Those of us on the large side who cant wear fitted nko?

Good day guys. Has anyone used the lagos Ibadan train recently? What are the schedules. I want to use the service on Wednesday. Kindly advice pls

Bigheart042:
You must be OBI-dient to have written this

Taaaaa!!!!!!

OKUCHI11:
amen and amen... please can you explain further on the issue of polio (poliomyelitis) eradication by the FDR... because I think Jonas Salk founded the vaccine in 1955.

Franklin Roosevelt’s crusade to defeat polio actually began more than 10 years before he created the group that would become known as the March of Dimes. His first efforts centered on a therapeutic spa in Warm Springs, Georgia, famed for the recuperative benefits of its water treatments. Roosevelt first was treated at Warm Springs in 1924–three years after his own devastating bout with polio–and was immediately impressed with the results. He soon became a frequent visitor, and within three years he had bought the property and created the nonprofit Warm Springs Foundation, which established the springs as the first hospital in the nation to focus entirely on the treatment of polio victims. Roosevelt chose close friend and former law partner Basil O’Connor to run the organization; O’Connor went on to hold the role for more than 30 years.

Initial fundraising efforts for the foundation were small scale, but with Roosevelt’s eventual return to politics and subsequent election to the presidency, the opportunity to make a wider appeal for support presented itself. In 1934, businessman Henry Doherty, an FDR supporter, donated $25,000 to establish a series of “birthday balls,” local parties that would double as celebrations of the popular president’s January 30 birthday as well as fundraisers for his favorite cause. That first year saw more than 600 “birthday balls ” across the country, which raised $1 million for the Warm Springs Foundation and soon became a popular annual tradition. The tagline of the balls, “dance so that others may walk,” would become closely aligned with the ongoing fight against infantile paralysis, and was used in a series of promotional posters—one of which was designed by artist Howard Chandler Christy, better known today for the famous “I Want You” enlistment advertisement featuring “Uncle Sam.”


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Encouraged by the success of the birthday balls, O’Connor and Roosevelt decided to organize on the national level. On January 3, 1938, they announced the creation of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, or NFIP. O’Connor set about creating a national network of local chapters dedicated to raising money to combat the disease. However, it wasn’t until later that year that the NFIP became associated with the moniker most people know it by today, the March of Dimes. Vaudeville star Eddie Cantor, a noted philanthropist, organized a coast-to-coast radio broadcast to promote the new foundation. Making a play on the popular “March of Time” newsreels of the era, he urged Americans (still feeling the effects of the Great Depression) to donate whatever spare cash they could to the fight against polio. Just 10 cents from every child (and presumably their parents) could help the cause, and would create a “march of dimes to reach all the way to the White House.” Later promotional programs featured Cantor performing alongside other Hollywood luminaries, including Bing Crosby and Jack Benny. The appeals quickly paid off: In it’s first campaign, the NFIP received more than $18 million in donations. Cantor’s phrase would soon become synonymous with the fledgling foundation, though it would not adopt the name March of Dimes officially until 1976.


The March of Dimes used the funds raised in these early efforts to set up new research facilities to find a cure for polio as well as dozens of local hospitals to care for the afflicted—including a clinic at the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama for African Americans unable to gain access to the nearby (but segregated) Warm Springs facility. Roosevelt would continue to visit Warm Springs throughout his presidency, building a small cottage nearby that became known as the Little White House. It was here, just down the road from his beloved Warm Springs, that he died of a stroke on April 12, 1945. Almost immediately after the president’s death, a local chapter of the March of Dimes based in Norfolk, Virginia, began lobbying for a permanent tribute honoring Roosevelt’s efforts to combat polio. What could be more fitting, they argued, than a newly minted ten-cent coin featuring the president’s portrait. A Virginia congressman soon took up the cause, and by the end of the year the government had agreed to replace the current dime—depicting the mythological goddess Liberty—with one honoring Roosevelt. As the early birthday balls and later March of Dimes campaigns had both been timed to coincide with FDR’s birthday, the U.S. Mint decide to release the first batch of Roosevelt dimes on January 30, 1946—on what would have been his 64th birthday.

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Despite the best efforts of the March of Dimes and others in the medical community, polio continued its destructive path, with a new outbreak seemingly every summer. In fact, it was the decade following Roosevelt’s death that saw the worst of the crisis—in 1949 alone more than 2,700 Americans died from the disease. The March of Dimes continued financial support for medical research finally paid off when Jonas Salk, a young doctor whose work was funded by a March of Dimes grant, developed a new vaccine to combat polio. In 1954, March of Dimes helped support a mass vaccination of more than 1.8 million schoolchildren, and just a year later Salk’s vaccine had been approved for even more widespread usage, leading to the virtual eradication of polio in the developed world.

In the decades following Salk’s vaccine, the March of Dimes shifted its efforts from the eradication of polio to a number of public health issues surrounding maternal and prenatal care, including the prevention of rubella and improving treatment and care for premature babies. In 1970, the organization launched WalkAmerica (now known as the March for Babies), a fundraising initiative that has raised more than $1.8 billion and whose “walk-a-thon” format has inspired hundreds of other charitable organizations around the world. New Roosevelt dimes are issued each year, and in 2003 the Franklin Roosevelt Presidential Library in Hyde Park, New York even held a new “birthday ball,” raising funds for the March of Dimes and harkening back to FDR’s exhortation to “dance so that others may walk.”

[quote author=Imotman post=116621185]I like your write-up though.
Serious pity for the innocent lady, unfortunately her father is in a legal mess with British laws. I hope she gets help fast and recovers. This is a lesson to our Nigerian political leaders. Selfishness doesn't pay in the long run.

There is no such word as POLITCAL LEADERS!!
What we have are politicians and not leaders.
Thats the bane of Africa

Good day folks,
Much as i feel sympathetic towards the poor girl's case and pary that she gets a donor soon and her life be saved, i cannot but express my dismay at the situation and see the role of karma in all this. Our people say it is God that drives away flies from a tailess cow.

It brings to the fore the evilmindedness, selfishness and extreme wickedness of the political class in Nigeria. Note that i didnt say Leaders, but political class/politicians. i have not identified any of our politicians who doubles as a leader, how much more a true one, The lady's father, Senator Ekweremadu has been in the corridors of power for donkey years. He was a Deputy Senate President for 8 years and wielded the power to do and undo. He knew his daughter has such an ailment but he never cared to influence any policy to help her and the poor masses with regards to the issue. What do I mean?

Take for instance, the late President of America, Franklin D, Roosevelt. He was the 32nd President of the USA and ruled from 1933 - 1945. FDR as he was fondly called was diagnosed with polio and from 1921, he was paralyzed from the waist down. Infact, he spent his years as a President on a wheel chair. But guess what, despite the numerous problems that America faced during his regime (the Great Depression of 1933 and WW2 1939-45), FDR worked tirelessly to ensure that polio was eradicated from America. He was the one credited to have singularly achieved that feat. May God bless his soul.

Back home here, our politicians will never do that. What stopped Ekweremadu in the years that he wielded so much power and influence to ensure that a Specialized Kidney Hospital or treatment Centre was built in Nigeria for his daughters sake. He knew he had money to fly her abroad anytime he felt like. This selfishness is not peculiar to him. Same goes for former President Ibrahim Babangida, whose wife died of cancer. He never cared to build one cancer hospital for Nigerians. Oshiomole's first wife had the same case, but he didnt care to put one cancer hospital in Edo State. There are many of them like that. They identify a problem, but as far as they can steal state funds, and tax payers monies to take care of themselves and their families, the rest of us can go and die.

When will we have true leaders in the likes of FDR? Who will use his position to help the poor and priviledged? Our hospitals remain in shambles and our healthcare is comatose. Our God will truly drive away the flies from us.

As i said, i feel so much pity for the young lady. I know because i lost my dear mother to the same kidney issues, so i feel the pain she is right now. But let this be a wake up call to one and all and not just the politicians. If a stone stumbles you on your way, do you stop to take it out so that it doesnt stumble others? If your answer is no, then you are no better than the Ekweremadus, IBBs and Oshiomoles of this world. A little help today can save a lot tomorrow.

May God help us all. Amen

Abeg what do you mean by Osu??

IPOB is a bastard already.
Nonsense!!!

I quite understand what you're saying babe.
But the fact that many of us got spoilt early despite good parental care and guidance is why we don't want our kids to pass through what we did.
If you were given an opportunity today, I bet you would have changed the course of your history and avoided many of the things you did, even though it was by choice,
Remember, back then we were experimenting,
We came out well doesn't mean we don’t have some regrets.
Today times have changed and kids are more exposed,
Do you know what it took to watch a blue film back in the day? SERIOU RISK! Today, they have it in their hands. All day, everyday.
My grouse with bhadgurl4k's mama is trying to deny the obvious. Everyone's child is a Saint in their eyes. Na the other person fault. She's only making a bad situation worse.
The girl has messed up. The shit is out in the open. Rather than pointing one finger and forgetting the other four are pointing back, I expect her to seek out three things; SOLUTION! SOLUTION!! SOLUTION!!!
Just passing sha, but very open for further discuss

She slept with another man means she is not good na

Does the no sweet challenge include Soda and sugary drinks?
If yes, then am in

Drlateef94:
Good evening sir,I am a vet,if u are staying in Ibadan, I can provide home service for u sir.

No, I stay in Abuja.
Thanks anyway for the offer

Good day guys
I just got myself a pair of GOD'S last week. They're both about 6 weeks and due for their next jab on Saturday. I need advice on whether to get a vet who comes around to the house or to register and keep visiting a pet clinic. Your candid thoughts please. Thanks

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Who is this Simon Ekpa sef?
At least he got my attention, so he try..
Do you guys know what EKPA means
It means GROUNDNUT in Yoruba.
So the idiot's brain must be the size of a groundnut seed
thats why he keeps opening his diarrhea infested gutter mouth to talk anyhow.
Baggar lizard... mtcheeeeewwwwwww!!!

Do you have blazers for men?

HRHQueenPhil:
forgiveness is a rare virtue and d secret to many lasting relationship, men do worse so it's not becos they are not caught that makes them righteous

i am suspecting you!!!

Any links to download the newer versions pls

Why is mine not showing?

Macpio:
I'd get back to you on that in 24 hrs for the best price, do you need a new ọ e or foreign used? Check our profile for contacts if you don't hear from us on this thread after 24hrs

New or foreign used. Any will serve. Thanks.

how much can i get catalyst (indomie) for my Mazda MPV 2001 model?

Report to consumer protection council or public complaints commission. You can get their full address on line. Since you have his number he has no where to hide.

Prison Break

To err my own views too, I think season 8 was very disappointing. Here are my thots
1. Tyrion Lanister has always been my favourite star in the whole series. However, his betrayal of Lord Varys was unforgivable being one of the few man who really never wanted the Throne but lived to serve the people. The only other person was Jon Snow. He also made too many errors as the series wound down. I dont think he deserved to be hand of the king to Bran. They should have given it to Sir Davros.
Lessons learned; Dont join somebody to fight his family, blood is thicker than water. Despite Cersei's hatred for him, he still made a way of escape for her. This sha is personable.

2. Sir Bronn of the Blackwater. Another of my favourite xters, but me thinks he did not deserve a prize like high garden as a reward in the end. He was a sell sword and such people who live like that should not earn such a reward. Yes he wanted to settle down to a nice quiet and peaceful life, but rewarding him with such a prize is like say giving Asari Dokubo Minister of FCT.

3. Sansa Stark did nothing to merit her queen ship of the north other than the physical abuse at the hands of that horrible Bolton bastard. Did she suffer as much as Arya? Her brother ended King of the 6 kingdoms and she took the north. I dont think she deserved it.

4. Jon Snow. Chai. Suffer suffer suffer to help others. Suffered at the hands of Cat Stark who never accepted him. Had no desire for the throne and lived to help others. Yet ended back on the wall. Not fair.

5. Danaery's death. No drama about it. Apart from that unwanton desire for the throne, the only bad thing she really did was destroying kings landing and many innocent lives in it. She still didn't deserve to die so cheaply. Like somebody else said, her not doing anything to help her captured allies Uara Greyjoy and Ellaria Sand was very disappointing for me.

6. One of the greatest low points for me was the death of Rickon Stark. The little boy suffered too much.

In all I feel Season 5 was the most intriguing.

My thots...