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The young Pan-African patriotic generation of the current second phase of liberation from neo-colonialism often refers to certain leaders of Pan-Africanism from the first anti-colonial phase of 1945-60. Names are often cited as references.
On the history of Pan-Africanism, Pan-African patriotic youth and the labor and working-class movement must know and study the contribution of leaders to anti-slavery, anti-apartheid, anticolonial, pan-Africanist and internationalist revolutionary theory and practice. The facts and exploits of certain communist leaders must also be passed on to younger generations, as well as the specificity of the current they represented in accordance with the diversity of the different pan-Africanist currents.
One of the sources of differences between Pan-Africanist currents is precisely the consideration or not of social classes. In fact, each pan-Africanist current represents one of the social classes that make up the countries, nations or diaspora of Africa. Therefore, there is Pan-Africanism and Pan-Negrism of the bourgeoisie, the intellectual petty bourgeoisie, the proletarians and the working classes. This diversity of ideological and political orientation was sometimes concealed or concealed within the framework of strategic and tactical alliances required by the historical conditions of anti-slavery, anticolonial and anti-racist struggles.
Does the question then arise of pan-African convergences and differences between social classes in Africa and in the diaspora? These convergences and differences are often concealed by proponents of non-internationalist Pan-Africanism, conceived both as a denial of the existence of social classes in pre-colonial and post-colonial Africa and as a reduction of Pan-Africanism to nationalism.
This is a more or less assumed source of the historical difference in approach between Garvey, Dubois and Booker T. Washington. Within the French colonies, Lamine Arfan Senghor, Tiémokho Garang Kouyaté, etc. they are references to be studied and passed on to today’s revolutionary youth.
CL James is by no means a reliable source because he is a Trotskyist and Pan-African revisionist anarchist. Georges Padmore, although he became a social democrat on the advice of Nkrumah, wrote a book entitled “Panafricanism or Communism? » which remains an interesting font even if the « or » and the « ? fleeing the communist and therefore proletarian approach of Pan-Africanism. While figures like “Black Bolshevik” author Harry Haywood, James Ford, or South African communists Laguma, Alfred Nzula, etc., do not oppose Pan-Africanism to Communism.
We can summarize the Pan-Africanist historical currents as follows: Garvey is a defender of a Zionist private capitalist Pan-Africanism (the return to Africa that the Ku Klux Klan also defended?!). Dubois represents that of the intellectual elite of the “middle classes”. While Harry Haywood (communist internationalist who fought the anti-fascist war in Spain), Lamine Arfan Senghor, Thiémoko Garang Kouyaté, Alfred Nzula (first black secretary of the CP of South Africa), Laguma, etc. Classes.
Tactical alliances were sometimes sealed between reformist and revolutionary currents in the context of anti-colonial and anti-racist struggles, alliances that expressed common interests in the liberation of Africa or the end of political apartheid in the US and South Africa. 🇧🇷
Pan-African reformist currents were infiltrated by left-wing social-democratic colonialism. Social democracy developed its so-called philanthropic theoretical colonialism imbued with a certain amount of anti-racism that gradually infected certain communist parties of the imperialist West such as the PCF, the British CP and the PCUSA (in addition to Zionism in the latter).
The Haitian question, the first independence revolution, anti-slavery and, therefore, national and social in the sense of the working classes, was little studied by the black commission of the Comintern that focused on the black question in the USA, in Africa. South and, by extension, in Africa. It is the Ayiti revolutionaries and communists, and more broadly black communists, who propagate the main historical fact denied by slaveholders and colonialists that Ayiti is the only independent, anti-slavery revolution in America in the 18th and 19th centuries. It is this revolutionary example that this small Caribbean island pays for today.
The revisionist Trotskyist CL James, as well as the former communist turned social democrat Padmore, falsified the historical truth about the enormous theoretical and practical work done by the Comintern on the black question against apartheid in the USA, in South Africa. South and more generally in Africa under colonization. The Comintern has shown that the two pillars of capitalism since its birth and which has matured into its supreme imperialist stage are: class exploitation and national and racial oppression that systematically place blacks at the bottom of the social ladder. , black workers, black women.
Nkrumah contributed greatly to anti-colonial Pan-Africanism through his militant voluntarism calling for “an African state, parliament, army whose main objective is to liberate South Africa from apartheid”. Its model of African unity remains, however, marked by the US model, even if it was opposed by the imperialists as a communist. Many Pan-Africanists of different generations hold the US or the European Union as models of African unity as anti-communism. This is the case of the current trend of certain pan-Africanist economists who invite us to imitate the European Union when it is a liberal imperialist construction subservient to the US in the fight against the socialist camp and/or with a hegemonic vocation for certain imperialist fractions in Europe.
Cheikh Anta Diop, who frequently quotes Stalin in his writings, is essential to his work to decolonize falsified African history and connect the peoples of Africa with the ancient African history of Egyptian antiquity. Franz Fanon worked to mentally emancipate the African petty-bourgeois elite from colonial alienation and to build a bridge between sub-Saharan Africa and North Africa.
It is no coincidence that Um Nyobe, Félix Rolland Moumié, Osendé Afana and Ernest Ouandié of the Union des Populations du Cameroun (UPC), Patrice Emery Lumumba, Sékou Touré/Saïfoulaye Diallo of the CEO, Modibo Keita, Robert Mugabe, Agostino Neto, Eduardo Mondlane , Samora Machel, Amílcar Cabral, Thomas Sankara, Nelson Mandela (who never renounced his PCSA membership card) as well as their pro-independence organizations were all accused of “communism” by the imperialists and all were sought to use the weapon theories of Marxism-Leninism in its struggle for national and pan-African liberation.
The impact of the Communist Revolution of October 17th is undeniable on the global colonial question in general and the black one in particular. It is also in this that the Bolshevik Revolution is the matrix of the national revolutions of the 20th century, including the survivors of the socialist camp that are China, Vietnam, North Korea and Cuba.
Anti-communism was imperialism’s main weapon to defeat the first phase of African liberation. The absurd theories of “communism is not African” or “communism is naturally African” have the function of excluding Africa from the science of class struggle and the development of the productive forces that move history as demonstrated by K. Marx/F . Engels and Amilcar Cabral analyzing colonialism, neocolonialism in Africa.
Let us quote this African Marxist-Leninist: “The colonialists used to say that they made us go down in history. We will demonstrate today that they did not: they made us leave history, our own history, to follow them on their train, in last place, on the train of their history. (Amílcar Lopes Cabral, commonly known as Abel Djassi (1924-1973), at the Dar es Salaam conference in 1965, founder of the African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde -PAIGC-).
To defeat neocolonialism, the current generation of Pan-Africanists must study the strengths and weaknesses of the revolutionary experience of the pioneers in order to draw the lessons that will enable today’s victories.
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Travesties (Menier Chocolate Factory)
First the bad news: they have already sold all the tickets for the two-month run of this South London revival of Tom Stoppard’s Travesties.Fans may therefore be pained to hear this production — starring Tom Hollander of Rev and The Night Manager — is a cracker.
Perhaps it will find a West End home after this fringe run.
Zany, breathless, full of intricate literary puns and dollops of Wildean pastiche, the play defies concise description. Nor could it be said to be aimed at the mass market.Yet it rattles along and has moments of theatrical brilliance.
His heart belongs to Dada: Freddie Fox as Tristan Tzara with Tom Hollander as Henry Carr
Welcome to spy-riddled Zurich in 1917 where a British diplomat, Henry Carr, has acquaintances as varied as Lenin, Irish novelist James Joyce and the monocle-sporting founder of Dada-ist art, Tristan Tzara.Throw in a couple of blonde beauties who are a pastiche from Oscar Wilde’s Importance Of Being Earnest.
Much of the tale is told in unreliable flashback by Carr (played engagingly by Mr Hollander).
Diplomat Carr, mildewed by English dottiness, has a stiff-spined butler with communist sympathies (Tim Wallers). Owing to tangled misunderstandings, things reach the point where Carr could stop Lenin from leaving Zurich to return to Moscow.Perhaps he could thus prevent the Soviet Union from being born.
Bear in mind that Czech-born Stoppard wrote this in 1974, when the USSR was still in brutal business. How sad that Sir Tom, as he is today, has become so drearily Establishment, to the point that he attacks the free Press.But we must not let that blind us to the great plusses of this play.
Previously, I have wearied of the intellectual japery in Travesties but director Patrick Marber, assisted by a spry cast, really makes it work.From Forbes Masson’s brooding Lenin to Peter McDonald’s hopelessly dressed Joyce, and Clare Foster particularly comical as a statuesque commie librarian, the acting is excellent. A small question mark perhaps hovers over Freddie Fox, a mite too fervid as Tzara.
Excellent acting: Clare Foster comes across as particularly comical as a statuesque commie librarian. Tim Wallers plays a stiff-spined butler
Lenin’s zeal is mirrored by the revolution in art which is happening across the Zurich strasse.In addition to the depredations of Dada-ism, the mercurial Joyce is penning his masterpiece Ulysses.
Limerick rhymes are batted to and fro like badminton shuttlecocks. Debates about artistic merit and patriotic duty are raised while characters lustily chase each other around the set.Laughter lightens weighty bookish allusions and philosophical conundra.
A passage when Carr attacks the self-satisfaction of Dada-ism, while Tzara mocks the inertia of Western civilisation, is particularly gripping and all the more topical for the fact that the Royal Academy has just opened a wildly portentous exhibition of abstract impressionism.
I saw the show on Monday night after hearing a conference speech of the most utter vacuousness by our new Culture Minister, Karen Bradley, a woman whose cultural interests stretch little further than Manchester City football ground.
The fact that tickets for TRAVESTIS PORTO this most high-flown of shows — at an unsubsidised venue — have sold so quickly therefore came as a tremendous reassurance.

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Dang, this is a really sad story to have to report.
After making history by being the first African American and the youngest actor to play Jean Valjean in “Les Miserables” on Broadway, Kyle Jean-Baptiste is dead after accidentally falling off his mother’s fire escape. He was only 21 years old.
According to BroadwayWorld, the rising star usually played Constable and Courfeyrac in “Les Miserables,” but was also the understudy for the role of Jean Valjean, and he recently found himself pressed into duty. That night he tweeted:
“Today I go on as my dream role. No words. Guna remember this night.”
Wow, what a tragedy as young Jean-Baptiste was making quite a name for himself performing in several regional shows including “Singin’ In the Rain,” “Music Man” and “The Merry Wives of Windsor.” Additionally, he also performed with “Hamilton” writer/star Lin-Manuel Miranda during the “#Ham4Ham” lottery show. He was a recent graduate of Baldwin Wallace.
The production company released the following statement:
“The entire Les Miserables family is shocked and devastated by the sudden and tragic loss of Kyle, a remarkable young talent and tremendous person who made magic – and history – in his Broadway debut. We send our deepest condolences to his family and ask that you respect their privacy in this unimaginably difficult time.“
In a post at his website, Kyle Jean-Baptiste revealed how he found his passion and entered the world of musical theatre.
“If you would of asked me what I wanted to be growing up I’d have said a cardiologist. I grew up in Brooklyn New York and had always sung, but never took it seriously. I decided to audition for Fiorello LaGuardia for vocal performance and got in(miracle) and the rest was history. Getting thrown into the world of musical theatre was terrifying and at first I didn’t know if I could handle it, but through hard work and perseverance it all came together. Acting and singing have become an extension of who I am, and I strive to use my gift to influence and inspire others. I am now shooting for the stars and trying to reach my goal of becoming the best stage and screen actor that I can be.”

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A British couple who were hoping to have a ball at their wedding got more than they bargained for when a man barged into the church and cut off both of his own.
The couple, whose names were not released, were getting ready to tie the knot when the intruder made his way into the chapel to put a new spin on the "in sickness" part of the vows by taking a pair of scissors and slicing off his own testicles.
One of the guests told a reporter, "When I went in the church, I saw something on the floor which I could only describe as flesh, which I thought was part of his arm but that was one of his testicles."
The man was taken to the hospital for observation, and was listed in fair condition. (Brentwood Weekly News)


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New York City
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New York City was just going to be a drive through. I only had a few places I wanted to see, the World Trade Center site, Times Square, and The Empire State Building.
What little I know about the city comes from tv shows. I drove in through the Holland Tunnel. You had to pay. You have to pay to get into and out of the city. There must be some type of difference in people that have to pay just to leave their home town every day . I then ended up on a road alongside the water, and turned to drive down Broadway. The traffic wasn't so bad on Broadway, but the second you turned off you were stuck. It was also too expensive to park. At the Empire State Building it was going to be 17$ an hour just to park, and somebody else would park my car. I had too much stuff in my car for that.
I was able to drive past Times Square, the Empire State Building and Macy's, Central Park, and the World Trade Center. I even took a side trip to find 623 E 68st, but that address doesn't exist, there is a large hospital over that address. One thing I noticed about the city is that they leave all their trash out on the street for the dump trucks to pick up. I have a picture posted. Too bad.
When I was at an intersection under the giant legs for the train, I wondered if the residents complained about the paint peeling off it. The girls in the city are the best dressed I've seen on the trip, and in a few years I'll make a trip to NYC and spend an entire week. But my first visit there was way too short. So the biggest city in the country turned into just a minor pit stop on my giant road trip. But if you're going to visit, leave your car at home.

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“We spend January 1st walking through our lives, room by room, drawing up a list of work to be done, cracks to be patched. Maybe this year, to balance the list, we ought to walk through the rooms of our lives…not looking for flaws, but for potential.” – Ellen Goodman, American journalist and Pulitzer Prize-winning […]Read post »
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Tetsuya Nomura Gives Kingdom Hearts III and Final Fantasy VII Remaster Development Update, Teases "Surprises"
Kingdom Hearts III and Final Fantasy VII Remake Director Tetsyuya Nomomura needs a bit more time to complete the games, but teases "Surprises."
The latest issue of Weekly Famitsu includes an interview to Tetsuya Nomura focusing on Kingdom Hearts HD 2.8 Final Chapter Prologue, but it also includes a few snippets of information about Kingdom Hearts III and the Final Fantasy VII Remake.
While the magazine still hasn’t hit the news stands, as usual a copy has been leaked by the Japanese blog Hachima Kikou, and we get the juicy bits.
The first element isn’t all that surprising, with Nimura-san teasing that the developer “might be able to do something” Kingdom Hearts-related for the upcoming D23 Expo. That’s pretty much expected as the event pretty much always brings some Kingdom Hearts news.
About Kingdom Hearts III, Nomura-san mentioned that he can’t give an overall estimate on development because the process is different from everything the team has done before. There are worlds yet untouched (Editor’s note: it’s unclear whether Nomura means one world or multiple, as Japanese doesn’t have a dedicated plural form, the same goes for the following mention), and production is progressing on unannounced world that are not in a state that can be shown yet. Development is in progress.
Nomura-san also mentioned that the Final Fantasy VII Remake‘s development is progressing steadily, but for both games it’s going to take a bit more time, as the team intends to meet expectations on them. While last year he did not provide much information, he would like to show progress during events. Yet, the games aren’t ready for release for now. That said, there are also many games releasing this year, and he encourages fans to wait for “surprises.”
Lastly, we get a little bonus information on Kingdom Hearts HD 2.8 Final Chapter Prologue and Kingdom Hearts HD I.5 + II.5 Remix. While there won’t be a package including both games, Square Enix is preparing a box that can house both games like it’s commonly done for DVDs. It’ll probably be an e-Store bonus.
Kingdom Hearts HD 2.8 Final Chapter Prologue will release exclusively for PS4 in North America on January 24th, while Kingdom Hearts III will come for PS4 and Xbox One, and Final Fantasy VII Remake has been announced only for PS4. Both have no release windows just yet.
Nomura-san gave further information on Kingdom Hearts III in another recent interview, and you can read all about it here.


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Long-serving Duke basketball coach Mike Krzyzewski gave a relaxed remaining press convention to finish a 47 12 months profession, following his workforce’s 81-77 loss to the North Carolina Tar Heels within the Final Four.
“First of all, congratulations to North Carolina, ” Krzyzewski mentioned. “It was a game that the winner was going to be joyous and the loser was going to be in agony. And that’s the type of game we expected. We would have liked to have been on the other side of it, but I’m proud of what our guys have done.”
He added: “It’s not about me, especially right now. I’m just concerned about these guys. I mean, [they were] already crying on the court, and I mean, that’s the only thing I can think about.”
In the opposite recreation of the evening, the Kansas Jayhawks beat the Villanova Wildcats 81-65 to arrange the ultimate championship recreation for the 2022 males’s NCAA basketball match.
Kansas vs. Villanova
The Jayhawks, getting into Saturday’s recreation in opposition to Villanova because the No. 1 seed, dodged a repeat of their 2018 semifinals loss to Villanova. The workforce final received a nationwide championship in 2008.
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Kansas’ prime scorers, David McCormack and Ochai Agbaji, led the best way within the absence of Villanova’s second-leading scorer and powerful defender Justin Moore, who tore his Achilles tendon within the regional remaining win over Houston final week.
Duke vs. UNC
UNC star Caleb Love made a key 3-pointer and three late free throws to encourage his workforce to victory.
Before the sport, the 2 groups had performed one another 257 instances all through their historical past, however had by no means confronted off within the NCAA match earlier than.
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Blue Devils coach Mike Krzyzewski had been searching for redemption and a neat epilogue to his legacy. He retires the winningest coach in Division I males’s basketball historical past.


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"Substrate Identification Using Engineered Cyclin-Dependent Kinases"
Phosphorylations are common modifications to cellular proteins and play and important role in virutally every cellular process. Protein kinases represent the largest enzyme family in human cells, but the identification of the direct cellular substrates of individual protein kinases remains the key challenge in the field. Recently, a novel method for detecting kinase substrates has been developed that introduces an engineered mutation within the kinase ATP-binding pocket. This allows the mutant kinase to utilize ATP analogs that are excluded by normal kinases, thus isolating the activity of the engineered kinase from the large pool for cellular kinases.
The Clurman laboratory has adapted this mutagenesis approach to detect direct targets for various G1-specific cyclin-dependent kinases (CDKs). They have generated several engineered CDKs carrying the relevant ATP-binding domain mutations. These engineered CDKs can use ATP analogs efficiently, and some no longer use normal ATP. They have also detected potential kinase substrates in cell lysates using radiolabeled ATP analogs. However, determination of both the identities of these proteins and their phosphorylation sites requires a tool such as mass spectrometry. Collaboration between these groups will combine the expertise and tools available to achieve the aims of this study: to identify novel substrates of human CDKs and study their roles in cell cycle regulation

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5 Key Strategies to Taking a Check in Hockey
Checking is an important part of the game at both ends of the ice in hockey, and a good, legal hit that separates a player from the puck is exciting to watch. For example, an effective check can stop an attack, keep the puck in the offensive zone, or cause a turnover that leads to a breakaway. Players in leagues where checking is allowed must learn to make a solid check and to effectively take a check from an opponent.
David A. Jensen, a former Olympian and NHL player who now owns and operates DAJ Hockey in Massachusetts says that his clinics on safe and effective body checking are among his most popular sessions. He argues that, like all hockey skills, reinforcement and practice of these checking techniques is vital to their becoming second nature to a player on the ice. Here are Jensen’s five keys to safely taking a check.
1. Keep Your Head Up and On a Swivel
Always skate with your head up and your head on a swivel, scanning the ice around you. One of the keys to any kind of on-ice safety is situational awareness. You must know what is going on around you and be aware of the other players near you. That way, you can anticipate any kind of contact, and be ready for it. The most dangerous kinds of checks—and the ones that can result in injury—are the ones where the player being checked doesn’t see it coming.
2. Take the Proper Angle to the Puck
To avoid a check that throws you into the boards—especially head first—approach the puck at an angle that doesn’t square your shoulders to the boards: Don’t skate straight at a puck that’s along the boards. Instead, when you’re about five feet from the puck, turn your body so you can pick up the puck at an angle such that any check will hit your outside hip and shoulder, rather than your back.
3. The Boards Are Your Friend
Although it may seem counterintuitive, it is safer to take a check when you are against the boards than it is to get hit several feet out from the boards. The boards provide a certain amount of give, lessening the impact, and the player making the check will usually bounce off. If you are off the boards just by a few feet, a check can throw you into them with a much bigger impact. Plus, being against the boards provides stability that will keep you on your feet. As Jensen puts it, “When you’re taking a check, the boards are your best friend.”
4. Maintain Your Hockey Stance
To protect yourself during a check, it is vital to maintain your hockey stance—with your knees bent and your weight centred. A common refrain to remember is, “Head up; Don’t duck.” By ducking, you throw off your balance, making yourself more likely to get hurt, and you may make your head the point of contact. The same goes for standing up. Although your impulse may be to stand more upright, you actually make yourself more vulnerable by doing this. A proper hockey stance is a solid, balanced foundation that will help you ride out the check safely.
5. Keep Skating
Although your impulse might be to slow down or stop to brace yourself for impact, you’re much more stable when you’re moving forward—just like it’s easier to stay up on a bicycle when you’re moving. It’s important that you continue to move your feet and skate through the check, which will put you in a much better position to get back in on the action afterward. As Jensen puts it, “Good skating is the foundation for every other hockey skill.”
Should Checking Be Allowed in Youth Hockey?
Maybe, although the introduction of checking in youth hockey is somewhat of a controversial topic. Over recent years, USA Hockey—the governing body for ice hockey in the United States—has pushed back the introduction of checking until the U14 level. This decision was intended to allow younger players to focus on developing good hockey skills and reducing injuries. But many coaches believe players would be better served to learn the proper checking techniques at a younger age, when they are less likely, because of their size, to cause injury through poor technique.
“When you get to the Bantam level, the size differences among players can be huge,” argues Jensen, “and with boys, testosterone levels are through the roof.” The result, he says, is that players are introduced to in-game checking in a situation where some players are built like adults, while others still look like kids. He believes that players should learn proper checking techniques earlier, so they are prepared for when size differences become more pronounced and the game becomes more aggressive.
There are pros and cons to each side of this argument—a simple Google search will provide hours of reading material—but no matter which camp you’re in, these five keys will help you play better and take checks more safely.

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Two people are dealing with serious injuries after a crash in Ludlow.
Police say the head-on collision happened Tuesday night at around 7:30 p.m. on Cady Street. Both drivers were reportedly pinned in their vehicles and had to be extricated. T
hey were taken to Baystate Medical Center.
There is no condition report available on either driver.
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Transport Minister Lisa Raitt and Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz announced Saturday that minimum grain volume requirements will be extended until March 28, 2015. This measure was initially introduced in March 2014.
The government has put in place volume requirements that are designed to move the remainder of last year’s crop along with this year’s crop and “ensure that the grain supply chain will return to normal operations. Ministers expect railways to provide reliable and predictable service to all shippers, all destinations, and throughout all corridors, as is their obligation as common carriers,” said a statement. Read more here.


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Audio: DJ Spinna "Summer Madness" feat. Fresh Daily & Daniel Joseph
On June 30th, DJ Spinna will be releasing his LP entitled Sonic Smash via High Water Music. The album has features from Phonte, Elzhi, Fresh Daily and more. Today we have the first leak from the project, "Summer Madness," featuring Fresh Daily and Daniel Joseph. After the jump watch vids of DJ Spinna flipping the classic "Summer Madness" break to construct the beat for this track.
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Economy on life support
Power supply worsens
Unending fuel queues nationwide
I feel your pains – Buhari
Just as President Muhammadu Buhari jetted out to China on another foreign trip weekend, a nationwide survey revealed that majority of Nigerians are going through the most unbearable agonising time in living memory.
According to the survey conducted by the Nigerian Pilot Sunday, the unending scarcity of premium motor spirit, PMS, (petrol), epileptic power supply, scarcity of funds, downturn in economic activities and unpaid salaries have compounded the woes of the citizens.
All over the 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, the queues for petrol is getting longer despite assurances from the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC that the queues will ease off by this weekend.
The product sells between N180 to N450 in most part of the country, while some Nigerians have chosen to sleep and keep vigil at petrol stations; others wake up as early as 4am to join the queues for petrol.
Apart from the hike in the cost of fuel, some petrol marketers are capitalising on the scarcity to rip off unsuspecting Nigerians by adjusting their pump meters and dispensing less than what is paid for by their customers.
Worst hit by the fuel scarcity are owners of small and medium scale businesses who are unable to continue production, since they rely on petrol to run electricity-generating plants.
Epileptic power supply has also resulted in higher demand for petrol by hapless Nigerians to power their generating sets and any other fuel consuming machines.
The erratic power supply in the country took a new dimension on March 31 when Nigeria’s power generation collapsed completely to zero megawatt and this persisted for about three hours.
As the electricity situation continues to worsen, despite the recent 45 per cent increase in electricity tariffs by the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission, NERC, Nigerians have been left with no other option than to provide alternate source of power for their homes and offices.
The bad situation going worst is hitting hard at workers in several states where the state government has not been able to pay their salaries for several months.
In some states, the state government has slashed the salaries of the workers to between 40 to 60 percent. Even with the slash in salaries, the state governments still owe the workers backlog of outstanding salaries.
As a result of the poor state of the Nigerian mono-economy, the nation’s currency has been hovering between N318 to over N320 to the dollar in the parallel market.
Worried by this development, the organised labour has already alerted the federal government about the looming total collapse of the nation’s economy.
Speaking at the opening of the Central Working Committee meeting of the Nigerian Labour Congress, NLC, in Abuja last Wednesday, the NLC President, Ayuba Wabba, lamented that Nigeria and its people were facing serious economic decline, saying that workers were worse hit, as they have once again been sacrificed for the failings of the political elite.
Wabba noted that in spite of the measures by President Buhari to rebuild the economy through renewing and strengthening of relations with nations, signing of bilateral or trilateral agreements, creation of safe haven for investment, fighting corruption, tracking and recovering looted funds and resisting pressures to further devalue the naira. Despite all these efforts not much have been achieved, as the naira has continued to fall against major currencies, while inflation continued to rise, amid mounting commodity prices.
His words, “The productive sector continues to shrink with more loss of jobs. Very few employers are paying salaries as and when due, he said, stressing the need let the people know how serious the situation has become.”
Vice President Yemi Osinbajo yesterday got a picture of the agony in the land when he was received in Kano by demonstrators who chanted that they are suffering and going through difficulties.
Osinbajo was in Kano to inspect the Sabon Gari market recently gutted by fire.
“We are suffering, no fuel, no power, no money,” hundreds of Kano residents chanted on Saturday as they welcomed Vice President Yemi Osinbajo on a state visit.
The residents in Sabon Gari town were seen carrying placards with different inscriptions lamenting the current economic situation in one of Nigeria’s largest city.
However, President Buhari is raising the hope of Nigerians that their agony will soon be over as the government is sensitive to their plights.
The President spoke at the Vanguard Personality Award ceremony in Lagos on Friday, President Buhari said through the Minister of Information, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, that he was feeling their pains saying that mutterings about the new administration being a scam was not true.
“Distinguished ladies and gentlemen, let me use this opportunity to tell our compatriots that this administration is keenly aware of the difficulties they are facing at this time, resulting mostly from the fuel scarcity, poor power supply, inflation etc.
“As a government that was propelled into office by the power of the people, we cannot but feel the pains of our compatriots, and we deeply empathise with them.
“We are working round the clock to ease the pains of Nigerians, and the efforts of the government have started yielding fruits as we seek to make the petroleum products available nationwide, restore gas supply to the power generating firms, revive the economy and put Nigerians back to work.
“We understand that Nigerians have started questioning whether this indeed is the change they voted for, while some have even gone as far as saying that by voting for our party, Nigerians have entered one-chance.
“Well, I can tell Nigerians that our change agenda is real, and that indeed, they will get the change they voted for. Nigerians have not entered one-chance, because the one-chance drivers and their conductors have been driven out of town,” he said.

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Morg: Heyo! Enjoy this one guys!
Ikuto: Is it M?
Amu: Didn't you look at the listing?
Morg: I don't think he'd be asking if he had.
Ikuto: Morg's a smart girl. So?
Amu: Despite my arguments, it is.
Morg: Would you rather I write it a different way?
Amu: That'd be nice but I know you won't change it. Good thing you don't own us.
~Guardian of Light~
In the beginning, the world was created out of nothing. Out of the nothing came the powers of light and dark. To control these powers and bring order to the world, two were chosen. The Guardian of Light to watch over the day and the creatures that thrived by the light. The Angel of Darkness to watch over those that thrived during the night.
Their balance was complete. Day gave into night and night surrendered to day. The two became lovers, taking none other but each other. Their rule was absolute since it would take one to destroy the other.
The Guardian of Light was much loved by all she protected. The Angel of Darkness harbored fear in his creatures' hearts. Greed overtook him. He did not want to rule the day but he wanted to covet her. Out of his greed, the Angel of Darkness betrayed his lover and attempted to take her for solely his own.
The Knight of Light was created to try and restore the balance that was harshly overthrown. Due to his efforts, the Guardian was able to escape from the Angel. Being apart was not enough, however, without being together the two would age and reincarnate until they were once again reunited.
Until that day comes, the Angel of Darkness continues his rule over the world, leaving only pain and fear in his wake as he searches for his missing lover.
"It is my responsibility to watch over her. I will take the child into my care. No one shall know that she is different."
The older of the two smiled knowingly at the younger. "I will help you. We'll have to hide her powers and differences. You'll need my help."
The young man assigned to his queen smiled at his uncle. "Your help is greatly appreciated. We have much to protect her from."
"Amu-chan, you know that Tadase-kun does not like it when you wander outside without him."
The young girl lifted her big honey golden eyes to one of the men that had raised her. The sun was just setting and for some unknown reason, she felt a pang in her heart every time the night took over the day. "I'm sorry, Tsukasa-san. I like watching the sunset by myself."
The older man knew, he knew why she was awake the moment the sun rose and why she felt sadness when it set. Amu, however, could never know. "Come inside when you are done. Make sure you don't stray too far. I'll talk to Tadase-kun."
Amu nodded her thanks before turning back to the increasingly darkening sky. She did miss the sun when it went down for the day, but that wasn't the real reason that Amu now stood outside their small cottage on her own. If Tadase or Tsukasa were out there with her then she wouldn't show up. With Tsukasa now heading inside, Amu knew that she'd get to see her.
The trees shifted a little as the wind was disturbed. Amu loved it. She loved every second of her hair whipping around her face and the trees rustling their disapproval of the creature's entrance. Giggles filled the air as the giant beast landed once more upon the earth and tucked its massive wings to its sides. "Amu-chan."
"Rima! I'm so glad that you were able to make it today!"
The giant serpent slithered its head so that one giant eye was staring at the girl before it. "I enjoy visiting you, Amu-chan. Of course I'd come."
The young girl flushed excitedly upon hearing that a dragon enjoyed seeing her. Not many people could attest to that. "How was your day?"
One giant wing stretched out as Rima settled further down upon the earth. "Spent it soaring above the clouds and soaking in the sun's light. Today was a beautiful day to be out."
Sinking to sit on the ground with her legs crossed, Amu rested her chin on the palm of her hand with her elbow on her bent knee. "Is there anything bad about being able to fly?"
The dragon was silent for a moment before she turned to look back down at the girl she was visiting. "From the air, the destruction that the Angel of Darkness has caused is more visible. I see all the towns that were destroyed during the night and the fields that were burned. Graves, I see many graves."
That admission left the young girl to sit in her thoughts for a few moments. The world that she lived in was no mystery to her. Amu had heard, since she was a little girl, all about the wrath of the dark angel. Should anyone attempt to hinder his search in finding his lost lover, they would be put to death. The worst part of the story, at least to Amu, was the fact that rumors said that the only reason the Angel of Darkness wanted to find the girl he lost was so he could kill her. She didn't believe they could've been real lovers if he wanted to kill her now. "Rima, have you ever seen him?"
The dragon did not need the small human beside her to explain who she meant. "Yes, once. A long time ago when he called upon the creatures that roamed during the day to help in his search. Though, we will never truly serve him. We're to be looking for a girl with pink hair."
"Amu-chan! Amu-chan! It's dark out now! You need to come in!"
Hearing Tadase calling for her only meant that Amu had a few moments before she needed to be inside or else he'd come out and get her. Tadase had met Rima in the past, though the two didn't get along well with each other. They did, however, respect each other. "I wish I could stay out here with you longer, Rima. I enjoy your visits as well! Come again soon!"
Waiting until the girl entered the safety of her own home, Rima spread her wings and took flight. She was a creature of the light. Rima knew what she knew. Nothing could fool her.
The darkness crept over the room, bringing to life its occupants. The woman stretched her body out, feeling her bones snap into place. Tonight she would do as her master wished. She'd bring the Guardian to him and the search would end. The Dame of Dark was created after the fall of her master to bring a tiny semblance of order back to the world. She carried out his orders to find his lover without sparing mercy.
In the next room, her master was waiting for her. "Lulu, I suggest that you hurry up and get in here."
Angering her master meant things worse than death. Things that could even scare her. "Yes master."
Sitting on his dark throne was the angel himself. Not many got an audience with the man that now ruled over both the dark and the light with the same iron fist. She'd been a lot more understanding and just whereas he simply told people what to do and punished those that didn't listen. "A dragon was spotted. Find it. Dragons are creatures that know more than they should. Bring it back here, unharmed."
Bowing her blonde head, Lulu obeyed the orders and left immediately taking Iru and Kairi with her to assist in the capturing.
Ikuto, the Angel of Darkness, sat back on his throne. Soon, soon he would have her back at his side to do whatever he pleased with. The replacements that he'd been bringing down to his castle never lasted long. Mere humans couldn't handle the amount of power that flowed through the air around him. At first they would get dizzy before their bodies would begin to deform. In the end, they'd change into some hideous monster with no sense of self left. Ikuto hated to be the one to kill them, but there was no longer a point to them if he couldn't use them. Their only purpose was to serve him with their bodies.
His latest snack had begun her transformations two days prior. Ikuto had only just killed her before meeting with Lulu. There wasn't a point in letting things get too bad. She'd cried when he'd told her that he no longer needed her, but Ikuto was immune to tears or sadness. Those emotions could not affect him from within or from out. He'd never felt sadness, just anger.
Realizing that life could get dull rather quickly without some kind of pet to distract him, Ikuto heaved himself up. At first he'd sent out one of his servants to bring the maidens back, but that quickly changed when they wouldn't bring what he wanted. Though, even Ikuto felt a little disappointed with every girl that he brought back to his castle. They weren't her so they'd never be right.
"Nagi, I'm going out."
The dark elf lifted his face to acknowledge what his master had said. "Sir."
Smirking, Ikuto made his way through the castle. Being the Angel of Darkness and it being night on the world at the moment, he could easily teleport or something along those lines, but walking seemed like a good way to kill some time. He did have plenty of it. The previous angels had left books and notes and other important information that he'd spent part of his eighteen years of life going through. They all said the same thing; he'd live a very long life but not forever without her. They should be reincarnating at the same time, making them the same age, but it was unknown to be a fact since they couldn't find her. Ikuto wasn't about to be like them though. He was going to find her and make her his. Until then, he'd just have to do with a replacement.
The cool air of the night wafted by him as he ghosted through the sky on dark wings. Flying was always a joy. The control he had over himself while in flight was unmatched by any other creature alive or dead.
The sound of wings, other than his own, met Ikuto's ears as he glided through the night. A burst of flames shot across the night sky. So Lulu had already met the dragon. Ikuto turned away from the battle. His second in command could handle herself and her prey. He needed to carry out his personal mission.
A roar filled the silent air along with the sounds of shattering wood. The fight had ended with them crashing into a small house alone on a hilltop. Ikuto paused in his flight when he heard the sound of a young girl screaming. The sound of her scream was just right to be the age that he was looking for anyways. Might as well save himself some time by checking to see if she was good enough for what he wanted. They never lasted more than a few weeks anyways.
Two men came into view. They both stood tall and proud with their blond hair gleaming whenever fire spurted across the sky. Between them was a younger girl. She looked to be about fifteen, but Ikuto wasn't certain. A girl that young was certain to be just what he was looking for. Experienced women had never held much for him. He liked them young and innocent.
The light gleamed off her wide eyes as she watched the creatures battle over their once standing home. Her own hair shone in the darkness but in a different way from the two beside her. Ikuto watched for a moment longer to see if she gripped one more than the other. If the girl was already in love with a man then the chances of her being pure were slim. This girl, however, held both hands tightly in her own without choosing one over the other. Ikuto smirked as he glided closer.
Before he could scoop her off her feet and wretch her free from the two holding her, the young girl turned her eyes to him. "Please! Please make them stop hurting Rima!"
Taken aback, Ikuto turned from staring into her eyes to the dragon fighting against Lulu, Kairi and Iru. "Lulu."
All movement ceased from his subordinates. They waited, frozen in the air for what their master had to say.
Ikuto smirked at their total loyalty. The dragon hung in the air, unsure of what was happening with her own battle but feeling the fear growing in her heart. The Angel of Darkness was there. One large eye shifted to where the young girl she'd been visiting stood with her protectors. Rima knew that even if her life was forfeit, she had to protect that girl. "What do you want with me, Angel of Darkness?"
A gasp was heard from the three on the ground. One moved to stand before the girl, but the other placed a hand on his shoulder while murmuring words to calm the younger man.
Ikuto ignored the humans to take in the large yellow dragon. "My business here tonight is not with you."
Rima lowered her massive body to the earth. She planted her feet firmly and curled her long tail around the three humans. "If you have come for the girl then you shall be disappointed. This may just be a human, but she is also my friend. I will not allow for you to take her and do unto what you have done to others."
Anger was always his quickest emotion. Ikuto felt it burn through him now. How dare a mere dragon try to fight with his orders? "To see you try and stop me will give me great pleasure, Creature of the Light."
Amu gasped again as Rima shot a line of fire towards the angel hovering above the ground. This man, this angel was the Angel of Darkness. The one she'd heard so much about. He was a man that was supposed to put more than just fear into people's hearts. Though the young girl didn't understand, he was here not for Rima but for her? What could he want with her?
Tsukasa's hand on his nephew did not move throughout all of what was happening. Luckily the dragon had enough sense to watch what she was saying and who she was saying it to. "Tadase, we must get Amu-chan out of here."
Nodding his head, the younger man pulled his shoulder free of the grasp and touched the side of the dragon. His thoughts were instantly transmitted to the creature's brain. You know who she is and why we must protect her now. Give us the chance we need to escape.
Whether the dragon heard or not was not shown on the outside. She did, however, lift her wings to shield the fact that Tadase was now pulling Amu and Tsukasa onto her back. "I will not try!"
Throwing her body into the air caused her passengers to jerk. Tsukasa sat just behind his young charge, holding onto her carefully so that she wouldn't fall as the dragon picked up speed. "It will be alright, Amu-chan. Just don't let go."
Seeing as the dragon was attempting to not only escape but also steel away the girl he had his eyes on, Ikuto smirked. The sun was gone. What the dragon hoped to accomplish without it was beyond him. The night was strictly his domain. "Iru, retrieve the girl."
Rima beat her wings as fast and as hard as she could. Her long body as stretched to its limit as she pushed herself to go harder than she knew she could at night. If the sun was up, she'd have already been long gone. 'They are pursuing us. I don't know how much longer I can keep us out of their reach!"
Tadase heard the dragon's words above the sound of the wind. He'd known that flying with the dragon would be risky, but they didn't have another option. Turning around where he sat, he faced the young girl behind him. "Amu-chan, if you want to be free you must do something for me. Wish with all of your heart that you'll make it out of this alive. Call out with your mind for anyone to help us."
Amu sat there and stared at the man she trusted before her. Never before had Tadase asked her to do something as he was now. Not knowing what her thoughts could possibly do to help them, Amu complied. Please, if anyone is there. Help us now.
With a puff of smoke, Iru appeared on the dragon's back. Rima felt her land and tried to shake her off without being able to do so. Tadase had no idea until the young demon had her arm around his throat. With a flick of her shoulder, she tossed him off the dragon.
Amu screamed. Tadase had always been there for her and now he was falling. "Rima! Catch him!"
The dragon could not disobey. Her body doubled back as the demon closed in on the young girl. Tsukasa kept his tight hold on Amu as he stared up at the young demon. "You won't be able to take her."
Iru smirked as she moved closer. One of her hands found its way onto Tsukasa's arm. A hot burning pain shot from her palm and up into his shoulder. "Let her go now and I'll let you keep your arm."
Tsukasa held firm while his eyes went blurry. The pain was almost too much for him to bear. Just before he let go, a puff of white smoke appeared and the demon was knocked off her feet. She fell, crying in anguish into the sky before puffing in a cloud of black smoke back to her master. "Angel, more creatures defend her than just the dragon."
Ikuto narrowed his eyes before he nodded towards Kairi. The young werewolf let out a howl, signaling to any other dark creature to come when their master called.
Tadase had resigned himself to using his powers when the dragon's claw wrapped around his falling body, halting his descent. "Rima?"
"She bade me catch you."
Tadase understood why Rima had not refused. It was impossible. "Get us out of here!"
Using her wings to push her harder, Rima continued her flight. "I'm trying!"
Amu clamped her hands down onto Tsukasa's arms. "What did she do to you?"
Feeling that her touch was already canceling out what the young demon had done to him, Tsukasa's breathing began to calm down once again. "Do not worry; I'll be just fine in a moment. Just hang on."
Amu did not like this one bit. Tadase had almost died and Tsukasa had been injured. She also knew that the dragon would not make it much further. "Tsukasa, what was that thing that saved us?"
Before the man could respond a loud howl filled the air. Amu remembered the creature that had been there trying to capture Rima. He'd looked like a dog but a human at the same time.
Sliding her eyes to the side, Amu noticed a girl she'd never seen before. "Who are you?"
"I came because you called. I am Eru, a cherub. I'll protect you."
The young angel like girl vanished in a puff of white smoke just as the same demon girl from before leapt onto the spot she'd been sitting in. "Iru will not fail her master twice!"
The puff of white reappeared as the two girls tumbled while wrestling off the dragon and into the night. Amu didn't want anything to happen to either of them as they fell, but there was little she could do to help the girls. Besides, they could both disappear and reappear. No sooner had she thought that then Eru was back to sitting beside her. "I will protect you, mist-"
The demon girl reappeared and snatched the cherub from the back of the dragon, disappearing into the night. Amu saw no more of either of them.
Rima was growing tired. She knew that their flight was going to be over soon, simply because she did not have the strength to keep going. A silvery figure caught her eye as it raced across the ground. The horn upon its head shone bright in the night. Rima knew that the unicorn could be trusted. Creatures of the Light could only obey one master and she was not the Angel of Darkness. "Tadase!"
"I see her! Bring us lower, Rima!"
As soon as he was close enough to the ground, Rima released the boy she held in her claw. Tadase leapt as he felt the tight grip on his body loosen so that he'd be able to control how he fell. Just before he hit the ground, he rolled into a ball and used his momentum to spring to his feet. "Unicorn! The mistress has need of you!"
The bright white animal turned in its gallop to circle back around to the man. "My mistress shall be served!"
Tadase nodded his approval. "You shall carry her to a safe location. Do not say anything to her since her identity is a secret even unto herself."
The unicorn tossed its head in acknowledgement before racing after the lowering dragon. Tadase sprinted right after her.
Amu knew that they were getting lower to the ground, she did not, however, know why. "Rima! Rima, are you okay?"
The large dragon would have laughed if she'd had the energy to do so. "I'm fine little human, just tired."
Glad to hear that her dragon friend was okay, Amu shifted her gaze to see an object approaching through the night sky. Before she could point it out, the creature seized her by her shirt and lifted her and Tsukasa off the dragon and into the air.
Tsukasa knew better than to let go of the girl he had his arms firmly around. "Pegasus, let go of us!"
The horse snorted through its nose as it continued to fly off into the night. Tadase watched from the ground for only a second before he leapt back onto the dragon and bid her to fly. "Rima!"
The exhausted dragon once again lifted into the air as she pursued her stolen passengers. "I won't be able to catch them."
"I can't transform unless I want to give her away. The Angel only thinks that we are protecting a human girl from him. If we reveal who she is…"
Rima didn't want to hear about that. Her vision was failing but she could feel the sun returning to the earth. The night was far from being over but if she could just hang on a little longer than she'd be able to save Amu and escape. Then her vision went black.
Tsukasa didn't know for how much longer he could hang on, but he knew he had to try. The flying horse had begun to shake his burden in an effort to lighten it, but the human man refused to let go of the girl.
Amu knew that if this held out for much longer then they'd both end up getting hurt. "Tsukasa, please just let go." Someone save him.
Before Tsukasa had a chance to respond, a puff of white smoke made him disappear from Amu's sight.
Feeling that his load was now significantly lighter, the Pegasus turned his body around and shot back through the night air to where his master stood waiting. Amu was dropped at his feet.
Leaning down, Ikuto a handful of her blonde hair and pulled her to her feet. "Foolish creatures thought that they could win against me in the night. You are mine now until you go crazy and I kill you."
Amu swallowed hard. This angel was beautiful though his words were harsh. Even though she knew she should be frightened, no fear entered her mind.
Morg: That was a lot longer that I originally planned.
Ikuto: That fight scene was epic!
Amu: I only hope that everyone else was able to follow along.
Morg: Review if it was too confusing then!
Ikuto: I'm excited to see what I'm going to be doing with my little Amu!
Amu: Yeah, why is my hair blonde?
Morg: You'll just have to wait until the next chapter to find out!


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MHI will preview the 2020 Annual Industry Report-Embracing the Digital Mindset: Connecting Data, Talent and Technology in Digital Supply Chains during the March 11 keynote at MODEX.
During the keynote, Thomas Boykin of Deloitte will join George W. Prest, CEO of MHI to present the findings of the 2020 report that details the innovations that are driving this change from traditional to digital supply chains. This is the seventh MHI Annual Industry Report released by MHI in collaboration with Deloitte Consulting.
They will be joined by a panel of manufacturing and supply chain professionals to discuss the real-world significance of the report findings. Panelists include:
—Wim Appelo, Worldwide Vice President of Supply Chain Strategy, Innovation & Deployment, Johnson & Johnson
—Randy V. Bradley, Assistant Professor of Information Systems and Supply Chain Management , Haslam College of Business, The University of Tennessee
—Arpana Brahmbhatt, US Industry Solutions - Manufacturing, Microsoft
—Rick Faulk, CEO, Locus Robotics
The keynote will take place on March 11 at 8:45 AM in the Thomas Murphy Ballroom at Atlanta’s Georgia World Congress Center.
MODEX will be held at at Atlanta’s Georgia World Congress Center from March 9-12, 2020. To attend MODEX and this keynote, register at modex.com
. The report will be available for download on March 11 at mhi.org/publications/report
MHI is an international trade association that has represented the material handling, logistics and supply chain industry since 1945. MHI members include material handling, logistics and supply chain equipment and systems manufacturers, integrators, consultants, publishers, and third-party logistics providers. The association sponsors trade events, such as ProMat and MODEX to showcase the products and services of its member companies and to educate manufacturing and supply chain professionals on the productivity solutions provided through material handling and logistics.
Contact: Carol Miller
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Sticklebricks are one of the best construction systems for younger children. The pieces are easily assembled with a simple push fit and even the youngest child can experience the satisfaction of creating something. Sets come in tubs or school trays ranging from 50 pieces for little hands to 250 pieces suitable for groups of 4 to 5 children.
Brightly coloured and in a range of shapes and sizes, Sticklebricks will give hours of creative fun to toddlers and primary school children alike. Set contains character heads to add variety and interest, and wheel and axle components to make models which really go.
In a more structured situation, the bricks can be used for shape and colour sorting, and as manipulatives for simple maths.
Brand New Set for 2014 – The Baby Bucket is the first set for children aged 1 and upwards to begin developing creative skills and recognising colours and shapes.


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The Zehnder ComfoAir 70 is a compact ductless energy-recovery ventilator (ERV)
The Zehnder ComfoAir 70 compact ductless energy-recovery ventilator (ERV) provides tempered fresh air to 600 square feet of living space - ideal for Tiny houses. This “spot ERV" drop-in doesn’t require any ductwork and has filtered supply-air and exhaust-air venting, as well as a washable ERV core (the enthalpy exchanger). The controls provide for four power levels with a maximum fan speed of 30 cfm. The best way to use the ComfoAir 70 is to ‘set it and forget it’, running the equipment continuously on mid-range speeds, but bumping the speed up to the maximum 30-cfm setting for when there are more people in the space or when cooking or in colder temperatures where condensation on windows may occur otherwise.

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Loss is always traumatic, but for those who have lost a child it can feel unbearable. Losing a child seems to go against life’s natural order, and is a devastating loss for a parent. Losing an unborn child, while less visible to other people, is also very difficult for parents. In either situation, it can be hard to know how to help.
Perhaps the best place to start is to know what not to say or do:
- Don’t use clichés. Saying things such as “God needed another angel,” “She’s in a better place” or “Everything happens for a reason” might seem helpful, but can actually trivialize the loss.
- Never say “at least.” Saying “At least you have another child,” “At least your pregnancy wasn’t further along” or similar things is another way to minimize the grieving parents’ experience. There’s no “at least” that makes this experience less painful, and it’s better to offer comfort by simply saying “I’m sorry” or even simply “I don’t know what to say.”
- Remember that children are irreplaceable. Don’t say “You can have another child.”
- Don’t rush the grieving process. There’s no set time for mourning. Even if you think your friend has had enough time to grieve and should move on from the loss, it’s not a sentiment you should ever express. Instead, be patient and kind, understanding that healing is a process.
Here are some helpful things to say and do:
- Do offer practical help. Suggest things you are willing to do to help. Maybe other children in the family need care or just a fun outing for respite during a hard time. Perhaps you can bring a meal or organize a meal train to supply the family with food for several days. Maybe they could use help with cleaning or laundry. Think practically, and then act on your ideas rather than waiting to be asked to help.
- Do something symbolic to honor the loss. Make a donation to charity in the name of the child who has died. Plant a tree. Volunteer with other children, in that child’s honor. Let the parents know you are grieving with them and that you want to honor the life their child lived.
- Be there. Sometimes being present is the best gift you can give a grieving parent. You don’t have to say anything wise or anything at all. Just let the parents know they matter to you, their child mattered to you and you want to be there to support them.
If you’ve suffered a loss, Greenwood wants to help. We’ve served families in the community for more than a century, helping to create services that honor and celebrate the life lived while respecting the wishes of the family. Call (619) 450-1479 to learn how we can be there for you and help you begin to heal.

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The Mario Veda, a series of works executed between March of 2004 and May of 2006, illustrates what I believe to be an evolution in my intellectual and emotional development, and may represent some of the self knowledge I gained while living in Springfield, Illinois. Initially a reference to a set of characters from video games on the Nintendo platform, the characters quickly evolved, becoming stand-ins for particular situations and experiences. I’ll leave the particulars to your imagination.
Here (and in no particular order) you’ll find a bunch of random stuff—early work, academic paintings, and a few prints—that didn’t really fit anywhere else.
Wax On/Wax Off: a method of practicing a particular punch blocking technique, developed by the fictional martial arts master Kesuke Miyagi; also a series of paintings I executed in June and July of 2005. I silkscreened wooden panels and then covered them with encaustic (a mixture of oil paint or construction chalk, beeswax and paraffin). In the triptychs, the patterns symbolize three responses to questions posed in the title of the work: yes, maybe, no.
This short series of paintings, executed in the Spring of 2005, was inspired by the Abstraktes Bild series of paintings by Gerhard Richter. I used a set of putty knives to apply thin layers of acrylic paint to dry-erase marker board, resulting in the illusion of depth and creating a striking luminous effect.


- A new paper published by the Annenberg Institute at Brown University this month suggests that the presence of a black principal at a school increases the likelihood of hiring new black teachers by up to 7%, in addition to increasing the likelihood of retaining them, Education Week reports.
- The study, which was conducted by researchers at Vanderbilt University, focused on schools in Missouri and Tennessee and suggests black principals have better success with diversity hiring because they are drawing from different networks to find teachers, are more likely to draw qualified black teachers who prefer to work for black principals, and are more likely to hire black candidates than white principals are.
- The study also found black students are more likely to have higher math scores under black teachers, but they also had positive gains under the leadership of a black principal even if black teachers weren’t present. This could be because of the effect of a black principal on school culture, the difference in discipline policies under a black principal, and the effect of having black leaders as role models, one of the paper's authors suggests.
While studies have shown the benefits of increasing diversity on the teacher workforce, teachers of color are still underrepresented in comparison with student demographics at most schools. School districts do better when they provide better incentives to attract teachers of color and better support in order to retain them.
But one of the best methods of increasing teacher diversity is to hire more principals of color, this new study shows. Teachers of color often feel more comfortable working for principals of the same race because they tend to better understand the challenges they may face and the advantages they can offer in the classroom. Black principals may also often have stronger connections with historically black universities or other sources of potential teacher candidates that can help form a more diverse faculty, as well.
The paper suggests school districts can benefit by expanding networks to include a larger pool of teacher candidates of color, hiring more principals of color, strengthening the principal pipeline by identifying great teachers of color and encouraging their development and advancement, and gaining a better understanding of the hiring practices of successful black principals.
However, recruitment for both teachers and principals of color has remained largely stagnant over the past few decades and is one of the biggest problems in hiring educators. Schools need to do a better job of convincing promising students of color to pursue educational career pathways so there is a larger pool of teacher candidates to choose from. They need to strengthen diverse teacher and principal pipelines. They also need to research and develop better strategies and practices for finding candidates of color, attracting them to the school district, and retaining them when they get there. While this is not always easy, it seems that developing talent within the district and expanding the number of principals of color may be a worthwhile place to start.


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Delegates launched the Việt Nam digital map platform - Vmap and the Humanitarian Information System – iNhandao at a ceremony on Tuesday in Hà Nội. — VNS/Photo Thanh Hải
HÀ NỘI — The Việt Nam Digital Map Data Platform (Vmap) and the Humanitarian Information System (iNhandao) were launched at a ceremony on Tuesday in Hà Nội.
At the launching ceremony Deputy Prime Minister Vũ Đức Đam called on organisations and the donor community to support the development of the project on developing the Vietnamese Digital Knowledge system and iNhandao.
“Myself and those who have worked on the first phase of the Vietnamese knowledge system project are feeling glad now that the seeds of knowledge sharing, community connectivity and innovation encouragements that we have sowed a year ago have started germinating,” said Đam.
“Many young people from the Việt Nam Academy of Science and Technology, FPT Corporation, the Vietnam Post, and many other organisations and groups, have participated in the project and contributed their efforts voluntarily, for the benefits of the community," the Deputy PM said.
One of the most basic data platforms for each country is a map and an address data layer. Việt Nam needs to build its own online map to manage data source and meet the need of searching for information and addresses of Vietnamese users that existing platforms have not met yet.
Vmap was developed by the Việt Nam Post Corporation (VietnamPost) in collaboration with the Central Committee of Hồ Chí Minh Communist Youth Union and the Hà Nội National University.
To collect map data, more than 120,000 post office staffs and union members and youths across the country travelled to each street corner and village to collect information. The data will be integrated and posted on Việt Nam's digital map at https://map.itrithuc.vn/ and https://vmap.vn.
Vmap now has more than 23.4 million address data points across the country. In addition to basic features such as address search and directions, Vmap will display a separate map layer of all areas of life and display detailed addresses for each house number, whether in urban or rural, mountains and remote areas.
Vmap includes a background map database system like map layer on border, administration, traffic, rivers, co-ordinates information, support information of objects like landmarks, schools, hospitals, pharmacies, hotels and residential addresses but also provides the electronic humanitarian address maps, iNhandao, to support the implementation of humanitarian activities.
The iNhandao system, https://nhandao.itrithuc.vn, will display information about humanitarian addresses proposed by the user community across the country such as lonely elderly people, people with serious diseases, and people in areas affected by natural disasters.
iNhandao was developed by the Việt Nam Red Cross Society in collaboration with FPT Corporation to create an open access channel and to connect people in need of relief with donors.
The iNhandao system has developed humanitarian address data. Since its operation, the Red Cross societies at 63 provinces and cities have surveyed nearly 60,000 humanitarian addresses, of which 17,000 were updated to iNhandao system. It will contribute to improving the efficiency and quality of humanitarian assistance activities of the Vietnam Red Cross through digital map system and electronic applications.
Minister of Information and Communications Nguyễn Mạnh Hùng said iNhandao would help unite Vietnamese people to build a good and sustainable society.
Launched in January 2018, the Vietnamese Digital Knowledge system project aims to develop a data and knowledge platform relating to all social life fields. To date, the project has formed a platform system with functions and tools that allow the collection, processing and sharing of shared data for a number of fields.
“The project on developing Vietnamese Digital Knowledge system is a long-term and important programme of the Government that is built basing on latest technologies such as AI and BigData. With collaboration of big companies, groups and startups, the project’s results will be applied to create applications that connects and shares data and knowledge with community,” said Minister of Science and Technology Chu Ngọc Anh. — VNS


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The Mung Bean Boost!
Here is a list to summarize some of the important nutrients that we can get from sprouting mung beans that gives good benefits to our health
- A - for the development and maintenance of healthy eyes, gums, teeth, skin, hair, and selected glands. It is also needed for fat metabolism
- B- important in forming new blood cells, aids in metabolism, promotes use of sugar to maximize energy, required for tissue integrity, and for good functions of the nervous system and the heart.
- C - for tissue repair and growth, also required to maximize iron absorption in the body and for the formation of collagen.
- E - promotes skin health through timely cell regeneration, aids the formation of blood cells, muscles, and other tissues.
- Iron - needed for hemoglobin regeneration to supply oxygen in all parts the body through the blood. Also to prevent iron deficiency anemia (IDA)
- Zinc - for proper function of digestion, also helps in the biochemical reactions in the body, and promotes strong immune system.
- calcium - aids in strengthening the bones and serves as an important electrolyte in maintaining muscle contraction and rhythmic heart beat.
- potassium - promotes good nerve impulses and regulates the rhythm of the heart and all other muscle contraction. this is the major cation inside the cells that regulates and maintains osmolality of cell fluid.
- magnesium - activates many enzymes for metabolism and like potassium it helps in regulating the proper rhythm of the heart and other muscle contractions. it also has the capacity to relax a blood vessel that results to decreased peripheral resistance of the blood to the vessel wall and decreasing the blood pressure.
Those are just some of the beneficial micro-nutrients that we can get from the sprouting beans. It is also good for those who are suffering from diabetes. Sprouting mung beans benefits are really amazing, there is so much that we can get from that tiny sprout!
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Healthy Recipes with Mung Beans
Mung beans are not just filled with different healthy benefits, but it is also filled with different and delicious ways of cooking! Enjoy both the healthy benefits and the delicious recipes that all comes from this wonderful tiny green seed!
Below are some resource link to videos about mung beans and hoe to prepare them!
- Brooks Heart Healthy Cooking Class: Sprouted Mung Beans
- Betty's Mung Bean Salad Recipe
- Whole Green Mung Daal Recipe Video
- Sprouted Mung Bean Recipes
Here you can find some written recipes for you to follow:
- Cucumber Sesame Salad and Mung Bean Salad with Croutons Recipes
- Mung Bean Recipes
- Hearty Whole Mung Bean Soup
- Mung Bean Casserole
These are just some of the many healthy and delicious recipes that mung beans and sprouted mung beans can provide! Varieties of this recipes originates from the different corners of the world. This only proves that the taste of mung beans are recognized and enjoyed world wide!
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Ahead of China visit, Philippine leader says no sense in war
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President Rodrigo Duterte speaks during a gathering of businessmen in Pasay city, Metro Manila, Philippines, October 13, 2016. REUTERS/Erik De Castro
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BEIJING (Reuters) - There is no sense in going to war over the disputed South China Sea as talks are far better, Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte told China's official Xinhua news agency, praising China for not criticizing his country, unlike Western nations.
Duterte goes to China on Tuesday with at least 200 members of the Philippine business elite to pave the way for what he calls a new commercial alliance, amid deteriorating ties with longtime ally the United States.
On Sunday, Duterte said he would raise a controversial arbitral ruling on the South China Sea with China's leaders and vowed not to surrender any sovereignty or deviate from the July award by the tribunal in the Hague.
The ruling dealt a blow to China's extensive claims in the South China Sea. Beijing has refused to recognize the case and has chided any country telling it to abide by the ruling.
In the Xinhua interview published on Monday, Duterte said he wanted negotiation, not confrontation, over the South China Sea.
"There is no sense in going to war. There is no sense fighting over a body of water," Duterte said.
In Brunei, Philippine Foreign Secretary Perfecto Yasay said the South China Sea issue was not the sum total of the relationship between China and the Philippines, but the time was not yet right to discuss resolving it.
"We still have to build up the lost trust and confidence that was weakened or eroded during the past administration," Yasay told reporters.
"But then we should not also miss out on the opportunities for trade and economic relationship that we would need as much as China."
Duterte also expressed gratitude to China for not criticizing his war on drugs, which has sparked concerns in Western capitals about extrajudicial killings, with Philippine police saying it has killed nearly 2,300 people.
"China never criticizes," Duterte said in the Xinhua interview. "They help us quietly."
The unpredictable president's moves to engage China, just a few months after the arbitral award sparked fears in the region of a backlash by Beijing in the South China Sea, mark a striking reversal in Philippine foreign policy since he took office on June 30.
Duterte told Xinhua his grandfather is Chinese.
"It's only China (that) can help us."
China's Foreign Ministry earlier sought to downplay Duterte's Sunday remarks on the arbitration.
Asked about his comments, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said Duterte would make his policy in the best interests of his country and people.
"China's door has always been open to the Philippines, and I think you've also noticed that President Duterte has many times said he wants dialogue with China," she added.
(Editing by Clarence Fernandez)
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The UAE’s position is firm in its rejection of “military solutions” in Ukraine, according to Dr Anwar Gargash, diplomatic adviser to President Sheikh Khalifa, who called for a diplomatic resolution to the unfolding crisis…reports Asian Lite News
“The UAE’s position is firm on the basic principles of the United Nations, international law, state sovereignty, and its rejection of military solutions,” said Gargash. “We believe that alignment and positioning will only lead to more violence, and in the Ukrainian crisis, our priorities are to encourage all parties to adopt diplomacy and negotiate to find a political settlement that ends this crisis.”
He said the world is facing “a difficult test and severe polarization” imposed by the Ukrainian crisis, which “threatens the foundations of the international community and increases the factors of instability.”
“From our experience in a region full of crises, we believe that political solutions and creating balances that enhance security and stability are the best way to confront crises and limit their effects,” he added.
Meanwhile, India, China and the UAE have abstained for the third time on a Security Council vote on Ukraine. The three became the only countries to abstain on Sunday on a procedural vote to have the 193-member General Assembly take up the Russian invasion of Ukraine at an emergency meeting.
Russia’s negative vote did not have the power of a veto and it passed with the support of 11 members from Europe, the Americas and Africa in the 15-member Council.
This is the first time the Council has called for an emergency meeting of the Assembly in 40 years — the last one was in 1982 after the US vetoed a resolution on the Israeli occupation of the Syrian Golan Heights.
ALSO READ: Ukraine to send delegation for talks
The General Assembly is scheduled to meet for the emergency session on Monday at 10 a.m. local time (8.30 p.m. in India) and consider a resolution condemning Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and demand it withdraw its troops immediately that had been vetoed by Russia in the Security Council on Friday.
Meanwhile, Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered the country’s deterrence forces to be placed on “a special mode of combat duty” in a meeting with top defence officials.
Senior officials of leading NATO members issued “aggressive statements” against Russia, Putin on Sunday said at a meeting with Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu and Chief of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces, Valery Gerasimov.

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The U.S. produces more corn than any other crop, with American farmers selling $5.3 billion of it to China last year. But China has spent years courting other producers as it is relying more on Brazil and other Latin American countries. China is also exploring ways to become self-sufficient long-term through embracing new technology and better farming education.
WSJ explains why growing its own grains has been such a struggle for China and how it has been trying to wean itself off of its reliance on U.S. corn production.
0:00 China’s corn demand
1:01 China’s struggles
2:57 International partnerships
U.S. vs. China
This original video series explores the rivalry between the two superpowers’ competing efforts to develop the technologies that are reshaping our world.
#China #Food #WSJ

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05.04.2017 - 08.04.2017 — Hall: F11.0 Stand: A 01
The challenge was to develop a new type of construction, which improves the sound of an e-guitar in its origin (in the emergence of sound), compare to those of the industry-standard solid wood body processing from a single piece. For this purpose, a "sandwich construction" developed, which consists of 3 layers (3D wood veneer / aluminium frame / wood veneer3D). The combination of these materials affect tone development to more reverb (hall effect) and adding warmth (3D wood veneer). As a further challenge, a completely new electric guitar design was developed that correlates to no other already-existing ones. Production method was developed to be suitable for mass production. The new type of construction, design as also innovative individual elements in the guitar are protected by patents.
Market. 2012 There are about 7 million electric guitars exports worldwide. Since 2010, the export volume of cheap manufacturing countries (eg China, Indonesia, South Korea) decreased by 1/3 over 9 million to 6 million, there is an increased demand for high-quality electric guitars. Relish Guitars Switzerland manufactures premium & innovative electric guitars in higher price segment.
The communicative principle. The company Relish Brothers AG wants its product "Relish Guitars Switzerland", as a niche product, in the next 5 to 10 years we seek to broader global market presence. With its unique and innovative products they offer the highest quality in the field of guitar making. As a sustainable company, we are providing guitars in the higher price segment to the very best quality to satisfy their customers.


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The eyelids and tears protect the eye while allowing clear access to light rays entering the eye. Tears contain 3 layers: water, mucous, and oil. The lacrimal (tear) glands produce the water layer. The lacrimal glands, located at the top outer edge of each eye (see figure Where Tears Come From.
What protects the front of the eyeball?
The clear front of your eye is called the cornea. This transparent disc sits over the pupil and iris, protecting them and letting in light.
What protects the eye from danger?
Like safety glasses, safety goggles are highly impact-resistant. In addition, they provide a secure shield around the entire eye and protect against hazards coming from any direction. Goggles can be worn over prescription glasses and contact lenses. Face shields and helmets.
Does the cornea protect the eye?
Cornea and sclera constitute the outer covering or coat of the eyeball. The main purpose of this coat is to protect structures inside the eye. The cornea is a transparent avascular tissue that acts as a structural barrier and protects the eye against infections.
How are our eyes protected?
The visible part of the eye is protected by the eyelids and the eyelashes, which help keep dirt, dust, and even harmful bright light out of the eye. Eyes are also protected by tears, which moisten them and clean out dirt, dust, and other irritants that get past the defenses of the eyelashes and eyelids.
What are the 3 main types of eye protection?
Three main types of eye protection exist, each with advantages and disadvantages. They are safety glasses, goggles, and face shields. Safety Glasses: Safety glasses have shatter-resistant lenses made of materials like polycarbonate or propionate plastic with side shields.
Do eyebrows protect your eyes?
However, even though they are farther away from the eye than eyelashes are, they still play an important role in protecting the eyes. Eyebrows ensure that any liquid, whether sweat or rain, does not flow down into the eyes. The eyebrows push the fluid away from the eyes and towards the side of the face instead.
What are 5 ways to protect your eyes?
Medical News Today present five ways to protect your eyes from damage and disease and maintain healthy sight.
- Go for regular eye exams. …
- Eat vision-healthy foods. …
- Keep your weight under control. …
- Wear sunglasses when outside. …
- Rest your eyes regularly.
What is stroma cornea?
Anatomical terminology. The stroma of the cornea (or substantia propria) is a fibrous, tough, unyielding, perfectly transparent and the thickest layer of the cornea of the eye. It is between Bowman’s membrane anteriorly, and Descemet’s membrane posteriorly.
What protects cornea?
The cornea is the clear outer layer of your eye. It helps your eyes focus and keeps germs and particles out of your eye. Wear sunglasses when you’re outside. Protect your corneas by wearing goggles or safety glasses when dust or other particles could fly into your eye.
What is the white of the eyes?
The sclera is the dense connective tissue of the eyeball that forms the “white” of the eye. It is continuous with the stroma layer of the cornea. The junction between the white sclera and the clear cornea is called the limbus.
How does the skull protect the eye?
The upper and lower eyelids close over the anterior surface of the eye, and the lacrimal apparatus, a system of glands and ducts, keeps a continuous flow of tears washing across the exposed sur face so that it remains moist and free of debris.
Are eyes brain matter?
The eye is an extension of the brain, and contains nerve tissue in the light sensitive layer, the retina.
Is minus 5 eyesight bad?
A number between +/-2.25 to +/- 5.00 indicates moderate nearsightedness or farsightedness. A number greater than +/- 5.00 indicates severe nearsightedness or farsightedness.

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Physical Principles of Food Preservation: Second Edition, Revised and Expanded
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BeschreibungThis reference examines the properties, conditions, and theoretical principles governing the safety and efficacy of various food preservation, storage, and packaging techniques. The book analyzes methods to predict and optimize the nutrition, texture, and quality of food compounds while reducing operating cost and waste. The Second Edition contains new chapters and discussions on non-thermal processes; the mechanisms of heat transfer, including conduction, convection, radiation, and dielectric and microwave heating; the kinetic parameters of food process operations; freezing technology, using illustrative examples; recent breakthroughs in cryochemistry and cryobiology, and more.
Inhaltsverzeichnister Reed and James K. Stoops.
Pressestimmen"vast amounts of new information have been added.It [will be] of great value." Owen Fennema, Professor of Food Chemistry, University of Wisconsin-Madison, U.S.A. "an important contribution to the field of food technology." Food Technology "an excellent monographa valuable asset to those who are interested in food science." Journal of Food Science and Technology "the wealth of general information presented makes it a good survey book for anyone who is interested in the food industry." Journal of the American Oil Chemists' Society
Untertitel: 'Food Science and Technology'. Revised. Sprache: Englisch.
Verlag: MARCEL DEKKER INC
Erscheinungsdatum: Juni 2003
Seitenanzahl: 636 Seiten


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Gap swaps logo after outcry
SAN FRANCISCO — After criticism from customers, Gap Inc. has aborted a new logo and will revert to the blue-square emblem featured in its marketing for more than 20 years.
The clothing retailer released a redesigned logo on its website Oct. 4 and had planned to roll it out in marketing campaigns starting next month. More than 1,000 people left comments on Gap’s Facebook page, a majority of them disparaging.
“We’ve learned a lot in this process,” Marka Hansen, the Gap brand president in North America, said in an e-mail. “We are clear that we did not go about this in the right way. We recognize that we missed the opportunity to engage with the online community. This wasn’t the right project at the right time for crowd-sourcing.”
The new logo set the Gap name against a white backdrop, with a blue square in the upper-right corner. Gap, which owns Banana Republic, Old Navy, Piperlime and Athleta, has been updating its clothing lines and stores to appeal to so-called millennials — consumers in their 20s and early 30s.
Two days after the logo release, Gap responded to the outcry on its Facebook page, welcoming design suggestions and calling it a crowd-sourcing project.
“There may be a time to evolve our logo, but if and when that time comes, we’ll handle it in a different way,” Hansen said.


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Logic released YSIV at the end of September and now he kicks off a new series with “Freestyle Friday Vol. 1.”
The Maryland rapper hit his social media accounts with in-studio footage of himself rapping the song yesterday.
The Bobby Tarantino II artist sat down for a rare interview with Rob Markman last month, but he’s otherwise been quiet since the arrival of his latest lbum.
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