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"Pressure is a privilege" is one of LSU freshman starting shortstop Alex Bregman's favorite mantras.
The 18-year-old will start at one of the most important positions on the diamond Opening Day. Oh, and he's going to bat third in the batting order Friday when LSU opens up its season against Maryland.
How crazy is it for coach Paul Mainieri to start a kid who's never played an out in college? Almost as nuts as it was for him to move shortstop D.J. LeMahieu to second base so true freshman Austin Nola could take over the gap between second and third in the middle of the 2009 season.
No one questioned Mainieri after the move helped the Tigers win the College World Series. We'll have to wait and see how smart Bregman makes Mainieri look as the season progresses.
But some LSU fans have unfair expectations for what they want Bregman to be out of the gate.
To his credit, he deserves most of the preseason praise he's received thus far. Quoting the great Boobie Miles, "Hype is something that's not for real. I'm all real."
Bregman is definitely for real.
Despite missing his senior season at Albuquerque Academy, Bregman hit an out-of-this-world .678 to go along with 19 home runs as a junior. He was also the MVP of the gold medalist 18U U.S National Team at the 2011 International Baseball Federation World Championships.
LSU is lucky an injury derailed Bregman's senior campaign. If not, he would have probably been a first round pick in the 2012 Major League Baseball Draft instead of going in the 29th round. He would be donning a minor league jersey this spring instead of the purple and gold.
If the pressure from fans wasn't enough, Bregman's competitive drive is already being compared to one of the best players in LSU history by his coach.
"Tiger fans are going to love this kid and embrace him," Mainieri said Jan. 25. "He plays with the same passion as a Mikie Mahtook as a shortstop."
Consider yourself privileged, Alex. If you feel the pressure on your shoulders now, you won't want to experience it if you don't live up to the ridiculously high standards the LSU fan base has set for you.
Don't act like Bregman is Jesus walking through the door for LSU baseball. He's still true freshman who hasn't faced college pitching and will have to adjust to the new bats at the collegiate level.
With Austin Nola, one of the consistent players in LSU history, now out of the picture, there's an immense amount of strain put on Bregman at shortstop and one of the most important spots in the lineup.
Mainieri didn't want senior Raph Rhymes to bat third, despite his .431 batting average last season, nor did he give the opportunity to senior first baseman Mason Katz, who led the Tigers with 13 home runs last season. Mainieri trusts Bregman.
This is where Mainieri and LSU football coach Les Miles show similarities, making them so great at their craft.
Any given Saturday, you can see Miles trot out true freshman to cover kicks or play prominent roles on the offensive or defensive side of the ball. Mainieri and Miles have one common goal: putting the players on the field who give their teams the best chance of winning.
Nola gave Mainieri the best chance to win during the middle of the season in 2009. Now he believes Bregman will allow his team to reap the most benefits by starting him from day one.
Is he going to hit 20 home runs and bat .350? No. So don't call him a bust if he isn't an All-SEC shortstop as a freshman.
Bregman's success will be key if the Tigers plan to reach Omaha in 2013. But don't throw the kid under the bus if he doesn't put up the gigantic numbers some expect of him right away.


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Main Floor is handicap/wheelchair accessible with entry ramps at all doors including garage. Main floor bedroom has adjustable beds (2XL twins = king) with separate controlls. Bath is tilled with grab bars, adjusting shower and flat floor entry. Bidet and raised toilet. All doorways are at least 30"for wheelchair access.
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A disc assembly in a disc drive includes a hub rotatable about a central axis. Pluralities of disc elements are mounted about outer periphery of the central axis of the hub. An annular shaped disc clamp is located about a first axial end of the hub, the annular shaped clamp holding the outermost disc to the hub by a series of equally spaced fasteners along an inner diameter of the disc clamp. The improvement therein consisting of placing an offset angle on the underside, or disc-to-hub contact area. The offset angle sloping from the inner disc contact point outward to the end of the clamp such that application of pressure during clamping will make a uniform contact area along the clamp surface as the clamp fasteners are tightened to secure the clamp to the hub. This improves flatness, axial run out, reduces repeatable run out and increases reliability.
1. In a rotating disc drive assembly having a powered hub, which rotates a flat, annular disc, a clamp being used to fasten the disc to the powered hub via connecting fasteners, an improvement comprising:
said clamp having a generally annular shape with a peripheral contact surface which faces downward against an upper surface of the disc;
said peripheral contact surface having a straight line segment along a radius from a center of the hub;
said straight line segment starting from an inner edge to an outer edge of the peripheral contact surface;
said straight line segment further comprising a taper starting from the outer edge upward toward the inner edge; and
wherein when the fastener is fastened a force emanating from the fastener outbound to the outer edge of the peripheral contact surface causes the clamp to distort downward from the inner edge to the outer edge of the peripheral contact surface so as to force the inner edge in contact with the upper surface of the disc, thereby distributing the downward force on the fastener along an entire length of the straight line segment.
2. The apparatus of
3. The apparatus of
4. The clamp from
5. A clamp comprising:
a round, disc shaped body having an outer, round peripheral edge;
said body having a central hole to mate to a hub;
said body having a lower surface with a clamp to disc contact surface;
said clamp to disc contact surface further comprising a peripheral edge and an inner edge;
said clamp to disc contact surface having a straight line segment along a radius from a center of the hub to the peripheral edge;
said straight line segment having an incline angle starting at the peripheral edge and extending upward to the inner edge of the clamp to disc contact surface; and
wherein when the clamp is fastened by a fastener through the clamp into a hub, a force will emanate from the fastener outbound to the peripheral edge of the clamp to disc contact surface, wherein the force causes the clamp to distort downward from the inner edge to the peripheral edge of the clamp to disc contact surface so as to force the inner edge in contact with an upper surface of a disc, thereby distributing the force on the clamp along an entire length of the straight line segment.
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The present invention relates generally to an apparatus and improvements in such apparatus for fastening of rotating circular plates, and, more particularly, to clamping improvements to prevent a disc from being warped due to the force associated with disc clamping.
The present invention deals with disc drives. A typical disc drive includes one or more magnetic discs, which are mounted on a hub or spindle. When a plurality of discs are to be mounted on a hub, the discs are separated along the axial direction of the hub by spacers mounted between the discs. The disc, or plurality of discs, are mounted on a flange portion of the hub by a clamp apparatus. The clamping is such that the disc(s) rotate with the hub about the radial center axis of the hub. The primary method of disc clamps in prior art results in a vertical force point contact about a circumference point on the disc. This point contact can add additional warping to the disc itself.
A typical disc assembly will also include a transducer(s) that is supported by an air bearing which flies above the surface of each disc. The transducer and air bearing are typically referred to as the read/write (R/W) head. A drive controller controls the disc drive movement to allow retrieval of information from the magnetic disc (or writing of data to the disc). An electromechanical actuator operates to move the data head radially over the disc surface for track seek operations and holds the transducer directly over a track for R/W operations.
Modern high performance disc drives employ head positional servo loops. The function of the head positioning servo system within the drive is to position the read/write head over a data track with sufficient accuracy to enable reading and writing of that track without error and to position the write element with sufficient accuracy not to encroach upon adjacent tracks to prevent data erosion from those tracks during writing operations to the track being followed. In order to satisfy these requirements, the tracking system must be designed to reject disturbances. These disturbances include noise from sources such as spindle bearings, air turbulence, etc., and can be classified into two general categories, those that generate repeatable runout (RRO) and those that generate non-repeatable runout (NRRO). The term "repeatable" is used to describe periodicity on a revolution-by-revolution basis as opposed to a track-by-track basis. The response of the head positioning servo system to the RRO and NRRO sources is track miss-registration (TMR).
Embedded servo systems derive head position information from servo information interspersed within the data blocks written on a surface of a rotating magnetic disc. One advantage of employing embedded servo information is that the same head and electronics are used to read both user data and head position information. One of the major sources of RRO is the servo write process that occurs during disc drive manufacturing. The NRRO disturbance (bearing noise, air turbulence, servo writer vibration, etc.,) that occurs during servo write is essentially frozen into the written position information and becomes the RRO for the particular track.
It is known with a disc drive how to extract and correct for RRO. Embedded servo fields are recorded on disc surfaces and are used by a servo controller in accurately aligning a read/write head over a desired track.
Disc assemblies typically have air filtration systems to expunge any air borne particles at start up. Air passing through a filter will carry any minute matter into the filter to avoid disc contamination by such particles.
U.S. Pat. No. 4,885,652 dated Dec. 5, 1989 to Leonard et. al titled 'Disk Cartridge' provides an air filter and ribs incorporated into the inner surface of the cartridge, which induce the air in the cartridge to flow toward the air filters. When the disc is rotated at high speed within the cartridge, airflow induced by disc rotation is directed toward the air filters by the ribs adjacent to the outer circumference of the disc it also is employed between the disc and filter and induces internal airflow generated by rotation of the disc toward the air filter(s). The present invention will address ways of improving air flow in a hard disc device.
Clamping of the disc on the hub is done prior to derivation of the embedded servo information. Improper clamping can add to creation of additional disc warping along an annular track. Additional warping can cause the air bearing to have an inconsistent flying height above the surface of each disc effecting the head pick-up amplification. This is commonly referred to as axial run out. Point contact clamping apparatus can also affect non-operational shock tolerance of the disc assembly. Clamping that causes additional warping of the disc will also effect RRO and track squeeze. As disc drives become smaller, there is a tendency for the discs to warp into a potato chip type shape due to the required clamping force of the disc clamp to prevent any 'disc slippage'. Typical warping may be somewhat sinusoidal extending outward from the point of each fastener contact. Thus, a combination of annular point contact and fastener contact will distort the flatness of a disc in a non-uniform manner. All manufactured disc drives have drop specifications, which are a force expressed in g's. All of these factors necessitate an improvement in disc clamping.
The present invention addresses these and other problems, and offers other advantages over the prior art by improvements in a disc clamp apparatus.
The main aspect of the present invention is an improvement in the distribution of clamp-to-disc vertical holding force over a set area.
Another aspect of the present invention is to reduce disc slip.
Another aspect of the present invention is to decrease warping of the disc caused by clamping.
Another aspect of the present invention is to enhance R/W head flying height consistency, thus improving data transfer reliability and axial run out.
Another aspect of the present invention is to improve the non-operational shock tolerance of the disc assembly.
Yet another aspect of the present invention is to improve the RRO of the disc assembly.
Still another aspect of the present invention is to reduce any track squeeze due to warping of the disc.
Another aspect of the present invention is to utilize elevated ribs (or grooves) on the base housing to direct air flow towards a filter.
The present invention consists of an offset angle disc clamp apparatus that employs an outer annular, flanged contact surface with an angular offset on its clamp-to-disc contact surface. The angular contact surface extends radially inward at the clamp-to-disc contact surface at an angle of about 3� such that the outmost radial contact surface is in initial contact with the disc prior to applying torque to the clamp-to-hub fasteners. The offset angle clamp provides a disc-to-clamp interface angled (tilted) edge such that application of torque on the clamp-to-hub fasteners will result in the initial angular offset surface moving into a parallel contact surface position with the disc as torque is applied, thus resulting in an even distribution of the clamp-to-disc force.
The embodiment of the present invention provides an offset angular disc clamp comprising:
The present invention also employs raised ribs to enhance airflow induced by disc rotation, directing airflow toward the air filters by the ribs, which is located beyond the outer circumference of the disc. The result of such ribs providing a faster clean out time for any latent particles is allowing for a faster start-up time.
Other aspects of this invention will appear from the following description and appended claims, reference being made to the accompanying drawings forming a part of this specification wherein like reference characters designate corresponding parts in the several views.
Before explaining the disclosed embodiment of the present invention in detail, it is to be understood that the invention is not limited in its application to the details of the particular arrangement shown, since the invention is capable of other embodiments. Also, the terminology used herein is for the purpose of description and not of limitation.
The present invention provides an offset angle disc clamp, which is an improvement in the distribution of clamp-to-disc vertical holding force. An even distribution of the vertical holding force over a set area will reduce any disc slip. This even distribution allows improved ability of the disc assembly to withstand drop force. An even distribution of vertical holding force will also decrease warping of the disc caused by the clamping mechanism itself by avoiding an annular point-contact force. Reduced warping will enhance R/W head flying height consistency (or axial run out), thus improving data transfer reliability. A reduction in head movement while reading a track (axial run out) minimizes head movement in a vertical direction with respect to the disc surface. Reduction in axial run out will improve the signal to noise ratio of the head pickup mechanism and provide for consistent signal amplitude.
The even distribution of vertical holding force is accomplished by applying an offset angle to the annular peripheral contact surface of the clamp-to-disc surface. With the offset angle, prior to applying torque to the fasteners, only a point contact will be made at the outer peripheral surface of the offset angle disc clamp to disc surface. As the fasteners, which attach to the offset angle disc clamp to the hub, have torque applied, the outer peripheral surface will gradually move from a peripheral point contact to a distributed surface area contact. Initial measurements via use of surface flatness measurement equipment such as supplied by Zygo™ Corp. were performed to optimize both the offset angle and torque requirements. These measurements were done to compare disc surface flatness of various prior art clamping mechanisms including the clamping with zero offset angle versus use of an offset angle on the clamp peripheral annular surface. Initial measurement results showed that using an approximate 3� offset angle at the peripheral annular surface of the disc along with approximately 4 inch-pounds at each of six fasteners resulted in greater than a 2.5� improvement in surface flatness distortion over prior art clamping mechanisms. For example, typical distortion without an offset angle showed disc surface flatness in the range of about 600 to 650 micro-inches due to clamping, whereas utilization of the offset angle disc clamp of the present invention resulted in surface flatness in a range of about 200–250 micro-inches. One important factor is that the present invention not only improves surface flatness but also made it more uniform. That is, single annular tracks were basically flat. The disc flatness uniformly moved from inner to outer tracks, as does a surface of a nearly perfect conical shape. Prior art clamping resulted in flatness distortion within each single track(s). This results in significant improvements in axial distortion. Drop force tolerances also improved from about 250 g's to about 300 g's of force. In the preferred embodiment of the present invention an outer diameter of the hub is in the range of about 1.250″ with the peripheral annular surface extending in towards the hub central axis to an inner diameter of about 1.100″. Thus the annular contact surface area of the offset angle clamp-to-disc is about 0.150″ wide for a contact area of about 0.277 in2. Thus, the annular contact surface is a peripheral contact surface having a length along a radius from the center of the hub. That length (or straight line segment) in the preferred embodiment is about 0.150″. The segment starts from an inner to an outer contact edge along the radius of the hub. Carbon paper was used at the contact area interface to measure and insure even force distribution in determining the optimized torque with the 3� offset angle. Although the preferred embodiment of the present invention provides for six clamp to disc fastener points, other designs can easily be incorporated. Also, for example, three of the six fastener points may be incorporated or an alternate embodiment can employ a disc clamp with a plurality of fasteners other than six. It should also be noted that although an offset angle of about 3� is utilized as the preferred embodiment of the present invention, other offset angles could be used along with other torque and/or fastener requirements.
As aforementioned, it should be noted that prior art disc clamps resulted in inconsistent flatness measurements from an inner track to an outer track and that flatness along a track was not constant. Flatness along an annular track using prior art clamping methods was somewhat sinusoidal or random contributing to axial run out. Measurements taken with the offset angle clamp of the present invention shows that it maintains a uniform flatness along a track, thus minimizing axial run out. Not only does the present invention offset angle clamp result in consistent flatness along a track but also it minimizes flatness changes as the head moves from an inner to outer track on a disc. The resulting profile is a cone shape from the inner to the outer track. Flatness along a radial arm extending from inner to outer tracks was measured to be a uniform change with a maximum change of about 150 micro-inches.
In reducing total disc flatness (or warp) due to disc clamping, the RRO and NRRO of the disc assembly is also improved along with reduction of track squeeze. Track squeeze is defined as the track width becoming smaller in relation to the pickup head due to its warp.
The present invention also employs one or more raised rib surface(s) on the base plate (or housing) assembly. The raised rib(s) form a groove(s) and function to move airflow towards an air filter mounted on the base plate outward of the disc itself. The directed airflow can reduce start-up time of the disc by providing a quicker clean up time to trap any random particles within the base plate assembly. The rib(s) (or raised grooves) direct air flow to the filter buy providing a raised groove for about 180� in a radial direction and having the groove curved in an outward radial direction, stopping prior to the filter location. Thus air flow is moved in an outward direction to the filter as it moves in an annular-like path around and within the base assembly.
Referring now to the drawings,
Although the present invention has been described with reference to preferred embodiments, numerous modifications and variations can be made and still the result will come within the scope of the invention. No limitation with respect to the specific embodiments disclosed herein is intended or should be inferred.
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It scares me that enough people couldn't handle reading a man page that a book was written, if that is what you mean.
It scares me that enough people couldn't handle reading a man page that a book was written, if that is what you mean.
It might be fast, but their font rendering sucks and they can't get text colors right. For those two reasons alone, I stick to FF. And yes, these are known bugs that have just not been fixed.
On some level, I agree with the "just don't speed" people. The real problem is the traffic laws themselves. They are far too rigid. Rigid laws can lead to rigid enforcement, which I don't think is generally what people want to see. Unfortunately, it is easier to write a ticket for "56 in a 55" and demonstrate that "my laser gun measured it" than it is to write a ticket for something like "driving at a dangerous speed for the conditions". I guess. I don't know.
Except the original VW Beetle had a whole lot going for it even without its paint. Of course, its paint was high quality, too.
I laugh at your ID.
This about sums it up. What it tells me is that many of these folks have never produced anything in their life, much less a piece of software that people want.
Wow. People can justify anything, I guess. He is using someone's work without their permission, period, end of story. I don't care what you call it, it is morally wrong and it is illegal.
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Decimals Quick! Pick a number between 0 and 1. Place Value and Naming Hundred thousandths Hundred thousands Ten thousandths Ten thousands Ten millionths Thousandths Ten millions Hundredths Thousands Hundreds Millionths Decimal Millions Tenths Ones Tens 5 1 . 3 4 5 The number in the chart above is read "fifty-one and three hundred forty-five thousandths." Read the number before the decimal. Say "and." for the decimal. Read the number following the decimal. Add the word for the place value of the last digit. 0.04 is read 4 hundredths. 3.00013 is read "three and thirteen hundred thousandths." "Fourteen and five hundred twelve millionths" must end on the millionths place, 14.000512 Whole numbers have a decimal at the end. 23 is 23. The 3 is in the ones place and the 2 is in the tens place. Practice: Write the following in words. Use the chart above to write in the number. Find the place value of the last digit. a) 2.30007 0.034 21.000034 b) 12.00017 1.0041 0.0000074 c) 1.0101 123.321 0.12345 Practice: Write the following numbers. d) two and fifteen ten- eighty two ten thousandths thousandths e) eleven and eleven three hundred twelve millionths hundredths f) forty-five millionths seven and seven hundred seven ten thousandths g) 2 tenths One hundred one and ten thousand one hundred one millionths In money, $23.45, the 2 is worth $20 and the 4 is worth 4 tenths of a dollar. 0.02345 the 3 represents 3/1000 or three thousandths. The 5 represents 5/100000 or five hundred thousandths. Practice: State the value of the specified digit in the following number 23.4516879 4 6 5 2 7 9
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Oh, animal spirits! they've been moving the Nasdaq Composite consistently higher for months now: It ended this week up 12% for the year, closing in on the 13% return of the Standard & Poor's 500. Much of the Nasdaq's gains arrived in the last two weeks amidst some very frantic trading and eye-popping moves.
The Nasdaq's performance has even edged out the S&P's since Feb. 21, returning 7.9% to the S&P's 7.5%. I went to my calendar to check what happened on that Wednesday to prompt this period of outperformance.
The rather humble events of that midwinter day give little indication of the rally to come: Dell (ticker: DELL) had just modestly beaten earnings expectations; Microsoft's MSFT -0.49583051611449175% Microsoft Corp. U.S.: Nasdaq USD44.15 -0.22 -0.49583051611449175% /Date(1435698000330-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 34322968 AFTER HOURS USD44.17 0.0200000000000031 0.045300113250283124% Volume (Delayed 15m) : 1622416 P/E Ratio 18.319502074688796 Market Cap 359973801334.381 Dividend Yield 2.808607021517554% Rev. per Employee 737992 More quote details and news » (MSFT) next version of Windows, Windows Blue, was rumored to be reaching a "half-way" mark to becoming available; and semiconductor tool vendor Synopsys SNPS 1.503006012024048% Synopsys Inc. U.S.: Nasdaq USD50.65 0.75 1.503006012024048% /Date(1435698000000-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 1781065 AFTER HOURS USD50.65 % Volume (Delayed 15m) : 18084 P/E Ratio 32.261146496815286 Market Cap 7738841816.84419 Dividend Yield N/A Rev. per Employee 228143 More quote details and news » (SNPS) had also beaten earnings expectations.
Not exactly bracing stuff -- certainly nothing that should propel the Nasdaq from laggard to leader amidst the backdrop of bad news to come. And that was some very bad news, indeed.
Last month, research firms IDC and Gartner reported the first quarter of this year saw the worst decline in personal-computer shipments in years. Dell, moving through a battle to take itself private, released data indicating that challenges in both personal and enterprise computer sales were much tougher than anyone on the outside thought.
Meanwhile, some technology companies reporting either very early in the season or on an offset fiscal calendar gave an early indication that selling to corporations is tough at the moment, perhaps in part because of the U.S. sequester.
There was F5 Networks FFIV 0.24989587671803415% F5 Networks Inc. U.S.: Nasdaq USD120.35 0.3 0.24989587671803415% /Date(1435698000328-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 668107 AFTER HOURS USD120.35 % Volume (Delayed 15m) : 5260 P/E Ratio 25.606382978723403 Market Cap 8635436724.26452 Dividend Yield N/A Rev. per Employee 480044 More quote details and news » (FFIV) warning on April 4 that its March-ending quarter was weaker than expected because telecommunications operators were spending less and U.S. federal government spending was "down significantly."
Amazingly, technology investors took all of that and shrugged it off, even as a tepid earnings season proceeded to produce revenue just in line with expectations or, for many companies, less than the Street was hoping for.
There was Intel INTC 0.08226390259953932% Intel Corp. U.S.: Nasdaq USD30.415 0.025 0.08226390259953932% /Date(1435698000369-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 33349378 AFTER HOURS USD30.47 0.0549999999999997 0.18083182640144665% Volume (Delayed 15m) : 1062822 P/E Ratio 12.88771186440678 Market Cap 144170157104.492 Dividend Yield 3.1563373335525235% Rev. per Employee 523777 More quote details and news » (INTC) on April 16 delivering revenue merely in line with expectations, and missing on the bottom line by a penny. Google (GOOG) and Microsoft followed on April 18, both missing revenue expectations. A few days later chip-maker Texas Instruments TXN -0.019409937888198756% Texas Instruments Inc. U.S.: Nasdaq USD51.51 -0.01 -0.019409937888198756% /Date(1435698000297-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 5122413 AFTER HOURS USD51.51 % Volume (Delayed 15m) : 138140 P/E Ratio 18.73090909090909 Market Cap 53599504148.1154 Dividend Yield 2.6402640264026402% Rev. per Employee 426152 More quote details and news » (TXN) just barely beat expectations; Apple AAPL 0.7187023207259295% Apple Inc. U.S.: Nasdaq USD125.425 0.895 0.7187023207259295% /Date(1435698000735-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 43576823 AFTER HOURS USD125.39 -0.0349999999999966 -0.027905122583217062% Volume (Delayed 15m) : 793859 P/E Ratio 15.50370828182942 Market Cap 717421032113.001 Dividend Yield 1.6583615706597568% Rev. per Employee 2287920 More quote details and news » (AAPL) topped consensus estimates when it reported April 23, but not by wide margin, and the outlook for this quarter was lousy. Amazon.com AMZN 0.9840413157772298% Amazon.com Inc. U.S.: Nasdaq USD434.09 4.23 0.9840413157772298% /Date(1435698000273-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 2546341 AFTER HOURS USD434.77 0.680000000000007 0.15664954272155543% Volume (Delayed 15m) : 50532 P/E Ratio N/A Market Cap 200177627733.555 Dividend Yield N/A Rev. per Employee 596781 More quote details and news » (AMZN) followed two days later and -- you guessed it -- missed revenue estimates.
Facebook last Thursday delivered a mere 1% outperformance in first-quarter revenue, just $20 million above what had been modeled for the company.
Perhaps the pinnacle of an earnings season with little to write home about was fiber optics component maker JDS Uniphase JDSU -1.0256410256410255% JDS Uniphase Corp. U.S.: Nasdaq USD11.58 -0.12 -1.0256410256410255% /Date(1435698000225-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 3643993 AFTER HOURS USD11.58 % Volume (Delayed 15m) : 50845 P/E Ratio N/A Market Cap 2739519892.47379 Dividend Yield N/A Rev. per Employee 339216 More quote details and news » (JDSU), which last Wednesday missed quarterly revenue and profit estimates and forecast this quarter's results well below expectations as well.
BUT A FUNNY THING HAPPENED amidst all this. JDS's stock actually rose sharply in late trading upon that grim report, and rose fractionally the next day. And many of its tech brethren have surged as well, despite the rough earnings landscape.
Apple, down 15% for the year, is up 11% since its April 23 announcement that it will more than double its dividend and share repurchases to $100 billion over three years. Microsoft stock is up 22% since Feb. 21 and 16% since its earnings report.
Intel, likewise, is up 18% since Feb. 21 and 9% since its earnings report. Even more striking were some double-digit jumps in just the last week alone. Tiny networking vendor Procera (PKT) surged 27% on Friday in response to the company announcing the night before it had marginally beat revenue expectations.
Internet recommendations site Yelp YELP 1.3185778196373912% Yelp Inc. U.S.: NYSE USD43.03 0.56 1.3185778196373912% /Date(1435698162076-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 1827095 AFTER HOURS USD43.03 % Volume (Delayed 15m) : 7765 P/E Ratio 87.81632653061224 Market Cap 3176144730.8507 Dividend Yield N/A Rev. per Employee 154790 More quote details and news » (YELP) jumped 27% the day after reporting a similarly modest beat. Chip maker Advanced Micro Devices AMD 2.5641025641025643% Advanced Micro Devices Inc. U.S.: Nasdaq USD2.4 0.06 2.5641025641025643% /Date(1435698000315-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 18977448 AFTER HOURS USD2.45 0.0500000000000003 2.0833333333333335% Volume (Delayed 15m) : 403814 P/E Ratio N/A Market Cap 1820660327.50568 Dividend Yield N/A Rev. per Employee 529794 More quote details and news » (AMD), which labors in the shadow of Intel, saw a 36% rise last week despite no news whatsoever.
Sure, there are tangible signs of hope, including Friday's better-than-expected jobless claims data, and the dip in the jobless rate.
And there was the less-bad data point, also Friday morning, of nondefense capital-goods orders rising 0.9% in March, with shipments up 0.5%. I say less-bad because the Bureau of Economic Analysis' report still said that computer orders were down 26%, year over year, for the three-month period ending in March, and electronic components orders were down 9.5% in that time.
SO WHAT IS DRIVING SHARES higher amidst all this mediocre -- or downright bad -- news? It appears to be little more than frantic buyers chasing returns as the Dow worked its way up to a record 15,000 on Friday.
A whole host of guests on CNBC Friday trumpeted the return of technology as a desirable sector; one pointed out that $53 billion of inflows have come to stock mutual funds in the last 17 weeks.
Altaira Wealth Management's Ralph Acampora had a one word answer in his stint on the cable channel, when asked about what to buy: "Tech!" he said, enthusiastically, adding that semiconductors were especially worth looking at.
The technology sector's glorious springtime even roped in the fixed-income crew, with both Apple and International Business Machines IBM -0.19021905872246425% International Business Machines Corp. U.S.: NYSE USD162.66 -0.31 -0.19021905872246425% /Date(1435698054223-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 3556144 AFTER HOURS USD162.41 -0.25 -0.15369482355834255% Volume (Delayed 15m) : 41144 P/E Ratio 13.555 Market Cap 160482102614.421 Dividend Yield 3.196852330013525% Rev. per Employee 238319 More quote details and news » (IBM) able to lure buyers for bonds yielding less than those stocks' dividends.
All of which makes one wonder what, if anything, is tangible. The massive unleashing of cash by Apple, and by IBM's announcement April 30 of a $5 billion repurchase authorization, and the 12% increase in its quarterly dividend, has reminded investors of the financial firepower of the group.
Then, too, the results at Intel and Microsoft were significant, even if both companies remain weighed down by a lousy personal-computer market.
Microsoft's Windows division, excluding special one-time revenue recognition items, was basically flat with the prior-year period, not as disastrous as might have been implied by market data. Its other lines of business, morevoer, turned in decent results.
The conversation started to turn as people looked beyond the PC market. For instance, analyst Mark Moerdler with Bernstein Research, who rates Microsoft shares an Outperform, noted last week that Microsoft's revenue from "cloud computing," where Microsoft hosts software for a fee rather than selling it outright, is approaching as much as $2.6 billion.
If true, that would make the company suddenly the second-biggest cloud-computing company behind momentum darling Salesforce.com CRM -0.5285714285714286% Salesforce.com Inc. U.S.: NYSE USD69.63 -0.37 -0.5285714285714286% /Date(1435698569763-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 3497867 AFTER HOURS USD69.63 % Volume (Delayed 15m) : 62025 P/E Ratio N/A Market Cap 45888922119.1406 Dividend Yield N/A Rev. per Employee 353624 More quote details and news » (CRM).
Intel's revenue in the same quarter actually declined, but by Thursday morning of last week, the market was looking forward, not backward. Intel named chief operating officer Brian Krzanich, a 31-year veteran, to replace CEO Paul Otellini, who steps down May 16.
Given that Otellini's departure amidst a severe PC slump had cast a pall over the company, hope has sprung forth that Krzanich can lead Intel to make inroads in the market for chips that go into smartphones and tablets, where the company badly trails Qualcomm QCOM 0.015969338869370808% Qualcomm Inc. U.S.: Nasdaq USD62.63 0.01 0.015969338869370808% /Date(1435698000291-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 12405714 AFTER HOURS USD62.65 0.019999999999996 0.03193357815743254% Volume (Delayed 15m) : 291704 P/E Ratio 14.841232227488153 Market Cap 102080680751.476 Dividend Yield 3.0656235031135237% Rev. per Employee 878307 More quote details and news » (QCOM), Nvidia NVDA -0.04970178926441352% NVIDIA Corp. U.S.: Nasdaq USD20.11 -0.01 -0.04970178926441352% /Date(1435698000247-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 7773143 AFTER HOURS USD20.5 0.390000000000001 1.9393336648433614% Volume (Delayed 15m) : 124714 P/E Ratio 17.955357142857142 Market Cap 10824560451.5076 Dividend Yield 1.9393336648433614% Rev. per Employee 512540 More quote details and news » (NVDA), and others.
I'm delighted to see both Microsoft and Intel get their due for the things going right with the rest of the business.
BULLS EXPECT THE PC MARKET to rebound in the latter half of year, a perspective I view as wishful at best. The momentum in sales of tablets and smartphones continues to push out any return to growth for the PC business.
But at the same time, valuations are attractive for both: Intel trades for just 12 times next year's projected earnings, Microsoft for 11 times, and that's not counting their enormous cash balances.
The same goes for much of tech.
The lack of any top-line outperformance in many of the reports I've mentioned suggests there is vulnerability across numerous subsectors of technology, while valuations are reasonable.
Apple, of course, trades for 10 times fiscal 2014 projected earnings, not counting its cash. JDS Uniphase and its brethren such as Infinera INFN -0.14278914802475012% Infinera Corp. U.S.: Nasdaq USD20.98 -0.03 -0.14278914802475012% /Date(1435698000171-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 1291967 AFTER HOURS USD21.1984 0.218399999999999 1.0409914204003814% Volume (Delayed 15m) : 77396 P/E Ratio 91.21739130434783 Market Cap 2723400120.91614 Dividend Yield N/A Rev. per Employee 476338 More quote details and news » (INFN) and Ciena CIEN -0.04221190375685943% Ciena Corp. U.S.: NYSE USD23.68 -0.01 -0.04221190375685943% /Date(1435698276719-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 2395475 AFTER HOURS USD23.68 % Volume (Delayed 15m) : 26600 P/E Ratio N/A Market Cap 2789426531.9236 Dividend Yield N/A Rev. per Employee 454425 More quote details and news » (CIEN) fetch above-market multiples, but some of that reflects depressed estimates that could improve with the slightest sign of a pickup in spending.
The sum total, then, of these furious recent weeks of buying technolgy stocks is that investors will likely not go away in May; they will likely stay. Cheap valuations, tons of cash, rising payouts, and low expectations should continue to power tech's gains through the summer months.
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Last week I wrote that the Obama campaign should serve as a master class in winning elections for Democrats, but, unfortunately, not enough California Democrats are playing attention to the Obama campaign's most important lessons. We've dealt with the first two lessons — (1) Blame Republicans and Present a Democratic Solution, and (2) Use the Internet. The remaining two Obama inspired lessons are (3) Expand the Electorate, and (4) Champion the Middle Class. Let's tackle them now.
Tag Archive for Taxes
End California's Hostage Crisis
by Michael D. Fox •
On this morning's radio talk shows, following the early morning passage of California's budget, Democratic legislators have finally taken up the political fight against the Republicans and are urging revision of the state's dysfunctional budget process. This is a budget the GOP can be proud of, because it's a profoundly conservative budget. Because they hold a conservative veto over it. And they get the best of both worlds – they don't have to vote for the budget en masse so they don't have to own it. In short, the hijacking worked. This is the most important issue facing California – and it's time for a change.
Let California Fail
by Michael D. Fox •
Since the proposed budget is bad (too many cuts in the wrong places), why should Democrats support it? Why isn't the state Democratic Party telling the voters that this disaster has been caused by the Republicans? Why are the Democrats not seizing the ideological moment by calling this budget disaster a Republican disaster? We ought to insist now on a budget that is fair — and if that fails, we ought to go to the voters and tell them that the Republicans have caused their state government to fail.
Only then will we have the chance to get real change in California.
Local Budget Shortfalls
by Reggie Mundekis •
Here's a quick summary of the announced budget shortfalls for our local governments. Revenues are general fund revenues. Brea  - Revenues $54.8 million, Gap $2.3 million (4.2%), Revenue mix 33.3% sales and use taxes, 19.8% contract to provide police services for Yorba Linda, fees, 11.5% charges & other revenue, 10.4% property taxes Buena Park - Revenues  $56.4 million, Gap…
SacBee: Budget Deal Reached
by Dan Chmielewski •
A combination of spending cuts and tax increases have led to a deal between the state legislature and the Governor to close California's $40-billion budget gap. Details are here. But you know the tax increases will mean bitching and whining from the Republicans and Conservatives throughout California. Let's see Jon Fleischman follow through on calls…
Progressive Econ 101: Tax Theories
by Reggie Mundekis •
To say we are in an economic funk is being charitable. Unfortunately, the debate is breaking more along party lines than is really good for the country. Let's take a quick look at some of the ideas about taxes (and therefore government!) that are out there. The Classic Idea – Taxes are a Deadweight Loss…
The Gang That Couldn't Appoint Straight
by admin •
By Michael D. Fox/The Moving Target Contributing Writer During the presidential election campaign, even Barack Obama's most severe detractors conceded that he was smart, politically savvy, and had put together a team of brilliant advisors and managers. Everyone expected that President Obama would carry the cool professionalism and political acumen of his campaign into his…