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Fox Valley Dwarf River Birch

Posted by on February 22, 2012 No comments

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Wet areas in a landscape can present some real challenges for getting trees to grow well.  Fox Valley Dwarf River Birch can be an excellent solution, especially if you would like a tree of modest size, rather than the 40-50 foot height of a standard River Birch, or Niobe Weeping Willow.

Fox Valley Dwarf River Birch displays the same showy cinnamon/copper peeling bark as a full size River Birch, but matures to a very dense round form of 10-12 feet high and wide.  Fox Valley is most often allowed to take it’s natural form as a low branched multi-stemmed clump type of ornamental tree, but does lend itself to artful pruning to allow for understory plantings of perennials and shrubs, or creation of a single stem form.

When allowed to grow into its’ natural form, Fox Valley Dwarf River Birch becomes a chubby “butter ball” with some amazing twig density that makes for good low level visual screening even in winter.  The opportunity to use Fox Valley as both a focal point in the landscape and a screening tree adds an extra dimension of usefulness for this nice variety that can prosper in damp areas where other trees drown out.

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Inland Empire Weekly – Gems & Germs

Posted by on February 21, 2012 No comments

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There’s nothing humorous about STDs—or germs of any sort, really—unless they’re place in the proper, comical context. For example, I Googled STD/germ “slogans” and was impressed by what people came up with: “getting the clap won’t get you any applause,” “scabies really gets under your skin,” “herpes, the gift that keeps on giving,” and for safe sex, “don’t go knocking around or a baby might open the door,” and I could go on. Likewise, this past Christmas I bought each of my sons plush, stuffed viruses the Black Plague and Typhoid Fever, because they already have everything—except a deadly, archaic disease. Daphne Hill is also fixated on afflictions and contagions, and while they act as a source of anxiety for her, the remedy for the obsession is art, not a plastic bubble suit.

In Andi Campognone Projects’ back gallery, Hill’s “Venereal Narratives and Other Catchy Tales” takes us through an impressive selection of syphilis and gonorrhea-inspired scenes. Using pink, elaborately detailed, found wallpaper as her canvas, Hill paints silhouettes of antiquated courting couples—sword-laden men, women washing up in wading pools—and fills the surrounding landscapes with various amoebas, most of which look like decorations until we realize that one of the lovebirds is actually infected with the nasty bugs.

Weeping Willow Gonorrhea is one stunner in which a regal lady enjoys her day beneath a timber, beckoning to an unseen lover while, er,  beavers look on and sip from streams, all of them immersed in a playground of white flowering clusters and red wisps and dots that will ensure the less than virginal lass has a very unpleasant sensation when next she relieves herself. In Clinging Gonorrhea and Syphilis, we find who might easily be Romeo and Juliet on the balcony, pre-passionate embrace and double suicide, and really, they might have narrowly avoided an alternate and wholly unromantic ending. Hill’s series of pinup girls infected with syphilis is also a winner—just be sure to check the darling for seeping chancre sores, which you can always pretend is some new kinky sex game. It’s not a game to Hill, of course, but she’s obviously keenly aware of irony, and her exceptional compositions attest to it.

Among the other Pomona art spaces there’s also much to see this month, including some fine collaborations at the SCA Project Gallery. “Compulsory Collaborations” randomly teamed two IE artists, and some of the results are top-notch. Among these are Jill Carol and Juan Thorp’s photo and paint mixed media piece Invader, in which one of Thorp’s signature robots wraps its mechanical tentacles around Carol’s abandoned desert house. Bob Pece and Fr. Bill Moore also brought their A game in Scalloped Mover de Moore, a perfect morphing of one of Pece’s animated Atari-esque entities with Moore’s encaustic, blocky abstracts. Cindy Rinne and Franz Keller successfully meet head to head in The Snow Queen, a video piece that projects Keller’s electronic LSD world onto Rinne’s finely sewn silk tapestry, and Marci Swett and Karen Pollitt steal the show with Deux Aurorae, a magnificent sculpture of untempered masonite with balsa wood river stones, acrylics and UV paint merged into a funky, groovy splatter and splotch of movement and color.

Over at the Bunny Gunner Gallery it’s the annual “All You Can Eat” show featuring over 400 works by IE locals. Karen Karlsson’s series of encaustic abstracts are smart and appealing and Athena Hahn’s duo canvases of chickens that seem on the path toward a clucky clash are funky fun. Sheli Weldon’s series of ironic meat-tofu advertising collages are a politically incorrect good time, David Dexter’s white supremacist plates are even more so, and Sarah Riedal Puckett’s assembled birdhouses and cityscape backgrounds are a smashing success.

The dA Center for the Arts is also having an annual show—the “Simply Red” exhibition that’s now in its 25th year. Filled with every type of media under the sun, there’s something for everyone here, including Cher Ofstedahl’s Recycled Rose of Tralee, a mixed media slice of lovely featuring a portrait of a modest Irish maiden wearing a blouse inscribed with a letter and framed by torn music sheets. But my favorite piece of all is Cindy Moore’s family feline portrait Irene in Red, a lush oil in rouge of a rather annoyed, striped ladycat.

Last but not least, the blackdot art space run by Daniel Romero has brought some new blood to the west side with Jessica Byer’s solo show, “Displacement,” a series of well-wrought architectural paintings depicting buildings and streets from the artist’s memory. Soft and inviting, the shapes clash and flow in shades of white and gray creating an appealing visual and promising start to this new artist’s career.

The Pomona Art Colony is located in Downtown Pomona between First and Fourth streets. All shows run thru Feb. 25.

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KAIT-Jonesboro, AR-News, weather, sports, classifieds-A wild winter has landscapers up to their elbows in yard work

Posted by on February 21, 2012 No comments

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JONESBORO, AR (KAIT) -  February is a month known for wild temperature swings, but with unseasonably warm temperatures on the horizon, many are wondering what happened to winter.

The meteorological beginning of spring is March 1st, and temperatures are expected to reach the mid-60's by midweek.

Plants, trees and shrubs are waking from their winter slumber.

Forsythias, dogwood trees, weeping willows, and cherry trees are all blooming much too soon, according to Robert Sartin.

“This is way early…usually March, April, when the temperatures are reaching the 70 degree weather. So we're way ahead of schedule.”

Sartin's business has stayed unusually busy in the past two months, but he is remaining cautious.

He says warm weather followed by a cold blast could spell grief for your greenery.

“It would burn off the bulbs, blooms. They'd be gone, you wouldn't have any bloom at all, so you would have less blooms and just have a leaf. Then, you could have some damage.”

If a frost or freeze comes into the forecast, Sartin is advising people to put some newspaper or plastic over their plants.

“You're keeping that temperature and frost from getting on the plant. Just be sure you remove the plastic the next day so it doesn't burn the plant.”

As the days get longer, the sunlight is directly warming the soil.

Plus, factor in all the winter rain we've had and it's no wonder invasive weeds are getting a head-start.

“We're not getting enough cold nights now to make those weeds not germinate, so we're having early spring weeds come on up.”

Robert recommends taking care of those pesky weeds before they take hold of your lawn.

“Go ahead and get your sprayings out. The pre-emerge and then start with your post.”

Copyright 2012 KAIT.  All rights reserved.

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Blooming goodness « Kids by hand

Posted by on February 21, 2012 No comments

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Things are blooming around here. The garden is growing by leaps and bounds, every day bringing with it something new to notice. Two days ago, I took a few photos, since the sun was gorgeous and the garden felt lush and lovely. It would be wrong not to brighten your morning with gardening goodness, don’t you think?

Under the dwarf willow tree, the hyacinth’s are in full bloom, filling the air with their perfumy sweetness.

Elsewhere, the primroses are showing off with heavy clusters of neon-bright blooms clustered atop thin stalks. It’s as if the blooms are determined to stretch up their hands as high as possible in an effort to be noticed, like kids in a classroom throwing up their arms and waggling their hands and saying “Oh! Oh! Pick me! Pick me!”

Here and there and everywhere, a humbler bloom can be found: the forget-me-not. We’ve got blue ones and white ones, and I’ve been told the white ones we grow are native to Ontario but almost extinct now.

The bergamot, or bee balm, isn’t quite blooming yet, but when it does, the flowers are something otherworldly. I’ll have to remember to take another photo onces the gorgeous pineapple-shaped buds open up.

Over in a shady corner, the solomon’s seal is in bloom. It’s tall, gently curving stalks are covered in tidy rows of miniature bell-shaped flowers lined up two by two. B thinks they are almost as good as the heart-shaped bleeding heart blooms.

Safely nestled in the shade of the solomon’s seal, the Japanese painted fern is slowly uncurling it’s silver and purple fronds.

And under the Japanese painted fern lies this little beauty:

I can’t for the life of me remember what he is, but he runs rampant through the garden like a living mulch, crowding out weeds but oh-so-politely letting the perrenials grow strong and tall.

And last but definitely not least, the hostas are slowly unfurling. I’ve been looking at their robust spears for days and days and days, and we finally have leaves.

The garden, with all its ever-changing beauty, never fails to bring me peace and joy.

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Adventures in Feministory: “Mother” Maybelle Carter

Posted by on February 20, 2012 No comments

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In honor of Mother’s Day, today’s Adventures in Feministory is about one of the “mothers” of country music and modern guitar playing: Mother Maybelle Carter.

Born in 1909 in Nickelsville, Virginia, Maybelle formed the iconic Carter Family folk music group with her in-laws A. P. and Sara Carter in 1927. Here’s some audio of the first song they recorded, “Bury Me Under the Weeping Willow Tree,” set to black and white images of the trio. Click here for the lyrics.

The Carter Family was influential for many reasons—they were the first vocal group to become country stars; they changed mainstream perceptions of gospel, bluegrass, country, and pop—but perhaps their most notable legacy is the guitar stylings of Mother Maybelle. Her signature “Carter Scratch” is described as “a style of fingerstyle guitar … in which the melody is played on the bass strings, usually low E, A, and D while rhythm strumming continues above, on the treble strings, high E, B, and G.” The Carter Scratch is credited for turning the guitar from a rhythm instrument to a lead instrument. Did you catch that? Not only was the first well-known lead guitarist a woman, she was a woman playing country and folk music. Sure, female rock’n'rollers may have picked up the guitar-playin’ torch in later years, but it all started with the Carter Family. Thanks, Mother Maybelle!

Mother Maybelle also kicked ass at the banjo and the autoharp!

After the dissolution of the the Carter Family trio in 1943, Mother Maybelle started a new family singing group with her three daughters—Helen, June, and Anita—called Mother Maybelle and the Carter Sisters. They were popular on the radio throughout the late 1940s and in the ’50s they became a staple of The Grand Ole Opry in Nashville, the most popular country show in the nation at that time. Here’s a clip of Mother Maybelle and her daughters playing their hit song “Wildwood Flower” on the show (you can find the lyrics here).

Here’s another version of Mother Maybelle and the Carter Sisters performing the song on The Johnny Cash Show (Cash was married to Mother Maybelle’s daughter June Carter Cash) that includes an interview with Maybelle about recording the first Carter Family album in 1927. This performance took place about 20 years after the Grand Ole Opry video above, evidenced by the satin dresses and poufy updos the Carters are sporting. Talent! Style! Stage presence! They’re bringing it all!

Mother Maybelle passed away in 1978, but her influence is still felt today, and not just in country music. Her pioneering spirit and super guitar skills paved the way for female (and male) lead guitarists in pop, rock, bluegrass, country, and gospel—just to name a few. Her guitar, a Gibson L-5 archtop acoustic, was purchased by the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2004 for $575,000. If you’re near Nashville, check it out and pay tribute to one of the great “mothers” of modern music.

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Create Runescape Gold by Woodcutting

Posted by on February 20, 2012 No comments

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Many of the Runescape players are looking for ways to make gold. This article is primarily to show you several methods for making Runescape gold. If you are a member in the Runescape, this article will be of excellent benefit for you. If you are not a member, you can refer to another article named “how to make money in Runescape like a non-member”.

The first method is to make money by merchant. You can buy item from the non-player characters hanging around. But this will require you to have 30-100 gold in hand. You should estimate the price of the items. This technique is totally safe for characters in any level. You are able to use this method for once a day and you can generate about 200-500 gold every hour.

You can make cannonballs only after you finished the Dwarf cannon quest. I have made about 22 million with this method. Before you achieve all these, you need to level up your smithing profession to level 35 and level your mining profession to level 30.

Whenever you reached level 30 you can cut the willow logs. You can gain your experience points fast by cutting willow logs. However the places to cut willow logs are often crowded. You will not make much money with these logs but it is enough to buy a Rune hatchet. If you do not want to make gold and you want to gain your experience points you can go behind the bank in Canifis to cut the hollow trees. The yew seed is very profitable.

If you have a high level smithing you can turn the materials into steel bars on the blast furnace in keldagrim. There is an ore shop near the furnace. It is very convenient to buy the materials. For those who have some extra materials you can sell them in the shop. The trade is free in the Runescape. You can choose to market your steel bars in the shop of in the Grand Exchange. As a rule, the steel bar will be more expensive in the Grand Exchange.

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Geri Parlin: Gardens reveal our personalities

Posted by on February 20, 2012 No comments

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I don’t have any red twig dogwood in my garden, but after seeingpictures of it in the winter, I wish I did.

What I do have is a weeping pussy willow, which is endlesslyinteresting no matter the season.

In today’s Home section, Jeff Epping, director of horticulture atOlbrich Botanic Gardens, talks about the kinds of things that makeour winter gardens interesting. For each of us, that may besomething entirely different.

Many tout the advantages of evergreens for obvious reasons -they’re ever green, even when most of the landscape is ever whitefor six months.

I don’t have any evergreens. In my small garden, I have not beenable to convince myself to give up anything for them. But the onlytime I miss them is when I’d like to snip some greens fordecorating.

For me, twisted, gnarly bark is more interesting. When we traveltogether, my mom always points out the perfectly shaped, uniformtrees and gasps, “Isn’t that beautiful!” I will look down the roadand see a twisted, dying tree with incredible architectural shapeand say, “I prefer that one.”

Mom just shakes her head and wonders how I got switched atbirth.

The truth is, our gardens should be as varied as our personalities.There is room for a tidy boxwood hedge in one garden, while thenext one features a sprawling Bridal Wreath Spirea. (Guess whichone I have. Yup, the sprawling spirea.)

So find your own winter interest and add it to your yard. Thenmaybe more of us will take to the sidewalks for wintertime walks toenjoy what all of us have created.

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Plants in Poetry

Posted by on February 19, 2012 No comments

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Plants are beneficial for a lot of reasons such as providing habitat and food for wildlife. However, lest we forget, plants are also important to humans, not just for food and shelter, but for the arts. In the first of a short series of posts I’m going to look at some of the arts in which plants have been an inspiration. The first is poetry, the idea came to me while reading Weeds: In Defense of Nature’s Most Unloved Plants by Richard Mabey, a fascinating book about the most resilient plants (and the subject of another future post). In it he discusses some of these weeds and how many of them have been depicted in poetry and other writings including those of the most famous of all, The Bard of Avon.

Plants as Symbolism

Plants were often used in poems as symbols or metaphors and Shakespeare was a great one for symbolism. In Hamlet, the scene in which Ophelia hands out flowers during her mental descent is loaded with symbolism, which carried over to the painting Ophelia by John Everett Millais. Most of the flowers found in this painting are mentioned in the play or have symbolic meaning. For example the nettles represent pain, the daisies, which are mentioned in her speech below, symbolize innocence, violets represent faithfulness and the weeping willow represents forsaken love.

Hamlet, Act IV, Scene V by William Shakespeare

“There’s rosemary, that’s for remembrance; pray,love, remember: and there is pansies. that’s for thoughts.There’s fennel for you, and columbines: there’s ruefor you; and here’s some for me: we may call itherb-grace o’ Sundays: O you must wear your rue witha difference. There’s a daisy: I would give yousome violets, but they withered all when my fatherdied: they say he made a good end,–”

Plants as Lessons & Morals

Plants can also be used to describe beauty such as comparing a beautiful woman with a rose while at other times they depict morals and lessons such as is the case with Shel Silverstein’s ‘The Oak and the Rose’, which can be found in A Light in the Attic. 

The Oak and the Rose by Shel Silverstein

An oak tree and a rosebush grew,Young and green together,Talking the talk of growing things-Wind and water and weather.And while the rosebush sweetly bloomedThe oak tree grew so highThat now it spoke of newer things-Eagles, mountain peaks and sky.I guess you think you’re pretty great,The rose was heard to cry,Screaming as loud as it possibly couldTo the treetop in the sky.And now you have no time for flower talk,Now that you’ve grown so tall.It’s not so much that I’ve grown, said the tree,It’s just that you’ve stayed so small.

An appreciation of nature

Many poets simply appreciated the beauty of the natural world and wrote about plants along with many birds and other wildlife species. This seems to be the case in ‘We Should Not Mind So Small a Flower’ by the great American poet, Emily Dickinson, who wrote a great deal about the natural world.

We Should Not Mind So Small a Flower by Emily Dickinson

We should not mind so small a flower,Except it quiet bringOur little garden that we lostBack to the lawn again.So spicy her Carnations red,So drunken reel her Bees,So silver steal a hundred FlutesFrom out a hundred trees,That whoso sees this little flower,By faith may clear beholdThe Bobolinks around the throne,And Dandelions gold.

It’s lucky for us that so many poets and artists paid attention to the natural world and the plants that surrounded them. Of course how could we think that poets would miss seeing the beauty all around them and using it for inspiration? Do you have a favorite poem inspired by a plant? Please share it in the comments below!

I’d be remiss if I didn’t include a poem from one of my favorite poets, William Butler Yeats, so I leave you with this one.

The Withering Of The Boughs by William Butler Yeats

I cried when the moon was mutmuring to the birds: ‘Let peewit call and curlew cry where they will, I long for your merry and tender and pitiful words, For the roads are unending, and there is no place to my mind.’ The honey-pale moon lay low on the sleepy hill, And I fell asleep upon lonely Echtge of streams.

No boughs have withered because of the wintry wind; The boughs have withered because I have told them my dreams.

I know of the leafy paths that the witches take Who come with their crowns of pearl and their spindles of wool, And their secret smile, out of the depths of the lake; I know where a dim moon drifts, where the Danaan kind Wind and unwind their dances when the light grows cool On the island lawns, their feet where the pale foam gleams.

No boughs have withered because of the wintry wind; The boughs have withered because I have told them my dreams.

I know of the sleepy country, where swans fly round Coupled with golden chains, and sing as they fly. A king and a queen are wandering there, and the sound Has made them so happy and hopeless, so deaf and so blind With wisdom, they wander till all the years have gone by; I know, and the curlew and peewit on Echtge of streams.

No boughs have withered because of the wintry wind; The boughs have withered because I have told them my dreams.

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Ed Fast And Conga-Bop At Hartford Library

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Besides being a bandleader, composer, arranger and much-in-demand utility player, Fast is a multi-instrumentalist who not only plays drums but also timbales, congas and, far too rarely, vibes, a weighty, bulky but beautiful mallet percussion instrument he dearly loves but loathes to lug to gigs.

“Vibes is a great instrument, but if I’ve got to chose between drums or vibes it’s a real problem because I can’t fit them all in the car for one thing. And, besides, a lot of clubs just don’t have the kind of space they need,” Fast says by phone from his Hartford home.

For The Hartford Public Library’s enormously popular, admission-free “Baby Grand Jazz” series, Fast is putting the drums aside for the moment and packing his beloved vibraphone into his car and driving it to his vibes-centered concert with his quintet Sunday at 3 p.m. in the downtown library’s scenic atrium, 500 Main St.

Helping the mallet master bring good vibes to the “Baby Grand Jazz” series will be Jesse Hameen, a timbales wizard from New Haven; George Fuentes, congas; Sam Parker, piano; and Matt Dwonszyk, bass.

“We’re going to do a lot of Latin jazz featuring the vibes, mostly things by Cal Tjader and Tito Puente, some originals and one number that the great vibraphonist Milt Jackson liked to play a lot, Horace Silver’s ‘Opus de Funk.’ We’ll add a couple horns with a few special guests on a couple numbers.” Fast says.

As a junior high school student and budding percussion player, Fast, who was born in Albany and grew up in Old Lyme, took marimba lessons as his first step towards playing vibes. As busy as he is playing drums with Conga-Bop or in Broadway pit bands, he retains his deep affection for vibes, an instrument that gives him the opportunity to express melodic and harmonic ideas.

Fast’s love for Jackson, a premier jazz vibraphonist, goes back to when he was a kid discovering the world of possibilities in jazz.

“Milt Jackson was the first vibes player that really knocked me out playing with Thelonious Monk on ‘Willow Weep for Me.’ I sat down and transcribed the whole thing, note-for-note,” he recalls.

But it was the swinging, sophisticated music of vibist/bandleader Cal Tjader that sparked his passion for Latin jazz, the musical love of his life. What got him hooked, he says, were Tjader’s arrangements with their meticulous attention to detail, along with the varied rhythms and array of percussion instruments that powered the Tjader band.

“Cal had some of the best percussionists in his band, including, Mongo Santamaria, Willie Bobo and Poncho Sanchez, who now leads his own great Latin band. And there was my buddy, the legendary Bill Fitch, who’s passed away now but played in that band.”

As a special tribute to Fitch, a musician with a brief, skyrocketing career and a tragic fate, Fast will play the late, great conga player’s renowned composition, “Insight,” as his quintet’s grand finale at the library.

Fitch, who vanished from the scene at the peak of his fame in the 1960s, several decades later played an informal mentor-like role in Fast’s unending quest to explore the open-ended expressiveness of Latin jazz. Fitch, who died in his late 60s in 2010 in Hartford, had been widely celebrated for his superb conga solo on his now canonical composition, “Insight,” which appeared on Tjader’s classic 1963, Verve album, “Sola Libre.”

Fitch’s solo on “Insight” and the piece itself inspired Fast so profoundly that the then young musician sat down and transcribed the exciting number note-for-note.

Years later, in the mid-1990s, Fast, who had long wondered what had become of the elusive, mysterious Fitch, hooked up with the once celebrated conguero in New Haven where the Elm City native had become a non-person, living obscurely in his hometown far removed from his glory days with Tjader.

“At some point Bill fell on hard times in California,” Fast says of his friend’s unraveling fate.

“He lost his gig with Cal and wound up staying in flop-houses in Haight-Ashbury, on a sailboat at a marina in Sausalito, and in the mountains in Tucson, Ariz. Bill eventually received a one-way ticket to New York through a program that Tucson ran to try and deal with the homeless situation out there.

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Song sung blue Everybody knows one Song sung blue Every garden grows one

Me and you are subject to the blues now and then But when you take the blues and make a song

You sing them out again Sing ‘em out again

Weeping like a willow Song sung blue Sleeping on my pillow…

"Song Sung Blue" — Neil Diamond

When should I sell a stock? This is a very difficult question to answer. Like Neil says, you can always take an announcement "sing it with a cry in your voice" and have a "song sung blue." In the case of Arrow Electronics’ (ARW) earnings announcement today "you simply got no choice."

Arrow Electronics, Inc. (ARW), was originally recommended for long exposure on November 4, 2010 at $30.55, and that recommendation was reiterated on February 4, 2011. I am of the opinion that it is time to close the position in ARW with a 39.54% profit "and before you know it start to feeling good." The key phrase that turns this earnings announcement blue is the guidance, which has me "weeping like a willow." The mean estimate from analysts for the first quarter 2012 is $1.07, and the company guided to a range of $1.01 to $1.13 after beating the fourth quarter estimate with $1.38 vs. $1.30. Further, analysts have revised the 5-year growth rate down to 7.4%, and at today’s closing price of $42.63, ARW costs investors a forward P/E of 8.88. I prefer to have the ratio of growth to projected P/E much more in our favor, so my recommendation is to close ARW at the open Thursday.

So what stock to replace ARW with? AGCO Corporation (AGCO) has all the makings of a stock ripe for long exposure. AGCO is the third largest farm equipment maker in the world and has reported better-than-expected earnings results in the last four quarters. Analysts are expecting the company to report $1.33 on February 7, 2012, and it is trading at a forward P/E of 10.35. Granted, this forward P/E is higher than ARW’s, but we are getting a 1-year expected earnings growth rate of 87.9% and a 5-year expected earnings growth rate of 18.6%. This provides us with the ratio that allows us to "take the blues and make a song, and sing them out again." AGCO is the #9 ranked stock in the Sabrient Baker’s Dozen 2012, which have collectively gained over 15% in the first month of trading.

Recommendations:

  • Sell ARW at the market, Thursday February 2, 2012
  • Buy AGCO at the market, Thursday February 2, 2012

Disclosure: I have no positions in any stocks mentioned, and no plans to initiate any positions within the next 72 hours.

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