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What's really going on with Apple and its stock price in 2013?
Here we go again. Another Apple quarter that demonstrates long term strength in its business, and another quarter where Wall Street is waving its hands in the air claiming that the business is broken. Apple shares are down over $50 (10%) as I write this.
Always remember value investor Benjamin Graham's famous expression: In the short term the market acts like a voting machine. In the long term it acts like a weighing machine. Today, the voting machine dominates. But over the course of many product cycles, those daily votes amount to nothing. That's why the market is volatile, and why I focus on long term investing.
Apple reported the best quarter in its history. Sales of $54.5 billion were up huge compared to $46.3 billion in the year ago holiday quarter. Earnings were $13.81 per share versus $13.87 last year. But once you adjust for the 13-week quarter in the current year versus 14 weeks last year, earnings actually grew 7% year over year.
That 7% growth comes despite gross margin dropping, which is a fact of life when you introduce revolutionary products like the iPad mini. The growth also comes despite the fact that Apple built less channel inventory this year versus last year. Add another $700 million to Apple's top line this year (or subtract it from last year) to get a more fair comparison.
Oh, and let's not forget the new iMacs, which were severely supply constrained. Apple sold about a million fewer Macs than last year, which equites to over a billion dollars of revenue. Let's add that to our adjustment of Apple's so-called "broken" business.
Wall Street is worried about earnings growth. They see the revenue growth, but they focus on the gross margin decline of 6% year over year. Wall Street focuses on the short term "optics" of a situation. And in the short term, Apple looks weak because margin weakness seems to be offsetting the revenue growth.
But look at the bigger picture. The iPad and the iPad mini are canabalizing the PC market. This includes Macs, but it also includes Windows machines. This is the quote that I found most interesting out of last night's conference call:
"I see cannibalization as a huge opportunity for us...On iPad in particular, we have the mother of all opportunities here, because the Windows market is much, much larger than the Mac market is. And I think it is clear that it's already cannibalizing some and I think there is a tremendous amount more opportunity there. And as you know, I have said for two or three, actually three years now I believe that I believe the tablet market will be larger than the PC market at some point. And I still believe that. And you can see by the growth in tablets and the pressure on PCs that those lines are beginning to converge."
And let's not forget China. Is it totally lost on investors that China has become such a huge market for Apple that they need to break it out as a separate reporting segment? $6.8 billion of Apple's revenue (that's 12.5%) came from Greater China. Year over year growth was only a modest 67%. Hmmm, sure seems like a broken story to me.
Speaking of China - there has been a lot of attention on the possibility of a less expensive iPhone. Until last night, I was of the view that we'd see one of these lower cost phones hit sooner rather than later. But I'm not so sure anymore. Obviously Apple can sell a TON of iPhones in China at full price. So there is no need to rush out with a cheaper product. Apple's style is to absorb as much growth as they can with higher priced products before launching lower cost versions. I don't think we'll see a less expensive iPhone in 2013.
The media and the investing community is fully absorbed in the bear story around Apple. That story is probably best told by the Nomura analyst. I don't mean this in a good way, because I honestly feel the guy is insane to put forth this analysis, but it is what it is. And the market believes it right now.
Nomura's position is that Apple isn't growing any more. They're an "ex-growth" story with earnings potential "capped" at about $50 per share. Without growth, people shouldn't pay more than about 8x earnings (so $400) plus the company's excess cash balance, which is another $89 per share. Round it up to $490 and you have their target price.
Why 8x earnings? Apparently because that's what Microsoft fetches. And Microsoft is also an "ex-growth" stock.
Does anyone else notice the total insanity in this statement? We have the Mac market that has been outgrowing the PC market for a very, very long time. And now we have the iPad market cannibalizing the PC market, which allows Apple to grow at the expense of Microsoft. One company is slaughtering the other. Yet we are to believe both stocks should trade at a similar earnings multiple?
As Rene said to me earlier today, "It makes you think it's humans that are doomed." Of course humans are emotional. Investors and analysts are human. Wall Street is all about the short term. Nobody wants to get caught being wrong on a stock in the short term. The pain of being short term wrong outweighs the pleasure of being long term right. That's why we're seeing so many negative reports.
I thought the comments from PiperJaffray and JP Morgan were much more rational. Piper calls for investors to return to the stock once the focus shifts to new products in the next 3-6 months. Makes sense. JP Morgan uses the beautiful line, "Apples and Oranges: Fundamentals and Investor Expectations Continue to Diverge".
I couldn't have said it better.
Chris owns shares in, and is long on, Apple.
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What's really going on with Apple and its stock price in 2013?
I certainly wouldn't say Apple is "broken." But it is pretty clear that it is not an innovative company anymore and it's major market, the feature phone, may be under assault by more innovative and, critically, more diverse competition.
Statements like "when you introduce revolutionary products like the iPad mini" make us non-zealots cringe. What in G**'s Green Earth is "revolutionary" about the Mini? Is it a much better size than the clunky original iPad? Absolutely! Do I think it is a great product that will have lots of success? Absolutely. Will it be the best-selling tablet at any size? I don't know, but I'd bet within a year or two it will, because I really do think the smaller form factor is a lot better. But it will have enormous competition from well-funded, perhaps more innovative competitors (note perhaps...I don't have a crystal ball to know what innovations are coming down the pipeline from Google, MS, RIM, et al.). Revenues don't matter to Wall St., margins per share do. And those are flat. Sometimes, flat comes as a company retools before taking off again. This could happen. Sometimes, flat comes before decline. This could happen, too. Sometimes flat just stays flat. This seems pretty likely given the iPhone's defunct 'cool factor.'
Trading at the same earnings factor as MS, a company who's lifetime stock price growth still beats Apple's and who probably has the same probability (i.e., low) of being a "growth stock" over the next year, is a pretty fair.
to focus on margins is pretty stpd... as in Forbes top 100 Billionaires in the world ... all top richest from India made it on peanuts margins... the volume is what is important...which makes the huge profit on the long term... the only fools are investors here... because they trust all the nasty anal-ists and column writers... so those can fool investors and manipulate AAPL stock price for the Hedge Funds... which cash for their's retirement ... right now HF are... after making a huge profit on AAPL Puts loading tons of dirt cheap AAPL Calls and laughing at the investor's stupidity ... the only WHO is doomed are the ret@rds from SEC and US government ... but definitely NOT APPLE
I always make it a point to read Chris's writeups about stocks, I wouldn't consider myself very knowledgeable with respect to these advanced financials, so it's nice to get an in depth look from someone who knows what they're talking about. But honestly you completely lost me this time. Right when you said "which is a fact of life when you introduce revolutionary products like the iPad mini", it was kind of like that point in a movie that completely sucks you out of the experience. People can hate on me all they want, but the iPad mini wasn't revolutionary. From that point on the whole analysis read like a biased fanboys opinion to me. I'm sure it was well researched and informative but it just wasn't as credible any more. Should have left it out.
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I think you're misreading the context. It was revolutionary in terms of Apple's iOS business to date. It was the first time they broke apart a product line and introduced a different device. Up until now, one iPhone, one iPad, one iPod touch.
Not only that, iPad mini was less expensive and with lower margins, which changed the average selling price (ASP) and that influences the stock.
For Apple, it was a big deal. When it achieves balance, we'll see how big it is beyond Apple. (My guess is they just mainstreamed the small size tablet, which would be huge.)
Also, throwing around a word like "fanboy" makes it hard to have a productive discussion. :)
The context wasn't articulated properly then. To me revolutionary is way beyond the scope of a single company and maybe even a single industry.
Yeah, I maybe could have came up with a better word myself than "fanboy". I wasn't trying to call him one, as these analysis are very unbiased which this one in total was as well. That line just changed the tone of it all for me.
No worries. It's your view and you're free to have it. The reason I think the iPad Mini is revolutionary is because it opened the doors to a huge flood of new sales. Apple didn't just launch another 7" tablet. They changed the form factor and made an incredibly light, thin and elegant iPad that everyone wants.
I get your comment ... I can think of plenty of reasons to say it was evolutionary, or just a form factor iteration. It's not important - it's all just a label. Fact is that it's selling like crazy, and that's what matters.
What you're not actually accounting for is the change in product cycle caused by the introduction of the iPad4 and iPad Mini. The existing sales bump in that timeframe should have caused a greater than seven percent jump in sales -- but it didn't. The market valuation for the period is spot on when a rolling inventory is accounted for as the release window for new products has been changed.
Your numbers are way off. Revenue is up much more than 7 percent. Nice try though.
The seven percent figure came from your own text:
"But once you adjust for the 13-week quarter in the current year versus 14 weeks last year, earnings actually grew 7% year over year."
Are you really so defensive? Comments like "Nice try though" are what call your credibility into question. I tried to give you a point of reference to work against that you weren't considering -- and you respond less like an analyst and more like Rene's least favorite term (fanboi).
The bottom line is that the last 52-week cycle can't be reasonably used to compare year-over-year results since the change in release dates for the new iPad and introduction of the iPad Mini has created a different product cycle for Apple. The key here will be to see how sales progress through the Spring when previously the new iPad would have been released and now there doesn't appear to be a major Apple entry in that time frame.
Please, take the time to actually read the posts and respond to the content -- and trying to sound flippant really hurts your credibility.
Seven percent was the earnings increase. Revenue (as in sales) was up from 46.3 to 54.5 billion - that's 17%. Your sentence asking Chris to actually read the posts seems a little hollow under the circumstances.
I guess I could have just told you that you mixed up EPS and revenue, but I wanted to see if you'd figure that out or come back and tell me it was my own number. Just having a bit of fun. Sorry. I apologize.
Bleh, it happens. ;-)
The key here in terms of valuation, is what do you think the product cycle is now?
Steve seems to have held firm to an annual release schedule and product line that Tim is willing to bend, break and invent on the fly. Is the result of that going to be one where Apple is more willing to adjust their product line more often, or are they going to try to stick to their annual tentpole releases? If they're changing the tentpole date with the last release of the iPad Mini and iPad4, how will sales do between now and next fall?
It seemed before like Apple would release their flagship products, and then the market would take a whole year to catch up -- now it seems like Apple is willing to get back into the market when they feel the need. Is that a sign of strength, weakness, or just the new market reality?
Great article. It is amazing when "they" speak of innovation. Apple needs to be innovative vs "the others". The others have features, not innovation. Sure they have some nice features to a point, but not innovation. I'm still impressed by the iPhone 4 through iPhone 5. They don't have all the features, but they do have innovation in design and function. The others just implement, and wait for the next innovation to implement.
Wait so the others arent innovative they just have features?i am not sure what you mean.to me,this makes it seem like you duscredit any features not apple as being innovative. Has apple been innovative?yes they have.they molded the smartphone world to become what it is. However, to say others aret innovative is a bit harsh. windows phone for example, the interface is completely different than anything else. They have some really awesome features too, while not innovative, features are JUST as important as in many cases they add flexibility to their functionality. Windows phones people hub will beat out android and apples contacts apps any day of the week as they have innovated the way people interact with contacts. Webos, while dead now, revolutionized the way we could interact with our phones through gestures way ahead of its time. It also revolutionized multitasking and notifications. android might not have done as many big innovations but it has taken many ideas and innovated on them, making them better untill it finally got on top then it innovated. Google Now? That is one great innovation. My phone can remind me about tickets i have in my email, when the bus might be coming and when my sports team is playing. Thats innovation! Apple is not tje most innovative it IS innovative, but not the most and lately it hasnt been. Its more playing catch up now. I am rooting for apple amd will possibly be getting an ipad again soon. But as tecgnology and software evolve and as exciting as the smartphone world has become in the last year, apple hasnt really done anything to excite this year.
I see what you're saying Chris. However, it comes down to what they're gonna do with their money and differentiate itself from the competition. Right now, incremental updates to IOS isn't really helping Apple at all. Looking at BlackBerry 10 and IOS, it seems to me that Apple may have an unbalanced platform just looking at the various bugs with IOS like the "Autofocus" bug and how RIM is beating Siri's like features. There are many features like DST and how Do Not Disturb doesn't work. Not trying to trolling or anything, but it seems like it's either the Platform that's hard to work with or the engineers don't know what they're doing. Would like to hear your thoughts back.
I think the 20% decrease in Mac sales is being downplayed. Apple alleged supply problems, as if it was a positive thing. If that was really the cause, it is a sign of gross incompetence of both Apple and its fabled supply chain, and should not be underestimated.
If this happened to the Mac and to the iPhone 5, what will happen as Apple further expands worldwide or shortens its launch cycle? We are already seeing shortages of iPhone 5's in places like Brazil, where Foxconn actually has a factory, where the iPad Mini wasn't even lauched yet. Those voids are being filled by competitors and the image Apple worked so hard to build is being eroded.
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Well said. But still debatable.
There are many bashing the market, analysts, investors over the seeming panicked reaction to Apple's results/guidance. And there are several spurious comparisons to how generously investors are treating Amazon and Netflix. Yes, the market is a weighing machine in the long run but in the short term we have to guess what the weight will be well in the future. Stock prices move first, then analysts expectations and then actual results. So near term panic can be proven right - or wrong.
When RIMM turned they were still pumping out growing earnings but some people started to see the signs that a turn was coming. Panicked selling on seemingly decent results was criticized at the time but look where we are now. I'm not saying Apple is heading down the same road as RIMM.
My problem with trying to gain comfort from a PE ratio is that Apple's earnings are so reliant on iPhone. Its a great product but it is inevitably losing its differentiation. I used to think the "platform" would make users sticky but surveys show greater willingness to switch from Apple to Android (and vice versa). This doesn't mean iPhone sales go in the tank but maybe it means sales slow and margins are under pressure. Does Apple's negotiating power with carriers diminish?
iPad and iPad mini are great and fast growing but would they be able to offset a profit decline from iPhone.
I don't doubt Apple's ability to create great, desirable products (though have we really seen this tested yet in the post Steve Jobs era?). But can they enjoy the same dynamics of a highly desired, revolutionary device that was also subsidized by carriers?
Re: "But look at the bigger picture. The iPad and the iPad mini are canabalizing the PC market."
Bingo. It's just the start of the post-PC era, and Apple is in a great position to own it with iPhone and iPad (and iCloud). Just like the PC era started in the early '80s and IBM was in a great position to own it with their IBM PC.
IBM lost the battle for PC market share for various reasons, and Apple lost PC market share by not licensing Mac OS soon enough. (Which may not have been a bad thing in retrospect. Apple is still the 3rd largest US-based PC manufacturer.)
But, as we've seen, Apple's management learns from past mistakes. They're not going to drop the post-PC ball.
@Trodecke - what you say is true, however the real reason the gross margin is lower on iPad Mini is because they're offering it at $329, a whole $170 cheaper than the full sized iPad. Let's say the regular sized iPad has a gross margin of 40%. They'd have to drop the bill of materials by $100 (from $300 to $300) to maintain the same gross margin percentage on the Mini. That's pretty hard to do!
Minor point, but I'll make it anyway - R&D expenses don't affect gross margin. They are operational.
@nyc_rock - I should have written more about the margin structure. My mistake to not do so.
This is just typical financial markets behaviour. Apple came from a relatively low base so was able to grow at a fast rate, but now its growth is beginning to slow because it can only have so many customers who can only own so many devices. Then add to that competition from Android, economic slowdown in developed markets (= wealthy customers who can afford its products) etc. Since the market is measuring Apple against its past performance, it has disappointed in their eyes, even though it sold a lot of devices, because they expected its growth rate to continue indefinitely. All companies get treated that way, not just Apple.
Ok seeing as most of these comments are rediculos im going to clarify a few things.
First this is a tech blog, not blomberg. Most of what you have been citing is incorrect. Institutions dont care about fundementals. They run off of advanced algo's and simply easy to understand technical analysis.
Second, look at a weekly candle chart of the price, the stock has been in distribution since the summer. Price action was slowly turning. You dont just stop the titanic you have to turn slow it down before reversing it. Same can be said with the stock price. Momentum is down and its here to stay, yes it will make its pops to retest the techincal side of trading but we are not even close to the bottom of this.
Third, again this is a tech blog please stick to what you do best and report of the tech. You guys do a top notch job of it, keep it going and stick to your field.
Before all of you hope on the "this is your first post" nonsense, let me give my creditals. I am a former (retired) equities trader for Goldman and have adviced numorous high profile clients on how to develop systems of trading.
Hilarious. This guy has no clue what my credentials are :)
P.S. any and all spelling and grammer I aplogize for, I am mobile at the moment.
Tim and Peter sort of botched the call yesterday. Investors are selling because the forecast for this current quarter is down and they didn't do enough to put that into a longer-term perspective. They unintentionally told investors that the naysayers have been right. They left us with nothing but the conclusion that Apple is, indeed, slowing down. Tim, Peter, show some more fight and hold your team to higher goals!
I think Apple needs to spend some money on corporate PR.
So suddenly Apple is not innovating? Can someone tell me exactly what has Samsung or Google or Amazon innovated lately? Is making a phone with a 5 inch screen innovation? Making a cheap tablet that can access an app, music, and book store? Hasn't that been done? Apple started a revolution with the introduction of the iPhone in 2007. It doesn't surprise me at all that we now have a market saturated with touch screen smart phones. If Apple is supposedly doomed again, looks like everyone else is in the same boat. I haven't seen anything new or revolutionary from anyone. Just my take.
For what it's worth, Google Now was the Popular Science Best Innovation of 2012 www.popsci.com/bown/2012/product/google-now
Wow! Reporting $46 Billion of revenue in one quarter is enough to send your stock down 12%. That explains how Wall Street can cause an economic downturn. Financial formulas and algorithms aside, that doesn't sound like a company whose stock you should be dumping. Unless they caught the stock on the way up and are trying to jump off the ride before they take a loss. Good article!
While you all scratch your heads to understand it, consider this. GoldmanSachs and others in the criminal gang, pulled the stock price down through high frequency trading. Why? Because most investment firms and traders have a automatic loss trigger at 10%. That means when a stock falls 10%, a sell order is executed to dump the stock and lock in the gains. That means they bought all available stock at 50 bucks cheaper. But why? Because they know something we don't know. Apple is not going anywhere and is a key part in the great surveillance machine. Watch what happens this year with Apple and technology this year and remember this.
Apple already has a low cost iPhone in China. Its called iPhone 4 and reports say they can't build enough.
"when you introduce revolutionary products like the iPad mini."
Maybe I missed something, but what was revolutionary about the mini? It was an iPad, only smaller. A change in scale is hardly revolutionary, especially when you're last to the small tablet market. It's a fine device (though not one I would buy), but there's nothing revolutionary about it.


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A teenager who was driving under the influence allegedly crashed her vehicle through a decades-old wall surrounding the Aiken County Historical Museum, according to the Aiken Department of Public Safety.
Lindsey Nicole Boyd, 19, of Roses Run in Aiken, was charged with driving under the influence, no proof of insurance and minor in possession of alcohol. She was placed in the Aiken County detention center, but had been released by Wednesday afternoon.
The incident happened at about 12:20 a.m. On Wednesday at the intersection of Laurens Street and South Boundary Avenue, according to a report. Officers arriving on the scene found that a Chevrolet Trailblazer had traveled completely through the brick wall around the Aiken County Historical Museum.
While speaking with officers, Boyd told them she was about to have a panic attack, fell to the ground on her knees in a possible seizure and began vomiting, according to the report.
Officers investigating found an open and empty beer can on the ground next to the vehicle, and another open can in front of the vehicle, according to the report. An additional beer can that was located in the vehicle between the center console and passenger seat was unopened and cold to the touch.
Investigators determined Boyd was driving south on Laurens Street toward South Boundary Avenue, and while attempting to make a left turn onto South Boundary, her vehicle traveled into the oncoming traffic lane of Laurens Street and then South Boundary, according to the report. The car traveled across South Boundary, off the roadway and into the brick wall.
According to the report, Boyd and the other occupants in the vehicle had been drinking before the crash.
At the hospital, Boyd exhibited signs of intoxication; however, officers were unable to perform field sobriety tests or a breathalyzer because she had been transported for her injuries, and the time to have a breath sample was exceeded, according to the report.
Boyd refused to provide a blood sample for analysis, according to the report.
The exact age of the wall is not known; however, the museum is housed in a 1930s Winter Colony mansion called Banksia.
Teddy Kulmala covers the crime and courts beat for the Aiken Standard and has been with the newspaper since August 2012.
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Step 1: Material Girl
I polished half of our pennies with Tarn-X. It's super easy to use: just pour it over the coins and then rinse. Polishing some of the coins gives the end result a pretty mix of shiny and tarnished finishes.
Step 2: Prep & Landing
Start placing your pennies on the front edge, securing them with a small dot of super glue. We clamped a straight edge ruler to guide our first line, and bent our first line of coins to fit around the rounded edge of the desk. You don't have to do this, though: you could place the pennies just on the top, and snip them in a straight line.
with epoxy it looks like you used some kind of penny foil
Awesome Job done. :)
That is awesome, thank you ! :)
Keep up the good work!
Another option is to build up the sides of your surface with wooden or metal trim, almost like a tray, so that the resin will pool inside and not drip over the edges. That way you'd get a nice smooth table top in one application.
I hope you'll post a photo if you try this; I'd really love to see it!
Hey look, I just found 3500 pennies...
this is why where's george stamps are legal and why penny smashers are legal and why making "coin jewelery" is legal and why this table is perfectly legal.
Please stop propagating that myth.
use in an open space, use a respirator and common sense. use safly.
Have you never dropped 2 quarters and a penny into a little hand cranked machine? It's a rolling mill which imprints an image of some particular attraction onto and squished and elongated penny. These machines are ALL over the country, at various attractions large and small, there's even one on an overpass north of Chicago that prints and image of the skyline. Brookfield Zoo, the San Diego Zoo, most museums, every amusement park in existence, including both US Disneys have these little souvenir makers. Do you actually think Disney would put itself at risk from the Federal Government over a squished penny?
The deal is, you cannot melt them to recycle the metal, so as to extract the value of the metal from the coin. And these days, it really wouldn't be worth trying, anyway. The micro thin copper coating of a zinc blank doesn't melt, it burns. Impressively.
The blogger lives and writes in the US. And not even one of the US/Canada border states. Not even a US/Mexico border state. So, it's pretty much a given that the laws in question are US laws. I'm saying the the blogger in question is not breaking any US laws. No disrespect to Canada or anything, but totally meaningless to the discussion.
Personally, I think Canada has the right of it. If you allow something small, it's harder to stop something large. But, in the US, what the blogger in question did does not violate any laws, anymore than the rolling mill coin smashers do.
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Recently American Electric Power (AEP) said the severe storm of last summer cost them $61.8 million to restore services. AEP is now asking the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio (PUCO) for permission to pass that cost along to its customers with a two percent rate increase.
In July, Terri Flora, Director of Corporate Communications of AEP Ohio, compared the damage costs to Hurricane Ike in 2008. At the time AEP did not have a good estimation of the costs of the storm.
"After Ike it was around $41-50 million for all of our restoration efforts. We were not allowed to recover all of that amount. We were allowed to recover about $28 million of that," Flora said.
She said rates went up a few dollars on customer bills.
"There was not as may outages at the peak of Ike in comparison to this recent storm. At it's peak there were 675,000 outages with this recent storm. With Ike, we had around 650,000," Flora said. "There were differences with wind. With Ike the peak wind was 75 miles per hour. With this storm there were winds up to 90 miles per hour in some parts of the territory. With Ike we had about 372 circuits that were effected, with this storm we had 528."
She said the big difference between the two storms was with the transmission infrastructure.
"With Ike we had about six structures effected. With this storm we had 683 structures effected by the storm," Flora said.
According to Kim Carver, Director of Scioto County Emergency Management, the storm knocked out power to 1,000 people within the county.
"Residents reported some fairly good-sized hail around the McDermott area. Winds got up to 50 miles per hour with that storm," Carver said.
It was reported that if approved, the cleanup cost would equate to about $3 additional dollars per customer.
Skip Riffe, Chairman of the Scioto County Commissioners said he would be opposed to such an increase.
"Personally speaking I would oppose it. AEP is a good company and I used to work for them back in the 80s," Riffe said.
According to AEP officials, if approved by the PUCO, the increase would be applied for a year.
According to Jason Gilham of the PUCO, the process is in the next stage.
"They (AEP) have filed their application so, we're in the stage now where we are waiting for our staff to put together their report and recommendations," Gilham said. "Once our staff files their report, that will set the timeline going forward."
He said just because they applied for the $61.8 million does not mean AEP's request will be granted.
"The commission will make the ultimate ruling. Just because that requested that much does not mean that's what the company is going to recover," Gilham said.
He said it does not rule out the possibility the could be able to recover the full amount.
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MYRTLE BEACH, SC: On Wednesday, March 17, the Hilbert women's softball team earned a remarkable come from behind victory scoring five runs in the bottom of the seventh inning. The 10-9 comeback win over Bay Path College improves the Hawks record to 5-2 giving them one of the best starts in program history.
After a slow start to the game, Hilbert was able to amass a 9-1 deficit heading into the fourth inning. The Hawks began to generate offense in the fourth with a single from junior Carrie Sisson (Elma, NY/ Mt. Mercy) followed by a double from Amber Grosch (Depew, NY/ Depew). Both players would cross home plate off a single by senior Sarah Collins (Milroy, PA/ Indian Valley).
The Hawks would add one more run in the fifth inning and another in the sixth to cut the deficit to four.
Sisson, who came in as the relief pitcher, was able to keep Bay Path scoreless through the remainder of the game setting up the Hawks offense for a bottom of the seventh comeback victory.
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Grosch followed suit with a single while Collins would load the bases with her second single of the game to right field.
With one out and the bases loaded, freshman Emili Ripley (Batavia, NY/ Notre Dame Catholic) drove in Martucci for the game winning run with a base hit to right field.
The celebration would take place at home plate as the Hawks completed a nine run comeback victory.
Earlier in the day Hilbert took on Stevenson University. The Hawks held tough through a nip and tuck battle for the first five innings. Stevenson broke open the game scoring five runs in the top of the sixth inning. The Hawks answered with three runs of their own in the bottom of the sixth, but the five runs scored by Stevenson late in the game would prove to be too great of a deficit for Hilbert as they would go on to suffer their second loss of the season 11-3.
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Erving appeared in 27 games for CSUN, starting 23 contests in second season with Matadors ... named to All-Big West Conference Second Team ... led CSUN in scoring, averaging 13.6 points for the season ... averaged career-high 5.5 rebounds per game ... ranked fifth in the Big West in scoring average ... led CSUN with 34 blocked shots, giving her 67 through her first two seasons, the eighth-most in school history ... ranked second in the Big West Conference at 1.2 blocks per game ... averages jumped to 14.1 points and 5.6 rebounds in Big West play ... named Big West Player of the Week on Feb. 22 after she scored career-high 31 points and 11 field goals at Cal Poly on Feb. 20 ... during same week,finished with a game-high 21 points at Arizona and scored 27 points and recorded fifth career double-double with 10 rebounds at Cal Sate Fullerton ... pulled down career-high 13 rebounds vs. South Dakota on Dec. 29 ... knocked down career-high nine free throws at Cal State Fullerton on Feb. 13 ... finished year with 14 assists and 21 steals.
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- Tim Donaghy said...
It seemed to me that your last post on the anti-anti-Kony-back-lash-back got a little stuck in the "meaningless metanarrative" too. You didn't agree with the video but were super-upset about the "sanctimony" of the critics. Just sayin.
- March 16, 2012 at 3:21 PM
- Freddie said...
Well, I can tell you a lot of things I'd like to do to Apple. I can name very things of worth we can do for Uganda.
- March 16, 2012 at 4:00 PM
The fact that Daisy lied (and it certainly appeared he did) doesn't mean that Foxconn's factories and other parts of Apple's supply chain are good places for workers.
Can you find any examples of anyone saying or implying this?
- March 16, 2012 at 4:04 PM
- Freddie said...
Time will tell. The bigger question is what will prove a bigger story.
- March 16, 2012 at 4:18 PM
It seems like you wrote this post reacting very angrily to stuff that hasn't happened yet. I Googled around a little and can't find anyone expressing glee, let alone claiming that this tells us anything about working conditions in Foxconn plants. In fact every report on this points out that the things Daisey made up actually did happen, even though he didn't really see them first-hand. I'm kind of scratching my head about where this post is coming from, especially the anger behind it.
- March 16, 2012 at 5:02 PM
- Tim Donaghy said...
There are "very few things of worth we can do for Uganda?" Really? For someone who hates it when people dismiss your field of study without knowing anything about it, you sure are fond of cynical, evidence-free generalizations.
There are lots of people who spend a lot of time worrying about how to make international aid better, smarter, more democratic, more participatory, more effective. Because, sure, there are a million-and-one ways of doing it wrong. But I don't think even Bill Easterly or Dambisa Moyo would say there's literally nothing useful to be done.
- March 16, 2012 at 5:12 PM
- Freddie said...
Yes, because that's exactly what I said-- there is literally nothing to be done in Uganda, if absolutely all options are on the table and in the broadest sense.
Or, you could take that in the obvious spirit in which it was given, which is that given the kinds of options suggested by the Stop Kony video et al, and the reality of America's place in the world, and the delicacy of the geopolitics of Africa, there seems to be little that we can do directly to Stop Kony or bring him to justice.
- March 16, 2012 at 6:26 PM
- ovaut said...
Keston Sutherland, a British avant-garde poet, gets really guilty about exactly this bind in this interview http://literateur.com/interview-with-keston-sutherland/
- March 16, 2012 at 6:36 PM
- Freddie said...
I should note that the boo birds have a point on this one.
- March 16, 2012 at 7:00 PM
@Brendan, this sub-header makes explicit the kind of wrongheaded exculpation I think Freddie has in mind:
Writer defends 'Apple is evil' lies as dramatic license
The entire premise of Apple's wrongdoing is now classifiable (and classified, for so very many people) as a lie.
But in at least one sense I disagree with the premise that Daisey isn't the story here. Not in any important sense. In this small one: what Mike essentially said was that Steve Jobs put workers' wellbeing willfully in jeopardy to enrich himself. And what has Daisey done? Exactly that. He gave life to this story only to definitively kill it in the minds of a great subsection of the populace -- thus, himself, personally, participating in extending the life of whatever offenses are actually occurring in Foxconn. Daisey will prove to have hardened the arguments against worrying about such things. He's complicit. And why did he do it? What's the ultimate justification? It's Jobsian. He wanted to create a product -- his monologue -- that was insanely great.
That he and Jobs were both utterly willing to commit what each perceived as lesser crimes in the interests of some personal ambition I hope proves fascinating, edifying, and perhaps ultimately pivotal to Mike Daisey.
- March 16, 2012 at 7:18 PM
- Erik Ostrom said...
Brendan, when I read "I can't find anyone expressing glee," my first thought was "Facebook," but it turns out the glee I remembered seeing was about Jason Russell's beach episode, not Mike Daisey's fabrications. My second thought was "Daring Fireball."
I didn't find glee there, or a claim that Foxconn is a worker's paradise. But John Gruber has spent the day on a series of posts about Daisey's lies, and doesn't seem to have said a word about what life at an electronics factory might be like. This is pretty much what Freddie's second paragraph is talking about.
I don't mean to pick on Daring Fireball; I don't know the site well enough to put it in context. It's just the first thing I thought of.
- March 16, 2012 at 8:34 PM
Hey Freddie.
Didn't read all the comments but the early ones seemed like the same old stupid prattle of people who live on the internet. Who cares?
What a thing to be subtle about! The conditions in Chinese factories! At least Jcapan, whatever our differences, have the same contempt.
An anecdote: Was at a bar yesterday. Drinking whiskey in the awesome catastrophic early climate change Denver sunlight.
Dudes were talking up Apple. More to the point, they were having that horrible yuppie conversation that makes me feel like a feral beast. As in: they were actually talking about their devices! They were alive on the earth talking about Apple products!
Anywayz, I entered in and quickly alienated myself and almost came to fisticuffs. (Probably happily for myself the beeyatch walked away.)
The fact is that the particular maddening irony of our era remains that the investor class in this country has absolutely no fucking idea that they are "the investor class". I mean, I told the dude straight up, "Better watch out, bitch, they put them heads on pikes."
And of course, he just looked at like me like I was a LOSER. Which I am. But not in the way he thinks.
Another snippet: "Degrading?" "Yes, degrading. You ever worked on a factory line?" "No." "Then why are you tendering a judgment? Because you're a fucking idiot loser of the investor class?"
Anyway, Freddie my man, didn't real all the comments 'cause they started to bore me. People who speak up for Apple in any capacity bore the fuck out of me.
I could care less about some man's reputation. I'm just an internet commenter.
- March 16, 2012 at 10:35 PM
- Tim Donaghy said...
@Freddie, OK fair enough, I could probably have taken your comment with a more generous spirit.
My point was that there are a large number of "actually important" stories about Uganda (leaving military intervention to one side for right now) that are, in a similar manner, also way more important than their meta-narratives (i.e. the sanctimony of the messengers).
- March 17, 2012 at 12:34 AM
Revealing that people only care about the accuracy of a This American Life segment when their own consumption habits are put in question.
This American Life writers have a-l-w-a-y-s dramatized their stories (ironically even the "Retraction" episode). Until the Apple story apparently only through rhetoric/style, not by literally making data up.
I didn't hear people complain when TAL, e.g., turned mothers living in a place other than an American suburb into "moms", or when it applied the red state/blue state narrative to Poland. Just a few weeks ago they talked about a guy who doesn't really look like Obama as if he really does look like Obama. All of those things are at least as manipulative as Mike Daisey's story, but people didn't care.
- March 17, 2012 at 10:14 AM
- Freddie said...
- March 17, 2012 at 10:25 AM
Rest assured, your particular brand of radicalism consistently heartens me.
I agree with you. The main takeaway is the terrible working conditions in Chinese factories as the largest population on earth goes through the throes of the Industrial Revolution. People can actually witness today what it was sorta' like for those who lived and died in the satanic mills of Manchester.
It never ceases to amaze...the casual dismissal of those costs.
Disagree that Apple is one of the most powerful....but that is just a quibble.
- March 17, 2012 at 1:26 PM
The last Anonymous said it best. Sorry I was drunken and belligerent in my own post. No need, ever, to insult one of your commenters, who are my favorite people to read on the internet, period. (And which, to echo Jcapan, is not exactly a place for 'deep ecologists', whatever that is.)
(Incidentally, when the fellow I was talking to started ranting about the 'fact' that Apple factories aren't here because American workers are too lazy and shiftless, etc, I simply mentioned that if I was a craven and heartless big wig of the investor class, I too would hit the time-travel switch and set my factories in some modern equivalent of satanic Manchester. And of course he just stared at me 'cause he had no idea what I walk talking about. Which twists Santayana: Those who don't study history are free to repeat the sins of history with a clean conscience.)
- March 18, 2012 at 2:16 PM
- Freddie said...
I'm looking more and more prescient, here.
- March 19, 2012 at 9:03 AM
"...the facts still tell us that these are hellish, despicable conditions and that Apple's enormous financial success is predicated on enormous human suffering"
If the conditions so obviously "hellish" and "despicable" then why did Daisy have to juice up his show with fabrications? If the truth was so powerful then why did he need fictions about carpal tunnel claw hands, n-hexane poisoning, and 12 and 13 year old workers? Why did he claim he visited 5 times as many factories as he actually did? These tactics sure look like those of someone with an agenda.
The truth is almost always complicated and nuanced and nobody with an agenda likes complications or nuances. It's easier to make juicy stories up (or throw around phrases like "hellish, despicable conditions") and ignore the inconvenient facts (such as the fact that these workers are lining up by the thousands at the gate to get these jobs which means the other choices available to them are even worse).
- March 19, 2012 at 2:17 PM
Your headline is right, and that's one reason to be unhappy with Daisey.
For the most part, he didn't really lie about whether something happened - the n hexane thing has been widely reported and I'm sure someone smashed his had somewhere - but he lief to put himself in the middle of things. He went to China and didn't have the dramatic experiences he hoped for, so he made them up.
Thus giving lots of people to believe that they never happened.
Anyway, I just think it's disappointing that we can't have serious discussion about anything.
- March 19, 2012 at 5:09 PM
minimalist wrote: "(such as the fact that these workers are lining up by the thousands at the gate to get these jobs which means the other choices available to them are even worse)."
Not to put too fine a point on it, but: So the fuck what?
Comparative Depravity is a more useful subject when the company in question isn't among the most billion$-enriched corporations on the planet. When it is, that's more of an indulgence, to put it kindly.
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