A Lovely Girl With Down Syndrome Pursuing A Modeling Career.

    

Madeline Stuart won't let Down Syndrome stop her from pursuing a modeling career. Madeline Stuart, an 18-year-old girl with Down syndrome from Brisbane, Australia, is chasing her dreams of becoming a model — and refusing to take no for an answer.

In fact, she's transcending expectations (her own and society's at large) in the hopes that her success will have a sizable impact on the modeling industry, as well as how people with Down syndrome are viewed.  

On Madeline's Facebook page, she writes that she chose to begin modeling out of her belief that "exposure will help to create acceptance."

 Her mother Roseanne told Buzzfeed that Madeline struggled with her weight growing up, but that she's gained confidence and lost weight through dance, swimming and cheer leading over the past few years.

"I think it is time people realized that people with Down syndrome can be sexy and beautiful and should be celebrated," Roseanne said, adding that times have changed since Madeline was a baby.

"I remember having her in a [stroller] when she was a baby and small-minded people telling me she should not be out in public," she said.

And though the prevailing thought has indeed changed for the better in regard to people with mental and physical handicaps, many still believe that those with Down syndrome are limited.

"Give them a chance," she urged. "And you will be rewarded beyond your greatest expectations."

As for Madeline? She just wants people to remember that this is about more than modeling.

"Remember this is about all of us," she wrote recently in a post on her Facebook page. "And I want you all to be a part of this journey."

 By Rebekah Lowin, Today.

A Nurse in a Psychiatric Hospital Enugu, Injects Un-prescribed Drugs Into a Patient Because she was Mourning Jonathan's Defeat.

Alozie Ejimadu, a male nurse at the Federal Neuropsychiatric Hospital, Enugu has been suspended for injecting un-prescribed drug into a patient who was sad over President Goodluck Jonathan's defeat at the polls. 

The evil actions of the nurse was discovered after he bragged about it on Facebook.
The post read, ''The announcement of presidential election has reached its crescendo to the point that one of my patient was crying saying that she is not happy because Jona failed election; I didn't hesitate to silence her with injection Paraldehyde 10 ml stat, I’m chlorpromazine 150 mg and iv diazepam 20 mg stat. At least this will keep her sleeping till tomorrow when the final result must have been announced. Anybody who dare think like my patient will certainly receive a double of the injection I gave my patient…(ARA GBAKA KWA NDI ARA AHU- meaning those mad people should get mad the more).

He has been suspended for 3 months.

Source_Nigerian Bulletin 

Study Says Smokers Quit Best when They Are Financially Invested In Their Success.

It is not easy to quit smoking but a new study suggests that it could be easier with the right incentives.

And it turns out that the best incentive might simply just be money. Cold hard cash.

In the study, which was released last week, smokers who had to invest $150 of their own money were easily more likely to quit than smokers who did not have to wager any of their own money.

“As we think about novel approaches to smoking cessation, these findings provide evidence that financial incentives can be a powerful motivator,” explains study author Dr. Troyen Brennan.

Additionally, lead study author Dr. Scott Halpern says, “This study is one of the first to compare incentive programs that first require deposits and programs that entail pure rewards to promote healthy behaviors. The results are fully consistent with the behavioral theory that people are typically more motivated to avoid losses than to seek gains.”

Furthermore, the assistant professor of medicine with the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania goes on to say, “Although the need to make monetary deposits deters some people from participating; deposit-requiring incentive programs can produce robust, long-term results in helping to change complex health behaviors.”

The study followed more than 2,500 participants who were offered the typical care for smoking cessation—which could include local resource information, guides from the American Cancer Society, as well as free access to behavioral modification programs (for those lucky enough to receive health care benefits).

Finally, Dr. Halpern commits, “Perhaps the most important finding is that incentive programs that required people to deposit $150 of their own money were less effective overall than reward-based programs of similar value because few people accepted such deposit programs.”

Source_Pioneer News

Kanye West from college dropout to Ph.D.

The rapper was given an honorary doctoral degree at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago on Monday, a moment that would have made his late mother Dr. Dondra West, an English Department Chair at Chicago State University, proud.

The now Dr. Kanye West also gave remarks at the ceremony after he walked across the stage with students and received his diploma and hood. "I am a pop artist. So my medium is public opinion and the world is my canvas," the performer said to the crowd of students.

The rapper took the opportunity to mention some of his high achievements to the crowd, but also addressed the fact that with a degree behind him some of his prior projects would have been made a lot easier.

This was the first time the artist has received a degree from a university, although not the first time he's attended college.

Source_Daily News

Conjoined twin boys separated at 5 months.

The boys shared a liver and part of their small intestine, if they shared a heart or brain, fewer options were available. Dr. Daniel Robie, chief of pediatric general surgery at wolfson children's hospital in Jacksonville told the parents that they had to separate them and then reconstruct them so that they each have organs that are going to function normally.

For the parents Michelle Brantley and Bryan Mirabal, it wasn't easy at all. The fear and hope of having the twin successfully separated, you could imagine that. "It was very scary" Mirabal lamented.

The twin were successfully separated on Thursday after a 12 hour operation by three surgeons, five anesthesiologists and 12 other staffers. The parents were so happy and all smiles after the operation.







Source_Tampa Bay Times.

A building collapses in Kano

Eight people have been injured as a result of a building under construction that collapse within the Emir's palace. According to a police officer, the victims were taken to a nearby hospital.

The cause of the collapse was due to an architectural blunder, most of these collapse we experience in Nigeria today are mostly architectural blunders. Some use substandard materials to build, while some use foundations designed for bungalows and convert to story buildings which now put too much pressure on the foundation that result to building collapse.

A man caught having sex with a goat!!!!

Lots of things are happening in our world today, mostly unimaginable things.

A young man named Akinbobola Taiwo Oluwa who hails from Ogun State,  Was caught this afternoon having sex with a she-goat. Such an abominable act!