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The Useful Page... INDEX OF ADVERTISERS Brand & Lifestyle Licensing Awards (BELLAs) ................... 13 China Licensing .................................................................... 3 Dependable Rights .............................................................. 23 Flowhaven ............................................................................ 38 Licensing International ........................................................ 37 Octane 5 .............................................................................. 17 Pink Key ................................................................................ 2 Reed Japan ........................................................................... 25 Smiley .................................................................................... 1
Human Family A Poem by Maya Angelou I note the obvious differences in the human family. Some of us are serious, some thrive on comedy.
Mirror twins are different although their features jibe, and lovers think quite different thoughts while lying side by side.
Some declare their lives are lived as true profundity, and others claim they really live the real reality.
We love and lose in China, we weep on England’s moors, and laugh and moan in Guinea, and thrive on Spanish shores.
The variety of our skin tones can confuse, bemuse, delight, brown and pink and beige and purple, tan and blue and white.
We seek success in Finland, are born and die in Maine. In minor ways we differ, in major we’re the same.
I’ve sailed upon the seven seas and stopped in every land, I’ve seen the wonders of the world not yet one common man.
I note the obvious differences between each sort and type, but we are more alike, my friends, than we are unalike.
I know ten thousand women called Jane and Mary Jane, but I’ve not seen any two who really were the same.
We are more alike, my friends, than we are unalike. We are more alike, my friends, than we are unalike.
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Did you know…? To go in line with what seems to have been a theme in this issue, here are some happy facts... Otters hold hands when they sleep so they don’t float away from one another. Wayne Allwine and Russi Taylor, who respectively voiced Mickey and Minnie Mouse, were married in real life. The day of his assassination, Martin Luther King Jr. got in a pillow fight in his hotel room. A group of flamingos is called a flamboyance. At one point, very briefly, you were the youngest person on the planet. Cows produce more milk when they hear music that is soothing. Even though many visually impaired people have never seen a smile, they still smile when happy. Bhutan is perhaps the only place on the globe, which focuses on measuring its country’s gross national happiness as a measure of progress. Canada consumes more doughnuts and has the highest number of doughnut shops per capita of any country in the world. No matter how old you get, there will always be something new to discover. TOTAL BRAND LICENSING
