More News: Apple Diving Down The Stock Exchange While Dell Swings Upwards

By selenac

January 17, 2013

The second Monday of 2013 saw the S&P 500 as well as the Nasdaq ending much lower. This is mainly because of speculations over demand regarding Apple products. This apparently drove down shares. Investors have been busy bracing themselves to face disappointments in their earnings.

However, the interesting fact to be noted is Dell Inc?s stocks actually climbed up 13 percent. This is supposed to be a 5-month high standing at 12.29 dollars. This comes soon after the Bloomberg reports of Dell holding talks with private equity firms regarding going private.

Undoubtedly considered the tech stalwart, Apple went down by at least 3.6 percent. This stood at 501.75 dollars. This was not just the biggest weight on the S&P 500, but also on Nasdaq 100. This was followed by reports of the company having cut orders for the LCD screens and various other parts of the iPhone 5. These orders have apparently been cancelled for the first quarter of 2013 and this is a result of weak demand as well.

There?s more that?s adding to the unease of investors actually. Fact is the fourth quarter earnings are kicking into high gear in the 2nd week of the New Year itself. Ever since October 2012, the analyst estimates for the quarter have been on a steady downward slide. In fact, the growth meter of S&P 500 is now seen up by a mere 1.9 percent from a year ago. Experts are of the opinion that tech happens to be such a domain that has become an arena for private equity type of maneuvers.

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Reno City Council to decide on new baseball agreement

Reno, NV (KRNV & MyNews4.com)-- The Reno City Council is expected to vote on whether or not to approve the new Aces agreement Wednesday.

When the four new council members were sworn in in November they asked to revisit the revised agreement regarding baseball. Since, council members have been hashing out the details. Some council members are for the agreement and some are against.

For the past four years the Aces have called the heart of the Biggest Little City home. "People I think in northern Nevada just love baseball," Reno City Manager Andrew Clinger says. Since the Reno Aces have been around the teams won a class, league, conference, and division title not to mention added a whole new vitality to downtown Reno. "The Triple-A that we have here is one of the best in the country frankly and it's a?family activity it gives family a reason to come downtown that otherwise may not come downtown," Clinger says. It will be up to the Reno City Council to approve a?new agreement to help pay for baseball and ultimately keep it in Reno. Here's a breakdown of what the new agreement looks like: The first five years Reno will pay $850,000. About $100, 000 will come from increment taxes from the baseball district then $750,000 will come from from a fire station loan that has already been allocated into the budget. From 6 to 10 years the payment will bump to $1.1 million. Then, from 11 to 30 years it will go down to a $1 million a year. Totaling $30 million in 30 years. Here's where the city will be getting all that money, a certain portion will come from special taxes from the baseball district. The rest will come from the city's general fund which is what the city uses for basic services like Parks and Rec. and public safety and?that money according to Clinger comes primarily from sales tax and property tax. This is all if the council approves the agreement.?If they don't there's the potential for a whole series of challenges like possibly loosing the team. "What we're facing potentially is a ballpark that would be tied up in litigation that could be dark for a number of years. The possibility of us getting another Triple-A baseball team to Reno would be difficult at best," Clinger says. Not to mention how much money having the team and stadium here pours into the local economy. According to a UNR study if baseball were to leave Reno the region will lose 677 direct employees and $21.1 million. "I think it goes back to the vision of what do you want Reno to be," Clinger says. The city council meeting is Wed. at noon. News 4 will have a crew at the meeting to bring the latest updates.

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iMore at Macworld|iWorld 2013: The arrival

Monday at 6am I woke up to the shocking sounds of marimba-as-alarm, jumped in a cab, and headed to Montreal's Trudeau International Airport so I could fly to San Francisco and Macworld|iWorld 2013. Or so I thought. Turns out mother nature had freezing rain on the menu, so the plane that was to carry me to Toronto for the first leg of my jaunt couldn't even get to Montreal. Delay the first.

By the time the plane showed up and we got underway, it was clear I wouldn't make my connection, but there was nothing I could do. Luckily, by the time I landed in Toronto, Air Canada had texted me an automagically re-booked flight. Unluckily, it meant a 6-hour layover. It was right around then that I figured out that while I'd brought 2 mophie power station duos with me, I'd forgotten the two Lightning cables to go with them... D'oh!

Martin Reisch, who'll be shooting the show for us, was luckier. He flew through Denver and everything was on time. Note to self: Don't fly through Toronto again.

70% battery power remaining, and due to the shoddy Rogers reception in Toronto's Pearson International Airport, it was going fast. I put my iPhone in airplane mode and started using my iPad mini the way I normally use my iPhone. I walked around with it, checked my flight schedule with it, played Letterpress on it -- Loren Brichter totally kicked my ass, using "XEROX" for the win -- used Twitter and iMessage to keep up to date, and keep everyone else up to date. And it worked really, really well. I"m not saying I want a 7.9-inch phone, but it once again proved the utility of a tablet smaller than 9.7 inches.

After some Starbucks and a ridiculously over priced $10 turkey sammich (seriously, Starbucks at Pearson, you think you're Heathrow now?!), I found out the airplane that was supposed to take me to San Francisco was also delayed. My 6 hour layover was going to be about 8 hours. Delay the second.

The Wi-Fi at Pearson was horrible, the 3G was horrible, and there was no power at the gates. So, I ended up seated on the floor next to an outside the men's room. And there I blogged for the next 7 hours.

Because while I was stranded in frozen Toronto, Apple was releasing iOS 6.1, ADN was releasing their File API, Facebook and Google were updating apps, and I had a bunch of other stuff to trouble shoot.

My iPhone was down to 30%, thanks to my having to make some calls and the signal quality sucking. My iPad mini was at 70%. Finally, we boarded and eventually took off. I was San Francisco bound.

We made pretty good time to the gate, and thanks to the lateness of the hour, I made great time to the hotel. Tired but more hungry than tired, I met up with Martin and we headed to Chieftain for some hardy pub grub -- just after their kitchen had closed. D'oh! Again!

Still, we got to see Moscone West decked out in its Macworld|iWorld garb, which was nice. (See the panorama up top for the inside view).

Luckily Steve Streza of Pocket fame found us and brought us over to Mel's for some late night Diner fare.

Tomorrow should be fun. We're heading up to Petaluma where I'm going to do MacBreak Weekly live with Leo Laporte and the gang. I'll blog about that later, or you can follow me on Twitter to watch it unfold in real -- sometimes comical -- time.

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Welcome But Seriously... the newest blog at #SciAmBlogs

By Bora Zivkovic?| January 28, 2013 |??2

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I am super-excited to announce the launch of the newest blog on our network, But Seriously? , written by my friend Brian Malow, the Science Comedian. Apart from doing science stand-up comedy, Brian is also the Curator of the SECU Daily Planet at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences, has produced videos for TIME magazine, and has written and talked seriously about the role of humor in science communication. His blog will combine some of all of it ? his humor, his serious thoughts, and his videos, often interviewing interesting people in the worlds of science and science communication.

But Seriously?, launched earlier today. Go to the first post and say Hello to Brian.

About the Author: Bora Zivkovic is the Blog Editor at Scientific American, chronobiologist, biology teacher, organizer of ScienceOnline conferences and editor of Open Laboratory anthologies of best science writing on the Web. Follow on Twitter @boraz.

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LG?s Nexus 4 Finally Returns To The U.S. Google Play Store

There are whole host of new smartphones waiting for their time to shine at Mobile World Congress (not to mention an event or two before the big show), but you're in luck if you're a domestic Android fan smitten with LG and Google's Nexus 4. The hard-to-obtain handset first reappeared in the German Google Play Store earlier today, and now those of you in the U.S. can finally purchase one again too.

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Debris of missing USAF jet believed found in Adriatic

Alessandro Garofalo / Reuters, file

A U.S. Air Force F-16 fighter jet like the one shown flying over Aviano Air Base, Italy, is presumed to have crashed in the Adriatic Sea while on a training exercise. Aviano controllers lost contact with the plane about 8 p.m. local time Monday.

By John Newland, Staff Writer, NBC News

U.S. and Italian authorities searched the Adriatic Sea on Tuesday after a U.S. Air Force fighter jet was lost and presumed to have crashed.

Divers focused on waters where a fishing boat had found fragments believed to belong to the F-16, a Coast Guard official told Reuters.

Fragments of carbon steel and other debris were found floating in the northern Adriatic overnight, Rear Admiral Francesco Saverio Ferrara told Reuters. The U.S. Air Force said in a statement it believed the debris belonged to the wreckage of the missing aircraft, Reuters reported.

"We hope to find out more during the day so we can have a more complete picture of what happened," Ferrara said, according to Reuters.

Controllers lost contact with the F-16 at about 8 p.m. local time (2 p.m. ET) Monday, after it took off for a training exercise from Aviano Air Base, Italy, the Aviano-based 31st Fighter Wing said in a statement.

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Italian aircraft and ships were dispatched to the missing jet's last known location, and U.S. and Italian aircraft were flying over the area Tuesday, the Air Force said.

The Italian national news agency ANSA reported that a fuel slick was seen off the coast near the town of Cervia and that a fishing boat had found fragments that could have belonged to a military jet.

Weather was bad at the time the plane vanished, with sleet falling and visibility poor, the Associated Press quoted an Italian coast guard commander as saying.?

The Italian news agency LaPresse reported that the pilot sent an alarm signal to Aviano before contact was lost and that three other planes on the training mission had made it back to the base safely. ?

No information was released about the pilot, who was the plane's sole occupant.

Search-and-rescue operations are still being conducted by sea and air, Reuters reported.

"Wing leadership remains hopeful that we will safely rescue our pilot," an Air Force statement said, according to Reuters.

The Associated Press, Reuters, ANSA and LaPresse contributed to this report

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Men among prediluvian Beasts

?No subject has lately excited more curiosity and general interest among geologists and the public than the question of the Antiquity of the Human Race?[]?
Lyell 1863

The debate over the age of the earth generated an even more intriguing question: how old is humankind? Written records date back some thousands of years, but geological evidence and the fossil record show us that earth must be millions of years old. Some authors tried to reconcile this discrepancy by assuming a succession of worlds, each destroyed by a global catastrophe. Therefore the ?age or reptiles? could be very ancient, the ice age mammals more recent and the final catastrophe, creating the human world, happened probably only some thousands of years ago. This succession of worlds seemed to be in accordance both with the geological record as with the biblical chronology.
Therefore the discovery of stone tools made by humans in layers also containing fossils of extinct animals ? and therefore inhabitants of a world older than the supposed biblical deluge ? was meet with incredulity.

In 1837 the French physician Casimir Picard (1806-1841) excavated various fossil sites near his hometown of Abbeville, where he recovered stone tools and bones of antediluvian beasts. He published his discoveries in 1838-1840, just shortly before his death. Another amateur ? Jacques Boucher de Perthes (1788-1868) ? continued Picard?s work and discovered the jaw of a fossil elephant near a man-made flint-axe.
Most authors dismissed these discoveries arguing that this association was the result of taphonomic processes, as bones and tools became mixed together by agents like water, animals or even modern humans. Some authors even considered all the discovered human fossils as fakes.
The most compelling evidence to support the antiquity of man was collected in 1858 during excavations in Windmill Hill Cave near the city of Brixham (Devonshire, England) by William Pengelly (1812-1894), a self-educated archaeologist. The cave was found untouched, the entrance sealed off by debris and stalagmites, proof that no living thing had entered the cave for thousands of years. Most important, the excavations were done by geologists, following the principles of the young science of stratigraphy.

Every uncovered layer of the floor of the cave was carefully mapped and the location of the fossils (bones of elephant, lion, bear and reindeer) and stone tools registered.

In the same period similar discoveries were made in France. In 1867, during the universal exposition in Paris , ?douard Lartet (1801-1871), a French lawyer, presented stone tools found in sediments and caves of the valley of the V?z?re. The most intriguing artifacts were bones with engravings of ice age animals ? evidence that prehistoric men meet these animals.

Fig.1. Ancient rock carving, collection of the museum in Les Eyzies-de-Tayac-Sireuil, valley of the V?z?re.

Finally in 1861, influenced by Charles Darwin?s explanation of the natural origin of all species on earth (including humans), eminent geologist Charles Lyell will publish ?The Geological Evidence of the Antiquity of Man?[]? and establish the ancient origin of humankind as scientific fact.

Bibliography:

COHEN, C. (1998): Charles Lyell and the evidences of the antiquity of man. In: BLUNDELL, D.J. & SCOTT, A.C. (eds) Lyell: the Past is the Key to the Present. Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 143: 83-93
LYELL (1863): The Geological Evidence of the Antiquity of Man, with Remarks on Theories of the Origin of Species by variation.
PRESTWICH, J. (1860): On the occurrence of flint implements, associated with the remains of extinct mammalia, in undisturbed beds of the late geological period. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, 10: 50-59
RUDWICK, M.J.S. (2008): Worlds before Adam ? The Reconstruction of Geohistory in the Age of Reform. The University of Chicago Press: 614

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