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Newly built ESP P03 (not 3A) - rail to rail oscillation - suggestions?
I built Rod Elliott's P03 (not P3A) 60 watt power amplifier.
I have built it on stripboard, which I know is not ideal, but I have checked and re-checked my board layout, and yet I have a weird problem. (I have only built one channel so far, in case of problems like this!)
I used the second schematic here:
High Quality 60 Watt Power Amplifier
At first the amplifier appeared to be playing music, but after a while would latch up to one of the rails with a loud 'hum' and stop working. I decided to change out the two "long-tailed pair" transistors on the input. Note that, although I'm not sure if this makes a big difference or not, I am using BC556s here instead of BC559s - however, until I did this the amp was indeed working, so I don't know if this is the cause of the following problem in itself.
Now, whatever I've done, the amp goes into full rail-to-rail oscillation at about 100khz as soon as it's switched on.
Photo from scope taken at speaker output: (10v/div, 5us/div)
I have made a post over at the ESP forums and one of the guys there has given me some helpful suggestions which I will try tonight, but I just thought I'd put it to you guys too as I know some of you have built this amp and might have some ideas about what could be causing this to happen!
Check those two 100pF caps.
Those around BD139 and BD140.
They normally protects for oscillations.
Also check the output terminal, the 10 Ohm and 100nF cap.
Do you have any decoupling capacitors on your board's power supply rails? The schematic doesnt show any, but they are absolutely essential.
Incidentally, why did you build this schematic over P3A ?
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by James Brumley | June 20, 2012 9:51 am
This week, I discussed some trading thoughts[1] on Arena Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ:ARNA[2]) as its weight-loss drug lorcaserin approaches its D-Day with the FDA.
Perhaps you read it. Maybe you even read it and then lined up with pitchforks in hand to skewer me. That's fine; I'm pretty thick-skinned.
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Optimer Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ:OPTR[5]) was absolutely on fire leading up to the FDA decision date on Dificid. Shares had gained 32% for the year right though the approval date on May 27, 2011. And why not? Dificid is a treatment for Clostridium difficile, which is a severe — sometimes life-threatening — form of diarrhea that is particularly problematic for cancer patients. There's a real need for a solution here.
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Working with GlaxoSmithKline (NYSE:GSK[6]), XenoPort (NASDAQ:XNPT[7]) won FDA approval for its restless leg syndrome drug, Horizant, back on April 6, 2011. The stock did jump in a major way that day, and given the fact that XNPT wasn't already rising headed into the decision, the approval was a surprise.
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Rodney Ledward, 58, a consultant who faces being struck off, is alleged to have perforated a patient's bladder and blocked a tube from her kidneys during a hysterectomy.
The hearing was told that the woman, known only as patient 4, was clearly bleeding after the procedure, but the surgeon did not investigate the cause. Instead he ordered a test, turned off his mobile phone and left St Saviour's private hospital in Hythe, Kent, after the operation in January 1996.
Consultant surgeon Charles Derry said he was called to see the woman, who was left leaking urine after an operation where her healthy ovaries were removed without consent.
Mr Derry, from Saltwood, Kent, said she was suffering from a damaged ureter tube leading from her kidneys to her bladder. He tried unsuccessfully to pass a tube to her kidney, but could not get it through because of a blockage. Instead, he had to put in a "stent" as a temporary measure until an operation could repair the damage done by Mr Ledward.
Mr Derry condemned Mr Ledward for allegedly delegating an inexperienced locum registrar to perform a difficult operation on an obese 17-stone woman who had an abscess in her womb, then failing to take action as her condition deteriorated.
After the operation, which Mr Ledward allegedly delegated, the woman's wound "burst as she was being wheeled to the operating theatre for an emergency operation", he said.
Dr Hugh Bradfield, a consultant anaesthetist for 18 years, spoke about private patient 10. Mr Ledward allegedly told her that the NHS would not grant her request for an epidural and for her husband to be present. Dr Bradfield said such a request normally would have been granted.
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"Hi," you say. "I'm here to see about buying this house. This house is the one from Twin Peaks, right? Where Laura Palmer lived?"
"Why of course!" says the real estate agent, who inexplicably has a French Canadian accent. "Let me show you around! This is a very beautiful property, with 3 bedrooms and 2.5 baths, very good for smashing your head against a mirror."
"Is that a metaphor?" you ask. "For the show?"
The realtor shrugs, and suddenly he is eating a can of creamed corn and laughing, laughing hysterically.
"So tell me," you say, walking around the man, whose eyes are white with cataracts. His mouth is full of black mush. "Does this horse come with the living room?"
"Oh most certainly!" says the man, cleaning himself off. "It's actually part of the living room. But don't worry, it's only here once in awhile. If you stay away from mixing Ambien and red wine, you shouldn't have any problems with the horse."
You nod, but inside you know this will be an issue going forward.
"But I must tell you, says the man. "The horse, she is dead." He shrugs. "We beat her, regardless."
"Okay," you say, surveying the moulding. "Now THAT is a metaphor!"
"Where??" Gasps the man, as red lights begin to flash on and off. Suddenly you are in the woods and there are those stupid human chess pieces from the second season that no one talks about, the one with Billy Zane. "Oh no, sir, that is not a metaphor," sighs the agent with relief, looking in the kitchen. "That is the director."
"What's he doing here?" You ask. "Is HE part of the house?"
"No, he's just making quinoa," admits the realtor, whose arms sometimes bend back. "But it's really spoooooooky quinoa."
You make a mental note and move on.
"And how many diaries, exactly, are associated with this property?"
"All the diaries, ma'am."
Hmm. That DOES change things. Think of what you could or could not do with all the diaries.
"And what's the deal with those birds outside?"
The realtor squints through the window. "I can't see through this damn eyepatch. What kind of birds do they look like?"
"Owls." You have done your research.
"Well, there is your answer," replies the realtor, eating some damn fine cherry pie and wearing a wig, insisting that he is actually his cousin. "They are not owls."
"I don't know," says the agent. "Just…it's here in my notes…" He flips open a page of a diary (which could be YOUR diary!), and a locket falls out. "Okay, yes. The owls are not what they appear."
"What the fuck," you say. "This is worse than Lost with the polar bears."
"Maybe the owls ARE polar bears," says the agent, helpfully. He has rudely not offered you any coffee or cherry pie, you think.
"So let's talk about price," you say, walking past a bedroom through the open door of which you see a man crouching, menacingly. "I'm going to need to knock off a few hundred grand, on account of the constant, horrifying screaming."
"What screaming?" asks the realtor.
You tap your foot.
"Okay," he relents. "It's pretty unsettling."
"And I see here in the ad that it is ceaseless?" you ask. "Is that correct? Are we talking 'Time off for the holidays and the odd weekend,' ceaseless, or 'The unending wails of a mother who just found out her child was raped and murdered out by the train tracks' ceaseless."
"The latter," the realtor nods. "Just like a turkey in the corn. Gobble gobble gobble."
"Hmmm," you say. Still, it's not as bad as that house you visited that was right next to the opening of The Leftovers.
"Okay, so one final question," you say. "Tell me straight, was anyone murdered HERE? Like directly in this home?"
"No, no," the realtor assures you. "All murders were done off-site."
You smile, because now you've got him.
"What about Maddie?"
Here, the realtor looks genuinely disconcerted, like he's remembering the remnants of a dream, or finally realizing how offensive it was to show a mentally handicapped child wearing an Indian headdress, not to mention in a Pacific Northwest town where the deputy was Native American.
"Fuck, I forgot about Maddie," the realtor grumbles under his breath.
"That's okay," you say. "We all forgot about Maddie."
You turn to leave, but the realtor bars your exit. "You haven't even seen the silent drape runners yet!" he cries, desperately. "Or your cast of kooky, if admittedly one-dimensional, neighbors! Look, there's a lady with a log! How weird is that?!"
"Sorry buddy," you say. "No sale."
"Well, leave if you must," he sniffs. "But have I mentioned how much this house makes you look like Audrey Horne?"
"Sold!" you say.
The realtor's hair turns white.
"Haha," he laughs. "Hahahaha."
"Aha," you agree. "Ahahahaha."
Then you are both midgets, or giants, or whatever, and you are dancing, and nearby somebody is screaming, screaming endlessly.


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Finally, the wait is over. New Zealand will get Apple's groundbreaking iPad tablet computer this week.
The 'giant iPod' device - which allows users to watch HD videos, play music, surf the web, read ebooks and run hundreds of interesting applications from Apple's App Store - will hit shops on Friday.
Both 3G and Wi-Fi versions of the iPad will be available through Apple resellers and the online store here.
Vodafone will not be selling the device directly but, according to a spokesperson, 3G iPads will ship with a pre-installed Vodafone microSIM card, and buyers will be able to select a plan to suit.
The 3G iPad - also Wi-Fi friendly - starts at $999 for the 16GB version, $1179 for the 32GB and a massive $1349 for the hero 64GB model.
The 16GB Wi-Fi version carries a $799 recommended retail price, with the 32GB model costing $979 and the 64GB selling for $1149.


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Committees and boards
Planning and Policy Advisory Committee
Planning and Policy Advisory Committee (PPAC) advises the Supreme Court and the director of state courts on planning initiatives, the administrative structure of the court system, and the expeditious handling of judicial matters. The committee functions as the court system's long-range planning committee.
PPAC consists of the chief justice of the Supreme Court, one judge of the court of appeals (selected by the court of appeals), 13 circuit court judges (elected in the judicial administrative districts), one municipal judge (elected by the Wisconsin Municipal Judges' Association), two people selected by the board of governors of the State Bar of Wisconsin, and the following people appointed by the chief justice: three non-lawyers (one of whom shall be an elected county official); one public defender; one court administrator; one prosecutor; one clerk of circuit court; and one court commissioner (selected alternately for one term by the Wisconsin Family Court Commissioners Association and Wisconsin Association of Judicial Court Commissioners).
Court System Budget
Supreme Court Rule 70.14(4) provides that PPAC shall be kept fully and timely informed by the director of state courts about all budgetary matters affecting the judiciary. This enables PPAC to participate in the budget process. PPAC's primary role in the budget process is to ensure that the court system's goals, as set forth in the critical issues report (see summary below), are considered as part of budget initiatives.
Planning Subcommittee
To further strengthen its planning functions and foster a participatory and inclusive decision-making process, in 2001 PPAC established a planning subcommittee. The eight-member subcommittee meets five to six times per year, gathers input from a variety of sources within and outside the court system, and identifies critical issues facing the system.
Every other year, the planning subcommittee solicits input from stakeholders about what they feel are key areas for the court system to focus on. The critical issues report is developed to:
- Identify current issues facing the court system
- Develop a process to identify specific objectives, action steps, and budget priorities for each critical issue
- Create a feedback loop to allow PPAC to routinely review and assess progress
- Adjust the planning process to better align with the biennial budget process
In the planning process for the 2016-2018 biennium an electronic survey was used to gather information from internal and external stakeholders. The survey was distributed to Supreme Court justices, court of appeals judges, chief judges, circuit court judges, circuit court commissioners, clerks of court, registers in probate, juvenile court clerks, district court administrators, PPAC members, legislators, elected county officials, district attorneys, public defenders, corporation counsel, Wisconsin Bar Association members, the department of corrections, and the department of justice. Four hundred and thirty-two (432) survey responses were received.
The survey identified three critical issues to focus on during the 2016-2018 biennium:
- Substance abuse
- Judicial independence, selection, compensation, and ethics
- Child welfare and juvenile justice
The full 2016-2018 report can be found here: Critical Issues: Planning Priorities for the Wisconsin Court System 2016-2018
Previous reports:
Critical Issues: Planning Priorities for the Wisconsin Court System 2014–2016
Critical Issues: Planning Priorities for the Wisconsin Court System 2012–2014
Critical Issues: Planning Priorities for the Wisconsin Court System 2010–2012
Critical Issues: Planning Priorities for the Wisconsin Court System 2008–2010
Critical Issues: Planning Priorities for the Wisconsin Court System 2006–2008
For questions about planning activities, please contact Ann Olson in the Office of Court Operations at email@example.com or (608) 261-7550.
Court Security Subcommittee
PPAC's 2006-2008 critical issues report first identified court safety and security as a top priority. Since that time, the court security subcommittee has worked diligently to gather a complete understanding of security in Wisconsin courthouses, as well as the state of court facilities. In 2010, the subcommittee conducted a significant survey of county security procedures, technology, security personnel, architectural features, and court security requirements under Supreme Court rule and released the "State of Security" in Wisconsin Courts.
Following the report, the subcommittee drafted a Supreme Court rule petition, modifying the existing Supreme Court rules on court security in SCR chapter 70. The result was the creation of a separate rule on court security, Supreme Court Rule Chapter 68, Court Security, Facilities, and Staffing, which was released in March 2012. The rule promotes communication concerning court facilities issues and contains guidance for counties on court security and facilities, as well as prescribing duties for the director of state courts office to better assist counties on court security matters.
Counties have also gained valuable court security education and assistance through the Court Safety and Security Conference, which has been offered every year since 2009. Court officials, court staff, county administration, law enforcement and others come together at the conference to learn about important issues and trends in court security and receive helpful information to take back to their counties to improve court security. The county team approach promoted for this conference provides an opportunity for meaningful collaboration on court security and has resulted in counties making important changes to their county courthouse security measures, resulting in greater safety for court staff and the public.
Videoconferencing in Wisconsin courts
Videoconferencing is an interactive technology that sends video, voice, and data signals over a transmission circuit so that two or more individuals or groups at distant locations can communicate with each other simultaneously. Using this technology can save prisoner transportation costs, reduce travel time and costs for court officials and staff to handle out-of-county cases, improve courthouse security, improve health care to prisoners through telemedicine, allow witness testimony in civil cases to happen remotely, reduce logistical barriers to conducting meetings, and provide access to additional training/educational opportunities.
PPAC and the Wisconsin Counties Association jointly convened the Statewide Videoconferencing Committee and developed a standards of good practice manual entitled "Bridging the Distance: Implementing Videoconferencing in Wisconsin." The videoconferencing subcommittee will reconvene in February 2016 to review the manual and research more detailed technical standards for videoconferencing in the circuit courts.
"Bridging the Distance" and other videoconferencing information can be found on the court system's website: Videoconferencing Information.
Effective Justice Strategies (formerly Alternatives to Incarceration)
In 2004, PPAC identified the overcrowding of jails and prisons and alternatives to incarceration as critical issues to be addressed. In response, PPAC formed a subcommittee on alternatives to incarceration with a mission to "explore and assess the effectiveness of policies and programs, including drug and other specialty courts, designed to improve public safety and reduce incarceration."
This subcommittee, now re-named the Effective Justice Strategies Subcommittee (EJS), consists of justice system professionals both inside and outside of the court system. Working in partnership with the National Center for State Courts (NCSC), Effective Justice Strategies in Wisconsin: A Report of Findings and Recommendations was published in 2012. To date, EJS has focused its efforts on advancing the recommendations contained in the report, including establishing a State Criminal Justice Coordinating Council and creating a full-time statewide problem solving court coordinator position and a full-time evidence based practices coordinator position. EJS also continues its efforts to study current practices, develop resources, and make recommendations on research based approaches to criminal justice.
Please visit the Effective Justice Strategies Clearinghouse for information.
Limited Scope Representation Subcommittee
Limited Scope Representation-Mediation Subcommittee Report to PPAC, December 2015
Proposed rule changes to limited scope representation
PPAC has consistently identified self-represented litigants as a critical issue. The court system has reacted by developing a number of initiatives to increase litigants' access to justice, including creating statewide pro se forms and forms assistance websites, offering numerous judicial and court staff education programs on assisting self-represented litigants, and partnering with public libraries to ensure they are provided with resources to assist self represented litigants on court processes. In March 2010, PPAC created the Limited Scope Representation (LSR) Subcommittee, which was charged with researching existing limited scope representation programs both nationally and locally and recommending changes for Wisconsin.
The LSR subcommittee's work was divided into two phases. The first phase was a feasibility study. Members researched limited scope representation programming from across the country, paying particular attention to:
- Judicial and court administrator commitment and support
- Court rules that facilitate limited scope representation
- Practical and ethical training programs for lawyers
- Strong bar association and private bar support
- Self-represented litigant education and informed consent
The LSR subcommittee submitted its phase one final report to PPAC in August 2011 (PPAC Subcommittee on Limited Scope Representation Phase I Report | Executive Summary ) and moved forward with phase two, drafting a rule petition proposing changes to limited scope representation. Rule petition 13-10 was submitted to the Wisconsin Supreme Court in July 2013, recommending changes to existing Supreme Court rules and statutes, establishing procedures on how to limit legal services, and providing guidance regarding limited scope representation. The court accepted the proposed changes and the new rules became effective January 1, 2015: Supreme Court Rules, Petition 13-10 archive.
The LSR subcommittee is now developing a proposed rule that will ethically allow a lawyer mediator to draft necessary documents to complete a divorce or paternity process for parties who reach full agreement in mediation.
Past PPAC projects
From the Front Lines
"From the Front Lines," a PPAC initiative, was a quarterly 'micro' e-newsletter highlighting activities related to a specific PPAC critical issue.
Court efficiencies
The court efficiencies subcommittee investigated policy and procedural areas with the intent to create a more efficient system, while still protecting litigants' rights. The subcommittee issued a final report in 2006: Subcommittee on Court Efficiencies Final Report and Recommendations
Court Financing Subcommittee
The court financing subcommittee considered issues associated with funding and delivery of court services and tried to identify a stable, effective, and responsible funding mechanism. The subcommittee met from 2002 to 2004 and issued a final report in February 2004: final report; executive summary .
Fees and Surcharges Subcommittee
In response to the proliferation of court-imposed surcharges and the difficulty in collections, PPAC created a fees and surcharges subcommittee in 1999. The subcommittee's final report was published in November 2001 and PPAC envisioned they would be useful factual tools to explain the complex fee and surcharge process. A fee chart was also released with the final report and it is still updated when legislative changes necessitate.
The subcommittee report led PPAC to offer legislation to simplify statutory references to court-imposed surcharges. That effort was successful when 2004 Wisconsin Act 139 was signed into law. The new law consolidated all court-imposed surcharges under one section of the statutes and required a fiscal estimate for any future bill seeking to modify a surcharge or create a new one.
Alternative dispute resolution
Members of PPAC's Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) subcommittee created a valuable research and learning tool, using surveys of judges and attorneys. The subcommittee created an ADR Clearinghouse that contains information on various ADR methods. Court personnel and other interested parties can access this information when considering new ADR programs or modifications to existing programs.
Court reporting
The court reporting subcommittee produced a report in 2000 that recommended a digital audio recording system for each county as a backup when a stenographic reporter was unavailable. The subcommittee determined this would assist in creating and preserving the court record, while also maintaining a commitment to the court system's official court reporters. Subsequent to this PPAC subcommittee's work, several non-PPAC committees have also looked at issues involving making the record.
Court commissioners
In 1994, PPAC issued a study entitled, "Report and Recommendations on the Role of Wisconsin Court Commissioners." The study focused on court commissioner functions and the administrative structure needed to ensure accountability. The result of the report was Supreme Court Rule 75 , adopted in March 1998, which provided for the appointment, performance evaluation, continuing education and discipline of judicial court commissioners.
For more information on PPAC contact:
Ann Olson
Office of Court Operations
110 E. Main St., Ste. 410
Madison, WI 53703
Phone: (608) 261-7550
Fax: (608) 267-0911


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Making BRW's Rich Bosses list is enough to fill any executive or company founder with a sense of achievement.
But the real heroes of the 2013 list haven't just made themselves rich – they've boosted their shareholders' wealth too.
Mostly, those shareholders will be names on a registry that the executives never meet. But not always.
In the past 12 months, Linc's share price has soared 75.5 per cent, taking the value of Bond's stake to $508.6 million.
Great news for Bond but also great news for a bloke called
When his old mate wins, top 20 shareholder Tompkins wins too.
Below, we've profiled five Rich Bosses list members who are heroes in the eyes of their investors.
Leading the pack is
At financial services group
At the age of 89, most business people are slowing down. But
With such results, it's no surprise that many investors are in favour of putting their money in companies where the founder and management have significant skin in the game.
But investing in a company where a founder or manager has a controlling stake can be a recipe for disaster if the founder takes a "my way or the highway" attitude. Poor corporate governance, overblown salaries and myriad related-party transactions are problems often associated with founder-controlled companies.
"For smaller companies, we generally prefer professional management with a decent shareholding," he says.
"Even in the larger companies, the more of the discretionary remuneration that goes into stock, the better. Skin in the game is important."
There is a body of research to support this.
In 2009, Robert Houmes and Robert Boylan of Jacksonville University and Denise Dickins of East Carolina University studied the stock prices of companies where "insiders" such as founders, managers and directors held large shareholdings.
The trio found that in companies with high price-earnings ratios (typically growth stocks), a large number of shares in the hands of insiders meant better share price performance; the opposite was true for companies with low P/E multiples.
More evidence comes from US fund manager RENN Universal Growth, which has created its founder-owner index, tracking 300 US companies of different sizes where the founder has a large stake.
The results suggest backing entrepreneurial managers could have advantages: over 10 years, the S&P 500 Index has increased 53 per cent while RENN says its founder-owner index is up 228 per cent.
That's the good side of having a founder or manager as a dominant shareholder.
The bad side, says
He cites the example of apartment builder Central Equity, which raised investors' ire back in the mid-2000s after three directors with large shareholdings, Eddie Kutner, Dennis Wilson and John Bourke paid themselves more than $2 million each. The trio eventually took Central Equity private.
Lawrence says investors need to go into companies where the founder or managers have a controlling stake with their eyes open and realise that some founders do a poor job of listening to other shareholders.
"It's kind of the other side of the astonishing self-belief and determination that gets a founder to that position," he says.
The best-case scenario, Lawrence says, is the founder who recognises their weakness, and is prepared to bring other managers in if, for example, operations are not their strong suit.
The worse-case scenario is the founder who can't see that the world has changed and refuses to adapt.
Of course, in some cases, shareholders may be willing to put up with that sort of founder if they believe the positives – such as an intimate knowledge of the business and a proven track record for growth – outweigh the negatives.
And if you disagree with a founder's views, don't expect them to be able to change it, experts say.
"We are not shy in putting our views forward, although often in those situations you know you won't get a positive response," Williams says.
Lawrence agrees.
"Even if the people have a demonstrated track record of adding lots of value, when it comes to the time where they are not adding value, or when you violently disagree with them, all you can do is sell out."
Here are seven executives who represent the best aspects of having a founder or manager with a big stake – our Rich Bosses shareholder heroes.
Syrah Resources
Share price rise in past year:370 per cent
Syrah Resources's share price more than quadrupled in the past 12 months, up from 70¢ to $2.98 under managing director Paul Kehoe.
Shareholder anticipation had built around Syrah's graphite project in Mozambique and it was rewarded in January when the company announced Balama was the world's largest known graphite deposit.
Kehoe, an accountant and geologist, has held senior management roles at PwC and Grant Thorton, in addition to geology and business development roles at a number of Australian-listed resource companies.
Kehoe's involvement with Syrah began in 2011 when African Eagle Resources, a British-listed company, agreed to sell uranium licenses to Kehoe and a group of other investors. Among them was Tolga Kumova, who had listed Syrah Resources on the Australian Stock Exchange in 2007. The uranium licences were vended into Syrah in exchange for stock. Kehoe is now Syrah's largest shareholder.
The company shot to prominence in May 2012, when its share price doubled in one day on the back of results from just one drill hole at the Balama project.
Back then, Kehoe's confidence was high. "We know more about this deposit than something that might have had 100 drill holes which is underneath the earth. We are confident it's a world-class deposit."
Investors clearly share that confidence.
Magellan Financial Group
Share price rise in past year:326.1 per cent
Strangely for a country with a big financial services sector, Australia has never really found an export market for the funds management skill it bred. Offshore managers flock here hunting a slice of our pensions pie but the traffic is rarely in the other direction.
Chris Mackay and Hamish Douglass, the chairman and chief executive respectively of Magellan Financial Group, are trying to change that.
The former investment bankers endured some lean years after starting their business one month before the financial crisis officially began in August 2007 but stuck by their vision to create what's never before existed: a global asset management powerhouse based in Sydney.
Magellan's global equity strategy, run by Douglass, aggressively implements ideas. In mid-2011, backing a recovery in US housing starts, his team famously put 10 per cent of its fund into only two stocks: Home Depot, and hardware retailer Lowes.
The bet paid off spectacularly and Magellan's global fund has returned 8.3 per cent annualised over the five years to December 31 – the best global equities fund return available to Australian investors by a full 5 percentage points. Those investors rewarded Magellan with ever-increasing inflows and the world began to take notice.
The global fund was awarded a $3 billion mandate in February by UK unit trust group St. James Place,
The win, which it's understood will net Magellan $15 million a year in management fees alone, sent the share price further into the stratosphere – it appreciated threefold over the past 12 months, cementing the MFG ticker's place in the ASX 300, and the place of Mackay and Douglass on our list.
Ainsworth Game Technology
Share price rise in past year:224.8 per cent
Len Ainsworth has had a sweet year in more than one way.
While the combined fortune of his family has for years put the poker machine baron among the top ranks of the country's wealthiest, a tripling of the share price of Ainsworth Game Technology lifts him on to the Rich Bosses list for the first time.
The company's after-tax profit nearly tripled to $64.3 million last year.
Sales and market share rose in Australia as gambling increased on the back of the government's clean energy household cash payments and the end of regulatory uncertainty. The government rejected proposed pokie reforms and gave club owners the confidence to replace ageing machines.
The company also expanded in the US. Ainsworth, who founded his first poker machine company (Aristocrat Leisure) in the 1950s, handed the shares in that company to his seven children in the 1990s after he was diagnosed with cancer.
After the cancer went into remission, one of his sons objected to the earlier arrangement that they give him half the proceeds if they sold the shares.
Ainsworth then set up his eponymous company in competition with Aristocrat. He listed it in 2001.
The rise in AGT's share price is the result of long-term planning and heavy investment in technology, says Ainsworth, the majority shareholder.
"It is our expectation that, as a result of ongoing investment, we will continue to progress on a worldwide basis," he says.
Corporate Travel Management
Share price rise in past year:109.2 per cent
Corporate Travel Management founder Jamie Pherous says technology is your friend when it comes to corporate travel bookings and payments.
The former Arthur Andersen accountant has had a friendly relationship with technology for years, having co-founded online hotel booking engine Quickbeds.com.au, which he sold to Flight Centre in 2003.
Technology has also been crucial to the recent growth of CTM, which he founded in 1994 with just two staff.
Even at a time when corporate travel budgets have been tight, the company has won business and market share by providing tools that allow clients to control their costs, he says.
Acquisitions – such as that of US-based R&A Travel last year – also boosted revenue growth.
And the company, which swelled its coffers by $10 million through a capital raising last month, is on the lookout to expand into the ranks of the top 15 corporate travel agents in the highly fragmented US market after another purchase.
Pherous is the largest individual shareholder – with a 31 per cent stake – of a company whose price has jumped 109 per cent in just 12 months.
Executive director Claire Gray, who started her career with Harvey World Travel in 1984, went on to form independent travel management company Travelogic in 1989.
Travelogic merged with CTM in 2008 and Gray is now the second-largest individual shareholder, with a stake worth just more than 7 per cent.
The green shoots of an economic recovery are showing in the US, if not yet in Australia, and the company looks set to benefit once companies ramp up their travel spending. "Corporate travel is the one thing that really goes when business is 'on'," Pherous says.
Linc Energy
Share price rise in past year:75.5 per cent
The stellar run Linc Energy shares have had since December last year means a lot to chief executive Peter Bond, not just because he profits as a 40 per cent shareholder but also because it validates the diehard believers in Linc, some of whom are Bond's close friends.
For example Mark Tompkins invested heavily in Linc in the early days based on his belief in Bond's abilities as an energy entrepreneur and as a deal maker; Tompkins is one of Bond's childhood school friends.
But like most Linc shareholders, Tompkins was frustrated at the long period of the stock's static performance when he spoke to BRW at the end of last year, particularly throughout 2012, when any increase in share price was exploited by investors keen to sell.
The Queensland government's continued consideration of underground coal gasification(UCG) without any approval for its commercial use in sight put a question mark over Linc's strategy in Australia and short traders were quick to exploit the doubts about the company's future by piling into the stock.
Bond has been telling the market for some time that the real value in Linc's UCG technology is in partnership with energy companies in overseas markets but, in Linc's case, it seems actions do indeed speak louder than words.
The breakthrough moment for Linc's stock performance came in October last year when the press caught on to a visit to Linc's Chinchilla site by Russian billionaire
Since then, Linc has broken its shackles, rising from around 55¢ at the end of October last year to be trading around $2.70.
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Mut and Merloni give their list of who they believe will be the best in the game once Brady calls it a career.
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I think you're seeing a guy who basically saying to New England said listen. I love the patriots I wanna stay at patriot this is where we're gonna have the best chance to win a Super Bowl long term. Please go out spend this money go get me somebody go get me what he Freeney you'll get me -- resigning Wes Welker what whatever it is. I think he is now giving the patriots front office a chance to remain not only relevant but a playoff contender. For every year for the rest of his NFL career. The great Peter -- joined us yesterday. With -- load on to three point seven WEEI your phone calls at 61777979378. TT -- line. Is 37937. I'll give ESP credit they're looking -- Different ideas about the National Football League -- Damien Woody former patriot jet alliance -- entered. And they they forced into an exercise where. Project out to 2018. Tom Brady the age of forty has retired from the National Football League after the final year. We're -- best quarterbacks in the National Football League the top five quarterbacks. At that time. Why is that he's the sports conversation and I love because really you can't be right or wrong -- your opinion -- it's five years from now nobody -- five through one or five year. Go for afterward -- the both of them one. Same guy tickle fight. I got Johnny -- -- number five all the Heisman Trophy winner. Johnny Mann tells going to be a come out of college a couple of years to be won its second year plate two more years in college. The come out -- second year player top five QB. He'll be eight top five quarterback in his second year in the national Ohio by the end of the second year. I Russell Wilson at number 40 Nicky showed you'll supplement Seattle this year orchids he stepped forward. I've Andrew -- number theory ideological prime number one because with the most Puerto typical sort of the natural drop back shock on quarterbacks. I have Colin cap predicament debate does prolong that a cap predict too. -- nick has all the tools Scott park Brady part. Jim Kelly part Montana. Well it's still a couple Super Bowls by that's item number sells better that that combination you'll be 34 results Aaron Rodgers with a number one quarterback the National Football -- five years from now. Brady retires the new rankings will be -- Delphi Wilson for luck three -- predict too. Ironically number one for got a couple guys I'm sure it lets hear your list my list. Number five. Matthew Stafford. You guys. Second year relays every day starters -- that injuries and things like that -- -- try to be injured that year probably it probably will -- up with Stafford and a five. AB's all 3330 your -- attitudes and all thirty always gets hurt who will be Stafford efforts going to be thirty. Marketers 24 right now okay -- thirty there at -- -- ranked public -- before because capital. 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And RG three and got robbed of burger to -- like staffer I couldn't gamble all year from ninety because it will cap protects injuries and invited to this ball and -- capital I don't want the guys that Bryant to. Not being curtain. I'll see -- man I don't see he's a good quarterback but top five number two yes I had it is five years now he's a better quarterback than Andrew Locke. It Julio Jones gonna rule -- together the gonna grow old together B 32 years old diskettes or more years. With those -- Friday white. The -- that Jones the 781 texting and RG three mutt you're an -- no RG three c'mon Mike you're an idiot much your high -- Police and coastal low because guess -- doesn't have RG three's top five that guy over there I put him in the five years you know projections and we -- need to concussions we've already seen it with him. The injuries the only reason why -- no question -- Our estimation was he lining and tell Isaac if if you tell me RG three staying healthy -- but number two. But I -- Is -- -- voicing an injury did you debate Eli. When you do absolutely not totally quarterly I would never be in the top five really ever never has been never will be. Somebody AT&T text line response and Aachen re the ones that are actually -- but there are some you guys have -- -- I left a lot of people off for a list of people or texting and about. I'll star Bryant can't help. I don't I would just say I haven't seen enough that's been one year and it wasn't enough we're still -- of joining a sell off got him in there and stop the Cam Newton. There I would say I'm not sure is -- Carolina in five years he might get moved -- a little bit. And -- -- I would agree with at least that need some debate. Was Joseph Flacco. Joseph Flacco heated this past year was unbelievable and and if he puts another one of those together. -- has a playoff run a couple regular seasons like that we will look back and say. We have a hell we now Nigel I definitely -- -- he can make -- look silly but not -- about Matt Ryan. Making it look silly when Johnny man's only draft the number -- your fans who league in 2018. You'll remember I told a five. I Joe's and a car talking about the patriots draft today I joke. They I don't guys. Sergio -- border area or maturity. Yeah. Not a red repeat -- -- -- already the patriots. They don't need nobody else process. They need to dump all their money just like -- on defense. -- -- -- -- major plus for the I know ball but I know we can still play and was appointed -- and update you gotta bring Brandon -- back in getting that welcome back in line to give -- Keep this competence level where he or you know people about sort of like we want to Google places is where I think they'll make that brought west which you are coming up. But that the shortly generally penetrate the to get a better term agreement that has built the Kindle brand. 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Valve gives the world a peek at its Steam Machine prototype.
Since the announcement of the Steam Machines, people have wanted a look at Valve's own prototype. While it won't be the only Steam Machine on the market, the prototype represents Valve's vision for the direction of the product. A few of the larger tech sites had a chance to go hands-on with the Steam Machine that's being sent to 300 lucky Steam users in the product's hardware beta.
So what did they see? Something that looks a bit like an Xbox 360 Slim really. According to Engadget, the prototype is a bog-standard Intel i7 PC with an high-end Nvidia Geforce GTX Titan GPU. The trick is the Valve-designed case that houses all the parts; Valve told The Verge that none of the major parts share airspace within the case. The CPU exhausts out of the top of the case, the power supply out the side, and the the graphics card out the back. That keeps the inside of the system cool and quiet. This brings me joy as I listen to the subtle whir of my current desktop.
I personally just want this case. Yes, you can find other PC cases in a similar configuration - usually with special motherboards - but Valve seems like it has gone above and beyond. It's applying console design ideas to the PC space, with some serious thinking about heat transfer and airflow. More importantly, the company isn't done with the design, because The Verge saw them 3D printing more test cases in their prototyping lab. That's the kind of magic 3D printers can bring to industrial design.
Engadget's report has the Steam OS in very early stages, resembling a console operating system more than a robust PC OS. Based largely on Steam's Big Picture mode, Steam OS is currently not a replacement for Windows 8 or Mac OS X. Steam OS features games and web browsing, but that's pretty much it. Engadget noted that Valve had to show off vanity images on a Windows PC, because there was no way to view them on the Steam Machine. Valve wants to get media services like Netflix and Hulu on Steam OS, but the company isn't quite there yet.
One major thing the Steam Machines project may bring to PC games is a Steam hardware recommendation system. Valve told The Verge that it can use the data collected in the Steam Hardware Survey to tell users what games their systems can run. The system could also tell you what bits of your PC you need to upgrade in order to run a new title.
"It's one of these places where Steam is particularly and perhaps uniquely positioned to be able to actually help customers... we're sitting at the nexus of these hardware specs, so we can harvest data about what's going on, and repeat it back in a digestible form to every Steam user who cares," explained Valve designer Greg Coomer.
PC enthusiasts may not need such a feature, but it would go a long way into helping PC gaming make inroads with mainstream consumers. I think Valve should follow this up with its own recommended hardware specs for each year; that would also help developers with a baseline target they can expect, which is one of the benefits of developing for consoles.
Coomer also explained that Valve isn't trying to move PC gamers anywhere else; the company is cognizant of players who don't want to game in the living room. This is about expanding the audience, but Valve hasn't forgotten where it came from.
"We've been speaking as if it's a foregone conclusion that everyone wants to be in the living room. That's not true, and it's great that that's not true," said Coomer. "There's a little bit of consternation around our most dedicated customers that we might try to shuttle them into a different room in the house. That's not what we're trying to do at all."
Finally, if Half-Life 3 is coming - Valve still hasn't confirmed anything - you can rest assured that it won't be Steam OS-only. Not that it's coming. Ever.
"It's against our philosophy to put a game in jail and say it only works on Steam Machines," said Valve's Doug Lombardi.
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I'm fairly certain I've never been served dinner by a union shop steward, but then again, I've never been to Las Vegas before. Here, organised labour's sway extends even to the dining rooms of the strip's famed casinos.
Last night, my colleagues Dan Glaister, Simon Jeffery and I dined at a Mexican restaurant in the MGM Grand casino. Dan struck up a conversation in Spanish with our waiter Daniel (maybe the names helped break the ice). As we choked down our incredibly spicy, but delicious meal, Daniel, an immigrant from Mexico City, switched to English and told us he is the shop steward for the Culinary Workers Union.
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Obama had clearly hoped that union's endorsement would boost him to victory in today's Nevada caucuses. But voters like Daniel (and Leticia, who served Simon and me breakfast this morning) show the decisions of the union's political leadership don't necessarily hold sway among the rank and file.
Daniel told us he backed Clinton. He said he couldn't support Obama because he didn't think America was ready for an African-American candidate.
This morning, Leticia, a Latin American immigrant who came to Vegas from Chicago, held a similar view, but one more tainted with racial stereotyping. Leticia said she thought blacks only look out for themselves and are stuck fighting battles from 200 years ago, and she worried Obama wouldn't be able to look beyond that. It sounds like Leticia's never heard Obama speak or read anything about him, but she still gets a vote.


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How can I set to SpreadsheetWrite(data, file, range, sheet) the range to depend on the dimension of the data, because in some cases the range, it is not constant and known a priori.
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If you only put in a starting cell, the function will write all of the data automatically. For example:
x = rndn(10, 3); ret = spreadSheetWrite(x, "myfile.xlsx", "A1", 1);
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About two months ago I blogged about my friend, photographer Damon Daood, who surprised me with a photo in my inbox of one of his models sitting in the laundromat, reading the copy of KFG! that I sent him back when it first came out. True to my word in that post, I sent him another copy of that particular issue (so that he has a fresh one), as well as a copy of the new zine.
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