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My Rossoneri!!! My heart aches...

Anyway, Forza Milan we will come out of all this.

This is an interesting piece coming from you TechCapon and its gives another insight to the impending trade war between the US and China. However I'm of a different opinion as per the outcome of a full scale trade war.

Firstly, I don't think Chinese companies will be the eventual losers in this case. Yes China may lose market share, obviously because the US is a major trading partner, but they will source for new customers. South East Asia, Latin America, SSA and MENA are other market options that could be readily developed. Also, even if Google play is eventually removed from ZTE phones, that will make ZTE come up with its own services and possibly OS! I wouldn't underestimate a country that came up with weibo, wechat, baidu and alibaba. Besides, I dont think Google Apps work in China. My point is a total ban on Chinese Techs will only make them innovate and create better products. Remember, Fanta was born in Germany because there was no trade between Nazi Germany and the US during WW2 and people couldn't get to drink Coca Cola.

Secondly, Nigeria and other countries can benefit from the trade war by increasing their technological know-how. If Nigeria can develop as much as India iand create technology clusters we could become an outsourcing hotspot instead of any of the two warring parties.

My humble take.

messiiiiiiiiii

Dayuum!

Give the man his due respect.

Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings...

NBA?? Who watches that? Mbok make una shift. We are a footballing nation abeg. It's just like that Indian man always asking where he can watch a live cricket match in Nigeria. Cricket ko, Grasshopper ni

cosmos1440:
the quote in your picture is a lie
I ve seen same picture/quote where the place referred to was Africa.
Also, the fellow that founded Buddhism in India, was born into a wealthy royal family, but was dismayed at the level of poverty and misery of majority of the people, . . .
and this was long before Europeans went to India.
My point stop spreading lies as facts on the internet.

Sir, if you've ever did that boring module called British Orientalism, you wouldn't have typed that ish you did.

The debate has always been whether Lord T.B. Macaulay said that or not in his famous 'Minute on Indian Education '. Besides he served in India between 1834- 1838, so seeing someone twist the speech to talk about Africa is rather amusing.

Have yourself a good afternoon or evening depending on which side of the Atlantic you're reading from.

lolipopandy:
Who did this to us

Lord TB Macaulay didn't say that. read through your article and mine and spot the difference.

Terrible journalism. Lumping three different unrelated subject matters in one article.

The Chevron-Famfa-Petrobas vs Statoil case shows how important it is to have your data right the first time.

As per NNPC vs the IOCs, how come our bill kept piling to the tune of $6.8billion? It doesn't sit well with me. The NNPC should be able to meet its cash obligations as at when due.

The NNPC is almost like CNOOC, Petrobas or Saudi Aramco but isn't living up to expectation. If not for the kind of corruption going on there, by now they ought to have branched out of the Gulf of Guinea to as far as the North Sea.

Yahoo boyz in trouble

Congratulations Lala.

Please accept my humble gift.

Valar morghulis.

It's an iteration problem. I solved only questions 1 and 2, you can solve the rest.

Sorry for the poor flashlight.

Russia Embassy in the US just posted on their Facebook page that there would be "consequences".

WW3 loading live in HD. Abeg make una no carry una fight come near Africa, mbok.

Marriott?? Ikot Ekpene?? Hmm for those of you that always wanted to work at Sheraton Hotel, this is it.

Now that everyone seems to be taking their privacy so serious, did you know that Facebook constantly upload your call logs and texts to their servers unless you've turned it off. Check your settings.

Infact beware of apps that makes use of your location, microphone, or asks for permission to read your SD card, phone logs, contacts and so on.

Portugal 0- Egypt 1

They are checking to see if it's the snake that swallowed the money.

Forza Milan!!!

duroc:
Lol.. Buhari and ill luck.. Who get that Zuma pix?

lol

Shouldn't there be an audit system already in place? How do things work in naija sef?

Ale ale ale Milan ale

Forza Milan!!

I think we are getting the whole certification thingy wrong and recruiters in Nigeria are not even helping matters.

I feel recruiters' love for certificate is making young graduates set the cart before the horse. How can people be certified in what they have no practical experience about?

Personally, I'd place more value on a young graduate that has experience from tons of summer jobs than a corp member with one shinny professional certificate. The way we are going, we'll soon be hearing fresh graduates ask if they should go for IADC WellCAP or some certs meant for a toolpusher.

Truth is if you've got any summer job experience, you wouldn't need anyone to tell you which certification is preferable.

My 0.02

Both of you need counseling. Marriage is about how to reach a middle ground. Besides your hubby's attitude depicts that there's a stored up animosity you guys haven't settled and I think he bears it grudgingly. You need to find the root cause if you want to have a healthy home.
And your kids need a healthy home too. No child wants to live in a home he dreads going to after school. Do the needful. Lovingly suggest visiting a counseling center to help you two work things out. Cheers.

AkinolaST:
I feel so bad, it has gotten to a point that I've thought about Suicide, I'm just fed up of this life as nothing is working for me since mid last year.
I realise that when you're broke your so call friends will desert you, for weeks I've been finding it difficult to sleep, I need someone to tell me everything is going to be fine. I'm sad.

Suicide is never an option.

I'd like to share some words from the scriptures with you.

1 Samuel 30 1- 6.

And it came to pass, when David and his men were come to Ziklag on the third day, that the Amalekites had invaded the south, and Ziklag, and smitten Ziklag, and burned it with fire;

2 And had taken the women captives, that were therein: they slew not any, either great or small, but carried them away, and went on their way.

3 So David and his men came to the city, and, behold, it was burned with fire; and their wives, and their sons, and their daughters, were taken captives.

4 Then David and the people that were with him lifted up their voice and wept, until they had no more power to weep.

5 And David's two wives were taken captives, Ahinoam the Jezreelitess, and Abigail the wifeof Nabal the Carmelite.

6 And David was greatly distressed; for the people spakeof stoning him, because the soulof all the people was grieved, every man for his sons and for his daughters: but David encouraged himself in the Lord his God.

If you read through the story you'd see how David went about achieving victory. Life may have have battered you down but like David you can encourage yourself in God. Dont be discouraged, never give up. Things may be stormy now but believe me it can't rain forever. Read Psalms 34: 4-6. Pray, be positive and work towards your goals.

Life is beautiful. This is just a learning curve. An experience you must go through to be the person God wants you to be. I'm looking forward to celebrating your success story.

Ben Hirschler

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LONDON (Reuters) - Chinese scientists have cloned monkeys using the same technique that produced Dolly the sheep two decades ago, breaking a technical barrier that could open the door to copyinghumans.

Zhong Zhong and Hua Hua, two identical long-tailed macaques, were born eight and six weeks ago, making them the first primates --the order of mammals that includes monkeys, apes and humans -- to be cloned from a non-embryonic cell.

It was achieved through a process called somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT), which involves transferring the nucleus of a cell, which includes its DNA, into an egg which has had its nucleus removed.

Researchers at the Chinese Academy of Sciences Institute of Neuroscience in Shanghai said their work should be a boon to medical research by making it possible to study diseases in populations of genetically uniform monkeys.

But it also brings the feasibility of cloning to the doorstep of our ownspecies.

“Humans are primates. So (for) the cloning of primate species, including humans, the technical barrier is now broken,” Muming Poo,who helped supervise the program at the institute, told reporters in a conference call.

“The reason ... we broke this barrier is to produce animal models that are useful for medicine, for human health. There is no intention to apply this method to humans.

”Genetically identical animals are useful in research because confounding factors caused by genetic variability in non-cloned animals can complicate experiments. They could be used to test new drugs for a range of diseases before clinical use.

The two newborns are now being bottle fed and are growing normally. The researchers said they expect more macaque clones to be born over the coming months.

Zhong Zhong and Hua Hua, two cloned long tailed macaque monkeys are seen at the Non-Primate facility at the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Shanghai, China January 10, 2018. Picture taken January 10, 2018. Qiang Sun and Mu-ming Poo, Chinese Academy of Sciences handout from Cell/ via REUTERS

Since Dolly - cloning’s poster child - was born in Scotland in 1996, scientists have successfully used SCNT to clone more than 20 other species, including cows, pigs, dogs, rabbits, rats and mice.Similar work in primates, however, had always failed, leading some experts to wonder if primates were resistant.

The new research, published on Wednesday in the journal Cell, shows that is not the case. The Chinese team succeeded, after many attempts, by using modulators to switch on or off certain genes that were inhibiting embryo development.

Even so, their success rate was extremely low and the technique worked only when nuclei were transferred from foetal cells, rather than adult ones, as was the case with Dolly. In all, it took 127 eggs to produce two live macaque births.

“It remains a very inefficient and hazardous procedure,” said Robin Lovell-Badge, a cloning expert at the Francis Crick Institute in London, who was not involved in the Chinese work.

“The work in this paper is not a stepping-stone to establishing methods for obtaining live born human clones. This clearly remains a very foolish thing to attempt.

”The research underscores China’s increasingly important role at the cutting-edge of biosciences, where its scientists have at times pushed ethical boundaries.Three years ago, for example, researchers at Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou caused a furor when they reported carrying out the first experiment to edit the DNA of human embryos, although similarwork has now been done in the United States.

Scientists at the Shanghai institute said they followed international guidelines for animal research set by the U.S. National Institutes of Health, but called for a debate on what should or should not be acceptable practice in primate cloning.

Reporting by Ben Hirschler; Editing by Peter Graff

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-science-cloning-monkeys/chinese-scientists-break-key-barrier-by-cloning-monkeys-idUSKBN1FD2FF?_e_pi_=7%2CPAGE_ID10%2C5989900580

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edimolu:
lalasticlala, dominique, rocktation, mynd44!

could you please allow this thread grace FP!

Why should they? Go through the OPs topics and see how he makes up these kind of stories that touch. He sure has a very vivid imagination.

Yes o. Without God, I am nothing.