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Former first lady Melania Trump announced on Thursday that she will begin selling NFTs, or non-fungible tokens, becoming the latest personality to embrace the hot digital collectible trend. "I am proud to announce my new NFT endeavor, which embodies my passion for the arts, and will support my ongoing commitment to children through my Be Best initiative," she said in a Thursday statement shared on social media. The former first lady confirmed in the statement that she is starting a platform that will "release NFTs in regular intervals." An NFT is a piece of data verifying that you have ownership...

<p>About the case: The Karawang District Court found 45-year-old housewife Nengsy Lim, alias Valencya, not guilty of her alleged crime on Dec. 3, reported South China Morning Post.</p><p>Lim was charged with domestic violence in January for allegedly causing her then husband psychological harm by “nagging” him.</p>

Former President Donald Trump tops President Biden and Pope Francis on a list of the world’s most admired public figures released earlier this week, rising two spots despite a series of legal battles and scrutiny over the Jan. 6 Capitol riot. The annual YouGov survey released Monday ranked Trump as the 13th-most admired man in the world. Trump was 15th in last year’s poll, which was released weeks before a mob of his supporters breached the Capitol building in an effort to interrupt the congressional count of electoral votes from the 2020 presidential election. Pope Francis ranks as the 16th-most...

COLUMBUS, Ohio — During a press conference on Friday morning, Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine announced that he has ordered 1,050 members of the Ohio National Guard to help in Ohio hospitals as systems across Ohio are being overwhelmed with COVID-19. “Twenty-two months of this pandemic has taken its toll on our health care workers,” DeWine said. The deployment of the guardsmen will begin Monday and continue indefinitely, DeWine said. Of the National Guard members being deployed to Ohio hospitals, 150 are highly trained medical personnel, such as EMTs and nurses, while 900 non-medical members will also be deployed including food...

In October, the Wall Street Journal reported that the Biden administration was considering paying $450,000 to illegal immigrants who crossed the southern border and were separated from their families during the Trump administration. When asked about it, Joe Biden called the report “garbage,”Now we know that the Biden administration won’t be compensating illegal immigrant families… but that’s only because they ceased negotiations, not because it was never under consideration.“The families’ lawyers said Justice Department attorneys informed them that the government would no longer work with them to settle lawsuits filed on behalf of parents and children seeking damages over the...

A 17-year-old Chicago-area drug dealer stabbed a 15-year-old to death over some weed. Apparently, the victim, Elias Valdez, tried to steal pot from the dealer. A fight ensued and the drug dealer stabbed Valdez. He later died at the hospital. The unnamed drug dealer pleaded guilty to 2nd-degree murder. Cook County judge Steven Bernstein told the 17-year-old murderer he was a “bright kid with a bright future” and gave the killer three years’ probation along with 100 hours of community service and told him that he and his parents need to attend therapy together. “I see a child like you...

Five children fell to their death and five others were injured when a bouncy castle was blown into the air by a gust of wind outside an Australian school Thursday. The unimaginable tragedy took place during a celebration marking the last week of classes before Christmas break at Hillcrest primary school in northern Tasmania, police said. Four children fell from about 33 feet when winds sent an inflatable castle into the air at Hillcrest Primary School in Australia on Dec. 16, 2021. AP The children in the bouncy castle were tossed from a height of about 33 feet on a...

13 minute video by a physician pointing out the benefits of Vitamin D3, recommended amounts, and how Vitamin D3 fights disease, including autoimmune disease.

Gov. Mike DeWine said Friday he is deploying the Ohio National Guard to help with staffing shortages across the state in hospitals dealing with rising numbers of coronavirus patients. DeWine said starting Monday, 1,050 guard members will begin to be deployed at hospitals across the state, strategically targeting the Northeast Ohio area, where he said the staffing problem is the worst, including Cleveland, Akron, Canton and Wooster. The deployment has no set end date. DeWine announced the National Guard deployment during a virtual news conference on Friday morning. For the first time since the pandemic began, his staff said the...

I turn 40 today, and I was planning to have a party. The Delta surge made me nervous about it. The arrival of Omicron made me cancel it. The plan was to have an extended house party, with a couple dozen people popping by over the weekend. On the one hand, it would have been an unmasked, indoor event—the kind in which the coronavirus, in all its incarnations, spreads most easily. On the other hand, everyone who was going to be there is fully vaccinated, and most of them, myself included, have been boosted. A month ago, I would have...

Two major websites used by homebuyers to search for properties to move into have decided that ignorance is bliss when it comes to crime statistics. As noted by Stacey Matthews on Legal Insurrection, Realtor.com and redfin.com decided on the same day that providing crime information on neighborhoods would promote racial bias. Helping families avoid moving to a house or condo in a dangerous crime-ridden neighborhood is far less important to them than virtue-signaling their trendy "anti-racism."Apparently, they both have forgotten the ancient maxim "caveat emptor" — "let the buyer beware." I am not certain how to render "let the buyer...

Tells how submarines crippled Japan in WWII (my observation shows how China could also be crippled if they start a war).

prisingly, most of the funds will be spent on projects that have nothing to do with infrastructure. With this appointment and the resulting media attention, Landrieu's stock is rising so fast that CNN has just added him to the list of potential Democrat party presidential candidates in 2024. Does Landrieu deserve all this hype? Certainly not when considering his performance as mayor of New Orleans. For eight years, Landrieu was a disaster as mayor. The list of his failures is too numerous to document, but here are a few of the lowlights. The New Orleans Police Department (NOPD) suffered a...

It has been nearly two years since the first inklings of a respiratory infection in China that would turn the world upside-down. In a rational society, this would be the point where we realized that our attempts to vaccinate against this infection have failed. Yet we persist in our devotion to the sacred serum that will deliver us from our distress. Currently, 60% of adults in the United States are fully vaccinated. That's not nearly enough, say the pro-vaccinators. But exactly 0% of the population was vaccinated in 2020, and the number of deaths was lower. That is a profound...

Army Sgt. First Class Alwyn Cashe was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor on Thursday, becoming the first black American service member to be awarded the honor since the Vietnam War

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) – Denmark’s prime minister announced Friday that theaters, cinemas, concert halls, amusement parks, museums and art galleries across the country will be closed down under new restrictions to contain the spread of the coronavirus. Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said the measures also require stores smaller than 2,000 square meters (21,528 square feet) and restaurants to limit their number of customers. Restaurants must serve their last meals and alcoholic beverages at 10 p.m. and close at 11 p.m.

Following Wednesday’s story in which The Ohio Star reported that Pfizer is currently still shipping it’s Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) COVID-19 vaccine, the Ohio Department of Health (ODH) won’t say which version of the vaccine it is distributing. ODH is responsible for acquiring and distributing at least some of the state’s supply of COVID-19 vaccines, though Alicia Shoults of the ODH’s Office of Public Affairs told The Star by phone Thursday afternoon that some healthcare providers procure the vaccine directly from the federal government. The Star asked Shoults which version of the Pfizer vaccine ODH was procuring – Comirnaty or...

- Direct electrical power generation with palladium and iron in a hydrogen atmosphere Jean-Paul Biberian Aix-Marseille University, France Following the pioneering work of Frank Gordon and Harper Whitehouse on Lattice Energy Conversion, I have duplicated some of their work. By electrodepositing palladium with PdBr2 on a Pd/Ag 2mm in diameter and 10cm long rod, a voltage of several hundred millivolts was generated between the Pd rod and the stainless-steel counter electrode in a hydrogen atmosphere. To increase the current, experiments were performed with palladium deposited on stainless-steel tubes 30mm in diameter and 20cm long, the counter electrode being also...

In Trump Time: A Journal of America's Plague Yearby Peter Navarro, Ph.D.326 pages, hardcover $22.99, Kindle $2.99 ISBN-13: 978-1737478508 All Seasons Press, 2021Peter Navarro is uniquely qualified to provide an insider's account of the 2020 events that circumscribe the COVID crisis. He was senior adviser to President Trump during the campaign and through Trump's term in office on economic matters as assistant to the president and the director of the Office of Trade and Manufacturing Policy. Dr. Navarro graduated from Tufts, then got an MBA in Public Administration and a Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard.Dr. Navarro has published more than...

Immune responses to pathogens involve many cells and proteins of the immune system. Early during an infection, these responses are non-specific, meaning that although they are directed at the pathogen, they are not specific to it. This is called innate immunity. Within a few days, adaptive immunity takes over; this immunity is specific to the invading pathogen. Adaptive immune responses include antibodies. A major goal of antibodies is to bind to the pathogen and prevent it from infecting, or entering, a cell. Antibodies that prevent entry into cells are called neutralizing antibodies. Many vaccines work by inducing neutralizing antibodies. However,...