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ROCKFORD — Judge Eugene Doherty on Thursday denied Rockford Police Chief Chet Epperson's request for a temporary restraining order in his fight with the union.
The ruling means the union can proceed with its disciplinary complaint against the chief. The complaint is scheduled to be heard by the Fire and Police Commissioners on July 21.
Thomas McGuire, Epperson's lawyer, argued in court that commissioners do not have authority to hire, fire or discipline the chief, and they should not consider the union's complaints.
McGuire portrayed the union's complaints as a power play for control over the police department. But McGuire acknowledged his argument — that Mayor Larry Morrissey has sole legal authority over the chief with advice and consent of the Rockford City Council — raises questions about how Epperson was named chief.
McGuire said by ordinance the chief should be appointed by the mayor with the consent of the City Council. If there was a mistake made in how Epperson was named chief, he still remains police chief under legal precedent, McGuire said.
"That gets to the issue of what if the mayor did not lawfully appoint my client, the chief of police, to his office ... is he the chief of police?" McGuire said. "As a matter of law, the answer is yes."
Only the "appointing authority," McGuire argued, has legal standing to discipline the chief of police.
Dan McGrail, lawyer for the Police Benevolent & Protective Association Unit 6, said the arguments over whether commissioners have jurisdiction over the chief was an attempt to prevent a full hearing over the union's complaints about Epperson's conduct.
"There is no dispute that the police and fire commission appointed this chief," McGrail said. "This entire proceeding is just a distraction to keep us from getting to the truth."
McGrail said for decades the commission has appointed the police and fire chiefs of Rockford and questioning it was akin to questioning the sunrise. He read minutes from the April 2006 Rockford City Council meeting in which Morrissey thanked the commission for appointing the chief.
An April 11, 2006, Rockford Register Star news story called it a promotion, not appointment. The story said the commission voted 2-1 to promote Epperson, then a 26-year Rockford police veteran, to the rank of chief.
Judge Doherty was incredulous that neither side could produce a document that clearly stated Epperson's appointment and by what authority.
"This is an odd thing to argue and not grab hold of," Doherty said.
Doherty later ruled that Epperson "failed to show that the mayor, as opposed to the Board of Commissioners, has the power to hire and to discharge a chief of police. Plaintiff has an adequate remedy at law, as the actions of the Board of Commissioners are all subject to judicial administrative review."
All the legal wrangling stems from an October incident at the home of NAACP Rockford Chapter President Lloyd Johnston in which officers were asked to conduct a welfare check on his adult son.
Johnston refused to allow the officers into his home, calling Epperson while the officers were on his porch. Johnston complained about the officers' conduct and refusal to say why they were asking for access to his house.
Officer and union President Terry Peterson said Epperson's advice to Johnston to not allow officers access and assertion he would send in a supervisor undermined his officers and potentially endangered residents.
Morrissey has defended the chief saying his actions defused a potentially volatile situation and led to the incident's peaceful resolution. No arrests were made.
Union officials have asked the commission to review the chief's actions. But Epperson has fought against a formal review saying the commission does not have the authority to bring such an action and that the proper venue for its complaints would have been a labor grievance under the collective bargaining agreement.
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JACKSON, Mississippi -- A Mississippi congressman on Tuesday asked the FBI to review the slaying of an openly gay mayoral candidate to determine if any federal laws might have been violated.
U.S. Rep. Bennie Thompson's district includes Clarksdale, where Marco McMillian was running. McMillian, 33, was found slain last week in a rural area nearby.
Thompson, a Democrat, said Tuesday that he has confidence in the sheriff investigating the death but that he wants the FBI to get involved because that's what McMillian's family wants.
"If another set of eyes looking at it would provide additional information, I think it would be helpful to the McMillian family," Thompson told The Associated Press in a phone interview.
An FBI spokeswoman didn't immediately respond to an emailed request for comment after hours.
McMillian's campaign had said he was one of the first openly gay, viable candidates for public office in Mississippi.
Coahoma County sheriff's spokesman Will Rooker said the investigation continues and authorities are looking at all possibilities, including whether hate crime laws would apply.
Mississippi's hate crimes law covers acts motivated by bias against a victim's race but not sexual orientation. However, a federal hate crimes law covers bias against sexual orientation. Thompson, the top Democrat on the House Homeland Security Committee, said the FBI could determine if a hate crimes charge should be considered.
McMillian was black, as is the man charged last week with murder in the case, Lawrence Reed, 22.
The cause of death has not been released. An autopsy was performed, but toxicology tests are pending, and authorities say it could take two weeks to get those results.
In a news release, Thompson said: "The level of violence shown in this incident is unconscionable and the perpetrator of this atrocious act should be held accountable to the full extent of the law."
McMillian's godfather, Carter Womack, said the Coahoma County coroner told family members that someone dragged McMillian's body under a fence and left it near a Mississippi River levee.
The victim's family had said in a statement that the body was "beaten, dragged and burned," leading some to assume it was dragged by a car.
Coahoma County Coroner Scotty Meredith said he doesn't want anyone to make inaccurate assumptions about the death.
He told AP on Tuesday night that McMillian was not dragged by a car, he was dragged out of a vehicle by someone and his body left near the levee. He said the burns were postmortem and in a couple of small places on the body.
"My concern is to determine the manner and cause of death and let law enforcement do their jobs," Meredith said, adding that he wants to help the family in any way he can. "It's all about getting closure for them, and the truth."
Another person with direct knowledge of the investigation confirmed to AP that McMillian's body was bruised and there were burns on at least one area. The person wasn't authorized to publicly comment and spoke on condition of anonymity.
An investigation began Feb. 26 after McMillian's SUV slammed head-on into another vehicle on U.S. Highway 49 near the Coahoma and Tallahatchie county lines.
Reed was driving the car, but McMillian was not in it, authorities say. McMillian's body was found the next day.
Thompson said he has known McMillian for years. Thompson said his daughter and McMillian attended Jackson State University at the same time, and one of his congressional staffers was McMillian's fraternity sponsor.
Thompson told AP: "He was a very talented young man who had a bright future."


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The Talker: Remembering Philip Seymour Hoffman
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An autopsy was scheduled Monday for Philip Seymour Hoffman, who was found dead Sunday afternoon at his home after an apparent drug overdose. Hoffman, 46, was in 60 movies in his 20-year career, which included an Academy Award for Best Actor for the 2005 biopic "Capote."
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Amazing Race's Josh and Brent: We'd Rather Be the Worst Winners Than the Best Losers
Need proof that the only leg that matters is the final leg on The Amazing Race? The Fabulous Beekman Boys' Josh and Brent - who had finished second to last six times during season and never in the top two before the finale - defied the odds and a three-team alliance to win the $1 million. They are the third team to win the Race without winning a previous leg. "We were the underdogs, but we didn't give up no matter how bad things got," Josh tells TVGuide.com. "I think we earned the win." Nevertheless, given their low placements throughout the Race and the fact that they seemed ready to throw in the towel to save Abbie and Ryan in Amsterdam, some fans believe they're unworthy winners. Find out why they don't mind that label, what they're doing with the money and more.
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Congratulations! What was going through your mind when you got to the finish?
Brent: We couldn't believe it. It's still kind of surreal.
Do you know how far behind the Chippendales were?
Josh: Maybe 25 to 30 minutes? I don't know actually. [Laughs] It's hard to tell because we were just in a daze in that moment.
Did you think you had this in the bag knowing you left the flags first?
Brent: We knew where Gotham Hall was from our time in the city, but regardless, we still talked to someone with an iPhone and checked and double-checked to make sure we were going to the right place. So we felt pretty confident and we had a great cab driver there at the end.
How long did the flags take you, Josh? They showed the time elapsed at two and a half hours when the sun was setting and by the time you finished, it was completely dark.
Josh: It felt like three and a half or more hours. It took a long time. But I knew once I reduced it to a mathematical problem after I did the ones I knew, I just calculated how many options there were and went through them one by one. Really, that was the only way to finish. We calculated it out and there were well over 1,100 different options and I would've stood there and done every single one. [Laughs]
I think a lot of people thought you had a mental advantage over the Chippendales, and Trey and Lexi. Were you surprised at how long it took you or that you didn't remember most of the greetings?
Josh: No, I really wasn't surprised. Once I figured out the formula, I knew that it was literally trying one flag next to another one over and over again until I got it. As soon as I realized that neither Lexi nor James could remember any more than I did, I knew that they were in the same boat I was.
You had a pretty defeatist attitude for a bit, especially in Amsterdam when you beat Abbie and Ryan. Were you really serious about bowing out for them?
Brent: We didn't want to necessarily lose or drop out, but from the very start of the Race, we could see on everyone's faces that this is a huge life-changing opportunity. ... I don't know if we were more sensitive than the other people who were racing, but it's really hard to see someone's dream come to an end. It was hard after every elimination, but we had grown close with Abbie and Ryan.
Did you think Abbie and Ryan deserved to advance further than you? That's what you were implying at the mat and when you wanted to wait for them to do the other Detour.
Josh: We checked ourselves at that moment. We always wanted to make sure that we didn't just win the Race. We wanted to run the Race in a way that we'd be proud of ourselves. We wanted to make sure that we weren't going against our own values and our own way of working together. We did check ourselves, but then we made the right decision to go ahead. Ryan and Abbie would totally back it up that there was no choice for us but to continue.
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How much did seeing the other three teams' alliance motivate you?
Brent: That was actually the biggest motivator. We took a different strategy to the Race. From watching 20 other seasons of The Amazing Race, we saw that it wasn't usually one team defeating another; it was a team defeating itself. That was really our strategy going in: not break down among ourselves. I think when we got to that point and saw that these other teams not only formed an alliance, but they formed one because they perceived us to be a weaker team, that made us go, "You know what? We've accomplished a lot in our lives. By no means were we the weakest team there and we have to prove it."
Natalie and Nadiya seemed to take the most umbrage to you guys.
Brent: We'll go on the record and say the twins are great girls. They're smart and funny - they kept us laughing the entire Race.
Josh: And they're super-competitive. They're terrific girls. They played to win and that's what a competitor does.
Do you think they were so upset with you because their plan backfired? They got rid of Abbie and Ryan and they didn't expect you guys to be beating them.
Josh: Yeah, definitely. I think they would've been upset no matter who was beating them. They're just great competitors. I don't think there was necessarily anything against us. We just happened to be at that moment their biggest threat. ... They were trying to psych us out just as much as we were trying to psych them out.
You guys did a better job of that at the dog food Detour.
Brent: That was funny because as soon as we saw that they couldn't talk and chop at the same time, we knew we had to keep them talking, so that's what we did.
That leg, you left the caves last. Did you think that was it?
Josh: I have to admit that on that car ride, we thought it was over, especially when we hit a detour - an actual detour, not a Race Detour. [Laughs] The twins had been self-navigating so well that day - they caught up to all of us after their Speed Bump - so knowing they left first and were doing so well navigating, I was really shocked to find out we were third.
Luck is a big part of the Race. How much of your whole season do you think can be attributed to luck? You guys stayed in by the skin of your teeth on a lot of legs.
Brent: Yeah, you're absolutely right. There's a lot of luck that goes into the game. I would say maybe 60 percent of the game is luck. But here's our thought on it: Every team at the starting line started out with the same amount of good luck and bad luck. Part of the Race is trying to deal with the chips as they fall, and when you're having bad luck, figuring out how to turn that around, and when you're having good luck, figuring out how to run with it. I think some of the other teams maybe did not have as much life experience as we've had and maybe weren't as good at being attuned to different situations. It's different when you're always in the front and then you then fall to the back - how are you going to respond to that? That's how life is. That's why we always go with the flow.
What was your lowest moment?
Brent: I think our lowest moment was probably when we missed the connecting flight, which put us so far behind. To that point, we had been pretty middle-of-the-road. I think we were 14 and a half hours behind and on the Race, that's almost insurmountable.
Josh: People will say we're the luckiest team ever, but one of the things that proved how hard we worked to stay in the Race was we were 14 and a half hours behind and by the time we set off for Spain, we were only three hours behind. [Flight and train] schedules are part of it, but we did make up time at some tasks.
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Some fans think you're the worst winners ever because of your low placements and never having finished higher than third before the finale. What do you have to say?
Brent: As I said, we started middle of the pack. I think just because of the way the last half of the Race went, people thought that we were always at the end. ... And there was quite a bit switching around before Tex and Lex started dominating the last few legs. I think that because of approach that we took in that we weren't always gunning to be the first team to reach the mat, when it came down to the end when it really mattered, we weren't mentally exhausted, so we could make the right decisions.
Josh: Let me go on record as saying, I would always rather be the worst winner than the best loser!
Isn't the goal ultimately to win the final leg anyway?
Brent: That's right. That's what a lot of people, particularly the people watching the show at home, lose sight of. Ultimately, it's not about winning every leg; it's just not losing a leg.
What are you going to do with the money?
Josh: We're going to pay off the mortgage on our farm so that I can move up to Sharon Springs [in upstate New York] full time and we can be together again. We're also going to buy a building on the main street in our village that will become the headquarters of our business. ... We're also starting a line of food products, where 25 percent of the profits will go to help other farmers pay off their mortgages.
Brent: Right now, we're working on our next cookbook. That comes out next fall. And just keep on farming!
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Editorial: CIA abuses aren't history
The CIA calls them "the family jewels,'' which make the documents sound like something precious. On the contrary, they are a shameful record of decades of embarrassing missteps and outrageous abuses of power by America's spies.
The documents, released this week, provide new details on CIA activities in the 1960s and 1970s, many of them previously uncovered. They tell of assassination plots, both successful and not, of domestic wiretapping operations, the infiltration of antiwar groups and mind control experiments.
From this distance documents can seem comical, but nonetheless disturbing. The CIA partnered with the mafia in repeated attempts to assassinate Cuba's Fidel Castro, and the mafia expected favors in return. Thus, we had CIA agents bugging the hotel room of comedian Dan Rowan to determine if the "Laugh-in'' star was sleeping with a mob boss's girlfriend. As John Kennedy, Robert Kennedy - who approved the attempts on Castro's life - and the nation soon learned, assassination is no laughing matter.
The CIA released the documents - which remain heavily censored, indicating there are still some sins officials don't want to confess - in an attempt to score points for candor.
"I firmly believe that the improved system of intelligence oversight that came out of the
1970s gives the CIA a far stronger place in our democratic system,'' CIA director Michael Hayden said in releasing the documents.
He should tell that to a judge in Italy, where 25 CIA agents are being tried in absentia, charged with kidnapping an Egyptian cleric. The trial, now recessed until October pending the appeal of a ruling, is a test of the agency's "extraordinary rendition program.'' He should ask the more than 100 terror suspects held since 2002 in the CIA's secret prisons overseas, subjected to interrogation techniques often described as torture.
The incidents of domestic surveillance described in the family jewels documents are dwarfed by the electronic surveillance program currently operating under the National Security Agency. There are also intelligence operations being run out of the Pentagon for which there is less oversight than for CIA operations.
The family jewels papers are lively reading, important to policy-makers as well as historians. But it's not what the CIA was doing 30 years ago that truly merits our attention. It is what the spies are up to now.


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PITTSBURGH, PA.— A 2-year-old boy visiting the Pittsburgh zoo was killed Sunday morning when he fell off a railing that his mother had put him on top of to view a pack of African painted dogs, who pounced on the child and mauled him, police said.
It was not clear whether the boy died from the fall into the wild dog exhibit area or from the attack, said Barbara Baker, president and CEO of the Pittsburgh Zoo & PPG Aquarium.
"It was very horrific," said Lt. Kevin Kraus of the Pittsburgh police, who added that the dogs attacked "immediately" after the boy fell at about 11:45 a.m. Zoo officials at first estimated the boy fell 4.26 metres , but police said it was 3.35 metres . It was not clear which is correct.
When the boy fell, other visitors immediately told staff members, who responded along with Pittsburgh police. Zookeepers called off some of the dogs, and seven of them immediately went to a back building. Three more eventually were drawn away from the child, but the last dog was aggressive and police had to shoot the animal, officials say.
The zoo was immediately closed; it was not clear when it would be reopened, authorities said.
Authorities didn't immediately release the name of the boy or his mother, but say she is 34 years old and lives in Pleasant Hills, just outside Pittsburgh. The boy's father arrived on the scene soon after the accident, police said.
The dogs are about as big as medium-sized domestic dogs, according to the zoo. African wild dogs are also known as cape hunting dogs, spotted dogs, and painted wolves. They have large, rounded ears and dark brown circles around their eyes and are considered endangered.
The dogs hunt in packs in the wild, and Baker said that they "were in pack mentality" during the attack.
The dogs normally live in an exhibit called the Painted Dog Bush Camp that's part of a larger open area called the African Savanna, where elephants, lions and other animals can be seen. Visitors walk onto a deck that is glassed on the sides, but open in front where the railing is located. Visitors can look out at the dogs below.
Zoo officials said there is also a mesh barrier beyond the railing, but Kraus said it was designed to catch small objects such as cameras, and not humans.
Steve Feldman, a spokesman for the Association of Zoos and Aquariums, said no one he's spoken to can recall any deaths of children at an accredited zoo over the last 40 years or more. Feldman said the Pittsburgh Zoo successfully completed its five-year review in September, which means it meets or exceeds all safety standards.
In May, some of the dogs crawled under a fence and escaped into a part of the exhibit that's usually closed. The zoo was on lockdown for about an hour as a precaution.
Past fatal attacks at zoos have prompted zoos around the nation to review safety features of their exhibits. In 2007, a tiger jumped over a wall at the San Francisco zoo, killing one visitor and wounding two others. In September a man jumped off an elevated viewing train at the Bronx Zoo in New York and was severely mauled by tigers.
Baker said the Pittsburgh Zoo has never had a visitor death. She said no decision has been made yet on the future of the exhibit.


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Poetry Dispatch No. 241| June 15, 2008
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David Pichaske
in celebrations of Father's Day, June 15, 2008
On my small shelf of poetry books devoted entirely to "father" this one, THE FATHER POEMS by David Pichaske, is among my very favorites–a book I open throughout the year and discover yet something else I needed to know about fatherhood. It's also a favorite because I pursued the possibility of this collection, having read only a few of the individual poems, and happily, proudly, finally published a limited edition in 2005. They deserve a wider, appreciative audience, simply because they are so damn good. They speak to our age, our time, the role of parents on our own families. In fifty-five pages, twenty-seven perfect poems, David Pichaske covers the entire spectrum of the father experience, with heart, humor, and head. I especially love the last poem included here, "Opinions and Facts"—where the poet brings in the Grandfather's voice as well. Norbert Blei
Teach Your Children Well
"and feed them on your dreams"
—Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
Can tell you only what I have come to know:
clean, black cut of new-paved road
(always north and always uphill)
flanked by yellow beans and khaki corn;
behind, hollow moon dragging her sullen face
toward dark tangle of the Yellow Medicine River
(cottonwood, deer, fox, and pheasant);
ahead, flame of northern lights, aurora borealis,
and, always, firm distance of the pole star.
The Raised Fist of the Father
"I am speaking of heights more than fathers,
though the two tend to go together." —David Allen Evans
We have seen him only in the briefest moments,
distanced, silhouetted against the setting sun.
His head is thrown back, his mouth open
in a cry of anger, pain, or exaltation,
his fist clenched in admonition, defiance, or joy.
His hair is full, the body without sex,
that of a Sioux warrior or the young Christ.
The clothing is indistinct, and
the voice too remote to be understood.
Perhaps it is the surprised cry of the soldier
felled by a sniper in Iraq or Vietnam.
Perhaps it is a cry of triumph,
at Marathon or after the last game of the World Series.
Perhaps it's a warning: do not come where I am.
Sometimes we hear in it nothing more than a toast,
in French or Gaelic,
in a Montmartre cafe or a Dun Loaghaire pub.
Maybe this is Martin Luther
hammering his theses to a church door.
Perhaps this is Pete Townshend,
throwing the neck of a broken guitar to fans.
Perhaps this man is singing or dancing,
or possibly he is just sore at his kids.
Maybe he's drunk or unsteady, or
has twisted his ankle and is falling backwards.
At this distance, who can tell?
Perhaps the fist is not a fist, but a waving hand;
perhaps the voice is not a cry, but a call.
Opinions and Facts
"We're learning about opinions and facts.
This is very hard stuff."
—Megan Pichaske
You're darned tootin'.
Half the teachers at my school
wouldn't know a hawk from a handsaw
whichever way the wind was blowing.
Feelings pass for ideas these days,
and ideology masquerades as truth.
Put that down for a fact.
Scientists usually get things right:
organic chemistry is not "how I feel."
The speed of light is not "gender biased."
The etiology of AIDS is not "homophobic."
And the athletes—they understand:
You kick this ball into that net.
Throw the ball, hit the ball, catch the ball.
It wasn't post-colonial racism blocked your spike,
Not the patriarchy blocked that free throw.
These are facts a smart girl knows.
Here's a few others:
Megan Pichaske is the smartest kid
in the whole second grade.
Matthew Pichaske rocks.
Addison Pichaske rules.
Your mommy and daddy love you.
God exists—without qualms.
You can't argue with an ideologue,
because they're not very smart.
Put these down as facts.
Your grandpa told you so.
from THE FATHER POEMS, David Pichaske, Cross+Roads Press, PO Box 33 Ellison Bay, WI 54210, $10


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Home Energy Magazine Online July/August 1997
Energy Conservation: A Great Investment AgainIf you read only the news headlines, it's easy to believe that investments in energy conservation have gone the way of the dodo bird. The price of energy, be it electricity, gas, or oil, has been stable (or falling) and shows no sign of an increase in the foreseeable future. Deregulation of the utilities may also continue to put downward pressure on energy prices.
At the same time, the prices of the two key inputs to most conservation measures, labor and materials, have increased. These higher costs and lower savings make for lower returns on investment. So what makes conservation investments worth reconsidering? The answer, in a word, is interest.
In the last few years, interest rates have plummeted from the highs of the 1980s, when certificates of deposit and bonds offered consumers more than 15%. Today, if you have the extra money to invest, you will be lucky to get more than 5%. And while you may have made a killing in the stock market before, putting your money there now is not as lucrative a prospect for the long haul. In general, nonspeculative investments, like bonds, have entered a period of low returns where 8% sounds good.
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Developers of Apache, the Internet's most widely used webserver application, have released an update that causes websites to ignore privacy settings in the upcoming release of Microsoft's Internet Explorer.
The changes, which came to light late last week, suppress privacy settings controlled by Do Not Track, a proposed Web standard that is intended to give end users a simple means to register their request that their browsing habits not be tracked by Websites and ad networks. The patch was written by Roy Fielding, one of the architects of Do Not Track, who publicly accused Microsoft of violating requirements in language accompanying the standard dictating that Do Not Track preferences be sent to websites only when users specifically enable them in configuration settings. Fielding is also an employee of Adobe Systems, developer of the ubiquitous Flash Player.
"The only reason DNT exists is to express a non-default option," Fielding wrote in a post defending the change. "That's all it does. It does not protect anyone's privacy unless the recipients believe it was set by a real human being, with a real preference for privacy over personalization."
Fielding went on to say, "Microsoft deliberately violates the standard."
The text of the Do Not Track standard states, "The goal of this protocol is to allow a user to express their personal preference regarding tracking to each server and web application that they communicate with via HTTP, thereby allowing each service to either adjust their behavior to meet the user's expectations or reach a separate agreement with the user to satisfy all parties." It goes on to say:
"Key to that notion of expression is that it must reflect the user's preference, not the choice of some vendor, institution, or network-imposed mechanism outside the user's control."
Critics of the Apache update contend Microsoft's Do Not Track implementation, which will be included in the upcoming version 10 of IE, is in compliance with the standard. A screen that is displayed when a user first uses the operating system offers two choices: Express settings and a more detailed Customized settings. The same screen explicitly states that choosing the Express option will turn on Do Not Track.
Some critics of the Apache update also claimed it was motivated by financial considerations, since many websites and most ad networks stand to profit by serving ads tailored to a specific viewer's browsing habits. Fielding is an employee of Adobe, whose widely used Flash Player is required to view many online ads.
"Adobe is actively trying to subvert privacy," privacy researcher Chris Soghoian wrote in a tweet over the weekend. "If Roy Fielding was not drawing a paycheck from Adobe, would he have submitted that patch?" he wrote in another.
Adobe and Microsoft spokespersons declined to comment for this article, but the latter company recently defended its implementation of Do Not Track and said there were no plans to change it.


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The beauty really is blinding in all these photos! GORGEOUS!ReplyDelete
All these shades of green and yellow are beautiful. I love seeing spring on your pictures :-)ReplyDelete
Oh I really want to come and visit you Rosa! The landscape looks just amazing!ReplyDelete
Sooooo beautiful, Rosa! Yellow always makes me full of the joys of approaching summer!ReplyDelete
As always, very breathtaking photos!!ReplyDelete
Winter is over! Welcome to Light Spring.ReplyDelete
Wow!!! Magnifique Rosa! J'ai bien hâte que le temps s'améliore chez moi... beaucoup de pluie ces temps-ci.ReplyDelete
Bonne journée xx
Its interesting to see visually the gradual arrival of spring/summer in your weekly updatesReplyDelete
Truly magnificent, Rosa! Spring in all her beauty.ReplyDelete
Rosa absolutely amazing and spring views! Love these pictures! gloriaReplyDelete
C'est toujours aussi beau... on a l'impression que la nature a changé d'un coup par rapport à tes précédentes photos). Le printemps est bien là (ici c'est même l'été!).Bises...ReplyDelete
Spring is so magnificently green over there. Breathtaking!ReplyDelete
C'est superbe la vie qui revient avec force et majesté.ReplyDelete
Oh, I am absolutely blinded by this beauty. Beautiful Rosa!!ReplyDelete
What lovely views of the road. Your artistic eye is fabulous Rosa.ReplyDelete
Ici, au Québec, nous avons vraiment un printemps merdique (innondations partout, toujours gris et pluvieux). Je dois te dire que tes photos sont un baume pour mon coeur. Après l'hiver, je n'en peux plus... Que de belles couleurs sur ces photos:)ReplyDelete
Green is the colour of nature, fertility, life.ReplyDelete
Awesome clicks ♥
Absolutely gorgeous photos (as always!)ReplyDelete
GORGEOUS pictures! Makes me want to be outside!ReplyDelete
Love the shades of yellow and green.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous12:48 AM, May 05, 2011
I have walked this path you showed us.What a pleasure to be one with nature.Great photo;s..indeed no words needed.ReplyDelete
J'ai reconnu les grands cyprès qui permettent de comparer avec les photos de l'automne et de l'hiver combien la nature a changé.ReplyDelete
MAGNIFICENT PHOTOS! What a beautiful combination of yellow and green ... Great post Rosa.ReplyDelete
Have a lovely week!! =(^.^)=
- Anonymous2:51 AM, May 05, 2011
It was a pleasure walking this road you gave us.Words are not necessary ..just take yourself and be happy in the nature.Thanks for sharingReplyDelete
Gorgeous, nice backround music.ReplyDelete
love the green shade with that bright yellow and then road in between .. beautiful !ReplyDelete
Ca donne envie d'aller fouler l'herbe pieds nus !ReplyDelete
Quelle transformation entre les photos que tu avais prises au tout début du printemps ! Profite de cette belle saison !
- Anonymous6:31 AM, May 05, 2011
Such beautiful landscapes!ReplyDelete
Breath-Taking, Rosa! Absolutely superb scenery views--The Second photo is my favorite :)ReplyDelete
what a difference to the pics a gew weeks ago...ReplyDelete
Tu as la chance d'habiter une bien belle région, mais ce que tu en fais, au fil du temps, est un hommage à sa hauteur. J'aime bien visiter la Suisse, où je ne suis jamais allée, grâce à toi :))ReplyDelete
I love how the yellow flowers are lined in such a way!ReplyDelete
Les beaux jours reviennent, la preuve en images... et quelles images !ReplyDelete
stunningly beautiful ! love the colors...ReplyDelete
Beautiful! I wish I could walk down all of those paths:)ReplyDelete
Oh! Where's this place? Geneva?ReplyDelete
Truly beautiful!ReplyDelete
Gorgeous photos :) By the way, what camera do you use?ReplyDelete
I`m in love with first pic, Rosa!ReplyDelete
Great pictures! I love the structure the vertical lines of the trees give to your frames.ReplyDelete
Absolutely magnificient. You brighten my day!ReplyDelete
Such gorgoeus pictures! Love the green and the yellow against the blue skies.ReplyDelete
You take such beautiful photos!ReplyDelete
wonderful... really, here in Montreal we're still waiting for the real Spring. Your pics make me envy!! Giorgia & CyrilReplyDelete
Finally, Rosa! Spring, soon into summer. What lovely colors nature gives us!ReplyDelete
C'est l'été Rosa.ReplyDelete
un beau paysage c'est le printempsReplyDelete
magnifiques photos bravo Rosa
bonne soirée
Wonderfully blinding, Rosa! Your eyes must've ached with the sheer beauty of it. :-)ReplyDelete
O, these are lovely! So pretty and representative of Spring!ReplyDelete
- Anonymous7:28 AM, May 06, 2011
Gorgeous shades of yellow and green. INspiring.ReplyDelete
I can't believe the colors and the definition of those pics - so beautiful :)ReplyDelete
Where IS that??? I feel like having a picnic there TODAY!ReplyDelete
and then a nap, in the shade of a tree...
Rosa those photos are just so full of spring I wish I could run right through those fields of yellow flowers!!! Beautiful! :)ReplyDelete
Absolutely gorgeous Rosa. I'd like to picnic in that fiekd under a tree.ReplyDelete
Ccette serie la respire la joie, l'exaltation.ReplyDelete
Bon weekend Rosa.
it's a paradise on earth!ReplyDelete
Rosa, your landscape photos are the best!ReplyDelete
Gorgeous trees! lovely shots Rosa! cheers!ReplyDelete
Beautiful photos as always!ReplyDelete
Fabulous as always!!ReplyDelete
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- Anonymous12:49 PM, May 09, 2011
I love the beauty that surrounds you!!!ReplyDelete
Une merveille comme d'habitude ! tout est magnifique !ReplyDelete
LAURA'S KITCHEN: Yes. It is in the Geneva countryside, close to the Salève mountain and French border.ReplyDelete
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1:30 P.M. NOV.4 UPDATE: Campus ready for classes; Dinky shuttle buses still running
1:30 P.M. NOV. 4 UPDATE: Campus ready for classes; Dinky shuttle buses still running
Nearly a week after Hurricane Sandy struck the northeastern states, the University is ready to resume classes Monday after fall recess and to continue all normally scheduled operations.
Over the weekend, electricity was restored to most off-campus buildings and efforts were under way to bring power to the few remaining buildings lacking power: the boathouse at Lake Carnegie, 306 Alexander Rd., 755 Alexander Rd., 58-60 William St., Ferris Thompson Apartments, 20-26 Western Way and Stanworth Apartments.
Power to buildings on campus had been restored Thursday, and most — including dormitories — had lost power only briefly as the University switched to its cogeneration plant when utility lines failed.
Through Saturday night, TigerTransit buses had shuttled more than 1,200 people between Princeton Junction station and the train station on campus. The buses were taking the place of "Dinky" train service, which was suspended in the aftermath of the storm.
New Jersey Transit has restored some train lines. including the Northeast Corridor line between Trenton and Penn Station in New York City. Northeast Corridor trains were running on a special schedule.
The TigerTransit shuttles will run until either New Jersey Transit begins its own shuttle service or the Dinky begins runnning again.
All University employees were expected to report to work Monday as scheduled.
Many residents of Princeton borough and township as well as neighboring towns remained without power Sunday. Major roads in the Princeton area were open, although some secondary streets remained blocked.
The state of New Jersey had gas rationing orders in effect over the weekend in several counties, although Mercer County, in which the University is located, was not one of them.
Campus events were back on schedule over the weekend, although the annual Community and Staff Day was postponed until Saturday, Nov. 17, and Dining By Design was being moved back to December.
The Office of Admission announced last week that it is extending the single-choice early action deadline for all students to Wednesday, Nov. 7. All applications must be submitted online or postmarked by this date unless personal or hurricane-related issues make it difficult or impossible to file the appropriate forms.
This extension also applies to students who are submitting applications through the QuestBridge process. The financial aid deadline for early action remains Saturday, Nov. 10. For any counselors, teachers or recommenders who may be affected by the hurricane, the Office of Admission will be flexible on the submission of school forms and supporting documents.


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Oh, deer! A restaurant in Williamsburg, Kentucky gets in trouble for wheeling in some roadkill and earns a spot on our RidicuList.
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Dear Readers: I am surprised you are all so surprised; have you never seen or heard or read about what happens in restaurants in China How live dogs are brought in for consumption, how live monkeys' heads are sliced open, so that their great delicacy is to eat their brains? And I am talking, or rather writing, about LIVE monkeys. Shame.
Are we civilized or are we not?
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hahahaha! My family would order takeout here all the time! Though this is pretty disgusting if you start thinking about what you ate. I'm a vegetarian so hopefully I didn't get any deer in my tofu. But this was the best Chinese restaurant! If you had ordered takeout from here, you would have been in love! I'm not even joking.
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Secondhand smoke kills 600,000 worldwide annually
1 in 100 people around the world die from secondhand smoke each year, a new study reveals, and nearly two-thirds of the deaths occur in children.
Health officials have known that more than 1 billion people around the world smoke and 5 million people die each year from tobacco-related illness, according to the World Health Organization. That's about one person dying every six seconds.
But just how many people are sickened by secondhand smoke has been less clear, which led researchers to try to investigate how big the problem is. Based on 2004 data gathered from 192 countries, researchers estimate "as many as 40 percent of children, 35 percent of women, and 33 percent of men are regularly exposed to secondhand smoke indoors," according to a WHO study published in the British medical journal The Lancet.
"Tobacco use is one of the biggest public health threats the world has ever faced," says the WHO. More than 80 percent of the more than 1 billion smokers worldwide live in low- and middle-income countries, where the burden of tobacco-related illness and death is heaviest. The study authors estimate that 165,000 children under the age of 5 die each year from lower respiratory infections caused by second-hand smoke – and most of these deaths occur in Africa and south Asia.
Just two months ago, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released a report that found more than half of children in the United States, between ages 3 and 11 show signs in their blood of exposure to secondhand smoke. Previous studies have found that even extremely low levels of exposure to cigarette smoke produced detectable abnormal genetic activity in these cells.
The more than 1 billion smokers are exposing billions of non-smokers to one of the top indoor pollutants according to the WHO. Researchers believe more needs to be done to create complete smoke-free indoor environments at work, in public places and on public transportation. Jonathan Samet and Heather Wipfli, two leading public health experts from the University of Southern California say their research from 31 countries found that 88 percent of parents who smoked did so at home and that over 80 percent smoked near their children. In an accompanying commentary, they emphasize the need for smoke-free homes, which can help lower the number of people sickened and dying from someone else's smoke.
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Hell finally froze over yesterday and Apple announced a new Mac Pro at WWDC. At first glance, the new machine was as mysterious as it was terrifying to me and many other creative pros who have been waiting for ages for this thing to drop. But now that Apple has a full site page for the new machine and I've gotten some info from people familiar with its internals and with OS X 10.9, the Mac Pro has become less of a mystery.
But that's also what's freaking us out.
The design
At 6.6" × 9.9" for its cylindrical stretched aluminum case, the new Mac Pro is tiny, and no other workstation-class Xeon desktop with a discrete workstation GPU—or two, in this case—looks anything like it. You get the feeling that the designers sat around coming up with ideas for the new Mac Pro and said, "If Darth Vader edited video, what would his computer look like?" Well... it would probably look like this:
If you haven't seen the inside already, it's a truly amazing bit of engineering, organized in a tube-like shape with a triangular arrangement of the motherboard elements along the exterior walls of the "thermal core," a unibody-like heatsink that draws heat away from the GPU, CPU, and memory:
Even more unusually, the machine has only one (1!) fan that cools everything, wind-tunnel style:
So the Mac Pro will, I suspect, be a ridiculously quiet workstation as well. This is Apple engineering at its best, and I won't have any concerns about using this for long sessions of V-Ray rendering or ZBrush sculpting. Detractors will say it's going to overheat if you do anything serious, but Apple knows these things need to run around the clock for days on end. It didn't put a dual workstation GPU in there and expect people not to use it extensively. More about that further on.
The new Mac Pro makes the previous generation look (thankfully) as outdated as it should, given that the machine it's replacing uses technology from 2010. All the expected modern technologies are here, plus some that will put the new machine ahead of many current competing workstations: dual Gigabit Ethernet, HDMI 1.4, Thunderbolt 2.0 with DisplayPort 1.2 support for up to three 4K displays, 802.11ac wireless, Bluetooth 4.0, 1866MHz ECC RAM, PCIe-based flash storage, and dual AMD FirePro GPUs with up to 6GB of VRAM. The addition of WiFi as standard is a nice addition, but it's kind of a gimme considering the machine's lack of upgradeability.
Judging by the animation on Apple's site, the RAM also appears to be easily user-replaceable:
Apple opted to build in PCIe-based flash storage, and it appears to be on a daughter card:
Performance-wise, the move to PCIe-based internal storage as standard was really smart. Since SATA3 tops out at 600MBps, it's soon going to be the weakest link as the next generation of SSDs start to push beyond that range. Considering that Apple uses fast Samsung SSDs as standard in its laptops, I'm sure the company will slap a very fast SSD in the new Mac Pro. Expect companies like OWC to make Mac Pro-specific flash storage upgrades after the machine launches.
As far as the other technologies go, it's clear that Apple is pulling out all the stops to make the Mac Pro a serious professional's tool that won't get dated any time soon. Which is good, because the stuff inside it better last...
A truly epic lack of expandability
Ask any Mac Pro users where "small size" sits on their list of workstation needs and they will tell you it's down at the bottom, squarely between "should make my bed in the morning" and "covered in fur." The added desktop space will be nice to make room for those three shiny 4K displays that we can apparently afford, but "tiny" isn't on my list of wants for a workstation. Fortunately for me, "rack-mountable" isn't on there either, since cylindrical isn't the most server-ready format.
But the small size creates a potential problem. Aside from the regressive lack of any easily accessible ports on the front of the machine, the new Mac Pro has some serious expandability issues.
Internal hard drives
I'm personally on the fence about this one and see it as more of a nuisance than a showstopper. Most professional video people use external RAID arrays for their video work, and the new Mac Pro's six Thunderbolt 2 ports will provide more than enough expandability to accommodate them.
But I don't do much video work, and the four internal drive bays of the existing Mac Pro enclosure became a comfy standard for me and my work. Anything more seems like too many—but zero extra drive bays is, to put it mildly, too few. Now I will be forced to replace my existing eSATA RAID enclosure since eSATA/Thunderbolt adapters are stupidly expensive and there are no PCI slots in the machine to accommodate an eSATA adapter card. Considering the still-high price of external Thunderbolt enclosures, the price of the Mac Pro better be reasonable, because it's clear that many of us will be forced to take this route as well.
I think that Apple is doing two things with this approach to expandability: one, it hopes to light a fire under third-party Thunderbolt supporters the way it did with USB and the iMac. Two, it wants to drive a wedge between professional video on the Mac (still the standard, regardless of how many times you troll me) and video editing on the PC. Many tools that were once PCI-only have been moved to an external Thunderbolt enclosure, much like how audio cards for FireWire and USB became the norm in mobile music. I'm sure that Apple's move with the Mac Pro was meant to help accelerate that trend so that the Mac Pro and MacBook Pro can share formerly PCI-based video hardware. For many devices, the 20Gbps bandwidth of Thunderbolt 2 will be fine for this purpose, but those will also cost more than a vanilla PCI card.
It seems that the price of the new Mac Pro keeps rising.


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Obama supporters gather for statewide fundraiser
City Councilwoman Barbara Van Auken held a microphone up to a cell phone while Peoria County Democrat Party Chairman Billy Halstead and Kelleher's Irish Pub owner Pat Sullivan carefully balanced speakers on the restaurant's upstairs rail.
The man-powered electronic contraption allowed a few dozen loyalists the chance to hear from U.S. Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., during a fundraiser Wednesday night.
The only way the event could have been more grass roots is if it had taken place in a field — and that was all right with the Democratic presidential hopeful.
"The one thing I'm most proud of is this type of grass-roots engagement that we've got," Obama said, his voice carrying to the back of Kelleher's, mixing in with the bar chatter and competing for interest with the eighth inning of the Chicago White Sox game.
"What is really gratifying," he said, "is knowing my home base of Illinois is so supportive and people are going above and beyond the call of duty on my behalf."
About 40 "house parties" were organized across the state Wednesday night to raise money for Obama. He took questions for roughly 20 minutes on topics from immigration to the Iraq war. No one in Peoria asked him anything.
The group that raises the most money will be graced by an Obama visit at an event of its picking later in the year, said Van Auken, who sits on Obama's presidential coordinating committee in Illinois.
"If we don't win, we have a secret weapon to get him here that very few people have, and that's Senator (George) Shadid," Van Auken told the crowd.
Shadid brought Obama, along with thousands of people, to Downtown Peoria last year for a campaign event organized on behalf of state Sen. Dave Koehler, who also made an appearance Wednesday night.
At Kelleher's, the crowd was small but enthusiastic.
"Someone once said he doesn't have the experience to run the White House, but I'm saying sometimes lack of experience can be a wonderful thing," said Steve Schmidt of Peoria, a Democrat who ran unsuccessfully for county coroner last year.
"He's a very good guy, very honest, and that's what's lacking in today's politics," added Clifford Stamm, also of Peoria.
Though he fancies himself a Republican, Sullivan provided the food and location.
That's in part because a few years ago, Obama's wife, Michelle, charmed the grits out of him when he cooked breakfast for her during a Peoria fundraiser she attended.
"Kelleher's is closed on Sunday but Pat opened up Kelleher's and personally fixed breakfast for Michelle and promptly fell in love with her," Van Auken joked.
"While he calls himself a Republican, Michelle could straighten him out."
Michelle Obama had visited town, Sullivan said, to attend the "Shake, Rattle and Roll" Parkinson's disease fundraiser.
Sullivan said she was indeed a sight to see, though his true love remains his wife, Lark, with whom he is about to celebrate their 35th anniversary.
"But Michelle is charming," he added.
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A San Francisco judge has declared that cyberstalking on Twitter and blogs is constitutionally-protected free speech, reports The New York Times. The ruling is a victory for the First Amendment. But like all things worth fighting for, it comes at a price.
Here's what happened: A Buddhist religious leader in Maryland named Alyce Zeoli became friends with a man named William Lawrence Cassidy. At some point, the two had a falling out. Cassidy took the mature route, and began posting thousands of messages on blogs and Twitter, often using pseudonyms, that aggressively disparaged Zeoli. Some of them even called for her death.
Understandably distraught, Zeoli then worked with the FBI to have Cassidy arrested, which he was, based on interstate stalking laws. Cassidy, the government argued, had caused Zeoli "substantial emotional distress."
This, however, was not enough to convince Judge Roger W. Titus, who declared that Cassidy's actions, while distasteful, were not enough to set a precedent that could cause serious harm to the entire foundations of speech on the Internet.
"While Mr. Cassidy's speech may have inflicted substantial emotional distress, the government's indictment here is directed squarely at protected speech: anonymous, uncomfortable Internet speech addressing religious matters," wrote Judge Titus, in his official order.
Titus ruled that, because no one was forced to read Cassidy's posts and tweets — as opposed to a "telephone call, letter or email specifically addressed to and directed at another person" — they are considered free speech, not harassment, just as personal bulletin boards of the colonial era fell under the protection of the First Amendment, which "protects speech even when the subject or the manner of expression is uncomfortable and challenges conventional religious beliefs, political attitudes or standards of good taste."
One of Zeoli's lawyers, Shanlon Wu, told the Times that Zeoli was "appalled and frightened by the judge's ruling." It is not yet clear whether there will be an appeal to the ruling.
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Syrian activists skeptical on chemical weapons
- Hillary Clinton meets with Russia's Sergey Lavrov in Dublin
- U.S. and Russia have been at odds over how to handle Syria
- Analysts are also skeptical about chemical weapons reports
ANTAKYA, Turkey -- Syrian activists criticized the hubbub over the regime's possible use of chemical weapons as a distraction, dismissing Western concerns over President Bashar Assad's crossing "a red line" as playing into the dictator's hands.
"I don't think the regime will use chemical weapons – it's just a media game for the purpose of prolonging the revolution, so the Syrian people become more divided and the regime has more time," said Walat Ahmae, a member of the Syrian National Council based in Antakya.
"We have known that there are chemical weapons from the start, so this isn't a new or more worrying threat."
Meanwhile, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton met with Russia's foreign minister and a U.N. peace envoy in Dublin to see whether the three could discuss uniting behind a strategy to end the violence and the Assad regime. Russia is an ally of Syria and has refused to go along with any suggested U.S. diplomatic measures to pressure the Assad regime.
Over the past week, President Obama and other Western leaders have warned Assad that using his chemical stockpiles against his own people will have grave consequences for his regime – without specifying exactly what those would be.
A report by NBC News Thursday had Pentagon officials confirming that Assad was arming bombs with chemicals contained in sarin nerve gas while other US officials told the Associated Press that they have noticed the Syrian military moving around chemical stockpiles.
Syria analysts said they were skeptical.
"It is an incredibly detailed piece of information that even for someone in the intelligence community would be difficult to come by – although it's not impossible," said David Hartwell, Middle East analyst at HIS Jane's, a defense and security intelligence analysis agency in London.
"I still think the regime in Syria is fairly rational in the respect of using chemical weapons, and I think the Western concerns are more centered on Islamists and Salafist groups getting hold of the weapons than the Assad government actually using them."
Syria has denied preparing to use such weapons. Syria's deputy foreign minister, Faisal Mekdad, called such a move "suicide."
''I repeat for the hundredth time that even if such weapons exist in Syria, they will not be used against the Syrian people,'' Mekdad said in an interview with Lebanese Al-Manar TV. ''We would not commit suicide.''
Instead, Mekdad said the Syrian government is concerned that Western governments would place chemical weapons in the hands of "terrorists," then blame the regime when they are used.
Turkey is moving to deploy Patriot missiles along its border with Syria, escalating tension with the Assad regime, which sees such action as preparation for Western intervention.
German officials confirmed Thursday that two German Patriot batteries with a total of 400 soldiers would be sent to the border area under NATO command for up to one year along with Dutch and U.S. personnel.
The missiles are being placed there to defend Turkish territory – five Turks were killed earlier this year in cross-border skirmishes – not establish or maintain a no-fly zone in Syria, the officials said.
''Nobody knows what such a regime is capable of," German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle said. "We are acting proactively."
Syrian officials called the move "provocative" and warned that any foreign military intervention would have "severe" and "catastrophic" consequences.
Meanwhile, opposition activists warned that – despite the Assad regime's denials that it will use the weapons – rogue elements in the government side could still use them unilaterally.
"It (the weapons) could be used, not by command, but by an operator or a group – before they go, they destroy the whole area for example," said Syrian opposition activist Hozan Ibrahim in Germany.
Still, Ibrahim counseled that such a scenario – where an area commander ordered deployment of the weapons – is still a "very small possibility."
Meanwhile, the conventional fighting in Syria continues. In Damascus, the regime bombed several opposition strongholds in the suburbs of the capital. A car bomb exploded, killing one and damaging the offices of the Syrian Red Crescent, which distributes relief supplies. Rebels also continued to battle soldiers on the road to Damascus International Airport and said they are close to taking an air base close to the capital.
It is the failure of Assad's superior military to conclusively defeat the rebels as they bring the fight to Damascus that has the Syrian regime growing desperate in the-21 month rebellion that has killed more than 40,000 people, according to activists, the only reason Assad would use such weapons.
While news on the chemical weapons has led to further speculation that the West may intervene, activists said it would be too little too late.
"What is the message the international community is sending to the regime?" said Sami Ibrahim, an activist with the Syrian Network for Human Rights in Damascus. "You use chemical weapons and we will interfere. The message should be to prevent him (now) not after we lose thousands of people and then we'll stop you."
At their meeting that took place as an aside to a previously scheduled human rights conference, Clinton gathered with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and mediator Lakhdar Brahimi for about 40 minutes.
"We have been trying hard to work with Russia to try to stop the bloodshed in Syria and start a political transition for a post-Assad Syrian future," Clinton told reporters. "The pressure against the regime in and around Damascus seems to be increasing. We've made it very clear what our position is with respect to chemical weapons, and I think we will discuss that and many other aspects of what is needed to end the violence."
"We have talked a little bit about how we can work out hopefully a process that will get Syria back from the brink," Brahimi said after the meeting.
CHEMICAL WEAPONS FEARS:Reports: Syria has put nerve gas in bombs
In Washington, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said intelligence reports raise fears that an increasingly desperate Assad is considering using his chemical weapons arsenal.
The United States and Russia agreed in June on a plan that demanded several steps by the Assad regime to de-escalate tensions and end the violence that activists say has killed more than 40,000 people since March 2011. It would then have required Syria's opposition and the regime to put forward candidates for a transitional government, with each side having the right to veto nominees proposed by the other.
If employed, the strategy would surely mean the end of more than four decades of an Assad family member at Syria's helm. The opposition has demanded Assad's departure and has rejected any talk of him staying in power. Yet it also would grant regime representatives the opportunity to block Sunni extremists and others in the opposition that they reject.
The transition plan never got off the ground. Brahimi's predecessor, former U.N. secretary-general Kofi Annan, drafted the plan, then resigned his post in frustration. The United States blamed the collapse on Russia for vetoing a third resolution at the United Nations Security Council that would have applied world sanctions against Assad's government for failing to live by the deal's provisions.
Russia insisted that the Americans unfairly sought Assad's departure as a precondition and worried about opening the door to military action, even as Washington offered to include language in any U.N. resolution that would have expressly forbade outside armed intervention.
U.S. State Department spokesman Mark Toner said Wednesday that several countries in the Middle East and elsewhere have informally offered to grant asylum to Assad and his family if they leave Syria. Wherever Assad may end up, Toner said the U.S. would insist on his being held accountable for "the horrible abuses he has committed against his own people."
The United States is also preparing to designate Jabhat al-Nusra, a Syrian rebel group with alleged ties to al-Qaeda, as a foreign terrorist organization in a step aimed at blunting the influence of extremists within the Syrian opposition, officials said Wednesday.
Contributing: The Associated Press, Gary Strauss, Charles McPhedran. Osborne reported from Berlin.


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Connecticut school shooting revives gun debate
LITTLETON, Colo. - A lone police cruiser outside Columbine High School was the only outward reaction Friday to an even deadlier attack at a Connecticut elementary school.
But in a state that was rocked by the 1999 Columbine school massacre and the Aurora movie theater shooting less than six months ago, Friday's shootings renewed debate over why mass shootings keep occurring and whether gun control can stop them.
"Until we get our acts together and stop making these ... weapons available, this is going to keep happening," said an angry Tom Teves, whose son Alex was killed in the theater shooting last July in the Denver suburb of Aurora.
Teves was choked up as he answered a reporter's call Friday. A work associate of his lives in Newtown, Conn., where a gunman killed 26 people, including 20 children, at Sandy Hook Elementary. The connection chilled and angered him.
The 20-year-old killer, identified by a law enforcement official as Adam Lanza, carried out the attack with two handguns. A .223-caliber rifle was found in the back of a car.
The official was not authorized to speak on the record about the unfolding investigation and spoke on the condition of anonymity.
The shooting has once again stoked the never-ending debate over gun control laws.
This week, Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper generated a storm of debate after declaring that it was time to start talking about gun control measures.
After Friday's school shooting, Hickenlooper told reporters there's no use waiting until news coverage fades.
"We can't postpone the discussion on a national level every time there's a shooting. They're too often," he said.
A visibly emotional President Barack Obama seemed willing to renew debate, calling for "meaningful action" to prevent similar shootings.
New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, an advocate of greater limits on guns, responded directly to the president's remarks: "Calling for 'meaningful action' is not enough. We need immediate action. We have heard all the rhetoric before."
Also Friday, Mark Kelly, the astronaut husband of former U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, who was shot in the head during an attack that killed six people in Tucson, Ariz., last year, said the Connecticut shooting should "sound a call for our leaders to stand up and do what is right."
"This time our response must consist of more than regret, sorrow, and condolence," Kelly said on his Facebook page, calling for "a meaningful discussion about our gun laws and how they can be reformed and better enforced to prevent gun violence and death in America."
Tom Sullivan, whose son Alex also died in the Aurora theater shooting, welcomed the discussion. Sullivan and his wife spent part of the morning making sure relatives who live in the area were OK.
Sullivan said mental health, not gun control, is a more pressing concern.
"We all need someone in our lives to care," Sullivan said. "If we see a friend, a colleague, a co-worker and they're having a hard time, we need to reach out."
Sean Graves, who as a student was wounded at Columbine, said he was "disgusted" by the shootings but he didn't believe laws can prevent such violence.
If people "want to find a way to harm people, they're going to find a way to do it," Graves said.
Former U.S. attorney Troy Eid, who was part of a government panel that examined the Columbine shooting, said more must be done to examine what motivates such criminals.
"It's something that's become part of our culture. We have to study it and see what we can do to prevent it," Eid said.
Some shoppers interviewed at Oregon's Clackamas Town Center, where a gunman killed two people Tuesday before killing himself, had similar reactions.
"We need to pay more attention to the people close to us, because I think there's a lot of signs prior to things," said shopper Sierra Delgado of Happy Valley, Ore.
Mental health screenings alone aren't enough, other Colorado shooting survivors said.
Tom Mauser, who became a gun control advocate after his son Daniel was killed at Columbine, urged officials to stop "playing defense" on gun control.
"Let's not say once again, 'Oh, this is not the right time to talk about it.' It is the right time to talk about it.
"We are better than a nation that has people killing children and has people cowardly shooting people in shopping malls and schools and nursing homes. We're better than this."
Such emotional appeals didn't come only from gun control supporters. Friday's responses from both sides foretold a heart-wrenching debate.
"They're going to use the bodies of dead children to push their agenda," predicted Dudley Brown of the Denver group Rocky Mountain Gun Owners.
Contributing to this report were Associated Press writers Brian Skoloff in Phoenix; Terrence Petty in Portland, Ore.; and P. Solomon Banda, Dan Elliott, Ivan Moreno and Kristen Wyatt in Denver.


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Elizabeth Bennet's best friend turns into a Regency zombie and appears to channel Mammy in Gone With the Wind in a passage from Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (Quirk), the second runner-up in the 2010 Delete Key Awards for bad writing in books. Jane Austen weeps as author Seth Grahame-Smith has Charlotte Lucas say:
"'What can be da meaning of dis?' howled Charlotte, as soon as he was gone. 'Mah dear Ewiza, he muss be love you, aw he never wuh have called in dis famiwiar way.'"
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