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Monday, April 2, 2012

AP Source: NFLPA hires lawyer for Saints bounties

FILE - In this Aug. 2, 2010 file photo, NFL commissioner Roger Goodell speaks at a media conference at the New Orleans Saints training facility in Metairie, La. The NFL has suspended New Orleans head coach Sean Payton for the 2012 season, and former Saints defensive coordinator Gregg Williams is banned from the league indefinitely because of the team's bounty program that targeted opposing players. Also Wednesday, March 21, 2012, Goodell suspended Saints general manager Mickey Loomis for the first eight regular-season games of 2012, and assistant coach Joe Vitt has to sit out the first six games. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, File)

The NFL Players Association told players involved in the New Orleans Saints' bounty case that there is a chance they could face criminal charges and it hired outside counsel to represent them if needed.

While Commissioner Roger Goodell weighs how to punish the two dozen or so players the league says might be connected to the bounties, the NFLPA also suggested that players have a lawyer and union representative present when they are interviewed by NFL investigators.

The union plans to head to New York this week to meet with league security staff and review additional evidence, taking up the NFL on an offer it made more than once.

The latest steps were described to The Associated Press on Sunday by two people familiar with the case. They spoke on condition of anonymity because the investigation is ongoing.

The NFL has said that 22 to 27 defensive players were part of the Saints' pay-for-pain bounty pool, which awarded thousands of dollars of cash bonuses from 2009-11 for vicious hits that knocked targeted opponents out of games. One example, according to the league: Linebacker Jonathan Vilma offered $10,000 to any New Orleans player who sidelined Minnesota Vikings quarterback Brett Favre during the 2010 NFC championship game.

On March 21, Goodell suspended Saints coach Sean Payton for all of next season, general manager Mickey Loomis for eight games, assistant coach Joe Vitt for six games, and former defensive coordinator Gregg Williams for at least one season. Goodell also fined the Saints $500,000 and took away two second-round draft picks.

The appeals process is expected to begin this week.

When those punishments were announced, Goodell said he would wait for NFLPA input before determining how to discipline players who participated in the bounties.

"While I will not address player conduct at this time, I am profoundly troubled by the fact that players ? including leaders among the defensive players ? embraced this program so enthusiastically and participated with what appears to have been a deliberate lack of concern for the well-being of their fellow players," Goodell said.

The NFL has asked the union for contact information for players. The NFLPA, meanwhile, was told by the league it could try to speak to Payton, Loomis, Vitt and Williams.

The league has not given any timetable for when Goodell will decide on penalties for the players, creating uncertainty for the Saints ? as well as other teams who might now have any of the players involved.

Gabe Feldman, a law professor and director of the Tulane Sports Law Program, said shortly after the NFL made its investigation public that he didn't expect any criminal or civil legal action specifically tied to the bounties.

"They're difficult cases to bring, because it's hard to prove the injury was caused by a tackle with specific intent to injure, rather than a regular tackle," Feldman explained at the time. "We all know injuries are a part of football. There can't be legal liability anytime there is an injury. Otherwise, you can't have football."

Associated Press

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A Jewish synagogue makes a comeback in Lebanon

The last remaining synagogue in Beirut is undergoing restoration, and will soon host its first rabbi in nearly 40 years. Only 150 members of the Jewish community remain in Lebanon.

? A local, slice-of-life story from a Monitor correspondent.

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Amid the new tower blocks that are changing this city?s skyline rises a newly restored symbol of Beirut?s multireligious society.

The Magen Abraham synagogue is the last Jewish place of worship to survive in Beirut, a lone reminder that a few decades ago a thriving Jewish community lived in the city center.

The Jewish faith is one of the 18 officially recognized sects that exist in Lebanon. When the synagogue was built in 1920 there were some 12,000 Jews in Lebanon. But the Arab-Israeli conflict and Lebanon?s devastating 1975-90 civil war spurred Jews to emigrate, and today there are only around 150 left here.

The last rabbi departed in 1975, and the synagogue fell into disrepair. Much of the structural damage was inflicted, ironically, by shelling from Israeli gunboats in 1982.

Restoration began two years ago and was funded by donations from Lebanese Jews both in Lebanon and overseas. The interior has been restored to its original d?cor with sky-blue walls, arched windows, and whitewashed columns with small brown painted streaks that mimic the fossilized shells in the original limestone columns. Work is expected to be completed by summer, and the first rabbi in nearly four decades is expected to arrive soon.

?Once the rabbi is here, we will be able to hold weddings again,? says a Jewish Council member in Lebanon who oversaw the restoration. He declines to allow his name to be quoted, illustrating that Lebanese Jews still prefer to maintain a low profile.

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Sunday, April 1, 2012

numbers - Sarasota Real Estate Listings ? Orlando House Rentals

With all of the wonderful residential alternatives that Sarasota Florida provides those looking for a new primary house or a vacation residence, it?s difficult to come to a decision on exactly where within the city, to search for that dream home. Sarasota delivers a varied variety of areas and exquisite properties for the discriminating home buyer trying to find solace, tropical year around climate, water sports which includes boating and sportfishing, surfing, scuba diving, and swimming. You must enjoy the privacy of Sarasota?s wonderful beaches and the exceptional waterfront estate properties and high end condominiums to comprehend what Sarasota and its Keys are offering There is a saying amongst the locals right here that after you visit Sarasota, you will be hooked on it and just want to move here permanently and that?s so legitimate.

Almost all the real estate properties for sale on Longboat Key is categorized into two unique groups, fantastic estate style single family homes, plus some conventional older single family homes, and maintenance free deluxe condominiums. Homes for sale on Longboat Key are among the best located in the Sarasota area, and Longboat Key features having some of the most wealthy residents in Sarasota living on the island.

A prime demonstration of tasteful tropical living at its very best is found on Sarasota?s Key island of Longboat Key, particularly at Sunset Beach Longboat Key and the glamorous Sunset Beach condos that typify the approach to life and living standard that is available on this lovely tropical island.

The Sunset Beach Longboat Key was constructed in 1984 and is made up of 65 well planned out and wonderfully furnished with all modern amenities and conveniences. Located on the south end of Longboat Key, amazing sights are standard coming from all the units of the Gulf Coast of Florida and you?re near by to all of the top class shopping and entertainment that Sarasota provides. Fine dining and other restaurants are also readily available.

Services like resort pool, spa, exclusive beach access, subterranean parking and simple access elevators. The complete complex is gated and guarded 24/7. Sizes range with the two bedroom, 2 bath units with prices ranging from about four hundred thousand upwards to around $1M, dependent upon size, area, etc. Experience a way of life and a brand new standard of living that includes sailing, fishing, windsurfing, canoeing, windsurfing just for starters.

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Internet Marketing Strategies For Your Online Business Success ...

If you are into blogging or online business then you must have heard about Internet Marketing or online marketing or web marketing. Internet Marketing strategy decides your online success.

Internet Marketing is an art or technique which tends to attract more people to you business website, increase customers for it, brand your company or products So that you can get more sales lead.

So Its important to have a better internet marketing plan or strategy that can take your online business to the next level. If you don?t do it in a proper way then its hard to make even a single sale But if you do it in a right way then It can give anything you want from you business. So what I think is if you are going to work hard on it then why to go for a poor marketing technique which turns out into nothing and all your hard work goes into garbage, Its always better to let your muscles work out on proper techniques. I mean do hardwork with a proper marketing technique because hard work alone doesn?t give success at all, hardwork with smartness gives you all.

So the question is How can you get a proper marketing strategy to get benefits. Don?t worry, I am here to let you know how you can get most out of it.

Here are the top Internet marketing techniques to promote your business over World Wide Web:-

Search Engine Optimization(SEO)

SEO is a process which is used to enhance the visibility of websites in the search engines. The chances are more to get sales lead when your site appears on the top. Lets take an example, If I need to buy a ?Samsung galaxy Note? online then What I will do is just go to any search engine and perform a search query ?Buy Samsung galaxy note? or something like that. Then Search results will appear on the search pages and I would like to go for a site which is on the first page or on second page. I will not go to check out more search pages.

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It means the one site which appears on the top in the search engine will get a sales lead from me. Here what you have noticed is that users don?t go and check out all the pages rather than to check 1^st or 2^nd page of search engines, that?s why you need to get the highest position in SERPs to get more sales lead. You can achieve this by proper SEO techniques. SEO involves on-page(title, meta tags, alt tags, content), off page optmizations(guest blogging, blog commenting, article marketing, directory submissions etc).
Here are few references which tells you how to do SEO For your website:-

Search Engine Marketing(SEM)

SEM is also about getting on the top position But it is paid way to do the same. You can use Google adwords, Microsoft adcenter etc. You need to bid on the keywords with which you want to show your site on the top of search engines. Its good but you can do it if you have good budget for this.

Blogging

To get a huge success online you need to be popular and have connection with like minded people. There are so many scams happening daily over www so people prefer buying products from the guys those are known to them. Its better to make great online presence online, And blogging is the best way to do it. Blogging gives you a platform where you can write your own thoughts, tips, announcement of new offers of your business etc. Apart from these you can earn handsome amount of money by advertising, monetizing with adsense etc. So you can see here double benefit of blogging, at one side you are making online presence of yours and at the other hand you are making good money from it.

Social Media Marketing

Till now you might be understood that ?Traffic? is every thing for online business success. You can drive great amount of traffic from Social Networking sites. All you need to do is to do it in a proper manner. Try to reach out of the like minded people who you think can really be interested in your product, Then keep letting them know about your products and offers by status update. ?You can also create brand pages on them and keep updating the fans about all the offers and all. Google+, Facebook, linked are very nice.

Email Marketing

Email marketing is one of the best way to reach out of the people who you think are interested in your product But for this you have to build a great emailing list and send them newsletters about the new products, offers, discounts etc in their inbox. Email marketing is good but it seems like spamming so that you need to be careful while using this because if you spam the users then there are chances that they will delete your emails without even reading. So you need to learn the art of email marketing. I suggest try to offer something free in the very start when you try to reach them firstly because Everyone loves the word FREE!!!. Once they get something free from you then they might be checking your emails to get more and more. Gradually offer your products to them on discounts. In this way you will win their hearts and get regular customers.

That?s all from My side, Now its your turn to say something on this!

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