Snap on Friday said it cut 7 percent of its global workforce in March, as disclosed by it in a regulatory filing. The social media company said it would incur about $10 million of cash expenditure due to severance costs to be reflected in the current quarter ending March 31. As a result of the layoffs, primarily in its engineering and sales teams, the company said it sees savings of about $25 million in 2018.
The company had said it had 3,069 employees as of December 31, 2017, according to its annual filing. The Snapchat parent has been under pressure from investors to reduce costs after revenue fell short of analyst expectations during Snap's first year as a publicly traded company.


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Paul Answers Question on How to Bully-Proof Your Child
Raising Bully-Proof Kids
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NICE DOES NOT EQUAL GOOD
Paul says many parents today are raising kids who are soft, compliant and pleasant instead of assertive, courageous and virtuous. "Kids are being told not to exert their will, don't stand up and fight and don't do conflict," says Paul. "Fearful parents are raising fear-filled children." As a soccer coach, Paul sees how many parents and children interact. He calls parents who hover over their children "helicopter parents." Most have no idea how micromanaging hurts their kids.
"By taking everything into their own hands and trying to make life smooth and painless, parents are preventing children from developing the abilities they need to deal with conflict," says Paul. He believes that overparenting children creates children who are unable to connect with others. "These lonely children tend strongly toward depression," says Paul. "Timid, isolated kids see offense where no offense is given. The child becomes a potential target for bullies."
Paul says we need to learn why certain kids are singled out by bullies. In order to help our children become confident, courageous and successful, we must confront bullying. The effects of bullying on school campuses do not only include the effects upon the victims who live in constant fear but also on the bullies. "Bullies who aren't confronted by peers and leaders don't receive the confrontation and correction they need to do well in life," says Paul. "They often go on to bully as adults."
TRUTH ABOUT BULLIES
Most bullying is not physical, but in other ways it still shoves, pushes and punches. It's often social, like spreading rumors and lies. "A bully's teasing is not good natured," says Paul. "It intends to sting, discredit and exclude." Bullies, Paul points out, are often both the abuser and the abused. "They frequently receive parenting that uses unhealthy force to get them to behave in a certain way," says Paul. "School bullies are often bullied at home where their will, wants and desires are overridden and trampled. In turn, they override and trample others."
There is also a perception that bullies have more testosterone in their bodies than others. Paul says one study shows the opposite. "Hormones aren't required for the doling out of abuse. A deflated sense of others and an inflated view of self is far more common," he says. If your child is a bully, Paul says to look for warning signs, like blaming fights on others or having a strong sense to dominate, and to help your child develop empathy by helping him to learn to feel what others feel. Help him express himself through language rather than physical intimidation.
Victims are often misunderstood. Some characteristics that bind these victims to humiliation and despair include crying or cowering, refusing to defend themselves, radiating low self-confidence, not socially shrewd, etc. Paul says he had to study this list hard when one of his children fell into the hands of a bullying crowd. He says to encourage your child to tell you when he or she is being bullied. Teach your children to ask for things directly and to respond directly to others. Teach them social skills. Encourage children not to give into bullies, to stand their ground with toys and territory. Demonstrate the rewards of personal achievement. Take bullying seriously.
Not only are there victims and bullies, but Paul says there are bystanders who are involved in this process, too. Statistically, the children of faith are absent, or more accurately, they are missing in action. "They are failing to defend the weak and confront justice," says Paul. He says that 85 percent of all school-based bullying takes place in front of other kids. Research shows that bystanders do not intervene. Most bullying would not occur if it weren't for the display of power the bullies want others to witness.
BE PART OF THE AGONY, OR PART OF THE ANSWER
Bystanders to bullying aren't helping the problem. Just standing by and failing to act courageously seems to give bullies approval of their actions. Bystanders don't realize that by coming to the aid of bullied classmates is a tangible act of self-protection and cultivates strength and courage. However, bystanders are not just comprised of peers, they can also be instructors, administrators – anyone who deals with youth who struggle to figure out what to do when one child tramples on the rights of another. Bystanders greatly outnumber both predators and prey.
Bystanders possess the most potential power to transform the "Theater of Bullying" into a theater of character, freedom, and justice. Peacemaking is not avoiding conflict though. One study revealed that if only one Bystander, who doesn't even need to be popular, uses his or her assertive but non-violent words in defense of a Target, that the incident of bullying can end 58% of the time within 6 to 8 seconds. By intervening on behalf of Targets, Bystanders will not only create safer and happier schools, etc. but also create greater character within themselves and others. Most Bystanders know that bullying is wrong and often express great sadness and sympathy for the Target but most fail to act as if bullying is wrong due to lack of courage. Strength and courage are biblical character traits that must be cultivated in our children. Courage is doing the right thing despite of fear. Growing courage will diminish bullying and cultivate character.
Take a proactive approach to bullying, which is critical. Go after it before it gets a chance at a foothold in the group you serve. When a strong teacher comes to the aid of the least-respected person in the class, something dramatic happens to the emotional climate of the room. Good people stand up to injustice. Self-defense and proper self-regard do not equate retaliation.
The Protectors, founded in 2005, is a faith-based anti-bullying group that provides leaders, teachers, ministers, etc. with a curriculum necessary to minister to bullies, victims, the parents of both bullies and victims, and bystanders.
The group originated from personal experience and an understanding of a fundamental weakness in existing anti-bullying programs. Paul was a target of bullying while in elementary school, and he knows how damaging it can be to a person's emotional and psychological wellbeing. This damage can harm a person well into adulthood, and some never recover. Unlike traditional anti-bullying efforts that focus primarily upon reforming children who bully and which are historically ineffective, The Protectors focus mainly on the potential strength, heroic desire, and rescuing capacity of Bystanders, transforming them into what Paul calls "Alongside Standers."
The Protectors provides assertiveness training for Targets, help authority dispel the myths about bullying, and inspire children who bully to employ their power in life-affirming directions instead. Paul says there are many positive stories from the Protectors' training. After going through the program, a girl named Melody was able to stand up to bullies and become a successful example of an "Alongside Stander."
FIVE CORE PRINCIPLES
Here are five core principles, found throughout the Bible, that help children protect themselves and others from bullying:
1) The power of clarity. Having a clear perspective of reality and knowing the truth about self, relationships, boundaries, etc.
2) The affirmation of basic rights. A fundamental understanding that people are separate beings and respecting that separateness.
3) Clarity through body language. People can repel or invite abuse by how they hold themselves. Here is the stance that teaches people to tower, not cower:
a) stand up straight
b) chest out instead of in
c) steady eye contact with level chin
d) walk with purpose and energy
e) look confident while seated
f) girls: don't carry your books by hugging them to your chest, which makes your shoulders curl forward.
4) The power of command. Many instances of bullying have been safely halted with words of conviction spoken with boldness, even when the person felt scared while saying them.
5) The power of two. One person who stands up for a victim has a good chance of defusing the situation with nothing more than a few spoken words. Success against bullies increases dramatically when two or more people behave in this way. The power of two is not just beneficial to others when it comes to moral courage, it is good to those people personally.

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Everyone says they condemn the attack on asylum seeker Reker Ahmed in Croydon, south London, last week.
Most ordinary people are genuinely horrified by what happened—but much of the media's reaction is disgustingly hypocritical.
Reker came to Britain as an unaccompanied minor a few months ago. He may well have been one of those who newspapers such as the Daily Mail condemned for "pretending to be children" to get into Britain.
Such papers hardly let a day pass without denouncing refugees as alien, subhuman and dangerous.
They campaign to shut out the refugees who gather in Calais or risk their lives in flimsy boats to reach Europe.
They suggest that among them are rapists and terrorists determined to murder us.
Having provided the perfect script for racist attacks, the newspapers then throw up their hands in horror when they happen.
This attack—and the stream of racism from the top—means we must redouble our efforts to build Stand Up To Racism as a mass movement.
Everyone can be part of it, and build it in workplaces, schools, colleges and localities.
Everyone can build the demonstration against US president Donald Trump when he comes to Britain.
We also need to work harder to defeat the lies that are used against migrants. Croydon Central Tory MP Gavin Barwell branded Reker's attackers as "scum".
That's the sort of lie that we need to take on wherever it comes from. And we need to confront state racism.
Just last week disabled Lovelyn Edobor was forced into a waist restraint belt and dragged along "like a goat" when the Home Office tried to deport her.
She would then have been deported were it not for activists blocking a deportation flight—for which 17 of them were arrested.
We need to turn people's anger away from migrants and Muslims and towards the real culprits for their problems—the Tories, the bosses and capitalism.
That won't be done just by words. It requires more protests and strikes over the attacks on wages, benefits, our schools, the NHS and poor housing.
It means fighting our rulers and the system that produces austerity, racism and war.
Unity in action can beat the attempts to divide us which have such poisonous results—as we saw in Croydon.


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The Scottish National Party's success in winning an outright majority at Holyrood in May 2011 was an extraordinary result in an 'ordinary' election. Research shows that Scots voters did not move further towards secession and independence.
The coalition government at Westminster has promised more devolution to Scotland. But in May 2011 Scottish voters gave SNP leader Alex Salmond a clear majority in the Scottish Parliament, thus making a referendum on secession from the UK inevitable by 2014. Rob Johns, James Mitchell and Chris Carman from the Scottish Election Study read the runes on what Scots voters intended at this historic election, and find that they were overwhelmingly rewarding Salmond and the SNP for effective leadership and government at Holyrood. The 2011 election may hence be more 'ordinary' than it appears, with voters responding to the same political cues that matter across the UK.
The Scottish National Party won majority control of government in the Scottish Parliament election on 5 May 2011, a result that confounded pre-election polls and commentaries. It also created a conjuncture unforeseen by the architects of devolution in the first Blair government, who deliberately chose a (broadly) proportional electoral system so as to minimise the risk of a Nationalist majority in Parliament ever moving Scotland towards independence. So this was an extraordinary result in historical context.
Yet looking closer at voters' attitudes and choices, this seems a much more 'ordinary' election. Using data from the ESRC-funded Scottish Election Study 2011, we show that the SNP won its majority for that most mundane of electoral reasons – most voters thought that the Alex Salmond and his party would do a better job in office than their rivals, including their chief rival and long the permanent party of government, the Labour Party.
For readers who are not full-time students of Scottish politics, we need to establish a couple of general points about Scottish Parliament elections. First, Scots voters think that it matters a lot who wins at Holyrood. Whereas local and European elections are often seen as a low-stakes opportunity to 'send a message' about politics at Westminster, clear majorities of voters north of the border regard the Scottish government (rather than the UK government) as responsible both for policy and outcomes in such key domains as health, education, and law and order.
Second, and as a result, voting in Scottish Parliament elections is not simply an expression of people's national identity or constitutional preferences. There is no paradox in the fact that SNP support has more than doubled between 2003 and 2011 while support for Scottish independence has flatlined. Voters can distinguish between choosing Scotland's government and choosing Scotland's constitutional future. When asked in our survey to say "How do you think the return of an SNP minority government would affect the likelihood of independence?", only 7 per cent of respondents said that would make it 'much more likely'. The largest group, 42 per cent, said that it would 'make no difference'. So what used to be thought of as a major deterrent to voting SNP – fear of independence – no longer operates for many voters.
Of course, highlighting the absence of a reason not to vote SNP does not explain why voters did vote for the party. This is where the ordinariness of the 2011 election comes in. In an era of ideological convergence, parties tend to win elections by being seen as more competent than their rivals. And, in 2011, the SNP was widely regarded as the most competent party, especially compared with Labour in four key areas: performance, image, leadership, and willingness to stand up for Scotland.
We asked our respondents to rate the performance of various parties in government, both at the Scottish and UK levels. Our Table below shows that voters were relatively impressed by the performance of the SNP minority government. Indeed, since even popular governments usually win grudging respect rather than lavish praise, the SNP's +36 rating is impressive. (Here we subtract the two 'bad' percentages from the two 'good' percentages). It is not surprising that the Scottish government was rated more positively than the outgoing or incoming UK governments. More important is that voters did not believe that Labour would have done an especially good job if they had been in power at Holyrood. This gave the SNP a clear and crucial competence advantage.
Table: How Scottish voters rated the performance of the Scottish and UK governments, May 2011
The SNP also projected a more positive party image in 2011, as our first Chart below demonstrates. Not only was it seen as more capable of strong government, but respondents also rated it as more united, more trustworthy, and more interested in ordinary people. Labour's ratings were better than those of the other two top four parties. The Liberal Democrats received especially short shrift from a Scottish electorate unimpressed by their decision to join the Conservatives in coalition. But, in all cases, Labour trailed behind voters' evaluations of the SNP.
Chart 1: How Scottish respondents rated the overall images of the top four parties on four dimensions
In the May election the role of leaders inside Scotland was important for voters. Our second Chart below shows that the SNP's leader, Alex Salmond, was more popular than his main rival for First Minister. Labour leader Ian Gray suffered in terms of profile as well as approval: almost one in five respondents (19%) felt they knew too little about him to offer an opinion, and those that did rate him tended not to be very complimentary.
Chart 2: How the popularity of Scotland's political leaders compared with those of their party
Note: DK here shows how many respondents said 'don't know' when asked about a leader. The higher this level is, the less well-known is the leader involved.
However, these results belie any suggestion that it was the personal popularity of Alex Salmond that ushered his party into power – because the SNP was in fact slightly more popular than its leader. This is not to say that Salmond's leadership was unimportant. There may be an echo of Tony Blair and New Labour here. Survey data from the 1997 election suggest that Labour's success owed surprisingly little to Blair's personal ratings. Yet the key drivers of that triumph – that voters saw Labour as moderate, united, and competent (especially on the economy) – were obviously connected to Blair's revamp of the party. The same might be true of the Salmond-led SNP, which has unified around a pragmatic approach to independence. Insofar as the 2011 victory was created by Alex Salmond, it is because of what he had done to his party rather than to his personal appeal per se.
Finally, the SNP enjoyed its customary advantage when voters were asked to rate the parties in terms of how much each would stand up for Scottish interests. This is not just a general impression. When we asked respondents: "Thinking now of the parties in Scotland, how effective do you think each would be at managing the impact of cuts from Westminster?", the SNP again came out on top. It was rated as 'very' or 'fairly' effective by 64 per cent of those who answered the question, while the corresponding figure for Labour was 48 per cent. This helps to explain why Labour lost ground in the run-up to polling day: the party's strategists had made this a prominent campaign issue, seeking to present themselves as Scotland's best defence against the Westminster coalition. But in making this choice they were in fact fighting on strong SNP ground. Together, these results look like a clear case of what has been dubbed 'performance politics' – in other words, electoral business as usual. Scotland's voters elected an SNP majority government because enough of them saw it as more likely than its rivals to do a good job in office.
Of course, even if the constitutional question was not the overriding concern for many voters when choosing a party, it was uppermost in commentators' minds as soon as the scale of the SNP victory became clear. We emphasised earlier that voters distinguish between choosing a Scottish government and choosing a constitutional future (just as they distinguish between voting in Scottish Parliament and Westminster elections – see the recent post on the Inverclyde by-election). So the results of our 2011 survey can give little or no guidance on the outcome of any future referendum on independence – which the SNP has pledged to hold during this parliamentary term. Our central argument here implies that future Scottish election outcomes are hard to predict in advance – at least, without knowing which party will be seen as most competent. Credibility is more easily lost than gained. So a rocky five years in the challenging fiscal and economic environment that the Scottish Government now faces could yet see the SNP vote fall as sharply in 2015 as it rose in 2011, if the party should lose its reputation for competence.
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Readers may also be interested in the article by Lewis Baston: The Inverclyde by-election is business as usual for Scottish voters
This blog draws on research for the 2011 Scottish Election Study, funded by the Economic and Social Research Council, the second in what will hopefully become a series of major surveys of voters at Scottish Parliament elections. A representative sample of around 2,000 Scottish adults was surveyed on-line by YouGov both before and after polling day. For more details see www.scottishelectionstudy.org.uk.
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What an odd comment. Having dismissed our stats, graphs and analysis as 'smoke and mirrors', Brian then comes to three conclusions, the first two of which are more or less the same as ours. Of course, neither Brian nor we have an insight into the Scottish electorate's psyche — or, rather, millions of psyches. That's why "forget the stats" is very bad advice. For all the limitations of sample surveys, they're the only way we found out what voters think.
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C2DEScot July 29, 2011 at 10:24 pm - Reply
Personally I think Scotland voted for progress with a fairer society which is not really something that can be said about UK/Britain. SNP focussed on many positive things that appealed many and have introduced things like free prescriptions despite costs with associated accusations of buying votes. But ultimately these things appeal to many on a variety of levels.
Michael Follon July 28, 2011 at 8:43 pm - Reply
While this article in itself is not particularly controversial a word in the title of the article is most definitely mischievous. That word is 'secession'. Without the phrase 'secession and' the title would have been as innocuous as the article.
It is, in fact, incorrect to use the words 'secede' or 'secession' with regard to Scottish independence. For a secession to occur the parent country, which with regard to the current constitutional status of Scotland is Great Britain, would have to continue, albeit in a modified form – that would not be the case. The country of Great Britain was created by the joining of the kingdoms of Scotland and England through the Treaty of Union in 1707. When Scotland regains its independence that treaty will effectively be DISSOLVED and Great Britain will CEASE to exist.
'In contrast, Lane says, Scotland cannot break away like Ireland as it was 'one of the basic building blocks of "the United Kingdom of Great Britain" (Lane 1991: 146). Without Scotland there is no 'Great Britain' and without Great Britain there is no 'United Kingdom'.'
SOURCE: 'SCOTTISH INDEPENDENCE: A Practical Guide' by Jo Eric Murkens with Peter Jones and Michael Keating, p.109, ISBN 0-7486-1699-3.
Brian Hill July 27, 2011 at 8:25 pm - Reply
Talk about smoke and mirrors. Forget the stats, forget the neat coloured graphs, the bottom lines are these.
1. Scots voted SNP because they were the best option for progress.
2. Scots rejected the relentless barrage of negativity coming from the unionists.
3. Scots will not forgive further interference from Westminster designed to prevent or at best slow down the SNP Government's drive to put Scotland on the world map.
They may only have 'best option' in mind just now but the longer they see Westminster's 'dead hand' continually interfering in Scotland's progress it won't be long before even the slowest works out that in order to get the best out of the SNP they will need to vote for Independence.
RH November 22, 2011 at 6:40 am - Reply
Indeed Brian.. SNP is a breath of fresh air..SNPs leadership is taking Scotland free from Westminster..3 years from now.. Scotland will return to the nation state it was 300 years ago.. and theres nothing Westminster can do about it.
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They want to have an easier way to buy clothes for themselves too. Afterall, why should the kids get a " easy ride" and not them?
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Measuring Up is generic !
Measuring Up applies to Kids, Women and Men!
What is great for one is great for all!
Moms tend to buy clothes for their kids that reflect their own style of dressing.
Try to pick outfits for your kids that will work for their lifestyle. If they are into sports, buy accordingly. If they are girly girls, most likely they will want to wear clothes that are more frilly.
Make sure that they wear the clothes that fit as they grow up. Some kids will want to keep wearing their favorite item and will not let it go. ( like the blanket dilemma that they drag around forever ). Let them dress their favorite stuffed animal or doll with that outgrown item, and buy them something new that fits.
Find stores that carry clothes that are returnable. There is no guarentee that just because you love it they will too.
Shopping without your child in tow really is okay. Measuringupapp and/or the book version will give you the clarity to buy what they need and know it will fit.
It just goes to show that passionatly believing in something can have it's rewards.
Last spring, I joined a group to publish a book version of my Measuring Up app. The goal was to make the app available to a wider audience who did not use their iphones when they went clothes shopping.
I had no idea how powerful this project would become. I had no background in publishing, no writing background and no idea how to get it out to the world. But I strongly believed in this as a necessary platform.
Best Seller in a Weekend taught me how to do all of the above and more.
Let's just say, it was probably the most intense weekend I have experienced in quite sometime. Almost too much to take in, but I kept at it.
The book version, Measuring Up, Buying Clothes That Fit, with expanded information and helpful hints on how to sucessfully buy clothes that fit, was finished in August and is now joyfully for sale on Amazon.
Not only that, but Northshore Magazine showcased it as a feature article in their Back to School issue!
There were many days leading up to this that I was ready to throw in the proverbial towel, but it just goes to show that what you strongly believe in your heart can be done, can be.
The mall was rather deserted for a weekend. The weather must have something to do with it.
Maybe it is because the Jewish Holidays came so early this year.
Maybe moms are using new tools to shop for the clothes without taking them into a store.
Hopefully, more shoppers are using Measuringupapp or buying the new version Measuring Up Buying Clothes That Fit, in book format on Amazon.
In any case, it is great to know that the kids are doing something besides walking in a mall and letting the shoppers enjoy their activity without worrying where their kids are hiding from them.


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José M.R. Delgado, M.D., Physical Control of the Mind: Toward a Psychocivilized Society (1969) – This is a book for the hardcore materialist atheist in the family. Jose Delgado, M.D. was Professor of Physiology at Yale University when this was written. Like all the Darwinists he evidently was a fan of Aristotle. He quotes Aristotle's principle that "nothing is in the intellect which was not first in the senses" and agrees with Aristotle that the newborn mind is a blank tablet.
Delgado reckons that consciousness is "a rather expensive luxury in terms of time and effort". People do things like stopping at a red light, he says, without thinking. The mind is only born when the infant "recognises objects and persons associated with positive and negative reinforcement".
After some tiresome preamble, Delgado cuts to the chase with Chapter 14: Hell and Heaven Within the Brain: The Systems for Punishment and Reward. Delgado was one of the people responsible for Electronic Stimulation of the Brain, via a stimoceiver. Depending where electrodes are inserted in the brain, different results happen when the electricity is cranked up.
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Human Muscle SpikerBox
Scientists these days just generally experiment on animals. Delgado worked on monkeys, chimps, cats, crickets, roosters, dolphins and "brave bulls". He also worked on humans. By a twist of a dial he could increase or decrease a woman's anxiety. He also made a patient throw aside a guitar and attack a wall. A usually reserved patient suddenly kissing her therapist's hands. A male patient suddenly said he wanted to marry his interviewer and then declared, "I'd like to be a girl". When the ESB was turned off, people were shocked at the change that had come over them. "I don't know what came over me. I felt like an animal," was one comment.
Delgado states the advantage of ESB over psychoanalysis: "Psychoanalysis requires a long time and a person can easily withdraw co-operation and refuse to express intimate thoughts." ESB however "can set a determined behavioral tone". He says it can be used for "habitual criminal conduct". In addition, a two way radio communication system between brain and computer can be set up. The person being monitored can be administered "specific inhibition structures" at the onset of emotions such as anxiety, rage or depression, he says. Direct knowledge will be gained about the "cerebral basis for human behavior". He reckons that "genes determine reaction or response".
Much of the book concerns details of unpleasant looking experiments on monkeys, chimps and cats, including lots of distressing photos of animals with implants stuck on their heads. I was unsure of Delgado's grasp on reality, as accompanying photos of a contorted cat, he writes that while the cat was administered 1.8 milliamps of electricity, it was "alert and friendly as usual, rubbing its head against the experimenter, seeking to be petted, and purring." Yeah, right! He says that the cat was made to jump from one table to another while being given 2 milliamps and that this made the cat uncoordinated and that it fell and landed badly. Another photo shows a cat reaching out to a paddle on a wall, that Delgado was conditioning it to do to stop the pain administered by ECB.
As vile as this book is, at least Delgado is honest about the means of how science will affect people's behavior/human values. The book is called Physical Control of the Mind, after all. Chapter 15, Hallucinations, Recollections and Illusions in Man mentions how implants can induce effects that could be interpreted as symptoms of schizophrenia, including the induction of complex hallucinations, illusions, emotions, vivid dream like experiences and "forced thinking (sterotyped thoughts crowding into the mind)". Monkeys are made to fall asleep instantly. A chimp is made to avoid a banana. A bull is made to abandon a charge at Delgado and instead circles him, lifting its leg and turning its head. Delgado also states how ESB was used to disrupt the mother-infant relationship of two monkeys and caused the mother to self-harm. He doesn't say whether his intention is for this application of ESB to be used on human mothers and babies.
I regard this book as a potent warning on the potential risk to society posed by scientists apparently acting as variants of Dr. Victor Frankenstein in Mary Shelley's novel. There's more on Dr. Delgado in The Mind Manipulators, which is well worth tracking down.
– Johns, "The Application of Science to Determine Human Values"
Able to "play" monkeys and cats like "little electronic toys" that
yawn, hide, fight, play, mate and go to sleep on command
Alan W. Scheflin and Edward M. Opton, The Mind Manipulators (1978) – The mind manipulators : Warns of the threats to personal freedom and individuality posed by armies, intelligence agencies, psychiatrists, prison officials, and others who use mind-control techniques. – openbooke.com
The book looks at cases of mind control including "brainwashing" and psychiatric coercion, emphasizing especially the role of individuals in the government who have sought to control the masses through these methods. The book also shows the use of mind manipulation among individuals deemed "efficiency experts", for police surveillance, and in the prison system. – New Age of Barbarism
Harry Ferguson, Spy: A Handbook (2004) – This book ties in strongly with the UK show "Spy" in which eight candidates went through a spy school and learned the fundamentals of espionage. Harry Ferguson, the author, was one of the tutors.
The book relates what occurred on the television show, but gives considerable theoretical background as to the reasons why the tutors staged each exercise and what its goals were as well as the reasons why the candidates succeeded or failed.
It is a very interesting book and can be enjoyed thoroughly both in isolation from, or conjunction with, the show.
– David Williams, "Insightful reality show gives espionage insights"
Inside several of the kettles and irons they found WiFi chips and microprocessors
Robert Wallace, H. Keith Melton, and Henry R. Schlessingerm, Spycraft: The Secret History of the CIA's Spytechs, from Communism to Al-Qaeda (2009) – Today's CIA is regularly criticized for emphasizing technology at the expense of human intelligence. In this history of the agency's Office of Technical Services, Wallace, its former head, and academic specialist Melton (Ultimate Spy) refute the charge with exciting content and slam-bang style. The book's chief value is its perspective on the synergy of technology and tradecraft. From WWII through the Cold War and up to the present, the authors say, technical equipment—for clandestine audio surveillance, for example—has been an essential element of agent operations. In the post–Cold War information society, technology plays an even more significant role in fighting terrorism. Agents remain important, along with their traditional skills. Increasingly, however, they support clandestine technical operations, especially infiltrating and compromising computer networks. The authors persuasively argue that employing and defending against sophisticated digital technology is the primary challenge facing U.S. intelligence in the 21st century. Their position invites challenge, but it cannot be dismissed. 32 pages of photos, over 100 b&w illus. throughout. – Publishers Weekly
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Jeffrey T. Richelson, The Wizards Of Langley: Inside The Cia's Directorate Of Science And Technology (2002) – In this, the first full-length study of the Directorate of Science and Technology, Jeffrey T. Richelson walks us down the corridors of CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia, and through the four decades of science, scientists, and managers that produced the CIA we have today. He tells a story of amazing technological innovation in service of intelligence gathering, of bitter bureaucratic infighting, and sometimes, as in the case of its "mind-control" adventure, of stunning moral failure. Based on original interviews and extensive archival research, The Wizards of Langley turns a piercing lamp on many of the agency's activities, many never before made public.
The platypus' duckbill is a supersensory organ ladened with thousands of cells
responsive to the electric fields generated by all living things
Tim Weiner, Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA (2008) – Is the Central Intelligence Agency a bulwark of freedom against dangerous foes, or a malevolent conspiracy to spread American imperialism? A little of both, according to this absorbing study, but, the author concludes, it is mainly a reservoir of incompetence and delusions that serves no one's interests well. Pulitzer Prize–winning New York Times correspondent Weiner musters extensive archival research and interviews with top-ranking insiders, including former CIA chiefs Richard Helms and Stansfield Turner, to present the agency's saga as an exercise in trying to change the world without bothering to understand it. Hypnotized by covert action and pressured by presidents, the CIA, he claims, wasted its resources fomenting coups, assassinations and insurgencies, rigging foreign elections and bribing political leaders, while its rare successes inspired fiascoes like the Bay of Pigs and the Iran-Contra affair. Meanwhile, Weiner contends, its proper function of gathering accurate intelligence languished. With its operations easily penetrated by enemy spies, the CIA was blind to events in adversarial countries like Russia, Cuba and Iraq and tragically wrong about the crucial developments under its purview, from the Iranian revolution and the fall of communism to the absence of Iraqi WMDs. Many of the misadventures Weiner covers, at times sketchily, are familiar, but his comprehensive survey brings out the persistent problems that plague the agency. The result is a credible and damning indictment of American intelligence policy. – Publishers Weekly
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Tim Weiner, multiple Pulitzer Prize winner, longtime New York Times reporter, and the author of Betrayal: The Story of Aldrich Ames, an American Spy (1995) and Blank Check: The Pentagon's Black Budget (1991) hits his marks in Legacy of Ashes. Drawing on more than 50,000 documents and 300 on-the-record interviews with key players (10 of them former directors of the agency; all of the book's many notes and quotations are attributed), Weiner treats his subject with a ruthless, journalistic eye, skewering Republican and Democratic administrations alike for the CIA's slide into mediocrity. One critic finds a weakness in Weiner's exuberant dismantling of the old guard at the expense of more contemporary analysis. Still, this is an important book that will capture the attention of anyone interested in the CIA's checkered history.
– Bookmarks Magazine
Philip Agee, Inside the Company CIA Diary (1976) – Philip Agee's INSIDE THE COMPANY: A CIA DIARY, is a classic example of a work written by an idealistic, well-intentioned man which tragically undercut the very thing he wanted to achieve: the success of mid-nineteen-seventies Congressional hearings into the crimes of the CIA. Agee was an intelligence officer from 1957 to 1969, working in Latin America. His book gives us vital "insider" knowledge of the CIA, for instance the meaning of CIA cryptograms– and presents a picture of a man who was genuinely concerned for the welfare of the people of the region he was assigned to. His disillusionment came when he realized that the clandestine operations of the CIA, all aimed at repressing Leftist opposition to right-wing governments in Latin America, were doing nothing to better the basic living conditions of the people. He sees clearly that such methods could well be brought home, as they were to some extent in his time and even more so today, in order to undermine American democracy (pp. 578, 650). But he fails in the end to grasp the terrible structural change that the CIA has brought in the system of government designed by the Founding Fathers, eliminating checks and balances and replacing government by elected officials by a government of unelected and unaccountable bureaucrats. By failing to see that the CIA's worst offense was not against social justice but DEMOCRACY, he lost his moral edge and undermined the Congressional fight against it. It would be understandable if someone reading Agee's book came away thinking that eliminating the CIA would mean more governments like that of Fidel Casto, which gives people social justice but no freedom. In order to eliminate the CIA and its legacy, we must strip of its mask as defender of freedom and expose it for what it has always been: the foremost defender of totalitarianism in the world.
– Cheri Montagu, "A Well-Intentioned Blunder"
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STE freshman choir members (pictured, from left) Hannah Smith, Laura Newcomer, Campbell Brickley and Mary-Ellen Abshire enjoy beignets at Cafe Du Monde.
St. Thomas' Episcopal middle and high school choir and orchestra recently embarked on a fantastic trip to New Orleans. While there, they participated in a variety of activities ranging from performing in three concerts to taking a steamboat cruise down the Mississippi River. The four-day tour was a hit for the musical students of St. Thomas' and the new tradition will continue in different cities for years to come.
The trip was jam-packed with fun experiences and delicious meals for the choir and orchestra. The day after arrival, St. Thomas' performed at St. Martin's Episcopal school. One of the choir's favorite songs, Shosholoza, was sung and danced. The St. Martin's students danced and sung along with the choir which made it extra special. The orchestra also performed a crowd favorite, Can't Help Falling In Love With You, made famous by Elvis Presley.
Next was the WWII museum, which gave the choir and orchestra a visual representation of what they've been learning in school. They also enjoyed playing Capture the Flag and climbing trees in Audubon Park. To finish out the day, they hung out at Rock N Bowl for dinner, bowling and dancing with their peers. Day Two included two concerts: one in the early morning at St. George Episcopal School and an evening service and performance at Christ Church Cathedral. They also enjoyed the aquarium and shopping at the Riverwalk Marketplace. The ride home was filled with games of Heads Up, homework and lots of movies.
Hannah Smith, a freshman choir member at St. Thomas' Episcopal, enjoyed eating beignets at Café Du Monde on the trip. Hannah commented, "They were better than other beignets!" Her favorite song to perform was Will the Circle Be Unbroken?, famously sung by Johnny Cash, because it was different than other songs the choir usually sings. Hannah loves singing and says she will continue to participate in choir the rest of her high school career.
Laura Newcomer, also a freshman choir member at St. Thomas' Episcopal, enjoyed the Rock N Bowl night of the trip. "It was really fun and not really a 2019 thing. It was kind of retro." The most challenging part of the trip for her was waking up early because of the late-night fun. Laura enjoys listening to '60s music and helped the choir director, Nancy Crownover, pick out her favorite song of the trip, Stand By Me. Her favorite foods were the beignets and gumbo she ate with her friends. After eating beignets, she and her friends purchased matching Café Du Monde t-shirts, which they wore the last day of the trip.
Most of all, the students were grateful to Nancy Crownover and Sherrill Calvert, the orchestra director, for organizing such a wonderful trip. The concerts were beautiful, the food was delicious and friendships were made.


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Q: Group by and return all index values where a substring of text exists in a column I have a df with the following structure
   vid  sid   pid      url
1   A    A1   page     ABCDEF
2   A    A1   page     DEF123
3   A    A1   page     GHI345
4   A    A1   page     JKL345
5   B    B1   page     AB12345EF
6   B    B2   page     IJK
7   B    B2   page     XYZ
8   C    C1   page     ABCEF

dict = {'vid':{1:'A',2:'A',3:'A',4:'A',5:'B',6:'B',7:'B',8:'C'},
        'sid':{1:'A1',2:'A1',3:'A1',4:'A1',5:'B1',6:'B2',7:'B2',8:'C1'},
        'page':{1:'page',2:'page',3:'page',4:'page',5:'page',6:'page',7:'page',8:'pge'},
        'url':{1:'ABC',2:'DEF',3:'GHI',4:'JKL',5:'ABC',6:'IJK',7:'XYZ',8:'ABC'}
}

I also have a list substrings
lst = ['AB','EF']
Essentially, I want to group by sid and check every single row in url. If all the elements in the list exist as a substring in at least one row, then return the sid.If not, filter out the sid from the df. The substrings inside url aren't sequential.
Psuedo-code
group by sid
if row in url contains all the substrings in lst
       pass
if no row in url contains all substrings in lst
       remove the `sid` from the df

Result from applying the logic above to the df using lst
enter code here

      vid  sid   pid      url
1   A    A1   page     ABCDEF
2   A    A1   page     DEF123
3   A    A1   page     GHI345
4   A    A1   page     JKL345
5   B    B1   page     AB12345EF
8   C    C1   page     ABCEF

A: Use boolean indexing:
import pandas as pd
gb_df = df.groupby('sid')['url'].transform(lambda x : [x.tolist()]*len(x))
indexing = gb_df.apply(lambda li: any(any(el in text for text in li) for el in lst))

output = df[indexing]

Output:
      vid  sid   pid      url
1   A    A1   page     ABCDEF
2   A    A1   page     DEF123
3   A    A1   page     GHI345
4   A    A1   page     JKL345
5   B    B1   page     AB12345EF
8   C    C1   page     ABCEF

A: Get the boolean mask for url in lst :
# `all` check for rows that have both `AB` and `EF`
mask = [all(a in ent for a in lst)  for ent in df.url]
mask = pd.Series(mask, index = df.index)

# Group mask with `Sid` and filter `df`:

df.loc[mask.groupby(df.sid).transform('any')]

  vid sid   pid        url
1   A  A1  page     ABCDEF
2   A  A1  page     DEF123
3   A  A1  page     GHI345
4   A  A1  page     JKL345
5   B  B1  page  AB12345EF
8   C  C1  page      ABCEF


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Can Hillary Win?
by Ed Kilgore, July 13th, 2005 4:08 PM EST
The latest issue of The Washington Monthly features twinned articles by Amy Sullivan and Carl M. Cannon on the favorite perennial topic of political junkies everywhere: is Sen. Hillary Clinton a potential general election winner in 2008? Cannon says "yes," and Amy says, "maybe not."My friend Amy is by no stretch of the imagination a Hillary-basher; it's clear she thinks Clinton would be a fine president, but that the public's fixed opinions of Hillary, and the high negatives she would take into a tough general election, might be perilously difficult to overcome. Cannon responds by comparing Clinton to Ronald Reagan, another politician who was thought to be too ideological, and carry too much baggage, to turn any new heads in the electorate.I agree with Carl's conclusion, if not with all his talking points, but his crucial argument is this one:
She has paid her dues to the Democratic Party, and she doesn't have to prove her bona fides to anyone. From now on, she only need emulate Reagan, a fellow Illinois native, who campaigned with positive rhetoric and a smile on his face, trusting that the work he'd done cultivating his base would pay off, and that he needed mainly to reassure independent-minded voters.
That's true, but Hillary's positioning is even better than Reagan's. After all, Ronald Reagan wasn't a key figure in an earlier, more moderate Republican administration. In other words, Sen. Clinton has a unique strategic flexibility at a time when other potential Democratic candidates are going to have to spend a lot of time establishing their street cred with different elements of the party, including those who are deeply suspicious of anything that looks or sounds like "centrism," and those who fear Democrats may be lurching too far to the Left. And that's also why she has another asset that neither Sullivan nor Cannon really talked about: her ability to unify the Democratic Party. Sure, there are some moderate Democrats who still think of her as the left axis in her husband's administration, and some folks on the Left who never liked Bill, or who can't forgive Hillary for supporting the Iraq War Resolution. But they are a small minority when it comes to rank-and-file Democratic voters.Moreover, the fixed opinions of Clinton that Amy writes about create opportunities as well as obstacles. Republicans have invested so much time, money and noise in stereotyping Democrats that the image of the party as a whole, both good and bad, is converging with Hillary's image. That makes her unusually capable of challenging those stereotypes, and of surprising voters, and making them think–something her husband did to great advantage.To be clear about it, I'm not endorsing Sen. Clinton for president in 2008, and I'm among those who doubt she's made up her mind to run in the first place. I like a lot of other potential candidates, especially my Governor, Mark Warner, but also the man who should be president today, John Kerry, along with Bayh, Biden, Richardson, and Schweitzer. But early as it is, nobody's allowed to not have an opinion of a potential Hillary Clinton candidacy, and so mark me down as one Democrat who looks at that possibility with much more hope than trepidation.


Music needn't be something made by trained musicians.
If you tune in correctly, music exists all around us. Cosmo Sheldrake flew out to Bulgaria to perform at Meadows In The Mountains recently, and decided to use his spare time to record a brand new track.
Using the simplest kit possibly, the producer began recording the sounds he found around him. Doors slamming, a horse and cart rushing past, even strangers walking up to him - for Cosmo Sheldrake, nothing could be excluded.
"When Cosmo got offered a gig in rural Bulgaria it felt like the perfect next step to raise the bar from a fishing trawler, to shoot in the rustic world of the rural balkans.This time we had a little more time and he wanted to record the local sounds to incorporate into the song, developing on his ideas of interspeices collaboration. So from Hedgehogs, rabid Dogs and rusty pipes we collected audio and visual which he could sample. All in all it was a fascinating way to engage with and interpret at place, the locals where totally willing and ultimately confused by our agenda."
Cosmo Sheldrake 'The Fly Part 2' live on the trap from Bat On Ball Creations on Vimeo.
Cosmo Sheldrake is set to play his debut headline show on September 10th details HERE.


Like the war in the Persian Gulf, the war in Kosovo appears to be ending with major issues unresolved, not least the future of President Slobodan Milosevic of Yugoslavia and what the United States ought to do about him.
Although air power apparently achieved one of its greatest successes in the 10-week campaign in the Balkans, it did not bring about a change in government in Belgrade -- something that only an invasion by ground forces and a prolonged occupation could be expected to accomplish. So for the time being, the United States is stuck with a Serbian leader it neither likes nor trusts.
The parallels with Iraq are intriguing: Once again, a rogue leader, demonized by Washington, is emerging from a conflict with an apparently firm grip on power, with a significant part of his military forces fighting fit and with sovereignty over his country's territory technically intact.
President Clinton acknowledged today that NATO's terms for peace did not in any way address the question of Mr. Milosevic's staying in office.
But a senior Administration official, speaking on condition that he not be identified, acknowledged, ''That is not going to happen.'' On the one hand, Mr. Milosevic has been indicted in The Hague as a war criminal; on the other, he is for the moment NATO's indispensable partner in the effort to stabilize Kosovo.
The situation is complicated by the international tribunal's plan to send investigators into Kosovo when NATO and other peacekeepers enter that shattered province. Presumably, they will amass forensic evidence pointing to war crimes committed by soldiers and paramilitary groups operating under the direct orders of President Milosevic and his associates in Belgrade.
Ruth Wedgwood, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations who specializes in international law, said it was ''incongruous but not illegal'' for a person indicted as a war criminal to hold high office and conduct a nation's business. ''The facts of life,'' she said, rule out an arrest of Mr. Milosevic.
Neither of the two Bosnian Serb leaders who were indicted as war criminals, Radovan Karadzic and Ratko Mladic, has been turned over to the authorities, even though NATO has tracked their movements and they have traveled through parts of Bosnia patrolled by allied troops.
Mr. Clinton has made clear that he expects the Europeans to pay the bulk of the cost of restoring Yugoslavia to economic health -- a rebuilding program that could cost as much as $6 billion. How much Congress would authorize in aid while Mr. Milosevic retains power could be a complicated question.
Richard N. Haass, the director of Foreign Policy Studies at the Brookings Institution, who worked at the National Security Council during the Bush Administration, said economic help other than food and medicine should be linked directly to the ouster of Mr. Milosevic.
At one time, Mr. Milosevic appeared to be preparing the way for an escape to Greece or even South Africa, but that now appears to be unlikely.
An uprising against Mr. Milosevic, perhaps abetted by covert NATO operatives, remains a possibility, of course. Prime Minister Ljubco Georgievski of neighboring Macedonia suggested on Thursday that Mr. Milosevic would be ousted in a matter of weeks. But he gave no evidence to support that opinion, and Mr. Milosevic's grip on the army and secret police remains firm, American officials said.
One thing that might make an uprising in Serbia more likely than one in Iraq, which has often been predicted by American officials but has never taken place, is this: Yugoslavia is a much more developed society. The lives of ordinary people in cities there are more disrupted by bombardment.
If the pact as now constituted takes effect, Mr. Milosevic will have an ''agreed number'' of troops in Kosovo and more on the border. That troubles some Republicans, including Senator John McCain of Arizona, a candidate for his party's Presidential nomination. In a statement today, he asked several questions: How many Serbs? Permitted to do what? Based where? Armed, and if so, how heavily armed?
Signaling Republican hostility to the tentative agreement, Senator Jesse Helms of North Carolina, chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, said he would use hearings this month to discuss ''this Administration's misguided policy of appeasing Slobodan Milosevic'' in Bosnia and Kosovo.


Sophomore Wolves runner Kyle Ross returned to Fort St John on Saturday and won another race, the annual Grailquest cross country race at Northern Lights College.
Ross, who captured April's Sub Zero Spring Run Off 10 km in the Energetic City, covered the hilly and rooted 5km course in 18:57, 48 seconds than Wolves team mate Eric Martinek. Phil Legare Stokes finished third, completing a 1-2-3 sweep for the Wolves in the Open Mens category.
Seventeen year old St Joe's runner Jenny Kleininger won the womens race, recording a time of 22:57. Trailing Kleininger in the Open Womens category for the other two podium spots were Wolves runners Jessica Elliot and Gabreille Boulet.
The Grailquest was race #3 in the 2010 Wolves Cross Country Series. Race #4, the Bezanson Bog, goes Saturday at 12:30 at the Old Bezanson Town Site.


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Modomics
RNA Sequences
GuideRNAs
Multiple mRNA decapping enzymes in mammalian cells.
Man-Gen Song,You Li,Megerditch Kiledjian
Published on Nov. 1, 2010 in Mol Cell volume 40, 3.
PubMed ID: 21070968
Regulation of RNA degradation plays an important role in the control of gene expression. One mechanism of eukaryotic mRNA decay proceeds through an initial deadenylation followed by 5' end decapping and exonucleolytic decay. Dcp2 is currently believed to be the only cytoplasmic decapping enzyme responsible for decapping of all mRNAs. Here we report that Dcp2 protein modestly contributes to bulk mRNA decay and surprisingly is not detectable in a subset of mouse and human tissues. Consistent with these findings, a hypomorphic knockout of Dcp2 had no adverse consequences in mice. In contrast, the previously reported Xenopus nucleolar decapping enzyme, Nudt16, is an ubiquitous cytoplasmic decapping enzyme in mammalian cells. Like Dcp2, Nudt16 also regulates the stability of a subset of mRNAs including a member of the motin family of proteins involved in angiogenesis, Angiomotin-like 2. These data demonstrate mammalian cells possess multiple mRNA decapping enzymes, including Nudt16 to regulate mRNA turnover.
This publication refers to following proteins:
hDcp2 (Homo sapiens)
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In The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Zaphod Beeblebrox has some anti panic glasses. They feature some special danger detection mechanism that turns them opaque black to save their bearer from panicking.
In 2016, it's shocking that some many hours are lost by poor developers reading ugly code.
Let's build anti ugly-code glasses ! We'd just need an IDE or editor plugin, connect it to Sonar in order to get the quality of the current file, and if too bad, shut the glasses black !
Finally the killer feature for augmented reality glasses !


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Evelyne Owona Essomba, née Evelyne Mengue Akoum le  24 janvier 1977 à Yaoundé, est une journaliste camerounaise. Diplômée de la  promotion de l'École supérieure des Sciences et techniques de l'information et de la communication, elle travaille pour le quotidien Mutations avant de rejoindre la la télévision Nationale CRTV où elle travaille pendant 22 ans de service. Elle se fait d'ailleurs en tant que la présentatrice du 20h30. Le 18 juin 2021, la toute première femme à diriger la section Camerounaise de l'Union de la Presse Francophone (UPF).

Biographie

Enfance et éducation
Evelyne Owona Essomba nait le 24 janvier 1977 dans une maternité de Yaoundé. Son père et originaire de Bafia et sa mère est originaire de la Lékié, de Sa'a précisément. Elle est issue d'une famille peu aisée, elle est le  enfant et la toute  fille dans une fratrie de 7 enfants. Elle a deux frères aînés, deux petites sœurs et deux petits frères.

Elle débute son cursus scolaire à l'École Maternelle marché B de Dschang un choix privilégié pour elle car son père travaillant à cet époque au centre universitaire de la localité .Après la maternelle, elle entame le volet primaire à l'école publique groupe 2 à Dschang. Quelques temps après, son père est affectée à Yaoundé en tant qu'agent administratif pour le compte de l'université de Yaoundé II. Elle le suivra donc et sera inscrite en cours élémentaires 2 à l'École publique du Camp Yeyap. Elle y obtiens son diplôme de certification d'études primaire CEP ainsi que son concours d'entrée en .

Dans un interview elle affirme:  « Je me souviens que j'avais 9 ans et que le Directeur de l'école était très angoissé. Il pensait que je n'étais pas assez mûre. Il a d'ailleurs convoqué mes parents pour leur faire part de son angoisse. Et sa proposition c'était que je reprenne le cours moyen 2, le temps d'avoir au moins 10 ans pour pouvoir affronter le collège. ». Elle est finalement inscrite au collège cette année-là au CES de Ngoa Ekellé précisément où elle restera de la  en , pour continuer après au Lycée Général Leclerc en  A4 Allemand jusqu'en Terminale.

Ayant obtenue son baccalauréat de l'enseignement générale, elle décide de poursuivre ses études supérieures en Lettres Bilingues à l'Université de Yaoundé I. En 1995, alors qu'elle est admise en deuxième année, elle décide de présenter le concours d'entrée en première année à l'École supérieure des Sciences et techniques de l'information et de la communication qu'elle réussira d'ailleurs. Elle fera donc partie de la  promotion de journaliste de cette école (1995-1998).

Carrière
Evelyne sort de l'ESSTIC en 1998 et entame directement sa carrière professionnelle au sein du Journal Mutations. Elle y sera responsable de la page culture et Communication jusque-là tenue par une certaine Mireille Bisseck. En 1999, le directeur générale de la CRTV de l'époque Gervais Mendozé lance un recrutement baptisée les 15 car le nombre de journalistes appelés pour donner un coup de neuf à la rédaction était de 15. Evelyne Owona fera partie du nombre. Elle presente de nombreuses émissions télé à l'instar de : Soirées spéciales , Livre de la semaine.... En 2003, elle vient tout juste de se marier et décide alors de rejoindre son mari à Douala où elle travaillera pendant 6 ans à la station régionale CRTV du Littoral.

En 2009, son mari est affecté du côté de Maroua. Encore cette fois elle demandera une mutation pour CRTV extrême Nord, Station régionale de La région de l'extrême nord du Cameroun. Elle y restera 2 ans avant de revenir sur Yaoundé en 2011 mais cette fois pour s'installer. Ses motivations étaient toutes simples : Il y avait l'appel de la Direction qui sollicitait son expertise relativement au vent de réaménagement des programmes qui soufflait à la station centrale.

Plus tard ses talents seront mis à profit; elle deviendra présentatrice de journaux : le 8h, le 12h  et le 18 heures qu'elle présente pendant 1 an. Ensuite elle va présenter le journal du weekend pendant 6 mois. Et enfin elle sera promue au journal du soir. Le 20h30 dont l'aventure a commencé en 2012.

Elle est nommé le 30 janvier 2021 Chef de chaine Crtv News nouvelle chaîne d'information en continu de la CRTV après 22 ans de service au sein de la télévision Nationale.

Membre de l'Union de la Presse Francophone (UPF) depuis 23 ans, Evelyne Owona Essomba devient le 18 juin 2021 la toute première femme présidente de la section camerounaise de l'UPF Cameroun pour un mandat de 4 ans. Elle obtient 61 voix sur 63 votants. Autres fois Secrétaire générale puis Vice-Présidente, elle vient remplacer Aimé Robert Bihina président depuis 2012.

Le jeudi 05 mai 2022 à 10h à l'ESSEC de Douala Evelyne Owona soutiendra sa thèse de doctorat PhD en Sciences de l'information et de la communication (SIC) en présence du Directeur général de la CRTV Charles Ndongo.

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Case Solution & Analysis for Hisense-Hitachi Joint Venture: Expanding in Southeast Asia by Paul W. Beamish, Su Liu.
Before re-entering the Southeast Asian market in 2015, the Hisense-Hitachi joint venture mainly used the well known Hitachi brand to explore overseas markets. After the JV had accumulated enough capacity to adopt a product differentiation strategy, they decided to treat the Hisense brand as the focal brand in Southeast Asia and adopted a series of distribution strategies that differed from what they had used to sell Hitachi branded products elsewhere. The (B) case provides a basis for discussing target market selection, and the establishment of varying distribution channels (exclusive vs non-exclusive agents) in different countries. This case can be used with Hisense-Hitachi Joint Venture (A): Expanding Internationally.


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Novel, closely related, white spot syndrome virus (WSSV) genotypes from Madagascar, Mozambique and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Feng-Jyu Tang-Nelson, Marc Le Groumellec, Donald V Lightner
Animal and Comparative Sciences
White spot syndrome virus (WSSV) is highly pathogenic to penaeid shrimp and has caused significant economic losses in the aquaculture industry around the world. During 2010 to 2012, WSSV caused severe mortalities in cultured penaeid shrimp in Saudi Arabia, Mozambique and Madagascar. To investigate the origins of these WSSV, we performed genotyping analyses at 5 loci: the 3 open reading frames (ORFs) 125, 94 and 75, each containing a variable number of tandem repeats (VNTR), and deletions in the 2 variable regions, VR14/15 and VR23/24. We categorized the WSSV genotype as {N125, N 94, N75, δX14/15, δX 23/24} where N is the number of repeat units in a specific ORF and δX is the length (base pair) of deletion within the variable region. We detected 4 WSSV genotypes, which were characterized by a full-length deletion in ORF94/95, a relatively small ORF75 and one specific deletion length in each variable region. There are 2 closely related genotypes in these 3 countries: {6125, del94, 375, δ595014/15, δ1097123/24} and {7125, del94, 375, δ595014/15, δ1097123/24}, where del is the full-length ORF deletion. In Saudi Arabia, 2 other related types of WSSV were also found: {6125, 794, 375, δ595014/15, δ1097 123/24} and {8125, 1394, 375, δ595014/15, δ1097123/24}. The identical patterns of 3 loci in these 4 types indicate that they have a common lineage, and this suggests that the WSSV epidemics in these 3 countries were from a common source, possibly the environment.
Diseases of Aquatic Organisms
https://doi.org/10.3354/dao02645
White spot syndrome virus
open reading frames
Penaeidae
aquaculture industry
minisatellite repeats
Variable number of tandem repeats
Variablelength deletion
VNTR analysis
WSSV genotyping
Tang-Nelson, F-J., Le Groumellec, M., & Lightner, D. V. (2013). Novel, closely related, white spot syndrome virus (WSSV) genotypes from Madagascar, Mozambique and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Diseases of Aquatic Organisms, 106(1), 1-6. https://doi.org/10.3354/dao02645
Novel, closely related, white spot syndrome virus (WSSV) genotypes from Madagascar, Mozambique and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. / Tang-Nelson, Feng-Jyu; Le Groumellec, Marc; Lightner, Donald V.
In: Diseases of Aquatic Organisms, Vol. 106, No. 1, 24.09.2013, p. 1-6.
Tang-Nelson, F-J, Le Groumellec, M & Lightner, DV 2013, 'Novel, closely related, white spot syndrome virus (WSSV) genotypes from Madagascar, Mozambique and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia', Diseases of Aquatic Organisms, vol. 106, no. 1, pp. 1-6. https://doi.org/10.3354/dao02645
Tang-Nelson F-J, Le Groumellec M, Lightner DV. Novel, closely related, white spot syndrome virus (WSSV) genotypes from Madagascar, Mozambique and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Diseases of Aquatic Organisms. 2013 Sep 24;106(1):1-6. https://doi.org/10.3354/dao02645
Tang-Nelson, Feng-Jyu ; Le Groumellec, Marc ; Lightner, Donald V. / Novel, closely related, white spot syndrome virus (WSSV) genotypes from Madagascar, Mozambique and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. In: Diseases of Aquatic Organisms. 2013 ; Vol. 106, No. 1. pp. 1-6.
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Q: why am i seeing TypeError: __init__() missing 1 required positional argument: 'on_delete' error even though i used on_delete? I am doing a course in django and this is the models.py code:
from django.db import models
from django.contrib.auth.models import User

# Create your models here

class Game(models.Model):
    first_player = models.ForeignKey(User, related_name = "games_first_player")
    second_player = models.ForeignKey(User, related_name = "games_second_player")
    start_time = models.DateTimeField(auto_now_add=True)
    last_date = models.DateTimeField(auto_now=True)

class Move(models.Model):
    x = models.IntegerField()
    y = models.IntegerField()
    comment = models.CharField(max_length=300, blank=True)
    by_first_player = models.BooleanField()
    game = models.ForeignKey(Game, on_delete=models.CASCADE )

Even though i used on_delete keyword argument, I am seeing below error message when i run makemigrations :
(dev) D:\django\projects\tictactoe>python manage.py makemigrations
Traceback (most recent call last):   File "manage.py", line 15, in
<module>
    execute_from_command_line(sys.argv)   File "D:\django\projects\dev\lib\site-packages\django\core\management\__init__.py",
line 371, in execute_from_command_line
    utility.execute()   File "D:\django\projects\dev\lib\site-packages\django\core\management\__init__.py",
line 347, in execute
    django.setup()   File "D:\django\projects\dev\lib\site-packages\django\__init__.py", line
24, in setup
    apps.populate(settings.INSTALLED_APPS)   File "D:\django\projects\dev\lib\site-packages\django\apps\registry.py",
line 112, in populate
    app_config.import_models()   File "D:\django\projects\dev\lib\site-packages\django\apps\config.py", line
198, in import_models
    self.models_module = import_module(models_module_name)   File "D:\django\projects\dev\lib\importlib\__init__.py", line 126, in
import_module
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"<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 971, in _find_and_load   File
"<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 955, in _find_and_load_unlocked
File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 665, in _load_unlocked
File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap_external>", line 678, in
exec_module   File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 219, in
_call_with_frames_removed   File "D:\django\projects\tictactoe\gameplay\models.py", line 6, in <module>
    class Game(models.Model):   File "D:\django\projects\tictactoe\gameplay\models.py", line 7, in Game
    first_player = models.ForeignKey(User, related_name = "games_first_player") TypeError: __init__() missing 1 required
positional argument: 'on_delete'

A: when ever you use models.ForeignKey you should pass the argument on_delete=models.CASCADE


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"It is moorish, and wild, and knotty as a root of heath," Charlotte Brontë wrote of her sister Emily's novel, "Wuthering Heights." The Brontës brought a new emotional weather to the English novel — stormy, blasted and passionate. "I never saw a Moor," Emily Dickinson wrote, as though speaking for the whole far-flung Brontë cult. "Yet know I how the Heather looks."
Illustration by A. Richard Allen
"Becoming Jane Eyre," Sheila Kohler's muted and gently probing 10th work of fiction, opens during the summer of 1846 amid the "charmless, suffocating streets" of industrial Manchester. The 69-year-old Rev. Patrick Brontë has come from his rural parsonage on the Yorkshire moors to have a cataract removed. He is attended by a hired nurse who raids the kitchen late at night and "gnaws . . . ravenously" at a lamb bone, "grinding on a delicious piece of gristle with her good back teeth."
Less intrusive is his prim daughter Charlotte, who receives a rejection letter for her first novel on the very day her father submits to surgery, "excruciatingly conscious of the knife's work in that delicate place." Charlotte is 30, single, with two unemployed and unmarried younger sisters with rejected novels of their own, "a shiftless, dissipated wreck" of a brother far gone to gin and opium, and an aging father reduced to "a blind mouth." "What is she to write about now, in the silence of this darkened room?"
The spark for Kohler's novel was a line from Lyndall Gordon's biography, "Charlotte Brontë: A Passionate Life": "What happened as she sat with Papa in that darkened room in Boundary Street remains in shadow." Gordon proposed that the crucial breached "boundary" was the adoption of an androgynous pseudonym, Currer Bell, which allowed Brontë to project herself beyond the confines of proper domestic womanhood. For Kohler, however, liberation comes with the sudden invention of Brontë's fictional alter ego, Jane Eyre, the dauntless and self-reliant heroine, both "ire and eyer," of her second novel. "Sitting by her blinded, silenced father, she dares to take up her pencil and write for the first time in her own voice."
"Becoming Jane Eyre" is narrated in a continual present, the tense of "becoming." Short chapters take us back through remembered moments in Charlotte's life, spots of time that, disguised and transformed, make their way into "Jane Eyre." From her days as a governess, she invents a bully for the opening pages of the novel. From her difficult period in Brussels, when she fell in love with a married teacher whom she addressed abjectly as "Master," she draws the contours of "the bigamous Mr. Rochester." A visit to a "house with battlements" yields a housekeeper's story of "a madwoman . . . confined up here during the 18th century," the inspiration for the bestial Creole heiress whom Rochester has locked in his attic. Some parallels between novel and biography seem more of a reach: "An orphan is not so far from a middle child."
"Becoming Jane Eyre" is divided into three parts, rather grandly called "volumes." The first, centered on the operation in Manchester, is claustrophobic, with comic relief provided by that peckish nurse. The second opens more broadly into the world of Haworth Parsonage, where tough-minded Emily offers a fresh view of her sister. Why, she wonders, is Charlotte "so preoccupied with her own small problems of love when her brother's are so much more serious?"
The third section, which follows Charlotte to London after the triumphant publication of "Jane Eyre," is full of satisfying recognitions. When Charlotte, the plain country girl, reveals herself as the writer behind the pseudonym Currer Bell, her stupefied young publisher echoes Lincoln encountering Harriet Beecher Stowe. "Can this be, is it possible that this little woman is the author of 'Jane Eyre'?"
"Becoming Jane Eyre" is driven by interesting questions. How exactly does a fictional character take shape in a writer's imagination? What impact can an invented character have on a writer's life? Kohler believes that writing "Jane Eyre" was therapeutic for Charlotte, a release from "stifled rage." "She writes, hardly seeing the words. Her toothache is better, and since she has been writing her bowels, so often obstructed, have moved regularly."
But the Brontës seem diminished in "Becoming Jane Eyre." One wearies of their incessant questions and exclamations, meant to reproduce their thoughts but sounding a bit too much like 21st-century anxieties. "Can she own these words," Charlotte wonders, "which speak of the longings of a woman for fulfillment, for love, for the same rights as a man?"
Kohler was wise to pitch the novel in a subdued mode, not vying with the passions unleashed in the Brontë novels or in "Wide Sargasso Sea," Jean Rhys's excruciatingly gorgeous fictional evocation of the first Mrs. Rochester's life. She has written instead a small, uncluttered novel about sibling rivalry and the various meanings of "publication" for women writers in a straitened world where women were supposed to stay private.
Christopher Benfey's most recent book is "A Summer of Hummingbirds: Love, Art, and Scandal in the Intersecting Worlds of Emily Dickinson, Mark Twain, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Martin Johnson Heade."
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At the start of this year, I realized that I needed to stop obsessing over hosting the "perfect" book club and just DO it. It's only month 4 but I'm so glad I took the leap because I've learned so much throughout the process. You guys have sent me a few questions about starting a book club so I thought I'd take the opportunity to share a few things that have helped me.
Before you decide on a name, it helps to figure out why you want to start a book club. Is it to meet new people? Perhaps it's to explore a genre that you wouldn't normally pick up on your own. For me, it was both! If you still have trouble picking the right name for your book club, set up a time to brainstorm with a friend. You'd be surprised at how helpful it is to bounce ideas off of another person.
Once you've pinned down your focus and name for the book club, it's time to pick your first book. I highly recommend starting with a book that you've had the chance to read all the way through. While this is definitely not necessary for the entire year, it makes the first discussion run smooth and alleviates the anxiety that sometimes comes along with having your first meet up.
A lot of people choose to host their book club in their home, and while it works for some people, it just doesn't work for me. I'd much rather host Dear Reader in a cozy bookstore, surrounded by tons of good books and food (that I don't have to cook). If you decide to go this route, be sure to contact the bookstore ahead of time to reserve your spot and to ask about capacity.
This is my personal preference but I wanted my book club to be intimate. I didn't want one specific person leading the discussion. For this reason, I found that anywhere between 7-12 people is a good sized group. Everyone gets a chance to voice their opinion about the book and you really get to know the attendees on a personal level.
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They say the sun always shines on rugby league, and such was the case on 3rd March as the morning rainclouds cleared just as the spectators rolled off the buses from Oxford to come watch the Rugby League Varsity Match, hosted at the Honourable Artillery Company grounds in the heart of the City of London. Oxford were the clear favourites, going into the game on the back of a strong season for the Blues with only four defeats across all competitions. Additionally, there was a clear psychological edge knowing that the last seven Varsity Matches had been won by the Dark Blues.
Soon after kick off, captain Jordan Ayling (Magdalen) led from the front and sliced through the Cambridge defensive line to score under the posts within the first five minutes. His range of passing and ability to really attack the line from half back would trouble the Tabs for the entire game and would prove difficult to stop. Soon afterwards, it looked as if the Dark Blues would run away with it again as some good shift after fifth tackle allowed Matt Brady to cross in the corner, a Varsity try to cap off a great season for the flying winger.
Credit must be given to Cambridge as they then rallied and started to grow into the game, scoring in the corner at the other end and giving them only their second try in the last six fixtures and then putting up a fight in the middle of the park where the 800-strong crowd kitted out with varsity songbooks loved the shots flying in from both sides. Eventually the Oxford class began to show and tries from Ayling again and Joe Cullen out wide gave them a 24-4 lead at half-time.
After a scrappy start to the second half, further scores from Ayling to secure his hat-trick as well as Williets, Woyton and Taverner led to a final convincing scoreline of 48-10 to the boys in Dark Blue with the skipper converting all the tries. The Varsity win was a real testament to the work the boys have put in week-in week-out to prepare for BUCS games and also to the strength in depth of the squad, as there were many second team players in the Mighty Maroons pushing for those varsity spots. It was also an excellent finale to what will be known as the Dan Garbutt era for OURLFC, as the inspirational head coach is stepping down after 13 very successful years with the club. Despite changes in coaching for next year, based on the performances by players at this year's Varsity the future looks bright for the club.
Oxford: Conor Williets; Matt Brady, Harry Sturgess, William Taverner, Joseph Cullen; Mark Roper, Jordan Ayling(c); Sven Kerneis, Zachary Keane, Joseph Mash, Marco Hiscox , Daniel Smith, Jake Langmead-Jones Interchange: Nick Dodds
Reilly Knight, Michal Woyton, William Henshall, Robert Bartlett, Angus McCance,
Tries: Ayling (3), Brady, Cullen, Williets, Woyton, Taverner Goals: Ayling (8)
Cambridge: Craig Winfield; Ryan McDonnell, Miles Huppatz (c), Sam Parker, Sandy McCleery; Jack Fernon Thomas Davidson; Ned Bransden, Sam Henry-Pressling, Hamish Oliphant, Henry Biddlecombe, Callum Slatter, Jack Bowskill Interchange: Andy Camsell, Hilary Foord, Tom Wilson, Owen Male, Elliot Pulver
Tries: Parker, Winfield Goal: Fernon
Referee: Matt Rossleigh
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This movie ranks #135 in The New York Times's Book of Movies
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