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Friday, November 15, 2013

Romance Meets Life

Romance Meets Life

Couple Love - Tuface Shout Outs to Annie Idibia on Her Birthday

Posted: 15 Nov 2013 02:02 AM PST


It was his wife, Annie Idibia's birthday some days ago and Tuface sent her a shout out via his Instagram page saying,  "Happy birthday 2 this beautiful giel... una sabi am? @annieidibia1 na #myheart#myworld#mylove#lovingthings" Happy Birthday to her and more love to them.

Banky Wellington Wants You to Caption This

Posted: 15 Nov 2013 01:08 AM PST


When I saw this photo on Instagram, my first thought was, what is Banky W doing?! What do you think he is with his tummy sticking out like that? Dancing Etighi? And I didn't know Banky had a pot belly?

A Woman Proposing to Her Man on Bended Knees - To Do or Not to Do

Posted: 15 Nov 2013 12:08 AM PST


Will you propose to your guy on bended knees, have you ever seen it done? I know women can and sometimes ask men to speed up marriage plans, but rarely do they spell it out, not to talk of doing the whole ring and bended knees routine. Or is it something we may be seeing more of? LOL...

Ann Coulter, Nigerian Princes and Obamacare

Posted: 15 Nov 2013 12:17 AM PST


I knew Ann Coulter was rabid in her racism, and polarizing political commentaries, but this is especially rabid! What bee is buzzing around in this woman's bonnet, I wonder? This time she's got it in for Nigerians, and in a big way too. Ted Cruz apologized just some weeks ago for trying to make his point about the Obamacare websites with an analogy to Nigerian online scammers. But nothing will stop Ann Coulter, she's run with it.

I just don't know, the last time Nigerian image abroad was this bad with the whole Oprah uproar was several years ago, since then 419 has come under more checks both in Nigeria and abroad. Still, maybe because there's a Black President in the US, all these closet racists are just boiling and spewing bile. Pity Obama is not Nigerian, they would've had a field day.

But Ann Coulter is even on a higher level, she may specially have a thing for Nigerians, but she's swinging all ways. Foreign names sound comical to her, Ben Franklin, one of the American founding fathers would have found our names strange, and all 250,000 excess Nigerians in the US are there to scam her country. I shake my head.

Read here and weep? Laugh? Attack Ann Coulter on Twitter? At this point, I'm thinking these people may be doing this deliberately, in this internet world, what's the best way to get traffic to your article or attention to yourself? Talk about Nigerians, for good or for bad, and we all know bad news sells more. Imagine just 10 million Nigerians hopping mad and clicking on your links. Pssheewww...

I'm not usually this mad, but as for me, Ann Coulter can go choke on her own vomit.

A Plastic Bag That Will Make Difficult Labor and Delivery Easier and Safer for Mothers and Unborn Babies

Posted: 14 Nov 2013 11:03 PM PST


Talk about making baby delivery safer for both mother and baby without breaking the bank! Starting as an idea on someone's kitchen counter seven years ago, doctors now believe this device shown above has the potential to save lots of babies distressed during delivery in poor countries, and can also reduce cesarean section births in richer countries.

So what is the genesis of this device?

Sometime in 2006, Jorge Odon in Argentina watched a Youtube video and in his dreams that night, the idea in the video fused with his knowledge of mechanics, and his aunt's experience of child delivery, and the result is a new and simple device to help women with difficult labor have a better outcome without the need of drugs or surgery.

Using the Odón Device, an attendant slips a plastic bag inside a lubricated plastic sleeve around the head, inflates it to grip the head of the baby and then pulls the bag until the baby exits the birth canal. This invention has been endorsed by the World Health Organization and major donors, and a medical technology company in the US has just licensed it for production.

I find this so amazing, anyone can really be an inventor, make money, and do good life saving work in the process too. Kudos to Mr Odon.

Here's Mr Odon's story from the New York Times,

He tinkers at his garage, but his previous inventions were car parts. Seven years ago, he said, employees were imitating a video showing that a cork pushed into an empty bottle can be retrieved by inserting a plastic grocery bag, blowing until it surrounds the cork, and drawing it out.

That night, he won a dinner bet on it.

At 4 a.m., he woke his wife and told her the idea that had just come to him. (His own children were born without problems, he said, but he has an aunt who suffered nerve damage from birth.)

His wife, he recalled, "said I was crazy and went back to sleep."

The next morning, a somewhat skeptical friend introduced him to an obstetrician. "You can imagine these two guys in suits in a waiting room full of pregnant ladies," he said.

The doctor was encouraging, so he kept working. Polyethylene replaced the bag his wife had sewn, and the jar was replaced by a plastic uterus.

With the help of a cousin, Mr. Odón met the chief of obstetrics at a major hospital in Buenos Aires. The chief had a friend at the W.H.O., who knew Dr. Merialdi, who, at a 2008 medical conference in Argentina, granted Mr. Odón 10 minutes during a coffee break.

The meeting instead lasted two hours. At the end, Dr. Merialdi declared the idea "fantastic" and arranged for testing at the Des Moines University simulation lab, which has mannequins more true-to-life than a doll and a jar.

Since then, Mr. Odón has continued to refine the device, patenting each change so he will eventually earn royalties on it.

"My daughter said, 'And now I can have my doll back,' " he said.

It is too early to know what BD will charge, Mr. Cohen said, but each device should cost less than $50 to make. While the company expects to profit on all sales, it will charge poor countries less.

Dr. Merialdi said he endorsed a modest profit motive because he had seen other lifesaving ideas languish for lack of it. He cited magnesium sulfate injections, which can prevent fatal eclampsia, and corticosteroids, which speed lung development in premature infants.

"But first, this problem needed someone like Jorge," he said. "An obstetrician would have tried to improve the forceps or the vacuum extractor, but obstructed labor needed a mechanic. And 10 years ago, this would not have been possible. Without YouTube, he never would have seen the video."

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