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Former CDC director slams gain-of-function research: ‘Probably caused the greatest pandemic’ in history –‘I think it probably caused the greatest pandemic our world has seen,’ Redfield said. | 8 March 2023 | Former Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) director Robert Redfield, a virologist, slammed gain-of-function research as not worth the risk during the House’s hearing on the origins of COVID-19. Redfield appeared in a Wednesday panel in front of the House COVID origins select committee, where he blasted the controversial research method… “No, on the contrary, I think it probably caused the greatest pandemic our world has seen,” Redfield told committee chairman Brad Wenstrup, R-Ohio, who asked if gain-of-function research has ever stopped a pandemic… The former CDC director also said that he “absolutely” believes the Wuhan Institute of Virology was engaging in gain-of-function research. Redfield also said during the hearing that he told former National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Director Dr. Anthony Fauci in 2020 that he did not believe natural spillover — the virus traveling from animals or plants to humans — was “scientifically plausible” with the origins of COVID-19 and was excommunicated from talks on the virus.
Former NIH Director Francis Collins Emails Reveal British Physicians and Scientists Group Recommended Ivermectin for Prevention and Treatment of COVID-19 – Judicial Watch | 6 March 2023 | Judicial Watch announced today that it received 254 pages of records from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) this included emails of then-Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Francis Collins regarding a British group’s recommendations on the use of Ivermectin to prevent and treat COVID-19. Judicial Watch obtained the records as the result of an August 2021 Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit for Collins’ emails filed after the HHS failed to respond to a June 8, 2021, FOIA request (Judicial Watch v U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (No. 1:21-cv-02302)). In February 2021, a leading British physician and World Council for Health co-founder Dr. Tess Lawrie, who is director and founder of a doctors’ organization called the British Ivermectin Recommendation Development Group (BIRD), emailed 31 Food and Drug Administration (FDA) officials, including the Director of the Office of New Drugs in the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research Peter Stein; Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research Director Peter Marks; and then-Acting FDA Commissioner Janet Woodcock; and copying several leading foreign medical figures, with an email titled “URGENT: The BIRD meeting and recommendation on covid-19 prevention and treatment.”
Excess deaths in Australia off the charts following covid ‘vaccines’ – highest in 80 years | 9 March 2023 | One of the most “fully vaccinated” countries in the world for the Wuhan coronavirus (Covid-19) has now earned the title of also being the sickest and most death-prone society in the world. That country is Australia, which now has an excess mortality rate that is greater than that of any other country in the world over the last 80 years – and by a long-shot. Australia [had] an extra 174,000 deaths in 2022, which is 12 percent higher than what was predicted by the experts. According to data from the Actuaries Institute, Australia’s excess death increase is the most substantial ever in recorded history.
Mother Sues D.C. Doctor Who Gave Kids COVID Vaccines Without Consent –The suit, filed by D.C. Attorney Matthew Hardin, seeks damages for false imprisonment, battery and fraud. | 6 March 2023 | The mother of two children who were given COVID-19 vaccines without the mother’s consent is suing the doctor who administered the vaccines. An attorney representing NaTonya McNeil last week filed a lawsuit in Superior Court for the District of Columbia against Janine A. Rethy, M.D., M.P.H. According to the complaint, on Sept. 2, 2022, McNeil took her two older children, ages 15 and 17, to the KIDS Mobile Medical Clinic/Ronald McDonald Care Mobile clinic, operated by Georgetown Hospital, to complete their required annual physical exam for the 2022-2023 school year. The lawsuit alleges Rethy, director of the mobile clinic, held the children in the examination room longer than necessary for a regular check-up and vaccinated them against COVID-19 over their objections and without consulting their mother… Both children were upset and angry they had been coerced into vaccination, the complaint says.
DeSantis urges Biden to allow Novak Djokovic to compete in Miami Open, wonders if he can enter U.S. via boat | 7 March 2023 | Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis called on Joe Biden to allow tennis superstar Novak Djokovic into the United States to play in the upcoming Miami Open even though he’s unvaccinated against COVID-19. In a letter obtained by Fox News Digital, DeSantis urged Biden to “put pandemic politics aside and give the American people what they want – let him play.” DeSantis wrote that Djokovic’s denial to enter the U.S. is “unfair, unscientific and unacceptable.” DeSantis wondered whether Djokovic could potentially enter the U.S. by boat. “It is also not clear to me why, even by the terms of your own proclamation, Mr. Djokovic could not legally enter this county via boat,” DeSantis wrote, citing a proclamation that barred noncitizens from entering the U.S. via the air. “Please confirm no later than Friday, March 10, 2023, that this method of travel into Florida would be permissible. Furthermore, even as you enacted a Proclamation on air travel that remains in force to this day, your administration pointedly allowed thousands of unvaccinated migrants to enter our country through the southern border,” the letter adds.
Washington state AG wants to criminalize speech by barring any dissent against vaccine mandates, election outcomes | 8 March 2023 | Washington state Attorney General Bob Ferguson (D) is being accused of devising an illegal and alarming scheme to redefine domestic terrorism that targets speech and could lead to the arrest or involuntary commitment of conservatives for expressing objection mainstream positions. Ferguson has taken the position that certain conservative viewpoints, or any information it deems as “misinformation,” constitute examples of “domestic extremism.” Furthermore, Ferguson has expressed a desire to establish a Washington-based equivalent of the Ministry of Truth, which would finance journalists to promote his political agenda, according to KTTH talk host Jason Rantz. “HB 1333 would create a left-wing Domestic Violent Extremism Commission in the AG’s office. The members are asked to recommend legislative ‘solutions to combat disinformation and misinformation, address early signs of radicalization, and develop a public health-style response.’ But this isn’t a ‘public health’ issue, or it would be housed in the Department of Health. It’s intended to legally penalize, or legally commit, political adversaries.”
Democratic-backed bill would force parents take vaccine education course before opting out of school mandates –Pennsylvania Senate bill requires religious or moral student vaccine exemptions be approved by a medical professional first | 9 March 2023 | Pennsylvania Democrats are facing backlash after proposing a bill that would require parents seeking a school vaccine exemption to complete an approved vaccine education course first. If passed, Senate Bill 390 would mandate parents seeking vaccine mandate exemptions for their children on religious or moral grounds to review “scientifically accepted information prescribed by the Department of Health on the benefits and risks of immunization” and submit a form certified by a medical professional… Keystone mom Megan Brock argued the change in policy is an “attack” on both parental rights and the critical First Amendment right the U.S. was founded upon – freedom of religion.
Rep. Gaetz’s Resolution to Remove Troops From Syria Fails to Pass in the House as Majority of Both Parties Vote Against it | 9 March 2023 | Rep. Matt Gaetz’s (R-FL) resolution to remove troops from Syria within six months was shot down on Wednesday. The resolution to bring roughly 900 American troops stationed there failed with a 103-321 vote — as the majority in parties voted against it. Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene and Andy Biggs were among the most prominent and outspoken supporters of Gaetz’s proposal. According to a report from The Hill, “the resolution was supported by 56 Democrats and 47 Republicans, while 150 Democrats and 171 Republicans voted against the resolution.” In a case of strange bedfellows, the resolution not only had support from America First lawmakers, but the Congressional Progressive Caucus as well.
CIA Warned Germany About Nord Stream Attack Months Before It Happened – Report | 8 March 2023 | The Nord Stream pipelines connect Russia to Germany, and while the Nord Stream 2 Pipeline was never activated – prior to Russia’s special operation in Ukraine – the Nord Stream 1 pipeline provided billions of cubic meters of natural gas to Europe. Both pipelines were destroyed on September 26, 2022. The CIA reportedly warned its German counterpart, the Bundesnachrichtendienst, better known as BND, about a potential attack on the Nord Stream pipelines months before an attack was carried out in late 2022. Citing anonymous intelligence officials, the Wall Street Journal, reported that the warnings were sent by the CIA in June and July of 2022, months before the pipeline exploded in an apparent sabotage in September.
Moscow condemns ‘Nazi celebration’ at White House –The US has bestowed a prestigious award on a female member of an ultra-nationalist Ukrainian battalion | 9 March 2023 | The decision by the White House to bestow an International Women of Courage Award on a member of an infamous far-right Ukrainian nationalist battalion is “disgraceful,” Moscow’s ambassador to the US, Anatoly Antonov, said on Thursday. He claimed that the move was further evidence that Washington is ready to support Nazis in the fight against Russia. Speaking to reporters, Antonov was asked to comment on the award received at the White House by Yulia Paevskaya, who goes by the nickname “Taira.” The ambassador said Moscow had noted the honoring of a member of the Azov battalion, a Ukrainian unit closely associated with neo-Nazi ideology, on International Women’s Day.
JPMorgan must hand over CEO Dimon’s records in Jeffrey Epstein lawsuit –Epstein had been a JPMorgan client from 2000 to 2013. | 9 March 2023 | A U.S. judge on Thursday ordered JPMorgan Chase & Co to hand over more documents concerning Chief Executive Jamie Dimon to the U.S. Virgin Islands for the territory’s lawsuit accusing the bank of aiding in Jeffrey Epstein’s sex trafficking. U.S. District Judge Jed Rakoff in Manhattan said the bank must turn over requested documents from 2015 to 2019, a period after JPMorgan had dropped Epstein as a client. Rakoff did not explain his reasoning in his one-sentence order. The U.S. Virgin Islands is seeking damages from JPMorgan for allegedly aiding in Epstein’s sex trafficking by keeping him as a client, and missing red flags about his misconduct on Little St. James, a private island he owned.
Biden Regime Retaliates Against Elon Musk, Demands He ‘Identify All Journalists’ Given Access to Twitter Files | 7 March 2023 | In a major attack on the First Amendment, the Biden regime is now demanding Elon Musk explain why he gave journalists access to the “Twitter Files.” Biden’s FTC retaliated against Elon Musk and demanded he provide the names of the journalists and other documents protected by the First Amendment. The FTC wants to put Elon Musk under oath. The Wall Street Journal reported: “The Federal Trade Commission has demanded Twitter Inc. turn over internal communications related to owner Elon Musk, as well as detailed information about layoffs–citing concerns that staff reductions could compromise the company’s ability to protect users, documents viewed by the Wall Street Journal show. In 12 letters sent to Twitter and its lawyers since Mr. Musk’s Oct. 27 takeover, the FTC also asked the company to ‘identify all journalists’ granted access to company records and to provide information about the launch of the revamped Twitter Blue subscription service, the documents show.”
Schumer Calls on Fox News to Stop Tucker Carlson From Airing More Jan. 6 Footage | 7 March 2023 | The U.S. Senate’s top DemocRAT on March 7 called on Fox News to stop host Tucker Carlson from airing additional, never-disclosed footage from Jan. 6, 2021. “I don’t think I’ve ever seen a primetime cable news anchor manipulate his viewers the way Mr. Carlson did last night. I don’t think I’ve ever seen an anchor treat the American people and American democracy with such disdain,” Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) said on the Senate floor in Washington. “And he’s going to come back tonight with another segment. Fox News should tell him not to.” Fox News and Fox Corporation Chairman Rupert Murdoch “must order Tucker Carlson to stop,” Schumer added in a written statement. [LOL! Stuff it, traitor!] Carlson on Monday aired footage showing U.S. Capitol Police officers walking around with Jacob Chansley, a Jan. 6 defendant serving time in prison after pleading guilty. Another clip showed Capitol Police officer Brian Sicknick inside the Capitol Rotunda after he clashed with people outside the building.
Capitol Police Served as ‘Tour Guides’ for ‘QAnon Shaman’ on Jan. 6 – Tucker Carlson –“Capitol Police officers take him to multiple entrances and even try to open locked doors for him. We counted at least nine officers who are within touching distance of unarmed Jacob Chansley.” | 7 March 2023 | The face of the Jan. 6 incursion–the so-called “QAnon Shaman,” Jacob Chansley–was peacefully escorted around the U.S. Capitol by police on Jan. 6, Fox News host Tucker Carlson alleged on March 6 in his first special based on exclusive access to 41,000 previously unseen hours of Capitol security video. Carlson showed CCTV security video of Chansley walking calmly through the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. Not only did the police not try to stop Chansley, they escorted him, Carlson said. “Virtually every moment of his time inside the Capitol was caught on tape,” Carlson told his national television audience. “The tape shows that Capitol Police never stopped Jacob Chansley. They helped him. They acted as his tour guides. Capitol Police officers take him to multiple entrances and even try to open locked doors for him,” Carlson said.
Jan. 6 footage shows Capitol cops escorting ‘QAnon Shaman’ to Senate floor | 6 March 2023 | Newly revealed surveillance footage from Jan. 6, 2021, shows two Capitol Police officers escorting Jacob Chansley, the behorned so-called “QAnon Shaman” who has come to symbolize the riot, through the halls of the Capitol and to the very door of the US Senate. The footage aired on Tucker Carlson’s Fox News show Monday night shows the officers closely following Chansley as he wanders the corridors of the Capitol, bare-chested and wearing face paint and a luxuriant fur hat with Viking horns. “Virtually every moment of his time inside the Capitol was caught on tape,” says Carlson, who was granted exclusive access by House Speaker Kevin McCarthy to 40,000 hours of surveillance footage from that day inside and around the Capitol, which has never been seen before by the public. “The tapes show the Capitol Police never stopped Jacob Chansley. They helped him. They acted as his tour guides.”
UK woman arrested a second time for ‘offense’ of silently praying outside abortion clinic: ‘This isn’t 1984’ –A pro-life activist arrested for the second time only weeks after the court cleared her of criminal charges for silently praying near an abortion facility | 7 March 2023 | A pro-life activist was arrested for the second time Tuesday for the “offense” of silently praying in her head near an abortion facility in a so-called censorship or “buffer zone” in Birmingham, England. Isabel Vaughan-Spruce’s arrest comes only weeks after the court cleared her of criminal charges for breaking a Public Spaces Protection Order (PSPO) which enforces a censorship zone around the abortion facility, according to an Alliance Defending Freedom UK press release. Bail conditions for Vaughan-Spruce prohibit her from entering the vicinity of the abortion facility which extends beyond the “buffer zone.” [Michael Rectenwald, Ph.D., scholar of nineteenth-century British Secularism: “It’s clear that abortion is a sacrament in the New World Order, that a new inverted blasphemy law is in effect, and a war on belief is being conducted by the architects of the regime.”]
Mitch McConnell being treated for concussion after fall –McConnell to remain in hospital “for a few days” | 9 March 2023 | Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., is being treated for a concussion after his fall at a hotel in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday night, his spokesman said. McConnell, 81, is expected to remain in the hospital “for a few days” as he receives treatment for injuries sustained by his fall. The Kentucky Senator was attending an evening dinner for the Senate Leadership Fund, a political action committee aligned with him, when he tripped and fell, his office said. The dinner was at the Waldorf Astoria Washington DC, formerly the Trump International Hotel, Washington, D.C. “Leader McConnell tripped at a dinner event Wednesday evening and has been admitted to the hospital and is being treated for a concussion. He is expected to remain in the hospital for a few days of observation and treatment,” said David Popp, McConnell’s communications director, in an update on Thursday.
Norfolk Southern train derails in Alabama just before CEO testifies –Alabama county officials say 30 Norfolk Southern train cars derailed| 9 March 2023 | Hours before Norfolk Southern CEO Alan Shaw appeared before Congress on Thursday, another of the rail operator’s trains derailed in Alabama. Around 30 train cars came off the tracks in Calhoun County, according to the Calhoun County Emergency Management Agency. “There are no injuries and no reports of leaks of hazmat also, we have no road blockages,” it said in a Facebook post. Norfolk Southern told FOX Business in an emailed statement that the incident occurred in Piedmont.
Train crashes into dump truck in Ohio, Norfolk Southern employee killed | 7 March 2023 | A Norfolk Southern employee was killed when a train collided with a dump truck in Cleveland, Ohio, early Tuesday morning. The railroad worker, identified as a conductor, was killed in the collision on a set of tracks that runs through the Cleveland Cliffs Cleveland Works steel plant property on West 3rd Street, according to reports. This is the state’s most recent railroad incident. Over the weekend, a Norfolk Southern train was derailed in Springfield.
CSX train derailed by West Virginia rock slide, causing diesel fuel spill –Officials say 3 injured in CSX train derailment near Sandstone, West Virginia, prompting New River cleanup | 8 March 2023 | Transport company CSX says one of its empty coal trains has derailed Wednesday after striking a rock slide in West Virginia, causing a fire and spillage of an “unknown quantity of diesel fuel and oil” from its locomotives. The incident happened just before 5 a.m, in what state officials described as a “somewhat remote” area south of Sandstone, inside the New River National Park and Preserve. “The derailment injured three crew members, caused parts of the train to catch fire, and sent at least one locomotive and one fuel tank into the New River,” the West Virginia Emergency Management Division said in a statement, adding that public water systems downstream and local health departments have been notified.
Big Oil Pocketed $290 Billion in Profits Last Year Through ‘Unabated Price Gouging’ of U.S. Consumers | 7 March 2023 | An analysis published Monday by the watchdog Accountable.US revealed that the biggest oil companies operating in the U.S. raked in a collective 290 billion in profits last year while they “consistently prioritized shareholder returns over alleviating the pressure of high energy prices.” According to the report — which analyzed 26 oil companies doing business in the U.S. — the 290 billion in collective 2022 Big Oil profits marked a 126% increase from the previous year.
UK school blasted for replacing girls’ bathroom mirrors with ‘provocative’ posters: ‘Very medieval’ | 7 March 2023 | A school in Worcester, England, has come under fire for replacing mirrors in the girls’ bathroom with “motivational” posters featuring messages about beauty. The head teacher of Christopher Whitehead Language College had mirrors replaced with quotes like, “Beauty is nothing without brains” and “Dear girls, Makeup is a harmful drug. Once you start using it, you’ll feel ugly without it.” “If all girls started wearing no makeup and comfortable clothes, guys would have no choice but to fall for girls because of natural beauty,” another poster read. The posters peeved parents who argued the signs were sending the wrong message… Journalist Ateh Jewel argued on Britain’s This Morning in response to the school controversy: “Makeup is not the problem. Makeup is about expressing yourself, being joyful…Those slogans are very medieval about attracting a mate. Makeup and beauty and wellness is about the inside out.”
Southern Poverty Law Center lawyer arrested, charged with domestic terrorism amid Atlanta ‘Cop City’ attack | 6 March 2023 | A lawyer for the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) was arrested and charged with domestic terrorism over the violence that broke out in Atlanta on Sunday in relation to protests of a planned training facility for police officers in the city, the SPLC has confirmed. “An employee at the SPLC was arrested while acting — and identifying — as a legal observer on behalf of the National Lawyers Guild (NLG). The employee is an experienced legal observer, and their arrest is not evidence of any crime, but of heavy-handed law enforcement intervention against protesters,” the SPLC said in a statement on Monday. Thomas Webb Jurgens was among the list of 23 suspected domestic terrorists released by the Atlanta Police Department on Monday. Violence broke out in Atlanta on Sunday after protesters of a planned police training facility hurled bricks and Molotov cocktails at officers and set cars on fire.
AOC begged to go to exclusive Met Gala, even if it meant breaking the rules By Nicole Gelinas | 5 March 2023 | Courtesy of an ongoing congressional ethics investigation into Bronx Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, we now know the trick to socialism: Don’t pay for stuff. When AOC marched up the Met Museum steps in her famous dress 18 months ago, the slogan in red painted on the back, instead of reading “TAX THE RICH,” should have read “STIFF THE PROLETARIAT.” …So AOC came by the biggest part of her Met Gala grift the old-fashioned way: trading off the elected position with which Bronx and Queens voters entrusted her. AOC snagged two free tickets (after much prodding by her campaign staffer) by cozying up to Vogue’s Anna Wintour, who runs this show for the Met. AOC’s written invitation specifically informed her that she and her boyfriend were “guests of Vogue.” …Even with these heavy discounts, AOC tried to weasel out of paying this vendor, and multiple other hard-working New York City small-business people. “It appears several thousands of dollars’ worth of services may have remained unpaid absent the [Office of Congressional Ethics] initiating this review,” investigators have found (so far).
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First Love. Forever Love…?
International business mogul Rafael Morretti has his pick of the world's most desirable women. But the all-work, no-play bachelor can't forget the one who got away. Fifteen years ago, Paris St. Clair was his college sweetheart. Now a destination wedding in Venice has reunited him with the vivacious beauty. And he will stop at nothing to win her back.
Busy building her financial career, Paris is still haunted by the one who got away. Maybe meeting Rafael again in The Floating City is a sign that their love is meant to be. As passions collide and they give in to desire at a private villa, will a sudden web of blackmail destroy Rafael's good name and sabotage their precious second chance?
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Read information about the authorMy love for reading developed at an early age. My parents, Daniel and Gwendolyn Odidison, were both avid readers and encouraged me to read as much as possible. Trips to the public library were the highlight of my week and by the time I was in junior high I was reading everything from biographies to suspense to True Confession magazines!
I got my big “break” when I was only fourteen-years-old. I read my first poem at my local church and received a standing ovation. Reading my poems and seeing my plays come to life on stage proved to me that I had a God-given talent for the written word.
After graduating with a Bachelor’s Degree in Christian Education, I hugged my family goodbye and boarded a plane for Seoul, South Korea. I loved every minute of living in Seoul. The people, the food, the culture, the shopping. Three years later, I returned home with a fresh outlook on life and a gorgeous fiancé (yay me!) Jean-Claude and I married, settled into our new home and now have an adorable, three-year-old daughter named Aysiah who keeps us very busy.
I penned my first novella while teaching in South Korea and upon the advice of a good friend and colleague I transformed, Other People’s Business, into a full-length novel. I wrote The Trouble With Luv’ soon after. Two years and thirty rejection letters later, I signed with super-agent Sha-Shana Crichton from Crichton and Associates. Six weeks later I had a two-book deal contract with Harlequin’s African-American Romance line, Kimani Press.
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The non-fungible token space (NFT) has grown exponentially over the last year or two – moving to public awareness, which has led to widespread mainstream adoption. Assets that were at best thought of as fringe symbols have apparently become a cornerstone of the digital economy, and are sold for large numbers and receive support from major celebrities around the world.
The revolution we have seen with NFTs has truly been a marvel. NFTs have been adopted even faster than cryptocurrencies were – and are at the back of cryptocurrency technology to become what they are today. Now that these tokens are a global phenomenon, everyone is looking to create them to share a passion or as an incentive for revenue generation.
Related: 3 ways entrepreneurs can expand their financial portfolio with the help of NFTs
As we have now seen, NFTs have also infiltrated the game area. Following the success of Axie Infinity, Decentraland and other platforms, game developers can see that NFTs provide a great way to monetize and monetize the hype surrounding their games. And as expected, many of them have jumped on the bandwagon and are now using NFTs on their gaming platforms.
The results have been mixed, with some developers having seen impressive success while others have been relative duds. In all lessons, one thing is the same – before you expand NFT features, you need to have a reliable and attractive platform that draws people in. Let’s discuss how NFTs have revolutionized the gaming industry and
whether building a native NFT gaming marketplace is necessarily the right move.
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How NFTS has revolutionized gaming
NFT games are one of the fastest growing subsections of the entire NFT site. Sales of these assets have increased significantly and are expected to be in the billion region by 2025.
The appeal of NFTs in gaming is quite clear: the Play-to-earn model has completely swept the landscape, rewarding players with gaming and financial incentives. The play to earn model has made gaming more attractive to players. Now it’s possible to make money while playing your favorite games.
With NFTs, players can easily own assets in these games and exchange them for fiat money. The model is much better than traditional games, which contained assets just on the platforms, where players could exchange them for digital coins that had no fiat value.
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Take, for example, Axie Infinity. Players battle Axies – or rather, digital pets – as they grow and breed. The rules are simple: When you beat someone else’s Axie, it belongs to you. Each Axie is an NFT and you can sell it for fiat currency on the Axie market.
The latter marks a shift in how most NFT creators traditionally sell their tokens: in regular NFT marketplaces. Of course, this is not to say that regular marketplaces have become less attractive. With support across chains coming to marketplaces such as myNFT, the landscape for NFT marketplaces is also growing.
But despite the growth in earnings opportunities, NFTs also provide additional benefits for gaming enthusiasts. Some of them include:
Accessories: In gaming, it is also important to use accessories. Several games allow their players to customize armor and weapons, but games are now developing these accessories as NFTs that players can purchase and use directly.
Possible meta access: With games seeking to create expanded universes, NFTs are expected to play a larger role in this future. The metaverse space is beginning for now, but there is a lot of potential for growth.
Related: How NFTs drive brand engagement and opportunities
Game Developers: Building a Marketplace or Not?
Right now, there is no doubt that NFTs will be a big part of the game of the future. And if you are an upcoming developer, being able to connect to this will help you achieve optimal growth.
However, there is one key question to keep in mind: Are you building an NFT marketplace or not?
Having a custom NFT marketplace allows you to own all of the game’s assets, making it even more compelling for your players to stay in the game. One of the biggest reasons why Axie Infinity became so popular was that it managed to build an economy with its NFTs. By using the Axie marketplace, players sell their Axier and other digital collectibles directly – all without having to leave the game.
As a game developer, you also have the opportunity to build a marketplace directly, which allows players to buy and sell their NFTs in the game. That said, you should also consider the risk. Unless your platform has reached a turning point where it attracts users, this may not be a sensible decision.
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Advantages and disadvantages
Today we have an incredible number of NFT marketplaces available. With the industry still fragmented, many of these marketplaces are built on specific blockchains – which mainly limits their access to NFTs on other chains. However, future-oriented developers can also build on myNFT – an all-encompassing, multi-chain NFT marketplace that supports multiple blockchain tokens and introduces an interesting new auction mechanism to the industry known as GBM.
As a game developer, there are many benefits to building on these existing marketplaces. First, they offer affordable options to own your marketplace directly. You do not have to pay that much to maintain a marketplace, and the only cost you will need to consider will be to keep your tokens listed.
At the same time, you should remember that having your own NFT marketplace only puts more pressure on you to ensure liquidity. People want to get to your marketplace, sell their tokens and get paid as quickly as possible. As an early gaming platform, this may not be possible for you at the moment. However, leveraging the liquidity of these established marketplaces will help you achieve better financial viability, thus increasing the appeal of your game even more.
So you may want to wait until your platform reaches top speed and has built up a significant user base before introducing a native NFT marketplace.

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Back in the heady days of 2006, Thursdays were my favourite days of the week. Why? Because that was the day when I could waste the first couple hours of work talking with my coworkers about what happened on LOST the night before. We would talk about what Ben might be up to, where the island might be, if the Casimir effect was real, and if the writers actually had an idea of where they were taking the show. It was a wild west of theories and suppositions and eventual disenchantment, as it became more and more obvious that the immersive, fascinating, character-focused show it began as became a mythology driven, mystery centric cluster fuck. It spawned a generation of imitators, none of which gained any substantial success, and the subgenre of mystery based arc heavy television died a worth death as Peak TV was beginning to gain traction. Except for Westworld, which feels very much a fragment of the past, dug up, dusted off and intended to amaze and captivate us like in olden times (again, a decade ago).
The problem with Westworld is the problem that faced all those original LOST clones, and eventually led to the downfall of LOST as well (and became the millstone around the necks of other series of the time, like Battlestar Galactica). When the focus is on trying to build a mystery, to look smart in front of your viewers (or worse yet, to try to be smarter than your viewers), and you forget about building sympathetic characters into your world of wonder and suspense, then it is impossible for the audience to care about what is happening. An audience doesn’t buy into a mystery, they buy into the repercussions and the consequences of the mystery on the characters involved. Hiding behind excuses like “it’s all leading somewhere” are hollow. One, because that is a cop out, and lazy. And two, because you are then obligated to actually lead the audience somewhere worth going. Without a character to invest in, to sympathize with, to empathize with, then what is the point. Which is something I found myself shouting at my screen often throughout this frustrating ten episode run.
I’m going to take a moment here, and make an admission and a recommendation. First, the admission: I gave up on Westworld three episodes in. The episodes were overly long, dull, and I was engaged with the characters in no way. I felt that way half way through episode one in fact, but I gave the show a chance. Then abandoned it. As the finale approached, I binged through the remains, wasting the better part of a day catching up, time I absolutely feel I wasted. It was not worth the time. Now, the recommendation: go watch Ex Machina. If you enjoyed Westworld, thought it was brilliant, thought the characters were interesting and you were sucked into the mystery of the story, watch Ex Machina. You’ll realize pretty much immediately that you were wrong about Westworld. If you haven’t watched Westworld, don’t bother. Go watch Ex Machina. Alex Garland’s film covered all the same bases that Westworld did, but did it with more tension and sorrow and genuine mystery and delight. It covered the same philosophical bases (which, in the robot genre, are well trod tropes), but remained consistent throughout and actually had something to add to the conversation rather than just tried to look like the cleverest kid in the class. Ex Machina told Westworld’s story better in one fifth the time, and with only four characters, as opposed to the urban sprawl of Westworld’s cast. At the end of Ex Machina, you will be emotionally exhausted and properly disturbed. At the end of Westworld, you are left wondering what you could have spent 10.5 hours doing better (the answer is literally anything).
Westworld is a lot of things, and none of them subtle. First of all, it is a most blatant Game of Thrones copy. HBO, J.J. Abrams and Jonathan Nolan should all feel ashamed at how transparent they have constructed not a clone of the fantasy series, but a clone of the format of the series. Ridiculous sets, huge cast of characters, obscene amounts of money spent on making everything look as perfect as possible, hiring big stars to draw in the accolades. On paper, this is standard business practice. Take what works, change it slightly, and people will bask in the familiar. But if Westworld was meant to be the Pepsi to Game of Thrones’ Coke, it actually ended up being New Coke. Or, to use a more cinematic metaphor, Westworld is the Suicide Squad to Game of Throne’s Guardians of the Galaxy. I will take this moment to clarify that many of the same problems that sink Westworld are the same that have dragged Game of Thrones down these last two seasons, which makes me suspect that there is something rotten in the state of HBO, and that cost and spectacle are more than ever driving the creative side of things, to the extreme detriment of quality. But from word one, Westworld is meant to be the heir apparent for Game of Thrones. It isn’t even a pale shadow of Thrones’ in its prime. Westworld is a mess of intention, signified by the fact that from beginning to end, I was never actually sure what anyone was working towards. Part of me wonders if the mystery element wasn’t meant to be there, but that the writers just kept things so vague as to suggest a mystery element when really it was just their indecisive narrative. But J.J. Abrams is involved, so the mystery is obviously purposeful. It’s just crap. What isn’t blatantly obvious is only obscure because of the incompetency of the writing, which the audience confuses for intent.
Is Westworld a discussion on the concept of self? Of consciousness? Of free will, and what qualifies as a state of being? Is it the story of self-discovery? Is it a metaphor for the creative process? The answer is yes, it is all of those things. It is none of those things well, and it is on none of those subjects groundbreaking. I don’t expect a revelation of philosophy from every robot-cowboy TV show I watch, but I do expect that when a show steps up with these lofty and introspective concepts at the fore, that they actually have something to say about them, or at least a clever take on these ideas that doesn’t feel tired and recycled. Hiding it under a layer of leather and caked on dust doesn’t distract from the fact that the show flounders in its very purpose, to tell a good story in an interesting way. The crux of this failure is the fact that the story is filled with characters that are redundant, pointless or expendable. It is presented as an ensemble, but the ensemble is disassembled. The journeys of Delores, or the Man in Black, or Ford, or Maeve might have all made for interesting watching if they had been focused, intentful and engaging. Instead, they were stilted, unable to progress at a natural pace (held back for fear of getting too far ahead of whatever Clever Reveal was approaching next).
The characters were under the whip of generating cliffhangers and a-ha moments, the mystery dictating the pace which left the characters abandoned in repetition or irrelevance. How many times was it necessary to have Ford and Bernard talk about Bernard’s son’s death? More to the point, why was there a different purpose for said death every time they had that conversation? What was the point of Teddy Flood, a character who could be removed entirely from the series to zero effect, other than the absence of some false motivation? Even the two most progressed characters, Delores and Maeve, feel like they should have been the same character at either ends of their journey. As it stands, both are truncated and are now beyond the point of evolution. Most of the characters lacked any progress at all, perhaps a statement about the nature of the park, with these characters endlessly repeating the same narrative over and over, and unable to move beyond it. I don’t give this show that much credit though. There is no meta-notion about the nature of storytelling at play. It’s just wheel spin.
I think the downfall of the show is the attempt to be all things at once. Maybe it was the fear that this would be the only chance they had, and wanted to cram in as much of the story as they could. This would explain why Delores and Maeve feel like two halves to a single whole. Or why there are multiple timeframes in play throughout. But fear of not being able to tell enough story resulted in them not telling much of any story. Had they concentrated on the Man in Black’s journey, allowing the world of the park to unfold at the feet of a villainous protagonist, that approach certainly would have been different and defusing and interesting. Likewise, if they had simply created an audience surrogate (as I expected both Teddy and William to be), and let them get swept up in the narrative of the park, and allow the audience to experience the chaos as it occurs around them would have been a much deeper well of tension and distress. The audience is naturally in as little control as the characters experiencing the failure, which is why something Jurassic Park (the more refined version of Michael Crichton’s original idea) works; in or out of the park, neither side can control what is going on. When Westworld constantly takes us out of the park, into the behind the scenes, all that we come to understand is that there is such a thing as complete control. Half the time, the “mystery” is just someone controlling things unexpectedly. In fact, pretty much every Grand Reveal was just that the person everyone expected to be in control at that moment wasn’t, and that it was someone else. Once, that might be interesting. After the dozenth time, it’s boring. The take away is that nothing that happens inside the park, or to any of the host characters, matters. It is all just filler. A death is just a reboot, a great display of emotion just a program, and a malfunction just something to be repaired. There is no emotional pull behind anything that happens to any of the robotic characters. And the human characters are as inflexible in their actions and reasoning as to be essentially robots. When you can’t care about what happens to half the narrative, and don’t care about the other, all you are left with is a hole in your Sunday night.

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Metro will hold an open house on Thursday to share a variety of proposed changes to the routing of express commuter bus routes through downtown. Officials with the Southwest Ohio Regional Transit Authority say that the re-routings simplify their operations and make the routes more easily understandable for riders.
There are some 14 express routes that have been identified for these changes. In many cases, the routes come into the downtown area one way in the morning, and depart a different way in the evening.
The express routes are those that primarily impact those commuting into the center city from outlying suburbs, so the meeting time has been scheduled during the middle of the workday so that those commuters can easily attend and provide feedback.
The proposed changes would greatly simplify many of the routes, thus allowing for some stops to be eliminated, while others are relocated. The end result should enable faster and more reliable operations through the center city.
The recommendations come as the region’s largest transit provider is working to both expand and reform existing operations in order to improve its bus service operations. It also comes at a time when Metro is gathering public feedback with regard to what kinds of improvements existing and would be transit riders would like to see made.
The open house will take place from 10am to 2pm on Thursday, November 5 in the boardroom of Metro’s main office, which is located on the 12th floor of 602 Main Street.
In addition to large posters of the proposed route changes, which are all made available at the end of this story, Metro’s planning staff will be on-hand to answer any related questions. Those unable to attend the open house in person are encouraged to email comments to firstname.lastname@example.org or submit comments through an online submission form. All comments received prior to 5pm on Thursday will become part of the official project record.
Following this public feedback period, transit planners will final revisions and begin putting together an implementation plan. Based on the current schedule, Metro officials believe the changes can be implemented by March 2016.
Just about a year ago, a new food delivery service entered the Cincinnati market. The idea behind it was one not uncommon in other larger urban centers around the country, but was new to the area.
While it can be simple to get sandwiches, pizza, or Chinese food delivered locally, that tends to be the limit of your options. But Robbie Sosna, who had lived Miami, New York City and Los Angeles after growing up in Blue Ash, knew the city could do better. So he launched Cincybite last December.
What Cincybite does is partner with area restaurants to deliver their regular menu items to hungry customers around the city. Sosna said they first started with just six restaurant partners and delivered only during dinner time in the center city. However, after a strong start, Cincybite quickly added lunch delivery options and added an additional seven restaurant partners within two weeks after their initial launch.
The early success of the business is yet another example of the retail services not keeping pace with the city’s population growth. While the age-old idea of ‘retail follows rooftops’ may still be true, technology is also now allowing some of that to be bypassed through innovative on-demand delivery services.
“In New York and LA there were restaurant delivery services, and I was surprised to find none existed in town,” Sosna explained. “The response has been phenomenal and I’m working hard to expand the service through the metro area.”
This is not his first foray into the food industry. In 2009, he purchased his first Freshii franchise in Los Angeles before ultimately moving those operations to Cincinnati and bringing the popular fresh food chain to the region in 2012.
Cincybite’s offices are located downtown and are currently staffed by six employees who are tracking all sorts of data and usage patterns. The data they are collecting, Sosna says, is what is helping them determine what other restaurants to approach, types of food to add, and which areas to expand to next.
One area that has not yet been officially added to Cincybite’s delivery area is the city’s west side neighborhoods, but they say it is only a matter of time, and drivers, before that happens. As for now, the focus remains on the region’s center city neighborhoods and many on the city’s east side and along the I-71 corridor.
“When looking at future areas of growth, my director of ops and I study our current sales data and customer feedback,” Sonsa explained. “We’re looking at strengthening our variety of restaurants in our current zones and planning our growth north.”
When asked where those next areas of operations might be, he said that they are looking at Kenwood, Madeira, Blue Ash, Montgomery and Indian Hill, but also clarified that Cincybite has unofficially also begun serving the west side.
Growing Cincybite’s delivery area and food options is just the beginning of the company’s overall growth plans. They have just launched a new service that offers delivery of basic grocery items and other incidentals like batteries, cleaning products, toiletries, over the counter medicine, baby food and supplies, and snacks. Likening the service to Amazon Fresh, Sosna says that he is working with a number of other businesses in order to add even more items.
“We’ve had conversations with local pet shops, butcher shops, dessert companies and a variety of other businesses looking to add additional revenue and awareness to their brand,” said Sosna. “There really is no limit for what Cincybite can offer Cincinnati, and we’re working hard to expand the delivery zones so everyone in the city can enjoy.”
Those who want to use the service merely need to register for an account and then shopping as would typically be done with any online retailer. The website also allows customers to select the date and time they would like to have their items delivered, and also allows for the user to pre-select an amount to tip the driver.
But one thing that was made clear was that none of this would be possible for Sosna without the resurgence taking place in Cincinnati. Had it not been for that, he said he may have stayed in Los Angeles instead of coming home.
“The commute back and forth for 2.5 years helped calm my nerves, but as I opened my Freshii location and began spending more time in the city, I realized a lot of progress had been made and the city was headed in the right direction,” Sosna told UrbanCincy.
“The approval of the streetcar, construction of The Banks, revival of OTR, food scene throughout the city, investment in tech with Brandery and Cintrifuse, and GE selecting Cincinnati for their future operations center were just a few of the reasons highlighting how great the city had improved and made the transition all the easier.”
The final two months of the year are often the make-or-break month for retailers. In some cases this relatively short time period can account for more than a third of a retailer’s annual revenues.
There is always much hype surrounding what specials the big retailers are offering on Black Friday, but there are also opportunities to support small, locally owned businesses this holiday shopping season.
What was previously known as Cincinnati Unchained will return this year as an expanded four-day event meant to encourage area shoppers to support locally owned shops, restaurants and bars. The BuyCincy Holiday Event will take place the week before Black Friday from Thursday, November 21 to Sunday, November 24.
Woodburn Avenue in East Walnut Hills. Photograph provided by 5chw4r7z.
According to Kurt Myers, co-founder and business director of BuyCincy, this will mark the seventh season for the event and that in previous years some merchants have reported that it ends up being their busiest day of the year.
There are more than 300 businesses participating in this year’s event, and that those shops are located in over 25 neighborhoods throughout the region. Organizers say that their goal is to generate new spending from over 35,000 customers, which would create an estimated economic impact of more than $500,000 with each shopper spending approximately $15.
“Supporting locally owned businesses has a three-and-a-half-times greater impact on the economy than shopping at a store that is not owned locally,” Myers explained. “Plus you get to support your friends and neighbors businesses and keep Cincinnati unique.”
In order to help encourage local shoppers to participate in the event, the Greater Cincinnati Independent Business Alliance (CiNBA) is working with retailers to offer raffle prizes. When customers visit a participating business they will receive a ticket to use in the raffle of thousands of dollars of prizes. To help further promote the effort, organizers are also encouraging people to use the #BuyCincy tag on social media.
A full list of the participating businesses and neighborhood business districts can be found at BuyCincy.com. Those businesses that are still interested in participating can do so by registering online and submitting a $25 minimum raffle donation.
If you want to support local businesses but are not quite sure about what to buy for that special someone, then you can also purchase them a Downtown Gift Card, which is redeemable at 180 stores and restaurants in Downtown and Over-the-Rhine, including all Findlay Market merchants. Those gift cards can be purchased online, at the offices for Downtown Cincinnati Inc., or at Findlay Market.


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My name is Robin. I’m an aspiring novelist with a weakness for lofty writing challenges. That’s why I will be participating in Milwordy 2020-2021, a challenge to write one million words in a single year!
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Twice Baked Walnut Bread
- 3 large eggs
- ¼ cup sugar
- 1 cup flour
- 125g or 1 ¼ cups walnuts
Preheat the oven to 160°C.
Line a loaf tin (approx 20cm x 10cm) with baking paper.
In a bowl, whisk together the eggs and sugar until well mixed. Fold in the flour and walnuts taking care not to over mix. Spread the mixture into the prepared loaf tin.
Bake for 45 minutes until lightly coloured. Cool on a wire rack.
Wrap the loaf in tinfoil and refrigerate over night.
Preheat the oven to 150°C. Using a sharp knife, cut the bred into very thin slices, about a quarter of a centimetre in thickness, and lay out on a baking tray lined with baking paper. You will need two trays.
Bake for 20-25 minutes until browned, watching them in the last 5 minutes as they burn easily. Cool on a wire rack. Store in an airtight container until needed.

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Friday, June 29, 2007
Raining and training
It's been raining in Texas in June seemingly all month.
In Fort Worth, the sewers are overflowing. Rarely does the weather occupy such a constant stream of news in North Texas.
For most of this week, many on our team took training indoors. Tomorrow morning, fingers crossed, we'll be able to pull off our regular Saturday morning outdoor training. This week's schedule has us riding 30 and 50 minutes for the Sprint and Olympic teams while the Half Ironman team completes its second Double Brick of the month. A brick combines two elements such as a run and a bike; a double brick, well, you guessed it - multiply that fun by two!
I hope to train with the Half Ironman team and do my best to keep up. They're a top notch group, with Mike Williams, endurance athlete in training, among them. Mike's done a great job of fundraising thus far - if you can help him hit his goal and support LLS, we'd all sure appreciate it!

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Fifty quarter-finalist communities across the country have been hard at work developing Community Revitalization Plans to jump-start their local economies and improve quality of life. Frontier Communications, DISH Network, CoBank and The Weather Channel, sponsors of the America’s Best Communities Prize Competition, have supported these quarter-finalists with $50,000 in seed money and assigned mentor partners as the communities compete to be America’s best and win $6 million in grand prizes.
“From business incubators and new social gathering places to workforce training and infrastructure improvements, this community-driven prize campaign has uncovered a wealth of innovative ideas that are revitalizing towns and cities across rural and suburban America,” said Frontier Communications Executive Chairman Maggie Wilderotter. “350 communities entered the contest and all of them are implementing improvements for a better quality of life. As the contest progresses, all ideas are shared with every community who has participated so everyone wins.”
In each of the quarter-finalist communities, local leaders have worked tirelessly to bring their neighbors together to support a collective vision and develop a strategy to deliver results. Yesterday the quarter-finalist communities submitted their best and final plans, which will be reviewed by a panel of independent expert judges. Fifteen communities will be selected as semi-finalists and will continue this journey by participating in the America’s Best Communities Summit in April 2016.
“The America’s Best Communities program has become a movement for positive change in the 50 towns and cities that are in the quarterfinals,” said DISH Network Executive Vice President and General Counsel R. Stanton Dodge. “By uniting business owners, elected officials, leaders and residents to achieve a common goal, these communities are taking active steps to define and invigorate their futures.”
“Rural America is a mainstay of the nation’s broader economy and an essential source of food and energy for the entire world,” said CoBank CEO Bob Engel. “But rural communities also face a host of issues, including demographic challenges, a shortage of quality jobs and aging infrastructure. Rural economic development is the answer to many of these problems, and we are delighted to see the exciting proposals that have been put forward through the America’s Best Communities program.”
“By tapping into the tenacity and resilience of our nation’s small towns and rural regions, America’s Best Communities has helped drive exciting progress in communities across the country,” said Dave Shull, CEO of The Weather Channel Television. “The competition has provided an infusion of investment and hope in communities that are often ignored.”
“One in six of us calls rural America home. These communities are the backbone of our country, but they’ve suffered from a host of challenges, from poverty to drug abuse,” said Vince Gill, the country music great who has served as a spokesperson for the competition. “America's Best Communities is an innovative way to inspire hope in rural America and provide a hand up, not a hand out. It will help our neighbors in small communities lift themselves up by their bootstraps and live their own American dream.”
In January 2016, up to 15 communities will be named semi-finalists and invited to attend the America’s Best Communities Summit, where they will present their revitalization plans. Eight communities will then be selected to receive $100,000 to implement their plans. The top three communities will be announced in 2017 and awarded a total of $6 million in grand prizes, with $3 million for the first-place community, $2 million for second and $1 million for third.

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Property developer Keppel Land has posted a 12.3-per cent rise in second quarter earnings compared to a year ago, supported by steady overseas sales offsetting a weaker Singapore residential market.
SINGAPORE: Property developer Keppel Land has posted a 12.3-per cent rise in second quarter earnings compared to a year ago.
Net profit for the three months ended June came in at S$107 million - supported by steady overseas sales offsetting a weaker Singapore residential market. Earnings from overseas jumped by some 28 per cent for the first half of this year, contributed mainly by China residential projects.
Meanwhile, revenue for the quarter declined by almost 8 per cent to about S$305 million.
Looking ahead, Keppel Land said it expects office rents in Singapore to grow, given low vacancy levels and limited new supply. However, it expects the residential market to remain challenging for the rest of the year, with home prices forecasted to moderate further.
"In Singapore, we expect the volume of home sales this year to be lower than last year, but demand for residential projects with strong marketing attributes and competitive pricing will continue to hold up. We are planning to launch for sale Highline Residences, which is located near Tiong Bahru MRT station," said Ang Wee Gee, CEO of Keppel Land.


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By : Saba Dewan
The other day while having lunch with old family friends I heard the very fascinating story of Renuka Devi aka Begum Khurshid Mirza. Born in 1918 in Aligarh she was the daughter of Sheikh Abdullah and Waheed Jahan Begum, founders of the Aligarh Women’s College established in 1906 to provide English based education to Muslim girls.They also edited a well known Urdu journal for women, ‘Khatun’.
Staunch votaries of social reform they gave their five daughters not only the best possible education available but also the freedom to make their life choices. Their eldest daughter, Rashid Jahan studied medicine to become a well respected doctor. A Communist she was also a well known Urdu writer and member of the Progressive Writers’ Movement.
Khurshid, younger to Rashid Jahan, charted a career in the performing arts. After an early marriage to a police officer she pursued acting in films as Renuka Devi. Post Partition she and her husband migrated to Pakistan. Here she made a name as an actor in television.
For more about her life and times do read ‘A Woman of Substance: The Memoirs of Begum Khurshid Mirza’ edited and compiled by Lubna Kazim. Published by Zubaan
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KATMANDU — A homemade bomb exploded outside a polling station in Nepal’s capital Tuesday, as sporadic violence cast a pall over national elections aimed at ending years of political deadlock. Three people were injured in the blast, including an 8-year-old boy who was seriously wounded.
Nepalis went to the polls to choose a special assembly to draw up a long-delayed constitution, a step toward stability in a nation still reeling from a 10-year communist revolt and the overthrow of a centuries-old monarchy.
Chief election commissioner Nil Kantha Upreti said voter turnout was more than 70 percent, the largest in the nation’s history.
But there are signs that the beleaguered Himalayan nation of 27 million could see more of the same dysfunction in coming months, a depressing prospect for citizens already struggling with daily power cuts, fuel shortages and poverty.
Opposition activists who do not recognize Nepal’s interim government vowed to disrupt the polls, and at least 30 people were wounded in small bomb blasts and other violence in the run-up to the election.
On Tuesday, a crude bomb went off after voters lined up to cast their ballots at a busy polling station in the heart of Katmandu, seriously wounding the boy, police official Hemant Pal said.
“This 8-year-old boy was playing with his friends in the neighborhood when he picked up the bomb, assuming it was something to play with,” Pal said.
The boy’s uncle, Uttam Shahi, told The Associated Press that the child was knocked unconscious and would likely lose several fingers.
Two women suffered minor injuries in the blast.
In Chamundu village, about 400 kilometers (250 miles) west of Katmandu, opposition activists stormed into a polling station and ripped up ballots, said Homnath Thapaliya, the chief government administrator in the area. He said police fired in the air and about a dozen voters suffered bruises as they tried to flee the scene.
The Election Commission said voting was halted in one village in the northeast and there were brief disruptions in four other places.
Candidates from more than 100 political parties competed in Tuesday’s vote. The assembly will double as the parliament and choose a government.
But analysts say none of the political parties is likely to get a majority, which could keep the country in a state of political paralysis.
“We can only hope that the politicians will come to their senses and put the country’s interest before their own,” said Ranju Singh, a university student who voted Tuesday.
The last Constituent Assembly was elected in 2008, following the end of a 10-year Maoist insurgency and the overthrow of the monarchy. But the assembly was riven by infighting and never finished its work.
The result is a power vacuum that has left Nepal without a proper constitution for nearly seven years.
Some of the political disagreements center on whether to divide the country into a federal system based on ethnic groups or strictly by geography. But the parties mostly squabble over who gets to lead the nation.
The United Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist), the party of the former communist rebels, is hoping to repeat the last election and emerge as the largest party. Its main competitors are the Nepali Congress and Communist Party of Nepal (United Marxist Leninist).
Nepal has 12 million registered voters.
Election official Upreti said vote counting would begin late Tuesday in some urban areas. First results would begin coming in Wednesday, he said.
“We expect the final results to take at a least week and a maximum of 10 days,” Upreti said.
Ballot boxes have to be collected from remote mountain villages, which will take time.

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Unmutual Reviews: Earl Cameron 90th Birthday Tribute.
Review by Brian Watson
On the evening on 10th September 2007, The Baha'i Community of Great Britain held a reception at their International Study Centre in Rutland Gate, Knightsbridge, London, to celebrate Earl Cameron's 90th birthday.
On behalf of The Unmutual Website, Rick Davy and Brian Watson attended, as did Tony Sloman and his son and other guests from the entertainment industry, as well as Earl's wife Barbara and other members of Earl's family, and friends and other representatives of the Baha'i faith.
Many tributes were paid to Earl for his work in a long career in which he had chosen only roles that showed black people in a positive and balanced way, avoiding any part that he felt unfairly stereotyped them into what he called "Uncle Tom's Cabin" people.
In a video presentation, excepts were shown from The Message, a film about the life of the prophet Mohammed in which Earl played Annajashi - the leader of the Christian community negotiating with the Muslims in the face of opposition from representatives of other faiths, and the James Bond film Thunderball that Earl made with his friend Sean Connery. In that, he was Pinder - an agent working with Bond.
The film excepts ended with Earl as the portrait painter in the recent film The Queen, discussing with Helen Mirren (as Queen Elizabeth II) the British electoral system!
The video tribute concluded with a heartfelt tribute to Earl from Sydney Poitier, and the presentation to Earl of a portrait of himself. It is one of a series that have been commissioned in recognition of his practical work towards mutual respect and understanding between peoples.
In all, it was a very moving yet upbeat affair to acknowledge the man and his life's work.
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[Music Album]: Tinuade – Adore. Diadem Multimedia International has released the much-awaited debut album titled “Adore” for fast-rising Gospel music minister, Tinuade.
The 13-track album contains previously released materials and dominantly new ones prayerfully written, composed, arranged and inspired by the Holy Spirit. Fan favourites such as “Amazing God,” “Who You Are” and “Maajo” make the cut.
Enlisting her trusted musical comrades – Dami Ayeni, Prince Vibes and Sunny Pee to handle production, Tinuade has created an album that has a classic feel to it, but also a refreshing sound and lyrics that will uplift and encourage in the unprecedented times we are living in.
The project features some notable music ministers such as Preye Odede, Sensational Bamidele, Dare Justified and Benniesam.
The album, now available on all major music streaming platforms, is marketed and distributed in Nigeria by Sybuk Communication Company.
Olafamouz is a Gospel music minister, Blogger, Graphic designer, Creative Artiste, Digital Music Distributor/Promoter. He is the CEO and the Executive Manager of zionstars.com ,Zionstars Studios & Zionstars Records.


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(1) Application.--Application for a license to make loans under this chapter shall be in the form prescribed by rule of the commission. The commission may require each applicant to provide any information reasonably necessary to determine the applicant's eligibility for licensure. The applicant shall also provide information that the office requires concerning any officer, director, control person, member, partner, or joint venturer of the applicant or any person having the same or substantially similar status or performing substantially similar functions or concerning any individual who is the ultimate equitable owner of a 10-percent or greater interest in the applicant. The office may require information concerning any such applicant or person, including, but not limited to, his or her full name and any other names by which he or she may have been known, age, social security number, residential history, qualifications, educational and business history, and disciplinary and criminal history. The applicant must provide evidence of liquid assets of at least $25,000. At the time of making such application the applicant shall pay to the office a nonrefundable biennial license fee of $625. Applications, except for applications to renew or reactivate a license, must also be accompanied by a nonrefundable investigation fee of $200. An application is considered received for purposes of s. 120.60 upon receipt of a completed application form as prescribed by commission rule, a nonrefundable application fee of $625, and any other fee prescribed by law. The commission may adopt rules requiring electronic submission of any form, document, or fee required by this act if such rules reasonably accommodate technological or financial hardship. The commission may prescribe by rule requirements and procedures for obtaining an exemption due to a technological or financial hardship.
(2) Fees.--Fees provided for in this section shall be collected by the office and shall be turned into the State Treasury to the credit of the regulatory trust fund under the office. The office shall have full power to employ such examiners or clerks to assist the office as may from time to time be deemed necessary and fix their compensation. The commission may adopt rules requiring electronic submission of any fee required by this section if such rules reasonably accommodate technological or financial hardship. The commission may prescribe by rule requirements and procedures for obtaining an exemption due to a technological or financial hardship.
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To fulfill its NATO obligations, Hungary has inked a new deal with German manufacturer Rheinmetall AG to manufacture Lynx armored vehicles, for which the company has agreed to set up production facilities in the country.
The Hungarian government and the German defense company Rheinmetall AG have agreed to set up a joint venture to produce Lynx Armoured Fighting Vehicles (AFVs) in the country, the government said on Monday.
The deal is worth more than 2 billion Euros and is considered to be the biggest investment in the country’s defense modernization plan- for fulfilling its NATO duties.
The first deliveries of the Lynx are expected to commence in 2024-2025 and would reach the expected operational capability in the Hungarian forces by 2026-2027.
Earlier, Hungary signed a deal with the United States worth around $1 billion to procure the NASAMS surface-to-air missile systems to bolster its military modernization. “The construction of the modern Hungarian army is happening now”, said the Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban.
The Lynx fighting vehicle
The Lynx is an advanced Armoured Fighting Vehicle, having a sleek design with a sloped armor composed of steel and other classified composites that can reportedly protect its crew from anti-tank weapons, medium-caliber rounds as well as shrapnel and splinters.
Interestingly, the interior of the AFV is also lined with a spall liner, protecting against high-velocity projectiles and other modifications to protect against mines or IEDs.
The Lynx’s Infantry Fighting Vehicle configuration allows it to mount a LANCE turret with a 30- or 35-mm cannon, and a secondary armament of a co-axial 7.62mm general-purpose machine gun along with provisions of carrying ATGMs and smoke grenade launchers.
Additionally, the vehicle can be modified for various roles that include armored reconnaissance, surveillance, repair, recovery, field ambulance or even working as a mobile command and control (C2) vehicle.
Being a relatively new platform and competing in trials of many countries, Lynx is not officially in service with any nation as of August 2020. Hungary is the first country that has signed an official contract to be supplied with these vehicles.


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My Spring Robin
Anne Rockwell, Harlow Rockwell & Lizzy Rockwell
Aladdin, 2015 (1989)
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hen a little girl goes looking for her spring robin she finds new flowers, bees, trees with new blossoms, and tiny insects in the dirt. There's plenty of new growth and small critters about, but no robin.
ust when it appears that perhaps the child's robin is not going to put in an appearance, she hears the bird's cheery song. Now spring is complete because the robin has returned!
f your child is ready to move from board books to regular picture books, this little half-size volume would make a nice transition. Also, who doesn't like a book about the coming of spring? It can't come any too quickly this year for those who have had months of snow and then more snow!
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The League of Southeastern Credit Unions & Affiliates (LSCU) is incredibly grateful to the members of our congressional delegations who recently cosigned a letter from Congressman Tom Emmer (MN-06) that protects financial institutions from overly burdensome regulations. The letter was sent to Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Ways and Means Chairman Richard Neal, Department of Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, and Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Commissioner Charles Rettig.
A provision recently proposed by the Biden administration would require credit unions and banks to report to the IRS the inflows and outflows of funds on accounts holding more than $600.
“Our Main Street financial institutions are already required to report a tremendous amount of data to the IRS, and the IRS has proven time and time again that they cannot protect this sensitive taxpayer information. Privacy is one of the main reasons individuals choose not to open bank accounts. This proposal will further exacerbate the divide between the banked, unbanked and underbanked,” stated Congressman Emmer.
This proposal significantly increases the reporting requirements for credit unions and banks and extends the reach of the IRS into the private lives of hard-working Americans.
“This access to consumers’ personal financial information raises serious security concerns and only increases the threat of data breaches,” noted Patrick La Pine, CEO of LSCU & Affiliates. “Furthermore, by forcing financial institutions to provide to the government information that does not reflect taxable activity, financial institutions in rural communities, including credit unions, would face additional burdensome compliance requirements at a time when all business are facing staffing issues due to the pandemic.”
LSCU thanks Congressmen Mo Brooks (AL-05), Jerry Carl (AL-01), Barry Moore (AL-02), Mike Rogers (AL-03), Mario Diaz-Balart (FL-25), Gus Bilirakis (FL-12), Vern Buchanan (FL-16), Kat Cammack (FL-03), Byron Donalds (FL-19), Bill Posey (FL-08), Rick Allen (GA-12), Buddy Carter (GA-01), Andrew Clyde (GA-09), Drew Ferguson (GA-03), Jody Hice (GA-10), Barry Loudermilk (GA-11), and Austin Scott (GA-08) for their work to protect taxpayers and financial institutions alike.
While the legislation released Friday night by House Ways and Means Chairman Neal does not include this requirement, a version of this provision may be offered during this week’s committee meetings. For more information on how to stop this dangerous legislation, LSCU encourages you to visit our Action Center.


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Proposition 118 on this November’s ballot is a flawed program that hurts employees by reducing your paycheck. We all support the flexibility that family medical leave provides, but Proposition 118 requiring paid family medical leave proposes a program none of us can afford and is destined to go bankrupt despite big fees (taxes) on both employees and employers.
The cost is mandatory. For employees that means you will lose .5-.6% of your paycheck every year. For employers, the very large cumulative cost will force many employers to reduce other employee benefits to pay for this new compulsory expense.
- A $1.3 Billion tax increase. 50% of the $1.3B comes directly from employees paycheck.
- The program is mandatory. So is the cost. Employees will lose .5% of every paycheck.
- Proposition 118 effectively adds 9-13% to state income taxes each employee pays.
- It is a lavish new program we can’t afford.
- It is destined for bankruptcy on day one due to faulty utilization assumptions.
- If only 6.2% of Coloradans use this program for an average length of leave of 9.5 weeks, the program is insolvent by the 2nd (Common Sense Institute Study)
- The complex structure has NO mechanism to lower the guaranteed benefits.
- Insolvency will force the Legislature to increase the already high tax on employees and employers, and/or take funds from already strapped education and transportation programs.
- This proposal is not sustainable although most of us support the family medical leave concept.
- Despite big taxes on employees and employers, none of us can afford this program.
- Proposition 118 provides 12-16 weeks per year (3-4 months each year!) of leave for medical reasons for your family or anyone else with whom an employee has a “significant personal bond.” This leaves it open to massive abuse, yet proponents assume low levels of usage.
- The new bureaucracy, and its hundreds of faceless bureaucrats, would be run by a single political appointee with unprecedented authority to increase tax rates to cover excess costs which under the program can’t be reduced.
- Government employers are exempt from the program. Employees still must pay in. Proponents know cities and towns can’t afford it.
- It creates a double standard. East Coast proponents who are funding this measure think it’s good to mandate that Colorado businesses provide this, but not good to hold government entities to the same standard.
- Proposition 118 has the most extreme provisions in the U.S.
- The program is not subject to spending limits that apply to state and local governments.
- Employees won’t talk with their employer when they need family medical leave; employees will notify the state and the bureaucracy will decide if the employee gets the leave and when the monies will be paid out…that’s if there’s money available.
- Bills on this topic have failed repeatedly in the Legislature.
- Out-of-state interests are trying to foist this on Colorado. 98% of the funds promoting Proposition 118 come from East Coast dark money.
- Bipartisan Colorado leaders and organizations are opposing this harmful measure, including the Colorado Women’s Chamber of Commerce, Club 20, and Durango Herald.
- Governor Jared Polis says he will not support this measure.
Support the concept of family medical leave, not this wasteful program
Most employers and employees support the concept of family medical leave, but this proposal is not sustainable. This proposal is overly generous, financially flawed, bureaucratic, subject to waste and abuse, and a huge increase in taxes for both employees and employers. Proposition 118 is not the solution! Vote No on 118.
Vote NO on 118 campaign
Common Sense Institute on 118 3rd party analysis
The one-size-fits-all Prop # 118 is NOT the answer!
This proposal is overly generous, financially flawed, bureaucratic, subject to waste and abuse, and a huge increase in taxes for both employees and employers. This isn’t the solution.