In the past week there have been countless stories run about the alleged production cuts of the iPhone 5c. I say “alleged” because that’s all it is right now. Allegation. And at least one of the analysts (who I shall not name) making this allegation has a very spotty track record on all things Apple.
But let’s assume it’s true. It very well may be. Isn’t it still also true that the iPhone 5s sells for about $100 more than the 5c? And wouldn’t that make it a more profitable phone for Apple to sell? Of course it would. Rhetorical question.
Apple sold 9 million of its new iPhones in the first 3 days of launch in September. That’s a pretty big number, and if more of those were the 5s isn’t this actually a good thing?
Bottom line here: If the majority of your customers want to give you more money for a more expensive (and more profitable product), resulting in a production slowdown for your cheaper product, that’s what I call a high class problem. What's more, if Apple staged the iPhone 5s as the blockbuster fall release, and the iPhone 5c as the long-tail play that follows behind it, then it's an even higher class problem.
To illustrate how well Apple is doing, look at Verizon, who just released Q3 results this morning. Out of 7.6 million smartphone sales for the quarter, the iPhone accounted for 51% of them, which is up from 43% last quarter. Year over year Verizon’s iPhone sales are up 26%.
Apple may very well may have screwed up their pricing strategy. Perhaps there aren’t enough people willing to shell out a ton of cash for what is realistically a one-year old model repackaged in polycarbonate. Maybe Apple should have been more aggressive in hitting a lower price and capturing more market share. Maybe they should have made a netbook too. But when you look at the Verizon numbers (and more carriers are bound to report results over the next few weeks), that's a tough argument to make, at least right now.
Analysts and financial writers like to write shocking headlines. They pick one number, one metric, ignore complexity, ignore the big picture, and make the facts match their narrative. But while Apple has a simple product line, they certainly don't have a simple production line. They have multiple suppliers, and a complex array of moving parts. Calamitous headlines are easy. Doing real analysis on Apple is hard.
All that aside, when you peel the onion even one layer deep isn’t it obvious that, mathematically, given they still sold huge numbers on launch, that profitability is actually climbing?
iPhone 5c Apple's first popular iPhone with a 4-inch in-cell display, LTE 4G, and BT 4.0 LE. Fun features include:
Polycarbonate casings in yellow, green, blue, pink, white
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Global stock markets climbed to a five-year high on Friday as investors bet the Federal Reserve would extend its stimulus policy well into 2014, but uncertainty over when U.S. interest rates will rise caused the dollar to sink to an eight-month low.
Better-than-expected results from Google Inc and Morgan Stanley also helped lift stocks on Wall Street, with shares of the Internet search company surging past the $1,000 mark for the first time.
An acceleration in China's giant economy provided another boost for equity markets, as well as for commodities such as oil and copper, as the prospect of an extended spell of ultra-easy money policy and improving growth buoyed investor sentiment.
MSCI's index that tracks the equity performance of 45 countries rose 0.7 percent to highs last seen in January 2008, while a European index, the Stoxx Europe 600, rose for a seventh successive day, its longest winning streak this year.
A last-minute deal by U.S. lawmakers this week to avert a debt default and re-open shuttered government offices also has bolstered investor confidence, pushing the broad S&P 500 to a record close on Thursday and new highs on Friday.
But analysts said concerns about the negative impact of the shutdown on the U.S. economy and the likelihood the Fed would leave its bond-buying program intact until well into 2014 would weigh on the dollar, with the euro potentially rising to $1.40.
On the company earnings front, so far 98 companies in the broad S&P 500 index have reported third-quarter results, with 62 percent beating estimates by an average of 4.3 percent. Since 1994, 63 percent of companies have beat earnings estimates.
Google gained 13.9 percent at $1,012.22, while Morgan Stanley rose 2.6 percent to $29.67. Google's surge contributed to almost half of the gains in the Nasdaq composite index.
"Surprises have been broad-based with all of the nine sectors surpassing their forecasts," said Jonathan Golub, chief U.S. market strategist at RBC Capital Markets in New York.
The Dow Jones industrial average was up 27.36 points, or 0.18 percent, at 15,399.01. The Standard & Poor's 500 Index was up 10.80 points, or 0.62 percent, at 1,743.95. The Nasdaq Composite Index was up 48.83 points, or 1.26 percent, at 3,911.98.
European shares rose to a five-year high after robust growth data from China for the third quarter, which boosted shares of luxury goods companies and miners.
The Stoxx Europe 600 index extended its rally to seven days, rising 0.79 percent, while the broader FTSEurofirst 300 of leading European shares rose 0.76 percent to close at 1,277.70, a new five-year high.
The dollar rebounded against a basket of currencies, pushing the dollar index up 0.01 percent at 79.653. Earlier, the dollar fell on expectations the Fed may delay scaling back its stimulus, which keeps interest rates down.
"The real economy has been negatively impacted by the government shutdown and uncertainty of the debt crisis, all of which pushes out eventual Fed policy normalization which is bad for the dollar," said Omer Esiner, chief market analyst at Commonwealth Foreign Exchange in Washington.
The euro rose to 0.03 percent to $1.3679, while the dollar was 0.04 percent lower against the Japanese yen at 97.85.
German Bunds rose on the view that the stop-gap U.S. debt deal may hurt the longer-term growth prospects of the world's largest economy and push the Fed's bond-buying program into next year.
Bund futures rose 37 ticks to settle at 140.05.
Brent crude futures rose toward $110 a barrel, supported by a weak U.S. dollar and growth data from China.
Brent crude settled up 83 cents at $109.94 a barrel, while U.S. crude oil rose 14 cents to settle at $100.81.
Investors were relieved by data showing China's economy grew at its fastest pace this year as firmer foreign and domestic demand lifted factory output and retail sales.
China's CSI300 index climbed 0.7 percent, while Australian shares jumped to their highest level since June 2008. Australian exports are closely linked to China's economic fortunes.
Benchmark 10-year U.S. Treasuries rose 1/32 to yield 2.5886 percent.
(Additional reporting by Marc Jones in London; Reporting by Herbert Lash; Editing by Chizu Nomiyama, Kenneth Barry and Theodore d'Afflisio)
TUESDAY, APRIL 20, 2010, AT 6:19 PM Tornado Kills at Least Five in Oklahoma
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Environmental groups are fighting to stop the leveling of 154 acres of coastal redwoods and Douglas firs to make way for grapevines.
Courtesy Friends of the Gualala River
Environmental groups are fighting to stop the leveling of 154 acres of coastal redwoods and Douglas firs to make way for grapevines.
Courtesy Friends of the Gualala River
In the California wine mecca of Sonoma County, climate change is pitting redwood lovers against red wine lovers.
This Friday morning, a coalition of environmental groups are in a Santa Rosa, Calif., courtroom fighting to stop a Spanish-owned winery from leveling 154 acres of coast redwoods and Douglas firs to make way for grapevines.
Redwoods only grow in the relatively cool coastal region of Northern California and southern Oregon. Parts of this range, such as northwestern Sonoma County, have become increasingly coveted by winemakers.
Chris Poehlmann, president of a small organization called Friends of the Gualala River, says the wine industry is creeping toward the coast as California's interior valleys heat up and consumers show preferences for cooler-weather grapes like pinot noir.
"Inexorably, the wine industry is looking for new places to plant vineyards," says Poehlmann, whose group is among the plaintiffs.
California's Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, or CalFire, approved the redwood-clearing project in May 2012.
"So we sued them," says Dave Jordan, the legal liaison for the Sierra Club's Redwood Chapter, another of the plaintiffs. The Center for Biological Diversity is the third plaintiff.
The groups filed suit in June 2012 on the grounds that state officials violated California's environmental protection laws by approving the plan.
Redwoods are considered among the most spectacular of all trees. The biggest trees on Earth by height, redwoods can stand more than 350 feet tall. Some are more than 2,000 years old.
However, the redwoods at the center of this conflict are not old-growth trees. The area was clear-cut more than 50 years ago, and most of the redwoods on the site are less than 100 feet tall. Which is why Sam Singer argues: "There are no forests [on this site]."
Singer is a spokesman for Artesa Vineyards and Winery, which is owned by the Spanish Codorniu Group and which first proposed the development project in 2001. Singer says that the two old-growth redwood trees on the property will be spared.
But the thousands of trees slated for removal are between 50 and 80 feet tall, according to Poehlmann. He says the trees provide wildlife habitat and stabilize the soil against erosion, which has been a major problem for streams in the area that once harbored runs of salmon and steelhead trout.
Coast redwood trees stand at Muir Woods National Monument in Mill Valley, Calif. Redwoods are the biggest trees on Earth by height — they can grow more than 350 feet tall. But their range is quite limited: They only grow along the coast of Northern California and southern Oregon.
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Coast redwood trees stand at Muir Woods National Monument in Mill Valley, Calif. Redwoods are the biggest trees on Earth by height — they can grow more than 350 feet tall. But their range is quite limited: They only grow along the coast of Northern California and southern Oregon.
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The project planners have even estimated this timber to represent 1.25 million board feet of "merchantable" lumber.
Dennis Hall, a higher official with CalFire, says his department's approval of Artesa's project in 2012 came only after a lengthy review process found that it would not significantly damage the environment.
"We did an [environmental impact report] for the project," Hall says. "It was an extreme and exhaustive analysis of potential impacts to the environment." The report deemed most of these potential impacts to be "less-than-significant."
Still, Poehlmann feels CalFire has been too lenient on proposals by developers to level trees. "They are acting as if they are actually the 'department of deforestation,' " he says.
The tensions go beyond this case: Friends of the Gualala River and the Sierra Club's Redwood Chapter have gone to court several times in the past decade to successfully stop timberland conversion projects proposed by winery groups and which had been approved by the state. Among these fights was the battle to save the so-called Preservation Ranch, a 19,000-acre parcel that developers planned to partially deforest and replant with vines. Earlier this year, the developer sold the property to The Conservation Fund.
But from 1979 to 2006, 25 conversions of forest to agriculture occurred in Sonoma County at an average rate of 21 acres per year, according to county officials.
At least a few tree-clearing projects have occurred without permission. High-profile winemaker Paul Hobbs didn't bother getting a permit before he leveled 8 acres of redwoods in 2011 with plans to plant wine grapes. He remains a superstar winemaker and was tagged earlier this year by Forbes as "The Steve Jobs of Wine."
And it's not just redwoods that are at stake as vineyards expand their terrain. California's oaks aren't subject to the same environmental protections as more commercially valuable species like redwoods and Douglas fir, according to CalFire's Hall. And Northern California's oak forest, near the coast as well as inland, is being lost at fast rates to vineyard expansions, says Adina Merenlender, an environmental biologist with the University of California, Berkeley.
Merenlender says oak trees tend to be overlooked by the general public, which is more easily impressed by redwoods. Yet oak forests, she says, provide habitat for vastly more species than do redwood forests.
Sara Cummings with the Sonoma Vintners, a wine industry trade group, says new vineyards are usually planted within what she calls the region's "agricultural footprint" — land that is already designated by county planners as "agricultural." Moreover, she says, more than half the county's wine growers are members of the California Sustainable Winegrowing Program.
But Merenlender is concerned about future expansion into land not previously farmed.
"We're already seeing a lot of acquisition of coastal lands," she says. "Investments are moving north and west, toward the coast."
The issue, it seems, is a global one. A 2013 study predicted that global warming will cause a dramatic shift in the world's wine regions. The report warns that wilderness areas in British Columbia and remote regions of China — one of the world's fastest-growing winemaking regions — may become increasingly coveted by the industry.
"But at least we'll have plenty of wine to drink, "Poehlmann quips, "while we bemoan the fact that our forests are all used up."
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — Saudi Arabia on Friday rejected its freshly-acquired seat on the U.N. Security Council, saying the 15-member body is incapable of resolving world conflicts such as the Syrian civil war.
The move came just hours after the kingdom was elected as one of the Council's 10 nonpermanent members on Thursday night. It also followed another gesture of displeasure from the kingdom in which Saudi Foreign Minister Saud al-Faisal declined to address the General Assembly meeting last month.
The Saudi discontent stems from its frustration with longtime ally United States. The two are at odds over a number of Mideast issues, including how Washington has handled some of the region's crises, particularly in Egypt and Syria. It also comes as ties between the U.S. and Iran, the Saudi's regional foe, appear to be improving following a recent telephone conversation between President Barack Obama and Iran's new president, Hassan Rouhani.
In a statement carried by the official Saudi Press Agency, the Foreign Ministry said Friday the Security Council has failed in its duties toward Syria.
It said this has enabled Syrian President Bashar Assad's regime to perpetrate the killings of its people, including with chemical weapons, without facing any punishment. The Syrian regime denies it has used chemical weapons in the war.
The kingdom, which has backed the Syrian rebels in their struggle to topple Assad, has often criticized the international community for failing to halt Syria's civil war, now in its third year. According to U.N. figures, the conflict has so far killed over 100,000 people.
Saudi Arabia is also frustrated that the U.S. backed away from launching punitive strikes against Assad's forces after Damascus agreed to allow inspectors from the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons and the United Nations to destroy its chemical weapons arsenal.
The kingdom easily won the Security Council seat in a vote in New York on Thursday, facing no opposition because there were no contested races for the first time in several years. The Council seats are highly coveted because they give countries a strong voice in matters dealing with international peace and security, in places like Syria, Iran and North Korea, as well as the U.N.'s far-flung peacekeeping operations.
The 15-member council includes five permanent members with veto power — the U.S., Russia, China, Britain and France — and 10 nonpermanent members elected for two-year terms.
After the vote, Saudi Arabia's U.N. Ambassador Abdallah Al-Mouallimi said his country's election was "a reflection of a longstanding policy in support of moderation and in support of resolving disputes by peaceful means."
But the statement from Riyadh on Friday struck a dramatically different tone.
"Allowing the ruling regime in Syria to kill its people and burn them with chemical weapons in front of the entire world and without any deterrent or punishment is clear proof and evidence of the U.N. Security Council's inability to perform its duties and shoulder its responsibilities," the Saudi Foreign Ministry said.
The foreign ministry statement also said the U.N. Security Council has not been able to resolve the Palestinian-Israeli conflict over the past six decades and has failed to transform the Middle East into a zone free of weapons of mass destruction — a reference to Israel, which has never confirmed or denied possession of nuclear weapons.
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Associated Press writer Maamoun Youssef contributed to this report from Cairo.
AMSTERDAM (AP) — Samsung Electronics Co. has offered not to launch any patent lawsuits over key mobile telephone technology in Europe for the coming five years, in hopes of avoiding a fine from the European Commission.
The Commission reported Thursday the South Korean company's settlement offer and called for interested parties — such as rivals Apple Inc. and Microsoft Corp. — to respond.
The Commission's top regulator Joaquin Almunia believes Samsung tried to use its patent portfolio as a tool to stifle competition, seeking injunctions to keep Apple products that violated Samsung patents off the market.
Almunia said Thursday enforcing patents is a legitimate business practice. But once a technology becomes an industry standard, its owner must offer others a chance to license it on reasonable terms — something Samsung failed to do.
"Rising Star" has been a TV and second-screen hit in Israel.
COLOGNE, Germany – Toro Produzioni, the Italian production company controlled by Sony Pictures Television Group, has snapped up local adaptation rights to Rising Star, the hot new singing format from Israeli group Keshet Media.
The Italian deal follows similar format agreements for Rising Star with RTL for Germany, France's M6, Russia's Rossiya1 and Nordisk for Scandinavia.
The singing competition show, which has been a huge ratings hit on Keshet 2 in Israel, uses innovative voting technology that allows viewers to vote live for their favorite contestants live via a second screen app. The vote count is tallied live during a contestant's on-air performance and determines the outcome of the show.
Toro is the go-to producer in Italy for music competition shows. The local producer of The Voice, the company recently acquired adaptation rights to the French classical music competition program Grande Battle.
If your company isn't fully taking advantage of social media, it might be missing out on opportunities to connect with customers, gain market share, and bring needed talent into the organization.
Experts say virtually every type of business can benefit from using social media as a business tool.
"We really are seeing interest and the potential for business value across the board," says Jeffrey Mann, research vice president at Gartner. "No one is immune, although it will be easier for some than others."
The most likely to see value, Mann says, are knowledge-based and highly collaborative industries, such as media, education, consulting, and high technology; industries or organizations that aren't hamstrung by regulation; and organizations with younger employees who are accustomed to working with social media.
(first of this isn't a high school rp. The academy is a base and wont be used for much of anything but a base and an area for your character to learn about the art of summoning. I would say 80 percent of the game will probably be out on missions, developing story, and investigating.)
Summoning is an art that was used by some of the greatest hunters in memory. Atticus the great, Martha the slayer, and Bob the unspoken. In past time summoners were praised for their skill, their intelligence, and their nobility. In present times though summoners are looked upon as monster sympathizers. Filth that sides with the things they are supposed to hunt. The summoning class at the hunting institution is small, drafty, and in an expanded utility closet. The only students that are put in the class are those that don't know better, are seen with great potential for nothing but summoning, or those that have dreams of the glorious past of summoning.
There are five positions open. Though I could work with three. This rp won't have a massive roster because I've seen far too many good rp's die due to there being way to many people involved.
I'm looking for dedicated players that want to have a good time. The roleplay isn't completely finished yet, but the bones are there and I just need to flesh it out a bit. I still have some things to define and explain, but I would like players to ask questions to help me know what I need to explain exactly. It shouldn't take more than a few days for me to finish everything up.
So please come and join us! I'm hoping for a long haul here and I have epic plans in mind.
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Almost 20 months after the European Commission (EC) formally launched an investigation into its patent licensing practices, Samsung believes it has come up with an answer. Today, the EC published an open call for comments on the Korean manufacturer's proposal relating to the abuse of standard ...
Contact: Thomas Sumner tsumner@agu.org 202-777-7516 American Geophysical Union
WASHINGTON, DCEarth's most eminent emissary to Mars has just proven that those rare Martian visitors that sometimes drop in on Earth a.k.a. Martian meteorites really are from the Red Planet. A key new measurement of Mars' atmosphere by NASA's Curiosity rover provides the most definitive evidence yet of the origins of Mars meteorites while at the same time providing a way to rule out Martian origins of other meteorites.
The new measurement is a high-precision count of two forms of argon gasArgon-36 and Argon-38accomplished by the Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM) instrument on Curiosity. These lighter and heavier forms, or isotopes, of argon exist naturally throughout the solar system. But on Mars the ratio of light to heavy argon is skewed because a lot of that planet's original atmosphere was lost to space, with the lighter form of argon being taken away more readily because it rises to the top of the atmosphere more easily and requires less energy to escape. That's left the Martian atmosphere relatively enriched in the heavier Argon-38.
Years of past analyses by Earth-bound scientists of gas bubbles trapped inside Martian meteorites had already narrowed the Martian argon ratio to between 3.6 and 4.5 (that is 3.6 to 4.5 atoms of Argon-36 to every one Argon-38) with the supposed Martian "atmospheric" value near four. Measurements by NASA's Viking landers in the 1970's put the Martian atmospheric ratio in the range of four to seven. The new SAM direct measurement on Mars now pins down the correct argon ratio at 4.2.
"We really nailed it," said Sushil Atreya of the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, the lead author of a paper reporting the finding today in Geophysical Research Letters, a journal of the American Geophysical Union. "This direct reading from Mars settles the case with all Martian meteorites," he said.
One of the reasons scientists have been so interested in the argon ratio in Martian meteorites is that it was before Curiosity the best measure of how much atmosphere Mars has lost since the planet's earlier, wetter, warmer days billions of years ago. Figuring out the planet's atmospheric loss would enable scientists to better understand how Mars transformed from a once water-rich planet more like our own to the today's drier, colder and less hospitable world.
Had Mars held onto its entire atmosphere and its original argon, Atreya explained, its ratio of the gas would be the same as that of the Sun and Jupiter. They have so much gravity that isotopes can't preferentially escape, so their argon ratio which is 5.5 represents that of the primordial solar system.
While argon comprises only a tiny fraction of the gases lost to space from Mars, it is special because it's a noble gas. That means the gas is inert, not reacting with other elements or compounds, and therefore a more straightforward tracer of the history of the Martian atmosphere.
"Other isotopes measured by SAM on Curiosity also support the loss of atmosphere, but none so directly as argon," said Atreya. "Argon is the clearest signature of atmospheric loss because it's chemically inert and does not interact or exchange with the Martian surface or the interior. This was a key measurement that we wanted to carry out on SAM."
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NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., manages the Curiosity mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington. The SAM investigation on the rover is managed by NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md.
Journalists and public information officers (PIOs) of educational and scientific institutions who have registered with AGU can download a PDF copy of this early view article by clicking on this link: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/2013GL057763/abstract
Or, you may order a copy of the final paper by emailing your request to Thomas Sumner at tsumner@agu.org. Please provide your name, the name of your publication, and your phone number.
Neither the paper nor this press release is under embargo.
Title:
"Primordial argon isotope fractionation in the atmosphere of Mars measured by the SAM instrument on Curiosity, and implications for atmospheric loss"
Authors:
Sushil K. Atreya and Michael H. Wong
Department of Atmospheric, Oceanic and Space Sciences, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Mich.;
Melissa G. Trainer, Heather B. Franz, Charles A. Malespin, Paul R. Mahaffy, Pamela G. Conrad and Anna E.
Brunner
Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md.;
K. Manning
Concordia College, Moorhead, Minn.;
Laurie A. Leshin
School of Science, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, N.Y.;
John H. Jones
NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, Tx.;
Christopher R. Webster
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, Calif.;
Tobias C. Owen
University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii;
Robert O. Pepin
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minn.;
R. Navarro-Gonzlez
Universidad Nacional Autnoma de Mxico, Ciudad Universitaria, Apartado, Mxico.
AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news releases posted to EurekAlert! by contributing institutions or for the use of any information through the EurekAlert! system.
Curiosity confirms origins of Martian meteorites
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WASHINGTON, DCEarth's most eminent emissary to Mars has just proven that those rare Martian visitors that sometimes drop in on Earth a.k.a. Martian meteorites really are from the Red Planet. A key new measurement of Mars' atmosphere by NASA's Curiosity rover provides the most definitive evidence yet of the origins of Mars meteorites while at the same time providing a way to rule out Martian origins of other meteorites.
The new measurement is a high-precision count of two forms of argon gasArgon-36 and Argon-38accomplished by the Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM) instrument on Curiosity. These lighter and heavier forms, or isotopes, of argon exist naturally throughout the solar system. But on Mars the ratio of light to heavy argon is skewed because a lot of that planet's original atmosphere was lost to space, with the lighter form of argon being taken away more readily because it rises to the top of the atmosphere more easily and requires less energy to escape. That's left the Martian atmosphere relatively enriched in the heavier Argon-38.
Years of past analyses by Earth-bound scientists of gas bubbles trapped inside Martian meteorites had already narrowed the Martian argon ratio to between 3.6 and 4.5 (that is 3.6 to 4.5 atoms of Argon-36 to every one Argon-38) with the supposed Martian "atmospheric" value near four. Measurements by NASA's Viking landers in the 1970's put the Martian atmospheric ratio in the range of four to seven. The new SAM direct measurement on Mars now pins down the correct argon ratio at 4.2.
"We really nailed it," said Sushil Atreya of the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, the lead author of a paper reporting the finding today in Geophysical Research Letters, a journal of the American Geophysical Union. "This direct reading from Mars settles the case with all Martian meteorites," he said.
One of the reasons scientists have been so interested in the argon ratio in Martian meteorites is that it was before Curiosity the best measure of how much atmosphere Mars has lost since the planet's earlier, wetter, warmer days billions of years ago. Figuring out the planet's atmospheric loss would enable scientists to better understand how Mars transformed from a once water-rich planet more like our own to the today's drier, colder and less hospitable world.
Had Mars held onto its entire atmosphere and its original argon, Atreya explained, its ratio of the gas would be the same as that of the Sun and Jupiter. They have so much gravity that isotopes can't preferentially escape, so their argon ratio which is 5.5 represents that of the primordial solar system.
While argon comprises only a tiny fraction of the gases lost to space from Mars, it is special because it's a noble gas. That means the gas is inert, not reacting with other elements or compounds, and therefore a more straightforward tracer of the history of the Martian atmosphere.
"Other isotopes measured by SAM on Curiosity also support the loss of atmosphere, but none so directly as argon," said Atreya. "Argon is the clearest signature of atmospheric loss because it's chemically inert and does not interact or exchange with the Martian surface or the interior. This was a key measurement that we wanted to carry out on SAM."
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NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., manages the Curiosity mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington. The SAM investigation on the rover is managed by NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md.
Journalists and public information officers (PIOs) of educational and scientific institutions who have registered with AGU can download a PDF copy of this early view article by clicking on this link: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/2013GL057763/abstract
Or, you may order a copy of the final paper by emailing your request to Thomas Sumner at tsumner@agu.org. Please provide your name, the name of your publication, and your phone number.
Neither the paper nor this press release is under embargo.
Title:
"Primordial argon isotope fractionation in the atmosphere of Mars measured by the SAM instrument on Curiosity, and implications for atmospheric loss"
Authors:
Sushil K. Atreya and Michael H. Wong
Department of Atmospheric, Oceanic and Space Sciences, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Mich.;
Melissa G. Trainer, Heather B. Franz, Charles A. Malespin, Paul R. Mahaffy, Pamela G. Conrad and Anna E.
Brunner
Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md.;
K. Manning
Concordia College, Moorhead, Minn.;
Laurie A. Leshin
School of Science, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, N.Y.;
John H. Jones
NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, Tx.;
Christopher R. Webster
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, Calif.;
Tobias C. Owen
University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii;
Robert O. Pepin
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minn.;
R. Navarro-Gonzlez
Universidad Nacional Autnoma de Mxico, Ciudad Universitaria, Apartado, Mxico.
AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news releases posted to EurekAlert! by contributing institutions or for the use of any information through the EurekAlert! system.
The Senate has been working on a bipartisan deal to reopen the government and raise the debt ceiling. But House conservatives have signaled they might not go along with a Senate deal. Steve Inskeep talks to Republican Senator Saxby Chambliss of Georgia about how he thinks the impasse can be resolved.
This is MORNING EDITION from NPR News. I'm Renee Montagne.
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And I'm Steve Inskeep. The prospects for a deal to avoid default and reopen the government now depend on the U.S. Senate, whose members include Saxby Chambliss, Republican of Georgia, who's on the line. Senator, welcome back to the program.
SENATOR SAXBY CHAMBLISS: Good to be with you, Steve.
INSKEEP: OK. So let's remember, last night Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid put out a statement saying he's optimistic, and the Republican leader, Mitch McConnell in the Senate, also says he's working on an agreement. Do you believe the Senate will deliver?
CHAMBLISS: Well, they both issued similar statements at the end of last week and over the weekend and it didn't come together. So I hope this time that it does, Steve. Because it's high time we quit this business of shutting down the government. There are too many things that are today impacting the lives of Americans, and just around the corner - i.e., the end of the month and the first of next month we're looking at veterans' benefits and Social Security checks and whatnot being impacted by the shutdown. And that means we're going to have a sure enough serious impact on people's lives. So let's hope so. I think folks on both sides of the aisle in the Senate are ready to get this done.
INSKEEP: Well, let's look at the deal, at least as it's been described. I know the legislation hasn't been passed out but it's described as reopening the government, raising the debt ceiling until early next year. Republicans get a concession on Obamacare. There would be additional income verification for people getting subsidies. Democrats get some minor concessions. Is that something that's likely to get your vote if that's the form it takes?
CHAMBLISS: I'm going to look at what the details are. The income verification is actually part of the law now, but this is supposed to tighten it up even more, and certainly that's key. But you know, we're not talking about a long-term solution, Steve. That's going to impact the decision making on the part of a lot of us.
We're talking about temporarily reopening the government by extending a CR, a continuing resolution, and temporarily raising the debt ceiling only for about four months here. So there's less demand in the minds of those of us who have to cast a vote if it's a temporary situation versus permanent situation.
INSKEEP: Do you think it's important, Senator, to get a big bipartisan vote in the Senate for whatever you send over to the House, where there has been a little bit of chaos?
CHAMBLISS: Well, that's always the goal we have because you want all legislation to have the support of both sides of the aisle. That usually means obviously(ph) it's a pretty good piece of legislation. Here I think it's more important than ever. Speaker Boehner is having lots of problems on the House side corralling his troops over there. And it's not (unintelligible) but it's kind of imploded with this CR debt ceiling issue that we've been working on. So...
INSKEEP: Would you urge him, Senator, to use Democratic votes if he possibly can? He's been trying to pass a deal with only Republicans.
CHAMBLISS: Yeah, I think he's going to have to have Democratic votes. In fact, he could even be in a situation now because of the timeline we're working on where it takes an overwhelming vote of Democrats and some Republicans to get to 218, but I think that's exactly the scenario that his folks have left him now.
INSKEEP: Now, is there a layer to this crisis that we don't see, Senator Chambliss? For example, are people talking privately with Speaker Boehner from the Senate side to the House side?
CHAMBLISS: They are. John is one of my dearest friends. I talk to him regularly anyway, but particularly on this issue we've been conversing regularly, and others have. He talks to Senator McConnell regularly, and I know other members of the Senate have been engaged in conversation with not just the speaker but rank and file House members, trying to encourage them to continue to dialogue, continue to work on it.
Because this doesn't do anybody any good, these types of confrontations.
INSKEEP: We've just got about - forgive me, Senator, we've just got about 30, 40 seconds here.
CHAMBLISS: Sure.
MONTAGNE: I want to ask about another relationship here. Senators Ted Cruz and Mike Lee in the Senate have objected to reopening the government unless Obamacare is also defunded. They didn't show up for a Republican lunch, I'm told, according to Politico, on Tuesday. Have you heard from them and do you think they will try to talk this out, which could take us well past the deadline, days past the deadline under Senate procedures?
CHAMBLISS: Mike and Ted were not at lunch yesterday, but I don't think that is any indication of any issue being involved there. Their stated purpose of shutting down the government early was to defund Obamacare and those of us who've been around a while kept saying, guys, that's not going to happen. It can't happen.
I think they've come to the realization now that it's not going to happen and I think in all good conscience they are trying to figure out what it is they would like to have now to see the government reopened and the debt ceiling raised. But they're probably looking at the next round rather than this round. It's just not going to happen now.
INSKEEP: Senator Chambliss, thanks as always.
CHAMBLISS: OK. Steve, always good to be with you.
MONTAGNE: Saxby Chambliss is a Republican senator from Georgia.
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Today in international tech news: Google tells the story of an Indian man who used Google Earth to track down his family 26 years after an ill-fated train ride. Also: Huawei enlists a former EU diplomat; the "Snooper Charter" doesn't pass in the UK; Ireland aims to close a tax loophole; an Aussie startup plans drone-delivered textbooks.
Indian Saroo Munshi Khan used Google Earth to track down his long-lost family 26 years after accidentally falling asleep on a train.
In a tale that's almost too Hollywood to believe, then 5-year-old Saroo reportedly took a break from searching for change with his brother in Berhanpur, India, and hopped onto a stationary train where he fell asleep. Hours later, he woke up in Calcutta, alone and more than 900 miles away from home. He was taken to an orphanage and adopted by an Australian family.
A few years ago, Saroo used Google Earth's "ruler" feature to take a stab at figuring out how far he had traveled on that fateful day. After hours upon hours of scouring, he spotted a neighborhood that looked right.
Confident -- or at least as confident as he could be -- he made the trek home in 2012, talked to locals, and eventually found his mother, brother and sister.
Huawei Enlists Former European Ambassador as Consultant
Chinese telelcommunications firm Huawei has hired Serge Abou, the European Union's former top diplomat to China, as a consultant.
Abou was Europe's go-to man in China from 2005 to 2011.
In 2012, Huawei's global expansion plans hit a snag or two (or three), as a handful of Western countries publicly questioned the company's ties to the Chinese military and government.
Nonetheless, Huawei is rapidly expanding in Europe, where it plans to add more than 5,000 jobs over the next half-decade.
A former Labour party cabinet minister has warned Britain's intelligence community that it appears to be conducting mass surveillance without Parliamentary consent.
The warning comes after the coalition government failed to pass a communications data bill, dubbed the "Snoopers' Charter" by detractors, that would have given Britain's data cops greater power to collect and hoard information.
The bill was knocked down by Liberal Democrats, however, who feared it was a violation of privacy.
Ireland plans to pull the plug on an arrangement used by Apple that allowed the company to shelter some US$40 billion from being taxed.
With its low corporate tax rates, Ireland is among the most popular European locales for U.S. technology firms to set up shop.
Google, Facebook and Apple are among those who have Irish subsidiaries that are used to legally record huge revenues originating in other European countries with less favorable tax rates.
Now, however, the Irish government apparently is cracking down.
"Ireland wants to be part of the solution to this global tax challenge," Finance Minister Michael Noonan said, "not part of the problem."
Australian education startup Zookal has teamed with unmanned aerial vehicle manufacturer Flirtey to create a service that delivers textbooks via drone.
The whole thing is contingent upon regulatory approval, but should plans go through, students would be able to have textbooks delivered by drone within minutes of placing an online order.
The students would be able to track the delivery on the Web; the drone would lower the book after being signaled to do so via an app.
The technology is designed so that the drone is at least 10 feet high during delivery.
"The Avengers" is among the Disney titles Netflix will have exclusively for the Dutch pay-TV market.
COLOGNE, Germany – Netflix has signed a deal with Walt Disney Studios that gives the online VOD service exclusive subscription video-on-demand rights in the Netherlands for all animated and live action films Disney releases in the territory.
The multi-year deal, which kicks off in early 2014, includes both new and library product and features titles from all of Disney's studios.
Highlights include Marvel's The Avengers, Pixar's Monsters University and Disney's The Lone Ranger, as well as back catalogue titles including The Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl, Wall-E and Ratatouille. ABC television productions, including episodes of Lost, are also part of the Dutch deal.
The deal is a boost to Netflix's nascent Dutch operations, which launched last month.
If successful, the agreement could signal a major shift in Europe, where the rollout of VOD services, such as Netflix, has lagged behind that of the United States.
Berlin (AFP) - German Chancellor Angela Merkel faces a new headache after her search for a coalition partner turned into a one-horse race Wednesday, forcing her to haggle with the emboldened Social Democrats.
The Greens politely bowed out of further talks with Merkel's conservatives overnight, citing irreconcilable differences, leaving the Social Democrats (SPD) as Merkel's only potential partner, which will allow them to drive a harder bargain.
In fact, analysts say, SPD leaders will have to extract a high price on policy issues and ministerial posts to convince their sceptical rank-and-file members that the party should govern jointly with Merkel in a left-right 'grand coalition'.
"The collapse of the conservative-Greens talks has strengthened the SPD's negotiating position," said political scientist Nils Diederich of Berlin's Free University.
"But they are under massive pressure from their base to win concessions in different areas," he said, mentioning their demand for a national minimum wage, changes to European policy and more help for political refugees.
In September 22 elections, Merkel's conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and their Bavarian allies the CSU scored a decisive victory.
However, their ballot box triumph was soured by the fact that they fell just five seats short of a ruling majority after their previous junior partners, the pro-business Free Democrats (FDP), crashed out of parliament.
This has forced Merkel into a lengthy process of political horse-trading with potential allies that could drag on for many weeks.
The CDU/CSU has held two rounds of preliminary talks with each party and is set to meet the SPD again Thursday at 1100 GMT.
The SPD leaders, despite their disappointing election score, will likely now enter the talks with added swagger, hoping to extract key concessions if they enable Merkel to serve a third term.
The SPD, in a campaign fought on social justice issues, demanded a national minimum wage to help the working poor, greater "solidarity" with crisis-hit southern Europe, dual nationality for children of migrants and a cap on rental increases, while pledging to tax the rich more to pay for public spending.
For the popular chancellor, the only other options would be trying to rule in an unstable minority government or to call fresh elections.
A poll this week by Bild newspaper painted a less-than-rosy scenario for Merkel should German voters again be forced to the polls.
While the CDU again scored 42 percent, the survey suggested the FDP would again miss out on seats, while new eurosceptic party the AfD would make it into parliament, further confusing the political picture.
'Further intensive discussions'
SPD chief Andrea Nahles said she expects "further intensive discussions over policy positions" on Thursday after the campaign-trail rivals held an eight-hour marathon session deep into Monday night.
Thursday's talks should be shorter as Merkel is set to receive at 1700 GMT the EU president Herman Van Rompuy.
Merkel's team has said it hopes to announce this week whether it will take the next step, from "exploratory" to full-scale coalition talks with the SPD.
The Social Democrats, for their part, would seek to get their senior delegates to sign off on such a move at a party meeting Sunday.
The SPD has promised to let its 470,000 members vote on any coalition contract that their leaders propose -- with a 'yes' vote by no means a foregone conclusion given the mood in the party.
Having suffered two election defeats in a row, many members of the 150-year-old party believe the SPD should not humiliate itself by again jumping into bed with the CDU and governing in Merkel's shadow as they last did 2005-09.
In the end, though, most Germans expect another grand coalition, though few really want it. The Bild poll said that such an outcome is expected by 62 percent of Germans, but that only 32 percent favour such a left-right government.
Should the talks between the SPD and conservatives also end in tears, the Greens and Merkel's team have made sure not to slam the door shut.
Greens leader Cem Ozdemir refused to entirely rule out further negotiations with the conservatives in coming weeks, saying that, should the SPD bow out too, "it would be conceivable that we talk once again".
SAN DIEGO (AP) — Former San Diego Mayor Bob Filner, driven from office by sexual harassment allegations, pleaded guilty Tuesday to a felony and two misdemeanors for unwanted physical contact with three women at public events.
Filner entered the plea under an agreement with the state attorney general that calls for three months of home confinement and three years of probation. He agreed not to seek public office and will undergo psychological counseling.
The former 10-term Democratic congressman pleaded guilty to felony false imprisonment and two counts of misdemeanor battery against women who were identified only as Jane Does. His attorney, Jerry Coughlan, said none of the victims were employees.
The felony involved a woman restrained against her will at a fundraiser on March 6, according to the plea agreement. Coughlan told reporters that Filner put her in a headlock.
The misdemeanors involved a woman who was kissed without permission at a "Meet the Mayor" event on April 6 and a woman whose buttocks were grabbed at a rally to clean up Mission Bay's Fiesta Island on May 25.
The maximum possible sentence for the felony is three years in prison and one year for each misdemeanor. Sentencing was set for Dec. 9.
Filner, 71, did not address reporters but his attorney said the former mayor "profusely apologizes" for his behavior.
"I think he wants to redeem his original legacy, which was a wonderful one, and put this behind him," Coughlan said.
Filner entered court alone in a dark blue suit, chatting amiably with his two attorneys before the hearing began. He said little to the judge beyond, "Guilty," when the judge recited the charges.
His somber appearance was a stark contrast to his defiant resignation speech in which he said he was the victim of a lynch mob and believed he would be vindicated if due process was allowed to run its course.
"I think he's a much more humbled man, in my own personal view, from the first time I met him early in this," Coughlan said. "He's been jogging, he's been getting therapy, talking to friends, trying to come to terms with how to deal with these kinds of problems. It's a full-time job."
Filner resigned Aug. 30, succumbing to intense pressure after at least 17 women brought lurid sexual harassment allegations. He had been on the job less than nine months into a four-year term and was San Diego's first Democratic mayor in 20 years.
San Diego County sheriff's investigators had been interviewing Filner's accusers and said they would deliver their findings to the attorney general's office for possible prosecution. The state attorney general's office confirmed in August that it launched a criminal investigation.
"This conduct was not only criminal, it was also an extreme abuse of power," said Attorney General Kamala Harris. "This prosecution is about consequence and accountability. No one is above the law."
Filner's attorney said prosecutors were eager to strike a deal before a grand jury began hearing several weeks of testimony about Filner's behavior. Coughlan said the grand jury probe will no longer go forward.
The criminal charges do not involve Filner's former communications director, Irene McCormack Jackson, who was the first woman to go public with allegations against Filner in July. She filed a lawsuit against the mayor and the city, claiming her ex-boss asked her to work without panties, demanded kisses, told her he wanted to see her naked and dragged her in a headlock while whispering in her ear.
In exchange for his resignation, the city agreed to pay Filner's legal fees in a joint defense of the McCormack Jackson lawsuit, and cover any settlement costs assessed against the mayor except for punitive damages. The city did not represent him in the criminal case.
As a convicted felon, Filner forfeits his right to vote. Coughlan said his pension will not accrue from the time of the first offense in March.
Filner spent two months in a Mississippi jail for inciting a riot when he joined the Freedom Riders in 1961 to campaign against a segregated South. He cited the experience often during his long political career that included stints on the San Diego school board, City Council and Congress.
He became a political pariah before stepping down. All nine City Council members and the Democratic National Committee called upon Filner to resign. A recall effort also was launched as more allegations surfaced.
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"This conference has an interdisciplinary focus and provides 'one-stop shopping' for education on the biggest issues of our time," said program co-chair Dr. Brian Tobin, Department Chair of Biomedical Sciences, University of South Carolina School of Medicine.
The 3-day program delivers valuable clinical updates and networking opportunities to advance your understanding of hotly debated nutrition areas. Credentialed media, science writers and bloggers are invited to cover all or part of the conference with free registration (email us). Download the program, which lists the renowned speaker-experts with session titles.
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Beyond Sodium: Total Diet Approaches to Hypertension
Connie M. Weaver, PhD, Distinguished Professor and Department Head, Department of Nutrition Science, Purdue University
The Gluten Controversy: Much More than Celiac Disease?
Douglas L. Seidner, MD, Director of the Center for Human Nutrition, Associate Professor of Medicine, Vanderbilt University
New Technologies for Monitoring Food Intake
Dale A. Schoeller, PhD, Professor of Nutritional Sciences at University of Wisconsin Madison
The Gut Microbiome in Health: Fact or Science Fiction?
Federico Rey, PhD, Assistant Professor of Bacteriology, University of Wisconsin Madison
Organic Foods: Do They Make a Difference?
Roger Clemens, DrPH, Adjunct Professor of Pharmacology and Pharmaceutical Sciences within the USC School of Pharmacy
Translating Nutrition Science to Clinical Practice: What to Tell Your Patients
David Heber, MD, PhD, Professor, UCLA Department of Medicine, founding Chief of the Division of Clinical Nutrition, at the David Geffen School of Medicine, UCLA, and UCLA School of Public Health
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Contact: Suzanne Price sprice@nutrition.org American Society for Nutrition
From gut to foods
"This conference has an interdisciplinary focus and provides 'one-stop shopping' for education on the biggest issues of our time," said program co-chair Dr. Brian Tobin, Department Chair of Biomedical Sciences, University of South Carolina School of Medicine.
The 3-day program delivers valuable clinical updates and networking opportunities to advance your understanding of hotly debated nutrition areas. Credentialed media, science writers and bloggers are invited to cover all or part of the conference with free registration (email us). Download the program, which lists the renowned speaker-experts with session titles.
Select Program Highlights
Beyond Sodium: Total Diet Approaches to Hypertension
Connie M. Weaver, PhD, Distinguished Professor and Department Head, Department of Nutrition Science, Purdue University
The Gluten Controversy: Much More than Celiac Disease?
Douglas L. Seidner, MD, Director of the Center for Human Nutrition, Associate Professor of Medicine, Vanderbilt University
New Technologies for Monitoring Food Intake
Dale A. Schoeller, PhD, Professor of Nutritional Sciences at University of Wisconsin Madison
The Gut Microbiome in Health: Fact or Science Fiction?
Federico Rey, PhD, Assistant Professor of Bacteriology, University of Wisconsin Madison
Organic Foods: Do They Make a Difference?
Roger Clemens, DrPH, Adjunct Professor of Pharmacology and Pharmaceutical Sciences within the USC School of Pharmacy
Translating Nutrition Science to Clinical Practice: What to Tell Your Patients
David Heber, MD, PhD, Professor, UCLA Department of Medicine, founding Chief of the Division of Clinical Nutrition, at the David Geffen School of Medicine, UCLA, and UCLA School of Public Health
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