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105-year-old woman says gin-soaked raisins helped her beat Covid-19

February 23, 2021 by www.stuff.co.nz Leave a Comment

A resilient 105-year-old woman thinks there’s one special homemade remedy that helped her beat the coronavirus: gin-soaked raisins .

Lucia DeClerck, the oldest resident of her South Jersey nursing home, found out she had contracted Covid-19 on her 105th birthday in January. She is one of 62 residents to have contracted the virus, four of whom died, and got the positive test after receiving her second dose of the vaccine.

“We were very concerned,” her son Phillip Laws told the New York Times about receiving the news. “But she’s got a tenacity that is unbelievable. And she’s got that rosary – all the time.”’

DeClerck credits her old age to prayer and healthy eating, but told the Times her specific tradition of eating gin-soaked raisins each morning helped her in the battle against Covid. After being diagnosed, she was quarantined and showed a few symptoms, but returned to her room within two weeks.

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“Fill a jar,” she explained. “Nine raisins a day after it sits for nine days.”

Gin-soaked raisins are just one of DeClerck’s rituals, which also include drinking aloe juice and brushing her teeth with baking soda.

“We would just think, ‘Grandma, what are you doing? You’re crazy,’” her 53-year-old granddaughter Shawn Laws O’Neil said. “Now the laugh is on us. She has beaten everything that’s come her way.”

This isn’t the 105-year-old’s first pandemic, either. After being born in Hawaii in 1916, DeClerck survived the Spanish flu, multiple wars, as well as the death of three husbands and one of her sons.

“She is just the epitome of perseverance,” O’Neil said. “Her mind is so sharp. She will remember things when I was a kid that I don’t even remember.”

DeClerck is one of the oldest people to have beaten the virus. Her large family of kids, grandkids, and great grandkids is now bestowing a new title on their Grandma Lucia: “The 105-year-old badass who kicked Covid.”

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11-year-old boy demands N50m compensation over police stray bullet that hits his scrotum

February 8, 2021 by www.vanguardngr.com Leave a Comment

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A 61-year-old woman Mrs. Stella Omoigui, has demanded N50million compensation for her 11year- old-son, Master Osasu Omoigui who was allegedly hit by a stray bullet on his genital during #EndSARS protest.

Mrs. Omoigui, a petty trader yesterday in Benin,  told the Edo State Judicial Panel of Inquiry for victims of SARS and related abuses that her 11year son was hit by stray bullets from the police officers who were dispersing the #EndSARS protesters when running an errand for her.

She added that the incident happened along Old road, Sapele Road, Benin City, when he asked the said Osasu, a primary three pupil of Maria Christian Academy to go and give his father ripe plantain.

She said her son was later treated and discharged from the University of Benin Teaching Hospital, UBTH

She said ever since the incident, she has been spending her little resources on him.

She said the little Osasu can only pass out urine through a fixed pipe on his abdomen, a situation that has forced him to always be on wrappers instead of trousers.

She said the condition has also forced him from going to school.

She however pleaded with the panel to grant her son the sum of N50 million as compensation for the pains being suffered by him and also take care of his medical bills and that the panel should do all in its power to see that he could have his life back.

On the part of little Osasu, he said he would like to be a medical doctor when he grows up.

“I want to be a medical doctor by the time I grow up and finished my education, please, the government and every spirited individual should help me”, he said.

Being touched by the condition of the 11-year- old Osasu, chairman, Judicial Panel of Inquiry, Justice Ada Ehigiamusoe (rtd) said the child’s condition must be treated with prompt attention.

“I have a medical doctor in my team, looking at the young man, is about 11 years old, he is unable to dress properly like normal human being, we found him to be wrapped in wrappers and the medical doctor in my team, examined him and found that he is badly damaged in his genital region and we have reviewed that this calls for an emergency intervention.

“We will do the necessary things that will be required of us just like the state government has always done, matters of this nature be treated promptly. If you recall, we have similar matters of about two of them, deaf and dumb, more than that and promptly, the state government intervened.

“They did not even wait for us to make our final recommendations. So, I sure with this, look at the condition of the boy, so pathetic, and it is not the police, it is a stray bullet.

“It is one of those things, the consequences of that protest, we can’t really lay our hands on anybody but we will try our best to make the adequate recommendations.

“So, we have reviewed instantly, and we have reviewed, that all of us, we have the combined view that it is meritorious, deserving compensation, he needs urgent medical attention. So, that is our stance”, she said.

Justice Ehigiamusoe also led panel members to raise money for him and which was immediately given to him.

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Another 25-Year-Old North Carolina Republican Is Running For Congress

February 10, 2021 by dailycaller.com Leave a Comment

  • Former college football player Bo Hines is taking on a longtime, 77-year-old North Carolina congresswoman with promises of term limits and a focus on tech censorship.
  • Hines enjoyed a short, successful stint playing football at North Carolina State before hurting his shoulder, and then transferred to Yale to finish his undergraduate degree.
  • The 25-year-old promises to “fight against the tyranny of mobs and big tech companies that want to take away our God-given rights. “

Former college football player Bo Hines is taking on a longtime, 77-year-old North Carolina congresswoman with promises of term limits and a focus on tech censorship.

Hines is completing his law degree from Wake Forest virtually as he travels across North Carolina to gain support from his constituents, he told the Daily Caller News Foundation. He enjoyed a short, successful stint playing football at North Carolina State before hurting his shoulder, and then transferred to Yale to finish his undergraduate degree.

Now he’s promising to “fight against the tyranny of mobs and big tech companies that want to take away our God-given rights.”

I’m thrilled to announce that I am running for Congress to represent the great people of North Carolina’s 5th district.

Over the next few months, I will be traveling across the district. I look forward to meeting every single one of you. Learn more at https://t.co/umP3I3igqd . pic.twitter.com/4QuOguokGY

— Bo Hines (@BoHines) January 20, 2021

“I grew up in Charlotte, North Carolina in a family of entrepreneurs,” he told the DCNF.

“My dad grew up on a chicken farm in rural Indiana and my mom grew up on a hog farm,” he said. “My dad got into licensing apparel in the early nineties and they did a lot of work with NASCAR and that’s pretty much what brought him down to North Carolina. And I was born down here.”

Bo Hines and his fiancé. Photo courtesy of Bo Hines.

Bo Hines and his fiancé. Photo courtesy of Bo Hines.

Hines told the DCNF that he prioritizes creating economic opportunity for the people in his district, bringing manufacturing jobs back home, engaging in smart capitalism that incentivizes business owners to invest in their communities, protecting religious freedoms, and fighting tech censorship.

He’s also pledging to serve only four terms if he is elected to Congress. His incumbent opponent, Republican North Carolina Rep. Virginia Foxx, has served in her congressional seat since 2005.

Foxx told the DCNF in a Wednesday statement that “in these difficult days of economic uncertainty and political turmoil we need experienced leadership with a proven track-record of solving tough problems.”

“Folks all across western North Carolina know me very well,” she said. “They know my tireless work ethic and my dedication to conservative ideas. I am proud of my reputation as a problem-solver who listens to constituents and serves to represent their interests alone.”

“I’m honored to serve the people of North Carolina’s 5th Congressional District and I am looking forward to running again in 2022 against anyone who may toss a hat in the ring,” Foxx added.

Let’s take the Chinese Communist Party to task and expose their efforts to corrupt college campuses across the country.

Will our Democrat colleagues join us, or will they sit on the sidelines while we take charge and fight the CCP? https://t.co/bekBhc0XRg

— Virginia Foxx (@virginiafoxx) February 9, 2021

Hines’s campaign has drawn comparisons to that of Republican North Carolina Rep. Madison Cawthorn, who, at 25-years-old, is the youngest person to serve in the House of Representatives. (RELATED: Paralyzed Madison Cawthorn Stands As He Urges Americans To ‘Be A Radical For Liberty’)

“We’re two young guys who care about our country, care about North Carolinians, and are ultimately looking to make some change up in Washington,” Hines said.

Hines said he briefly met with Cawthorn and his district director a few weeks ago.

“I think we align pretty closely with what our goals are, and what our value systems are, and how we think North Carolinians should be represented,” he said.

RALEIGH, NC – AUGUST 30: Bo Hines #82 of the North Carolina State Wolfpack runs with the ball against Tay Hicklin #14 of the Georgia Southern Eagles at Carter-Finley Stadium on August 30, 2014 in Raleigh, North Carolina. NC State defeated Georgia Southern 24-23. (Photo by Lance King/Getty Images)

One of Hines’ main goals is to get an infrastructure bill done to strengthen wifi access for constituents across his district — a move that is particularly important during the pandemic, he told the DCNF.

“A lot of our youth have been restricted from going in the classroom here in North Carolina, and it’s vastly important that they have the ability to go to class online,” he said. “I think right now a lot of parents are struggling with that. Education is a priority for our youth and that’s something that we want to ensure they have the ability to access.”

“Our kids need to be in the classroom,” he added. “It’s immensely important for their mental health and their family structure.”

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Scientists discover 630 million-year-old fungus fossils in SW China

February 24, 2021 by www.chinadaily.com.cn Leave a Comment

NANJING — Scientists from China and the United States have discovered fungi fossils dating back 630 million years in Southwest China’s Guizhou province.

This is the earliest terrestrial fungi fossil evidence ever found, indicating that the ancestors of fungi, including yeasts, molds and mushrooms, colonized the land about 200 million years earlier than previously thought.

The study, led by researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Virginia Tech was published in Nature Communications journal last month.

Co-author Pang Ke, an associate professor at the academy’s Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, said the fossils were found in two dolostone karst caves. Researchers collected 20 samples, containing thousands of tiny thread-like filaments, each thinner than a hair.

The previous earliest record of terrestrial fungus discovered in Scotland showed fungi emerged around 410 million years ago. “The new discovery will recalibrate the timeline of when the organism colonized the land,” Pang told Xinhua Wednesday.

“Water to land evolution is an important turning point in the history of life, and fungi were pioneers. The incredible 630 million-year-old terrestrial fungi are more than 100 million years older than the earliest terrestrial plants,” said Pang, emphasizing the importance of the discovery in the evolution of life on Earth.

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I’m with the love of my life – but I’m worried about his drug-taking 14-year-old daughter

February 20, 2021 by www.thesun.co.uk Leave a Comment

DEAR DEIDRE: I AM with the love of my life, who I met three years ago. I am 54 and he is 51.

The one fly in the ointment is his 14-year-old daughter. I like her, but she is going down a worrying path, smoking, drinking, taking drugs and staying out late.

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She asks her mum if she can stay here because her dad is a soft-touch. When she is here, she stays out all night and he doesn’t say a word.

She has now asked for a key so she can drop in as she pleases. She already turns up at all hours but at least she has to knock on the door.

Her mum doesn’t want her to have a key but her dad never says no. I don’t want to come between my fiancé and his daughter but don’t my feelings count?

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