Grand Hotel Marriott Resort, Golf Club & Spa - Getaways for Grownups

Luxury in Point Clear, Alabama

By Hope S. Philbrick

Ever wonder how loud a cannon-shot is?

Unexpectedly, you can hear the answer for yourself at a luxury hotel on 600 acres overlooking Mobile Bay in Point Clear, Alabama. With a nod to its military past?the historic hotel has served as a military hospital and Air Force training facility?each afternoon the staff hosts a military procession and cannon firing ceremony.

It?s an ear-popping photo-op to be sure, but there are many reasons the Grand Hotel Marriott Resort, Golf Club & Spa will linger in memory.

In fact, if you meet someone who?s stayed at the place, odds are it ranks as one of their favorite hotels and resorts.

I confess: I adore it. And I think I?m going to love it even more in the future.

When I visited as part of a press trip exploring the Alabama Gulf Coast, one of the hosts was Bill Lang, director of public relations for the Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail (of which this hotel is part).

Like most hotel industry insiders, when I asked him what amenities and services at this resort?and any others on the Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail?were specifically geared to adults, his first reaction was surprise. (Around the world, hoteliers have all been so busy getting family-friendly they seem to have forgotten about those of us traveling without children.) As we talked, he seemed to genuinely understand the goal of Getaways for Grownups and the needs of our audience. He promised to meet with decision makers and implement some new adult-oriented programs. As they occur, we?ll proudly tout all the enhancements and improvements we know will please adults.

In the meantime, The Grand is certainly still a lovely place to go. And, while the ?Odds of Encountering Children? are much higher than might reasonably be expected at an upscale golf and spa resort, you can plan a visit while school?s in session to limit the likelihood.

Originally built in 1847, today The Grand?s classic grandeur coexists with modern convenience. Other than perhaps getting startled by cannon fire, you will be supremely comfortable here. The beds are so cozy you may find it difficult to get out of bed in the morning. The view is peaceful. The activities plentiful. The staff friendly. And food and cocktails delicious?be sure to try a mint julep and the bread pudding. It?s an all-in-one vacation destination as well as a convenient hub from which to explore more of the Alabama coast.

The Grand Hotel Marriott Resort, Golf Club & Spa has held its reputation as The Queen of Southern Resorts for 165 years. ?One thing you see throughout the property is tradition,? says Michael Herzog, food and beverage director.

It makes a great impression, accentuated with a bang.

Go Green

Grand Hotel Marriott Resort, Golf Club & Spa has implemented many earth-friendly programs?a Marriott priority?including:

• Energy conservation
• Water management
• Recycling
• Composting kitchen waste, which is used to fertilize gardens?herbs and vegetables are harvested by the chefs
• Local foods are featured on the menus, helping reduce transportation emissions
• The Grand is working with the Alabama Department of Environmental Management to establish a statewide ?green certification? program

Essentials?

• 405 spacious guestrooms and suites
• Complimentary wireless Internet
• 36 slip marina
• 5 pools, 3 beaches?There is one 21+ adults-only pool! But it?s right next to a kid?s pool.
• Complimentary on-site parking; valet is $12/day
• 100% smoke-free
• There are nine on-site restaurants, including?The Grand Dining Room, a AAA Four Diamond restaurant. The Dining Room serves an award-winning Sunday Jazz Brunch. The Saltwater Grill serves up seafood with a contemporary flair. For casual fare, head to the Lakewood Golf Club. The poolside Pelican?s Nest and Blue Marlin Bar are seasonal.
• Complimentary coffee in the coffee shop daily 6 a.m. to 8 p.m.
• Historic cannon firing ceremony daily (approximately 3:45 p.m.)
• Afternoon tea & cookies daily (4:00 p.m.)
• Two daily shuttles to the quaint town of Fairhope, which is located 3 miles away
• Horseshoes, croquet, ping pong, beach volleyball, bocce?ball, and bayside putting green (all equipment available on request)
• Daily resort activities including arts and crafts
• Non-motorized beach equipment (kayaks, hobie cats, and sail boats)
• Bicycle usage (helmets available)
• Tennis courts (equipment available for rent)
• Horticultural and historical tours of the property, including the Confederate Rest Cemetery
• Fishing poles and bait supplied for fishing from the Grand Pier
• The Grand has been awarded the Top 121 Golf Resorts by Conde Nast Traveler, and the Top 500 Hotels in the World by Travel & Leisure

More Information?

Grand Hotel Marriott Resort, Golf Club & Spa
251-928-9201

-Photo Credits: King room courtesy Grand Hotel Marriott; cannon and chef?s garden ? HSP Media LLC

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Syrian rebels enter strategic Aleppo neighborhood

BEIRUT (AP) ? Activists say Syrian rebels have taken control of at least part of a strategic neighborhood in the northern city of Aleppo after days of heavy fighting.

The Aleppo Media Center opposition group and Aleppo-based activist Mohammed Saeed say rebels seized control of the predominantly Kurdish neighborhood of Sheik Maqsoud in its entirety late Friday.

The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, however, says rebels took only the eastern part of the neighborhood, and reported heavy fighting there Saturday.

The Observatory also said rebels captured a pro-government Sunni Muslim cleric, killed him, then paraded his body around the neighborhood.

State-run Al-Ikhbariya TV identified the cleric as Hassan Seifeddine. It said he was beheaded and his head was placed on the minaret of Al-Hassan Mosque where he used to lead the prayers.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/syrian-rebels-enter-strategic-aleppo-neighborhood-115808294.html

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Miscellaneous Mentionables : Mom Knows It All. ? PR Friendly New ...

You are here: Home ? Announcements ? Miscellaneous Mentionables

I frequently receive email from companies asking me to share news or discounts with my readers. Each week I?ll gather the best requests and share them with you here.

Voots ?Get Kids Growing? Garden Grants

Voots? Veggie Fruit-Tarts along with Kidsgardening.org, a resource of the National Gardening Association, recently hosted the Voots ?Get Kids Growing,? interactive gardening workshop at The Americana at Brand in Glendale, Calif. with celebrity mom Christina Milian to help empower children and their families to lead healthier lives and build stronger communities through gardening!

While kids and their families had fun learning about gardening and healthy eating at the event, the main announcement was the unveiling of the Voots ?Get Kids Growing? Garden Grants, a partnership program that will award 20 grant recipients with $700* in gardening supplies including a raised bed, tools, and a curriculum guide from the Gardening with Kids Shop, and a check for $50 to be used to purchase soil amendments and fruit and vegetable plantings. The total award package is valued at over $750. Additionally, one recipient will be awarded a grand prize based on their submission, receiving an additional $1,250 in gardening supplies.

There?s still have time to participate in the grant program for a chance to win ? the deadline is April 1, 2013! More information can be found here: http://grants.kidsgardening.org/voots%C2%AE-get-kids-growing-garden-grants.

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Taylor Swift Has Fans Sobbing, Squealing, Soaring On Red Tour

Swift takes fans on emotional rollercoaster and 'rewards' them with Neon Trees' Tyler Glenn.
By Emilee Lindner

Taylor Swift performs in Newark, New Jersey Thursday night
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Moog Music's Amos Gaynes on learning to code in BASIC and going off the grid

Every week, a new and interesting human being tackles our decidedly geeky take on the Proustian Q&A. This is the Engadget Questionnaire.

In the return edition of our regular session of inquiry, Moog Music product manager Amos Gaynes discusses sound synthesis, tolerance for poor battery life and shares his love for BB10. For the entire collection of answers, take a quick leap to the other side of the break.

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3 of 4 reptiles stolen from Calif. museum found

FRESNO, Calif. (AP) ? Three of four reptiles that were swiped from a science museum and thrown together into a garbage bag during a heist were recovered Friday, though a 3-foot-long ball python remained at large, officials said.

The 3?-foot savannah monitor lizard, a 7-foot-long red-tailed boa constrictor and another 3-foot-long ball python were in good condition, said Mary Ellen Wright, the director of the Fresno Discovery Center. Authorities were searching for the missing python in an area frequented by a suspect, who has been arrested.

Wright had been worried about the reptiles' confinement together in the bag "because they are mortal enemies," she said.

"It would be like throwing two pit bulls in a locked room," she added, noting that the monitor lizard has sharp, 2-inch claws.

The reptiles were taken in a robbery that has perplexed museum officials and authorities, who have not released a motive.

Fresno Police Lt. Donald Gross said Friday Devin Michael Madej, 20, was arrested on suspicion of burglary and possession of stolen property.

The museum's education coordinator, Ian Goudelock, said the burglar didn't appear to be out to intentionally hurt the animals though the museum planned to have the reptiles checked by a veterinarian.

"It's just a strange theft. We're still trying to figure out why," he said. "It does kind of more or less have a happy ending."

Surveillance video showed the burglar broke into the Central California museum sometime late Wednesday or early Thursday, smashed the tanks that held the four reptiles ? worth hundreds of dollars ? and popped them into a garbage bag.

He also went into the center's gift shop and stole children's toys, the phone system and the security monitor, the Fresno Bee reported.

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Supreme Court likely to advance gay marriage but stop short of broad ruling

By Pete Williams, Justice Correspondent, NBC News

After two days of highly anticipated courtroom arguments about same-sex marriage, a sweeping ruling on gay rights seems unlikely from the U.S. Supreme Court.?But when decisions in both cases come in late June, the result may nonetheless be an important one for advocates of same-sex marriage.

The Supreme Court appeared ready to strike down the Defense of Marriage Act during Wednesday's oral arguments but it was a different story for Prop. 8 with Justices signaling that they may take a narrow approach to avoid setting a national precedent on the issue of same-sex marriage. California Attorney General Kamala Harris discusses.

Though it's risky to predict how the court will rule based solely on comments by the justices during the oral arguments, one outcome seemed probable -- a decision striking down the Defense of Marriage Act.

"A decision saying that DOMA is unconstitutional because it discriminates against people based on their sexual orientation, and requiring the federal government to give full recognition to the existing marriages of same-sex couples, would be a huge victory," said Paul Smith of the Washington, D.C.,?law firm of Jenner & Block.

He was in the courtroom when the justices took up the Proposition 8 case on March 26.?Ten years earlier to the day, Smith stood before the justices to argue the case of Lawrence v. Texas, which invalidated state laws criminalizing homosexual conduct.?

In the challenge to California's Prop 8 -- the state constitutional amendment enacted by voters in 2008 that limits marriage to one-man-one-woman couples -- the justices seemed to be searching for a way to avoid a decision.?One possible outcome: declaring the case procedurally flawed and sending it back to California, where a lower court decision found Prop 8 unconstitutional. That would allow same-sex marriage to resume there without setting a precedent for other states.?

During Wednesday's argument on DOMA, by contrast, at least four of the justices suggested that the law improperly discriminates against gay couples by blocking the federal government from recognizing same-sex marriages in the states that permit them.??

Elena Kagan read from a House report that said Congress passed DOMA to express its "moral disapproval of homosexuality."?Ruth Bader Ginsburg said the 1,100 federal benefits denied to same-sex couples water down their relationships to "skim-milk marriages."?

Rodell Mollineau, president of American Bridge and former spokesman to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, Washington Post political reporter Nia-Malika Henderson and National Review's Washington, D.C. editor and CNBC contributor Robert Costa join The Daily Rundown to talk about the same-sex marriage debate and give their shameless plugs.

Sonia Sotomayor asked if members of Congress could create any "class of people they don't like" and deny them benefits. Stephen Breyer asked what justification would permit treating gay marriages differently.?

The fifth vote to strike down DOMA seemed likely to come from Anthony Kennedy, whose comments throughout the argument reflected a concern that Congress had no authority to define marriage, a power reserved to the states.?

Former solicitor general Paul Clement, representing the House Republicans who came forward to defend DOMA, said the law was proper because it dealt only with the government's own definition of marriage in federal laws.?For that reason, he said, the question of federal power was "not a DOMA problem."?

Justice Kennedy disagreed. "I think it is a DOMA problem. The question is whether or not the federal government, under our federalism scheme, has the authority to regulate marriage," he said.?

Kennedy said DOMA was "not consistent with the historic commitment of marriage, and of questions of the rights of children, to the states."?

Even if Justice Kennedy's focus on the limits of federal power constrains the court's ruling in the DOMA case, avoiding a full-throated declaration that discrimination based on sexual orientation is unconstitutional, advocates of gay rights say it would still send a powerful message.?

Listen to audio from the Supreme Court as the high court hears a constitutional challenge to the Defense of Marriage Act, which bans federal recognition of same-sex marriage.

"I think it's enormous," said Mary Bonauto of GLAD, a pioneer in gay rights litigation, of the possibility that DOMA would be struck down.?

"This is a law that has the effect of discriminating only against married same-sex couples. And anytime you eliminate a double standard based on sexual orientation, it matters," she said.?

And Paul Smith of Jenner & Block says such a decision could lay the groundwork for future legal challenges to state laws that forbid same-sex couples to marry.?

"While it's not the same thing as requiring states to let people get married, it will push the momentum forward," he said, and could have an effect on lawsuits now pending that challenge bans on same-sex marriage in Hawaii, Illinois, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico and Oklahoma.

Related:

Shifts on same-sex marriage come from surprising groups

Justices signal they might strike down federal marriage law

Obama on rights of gay couples: 'It is time for the justices to examine this issue'

This story was originally published on Fri Mar 29, 2013 4:08 AM EDT

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Power Players: Same-sex marriage could help reduce the deficit

BOTTOM LINE

This week the Supreme Court heard arguments in two landmark cases regarding same-sex marriage: Hollingsworth v. Perry, which deals with California's Proposition 8, and the United States v. Windsor, which deals with the Defense of Marriage Act. The court likely won't hand down a ruling in these cases for several months, but many of you had questions about the legal and economic implications of both cases and of course, about the potential outcomes.

Donna Lynn Lewis wrote in on Facebook: My friend argues that it would somehow hurt the economy as far as benefits or social security, this doesn't make sense to me. Maybe you could explain what the financial effect would be for our society?

Ebersole Hughes Co. asked: Wondering if SCOTUS refuses to hear the prop 8 case or "tables" it- is same-sex marriage legal again in California?

And Kitty Cole tweeted: What's your gut feeling on how the SCOTUS will rule?

Thanks for your great questions, and please keep them coming on Twitter and on Facebook. We'll talk a lot more about the hearings and the shifting tide on same-sex marriage in America on "This Week" on Sunday. Be sure to tune in, and don't forget to watch "Good Morning America" tomorrow morning as well.

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Pope reluctant to be pope: What does it mean?

Pope Francis, bottom left, greets the faithful at the end of his general audience, in St. Peter's Square, at the Vatican, Wednesday, March 27, 2013. Francis has called for an end to the violence and looting that has accompanied the weekend coup in the Central African Republic in his first such appeal for peace since becoming pope. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

Pope Francis, bottom left, greets the faithful at the end of his general audience, in St. Peter's Square, at the Vatican, Wednesday, March 27, 2013. Francis has called for an end to the violence and looting that has accompanied the weekend coup in the Central African Republic in his first such appeal for peace since becoming pope. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

Pope Francis is given a paper cut-out heart with writing reading "Hurray Pope Francis" as he driven through the crowd during his general audience, in St. Peter's Square, at the Vatican, Wednesday, March 27, 2013. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

Pope Francis kisses a baby handed to him as he is driven through the crowd during his general audience, in St. Peter's Square, at the Vatican, Wednesday, March 27, 2013. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

Pope Francis is driven through the crowd during his first general audience, in St. Peter's Square, at the Vatican, Wednesday, March 27, 2013. Francis has called for an end to the violence and looting that has accompanied the weekend coup in the Central African Republic in his first such appeal for peace since becoming pope. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

Pope Francis' ring is seen as he delivers his blessing as he is driven through the crowd during his general audience, in St. Peter's Square, at the Vatican, Wednesday, March 27, 2013. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

VATICAN CITY (AP) ? He still goes by "Bergoglio" when speaking to friends, seems reluctant to call himself pope and has decided to live in the Vatican hotel rather than the grand papal apartment in the Apostolic Palace.

It might seem as if Pope Francis is in a bit of denial over his new job as leader of the world's 1.2-billion Catholics. Or perhaps he's simply changing the popular idea of what it means to be pope, keeping the no-frills style he cultivated as archbishop of Buenos Aires in ways that may have broad implications for the church.

The world has already seen how Francis has cast aside many trappings of the papacy, refusing to don the red velvet cape Benedict XVI wore for official occasions and keeping the simple, iron-plated pectoral cross he used as bishop and archbishop.

On Thursday, his belief that a pope's job is to serve the world's lowliest will be on display when he washes the feet of a dozen young inmates at a juvenile detention center in Rome. Previous popes have celebrated the Holy Thursday ritual, which re-enacts Christ's washing of his disciples' feet before his crucifixion, by washing the feet of priests in one of Rome's most ornate basilicas.

Such moves hint, even at this early stage, only two weeks into his papacy, at an apparent effort by Francis to demystify the office of pope.

Unlike his predecessors, he doesn't sign his name "Pope Francis," ending his official correspondence simply "Francis."

To those closest he is still Bergoglio, and this week, Italian state radio broadcast a voice mail he left wishing a friend Happy Birthday. "It's Bergoglio," the pope said, using the surname he was born with.

Even on Day One, Francis didn't acknowledge he was pope.

Speaking on the loggia of St. Peter's Basilica after his election the night of March 13, Francis told the tens of thousands gathered there that the cardinals' task during the conclave had been to "give Rome a bishop."

And bishop of Rome is the title he has emphasized repeatedly ever since ? not vicar of Christ, or any of his other official titles.

"I do think there is something about trying to reduce the awesomeness, the grandeur and majesty of the papacy," said John Allen Jr., Vatican columnist for the National Catholic Reporter. "Part of this is just his personality. He's never liked pomp and circumstance."

Indeed. Even after he became Argentina's top church official in 2001, the former Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio never lived in the ornate church mansion that Pope John Paul II stayed in when visiting, preferring simple rooms in a downtown building, warmed by a small stove on frigid weekends when the heat was turned off. He did his own cooking and rode the bus to get around town.

In that same vein, Francis announced this week that he wasn't moving into the papal apartment in the Apostolic Palace and would stay instead in the Vatican's Santa Marta residence, the antiseptically clean, institutional-style hotel where he and the 114 cardinals who elected him pope were sequestered during the conclave.

Calling the hotel home, Francis indicated that he wants to live in a community with ordinary folk, not the gilded cage of the Apostolic Palace.

He will eat in the common dining room as he has for the past two weeks, and celebrate 7 a.m. Mass in the hotel chapel as he has each day, inviting Vatican gardeners, street sweepers, hotel workers and newspaper staff to attend.

The Vatican spokesman, the Rev. Federico Lombardi, said the decision to stay put in the hotel had been taken "for now."

"We'll see how it works," he said.

In one concession, Francis did move in recent days from the hotel's cramped Room 207, where he had stayed as cardinal, into Room 201, the larger papal suite, which has a study and sitting room to receive guests. The furnishings are a step up from the simple fare of the rest of the hotel: dark wood armoires and a bed with a matching headboard carved with an image of Christ's face.

Francis' initial refusal to move into the hotel's papal suite is perhaps understandable, given the reluctance with which he accepted the job in the first place.

On Wednesday, the Vatican revealed what Francis said in the Sistine Chapel when he was formally asked if he accepted the outcome of the vote. "I am a big sinner. Trusting in the mercy and patience of God, in suffering, I accept," he answered.

The decision not to take up residence in the Apostolic Palace might also signal a desire to keep his distance from the dysfunctional Vatican government Francis has inherited. One of his major tasks will be to rid the Vatican bureaucracy of the mismanagement, petty turf battles and allegations of corruption that were revealed in leaks of papal documents last year.

Francis does go to work each day at his "office" in the Apostolic Palace, where he meets with various Vatican officials. He uses the ornate Clementine Hall for larger audiences, such as his first formal addresses to representatives of the world's religions and the diplomatic corps accredited to the Holy See.

In his March 20 audience with religious leaders, Francis sent an important signal about his view of the papacy and its relationship with other Christians. He addressed the spiritual leader of the world's Orthodox Christians, Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I, as "my brother" ? a fraternal nod to a church that split from Rome 1,000 years ago and has remained separated in part over disputes about the primacy of the pope.

To make that message abundantly clear, Francis' chair was on the ground ? the same level as all the other religious leaders ? and not on a raised platform. Two days later, when Francis greeted diplomats accredited to the Holy See, his chair was up on a platform.

"To have a simpler view, less grandiose sense of the trappings of the papacy might be saying, 'I want to be able to relate to you at a different level,'" said Anton Vrame of the Greek Orthodox archdiocese in the U.S.

Francis' gestures, choices and emphasis were clearly an indication of his personality and the simplicity for which Jesuits are known, Vrame said.

"Is it a further simplification of the papacy that we've seen over the years? Potentially. It remains to be seen," he said.

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Twitter Link Roundup #172 ? Small Business, Startups, Innovation ...

Every day on the crowdSPRING Twitter account and on my own Twitter account, I post links to posts or videos I enjoyed reading or viewing. These posts and videos are about logo design, web design, startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Here are some of the links that I?ve liked and shared this past week!

The image above shows a map of the Internet, created by an anonymous researcher, who hacked hundreds of thousands of computers around the world in order to create the map. You can find the full article in the Other section below, including an animated version of this map, showing where people are logging-in throughout the day, and changes in traffic patterns over time.

Empower Your Small Business ? NEW edition: marketing, lean business, paid search, #1 mistake ? http://crowdspring.co/15Qb2bj

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Investment Crowdfunding is A Ghetto Stock Market | Forbes ? http://crowdspring.co/11lV7kc

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Einstein?s Problem-Solving Formula, And Why You?re Doing It All Wrong ? http://crowdspring.co/YisA02

Revenue Traction Doesn?t Mean Product Market Fit ? http://crowdspring.co/YbdwkI

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Good insight about collaboration, usability and design ? An interview with Joshua Porter | Inside Intercom ? http://crowdspring.co/11ElEJy

Tech Startup City: G2 Crowd in Chicago | Forbes ? http://crowdspring.co/15Z0XJ0

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Chartbeat Demonstrates Below-the-Fold Ad Placement Is More Valuable Than Originally Assumed ? http://crowdspring.co/11lRxGX

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Half of What Online Advertisers Know About You Is Wrong ? http://crowdspring.co/11po4f8

Amazon?s New Mobile Ad Network Is A Huge Threat To Google | Business Insider ? http://crowdspring.co/YeaR9V

How Opting People OUT Can Actually Improve Your Email Marketing | Hubspot ? http://crowdspring.co/11rqY39

UX Myths That Hurt SEO ? Whiteboard Friday | SEOmoz ? http://crowdspring.co/10uky4j

Invest in Your Customers More Than Your Brand | Michael Schrage-Harvard Business Review ? http://crowdspring.co/YipU2f

Is Your Meta Description Working As Hard As Your Tagline? | Rival IQ ? http://crowdspring.co/11CrAmA

Native Advertising Is Bad News | Digiday (by Ben Kunz) ? http://crowdspring.co/10skEJD

15 Steps to the Ultimate Lead Capture Landing Page | Unbounce ? http://crowdspring.co/11rrMoD

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Store Combats Showrooming With $5 ?Just Looking? Fee | Consumerist ? http://crowdspring.co/11Ke7cf

40 Brilliant Business card design examples for your inspiration | Webneel ? http://crowdspring.co/10F4AEz

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35 Fresh Examples of Corporate Business Cards ? http://crowdspring.co/Yapnj3

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Cyprus banks to re-open; limits on transactions

NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) ? Bank employees and financial authorities in Cyprus are preparing banks to reopen after being shut for more than a week due to the country's acute financial crisis.

Strict restrictions have been set on financial transactions once the banks open for six hours at noon (1000 GMT). The maximum cash withdrawal limit has been set at 300 euros ($383) per day and no checks will be cashed. Travelers leaving the country can only take up to 1,000 euros, or the equivalent in foreign currency, with them in cash.

Banks have been closed since March 16 as politicians scrambled to come up with a plan to raise enough funds for Cyprus to qualify for 10 billion euros ($12.9 billion) in bailout loans for its stricken banking sector.

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Teen makes tearful apology to wisdom teeth after surgery

Some people will tell you that pain is the basis of spiritual growth. Sorrow, regret and eventually letting go are life lessons we all go through at some point.

But not all of us experience those painfully emotional moments in association with our wisdom teeth. And even fewer have had to deal with the moment being captured on video and posted to the delight of countless strangers.

But that?s exactly what Kansas teen Abbie Kritz is going through, after her boyfriend posted a video of Kritz lamenting the loss of her wisdom teeth while under the influence of pain medication.

"I did it against my own will, I would have kept you," Kritz says earnestly to the removed wisdom teeth, which she is holding inside a plastic jar while being driven home by her mother.

"I loved you from the first moment on."

Her boyfriend and mom can be heard laughing in disbelief as Kritz continues the soliloquy to her lost choppers.

"They were just trying to help me chew and I didn't accept them," she explains." I could have accepted them."

Eventually, Kritz came to terms with the situation. Or, put another way, the dentist?s drugs wore off. And for her part, Kritz appears to be taking in all the attention with a toothy smile.

?Oh my goodness it was awful,? she wrote on her Twitter account. ?I just remember wanting to stop crying the whole time but I couldn't!?

Still, there?s no word on whether Kritz stands by her previous offer of putting the wisdom teeth back in place.

"They just wanted to be a part of my body and I said 'No, get out,'" she said tearfully in the video after making it back home. "I didn't meant it. You can come back if you want."

Then again, Kritz might be onto something, not just previously on something. While many people eventually have their wisdom teeth removed, there is growing opposition to having them removed without a clinical reason to do so.

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The descent of Mann's legal standing | Watts Up With That?

Story submitted by Rob Ricket

Mann plays the victim in article from ?The Scientist?

Opinion: Life as a Target

Attacks on my work aimed at undermining climate change science have turned me into a public figure. I have come to embrace that role.

By Michael E. Mann| March 27, 2013

As a climate scientist, I have seen my integrity perniciously attacked. Politicians have demanded I be fired from my job because of my work demonstrating the reality and threat of human-caused climate change. I?ve been subjected to congressional investigations by congressman in the pay of the fossil fuel industry and was the target of what The Washington Post referred to as a ?witch hunt? by Virginia?s reactionary Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli. I have even received a number of anonymous death threats.

My plight is dramatic, but unfortunately, it is not unique; climate scientists are regularly the subject of such attacks.

This cynicism is part of a destructive public-relations campaign being waged by fossil fuel companies, front groups, and individuals aligned with them in an effort to discredit the science linking the burning of fossil fuels with potentially dangerous climate change.

My work first appeared on the world stage in the late 1990s with the publication of a series of articles estimating past temperature trends. Using information gathered from records in nature, like tree rings, corals, and ice cores, my two coauthors and I had pieced together variations in the Earth?s temperature over the past 1,000 years. What we found was that the recent warming, which coincides with the burning of fossil fuels during the Industrial Revolution, is an unprecedented aberration in this period of documented temperature changes, and recent work published in the journal Science suggests that the recent warming trend has no counterpart for at least the past 11,000 years, and likely longer. In a graph featured in our manuscript, the last century sticks out like the blade of an upturned hockey stick.

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This header from Dr. Mann has some important legal value:

Attacks on my work aimed at undermining climate change science have turned me into a public figure. I have come to embrace that role.

A public figure has a higher burden of proof in defamation cases, such as the one where Dr. Mann is suing Dr. Tim Ball and Mark Steyn at The National Review. For example:

According to the public figure doctrine, prominent public persons must prove actual malice on the part of the news media in order to prevail in a libel lawsuit. Actual malice is the knowledge of falsity or reckless disregard of whether a statement is true or false. The public figure doctrine makes it possible for publishers to provide information on public issues to the debating public, undeterred by the threat of liability.

Source: http://definitions.uslegal.com/p/public-figure-doctrine/

Further, Dr. Mann is going to have to prove that the statements by Tim Ball and NRO weren?t parody or satire:

Whether parodies should be potentially actionable as defamation depends on whether the statement is deemed factual and thus potentially actionable, or is a matter of protected opinion and not actionable.

Although plagued by confusion and lack of consensus, under the prevailing trends of constitutional law and/or state substantive defamation law principles, four core bases have emerged for classifying a statement as protected opinion:

(a) it did ?not contain a provably false factual connotation;?

(b) it ?cannot ?reasonably [be] interpreted as stating actual facts;??

(c) it consists merely of ?rhetorical hyperbole, a vigorous epithet,? or ?imaginative expression;?

(d) it does not state or imply undisclosed, unassumed, or unknown defamatory facts.

Source: http://epubs.utah.edu/index.php/ulr/article/viewFile/74/66

I think with his public figure admission, combined with the recognized first amendment right to satire and parody of public figures,? he just took his two legal cases out back and shot them dead.

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Egypt court revokes Morsi's firing of prosecutor

CAIRO (AP) ? An Egyptian appeals court annulled Wednesday a November presidential decree dismissing the country's top prosecutor and ordered him reinstated, the state news agency reported, in a new challenge to the country's Islamist president by the judiciary.

The Cairo appeals court, a unit specialized in complaints by judges and lawyers, ruled in favor of a complaint by the former top prosecutor, Abdel-Meguid Mahmoud. It ordered the justice minister to implement the ruling, reinstating Mahmoud to his post.

The decision aggravates tensions between President Mohammed Morsi and the judiciary, which saw the dismissal as trampling on its authority. The government will likely appeal the ruling.

Morsi's appointment of Talaat Abdullah as the new prosecutor came after longstanding calls by revolutionary groups to replace Mahmoud, considered a holdover from the regime of ousted President Hosni Mubarak. However, judges and rights groups said Morsi violated the right of the judges to name the new prosecutor.

Now, the opposition is demanding that Morsi remove Abdullah, criticizing him for being beholden to the president and for prosecuting political activists critical of his leadership.

In his case to the court, the sacked prosecutor Mahmoud argued that the country's top prosecutor cannot be fired by the president, saying Morsi's decision "disregarded the principle of separation of powers and the independence of the judiciary," according to the state news agency.

Morsi initially dismissed Mahmoud in October but had to rescind his decision because his office is not empowered to do so. Then, in a widely criticized decision, Morsi decreed that the prosecutor general could serve in office for only four years, with immediate effect on Mahmoud, who had held the post since 2006. Morsi replaced Mahmoud with Talaat Abdullah, a career judge, and swiftly swore him in.

In the same decree, Morsi granted himself virtual immunity from judicial oversight, and similarly shielded a panel entrusted with drafting the country's constitution from legal challenges it was facing. Morsi's aides at the time said his decisions were to "protect" the course of Egypt's revolution against a judiciary packed with appointees of former President Hosni Mubarak.

Under pressure from mass protests that followed, Morsi subsequently rescinded the his own immunity, but retained the new prosecutor.

The new top prosecutor Abdullah has faced protests from within the judiciary, with a large number of prosecutors and judges going on strike to oppose his appointment. He briefly resigned but later returned to his post. However, a number of prosecutors have challenged his return to the job in court, in a separate case likely to be ruled on later this week.

In the first remarks on the decision, the top aide to Abdullah, Hassan Yassin, told the Turkish Anadolu news agency that the ruling to reinstate Mahmoud will be appealed, calling it "full of loopholes."

Yassin said Abdullah will stay in his post, protected by the new constitution which sets his mandate at four years.

Gamal Eid, a rights lawyer, said he expected a prolonged dispute over the court decision, which is likely to be challenged by the government. He said the Cairo appeal court was looking into an administrative complaint, not at the constitution, but described the tug of war as a "political dispute."

"This is not really a legal matter as much as it is a political issue," Eid said. "It represents an embarrassment to Morsi ... and raises the issue of respecting court rulings."

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/egypt-court-revokes-morsis-firing-prosecutor-131602781.html

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Kanye West: Is 'I Am God' his next album title?

Kanye West was reported to be considering 'I Am God' as the title for his new album, but is that really the artist's plan? Some sources say the phrase 'I Am A God' is actually the title of one of Kanye West's new songs.

By Molly Driscoll,?Staff writer / March 27, 2013

Kanye West performs at the BET Awards. One report said the artist was considering titling his next album 'I Am God,' but others say that's not true.

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Is rapper Kanye West considering the name ?I Am God? for his next album?

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No, he is not, according to an anonymous source that spoke to E! News. In addition, someone that the Huffington Post cited as ?a reliable source in West's camp? said that the phrase is actually the name of one of West?s songs on his upcoming album, not the title, which is where the misunderstanding may have arisen. The title, added the source, is ?I Am A God,? not ?I Am God.?

?We would never be so presumptuous or sacrilegious to call ourselves the supreme being,? the source said, according to the Huffington Post. (Your guess is as good as ours as to what that ?we? indicates.) The source said the album title hasn?t been decided on yet.

The impression that West was titling his album ?I Am God? may have come from a BBC News article which was discussing the possibility that West and Kim Kardashian are considering the name North for their child.

?Mixed emotions greet reports that Kanye West is considering calling his first child North,? the article by Charles Nevin read. ?It's a good joke, from a slightly unexpected source (neither the rapper nor his possibly even more famous partner, Kim Kardashian, are best known for their self-deprecating sallies, although the title Kanye is supposed to be contemplating for his new album, I Am God, is said to be ?half tongue-in-cheek?).?

West first worked as a producer in the music industry and was a member of the rap group the Go-Getters, which released one album, before he crafted his first album, ?The College Dropout,? and released it in 2004. ?College? was followed by his albums ?Graduation,? ?My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy,? and his collaboration with artist Jay-Z titled ?Watch the Throne,? among other works. He has won 21 Grammy Awards throughout his career.

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Good Reads: US-China relations, 'Lean In,' ballet's whodunit, Ireland's Downton

This week's round-up of Good Reads includes a look at the complex Chinese-US relationship, a response to Sheryl Sandberg's 'Lean In,' an acid attack linked to the Bolshoi Ballet, and a memoir about an ancestral home in Ireland.

By Gregory M. Lamb,?Staff writer / March 21, 2013

Bolshoi dancer Pavel Dmitrichenko is accused of plotting an acid attack.

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The United States has two clear choices in dealing with China: Engage or isolate the world?s most populous nation. ?You cannot have it both ways,? argues Lee Kuan Yew, prime minister of Singapore for more than three decades, who led his tiny Asian nation to Western-style prosperity despite being in the shadow of its giant communist neighbor. ?You cannot say you will engage China on some issues and isolate her over others. You cannot mix your signals.?

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Competition between the US and China is inevitable, but conflict is not, Mr. Lee argues in an excerpt from his new book in The Atlantic.

?This is not the Cold War. The Soviet Union was contesting with the United States for global supremacy. China is acting purely in its own national interests. It is not interested in changing the world.?

The complex Chinese-US relationship is underpinned by an essential truth: Each side needs the other.

?Chinese leaders know that U.S. military superiority is overwhelming and will remain so for the next few decades,? he writes. ?[T]he Chinese do not want to clash with anyone ? at least not for the next 15 to 20 years.?

The best outcome, he writes, would be for China and the US to arrive at ?a new understanding that when they cannot cooperate, they will coexist and allow all countries in the Pacific to grow and thrive.?

Get back to feminism?s roots

Women have risen to prominence in business and academia, but don?t look for private enterprise to finish the job of ensuring equal rights between the sexes.
In a new book called ?Lean In,? Facebook executive Sheryl Sandberg says women are responsible for their own lack of progress in the workplace, notes Judith Shulevitz, writing in the New Republic. But the recent directive from Yahoo chief executive officer Marissa Mayer that bans telecommuting shows that women executives hold business success above feminist goals. ?Yahoo employees now understand that, when unregulated market forces go head-to-head with policies that facilitate gender equality, the policies stand down,? Ms. Shulevitz writes. ?It doesn?t matter who runs the company.... Competent female executives run better companies than incompetent male executives, but they?re no more likely to make universal day care the law of the land.?

Where lies progress in gender equality, which seemed to halt three decades ago with the defeat of the Equal Rights Amendment? It?s time to get back to changing laws, she says. ?What we are not talking about in nearly enough detail, or agitating for with enough passion, are the government policies, such as mandatory paid maternity leave, that would truly equalize opportunity. We are still thinking individually, not collectively.?

The Bolshoi?s dark side

The bizarre acid-tossing attack on Sergei Yurevich Filin, the artistic director of the Bolshoi Ballet, would seem to have come only from the fetid mind of a writer for a fictitious ?CSI: Moscow.? Mr. Filin was severely injured when an assailant confronted him at the door of his Moscow apartment building late one evening and splashed sulfuric acid in his face.

Who did it? As David Remnick unravels the tale in The New Yorker, the suspect list grows and grows into a confusion worthy of Agatha Christie. Did an angry ballerina or danseur or, more likely, one of their wealthy oligarch patrons, order it? Or maybe a bitter rival eager to replace him?

Mr. Remnick takes his time to reveal the not altogether conclusive answer, first weaving his way through the history of the celebrated ballet company from its charter in 1776 under Catherine the Great. (Stalin loved the Bolshoi, but President Vladimir Putin is indifferent.)

Perhaps no result would satisfy a jaundiced Russian public. ?Russians, in the contemporary version of their fatalism, see their country as a landscape of endless bespredel, lawlessness, a world devoid of order or justice or restraint...,? he says. ?After witnessing so many phony trials ? most recently of [the feminist rock band] Pussy Riot ? the Russian public has developed a general distrust of the country?s legal system.?

Saving the Irish manor

?Downton Abbey? has nothing on the autobiographical tale of Selina Guinness and her sometime desperate efforts to hang on to her ancestral home in Ireland.

?Houses for the middle classes are just places to live in, but for the gentry they are evolving organisms, repositories of cherished memories, full of treasured knick-knacks and wrinkled old retainers, as much living subjects as physical sites,? writes Terry Eagleton in the Dublin Review of Books. ?Individuals come and go, but the grange or manor house lives on, more like a transnational corporation than a bungalow.?

He continues: ?Like a slightly dotty but much-loved relative, the house has its own quirky ways, its distinctive aura and personality. One almost expects to encounter it settled on one of its own sofas, granny glasses perched on its nose, knitting and crooning.... Such houses are more sacred texts than bricks and mortar.?

The home Ms. Guinness is trying to keep in the family is known as ?The Crocodile? for the stuffed animal that greets visitors at the front door. Like Lady Mary Crawley in ?Downton Abbey,? she confronts the problem of how to save her beloved estate without ruining its essence and character. All she can do is muddle on and hope for the best.

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Cosmic crash 2022: Space probes will smash into asteroid in nine years

Cosmic crash 2022: American and European scientists are planning to crash a spacecraft into a nearby asteroid in 2022 to analyze the interior of the cosmic rock.

By Miriam Kramer,?Space.com / March 25, 2013

This NASA simulation shows asteroid 2012 DA14 approaching Earth from the south on Feb. 15, 2013, when the 150-foot asteroid passed within 17,000 miles of the Earth. In 2022, scientists hope to crash a space probe into asteroid Didymos in order to understand its composition.

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Scientists in Europe and the United States are moving forward with plans to intentionally smash a spacecraft into a huge nearby asteroid in 2022 to see inside the space rock.

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The ambitious European-led Asteroid Impact and Deflection Assessment mission, or AIDA, is slated to launch in 2019 to send two spacecraft ? one built by scientists in the U.S, and the other by the European Space Agency ? on a three-year voyage to the asteroid Didymos and its companion. Didymos has no chance of impacting the Earth, which makes it a great target for this kind of mission, scientists involved in the mission said in a presentation Tuesday (March 19) here at the 44th annual Lunar and Planetary Science Conference.

Didymos is actually a binary asteroid system consisting of two separate space rocks bound together by gravity. The main asteroid is enormous, measuring 2,625 feet (800 meters) across. It is orbited by a smaller asteroid ?about 490 feet (150 m).

The Didymos asteroid setup is an intriguing target for the AIDA mission because it will give scientists their first close look at a binary space rock system while also yielding new insights into ways to deflect dangerous asteroids that could pose an impact threat to the Earth.?

"Binary systems are quite common," said Andy Rivkin, a scientist at Johns Hopkins' Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Md., working on the U.S. portion of AIDA project. "This will be our first rendezvous with a binary system."

In 2022, the Didymos asteroids will be about 6.8 million miles (11 million km) from the Earth, during a close approach, which is why AIDA scientists have timed their mission for that year.

Rivkin and his colleagues at Johns Hopkins' Applied Physics Laboratory are building DART (short for Double Asteroid Redirection Test), one of the two spacecraft making up the tag team AIDA mission. Like its acronym suggests, the DART probe crash directly into the smaller Didymos asteroid while travelling at 14,000 mph (22,530 km/h), creating a crater during an impact that will hopefully sending the space rock slightly off course, Rivkin said.

The European Space Agency is building the second AIDA spacecraft, which is called the Asteroid Impact Monitor (or AIM). AIM will observe the impact from a safe distance, and the probe's data will be used with other data collected by telescopes on Earth to understand exactly what the impact did to the asteroid.

"AIM is the usual shoebox satellite," ESA researcher Jens Biele, ?who works on the AIM spacecraft, said. "It's nothing very fancy."

AIDA scientists hope their mission will push the smaller Didymos asteroid off course by only a few millimeters. The small space rock orbits the larger, primary Didymos asteroid once every 12 hours.

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US Labor Department announces new online resources to help ...

WASHINGTON?- The U.S. Department of Labor today announced the launch of the Business Center, a suite of online resources for employers looking to recruit, train and retain a skilled work force through the department?s CareerOneStop Web site.

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The site includes tips about how to recruit qualified candidates through local American Job Centers and provides employment projections. Additionally, the site offers access to local training and educational institutions, a catalog of occupational certifications and a tool to help employers translate the military training and skills of returning service members into specific civilian occupations. The CareerOneStop Business Center is available online at?http://www.careeronestop.org/business.

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?These resources will help educate employers about our nation?s work force development system and put the resources they need to find and hire qualified workers right at their fingertips,? said Jane Oates, assistant secretary of labor for employment and training.

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The new Business Center page builds on existing resources available through CareerOneStop, which also has information to help job seekers find education and training providers, conduct a job search and access local labor market information.

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Employment and Training Administration staff will have a webinar on March 27 at 2 p.m. EDT to highlight the Business Center?s tools. A webinar is a seminar conducted over the Internet. For more information and to participate in the webinar, visit?https://www.workforce3one.org/view/5001307743087754858/info.

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