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Nov 6, 2011
Baatara Gorge Waterfall
Baatara Gorge Waterfall
Baatara gorge waterfall (Balaa gorge waterfall) is a waterfall in the Tannourine, Lebanon.
The waterfall descends the Baatara Pothole, located on the Lebanon Mountain Trail.[ Discovered in 1952, the waterfall drops 255 m into a cave of jurassic limestone.
The waterfall and accompanying sinkhole were fully mapped in the 1980s by the Speleo club du liban. The cave is also known as the "Cave of the Three Bridges.
Traveling from Laklouk to Tannourine one passes the village of Balaa, and the "Three Bridges Chasm" (in French "Gouffre des Trois Ponts") is a five minute journey into the valley below where one sees three natural bridges, rising one above the other and overhanging a chasm descending into Mount Lebanon.
During the spring snow melt, a 90-100 meter cascade falls behind the three bridges and then down into the 250 meter chasm. A 1988 florescent dye test demonstrated that the water emerged at the spring of Dalleh in Mgharet a Ghaouaghir.
Nov 3, 2011
An Apple Buyout Of Sony?
Will Apple Buy Sony?
By Sony shares have moved up recently on rumors that the company might be bought by Apple. Apple could easily afford the deal. It has over $50 billion of cash on its balance sheet, and a market cap of $282 billion. Sony's market value is less than $34 billion.Apple might like to own Sony's gaming operation, which manufactures and sells the PlayStation line of products. Apple does not have a position in the market, which is dominated by Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo. The Apple App Store does offer online video games, but by industry estimates Apple only keeps one-third of the revenue from those and obviously has no hardware presence in the industry.
Apple might be tempted to keep Sony's digital camera and TV screen business. It would have to suppose that the Apple brand would help sell the products at premium prices. There is, however, the problem that the two businesses have low margins and are in extremely competitive markets.
Sony has also been poorly managed, if operating profits and revenue growth are good measurements. Apple does not have the executive prowess to run a huge but unsuccessful company that is struggling. It would have nothing to do with Apple's strengths: product management and brand management.
Sony's best days are behind it. The company recently said it would stop making its Walkman cassette player for most of the world. That is a sign of how much power Sony has lost in the consumer electronics world. Even Apple would face a Herculean task if it wanted to revive Sony's fortunes.
http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2010/10/will-apple-buy-sony/65179/
