This is it – China takes over the earth. I am happy that Nigeria is part of the new world order, running from Beijing. With 126 countries in the family of China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), which gives real cash, over Western World’s credit line, Beijing begins its era. It is simple: the man with cash will always win the man with line of credit. You can accuse China whatever you want, more global leaders will book tickets in coming years to Beijing than any other global capital. Cash is KING.

The Deputy Chinese Ambassador to Nigeria, Zhao Yong, announced on Friday that over 126 countries and 29 international organisations had signed the China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI).

Mr Yong made the announcement at a news conference organised by the embassy of the People’s Republic of China in Abuja.

He said that the second Belt and Road Forum, held in Beijing, China on April 25 on “Belt and Road Cooperation: Shaping Brighter Shared Future”, was to promote the development of the BRI.

He quoted President Xi Jinping of China as saying that “China will implement BRI talents programme and in five years, offer 5,000 opportunities for exchange, training and research for participating countries.

According to him, great achievements have been made in pursuit of the BRI, since the past six years that Ping came up with the initiative.

If you do not like your teacher, you will likely not do well in that class.

If you do not like your school, you will likely struggle in your program.

If you do not like your nation, you will likely see only obstacles.

The greatest challenge is the Liberation of the mind. Just as the crickets sing, and the nightingales deliver the melodies, your mind can condition your awareness and observation.

Awareness and Observation Win Markets

Win the victory of your mind, and unlock that optimistic exuberance to activate the energy that enables taking ACTION. Unless you take action, nothing gets done.

Unless you win the victory of your mind, most things in your life will be out of phase.

Update: Removed the typo “of”

By Nnamdi Odumody

Amazon’s Sumerian is a platform on its AWS Cloud which enables the creation of virtual reality, augmented reality and 3D applications faster, and without any expertise in programming or 3D graphics.

Amazon Sumerian lets you create and run virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR), and 3D applications quickly and easily without requiring any specialized programming or 3D graphics expertise. With Sumerian, you can build highly immersive and interactive scenes that run on popular hardware such as Oculus Go, Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, HTC Vive Pro, Google Daydream, and Lenovo Mirage as well as Android and iOS mobile devices. For example, you can build a virtual classroom that lets you train new employees around the world, or you can build a virtual environment that enables people to tour a building remotely. Sumerian makes it easy to create all the building blocks needed to build highly immersive and interactive 3D experiences including adding objects (e.g. characters, furniture, and landscape), and designing, animating, and scripting environments. Sumerian does not require specialized expertise and you can design scenes directly from your browser.

It allows the development of an immersive and interactive experience that runs on mixed reality hardware like Oculus Go, Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, HTC Vive Pro, Google Daydream, Lenovo Mirage and AR compatible Android devices. Sumerian makes it easy to create all the building blocks needed to develop highly immersive and interactive 3D experiences, including adding of objects and designing, animating and scripting environments.

The Sumerian editor allows its user to easily create, edit and publish applications with a web browser. 3D characters called hosts are easily created to guide users through your scenes that can converse in a variety of languages with your users.

Sumerian makes it easy to design scenes that immerse your users in 3D experience populated with 3D objects and animated characters, allowing 3D objects to be imported and selected from pre-loaded scene templates, and also script the logic that controls how the objects in your scenes behave.

It is platform-agnostic, and is based on the Web GL JavaScript API for virtual reality devices, and also supports the AR Kit framework for augmented reality on IOS devices and AR Core for Android devices.

With Sumerian, Amazon wants to redesign and scale the applications of mixed reality solutions across different verticals and making itself a category-king in that space.

This is an example of double play: head you win, tail you also win. Yes, a cigarette company is setting up a life insurance business, and will recruit clients by giving smokers discounts.

I explained in the duality element that digital products which thrive are typically both products and platforms. It would be hopeless to build modern digital products without having a moat through platforms. Interestingly, the greatest digital ICT utilities have double plays in their business models: if Amazon decimates many brick-and-mortar stores, it would welcome many online to sell them cloud services. Alibaba welcomes you to its marketplace platforms, and you certainly have signed up for its (partly affiliated) payment processing solutions (Alipay) which command commissions.

Here, Marlboro maker has started a life insurance company called Reviti. I do not expect the premium to be the most competitive in terms of price in the market.

Philip Morris International, the tobacco company that sells Marlboro cigarettes, is getting into the life insurance business.

Called Reviti, the wholly owned subsidiary will initially sell life insurance in the U.K. with plans to expand into more markets overseas. Smokers will receive discounts if they stop, quit or switch to a possibly less carcinogenic product, like Philip Morris’ vaping devices.