How to Add Tiny URL Shortening Widget To Your Website

In this blog post, I show you how to add Tiny URL shorten-er widget for website or Blog. This widget will shorten any URL without any page load or registration / login. And it's free. And the best part is this widget is also available for Wordpress sites and blogger platform.

People who visit your site enters their long URL and gets their short URL instantly. No need to open any new tab, or browser window or any form for registration.

ScreenShot:

Here is the HTML iframe code..

<iframe src="https://googledrive.com/host/0BxDe_kH2i6SGNk5RbV9mMHdPM0k/mini.html" width=300 height=270 frameBorder="0" scrolling="no"></iframe>

Add this code to your website or blog by adding HTML widget and pasting the above iframe code. That it..!


You can also see the live demo on page side bar of this page.

NIGERIA: President Jonathan nominates FRSC Boss & University Lecturer as Ministers

President Goodluck Jonathan on Thursday nominated the Corps Marshal of the Federal

Roads Safety Corps,  Mr. Osita Chidoka, as minister representing Anambra State on the Federal Executive Council.

He also nominated a lecturer in the Department of Political Science at the University of Abuja, Dr. Suleiman Olanrewaju Abubakar, as a minister to represent Kwara State at the FEC.

Jonathan stated this in a letter addessed to the Senate President, David Mark, which was read at the plenary.

The President, in another letter, also asked the upper chamber to approve the nomination of the current Acting Director-General of the  Nigerian Pension Commission,  Mrs. Chinelo Anohu-Amaju,  as the substantive DG of the agency.

Investigations by our correspondent revealed that the nominees might be screened by the Senate on Wednesday next week.

Suspected Homosexuals Arrested in Uganda

Police in Pader district have arrested five people suspected to be promoting the act of homosexuality in the district.

The suspects were arrested in the period of one week after the tip off by the locals, who accused the suspects of moving within the schools in the district, promoting the practice which was early this year criminalized by the Anti-homosexual Act 2014.

It’s alleged that the suspects have been carrying out clandestine movements in both primary and secondary schools in the district luring the pupils and students into the practice.
The OC Pader Central Police Station, Mr Romeo Ojara Onek, confirmed the arrest, adding that police is still investigating the matter.

He said among the arrested suspects include two businessmen, one teacher, and two students who are allegedly recruiting and promoting the act.

“The suspects’ medical report is out and their files have been forwarded to the Resident State Attorney for advice, pending prosecution,” Mr Onek said.

Last year one of the teachers in the district reported a similar case to Pader district authorities.
This comes barely a month after the United States announced it had cut aid to Uganda and cancelled a military exercise in response to the Anti-homosexuality law that allegedly imposes harsh penalties on homosexuality.

The new law, signed by President Yoweri Museveni in February this year, imposes jail terms of up to life for “aggravated homosexuality” which includes homosexual sex with a minor or while HIV-positive.

Widely condemned by donor countries, the law also criminalizes lesbianism for the first time and makes it a crime to “help” individuals engage in homosexual acts.

Human Rights Activist, Mr. Bamidele Aturu, Pass Away at 49

A Lagos-based human rights lawyer, Mr. Bamidele Aturu, is dead.

A source close to him said the vibrant legal mind died of high blood pressure on Wednesday. He was age 49.

Aturu, who was reportedly rushed to the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital, Ikeja in the early hours of Wednesday, was confirmed dead by medical personnel later in the day.

The late Aturu obtained a first degree in Law from the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Osun State. Until his death, he was the Principal of Bamidele Aturu and Company in Lagos.

Commenting on the sad incident, a Lagos-based lawyer, Mr. Festus Keyamo, said he received the news as a shock.

“I just heard it but I am still trying to confirm; I was told he died of high blood pressure-related ailment. It is sad and I’m still in shock,” he said.

Another lawyer, Mr. Fred Agbaje said he was speechless.

Another legal luminary, Chief Anthony Idigbe (SAN), who told one of our correspondents that he had yet to confirm the death, said he wished it was not true.

Meanwhile, lawyers and rights activists have expressed shock over the death of the human rights lawyer.

A former Chairman of the Nigerian Bar Association, Mr. Monday Ubani, who sounded too shocked to talk, described Aturu as the best Nigerian, “whose activism was not targeted at attracting public attention or government’s appointment.”

Others such as the Chairman, Coalition Against Corrupt Leaders, Mr. Debo Adeniran, the National Coordinator, Legal Defence and Assistance Project, Mr. Chino Obiagwu and the Chairman of the Civil Society Network Against Corruption, Mr. Lanre Suraj, simply said they were too shocked to comment on his death in separate text messages to one of our correspondents on Wednesday.

Woman grows a Nose on her Spine after experimental stem cell treatment goes Awry

A female patient in the US has grown a nose on her back following a failed experimental stem cell treatment that was intended to cure her paralysis. The nose-like growth, which was producing a “thick mucus-like material,” has recently been removed as it was pressing painfully on her spine. If you ever needed an example of the potential perils of stem cell therapy, and just how little we actually know about the function of stem cells, this is it. It’s also notable that this stem cell therapy was carried out in a developed country, as part of an approved trial (apparently unwanted growths are more common in developing nations with less stringent medical safeguards).

Eight years ago, olfactory stem cells were taken from the patient’s nose and implanted in her spine. The stem cells were meant to turn into nerve cells that would help repair the woman’s spine, curing her of paralysis. Instead, it seems they decided to do what they were originally meant to do and attempt to build a nose. Over a number of years, the nose-like growth eventually became big enough and nosy enough to cause pain and discomfort to the patient. As reported by New Scientist, “surgeons removed a 3-centimetre-long growth, which was found to be mainly nasal tissue, as well as bits of bone and tiny nerve branches that had not connected with the spinal nerves.” [DOI: 10.3171/2014.5.SPINE13992 - "Autograft-derived spinal cord mass following olfactory mucosal cell transplantation in a spinal cord injury patient"]

As with any experimental procedure, there is always a fairly good chance that something will go wrong. In a 2010 clinical trial, 20 paralyzed patients were treated with olfactory stem cells; 11 showed some signs of recovery, four had “minor adverse events,” one developed meningitis, and in one case the paralysis got worse. Jean Peduzzi-Nelson, a stem cell researcher, says most patients undergoing the olfactory stem cell treatment have a “remarkable recovery,” with “less than 1%” growing an unwanted snotty appendage. [Read: Researchers create brain-computer interface that bypasses spinal cord injury paralysis.]

 

What went wrong, then? Basically, at the top of your nasal passages there is the olfactory mucosa. This region contains all of the machinery for picking up odors, and the neurons for sending all of that data off to your brain’s olfactory bulb for processing. Cells from this region can be easily and safely harvested, and with the correct processing they behave just like pluripotent embryonic stem cells that can develop into many other cell types. These olfactory stem cells could develop into cartilage, or mucus glands, or neurons. The researchers obviously wanted the latter, to cure the patient’s spinal nerve damage — but seemingly they got it wrong, and thus she sprouted a second nose. Moving forward, newer olfactory stem cell treatments have an “isolation” stage to prevent this kind of thing from happening. [Read: The first 3D-printed human stem cells.]
It’s important to note that medicine, despite being carried out primarily on humans, is still ultimately a scientific endeavor that requires a large amount of trial and error. In the western world, it’s very, very hard to get a stem cell therapy approved for human trials without lots of animal testing. Even then, the therapies are often only used on people who have “nothing to lose.” Obviously it’s hard to stomach news like this, and I’m sure that stem cell critics will be quick to decry the Frankensteinian abomination created by these scientists. But when you think about the alternative — no advanced medicine and significantly reduced lifespans for billions of people — then really, such experimental treatments are nothing to sneeze at.