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Could a Person of Color from an Immigrant Family Be Elected in Europe? By Sanjay Suri, IPS News Europe seems to offer neither popular nor political acceptability to members of its minority groups. Read more »   This week, my friend David Neiwert interviewed Mark Potok, Director of the Southern Poverty Law Center's Intelligence Project, who had some important words of warning. Potok told Neiwert that he thinks "there's something remarkable happening out there." "I think we really are beginning to see a white backlash that may grow fairly large. The situation's worrying. "Not only do we have continuing nonwhite immigration, not only is the economy in the tank and very likely to get worse, but we have a black man in the White House. That is driving a kind of rage in a certain sector of the white population that is very, very worrying to me. "We are seeing literally hundreds of incidents around the country -- from cross-burnings to death threats to effigies hanging to confrontations in schoolyards, and it's quite remarkable. "I think that there are political leaders out there who are saying incredibly irresponsible things that could have the effect of undamming a real flood of hate. That includes media figures. On immigration, they have been some of the worst." "There's a lot going on, and it's very likely to lead to scapegoating. And in the end, scapegoating leaves corpses in the street." Some of us have been trying to get that last point across for some time. Plenty of content this week, so dig in. Joshua Holland Editor, immigration special coverage     Immigration Reform Under Obama Likely To Be Piecemeal By Marcelo Ballvé, New America Media A President Obama might not be able to take on immigration reform as a top-level priority during an economic downturn. Read more »   Obama, New Congress Offer Hope for Pragmatic Immigration Reform By Rupa Dev, New America Media The results of elections 2008 are good news for immigration reform, but there's still a potentially rocky road ahead. Read more »   Latino Vote Fueling Republican Introspection America's Voice The GOP's rhetoric on immigration played an enormous role in a significant shift among Latino voters. Read more »   Profligate Water Use in the U.S. Is Fueling the Flight of Mexicans Across the Border By Jo-Shing Yang, AlterNet Green lawns, swimming pools, and corporate farms in the desert Southwest are taking their toll on our neighbors to the south. Read more »   Why John McCain Lost the Latino Vote By Peter Costantini, IPS News Many Latinos are angry at Republicans for pushing for the criminalization and mass deportation of undocumented immigrants. Read more »   Rahm Emanuel Makes the Right Move on Colombia Trade Deal By John Nichols, The Nation Obama's new chief of staff shows that he intends to carry the Obama program forward -- not his own. Read more »   PEEK and Video: The hottest buzz and videos on the web     Citizens Fight Back Against Hate After the Brutal Murder of Marcello Lucero By Lisa Votino-Tarrant, Long Island Wins Last weekend, 7 teenage punks murdered Marcello Lucero because they wanted to go get a "a Mexican." Read more »   Obama Needs to Bring Change to Our Fatally Flawed Immigration System By Staff, National Immigration Forum The promise from Obama's transition team to strip away agency practices inconsistent with his vision of change comes not a moment too soon. Read more »   Why Did ICE Head Julie Myers Resign the Day After the Election? By Suman Raghunathan, Feet in 2 Worlds Myers leaves amid speculation that she was the source of the leak about the status of Obama's undocumented Kenyan aunt. Read more »

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4p 11/18 Update: Tool bag lost overboard; grease gun leaks; SARJ work begins

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CBS NEWS STS-126 STATUS REPORT: 33
Posted: 4:00 PM, 11/18/08

By William Harwood
CBS News Space Analyst

Changes and additions:

   SR-30 (11/18/05): CORRECTION of EVA duties
   SR-31 (11/18/08): Spacewalk begins
   SR-32 (11/18/08): Depleted nitrogen tank moved to shuttle; coolant system component mounted on space station; SARJ cleaning work begins
   SR-33 (11/18/08): Stefanyshyn-Piper loses tool bag; grease contamination; SARJ work begins

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4:00 PM, 11/18/08, Update: Stafanyshyn-Piper loses tool bag overboard as she struggles to clean up lubricant from "exploded" grease gun

Spacewalker Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper, arranging tools and work bags before beginning work to clean and lubricate a space station solar array rotary joint, lost a tool kit overboard and along with it two grease guns, a scraper, a debris container and a large trash bag.

When the tool kit floated away, she was struggling to clean up grease inside the bag that somehow leaked out. Flight controllers told her to use tools in fellow spacewalker Steve Bowen's toolkit to replace those that were lost. They may slow the astronauts down a bit - they will be working on opposite sides of the 10-foot-wide solar array drive gear - but they presumably can still accomplish their major objectives.

"I think we had a grease gun explode in the large bag," she reported around 3:33 p.m. "Because there's grease in the bag."

"Ah, it must have been the pressure changes," Bowen observed.

"OK, copy that," Robert "Shane" Kimbrough called from inside the shuttle-station complex. "We're looking at your WVS (helmet television camera) now."

"Yeah, it's on the (still) camera, I got a little bit on my glove," Stefanyshyn-Piper said.

"Endeavour, Houston, for EVA. On the big loop," Mark Vande Hei called from mission control. "We monitored about the grease for Heide, getting deployed in the bag. We recommend using a dry wipe to clean up the camera."

"OK, copy. Heide, did you copy that?" Kimbrough asked.

"I'm cleaning my glove first," she said. A few minutes later, she added: "It's kind of all over the inside of the bag. Not sure what it's coming out of. Oh, one of the J-hooks..."

"Maybe we can get it out and temp stow it on the outside or something," Kimbrough said.

"Well... no, it didn't come off of that one," she said. "It might have come off one of the guns on Steve's bag."

A few moments later, she lost the tool bag.

"Oh, great. We have a lost tool, uh, I guess one of my crew (air)lock bags was not transferred and it's loose."

"OK, Heide, crew lock bag?"

"Yeah," she said. "See it?"

"Yeah, we see it," Kimbrough replied. Television shots from the station showed the soft-sided bag floating away against the backdrop of Earth.

"And I'm still cleaning up grease," she said a moment later.

"Endeavour, Houston, on the big loop for EVA," Vande Hei called. "Concerning the crew lock bag that's floating away, could we get a general direction for which direction it's floating away in?"

"It is floating station aft and starboard," Stefanyshyn-Piper reported.

A few minutes later, she reported that "everything else in this bag is tethered."

"OK, good deal. Looks like you're cleaning up everything, that's great, just keep it nice and slow, no big deal," Kimbrough said.

Kimbrough later told Vande Hei the lost crew lock back included "two grease guns, a wipe caddy, the scraper debris container, the scraper and a large trash bag. We think Steve's got all that stuff as well, so Heide can get working with Steve's equipment if you agree with that and then we'll just share when he gets over here."

Stefanyshyn-Piper then began work cleaning the starboard solar alpha rotary joint, removing a trundle bearing assembly to reach the contaminated bearing surfaces.

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