SMALLS POST TOUR BRUH-NCH
when we came back from our tour with On My Honor and The Sheds there was one thing on our mind. we experienced something amazing in Rochester, NY called a Garbage Plate (thanks The Sheds ...
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SMALLS POST TOUR BRUH-NCH
when we came back from our tour with On My Honor and The Sheds there was one thing on our mind. we experienced something amazing in Rochester, NY called a Garbage Plate (thanks The Sheds ...
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IBM disappointed investors Monday, reporting weak revenue growth again and a big charge to shed its costly chipmaking division as the tech giant tries to steer its business toward cloud computing and social-mobile services. Shares fell more than 7 percent as investors sold off sharply and the stock dragged the Dow 30 into the red.
Is it too late for IBM? Or can Big Blue weather the competition as it transforms its business for the cloud?
Remaking itself is something IBM has done many times through its long history. Starting more than a century ago in punch-card tabulators and time clocks, it grew to encompass the giant mainframe computers and Selectric typewriters of the 1960s and launched its revolutionary personal computer in the 1980s.
But by the early 1990s its early lead in personal computing was destroyed by tough competition that left it on the brink of bankruptcy. So CEO Lou Gerstner reinvented the company's mission to focus on providing technology services to businesses and government. Business soared technology and business services account for more than half of IBM's revenue today.
But the huge company 431,000 employees at last count has struggled under the weight of capital-intensive businesses as nimbler competitors led expansion into cloud services, in which software and data storage run on servers connected to the Internet rather than on computers on the users' desktops. It faces companies such as Amazon.com and Salesforce.com that already offer "software as a service" to businesses in specialized areas. That new challenge has flattened out sales for IBM's services businesses.
"While the newer strategic areas are seeing significant growth, the traditional businesses are still declining at a faster pace," Wells Fargo analyst Maynard Um wrote in a note to investors Monday.
In the third quarter, IBM reported a 15 percent drop in hardware revenue, now just 11 percent of IBM's business. Services revenue was flat when adjusting for currency-exchange effects and the sell-off of a customer care outsourcing business. Software revenue, which made up 27 percent of total revenue, slipped 2 percent.
Part of the solution for IBM is to shed some of those older businesses, what CEO Ginni Rometty calls "empty calories." Besides Monday's sale of the chip unit, earlier this month the Armonk, New York company sold its low-end server business to Lenovo Group for $2.1 billion. At the same time, it has been making new investments to catch up in cloud computing. IBM opened a new center in North Carolina last month that provides cloud services to help companies keep running in the event of a disaster. Rometty said on CNBC Monday that said growth rates for its cloud businesses are exceeding 50 percent.
The Globalfoundries and Lenovo deals make sense as a way to minimize exposure to hardware, but IBM has not shown improving momentum in software and services, said Steve Milunovich of UBS in a client note.
Rometty told CNBC that one strategy not under consideration is that pursued by Hewlett-Packard Co. splitting the company in two. She said IBM has been aggressive about changing internally.
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Channel 9 continues to search for answers after a father shot his three children and then himself at his family's Port Orange home last week.
Last week, 52-year-old David Mohney shot his three children, killing two, before turning the gun on himself at their home in the Spruce Creek Farms subdivision.
A neighbor told investigators that he took action to keep David and Cynthia Mohney's children safe as the divorce between the couple had been getting heated.
Investigators said the only surviving child, 9-year-old Lauren Mohney, remains in stable condition at Arnold Palmer Hospital, where she is in a medically-induced coma.
Autopsies said the deaths of Savanna Mohney, 14, and David Mohney, 11, were the result of gunshot wounds.
Channel 9's Karla Ray learned the Mohney's neighbor, who Channel 9 is not naming, had been holding onto David Mohney's weapons out of concern for the family.
Just recently, the neighbor gave one of those guns back to David Mohney, who said he wanted to go shooting with a friend a few weeks ago. Mohney eventually used a 9mm handgun to shoot his children, though it's unclear whether it's the weapon that was returned to him.
Early that morning, Cynthia Mohney ran to the neighbor's house begging for help, saying her husband threatened her with a gun, authorities said. The neighbor then called 911.
"This has been a real screwy damn thing. Been going on for months," the neighbor told dispatchers.
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In confirming a Wall Street Journal reported Monday, IBM said it was finally successful in getting rid of its unloved semiconductor operations. But shedding the unit comes at a cost.
IBM said it would pay investment company Globalfoundries a total of $1.3 billion (1 billion euros) within the next three years to take the chip operations off its hands.
"After months of on-again, off-again talks, IBM Chief Executive Officer Ginni Rometty finally struck a deal to jettison the chip-making unit, which has been a drag on earnings," Bloomberg reported on its web page.
Long-term partnership
Earlier reports indicated that the production of microelectronics accounted for less than 2 percent of IBM's revenue, with the division estimated to lose as much as $1.5 billion annually.
Bloomberg explained that Globalfoundries, owned by an investment arm of the government of Abu Dhabi, was taking on the unit to tap the expertise of its engineers in the fundamentals of semiconductor design and manufacturing.
In a 10-year partnership, Globalfoundries would supply IBM with Power processors in exchange for access to IBM's intellectual property.
hg/uhe (Bloomberg, Reuters, dpa)
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2014 Bledisloe Cup, In The Changing Sheds, Brisbane
Players reactions after the All Blacks clinched the 3rd Bledisloe Cup match with a converted try right on full time.
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Greek archaeologists have discovered the image of a young, red-haired goddess being swept off to the underworld inside a 2,300-year-old tomb near the ancient site of Amphipolis in northern Greece. Identified as Persephone, daughter of Zeus, the goddess portrayed on a mosaic floor provides a key new clue to what in recent months has become a much publicized mystery: Who was laid to rest in the immense, marble-walled tomb 61 miles (99 kilometers) northeast of the Greek city of Thessaloniki?
Monumental in scale and Macedonian in style, the Amphipolis tomb (also known as the Kasta tumulus) lies close to the Aegean port that Alexander the Great used for his fleet. Archaeologists have dated the tomb to the last quarter of the fourth century B.C., likely placing its construction in the fractious period following Alexander's death in 323 B.C. All this has fueled intense speculation that the tomb was built for someone close to Alexander, but clear evidence has been lacking.
Greece's Ministry of Culture and Sport announced at a news conference on Thursday that the newly discovered image of Persephone closely resembles one in a painting from the royal cemetery of Vergina, where Alexander the Great's father was buried. This discovery, noted Lena Mendoni, general secretary of the Ministry, links the Amphipolis tomb to the royal lineage of Alexander the Great. "The political symbolism is very strong," Mendoni said.
The new find is raising hope that the tomb will add another chapter to the tumultuous history of the ancient Macedonian royal house. "Without doubt," said archaeologist Katerina Peristeri, principal investigator of the Amphipolis tomb, "the deceased was extremely important."
The woman featured in the mosaic is shown with fiery red hair and dressed in a white robe. Archaeologists believe the mosaic shows the abduction of Persephone by Pluto.
Photograph Courtesy of Greek Ministry of Culture
Carried Off to the Land of the Dead
Peristeri and her colleagues discovered the Persephone mosaic as they cleared the floor of one of the tomb's inner chambers. Extending over some 145 square feet, the finely executed artwork depicts the Greek myth of the abduction of Persephone. According to the ancient story, Hades, the god of the underworld, spied Persephone, the daughter of Zeus and the harvest goddess, working in a field, and decided to make her his wife. So he captured her and took her to the underworld, where she became his queen.
The mosaic portrays Hades as a bearded charioteer carrying off the curly-haired Persephone, who looks back wistfully toward her home. Running in front of the chariot is a third figure, the messenger god Hermes, who wears a scarlet cloak and hat and a pair of winged sandals as he leads the way to the underworld.
Peristeri was unwilling to speculate on the identity of the tomb's owner based on this new evidence. But Ian Worthington, a classical scholar at the University of Missouri in Columbia, thinks the excavators could be looking at "a female occupant of the tomb, because the mosaic shows a female being led to the underworld." If this proves to be the case, Worthington added, the tomb might hold the remains of Roxane, Alexander the Great's wife, or Olympias, his mother. Both women were put to death by one of Alexander's generals, Cassander, as he secured the throne of ancient Macedonia.
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Greenville #39;s Nicholas Morrow sheds block, strips, scoops and scores
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As JK Rowling gets planning permission to construct a summer house inspired by Hagrids hut, we round up five of the best writers sheds. Take a look inside the hideouts which have inspired writers from Virginia Woolf to Henry David Thoreau
Hagrids hut is a refuge for Harry Potter, Hermione Granger and Ron Weasley in JK Rowlings popular childrens series. This still from the 2001 adaptation of Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone shows Robbie Coltrane as Rubeus Hagrid in pensive mood.
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Dylan Thomas wrote in a bike shed study perched on stilts on the cliff above the boathouse in Laugharne, Carmarthenshire, where he spent the last four years of his life. It is open to the public as part of the Dylan Thomas Boathouse.
Photograph: Rollie McKenna
Built as a garage by a previous owner, Thomas filled his word-splashed hut with pictures of Byron, Walt Whitman, Louis MacNeice, WH Auden as well as lists of alliterative words. In this 1953 photograph he wears a cast on his left arm after an accident in New York.
Photograph: Mary Evans Picture Library
Thomas wrote poems such as Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night, Over Sir Johns Hill and Poem on His Birthday inside this hut, with a view of the hills, the town of Laugharne and the Taf estuary below.
Photograph: Roy Shakespeare/LOOP IMAGES/Loop Images/Corbis
Philip Pullman at the door of the shed in his Oxford garden, which was built when his son started playing the violin. Pullman wrote all three books of His Dark Materials trilogy in this shed.
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