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"We heard two gunshots in the air."
That was the family's cue to run for cover. José, who asked us to not show his face for safety reasons, tells us he, his wife, children and other relatives were having a barbeque outside their home Friday night when they heard gunshots.
"We had to run and hide. Me, my wife and two kids threw ourselves there, where the car is at on the floor. Some of them went inside the house."
José says the family was enjoying their Friday night when an SUV sped down the street. When one of the neighbors asked the driver to slow down because kids were playing on the street, José says the driver got upset and drove off. But shortly after, a strange car drove up and caused the very first drive-by of the year.
"We had a little black car come from the corner of the curve and we had a lady walking in the street and when she turned around she saw the headlights shut off, so right away we heard two gunshots in the air. We actually knew it was a drive-by. Either it was them coming back or probably they got someone to come back."
José believes at least 30 shots were fired. Several bullets entered the home. He invited us in to see what the criminals had done. You can see bullet holes on the wall of the living room, near the kitchen and in the restroom. Luckily no one was hurt.
"The more thankful that I am is that they didn't hit one of my kids because if it was to the point where they would've killed one of my kids, I would've gone after them myself."
Outside, his cars were also shot at. This one has two bullet holes on the bumper and the passenger window of this SUV will now have to be replaced.
"I was really scared because I have never gone through this. This is the first time the neighborhood has gone through a drive-by. So really, all the neighborhood is surprised and traumatized."
Cameron County sheriff's have arrested 27-year-old, Eduardo Herrera Jr. The arrest came hours after the drive-by. The SWAT team, along with deputies and San Benito Police surrounded Herrera's apartment on Stenger Street and Garcia's Court.
"The individual had barricaded himself in the apartment and negotiated with him for about two hours until he finally decided to turn himself in."
The sheriff's department says another man, by the name of Luis Julian Rangel was involved in the weekend's drive-by shooting. They're on the lookout for the 25-year-old.
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Message from the Exalted Ruler – October 2011
Dear Fellow 248 Members,
Thank You to all members and friends that helped make our Brewer trip, Soccer shoot, Golf
outings, Art World and our Adult Summer Picnic successes! The things that we do as Elks do
make a difference! This is why I have submitted this letter in this issue. Thank You to Becky
Rizuto, she is the unnamed bartender and member in the letter. Iowa State Elks President, Mr.
Dave Neeley told me we are a very active Lodge, in comparison, and our picnic was great
too! Be proud to be a Wausau Elk! As always check the complete bulletin and calendar for
upcoming events. Welcome back bowlers.
Sincerely and Fraternally,
Henry Lamovec
Exalted Ruler
Message from the Exalted Ruler – September 2011
Dear Fellow 248 Members,
Since my last newsletter I attended the Grand Lodge Convention in Phoenix and actually the weather the third week of July was 109˚ but it was nicer there at 18% humidity then here at 90˚ and high humidity! Some notes about the Convention and balloting on motions. We are now going to be a "local" lodge not a subordinate lodge. The officer's titles and chairs stay the same, so I continue to be your Exalted Ruler not the Local President. We have basically defunded the National Home out East unless funds are appropriated at Grand Lodge.
The opening ceremony and balloting sessions were interesting but I was most impressed by the National Memorial Service. Remember to put our Wausau Elks 248 Memorial Service on your calendar for December 4th.
Even though most everyone equated Labor Day as the end of summer there is still a lot of baseball to watch, which we will do because the Brewers are in contention. Thank you to Kevin and Wendy McCarthy for organizing our Brewer trip on August 14th. We all had a great time and watched the Brewers win in the 10th inning. This year it was 2 buses; as people talk about it we might generate enough interest for the trip next year with 3 buses!
Hopefully between league playoffs and the World Series (with the Brewers in it) we will be watching the Packers winning their way through their schedule. The Packer Club will, I'm sure, have many interesting raffle prizes and wonderful food and camaraderie.
So far we have had two winners in the Queen of Hearts drawing. Dick Mayer picked the Queen of Spades and Don Wyro picked a Joker. So the Big Lady is still on the board.
Monday, September 19th is the fall golf outing. Get your foursome together.
The District Deputy is no longer required to attend an initiation at each local lodge so Gary Sheahan, DDGER Northeast District, has scheduled his Wausau Lodge visit for our Thursday, October 20th inspection and regular lodge meeting.
Would you like to spend some time at Art World 2011 and also volunteer to help? Call Herb Lessmiller at 715-570-3260 or Jackie Heitmann at the lodge, 715-845-5602. We need help Friday, Saturday, and Sunday!
Enjoy the summer that's left and autumn on our patio. We have commitments to put a permanent roof over the area where we now have the tent. I will keep you posted.
Sincerely and Fraternally,
Henry Lamovec
Exalted Ruler
Message from the Exalted Ruler – August 2011
Dear Fellow 248 Members,
I am writing this newsletter a bit early as I will be attending the Elk National Convention in Phoenix July 15th thru 21st and copy must be submitted on July 18th for the August newsletter. The Elk's National Convention is traditionally held during the 4th of July week but is the 3rd week of July this year. Leading Knight Chuck Berens filled in for me during the lodge meeting on July 21st. I am sure they did a great job.
At the July 21st lodge meeting, members will ballot on 2 candidates and 4 candidates at the August 18th meeting as it stands, it could be more. With is in mind, there are already 13 available for initiation on September 1st.
We have already initiated 13 this year plus have 4 reinstatements. It really makes me believe that Elks Care, Elks Share! On the downside, however, Elks 248, as of today, have 37 members delinquent in their dues. Their key access cards were turned off on July 12th. Their names and proposers will be posted in the lower bar. If you know someone and can help us get them paid and back it would be greatly appreciated! That's $4500 we need to continue the projects we have committed to this year. That equates to about $10 a month for them to help us continue Veterans projects, Goodfellowship, Kid's Halloween, and the list goes on. If they can't join us on a regular basis that's sad but their dues help the community, call it a charitable donation.
As voted on during our June lodge meeting, I represented the 248 members on a number of issues facing Elks across the country at the National Convention. Many of the changes are to modernize our Fraternal Organization and make it easier to share Elkdom with more people. However, our members feel that tradition needs to be blended with modernization. I voted against the proposal to change the traditional officer titles of Exalted Ruler, etc. to President and Vice Presidents. A negative vote was cast on the proposal to allow assessments on members to support the Elks Nation Home. Our members felt the retirement home should support itself as it houses only a privileged few out East.
A couple things I supported were to allow lodges to have the option to allow Social Parlors (bars) open during regular lodge meetings if they are separate and isolated from the Lodge Meeting floor and allowing active Duty Military personnel guest access cards for up to 90 days. There are many other issues to be determined but I thought these the most interesting. There will be Initiation at the September 1st meeting.
Please see the bulletin for the Adult Picnic August 24th. Sign up and bring your neighbors, friends and prospective members.
Henry Lamovec
Exalted Ruler
Message from the Exalted Ruler – July 2011
Dear Fellow 248 Members,
June finally gave us some settled weather and, with it, very nice days for a successful Bass Tournament and Kids Fishing Derby – To Say No To Drugs. Thank you JoAnn for organizing the Bass Tournament, which provides funds for the Kids Fishing. Over 40 youngsters participated in the fishing derby. One child caught a total of 133" – that's a lot of bluegills and crappies! Thank you Aaron and Annie and Elroy the Elk! There was plenty of help at both events. Thank you volunteers!!
June 14th was Flag Day; the event and participation were great! Thank you Chuck Berens, Leading Knight for a job well done. Just an FYI, it is the Leading Knight's responsibility to plan the event. Kevin Hermening was our guest speaker and gave a patriotic and inspiring speech. Kacey Hermening sang the National Anthem, the VFW Burns Post #388 was Honor Guard, the American Legion Post #10 did the 21-gun salute, Taps by
Michael Maher III and the Boy Scouts participated in the History of the Flag.
Our new officers did a great job on their parts at our second member initiation of the Lodge year on June 16th. We welcomed 5 new members and 2 reinstatements! There are even more proposed. They will, unfortunately, have to wait until September to be initiated. By that time there will be a large group being initiated.
Jane and I are heading to Phoenix the 3rd week of July for the Elk's National Convention. Yes, I know what you're thinking, but they say it' s a dry heat. Yah right. Our Leading Knight Chuck Berens will handle affairs while I'm gone and will conduct his first Lodge Meeting on July 21st as I will not be back. I'm sure
he will do a good job!
August 24th is the date for our Adult Summer Picnic – mark your calendars. Please see the bulletin for
the specifics. Sign up sheets will be out the 1st of July. Bring some friends!
Henry Lamovec
Exalted Ruler
Message from the Exalted Ruler – January 2011
Dear Fellow Elk 248 Members,
I hope you had an enjoyable Christmas and holiday season, one spent with family, friends, and fellow Elks. It is a wonderful time where we reflect on our blessings of the past year. I hope your blessings were many and continue into our new year.
While we reflected back during the holiday season, on New Years day, we start to look forward into our future and resolve to make our own world a better place. Resolutions may take the form of traditional of goals such as being smarter about our health, and improving our personal lives. These goals are certainly worthwhile as life is fragile and should be lived to the fullest. The Knights of Columbus use a phrase "Tempus Fugit, Memento Mori" from Latin which literally means Time Flies, Remember your Mortality. The message seems very stern until we realize the deeper meaning of living life to the fullest by making the best use of our time and talents.
My wish for you and all the Elk #248 members is that our new year brings full satisfaction in your daily life. We are fortunate to have such an opportunity at our own Lodge. Volunteerism is a wonderful potential to increase the riches in our own and others' lives. Support given to others is paid back many times and ways through gratitude created and our own feeling of self worth. Get active and support our efforts, find a new or past member and get them active as well. It is a great resolution to making our Elks Lodge and your own life a better place.
We have many strong and positive factors going into 2011. We will initiate over a dozen new members this month bringing new friendships and talent into our lodge. Welcome them as they start their wonderful journey as Elks. Our club revenues are increasing and we are doing a better job with the dollars received. We have a bright future with these trends. Now it is our job to keep the momentum going throughout the new 2011.
For your support, I am grateful. I wish you the best year of your life.
Marty Sullivan
Exalted Ruler
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Good morning friends! I thought I'd get started early today with Etsy Take Five Tuesday so are you ready to see what's cookin'? I hope you like my finds because well, I do! :)
Feeling crafty? Fall and winter brings out the crafter in all of us. How about some Korean crafts from Lemon Tree. Don't miss the pineapple and leaf post-its. {etsy}
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I was just sitting here thinking about how I've been able to write this column for over a year already and I don't think I've featured the same artist more than once. Too funny, especially since I only use my memory to guide me when I write this each week. I'm bound to duplicate an artist at some point! :) Anyway, random-thoughts-while-blogging aside, here are my five picks for this week — prints, papers, packing supplies and other pretties that you won't want to miss!
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St. Elizabeth of Hungary (July 7th 1207 - November 17th 1231) was the daughter of King Andrew II of Hungary. She was born in Hungary and lived there until the age of four, when she was betrothed to Blessed Ludwig (Louis) of Thuringia. She was brought up by Ludwig's family in Thuringia and grew up alongside her future husband. Even as young children they had a great affection for each other. He would often call her "little sister" and she called him "big brother," and he also came to her defense when his siblings or other their peers picked on her.
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Best method of shredding leaves
I have a blower/vacumn and it puts out more dust than I can handle to still breath. I regret that we even bought it. I'm considering a push mower shredder next year but don't want to waste more money if there is a better way. What methods/ideas do you have?
I've tried chipper/shredder - intake slot too small for lots of leaves, it's designed for twigs and small branches.
Flowtron - absolute junk, also created enormous amount of dust if/when you can get it to work.
Leaf vac/shredder - broke it the first time I was able to pull hard enough to get it started.
Next up - mulch mower.
I have an electric blower/vac/shredder--LOVE it, use the snot out of it! Dusty, yes, but so much faster than trying to rake and bag the leaves, and shreddes them smaller than the mower with bagger on, just as dusty. Hey, forgive me, I just finished shoveling that white 4 letter word! SNOW!!! Only to have the plow put snow from the road in my driveway.
Keeping with the 'green' mode, I put my leaves in one of the big clear bags that Starbucks UGCs come in, then I sit on it, then squish it, then sit on it again, then squish it some more, then I put it near the fence to start composting with the UGS and moisture left in the bag and add the cool crumbly leaves as needed. I have fun sittin and squishin the leaves. Burning MY energy, not the earth's.
I agree about the Flowtron, I bought one used a couple months ago, and broke it already.
I finally remembered that my blower could be used as a vac, and I've had pretty good success with that. It's a bit dusty, but since the bag is behind me, I don't think it's as bad as using the mower where the bag is in front of me.
I don't have anyplace to keep the cyclone rake and would have to stress a long time putting that much money out for it but it looks like a dream. Think it may have to be a mulching mower. Thanks for letting me know that I am not the only one that has a dusty shredder. I asked hubbey if it was together right and I got a stern YES.
I'm with tiffy - love my B&D LawnHog. Ladycraft have you tried tieing a towel or maybe a plastic sheet shroud to capture dust till it falls to ground. If you could make that work you would have a product to sell because it would sure make that chore more pleasant.
I guess I'm in the minority, but I LOVE my Flowtron! It makes the best shredded leaves I've ever seen. Yes, it's incredibly dusty, but if it bothers me, I'll just pop on a dust mask, which I don't usually bother with. The drawbacks IMO are it doesn't do well with sticks or wet leaves, and I think it really was made for people with smaller yards. I could never do my whole property with it, because it is very time consuming, but I've got about 25 bags of shredded leaves stored up so far, and I'll do a few more this week, and then blow the rest of the leaves into the woods. If time and weather allow, I often rake the leaves back out of the woods during the winter to shred more leaves for my spring mulch.
Some people have complained that the Flowtron's motor doesn't last, but I wonder if, again, it was made to be used in smaller yards and therefore run in shorter spurts, or at least run for less time overall. I rake up a bag, shred it, turn off the machine, rake another bag, shred it, etc. I don't keep the motor running continuously.
I really need what Lloyd has. Maybe some day. Bradley sounds like he has the most fun way. One could round up the neighborhood kids for that and get it done in one afternoon.
I'm with bradley787. Instead of using fossil fuels (and money) to break down the leaves, I do the following:
Rake up leaves into a large trash container; stomp them down inside the container; continue filling and stomping until it's full; dump it into chicken wire bin; stomp the leaves in the bin some more (this probably is a great show for my neighbors!); keep filling and stomping the bin til full.
You can get an amazing amount of leaves into a small space this way. It's decent exercise, too.
And it's true that the leaves probably don't break down as quickly as if I'd mower-mulched them, but I've found that by the end of the following summer, the previous fall's leaves are almost gone. In part due to application in the garden and compost pile; in part due to just breaking down.
I pulled up GardenWeb to exult over the several hours of raking, shredding and spreading leaves I put in yesterday and today.
I have the Flowtron shredder, and when the leaves are dry, WOW. We've had freezing weather for awhile now and the leaves seem 'freeze-dried'. They whoosed through. I've run it for lots of hours this season, and am very happy with it. My first one was bought second hand, and I think because I put lots of wet leaves in, it didn't last long. So I bought a new one, and it has served me well for two seasons.
I started with an electric blower/shredder, and was not nearly as happy with it--bag too small, heavy unit. I have a very large yard with many huge trees. I don't rake and shred everything, but I do enough to spread over all my flower beds and ring the trees. The key definitely is do them when they're dry.
I wear glasses and it is a struggle with a mask. Either dust or they steam over from breathing. Maybe I should just be honest and admit I don't want to do it. I kind of like the stomping with bradley787 and greenbeans. The grand kids would love it! I did use the tiller in a pile of them and it helped. The neighbors are sure I'm strange anyway after the flash light and salt thing to get slugs.
I've shredded many leaves many ways and each way has it's why's and why nuts. I have had at least 10 flowtrons and I loved each and every one of them, two I bought (and funny enough those were both craftsman knock offs) one for 80 or so bucks and the one I am using now for 10 bucks (yard sale) all the rest were given to me or I salvaged from some ones trash pile, and just like any tool, it is made to work only so hard, and isn't made to work like a gas powered leaf shredder (read "lawnmower") but if you feed em right you'll be able to control where the leaves go, like into a trash can so it can be added to a "PALLET COMPOST BIN"
I have also shredded up leaves using a lawn mower and let me tell ya for mass reduction this is the way to go, it's also a lot of work, but another way to shred leaves is to put them in the curb and as cars drive over them they become more crushed and compacted=ready for the bin.
But with all that being said the only reason in my mind to shred leaves is to fit more leaves into a smaller area and/or to make McCompost (fast compost that is....garden gold....make some tea....)but here in Maryland when I make compost, its for the spring, so I can wait from late November to.. lets say.. May to use my compost. (even though I always have some finished compost on hand to use when I need it) but if you have enough room to make a pile four feet wide, eight feet tall and eight feet long (like i have behind my shed) then the mass will make up for any shredding by getting hot and as long as you keep it wet (most of my compost piles are prone to drying out and if you ask me you can never get a pallet bin too wet AND with THAT being said, when I was on the compost farm I had a harder time keeping the windrows wet then worrying about them being too wet. My pallet bins never get too wet even if I pump too much water into them cuz ----wait for it---- THEY DRAIN, each and every time they get too much water, they drain.
One must wonder sometimes how strange the neighbors think we are... I have brought home loads of stuff this year that I try to incorporate quickly into it's place in the garden, just so maybe fewer neighbors will notice. I was actually going to dump some OPBL on my front lawn and mow them in (I don't really have many trees of my own yet), but first the the weather wasn't cooperating on the weekdays (when everyone else is gone), then I ended up using most of what I collected in other places.
professor dirt, if I could make a pile of leaves that big without A) the whole thing blowing away, off into the prairie or B) my neighbors deciding to come after me (I'm still pretty new here), I would probably do it! Don't think I'd bother to chop them up either.
"...One must wonder sometimes how strange the neighbors think we are..."
LOL! So true. One of my neighbors is a bit of a neat freak. He mows his lawn every three days and is yard is always spotless. He has fewer trees than I do, and not only is he out there every day with his (loud) machines cleaning them up, many of them blow into my yard anyway.
I, on the other hand, always just wait until December to clean up my leaves. Oh, I shred a lot of them here and there, but don't do serious yard clean-up till the first or second week of December. Why bother any earlier? You clean them up and the next day the yard is buried again.
So I can only wonder what this neighbor thought when I had a huge dump truck pull in my yard, a yard so full of leaves you could walk and get the leaf equivalent of snow-blind, lol, and the truck proceeded to dump a huge pile of shredded leaves in my driveway. I'm sure he was wondering why I was getting MORE leaves when I don't clean up what I have!
Not to mention the neighbor who caught me last January raking leaves OUT of the woods to shred. He looked at me a bit strangely too....
If I was your neighbor Dee, I'd just mulch mow them into your lawn for you when I was mowing my lawn. You need a better neighbor!! LOL!
Why do I love mulch mowing leaves so much! I'm like a little kid in a toy shop for Godsakes.
Funny how the simple things in life can be so rewarding.
I just finished mowing the last few bags of leaves into the lawn today. Time for winter - oh well, no gardening to speak of for a few months.
Total leaf bags this year was about 42 (not to mention my own trees and leaves from the next-door neighbors' trees). More leaves than I needed obviously but I couldn't stop!!


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Equity Research Q&A with Flake
ERMod (Andy) note: This thread is from December '11, but Flake said he is still up for answering questions, so fire away
Given the holiday season, I'm in a relatively good mood and feel the need to give back a little. I've seen a bunch of these "fielding questions" threads and I thought they were extremely helpful.
I am a week away from hitting my one year anniversary of being in a BB research role and I figured this would be a good time to do an entry-level Q&A session on ER. I will do my best to answer any questions and PM's. It might take me some time to get back to you with all the family crap going on this weekend.
Quick disclaimer: there are a few things I will not feel comfortable discussing given my relatively short time in ER, as I don't want to spread misinformation and will note when I'm not 100% sure. Sometimes, I will simply respond with an "I don't know" to questions that are out of my league. Additionally, I came from a back/middle-office job (also spent a year there) and will answer any questions that have to do with that.
Mods, if there is not enough interest or if this was done before, please delete the thread and I will attempt to do this again next year.
Under my tutelage, you will grow from boys to men. From men into gladiators. And from gladiators into SWANSONS.
What is your career path? You
IBWhat is your career path? You mentioned you came from a back-middle-office job....
What is the most attractive thing in your job?
What do you research?
Thanks for the thread!
What's a typical day like? To
COWhat's a typical day like? To get more specific, what did you do at work last Thursday? What time did you get in and out?
Thanks for doing this.
How did you break into ER
OCould you comment on the
OCould you comment on the valuation models used; does anyone use DCF on the sell-side or is it all forecasting next quarters earnings and attaching a PE multiple? In terms of the work you do, what % is modelling and what % is report writing?
what do you think is the
?what do you think is the best type of preparation for your work - pick a specific sector and learn everything you can about it? or is it practically useless, considering the quality of information I am missing out on by not being at a bank? (i'm an undergrad)
As I work at the other end of
AMAs I work at the other end of your output, how do you find dealing with the buy-side? Do you ever come away feeling this guy/client know (or doesn't) know his stuff?
Anything you wish you could tell clients that you wouldn't say in a 1 on 1?
Awesome, here's another: How
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How much accounting knowledge is used in the way you research a company?
febreeze wrote: Awesome,
STAwesome, here's another:
How much accounting knowledge is used in the way you research a company?
Why did you go for equity
?Why did you go for equity research on the trading side, instead of say asset management?
Dear Flake, If one puts in
?Dear Flake,
If one puts in the effort and completes 2 or 3 levels of the CFA, does a reasonable amount of networking, and is willing to back it all up with an MBA if necessary, is a transition to ER from an unrelated field (let's hypothetically say public accounting) feasible? Given a reasonably qualified candidate in that scenario, do you think the MBA would be necessary?
I'm an accounting major, and
?I'm an accounting major, and economics minor - do you think I'm at a disadvantage compared with finance majors, when it comes to being more prepared for an equity research role?
Also, how much interaction between you and the traders on a daily basis?
And how much time do you spend on the phone with people who work at the company you are researching?
Flake wrote: There are plenty
HFThere are plenty of CFAs
Good thread, thanks for taking the time to do another one of these.
thanks for the info, man. +1
?thanks for the info, man. +1
I'm also wondering, how much
?I'm also wondering, how much training do you get on writing reports?
You said you shadowed them, and they were impressed; but what was the training like afterwards?
Flake, This is all dead on in
This is all dead on in my opinion. I took a bit of a different route and am not at a BB, rather am with an independent ER shop. But one of the key things that I think you point out is that the report writing is about 75% of the job -- modeling is important, but creating a cogent piece that is well thought out is critical. Wish this would have been on here a year ago, would have saved me some errors (particularly pitching an apparel stock to a great retail analyst haha).
Enjoy the holidays!
trying to start gathering
Otrying to start gathering votes for 2012 member of the year I see, thanks for the post Flake
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P.S. Awesome stuff flake
"Look, you're my best friend, so don't take this the wrong way. In twenty years, if you're still livin' here, comin' over to my house to watch the Patriots games, still workin' construction, I'll fuckin' kill you. That's not a threat, that's a fact.
Useful information. Did you
IAUseful information. Did you cold call or cold email the research guys when you were starting your networking?
How many reports would you
?How many reports would you say that you work on per week?
Also, if you can share, what is the process by which you gather all the information for a report, i.e. what are the steps from picking a company to handing the report to your analyst?
I have access to a bloomberg terminal through my school, and would like to develop a basic research technique.
febreeze wrote: Also, if you
OAlso, if you can share, what is the process by which you gather all the information for a report, i.e. what are the steps from picking a company to handing the report to your analyst?
Seconding this.
As an undergraduate hoping to break into ER, what are some suggested resources and books we should be reading (besides the usual - WSJ, FT, Graham and Dodd, etc.)? It seems that most jobs open for ER require several years' experience -- do you have any advice for individuals who are trying to get in right after undergrad? In addition, do you know if it is generally easy (or possible) to go from IB --> ER? Or should I instead be trying for S&T --> ER?
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Flake, this is actually,
PEFlake, this is actually, like, really good. Your story is SO awesome. Thanks for sharing all of this.
Flake, Good post man, but can
Good post man, but can you tell everyone what you did to build your confidence(Knowledge/skill) to approach someone for a shadow opportunity?
Clever got me this far
Then tricky got me in
Eye on what i'm after
I don't need another friend
Smile and drop the cliche
'Till you think I'm listening
I take just what I came for
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HFtrying to start gathering votes for 2012 member of the year I see, thanks for the post Flake
I am re-visiting my philosophy and approach to WSO as part of my quarter-life crisis.
To think that one WSO happy hour could have so profound of an effect on a man's life...
Do you think fundamentals
ODo you think fundamentals will always beat probability analysis?
blastoise wrote: Do you think
?Do you think fundamentals will always beat probability analysis?
I don't know if this is meant as a joke or not, but I definitely laughed...
awesome. so, how do you (or
so, how do you (or the analyst) get from the point of just gathering all of the data to deciding what is important enough to mention in the reports?
Is the initial training specific to your sector, or is it general? Because if it is general, I'd like to know how you decide to filter the bullshit from the data.
this seems like a fairly investigative type of job, so how do you develop that intuition? just experience, or is there some sort of a list you check off? I mean, obviously, every analyst has to decide to a certain point - but I figure there is also some sort of a standard process?
do you feel that the depth of
Odo you feel that the depth of research on the sell side is lacking in some regards? I.E. do alot of sell siders just stamp a "buy" rating on a shit stock to appease buyside clients who hold the stock, and not piss off management of the company they are covering? I guess my question is how much do the politics of sell side ER play into the integrity of your rating? I know it probably differs from analyst to analyst but I would be curious to get a no BS assessment. Thanks Flake.
Here's the thing. If you can't spot the sucker in the first half hour at the table, you are the sucker.
How often are you right? Are
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RUSSELL -- The dilapidated Sky-Vu Drive-In Theatre sign in Russell is the last remnant of a bygone era, but its legacy has inspired a movement to restore the venue to its heyday.
Nostalgia united approximately 40 people who attended an information meeting Thursday in the Dream Theatre, 629 N. Main. The cinema's team shared their vision for the new drive-in, and they solicited input for other features, concessions and off-time revenue sources.
Steve Wells, the theater's manager, led the meeting and explained a 10-acre property is available next to the original site. The business closed in 1982 after showing films for 32 years.
Although the passage of time has evolved the movie experience to include watching Netflix on iPads, the meeting suggested the community supports reviving the classic drive-in experience.
"It's retouching those fond memories they have of going with their parents and going to the show in their pajamas and throwing out a blanket or a mattress in the back of the pickup in the open air and watching the movie," Wells said.
The undertaking is estimated to cost at least $500,000. The aging sign would be restored, a screen would be purchased and a concessions building would be constructed. Sound would play through FM radio, but attendees urged for the classic speaker boxes to be an option.
The drive-in could play new and classic movies, and it also could broadcast sporting events. Wells said it is likely each person would buy a ticket instead of a flat rate for each vehicle. At least 250 vehicles could park on the property.
Possible concession items were considered. The most popular idea was the flying saucer, which was a popular dish in Russell in the past. It is a panini-style sandwich that can be filled with a variety of ingredients. Hot dogs, hamburgers, chicken tenders, ice cream and cotton candy also were among the suggestions.
Off-time revenue sources were explored. Car shows, flea markets, swap meets, laser tag, concerts and mini-golf were proposed.
Audience members asked the group to create a Facebook page for updates and set up a PayPal account for donations.
Sheryl Krug, an attendee from Russell, said she was impressed by the early plan. She remembered sitting on her porch as a child and seeing the drive-in theatre's screen from a distance in the horizon.
"You're selling more than a movie, you're selling an entire experience," she said.
Aside from the economic benefit of attracting visitors, the drive-would offer moviegoers a moment of escape.
"I think there's just some of that the world has gotten too big and too fast, and let's go sit in our car and turn on the radio and watch a movie," she said.
To learn more, call the Dream Theatre at (785) 445-1949.


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It wasn't a particularly ceremonious end. It seems likely one of Fort Lauderdale's best, most kitschy locales is now dead in the water. The truth is, nobody was too sure about the fate of the Wreck Bar -- that underwater, mermaid-showing throwback to a simpler Florida of yesteryear -- at what might have been the final happy hour on Friday.
The Yankee Clipper is closing for renovations, and there have been no promises on the future of the fantastic sunken-ship bar. Sitting there, you couldn't help but think that the dank wooden planks on the ceiling and gold coin-laden tables seem destined -- like so much of Old Florida -- for sacrifice in the name of mirror-covered, ultra-hip nightclubs or sky-high, corporate-owned cement edifices that shoot up from the beach like sharp, unchecked teeth in South Florida's collective mouth.
The Wreck Bar was featured in perhaps the most memorable scene in Where the Boys Are and again years later in Analyze This, with Robert DeNiro and Billy Crystal. The dark old watering hole has always satiated my urge to down not-so-cheap, not-so-stiff drinks with not-so-glamorous yacht owners while riding the Pirates of the Caribbean ride at Disney World. Also, it's a great place to take out-of-towners you know will be dazzled by drinking beneath the magical blue glow from the portholes behind the bar.
Marina, resident mermaid at Wreck Bar for the past three years, will still be eating fire at Off the Hookah and she'll still performing as a mermaid at Bahia Cabana for Hukilau. But it's likely this was her last time to peer out at these stunned drinkers, her eyes shot with red and her hair fluttering in the water.
The final happy hour (final, barring an intervention of good sense at the Sheraton Corp.) was not heavily attended. Actually, there may have been more children there than adults. I expected there to be tears, old drunks clinging to greasy old ropes wrapped around the old boat wood, and loyal patrons bidding on relics. (Who wouldn't want a table with sand and fake gold sealed inside?) But it was quiet and slow, and Marina's last mermaid show there was over by 7 p.m.
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In electrical engineering and control theory, a Bode plot /ˈboʊdi/ is a graph of the frequency response of a system. It is usually a combination of a Bode magnitude plot, expressing the magnitude of the frequency response, and a Bode phase plot, expressing the phase shift. Both quantities are plotted against a horizontal axis proportional to the logarithm of frequency.
For many practical problems, the detailed Bode plots can be approximated with straight-line segments that are asymptotes of the precise response. The effect of each of the terms of a multiple element transfer function can be approximated by a set of straight lines on a Bode plot. This allows a graphical solution of the overall frequency response function. Before widespread availability of digital computers, graphical methods were extensively used to reduce the need for tedious calculation; a graphical solution could be used to identify feasible ranges of parameters for a new design.
Among his several important contributions to circuit theory and control theory, engineer Hendrik Wade Bode, while working at Bell Labs in the United States in the 1930s, devised a simple but accurate method for graphing gain and phase-shift plots. These bear his name, Bode gain plot and Bode phase plot. "Bode" is pronounced /ˈboʊdi/ BOH-dee (Dutch: [ˈboːdə]).[1][2]
Bode was faced with the problem of designing stable amplifiers with feedback for use in telephone networks. He developed the graphical design technique of the Bode plots to show the gain margin and phase margin required to maintain stability under variations in circuit characteristics caused during manufacture or during operation. [3] The principles developed were applied to design problems of servomechanisms and other feedback control systems. The Bode plot is an example of analysis in the frequency domain.
The magnitude axis of the Bode plot is usually expressed as decibels of power, that is by the 20 log rule: 20 times the common (base 10) logarithm of the amplitude gain. With the magnitude gain being logarithmic, Bode plots make multiplication of magnitudes a simple matter of adding distances on the graph (in decibels), since
A Bode phase plot is a graph of phase versus frequency, also plotted on a log-frequency axis, usually used in conjunction with the magnitude plot, to evaluate how much a signal will be phase-shifted. For example a signal described by: Asin(ωt) may be attenuated but also phase-shifted. If the system attenuates it by a factor x and phase shifts it by −Φ the signal out of the system will be (A/x) sin(ωt − Φ). The phase shift Φ is generally a function of frequency.
Phase can also be added directly from the graphical values, a fact that is mathematically clear when phase is seen as the imaginary part of the complex logarithm of a complex gain.
In Figure 1(a), the Bode plots are shown for the one-pole highpass filter function:
where f is the frequency in Hz, and f1 is the pole position in Hz, f1 = 100 Hz in the figure. Using the rules for complex numbers, the magnitude of this function is
while the phase is:
Care must be taken that the inverse tangent is set up to return degrees, not radians. On the Bode magnitude plot, decibels are used, and the plotted magnitude is:
In Figure 1(b), the Bode plots are shown for the one-pole lowpass filter function:
Also shown in Figure 1(a) and 1(b) are the straight-line approximations to the Bode plots that are used in hand analysis, and described later.
The magnitude and phase Bode plots can seldom be changed independently of each other — changing the amplitude response of the system will most likely change the phase characteristics and vice versa. For minimum-phase systems the phase and amplitude characteristics can be obtained from each other with the use of the Hilbert transform.
If the transfer function is a rational function with real poles and zeros, then the Bode plot can be approximated with straight lines. These asymptotic approximations are called straight line Bode plots or uncorrected Bode plots and are useful because they can be drawn by hand following a few simple rules. Simple plots can even be predicted without drawing them.
The approximation can be taken further by correcting the value at each cutoff frequency. The plot is then called a corrected Bode plot.
The premise of a Bode plot is that one can consider the log of a function in the form:
as a sum of the logs of its poles and zeros:
This idea is used explicitly in the method for drawing phase diagrams. The method for drawing amplitude plots implicitly uses this idea, but since the log of the amplitude of each pole or zero always starts at zero and only has one asymptote change (the straight lines), the method can be simplified.
Amplitude decibels is usually done using to define decibels. Given a transfer function in the form
where and are constants, , , and H is the transfer function:
To handle irreducible 2nd order polynomials, can, in many cases, be approximated as .
Note that zeros and poles happen when ω is equal to a certain or . This is because the function in question is the magnitude of H(jω), and since it is a complex function, . Thus at any place where there is a zero or pole involving the term , the magnitude of that term is .
To correct a straight-line amplitude plot:
Note that this correction method does not incorporate how to handle complex values of or . In the case of an irreducible polynomial, the best way to correct the plot is to actually calculate the magnitude of the transfer function at the pole or zero corresponding to the irreducible polynomial, and put that dot over or under the line at that pole or zero.
Given a transfer function in the same form as above:
the idea is to draw separate plots for each pole and zero, then add them up. The actual phase curve is given by .
To draw the phase plot, for each pole and zero:
A passive (unity pass band gain) lowpass RC filter, for instance has the following transfer function expressed in the frequency domain:
From the transfer function it can be determined that the cutoff frequency point fc (in hertz) is at the frequency
The transfer function in terms of the angular frequencies becomes:
The above equation is the normalized form of the transfer function. The Bode plot is shown in Figure 1(b) above, and construction of the straight-line approximation is discussed next.
The magnitude (in decibels) of the transfer function above, (normalized and converted to angular frequency form), given by the decibel gain expression :
when plotted versus input frequency on a logarithmic scale, can be approximated by two lines and it forms the asymptotic (approximate) magnitude Bode plot of the transfer function:
These two lines meet at the corner frequency. From the plot, it can be seen that for frequencies well below the corner frequency, the circuit has an attenuation of 0 dB, corresponding to a unity pass band gain, i.e. the amplitude of the filter output equals the amplitude of the input. Frequencies above the corner frequency are attenuated – the higher the frequency, the higher the attenuation.
The phase Bode plot is obtained by plotting the phase angle of the transfer function given by
versus , where and are the input and cutoff angular frequencies respectively. For input frequencies much lower than corner, the ratio is small and therefore the phase angle is close to zero. As the ratio increases the absolute value of the phase increases and becomes –45 degrees when . As the ratio increases for input frequencies much greater than the corner frequency, the phase angle asymptotically approaches −90 degrees. The frequency scale for the phase plot is logarithmic.
The horizontal frequency axis, in both the magnitude and phase plots, can be replaced by the normalized (nondimensional) frequency ratio . In such a case the plot is said to be normalized and units of the frequencies are no longer used since all input frequencies are now expressed as multiples of the cutoff frequency .
Figures 2-5 further illustrate construction of Bode plots. This example with both a pole and a zero shows how to use superposition. To begin, the components are presented separately.
Figure 2 shows the Bode magnitude plot for a zero and a low-pass pole, and compares the two with the Bode straight line plots. The straight-line plots are horizontal up to the pole (zero) location and then drop (rise) at 20 dB/decade. The second Figure 3 does the same for the phase. The phase plots are horizontal up to a frequency factor of ten below the pole (zero) location and then drop (rise) at 45°/decade until the frequency is ten times higher than the pole (zero) location. The plots then are again horizontal at higher frequencies at a final, total phase change of 90°.
Figure 4 and Figure 5 show how superposition (simple addition) of a pole and zero plot is done. The Bode straight line plots again are compared with the exact plots. The zero has been moved to higher frequency than the pole to make a more interesting example. Notice in Figure 4 that the 20 dB/decade drop of the pole is arrested by the 20 dB/decade rise of the zero resulting in a horizontal magnitude plot for frequencies above the zero location. Notice in Figure 5 in the phase plot that the straight-line approximation is pretty approximate in the region where both pole and zero affect the phase. Notice also in Figure 5 that the range of frequencies where the phase changes in the straight line plot is limited to frequencies a factor of ten above and below the pole (zero) location. Where the phase of the pole and the zero both are present, the straight-line phase plot is horizontal because the 45°/decade drop of the pole is arrested by the overlapping 45°/decade rise of the zero in the limited range of frequencies where both are active contributors to the phase.
Bode plots are used to assess the stability of negative feedback amplifiers by finding the gain and phase margins of an amplifier. The notion of gain and phase margin is based upon the gain expression for a negative feedback amplifier given by
where AFB is the gain of the amplifier with feedback (the closed-loop gain), β is the feedback factor and AOL is the gain without feedback (the open-loop gain). The gain AOL is a complex function of frequency, with both magnitude and phase.[note 1] Examination of this relation shows the possibility of infinite gain (interpreted as instability) if the product βAOL = −1. (That is, the magnitude of βAOL is unity and its phase is −180°, the so-called Barkhausen stability criterion). Bode plots are used to determine just how close an amplifier comes to satisfying this condition.
Key to this determination are two frequencies. The first, labeled here as f180, is the frequency where the open-loop gain flips sign. The second, labeled here f0dB, is the frequency where the magnitude of the product | β AOL | = 1 (in dB, magnitude 1 is 0 dB). That is, frequency f180 is determined by the condition:
where vertical bars denote the magnitude of a complex number (for example, | a + j b | = [ a2 + b2]1/2 ), and frequency f0dB is determined by the condition:
One measure of proximity to instability is the gain margin. The Bode phase plot locates the frequency where the phase of βAOL reaches −180°, denoted here as frequency f180. Using this frequency, the Bode magnitude plot finds the magnitude of βAOL. If |βAOL|180 = 1, the amplifier is unstable, as mentioned. If |βAOL|180 < 1, instability does not occur, and the separation in dB of the magnitude of |βAOL|180 from |βAOL| = 1 is called the gain margin. Because a magnitude of one is 0 dB, the gain margin is simply one of the equivalent forms: 20 log10( |βAOL|180) = 20 log10( |AOL|180) − 20 log10( 1 / β ).
Another equivalent measure of proximity to instability is the phase margin. The Bode magnitude plot locates the frequency where the magnitude of |βAOL| reaches unity, denoted here as frequency f0dB. Using this frequency, the Bode phase plot finds the phase of βAOL. If the phase of βAOL( f0dB) > −180°, the instability condition cannot be met at any frequency (because its magnitude is going to be < 1 when f = f180), and the distance of the phase at f0dB in degrees above −180° is called the phase margin.
If a simple yes or no on the stability issue is all that is needed, the amplifier is stable if f0dB < f180. This criterion is sufficient to predict stability only for amplifiers satisfying some restrictions on their pole and zero positions (minimum phase systems). Although these restrictions usually are met, if they are not another method must be used, such as the Nyquist plot.[4][5] Optimal gain and phase margins may be computed using Nevanlinna–Pick interpolation theory.[6]
Figures 6 and 7 illustrate the gain behavior and terminology. For a three-pole amplifier, Figure 6 compares the Bode plot for the gain without feedback (the open-loop gain) AOL with the gain with feedback AFB (the closed-loop gain). See negative feedback amplifier for more detail.
In this example, AOL = 100 dB at low frequencies, and 1 / β = 58 dB. At low frequencies, AFB ≈ 58 dB as well.
Because the open-loop gain AOL is plotted and not the product β AOL, the condition AOL = 1 / β decides f0dB. The feedback gain at low frequencies and for large AOL is AFB ≈ 1 / β (look at the formula for the feedback gain at the beginning of this section for the case of large gain AOL), so an equivalent way to find f0dB is to look where the feedback gain intersects the open-loop gain. (Frequency f0dB is needed later to find the phase margin.)
Near this crossover of the two gains at f0dB, the Barkhausen criteria are almost satisfied in this example, and the feedback amplifier exhibits a massive peak in gain (it would be infinity if β AOL = −1). Beyond the unity gain frequency f0dB, the open-loop gain is sufficiently small that AFB ≈ AOL (examine the formula at the beginning of this section for the case of small AOL).
Figure 7 shows the corresponding phase comparison: the phase of the feedback amplifier is nearly zero out to the frequency f180 where the open-loop gain has a phase of −180°. In this vicinity, the phase of the feedback amplifier plunges abruptly downward to become almost the same as the phase of the open-loop amplifier. (Recall, AFB ≈ AOL for small AOL.)
Comparing the labeled points in Figure 6 and Figure 7, it is seen that the unity gain frequency f0dB and the phase-flip frequency f180 are very nearly equal in this amplifier, f180 ≈ f0dB ≈ 3.332 kHz, which means the gain margin and phase margin are nearly zero. The amplifier is borderline stable.
Figures 8 and 9 illustrate the gain margin and phase margin for a different amount of feedback β. The feedback factor is chosen smaller than in Figure 6 or 7, moving the condition | β AOL | = 1 to lower frequency. In this example, 1 / β = 77 dB, and at low frequencies AFB ≈ 77 dB as well.
Figure 8 shows the gain plot. From Figure 8, the intersection of 1 / β and AOL occurs at f0dB = 1 kHz. Notice that the peak in the gain AFB near f0dB is almost gone.[note 2][7]
Figure 9 is the phase plot. Using the value of f0dB = 1 kHz found above from the magnitude plot of Figure 8, the open-loop phase at f0dB is −135°, which is a phase margin of 45° above −180°.
Using Figure 9, for a phase of −180° the value of f180 = 3.332 kHz (the same result as found earlier, of course[note 3]). The open-loop gain from Figure 8 at f180 is 58 dB, and 1 / β = 77 dB, so the gain margin is 19 dB.
Stability is not the sole criterion for amplifier response, and in many applications a more stringent demand than stability is good step response. As a rule of thumb, good step response requires a phase margin of at least 45°, and often a margin of over 70° is advocated, particularly where component variation due to manufacturing tolerances is an issue.[7] See also the discussion of phase margin in the step response article.
The Bode plotter is an electronic instrument resembling an oscilloscope, which produces a Bode diagram, or a graph, of a circuit's voltage gain or phase shift plotted against frequency in a feedback control system or a filter. An example of this is shown in Figure 10. It is extremely useful for analyzing and testing filters and the stability of feedback control systems, through the measurement of corner (cutoff) frequencies and gain and phase margins.
This is identical to the function performed by a vector network analyzer, but the network analyzer is typically used at much higher frequencies.
For education/research purposes, plotting Bode diagrams for given transfer functions facilitates better understanding and getting faster results (see external links).
Two related plots that display the same data in different coordinate systems are the Nyquist plot and the Nichols plot. These are parametric plots, with frequency as the input and magnitude and phase of the frequency response as the output. The Nyquist plot displays these in polar coordinates, with magnitude mapping to radius and phase to argument (angle). The Nichols plot displays these in rectangular coordinates, on the log scale.
A Nyquist plot.
A Nichols plot of the same response.
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