Sally Ride, first American woman in space, dies at 61 (updated)

It's a sad day for space travel. Sally Ride, the first American woman to ever travel to space, has died at the age of 61 after a bout with pancreatic cancer. She's best known for breaking NASA's gender barrier by flying on Space Shuttle Challenger on June 18th, 1983, but she spent much more of her time guiding our future in space while here on Earth -- she founded NASA's Office of Exploration and directed its early strategy, and she later went on to lead the California Space Institute as well as teach physics at the University of California in San Diego. Her final decade saw her establish Sally Ride Science to encourage students wanting to follow in her footsteps, especially girls. Ride blazed one of the brighter trails in technology, and she'll be missed.

Update: Ride is survived by her same-sex partner of 27 years, Dr. Tam O'Shaughnessy.

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July 22nd, 2012 at 5:55 pm by Hawa Konte under Community Affairs, News, Photos

Support continues to pour in for the two La Cueva high school cheerleaders who were badly hurt in a car crash Monday night.

Family members say Lilly Pickard and Jessica Sanchez are showing improvement everyday, but still have a long road ahead.

The 16-year-old girls were ejected from their SUV when it rolled on Paseo del Norte and Tramway. Neither girl was wearing a seat belt.

Lilly?s dad sent this picture of some La Cueva kids camped out at UNM Hospital in support of their classmates.

Philip Pickard says kids have been showing up at the hospital, setting up prayer meetings and a donation website.

A prayer vigil is set for the girls Sunday at 8 p.m. on the La Cueva High School soccer field.

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Apple, Facebook will lead news this week

By Caroline Valetkevitch, Reuters

NEW YORK -- The trend of better-than-expected earnings will be put to the test in the coming week when investors hope Apple can exceed already high expectations for the tech giant and Facebook reports its first quarterly earnings.

Apple accounts for a significant proportion of the overall earnings of Standard & Poor's 500 components. S&P 500 earnings are expected to show a rise of 5.7 percent in the second quarter from a year ago. Excluding the maker of the iPad, the rise is 4.8 percent, according to Thomson Reuters data.

Apple's results, due Tuesday, could help stocks build on this week's gains and counter investor worries over the euro zone crisis. More signs of financial stress in Spain on Friday caused stocks to give back some of the week's increase. The S&P 500 ended 0.4 percent higher for the week.

"Apple can drive the whole (tech) group," said Daniel Morgan, who helps manage about $3.5 billion at Synovus Trust Company in Atlanta.

"There's a huge psychological component as it relates directly to Apple. If they just blast numbers like they did last quarter, then obviously the perception will be everybody else did pretty good and Apple did fabulous."

Apple's expected strong performance is mainly why technology earnings growth has held up better than other S&P 500 sectors. The expected growth rate for the sector has gone from 6.9 percent in April to 8.7 percent as of Friday, the data showed.

Apple's earnings for the quarter are seen at $10.38 a share, based on Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S, which includes estimates from 43 analysts. That compares with a profit of $7.79 a share for the year-ago quarter.

Morgan said Apple's growth has largely depended on the success of its new products. "For the stock, to continue its trajectory at the pace it has, it's critical that they release these new products," he said. Apple's shares are up 49.2 percent for the year so far.

Apple does not give any clues on its future products, but the California company is widely expected to release its next-generation iPhone later this year. Wall Street has also set its heart on Apple launching a new "mini iPad" and the long-awaited television set in the near future.

Investors are likely to be just as keen to hear from Facebook when it reports on Thursday. Facebook's first results following its market debut could give investors another chance to indicate how they feel about the stock since its disappointing initial public offering.

Shares of Facebook, one of the most closely watched IPOs ever, lost ground after technical problems with its market debut on Nasdaq and as investors questioned its ability to rapidly increase advertising revenue.

Analysts said an earnings miss by Facebook could be disastrous for the stock, which closed Friday at $28.76, below its $38 offering price.

Investors are looking for executives to address a litany of concerns about the business, such as the efficacy of its online ads and the company's nascent efforts in mobile advertising.

Tech results also will be closely watched for signs of weak demand overseas, particularly from Europe. Other technology companies expected to report next week include Texas Instruments and Amazon.com . Of the S&P sectors, technology has the highest sales exposure to Europe at about 25 percent, according to a Bank of America/Merrill Lynch research note.

Among the other 138 S&P 500 companies reporting earnings are Ford Motor Co , United Parcel Service and Whirlpool Corp .

While the majority of companies have beaten earnings expectations, revenue performance has been the worst for S&P 500 companies since the first quarter of 2009.

With results in from 116 companies, just 43 percent of companies are beating revenue expectations.

Sixty-seven percent of companies are beating earnings estimates, compared with a long-term average of 62 percent, Thomson Reuters data showed.

"With global growth slowing down, it's not surprising we're going to see some mixed numbers on the revenue side," said Natalie Trunow, chief investment officer of equities at Calvert Investment Management in Bethesda, Maryland, whose firm manages about $13 billion in assets.

While earnings are expected to dominate stock investors' attention in the coming week, the euro zone crisis is still capable of taking the spotlight.

"It's the default thing for people to focus on," said Eric Kuby, chief investment officer at North Star Investment Management Corp. in Chicago.

Spain will tap the markets Tuesday when it sells three- and six-month bills. It will also sell three- and five-year bonds on August 2. Spain's 10-year bond yields hit a euro-era high of 7.3 percent on Friday.

The week's U.S. economic data includes the Markit U.S. Manufacturing Purchasing Managers Index for July, due on Tuesday. June's reading marked the lowest showing since December 2010.?

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Epson Expression Home XP-400 Small-in-One Printer

The Epson Expression Home XP-400 Small-in-One ($99 list) is essentially an upgrade to the Epson Stylus NX430 Small-in-One ($99 direct, 3.5 stars), the first of Epson's multifunction printers (MFPs) to bear the Small-in-One moniker. It retains its highly compact form factor while showing improved speed.

The XP-400's defining characteristic is its diminutive frame; it measures 5.4 by 15.4 by 11.8 inches (HWD) when closed and weighs just 9 pounds. The glossy black XP-400 has a top-loading paper feeder that fits 100 sheets. Although it lacks an automatic duplexer for printing on both sides of a sheet of paper, it offers guidance for manual duplexing through the printer driver. The printer employs four individual ink tanks.

The XP-400 prints, copies, and scans. The tilt-up control panel houses a 2.5-inch LCD screen. The Home screen shows various labeled icons, which you can access with a 4-way controller: Setup; Help; WiFi Setup; Copy; Print Photos; Scan; and More Functions (under which are Copy/Restore Photos; Photo Layout Sheet; and Slide Show). The flatbed scanner can scan or copy at up to letter size, and lacks an automatic document feeder (ADF). A memory-card reader accepts cards in the SD/MSpro families.

The XP-400 connects to a computer via USB, or to a network by 802.11b/g/n Wi-Fi. I tested it over a USB connection with a PC running Windows Vista.

Speed

It was good to see the XP-400 print out our business applications suite (timed with QualityLogic's hardware and software) at a respectable 3.1 effective pages per minute (ppm), as the Epson Stylus NX430 Small-in-One's 1.7 ppm had been notably slow even for a budget inkjet when I tested it last October. In general we've seen an uptick in inkjet speeds over the past year, but even so, this was a nice jump, putting it in the middle of the pack for its price point. The Editors' Choice Brother MFC-J430W ?($99 direct, 4 stars) zipped through the same tests at 4.3 ppm, while the Editors' Choice Kodak ESP 3.2 All-in-One Printer ($99.99 direct, 4 stars) output our tests at a 3.2 ppm clip.

The XP-400's average of 2 minutes 18 seconds to print out a 4-by-6 photo was an improvement over the NX430's 2:55 average, although still slow; the Kodak ESP 3.2's average of 50 seconds per print leaves them, as well as the Brother MFC-J430W?which averaged 1:55 per print?in the dust.

Output Quality
The XP-400's text quality was slightly below par for an inkjet, fine for most home, school, or business correspondence but not for resumes or other documents with which you want to create a good visual impression.

Graphics quality was par for an inkjet good enough for any internal business, home, or school use. Depending on how picky you are, you might even consider the graphics good enough to hand to important clients or customers who you want to impress with a sense of your professionalism.

Photo quality was typical an inkjet. For the most part, colors looked reasonably true, though prints tended to be on the light side, with some detail lost in brighter areas. A monochrome photo showed a distinct tint. Quality was about what you'd expect from prints from a drugstore.

The XP-400 is sharply geared to home use, lacking features that would make it attractive for even light-duty home-office use. Its paper capacity is at the low end of the acceptable range, and it lacks fax capabilities, an automatic document feeder (ADF), an auto-duplexer, and a port for a USB thumb drive, to name a few.

Epson doesn?t quote cost-per-page figures for its printers, but based on the price and yield figures of their most cost-effective cartridges, the running costs work out to 6 cents per monochrome page and 16.7 cents per color page. Both are high compared with the more economical models; the Kodak ESP 3.2's running costs are 3 cents per monochrome page and 9.5 cents per color page, and the Brother MFC-J430W's are 3.8 and 11.3 cents, respectively.

The Epson Expression Home XP-400 Small-in-One is a fairly typical budget home MFP, with fairly average speed, graphics and photo quality, and feature set, and with a relatively high cost per page. Its compactness is the one thing that sets it apart. The Editors' Choice Brother MFC-J430W is significantly faster in printing out documents, while the Editors' Choice Kodak ESP 3.2 has better overall output quality and photo-printing speed. But neither can fit in as tight a space as the XP-400.?

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European Parliament head fears 'social explosion'

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