SAN FRANCISCO ( Olympic gold medalist dies after America's Cup sailboat capsizes )

SAN FRANCISCO – A 72-foot-long Swedish sailboat capsized Thursday in San Francisco Bay while practicing for the upcoming America's Cup races, killing an Olympic gold medalist from the United Kingdom and injuring another sailor, authorities said.
Artemis Racing said Andrew "Bart" Simpson died after the capsized boat's platform trapped him underwater for about 10 minutes around 1 p.m. PDT.
Simpson served as the Swedish team's strategist and had won one Olympic gold medal and one silver medal. He was 36 years old, according to San Francisco Fire Department officials.
Artemis said doctors "afloat" with the team and on shore couldn't revive Simpson after he was freed from the wreckage.

"The entire Artemis team is devastated by what happened," CEO Paul Canyard said in a statement posted on the team's website. "Our heartfelt condolences are with Andrew's wife and family."
Simpson and another sailor were injured when the Artemis Racing catamaran capsized near Treasure Island, a former naval station in the bay, Fire Department spokeswoman Mindy Talmadge said.
Both were brought to shore and taken to the St. Francis Yacht Club, where paramedics performed CPR on Simpson. He was pronounced dead a short time later, fire officials said.
The other sailor suffered minor injuries, and the rest of the crew of 13 was accounted for and taken back to their dock in Alameda in a boat operated by Oracle Racing, which is defending its 2010 America's Cup title in San Francisco this summer.
The Swedish-based team and two other yacht clubs are scheduled to compete with each other for the honor of challenging Team Oracle for the America's Cup, sailing's most prestigious trophy.
The boat that capsized is a specially built catamaran that can reach speeds of 45 mph.
Coast Guard Lt. Jeannie Crump said the agency did not know the extent of the damage to the boat. She said a commercial salvage boat was at the scene and would tow the vessel to Clipper Cove, between Yerba Buena Island and Treasure Island.
Crump added that Coast Guard officials weren't sure what caused the boat to capsize. The Swedish team has two boats, she added.
The America's Cup race is scheduled to run from July through September, and the teams are training in the bay.
The Louis Vuitton Cup for challengers starts July 4, with the winner facing Oracle in the 34th America's Cup beginning Sept. 7.
This is the second time a sailor has died during training for the America's Cup.
In 1999, Martin Wizner of the Spanish Challenge died almost instantly when he was hit in the head by a broken piece of equipment.
Artemis has had its share of upheaval in the buildup to the 34th America's Cup. Late last year, skipper Terry Huthinson of Annapolis, Md., was released. He was replaced by Nathan Outteridge of Australia, who won a gold medal at the London Olympics.
Artemis has had technical problems, as well. Last fall, Artemis said the front beam of its AC72 catamaran was damaged during structural tests, delaying the boat's christening. A year ago, Artemis' AC72 wing sail sustained serious damage while it was being tested on a modified trimaran in Valencia, Spain.


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Columbia University ( University Hires Weather Underground Cop Killer - Terrorist Kathy Boudin )

Columbia University Hires Weather Underground Cop Killer

Posted on 2 April, 2013 by Amy

By LARRY CELONA and DAN MANGAN
Former Weather Underground radical Kathy Boudin — who spent 22 years in prison for an armored-car robbery that killed two cops and a Brinks guard — now holds a prestigious adjunct professorship at Columbia University’s School of Social Work, The Post has learned.
Boudin, 69, this year won another academic laurel — being named the Sheinberg Scholar-in-Residence at NYU Law School, where last month she gave a lecture on “the politics of parole and re-entry.”
Boudin’s bounce-back into respectability after her 2003 parole comes to light a week before the release of Robert Redford’s movie “The Company You Keep,” loosely based on the $1.6 million heist.
KATHY BOUDIN Teaches about ex-cons.
Boudin’s status of perp-turned-prof outraged the widow of one of her victims, Brinks guard and dad of three Peter Paige, who was gunned down by her accomplices from the Black Liberation Army on Oct. 20, 1981, in Rockland County.
Boudin acted as a getaway driver in the heist.
“She doesn’t deserve a job at all,” said Josephine Paige, 74, when told of Boudin’s posts. “She doesn’t deserve anything, nothing at all. I think she should be back in an institution.”
John Hanchar, the nephew of another victim of the robbery, Nyack Police Officer Edward O’Grady, said that while Boudin “has a right to do whatever she wants . . . I just hope the people that she’s lecturing are smart enough to question why [she felt] like killing people is an acceptable choice to forward their goals.”
“It’s easy to forget that violence is never the answer. Nine children grew up without their dads because of her actions,” said Hanchar, whose uncle O’Grady was shot with automatic weapons
Boudin did not respond to a request for comment.
She teaches about the issues facing convicts and their families when a person is released from prison.
Of the hundreds of students Boudin has taught, Yoshioka said, just three have expressed qualms about her criminal background, and only one “switched out” of a class because of those concerns.
One Friday, a criminal-justice conference at the school will feature keynote address by Angela Davis, another infamous radical, and later this month Boudin is scheduled to speak at Columbia Law School’s conference on child and family advocacy.
“I’m happy that she’s doing something positive with her life,” said Robert Van Cura, Rockland County’s undersheriff. But he said, “I believe there’s probably other people that are available to provide education beyond someone who is on parole for murder.”
Columbia School of Social Work Associate Dean Marianne Yoshioka, who hired Boudin for the adjunct-professor post in 2008, said she has been “an excellent teacher who gets incredible evaluations from her students each year.”

MEXICO ( Ambush - One police officer killed- Police commander main target )

Three Reported Killed in Ambush of Jesús Carrasco

Thursday, May 9, 2013 | Borderland Beat ReporterBuggs

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Also posted in Borderland Beat Forum by Siskiyou_Kid

It was reported that at least three sicarios were killed as a result of the confrontation that occurred this morning on the highway Mexico 15 in Los Mochis, Sinaloa. The sicarios were killed in the Coloradito fishing camp, near El Huitusi, Guasave.

The criminals attempted to flee aboard a boat when they were confronted by police.

It was established that police commander Jesus Carrasco was the main target of the attack.

The police commander reported that there were at least 100 sicarios that participated in the assault while heavily armed.

It was reported that one of the armored truck used in the attack fled southbound on highway Mexico 15 while other vehicles fled in different directions; some went towards the town of Batamote, others went in the direction of town Ruiz Cortines and yet another fled toward the direction of Huitusi.

Carrasco said that he and his bodyguards were traveling in an armored white Dodge Ram style Pick truck that resulted totally burned from impacts from explosives. An unexplode grenade was found underneath the vehicle

At least one Ahome police officer was killed at the scene and another resulted wounded. The police officer that lost his life was identified as Julian Dima Soto from Olas Altas and had joined the department in 1999.

The incident occurred around 0715 hours on Highway Mexico 15 close to the town Adolfo Ruiz Cortines when the commander was heading from Los Mochis, Culiacan for a meeting.

According to Carrasco Pérez about a hundred gunmen attacked using at least three armored trucks and conventional vehicles.

Carrasco explained that the attackers used grenades and long rifles that included a Barret. Two of the armored truck were using some of these high caliber weapon while mounted on tripods in the back of the beds. One of the trucks had markings from a beer company.

Police reported that in a female was injured while sustaining gunshot wounds as the result of the confrontation. Sources at the scene reported that there were at least three police units that resulted with damaged from the gunfire and explosives.

Carrasco had received threats through a Facebook account as reported in Borderland Beat under the name of "Mochomera Mochis", where the commander is accused of being involved in drug sales in the north zone.

In the facebook account, that was apparently removed today from the internet, they published a photograph which shows six young men who look to be alive and tied up, but their bodies were later found on Saturday April 20 inside a Cherokee near the vicinity of Los Mochis. This was reported with a lot of detail in the BB Forum.

When the police commander was interviewed by the media he accused the police of Guasave of collusion with organized crime because, he said, at the time of the attack he saw two patrol unit that did not assists during the ambush, instead fled the scene.

U.S News ( New Terrorist Magazine Targets Americans - Citizens should stay clear of their website )

New Terrorist Magazine Targets Obama, Drones

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May 8, 2013 12:00pm

President Barack Obama appears with a bull’s-eye on his head in a new English-language magazine published online apparently by Islamist militants, who also urge Muslims around the world to try to hack and manipulate American drones.
“Wanted Dead Only. Barack Obama Mass Murderer. Reward: in the Hereafter,” reads the full page poster that depicts a darkened image Obama as a target.
Elsewhere in the 80-page tome, the magazine calls upon the “Ummah,” the community of Muslims all over the world, to hack and manipulate U.S. drones, identifying drone attacks as “one of the utmost important issues that the Ummah must unite to come up with an answer to.”
“This is a call to anyone in the Islamic Ummah with knowledge, expertise and theories regarding anti-drone technology. [...] These drones can be hacked and manipulated as evidenced by the efforts of the Iraq Mujahideen” says the article, possibly in reference to the reported interception of video feeds from U.S. predator drones by Iraqi militants in 2009.
While the magazine doesn’t explicitly say what the jihadi hackers should to with the drone, there is a significant difference between accessing unencrypted videos captured by a drone and actually commandeering a drone, according to Richard Clarke, former counter-terrorism advisor to the White House and current ABC News consultant.
“Taking over the controls of a drone is beyond the capabilities of members of such militant organizations,” said Clarke. “For that to happen they need to hack into the private encrypted network of the Pentagon or physically overpower the links between the drone and GPS with airplanes, which these organization do not have.”
In February, The Associated Press found an al Qaeda guide with 22 tips on avoiding drones, which was left behind by militants driven out of the Malian city of Timbuktu. The tip sheet referenced similar software reportedly used by the Iraqi militants in 2009 to intercept the drone’s surveillance images.
The new color magazine is entitled “Azan – A Call to Jihad” and was discovered online on May 5, though the issue itself is dated March 2013.
Azan, call to prayer in Arabic, holds a striking resemblance to Inspire, the English-language magazine published by Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), though no militant organization has claimed responsibility for the publication yet.
Nevertheless, the magazine’s header reads “Taliban in Kuhrasan” an indication that it might be published by islamists in Pakistan and Afghanistan. Kuharasan is an ancient term for the region spanning Afghanistan, Northwest Pakistan, parts of Iran, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan.
An American intelligence official told ABC News that the intelligence community was aware of the publication and that analysts are currently “evaluating Azan as they would any jihadist publication advocating international terrorism.”
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MEXICO ( Mexico Slaughters another 55,000 Chickens to Contain Bird Flu )

Mexico Slaughters 55,000 Chickens to Contain Bird Flu

MEXICO CITY – Authorities slaughtered 55,000 chickens at a farm in the central state of Puebla where avian flu was detected, Mexico’s agriculture department said.

The Senasica food-safety agency ordered the birds sacrificed after laboratory tests confirmed the presence of the H7 virus at the farm in Palmar de Bravo.

Senasica suspects the virus was spread to Puebla by chickens from other Mexican states affected by the avian-flu outbreak that began in 2012, the department said.

Once the 55,000 birds were slaughtered, authorities set about cleaning and disinfecting the farm.

Senasica inspectors found no sign of avian flu at 271 other chicken farms in Puebla, the agriculture department said.

Besides distributing millions of doses of vaccine, authorities have imposed controls on movements of chickens and boosting precautions at commercial farms, the department said.

Nearly 1,000 chickens were slaughtered at the end of last month in Tlaxcala state, bordering Puebla, to contain the bird-flu virus, following the sacrifice in February of 4 million birds in the central state of Guanajuato.

The outbreak was first detected last year in the western state of Jalisco, where more than 22 million chickens were ultimately slaughtered. EFE

TUCSON Az ( Tucson man dies from Bee Attack- Found hanging from cliff with his Gear ) Sad story

UPDATE: An autopsy on the climber who died over the weekend has shown the man died from a massive bee attack, according to the county medical examiner.
MOUNT HOPKINS - A Tucson man was found dead in the Santa Rita Mountains hanging off a cliff from his climbing gear on Monday. He had been missing since Friday.
Santa Cruz County Sheriff's deputies responded to the call just after 5pm Monday when Steven Johnson, 55, who is an experienced climber, did not show up to work.
Johnson was working an area of Mount Hopkins to prepare it for future climbers. He had his dog with him.

A spokesman with the sheriff's office told News 4 Tucson that a friend saw a posting on Facebook asking about Johnson's whereabouts, which ultimately led them to Johnson. However both Johnson and his dog were dead by the time search and rescue teams reached them.
While the cause of death has not been determined just yet, sheriff's deputies told News 4 Tucson that Johnson was covered with bee stings when he was found.
Johnson is described as a father, climber and friend, who was well-liked throughout the climbing community in Southern Arizona.
"It's devastating news for the Tucson community, for sure, he was a very prolific climber in Tucson," said John Mavko, who works at Rocks & Ropes, a climbing facility frequented by Johnson.

PHOENIX ( Drill- F-16s from the Tucson-based 162nd Fighter Wing plan to fly over Downtown Phoenix )

PHOENIX - Arizona Air National Guard F-16 fighters will be flying over downtown Phoenix Thursday as they practice intercepting hostile aircraft intent on a terrorist attack.
The F-16s from the Tucson-based 162nd Fighter Wing plan to run a series of interceptions from different approaches between 11:30 and 1 p.m.


Capt. Jason Gutierrez of the Air Guard says the fighters are from squadron's alert detachment, which provides a rapid reaction force over the region in case of an attack.
The Western Air Defense Sector exercises also involve a Lear Jet 35A business jet and Civil Air Patrol planes.
Similar exercises have been conducted since the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks.