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Financial Institutions Face Huge Legal Risks When Rebranding
Financial institutions pay big bucks for branding projects. But if you aren't aware of the trademark risks, you could wind up in court mired in an expensive lawsuit.
By Steve Cocheo, Senior Executive Editor at The Financial Brand
For every brilliant financial marketing idea, be it a new name or a "sonic trademark," there's just one problem: Someone else might have thought of it first.
And more than likely, especially if they have made their ownership official, they won't want to share it.
"There's a reason only one company makes women's shoes with contrasting red soles."
In fact, they'll want you to stop using it, trash whatever assets you developed containing it and, quite possibly, recompense them for perceived damages to their brand.
Are you reaching for your bottle of calcium carbonate tablets yet? (We hesitate to use a brand name here.)
The annals of financial marketing are full of such cases, the parties involved ranging from industry giants to much smaller institutions.
And there's also the other possibility — maybe it's your own financial institution's name, logo, color scheme, etc., that someone else has appropriated.
He Who Steals My Brand Steals My Business
Federal trademark cases filed of all kinds averaged around 4,500 annually from 2009-2018, according to figures from Lex Machina. Generally cases dealing with trademarks are filed under the federal Lanham Act, though other statutes may become involved. Lex Machina indicates that three out of five cases filed are settled.
Financial brands typically aren't among the top ten types of plaintiffs. That's in part because some other types of businesses spawn many filings. For example, some consumer brands may file large numbers of cases in a year to battle constant attempts to ride their coattails. There's a reason only one company makes women's shoes with contrasting red soles.
However, financial brands are constantly defending their trademarks, and more of this can be expected as new entrants come into banking, organizations merge and seek new names for their combined operations, and others seek trendier corporate names than "First National Bank of …"
All Kinds of Ways to Stir Up Trademark Trouble in Banking and Finance
When Mastercard eliminated the lettering from its logo, in favor of just its longstanding intersecting circles, and also adopted an audible trademark, this underscored the investment a brand can feel it has in simple but identifiable things. Marketing executives at Nabisco years ago gave entire speeches about the "three little notes" that meant "Na-bis-co," and the extra brand value of the "ting!" added later.
Banking trademark issues have arisen from causes all over the lot. Here are some examples.
• True concerns— Shortly after BB&T and SunTrust announced that the name of their merged organizations would be "Truist," their pick was challenged by Truliant Federal Credit Union. Chartered in 1952, Truliant has held its current name since 1999 and filed suit to kill the Truist name as too close to its own. The credit union seeks both compensatory and punitive damages.
Read More: Truist Bank: Colossal Rebranding Misstep? Or Long-Term Winner?
• Getting in Facebook's face— When Facebook and others announced intentions to launch the Libra cryptocurrency and the Calibra digital wallet, it also unveiled a logo for the wallet. Its resemblance to the logo for Current, a savings app and debit card initially for teens but now billed as the "modern bank for all," led the fintech to protest the resemblance.
"This is a funny way to try and create trust in a new global financial system – by ripping off another fintech firm," Stuart Sopp, Current CEO, told CNBC when Facebook announced Calibra.
• Let's be Prudential. Prudential Insurance Co. of America and Prudential Bank tussled over both the "Prudential" and similar blue and white color schemes. The bank started as Prudential Savings Association in 1886, became Prudential Savings Bank in 2003 after a charter change, and finally Prudential Bank in 2017 after another charter change. Further complicating things, the N.J.-based insurance company, founded over 140 years ago, owns Prudential Bank & Trust in Connecticut.
• Erica versus E.R.I.C.A. Bank of America's virtual digital assistant, Erica — derived from "America" — launched in June 2018. Not long afterward the trademark was challenged by the creator of a virtual news anchor named E.R.I.C.A. that later evolved into additional roles. (The acronym stands for Electronic Repetitious Informational Clone Application.) BofA held a federal trademark, whereas E.R.I.C.A.'s creator only held a state-level registration in one state.
The trademark for Bank of America's virtual assistant, Erica, has been challenged by the developer of the virtual news reader and avator E.R.I.C.A.
• A thankless case. In a matter since dropped, Citigroup sued AT&T Inc. over the telecom's use of the words "thanks" and "AT&T thanks" in a customer loyalty program. The basis of the suit was the financial company's trademark on the use of the combined word "thankyou". Citi dated its use of the term to the late 1990s when it offered the AT&T Universal Card, and had since expanded it to other loyalty programs.
• Protecting your slogan. San Diego County Credit Union and Citizens Equity First Credit Union, of Peoria, Ill., have been scrapping in court over their mottoes. San Diego County's is "It's not big bank banking. It's better." Citizens Equity's is "CEFCU. Not a bank. Better." CEFCU petitioned the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office to cancel the California institution's trademark. The latter sought a court ruling that it wasn't infringing on CEFCU's slogan, and CEFCU filed a counter suit.
• Staking a claim to a conceptual name. Second-cousin to slogans are marketing descriptions. One example is the term "Green Branch," which PNC Financial registered in 2008. The institution got about the green offices trend early, and wanted to make a point about it.
• Claims of a different color. While PNC secured "Green Branch," as recounted in The Financial Brand article cited above, the institution had trouble around the same time with a different color: orange. Back in 2008 PNC launched its Virtual Wallet, using the color orange and orange ball designs. ING Direct sued to protect its own orange-ball themed motifs. About three years later, the matter was moot, with Capital One acquiring ING Direct. Today, the direct bank's home page doesn't have a trace of orange.
• Hard lessons learned about trademark law. As recounted in a story on this website, Ohio Valley National Bank was known for years as "OV." For over 100 years, no one challenged its name. But in the mid-1990s a state-chartered area competitor adopted the name "Ohio Valley Bank." What this bank did, though, was file for trademark protection. The "original" didn't contest the application and after five years the other bank received approval — and thereby the rights to the name.
As The Financial Brand wrote at the time, "This is a cautionary tale to all those financial institutions who erroneously presumed they safely owned their trademarks — forever. Wrong. Just because you've had your name for 100+ years doesn't mean anything — even from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office's perspective."
Do Your Due Diligence or Don't Try a New Name
It's actually surprising that in an industry with so many rules and a record of sameness that there aren't more cases of institutions butting heads over names, looks, and more.
"It's next to impossible to find a name that 'sounds financial' that won't expose you to a potential lawsuit."
The files of The Financial Brand have strong examples of cases where due diligence just didn't seem to go far enough.
As one story advised, "It's next to impossible to find a name that 'sounds financial' that won't expose you to a potential lawsuit. Most of the names people naturally think of are already being use somewhere by someone."
In one notable case, a federal judge's punishment included an order that the infringing company buy "negative keywords" on Google and other services. This would prevent the offending company from having its brand come up in certain searches. The firm also had to pay to promote the winner's links.
Unusual, but as the article stated, "Can you imagine having to pay to show your competitor's ad every time someone did a Google search for your name?" It's best to hope for an unimaginative judge.
Multiple types of damages can be assessed in court, depending on what the plaintiff is seeking and what the defendant has done. The idea, of course, is to avoid getting there in the first place.
Searches, typically by an attorney specializing in trademarks, are a key element of the due diligence, before something is submitted for registration to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. There are multiple ways to search federal registrations and there are also state-level databases that need to be checked. The process isn't completely scientific, because there are gray areas. As explained in "Protecting Your Trademark: Enhancing Your Rights Through Federal Registration," a government handbook:
"The most common reason to refuse registration is a 'likelihood of confusion' between the mark of the applicant and a mark already registered or in a prior filed pending application owned by another party. The USPTO determines that a likelihood of confusion exists when both (1) the marks are similar, and (2) the goods and/or services of the parties are related such that consumers would mistakenly believe they come from the same source. Similar marks or related goods/services by themselves are not enough to support a finding of a likelihood of confusion, unless a court has held that the mark is actually a famous mark. That is, generally two identical marks can co-exist, so long as the goods and services are not related."
Some years back, a financial institution promoted a credit product called The Equalizer, and was allowed to do so even though there were numerous other brands that used the term. The key was that it didn't compete with any of them, including a TV detective show.
Read More: How To: Brand Books For Retail Financial Institutions
Being Plain and Unimaginative Won't Save You
The USPTO guide also cautions brands against what might colloquially be called "obviosities." Sometimes plain labels, in a business that often tends towards commodity services, can make for inferior branding.
"Applicants often choose (frequently at the suggestion of marketing professionals) descriptive [trade]marks for their goods and/or services, believing that such marks reduce the need for expensive consumer education and advertising because consumers can immediately identify the product or services being offered directly from the mark," the guidebook states. "This approach, while perhaps logical marketing advice, often leads to marks that cannot be easily protected."
The more generic a trademark is, in other words, the weaker it will prove. While it is not required to register a name or other asset to use it, registration brings multiple advantages when it comes to defending the right to use a given name. Of course, once approved, that includes being in the federal database when a potential competitor does their own search. "Common law" trademarks, which aren't registered, can be established by use, but recall the experience of the Ohio bank recounted earlier.
Note that USPTO is not an enforcement agency. Should you have to defend your brand, you'll be headed towards court or engaging in an out-of-court settlement.
Which brings up a point made in Credit Union Times by Marc Whitfield, partner at Taylor Porter, who has been involved in credit union trademark cases: "Trademark law's a bit unusual. It puts a burden upon the trademark owner that kind of essentially says that if you do not go out and police your trademark — and that means stopping everybody that you see coming along, or at least acting in a reasonable manner to stop everyone who's coming along who starts to use very similar trademarks — if you don't police it, then you will lose it and will find that it's kind of fallen into the public domain."


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De oranjeborststekelkruin (Phacellodomus ferrugineigula) is een zangvogel uit de familie Furnariidae (ovenvogels).

Verspreiding en leefgebied
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SUSPECT'S INTENT FOR JURY TO DECIDE
MONIQUE ANGLE Daily PressDaily Press
A trial begins for a 19-year-old Newport News man charged with killing another teen on New Year's Day.
On Jan. 1, after a night of parties and revelry, Kyle Sanders shot and killed Patrick McKinley after an argument that started because a car was honking loudly at 1 a.m. in a Denbigh neighborhood.
Those facts are not in dispute.
A jury will decide this week whether Sanders shot McKinley in a fit of panic -- committing manslaughter -- or if he should be convicted of murder.
Tuesday, prosecutors and Sanders' defense attorney laid out the three-day murder case, which is expected to include testimony from more than 20 witnesses.
McKinley, an 18-year-old freshman on holiday break from a Florida art school, was out with friends the night of the shooting, partying in his parents' neighborhood.
While they were walking to McKinley's house, a vehicle stopped in the street, blocking a car driven by Patrick Denny, a witness testified.
Denny started blowing his horn and McKinley responded by yelling for Denny to stop.
McKinley and Denny started arguing, Denny got out of the car and they started fighting. The witness said he broke up the fight, but Denny and McKinley kept yelling at each other.
That's when Sanders walked up with a gun, the witness said.
"Absolutely no person involved in this had a weapon, except Kyle Sanders," prosecutor Will H. Jamerson said.
Sanders' attorney, Timothy Clancy, said Sanders fired the gun only after McKinley punched his client several times.
"Mr. Sanders had a gun and he panicked," Clancy said. "He did not commit murder." *

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Q: SQL: view as function of value in table I'm working with a transactional database: a relational database where a row in a table is defined as the set of values the database, at a given time, "thinks" the row's fields contain.
Part of the schema:
CREATE TABLE Article
(
    id INTEGER,
    PRIMARY KEY(id)
);

CREATE TABLE Article_headline
(
    Article_id INTEGER,
    headline TEXT,
    tt DATETIME
    FOREIGN KEY(Article_id) REFERENCES Article(id)
);

CREATE TABLE Article_body
(
    Article_id INTEGER,
    body TEXT,
    tt DATETIME
    FOREIGN KEY(Article_id) REFERENCES Article(id)
);

In other words, the virtual "Article" table has three columns: id, headline, and body.
I can create temporary views to represent the virtual "Article" table defined by a given time:
CREATE TEMPORARY VIEW Article_headline_old
AS SELECT Article_id, headline, MAX(tt)
FROM Article_headline
WHERE tt <= "2011-11-03 16:05:23"
GROUP BY Article_id;

CREATE TEMPORARY VIEW Article_body_old
AS SELECT Article_id, body, MAX(tt)
FROM Article_body
WHERE tt <= "2011-11-03 16:05:23"
GROUP BY Article_id;

CREATE TEMPORARY VIEW Article_old
AS SELECT id, headline, body
FROM Article, Article_headline_old, Article_body_old
WHERE Article_headline_old.Article_id = Article.id
AND Article_body_old.Article_id = Article.id;

I have to create these three temporary views each time I want to query the database to get an article, which I would rather not do. I would prefer to create permanent view "functions" as part of the schema itself:
CREATE VIEW Article_headline_at(theTime)
AS SELECT Article_id, headline, MAX(tt)
FROM Article_headline
WHERE tt <= theTime
GROUP BY Article_id;

CREATE VIEW Article_body_at(theTime)
AS SELECT Article_id, body, MAX(tt)
FROM Article_body
WHERE tt <= theTime
GROUP BY Article_id;

CREATE VIEW Article_at(theTime)
AS SELECT id, headline, body
FROM Article,
     Article_headline_at(theTime) AS Article_headline_old,
     Article_body_at(theTime) AS Article_body_old
WHERE Article_headline_old.Article_id = Article.id
AND Article_body_old.Article_id = Article.id;

And then when I want to select an article from the database:
SELECT * FROM Article_at("2011-11-03 16:05:23");

Does SQL have any similar functionality?

A: You could create three stored procedures and pass theTime as a variable to each.
For Article_headline_at and Article_body_old_at insert these stored procedures into a temporary table inside Article_at stored procedures and do the query. This could be your solution:
CREATE PROCEDURE Article_headline_at @theTime datetime as

SELECT Article_id, headline, MAX(tt)
FROM Article_headline
WHERE tt <= theTime
GROUP BY Article_id;

-----

CREATE PROCEDURE Article_body_old_at @theTime datetime as
SELECT Article_id, body, MAX(tt)
FROM Article_body
WHERE tt <= theTime
GROUP BY Article_id;

-----

CREATE PROCEDURE Article_at @theTime datetime as
IF OBJECT_ID('tempdb.dbo.#Article_headline_at') IS NOT NULL DROP TABLE tempdb.dbo.#Article_headline_at
IF OBJECT_ID('tempdb.dbo.#Article_body_old_at') IS NOT NULL DROP TABLE tempdb.dbo.#Article_body_old_at

create table #Article_headline_at (
Article_id int,
body nvarchar(max),
tt int
)

create table #Article_body_old_at (
Article_id int,
headline nvarchar(max),
tt int
)

declare @sql1 nvarchar(max)
declare @sql2 nvarchar(max)

set @sql1 = 'insert into #Article_headline_at exec #Article_headline_at @theTime = '''+ @theTime + ''''
set @sql2 = 'insert into #Article_body_old_at exec #Article_body_old_at @theTime = '''+ @theTime + ''''

exec sp_executesql @sql1
exec sp_executesql @sql2

SELECT id, headline, body
FROM Article, #Article_headline_at(theTime), #Article_body_at(theTime)
WHERE #Article_headline_old.Article_id = Article.id
AND #Article_body_old.Article_id = Article.id;

-----

so at the end of it all you can do

exec Article_at @theTime = "2011-11-03 16:05:23"

but I am sure there is a easier way around but this the only way I can think of.

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Israeli leadership display serious disagrements
"I have no trust in the current Israeli leadership."
The former head of the secret police of Israel backstab Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
These are the words of Yuval Diskin, the Former Shin Bet chief.
He says prime minister, defense minister not fit to stand at helm of Israeli government.
Former Shin Bet chief Yuval Diskin on Friday leveled harsh criticism at Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Ehud Barak, saying "I have not trust in the current Israeli leadership."
Speaking at a conference in central Israel, Diskin said: "I don't trust a leadership that relies on messianic leadership. Our two messiahs from Caesarea and from the Akirov Towers are not fit to stand at the helm of the government."
The former Shin bet chief slammed the Netanyahu and Barak over the Iranian nuclear program, saying that they "present the public with a mirage.
"If Israel acts against the Iranian nuclear bomb, the attack will encourage the Iranians to produce a bomb even faster," he noted
Also former IDF chief Gabi Askenazi display disagreements with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Minister of defense Ehud Barak.
A military strike against Iran is "not needed tomorrow morning" but Israel does need to present a credible military threat alongside sanctions and diplomatic action against the Islamic regime, former IDF chief of staff Lt.-Gen. (res.) Gabi Ashkenazi said on Sunday.
Speaking at The Jerusalem Post conference in New York, Ashkenazi said that the right strategy was too continue the economic crackdown on Iran as well as covert action that takes place "under the radar."
Source: Ynetnews.com
The rice of fascism in Europe give new virtue to the wind of the final antichrist. This movement will be massive and welcomed by people at large. When the man of lawlessness appear, also the Jews will be fooled into the final trap.
Israel was re-birthed by Jesus, as the preparation for the final battle in Zion. Before the true Messiah return, Satan will have his last bid for Jerusalem.
The city of David will be handed over to the false prince of peace. The Jews will be under such heavy pressure, that Zionism will be abandoned. Self hating Jews will start to defame and attack their own Zionist leadership.
Behold: Do not end up with Satan and his forces of evil. Stay put. Jesus the Messiah will come back in the clouds of heaven, replacing sunlight as the Light of the World.
not to become easily unsettled or alarmed by some prophecy, report or letter supposed to have come from us, saying that the day of the Lord has already come. Don't let anyone deceive you in any way, for that day will not come until the rebellion occurs and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the man doomed to destruction. He will oppose and will exalt himself over everything that is called God or is worshiped, so that he sets himself up in God's temple, proclaiming himself to be God.
Satan's final man will be given a red carpet welcome at Ben Gurion Airport in Tel Aviv.
First published: 30th of April 2012.
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Every Governement has elements of disagreement, look at what we in Old Blighty have a conservative/Dim Leb coallition which disagrees on much but is doing what I think a pretty decent job in tackling Labours legacy of massive debt. However we don't face what israel faces, we face being absorbed into a European Union ( God willing we will leave it ) but Israel faces annihalation. Lets pray that the Lord will bring unity to the Government and cabinet of Israel, that He will frustrate and expose the plans of her enemies and bring division in their ranks, that He would open the hearts of both sides and save. Remember there are many books about miracles and angels on Israels battlefields since 1948, israel is goin nowhere despite division.
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I asked my son, Brian to share today about some aspects of pastoral self-care. Rev. Brian Farmer is senior pastor at Cairo First Church of the Nazarene in Cairo, GA. He has served there for over 10 years. Before that, he was heavily involved in ministry with my husband and I. Being a pastor's kid means he has literally been in ministry all his life.
Thank you, Brian, for some excellent advice.
We all know the regular talking points that come with the topic of self-care: nutrition, exercise, sufficient sleep, regular physical care, etc. These are universally applicable. But, we're talking about self-care of the pastor. As we're in a unique position, there are unique aspects of self-care which are vital to us specifically. Here are five important specific aspects of pastoral self-care.
Make daily communion with God a priority in your life.
Taking the opportunity to be in the Word each day (for personal spiritual development, not sermon development) is vital to our spiritual health as pastors. As the primary means through which we hear from the God who cares for our souls, we need to crave that nourishment.
Prayer is also part of this.
—And, not so much prayer as an event, though, that's both acceptable and healthy, but prayer without ceasing, an open line of communication with the God who is always listening. Our words and our lives ought to be like the red phone—a direct line to God, open at all times.
Western society has misconstrued prayer as being primarily about presenting our requests to God, when prayer is primarily about ascribing worship, praise, honor, and glory to Him, and allowing the Holy Spirit to speak back to us.
"It is not necessary to be always speaking to God or always hearing from God, to have communion with Him; there is an inarticulate fellowship more sweet than words. The little child can sit all day long beside its busy mother and, although few words are spoken on either side, and both are busy, yet both are in perfect fellowship. He knows that she is there, and she knows that he is all right.
where you do it, etc.
These are just the details. What's important is making communion with God a daily part of your life. This is of the utmost importance, not only for your spiritual well-being but for the spiritual well-being of those the Lord places under your care.
It's very easy for us as pastors to shuffle our families—spouse, kids, siblings, parents, what have you—to the backburner in the execution of our ministries. We often justify it in our minds with the rationale that because we're called by God to this position, it needs to take priority (more on this in #5).
But, the fact is that, while there will always be responsibilities that take us away from family for a time, on the Biblical scale of importance, the order is unflinchingly God, Family, Pastorate.
Your family is one of the primary means through which the Lord displays His love for you, refreshes your spirit, and refocuses your attitude.
Moreover, if Titus 1 is to be believed (and, it's God's Word, so it should be), proper attention to and care for family is a pre-requisite to the pastorate.
For your own sake, and the sake of those in your life, keep things in their proper order. You, your family, and your congregation will all benefit tremendously from this.
Burn this into your heart and mind, pastor: you *need* a true, close friend outside of your congregation with whom you spend regular time. It's not something nice or even something that's highly recommended; it's vital. There needs to be someone close to you in your life to whom you are not "Pastor (Your First Name Here)," but simply "(Your First Name Here)." You are a person first (again, more on this in #5), and there needs to be a relationship in which you can be just you, without the pressures and expectations that come along with the pastoral relationship.
To even the best of people under our care, who know and understand us for who we are, we will always be "Pastor," even after we've moved on from their congregation. Taking off the collar, so to speak, is so very important to our well-being, and it revitalizes us for the tasks of ministry.
The pastorate can easily lend itself to workaholism, both physically and mentally, and that leads to burnout. Slowing down and stopping for a while as a regular part of your life is key to remaining properly focused and energized for the tasks of ministry.
whatever day that may be, and don't let anything short of an absolute emergency alter that. Your congregation is more capable than perhaps you or they may realize of handling many, if not most, of the tasks of the church (and the reality is that this needs to happen more often than it does in our churches; but, that's a different blog post).
as well—date nights with your spouse (if you're blessed enough to have one), day or weekend trips with the family, regular vacations, and the like. If the opportunity is both present and conducive, take a sabbatical, whether you use it for study, relaxation, or something else.
But, remember that rest is as much mental as it is physical.
It's entirely possible for a pastor to be physically away from the tasks of the pastorate, but mentally right in the thick of them—and, that's just as draining on you, and just as frustrating for your loved ones, if not more so. We need to separate ourselves from the work mentally just as much as we do physically.
As pastors, we find ourselves in the peculiar position of not selecting our vocation, but called to it. However, what I've observed as perhaps the most dangerous aspect of pastoral ministry is the tendency for us to define ourselves by this vocation.
—And, yes, it's a "called" vocation, but it's still a vocation, whether you're full-time, part-time, associate, bi-vocational, or anything else.
This tendency is enhanced by the fact that we're one of the rare sets of professionals whom society largely defines by vocation, too.
Think about it. How many people who know that you're a pastor call you not by your name, but by one of the several terms for your profession, even if they're not part of your church?
Please don't misunderstand me: to be a pastor is a high calling, and worthy of the utmost respect. But, always remember this: it's not who you are, it's what you do. Before God called you to the pastorate, He created you with personalized tastes, talents, and takes on life. You were born into and foster relationships with others that last a lifetime. These things are what define who you are because they're permanent; you'll always be these things, regardless of age, life status, or legal standing.
But, you won't always be a pastor.
Mark these words, and never forget them.
Every single person who has ever or will ever enter the pastorate will exit it someday. And, that day may come sooner than you think, for reasons you never expected and on terms that you didn't set. When that day comes, how you've defined yourself will largely tell the tale of how your life goes from that point on. If you've joined Western society in defining yourself as a pastor, there's going to be a serious identity crisis in your future when you're no longer a pastor.
On the other hand, if you define yourself not by your vocation, but by your personal identity and standing as God's child, you will be more secure and stable.
Don't define yourself by what you do, but by who you are and by Whose you are.
and let others take care of you, as well, just as you care for so many.
As pastors, along with our fellow believers, both behind and before the pulpit, we're in this together. We need each other. And, if we don't take care of ourselves, we won't be able to effectively care for others.


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"This can change perceptions about race in this country, about the contributions of African-Americans and our basic humanity."
The Museum of the American Revolution may have an extraordinary relic in its possession.
Philly.com reports the museum houses what is believed to be the only surviving powder horn of a slain African-American Revolutionary War soldier. The horn belonged to Gershom Prince, a free Black soldier in the war. It is intricately designed with flowers, birds, a boat and a small house and hosts his signature, revealing that Prince was literate in a time where literacy for Black men and women was deadly.
"What's so rare is to have an object with a personal identification," said Philip Mead, the museum's chief historian and curatorial director.
Unsurprisingly, though, not much else is known of Gershom Prince. The horn was found on his body after he was killed in the Battle of Wyoming, a battle in northeastern Pennsylvania where more than 300 colonial soldiers were killed. The horn was given to Prince's family, and for generations, it was passed down until the '50s. The family then lent it to the Luzerne County Historical Society which has, in turn, loaned it to the museum. It will go on exhibit through the end of the year.
Artifacts like the horn offer an intimate peek into the lives of African-Americans. As Blavity previously reported, the Museum of the Bible shared a "Slave Bible" that had been used by enslaved people throughout the 19th century. Themes of freedom had been omitted in exchange for themes of obedience, submission and acceptance.
Denise Dennis, a relative of Prince's, spoke about the importance of the horn concerning African Americans and the country at large.
"This can change perceptions about race in this country, about the contributions of African Americans and our basic humanity," she said.
Her words ring true for historical artifacts related to African Americans. They often tell an unknown but unfathomably important story.


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An adviser's history of bad advice
Dana Milbank/The Washington Post
It was the eve of the biggest economic collapse since the Great Depression. Many on Wall Street worried that a recession loomed and that the housing bubble was bursting.
And then there was Larry Kudlow, the man President Trump just tapped to be his top economic adviser.
"Despite all the doom and gloom from the economic pessimistas, the resilient U.S. economy continues moving ahead," Kudlow wrote on Dec. 7, 2007, in National Review, predicting that gloomy forecasters would "wind up with egg on their faces." Kudlow, who previously derided as "bubbleheads" those who warned about a housing bubble, now wrote that "very positive" news in housing should "cushion" falling home sales and prices.
"There's no recession coming. The pessimistas were wrong. It's not going to happen," wrote Kudlow. " ... The Bush boom is alive and well. It's finishing up its sixth consecutive year with more to come. Yes, it's still the greatest story never told."
If that was the greatest story, this should be a close runner-up: Trump has just put the country's economic fate in the hands of the man who has arguably been more publicly and consistently wrong about the economy than any person alive.
Kudlow's tendency to err has been nearly flawless, as Jonathan Chait lays out in New York magazine. But never has Kudlow been as spectacularly wrong as he was before the signal economic event of our time. If you heeded Kudlow's advice in the months before the 2008 crash, you would have been ruined.
Even as trouble became clear, Kudlow, a CNBC pundit who is not trained in economics, wrote a Feb. 5, 2008, column in National Review saying he was "still betting on and buying Goldilocks [a just-right scenario] for the long run." He wrote, "Maybe we are going to have a mild correction. Maybe not," adding: "I'm going to bet that the economy will be rebounding sometime this summer, if not sooner. We are in a slow patch. That's all. It's nothing to get up in arms about."
Move along. Nothing to see here.
When the economy didn't rebound and housing continued its collapse, Kudlow pronounced, in a CNBC column on July 24, 2008, that he saw in the data "an awful lot of very good new news, which appear to be pointing to a bottom in the housing problem; in fact, maybe the tiniest beginnings of a recovery." Stocks lost nearly half their value in the coming months.
All of this is to say Kudlow should fit right in with his new colleagues in the Trump administration.
This is the same president, after all, who tapped to be the chief scientist at the Agriculture Department a talk-radio host who is not a scientist, named a brain surgeon to run the Department of Housing and Urban Development and floated the idea of his personal pilot as head the Federal Aviation Administration. A party planner, a bartender, a Meineke Car Care branch manager and a cabana boy all found plum administration jobs.
And those were Trump's first choices. With Kudlow now replacing Gary Cohn, the impeccably qualified former Goldman Sachs executive, the second-stringers could make their predecessors look like Camelot.
Even a stopped clock is right twice a day, they say. But Kudlow's misfires just keep coming, as Chait documented.
1993: Kudlow proclaims in a speech: "There is no question that President Clinton's across-the-board tax increases on labor, capital and energy will throw a wet blanket over the recovery and depress the economy's long-run potential." The economy goes into an eight-year expansion and adds 21 million jobs.
2001: Kudlow writes in National Review about the George W. Bush tax cuts: "Faster economic growth and more profitable productivity returns will generate higher tax revenues at the new lower tax-rate levels. Future budget surpluses will rise, not fall." Tax revenue falls, and the budget goes from surplus into deep deficits.
2009: Kudlow says in an interview: "President Obama is waging war on investors. He's waging war against businesses." In a piece in the Washington Times he warns that inflation could "ratchet higher." The stock market and corporate profits climb to records, while inflation remains historically low.
Now, history is repeating itself. Writing in National Review in December, Kudlow embraced the Trump tax cuts, dismissed "dreary mainstream" forecasts and predicted annual growth as high as 5 percent. Echoing almost word for word his failed 2001 prediction, he forecast that "faster economic growth will generate much higher tax revenues."
Follow Dana Milbank on Twitter, @Milbank.


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While the award-winning Chicago Board of Trade Building™ holds a special place in the architectural history of downtown Chicago, it's clearly vital to the city's future too. GlenStar Properties' recent $30 million building renovation and subsequent 20-year contract renewal with Enwave Chicago, provider of chilled-water service, confirm its long-term vision.
"The North Building, which was originally built in 1930, is a magnificent example of Art Deco architecture and design," said Dennis Lambert, vice president and general manager of GlenStar Asset Management. "Glenstar has added a robust package of modern amenities including a 10,000-square-foot fitness center; a 5,000-square-foot state-of-the-art conference center; and a game room that is adjacent to a new rooftop deck with sweeping views." All of these areas require round-the-clock space conditioning.
Congratulations, Chicago Board of Trade Building, on a stellar renovation. It's an honor to serve such a historic structure. Learn more about the Chicago Board of Trade Building.
Exterior photo courtesy GlenStar Properties.
Carlyle Coutinho, Enwave Chicago's new president and chief operating officer, is also the president and chief operating officer of the North/East Region of Enwave, which encompasses the Chicago and the Toronto and Windsor, Ontario, energy businesses.
He joined Enwave in 2013 as chief financial officer in Toronto and has been responsible for raising more than $600 million in debt capital for North American business, developing and implementing strategic organic growth initiatives, and integrating all new acquisitions.
Prior to joining Enwave, Carlyle held various senior level positions in private equity and debt investment firms based both in the United States and Canada, as well as in public accounting with KPMG and Deloitte. Carlyle earned his Bachelor of Business Administration degree from Wilfrid Laurier University in Ontario and is a Chartered Accountant and Chartered Financial Analyst Charterholder.
Carlyle may be reached at CCoutinho@enwave.com.
Just over a year ago a team of divers braved chilly temps to increase the surface area of two 36" intakes that draw Chicago River water into our P-5 Plant at 330 N. Wabash. They performed the same task again this fall at our P-4 Plant at the Merchandise Mart in compliance with the new EPA Clean Water Act 316(b).
The modified surface area will help reduce potential fish impingement and entrapment.
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A four-member team handled the job at our P-4 Plant. Two divers were in the water, with one doing the work and one serving as spotter. A third diver delivered tools to and from the surface and ensured their lines were clear. A fourth team member was located inside our plant using a "mission control" to view the live camera feed of the work performed, provide the divers with guidance, and activate the underwater torch for welding.
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Stávros Tássos (en grec ) est un homme politique grec.

Biographie

Aux élections législatives grecques de janvier 2015, il est élu député au Parlement grec sur la liste du Parti communiste de Grèce dans la circonscription de Lesbos.

Références
  Σταύρος Τάσσου Τάσσος, fiche sur le site du Parlement grec.

Personnalité du Parti communiste de Grèce
Député du 16e Parlement de la troisième République hellénique
Date de naissance non renseignée (XXe siècle)
Député du 17e Parlement de la troisième République hellénique


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With all the hype after Ned Leeds appeared in Spider-Man: Homecoming, and the potential of that leading into a Hobgoblin storyline, I thought a throwback to some classic Hobgoblin comics was in order. Unfortunately, I do not have a copy of Hobgoblins first appearance in #238. The mystery of who Hobgoblin truly was/is one of the longest in Spidey history, and was met with much controversy between Spider-Man creators, editors, and fans alike. The extended run was a contrived mish-mash of different writers opinions- much like a certain clone series- and each creator had a different idea of who the new goblin should be. All in attempt to bring back some of the excitement that surrounds Green Goblin storylines, without having to bring anybody back from the dead… again. Today there have been countless Hobgoblins terrorizing New York, even Deadpool once donned the medieval cowl. At least with todays look at ASM #244, we look at the original plan for the Hobgoblin from his original creators.
Classic John Romita Jr. cover of Spider-Man doing what Spider-Man does best, dodging the heck out of pumpkin bombs. If you were a consistent ASM reader back in 1983, this cover would have driven you nuts. With the Hobgoblin mystery going on for a few months, his first appearance in ASM #238, he hadn't been the centre of the story since that books follow up. And, all the fans wanted to know "who was the Hobgoblin?". The creators really knew how to draw these storylines out, and drive fans nuts.
What caramel popcorn has to do with baseball, I'm not sure. Why they think calling this little blond-haired white kid a 'cracker jack' is anything less than offensive, I have no idea. This whole ad doesn't make a whole lot of sense. But a big congrats to #15 Scottie 'Cracker Jack' Jack, for hitting the playoff winning homerun, I guess.
Which Peter repays in pretty food fashion.
When Spider-Man catches wind of this, he is smart enough to know any break-in at Oscorp probably deserves his attention.
Spidey catches wind of a police shoot out at the pier where Oscorp stores old chemicals, and he leaps to action.
When a shadowy figure decides to throw some mechanical, razor sharp bats in the mix.
And this one, that I am not sure what they are selling, other than being able to get a girlfriend. No where better than a comic book for an ad like this- at least they're discreet.
Stuck with the moral dilemma of rescuing the thugs he was just fighting, from the resulting pumpkin bomb explosion, Spidey has to let the man get away- not without a self-adhering, micro-circuited, Spider-tracer. The man makes a disappearance, however, with these sweet John Romita Jr. panels.
It's friggin' Burger Time ya'll. Ketchup and relish, ketchup and relish, there's an egg down there, it's Burger Time!
Thanks booknerds, next deconstructed, Batman v. Superman!


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It's the day after my wife & kids have gone visiting in-laws for a week and my 57th day of "imposed sabbatical" from the office, so being that it was another spectacularly sunny, summer-like day, I decided to again go to some neighborhoods I rarely have the opportunity to visit anymore. Where yesterday found me returning to the Upper East Side and Yorkville to check out some art exhibits, I figured I'd go stroll up through the West Village into the Meat Packing District and then on into Chelsea.
The Meat Packing District -- or what's left of it (they should really come up with a new name, being that nine-tenths of the actual meat-packing businesses have been chased out of the neighborhood) -- was depressing, but that's not really surprising. I grew up on the placidly dull streets of the Upper East Side. When I started discovering and exploring the city as a young lad, I used to routinely visit neighborhoods like the Meat Packing District (and, likewise, Soho and the East Village) because they were so legitimately funky and different. The Meat Packing District used to be this wild, gritty frontier. If you could withstand the smell, didn't mind stepping over actual animal parts that were frequently in the street and weren't afraid of transexual prostitutes, there were many sights to behold in the Meat Packing District's picturesque realm of urban desolation.
That's all gone now, for the most part. The neighborhood now is a ridiculous "Sex & The City" nightmare. The byways are lined with posh boutiques and the streets are clogged with hateful fashionistas and greasy douchebags with dubious tans and expensive sunglasses. The endearingly seedy leather bars are gone, as is my once-beloved Hog Pit (see my earlier lament of same here). The Hog Pit's shell is still there (click on pic above to enlarge), but I gather it's soon to be a Ralph Lauren outlet. Yeah, we need another one of those.
After strolling around this area for a while -- unsuccessfully trying to find the old entrance to The Cooler on West 14th (that strip has changed so much I couldn't recognize it anymore) -- I headed north up 9th Avenue into Chelsea. My blogging comrade Jeremiah Moss of Vanishing New York has posted frequently about it, but the economic divide between the haves and the have-nots has never been more uncomfortably on display than on 9th Avenue between 16th & 18th Streets. On the east side of the avenue looms the ostentatious Maritime Hotel (formerly the home of disgraced Father Bruce Ritter's Covenant House), staring face to face with several rows of low-income housing projects. The local businesses that now dot this strip of 9th Avenue include old school bodegas and check cashing joints rubbing shoulders with incongruously snooty coffee bars and boutiques. The dichotomy is somewhat jarring.
Up a few more blocks, I hung a left on 21st street to go check out another former haunt. The Marquee at 547 West 21st street was a relatively short-lived live venue in the early 90's. It was a regular stop for most of my favorite bands right when I got out of college and was immersing myself in the muddy waters of "music journalism." From my mom's apartment in Yorkville, it was a ridiculously long trek to get to it. Perched at the far end of 21st street (across the street from bondage bar called Zone D.K., also long gone), it was a forever-walk from the 6 train stop at 23rd & Park. But it was a fantastic little venue with great sound and perfect sight-lines. The first time I was there, it was still called Sonic's. The walls were painted like the surface of the moon, and I was there to see a little go-nowhere beat combo called Nine Inch Nails. Once it turned into the Marquee (named after the fabled London club of the same name), I'd later see no less than House of Love, Lush, Birdland, The Wedding Present, Ned's Atomic Dustbin, Swervedriver, Julian Cope, The Charlatans, The Fatima Mansions, 24-7 Spyz, Limbomaniacs, Primus, The Sundays, The Wonder Stuff, The Rollins Band, My Dad is Dead, Pigface, Ride, Curve, Chapterhouse, The Butthole Surfers, Mr. Bungle, Pylon,The Senseless Things and Blur all within its hallowed walls. By the midpoint of the decade, however, somebody thought it'd be a great idea to turn the place into a Latino dance club called El Flamingo. The venue later turned into a theatre of sorts, hosting a disco-burlesque re-telling of Shakespeare's "Midsummer Night's Dream" as "The Donkey Show."
Today, 547 West 21st street looks nothing like it's former incarnations (click on pic at left to enlarge). It's now a rather boring art gallery (one of several that sprouted up in recent years after West Chelsea strove to become a sort of New Soho). I'm glad it's an art gallery instead of someone's luxury condo, but I'd be lying if I said I didn't miss those late nights of loud rock in that little space.
Below are some other pics I snapped along the way.
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"I often disagree with the ACLU, and I sometimes even condemn it with some force for its actions. But we'd...open ourselves up to making false allegations (which is bad itself) and look foolish (which is bad instrumentally) if we fall into a visceral hostility to the ACLU that clouds our judgment, and leads us both to ignore the correct positions that the ACLU takes and to misstate the ACLU's supposed errors."


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Recently, the flash converting furnace modification project for Rio Tinto Kennecott Ultah Copper Smelter designed by China Nerin was put into operation successfully with qualified blister produced. All the technical indicators of the flash converting furnace (FCF) are better than those before the modification. The design targets were met and the project was smoothly accepted by Rio Tinto.
Kennecott Ultah Copper Smelter was the first in the world to adopt the process of flash smelting and flash converting ("double flash" in short) and was also the benchmark when China decided to introduce the "double flash" technology. To optimize the plant and improve its efficiency, China Nerin made a comprehensive technical diagnosis for Kennecott Ultah Copper Smelter in 2016 and presented an integrated solution. The flash converting system modification project was the first to be implemented and one of the keys was to solve problems such as matte segregation and high fault frequency of the matte burner. China Nerin worked closely with Yanggu Xiangguang Copper on the project and replaced the central jet-distribution burner, a patented technology jointly developed and owned by Outotec in Finland and Kennecott Ultah Copper Smelter in the USA, with a cyclone burner whose intellectual property right is independent owned by Chinese companies. After the replacement, the phenomena of matte segregation and overheat in the reaction shaft are eradicated, and the maintenance frequency becomes greatly lower and the FCF oxygen utilization and availability are both obviously increased.
China Nerin adopted advanced design concepts and conducted conceptual design, feasibility study and detailed engineering of the project in full 3D design method. Since it's a smelter with history, many drawings and data were not available. To overcome such difficulties, China Nerin's team made visits to the project site, thoroughly analyzed problems in the existing operation system, and provided a reasonable option for the modification project, which was highly recognized by the owner. Due to the Covid-19, the team couldn't make it on the site. For the commissioning, the team overcame the difficulty of time difference and guided the owner to operate and control the new burner through video meeting. It also effectively guaranteed smooth operation of the project.
The success of the project means the success of the first export of Chinese key copper smelting technology and equipment to the North America after many years of import. It is definitively a milestone in the development of Chinese copper smelting technology because it's not only the first export of such but also an export to a developed country. It indicates China's copper smelting technology as a whole is now in the international leading level.
Smelting Plant of Kennecott Ultah Copper Smelter
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China Nerin's Team in Researching, Developing and Applying Key Pyrometallurgy Technologies Won the First Innovation Competition Prize in Jiangxi Province