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Why gardening mishaps are a (sometimes painful) part of the process

Some ghastly garden scenarios, like my mint mishap, are clearly our own fault, but the blame for others can fall squarely on outsiders, like the nurseries that mislabel plants or the squirrels that “plant” invasive species among our natives.

Securitize to Launch Institutional Assets on Plume’s Nest Protocol

The post Securitize to Launch Institutional Assets on Plume’s Nest Protocol appeared com. The deployment aims to connect tokenized funds with Plume’s RWA investors. Plume a blockchain focused on real-world asset finance (RWAfi) with $159 million in total value locked announced Thursday that tokenization platform Securitize will deploy institutional-grade assets on its Nest staking protocol. Nest currently holds over $39. 5 million in distributed assets, down nearly 30% over the past month, according to RWAxyz. The upcoming deployment will connect Securitize’s tokenized assets with Plume’s network of roughly 280, 000 RWA investors, according to a press release viewed by The Defiant. Securitize also tokenized BlackRock’s BUIDL fund the largest RWA product with over $2. 5 billion in assets. The deployment onto Nest will start with Hamilton Lane funds and expand throughout 2026 to include additional issuers and asset classes. The fund is targeting $100 million in capital, the release noted. The move highlights how RWA and decentralized finance (DeFi) projects are increasingly exploring compliant ways to bring traditional assets on-chain for trading, staking, and other DeFi use cases. As part of the initiative, Solv Protocol, a Bitcoin finance platform with over $2. 8 billion in assets, will invest up to $10 million in Plume’s RWA vaults. Users can trade and stake these assets on Plume, which is backed by Apollo Global Management, while keeping them under Securitize’s regulated framework. “Bitcoin’s role is becoming the foundation for real, yield-bearing capital markets,” said Ryan Chow, co-founder and CEO of Solv Protocol. “As regulated on-chain markets emerge, Bitcoin will underpin a new generation of yield, credit, and liquidity infrastructure, where demand for yield-bearing Bitcoin with RWA-backed yields replaces passive treasuries as the next phase of institutional adoption.” The deployment will also utilize Bluprynt’s Know-Your-Issuer (KYI) system to verify assets and issuers. The move comes a little over a month after Plume announced it would be acquiring Dinero, the.

Dan Goor & Luke Del Tredici’s PI Comedy Takes Step Toward NBC Pilot Order With California Tax Credit

Already considered a sure thing for a pilot greenlight, NBC’s single-camera comedy from Brooklyn Nine-Nine co-creator/executive producer Dan Goor and executive producer Luke Del Tredici may have sealed the deal with a $1. 4M tax credit from the California Film Commission to shoot the pilot in Los Angeles. Described as one of the strongest comedy pitches [.].

Michelle Obama is the First Lady of Complaints

Michelle Obama is the First Lady of Complaints News Staff Thu, 11/20/2025 08: 16 Image Crouere Crouere X Jeff Crouere jcrouere@gmail again with another grievance. In an interview to promote her new book, The Look, Mrs. Obama is complaining again. When asked about running for President, Obama claimed that Americans “aren’t ready for a woman President” and have “a lot of growing up to do.” Last year, Michelle Obama campaigned for Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris. During a speech in Michigan, Obama called Harris “extraordinary,” and wondered “why on earth is this race even close?” She also asked whether “as a country, are we ready for this moment?” These are absurd comments since two of the last three Democratic Party presidential nominees have been women. The stage is certainly set for the right female candidate to become President. This victorious female candidate who will make history will never be Michelle Obama. There are several reasons for this prediction, but, primarily, she has refused to display any appreciation for this great country or all the many benefits she received for being married to Barack Obama. Incredibly, Michelle Obama offers a steady stream of complaints about the American people and how she has been treated in her life. As First Lady, Obama said she was under a “particularly white-hot glare,” and grumbled that her family “didn’t get the grace that I think some other families have gotten.” Of course, that complaint is ludicrous because Barack and Michelle Obama were treated as royalty in America. They received fawning media coverage from the very beginning. Those who pushed too hard and asked tough questions were labeled “racists.” Yet, Michelle Obama claimed that the “we were all too aware that as a first Black couple, we couldn’t afford any missteps.” The Barack Obama presidency was nothing but a series of “missteps,” but he not only won reelection, but he also completed his two terms without any impeachment hearings. Barack Obama could have been impeached over any number of scandals in his presidency, such as the disastrous Benghazi attack on our consulate, or the “Fast and Furious” gun running operation or the Internal Revenue Service improperly targeting Tea Party organizations. Instead of impeachment, Barack Obama received a pass from Republicans in Congress, who were too timid to push for thorough investigations and feared being called “racists.” In contrast, President Donald Trump was impeached for a “perfect” phone call to Ukrainian President Zelensky and for a speech on January 6, 2021, in which he called for his supporters to “peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard” at the U. S. Capitol. Trump was not responsible for the violence on that day. Instead, he wanted more National Guard troops for protection, and his requests were denied. The President’s wonderful wife, First Lady Melania Trump, has also been mistreated. Despite her history as a world-renowned fashion model and being internationally recognized for her beauty and accomplishments, Mrs. Trump was never invited to be photographed for the cover of Vogue magazine. However, the perpetual complainer, Michelle Obama, graced the cover of Vogue three times. Not bad for someone who whined that she did not “get the grace” that other First Ladies received. Michelle Obama has been criticizing her country for years. In February 2008, as her husband was on the path to the presidency, she said that “for the first time in my adult lifetime I am really proud of my country.” Thus, she was only proud of America because her husband was succeeding politically. In 2019, at a leadership conference for the Obama Foundation in Malaysia, she said that the United States was “still not where we need to be. when it comes to race.” Even though her husband had been elected twice as President, Michelle Obama said, “People thought electing Barack Obama would end racism. That’s four hundred years of stuff that was going to be eliminated because of eight years of this kid from Hawaii. Are you kidding me?” The “kid from Hawaii” is a particular source of Michelle Obama’s complaints on her podcast that she hosts with her brother. She is often denigrating or ridiculing her husband on the show. This seems disrespectful for no one in America would know anything about Michelle Obama if not for the “kid from Hawaii.” Even though she is ungrateful, Barack Obama has been taking care of his wife for many years. After his political stock soared in his home state, then Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich said he was asked to make phone calls to the University of Chicago Medical Center on behalf of Michelle Obama. She eventually was hired in 2002 and served in several roles, including Vice President for Community and External Affairs. In that position, she was paid $317,000 before taking a leave of absence to campaign for her husband. Among her responsibilities was “neighborhood outreach,” remarkably similar to her husband’s famous position as “community organizer.” Michelle Obama was paid very well for “neighborhood outreach,” and, despite her many complaints, has been treated very well by the country she seems to despise. Jeff Crouere is a native New Orleanian and is a political columnist, the author of America’s Last Chance, and provides regular commentaries on the Jeff Crouere YouTube channel and at Crouere. net. For more information, email him at jcrouere@gmail. com. Editorial Columns.