Mike Cannon, a high-security scientist from the Los Alamos National Labs, has been missing since June 25th, the day before the Las Conchas fire started just outside of Los Alamos, New Mexico. Mr Cannon went out for a hike this day.
Mike has worked with such organizations as the CIA. He left without his wallet and cell phone – which he has been known to leave behind when he did not want to be disturbed while hiking. He did make some unusual purchases the day before he left for his hike, including several suits from Mens Warehouse, and a gun. He does enjoy target shooting, so this is not considered abnormal for him.
Mike was last seen near Rover Park in White Rock, New Mexico. He was wearing blue jeans and a button-down shirt. He may be riding an old silver Schwinn bicycle, red helmet, and carrying a blue backpack.
Mike is 66 years old, weighs about 160 pounds, is 5′ 9″ tall, hazel eyes, glasses, and white hair with a receding hairline.
As demonstrations erupted Friday across Syria, child deaths are being marked after the United Nations agency UNICEF said at least 30 children have been shot dead in anti-government protests since they first started. A rallying point is Hamza al-Khatib, a 13-year-old boy who was killed in April, and who the opposition says was tortured.
The country’s opposition movement marked Friday as “Children’s Friday” – a tribute to the dozens of young people who have died since demonstrations began in March.
The focus, said Neil Sammonds of the human rights group Amnesty International, is one death, that of 13-year-old Hamza al-Khatib, who died under mysterious circumstances.
“So he is one of 30 or more children who have died in the protests so far, all of them believed to have been shot by the security forces,” said Sammonds. “But in his case, most tragically and horrifically, he appears to have been tortured to death.”
Hamza al-Khatib disappeared during an April protest, where the government says he was shot and killed. The opposition says marks on his body, however, which was returned to his family in May, show the boy was tortured.
Unverified videos that appear to show his body have been posted on the website YouTube and the images have stoked fury in Syria.
The government of al-Assad made concessions this week, freeing hundreds of prisoners in an amnesty, and setting up a committee for national dialogue.
But the country’s exiled opposition, meeting this week in Turkey, said Assad should step down immediately. They vowed Thursday to work to bring down his government.
Their effort may be boosted by the symbolic power of Khatib’s death, but it’s not likely to be enough to bring down the government, said David Hartwell, at the IHS Jane’s analysis group in London.
“If Khatib’s death was going to spark off a national uprising, if you like, it probably would have done so by now,” said Hartwell. “I think what remains the key is the sentiment on the street in Damascus particularly, and the ability of the regime to keep the sources of protest and the sources of discontent separate from each other. If it can do that it should be able to crack down fairly successfully.”
With more deaths reported Friday in Syria, it’s yet unclear how severe that crackdown will be.
BEIJING, May 11 (UPI) — Several relics belonging to a Hong Kong museum have been stolen from a temporary exhibit at the Palace Museum in Beijing, Chinese officials said Wednesday.
A spokesman for the museum located in China’s Forbidden City said the missing items include small Western-style makeup cases encrusted with jewels, China’s official Xinhua news agency reported.
Feng Nai’en, an assistant curator, said a suspicious man being questioned by a museum staff member fled Sunday night after authorities were called.
Staff and armed police searched for the man but he apparently escaped with some pieces.
Two of the missing relics have been recovered but both were slightly damaged, Feng said.
He said the Palace Museum has issued a formal apology to the Hong Kong museum and is increasing security for the exhibit.
There was no information on the value, number or age of the missing items.
A Penticton, B.C., woman who was found alive in remote Nevada after being stranded for seven weeks is “doing remarkably well” and expected to make a full recovery.
Speaking to reporters on Saturday, Ken Dey — a spokesperson for St. Luke’s hospital in Twin Falls, Idaho, — said the prognosis for Rita Chretien, 56, is good.
“Rita, right now, remains in fair condition and the physicians treating her say she’s doing remarkably well. She’s had a small meal and is recovering well. Her outlook is very positive at this point,” he said.
“The doctors are very confident about a full recovery at this point.”
Rita and Albert Chretien, 59, were on their way to a trade show in Las Vegas when their 2000 Chevrolet Astro became stuck in mud on a logging road in Elko County in northeastern Nevada. They were last seen March 19 buying items at a gas station in Baker City, Ore.
On March 22, Albert Chretien set out on foot for help with a global positioning system. He told his wife he was walking to a state highway to try to find help. He hasn’t been seen since.
Hunters found Rita Chretien in the van on Friday afternoon. She was conscious and able to speak when she was found.
While the details of Rita Chretien’s ordeal over the past seven weeks are not clear, Twin Falls police spokesperson Luke Allen said she told her story to one of his detectives.
“She was sleeping, in and out of sleep for most of the trip. She woke up. They were then on a dirt road headed to some highway she thought was a short cut. They kept getting stuck. For two days they were getting stuck in their vehicle over and over again,” he said.
Family friend Dave Goertzen said that fits with what he knew of the couple.
“He [Albert] was an adventurer in the sense that he liked to explore when they were out driving sometimes … they would explore areas.”
Rita survived by eating what little trail mix and other food she had, then kept herself alive eating melted snow, her son Raymond Chretien told the Oregonian newspaper.
She lost about 30 pounds during the nearly 50 days she spent alone before a pair of ATV riders found her. When they gave her food, she vomited it up.
Chretien felt she was two or three days from death before she was rescued, according to her son.
Mike Cannon, a high-security scientist from the Los Alamos National Labs, has been missing since June 25th, the day before the Las Conchas fire started just outside of Los Alamos, New Mexico. Mr Cannon went out for a hike this day.
