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If you're worried about the recession and looking for reassurance that the world's economies will soon be back on track and everything will return to normal, you should probably stop reading now.
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Heinberg then recounts the 2008 economic crisis in considerable detail and using a lot of jargon. After reading this section, I'm still not sure I know the difference between a mortgage-backed security and a collateralized debt obligation, but I can tell you this: people got greedy. The economy has gotten way, way, (way) too complicated. And our entire economy is now fundamentally addicted to debt and to continued, indefinite growth. Oops.
Heinberg goes on to explain that because we're reaching peak…well…peak everything, and because economic growth relies on natural resources and the Earth's ability to process our wastes, this growth simply can't continue. He says that our money has come to represent claims on goods and services that just don't exist. Through debt and "fiat" currency, the amount of money in the world just gets bigger and bigger, while the Earth's total stock of resources remains the same. Something has to give.
Unlike previous authors, going back to Thomas Malthus, then later Dennis and Donella Meadows, Herman Daly, and more recently, Tim Jackson and Gus Speth—to all of whom Heinberg gives their due—he's not just saying that economic growth should stop or that it will stop. He's saying that it in fact has stopped, whether we like it or not. Discussion in the popular media aside, this is not a choice. Physical laws dictate that all living things must stop growing at some point and, our adamant resistance notwithstanding, the human species has reached that point.
But haven't we heard before how growth will stop because we've run out of resources? (Think The Population Bomb.) So far, it hasn't happened. Innovation (say the business people), substitution (say the economists), and efficiency (say the scientists) have always allowed us to overcome any resource limitations and advance along the path of progress and growth—and they will continue to do so in the future. But Heinberg says, not this time. Today, innovation mostly just involves tweaking existing technologies. And some materials fundamental to economic growth—most notably fossil fuels—simply have no substitutes. And efficiency can be used to decouple energy use from economic growth only to a certain point.
Heinberg asserts that the end of growth has profound social and economic implications for "developed" and "developing" countries alike. The argument from the rich has long been that we don't have to be concerned about redistributing the economic pie (both among and within countries) because the pie is constantly growing; well, without growth, that argument falls apart. And remember all that "development" that developing countries were going to do? …maybe not so much. In short, Heinberg says we'll no longer have the prospect of growth to paper over issues of inequity. The Occupy movement began after this book was published, but if Heinberg is right, it's just the beginning of many inequity-based upheavals to come.
Great, so we're screwed. Now what? The bad news is that we can't keep "improving" in the ways we have traditionally defined it—primarily by consuming ever more and better stuff. The good news, say Heinberg and many others, is that maybe we don't need growth to be better off. Maybe our measurements of well-being and progress have been flawed all along. Heinberg advocates for "redefining progress" using alternative economic metrics that, unlike GDP, are not based on how fast we make and consume stuff, but rather on how happy and healthy we are, whether or not our communities are thriving, and how much agency we have in our lives.
And what about all those fossil fuels still in the ground? Heinberg says we must use what viable reserves that remain to transition as gracefully—and quickly—as possible to a steady-state, equitable, renewably powered, bioregion-based economy. No problem, right? But here's the thing: that's our only choice. Anything less, and the outcomes are well nigh unthinkable. Welcome to the 21st century!
On the whole, I can't recommend The End of Growth highly enough. Heinberg is skilled at writing about complex topics in an accessible way without dumbing them down. That said, some concepts he discusses just don't lend themselves to simplification, so unless you're accustomed to readings with lots of technical jargon and graphs, parts of the book (especially the chapter describing the causes of our current economic crisis) may be a bit of a slog. But skim, slog, summarize—whatever you need to do to get the gist. It's worth it! We can't find our way out of this mess until we have a good understanding of exactly how we got into it.
The End of Growth is essential reading for anyone concerned about the fate of humans. If you care about what may (or may not) become of us, and how we might reasonably go about steering that prospect toward a more desirable outcome, you should study the contents of this book closely. Sharing its contents widely is crucial to our well-being and to the well-being of our progeny.
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Cotton prices began plummeting on May 10, the day the USDA May supply/demand numbers were released.
Prices (Dec 12 futures) have dropped 18 percent — from just over 83 cents on May 9 — to just under 69 cents on Wednesday of last week.
Prices have thus far attempted to stop the bleeding twice. The first attempt around 75 cents was unsuccessful. The second attempt is around 70 cents — where we are right now. I shudder to think where prices are headed if the bleeding doesn't stop soon.
Factors. I've talked to no one that saw this coming — let me be more clear, I didn't and no one else saw it coming quite this soon or of this magnitude.
But this doesn't make growers feel any better so there's little to be gained by dwelling on the past. If we are to understand the near-term and longer-term outlook, however, we have to be clear on how we got here and what it will take to pull us out of this ditch.
1.) World stocks: 2011-12 ending world stocks have been building for months. Note that prices were already in a downtrend since February.
USDA monthly supply/demand revisions for previous years and carried forward, increased estimated world stocks (there was more cotton out there than previously thought). USDA's May report contained the first projections for the 2012-13 crop marketing year. This report added another 7 million bales to projected World stocks by this time next year.
2.) Demand: Supply doesn't operate in a vacuum. What's important is supply and demand in relation to each other. Demand has weakened. World demand for the 2011 crop year was once estimated at 120 million bales. That number is now less than 107 million.
Weak demand combined with growing stock projections made it increasingly difficult to hold prices where we'd all like to see them. Demand has been rumored to be "improving" and there have been occasional good export reports but apparently too little too late has actually materialized.
Demand for the 2012 crop year is expected to improve to 110 million bales, but production is expected to still out-strip that by 7 million bales — thus the projected increase in 2012-13 stocks.
3.) China: It is not exactly earth-shattering news that China has been buying cotton to increase their stocks (reserves). This has been going on for months — and was once viewed as a positive from a demand/export (buying) perspective.
Chinese stocks are expected to increase from only 11.6 million bales at the start of the 2011 crop year to a projected 28 million bales by the end of the 2012 crop year. This is due to the huge increase in imports, but also expected decline in 2012 crop year demand. This level of stocks (38 percent of the world) is a large and significant number.
4.) U.S. acreage and weather/drought potential: Regardless of otherwise increasingly bearish supply/demand fundamentals, prices were attempting to remain afloat at least in-part based on the fact that U.S. acreage for 2012 would be down from 2011 and there was continued potential for another drought in 2012.
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U.S. acreage will be down without question, but price support due to weather concerns began to unravel even prior to the USDA May report.
Texas and the Southeast both began receiving rain and improved early season moisture and prices had slipped to the 83-cent level even before the disastrous events that started on May 10. Eased moisture concerns coupled with the bearish 2012-13 numbers finally pushed prices over the cliff.
Price Outlook: I have thought and said all along I thought the "pessimistic outlook" on price was 80 cents. Growers were encouraged to take protection at 90 cents or better on as much of the 2012 crop as they felt comfortable taking.
Based on continued weak demand, growing stocks, and now possibly improved drought outlook, the pessimistic scenario has played out — but it's much earlier than anticipated and even more negative on price.
The big questions right now are 1) Where's the bottom? and 2) Is there a chance for improvement and if so how much?
Some are saying the bottom could eventually be 60 cents but I'm not willing to be that pessimistic yet. It would be hard to argue against an eventual 65-cent level, however. I'm hoping we can settle in at around 70 cents for now and even see some eventual improvement from that level — back to at least the 75 to 78-cent level.
If prices do show improvement, it's likely the improvement may be limited. With current weak demand world stocks projected to grow to such a burdensome level, the only significant positive driver on price right now is weather. And with supply/demand where it is, there's such a huge potential supply cushion out there (stocks) that the world will be less sensitive to U.S. acreage and weather. Any rally to near 80 may be asking too much.
Marketing and other decision-making: Having said all this, what does a grower do? I think much depends on how much of the 2012 crop the grower already has protected in some form. Let's try to think through a few options.
Put options: A Put Option NTM (near the money) right now is going to cost around 5 cents. If the market does go all the way to 60 cents, you make 10 cents and net 5 cents gain for 5 cents invested. If you're that pessimistic and are already contracted to the point of not being comfortable doing any more, then Puts might not be a bad choice for the most pessimistic grower. If you did go the Put route, would it be better to still wait for a rally first?
Loan: But a 70-cent strike price minus 5 cents gets you 65 cents floor, basis the cash market. Depending on your basis, how far does that place you above the loan?
If your expected basis is 4 cents under, you're at 61 cents compared to 52 cents + gain or equity through the loan. Would you rather take your chances through the loan and hope for a rally into 2013?
Contract: You could contract more now or wait on a rally before adding to contract sales.
One very important consideration — with the decline in price and should we stay here or go lower, a grower with revenue crop insurance at the 70 percent level or higher is already below the revenue guarantee depending on how the APH compares to the farm's actual yield potential and what actual yield ends up being. Growers with revenue protection can take some comfort in knowing they have the minimum/preliminary guarantee.
Parting thoughts/comments: If prices remain this low into the 2013 crop year, we'll see a big reduction in cotton acres in 2013 if corn, soybean and peanut prices remain relatively more attractive. We saw this in 2007 through 2010. If prices remain at these levels into 2013, it will also be an interesting first year test of what will be the new farm bill safety net.
Read more at http://commodities.caes.uga.edu/fieldcrops/cotton/.


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I don't have much to add about the Fed and rules except that, as we all know, Central Bank Macroeconomics is a constantly developing and inexact Science. Any set of rules, even standards or presumptions-based, would need an amendment process which would still be prone to the the problems of inertia, discretion, non-transparency, and political pressure.
As for the rest of Judge Posner's post - about the propriety of either rules, standards, discretion or rebuttable presumptions in different areas of the law - it should be mandatory reading for all new Law students to provide a perspective on their field of study and to inform them of the impossibility of perfection and the need for flexibility and judgment.
In that sense, I am reminded of my contracts professor's quoting of A. L. Corbin, "Certainty in the law is largely an illusion at best, and altogether too high a price may be paid in the effort to attain it." 3 CORBIN § 609, at 689 (rev. ed. 1960).
Posner's responds to Becker's apllication of rules in the case of continuous events by describing the limitations of rules applied to discrete events. That difference is not trivial. A cost-benefit analysis of rule enforcement applied to discrete events such as speeding will, as Posner suggests, limit enforcement.
However, suppose one were to publicly announce an intent to continuously drive 10 mph over the posted speed limit. This alters the cost-benefit of prosecution vis a vis the one-time violation. This example accords better with the monetary policy issue. Failure of the Fed to respond to inflation above a pre-set target has a continuing effect on inflation. Hence, when ascertaining cost & benefit one must integrate over the period where these are being incurred.
You might want to review Becker, "Crime and Punishment: An Economic Approach". (The Journal of Political Economy, 1968.)
In Oregon we get the "auto-ten". In Washington, you get zero. And their fines are considerable.
And you know it driving into the state. The only way around it is with a radar detector...and hope that you aren't being tailed.
According to the real bills doctrine, the only rule the Fed should follow is to acquire a dollar's worth of assets whenever it issues a new dollar. That way, any additional dollars are adequately backed by additional Fed assets, and there will be no inflation. One thing the Fed should NOT do is arbitrarily restrict the supply of money--a sure recipe for recession.
Please google "real bills doctrine" before posting any knee-jerk reactions to the above.
According to the real bills doctrine, if the supply of money grows by 10% and the assets of the central bank also grow by 10%, there will be no inflation. Since the Fed never issues a dollar without acquiring a dollar's worth of bonds in return, the only rule the Fed needs to follow is to adequately back whatever amount of money that it issues. This will result in zero inflation without arbitrarily restricting the quantity of money.
"Discretion enables the Fed to bend in the face of political pressure; rigid adherence to rules might cause the Fed to break in the face of particularly intense such pressure."
It's not clear here which alternative you believe is better. Presumably, you'd agree that resistance to political pressure is, in general, a good thing. An external rules-based approach would allow the Fed to escape day-to-day liability for its decisions and resist political proessure except in the most extreme circumstances (which is probably when you'd want them to depart from rules anyway).
Mike...... and using your model, when we are sent an external price increase such as the oil shock of the 70's or today, one would argue in favor of doing nothing. After all the dollars gobbled up by increased energy costs are not their to bid up the prices or increase the demand for products in general. But! then and now that appears to be exactly what the Fed is doing to little or no avail and perhaps making things worse; ie interest rates being higher for those large projects that might combat high energy costs, or, at minimum, keep more of the energy dollars here. In short, if we are not bold enough to challenge the obvious energy price collusion, there is little to do but to let the price increase working its way through the economy.
I see very little sense in "fighting inflation" when we, and much of the world is operating at well below capacity and wages increases for working folk have been slim to none. Jack
Random questions:?
1) How do you differentiate between price inflation and monetary inflation? If a measure such as the CPI always has the same bias, does it matter? Does it require us to consider more variables than the Taylor rule dictates?
2) How would a rules based approach apply in the case of economic shocks??
3) Without saying as much, don't you think that the Fed has bought into the modeling approach based on how little they've deviated from Taylor (which came out in 93, I believe)? Milton Friedman claimed that the Fed had essentially acted in robot fashion during the Greenspan/Bernake era.?
Nicholas, I've many of your "random" questions as well and they never seem to answer them.
Personally, I think the Fed is all too secretive about their methodology. In addition to your questions, how large a role is played by the Fed favoring interest rates to attract, or keep? foreign bond holders? Come to think of it were they to dump all forms of secrecy the market would adjust as it saw the direction developing. Even in crises such as the LTC meltdown, the big investors where aware and were even called in to help finesse the patch-up.
If you ever find any answer as to why they treat external price shocks with "inflation" fighting tools, please be sure to post them for the rest of us! Jack
There is good reason for the fed's 'secrecy'. Inflation is largely determined by expectations. If inflation rises but interest rates to stay steady, the effect is that any money you have becomes less valuable (if you have $100 in the bank at 5% interest, but inflation is at 3%, your wealth is going up at 2%. If inflation rises to 4%, your wealth will only rise by 1%).
If you expected this to happen, you might decide it was better to spend the money. If everyone decides to do this at the same time, aggregate demand goes up. This pushes up prices, since more people are suddenly trying to buy the same number of things (if sellers don't want to run into supply shortages, they will push up prices - if you don't think this can happen quickly, think of a contractor with too many jobs and not enough time).
So the result of people expecting inflation to go up without a change in interest rates will be... inflation! Even if their expectation was based on rumor or nonsense!
So the fed steps in and tells everyone "we'll never let inflation go higher than 3%". If everyone believes the fed, inflation will never go higher than 3% even if the fed does nothing. They can leave interest rates at 2-4% (very low) in order to stimulate the economy, but it doesn't cause inflation because everyone believes the fed would raise interest rates if inflation did occur.
So the Chair of the Fed's main job is to lie - to convince people they'll do something that they really don't want to do. If they are legally obliged to do so, such as in Hong Kong, there's no question. But then they wouldn't get the benefit of cheating.
I should rectify a mistake I made. Hong Kong has a legally binding exchange rate, not inflation rate. Sorry. (Ironically, the result of Hong Kong's exchange rate laws are that they have absolutely no control over inflation, rather than the complete control I implied without thinking).
Dominic: Thanks, and we're on about the same page in terms of understanding the traditional role of the Fed. Your second paragraph illustrates what I speak of as the classic version But it's a long time since we've experienced a capacity limited market. For example housing starts have dropped by a million from what the capacity was a couple years ago. Is there any doubt that Dell or nearly any supplier of electronics would have any trouble doubling there production. A key symptom of demand pull inflation would be that of wages increasing as companies became stretched and bid to steal employees from existing jobs. No sign of that, with perhaps the exception of a few specialists in certain fields.
So what we're dealing with is a cost push type of "inflation" wherein the extra cost is that of energy pricing that we can't (or refuse?) to address. So, what would happen if nothing is done? The prices of energy intensive products will rise, but! the dollars soaked up by the energy premiums are not there to "chase" other goods, so there's an inherent deflationary effect due to the dollars devoted to energy with over a billion per day being sent out of our economy. Some may come back, but we run trade deficits with most and with the rest of the world as well.
As for the "secrecy" to combat inflationary expectations, despite the countless articles from "economists" over the last few years that "energy increases would not be recession provoking" any one could predict that a year or so of high energy prices would increase the costs of most goods. Also, Wall Street fund managers have access to the same econometric modeling as does the Fed, so there isn't much to keep secret.
Lastly, I'd suggest that perhaps the Fed has become something of an anachronism. For example this week's easing makes short term money a bit cheaper. But what would we expect it to do for housing? Well, if the easing is seen as inflation producing, the 10 year bond yields, on which mortgages are based would likely rise (to higher interest rates) and further slow home sales which slows the sales of much which we produce here; appliances, furniture, etc.
I don't know how it all shakes out, but with globalism, imports, and outsourcing playing larger roles that the Fed is not what it used to be. sure there's the immediate reaction of a flurry of stock activity as a point is to be gleaned, or to show the boss the traders are still awake? but the fundamentals seem changed very little.
I am a bit worried about Fed's rate cut. It seems that you will be rewarded rather than penalised if you don't care about risk management. The moral hazard issue will pave the way for even bigger problem. That said, a rule-based approach will be very difficult to implement. Like every proponent to government intervention, he/she will come up with a justification of market failure.
A question for for Prof Posner, what is the difference between discretion and guidelines. Thks.
The Gentelman shook the financial markets alone playing against one of the central banks as I good remember. Sometimes only the cooperation between central banks saved the stability of the markets. Telling the truth we have stable financial markets because only a few person or corporation are able or want to play against central banks.The same situation as with a policeman. It is not the black belt in karate preasumbly possesed by a cop stops you to offend the policeman but the system standing behind him (The policemen on the streets are not usually masters of martial arts). Each government consists of Minister of Health ,
Minister of Science and Higher Education,
Minister of Interior and Administration,
Minister of National Defence,,Minister, Member of the Council of Ministers, Minister of Economy, Minister of Justice, Ministry of Defence among others. As they used to say - "When diplomacy stops war begins". So let me make conclusions. The tools of central bankers look very feeble but who wanted to challenge the government(s)? But the quick, smart action can deregulate the financial markets.
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the carolina watchman f ol xv third series salisbury n.g february 28,1884 k0 20 miofnlely xiv x"x"'3f-o3fl think just a moment it may be greatly to your profit to 33 uy your rainit acid phosphate and guanos ftara one to whom you can sell your cotton c i have now ready and am selling every day for cash or on time to suit my customers , royster's hi gride ull phosphate which is tho best acid sold in the state beyond doubt — also the ashepoo acid phosphate which stands so high in georgia and south carolina that they pay 1 per ton more for it thai for other brands but 1 will sell at u small profit to meet prices of other brands also i have the best german kainit on sale in the country ttirao goods lor composting c are the very best that can be got anywhere there is none better call at once get prices and put in your orders j d gaskill tobacco if ever you had a showing for fine prices it is in the crop of tobacco to be planted this year wk keep a store and strive to have in that store everything a farmer would like to buy both for himself and his family we want our customer to be a cheerful man rn<l if he has money in his purse he trill be cheerful but he can't be if when he comes to sell his crop it brings him little or nothing everybody knows that on the fertilizer he uses allowing the season to be at all favorable depends the result of his crop and this being the case he has no right to risk that crop on anything that has not been tried ami proved the following will show what has been tried and proved in the fertilizer way on fine tobacco and major ragland of halifax county va the great tobacco authority and grower of pedigree tobacco seed is the man who tells about it if anybody hioic what tobacco is he certainly does there are s veral brands of fertilizer manufactured specially for tobacco differing in composition puce and merit and after repeated experiments with most if not all the best the author gives it as his decided opinion that for fine bright silky tobaccc nothing equals the anchor<|nrand tobacco fertilizer prepared by the southern fertilizing company richmond na and this opinion is based upon seventeen years trial and often in competition with the bfst of other brands on the market it is a tried and proved fertilizer which the plant er can use without the risk of getting something unsuited to his crop and therefore i can reeommed it with confidence messrs mathews & williamson of reidsville n c wrote the following to the company and state that they have seen nothing since to change their judgment from our own personal experience and it covers a long time in watching the re sult from the use of various brands of commercial fertilizers handled in this section it u our mature judgment that the anchor brand stands at the head of ull fm the production of/n<5 silky yellow tobacco the plant seems to receive more fitting nourishment from the use of this article than from any other and we are of opinion that if our farmers made it their stahd-by we would bear less of light chaffy tobacco having some color but no body and that the fanner would realize the result he o»ght to enjoy from his labor for low-grade tobacco will not bring big money t now we want you to have big money for your crop ; because we not only desire you to make good bills with us but pay for them when they are made hence we han dle the anchor brand and will supply you in quantities to suit direct from the factory we don't want people to abuse us about their fertilizer ; we therefore sell ojtfj what time has shown to be the best so make no arrangements in this lino until you oe or confer with us you cortainly can't afford to take any risk this year j d gaskill f-kl^fj * w l have tn is season in larger quantity than ever before the old relia &** w ° sea fowl guano for cotton it is a pleasure to sell this brand because it pleases and one fact ortby of notice is that it has increased in sales the last two years which no other brand has done in this market also i will have hymans & dancy's premium gua1no which is one of the favorites of cabarrus farmers 1 r brand stands any higher with them and we all know that they are good and bt'ul farmers and especially raise fine large crops of cotton it and to accommodate my friends and customers i will keep on hand a fullstock of ft?~flour corn meal oats cotton seed meal bran ship stuff bacon molasses salt **•• fcc that i will sell for cash or baiter very low also will sell on time i^iiave a small lot of prime clover seed j d gaskill 1 s»u won have completea the njost convenlfiu uano warehouse in own near holmes tan tan ■boa constrictors the boa is seldom found of greater len£tb than tweuty f»et but tome years ago one measuring forty-three feet was discovered in a large tree in south amer ica where it had been washed by a flood aud in it was found the skeleton of a horse all snakes in attacking creatures of any size coil themselvet round their tictims with terrible force their object is not only to kill but to crush their prey so that there may be less trouble in swal lowing it snakes as a rule are rery slow in assimilating food in many cases they have been known to coil themseltes up iu the forks of trees after their sump tuous repast and remain perfectly pas sive for days and weeks a boa posses ses muscles of great strength and has a wonderful power of contracting aud re laxing them by this power it is enabled to dart its head forward against its prey with lightning rapidity its long sharp teeth point downward toward its mouth so that hiiring once drawn an object in to its mouth the snake cannot very well release it and before swallowing its pr*\y . a boa-constrictor discharges upon it from j the roof of its mouth an oily fluid which makes its passage through a compara tively small throat easy jl naturalist in new york has th skin of a snako twenty-two feet in length which he kill ed iu south america i was up the ama zon and being anxious to get a large snake i offered a reward for one and soon heard of a big fellow that had been seen about three miles from where i was 1 immediately moved into the neighbor hood aud after we had scoured the coun try several days the boy i had with me came running through the bushes in great excitement saying that a big boa aud the saubas ants were having a fight the saubas are foraging ants that put to flight man and beast when they enter a house the owner stops out aud runs for his life ; and when i came to the snake i found it iu a similar fix it had swal lowed soino exceedingly large animal and whilst almost unablo to more had been attacked by the ants tho grass bueht8 twigs aud leaves wero black with insects and every moment or two the great reptile would lift itself in the air and sway about savagely though without effect i saw that tho ants would destroy it in an hour so i sent my boy back to the village to get a rope aud took to the trees myself in half an hour the boy returned with tweuty men i lassoed the snake and we managed to drag him out of his retreat and away from the ants ho was so sluggish un der the rough treatment that i was able to place my pistol within six inches of his head when i shot him youth's companion a warning to dogs the great dr watts said let dogs delight to bark and bite and so they do but not without coining to grief the other day a handsome carriage was rolling along the st alban's road under the forward axle gal lopped a sleek coach dog his pace was so timed with that of the horses that he did not appear to vary a hair's breadth in his position he knew every dog was looking at him and ad miring him but he didn't let that turn his head other dogs came out aud scowled at him but they were too discreet to attempt to interfere with him so on he went with beau tiful regularity his brass collar with his master's name glittering in the sun and all was peace till a snarly cur riding ou a wagon full of 6acks and barking at everything that pass ed caught sight of the sleek dog gal loping so composedly beneath the handsome carriage the country dog was a lank animal with dun-colored tangled hair and a desire to show off without the faintest hesitation he sprang froja the sacks and made a headlong dash on the spotted coach dog whether he mistook the length of his stride or ihe revolution of the wheels is not known but he had his mouth open and his teeth in readi ness set for a bite when the forward wheel struck him and knocked him forward and the off horse gave him a kick that sent him back again and the forward wheel passed over him and turned him over and the bind wheel climbed up ou him and went grindingly down on the other side and then the carriage went on just the same as before leaving the coun try dog on his back yelping with his whole heart and thinking of the green fields and umbrageous trees aud what an egregious fool he had made of him self let this be a warning to the domestic intelligent dog centuries ago the oak was by far the most valuable forest tree in eng land ou account of acorns for fatten ing hogs in ancient records it is down how many hogs such and such woods would carry pannage was the right of feeding swine and to this day persons adjoining the new for est have the right of pannage for six weeks there on paying a small fee concealed weapons — the blue ridge enterprise gays : the grand jury of the inferior court of bun combe county are taking vigorous steps towards enforci ng the law against concealed weapons theyjwisely point ■out the glaring inconsistency of the law as it now reads which allows the ; merchant to fell pistols to men and boys but punishes the purchaser for 1 carrying them ; and the jurors further recommend the adoption of such pro visions connected with the revenue laws of the state as will subject pis tols and other deadly weapons to a license tax so apportioned and regu lated as to control the sale ot such deadly weapons this is a long stride id advance and we hope the other counties will follow the lead of bun combe in this matter strike at the root murrell the famous hlgh wayman of tennessee — we have just talked with a well known native of edgecome county he informs us that col john l bridgers was cor rect as to the noted tennessee robber murrell having been born in edjje combe county his birth place was very near cotton's meeting house moses smith an olu and esteemed citizen of tarboro who died since the war more than 90 years of age and john keay another citizen who lived to be more than 90 both knew mur rell when a mere lad and what a bad sort of a lad he was his father was a poke-easy sort of a fellow but his ni other was a virago of the first water and was connected with very respect able people — wilmington star will the boy who threw that pep per on the stove please come up here aud get the present of a nice book ?" said a sunday tchool superintendent in iowa ; but the boy never moved he was a far-seeing boy six thousand people au hour cross the brooklyn bridge iu foggy weather desert ing ferries horrible cyclone frigbtful scenes at the towii of rockiiiglinin twenty three persons killed — houses swept away like chaff sad stories of death and disaster from our southern border — other news a special from rockingham receiv ed yescerday afternoon gives the names of the following as the white persons killed there mr richard ljawkins and son a son of mr ash bury san ford mrs grant and two children mrs daniel watson and one child and mr john stewart mr ashbury san ford i.s dangerously wounded as are h!s miss annie watson and robert watson many colored mti women and children were killed but their names could not be ascertained the county com missioners are holding a special ses sion and taking measures looking to the relief of the wounded a man from this city who returned yesterday form johnson county states that the track of the storm was one quarter of a mile wide and that it cleared a path through the woods the house of boaz young was wreck ed as well as all the outhouses but no one was killed there mrs susan johnson's house was blown down on the plantation of troy munus all the houses save his dwelling were wrecked and that house was turned half around donaldson turner's house was wrecked as was also that of henry f»nch at the house of mr robt johnson great damage was done the building was blown to pieces both mr and mrs johnson were hurt the woman's thigh being broken her condition is considered critical two of their children one fire weeks the other over a year old were fatally injured at daniel par ish's all the out-houses were destroy ed as was also the case at rich'd johnson's place a school house was blown down buggies were seen lodged ia the trees the path of the storm could be seen for ten miles a special from hamlet received last night says additional reports from the cyclone add to the horrors already reported two men were killed near ansonville and three oth ers seriously wounded the roof was blown off the dwelling house of sher iff wall wm little had four mules killed and his house destroyed eight bodies were buried in one grave to day at rockingham the path of the storm near rockingham was strewn with the bodies of men women aud children — some dead some dying ou every side could be seen the car casses of horses mules cow hogs dogs chickens and birds the earth was stripped of everything leaving the ground naked in montgomery county troy montgomery co february 20th 1884 at 7:30 p no yesterday the most i fearful and destructive hurricane ever known in this county swept across i the pee dee river from stanly ceun i tv at the mouth of the uwharrie i about five miles as now reported : mr neill mckoy of moore county ; was detained at the house f willis i dennis on the montgomery side j waiting for the falling of the river | and was in the house with mr den i nis and family when it was blown over but escaped as did mr dennis and his family without any serious hurt every house ou the plantation was blown down scattering property in every direction mr mckoy's horse was badly hurt and mr den nis had not found his when mr mc koy left such devastation was never witnessed before in this county mr dennis had a lot of flour meal and bacon in his house and could not find meal or flour for breakfast this morning or anything to cook it in his bacon was scattered over the fields around in the course of the i-torm and so v/as his wheat and corn mr mckoy's buggy was blown near a quarter of mile from where he left it and torn in pieces as was a trunk containing some clothing and the clothing he could not find nothing has been heard from the storm on the stanly side f the rirer as it could not be crossed but during and after the storm plaintive cries could be heard from across the river as if of a man calling for help the morning came and our informant could ee across the river and every house on the kirk place was blown down and no sign of life was seen fences gates and everything flat and the moun tain lying just west of the houses looked as if swept of its forest the wind at its severest only last ed a few minutes — then came a heavy hail f lowed by a strong gale and rain until midnight upon tho home less and unfortunate people the flashes of lightning were almost ceaseless during the storm giving to the hideous peals of thunder a terror izing force driving children and all iuto paroxysms of fear the extent of the storm is not kuown here but we have iuformation that it extended as far as uwkarrie i postofh'ce near saunders ford five i miles or more and many houses have i been blown to pieces and many kill ' ed and some children have not yet ; been found among those killed we mention such as our informant re membered : the wife of a ii dennis aud one or two children a miss half james byrd and wife while a great ! many are badly wounded the next house reported as blown down after passing mr willis den j nis is mr r c hall's some mile and a half up the river unroofing all the houses aud barns and killing his daughter who was nearly grown the next is his nearest neighbor on ly a short way off wiley h harris whose hou?cs were blown to pieces ami his daughter a small one killed , the next report is some two miles up the river at l jwharrie postoffice and ! the houses of the follwing parties be | ing uear were blown down or unroof 1 ed viz i e sanders his store dwelling and gin house j p har der john morris edd mullinix a r dennis hancel beaman jarues byrd wilson davis mary hurley adaline hurley sampson morris littleton dennis mark harvell jr pad dennis polly cranford and of these the houses of wilson davis and eild mullinix were burned the wife and child of mr a r dennis were killed also james byrd and wife and one or two are missing the full extent of the storm is still uu knowu in t union county we condense news from the mon roe enquirer and express at that place uo damage was doue the storm seemed to divide west of mon roe aud it is impossible to decide ou which side of it was most severe oa the south of us we first hear of it at mrs jane brown's in lanes creek township who had every house on ber place blown down mrs broom was badly hurt and her daughter was mortally wounded it next struck the widow pb union's who had every ! house on the place destroyed mr billy horten's house was left stand ing but turned completely around at mr buck horton's every build ing was destroyed and every member 1 of the family more or less hurt mr j p horu's cuttou press and shop j were destroyed at mr s f roes every building was destroyed and hia wife injured at mr lewis krirn enger's every buihling was destroyed and his sinter severely injured the cows geese and chickens were'killed john biven colored livrng ou mr g d allen's place had everything destroyed and himself and family 1 were blown to the woods their clothing was torn from them and 1 th-ir hauds and faces larcerated at g d allen's every building was de stroyed and mr allen and one child slightly injured the geese and continued on 2<1 page don's worry about yourself ! to retain or recover health persons should ue relieved from anxiety con cerning disease the mind has pow er over the body — for a person to think he has a disease will often pro duce that disease this we see effect ed when the mind is intensely concer trated upon the disease of another we have seen a person sea-siek in an ' ticipation of a voyage before reaching the vessel we hare known people to die of cancer in the stomach or any other mortal disease a blind folded 1 man slightly pricked in the arm has fainted and died from believing he i was bleeding to death therefore persons to remain well should be cheerful and happy ; 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|United States, North Carolina, Rowan County, Salisbury
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|The February 28, 1884 issue of the Carolina Watchman a weekly newspaper from Salisbury, North Carolina
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|Hamilton C. Jones
|United States, North Carolina, Rowan County, Salisbury
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|State Archives of North Carolina Historic Newspaper Archive
|An archive of the Carolina Watchman a weekly and semi weekly newspaper from Salisbury, North Carolina
|The SA of NC considers this item in the public domain by U.S. law but responsibility for permissions rests with researchers.
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Incorporated in 1889, Waleska remembers Warluskee, the daughter of an Indian chief who once lived in the area. When, in the 1830s, the U.S. government forced Warluskee, along with her people, to move West, the girl's friends, Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Reinhardt, named their settlement in her honor.
In the past, industry in Waleska included gristmills, lumbering, tobacco manufacturing and some mineral development. The lumber industry is still active in the area, as is agriculture. The chief "industry" of the town, however, has always been Reinhardt College, and Waleska is regarded, almost exclusively, as a college town.


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Asian shares are flat to slightly higher amid persisting worries over trade tensions between China. Overnight, investors registered relief that air strikes on Syria were contained and unlikely to escalate.
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KEEPING SCORE: Japan's benchmark Nikkei 225 erased initial gains and was virtually unchanged at 21,837.88. Australia's S&P/ASX 200 added 0.4 percent to 5,861.50. South Korea's Kospi lost 0.2 percent to 2,452.35. Hong Kong's Hang Seng shed 0.1 percent at 30,300.30, while the Shanghai Composite dropped 0.4 percent to 3,099.90. Shares fell in Taiwan but rose in Singapore and Indonesia.
CHINA FACTOR: China's economic growth held steady in the quarter ending in March, buoyed by investment and rapid growth in e-commerce despite trade tensions with Washington. The world's second-largest economy expanded by 6.8 percent over a year earlier, in line with the quarter ending in December and down slightly from 2017's full-year expansion of 6.9 percent, data showed Tuesday.
GEOPOLITICAL FACTOR: Investors have begun putting aside concerns over Friday night's missile attack by the U.S., Britain and France on Syria's chemical weapons program. On Monday, the White House said it was considering imposing additional sanctions on Russia, a key ally of Syrian leader Bashar Assad.
WALL STREET: The S&P 500 index rose 0.8 percent to 2,677.84 and the Dow Jones industrial average gained 0.9 percent to 24,573.04. The Nasdaq added 0.7 percent to 7,156.28. The Russell 2000 index of smaller-company stocks picked up 0.9 percent to 1,563.03.
THE QUOTE: "Concerns on the situation in Syria have eased as markets saw U.S.-led air strikes largely as a one-off event rather than an ongoing crisis," Zhu Huani of Mizuho Bank in Singapore said in a commentary. "While there have been tentative evidences of de-escalation of trade tension, there are still lingering risks beneath the surface."
ENERGY: Benchmark U.S. crude added 29 cents to $66.51 a barrel in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. It declined $1.17 to settle at $66.22 per barrel on Monday. Brent crude, which is used to price international oils, rose 23 cents to $71.65 per barrel.
CURRENCIES: The dollar fell to 107.07 yen from 107.12 yen late Monday. The euro strengthened to $1.2384 from $1.2380.
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Embraer Will Capture Regional Jet Growth, Trades At Peer Discount; RBC Urges Buy
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RBC Capital Markets published an initiation report on Brazilian airplane manufacturer Embraer S.A. (ERJ) with a price target of $42. Embraer last traded in New York at $33.37. The target gives 25% upside.
Two main reasons for the Buy recommendation.
First, RBC sees strong demand for regional jets, a market largely occupied by only two manufacturers. Embraer has been gaining market share from Bombardier, from 29% in 2003 to 76% now. Benign market structure (duopoly rocks!) and strong industry demand led the broker to forecast 17% year-on-year Ebitda growth in 2014.
Second, Embraer is trading at a 20% discount after a dismal second-quarter, which the broker thinks is temporary. Quarter-to-date, Embraer lost 9.5%.
Analysts Derek Spronck and Walter Spracklin have the details on the valuation:
From a growth perspective, Embraer is set to report the second fastest EBITDA growth at 14.3% CAGR (2012-2015E), versus its aero peers at 6.1% and the defence peers at -1.2%. Coupled with an EBITDA margin above 14% vs. the peers at 12%, Embraer's 20% valuation discount, trading at 5.7x our 2014E EV/EBITDA vs. the peers at 7.1x, is unwarranted.
75% of Embraer's operating profit comes from commercial aerospace, with the rest from Brazil's defense. Commercial aviation peers including Bombardier (BDRBF), Boeing (BA), Textron (TXT) and General Dynamics (GD) trade at 7 times consensus 2014 Ebitda. Embraer trades at 6.3x.


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Anquan Boldin was in Dakar, Senegal with fellow Pro Bowl wide receivers Larry Fitzgerald and Roddy White learning about the gold-mining process and slave trade when he found out he had been traded from the Baltimore Ravens to the San Francisco 49ers.
Boldin told the Palm Beach Post on Friday that he was "shocked initially" by the trade but understands the business side of the game after a decade in the NFL.
"I thought I would finish as a Raven -- that was my full intention -- but like I said, the business part didn't allow for that to happen," Boldin said. "The same thing happened when I was in Arizona -- that Super Bowl team got dismantled quickly. It's just the way that the NFL is."
Boldin insists he bears no ill will toward the Ravens and plans on attending the championship ring ceremony this June in Baltimore.
Now that he's joining a franchise "drenched in tradition" like the 49ers, Boldin is in position to compare new head coach Jim Harbaugh with former head coach John Harbaugh.
"You see how similar they are -- personality wise, coaching style. I think it's cool," Boldin said. "If I'm going to get traded anywhere, that's a perfect spot. You want to go somewhere where you have a chance to compete for a championship every year, and the style of football they play fits me to a T."
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- Page 1 Canon EOS 1100D Review
- Page 2 Features Review
- Page 3 Design and Performance Review
- Page 4 Image Quality and Verdict Review
- Page 5 Sample Images: ISO Performance Review
- Page 6 Sample Images: General Images Review
- Image quality
- Relatively user-friendly
- Cheapest entry-point to Canon DSLR system
- Plastic finish feels a bit cheap
- No rubberisation on grip
- Contrast-detect live view AF is slow
Key Specifications
- Review Price: £330.00
- 12.2-megapixels
- DIGIC 4 image processor
- 9-point AF system
- 1280 x 720 HD movies at 30fps
As the entry point to Canon's DSLR range, the 1100D sits below the older yet still available 550D and the more recent 600D as a sort of bare-bones version of these more advanced entry-level models.
The 1100D is aimed primarily at first-time DSLR buyers on a budget, and at compact users looking to upgrade to a DSLR they can expand their knowledge of photography with. As such, you'd expect ease-of-use to figure quite highly, along with the ability to deliver the same high image quality that's come to be associated with Canon DSLRs. However, given the price, it's also reasonable to expect the omission of some of the more advanced features found on more expensive DSLRs.
Indeed, with the 1100D this is pretty much what you get. As a direct replacement for the 1000D that was launched back in 2008, the 1100D enjoys several notable upgrades over its predecessor, while some of the features found on recent Canon models located higher up the range are unsurprisingly absent too.
The 1100D's list of upgrades over the 1000D include an extra 2MP of resolution, a more powerful and up-to-date image processor, a larger rear LCD monitor, an expanded sensitivity range, and the ability to record movies. In addition, the 1110D also benefits from the same nine-point AF module and 63-zone evaluative metering system of the 600D.
In many other areas though, the 1100D is very much the younger brother of the 600D. For example the 600D has an 18MP sensor, a larger and clearer tilt-and-swivel LCD monitor, and an automatic vibration-based dust reduction system – all of which the 1100D lacks. The 1100D also lacks the Scene Intelligent Auto shooting mode and post-capture Creative Filter effects of the 600D. It is, as we already said, very much a bare-bones version.
As to its direct rivals from other manufacturers, well, there aren't all that many. The three standouts would have to be the thoroughly excellent Nikon D3100 (£430 and currently subject to a £40 cashback deal), along with the feature-laden Pentax K-r (£400) and the cheap-as-chips Sony A290 (£350). What is surprising, though, is that only a couple of years ago you could get an entry level DSLR for under £300. Even accounting for inflation, it's a bit of a shame that downward trend hasn't continued. Clearly competition from advanced
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Friday, December 7, 2012
* Top 25 Ultimate Christmas Kid-Friendly Craft and Winter Craft Round-Up: Favorite Christmas Crafts and Activities from Pink and Green Mama Blog
Here is a list of some of my favorite Christmas activities
and winter craft projects from my archives.
I'll be taking some blog and social media breaks this month and next
to spend time with my family.
Wishing you and yours a Very Merry and Cozy December!
15. How Much Snow?
(these Kid-Illustrated Art Keepsake Boxes make fantastic grandparent gifts!)
* Salt Dough Recipe HERE - just add glitter! *
20. Paper Snowflakes on our windows
See you again in January!
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Thursday, December 6, 2012
* Using Christmas As An Opportunity To Teach That Less Is More
How many of us, as parents, try to buy every item on our kid's wish list
(to the best of our ability or within financial reason)? I know I am guilty of it.
My girls live a very comfortable suburban existence. They have closets full of clothes, shoes that fit on their feet, food in their tummies, bookshelves full of books and a play room that is stocked with toys, games, and puzzles. Christmas and the winter holidays seem to have shifted, especially in
our consumer driven American culture, into a feeding frenzy for stores telling us (and our kids) that more is more and we should buy every last toy on our children's wish lists no matter the financial or emotional cost.
I read a great article on The Power of No over at the Mom's Homeroom website, I think you should too. It's a great reminder that you are NOT a bad parent if you don't buy everything your child asks for.
In fact, you really shouldn't. What kind of life lesson are we teaching our children if they always get EVERYthing they want? Do you, as an adult, always get everything YOU want? No, of course not.
Isn't it more fun to have some things you still wish or dream for?
Isn't it more fun for everyone if mom and dad aren't drowning in credit card debt because they blew their budget buying a bunch of plastic toys that kid's didn't even knew they wanted two months ago before the holiday commercial bombardment started?
I'd like to suggest some other ideas this year.
1. Keep it Simple = Less is More.
How about, picking 2 or 3 things you know your child REALLY wants and will get a lot of pleasure from and leave the rest of their wish list for another time. Perhaps to carry over to a birthday or other special event? Are they still going to want it then? If so, great. If not, they probably didn't really need or want it.
2. How about the gift of time?
Time with you. Time with grandma and grandpa.That's what they really want. One-on-one time.
Your complete attention - no computers, no cell phones -- just you.
Take a nature walk, visit a museum together, snuggle on the couch with a stack of books,play a game with your kid(s). Make some art or crafts together. Need some ideas? Check out my blog! (shameless plug) Play in the kitchen - cook something together or make play dough together, or do kitchen "science" experiments together. All of these activities are mostly free and they will build memories.
Your child will remember the afternoon you spent doing a puzzle together, painting watercolors together, or blowing up baking soda with vinegar and food coloring in the kitchen more than that piece of flashing plastic! I promise.
3. Homemade Gifts
My girls love stuff I've made or picked up at a craft show or Etsy 10 times MORE than anything I buy at the toy store. Here's a link to my Homemade Christmas Gifts Ideas Pinterest Board - all kinds of fun kid-friendly gift ideas on here. Not crafty? That's okay, write a short story. Make a "mix tape" CD. Record your voice reading a book out loud onto a CD and make your own "read aloud" book kit.
Put together a science experiments kit - checkout the Kitchen Pantry Scientist blog for all kinds of fun ideas!
Wishing you all a LESS stressful December
filled with MORE quality time and memories for your family!
Pink and Green Mama
Labels: Christmas, Mom's Homeroom, Sponsors, Winter
Wednesday, December 5, 2012
* Kiwi CratePipe Cleaner Christmas Tree Craft Review
My wonderful friends over at Kiwi Crate and the Studio website recently
sent the girls this wonderful Pipe Cleaner Christmas Tree Craft to play with.
They are launching a fun new program with craft kits that go along with
the projects posted on their website.
Find a project you like then you just click and craft -- order the kit to be
shipped to your home and you'll have all the supplies you need to make
a project at home with your own kids!
They sent us the Pipe Cleaner Christmas Tree Kit.
It's very cute when it's finished and the best part is that it's mess free!
My daughter finished making it in about 45 minutes.
First she fit together the wooden spool and dowel rod to make the base.
Then she began wrapping it with pipe cleaners to make a tree shape.
This part was a little tricky, once she got started,
she got the hang of it and it was a lot easier for her.
The kit includes a handy instruction sheet and you can view the steps on the website as well.
It says it's for ages 3+ but my 9 year old thought it was a bit tricky
so I would recommend this kit for school-age children.
If you want to make one with a preschooler, be prepared to provide a lot of hands-on assistance.
After she constructed the tree it was time to decorate it.
Her favorite part was making the garland with the sparkly pipe cleaners!
E's completed tree sitting on the mantel in our art studio.
Reminds us of Charlie Brown's little tree!
I think these little craft kits are a fun way to enjoy some quality family
crafting time in December. We have a basket filled with craft supplies
and kits in the art studio to encourage the girls to sit down and play
all month long -- mommy enjoys the added benefit of getting to play and create with them!
If you want to make your own Pipe Cleaner tree, you
can order the kit here
Happy Holidays from our Art Studio to Yours!
Pink and Green Mama,
Disclosure: I did not receive money to write this review.
I do not get paid for any kits sold by Kiwi Crate from my review.
All opinions expressed are my own. My family did receive a craft kit to play with!
Labels: Christmas, Create, Holidays, Product Review, School Age, Sponsors, Winter
Tuesday, December 4, 2012
* Festive Kid-Friendly Mod Podge Christmas Ornaments!
My girls and I are huge fans of Mod Podge, it is our favorite decoupage medium,
it makes a regular appearance on our crafting table!
As you can imagine, I was super excited when my very generous friends at Plaid
sent me a goodie box packed with all kinds of Mod Podge products!
We were challenged to come up with a festive holiday craft
and the girls wanted to make ornaments.
We started our project with a trip to Michaels (our favorite craft store!)
to pick up some of these plastic ornaments. They look like glass, right?!
They're shatterproof plastic ornaments - perfect for little fingers and clumsy dogs.
Then, we set up our art table with a stack of origami paper (also purchased at Michaels)
scissors, a small paint brush, and some Gloss Lustre Mod Podge
(we used the glossy Mod Podge to compliment our shiny work surface)
We each made a scene with cut paper.
"E" my 9 year old made this turquoise blue under water scene because she loves
the ocean and thought her ornament looked like a fish bowl.
"C" my 5 year old wanted to make a Christmas tree so her ornament
would look like a snow globe. You can see her carefully cutting out "ornaments" below.
I tried to make a winter scene with snowy trees but liked the girl's projects much better than mine!
Note: If the cut paper part of this project seems too tricky for your kids, you can
make this same project with original drawings and artwork by your children!
After they cut out the shapes and made their pictures,
we used a Mod Podge Brush Applicator
and the Mod Podge to stick them together,
then we coated one side of each ornament
with a layer of Mod Podge and attached our scenes.
We put the scenes facing the inside of the ornament so that you can look through
from the front and it looks like a snow globe.
Note: Everything is on the OUTside of the ornament -- nothing on the inside,
that's what makes this project so kid-friendly!
Just glue your artwork to the backside of the ornament facing in.
Each scene was "sealed" to the ornament with
an additional layer of Mod Podge.
While the Mod Podge was still wet, we covered the backsides of our ornaments
with a generous layer of glitter and allowed them to dry completely
before shaking off the excess glitter.
We used the Mod Podge Sparkle formula to give it some extra bling!
Then, I carefully glued a piece of ribbon to the edge of each ornament
with my glue gun (a job for a parent, not kids) to finish the transition between
the glitter and the rest of the ornament.
It adds a nice polished touch to the project.
Here are our finished ornaments hanging on our Art Studio Christmas tree!
I love the colors in "E"s underwater ocean ornament.
Here is "C"s Christmas tree and my winter trees are shown below.
The possibilities with homemade Mod Podge ornaments are endless,
you can use craft papers, tissue paper, or even (one of our favorites) holiday paper napkins!
Wishing you and your family a happy holiday season filled with lots
of fun crafts and homemade fun!
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all opinions expressed are my own and all art work shown
was created by my girls and myself with lots of fun and giggles!
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Labels: Christmas, Holidays, Homemade Gifts, Mod Podge, Product Review, School Age, Winter
Monday, December 3, 2012
* Sensory Ball Christmas Ornaments Inspired By Sensory Boxes!
Our love of sensory boxes and terrariums inspired this project!
While shopping at Michaels (our favorite craft store) recently,
I came across these wonderful acrylic ornaments!
They are just like the glass ornaments we've used in the past to make poured paint ornaments
but, these are even better because they are kid-friendly plastic.
They're shatterproof - just right for kids and big clumsy dogs!
For the first ornament we were inspired by our Winter Sensory Rice Box.
We used some sprigs of glittered plastic "greenery"
from the $1 floral pick area at Michaels. We just trimmed off some
sparkly greenery with scissors and popped them through the hole at the top of the ornament.
For the snowman, we used one of these little fuzzy plastic snowmen
(they come in a 6 pack at Michaels this time of year -- we love them for our winter sensory box)
I added a glob of Aleene's Tacky Glue to the bottom of the ornament and carefully
placed him inside the ball using my Hemostat tool (see photo below.)
Hemostat tool you say? Yes, it's one of my favorite crafting supplies.
I bought it years ago from a quilting catalog and use it when I'm sewing to pull
and inside-out small drawstrings and bindings in tight spaces.
They may have them at Harbor Freight in their random medical supply area!
For the snow we used a mixture of table salt and my favorite
DecoArt "Glamour Dust" also from Michaels (see above photo.)
Great for adding shimmer to Christmas, Winter, and Fairy projects!
Note: Long skinny paint brushes are good for adding extra dabs of glue
inside the ornament when needed.
Our ocean sensory ornament was inspired by our still beloved, Ocean Sensory Box.
We glued a seahorse to the ball and used a piece of that floral pick stuff
that looked like coral. Then, we added some tiny sea shells, fish gravel, and blue glitter.
Finished Ocean Ornament hanging out with one of my clothespin mermaids!
If you want to make your own clothespin mermaid, check out my
We also made a Woodland ornament inspired by our love of "fairy lands"
with a small "log" (twig), silk flowers, butterfly,
and a few glittery acorns from the fall glitter and Mod Podge leaf project!
Miniature trees were glued to the bottom of this ornament then
we added more sparkle dust and salt as snow.
The possibilities are endless, it was really fun to brainstorm
with the girls and come up with sensory box inspired ornaments!
Happy Holiday Crafting!
Inspired to make a sensory box?
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Labels: Christmas, Create, Holidays, Mod Podge, School Age, Sensory Box, Winter
Sunday, December 2, 2012
* Winter Craft: Snowflake Printmaking Project Using Found Objects
This project can be found in my Winter Fun eBook.
It was an art lesson I used to teach to my preschoolers and kindergarten students.
It's a bit messy but manageable, quick to do, and the results are beautiful!
For this project you will need:
* Square Paper (we use black and blue) cut into 12"x12" or 9"x9" squares
(hint: scrapbook paper comes in these sizes!)
* White washable tempera or acrylic craft paint and a plate or dish
* Found Objects: Popsicle sticks, empty thread/ribbon spools,
foam shapes/beads, bottle caps, toothpicks, buttons, etc.
1. Start by dipping a popsicle stick in your white paint on the skinny edge.
Make a print (line) by pressing the skinny, painted edge of the stick
onto your paper to create 4 lines making a "plus" or "T" shape.
Then, print four more lines to create an "X" shape.
See photo below.
2. Dip objects into paint and begin printing your snowflake by
stamping each shape onto each line, one at a time.
Work your way around the design, systematically printing shapes on each "spoke"
of the snowflake.
3. Repeat with different shapes and patterns until
you have created a design that makes you happy.
You will need to dip your shapes into the paint to "re-ink" several times.
Hint: Keep a rag, washcloth, or baby wipe nearby to clean up messy hands and fingers!
Even big sister likes to make these!
Fun for your whole family or classroom.
No two snowflakes will be alike - just like real ones!
Make as many as you wish, when they are dry hang up and display.
Happy Winter Printmaking!
For More Winter Fun Check out my Winter Fun Ebook here!
Pink and Green Mama
Labels: Christmas, EBook, Paint, Popsicle Sticks, Preschool, Printmaking, School Age, Winter
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The process of shrinking semiconductor devices employed for fifty years has almost reached its end. Fundamental limitations of the field effect device prevent much additional reduction in the supply voltage. This leads to unavoidable off-state leakage and very high operating power, an intolerable situation, especially for mobile applications. This is leading to radical changes in the roadmap, forecasting separate technologies for high performance, low operating power, and low standby power applications. Scaling will not provide significant performance improvements for the latter two. While research into novel devices is underway, progress has been much slower than one might like.
This talk discusses a rather surprising possibility: the use of carbon-based materials such as carbon nanotubes and grapheneto make nanomechanical switches with at least an order of magnitude lower power dissipation than the low power CMOS options and performance between the various CMOS technologies. It is the unusual properties of these materials that make possible such high performance, very low power digital logic. The technological barriers needed to realize such a technology will be discussed along with work that has been done to demonstrate possible solutions. The potential implications of such a technology will be discussed.
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That's Tommy Robredo in a (cropped) photo for the Everyman Male Cancer Campaign, which raises awareness of, and funds research into, testicular and prostate cancer.
Readers of Cosmo's UK edition get to vote for their favorite centerfold, all of whom have posed nude. Other participants include Jason Donovan, ex-Blur member Alex James, and media personalities. Proceeds from the voting will go to the charity.
Tommy says in the magazine: "When Cosmo first asked me to get naked, I thought 'No Way!' But when I heard it was for charity I was like 'Okay, it's for a good reason.' "
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