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CHICAGO WEEKEND

GOD FIRST MINISTRIES HOLDS ANNUAL PRAYER BREAKFAST Dr. Mildred C. Harris (center), founder and CEO of God First Ministries, recently held her annual Prayer Breakfast at the Chicago Hilton, 720 S. Michigan Ave., where she presented several Distinguished Leader Awards and four financial scholarships.

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NEWS briefly EDUCATION

NEW BAKER LIBRARY EXHIBIT AT HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL CELEBRATES 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDENT UNION Established in the spring of 1968, the African-American Student Union (AASU), a student club at Harvard Business School (HBS), is marking its 50th anniversary. As part of a year-long celebration, with the help of Senior Lecturer Tony Mayo and his colleagues in the Leadership Initiative, the School’s Baker Library Special Collections has mounted an extensive exhibit in the Library’s north foyer documenting the founding and growth of AASU over two decades, from the troubled times of the late 1960s — in the midst of the civil rights movement, protests against the Vietnam War, urban unrest, and the assassinations of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and Senator Robert F. Kennedy — until 1990.

Titled “Agents of Change: The Founding and Impact of the AfricanAmerican Student Union, Harvard Business School,” the exhibit, which will run until next fall, focuses on “the powerful mission of AASU members as agents of change…through their interactions with HBS faculty and staff and their activism on campus. The exhibition also showcases and celebrates the accomplishments of black alumni from 1915 through 1990,” Mayo writes in his introduction to the exhibit’s catalog. The exhibition also spotlights the accomplishments of a number of pioneering black faculty members.

HEALTH

IDPH RECEIVES MASSIVE DONATION FOR SYNTHETIC CANNABINOIDS TREATMENT The Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) has been working with the Bausch Foundation, the independent charitable organization of Valeant Pharmaceuticals International, Inc. (Valeant) to secure a donation of nearly 800,000 tablets of vitamin K. The tablets will provide treatment for people who have suffered severe bleeding after using synthetic cannabinoids (spice, K2, etc.) laced with rat poison.

A chemical found in rat poison, brodifacoum, prevents blood from clotting, resulting in severe bleeding. High doses of vitamin K taken over several months can help restore the blood’s ability to clot.

Synthetic cannabinoids are human-made, mind-altering chemicals that are sprayed on to dried plant material. These chemicals are called cannabinoids because they act on the same brain cell receptors as the main active ingredient in marijuana. The health effects from using synthetic cannabinoids can be unpredictable, harmful, and deadly.

More than 150 people in Illinois, including three deaths, have been sickened by the synthetic cannabinoids. Symptoms include coughing up blood, blood in the urine, severe bloody nose, bleeding gums, and/or internal bleeding. More information is available at http://dph. illinois.gov/topics-services/prevention-wellness/medical-cannabis/ synthetic-cannabinoids.

LAW & POLITICS

MOBILE OFFICE HOURS HOSTED BY DUCKWORTH HELPS ILLINOISANS WITH FEDERAL AGENCIES, BENEFITS THEY MAY NEED MACOMB, IL – U.S. Senator Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) recently

hosted “Mobile Office Hours” at the Macomb Public Library in Macomb, Illinois where constituent service representatives from her office were onsite to help Illinoisans with federal agencies and with receiving the Veterans Affairs, Social Security, Medicare and other federal benefits they may be entitled to. Duckworth’s Mobile Office Hours will take place in communities throughout the state over the coming months to offer constituents who may not be able to drive to one of the Senator’s offices an opportunity to meet with her staff closer to home.

At Duckworth’s Mobile Office Hours, constituents can also learn about the federal grant application process, service academy nominations and internship opportunities. Senator Duckworth currently has three offices, one in Chicago, Springfield and Carbondale with additional offices opening soon in Belleville and Rock Island.

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PUSH Excel, the educational arm of the Rainbow PUSH Coalition founded by Rev. Jessie Jackson Sr., recently held their Spring Oratorical Competition at 930 E. 50th St., the Rainbow PUSH Coalition’s national headquarters, to showcase students who are practicing public speaking as part of their Oratorical program.

Cook County Judge Directs Oratory Competition in Kenwood

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ook County Circuit Court Judge Stanley L. Hill frequently steps away from his bench to direct the Oratorical program for PUSH Excel, the educational arm of the Rainbow PUSH Coalition founded by Rev. Jessie Jackson Sr. The Oratorical Society recently held their Spring Oratorical Competition at 930 E. 50th St., the Rainbow PUSH Coalition’s national headquarters.

The competition accepts students as young as Pre-K and recently added a level five age group to include adult participants. The contestants are divided by grade level and first, second, and third place awards were given within each grouping. Level one is for pre-k to third grade, level two includes fourth through sixth grades, level three is seventh and eighth grades, level four is for ninth through 12th, and level five is for college students and lifelong learners.

“Our youngest contestant in all of the contests that I’ve been involved with was four and our oldest contestant was 97,” said Hill. www.thechicagocitizen.com

For the last seven years, Hill has been involved with PUSH Excel and their Oratorical program. He believes in the power of oratorical competitions partly because of is own experience as a child participating in oratory competitions through his church.

“I think I was in my first oratory competition when I was four. We would have competitions where we would compete with other churches and the winner would go to the regional competition,” said Hill. “I remember being twelve and leaving Chicago and going down to Kansas City to participate in a national oratory competition and I believe that has a lot to with who I am today because of that early exposure that I got from people who spent time with me and encouraged me by showing me the importance of being able to speak confidently in any setting and situation.”

Students in the PUSH Excel oratorical competition were given a very long list of speeches to choose from to memorize and present in front of the judges. They were all

scored on the same guidelines which included appearance, attire, and personality, delivery and presentation, and their overall effectiveness for a total of 100 points.

“The ability to take a speech, to study it, memorize it, and then recite it is a great way to build positive selfesteem which is so important. With positive self-esteem you’re able to go into life with an inspiring, succeed -against-the-odds message,” said Hill.

The first place winner in each age group received $100, second place received $75, and third place received $50, and students who received an honorable mention were awarded a $10 prize. Each student received a medal based on their placement in the competition.

Judge Hill directs oratory lessons every Saturday morning at the Rainbow PUSH Coalition headquarters and will be presenting the next oratory competition at the annual Rainbow PUSH Convention in June.

For more information about the oratory program and to learn about upcoming competitions, visit pushexcel.org.

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r. Mildred C. Harris, founder and CEO of God First Ministries, recently held her annual Prayer Breakfast at the Chicago Hilton, 720 S. Michigan Ave., where she presented several Distinguished Leader Awards and four financial scholarships. Harris has been hosting the Prayer Breakfast for over 30 years to pray for the cities leaders and feed those who are disadvantaged.

God First Church and Ministries is a nonprofit organization dedicated to training, developing and utilizing individuals’ talents and abilities to the glory of God. Using a holistic approach, the Ministry reaches out

to serve diverse communities through social programs and services, according to a press release about the Prayer Breakfast.

“I’m known as a Mother of Zion and I’ve been praying for years for the City of Chicago so I’ve been given the title of the Mother of Transformation because I just want to see the city transformed from all the things that we’ve been through. Even though we’ve been through so much I believe that God can bring transformation to this city when we as the people come together in prayer,” said Harris.

Several city leaders were in attendance.

Congressman Danny Davis, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, IL Attorney General Lisa Madigan, IL Secretary of State Jesse White, and Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle all came to the event to have

breakfast and join Harris in prayer for the city and the people of Chicago.

“I just have a heart for people to come together, whether they be in politics, whether they are retired or seeking employment, it doesn’t matter the status we just want to bring the people together to magnify and bring praise and glory to God.” Every year, God First Ministries and Harris invite Chicago’s disadvantaged community members to come enjoy breakfast with them and every year she prays that the community will come together to help her foot the bill.

“Each year I’ve signed a contract with a hotel believing God that people were going to stand with me and help to pay for seniors to come, homeless people, people who have been incarcerated, and children who need money to

go to school,” said Harris.

At the Prayer Breakfast, four students received financial scholarships, two students that are currently living in CHA housing and two students that Harris knows personally.

Several Distinguished Leader Awards were given at the breakfast as well. Some award winners are involved in God First Ministries and some are people who Harris recognized as having a positive impact on Chicago.

“We had Dr. Janice Jackson who is the new CEO of Chicago Public Schools and I have admired her from a distance and in prayer.

I felt the Lord leading me to invite her to be honored and she did receive the award. I feel that this young lady is going to go far and do much to help improve the education of our students,” said Harris.

What is a Tariff? An Economist Explains

BY AMITRAJEET A. BATABYAL

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global trade war is brewing as the U.S. and China slap tariffs on each other’s products following President Donald Trump initial salvo in March, when he placed less country-specific duties on steel and aluminum. These actions have prompted significant concern and discussion about the wisdom of this action.

As an economist who shares some of those concerns, I believe it’s important to first understand what a tariff actually is and does before we can determine whether Trump’s new trade barriers are good or bad.

TWO KINDS OF TARIFFS A tariff, simply put, is a tax levied on an imported good.

There are two types. A “unit” or specific tariff is a tax levied as a fixed charge for each unit of a good that is imported – for instance $300 per ton of imported steel. An “ad valorem” tariff is levied as a proportion of the value of

imported goods. An example is a 20 percent tariff on imported automobiles. Both tariffs act in similar ways.

Tariffs are one of the oldest trade policy instruments, with their use dating back to at least the 18th century. Historically, the main objective of a tariff was to raise revenue. In fact, before ratifying the 16th Amendment in 1913 and formally creating the income tax, the U.S. government raised most of its revenue from tariffs.

Even so, the main purpose of a tariff these days tends to be about protecting particular domestic industries from foreign competition, alongside raising revenue.

EXAMINING A TARIFF’S IMPACT The impact of a tariff depends on whether the levying country is large or small – not in terms of size but the potency of its trade and ability to influence world prices.

Ghana, for example, roughly the size of Minnesota with a population similar to Texas, is the world’s top exporter of cocoa.

The Netherlands, meanwhile, slightly smaller than New Jersey, is the commodity’s biggest importer. As such, both countries’ trade policies can have a significant impact on the price of cocoa on global markets.

So if the Netherlands were to levy a tariff on imports of Ghanaian cocoa to protect a nascent – and currently imaginary – industry of small Dutch cocoa bean growers, there would generally be three effects.

First, the price of the import good, cocoa, would rise, making it more costly for domestic consumers of the product. This would be bad news for Dutch chocolatiers – the Netherlands

is the world’s biggest exporter of cocoa butter – and citizens – who eat a lot of chocolate.

But it’d be good news for companies in the domestic import-competing industry – the experimental Dutch farmers growing cocoa plants in a greenhouse – because the good they produce is now cheaper than the import, and so the cocoa butter makers would buy more of the local variety.

Second, because the tariff-levying country is large, it drives down the export price of the good in question. So the pre-tariff price at which Ghana can export cocoa to the Netherlands declines, Ghanaian growers and producers make less money, and the country’s economy is hurt. Economists call this a “terms of trade gain” for the country imposing the tariff. Such a tariff ensures that the price of cocoa in the Netherlands does not rise by the entire amount of the tariff.

Finally, the overall volume of trade in the product between the countries involved decreases because the demand for and supply of the good falls.

If the tariff-levying country is small, however, there are only two effects: The good’s price will go up – domestic consumers will pay more, while producers will sell more – and the country’s trade of the product will decline. The action will have no impact on global prices.

BENEFITS AND COSTS For a “large” country, the benefits of a tariff are mixed.

Consumers, whether businesses like Dutch cocoa butter makers or individuals who enjoy a tasty bar of dark chocolate, face higher prices and hence are the losers. The industry being

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protected, however, benefits by becoming more competitive and selling more of its wares.

In addition, the government will gain a new source of revenue.

The net effect boils down to whether any gains in the terms of trade are greater than the resulting “efficiency loss” – that is, how much the tariff artificially distorts consumption and production decisions in negative ways.

If the magnitude of the terms of trade gain is larger than that of the efficiency loss, then the country benefits from the tariff. If not, then it loses.

For a small country with no market impact, the terms of trade gain is zero, hence a tariff unambiguously makes it worse off.

POLITICAL ECONOMY OF TARIFFS The fact that a large country can, in some cases, be better off with a tariff has led some to suggest that such nations ought to, when necessary, levy “optimal tariffs” against their trade partners.

An optimal tariff maximizes the difference between the terms of trade gain and the efficiency loss and hence is essentially a “beggar-thy-neighbor” trade policy.

In other words, the problem with such strategic tariffs is that in addition to frequently being illegal, they are not implemented in a vacuum. Aggrieved trade partners are likely to respond with appropriate tariffs or other trade policy instruments of their own.

These kind of sequential “tit-for-tat” actions can easily degenerate into a trade war. This is in part why trade economists are typically against restricted trade and for free trade.

This article was updated to reflect new information.

Amitrajeet A. Batabyal is Arthur J. Gosnell, who is a Professor of Economics at the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT).

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BUSINESS

New Report: One in 29 Chicago Commuters Travel 90+ Mins to Work

Illinois Unemployment Rate Dips in March

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Department of Employment Security (IDES) recently announced that the unemployment rate decreased by -0.1 percentage point to 4.6 percent in March and nonfarm payrolls decreased by -2,100 jobs over-the-month, based on preliminary data provided by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) and released by IDES. The February job gain was virtually unchanged from its initial report. (+15,300 jobs versus +15,200 jobs).

Job growth improved in the January to March period posting average monthly gains of +4,000 jobs, an increase over the prior three-month period (October to December 2017) with average monthly gains of +2,200 jobs.

“The number of unemployed in Illinois is at its lowest level since December 2006 and the unemployment rate dipped to its lowest level since March 2007,” said IDES Director Jeff Mays. “The stabilization of the labor force is also an encouraging sign.”

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early 4 million American workers travel 90 minutes or more each day to work, a class of commuters known as super commuters.

Since 2005, the share of super commuters nationwide increased 15.9 percent, reaching 2.8 percent of all commuters in 2016, an increase many experts attribute to skyrocketing housing costs.

As residents are priced out expensive housing markets, many may endure longer commutes.

Eight of the ten metros with the largest share of super commuters are in regions surrounding three notoriously expensive cities: San Francisco, Los Angeles and New York. In a report -- Apartment List dug into Census data on commute times and transit usage to better understand the rise in super commuters.

Here are some highlights from the report: • In 2016, 152,313 Chicago metro workers endured super commutes, comprising 3.5% of all Chicago commuters • The share of Chicago super commuters has decreased -4.1% since 2005 when 3.6% of commuters were super commuters • Super commuters are more likely to rely on public transportation. 83.5% of non-super commuters in the Chicago metro drive to work, compared to 57.2% of super commuters.

• Low-income commuters disproportionately rely on public transportation compared to their higher income peers, irrespective of their commute length.

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CHICAGO–The Illinois

Services have produced the largest recovery in Illinois, albeit at a lesser rate than the national average,” said DCEO Director Sean McCarthy. “The difference between Illinois and the nation is partly due to significantly slower growth in management of companies and enterprises in the state.

This is why the governor and I are on this trade mission to Poland and Germany as we work to improve that standing.”

Over-the-year, nonfarm payroll employment increased by +39,200 jobs with the largest gains in these industry sectors in March: Manufacturing (+18,200); Financial Activities (+7,800); and Government (+6,800).

The industry sectors with the largest over-the-year declines include: Information Services (-4,600); Professional and Business Services (-2,700); and Other Services (-1,200).

Illinois nonfarm payrolls were up +0.6 percent over-the-year in sharp contrast to the nation’s +1.5 percent over-the-year gain in March.

Obama Foundation Announces New Program to Train Emerging Leaders Across Africa CHICAGO – The Obama Foundation today

announced a new addition to its international programs: the Obama Foundation Leaders: Africa. This one-year leadership development and civic engagement program will train and support 200 promising young leaders across Africa working in government, civil society, and the private sector. The Foundation received nearly 10,000 applications for 200 slots.

The Obama Foundation Leaders: Africa program will launch in Johannesburg, South Africa with a five-day convening. The convening will run from July 14 through July 18 and include plenary sessions, problemsolving workshops, and technical trainings that will help these young emerging leaders drive positive change throughout Africa. The convening will also include a town hall meeting with President Obama where he will hear about their experiences and the work they’re doing.

Following the South Africa convening, leaders will remain connected to the Foundation and one another via an online platform where they will engage in topical discussions, access leadership and training resources, and participate in trainings and webinars led by experts and industry leaders.

The individuals selected to participate in the

Obama Foundation Leaders: Africa program will ultimately serve as the backbone of a larger ecosystem of Foundation changemakers across the continent and, eventually, the world, as the Foundation launches similar leadership programs in regions around the world.

The Obama Foundation also announced that Bernadette Meehan, previously Executive Director of International Programs at the Foundation, will now serve as Chief International Officer. In addition to overseeing the Obama Foundation Leaders: Africa program, Bernadette will develop and oversee all international programs for the Obama Foundation. Prior to joining the Obama Foundation, Bernadette served in a variety of assignments in Washington and abroad during her 13-year career as a Foreign Service Officer.

“These remarkable individuals will be a part of our largest and most ambitious leadership group to date: the Obama Foundation Leaders: Africa,” said Bernadette Meehan, Chief International Officer of the Obama Foundation.

“In bringing together 200 young leaders from across Africa, we hope to begin a conversation about how each of us can create positive change in our communities. In addition, I am honored to continue my work with the Obama

Foundation as Chief International Officer as we develop a robust international programming slate that helps the Foundation achieve its mission of inspiring and empowering the next generation of civic leaders.”

“The Obama Foundation Leaders: Africa program is a remarkable opportunity to connect with 200 exceptional young leaders across the continent,” said David Simas, CEO of the Obama Foundation. “Over the last year, Bernadette and her team have met with hundreds of emerging leaders around the world to identify ways for the Obama Foundation to amplify the outstanding work being done in these leaders’ communities. As our Chief International Officer, she will play an integral role developing the strategic vision that will guide our international programming and continue to be a key part of our team.”

Over the last year, the Obama Foundation launched several exciting and innovative programs to help advance its mission and connect with young leaders around the world.

This includes training days around the United States; an inaugural global Summit in Chicago; and events with emerging leaders in Brazil, Germany, Indonesia, India, Singapore, and New Zealand.

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Barack Obama, 44th President of the United States.

This year, the Obama Foundation partnered with the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy to create the Obama Foundation Scholars Program. This group of rising young leaders from around the world will come to Chicago to earn a Master of Arts degree focused on International Development and Policy, while also taking the work they’re doing in their communities to the next level.

Finally, the Obama Foundation recently announced its first class of Fellows -- 20 outstanding civic innovators from 11 different countries and five regions. This two-year, nonresidential program will kick off by bringing the Fellows together for their first convening in Chicago next month.

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ell-known for his hustle, Grammy-nominated Rick Ross has spent a decade+ at the top of the rap game. He’s also gained as much – if not more - notoriety as one of the industry’s top style icons…with the best beard in the game. So, when it came to his next business project, creating a collection of grooming products with as much swag as Rozay was

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Hudson Group, a leader in North American travel retail, in partnership with M∙A∙C Cosmetics recently announced the grand opening of the first ever M∙A∙C Lips Studio pop-up in the Americas at Chicago O’Hare International Airport.

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udson Group (NYSE: HUD), a leader in North American travel retail, in partnership with M∙A∙C Cosmetics recently announced the grand opening of the first ever M∙A∙C Lips Studio pop-up in the Americas at Chicago O’Hare International Airport in the C Concourse of Terminal 1. Working with the City of Chicago Department of Aviation (CDA), the owner and operator of O’Hare, Robinson Hill Hospitality Group, LLC, B.T. II, Inc., and Corliss Stone-Littles, LLC., the new space is an example of the evolving consumer demand for pop up experiences in travel retail – leading to discovery and excitement for passengers.

The 100-sq-ft. location, adorned with colour and product variety unique to M∙A∙C, will include over 250 SKUs across all lip categories including lipstick, lip liners, lip gloss and lip care. M∙A∙C artists will also offer

travelers complimentary lip demos and application tips for the perfect finishing touch on-the-go.

“Hudson Group is excited to work with the Chicago Department of Aviation at O’Hare International Airport to deliver flexible, stand-out experiences for travelers,” said Michael Mullaney, executive vice president of corporate strategy and development at Hudson Group. “Many people discover new brands when they are traveling, and M∙A∙C Lips will offer quick-stop shopping environment for the beauty-conscious traveler.”

“We are pleased that Hudson Group chose O’Hare as the venue for its first M∙A∙C Lips Studio pop-up,” said CDA Deputy Commissioner of Concessions Juan Manzano. “This internationally-known makeup brand will be well-received by travelers looking for a gift or even a quick makeover!”

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ulti-platinum, award-winning Colombian superstar and one of the hottest acts in Latin music, J Balvin, is inviting North American fans to vibe with him this fall on his newly revealed Vibras Tour Powered by Buchanan’s Whisky. The news comes on the heels of the recent announcement that his highly-anticipated new album VIBRAS will be released May 25, and is available for presale now.

The 27-date tour produced by Live Nation kicks off September 19 in Fresno, CA and will make stops in Los Angeles, New York, Miami, Chicago, Las Vegas, Houston, and more.

Hailing from Medellín, Colombia, José Álvaro Osorio Balvin

- better known to a legion of global fans as J BALVIN - has been praised by Billboard as “the biggest breakout act Latin music has seen in many years.” With a distinctive style all his own that pays reverence to the first-wave of Reggaeton stars from Puerto Rico, but fused with additional Colombian and mainstream hiphop rhythms, more seductive than boastful lyrics, and a strong passion for fashion, J Balvin has become the undeniable leader of a second-generation Reggaeton revolution propelling Urban music back to the forefront of Latin music worldwide.

Tickets went on sale to the general public on Friday, April 27 at 10am local time at LiveNation.com. www.thechicagocitizen.com

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Copyright © 1971 by Stephen Oliver Cobb®. Said commonlaw trade- name/trade-mark, S TEPHEN OLIVER COBB®, may neither be used, nor reproduced, neither in whole nor in part, nor in any manner whatsoever, without the prior, express, written consent and acknowledgement of STEPHEN OLIVER COBB® as signified by the red-ink signature of Stephen Oliver Cobb ®, hereinafter "Secured Party." With the intent of being contractually bound, any juristic person, as well as the agent of said juristic person, consents and agrees by this Copyright Notice that neither said juristic person, nor the agent of said juristic person, shall display, nor otherwise use in any manner, the common-law trade-name/trade-mark STEPHEN OLIVER COBB®, nor the common-law copyright described herein, nor any derivative of, nor any variation in the spelling of, STEPHEN OLIVER COBB® without the prior, express, written consent and acknowledgment of Secured Party, as signified by Secured Party's signature in red ink. Secured Party neither grants, nor implies, nor otherwise gives consent for any unauthorized use of STEPHEN OLIVER COBB®, and all such unauthorized use is strictly prohibited. Secured Party is not now, nor has Secured Party ever been, an accommodation party, nor a surety, for the purported debtor, i.e. "STEPHEN OLIVER COBB," nor for any derivative of, nor for any variation in the spelling of, said name, nor for any other juristic person, and is so-indemnified and held harmless by Debtor, i.e. "STEPHEN OLIVER COBB," in Holdharmless and Indemnity Agreement No. SOC092653HHIA01, dated the Fourteenth Day of the Second Month in the Year of Our Lord One Thousand Nine Hundred Seventyone against any and all claims, legal actions, orders, warrants, judgments, demands, liabilities, losses, depositions, summonses, lawsuits, costs, fines, liens, levies, penalties, damages, interests, and expenses whatsoever, both absolute and contingent, as are due and as might become due, now existing and as might hereafter arise, and as might be suffered by, imposed on, and incurred by Debtor for any and every reason, purpose, and cause whatsoever. Selfexecuting Contract/Security Agreement in Event of Unauthorized Use: By this Copyright Notice, both the juristic person and the agent of said juristic person, hereinafter jointly and severally "User," consent and agree that any use of STEPHEN OLIVER COBB® other than authorized use as set forth above constitutes unauthorized use, counterfeiting, of Secured Party's common-law copyrighted property, contractually binds User, renders this Copyright Notice a Security Agreement wherein User is debtor and Stephen Oliver Cobb ® is Secured Party, and signifies that User: (1) grants Secured Party a security interest in all of User's assets, land, and personal property, and all of User's interest in assets, land, and personal property, in the sum certain amount of $500,000.00 per each occurrence of use of the common-law-copyrighted tradename/trade-mark STEPHEN OLIVER COBB®, as well as for each and every occurrence of use of any and all derivatives of, and variations in the spelling of, STEPHEN OLIVER COBB®, plus costs, plus triple damages; (2) authenticates this Security Agreement wherein User is debtor and Stephen Oliver Cobb ® is Secured Party, and wherein User pledges all of User's assets, land, consumer goods, farm products, inventory, equipment, money, investment property, commercial tort claims, letters of credit, letter-of-credit rights, chattel paper, instruments, deposit accounts, accounts, documents, and general intangibles, and all User's interest in all such foregoing property, now owned and hereafter acquired, now existing and hereafter arising, and wherever located, as collateral for securing User's contractual obligation in favor of Secured Party for User's unauthorized use of Secured Party's common-law-copyrighted property; (3) consents and agrees with Secured Party's filing of a UCC Financing Statement in the UCC filing office, as well as in any county recorder's office, wherein User is debtor and Stephen Oliver Cobb ® is Secured Party; (4) consents and agrees that said UCC Financing Statement described above in paragraph

"(3)'' is a continuing financing statement, and further consents and agrees with Secured Party's filing of any continuation statement necessary for maintaining Secured Party's perfected security interest in all of User's property and interest in property, pledged as collateral in this Security Agreement and described above in paragraph "(2)," until User's contractual obligation theretofore incurred has been fully satisfied; (5) consents and agrees with Secured Party's filing of any UCC Financing Statement, as described above in paragraphs "(3)" and "(4)," as well as the filing of any Security Agreement, as described above in paragraph "(2),'' in the UCC filing office, as well as in any county recorder's office; (6) consents and agrees that any and all such filings described in paragraphs "(4)" and "(5)" above are not, and may not be considered, bogus, and that User will not claim that any such filing is bogus; (7) waives all defenses; and (8) appoints Secured Party as Authorized Representative for User, effective upon User's default re User's contractual obligations in favor of Secured Party as set forth below under "Payment Terms" and "Default Terms," granting Secured Party full authorization and power for engaging in any and all actions on behalf of User including, but not limited by, authentication of a record on behalf of User, as Secured Party, in Secured Party's sole discretion, deems appropriate, and User further consents and agrees that this appointment of Secured Party as Authorized Representative for User, effective upon User's default, is irrevocable and coupled with a security interest. User further consents and agrees with all of the following additional terms of Self-executing Contract/Security Agreement in Event of Unauthorized Use: Payment Terms: In accordance with fees for unauthorized use of STEPHEN OLIVER COBB® as set forth above, User hereby consents and agrees that User shall pay Secured Party all unauthorized-use fees in full within ten (10) days of the date User is sent Secured Party's invoice, hereinafter "Invoice," itemizing said fees. Default Terms: In event of non-payment in full of all unauthorizeduse fees by User within ten (10) days of date Invoice is sent, User shall be deemed in default and: (a) all of User's property and property pledged as collateral by User, as set forth in above in paragraph "(2)," immediately becomes, i.e. is, property of Secured Party; (b) Secured Party is appointed User's Authorized Representative as set forth above in paragraph "(8)"; and (c) User consents and agrees that Secured Party may take possession of, as well as otherwise dispose of in any manner that Secured Party, in Secured Party's sole discretion, deems appropriate, including, but not limited by, sale at auction, at any time following User's default, and without further notice, any and all of User's property and interest, described above in paragraph "(2)," formerly pledged as collateral by User, now property of Secured Party, in respect of this "Self-executing Contract/Security Agreement in Event of Unauthorized Use," that Secured Party, again in Secured Party's sole discretion, deems appropriate. Terms for Curing Default: Upon event of default, as set forth above under "Default Terms," irrespective of any and all of User's former property and interest in property, described above in paragraph "(2)," in the possession of, as well as disposed of by, Secured Party, as authorized above under "Default Terms," User may cure User's default only re the remainder of User's said former property and interest property, formerly pledged as collateral that is neither in the possession of, nor otherwise disposed of by, Secured Party within twenty (20) days of date of User's default only by payment in full. Terms of Strict Foreclosure: User's non-payment in full of all unauthorized-use fees itemized in Invoice within said twenty- (20) day period for curing default as set forth above under "Terms for Curing Default" authorizes Secured Party's immediate non-judicial strict foreclosure on any and all remaining former property and interest in property, formerly pledged as collateral by User, now property of Secured Party, which is not in the possession of, nor otherwise disposed of by, Secured Party upon expiration of said twenty- (20) day default-curing period.

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