If He Doesn't Sign It, Na You Go Still Talk Am Say Bubu No Like Youths

Let The Man Be On This Issue, Mbok

More Standardised Medical Schools At More Affordable Terms Will See An End To These Incessant Industrial Actions & Rivalry In The Health Sector.

Easy On Paper; Difficult In Practice

When People (Retiring Governors) Like A. Ajimobi Are Seeking Elections Into The Senate

Meanwhile, I Won't Be Surprised To Hear PMB Use This As A Campaign Point Later In The Year. Something In Line Of "Our Administration Is Pro-youth As Evidenced By Speedy Passage & Signing Of Not Too Young To Run Bill"

Nice Piece

For Me Though, I Will Rather Have Grey & White Over Yellow & Red.

The Latter Two Are Rather Too "Loud" For My Liking

The government of Papua New Guinea has announced that the country will ban Facebook for a month to study the effects that the world’s largest social network is having on its citizens, and to crack down on “fake users.”

Less than 10% of Papua New Guinea's population of 8 million people has access to the internet according to data from the World Bank, but the country's communication minister Sam Basil told the Post-Courier that shutting down Facebook in the country for a month would still allow analysts in his department to study how citizens of Papua New Guinea were using the platform among other things.

“The time will allow information to be collected to identify users that hide behind fake accounts, users that upload pornographic images, users that post false and misleading information on Facebook to be filtered and removed,” Basil said. “This will allow genuine people with real identities to use the social network responsibly.”

The move comes as Facebook is increasingly being probed by governments across the world after it emerged that the social network with more than 2 billion users globally, leaked the personal data of 87 million Americans to private data analysis firm Cambridge Analytica.

Facebook did not respond to a request for comment from BuzzFeed News.

Basil also said that he was evaluating the possibility of creating a new social network exclusively for Papua New Guinea’s citizens. “If there need be then we can gather our local applications developers to create a site that is more conducive for Papua New Guineans to communicate within the country and abroad as well,” he said.

Papua New Guinea isn’t the first country that is considering revoking access to Facebook for a limited period. In March, Sri Lanka blocked Facebook and Facebook-owned instant messenger WhatsApp for three days in response to posts on the social network calling for attacks on Muslims.

https://www.buzzfeed.com/pranavdixit/papua-new-guinea-is-banning-facebook-for-a-month?utm_term=.vvzO5LxaQw#.tkWjq3OPVb

Pre-electon Years. Things Happen

Hope This Is Not One Of A Political Gimmick

I Will Rather Commit Suicide Than To Kill Myself!

Chai, There Is God Ooooo

Probably The Two Most Widely Used Instant Messaging Apps, Telegram & WhatsApp, Have Released Some Updates.

You May Wish To Check Out The Updates As Captured Below In The Event You Are A User Of Either App.

Ok Oòo

Creativity Turned Downsides Up

The Samsung versus Apple lawsuit was started seven years ago, and is currently at its third retrial, with Apple originally seeking no less than $1 billion in damages. Samsung, on the other hand, said it was willing to pay only $28 million for infringing on three patents.

Apple accused Samsung of copying five different patents, three of which covered iPhone design, while the other two protected different utilities that the South Korean firm eventually used without authorization. The three design patents are the following: US Patent No. D618,677, US Patent No. D593,087, and US Patent No. D604,305.

Samsung has to pay $533,316,606 for the three design patents and $5,325,050 for the other two, though there’s a good chance the decision will be appealed one more time.

Apple issued a statement to emphasize that this verdict is living proof Samsung used its patents without authorization and copied the design of the patent.

“We believe deeply in the value of design, and our teams work tirelessly to create innovative products that delight our customers. This case has always been about more than money. Apple ignited the smartphone revolution with iPhone and it is a fact that Samsung blatantly copied our design. It is important that we continue to protect the hard work and innovation of so many people at Apple,” it said.
Samsung likely to appeal
Samsung, on the other hand, says it is already considering its options, which in plain English means that the company is expected to appeal the ruling in the near future.

“Today’s decision flies in the face of a unanimous Supreme Court ruling in favor of Samsung on the scope of design patent damages,” Samsung said. “We will consider all options to obtain an outcome that does not hinder creativity.”

Samsung was originally required to pay $1.05 billion in damages to Apple back in 2012 following the first ruling in the lawsuit, but the extent of damages was reduced shortly after that due to what were described as miscalculations in the complaint. A court ruling indicated that Samsung sold no less than 15.3 million phones in 2010 and 2011, violating five iPhone design patents. Apple eventually won another trial with damages settled at $290 million, but Samsung once again appealed the decision.

The legal dispute between the two will most likely continue for a little bit longer, despite Apple winning every retrial involving these patents.

https://news.softpedia.com/news/samsung-to-pay-533-million-to-apple-after-blatantly-copying-iphone-design-521285.shtml

Finally......

Hoping For Speedy Signing By PMB & Focused/Determined Implementation By Executive Arm

It's Needless Passing Blames For Delay In Its Passage

There Won't Be Accusations Of Nepotism This Time.

Kudos

Detailed & Relevant.

Thanks OP

It's Neither Here Nor There

Football Betting Is A Multimillion Naira Industry On Its Own Which Thrives Well In More Prosperous Countries

It's Definitely Not The Cause Of Social Malaise In Nigeria

Rather Than Banning It, Government Should Rather Focus On Better Regulation As Well As Engaging Youths Productively

Those Who Are Gainfully Employed Don't Spend All Day At Betting Centres

Hmmmm

She Don Buy Market

I Respect His "Online" Fidelity

Who Knows If The Story Will Change If They Were Having The Discussion "Offline" With Reduced Threat Of Possible Blackmail.

Senator Dino Melaye Recently Sent Out A Tweet Trolling His Party; The APC Over Crisis Bedevilling It

See Tweet & Reactions Below

Good One.

This Will Go A Long Way In Curbing Activities Of Spammers.

Well Written

You Mean I Will Get 20K After A Year If I Invest 100K With You?

Good List

May I Add One; "Don't Marry A Guy With No/Incompatible Vision"

Whatever It's, I Am Happy Reading A Piece Of Positive News About Nigerian Government Institution.

Kudos

In a scientific first, researchers claim to have transferred memories between sea snails by injecting RNA from a trained sea snail into one that hasn't been trained - and observing the trained response in the second snail.


The research wasn't done to create some sort of mollusc mega-mind, but to help understand the physical basis of memory - and it could aid in both restoring lost memories, and easing the trauma of painful ones.

The researchers, led by biologist David Glanzman of the University of California, Los Angeles, were hoping to understand something called the engram - a physical trace of memory storage.

Recent studies have found that long-term memory can be restored after amnesia with the aid of a priming component. This priming component is still unknown, but the process seems to involve epigenetic modification - something RNA is heavily involved in.

And RNA is also involved in the process of forming long-term memories. This led Glanzman and his team to the possibility that some aspects of long-term memory could be transferred via the molecule.

To test their hypothesis, they trained sea snails. This isn't as difficult as it sounds - they simply applied a mild, but still unpleasant, electric shock to the tails of a sea snail called Aplysia californica.

The researchers administered five electric shocks to the training group of snails, one every 20 minutes. Then, 24 hours later, the researchers repeated the process.

When researchers tapped the snails afterward, those that had received the shock training contracted their bodies into a defensive posture for an average of around 50 seconds - but the snails that had not been trained only contracted for about one second.

For the next step, RNA was extracted from both the trained and untrained snails. The molecules were then injected into two groups of untrained snails.

What happened next was amazing. The untrained snails that had received RNA from the trained group then responded to taps as though they had been shocked too - contracting defensively for an average of 40 seconds.

Meanwhile, the untrained snails who had received RNA from untrained donors did not exhibit any change in their defensive response.

"It's as though we transferred the memory," Glanzman said.

For the next stage of the experiment, the researchers extracted motor neurons and sensory neurons from untrained snails, putting them in petri dishes either separately or in pairs containing one neuron of each type.

They then added RNA from trained and untrained snails to these dishes to observe the effect on the neurons.

They found that adding the RNA of trained snails increased excitability in the sensory neurons - an effect that is also observed when, during training, electric shocks are administered to the snails' tails.

And, of course, the RNA of untrained snails didn't have this effect on the sensory neurons.

It's currently widely accepted that memory storage is enabled by modifications to the synapses - the structures in the brain that transfer signals between the neurons. But Glanzman believes that they're actually stored inside the neurons themselves - and his experiment demonstrates this possibility.

"If memories were stored at synapses, there is no way our experiment would have worked," he said.

Of course, we'll need further research to confirm this possibility. Firstly, while A. californica is widely used to study neurological processes because of the way their neurons are similar to ours, what we observe in animal models can't always be applied to humans.

And it's possible that the RNA is transferring some other process, not necessarily memory.

"It's interesting, but I don't think they've transferred a memory," biochemist Tomás Ryan of Trinity College Dublin, who was not involved in the research, told The Guardian.

"This work tells me that maybe the most basic behavioural responses involve some kind of switch in the animal and there is something in the soup that Glanzman extracts that is hitting that switch."

But if Glanzman is right, his discovery could be a game-changer for those whose lives are negatively impacted by memory.

"I think in the not-too-distant future, we could potentially use RNA to ameliorate the effects of Alzheimer's disease or post-traumatic stress disorder," he said.

The research has been published in the journal eNeuro.

https://www.sciencealert.com/memory-transferred-between-sea-snails-rna-engram

30 Man List For The World Cup

Typically Nigerian.

By Our Actions & Inactions, We Contribute To The Country's Malaise. Yet, We Blame Everyone Else Except Ourselves.

Change, Indeed Begins With You & I

Something To Ponder On For Those Who Believe In Violence In Name Of Religion

The Only Thing "Wrong" With This Thread Is That It's Coming On A Sunday Morning

I Guess This Is A Case Of "Do Me, I Do You". Senate Didn't Co-operate With The Police Over The Latter's
Investigation Of Certain Allegations Against Dino Melaye. Hence, IGP Probably Sees This As An Opportunity To Take Police's Own Pound Of Flesh.

For Us To Get Best Out Of This Democratic Dispensation, There Must Be Mutual Respect Among Institutions Of Government. These Institutions Are Like Different Parts Of The Body, They Need One Another To Function Optimally