Veteran from Conway first to get military funeral thanks to new SC law

COLUMBIA -- A U.S. Army veteran from Conway who served for more than a decade but died alone three years ago has become the first serviceman given a military funeral under a new South Carolina law that aims to make sure everyone who serves honorably is buried with proper respect.

The law allows coroners or funeral directors with unclaimed remains to release information about the dead person to veteran and military groups to see if the deceased is a veteran who has earned a funeral and burial will full military honors.

Staff Sgt. John Rieser died in October 2009 in Conway. He was an only child and his parents had already passed away, so his remains went unclaimed. Rieser's co-workers at a convenience store near the trailer where he lived said Rieser was likely a veteran. Horry County Coroner Robert Edge wanted Rieser to get a proper burial, but he didn't know what to do.

His answer came this year with a bill pushed by two American Legion members. Larry Truax and John Bianchi are friends, motorcycle riders and native New Yorkers. They saw that their home state passed a law allowing the names of the dead not claimed by relatives to be checked for military service and decided South Carolina needed a similar law. The measure passed the state House and Senate with no opposition and was signed into law in May.

?We didn't want to see that happen to any veteran. We want any veteran who unfortunately didn't have anyone around to claim them to get the honors they deserve,? said Bianchi who served in the Air Force for nearly four years during the Korean War era.

The men helped prove Rieser was a veteran. Along with Edge, they helped arrange for a funeral at the Florence National Cemetery.

?I was amazed at what this community has done. They are so supportive and they are so proud of those who have served,? said cemetery director Carolyn Howard.

A headstone will be placed on Rieser's grave with his name, dates of birth and death, his service branch, rank and dates of service.

Officials don't know how many veterans could get funerals through the unclaimed remains law. Truax, Bianchi and friends at American Legion posts across the state are contacting funeral home associations and coroners to tell them about it.

?We want to give every guy and woman the treatment they deserved so they don't go unnoticed,? Bianchi said. ?They get the 21-gun salute, they get the flag, the chaplain ? the whole ceremony.?

Edge is letting other coroners know about the new law too. Horry County doesn't have a pauper's cemetery, so Edge didn't have to decide whether to keep Rieser's remains in storage or to bury them. Other coroners often bury remains to save money. Edge is thankful the law gives his colleagues another option.

?It's sad a lot of people end up like him with no family and their means of support are limited,? Edge said. ?He fought for the country and it's something he worked for and deserved.?

Source: http://www.myrtlebeachonline.com/2012/07/29/2966764/veteran-from-conway-first-to-get.html

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Animal Lovers Disappointed in Withee Abuse Probationary Sentence

Laurie Dethloff of Grand Island's Central Nebraska Humane Society remembers what she calls a "catastrophic event," the 2008 dumping of 23 dead and dying dogs in a Hall County cornfield by convicted animal abuser Denise Withee.

Withee was sentenced in 2009 to five years of probation and was forbidden to own or possess any animals; however, authorities say that in January of this year she was discovered living with thirteen dogs. Withee was sentenced to ninety days in prison, and ordered to undergo a mental evaluation. On July 26, Withee was sentenced to nine years of probation, and forbidden to own or live with any animals.

"We were excited that there were some penalties where she had to spend time incarcerated. The probation in the past has not worked," commented Dethloff.

Some observers say the case challenged the court to separate possible mental issues from profit motives.

"There's a difference between hoarding where there's a mental illness, and you love everything and you can't let it go. There's also a system that's an animal broker, where you get animals and you buy and sell. The care is not as good as someone that is a licensed breeder. This is someone that is in it for the money," Dethloff observed.

Some folks we spoke with said they thought the Withee sentence was simply too lenient to serve as a real deterrent to animal abuse.

"It was a little bit disrespectful. He already gave her probation once and she violated it. To give her probation again would be kind of going easy on her, I would say," commented Nick Patrck while visiting Island Oasis in Grand Island.

"Honestly, I think she needs a year or so in jail to sit down and think about it, and really reflect on what she's done," said fellow swimmer Samantha Hankins.

And some recommended psychological counseling. "I don't see how any one can be exactly right in the mind doing this to animals," opined Island Oasis patron Wendy Martak.

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Icom UK, Official Radio Communications Supplier - British Marine ...

29 July 2012

Icom are pleased to be continuing their support of Ramsgate Week which will be held between 30th July ? 4th August 2012 this year. Icom are once again proud to be named as the ?Official Radio Communications Suppliers? to the regatta which has been a feature of the town?s calendar for over 110 years. Ramsgate Week 2012 is widely recognised as the friendly regatta and the alternative to Cowes and attracts approximately 100 boats from Great Britain and the continent.

Icom UK will be supplying the regatta with Icom marine handheld VHF radios, which will be used by the safety fleet and on shore organisers in the management of Ramsgate Week. The radios will be the primary means of communication for the race management team, race control and safety fleet. The Icom handhelds will be used by officials to oversee events both on and off the water, and will also be used to respond quickly and efficiently to any emergencies that may arise.

Organised by the Royal Temple Yacht Club, Ramsgate Week is the third largest international regatta in the UK, featuring about 100 boats from Great Britain and overseas. For more details of this year?s event, please go to www.ramsgateweek.com.

Source: http://www.bmea.org/news/2012/icom-uk-official-radio-communications-supplier-to-ramsgate-week-2012/

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Fly Or Die: Google Nexus 7

Ever since I/O and the unveiling of Android 4.1 Jelly Bean, the blogosphere has been measuring Google?s new Nexus 7 tablet. The verdict in almost every case is good, including our very own iPad lover?s take.

John and I thus found it only fitting to bring the little 7-inch tablet into the studio for Fly or Die. The tablet, with a 7-inch IPS 1280?800 display, a Tegra 3 quad-core processor, and the latest version of Android, didn?t fail to impress.

And the specs have very little to do with it. Sure, that Tegra 3 proc probably contributes quite a bit to the snappiness of the tablet, but the display isn?t anything to write home about, nor is the measly 8GB of on board storage. (I know there?s a 16Gb model, but without external memory you?ll be walking around with a rather ?light? amount of content.)

What makes the tablet great is that it?s the first truly premium tablet available in this size and price range. Amazon?s Kindle Fire is great but it isn?t really a computer replacement the way the iPad is, but rather a mobile Amazon content portal. And the iPad, though exceptional in performance and usability, is a little large and way too expensive to fit into the category.

The Nexus 7 fills that gap, and so we believe it?ll fly and fly into many a home. It?s already sold out once.

The real question is whether or not it?ll still have such high demand once Apple unveils that long-awaited iPad mini. September will be here before you know it.

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Google provides search and advertising services, which together aim to organize and monetize the world?s information. In addition to its dominant search engine, it offers a plethora of online tools and platforms including: Gmail, Maps, YouTube, and Google+, the company?s extension into the social space. Most of its Web-based products are free, funded by Google?s highly integrated online advertising platforms AdWords and AdSense. Google promotes the idea that advertising should be highly targeted and relevant to users thus providing...

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The Nexus 7 is Google?s first tablet hardware. The Nexus 7 comes in two sizes: 8GB and 16GB both with 7-inch 1280x800 HD display.

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Clashes leave 13 dead in NW Pakistan: officials

Dozens of armed militants raided a paramilitary checkpoint in northwest Pakistan on Wednesday, sparking clashes that left three soldiers and at least 10 attackers dead, officials said.

The area on the Afghan border -- branded by Washington the most dangerous place on Earth and the global headquarters of Al-Qaeda -- is cut off to journalists and aid workers and it was not possible to confirm the death toll.

"More than 30 militants attacked a Frontier Corps checkpost in Dabori area of Orakzai tribal region on Wednesday afternoon and killed three security persons," a security official told AFP in Peshawar.

"The security forces responded to the attack with full force and used helicopters for shelling on the militants. At least 10 militants were killed in the response."

Seven troops were injured during the firefight.

Orakzai is one of seven districts in Pakistan's semi-autonomous tribal belt, where Taliban and Al-Qaeda-linked militants have carved out strongholds used to plot attacks on Pakistani, Afghan and Western targets.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/clashes-leave-13-dead-nw-pakistan-officials-165647295.html

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Sports: The State of the Ricky Williams Foundation

Access Consciousness' Gary Douglas

I am a reporter, as is my RosterWatch co-host and co-founder Byron Lambert, who joined me Thursday for a sit down interview with Ricky Williams, Gary Douglas, and Dr. Dain Heer. To entertain their recorded, overtly expressed wishes that we aid in getting their message out regarding what the Ricky Williams Foundation is doing, we thought it may be best for you to hear this particular story directly from them without any bias.

Please note the audio (linked below) may, at times, be disturbing to some, and contains profanity.

We will preface in this way: Gary Douglas is as charismatic as they come. He has a spellbinding presence that is hard to explain. He is the founder of Access Consciousness, a group with "accessories" (members) in 38 countries. As you will see, Douglas believes he can heal the wounded with his bare hands, teach others how to read minds, and even speak with molecules outside of their own bodies among other things.

Some call Access a movement, some call it a cult. In performing a simple Internet search, it is not hard to find scathing remarks regarding their methodologies, some from individuals claiming real-life experience within the culture. Their teachings are based in freedom from judgement in our conscious experiences. This idea manifests itself in many ways, including emphasis on sexual freedom. Douglas' business partner is Dr. Dain Heer.

In December 2011, Ricky Williams secured funding from a previously unnamed company which disclosed to the Chronicle Thursday was Farallon Capital, a California hedge fund. The amount of funding for Ricky's Foundation was set to be $32 million. Ricky was under the belief that the group, who had just invested a similar sum in Jalen Rose's Foundation, shared his values about the importance of helping underprivileged children to understand they have choices in life, and could always aspire to be great.

But, it seems the firm had more interest in Williams' connections to the NFLPA as a player. They dropped the funding for the foundation upon his retirement. In contacting Farallon, the Chronicle was told they had never had any dealings with Ricky Williams.

Williams, through the beginning of the spring, was investing his own money into the foundation with the expectation he would be receiving the previously agreed upon funding. When it fell through, that's when the charismatic, rich Gary Douglas swooped in to help. Together, they identified that Williams, although never indoctrinated through standard practices, was indeed unknowingly participating in Access Consciousness. It was the model of his whole foundation's program: Give the kids a choice, free their minds.

Williams is now a devout accessory of the Access movement, and the mission of his foundation has transformed into an outlet for delivering the controversial teachings of Access Consciousness to the underprivileged children who attend their camps. This is currently taking place, in Austin, on AISD property.

Douglas is a significant investor and is bankrolling a large sum of costs by live streaming the event to devout accessories all over the globe for quite a pretty penny. (Replays of certain live streams can sell for upward of $1,200.) Williams was the camp's instructor last week for Level I of the course. "Advanced" levels II and III will be delivered to these children by the person who accessories all over the world call their "fearless leader," Gary Douglas himself.

This is the first time this method has been performed on children in a group setting. Here is the audio:

Douglas on what he plans on teaching the children this week:

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"I teach them how to be aware of what they are aware of, and how to take answers out of other people's heads when they take tests and stuff so they can all get A's and B's instead of C's and D's."

Douglas discussed his approach to dealing with a victim of childhood sexual abuse by her older cousin:

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"She goes 'yeah, I got the fucker." She came to the awareness that in some other lifetime, she swore that she would kill this guy, and, he was her cousin in this lifetime and she had gotten him to have sex with her and told the family so he got kicked out."

Ricky Williams describes his view of Access Consciousness:

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"The difference I have found with Access is, it's really just an energy it's that place where you're just like 'OK, there's got to be something better than this,' and you start to ask questions and things show up in a different way."

Douglas on how he partnered up with Ricky Williams and has taken the lead with the foundation's curriculum:

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"Ricky, you know, he created this foundation a long time ago, and then he talked to me about it, and I went 'Holy shit, you were doing Access before you knew about Access, you were looking for how you could help these kids have choice.'"

Ricky Williams on how his life may be different today had he been indoctrinated as an accessory to Access as a child:

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"If I was aware of all the things that I enjoyed to do, and all of the capacities that I had, I might have chosen something different, and I would have been able to create even more."

Douglas on his motivation to help the Ricky Williams Foundation:

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"When they took away (Ricky's) funding because he wouldn't do what they wanted, fuck 'em. I will find a way around this and I will find somewhere to get the money."

Douglas and Heer on trying to persuade Ricky to get Access "in" with the NFL to help injured players, who they have the ability to heal through their program:

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"She goes to the hospital the next day, to her surgeon that she knew personally, and the guy says, after looking at the X-rays, he goes, 'My God! What happened? It looks like somebody already set this'" [dislocated shoulder and fractured ulna].

The full one-hour interview is available on RosterWatch.com in two parts. Douglas and Heer go into great detail about Access as an organization if you have interest in learning more about their methodologies, as well as how to receive further information about classes and membership. Williams also speaks on a variety of interesting subjects.

Me personally? I walked into this interview thinking I would come out with a fluff piece about one of my all-time favorite football players, soliciting help for the foundation in the wake of their $32 million loss. I left the interview thinking just three words:

Run, Ricky.

Run.

[Alex Dunlap (Follow on Twitter) is a member of the Pro Football Writers of America, the host of RosterWatch on ESPN Radio Austin and San Antonio, founder of Rosterwatch.com, and featured NFL Columnist for Bleacher Report]

Source: http://www.austinchronicle.com/blogs/sports/2012-07-23/the-state-of-the-ricky-williams-foundation/

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Researchers study vaccine as potential weapon against aggressive brain tumors

Public release date: 24-Jul-2012
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Northwestern Brain Tumor Institute participates in national glioblastoma clinical trial

CHICAGO Researchers at Northwestern Brain Tumor Institute (NBTI) are seeking to understand if a vaccine made from a patient's own blood cells may slow the growth of a type of brain tumor. The trial is studying the vaccine's effect on glioblastoma multiformes (GBM), the most common and aggressive type of primary brain tumor. The trial is an example of a growing trend in cancer research that seeks to understand if vaccines can be used to turn a person's own immune system into a weapon against cancers by slowing the growth of tumors.

GBMs, which occur in up to 10,000 Americans annually, are typically treated with surgical resection of the tumor followed by chemotherapy and radiation treatment. "Glioblastomas are complicated to treat because they are aggressive, fast-growing tumors that are often resistant to standard treatment," said principal investigator James Chandler, MD, co-director of the NBTI and surgical director of neuro-oncology at Northwestern Memorial Hospital. "In this trial, a vaccine is made using the person's own white blood cells, which we hope will have the power to stimulate an immune response to kill brain tumor cells."

The vaccine, called ICT-107, is created by collecting the participant's white blood cells through a process called apheresis, which separates the components in the blood. The white blood cells are then treated to recognize the tumor cells turning them into immune cells, which early research indicates may be able to recognize and attack the tumor cells. Patients receive the vaccine in addition to standard treatment.

"Vaccines hold great promise as potential treatments for all types of cancer," said Chandler, who is also a professor of neurological surgery at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. "More researchers are looking at this as a way to prompt an immune response to slow tumor growth and fight the cancer."

The phase II trial will examine both safety and efficacy of the ICT-107 vaccine. Researchers seek to enroll approximately 225 participants nationally who are newly diagnosed with a GBM. To be considered for enrollment, a person must be 18 years or older and not have a recurrent disease or any other active malignancy or history of malignancy. They must have undergone surgery to excise the GBM, but have not yet started chemotherapy or radiation. Full inclusion and exclusion criteria can be found on ClinicalTrials.gov.

"GBMs are a devastating diagnosis and these patients unfortunately are not given a great deal of time," said Chandler. "Our goal at Northwestern Brain Tumor Institute is to provide patients with the best options to treat their cancer in a manner that not only gives them longer lives, but also improved quality of life."

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To learn more about the ICT-107 trial, email mdeemer@nmff.org. For a full list of clinical trials at NBTI, visit the Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center of Northwestern University website. For general information about NBTI, call 1-855-695-NBTI (6284).

About Northwestern Brain Tumor Institute

Northwestern Brain Tumor Institute (NBTI) is a comprehensive program which merges clinical research with medical and surgical treatment for brain and spinal tumor patients. The Institute offers state-of-the-art clinical care while also providing the resources and support necessary for patients and their families to meet the challenges of living with a brain tumor. It is a collaboration between Northwestern Memorial Hospital, the Robert. H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center of Northwestern University, and Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.

About Northwestern Memorial HealthCare

Northwestern Memorial HealthCare is the parent corporation of Chicago's Northwestern Memorial Hospital, an 894-bed academic medical center hospital and Northwestern Lake Forest Hospital, a 205-bed community hospital located in Lake Forest, Illinois.

About Northwestern Memorial Hospital

Northwestern Memorial is one of the country's premier academic medical center hospitals and is the primary teaching hospital of the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. Along with its Prentice Women's Hospital and Stone Institute of Psychiatry, the hospital comprises 894 beds, 1,705 affiliated physicians and 6,769 employees. Northwestern Memorial is recognized for providing exemplary patient care and state-of-the art advancements in the areas of cardiovascular care; women's health; oncology; neurology and neurosurgery; solid organ and soft tissue transplants and orthopaedics.

Northwestern Memorial possesses nursing Magnet Status, the nation's highest recognition for patient care and nursing excellence. It is also listed in 13 clinical specialties in U.S. News & World Report's 2011 "America's Best Hospitals" guide and ranks No. 1 in Chicago in the 2011 U.S. News & World Report Best Hospitals metro area rankings. For 12 years running, Northwestern Memorial has been rated among the "100 Best Companies for Working Mothers" guide by Working Mother magazine. The hospital is a recipient of the prestigious National Quality Health Care Award and has been chosen by Chicagoans as the Consumer Choice according to the National Research Corporation's annual survey for 13 years.

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Northwestern Brain Tumor Institute participates in national glioblastoma clinical trial

CHICAGO Researchers at Northwestern Brain Tumor Institute (NBTI) are seeking to understand if a vaccine made from a patient's own blood cells may slow the growth of a type of brain tumor. The trial is studying the vaccine's effect on glioblastoma multiformes (GBM), the most common and aggressive type of primary brain tumor. The trial is an example of a growing trend in cancer research that seeks to understand if vaccines can be used to turn a person's own immune system into a weapon against cancers by slowing the growth of tumors.

GBMs, which occur in up to 10,000 Americans annually, are typically treated with surgical resection of the tumor followed by chemotherapy and radiation treatment. "Glioblastomas are complicated to treat because they are aggressive, fast-growing tumors that are often resistant to standard treatment," said principal investigator James Chandler, MD, co-director of the NBTI and surgical director of neuro-oncology at Northwestern Memorial Hospital. "In this trial, a vaccine is made using the person's own white blood cells, which we hope will have the power to stimulate an immune response to kill brain tumor cells."

The vaccine, called ICT-107, is created by collecting the participant's white blood cells through a process called apheresis, which separates the components in the blood. The white blood cells are then treated to recognize the tumor cells turning them into immune cells, which early research indicates may be able to recognize and attack the tumor cells. Patients receive the vaccine in addition to standard treatment.

"Vaccines hold great promise as potential treatments for all types of cancer," said Chandler, who is also a professor of neurological surgery at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. "More researchers are looking at this as a way to prompt an immune response to slow tumor growth and fight the cancer."

The phase II trial will examine both safety and efficacy of the ICT-107 vaccine. Researchers seek to enroll approximately 225 participants nationally who are newly diagnosed with a GBM. To be considered for enrollment, a person must be 18 years or older and not have a recurrent disease or any other active malignancy or history of malignancy. They must have undergone surgery to excise the GBM, but have not yet started chemotherapy or radiation. Full inclusion and exclusion criteria can be found on ClinicalTrials.gov.

"GBMs are a devastating diagnosis and these patients unfortunately are not given a great deal of time," said Chandler. "Our goal at Northwestern Brain Tumor Institute is to provide patients with the best options to treat their cancer in a manner that not only gives them longer lives, but also improved quality of life."

###

To learn more about the ICT-107 trial, email mdeemer@nmff.org. For a full list of clinical trials at NBTI, visit the Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center of Northwestern University website. For general information about NBTI, call 1-855-695-NBTI (6284).

About Northwestern Brain Tumor Institute

Northwestern Brain Tumor Institute (NBTI) is a comprehensive program which merges clinical research with medical and surgical treatment for brain and spinal tumor patients. The Institute offers state-of-the-art clinical care while also providing the resources and support necessary for patients and their families to meet the challenges of living with a brain tumor. It is a collaboration between Northwestern Memorial Hospital, the Robert. H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center of Northwestern University, and Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.

About Northwestern Memorial HealthCare

Northwestern Memorial HealthCare is the parent corporation of Chicago's Northwestern Memorial Hospital, an 894-bed academic medical center hospital and Northwestern Lake Forest Hospital, a 205-bed community hospital located in Lake Forest, Illinois.

About Northwestern Memorial Hospital

Northwestern Memorial is one of the country's premier academic medical center hospitals and is the primary teaching hospital of the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. Along with its Prentice Women's Hospital and Stone Institute of Psychiatry, the hospital comprises 894 beds, 1,705 affiliated physicians and 6,769 employees. Northwestern Memorial is recognized for providing exemplary patient care and state-of-the art advancements in the areas of cardiovascular care; women's health; oncology; neurology and neurosurgery; solid organ and soft tissue transplants and orthopaedics.

Northwestern Memorial possesses nursing Magnet Status, the nation's highest recognition for patient care and nursing excellence. It is also listed in 13 clinical specialties in U.S. News & World Report's 2011 "America's Best Hospitals" guide and ranks No. 1 in Chicago in the 2011 U.S. News & World Report Best Hospitals metro area rankings. For 12 years running, Northwestern Memorial has been rated among the "100 Best Companies for Working Mothers" guide by Working Mother magazine. The hospital is a recipient of the prestigious National Quality Health Care Award and has been chosen by Chicagoans as the Consumer Choice according to the National Research Corporation's annual survey for 13 years.

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Pick up any magazine or journal dedicated to the advertising industry and you are sure to read about a new lawsuit regarding keyword advertising.? Google has so far survived an onslaught of claims from trademark owners.? However, companies using another?s trademarks are highly susceptible to false advertising claim lawsuits from trademark holders.? This does not mean advertiser?s can never use another company?s? trademarks for keyword advertising, it just means advertisers must understand the risks of doing so.

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There are five elements of a false advertising claim, but these can be summarized by asking a simple question:? Did the Defendant?s use of the Plaintiff?s trademark result in a likelihood of consumer confusion which harmed the Plaintiff (for instance, by resulting in lost sales)?? This is a subjective test applied by the courts, and even the court?s determination of likelihood of consumer confusion is based on numerous factors, not just one.

In any keyword advertising campaign, if you are going to use another company?s s trademarks, be aware of these nine issues:

1. Advertisers must understand merely using trademarks when purchasing sponsored links, exposes the buyer to trademark violation, even if the word itself is not used in the ad.

2. If an advertiser uses keywords or phrases that would subject them to FTC regulation, it is likely the FTC or a competitor will bring a false advertising claim against them.?

3. If the ad would normally pass FTC scrutiny if it were in another media, then use of the trademarked keyword will have a greater chance of withstanding challenge by the trademark holder.

4. Importantly, advertisers must make sure the use of the keyword does not imply sponsorship, affiliation or endorsement of its own products.

5. Users of another?s trademark must limit their use to ?fair use? (a topic of lengthy articles and too complex to discuss in this post).

6. A company cannot prove its use of another?s trademark, merely because the trademark owner does not police its use in keyword advertising.

7. Where the use of another?s trademark merely results in company being listed in ?sponsored links? section, confusion is less likely because consumers generally know this advertising was paid for.? This should be the same where keywords are purchased and result in a pop-up ad, video, or banner ad that clearly indicate it is an ad.

8. Even if sponsored search results themselves do not cause a likelihood of confusion, courts will look at sponsored search results in the context of the total advertising campaign of a company, to decide whether a valid false advertising claim exists.?

9. If the sponsored ad needs more disclosures to avoid confusion, then disclose more to clarify.

Why You Should Care
Trademark owners are wasting their time if they sue Google for selling trademark words.? Trademark owners will have more success if they bring their claims against competitors for use of trademark materials.? While no advertisers can stop another from suing them (it?s the American way, after all), advertisers should take into account these nine tips when developing their keyword campaign.? Implementing them may establish a basic defense to claims from trademark owners.? Another option, though, is using social media to ?shame? competitors from using its trademark keywords.? This has actually been a successful litigation strategy used by many defendants where a plaintiff has brought a baseless lawsuit.

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This month BedandBreakfast.com honored these U.S. inns as the top 5 bed and breakfasts with the best views, lavish scenery from the ocean to the mountains. ?Here?s the list:

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Coppertoppe Inn, Hebron, NH

New Hampshire?s Lakes Region is gorgeous whether coated in winter snow, lush with greenery in the summer, or vibrant with scarlet, yellow, and orange hues in the fall. Offering views of pristine Newfound Lake and the White Mountains, the inn was specifically built to optimize views from every room. ?Beyond the spectacular views from your room?s windows, you?ll find balconies, a garden patio, and loveseat swing by the pond, all perfect for watching the sunset. This pet-friendly and family-friendly inn sits on 15 acres of gardens, fountains, ponds, fields, and woodlands. The nearby area offers outdoor activities with more scenic views, from skiing to horseback riding to boating.

Eagle?s View Bed and Breakfast in Burien, WA

Perched above the Burien Seahurst Beach Park on the Puget Sound, this Washington inn has a spectacular 400-foot vantage point. ?You can watch the sparkling water?s passing ships, the Olympic Mountains, wildlife such as eagles, and colorful sunsets. ?Or simply listen to the sound of the waves lapping below.

Hacienda del Sol B&B & Gallery in Taos, NM

Kick back and relax to views of Taos Mountain at this?BedandBreakfast.com Diamond Collection??property. ?Set on 1.2 acres with courtyards surrounded by lilacs, towering cottonwoods, elms, willows, and blue spruce, it adjoins 95,000 acres of Taos Pueblo land. Several rooms look out to the famed New Mexico mountain. In the winter, go skiing amid the area?s mountainous scenery.

Olympic View Bed and Breakfast Cottage, Seattle, WA

Similar to Eagle?s View, this inn overlooks Puget Sound and the Olympic Mountain Range. But this special B&B consists of one stand-alone cottage that is all yours and completely private. ?Inside, you?ll find a full kitchen stocked with breakfast items to make at your leisure. Overlooking the water, the outdoor deck has a private hot tub to enjoy the view of the Sound from above?especially at sunset.

Pikes Peak Paradise Bed & Breakfast, Woodland Park, CO

Wake up every morning to a secluded yet panoramic view of the Colorado Rockies. Every guest room at this Colorado B&B features an unobstructed 9,000-foot view of Pikes Peak and 1 million acres of Pikes National Forest, many have private balconies. ?You can also go hiking, biking, skiing, and horseback riding for further explorations of the area. If the weather is calm, drive up Pike?s Peak for a airliner-like vista of the entire region.

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Cozi

Modern families need modern tools for keeping the household finances on budget, planning meals, remembering everyone's health status (allergies, immunization, blood type), and other points of organization. The Web app Cozi (free to $49.99 per year for Gold membership) aims to centralize some aspects of running a household. Each family member has access to a shared calendar, grocery shopping list, messaging board, and more.

While Cozi offers a few desirable features and services, it doesn't implement any of them well. Its worst offense is that every family member uses the same password to log into the system. Cozi recognizes all the email addresses of family members as user names, but one password is reused for all of them. From a security standpoint, that one reason is enough to not use Cozi.

The Web app also skips large swathes of family management entirely. For example, it doesn't contain much in terms of document management, nor any financial planning and monitoring tools. The amount of information you can add about each family member is extremely limited as well. The free version of Cozi has advertisements (a perpetual thorn in my side), as well as limits on the number of messages family members can exchange, and other restrictions.

However, of all the family organization sites I've seen, none run the full gamut, which is to say that Cozi's missed opportunities aren't much worse than those of ?Doxo (free, 3.5 stars) or AboutOne (beta) (free, 3 stars). Each one emphasizes something unique, while also missing entirely areas that the competition covers. For example, Doxo emphasizes bill payment by giving you one login to access all your e-statements from banks, credit card companies, and other service providers. But Doxo doesn't take on people management, so you can't create a profile of each member of your household. AboutOne, on the other hand, has great tools for uploading documents and cataloguing the family's possessions, but no bill pay features. Cozi's sweet spot is in lists and calendars, a lackluster niche to have seeing as better digital calendars and list-making apps already exist. It integrates only minimally with existing services (read-only integration with iCal, Outlook, and Google Calendar).

The only family management app that comes close to covering all the bases is Famjama (beta) (free), our Editors' Choice, but even it doesn't have anything near to the finance management features found in Doxo.

Cozi Features
As mentioned, Cozi comes in two versions: a free account that contains advertisements and some feature limitations, and a paid Gold account ($4.99 per month or $49.99 per year), which removes both.

The core features include the ability to create profiles for each member of the family, a shared calendar, shopping lists, to-do lists, a family journal, and a meal-planning area. Cozi has space for two "adults," which are essentially account administrators, and up to ten more family members, which can include pets. For each member, you can assign an email address and mobile phone number, but, regrettably, nothing else. Cozi does assign each member a color so that all the activity related to that person is easy to identify, and you can change the colors as you like, but these settings are tucked away in the calendar area rather than in the section where you enter people's names, email addresses, and phone numbers.

If you're so inclined, you can add each member's birthday to the calendar, tag it to the person so their color code shows up, and mark it as an annually recurring event. But wouldn't it be better to just assign birthdays to each person when you enter basic information about them? Wouldn't it save a lot of time if Cozi automatically set up birthdays as recurring events for you?

Cozi's calendar does include decent sharing features. You can send a link to anyone to have your Cozi appointments inputted in their third-party calendar (Google Calendar, Apple iCal, and Microsoft Outlook for Windows).

Another nice feature is that Cozi lets you opt in each family member to receive a weekly email that lists the week's upcoming agenda.

The app has a messaging area where you can leave notes for all to see. This section of the website simply isn't well designed. When you write a message, you have to choose whom it's from, meaning anyone can write a message as "mom." You're not locked into writing a message from only your account. Also, you can't tailor who can see the message, so a note to the kids will also be visible to Grandpa and the nanny. In essence, the messaging center is really just a public graffiti wall where anyone can sign anyone else's name. A lot more work is needed in this area.

Other features, like shopping lists and to-do lists, work as advertised, but even lack solid management tools. It would make more sense to have control over which family members have read-only capabilities and who can actually edit and change a list. For example, if a mother created a shopping list and asked her spouse to buy all the items, she wouldn't want her bratty teenage son to quietly add the list things he wants? at least not without showing the items as "pending approval."

You access Cozi primarily through a Web account, but there are apps for iPad, iPhone and iPod touch, and Android. The Cozi iPad app works well, but it's missing a few key features found in the website, namely messages, email, recipes, and recipe planning.

A bonus feature in the Cozi Web app that's absent from the mobile app (rather unfortunately?I think it's a missed opportunity) is recipe suggestions. If you find a recipe you like, you can automatically add all the ingredients to your grocery shopping list.

Still Waiting for Something Great
Cozi's family calendar and shared shopping lists could be useful to some families looking for a quick and free way to add these digital assets to their household management program. But, overall, Cozi isn't designed appropriately for multi-person use and thus is not an app I would recommend for family organization.

If you're looking for a fantastic household management tool that lets you upload and back up important documents, maintain a group calendar, collaboratively write and share lists, and manage your family's budget, keep looking. I'm still dreaming of a family Web app that works like a pared-down version of project-management or content-management software. Wouldn't it make sense to have administrator accounts for parents who could turn on and off various features for other users? Imagine letting your teenage kids see the meal planning component of the app, but not be able to edit it. What if you could create a calendar entry that would remain hidden from everyone except your mate until he or she approved it? Until there is a family organizer that reaches those extremes, the next best option is Famjama, our Editors' Choice.

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Israel's richest rabbis become savvy businessmen

NETIVOT, Israel (AP) ? One summer night, on the outskirts of a sleepy desert town, a who's who of Israel's elite gathered for an annual feast to honor a rabbi whose gaze is said to pierce the soul.

He's Rabbi Yaacov Israel Ifargan. But he is better known as, simply, the X-ray.

Over the past few decades, he and dozens of other rabbis have carefully positioned themselves at the fulcrum of Israeli power and influence. They have attracted throngs of adherents ? most notably some of the country's top business moguls, who pay top shekel for an audience with their rabbi to solicit blessings and discuss business matters.

These magnates have helped fuel the rise of a rabbinic aristocracy whose members have channeled the donations they receive into multi-million-dollar empires. After gaining experience dishing out advice to Israeli tycoons, the rabbis have become shrewd businessmen themselves, managing hefty investments in stocks and real estate at home and abroad ? with much of their earnings allegedly kept far from the watchful eyes of Israeli tax collectors.

Their chief critic calls then swindlers and frauds, and some fellow rabbis are critical of their practices.

The Israeli edition of Forbes magazine published a first-of-its-kind ranking last month of Israel's 13 richest rabbis. In the number one spot was 36-year-old Rabbi Pinchas Abuhatzeira from Beersheba, a blue-collar southern desert city, whose wealth is estimated at $335 million. The X-ray rabbi placed sixth, with an estimated net worth of $23 million.

"Every single shekel brings about true peace," announced the X-ray rabbi's half-brother, Rabbi Hayim Amram Ifargan, from the dais at the recent gathering, in a gentle nudge to the crowd of VIPs to continue their support.

He, too, is a part of the Ifargan family franchise. His spiritual adherents call him "The MRI." In the women's section behind a laced divider sat "The Arbitrator" or "The CT," Ifargan's millionaire sister Bruria Zvuluni, a go-to spiritual counselor who claims to have mediated feuds between Israeli crime kingpins. Though she is not a rabbi, she made it to the bottom of Forbes' list.

Cozying up at Ifargan's long table were lawmakers, one of Israel's top lawyers, and two of Israel's wealthiest businessmen: Menahem Gurevitch, chairman of a leading Israeli insurance company, and billionaire Nochi Dankner, head of Israel's largest holding company and a close confidant of Ifargan for the last 14 years. The Israeli army's chief rabbi and a top police commander were there, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sent his blessings in a recorded video message.

Rabbis who make fortunes for themselves and encourage others to make money with their blessings draw the wrath of some fellow Jewish clerics.

"It's disappointing when religion descends to this," said Rabbi Donniel Hartman, president of the Shalom Hartman institute, a modern Orthodox Jewish learning center in Jerusalem. "It's not some channel of divine power for personal wealth accumulation. That's small religion."

Most rabbis in Israel are not raking in millions. They are instead salaried government employees, assigned by Israel's official rabbinate to perform religious rites for the Jewish public such as marriages and burials, or to enforce Jewish dietary laws in restaurants and hotels.

They are nowhere near the level of the high-flying spiritual gurus like the X-ray.

Such gurus set up public office hours in their homes to receive Israelis on all rungs of the social ladder, as long as they come with cash. In exchange, adherents receive amulets and little pieces of paper containing the rabbi's personalized blessing. The most successful rabbis have founded charitable institutions and small religious seminaries, which act as conduits for the incoming cash flow.

Menachem Friedman, an expert on Orthodox Judaism and professor emeritus at Bar Ilan University, says religious Jewish businessmen since the 19th century have solicited rabbis' blessings for cash to ensure their success ? though today the sums have reached unprecedented amounts.

"If the market is dangerous and shaky, the millionaires who benefit from that market have less confidence. They need these rabbis to give them that security," Friedman said.

The country's richest rabbinic dynasty is the Abuhatzeira family, scions of the revered Baba Sali who left Morocco for Israel in 1963, gaining a following among Israel's large Moroccan and Middle Eastern Jewish immigrant population. The Baba Sali died in 1984, but his portrait ? a shriveled face wrapped in a white shawl ? still graces the walls of Israeli homes, businesses and falafel stands.

His grandson, Rabbi Elazar Abuhatzeira, became the richest of them all, building himself a three-story villa said to include an events hall, deluxe guest rooms for important donors and an underground tunnel allowing him safe passage to his synagogue and office across the street, according to journalist Yossi Bar-Moha, who says he obtained the house plans from the Beersheba municipality.

Bar-Moha published a series of exposes in Israeli dailies accusing the rabbi of cheating his followers into believing he had no money in the bank, and violently threatening some to pay up.

The Israeli police's national fraud squad opened an investigation in the late 1990s, discovering $125 million in his personal account. He reportedly reached a settlement with Israel's tax authorities to pay a fraction of what he owed them.

Last year, a desperate adherent whose donations to the rabbi hadn't improved his lot stabbed Rabbi Abuhatzeira to death. His son, Rabbi Pinchas Abuhatzeira, inherited his wealth and his spot at the top of Israel's affluent rabbinic aristocracy.

"These rabbis are charlatans, swindlers and cheaters. They have no real knowledge. And people eat it up," said reporter Bar-Moha, who heads Tel Aviv's journalists' association.

An Israeli tax official, speaking anonymously because of the issue's sensitivity, said in the past two years tax authorities have approached some 20 religious figures, requesting earnings reports. Some rabbis have been investigated for tax fraud. No convictions are known, but some have reportedly reached settlements with Israeli tax authorities.

Reached for comment, advisers of some of the rabbis profiled by Forbes either would not comment on the income estimates, or said they were wrong but would not provide other figures. A spokesman for Rabbi Ifargan said his charitable institutions and received donations are above board.

At the end of the feast, adherents followed Rabbi Ifargan up a hill to pray at the hulking stone pyramid that houses his father's grave. Ifargan emerged from the tomb surrounded by paparazzi, bodyguards and a host of followers shouting out requests for the rabbi to pray for their health and for their children to find a good match.

When an Associated Press reporter asked the rabbi the secret to his success, Ifargan stopped. The 46-year-old rabbi with a pointed jet-black beard and brimmed hat fixed his gaze for a few moments, cocked his head up toward the heavens and shrugged.

Then his bodyguards whisked him into a black Mercedes-Benz, and they sped off.

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