The powerful couple spoke
candidly about their love story and gushed about their fondness for each
other and how they fell in love at first sight!
On how he first met
his wife, Linus said,
"I met Stephanie while doing some Business
Consulting work for a Middle Eastern Company that wanted to berth in
Africa; they needed an African female celebrity ambassador for their
brand; Liya Kebede from Ethiopia and Stephanie were the two candidates
on tab for the role; so I reached out to her; So yeah…it was “Love for
business at first sight”.
The visibly excited husband also revealed how he copes with being married to a superstar actress. "Being
married to her is an ever glowing experience; a tale I some day, would
write a book about; Stephanie is an absolute blessing!
“A loving,
selfless, patient, positive being; someone I have made my lifelong
pursuit to make her truly happy because her heart is in the right place.
It is one thing to say you believe in someone; it’s another to live it.
We are friends, lovers, husband and wife.
“Pressure from fans and
the likes comes with the territory; it’s even worse now with the advent
of new social media, if it’s not PINGS, it’s instagram likes, if it’s
not that, it’s facebook beeps, twitter alerts or linkedin invites. But
it’s a world I understand, so for us, communication is key and that is
what defines the boundaries of our relationship." He narrated.
Linus described his wife in three words; Selfless, Smart and Spirited.
On her part, the screen goddess described how she was attracted to her husband.
"He
had a magnetic presence that was very captivating. He didn't beat
around the bush, he knew exactly what he wanted and was upfront about
it, which I found charming and sexy!
“He is very tender and
protective, a man’s man. He is sweet, humble, driven, has a close
relationship with God, very loving and takes good care of me. We respect
what we have and as a woman, when a man loves you, you just know. You
know that you’re in it together, regardless of any situation. With him,
there was a conviction in my heart that this is it, she said.
Mali’s Ebola scare is not yet over. But with a quick
diagnosis, extensive communication, and no shortage of luck, authorities
and partners may be able to limit the number of cases to one.
Using old-fashioned detective work, public health workers in Mali, one of the world’s poorest nations, working with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
and the World Health Organization, tracked and quarantined 108 people
in two cities and a few roadside towns who may have had contact with a
2-year-old girl from Guinea who died of Ebola on Oct. 24.
There
was even a car chase: The last bus the family traveled on during a
700-mile journey from Guinea was stopped on a rural highway, emptied out
and disinfected.
A
21-day quarantine since the little girl’s death on Oct. 24 is almost
over, and 41 of the 108 Malians in quarantine are due to be released
Tuesday, and the remainder by Friday. Since none are showing symptoms,
health officials are allowing themselves to hope that their quick
response has kept Mali’s first outbreak to a single case.
If so, Mali will join Senegal and Nigeria
in having proved yet again that rapid reactions can stop Ebola. In
contrast, the initial outbreak in Guinea festered unaddressed for months
before it exploded.
Photo
A worker disinfected a bus
that arrived in Kayes from Bamako — the same route taken by Fanta Condé
and her family from Guinea. They rode with Africa Star, another
transport company that no longer takes this precaution -Credit:
Nick Loomis for The New York Times
“I’m
actually feeling very good right now,” Dr. Rana Hajjeh, who led the
C.D.C. advisory team, said Friday. “We feel reassured that most of the
danger is over.”
The
case also illustrates how even people in close contact with victims do
not necessarily get the disease, which spreads when infectious fluids
get into an open cut, or a nose, eye or mouth.
Remarkably,
no one in Mali who touched the girl, Fanta Condé, is yet sick. Not the
woman she called her grandmother, her 5-year-old sister or her uncle,
who all spent three days traveling with her from Beyla, Guinea. Not Dr.
Abdouramane Koungoulba, the pediatrician who first examined her on Oct.
21, nor two traditional healers who saw her earlier, nor any of a dozen
other doctors or nurses who gave her a transfusion and intravenous
hydration and cleaned up her vomit and diarrhea in the 48 hours before she died.
Nor,
apparently, are any of the dozens of bus passengers, taxi drivers,
family friends or other contacts she had while traveling.
The episode also drew attention to an unusual decision by President Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta: Unlike most West African countries, Mali has not closed its border with an Ebola-affected neighbor — in this case, Guinea.
That
is partly for practical reasons. There are so many gravel roads
crossing the long border that closing it is probably impossible.
Dr.
Abdou Salam Gueye, a C.D.C. investigator, explained that closing the
border would violate an honored Malian principle of diatiguiya
(pronounced JAH-tih-GEE), the belief that hospitality to friends and
even strangers is obligatory. It extends back centuries, to the days
when Mali was the core of a great West African empire, and travelers
with introductions were welcomed like family.
Michel Sidibé, the Malian executive director of U.N.AIDS, the United Nations’ H.I.V.-fighting agency, said diatiguiya is a Mandingo tradition.
“If
I come to my diatiguiya’s house, he cannot close the door,” Mr. Sidibé
explained. “His home is my home. Even if I am sick, he must bring me in.
And this has extrapolated into ‘I cannot close the border.’ ”
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Mali’s harrowing brush with Ebola
began last month with a woman’s selfless act: trying to rescue two
young girls in her family from the disease. Aminata Gueye Tamboura, 45,
fetched them from their ailing family in Guinea,
the cradle of the epidemic, then took them aboard buses and taxis, back
to her home in Kayes, in northwest Mali. (Mrs. Tamboura, although
called Fanta’s grandmother, is actually the second wife of Fanta’s
grandfather in polygamous marriage.)
Fanta had a 104-degree fever and an unstoppable nosebleed
by the time she was hospitalized. Health officials feared she had
seeded the virus all along the route, potentially turning Mali into the
fourth nation engulfed by the disease.
The
child’s family in Guinea did not believe the virus existed and rejected
medical help, even as relatives began to die there, including Fanta’s
father, said Dr. Ibrahima Soce Fall, leader of the W.H.O. team in Mali.
Fanta’s mother remained in Guinea with a 3-month-old baby because she
had to observe 40 days of mourning for her husband, Dr. Koungoulba said.
Ms.
Tamboura, the girls and an uncle left Beyla, a small city, on Oct. 18
in a 10-passenger “bush taxi,” and crossed the border the next day. Some
passengers said Fanta was given acetaminophen to lower her fever and avoid detection. Ms. Tamboura denied it.
During
a three-hour layover in Bamako, Mali’s capital, the family took taxis
to and from the compound of family friends, and rested there. That
compound is now also quarantined with 25 people inside; the government
delivers food and has posted guards to make sure no one leaves.
Photo
The chlorine powder-covered grave of Fanta Condé, who died of Ebola on Oct. 24, in Kayes, Mali.Credit
Nick Loomis for The New York Times
In
Kayes, Ms. Tamboura took Fanta to two different traditional healers,
known as marabouts, and then to a neighbor, a former doctor, who urged
her to go to Fousseyni Daou Hospital, which she did on Oct. 21.
Initially,
Dr. Koungoulba said, she told him Fanta was a local child, so he did
not suspect Ebola. He did wear gloves, but no other protection. That
evening, Ms. Tamboura’s sister admitted that Fanta was Guinean, so he
ordered an Ebola test. But it took 24 hours for a car to arrive from
Bamako and fetch the sample.
When
it turned up positive on Oct. 23, Dr. Koungoulba kept asking himself:
“Did I do everything I should? Did I touch her dirty diaper or the blood
running from her nose?”
Dr.
Hajjeh, who had just finished helping Mali devise a response plan in
case the disease ever arrived, said she was at the airport when she
heard the test results were positive.
“I canceled my flight and stayed,” she said.
At
the hospital, about a dozen staff members were quarantined, as were
Fanta’s family and all 40 patients and their families, who sleep under
trees on the dusty grounds to help care for the sick.
The
quarantine was partly for their own protection, doctors said, since
there had been angry reactions elsewhere in Mali to earlier suspected
cases, which turned out to be false alarms.
Beyonce’s little sister Solange
Knowles will exchange vows with her boyfriend Alan Ferguson in New Orleans,
Louisiana this weekend, according to reports.
The 28-year-old singer and DJ, who has kept her
engagement under wraps, will stage the ceremony and reception at the home she
shares with her 10-year-old son Julez, according to Us Weekly.
This will be Knowles’ second marriage – she wed her
son’s father, Daniel Smith, in 2004, when she was just 17. They divorced in
2007.
Jennifer Lawrence is a woman who knows what she wants in life, and in
love. On the latter front, it's not really shocking what the star says
she looks for.
In the new issue of French magazine Madame Figaro, the 24-year-old
reveals that the ideal mate for her is "one who allows her to be herself
in all situations."
"Otherwise, you might as well stay single."
Lawrence, who might be back together with Chris Martin, is currently overseas as part of a massive PR tour for The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1.
That's just part of her job as an A-list star, and the accompanying
interest in her personal life is something she says she has been very
reluctant to accept.
Admitting it took days to agree to portray Katniss Everdeen, she says,
"I realized that whatever I do, at any level, I would lose a part of my
private life."
"For each 'everyday' photo published," the paparazzi-averse Oscar-winner says, "I generally spent three hours playing cat and mouse with photographers."
"I always had a very clear idea of the type of course I wanted -
acting, that's all. Of course, by contract, I must assure a media
presence to promote my work.
"But if I had a choice," says the talented and versatile but
world-weary actress, "you wouldn't hear me express myself except in
movies."
So what about Twitter, Facebook and other social media?
"All that doesn't interest me for a second!" she says.
"I'm always hundreds of emails behind."
For a woman of her stature, she keeps a surprisingly low profile aside
from movie press and has done so long before she was as famous as she is
now.
So much so that you probably never knew she was a model for Abercrombie & Fitch back in the day!
Kedike singer posted this to promote her new song, Martha, which is dedicated to
her mum and caring for the blind.
Read her story below:
... I was conceived and certified totally Blind at birth.
For fifteen nights this woman held me in her hands and wept uncontrollably,
with my father calling on God to bless newly born Chidinma with sight.... On
the 16th day I opened my eyes.... And they been open ever since.. I was born a
very fragile baby with some health conditions. Her prayers took it all away.
Today I dedicate my entire life selflessly and earnings to
catering to visually impaired/blind people. Life is such a wonderful and
colorful piece of art and it must feel like hell not to envision Gods creation.
THE Mma Charity Foundation is my little giveback the world
"The song MARTHA is dedicated to my mother Mrs Martha
Ekile. I DECIDED To show my fans a different side to Chidinma, a side never
revealed to so many, a side I will forever remain grateful and indebted to
Father Lord for His miraculous interventions and guidance in my life
You’ve tried crunching baseball stats. You've mentally replayed your
last round of golf. You've outlined the steps to making your favorite
sandwich. But the more you try to slow yourself down during s*x, the
faster you finish—and you’re not alone.
“Premature ejaculation is a problem that affects almost every man at
some point in his life,” says Thomas J. Walsh, M.D., a urologist at the
University of Washington.
Dr. Walsh says there are primarily two methods of dealing with your
speed issues: physical and psychological treatments. While physical
remedies target the sensations you feel during s*x, psychological
solutions address your worry, stress, or other mental factors that may
explain your quick trigger, Dr. Walsh explains.
Here, he and other experts break down a few of the most helpful
techniques for dealing with premature ejaculation (PE). But be warned:
Dr. Walsh recommends trying these out on your own before attempting them
during s*x.
1. Biofeedback
In general terms, this refers to the idea that you can regulate your
own neurophysiology—or the way your body responds to physical
sensations, Dr. Walsh explains. While there are a lot of different types
of biofeedback, he says one of the most common for treating PE is to
bring yourself right to the edge of orgasm before stopping all sexual or
masturbatory activity until you have your excitement under control.
Also known as “edging,” practicing this technique can help you teach
your brain and body to better control your orgasm response, adds sex
therapist Emily Morse, Ph.D. Just be sure to use a lot of lotion or lube
while you practice edging to avoid chaffing yourself, she advises. 2. The Squeeze
If you can feel your orgasm coming on, stop and squeeze right below
the head of your penis. Apply firm pressure with your thumb and
forefinger and focus the pressure on the urethra—the tube running along
the underside of the penis, advises Ian Kerner, Ph.D., a sex therapist
and author of She Comes First. The squeeze technique pushes
blood out of the penis and momentarily decreases sexual tension, which
represses the ejaculatory response, Kerner says. “This is another type
of biofeedback, similar to edging.” Dr. Walsh adds. 3. Ladies First
When you help her finish first—whether with your mouth, your fingers,
or a toy—knowing she’s enjoyed an orgasm may relieve some of the
pressure you’re feeling, Kerner says. 4. De-Sensitizers
Like the stuff dentists slather on your gums before jamming in the
needle, there are topical sprays called “local anesthetics” that you can
apply to your penis to lessen the sensation and keep control, Dr. Walsh
says. “When used properly, you can adjust the amount of desensitization
with these sprays, and it won’t transfer to your partner,” he adds. He
says some of his patients have had luck with a product called Promescent.
(Dr. Walsh is in no way affiliated with the company that makes this
product.) But be warned: The lack of sensation could make it difficult
for you to stay erect, he says. 5. Condom Control
Most major condom manufacturers make extra-thick rubbers that act
like a slip-on desensitizer for your member, Morse says. Look for
marketing lingo like “extended pleasure” (from Trojan) or “performax”
(Durex), which are fancy terms for this thicker style of condom. 6. Pills
Plenty of men pop a pill to become erect. And in Europe, there are
also legal drugs that can help you last longer in bed, Dr. Walsh says.
The problem: The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) hasn’t approved
those drugs to treat PE in the U.S. Why? “Even though trials show these
drugs genuinely benefitted men with premature ejaculation, the FDA sets a
very high bar for drugs used to treat non-life threatening conditions,”
Dr. Walsh explains. While you could take these drugs for “off-label”
uses like the treatment of PE, most of these meds are antidepressants
that could lead to mood changes or other side effects—meaning they
shouldn’t be used unless your performance problem is seriously affecting
your life, Dr. Walsh says. He advises talking to your doctor to discuss
this option. 7. Ask an Expert
If you feel like you’ve tried everything without success, it may be
time to discuss your problem with a sexual dysfunction specialist, Dr.
Walsh says. “A lot of the treatments we’ve already discussed—edging and
biofeedback—are pretty challenging techniques that a specialist can help
you use effectively.” He recommends asking your doctor for a referral
to a urologist, who can either treat you himself or refer you to the
right person for your problem. “He or she will help you approach this
practically and pragmatically,” Dr. Walsh says, adding, “It’s not about
getting in touch with your inner self. It’s about learning the physical
or mental mechanisms that can help you avoid PE.”
Kris Jenner turned 59 years old yesterday, celebrating with new boyfriend Corey Gamble.
But she also received some social media wishes from her daughters for the occasion, with Khloe posting a throwback photo of her and her mother and writing as a message:
"People often say that mothers are the best teachers in the world. I
have come to know that it couldn't be truer. Thank you for being the
best mother and teacher I could ever ask for. Happy Birthday mama!!! I
love you."
Kim Kardashian, meanwhile, also thanked her mom for being such a totally awesome parent.
Along with publishing the above picture on Facebook, the former sex tape star wrote of Kris:
"Happy Birthday to my best friend in the entire world!!!! After
becoming a mom myself I understand you in a way I didn't think was
possible! I respect so much how you are able to raise 6 children, have a
career and give each of us so much attention and be our biggest
supporter and love us so unconditionally!!! "You are my idol, my mentor and superwoman!!!! I love you forever!!!!"
But Kim wasn't finished.
She added a touch of (inappropriate?) humor by showcasing her mom's
figure in a separate sexy snapshot, penning as a caption to the image: "ANNND be the hottest mom in the entire world!!!!!! #MILF."
So Kim Kardashian is saying Kris Jenner is a mother she's like to... never mind. We'd rather not think about that.
