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Opportunity — normabobb

Opportunities can’t be acquired with a magic wand, like everything else in life you have to work at it. We receive that which we give. © Norma Bobb-Semple 2021

Opportunity — normabobb

8-month sentence in Capitol riot — ORANGE COUNTY TRIBUNE

THE STORMING of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021 (Wikipedia). A prison sentence of eight months was handed down Monday on a Florida man who entered the U.S. Capitol building on Jan. 6 during the violent storming of the seat of Congress. The sentence against Paul Allard Hodgkins, 38, was pronounced by U.S. District…

8-month sentence in Capitol riot — ORANGE COUNTY TRIBUNE

Olivia Breen: World champion para-athlete left angry after official said her shorts were ‘too revealing’ – BBC Sport (Me: Risking life in Covid-19 Japan Olympics and criticize her outfit??? Come on!!!)

“You know they can’t comment on what we can and can’t wear.”

Breen won a world championship gold medal in the T35-38 4x100m class in 2015 and again in 2017 in the T38 long jump and has been wearing the same style of competition briefs from her sponsor throughout her career.

“They are like high-waisted bikini bottoms,” she told BBC Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour programme.

“I’ve worn them for nine years, I’ve never had a problem and we should feel comfortable with what we wear.

“We want to be as light as possible when we’re competing, not having to feel heavy, and to feel comfortable.

“We should just wear what we’re entitled to wear.” 

Source: Olivia Breen: World champion para-athlete left angry after official said her shorts were ‘too revealing’ – BBC Sport

NSO Group’s Pegasus spyware used in India to hack into phones of journalists and others – The Washington Post

A powerful surveillance tool licensed only to governments was used to infiltrate mobile phones belonging to at least seven people in India and was active on some of their devices as recently as this month.

The hacks — confirmed by forensic analysis of the phones — represent a tiny fraction of what may be a vast surveillance net, intensifying concerns about the erosion of civil liberties in India under Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

Hundreds of Indian phone numbers appeared on a list that included some selected for surveillance by clients of NSO Group, an Israeli firm. The list contained numbers for Rahul Gandhi, India’s main opposition leader; Ashok Lavasa, a key election official considered an obstacle to the ruling party; and M. Hari Menon, the local head of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

Others included on the list were journalists, activists, opposition politicians, senior officials, business executives, public health experts, Tibetan exiles and foreign diplomats. A group of Modi critics accused of plotting to overthrow the government also appeared on the list.

Source: NSO Group’s Pegasus spyware used in India to hack into phones of journalists and others – The Washington Post

On England’s ‘Freedom Day,’ masks come off at nightclubs, even as coronavirus cases approach January peak – The Washington Post (Me: Stupid in Britain rules again – more will die from Covid-19 and will kill their loved ones as well!!!)

At the stroke of midnight on Monday, for the first time in 17 months, the staff of the Piano Works nightclub pushed back the tables, cranked up the volume and threw open the dance floor to mark “Freedom Day,” a go-for-it gambit by Prime Minister Boris Johnson to end almost all legal requirements to maintain coronavirus social distancing measures in England. “You could just feel it. The pent-up demand. It was like a jack-in-a-box. It just went pop! And everyone went berserk,” Tristan Moffat, operations director of the club, told The Washington Post.

Source: On England’s ‘Freedom Day,’ masks come off at nightclubs, even as coronavirus cases approach January peak – The Washington Post

Study: Azithromycin doesn’t prevent COVID-19 symptoms in outpatients | CIDRAP

A single dose of the broad-spectrum antibiotic azithromycin didn’t change the proportion of US COVID-19 patients reporting symptoms by 14 days, finds a randomized, controlled trial published late last week in JAMA.

The study, led by University of California at San Francisco (UCSF) researchers, involved assigning 263 non-hospitalized adult COVID-19 patients to either a 1.2-gram dose of oral azithromycin (171) or a placebo (92) from May 2020 to March 2021.

Participants, who had tested positive for COVID-19 within the past 7 days, were followed for as many as 21 days to gauge whether the antibiotic would prevent disease progression by 14 days. Most patients had symptoms at baseline.

There was no significant difference in the proportion of participants reporting no symptoms by 14 days (50% each), regardless of age. Differences between the two groups, however, were significant in terms of several outcomes.

Source: Study: Azithromycin doesn’t prevent COVID-19 symptoms in outpatients | CIDRAP

The Father of African Literature.

Joevic Africa

Chinua Achebe was born in Albert Chinualumogy Achebe on 16th November 1930 and unfortunately died on 21 March 2013. He was a great Nigerian novelist, poet, professor, and critic. His first novel Things Fall Apart is considered as his masterpiece and the most widely read book in modern African Literature. His first novel Things Fall Apart was translated into 50 […]

The Father of African Literature.

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