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To date, it appears Apple is wholly focused on software for mobile infrastructure, where, at best, it sees itself as a cloud provider handing out new apps to new devices. Witness the company's plans for a new data center in Maiden, NC, that is -- said to approach half-a-million square feet - that would be ideal for hos... |
As for the company's vaunted operating system, the only thing I can find regarding cloud capability are recent references in iSlate circles that the new tablet will have access to OS X 10.7, which is going to be called "Clouded Leopard." Whether that means users of OS X in general will see new cloud capabilities is unc... |
But when it comes to placing actual cloud architectures on Apple hardware like the Mac and XServe, there doesn't seem to be activity of any kind. Part of this is due to the one-way street Apple has paved for itself on the virtual layer, where Windows and Linux instances can be booted on Macs via technologies like Virtu... |
It's been well-documented that Apple places great value in maintaining complete control over its environment -- from raw iron to top-level applications. The problem is that productivity and efficiency levels are about to go through the roof as enterprises shed their brick-and-mortar data centers and start shifting thei... |
If an IT platform can't keep up with that revolution, then it's doomed to the technological backwater -- active and interesting perhaps, but largely irrelevent. |
I'm not sure what's meant by your conclusion: "If an IT platform can't keep up with that revolution, then it's doomed to the technological backwater -- active and interesting perhaps, but largely irrelevant." |
If you're referring to Apple servers as an Enterprise level data center platform, then Apple has almost alway been irrelevant and to a great extent indifferent. I doubt that Apple's data center in NC will be running XServes. They'll be running on the appropriate server platforms for their purpose whether iDataPlex, HP,... |
As an end user platform, no matter the form factor, the nature of the data centers supporting the applications running on the devices is itself irrelevant - it's the bits that matter and bits are agnostic. |
Apple is not is the game at all, let's hear what "Mac fans" have to say (I wonder what they'd have to say...hhmm). |
A Texas school board proposed Wednesday to not renew the contract of a principal who allegedly banned students from speaking Spanish on a middle school campus, MyFoxHouston.com reported. |
Amy Lacey, the middle school principal in Hempstead, has been on paid administrative leave since late last year. She allegedly announced over the school's intercom that Spanish would not be tolerated on campus. Hempstead is a small town about an hour northwest of Houston. |
"Students were shamed until they did not want to come to school anymore," Salina Moreno, an attorney with the Latin Legal Voice, told MyFoxHouston.com. Some Latino organizations are calling on the FBI to investigate possible civil rights violations. |
Latino advocates say the Hispanic population in the area is growing and allowing Spanish in public schools is important. |
"When you start banning aspects of ethnicity or cultural identity, it sends the message that the child is not wanted: 'We don't want your color. We don't want your kind.' They then tend to drop out early," Augustin Pinedo, director of the League of United Latin American Citizens Region 18, told The ... |
The League of United Latin American Citizens is asking the FBI to investigate recent incidents involving the Hempstead school district to determine if they are possible hate crimes. |
"There was an incident in February where brake lines were cut on buses, three school buses," Laurie Bettis, a school district spokeswoman, said. |
The vandals also left behind the remains of a dead cat. The school district is now looking at installing more surveillance cameras at the bus depot. |
The district's superintendent, who is Hispanic, has stated strangers are watching her house and taking pictures. |
But school district officials point out they have nothing to connect these recent incidents to the controversy over the principal's alleged ban on speaking Spanish in class, the MyFoxHouston.com report said. |
Massachusetts Governor-elect Charlie Baker's post election tour took him to Lowell Wednesday, where he met with city leaders to discuss issues including a new courthouse and future plans for UMass Lowell. |
Afterward, Baker and Lt. Governor-elect Karyn Polito took questions flanked by UMass Lowell Chancellor Marty Meehan and State Rep David Nangle, both Democrats. This comes one day after Baker announced his first cabinet pick: Chelsea City Manager Jay Ash, also a Democrat. |
"From my point of view, I didn't really care if he was Democrat or a Republican ... Jay Ash has demonstrated over and over and over again over the course of his time as city manager of Chelsea," Baker said. |
Watching all this unfold are members of the Republican State Committee, an historically fractured group in Masschusetts where the more conservative members feel their leaders, typically moderates, should act more like Republicans and not Democrats. |
The issue has flared in recent days as Baker announced he would back the current party chair, Kirsten Hughes, who is a moderate, even as a group of more conservative Committee members are either running against her or strongly considering. They include Steve Aylward, who ran the successful gas tax ballot initiative; Ch... |
"I think Kirsten deserves a lot of credit for the success we had as a party and bringing more balance to Beacon Hill," Baker said. |
Baker is referring to Republicans picking up eight legislative seats and winning the governor's office as well as a significantly beefed up get out the vote effort. |
When asked if she was disappointed that Baker had already backed Hughes, and if she still plans to run, Chanel Prunier responded, "I have good working relationships with many individuals on both sides of the divide in the state committee, and a good relationship with our governor-elect. I'm certainly considering it." |
Steve Aylward is also upbeat about Baker saying he did not know others were running when he got behind Hughes. He said he is "strongly leaning" toward a run. |
Handwriting isn't just for style -- it's important to learning, memory and success. |
Twenty years ago, a $300 Montblanc pen was one of the most coveted and costly graduation gifts. But today, few clamor over pens anymore, much less expensive ones. It turns out they want MacBooks and iPads — new writing tools of the digital age. |
But handwriting isn’t just a matter of style — it’s a complex skill that affects your cognitive development and exercises your visual, motor and memory circuits. When you write, you build hand-eye coordination and practice fine motor skills. |
In fact, a field of research, called “haptics,” focuses on the connection of touch, hand movement and brain function. Studies show that handwriting engages different circuits of the brain than typing simply doesn’t. And those strokes and pressures of the pen actually send messages to the brain, training it in vision an... |
In fact, the study of handwriting, called graphology, claims to infer character traits — like laziness, creativity or organization — just by looking at your written words. |
That repetitive process of writing builds motor pathways into the brain, Katya Feder, a professor at the University of Ottawa School of Rehabilitation, told the Los Angeles Times. And the more children write, the more connections they build. But if poor handwriting also builds faulty pathways, she added. |
Good handwriting can lead to better grades, too. Studies show pre-kindergarten kids with fine motor skills scored much higher years later in reading and math than those with poor handwriting. In short, there’s a direct link between writing skill and academic success. |
Regardless, if you’re a parent, there are exercises you can do to help your kids develop their grasping technique. At home, they can play with Play-Doh, draw with chalk or use scissors, all of it to hopefully improve handwriting and more. And if you want to add to their creativity, give them an imaginary friend. |
When it comes to ideas and memory, the hand has a special relationship with the brain. Remember that adage, write it down so you won’t forget it? It turns out it’s true. If you jot down a note — and then lose it — you’ll be more likely to remember what you wrote than if you’d just tried to memorize it. Feder added that... |
Handwriting also has tangible effects on communication. According to a University of Washington study, grade-school kids expressed more ideas when writing instead of typing. Writing affects not just the development of how you think, but how deeply and how expressively. |
But beyond the practical, critics say the decline of handwriting is the death of a more romantic era. Consider my friend, whose husband sent her hundreds of e-mails while deployed in Iraq. |
He also wrote a few letters, which she kept and re-reads from time-to-time. “It feels more personal to think of him collecting, composing and writing his thoughts from a dusty bunker,” she said. “He’s sending the letter from halfway around the world.” For the children, too, those letters and their crinkly postmarked en... |
Handwriting has existed for about 6,000 years, according to Anne Trubek, who is writing a book on handwriting, to be published by Bloomsbury next year. But it’s one of our most important inventions. Without it, we wouldn’t be able to record knowledge or pass ideas from one generation to the next. |
In early America, as Trubek has written, “only wealthy men and businessmen learned to write…a ‘good hand’ became a sign of class and intelligence as well as moral righteousness.” Most, meanwhile, signed legal documents with a mere ‘X’ and the presence of a witness. Writing only spread to the masses in the 19th century,... |
“Penmanship exercises were done to a metronome and compared to drill training,” Tamara Plakins Thornton, author of “Handwriting in America: A Cultural History,” told the New Republic. |
Writing has always been serious business — left-handed students often had their arm strapped tightly to their bodies, so they’d learn to write with the “correct” hand. In more modern times, you may remember spending hours learning the correct stroke, formation and spacing of upper- and lower-case letters. |
But today, schools are shifting the focus to coursework in STEM — short for science, technology, engineering and mathematics. With limited hours and an increased pressure to meet higher standards, teachers are emphasizing technology and tablets and less of the written word. |
Most states began adopting a “Common Core” standards, which no longer mentions “readable printing or cursive handwriting” as a requirement. As a result, educators protested the change, and last year, 150 of them gathered in Washington, D.C. for a summit. What did they want? To keep teaching handwriting — because it hel... |
Technology has threatened writing in its various arts — calligraphy, penmanship and cursive — long before every man, woman and child carried a phone. It came with the invention of the typewriter, which standardized written communication, and that same argument will reappear as technology advances. |
I don’t know if handwriting will ever die. But today, the growing emphasis on typing is having far-reaching effects. To get a glimpse of the future, just look at the youth. Instead of curly Qs or loopy Ls, kids are sprinkling emoticons to give a personal touch. |
Typing is more democratic, too — it isn’t a complicated skill to master. Keyboards are changing the physical connection between writers and text, and people who can’t write by hand, like the blind or paralyzed, can now use tools to communicate solely by touch. |
Sure, I’ll miss the intimacy of letters, the nostalgia of cursive lessons in schools and the beautiful scrawl of a well-practiced signature written with a pen. And while some pathways in our brains will atrophy with the decline of handwriting, as Trubek noted, we’ll develop new ones as we swipe, double-click and abbrev... |
PARIS/MILAN, Oct 24 (Reuters) - Gucci owner Kering led a share price rally in the luxury goods sector on Wednesday after offering up an upbeat outlook on its Chinese clientele, countering fears of a spending slowdown amid a trade war with the United States. |
Italy’s Moncler, maker of high-end down jackets, added to the bullish assessment later in the day, pointing to “very strong demand” in the first weeks of October among a customer base that has become key to the industry, accounting for a third of all luxury goods purchases globally. |
A weakening pace of economic growth in China, against the backdrop of a trade spat between Beijing and Washington, had sparked a sell-off in recent weeks across the sector. |
While Kering and other players have argued spending by China’s young, middle class shoppers was unlikely to drop off abruptly, better-than-expected third quarter sales from the French conglomerate late on Tuesday helped drive the point home. |
Shares in Kering, which were also hit over worries Gucci was running out of steam, surged in early trading on Wednesday and closed up 4.8 percent after the Italian brand’s sales proved more resilient than expected. |
The stock market prices of rivals also edged up, including Louis Vuitton owner LVMH, the industry’s biggest conglomerate and Britain’s Burberry, which is trying to engineer a sales boost. |
“In terms of spending power, the situation is still quite sound in China. The demographics should help as well,” Jean-Marc Duplaix, Kering’s financial director, told an analyst conference call on Tuesday. |
He added Kering was if anything seeing an improvement in the retention rate of Chinese millenial customers, or those in the roughly early 20s to mid-30s age bracket, and that overall, demand had so far not dipped. |
That extended into the beginning of the fourth quarter at Gucci, Duplaix said. |
Moncler, which posted a 23 percent rise in nine month sales at constant currencies on Wednesday evening, echoed that view. |
“Chinese demand has been very strong in the third quarter, totally in line with the first half,” Chief Operating Officer Luciano Santel told an analyst conference call. Trading during China’s “Golden Week” holiday in early October had been “better this year than last”, he said. |
Not all luxury brands have benefited equally from a strong rebound in Chinese demand over the past two years, and the highly-valued sector is still vulnerable to a sell-off if concerns rear their head again. |
Kering’s Bottega Veneta handbag brand suffered more than expected in the third quarter, and others like Burberry and Salvatore Ferragamo are still in turnaround mode. |
At the core of Graveyard Keeper is an intricate corpse economy relying on precise surgery skills and a constant flow of incoming bodies. At a certain point, you’ll need to maximize your graveyard score by making sure every cadaver that goes in the ground is in the best condition possible. One way to do this is to make ... |
The other way is to make sure you remove only the right body parts during the autopsy and dissection. But at the beginning of the game, this can be somewhat of a trial and error process, one that you may not have the patience for, given the travel time between the morgue and your home. Here’s what you do. |
The corpse’s potential “score” is measured in skulls, both white and red. The white are positive, the red are negative. The goal is to change some of the red skulls to white skulls, or remove them altogether. When you first put a body up on the autopsy table, you should immediately remove the fat and the blood. This wi... |
Flesh, meanwhile, will remove a white skull, so you should avoid dissecting it from the body unless you really need it, or plan to burn the body anyway. Extracting the Skin will remove one white skull and add one red skull. Taking out the Skull will add one red skull to the body score. And the Brain, Heart, and Intesti... |
If you plan to burn the body, it doesn’t really matter what you do with the body score. However, if you want to make the most of each burial plot in the graveyard, score-wise, you’ll need to pay close attention to those white skulls to know how much each plot will potentially be worth. A plot can only have a score equa... |
Once the game really gets going and you’re doing a lot of alchemy and making potions and embalming fluids, you can alter the cadavers even further, and even reduce or halt body decay. The most valuable solution by far is the Gold Injection, which will remove two red skulls and add two white skulls when added to the cor... |
Used with autopsies, eventually you can learn how to use a balance of embalming and dissecting to create an ideal, high-scoring corpse. Once you get the Cultist perk, you can also be able to “see” the effect that each organ has on a corpse, in order to remove them more intuitively. However, be aware that the listing on... |
Remember that to get all the available Embalming Fluids in the chart below, you’ll need to at least reach Embalming Liquids III in the Tech Tree. Also remember to get the Surgeon perk in the Tech Tree so as to help maintain the quality of corpses during autopsies. |
Raymond James is bullish on Ethan Allen stock. |
Shares of Ethan Allen (ETH - Get Report) were higher by 3.62% to $30.05 on Tuesday morning, following a rating upgrade to "strong buy" from "market perform" at Raymond James. |
The upgrade comes as the firm sees fiscal 2017 yielding better results for the home furnishing company. One factor Raymond sees as a sales driver is the company's partnership with Disney (DIS - Get Report) . |
The firm has a price target of $36 on the stock. |
Ephesians 2:10 (NIV) "We are God's workmanship." |
Sandpaper people, the people who rub us the wrong way, are not only a reality of life but a gift from God. How? God has used these difficult relationships as catalysts in my life through which He has lovingly upset my comfortable plans and purposefully redirected my self-ordered steps. The results have often been chaot... |
Our son, Jered, played football all the way through college. Over the years, he endured several injuries, but as a junior in high school, Jered experienced his first surgery to repair a broken bone in his foot. The orthopedic doctor explained exactly what he would do during surgery. "First of all, I will remove the sca... |
The surgery went well and after two weeks, I took Jered in for a follow-up visit during which his foot was once again x-rayed to make sure it was healing properly. The doctor walked in, smiling and waving an x-ray in his hand. "Your foot is healing beautifully," he announced with great pride. Curious, I asked the docto... |
Seeing the look on my face, the doctor assured me that everything was fine. I was far from convinced and had a few questions that needed answering - immediately. "Is that screw supposed to look like that or did you put the wrong screw in my son's foot? Will he be able to play football? Will his foot hurt when it rains?... |
I find it interesting that all through life, the greatest strength is forged in broken places. The same is true in dealing with difficult people. God is not committed to our comfort. God is committed to creating His character within us. One way He accomplishes that goal is through the abrasive and coarse work of sandpa... |
Many times, it is through difficult relationships that we experience the most pain. Peter writes that God will "make everything right" which indicates the promise that He will take our circumstances and relationships, adjust them and make the broken pieces fit together in order to equip us for service. "Making everythi... |
Every time we are broken but allow God to do the mending, we become stronger and new life is provided. Paul was certainly no stranger to trials, pain and broken nets. "We know that these troubles produce patience. And patience produces character, and character produces hope." (Romans 5:3-4 NCV) I must admit I have been... |
Difficult relationships and the brokenness they bring can make us either bitter or better. It is our choice. We can insist on comfort and forfeit character or we can embrace the brokenness, knowing that God will use it for our good. Sandpaper people are grindstones. Whether they grind us down or polish us up depends on... |
I believe sandpaper people voice the silent prayer that someone will be strong enough to stop their vicious cycle of offensive behavior. God calls us to be that strong someone. I also believe God allows difficult relationships to form within the realm of our daily walk in order to strengthen us for the very task of lif... |
Lord, please fill my heart with Your love for the sandpaper people in my life. Please let me see them as You see them. Use them, Father; to refine me to the place that I am the woman You created me to be. I choose to thank You for the difficult relationships in my life, knowing that through these abrasive people, Your ... |
· Write down the name of a sandpaper person in your life and list five reasons you consider that person abrasive. |
· Pray for that sandpaper person. |
· Thank God for bringing that difficult person into your life. What do you believe God wants to accomplish through this sandpaper person? Are you willing to trust Him enough to praise Him for that person? |
Loving the unlovable is impossible - outside of God's power at work in us. Pray that God will give you His eyes to see the hurting and wounded He brings your way. And remember, hurt people … hurt people. Proceed with love. |
KENNELL MILLS, (near Hyndman) Apostolic Church of Jesus Christ, Pastor Henry Crissinger, 634-5287, 10 a.m. and 7 p.m., worship; Bible study, 7 p.m., Wednesday. |
BOYNTON, Rev. Garry L. Kipe, 662-4235. Sunday school, 9:30 a.m. Worship 10:30 a.m. and 6 p.m. Sunday Service. Wednesday, Bible Study 7 p.m. |
KANTNER, Rev. Marty Critchfield, 893-5221. Sunday School 9:30 a.m. Worship 10:45 a.m. and 7 p.m. Young People, Tuesday, 7 p.m. Wednesday, 7 p.m. |
NEW LIFE, Somerset, Rev. Thomas J. Kroll, 445-3892. Route 281 North, Sunday school, 9:30 a.m., Sunday worship, 10:30 a.m. and 6:30 p.m. Bible Study and "Class Power" youth group, 7 p.m., Wednesday. |
PENTECOSTAL TABERNACLE, Central City, Rev. Dave Testa, 754-5641, Sunday School 9:30 a.m., Worship 10:30 a.m. Wednesday: Youth group 7 p.m. and Bible Study 7 p.m. |
SHANKSVILLE, Rev. Sylvia Baker. 267-4090, Sunday School 9:45 a.m. Worship 10:45 a.m. Service 7 p.m. and Wednesday, Bible Study 7 p.m. |
BIBLE BAPTIST CHURCH (Independent, Unincorporated) Route 281 North of Somerset. Dr. Dale Lyzbicki, pastor, 445-7285. Sunday School 10 a.m. Worship, Preaching service 11 a.m. Sunday, and 7 p.m. Wednesday service. |
BIBLE BAPTIST CHURCH, 1337 Forest Hills Drive, Salix; Rev. Paul M. Campbell; 10 a.m., Sunday school; 11 a.m., and 6 p.m., worship; Wednesday service 7 p.m. |
GRACE, 390B W. Main St., Somerset, Pastor Tommy Brown, 443-0891, Sunday school, 9:45 a.m.; Services, 11 a.m., Sunday and 7 p.m., Wednesday. |
LAUREL HILL GOSPEL TABERNACLE (Independent Baptist), Jennerstown, (mailing address: 7415 Somerset Pike, Boswell) Rev. C.J. Ickes, 629-9081. Sunday School 9:45 a.m. Worship 10:45 a.m. and 7 p.m. and Wednesday, 7 p.m. Radio Program WVSC, Sunday 8:45 a.m. |
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