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Alabama Crimson Tide has no plans to slow down
The championship celebration was still in full effect Monday night when Alabama receiver Amari Cooper was asked to reflect on what had to have been a dream season for a freshman.
"This season was good, but I expected it to be even more," Cooper, a former standout at Miami Northwestern, said after hauling in six passes for 105 yards and two touchdowns in a 42-14 rout of then-top-ranked Notre Dame at Sun Life Stadium.
"There is so much more that I can do. I'm going to keep work. I'm only a freshman. I'm going to try to win three or four [championships]."
The Crimson Tide became only the third team in the modern poll era since 1936 to win three national championships in four years. But if you think Alabama's run is over or the Tide is satisfied, guess again.
A three-peat could be in store next year at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, Calif.
This year's title team, which coach Nick Saban said Tuesday "certainly exceeded our expectations," loses only four senior starters on offense and defense. And, it's likely only three underclassmen — cornerback Dee Milliner, right tackle D.J. Fluker and running back Eddie Lacy — will leave early for the NFL.
Next year's team could be even better. The nation's No. 2 scoring defense and No. 1 run defense will bring back four starters in its front seven led by linebacker C.J. Mosley, Monday night's Defensive MVP, and one of the best safeties in the country in sophomore Ha'Sean "HaHa" Clinton-Dix.
The offensive line loses Barrett Jones and Chance Warmack but is still loaded with talent. T.J. Yeldon is ready to shoulder the running load should Lacy leave, and quarterback AJ McCarron, who was the nation's most efficient passer this season, will have a complete arsenal at his disposal.
"We certainly have to build the team around him," Saban said Tuesday morning before his team boarded buses and then took a flight back to Tuscaloosa, where a hero's welcome was waiting. "I've talked a lot about it's difficult to play quarterback when you don't have good players around you. I think we should have, God willing and everybody staying healthy, a pretty good receiver corps. We'll have to do some rebuilding in the offensive line. Regardless of what Eddie decides to do, we'll probably still have some pretty decent runners. But I think AJ can be a really good player, maybe the best quarterback in the country next year."
Light schedule
Alabama's 2013 schedule doesn't feature many formidable challenges.
After facing a struggling Virginia Tech program in the Aug. 31 opener in Atlanta, Saban will have two weeks to prepare for a rematch with Heisman winner Johnny Manziel at Texas A&M, the only team to beat the Crimson Tide in 2012. Colorado State, Georgia State and Chattanooga are Alabama's other nonconference games. Saban, 15-4 with two or more weeks to prepare for an opponent since arriving at Alabama, will also have two weeks to prepare for a Nov. 9 matchup with LSU in Tuscaloosa.
Oddsmakers in Las Vegas already have projected Alabama as the favorite to win again. Bovada made Alabama a 5-1 favorite. Its other top 2013 contenders: Oregon (8-1) and Ohio State (17-2).
That's not taking into account what Saban hauls into Tuscaloosa next month on National Signing Day, either. The Tide, which has owned the nation's top recruiting class four of the past five seasons, currently owns the country's third best recruiting class, according to ESPN, with eight of the top 150 players regardless of position.
Asked if he would wear his four national championship rings Tuesday, Saban quipped: "I'll just put them on the coffee table for the recruits to look at."
Saban could need a bigger coffee table soon. He's only 61 and reiterated Tuesday the NFL simply isn't for him. On Wednesday, he said, he would begin preparing for the 2013 season.
'Very, very proud'
"I know there's a lot of questions about, 'How do you celebrate this?' " he said. "And I think, in thinking about it [Monday] night, I really hope that we all appreciate what we accomplished and understand what it took to accomplish it, rather than just revel and marvel in what we really did, because if you appreciate something and you understand what it took, I think that you may be more committed to what you need to do in the future to continue to be successful.
"Even though I really appreciate what this team accomplished, and I'm very, very proud of what they accomplished, we do need to start for the challenges of the new season very quickly with the team that we have coming back."


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Discovering Mount Gorongosa
In August 2011, Field Museum and African scientists joined forces in an expedition to Mount Gorongosa in Gorongosa National Park. Their goal was to study the diversity of birds and small mammals from this remote region and the parasites that live on these animals. The findings of this project will help to better understand this threatened ecosystem and formulate new questions regarding pathogens and their hosts.
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Graduates of RCSD High Schools Offered Tuition-Free Scholarships to Rochester
The University of Rochester has renewed the Rochester Promise, a tuition-free scholarship program available to Rochester City School District graduates. Rochester Promise is one of several tuition-assistance programs and partnerships the University offers to first-generation and low-income college students nationwide.
Since its launch at the University in 2007, more than 70 City graduates have taken advantage of the program, which guarantees any graduate of City high schools at least $100,000 in sponsored scholarships to attend the University's College of Arts, Sciences, and Engineering.
In renewing the program, the College is making a larger and deeper commitment to RSCD high school classes of 2014 and beyond, aiming to make it possible for most high-performing public school students in Rochester to attend the University tuition free. Under the Rochester Promise, students receive tuition assistance that- when added to government, University, or other grants for which they are eligible- equals full tuition for up to four years of enrollment. The four-year estimated value of each award will range from $145,000 to $192,000.
First-year and transfer students eligible for participation in the program must earn admission to the University (largely through strong performance in classes), reside in the City of Rochester, have graduated from and spent their last two years at a Rochester City School District public school or publically chartered high school within city geographical boundaries, and have lived in households with incomes less than twice the area average ($137,400, which is twice the $68,700 area average reported by the 2012 U.S. Census survey).
"The first goal of the Promise is to assure students in City schools today that their hard work in earning admission to college will also earn them the financial support they require to succeed here," said Jonathan Burdick, dean of admissions and financial aid at the University of Rochester. "The second goal is to ensure that dozens of young Rochester citizens recognize the University of Rochester as one of the nation's best universities, but also as their neighborhood college."
Students who qualify for the Promise program with eligibility for the NYS Higher Education Opportunity Program (HEOP), Wilson International Baccalaureate Scholarship, or University employee tuition benefits will receive the maximum combination of scholarships and benefits for which they are eligible. The new maximum income restriction will begin with students seeking to enter the University in fall 2015 or later. Rochester City students and all other students entering from homes earning above the income threshold may be eligible for other forms of University need-based and merit scholarship assistance.
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GREENWOOD, S.C. – With a quartet of golfers under par, No. 3 Georgia College & State University golf holds the second spot of 16 teams after day one of the Bearcat Golf Classic Monday, hosted by Lander University.
Played at the par-72, 6,800-yard Greenwood Country Club, the Bobcats fired a 280 and 275 for a cumulative 555, good for 21-under par.
Senior Francisco Bide (Buenos Aires, Argentina), fresh off leading the team at the Bobcat Invitational a week ago, carded an opening-round tournament-low 66, following that with a 70 for an eight-under 136. Bide is tied for second, four strokes off the lead.
Classmate Niclas Johansson (Skanor, Sweden) shaved three strokes off his first-round 71 and stands five-under in sixth. Junior Billy Shida (Berkeley Lake, Ga.) owned the team's best second round at 66, combined with a first-round 75 for three-under (141) in 12th.
Getting his first start of the spring, junior Matthew Yonz (Waycross, Ga.) is in the top-20 at 18th (71-71=142) in the clubhouse at two-under. Classmate Joe Young (Cochran, Ga.) is one-over par (145) carding a 72 and 73 in 29th place.
Host No. 11 Lander is the team leader at a mind-boggling 32 under par (278-266=544). The Bearcats' Davis Lee posted a nine-under 63 in round two, and owns the individual lead at 132, 12-under par. Bide and Lander's Bryan Newton are tied at four back.
The Bobcats finish the tournament with a single round, teeing off tomorrow at 9 a.m.
The GCSU Department of Athletics, winners of the 2008-09 PBC Commissioner's Cup, sponsors 10 varsity athletic programs at the NCAA Division II level. As a Division II program, Georgia College prides itself on balancing the life of the student-athlete, evidenced by the Bobcats' multiple appearances in post-season competition as well as documented academic success and community-service involvement. Sign up at Twitter.com username GCSUSID for up-to-the-minute reports, and visit www.GCSUBobcats.com to nominate your favorite former Bobcats and Colonials to the GCSU Athletics Hall of Fame.


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For some reason I've been wanting to sew Petyon a peasant dress. Not sure why, just really needed too! :) I found some fabric (corduroy from JoAnn's) that I thought she might like which had be laying around for awhile. I always like to use fabric that was originally bought for those projects that never happen! She has been on a purple and pink kick hard core again, so I thought this would be right up her alley.
I didn't have a peasant dress pattern in her size, but I did have this Simplicity pattern which I've used before and have liked. However I wanted a really basic dress that was all one piece in the body. So I decided to semi-draft a pattern. This is always really scary for me, I am about 50/50 on successes with this!
This time it work though! I decided to take my beloved Signature Dress Pattern and use that to help me extend the bodice from the simplicity pattern. I tried to mainly line up the arms and make sure the neckline was similar and went from there. The fabric in the pictures is for my first Washi dress which I am currently working on! YEAH!!
Success! I love when everything goes exactly as planned! The only small issue was I'd wanted it to be long sleeved since it is pretty cold here now, but only had a yard of this fabric. Also I wasn't sure about that butterfly print, but I really love it. From a distance you loose the butterflies a bit. Peyton does like it, but wishes it was all purple. I just can't win with her these days!


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"Hotels should be living things, not stuffy institutions", say the Kemp's owners of Firmdale hotels. A self-taught designer, Kit rebuilds and designs the properties from scratch. This evolved through practical as well as artistic necessity, as the properties include a former hospital, a multi-storey car park and a dental warehouse.
Kit's style can be described as having an 'English eccentric look'. Drawing upon the world around her for inspiration, Kit doesn't work to a particular formula when designing her slightly quirky interiors. Each of her boutique hotel interiors can be recognized as an individual work of art. Bold prints, eye catching colours and fabulous attention to detail - the small portrait on the wall or a painted pattern on a bedside cabinet.


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CPAC muddle mirrors GOP mess
It's not hard to make fun of CPAC. From the presence of Donald Trump to a meaningless straw poll to a cavalcade of fringe-dwelling book merchants, the event has become more carnival than conservative salon.
What is more notable about this year's rendition of the annual confab, which begins outside Washington on Thursday, is not the easy caricature but how thoroughly the Conservative Political Action Conference reflects the state of the Republican Party four months after yet another humbling presidential defeat. It is a muddle, but a muddle with meaning.
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Establishment Republicans are angry that popular GOP governors Chris Christie and Bob McDonnell are being snubbed, but conservatives, seeing Mitt Romney and Jeb Bush invited, are moaning that a traditional movement event has been annexed by the country club crowd.
Future Republican bright lights will be in attendance, but so will yesterday's news, most of it with headlines no one wants to read.
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A Republican gay group isn't welcome yet neither are hard-liners on immigration.
And another member of the Paul family is poised, to the frustration of organizers, to again win the presidential straw poll.
For decades, perhaps even for a century now, Republicans have grappled with their moderate-conservative divide. But as the CPAC jumble illustrates, the confusion surrounding the party is now more complex than the enduring center vs. right paradigm.
"We all need to be singing from same hymnal," cautions former Mississippi governor and Clinton-era Republican National Committee Chairman Haley Barbour. "When the other side has the megaphone of the White House, it makes it all the more important that your side sticks together on message and has more message discipline. We have to have moderate Republicans, conservative Republicans, neo-con Republicans, tea party people all saying, 'Here are the thing we agree on and that we should emphasize.'"
( Also on POLITICO: 2012 blame game: Will it ever end?)
But as CPAC gets under way, it's the differences that are coming into stark relief. The gathering has long been seen as an early indicator about the state of conservatives and that's no different today. But unfortunately for the right, it's the GOP's identity crisis that now's being reflected by CPAC.
And it's a dark night of the soul that's been building for years. Each of the three legs of Ronald Reagan's venerated Republican stool has gone wobbly in the wake of consecutive White House defeats, as the party grapples with both a core constituency that's increasingly at odds with public opinion and the legacy of its most recentpresident.
The pillars of the conservative era ushered in by Reagan — a muscular defense, traditional cultural values and devotion to free markets – are being questioned by leading Republicans, and what could take the place of the Gipper's trinity is now being openly debated in a fashion more reminiscent of the famously fractious Democrats of yore.
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Republican leaders are questioning the interventionist foreign policy that President George W. Bush and the party's last two nominees paid obeisance to; party elites are urging a more tolerant or even supportive stance on gay rights and would be just fine if abortion wasn't discussed at all; and while conservative thinkers muse about a harder line on Wall Street, many GOP governors are bowing to the greatest expansion of the welfare state since the Great Society and their contemporaries in Congress, having just raised taxes at the start of the year, still entertain the possibility of more revenue increases in exchange for a fiscal grand bargain.
"We have to, as a Republican Party, get bigger, not smaller, and we're a party that's becoming more regionalized and I think a smaller, less significant national party," said Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul, deadpanning: "We're a great red state party."
The way to compete in blue America, Paul said, is to embrace a more restrained foreign policy and take a federalist approach on values issues.
"If you want to get together a majority in California I think your only chance is to be more of a libertarian Republican," said Paul, who is considering a presidential bid in 2016 and believes the views of his father, former congressman and long-shot presidential hopeful Ron Paul, are being vindicated. "So it's funny that those who resisted the influence of libertarian Republicans from 2008 to 2012 – I think we're smart to revisit that. When I talk to the national party I think they're aware of that."
( PHOTOS: 10 memorable CPAC moments)
But while Paul seeks to remake the GOP in his image, other party leaders, such as Barbour, hope to downplay differences and believe consensus is the only way to be relevant in the Obama era. Open internal warfare, this view goes, merely offers aid and comfort to the opposition. In other words, Republicans can't even agree on whether they should litigate their disagreements.


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Red states' Medicaid power play
The Supreme Court ruling left the Democratic health care law intact — but it also left Republicans in a stronger bargaining position when it comes to Medicaid.
The ruling gives them the right to opt out of the Medicaid expansion envisioned under the law. But they know one thing: President Barack Obama wants them to stay in, and so many might just go along and take the money — after they've squeezed out as many other concessions as they can get from the feds.
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One of the most health care-savvy governors, Louisiana's Bobby Jindal, is already wondering whether this creates a backdoor way to achieve the Holy Grail for Republican governors — turning his federal Medicaid dollars into a block grant.
"I believe [the feds] can go to the states and negotiate" to convert their Medicaid dollars into unrestricted lump payments "for states that want to do this," Jindal said Friday in a call with reporters.
There's a long road to get from Thursday's ruling to serious negotiations, of course.
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Several governors immediately responded to the ruling by hinting they won't expand their Medicaid program — though most have been careful to leave themselves an out in case they decide it's to their advantage.
"I would resist any expansion of Medicaid that could result in significant tax increases or dramatic cuts to education, public safety and job creation," Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant said in a statement.
Even Texas Gov. Rick Perry isn't saying "never" to a Medicaid expansion. "The governor's office will be working with Attorney General Abbott and appropriate state agencies to determine the impact of yesterday's Supreme Court decision on the state of Texas, and the appropriate course of action moving forward," Perry spokesman Josh Havens said in an email. "Gov. Perry will stand up and do what is right for Texas, based on the priorities of fiscal responsibility and the best interests of Texas taxpayers."
Of course, there's a lot of political pressure on Republicans to take advantage of a court-sanctioned escape from a major health reform provision.
Republicans on Capitol Hill are sending signals to their governors that they should use it if they know what's good for them.
"The more states that would do that, I think the better," said Florida Rep. Tom Rooney. "Anything that a state can do to try to water [health reform] down, the better."
But if Republicans don't sweep Washington in the fall and manage to repeal the health care law, governors could have very different pressures weighing on them when budget time comes around.
That's why many experts believe that states could still come to the table. And digging in their heels now may actually strengthen their bargaining position when negotiations begin.
"You have two sets of calculus, the fiscal calculus and the political calculus," said Diane Rowland, executive director of the Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured. Bypassing expansion not only means leaving "money on the table," she said — it also means the states would have to pay the price tag for leaving millions uninsured.
The federal government will pick up all of the extra costs of insuring everyone who joins Medicaid under the expansion, at first, and then phase down to covering 90 percent of the costs. Under the health reform law, the program — now targeted at poor kids and the low-income disabled — will cover everyone under 133 percent of the federal poverty line starting in 2014.


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Whiteboard Friday - Path to ConversionBlog Post: May 28, 2009
Mmm, how timely, just spent the last week arguing that there must be away of doing this right in Indextools.
We've had the settings on 'intelligent' (should work similarly to an attribution model, me thinks) with a year cookie but it certeinly dosen't appear to be intelligent in any way. It priorities the campaigns (ppc, email, affiliate) over natural traffic (direct, search engines etc.). And, the year cookie is great for collecting data but really doesn't seem fair when it commes to conversions.
So, not being a hard core web analyst I'm at the moment struggeling with the choice of first click/1yr cookie but if the searcher came in via any campaign natural search gets nada. Or, last click always, like the affiliates programme (minus the 45day cookie).
Just don't know so will go and seek for answers in the pub...


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Car explosion shuts Bedford Street
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STAMFORD -- Connecticut Light and Power workers labored through the night to restore power to lower Bedford Street following a Tuesday evening manhole fire that destroyed a car parked above a burning subterranean vault.
Stamford Fire and Rescue firefighters responding to the car fire at 9:50 p.m. discovered a bigger problem. Ashley Ozment's Jeep Compass was parked in a metered spot in front of Ferguson Library above an underground electrical vault that exploded.
After firefighters doused the fire around the Jeep, they notified Connecticut Light & Power, which had to cut power to a portion of Bedford Street to allow emergency crews access to the vault.
Ozment was across the street at a restaurant when the explosion occurred; no injuries were reported from the explosion.
The street was blocked to traffic as firefighters waited for more CL&P crews and equipment to shut off the power. It was open to traffic on Wednesday morning, with a yellow CL&P truck backed up next to the manhole, blocking some parking spaces on the west side of the street.
Power had been restored to most businesses on lower Bedford Street, with lights on in the library and at McDonald's at Broad Street.


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Announcing ParaCon 2012
Boy, do we have some big news today.
We are proud to announce our plans for the first ever annual Paragon Conference, or ParaCon for short, to be held in the Helsinki Exhibition and Convention Centre, Finland, on October 17-18.
A comment from the main organizer, Pekka "Arx" Aaltonen:
Ever since Blizzard made public their plans not to hold a BlizzCon in 2012, we started planning a con of our own. A conference every year is an important beacon that gathers the community together, and now the responsibility falls on each of us not to dismiss that. As our competitive raiding budget has seen a steady increase over the last fiscal year, we decided to use our resources to remedy the situation. Furthermore, we actually have a number of very interesting articles to share with everyone, so what better opportunity to do so than at ParaCon 2012.
The exhibition centre is located roughly 16km from the Helsinki-Vantaa Airport, and is easy to reach by either public transportation or taxi. Accommodation suggestions and a list of noteworthy things to see in Helsinki will be released in the near future. The venue offers a full range of services from lavatory facilities to value dining restaurants. You can sign-up (requires forum account) for the event as an early access visitor, the first 200 being eligible for a free ticket, so act now!
Just so you'd know what to expect in the coming October, we wanted to give you a bit of a heads-up, so we decided to release previews of what you'll be able to see at ParaCon 2102 through the day, so be sure to follow us on Facebook, Twitter, and the Paragon website to receive all the latest updates.
To put context to our other features, we can't keep this one in the bag. Please welcome Mists of Pandaria: Brutal Edition!
Throughout the development process of the new expansion, we have been adding our own features, changes, and content on the side for a co-release called the Mists of Pandaria: Brutal Edition, to provide everyone with the best possible World of Warcraft experience. MoP:BE will incur no extra costs for original Mists of Pandaria owners, and will only be available on select servers and regions. More details will be released soon, along with featured previews of some of the multiple enhancements we have put in place for MoP:BE. The Brutal Edition will be released when it's done, but we aim to co-launch with the first content patch of the original expansion, in the last quarter of 2012.
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I'm sorry but Paranition was way better April's Fool!
This was really just something to expect rather than to be surprised.
Still, for effort.
At this Event u guys are having, do u speak English also? :P
I'd come from Sweden to Finland to see this!! Worth it!
I'm totally excited !!!
Myself and a friend have bought cheap flight tickets from London to Finland !!
Now to book a hotel !!
Hotel booked !
Whoop whoop.
Nah dude. I'm hyped up and ready for the show.
Going to be awesome !
Don't compute?
A good friend of mine(who is meant to be friends with a couple of Paragon members) said it was the real deal.
So yeah, ParaCon here I come !
Excited !
Am I missing something here?
Really? Or are you trolling me???
Announcing ParaCon 2012 ?
Awesome !
I thought you was trolling me.
Finland here I come !!!
Did you not get a ticket?
Are you trolling me because of this?
I'm sure they will have some on the door?
Happy late April fools dude !!!!!
Much love.
VDeadMonkeyV from Die Safe.
Also feel free to leave a comment or two.
Yeah dude, we are tight knit group but like every raid team we have our ups and downs.
So far we are 5/8 HC. Hopefully we will get Warmaster down this week.
Off topic: Pekka "Arx" Aaltonen, related to one my favourite hockey players or just a commen name in finland ;D


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The Cotton Bowl was an occasion for much revelry for fans of Texas A&M, who went into the contest confident about their odds against Oklahoma and got to see local hero Johnny Manziel for the first time since he picked up his Heisman in New York. That means, of course, that filming the pre-game set piece in the Cowboys Stadium parking lot required setting up a camera—and shooting live—in perilous territory. Jeff Jamison made it, oh, zero seconds into his segment on CBS DFW before getting accosted.
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As the girls say goodbye to Alison again, new information is dug up, in "Dead to Me," an all new episode of ABC Family's hit original series PRETTY LITTLE LIARS, airing Tuesday, February 5th (8:00 - 9:00 PM ET/PT). Check out clips from the episode below!
Now that Ali's remains are back with her family, the DiLaurentis' are set to bury her again, giving Aria, Emily, Hanna and Spencer another opportunity to say goodbye to their friend. With everything that has gone on since Ali's disappearance, the girls are divided about going to yet another memorial. Aria, Hanna and Emily are ready for another round of goodbye, if not for them but to also support Jason. Spencer, on the other hand, has had enough and wants nothing to do with the burial. Why keep saying farewell to a girl who wasn't that great of a friend after all?
Meanwhile, Emily goes to visit Dr. Sullivan to help with her unresolved feelings about killing Nate, but comes away with much more than expected.
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How Obama's peace plan went 'poof'
Over chicken wings back at the hotel after the official dinner the king of the Netherlands hosted at the start of their trip to Europe last month, President Barack Obama, Secretary of State John Kerry and national security adviser Susan Rice tried to figure out how to save the peace process.
They met again that Friday en route to Riyadh on Air Force One, looking for an answer. That weekend, Kerry rushed back to Jerusalem with a decision: Time to float Jonathan Pollard.
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To agree to a peace framework, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas wanted a fourth, and controversial, group of prisoners released. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu wanted enough concessions to get the release approved by his cabinet.
To keep the Palestinians at the table, Kerry needed to keep the Israelis at the table, so he and his team did something that no American official had, over the many times that Israelis had asked for Pollard's release — they discussed it, according to a source familiar with the talks. And, once that news had leaked, the United States acknowledged the discussion, with all the risk that entailed.
( Also on POLITICO: State Dept.: No decision on Pollard)
Instead, two days later, the process had gone "poof," as Kerry later put it to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
Obama and his aides felt they'd learned from the failure of previous presidents' peace process attempts — and their own in the first term — and were determined not to make the same mistakes.
The Pollard gambit capped off months of stumbling into others.
And it encapsulated how the latest American peace attempt that's consumed the last nine months went wrong: Kerry, confident he could get through to Netanyahu and warning that Abbas was getting older and with a waning grip on power, was determined to get some kind of agreement, however small. Obama, while staying in touch privately with Kerry, wasn't talking about the issue publicly — and then when he did, his timing and his reluctance to get more invested inadvertently caused even more trouble.
Smaller-scale talks have continued since Kerry, declaring "reality-check time," left the region. But the mood is clear: The Israeli government is running out of interest. The Palestinian government is tired of not having its bigger demands met. Americans are frustrated, to the point of giving up.
At best, the latest deterioration has meant the last year was a waste of time and effort. At worst, it's escalated and accelerated precisely the kind of breakdown that Obama and Kerry were trying to avoid, with all the parties feeling spurned at exactly the time when many experts on the region agree time's running out.
Now, the administration is left managing yet another collapse — including the question of exactly how to describe that collapse, to keep alive the possibility of coming back to the process in the future.
( Also on POLITICO: Carter chides Clinton on Mideast role)
Even among senior Obama aides, there's disagreement about how wary the president actually was all along about taking another shot at the peace process, how much distance he was really trying to keep, and how much of his actions were about humoring an ambitious Kerry's swing at the history books.
But six weeks ago, the Obama administration made a public show of the president's involvement: Oval Office meetings with Netanyahu and Abbas, summits with the kings of Jordan and Saudi Arabia, an interview raising expectations for Israelis. Though administration officials now try to distance themselves from a late February New York Times story detailing the president's moves to step up his personal role, at the time, one said that "now is a very timely opportunity for him to get involved."
Obama appeared to be wrapping his arms around the process at the final stage. But according to interviews with American, Israeli and Palestinian officials, he was in reality desperately trying to give it a shove — or, depending on whom you ask, already administering CPR.
In January, Kerry and special Middle East peace envoy Martin Indyk latched onto the idea of a framework as an intermediate step to keep conversations going. Not an agreement, and not binding, the document was supposed to be the simplest possible statement of shared intentions. What U.S. officials didn't anticipate was how few of those big questions the Israelis and Palestinians would be willing to leave out.
"Secretary Kerry and Ambassador Indyk thought it would be an effective tool, worth trying, but it was not going to be deciding the final status issues," said a senior State Department official. "What they discovered is that the framework would actually require extensive decision-making about final status issues."
( WATCH: John Kerry, John McCain spar over Ukraine)
Then, in late February, after all that careful calculation about when and how to deploy Obama, the plan they went with inadvertently increased tensions — and by keeping private the details of what people familiar with them say were actually somewhat successful negotiations, left the parties without political cover either at home or internationally.
Kerry and Netanyahu talked constantly, mostly by video conference — up to several times a week, with some calls lasting as long as three hours. Abbas doesn't have the technological infrastructure in his West Bank office to handle the video calls, but Kerry tried to spend an equal amount of time with him, by phone and in person.
But Netanyahu was coming to Washington in March to speak at the American Israel Political Action Committee conference, which meant a White House visit. And given the looming prisoner release scheduled for March 29, and the late April negotiations deadline, administration officials felt they needed to bring Abbas in to the Oval Office, too, to keep the balance.
"There was very much an agreement in early March that we knew the end of the month would be a pivotal time, and it was a point where it was appropriate and effective for the president to be engaged in a public way," said a source close to the talks.
By stepping into a more public role, Obama was trying to make clear that Kerry wasn't freelancing and had his full support — trying to make it harder for them to say no, since that would now mean turning down Obama himself.
"It was a signal and a message to the parties that the president personally was interested to see this process move forward," said Maen Areikat, Palestinian ambassador to the United States.
But the president stopped far short of a summit, a weekend at Camp David, or any other high-profile engagement that would have set him up for bigger embarrassment if things went wrong.


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Abby is the daughter of Tim and Nancy Danielson of Wallingford and is a 2005 graduate of Estherville Lincoln Central High School and a 2009 graduate of University of Northern Iowa with a social work degree. She is employed by the Sioux Falls School District Kid's Inc. program as operations assistant.
Ryan is the son of Tony and Rhonda Wheeler of Newbury, Vt. and is a 2007 graduate of Oxbow High School and attended the Southern Maine Community College. He is currently employed by Gage Bros. Concrete in Sioux Falls.
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Oh, crap, Eric's gone and written another long post…
Since we publicly launched Gnip last week, we've been asked numerous times if we can integrate with Twitter or somehow help Twitter with the scaling issues they are facing. We can, but we depend on Twitter giving us access to their XMPP feed.
We are huge fans of Twitter so we're patiently waiting for that access. In the mean time, the questions we've received have prompted us to explain two things: (1) How we would benefit Twitter and anyone who wants access to Twitter data and (2) Why – if you are a web service – it's worth integrating now with Gnip rather than waiting either for (a) Gnip to integrate with Twitter or (b) you to get as popular as Twitter and have scale issues.
Let's address the first issue: How we would benefit Twitter and anyone that wants to integrate with Twitter data.
Twitter has found that XMPP doesn't scale for them and as a result, people are forced to poll their API *a lot* to get updates for their users. MyBlogLog has over 25,000 Twitter users that they throw against the Twitter API every 15 minutes. This results in nearly 2.5 million queries against the API every day, for maybe 250K updates. Now add millions of pings from Plaxo and SocialThing and Lijit and heaven forbid Yahoo starts beating up their API…
If Twitter starts pushing updates to us, via our dead simple API or Atom or their XMPP server, we can immediately reduce by an order of magnitude the number of requests that some very large sites are making against their API. At the same time, we reduce the latency between when someone Tweets and when it shows up on consuming sites like Plaxo. From 15 minutes or more to 60 seconds or less.
We expect that Twitter has their collective heads down and are working around the clock to buttress their infrastructure, and it's unlikely that they're going to do anything optional until that's sorted out. Unfortunately, "integrate with Gnip" probably falls into the optional category. We expect, however, that at some point Twitter will start opening up their data to more partners once they feel like they have their arms around their infrastructure.
If you run a web service and integrate with Gnip today, you'll automatically be able to integrate with Twitter data once they give us access. Presumably you won't have to wait in line to get direct Twitter integration. In addition, you'll have immediate access to all of the other data providers that we integrate with. Such as Delicious, Flickr, Magnolia, Get Satisfaction, Intense Debate and Six Apart. For example, only took Brightkite 15 minutes to integrate our API and start pushing data to our partners via us.
Now for the second topic. Why – if you are a web service – it's worth integrating with Gnip now rather than waiting either for (a) Gnip to integrate with Twitter or (b) you to get as popular as Twitter and have scale issues.
All things considered, it's best not to end up in Twitter's position. They have a ton of passionate users (I'm one of them) who want reliable service and don't have infinite patience. The old startup cliche of "these are problems we'd like to have" is carp.
You don't want to be in the position where your business suddenly takes off and your infrastructure falls over because people are banging your APIs to death. You don't want your most passionate users calling for mass exodus. It's better to take a few minutes to start pushing notifications to Gnip now than when you're doing 20-hour days rebooting servers.
You also don't want to be in the position that your company takes off and you suddenly get throttled by an API provider. Nothing is worse than have to pull data sources because you've over-polled and the host decides to turn off the spigot. Start pulling notifications from Gnip and feel secure that you're only asking for data when there's something new.
I still use Twitter every day. Don't try to kid me; I know you still do too. Let them get on with their work and rest assured that we'll integrate with them the instant we get the okay from them.
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It's a shame that holographyforum.org is now dead... I heard from a few people stating that they wanted a place to get in touch with members they don't have contact information for, so here we go.
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Motorcycles and motorcycle accessories of all types are being collected today. In 1885, Gottlieb Daimler invented the first gas-powered motorcycle when he attached the engine to a wooden bike. The famous Harley-Davidson Motor Company started in 1903. Examples can be found that date back to the early twentieth century. Toy motorcycles are listed in the Toy category.
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Finding the Right Mississauga Condo When You're Following a Budget
When you're following a strict budget you need to find the right Mississauga condo that fits right into your allowance for expenses. If you have a small window of difference between the minimum and maximum you'll be able to pay for a condo, you'll have to work closely with a Mississauga real estate agent in order to find the best one that matches your needs and your budget requirements.
The first thing on the list to do is to talk to your agent and tell him the highest purchase price and the lowest you're willing to go. Let your agent know that this is nonnegotiable and if he finds anything that you really can't afford that you won't be interested in viewing it. This is your way of telling the agent that no matter what, you are determined to stick to your budget.
It can get very tempting when you see condos that are even slightly above your price range. Some of the Mississauga condos in the area are absolutely stunning and will fit all of your requirements for a condo and then some. In order to resist the temptation it's best not to get close to them at all. There will be plenty of condos here in Mississauga that will meet your pricing needs.
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When you're making up your budget to purchase a new condo don't forget about all the various costs that are associated with the closing such as hiring a lawyer, insurance costs and other miscellaneous fees. If you have any questions about the extra costs involved in making your purchase you should contact a real estate agent and have them listed out for you. You can then look at a real estate calculator to find out what you can expect in terms of closing costs.
You'll also want to factor in the condo fees when you're doing your calculations on the mortgage calculator. Again, you can talk to your agent to get a good idea of what the average condo fees would be for the type of condominium you're looking for in a certain area.
When you're operating on a tight budget the best thing you can do is communicate this to your agent and let him know how absolutely vital it is to stay on track with the final purchase price. Your agent will respect this and will only show you Toronto condos that you can truly afford until you find the perfect one that matches your lifestyle and your budget.


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It may be too early (or too painful) to think about autumn's soon-to-come big chill, the diminishing daylight, and blowing snow. But instead of fretting, think about how wonderful your garden will be early next year with the addition of spring bulbs that provide clumps of delicate flowers—and not just in May, but in February. Yes, now is the time to start planning and planting for an uplifting display of blooms—the early risers—that can grace your home landscape from late winter through spring.
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September is a good time to begin a compost heap. Begin to layer grass clippings, dried fallen leaves, soil, a handful of fertilizer, and a little moisture. Shredded garden debris can be added as annuals and perennials die back next month.
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Wait until trees and shrubs drop their leaves or undergo color change before planting them or digging and moving them to new sites. At that time they are entering dormancy and will not suffer as much transplant shock when moved.
Broadleaved and needled evergreens, both dwarf and standard, are best planted or moved by October 1. Water deeply and thoroughly at planting time and each week up until the ground freezes.
Continue to water large trees and shrubs, especially evergreens, until the ground freezes hard. Evergreens continue to lose moisture through their needles throughout winter and must have adequate water in their root zones to avoid winter burn or dessicated needles.
Wait until next month to fertilize any tree or shrub that looks like it might benefit from extra nutrition — for example, has stunted growth, has failed to fully flower or leaf out, or has undersized fruit or off-color foliage.
Winter protection of roses is not necessary until late November, when the ground has frozen.
Continue to deadhead both annuals and perennials to encourage additional flowers.
Return of cool weather is a good time to refresh annual containers with cool-season favorites such as pansies, ornamental cabbage and kale, chrysanthemums, or fall-blooming asters. Asters and mums purchased in bloom this month are usually greenhouse-grown and not necessarily hardy. To increase their chances of making it through the winter, plant them directly in garden beds, rather than containers, early this month so they can establish their roots for a good four to six weeks before frost. Water well and mulch plants right away.
Do not cut back perennials until their leaves and stems have lost all green color.
Daylilies and peonies can be divided or planted early this month. Water well to encourage healthy root development. Peonies should be planted so that the buds or eyes are no deeper than 2 inches below soil level. If planted too deeply, they will fail to flower.
Make final selections of spring-blooming bulbs but don't plant any until later in October and November.
Early this month, entire lawns or bare patches may be seeded with appropriate grass seed mix.
Grubs chew grass roots, and they may be present if your turf begins to brown and lifts easily off the ground. Minor damage is usually not cause for treatment. Pull back turf and check for white, C-shaped larvae with black heads. If more than 10 to 12 grubs are present in a square foot of soil, treatment is advised. Chemical controls vary in their timing. Homeowners can spot-treat small areas immediately with a recommended control or, wait until the third week of next June to apply imidacloprid. As temperatures become cooler in fall, the grubs will move further down in the soil, making them out of reach of chemicals.
Consider core-aeration of lawn, if not done this year. Professional lawn services can provide the equipment (and the service itself) to remove plugs of soil and grass at regular intervals over entire lawn. Plugs are left on lawns to decompose. Core-aeration is recommended to help rectify compacted soil, heavy thatch accumulation, and poor drainage. Avoid this procedure when soil is quite wet.
Midmonth is a good time to apply fertilizer to lawns. Choose an organic product or a synthetic fertilizer with a 3-1-2 or 4-1-2 ratio. Moderate temperatures this month along with cool nights and adequate rainfall will spur grass growth, making September a good time to feed turf.
The next six weeks will provide an abundance of produce. Continue to harvest vegetables as they ripen. Warm-season crops like peppers and tomatoes must be picked as soon as possible. If an early frost threatens, cover these plants with baskets or light blankets. Refrigerating tomatoes causes them to lose their flavor. Store in a cool, 60- to 70-degree room for a few days.
Begin to harvest late-season squash and early pumpkins. Full-sized pumpkins need to remain on the vine as long as possible to achieve their maximum size.
Allow collards, kale, and Brussels sprouts to be hit with frost before harvesting. This improves their flavor.
Begin to harvest a second crop of any cool-season lettuces, spinach, peas, radishes, or chard that were planted in August.
Continue to snip herbs to use fresh, to dry, or to freeze. If herbs have gone to flower or seed, discontinue harvesting, since the flavor has then left the foliage.
Everbearing raspberry bushes will produce their fall crop on the top half of the canes. After harvest, prune out the top half of the plants. The lower half of the canes will produce fruit early next summer. After harvesting the summer crop, prune the canes to the ground.
Maintain good sanitation throughout the vegetable garden. Remove diseased plants immediately as well as those that have finished their growth cycle for the year. Compost only healthy plant material.
Cuttings from favorite or unusual varieties of annuals such as geraniums, coleus, begonias, and impatiens can be taken this month, potted up, and brought inside to a south-facing window. Some tender unusual container plants can be brought inside as whole plants — hebe, black mondo grass, mandevilla vine, and certain small geranium plants are a few. Many gardeners prefer to repot the plants and change the soil to a fresh, lightweight, soilless mix at this time.
Houseplants that have spent summers outside should be monitored in the event of a premature frost. Check plants carefully for any sign of insect or disease before bringing them indoors. Gradually reintroduce these plants to indoor conditions. Consider repotting and changing soil at this time. Do not change size of pot until spring.
Amaryllis bulbs that have summered outdoors must begin their dormant period. Remove bulb from container and shake off all dirt. Cut back all foliage, whether it is yellow or green, and set bulb on its side in a cool, dark room for several months until new growth appears.
To create a winter herb garden, dig up selected herbs such as thyme, basil, rosemary, or oregano. Repot in smaller pots, change soil to soilless mix, and cut plants back. Gradually introduce plants to indoor conditions before bringing inside to a sunny windowsill. Herbs will put out new growth, but it won't be as vigorous or as tasty as the summer crop.


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