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Marijuana plants flourish under the lights at a grow house in Denver on Nov. 8. / Ed Andrieski AP

States neighboring Colorado and Washington are wondering how much marijuana will spill across their borders after voters in those two states legalized its recreational use in November.

They vow to arrest and prosecute marijuana possessors even if the product is purchased legally across state lines.

Possession of any amount of marijuana is a misdemeanor under federal law, and selling it in any amount is a federal felony.

President Obama said last month that "we have bigger fish to fry" than going after pot smokers in Washington and Colorado. The Justice Department has not said how it will respond or whether it is concerned about increased cross-border trafficking from the two states.

One drug-control advocate predicts that trafficking will increase into and out of Washington and Colorado, and that could drive down the cost of marijuana regionally.

"The retail marijuana stores will be in business to make as much of a profit as possible," says Tom Gorman, director of the Denver-based drug-policy group Rocky Mountain High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area. "That means selling as much marijuana as they can to the largest number of people as they can. That will create a competitive market based on quality and the price of the product."

Law enforcement officials in neighboring states are watching as Colorado and Washington regulators decide how the product can be grown, processed and sold in their states.

"Everyone is aware of the possibility that you could have an increase (in cross-border traffic), especially for some of our counties on the border of Colorado," says Lt. Josh Kellerman, a spokesman for the Kansas Highway Patrol. "People might not understand that while they bought it legally in Colorado, it is still illegal in our state."

Wyoming Attorney General Greg Phillips notes that the state's Supreme Court in 2011 ruled that marijuana bought for medical purposes in California still was illegal in Wyoming.

"I think the same rule applies" for marijuana purchased in states that have legalized it, Phillips says.

Beau Kilmer, co-director of the RAND Drug Policy Research Center, says the amount of cross-border trafficking depends on the shape of Colorado and Washington regulations.

"The decisions they make about how many producers to allow and what type of production to allow will really shape what the market will look like and shape this whole discussion of diversion" across borders, Kilmer says. "Are they going to allow four producers, or 400?"

Kilmer says the federal government could "influence whether or not large amounts of marijuana come out of these states." One example: a threat to crack down on large suppliers even in states where buying the drug is legal.

Kilmer says neighboring states' responses also will help determine whether cross-border flow of marijuana to the newly legalized states becomes an issue.

"Does Wyoming on Friday and Saturday nights increase Highway Patrol on the border?" Kilmer asks.

Eighteen states and the District of Columbia allow marijuana possession for medical purposes, and 15 states have decriminalized its possession in small amounts, generally resulting in fines but no jail time.

Colorado had done both before voters in November legalized possession of up to an ounce for anyone 21 and older. Washington allowed medical marijuana before its legalization vote.

Some drug-policy experts say they believe Colorado has the potential to have more cross-border traffic issues because of its crossroads location on the continent and because it borders seven states compared with Washington's two.

Washington is bordered on the south by Oregon, which has both decriminalized possession and allowed for medical-marijuana possession. None of Colorado's neighbors has decriminalized, and only New Mexico and Arizona allow medical marijuana.

"There is absolutely no doubt in my mind Colorado is going to be a source for marijuana in this country," says Gorman, whose office is funded through the White House's Office of National Drug Control Policy. "It has already been with medical marijuana, which is supposed to be a regulated industry."

His office reported in August that drug busts in 22 states and the District of Columbia were traced to medical marijuana purchases in Colorado.

Predictions such as Gorman's "accentuate the fact that prohibition (of marijuana), 75 years of it in the United States, is an abject failure," says Allen St. Pierre, executive director of NORML, the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws.

He compares cross-border trafficking of marijuana with that of Mexican-made Corona beer. "Americans consume a lot of that, too," St. Pierre says, "but we don't have any cross-border problems with massive amounts of Corona beer."

Washington will not allow private production. Colorado will allow each adult to cultivate six plants at a time, but they can't sell it.

Colorado is wrestling with whether to require in-state residency to buy marijuana, says Mark Couch, spokesman for a task force set up by Gov. John Hickenlooper, a Democrat.

Brian Smith, spokesman for the Washington Liquor Board, says officials there are well aware that "we have three borders" (including Canada), and that "people are mobile."

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Newark, NJ (Sports Network) - Cappie Pondexter hit a jumper with 0.5 seconds left in overtime as the New York Liberty took a 78-76 victory in overtime to keep the Tulsa Shock winless on Friday.

Pondexter had 13 points, eight rebounds and six assists, Essence Carson gave 18 points, while Kara Braxton gave 12 points, eight boards and five steals for the Liberty, who lost to Connecticut in their season opener last Saturday.

Liz Cambage had 22 points and six boards and Glory Johnson gave 17 and 11 for the Shock, who have dropped three straight games to open the season.

Nicole Powell, who finished with 11 points for Tulsa, had tied the game at 76- all with 11.1 seconds left, but Pondexter's 11-foot shot fell true to give New York the win.

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Rick Porcello received a six-game suspension from MLB. / Kim Klement, USA TODAY Sports

Detroit Tigers pitcher Rick Porcello insisted that the fastball that hit Ben Zobrist on Sunday had just gotten away from him, but Major League Baseball saw otherwise. On Tuesday, MLB announced that the righty will be suspended six games and fined an undisclosed amount for intentionally throwing at the Rays' second baseman.

Tensions between the Tigers and Tampa Bay had skyrocketed in the opening game of the series when third baseman Miguel Cabrera verbally objected to Rays closer Fernando Rodney's near headshot. Detroit manager Jim Leyland promised retaliation, and the umpire warned both benches after Porcello nailed Zobrist with the bases empty in the first inning the following afternoon. Now, the righty faces the consequences.

"I don't know any specifics besides the fact that I'm going to appeal it," Porcello said. "I really don't have any feelings on it. Like I said, we're going to appeal it and that's it."

Filing an appeal will allow the Tigers starter to pitch until a final decision is rendered.

Porcello showed immense promise when he won 14 games as a rookie for the Tigers in 2009, but the righty has yet to reach the high ceiling many envisioned. He matched his debut season with a 14-9 year in 2011, but hasn't finished with an earned-run average below four since that rookie campaign. This season, Porcello is 4-6 with a 5.21 ERA, a line that included a debacle in which he surrendered nine runs in two-thirds of an inning to the Angels.

This isn't the first time Porcello has been suspended for his behavior on the mound. In 2009, he and Kevin Youkilis were both tagged with five-game bans for their roles in a benches-clearing brawl. When Porcello hit the then-Boston Red Sox third baseman, Youkilis threw his helmet before the pitcher slammed him to the ground.

When healthy, the Tigers have one of baseball's elite starting rotations in Justin Verlander, Max Scherzer, Anibal Sanchez and Doug Fister. Sanchez spent much of June on the disabled list as Detroit dropped out of first place in the AL Central, but he will start Saturday against the Indians.

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A UPS aircraft takes off at Louisville International Airport. / John Sommers II, The (Louisville, Ky.) Courier-Journal

WASHINGTON -- As federal officials continue investigating last year's fatal UPS crash in Alabama, the freight carrier's pilots are pressing to be covered by the same rules that require passenger airline crews to get more rest.

The cargo pilots have filed suit against the Federal Aviation Administration to bring them under those regulations and are backing legislation in Congress to do the same thing.

"It's in the public interest," as a matter of safety, to include cargo pilots under the tightened duty and rest rules, said Bill Trent, general counsel for the Independent Pilots Association, which represents more than 2,600 UPS pilots.

The rules for commercial passenger airline pilots - enacted in January - essentially limit their flying time to eight or nine hours, depending on when their shifts start. Carriers also are required to give their cockpit crews a minimum of 10 hours off in a way that allows the pilots to get at least eight hours of uninterrupted sleep. Passenger airline pilots also must work shorter hours if they are flying overnight.

Cargo pilots fly under older rules that do not require as much rest, permit longer times on duty and allow them to fly beyond eight hours in certain conditions. And those rules do not impose any special limits on flight time at night, when cargo carriers do much of their flying.

The FAA, meanwhile, has revised its economic rationale behind exempting cargo pilots, saying it would cost the industry $550 million to comply, outweighing safety benefits. Originally, it said the rules would cost an additional $214 million.

"As a result, the FAA has determined that no revisions to the final rule on either cargo or passenger operations is warranted," the agency said in a regulatory filing expected to be finalized by July.

The Cargo Airline Association, which represents UPS and other cargo carriers, said in comments submitted to the government on the FAA revision that the agency "has correctly concluded that the costs overwhelm the benefits."

But Trent said the FAA's cost estimates for the cargo industry are overstated by at least $235 million.

"We believe we will ultimately succeed, if not through the courts, then through legislation," he said.

UPS spokesman Mike Mangeot said the carrier is not commenting on the lawsuit because "it's between the union and the FAA."

But the airline opposes the legislation requiring cargo pilots to be covered by the new anti-fatigue rules, arguing that its own rules are sufficient.

"We believe we go to great lengths to provide for crew rest, and the proposed legislation doesn't fit," Mangeot said.

The National Transportation Safety Board is continuing its investigation of the Aug. 14 crash of a UPS Airbus A300-600 at Birmingham-Shuttlesworth International Airport in Alabama. Capt. Cerea Beal, 58, of Matthews, N.C., and First Officer Shanda Carney Fanning, 37, of Lynchburg, Tenn., were killed on the flight, which originated in Louisville.

At the board's public hearing on the accident last month, a transcript of the conversation in the cockpit while the pilots were preparing the plane for takeoff shows that Beal and Fanning complained of fatigue and said rest rules for pilots of commercial passenger planes should apply to them as well.

"It should be one level of safety for everybody," Beal told Fanning.

That is precisely the argument the UPS pilots, their allies in Congress and many safety experts are making.

"We need to heed their words," Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., said after the NTSB hearing. Beal and Fanning "clearly knew the dangers they faced due to the lack of safe work hours for cargo pilots, and in their names we should pass" the measure to extend the new rules to cargo pilots.

Boxer's bill, dubbed the Safe Skies Act, has four co-sponsors. A similar House bill has been introduced by New York Reps. Michael Grimm, a Republican, and Timothy Bishop, a Democrat.

Neither bill has had a committee hearing yet, but Boxer spokesman Peter True said the senators are building support. Bishop is doing the same in the House, spokeswoman Krystyna Baumgartner said.

The NTSB is aiming to complete its investigation of the Alabama crash, find a probable cause and issue safety recommendations before the accident's first anniversary.

The new FAA rest rules, issued in 2011, resulted from earlier legislation Boxer and Sen. Olympia Snowe, R-Maine, got through Congress after a 2009 commuter plane crash near Buffalo killed 50 people.

In that case, the NTSB found that fatigue probably affected the pilots' performance.

The FAA estimated the new rules would cost the commercial passenger airline industry $297 million over a decade.

It encouraged cargo operators to abide voluntarily by the new rules - but stopped short of requiring them to do so.

NTSB Chairman Deborah Hersman urged the FAA to reconsider the "cargo carve out" after it issued its rules.

"A tired pilot is a tired pilot, whether there are 10 paying customers on board or 100, whether the payload is passengers or pallets," she said.

The UPS pilots sued the FAA in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia immediately after the rules were issued, arguing there should be one standard of safety for all carriers and that the agency had no legal authority to exempt cargo pilots.

The court case is on hold as the FAA revises its analysis for leaving cargo pilots out of the rules. But the agency has not changed its position.

UPS' Mangeot, meanwhile, said "crew rest is a complex concept."

"For some, it's easy to jump to the conclusion that a pilot who flies at night must be tired," he said. "It's also easy to presume that if they are tired, it's induced by their assigned work schedule. Neither is necessarily accurate."

The typical UPS pilot is on duty 70 hours per month and actually flies about 30 hours per month, he said, adding that those duty days are "well within FAA limits."

In addition, the cargo carrier's maximum domestic scheduled duty day is shorter than the FAA's maximum, and pilots are provided with rest periods that are 25 percent to 50 percent longer than those required by the government rules, Mangeot said.

UPS also conducts a fatigue management program in cooperation with the union and provides sleep facilities for pilots at its major gateways.

"We believe those measures are appropriate," Mangeot said, adding that cargo operations are significantly different than passenger carriers because, in general, cargo pilots fly fewer hours and make fewer takeoffs and landings.

But the UPS pilots union, Hersman and other safety experts argue that cargo pilots may be even more susceptible to fatigue because they fly so much at night, a time the industry calls "the back of the clock."

"If there's any difference, the difference would argue for more stringent operations at cargo carriers," said Tom Devine, another attorney representing the UPS pilots.

Capt. Lee Moak, president of the Air Line Pilots Association International, which represents almost 50,000 pilots at 31 airlines, including UPS competitor FedEx, said that "it is becoming more apparent that separate rest requirements for cargo and passenger pilots is unsustainable, unsupportable, and unconscionable."

"Pilots who operate in the same skies, take off from the same airports, and fly over the same terrain must be given the same opportunities for full rest, regardless of what is in the back of the plane," Moak said.

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U.S. President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama dance as singer Jennifer Hudson performs 'Let's Stay Together' during the Inaugural Ball at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center on January 21, 2013 in Washington, DC. President Obama was sworn in for his second term earlier in the day. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images)

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WASHINGTON -- From Alicia Keys to FUN to Brad Paisley, an eclectic mix of musical performers kept partygoers entertained at The Inaugural Ball inside the Washington Convention Center.

While many were there to see President Obama dance with the first lady, the star-studded lineup added an extra dose of glamour.

The performers were there to entertain more than 35,000 guests made up of grassroots volunteers, local community leaders and supporters, various organization representatives and local and state elected leaders. The cavernous room was packed, and while there was little room for dancing, there was certainly lots to see on the two large stages.

Keys was up first. "Today is an incredible day and you can feel the energy everywhere you go," said the singer, perched behind a piano. "Every day is a chance to do our best, to serve our highest purpose." She was glittering in a sparkly red dress by Michael Kors.

"Help me celebrate this momentous day," she said before singing her hit Girl on Fire, changing the lyrics to ""He's president and he's on fire. ... Obama's on fire."

After her rousing opening number, the Mexican band Maná performed, singing a set of songs including Carlos Santana's

Córazon Espinado.

Following Maná's performance, country music star Brad Paisley stirred up the crowd with his song, American Saturday Night. "This reminds me of when I was president of the 4-H club," joked Paisley of the abundant energy in the room. "It's kind of the same." On a more serious note, he remarked on how it was "such an honor to be here."

He added, "Our democracy is the envy of the world, and tonight we celebrate by getting drunk in a convention center."

After Paisley, the musical act FUN performed pop hits Some Nights and We Are Young.

The crowd roared with applause, which got only louder once they realized what was up next.

Close to 9:20, the President and first lady Michelle Obama made their grand entrance. They danced to Jennifer Hudson singing Let's Stay Together, the Al Green classic. And just like that, it was over. No speech, no remarks -- just wide smiles and a wave. By 9:30, the Obamas waved to their supporters and left. It undoubtedly had been a long day

But the fun didn't stop there. Stevie Wonder performed a string of his classic hits, and led the crowd in a sing-a-long to Signed, Sealed, Delivered.

And then, another surprise: Vice President Joe Biden and Dr. Jill Biden wanted to their dance on, too. With Jamie Foxx singing and playing the piano, the couple swayed to I Can't Stop Loving You. If there ever was a night when Keys, Foxx and Wonder came third, tonight was the night.

Once the Bidens left the building, many others followed suit. But even as the crowds began to pour out, there were still many packed in the center watching John Legend croon away.

Attending an inaugural ball is quite an experience, especially for first-timers. "I had no idea what to expect," said Catherine Pearson, 24, from Washington. "It was such a whirlwind." She said that a highlight of the night was "definitely seeing the president and Mrs. Obama dance, and Stevie Wonder. You can't beat Stevie Wonder."

Bridget McCabe also cited the President and first lady's dance as the best part of the night. "I really had no expectations, I had no idea what I was getting in to," said McCabe, 24, from Glenmoore, Penn. "It's a lot of people, especially in the crowd. This room is huge."

Talk also centered around Mrs. Obama's dress, a ruby red number by Jason Wu -- the same designer she chose to wear at the balls four years ago. "She got rave reviews for wearing him the first time, and I think she looked stunning tonight," said Pearson. The back was beautiful...she looked ravishing in red."

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The 2012 Sprint Cup champion is in danger of missing the Chase, sitting 11th in points heading into Atlanta. / Andrew Weber, USA TODAY Sports

HAMPTON, Ga. -- In one moment, Brad Keselowski, the defending Sprint Cup champion, wanted to make excuses for his team's downturn in 2013 and why it has still not locked up a playoff spot.

In the next moment, however, Keselowski seemed to find the voice of a champion, which is to accept the responsibility to pull his team together and make another run at the title.

Keselowski is 11th in the points race and has no wins heading into Sunday's Advocare 500 at Atlanta Motor Speedway, a 1.5 -mile slick oval. The No. 2 Miller Lite team then has the race at Richmond International Speedway, the final event of the "regular season" and the last chance to make the 12-driver Chase for the Sprint Cup.

If he misses the playoffs, it will be the first time since 2006 a defending champion has not made the Chase. (Tony Stewart won the 2005 championship, but did not earn the chance to defend his title).

So whose fault is it anyway? Keselowski started his Friday news conference by providing some alibis and defending his position in the standings.

"There have been a lot of circumstances that have been out of our control that put us in this position not to be locked in this so late in the season," Keselowski said.

His equipment was confiscated in April at Texas Motor Speedway and there was a debate with NASCAR about whether the rear end parts were legal. NASCAR docked the team points and Keselowski lost the services of crew chief Paul Wolfe and some other key team members for two points races. That was a setback and distraction.

In addition, the Ford cars were first off the assembly line with the new Gen 6 car and Keselowski indicated that he and other Ford drivers have had to scratch back to get even with Toyota and Chevrolet.

But after offering those alibis, Keselowski said his fate lies with him here in the last two weeks of the "regular season."

"Our back is against the wall," he said. "These are the times when great teams step up and make something happen, or when great drivers step up and make a play.

"I'm looking forward to that opportunity to prove what we're worth and what we're made of."

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Connecticut Gov. Dannel Malloy signs legislation at the Capitol in Hartford on April 4, that includes new restrictions on weapons and large capacity ammunition magazines. Standing from left are Lt. Gov. Nancy Wyman, Neil Heslin and Nicole Hockley. / Steven Senne, AP

Connecticut Gov. Dannel Malloy signed the nation's most far-reaching gun control bill Thursday, the ceremony in Hartford concluding several emotional weeks of debate and compromise since the state was rocked and the world stunned by the mass murder of children in Newtown.

"This is a profoundly emotional day for everyone in this room," Malloy, a Democrat, said moments before signing the bill. He added that he hoped the state's bipartisan effort would provide an example for Congress.

"When 92% of Americans agree that every gun sale should be subject to a background check, there is no excuse" not to make it federal law, Malloy said.

The Connecticut law adds more than 100 weapons to the state's ban on assault weapons, limits the capacity of ammo magazines and requires background checks for all weapon sales, including at gun shows.

It also establishes the nation's first statewide registry for people convicted of crimes involving dangerous weapons. Access to the registry would be available only to law enforcement.

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Nicole Hockley's 6-year-old, Dylan, was among the 20 children who died when Adam Lanza began shooting inside Sandy Hook Elementary on Dec. 14. He also killed six adult staff before killing himself. Hockley said she appreciated the bipartisan political effort that led to the law.

"While I am grateful for the progress being made, I wish more than anything that I was just back at home waiting for both Dylan and Jake to come home from school," she said.

Hockley said her effort to press the law forward was one way to honor her son's life. "We want Newtown to be known not for tragedy, but for transformation," Hockley said.

The state House voted early Thursday in favor of the 139-page bill crafted by leaders from both major parties. The bill passed the Senate in a 26-10 vote Wednesday. Both bodies are Democrat-controlled.

The bill drew angry protests at the Capitol this week, with some gun rights supporters booing leading advocates of the bill. But in Newtown the bill and the bipartisan effort involved in its passage were warmly received.

Lt. Gov. Nancy Wyman on Thursday thanked the families of all the victims for their leadership in the effort. "I've been amazed at the strength of the families since that day at Newtown," said Wyman, a Democrat. "Today won't make up for all that went on that day. But I have gained so much strength from these families, and I thank you."

Newtown First Selectman Pat Llodra, the town's chief executive officer and a Republican, said she is "pleased for the most part" with the legislation.

"It includes action on some of the most critical elements in gun control and certainly signifies to the rest of the country - and maybe the world - that significant, meaningful change can come about through the political process," Llodra said.

The bill was drawn up by a bipartisan task force assembled after the Dec. 14 Newtown massacre.

"The tragedy in Newtown demands a powerful response, demands a response that transcends politics," said Senate President Donald Williams.

While Republican state Sen. John Kissel of Enfield acknowledged that "you just can't have a heart at all if you don't feel for the families and friends and neighbors of the victims of that Newtown massacre," he expressed concern that the law is ultimately harmful to lawful gun owners.

"When it comes to further regulations on guns and ammunition in one of the states that's touted as having, right now, some of the most tough gun laws in the United States of America, I think it goes one step too far," said Kissel, who opposed the bill.

But Wyman said the intent was not to take away anyone's rights. "The intent is simply to keep guns out of the hands of people who should not have them," she said.

Among the law's provisions are a requirement of eligibility certificates for the purchase of any rifle, shotgun or ammunition. Penalties for illegal possession and firearms trafficking would also be significantly increased.

In addition to the controls on guns and ammunition, the law sets safety standards for school buildings, allow mental health training for teachers and expand mental health research in the state.

The law does not ban large-capacity magazines outright, but grandfathers them in from Jan. 1, 2014. The magazines can be loaded only with 10 or fewer rounds, except in the owner's home or at a shooting range. Owners must register the magazines by year's end.

Thursday would have been the 7th birthday of Ana Marquez-Greene, who died at Sandy Hook. In an op-ed column appearing Thursday in USA TODAY, her parents, Jimmy Greene and Nelba Marquez-Greene, write:

"We don't need new laws to begin strengthening the bonds of family and community. We can be more giving, loving parents, friends and neighbors. We can offer love to those who are outcasts or alone. We can look to God and form an eternal relationship built from nothing but love.

"But we must do more. Today (Thursday), the governor of our home state of Connecticut will sign historic bipartisan legislation designed by legislators to make our communities safer. Their cooperative spirit should be a model for Congress, when the Senate considers legislation next week to reduce gun violence."

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Medical personnel attend to the injured at the scene of a knife attack near the railway station in Guangzhou, in southern China's Guangdong province, on May 6. / AFP/Getty Images

BEIJING - Six people were injured by knife-wielding assailants at South China's Guangzhou Railway Station, local police reported Tuesday, in the country's third violent attack at a train station in just over nine weeks.

Despite a recent increase in armed patrols, the latest incident confirms the challenge of securing China's public places against attacks authorities have blamed on separatists from the northwest.

The assailants used knives to hack passengers around 11:30 a.m. Tuesday local time in the Guangzhou Railway Station square, city police in the Guangdong provincial capital wrote on Sina Weibo, a Twitter-like microblog.

Officers on patrol issued a verbal warning, without effect, then shot and caught one male suspect, the statement said. The six people injured were taken to a hospital, police said.

No official information on the attackers, including their number or ethnic group, was immediately released. Witnesses quoted by state media, including the People's Daily, said there were two to four attackers, two of whom may have escaped.

One man, with the last name Yang, sat in shock for two hours after he fled an attacker who chased him as he exited the station, The Southern Metropolitan Daily reported. Yang had just arrived from Kunming, in southwest China, where he had witnessed and survived a similar attack in March.

The incident Tuesday forms the latest and apparently least deadly of a series of attacks against railway users in China. On March 1, a group armed with knives and short swords killed 29 people and injured 143 at Kunming Railway Station. Last week, 79 people were injured and three died at a railway station in Urumqi, capital of the northwest Xinjiang region, after a knife and bomb attack.

Authorities said those incidents were undertaken by religious extremists from Xinjiang, also the alleged home of the suspects in the Kunming terror attack, who sought independence for the desert-bound, resource-rich region, home to the mostly Muslim Uighur people. Uighur activists abroad say some Uighurs are driven to violence by repressive state policies that restrict their religion, language and culture.

After Kunming, China's Ministry of Public Security stepped up armed patrols of public places including railway stations, and increased gun training for police, most of whom do not regularly carry firearms. Tuesday's attack shows that assailants still consider stations worthwhile targets, while the continuing use of knives highlights the relative difficulty in accessing guns or other more deadly weapons.

After the attack in Urumqi, China's Communist Party leader Xi Jinping vowed a long-term fight against terror. Some Chinese demand quicker results. "I don't want to hear the words 'verbal warning' again," Fan Xin, a military commentator based in Beijing, wrote on Sina Weibo Tuesday. "Stabbing people in public places, does that need a verbal warning? You can't kill people, if they continue, then the police must open fire!"

Witnesses of the Kunming massacre told USA TODAY they were frustrated that some police officers who arrived at the scene appeared to await orders to fire, even as the attackers continued to spill blood.

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SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. (AP) - Mark Trumbo homered in his return to the lineup and the Arizona Diamondbacks beat the Milwaukee Brewers 2-1 Saturday in a split-squad game shortened to 4½ innings because of rain.

The game was delayed 36 minutes at the start by showers. The rain came back in the bottom of the fifth inning and the game was called with one out.

Logan Schafer tripled and scored in the top of the first for the Brewers. Trumbo answered with a towering home run to left field in the bottom half.

Trumbo went 1 for 2. The Diamondbacks newcomer was scratched from the lineup on Friday with a sore left heel.

Paul Goldschmidt walked for Arizona and scored on Miguel Montero's double.

Arizona starter Trevor Cahill went 3 1-3 innings, allowing one run and two hits. He struck out four, walked one and hit a batter.

"Being one of the last guys to throw, you get excited," Cahill said. "You can't get prepared throwing batting practice and simulated games."

Athletics: Cahill was the latest Diamondbacks starter to throw extended innings in his first spring start. A day earlier, lefty Patrick Corbin went four innings.

Cahill was pleased he was able to command his pitches well in his first game action.

"My curveball was working and I was able to throw a strike when I needed to, which is a good sign," he said.

Brewers: Hiram Burgos started in front of a largely reserve squad for Milwaukee, which also played a split-squad game against the Dodgers. Burgos has an outside chance of making the rotation but, barring an injury to another starter, more likely will start the season in Triple-A.

Brewers" Third baseman Aramis Ramirez didn't play in either of the Brewers' split-squad games and remains day to day following December surgery to remove a non-cancerous polyp from his colon.

Montero started at catcher, but the competition to be his backup is growing. Henry Blanco, who caught 58 games for Arizona in 2011 and 2012, is in camp as a non-roster player and could land a roster spot, particularly if Tuffy Gosewisch is slow to come back from a strained calf. The 30-year-old Gosewisch caught 14 games for the Diamondbacks last year. General manager Kevin Towers said Saturday that Bobby Wilson and Blake Lalli also are in the mix.

"It's pretty much wide open," said Towers, adding that no decision needs to be made before Arizona's stateside opener against San Francisco on March 31.

The Diamondbacks will have a 28-man roster for their two-game set against the Dodgers on March 22-23 in Australia. For his part, Gosewisch expects to be back on the field fairly soon after feeling his calf pull in a game against the Dodgers.

"It's fine," Gosewisch said. "It's not playable right now but I think it'll just be a couple of days before I'm back on the field."

Mark Reynolds, known for both his prodigious power and strikeout totals during four seasons with Arizona, started at third base for the Brewers. Reynolds, who hit 121 homers and struck out 767 times while with the Diamondbacks, singled home Schafer in the first and was hit by a pitch in the fourth.

Reynolds signed a minor league deal with Milwaukee in the offseason after batting a cumulative .220 with 21 home runs for the New York Yankees and Cleveland Indians.

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FreeBSD Basics

Using Ethereal

One of my favorite utilities in the ports collection is the network analyzer, Ethereal. I've used NT's Network Monitor and Novell's Lanalyzer, but I've found that neither matches the functionality of Ethereal.

If you've never used a network analyzer before, you may wonder why you'd want to use such a utility. If a network administrator is experiencing slow network performance, a network analyzer can help him pinpoint which NICs, cable segments, and protocols are generating the most traffic. The results can be used to determine if he needs to upgrade his cabling, change a faulty NIC, install a bridge, reorder his network bindings, consider using less chatty protocols, etc.

A security engineer can use the results to determine if his firewall system is responding to requests according to his security policy.

And finally, the results of a network analyzer provide the best learning environment to gain a practical understanding of the OSI model and how protocols actually interact with each other.

One word of caution before firing up any network analyzer: These utilities are designed to capture and show the contents of every frame that passes through a cable segment. Don't monitor a cable segment that is not part of your LAN unless you have explicit permission to do so.

Before you can use Ethereal, you'll need to configure your X Server and Window Manager. Once you have these, the easiest way to build Ethereal is from the ports collection. As root, and while connected to the Internet:

cd /usr/ports/net/ethereal
make && make install

Once this is finished:

whereis ethereal

Running a network analyzer is an administrative task. If you want to add Ethereal to a menu in your favorite Window Manager, you'll have to start your X Windows session as root. Alternately, you can start your X Window session as a regular user, open up an xterm, su to root, and start Ethereal from the xterm. If you start Ethereal as a regular user, the utility will launch but it won't display any interfaces to monitor.

Ethereal has the ability to use display and capture filters; creating these is beyond the scope of this article, but you can get more information on using filters by doing a:

man ethereal

and by checking out the main website for Ethereal. The FAQ will get you started and the useful links page is outstanding, especially if you wish to do more research on protocols and network analysis. Don't forget to order your free protocol posters when you visit the site.

Let's do some example captures. We'll start with a simple ping. I have a computer named alpha with an IP address of and another computer named gamma at I've fired up Ethereal on gamma, clicked on the capture menu, and pressed start. Because I'm root, I'm presented with the list of interfaces on gamma; I choose the one attached to my LAN cable segment and click OK. To make things a little more interesting, I'll forget to power on the computer named alpha.

Don't be afraid to try this exercise yourself; just ping a host that is either down or non-existent. I open up an xterm and type:

and wait; not surprisingly, nothing happens. I press Ctrl-C to end the ping and my xterm now reads:

PING ( 56 data bytes
ping: sendto: Host is down
--- ping statistics ---
7 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, 100% packet loss

Going back to Ethereal, I stop the capture and look at the results. I do have 7 packets listed, but they are all ARP (address resolution protocol) packets, not the ICMP echo/reply packets you would expect with ping.

For those of you who never had the opportunity to yawn your way through a lecture on the OSI model, I've just demonstrated the first rule of transmission on a TCP/IP network. No unicast packets can enter the wire until the MAC address of the NIC who will receive the packets is known; this is the job of ARP, the address resolution protocol.

As you can see from your capture, ARP isn't that complicated a protocol. It sends out a broadcast (the destination of ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff) onto the cable segment that asks who has tell This is the equivalent of your four-year-old yelling into a crowded room, "Where is my Mommy?" It's not the most elegant way of accomplishing a task, but it's usually quite effective.

Because wasn't available to answer, there was no MAC address to send packets to, and ping was unable to send out its ICMP packets.

Let's fire up alpha, start another capture, and try pinging again.

PING ( 56 data bytes
64 bytes from icmp_seq=0 ttl=255 time=0.675 ms
64 bytes from icmp_seq=1 ttl=255 time=0.522 ms
64 bytes from icmp_seq=2 ttl=255 time=0.508 ms
64 bytes from icmp_seq=3 ttl=255 time=0.498 ms
64 bytes from icmp_seq=4 ttl=255 time=0.509 ms
64 bytes from icmp_seq=5 ttl=255 time=0.524 ms
--- ping statistics ---
6 packets transmitted, 6 packets received, 0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 0.498/0.539/0.675/0.061 ms

If I end the capture, I'll see that 14 packets were captured. Two of these will be ARP packets; the first of these asks who has Tell The second is the reply from with its MAC address. The other 12 packets are ICMP packets; half of these are Echo (ping) requests, the other half are Echo (ping) replies.

If you repeat this capture again and transmit 6 packets, the capture will only show the 12 ICMP packets. What happened to the 2 ARP packets? To find out, from your xterm type:

arp -a
alpha ( at 0:0:b4:3c:56:40 [ethernet]

ARP utilizes a cache (area of memory) where it keeps a list of which MAC addresses it has recently resolved; this cuts down on the number of broadcasts. Since ARP already knew alpha's MAC address, it didn't have to issue another request for it.

If you type:

arp -d -a

you will remove all the entries in your ARP cache. And an

arp -a

will just return you back to your prompt.

If you now repeat the capture and ping, you'll notice the 2 extra ARP entries will reappear. And

arp -a

will show alpha's MAC address again.

Now let's look at some FTP traffic. At gamma, I've started a capture. At alpha, I've typed:

Connected to
220 gamma FTP server (Version 6.00LS) ready.
Name ( anonymous
530 User anonymous unknown.
ftp: Login failed.
Remote system type is UNIX.
Using binary mode to transfer files.

I haven't set up an anonymous FTP login account at gamma, so the login failed. When I stop the capture, I have a total of 10 packets.

The first three packets used the TCP protocol and represent TCP's three-way handshake as the flags were set at [SYN] (step 1 of handshake), [SYN, ACK] (step 2 of handshake), and [ACK] (step 3 of handshake). No FTP packets were sent until the handshake process finished successfully.

The first FTP packet was sent to alpha, and contained the information that first appeared on alpha's screen:

220 gamma FTP server (Version 6.00LS) ready.

This is actually the first packet we've captured that had a data payload attached to it. Highlight it in Ethereal and look at the second section of your Ethereal screen where it says:

+ Frame4
+ Ethernet II
+ Internet Protocol
+ Transmission Control Protocol
+ File Transfer Protocol

This section allows you to view the various encapsulations that each layer of the OSI model added to the original data packet, from the physical layer up to the application layer. If you click on the + next to a layer, you will expand all the gory details that that layer added to the IP header. If you highlight something interesting, note that a portion of the data in the third section of Ethereal will become darker. This section of Ethereal shows the actual 1s and 0s (written in hex) that were sent to the NIC. Keep in mind that your NIC is actually raising and lowering the voltages on the cable segment to transmit all these 1s and 0s. Isn't networking amazing?

The next 2 FTP packets are alpha's login information and gamma's response:

530 User anonymous unknown.
ftp: Login failed.

The last 2 FTP packets are alpha's request for system information, and gamma's response:

Remote system type is UNIX.
Using binary mode to transfer files.

Note that the FTP utility on alpha modified gamma's actual response slightly when it displayed it on alpha's screen.

The rest of the TCP packets are acknowledgements, as TCP is responsible for ensuring reliable delivery of data.

I've kept the FTP prompt at alpha, so let's start another capture:

ftp> quit
Connected to
220 gamma FTP server (Version 6.00LS) ready.
Name ( genisis
331 Password required for genisis.
230 User genisis logged in.
Remote system type is UNIX.
Using binary mode to transfer files.

If I end the capture and analyze the packets, the first 2 packets are the TCP packets that ended the failed FTP session. Note that alpha sent a [FIN, ACK] to request the connection be closed, and gamma responded with a [RST] to reset the connection to make it available to other potential TCP sessions.

This was followed by another three-way handshake involving 3 TCP packets. Take a close look at the FTP response/reply pairs. When the user genisis typed in the password at alpha, the FTP client did not display the password at the terminal. However, this information was sent in the clear to gamma and wasn't hidden from the packet analyzer -- one of many reasons why you don't analyze the traffic on other people's networks.

These exercises should provide you with a starting point for using Ethereal. If you are interested in how various operating systems send and receive network traffic, here are some interesting exercises to try on your own:

Start a capture on a cable segment with an NT Server and an NT workstation; power on the NT workstation and end your capture once it has successfully logged into the network.

Start a capture on a cable segment with a Novell server and a Novell client. From the Novell client, attach to the server and map a network drive.

Start a capture on a cable segment with an NFS server. Have an NFS client mount a filesystem being exported by the NFS server and copy data to and from the mountpoint.

Dru Lavigne is a network and systems administrator, IT instructor, author and international speaker. She has over a decade of experience administering and teaching Netware, Microsoft, Cisco, Checkpoint, SCO, Solaris, Linux, and BSD systems. A prolific author, she pens the popular FreeBSD Basics column for O'Reilly and is author of BSD Hacks and The Best of FreeBSD Basics.

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militant -- origin of the islamic militant group hezbollah and its global terrorist threat. >> also today retired general john allen who commanded forces in afghanistan discusses the progress of the war during his command and the future mission of the u.s. and nato in the country. general allen led the forces in afghanistan for 19 months from mid 2011 through february of this year. he'll be hosted by the brookings institution, and you can see his remarks live later in this morning at 10 a.m. eastern on c-span. >> tonight on "first ladies," called a bigamist and adulterer during her husband's 1828 presidential campaign, rachel jackson chis of an -- dies of an apparent heart attack. house hostess but is later dismissed as fallout from a scandal. and during the next administration, angelica van buren is the white house hostess for her father-in-law, president martin van buren, who is a widower. we'll include your questions and comments by phone, facebook and twitter live tonight at 9 ian on c-span and c-span3, also on c-span radio and >> now,ous foreign affairs -- house foreign a
israel. that is why iran and hezbollah are massively stepping up their support of the job -- assad regime. they provide fighters on the ground. much of this weaponry is close to iraq. that cannot continue without consequences. unfortunately, jihadists groups are gaining popularity. they have convinced too syrians that they are on their side. many others are preparing for the day after his fall. syrian extremists are translating their battle success into authority over society as a whole, influencing schools and mosques. most of those extremists are from outside syria. many have shared with us their concerns about the influx of these foreign fighters. there are concerns with these extremists. to avoid a hostile syria armed with chemical weapons, we need to help better organize and empower the syrian opposition. though syrians who began the revolt by chanting, peaceful, peaceful. we have let them down. others worry about it deeply prolonged engagement. the british and the french have come to realize that the biggest winner has been assad. everything should be considered, but the u.s. could
at them from gaza. they have chemical weapons in syria. they have hezbollah in their north. they have iran trying to build a nuclear weapon to eliminate them. the muslim brotherhood president of egypt. that strikes me as attacking the victim. >> greta: let me talk about the bigger picture issue. is this impossible for an american president? so many tried it, so many secretary of state's tried it and we manage the crisis from time to time, but the peace seems to be so elusive. >> i sometimes have trouble about being too candid about this. there is no peace process. this is nonsense. this is stuff western politicians do to feel good about themselves. hamas is dedicated to the destruction of israel. iran is dedicated to the destruction of israel. there are factions in syria dedicated to the destruction of israel. hezbollah is dedicated to the destruction of israel. muslim brotherhood want to destroy israel and elected the president. >> why did he go now in the second term? didn't seem to give much attention in the first term. why now? >> i have no idea. i think his polling numbers have gone
, that that will actually alter the region of equation. that also plays on the mind of hezbollah and dexter has just been in lebanon and done a piecn on hezbollah. it's the same logic. >> rose: pick up on that. >> it's moving supply thely beyond iraq. what worries me mostly about iraq right now -- >> there is always something beyond iraq. >> whate worries me about iraq s syria and what is happening inan syria and what is happening, asa far as we can tell, the sunnill rebellion in syria, which is a great thing, is basically restarting the political consciousness among want sunnis in iraq. it's not really restarting the insurgency yet, but you have a lot of cross-pol nizzation going on between the sunnis in iraq and the sunnis in syria. the sectarian sort of feeling, it's being driffen and fueled by the syrian revolt. we just saw the other day r members of the syrian army were freeing some rebels in syria. they crossed into iraq. they called ahead to their sunni friend in iraq who killed them. and so it's-- the border there is starting to look very, very blurry. and i think the-- you know, the prospect of
in harm's way in syria, because it is a syria war. it's hezbollah versus hamas. neither of which are friendly to us. >> again, richard, saying we don't understand the culture, when you look back ten years ago tonight, was we went into this, look at the costs. $1.7 trillion. >> right. >> benefits owed to war veterans, $490 billion. i mean, how can republicans who put this war on a credit card now say we need to tighten our belt and cut programs for the poor and working class? >> that's a great point. you know, the bush administration fired the economic adviser who said that the iraq war would cost about $100 billion. because they thought it was too much. they got it wrong about iraq. they also said, by the way, the iraq that had been invaded by america would become an ally against iran. they got that wrong, too. it's not just about the cost. strategic judgments were wrong. when dick cheney says it's more important to be successful than to be liked, he wasn't successful. his premise failed. from the beginning it failed. in the middle it failed and in the end. >> he certainly wasn't
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hezbollah what it truly is, a errorist organization. [applause] because the world cannot tolerate an organization that murders innocent civilians, stockpiles rockets to shoot at cities and is murdering women and children in syria right now. [applause] the fact that hezbollah's ally assad's regime has sock piled -- stockpiled chemical weapons as only heightened the urnlsi. we will continue the guard against that. i made it clear to assad and all that follow his orders, we will not tolerate the use of chemical weapons or the transfer of those weapons. the world is watching and we will hold you accountable. [applause] the syrian people have the right to be free from the grip of a dictator who would rather kill his own people than relinquish power. assad must go so that syria's future can begin. because true stability in syria depends on establishing a government that is responsible to its people. one that protects all communities within its borders while making peace with countries beyond them. that this is what i think about when i think about israel's security. when i think about i
hezbollah so why the u.s. doesn't want to get involved in another war in the middle east, this will be a discussion about where they see the civil war in syria heading. and what the chaos in syria heading and what the chaos could mean for the rest of the region. >> all right, thank you so much for that report live from jerusalem. >>> our coverage of the president's mideast visit does not end here. more live reports from jerusalem later on "america this morning" as well as "good morning america," and you can find additional background on >>> the pentagon has called a halt to the use of 60 millimeter mortar shells. seven marines killed. several others injured during exercises deep in the nevada desert. investigators trying to figure out white a mortar round fired in the firing tube during the exercise. >>> dramatic new details of the massacre plot averted on the university of central florida campus. police say the gunman had planned to pull the fire alarm and then start shooting as students rushed out of their dorms. that plot was stopped
. you have thousands now of al qaeda fighters joining the fight here and hezbollah. you have chemical weapons at stake and veconventional weapon at stake. we're one of the few nations with the capability to train people. it's about small groups, special capabilities, so that you leverage our credibility so we can get a diplomatic solution and secure those weapon systems. that's a good day for america, but you have to make the decision to move forward. again, i think indecision here at this point, given the way we see what's happening on the ground, is dangerous for our national security. >> worth pointing out again, some 70,000 people have been killed as this fight has continued on. chairman rogers, great to see you, thank you so much. we'll continue talking about this very important issue. >> thanks, kate, and welcome back. >>> the last time prince harry visited the u.s., he ended up needing to explain some scandalous nude pictures taken in las vegas. well, he's just scheduled another u.s. visit. find out where he is and isn't going. coming up next. acceler-rental. at a hertz express
's not about shiite and sunni and hezbollah. i think the real urgent issue i think they have to move forward because we are witness to a great tragedy in that part of the world. >> but, alex, it always turns back to the united states. afghanistan, after 9/11. iraq when, you know, a lot of our allies, other than french, the french were saying, got weapons of mass destruction we have to do about it now in syria. do we continue to exist in the middle of an international order where nothing is done unless it's kids from kansas and california and upstate new york and florida that do the fighting? >> yeah. i think this is one of those moments where, i think, you can almost sense the internal conflict in the white house giving the agagenocide. i don't know how the president will commit any troops given the state of affair of our troops when they return home, 600,000 veterans are stale waiting for their claims to send more boys and women, men and women over there. it would not seem to be any actual support for that. at the same time, how do you reconcile that with the blood shed? 70,000 people are d
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