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1/7/2014 (1 year ago)
Catholic Online (www.catholic.org)
As someone who has thousands of Catholic "friends" on Facebook, I'm reminded almost daily of the fondness many ardent Catholics have for images of Christ and Mary, and other religious subjects, that fall under the species of art called kitsch. In fact, it's my observation that most of the art in America considered Catholic is kitsch. Thus, I know I am treading on thin ice by speaking critically of images that millions of Catholics hold dear.
Catholic Online (www.catholic.org)
1/7/2014 (1 year ago)
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Keywords: culture, faith and culture, Deal W. Hudson, Kitsch, Catholic Kitsch, art, Catholic art, faith and culture, Deal W. Hudson
WASHINGTON,DC (Catholic Online) - As someone who has thousands of Catholic "friends" on Facebook, I'm reminded almost daily of the fondness many ardent Catholics have for images of Christ and Mary, and other religious subjects, that fall under the species of art called kitsch. In fact, it's my observation that most of the art in America considered Catholic is kitsch. Thus, I know I am treading on thin ice by speaking critically of images that millions of Catholics hold dear.
It's quite possible, however, that someone reading this may not know that the term kitsch implies criticism, a judgement about an image's value as a work of art. The German word kitsch came into English usage a century ago to describe inexpensive, mass-produced art work marked by sentimentality, high emotion, lack of reflection, and self-congratulation. Look at the art posted by Catholics on Facebook and other Internet blogs. Look at the art hanging in most Catholic parishes, rectories, chanceries, schools, colleges, and hospitals - almost all of it qualifies as kitsch.
Perhaps you have to be a cradle Catholic to appreciate it, to associate it with your childhood in some way, your parents' or grandparents' home, your first parish or school. But sentimental association does not make a poorly made image into a valuable work of art, especially art that is intended to glorify God or inspire its viewer to prayer and holiness. Am I the only one left cold, and turned off, by these images? Am I the only one who wonders why Catholics are so moved by these images they would go to the trouble of displaying them publicly?
I'm not talking about those who post digital copies of the master painters of the sacred such as Giotto, Raphael, Da Vinci, Michelangelo, Rubens, Mantegna, Botticelli, Fra Angelico, Van Eyck, Velasquez, the Pre-Raphaelite John Collinson, or Rouault. I'm talking about images of Christ and Mary that anyone familiar with Catholicism can almost predict will be hanging in a parish narthex, a pastor's office, a chancery reception area, or the home of a pious Catholic. Why? Because these images are seen so often that you expect them to be displayed as a kind of symbolic guarantor of being genuinely Catholic.
The Czech writer Milan Kundera calls self-congratulation, the most important aspect of kitsch, as the "second tear": "Kitsch causes two tears to flow in quick succession. The first tear says: How nice to see the children running in the grass! The second tear says: How nice to be moved, together with all mankind, by children running in the grass! It is the second tear which makes kitsch, kitsch."
Catholics are particularly sensitive to symbols and are particularly prone to sentimentality regarding the Church. One follows naturally from belonging to a faith that worships liturgically and has long relied on paintings, statues, and stained glass to instruct the faithful in the basic narrative of Scripture and the saints of the Church. The other from a Church in the US that has been shaped and infused by generation after generation of immigrants from the UK, Europe, South America, Central America, and Mexico - all living in ethnic communities for several generations before dispersing into the larger culture. A shared bond holding those communities together was familiar sacred images that provoked immediate emotional recognition. In fact, the Catholic kitsch in this country can be subdivided by ethnic legacy.
What's wrong with Catholic kitsch? Nothing would be wrong with it, per se, if it wasn't treated as genuine art, worthy of our admiration, worthy of adorning church walls, worthy of the art to be displayed as representing the Catholic faith. The German writer and Catholic convert, Herman Broch, considered kitsch as a form of deception. When kitsch supplies instant comfort, it denies the complexity of what is being represented: Broch calls it a "counterfeit image" allowing someone to see only what they want to see. Kitsch obscures reality.
Broch went so far as to compare the difference between art and kitsch to the distinction between good and evil: "The Anti-Christ looks like Christ, acts and speaks like Christ, but is all the same Lucifer." Or to put it another way: Catholic kitsch may look like Christ and his Mother Mary, but it's much less than either. Why? Because kitsch supplies an easy, feel-good experience in place of what genuine, sacred art provides - a challenge, eliciting a deeper understanding, a sense of awe at the mystery of what can't be known in this lifetime. Catholic kitsch presents its figures as easily digested, non-threatening, and makes no demand on the mind or the imagination. Kitsch glorifies the superficial and treats sentimentality as holy awe.
I'm not suggesting that all Catholic kitsch be taken down from the walls and destroyed. Rather, I hope Catholics will recognize it as kitsch and stop giving it the respect it doesn't deserve.
1. Kitsch is inexpensive, mass-produced art work marked by sentimentality, high emotion, lack of reflection, and self-congratulation.
2. Catholic kitsch is the most common form of sacred art found in Catholic homes and Catholic institutions across America.
3. Kitsch reaffirms superficiality and sentimentality, retarding the deeper insights into our faith that are elicited by the master works of sacred art.
� Deal W. Hudson, Ph.D
Deal W. Hudson is president of the Morley Institute of Church and Culture, Senior Editor at Catholic Online, and former publisher and editor of Crisis Magazine.This column and subsequent contributions are an excerpt from a forthcoming book. Dr. Hudson's new radio show, Church and Culture, will begin broadcasting in February on the Ave Maria Radio Network.
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Shares of fiber optic networker Ciena (CIEN) today rose 54 cents, or 3%, to close at $19.15, after Needham & Co.'s Alex Henderson reiterated a Buy rating on the stock, and a $26 price target, writing that the company is likely to win "the lion's share" of a large metropolitan fiber contract awarded by Verizon Communications (VZ).
Henderson doesn't say where he gets his information that "VZ is poised to announce a major award," other than to say "It is our understanding."
Ciena may split the deal with Cisco Systems (CSCO), writes Henderson, but it appears to be more of a big deal for Ciena, though it may also help component vendors JDS Uniphase (JDSU) and Finisar (FNSR):
If we are correct in our assessment of the relative positioning of the players in this deployment, and we have multiple sources confirming the assessment, the deployment is likely to yield multiple hundreds of millions of revenue dollars and to contribute strongly to CY15 and CY16 growth [...] In addition to driving CIEN demand, this major metro build is the first to really punctuate the emerging conversion of the Metro market from the legacy 10/40g ring topology to 100g/200g coherent and importantly to mesh from ring topology. This requires a massive amount of ROADM technology and includes 10,000 plus ROADMs, with at least 20% of those carrying very high degrees of freedom. As JDSU and FNSR are key suppliers of the WSS/ROADM line cards, we see this as a solid positive for those two names. Broadly speaking, virtually all of the optical components companies have CIEN and CSCO as 10% plus customers.
The deal could "add hundreds of millions to the top line" for Ciena, though Henderson warns it could put pressure on gross profit margin, as "It is difficult for us to think that VZ won't get similar favorable pricing treatment" as AT&T (T) received from Ciena in recent deals. Those discounts for AT&T were a source of concern in Ciena's Q3 as they cut profit.
Shares of fiber optic networking equipment vendor Ciena (CIEN) are up 36 cents, or 1.9%, at $19.84, after Cowen & Co.'s Paul Silverstein a short while ago reiterated an Outperform rating on the shares, writing that his "checks" suggest the company is "highly likely to be selected as one of the two key suppliers for Verizon Communications's (VZ) looming 100Gbps metro optical build-out," a deal that could bring Ciena $200 million to $300 million over two years.
Ciena is up against Alcatel-Lucent (ALU) and others, and he thinks there's a chance the company will split Verizon's ultimate spend with one other company, with Ciena taking 50% to 70% of the total contract:
Based on our industry checks, we expect Ciena to be awarded one of the two seats and to gain at least 50% of the looming award. To be clear, our checks indicate that Verizon has not selected vendors for this 100Gbps metro optical build-out. That said, our checks also indicate that Ciena currently is well in front of the pack, with one of Alcatel Lucent, Coriant (private) or Fujitsu likely to be selected as the other vendor. We expect formal selection to be made by early calendar 2015 with initial deployments commencing in late calendar 2015 followed by revenue in early calendar 2016.
A win by Ciena "would at a minimum bolster our confidence in our Street high FY16 $2.8 billion revenue estimate and, more likely in our view, would drive upside to our forecast."
"In turn, we think such an award could potentially add from $0.05 to $0.12, to our FY16 EPS forecast."
Fiber optics component maker Finisar (FNSR) this afternoon reported fiscal Q2 revenue and earnings that missed analysts' estimates, and offered a lower-than-expected Q3 view as well, citing a slowing of spending by telecom operators, and also "lumpiness" in products for enterprise networks.
Revenue in the three months ending in October rose 2%, year over year, and fell 9.4% from the prior quarter, to $297 million, yielding EPS of 23 cents, excluding some costs.
Analysts had been modeling $312 million and 25 cents.
On a GAAP basis, the company lost 11 cents per share.
Sales of "datacom" products, which go into short-distance corporate networks, rose 10.5% from the prior quarter, Finisar said. Sales of telecom components for carriers fell 6.2%.
Executive chairman Jerry Rawls remarked that the company "experienced decreased demand for telecom products compared to the prior fiscal quarter, due to sluggish carrier capital expenditures."
He said sales of transceivers wireless networks "were soft as were sales to several datacom customers with lumpy order patterns."
CEO Eitan Gertel said the company was still confident about "the long term growth potential for the industry" and Finisar's "leadership position."
"We expect revenue to grow sequentially in the third fiscal quarter, primarily driven by growth in the demand for 40 gigabit and 100 gigabit transceivers for datacom applications as well as transceivers for wireless applications."
For the current quarter, the company sees revenue of $297 to $312 million, and EPS of 23 cents to 27 cents. That is below consensus for $324 million and 28 cents.
Finisar shares are down 56 cents, or 3%, at $16.44.
Shares of fiber optic networking equipment provider Ciena (CIEN) are down 12 cents, or 0.7%, at $16.43, after the company yesterday unveiled a suite of software that it says will allow service providers to offer functions such as security to customers' networks as easily as filling an online shopping cart.
Ciena also said it established a new division to accommodate the software capabilities, devoted to software development, support and marketing. The third-party "marketplace" run by the division will offer up products as software "appliances" from equipment vendors such as Brocade (BRCD).
While the Street seems to appreciate the good sense of the new offerings, there's also some skepticism from both bull and bear.
UBS's Amitabh Passi, who has a Buy rating on Ciena shares, and a $25 price target, wonders what the distinction is for Ciena, given that "virtualization" of network functionality is a broad industry trend:
The key technological achievement in these announcements appears to be Ciena's ability to integrate a potentially large number of VNF appliances into a library that's available anywhere, anytime. We expect the industry to embrace VNFs as a general concept to drive agility so it's still unclear what Ciena's and its partners' differentiation will be. Ciena said it was already engaged in trials with key customers, and described the initial response as having been "phenomenal". It believes the flexible consumption model will increase the demand for VNFs overall. While this is encouraging, we believe it's still early days and unlikely to move the revenue needle materially in the near future.
Simon Leopold of Raymond James, who has a Market Perform rating on the stock, wrote yesterday that the new offering is a continuation of Ciena's support for software-oriented networking. But he's skeptical given competition already there form Cisco Systems (CSCO) and others:
We see Ciena's objectives as admirable and aligning with the industry evolution. We are a bit more cautious regarding Ciena's ability to compete in the software centric environment because network management historically has not been a core competency; however, it has significant experience with element management and layer 1 and layer 2 protocols. Ciena could face giants such as Cisco and VMware along with Alcatel-Lucent, Juniper and focused private companies. We could see the strategy stimulating acquisitions.
J.P. Morgan's Rod Hall, who has Overweight ratings on both Ciena and on Brocade, writes today that "Brocade, in particular, could benefit from acceptance of the marketplace by gaining additional traction in carrier and enterprise environments."
Meantime, Ciena is due to report earnings results week from today, December 11th. Among previews of the quarter, Citigroup's Ehud Gelblum, who has a Neutral rating on Ciena shares, and a $22 price target, writes that he thinks the company's reliance on AT&T (T) as a customer still hangs over results:
While we continue to believe that Ciena is feeling the longer-term benefits of the 100G optical upgrade cycle and from new business with Web 2.0 customers, AT&T continues to be a large part of the Ciena story and its capex budget revision may impact Ciena near-term, despite obvious benefits down the road. Once we begin to see clear direction on North America Tier 1 carrier spending, we believe the stock should be able to march back up to our $22 PT, at 16x PE on our CY'15 est of $1.36, but with much uncertainty between now and then and the potential for further guide-downs not immaterial, we remain Neutral.
Shares of fiber-optic services provider Zayo Group Holdings (ZAYO) are down 51 cents, or 1.9%, at $26.64, after the company this morning said it would acquire 1,800 route miles of fiber optic network from Buhler, Kansas-based IdeaTek, running across Kansas and connecting 600 cell towers.
The company said the buy would advance its aim of building its domestic long-haul network. It is the company's first deal since going public on October 17th.
Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
Wells Fargo's Jennifer Fritzsche, who has an Outperform rating on Vayo stock, writes that the deal is "not a big surprise, as we expected Zayo to continue to be acquisitive as it builds out its domestic fiber network."
Fritzsche takes note of the "fiber-to-the-tower" aspect of the cell site connections, and observes that "small cell initiatives for mobile carriers" is part of that.
"We continue to believe the small cell opportunity for fiber companies is a real and tangible growth opportunity – very much in the early innings."
"Zayo currently has 60 on-net buildings with small cell connectivity and its FTTT business has 4,286 connected towers, with $7.4MM of Monthly Recurring Revenue as of CYQ3 2014."
Here are some things going on today in your world of tech:
Shares of Apple (AAPL) are up $1.14, or 1%, at $118.74, after the third day in a row of price target increases, with R. W. Baird's William Power reiterating an Outperform rating on the stock and raising his target to $129 from $112, after boosting his iPhone unit shipment outlook this quarter to 66 million from 63.7 million. That is based on checking various retail locations' availability of the newer iPhone 6.
Power's target increase follows a target increase yesterday by Stifel Nicolaus's Aaron Rakers, to $130, and an increase on Monday to $135 by Susquehanna Financial Group's Chris Caso. After crossing $700 billion in market cap yesterday for the first time, the stock has now backed off to $689.7 billion.
Shares of Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) are up $1.57, over 4%, at $39.20, after CEO Meg Whitman last night told the Street the company's fiscal Q4 report showed it is on track in year three of a five-year recovery effort, even as the company moves to break itself into two publicly traded entities this year.
While analysts this morning expressed some doubts about Whitman's contention sales are actually going to grow this year, nevertheless, the prospect of "zero day" budgeting for the two new companies, further shaving costs.
Fiber-optic services provider Zayo (ZAYO) is up $1.06, or 4.2%, at $26.60, after 12 of 12 underwriters for the company's October 17th IPO started coverage with the equivalent of Buy ratings, and price targets ranging from $27 to $34. The stock is seen as a "pure play" on surging demand for bandwidth, and a surer bet than the many "CLEC" competitive telcos who flamed out during the DotCom boom and bust.
The Federal Communications Commission's "Auction 97″ for wireless spectrum licenses continues in D.C. today, completing round 37, which brings the total of bids to $38.197 billion. Today's total was up just under 1% from the prior round.
Michael Rollins with Citigroup noted in a piece out this morning that bidding has slowed considerably. But already, even with round 35, bids were valuing the airwaves at $2.25 per megahertz for each potential customer in a market for spectrum where the uplink and downlink are paired, making them more useful. That is above estimates at the beginning of the auction. (Further auction results at the FCC Web site.)
Shares of Dish Network (DISH), which has seen its spectrum holdings rise in value throughout this auction, today are up 83 cents, or 1%, at $77.17. Another potential spectrum beneficiary, Globalstar (GSAT), is down today by 4 cents, or 1.2%, at $2.88.
Shares of storage equipment vendor Nimble Storage (NMBL) are down $1.09, or 4%, at $25.43, after yesterday afternoon beating fiscal Q3 expectations and offering an above-consensus forecast.
The drop in the shares is in stark contrast to rabidly bullish commentary from the Street. Estimates are rising, and so are pricing targets in some cases.
Richard Kugele with Needham & Co., reiterating a Strong Buy rating, and raising his target a buck to $37, is examplary, writing this morning, "With yet another quarter of robust momentum, beating top and bottom-line, we see NMBL as more reliable than the post office."
Doing somewhat better from yesterday's earnings is Infoblox (BLOX), the networking software vendor that beat lowered expectations for its Q1, and said it hired a Cisco veteran as its new CEO. Its stock is up 92 cents, or almost 6%, at $17.81. The stock got an upgrades today from Stephens & Co.'s Jonathan Ruykhaver to Overweight from Equal Weight. Writes Ruykhaver, "we believe Infoblox continues to be well positioned for growth and believe a second consecutive quarter of outperformance relative to expectations provides evidence of improvement in execution and end-market demand."
Shares of Citrix Systems (CTXS) are down 14 cents at $65.72 despite a thumbs up from Daud Khan of Berenberg, who reiterates a Buy rating today, and a $75 price target, writing that the company is a likely acquisition candidate, perhaps for Cisco Systems (CSCO). Khan emphasized "The valuation is not stretched at 6.4x recurring revenues." Although "the continued weakness in licence revenue in the desktop business is a worry," nevertheless he likes "the stabilisation of the desktop business and the improvement in operating margins going forward through both revenue mix stabilisation and cost measures."
Shares of dark fiber provider Zayo (ZAYO), which went public on October 17th at $19 per share, are up 99 cents, or 3.9%, at $26.53, after the company this morning received a unanimous 12 out of 12 initiations at the equivalent of Buy from the underwriters of the offering, who are finally free of the lock-up period on ratings.
Goldman Sachs, one of the lead underwriters of the deal, along with Barclays and Morgan Stanley, starts the stock at "Conviction" Buy, with a $30 price target. Analyst Brett Feldman writes that the stock is "a pure-play opportunity on 20%+ secular growth in data traffic expected over the next few years."
Feldman thinks the market for so-called "infrastructure-based" fiber-optic communications services can produce 7% revenue growth, compounded, through 2020. The valuation is not demanding, he thinks, writing "Our SOTP analysis suggests the market is giving little credit to revenue visibility and incremental margins of the physical infrastructure business."
"Applying a sector-average EBITDA multiple (11.2x) to Zayo's lit services, the implied valuation on physical infrastructure is 11.1x."
Morgan Stanley's Simon Flannery starts the stock at Overweight with a $28 price target, writing that the company can benefit from "the secular trend of data consumption and the ongoing wireless wars," as "Zayo owns one of the largest collections of fiber in the U.S. and primarily targets customers with heavy and complex bandwidth needs."
The company has higher margins than peers:
Consolidated adjusted EBITDA margins for Zayo are ~58%, meaningfully higher than its peers due to its focus on the higher margin products like dark fiber (~70% margins). Because it offers 8 major product sets, Zayo is not weighed down by a long list of legacy offerings. Its network scale results in 70% incremental EBITDA margins. Even if individual product margins remain flat, consolidated margins can grow due to a mix shift as the revenues of higher margin products are growing faster.
Cowen & Co.'s Colby Synesael starts the stock at Outperform, with a $32 price target, writing that "significant consolidation has rationalized pricing," and that a dark fiber business is worth more than traditional telecom services.
Synesael goes through a brief history of the boom and bust nature of the fiber optics world from the late '90s:
Between 1996 and 2000 hundreds of fiber networks (primarily long-haul) were built in the United States by a variety of local utilities, government sponsors, and individual companies [...] Competitors were offering service on the same route and to make matters worse, since many providers had a considerable amount of fiber strands they also sold dark fiber IRUs (indefeasible rights of use) to other competitors [...] By the end of 2003 much of the weaker companies' assets had been liquidated and the industry as a whole was in survival mode [...] By the end of 2007 the economy and the telecom industry in general were doing very well. At the same time the promises of the Internet that were made in the 1990s were being seen in companies like Amazon (e-commerce), Facebook (social network), and Salesforce.com (SaaS). The use of broadband (BB) had also significantly increased and businesses were now utilizing the network for a wide variety of tasks [...] Today, we no longer refer to the group of companies that offer fiber oriented data services as CLECs and instead more appropriately refer to them as bandwidth infrastructure companies [...] Today, demand for bandwidth infrastructure services is robust and is being driven by several real consumer and enterprise trends including increasing penetration/usage of mobile devices, mainstream adoption of cloud-based services, and growing viewership of on-line video [...] Despite significant consolidation there are still a few dozen pure-play bandwidth infrastructure providers in the U.S. albeit less than a dozen who generate >$25MM in EBITDA (of which Zayo is the largest).
Synesael also offers this amazing chart of M&A in bandwidth in the last five years:
Stephens & Co.'s Barry McCarver, referring to fiber optics as "critical infrastructure," gives the stock an Overweight rating, and a $32 price target, writing that "We believe this business model, emphasizing fiber as critical infrastructure, makes ZAYO a must-own stock for any Telecommunications investor."
Like Synesael, McCarver notes the important role of M&A in the industry. He points out that Zayo has had a good history of M&A, and that several potential targets remain, which would further consolidate the industry:
Shares of fiber optics component maker Oplink Communications (OPLK) are up $2.93, or almost 14%, at $24.18, after the company this morning agreed to be bought by conglomerate Koch Industries, the privately held enterprise of the Koch family, for $24.30 per share in cash, or $411.5 million.
The deal is actually being carried out by a Koch subsidiary, Koch Optics Inc., and Oplink will be managed by another subsidiary, Molex, the connector maker that Koch acquired last December.
Molex' head of business development, Tim Ruff, remarked that "Oplink will significantly expand Molex's fiber optic capabilities for technology development and new product innovation."
In a note to clients this afternoon, Mark Sue of RBC Capital Markets thinks the deal is a sign of looming consolidation in optical:
We believe the entrance of a well-capitalized buyer from outside the traditional optical space changes dynamics and may increase the pace of industry consolidation that has been foreshadowed over the past year [...] Current fab utilization rates remain low with over-capacity with optical component vendors unable to charge a premium for their innovation. Gross margins are currently weighed by competitive pressures with optical component makers willing to cut pricing to account for high fixed costs, weighing on overall industry profitability. Finisar (FNSR), we believe, may be a net consolidator of optical assets, while JDSU (JDSU) as well as smaller players like Oclaro may be net sellers of assets. A large well-capitalized competitor like Koch Industries could change industry dynamics, turning once buyers into potential sellers.
Shares of fiber-optic component and test equipment supplier JDS-Uniphase (JDSU) are up 67 cents, or 5.4%, at $13.10, after the company this afternoon reported fiscal Q1 revenue and earnings per share that topped analysts' expectations, but forecast this quarter's results below consensus.
Revenue in the three months ended in September rose 1%, year over year, to $433.6 million, yielding EPS of 13 cents.
Analysts had, on average, been modeling $417 million and 10 cents per share.
The outlook was consistent better than the company's own forecast of $405 million to $425 million, and 8 cents to 12 cents EPS, which JDS reiterated back on September 10th, when it announced it would split into two companies next year.
For the current quarter, the company is forecasting revenue of $433 million to $457 million, and EPS of 12 cents to 18 cents. That is slightly below the average estimate for $446 million and 17 cents.
Shares of fiber optic networking company Infinera (INFN) were up $1.19, or 11%, at $11.80, in late trading, after the company this afternoon beat Q3 expectations and forecast year results higher as well.
The company competes primarily with Ciena (CIEN), Alcatel-Lucent (ALU), and China's Huawei in a portion of the telecom market known as "long-haul," the big transport pipes that ship bits across nationwide carrier networks at the highest speeds.
Sprinting from the quarter's results, CEO Tom Fallon was kind enough to pay a call this evening. Fallon came to Infinera around 2004 after several years at Cisco Systems (CSCO ). He replaced CEO Jagdeep Singh in 2010.
Given that Fallon oversaw lots of acquisitions by Cisco of optical companies in the DotCom era — the $7 billion purchase of Cerent being the most prominent — and given he started out as head of engineering at Infinera, he speaks about optical like a man possessed.
"I think the things that are finally going on in software-defined networking and network function virtualization means we are finally ready for the promise of optical," he says, when I point out how many promising optical startups went bust after 2000 — Corvis, PhotonEx, Sycamore — the list is long of promising technology that flamed out.
"Optical was not economical in many cases," he says. Things like "lambda switching" — doing all the network mux and demux inside of optical waveguides — was a pipe dream. Infinera has a device that merges optics and electronics for a more cost-effective way to structure network connections of 10 gigabits to 100 gigabits per second.
The focus for the moment is something called "Cloud Xpress," a piece of transport equipment that can provide 21 terabytes of transport capacity in a single system. Fallon contends it's built for a cloud computing age, when lots of connections from the Internet of Things will transit through multiple cloud data centers, requiring massive bandwidth.
"What will make us fail, the only way we can fail, is if the demand for massive bandwidth in the cloud doesn't take off in a big way," says Fallon. "And the chances of that are close to zero."
Sometime around next year, the company may find the economics of 100-gig lasers and circuitry economical enough to move its gear into metro markets, a field thick with upward of 15 players. Leading with technology, Fallon is undaunted, and sees Infinera being one of the survivors. "Technology gets defined in the long-haul, and then it moves down to the metro," he contends.
He is clearly proud of having hung in there through more than a decade of flameouts in the biz.
"You know, the thing is, guys in optical have been around a long time," he says. "People today in engineering don't want to go into optical. They want to go work for a social startup or something like that."
"Us old guys who've been around have all this experience and knowledge to bring."
If Fallon is right, it could be the rebirth of the fiber optics craze. Maybe 2.0 will be a saner time.
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Ebeth Fielder, 23, has a simple explanation for why many people, particularly those in their 30s and 40s, owe more money on their credit cards than they have in emergency savings.
Think about it. It can take an entire year to save up around $1,000 if you're setting aside twenty bucks a week. It only takes a day to open up a credit card and rack up $1,000 in credit card debt.
Easy credit is an everyday expression; easy savings is not. About one in four Americans are living on the edge by having more credit card debt than emergency savings, according to a study by Bankrate.com.
Younger consumers are particularly challenged when it comes to trying to build savings. Many are juggling the needs of young families, the costs of old student loan debt and the temptations of more hip ways to spend money.
Fielder is the hip "spokester" for the Young & Free program that targets the 18-to-25 crowd at Michigan First Credit Union based in Lathrup Village. And she said many times people just don't realize that they can come up with money for savings in a variety of ways.
Give up the Birchbox, she says. Many young consumers love getting glam bags or monthly, personalized sample deliveries of cult brands for beauty, grooming and lifestyle products. A variety of subscription services are trending with younger consumers who easily pay $10 or $20 or $50 a month.
But after getting married and moving last year from Texas to Michigan, Fielder and her husband needed to rebuild their savings. So she cut out e-commerce subscription services.
"I realized I was wasting my money," Fielder said.
The Bankrate.com survey indicated that 13% of consumers do not have any credit card debt, which is a good thing, but they have zero emergency savings, a bad thing.
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Why do people have these things? Because they got them free from the realtor? This is so not good, and we see pictures of them all the time here. We don't see them on houzz, but houzz is effluvlius, so but... do you really need those magnets?
All it is is clutter!
I have a lot of clutter in my life. I think our fridge and the mess of magnets pretty much sum up our lives - pictures of nieces and nephews, lottery tickets that need to be checked, discount coupons for local restaurants, a card from a friend. They could all be put somewhere else, I supposed. But I don't mind them.
I guess it depends on your lifestyle. Ours is very casual, and for awhile there I had several really cute magnets on the fridge, not a lot, but ones that made me smile. I decided to take them off and I did.
Then my grandkid's were born and now they hold drawings that I am SO proud of.
Why pretend to be someone I'm not just for the sake of decorating? I'm not ashamed of them, it makes my kitchen and house feel like a home.
I don't find the fridge to be cluttered at all. We only have one life, I won't live it just to have a magazine worthy kitchen.
I used to travel a lot for work & would buy a magnet in each city (with the city name) as a cheap souvenir. When we bought a new fridge I decided not to put the magnets back up. I moved them to my office (at my job, not a home office) and put them on the side of a filing cabinet. I like them better there, and they seem to be conversation starters.
This post was edited by decordummy on Tue, May 7, 13 at 20:02
I have one. It is on the side of the fridge. It's one of those measurement equivalent things. Like a tablespoon = 3 teaspoons. DH needs it. He doesn't cook, but he does mix up insecticides for his sprayer.
I have picture frames for the grand kids art work. They get swapped out a lot as they grow. But they are displayed in their glory NOT on the fridge.
If I framed all of the grand's pictures, there wouldn't be room to sit. What is wrong with hanging a couple of pictures on a fridge, or for that matter, a few magnets?
I do agree with you that when I see a fridge full of stuff it does look messy. But so what? IMO, as long as the counters next to the fridge, and the top of the fridge are free and clear of clutter, magnets look fine.
They are clutter. In fact, a recent anthropological study into average American homes found a correlation between the amount of stuff stuck to your fridge and the amount of clutter in your lives.
They published a book, "Life at Home in the Twenty-First Century" which is fascinating reading. It also says that people spend tons of money on master bedroom "retreats" and elaborate backyards that no one spends time in, while the family bathrooms are poorly designed bottlenecks.
I have a few items stuck to my fridge which I need for ready reference -- YMCA schedule, recipe I'm using--stuff like that, but I try to keep them on the side out of sight. I thing the refrigerator stood in for a family "message center" or "hub" which more and more people are providing dedicated space for in their kitchens. There's a need.
I read that magnets don't stick to stainless steel refrigerators, but never tried it out.
Effluvlius? Never heard that word before.
The electrical panel box in this house is on the wall right inside the back door, which enters the kitchen, and it's really big. I hated having that big gray thing in my sight lines, and I also don't like stuff stuck on the fridge, which is stainless anyway.
So I had a local metal shop cut me a piece of galvanized metal a couple of inches taller and wider than the panel, bought cheap modular black metal frame components to frame it, taped a piece of linen around it with (you guessed it) duct tape, and hung it in front of the panel.
It's out of the way, convenient to the back door, easy to take down if we need to get to the panel; it grabs magnets firmly, and holds schedules, the grocery list, and whatever else seems useful.
It looks relatively nice, and makes me feel terribly clever!
Cabinet fronted fridge holds no magnets. I'm delighted. We try to limit the detritus to the desk area, using thumb tacks in the cork back splash....
Though the magnets did come in handy when I was shopping for new pots for my induction cooktop....
Years before I had a stainless fridge I decided to get rid of the refrigerator message/picture/invitation center. The visual clutter was too much for me! We went to a family notebook system, in which all school calendars, hockey game schedules, feis schedules, babysitter instructions, papers to sign--- everything was either punched with a three hole punch and put in "the notebook" or placed in the appropriate pockets in the notebook. If the kids didn't put their permission slips, teacher communications, notes from coaches, etc, into the book, they did not officially exist. Our mantra was, if it's not in writing, it didnt happen, or won't happen. No more vital paperwork falling off and sliding under the fridge or sitting in school bags. Even their teachers learned to warn my kids to "take that home and put it in the book for your mother."
One might ask why the refrigerator? However it managed to survive, society's given permission to be cluttered there, a stubbornly held onto bastion of clutter as the mainstream decorating trend for the last 20 years has relentlessly forbidden it elsewhere.
Houzz "effluvlius"? Had to look that one up in Urban Dictionary. I like it. The worst I can say about it is that it relentlessly illustrates the current uncluttered mainstream middle class decorating look and virtually nothing else.
We have a cabinet/wood panel on our fridge, so no magnets there. I am sure if I could stick magnets to it, we'd have at least a few. Our range hood, though, does hold magnets! So on one side of it, I have a small magnet featuring the recipe for Painkillers, a great cocktail we enjoyed on St. John.
At our beach house, the fridge is COVERED with magnets. Most are the plastic magnetic picture frames that contain photos of our kids as well as people who have visited us. They depict fun memories. Interspersed with those are magnets from different vacations...again, good memories. I will say, though, that I probably wouldn't tolerate that much "mess" on the fridge in my full-time house.
We have a coat closet just off the kitchen, and I use that door for the stuff many people have on the fridge door -- the family calendar, invitations, school artwork, etc.
Won't stick to my SS fridge, but I do have a bulletin board in the kitchen with family pics and reminders for dr appointments, etc. I keep that tidy looking. I also buy magnets when I travel and stick them on a metal file cab in my home office.
The only time I DON'T have magnets on my fridge are when my house is up for sale. And yes, it probably speaks to the general clutter in my home and life. I have cute ones of my kids when they were little in their baseball uniforms, I have a few special ones from Mom's fridge - childhood memories, and I have to have 3 magnetic clips. Each child has one that holds their sports schedules, music lessons and concerts, lunch menus for school, work schedules, ect. I guess I really don't care that someone else may think it looks cluttered. If my magnets make me smile and help my life to be more organized I'm going to have them.
Like decordummy, I used to pick up magnets whenever I traveled. I bagged them up when we had our last house for sale back in 2007. When we moved to this house, we got a very, VERY open floorplan. I didn't want to fridge magnets to be the first thing to draw attention when walking into the house, so they have stayed in the bag, in a drawer, since 2007. It's a little sad.
I think maybe I need to craft a piece of sheet metal in a frame to hang on the wall of the office. Then I can have all the magnets on display again, but not smack-dab in the middle of the house. In fact, I think I just figured out my weekend project. Hmmm . . .
"Tidy looking" is the key to magnets looking okay on the fridge, along with where the fridge is placed in the kitchen. Walking to my kitchen you can't even see the fridge.
So much of it depends on how cluttered the rest of the kitchen is. If there is clutter on countertops, then having a lot of magnets only makes things worse.
I don't keep any important papers or my fridge though. I'd forget to look at them. :)
When I take the magnets and notes and appointment cards off my refrigerator it looks so pretty.....and calm......
But then I would not have my reminders in my face all the time. I would forget important appointments and reminders to myself.
If it is out of sight, I won't see it. If it is in a calendar, I won't look at it.
They are like my sticky notes on the edge of my computer monitor at work. It doesn't matter how many office calendars and computer calendars I have, my reminders have to be very visual at all times.
I will have to admit, if something hangs on the refrigerator long enough, if becomes so much a part of things that I don't even notice. I forgot to go for jury duty, even though the calendar was IN MY FACE!
My life is just too programmed.
I like the fridge pretty free. I have one magnet (an initial) that is holding a small pic of a new baby (a friend's). After a while, it will come down.
I like a white board/message center type area and we use one of those. I also like as someone mentioned - a family command/control/message center. A blog I read has a good size one in the hallway to their mud room. I love it. The husband and wife both work from home, they have two children at home, etc. and they keep their calendar, notes, grocery list, etc. on this message center. It's not cluttered up with paper, etc. On our little message board, I have magnets holding up a favorite saying or two and cards for appointments, doc's number, vet number, grooming appointments, etc. It's in an out of the way area and is not cluttered with papers hanging off it, etc. The papers hanging I guess is what bothers me. We keep menus, etc. in a basket in the pantry.
Another blog I read also uses a hallway (leads to garage I believe) for hooks for her 3 children's coats/backpacks, etc. and above that hangs their artwork. Not matted, framed, etc.
I also like the pretty framed chalkboards for lists/notes, etc. among family members. My husband is great at leaving me reminder notes. LOL
I have pictures and magnets from our travels and vacations all over the refrigerator. I was about to bend to decorating pressure and clear everything off, but my 27 year old step dd came to visit with her new, serious boyfriend, and took him on a tour of the house, ending with the refrigerator magnets. I was struck by how she knew each one, it's story, and where it belonged- some of them have been there since she was little. They enjoyed going over them and laughing at old pictures. So, the magnets will stay because they make people happy, even if my fridge might be more attractive uncluttered and pristine.
Having some magnets posted on the fridge isn't bad, it's having tons of magnets and papers strewn across nearly every inch that looks and feels chaotic.
"a recent anthropological study into average American homes found a correlation between the amount of stuff stuck to your fridge and the amount of clutter in your lives."
Well I certainly don't fit that mold. My life is too cluttered to even think about tacking stuff to the fridge, lol.
Exactly what snookums said: "Having some magnets posted on the fridge isn't bad, it's having tons of magnets and papers strewn across nearly every inch that looks and feels chaotic. "
Personally, I have no desire for any magnets on my refrigerator. I can certainly understand sentimental value or amusement value in magnets though. I like the idea of putting them somewhere else, such as an office.
The word is 'effluvium'.
Now that the kids are grown, I keep a couple of nice magnets on the side of the fridge, and only use them sparingly on the front if we have an invitation for an event - it's a reminder for my forgetful husband!
My fridge is SS and they stick just fine.
the best use of magnets on the fridge that I know of, is those magnet alphabet letters when the kids are little, or the word magnets you use to create poems.
(pedant!alert!) and effluvium is a real word that doesn't have anything to do with the subject matter, to my knowledge
This post was edited by Violet.West on Wed, May 8, 13 at 19:39
Our stainless steel refrigerator does not hold magnets and I miss them. I had always had a calendar on the frig held with magnets. If it wasn't on the calendar, we didn't make the event. Now the calendar is on the inside of a cabinet and never gets looked at. In fact, I might still have a 2012 calendar there.
My favorite magnets were the A B C magnets we had when our son was small. He would sit in front on the frig while I was cooking and spell words. He started to read at 2 1/2 and I'm sure those plastic multi-color letters helped him along.
Here are options for those addicted to frig magnets and clutter and want to be free:
Hang schedules taped to the inside of a kitchen cupboard door (closest to the frig or near the back door toward the garage).
Pictures displayed in a digital frame that has a timer so it comes on during the day and can play more photos than you can shake a stick at--and way more than the frig can hold.
Kids' art work--into frames or other system, or scan and display them along with digital pictures.
Wall slots for papers that need attention or love kswl's notebook.
Appt's go into your phone calendar. Even "dumb" cell phones have that capability and will remind you x number of hrs or days ahead.
Clearing the frig door is the single most effective thing (after clearing the sink of dirty dishes) in making your house look cleaner--if you're into clean--whether you're casual or formal. :-)
I don't like the visual clutter but each to his own.
The side of the freezer in the laundry room hold my magnets and doctor appt. cards but I spent more time than any human should looking for perfect magnets. I ended up with glass "marble" magnets and the ones not being used are arranged in a perfect square.
My JennAir fridge has a glass front, so no magnets, and it has cabinets built around the sides, so no magnets. I have a bottle opener magnet that I can fit into the side between the cabinet wall and the fridge. And when my daughter's first baby was born in 2011, she sent out photo cards and I taped his picture onto the fridge. It's still there :)
I kind of miss my white fridge with the magnets, but the kitchen does look much more elegant and calm with the stainless steel one. We put on one velcro spot to attach a clip holding our calendar. I mostly use my electronic calendar, but my husband likes having the written schedule.
Fortunately, the sides are magnetic and stick out enough from the enclosure to hold the magnetic "keys" for the baby-proof latches we use. We have one on each side and a third one on the espresso machine so we never have to go far to open a latched cabinet.
Whether steel is magnetic depends on the composition. When a steel is made of just iron and carbon, the iron atoms in it can act like little magnets that all align in a consistent direction in a magnetic field so that they are attracted to a magnet.
Other elements such as chromium and nickle can be added to steel. They can improve properties such as corrosion resistance, but depending on the amount, they can inhibit the ability of the iron atoms moving to align. Then the fields of the iron atoms going every which way cancel each other out and the material isn't attracted to a magnet.
That's why some steel cookware works on induction and some doesn't. I recall mention on the kitchen forum of one stainless steel refrigerator model where some instances had magnetic doors and were non-magnetic - perhaps it depended on which factory the fridge model was manufactured at.
Some of the magnets found a home on the filing cabinets in my office which are in a closet with doors that can hide the clutter.


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