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Thursday, September 17, 2009
Alloy Steel, Altman Z-Scores, China, and Vertical Branding
Connecting the dots between some recent topics:
- Alloy Steel International (Nasdaq: AYSI.OB) is the sort of company that is benefiting from China's New, Self-Propelled Economy.
- The Altman Z-Score model can be used by equity investors to evaluate current long holdings for signs of financial distress, as we did with Alloy Steel most recently back in May. When the model predicted that the company was not at risk of bankruptcy at that point, we added more to our position (at about 23 cents per share), despite the weak quarter the company had just announced.
- The Altman Z-Score model can also be used to look for potential short ideas, as in the previous post re BAGL. We'll see how that one works out.
- Vertical Branding (Pink Sheets: VBDG.PK), retailer of such fine, made-in-China products such as this,
is an example of the sort of company associated with China's pre-self-propelled, more export-dependent economy. When China's exports of these sorts of products started to drop precipitously as the global economy sunk into recession, one of the concerns pundits raised was the plight of the migrant workers from China's rural West who were getting laid off. China decided to address this via its stimulus package by increasing investments in Western China, including job-creating infrastructure projects there. Infrastructure requires steel, and to make steel you need iron ore. Companies that mine for iron ore need wear plates to protect and increase the efficiency of their mining equipment. Alloy Steel International makes best-of-breed wear plates.
22 comments:
- DaveinHackensack said...
Related to this post: FT: BHP sees global steel demand doubling in next 15 years.
- September 18, 2009 at 3:01 AM
- Homer315 said...
Dave, do you use any particular site to calculate the Z-scores of companies, or do you just do it yourself? Your original post on the subject included a link that's now non-functional.
Just curious.
- September 21, 2009 at 12:11 PM
- DaveinHackensack said...
Try the calculator on Ironwood Advisory's site. My company is launching a site soon which will have better tools than this, but Ironwood's calculator should suffice for now.
Nice price action with AYSI and USEG today, btw.
- September 21, 2009 at 3:54 PM
- Homer315 said...
Thanks Dave. I appreciate the link. You're supposed to use MRQ EBIT right, not trailing twelve month?
- September 21, 2009 at 5:24 PM
- DaveinHackensack said...
No problem, Albert. Both income statement inputs (EBIT and Sales) should be TTM; the balance sheet items should be MRQ.
- September 21, 2009 at 6:11 PM
- Homer315 said...
Thanks. I became more interested after reading a recent article in Barron's (I know, insert criticism of Barron's here). Anyway, one of the column writers wrote an article about Winnebago (WGO) and how it is burning through cash, has been losing money for the last year, and is probably going to disappoint investors when it announces its year results 10/15. The stock (of course) dropped like 15% on the Monday after the article came out, but bounced all the way back within a day, due in no small part I bet to the fact that a Citi analyst had upgraded the whole sector a week earlier. Still, the article made a pretty compelling case about why WGO was in troubled waters. I wondered what its Z-score would be, and calculated it to be 2.2 so not clearly in trouble.
We will have to see...
- September 21, 2009 at 6:32 PM
- DaveinHackensack said...
Yeah, that would be in the gray zone.
- September 21, 2009 at 6:53 PM
- Homer315 said...
Dave, I went back and re-read all your AYSI posts. Congratulations again on sticking with the thesis. I know that your original investment wasn't at prices all that much lower (if at all) than the current stock price, but to continue investing in the company as it dropped into the twenty cent range took some courage. Anyway, it's good to see that it worked out for you.
- September 21, 2009 at 10:21 PM
- DaveinHackensack said...
Thanks, Albert. My original investment in AYSI was at $2.28, but my average cost on it is under a dollar per share, after averaging down between $2.28 and 23 cents. It closed today at $2.49.
- September 21, 2009 at 11:00 PM
I locked in my AYSI profits here.
Might buy back with an increased position by reinvesting the funds if we correct to the (approx) 1.75 and/or 1.45 support. If it just shoots to the moon from here, then oh well. I don't think it will, however. Solid company...just rose too much too fast for there not to be a significant correction, IMO. Look at the 5 yr chart.
- September 24, 2009 at 5:55 PM
- DaveinHackensack said...
No one ever lost money by taking a profit, but I'll tell you why I'm holding here. In its biggest quarter so far, the company earned 6.8 cents per share. That was with one mill. Now it has two mills operating at capacity, and the second mill is making the new product (super arcoplate), which is presumably higher margin. In addition, the company is planning to build two additional mills due to demand. But set that aside for a moment, and just consider the current two mills.
If one mill operating at full tilt earned ~7 cents per share, what will two operating at full tilt earn over a full quarter (they didn't start operating at full capacity until part way through the current quarter)? Annualize that, give it a modest 10x multiple, and compare it to the current share price.
- September 24, 2009 at 7:10 PM
I agree with your positive assessment, that's why I'm looking forward to take advantage of a dip to re-establish a larger position. I just happen to strongly think we will get one, and soon.
But if I miss a further run-up, I do happen have other opps in mind, otherwise I would have let it stay there. AYSI might go higher because there just aren't a lot of shareholders to dump and depress the price in the first place. And I also do definitely understand why you are holding. It's a great little microcap. Plus getting rid of your winners is not usually a good strategy. For me, since I have not been funding my account with new moolah recently, I need to attempt other ways to increase positions.
- September 24, 2009 at 7:42 PM
Also, I remember when you first brought the company to my attention, I waited to buy until it cooled off some based on the chart, which turned out to be prudent (of course it did end up declining further than I anticipated after I bought in). I could be wrong this time but I'm not going to second guess my instincts just yet. I don't like stocks that get too hot, too fast, no matter what the story is.
- September 24, 2009 at 8:26 PM
- DaveinHackensack said...
Yes, you did get a better initial entry point in the stock by waiting, but the stock didn't drop because of the chart, it dropped because it posted sequentially lower earnings, after a blockbuster quarter. I've been trying to get a sense of how low a number the company would need to report next Q to disappoint current shareholders, given the revenue visibility of the 5-year, $50 million BHP deal. Rawnoc got that the thread where I asked this question deleted, but, if memory serves, the consensus seemed to be that folks would be cool with a mid-to-high single digit number for this quarter. I'd be surprised if AYSI missed that relatively low hurdle, but we'll see.
I'm not adding more here, and if it dips to $1.50-$2 I may consider adding more, but I'm not as confident as you that it's going to drop that far, absent some materially negative news specifically relevant to the company. So that's why I continue to hold. I think this company may have more potential upside than any other stock I own, and I'd hate to sell it here and have it run away from me.
- September 25, 2009 at 12:26 AM
Stocks have risen on bad news and fallen on good news frequently. The chart can help you gauge market sentiment to determine what is priced in and what is not.
The stock dropped past through its support around 1.50 - 1.75 because of the lower earnings, but just based on the chart I estimated that it would hit the 1.50s range, which is where I entered. I believe it would have hit this level no matter what the earnings were. My hope was that improving fundamentals would cause support to hold firm and the stock to increase from there, but the fundamentals did not improve and the bounce we got from the support instead turned into the right shoulder of a head and shoulders top formation when the PPS plummeted further.
I've found when looking at a chart, it tells what will happen in two near-term scenarios, a bullish scenario and a bearish one. The key is to decide which one is more likely. But even if you are wrong about the near term scenario, having both potential future patterns in mind allows you to optimize your entry point in a way you couldn't if you did not take the chart into consideration, because there are some entry points you just do not want to take, no matter what the fundamentals say. For example, I would not reccomend anyone buy now, because for the stock to move much higher from here, it would have to form a very unusual chart. If I would definitely not enter here, that is a good signal to me that I should take my profits if I'm already invested. Even non-chartists know that you need to let hot stocks cool down. We just came off an exponential increase in stock price that exceeded the highs we got in the commodity bubble. Color me skeptical we will have another breakout just yet. (Yet I will glady congratulate you if it happens.) The best thing that can happen to this stock -short of another blockbuster contract- is if it forms new support in the 2's for a few months. Then I will be able to get back in. Other than that, I'll be waiting for 1.75 and 1.45. Charting stocks helps even a fundamentals investor because it is the recognition that there are some patterns that stock charts just do not make, for whatever reason (mass psychology), and other patterns that are very common. The markets fit a fractal model, as Mandelbrot found when he studied cotton prices in the 60s. Being as though the markerts are basically a biological organism (humans making decisions) it makes sense that they would follow the same rules of fractal geometry that all other aspects of nature follow. There is not as much direct cause and effect in price fluctuations as people think, otherwise the market would be much more efficient as it calibrates itself to whatever makes the most logical sense.
If I had a very large position here, I would not have sold everything, but still have taken some profits. The company is still a baby and there will be plenty of entry points going forward. It won't be mentioned on Jim Cramer or anything for some time yet.
- September 25, 2009 at 9:25 AM
- DaveinHackensack said...
Just to clarify: I don't see the stock going higher from here without additional positive news. But I also don't see it going significantly lower without bad news specific to the company or its industry. I could be wrong, but my gut says that absent news we'll stay above $2 until earnings. If earnings are inline with expectations or better, I see it going higher; same if it announces another big supply deal with another major client or if it announces that the Mongolian JV is back in play.
Also, the high last year was $2.95, if memory serves.
I get your point about the use of technical analysis as a complement to fundamental analysis, and I have nothing against it in principal. I just think certain peculiarities here need to be taken into account. E.g., that the float is so tiny, with 70% of the stock held by insiders. That's made the stock much more volatile on the way down and the way up.
Also, re the behavior of crowds, with this stock we've got a pretty small crowd right now -- ~100 shareholders. My guess is that the company's recent run has been driving almost entirely buy buyers who owned the company before the news -- either investors who held and added more, or investors who owned it before and raced to get back in. With the numbers the company generated over the last few quarters, I doubt anyone has picked this company up from screening. If the next earnings release broadens the shareholder base by attracting some new investors, that may smooth out the charts a little going forward.
In any case, the last time I tried to time this company I failed miserably. I will remain guided by fundamentals here and we'll see how that works.
- September 25, 2009 at 10:12 AM
Those pecularities are significant. It is doubtful the company has been picked up by stocks screens also. However I would add that while there were not many shareholders on record, AYSI is widely followed by swing traders on IHUB and other places, even if they didn't own the stock after it crashed. They could have jumped in right after the big announcement. Rawnoc, for example, followed it for a reason, he knows it is a quality microcap whether or not he will admit it. The Rawnocs of the world probably bought when they saw the news, and the low float magnified this development. When the swing traders sense the rally is out of gas they will sell and we will get a significant correction, unless there is big money to support the price.
That's my theory, anyway.
- September 25, 2009 at 10:31 AM
- DaveinHackensack said...
If Rawnoc jumped back in, he hasn't admitted it. You make a good point about the effect of swing traders, but the five year deal I think puts a floor under this, because if it goes low enough folks like me will consider getting more because of that. Who knows. We'll see in any case.
OT: I hope you can watch video at work, because I think you'll enjoy this one I'm about to post by one of the partners at 37 Signals. It's relevant to our previous discussions about entrepreneurship.
- September 25, 2009 at 10:38 AM
Yep, we will see.
Ack.. no, youtube is blocked here. I'll check it out tonight at home.
- September 25, 2009 at 11:07 AM
- DaveinHackensack said...
Let me know what your technical spidey sense says about USEG. I'd like to add to that on a dip, ideally before well results come in. But I think what would drive big upward movement from here would be the company posting positive earnings based on production from the new deal. I may have to circle back with management and see if I can get a feel for when that might kick in.
- September 25, 2009 at 11:13 AM
LOL. There are two strong levels of support I can identify with USEG: about 3.00 and about 2.50 (I could be more exact with a large candlestick chart with M/A's and such, but don't have time for that now). I don't follow this company closely so I don't know what fundamental developments to expect soon, but if I was looking to buy for my own account, I would have buy orders in mostly at 3.00 and some at 2.50; assuming it is consolidating for a new "up" trend based on the fundamentals. If you think it might really take off in a major way there is weak support at 3.75 it could touch before squirting to new high of approx 5.00-5.50, but personally I would try for the other two because I'm a bottom feeder.
The chart is technically in break-out mode when you take into consideration the previous highs and their shape, and the volume associated with this rally, so in theory it should be a fairly safe buy now. But like I said I'm a bottom feeder not a momo guy, so I can only rec what I'd do personally, which is orders at 3.00 and 2.50. The chart looks really nice whichever way you cut it. It's less likely you'll have a large correction here than with AYSI. So my spidey sense tells me, anyway.
- September 25, 2009 at 11:53 AM
- DaveinHackensack said...
OK, thanks. I think I'll be patient with USEG and aim to add below $3, partly based on your technical analysis, and partly based on my reluctance to add at a higher price than I first bought it.
- September 25, 2009 at 4:02 PM


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For once, the Lakers might experience a White Christmas.
They have played on Christmas Day for 15 consecutive seasons, a testament both to the Lakers' past success and unmatched brand even amid recently tumultuous years. But instead of playing in the friendly confines of Staples Center, the Lakers will spend their Christmas on the road for the first time since the 2005-06 campaign.
The Lakers will face the Chicago Bulls at 5 p.m. PST, seeing Pau Gasol for the first time since leaving the Lakers this offseason.
Meanwhile, the Clippers will dominate the attention locally in Los Angeles on Christmas, hosting the Golden State Warriors for a 7:30 p.m. showdown at Staples Center. The two teams went through a seven-game first-round series last season that the Clippers won.
The Clippers will also open the season Oct. 30 at Staples Center against the Oklahoma City Thunder, which beat the Clippers in six games last season in the Western Conference semifinals.
It will take awhile for the Clippers to dominate the L.A. sports landscape after the Lakers built equity with 16 NBA championships. But the Clippers could have short-term bragging rights against the Lakers when they play in four games at Staples Center.
The Lakers will have two designated home games on Oct. 31 and April 5, while the Clippers will become the home team on Jan. 7 and April 5.
The Lakers will also host Chicago on Jan. 29 at Staples Center, which would likely feature a Gasol tribute after he helped the Lakers win NBA championships in 2009 and 2010. Lakers fans will react differently toward Houston's Dwight Howard on opening night on Oct. 28. Howard spurned the Lakers after playing for them in 2012-13.
Those same fans could also feel disappointed when LeBron James and Kevin Love visit Los Angeles on Jan. 15 wearing Cleveland Cavaliers uniforms instead of purple and gold. Frustration could also emerge when Carmelo Anthony comes to Los Angeles wearing a New York Knicks uniform on March 12, playing under two Lakers icons in Knicks coach Derek Fisher and president Phil Jackson.
The Lakers face a flurry of tough Western Conference opponents, including the San Antonio Spurs (Nov. 14 at home, Dec. 12 and Jan. 23 on road), Oklahoma City Thunder (Dec. 19 and March 1 at home, March 24 on road) and Portland Trail Blazers (Jan. 5 and Feb. 11 on road, Jan. 11 and April 3 at home).
The Lakers take on the hated Boston Celtics at TD Garden (Dec. 5) and Staples Center (Feb. 22), but the matchup seems unlikely to provide an NBA Finals preview as it used to.
It will not help that the Lakers open their season with four games in five nights. They also have a week-long Grammy trip with stops in New York (Feb 1), Milwaukee (Feb. 4), Orlando (Feb. 6) and Cleveland (Feb. 8).
Meanwhile, the Clippers will have an eight-day trip with games in Utah (Jan. 28), New Orleans (Jan. 30), San Antonio (Jan. 31), Brooklyn (Feb. 2), Cleveland (Feb. 5), Toronto (Feb. 6), Oklahoma City (Feb. 8) and Dallas (Feb. 9).
Despite all the uncertainty surrounding the health of Kobe Bryant and Steve Nash, the Lakers' schedule affords them time to recover. The Lakers will play 16 sets of back-to-back games, a slight dropoff from the 19 they had last season.
The NBA prolonged the All-Star break this season, ensuring a lengthy rest period for both the Lakers (nine days) and Clippers (eight days).

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As most of you will know by now, Jon Lord, original keyboardist with Deep Purple, passed away recently. Sad and thought-provoking news as it always is when rock gods leave us, I realised it was the perfect time, by way of some tribute, to finish off the hammond organ and keyboard comp I've been formulating for a while. Having now received the inspiration for it's theme and last, fitting track, here is 73: Hammond Lord. A collection of tracks with wicked hammond organ.
No doubt many of the bands here would have sounded very different if it were not for Jon Lord, one of the founding and longest-standing members of Deep Purple. He took an instrument that was originally designed as a cheaper alternative to church pipe organs, and pushed it to the limits with classically-trained skills and mega-amplification. The guitar's total domination of hard rock was gone for ever.
Birth Control's track is taken from their third album, 1972's Hoodoo Man, and Wolfgang Neuser was the keys man here. Starting out as it means to go on with the sound of air raid explosions, plenty of rock solid hammond riffs follow. To me, this sounds like Tony Iommi playing hammond...which can't be bad!
Waterloo were a Belgian band that have cropped up here before in my Belgian comp, and they more than deserve credit for their intricate multi instrumental hard prog, often lead by plenty of awesome hammond.
|Gudny Aspaas (Ruphus)
|8 Track
Eyes Of Blue were Welsh, and one of those incredibly important bands that seemed to be a breeding ground for an entire country's rock history, as I found making the Welsh Vol56. Q III was a single b-side from 1969 with lots of great psychedelic hammond.
|Pacific Sound
End of the sixties, I was in a two-man group. We were heavy metal, we were going to destroy the world with amplification, we had titles like 'Godzilla', 'March of the Huns', 'Brain Invasion'. A lot of people think [I] just came out of the piano bar... I did a lot of heavy metal for a while. We had about a dozen gigs and nobody could stay in the room when we were playing. It was too loud. We drove people literally out of clubs. It was great, but we can't stay in the club."
|The Trip
01. Santa Barbara Machine Head - Rubber Monkey (1967)
from album 'blues anytime vol. 3'
02. Birth Control - Buy! (1972)
from album 'hoodoo man'
03. Aardvark - Copper Sunset (1970)
from album 'aardvark'
04. Pocket-Size - Opus III (1970)
from retrospective 'in one or another condition'
05. Waterloo - Why May I Not Know (1970)
from album 'first battle'
06. Ruphus - Trapped In A Game (1973)
from album 'new born day'
07. Tortilla Flat - Life (1970)
08. Quatermass - Up On The Ground (1970)
from album 'quatermass'
09. Sugarloaf - Hot Water (1971)
from album 'spaceship earth'
10. Eyes Of Blue - Q III (1969)
11. Murphy Blend - At First (1970)
from album 'first loss'
12. Pacific Sound - Forget Your Dream (1971)
from album 'forget your dream!'
13. Attila - Holy Moses (1970)
from album 'attila'
14. The Trip - Caronte [Part 1] (1971)
from album 'caronte'
*nb: this post contains the word 'hammond' 14 times.
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Throughout this week, Florida college students will hold rallies to protest Gov. Rick Scott's (R) hostility to higher educationand proposed tuition hikes:
Across the state this week students at seven college campuses will gather to protest what they call a "relentless attack on higher education" by Gov. Rick Scott.Scott has been a vocal skeptic of the liberal arts emphasis of traditional higher ed. [...] Last month he sent out a lengthy probe out to leaders of all 11 public universities, seemingly asking them to justify themselves by providing information about their costs, programs and graduates' chosen fields and salaries.
According to the protesters' press release, "Along with the Florida Legislature, Gov Scott has taken aim at students through countless bills. The tuition of all state universities is poised to rise 15 percent each year for up to a decade." They also note that the state's academic scholarship, Bright Futures, is covering less each year, and the program could lose funding all together. Additionally, "this attack on public education comes within the context of an economic downturn affecting hard working middle class Floridian families."
Florida's public university system has already seen a 24 percent drop in state funding over the last four years. Yet Scott wants to make more deep cuts to Florida's public school liberal arts programs, needlessly politicizing academic disciplines and devaluing the skills of millions.
Scott caused an uproar last month when he said the state didn't need any more anthropology majors, arguing that liberal arts fields should receive less state funding because, he claimed, they don't help "create jobs" or spur the economy. (Ironically, Scott paid $18,000 a year for his own daughter to major in anthropology in college.)
In March, Scott faced protests from students, teachers, and parents after he unveiled a state budget proposal that slashed $3.3 billion from all levels of schools statewide, which many said would wipe out music, art, and language programs. Education was the main target of Scott's $5 billion in proposed spending cuts — part of his plan to gut and voucherize public education. Public school officials said his 10 percent cut to education would reduce spending by $703 for each student, cut the average teacher's salary by $2,335, and result in thousands of teacher layoffs.Read the article on Think Progress here.


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RickI wrote:I finally was able to get the archive radar site to work. Here is a copy of the radar image around the time of the accident, see below. The kiter was struck about 5 miles south southeast of the airport labeled "SGJ." You can see the two cells Eddie Toy was describing with the more serious of the two to the north and west of Vilano Beach. His description of the layout of the clouds looks pretty accurate.
So, the lightning bolt traveled several miles to strike the father and largely miss the son standing beside him. Considering the 30-30 Rule**, the distance wasn't that great.
They say the odds of being struck by lightning in Florida in a "normal" person's life are 3000 to 1. Now take that person, put them on flat beach or water surfaces, in proximity to squalls with some frequency, what are the odds now? For an even smaller, special group, have them kiting when their hair stands on end (a sign of an imminent lightning strike) , the control bar issues painful shocks and they can see static electricity arcs from the water when they jump. What do you think the odds might be for this last, special group? Think it over and about the weather conditions you will ride in, rider's choice.
More about lightning and precautions at:
http://www.preparemetrokc.org/know_the_ ... storms.asp
Again, we are far more at risk of being hurt or killed by excessive winds related to a squall than by lightning. That has been our experience since the sport started. Despite that, why risk getting struck and dealing with the aftermath, assuming there is one.
** Lightning 30/30 rule: If it takes less than 30 seconds to hear thunder after seeing the flash, lightning is near enough to pose a threat (about 6 miles away); after the storm ends, wait 30 minutes before resuming outdoor activities.
My friend Karen reminded me just how important knowing CPR can be in preserving life and health when things go badly. She has made sure that both she and her children know these simple critical procedures. We should copy her good example and should take training ourselves. CPR saved Falk's life and many others including some kiters over the years.
Strike Victim First Aid
1. Call 911 for medical help or send for help immediately
2. Assess the situation
3. Check for breathing and heartbeat
4. Administer CPR
5. Address other Lightning Injuries
More at: http://climbing.about.com/od/climberlig ... rstAid.htm
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|A stack of Diaper Clutches for my book group
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30 Comments
AMKreationsJune 1, 2011 at 6:19 am
LOL…what a riot. I love the last photo…so cute! Have a great week!
LindaJune 1, 2011 at 6:38 am
Love life moments on film! Kids grow up way, way to quick! My oldest is graduating High School on Sat and off to college by August! Sooo not ready for that one!!
JodiJune 1, 2011 at 7:06 am
Oh, Amy, I feel for you! I thought people were crazy, too, till I put my daughter on the bus the first day of kindergarten – I cried all day, and took a good couple of months to adjust! Whew! Are there TWO kids in that pile?? Cute! Love those diaper carriers, and good luck in my giveaway that you entered – thanks!
Betty LouJune 1, 2011 at 7:12 am
That's what I call "Real Life." I remember those days with 4 children at home. Everyday was an adventure———.
BonnieJune 1, 2011 at 7:17 am
Oh my goodness! You are busy! My oldest starts Kindergarten in September and I think its crazy – she will only be 3 1/2!
Sarah {MSQC}June 1, 2011 at 7:32 am
Life takes over….It's been pretty crazy for me too!! :)
Sometimes it's nice to step away from the computer though. Can't wait to see what you come up with next. Have a great week!
StaciJune 1, 2011 at 7:50 am
Thanks for sharing the photos! The mountains are BEAUTIFUL in the background, and your kids are quite lovely, too! Enjoy the chaos! They will grow up and leave your house all too quiet one day.
megan.futoJune 1, 2011 at 7:51 am
Glad to see that my kids aren't the only one who pull their mattresses to the floor! And my oldest starts kindergarten in the fall and I feel the same, only difference is mines the big kid of the family. I want summer to crawl along and really enjoy these last few months of him home. Enjoy your time as well, and we will overlook any random or boring blog posts untill then!
NedraJune 1, 2011 at 8:15 am
The good news is that they are asleep!
As such a busy mother, I don't know how you do all that you do. I hope you have a wonderful summer.
Live a Colorful LifeJune 1, 2011 at 8:28 am
Ha, that last picture is priceless!
VickiJune 1, 2011 at 8:35 am
Same thing happened here, only about a week and a half behind your schedule. We are trying to figure out our summer schedule and I'm still not finding much time to blog. 🙂
PamJune 1, 2011 at 9:32 am
Hi Amy….I have 4 kids too!I remember having a serious cry the day my baby starting KG….next week she graduates HS !! Bittersweet is my word for JUNE …..
SallieJune 1, 2011 at 10:20 am
WOW – is that your backyard view? Those mountains are gorgeous! Thanks for sharing!
bethanndoddJune 1, 2011 at 10:30 am
I love it! Sounds like we are living very similar lives…nice to know I am not the only one busy with everyday 'life'. Good luck getting a few things accomplished 🙂
Char @ Crap I've MadeJune 1, 2011 at 10:30 am
I feel your pain. 🙂
DJ RoseJune 1, 2011 at 10:50 am
My baby is graduating kindergarten and my oldest is graduating 6th grade at the same time tomorrow. Good thing hubby is home. I'm so not ready for middle school, either. :)

Have a great last week of school!
ThimbleannaJune 1, 2011 at 11:06 am
I think I've been hiding under a rock or something. I'm sorry to have missed you at market — I've been reading back over your posts — it looks like you had a FABULOUS time!!! (You cracked me up with your comment about the Moda Utah bag — I said almost exactly the same thing — Had. to. have. it!!!)
LaraJune 1, 2011 at 12:57 pm
Monkeys 🙂 LOL… don't you just *love* it when you suddenly become aware that it's too quiet 🙂 We've got a long weekend this weekend (Queen's Birthday!) so I'm hoping to get a spot of sewing done after I managed to tame our weeds last weekend!
KristenJune 1, 2011 at 2:06 pm
Thanks for the chuckle! I always look when it is quiet!! 🙂
April @ Sewing NoviceJune 1, 2011 at 7:04 pm
hehehe…I love the picture of the kids sleeping. As I was reading this, my husband and I were actually talking about whether our daughter (2 yo)will ever sleep once we take her out of the crib. He said, yeah, she will probably sleep on the floor in the middle of all of her toys.
Simply AJJune 1, 2011 at 8:47 pm
Family first… that's one reason why I enjoy following you (not to mention you are crazy talented)! Every milestone with each child is such a precious gift and one day when they are grown you will look back and enjoy sharing these memories with them. They are what make all of the crazy times so worthwhile! Mine are all grownup and they always find there Mama waiting for them at home. God
libbydibbyJune 1, 2011 at 9:05 pm
Amy – I love your blog. You always make me smile. Thanks for keeping it joyful and real.
=)
madebymumJune 1, 2011 at 11:24 pm
Sound so familiar. Look forward to seeing the quilts Amy
Wendys HatJune 1, 2011 at 11:50 pm
You are not alone! One note though… It only gets worse from here! Mine range from 22 years to 16 years and I am more disorganized and busier than ever. I was able to have everything under control until the first went to high school and it was all downhill from there. Enjoy it while it lasts. Elementary school is only the calm before the storm!
sew+madJune 2, 2011 at 4:31 am
Have fun!!:)
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Uhm, we so live a parallel life!! Blessings upon you!!
SuziJune 2, 2011 at 7:33 am
Busy can be overwhelming, but it sounds like you all are having fun. Was wondering if you plan to do a tutorial for the clutches, they are adorable.
LetterpressJune 2, 2011 at 10:32 am
Love that last photo–terrific. I had my grandsons here last weekend and although it's hard when your children grow up, you get grandchildren! And that's the best ever, although I have to say I didn't believe it when my mother would say it.

I treasure the memories I have of my children, and am glad to see that you are taking the time to make memories–and record them in
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I feel like I'm in the same boat as you. My youngest starts K in the fall, too, and I always thought I'd be overjoyed. but now that it's nearly here, I'm thinking I'll be spending a few days lost without anyone at home! Or who knows, maybe I'll be so ready after summer vacation. 😉
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Love that last picture – so cute! Just fell upon your blog and I'm glad that I did 🙂


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I was on a writing retreat at the Washington coast last June with a couple of good friends. We were sitting at a communal table, happily clicking away on our laptops, when one of them asked: "How's the search for your birth father going?" As fellow genealogy enthusiasts, my friends knew exactly how that long term void affected me emotionally. I replied something to the effect: "It's not going, I'm afraid." I had to admit, my sleuthing spirit was in a slippery slump.
Just before the retreat, I had gone "Googling" for my father's name once again and came up with a tribute website marking the death of a man in Georgia. His photograph haunted me. He didn't look familiar, but there was something about the look in his eye, and especially, the way he held his head. Did I sense a connection? Yet, there were some pieces of the puzzle that were not quite right: his age, and where he had lived for too many years, for a couple of things.
Through years of on again, off again efforts to gather facts from genealogy sources and glean details from my mother, I kept hitting a brick wall. The names I knew of did not bring up anything determinable in census records, or in birth or death records, for that matter. The surname I was investigating was not excessively common, but it was common enough that there was too much room for error. I was losing hope that I would find my father while he was still alive. Still, that weekend with my friends renewed my inspiration, and I came away with a determination to think the problem out anew. After all, I was a genealogist, wasn't I? Well, I was beginning to have my doubts.
The path my search took next convinced me how important it is to never make narrow assumptions in genealogy, or to take passed-down information completely on faith. Never!
I decided to stop searching for my father. Yes, I did! Instead, I began to focus on finding some of his relatives. In 1949, my mother had gone on a Fourth of July picnic with the young man who would later become my father (JM), and some of his relatives. There were several photographs taken that day, and among them was a photo of a man who, I was told, was JM's brother. The brother, his wife, and two young children posed together in a group, and my mother had written their names on the verso of the photograph.
I knew that my father and his family were most likely from Oklahoma. Some of them had left Oklahoma for military enlistment during World War II, staying in northern California after the war to work as migrant fruit pickers, among other jobs. I was uncertain of my father's actual birthplace, but searching records for Oklahoma and surrounding states was the only thing I could do. To top things, I would later find out that my father's real name was not exactly what I was told. I eventually had more success using his nickname.
It had been awhile since I had done any serious looking, so I tried again and used the names of the "brother" and his wife. There was a match among the burial records for Bryan County, Oklahoma, and two matches on family member trees on RootsWeb (Ancestry.com). The birth dates for the deceased couple were about right, and the dates matched those associated with the same names in the RootsWeb family trees. I e-mailed the owners of the two family trees in question to see if I could glean any more details.
One of the family tree owners turned out to be doing extensive research on the family line to prove her eligibility for membership in DAR (Daughters of the American Revolution). But, was it MY family line? Then, she typed the magic words: "I know a very nice lady in Bryan County, Oklahoma who has an older brother named 'JM.'"
After getting the nice lady's phone number in Oklahoma, I waited for an opportune afternoon and came home from work a little early. Sweating, and sick to my stomach with my nervous system on full alert, I locked myself inside the spare bedroom, picked up my cell phone and made the call. I bit down on my lip while considering my first words. How absurd would they sound to the person on the other end of the connection? Suddenly, a sweet, feminine voice with a lilting Oklahoma accent said: "Hello?"
Saturday, January 30, 2010
The Best Laid Genealogical Plans, Part II
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- Greta Koehl said...
When I got to the end of this post, I said out loud (family thought I was a bit touched): "No, no! You can't stop now!"
Can't wait to read more.
- January 30, 2010
- Alice Dilts said...
Oh wow you had me on the edge of my seat! Can't wait to read more.
- January 30, 2010
- Carol said...
Yep, falling off the chair here too! HURRY write another post!
- January 30, 2010
- Astrid said...
Not a cliffhanger!!!!:-)
- January 30, 2010
- Chery Kinnick said...
Gosh, I'm sorry, Ladies! I promise to not make you wait as long for Part III as you did for Part II. I have to deal with this story in "write bites" due to available time, plus, it's emotionally exhausting. Thanks a bunch for your interest!
- January 30, 2010
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The Read-a-thon is here! I'll be starting late since I have to be somewhere this morning but I wanted to get this up before I left. Hopefully I will be back soon so I can play too. I don't want to make those ladies up there angry.
1)Where are you reading from today? Beautiful Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia. Specifically my couch.2)Three random facts about me… 1. I can't go anywhere without my watch, 2. I do not like looking at other people's naked feet, 3. I am getting over a cold.3)How many books do you have in your TBR pile for the next 24 hours? I have seven books, including an audiobook and a graphic novel.4)Do you have any goals for the read-a-thon (i.e. number of books, number of pages, number of hours, or number of comments on blogs)? No goals. No plans. That's the way I roll.5)If you're a veteran read-a-thoner, any advice for people doing this for the first time? Don't worry about the number of books or pages you read. You will not be graded.
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Update #1
It was a late start but…
I'm on page 50 of Cheerful Weather for the Wedding. I get the feeling there will be shenanigans.
So far I've eaten pancakes and coffee. I haven't visited anyone yet (must do that). I've spent my reading time outside. It's beautiful out!
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Yay! Finished one book: Cheerful Weather for the Wedding. Not sure what to think of it yet. I'm going to listen to my audiobook for awhile so I can get some stuff done.
And…. I did a mini-challenge! On The Wings of Books challenged participants to a photo/book title challenge. Here's mine Madame Tussaud Arranged The ABC Murders In a Far Country. Pretty good, yes?
Update #3
Some trouble getting my audiobook on my iPod. iTunes seems to hate me. I'm through Part 1 of The Black Tower by Louis Bayard. I did a few chores and made raspberry scones while listening to it. I also read a little of Garden Spells.
Midnight Book Girl wants us to do some Book Staging for her challenge, so here it is:
Update #4
It's the thirteenth hour, apparently, and things are going well. I've read non-stop since after supper. I'm well into Garden Spells. It's really getting good. I put The Black Tower aside after I listened to it during a run.
It's time to do the mid-readathon survey:
1) How are you doing? Sleepy? Are your eyes tired? Doing fine. Not tired at all yet.
2) What have you finished reading? I finished Cheerful Weather for a Wedding.
3) What is your favorite read so far? I'm really enjoying Garden Spells.
4) What about your favorite snacks? Well, I made some raspberry scones and they were really good!
5) Have you found any new blogs through the readathon? If so, give them some love! I don't think I ever visited Midnight Book Girl who hosted the Book Staging challenge.
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Harvest &Trichomes
Harvesting is, without a doubt, the most exciting part of the wonderful journey that is cannabis cultivation. After months of watching, waiting and tending to your plants' every need, the time is approaching when you must cut them down to harvest their resin-coated buds and all of the leftover trim that can be used to make fresh potent hash.
You know that you need to harvest your plants in the coming weeks, but when exactly is the best time to do it? Every strain of marijuana has its own life cycle, so it's not as simple as a specific number of weeks after flowering has begun. It's even more complicated since you can choose when to harvest your crop for bud that provides either a head high or a body stone. Luckily, most if not all strains of commercially grown cannabis provide visual clues on when to harvest, and what type of high you are likely to achieve.
In this article, we're going to explore the final phase of your plants' growth cycle: the flowering or budding phase. Specifically, we want to look at the last two weeks of the flowering phase in what is known as the "window of peak maturity". The window of peak maturity is when trichome development and the level of THC production in your plants have reached their maximum point, which is when you would harvest your plants. By being patient and paying close attention to certain indicators, you can reap fantastic buds that provide you with precisely the type of high that suits you best.
THC and Trichomes
Almost everyone who enjoys marijuana knows that, for whatever reason, THC is the psychoactive component in the bud they ingest.
As a cannabis cultivator, it helps to know just a little bit more than what THC is—such as how it develops over time and how chemical changes in trichomes contribute to different psychoactive effects.
The primary goal of any plant is to create and nurture seeds to be viable for future growth. Trichomes help prevent seed damage from insects, animals, light degradation and fungal disease. In the case of cannabis, trichomes also contain THC, the chemical compound that provides a psychedelic high to humans. THC stands for Tetrahydrocannabinol (C21H30O2). Near the end of the flowering cycle, THC begins to break down and turns into another chemical compound called Cannabinol, or CBN (C21H26O2), in a process known as oxidization. Higher levels of CBN tend to provide a more narcotic or "stoned" feeling, while THC delivers a more euphoric, upbeat "high". Knowing this, you can examine the trichomes and the pistils of the plant, then choose when you harvest to get the psychoactive effects you desire.
Cannabis plants produce THC and CBN on their stems, leaves, and vegetation surrounding the buds and are developed in trichomes, which emerge on the surface of most of the plant's parts. On the stems and the early fan leaves, the trichomes are small and hug the surface. As the flowering phase continues, the glands develop on the more mature parts of the plant, including the smaller leaves and the first calyxes (which exist to develop and nurture seeds if male pollen fertilizes the female plant). The trichomes that develop on calyxes no longer hug the plant's surface, but are on stalks like mushrooms with bulbous caps. During this time, more and more trichome-covered calyxes develop and create densely packed clusters, called 'bud'. As your plants enter the final stages of their life cycle, the calyxes begin to swell and ripen, while more and more resin glands develop on the surface.
Another indication of plant maturity is the color of the pistils, the little hairs that grow from inside the calyxes. Their purpose is to collect male pollen to fertilize the ovum inside the calyx, creating a seed. When no male pollen exists calyxes grow dense without any seeds, resulting in sinsemilla cannabis. Near the end of the flowering phase, pistils change color, entering the window of peak maturity. The ratio of white pistils to red pistils determines the type of effects your plants are likely to produce: a high or stone. In the final few weeks of the flowering phase, the pistils change from bright white to a rusty orange or brown, signifying the end of the plant's life cycle.
Examining Trichomes
As the amount of trichomes covering your plant increases, you should take a closer look at them, maintaining a light touch to avoid crushing the resin glands. Your best bet is to purchase an inexpensive 25x microscope (available at most electronics stores), and most pocket microscopes have a small light to help you get an illuminated peek at your trichome development.
When you cut small buds from your plant to test them, you want to concentrate on the stalked glandular trichomes. The coloration of the gland heads can vary with different strains and maturity, but most start with clear or slightly amber heads that gradually become cloudy or opaque when THC levels have peaked and are beginning to degrade. Regardless of the initial color of the trichomes, with careful observation you should be able to see a change in coloration as maturity levels off. Some cultivators wait for about half of the trichomes to go opaque before harvesting to ensure maximum THC levels in the finished product. However, you will also want to try samples at various stages to see what is best for you. While you may be increasing the total THC level in the cannabis by allowing half of the glands to go opaque, there will also be a larger percentage of CBN, which is why some people choose to harvest earlier while most of the trichomes are still clear.
Now you understand how trichomes develop on your plants and how to examine them as they turn from clear to opaque, indicating THC breakdown.
Early and Late Harvesting
Every strain has its own unique window of peak maturity, typically one to two weeks long. However, there is a difference between har vesting early or late within that window, depending on whether you want a head high or a body high.
As cannabis matures the chemistry of the plant changes, as does the type of effects. While these differences in chemical nature still require a lot of research to fully understand, you can utilize them to produce different types of highs for different needs.
By harvesting earlier in the window your buds tend to produce more of a cerebral head high, an effect much more pronounced in Sativas than Indicas. A head high is more psychedelic in nature, providing you with a pleasant mental "up" state, often ideally suited for social situations when you still need to have your wits and plenty of energy.
If you choose to harvest later in the window, your buds produce more of a body high, which is conversely more pronounced in Indicas than in Sativas. A body high is similar to a narcotic "down" effect, usually associated with being "stoned". A down type of high is often desired in the late evening to calm nerves and drift into sleep. A late-harvest yield is often sought by medicinal cannabis users to ease pain and increase appetite. If you choose to harvest somewhere in the middle of the peak window of maturity, you don't necessarily get the best of both worlds, but more of a happy medium. If you aren't sure what type of high you like or want, aim for the middle and you likely won't be disappointed.
As you continue to examine your plants, you will be tempted, even compelled, to start pulling buds off of your plants to test them out. There is a right way and a wrong way to try out your buds before they are ready, so let's take a look at your options.
Testing Your Buds
Most new growers start picking at their crop only a few weeks after budding starts. Usually this is because inexperienced growers get too excited and they don't know that these small, immature buds still have a way to go before they hit peak maturity and reach the highest trichome development. But there is definitely nothing wrong with being excited about your ladies! Even veteran growers still get giddy seeing their plants start to sag under the weight of so much resin.
I don't recommend taking any buds from your plants until they are approaching their window of harvest, and you should only take a small bud every day or two. You can test your first bud when approximately 10% of the pistils have turned reddishbrown; take it from the middle area of the plant. Once you've cut your self a small bud to try out, you need to dry it, but drying and curing traditionally takes longer than the entire window of peak maturity, so you have to quick dry it. Quick drying is a sub-optimal way to turn a lush, wet bud into something you can smoke, but it's the best way to quickly test your bud every other day as it matures.
There are lots of different ways to quick dry your bud, but one of the best ways is to use your lighting ballasts in the grow room. First, cut up your fresh bud and spread it out evenly in an envelope. Close the envelope and place it on top of your ballast, then leave it there for two to three hours while the light is on. After the buds are dried out, put them in an airtight container and allow the last of the moisture to move from the stem into the bud. Considering this is a quick dry method, the taste is usually good and the potency is acceptable. Also, the use of a vaporizer will allow you to concentrate on your high rather than being distracted by the odd taste of quick-dried weed smoke.
By now you know what trichomes are and how the chemicals in them evolve from producing a head high to a body high over a couple of weeks. You also know that the pistils on your buds change color from white to reddish-brown as the window of harvest opens and closes, as well as what type of high to expect depending on the percentage of new and mature pistils. Throughout the window of harvest, you took small buds from the middle of the plant, quick dried them, then tested them out to determine the type of high you want your crop to give you. Now, you can harvest your plants with confidence in knowing that they will be loaded with resin that produces just the right kind of high you were looking for. Enjoy your harvest!
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Very helpful guide
May I add that "decarboxylation" is another great quick-dry method.
Oven on about 200, 10-15 minutes inside. I do it with fresh sacks sometimes that are too fresh to grind properly. It makes the high very different, and dries it out. Worth mentioning IMO
May I add that "decarboxylation" is another great quick-dry method.
Oven on about 200, 10-15 minutes inside. I do it with fresh sacks sometimes that are too fresh to grind properly. It makes the high very different, and dries it out. Worth mentioning IMO
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So when the resin is clear, is that a good time to flush for a week. Does that mean to run luke warm water through the plant until it drips out the bottom? And how long and how many times in a week, just once? Or does it mean to just give it water for a week or two. thank you, gaw
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LIMA, Peru, Nov. 19, 2012 – Posada Amazonas Lodge, one of three accommodations under the directive of Peru's visionary leader in sustainable tourism, Rainforest Expeditions http://www.perunature.com/, has partnered with Pack for a Purpose that encourages travelers to carry with them five pounds of school or medical supplies that can make a difference to communities they're visiting www.packforapurpose.org.
Rainforest Expeditions' team has identified needs of its local community of the indigenous Ese'eja of Infierno who own this lodge that is located within a communal reserve. Some 170 native and ribereño families (second or third generation settlers) work and profit from this 30-room eco-lodge, wellness and holistic center.
"Because we partner on a daily basis with this 500-person community, we know intimately the academic challenges and shortcomings faced by its 65 children between the ages of 6 and 14," said Rainforest Expeditions' spokesperson Jeff Cremer. He said that community schools welcome computer equipment, pens, pencils, pencil sharpeners, rulers, English teaching books, English/Spanish dictionaries, software, ecology-focused teaching aids and playground equipment along with puzzles, rubber balls, crayons, modeling clay and colored pencils. For a full list of needed items see: http://www.packforapurpose.org/docs/countries/peru/posada-amazonas.shtml
Cremer encouraged travelers to the region to first visit the website or email Rainforest Expeditions for specific needs that also include clothing and shoes plus medical supplies for the Native Community of Infierno Clinic. Most items are easily found in hometown pharmacies and discount stores. Five pounds equates to 400 pencils, or five deflated soccer balls with an inflation device or a stethoscope, a blood pressure cuff and 500 band-aids.
Posada Amazonas is a remote, comfortable lodge in the Madre de Dios region of southeastern Peru, teeming with monkeys and more than 850 species of birds. In biodiversity-rich surroundings, The Rainforest Alliance Verified™ lodge hires from within the community, and sources locally produced goods whenever possible. Since joining Rainforest Alliance's verification program, the lodge has implemented a biodegradable sanitation system, reduced air and water pollution by purchasing eco-friendly boats, improved waste management and conducted extensive training in sustainable management.
A common area at the lodge includes a hammock lounge, dining area, a meeting room and a bar. A 30-meter Canopy Tower offers views of the vast expanses of standing forest and nearby Tambopata River. Resident are toucans, parrots and macaws; hoatzin, caiman and horned screamers. From a catamaran on Lake Tres guests are treated to sightings of a family of Giant River Otters. Activities include walking an ethno botanical trail, visiting a working vegetable farm, community visits, kayaking and mountain biking.
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Rainforest Expeditions is a Peruvian ecotourism company that shares with visitors in a sustainable manner the miracles of the Tambopata-Candamo Reserved Zone, 1.5 million hectares of pristine, still wild, tropical rainforest encompassing an area of land the size of Connecticut and stretching from the Andean highlands to the Amazon lowlands. It includes the Tambopata National Reserve, a 275,000-hectare conservation unit created by the Peruvian government in 1990 to protect the watersheds of the Tambopata and Candamo rivers. Conservation and ecotourism is helping to protect some of the last untouched lowland and premontane tropical humid forests in the Amazon.
Since 1989, guests of first one and now three Rainforest Expedition eco-lodges have added value to the region's standing tropical rainforest. A sensitively conceived and managed (in some cases by native communities) touristic infrastructure creates a competitive alternative to such unsustainable economic uses as clear cutting the forest for timber or for cattle grazing. The partnerships Rainforest Expeditions has forged with local people eager to share Amazonian traditions with guests provide connection, expertise, adventure and access to wildlife in the jungles of Tambopata. Rainforest Expeditions has been verified and certified "a sustainable tourism business" by the Rainforest Alliance .
Rainforest Expeditions' string of three jungle lodges is accessed from Puerto Maldonado airport with flights arriving daily from Lima or Cusco. Motorized wooden canoes then take guests on a 45-minute trip to the first lodge, Posada Amazonas. Refugio Amazonas, the second lodge, is a 3.5-hour boat trip from Puerto Maldonado. The third and most remote is Tambopata Research Center, requiring a 4-hour additional upriver boat ride from Refugio Amazonas. Each lodge is only a few minutes on foot from the river bank.
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Martin Fowler, chief scientist at ThoughtWorks, is also a widely respected author in the software development world, having written books on topics ranging from object-oriented design to patterns to agile development. His latest book, Domain-Specific Languages, written with ThoughtWorks CTO Rebecca Parsons, promises to aid developers in deciding when and where to best use a DSL, and how to go about building one. Fowler and Parsons recently spoke with Dr. Dobb's editor in chief Jon Erickson the nature of DSLs.
Dr. Dobb's: What exactly is a DSL?
Fowler: The definition in the book is "a computer programming language of limited expressiveness focused on a particular domain."
Parsons: There are two key characteristics for a DSL. First, there should be an identifiable domain, whether it be a business domain, like lease accounting, a scientific domain, like rational drug design, or a technical domain, like persistence. The second is the language must be small. We don't want these languages to grow into Turing-complete general purpose programming languages with some domain concepts thrown in for good measure. More often, we are looking at constructing programs and systems by combining one or more DSLs with one or more general purpose programming languages.
Fowler: Which ties into "limited expressiveness" in the definition. We see this as the key difference between DSLs and general-purpose languages. They aren't just simpler languages than general-purpose languages. The limited expressiveness means that all sorts of rules change when you think of working with them ... It's also important to note that this is the definition we use in the book. Others don't necessarily follow that in other writings.
Dr. Dobb's: What kind of applications are well suited by a DSL solution?
Parsons: The book frequently talks about DSLs as interfaces to APIs and libraries. If the problem in question lends itself to thinking about a suite of concepts linked by actions that can be well expressed using an API, you're likely looking at a good candidate for a DSL.
Fowler: Indeed, I like to think of DSLs as an alternative interface to a library than the usual command-query API. DSLs come into their own when you have a lot of configuring of objects in a library and those configurations and resulting object relationships are easier to visualize with a linguistic approach.
Another case is where you want to communicate detailed processing rules with domain experts. A small DSL can provide something that domain experts can read and critique. In most cases, we don't see DSLs as something that domain experts edit directly, removing the need for programmers (although there are exceptions, such as CSS). We think that most of the time the key benefits come from domain experts reading the DSL and using that as the basis for conversations with programmers.
Dr. Dobb's: When should you avoid DSLs?
Fowler: You don't need one if the command-query API does the job just fine.
Parsons: If there's not really a properly stable domain language, a DSL might be premature. It's conceivable working to design the DSL will help clarify the domain understanding, but I don't think that would typically be true. Designing a DSL codifies certain domain assumptions, some of which may be hard to change.
Dr. Dobb's: Do developers need special skills to build and use DSLs?
Fowler: To a certain degree they do ... but they aren't difficult skills to learn. Indeed, a large part of why we wrote this book was to remove the fear that seems to have grown up around language processing that's made people shy away from doing DSLs.
Parsons: I think there is actually a third part to this question, regarding designing DSLs, but I'll answer your actual question first. The skills required to implement a DSL ... are not markedly different from normal programming skills. Again, the skills requirements for dealing with simpler languages are quite different than those required to implement a full-blown programming language. The developer needs to choose whether to build an internal DSL, using a host language like Ruby, Groovy, or C#, or whether to build an external DSL by constructing a separate parser either directly or using a parser generator. Using a DSL requires constructing a script or program in the new language, likely coupling it with code in a programming language.
Now, a different question concerns the skills needed to design the DSL. Language design is an art, and even for general purpose programming languages, there is little consensus on what constitutes a good language design or how to get one. This area requires a great deal of additional attention, but the book couldn't include everything.
Fowler: And even if we had more room, I only have a sketchy sense of the guidelines for good DSL design. If we see more activity with DSLs in the future, I hope this will become clearer.
Dr. Dobb's: Does DSL design require any special tools?
Fowler: The kinds of DSL we describe in the book, textual DSLs, don't require any fancy tools. Internal DSLs are existing language features used in a fluent style (which admittedly can look rather funky). External DSLs are often done using a parser generator, but such tools are mature and easily available (often open source).
Parsons: While programming languages processing tools have existed for a long time, the literature on these tools has targeted people who write compilers and/or process general purpose programming languages. DSLs, as they are generally far simpler than programming languages, are easier to work with. One aim of the book is to demystify these tools.
Fowler: The great thing about textual DSLs is that to program in your DSL, you use the same tools you use for regular programming: text editors, version control, etc.
Fowler: We don't talk too much about Language Workbenches in the book. These are sophisticated tools for constructing and editing DSLs. They have huge potential, but it's unclear how long it will be before they are usable in the mainstream.
Dr. Dobb's: What about unique, non-standard DSLs 5 or 10 years from now? Won't they be difficult to maintain once the original developer is no longer around?
Fowler: When you're considering the pros and cons of DSLs, it's valuable to remember that they are nothing more than a thin veneer over a library. So many of the benefits and problems of DSLs are essentially those of libraries. We see lots of unique, non-standard libraries out there, developers have to learn their APIs and often their implementations. The question is whether using a DSL makes using that harder.
Parsons: I think we'd all accept that maintaining anyone else's code, or even our own, after 10 years is a difficult problem. So, is it harder to maintain a DSL after that length of time? I would say no. If your development staff that takes over has a basic understanding of DSL implementation techniques and the DSL itself properly reflects the domain, the problem is no different in the DSL context. The new developer still needs to learn the domain and understand the implementation. It's just done differently than it might have been in the past. One could argue that it should be easier, because the existence of the DSL will tend to make the business logic expressed in the DSL "stand out" in a way that business logic in code may not.
Will it always pan out this way? Nope. DSLs are no more immune to poor programming practices, the existence of technical debt, and general code atrophy as any other approach. Sorry — still no silver bullet.
Dr. Dobb's: Is letting developers have their own language really a good thing?
Parsons: As opposed to what? The tool can clearly be misused, as can every other piece of technology known to man. Letting poor, inadequately trained developers loose on a problem with insufficient guidance and time is a recipe for disaster. Your steaming pile will simply look different if DSLs are used. It won't smell any worse.
Dr. Dobb's: Have DSL productivity gains for developers been validated or is this just another sales pitch?
Fowler: I haven't seen validated productivity gains for anything in the software industry — even for something as generally accepted as using high-level languages rather than assembler. It all boils down to the fact that there is no way to measure output, and thus productivity. (I talk about this in Cannot Measure Productivity [a blog posted several years ago.])
Parsons: I'd say there's compelling anecdotal evidence, but I think the idea still needs to be validated as to the degree of generality. We don't yet really know the patterns that will emerge in the usage of DSLs.
Dr. Dobb's: Do Agile methodologies and DSLs enjoy a special relationship?
Fowler: The only link I see is that so many people in the agile community are deeply interested in the questions of good software design and communication with domain experts. But that link is just an indirect common interest of the people involved, rather than anything inherent in either technology.
Parsons: Indeed, to me there's still an open question surrounding how DSL design works in an agile development cycle. As we described in response to an early question, there's still a lot of thinking to do about language design for DSLs.
Dr. Dobb's: When designing and implementing a DSL, what's the number one 'gotcha' developers need to watch for?
Fowler: The biggest danger for DSLs, particularly external DSLs, is the gradual accretion of features that turns it into a general-purpose language. The greatest strength of a DSL is its limited expressiveness and narrow focus, so you have to be vigilant to keep it small.
Parsons: For DSLs to provide the most utility the language needs to reflect the domain, including the vocabulary of the domain and what constitutes "normal" in the domain. Things that are normal in the domain should be easy and natural to express in the language. The language must reflect the needs of the domain users, not the needs of the programmers (unless the users happen to also be programmers), even though programmers might still be actually writing the code.
Another significant issue is that of backward compatibility. Languages evolve, as the domains they represent also evolve. There's an interesting trade-off each time the language needs to change regarding the cost of changing existing scripts relative to the cost of creating a less domain-friendly language.


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Earlier in the week, prior to going on our trip to Colonial Williamsburg, we finished the American Revolution by studying the Battle of Yorktown. It was pretty neat to actually go to the battle fields where the final battle was fought. We also got to see in the museum a replica of the ships used out in the water.
Yorktown is located at the opposite end of the colonial parkway from Jamestown. Colonial Williamsburg, is found right between the two and the parkway actually goes under the colonial town.


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I recently bought an Apple iBook to replace an old Dell laptop. How do I move my iTunes music files from the Dell to the Apple?
Your iTunes music files work on both Windows and Mac machines, as does the special iTunes Library file that keeps track of play lists and the like. So, all you have to do is copy these files from the Dell to the Apple, as with any other files you want to move. In fact, even if you were moving from an old Dell to a new Dell, without changing operating systems, the process would be the same.
If you have allowed iTunes to gather all of your files into the folder called "iTunes" within "My Music," all you have to do is copy that folder to the iBook. This can be done in a number of ways, but the best choices would be to do this via a home network or by burning the files to CDs or DVDs and then copying them from the CDs or DVDs onto the Mac. On the Mac, the iTunes folder is usually located within the Music folder.
If your music files are scattered, or are in the My Music folder, but not the iTunes folder, you'll have to locate them before copying them. Be sure to copy the iTunes folder also, because it contains the iTunes Library file.
If you have an iPod and it contains all of your songs and play lists, you can skip these steps. Just download one of the many cheap utility programs for the Mac that will copy the contents of an iPod to a computer. Two examples are PodWorks and PodUtil, the latter of which comes in a Windows version for Windows-to-Windows transfers.
One more thing: Be sure to deauthorize the Dell from your iTunes account before authorizing the Mac, so you don't waste one of your maximum of five slots for computers that can play any songs you purchase. To do this, fire up iTunes on the Dell, go to the Advanced menu and select "Deauthorize Computer."
What program do you recommend the most for compression and decompression of files? Winrar, WinZip or any other program?
On Windows, I use WinZip (www.winzip.com), because of its flexibility, even though the operating system can compress and decompress files by itself. On the Mac, I use Stuffit (www.stuffit.com), for similar reasons. A decompress-only version of Stuffit came with earlier versions of Mac OS X, Apple's operating system. The current version of OS X, Tiger, can compress and decompress files in the popular Zip compression format without Stuffit.
I run Norton Internet Security, Ad-Aware and Spybot on my computer to keep "bad stuff" from infecting my system. Yet last week a malicious program attacked my computer. It hijacked my wallpaper and put a huge warning on my desktop. My security software never knew it was there. Do I need to run additional security on my computer?
This category of spyware or adware is expanding so fast that, even with the two good anti-spyware programs you are using, attacks can happen. My only advice is to add a third, such as Webroot's Spy Sweeper, which is my favorite. I know this is annoying, but until the spyware/adware epidemic slows down, it is often necessary for Windows users to have multiple defenses.


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