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Agile Travel — Does it Pay?
Can you get quality and on-time performance at less cost, based on discipline, openness, and prioritization by value to the customer? Agile says you can. I decided to put it to the test even while traveling to an Agile conference in London (RallyON Europe 2014), by traveling a no-frills airline into Luton, UK. You guessed it, it's EasyJet, the airline where the only thing that's free is the orange color scheme that makes everything from the check-in area to the seat headrests look like a children's playground.
My no-frills experience started while packing. Several readings (or viewings — they have a video too) of the EasyJet cabin baggage policy. One carry-on bag allowed. ONE. They make every effort to be "open and upfront" about that. And two size limits: a normal one that they might still check (for free) if the flight is crowded, or a really small one — 50cm x 40cm x 20cm — that they guarantee you'll be able to take on the plane.
So I got that into my head. Flying a no-frills airline is easier if you're prepared. Pack light. Pack only the one bag. Make sure it meets the guaranteed carry-on requirements. (Tip: While EasyJet allows online checkin for all flights up to 30 days in advance, don't check in until you've made up your mind about bags and seats, because after that, at check-in, the prices are higher.)
I measured all the carry-on bags we had in the house, then put them aside and chose a medium-sized day pack instead. Packed minimally and measured. It just fit the guaranteed carry on baggage size as long as not filled too fat. Nice clothes for 3 days, a laptop, a few other small essentials. True, I'll have to repack carefully each night so I'll be ready for the return flight. Trading that discipline for the convenience of just throwing everything in to a large suitcase at the end of the trip. Added benefit is that I'll be able to walk or metro easily wherever I need to get to, hands free. Just the light backpack. Less is more.
Trip to the airport. I was traveling from a warm climate to a colder, rainier London, so I was a bit warm wearing my layered sweater and rain jacket. I took them off when safely seated on the shuttle bus, and to be sure to remember them, I repeated the mantra: "You have 3 items: jacket, sweater, backpack". The sweater would actually prove useful later — over a short-sleeve polo it kept me comfortable on the air-conditioned flight. No need for one of those airline blankets. Which EasyJet does not supply.
At the aiport. On arrival, I discovered that EasyJet departed from an old terminal rather than the new one I was used to, so I jumped off there and asked my way around. Separate terminal for check-in but I realize now I probably didn't have to go there. My boarding pass did say that I could have gone directly to security, passport control, and gate at the main terminal. But everything was smooth and not crowded at the EasyJet security and passport areas and shuttle back to main terminal was quick too. Let me out straight into duty free as a transit passenger.
Onboard. The phrase that comes to mind is "nickel and diming": EasyJet charges extra for everything. But I changed my mindset — can't think about it that way. Instead, I used the significant savings on the main ticket price to feel better about adding on any extras. EasyJet believes their system is better for the customer: I pay only for what has value to me.
One extra I found worth it for peace of mind was to choose seats beforehand. That way I didn't have to wonder what seat I would get and how cramped it might be. I probably should have paid even a bit more to get the extra legroom seats because for someone with long legs, the seat spacing was tight enough to hit my knees unless I sat up really straight the whole time. Not that that was so difficult: the obligatory announcement on take-off to "put your seat backs in their upright position" is superfluous on EasyJet as the seats do not recline. Just as well, because if they did, nobody would have any space at all!
The "speedy boarding" extra charge might have been worth it too, to board sooner, but I made up for it by being first in line for the general boarding. I stood (rather than sat) at the gate for the 10 minutes it took to board the "speedy boarding" people first. In essence, I got to be the last speedy boarder without paying the fee. I guess that's called advanced flow control … or just gaming the queue.
What about the infamous 50 cm x 40 cm x 20 cm x 1 bag rule? I had never seen it in person so I even brought along a measuring tape to make sure and prove it if I had to. But the EasyJet metal sizer stand was mostly there as a prop to support the gate staff's emphasis of the 1 bag part. Nobody's bag was actually tested in the sizer. The tally: two or three cases of, "That's not one bag, sir, that's three — please arrange it as one bag and return to the gate when you have done so." A few got, "That purse, it's not duty free — you'll have to put it inside your carry-on suitcase." Which they actually did, with minimal complaint. One or two people slid by with a regulation carry-on but also another bag.
The real challenge to on-time take-off was when people boarded the plane. Since I had been on the first shuttle bus, and thus already seated by the time most people boarded, and I had a row 8 aisle seat, I had a good view. There wasn't any pushing or shoving — people were relatively polite and quiet. But to board a 180-seat, one-aisle plane where everyone has the maximum-size carry-on took quite some time as people worked to fit their bags into the overhead compartments. And then, remembering what they would want during the flight, standing in the aisle blocking progress while they got it out. Echoing the recorded announcement, one or two passengers assertively and vocally encouraged people within earshot to please sit down in their seats so we wouldn't miss our turn at takeoff. I admit that I was one of the two. But in the end, all were seated, only the very last few people boarding had to use their precious under-seat footroom to stow a bag, and we took off 20 minutes late. Since that was followed by the flight staff's announcement that we would nevertheless be landing on time, I gather that EasyJet includes the slow boarding process as part of their scheduled flight time.
The flight itself. Cramped legroom but survivable, especially if you get up and walk around every so often, which is a good idea on any flight. There is food service, and you pay even for a cup of tea. But if you want one, you can afford it: you saved 80 cups of tea by flying EasyJet instead of the non-budget competitor. They actually came through twice during a 5-hour evening flight, and still had a reasonable selection of hot and cold foods. If you buy more than GBP 5, you can even use a credit card to pay. Otherwise, cash on the barrel — well, on the trolley.
I didn't buy any food on the plane. I had used my cheap gold card (i.e. not American Express which is great but costs money) to get into the cheap airport lounge, and I ate there instead. But if I had been more hungry, the egg salad sandwich would have been fine.
Newspapers cost money too. I brought my laptop to read from instead. (Essential Scrum by Kenneth S. Rubin.)
During the flight, there was also some kind of duty free service. It's for people who must have an overpriced, underfed Paddington Bear. To be fair, I don't really know if they were overpriced, because I didn't even ask.
They are efficient on the food service. For example, my neighbor's selection (twice!) was "tea, 3 milks, 2 sugars". It was only by the second time that I realized how they served that. No pouring here. Instead, a large paper hot cup, filled and covered, and a second paper cup with cigar-sized packs of sugar and dehydrated milk. Worked for my neighbor, and the flight staff came by promptly after each time with a bag to collect trash. Now that I think about it, the food service was much cleaner, quicker, and more comfortable than on full-service flights. No sitting for a half hour waiting for your food while the rest of a 300-seat plane is served, and then another half hour with the leftovers on your tray table, preventing you from resting, working, or even getting up to walk around. People who wanted to eat got to, and yet air was fresh and aisles were clear pretty much the whole flight. Approaching the end of the flight, they came through a third time with food and gifts, and announced they even sell bus tickets!
Cramped? (I was.) Hungry (I wasn't). But those were my choices. Next time I'll know to buy extra legroom.
In summary, an agile experience: EasyJet has a system which requires discipline from staff and customers. In return, they provide a quiet, clean, on-time flight for half the price.
Tomorrow morning, EasyJet's orange cousin, EasyBus!
Agile Why and How
Ask about "Agile" and everyone will start with the Agile Manifesto. It serves us well, seems short — only 4 sentences. But then there are 12 principles as well, so I guess 4 sentences weren't enough.
After trying, and learning, and delivering some good software, we're also getting the message clearer.
Why Agile?
To put working code in front of the customer quickly, so they discover better what they want, and tell you.
How to do that?
Reduce batch size, and limit work in progress.
Today's thanks go to Rex Morrow, Dele Sikuade, Ken Clyne, and another coach who's known me all my life.
Whole code awareness
Busy software developers tend to think of refactoring as a luxury activity, and separate from writing new code or fixing defects. At first glance, the latter two activities clearly contribute to why we write software — to get new, working functionality from hardware — while refactoring, by definition, doesn't change the software's behavior at all.
But if we recognize that every code change or addition may affect both the dynamic behavior (what the software does), and the static behavior (how easy it is for the developer to modify it as desired), then all three code-change activities come together. Every code change, whether it's refactoring, new code for new feature, or changes to fix a defect — and no matter how small a change — is a change to the entire codebase with the purpose of increasing its value.
This mindset is what motivates code quality engineering practices such as in-person design and code review, static analysis, and automated whole-system regression testing (including load testing and robustness testing). As well as, of course, refactoring!
And while time and resources for these activities can be planned as part of any software development methodology, it seems easier in Agile. Include all these activities regularly in sprint tasks per user story, evaluate them all in planning based on their size (cost) and their benefit (value), and get them done regularly. Apply this whole-code awareness, and watch defects decrease and velocity (and enjoyment) increase!
Thanks to Will McKinley for the post Code Refactoring – Dealing with Legacy Code that made me ask myself what are the differences, and similarities, between refactoring and other types of code changes.
I'm in Software
When somebody asks me what I do and I say, "I'm in software", or "I'm in computers", they usually give me a "Oh, that's nice," but it's clear they aren't any wiser than before they asked. Why is that such a conversation-stopper? If you're a lawyer or a doctor, people think they know, and jump right in.
Maybe that's because lawyers deal with people and justice, or at least arguing, which sounds familiar. And doctors — well, everyone's been to the doctor. The drama of dealing with people is what gets lawyer and doctor shows on TV, and I'll be the first to admit that my picture of what they do comes straight from there. Really that means I have no clue.
After a bit of thought, I realize that software is more like art, if that helps.
(Right — saying you're an artist is like saying you're in software, only poorer.)
But really, it can help.
The solution to explaining what "I'm in software" means is to realize that software, and software development, is really three very different things. To the software developer, it is code — lists of instructions to make a generic machine behave in a specific way. To people in general, it is invisible: as mobile phone users, airplane travelers, or just people turning on the faucet and getting water, the world is full of things made of plastic and metal that behave or respond more actively than a cup or a pair of scissors. And finally, software development, the activity that goes on in a hi-tech software office, includes a good deal of accounting, scheduling, and event planning.
This triple personality parallels art. When someone tells you they're an artist, do you think of paints, chemicals, brushes, and canvas? Or paintings on the wall? Or the business of running an art gallery?
I'm pretty sure most people hear "artist" and think of paintings. But the "what the artist does all day", whether it's looking, thinking, or carefully mixing paints, is invisible in the painting. We see the painting and know nothing about the work life of the artist.
So being in software, like being an artist, means doing something unseen to materials and creating interactive things that everybody then takes for granted.
Probably the only way forward for more people to understand what's "in software" is to take them into the studio — the hi-tech office — and let them try their own hand at coding a mobile phone app. Or on the other hand, attending a project meeting.
Say, why aren't those kinds of experiences available at the local computer or science museum — not playing with the things, but making them come alive?
John Hollar and Grady Booch, are you listening?
Error-Proofing Made Simple
Error-proofing is preventing errors rather than just warning about them.
With compiler warnings, that means setting warnings-as-errors in your compiler so you cannot complete your build. Yes, you also need tests that can fail and a source control system that refuses promotion of versions that fail test. And code review to ensure that code changes to address compiler warnings only improve the code. But the key is warnings-as-errors.
While error-proofing is simpler with fast-food trays, the idea is the same. Read "Simple, Brilliant, Error Proofing at the Amazing In-N-Out Burger" (Mark Graban | 04/11/2011 Quality Digest) and look for where else you can error-proof your process.
Don't Call it Testing
Recently I went to a workshop on Exploratory Testing given by John Stevenson. Just as exploratory testing finds the unexpected, so I learned something unexpected. Every time John used the word "testing", he meant it as (re)defined in Michael Bolton's Testing vs. Checking. It's a powerful redefinition, and simpler to say than what I've always meant by "adversarial testing". Here's how the redefinition works:
- Notice that many tests don't find defects
- Decide we need a new definition for the word "test"
- But the current definition is useful, so move it to the word "check"
- Now the word "test" is open for redefinition
- Define "test" as in Testing vs. Checking
Quick summary of new and useful definition:
Let "test" mean an exercise of the software under test that helps a thinking tester answer the question, "Is there a problem here?"
Change the Software
Recently I became the unwitting user of a new piece of consumer software, when our office upgraded our mobile phones. Suddenly, with every phone call, appointment reminder, and even when charging the phone, I'm acutely aware of what I want from this piece of embedded software that I did not even buy. As a software user I want only two things: more or better features, and problems fixed. I don't care what version the software is — I care what's changed. It would make sense, then, that software developers should focus on changes, not versions, and that tools should support them.
The most common tool on a software development project is always the "bug tracker" or defect tracking system. It's really a change request tracking system, with two kinds of requests for changes: enhancements (performance improvement or new feature requests) and defects (fix requests). Tracking requests for changes. That's good.
Now look at the other major tool in every software development group — it's usually called a "version control system". But see above — users don't care about versions. And developers have to report to the defect tracking system what they've done, and that system is which is full of requests for changes, not requests for versions. So why would we want a version control system?
That's why the light went on for me when I read Joel Spolsky's Hg Init: a Mercurial tutorial. Not because Mercurial (or Git) makes branching cheap and merges easy. (It does.) But because, as Spolsky writes:
Subversion likes to think about revisions. A revision is what the entire file system looked like at some particular point in time. In Mercurial, you think about changesets. A changeset is a concise list of the changes between one revision and the next revision. (When Spolsky writes "revisions", read "versions".)
Now I understand why there's so much trouble connecting our defect (change) tracking and version control workflows. Testing too — what we really want to know is, "Which change broke the build?" And bringing in code review, more problems, because people want to review whether each change accomplishes the goal of adding or fixing something. Software development is all about changes: specifying them, designing them, coding them, testing them, and delivering them. Not versions. Changes. Sure, versions have a place in software delivery — they are labels for the software after a certain number of changes. (Mercurial supports them, as "tags".) So if you want all the tools to work together and make your software development life easier, switch to a software repository that lets you control changes.
What should we call them? Maybe "software changeset control systems". The two big ones these days are Mercurial, and Git. For Mercurial, see Spolsky's tutorial. For Git, listen to Linus Torvalds on git.


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NEW YORK, Jan. 15, 2013 /PRNewswire-iReach/ -- Reliant, the market leader in virtualized retail application and data security solutions, announced today the release of its Redbox MultiPlatform, the latest addition to its Redbox Platform product suite. Redbox MultiPlatform offers retail, restaurant and hospitality chains the ability to manage a secure network across many store locations and deliver a wide variety of in-store technologies using multiple operating systems, including Microsoft Windows. Reliant will showcase Redbox MultiPlatform at the National Retail Federation's 102nd Annual Convention & EXPO at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center, Booth 1983, in New York City through January 16th.
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A key feature of Redbox MultiPlatform is its capability to host virtualized instances of Microsoft Windows as a guest operating system (OS), as well as nearly all flavors of Linux and Unix under a Type-1 Hypervisor. This virtualization capability enables businesses to run multiple operating systems on the same platform including Windows XP, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows Server 2003 and 2008. Redbox MultiPlatform is immediately available.
"We are excited to offer retailers a new, cost-effective way to consolidate store systems and significantly enhance their ability to centrally manage their infrastructure," said Reliant Co-Founder and Managing Partner Richard Newman. "Our customers have been looking forward to this solution and it represents a significant milestone in our efforts to simplify, extend and lower the cost of building next-generation retail environments," Newman added.
Completely scalable and capable of being configured across thousands of locations, Redbox MultiPlatform enables customizable options for application hosting at individual store locations. Redbox MultiPlatform uses the same management infrastructure as Reliant's Redbox Platform, which addresses Linux virtualization, and can allow both solutions to co-exist in a single environment.
The Redbox Platform product suite consolidates multiple systems in a virtualized environment, resulting in reduced store systems complexity, simplified support, improved reliability and reduced costs. Redbox Platform can run VoIP, Digital Signage, Interactive Kiosk, DVR, Guest Wifi, Point-of-Sale, Payment Applications, Music and more as virtual machines on a single piece of hardware.
About Reliant: Reliant transforms IT's approach to delivering and supporting store systems by allowing retailers to create an in-store private cloud. This allows a wide range of application, systems and network configurations to be centrally delivered, managed and maintained, reducing ongoing support costs and eliminating the need for equipment to otherwise run each application. This highly flexible and secure architecture in turn enables retail executives to keep pace with 21st century customer-engaging applications.
For more information, visit www.reliantsecurity.com.
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Excellent museum, displays and hands-on activities for children of all ages...even our teenagers enjoyed themselves. There are many indoor and outdoor activities -- we could have stayed there all day!
Wonderful museum for children! Indoor and outdoor exhibits. Our grandchildren are frequent visitors and never tire of the museum's offerings
We have been members for two years now and have never been disappointed. There are stable exhibits as well as new exhibits that always make it interesting and fun. Adults and kids can make a whole day of the museum. The Sprout cafe has reasonably priced, healthy, tasty food and everyone loves the butterfly house!
Very interactive, nice setting. Lots of fun and interestinteresting things and on a nice day, outside is beautiful
This is a wonderful place to take kids, even over and over again, We have a membership and take our preschooler at least once a week.
I brought my 9 year old daughter to visit the Museum. For the most part this is a well thought out informative museum. But to me - it's a little too low key and old school. The IMAX theater is okay - but even that looks like it was a secondary thought. Still it's a good place with nice architecture...
As a photographer, my main focus when I visit this museum is the butterfly house. I don't have kids so I usually by pass everything else. I could spend hours in the butterfly house taking photos. We did visit the bears, but only saw one and he was asleep under a tree, the wolves were no where to be found...
This is a superb hands on museum...for children and adults. Rotating exhibits and some consistent. Teaching going on, classes, animals, wildlife exhibit, butterfly house, train ride, and a good café. Super fun time for all!
Me & a friend drove 3 hours to visit. They had a live exhibit of butterflies. It was my favorite exhibit because not only the butterflies but also all the gorgeous flowering plants. This is a really nice museum that has plenty of things to teach everyone, but there are many things kids can have hands on. Worth a visit...
The butterfly garden, while small, is diverse. The other exhibits are not strong. But, don't miss riding the train. It is quite a long and fun ride.
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New Islanders Owners Can Focus On Hockey
by Paul on 08/20/14 at 06:08 AM ET
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from Mark Herrmann of Newsday,
The popular response yesterday was somewhere between "Yippeeee!" and "Here we go again." Islanders fans were ecstatic to hear that finally there was hope because the team will change hands. They are also realistic enough to know they felt exactly the same way when Charles Wang bought the team 14 years ago.
On these very pages back then, one fan was quoted as saying, "What does this mean? Hope." Another said, "Things can only get better."
We all should be wary, but for the life of us, people here can't help feeling that way again. Yes, yes, we remember the "Gang of Four" and "the Millstones" and the incomparable John Spano. Wang was supposed to make us forget all of them. Sometimes, he made us wish we had them back.
Fact is, it just has not worked out. It has not worked out for Wang, what with reported losses of $20 million a year. And it sure has not worked out for the team, with its embarrassing streak of not having won a playoff series since 1993. They have flirted with the worst fate a pro team can have: appearing irrelevant in its own market.
Things can only get better. For once, they just might.
The one huge reason is that this time, the buyers know they are getting only a hockey team and not a real estate bonanza.
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Wed, Oct. 15, 11:05 AM
- The spread of the junk bond index over Treasurys was below 300 basis points around the start of the summer, and around 400 bps near Labor Day. With today's sharp drop in Treasury yields (without a comparable move down in junk), the spread has blown out to more than 500 basis points.
- Rough publicly traded equity proxies for high-yield, if you will, BDCs remain stuck in a bear market. Prospect Capital (PSEC -3.6%), Fifth Street Finance (FSC -2%), Main Street Capital (MAIN -3.8%), Blackrock Kelso (BKCC -2.6%), TICC Capital (TICC -5.1%), KCAP Financial (KCAP -4.7%).
- BDC ETFs: BDCL, BDCS, BIZD
- High-yield ETFs: HYG, JNK, HYLD, SJB, ANGL, HYLS, UJB, XOVR, QLTC
Fri, Oct. 10, 4:24 PM
- "The sector's drawdown is 50% of what occurred in the 2011 euro-crisis without anything like the accompanying conditions," writes a bullish BDC Reporter, noting the sector is lower by about 14% since its February high, and stalwart Ares Capital (ARCC -3.1%) is trading at a discount to book value for the first time in years.
- Another example is TCP Capital (TCPC -2.5%), down about 15% from a high hit three months ago. The company has paid out a steadily-increasing dividend since going public, current and future earnings are in excess of the payout, the balance sheet was recently strengthened with medium-term debt capital, the average cost of debt is 2.63%. and its investments yield 9.2%. What's not to like?
- If the current benign business and credit cycle is indeed over, then BDCs have further to fall. If, as BDC Reporter believes, low rates are here to stay for awhile (and even if rates rise the BDC sector should prosper), BDCs are reaching bargain levels.
- ETFs: BDCL, BDCS, BIZD
- Today's action: Prospect Capital (PSEC -2.9%), Fifth Street Finance (FSC -3.5%), FS Investment (FSIC -3%), Apollo Investment (AINV -2.1%), Triangle Capital (TCAP -1.6%), THL Credit (TCRD -2%), OHA Investment (OHAI -4.2%).
Mon, Sep. 22, 2:55 PM
- As income favorites, business development companies often catch a bid during broader market selloffs (and bond market rallies), but the small caps (IWM -1.3%) are bearing the brunt of today's selling and the BDCs tend to fall into the that sector (though excluded from Russell indices).
- Fifth Street Finance (FSC -1.1%) has a market cap of $1.3B; Main Street Capital (MAIN -2.6%) - market cap of $1.4B; Apollo Investment (AINV -2%) - $2B; Triangle Capital (TCAP -1.3%) - $730M; Ares Capital (ARCC -0.4%) - $5.1B. Hanging in there better than the rest is Prospect Capital (PSEC -0.1%), with a $3.45B market cap.
- ETFs: BDCL, BDCS, BIZD
Mon, Aug. 18, 11:30 AM
- Prospect Capital's (PSEC +0.9%) sizable $210M lending deal announced this morning and 9 booked deals over $100M in the last year suggest it and many of its larger brethren are competing for larger borrowers who don't fit the mold of the larger syndicated loan market BDCs typically play in, writes Nicholas Marshi.
- On the good side, these "story credits" allow Prospect and other BDCs to charge higher rates and fees than are available in the "dirt cheap" syndicated loan market. And Prospect (and others) have become so big that typical middle market deals aren't enough to move the needle on their portfolios anymore.
- Ideally, though, no individual loan would represent more than a tiny fraction of the portfolio, so while "big fish" deals allow for good earnings and maintenance of the distribution today, Marshi worries about the impact of the blow-up of an individual company or of wider credit issues when the next economic downturn hits.
- Other large players today: Ares Capital (ARCC +0.8%), FS Investment (FSIC), American Capital (ACAS +1.4%), Apollo Investment (AINV +0.4%), Main Street Capital (MAIN +0.1%).
- ETFs: BDCL, BDCS, BIZD
Thu, Jun. 26, 3:48 PM
- Leading the way are THL Credit (TCRD +4.1%), Fidus Investment (FDUS +4.6%), NGP Capital Resources (NGPC +3.2%), and BlackRock Kelso (BKCC +3.2%), but the entire BDC sector is lit up bright green a day ahead of its stocks being removed from the Russell indices.
- A selection of others: Prospect Capital (PSEC +0.5%), Ares Capital (ARCC +1.9%), TPG Specialty Lending (TSLX +0.8%), Triangle Capital (TCAP +3.7%), TICC Capital (TICC +2.2%), PennantPark (PNNT +2.7%), Medley Capital (MCC +2.1%), TCP Capital (TCPC +2.2%), Gladstone Commerical (GLAD +2.8%), Capitala Finance (CPTA +2.7%).
- Previously: London Stock Exchange to acquire Frank Russell for $2.7B
- ETFs: BDCL, BDCS, BIZD
Thu, Jun. 19, 9:28 AM
- In an updated investor presentation on the company website, TCAP again takes note of the benefits of its internally managed setup. Along with also-internally-managed Main Street Capital (MAIN), Triangle has a significantly better efficiency ratio than externally-managed players (page 18-20), and, again along with MAIN, tops the chart on shareholder returns since 2007 (when Triangle came public).
- Management notes the continued highly fragmented nature of lower middle-market investment: While TCAP is a significant player, the company has less than 1% of the overall market. With owners of private companies increasingly looking for liquidity, management expects the lower middle-market will continue to offer attractive returns.
- See also: TCAP's BDCs at a Glance.
- ETFs: BDCL, BDCS, BIZD
Fri, May. 23, 11:51 AM
- The May 15 deadline for the SEC to change BDC's fee-reporting standards has come and gone with no action, meaning the sector's stocks will be removed from Russell's indices on June 27. A tick higher in the struggling sector since May 15 suggests maybe investors have discounted the news.
- Looking for what to buy now, the team at Wells has put together an Adjusted Cash Flow Coverage metric. From Wells: "It is important for investors to discern which BDCs are overly reliant on fee income as a percentage of total revenues, which BDCs are not covering their dividend and which BDCs book meaningful non-cash income such as PIK."
- The sector adjusted cash flow coverage average is 81%. Among those coming in above: GLAD, HRZN, TCAP, TCPC, HTGC, GBDC, ARCC. Among those below: TPVG, BKCC, PNNT, MCC, FSC. Struggling the most of late, Prospect Capital is pretty close to the sector average at 79%.
- Full list here
- ETFs: BDCL, BDCS, BIZD
Fri, May. 23, 7:36 AM
- The selloff in BDCs is a buying opportunity, writes BDC reporter, noting the opportunity today to invest in a basket of BDCs (using BDCS as a proxy) at an 11% higher yield than just three months ago. The sector is yielding 43% more than high yield bonds (HYG) and nearly double floating rate loans (BKLN).
- The higher yield, of course, reflects market concern distributions are set to fall (and BKCC and MCGC cut in Q1), but for the sector as a whole, distributions have been fairly stable over the last three years. Further, a number of players are under-leveraged or in growth phase, and occasionally have realized gains which are paid out as special distributions.
- Keep this list around, says BDC Reporter, musing on those who may boost payouts over the next year: ACAS, ARCC, ACRE, ACSF, CPTA, FDUS, FSFR, FULL, HCAP, HTGC, MAIN, MVC, TAXI, PSEC, TCPC, TSLX
- ETFs: BDCL, BDCS, BIZD
Mon, Apr. 21, 12:26 PM
- So far so good a few days after FS Investment Corporation (FSIC +0.6%) - the largest non-traded REIT - went public, immediately becoming the 4th largest company in the publicly traded BDC sector.
- BDCs are generally a retail product - the typical one targets 90% retail investors, 10% institutional - but, along with also recently gone-public TPG Specialty Lending (TSLX -1.3%), FSIC "begins to create some comfort with institutional investors," says Raymond James' Robert Dodd, noting FSIC backers Blackstone and Franklin Square Capital Partners. The TPG listing, according to sources, had 85% institutional participation.
- The pressure from 60K individual investors owning FSIC could weigh on the shares, says Ladenburg Thalmann's Mickey Schleien, but offsetting that is a tender offer by the company for up to $250M of stock.
- ETFs: BDCL, BDCS, BIZD
Thu, Apr. 10, 2:57 PM
- Particularly hard hit in a red BDC sector (BIZD -1%) is American Capital (ACAS -3.2%). The stock had run up sharply two weeks ago on hopes for a spinoff of the asset management business, but receptive public markets are necessary for such a move. With today's decline, the shares have given back about all of those gains.
- Also struggling over the past couple of weeks is Northstar Realty Finance (NRF -3.4%) which is spinning off its asset management unit.
Tue, Mar. 4, 3:30 PM
- Unless the SEC changes the sector's fee-reporting standards by May 15, Russell told clients last night it will remove BDCs from its indexes during its June reconstitution.
- Earlier calling such a move somewhat of a nonevent, Wells' team sounds like it's singing a different tune now. They believe there's a chance the SEC does change the rules, because not doing so would "likely drive sophisticated institutional capital away from the space." More: "We believe this is the very capital that is adept on calling out subpar BDCs. … In our view, a healthy and sophisticated public market is needed to ensure that only those deserving BDCs are the ones to receive the capital."
- It's no little deal as an estimated 8% of all BDC shares are owned by funds benchmarked to the Russell 2000 index.
- Index maker CRSP, whose benchmarks are tracked by Vanguard, already bars BDCs, calling them "essentially publicly traded private investment vehicles ... [we] excluded BDCs from the get-go, recognizing that they really don't represent equity securities of the type that are trying to be captured in equity indexes."
- In a big green down for the markets, most of the BDC sector is in the red. Prospect (PSEC -0.5%), Fifth Street (FSC -1.5%), Ares(ARCC -0.9%), BlackRock Kelso (BKCC -1.6%), Medley (MCC -0.9%) THL (TCPC -1.6%), NGP (NGPC -2.9%), New Mountain (NMFC -1.6%), PennantPark (PNNT -0.5%), Triangle (TCAP -0.7%).
- ETFs: BDCL, BDCS, BIZD
Tue, Mar. 4, 7:54 AM
- Declines in the sector in response to Russell's decision to exclude BDCs from its indices are due to technical, not fundamental reasons, says analyst Jonathan Bock. "We believe select BDCs offer compelling return opportunities in this low rate, low credit loss environment. In our view, those risk/return elements are unaffected by whether or not the BDCs are included in Russell Indices."
- Among Wells' highest rated names: American Capital (ACAS), Ares Capital (ARCC), Golub Capital (GBDC), Medley Capital (MCC), and TCP Capital (TCPC).
- Related ETFs: BDCL, BDCS, BIZD
Wed, Feb. 26, 1:16 PM
- WIth business development companies getting the boot from S&P indices, will the Russell follow suit? It's a significant issue as investors are far more heavily invested in BDCs though the Russell indices than through S&P, writes Brendan Conway. He notes ownership of BDCs by Russell-tracking index funds are as high as 38 days worth of trading volume, and Wells Fargo estimates there are 24 BDCs where 10 or more days of average volume would be required to unload them.
- Wells, however, does not see Russell following S&P's lead, with item #1 being Russell's desire to "represent small cap reality." "Russell Indices receive acclaim because they are willing to provide investors access to the true investable small cap universe. To the extent BDCs are excluded, this would deprive investors the opportunity to invest in what has become a very large/growing industry."
- The following list is those BDCs with 10 or more days of average volume in index funds tracking Russell indices.
- NGPC 38.23 days of volume, CSWC 29 days, SCM 23.5, FDUS 20.7, GARS 20, MVC 19.7, SUNS 18, WHF 17.8, SLRC 17.2, CPTA 16, MCGC 15.1, BKCC 14.9, TCRD 14, HRZN 14, TCAP 13.9, PNNT 13.3, HTGC 12.6, TICC 12.6, GLAD, 12.4, GBDC 12.3, KCAP 12.2, TAXI 11.8, MAIN 11.4, NMFC 9.98.
- Related ETFs: BDCL, BDCS, BIZD
- Other major names - no doubt included in the indices, but whose holdings are less than 10 days of average trading volume: PSEC, FSC, ARCC, AINV, MCC, HTGC, TCPC, FULL, GBDC
Tue, Feb. 25, 12:20 PM
- "After consulting with clients concerned with certain reporting requirements, expenses, and investment restrictions relating to business development companies (BDCs), S&P Dow Jones has decided to remove all identified BDCs from its U.S. Indices.
- Press release
- BDC ETFs: BDCL, BDCS, BIZD
- Earlier: Prospect Capital (PSEC -2.7%) is removed from the S&P 600 SmallCap Index and Apollo Investment (AINV -7.3%) is removed from the S&P 400 MidCap Index.
- Prospect's market cap is $3.4B, Apollo's $1.9B. Other BDCs with market caps over $1B: Fifth Street (FSC -0.8%), Ares Capital (ARCC -1.5%), American Capital (ACAS -1.7%), Main Street (MAIN -1.7%), Hercules Technology (HTGC -2%). Close enough to $1B for an argument: Solar Capital (SLRC -1.8%) and Golub Capital (GBDC -0.2%).
Tue, Feb. 25, 10:35 AM
- Amid the dropping of Prospect Capital (PSEC -3%) from the S&P SmallCap 600 and Apollo Investment from the S&P MidCap 400, the business development sector is reeling a bit.
- Ares Capital (ARCC -1.5%), Main Street (MAIN -1.8%), Blackrock Kelso (BKCC -3.3%), Triangle (TCAP -2.2%), TICC Capital (TICC -1.2%), PennantPark (PNNT -2.7%), THL Credit (TCRD -1.2%), Hercules Technology (HTGC -2.6%).
- BDC ETFs: BDCL, BDCS, BIZD
- See also: AINV with 12M share secondary
Mon, Feb. 24, 3:35 PM
- Comparing metrics for the two of the more popular dividend strategies - the SPDR S&P Dividend ETF (SDY +0.4%) and the Vanguard Dividend Appreciation ETF (VIG +0.7%) - against the two largest large-cap value ETFs - the Russell 1000 Value ETF (IWD +0.9%) and Vanguard's Value ETF (VTV +0.7%) - Larry Swedroe finds valuations quite stretched for the dividend players.
- The SDY sports a P/E ratio of 17.2x, price/book ratio of 2.5x, and price/cash flow ratio of 10.5x, with the VIG showing similar. The value ETFs have P/E below 14x, price/books below 2x, and price/cash flow below 6x.
- The popularity of dividends has led to a pleasing rise in the values of the stocks, but has thus reduced expected future returns, reminds Swedroe. And for taxable accounts, it's even worse as dividends are less tax-efficient than capital gains.
- Dividend ETFs: DVY, VIG, AMLP, SDY, VYM, AMJ, BDCL, SCHD, HDV, MLPL, YMLP, KBWD, BDCS, DES, PEY, MLPI, SPHD, DIV, DLN, DHS, MLPA, ENY, DTD, DGRW, DON, MLPN, FDL, NOBL, FVD, PFM, EMLP, MLPS, BIZD, MLPG, MLPY, MLPX, MLPJ, SDYL, AMU, YMLI, DVYL, ATMP, DGRS, ZMLP, RDIV, RDVY, MLPW, IMLP, QDYN, ENFR, QDF, QDEF, MLPC
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Method for the turbot and langoustines::
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Released from prison just about a month ago, Mobb Deep's Prodigy serves up something for the fans in the form of The Ellsworth Bumpy Johnson EP, a free release presented by Complex Magazine. Built around clips from the 1997 film Hoodlum (of which Mobb Deep lent the title track), P loosely takes on the roll played by Laurence Fishburne.
While fans have been clamoring for a Mobb Deep reunion LP, this EP merely whets the appetite even more, as it doesn't quite deliver like P's previous solo works. You won't find tracks of a "Keep It Thoro" magnitude, as he is obviously saving stuff of that caliber for bigger releases. Alchemist does lend beats to this on both "The One and Only" and "For One Night Only", but neither compare to their previous collaborations, or even the tracks heard recently on the Covert Coup EP with Curren$y.
Sid Roams produces most of this EP, lending it's two strongest tracks. "Black Devil" samples classic doo-wop, transforming it into a backdrop for P's rant about wolves in sheep's clothing, making some surprising admissions about race relations in the pen. Also standing out is "Go Off", which ironically builds a hook off the idea that "Mobb Deep fell off…". While this EP isn't the strongest material from P or the M-O-B-B, that argument is still up in the air.
Still, one can't be mad at P for getting on his grind and releasing a free EP for the fans who've missed him for so long. Let's just hope when that next official album comes – whether it be solo or with Havoc – it delivers on the promise.
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The rescue only continues the tale of woe of this expidition. The crew was located, and Nobile was airlifted out first. (The reasons behind this are much in debate (and concern a large part of the picture), and the aftermath would haunt Nobile for his remaining life.) After Nobile was safely dropped off in Spitsbergen, the rescue pilot returned for the rest of the crew, only to crash along the way. Nobile would remain the sole survivor of the expedition. Most notably, Amundsen himself would perish during the rescue attempt.
Heavy stuff, and it gets the full 1970s treatment in The Red Tent -- complete with mood music, flashbacks, and the ghosts of the dead holding a trial for Nobile, who's mournfully reliving the event as an old man, obviously for the hundredth time.
As Nobile, Peter Finch makes for a tragic figure, but it's Sean Connery who steals the show as Amundsen, largely seen as a ghost chastising Nobile for his foolishness. It also never hurts to have Claudia Cardinale in your flick, though I won't spoil her role.
While The Red Tent is often haunting, it's frequently obtuse and conceited in the way that only a Russian-Italian-American production from the early 1970s can be. The dead holding court over an old man wracked with guilt? Spare the art. Give me the adventure.
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