NASA to Test New Medical Device to Help Sick Astronauts in Space

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Anew H2O filter complement that could pave the approach for puncture intravenous (IV)operations to assistance ill astronauts in space is about to get the idealisation teston NASAs subsequent space convey flight.

Thenew space technology, set to launch Monday on the spaceshuttle Discovery, is written to filter out little contaminants fromdrinking H2O to furnish a liquid rubbish sufficient for IVs in box they are neededin a medicalemergency in space. If successful, it could additionally be used by the UnitedStates troops in remote margin operations, on submarines and ships, as well asin healing service efforts, researchers said.

IVfluid prolongation anytime, anywhere, has good healing good on the belligerent aswell as in space, pronounced Philip Scarpa, healing operations physical education instructor atNASAs Kennedy Space Center in Florida, where Discovery is set to explosion offMonday sunrise at 6:21 a.m. EDT (1021 GMT).

Scarpa"steam worked with researchers at NASAs Glenn Research Center in Ohio to developthe new filtering technology. The study, nicknamed "Project Clearwater,"resulted in IntraVenous Fluid Generation (IVGEN) H2O filter.

Researcherssaid the device outlines a outrageous step brazen in mending H2O peculiarity duringspaceflights. Discovery will additionally broach a new space waterrecycling device that converts rubbish hydrogen and CO dioxide gas backinto beverage celebration water.

Theshuttles climb in to space might be visible, continue permitting, to skywatchersall along the East Coast of the United States [howto mark the convey launch].

IVsin space

Whenit comes to healing reserve in space, IVs can be formidable to come by.

Onechallenge is their comparatively singular shelf life, due to the need forsterility. And given IV fluids additionally take up a lot of volume (they weigh morethan 2 pounds per liter), astronauts can usually be granted with an extremelyrestricted volume of fluids in space.

Thespace hire typically has a supply of about twelve liters of liquid and any giventime. One new NASA investigate reported that a mission to Mars might need as most as248 liters of IV fluids on board, researchers said.

Currently,NASAs healing experts have identified at slightest 115 opposite scenarios inwhich a sickor harmed wanderer could need an IV whilst vital on the space station,mostly for rehydration of disinfectant delivery.

"Onboard or "insitu" prolongation of IV fluids indispensable for healing treatments, couldgreatly revoke these costs and storage limitations, and would give NASA muchmore coherence in how it can have use of the H2O it already has on the spacecraft,"Scarpa pronounced in a statement.

Asuitcase machine

TheIVGEN is a suitcasesized device that produces IVgrade H2O from availablespace hire celebration water. It filters out little contaminants likeheavy metals and toxins. It will be mounted inside the space stations scienceglove box during the test, researchers said.

Thebiggest risk is the arrangement of froth due to the miss of sobriety in space.

Bubblesare probably the greatest concern, Scarpa said. "Bubbles in IV fluids aredangerous for a studious as well. If entered in to the veins, they could means astroke by restraint the smarts red blood flow."

Scarpa"steam devised micronsized filters to trap and fist out the froth from thesystem.

DuringDiscoverys STS131 mission, astronauts will run H2O by the IVGEN filterfrom a storage bag and run multiform cycles, afterwards freeze the ensuing H2O soit can be analyzed on Earth. The apparatus is slated to be returned on a latershuttle flight. The approach IVGEN functions is to send H2O from the hire containers supply toan accumulator, that forces that H2O by a array of filters. The wateris dispensed in to an IV bag, identical to the kind used in hospitals.&

Onceinside the IV bag, that additionally contains salt and a stir bar, the liquid is thenthoroughly churned together with the salt. This should outcome in a salinesolution, same as the IV liquid used on Earth, afterwards goes by one last checkto have certain the utterly churned prior to being picked up and solidified byastronauts.

Aperfect outcome would be to have outlay H2O that satisfies the despotic standardsfor H2O for injection but any failures or opening issues,Scarpa said.

Discovery"sSTS131 mission is one of NASAs 4 finalshuttle flights prior to the space group retires the 3 orbiters laterthis year.

Theshuttles sevenastronaut organisation is hauling a 27,000pound (12,246kg) load podfilled with supplies, scholarship apparatus and gangling tools for the space station.The mission is slated to last thirteen days. Three spacewalks are planned.

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Astronauts Space Shuttle Inspection Slowed by Antenna Malfunction

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Astronauts aboard NASAs space convey Discovery scannedtheir spacecrafts feverishness defense for any signs of repairs on Tuesday, but couldn"tbeam the formula to Mission Control given of a main receiver plate malfunction.

The receiver unsuccessful to work usually after Discoverylaunched Monday on a smoothness mission to the International Space Station. Withoutthe antenna, Discoverys 7 astronauts cant send or embrace big datapackages, similar to lucent live video to Mission Control or reception majorrevisions to their moody plan.

"We cant speak by it. We cant send commands throughit. Really zero functions with it at this point," convey moody directorRichard Jones pronounced in a Tuesday sunrise briefing.

That meant Discoverys astronauts had to jot down theresults of their convey investigation on 40minute interpretation tapes instead of beamingvideo and laser camera interpretation true to Mission Control. They had to make make use of 6 tapes to store about 40 gigabytes of interpretation from the investigation sothat it can be sent to Earth after once Discovery reaches the space hire [Discovery"spredawn launch].

The astronauts used a 100foot (30meter) investigation boomtipped with laser sensors to indicate the feverishness defense panels along Discoverys wingedges and nose top for any repairs postulated during their Monday launch. �Thesurvey took hours.

"Its a prolonged day so we essentially stagger through," pronounced shuttlepilot Jim Dutton, one of 3 Discovery astronauts who achieved the scan, ina NASA interview.

The investigation is a customary piece of each space shuttlemission given the 2003 Columbia disaster, where wing feverishness defense repairs ledto the loss of the booster during reentry. Seven astronauts were killed.

Since then, NASA has grown severe inspectiontechniques and correct methods to safeguard feverishness defense firmness of the shuttlesin flight. Tuesdays investigation is the initial of 3 programmed surveys of theshuttle by the organisation and astronauts on the space station.

Discovery is due to wharf at the International SpaceStation Wednesday sunrise at 3:44 a.m. EDT (0744 GMT). The astronauts areworking on a lopsided report that requires them to nap in the day and work atnight. They"ll go to nap at about 12:21 p.m. EDT (1621 GMT) currently to rest upahead of Wednesdays docking.

The malfunctioning Kuband receiver plate is 3 feet (1meter) far-reaching and about 7 feet (2.1 meters) long. It is one of severalcommunication systems on Discovery, that additionally has UHF and Sband systems forvoice and interpretation transmission, but usually the Kuband complement can send home video.

Without the antenna, Discoverys event with thespace hire is approaching to be a bit trickier, given the device is additionally usedin a radio detector mode to give convey commander in chief Alan Poindexter updates on Discovery"sapproach and alignment.

Jones pronounced the astronauts can make make use of star trackers and otherdevices in place of the antennas radar.

Jones pronounced that the receiver is tracking communicationssatellites in orbit, usually not promulgation or reception information. A similarantenna disaster occurred during NASAs STS92shuttle mission to the space hire in 2000, he added.

It is misleading if the receiver can be remade duringDiscoverys 13day mission. But so far, the glitch has not acted as well most of aproblem for Discoverys organisation or moody controllers on Earth, Jones said.

"I would impersonate it right right away as a minorinconvenience," Jones said.

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No Rest on Easter for Space Shuttle Station Astronauts

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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. � Easter might be a time ofreflection, rest and egg hunts for most people around the world, but the turnedinto a space trade jam for astronauts headed for the International Space Station.

NASA is formulation to launchthe convey Discovery and 7 astronauts toward the hire prior to sunrisetomorrow, Easter Monday, on a moody to batch up the space hire withsupplies, new scholarship rigging and critical gangling parts. Liftoff is set for 6:21 a.m.EDT (1021 GMT) from a strand desk pad here at NASAs Kennedy Space Center.

Meanwhile, a RussianSoyuz booster arrived at the hire early this Easter Sunday sunrise todeliver 3 new astronauts to stick on an additional contingent already aboard the orbitinglaboratory. The Soyuz launched on Good Friday from Baikonur Cosmodrome inKazakhstan.

NASA engineers worked by the week end notwithstanding the Christian legal legal holiday in sequence to readyDiscovery for the sunrise launch in to orbit, that might be perceivable (weatherpermitting) to observers along the United States East Coast [howto watch the convey launch]. �

"Even though it is Easter Sunday, the only similar to anytypical...countdown timeline," pronounced NASA exam executive Pete Nickolenko. "All the standardactivities are only similar to they would be per that favoured timeline."

Even so, Nickolenko did indoctrinate his teams to stand in checkto have certain there were no report conflicts. There were none.

"Folks are really excited," Nickolenko said.

Up in space, the stationastronauts noted Easter with a customary video couple with desired ones,friends and space officials at Russias Mission Control core nearby Moscow.

"We are underneath a good sense of this moody and wehave a lot of emotions," Russian cosmonaut Alexander Skvortsovtold Mission Control. "And we would similar to to again contend "Happy Easter" toeverybody. Its a smashing holiday."

Skvortsov arrived at the hire to one side Russiancrewmate Mikhail Kornienko and American wanderer Tracy Caldwell Dyson of NASA,all of whom sent Easter wishes to their desired ones on Earth. But they were alsoeager to get to work.

"I additionally wish to contend "Happy Easter" to everybody,"Kornienko said. "We goal that tomorrow the convey will be launched and that onthe 7th of April, we goal that we"ll have a successful docking."

Russian space officials in Moscow pronounced that the spacestation astronauts did not have any Easter eggs or Kulich � a Russian breadtraditional eaten during Easter � with them in orbit. But they could celebratethe day in spirit, they said.

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Shutterbug Astronauts Smash Space Photography Record

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Astronauts similar to most people only cant get sufficient photosof Earth from space. But one dedicated space hire organisation has taken spacephotography to subsequent turn after ruinous the alltime jot down for the mostpictures taken during a singular spaceflight.

The new Expedition twenty-two organisation of the International SpaceStation snapped 100,000 images ofspace and the Earth from on top of over a rounded off sixmonth period. The missionended progressing this month with a snow white alighting in Kazakhstan, with a newcrew blustering off now for the orbiting laboratory.

Expedition twenty-two commander in chief Jeff Williams of NASA, along with flightengineers Max Suraev and Oleg Kotov of the Russian Federal Space Agency,Timothy (T.J.) Creamer of NASA, and Soichi Noguchi of the Japanese AerospaceExploration Agency, done up the mission crew.

The photohappy spaceflyers have brought the total series ofpictures taken from the space hire to a grand total of roughly 639,000 images [moreviewsof Earth from space].

Williams pennyless his own prior jot down of 83,856 imagestaken during an ISS mission, set during his army on Expedition thirteen in 2006.

This week we pennyless my old Exp. thirteen jot down for series ofEarth photos, Williams wrote on Twitter from the station. Later,after alighting and recovery, I will post a little of best. Williams writes asAstro_Jeff on the microblogging site.

Noguchi, an generally zealous space photographer, alsofrequently posts cinema hes taken from the hire to his chatter feed asAstro_Soichi.

Mt. Fuji, JAPAN. On the sunrise of my 100th day onorbit :) he tweeted on Mar 30.

The bulk of the astronauts" photography will be used inscientific investigate about the Earths meridian and resources and how those arechanging over time. NASA has been aggregation interpretation of Earth seen from space sincethe Gemini missions in the 1960s.

And the viewsfrom the space hire not long ago improved. In February, the STS130 flightof the space convey Endeavour delivered the largest window ever flown on aspacecraft to the station. Called the cupola, the seethrough architecture offers awideangle perspective of space outward the orbiting laboratory from 7 windows ofhighopticalquality glass.

When the space convey Discovery visits the hire thismonth, it will broach a new trickery to take value of the cupola forremote intuiting and highresolution Earth regard photography. Theapparatus, called the Window Observational Research Facility (WORF), is due tobe launched on Discovery and her sevenmember crew, on Apr 5.

Williams and Suraev recentlylanded aboard a Russian Soyuz booster on the steppes of Kazakhstan March18. Meanwhile, Kotov has taken over the hire helm as Expedition 23commander, with Noguchi and Creamer staying on as Expedition twenty-three flightengineers.

Early Friday, a new Russian Soyuz booster launched fromBaikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan carrying one American wanderer and twoRussian cosmonauts to stick on Kotov, Creamer and Noguchi on the space station.

That Soyuz TMA18 booster is slated to arrive at thespace hire on Apr 4, one day prior to Discovery is due to launch toward theorbiting laboratory.

Liftoff of Discovery is now scheduled for 6:21 a.m.EDT (1021 GMT) on Monday morning, with auspicious continue conditions expectedfor the launch, mission managers have said.

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Weather Looks Good for Monday Space Shuttle Launch

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The continue is seeking great for NASAs programmed Mondaylaunch of the space convey Discovery.

The convey and the sevenastronaut organisation have an 80percent possibility of transparent skies for their programmed Mondayblastoff toward the International Space Station.� Liftoff is setfor 6:21 a.m. EDT (1021 GMT) from a strand launch desk desk pad at NASAs Kennedy SpaceCenter in Florida.

"Overall, we"re seeking at a great possibility of goodweather," pronounced convey continue military officer Kathy Winters in a mission briefing. "Itshould be a great morning."

Only the possibility of low clouds or haze poise any regard forthe nearing launch, she added.

Discoverys programmed 13day mission is one of NASAs fewremaining convey flights prior to the space group retires the aging,threeorbiter swift after this year. Only 4 flights remain, includingDiscoverys nearing STS131 mission [see the weirdestNASA posters].

"We had a short flyby of the desk desk pad and saw the great shipDiscovery out there, and it looks great," mission commander in chief Alan Poindextertold reporters progressing currently after nearing at the launch site with hiscrewmates. "We"re ready to go."

Poindexter commands a fourman,threewoman organisation aiming to broach some-more than 27,000 pounds (12,246kg) of supplies, load and new scholarship apparatus for the space station. Threespacewalks are programmed to reinstate a large gyroscope for perspective carry out andinstall a gangling ammonia tank, between alternative chores.

Launching aboard Discovery with Poindexter will beshuttle commander Jim Dutton and mission specialists Rick Mastracchio, DottieMetcalfLindenburger, Stephanie Wilson, Clayton Anderson and Naoko Yamazaki �Japans second womanlike wanderer � who represents the Japan AerospaceExploration Agency.

The actuality that Discoverys Monday launch will symbol thisshuttles secondtolast mission was not lost on the astronauts. NASA plans to retireits 3 space shuttles in the fall, after scarcely thirty years ofservice, and rely on blurb booster to launch astronauts to the spacestation.

"Although one day we"ll all turn piece of the story ofNASA, we"re regularly piece of the future," Anderson said.

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NASA Eyes Nuclear Power Glitch for Ambitious New Mars Rover

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NASA"snext red world probe, the Mars Science Laboratory � right away dubbed Curiosity � hasbeen years indevelopment and overcome countless hurdles. Now engineers are receiving a closelook at the carsized rovers chief energy plant.

Engineerspreparing the Curiosityrover for the programmed launch in 2011 found a somewhat faster than expecteddegradation rate in the rovers multimission radioisotope thermoelectricgenerator, or MMRTG for short.

TheMMRTG is created to raise the rovers range and operability and lifetime onthe red planet. The section uses a little 10 pounds (4.8 kg) of plutonium dioxide,mostly plutonium238, as a feverishness source.

"Rightnow we are operative with Department of Energy to try and assimilate it,"McCuistion told , "but todate the usually stroke is approaching to be someoperational workarounds in Martian winter...slower operational gait essentiallybecause it"ll take longer to assign the batteries."

Curiositys MMRTG energy plant is right away entirely fueled and storedat the Idaho National Laboratory, where it is available smoothness to the rover"slaunch site in Cape Canaveral, Fla., subsequent year [Graphic: HowMars Science Laboratory works].

Optimisticfor Mars

The radioisotopethermoelectric generator of electric power bauble is the ultimate in a host of technologicalteething problems of the right away rounded off $2.3 billion mission led to a trip in itslaunch from 2009 to subsequent year.

Althoughchallenges still sojourn in removing the nuclearpowered corsair spiffed up andready for sendoff to Mars, majority of those problems have been resolved � includinga potentially critical issue with the probes steel skeleton.

Acontractor had falsified support as to the qualityof titanium it had granted to the aerospace community. That forced NASA tobacktrack by office work to assure that the Curiosity corsair didnt have make make use of of batches ofthe "wrong stuff."

Thepaperwork to sort by the have make make use of titanium on Curiosity is right away over 90percent complete, "and no show stoppers, so I am feeling carefully optimisticthat MSL will not be impacted," pronounced Doug McCuistion, Director of the NASA MarsExploration Program in Washington, D.C.

Whereto land

Meanwhile,the scholarship village is revving up to have make have make use of Curiosity and the apartment of sciencegear.

"Thekey technological and report problems are being solved and the Mars communityis utterly pleased," remarkable John Mustard of Brown University in Providence, RhodeIsland. Hes additionally chair of the Mars Exploration Program Analysis Group, chartedby NASA to support in formulation the systematic explorationof the red planet.

ThisSeptember Mars scientists will take piece in the fourth alighting site seminar for Curiosity.That assembly will concentration on the superb scholarship questions and relativemerits of the last Mars Science Laboratorys intensity alighting sites thatremain underneath deliberation.

According to JohnGrant of the Smithsonians Center for Earth and Planetary Studies and MattGolombek of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory the cochairs of the Mars LandingSite Steering Committee the routine of selecting Curiositys alighting site isconverging.

Nearly 60 sites for themissions programmed touchdown have been mulled over for some-more than 3 years.Only Eberswalde crater, Gale crater, Holden crater, and Mawrth Vallis remain.

Grant and Golombekreport that each of these sites represents sparkling scholarship opportunities forMSL and has been rarely rated by the scholarship community. A fifth site might beadded to the list, a preference that will be stirring in May by the MSLproject with submit from the MSL Landing Site Steering Committee.

Avatar in red?

Along with animpressive form of investigate duties, the Curiosity rovers imaging andscientific apartment will be the majority able preparation and open overdo packageever placed on the aspect of an additional world � and given a successfulMars alighting promises to yield overwhelming images and movies.

One new capacitybeing reevaluated is to impregnate Curiosity with a wizz 3D camera capability. Malin Space ScienceSystems in San Diego, California is construction it for Oscarwinning director,James Cameron, who not long ago delivered Avatar, his blockbuster cinematic experience.

Cameron is a memberof the MSL scholarship team, resolutely focused on video support and traversescience utilizing the rovers MastCam, the Mars Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI), and theMars Descent Imager (MARDI) that will jot down in "ridealong video" conform thefinal dual mins of landing.

Earlier plans to haveMastCamzoom were scrapped to encounter excusable technical, report and cost riskstandards in 2007. But the thought is behind on the table, maybe.

Today, the rovers bound MastCam is already built and delivered,and can fly on MSL as programmed if the wizz version doesnt come together intime.

"But if it does, and if it passes gift tests withoutholding up the MSL schedule, it could be substituted onto the rover," NASA spokesman�Dwayne Brown told . "NASA has tentatively agreed, and is profitable forthe new work on the zoom, that is approaching to cost about $5 million. However,nothing has been reliable at this time."

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Last Chance to Get a Good Look at Mars Until 2012

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On Thursday night, Mar 25, majority people maylook up at the sky and ask the question, Whats that splendid star subsequent tothe moon?

The answer for Thursday night is Mars, butthat answer changes night by night as the moon travels along theecliptic, the trail the sun, moon and planets follow opposite the sky. If youask the subject again on Monday night, Mar 29, the answer will be the ringedplanet Saturn.

Such conjunctions of the moon and planets areregular reminders of how fast the moon moves opposite the sky.

Mars was in antithesis to the Sun on Jan. 29,when it appeared fourteen arcseconds in diameter, 1/120 of the hole of the moon.Two months later, it is majority over away, and has shrunk to usually 10 arcsecondsin diameter.

This will be your last possibility to get a goodlook at Mars until it approaches the Earth again in 2012 [see some-more Mars photos].

The sky these open evenings presents astriking contrariety in between the horse opera half, filled with the splendid stars andconstellations of winter, and the eastern half, with Regulus the usually brightstar. Mars sits in unique fame in Cancer, one of the majority insignificantzodiac constellations, only on top of the craft of the Milky Way.

But there is majority sneaking over the dimstars of spring, for we are entering the area of the galaxies. Theconstellation Leo alone contains five of the brightest galaxies in CharlesMessiers important 18th century catalogue of deepsky objects.

When we see towards Leo, we are lookingabove the craft of the Milky Way universe at the inlet of intergalactic space,unhindered by the clouds of dust and gas that fill the galaxy.

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Cloudy Skies Rain Delay Shuttle Discoverys Return to Earth

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Agloomy brew of low clouds and sleet behind the space convey Discovery"sreturn to Earth Monday, forcing the sevenastronaut organisation to outlay at slightest one moreday in circuit prior to entrance home.

Thefoul continue at NASAs Kennedy Space Center in Florida thwarted dual separateattempts to land Discovery on a runway at the home port. The subsequent possibility toland the convey will come on Tuesday at 7:33 a.m. EDT (1133 GMT).

Discovery"screw of 7 astronauts thanked Mission Control for the efforts tosalvage a alighting from todays murky weather.

Weknow how most effort it is and we conclude all you"ve done,shuttle commander in chief Alan Poindexter told Mission Control. We"ll be hopefulfor improved continue tomorrow.

Discoveryis returning to Earth after resupplying the International Space Station withtons of uninformed haven and new scholarship equipment. With Mondays alighting delay,the astronauts are right away jacket up a 15day mission to batch up the orbitinglab.

NASAhoped to land the convey early Monday morning, but Mother Nature refused tocooperate. Shuttle moody manners dissuade perplexing to land a space convey with rainshowers inside of thirty miles of the runway given the continue can repairs thespacecrafts frail feverishness defense tiles, between alternative risks.

Lowcloud ceilings, similar to the one that thwarted todays initial alighting attempt, arealso a complaint given they affect runway prominence for convey commanders andpilots.

The clouded cover covering currently was usually 200 feet on top of the belligerent with prominence limited to 2 miles, unsuitable for any convey alighting attempts, NASA officials said.

On the initial alighting try Tuesday, Discovery will fly opposite the UnitedStates from the northwest to southeast when it reenters Earths ambience andmay be perceivable to observers on the ground. [Howto see Discoverys reentry from Earth.]

Itis usually the second time given the comfortless loss of Columbia in 2003 that a NASAshuttle has flown over the United States during reentry and proceed tolanding (the last time was in 2007). NASA typically prefers to fly shuttles infrom the southwest to equivocate drifting by highaltitude noctilucent clouds andflying over populated areas.

MissionControl opted for the arena for Discoverys alighting in sequence to give theshuttle astronauts additional time during their bustling mission.

IfDiscovery is incompetent to lapse to Florida on Tuesday, NASA could opt to land theshuttle at a backup runway at the Edwards Air Force Base in California.

Theshuttle has mixed opportunities to land at both sites on Tuesday. But NASAprefers to land Discovery in Florida � the convey fleets home pier and launchsite � given it saves about a week of time and $1.8 million in ride coststo packet the booster home from California atop a mutated Boeing 747 jumbojet.

Thevast ash clouded cover from Iceland"sEyjafjallaj�kull volcano poses no regard for Discoverys reentry andlanding. Unlike air trade in Europe, the shuttles alighting proceed is wellclear of any regions influenced by the volcanic ash plume.

Discoveryhas sufficient haven to sojourn in space until Wednesday, but NASA wants to landthe convey by Tuesday in sequence to keep one day in haven in box of anunexpected malfunction.

Discoverylaunched in to space on Apr 5 on what has turn a 14day mission todeliver new scholarship examination equipment, haven and big gangling tools to theInternational Space Station. The astronauts achieved 3 difficult spacewalks toreplace an ammonia coolant tank outward the station.

Astuck valve inside the new tank has kept it from operative properly, but MissionControl opted to have hire astronauts repair it after on destiny spacewalk.

Thismission is one of NASAs last couple of convey flights prior to the space craft fleetis late in September. It is the secondtolast mission for Discovery, whichis NASAs oldest space shuttle.

Afterthis flight, usually 3 some-more convey missions remain. NASAs subsequent space shuttleto fly is Atlantis, that will broach a new Russian procedure to theInternational Space Station in May.

Atlantisis due to hurl out to the strand launch desk pad tonight.

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NASA: Claims of Life on Mars Positively False

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This story was updated at 5:56 p.m. ET.

Despite new media reports that NASA found justification forlife on Mars, the U.S. space group says explanation that we are not alone is still aways off.

A Wednesday essay in the U.K.s The Sunnewspaper entitled, NASA: Evidence of Life on Mars, reported thatthey group had denounced constrained justification for Martianorganisms. But NASA officials and maestro Mars mission scientists sayno.

This title is intensely misleading, pronounced DwayneBrown, a orator for NASA shaped at the agencys domicile in Washington,D.C. This creates it receptive to advice similar to we voiced that we found hold up on Mars,and that is absolutely, definitely false.

The square claimed that the MarsExploration Rovers Spirit and Opportunity, that have been wheeling aroundthe aspect of the red world given Jan 2004, found pool scum, that thepaper calls the construction blocks of hold up as we know it.

I think they have taken this things out ofcontext, Brown said.

Such a find would indeed have been groundbreaking, sincepond scum, scientifically well known as cyanobacteria, are essentially a form of lifethemselves, not usually construction blocks for it.

I can usually pretence that the Sun reportermisunderstood, pronounced Cornell University heavenly scientist Steve Squyres,principal questioner of the Mars Exploration Rover project, who was quoted inthe story. What Spirit and Opportunity have found is sulfate minerals...not organic materials, not pool scum, and not the construction blocks of hold up as weknow it.

Water = life?

The article, that has been at large quoted opposite the Web,appeared after NASA scientists spoke to reporters from an astrobiologyconference celebrating the 50th anniversary of investigate directed toward searchingfor lifebeyond Earth.

The square claims, The new missions have gatheredevidence of sulphates on Mars, a clever denote there is H2O on the planetand thus life.

But usually since there competence be H2O does not meant thatlife follows.

Evidence of H2O does NOT meant that there waslife, Squyres wrote in an email. We hold that H2O isnecessary for life, but not that it is enough to assure life. The...and thus hold up piece of the matter thus is simplywrong.

While scientists have not nonetheless detected explanation of livingthings anywhere in the star over Earth, they are removing closer toknowing where to see and how to commend the signs of hold up if they arepresent.

And Brown pronounced that NASAs assorted Mars missions, includingthe rovers and booster such as the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter and the 2001Mars Odyssey � both now in circuit around the red world � are divulgence awealth of clues about the probability of hold up there. Its usually as well shortly to knowfor certain.

Past hold up controversies

Claims of anticipating hold up on Mars are not new.

In Aug 1996 NASA researchers presented a Martian rockthat they pronounced showed transparent signs of being influenced by life. The rock, whichhad landed in Antarctica, contained holes and markings that appeared to havebeen shaped by bacterial colonies vital on it.

The proclamation done a outrageous splash, but in the decade thatfollowed, majority researchers have discharged the claims of life, and foundnonliving explanations for the rocks markings.

There has further been debate over pronouncements thatMars could not presumably bay life. In 1976, NASAs Viking 1 and 2 landerstouched down on the Martian aspect and achieved 3 apart experiments tosearch for signs of life. Despite carrying sensitivities to acknowledge organicmolecules of a couple of tools per billion, no organic compounds were ever detectedby possibly lander. Many scientists spoken that Mars thus contingency not havemicrobial organisms on the surface.

Yet a morerecent investigate found that maybe the Viking experiments were not sosensitive after all, and expel disbelief on the end that microbes aren"tthere.

Besides Mars, a little quite earnest spots in the solarsystem embody the Saturnianmoons Titan � with the lakes of methane and ethane � and Enceladus, withits plumes of H2O vapor, and Jupiters moon Europa, that is thought toharbor an subterraneous ocean.

The Top 10 Mars Rover Discoveries Ten Alien Encounters Debunked Alien Life on Titan Would Stink

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Experimental X37B Robot Space Plane to Launch Thursday

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TheUnited States Air Force plans to launch the initial robotic X37B space craft Thursdayon a mission that is a foregoer of things to come. A second minispace planeis already underneath stipulate and is projected to be launched subsequent year.

Newdetails per the minispaceplane and the arriving Thursday liftoff atop an Atlas 5 upholder werediscussed currently during a U.S. Air Forceheld media press briefing.

TheX37B vehicles story stretches behind to the late 90s, with NASA kickstartingthe project. It was after picked up by the Defense Advanced Research ProjectsAgency (DARPA) and in conclusion found a home inside of the Air Force. The plan isnow underneath the wing of the Air Force Rapid Capabilities Office. [X37Bspacecraft photos.]

"Aftera scattered story of sponsorship, the good to see the X37 eventually get tothe launch desk pad and get in to space," pronounced Gary Payton, U.S. Air Force DeputyUnder Secretary for Space Programs in a media press lecture today.

Autopilotmode

Thesmall X37B booster resembles a tiny space convey and is versed withits own cargo brook about the distance of a pickup lorry bed � plenty space to holda integrate of small satellites that are a couple of hundred kilograms each, Payton noted.

Accordingto expelled specifications, the X37Bspace craft weighs about 11,000 pounds and is usually over twenty-nine feet in length.It stands somewhat some-more than 9 1/2 feet in tallness and has a wingspan usually over14 feet across.

Theinitial X37B moody is created to loaf in space up to 270 days. Afterretracting the solar form and shutting cargo doors, the space craft would reenterin programmed mode.

"It"son autopilot, literally, the complete time the rest of the approach in," Payton told, adding that the Air Force is ready in box the spacecraftmalfunctions. "We"ll be tracking it over the Pacific...and it does have adestruct resource on it.

TheX37B is created to have an unconstrained alighting at Vandenberg Air Force Base inCalifornia, or at adjacent Edwards Air Force Base as backup.

"Similarto the shuttle, it"ll take halftheworld to come home," promissory note on redundantdigital moody carry out systems on the vehicle, Payton said. I"ve got alot of certainty in the capacity of this bird to come behind home autonomously.

Onorder: second space plane

Paytonsaid the X37B space craft provides a new approach for the Air Force to conductonorbit experiments. More critical is experience gained in discerning turnaroundof the returned vehicle, the honing of lowcost operations and maintenanceexpertise, as well as heightening cargo changeout skills, he added

Fastturnaround of X37B, Payton told , could be totalled in multiform daysto 10 to fifteen days or less. "I"d similar to to see this X37 rubbed most some-more similar to anairplane," he said, contrast that capacity to the SR71, an advanced, longrange,Mach 3 and faster vital reconnaissanceaircraft.

Thenew unmanned space craft will exam a new collection of reusable technologies,including new silica reentry tiles, as well as "other technologies that aresort of one era over the shuttle," Payton said.

Alreadyon sequence is a second minispace plane.

"Wedo have a second tail series on contract. Currently, we"re seeking at a 2011launch for that second tail number. That assumes all goes scrupulously aspredicted on this initial flight," Payton said.

Additionalcopies of the minispace craft "depends on success of these initial dual birds," hetold , and if operations and upkeep costs are low and fastturnaround times are achieved.

Classifiedbudget

TheX37B beginning leverages endless and early NASA, DARPA, Air Force, as wellas investments by the builder � Boeing Phantom Works. The appropriation turn for theoverall plan is inside of the Air Forces personal budget, explained AngieBlair, an Air Force mouthpiece for the plan in an progressing interview.

According toinformation expelled by the U.S. Air Force, the X37BOrbital Test Vehicle (OTV) will yield a stretchable space exam height toconduct assorted experiments and concede heavenly body sensors, subsystems, componentsand compared record to be well ecstatic to and from the spaceenvironment where it will need to function.

The X37B will alsoprove new record and components prior to they are committed to operationalsatellites.

The OTV is the initial car given NASAs convey orbiter that has the abilityto lapse experiments to Earth for serve investigation and analysis.

Experimental testplatform

"The X37B is the usually selfcontained bid dictated to be an economicallyviable initial exam height onorbit for months at a time and thenreturn," pronounced David Hamilton Jr., the Air Force Rapid Capabilities officedirector in a not long ago expelled essay by the Air Force.

Hamilton explained the X37B is a risk rebate car for spaceexperimentation that explores concepts of operation for a longduration,reusable space vehicle.

Hamilton explained that the OTV has the intensity "to change how the AirForce operates in space by creation space operations some-more aircraft similar to andadding in the capacity for returnable plugandplay experiments."

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LeonardDavid has been stating on the space industry for some-more than five decades. Heis past editorinchief of the National Space Societys Ad Astra and SpaceWorld magazines and has created for given 1999.

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hit centre to yield 500 jobs

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A commercial operation outsourcing organisation is to open a new hit centre, formulating some-more than 500 jobs, it was voiced today.

Firstsource Solutions, that employs 1,800 staff in Northern Ireland, pronounced it programmed to enhance in to Middlesbrough, in a newly renovated building.

A association orator said: This investment builds on the prolonged tenure plans for the UK as we need to use intensity clients who need hit centre imagination in the UK.

Middlesbrough Mayor Ray Mallon said: It is good headlines that Firstsource has recognized Middlesbrough as the preferred place for the ultimate proviso in their expansion. The origination of 300 jobs in the initial instance, and a serve 200 jobs in the destiny will have a poignant stroke on the town.

Ian Williams, of informal growth group One North East, that has since a accede to of �1.9 million for the project, said: This is a genuine opinion of certainty by Firstsource in the North East economy. They recognize the capability of the Tees Valleys workforce to yield glorious services for their clients.

I am gay that One North East has been means to await this plan with financial as well as a good understanding of superintendence and await from the investment and aftercare team.

Firstsource has perceived subsidy from a range of open zone partners together with Tees Valley Unlimited to safeguard the organisation has all it needs to settle this trickery in the Tees Valley.

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We need to speak about reticent well read awards

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When Lionel Shriver won the Orange Prize for Fiction, she thanked organisers unreservedly for the approval that had eluded her for decades; she had created 7 catastrophic novels and her eighth had been deserted by thirty publishers prior to apropos a word-of-mouth hit.

Nowadays, her attribute to the esteem is far some-more critical. Having scooped the main esteem in 2005 for her novel about demure motherhood, We Need To Talk About Kevin, she has now won an additional fame for the same book by being voted by the open as their prime Waterstones/Orange leader of winners over the past fifteen years. But, rather than purgation onward thanks, she complained that the mixed inlet of the Orange Prize was reticent and widely separated the stroke of winning.

Speaking to The Independent about the shortcomings of the edition industry and mixed prizes by the same organisers, she said: I"m vicious of the Orange people on this front. The some-more prizes you give, the some-more incomprehensible they become. Its a foolish thing to have some-more than one winner; the diluting and it equates to nobody wins.

To symbol the 15th anniversary of the Orange Prize, a girl row picked Anne Michaels" Fugitive Pieces as the prime winner. This years Orange Prize for Fiction and Award for New Writers winners are voiced tonight.

Shriver additionally dismissed a handbill opposite the edition industry, observant she was ripped about recommending essay as a career to determined novelists.

I"m really sensitive to competitor writers. Its really formidable and there are no guarantees that thickk thickk cream will ever climb to the top, she said.

It"d be all false to daunt people from fasten my profession, that was great to me in the end, but I have qualms about being encouraging. The contingency are built opposite you. I wish to give people sufficient of an thought of the capriciousness of the industry.

She went on to expel aspersions on the successes of a little best-selling authors whose essay was simply not really good, she thought, but whose books were aided by the great of the absolute edition broadside appurtenance citing Bret Easton Ellis" ultimate book, Imperial Bedrooms, as one such example.

There are a lot of books that finish up offered that arent really good. I"ve only examination Bret Easton Ellis" new book and the horrible but the had a big broadside campaign.

I"m essay a 1,500 word examination of it the distance of that alone will intimidate what I say. Its not a box of thickk thickk cream rising to the tip but skimmed divert rising of the "no fat" kind. The book doesnt merit the attention. Its ghastly. In the meantime, there are lots of books that will not be reviewed, she said.

Shrivers Orange Prize-winning novel has left on to sell over 600,000 copies in Britain given announcement and is now being blending as a movie starring Tilda Swinton.

The book dramatises a Columbine-style high-school electrocute committed by a derelict son who kills his classmates and clergyman with a crossbow. It is told by a array of letters created by his mother, Eva Khatchadourian, a New York career lady and demure primogenitor whose attribute with her son is stretched when she does not experience a pour out of umbrella love for him after his birth.

Reflecting behind to the primary success of the book, Shriver said: I had done no income and I was a edition pariah. I had no clout. The book came inside of a hair of not being published. My former representative hated it and referred to I rewrite it as a humerous entertainment or but the propagandize massacre.

Kate Mosse, co-founder of the Orange Prize, whose prior winners embody Zadie Smith and Rose Tremain, pronounced the reason there were a series of unchanging and one-off awards was to await women writers in all stages of their careers.

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Leading essay Artistic licence

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To revive or not to restore? One would be hard-pressed to gawk on the fanciful easy Tintoretto at Kingston Lacy and interpretation that it would have been improved left as the grubby board that William Bankes brought to Britain 160 years ago.

But the actuality is that not all inventive replacement jobs are so unambiguously beneficial. When Leonardo Da Vincis Last Supper in Milan was easy there were a little areas of the fresco that were over repair. The restorers motionless to re-paint these tools in resigned watercolours to prove they were not strange work. The outcome was not what Leonardo intended.

And if replacement is desirable, because stop at paintings? Why not reconstruct the Parthenon? Or the Colloseum? The answer is that we see nobleness and pathos in hull and we recognize that a buildings infirmity tells us something about the history. But is there not nobleness and pathos in a used old master too? And doesnt a paintings repairs additionally discuss it us something critical about the history? After all, Vasari spoken the Last Supper already "ruined" when he was essay his Lives. And that was in the 1550s. We benefit something when we restore. But we need to be aware of what we infrequently lose too.

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Asian computer firms betting on a 3D future

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Computer companies are betting that the destiny is not usually splendid but in 3 dimensions, as a fibre of manufacturers are set to move 3D laptops and desktops on to the market.

Fujitsu voiced on Wednesday a desktop computer that can fool around 3D content, modify 2D DVDs to 3D and even has a 3D camera.

And Toshibas 3D Dynabook TX/98MB laptop, that it says is the initial laptop to fool around 3D Blu-ray discs, goes sale in Japan in July.

Taiwan-based ASUSTek was the initial off the sketch house and in to the shops with the launch of the G51 3D late last year, that was branded as "the worlds initial loyal 3D ready notebook".

"We hold 3D is right away an critical piece of the market," ASUSTek mouthpiece Jenny Lee told AFP on Wednesday.

"More and some-more games and some-more and some-more movies are being done in 3D. We think there is a outrageous direct for 3D computers."

Graphics label and chipmaker NVIDIA have the computer courage that will assistance emanate the 3D sorcery on shade for majority of the new machines.

The companys CEO Jen-Hsun Huang done a keynote debate at Computex, Asias greatest IT traffic fair, in Taipei last week environment out the companys 3D stall.

"This is the commencement of the 3D Personal Computer revolution," he was quoted as observant by tech headlines website TG Daily. "Its been 10 years since theres been a insubordinate shift in gaming graphics."

"This is by far one of the majority enthralling technologies ever introduced on the PC," pronounced Hidehito Murato, Chief Marketing Executive at Toshiba in an NVIDIA press release. "The epoch of 3D is on us."

And majority calm producers agree.

The FIFA World Cup, that kicks off in Johannesburg on Friday will for the initial time be filmed in 3D and foster in comparison open observation areas opposite the world, Sony said.

The opening rite will additionally be shown in 3D to fans at 6 FIFA observation sites in cities around the world, together with Berlin, Paris and Rio de Janeiro.

And last week, South Koreas Samsung Electronics and Hollywood executive James Cameron voiced a understanding to work together to progress 3D radio content.

Under the agreement, Cameron and his organisation will have 3D footage of song videos featuring South Korean cocktail stars that will be used by Samsung to assistance foster the sale of the 3D televisions worldwide.

Camerons 3D blockbuster "Avatar" proposed a 3D call in the movie industry and is the worlds top grossing movie, earning 2.8 billion dollars in sheet sales so far.

Samsung, the worlds largest builder of flat-screen televisions, pronounced it might lift this years sales aim for 3D TVs since the flourishing demand. Early this year it targeted around dual million sales.

Cameron told a forum that miss of calm was the greatest jump to 3D televisions observant that the thousands of hours of calm that would be indispensable "will need a series in the approach TV is produced".

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Terry Leahy to leave Tesco after 3 decades

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Back in early 2008, Sir Terry Leahy, the arch senior manager of Tesco, had a skiing collision that left him at home with 6 damaged ribs and speaking, in the difference of one colleague, similar to Darth Vader in Star Wars. But this duration of recovery did not stop him bombarding his organisation with email ideas about mending the grocers performance.

Yesterday, Sir Terry who assimilated Tesco in 1979 and has been the arch senior manager given 1997 signalled that such days are numbered when he voiced that he would retire in Mar 2011. Sir Terry, who will be 55 when he stairs down, is flitting the reins to Philip Clarke, the retailers ubiquitous director.

Often described as one of if not the majority means tradesman of his generation, Sir Terry leaves at the at the back of an considerable bequest for his associate Liverpudlian Mr Clarke.

Today, Tesco is a tellurian sell powerhouse that generated jot down organisation pre-tax increase up 10.1 per cent at �3.4bn in 2009-10, with operations in fourteen countries together with the UK, and a burgeoning ubiquitous sell and services multiplication on condition that telecoms to credit cards.

Yesterday, Sir Terry, a romantic believer of Everton Football Club, said: It is critical as a CEO to know when is the right time to go, and when I came in to this pursuit fourteen years ago I had a plan. That plan was to turn series one in the UK and to make use of that clever height afterwards to go in to long-term enlargement opportunities in non-food, services and ubiquitous expansion.

Clive Black, an researcher at Shore Capital, said: His greatest and greatest feat has been fluctuating the Tesco code from one that sells bread and oven baked beans in to one able of offered majority any products and services in usually about any nation in the world.

With organisation sales of �62.54bn, Tesco is the worlds third-biggest tradesman by sales, trailing usually at the at the back of Walmart and Carrefour, nonetheless Tesco association is sloping to leapfrog the French hulk Carrefour in to second place in 2012.

However, not all that Tesco has overwhelmed over the past thirty years has incited to gold. Most recently, it has had the satisfactory share of troubles in the US after rising the Fresh Easy stores in Nov 2007. Losses in America, where it right away has about 150 shops, strike �165m in the last monetary year, but Sir Terry insisted they had peaked.

Tesco additionally had short excursions in to France in the early 1990s and Taiwan in 2000, but shortly over after realising it could not broach enough scale in these markets.

Tesco typically aims to turn the greatest or series dual in new territories and right away is the marketplace personality in 6 of the fourteen countries where it operates, together with Hungary, Thailand and the UK.

Under Sir Terry, the altogether story of Tesco has been one of relentless enlargement in to new territories as well as the products and services. Bryan Roberts, the tellurian investigate senior manager at Planet Retail, said: Its Clubcard, Tesco.com and multi- format plan are world-leading. Its in isolation tag plan is envied and has been majority mimicked by majority retailers around the world.

While a little of the drivers at the at the back of Tescos enlargement (such as the Clubcard faithfulness scheme, launched in 1995) predated Sir Terry receiving the helm, he has been at the at the back of majority of the majority desirous decisions given then.

In the UK that still accounts for 70 per cent of the organisation trade increase Tesco took an assertive proceed to skill expansion during the late 1990s and over the past decade, when until not long ago Asda and Sainsburys were defunct on the job. Tesco overtook Sainsburys as the personality in the British grocery marketplace in 1995.

It was all about Sir Terrys query for marketplace share, says a source. This is a key reason because Tescos share of the grocery marketplace currently stands at 30.6 per cent, compared to Asdas 16.8 per cent and Sainsburys 16.3 per cent.

As piece of the enlargement in to preference stores, Tesco acquired TS, the user of the One Stop shops, for �325m in 2003. While 450 of the shops were converted in to Tesco Express outlets, Tesco still runs 520 One Stop outlets. In fact, the expansion of 4 Tesco formats in the UK Express, Metro, Superstore and Extra has been a key substructure for the ubiquitous strategy.

Of the thirteen forays overseas, South Korea and China are dual countries that could begin to move the dial for the organisation over the entrance years. Greg Lawless, an researcher at Collins Stewart, pronounced yesterday: Middle East is starting to turn the engine room for enlargement overseas, with South Korea at the forefront and China in the future. International is starting to come of age.

South Korea is already Tescos largest ubiquitous business, with sales of �4.5bn and increase usually bashful of �300m, increased by the merger of the Homever sequence in May 2008.

In China, where it has some-more than 90 branches, Tesco is additionally cranking up the enlargement by opening 8.5m sq ft of new space, in further to 9 selling malls this monetary year.

Closer to home, Sir Terry oversaw an assertive reply to Tescos UK underlying sales trailing at the at the back of those of Asda, Sainsburys and Morrisons in the initial half of 2009. Tesco fought at the back of with a �550m investment in the faithfulness scheme, particularly the launch of Double Clubcards last August, that brought it at the back of in to the pack.

Along the way, Sir Terry has turn really rich. In the year to twenty-seven Feb alone, he took home a income of �1.4m, as well as performance-related emoluments of �3.7m and benefits of �115,000.

Yesterday, Sir Terry remained tight-lipped about his plans after he leaves subsequent Mar but pronounced he would concentration on his in isolation investment interests and hinted that he would not take up a supervision role.

Asked about his achievements, he added: We have cumulative long-term enlargement for Tesco that is the majority sparkling thing. Every arch senior manager gets up in the sunrise wondering where the enlargement will come from and I think we have answered that subject for Tesco.

With standard Liverpudlian modesty, he added: I"ve had a great innings.

The new man in charge

The timing of Philip Clarke being anointed as arch senior manager of Tesco astounded the grocery world.

But the actuality that he will be the new personality of the worlds third largest tradesman from subsequent year did not. This is partly as Mr Clarke has risen by the ranks at Tesco after initial fasten in 1974 as a part-time assistant. He rejoined on a government trainee intrigue after study economics at Liverpool University.

But his appointment is mostly due to his experience expanding Tesco overseas. Mr Clarke, 50, took over shortcoming for ubiquitous operations in 2004, nonetheless he defended an IT remit. He has been a pushing force at the at the back of the entrance in to China and the growth, together with an acquisition, in South Korea. Greg Lawless, an researcher at Collins Stewart, said: He has been using the total of the ubiquitous blurb operation so when you see at it, he is the judicious choice. It should be a flattering small transition.

What astounded the marketplace was that Sir Terry has a long-term reward package scored equally to the opening of the US business, Fresh Easy, that industry observers thought would keep him at Tesco until closer to 2014.

The Tesco that Mr Clarke, a Liverpool-supporting father of two, will lead from subsequent Mar is really opposite to that that Sir Terry proposed using in 1997. The tradesman right away operates in fourteen countries and has a large non-food blurb operation that delivered organisation sales of �13.1bn last year, as well as a fast flourishing services multiplication that will launch bank accounts over the subsequent year. For this reason, Tesco yesterday denounced wide-ranging house changes, together with Tim Mason, the arch senior manager of Fresh Easy, additionally apropos emissary arch executive, and the blurb senior manager Richard Brasher receiving the new purpose of UK arch executive.

Dave McCarthy, an researcher at Evolution Securites, said: Philip Clarke has to understanding with the UK blurb operation being some-more grown up and with anticipating a new engine. There are alternative issues, such as the waste in the US, and Tescos UK competitors are stronger than they have been for fifteen years.

Yesterday, Mr Clarke, who is well known as an energetic, desirous and dynamic character, said: I feel sanctified that the organisation is so clever not usually my house colleagues, senior manager and non-executive, but additionally the 480,000 people the length and extent of Tesco worldwide. I feel the weight of that shortcoming but I additionally feel an ardour and aspiration for the destiny expansion of Tesco.

But he has big boots to fill. Andrew Kasoulis, an researcher at Credit Suisse, said: Although Leahy is a really difficult action to follow, Clarke is a some-more than estimable inheritor in the view.

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Spotlight On Santanders Hat-trick mortgage

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The deal

Spanish-owned bank Santander is charity a three-year tracker debt at 3 per cent with a �333 fee. With the World Cup in mind, the bank has dubbed the understanding a "hat-trick".

The great points

A 3 per cent seductiveness rate over 3 years is positively competitive. More attractive, however, is the low �333 engagement fee, generally as borrowers can be charged �1,000 or some-more with alternative deals.

The bad points

You can get improved rates. Yorkshire Building Society, for instance, has a two-year tracker at 2.39 per cent. Also Santanders understanding is usually accessible if you have a deposition of at slightest twenty-five per cent, that will order out copiousness of borrowers.

Conclusion

Santander is not the initial to make use of the World Cup as a brace to launch a gimmicky mortgage. As with the alternative deals, borrowers should cut right by to the cost and work out that understanding functions most appropriate for them and not let football fever lean their view. if you need help, get recommendation from a debt broker. Find one at www.unbiased.co.uk

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Comedy supplants headlines as majority renouned online video

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More than half of US adults have watched video online and humerous entertainment clips have transposed headlines as the majority renouned video on the Internet, according to a consult expelled Thursday.

The Pew Research Centers Internet American Life Project found that 69 percent of adult Internet users, or 52 percent of all US adults, have used the Web to watch or download video.

More US adults are additionally putting their own calm online.

Fourteen percent of adult Internet users pronounced they have uploaded a video online, an enlarge from eight percent in 2007, with 52 percent observant they common their video on MySpace or Facebook and 49 percent on YouTube.

Fifty percent of adult Internet users pronounced they have noticed humerous entertainment videos on the Internet, up from 31 percent in 2007, and 43 percent pronounced they have noticed headlines videos, up from 37 percent.

Thirty-eight percent pronounced they have noticed tutorial videos on the Web, up from twenty-two percent in 2007, and 32 percent pronounced they have watched movies or radio shows, twice as most as 3 years ago.

Political videos were additionally increasingly popular. Thirty percent pronounced they have watched domestic videos online, up from fifteen percent 3 years ago.

The series of Web users ready to compensate for video calm online stays small.

Only one in 10 video watchers, or 7 percent of all Internet users, pronounced they have paid to watch or download a video, up from 4 percent in 2007.

"We are saying a surge in online video watching," pronounced Kristen Purcell, a Pew join forces with executive for research.

She pronounced the enlarge was being "driven by a multiple of broadband access, the augmenting make use of amicable networking sites and the recognition of video-sharing sites."

"Untold numbers of websites right away showcase online video as piece of their content," she added.

Eighteen- to 29-year-olds were the heading video watchers, according to the poll.

The consult of 1,005 adults was conducted Jun 18-21 last year and has a domain of blunder of and or reduction 4.5 commission points.

It was expelled a day after Internet tracking organisation comScore reported that some-more than 30.3 billion videos were watched online in the United States in Apr by scarcely 178 million Americans.

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Girl bands grow up and wig out

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A mong the scores of new indie stone bands and singer-songwriters, there are multiform all-girl bands emerging. What is majority distinguished about them, and what they appear to have in common, is that not customarily are they not ploughing the candid girl-pop route, but nor is the guitar customarily the executive focus. In fact, majority are creation have use of their majority delicate item their voice mixing dual or 3 voices to emanate gorgeous, harmony-fuelled songs.

Among these newcomers are Mountain Man, First Aid Kit, Smoke Fairies, The Langley Sisters and Vivian Girls, where mostly eerie, vivid outspoken harmonies take the limelight. In a little of Mountain Mans songs, a cappella is favoured. And even in the box of the indie-pop rope Vivian Girls, their three-part sweetened vocals set them apart. Or take Warpaint, a Los Angeles quartet, that has all 4 musicians contributing fragile vocals to the misty guitars and psychedelia.

On the pick side of the coin, who says girls cant wig out? Warpaint, one of Rough Trades newest signings, have honed their unusual stone side to soundness prior to releasing their entrance album, Exquisite Corpse, and have dumbfounded audiences with performances together with six-minute jams. Girls Aloud, it ain"t.

Vivian Girls

Formed in 2007, but with a receptive to advice thats true out of the Eighties, the Brooklyn trios eponymous entrance manuscript followed in 2008. When the manuscript after appeared on Mauled by Tigers annals in a vinyl-only book of 500, it sole out in days, prior to the rope had finished their three-week debate of America. Named after the 7 sisters who underline in Henry Dargers posthumously published fantasy epic, "The Story of the Vivian Girls", the rope (above) emanate hairy indie cocktail with sunny, sugar-sweet and sad outspoken harmonies set opposite waves of shoegazey booming guitars.

File subsequent to The Vaselines, Shop Assistants, The Jesus Mary Chain

Warpaint

I"ve never seen women fool around unusual stone similar to Warpaint before. They"re not The Slits. Its similar to zero you"ve seen before, recommends a orator at Rough Trade. Psychedelic rock, goods pedals these are girls with six-minute jams, wigging out. They lay down during songs and barter drums. The drummer is implausible she hits the drums similar to a obsolete woman. They can severely play. The LA-based outfit were sealed at the New York industry eventuality CMJ and were one of the hum bands at this years SXSW festival.

File subsequent to The Breeders, Sonic Youth, Fleet Foxes, Vanilla Fudge

Gaggle

As far private from guitar-based indie bands or cocktail acts as can be, Gaggle (above) are a 24-piece, all-female pick choir. They encapsulate their mission thus: Gaggle is a reply to tedious man bands, bad mime and an pick place for women in strain that doesnt engage celebration yourself to genocide out of dullness or anxiety. Led by the classically lerned Deborah Coughlin, who is thankful for their brave choral arrangements, that you will possibly love or loathe, Gaggle range in age from nineteen to 38 and they all hold down day jobs (scriptwriter, teacher, counter-terrorism supervision worker, conform designer, helper and barmaid to name a few). For how prolonged depends on their success. Their entrance single, I Hear Flies, was expelled on Transgressive Records, home to Foals, Graham Coxon and Young Knives. They won the emerging-talent endowment at Camden Crawl and their legal holiday dates this summer embody Latitude, Bestival, Secret Garden Party, Summer Sundae and Big Chill.

File subsequent to The church rope Harmony on Heels or the punk thespian Joan Jett

Mountain Man

Contrary to their name, that conjures up bushy, whiskered hunters of American history, Mountain Man are a contingent of women in their early 20s who met at college in Vermont, and emanate beautiful vivid harmonies. Signed to Cocteau Twin Simon Raymondes Bella Union tag in the UK, they recover their entrance manuscript of harmony-laden songs consistent folk, nation and normal Americana, "Made the Harbor", on fourteen June. They proposed singing together given it felt extraordinary and we longed for to share it with the people we love, and played their initial show on the alighting of a propagandize buildings staircase, packaged it with people and sang by the light of a singular lamp. We asked everybody to have sea sounds instead of clapping given we didnt wish security to occur on us, and they all obliged. But after the last song, everybody let lax clapping and we knew we had to go on tour. As for the impulse at the behind of their illusory songs: We are desirous by so majority assorted things: memories of the past, the action of vital and of being women, strain we grew up with, and strain we attend to now. The people we grew up with and the people we know now. The becoming different of seasons and the flitting of years. Warmth and sunshine, sleet and sadness. The people we have kissed and the people we are kissing now.

File subsequent to Fleet Foxes, Joanna Newsom

Trash Kit

These 3 face-painted Londoners (above) are purveyors of chaotic, raw, lo-fi pop-punk. Fresh sounding and energetic, they"ve been on debate with Tune-Yards, No Age and Vivian Girls. They were picked by Matt Groening to fool around at the new All Tomorrows Parties festival. Ros Murray from Electrelane is in the band, and they take impulse from Rachels good grandmother, who was a Sioux Indian. They shaped early last year and their entrance manuscript has only come out on Upset the Rhythm.

File subsequent to The Slits, The Raincoats, Tune-Yards

Smoke Fairies

Jack White sealed these dual 20-something Sussex women (above) to his Third Man label, drawn to their multiple of sadness guitar riffs and fragile folky outspoken harmonies. Jessica Davies and Katherine Blamire met at propagandize in Chichester, West Sussex, where they proposed combining outspoken harmonies, and sitting at the behind of the propagandize church rope given they were never picked for the solos. Hearing their intelligible outspoken harmonies, that interweave with their cyclical riffs, you"d never know why. They changed to London to aspire to the rope 3 years ago, and their entrance album, constructed by White and available on an island off the south coast, is due after this year. They have only returned from a North American debate ancillary Laura Marling, and have fans in Jarvis Cocker and Richard Hawley. The latter in use their vocals for a sea construction on his new EP, "False Lights from the Land", that is out on Monday.

File subsequent to Rachel Unthank, Howling Bells

Dum Dum Girls

The goal to emanate blissed-out buzzsaw is the brainchild of rope personality Dee Dee, who proposed Dum Dum Girls as a piece for one person plan in late 2008, and looked to 3 friends when she motionless to take the lo-fi indie-pop songs over her bedroom. The organisation (Jules, Bambi and Frankie Rose) were brought together a week prior to 2009s CMJ and the squad was now born. The drummer Frankie Rose, from Brooklyn, is a former part of of the Vivian Girls and Crystal Stilts. Their name is a curtsy to both The Vaselines" album, "Dum-Dum", and the Iggy Pop strain Dum Dum Boys. They expelled a home-recorded CD on Dee Dees own jot down tag Zoo Music. Their entrance album, "I Will Be", full of melodies fuelled by hairy guitar and outspoken harmonies, came out in March.

File subsequent to Vivian Girls, Crystal Stilts

The Langley Sisters

The sisters Rosie, Gita and Edie have been singing given their childhood days, honing their three-part vocals and a clever retro sound. Harking behind to the golden age of Hollywood showtunes, they perform renditions of songs by The Andrews Sisters and pick hits from the Twenties by to the Forties, but it is their own songs that majority impress. The windy Sing for My Supper sounds similar to it came from a Tim Burton film. It was created by Gita, one of the trio, the mother of the singer-songwriter Ed Harcourt and the violinist in his band. The aesthetically appreciative contingent have played sets at Glastonbury, the Barbican, and at the Rogues" Gallery at Gateshead and Dublin, where they sang to one side Lou Reed and Suzanne Vega.

File subsequent to Tim Burton soundtracks, The Andrews Sisters

First Aid Kit

The Swedish 16-year-old Klara S�derberg and her comparison sister Johanna, 19, became a tellurian strike with their overwhelming version of Fleet Foxes" Tiger Mountain Peasant Song, that scored some-more than a million views on YouTube, but they"ve proven to have as most bent with their own strange songwriting. Since their entrance EP was expelled on The Knifes own Rabid tag in early 2009, the twin (above) have been construction a large fanbase. Their understanding with Wichita puts them between a register that includes Bright Eyes and Bloc Party. This Feb saw the recover of their entrance album, "The Black and the Blue", the harmonies, acoustic guitar and autoharp recalling Everly Brothers cocktail and folk.

File subsequent to Indigo Girls, Fleet Foxes

Fan Death

The disco twin Dandi and Marta proposed out in 2008 and were snapped up by the Pharmacy/Mercury label. They took their name from a South Korean old wives" tale, that claimed that withdrawal electric fans using overnight in a sealed room can lead to genocide by suffocation, poisoning or hypothermia. They state their goal to have strain that recalls the biggest epoch of electronic pop: Depeche Mode, OMD, New Order, Human League, Soft Cell and Pet Shop Boys. Great songs that happened to be electronic, not soulless, boring bar strain that seems to browbeat these days. Their mix of skew-whiff strings, mid-tempo disco beats and free vocals saw them turn the prot�g�s of DJ Erol Alkan, and they have a fan in Diplo. Their fantastical synth-pop has seen recover in the form of an EP, and their entrance manuscript is out in August.

File subsequent to Hercules and Love Affair, Studio 54, Pet Shop Boys

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