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University of Alabama head coach Nick Saban celebrates Monday following his football team's victory over Notre Dame in the BCS Championship Game.
Judy Rankin, of Frederick, Maryland, watches from her kayak as two porpoise come to the surface Thursday morning at Round Island Park in Vero Beach. Rankin and her husband, Bill Rankin, had been going out kayaking for two to three hours per day every day this past week. "We were following about seven dolphins earlier this week," Bill said on Thursday.
Beams extend over the Okeechobee Waterway as the construction of the Veterans Memorial Bridge makes it way west on Thursday.
Nancy Hagen, of Palm City, hangs a mirror Wednesday while setting up her booth for the 21st annual Antiques Show and Sale at the Vero Beach Museum of Art. "It's one of my favorite shows to do," said Hagen, who has participated in the show for at least ten years. "It's a great venue to exhibit in." The show runs from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Friday and Saturday and 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Sunday. Admission to the show is $10 for everyone. For more information, call 231-0707 or visit verobeachmuseum.org.
St. Lucie County School School Superintendent Michael Lannon (right) surprises Eric Henik, a site foreman at Palm Pointe Educational Research School, after being selected as a finalist for the St. Lucie County Public Schools 2012 School related Employee of the Year on Wednesday.
Former state Rep. William Snyder hugs District 74 state Rep. Doug Holder before he takes the oath of office as sheriff of Martin County at the Martin County Sheriff's Office in Stuart on Tuesday.
Florence Kukiriza, 14, a member of the Ugandan Thunder, embraces Marian Butler, 99, during the performance of the 22-member group who are traveling around the country for about one year to raise funds for their orphanage and school that they all come from in Uganda.
ESPN commentators do their show from Sun Life Stadium before the start of the BCS Championship between Alabama and Notre Dame at Sunlife Stadium on Monday, January 7, 2013.
Former Florida governor Jeb Bush stands next to the podium as he answers questions following his speaking appearance at the Emerson Center on Saturday afternoon.
In the room on the left, Dr. George Lundstedt, DDS, and Surgical Scrub Technician Beth Compitello extract a tooth from patient Keith Gilmore, of Jensen Beach, while in the room on the right, Dr. Dave Girlinghouse, DDS, Marina McCusker (right) and Melanie Brooks (left) prepare patient Fred Peterson for dental work Friday morning at the Light of the World Charities free dental clinic in Palm City. The organization was flooded out of its previous location in Palm City, holding its final clinic there on August 24, 2012. It moved into the new location at 1508 SW Mapp Road in Palm City, on Nov. 1, 2012 and opened its doors to clients for the first time on Friday. The dental clinic is typically open two Fridays each month, but because of the increased need resulting from their temporary closure, the organization is hoping to open the clinic for three Fridays of each month.
Robert "Smokey" Barber (right), 62, of Fort Pierce, performs his street-side preaching of the Gospel with the help of his son-in-law Phil Wall along the median at the intersection of Jennings Road and U.S. 1 in Port St. Lucie. Barber can be found at the intersection with his wooden cross and sound system sharing the biblical Gospel every afternoon except Sundays, preaching to anyone that will listen. "I'm called to do it, it's a way of winning souls, edifying the body of Christ," Barber said. "It's been a pleasure, been doing it for a lot of years, since 1988. That's almost 25 years, praise God."
Manuell Perez, of Lucas Marine Construction of Stuart, guides crane operator Steve Watkins (not pictured) as the scoop hammers down limestone rock to create Tombolo Point along the southern shoreline of Marina Square. The man-made peninsula is part of the Waterfront Protection Project, a series of islands to protect the Fort Pierce City Marina.
A manatee swims underneath a wooden bridge near the canoe launch at Round Island Park Thursday morning in Vero Beach.
Patricia Sorrell (right) a hearing-impaired interpreter at Oak Hammock k-8, is congratulated by Kimberly Jay, the school's Assistant Principal, while reacting to being selected as a finalist for the St. Lucie County Public Schools 2012 School related Employee of the Year on Wednesday. Sorrell has worked at Oak Hammock K-8 in Port St. Lucie as a hearing impaired interpreter for the past five years.
John Snyder (center), son of William Snyder (left), prays intently over the sheriff badge that his father will be wearing as the Rev. Rodney Loper of Hobe Sound Bible Church gives the blessing of the badges during William Snyder's swearing-in ceremony at the Martin County Sheriff's Office in Stuart on Tuesday.
Ann Loranger (left), a seasonal resident from Toronto, Canada living in Jensen Beach, and Frank Orlando, of Stuart, introduce themselves to each other prior to practicing some dance steps Wednesday afternoon at the Hoke Library in Jensen Beach. The two were part of a group of about 50 people who were participating in a free beginners lesson in which they were being taught the Night Club Two-Step by Slavojka Markovic Roseman and her husband, Chuck Roseman, owners of Save The First Dance dance studio and ballroom in Jensen Beach. The Rosemans also had help from dance students Jen Rose and Cathy Migliore who went around the room helping others with the moves. Participants came to learn a dance move, but some also attended for the social aspect of the class and to get some exercise as well. Loranger had participated in a class at the library last year, but it was Orlando's first time attending a class at the library. The dance studio also provides private dance lessons. Visit www.savethefirstdance.com for more information.
Niki Fowler (left), 8, and her sister, Mika Fowler, 10, chase a balloon around the community room of the Children's Services Council of Martin County building during the opening of the quarterly art exhibit Monday night in Stuart. The exhibit featured artwork from students at Jensen Beach Elementary School and South Fork High School. Each quarter a new pair of schools are represented in the exhibit. The current exhibit will hang in the building until March and is open to the public from 8:30 a.m. until 5:00 p.m. Mika, a fourth-grade student in Karen Haines' art class at Jensen Beach Elementary School, had a pencil drawing of herself, Niki and their brother, Jindo Fowler, 6, in the show. Mika has also taken art lessons with local artist Kelly Arnold and has had work exhibited since she was in kindergarten. More of Mika's work can be seen at www.mikaspieces.com.
Violet Lunkuse, 11, dances with the group during the Sunday performance at the Vero Beach church.
Martin County Fire Rescue Lt. Jim Diapoules helps Carina Curtner, 6, turn a fire hose on and off during a tour of Martin County Fire Rescue Station 16 with her and the other Daisy Troop 30490 members Wednesday in Jensen Beach. "They see where we live, we take them out to the trucks and we go through the equipment," said Diapoules. "And we end it with the hose." To get a tour for your group, young or old, call Martin County Fire Rescue Administration at (772) 288-5710.
Members of the Our Savior Quilting Group (from left) Betty Anderson, Doris Zelie and Debi Decon add detail strings with the help of a plastic pattern to one of their hand-made quilts at the Our Savior Lutheran Church at 1850 6th Avenue in Vero Beach on Tuesday. "We make quilts to be given away to local charities," said quilt member Doris Zelie. "Source, Homeless Family Center, Hibiscus Center, Safe Space, and this year we're making 15 special ones for Lutheran World Relief. They have a goal of 500,000 quilts, but we're going to contribute 15." The group meets from 12:30 p.m. to 2 p.m. during the first and third Tuesday of the month during the winter and every Tuesday during the summer. Each year the ministry provides hundreds of blankets and quilts to more then twenty local and international agencies through Church Woman and United Lutheran World Relief. "We enjoy making something out of scraps and giving it to someone to keep them warm on cold winter nights," Zelie said. "We enjoy getting together too, it's like an old quilting bee."
Visitors to the 39th Annual Stuart Boat Show check out some of the boats on display Friday afternoon. The show opened at 10 a.m Friday morning. Hours for the weekend are Saturday 10 a.m to 6 p.m. and Sunday 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. For more information visit www.allsportsproductions.net.
Bill Brousseau, of Jensen Beach, checks out the fishing reels on display at the Chaos Rods area inside the new Fisherman's Village Friday afternoon at the Stuart Boat Show. The Fisherman's Village is a new aspect of the boat show this year that focuses specifically on fishing.
Sgt. Steve Trapp, with the Indian River County Sheriff's Office, was one of the many officers creating a perimeter around the Grace Grove neighborhood where two men fled following a brief chase following an attempted traffic stop Thursday morning in Vero Beach.
Jody Thornton of Sebastian works on the construction site of the Veterans Memorial Bridge on the Stuart side Thursday.
Bill Daugherty, a boating and fishing enthusiast from Stuart, checks out the fishing reels on display at the Chaos Rods area inside the new Fisherman's Village Friday afternoon at the Stuart Boat Show. The Fisherman's Village is a new aspect of the boat show this year that focuses specifically on fishing. It will feature a kids fishing seminar on Saturday beginning at 12 noon and 2 p.m.
Flanked by members of the United States Fish & Wildlife service, U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar (center) makes his way up the engraved Centennial Boardwalk to the observation deck of the Pelican Island Wildlife Refuge Boardwalk in Sebastian during a plank dedication ceremony for the 8 new National wildlife and conservation areas created during 2012. The ceremony was held at Pelican Island National Wildlife Refuge, designated as the first National Wildlife Refuge by President Theodore Roosevelt on March 14, 1903. "It's an awesome experience because it really is the hall of fame for conservation and that's what all of these planks represent." Salazar said about the Pelican Island refuge.
Indian River State College students Elsie Mokobam (left) and Bridgett Veltri hug Thursday at the Mueller Campus in Vero Beach as Mokobam introduces Veltri to the Christian Student Fellowship Club during Welcome Back and Club Rush activities. In addition to learning about college clubs, students received free snacks, bookstore information, and free supplies like scantrons, pencils and notepads. "Our whole focus is to get students involved and then ultimately to stay involved and graduate," said Sharon Lowe, Director of Student Development at IRSC. Welcome Back and Club Rush activities will next be held 9 a.m. Tuesday at the St. Lucie West Campus, followed by the Chastain Campus in Stuart on Thursday and the Dixon Hendry Campus on Jan. 31. For more information, visit irsc.edu. Elsie Mokobam CQ; Bridgett Veltri CQ; Sharon Lowe cq;
Umpire School attendee Jordan Johnson keeps his head down while stretching with the other students Thursday afternoon at the Vero Beach Sports Village in Vero Beach. The Umpire School, which is responsible for training and developing minor league umpires, has approximately twice as many students as it did during last year.
Jon Galloway (center), a welder with GEM Industries in Cocoa Beach, works on the stairwell in the front lobby of the new William and Helen Thomas STEM Center at the Indian River State College St. Lucie West campus on Monday. "It's a monumental stairwell that replicates a DNA helix," said Michelle Abaldo, IRSC's director of institutional advancement. According to Casey Lunceford, Dean of Arts and Sciences, the whole three-story, 56,000 square-foot building is an education from the 26 steps in the stairwell which represent the different nucleotides in a DNA molecule to the native grass growing outside the building.
Indian River County Sheriff Deryl Loar (right) takes his oath of office from The Honorable Judge David Morgan, Indian River County, 19th Judicial Circuit Court of Florida while standing with his wife Jennifer Loar inside the County Commission chambers during the opening of the Board of County Commissioners meeting Tuesday. "It's fantastic because today actually marks the 24th year that I entered law enforcement, so it's a great day all around," Loar said. Others taking part in Tuesdays swearing in ceremony included Indian River County Tax Collector Carole Jean Jordan, Property Appraiser David Nolte, Clerk of Circuit Court Jeff Smith and Supervisor of Elections Leslie Swan.
St. Lucie County Sheriff Ken Mascara (left) is sworn in by St. Lucie County Judge Philip Yacucci Jr. during a ceremony at the Sheriff's Office Tuesday morning in Fort Pierce. Mascara begins his fourth term as St. Lucie County Sheriff following the swearing in and attributed his run as Sheriff to the strength of the personnel in the office. The ceremony was followed by a luncheon outside the office. For more photos from the event, visit tcpalm.com/sheriffmascara.
Former state Rep. William Snyder greets friends and famiy members before the start of his swearing-in ceremony as the new and eighth sheriff of Martin County.
Umpire School instructor Brandon Henson (right), of Gowrie, Iowa, works on the posture of Umpire School student Axel Maldonado, of Puerto Rico, during field training Thursday afternoon at the Vero Beach Sports Village. Students at the school spend six days a week for four weeks training to become professional umpires. The mornings are spent in the classroom and the afternoons are spent on the field and in batting cages learning how to work home plate.
Alabama's Christion Jones hangs onto the ball with pressure from Notre Dame's Elijah Shumante in the first half of the BCS Championship game in Miami.
Workers ready the field at Sun Life Stadium before the start of the BCS Championship between Alabama and Notre Dame at Sunlife Stadium on Monday, January 7, 2013.
Stuart Police Chief David Dyess (center) stopped by to check in on Sgt. Derek Ortado (left) and K-9 Officer David Duran, two off-duty Stuart Police Officers who were creating a barrier around the lot between Oleander Street and Poinsettia Street along Dixie Highway Tuesday evening in Stuart. The lot will be used as a parking area for attendees of the 39th Annual Stuart Boat Show and will operated by the Police Explorers Post 878. It is the Explorers's main fundraiser for the year. Parking spaces are $10 and the proceeds go toward registration fees, uniforms, competition fees and other expenses associated with participation in the Police Explorers. Dixie Highway will be closed to traffic early Wednesday morning through Monday night at 6 p.m. according to Mike Allen, operations manager with All Sports Productions. Transportation from parking areas to the Stuart Boat Show will also be available. For more information on the 39th Annual Stuart Boat Show, visit www.allsportsproductions.net.
Stephanie Ludwig (right) a Exceptional Student Education paraprofessional at Floresta Elementary in Port St. Lucie, gets a hug from her Principal Debbie Iseman after Ludwig was selected as a finalist for the St. Lucie County Public Schools 2012 School-Related Employee of the Year on Wednesday.
Newly sworn-in Martin County Sheriff William Snyder (center) gets congratulated by Bruce Frumoff of Lake Worth, who is a retired colonel from Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office. "It's a community among law enforcement and it's important to support each other," said Frumoff. To Snyder's right is Kimberly Brown, executive assistant to Snyder.
Barbi Ernst (left), of Vero Beach, smiles as she has her photo taken with Jeb Bush following his speaking performance at the Emerson Center on Saturday afternoon. "He's was so interesting," said Ernst. "He was so great for us during the hurricanes."
Steve Hammer (left), Indian River State College professor of cell biology, walks by Holly Apuli (center), a lab assistant and a third-year student in biology, as she works on the newly-installed inverted flourescent microscopes on the first day of classes in the new STEM Center at IRSC's St. Lucie West campus in Port St. Lucie on Monday. STEM stands for science, technology, engineering and math. "The quality of the image of the microscope is better and more versatile," said Hammer.
Indian River County Sheriff's Office K9 officer Jmmy Dixon, with Kaden, and Florida Highway Patrol K9 Trooper Cory Lee search for two men who fled from a traffic stop and ran into the Grace Grove neighborhood Thursday morning in Vero Beach.
Jensen Beach point guard Willie Battistini drives past South Fork's Trey Lewis during Friday's basketball game.
Notre Dame quarterback Everett Golson makes a run for it during the first half of the BCS Championship game Monday night in Miami.
Oak Hammock K-8 School eighth-grader Jeremiah Rodriguez (left) stays with Kevin Singletary Friday during a scrimmage between the school's basketball team and members of the community in the Oak Hammock gym in Port St. Lucie. The game, a fundraiser for the boys and girls basketball teams at the school, was organized following a visit by Singletary, who encouraged the students to not just be good athletes, but also good role models in the community. Originally pitched as a three-point challenge, the game grew into an "old school versus new school" game, according to Singletary.
Jensen Beach shooting guard Tim Spugnardi prepares to make a free throw Friday during the basketball game at South Fork High School.
June Carbo, a detailer for Allied Marine, cleans a Ferretti 530 Thursday that will be for sale at the 39th Annual Stuart Boat Show that starts Friday and runs until Sunday. Hours are from 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. on Friday and Saturday and from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. on Sunday. The event will be held along the St. Lucie River and Old Dixie Highway at the foot of the Roosevelt Bridge.


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Man pleads not guilty to beating little boy to death
ROSEBURG, Ore. - A man accused of beating a 2-year-old child to death pleaded not guilty Monday.
Mark Vanderhoof, 50, was charged with murder back in January for the death of Dennis Young.
Even though he entered a plea, his trial date has not been set. The court will hold a status hearing in August.
Vanderhoof was watching the 2-year-old when he claimed the boy fell off a deck.
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The United States Bureau of Land Management conducted a scoping meeting Jan. 31 at the Holiday Inn. The Price session allowed the members of the public to speak freely about what they want to see happen with the public lands in Carbon and Emery County.
The local gathering was the sixth meeting slated throughout the state in the past month regarding the Carbon and Emery County areas.
Only three of the sessions were conducted within the two counties in question. The other three scoping meeting were scheduled outside of the neighboring counties in order to hear opinions from visitors to the areas, according to the BLM.
The intent of the meetings is to receive information from the public about how people want to see the public lands managed. The sessions are necessary in order for the federal agency to create a new resource management plan.
The main goal of the BLM is to create the plan with the interests of the public in mind and to provide a plan that fits the public's needs, pointed out federal officials. The plan is expected to be completed by October or December 2003. Public opinion will be reviewed and a plan to accommodate the interests will be completed.
According to the federal agency, 70 percent to 80 percent of the land in Carbon and Emery counties is owned by the BLM or the U.S. Forest Service. With so much land operated by the two services, the public feels that it is important to have a role in the decisions made regarding the use of the land.
At the meeting in Price, the crowd was divided into four small groups and then allowed voice individual concerns regarding the public lands.
A facilitator recorded the comments and, during a briefing at the end of the meeting, explained the concerns raised by the groups to the entire crowd.
The concerns will be taken into consideration when the management plan is drawn up, indicated the BLM.
Concerns expressed by Carbon-Emery citizens included protecting wildlife, providing access for off road vehicles, allowing ranching practices to continue on public lands and reducing the damage that gas companies are doing to the public lands due to production.
The public appears to be concerned with maintaining the environment and keeping the areas as pristine as possible in order to keep the wildlife safe in its natural environment.
At the same time, several citizens in attendance at the meeting expressed concerns about keeping the hunting rights similar to the guidelines currently in place.
The main concern is that access to public lands for the purpose of hunting may change with the management plan that is in the works. The public wants to ensure that new regulations will not restrict the rights that are already in place.
The use of off-road vehicles on public lands was also a hot topic at the BLM scoping meeting. There was quite a fair share of supporters for off road vehicle use and those who wish to limit the use on public lands.
The main concern was that existing roads may be closed or the production of new roads may end.
The argument was that public lands are exactly that, public. Users should not be limited to people who hike or horseback ride. Vehicles should be allowed to utilize as much of public lands as possible, enabling the handicapped and elderly to also enjoy the areas.
One idea circulating at the scoping meeting was to designate off-road vehicle trails using the geographic composition of the land.
The general idea was to allow trails to be constructed where permissible and not interfere with the land any more than necessary. The trails will be the only areas vehicles will be allowed to use and people who chose to disobey the rule would face consequences.
The suggestion would not only allow motorists into public lands, but limit the number who create personal trails on public wilderness lands.
Ranching is also an issue that effects many in the Carbon and Emery County areas.
Ranching has been a local way of life for years and today, for many, the situation is no different. The point that several ranchers at the meeting brought up is that cattle help the environment. The livestock do so by controlling fire hazards with grazing, along with promoting new foliage growth.
Herds usually bring ponds that are placed to allow cattle drinking water. The water is not only used by the cattle, but by wildlife species in the area.
The ponds use natural ground water and promotes cattle to drink from the source. In addition, the livestock ponds provide source of water for the wildlife in the area.
One concern that was continually mentioned at the BLM scoping meeting involved what the people perceived to be the damage that gas companies are doing to the land with the drilling rigs and access roads to the setups.
The concern voiced by the residents in attendance at the session is that the companies are purportedly tearing up public lands for the purpose of aiding the gas exploration projects.
Citizens also questioned whether the companies were adequately maintaining the roads, claiming the production creates severe dust that defaces the land surrounding the area.
Beside the roads, the citizens are also concerned with the amount of gas drills and pumps that are being erected in the local area.
The concern is that, as the gas companies continue to move across the Carbon and Emery County areas, the production will result in disfigured landscape.
Many questions apparently plague citizens regarding the situation.
One question that surfaced at the scoping meeting was: What responsibilities do the gas companies have in providing reconstruction to the original land when the drill or pump is shut down?
Citizens are worried that after the production of gas is complete at a site, that the company will not put forth an effort to reconstruct the area back to its original value.
Citizens residing in the Carbon-Emery area are also concerned about how far the companies plan to expand and what agency enforces laws ensuring that the companies clean up the areas surrounding the gas exploration.
The federal agency intends to explore all the public's questions and find the answers, according to the BLM representatives.
Although the gas companies are bound to have developed resolutions to the potential problems, Carbon and Emery County citizens are not aware of the answers, indicated the BLM representatives.
The public input offered at the meeting confirmed that citizens hope to be more informed regarding the concerns and federal officials plan to fit the topics into the BLM re-management plan.
In addition to raising several primary issues, the citizens in attendance at the BLM scoping meeting expressed numerous other concerns.
Carbon County residents who have ideas or concerns that they wish to be addressed in the land management plan may contact Floyd Johnson at the BLM field office in Price at 435-636-3600.
Public comments regarding the matter may also be mailed to U.S. Bureau of Land Management, Price Field Office 125 S. 600 West Price, Utah 84501.
The BLM will take all concerns under consideration in developing a new resource management plan, according to the federal agency. A rough draft will be introduced to citizens before a final draft is made. The rough draft will allow the public land users to look over the plan and express their opinions regarding the direction the management of the land is going in.


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QVC the online multimedia giant does it again. In a bid to lure customers for Christmas shopping they have launched an easy to use application for shopping online through the iPhone and iTouch. This application comes for yes. YES. Anyone using an Apple iPhone or iTouch can just grab this and start shopping from QVC right away. This is something for everyone including the mothers and grandmas to rejoice because with the click of a key and at the comfort of your house you can buy almost any multimedia product from QVC. What better Christmas gift would the young boys and girls ask for. All the new range of electronic multimedia gears is listed in the write with the daily offers and that includes the day's special offers and even the offers that are one time value.
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We are proud to be the hotel sponsor for New York International Children's Film Festival. Gild Hall is Thompson Hotels' lower Manhattan lifestyle-designed property located nearby the Brooklyn Bridge, Statue of Liberty, South Street Seaport, Freedom Towers and the 9/11 Memorial. Located within walking distance to neighboring areas Tribeca and Chinatown, the hotel offers 126 handsomely appointed rooms and suites with oversized leather-tufted headboards and bespoke furniture. Designed by Jim Walrod and artwork from Slim Aarons, the hotel provides eclectic decor with dark mahogany and red accents exuding an intimate atmosphere. Gild Hall effortlessly blends classic European sensibility with chic American style, providing a charming lower Manhattan hotel experience just steps from Wall Street. Felice Ristorante & Wine Bar located onsite offers authentic Tuscan fare complete with one of the best Italian house wines bottled from Frattoria Sardi Giustiniani, the owner's vineyard in Lucca. Thompson Hotels offers a collection of luxury, boutique hotels for the sophisticated traveler, located in the world's most desirable destinations.


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In advance of the Senate's vote on President Obama's nomination of John Brennan to head the CIA, on Thursday, Senator Rand Paul (R-Ky.) tried a third time to get Brennan to answer key constitutional questions regarding the legality of the deadly drone strikes that play a major role in the president's foreign policy. This comes a week after he threatened a filibuster on Feb. 13.
In his Feb. 20 letter to Brennan, Senator Paul reiterated the point that, ""The question that I and many others have asked is not whether the Administration has or intends to carry out drone strikes inside the United States, but whether it believes it has the authority to do so. This is an important distinction that should not be ignored."
This is a core constitutional issue regarding the prosecution of the drone war that was all but ignored during Brennan's recent confirmation hearing in the Senate Intelligence Committee.
During that proceeding, the questions from senators and the responses by Brennan were little more than pantomime with the dialogue seeming to come from a prepared script rather than from an effort by lawmakers to question Brennan on the legality and constitutionality of a program he has played a central role in developing and expanding.
Over and over again, when pressed about details of the drone war and the use of the unmanned aerial vehicles in the "War on Terror," Brennan hedged, demurred, and generally evaded every question.
It's not surprising that committee members took it easy on Brennan (with the exception of a brief rat-a-tat with Republican Senator Saxby Chambliss of Georgia). After all, as was noted in Esquire, these are members of the "national-security priesthood." They are, in several signal ways, co-conspirators in the policy that has killed thousands of individuals, three of whom were Americans, none of whom was ever charged or allowed to answer any charges.
As one watched the confirmation hearing, which appeared to be little more than a glorified job interview, one got the feeling that the candidate knew he was a shoo-in and that the question and answers were sound and fury signifying nothing.
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A plan abandoned last year for a Nice N Easy convenience store across from Walmart in the town of LeRay is now back in play.
The state Department of Transportation approved plans for the entrance/exit to the commercial subdivision, located east of the Walmart traffic light on the northbound side of Route 11, after it received a revised site plan for the 22-acre parcel. It was determined that a previously required right-hand turn lane and traffic study no longer are required for the project because the parcel was downsized into a smaller commercial subdivision by owner/developer Drum Route 11 LLC, Pittsford. The manager of that company is Robert C. Morgan, owner of Morgan Management.
Valentine Stores Inc., Watertown, plans to build the 5,820-square-foot convenience store, which will include a Mama Mias pizza bar and submarine sandwich counter. The building also calls for a fuel canopy with eight pumps, a drive-through window and 24 parking spaces. The LeRay Planning Board reviewed the conceptual site plan Thursday.
Edward J. Valentine, owner of Valentine Stores, plans to purchase the 2.1-acre commercial lot from Drum Route 11 LLC once the Planning Board approves the site plan. He hopes to break ground on the project this fall.
Over the past year, we worked with the DOT and town of LeRay to come up with a good solution for the project, Mr. Valentine said.
In addition, the overall blueprint for the commercial subdivision by Drum Route 11 calls for a 16,000-square-foot grocery store with 94 parking spaces on the lot south of the convenience store; planned on the lot to the north of the store is a 4,000-square-foot retail store with 30 parking spaces.
When the blueprint for the Nice N Easy store was proposed a year ago, DOT required Drum Route 11 LLC to include an additional turning lane on the northbound side of Route 11 for the commercial subdivision. It ruled that vehicles would be allowed to make only right-hand turns into and out of the property. The plan also would have required the owner to complete a costly traffic study because of the larger commercial area planned, town planner Jessica L. Jenack said.
But Drum Route 11 LLC scaled back that original plan, she said, which enabled the direct entrance/exit to the subdivision to be approved. It also cleared the way for the Nice N Easy to be developed.
It has now scaled back plans for additional development behind the land that triggered the traffic study, Mrs. Jenack said. They had proposals for lots in the back with potential uses on it.
The entrance/exit approved by DOT will be allowed only for the three proposed commercial lots. To develop additional property, a traffic study will be needed to reconsider the entrance/exit plan.
A call seeking comment from Mr. Morgan about plans for other businesses at the subdivision was not returned.
A 16,000-square-foot store would equate to the size of most Aldi supermarkets.
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I made some new images for the Folding DC team. Take a look... tell me what you think
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Well I was fed up with not having stats at Statsman so:
When I get home tonight I'm going to creat the new logo, unless someone else wants to create it. I was just going to copy the current style logo to say Folding instead of Genome.New team LinuxJunior_dot_org_Folding with number 32901 has been founded
Oh and cloverm, I don't suppose we could put the new team name and number up on our dcteams page could we?
I made some new images for the Folding DC team. Take a look... tell me what you think
Can you all see the pictures above? I cannot when I'm home, I could at work... at can't at home > I thinking that it might be something to do with the router? Because when I try to access my webpage at the normal http://mapleave.homeip.net I get my router login. :-\
Can't see your logo .....
But if you want to add Folding to current DC teams, I don't see why not. Although I'm still doing GAH work under FAH client software, I'm all for those who wants to add teams.
Let me see if I still have the original logo developed with layered images instead of one final JPG file so that all you have to do is take that layer file out and substitute with new layer.
Alright try it again... I had to take my server down for a few days! I had company come to visit for the week and they stayed in the computer room... Too loud for the non-geek!!! ;D Anyway I have the webserver back up and running! Give 'er a try again, if you want!
The first one looks good. The second one has a little gray line at the end.
Yeah that is probably the PNG one... The old GAH logo did that to me, it was a png. If I open the file in Photoshop it looks fine. What browser are you looking at the page in? I was thinking that it had something to do with the way IE draws png files. Just a theory.
At that time, yeah, I was looking with my wife's box that has IE 6 on it. I will try with different browser later today and will let you know.
I just thought I would let y'all know that I've been running my machines all with the new ID number but with the GAH preference and I have only done 1 FAH work unit and the other 40 have been the GAH unit. They only have 1 unit (799) for GAH. I assume they just have different sizes of genes, but group it into one work unit.
Anyway I thought I would let ya know.
I've been running the new FAH client, for well over 6 month now, and theres not one thing changed about the number of units I've processed.. Guess theres something wrong with it.. But since I'm not maintaining the boxes it's running on any more, I won't tamper with it.


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He's not Irish, but at 89 years of age, Warren R. Bonney, Watertown, has earned a place in the Shamrock Run Hall of Fame.
Mr. Bonney, who has Scottish and English ancestry, has been running in the race since it began 25 years ago.
He completed the 2.2-mile course on Saturday with his daughter, Ann L. Bonney, who visited from Connecticut.
It was only the most recent race in a life filled with sports and physical activity ranging from running and skiing to sailing and kayaking.
He said he had the inspiration to start exercising when he found his first job after college driving long distances as a salesman was having an adverse effect on his health, even with competitive sailing on the weekends.
"It was all sitting down," he said.
So he decided, along with some friends, including longtime Watertown runners Michael J. Burns and William A. Chapin, to start one of the first running and triathlon groups in the area during the 1970s.
Asked if the club was competitive, Mr. Bonney smiled and said, "I'd say yes."
With such formidable talent at the helm, it's hard to imagine otherwise. But Mr. Bonney said some of the fiercest competition came from the nearby military post.
"Some of the best triathlons, though, are with Fort Drum. Some of those soldiers are in pretty good shape," he said.
As an avid skier in high school, Mr. Bonney was able to jump on the varsity team at Syracuse University, where he competed in downhill, cross country, ski jumping and slalom events.
"At Syracuse they told me to stick to college, don't do all these sports, but I found my grades were higher when I was doing sports," he said.
His skills on the slopes made him an ideal candidate for Fort Drum's 10th Mountain Division, which started as an experiment to train skiers to fight in mountainous terrain in Europe and suffered heavy losses during a series of assaults against the German army in the northern Apennine Mountains of Italy.
Mr. Bonney narrowly avoided that fate.
Instead of heading to Italy, "the Navy gave me another year of college and gave me apprentice pay, put me in officer's training and told me, 'You'll be an ensign within a year's time.'"
He served as an ensign aboard LSM, or "Landing Ship Medium," vessels stationed in the Pacific Ocean during World War II.
Alternately filling the roles of gunnery, supply and communications officer, Mr. Bonney was often hopping off the ship on different islands to discharge his duties.
He jokingly boasted he saw just about every island the U.S. landed on during the war, including some where the "roads" were really "just pathways through the jungle."
In addition to running, Mr. Bonney has volunteered for at least three ski patrols for several years.
His volunteer hours meant free season passes for the whole family. They skied every weekend, Ms. Bonney said. "It was very nice."
Mr. Bonney hasn't let his advanced years slow him down, going cross-country skiing just two weeks ago with his daughter.
He credited his health to his exercise regimen and his diet and said his mother, who was a dietitian, helped set him down the right path.
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Always ahead of his time, Mr. Bonney took multivitamins and ate a vegetarian diet long before those practices became fashionable and still sticks to a strict regimen with lots of whole fruits and vegetables, including raw pineapple, which he said helps alleviate his arthritis.
Ms. Bonney said her father's forward thinking found its way into other aspects of their family life as well.
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His ski-patrol experience no doubt informing his safety consciousness, Mr. Bonney got the seat belts from the airport and installed them in the family car.
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Barry L. Vercoe Interview no. 1, August 19, 2011
Oral history interview with Barry Vercoe, MIT Professor Emeritus of Media Arts and Sciences at MIT, founding member of the MIT Media Lab, and computer music pioneer and composer. Interviewed by Forrest Larson and Mark Ethier, MIT Video Productsion studio. Topics include: family and growing up in New Zealand, playing cornet and saxophone in brass bands, Renaissance vocal music, studying mathematics and music at the University of Auckland, PhD in music composition with Ross Lee Finney at the University of Michigan, serial technique, Alban Berg and Anton Webern, introduction to electronic music, Mario Davidovsky's Synchronisms, teaching at Oberlin Conservatory with John Clough, postdoctoral work at Princeton with Godfrey Winham, Max Mathews and Bell Labs, MUSIC4 and variants, the beginnings of synthesized music, Guggenheim Fellowship and residency at IRCAM, Synthetic Performer, GROOVE, arrival at MIT, MIT Experimental Music Studio, Csound and MUSIC11, Marcus Thompson, the First International Computer Music Conference and its predecessors, David Wessel, Andy Moorer, John Grey, Pete Samson, the evolution of the computer as an instrument.
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He also notes that with the crunch of the schedule it is more likely that teams may replace struggling veterans with players from the AHL.
Bob McKenzie says that Miller is a player the Rangers are considering
Adam Rotter: Miller can play center and wing and is coming off a Gold Medal winning performance for Team USA. Miller is a guy who can play in the bottom six and focus on defense as he develops as a player. Since he was drafted he has drawn comparisons, in terms of style of play, to Ryan Kesler and Mike Richards and that is how both of those players started their careers.


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[DISCLAIMER] I wrote all the stuff here, but I pretty much took the verse The Bowls of God's Anger and reworked it to be more FSMish.
The Bowls of the FSM's Irritation
16Then I heard a loud voice speaking from the captain's cabin to the seven pirates:"Go and pour out the bowls of the Flying Spaghetti Monster's irritation on the earth!" And they weren't metaphorical bowls, either. They were literal, physical bowls. Just thought I'd throw that in there.
2But anyway, the first pirate went out and poured his bowl upon the earth. It was really freaky. Terrible and embarrassing acne appeared on all those who had the mark of the "I hate carbohydrates even though I'm not allergic and just hate for hate's sake" fellow and those who had snubbed pasta because they are hipsters, and it was very funny to look at their ridiculously blemished faces.
3Then the second pirate poured his bowl upon the sea. It was actually really awesome, except for one part, but you'll hear about that right now. The oceans boiled like water in a pot, and all the living creatures in the sea died, and I nearly cried because there were dead dolphins friggin' everywhere. But I'm a man, so I just shed a single manly tear.
4Then the third pirate poured out his bowl in the rivers and springs of water and they turned into really cheap, stale, warm beer. Seriously, this made Hell's beer look really appealing. And that's saying something. But I digress. Okay, so the pirate poured bowl into rivers and stuff, bad beer, blah blah blah. The pirate in charge of the water stuff say "The judgments you have made are just, O Noodly One, you who are and were and will be! They mooched out the money of the Flying Spaghetti Monster's prophets and people for beer, so you have given them terrible beer to drink. They get what they deserve!" 7Then I heard heard a voice from the poop deck saying, "Flying Spaghetti Monster almighty! True and just indeed are your judgments!"
8Then the fourth pirate poured out his bowl on the sun somehow, and it was allowed to give people who weren't using sunscreen really bad sunburns that would surely be very uncomfortable for days with its fiery heat. 9They were burned by this heat, and cursed the name of their friends who told them to get a tan, despite the fact they had every opportunity to get sunscreen at the store. But they would not turn from their idiocy and get aloe lotion.
10Then the fifth pirate poured out his bowl on the big chair of the president. Darkness came over America, but that's because it was about three AM. It'd be pretty freaky if it were light at that time, you know? Again, I digress. So the people of America bit their tongues 'cos they had a bad dream about biting their tongues, 11and they cursed 'cos it hurt. but they did not turn because they didn't move around in their sleep that much.
12 Then the sixth pirate poured his bowl in some big river, and I'm not that good at geography, but it was called something like the Great Eucalyptus River or something. The river dried up, to provide a way for the kings who come from the west. 13Then I saw three dirty ghosts that looked like some sort of amphibian. They were coming from -I kid you not- the mouth of a dragon. Freaky, right? 14Apparently they were the spirits of demons who did magic tricks. These three ghosts go out to all the kings, presidents, prime ministers, dictators, emperors, and various other leaders out the world to bring them together for the wrestling tournament on the great Afternoon of the Noodly FSM.
15"Listen! I am coming like a robber! The dude who guards his clothes is happy, because I can't steal them if they're being guarded, so then he won't have to walk naked to the clothes shop and get arrested for public nudity!" That's what some crazy guy said the other day, and I went to the other side of the road 'cos he scared me.
16Then the ghosts brought the leaders to a cage which, in English, is known as the "Pen of Pain" And the leaders wrestled. The french guy went down fast, but what really surprised me was the aggression the Swedish leader had. He was like some animal, and I always thought the Swedes were a peaceful people. I know I'll never piss anyone off in Sweden, that's for sure.
17Then the seventh pirate poured out his bowl in the air. A loud voice came from the captain's quarters, saying "It is done!" 18There were flashes of light, huge thunder noises, and a freaking huge earthquake. Whatever the biggest number on the Richter Scale is, this earthquake was probably triple that. That is how big it was. 19The great city of New York was split into three sub-cities, and all the cities of all the countries of the world had a seven minute blackout. The FSM remembered great Portland, and made her drink the beer of his mug — the beer of his irritated displeasure. 20All the islands of the world experienced a big increase of how far in the beach high tide went, all the mountains suddenly shrank a centimeter. 21Huge hailstones, each weighing as much as half a pound, fell from the sky and hit people's cars, and they cursed their luck, because they just bought the cars the day before.
And that, my friends, was the The Bowls of the FSM's Irritation, the seventh verse of the Book of Raviolations. Can you write another verse in Raviolations? If so, please post it here because I think it's hilarious.


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April 4, 2012
By Brett D. Schaefer
In an effort to bring international pressure on Israel, the Palestinian Authority declared in 2009 that it would submit to the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court (ICC) for alleged crimes committed in its territory. Three years later, the ICC prosecutor concluded that he does not have the authority under the Rome Statute to initiate an investigation because the issue of Palestinian statehood is in question.
This was the correct conclusion, but it does not permanently preclude the possibility of a future ICC investigation. The U.S. should use its influence to discourage actions in the United Nations, its affiliated bodies, and the ICC Assembly of States Parties that could support Palestinian claims of statehood and allow an ICC investigation to proceed in the future.
Using the ICC to Pressure Israel
The Palestinian National Authority formally notified the ICC registrar in a January 2009 declaration that it recognized the jurisdiction of the ICC with respect to "acts committed on the territory of Palestine since 1 July 2002."[1] The ICC has jurisdiction over war crimes, crimes against humanity, genocide, and (if confirmed by future action by the ICC states parties) the crime of aggression.[2] Therefore, the Palestinian Authority's request implicitly accuses Israel of committing at least some of those crimes.
After receiving the declaration, the ICC prosecutor initiated a preliminary examination of the request to determine whether the court had a basis for opening the investigation. This, as with other situations, involves an assessment of the facts surrounding the alleged crimes to determine whether the evidence is sufficient to initiate a formal investigation.
Before looking into the evidence for alleged crimes, however, the ICC prosecutor has to determine whether the court has jurisdiction. For most preliminary examinations, this step would be pro forma: The state committing the alleged crimes would be an ICC state party, or the alleged crimes would have been committed in the territory of a state party, or either of those states would have voluntarily submitted to the Court's jurisdiction, or the U.N. Security Council would have referred the case. In this instance, there is no referral from the Security Council, and neither Israel nor Palestine is an ICC state party. Therefore, the Palestinians made their declaration to grant the ICC jurisdiction pursuant to Article 12 of the Rome Statute.
But this particular situation raised an unusual concern because only "states" can submit themselves to ICC jurisdiction. "Palestine" is not a universally recognized state. As stated by the ICC prosecutor's office:
[T]he Rome Statute is open to accession by "all States", and any State seeking to become a Party to the Statute must deposit an instrument of accession with the Secretary-General of the United Nations. In instances where it is controversial or unclear whether an applicant constitutes a "State", it is the practice of the Secretary-General to follow or seek the General Assembly's directives on the matter. This is reflected in General Assembly resolutions which provide indications of whether an applicant is a "State". Thus, competence for determining the term "State" within the meaning of article 12 rests, in the first instance, with the United Nations Secretary-General who, in case of doubt, will defer to the guidance of [the] General Assembly…. The Rome Statute provides no authority for the Office of the Prosecutor to adopt a method to define the term "State" under article 12(3) which would be at variance with that established for the purpose of article 12(1).[3]
In short, the prosecutor determined that the ICC, absent a U.N. Security Council referral, currently lacks jurisdiction because Palestine is not an ICC member state and that his office lacks the authority to determine whether Palestine qualifies as a state for the purposes of declaring itself subject to ICC jurisdiction.
An Ongoing Concern
Although it might be tempting to conclude that the issue is resolved, the prosecutor went beyond his proper determination that his office could not decide the issue of Palestinian statehood and that the court therefore cannot act on the Palestinian declaration. The statement includes language that can only be interpreted as a road map for how the Palestinians could circumvent this problem.
Specifically, he stated that his office "could in the future consider allegations of crimes committed in Palestine, should competent organs of the United Nations or eventually the Assembly of States Parties resolve the legal issue." He conveniently outlined a path for resolving this situation, suggesting that "the relevant bodies at the United Nations or the Assembly of States Parties" could make a "legal determination whether Palestine qualifies as a State for the purpose of acceding to the Rome Statute and thereby enabling the exercise of jurisdiction by the Court under article 12(1)." The prosecutor also noted:
The Office has been informed that Palestine has been recognised as a State in bilateral relations by more than 130 governments and by certain international organisations, including United Nations bodies. However, that the current status granted to Palestine by the United Nations General Assembly is that of "observer", not as a "Non-member State". The Office understands that on 23 September 2011, Palestine submitted an application for admission to the United Nations as a Member State in accordance with article 4(2) of the United Nations Charter, but the Security Council has not yet made a recommendation in this regard.
The obvious implication is that the court could act if Palestine is granted U.N. membership, but the prosecutor also implies that changing the status of Palestine from an "observer" entity to that of a "non-Member State" observer could suffice. Ominously for Israel, this change in status—unlike the process for granting U.N. membership, which requires approval by the Security Council where the U.S. has a veto—merely needs approval by the General Assembly.[4]
Thus, while the prosecutor correctly determined that the ICC currently lacks jurisdiction over alleged crimes in the Palestinian territories, his additional comments reveal an underlying sympathy for the Palestinians in their quest to use the ICC against Israel. The Palestinians no doubt appreciate this encouragement and will utilize his advice.
A Proportional Response
The intent of the Palestinian declaration to the ICC is to intimidate and isolate Israel, damage its reputation, and force it to engage in a detailed defense of its actions in Gaza and the West Bank over the past decade to prove their legality. This is part of a larger Palestinian strategy to delegitimize Israel internationally and sidestep direct peace negotiations, an intent most recently displayed in the Palestinian request for membership in the United Nations last fall.
The U.S. indefinitely blocked that effort by threatening to use its Security Council veto. However, the Palestinians were successful in their membership bid in the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).[5] They and their supporters have also been very aggressive in using the Human Rights Council to attack Israel and its actions. A council decision earlier this year to launch a new investigation of Jewish settlements in the West Bank led Israel to cut working relations with the council.[6]
U.S. Administrations and Congresses have steadfastly supported defending Israel against politically motivated assaults. Frequently, the U.S. does so through the judicious use of America's veto in the Security Council. But when the veto is not available, the U.S. needs to use other tools, including its financial leverage. To enhance U.S. influence, Congress should:
The purpose of U.S. membership in international organizations is to advance American interests. When a U.N. body threatens key U.S. interests, the U.S. should send a clear signal about the ramifications.
Brett D. Schaefer is Jay Kingham Fellow in International Regulatory Affairs in the Margaret Thatcher Center for Freedom, a division of the Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis Institute for International Studies, at The Heritage Foundation and editor of ConUNdrum: The Limits of the United Nations and the Search for Alternatives (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2009).
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[1]Palestinian National Authority Ministry of Justice, "Declaration Recognizing the Jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court," January 21, 2009, at http://www.icc-cpi.int/NR/rdonlyres/74EEE201-0FED-4481-95D4-C8071087102C/279777/20090122PalestinianDeclaration2.pdf (accessed April 4, 2012).
[2]Brett D. Schaefer, "The Kampala Aftermath: The U.S. Should Remain Wary of the ICC," Heritage Foundation Backgrounder No. 2448, August 9, 2009, at http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2010/08/the-kampala-aftermath-the-us-should-remain-wary-of-the-icc.
[3]Office of the Prosecutor, "Situation in Palestine," International Criminal Court, April 3, 2012, at http://www.icc-cpi.int/NR/rdonlyres/C6162BBF-FEB9-4FAF-AFA9-836106D2694A/284387/SituationinPalestine030412ENG.pdf?utm_source=CICC+Newsletters&utm_campaign=a607f24fda-March_ICC_Situations_Under_Analysis_EN3_23_2012&utm_medium=email (accessed April 4, 2012).
[4]Brett D. Schaefer and James Phillips, "How the U.S. Should Respond to the U.N. Vote for Palestinian Statehood," Heritage Foundation Backgrounder No. 2574, July 6, 2011, at http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2011/07/how-the-us-should-respond-to-the-un-vote-for-palestinian-statehood.
[5]Brett D. Schaefer, "What Palestinian Membership Means for UNESCO and the Rest of the United Nations," Heritage Foundation Backgrounder No. 2633, December 13, 2011, at http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2011/12/what-palestine-membership-means-for-unesco-and-the-rest-of-the-united-nations.
[6]"Israel Ends Contact with UN Human Rights Council," BBC, March 26, 2012, at http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-17510668?cid=nlc-dailybrief-daily_news_brief-link16-20120327 (accessed April 4, 2012).
[7]U.S. Code Title 22, Section 287e, states: "No funds authorized to be appropriated by this Act or any other Act shall be available for the United Nations or any specialized agency thereof which accords the Palestine Liberation Organization the same standing as member states." (Adopted as Public Law 101-246 in 1990.) "The United States shall not make any voluntary or assessed contribution: (1) to any affiliated organization of the United Nations which grants full membership as a state to any organization or group that does not have the internationally recognized attributes of statehood, or (2) to the United Nations, if the United Nations grants full membership as a state in the United Nations to any organization or group that does not have the internationally recognized attributes of statehood, during any period in which such membership is effective." (Adopted as Public Law 103-236 in 1994.)
[8]Brett D. Schaefer and Steven Groves, "The U.S. Should Not Join the International Criminal Court," Heritage Foundation Backgrounder No. 2307, August 18, 2009, at http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2009/08/the-us-should-not-join-the-international-criminal-court.
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