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A TENDRING crematorium has been entered into a prestigious gardening competition for the first time.
Weeley Crematorium will be inspected by judges for this year's Anglia in Bloom contest.
The site, run by Tendring Council, already boasts a Green Flag award marking it as a top-rated public space.
It will now go up against the top floral displays and green spaces across the region in the annual Anglia in Bloom competition.
The crematorium is maintained by one full-time gardener, who is helped by the council's open spaces team and volunteers from the community, including local schoolchildren.
Council deputy leader Nick Turner said: "Tendring Council takes great care and pleasure in all its green spaces and Weeley Crematorium is no exception.
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John Howard has his trade deal, but it comes at a high price for many Coalition supporters.
It was a finely timed announcement. The news that a free-trade deal with the US had been clinched during a phone call from Prime Minister John Howard to President George Bush broke yesterday morning, on the eve of today's resumption of Federal Parliament but after the Beattie Government had secured another massive majority in the Queensland election.
Peter Beattie may have been exaggerating when he said that the National Party would not have won any seats if the contents of the trade agreement, which failed to deliver increased access to US markets for Australian sugar producers, had been known at the weekend. But to deny that such knowledge would have had an electoral impact would be pointless.
Two of the three seats the ALP lost to the conservative parties - an outcome that still left it with a comfortable 63 of Parliament's 89 seats - were in the sugar belt, where cane growers vented their anger at the Beattie Government's plans for a partial deregulation of the industry.
Had they known that the Federal Government would drop its insistence that without a better deal for Australian sugar no agreement could be made, their rage might have been directed at the Coalition parties instead.
The volatile politics of the sugar industry were not the only respect in which the Queensland poll may give an early indication of the course of federal politics in this election year.
The greatest success of the Beattie Government was in shoring up its new-found support in the urban and urban-fringe areas of south-eastern Queensland, including regions such as the Gold Coast that had hitherto been regarded as conservative heartland.
Voters in these electorates appear to have responded to the Government's emphasis on public provision of health care and education as much as to Mr Beattie's populist style.
And since he of all state Labor leaders perhaps most resembles Mark Latham in manner and in message, the result in these areas can be expected to cause unease in the federal Coalition, despite avowals to the contrary.
The seats in which Queenslanders have deserted long-held allegiances to keep Labor in office are, after all, broadly similar to outer-suburban and coastal seats in other states.
Because the Queensland election has kept Labor's federal hopes alive, and because Mr Latham's taunt about the staleness of the Howard Government's policies appears to be striking a chord with voters, Mr Howard needed a boost to begin this crucial parliamentary session.
The announcement of the trade agreement has provided that, in part because its negotiation seemed to reflect the Prime Minister's standing with the US Administration.
In the coming weeks, however, the details will be closely scrutinised by the Opposition and the minor parties to see whether Mr Howard's claim about its overall benefits for Australians can be sustained.
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A shiver of recognition passed through the advertising industry this week, as people passed around a link titled This is a Generic Brand Video.
Based on a satirical piece on the McSweeney's website, the video perfectly pans the ad campaigns and internal corporate videos filled with cliché stock footage. Images of wind farms, diverse groups of smiling people and stop-motion city landscapes are accompanied by narration with indistinguishable pablum about innovation, the environment and the global economy.
But the strange thing is, this video making fun of stock footage is itself an ad for stock footage.
The small Calgary-based company Dissolve Footage liked the article so much, they asked the author for permission to make the Generic Brand Video.
The company launched in September, and its marketing strategy with the video is based on a bet that potential clients are becoming more wary of stock images that feel overused or inauthentic. And Dissolve is not alone. Bigger companies such as Getty Images are attempting to move toward more artful and real-looking photos. In July, another startup in Columbus, Ohio, decided to name itself Death to the Stock Photo.
"You get these shiny happy people and it's all staged," said Dissolve CEO Patrick Lor.
He should know. He was a co-founder of iStock Photo, which is now owned by Getty Images and is a purveyor of shiny happy people photography.
It's not just the small startups trying to get away from that. Getty Images, for example, has partnered with photo-sharing service Flickr to make photography gleaned from real life (and some amateur photographers) part of its collection. And last month, Getty announced a partnership with Sheryl Sandberg's LeanIn.org to publicize more realistic, active and empowering images of women.
Getty had many of those images in its library already; the Lean In Collection allowed it to advertise them more effectively. And the organization has now put out a brief to photographers asking for more images of women and girls in leadership positions; subjects who represent different geographic regions, ages and body types; and images of more supportive men as well, both in the workplace and at home.
"We've been pushing towards a more authentic aesthetic for a number of years now," Pam Grossman, director of visual trends at Getty, said.
Stock photography is not going away: Even big advertising agencies have to use it when they don't want to blow their budgets on creating speculative work to show a prospective client in a pitch, for example, or when they need an image for a small part of a campaign that would be too expensive to shoot on their own. The same goes for most media companies – The Globe and Mail among them – who use stock images for conceptual stories where there is nothing to shoot, or when a photographer is unavailable.
But as the demand for images has grown, particularly on the Web, and the stock industry has expanded with it, awareness and criticism of bad stock photos have also been on the rise.
The popular Tumblr blog Women Laughing Alone with Salad is entirely dedicated to a single stock photo trope.
And the website Getty Critics showcases the clichés, such as "serious mixed race man sitting in office cubicle" and "happy family driving in a convertible car," as well as bizarre choices such as "woman about to hit man with saucepan at breakfast."
"The primary driver is really social media," Ms. Grossman said. "So many people are looking at images of each other and sharing images of themselves, far more than at any other point in history. It's really sensitized our corrective eye to real or more authentic images."
But one barrier to more realistic images may be legal concerns: The founders of Death to the Stock Photo quickly discovered how complicated the licensing can be. Each person captured in a commercial photograph needs to sign a release, for one; and even buildings in the background can pose a problem, said co-founder David Sherry.
One reason photos with flat lighting and shiny people on white backgrounds have stuck around, is that staged photos that use only a handful of models are simple to execute and sell without legal complications.
Small and medium-sized businesses may also inadvertently keep the old-fashioned stock business alive, because they take the images they can afford even if they aren't the best photos.
But the demand for different photos is palpable: Death to the Stock Photo's name has been an excellent marketing tool.
"It was kind of a rallying cry," Mr. Sherry said. "My co-founder and I are both designers, and we always had the same issue. It was really hard to find non-cheesy photography, and it was expensive. … We definitely have gotten a positive reaction. We have grown significantly since we started."
Calgary's Dissolve has latched on to a similar idea: In less than a week, its Generic Brand Video landed more than 800,000 views.
"It's so funny because it's so true," Brent Choi, chief creative and integration officer at ad agency JWT Canada, said. "Everyone has done these videos. That's the part that is so embarrassing."
Mostly, that applies to client pitches, Mr. Choi said – the kind of work intended more to communicate a general idea of what the campaign could be, as opposed to work for public consumption, where stock is used more to augment footage or images the agency shoots from scratch. Sometimes those stock-heavy videos will appeal to clients, who will use them internally, he said.
Mr. Choi keeps a handful of those videos on his computer, which he shows to his team specifically because they are not generic.
"If you can find a great insight for the brand that's not generic, that's what we need to replicate," he said.
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"We always suspected that people did other stuff during commercials. Now, you know," he said. "The level for people watching the stuff is so high. No longer can you get out a brand message and expect people to sit there and watch it … Marketers are telling us, 'I have to up my game.'"Report Typo/Error
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Your purchases will be held in our Pick Up Tent outside the festival area for pick up as you leave. The Wine Pick Up tent is located in the rear of the main parking lot (back towards the 4-H Gate).
Use of the Wine Pick-Up Service is completely voluntary, you are welcome to carry your purchases with you or take them to your car and return as many times as you like as long as you are wearing your wristband. The Wine Pick-up area is for Wine purchases ONLY and cannot be used for other goods. If you are purchasing a large item, ask the vendor to hold it for you and contact one of our staff members to assist you in moving it to your vehicle when you are ready to leave.
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As you enter the festival, you will pass through our "Meet and Greet" tent to receive your tasting glass and guest bag. In your guest bag you will find sheets of self-adhesive wine pickup labels.
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The Hudson Valley Wine & Food Fest is not responsible for wine that is not picked up or mis-placed because labels were not filled out completely or improperly attached to packages.
Please Note: it takes approximately 45 minutes for wine to reach our Wine Pick-Up area, be sorted and ready for pick up. If you plan on leaving the Fest before that time, you may not want to use the Pick-Up service and take your items directly to your vehicle or carry them with you.
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Hollis has been a Boy Scout mentor, instructor, leader and friend to thousands of scouts for 23 years. Besides serving as a rifle, archery, CPR and first-aid instructor, Hollis also works as a district trainer, mentoring hundreds of other adults and giving them the tools they need to have an impact on generations of scouts. His information technology background adds a special resource - he maintains a website where he shares his experiences and encourages youth and adults alike to join scouting.


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Heights chamber events set this week
The Harker Heights Chamber of Commerce has scheduled these events this week:
- Coffee Connection at 8:30 a.m. Tuesday at Harker Heights Food Bank, Trinity Baptist Church, 403 E. Farm-to-Market 2410.
- Ribbon-cutting ceremony and grand opening at Training Center For HealthCare Careers, 455 E. Central Texas Expressway, Suite 106, Harker Heights.
- Business after-hours mixer, 5:30 p.m. Thursday, Aegis Communications Inc., 777 Twin Creek Drive, Killeen.
- Food drive, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, Walmart, Harker Heights, all donations go to the Harker Heights Food Care Center.
For more information on chamber events, call (254) 699-4999 or go to www.hhchamber.net.
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Taxpayer seminar Thursday in Waco
On Thursday, the comptroller's office will offer a free taxpayer seminar in Waco from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Comptroller's Field Office, in the Raleigh State Office Building, 801 Austin Ave., Suite 190.
During the seminar, taxpayers can learn how to properly fill out tax forms, and file and pay taxes electronically.
Information about e-services will be available to help taxpayers manage their accounts online. Comptroller representatives will be on hand to answer questions and provide assistance to attendees.
For more information about the seminar, call (254) 752-3147. Tax forms and tax information can also be found at www.window.state.tx.us.
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Small-business workshops planned
The Business Resource Center plans the following seminars during October:
- Business Plan Basics from 5:30 to 7 p.m. Oct. 16: This workshop covers a thorough overview of business planning, with a question-and-answer session. A workbook is included. The cost is $25 per person.
- Techniques for Promoting Your Business from 5:30 to 7 p.m. Oct. 23: This workshop will discuss specifics about how to market a business and budget for related costs. A workbook for preparing a marketing plan is included. The cost is $25 per person.
- Basics of Opening a Restaurant from 5:30 to 7 p.m. Oct. 30: This workshop will discuss the fundamentals and requirements involved in starting a new restaurant business. The cost is $25 per person.
Reserve a seat for any seminar at least one day in advance by phone at (254) 200-2001 or email email@example.com.
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It is with heavy hearts albeit with some relief, that we have now decided to close the book of Forcentury.
Lives change, people change, bands change. The last 1½ years have been particularly tough. Losing our lead vocalist put the band in a vulnerable state, from which we tried very hard and long to recover.
We had a great number of hopefuls audition for us, and while some rose above the rest, the general impression was still, that finding a suitable vocalist is as hard as finding true love. This, along with some rather major changes in our personal lives, has left us with very few options.
We have discussed and pondered ways to record the next batch of songs, but we always return to the fact, that even if we managed to make an album, we would still have to hire a mercenary vocalist. In the end, we wouldn't have a complete band to bring the music to you, live, which is the main reason we have kept the engines running for 8 years.
Maybe some day down the line, we will get fortunate enough to be able to record and perform under the Forcentury moniker once again, but for now — it's goodbye.
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Previously: A Hero's Death, Chapter Three.
Somewhere on the Cliffs near Kyuden Doji, Utaku Yu-Pan, Moshi Kakau and Toritaka Akemi are investigating the murder scene. They have been searching for hours and have found nothing. Akemi asks Yu-Pan what she is holding, and Yu-Pan explains that it is a spyglass. Akemi wonders what it does and if it is magical. Yu-Pan replies that it allows her to see things that are far away, and it isn't magical. Akemi is disappointed, and Kakau suggests Yu-Pan should not have spoiled it for her. Yu-Pan replies that Akemi is strange enough already and does not need more encouragement. Yu-Pan tells Kakau to go report to Miya Shoin what they have found, even though they haven't found anything. Kakau leaves and Yu-Pan calls for her horse. As she is about to leave she notices that Akemi has not left yet either. Akemi asks Yu-Pan why she said those things about her, and Yu-Pan reveals that she has met with Toritaka before. Yu-Pan met with the Yotogi of the Falcon and other Toritaka, and finds their studies with spirits often leaves them somewhat erratic. Akemi asks why Yu-Pan met with the Yotogi, but Yu-Pan does not want to say. Akemi asks if it was because of Bayushi Tozasu, and Yu-Pan asks what Akemi could know about Tozasu. Akemi reveals that her expertise is about returned spirits, and that Tozasu was a vengeful spirit who rampaged through Unicorn lands during the War of Spirits. Many Utaku swore vengeance upon him, but he died from fever while in the Shinomen Forest. Yu-Pan says that did not stop her hatred of him, so she sought out the Toritaka to she could find his spirit but they would not help her. Yu-Pan thinks Akemi is trying to talk her out of it, but Akemi says she will not bother. Akemi asks how Yu-Pan became a Battle Maiden if she hates all spirits, considering their leader is Utaku Shiko. Yu-Pan replies that Utaku Xieng Chi is the Utaku Daimyo, but Akemi continues none-the-less. Yu-Pan thinks Akemi is trying to provoke her, but Akemi is merely trying to determine Yu-Pan's motivations for this mission. Yu-Pan then chooses to ask Akemi a question, regarding the Heroes of Rokugan. Four have been killed and how are they connected? Akemi begins by explaining the different realms. Jigoku is the Realm of Evil, and it was a common misconception that the spirits had returned from there. Many of the spirits would be insulted by the notion. Yu-Pan is impatient, but Akemi continues as they continue towards Kyuden Doji. Those who returned to follow Toturi came from two other Spirit Realms. Some such as Miya Dosonu and Rezan, came from Yomi, the realm of Blessed Ancestors. Others such as Bayushi Tozasu and Hantei XVI came from Toshigoku, the Realm of Slaughter. Many of the spirits from Toshigoku were bent on vengeance or even domination. Yu-Pan wonders why the spirits from Toshigoku were not dealt with, and Akemi points out that it was not easy to tell the difference and their way back through Oblivion's Gate was destroyed. Yu-Pan suggests they could just be asked to die willingly, but Akemi points out that some of the Toshigoku spirits genuinely repented their past lives. Many committed seppuku to return, but Akemi is thankful that some remained. Yu-Pan does not understand why she should be thankful, and Akemi explains that without the advice of returned spirits it would have been unlikely that Toturi would have been victorious over Hantei XVI. After the war many went to the Leaping Place while others underwent the Isawa ritual and began travelling the Empire to understand their new existance. Akemi reveals she does not know who everyone who remained is, but hopes Rezan will be able to help them. Yu-Pan thinks Rezan's memory will be too dulled by drink, but Akemi tells her to have faith in the man. She should see them as allies, but Yu-Pan does not want to listen. Yu-Pan rides off towards Kyuden Doji, leaving Akemi to walk back alone.
Somewhere in Kyuden Doji, night time, Kakau is wandering the halls admiring the beautiful palace. Kakau contemplates the group and how most seem to ignore his presence. The Unicorn seems to openly loathe him, and the one exception is Kijuro who genuinely seems to like Kakau but is not someone Kakau would normally associate with. Shoin seems to be to busy with the investigation and the loneliness is quite depressing for a man such as Kakau who came from a large family and spent most of his life with close-knit crews. As Kakau returns to the guest wing he hears the distant sound of singing, and believing it to be Agasha Chieh he makes his way towards her quarters. When he knocks on her door Rezan answeres, his hair and kimono ruffled. Kakau says he thought Chieh was here, but Rezan says he must be imagining it. Rezan enters the hallway and walks away from the room motioning for Kakau to follow. Kakau says he thought Rezan had a room closer to the gardens, but Rezan counters that he was merely exploring the castle as Kakau had been doing. Kakau drops the matter but Rezan can tell that the Mantis has other things on his mind. Rezan suggests Kakau should not grieve alone, but Kakau does not think a geisha will help. Rezan says that Kakau reminds him of Gusai, and that he hopes Gusai found what he was looking for. Kakau wonders what he means by that, and Rezan explains that none of the returned spirits did so by accident. Everyone had their reasons. Kakau asks why Rezan returned and he replies that he returned for a woman. Rezan explains that in his first life he spent three years married to the daughter of the Emperor before he was killed in a duel. His wife died shortly after from the grief. Rezan reveals that those three years were not as pleasant as Kakau would think, and his wife not so beautiful as Rezan's poem's made out. As such he had to spend the next two centuries in Yomi with the woman. Kakau is shocked that Rezan went through Oblivion's Gate to get away from his wife. Rezan says that was not the reason. After some time his wife had realized that he did not love her and chose to be reincarnated. Not long after Rezan realised that he missed her and has spent the past thirty years searching for her. Kakau asks how he can be such a womanizer while looking for his wife, and Rezan replies that he sees some of her beauty in all of the women he is with. Maybe he will find her that way. Rezan asks if Kakau will tell him how he came to meet Gusai and Kakau agrees. Rezan however, suggests they talk about it another time as it is getting too late and they are leaving for Shiro Morito ask Kijuro convinced Shoin to do so. Rezan leaves to find some sleep and Kakau stays awake wandering the halls and thinking about the days to come.
Next there is a glossary of characters and terms including some interesting information. Isawa Hochiu was the person who sealed Oblivion's Gate, and the Yotogi of the Toritaka family is the spiritual leader of the family and not always the same person as the Toritaka Daimyo.
To Be Continued in: A Hero's Death, Chapter Five.
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- Miya Shoin
- Bayushi Tozasu
- Utaku Shiko
- Utaku Xieng Chi
- The four killed members of the Heroes of Rokugan: Gusai, Isawa Ijime, Mirumoto Tokeru and Kakita Rensei.
- Toturi
- Miya Dosonu
- Hantei XVI
- Kijuro
- Agasha Chieh
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I have NO idea why Dr. Rafael Lucila has 5 star reviews. The wait was was 2 hours and 15 mins. The practice is tiny and dirty. One of the nurses barely spoke a word of English. The doctor was medicore at best. Definitely would not recommend.
I have been going to Dr Lucilla for many years he along with my Pulmonary fought hard to bring me back to life and is the kindest of Kind. I called him and he actually called me back from the airport. I believe he is not only knowlegeable but a deeply caring Human Being.
I surveyed five different doctors before I decided on Dr. Lucila. He is thorough, knowledgeable, concerned, and available. I have referred him to my mom as well as other family and friends. I now live an hour away and still feel compelled to travel the distance to see Dr. Lucila whenever I'm sick.
The best doctor I ever had.He is great, considerate and very kind!!!.I wish more doctor could have the knowledge and passion like Dr.Lucila has for his profession.I suffered for almost 20 years with urine infection basically EVERY WEEK and since I visited him I DIDN'T HAVE a single one. I am doing a preventive treatment and so far I am 5 months urine infection free!!! so happy!!!
This guy is good! If you need a family doctor (GP), call and make an appt.
The best doctor ever. He's very nice and he's also knowledgeable. Easy to talk to, and a good sense of humor.He takes his time explain things.
I've been a patient of Dr. Lucila for over 10 years. He has proven to be a trusted and competent doctor who always spends generous amounts of time in diagnosing and caring for my medical needs. He has a gentle manner about him when he must perform hands-on examinations. He asks plenty of questions to determine the causes of any injury or illness. I can usually get an appointment the same day and the wait times are usually never more than 10-15 minutes. Maybe this is because his staff doesn't overbook his calendar. And speaking of the staff, they are very professional and curteous. It's always a pleasure to deal with them. I highly recommend Dr. Lucila.
I was really sick and needed to see someone ASAP and he took me THE SAME DAY I CALLED TO MAKE AN APPOINTMENT!! He is great to go to and I wish more doctors were like him.
Dr. Lucila is a throwback MD similar to a Dr. Marcus Welby. He is very knowledgable, kind and considerate physican who makes sure you understand what it takes to maintain good health. I have recommended him to my friends and hope he practices for a long time.
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AGL immediately declared its 52¢ a share cash offer for APG unconditional and said it would speed up payment terms after the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission announced on Thursday it had cleared the deal, which is being unanimously supported by the target's board.
Each of APG's three major shareholders have already agreed to accept the offer once it becomes free of conditions, giving AGL voting power of about 75 per cent in APG, which has about 353,000 customers across Victoria, NSW and Queensland.
Under a deal struck between the two companies, once AGL has more than 50 per cent and the offer is unconditional, it will have the right to appoint a majority of directors to APG's board.
Acquiring APG will boost AGL's customer numbers by about 10 per cent and in effect achieve the utility major's goal of 800,000 electricity customers in NSW. The transaction ascribes an enterprise value, including debt, of $158 million for APG. AGL expects it to add to underlying earnings per share starting this financial year.
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ACCC chairman
"The ACCC formed the view that the removal of APG as an independent retailer was not likely to substantially reduce the competitiveness of price and non-price offerings in the relevant retail energy markets," Mr Sims said.
However, he warned about the impact on competition should several junior retailers be withdrawn from the market, because they are the main drivers of competition in markets.
"The ACCC recognises that a sufficient number of second-tier retailers are required to constrain the pricing of the major retailers," he said.
"The ACCC is very concerned to ensure that acquisitions in the energy sector do not result in the removal of second-tier retailers that play a significant role in driving pricing, discounting activity or innovation in energy offerings."
The clearance for the takeover comes a day after the ACCC said it was taking APG to court for misconduct in door-to-door selling of power and gas. AGL, which has already ceased the practice, said door-to-door sales would also halt at APG if the takeover went through.
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What The DECK Happened? Deckers Outdoor Announces Ugly Guidance
Despite a strong fourth quarter report released on Thursday, shares of Deckers Outdoor (NASDAQ: DECK) tumbled lower as investors clearly signaled the company's guidance for 2014 was unacceptable.
Deckers easily beat its fourth quarter consensus estimate of $3.80 by $0.24. Revenue of $736 million beat the consensus estimate by $24.53 million.
With so much expectation on the line for the company to see robust demand for its UGG's boots due to extreme cold temperatures, management painted a picture that many investors perceived to be just as cold as the weather.
For the first quarter 2014, management expects to lose $0.16 a share, well below the consensus estimate for a profit of $0.10. Revenue is expected to rise only six percent in the quarter, half of the 12 percent analysts predicted. Additionally, the company added that its profit would decline in the first half of 2014 due to rising costs related to 28 new store openings in the second half of 2013.
Shares of Deckers initially fell more than 18 percent following the poor guidance. Analysts were mixed if investors should give the company "the boot" or if shares are "on sale" and represent an attractive entry point.
Related: Is Best Buy A 'Best Buy' Following Its Earnings?
ISI: Disappointing earnings an entry point
Omar Saad, analyst at ISI Group, believes that the company still has an attractive bullish thesis for the long term, despite a short-term hiccup.
In a note to clients, Saad argued that Deckers maintains a healthy sales trend with an improving gross margin. Additionally, Deckers is at a stage where it is now investing in its brand, as opposed to traditionally under-investing in the business.
Deckers opened 40 stores in 2013 and intends to open an additional 25 in 2014.
Saad understands that investors are taking issue with the company's spend to build out its retail stores, but investors should consider that the company is still in its infancy stages with only 110 small stores globally. These stores are "critical to elevating the brand" beyond its historical 'mom-and-pop' distribution.
Shares are Buy rated with a $80 price target.
Jefferies: Change of mind
Randal Konik, equity associate at Jefferies, believes that an upside case can no longer be made following Decker's poor guidance. Konik, a former "strong supporter" of Deckers, argued the case in a note to clients that risks now outweigh the rewards.
Konik's bullish case was based on the likelihood of upside to earnings due to higher gross margins and expense leverage on strong sales. Given the company's aggressive spending schedule for 2014 and a softer than expected revenue outlook, the upside case is no longer valid as the company is "digesting the costs associated with its torrid pace of store growth."
While ISI Group's Saad believes in Decker's investment plans, Konik believes that doing so is not prudent for the stock and doing so is "taking the wind out of the sails," following a very strong 2013.
Konik believes that Decker's long-term strategy could be more plausible in 2015 as investments scale, but the analyst is "less assured" and it is prudent to wait until the investment cycle stabilizes to get comfortable with the earnings trajectory.
Shares are downgraded to Hold from Buy with a price target lowered to $75 from a previous $100.
Piper: Nothing changes
Erinn Murphy, senior research analyst at Piper Jaffray, believes that while guidance management offered is below expectation, there is a "high level of conservationism" within the guidance and nothing has fundamentally changed in the company's longer-term thesis.
Deckers remains a global growth story with strong margin expansion opportunities, according to Murphy. She also believes that management's fiscal 2014 guidance of 10 percent growth is highly conservative. "We believe potential upside in fiscal 2014 could stem from revenue and gross margin beats," the analyst wrote in a note to clients.
Murphy argued that "beat & raise" guidance that the company established in 2013 can continue into 2014. As such, the analyst sees no reason to make any rating or price target changes.
Shares are Overweight rated with a $96 price target.
Susquehanna: Expectations reset towards positive
Christopher Svezia, senior analyst at Susquehanna, believes that despite a disappointing outlook, any pullback should be viewed as an entry point. Additionally, as "product remains king" and the company is better today than it was two years ago, expectations need to be reset.
Svezia points out the company's product assortment and backlog, which improved by 24 percent, a clean inventory at wholesale and DTC (direct to consumer), favorable retail margin comparisons, conservative guidance and potential fiscal 2015 leverage as reasons to be positive. "We believe now is a prudent time to establish or add to positions," Svezia argued in a note to clients.
Shares are upgraded to Positive from Neutral with a price target raised to $87 from a previous $78.
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Subject: Re: [MDALLEGA] Mt. Savage Cemeteries
Date: Sun, 04 Aug 2002 12:40:43 -0700
Does your book on St. Patrick's Cemetery have an index? What is the title
of the book and where might I find one? I am searching for PRESTON,
MULLEN/MULLIN, & MATTINGLY. The information that I have shows that
ELIZABETH MATTINGLY married HENRY PRESTON and JOHN MULLEN/MULLIN. All three
were supposedly born in Mt. Savage. I am grasping at straws trying to get
more information about ANY of them. We suspect that HENRY PRESTON was our
ENOCH PRESTON's father but haven't been able to connect the pieces together.
Any help in finding the book or letting us know if there are ANY persons
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I have St. Patrick's Cemetery...there are no BENNETTS. Kathleen
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The Maritime Union of Australia has called off a 10 day Pilbara strike due to start on Friday after holding "constructive discussions" with Dampier Supply Base owner Mermaid Marine.
The MUA gave notice last week that 65 stevedores would take protected strike action at the Dampier wharf in a move that would disrupt the supply of equipment to Chevron's $US54 billion Grogon project.
Mermaid labelled the planned action as unreasonable. The union hit back to claim Mermaid wasn't taking its pay negotiations seriously, a claim refuted by Mermaid.
MUA WA assistant secretary Doug Heath said its members had been "greatly encouraged" by Mermaid's approach to the negotiations in the past 48 hours.
But while saying strike action was always a "last resort" he could not rule out members walking off the job in the coming weeks.
"The MUA will keep our options open regarding future action, but we are optimistic that we might reach an outcome without having to resort to strike action," Mr Heath said.
He said the union had made more progress in the past 48 hours than in the previous eight months.
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What's the biggest reason car shoppers switch brands when they buy a new car? When the current brand doesn't build the type of car they want, according to the latest Customer Retention Study from JD Power and Associates.
Thirty-three percent of study respondents who switched automaker brands for their last purchase indicated that they did so because the brand didn't offer the car type they wanted. The study found that women and young car owners (aged 23 to 47) were the groups more likely to switch brands for this reason because they were "more likely to experience changes in the life circumstances, including growth in household size or changes in income levels," said director of automotive product research Raffi Festekjian in the report.
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Hyundai was the brand that ranked highest in the study with a 64 percent retention rate, up 4 percentage points from the last study. The brands rounding out the top five were Ford and Honda, tied at 60 percent, and BMW and Kia, tied at 59 percent. The industry average was a 49 percent retention rate.
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Boehner's moves are reflective of his slanted perspective,myopic vision and dogmatic thinking . Unfortunately he is such a confused mass of protoplasm that he doesn't know the implications and complications of what he is cooking and pouring out to the detriment of not only Americans but humanity at large. So after doing the worst that he could do to precipitate shut down and default, he claims that none of this could happen through his schemes and conduct.


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I have a 5 year old, so I know what it's like to bring a baby out into the world...
I spent 2 and a half years battling secondary infertility and trying to be at peace with the fact that I would never bear another child. And of course, in spite of what the specialists said, I'm now 36 weeks pregnant. I can't really. fully make my nest until next week when my MIL brings all the old baby stuff to me (I got rid of everything since I thought we were done). I had a traumatic birth with DD so I now have a very solid birth team and I've been practicing my hypnobirthing. I actually had a little of my mucous plug fall out over the past few days with some intense BH...and yet it still seems sort of impossible that this is happening to me.
Anyone else still in this phase or is it just me?
I've got a bit of that going on, myself. I guess I go back and forth. I have days where it doesn't seem real, but I've also had a couple of days where I've been so baby-focused that I have literally tried to do a 5-kid head count and had to take a second to figure out where the missing kid was.
We finally went out and bought a car seat today, along with a few Baby's First Christmas items and some odds and ends. That felt kind of other-wordly.
Raising a full house- Kings (12, 3, new) over Queens (8, 7)
I am still in the same place-I'm going through the motions of getting ready, but I'm not really mentally there yet. We were done-I was okay with that. Up until last month I just kept thinking of all the things I wanted to sign my kids up for-even though I knew I couldn't really. I hope it means she will just fit into our family without a big fuss, and I'd like that. I have plenty of love for her once I have the time to focus on her-but with 3 others at home (we unschool) I don't have it yet.
Yep. Denial land here. It's pretty crazy. My mom is coming in two weeks, on Monday. My EDD is that Wednesday. It's very hard for me to wrap my head around that.
I can't imagine actually having a child...it is still completely unreal.
It took going to our local 'Birth Circle' (community gathering of doulas, midwives, and moms) and looking at tons of pictures of newborns for it to start to sink in. I've had all these tiny clothes and diapers and it took a little scrunched up sleeping newborn in a collage for it to suddenly *click*! I want him SO bad now. I got out my breast pump and tried to jump-start contractions this afternoon to see if I could start labor, lol. I had some contractions but they died down when I took a nap. Oh well. I guess I can try again in a week.
This Mommy and Military Daddy are loving their son.
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DDCC - most of the time i have "are you kidding me?" moments! it'll all seem more real later i guess.. i just feel like i'm totally unprepared and it's happening to someone else.
until i get kicked in the cervix, that is. then i'm pretty sure i'm going to have a baby sometime.
I finally, a few weeks ago, connected to the fact that this wiggly being in my belly is MY baby! It was kind of a giddy and overwhelming moment all in one. Then last night, DH and I were going over some basic birth plan stuff since we discuss that with the midwife at our appt. today, and I was talking about how I want the baby put on my chest as soon as possible, etc., and it really, truly hit me that it will be MY baby snuggled up with ME! Soon! We are really, really getting excited about it.
PM me about low supply; insufficient glandular tissue; posterior tongue tie; lip tie
I get that I am having a baby, but I don't get it too. I am at a very surreal place. I have gone throught the motions, I have almost everything we need at this point. I just started working on a birth collage and stringing a labor necklace together and it really hit me.....the fact that my whole reality is about to change. I have waves of anxiety now, never had before, weird dreams and fear around labor that are all deciding to come to the surface. I just really want to deliver around my due date so my birth team is here and I have some time off work to chill out. Although I am moving into that phase now. It is a really crazy feeling...Yikes!!
This weekend we got all the supplies together and it really hit me when I folded the first outfit that pretty soon someone will be wearing it. Our someone.
this is completely unreal. My EDD is towards the end of the month so I still have "time" to reconcile. This is our first baby, and the thought of losing together time with DH made my cry a couple of times already. I got it that we are having a baby soon but I don't want to let go with just having the two of us, and now it will be the three of us.
I am having a really hard time wrapping my head around the fact that soon I will have another baby. Planning a vbac and even getting pregnant again has been a huge thing for me after my traumatic c/s with DS, and now I can hardly believe it is all going to be happening so soon. I don't feel mentally ready, and trying to battle with my fear is leaving me exhausted. I haven't connected to this baby as much as with DS, and while I know I will love she/he when they are here, I don't feel like I really know the baby. Trying to enjoy this last bit of pregnancy as much as I can.
this is completely unreal. My EDD is towards the end of the month so I still have "time" to reconcile. This is our first baby, and the thought of losing together time with DH made my cry a couple of times already. I got it that we are having a baby soon but I don't want to let go with just having the two of us, and now it will be the three of us.
I feel the exact same way! We've been married for two years now, so we have had quite a bit of time together but still...sleeping in on Saturdays together, weekly date nights, eating whenever we feel like having dinner, our very active sex life, lol...all of that is about to change. When I get sad about that, I try to think of how much fun it will be to go camping with Squirt for the first time. And see Squirt's face light up when DH gets home in the afternoon. And how sweet it will be for all 3 of us to cuddle in bed together. And I also try to remember that speical alone time with DH will still happen, and it will happen again. Kids are only at home for what, 18 years? That's not really that long, in the grand scheme of a lifetime with the man you love, and they are independent long before then. So, like everything with children...this time of such intense parenting is temporary. Which makes it sweeter, too!
PM me about low supply; insufficient glandular tissue; posterior tongue tie; lip tie
I just feel like I've been pregnant forever, and I forget that there's a finish line in this race. The nursery is set, I have a carseat in my car, and we finally picked a name, but I can't wrap my mind around the idea that in a two weeks (or less!) I'm going to be someone's mom. This baby is very wanted and was very planned, and it still feels surreal that it's actually about to happen. I guess that's what labor is for - to give us the opportunity to "transition" into being mothers.
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Settling into their seats, 50 cardiovascular nurses prepared for her continuing education seminar.
The young pre-op nurse considered the years of experience and knowledge represented in the room. God, why would You have these nurses be my first audience? In Emily's mind, these particular nurses are the most intimidating. "They are pretty much physicians. They know so much."
She was now the teacher. The 45-minute seminar's intent was to equip and challenge these nurses to care for patients spiritually. Not everyone embraced her message.
One frustrated nurse stood up in a huff in the front of the room to push back on Emily's challenge. "Don't you get it? There is a lot on our plates. There is a lot expected of us," she protested.
Emily froze.
She believes that patients, at their core, are spiritual. Sometimes the best medicine does not come from a pill but from the Creator.
Modern medicine recognizes the correlation to a certain extent. Hospital chaplains are hired as a resource for patients experiencing fear, anxiety or deep questions about life and death.
But even the best hospitals in the nation have only one chaplain for every 23 patients.
At Emily's workplace, Methodist Medical Center in Peoria, Ill., there is one chaplain for every 200 patients.
The lopsided ratio proves to be a window of opportunity. "Who are they going to make their secret fears known to?" Emily had asked during her seminar. "Us, their nurse. The chaplain is not always available."
Statistics from the American Family Physician journal indicate that only 10-20% of healthcare providers discuss spiritual topics with patients.
Many in the medical field feel uncomfortable with their own spirituality, causing them to shy away from this role. In stark contrast, up to 77% of patients said they would welcome spiritual conversation as part of their medical care.
Emily, who had dreamt of being a nurse since she was 16, loves to infuse her job as a nurse with her faith.
"My goal is to reach people for Jesus," says the 25-year-old, one of four nominees for 2008 "Nurse of the Year" at MMC.
Jesus doesn't always come up. Emily only has 30 minutes with a patient before they head to surgery, rarely allowing a complete conversation about sin and a Savior. Emily does what she can. "People are on a spiritual journey from A to Z," she says. "I may only be with them from M to N."
The summer of 2006, after graduation and before her first day as an R.N., Emily attended a whole-patient-care conference hosted by Medical Strategic Network, a partner ministry with Cru.
Knowing that facts are the language of hospital leadership, Emily and a fellow nurse, Caitlin Fitzgerald, soon began a research project on spiritual care. MMC strives to be in the 95th percentile in all areas of patient care, yet Emily and Caitlin's research revealed a hospital-wide deficit in the area of spiritual care.
Tammy Duvendack, vice president of acute patient care, gave their research her stamp of approval right away.
She knows how intimidating spiritual care can feel.
Though she has followed Jesus for years, Tammy struggled for a long time to bring up spiritual topics or to pray with patients. "It's like giving the prayer at Thanksgiving or Christmas," she says. "You never really feel like you are good enough to do that."
She eventually overcame that feeling, but she knows nurses under her care wrestle with the same discomfort, so Tammy supported the research project. "Emily is such a great speaker and so professional," she says.
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MMC defines spiritual care using a spectrum from hugs and empathetic listening to more direct forms, like offering prayer.
As of March 2010, hospital leadership asked Emily to offer spiritual care training seminars once a month at MMC. Because Emily is tuned in to the spiritual needs of her patients, she always has a fresh story to tell.
Emily met Dean Eaton and his wife of 35 years in Exam Room 5. She entered with a big smile, introduced herself and launched into pre-surgery questions. The physical details of the upcoming knee surgery were familiar to Dean but Emily recognized an undertone of fear and anxiety, natural for a patient undergoing such an invasive procedure.
"Dean, I wanted to let you know that I pray for my patients every morning on the way to work," she said turning from her computer and directing all of her attention toward her patient.
He listened to Emily, his head cocked to the left, eyes wide and mouth gaping in pleasant surprise. "I was wondering, would you guys be open to praying right now?" Emily said without batting an eyelash.
Both quickly responded with a relieved "Yes!" Chairs began to scrape the floor. After the "amens," Dean's wife discretely wiped away a tear.
"That is incredible," whispered Dean.
The emphasis on spiritual care is changing more than just patients. In the past few months, Emily and many of her co-workers on the pre-op floor have been praying together for patients and each other.
Circling the nurse's station, 18 men and women dressed in pastel scrubs and white clinical coats stand shoulder-to-shoulder preparing to pray for Leroy, the father of a veteran nurse on the floor.
Yesterday, the 93-year-old had a golf-ball-sized tumor removed from his left lung. Today, Leroy is in critical condition and hemorrhaging blood.
Closing her ocean blue eyes, Emily lifts her voice, soft and sweet, to her heavenly Father. She petitions Him for comfort, divine healing and skill for the doctor, for whom she prays by name.
The constant hum of the pre-op floor hushes for a few hallowed moments.
"This is normal around here," says Jim Underwood, Lead Support Tech on the floor. Nurses from other floors have asked Jim to alert them before prayer times so that they can join in.
In November 2009, U.S. News & World Report ranked MMC as #6 in the nation for nursing care.
Perhaps the world is noticing the difference as well.
These thoughts were trapped as Emily stood frozen at the end of her seminar. Before she could find words, an older nurse at the back calmly rose and asked if she could address the frustrated nurse's comments.
Gently but firmly, the veteran nurse responded to her co-worker. Emily remembers hearing the nurse say that meeting the spiritual needs of a patient is half the battle of healing. She called it the most therapeutic thing a nurse could do.
The nurse in the front row quietly sat back down in her seat. Class was over; the lesson had hit its mark. Emily's voice had empowered another like-minded nurse to speak up. In her mission, she was not alone.
A relieved smile spreads across Emily's face as she remembers what the Lord had spoken to her earlier that morning: Emily, I have already accomplished this.


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Controversy follows Libeskind (think Toronto's Royal Ontario Museum and One World Trade Center), and while the hotel has its fans, it has its detractors too ("banal" says architectural historian Gregory Caicco). The curved lines and glass façade of this 33-storey hotel are intended to mimic ocean waves and ships' sails, but locals in nearby apartments are appalled to the point of picketing that they can see "bedroom activity" in the hotel's floor-to-ceiling windows.
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|10th February 2012, 06:36 PM
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Bob, he mentions the HP239, not the HP339. I think perhaps I mentioned the 339 (my mistake, I assumed...) . As you no doubt know the HP239 is a variation of the 204.
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|10th February 2012, 08:34 PM
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@Bob Cordell -- Hi Bob, thanks for the comments. I do think the HP 239/339 oscillators are very good, especially at mid-band and especially when the JFET feedback is tweaked. Unfortunately, the JFET feedback needs to be optimized for each frequency to get best 2nd H rejection -- which turns out to be true for your oscillator as well. This creates some problems...
I've compared the 239/339 to your oscillator, which I built, incorporating a JFET feedback trim, and to a KH 4500, which I picked up cheap off eBay and tweaked a bit (not the lowest THD when compared to a KH 4402B), and also to an LED/CdS controlled Wien-Bridge unit I built, similar to the Williams design. I have not had a Tek SG505 (phase-shift) to measure, nor the KH 4402B (bridged-t), both of which are considered to be very good, nor have I been able to evaluate an AP oscillator (SVF)/analyzer.
The goodness of the 239/339 design becomes apparent when you get rid of the fundamental and then use a spectrum analyzer to view the results. In my case I've recently used an EMU 0204 USB sound device to feed my PC running the ARTA analysis suite. The noise floor of the 0204 is pretty decent and the measurement BW, while not all I desire or need, is about 90kHz at 192kHz fs, albeit with a noise floor that rises significantly above 30kHz.
I fully agree that the higher frequency THD is not as good, but is still quite good compared to other units I've been able to test. I would love to have a hardware spectrum analyzer with a 1MHz BW and large dynamic range, preferably >90dB. But I'm doing what I can with the less expensive tools I have -- so far, so good.
My friend Davada has been looking at a novel control circuit, one which has the distinct advantage of not needing rectification of the control signal; I'll let him post about his work when he's ready.
As you so correctly point out, the trick is to not need a large dynamic range in the control element -- the less needed the better.
I now doubt that any active-filter auto-tuning THD analyzer, such as the HP 339, 8903, etc, has sufficiently low intrinsic THD to give a good picture of oscillator performance. But an Active Twin-T filter and a good spectrum analyzer can definitely do the job -- in my case, for mid-band audio frequency signals up to 10kHz or a bit more. Audio Precision seemed to think this filter-spectrum analyzer topology was best too.
|10th February 2012, 09:12 PM
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We think a lot alike. I've been using active twin-T filters for over 30 years. I've always loved twin-T's. In fact, before I built my THD analyzer, I measured THD at 1 kHz and 20 kHz with a pair of frequency-dedicated twin T filters with feedback. When last year I did some tweaking of my THD analyzer, I also used twin-Ts to look at oscillator distortion. As you correctly point out, the analyzer section usually cannot be as good as the oscillator. That is definitely the case with my THD analyzer.
BTW, what is interesting, but which was hard for me to prove, is that phase noise in the system seems to set the floor in my now-tweaked analyzer (close-in noise sidebands about the fundamental). It is not THD or flat noise in the SVF notch circuitry of the analyzer. I used to think that ordinary circuit noise set my floor, but that appears not to be the case. These were very difficult things to sort out by measurement, so what I am saying may just be intelligent speculation. Actually, to be more precise, the SVF notch filter in the analyzer is ultimately formed by a subtraction circuit, and any phase jitter or other close-in spectral noise near the fundamental impairs the notch.
Looking with a spectrum analyzer at the residual from my THD analyzer when it is driven by its own oscillator, the signal energy is dominated by fundamental and close-in sidebands, not flat noise or harmonic spectral lines. Looking at the same residual on a capture with a DSO shows that the phase of what little there is of the fundamental is all over the place, so it is not just an imperfect static tuning null.
At one point I thought I had some 1/f noise in my tuning control loops, but I could not find it and or reduce it. Of course, even ordinary circuit noise can be magnified about the fundamental in an SVF.
I probably could have learned more about it by doing lots of experiments, some involving an active twin-T, but the whole thing began to become a time sink.
Life for me would not be as good without my trusty old HP3580A analog spectrum analyzer, although unfortunately it only goes to 50 kHz and only has 85dB dynamic range (that's why twint-Ts or my distortion magnifier in front of it are very helpful).
Interestingly, I found that substituting modern LM4562s for the 5534s in my analyzer did not reduce the floor. That was a bit of a surprize. For its age, at least for instrumentation, the old 5534 is remarkable in distortion performance.
BTW, maybe I read you wrong, but the Tek SG 505, designed by Bruce Hofer before he helped found AP, is definitely an SVF oscillator. There are many aspects of the AP1 that are very similar to my THD analyzer. Bruce Hofer, Rich Cabot and I became good friends while they were still at Tek.
|10th February 2012, 10:00 PM
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You re right, the SG505 is an SV unit -- I'm not sure what unit I was thinking of.
It seems whatever filter is used, that everything else being equal, filter Q doesn't seem to matter in oscillator goodness -- rather it seems that overall maximum circuit gain (and GBW at higher freq's) is the determining factor -- and I'm sure that's no surprise to you. Someone here mentioned the need to control circuit gain vs frequency, and I'm guessing that controlling integrator Tau in the ALC is an important part of that.
|11th February 2012, 10:48 AM
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Hello Richiem,
Thanks for your inputs and for your offer of detailed measurements. I'm taking nothing for granted until I have managed to put something together. I'm not claiming that I will be able to achieve 0.001 % or less just that I have taken a (very) slightly different approach. Certainly the HP239A circuit is good.
Also thanks for Bob Cordell's inputs and for his book 'Designing Audio Power Amplifiers' which was most interesting and money well spent.
|26th February 2012, 08:55 AM
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|13th March 2012, 05:15 PM
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I thought that I would revive this thread because I now have a PCB up and running using the Texas Instruments / National Semiconductor LME49990 in a phase shift based circuit.
The sample and hold amplitude circuit works OK after I had some fun with the control loop. I didn't find it easy to get the loop to behave over the Oscillator frequency range of 10 Hz to 100 kHz.
The gain control works OK with the multiplier output attenuated by 100 which minimizes the noise contribution.
I am now at the distortion measurement stage. Performance is OK at low frequency 0.002 % at 100 Hz, 250 Hz and 1 kHz. But distortion rises rapidly when the frequency is increased above that, 0.003 % at 2.5 kHz. 0.01 % at 10 kHz and 0.04 % at 25 kHz.
It appears that the main problem is the Distortion Analyzer but it isn't easy to modify it the way I 'designed' and constructed it with capacitors soldered directly between the back of the rotary switches and the PCB relying on the case to hold them apart.
A nice readily available easy to build distortion analyzer design would be useful.
I haven't populated the PCB with the output attenuator and buffer because I am waiting until I am satisfied with the Oscillator.
I didn't choose a balanced output driver because I intend to use a bench power supply with an isolated output so the the output ground can float.
I have AC coupled the output with a physically massive 40 uF Polypropylene capacitor and am regretting the choice. The HP239A has a DC coupled output.
Has anyone any comments on what they would choose? AC coupled or DC? Single ended or differential?
I also went for a low impedance output using a National Semiconductor LME49600 buffer with LME49710 which I now think was excessive. The HP239A has a 600 ohm output impedance which I don't like but it does save on a buffer amplifier.
|13th March 2012, 06:59 PM
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@PChi -- No need for AC coupling if the buffer has even fair DC stability -- *and* if the instrument or circuit being driven doesn't try to push DC back into the buffer. My opinion is that the 49600/49710 combo will raise THD -- others may have different opinions.
Balanced output is good if you work with professional audio gear, otherwise it's not needed or helpful. But I have found that being able to lift circuit ground off the chassis ground is very helpful. I have two oscillators that allow this -- an HP 239A and a K-H 4500, and it's been quite useful.
No conventional THD analyzer will show you the true distortion of the oscillator, which makes a low-noise active filter (like a Twin-T) and spectrum analyzer combination the best way to look at distortion. Of course hardware spectrum analyzers aren't cheap, but they are needed to see products of fundamentals above 20kHz. Software analyzers are cheap and effective up to 18kHz or so with a good audio ADC. I'm waiting for someone to do a DIY 16-bit ADC system that has a bandwidth of 500kHz (fs = 1MHz) and low noise here on the Forum... I'm not up to it myself.
As to the rapid rise in THD above a few kHz, this is almost surely due to the GBW limitation of the oscillator amp and the resulting loss of open-loop gain.
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Search for Bob Cordell's DMA (I hope I'm remembering that correctly) for a very good way of doing what Dirk is thinking about. Unfortunately, it doesn't work for measuring oscillators directly unless you have a VERY high performance oscillator to compare to (THD less than 100ppb?)...
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