First of all, I apologize for the lack of posts this week. The Wi Fi at my house suddenly decided to stop working and I still do not have it fixed. This resulted in my laptop very nearly receiving a flight out my window, multiple times. In particular, I was attempting to study for an astronomy test on Wednesday and the textbook was not making sense and the Wi Fi was not cooperating so I almost tossed both my laptop and textbook out the window! Instead, I decided that listening to astronomy themed songs like "Galaxies" by Owl City, "Supermassive Black Hole" by Muse, and everything by M83 would be more productive than trying to study! I think the test went better than normal, so maybe it worked!
I also worked with my friend and fellow blogger Lauren from The Oatmeal Artist on a guest post. I love her blog and make her recipes multiple times a week. Check out the guest post and all of her recipes while you're at it!
This weekend is the Pike's Peak Writer's Conference. Last year, I learned so much about the craft of writing, pitching, and editing. It was my first time speaking to agents about my novel Violet Eyes and I vividly remember re-writing my pitch no less than twenty-one times the day I pitched! I received four requests for partial or full manuscripts, which I was happy with! It was such a great experience and gave me confidence that I belong in the world of writers! I'm a little sad that I'm not there this year, but I've had too much homework to edit my novel or produce any new manuscripts.
Though I'm not at the writer's conference, I still had an exciting Friday and Saturday competing at Fort Collins Classic. This morning, my practice ice was at a different rink than the competition. My GPS told me to turn onto a dirt county road. I thought that was a bit sketchy, but I obliged. As I approached cornfields, cow pastures, and someone's house, my GPS said, "Prepare to park your car and walk six miles to your destination." Needless to say, I was not in the right place! I put the address in my other GPS, drove six miles, crossed the interstate, and found the right location.
Before I compete, I have a set music playlist and each season I have a song that I have to listen to while tying my skates. Before my short at collegiate nationals, the last song I listened to was "Cousins" by Vampire Weekend so I listened to that the next day as well. The year before, "Houdini" by Foster the People was my skate-tying song. This weekend, I used "I Wanna Get Better" by Bleachers (which, if I have my alternative music knowledge right, is a new band headed by one of the members of Fun). I've been obsessed with this song since I first heard it, listening to it sixty-some times in the first twenty-four hours after purchasing it. I haven't been that addicted to a song since I discovered the previously mentioned "Galaxies." It's just so catchy, it's addictive! And don't hurt me for saying that I actually prefer Bleachers over Fun.
Last night, I dreamt that my freeskate music wasn't working so they played a random song during my program. It was so abysmal one of the judges demanded that I stop my program! That same judge also placed me fourth out of three skaters. Luckily, that didn't happen! I skated an almost clean program and placed second, so I was pretty happy with how it went!
Fort Collins has numerous vegetarian options, much to the excitement of myself and my roommate for the weekend (by the end she was even adopting my food photo habit!) For dinner the first night, we went to a small chain called Mad Greens. The restaurant was decorated with fun photos of trucks hauling giant cauliflowers, bell peppers, and carrots. I had the veggie hamlet Panini with hearty vegetable soup. My only complaint was that I kept getting the red pepper dipping sauce all over myself (I also managed to get peanut butter all over myself earlier in the day).
looking at the photos of pets on the pet food, but we decided that would be pathetic, even by our standards!
Tonight we went to Tasty Harmony, a completely vegetarian restaurant. It was so strange not worrying about hidden meat ingredients when ordering! After changing my mind about sixty times, I decided on the Buddha Belly salad which had marinated tofu, wonton strips, brown rice, zucchini, carrots, and lettuce. It was a great pre-competition meal. Downtown Fort Collins was so quaint and cute, despite the slightly confusing train tracks running in the middle of main street. It appeared that biking was the most common mode of transportation which sounds amazing. I drove past many gorgeous hiking trails and parks. I definitely hope to visit the city this summer!
I think that's all for now! I have lots of homework to do tomorrow. How is your weekend going? Do you have any pre-competition rituals?


Entrepreneurship is the driving force of a market economy, and that entrepreneurs need property rights, the rule of law, sound money, and free and open competition to be successful.
There is trouble lurking in each of the book's four chapters. The text gets off on a wrong foot as Bernanke overviews the origins and purposes of the Fed.
An expert in environmental economics, Dolan attempts to assess the Austrian contribution to this field. He finds it wanting. I must make the same assessment of Dolan. His misunderstanding of Austrian economics is only matched by his mischaracterization of free market environmentalism.
Some scholarship in the Austrian tradition today opens itself to the charge that it is textual exegesis — what did Mises really mean?


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Catalog text for the "TERRITORIOS" (Territories) show, part of the series La Línea Piensa, held at the Centro Cultural Borges, Buenos Aires, Argentina, December, 2011/February, 2012.
The City as Metaphor.
by Luis Felipe Noé
When writing the prologue for an exhibition, the title always occurs to me after having written the text, but this case was an exception to that rule. The city as a metaphor is the first thing that came to mind as I began the task of writing about an artist who is much (very much) younger than I am, but whom I have known for practically a quarter century. As such, I know that his theme is always the same—the city—and that his manner of handling this theme always evolves. It isn't a question of obsession, but rather a metaphorical issue as an vital consciousness. The cause—urban problems—is reiterated, but in a state of constant evolutionary consciousness. The definition of metaphor I extracted from an encyclopedia is "rhetoric figure that consists of substituting the actual term for another related to it by way of analogy. In order for this analogical substitution to be carried out, there must be some semantic component of both terms that is identical". Panosetti's urban metaphor functions like a mirror—in a relationship of analogy—where what is reflected is in the mirror and the mirror is in what is reflected. Panosetti elaborates both the image of his urban estrangement and his identification as citizen simultaneously through drawing, in other words, with a line that defines concepts that come to be known only at the moment in which they are formulated. But he then adds adjectives in the form of color, in such a way that his drawings can be contemplated as paintings (even when they only make use of black and white, treated as colors). And what is it that lies in the depths of his metaphors, above and beyond the obviousness of externalizing (in Spanish, metáfora, or meta-fora, implies to put outside) his relationship with the urban setting as object? Just like any mirror, he inverts the written word—he frequently appeals to text—but its content is the secret of a man trapped within his alienation. His works recur to three languages—line, color and words—and at the same time, they clarify and confound one another, surpassed by the metaphor: no one of them serves on its own because what they aim to elucidate is precisely elusiveness. His works show the city like so many monuments, but at the same time, like men or mountains, that is, they are foreign to Nature yet identify with it, they are monstrous and they are related to us. Now that people speak about visual poetry, above all with the written word as image in mind, there is a tendency to forget that to represent something means naming it, and that as a result, the definition of visual poetry should be found in the inter-relation between images and their implicit content. If not, how can we refer to Odilón Redón? But Omar Panosetti's poetry is clearly of another time and place; Buenos Aires is the place it speaks of, between the 20th and 21st Centuries.
Foreword by Omar Panosetti, Text for catalog shows «WORK» in the Museo Evita.
Do you see out the window? Or What do you see through that window?
By Omar Panosetti
"Sin pan y sin trabajo" («Without bread and without work»)
Argentina in 1894 is frozen in the strokes of Ernesto la Cárcova's magnificent work. The Argentina depicted is the aftermath of one of the most important economic crisis of the 19th century, in 1890.
The empty table and waiting utensils came to symbolize the hunger and idleness caused by lack of employment.
The man is looking at the closed factory and striking the table with clenched fist full of anger and helplessness because it is not running. There is nothing this marginalized man can do. Perhaps the most raw example of the acuity and permanence of the poverty that dominates is that he cannot even make enough to support a tiny woman, with undernourished breasts trying to feed to their baby.
And I wonder, "What is happening outside of that window?" and "What is happening in that room?"
From the room of «without bread and without work» you can see empty factories.
He sees a factory where he previously worked and now is not running. Now waiting.
He saw it hundreds of times. Hundreds of times he saw factories running and then close.
The same thing that I see in my world. But in the factories he sees they only appear to be empty. They take material inside them; material in the form of the desires and dreams of the workers that inhabited them. They motivate my work. I feel the spirits of the town, like resident ghosts. Perhaps if we listen closely, we'll be able to hear the machines working. Then, see smoke rising out of the chimneys. And in some cases they are guarded by the watchful presence of a strange keeper who is careful to keep these dreams inside, and not let anyone else in. The guardian is a witness of those dreams and of workers' wishes. He has the exclusivity of being the only one who can see them, but also the burden of not being able to do anything with them. He cannot do anything for the dreams to flourish. He is always there, watching, and even when it seems that he is sleeping… Beware! He is warning us that nothing should disturb this order.
Those dreams are in us and in our fathers which led me to make this work. They sometimes break the struggle between factories, the buildings and the surrounding environment. Nature sometimes surrounds my factories. They are fighting with the earth and the green that wants to engulf them, because they are uncomfortable witnesses to the passing of time.
For a moment stopping in the green death, in the smoke from the chimneys and the liquid coming out of them, I like to keep it there, as a prisoner, and like a hunter I trap that moment standing still in my vision. Standing still as the worker who looks out the window.
Foreword by Daniel Santoro Text for catalog shows «WORK» in the Museo Evita.
Pathological architecture
por Daniel Santoro
We should not be surprised if we are invaded by a feeling of anguish when looking upon these buildings, trapped in their own impossibilities.
This might happen because the structures seem to be self-generated by an internal intelligence.
Meanwhile, a fluid phantom overflows the scene and runs off in various directions.
These buildings are gigantic symbolic structures that elaborate their own object of joy, acquiring their meaning from an opening around which a volumetric language is displayed.
It is an ominous vision, that seems to be on the verge of revealing a certain secret or a long forgotten past tragedy, or maybe it is a physical language capable of unraveling a gigantic urban hysteria.
We do not quite understand if there is any logic to the functional structure since these are truly landscape traumas, leftovers from a convoluted city with unproductive factories. Factories that emulate people transformed into buildings or vice versa, proliferating in savage lands.
Watching their backs against a hostile nature, the characters carry backpacks that resemble solidified desires. These are the inhabitants of this zone of friction between technology and nature, an outpost of technology deep within the forest. We could think of these paintings as an exhibition or as a treaty on pathological architecture

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Growing up in 1970s anyone of my generation enjoyed a childhood obsessed with the Second World War: it was in our comics, on our bubblegum cards, in our toys and on our TV screens. One name rises above them all in this respect, with the film, television series, board game and Action Man toys… and that was Colditz.
Colditz Castle, or Oflag IV-C, was a special Prisoner of War camp for officers who were either high profile prisoners or those who had made so many escape attempts that the Germans needed to put them in them in a place from which it was impossible to escape. This is what Colditz Castle offered, although this proved to be far from the case as the exceptional individuals held prisoner here made many daring attempts to get out.
What we know about Colditz stems really from one man, Major P.R. Reid and his book, Colditz The Full Story, now re-published by the Folio Society in this beautiful new edition. Pat Reid had been captured near Cassel in May 1940 and was sent to Colditz at the end of that year until he escaped to Switzerland in October 1942. His book is a classic of the Second World War; well written, easy to read and full of 'human interest'.
This new edition is a beautiful publication and a pleasure to read and have on your shelves. The supporting illustrations are excellent and military historian James Holland has written a useful and heart-felt introduction to this new edition. His words add to our understanding of the story making this an essential book for any Second World War enthusiast.
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Khalvashi puts up "Rustavi-2" for sale
On August 12, Kibar Khalvashi announced his intention to sell the "Rustavi-2" TV Company, explaining his decision by the company's debts in the amount of 70 million laris (almost USD 24 million) and the absence of his financial ability to maintain it. Mr Khalvashi intends to hold an auction and sell the TV company to the one who offers the highest price.
The "Caucasian Knot" has reported that on July 18, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) declared the decision of the Supreme Court (SC) of Georgia, adopted in 2015, to transfer the assets of the "Rustavi-2" TV Company channel to the former owner Kibar Khalvashi as legitimate. On the same day, Nika Gvaramiya, director general of the company, was fired, and Khalvashi's lawyer Paata Saliya was appointed in his place.
"Unfortunately, my financial resources are not enough to take the company out of the deep crisis; therefore, I want to openly declare that I am ready to negotiate with any interested persons, those who will buy the 'Rustavi-2' and help it to get out of the financial crisis and become successful … In order to avoid political or other manipulations, I will negotiate only with those who have serious intentions and, as a guarantee of these intentions, will transfer at least one million US dollars to a bank account or a special contest account," the Georgian Public Broadcaster quotes Mr Khalvashi as saying.
Besides, according to his story, Kibar Khalvashi intends to go to court demanding compensation for the financial damage caused to the TV company by its former director general, Nika Gvaramiya.
This article was originally published on the Russian page of 24/7 Internet agency 'Caucasian Knot' on August 13, 2019 at 06:29 am MSK. To access the full text of the article, click here.
Nika Gvaramiya refuses to pay bail amount, Dismissed "Rustavi-2" director general summoned for interrogation to GPO, "Rustavi-2" founders not satisfied with Khalvashi's proposals.
Author: Inna Kukudzhanova, Galina Gotua; Source: CK correspondents
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Q: Is there any difference between * operator used in declaration (int *p = &i) and expression (*p = &i) Why is
int i;
int *p = &i;

right, while
int i, *p;
*p = &i;

is wrong?
Is there any difference between * operator used in declaration (int *p = &i) and expression (*p = &i)?

A: In your second code block, this:
int i, *p;
*p = &i;

can be fixed to:
int i, *p;
p = &i;

p is still declared as a pointer to an int, but you want to store the address of i to p.
In your code, *p = &i stores the address of i to some area in memory that p points to (since you didn't initialize it).

A: Yes there is difference - in the first form * is part of the type definition int *.
In the second form its an unary dereference operator. Also there is an error with the second expression - when you are assigning to a pointer, there is no need to dereference it.
(*p) evaluates to type int while p evaluates to type int *; &i evaluates to type int *. Hence assinging the address of int variable i to pointer p should read p=&i;

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Belfast Giants zijn een ijshockeyclub uit Belfast, Noord-Ierland. Ze komen uit in de hoogste Britse divisie namelijk de Elite Ice Hockey League. De Belfast Giants spelen in de Odyssey Arena in Belfast.

Externe links
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Nicola Baldwin
Nicola Baldwin is a playwright and scriptwriter. Her first play Confetti won the 1993 George Devine award and Time Out award. Her work has been commissioned or produced by the Royal Court Theatre, Manchester Royal Exchange, Sheffield Crucible, Bath Theatre Royal (The Egg), Unicorn Theatre and National Theatre Education, and plays include The Rib Cage (1998), 23.59 (1999) and All Saints (2013). She adapted Beowulf (2007) andMetropolis (2008) for large-scale youth theatre productions and has written a number of science-based plays for Y Touring.
Recent radio plays include Seven Scenes (for BBC Radio 3's The Wire series, 2011), Tony and Rose (2013) and Euston to Whitechapel (2014, BBC Radio 4). Television credits include Night and Day, London Bridge, Where the Heart Is as well as storylining and development for other shows, and she is currently writing an original TV drama series. Nicola is co-director of the new writing company Furious Theatre and has set up writers' events at various venues including shop-front 'pop-up theatres'. She runs playwriting workshops in schools, workplaces and for theatres, and was writers' tutor at the Royal Court young writers' programme (1997–2000) and associate lecturer at Drama Centre, London 2005-2012.
Born in Yorkshire, Nicola read English at University College, London. From 1985 she worked as a camera operator and director, mainly of music videos and short films, with screenings at the London Film Festival, ICA and Whitechapel Gallery and installations at Riverside Studios and the Royal Festival Hall. She lives in London.
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Director Aki Kaurismaki on The Other Side of Hope (and why he doesn't have much)
By Stephanie Bunbury
March 14, 2018 — 9.44am
When he was younger and working on as many as four films in a year, Aki Kaurismaki spent any free time he was able to gouge out of endless writing, shooting and editing in Helsinki's bars. Even by Finnish standards, he was and is a prodigious drinker.
At 60, however, he has slowed down; he is happy to make a film every few years, spend winters at his second home in Portugal and make time in summer to walk in the woods and pick mushrooms. There are quite a few poisonous ones, he rumbles suddenly. "So perhaps I could take some politicians with me."
Sherwan Haji (left) and Sakari Kuosmanen star in The Other Side of Hope.
The deadpan ironies of Kaurismaki's films are so funny and idiosyncratic that he has never been marked out as a political filmmaker; his best-known film is still Leningrad Cowboys Go America, an alarmingly crackers road movie about a rockabilly band from the frozen north who all sport gravity-defying quiffs. At the same time, anyone looking past the laughs, the clunky cuts and the Soviet-style set dressing of his films could see that he had certain beliefs about the world.
Like the Dardenne brothers, whom he very much admires, he finds his heroes among the working classes. In one film after another – from I Hired A Contract Killer (1990) to The Man without a Past (2002), which won the Grand Prix in Cannes, to his last feature Le Havre (2011) – his flawed, sometimes seemingly hopeless characters are shown to be unexpectedly kind and courageous.
Aki Kaurismaki refuses to make a digital film: 'I am a filmmaker, not a pixel-maker.'
"Of course, the working class is not such a sexy and commercial subject, I understand from the popcorn audience," Kaurismaki says drily. "But I couldn't write dialogue for upper-class people because I wouldn't know what they say. I don't know if they talk at all. Maybe they are just shopping. And selling and buying stocks. Stocks and stockings. I find rich people boring."
In his new film, The Other Side of Hope, we find ourselves once again with the Nordic proletariat: in this instance, the indolent staff of a visibly awful restaurant. They clearly don't care two hoots about their customers, but they do step up to help and hide a Syrian refugee they find sleeping behind their rubbish bins. This is how people in Kaurismaki's films are saved: one at a time, by the kindness of strangers.
Beneath that romantic humanism, however, Kaurismaki harbours a very specifically political anger. The Other Side of Hope is the second film he has made about refugees in Europe, spurred by the Finnish government's response to a sudden surge in arrivals from Syria.
"The government started to kick them out as fast as possible," he says. "I wanted to get this film made because for me this is so shaming for Finland and for Europe. A shameful way of treating your neighbours. So I skipped all artistic ideas. I just wanted to tell a story about this subject."
Of course, the rejection or incarceration of refugees is by no means just a Finnish problem. "Australia is quite famous too, in a bad way. And this Finnish government is much the same, splitting up families, saying mothers and babies must leave while the fathers stay, this kind of nonsense. Finland is lacking people; people are getting old and the country will need young people who want to work but when they come, they are thrown out.
"So first of all, this is a bad mistake. Secondly, they can't change it anyway. When the climate change really starts, then people have to move and they won't even ask if they can come, they will just come. So why panic with this minimal number of people?"
The Other Side of Hope follows two stories. One begins in the hold of a boat, where a pile of coal shifts to reveal the amiable face of Khaled (Sherwan Haji); when he emerges on to the Helsinki dock, a blues singer playing a home-made junk guitar – one of Kaurismaki's endless cavalcade of muso mates who help give his films their eccentric verve – advises him on where to wash his face and where to register as an asylum seeker. It is the start of his cat-and-mouse game with the courts, the police and the hostel where he is sent to wait for a hearing and an attempt to find his sister who, if she is alive, is the only other surviving member of his family.
At the same time, we follow sad sack Waldemar (Sakari Kuosmanen), a salesman (like Kaurismaki's own father) with an alcoholic wife; he throws in the towel, sells all his stock, makes a small fortune at a card game and uses the money to buy a failing restaurant, The Golden Pint.
He is full of ideas to jazz it up. One night it's lounge music; another night he decides sushi is the answer and gets all the staff to wear karate outfits. By that time they have adopted both the fugitive Khaled and a dog who is living illegally, rather like Khaled, in the kitchen. Kaurismaki fans will have been waiting for the dog; as one reviewer wrote, even if he made a film on Mars there would be a cute dog in it somewhere.
"This is my sixth dog and all of them have been acting: it's a sort of tradition," he says.
He may say he forgot about aesthetics, but of course that would never be true for someone as steeped in the masters as Kaurismaki is. "From the Lumiere brothers to the early '60s I saw everything; Bunuel is my god and so on," he says.
Haji says Kaurismaki was quite happy to entrust him with his speeches in Arabic, asking only "did you say everything?" before moving on to the next shot. But he could also obsess over details, stopping one scene mid-shoot because he wanted the background wall to be painted a slightly different colour. And there is no mistaking his visual universe, pitched somewhere between the present and the 1950s. His bureaucrats use manual typewriters. The shops use lovingly preserved adding machines.
"That's totally aesthetic," he admits. "I don't like modern cars. They are ugly for me. The same goes for all the other machines. Using modern sets is not for me, or they have to be absolutely ultra-modern. I think reality kills film."
And when he says film, that's what he means; he says he'll be forced into a leisurely life of mushroom-picking when the owner of the Belgian laboratory that develops his 35mm film retires in 2021. He considers that the deadline for his last film.
"I will die with my boots on. I won't make a digital film in this life," he told one interviewer. "Cinema is made from light. I am a filmmaker, not a pixel-maker."
The real world of these vintage office machines was one where most progressives were convinced that racism was inexorably disappearing. If you had said in 1970 that there would be a new Fascist party in socialist Finland, nobody would have taken you seriously. Does he feel disappointed in humanity?
"I never had very high hopes of humanity," he counters. "I had hope 20 years ago, but not now. Greed will kill us – and maybe that's OK for the planet. Because it all goes back to money. Everything goes back to money."
And yet he ploughs on, with his stirring Finnish mix of optimism and pessimism, humour and melancholia. What else can he do? "Cinema can't change much," he says. "But it can certainly reach some people and change some opinions. You can only hope."
The Other Side of Hope opens on March 29. Advance screenings will be held March 23-25.
Stephanie Bunbury is a film and culture writer for The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald.
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The Layer ring signifies our own layers as humans. We are all multi-faceted and complex individuals. The Four central circles represent the Mind, Body, Spirit and Soul Connection. One circle is exposed and the other is covered and protected, symbolizing our inner and outer worlds. These are the inner reflections and currents that we chose to keep to ourselves and protect, and the other is the part of ourselves that we chose to share with the world.


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Residents Oppose Relocating Recycler to Hall China Property
EAST LIVERPOOL, Ohio — Plans to relocate a 32-year-old family-owned recycling business to the former Hall China Co. pottery in the city's East End were put on hold after a public hearing Thursday.
The Board of Zoning Appeals voted 4-0 with member Karl Fife absent to table a request by the pottery's owner, HLC Holdings, for a special exception that would allow for the recycling operation in an area zoned M-3, General Industrial.
The decision came after slightly more than an hour of testimony from both owners of Six Recycling Corp., which is planning to purchase the property and move its salvage/recycling operation from 50 Maple St. to the former Hall China site, as well as residents opposed to the move.
No one spoke in favor of the move, including officials of HLC Holdings in attendance, who also declined comment after the hearing.
According to Ray Six, one of the owners of the recycling business, it was started 32 years ago by a handful of family members "taking out second mortgages to live the American dream." The business has grown considerably since then, he said, and has outgrown the two to three acres on which it operates. Also, the electrical service available at the current location is not adequate for the equipment now used.
This led to the family starting to look 10 years ago for an alternate location "because we're bursting at the seams and stuff gets piled on top of each other," Six said. "We would like to grow our business, but the only way we can is to move."
He explained that "recycling" is not precisely the nature of the business, which actually buys, packages and loads items in trucks to send to facilities where they are melted.
"We don't melt anything," Six emphasized, saying the sorting and separation process at the business is labor intensive and that the current location only allows so many employees, causing piles of material to grow high. With a larger building, the current 17-member workforce could easily be doubled, he said.
While the company has never looked at anything other than metals, Six said it would like to consider other materials if able to relocate.
He outlined for the board and a roomful of residents the company's plans for the former pottery, including razing the back portion of the existing building and concreting the ground where the scrapping process would take place, which he said the public would never see. Berms at least six feet tall with trees planted on top would be built around the perimeters to further hide operations, he said. Plans also call for using an adjacent building on the property for a multi-sport complex, which he said is needed in the area, based upon his own experience with four daughters involved in athletics and travel teams.
"It's a perfect site for us to move to. It will be a multi-million dollar investment," Six said. "We've been in this community a long time and we'd like to invest that money here if you'd let us."
Gallery images include Ray Six of Six Recycling offering testimony, resident Rita Evans, East Liverpool Board of Zoning Appeals members, the former Hall China property and the exterior of Six Recycling Corp. on Maple Street.
When asked by board members where trucks would enter and exit the property, Six said off Pennsylvania Avenue to the rear of the property. Trucks would travel to scales in the front and then around to the Harvey Avenue side, traveling through the building.
There are 12 acres under roof on the site, and Six said the majority of work would be housed under roof.
"Every developed community needs a scrap yard there," Six said, giving as an example someone's water tank going bad and it needing disposed of. "They can bring it to us and get paid for it, or it can go over a hillside," he explained. "People see scrap yards and think negatively, but they keep a community clean."
If granted the special exception to purchase the pottery site, the Six Recycling location on Maple Street would be vacated and then be made available for development or sale, Six noted.
The first resident to speak, David Hager, Stagecoach Road, set the tone for all those who commented, saying, "I'm happy Mr. Six is living the American dream, but he's causing people in the East End to live the American nightmare. No one wants to live next door to a junkyard."
Although he lives outside the immediate area, Hager owns property in the Klondyke neighborhood and attends Boyce Methodist Church, located 50 feet from the former Hall China pottery.
"If you allow this, I predict our church will close within a year," Hager told the board. "WTI (Heritage Thermal Services, which operates a hazardous waste incinerator in the East End) promised us tipping fees and what happened? No one is going to benefit from this but Sixes. We don't need this here, fellas. No one wants it."
Rita Evans said her property on Harvey Avenue is 15 feet from the former property.
"I'm going to bear the brunt of it," she said. "I've been in my house 49 years. There are plenty of other places they can take it. I don't want it in my neighborhood."
Board member Reece Kelly asked Evans about living next to the pottery. Evans said, "We've had no problem with Hall China Co. No smell. We didn't see it."
Evans questioned who actually owns the property and whether it has already been sold to the Six family. Board member Dan Painter pointed out the owner on the request is HLC Holdings, whose address is the same as Homer Laughlin China Co. in Newell, W.Va.
"I don't have any control over who they sell it to," Painter said.
Evans responded, "It's a family affair" without elaborating.
Harvey Avenue resident Joseph English added his opposition, saying he had bought his home as a young man, raised three children there and has invested considerable money in improvements.
"I don't want a junkyard in my back yard," English insisted, saying he formerly worked at Hall China and now is employed at Homer Laughlin Co. He said Six Recycling has experienced fires and explosions over the years.
While Six's ideas "look good," English allowed, "I guarantee nothing like this is going to happen," and asked the board to think about its decision.
Residents questioned how the high berms would affect the view of passing traffic on Harvey and Pennsylvania where there are sharp curves. They inquired about the additional smell, noise and possible environmental impact the recycling/salvage operation could have on the area, and whether an environmental impact study has been done.
Others expressed concern of the effect any potential impact could have on the health of residents and their children, considering the high rate of cancer in the city and its proximity to other manufacturers they consider potentially dangerous to their health.
"Are you really trying to kill us?" asked Roberta Pratt who lives on Ohio Avenue. Pratt said her daughter has had cancer four times and her son has allergies.
"This does not need to happen," she said. "You're adding fuel to the fire. You can't control what's already there."
She encouraged the board to "research it and then disapprove it."
After listening to the comments, board Chairman Brian Vaughn referred to a list of issues the board is expected to consider in deciding whether to grant a special exception. Issues include any potential detriment to the public welfare, to the neighborhood character and neighboring properties, whether it will impact traffic congestion or increase the danger of fire and other items.
"The cons outweigh the pros," Vaughn said. "We are a city starved for business, but we are also a city starved for residents. We're almost down to a village (in population). You don't usually see residential and business butted up against each other as you do here. There are too many cons. I hope the Sixes finds a solution to expanding their business, but I have to see it from the residents' eyes too."
Kelly said he was in favor of implementing recommendations made by city Planning Director Bill Cowan for fencing and requiring all the conditions placed upon Six Recycling being completed within nine months and holding the company to all it is promising.
Member Mario Hernandez said he would like more information about the truck entrances, flow of traffic and how high the berms will be but said, "Having a business move in is something the community needs and having jobs is something the community needs."
It was decided to table the matter until additional information is obtained, and Cowan advised the board has 30 days in which to hold a second public hearing. Again, residents within 200 feet of the Hall China property will be notified by letter of any public hearing.
Hall China last operated the pottery in March 2021, and used the property for warehousing until December last year, according to the original zoning application submitted by HLC Holdings on Dec. 8.
Pictured at top: East Liverpool resident Joseph English spoke against the proposed Six Recycling project at the former Hall China Co. property. None of the residents attending Thursday's public hearing were in favor of the project.


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Armenia's Independence Day must be the symbol of our all-national unity – President
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President Armen Sarkissian has issued a congratulatory message on Independence Day:
I convey my congratulations on the occasion of the most significant state holiday – Independence Day.
On September 21, 1991 we unanimously and confidently said "yes" to independence.
The aspirations, which we had in our quest for independence and after attaining it, became a reality through the creation of our independent state.
But the journey continues. For us, as a nation and state, much still lies ahead – new projects, new objectives, new victories.
To achieve that we need a precise vision, a feasible plan, as well as unwavering will. Future is born from decisions and efforts emanating from this, from our mentality and conscience, from the total sum of our work, based on our national and moral values, our history, our heritage.
Only an individual, a society, a nation, which remembers and cherishes its past and traditions, its culture and language, looks forward and feels the pulse of time, can enrich its spiritual and material, the virtual and real world.
No matter how much the world changes, it will always be based on the want for kindness, compassion, justice, and truth – everything that our national system of values is based on.
Our brothers and sisters, soldiers and freedom fighters, doctors and intellectuals, farmers and writers from Armenia, Artsakh, and Spyurk, all those who struggled, dedicated themselves to the Fatherland – Armenia and Artsakh, who gave their lives for independence impart us all to spare nothing for the present and future.
I bow to them all.
Dear Compatriots:
Today too, we have devotees right next to us, who defend the borders of our culture and science, our health and education, who are carriers and defenders of our national identity and values, who put their efforts in making the Fatherland stronger, in making homeland more secure, from military to medical workers, from scholars to IT specialists, from teachers in remote villages to nurses in kindergartens, from farmers to bakers, from musicians to athletes, from innovators to archeologists…
The destiny of the Fatherland depends on us all, on each and every one, on our ability to be responsible and be able to assume responsibility, on our solidarity, unity, kindness, and tolerance toward each other.
We must be united.
We must work together no matter how different our approaches, visions, and perceptions are.
Independence Day must be the symbol of our all-national unity.
Let's defend and empower our Fatherland – Armenia and Artsakh as the pivot and axis of our national aspirations.
Peace and prosperity to our Fatherland and our people.
Long live the Republic of Armenia!
Long live the Republic of Artsakh!
Long live the united Armenian nation!
Long live citizens of Armenia!


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"David Holmstrom grew up on welfare in the South Bronx. He was active in the late 1950s civil rights and "ban the bomb" movements during high school, and later in the student anti-war movement. His other political work has centered on independent progressive electoral activity, coalition building, and mass mobilizations, including the 1963 March on Washington, the 1976 counter-bicentennial, the 1980 People's Convention in NYC, the Rainbow Coalition, and several progressive electoral campaigns in Boston. David earned a Masters from the London School of Economics and a PhD in Government from Harvard. Instead of staying in academics, he joined the staff of the Haymarket Peoples Fund for three years in the 1970s at the time the Funding Exchange was being organized. He has supported a lifetime non-career of political activism by stints working as teacher, typesetter, computer trainer, and CEO of Advocate Development. David spent six years in Chile in the 1990s. Since returning from Chile, David has taken up tax-preparation as a semi-retirement profession. He has served as Treasurer of Mass Citizens Against the Death Penalty and of a scholarship fund which now supports the Work Environment and Solar Energy programs at UMass Lowell. David and his wife Bonnie Shepard have two children adopted from Central America, and two grandchildren." [1]
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Aid committed in Cairo to rebuild enclave devastated by summer's conflict surpasses what Palestinians had asked for.
Global donors have pledged a sum of $5.4bn in aid to reconstruct the Gaza Strip amid warnings that the Palestinian territory remains a "tinderbox" following the summer war between Hamas and Israel.
The pledged amount surpasses the $4bn which Palestinians had asked for during the conference to reconstruct the enclave, after the 50-day Israeli military campaign Operation Protective Edge in July and August.
"The participants pledged approximately $5.4bn," Boerge Brende, Norwegian foreign minister, said during the closing statement at the Cairo conference which Norway co-hosted.
Khalid al-Attiyah, the Qatari foreign minister, who is in the Egyptian capital for the conference, announced his country was pledging $1bn in aid.
The US promised $212m to meet what John Kerry, secretary of state, described as an "enormous" challenge in Gaza.
Kerry also urged renewed peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians, telling the conference that both sides needed to be helped to make "tough choices" for lasting stability.
Gaza remains a tinderbox, the people desperately need to see results in their daily lives.
"The people of Gaza do need our help, desperately, not tomorrow, not next week, they need it now," Kerry told the gathering of about 30 global envoys and UN chief Ban Ki-moon.
European Union member states will contribute a total of $570m to Gaza, the bloc's foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton said. Germany pledged $63m and Norway about $13m.
There is widespread concern that - after three destructive conflicts in the past six years - any help to Gaza will eventually be lost in the enclave's cycle of violence.
"Gaza remains a tinderbox, the people desperately need to see results in their daily lives," Ban said.
The Palestinian government unveiled a 76-page reconstruction plan before the conference, with the lion's share of assistance to build housing.
Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian leader, said Gaza's need was desperate.
"Gaza has suffered three wars in six years. Entire neighbourhoods have been destroyed," he said.
Kerry's pursuit of a long-elusive peace treaty between Israel and the Palestinians collapsed in April after a difficult nine-month process.
There was little prospect of fresh talks any time soon.
Israel and the Hamas movement that dominates Gaza have yet to even translate their temporary August truce into a long-term ceasefire.
This summer's conflict killed nearly 2,200 Palestinians, mostly civilians, while attacks by Gaza fighters killed 73 on the Israeli side, mostly soldiers.


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Kids-dealing-with-the-loss-of-a-loved-one books are a dime a dozen. Thus, it takes a lot to make one stand out. With her newest, The End Or Something Like That, Ann Dee Ellis succeeds in creating a grief novel that's both memorable and affecting. I've thought a lot about why this one stands out; I think it boils down to three things: writing style, setting, and an overall quirkiness. Although The End or Something Like That is billed as a YA book, it's got more of a middle grade tone. Emmy's clipped, choppy narration makes her seem younger than her years, while at the same time giving her a more realistically teenage thought process than is usually found in YA novels. This, coupled with the intensity of her pain, makes her a wholly sympathetic (although not always likable) heroine. As for setting, there's just nowhere quite like Las Vegas. Its boisterous falsity provides the perfect backdrop for this story about what is real and what is truly important. The unique setting gives The End Or Something Like That part of its quirkiness, but the rest of it comes from larger-than-life characters and the oddball situations they find themselves in. Although the novel deals with familiar themes, it's these three things, coupled with Ellis' strong prose, that makes this story stand out. While it didn't blow my mind, I definitely enjoyed this quick, quirky read.
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Here's where you'll find out what we're up to, and what's next for us!
First things first,... we are now taking credit cards via email and phone... using the latest Intuit products for safety for both of us. We expect to have a fully secure website with a shopping cart in a month or so.
We have just finished the project for window wipers. We now have SWF reproduction wiper arms and blades for 1965 to 1967 in silver. We also have the SWF black wiper blades for 1968 to 1973. We will have the correct engine sound pad (dimpled) for the 1965 to 1970 cars in a couple of weeks.
Getting ready for Essen next week. Not displaying this year as we need to see the new format with Porsche taking a different hall, so... we need to figure out where to place our booth.
We have received first samples of our wiper arms and blades and we will have production soon for both SWB (silver) and LWB (black).
We've just launched 5 new colors of our hounds tooth fabric, and we've had great response to them.
Several new products are on the horizon, including a well priced 100L steel tank!
We are getting ready for the LA Lit show and Swap Meet.
New product launches at these shows include our D shaped headrest, and the grey seal for the SWB horn grills. We should also have our first prototypes of the SWB silver wiper arms and blades, as well as the correct black wiper blades for the 68 to 73 cars.
Just got back from Rennsport.... quite the amazing event, absolute Porsche Mania in overdrive!
We had a booth (last minute) and displayed our newest items including: Factory option roof rack, SWB window winders (caps available too!), and the debut of our LWB horn grills for fog and driving lights.
We will have SWB grills for fog lights in 2 weeks (promise!), and also SWB standard grills also.
We've finished up the prototype for the "D" shaped headrest (Autobahn Interiors approved!), and have many more items in the works.
Well, summer is finally upon us here, time to get out and DRIVE!
We did the RGruppe event in Monterey last month and had a great time showing off our new car trailer made up like a "man room". We towed down our 1967 911S with 104K original miles, and 1/2 original paint. It's been updated with a 2.7RS spec twin plug engine, rally buckets, 100L gas tank, etc. etc. We came away with a "GT" award from the event along with several other well deserving cars.
We have new parts in the pipeline, and it appears that many are going to arrive at the same time. Horn grills are still coming, as are bumper end caps for SWB cars, roof racks like factory original, window winders for 65-67 cars, muffler tips for 912's, etc. etc. Keep Checking back!
Well, we did the Essen show! Absolutely amazing, 1,700,000 sq. ft of vintage cars, restoration shops and parts, vintage memorabilia, etc. etc. Over 200,000 people over 4 days in Essen.
We had a small corner of a friends booth (thanks Carlo!) and shared it with Marek who also makes some fantastic parts for Early 911's and 912's. Met some great people and looking forward to some great future distribution at some great retail shops and restoration houses. Also have to make sure I mention the great members we met of the DDK in the UK, and also some great Early S Members from Holland, Denmark, Norway, Germany, Italy and Sweden.
Our next show is at the RGruppe Treffen in Monterey in Mid May. Looking forward to seeing all my friends there, and hopefully will have some new items to show there. I'll be going with Gary Emory from Parts Obsolete and also my son Andy. We will be bringing my 67 911S in Gulf Blue with a 2.7 twin plug motor and we believe we will have SWB horn grills for fog lights, and also SWB rear bumper end caps as well as far as new products.
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We will be at the Essen Techno Classica show, but we aren't sure what booth we will be at yet... stay tuned. We will have examples of all our current products plus prototypes of new items as well.
This site will be updated on a regular basis... we plan on adding new products as quickly as we can, and also items from our stock of rare original items, many of which are NOS.


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Tom Izzo defends his handling of sexual assault allegations against Michigan State players
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Michigan State head coach Tom Izzo defended his handling of sexual assault allegations made against his former players. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)
Michigan State basketball coach Tom Izzo had a lengthy discussion with reporters at Big Ten media day on Thursday. While he spoke about a number of topics, he spent a lot of time vehemently defending his handling of sexual assault allegations made against former players.
The allegations were originally brought to light in a January report from ESPN's "Outside the Lines," and accused Izzo, football coach Mark Dantonio, and former athletic director Mark Hollis of suppressing information and failing to act when players were accused of sexual assault. Izzo firmly denied that he mishandled any allegations against his former players. From the Detroit Free Press:
"The thought that I was gonna hide something like what happened makes me sick. The thought of that makes me sick. It's never been hidden, it never was. That was the big complaint on me and Dantonio and (former athletic director Mark) Hollis. And it never was hidden, and it never will be hidden."
He also said that "procedures and policies were followed to the n-th degree."
Izzo was specifically accused of mishandling two accusations against former player and student assistant coach Travis Walton. In 2010, Walton was accused of punching out a female Michigan State student at a bar, and was allowed to remain with the team. Several months later, Walton and two other players were accused of sexually assaulting a woman. When Izzo was asked whether he would handle Walton's situation differently now, he maintained that he didn't know about the bar incident. From ESPN:
"Would things be handled differently? I'm a little bit bothered to say yes. Every kid would be suspended for everything that happened. Some of those kids were suspended. It's hard to suspend somebody on something you didn't even know about. I can't do that."
Izzo was "insulted" by the suggestion that he wouldn't kick a player off his team for sexual assault, saying that he'd removed players from his team for bad grades and drug use. But he also said that he couldn't be the person deciding a player's guilt or innocence.
"As far as accusations of what players did or not, if there would have been a time where a player was found guilty of something, I promise you he will not be on this team. He will not be on this team. But if you want me to be, what is the word, a vigilante, to go out and do justice, I can't do that."
Liz Roscher is a writer for Yahoo Sports. Have a tip? Email her at lizroscher@yahoo.com or follow her on Twitter at @lizroscher.
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Mr. Flower's business is growing much faster than originally planned. He has now become the CEO of a world-famous beef corporation. However, the boss never lives a casual life because he should take charge of the subsidiary scattered all over the world. Every year, Mr. Flower needs to analyze the performance reports of these subsidiary companies.
Mr. Flower has N companies, and he numbered them with 0 to N – 1. All of the companies will give Mr. Flower a report about the development each year. Among all of the tedious data, only one thing draws Mr. Flower's attention – the turnover. Turnover of a company can be represented as an integer Pi: positive one represents the amount of profit-making while negative for loss-making.
In fact, Mr. Flower will not be angry with the companies running under deficit. He thinks these companies have a large room for future development. What dissatisfy him are those companies who created the same turnover. Because in his eyes, keeping more than one companies of the same turnover is not necessary.
Now we know the annual turnover of all companies (an integer sequence Pi, the ith represents the turnover of the ith company this year.). We say a number sequence is perfect if all of its numbers are different from each other. Mr. Flower wants to know the length of the longest consecutive perfect sequence in a certain interval [L, R] of the turnover sequence, can you help him?
The first line of the input contains two integers N and M. N is the number of companies. M is the number of queries. (1 ≤ N, M ≤ 200000). The second line contains N integer numbers not exceeding 106 by their absolute values. The ith of them represents the turnover of the ith company this year. The following M lines contain query descriptions, each description consists of two numbers: L, R (0 ≤ L ≤ R ≤ N – 1) and represents the interval that Mr. Flower concerned.
The longest perfect sequence of the first query in the sample input is '5 4 1 2 3 6', so the answer for this query is 6.


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By Anders Ekdahl January 27, 2016 January 25, 2016 Interviews
Uddevalla might not bet the sexiest placed to come from if you play extreme metal but REVENGE PREVAILS are here to change that. C2016 Anders Ekdahl
As I am not at all familiar with your band perhaps you could introduce it?
-We are Revenge Prevails from Uddevalla, sweden. We play blackened death metal and with current lineup since 2013. The band was first formed by The Sultan (vocals, guitar) in 2008. We have release one demo, Black Void Injection, and one full length album, Dark Trembling Solace.
How hard was it for you guys to pick a name? What had that name have to have to fit your music?
-The name was taken when drawing the logo, and taken in haste, it just kinda looked and sounded good at the time. It no longer really takes part in our music, atleast intenionally. It was just a name that we kinda grew into, and it is how we present ourselves now, the Revenge Prevails cult.
What band(s) was it that turned you on to the kind of metal you play? What inspires you today?
-Too many to be mentioned really, we come from a wide musical background when it comes to bands. Some common grounds are Behemoth, Hate, Rotting Christ, Septicflesh, Tribulation, and so forth. When it comes to other inspirations it's mostly personal events and opinions. We try not get too repetative when it comes to themes, both music and lyrics.
What is the advantages/disadvantages of cd verses vinyl these days of internet promotion?
-The physical part, the cd's and the posters and stuff, gets more luxurious to us. It feels like bands really have to make an effort to make those things really valuable, not just a cd but digipacks, booklets, artwork, bonus material. When it comes to us making our album, it's not just about the music, but also everything around it, we can get really personal with the artwork, lyrics, layouts, and hopefully the listeners/readers will get a deeper and more atmospherical experience from it.
Is digital killing the album format?
-It's up to the musicians really, some songs are not really fit for "an album" and can be considered more standalone pieces, while some groups of song really match together and can form an album. When it comes to distribution it's so much easier to spread and to make it accesible to anyone, then it's up to the listener if they feel like they're missing out when they don't have the physical copy.
What part does art work and lay out play? Any message that you want to bring forth with it?
-It's another way for us to express ourselves creativly as a band, the artwork and the colors matter alot. We try to make an atmosphere that blends the physical and the musical together, where one is an extension of the other.
Is it a whole different way to promote a cd today with all these social media channels? Or do you go about doing promotion the same way? Playing live and word of mouth.
-Social media has kinda been the only promotion we've had so it's not different to us really. We feel like it has alot more impact on our promotion than word of mouth ever could, it has made it possible to reach people all over the world.
Do you feel like you are a part of a scene, locally, nationally and internationally?
-Definitely international, even though we're still a small band our fanbase reaches across the world, more so than locally.
How much of a touring band are you? Is touring/gigging still a great way of spreading the word of the band?
-Touring is probably more the goal that we hope to achieve by trying to spread the word, we're not currently very active with live gigs. Many arrangers want bands to be established with a large fanbase, and while that's hard to get if you don't get to play live allot, social media offers a very good platform.
What will the future bring?
-Hopefully more Revenge Prevails everywhere, we're planning on releasing another album next year and with it alot of cool stuff.
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Sunrise Avenue – fiński zespół rockowy, założony w 2002 roku w Helsinkach w Finlandii.

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Jego założycielami są: wokalista, a zarazem gitarzysta Samu Haber i gitarzysta Janne Kärkkäinen. Wkrótce do grupy dołączyli także: basista Raul Ruutu i perkusista Sami Osala (na miejsce Teijo Jämsy).

Pierwsze demo Sunrise Avenue zostało odrzucone przez 102 producentów nagrań. Wszystko zmieniło się, gdy pojawił się Jukka Backlund, producent, z którym zespół postanowił nagrać płytę. Pierwsze single: "All Because of You" oraz "Romeo" zostały wydane na początku 2006. Zespół wydał pierwszy krążek "On the Way to Wonderland" – w fińskich sklepach muzycznych pojawił się w maju 2006.

"Fairytale Gone Bad" to trzeci singel, który został wydany 23 sierpnia i otworzył zespołowi drzwi do kariery – zajął 5. miejsce na fińskich listach przebojów oraz podbijał stacje radiowe i telewizyjne w całej niemal Europie. W Niemczech album można było kupić dwa tygodnie po wydaniu singla "Fairytale Gone Bad" (25 sierpnia 2006). W tym samym czasie zespół po raz pierwszy wystąpił w tym kraju w Cologne's Underground Club oraz w The Dome (największe telewizyjne wydarzenie muzyczne w Niemczech).

Debiutancka płyta Sunrise Avenue "On the Way to Wonderland" błyskawicznie pokryła się platyną w ojczyźnie zespołu. 19 stycznia 2007 zespół wygrał w czterech kategoriach podczas NRJ Radio Awards (największej skandynawskiej gali radiowej): najlepszy fiński debiutant, najlepsza fińska piosenka ("Fairytale Gone Bad"), najlepszy fiński album ("On the Way to Wonderland") oraz najlepszy skandynawski artysta. 20 stycznia 2007 zespół zagrał "Fairytale Gone Bad" w St. Jakob Halle w Bazylei (Szwajcaria). Piosenka ta towarzyszyła także bokserowi, którym był Nikolay Valuev, gdy wchodził na ring, aby bronić tytułu WC w walce przeciwko Jammelowi McCline'owi. W kwietniu 2007 singiel "Fairytale Gone Bad" pokrył się złotem po sprzedaniu 150 tys. egzemplarzy w Niemczech (17 kwietnia liczba sprzedanych singli wynosiła dokładnie 181 826).

Na początku sierpnia 2007 z powodu napięć i kłótni między członkami, zespół opuścił gitarzysta Janne Kärkkäinen (obecnie stworzył własny projekt o nazwie Phoenix Effect). Jego miejsce zajął Riku Rajamaa, który po roku występowania z Sunrise Avenue jako gitarzysta tymczasowy, we wrześniu 2008 został uznany oficjalnym członkiem zespołu.

Dotychczasowy klawiszowiec i producent, Jukka Backlund, koncertem, który miał miejsce 18 października 2008 w czasie rejsu statkiem między Finlandią a Estonią, zakończył swoje koncertowanie z zespołem. Backlund, jako współwłaściciel studia Sonic Kitchen i producent muzyczny, chce całkowicie poświęcić się pracy w studiu. Nie będzie już występował na koncertach, jednak pozostanie producentem Sunrise Avenue. Trwają poszukiwania nowego keyboardzisty.

Jesienią 2009 zespół planuje wyruszyć w pełną trasę koncertową po Europie, promującą najnowszy krążek.

Fińscy muzycy do tej pory odwiedzili Polskę kilkukrotnie: 22 lipca 2007 w Gdańsku na imprezie z cyklu Hity Na Czasie, organizowanej przez Radio Eska, następnie 16 września 2007, na finałowym koncercie Hitów, w Zielonej Górze. Przy okazji tej wizyty zespół zagrał minikoncert akustyczny w warszawskim Hard Rock Cafe. Ich trzecia wizyta miała miejsce na gali Eska Music Awards 25 kwietnia 2008 roku, gdzie zdobyli statuetkę w kategorii Best New Artist. Sunrise Avenue wystąpili w Bydgoszczy, na ceremonii otwarcia Mistrzostw Świata Juniorów w Lekkiej Atletyce. W 2011 roku Sunrise Avenue gościło w Polsce trzykrotnie. 25 czerwca fińscy muzycy zagrali na koncercie Wianki nad Wisłą w Warszawie, 26 czerwca na zorganizowanej przez radio Zet i TVP 2 koncercie Lato Zet i Dwójki oraz 28 sierpnia podczas koncertu Hity na Czasie w Bydgoszczy.

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When you have a new brand, product, or even an existing business, it's of the utmost importance that you learn how to protect it. It's not something you can afford to leave to chance or the unknown.
We'll be taking a close look at what some companies have done in the past that can serve as examples of best practices—as well as what might be better to avoid. By the end of this post you will be properly equipped with ways to not only keep your brand from harm but also with ways that you can continue to strengthen it once all the paperwork is complete (as the journey doesn't end just because fees are paid and documents are signed).
Even if you have an organization that reaches across the globe, we have laid out the key details you'll need when learning how to register a trademark both locally and internationally.
Consider this a "what not to do" when taking the steps to ensure your brand and its products or services are properly protected. Some are more common blunders than others but it would do you well to have the knowledge in your back pocket so all can be easily avoided.
Imagine you've spent time and money creating the perfect name and logo for your brand and you've placed it on all your merchandise and marketing materials. Then someone, who has a conflicting trademark, has the nerve to try to stop you from using everything you've created and invested in. As scary as it sounds, they may have that right.
Failure to clear a proposed trademark before deploying it is arguably the most common, although ironically also the most avoidable, error made in the course of registration. It's crucial that you check the IP register to ensure that a proposed mark is available for use. A trademark clearance search will indicate whether any identical or similar marks already exist and whether any conflicts could arise that relate to the goods or services intended to be offered under the new mark.
Even if you use your brand in the title of your business, registering your business name on a commercial register is not the same thing as registering your trademark, and may only prevent others from registering the exact same name. Also, just because you have registered your company name does not mean that you have a right to use that same name on products or services.
A mark is not permitted to be registered as a trademark if it's not distinctive from your competitors. A descriptive word mark is far less distinctive than a colorful graphic mark. For example, a simple adjective such as "fantastic" would not be distinctive. Few famous trademarks rely on a word or phrase alone, thus distinctive graphic marks can be seen to be far more successful in fulfilling the inherent function of a trademark.
There is also the concept of "living dangerously" to consider, as many firms have been experimenting with precarious registration tactics, such as attempting to register a brand similar to that of another established trademark. It is typically done in order to exploit potential consumer confusion but is quite risky and we do not recommended this approach. In these situations, businesses need to strike the right balance across all legal and business considerations to avoid liability for infringement. Even slightly miscalculating this risk can prove disastrous for a business.
Let's see how these types of missteps have played out for business entities in some example cases. Seeing them in action will help further clear up the "why" behind these not being recommended avenues when going about registering your trademark.
Let's examine several cases in which the brands that have come before you missed some key factors that should have been more carefully considered in their trademark registration. These organizations learned the hard way, but with our guide you fortunately won't have to struggle to understand what is necessary and what is not.
The Chinese company Hisense, and the German company Bosch Siemens were parties to a protracted trademark infringement battle due to a near identical mark being used for similar goods. The first to register its mark for the sale of home electronic goods was Hisense, registering their mark in China in 1993. Seeing their success in the Chinese market, Bosch Siemens sought to register their own "HiSense" mark in Germany and the EU, also for home electronic goods. The two signs were nearly identical. When Hisense exported home appliances into Europe and Germany, Bosch Siemens sued for infringement of their registered HiSense trademark.
The Hisense group was prominent in the home electronics market but did not match the international renown of Bosch Siemens, which may have formed part of their rationale for their attempt to take over the mark. Despite this, Hisense was unwilling to part with the brand they had sold goods under in more than 100 countries and leveraged the growing influence of the Chinese economy.
Eventually, in 2005, the two businesses reached a settlement deal, with the end result being that Bosch Siemens transferred their mark to Hisense. If Bosch Siemens' HiSense brand had been registered for goods other than home electronics, then the Chinese Hisense may not have been successful in their counterclaim for infringement.
ASDA, a supermarket chain in the UK, sought to "live dangerously" by registering a chocolate bar under the name Puffin, which was intended to confuse consumers with the pre-existing, and well branded Penguin chocolate bar.
The similarity of the names and the branding of the two products, in conjunction with being registered for use on identical product types, meant that ASDA severely miscalculated their risk, and were liable for infringement on the Penguin brand. Potentially, if the Puffin brand had been registered and used with a different food product, this may have differentiated the brands enough to save them from liability.
In any particular case, such as those mentioned above, the result can cost the "losing" party their mark, reputation, profits, and more. These examples demonstrate that it is best to err on the side of caution when registering a trademark.
We need to be careful to avoid assumptions, be aware, be diligent, and not pass over any details in the trademark registration process. It also operates as a warning to businesses to consider the market for trademarks and other intellectual property (IP) rights as global, not merely at a national or regional level.
Now that we're aware of common things that could potentially go wrong and some areas in which other businesses have experienced confusion (or were too bold or assuming for their own good), we're ready to move into taking the necessary steps to protect our IP assets.
As previously discussed, you'll start by searching the Register of Trademarks in the categories required. This is a skilled task and best carried out by an expert, such as a representative from a trademark registration service who has many years of experience in this particular area. Again, this individual or company should know how to determine if prior trademarks might be conflicting. Results can be returned anywhere between one and several business days, so be patient. Once you've confirmed that your brand can indeed be registered, you can proceed to the next step.
At this stage, you'll submit a properly completed trademark application to your local Trademark Office. They will examine your application, and if accepted, your application will be sent forward for publication so that anyone who wishes to object can do so. This part of the process may take up to four months.
Once your trademark is registered, congratulations! Your trademark has become a business asset that can be licensed or sold and it will provide legal backing for the commercial value of your brand. Keep in mind, your trademark will need to be renewed periodically, usually every 10 years (it's wise to make a note of the next renewal date and be sure to submit the required forms in good time to keep your trademark from expiring).
If you enjoy an international brand footprint, read on so you can follow similar steps while making sure to abide by local and regional laws, as well.
Just as in the United States, if you conduct business in Europe, registering your trademark is essential to the protection of your brand and the best means of preventing others from abusing it, but the rules may be different.
If you want to obtain protection in just one member state of the European Union, you can opt for national registration only.
In this case you will be submitting an application to the Italian Patent and Trademark Office (Ufficio Italiano Brevetti e Marchi, or UIBM) of the Ministry of Economic Development.
If you intend to do business only in the Netherlands and/or Luxembourg, then you should opt for a regional registration and file your application at the Benelux Office for Intellectual Property (BOIP) to protect your brand in those three member states.
If you intend to expand your trading activity into several EU member states then the best option is to submit your trademark application to the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) for an EU trademark (EUTM). This trademark is valid across all of the EU member states, and if new countries join the EU then your trademark would also be protected in those new member states.
If you want to be able to register your trademark, keep in mind that every trademark must meet basic requirements of distinctiveness, extrinsic novelty, and lawfulness. We talked about parts of this earlier in the article but let's break things down further.
"Distinctiveness," as you may recall, means that a mark is capable of distinguishing a product or service from others.
A mark is not "novel" if it's identical to an existing registered trademark or a prior pending application covering the same or similar goods and services.
"Lawfulness" refers to ensuring that the particular use of a chosen mark would not be a breach of general law, public order, or ethical standards.
With the new guidelines introduced by Regulation EU 2015/2424, it's no longer necessary for your mark to be graphically represented – it's now sufficient to represent it using generally available technology, provided that the representation is clear, precise, self-contained, easily accessible, intelligible, durable, and objective.
We also recommend taking advantage of a search service for trademark applications and registrations. There is also eSearch Plus, provided free of charge by the EUIPO. Registered users can set up automatic monitoring alerts and receive a notification whenever the Office receives applications for trademarks that are in potential conflict with yours.
Once your trademark is registered, wherever in the world that may be, your work isn't over. The following information will illustrate our favorite tricks that will help you gain some traction and popularity for your brand – and ultimately rake in revenue for your company.
Popularity amongst consumers equates directly to profits, thus understanding the difference between an unknown and a well-known trademark can prove beneficial to securing the success of your business.
It's strongly advised that you seek the advice and support of experts at a trademark registration service to support the management of your IP portfolios. These professionals can orchestrate licensing agreements with third parties. The goods or services against which your registered mark can be used – categorised under Nice classes – can increase consumer knowledge of your mark, the more it is used. You can register your mark against a cluster of similar classes or in a variety of different ones.
In addition, with no limit to the number of brands one entity can register, many companies choose to register a variety of different brands. Knowing this, it's not hard to believe that the majority of household-name trademarks are currently owned by a mere dozen multinational corporations.
If your job is beginning to feel like it's overlapping with that of a marketing professional as far as strategies and tactics go, that's normal. You're playing a powerful role in building the framework for the future of your business to eventually increase your customer base.
We will see in a moment how the Dutch-British company Unilever sets a great example. They are one larger corporation that owns a variety of seemingly different brands, all living under one big umbrella. Ranging from foods to household cleaning products to toiletries, some of their famous brands include Magnum ice creams, Persil, and Dove.
One reason Unilever has registered a variety of different brands is to try to eradicate as much competition as possible. In other words, they register different brands in direct competition with each other, within the same sector, so they can still end up winning a customer, regardless of differing consumer preferences and choices. For instance, they registered both the Flora and Bertolli brands for cooking butters and oils, and ownership of both brands has resulted in maximum sales for the company.
As far as spreading across different territories, their aforementioned Magnum brand does a good job with this. They have an EU registration for Magnum, and they registered certain variations of the brand in specific areas like the UK and Turkey. In just the same way, registrations of variations on the same brand are used to increase the company's market presence internationally (as well as providing the opportunity to tailor a specific brand to certain territories based on market research of preferences for those areas).
Think about it this way: companies register so many different brands in order to hedge their bets, so to speak – they know that realistically only a portion of their endeavors will be successful. Thus, the more brands that are registered, the more likely they are to achieve success.
As you can see, knowing how to register a trademark will not only give your business legal backing for its identity, but it has a slew of other great benefits that simply cannot be ignored.
There are definitely a number of elements to be cautious of when going about trademark registration. We cannot stress enough that you enlist the help of a trademark registration service to give you the confidence that everything is being done correctly and no detail is slipping through the cracks.
You read about cases in which companies opted to go into the process all on their own and lost money or marred their reputation to some extent. You were also provided some of the best proven tips and tricks from some of the biggest players out there in the world of business. So with all this in your toolkit, it's time for you to jump into the ring and get started.
Don't waste any time. Why not contact us today and get your trademark officially registered? Put your mind (and the minds of your teammates) at ease. Safeguard the investment you make in your brand for years to come and reap the rewards over its lifetime!
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The Linguistic Life of a Trademark: Born to be Bad?


In 2010 Ed FitzGerald defeated Matt Dolan by a measure of two to one to win the race to be County Executive of Cuyahoga County. Or, as I like to view it, FitzGerald won the high risk, low reward opportunity to clean up the mess that a bunch of knuckleheads who thought they were gangsters left behind for him. Even though FitzGerald was one of the only bright spots on election night in 2010, I still thought he probably had an up-hill climb that was littered with political landmines just waiting to explode.
In the last year and five months Ed FitzGerald has proven me, and anyone doubting his political will, wrong. His administration has been a case study in reform and a fascinating contrast to the divisive policies that radical republicans have been pushing in Columbus.
Now, with a little over two years before we get to elect a new Governor and FitzGerald is considering throwing his hat into the ring. FitzGerald sat down with Plunderbund to discuss what he thought his story would be if he decides to run, the reform efforts in Cuyahoga County, and why he knows firsthand you can't trust John Kasich as far as you can throw him.
My family has been in Cleveland for over 100 years. My dad was in the air force and I spent my childhood in Indianapolis and then I came to Ohio when I started at Ohio State. I graduated from Ohio State in 1990. Then I worked for a Democratic Congressman who hasn't been in office now for 20 years. He represented the Cleveland Suburbs. I worked in his office and then I went to law school at night. So I was a night law student at Cleveland Marshall. I got my law degree and practiced law for a little bit but then I joined the FBI and was an FBI agent in Chicago for three years. I worked on an organized crime task force but most of what I did was work on a political corruption.
I came back to the Cleveland area around 1998. I became the county prosecutor. I had kids along the way and then I was elected to Lakewood city council and served on the council for nine years. I continued to be active in presidential campaigns and local campaigns.
In 2007 I ran against an incumbent democratic mayor who I thought was not doing a good job. We were outspent four to one, but won two to one. When I took over as the mayor of Lakewood the city was not doing well. I think we really turned that whole situation around and I think that is what changed my whole spectrum of what I wanted to do politically. I always thought I wanted to run for congress some day; I had worked for a congressman and thought that was what I wanted to do. I got really fascinated with local government, how it works, best practices, how do you turn around a situation.
I was toying with the idea of running against (Jimmy) Dimora or (Frank) Russo, I was going to run for Auditor, but everyone told me, "You're crazy, you'll never beat this guy," but I thought I would take him on. I actually started to travel the county to get support to run against him in 2010. Most people said good luck but he is probably going to win. He has his name and picture on all the gas pumps.
But then the corruption scandal broke and it was like a bomb going off. It decimated the party but ironically I think it was the best thing that could happened to the D party up there because not only were these guys corrupt but they weren't good democrats.
So, it sort of cleared the decks and then this position was created and I ran for it.
I always tell people there are different tiers of dysfunction. The top level tier was the corruption. So, the FBI took care of a lot of it but there were still people that I felt were associated with the corruption that I fired right away. It was not necessarily that they broke the law but their departments, I felt, had become compromised.
On the other hand you had departments that were completely professional. That has been a really slow process; slow for some employees who feel up in the air about it, but we are getting there. But we are still dealing with a lot of that. It has been a year and a half and we probably won't be done dealing with it for another year or so. But I will tell you that it is calming down. We have vastly improved the professionalism and efficiency of the whole operation and we have numbers to pack that up.
I think that by the time we are done we are going to be one of the premier county governments because we are just fanatical about wanting to improve and professionalize all this stuff and that is the advantage of taking over after a disaster.
A Possible Run for Governor?
The party has got to try to reach a consensus behind a candidate and it maybe me or someone else but the party has got to reach a consensus.
I think one thing that I have got going for me is that I have a different biography than a lot of politicians do and I have a different story, which is it's a reform story of which we have been able to do.
I didn't balance my budget by telling my 59 cities you guys are all screwed now and I'm going to cut my funding to you. In fact, we had big initiatives with education, law enforcement, health and wellness.
I think we are an example of that we are the second largest entity, after the state, and we are doing things, you know we are moderate on fiscal issues but we are also progressive on a lot of issues and that is very interesting contrast I think. I think I just need to tell people that story and I think that story is helpful to the Democratic Party whether I am the nominee for governor or not because it is not some theory that it could have been done differently because it has been done differently.
We are a heavily unionized area of the state, not as much as we use to be but organized labor is really strong up there and Issue Two was a huge deal and it was defeated overwhelmingly in Cuyahoga County. The county was the number one provider of votes in terms of the margin of victory. So, he has certainly alienated a huge part of the county there.
The cuts that have come have mostly hit social services up there so they have hit everything from mental health services to, you know, special education, early childhood education.
Something local officials have to do even more than we are doing it now is we need to make sure that we are reminding people what he tried to do. We have to keep up the pressure on him because what he has learned is that he's just got to try to talk about job creation for the rest of his term. And, that is all he is basically talking about; He's going to try and change the subject. He is going to act like the first year was all a dream, and I don't know what happened there.
So his whole story is nonsense and he is just running away from it because he knows he took a beating on it. I have no doubt that once he would be through with reelection they would cook up another version of it and give it another shot. These guys are not going to give up – this has been their dream their entire lives; this is what they were all talking about when they were all Goldwater supporters 50 years ago.
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