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The formidable friend of the Good and defender of good sense, Phyllis Stewart Schlafly, died yesterday. May her memory be eternal!
Ann Coulter has a lovely obituary to honor that fine American woman: "Phyllis Stewart Schlafly, 1924-2016."
Steve Sailer's commentators have recently offered a few aphoristic gems from the Colombian intellectual Nicolás Gómez Dávila, to which I have added some worthies:
In philosophy, a single naive question oftentimes suffices for the whole system to collapse.
The cause of democracy's stupidities is confidence in the anonymous citizen; and the cause of its crimes is the anonymous citizen's confidence in himself.
Being a reactionary is not about believing in certain solutions, but about having an acute sense of the complexity of the problems.
I distrust every idea that doesn't seem obsolete and grotesque to my contemporaries.
For the progressive modernist, nostalgia is the supreme heresy.
The intelligent man quickly reaches reactionary conclusions. Today, however, the universal consensus of fools turns him into a coward. When they interrogate him in public, he denies being a Galilean.
Nothing is more dangerous than to solve ephemeral problems with permanent solutions.
Modern persons believe that they live in a plurality of opinions, whereas in fact what reigns today is an asphyxiating unanimity.
Stupidity appropriates with a diabolical ease whatever science invents.
In augmenting its power, humanity is multiplying its own servitudes.
The much celebrated "dominion of man over nature" resulted simply in an immense homicidal capacity.
The anarchy that threatens a degrading society is not its punishment, but its remedy.
Modern society works fervently to put vulgarity within the reach of everyone.
A simple fit of impatience often soon bridges the distance between utopia and murder.
Modernist mentality is the daughter of human conceit inflated by commercial propaganda.
Many love humanity only in order to forget God with a clear conscience.
Rather timely untimely observations, no?
A few weeks ago on my mother's birthday, anthropologist Henry Harpending died. Steve Sailer wrote a thoughtful obituary of sorts for him on Taki's Mag that also reminds us that we live in interesting times: "The Scientist vs. the SPLC." Sailer also commemorated the man on his blog by quoting Harpending's lively account of hunting Cape Buffalo: "Henry Harpending, RIP." May his memory be eternal.
I suspect that his University of Utah replacement will not follow in his footsteps. It's sad how often I have occasion to think, "Sic transit gloria mundi," but that has probably been true for most men throughout history. It's even sadder how often I wonder whether we are entering a new dark age.
When I was growing up, the adults in my world seemed pretty unanimous in thinking that defacing a dollar bill in any way was against the law. Later, I started noticing more and more writing on bills, and I eventually concluded that the illegality of defacing currency must involve counterfeiting. "Call Brandy for a good time" or "Cheeseheads Rule!" clearly are not attempts to trick anyone about the value of the bill upon which they are written. I assumed that those tut-tutting adults were just generalizing a specific prohibition from confusion. So, I read the following article on McClatchyDC about what Americans may do with their dollar bills with much interest: "Ben & Jerry's co-founder tempts Secret Service by stamping messages on money."
As I read the story, I thought about how such controversies should be the meat and potatoes of politics. For both sides (the Secret Service and StampStampede.org) have reasonable positions that are grounded in our law and traditions, though each proceeds from and focuses on a particular perspective and interest. Issues and disagreements like this are intrinsic to human society. Unfortunately, they seem so petty to us latter day Americans because our political arguments have shifted toward fundamental principles. In the Kulturkampfalter, our society debates its very understanding of the Good; the dominant American beliefs about morality and human nature are "to be decided." This is a sign of profound national sickness. In a healthy society, Ben Cohen's challenge to the Treasury would be front page news.
A blessed synaxis of the Archangel Gabriel to you!
I'd like to share a short excerpt from L. Scott Smith's essay, "America's Lost Sense of Community": "Is American Community the Result of Its Constitution?" The main point:
The truth of the matter is that America's sense of community is not now, nor has it ever been, predicated upon the Constitution. Robert A. Dahl, Yale University political science professor, notes that a constitutional system is a reflection of a people's identity and needs "to be tailored to fit the culture, traditions, needs, and possibilities of a particular country." For this reason he maintains that the American constitutional system "is probably not suitable for export to other countries." He points out that, although our Constitution and the institutions it created were in place for over a half century, the Civil War still occurred, thanks to "the extreme polarization in interests, values, and ways of life between the citizens of the slave states and those of the free states." The professor observes that he "cannot imagine any democratic constitution under which the two sections [North and South] could have continued to coexist peacefully in one country.
If the American people are the chicken and their Constitution the egg, then for Professor Dahl the chicken came first. It will not do to ascribe the sense of community ot the power of a single solitary document, even one that is foundational. A scheme of government, including a declaration of rights, is a reflection of a people's traditions, habits, mores, and customs, and arises from deep within their very soul.
The founding stock created the American regime according to their own values. Let's call that W.A.S.P. privilege. The various immigrant groups in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries brought their own ideas about community and governance, and the country transformed as a result. The New Deal depended on those New People. The drastic demographic changes of the last fifty years are having their effect, as well—slowly transforming us into the Brazil of North America. It ought not to be necessary to remind people that São Salvador looks a lot different from Boston.
Today my father told me that he had listened to an interesting lecture by Steven Pinker wherein the professor defended the American tradition of free speech. I responded by saying how sad it was that a noted intellectual has to defend the "controversial" notion of free speech in contemporary America. Yet, America today is not the America of yesteryear, and the change is not simply or even principally a matter of generational change. A people makes a nation; change the people, and you change the nation. By electing a new people, the American elite are creating a new country—what Lawrence Auster called America 2.0. I suspect that such was the plan all along—the plutocrats of Brazil have far less obstacles in controlling their fragmented society, a significant portion of which consists of habitually servile and occasionally violent halfwit proles ready to run amok when an elite faction requires a crisis that will not go to waste. How our managerial class must envy those white masters of the brown masses. As long as they can escape the occasional bloody coup and calm proletarian rage with just enough pão and carnavais (only enough to placate the mules—one wouldn't want to waste resources), they have it so much easier—without that annoying Anglo-Saxon insistence on due process or that Germanic civic engagement that complicates inside business dealing, which the Protestant types quaintly call "corruption." So, let's flood the country with hordes already tamed by the husbandry practices of oligarchic societies while we prevent a negative reaction by the natives through dishonest but effective brainwashing. As the butcher trains livestock to behave complacently to make his job easier, so the elite have convinced Americans that "diversity" is a great good—good for the butchers, that is. Divide and conquer 101. Welcome to the America of the future (or, more precisely, a possible future, which will occur unless radical measures are instituted).
Mark Christensen has an interesting article on Social Matter: "The State Reborn: Abandoning a Liberal Mythology." Christensen reviews Italian fascist criticism of liberal political theory. From the essay:
The conclusion is simple: the nature of the state is that sovereignty is conserved. Due to its role as the central sovereign power, the state – or rather, the people who make it up – must develop a common set of normative values in order to operate. Because the state cannot brook opposition to its legitimacy to rule, it must therefore promote and inculcate these values in the population. Liberalism's distinguishing feature – that it imposes no common good on its citizens – is revealed as a sham. Secularism is not neutrality; it is how the state defends the faith of Social Progress against its more mystical competitors.
As Kristor and others like to say, there is always an established religion. Contemporary Westerners, however, appear unaware of their own devotion to their tribe's sacred idols.
David Horowitz provides sage counsel for Republicans concerning the election: "How Not to Fight Our Enemies." I would like to believe that it is common sense and common decency that one ought not to indulge bullies, ne'er-do-wells, and the mob. Alas, the American media and political establishment have proven otherwise. We live in an age of wicked lies and unbelievable stupidity.
I recommend Bonald's article on the Roman Catholic prolife scene: "I'm not pro-life; I'm anti-abortion." It is characteristically sensible. Bonald raises a great point for those Seamless Garment types:
. . . No one complains that environmentalist organizations don't devote any of their attention to making health care affordable, or that the National Rifle Association has no plan to end homelessness, or that the Anti-defamation League isn't doing anything to fight pornography. There are a lot of ills in the world. Doesn't it make sense that we allow a division of labor, with multiple organizations to tackle different issues, each one drawing the support of those who–for whatever reason–feel particularly passionate about a particular issue? If someone decides to spend his life introducing lower-class kids to Shakespeare, or something like that, would we reproach him for not also having a scheme for world peace? Why, then, are we so hostile to someone wanting to devote his attention to what he believes is mass murder? In any case, it's not true that anti-abortion activists qua individuals have no interest in other issues. The question is whether anti-abortion organizations qua organizations should have such interests. I say the answer is no.
Demanding pro-life organizations take on a raft of other issues would surely compromise their main purpose. It unnecessarily divides people who agree on abortion but disagree on other issues. What's my plan for eliminating the scourge of unsupported unwed mothers? Shotgun weddings. Should I demand the folks at The Distributist Review get on board with this before we work together against abortion? Only if I don't really care much about abortion. More importantly, the original purpose of restricting abortion would quickly get sidelined by the other issues. If we can't criminalize abortion until all expectant mothers have the support they need, then criminalizing abortion has stopped being a genuine policy position and become an eschatological hope. Even if we decide to pursue both ends in parallel, abortion would quickly be dropped, because organizations would start admitting members who don't take the "pro-life" position on abortion but make up for it by being "pro-life" on many other issues.
Daniel J. Mahoney has an insightful essay in the Intercollegiate Review: "The Healthy Boundaries of Democracy." A selection:
"Progressive" thought is defined by the view that liberty and equality are unproblematic, and that the great task before democratic peoples is to maximize them, to make the world ever more "democratic" and egalitarian. The solution to the problems of democracy is said to be more democracy, as the philosopher John Dewey famously proclaimed at the beginning of the twentieth century. True democracy must move to the left, becoming ever more inclusive, tolerant, egalitarian, and relativistic. To realize the democratic ideal, we must reject antiquated truths and insist on extreme equality and unlimited personal choice (think "the right to choose" or the self-reinvention central to "gender theory"). In this view there is no such thing as loving democracy (or liberty and equality) too much.
What could possibly be wrong with such an uncompromising commitment to the "democratic" ideal? To begin with, progressivism (and extreme libertarianism) forgets the goods, habits, and traditions that make a free society cohere. Elsewhere I have called them the "conservative foundations of the liberal order." These goods—healthy family life, a moral code rooted in religion and natural law, prudent and far-seeing statesmanship, the rule of law, a respect for legitimate institutions, love of truth—were largely taken for granted by the Founders of the American republic. As the philosopher Michael Polyani put it in the 1960s, the best of the liberal tradition, including the American Founding, presupposed an "authoritative traditional framework" that could protect, nourish, and inform "the new self-determination of man." Liberalism, properly understood, presupposes the continuity of civilization. It undermines itself if it demands "liberation" from all moral restraints.
At its best, liberalism must include a self-consciously conservative dimension. Rational self-mastery and the freedom to choose, goods cherished by liberals and conservatives alike, do not mean that individuals are radically independent, that they are completely sovereign over themselves and the world. Progressivism is that crucial moment when liberalism succumbs to an ethic of absolute autonomy, when it liberates human beings from an order of nature or justice above the human will. It is that moment when liberalism subverts itself by negating the goods that truly allow it to flourish.
I considered myself a classical liberal as a teenager, but I began to reject the Anglo-American liberal tradition during my first month at college. While I value certain aspects of liberalism, I cannot see how one may have the tempered liberalism that Anglosphere "conservatives" frequently champion as the best political arrangement. Liberal regimes appear to unfold according to their basic principles, which esteem human equality and liberty and deny the existence and/or the intelligibility of the (natural) human good. Because such principles conflict with reality, liberal regimes are inherently unstable. So, the mixed regimes of nineteenth century Britain and America that the English speaking Right holds up as exemplars of strong societies were not balanced, constitutional orders but rather a stage of social decay with many admirable but fleeting qualities. History appears to confirm this insight of political theory in that there has always been a significant presence of radicals in the modern English speaking world. Consider the Unitarians of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, the multitude of sects and communes in the nineteenth century, the rhetoric and ideals put forth by abolitionists and suffragettes—indeed, there is nothing new under the Daily Kos sun. The glaring exception appears to be "homosexual 'marriage,'" as I cannot find any precedent for it before the last century. Yet, the revolutionaries have been attacking traditional Christian marriage since the misnamed Enlightenment. In every way, it seems that the wackydoodle fringes just have to wait for the larger society to "catch up" with their progressive stance. Indeed, their positions are progressive—because their features characterize a more advanced stage in liberal evolution. Leftists mistake this particular evolution for the general advance of human civilization (the existence of which I seriously doubt), but they are correct in judging the "correct side" of liberal history.
Thus, I doubt that conservatives can salvage liberalism or its pantheon, including the chief among its gods, democracy. Abandon the trap; reject the bait—hook, line, and sinker. Let us rather orient ourselves according to what sage men call perennial wisdom and swim in the currents of the ages.
Radix Journal has posted a Chronicles article by Samuel Francis from A.D. 1998, "Into the Dustbin." Francis laments the incessant infighting of the Right and attempts to find the origin of its dysfunction. He concludes that the Right is by definition the losing side of history—championed by losers. I am not convinced by his argument. "Reaction" or counterrevolution has had quite a few "successful" periods, though the leftward trajectory of the modern era is obvious enough. The strength of the essay is Francis' recognition of the importance of conserving a concrete social order:
In the United States, prior to the 1930s, it was not so [that the Right was a band of dysfunctional losers]. The Right back then was the organized political expression of a dominant social and political class, a class that sported at its top families like the DuPonts and at its bottom such happy warriors as Sinclair Lewis' George Babbitt and his friends. It was a class that dictated the tastes and manners of the day, was determined to keep immigrants out of the country, maintain the Constitution and the Free Enterprise System, put America First, preserve the white, Christian, Republican character of the nation, and crush the Bolsheviks and labor agitators wherever you could find them. As a ruling class, it was an amalgam of the Old Stock Protestant Establishment and the plutocracy that rose to national power after the Civil War. However poorly defined its ideas and however vapidly expressed its ethic, it was nevertheless a real class that really had something to conserve, and it generally knew that it could not conserve it unless it also conserved the social and cultural fabric through which it exercised social power.
In the Great Depression and New Deal, this bourgeois ruling class was effectively dislodged from social and political power. Its top ranks, if they survived at all, soon allied with the emerging managerial elites in state and corporation, and its bottom ranks, stripped of any real prospect of preserving or restoring the social order in which they had played a significant part, simply drifted. It was mainly those middle and bottom ranks of the old bourgeois elite that for the next forty years would effectively define "conservatism" and the Right as they were known to the generation between Herbert Hoover and Barry Goldwater. Unable to articulate its own ideas and values very effectively, it welcomed ideological allies in journalism and the academy that could express them, but the journalists and the academics were not for the most part of the same class or culture. Hence, the "conservatism" they defined displayed all the symptoms of rootless intellectualism and attracted all the odd and awkward personality types that could not fit anywhere else and would not fit with each other.
Once "conservatism" is decoupled from the social order and the social class that it naturally represents, it becomes simply one more ideological ghetto, angrily hunting down and kicking out those who deviate from its sectarian commandments and every now and then hurling a few mudballs at whoever passes by, and the kinds of personality it tends to attract are precisely those that are unable to work together for any serious purpose. It ceases to defend authentic tradition because authentic tradition has ceased to exist in a coherent form, and what it defends is "traditionalism." It ceases to defend authentic liberty because the rooted liberty that once pertained in the defunct social order is no longer meaningful, and what it defends is "libertarianism." It ceases to defend the people, culture, and institutions of the old order because they too have ceased to exist coherently as a fabric or have been conscripted into the new order, and what it defends is simply a pallid ghost of what was once a living civilization.
Wise words there, but the essay does not explore the vulnerability of that social order. Why did it crumble so swiftly? Was it inherently weak or contradictory, or was the fall of Old America an unhappy accident of history? Such questions are for those loser-ish intellectuals to answer, I suppose.
In surveying the past, we find that some societies disappeared through internal or external destruction, while others transformed so completely as to become something different. They all, however, came and went. One could thus argue that any previous civilization was a failure because it ceased to exist, but that is misleading because it does not provide useful distinctions between, say, the Roman polity (even given its significant evolution) and the Third Reich. One could argue that the former endured, in one way or another, for over two thousand years while the second barely made it to its second decade. Human political achievements are frail and, it seems, universally mortal. Yet, some have greater success—in temporal endurance, in human flourishing, in influence—than others. So, political study should be able to analyze the advantages and arrangements of regimes in order to distill some general political principles. With such knowledge, we might be better prepared to evaluate history's winners and losers—and to chart future paths while keeping in mind that any planned venture depends, to some extent, on fortune. But that's the sort of thing that a loser would say.


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America's high-tech companies are ramping up spending on research. That's a good sign for the country's competitiveness—and an opportunity for stock investors.
One-fifth of the companies in the Standard & Poor's 500 index spend at least 5% of their revenue on research and development, most of them information-technology or drug outfits. Among these, median research-and-development spending increased by 9% over the past year. That's triple the median increase in revenue for those companies.
Today's surging research outlays can pay off nicely for stockholders. A landmark study from Georgetown University found that during the 50 years through 2001, when R&D-intensive companies suddenly started spending more, their profit margins tended to rise one to three percentage points faster than those of peers over the following five years, and their shares tended to beat the market by five percentage points.
U.S. COMPANIES HELD a record $1.45 trillion in cash at the end of 2012, up 10% from 2011's level, according to Moody's. And while 58% of that is stashed overseas for tax reasons, that leaves a mountain of idle cash sitting stateside.
A landmark study found that during the 50 years through 2001, when R&D-intensive companies suddenly started spending more, their shares tended to beat the market by five percentage points. Stuart Goldenberg for Barron's
For their U.S. funds, corporations face a carrot and a stick. Congress currently offers generous tax credits for companies that boost R&D spending, while the Federal Reserve punishes cash-clutchers with wealth-sapping interest rates. The one-year Treasury bill recently yielded 0.14%, too little to keep up with inflation, which ran at 2% in the year through February.
That's no reason for companies to squander money, of course. For accounting purposes, research isn't treated as a long-term investment, but rather as a simple expense. Tax credits aside, a research outlay comes straight out of profits while adding nothing to a company's assets, even though it clearly creates value. In other words, it makes companies look less prosperous today before adding to their profits tomorrow.
That's where patient stock investors can make money.
Consider: Stocks with hot growth forecasts rarely come cheap. Whole Foods Market WFM 1.2138521956444126% Whole Foods Market Inc. U.S.: Nasdaq USD28.35 0.34 1.2138521956444126% /Date(1475269200541-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 5568902 AFTER HOURS USD28.4 0.05 0.1763668430335097% Volume (Delayed 15m) : 142517 P/E Ratio 19.825174825174827 Market Cap 9038093113.25225 Dividend Yield 1.9047619047619047% Rev. per Employee 172343 More quote details and news » (ticker: WFM) and Chipotle Mexican Grill CMG 0.6583794832790626% Chipotle Mexican Grill Inc. U.S.: NYSE USD423.5 2.77 0.6583794832790626% /Date(1475269322702-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 975412 AFTER HOURS USD423 -0.5 -0.1180637544273908% Volume (Delayed 15m) : 21096 P/E Ratio 62.74074074074074 Market Cap 12330625670.433 Dividend Yield N/A Rev. per Employee 68215.7 More quote details and news » (CMG) are both expected to double their earnings over the next five years. They're also twice as expensive as the typical large company, trading at about 30 times earnings.
But investors who watch for high-tech businesses with surging R&D spending can get more growth than they pay for. They effectively buy into new products or services before they're launched, or even announced, and long before Wall Street has built them into earnings forecasts. One study from the University of Illinois even found that investors can beat the market by favoring stocks with low price-to-R&D ratios, just as they might do with shares with modest price/earnings ratios.
The five companies that follow have increased their research-and-development spending by at least 15% over the past year and look reasonably priced.
A year ago, Forest Laboratories (FRX) saw its patent expire on the blockbuster antidepressant Lexapro. The effect on the company's financials hasn't been subtle. Sales for Forest Laboratories in fiscal 2013, which runs through this month, are expected to fall by one-third from the total a year earlier; earnings per share, by 90%.
The company has another patent expiration coming, for the Namenda Alzheimer's drug, in fiscal 2015. But it also has the "deepest pipeline in specialty pharma," with six drugs poised to launch over the next two years, according to Jim Molloy at Janney Capital Markets, who initiated coverage of the stock in January with a Buy rating. One of the new drugs, Linzess, for irritable-bowel syndrome, will grow into a $1 billion seller, he predicts—a big hit for a company with $3 billion in yearly sales.
Malloy expects earnings for Forest, which fetches about $38 a share, to rebound from 35 cents a share to $2.15 in two years, and cash and equivalents to swell to $14 a share in a year, with no debt.
Google stock (GOOG) has rocketed from about $650 a share in mid-November to more than $800. It now goes for 18 times this year's earnings forecast, versus 15 times for the typical U.S. stock; but the company's momentum justifies the premium price. The percentage of its searches that return lucrative product listings with images is surging, largely because Google now requires merchants to buy such ads to participate in its Google Shopping program, according to Jefferies analyst Brian Pitz.
GOOGLE'S YOUTUBE unit is running more ads, so revenue there should jump 76% this year, to $4.5 billion. Mobile revenue is soaring, too, and don't count out Google's ability to make winning handsets and tablets. When it bought Motorola Mobility last year, it inherited 12-to-18 months' worth of Motorola products in development, according to Pitz. From now on, products should show more influence from Google.
Data giant EMC (EMC) gets about half of its stock-market value from its stake in software maker VMware vmw 0.3694581280788177% VMware Inc. U.S.: NYSE USD73.35 0.27 0.3694581280788177% /Date(1475269316875-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 1005159 AFTER HOURS USD73.45 0.1 0.136332651670075% Volume (Delayed 15m) : 18147 P/E Ratio 29.576612903225808 Market Cap 31130325941.9891 Dividend Yield N/A Rev. per Employee 359053 More quote details and news » (VMW). The two recently announced they will create a new company, Pivotal, to help customers quickly make sense of vast amounts of information.
EMC is contributing its data-analytics unit, with sales of $300 million last year, which it aims to grow to $1 billion by 2017. VMware is contributing some loss-making business units to the new venture, which should improve its own margins right away, and could unlock a higher stock value for EMC, according to Shebly Seyrafi at FBN Securities.
Meanwhile, VMware has developed a new public cloud service to take on Amazon.com AMZN 0.9963210904046801% Amazon.com Inc. U.S.: Nasdaq USD837.31 8.26 0.9963210904046801% /Date(1475269200560-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 4225397 AFTER HOURS USD837.7 0.39 0.04657773106734662% Volume (Delayed 15m) : 205169 P/E Ratio 208.58181999352317 Market Cap 396946904075.442 Dividend Yield N/A Rev. per Employee 522691 More quote details and news » (AMZN), starting later this year. Revenue for EMC is expected to climb 8% this year and next. The shares go for 13 times this year's earnings forecast.
Gilead Sciences GILD 1.6182892370922168% Gilead Sciences Inc. U.S.: Nasdaq USD79.12 1.26 1.6182892370922168% /Date(1475269200524-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 10484306 AFTER HOURS USD79.39 0.27 0.34125379170879677% Volume (Delayed 15m) : 547234 P/E Ratio 6.970925110132159 Market Cap 104411341339.393 Dividend Yield 2.3761375126390294% Rev. per Employee 4019750 More quote details and news » (GILD) draws three-quarters of its revenue from HIV treatments. While these should remain lucrative for years, more diversification would make for a safer stock.
The company's purchase of Pharmasset in 2011 gives it a pipeline of drugs in development for hepatitis C. And Gilead's cancer drugs in late-stage research are underappreciated, according to Oppenheimer analyst David Ferreiro. At $45, shares of Gilead look a touch pricey relative to this year's earnings forecast of just over $2 a share. But they're plenty affordable relative to estimates of nearly $5 a share three years from now.
Intel INTC 1.152197213290461% Intel Corp. U.S.: Nasdaq USD37.75 0.43 1.152197213290461% /Date(1475269200127-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 22703253 AFTER HOURS USD37.75 % Volume (Delayed 15m) : 1576053 P/E Ratio 18.23671497584541 Market Cap 178595250000 Dividend Yield 2.7549668874172184% Rev. per Employee 527624 More quote details and news » (INTC) inked a deal last month to make "field-programmable gate arrays" for Altera (ALTR). FPGAs are workaday chips found in everything from set-top boxes to MRI machines. The ones that Intel is producing will have unrivalled speed and power efficiency, but the larger significance of the deal is that it marks Intel's expansion from a designer of proprietary chips to a high-end chip foundry for customers willing to pay up for exclusive access to cutting-edge manufacturing techniques.
If Altera's new production advantage helps it to take share from rival Xilinx XLNX 1.5890820714152178% Xilinx Inc. U.S.: Nasdaq USD54.34 0.85 1.5890820714152178% /Date(1475269200525-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 5562066 AFTER HOURS USD54.46 0.12 0.2208317997791682% Volume (Delayed 15m) : 100065 P/E Ratio 25.632075471698112 Market Cap 13774211626.813 Dividend Yield 2.42914979757085% Rev. per Employee 647731 More quote details and news » (XLNX), more chip designers could come calling on Intel for foundry work, including big fish like Apple AAPL 0.7755393118202888% Apple Inc. U.S.: Nasdaq USD113.05 0.87 0.7755393118202888% /Date(1475269200474-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 34283649 AFTER HOURS USD113.05 % Volume (Delayed 15m) : 2095457 P/E Ratio 13.20677570093458 Market Cap 609163483021.371 Dividend Yield 2.0168067226890756% Rev. per Employee 1990500 More quote details and news » (AAPL).
If all goes well, the "Intel Inside" days of personal computers could give way to a made-by-Intel model extending to all sorts of gadgets. Intel sells for 11 times this year's earnings forecast and yields 4.2%.
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R&D spending means lower profits today but fatter ones tomorrow. Patient investors can buy before Wall Street has factored the potential products into future earnings.
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Engineers: Mining bill could slow approval process
The Army Corps of Engineers told Wisconsin lawmakers last week that new mining legislation could slow environmental reviews that Republican lawmakers are trying to speed up.
The agency said that some elements of a mining bill might force the Corps to conduct its own environmental impact statement of a mining project, instead of collaborating with the State of Wisconsin. »Read Full Article(72)
Home sales, prices register double-digit gains in December
The Wisconsin housing market continued to show signs of recovery, with higher sales and sale prices in December - setting the stage for growing sales and modest price increases in 2013, according to data released Monday by the Wisconsin Realtors Association.
"As long as the economy continues to grow . . . we'll continue to see modest improvement in prices," said David Clark, who operates C3 Statistical Solutions, a consulting firm hired by the association. »Read Full Article(11)
Lakefront Brewery reports 42% increase in production
Lakefront Brewery Inc. reported a 42% production increase in 2012, packaging 33,368 barrels of beer, up from 23,576 barrels of beer in 2011.
Brewery President Russ Klisch attributed the increase to continued growth of the brewery's core brands and strong sales of the brewery's Wisconsinite beer. Klisch also credited the brewery's growth to its wholesale distributor, Beer Capitol. »Read Full Article(16)
Former NIH director Elias Zerhouni to address BioForward
Elias Zerhouni, president of global research and development for pharmaceutical company Sanofi and former director of the National Institutes of Health, will speak at a BioForward breakfast meeting in Madison on Tuesday.
Zerhouni was NIH director from 2002 to 2008. He has authored more than 200 publications, holds eight patents and has founded or co-founded five start-up companies. »Read Full Article
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Patent application title: TURNTABLE APPARATUS FOR WRAPPING MACHINE
Bruno Rossi (Rimini, IT)
IPC8 Class: AB65B1302FI
USPC Class:
100 15
Class name: Binding binder applying by rotation of material
Publication date: 2010-03-18
Patent application number: 20100064906
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Apparatus for a wrapping machine for wrapping a product with a film made
of plastics, comprising a table which rotates around a wrapping axis and
which supports the product to be wrapped, a frame provided with a
plurality of supporting wheels, which are mounted free to rotate around
respective rotating axes and which support the table, wherein the
supporting wheels are connected to the frame so that the respective
rotating axes are tiltable with respect to a supporting plane of the
1-19. (canceled)
20. Apparatus for a wrapping machine for wrapping a product with a film made of plastics, comprising a table which rotates around a wrapping axis and which supports said product to be wrapped, a frame provided with a plurality of supporting wheels, which are mounted free to rotate around respective rotating axes and which support said table, said supporting wheels being connected to said frame by respective supporting pins, so that said rotating axes substantially coincide with longitudinal axes of said supporting pins, whereinsaid supporting wheels are connected to said frame so that said respective rotating axes are tiltable with respect to a supporting plane of said apparatus; each supporting pin rotatingly supports a pair of supporting wheels, said supporting wheels being connected to respective ends of said supporting pin; and said frame comprises a plurality of seats suitable for receiving said supporting pins, each seat comprising an open slot, in particular a "U"-shaped slot, configured so as to house an annular groove of a respective supporting pin, said annular groove being equidistant from said ends of said supporting pin.
21. Apparatus according to claim 20, wherein each seat has a length that is less than a width of said annular groove to enable the respective supporting pin to be tilted with respect a said supporting plane.
22. Apparatus according to claim 20, wherein each seat has a respective width that is greater than a diameter of said annular groove to enable the respective supporting pin to be tilted with respect to an inclination plane, which is almost parallel to said wrapping axis and is almost orthogonal to said supporting plane.
23. Apparatus according to claim 20, wherein each seat has peripheral edges with a rounded shape.
24. Apparatus according to claim 20, wherein said seats are angularly spaced from one another with respect to said wrapping axis.
25. Apparatus according to claim 20, comprising a ball joint interposed between each supporting pin and the respective seat.
26. Apparatus according to claim 20, wherein said seats are made on a resting arrangement of said frame.
27. Apparatus according to claim 26, wherein said resting arrangement has a substantially annular shape.
28. Apparatus according to claim 26, wherein said resting arrangement comprises a plurality of curved and/or rectilinear flat elongated elements that are connected to one another.
29. Apparatus according to claim 26, wherein said resting arrangement comprises an annular shaped flat elongated element, in particular a calendered flat element.
30. Apparatus according to claim 26, wherein said frame further comprises a longitudinal member, fixed to said resting arrangement and supporting an actuating device arranged for rotating said table.
31. Apparatus according to claim 30, comprising a transmitting element interposed between said actuating device and a joining element rotatingly supported by said frame and connected to said table.
32. Apparatus according to claim 20, wherein each supporting wheel comprises a peripheral surface for contacting the table, said peripheral surface having a substantially spherical shape.
33. Wrapping machine for wrapping a product with a film made of plastics, comprising a rotating table apparatus according to claim 20.
[0001]The invention relates to a rotating table apparatus for wrapping
machine, in particular for a vertical wrapping machine arranged for
wrapping with a film made of cold-extendible plastics a product or a
plurality of products grouped on a platform or pallet.
[0002]In rotating-table wrapping machines of known type, the product resting on the circular table is rotated around a vertical axis so as to be progressively wrapped by an extendible film made of plastics unwound from a reel, this reel being movable in a vertical direction with reciprocating motion so as to enable the aforesaid product to be bound with crossed strips or coils of film.
[0003]Such wrapping machines comprise a base frame that rotatingly supports the rotating table or platform and to which base frame is fixed a column structure that slidably supports a vertically movable reel-holding carriage. The carriage supports the reel of plastics film and, generally, a group of unwinding and prestretching rollers arranged for unwinding and elongating the film.
[0004]The base frame has a relatively reduced height (50-80 mm), to enable the product to be placed on the table in an easy manner, and has a circular shape the dimensions thereof are substantially equivalent to those of the table. The frame comprises a central pin that rotatingly supports a coupling element to which the table is removably fixed. The coupling element and the table are rotated around the central pin by a motor through belt or chain transmitting means.
[0005]The base frame further comprises a plurality of rollers or supporting wheels, arranged regularly distributed and spaced from one another, so as to abut on a lower surface of the table so as to support the weight of the table and of the product weighing thereupon. Generally, the wheels are radially distributed, fixed to elongated or profiled elements of the base frame arranged radially from the central pin.
[0006]Each wheel is mounted idle on a respective supporting pin that engages a corresponding seat obtained in the profiled elements of the frame. The seat is shaped so as to support both the ends of the supporting pin, the wheel being fixed at the middle of the supporting pin.
[0007]In some wrapping machines, the wheels are fixed in a cantilevered manner, by respective pins, to one or more substantially circular shaped profiled elements of the base frame.
[0008]The number and the distribution of the wheels on the base frame must be such as to ensure a uniform and balanced distribution of the weight of the table and product, the product being able to reach in this type of machine values up to 2000 kg. Correct distribution of the supporting wheels is particularly important for preventing deformation and structural failures of the rotating table that, for reasons of cost and lightness, generally consists of a circular sheet metal having reduced thickness.
[0009]A drawback of known rotating tables consists of the fact that only a limited number of wheels actually supports the weight of the table and of the corresponding load, most wheels not succeeding in coming into contact with the lower surface of the table, thus remaining substantially inactive and unused. This is generally due to imprecisions and errors in the manufacturing and mounting step, which do not enable the wheels to be arranged so as to be coplanar with one another.
[0010]In addition to that, the table may not be flat following errors or defects in the construction step, or because of deformations that have occurred during use.
[0011]Following such drawbacks and defects, during operation of the wrapping machine, the table comes into contact, at each rotation, only with some supporting wheels, which are therefore particularly stressed as they support the entire load.
[0012]Vibrations and noises arise therefrom during operation that are due to the discontinuous and irregular contact of the table with the wheels and, therefore, structural mechanical stresses and localized wear occur that require components, in particular wheels and pins, to be replaced frequently, and may sometimes cause the breakage thereof, with consequent stop of the wrapping machine and an increase in running and maintenance costs.
[0013]An object of the invention is to improve known rotating table apparatuses for wrapping machines for wrapping a product with an extendible film made of plastics.
[0014]Another object is to make a rotating table apparatus that is able to support a product to be wrapped in an optimal manner, dividing uniformly and regularly the weight of the product on a frame and supporting wheels, so as to obtain operation that is silent and substantially absent from anomalous and irregular mechanical vibrations and/or stresses.
[0015]A further object is to obtain a simple and cheap apparatus to make that at the same time has a robust and reliable structure.
[0016]Apparatus for a wrapping machine (50) for wrapping a product (100) with a film (101) made of plastics, comprising table means (5) which rotates around a wrapping axis (Z) and which supports said product to be wrapped (100), frame means (2) provided with a plurality of supporting wheels (11), which are mounted free to rotate around respective rotating axes (X) and which support said table means (5), characterised in that said supporting wheels (11) are connected to said frame means (2) so that said respective rotating axes (X) are tiltable with respect to a supporting plane (T) of said apparatus (1).
[0017]Owing to the invention it is thus possible to make a rotating table apparatus for a wrapping machine that is able to support in an optimal manner the weight of the table and of a product to be wrapped. The supporting wheels, being tiltable with respect to a horizontal supporting plane, thus enable said weight to be divided in a uniform and regular manner on the frame means. In particular, the supporting wheels are fixed in pairs to respective supporting pins, each of which is housed in a respective seat of the frame means so as to be tiltable with respect to said horizontal supporting plane. In this way, during operation, each pin can be tilted, so as to enable both the respective wheels to abut on the table means below. This enables the weight of the product to be divided in a uniform and balanced manner on all the supporting pins and, at the same time, this enables a constant contact between wheels and table means to be ensured that eliminates or considerably reduces vibrations and noise during operation.
[0018]The invention can be better understood and implemented with reference to the attached drawings that illustrate some embodiments thereof by way of non-limitative embodiments, in which:
[0019]FIG. 1 is a perspective view of the apparatus of the invention, in which table means is partially shown;
[0020]FIG. 2 is a schematic top view of the apparatus in FIG. 1;
[0021]FIG. 3 is a partial and fragmentary section according to the line III-III in FIG. 2;
[0022]FIG. 4 is an enlarged view of a detail of the section in FIG. 3, highlighting supporting wheels of table means connected to frame means;
[0023]FIG. 5 is an enlarged partial top view of the apparatus in FIG. 2, showing supporting wheels connected to frame means;
[0024]FIG. 6 shows a version of the apparatus of the invention;
[0025]FIG. 7 shows a perspective schematic view of a vertical wrapping machine provided with the rotating table apparatus in FIG. 1.
[0026]With reference to FIGS. 1, 2 and 7, there is shown a rotating table apparatus 1 for a wrapping machine 50 suitable for wrapping with a film 101 made of plastics a product 100 supported and rotated around an almost vertical wrapping axis Z.
[0027]The apparatus 1 comprises frame means 2 arranged for rotatably supporting around said axis Z table means 5, which table means 5 has a substantially circular shape and is arranged for receiving the product 100 to be wrapped. The table means 5 includes, for example, a circular plate of sheet metal.
[0028]With reference to FIGS. 2 to 5, the frame means 2 comprises a plurality of shaped and/or rectilinear elements, that are suitably fixed together, for example by means of welding, so as to form a stiff reticular structure having almost the same shape as the table 5.
[0029]The apparatus comprises a plurality of supporting wheels 11 that are mounted on the frame means 2 and are free to rotate around respective rotating axes X and are arranged to abut on a lower surface 5a of said table means 5, so as to support the weight of this table means 5 and of a product 100 positioned thereupon.
[0030]The supporting wheels 11 are connected to the frame means 2 in such a manner that the respective rotating axes X are tiltable with respect to a supporting plane T of said apparatus 1. The supporting plane T is, for example, the horizontal ground plane, with respect to which the wrapping axis Z is almost orthogonal.
[0031]The supporting wheels 11 are mounted on pairs on respective supporting pins 12, so that the rotating axes X of each pair of wheels substantially coincide with the longitudinal axes of the respective supporting pins 12.
[0032]The wheels 11 of each pair are mounted free to rotate on opposite ends 12a, 12b of a respective supporting pin 12, for example through the interposing of rolling bearings 13. The external surface 11a of each wheel 11 is almost spherical in order to adapt better to the lower surface 5a of the table 5 (FIG. 4).
[0033]The wheels 11 may be made of plastics and/or synthetic material with a low friction coefficient, for example acetalic resin containing glass fibre.
[0034]The frame means 2 comprises a plurality of seats 10, each of which is arranged for receiving a respective supporting pin 12 and a corresponding pair of wheels 11. The seats 10 are suitably spaced from one another and are positioned below the table 5 to ensure a homogenous and uniform distribution of the load on all the pairs of wheels 11.
[0035]In particular, the seats 10, for example eight in number, are made angularly spaced on resting means 21, 22, 23, 24 of the frame means, said resting means comprising a plurality of flat elements 21, 22, 23, 24 connected together to form a closed loop with a substantially circular shape.
[0036]On the flat elements 21, 22, 23, 24 is provided to make a number of seats 10 that is greater than the number of the pairs of wheels necessary for supporting the table 5. In this way, in the event of unexpected wear of one or more seats 10, the supporting wheels 11 and the corresponding pins 12 can be moved to integral adjacent seats.
[0037]Each seat 10 comprises a U-shaped slot that is open above, arranged for receiving an annular groove 12c made on each supporting pin 12, at the middle thereof, that is equidistant from the opposite ends 12a, 12b.
[0038]The seat 10 has a length L1, equal to the thickness of the flat elements 21, 22, 23, 24, which is lower, for example by a quantity comprised between 0.5 and 2 mm, than a width L2 of the annular groove 12c of the corresponding supporting pin 12 (FIG. 5). In this way, said supporting pin is able to tilt, for example by an angle comprised between 1° and 10°, with respect to the supporting plane T of said apparatus 1. In this way, the supporting pin 12 is able to perform oscillations of limited size on a inclination plane A which is almost parallel to the wrapping axis Z and is almost orthogonal to said supporting plane T. FIG. 4 shows a rotating axis X of the supporting wheels 11, coinciding with the longitudinal axis of the supporting pin 12, in a position parallel to the supporting plane T and in two opposite tilted positions.
[0039]The seat 10 can be provided with peripheral edges 10a with a rounded shape for facilitating the movement of the supporting pin 12.
[0040]FIG. 6 shows an embodiment of the apparatus 1, in which it is provided that each seat 10 has a width L3 greater than an external diameter D of the annular groove 12 of the corresponding supporting pin 12, so that the supporting pin 12 can tilt with respect to the inclination plane A, that is perform oscillations of limited size on a further inclination plane B which is almost orthogonal to the wrapping axis Z and which is almost parallel to said supporting plane T.
[0041]In a further embodiment of the apparatus, that is not shown, there is provided supporting means that includes joints or ball joints interposed between the resting pins 12 and the seats 10 of the resting means 21, 22, 23, 24 to enable said pins to be tilted.
[0042]The resting means comprises two curved flat elements 21, 22 and two rectilinear flat elements 23, 24 connected together with the interposition of two longitudinal members or longitudinal profiled sections 25, 26 of said frame means 2. Alternatively, the resting means may include a single annular flat element, for example an annular calendered plate, provided with seats 10.
[0043]The longitudinal members 25, 26, parallel to one another and spaced from one another, extend radially with respect to the resting means 21, 22, 23, 24 to support at a free end thereof a plate 27 to which actuating means 40 and column means 51 are fixed, respectively for rotating the table means 5 and for slidingly supporting a reel-holding carriage 55 of the wrapping machine 50.
[0044]In particular, the actuating means 40, which for example comprises a rotating electric motor with speed reducer, is arranged for rotating, by transmitting means 41, a joining element 45. Said joining element 45 is rotatingly supported by the frame means 2 and is suitable for being removably coupled, for example by screws or bolts, to the table means 5.
[0045]The transmitting means 41 comprises, for example, a toothed chain or belt 42 wound in a closed loop on a pinion 43, which is fixed to a driving shaft of the actuating means 40, and to a gear wheel or pulley 44 fixed to, or made on, the joining element 45.
[0046]The joining element 45 is rotatingly coupled, for example through the interposition of rolling bearings, to a central supporting pin 46 of the frame means 2. The central supporting pin 46, almost coaxial to the wrapping axis Z, is fixed to a central plate 47 that connects the two longitudinal members 25, 26.
[0047]The frame means 2 further comprises further resting means 31, 32, 33, that includes, for example, a plurality of profiled elements with a "C" section, bounding an area occupied by the table means 5. Said further resting means 31, 32, 33 is connected to the longitudinal members 25, 26 and to the flat elements 21, 22, 23, 24 by connecting elements 35.
[0048]The shape and the structure of the frame means 2, i.e. of the resting means 21, 22, 23, 24, of the longitudinal members 25, 26 and of the further resting means 31, 32, 33, may change according to the dimensions of the apparatus, the material used for the construction, the dimension and weight of the products 100 to be wrapped, the rotation speed, etc. During operation of the rotating-table apparatus 1, as each resting pin 12 is free to tilt in the seat 10 thereof, the corresponding pair of wheels 11 is orientatable and can be arranged so that both the corresponding wheels 11 abut on the lower surface 5a of the table means 5. This enables it to be avoided that only a reduced number of supporting wheels 11 operates effectively because of possible imprecisions in the construction and/or the mounting of the apparatus and/or deformations of the table.
[0049]As at each seat 10 both the wheels 11 support the table 5, the weight of the table 5 and of the product 100 can be divided in a substantially uniform and balanced manner on all the supporting pins 12, which are not thus mechanically stressed in an anomalous manner. Further to this, between the wheels 11 and the lower surface 5a of the table means 5, constant contact is ensured that eliminates or considerably reduces vibrations and noise during operation, even at high rotation speed. The regular operation enables the duration of the apparatus to be increased and maintenance interventions to be reduced.
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A debate is underway as to whether Congress or a blue ribbon commission should undertake such an inquiry. During the course of my public career, I've had the opportunity to participate in public and private investigations of our political policies. I believe a case can be made for utilizing both to address near- and long-term objectives.
A joint House-Senate intelligence committee is already proceeding with a closed-door examination of our failure to anticipate or foil the September attack sponsored by Osama bin Laden. The panel is being led by highly competent, seasoned members who have a strong record of maintaining strict confidentiality of highly classified information.
It is important our sources and methods of gathering intelligence be protected. It would be impossible to establish a new panel of experts, provide the members with security clearances, acquire professional staff and set in motion the fact-gathering process in the immediate future. Therefore it is important that the joint intelligence committee establish and collate all the facts involving warnings and threats, and focus on recommendations for some immediate steps to fill clearly identifiable deficiencies. This can be accomplished in a relatively short time, provided the administration fulfills its pledge of full cooperation.
But it is also imperative we address the need to restructure our domestic and foreign intelligence apparatus so that it can operate and communicate in a time-urgent and more seamless fashion. Failure to do so would impede, if not prevent, victory in this ''long twilight struggle'' against the forces of terror.
A panel of scholars, public figures and intelligence leaders would be well-suited to undertake such an effort. Their recommendations for fundamental change and restructuring of the cultures, missions and methodologies of our intelligence agencies would prove indispensable in removing any issue of partisanship and the natural resistance of bureaucratic institutions to functional and behavioral modification. A group sponsored by the Center for Strategic and International Studies, for example, was instrumental in laying the foundation for Congress to pass the historic legislative revision of the Joint Chiefs of Staff known as the Goldwater-Nichols Act.
The American people care little for the senseless finger-pointing they see today from their elected officials. They are equally unimpressed with the attempt to silence voices of legitimate criticism with Cassandra-like forecasts of inevitable doom.
Our task is to develop the capability of our intelligence analysts to connect the fragmentary dots or tell-tale signs that reveal the names and plans of those in our midst who mean to destroy us. We have the choice and chance to do so. The question that remains is whether we have the will. ''No'' is not an acceptable answer.
Published in the Athens Banner-Herald on Tuesday, June 4, 2002.
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Flyers Rally To Tie The Wings Tommy Soderstrom And Dominic Roussel Suffered In The Net. But Brent Fedyk Prevented Disaster.
February 23, 1993
By Gary Miles, INQUIRER STAFF WRITER
The clock showed eight-tenths of a second left to play when Brent Fedyk shoved the puck past Tim Cheveldae. That's how close the Flyers came to losing last night. Trailing the Detroit Red Wings by a goal, the Flyers escaped with a 5-5 tie when Fedyk punched a loose puck in the crease past the startled Wings goaltender. The Flyers erupted in joy. The Wings were stunned. Somehow, the Flyers had flicked on the intensity at just the right moment. Playing with the desperation that comes from seeing another season slip away, the Flyers matched the mighty Wings goal for goal through the first 14 minutes at Richfield Coliseum.
Injured Fedyk Out For Playoffs
May 30, 1995
by Les Bowen, Daily News Sports Writer
Brent Fedyk's playoffs ended abruptly Friday night, with 9:26 left in the first period of the Flyers' series-clinching victory over the host New York Rangers. While his teammates celebrated gaining a berth in the Stanley Cup semifinals, Fedyk was undergoing tests in a New York hospital, tests that would reveal a crack or chip in his uppermost vertebra, putting him in a neck brace, and keeping him off the ice until training camp in September. "(Rangers forward Alexei) Kovalev hit my left skate," Fedyk said yesterday.
Fedyk Looking Great, Can Only Hope It Lasts
December 1, 1995
by Les Bowen, Daily News Sports Writer
Brent Fedyk has played in 196 games as a Flyer. For about two-thirds of those games, Fedyk has been considered a valuable, two-way presence, a versatile winger who can play either side, score the odd goal, kill penalties and play strong overall defense. For the other third of Fedyk's Flyers tenure, he has been on the bubble - coaches have found him too streaky a scorer, not strong enough on the boards, not tough enough in general. Last night, in a 3-2 victory over visiting Toronto, Fedyk scored the third- period goal that got the Flyers even - the second night in a row he'd done that.
Fedyk Makes An Impact In Return
April 7, 1995
by Les Bowen, Daily News Sports Writer
The opponent (Tampa Bay) was the same as the last time Brent Fedyk played. But everything else felt different. "When you're out for a month, nothing seems familiar out there," Flyers winger Fedyk said after contributing a goal and an assist to a 5-4 victory over the visiting Lightning last night. "The rink seems shorter, smaller and everything. The net seems smaller, too . . . The first half of the game, it seemed like the play was moving so much quicker than it actually was. You're thinking too much, is what you're doing.
Flyers Sign Winger Fedyk
June 30, 1995
By Gary Miles, INQUIRER STAFF WRITER
The Flyers signed left winger Brent Fedyk to a new contract yesterday, the terms of which were not disclosed. Fedyk said after the season ended this month that he expected to sign for a little under the NHL average salary of about $500,000 per season. An occasional favorite of Flyers coach Terry Murray, Fedyk ended his season on May 26 in Game 4 of the Eastern Conference semifinals against the New York Rangers when he was sandwiched between two players and sustained a fracture of the first cervical vertebra.
With Roussel Still Out, Beauregard In Net Again
December 5, 1992
By Gary Miles, INQUIRER STAFF WRITER
Flyers goalie Stephane Beauregard, one of the stars in Thursday's 3-2 overtime victory over the Quebec Nordiques, will make his third consecutive start tonight against the expansion Senators in Ottawa. Beauregard, pressed into continuous service because Dominic Roussel is out with a groin pull, came up with 23 saves Thursday night and lowered his goals- against average to 4.12. "It's a funny thing, being a goaltender," said Beauregard, who allowed nine goals in a 9-3 loss to the New York Islanders last Saturday.
Lindros Ailing, May Not Play Tonight
November 4, 1992
By Gary Miles, INQUIRER STAFF WRITER
Eric Lindros may miss his second straight game tonight when the slumping Flyers play the New York Rangers at Madison Square Garden. After just 20 minutes of practice, Lindros was treated yesterday for what Flyers spokesman Mark Piazza called back spasms. He had been ejected early in Saturday's 6-4 loss in St. Louis after cross-checking Nelson Emerson into the boards. Piazza said that Lindros' injury was not serious, and that he was expected to play in Saturday's game against the Blues at the Spectrum.
Klatt Bangs Out A Big Goal
February 23, 1996
by Les Bowen, Daily News Sports Writer
Trent Klatt was so excited about scoring his first goal of 1996, he fell down celebrating it. Klatt quickly regained his balance, in time to accept the hugs of teammates. "It's a great relief," Klatt said after a 5-3 victory over Washington, cradling his 18-month-old son, Trevor, who was trying to sleep. "It feels like a piano's off my back. " When Klatt expertly drilled a backhander past Washington goalie Jim Carey 4:36 into the third period, it seemed to be just one more boulder in an avalanche.
Flyers Gm Plans To Add Speed, Subtract Goalie
August 16, 1991
by Bill Fleischman, Daily News Sports Writer
When Flyers general manager Russ Farwell began his luncheon remarks yesterday with, "I don't have a great deal of things to talk about right now," listeners at Downey's restaurant had to resist blurting, "So what's new?" Farwell's first year as GM last season was not exactly littered with deals as the Flyers were excluded from the playoff party for the second consecutive season. But when he added that the Flyers "are not prepared to go into training camp the way we are right now," the trade antennae started twitching.
Flyers Short-handed Before Game Begins
January 11, 1994
By Gary Miles, INQUIRER STAFF WRITER
The Flyers will attempt to find their missing offense tonight when they play the Ottawa Senators at the Spectrum. But they probably won't be doing it with forwards Viacheslav Butsayev, Pelle Eklund and Jim Cummins in the lineup. Coach Terry Simpson said yesterday that Butsayev would serve a one-game suspension tonight for having collected his second stick-related game misconduct penalty this season. Butsayev, a center, was ejected from Saturday's 4-2 loss to Tampa Bay for spearing.
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July 2, 2011
By FRANK SERAVALLI, email@example.com
IT WASN'T Mikael Renberg, or Karl Dykhuis or even Brent Fedyk. But it was a blast from the past. And that blast ended up being one of the biggest splashes on a Free Agency Friday Frenzy that saw nearly $300 million doled out to more than 60 players as the Flyers continued to revamp their drastically different roster. Yesterday, the Flyers signed former Hart Trophy winner Jaromir Jagr to a 1-year, $3.3 million deal, snatching the right winger out from under the Pittsburgh Penguins and Detroit Red Wings, who were long thought to be the front-runners for his services.
Rod Riplen Rod Wears Iron-man Mettle Brind'amour's Streak Of 430 Straight Leads League, Is Testament To Strength
December 16, 1998
by Les Bowen, Daily News Sports Writer
Rod Brind'Amour thinks the subject is just plain silly. Why make a big deal of the fact Brind'Amour has played in 430 successive games, the NHL's longest current iron-man streak? You might as well congratulate him for breathing, or for not walking around barefoot in wintertime. He's supposed to play. He's getting paid $3.5 million this season to play. He enjoys playing. So he plays. "That's what they pay you for; they don't pay you to practice, they pay you to play," Brind'Amour pointed out the other day. "This, to me, isn't all that big a deal . . . You guys ask the same questions, everywhere I go. It's more a pain in the [butt]
Killer Beez Vanbiesbrouck Shuts Out Rangers, 1-0, In Flyers Debut Savor The `Savior'
October 10, 1998
by Les Bowen, Daily News Sports Writer
Flyers defenseman Eric Desjardins, marooned in a desolate locker room with a few dozen reporters who wanted to go over every detail of the Flyers' season-opening victory, broke into a broad grin. He had just seen the man of the hour, new goalie John Vanbiesbrouck, padding resolutely toward the throng. "Oh, boy," Desjardins sighed. "A savior. " That certainly is the idea. We'll need several dozen more games to know for sure. The Beezer era opened with a shutout in Madison Square Garden, an intense if fumble-fingered 1-0 victory over the New York Rangers.
Flyers Revel In Newfound Depth After Dimming Penguins' Glitter
February 19, 1997
By Tim Panaccio, INQUIRER STAFF WRITER
They have speed and an abundance of size to go with it. They can finesse or fight or grind the opposition down. They have the third-period grit they so sorely lacked a season ago. Yet the one tangible element that makes the Flyers a legitimate Stanley Cup contender was never more evident than it was over the weekend when they undressed the star-studded Pittsburgh Penguins - depth. The Flyers exposed the Penguins' lack of depth while humiliating them with their own. Playing without five regulars, including their top two centers, Eric Lindros and Dale Hawerchuk, the Flyers outscored the highest-scoring team in hockey by 11-3 with guys like Trent Klatt, John Druce and Pat Falloon, none of whom is a household name around the NHL. "Clarkie has put together an organization with trades, free agency and drafting that speaks very loudly of the job he's done," Flyers coach Terry Murray said of his boss, general manager Bob Clarke.
Surprisingly, Klatt Proving Net Worth
February 17, 1997
by Les Bowen, Daily News Sports Writer
Less than five months ago, Trent Klatt was available in the NHL waiver draft. Nobody took him. The Flyers, who had the richest unprotected list in the league, lost forwards Rob DiMaio and Bob Corkum that day in late September. But not one NHL team thought it needed Klatt, a banging winger who had scored just three goals in 49 Flyers games last season after coming from Dallas in a trade for Brent Fedyk. This morning, Klatt has 17 goals, to go with his 17 assists. On the Flyers this season, only John LeClair (35)
Klatt Turning Out To Be Good Deal For Flyers
January 22, 1997
by Edward Moran, Daily News Sports Writer
The way Dallas coach Ken Hitchcock figures, the Flyers got the best of the Trent Klatt for Brent Fedyk trade. Even though Hitchcock doesn't remember much about Klatt as a player in the Dallas system, he does know that he is having the best year of his career and that Fedyk, mostly because of injuries, hasn't played at all for Dallas. "It's been a big disappointment for us," Hitchcock said of Fedyk. For the Flyers, Klatt has been the opposite. In his second season since arriving in the December 1995 trade, Klatt has earned a permanent spot among the Flyers regulars.
Klatt Signs Contract, Will Stay With Flyers
July 19, 1996
Flyers left winger Trent Klatt signed a two-year contract yesterday believed to be worth about $962,000. Acquired in a mid-December trade with Dallas for Brent Fedyk, Klatt saw a lot of time on the club's third line with center Joel Otto and left wing Shjon Podein last season. He finished with three goals and 11 points in 49 games as a Flyer during the regular season and had four goals and one assist in the playoffs. "Trent made it clear Philadelphia is where he wanted to play," said Jeff Solomon, the agent who negotiated the deal.
Klatt Takes Fifth, Talks About It Trent Gets Revenge After Bottle To The Head
May 8, 1996
by Les Bowen, Daily News Sports Writer
The bristly, reddish playoff beard suits Trent Klatt's face, gives it character and definition. Likewise, the playoffs have brought Klatt's game into focus. He was just another anonymous grinder through most of the regular season, scoring three goals in 49 Flyers games after coming from Dallas in a December trade for Brent Fedyk. Last night, Klatt scored his fourth goal in nine playoff games, surpassing his Flyers regular-season total. It was a huge one, too, the third-period tally that set the final score, just when the host Florida Panthers were pressing to tie. Dan Quinn passed from the right circle to Klatt in the slot, where he was posted up strong, Panthers forward Radek Dvorak clinging to his back.
Deep Trouble For Flyers Foes
April 29, 1996
by Les Bowen, Daily News Sports Writer
There was a time during the 1995-96 season when Bob Clarke appeared to be trying to corner the market on hard-working, no-finesse forwards. The Flyers had never seemed exactly short in this area, so as the team struggled through a midseason slump, in which nobody seemed able to put the puck in the net, fans got a bit grumbly. Enough with the role players. How about adding some skill? Clarke, the Flyers' president and general manager, eventually did get around to a "skill" deal, nabbing Dale Hawerchuk from St. Louis for Craig MacTavish, an acquisition that fueled the Flyers' late run to the Eastern Conference regular-season championship.
Playoffs See Rise In Klatt's Production He Didn't Score Much In The Regular Season After Arriving From Dallas. Now He Has Found The Touch.
April 28, 1996
By Gary Miles, INQUIRER STAFF WRITER
The NHL playoffs agree with Trent Klatt. After taking 49 regular-season games to score three goals for the Flyers this season, Klatt picked up his third goal in just six playoff games in the first period last night against Tampa Bay at the ThunderDome. "It's important for everyone to step their game up," Klatt said after the Flyers had wrapped up their series with the Lightning with a 6-1 victory. "It's an urgent time of the season. I also was getting a few lucky bounces I wasn't getting in the regular season.
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