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Spring / GWT Software Architecture for scalable applications – Part 1
During this article I'm willing to share with you a clean software architecture to build high scalable enterprise application based upon GWT (on the front end) and Spring (on the back end).
I'm going to start by showing the overall software architecture and describing all technologies and best practices I use, then on the next articles we will build a little application from scratch step by step, on each article we are going to concentrate on a precise part of the solution.
GWT/Spring Software architecture
The solution is composed from tow parts, the client side (GWT) and the server side (Spring/JEE).
Client side (GWT)
On GWT I use the MVP design pattern along with activities, and RequestFactory. On this solution the MVP is just an abstraction and it is implemented using activities, the presenter and RequestFactory.
On the table below I describe each letter of MVP and how is implemented in the solution :
On this architecture the objects creation and injection (this include views, remote interfaces, event bus…) is managed by an IoC framework (like Spring) called GIN and is based upon Google Guice. I'll show you on the next article how to configure it and how I use it on this approach.
- View is a singleton configured using GIN (GWT IoC framework), most of the time a view is used by just one activity.
- Presenter is an interface implemented by a given view, to give a lightweight object which will be manipulated later by the activity to interact with the view.
- Activity It contains no Widgets or UI code and have a lifecycle. All the code about the UI business logic is written here. Activities manipulate both the view (by the intermediate of the presenter) and models (by calling the RequestFactory) and are started and stopped by an ActivityManager that is associated with a container Widget (a certain display area on the screen).
- Event Bus is a singleton configured using GIN and can be injected on activities and views, its function is to dispatch events to interested parties. An event bus eases decoupling by allowing objects to interact without having direct dependencies upon one another.
- RequestFactory is a factory exposing all your RequestContext. Each spring service you want to expose to the client must have its clone interface on GWT which extends the interface RequestContext.
- Proxy are the clones of the objects (business objects or VO's) used on the spring services in the server side they are manipulated by the remotes interfaces (interfaces which extends RequestContext), activities and views on GWT.
Server side (Spring/JEE)
On the server side I use a simple service oriented architecture composed from DAO (data access object managed by Spring Data for JPA), services (transactional and secured service layer exposed to GWT through the RequestFactory API), and finally persistent entities or value objects (theses are manipulated by services and DAO).
- Spring Data JPA repositories : Interfaces that extends the Spring Data generic repository, this interface offer elementary DAO methods (save, update, find all…), we can also put here our simple DAO methods (only methods definitions no implementation required) see Spring Data documentation for more informations : http://goo.gl/3vQfk.
- Custom repositories : Here we put advanced DAO methods that needs some business logic code not just simple queries like JPA repositories (the implementation of the custom interfaces is required).
- NamedQueries XML File : Both Spring Data Repositories and Custom repositories loads queries from XML files instead of hard coding them in java classes.
- Spring services : Here we have all the functionality that our server side expose to the client. In order to manipulate data a service is composed from one or many DAO's, also all the methods of the service must be transactional (so we can rollback if there is an accident) and secure.
Project structure
Now that we know some foundations about the solution, I'm going to show you how is the project structured :
The project is divided in tow big packages, the server side and client side.
Structure of the server side
On the server side we have the following sub packages :
- repos: composed from tow other packages 'simple' which contain spring data DAO's interfaces and 'advanced' which contain advanced DAO's (this type of DAO's uses the EntityManager and they perform some business logic on data).
- services: here we found the interfaces and implementation of services exposed to GWT client.
- rest: here we put REST controller to expose a REST API to build for example native iOS or Android application.
- business: here we have persistent entities and custom types (like enumerations or abstract classes).
- security: all classes related with security like authentication service, security filters… (I use spring security to manage the security of the application).
Structure of the client side
On the client side we have the following sub packages :
- activity: holds all activities, in each activity there is an inner interfaces which is the presenter implemented by the view.
- place: here we find the places, a place is used by the ActivityManaged defined for each display region on the GWT shell (or layout) to decided which activity to load. I'm going to talk about places on the following articles.
- UI: holds all the declarative XML files or java code to describe the UI (UI Binder). I also put in here the application layout (I called the shell). Every other files except layout related files are grouped on sub packages each one contain the UI's that concern a certain module of the application.
- event: contain all the custom event we use on the EventBus. The event on here are used for example to update the content of a view when we receive some data, when another display managed by another activity trigger an event. Check this article http://goo.gl/VpJM to learn more about how to use events on a MVP architecture.
- request: here we find RequestContext interfaces in relation with Spring services on the back end, the communication is done using a RequestFactory servlet, for more information about how to integrate Spring and GWT check the following article http://goo.gl/iL0yv. The sub package proxy holds the value object exchanged between the client GWT and server Spring, they are a representation of the remote objects (entities or VO's) managed by Spring on the client side.
- ioc: holds infrastructure code to set up the IoC container on the client (configuration for GIN). The 'MyAppModule' file configure the beans managed by GIN container and theirs scope (Singleton, Provider…) this file is like the applicationContext.xml on Spring. The 'MyAppInjector' indicate which of the defined beans we want to get to explicitly (anywhere even if it is not a GIN bean) it is like a factory of beans. A given application can have multiples 'Modules' and 'Injectors' files.
- resource: here we host the custom style files and images, I use heavily the ClientBundle GWT API to learn more check http://goo.gl/BofQO.
That's it for this article, on the following article I'll describe the example we are going to build step by step using this architecture.
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I worked on a Spring/GWT project three years ago, and I have this advice; use Load-Time Weaving to introduce GWT interfaces like RemoteService into the Spring services. It is a mistake to have the Spring back-end depend on the GWT jars
I agree with you because for the server (Spring) to communicate with the client I need to configure a RequestFactory servlet on the back end, which is fine in my case because the client code and server code are on the same project so they share the same libraries.
Can you give an example or a link about your method, I'm really interested on how you achieved this.
I'm sorry, butthat project is dead, and I'm somewhere else not. But I was trying to avoid having my Spring FooService implement GWT's RemoteService. Pure Spring AOP didn't help (at least then) because @DeclareParent required a specific implementation of the RemoteService interface; I couldn't tell it that FooService implemented RemoteService as is. But I set up Load-Time Weaving and in the webapp, My FooService got to adopt RemoteService so GWT could reach it.
In general, you want your Spring code in a different project from your GWT code. After all, who says that every thing you use it for will involve GWT, or even a UI? What happens if you're asked to expose your back end in a web service? You'll be embarrassed if you need the gwt jars just to run the web service.
On the architecture I described, the Spring services don't implement or extend any GWT stuff they are simple plain POJO and can be reused for example by REST controller later.
I can easily separate the GWT and Spring projects, and the RequestFactory Servlet is just one special Layer from many other layers to communicate with GWT clients, even GWT 2.4 contain a special jar called "requestfactory-server.jar" which hold just classes for the RequestFactory Servlet, so you don't have to put on your server all the GWT api just to use the special servlet.
Very nice and neat
it looks interesting,when will you have the part II?… thanks a lot
The next Week, I'll be talking about the backend in more detail, there will be some code examples.
Hi, excellent article.
I wonder when the second part will be published.Regards
Excellent article. Looking forward to the rest. Thanks for your efforts!
Very Nice Article. I am new spring and gwt development.I cam across roo + gwt but did not find any documentation for that. So of this is even relevant there.
Nice article.
Waiting for the next part of this series.. -
Really nice article. Liked the part 2 as well. Keep up the good work. I would like to know in which tool did you prepare the project structure diagram/image.
Very good article @imrabti. Do you see any value addition on reusing the DTO used at Server Side as VO in GWT (Client Side), we've got a big issue in duplicating them and packagin them as a separate client module so as, the GWT makrks them as GWT Serilizable object.What approach you took?
The Use of DTO in my solution is part of the RequestFactory API, their goal is to map the Objects On the Server (which in case are Entities) to The objects on Client (GWT client), Because this is a distributed architecture and the Client and Back can be deployed on different servers (Client is just static pages => deployed on Apache HTTP, Back end JEE application use of Tomcat or other JEE servers). It is not the plain classic VO and also it is not a duplication for more informations check this URL to see what I'm talking about : http://goo.gl/yi3u7.
The RequestFactory is the newest way to integrate GWT with a JEE back-end and it's like and enhanced version of GWT-RPC with more features, I encourage you to take a look at it.
Great post. Just one question. Do you really think the views should be using the event bus directly? Views are suppose to be "dumb" so a big part of me thinks that they shouldn't have access to the eventbus. At the same time, I think it's okay for the views to be UI smart.. so for example having a text box widget that handles dom events.. but we don't need the eventbus for anything like that. The eventbus is only used to coordinate APPLICATION events as opposed to UI events.. so in that sense shouldn't all of that be handled by the activity? None of our views contain references to the eventbus. I'd love to hear your thoughts..
Yes I totally agree, the view should deal just with UI logic and there for all of the Business logic need to be handled on the Activity. Normally the event bus shouldn't be injected on the view, but In my application I had a complex views (multiple activity manager, each one with its own view) that need to interact with each others (No business logic just UI stuff) and the only clean way to do this is by using the event bus.
For sure. I'd be willing to break that rule if the app called for it.
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It was late in the dog days of summer of the 2006 Major League Baseball season. I had restarted my collecting of baseball cards only about a year prior focusing on my beloved Red Sox whom I had been cheering for since I had my first Red Sox jersey at 3 months old. I had put together a nice little collection of rookies and game used cards and was looking toward picking up some of the newer prospects autographs for my collection. One night I was checking the newest Red Sox team news online when I saw a headline that I just could not fathom: "(Jon) Lester has treatable form of lymphoma". I could not believe what I had read, the up and coming starting pitcher for the Red Sox at 22 years old has cancer. I, myself, being only 20 years old at the time, had a sick feeling in my stomach. I had a scare with the possibilities of this disease a couple of months earlier and luckily I passed the tests they put me through. But learning someone else, about my age, had to deal with this affliction hurt me inside. As a fan, I wanted to support him the best I could but in reality the best you can do is just wish for the best.
Deep down, I knew he could beat this. It was a highly treatable form of cancer, he was young and athletic, and had the best doctors in the country. At the time I had only one card of Lester worth noting, his "true" rookie card – 2002 UD Prospect Premieres. But I wanted something better: I wanted an autograph of a guy who was going to beat cancer and hopefully pitch again one day. I pulled some money together and searched the best I could for a Bowman Chrome rookie autograph of him. I searched high and low and waited a couple of weeks to pull the trigger on the one I wanted in my price range. I finally pulled that trigger and a few days later it arrived in the mail. It was a beautiful sight to see. Crisp and smooth autograph and beautiful colors from the refractor coating, it was exactly what I wanted to base my collection of him, my Red Sox collection, and everything else I have off of. I finally received a card that I could look at and say not only is he a great pitcher, but he is a real fighter and someone everyone can look up to.
A year later, Jon Lester went to the mound for his first game back from beating cancer and won that game while pitching out of a few jams, showing his great poise and perseverance. Later in 2007, he played the biggest game of his career to that point and shined. He gave up 0 runs in 5 2/3 innings in Game Four of the 2007 World Series. Jon Lester earned that victory which clinched the 2007 World Series championship for the Red Sox. Early the following May, he pitched his first career no hitter against the Kansas City Royals. Today, he is one of the best left handed pitchers in the game of baseball and earned his first All-Star nomination this year. The sky is still the limit for Jon Lester as his future looks bright. He has been an inspiration to people everywhere no matter what team you root for in baseball. If this kid could comeback from cancer and win a World Series clinching game and throw a no-hitter soon after, it makes you wonder what could I or anyone else do?
This card is the most valuable to me in my whole collection of sports cards and will be more valuable to me then any card I get in the future as well. If I am in a rut, if I am in need of motivation, if I feel like I need some inspiration, I look over from my desk into a glass cabinet. Inside that glass cabinet, front and center, sits Jon Lester's rookie autograph. I look at it and feel like I could conquer any obstacle put in front of me.
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United Educators Credit Union was established in 1957 to benefit Minnesota Education Association members. Originally named MEA Credit Union, we assisted with the specific financial needs of the education community. Throughout the years — from strikes and natural disasters, to times of prosperity — the credit union was there.
The summer of 1998, the State's two teachers unions: the Minnesota Education Association and the Minnesota Federation of Teachers merged into one — Education Minnesota. Taking their lead, we petitioned the State Banking Department for a new charter, whereupon our field of membership changed to include all staff and members of the new organization. Without an "MEA" to serve, the name MEA Credit Union became obsolete. On January 1, 1999, we changed our name to United Educators Credit Union. Endorsed by Education Minnesota, we gained the opportunity to serve educators and school personnel statewide.
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Working in various software applications without fully understanding the basic functions of the program and its relationship to the computer's operating system can be troublesome. This often leads to lost documents, files or folders, wasted time and a lack of productivity.
This tutorial is meant to provide basic information of frequently utilized aspects of the MS
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Understanding the
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The Desktop
The Desktop:
In Windows, the main screen is called the desktop.
The desktop is on-screen work area on which windows, icons, menus and dialog boxes appear.
From the desktop, you can start programs and give other commands.
This shows an open Desktop with the Start Menu and open software program windows – MS Word and MS Picture Manager.
Windows Programs
Windows Programs:
opens programs in separate windows on the desktop.
Open windows are similar to each other and these parts can be found in most open windows.
This shows an open window in MS Paint software program.
Menus and Toolbars
Menus and Toolbars:
Most Windows software programs have a menu bar.
The menu bar allows you to choose commands and options. Click or tap the item on the menu bars and additional options will appear.
Toolbars also allow you to give commands. Often using a Toolbar option is faster than using the menu bar, as you only have to click on the button or icon on the bar.
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MS Word:
MS Word is a word processing program which is used to create documents with text such as reports, letters, lists, lesson plans.
Entering text using the keyboard is done at the insertion point or blinking curser.
Saving Documents in MS Word
It is important to save documents in Word for future reference and use. If you close a document without saving it, the information will be lost.
The first time you save a new document, choose the
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Save As
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Save As
Clicking on
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File Name
When you choose the file destination (My Documents, Network, etc) you must give the document a name the first time it is saved.
File names should relate to the content of the document./
After naming and saving the file, you can close it and open it to revise the document.
When finished, choose
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New Folders in Windows Explorer
New Folders can be created within the file destination, for ease of access and organization.
Saving files in a certain drive, folder or subfolder which describe the location on your computer is called the path.
File paths are created by using
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File Paths
The file path begins with the drive on which your file is saved.
Drive C is usually the hard drive located inside the computer you are working on.
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Follow the path in the address line: from Desktop to DVD Reviews. The file name "Two Brothers" is highlighted below.
Saving to Flash Drive
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Save As
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The drives are listed under Computer, as in this example, called Network Locations.
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by Anonymous 7October 13, 2012 at 8:10 AMNope never. Checking phones and Facebook is one thing but a diary? Absolutely not.
No I wouldn't. I had one AMD my mom respected the fact that it was mine and it was private thoughts. It was my stress relief. But I also knew I could go to my mom with anything. I still can talk to her about anything. I hope as my son grows he will feel the same about dh and I. I think a diary is private and needs to say that way. I have one now that dh doesn't read. It's out in the opean and I know I can trust him. If I wanted him to read it I would hand it to him.
by Anonymous 8October 13, 2012 at 8:17 AMNo when my goddaughter lived with us I promised I wouldn't and I didn't, I made it clear unless she was acting off I wouldn't ever go through her things! But I had rights to make her long into her social media sites at any given time, and I told her phone would be gone through if i thought she was up to something,
But a journal is personal thoughts and feelings and people have their rights to thoughts and feelings
Happily I only went through her phone once, & went on to beating a 24 year olds ass for hitting on her ( thankfully that's all it was) -
You're damn skippy, I do....as well as reading notes that she cleans out of her purse and book bag...I don't confront her with what I find because 1. It's a gold mine of information about what's going on in her head, heart and world and 2. She has a right to think her thoughts and fee her feelings....Now you might think that #2 is hypocritical aqs I'm basically invading her privacy while saying she also has a right to it...But, I use what I read to understand her better...She's Autistic and has a hard time expressing herself to someone else but basically wirtes letters to herself or others in her diary...So, I get to see how she's thinking and feeling....Is someone picking on her? Well, that gives me the chance to casually bring up how to handle problems with people while we do dishes together...Is she angry with her (very,very absent) father? Well then, I can talk to her about the choices people make in life and how they affect others while driving in the car....Does she talk about loving her boyfriend (she's 13,lol) then I can talk about love with her...how it changes, how some loves are different, how all love is real but not always the kind of love you can commit your life to, how what she wants in someone will change as she grows and changes....
I don't fee like it's spying because I'm not trying to catch her in trouble....I don't fee like it's fair to use something she wrote in her diary against her, so to speak...If I find in the future something troubling - she wants to have sex,she feels hopeless/suicidal - then I can get her the help she needs for it be it counseling or honest talk about consequences or birth control...
Only if I suspected something dangerous was up. I may not even then either I may have another party skim through it to make sure. But my daughter is 4yo so I'm not at that bridge yet so I'm not sure if I would or not or hand it off to someone else to skim through & re assure me or tell me of any flags etc.


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This Vert.x component provides interfaces for authentication and authorisation that can be used from your Vert.x applications and can be backed by different providers.
Vert.x auth is also used by vertx-web to handle its authentication and authorisation.
To use this project, add the following dependency to the dependencies section of your build descriptor:
Maven (in your pom.xml
Gradle (in your build.gradle
compile 'io.vertx:vertx-auth-common:3.4.1'
Authentication means verifying the identity of a user.
Authorisation means verifying a user has an authority.
What the authority means is determined by the particular implementation and we don't mandate any particular model, e.g. a permissions/roles model, to keep things very flexible.
For some implementations an authority might represent a permission, for example the authority to access all printers,
or a specific printer. Other implementations must support roles too, and will often represent this by prefixing
the authority with something like role:
, e.g. role:admin
. Another implementation might have a completely
different model of representing authorities.
To find out what a particular auth provider expects, consult the documentation for that auth provider..
To authenticate a user you use authenticate
The first argument is a JSON object which contains authentication information. What this actually contains depends on the specific implementation; for a simple username/password based authentication it might contain something like:
{ "username": "tim" "password": "mypassword" }
For an implementation based on JWT token or OAuth bearer tokens it might contain the token information.
Authentication occurs asynchronously and the result is passed to the user on the result handler that was provided in
the call. The async result contains an instance of User
which represents the authenticated
user and contains operations which allow the user to be authorised.
Here's an example of authenticating a user using a simple username/password implementation:
var authInfo = json {
"username" to "tim",
"password" to "mypassword"
authProvider.authenticate(authInfo, { res ->
if (res.succeeded()) {
var user = res.result()
println("User ${user.principal()} is now authenticated")
} else {
Once you have an User
instance you can call methods on it to authorise it.
to check if a user has a specific authority you use isAuthorised
The results of all the above are provided asynchronously in the handler.
Here's an example of authorising a user:
user.isAuthorised("printers:printer1234", { res ->
if (res.succeeded()) {
var hasAuthority = res.result()
if (hasAuthority) {
println("User has the authority")
} else {
println("User does not have the authority")
} else {
And another example of authorising in a roles based model which uses role:
as a prefix.
Please note, as discussed above how the authority string is interpreted is completely determined by the underlying implementation and Vert.x makes no assumptions here.
The user object will cache any authorities so subsequently calls to check if it has the same authorities will result in the underlying provider being called.
In order to clear the internal cache you can use clearCache
You can get the Principal corresponding to the authenticated user with principal
What this returns depends on the underlying implementation.
If you wish to create your own auth provider you should implement the AuthProvider
We provide an abstract implementation of user called AbstractUser
which you can subclass
to make your user implementation. This contains the caching logic so you don't have to implement that yourself.
If you wish your user objects to be clusterable you should make sure they implement ClusterSerializable
Since Secure Random from java can block during the aquisition of entropy from the system, we provide a simple wrapper around it that can be used without the danger of blocking the event loop.
By default this PRNG uses a mixed mode, blocking for seeding, non blocking for generating. The PRNG will also reseed every 5 minutes with 64bits of new entropy. However this can all be configured using the system properties:
io.vertx.ext.auth.prng.algorithm e.g.: SHA1PRNG
io.vertx.ext.auth.prng.seed.interval e.g.: 1000 (every second)
io.vertx.ext.auth.prng.seed.bits e.g.: 128
Most users should not need to configure these values unless if you notice that the performance of your application is being affected by the PRNG algorithm. Julien VietTim Fox


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Tropical Fish Keeping - Aquarium fish care and resources
- Coral and Reef Creatures
- - feeding black brittle star and tiger serpent star
feeding black brittle star and tiger serpent star Right now we have a small salt water tank with live rock, fish only; soon to upgrade to a larger tank. Anyway, the purpose of this thread is to ask how to feed our newly added black brittle starfish and tiger serpent starfish. I've done a bit of research online but most of it talks about stars in the ocean, which feed on detrius and molusks for the most part. Does anyone know what we could possibly feed them by hand or feeding syringe? Thanks! |
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I read that they are tremendous scavengers and will feed on waste in an aquarium and that they also like to be fed the same foods you are feeding your fish. Rather than depend on the internet for info I always prefer to hear from people who have actually have kept/ or keep the animals. I'm sure someone will come along soon who knows first hand about feeding them. |
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You don't necessarily need to feed them.Considering the fact that you have fish in the tank, they should be fine finding food on their own. My brittles are always right up front and center,(most of the time) and when they are, I usually give them a couple flakes. The way to do this is either take tweezers or just use your thumb and index finger, and pinch the food. Then I just put the food near or touching one of their legs and they grab hold of it. It is cool to watch their legs all work together and transport the food back to their mouth. Oh and as to what to feed them, they will eat nearly any fish food. Good Luck! |
Personally, I just feed my fish and corals frozen foods. Brine, mysis, krill, squid, rotifers, prime reef, plankton, cyclops, and the SFBB Saltwater multipack. What the fish dont eat, the stars do. |
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Deep in the Alaskan wilds, 9-year-old Rachel dreams of owning and racing a sled dog one day. When her father, who breeds and races huskies, gives her the runt of the litter, Rachel names the puppy Silver and sets out to prove he's a champion.
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Gloria and her husband Joseph moved from Detroit to the woods of northern Michigan several years ago. Many of Gloria's books take place during the summer -- because she does a lot of her writing during the northern Michigan blizzards! Gloria has been telling stories for as long as she can remember. Before she could read or write, she used to dictate stories to her baby-sitter, who would type them out. Being an only child, many of Gloria's stories were about having a brother or sister. Gloria would like to have written Little Women, because Jo March was one of her role models growing up! Gloria once had a set of five guinea pigs, all named after Detroit Tiger baseball players!
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I am not sure if it a drug or a supplement.
The drugs work, but if you get off the drug, you will gain it all back. -
First and foremost, you need to examine your diet. Pills are worthless, if your diet sucks.
Most people don't even eat enough, let alone eat the right foods.
You need to figure out what your goals are, figure out what your caloric expenditure is, and adjust your diet accordingly.
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Advice on diet and pills/supplements will be worthless without a better picture of what your current physical condition is and what your goals are. There's a hell of a lot more involved if you're already lean and want to diet down to contest levels for example than there is if you're just a fatty and want to thin out a bit. In the former case you'll likely be cycling carbs and have a much more complex approach, in the latter you really just need to practice portion control and get some regular exercise in to help you develop and stick with your new eating habits.
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Analysis of photovoltage decay transients in dye-sensitized solar cells
Walker, A. B., Peter, L. M., Lobato, K. and Cameron, P., 2006. Analysis of photovoltage decay transients in dye-sensitized solar cells. Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 110 (50), pp. 25504-25507.
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It is shown that application of the so-called quasi-static approximation greatly simplifies the theoretical treatment of the open circuit photovoltage decay of dye-sensitized nanostructured solar cells (DSCs), since it removes the need to treat the kinetics of trapping and detrapping explicitly and leads to a straightforward analytical solution in the case of an exponential trap distribution. To identify the conditions under which the quasi-static approach is valid, transients calculated using the quasi-static approximation are compared with the results of numerical calculations that treat trapping and detrapping of electrons explicitly. The application of the quasi-static approach to derive the rate constant for the back-reaction of electrons from experimental photovoltage decay data is illustrated for an optimized DSC.
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Click on the area you'd like to visit next: 1. From the boat ramp to the Devils Waterhole. 2. From the Devils Waterhole to the Hwy 29 Bridge. 3. The west shore, across the lake from the state park, Camp Longhorn to the dam. 4. The southeastern shore of the state park.


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The Netagamiou Community Learning Centre is part of a province-wide partnership of Community Learning Centres that supports a range of services and activities including community development, English-language education and intergenerational learning activities.
This exhibit, titled Oral History — Honouring Our Heritage, collected oral histories as a way of exploring the primary-industry heritage of the Lower North Shore.
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Draco is Sean Connery's true form.
During filming, he just took off that human costume he's always walking around in.
- So, James Bond was played by a dragon? Too awesome to happen.
Draco's death could have been avoided.
Case 1: While Einon can't be killed, he can still be injured (for example, getting stabbed by Kara and shot by Brother Gilbert). Why not cut out the dragon heart? Mortal once again.
Case 2: If that doesn't work, just throw the king in prison for all eternity. It's not like he has any supporters left that would release him. Plus, "Death should be a release, not a punishment."
- I suspect that cutting out Einon's heart would be incredibly painful or possibly even deadly for Draco. We've seen that each feels the effect of any woulds the other receives. And locking him up leaves it open for him to escape and seize power again in the future. Besides, sacrificing his own life is the only way for Draco to earn his place in Dragon Heaven.
- What about cutting off Einon's head? I doubt he'd survive that seeing as how the half-heart is what keeps him 'immortal' and his head wouldn't be attached to it anymore, and since Draco is the life source it wouldn't kill the dragon. It would probably hurt like hell but not for terribly long and then Draco could've gotten his heart back, still earned his place and not needed to have died.
- The pain and shock caused by chopping off Einon's head may very well have killed Draco anyway.
The Scarred One was Draco's mate, and Drakes mother
- When Draco found out Bowen had just killed a dragon, he says "she and I were the last". Drake had to have a mom.
- There's no indication of how many dragons Bowen has killed since starting his dragonslaying career, or whether Draco's mother was even still alive at the beginning of the movie; she could have been long dead.
- It's possible that in the French dub, he actually refers to her as his mate.
- He does : he calls her "ma fiancée".
- There's no indication of how many dragons Bowen has killed since starting his dragonslaying career, or whether Draco's mother was even still alive at the beginning of the movie; she could have been long dead.
Calvin and Hobbes are reincarnations of Bowen and Draco
Let's face it, both of these pairs of characters have eerily similar personalities and dynamics. They're always fighting and arguing comically, and have no problems getting into wacky hijinks, either intentionally or by accident. Draco, though obviously enjoying a good time and some violence, tries to nevertheless steer his bitter human companion on the right path by returning to the Old Code, just like how Hobbes tries to be Calvin's conscience, to varying degrees of success. And most telling of all, when they attempt to remove Kara from the picture before she messes up their plans, Draco, instead of eating her, puts the moves on her, to Bowen's chagrin. Kind of like how whenever Calvin and Hobbes try to pester Susie, the latter always ends up getting his groove on with her.
- Besides, following that logic, dragons no longer exist in the present days: they are mythical creatures and, even if you personally knew one, nobody would believe you anyway. Kinda like how Calvin knows Hobbes is real, but to everyone else, he's just a stuffed toy.
The Scarred One from the first movie is the dragon whose heart was shared with Rhonu.
A longshot, I know, but it's been confirmed that Draco is one of the dragons in Drago's eggs, so maybe The Scarred One was as well. If they do make a fourth film, maybe they'll explore her story. Besides, from what Drago said about female dragons, Rhonu sounds like she's get along well with the heart of one.
Gareth and Rhonu are the ancestors of Kara and Lorne is the ancestor of Gilbert.
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DC Ben Jones (from Series 9)
Jason has been busy in the theatre recently, appearing in Way Upstream at the Chichester Festival Theatre - April-May and set to appear in Violence & Son at the Royal Court (Jerwood Theatre), London from June-July.
Jason Hughes to leave Midsomer
'Schooled in Murder' will be the last ever episode starring Jason Hughes as DS Jones, sidekick to DI Barnaby played by Neil Dudgeon.
Jason has decided to leave after filming over 50 episodes of the popular and long running series Midsomer Murders.
He says: 'It was a tough decision for me to go, as I have had a great time working on the show, both with John Nettles and now Neil Dudgeon, and the crew are like a second family. I feel it is the right time for me to leave, and after spending seven happy years on Midsomer I am now looking at other projects, and my first one will be the pilot season in the US. It's a new year for me career wise which I am looking forward to, and though I am sorry to say goodbye to Midsomer, I hope to be able to come back if there is a 'special episode' in the pipeline!'
Producer Jo Wright of Bentley Productions is currently looking for the right person to replace Jason. She said: 'We are sad that Jason has decided to leave the series and of course will miss him tremendously. We are now looking for his replacement, and it's very exciting to start looking for a new face.'
Jason's first episode was 'The House in the Woods' in 2005. He went on to film over 100 hours of Midsomer Murders starring alongside John Nettles in 38 episodes. Since Neil Dudgeon took over the leading role, the latest detective duo have clocked up a further 14 episodes.
Jason's first day filming involved finding a dead body in a car, a foretaste of the many bizarre murders he then went onto investigate. As DS Jones, Jason has also been almost killed by a tractor, dressed up as a nun, fallen out of trees, and gone undercover in a cult. He has fallen in the lake in the middle of freezing January and sang naked in the shower. In that one, he was a bit shocked when he was told to take his boxer shorts off, and then found out that they had to dub over his singing anyway because of a rights issue!
Jason's other credits include This Life, Plain Jane, The Flint Street Nativity, Phoenix Blue, Killing Me Softly, Mine All Mine, Waking The Dead, Coming Up and Dante's Daemon.
Good friends Michael Sheen and Jason Hughes have teamed up for a major ITV1 Wales feature film. They star in 'Dead Long Enough', which was shown on Welsh TV on Friday, 15th December at 11pm.
Jason Hughes will be doing some celebrating of his own when Midsomer Murders reaches its half-century.
He is marrying his long-term partner Natasha Dahlberg at the end of September, with the couple's children, seven-year-old Molly and one-year-old Max at their side.
Explains Jason: "The plans are going very well. We've managed to get on top of it all, now we have to pay everybody! The children will be very involved because they're a big part of our lives."
Unfortunately, Jason's hectic workload allows him no time for a honeymoon.
"I'm contracted to Midsomer Murders for 10 months of the year but even though we have a break at the end of September I go straight into filming a one-off film of This Life, which catches up with everybody 10 years later. I start that on the 23rd of September, get married on the 24th, have the 25th off and then I'm back at work on the 26th!
"Natasha is also very busy, she's a jewellery designer and she's just cracked New York and is looking at starting something in LA. It's a busy year for us both, so we'll have to wait till Christmas for a break together."
Jason Hughes joins Midsomer Murders as Barnaby's new side-kick from the first episode of Series 9, 'The House in the Woods'. Scott is ill so Barnaby persuades DC Ben Jones to join him in his investigations.
Jason was ideally placed to play a policeman in the series because he's already passed the Met's entrance exam several times over. When he left drama school he worked for the Met for about a year, helping to train their examiners by doing role play mock interviews. He had to do a lot of work pretending that he wanted to join the police. They told Jason he would have made the grade, though he has remarked, 'I don't know if that's worrying or not'!
Jason's sister's also a policewoman, based in South Wales, and his grandfather was a sergeant who became a crime prevention officer. So there's definitely some kind of cop thing going on in his family, though when he told his sister he'd be playing a detective in Midsomer Murders she just laughed!
"Jones grew up in the Midsomer area and he's an enthusiastic copper who's given an opportunity to come out of uniform. He's bright and wants to learn so he loves it when he's given a chance to work with DCI Barnaby. He'll stand and listen but sometimes he can't help himself asking a question or throwing an idea into the pot.
Jason has said "I'm a bit like him because when things interest me, I like to get involved and know as much as I can about something. I'm not half-hearted. But we're very different people and come from different backgrounds. I'm Welsh and he's not, and I have a family and he doesn't."
He has also said, "John's been terrific. He's such a lovely guy - incredibly generous and calm. He's very easy to be around and I'm sure the good feeling on set is largely down to the way he is. Joining the series was an easy choice because I knew I was going into something of a good standard and quality. The whole team have made me feel really welcome."
Born in Porthcawl, South Wales, Jason represented his country at rugby before turning to acting. He trained at LAMDA and got his big break playing Warren in acclaimed drama This Life.
His other credits include The Flint Street Nativity, Harry Enfield's Brand Spanking New Show, Plain Jane, Mine All Mine, and the feature films Phoenix Blue, Shooters, Killing Me Softly as well as the forthcoming Red Mercury and Dead Long Enough.
Jason lives in Hove with his wife, acclaimed jewellery designer Natasha Dahlberg, and their children Molly, six, and nine-month-old baby Max. This year he has also made a short film, Mable's Story, about spiritualists and ghosts, with his Cardiff-based production company Spinning Head.
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There are some pictures here http://www.flickr.com/photos/59082098@N05/sets/72157626005885698/ taken in the 1930's when the building was new.
I wish I hadn't looked at the photo! What a sad demise of a lovely art deco building. I lived in Finchley Park, just round the corner, and was a regular visitor in the 1950's and early 1960's. They weren't doing that badly – the place was jam-packed for Summer Holiday and Zulu, but of course, TV was gaining ground and perhaps closure was inevitable. But to replace it with "Furnitureland" – just how gross can things get!
It would be nice to some pictures of this cinema in it's prime – maybe with some trolleybuses, buses, or Greenlines that all stopped outside the entrance.


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The first reason for why English should be the medium of instruction at universities in Turkey is that it helps students find a high quality jobs for students to find. In business life, the most important common language is obviously English. In addition to this, especially, high-quality jobs need good understanding ability and speaking in English. Therefore, companies can easily open out to other countries, and these companies generally employ graduates whose English is fluent and orderly. For example, the student who is graduated from a university which takes English as a major language will find a better or high-quality job than other students who don't know English adequately. In other words, the student who knows English is able to be more efficient in his job because he can use the information from foreign sources and web sites. He can prepare his assigments and tasks with the help of these information. Therefore, undoubtedly, his managers would like his effort or prepared projects. In addition, many high-quality jobs are related with international communication and world-wide data sharing. University graduates who are in a international company and business are needed to communicate with foreign workers. For instance, if their managers want them to share the company's data, they are expected to know English. Moreover, they will even have to go business trip for their company. Absolutely, all of these depend on speaking English;as a result, new graduates have to know English in order to get a high-quality job, and the others, who don't know English, may have lack of communication and be paid less money.
The second and the most important reason, for English to be the medium of instruction in the Turkish higher education system is that it enables students to communicate with the international world. In these days, in my opinion, the most important thing for both university students and graduates is to follow the development in tecnology. For this reason, they have to learn common language. Certainly, they should not lose their interest on communicating with the world. However, some of the university students can't obtain English education in their university. Unfortunately, these people may lose their communication with worldwide subjects and topics. In short, they will not communicate foreign people. To prevent these people from lacking of speaking English, universities' administration will provide English education to them. In addition, university students can use some specific hardware and software of computers with their English to communicate others. For example, the Internet, which, in my opinion, is the largest source in the world, based on English knowledge and information. Also, most of the softwares such as "Windows", "Microsoft Office", "Internet Explorer" are firstly written in English, and these programs are the basic vital things for communication over computer. That is to say, even in a little resarch about something, they need these programs and the Internet to find necessary sources and information.
The last reason for favouring English as the medium of instruction of Turkish universities is that it faclitates accessing information. All of the students have to do some projects or homeworks which are related with their field during the university education. In these projects or homeworks, they have to find some information which is connected with their subject. They find sources from English web sites and books, but they have to replace these data to their projects. During these process, if they know English, they will not come across with any difficulty, but if they don't know, even they may not use these data. As a result, the student who knows English will be more successful at his/her project. For this reason, to obstruct possible inequity between students, management of universities should accept English as a second language in order to provide accessing information to the students. In short, university students need to know English to access information.
All in all, the education in universities should be done with English for three reasons. First, students who know English are able to find their favourite job related with their field. Second, they can communicate with others internationally. Third, as a major language in universities, English makes accessing information easy for students. In my opinion, internationally, people need one common language. For many years, English has been the common wold-wide language, and it will be in the future. For this reason, if you want to follow trends, new gadgets and technology, modernization of the developing world, you have to know English whatever age you are in.
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Charley Burns is a man who has lived his dream. Drawing sports cartoons for the News Journal at night, while working his day job in the DuPont company art department. He shares some of those memories in our First Experience.
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Die Koelner Bierhalle
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Flanked by the characteristically Park Slope setup of an auto workshop and a community garden, Die Koelner Bierhalle's airy, communal table-lined space brandishes a large painting of the city of Cologne's crest on its cement wall. Light blue and white drapes hang from the ceiling, as does an enormous steel fan. The figures in the foosball table have the defined muscles and varying skin tones of the athletes on the large projector screen. Pint and half-pint mugs, stoneware beer steins, and polite smatterings of liquor bottles -- for who'd want to order a vodka tonic here? -- are stacked behind the bar, ready to be filled by the zesty, malty, honeyed and hoppy flavors of beer from the almost exclusively German tap menu.


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Girls, Girls, Girls in Washington Square Park, NYC
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on November 9, 2012 at 9:31 pm Nancy McManus
Romance isn't the only thing in the air in Washington Square. Contact high.
Still, it's my old neighborhood and I do miss my 212 area code.
I had to laugh at the comment above. I guess there could be romance there, too. My dad remembers playing chess in Washington Square.
on November 11, 2012 at 11:27 pm Ogrover
Wasn't there an instrumental 'Washington Square'? I think it was The Village Stompers. Lot's of banjo.


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Hedgeye Director Of Research Daryl Jones shares the top three things in CEO Keith McCullough's macro notebook this morning.
Hedgeye Director Of Research Daryl Jones shares the top three things in CEO Keith McCullough's macro notebook this morning.
Takeaway: We think that this summer's preannouncement calendar is setting up to be particularly robust. Update on math for NKE NBA deal - UA impact.
Preannouncement Season -- Three Months Away
Conclusion: Yesterday we updated and emailed our SIGMA deck for about 100 companies, (Ping us if you would like a copy). The number of companies screening short is nearly 3x what we usually see. We think that it's game-time for picking stocks in this group. Earnings matter more than ever. We need to manage risk ahead of what will likely be a busy preannouncement season this summer. We'll be back with changes to our Idea List and Bench after vetting the tickers below appropriately.
As background, in this analysis we triangulate the P&L and balance sheet to hone in on which companies are likely to beat on the Gross Margin line, and of course…which companies are going to miss. Over time, the relationship between this analysis and stock moves is just over 90%.
In running this analysis for the group, we typically find that roughly 10% of the stocks fall onto our Long screen, with another 10% Short. This quarter, however, we're looking at about 20% screening Long, and just over 30% Short. Tickers are as follows… (particularly notable callouts are bold and underlined)
Positive: AMZN, ADIDAS, BEBE, BGFV, CAB, CACH, CHS, COH, CRI, DG, GMAN, HD, INDITEX, KORS, LOW, MW, OXM, RH, SPLS, SSI, TFM, TPX, UA, URBN, WMT, ZQK
Negative: AMER Sports, APP, BBW, BBBY, BKS, COST, DDS, ETH, FIVE, FINL, FL, FOSL, GIL, GPS, HBI, H&M, JCP, JWN, KSS, NILE, NKE, PIR, RL, ROST, SHOO, SKX, SUMR, WSM, ULTA, TUMI, TIF, Fast Retailing
Industry Trend: The retail group in aggregate ended the fourth quarter in the sweet spot – sales growing faster than inventories, and margins up y/y. We know, that's old news. When earnings season kicks off in earnest next week, we'll see this position hold – which absolutely needs to happen with the group at 22x earnings and 9.5x EBITDA (peak, by a long shot). It is very rare that we see the group hold the upper right quadrant for more than two quarters – meaning that there's likely risk to either a) guidance with the upcoming round of earnings reports, b) earnings misses when 2Q earnings hit in July, or c) multiple compression in anticipation of slowing earnings growth. We think that this summer's preannouncement calendar will be particularly robust.
NKE, UA, AdiBok - Nike near deal for NBA uniform rights
Takeaway: There is not a chance that Nike let's this NBA deal slip through its fingers. Nike couldn't care less about Adidas or Reebok as a threat to its basketball franchise. But the thought of UnderArmour securing the NBA deal likely has Nike quaking in its boots. That's why there's almost no chance Nike loses it. Consider the math. The deal is now for about $36mm/yr. Let's say the new deal comes in at $45mm per year, that's just 4.5% of NKE's existing endorsement budget, for UA it's 50%. That's actually not too far above what Kevin Plank had Board approval to pay for Kevin Durant before Nike outbid them (near $30mm). But make no mistake, if Nike had to pay $100mm for this deal, we think it would. If UA was smart, it would push the bidding as high as possible to potentially dislocate marketing dollars that Nike would otherwise spend elsewhere.
Carlyle Group eyes retail and CPG world with Walmart exec on team
Sneaker Makers Train Their Eyes on Fashion
TJX - TJ Maxx Now Sells Plus-Size Clothing On Its Website
TGT - Lilly Pulitzer for Target Pop-Up Opens in Bryant Park
JWN - Nordstrom Partners With Italian Trade Commission
Macerich Shareholders Threaten Lawsuit
SRSC - Sears Canada CEO says more store closures possible
Do It Best relaunches ecommerce site
DSW - U.S. shoe giant DSW sticks to big-box format as it plans to double presence in Canada
China has been very topical this week, Chinese equities had another strong day today up 2.2%. We continue to believe that cyclical headwinds will weigh on Chinese growth. Chase the A-shares at your own risk.
There will be no debt deal for Greece by April 24th when the Eurogroup meets. Banks abroad have been told to exit their Greek debt holdings and neighboring banks have reduced exposure to Greek banks...clearly a lot of preparation for some sort of Greek default.
OPEC reported that its March production jumped 810,000 bpd to 30.79 million bpd. The International Energy Agency also reported a surge in OPEC production to 31 million bpd, which it said could delay a tightening in the global market. CLICK HERE to watch Director of Research Daryl Jones discusses the three biggest bearish data points on oil for both intermediate and long-term durations.
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Manitowoc (MTW) is splitting the business into two companies. While the crane business receives the most attention in part due to its cyclicality and because they are well, more noticeable, Manitowoc's other business, Foodservice equipment, is the larger of the two in terms of operating income (60% vs. 40% for Cranes). Several indicators are pointing towards upward momentum for MTW's Foodservice business. Restaurant same store sales have benefitted since the drop in oil prices. Furthermore, an indicator by the National Restaurant Association, RPI Capital Expenditures Index, has surged recently in part due to lower fuel prices driving restaurant traffic and restaurant owners' outlook. |
iShares U.S. Home Construction ETF (ITB) is a great way to play our long housing call. The housing data was again strong in the latest week with Pending Home Sales, HPI and Purchase Demand all accelerating to close out March. Pending Home Sales rose +3.1% sequentially in February with signed contract activity up a remarkable +12% YoY, taking the index to a new 19-month high. Mortgage Purchase Applications – the most real-time, high frequency housing demand indicator - rose +5.7% WoW on the back of last week's +4.9% advance and accelerated to +7.6% on a year-over-year basis. HPI: The Case-Shiller 20-city series showed home prices grew +4.6% year-over-year in January. A stabilization/inflection in home price growth is important as housing related equity performance tracks the slope of home price growth strongly. |
It was another week of declining long-term yields getting you paid on the long-side of Low-volatility Long Bonds (TLT). To reiterate our view over the longer-term, we pin a good chance the U.S. Dollar will reach new highs ($120 anyone?) with the probably of long-term Treasury yields reaching all-time lows very much in play. |
The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
Norman Vincent Peale
Based on a study conducted by YouGov in August 2013, 6% of Americans don't know how to ride a bike.
Hosted by Hedgeye CEO Keith McCullough at 9:00am ET, this special online broadcast offers smart investors and traders of all stripes the sharpest insights and clearest market analysis available on Wall Street.
Takeaway: We're hosting a flash call today at 11am EST to run through the activist playbook on PNRA.
We believe changes Panera's business model will significantly enhance the margins, returns, and overall earnings power of the company. We put the baseline earnings power of the company between $8-10 per share and the implied stock price between $240-300.
Wednesday night, Panera announced in a press release that its Board of Directors approved an increase to the company's share repurchase program to $750 million. The company expects to repurchase $500 million over the next twelve months. The release also highlighted the progress that Panera is making in its previously announced refranchising initiative. The company has entered letters of intent to sell 73 cafes and is expected to reach its refranchising goal by year end (50-150 cafes). This initiative, which is expected to be accretive to earnings, was reflected in management's 2015 EPS guidance.
On March 3, 2015 we penned an open letter to CEO Ron Shaich detailing our activist playbook on the company:
Note: PNRA: RON SHAICH MUST BECOME AN ACTIVIST CEO
In this letter, we recommended five steps he should consider taking in order to unlock significant shareholder value:
We look forward to further articulating these recommendations on the call today.
"Market values are fixed only in part by balance sheets and income statements; much more by the hopes and fears of humanity; by greed, ambition, acts of God, invention, financial stress and strain, weather, discovery, fashion and numberless other causes impossible to be listed without omission." – Gerald Loeb, The Battle for Investment Survival
After rolling up its MLPs in December 2014, Kinder Morgan Inc. (KMI) is now the third-largest energy company in the S&P 500 by enterprise value ($137 billion) and fourth-largest by market cap ($95 billion). It's also one of the more polarizing names out there – you either love it or you hate it.
KMI kicked off the earnings season for the energy sector on Wednesday, and with KMI being a relatively new and large name in many portfolio managers' benchmarks, we figured that the generalists that subscribe to the Early Look would be interested in, and benefit from, our latest thoughts on KMI – the company and the stock. Regarding the former, the commentary below was sent to our Energy sector subscribers yesterday:
"In its 1Q15 report … Kinder Morgan Inc. (KMI) declared a quarterly dividend of $0.48/share, reiterated its 2015 dividend target of $2.00/share, and emphatically reiterated its long-term dividend growth guidance of 10% p.a. through 2020. KMI bulls need not read any further.
The quarter was soft overall as the more-commodity-sensitive segments of CO2 and Natural Gas Pipelines posted a combined 5% YoY decline in segment cash flow. Adjusted EBITDA came in at $1,743MM, down 1% YoY and missed the consensus estimate of $1,861MM by 6%. EBIT was $1,193MM, down 5% YoY. Pre-tax earnings were $679MM ($0.31/share), down 16% YoY. (All metrics are "before Certain Items.")
KMI incurred ~$935MM of CapEx in the quarter, $104MM (11%) of which was classified as sustaining / maintenance. It spent ~$3.2B on acquisitions, ~$3,060MM on Hiland and ~$160MM on the Vopak terminals. The Hiland acquisition closed on February 13th, so it was a significant contributor to the 1Q15 numbers.
Free Cash Flow (defined here as EBITDA – net interest expense – CapEx) was ~$295MM or $0.14/share.
Rich Kinder remarked on the call, "…our enormous footprint and our diversified set of mostly fee-based assets can produce very good results, even in times of tumultuous market conditions."
Very good results?
EBITDA and EBIT were down YoY in 1Q15 despite $9.4B of capital invested since the start of 2014 ($5.0B of CapEx – ~$1.0B per quarter – and $4.4B of acquisitions). That's mediocre, at best.
What is exceptional about KMI is 1) its valuation at 20x EV/EBITDA, 29x EV/EBIT, 35x P/E (pre-tax!), and a 1.3% FCF yield (all metrics are 1Q15 annualized); 2) its leverage at 6x debt/EBITDA and 9x debt/EBIT; and, of course, 3) its dividend payout ratios at +230% of net income and +150% of pre-tax income."
Here's our opinion of KMI – the company – in as succinct of a form as possible, a 140 character #tweet:
MegaCap energy conglom. Capital intensive, cyclical, competitive. Avg ROIC. Super-levered. Low organic growth. Roll up. Ponzi divi.
And all of that really isn't that hard to see. Which of those points could you convincingly argue the other side of?
The debate and difficulty lies in what to do with KMI the stock here.
Our current view, one that is, of course, subject to change, is that it's just one to watch from the sidelines. We apologize to the bulls for not joining the rest of the sell-side in the Rich Kinder booster club, and to the bears for not betting on the imminent collapse of the evil empire, but the risk / reward set-up does not warrant action at this time and price.
The challenge on the short side is that the higher KMI's valuation, particularly relative to its peer group, the more "accretive" each acquisition will be. Say what you want about this growth strategy (and we suggest you re-read Buffett's thoughts on it on pages 29 and 30 of the latest BRK letter!), but the market has bought into it and it's going to work until it doesn't.
Reflexivity is clearly at work; we'd consider a short position in KMI on the way down. But for now, we're interested in playing KMI's well-advertised acquisition ambitions via second derivatives. More on that to come…
We'll leave it there on this battleground stock. If you own KMI, we hope that you at least know what you own!
Enjoy the weekend,
Kevin Kaiser
Managing Director
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From the time I started writing the Emily O'Brien series, I struggled with the fact the books weren't going to fit neatly into any category. The books have strong Christian elements, yes, but they weren't necessarily written as Christian books. I tried writing the first book that way initially but it just didn't fit well with the story or the characters. So I decided to write it the way that felt right to me. I guess that's the reporter in me.
And when I made that choice, I found Emily's voice and that propelled the story forward. At the time, that was OK since I was writing just for me. I never expected to let anyone else see them. But I had a persistent husband and I finally figured, why not?
I've heard the term "realistic Christian fiction." I guess that might be the closest category I could find, but it wasn't an option on Amazon or Smashwords. And I'm not sure it really covers it all anyway.
So in advance, I apologize to anyone I offend — either because you don't like my views on faith or because you don't like the book's profanity or realism. I realize the books have the potential to alienate both ends of the spectrum but I had to write the books authentically.
I promise to keep the books between PG and PG-13 — no F-bombs or raunchy sex scenes or grisly, bloody details that make you quit eating your lunch. And as the series progresses, I hope readers see a change in Emily, that she becomes a better reflection of her faith. That was one of my goals when I began writing, to create a newbie Christian character that matures over time. She's definitely a work in progress.
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I am not a Christian myself but I enjoy a good mystery, especially with a female investigator (I've tried my hand at writing some of them myself). I actually find the faith aspect of Emily O'Brien's character to be fresh & interesting to read about. I say be true to yourself in writing this series & I will be happy to follow Emily's further adventures!
I too enjoy a good mystery and feel you do not have to make any excuses for being a Christian nor for including that in your charcter development. Vengenceance is Mine was a well written book that kept me turning pages to see what Emily would do next . I can't wait to read Buried Alive.
The only thing I didn't like was the many typos, missing words, and in one case a grammer error. I am neither an editor nor a writer, so maybe I have no room to criticize. I know you are doing this for free so all I ask is for you to ask some,one, husband or friend, to read your books with a red pen in hand.
I have read all three books and can't wait for the 4th book. I don't have much in the patience but I can't wait for book 4. Thank you for an excellent story!
I've read all three of your books and I love them. No steamy sex scenes to make me uncomfortable, just good solid writing. Just want to know when the 4th book of the series, 'Flesh & Blood', will be out.
Just wanted you to know that I LOVE your 3 Emily books!!! Of course started reading the 4th book…and almost keeled over when I realized it's not yet in print….(need I tell you that patience is a virtue I struggle with…lol). Is there any other way to be notified when it's for sale?? I mean….I'm thinking of possibly an email notification???
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I loved the first comment, from a non-Christian: "…I actually found the faith aspect of Emily O'Brien's character to be fresh and interesting…" Hallelujah! Isn't that exactly how we should represent Jesus? I'll admit that I've shied away from "Christian" novels before…too often they are syrupy and sappy. A life following Jesus is anything but! Looking forward to "Flesh and Blood."


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Famous blogger sets a precedent he now regrets.
It's hard to tell who came first: Steven Colbert, or the blogger, Jesus' General. Both of them became famous for behaving like hyper-hardcore-Republicans in order to humorously illustrate how silly some things about Republicans are.
Jesus' General had a great blog consisting of posts that were essentially copies of e-mails that he wrote to business owners, politicians, religious leaders, or other folks, congratulating them on their racism, bigotry, sexism, homophobia, Christian supremacism or whatever else put a bee in his bonnet. Great stuff, and for the most part entertaining.
(So stick with me, my story gets interesting.)
That brings us to a blogger in Tennessee who runs a summary blog (a blog that basically acts as a clearing-house / news crawler for other blogs) for Nashville blogs. This lady blogger posted a link to a rather rude, insulting, and racist obituary of a friend of Jesus' General who had recently died. This lady also works for the local Nashville ABC affiliate television station. Therefore, JG (as he is known) took it upon himself to notify this blogger's employer (i.e. ABC in Nashville), and encouraged all of his other readers to do so as well, about this "racist post" on their employee's blog. The e-mails from Jesus' General's readers got so bad that the lady who ran the blog and linked to the racist obituary resigned from her job.
Now, some of JG's readers thought that it was a little harsh that this woman had to quit her job just because she linked to some insulting post on another blog, and they said so in Jesus' General's comments section.
What happened then? One of Jesus' General's readers decided to take it upon himself to contact the employer of one of the people (a college professor) who had left a comment supporting the now-unemployed Nashville blogger, stating that one of their college's employees was supporting racist language, and this professor should be disciplined.
Well, Jesus General simply couldn't have his readers writing e-mails to people's employers about stuff written on the internet could he? He put his foot right down and put a stop to that. Oh. Right. The Nashville blogger. Whoops. Forgot about her, eh?
Dear JG... I can understand why you've gone fishing for a while: It's like one of those movies where the main character has a great idea (Fight Club seems a fitting example), and then at the end, as all of his little minions run around applying his idea in ways unexpected, and as the camera fades out, you hear him lament, "I've created a monster!"
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This special edition was only available at the online retailers GameStop/EB Games. It includes:- Spider-Man 3
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"Parents are often so busy with the physical rearing of children that they miss the glory of parenthood, just as the grandeur of the trees is lost when raking leaves."
Marcelene Cox
"Perhaps the best function of parenthood is to teach the young creature to love with safety, so that it may be able to venture unafraid when later emotion comes; the thwarting of the instinct to love is the root of all sorrow and not sex only but divinity itself is insulted when it is repressed. To disapprove, to condemn /the human soul shrivels under barren righteousness."
Freya Stark
"The secret of dealing successfully with a child is not to be its parent."
Mel Lazarus
"There are times when parenthood seems nothing more than feeding the hand that bites you"
Peter De Vries
"Parenthood is one long exercise in relinquishing control -- or the illusion that we ever had it. Postparenthood is about acceptance."
Jane Adams
"Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur."
Alvin Toffler
"Oh, high is the price of parenthood, and daughters may cost you double. You dare not forget, as you thought you could, that youth is a plague and a trouble."
Phyllis McGinley
"It's just a sneak attack. They were on a mission to kill Planned Parenthood, and they killed everybody else instead."
Claudia Stravato
"Planned Parenthood will fight these attacks in courts, in the state houses, at the ballot boxes to ensure that women with their doctors and families continue to be able to make personal health care decisions without government interference."
Cecile Richards
"For many years, she was the only reason we (Planned Parenthood in Evansville) could stay open."
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Tuesday, December 10, 2013
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A whirlwind of activity, Shelley! But all such good fun. I'm glad Mackenzie came forward to claim her lovely mittens, the paintings and boxes are beautiful, all art exhibitions should definitely have cats in the crowd, and the roller derby and live music sound great. Now I need a sit down and a cup of tea, your life is certainly busy at the moment! xxxx
ReplyDeleteI would have been stoked to be at an exhibition where there were cats to play with!!!
I love those music boxes, they're really beautiful!
Crikey, darling, you are a busy bee! ROLLER DERBY! I keep saying I'm going to go and check it out, but haven't gotten around to it yet! If I was 20 years younger I would have been into it, it's right up my alley. I have an agressive streak and quite like contact sport.......
I love seeing what you get up too, you're so wonderfully out there! XXXXXXXXXXXXX


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Posted February 28, 2013
Animal waste from factory farms is poisoning our drinking water and killing our lakes, rivers, streams – even the Gulf of Mexico. Animals raised on factory farms generate more than 100 times more waste than humans. Yet this raw waste, unlike human waste, is not treated in sewage systems – even though, according to a study conducted by Minnesota agricultural extension engineer, John Chastain, "the pollution strength of raw manure is 160 times greater than raw municipal sewage." Read more.