And before anyone makes any 4/20 weed comments, the date is the anniversary of the Columbine massacre.
Damn straight.
Fuck, I’ll host GED classes in the damn library if it keeps kids safe. I’ll share what skill with words I have, what life experience I have, and make sure that the kids in my community come home safe and stay that way.
Remember kids: Student walk-outs and sit-in protests are incredibly effective, because it means that the system is breaking down. Their authority only goes as far as you let it.
Don’t bring weapons to protests.
Don’t bring mace or tear gas to protests.
Get bottled water, at least six bottles per person for four hours.
Pack a first aid kit. Ace bandages, band-aids, water, dried gatorade (a scoop in a bottle of water helps prevent heat stroke due to dehydration), and sunscreen.
Keep emergency contacts on all cell phones, and if possible appoint someone in the group to be the designated emergency contact caller. Their job, if shit goes south, is to run to safety and call parents, call friends, call help, not just the police.
Don’t be afraid of Juvie. Your record is expunged at 18, if the crime isn’t something like murder.
The duo of Osine Ikhianosime and Anesi Ikhianosime have rekindled
hope in the future of nigeria as they entered their names in the
catalogue of application developers when they built a mobile web browser
that is already in use globally. Osine Ikhianosime 13, and Anesi
Ikhianosime 15 who co-developed ‘Crocodile Browser Lite’ were born of
same parents and both are Year nine and 11 students of Greensprings
School, Anthony Campus, Lagos. While both brothers write code, Anesi
designs the user interface.
Osine Ikhianosine and Anesi Ikhianosime
Osine and Anesi launched the mobile browser on the Mobango app store
before moving to Google Play Store to try and reach a wider audience. As
you read this piece, the browser currently has around 100 to 500
downloads and they do not have ads in the app yet. They both began
developing an Android web browser, which they named Crocodile Browser
Lite, about a year ago out of boredom.
Due to their strong interest in technology, they decided to create a
functional, fast browser for feature and low end phones because,
according to them, “We were fed up with Google Chrome.” Osine who told
TechCabal in his pitch mail said: ‘’I write the code, my brother designs
it.”
Born April 28, 2001, his interest in computers began at age seven. It
was also at this age that he and his brother, Anesi Ikhianosime, who
was 9 at the time, came up with the idea of starting a company.
Recalling how it started, Osine said, they first named it ‘Doors’
with Microsoft’s Windows, but when they discovered that the name was
already in use, they had to change the name to BluDoors. Relating his
experience, Osine said: ‘’When we decided to learn to code at age 12 and
14 respectively, I didn’t let my uncle’s belief that it would be a
tough feat to achieve deter me.”
On his part, Anesi said: “I learnt to code by myself. I started in
2013, I used sites like Code Academy, Code Avengers and books like
‘Android for Game Development’ and ‘Games for Dummies’,” said Anesi.
Meanwhile their mother, Mrs Ngozi Ikhianosime, who is a Mathematics
teacher said: “Osine could already use a PC before he could read at age
three. It is all he does since he learnt to code.”
The mother who ascribed the success to Greensprings Schools, said
students of the school have access to computer and internet facilities,
just as personal laptops are made available to each of them at home.
“After Anesi is through with his secondary school education, he will
attend A levels, after which he will go to MIT in Boston for his first
degree, because the university has the facilities he needs to learn.”
She said.
Their father Mr Philip Ikhianosime, who is the Head of Management
Services and Human Resource Manager at an Insurance Company says the
boys developed interest in PC usage very early. He agrees as well, that
his children’s school is very instrumental in their continued interest
in programming.
Anesi says that he’d like to develop another app that solves real
social problems, such as traffic and communication. The brothers are
releasing a new version of Crocodile Browser Lite 3.0 this April.
so remember that worldbuilding website, notebook.ai, that was goin around and everyone was so excited, but it turned out you had to pay a (frankly outrageous) subscription to access any of the best tools?
On the same day that the American Library Association (ALA) announced the winners of the Caldecott, Newberry, Coretta Scott King, and other notable book awards, the White House announced its budget, which cut all federal funding for America’s library services, also known as Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS). This happened in 2017 as well, and libraries fought back, gathering…
Americans, please take a moment to contact your reps about this issue!
Reminder that libraries aren’t just a place to check out books and other entertainment but also an incredibly important resource for poor people who don’t have access to the internet and need it for everything from applying for jobs to keeping up to date on their disability, food, and other benefits, as well as a whole host of other reasons. Libraries also very often provide free activities for children that a lot of parents otherwise wouldn’t be able to afford or have access to to give them and they’re one of the few places left that people can go to without the need to spend money.
So please, support your local libraries!
you never asked to fly.
you never craved the sky as your freedom
never coveted the sun or the sea as your lover
never claimed the birds as your friends and the wind as your servant.
you never wanted to
soar with a halo of sunglare behind your head
bear wings like angels bearing news of the heavens
wave weighted arms like a sparrow trying to cross the ocean.
you never forged wings
of beeswax and fallen feathers
of molten wax dripping feathers like molting birds.
you never threatened to break into the realm of gods
to breathe their sacred air or
to drink their sacred ambrosia or
to steal their sacred fire.
you never even asked
for sunshine and blue skies
to gaze upon on lonely days
and you never even asked
for moonlight and constellations
to keep company on cold nights.
it’s too bad
that you had to fall
anyway.
icarus by any other name would fall just as far ( j.p. )
andtheytoldustotellyouhello 
