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Nitrogen and the Upper Mississippi River
Dennis Keeney, Mark Muller / Sep00
(c)2000 Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy

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This purpose of this paper is to open debate about the future of the upper Midwest landscape. It addresses options that can truly reinvent the agricultural systems of the Corn Belt, (coinciding with the Upper Mississippi River Basin) moving this area from one dependent on a grain economy with low economic returns and high nutrient and sediment runoff, to a more ecological based landscape containing nutrient sinks, especially for nitrogen, a legume base for supplementing nitrogen fertilizer, and a high level of management that minimizes nitrogen and phosphorus runoff to the rivers while supporting family farms and strong rural communities. This reinvented agriculture will ultimately benefit the Gulf of Mexico through the reduction in the amount of area affected by hypoxia. The paper is not intended to be a comprehensive review of the literature, nor one that offers solutions to the problems facing the watershed and its owners and operators of the land. Rather it is designed to facilitate discussion of the goals of U. S. agriculture.

The Mississippi River is part of the great heritage of this country. A highway for the original Americans, for the explorers, French traders, and settlers and now for the bountiful harvests of modern Midwest agriculture, it has given us much and asked little in return. Unfortunately, we have often not given the river an even break, chanellizing, damming, polluting and despoiling it and its habitat. This we do at our peril, for we need this river for the future, just as we need the land and other water resources in the drainage basin. Instead, we have rushed headlong into policies that emphasize production of bulk commodities and development of railroad and barge systems to transport these goods (particularly bulk commodities including grain) to other markets.

Our domination of the land for grain production and the increased dominance of concentrated animal feeding operations (Jackson et al, 2000) has come at a price to the river. Increased sediment, greater nutrient loads, and diminished biodiversity are readily apparent (Downing, 1999). Further domination of the river through the lock and dam system for barge navigation has added to the river's woes. Agriculture has moved toward the industrial model and the farmer is increasingly decoupled from the land.

The Gulf of Mexico, like many other estuaries and coastal areas in the world, has seen major ecosystem changes because of low oxygen levels (hypoxia) caused by excessive inputs of sediments and nutrients arising from industrial and agricultural activities in the watershed. While the area affected by hypoxia ebbs and flows with yearly weather cycles and changes in climate and land use, the ultimate fate of the Gulf of Mexico is more dependent on the ability of the agriculture of the upper Midwest to be more efficient in its use of nitrogen for feed and food crops? Or is it? Are there alternatives that can be proposed that will give us a triple win, lower production costs, lower environmental impact, and higher farm incomes without massive government intervention? We wish to develop here the premise that the use and abuse of nitrogen, be it from soils, fertilizers, or wastes and manures is the heart of the issue. We propose that IATP lead a policy discussion, that examines how much external nitrogen is necessary in U.S. agriculture, and whether appropriate controls on nitrogen use would equitably control prices and production while producing environmental and social benefits. This paper represents the thoughts of IATP regarding nitrogen management in the UMRB The Sustainability Institute, in cooperation with IATP, particularly Dick Levins, have developed a dynamic simulations model (Rice et al, 2000) that helps explain the low corn prices that prevail most years in the corn belt. Policies that strive to increase yield, create new demand, support prices through government payments, or remove land from production produce only temporary price relief. The analysis by Rice et al (2000) dramatically shows the "tragedy of the commons" behavior that pervades U. S. farm policy, providing yield/price cycle that continues unbroken. The paper concludes that new policies that provide environmental incentives, diverse crops and products, are needed.

In conjunction with the oversupply paper by Muller et al, (1999) that questions the assumptions used that the grain moving through the Mississippi River Lock and Dam system is needed to feed the world, we have developed the hypothesis that increased grain production will exacerbate nitrogen use and losses. The current paper accepts the assumption that nitrogen flows, particularly to the surface waters in the Midwest, is directly linked to the nearly universal corn-soybean rotation. It asks the question: can Midwest agriculture meet the demand for corn while protecting and enhancing natural resources?

The Comings and Goings of Nitrogen

Nitrogen, an innocuous molecule and 79% of the air we breathe, is one of the elements most threatening the global environment (Vitousek et al., 1997, Moffat, 1998). Nitrogen cycles by biological and chemical processes from organic forms to ammonia, may be volatilized to the atmosphere as ammonia or be oxidized by soil bacteria to nitrate, the most water soluble and mobile form of inorganic nitrogen. Nitrate may taken up by plants, leached, or be converted by biological processes to nitrous oxide and elemental dinitrogen gas, a process called denitrification or. This collection of reactions where nitrogen weaves in and out of various forms and moves through various parts of the environment is known as the "nitrogen cycle".

The carbon and nitrogen cycles are intimately linked (Asner et al., 1997) and therefore nitrogen is an issue in soil quality, carbon sequestration, water quality and virtually all components of the ecosystem. In its reduced form as ammonia and amides, it is a critical component of life's building blocks, the amino acids and proteins. Plants need nitrogen for growth: a typical cornfield might tie up 150 to 200 pounds of nitrogen an acre in the fodder and harvested grain. This is more nitrogen than most soils can supply in an available form during the short growing season of a corn crop, even though a fertile soil might have 3,000 pounds or more of nitrogen per acre incorporated in the organic matter. Some of the nitrogen in the corn comes from the soil but fertilizer or other external sources must make up the difference. The need for nitrogen fertilizer often is not one of total supply but of providing adequate nitrogen during the rapid period of corn growth (June to August).

Before human dominance of the world's ecosystems, the primary source of nitrogen in plants, soils and waters was biological nitrogen fixation (conversion of atmospheric nitrogen, by legumes and free living bacteria to ammonia and organic nitrogen) and from lightning. The ecosystems of the world had adapted to the efficient recycling of nitrogen and little free (available) nitrogen existed. This changed when homo sapiens changed from a hunter-gather to an agricultural society.

Dietary changes and population increases expanded the need for cereals and thus more plant available nitrogen. Initially most of this nitrogen came from mining of native organic matter and from domestication of legumes, which were cycled through animals or plowed under to provide nitrogen for crop growth. As demand for food and feed grew, nitrogen fertilizers became essential. We now have reached the point where scientists estimate that the known human sources of nitrogen (fertilizers, legumes and the nitrogen emitted by internal combustion engines and power plants), is equal to the nitrogen that is produced by natural sources before civilization (Jordan and Weller, 1996; Keeney, 1997; Vitousek et al., 1997). The doubling of available nitrogen in the active cycles of water, soil and atmosphere has a profound effect on the world's ecosystems. Excess nitrogen in rivers, lakes and groundwater can be toxic to humans, and causes water quality problems in natural water systems (Hallberg and Keeney, 1993). Excess nitrogen in the estuaries of the oceans enhances growth of aquatic organisms to the point that they affect water quality and lower dissolved oxygen levels (Rabalais et al., 1996; Downing, 1999, Howarth, 2000). This affects the metabolism and growth of oxygen requiring species, causing a condition referred to as hypoxia (Rabalais et al., 1996; Downing, 1999). Nitrogen in the atmosphere comes from emission of ammonia from human activities such as feedlots (Jackson et al., 2000) and from combustion sources. This nitrogen contributes, as nitric acid, to acid rain, damaging lakes, rivers and forests. In land ecosystems, excess atmospheric nitrogen may enhance growth of exotic species or accelerate growth of trees, causing disruption of ecosystem functions (Vitousek et al., 1997; Jordan and Weller, 1996) such as over-fertilizing natural grasslands and lakes (Keeney, 1997; Moffat, 1998)

The Midwest Corn-Soybean Cropping System

Many papers and opinion pieces have discussed the current state of agriculture in the Upper Mississippi River Basin (drainage above Cairo, IL-refer to Brezonik et al, 1999 for a more complete description). Mollisols (soils formed under prairie in till and loess and high in organic matter and clay but with poor internal drainage) dominate but there are also Alfisols (soils formed under mixed prairie and forest) that have high clay subhorizons and lower amounts of organic matter and clay in the surface horizons. These soils are highly productive but have poor internal drainage. Subsurface tile drainage of soils in this region is necessary for crop production. Corn and soybean require a well-drained warm soil for optimum growth. But water moves so slowly downward to the water table that soils in the spring are often too wet and cold to be planted to corn or soybean in a timely manner. If a porous tile (farmers now use perforated plastic pipe) is placed below the seasonal water table, water flows to the tile by the force of gravity. Tiles are placed so that water flows to larger collector tile and finally to open ditches. Tile drainage short circuits the natural drainage pattern, and effectively flushes nitrate out of the soil before it is either denitrified or leached to the water table. The tile drainage systems thus become a major source of nitrate to surface water (Randall and Mulla, 1998). Before habitation, this nitrate would have been denitrified in wetlands and ponds, or taken up by prairie grasses. Effectively, human intervention has allowed the agricultural nitrogen cycle to change markedly from its natural state.

Five states (Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Ohio and Minnesota) comprise the heart of the Corn Belt, and will be referred to as the Upper Mississippi River Basin (UMRB). They have the greatest amount of artificially drained soil, the highest percentage of total land in agriculture (corn and soybean) and the highest use of nitrogen fertilizers in the nation. The region has abundant precipitation most years for crop growth and only rarely suffers from major yield declines because of drought.

Data analyzed by Goolsby et al (1999) showed that the UMRB generates about 19% of the flow but 43% of the nitrate load to the Mississippi River basin. Two states, Iowa and Illinois, provide 16 and 19% of the nitrate, respectively. These two states have the most intensive corn-soybean cropping systems, the most productive soils, and the highest total nitrogen fertilizer use The UMRB basin is the most productive agricultural region in the world. Total nitrogen output to the Gulf of Mexico has increased 3 to 7-fold compared to outputs before settlement (Downing 1999). The tributary rivers have been straightened, and dams have been installed on the Mississippi River and many of its major tributaries. Industrialization at the mouth of the river has diminished wetlands and added to the pollutant load. The apparent result of the dramatic increase in nitrogen input to the Gulf of Mexico has been a major change in the ecology of the Gulf (Rabalais et al., 1996, Downing, 1999). Higher productivity of phytoplankton because of increased nutrient input has provided more organic residue from dead cells. This has led to increased oxygen consumption during decomposition of the material. The result has been the development of an extensive region of oxygen deficiency (less than 2 mg/liter of dissolved oxygen, commonly referred to as hypoxia). This level of dissolved oxygen is below the threshold for survival of most aquatic organisms, hence the popular term, "dead zone." The zone runs roughly directly west from Louisiana to Texas and is the third largest hypoxia zone in the world. (Downing, 1999). The area varies between 12,000 to 18,000 square kilometers in mid-summer during normal to high rainfall years, but is smaller during drought years. (Downing, 1999). For example it was only about 5,000 square kilometers in June of 2000 because of low rainfall in the basin. Goolsby et al., (1999) recently examined the nitrate loads to the Gulf of Mexico from the Mississippi and Atchafalaya Rivers. Their results indicated that since 1985, the amount of nitrogen released to the Gulf has been more or less constant, varying directly in proportion to the streamflow. Streamflow is related to land drainage. In normal and wet years, much of the excess nitrate (that is nitrate that has not been denitrified or used by plants) is flushed from the soil system. In dry years, it is retained, but in wet years profile drainage flushes the nitrate to the tile systems before it can be used by the corn crop (Randall and Mulla, 1998; Brezonik et al., 1999).

Nitrogen fertilizer use has been approximately constant in the basin over the past 15 years. The increasing yields of corn and soybean without additional fertilizer N implies a more efficient nitrogen using cropping system. Frequently the soil system is sufficiently high in available nitrogen that nitrogen-fixing legumes are not active. Nitrogen cycling at the basin level is not a simple balance sheet process, and other factors may be influencing nitrate output.

The paradox that the UMRB faces is complex and has no simple solutions. Nitrate outputs to the Gulf, largely from the UMRB, are degrading the water quality and aquatic habitat. Nitrogen use efficiency can be increased somewhat by better management and more education but the efficiency gain will be modest. Increases in grain production, forecast by those who desire a competitive environment with other exporting nations, will require more nitrogen fertilizer (for example, a recent yield contest won by a northeast Iowa farmer, used nearly 400 lbs of nitrogen fertilizer per acre to achieve a yield of 397 bushels per acre). While this might be about the same nitrogen efficiency as achieved with a 200 bushels per acre yield, twice as much nitrogen per acre will be lost to the environment if yields were pushed to extremely high levels. If the area currently under corn-soybean is pushed to the upper yield levels that might be forthcoming, not only will a grain glut be almost certain (Muller, 2000), but also prices will decline rapidly (Rice et al, 2000). Under a free market system, massive export increases would be needed to take care of the surplus. Hence the basis for pressure to enlarge the MSR lock and dam system.

Without changes in the agriculture and land use in the basin, it is unlikely that row crop agriculture will decline, and hence that nitrate loads to the Gulf will decrease. The problem is simple: small incremental improvements in nitrogen use efficiency will make little difference. Large reductions in N output, on the order of 30% are needed to affect the Gulf ecosystem (Brezonik et al., 1999). Large changes in the agriculture and nitrogen use in the basin will be required. Let us examine the feasibility of this scenario.

Nitrogen Use and Impacts

Nitrogen is at the root of the UMRB problems. The availability of cheap nitrogen fertilizer - and the complete freedom farmers and farm businesses have to use that nitrogen, leads to buildup of nitrate in the environment. Two rivers in Iowa, the Raccoon River and the Iowa River, are among the highest in the United States for nitrate loss (Goolsby et al, 1999). The associated watersheds of these rivers suffer from eroded soils, clogged rivers and lakes, and declining biodiversity and water quality. It is not a farmer problem we face, but a system problem. Can the system be changed enough to "save" the river and the Gulf, or are programs and processes in place that cannot be stopped?

Jules Pretty uses the phrases "Efficiency, Substitution, and Reinvention," to describe the various phases that agriculture must pass through before it is sustainable. (Vorley and Keeney, 1998). In almost all cases, proposals to reduce the Mississippi River watershed nitrogen load stop at the efficiency phase. Improved nitrogen management including soil and plant testing, more timely applications, precision agriculture, all are efficiency messages (best management practices) that echo the management that got the ecosystem in trouble in the first place (a student of soil fertility history would see little new in the efficiency proposals from those of the past). Incorporation of improved management practices will help address the problem of high nitrate in the Mississippi River, but it is apparent that nitrogen outputs can not be reduced sufficiently with even improved management practices to meet the 30% reduced nitrogen load target The concept of substitution, that works at least in theory for pest control, is not easily carried out for nitrogen. The only substitution in fact is nitrogen-fixing legumes in place of fertilizers, an age-old practice that was finely honed in the first half of the last century, but abandoned quickly when nitrogen fertilizers came on the scene. And few would argue that agriculture based on nitrogen-fixing legumes would be sufficiently productive to meet feed and food needs for the next decade. Too much land would be required for the legumes; the amount of nitrogen fixed is variable depending on weather and disease and insect infestation. But there are ways that issue can be addressed for the good of all.

But many advantages would accrue with a system that relied principally on nitrogen fixation, with fertilizers as the "topping off" agent. Rotations including several years of legumes (the pre-1950 model) would greatly lessen weed pressures, break insect and soil borne pathogen cycles and provide a diverse agriculture much more suited to smaller land holdings and "family farming." Importantly, soil erosion would be markedly reduced because of the high soil quality resulting from forage growth, and the long times for soils to be under perennial cover. Carbon would be sequestered in the soils, lowering the carbon dioxide level in the atmosphere. Further, nitrous oxide, another powerful greenhouse gas largely derived from oxidation of ammonium would be reduced, providing a win-win for the climate change issues facing the world.

Reinvention of agriculture will have its strong critics. Most would first bring up the issue that a lower productive agriculture would not feed the world, would not save land for wildlife, would impoverish the farm sector, and most importantly, would not serve their corporate interests. These criticisms can be addressed.

Let's start at the basics: nitrogen. It is needed for corn and at relatively low levels for wheat. Wheat has a low impact on the environment because its nitrogen demands are not great and it is grown in the western part of the MSRB where leaching is far less than in the humid east, consequently wheat and other small grains are not included in this analysis. Nitrogen also is not needed on soybean, although today's high yielding varieties normally remove more soil nitrogen than they fix, thereby depleting the soil organic matter. Soybean would be included as a part of the rotation, just as is the case now, following probably two years of corn preceded by 3-4 years of a legume. Soil rebuilding would occur during the legume phase. Other crops would include sunflower and canola. No new crops or infrastructure would be needed for this system. All erosive land would be relegated to longer-term rotations or to more permanent forage systems such as rotational grazing systems that greatly improve returns from dairy and beef. This is a tried and true technology that adapts well to family farming.

Rates of land application of swine, dairy and beef manures would be based on phosphorus-needs. This will create problems for the concentrated animal feeding operations that now dispose of manure on legumes in addition to corn (Jackson et al, 2000). We call this disposal, because putting manure on legumes is putting a resource in the wrong place just to get rid of it. Concentrated animal feeding operations that do not have sufficient land available would be required to adopt secondary treatment including N removal. Very likely methane capture could be included in secondary waste treatment, increasing returns from waste handling and lessening global impact of methane. Pasture and hoop-house raised swine provide an environmentally friendly alternative to large operations. The concepts could be applied to poultry and beef operations.

Instead of solely being dedicated to feed grains, fragile lands could be converted to perennial energy crops such as switchgrass and coupled with locally owned and operated ethanol and electricity plants. The grassland systems would need to be integrated with a nitrogen-fixing legume, eliminating the need for nitrogen fertilizers. (Nitrogen fertilizer production, transport and application releases considerable carbon dioxide and thus biomass systems for energy and carbon sequestration cannot be based on systems requiring nitrogen fertilizer if they hope to alleviate global climate change).

Alfalfa is a source of high quality protein, but it has the disadvantage of high processing costs. These can be overcome by the use of improved plant varieties and new technologies. The University of Wisconsin conducted considerable research on the use of alfalfa for food protein a number of years ago, and there is data to build from. This concept is now being considered in Europe as a substitute for soy protein. Transferring much of the intellectual input and marketing currently going into corn to alfalfa would lead to breakthroughs that would cause us to regard alfalfa as the miracle plant of the future.

Along with the extensive cropping system reinvention would come enhanced efforts on value added (adding value to crops in the local economy, not padding the profits of a large corporation), and growing foods locally. Because large tracts of corn-soybean land would not be the norm, more opportunities would exist for local foods and for community supported value added programs. The smaller family farmers will be the main beneficiaries of this new agriculture.

Pesticide use would be greatly reduced because of the breaking of pest cycles with the extended rotations. Ways would be needed to provide an acceptable seed bed for grains following alfalfa without use of the moldboard plow. The concept of using fertilizer nitrogen as a policy tool is not new. It was discussed by Levins and Schmitt (1995) in the form of green payments. Smith et al (2000) also considered nitrogen fertilizer reductions as a lowest cost way to achieve nitrogen control.

We need to reassess agricultural priorities in the Midwest. Hypoxia in Gulf of Mexico, high nitrogen concentration in surface and ground waters, high levels of erosion and siltation and global climate change are symptoms that the systems are out of control.

Expanding locks and dams and increasing feed grain production will only exacerbate these local, regional and global problems. Our first priorities should be to foster an agriculture that creates healthy food systems, protects natural resources and revitalizes rural communities and family farms. We propose that a reinvented agriculture based on defining options that replace or greatly reduce the need for nitrogen in row crops is a key component of policies that would achieve these objectives.

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Brezonik, P. L. et al. 1999. Effects of reducing nutrient loads to surface waters within the Mississippi River Basin and Gulf of Mexico. (D. R. Keeney is one of the authors). NOAA Coastal Ocean Program Analysis Series.

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Goolsby, D. A. et al., 1999. Fluxes and sources of nutrients in the Mississippi-Atchafalaya River Basin. (D. R. Keeney is one of the authors). NOAA Coastal Ocean Program Decision Analysis Series.

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Vitousek, P. M., J. D. Aber, R. M. Howarth, G. E. Likens, P. A. Watson, D. W. Schindler, W. H. Schlesinger, and D. W. Tilman. 1997. Human alterations of the global nitrogen cycle: sources and consequences. Ecological Applications 7:737-750.

Vorley, W. and Keeney, D (ed). 1998. Bugs in the System: Redesigning the pesticide industry for sustainable agriculture. Earthscan Publications Ltd. London. 222 p.

About the Authors

This report was prepared by Dennis Keeney and Mark Muller. Dr. Keeney is a Senior Fellow at the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy and former Director of the Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture at Iowa State University. Mark Muller is a Senior Associate at the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy.

About the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy

The Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP) was established in 1986 as an independent non-profit and tax-exempt research, education and advocacy organization. The Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy promotes resilient family farms, rural communities and ecosystems around the world through research and education, science and technology, and advocacy.

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Comments or questions on this paper can be directed to Mark Muller at (612) 870-3420, or mmuller@iatp.org

This project has received generous financial support from the McKnight Foundation. We also thank Dr. Gyles Randall and Dr. Patrick Brezonik for their reviews of this report.

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Recent selling had largely been the byproduct of a seemingly growing reluctance by Eurozone finance ministers to provide another big bailout for Greece while the troubled country was falling short of deficit reduction targets. Just when doom and gloom started to reach a fever pitch this afternoon, the market turned on a dime and it looks like a short-term bottom may be in.'s Scott Redler left at around 1:00 pm ET to make an appearance on CNBC while long AAPL, Las Vegas Sands (LVS), Morgan Stanley (MS), and SPY, but his stops were hit before the monster rally late in the day. "I feel like a [retail] investor," he said, "I put stops in when I left and they stole all my stock!" Redler covered the majority of his shorts when his target of 1070 in the S&P was reached, and believes today was a reversal "day to take notice" that should lead to another bounce.

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The wild gyrations in the market were almost notable enough to overshadow Apple's big announcement, where they promised to "talk iPhone". The company unveiled new features and pricing structures for its line-up of iPods, but the big news was in regards to the mobile handset that changed the game. Most were anticipating the iPhone 5, complete with a new sleek design and guts. However, the market showed disappointment when new CEO Tim Cook only unveiled the significantly improved iPhone 4GS.

Apple continued its trend of "buy the rumor, sell the news" on major announcements. More often than not with AAPL, hype exceeds reality. However, if consumers aren't impressed with the new iPhone 4GS, then they are extremely superficial. Although it maintained the same design as its sister model, the new device represents a major technology upgrade. Let's just say the iPhone 4GS may not have been the sexiest release, but it has a great personality. And I mean that in a good way.

The phone includes new CPU and graphics, making it seven times as fast for games and twice as fast on normal tasks. As rumored, the phone also runs on faster HSPA+ networks, again making download speeds two times faster than the 4G model. The new camera is sensational, upgraded from 5 to 8 megapixels, and also includes 1080p HD video.

Perhaps the most exciting part of the new iPhone was the introduction of Siri, the smart assistant that responds to a wide range of voice commands. Siri can do anything, from playing music to searching Wikipedia to reading you messages from your pocket. The demonstration was brilliant, and illustrated the fact that Siri is more than just a robot, she responds to natural language and complex commands.

The market apparently wanted an iPhone 5 however, and AAPL was off by more than 5% before joining in on the furious rally into the close. It finished the day down only 0.5%

The market has begun to give back some of those late-day gains after the bell, but Europe's reaction to this afternoon's news will be the determining factor in tomorrow's open. Today looked like a textbook reversal day, and for now the aggressive short trade is off the table. What a difference an hour makes. Look for the possibility of another strong short squeeze bounce.

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Thursday, March 6, 2014

Honoring Mar's Memory By Helping Kitties Thursday

Yesterday I dropped off 17 kitty sized blankets at the library which is collecting them for the Snuggles
Project. They were just simple fleece blankets cut out with pinking shears but cats seem to love cuddly fleece and I hope it helps some kitties in need. At the library I noticed they have a pet photo wall for the month of March. I am going back this week with a photo of Mar to stick up.

Tomorrow I plan on donating some money to the cat charities that we stand behind. It is not a lot but at this time of year funds will be really needed because of kitten season. I am in the process of trying to tnr some of my neighborhood ferals that came over to visit Mar at times. I do not want to see more kittens on the street.

Before losing Mar I would donate every week to charities, hold bake sales to help cats and collect blankets for shelters/rescues. I continue to do this because there are so many animals in need. When people ask if I want a new cat, or have I gotten a new cat (which angers me) I tell them 'no, that the feral cats and cats in shelters keep me occupied'...

If we all just took a few dollars out of our pocket to donate, or collected newspaper and blankets for a shelter or donated time, more animals could be rescued. Honor those friends that you lost or the friends in your home right now by helping out those that are not so lucky.

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Gelly Roll Glaze Pens

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These unique pens are the easy way to emboss! It’s never been simpler to create raised lines and glossy lettering--just write or draw slowly and then let your designs and words dry. That’s it! Wedding invitations, gift cards, handmade stationery, altered books--besides providing tactile sensation, Glaze’s texture gives your projects emotional depth as well. True writing you can feel.

Want to write on or decorate a CD? Glaze works great. Whereas most inks slide and run off smooth surfaces, Glaze clings to most non-porous materials.

Write or draw with Clear Glaze--then reveal birthday wishes or other secret messages by sponging color over the surface. Water-resistant Glaze acts like a “resist” to create the look of batik. Let your creativity and imagination discover the many dimensions of Glaze.

Glaze colors come out bright, glossy and iridescent and will brighten up any project. Glaze pens have a 0.8mm ball with a 0.7mm line, They are water resistant and do not bleed through most papers and vellum.

Glaze pens are available in packs of two, sets of six and ten, and cube collection set of 16. Pack of two comes with two pens of the same color (red, black, or white).

Pack of ten pens bright contains: orange, pink, purple, blue, yellow, red, rose, green, black, and clear gloss.

Pack of 10 pens basic contains: sepia, turquoise, hunter green, royal blue, gray, white, real red, deep green, black, and clear.

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Cube Collection set of 16 pens includes: clear, yellow, orange, red, pink, rose, purple, deep green, blue, black, sepia, turquoise, hunter green, royal blue, real red, and white.

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Rated by: Lisa D. in Americus, GA
Again, what can I say.....I LOVE THESE PENS
Rated by: J M. in Woods Cross, UT
I absolutely love these pens!
Rated by: Jeannine B. in Southampton, NY
These pens are awesome!!! I have used them on every LO since I received them. They are fabulous for writing on photos! Love them!
Rated by: Autumn H. in Chesaning, MI
These pens write very well on all different kinds of surfaces. I've tried them on glossy paper, transparencies, vellum and coated papers. The white capped pen in the 10ct set is NOT white! It's clear. They do sell a 2 pack of white separately. When they dry the ink is slightly raised. Looks very nice. Also make sure you write slowly, get going to fast and the ink skips. I would recommend these pens to anyone.
Rated by: Roxanne M. in Kenai, AK
These pens are GREAT. They are easy to use and add the perfect touch to your cards. The colors are beautiful too.
Rated by: Allison N. in ann arbor, MI
These pens are wonderful. I'd been having a hard time finding a pen that would work on stardream paper for our wedding invitations, and these worked perfectly.
Rated by: Donetta S. in Lakeland, FL
These are so much fun. They turn rubber stamping and coloring into an awesome art. The shine and embossed look take a second to do. So just buy and enjoy. You won't regret it.
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This will be my holiday gift making staple... the Glaze pens are fabulous on the acrylic for ornaments, gift tags, I even made a suncatcher mobile and the glaze colors are so beautiful in the light! Now off to get the rest of the colors!!!
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I LOVE these gelly roll glaze pens. They add little details to the scrapbook layouts and cards that I make. I am so glad that they came out with the jewel tone colored pens. Highly recommend them.
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I gave these pens as gifts and both people were extremely pleased. As a matter of fact people went looking for them after they saw the beautiful embossing effect they created.
Rated by: Deborah T. in Colonial Beach, VA
Quick and fun embellisment for cards, collages, whatever. More colors (darker) would be a big plus.
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These pens are terrific on glossy surfaces -- vellum, glossy cardstock, stickers -- you can outline with them, let the outline dry, then color in. You can blend the colors together. I am having a lot of fun with them (just give them time to dry!)
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The pens are just as described. Easy to use and brightly colored. Can use on paper, but works a lot better on non-porous material.
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These pens are great! Wonderful for making cards (using cardstock or vellum paper)or ANY projects, the colors are vibrant and true to the cap, and they dry quickly! A must have . . .
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I love these pens! They sparked my creativity, which hasn't happened in a very long time.
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These are my favorite new toy! Such rich colors and lovely texture. I hope they come out with more colors soon!
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I love doing arts N crafts but could never find pens,markers or anything that made me truly happy. When I saw the glaze pens, I just had to have them, and I'm glad I purchased them. They are just AWSOME!!!! the color glides so easily and the paint looks so smooth. Depending on the material you use it on it does take time to dry, but your patience will be rewarded, because the end result of the project will be GREAT!!!! :-)
Rated by: Phyllis S. in Goodville, PA
I am an avid rubber stamper always looking for new color mediums. Well, the GLAZE PENS really are something NEW and EXCITING. I love them!! Write with them for glossy embossed lettering - no embossing powder or heat gun needed. They really do work on everthing from paper to glass, metal and plastic. Awesome!! I use them the most on stamped images where I want a shiny texture that looks like glass, china or plastic. It adds a whole new dimension to teacups. I hope they will make more colors soon - 10 is not enough.
Rated by: Michele M. in naples, florida, FL
Really wonderful product- I used the pens on top of a rubber stamped image and they really popped! The ink flowed REALLY smoothly (unlike some of the Gelly Roll pens I own which can be gritty and uneven) and the results did stand out. I wouldn't mind more colors or a finer point, but I prefer the bolder look. Be warned, though- the raised ink isn't quite as thick and "tall" as when you use embossing powders and a heat gun, but if you work in layers, you can get a similar look. I definitely love these pens!
Rated by: Beverly M. in Austin, TX
What FUN! I have used these pens with my rubberstamp and card projects and have thoroughly enjoyed working with them! They are easy to use and give a very distinct and beautiful touch to all of my projects! My only complaint is that I wish they came in a greater variety of colors!

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Color Your Own Things That Go Stickers

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Some have sirens. Others have sails or wheels that need to be pedaled. They're all fanciful sticker images of police cars, boats, planes, motorcycles, and other "things that go." Giving them a touch of color adds to the fun.

The book includes two stickers each of 18 different images.

Book specifications: paperback, 2 pgs., 8 1/4 in. x 11 in.
Publisher: Dover, 2006.

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We love to get out in our Mitsubishi 4WD’s and hit the tracks, but safe 4WD’ing requires a lot of training and practice. We took a Pajero and a Triton along to the Triple Diamond 4WD Club’s Driver Training Weekend to see what these courses are all about.

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Chinese piano sensation Lang Lang to appear with Detroit symphony

Piano star Lang Lang will perform with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra on Sept. 29, 2013. (Associated Press)
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DETROIT, MI – Chinese piano master Lang Lang will join the Detroit Symphony Orchestra for a one-night-only performance of Sergei Prokofiev’s Piano Concerto No. 3 in C major on Sept. 29.

DSO Music Director Leonard Slatkin will also lead the orchestra in an all-Russian program including Glinka’s Overture to Russlan and Ludmilla, Tchaikovsky’s Andante Cantabile for Strings, Liadov’s Une Tabatiere a Musique and Rimsky-Korsakov’s capriccio espagnol.

The performance will be webcast live to a global audience via the DSO’s Live From Orchestra Hall series of HD webcasts. This appearance is a rarity for Lang Lang, who has never participated in a live broadcast with an American Orchestra. Hosted by WDET 101.9 FM’s Alex Trajano, the broadcast will begin at 8 p.m. and will include pre-concert and intermission interviews. Live From Orchestra Hall is viewable by logging on to or via DSO to Go, the DSO’s free mobile app.

Lang Lang’s appearance is part of the DSO’s three-week celebration of Chinese artists and composers. On September 22, the DSO will perform Songs of the Earth: The Symphonic Landscapes of Xiaogang Ye at Avery Fisher Hall in New York. On October 4-6, the DSO Classical Season will officially open with violinist Gil Shaham performing the World Premiere of Chinese composer (and University of Michigan faculty member) Bright Sheng’s Violin Concerto. On October 10-12, Chinese-American piano prodigy Conrad Tao will perform Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No.1.

Lang Lang is renown for his open-hearted, emotive playing. His career has taken him to grand stages, including the opening ceremony of the 2008 Beijing Olympics, the Last Night of the Proms at London’s Royal Albert Hall, or the Liszt 200th birthday concert with the Philadelphia Orchestra and Charles Dutoit, which was broadcast live in more than 300 movie theaters around the United States and 200 cinemas across Europe.

Lang Lang has partnered with some of the world's great musicians, including conductors such as Daniel Barenboim, Gustavo Dudamel and Sir Simon Rattle, and artists from outside of classical music, including dubstep dancer Marquese “nonstop” Scott, crooner Julio Iglesias and jazz star Herbie Hancock.

Lang Lang grew up in the small Chinese town Shenyang, won the attention of the city's finest music professors as a small child, and joined the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia. He started playing piano aged 3, won the Shenyang Competition and gave his first public recital by the time he was 5, entered Beijing’s Central Music Conservatory aged 9, won first prize at the Tchaikovsky International Young Musicians’ Competition and playing the complete Chopin Etudes at the Beijing Concert Hall at 13.

Honors include being added as one of the 250 Young Global Leaders picked by the World Economic Forum and receiving the 2010 Crystal Award in Davos. In May 2011, Lang Lang received an Honorary Doctorate of Music from His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales at the Royal College of Music, and received his second Honorary Doctorate in Musical Arts at the Manhattan School of Music in May 2012. More recently, he has received the highest German civilian honor, the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany, in recognition of his distinguished services to music and, in January 2013, he was presented with the Medal of the Order of Arts and Letters, by the French Minister of Culture. Lang Lang is signed to the Sony Classical label.

Tickets to Lang Lang with the DSO start at $35 and may be purchased at the Max M. Fisher Music Center box office (3711 Woodward Ave., Detroit); by calling (313) 576-5111; online at; or via the DSO to Go free mobile app. For group discount information (10 people or more), please contact Chuck Dyer at (313) 576-5130 or

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Ex-Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick surrounded by media leaves court on the 50th day of his corruption trial, Tuesday afternoon Jan. 8, 2013. Tuesday morning it was reported that Kilpatrick may have violated his parole by receiving a money gift and failing to report it. (Tanya Moutzalias |
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AUBURN HILLS, MI -- Prosecutors and defense attorneys involved in the Kwame Kilpatrick corruption trial are peeling back the curtains for Thomas M. Cooley Law School students in Auburn Hills to learn more about the case and legal strategies.

A roundtable discussion with Kilpatrick attorneys James Thomas, whom Kilpatrick eventually fired, and Michael Naughton; as well as federal prosecutors Mark Chutkow and Michael Bullotta, is set to take place at noon Wednesday.

The forum is open to media, students and a staff but not the general public.

Tyler Lecceadone, a spokesman for the law school, said organizers believe the attorneys will be more candid if the event is not open to the public.

Barring a successful appeal, Kilpatrick will spend the next 28 years of his life behind bars after a jury in March convicted the former Detroit mayor of 24 felonies, including racketeering, extortion and bribery.

Friend and contractor Bobby Ferguson is servicing 21 years. Federal Judge Nancy Edmunds sentenced Bernard Kilpatrick, the ex-mayor's father and a consultant, to 15 months in prison for filing a false tax return.

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HT: 5' 10" WT: 175
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Birthplace: Manchester, NH

How Acquired: Traded from New England to Philadelphia before the 2016 summer transfer window deadline on Thursday, Aug. 4, 2016.

A speedy striker who can get behind a defense and finish, Davies has also become a consistent hold-up forward. Did well to recover from his injuries to become a central part of New England's 2014 MLS Cup run.

Outside MLS: Signed his first professional contract with Hammarby (SWE) in 2007 made 55 appearances and scored 21 goals at Hammarby – including 15 goals in 2008 – before moving to Sochaux in July 2009 made eight appearances before sustaining serious injuries in a car accident on Oct. 13 in Washington, D.C., while on National Team duty for the United States. Ultimately recovered from his injuries and resumed training with Sochaux in April of 2010 finally making his first gameday roster since the accident on Dec. 19, 2010. Loaned to D.C. United on Feb. 15, 2011 and returned to Sochaux at the end of the 2011 MLS season eventually moving to Randers FC (Denmark) at the start of the 2012-13 season. Davies made 23 appearances with Randers, all as a substitute, before joining the Revs on loan on Aug. 9, 2013.

College: A stand-out at Boston College for three years he was named to the Soccer America and College Soccer News Freshman All-America teams, and was BIG EAST rookie of the year. In his Junior year he was a finalist for the Hermann Trophy, earned NSCAA All-America first team honors, and the ACC offensive player of the year.

INTERNATIONAL:  17 caps for the US senior national team has scored four goals while adding three assists. First goal with the Men’s National Team came Oct. 15, 2008, in a World Cup Qualifier against Trinidad & Tobago.  made a career-high 13 appearances – scoring three goals – in 2009, including five appearances in final-round World Cup Qualifiers ... was one of only two players that year to appear in final-round qualifying, the Confederations Cup and the CONCACAF Gold Cup ... a member of the 2008 U.S. Olympic Team in Beijing, and made five appearances in Olympic qualifying and the Olympic Games.

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Huawei Mate 8 Will Come in three Different Screen Sizes, Report Popped Up

Huawei will go to launch another premium device Mate 8 on 26th November. The report arises that Mate 8 will come in three different screen sizes.

Previously we heard that the handset will come in 6 inches display and recently the device got the China 3C certificate. We are expecting to see the device physically on 26th November, but now the new report popped up and according to that the handset will come in different sizes and packed with the different configuration.

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Fallen timbers resized 600Henry Ford used to say that museums were all filled with the wrong stuff. He wanted museums to be about machines and technology, so he created his own, the renowned Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Michigan. And it is true that most historical museums and books are filled with information much of which is concerned with who was fighting whom at different times in the past. But, sadly, history is full of war and battles. It is a large part of the story of mankind,

Today marks an important anniversary of just such a battle. It marked a turning point between the European settlers in the Ohio valley and the Native Americans who were trying to stem the invasion of their territory and the threat to their way of life. As we all know, that story did not end well for the Native Americans.

Various tribes and combined in a coalition (The Western Confederacy) to battle the Europeans, and had had success. But on this date in 1794, that changed forever. fallen timbers 2 resized 600

Under the direction of General “Mad” Anthony Wayne, a well trained force of more than 4000 fighting men moved north from Cincinnati in  1793, building forts along the way as they traveled.

In the north west portion of Ohio, near present day Toledo, the Indians, under the leadership of Shawnee war chief  Blue Jacket, and Delaware leader Buckongahelas, took up a defensive position along the Maumee River. Nearby, a stand of trees had been blown down by a recent storm. The battle that took place there on August 20, 1794 thus became known as The Battle of Fallen Timbers. It was over fairly quickly and the Western Confederacy was defeated. This defeat led to a new treaty, and the ceding of most of Ohio to the United States by the Indian nations.

Today, every student in elementary school in Ohio learns all about this famous battle.

But here at Mobile Ed, we are concerned with making sure that in addition to this important battle those children also learn something about the people who were defeated, and lost their lands and their way of life as Europeans spread across the mid west.

Piankeshaw Trails is a magnificent school show by Sheryl Hartman who is a trained anthropologist and an expert in the history, culture and way of life of the various tribes native to the Ohio Valley, covering the present day states of Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan Illinois and more. This show is a teachers dream! Not only does it cover a huge amount of what is mandated in state standards, but it does so in a way that is exciting and intriguing to children.

native american school showDressed in traditional Native American clothing from head to foot, Ms. Hartman is a delight, instantly boding with the children as she periodically surprises them by dropping into various Indian languages while introducing them to all the different aspects of the culture and way of life practiced by these first Americans. She even has them tanning hides in the traditional Indian manner using animal organs to process the skins. Yechhh! Gross to me, but to kids? They love this show!

Piankeshaw Trails is available to schools in most midwestern states, and a fabulous experience for schools, not only for it’s exceptional educational value, but also as piece of highly entertaining performance art.

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Geoff Beauchamp is the Regional Manager of Mobile Ed Productions where "Education Through Entertainment" has been the guiding principal since 1979. Mobile Ed Productions produces and markets quality educational school assembly programs in the fields of sciencehistorywritingastronomynatural sciencemathematicscharacter issues and a variety of other curriculum based areas. In addition, Mr. Beauchamp is a professional actor with 30 years of experience in film, television and on stage. He created and still performs occasionally in Mobile Ed's THE LIVING LINCOLN

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Everything Everywhere has started the rollout of its interactive SMS/MMS mobile advertising service to selected segments of the T-Mobile customer base for the very first time.

The new service, which launches on T-Mobile this month, provides a platform for brands to engage and interact with T-Mobile customers and follows the Orange Shots service launched last year.

Under the consumer facing name ‘You Choose’ from T-Mobile, the service will enable brands to deliver fun and creative content specifically tailored to T-Mobile pay-as-you-go and pay monthly customers preferences.

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When MoMA Associate Director Kathy Halbreich invited me to observe the inner workings of the Museum and share my observations and critiques with both curators and administrators, I thought it was very important for MoMA to take a look at its interchange with artists—how the Museum is perceived by artists, and also its function and role within the artistic community. After several months of discussion with curatorial and administrative staff, I articulated some ideas for how MoMA might become a more nimble institution, one less constrained by the canonical history it had contributed to shaping. For example, I thought that the Museum needed to expand its entry point for young, local artists. I also suggested showing art in some of the building’s interstitial spaces—this would allow for extra display space, I thought, and also help MoMA to compress the long lead time required by large institutions to realize an exhibition.

After looking around a bit, I identified the nine information screens located above the ticket desk as a site to experiment with this idea. Hovering above the space where the initial contact between audience and institution occurs, yet also visible from the street, the screens are a unique site of exchange between MoMA and the public—you might say they’re both inside and “outside” the Museum. I imagined harnessing as well as disrupting this very visible apparatus for institutional display. And so, working with Kathy, Klaus Biesenbach, and Luis Perez-Oramas, I selected a group of New York–based artists, none of whom have shown work at MoMA before, to create new works for the nine screens. Each of the five videos created for 9 Screens will be shown in a continuous loop for a three-week period. Subtly or explicitly responding to their location at MoMA, the videos replace institutional information at a bustling site of exchange, ensuring that every visitor’s first experience at the Museum is an encounter with a work of art.

Union Gaucha Productions’ As Long as It Lasts is a nearly four-hour video that uses alternating shots of choreographed actions, artworks from MoMA’s collection, and street life. The video has two components linking the world outside the lobby desk to a fictional life produced inside the Museum’s galleries. The first is a horizontal traveling shot of Madison Avenue from its beginning at Twenty-third Street to the Grand Concourse in the Bronx. The rhythm of horizontal transit from left to right on the nine screens is dictated by the speed of the automobile. The second component is a series of vignettes, produced at MoMA, using a curator, an art historian, and artists as actors. These include Sarina Basta, Leigh Ledare, Juan Ledezma, Jonas Mekas, Olivier Mosset, Blake Rayne, and Michael Smith as Baby Ikki. The characters engage in behaviors not normally seen in a museum. The result is, among other things, a critical and celebratory vision of the MoMA collection the ticket buyers are about to encounter. The title of the video, As Long as It Lasts, is lifted from a public sculpture by Lawrence Wiener that was used as a point of reference.

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Christening is once-in-a-lifetime event that cannot be repeated and every parent wants to throw a great party for his or her baby. This is a wonderful way to get the whole family together and to celebrate the new arrival. The christening is also the fisrt step if you want your child to be brought up as Christian. Being a member of a church could also help your child get a place at an excellent local church school further down the line.

            If you are unsure about the christening, due to the fact that it calls for your child to believe in Jesus and to repend any sins and you are not able to make promises on his behalf, then you should talk to friends who have gone down either route and seek advice from your local church.

            Once you have decided to have a christening, you should talk  to your local vicar and together, you will decide the ceremony details and the exact date. The local vicar will want to know the names of the godparents, so, at that moment, you must have chosen them.

            Traditionally, both girls and boys wear a long white or cream christening gown. At the church, everyone will gather around the font, with the parents and the godparents at the font. A service sheet will be handed out with the words the godparents need to say, usually printed in bold. The whole christening should only take 20-30 minutes.

Very important: Do not forget that even in summer churches can be pretty cold, so make sure your baby is warmly dressed. It may also be wise to take a spare set of clothes in case of an accident.

            After the christening service, it is usual for the parents of the newly christened baby to host an informal party for the guests. To make sure that your party guests have a good time, you should follow these guideline:

1)      Choose a venue close to church, this may be a restaurant, a hotel, a village hall, function room or your own home.

2)      On the time of the day depends the nature of the party: for instance, after a morning service, a buffet or family lunch is best, but after an afternoon service, a tea would suit perfectly.

3)      When decorating for the christening, make sure you have a theme in mind for the day and complete it by using themed party supplies. You have the opportunity to choose from a wide product range from which you can mix and match the tableware, plasticware and accessories. You can also pick different designs of the same color or you can try supplies of the same design, but different colors and the guests will enjoy choosing the colors they love.

4)      You also should not forget to invite Flora, Fauna and Merryweather, known collectively as the Three Good Faires. Maybe you are wondering why you cannot forget them, but the reason is simple: each fairy will bring a special, unique gift to your child. Flora will grant to your child the gift of beauty, Fauna will grant the gift of song and Merryweather will grant the gift of endless protection.

5)      It is usual to serve soft drinks at the party (for example, tea, juice, coffee) as well as alcohol (champagne, wine, beer) and , traditionally, the godfather makes a toast.

6)      The highlight of the christening celebration is usually the moment when the christening cake is cut. At this moment, it is an opportunity for the new parents to address their families and friends directly and with less reserve than was possible in the formal religious ceremony.

  • If you are a person who does not like to speak in public, you should try to prepare the speech a few days before.
  • But if you are comfortable with public speaking, you may not need time preparing a speech, because the best speeches are straight from the heart.

7)      If there are lots of children, then it is important to provide some kind of entertainment or a separate area for them where you should set out a few toys.

8)      Do not forget that many guests will bring presents along with them, so have a secure area arranged where they can be left.

9)      Do not forget to ask the priest to the party.

10)  You also should have in mind that a christening is not the place for a party with loud music and too much alcohol, so, pay attention to detail.

Do not forget that christenings are all about the joy of children and family!

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