Chocolate "crisis", the first single-line railway linking Mexico to Canada, Tate & Lyle, Samson's lion & zoom music.
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Ono Tadashige, Holy Mother in Metro Source: Artelino
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Cocoa prices are surging - a “crisis” for choco-addicts maybe. Good for the producers.
Chinese turbines - Russian LNG
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CPKC is the first and currently the only single-line railway connecting Canada, Mexico, and the United States, operating approximately 32,000 kilometres (20,000 mi) of rail across the three countries.
Canadian Pacific Kansas City (CPKC) began operations, the first railway line that commercially links Mexico, the United States and Canada in April 2023! . … The operation of this important railway line will foster economic development and attract new investment. It arose from the approval of the United States Land Transportation Board (STB), and the union of Canadian Pacific (CP) and Kansas City Southern (KCS), who determined April 14, 2023 as the first day of activities CP President and CEO Keith Creel said the tri-national rail line is unique and “will instantly inject new competition into the North American rail industry into supply chains … “. STB also mentioned that it will contribute to reducing carbon emissions by changing approximately 64,000 trucks per year from highways to rail.
Source: Invest Mexico Industry
The African demographic revolution
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Ono Tadashige, Birds - Tori
Schwarzman’s billions
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Zoom music
Finding the Phenomenal Oppen
“We awake in the same moment to ourselves and to things.” Jacques Maritain by way of George Oppen
Illuminating essay this by Forrest Gander.
Retiring the Rotting Lion
on Tuesday I learnt a shocking truth about Lyle’s Golden Syrup. In case you haven’t heard, it is this: the lovely green-and-gold logo does not depict a sleeping lion but a dead one — a rotting one, in fact! — and the abstract dashes that surround it are not the pebbles you took them for, but a swarm of honey bees that have made their home inside the carcass. The logo was commissioned by founder Abram Lyle in 1883 and inspired by the biblical image (Old Testament, of course) of Samson finding honey inside the body of a lion he had slain. This unusual emblem is the Guinness World Record holder for “oldest branding”. Or rather, it was. The trivia came to public attention when Tate & Lyle announced this week that it was doing away with the traditional logo on most packaging (the paint-tin-style original will retain its heritage look). The new branding is a simplified lion’s head with a single bee in its barnet. It’s not bad exactly, but how good can a logo be if it would look equally at home on a juice box and an eco surface spray? The new logo “brings Lyle’s into the modern day”, said brand director James Whiteley. Some media outlets have taken this to mean it is a “woke” move. Anti-Christian, even. This is probably incorrect. Look in your shopping basket, and you will see that most product logos are being stripped of their visual complexity. Mr Pringle has lost his hair. The Burger King burger has lost its shiny bun. This is because, these days, everyone (not just young people!) usually engages with brands through a screen of some sort, where simple vector graphics work best. A 19th-century illustration that contains, say, two-dozen tiny bees, is a digital nightmare.
Source: FT
Ono Tadashige "Man Who Calls"
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