.
What have they shown you? Why do you keep voting for the same thing? Why do you keep identifying with them? It just doesn't make any sense to me. If you look at a chart of wealth disparity since 1947, it's been the same straight line up to more disparity. It's not been solid Republicans since 1947, and it doesn't go dropping down when there's a Democrat in charge of things. It's the same trend, and they aren't solving the issue.
You have to let people have more of their money. You have to have less crony capitalism, and you have to get the government out of the way. You also have to expect that people are going to have to make their own opportunities, and we've gotten away from that. Again I'd ask them what's their bottom line? Are you really getting anything out of it, or is it just enough to barely get a place to live and have a television?
Emerald: Education is another prominent concern of area residents. Many people have been very vocal about the inadequacies of some South Seattle area schools. At the college level, you have many complaints about higher education becoming more and more cost prohibitive. How would you address this at the state level?
Martin: I'm going to say that I think it's so bad that we're going to have to start trying much more radical solutions. When I say radical, let's go over the facts. Young men are faring worse now. Hooray for women getting the opportunities to go into careers. That is great, absolutely! But, you look around the world and where you have serious social problems is where you have young man who are not educated, not brought into the civic society, and don't have opportunities. It's going to be a really bad problem in our own area unless something really radical is done, so what is that?
I think that we've come this kind of credentialistic society – we focus a little too heavy on do you have a college degree or not? Frankly, a lot of degrees aren't necessary. The figure is 45% of recent college graduates are either unemployed or underemployed, many are working a job that they don't need a degree for.
You have too many young people thinking that they have to go on this college track, and then they get into college and maybe they get a liberal arts degree- something that's in high demand, and then they think, "Well maybe I have to get my master's degree." So that's more time, and more debt, and they become stuck in this escalating battle, thinking that they have to get all this stuff before they're worthy of getting a job, and I say no! This credential escalation has to end.
At the pre-college level, we used to take students who came out of High School and let them teach the younger students. They would look and they would say who's the smartest kid who just came from our school, and they would put them to work as the teacher for the lower grades. They would eventually get better and better they'd move up. I think this allows students to relate better to their teachers as they'd be closer in age. You listen to your peers a little more.
I'm also supportive of a voucher system, as I think parents should be given some choice and variation of education. It would be much more cost effective than what people think. We currently spend $12,000 on each child, so for 20 kids that's over a quarter of a million dollars. The max teacher salary is about 65,000- add in benefits and you're at 100k, I think that you could find a teacher pretty easily for your voucher school at that kind of pay rate, and I don't think it's going to cost another $150,000 to find a class room to rent.
Emerald: As you've been branded the extreme underdog in the 37th District Senate race, you haven't garnered the same level of media attention as many or your counterparts. What do you hope, besides being the only Republican in the race, that people identify you with?
Martin: I'd share that I'm not afraid of challenging the orthodoxy of opinion. I'll state things as truthfully, and as accurately as I can see. I'm willing to compromise, but on the other hand I think that some better solutions than just more of the same are necessary. I think that people need to understand that I will articulate some new ideas and I think that I'll be able to explain how those kinds of ideas will give them a better bottom line, which will lead to more individual liberty, and more choices in their lives. I'm practical, I'm pretty well read in American history. I know what kind of country we've been- in terms of growth and opportunity, and building wealth for every body who wants to put the time in.
Emerald:There's been a lot of conversation, of late, in regards to our state's tax structure. As many with lower incomes pay a higher percentage of their earnings in taxes than a more affluent person, such as Bill Gates, does. What would you do to fix that discrepancy?
Martin: I think I would say to people who think that, "Okay, my burden is relatively higher than someone else's burden," I would say to them, "You know, this mutual navel gazing about how much this person has, and how much that person has, was caused by having an income tax. So, we're now all so focused on, is this person better off, is this group better off? We've gotta get out of that mode.
I'd also say that if you want to be a citizen, you should want to pay some, even if it's not a large share. You should want to say that, "I paid some, and I'm participating as a citizen. The whole government service equation isn't just flowing to me, but that some of my work does contribute to what should be, a minimal government."
In terms of income disparity, it's grown since we've implemented the income tax, it hasn't shrunk, it's gotten worse. The income tax resulted in a separate society, into people who are very wealthy and people who aren't, and we're starting to lose our middle class. The people who you hurt the most are the ones that are striving to get from the lower side of that equation to the higher side, and the thing is the very wealthy will always be able to use political power more effectively than the lower income people, the thing about the income tax is that it tends to wipe out the people who are trying to make that transition. You're never able to get quite enough saved up to move into a place that you can focus on politics or public service. I would tell people that see that that this whole problem has been caused by the solution we put in place, that gets us all so focused on envy, and makes it hard to get to where we want to be.
Emerald: If elected, what would you want someone to be able to say about you at the end of your term?
Martin: That he at least did his best job to tell them the truth about what was going on, and that the information that he presented back to them was accurate and easy to understand, so that they'd know where the money was coming in and where it was going out.
Emerald: We'll end with a softball. South Seattle is obviously known for its diversity, which extends to its restaurants. What is your favorite place to eat in South Seattle and why?
Martin: I absolutely love Maya's in Rainier Beach. The food there is amazing. Whenever I want to take my wife out for a night, that's the place I go to!
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