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NASA officials aren't sure what triggered a leak of water into a spacewalking astronaut's suit, causing mission controllers to abort a planned 6.5-hour spacewalk after only one hour and 32 minutes Tuesday (July 16).
European Space Agency astronaut Luca Parmitano reported "a lot of water" inside his helmet during his excursion outside the International Space Station (ISS) Tuesday. Because of the potentially dangerous situation,?mission controllers on the ground decided to abort the spacewalk.?
NASA astronaut Chris Cassidy and Parmitano returned safely to the U.S. Quest airlock, and engineers began trying to figure out what caused the mysterious and unprecedented leak. [See photos from the aborted spacewalk]
"Clearly we have a problem at this point that we don't quite understand," Kenneth Todd, the ISS mission management team chair, told reporters Tuesday.?
NASA officials have already made some progress in narrowing down the source of the leak. Initially, Parmitano and Cassidy thought that the astronaut's drinking water may have been leaking into the suit. However, the spacewalk team says that the cooling system in Parmitano's suit is a more likely candidate.?
Parmitano is doing well after the incident.
"Luca's doing great," spacewalk officer Karina Eversley told reporters. "He's smiling and happy. All the crew is looking at the suits and reporting information."
The spacewalk by Parmitano and Cassidy began at 7:57 a.m. EDT (1157 GMT) and was scheduled to last 6.5 hours. However, it ended at 9:29 a.m. EDT (1329 GMT) ? just 92 minutes in ? because of the water in Parmitano's helmet.
"There is some in my eyes, and some in my nose," Parmitano said during the spacewalk. "It's a lot of water."
Officials have now determined that a total of 34 to 51 ounces (1 to 1.5 liters) of water leaked into Parmitano's spacesuit. Most found its way into his helmet, but other parts of his suit were affected as well, Eversley said.
Parmitano and Cassidy were scheduled to continue to prepare the outside of the orbiting laboratory for the arrival of a new Russian multipurpose laboratory module expected to arrive later this year, as well as work on a variety of other maintenance tasks.
NASA officials have said that the scheduled spacewalk activities are not urgent and can be completed during a later spacewalk, but nothing has been scheduled as of yet.
Today's spacewalk was the second in eight days for Parmitano and Cassidy and the 171st excursion supporting building and maintenance of the International Space Station. It marked Cassidy's sixth spacewalk and Parmitano's second. Cassidy has clocked 31 hours and 13 minutes of spacewalking time while Parmitano holds seven hours and 39 minutes.
On July 9, Parmitano became the first Italian astronaut to walk in space.
NASA's Karen Nyberg and Russian cosmonauts Fyodor Yurchikhin, Pavel Vinogradov and Alexander Misurkin share space with Parmitano and Cassidy aboard the orbiting lab. Together, the six spaceflyers make up the crew of?Expedition 36 .
The $100 billion International Space Station is the product of five space agencies representing 15 different countries. Construction of the laboratory began in 1998, and rotating crews of astronauts have continually staffed the orbiting laboratory since 2000.
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MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - The Mexican government said on Monday it had captured the leader of the Zetas drug cartel, delivering a boost to President Enrique Pena Nieto in his fight against violent crime.
Miguel Angel Trevino, 40, known as Z-40, was captured early on Monday by Mexican Marines near the northern city of Nuevo Laredo on the U.S. border, a government spokesman told reporters.
Pena Nieto came to office in December 2012 promising to boost security and restore stability to a country racked by bloodshed under his predecessor Felipe Calderon.
Calderon staked his reputation on bringing the powerful drug gangs to heel, but bloodletting increased during his administration and more than 70,000 people have been killed in cartel-related violence since the start of 2007.
Many of the worst atrocities in the drug war have been blamed on the Zetas, including the massacre of dozens of migrants in northern Mexico in 2010 and the dumping of 49 decapitated bodies near the city of Monterrey last year.
Security experts said Trevino, who was born in Nuevo Laredo, took over the Zetas after Marines shot dead the cartel's former commander in October 2012. Although he lacked a military background, Trevino had a reputation for extreme violence.
Along with two of his brothers, he was charged with laundering drug proceeds through horse racing last year.
U.S. Federal authorities accused Trevino and 13 others of pouring millions of dollars in proceeds from drug trafficking into the purchase, training and racing of American race horses across four U.S. states.
The U.S. State Department has offered a reward of up to $5 million for information leading to Trevino's capture.
(Reporting by Dave Graham and Alexandra Alper; Editing by Paul Simao)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/mexico-government-confirms-capture-zetas-cartel-leader-022034912.html
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Canada Rare Earth (CREC) (TSX.V:LL) is moving forward with plans to purchase a 100-acre rare earth refinery site in the United States' pacific north-west region.
CREC announced its intention in May and has now put in a second $50,000 deposit for the property.
The site offers "excellent infrastructure" for a refinery, including readily available power, water and transportation infrastructure, the company stated in a release.?The site?would allow CREC to export rare earths across the continent.
The junior miner has its eyes on additional refinery sites in Southeast Asia, the Middle East and eastern Europe.
The company will continue assessing the viability of the project for another three months at which point it may make a third deposit of $100,000.
The mining firm made slight headway on the junior market on Monday, gaining 14% to trade at four cents.
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) ? Protesters in Los Angeles and Oakland blocked traffic and clashed with police in a day of protests in California against the acquittal of George Zimmerman in the shooting death of Trayvon Martin. Several people were arrested in Los Angeles.
Los Angeles police said they began making arrests early Monday morning after about 80 protesters gathered in Hollywood on Sunset Boulevard and an unlawful assembly was declared.
More than 100 Los Angeles police officers in riot gear converged on the crowd and ordered people to disperse. Police said they made seven arrests throughout the day, The Los Angeles Times reported.
Earlier in the evening, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti urge protesters Sunday night to "practice peace" in a Twitter posting, after groups of people broke off from a large march and walked onto Interstate 10 by the Crenshaw Ave. exit, shutting the busy freeway for about 30 minutes. Some carried a large poster with a photo of Martin. Others rode bicycles as traffic came to a standstill.
Officers eventually dispersed the crowd, police Cmdr. Andrew Smith said. However, at a nearby street corner a crowd threw rocks and flashlight batteries at officers, prompting them to fire beanbag rounds. The protest wound down late Sunday, but some scattered groups remained.
Police spokesman contacted early Monday declined to comment.
In Oakland, police confronted a crowd at a downtown intersection after a small crowd began breaking windows and spray painting graffiti Sunday night, the Oakland Tribune reported.
Protesters marched about five miles before sitting at a major street intersection and blocking traffic. The Tribune said crowd was largely peaceful, but by 10 p.m. a smaller group of protesters began vandalizing businesses.
KGO-TV reported that rocks and bottles were thrown toward police.
The police communications office said early Monday that the protest had wound down, but had no information if any arrests had been made.
Demonstrations across the state were largely peaceful Sunday afternoon as hundreds took to the streets to march in support of the slain 17-year-old, blocking traffic on major streets of San Francisco, Oakland and Los Angeles.
Police closed San Francisco's Market Street and escorted about 400 people as they marched across downtown to the waterfront Ferry Building. The racially diverse crowd of protesters banged drums, blew whistles and held signs that declared "Zimmerman: the people say guilty," and "The whole system is racist."
Rand Powdrill, 41, of San Leandro said he came to "protest the execution of an innocent black teenager."
"If our voices can't be heard, then this is just going to keep going on," he said.
A similar march shut down Crenshaw Boulevard in the heart of Los Angeles' historic black neighborhood. It was peaceful until small groups broke away from the march, Smith said. By late Sunday, a few dozen remaining protesters marched to Hollywood Blvd. and put traffic at a busy intersection at a standstill.
The demonstrations came a day after Zimmerman was cleared of all charges in the February 2012 death of the 17-year-old Martin in in Florida. Zimmerman has maintained the shooting was an act of self-defense. The death of an unarmed black teen unleashed debate across the U.S. over racial profiling.
In downtown Oakland Saturday night, people broke windows, vandalized cars and buildings and started small fires in the streets. Local media reports said some Oakland marchers vandalized a police squad car and officers formed a line to block the protesters' path.
Footage from a television helicopter showed people spray-painting anti-police graffiti.
In a statement Sunday, Oakland Mayor Jean Quan said Martin's death "raised powerful, incredibly difficult issues" surrounding racial profiling, but she criticized vandals who "dishonored the memory of Trayvon by engaging in violent activities that hurt our growing economy and endangered people."
"We will not tolerate violence in our city," Quan said.
The Oakland demonstration followed a raucous but largely peaceful rally in San Francisco. Police say officers escorted demonstrators as they marched on the city's Mission District. The group was dispersed by 10 p.m.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/zimmerman-acquittal-stirs-protest-calif-cities-093412203.html
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BIRMINGHAM, Alabama - A woman suing Birmingham Health Care for sexual harassment details in the latest court filing a decade of encounters with her married boss in his business offices and in hotels across five states.
In a newly filed complaint filled with more detail than the initial complaint filed Feb. 14, Sharon Waltz alleges her then-boss, Birmingham Health Care CEO Jonathan Dunning, "threatened her with her job and security if she did not have these sexual encounters [in his company offices] and he further demanded that the plaintiff [Waltz] travel with him and stay in his hotel room."
Last month, U.S. Magistrate Judge John E. Ott called the previous complaint "very broad-brushed" and asked Waltz to re-file a complaint that ties the allegations together.
The new complaint comes back with more detail about the allegations of sexual harassment said to have occurred from 2002 until 2012 and attempts to closely tie Birmingham Health Care (BHC) with one of Dunning's private companies, Synergy Medical Systems (SMS).
Among the new allegations by Waltz:
A lawyer for Dunning called the allegations in the latest filing "wild and unfounded."
"Ms. Waltz made these claims of sexual harassment only after Mr. Dunning began the legal process of securing his custodial rights to his children born out of the consensual relationship with Ms. Waltz," attorney Carter Dukes said in an email. "BHC, Synergy, and Mr. Dunning strongly deny Ms. Waltz's claims and are eager to move forward with this litigation so that they can vindicate themselves from these wild and unfounded allegations."
Waltz, a clinical psychologist, worked for BHC primarily as a grant writer from 2002 until 2009 when Dunning was CEO. She then worked for Dunning's for-profit corporation, Synergy Medical Systems, from 2009 until 2012, the suit states. The alleged harassment spanned the years and the companies, the amended complaint alleges.
The suit states Waltz was doing the same job - securing grants for BHC - in both positions.
According to tax filings, Waltz is listed as a "key employee" at BHC in 2006, 2007 and 2008. Prior year returns were not available. In 2008, Waltz drew a salary from BHC of $95,774. Dunning was paid $290,003 that year by BHC, according to tax records.
Waltz secured BHC grant funding "in a minimum annual amount of $4,874,959 from 2003 until 2012," the amended complaint states.
"It is plaintiff's contention that defendants BHC and SMS are basically one and the same corporation," it states.
The new complaint adds Synergy Medical Systems as a defendant, joining BHC and Dunning.
Birmingham Health Care is one of 1,200 federally qualified health centers nationwide. The designation allows BHC to receive enhanced Medicaid reimbursements and federal grants from the federal Health Resources and Services Administration to serve uninsured and under-insured populations.
Federal officials have called the federally designated health centers the "backbone" of President Obama's efforts to reform health care under the Affordable Care Act, also known as 'Obamacare.'
Last week, BHC received $187,634 from HRSA to help it enroll the uninsured in new health plan options under Obamacare, part of $150 million in grants disbursed to more than 1,100 community health centers nationwide.
In January, BHC received $4 million in HRSA funding, a one-year renewal of funding for operations that the nonprofit health center has been receiving since 2001. BHC has six locations offering primary health care, dental care and other services in and around Birmingham.
Source: http://blog.al.com/spotnews/2013/07/lawsuit_filing_sex_with_boss_o.html
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| Washington receiver Kasen Williams is one of the Huskies' top returning players. Williams is shown celebrating Washington's win over Stanford last season. (Otto Greule Jr., Getty Images. / September 27, 2012) |
Today at No. 43: Washington
Coach: Steve Sarkisian (26-25 entering fifth season; 26-25 overall)
Look back: Washington had endured five consecutive losing seasons before it hired Steve Sarkisian to take over as its head coach. Sarkisian posted a 5-7 record his first season in 2009, but he has since rattled off three consecutive 7-6 seasons. It hasn't been an easy journey for the Huskies in the Pac-12's highly competitive North Division.
Last season, the Huskies opened the year by earning a 21-12 win over a solid San Diego State team that easily could caused headaches for Washington. After a blowout loss at LSU, Washington surprised many with a 17-16 upset of then-No. 8 Stanford. The win snapped a four-game losing streak against the Cardinal. Washington suffered key losses against Oregon, USC and Arizona before regrouping for big wins against Oregon State, California and Utah late in the season.
Washington ended the year with a pair of close, frustrating losses. The Huskies missed a 35-yard field goal as time expired against Washington State, sending the annual Apple Cup into overtime. Washington gave up an interception in overtime and Washington State connected on a field goal to earn the 31-28 win. Washington was in the mix to beat then-No. 20 Boise State in the Las Vegas Bowl, but the Broncos ultimately held on for a 28-26 win over the Huskies.
Offensive starters returning: 10
Offensive starters lost: 1
Defensive starters returning: 7
Defensive starters lost: 4
Key losses: DB Desmond Trufant, DB Justin Glenn, OL Drew Schaefer
Top returnees: QB Keith Price, TE Austin Seferian-Jenkins, LB Travis Feeney, DL Andrew Hudson, DB Sean Parker, RB Bishop Sankey, DL Danny Shelton, LB Shaq Thompson, LB John Timu, WR Kasen Williams
Strengths: Washington is tied for eighth nationally for the most returning starters in college football analyst Phil Steele's rankings, bringing back 17 total starters from a team that posted a 7-6 overall record last season and lost two of final two contests by a total of five points.
Washington's defense was arguably its biggest strength last season, ranking No. 27 in pass efficiency defense (115.4 rating allowed) and No. 31 in total defense (357.4 yards allowed per game). The defense returns all three starting linebackers and will be adding Alabama transfer Travell Dixon at cornerback.
On the offensive side of the ball, QB Keith Price enters his senior season as an experienced leader. He averaged 207.2 yards of total offense per game. He'll get significant help from a strong offensive line and TE Austin Seferian-Jenkins, who earned first team Freshman All-America honors earlier in his career. RB Bishop Sankey and WR Kasen Williams also are both capable of delivering big plays.
Weaknesses: Washington's offense simply has to produce more in order for the Huskies to move up in the Pac-12 standings, especially in the North Division that has traditionally featured high scoring teams. The team ranked No. 88 nationally and No. 9 in the Pac-12 last season in scoring offense, recording just 24 points per game. Washington earned equally tepid yards in the air and on the ground, ranking No. 84 in rushing offense (142.4 yards per game) and No. 81 in passing offense (212.9 yards per game).
Outlook: This could be Sarkisian's best Washington team to date. The Huskies face a tough schedule, including a season-opening rematch with 2012 bowl foe Boise State and back-to-back games against Stanford and Oregon. However, college-football analyst Phil Steele projects the team will earn at least eight wins for the first time since 2001.
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