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I took two small cuttings off of a mature spider plant and tucked them in the soil around a large peace lily that has plenty of space between it and the edge of the pot... two days after I planted them i gave one a very gentle tug and to my surprise it was well and securely rooted!! nothing I have ever planted has rooted that quickly. I wonder if I have to worry about it taking over the pot.
Now THAT's a good-size pot for huge spider plant roots. I think you'll be happy with that, and that the plants will be happy as well. I've paired spider plant with many companions and the only problem is that the spider plant roots are so big. Starting with babies like that, it will take a quite a while for the roots to get huge and fill the pot. I love having short plants as a lower layer if a lot of soil is visible like that. The more companions, the fewer pots.
I intend to remove them when they get to a certain size. I have a pot with some annuals in it, when they shuffle off the spider babies will have their own home, and the peace lily will get a new companion.
I was thinking creeping jenny. It's annual in my zone, might make it inside over the winter but i like the idea of it dying off and being replaced with whatever strikes my fancy. That's the only pot I have that's big enough to play with like that, so I can justify the expense and energy.


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i got about ten lbs of grapes from the grocery store that are left over from a job.
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It'll work. Hell anything will work lol. Try.it and see. If its left over fruit I.would highly suggest pressing the grapes to extract juice rather than blending. You'll have a ton of muck left over. Add some pectic enzyme to help break down the cell walls.
Personally I would ferment them separately and then blend the result to see if you like the taste. If you don't thenyou have both apple cider and grape wine.
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To give you an idea of the hand pick labor that goes into a pound of hops, it took two of us about 4 hours to pick 25 pounds of wet hops from 12 bines, another few hours to dry and package them, to net 6 pounds of dry. Thats nearly 2 hours labor per pound dry. So what is your time worth? At $10/hr, I figure you break even if you didn't pay anything. You have to do it for fun. Not knowing exactly what kind....I wouldn't pay a penny. Knowing what kind and specifically wanting that kind, I wouldn't pay much more.....
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I think she will be happy to get anything so propose a cheap amount and if you can't get it for cheap, walk away.
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My latest piece of advice :)
I have found myself giving this piece of advice several times lately:
Just because you love it /it's beautiful, that's not a good enough reason to use it.
Of course you know this is in direct contradiction to the standard advice, "If you love it it will work in your home." That works if there is some consistency in the things you love and only an occasional oddball. But a room or house full of oddballs with nothing that relates them other than the owner is like Thanksgiving at my in-laws. And it isn't pretty.
I agree with Pal's statement. Ignoring it is what leads to chaos in decorating. Budgetary or visually.
Or more work than is justified.
Example is that my current dining room light fixture had a broken socket. It is a very simple antique brass fixture. I thought for a while about replacing with a crystal chandy.....but in the end decided that 1.5 minutes twice a year of dusting was all the love that I had to give to my light fixture. I simply don't have the time to enjoy disassembling and washing a crystal chandelier once or twice a year. So I had the current fixture repaired.
The latest time I used this piece of advice was with someone who wanted to do:
A wall color
An accent wall color
A trim color
An accent trim color
A ceiling color
All in an open plan LR and kitchen that is 13" x 25. That already has three wood finishes excluding furniture.
I don't know; if the bigger picture is to have a well designed, beautiful space, then yes, I do agree.
But if that is not the priority and seeing things that make you happy are most important, than filling the rooms with things you love is fine.
Most people want a balance and the word love is used indiscriminately, it's fickle, but we all have things we cherish and there are ways to make those work too.
I prefer somewhat unique rooms that are creative yet also beautiful. By following the crowd to closely, conformity sets in.
Oh you are talking about paint as well. I see what you mean. There is a Farrow & Ball dirty sort of teal color that I would LOVE for an accent wall at the end in my living area. I have touches of this shade as an accent throughout the house. The problem is that I have an open plan with a multi tone kitchen at the other end. I know it would not work. This paint shade haunts me and I occasionally revisit the idea only to come to the same conclusion.
Sometimes I look at rooms in design magazines that have phenomenal amounts of details that I would never add to a room. I would not even know where to find the artisans and craftspeople to fabricate them. Then I play around with the question of whether the detail actually adds something essential to the success of the overall design or just to extra bill padding for the designer. Sometimes I come to the conclusion that I'm either ignorant regarding why that detail was added or the designer wanted to pad the commission. One area of note where this thought process goes into overdrive is when certain additions to crown molding trim seem randomly applied. Pal's example of the client who wanted multiple trim colors reminded me. One example is a room with crown molding, under which a narrow strip of faux tortoise shell is painted. Perhaps the client said he loved tortoise shell--so, hey, let's add it there! I'm quite sure it cost a fortune to paint that around the bottom of the crown of an entire library, yet I'm not convinced that it added anything to the room. On the other hamd, it probably didn't detract, either, whereas some items that get added just because they are beautiful or desirable on their own can ruin the overall design. I am afraid I feel this way about the very traditional rooms of Bunny Williams or Gerri Bremermann to which MCM pieces get added.
"but we all have things we cherish and there are ways to make those work too"
I am not talking about getting rid of something that has personal resonance, just because it "doesn't go", by some preconceived notion of what is "correct" design. Really, quite the opposite, if you look into it.
The clients who I have the most difficulty pinning down in regards to this piece of advice have generally grown up in a particular type of household, and that tends to be one where nothing was really around long enough to have much personal resonance. They are the offspring of serial redecorators.
The two that I think of the most had mothers who pored over magazines like 1001 Decorating Tips and spent one weekend a month pushing furniture around from one end of the living room to the other and then back again.
They typically cleared out everything in the living room and dining room about every five years, and got rid of it all: furniture, carpet, drapes, pictures, accessories, and even dishes, because they had a "new idea". I've seen pictures of some of these clients from their youth where the living room went from Mid Century Modern kitsch with a vinyl padded bar and spaghetti pendant lights and Danish modern furniture, to "Bicentennial" with wood paneling and drum and soldier wallpaper and braided rugs and Ethan Allen phony colonial furniture, to 80s disco modern with a pit sofa and mirrored wall. Everything literally got cleared out and the new theme was installed.
I don't actually consider this in good taste, but that is a matter of opinion.
What has resulted is that their own houses have a lot of incomplete thoughts, and design ideas indulged in and abandoned mid stream before some other idea takes hold.
Not that these clients have bad taste necessarily, but they just want too many things all at the same time and all in the same house.
A bit tangential, but I thought of this thread when I read this:
Here is a link that might be useful: idealizing the unobtainable
This conversation, like most, easily turns into a philosophical debate. In this world, decor tastes are all over the board and one person's "yuck!" is another person's "gorgeous!". Even browsing Architectural Digest, my heart often stops beating over something so repulsive that I cannot imagine wanting it, photographing it or ever sharing it with others. People view things differently and act according to their uniqueness. Consider backsplashes as one small example. Some are downright hideous and yet the owner loves it. What am I trying to say? ....just about anything goes in this crazy world.....like the $800K house in the neighborbood that was painted shades of lavender and decorated like a mythical house. Some people wretched when they saw it and others exclaimed, "How adorable!" Who is truly qualified to make judgements for others, including those with a doctorate in home design.
Oh, I think that within cultural contexts, there is definitely recognized "good taste" and "bad taste". And I think there are people who are recognized has having or being authorities on taste.
But I think it's a mistake to think that it is necessary to exhibit good taste all the time. I don't think Architectural Digest has as its mission statement only to feature properties in good taste. I think their mission statement is to show what people who have lots of money are doing, good and bad. Actually Paige Rense, the former editor of AD is on record for promoting a certain amount of "vulgarity" in every issue.
But all good taste all the time is boring.
The thing that I have noticed though, about the people to whom I have been giving the advice to narrow their scope is that they are Never happy with the way things look when they just add and add things just because they like them. Also, they actually don't really have a personal taste that is well defined at all--anything and everything is subject to external influences. This leaves them more confused than anything else.
Pal, I think you really hit on it, they do not have well defined taste. I know now that when I have the urge to just keep adding, I haven't gotten the basics right. I followed that mantra " if you love it you will make it work" for a while, until I saw that it didn't! I have been through a lot of accessories over the years for that very reason. I wish I had all the money back I spent on them over the years, because they are gone now.
Interesting thread...
My least favorite clients were always people who couldn't make the psychological or emotional step from what they had grown up with but didn't like, and what they said at the outset that they longed for. So they balked at key elements of a design scheme because they didn't look familiar and safe enough, and put back the things that created the atmosphere they wanted to escape. Decisions like that often watered the whole thing down to the point where they didn't get quite what they wanted, nor did they leave the thing they disliked behind.
The worst was a complete English basement finishing job that included a wall of cabinetry and video/audio equipment, an office, a bathroom, a wet bar, a pool table, a game table, and all the attendant lighting and furnishing to make a family and entertaining space.
We were inches from completion when the client panicked and changed the order for the wall-to-wall carpeting from the very attractive camel-toned textured wool sisal to a cheaper, less well-made, bland white berber like what her parents had, with flecks of every color in the room scheme in it.
It ruined the space completely, partly because it was unattractive by itself, partly because it deprived the whole space of the element of warmth and natural material underfoot, but mostly because the mix of flecks of navy and a red that was not the sophisticated red of the scheme gave the whole floor a vaguely dirty lavender haze. Just awful.
Quote Pal: "They actually don't really have a personal taste that is well defined at all--anything and everything is subject to external influences. This leaves them more confused than anything else."
I have to really work on this problem, which gives me decorating paralysis! The only thing I am sure of (most of the time) is what I DON'T WANT/LIKE. Just can't make up my mind or come to a decision on what I DO WANT/LIKE.
This is another wrinkle on the "do what you love" debate.
It occurs to me that no one ever says that in fashion, do they? We don't encourage people to keep wearing their powder blue eye shadow, do we?
I think that along with the general confusion about self-developed likes and dislikes, there may also be a lack discernment between things.
I have used this example before, but once when I was talking about French Panoramic wallpaper, or that style of wallpaper, a friend of mine said "Oh my mother had that and she got tired of it after a couple of years and took it down." I asked her a number of questions about this, the age of the house and such and finally I said "I don't think that you had panoramic wallpaper, it sounds like you had a mural of some sort" and she was kinda like "Oh same thing"
When I showed her French Panoramic wallpaper:
She said "Well it wasn't so detailed and complicated, but essentially..."
What her mom had was this: a traditional Thibaut mid-century (but still in production) mural.
Only when I put the two side-by-side, did she really "see" a difference. Each has its place, and really in the big scheme of things there is something that is a bit over the top and maybe a bit vulgar about the Zuber Panoramic. (Although this is the type of "too much" that I fully embrace.)
To some extent, doing what you love is not bad advice, but that is different from doing Everything you love, just because you love it.
I have a (male) friend who has a particular affection for Chanel costume jewelry and women's accessories. He likes the way they look and he has the opportunity to buy Chanel at significantly below retail. So he has a cabinet full of Chanel boxes with women's costume jewelry, belts, and small leather (and other material) accessories.
Since he can't (or really Doesn't, I suppose he Could) wear the Chanel accessories and just possesses them, and occasionally takes them out of the boxes to Look at them, it's really just an indulgence. (No, he doesn't fetishize them in anyway). However, it's a matter of degree. It would not be completely healthy to indulge every whim of this sort though, right?
I can't tell you how many new construction spec homes I saw about 8 years ago where the builder and/or his wife put all the tile, lights, finishes and fixtures that they liked in one house, even though many of them were different styles and/or inappropriate to the home.
...doing what you love is not bad advice, but that is different from doing Everything you love...
Exactly and very frustrating as there are so many things that I love and want to do, but I have only so many rooms....and I try to respect the individual element by placing it where it belongs rather than cramming it in because I have it. What I've never accomplished is the art of swapping things out so I get to enjoy my favorites at different times in different ways....which would be nice as you do notice stuff more after a change....once you've seen it for awhile, it tends to disappear from one's focus.
Part of this is a matter of developing taste over time....certainly what I loved when I first got married is not what I love now....
Part of it for me is that my taste is so eclectic. There are pieces I love from so many different styles, but there are so many specific eras that become too much if the whole room is done in it....eg some art deco pieces are wonderful, but I couldn't live in an art deco room. Trying to blend pieces from different eras with coordinating colors is my poor attempt at dealing with this issue.
Mtn, I thought about that in relationship to clothes: it's so easy to "love" something that is unflattering, yet wear it regardless. Maybe the wearer is clueless, maybe, they know what they look like and don't care because they love the item. The whole I shall wear purple thing. Some would say, why wait until I'm old?
To some extent, doing what you love is not bad advice, but that is different from doing Everything you love, just because you love it.
Totally agree!
I like the link that writersblock posted and have found that when I felt I couldn't afford anything in home decor there were many things I thought I *really* wanted. Just glad I never maxed my Visa to get those items! However when I actually had the money there were a lot fewer things I *really* wanted. So I guess it was a case of "idealizing the unobtainable" for me. When I now find something I think I want I always ask myself whether or not, in the future, I will really regret not getting it. Sometimes that helps me make the correct decision.
Development of personal taste is an interesting subject. I don't think my DM really knew what her personal style was so always had a decorator tell her what to buy. Consequently there were 4 completely different styles I remember our LR being decorated in and very little with personal resonance. I didn't particularly like any of the styles so my favorite is based on what I saw as a child in homes I liked which were all decorated in vintage/antique and nothing newer than 1930's style. Hence I don't like anything much newer than that, or at least things that go with that era. I also treasure all of the personal items that belonged to my GM - my DM never displayed those items but I do. Fortunately they go with my vintage/antique style.
Pal, I'm right there with you on the over-the-top French wallpaper!
I'm always willing to go farther with something that is exquisitely made and beautiful in it's own right.
Where a lot of people go wrong is in choosing a cheap, badly rendered approximation of something beautiful and authentic, rather than choosing something in their price range that is honestly what it is.
Annie totally summed up what I was thinking.
And we just don't have that kind of house.
I love the '40's-'50's era of kitchens, and would just love an old candy colored icebox and matching enamel stove, but it would just look silly and out of place in our mid-'70's Ranch. We have a fairly traditional kitchen, painted in a pale Jadeite green, so I indulge the urge with a red Kitchenaid mixer and a few vintage accessories. Anything more than that would be wrong.
There are many things I will miss about not living in an 1840ish house.
But, as much as I love Greek Revival and late Classical architecture, no amount of architectural detail or 19th c. d�cor will make my 1963 house look like anything but a modernist house. As far as the structure goes, I am going to have to embrace 1963, because it has such a strong identity that it would never look like a "real" anything else. This doesn't mean I will be channeling 1963 interior design or getting rid of any period furniture or decorative elements, that's different. This house has two walls of glass though, there is a new window style to embrace.


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|Roger Davis
|Narrator / ... (48 episodes, 1971-1973)
|Pete Duel
|Hannibal Heyes (alias Joshua Smith) (33 episodes, 1971-1972)
Series Directed by
|Jeffrey Hayden
|(8 episodes, 1971-1973)
|Alexander Singer
|(8 episodes, 1971-1972)
|Jack Arnold
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|Barry Shear
|(5 episodes, 1971)
|Richard Benedict
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|Fernando Lamas
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|Gene Levitt
|(2 episodes, 1971)
|Richard C. Bennett
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|Jeff Corey
|(2 episodes, 1972)
|Bruce Wilson
|(unknown episodes)
Series Writing credits
|Glen A. Larson
|(50 episodes, 1971-1973)
|Roy Huggins
|(44 episodes, 1971-1973)
|Dick Nelson
|(8 episodes, 1971-1972)
|Nicholas E. Baehr
|(6 episodes, 1971-1972)
|Robert Hamner
|(3 episodes, 1971)
|William D. Gordon
|(2 episodes, 1971-1972)
|David Moessinger
|(2 episodes, 1971-1972)
|Howard Browne
|(2 episodes, 1971)
|Gloryette Clark
|(2 episodes, 1972)
|Jo Swerling Jr.
|(unknown episodes)
Series Produced by
|Roy Huggins
|executive producer (49 episodes, 1971-1973)
|Jo Swerling Jr.
|associate executive producer / producer (42 episodes, 1971-1973)
|Glen A. Larson
|producer (38 episodes, 1971-1972)
|Steve Heilpern
|associate producer (34 episodes, 1971-1973)
|Nicholas E. Baehr
|associate producer (13 episodes, 1971-1972)
Series Original Music by
|John Andrew Tartaglia
|(30 episodes, 1971-1973)
|Pete Rugolo
|(8 episodes, 1971-1972)
|Robert Prince
|(3 episodes, 1971)
Series Cinematography by
|Gene Polito
|(24 episodes, 1971-1973)
|William Cronjager
|(17 episodes, 1971-1972)
|John M. Stephens
|(9 episodes, 1971)
Series Film Editing by
|John J. Dumas
|(12 episodes, 1971-1973)
|Albert J.J. Zúñiga
|(12 episodes, 1971-1972)
|Richard Bracken
|(9 episodes, 1971-1972)
|Gloryette Clark
|(8 episodes, 1971-1972)
|Thomas McMullen
|(3 episodes, 1972)
|Bob Kagey
|(2 episodes, 1971)
Series Art Direction by
|Phillip Bennett
|(34 episodes, 1971-1973)
|Robert Emmet Smith
|(12 episodes, 1971)
Series Set Decoration by
|Bert Allen
|(35 episodes, 1971-1973)
|Joseph J. Stone
|(12 episodes, 1971)
Series Costume Design by
|Grady Hunt
|(1 episode, 1971)
Series Makeup Department
|Larry Germain
|hair stylist (1 episode, 1971)
|Bud Westmore
|makeup artist (1 episode, 1971)
Series Production Management
|Carl Beringer
|unit manager (21 episodes, 1972-1973)
|Ben Bishop
|unit manager (14 episodes, 1971)
|Bud Brill
|unit manager (10 episodes, 1971)
|Burt Astor
|unit manager (4 episodes, 1971)
Series Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
|John Gaudioso
|assistant director (19 episodes, 1971-1972)
|G. Warren Smith
|assistant director (11 episodes, 1971-1972)
|Richard C. Bennett
|assistant director (9 episodes, 1971-1973)
|Jack Doran
|assistant director (6 episodes, 1971)
|Ralph Ferrin
|assistant director (2 episodes, 1971)
Series Sound Department
|Earl Crain Jr.
|sound (22 episodes, 1971-1972)
|Robert R. Bertrand
|sound (21 episodes, 1971-1973)
|David H. Moriarty
|sound (3 episodes, 1971)
|Edwin S. Hall
|sound (2 episodes, 1971)
Series Stunts
|Diamond Farnsworth
|stunts (4 episodes, 1972-1973)
|Steven Burnett
|stunts (unknown episodes)
|William H. Burton Jr.
|stunts (unknown episodes)
|Harold 'Hal' Frizzell
|stunts (unknown episodes)
|Jimmy Nickerson
|stunts (unknown episodes)
|Bill Raymond
|stunts (unknown episodes)
Series Camera and Electrical Department
|Doug Mathias
|best boy electric / best boy: Electric (41 episodes, 1971-1973)
|Ronald McLeish
|gaffer (30 episodes, 1971-1973)
Series Costume and Wardrobe Department
|Vincent Dee
|costume supervisor (14 episodes, 1971)
Series Editorial Department
|Richard Belding
|editorial supervisor (50 episodes, 1971-1973)
|Ron Meredith
|assistant film editor (unknown episodes)
Series Music Department
|Billy Goldenberg
|composer: theme music (49 episodes, 1971-1973)
|Hal Mooney
|music supervisor (12 episodes, 1972-1973)
Series Other crew
|Nicholas E. Baehr
|executive story consultant (12 episodes, 1972-1973)
|Arthur E. McLaird
|assistant: producer / assistant to producer (6 episodes, 1971-1972)
In the UK this gentle, unassuming western series stormed straight into
viewers' hearts; garnered enormous audiences, and generated many fond
memories... how many among us still recall the 'five pat-hand' poker
trick? Lots and lots, I'd wager.
What made it so successful, in retrospect, was the thoroughness of the script preparation and the subsequent chemistry between the two leads. Roy Huggins' (aka John Thomas James) thoughtful and professional approach was everywhere. Many of the most memorable moments within the series were based upon fact and/or documented historical incidents e.g. soap selling dodges, poker escapades, safe-cracking attempts, and - although I was unaware of this as a child - it explains why so much of the series' background 'hung true'. Toss in the amiable, laconic tit-tat verbal interplay between Hannibal Heyes (Pete Duel) and Kid Curry (Ben Murphy)... and you ended up with small-screen magic.
Heyes followed the silver-tongued, 'I can talk us out of this calamity' approach, with endless undinted confidence and zest, but varying success; Curry, meanwhile, was content to watch him 'wing-it', then stepped in when catastrophe threatened - as it often did.
It was the 'little things' that made this series soar, the consistency of character, the fallibility, the kicks of fate that tweaked Heyes and Curry into two magnetically likable 'pretty good bad men'. The delicate interplays between two men who would 'do to ride the river'.
It was often the smallest stories that were the most successful, the ones where technically 'not a lot was happening'. For example, in one episode they got snowed-in, for the whole winter, in a remote mountain cabin... all very static? nope, just the opposite... what you got, was a heck of a lot of Heyes and Curry getting on with the business of making the best of a bad deal. Fantastic.
This is the 'less is more' approach; so often lauded - but oh so rarely allowed onto the screen. The actors gelled with their characters; the characters enthralled; the writing created an environment within which the ensemble could thrive.
So okay... some episodes were better than others, a couple were great, and a couple were not-so great; but through it all Smith & Jones bantered and bickered, won, lost, and kept on trying. It was joyous entertainment. Joyous.
What's that, you said? Naw... can't be... d'you mean, you really don't know the 'five pat-hand' poker trick?!
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Interested in catching an IPO on the rebound?
If you're not familiar with what's even implied in that question, you might want to check out a piece written by David Sterman, a veteran writer with StreetAuthority.
As Sterman puts it, many young companies come public with unrealistically high expectations, "as sales growth is often front-loaded before the offering (to make the IPO more attractive) and expenses quickly spike after the deal (as the IPO funds start to get deployed into growth initiatives)."
As a result, he writes, shares often swoon before quarterly results improve. "That's the perfect time to catch a young IPO," he adds.
Famous IPOs of recent years like Twitter and Facebook are beyond that stage. While Twitter has clawed its way back to where it was trading when it debuted, Facebook has done much more than that.
But Sterman's research has come up with three other companies that "stumbled out of the gate" after going public earlier this year. He writes that these companies—electric utility Opower (ticker: OPWR OPWR -1.267056530214425% Opower Inc. U.S.: NYSE USD10.13 -0.13 -1.267056530214425% /Date(1427835853032-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 246822 AFTER HOURS USD10.13 % Volume (Delayed 15m) : 1200 P/E Ratio N/A Market Cap 520541117.874527 Dividend Yield N/A Rev. per Employee 222598 More quote details and news » ), online coupon provider Coupons.com ( COUP COUP 1.4693171996542782% Coupons.com Inc. U.S.: NYSE USD11.74 0.17 1.4693171996542782% /Date(1427835978414-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 506181 AFTER HOURS USD11.737 -0.00300000000000011 -0.02555366269165247% Volume (Delayed 15m) : 17446 P/E Ratio N/A Market Cap 957035697.947082 Dividend Yield N/A Rev. per Employee 401741 More quote details and news » ) and Borderfree ( BRDR BRDR -2.2764227642276422% Borderfree Inc. U.S.: Nasdaq USD6.01 -0.14 -2.2764227642276422% /Date(1427835600170-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 74518 AFTER HOURS USD6.01 % Volume (Delayed 15m) : 5982 P/E Ratio N/A Market Cap 197089058.49905 Dividend Yield N/A Rev. per Employee 543255 More quote details and news » ), which helps online retailers conduct global transactions—are poised to win back investors as they finally deliver on the promise they showed as private companies.
Sterman cautions that not all IPOs take off immediately. "Some companies need to prove themselves over a series of quarters until investors grow to trust management," he adds. "Yet once these companies build a solid track record, they can build an ever-growing base of shareholders that pushes shares up to fresh highs."
Now that stocks are beginning to fall after months of steady gains, many investors are wondering if the five-year-old bull market will give way to a correction or, even worse, a bear market. In such environments, long/short strategies practiced by hedge funds often have a competitive advantage over long-only investments.
The problem, however, is that only so-called "accredited investors are legally allowed to invest with hedge funds because of the perceived risks," write Rob Copeland and Gregory Zuckerman of The Wall Street Journal. "And even if an investor vaults over this threshold—defined as an individual whose annual income tops $200,000 and whose net worth exceeds $1 million, excluding a primary residence—hedge funds generally charge hefty fees of about 20% of any gains and about 2% of assets annually."
For investors who either lack the net worth to qualify for hedge funds or for those who simply don't want to pay hedge-fund fees, the article offers up a number of alternatives, such as mutual funds that employ long/short investing strategies.
The article also discusses a new area of hedge-fund-like investing: "Sometimes called "replication" funds and other times "liquid beta," these vehicles try to imitate the performance of hedge-fund benchmarks, much like an exchanged-traded fund tries to produce the results of an underlying index," the article states.
But the article points out one problem for such index-oriented funds: "Most successful wealthy investors look for hedge funds that beat their peers, not match them. And if hedge funds continue to do worse than the overall stock market, investors betting on the broad hedge-fund sector could have regrets," the piece adds
By now, I suspect that most readers of this column are aware that Rupert Murdoch, chief executive of 21st Century Fox ( FOX FOX -0.8144796380090498% 21st Century Fox Inc. Cl B U.S.: Nasdaq USD32.88 -0.27 -0.8144796380090498% /Date(1427835600299-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 2501945 AFTER HOURS USD32.88 % Volume (Delayed 15m) : 32696 P/E Ratio 7.682242990654205 Market Cap 71955059576.0262 Dividend Yield 0.9124087591240876% Rev. per Employee 1207630 More quote details and news » ), has withdrawn Fox's offer to acquire Time Warner. According to various press accounts, Murdoch, who is also executive chairman of News Corp., the parent of this Website, was put off both by Time Warner's apparent hostility to the prospect of a deal and the "response of his own shareholders, who have been driving the price of Fox's stock down since news of the offer broke, fearing he would overpay to secure victory."
But just three weeks ago when the offer was announced, the financial media were writing about the proposed deal as if it were practically a fait accompli.
As the New York Times put it at the time, "Mr. Murdoch is determined and unlikely to walk away anytime soon, people briefed on the matter said."
Well, it's only been three weeks and Murdoch has walked away—at least for now. In the process, Time Warner's stock has fallen after shooting up in anticipation that the press knew what it was talking about.
It's quite possible that the final chapter has yet to be written on this drama. Still, the turn of events should be a lesson for those who think that mergers-and-acquisitions dramas can be scripted in advance.
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau's feelings-first philosophy provided the rationale behind the worst atrocities of the French Revolution. View Enlarged Image
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France's bloody revolution in 1789 was viewed by the rest of Europe as a descent into madness.
What, after all, could cause such an insurrection that not only prompted the murder of the king and queen on scurrilous charges of "treason" but replaced them with the first modern "people's" dictatorship?
Executions were carried out willy-nilly. Religious faith was repressed and families came under attack from a bizarre new state "deity" that sought to replace parents.
Private property was expropriated, and individuals became worker ants to be shaped by state dictates and "education."
If this sounds totalitarian, it was. The atrocities of the French Revolution have since been echoed in Lenin's and Stalin's Soviet Union, Mao Tse-tung's China, Castro's Cuba, Pol Pot's Cambodia and other criminal regimes all associated with the radical left.
But France's transformation came not through the imposition of force or the misjudgments of a well-meaning democracy. It came from the spread of propaganda among large groups of people, a secular sort of faith that sought to "possess men in all their powers."
It was a propaganda in which the state was glorified above the individual and all state actions were justified. Propaganda made it possible for a poorly informed people longing for democracy to embrace just the opposite.
The originator of such indoctrination, in fact, was a Frenchman — Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778), the enlightenment philosopher whose state-over-individual ideas employed propaganda as a tool for reshaping human nature, and whose writing amounted to propaganda in itself.
"Those who control a people's opinion control its actions," he believed.
Coming to public attention as the aristocratic orders broke down, Rousseau's influence was so profound it didn't matter that he had actually died 11 years before the Bastille was stormed in 1789. When the French Revolution ignited, his propaganda was its jet fuel.
The son of a Swiss watchmaker, Rousseau had failed in a half-dozen professions and lived off lonely rich women. He had not only a natural aversion to the status quo. He believed he had "a unique love for humanity and had been endowed with unprecedented gifts and insights to increase its felicity," wrote English historian Paul Johnson in "Intellectuals."
Johnson called Rousseau "the first modern intellectual" and a "practiced con man" whose ego enabled him to equate any hostility directed at him with hostility to truth.
Such absolutism, along with his record of personal failings, placed him at odds with the establishment and informed what he envisioned as a new sort of state, a utopia to replace the monarchies of Europe.
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Too Much Uninformed Chatter About Firearms, Gun 'Control'
"The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their right name."
-Ancient Chinese proverb
On Saturday, I was watching FOX News when one of their liberal contributors, while talking about gun "control," mentioned ammunition clips and magazines. She proceeded to complain about people making such a big deal regarding the differences between the two, displaying an attitude of "it doesn't really matter."
At which point I changed the TV channel.
Her ignorance regarding firearms is representative of what I've been witnessing in the gun "control" conversation after the Newtown, Connecticut, mass shooting. While this lack of knowledge about guns and their so-called "control" existed before, never have I've seen it so magnified to the degree it's being displayed these days by politicians, journalists, bloggers, activists, Main Street, what have you.
Granted, a lot less Americans have grown up around guns than previous generations.
Still, pushing uniformed opinion as fact is inexcusable.
Which is why I'm going to suggest everyone who wishes to participate in the ongoing discussion about guns gets informed.
At risk of sounding like that talking head.
And subsequently getting tuned out by your audience.
This is what I recommend. First, learn as much as you can about firearms. There's a lot of free, quality introductory material on these personal safety tools out there on the Internet. Query "gun basics" in a search engine and see what turns up.
Second, download and read Gun Facts, a free firearm reference book by Guy Smith I first blogged about back in December 2010. Regularly-updated, it's now on version 6.1. From their website:
Gun Facts is a free e-book that debunks common myths about gun control. It is intended as a reference guide for journalists, activists, politicians, and other people interested in restoring honesty to the debate about guns, crime, and the 2nd Amendment.
Gun Facts has 112 pages of information. Divided into chapters based on gun control topics (assault weapons, ballistic finger printing, firearm availability, etc.), finding information is quick and easy.
Any doubts over what's presented in Gun Facts? Try and debunk what's been claimed.
I wrote in that December 2010 post:
While researching personal safety issues, it's amazing how often I see people put forth arguments about guns without knowing the facts (now that I think about it, this just doesn't apply to firearms). I learned a long time ago that if you want others to take you seriously- you've got to know what you're talking about."
I still feel the same way more than two years later. It's time to get serious and learn the facts if you haven't done so already.
Being an uninformed fool is one thing. However, pulling stuff out of one's butt doesn't cut it in a discussion about firearms and gun "control" where the implications of widely-disseminated misinformation can lead to future restrictions on a Constitutional right.
Gun Facts version 6.1 can be downloaded for free here.
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Damn straight. Unfortunately, even a number of people that know better are making inane statements these days. Very saddening.
Everyone really needs to step back and consider the gravity of restricting the constitutional rights of 240 million adults based upon the actions of a few troubled individuals.
tj & the bear on
December 24th, 2012
'restricting the constitutional rights of 240 million adults'
So the minority then.
Btw, who does the census.?
Ld Elon on
December 26th, 2012
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Im sorry but it just wasnt tht great, and yeah, good animation but it was just slightly boring, maybe add a proper background or some more characters, instead of two. Overall a 5/10
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ok but could be a little funneir and no offence i just found it weird
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^ People would view Picard unfavourable (like Sisko did) no matter if he had no choice in the matter or not. It is very human off us to what to have someone else to blame for any pain or suffering we experience. They would not care that if assimilated that Picard had no control over his actions, they would say he should have resisted more or killed himself before he led an attack that killed 11,000 of his colleagues and civilians.
As for Sisko I don't see how he can be considered a coward. His ship was disabled and about to explode, abandoning ship was what should be done. Against the Borg it brings up an interesting question that I can't remember been dealt with on TV, that by evacuating the ship you could be delivering your crew and their families straight into the hands of the Borg. Wouldn't be surprised if there aren't Starfleet officers who would think that not evacuating the ship and guarranteeing the death of all onboard would be the right/best course of action then letting them live on as part of the Borg Collective.
I always thought that missed a trick on DS9 - a reasonable borg story that could have been done (if handled right) is that Sisko and the crew encounter the borg and one of the drones is Jennifer, who wasn't actually as dead as they thought.
Yeah, I think Babylon 5 already covered that turf with Sheridan's wife
As for Sisko and Picard, I can easily see why people would view Picard as a traitor to the Federation; very likely a rep that wasn't helped when he allowed Hugh to return to the Borg without the Borg comp-virus installed in him. And I don't see Sisko as a coward, he had to get off the ship and save his son and as many people as he could. All though I can very well see other Wolf survivors blaming themselves for not staying and fighting-- survivor's guilt and all that.
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