This past month has been a particularly busy one  for us.  We have opened two more web sites
and made many changes to the existing ones.

In relation to last months edition concerning India, it was very disappointing to see the breakdown of peace negotiations between India and Pakistan.

This month I have included a reference to the conflict in the Middle East. Not a day goes by, without  the reporting of some new bloodshed. This article will help everyone better understand the situation from a neutral standpoint. 

An article about corruption in the US justice department is rather unsettling but it makes for very interesting reading while it involves Coca-Cola.

The amusing article by Sharon Davis was poignant in light of our recent busy times.

Dr John K. Flynn B.D.Sc.
The Xerostar Times Editor 
"Caring for creative people"
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If MIDI music is new to you, then please read the article in the March edition of XT entitled:
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The article will show you how to set up your computer for maximum enjoyment of MIDI music.
See below on how to access previous editions.
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As the periodic bloodshed continues in the Middle East, the search for an equitable solution must come to grips with the root cause of the conflict. The conventional wisdom is that, even if both sides are at fault, the Palestinians are irrational "terrorists" who have no point of view worth listening to. Our position, however, is that the Palestinians have a real grievance: their homeland for over a thousand years was taken, without their consent and mostly by force, during creation of the state of Israel. And all subsequent crimes - on both sides - inevitably follow from this original injustice.

This paper outlines the history of Palestine to show how this process occurred and what a moral solution to the region's problems should consist of. If you care about the people of the Middle East, Jewish and Arab, you owe it to yourself to read this account of the other side of the historical record.

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People don't like to talk about it, but it's time
somebody did.  Chances are, you or someone you care about suffers from it.  It's Webmaster Guilt Syndrome, or WGS.

Why is it that so many webmasters feel guilty when they work?  This is not true for “traditional” business
owners. The shop owner who hangs out his shingle doesn't feel guilty when he works day and night for a year or more before turning a profit.  In fact, it seems
admirable.

But yet, when a webmaster has to peck away at the
keyboard until all hours of the night, it's somehow
different, shameful.  It's peculiar, this web-guilt
phenomena. 

WGS manifests itself in many ways.                Some of the more common symptoms include:

-Working between the hours of 11pm and 3am when other, normal people are sleeping.

-Overcompensating in other areas; refusing to use daycare for their children, frowning upon any type of convenience foods, frantic bursts of housekeeping in any spare moment.

-Rationalizing to your spouse or others                 (I'm sorry I've been at this so long, it's just that I'm installing this script….).

-An inability to succinctly describe what you do    (I'm the Owner, Writer, Editor, Programmer, Web Designer, Advertising Manager for an online Telecommute and Home Business Website).

Not surprisingly, many online entrepreneurs also suffer from the “SuperMom/Dad Syndrome”.

I imagine it often stems from the fact that many virtual business owners are drawn to web business out of a desire to be at home with their families.   And therein lies the dilemma.  Isn't the whole point of working from home to be able to spend quality time with the family?  So when reality sets in, that is starting and running a web business is just as demanding on your time and resources as many other businesses, we feel guilty.

So, what's a Webmaster to do?  Well, being that the
numbers of online business owners are growing as we speak, there's no shortage of peers to commiserate with. I have found great comfort, support and validation from my fellow webmasters.

The good news is that there is a cure. 

Symptoms almost completely disappear with the receipt of a paycheck ..

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© Copyright 2001 Sharon Davis. Sharon Davis is the Mother of two girls, the owner of Work-At-Home.Com and the Editor of the site's monthly ezine, America's Home. In her spare time she reminisces about what it was like to have spare time. Subscribe to her free ezine, by sending a blank email:    Click Here
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If you're like most Internet users...your email inbox is bombarded with get-rich-quick schemes. Most of us delete them without so much as a quick glance. Yet deep down, I think we all know that amongst the junk there has to be a few jewels. After all, the Internet is a multi-billion dollar marketplace, soon to be multi-trillion. There's got to be somebody who's developed a legitimate opportunity for cashing in on the Internet revolution.

There is, but you've probably missed it because unlike the get-rich-now hawkers, this company detests hype. Yet, ironically, their growth is unprecedented

Remember when a network marketing company considered itself a major player in the industry when it reached 100,000 representatives? This company recently added 180,000+ sales reps just in February alone!

The company is the SFI Marketing Group. SFI is the creation of Gery Carson, who in the 1980's pioneered the Direct Mail model for network marketing. Gery is also the author of the book, The Home Business Revolution's Greatest Entrepreneurs, and the publisher of Six-Figure Income Magazine.

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At the heart of the story is an independent marketing consultant named Bob Kolody who claims he owns the copyright to an image that has been used on Coke Classic cans since 1993. The basic facts of the case are as follows: 

Back in 1989, Kolody pitched Simon Marketing (Coke's ad agency) on a game concept for that involved a graphic collusion of Coca-Cola and automobile memorabilia. Kolody heard nothing back from Simon but, nine months later, learned that aspects of his campaign were being disseminated through Coke's various brands. When Kolody attempted to discuss the matter with Simon's executives he was rebuffed and they claimed to have lost his story-boards. 

Then, in 1993, Coke resurrected the 'contour bottle' image for their Classic Coke cans and, the suit documents, filed a fraudulent copyright application in order to protect it. This is the legal crux of the case and demands elaboration. In its landmark ruling on copyright, Abend Case law stipulates that an entity is not allowed to file for a copyright on an image that has already been published and then released into the public domain or adopted by someone else. In the case of the 'contour bottle', Coke either forgot to renew their copyright or did not understand the law. When they re-filed in 1993, the copyright office warned them that to file for a copyright which has already been published is fraud. Coke went ahead and did it regardless. 

In 1994 Kolody saw the 'contour bottle' on a Coke Classic Can in a Chicago airport and realized what had happened. For three years he could not get a lawyer to file his case against Coke. 

Finally, in 1997, he got John De Camp - a one-time Nebraska state senator and friend of former CIA-head Bill Colby - to file. But De Camp could not afford to continue on contingency so Kolody was forced to forge on pro se (without legal representation). Kolody learned the law from every conceivable source and fought his case in court against one of the country's top IP lawyers (Jerold Jacover). Using every imaginable legal dirty trick, Coca-Cola and their lawyers hampered Kolody's case and successfully avoided publicity on what has evolved into a $4 billion lawsuit. Furthermore, Judge Blanche Manning (the judge in this case) refused to compel Coca-Cola to demonstrate that they held the legal registrations of copyright on the contour bottle. When Kolody attained the application independently from the U.S, copyright office, Manning would not allow him introduce the document as new evidence. This was a crushing blow to Kolody who had finally discovered proof that Coke failed to renew its copyright and then filed a fraudulent copyright application to protect themselves. 

In 1999 Kolody successfully retained renowned Arkansas federal attorney Dan Ivy to fight his case. As soon as he came onto the scene, Ivy discovered a series of judicial improprieties emanating from the bench. In response, he filed several motions of 'judicial perjury' - a motion that accuses the judge of committing fraud upon the court in her blatantly favorable rulings for Coca-Cola. This is the first time in Chicago judicial history that a lawyer has leveled such a serious charge against a federal judge. But Judge Manning, instead of stepping aside to have her improprieties assessed by an independent Judge, ruled on these charges herself - a practice that defies the principles of Anglo-Saxon law. 

What happened next is like a plot from a John Grisham novel. After Judge Manning dismissed Kolody's lawsuit with a summary judgment, Ivy moved the case to the Appellate Court. But, in an apparent effort to censure the crusading attorney for his conduct, the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals denied his entrance to the bar, leaving Kolody without an attorney. What makes this even more intriguing is that all eleven Judges of the Appellate met in a rare, closed-door 'en banc' hearing to deny his request and offered no elaboration for their decision. After filing a motion for clarification of their ruling (under the 14th Amendment), Ivy, was denied 'en banc' a second time and given no reason given for the refusal. 

There have also been a number of suspicious coincidences surrounding Kolody's case. Most shocking was that Kolody's own local counsel, Daniel Hanley, admitted under questioning to have a sister who was a major media buyer for Coca-Cola in the United States and that he had been feeding her information of Kolody's legal strategy. What's more, an affidavit was filed by famed court reformer Sherman Skolnick (who has had more judges imprisoned and disbarred for judicial misconduct than any other person in US history) that ties Judge Manning to major Chicago underworld figure William F. Cellini and asserts that her Judgeship was bought through a corrupt system of dealings. Both of these charges were made in a heated court hearing that saw a group of six armed police officers enter the courtroom. To date, Hanley has not been sanctioned for his admission and neither Judge Manning nor Bill Cellini have refuted the claims made in Skolnick's affidavit. 

Interesting, too, is that Coke has disregarded the case in their SEC filings. Initially this may sound innocuous, but not when you remember that Coke's entire business is the sale of their syrup formula and licensing of their logo to bottlers. This means that the bottlers have been paying license fees to a fraudulent copyright owner for seven years. Combine this with the fact that tensions between bottlers and Coke reached an all-time high last year when Coke was accused, in a major lawsuit, of dumping syrup on their bottlers in order to bolster a sagging fourth quarter earnings report. 
 

The case is currently being appealed to Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens (supervisor of the 7th Circuit) under a special application for 'chamber business'. This is especially dramatic considering the fact that it was Justice Stevens who, when he was a young lawyer on the 7th Circuit, headed up a special committee that presided over what became known as the 'biggest judicial bribery scandal in United States history'. The allegations surfaced publicly when, in 1969, a maverick public crusader by the name of Sherman Skolnick brought charges against a group of Judges for bribery. 

Due to the complexity of this case and the verifiable evidence of judicial misconduct on the part of Coca-Cola's lawyers and Judge Manning, we recommend that you take the time to read the entire story. We are confident that you will be neither bored nor disappointed with the dramatic recounting of this tale.

Reported by: Stephen Marshall

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