Cosmonauts tackle equipment installation outside space station

By Irene Klotz

CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida | Fri Apr 19, 2013 5:56pm EDT

CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - A pair of Russian cosmonauts wrapped up a 6-1/2 hour spacewalk outside the International Space Station on Friday, the first of up to eight outings this year to install experiments and prepare the orbital outpost for a new module, officials said.

Flight engineers Pavel Vinogradov, 59, a veteran of seven spacewalks and Roman Romanenko, 41, a second-generation cosmonaut on his debut spacewalk, floated outside the station's airlock at 10:03 a.m. EDT/1403 GMT as the station soared 262 miles over the southern Pacific Ocean.

The primary purpose of the 6-1/2 hour excursion was to set up an experiment that monitors plasma waves in Earth's ionosphere, the outer layer of the planet's atmosphere that extends to about 370 miles into space.

Instruments on two boxes attached to handrails on the forward portion of the station's Zvezda module will measure low-frequency electromagnetic radiation, which, among other triggers, has been tied to earthquakes.

At the other end of the Zvezda module, Vinogradov and Romanenko replaced a faulty laser retroreflector that is part of an automated docking system used by the European Space Agency's cargo transports. The next ship is due to launch in June.

Before heading back into the station, the cosmonauts retrieved another experiment designed to study how microbes affect spacecraft structures and whether microbes are affected by solar activity.

The day's only glitch occurred just before the men wrapped up their six-hour, 38-minute spacewalk. Vinogradov lost his grip on a science experiment that was slated to be returned to Earth. It floated away in the gravity-free world of space.

The lost aluminum panel, which measured about 18 inches by 12 inches and weighed about 6.5 pounds (3 kg), had been anchored outside the station to test how various metals wear in the harsh space environment.

It floated off in the direction of the Zvezda module's solar arrays, but engineers determined it did not hit or threaten the station, NASA mission commentator Rob Navias said.

A second panel remains attached to the outside of the station and is slated to be retrieved on a later spacewalk.

"So all is not lost," Navias said. "It was a minor fly in the ointment to what has been a successful spaceflight up that moment."

While his crewmates worked outside, station commander Chris Hadfield, a Canadian astronaut, had the less glamorous task of replacing a pump separator in one of the station's toilets.

Two more spacewalks by Russian cosmonauts are scheduled for June to prepare for the arrival of a Russian laboratory and docking module that is to be launched in December.

The station, which is staffed by rotating crews of six astronauts and cosmonauts, is a $100 billion research outpost owned by the United States and Russia in partnership with Europe, Japan and Canada.

(Editing by Eric Walsh, Kevin Gray and Stacey Joyce)

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Olympics helps Britain leap out of recession

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain rebounded strongly from recession in the third quarter, posting its strongest quarterly GDP growth in five years, boosted at least in part by robust Olympics spending, official data showed on Thursday.

The jump in growth was subject to a number of temporary factors, including the Olympics, which may mask a weaker underlying picture.

But it was still much better than expected and may mean Britain's full 2012 economy will not be in the red.

The Office for National Statistics said Britain's gross domestic product rose by 1.0 percent between July and September, beating forecasts for a 0.6 percent gain, after shrinking by 0.4 percent between April and June.

On the year, the economy was flat, also better than expected.

The return to growth after three consecutive quarters of contraction was welcome news for a coalition government under pressure to do more to revive the economy.

However, the third quarter rise was boosted by ticket sales for the London Olympics - which the statistics office estimated accounted for a fifth of the quarterly increase - and a rebound from an extra public holiday in the second quarter.

Stripping out those one-off effects, economists said growth in the UK economy was weak and that headwinds from the euro zone were likely to act as a drag in the coming months.

"It was a very good number, but understandably good," said Alan Clarke, economist at Scotiabank, noting the lift from the Olympic ticket sales and what he estimated was about half a percentage point boost from the hit taken by the June extra holiday.

"There's now a good chance the economy won't actually contract on average for this year... It'll probably be flat and, in the context of monetary policy, it reinforces the case for the Bank of England to pause on quantitative easing."

Sterling hit a one-week high versus the dollar and British government bonds extended losses after the data was released.

After falls in unemployment and inflation last week, Chancellor George Osborne said the figures vindicated the government's economic policies.

"There is still a long way to go, but these figures show we are on the right track," Osborne said. "Yesterday's weak data from the euro zone were a reminder that we still face many economic challenges at home and abroad."

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Bank of England Governor Mervyn King cautioned on Tuesday that the recovery would remain slow, with threats posed by the euro zone debt crisis and a cooling of the fast-growing economies of India, China and Brazil.

However, two of the nine Bank policymakers struck a note of confidence on the economy in interviews with newspapers.

Paul Fisher and Charlie Bean noted that the central bank's new scheme to get credit flowing through the economy was showing promising signs.

Nevertheless, investors scaled back expectations for another cash boost from the Bank as King said policymakers would think "long and hard" before extending the currently approved 375 billion pounds of quantitative easing bond purchases.

The ONS said the British economy had grown by 0.3 percent so far this year, but was still 3.1 percent below a peak in the first quarter of 2008.

Britain has not fully recovered the output lost during the 2008-2009 slump that has left many Britons worse off and the economy slipped back into recession at the end of last year.

Output in Britain's service sector - which makes up more than three quarters of GDP - rose by 1.3 percent in the third quarter after falling 0.1 percent in the second quarter. That was the strongest quarterly growth since the third quarter of 2007.

Industrial output was 1.1 percent higher, the strongest rise since the second quarter of 2010. Construction - which accounts for less than 7 percent of GDP - contracted by 2.5 percent.

(Editing by Jeremy Gaunt)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/olympics-helps-britain-leap-recession-091832635--business.html

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New Orleans overnight crime report for Monday, Oct. 15, 2012 ...

This report comes directly from the New Orleans Police Department's Major Offense Log for 6 a.m. Sunday through 6 a.m. Monday.

Armed Robbery with a gun

21:11 Hrs.

S. Lopez/Canal St.

Victims: Three females

Gist: The females were approached by a male who implied a weapon and demanded their purses. The females offered him their cash. The subject fled with $303.00.

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Qs about Dates and Bad Faith - WORLD Law Direct Forums

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Thanks. I need a clarification regarding surrender. I was told that the 30 day time frame starts on the day the property is vacated. I was told by another source that the surrender occurs when the key is surrendered and the forwarding address is given. We surrendered the keys and gave the forwarding address on the date set by the landlord and not when we vacated . Which one is correct in Texas? The landlord has been communicating via email and has did not use US postal mail to send the letter. Is that an issue also? The lease did not convert to a month to month lease since they had given us a notice in July that it was terminating on aug 31 and would not be renewed.We moved out in Aug as per the lease terms.

Normally, possession is returned the LL when the tenants actually vacate. However, since the tenants retained the keys until asked for them by the LL, they retained access to and possession of the rental unit until those keys were returned. That would make 9/4 the surrender date. That ALSO means that the LL can legally charge rent for the additional days that the tenants retained possession of the rental unit.

As for attorney fees and costs, unless the lease specifically states that the tenant can be charged those costs as a result of any dispute arising from the terms of the lease, then that is NOT something they (LLs) can automatically charge or deduct from the security deposit.

Last, but not least, with regard to the communication between LL and tenant, email is often acceptable, but not always considered effective as legal evidence. The reason that mail is preferred is because you can request signature confirmation of the delivery and receipt of those documents. There are some programs that provide a delivery and read receipt, but the courts still don't always accept them. The whole point here is that there needs to be actual documented confirmation that the communication has taken place, and delivery/read receipts provide this confirmation.

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