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This story was updated on Saturday (Nov. 3) at 9:45 a.m. ET.
The third launch of the? Air Force X-37B spaceship, a secret space plane used for classified missions in Earth orbit, has been postponed, officials said.
The liftoff of an Atlas 5 rocket set to carry the robotic X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle (OTV-3), which looks like a mini space shuttle, has now been slipped to Nov. 27, pending confirmation that the rocket range can support the launch.
According to a statement today from spokesperson Jessica Rye of United Launch Alliance (ULA), which builds the Atlas 5, the leadership at ULA and the Air Force agreed to postpone the launch of the X-37B for two weeks.
The postponement stems from an ongoing investigation of an engine glitch during an Oct. 5 flight of a Delta 4 booster, a relative to the Atlas 5. That launcher experienced a lower-than-normal upper-stage engine chamber pressure when it launched to place a Global Positioning System (GPS) IIF-3 spacecraft into orbit. [Photos: The X-37B Space Plane Unmasked]
Holding off on the liftoff of the Atlas 5 will allow for additional flight data anomaly investigation activities of the Delta 4 engine glitch and a thorough "crossover assessment" for the X-37B OTV launch vehicle, officials said.
Although the Atlas 5 that's being readied to propel the unpiloted OTV-3 into Earth orbit utilizes a different model of the Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne RL-10 engine than the Delta 4, Air Force Space Command commander General William Shelton asked for a discretionary accident investigation board (AIB) to investigate why the Delta 4 RL-10B-2 upper-stage engine did not perform as expected. As its standard process, the Air Force reviews all flight data to determine if it's ready to proceed with the next liftoff.
"This flight data anomaly investigation is being conducted with investigative processes that have been refined over decades of launch experience and include extensive reconstruction of the flight data with analytical models, as well as detailed inspections of several engines," Rye said in a Nov. 2 statement.
Unmanned space test platform
The X-37B mission was originally slated to blast off from the Space Launch Complex 41 at Florida's Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on Oct. 25, and then was slipped to Nov. 13, and now Nov. 27.
When the Air Force robotic space plane ? carrying a classified payload ? heads for space, it will be the third launch for the X-37B program, and will mark the first re-flight of one of the space planes built by Boeing Government Space Systems.
This same vehicle flew the first flight of the X-37B program back in 2010. That maiden voyage of OTV-1 lasted 225 days, eventually zooming in on autopilot over the Pacific Ocean and gliding down onto a specially prepared runway at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.
Similarly, the OTV-2 mission, using a different space plane model, made a Vandenberg touchdown on June 16 of this year, having remained in orbit for 469 days, more than doubling the 225 days its sister ship stayed on orbit.
The X-37B craft is 29 feet (8.8 meters) long and 15 feet (4.5 m) wide, with a payload bay about the size of a pickup truck bed.
Flights of the X-37B are conducted under the auspices of the Air Force's Rapid Capabilities Office. According to an Air Force factsheet, the Rapid Capabilities Office is working on the X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle "to demonstrate a reliable, reusable, unmanned space test platform for the United States Air Force."
Editor's Note: This story was corrected to note that this is the third launch of an X-37B spacecraft, but it is not the launch of the third X-37B, since only two vehicles have been built, and one is being reused.
Leonard David has been reporting on the space industry for more than five decades. He is a winner of last year's National Space Club Press Award and a past editor-in-chief of the National Space Society's Ad Astra and Space World magazines. He has written for SPACE.com since 1999.
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Songs / Tracks Listing
1. Prologue (3:35)
2. The Mewling (5:07)
3. Messianic (5:29)
4. Interlude 1 (1:45)
5. Effervescent Youth (5:39)
6. Sullen (8:06)
7. Impiety (5:39)
8. Grim Determination (7:19)
9. Medievil (4:02)
10. Interlude 2 (1:13)
11. Hydraslide (5:46)
12. The Misanthropist (6:32)
13. Epilogue (5:50)
Total time 66:02
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By Gabriel Circiog, Associate Editor
Union Investment Real Estate AG has closed on the acquisition of Manufaktura regional shopping center in ??d?, Poland, for the open-ended real estate fund Unilmmo: Deutschland.
?With assets of over EUR 7.5 billion, the fund is the perfect platform for this outstanding investment. We are pleased to be able to expand our excellent UniImmo: Deutschland retail portfolio with the addition of one of the three leading shopping centers in Poland,? said Frank Billand, member of the management board of Union Investment Real Estate GmbH.
The $505 million transaction stands as the largest single retail asset deal so far this year in Europe. The sellers are French REIT Fonci?re Euris, private group Rallye and project developer Apsys, who will continue to manage the shopping center for a period of at least 10 years. The sale transaction relates to 979,516 square feet of the 112,500 rentable square meters (1,210,940 square feet) the shopping center has to offer. ?The sellers were advised by HSBC, Salans, Deloitte and DTZ, while Hogan Lovell, TPA and Jones Lang LaSalle advised Union Investment.
?The sale of Manufaktura is an illustration of Apsys? excellence as a developer and manager of shopping centers and a demonstration of long-term interest by investors in regional shopping centers in Polish cities. We are proud of this transaction: Union Investment has shown the trust it has in Apsys? savoir-faire as a developer of centers and long term manager. The equity generated by this transaction will be reinvested in new projects in France and Poland,? said Maurice Bansay, president and founder of Apsys.
The global operator of commercial properties, Apsys Group was created in 1996 and invests in, creates, develops, markets and runs commercial and leisure spaces. The group currently manages 20 shopping centers, representing over 6.4 million square feet of retail space.
Located at 58 Drewnowska St., on the site of a former 19th century textile factory, Manufaktura opened its doors in 2006 and features 307 retail and entertainment venues and 2,955 parking spaces. The main anchor tenants of the shopping center include Real, Cinema City, C&A, H&M and Leroy Merlin. The Leroy Merlin DIY store and Cinema City are not part of the transaction and remain the property of the owner-occupiers. The property is fully leased and is currently the largest shopping center in Poland. ?In addition to the shopping center, the project includes three museums, a conference center and a four-star hotel. Manufaktura has been awarded BREEAM In-Use certification for its sustainable operation.
With around 20 million visitors in 2011 and serving a catchment area of more than 2.5 million people, Manufaktura has become a regional center of attraction and also hosts various gatherings and celebrations such as concerts, open air cinema screenings and other public events.
?Manufaktura offers everything we look for in a highly diversified core investment,? Billand added.
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With teams using more than 100 unique apparatuses to launch globular projectiles a half-mile or more, the 27th annual World Championship Punkin Chunkin event is our pick as November?s Weird Festival of the Month.
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FILE In this Monday, Sept. 24, file photo an elderly man walks inside the Athens' central fish market. To the casual visitor, all might appear well in Athens. But scratch the surface and you find a society in freefall, ripped apart by the most vicious financial crisis the country has seen in half a century. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)
FILE In this Monday, Sept. 24, file photo an elderly man walks inside the Athens' central fish market. To the casual visitor, all might appear well in Athens. But scratch the surface and you find a society in freefall, ripped apart by the most vicious financial crisis the country has seen in half a century. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)
FILE In this Monday, Sept. 24, 2012 file photo a man pick up fish inside the Athens' central fish market. To the casual visitor, all might appear well in Athens. But scratch the surface and you find a society in freefall, ripped apart by the most vicious financial crisis the country has seen in half a century. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)
FILE In this Thursday, Sept. 27, 2012 file photo, Anastasia Mouzakiti, right, a paraplegic from the northern city of Thessaloniki, who came to Athens with her husband, left, who is also handicapped, to demonstrate, depart from a protest, outside the Greek parliament. To the casual visitor, all might appear well in Athens. But scratch the surface and you find a society in freefall, ripped apart by the most vicious financial crisis the country has seen in half a century. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)
In this Monday, Sept. 24, people walk inside the Athens' central fish market. To the casual visitor, all might appear well in Athens. But scratch the surface and you find a society in freefall, ripped apart by the most vicious financial crisis the country has seen in half a century. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)
FILE In this Tuesday Sept. 25, 2012 file photo a coffee shop owner tells journalists that he has had an 80 percent drop in his business, in Athens. To the casual visitor, all might appear well in Athens. But scratch the surface and you find a society in freefall, ripped apart by the most vicious financial crisis the country has seen in half a century.(AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)
ATHENS, Greece (AP) ? A sign taped to a wall in an Athens hospital appealed for civility from patients. "The doctors on duty have been unpaid since May," it read, "Please respect their work."
Patients and their relatives glanced up briefly and moved on, hardened to such messages of gloom. In a country where about 1,000 people lose their jobs each day, legions more are still employed but haven't seen a paycheck in months. What used to be an anomaly has become commonplace, and those who have jobs that pay on time consider themselves the exception to the rule.
To the casual observer, all might appear well in Athens. Traffic still hums by, restaurants and bars are open, people sip iced coffees at sunny sidewalk cafes. But scratch the surface and you find a society in free-fall, ripped apart by the most vicious financial crisis the country has seen in half a century.
It has been three years since Greece's government informed its fellow members in the 17-country group that uses the euro that its deficit was far higher than originally reported. It was the fuse that sparked financial turmoil still weighing heavily on eurozone countries. Countless rounds of negotiations ensued as European countries and the International Monetary Fund struggled to determine how best to put a lid on the crisis and stop it spreading.
The result: Greece had to introduce stringent austerity measures in return for two international rescue loan packages worth a total of ?240 billion ($313 billion), slashing salaries and pensions and hiking taxes.
The reforms have been painful, and the country faces a sixth year of recession.
Life in Athens is often punctuated by demonstrations big and small, sometimes on a daily basis. Rows of shuttered shops stand between the restaurants that have managed to stay open. Vigilantes roam inner city neighborhoods, vowing to "clean up" what they claim the demoralized police have failed to do. Right-wing extremists beat migrants, anarchists beat the right-wing thugs and desperate local residents quietly cheer one side or the other as society grows increasingly polarized.
"Our society is on a razor's edge," Public Order Minister Nikos Dendias said recently, after striking shipyard workers broke into the grounds of the Defense Ministry. "If we can't contain ourselves, if we can't maintain our social cohesion, if we can't continue to act within the rules ... I fear we will end up being a jungle."
CRUMBLING LIVING STANDARDS
Vassilis Tsiknopoulos, runs a stall at Athens' central fish market and has been working since age 15. He used to make a tidy profit, he says, pausing to wrap red mullet in a paper cone for a customer. But families can't afford to spend much anymore, and many restaurants have shut down.
The 38-year-old fishmonger now barely breaks even.
"I start work at 2:30 a.m. and work 'till the afternoon, until about 4 p.m. Shouldn't I have something to show for that? There's no point in working just to cover my costs. ... Tell me, is this a life?"
The fish market's president, Spyros Korakis, says there has been a 70 percent drop in business over the past three years. Above the din of fish sellers shouting out prices and customers jostling for a better deal, Korakis explained how the days of big spenders were gone, with people buying ever smaller quantities and choosing cheaper fish.
Private businesses have closed down in the thousands. Unemployment stands at a record 25 percent, with more than half of Greece's young people out of work. Caught between plunging incomes and ever increasing taxes, families are finding it hard to make ends meet. Higher heating fuel prices have meant many apartment tenants have opted not to buy heating fuel this year. Instead, they'll make do with blankets, gas heaters and firewood to get through the winter. Lines at soup kitchens have grown longer.
At the end of the day, as the fish market gradually packed up, a beggar crawled around the stalls, picking up the fish discarded onto the floor and into the gutters.
"I've been here since 1968. My father, my grandfather ran this business," Korakis said. "We've never seen things so bad."
Tsiknopoulos' patience is running out.
"I'm thinking of shutting down," he said, "I think about it every day. That, and leaving Greece."
JUSTICE
On a recent morning in a crowded civil cases court in the northern city of Thessaloniki, frustration simmered. Plaintiffs, defendants and lawyers all waited for the inevitable ? yet another postponement, yet another court date.
Greece's sclerotic justice system has been hit by a protracted strike that has left courts only functioning for an hour a day as judges and prosecutors protest salary cuts.
For Giorgos Vacharelis, it means his long quest for justice has grown longer. Vacharelis' younger brother was beaten to death in a fairground in 2003. The attacker was convicted of causing a fatal injury and jailed. The family felt the reasons behind the 24-year-old's death had never been fully explained, and filed a civil suit for damages. Nearly 10 years later, Vacharelis and his parents had hoped the case would finally be over.
But the court date they were given in late September got caught up the strike. Now they have a new date: Feb. 28, 2014.
"This means more costs for them, but above all more psychological damage because each time they go through the murder of their relative again," said Nikos Dialynas, the family's lawyer.
Vacharelis and his family are in despair.
"If a foreigner saw how the justice system works in Greece, he would say we're crazy," said the 35-year-old.
"Each time we come to court we get even more outraged," he said. "We see a theater of the absurd."
VIGILANTES
In September, gangs of men smashed immigrant street vendors' stalls at fairs and farmers' markets. Videos posted on the Internet showed the incident being carried out in the presence of lawmakers from the extreme right Golden Dawn party. Formerly a fringe group, Golden Dawn ? which denies accusations it has carried out violent attacks against immigrants ? made major inroads into mainstream politics. It won nearly 7 percent of the vote in June's election and 18 seats in the 300-member parliament. A recent opinion poll showed its support climbing to 12 percent.
Immigrant and human rights groups say there has been an alarming increase in violent attacks on migrants. Greece has been the EU's main gateway for hundreds of thousands of illegal migrants ? and foreigners have fast become scapegoats for rising unemployment and crime.
While there are no official statistics, migrants tell of random beatings at the hands of thugs who stop to ask them where they are from, then attack them with wooden bats.
Assaults have been increasing since autumn 2010, said Spyros Rizakos, who heads Aitima, a human rights group focusing on refugees. Victims often avoid reporting beatings for fear of running afoul of the authorities if they are in the country illegally, while perpetrators are rarely caught or punished even if the attacks are reported.
"Haven't we learned anything from history? What we are seeing is a situation that is falling apart, the social fabric is falling apart," Rizakos said. "I'm very concerned about the situation in Greece. There are many desperate people ... All this creates an explosive cocktail."
In response to pressure for more security and a crackdown on illegal migration, the government launched a police sweep in Athens in early August. By late October, police had rounded up nearly 46,000 foreigners, of whom more than 3,600 were arrested for being in the country illegally.
Police say that in the first two months of the operation, there was also a 91 percent drop in the numbers of migrants entering the country illegally along the northeastern border with Turkey, with 1,338 migrants arrested in the border area compared to 14,724 arrested during the same two months in 2011.
HEALTHCARE
At a demonstration by the disabled in central Athens, tempers were rising.
Healthcare spending has been slashed as the country struggles to reduce its debt. Public hospitals complain of shortages of everything from gauzes to surgical equipment. Pharmacies regularly go on strike or refuse to fill subsidized social security prescriptions because government funds haven't paid them for the drugs already bought. Benefits have been slashed and hospital workers often go unpaid for months.
And it is the country's most vulnerable who suffer.
"When the pharmacies are closed and I can't get my insulin, which is my life for me, what do I do? ... How can we survive?" asked Voula Hasiotou, a member of an association of diabetics who turned out for the rally.
The disabled still receive benefits on a sliding scale according to the severity of their condition. But they are terrified they could face cuts, and are affected anyway by general spending cuts and the pharmacy problems.
"We are fighting hard to manage something, a dignified life," said Anastasia Mouzakiti, a paraplegic who came to the demonstration from the northern city of Thessaloniki with her husband, who is also handicapped.
With extra needs such as wheelchairs and home help for everyday tasks such as washing and dressing, many of Greece's disabled are struggling to make ends meet, Mouzakiti said.
"We need a wheelchair until we die. This wheelchair, if it breaks down, how do we pay for it? With what money?"
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Costas Kantouris in Thessaloniki, Greece contributed to this story.
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On Wednesday night 44 million in the Northeast still had no power. The scale of destruction brought by Hurricane Sandy has been beyond anything power companies have dealt with before.
Barbara Brasel, (l.), pays Rosa Rosas for a slice of pizza and a glass of wine at Frank's Trattoria on First Avenue between East 21st Street and East 22nd Street in New York Wednesday. The establishment had water but no electricity or phone service. Brasel, who lives in the neighborhood and has no power or water, said it was her first time out since the storm.
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EnlargeHomes grew chilly without heat. Food spoiled in refrigerators. Televisions remained silent. And people everywhere scurried for a spot to charge their cellphones.
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Two full days after Superstorm Sandy ripped through the Northeast, most Americans who lost power tried to make the best of a situation that was beyond their control while utilities struggled to restore electricity ? a massive job they warned could last well into next week.
Sandy blacked out some of the nation's most densely populated cities and suburbs, instantly taking away modern conveniences from Virginia to Massachusetts and as far west as the Great Lakes.
For power companies, the scale of the destruction was unmatched ? more widespread than any blizzard or ice storm and worse than the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
"It's unprecedented: fallen trees, debris, the roads, water, snow. It's a little bit of everything," said Brian Wolff, senior vice president of the Edison Electric Institute, a group that lobbies for utilities.
Initially, about 60 million people were without power in 8.2 million homes and businesses. By Wednesday night, that number had fallen to roughly 44 million people in 6 million households and businesses.
Even as power slowly returned to some pockets, a new headache emerged: Backup batteries and generators running cellphone towers were running out of juice. One out of every five towers was down, according to the Federal Communications Commission.
That ? plus more people relying on their cellphones to stay connected ? overwhelmed the system in some areas, making it hard to place calls.
With many businesses and schools closed, people looked for ways to keep themselves entertained.
John Mazzeo, of Monroe, Conn., had a small generator that doesn't really provide him much power. But it was enough to keep his 7-year-old daughter occupied with a Christmas movie. Meals consisted of McDonald's and cereal.
In New York, Vildia Samaniego traveled four miles uptown to a bar, the Blarney Stone, to watch the Boston Celtics play the Miami Heat.
"I really needed to watch the basketball game," she laughed. "The place was packed. It's amazing how much you miss television."
Peter Nikac, a teacher who lives in Fairfield, Conn., took a more old-fashioned route: His family spent their time playing board games and sorting through photos.
"You get back to when we were young with no electronics," he said. "You realize you don't need a lot of that material. You get back to just doing simple things which is somewhat pleasing."
For others, the outage had graver consequences.
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