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The war on Grails is really a war on Spring
It seems that members of the Rails community have formed a resistance movement against Grails. They won't have it that their web framework doesn't natively run on the best VM in the world. Here's Ted Neward's take on it:
Ruby is perhaps a more flexible language than Groovy (and that's an arguable point, folks, and one which I really don't care to get into), but Ruby also runs on a less-flexible and less-scalable and less-supported platform than Groovy. I dunno that this makes Ruby better. It simply makes it different.
I agree with Ted. Rails and Grails are different and I don't have a grudge against Ruby or Rails. One of the most important differences between Rails and Grails is architecture.
Some people seem to dismiss Grails because it's based on Spring. For them it's so 2003 and a sign of how bloated Grails really is. Yet Spring is at the heart of Grails' architecture, much more so than for example Hibernate. So dismissing Grails because of Spring is a powerful statement.
Spring is at the core of Grails for a good reason. Look at it this way: Grails as a web framework is based on Spring as are many other web applications written in Java. So what's important in Spring to support the architecture of a web application is merely re-used by Grails.
To dismiss Spring is thus in a way to dismiss writing web applications in Java. And some Rails-istas are probably happy to do just that and dismiss Java as a web development platform. Because dismissing Spring is not dismissing the Java language, it's dismissing the Java platform. The fact that Spring and many web applications are written in Java is irrelevant. In the end it's the byte-code and the VM that counts.
Hence, the port of Rails to JRuby comes dangerously close of being rejected by some in the Rails community. After all, the port uses JDBC and the Servlet API (the latter is part of J2EE mind you). Yet I'm sure some Rails-istas are willing to accept this integration with the Java platform, but nothing more.
So, now that Rails-istas are being forced more and more into the Java world - via JRuby - let's look at some of the reasons Grails is based on Spring. But before doing that, let's consider for the moment what Spring does for Java developers.
There is of course dependency injection. But let's ignore that as an argument for now. Spring also integrates with Hibernate and has the best transaction abstraction framework for Java. This framework integrates with more than 10 Java transaction APIs. These last two - Hibernate integration and transaction management - are extremely valuable works of art. Remember that before Spring came along people were writing their own Hibernate integration and transaction management code all the time.
For clarity, here are the most important reasons why Grails is based on Spring, or in other words why Grails needs Spring:
- Dependency Injection, to configure service objects.
- Hibernate integration, why re-invent the wheel?
- Transaction management, to offer transaction management in Grails without any extra work.
Spring also offers the best available JDBC abstraction framework for Java. JRuby on Rails could probably benefit from this, and it would get them free support for transaction management.
Building a complete stack including persistence, transaction management and web framework on top of the JVM without Spring is an expensive thing to do. JRuby on Rails does this and it has to come at an expense. Spring-bashers (Spring is bloated, obsolete, ...) probably don't realize the importance of Spring in the Java world today.
Not only does Spring have the best code quality of all Java open-source projects of this size, it's also well documented. Spring is a collection of highly re-usable components in the domains of persistence, transaction management, dependency injection, remote access, web development and configuration to name the most important ones.
Spring embodies high cohesion, low coupling. It's a dream to build an architecture with Spring because its re-usable components can be used together or alone, are easy to configure and are extremely well designed. Every (web) application that uses persistence and transaction management can benefit from using Spring, as does Grails. There are two notable examples in today's popular full-stack frameworks that have integrated persistence and transaction management and that do not use Spring: Seam and Rails.
Seam doesn't use Spring because JBoss people don't like Spring. Rails doesn't use Spring because it was originally designed to run on the Ruby VM where Spring can't run. Rails-istas that today - now that a Rails port is running on the VM - claim that from an architectural perspective Spring is irrelevant don't know what they're talking about.
And they don't do Rails users a service by revolting against Spring. People are of course free to do that. But just imagine the cost of re-writing Spring. Which is what application server developers are doing as did the Rails development team.
At least in application servers you have the option to use Spring as you please. In Rails you can of course use Spring as well, but it's not integrated in such a way to offer an immediate and concrete benefit to Rails users. Remember that in Grails users have the option to re-use existing Hibernate mappings and Spring configuration files by simply dropping some files. Nobody is required to do this but it's one of the benefits Grails got from Spring.
Nobody can potentially lose from using Spring, there is no such thing. In some circles it's considered a cool thing to say Spring is bloated but there is no evidence to support this. If there is, comments are open below.
My experience in matters of application architecture is that common sense is a winning strategy. As far as I'm concerned Rails is not based on Spring out of common sense: it simply wasn't available when Rails was written. Is it common sense to keep things as they are in Rails?
There is evidence to support that while Spring may offer benefits to Rails it is not required. After all, the port of Rails to JRuby only required integration with the Servlet API and JDBC. This could prove two things:
- the Rails architecture is very simple
- Rails has re-written parts of Spring
Rails is somewhat simpler than Grails architecture-wise because there is no object-relational mapping component like Hibernate. But actually there is nothing simple about Rails. It doesn't re-use anything. It's MVC web framework and ActiveRecord have been developed from scratch. This not only comes at a significant cost to develop but also to maintain.
And feature-wise both the MVC framework and ActiveRecord are nothing special. Rails did not become famous because of them (maybe infamous). Rails became famous because it was a disruptive technology. It has rocked quite a few boats. Some years have passed and those boats aren't shaking anymore. In fact, people have consolidated their positions. Grails and many other frameworks are the result of this.
But there's one boat that didn't rock and that the Spring boat. I know quite a few former Spring developers that are now developing with Rails. But that doesn't mean the Spring boat rocked. Ask the SpringSource people, it didn't rock.
Because the Spring creators have understood how architectural problems on the Java platform had to be solved. And everybody benefits. None of this means that Rails should be based on Spring. It does mean that there is no base to dismiss Spring. It's simply too expensive to drop Spring.
(Note: Opinions expressed in this article and its replies are the opinions of their respective authors and not those of DZone, Inc.)
Markus Jais replied on Sun, 2008/02/03 - 5:09am
Personally, I don't care much what's underneath a framework. If it works and gives me the power of Grails (or Rails) the underlying software isn't that important. Grails hides Hibernate, Spring etc. from me. I don't have to be a Spring wizard to use it. I can concentrate on Grails. If they should decide to replace it with something else, I would still use Grails as long as the Grails API stays the same.
Raphael Valyi replied on Sun, 2008/02/03 - 11:31am
"Hence, the port of Rails to JRuby comes dangerously close of being rejected by some in the Rails community. After all, the port uses JDBC and the Servlet API (the latter is part of J2EE mind you). Yet I'm sure some Rails-istas are willing to accept this integration with the Java platform, but nothing more."
-> Hey, wrong point here. JRuby on Rails doesn't have a dependance neither on the JDBC, neither Java servlets. If you want you can Run with Webrick or Mongrel (with the thin native parser ported to Java). For the data base driver, you can run with the pure Ruby driver while this is not recommended.
So it's just that the JVM offers you a better platform for Rails as well a easy interoperability with the Java stack: you can use it or not, no forced dependence. And even if you use it, it doesn't have any impact on the API's you'll use. That's not like using Spring if you don't want.
Moreover, not all J2EE frameworks are great (far from that actually). But the JDBC and servlet things are arguably the best parts of J2EE and are often considered sane.
BTW, I consider Spring a great framework when you decide to stick away from dynamic languages; so good for the pure java language. Is just that when you go for a dynamic language, being JRuby or Groovy, better solutions exist for injecting dependences, so this is perfectly understandable Grails folks don't want to be forced to using Spring.
Hope this helps.
Rick Hightower replied on Mon, 2008/02/04 - 1:57am
There is no way Rails can take on Spring. I can prove it! Once and for all!!!!! Adapted from SOA facts (no copyright notice) and for Spring see http://soafacts.com/
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Stuart Halloway replied on Mon, 2008/02/04 - 10:56am
You seem to think that Relevance is waging a war on Grails. If so, we are doing a pretty poor job of it. We employ a Grails committer and offer Grails training. We also give all employees Friday to work on open source projects. I guess you would call this our "war on open source." :-)
Humor aside, I have expanded on my thoughts here. A few quick observations:
- Hibernate is a good reason for some projects to prefer Grails.
- Dependency injection is nigh irrelevant in low-ceremony languages. You undermine your credibility touting this as something Rails developers should care about.
- I share your view that Spring's code and documentation is quite good. But most of the services Spring provides are simply not needed in a low-ceremony language.
John Wells replied on Mon, 2008/03/17 - 11:01pm in response to: Stuart Halloway
[quote=stuart.halloway] I won't post my bio here, but I hope your readers will decide for themselves who is qualified to have opinions on Java, Spring, Groovy, and Ruby. [/quote]
Zing! p0wned...damn....
Glad to see someone call Mr Hightower out on his constant anti-ruby rhetoric.It really gets old Rick. Really. Why are you so intent on trying to expose Ruby as some sort of imposter?
Somone take this man's pen. Please.
Robert Fischer replied on Mon, 2008/12/22 - 9:54am
Dependency injection is nigh irrelevant in low-ceremony languages. You undermine your credibility touting this as something Rails developers should care about.
This is an interesting assertion, particularly since I regularly use dependency injection in Grails and miss it in Rails. I'm wondering if I'm missing something -- why/how do you see this as being the case?

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Albuquerque, N.M. –The University of Arizona Wildcat No. 5 men's and women's track and field teams wrapped up the first day of competition at the NCAA Indoor Championships. The meet is being held at the Albuquerque Convention Center in Albuquerque, N.M. Saturday's heptathlon starts at 10 a.m. MST while the field events commence at 2 p.m. Events on the track start at 5 p.m. At the 2013 NCAA Indoor Championships, the men's team tied for sixth place while the women tied for seventh place.
After the first day of competition, the Arizona men's team sits in second place with 16 points. Oregon leads with 24 points. Stanford has 14 points in third place. Florida has 13 points in fourth place and three teams are tied for fifth place with 12 points.
On the women's side, Stanford leads with 22 points. Florida has 19 points, good for second place. Texas A&M's 16 points puts them in third place. South Dakota has 13 points in fourth place. Georgia sits in fifth place with 11.50.
Senior Lawi Lalang earned a runner-up finish in the men's 5K with a time of 13:52.83. He led for the entire race with Edward Cheserek (Oregon) on his tail. With 250 meters to go, Cheserek made a move and Lalang couldn't match it. Once Lalang knew he couldn't catch Cheserek, he cruised into the finish line for second place. He added eight points to the men's team total. Lalang began the day with the preliminary round of the mile at 5 p.m. MST. He earned a second-place finish in heat one and automatically qualified for the final with a time of 4:04.27. Lalang's time was the slowest mile of his career by around five seconds, enabling him to conserve energy while still advance. Saturday's final will take place at 5 p.m. MST. He also has the 3,000-meter final at 6:40 p.m. MST.
"(How fast his kick was) It surprised me but I knew it (the kick) was going to come," Lalang said. "That might have been my one mistake, running the mile too fast. I was supposed to stay relaxed but I ran the last three laps kind of fast. I just got pumped up. My plan now is to just get strong, recover, and look at tomorrow as another day."
Senior Nick Ross earned a runner-up finish in the men's high jump competition with a clearance of 7-6 (2.29m). Ross entered the competition with the No. 1 mark in the country. His final attempts came at a height of 7-7.25 (2.32m), which would have been a personal-best clearance and Arizona record. James Harris (Florida State), the winner of the competition, had a personal-best clearance at 7-6 and 7-7.25. Ross redshirted the 2013 indoor season but in 2012, Ross claimed the NCAA title in the event. He earned first-team NCAA Indoor All-America honors all four years as a Wildcat. He won two MPSF Championships and took second place the other two years. He owns the only NCAA Championship for the men's high jump in Arizona history.
"It took me a little while to get going," Ross said. "Once my run got dialed in, things started going a lot better. I had a couple of silly misses at some lower bars that I shouldn't have had. (Because of that) I put a little more pressure on myself than I wanted to. But overall, I can't complain on the day. The guy that won almost broke the collegiate record, to lose to a guy like that, it is nothing to be ashamed of."
Junior Pau Tonnesen finished day one of the men's heptathlon with a score of 3,264 points. That score his good for seventh place after four of the seven events. He began the day with a personal-best time of 7.32 in the 60-meter dash. That time was good 772 points. He long jumped 23-0.75 (7.03m), another personal best and good for 821 points. Tonnesen had another personal best in the shot put, throwing 45-10 (13.97m) and added 727 points to his tally. Tonnesen cleared 7-0.5 (2.15m) in the high jump competition. That is a personal-best clearance and also tied the meet record. The previous record was set 6-11 (2.11m) set by three men, the latest coming in 2013.
Sophomore Nnenya Hailey clocked a time of 8.31 in the preliminary round of the 60-meter hurdles. She took seventh place in heat one (13th overall) and did not advance to the final. Senior Shapri Romero took fourth place in heat four (15th overall) of the women's 400-meter sprint with a time of 53.30. She did not advance to the final. As the only freshman in the men's weight throw field and ranked No. 7 heading into the competition, freshman Jordan Young fouled on all three throws and did not advance.
"It was one of those odd days," head coach Fred Harvey said. "We started off really well, we're really excited for Pau Tonnesen, four personal bests in the heptathlon so he's in great shape. We had some great performances, Nick Ross ended up second in the high jump and Lawi ran easy and won his section in the mile. Then he comes back and ends up getting second in the 5,000 meters. It's really interesting; I'm trying to figure out where I am emotionally. You're looking at a guy who just got second place in the 5K, which is good, but you know that he wants more. It's kind of a mixed emotion thing. The ladies ran well, Shapri Romero ran one of her best times indoors. But the experience of her being here will help her be a much better athlete when we go outside. Nnenya Hailey in the 60-meter hurdles ran well but got a little bit out of control towards the end of the race. But her experience as well will also help going outside. All in all it was a god day, we're still in position to be a top-five team for the men's side depending on how things shake out tomorrow."
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Google's Chrome OS-based Cr-48 notebook computer may be in just a select set of hands so far, but it's been generating plenty of media attention.
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What's been particularly interesting, though, is that while the world awaits the arrival of official Chrome OS notebooks, a number of enterprising technophiles have already found a way -- and a reason -- to add Linux to these early devices.
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Linux aficionados, of course, have a long history of replacing factory-installed operating systems -- Windows, especially -- with a Linux distribution instead. In the case of Windows, there are countless good reasons to do so.
Such moves may be for practical or ethical reasons, but in the case of the Chrome OS notebook, it's clear from reviews that there are some things the Cr-48 just isn't designed for, such as most things outside the browser.
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So, in true Linux geek fashion, there's evidently been a concerted effort to get Ubuntu, the most popular Linux distribution of all time, up and running on the device.
And running it now is, if the YouTube video below is any indication.
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4 7 0150. Apollo Kids - Ghostface Killah
Surprisingly decent, nice soulful beats.
74 7.9 0149. Sound of Silver - LCD Soundsystem
Perhaps too long but lots of funky fun here.
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42 8.3 0148. Os Mutantes - Os Mutantes
The Brazilian "Sgt. Pepper's". Sorta great.
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1 7 0147. Enkä mä rakasta ketään - Pohjolan Ilmari
Tuomari Nurmio style folk rock with twisted, humouristic lyrics. Love those bombastic drums on some tracks.
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2 8 0146. In 'n Out - Joe Henderson_V
22 8 0145. Jaco Pastorius - Jaco Pastorius,Herbie Hancock,Don Alias,Peter Gordon,Wayne Shorter,Lenny White
Pretty good stuff.
67 7.3 0144. John Wesley Harding - Bob Dylan
Didn't really impress me.
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310 8.3 0143. Blonde on Blonde - Bob Dylan
At least the first disc was pretty good.
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9 9 0142. Marrow of the Spirit - Agalloch
"Black Lake Nidstång" is pretty awesome, I can already tell you this.
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149 8.3 0141. Bringing It All Back Home - Bob Dylan
Highlights on the first listening: "Subterranean Homesick Alien", "Gates of Eden" and "Bob Dylan's 115th Dream". The latest especially, I love Dylan's funny tracks.
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56 8.2 0140. The Man-Machine - Kraftwerk
Got the 2009 re-master (English).
Doesn't quite reach the synthetic beauty and groove of "Trans-Europe Express" but it's still a brilliant robot synth pop record with classics like "The Robots", "The Model" and "Neon Lights" on it.
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70 7.5 0139. Another Side of Bob Dylan - Bob Dylan
At first I thought this was boring but it either improved towards the end or I started warming up for it. Especially the last two songs, "Ballad in Plain D" and "It Ain't Me Babe", are some excellently written love songs.
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87 7.9 0138. The Times They Are A-Changin' - Bob Dylan
Nothing really stuck into my mind on the first listen. Except for the title track which I'd already discovered to be fantastic.
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178 8.2 0137. The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan - Bob Dylan
He could spare the harmonica a little but yeah. "Don't Think Twice, It's Alright" is fantastic.
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63 7.1 0136. Bob Dylan - Bob Dylan
Got the "original mono recordings" box set which I'm going to listen to in chronological order.
This wasn't as bad or mediocre as I expected: simple acoustic folky and bluesy tunes greatly mixed.
5 7.8 0135. Spiral Scratch - Buzzcocks,Howard Devoto
A fast and energetic EP of 10 minutes, not as pop as their later stuff.
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39 8.4 0134. Untrue - Burial
Some thick atmosphere!
"Ghost Hardware" and "Archangel" are gorgeous.
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143 7.4 0133. Graduation - Kanye West
"Flashing Lights" is fantastic but mostly this is a bore. He really DID improve on this style on his latest album.
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25 7.9 0132. The Glow, Pt. II - The Microphones
Otherworldly, original, dreamy, fantastic, mindfuck.
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3 7.5 0131. Hölmö rakkaus ylpeä sydän - Scandinavian Music Group
Once again, the first couple of songs are great but then it gets boring.
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96 8.3 0130. My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy - Kanye West
Some pretty damn fine songs here, seems great. Gotta give it more spins.
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3 8 0129. Poupée de cire, poupée de son - France Gall
Sweet songs, gotta get to digesting this.
89 8 0128. Agaetis Byrjun - Sigur Ros
Somehow hadn't heard this until now. I've always felt that Sigur Rós is too "polished" for my taste and thus a bit boring and that impression stays still. Although I gotta say that "Staralfur" and "Olsen Olsen" are fantastic examples of modern songwriting.
I'm sure it'll grow on me.
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67 8.2 0127. Alligator - The National
My second The National acquisition. Not sure yet how much I like it; it sounds pleasant and all but not as good as High Violet, yet. "Secret Meeting" and "Karen" are cool songs.
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5 7 0126. Complete Recordings - Black Tambourine
Noise pop / shoegaze stuff from the early '90s.
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5 7.3 0125. Twilight as Played by the Twilight Singers - The Twilight Singers
Nice music for.. twilight.
Sleepy atmosphere, diggin' it.
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2 7 0124. Time of Land - Have a Nice Life
Half's kinda boring, half's kinda good.
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38 9.2 0123. Only Built 4 Cuban Linx... - Raekwon
Finally got a hold of this. Can't say anything about it yet except that Heaven and Hell fucking rules.
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12 8.7 0122. Deathconsciousness - Have A Nice Life
Something really impressive about a debut album such as this but I'm not totally feeling it. Yet.
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29 7.5 0121. The Age of Adz - Sufjan Stevens
wtf again
Weird album, most of it sounded like random bleeping and blooping but I feel there's something wonderful hidden in this monster. The last track is quite a ride.
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12 8.5 0120. Vision Creation Newsun - Boredoms
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4 7.7 0119. Palatkaa Pariisiin! - Scandinavian Music Group
EDIT: OK, certainly better on second listening. The A-side is fine but the B-side is kinda boring.
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4 6.8 0118. Doupeimmat Jumala seivaa - Ruudolf
Pretty good for a Finnish hip hop album. The title track is great.
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12 7.4 0117. Le Noise - Neil Young
Wow, this is pretty damn good from the 65-year-Young (heh). The overuse of delayed vocals irritates me a little but the distorted guitars sound crunchy in a great way.
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3 8 0116. Sweet Tea - Buddy Guy
"Done Got Old" is one hell of a first track. I expected the whole album to be of its awesomely minimalistic, melancholy style so I was a little disappointed. Pretty good stuff though.
3 7.5 0115. Funky Kingston - Toots & the Maytals
Well, couldn't think of a more descriptive title for this. FUNKY FUNKY FUNKEEH
6 6.3 0114. It Serves You Right to Suffer - John Lee Hooker_II
Badass album of badass electric blues songs.
14 9.3 0113. Clube da Esquina - Milton Nascimento,Lô Borges
Some of the most life-affirming pop music I've heard. "San Vicente" is becoming one of my favorite songs of all time.
2 6 0112. Savage Resurrection - Savage Resurrection
A 1968 record of Cream-esque psychedelic rock from San Francisco.
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1 0 0111. Spices, Species and Poetry Petrol - Jeavestone
Prog rock from Finland. It's alright.
1 0 0110. Hex
Black Sabbath + Pink Floyd
"Disappear" is quite nice
1 0 0109. When The Shit Hits The Man - Hero Dishonest
Finnish hardcore punk rämmmrämm
40 8 0108. Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik - OutKast
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Senomyx Inc. (NASDAQ:SNMX)
Deutsche Bank 37th Annual Healthcare Conference Call
May 8 2012 4:10 pm ET
Kent Snyder – Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
Tony Rogers – Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
Good afternoon everyone. I'm Barbara Ryan and welcome to Senomyx. It's our pleasure to host them here this year. It's a company that's focused on using taste receptor technology to discover and develop flavor ingredients for the food, beverage and ingredient supply industries.
Joining me here on the podium, we have two presenters from the company, Kent Snyder, the Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board of Directors; and the Chief Financial Officer, Tony Rogers, and I think they are both going to give us an overview of the company, and then we will open it up to your questions, thank you.
Kent Snyder
Thank you, Barbara. Thank you for attending today. Before we get started I should make the obligatory statement about our presentation that we maybe making certain forward-looking statements, during the presentation and then we would ask you to refer to our most recent SEC filings for a complete disclosure of risk factors.
So we are a little bit different type of company. This is a health care conference, so we'll talk a little bit about some of the science behind Senomyx, but we are a company that utilize the tools and techniques that were learnt from the Bio-tech industry and have developed into a nearly what we taste science and which has led to the discovery of novel flavor ingredients for the food, beverage and flavor industry and the reason why we think this is important for carrying out the science is there is lot of health concerns about the foods and beverages that we consume.
Food and beverages companies are looking for renovation they have to watch their costs and certainly they are very concerned about taste quality. So, we'll talk a little bit about each of our program today, including the Sweet Taste Program, here the goal is to reduce the amount of added sugar or added sweetener to products. We have a Savory Flavor Program, which is aimed at reducing or eliminated added (inaudible) products.
We also look at flavor ingredients to block the bitter taste, we have a Cool Flavor Program and then also we have a Salt Enhancer Taste Program that I'll touch as well. So before we get into a little bit about the business side and some more programs, it's important to understand a little bit about the physiology of taste. And so we know where our taste buds are located on the tongue. We know that there are five basic taste, which are sweet, salt, bitter, sour, and savory, which is the taste of MSG. And we know that taste buds have specialized cells for each taste modality.
So if you take a cross section of a taste bud, you would see a bundle of cells, which is depicted on the right and each sweet taste or each taste modality has its own taste cell. So, there is sweet taste cell for example. And we'll show you a little bit about the Science of Senomyx here in a moment.
So what we aim to do is to find flavor ingredients, which react with at the Taste Receptors on the surface of the tongue in terms of mimicking a specific taste or making a flavor or enhancing a specific taste like enhancing the sweet taste or blocking a taste such as our Bitter Blocker Program.
So, we have a little bit of animation to show you a bit more detail in terms of what we do.
So, hopefully that gave you a little bit of overview of what we do with the science of Senomyx. So, let me now turn to some of our programs and the processes that we use to discover new flavor ingredients. So when we begin, we started in the beginning by identifying the receptor of interest, we build an assay containing that receptor and then we do high throughput screening with our corporate library, which currently is about 800,000 different compounds and samples. Once we find something that interacts the receptor that we are targeting we will do the optimization. And leading to a candidate for selection and this is really where we have a strong IT position in terms of what we do at Senomyx.
Once we have a flavor ingredient selected for development, we start the safety assessment process with these regulatory focused activities, which in the U.S is called the GRAS or generally recognized as saved and that leads to regulatory approval, which in our hands, once you select a new flavor ingredient for development, it takes about 15 to 18 months to go through the GRAS regulatory approval process.
Once we have regulatory approval, we hand off to our partners. They do the commercial development, which includes product application work, the manufacturing scale up. And then once they are done with that they are ready to go to market and start selling the ingredients to their customers. And we'll talk about the business model in a bit more details here in a few moments.
So, let me now turn to an overview of our various programs and I'll start with a Sweet Taste Program, which I think most of us feel is a key to our future. Here the idea is to reduce the amount of added sugar or other sweeteners in the product like you have maintained the desired sweet taste that consumers like. This results in decreased calories, which improves the nutritional profile of the product, and also results in a potential cost savings as well. The collaborators of the Sweet Taste Program are Firmenich, a Geneva based Private Flavor Company, and then PepsiCo of course.
So, let me start with two GRAS approved sweet enhancers. First, 6973 and I'll talk about the second one S2383 as well. The collaborator on the two GRAS approved sweet enhancers is Firmenich. And let me talk a little bit about 6973 first. This is a very interesting sweet enhancer. It allows you to enable a reduction of added sucrose in products by up to 50%. It maintains a sweet taste, as if you had a full load of sugar in the product, there are no off taste and clearly it results in an improvement of nutritional profile.
We have GRAS approval for most food categories and select beverage categories and we are also approving other regulatory approvals on a geographical basis. Firmenich began commercializing S6973 in the second half of 2011, and they are currently rolling out their marketing in North America, Latin America, South East Asia, Africa and Australia. And we'll talk a little bit more about what Firmenich is doing on 6973 in a moment.
In addition, I'll comment on S2383, which is a second approved sweet enhancer and in this case this is an enhancer of sucralose or Splenda. And we found that you can reduce the amount of sucralose in a product by up to 75% by use of 2383. Again this maintains a sweet taste and there is potential for taste improvement as well.
We do have GRAS approval in most all food and beverage categories. Again we are pursuing additional regulatory approvals as we speak. And Firmenich began commercializing S2383 in the first half of 2011. In terms of R&D activity on the Sweet Taste Program here the collaborators again are PepsiCo and Firmenich.
We're pursuing several different avenues, including new sucrose enhancers, which we've selected S9632, has been selected for a development by Senomyx and the collaborators. What we found with this particular sucrose enhancer, you can also reduce added sucrose by up to 50% in tasters. We have development activities underway and we would expect GRAS approval by the end of 2012.
What's key about 9632, it just has some alternative physical properties, which will be allowed to use this sweet enhancer in a broader range of beverages and food. So, we think this is going to be very complementary to S6973.
In addition, we're working on enhancers of high-fructose corn syrup. We have demonstrated that we can reduce the amount of HFCS in product proto types. We're doing additional optimization and valuations currently, and we think this is a very interesting opportunity, because high-fructose corn syrup is a very widely used sweetener, especially here in the US, with sales about $7.6 billion worldwide.
We also have a natural component to the Sweet Taste Program, where we are looking for natural enhancers, and also natural high-potency sweeteners. We have developed a corporate library of natural components and we have identified what we call a taste-proof-of-concept in the high-potency sweetener program. And we feel that although this is not ready for development it does validate the approach of finding natural high-potency sweeteners.
Turning to some of our other programs, we do have a Savory Flavor Program, which again is aimed at reducing our eliminated added MSG from products, we do have GRAS approval, as well as approval in China, we have what's called JECFA approval and we are pursuing approval in the European Union as well. In this case the collaborators are Nestle and Ajinomoto, between the two companies that are caring out marketing in the Pacific Rim, Latin America, Africa, Middle East China and also North America.
We also have two new savory flavor ingredients that have been GRAS approved, S9229 and S5456. Those redeemed GRAS in late last year and we're currently presenting various alternatives looking at commercialization to those two savory flavor ingredients.
We also have our Bitter Blocker program that has two GRAS approved bitter blockers. The lead in this case is S6821 and those were deemed to be GRAS in November 2010. We've demonstrated that we can block the bitter taste of various foods and beverages, and we do have a partner who we're not able to name at this point. That's preparing for initial commercial launch of a retail product containing S6821.
We expect that launch to occur later this year, in a country located in South East Asia. And we hope to have more updates, as we move towards the end of the year and beyond on, on the Bitter Blocker program.
In addition, a program that we don't talk about too much is what we call our Cool Taste Program, again here our partner is Firmenich, and we have selected a cooling agent called S5031 that has been selected for development. In this case, this new cooling agent has improved properties compared to existing agents such as menthol with a great potency, a longer duration of the cooling sensation and also no aroma that you tend to get with menthol containing products.
We have initiated the safety evaluation for our S5031 and support a future Regulatory filing. Last, we're also working on a salt enhancement program; again reducing the amount of added salt here would be a major health benefit. We are exploring the role of various proteins from taste bud tissue from the tongue, which hopefully will lead to the identification of the definitive receptors that's evolved in soft taste perception. We also found a blocker of salt taste, which we think would be a useful tool to help us to identify the receptor that's involved in Soft Taste.
So in terms of summarizing the programs as you can see here this is a continuum of our discovery and development process. The arrows depict where each program is at on that continuum and our goal is to continue to move all of these arrows to right-hand side.
So, before I could turn it over to Tony, I'll talk a little bit about the Senomyx business model. How we hope to take our R&D efforts into the commercial phase. So, what we do when we setup a collaboration? We grant either exclusive or co-exclusive rights to certain Senomyx flavor ingredients, and we tie to that to a specific development program in specific product categories in specific geographies. For example our work with Firmenich, one of our collaborations is focused on the Sweet Taste Program. It is a (inaudible) for example on the lead sucrose enhancer they have all approved GRAS categories and that's a worldwide collaboration.
So, what we get back from our collaborators is R&D funding to help carry out the program, milestone payments occasionally upfront to access the program and license fees and of course royalties on any product that are sold in the marketplace that contain our flavor ingredients.
The collaborators are responsible for all manufacturing and sales and marketing costs and importantly all of our collaborations call for royalty payments coming back to Senomyx. This is either setup around a retail product model or an ingredient supply model and I'll give you an example of how that works.
On the retail side, the way that works is that we grant a license right to our collaborators to use in this example a sweet enhancer. The collaborator then takes the sweet enhancer puts it into selected products. They sell to their distributors or retail customers and for every product that is sold that contains one of our flavor ingredients they would make a royalty payment back to Senomyx.
So, basically these royalties are based on a percentage of the net sales of the collaborator or the volume of the product that incorporates the Senomyx flavor ingredient. The royalty rate does vary by collaboration, but in some cases the royalty rate does go as high as 4% of the collaborators net sales.
On the ingredient supply model, this is again based upon the sales of the ingredient or the flavor system, an example here is Firmenich also Nestlé and Ajinomoto. And the way this would work is that we would grant for example in this case a license to S6973, the sucrose enhancer to Firmenich. Firmenich then will in turn sell this particular enhancer to their customers as an ingredient. And for every ingredient sale they would then make a royalty payment back to Senomyx.
In this case royalty rates on the ingredient supply model and the expected penetration rates are higher than the retail model, because Firmenich in this case can tap into and marketer this enhancer to all food and beverage companies. And we think that there is some very attractive markets in terms of the ingredient supply model. For example, the sucrose enhancer S6973 will compete in the sucrose market, which in the most recent information we have is about a $100 billion on a worldwide basis, enhancers of high fructose corn syrup will compete in the $7.6 billion market.
The savory flavor ingredients will compete in the $5 billion MSG market and the cooling flavor will compete in approximately $1.2 billion cooling flavor market. So that gives you a little bit of an overview of how the business model of Senomyx works and I'm going to ask Tony to now touch on a little bit more detail some of the commercial aspect and the financial aspects of the company. Tony?
Tony Rogers
Thank you, Kent. Good afternoon everyone. I'd like to begin by giving you an overview of where our partner Firmenich is in commercializing 6973 and Kent mention 6973 is our sucrose enhancer and we really view it as our number one product candidate at this point in terms of commercial potential. So our partner Firmenich has developed product formulation solutions or integrated 6973 in the flavor system to facilitate use in the food and beverages. They've established a dedicated sales and technical team. They are operating in some key geographies shown here.
Their target product category at this point are dairy products, baked goods, powdered and ready-to-drink coffee. They've built commercial scale inventory, the metric tons scale. And they've launched initial products using our consumer product using 6973 were launched late last year. And they currently have over 60 active projects at different stages with their clients.
Moving onto what we see as the potential drivers of growth for commercialization of 6973. First and important to understand, the food and beverage companies tend to incorporate a new ingredient into one or two products on limited basis. And then expand usage based on success and that expansion can take on a number of forums, including horizontal expansion standing into additional geographies, expanding into additional product categories.
And another variable that we see in the food and beverage industry is it tends to be fast followers. So, one company, company A has success, company B, C, and D wanted to get on and enjoy that success as well. So we see these as key drivers of commercial growth for 6973. And here we've a graphical illustration very simple illustration how that process I just described could work and this illustration will look at six hypothetical companies and products. Where we are now 2011, 2012? We have FEMA GRAS' approval on this Regulatory approval on certain geographies generally depicted by the colors here.
As we forward, with additional geographies coming on line and getting approval, we see expansion in different products with our collaborators. And really growing out and having global expansion with 6973. So, we see we are in the early stages of a process that has a great upside potential. In-terms of thinking about modeling the opportunity, in this example we will look at ingredient supply scenario as Kent described. Retail model (inaudible) and this is (inaudible). We're looking 6973 our sucrose enhancer and we are looking at one geography in this the U.S. and Canada
U.S. and Canada has about $12 billion annually in sucrose sales and this illustration will play a penetration rate, we use 10%. We won't be at 10% immediately, but in certain geographies and product categories we certainly could achieve or exceed 10%.
6973 can replace 50% of sugar. Multiply these variables you get our collaborator sales in this illustration. Apply our royalty rate and then apply the royalty rate to their sales, you get our commercial income and its illustration. I think it's important to point out that our commercial revenue is, really essential go straight to the bottom line it's got another sales and marketing cost. We have no cost to goods sold. All of those are responsibility of the collaborator.
Moving onto where we are financially at this point, we are really in this process of transitioning from a development stage or commercial company. We've made a historical significant investment in R&D intellectual property.
To date, most of our revenues have been development revenues. But future profitability will be driven by royalty and commercial revenue. We have a strong balance sheet with several sources of funding going forward. We have over $51.3 million in cash and highly liquid securities.
And then under existing collaborations, we have another $70 million of potential R&D and milestone payments, including $24 million in committed R&D payments, $24 million in milestone payments, and another $22 million in extension options, under those existing collaborations. And in addition we expect to continue to receive quarterly commercial revenue payments and if we establish new collaborations you can see payments from there as well.
We have no debt, single cross common stock just under 40 million shares; we have no preferred stock or warrants. In terms of our guidance for 2012, we've guided to total revenues of $30 million to $34 million, expenses of $39 million to $42 million, of those expenses about $5 million we've guided will be non-cash stock based expense, [putting] to a loss of $7 million to $10 million, we expect to end the year with more than $40 million in cash.
So, in terms of potential value drivers over the next-year, year and half or so we looked for continued traction of 6973 sucrose enhancer sale, as well to 2383 the sucralose enhancer. New savory flavor product launches were our partners Nestle and Ajniamotto we're looking at Kent talked about that is Bitter Blocker Product launch 6821. We're looking for GRAS approval by the end of the year, on a next generation sucrose enhancer 9632, we continue to make progress on a high fructose corn syrup enhancer and are working toward ultimately selecting for development an enhancer in that area.
The 5031 selected by our partner for development in the first quarter of this year, we continued those regulatory activities toward regulatory approval within the next year or so. We continue to work on the Salt Taste Program to identify our receptor ultimately leading to taste-proof-of-concept.
And a very important program we have going is our natural high potency sweetener program, and we look to find compound of taste flavors come out of that for additional taste-proof-of-concept. And then we are always looking and evaluating collaborative opportunities, which can provide funding and a means to commercialize our products.
So with that I'll turn it over to you for any question?
Thank you. [Ends Abruptly]
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The master bedroom has a queen size bed, nice clean bedding with a full bath and separate shower. Plenty of closet space, hardwood floors, WiFi internet, Flat screen TV in living room includes HBO and Cinemax. The couch is extra large and extremely comfortable for a guest. There are extra sheets, towels, etc.
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"I think, unfortunately, Palin poisoned the well on that," said one informal Romney adviser, fretting that any woman selected as VP would draw inevitable comparisons to the former Alaska governor. "I would guess if I were inside the Romney mind that they're worried that any woman chosen will be subjected to a higher level of scrutiny."It's just the latest diss against the 2008 vice presidential candidate by Romney operatives and supporters. Also today, two articles appeared on GOP establishment website The Daily Caller pointing out the obvious fact the Gov. Palin has not yet formally endorsed Romney. In one of the articles, The DC's senior editor Jamie Weinstein called the former Alaska governor "increasingly irrelevant," yet admitted in the same sentence that her endorsement "still remains sought after by GOP candidates." If she has become so irrelevant, why would Republican candidates be seeking her endorsement? Steve Flesher has more at C4P:
First, it is absurd to suggest someone is "increasingly irrelevant" (especially with a blog owned by an "increasingly irrelevant" pundit known solely for his abundant collection of bow ties) when you're beginning the top of the page of your precious blog space to mention it. If that in and of itself isn't enough to disprove their claim of increasing irrelevance, we have Palin's endorsing of Richard Mourdock for Senate in Indiana labeled by the Washington Post at the time as the "highest-profile endorsement yet for the primary challenger and it pits Palin against her old running-mate, Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), who just cut a radio ad for Lugar."Twitter has been buzzing all day long with tweets from conservatives most Palin supporters really respect -- John Nolte and Michelle Malkin are at the forefront -- defending Romney against distortion by NBC's Andrea Mitchell. Both Malkin and Nolte, to their credit, have defended Gov. Palin as well. Are they aware that Romney advisors and supporters are showing such disrespect to Sarah Palin?
Soon afterwards a series of Johnny-Come-Latelys joined the Mourdock-backing-party — including Michele Bachmann and Rick Santorum. But it is well known by now that if any one person's endorsement carried Mourdock to the finish line, it was Governor Palin (with the help of the grassroots tea party activists in Indiana who look up to her).
Also, when Mike Huckabee and Rick Santorum were endorsing the obvious winner-to-be judging by projection polls in Nebraska's Senate race, Jon Bruning, Palin came out a week before the primary and endorsed Deb Fischer. By the end of that week (just two days later) Fischer had closed the long-time gap she had all the months prior leading up to that primary. On election day, Fischer won the primary by a healthy margin.
And the good-old-boy network in Texas was sure going strong when many outside politicians as well as Governor Rick Perry endorsed Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst for U.S. Senate. Then once again, Palin came in to save the day for Ted Cruz — a favorite among Tea Party activists in Texas who up until that point was running 12-points behind Dewhurst. Because of the Palin nod and energy Cruz garnered from that endorsement, he was able to get a huge surge of votes toward the end forcing Dewhurst into an upcoming runoff election.
So the Daily Caller apparently wants to marginalize Palin's influence even though she continues to contradict such claims day after day after day through her actions. Why did they even report on her RightOnline speech if she was irrelevant? Why was she picked to give the speech? For the same reason she'll be asked to give many more: the same people who are tired of being condescended to by politicians and accompanying surrogates in the media are seeing it play out through Gov. Palin. And judging by the snarkyness in this piece at the Daily Caller, I'd say it's working splendidly without Palin having to do anything but speak with honesty about common sense conservatism and against the establishment.
Sarah Palin received an enthusiastic response from the crowd at Right Online just a few days ago when she urged her audience to hold the feet of the GOP establishment to the conservative fire. Shouldn't we begin with the party's presidential nominee and press Mitt Romney to call his attack dogs off of Gov. Palin? If Mitt Romney wants Sarah Palin's unqualified support and that of the millions of Paliniste, he's got to earn it. A good start would be for Romney's people who have dissed Sarah Palin to apologize to her.
Update: Michelle Malkin has some doubts about that "informal Romney advisor." I wouldn't put it past MSNBC to make things up, but Whitney Pitcher also has a point:
"Yes,this is an anonymous source trotted out by MSNBC,but GOPe &Romney advisers have been doing this for 3 yrs. It's a plausible quote."Best way to clear the air and remove any doubt would be for Mitt Romney to reach out to Sarah Palin in a very public way to ask for her help. If he would couple that with a call to his advisors and supporters to show due respect to the governor, there would be no problem. It certainly wouldn't hurt him to do these two simple things if he wants to shore up his support among grassroots conservatives.


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Kathleen McAdam and Stephen Prickett were the grand prize winners in the NBC 10 Free Wedding Giveaway.
Their Valentine's Day 2009 wedding was broadcast on NBC 10.
Kate and Stephen received a free wedding package worth more than $55,000 that included a ceremony and a reception.
NBC 10 viewers went online to choose the wedding gown, tuxedo, invitations, photography style, wedding bands, first song, menu, flowers, favors and transportation.
Kate and Stephen were chosen from about 60 couples who met face-to-face with a panel of judges in November. The candidates then had 1 minute to make their pitches on videotape.


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As a friendly reminder, here is the overrated bracket:
Most Overrated Panthers
|1. Jake Delhomme
|16. Jason Baker
|16. Jason Baker
|8. Ricky Manning, Jr.
|8. Ricky Manning, Jr.
|9. Eugene Robinson
|5. David Gettis
|5. David Gettis
|12. Na'il Diggs
|4. DeShaun Foster
|4. DeShaun Foster
|13. Rocket Ismail
|6. Richard Marshall
|6. Richard Marshall
|11. Jordan Gross
|3. Mike Wahle
|3. Mike Wahle
|14. Doug Evans
|7. Deon Grant
|10. Ken Lucas
|10. Ken Lucas
|2. Tim Biakabutuka
|2. Tim Biakabutuka
|15. John Kasay
This matchup is between Mike Wahle and Richard Marshall.
How they got here:
Mike Wahle defeated Doug Evans 68%-32%
Richard Marshall defeated Jordan Gross 81%-19%
This one should be a little closer than their first round matches were.
Here's the case for Mike Wahle:
Mike Wahle was a big free agent acquisition out of Green Bay. In a busy offseason, fresh off a disappointing SB hangover in 2004, we signed him and CB Ken Lucas. (Sadly, these two are the last marquee free agents we've signed.) Wahle played what, eight seasons in GB?... So he was already 30+ when he came to Carolina. We payed him like an All-Pro, but he was never a top 5 guard in the league.
Wahle basically made the pro bowl after the 2005 season because we were a good team (made it to the NFC-CG), and because of his contract. It was also kind of unfortunate timing for Wahle, because during the 2005, 2006, and 2007 seasons, we were in between running backs, with an aging/hurt Deshaun Foster on his way out, and a young DeAngelo Williams on his way up.
In other words, he didn't have very much to block for. That aside, he was vastly overrated as a blocker in both phases. His prime was spent in GB, and by the time he got to Carolina (particularly his last two seasons) he was not the same player. The Panthers effectively rewarded him with the contract the Packers didn't want to give him... unfortunately it was the Packers who reaped the benefits on the field in the years leading up to his signing.
In his previous matchup with Jordan Gross I didn't present a case for Richard Marshall. I simply pointed out that he wasn't nearly as good as he thought he was. That statement still holds true, so that's all I'm gonna say.
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A pedestrian who was struck by a car turned into an attacker Wednesday morning and investigators are looking into whether it was all a setup, the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office said.
The driver, Duke Ratanakam, said he was on his was way home from work at around 1 a.m. when two people crossed in front of his vehicle. He said he and one of the men, Philip Jackson, collided, knocking off his side mirror.
Ratanakam, 42, said he got out of his car to see if Jackson was all right and dialed 911.
"I think he overheard the conversation [with the 911 operator] and got upset and he started to attack me with his handgun," Ratanakam said.
Ratanakam said Jackson, 25, then began looking for items in his car to steal so Ratanakam confronted Jackson and punched him multiple times. That's when the situation went from bad to worse.
"I kept coming at him and then he pulled it out and fired one round up in the air," he said, adding Jackson then ran off without taking anything.
Deputies said they arrived within minutes and tracked Jackson to a nearby apartment complex where he admitted to everything and even showed authorities the gun he used in the attack.
Detective Larry McKinnon said deputies are investigating whether the suspect lured the victim into the attempted robbery.
"Was this some type of staged setup where he faked a bump into the car knowing that the victim would stop and then he ends up robbing him?" McKinnon said. "You never hear of these type of situations. It is very bizarre, very strange."
Although the victim said he saw two men crossing the street, detectives believe Jackson acted alone.
The attack left Ratanakam with a swollen jaw and eye, along with several cuts and bruises on his face, but he said he feels lucky to be alive.
"[This was] probably one of the worst experiences of my life," he said. "I wouldn't have thought that somebody would do anything like this."
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A p-value is a number associated with a statistical test. There are two things you need to just know to understand p-values (enough to get you through a paper that throws around the term, anyway).
First, statistical tests look for differences between two quantities. For instance, is the mean height of men different from the mean height of women? The null hypothesis is that the two things being compared are the same.
The second thing to understand is the p-value itself. The p-value is the probability that the two quantities are indeed the same. That is, how likely is it that your data would look the way it does if you assume the null hypothesis is true?
For instance, let's say you randomly select 20 men and 20 women, and the mean height of the men in your sample is five foot ten, and the mean height of the women is five foot seven. Would such data demonstrate that men (on average) are taller than women, or could the observed height difference simply be due to chance? This is what the p-value tells you. It tells you the probability that men and women have the same mean height, given what you observed in your experimental sample.
Two corollaries:
a. If the p-value is very high (e.g., 0.99), that means it is likely that the two quantities you are comparing are the same, i.e., that the null hypothesis is true. E.g., males and females are the same height.
b. If the p-value is very low (the convention is below 0.05), this suggests that the two quantities you are comparing are truly different, i.e., that the null hypothesis is not true. E.g., the two means are different.
For the mavens: technically the p-value is the probability of observing what you did, or a more extreme value, but that is a wrinkle that makes things too complicated for a dirty synopsis.
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Government Shutdown 2013: Online dating increases
Some federal workers took full advantage of their time off, especially those looking for love. Zoosk reports that D.C. singles flocked to its online dating site during the two week government shutdown.
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The Telluride Yoga Center, located in the majestic San Juan Mountains of Southwest Colorado, provides a sanctuary for yoga and other spiritual practices. We offer a variety of classes led by talented instructors and host workshops with internationally respected teachers throughout the year.
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The Illuminator fixes light strings so you never have to replace them again. It's a new product invented by Vergil Benton who is the president of Ornate Lighting Company.
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M.A. in English: Concentration in English and American Literature, University of Texas at El Paso, 2007.
B.A. in Psychology: Concentration in Cognitive Psychology, University of Texas at El Paso, 2004.
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|Groups Will Take to the Streets Again to Support Pro-Immigrant Legalization
|Written by Alex Garcia, Sun Contributing Writer
|Thursday, 26 April 2012 03:16
March is Planned for Van Nuys Boulevard
Pro immigrant groups and the 99% movement will march from Panorama City to the Van Nuys Civic Center along Van Nuys Boulevard as part of the May 1st marches in favor of a legalization reform.
As has become customary for the past few years, pro-immigrant groups are preparing to take to the streets to advocate for a legalization bill to benefit millions of people living in the shadows.
"May 1 is Workers' Day, and the day when we commemorate the suffering and the struggle of 12 million immigrants. A day when we come out together to show that united we can make a difference," said Gloria Saucedo of Hermandad Mexicana Transnacional, a Panorama City-based pro-immigrant group.
Since 2006, when hundreds of thousands abstained from work and school, as part of a massive boycott, and took part in a march in downtown Los Angeles and several cities throughout the country, May 1 has become synonymous with public mobilizations on behalf of undocumented migrants.
This year is no different, although this time pro-immigrant groups will be joined by those in the "99%" movement.
On Monday, May 1, Occupy San Fernando Valley will march and protest along with Hermandad Mexicana Transnacional, which starts at their office – located on 7915 Van Nuys Blvd. in Panorama City – and continue to the Van Nuys Civic Center.
The groups will begin gathering at 8 a.m., and along the way they will be protesting in front of banks and financial institutions they say are taking advantage of the "99%." After their rally at the Van Nuys Civic Center, the group will head to downtown Los Angeles and join in the traditional march held there along Broadway, which starts at 2:30 p.m.
"There's a connection between human rights and economic justice," said Oscar Reyes, member of Occupy San Fernando Valley. "Many of the immigrants don't have the same rights as the rest of the people and are suffering the same way as those who have lost jobs.
"We want to send a clear message to the owners of the country that wages have not gone up while executive bonuses are at an all time high. We're asking for livable wages and immigration reform," Reyes said.
"I don't know how we get to people's heart, but they have to put a value on the contributions of migrants to this country. We have to go out there with a positive attitude because this is the people's fight,"
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He said legalizing undocumented migrants could have an economic benefit to the country.
"There's a lot of money that the economy can get from (legalization) because they'll be able to work freely and get livable wages," Reyes added.
Ulysses Hernandez, another Occupy San Fernando Valley member, said people need to continue heading out to the streets to demand President Obama fulfill his campaign promises.
"Obama promised immigration reform, but he hasn't done it yet," Hernandez said.
More than one million undocumented immigrants have been deported since Obama took office, the most under any administration.
This is even more important in this year of presidential elections, continued Saucedo.
"I don't know how we get to people's heart, but they have to put a value on the contributions of migrants to this country. We have to go out there with a positive attitude because this is the people's fight," Saucedo said, noting it's important that people participate in the May 1 actions as "that day can change many people's lives."
Deportation Splits Family Across Border
That's what Vanessa Gonzalez is hoping for. Four years ago, she and her family left Arizona when politicians in that state began work on SB 1070, the measure that required local police to inquire as to the immigrant status of people pulled over.
Fearing the repercussions of the law, her father Valente Gonzalez, 42 and undocumented, decided to bring the family to California.
"They were starting to ask for my dad's (immigration) papers at work," said Gonzalez, 20. "We couldn't live there anymore for fear he could get pulled over and deported."
In an ironic twist, Valente was deported last year after being accused of trying to set fire to a car in Panorama City.
"He was smoking, leaning against a car and somebody called the police. When they got there, they smelled a lot of gasoline and somebody said my dad had tried to set fire to the car," Gonzalez said.
Valente spent several months in jail before signing a voluntary deportation order. He had lived in the United States for 10 years.
Since then, he's been living in Tecate, Baja California, doing odd jobs and staying with a friend.
"He says he can't stand being out there anymore. He wants to come back and be with us, but he hasn't been able to do it," Gonzalez said.
The family has struggled since then, because Valente, who worked as a painter and in construction, was the main contributor to their finances.
"We have to go all over to be able to make ends meet," said Juana, Gonzalez' mother, who cleans homes and visits several food banks in order to provide for her four children.
The family, which keeps in contact across borderlines through phones and text messages, has been participating in pro-immigrant marches since living in Phoenix and plan to join the May 1 mobilization in Van Nuys this year as well.
"We need to have legalization so that there's no longer family separations," Juana said.