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Jedi in Highgate

My wife brought to my attention about what she saw on the BBC News yesterday Friday, 5th of December, 2014. The bizarre incident occurred at 9.45pm on the 11th of September, 2014 at a shop in Highgate, London. The CCTV show the shopper keeper Mr Aftab Haider, 56 going about his normal business what seems to be stocking up his wares. Then a man who looked Eastern European, wearing a black bomber jacket entered his shop. The gentleman tapped Mr Haider on his right upper arm as he passed him and waited at the end of corridor. The CCTV showed Mr Haider after reaching the end of the corridor turned back and go to meet the gentleman. The man began talking to Mr Haider and touching Mr Haider abdomen and shoulder and after doing was seemed to be miming the gesture of a pregnant woman’s belly he began emptying the contents of the shopkeeper’s pockets. As another customer entered the shop, he used Mr Haider body to expertly block from the view of the new customer

World AIDS Day

Celebrated on 1st December (World AIDS Day) , we marked it some days before on Saturday 29th November, 2014 with a presentation by one of our church members who is an expert in that field. She captured our attention by us asking a few simple questions about AIDS its transmission and different scenarios or situations that we might find ourselves in. I was lucky in that I had attended a presentation some years earlier by our Prof, my former room mate (Prof Shina Oladokun of UCH Ibadan) on its transmission in pregnancy and I was able to get most her questions right. The Prof told us that although the virus was in the breast milk and could spread to the child, so they would start the child on anti-retroviral therapy (although the child was HIV negative) during the time the baby was receiving breast milk it where it acted as prophylaxis therapy. Our Prof also mention because of the cultural stigma, attached to AIDS they had various techniques to discretely treat the wo