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I've been to some weddings this summer; maybe you have too. So, I know wedding banquets—receptions we call them now—are interesting affairs. The table seating is quite complicated and placement of the tables tells you everything you need to know about who's who at the wedding. The head table is for the bride and groom. Sometimes the bridesmaids and groomsmen, but I officiated a wedding a few weeks ago where the bride and groom sat all alone at the head table. In either case, the rest of us, family and guests, can generally judge our importance to the bride and groom by how close our table is to their table. We know where we are supposed to sit based on numbers and nametags. A high table number not only gets you close to the bride and groom; it also gets you first in line for the food.
This would not so much be the case for the wedding banquet Jesus is referencing in today's gospel. Things were probably a bit more chaotic for this wedding. Weddings and banquets lasted for much longer, days even in those days, with people coming and going all the time. Lamps running out of oil—see Matthew 25; stewards running out of wine—see John 2; and grooms being duped by the father-in-law into marrying the wrong daughter—see Genesis 29. It's a mess. No one knows where to sit.
Think of that mess when you hear Jesus say: "when you are invited by someone to a wedding banquet, do not sit down at the place of honor…" Jesus could be helping us save face. In all that chaos without nametags and table numbers, you might think you're best friends with the bride and should be sitting close to the head table. But you've only known the bride for the years you were in college together, even if these are some of the most intense years of your life. What about all those cousins she grew up with every Thanksgiving and Fourth of July, visiting grandparents, celebrating anniversaries? What about those teammates from high school who won the state championship in the 10th grade, or the two best friends from kindergarten? It is true that you're close to bride, but are you that close?
Here's a way to make sure. Sit down low; sit at the back of the room; sit where no one else wants to be; and wait to be invited closer to the front. Wouldn't that be a lot more fun than plopping down at Table 2 only to be told, "Oh so sorry. My third cousin once removed has to sit there." Heck, in North Carolina, you can marry your first cousin; but who even knows their third cousins? It would be embarrassing to have to give up your seat for the bride's great-grandmother's brother's great-granddaughter's daughter. That would be a third cousin once removed… I think…
By talking about wedding reception seating arrangements, Jesus is really teaching us about humility. Humility? We're going to talk about humility here at Duke? "Duke Humility" would be a great answer for your high school English teacher's question: "Who can give me an oxymoron?" We all should raise our hands and say, "Duke Humility." All joking aside, Duke is not a humble place. We strive to be the best medical center, have the best sports teams, assemble the best student body. And we should. But because of this, because of being told by Christoph Guttentag every year at freshmen convocation just how great we are, it's sometimes hard to understand what Jesus is talking about. How does humility fit into a place like Duke with a slogan like "Outrageous Ambition"? Fun fact: I was an undergraduate here when then President Terry Sanford coined the phrase "outrageously ambition." Dear old Uncle Terry…
How do we think rightly about humility in the middle of ambition? Jesus knows how hard it is to think rightly, so he focuses on some basic behavior—things to do that we don't have to think about:
- Sit there, not here.
- Invite those folks to dinner, not these folks.
What we do can become who we are, if we do it long enough.
John Wesley offered similar advice to his early circuit riding preachers who were sometimes confused about complex theological matters. He said to them, "Preach faith until you have it." Wesley is saying, "Speak faithfully, behave faithfully, until you become a faithful person." Jesus is saying, "Do humble things until you become a humble person." Jesus and Wesley want us to form good habits that lead to faithful behavior.
Jesus does not want us humble for humility's sake, but humble because this is an accurate representation of God's desire for our lives. It helps us remember that all these things we have—intelligence, meal plans, medical care, national champions, may all be things we work to achieve, but we can only work at them because we have God-given ability enabling such work. Our ambition, outrageous though it be, is carefully contained within the humble acceptance of God's good gifts. Since humility does not come naturally to us in this place of the great oxymoron, we have to consciously practice it.
- Sit there, not here.
- Invite those folks to dinner, not these folks.
It's a simple thing. Sometimes I think we want our faith practices to be really hard, so we can toil over them, get the desired results, and then rest on our laurels. We want it to be like all those hours we spent studying for the SAT or ACT and were rewarded with a perfect score on the critical reading section. But then once we got our perfect scores, we never looked at the test study guide again or attended another Kaplan review session. Faith is not a goal we reach and then move on to the next thing: GREs, MCATs, LSATs. Faith never comes to an end. It's the continuous patterning of our lives.
Some of us who reveal in challenge and accomplishment want our faith to be some kind of endurance test with a climatic ending. Something like:
- The Apostle Paul writing from his prison cell in Rome
- Bishop Polycarp being burned at the stake for refusing to worship Caesar
- David Livingstone crisscrossing the continent of Africa until he finally dies from malaria
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer hanged in a Nazi concentration camp
We want to do great things and Jesus tells, "Just sit here at the back of the room." Turns out we can't be burned at the stake until we've learned to sit at the back of the room. Most of us won't have the chance to be burned at the stake anyway, but we can all think more carefully about what it means to sit at the back of the room.
What it doesn't mean is we sit there with an ear cocked toward the front, waiting for a summons to move up. We sit at the back of the room because this is the place where we encounter God. God is always the host of the banquet, checking on our comfort, offering us the best bites, ensuring that everyone feels included. We receive this hospitality, even at the back of the room, especially at the back of the room. And if we're asked to move up closer to the front it's not because we've accomplished anything, it's because God is calling us to a new place and offering us the chance to learn a new faith habit.
Until that happens we stay at the back and practice being humble until being humble is a way of life. We practice inviting people to dinner who can't return the favor until hospitality without expecting anything in return is a way of life. We practice being faithful until acting faithfully is a way of life. Sometimes we even practice without knowing what it will look like when we finally become the way we've been acting. Today we get to practice eating at a banquet, this banquet where all you can do is sit at the back of the room and receive, receive the bread of life and the cup of salvation. And you will be blessed. Amen.
Jennifer Copeland
United Methodist Chaplain, Duke University


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Jens - I dig the duck...wow, this sounds cool...and also this devil icon of course...
el kyrre - thx...it wants me? COME GET SOME, crazy lil' pig!
fletchgirl - nice gorilla indeed...but i can see a little 5-year-old John Lennon there in the second :p My box is full? Did you get a message because of this? I never got a message...anyway deleted 80 % of my inbox...hmmm...
egerie - wow! There was a lot under your carpet, eh? This wiping cat with the "no-pic"-icons is hilarious...they are meant as this icon, or?
This seems to become a funny thread...keep coming...
Last edited by Fozzybar; March 14th, 2003 at 12:01 PM.
ah, but John Lennon didn't have the beatle haircut and the glasses at the same time... mixing!!! actually, after i posted this i got the strange feeling the kid looked exactly like my 8th grade teacher, Miss Bowles. that was a frightening woman.
Here's a playmate!
cool thread Idea Fozzy!
arggg must post art in here soon...
Ok...time to bump this thread again...
I don't know what i was thinking when drawing this...i guess i don't want to know at all...probably it would be better for myself...
Come on, guys! Post your sick cartoony creatures!
hahah, nice dali moustache...
Fozzybear : well it's a late late reply but...
You're absolutely right. I did this when I was on Enayla's board and when you're a noobie, your title is "Keep's floor sweeper" or something like that. At the time there were so many broken links related to geocities and such that someone had to do the cleanup y'know ? T'was my little introduction pic and Enayla asked if I could make it available as a "smilie" item.This wiping cat with the "no-pic"-icons is hilarious...they are meant as this icon, or?
fletchgirl : scary teacher !
P.S. : I'm glad to see this thread bumped up and currently resisting the urge to flood it again ;D
My contribution..."Zoit"
Looking forward to vectorizing this one.
Cool topic!
this is one in a series of 5... they are called postcards from under my bed. ever wonder where your socks go? mwahahahaa.. ewwwww.
hey fozzy!!!
das is mal ein thread nach meinem geschmack!!!
es müsste noch mehr dieser art geben...
see you later:p :chug: :chug: :beer:
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Steve Lambe.
Great thread!
Here are some Covers that I did for the german MAD Magazine:
Lucky...a rabbit version of me.
The Bad Yolk Gang from my Exclamation-X cast of characters
General Zarack...a cartoon version of a comic villain I came up with back in Junior High.
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Yes...now the thread gets on with it!
Cool posts by everyone!
Fitz - I can hear voices in the distance..."VECTORIZE! VECTORIZE! VECTORIZE!"...
theukelele - Haha, funny style there...
onik2 - Ich vertrete wohl hier die Cartoon-Ecke im Mod-Bereich...ich werde die Fahne aufrecht erhalten... :chug:
bfaubion - great idea...:thumbsup:...but which monster hides my glasses always???
Lambey - The second one reminds me of Ren&Stimpy...you're awesome!
Robolus - I bought many Mad's as i was a kid...i liked the drawings of Sergio Aragones a lot...thank you!
Teyon - Burp and Chirp! Hilarious!!! :p
For Fozzy!!!!!
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Fading Oasis
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My hero!!!
one new...
First post really i think...only just been able to open a PhotoBucket Account.
Deviant Art sux.
Only A quick..sketch..done using a wacom graphire 2.
It fitted cartoon creature thread though .
that is nice
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We start with part #2 of the multi-part Samsung NX10 review at Enticing the Light. Staying tuned for the dramatic conclusion in part #3! Will the NX10 stay with the NX5 or go for the more tactile NC110? ;-)
Next up, a review of a suddenly-hot camera, the Casio EX-FH100 at Info Sync World. We'll have more on the reactions of the dpreview superzoom group test later today (other things equal).
Another popular camera is the Canon Ixus 300HS (SD4000 IS, Ixy 30S), and this time it has received a new review at Photo Review.
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John Watson is the man behind Stone Country - the book publisher and website that follows bouldering in Scotland. In this article John takes an illustrated look at what went on in Scotland in 2007, including ascents from the multi-talented Dave MacLeod, Ben Litster, Richie Betts, Mike Tweedley, Dave 'Cubby" Cuthbertson, Ian Taylor, Lawrence Hughes, Mike Lee, Tim Rankin, Colin Lambton, Dave Wheeler, Tom Charles-Edwards, Alan Cassidy, Malcolm Smith, and Niall McNair.
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Posted July 15, 2013 at 10:16 am
Many of our members are looking for long-term ways to steadily grow their investment portfolio – especially when the financial instrument of choice (in this case, municipal bonds) is found at a bargain.
The recent "taper-tantrum" over the Fed's potential coming removal of quantitative easing has caused quite some unrest in the bond market. This has caused interest rates, in particular longer term rates (10yrs +) to move substantially higher across the board.
Long-term munis were no exception and the sell off has left some compelling value in long term munis for long term investors.
The chart below takes a long term look (from 1954) at the 20 year muni bond buyer index vs. the 20 year US Treasury. Data points are monthly and can be found at the Federal Reserve site. I also charted the spread between the two and US inflation measured by the CPI-All items (I use a 3 month moving average of the annualized monthly figures.
Two important things to note in the chart. In general, long rates follow inflation. Rates rose from the early fifties all the way through the late 70s, early 80s, and have been in a downtrend since, largely due to inflation. Starting around 2000, things change a bit.
Inflation is pretty much flat but rates trend down anyway, most likely due to lower real economic growth. The point is that inflation is a major part of nominal interest rates.
The second thing to note in the chart is that the spread between 20yr munis and the 20yr UST went negative (meaning munis yield more than UST) during the financial crisis and have not been positive since.
For example, currently 20 yr munis yield about 4.37% vs 20 yr UST at 3.11%. And that's not taking into account the tax benefit from munis. In other words, since the financial crisis investors think the credit risk associated with munis far outweighs any tax benefit. This has never been the case in the past. There are several confusing factors here that are worth simplifying.
There is a saying the "you eat real returns". Basically, after inflation, real, returns are what matter to your quality of life. I'd go one further and add taxes to that so what's important to look at are after tax real returns.
I took the long term data from the chart above and subtracted out inflation and taxes (assuming a mild 25% nominal rate). The table below shows the results before and after adjustment… (continue reading)
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Posted July 9, 2013 at 9:09 am
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From Fuzz K.
Hello guys…
I'm a new subscriber to your service and decided to perform some additional due diligence in researching further into binary options trading.
Following your suggestions, I've followed up on the reputations for _______ and ______ {Binary Options brokers revealed within Wealth Vault Member Area}. I've got bad reviews from both of them by a seasoned 10-year veteran of binary options, and he explained in full details how binary options brokers make money, and how they profit off of their members making a losing bet.
Explained also was that the majority of these brokers are horrible at paying out, in fact delaying where they can, changing spreads, pushing bonuses just to keep you locked in, and a whole slew of other tactics.
The foreign, unregulated brokers are bad, and the only suggested brokers are ___________ for Americans, and ____________ for non-Americans. The reasons these two are seemingly legit is because they are on a commission structure, and regulated by CFTC.
Can you please research these two brokers and beta-test with them and give us your take, on behalf of your subscribers?
Here is Brad's in-depth response:
Welcome aboard Fuzz. My hat's off to you for digging deeper into the highly-speculative and sometimes shady world of binary options trading.
What's important to understand though, is that most of what you'll find on blogs, forums and YouTube are people's subjective opinions, not objective facts… which is why I take a lot of what I read and hear on the internet with a grain of salt.
There are several nuances to binary option trading that many newbies aren't aware of. So let me share some of the most relevant ones with you which will hopefully give you a broader and more balanced perspective.
To begin with, "offshore" European style binary options brokers (such as _____________, _____________, etc.) are by definition, like a casino. I use the casino analogy because they all pretty much work the same way.
If you go to Caesar's Palace in Vegas and you play and win, you're winning the house's money. If you lose, you're losing money to the house. The same is true with non-regulated binary options brokers.
However, even though you're essentially playing in a 'sandbox' with them (since they're not trading on a central exchange), the fact of the matter is, _____________ and its international counterpart, __________________, are not the only way to go for EVERYONE just because some self-professed 10-year veteran trader says so.
By the way, ________________ and ______________ are regulated trading exchanges and clearing houses, NOT brokers.
Professional gamblers have proven that the house can be beaten and that you can make money from them IF you know what you're doing. That percentage is similar to winning in Forex, binary options, or any other market where an average of 95% of the people lose their money and only 5% make money.
But we both know they didn't build Caesar's Palace or the MGM Grand because people consistently make money in casinos. Most people lose money in casinos AND trading… yet they still continue to gamble and play the markets.
The small percentage that make money are either a) just lucky or b) understand gaming and mathematics really well.
If you can count cards, you can still make money at blackjack no matter what… well, as long as you don't get caught by the casinos. 'Cause they won't let you play if you consistently beat 'em over any length of time.
Let me tie this stuff into how it relates to non-regulated binary brokers…
Have you ever met anyone who would go into a casino, play a few hands of blackjack and win, and then go home right after?
Me neither…
Because what's better than winning?…
Winning MORE!
In general, when people win, they play more. When they lose, they play more. The more they play, the more chances there are to lose… and most lose in the long run because they overtrade.
Binary brokers make their money on volume, which is why they don't mind paying winners.
Plus, when the winners share their profitable experience with others, it attracts others to get open up brokerage accounts so they can get in the game too.
As you've already learned, Fuzz, just like casinos, binary brokers don't give anything away for free. Nobody gives anything away for free ? there's an ulterior motive.
In our Binary Options vendor review inside The Wealth Vault, I cover how brokers' terms and conditions work and the type of trading volume that's required in order to qualify for the bonuses. We want members to go into it with eyes wide open, so they know what to expect if they choose to accept them.
Personally, I don't like having any restrictions on withdrawing my money, so I avoid accepting any bonuses and free trade offers altogether.
And speaking of withdrawals, the main issue I've seen happen over and over is that people naively sign up for the bonuses, then try to pull out their original investment and realize they can't due to the terms and conditions they agreed to when they accepted the bonus.
That's when people start slamming the brokers on forums. The truth is, the majority of binary options brokers operate professionally (including _____________ and ___________________, which we haven't received member complaints about), but there's been nothing stopping unscrupulous companies from swindling unsuspecting investors and traders.
This is about to change, though, as CySec, the financial regulatory agency of Cyprus, recently announced its intention to begin regulating binary options brokers who set up shop there.
Last year, CySec acknowledged that binary options trading should fall under the umbrella of the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID). As a result of this ruling, CySec will be in charge of regulating binary options activities from now on.
The other important topic I want to address has to do with the whole appeal of trading European binary options in the first place: SIMPLICITY.
You only have TWO choices: it's either up or down. When you go to a casino, you don't have to think real hard about betting black or red on a roulette wheel.
If you had someone sitting on your shoulder (the Binary Options signals theoretically serve this purpose) telling you two out of three times whether it's going to be red or black, that would be fine. But the problem is it's not a simple UP/DOWN or PUT/CALL with _______ .
It's an entirely different ball game with a MUCH steeper learning curve, requiring you to have to learn how to trade.
As a result, the complexity of the _____________ platform becomes a major obstacle for not only newbies, but for everyone else who's looking for a quick, hassle-free money-making vehicle.
The point is, the average person isn't going to be able to successfully trade binary options on ___________ without having some significant training under their belt first.
The other big difference with ____________ is that it doesn't offer all the expiry times, nor does it offer all the assets you'll find with non-regulated brokers. You can't trade individual stocks on _____________, only indexes, commodities and currencies.
Here's another thing: few people know it, but ___________'s datafeed isn't their own. That's right, they're the exchange, yet they don't even have control of the price feed they provide to traders.
I spoke to ______________ the other day {the founder of Binary Options vendor we reviewed} and he said that his signals (as they currently exist) could potentially be adapted to trade on the _____________ platform.
He's actually been trying to build a step-by-step system and signal service to make _________ simple for the average investor / trader for months. However, the challenge he's running into is that he can't tell you whether you should be buying an asset or selling it.
That's because the strike price must be selected from contracts at strike levels determined by the exchange, not by you the trader.
For example, if you receive a Binary Options signal that says buy the EURUSD pair at 1.30004, if you look at the _____________ platform, it's going to have a strike price of 1.30000 and another strike price of 1.30010.
So you've got a signal that's between the strike prices. Do you buy the one below it, or do you sell the one above it, or vice versa?
Once you get a signal, what are you supposed to do with it? That's the part that's missing; hence, it can get very confusing for the average person who isn't an experienced trader.
So while _________ offers a safer, regulated trading environment, it has a complicated platform that requires a serious learning curve to profit from.
The binary options industry is still in its infancy and it's just a matter of time before things become more and more internationally regulated. It happened with forex and it will happen with binary options as well.
Although I haven't been able to confirm it, I heard a rumor that the well-known forex broker, ___________ is going to take binary options worldwide.
The now defunct futures broker, ___________ was in the process of doing it and actually made a deal with ____________ before they went down, but the bottom line is, nothing can stop a money-growing idea whose time has come… and binary options are hot right now.
Binary options certainly isn't for everyone, especially those who are risk adverse… but I wanted to make sure you were given a more balanced view of the pros and cons that I think need to be taken into consideration. I hope I've accomplished that.
My best,
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Posted July 8, 2013 at 1:23 pm
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Posted July 8, 2013 at 1:12 pm
NOTE: This post was originally shared on December 7, 2012
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For decades, savvy investors have used O.P.M. (other people's money) as a powerful leveraging tool to build wealth. And even though banks are still cautious about lending to consumers, there's a literal goldmine of tax-free money out there waiting for you… that is, IF you know how to properly take advantage of it.
Make no mistake about it, the banks ARE lending (even with today's unstable economy), you just need to know how to qualify for your share of the Billions in stimulus cash the Fed has recently pumped into the system.
And that's where our paid-up Wealth Vault members benefit, because one of the companies listed in our member-only 'rolodex' specializes in helping ordinary people, astute investors, and entrepreneurs get $50,000 to $250,000 in unsecured 0% interest credit cards.
But get this; not only do they NOT charge any back-end commissions based on the cash credit lines they get you (unlike other companies), their flat fee is very fair, and they offer a 60-day money back guarantee for their services. Plus, these credit cards don't show up on your personal credit report.
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Posted January 10, 2013 at 1:48 pm
Investing in contemporary art can be fun and very profitable…
by Harry Newton
This painting sold for $120 million in May 2012, Contemporary art is enjoying a major boom.
It ebbed after 2008, but didn't bust. Now it continues on its parabolic way up, defying all expectations. It is more attractive to look than paperless stock "certificates."
So that's a benefit.
This Edward Munch's #120 million The Scream. This is the closest I could get to it over Christmas at New York's Museum of Modern Art.
You can see it and other more interesting (and cheaper) paintings, like these:
Figure on spending at least four hours. MOMA has grown dramatically in recent years. In addition to their permanent exhibits they have fun ones, like this shadow thingee. You perform in front of this "projector" which transforms your silhouette into wonderful shapes.
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Posted September 6, 2012 at 4:42 pm
by Eddy Elfenbein
Here's a post for new investors or a helpful reminder for more experienced investors.
When you're looking at a company, the single-most important number is return-on-equity. Forget head-and-shoulders, forget bear traps and double bottoms, forget volume, forget stochastics. Return-on-equity tells you more than anything else about how well a company is performing. It's the best measure of efficiency, bar none.
In short, ROE tells us how much we get for how much we got.
ROE can be deconstucted down into three parts (warning, math ahead). Profits margins, asset turnover and leverage.
Think of it this way:
Profit margin is profits divided by sales.
Asset turnover is sales divided by assets.
Leverage is assets (stuff you have) divided by equity (stuff you own).
The beauty of ROE is that it works for every company. You can compare General Electric to a lemonade stand. A company like Wal-Mart may have a teeny profit margin (around 3.5% last year), but incredible asset turnover. Wal-Mart is really just one big inventory control machine. A financial company like JPMorgan has 12 times more assets than equity, but it generates less than a penny of revenue for each dollar of assets.
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Posted August 29, 2012 at 12:17 pm
via Casey Research
In this interview, Doug Casey outlines the difference between savings, investing, and speculation.
He justifies why he would rather risk 10% of his portfolio on speculating for big gains than 100% hoping for just 10% gains.
He also explains why, as safe as you might think it is, the money in your bank account may never be given back to you.
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Posted August 10, 2012 at 9:19 am
via Fidelity Viewpoints
Looking for a bit of optimism in the face of today's daily drumbeat of negative news? Look no further than Fidelity's latest survey on the mindset and recent investing moves of some 1,000 millionaire households.1
While they too see the myriad short-term risks out there for the economy and investors, they are more upbeat on the market outlook a year from now than at any time in the survey's five-year history.
So what are the rich doing with their money? The number one investment added to portfolios in the last year was U.S. equities. And that was regardless of respondents' outlook on the economy, financial goals, or whether they were born into wealth (14%) or made it themselves (86%).
Of course, these successful investors understand the power of building and maintaining an asset allocation mix in line with their personal style, time horizon, and investing goals.
Self-made millionaires report they also added individual domestic bonds and domestic equity mutual fund investments among their top additions, while those who were born wealthy contributed more to real estate investments and bond ETFs.
Growth-oriented millionaires were more interested in adding individual U.S. stocks, international and emerging market stocks, equity ETFs, as well as individual bonds.
On the other hand, wealth preservers were relatively more focused on CDs and other money market equivalents, as well as annuities, though they too cited individual domestic stocks and bonds, equity ETFs, and real estate as top investments in the last year.
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Posted August 9, 2012 at 6:44 pm
by Joe Light
There is reason for optimism. Not only are single-family home prices steadily climbing, but the Joint Center for Housing Studies at Harvard University in a June report said inventories of new, single-family homes in March were at the lowest level in 49 years.
The upshot: It would take fewer than six months to sell the current inventory, the traditional boundary between a strong and weak market, says Eric Belsky, managing director of the center.
To be sure, some promising signals during the recession turned out to be false alarms. In mid-2009, the 20-city S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Index began a yearlong rise, only to fall again. Yale professor Robert Shiller, who called both the early 2000s stock-market crash and the recent real-estate bust, says he isn't certain prices have bottomed.
But even if the absolute nadir hasn't been reached, most economists say the odds are good that real estate will be stronger over the next few years than it has been in the past few.
The easiest way to make a broad bet on home builders is through an ETF, such as SPDR S&P Homebuilders (XHB: 22.43, 0.26, 1.17%) or iShares Dow Jones US Home Construction (ITB: 17.34, 0.31, 1.82%) . Given the market's run-up, however, it might be smarter to stick with specific home-related stocks that have the most room for growth, says Bob Wetenhall, a senior analyst at RBC Capital Markets.
KB Homes (KBH: 10.74, 0.64, 6.34%), for example, has shown improving new-home orders that set it above other home builders, Mr. Wetenhall says. What's more, after accounting for tax benefits that it accrued during the housing downturn, the company's price/book ratio is 1, about 30% below that of other home builders, he says.
Lennar (LEN: 31.49, 0.78, 2.54%), which has a price/book ratio of 1.5 after adjusting for tax benefits, looks expensive next to its peers. But since it gets revenues not only from single-family homes but also multifamily housing and other kinds of real estate, it will be buttressed, Mr. Wetenhall says.
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Posted July 22, 2012 at 7:22 pm
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Good Questions: Small Tubs?
Hello AT,
I'm going to be remodeling my 6x5 bathroom here in Minneapolis where a bathtub remains important for resale.
I've been looking for some small tubs online, but unfortunately everything i can find is only made in Europe with no real shipping to the US.
Are you aware of any manufacturers or retailers in the US or that ship here that would sell a small tub? I'd prefer a semi corner tub so the room doesn't feel quite so small and have more room for storage as we don't have a closet, either. Thank you. Ryan
Ryan, we don't have a silver bullet for you, but here's a gaggle of links where we'd start:
- Trendir - total bathroom weblog
- Cool Japanese tub
- Small clawfoots
- call Waterworks and bug them for an answer
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Kohler Co. makes a 4 x 3ft tub that is deep like a Japanese bath (check their web site by googling Kohler baths). However, it sounds like you need something almost 3 x 3, which is really small.
Good luck.
I'd go for a Japanese-style tub - you lose the abilty to stretch out, but they're deep enough so you can still get submerged, even a 6'-tall gringo like me. Japan does bathtime much better than we do!
There is a really cute (well it is) 4 foot tub at www.antiqueplumber.com/Detail.bok?no=3205. When I lived in California I had one of their 4.5' tubs in a 5' wide space and it worked really well. Don't know if they're looking for a clawfoot though...
Do you think working so hard to preserve the idea of a tub with something so unique (and personal) as a Japanese soaker tub is the best route to go, if resale is the big issue? Especially since I can't imagine a family with kids thinking a soaker tub and a "regular" bath tub are interchangeable, functionality-wise.
Maybe you'd be better off using the space for an enormous (relatively speaking) spa-inspired shower stall.
Or, is there an adjacent closet or room from which to borrow the space to make a more traditional/traditionally-sized tub work?
Just something to consider!
Kind of interesting topic, though I have no solutions to offer. (Sorry, Ryan.) I just moved into a place with a full-size bathtub and a separate shower stall. (It might sound luxurious but it's not...kind of a waste of space.) I was originally thinking of getting rid of the tub and just having a shower and double sinks, but was warned that this would have a dire effect on resale value. Does anyone know how much that really matters?
Thanks for the ideas! There were some helpful links i hadn't seen before. The tub i think would be perfect is the avocado made by Ravak, but it's made in Europe, and since i can't even get a response email from the company, I have doubts i could even have it shipped to the US.
Thanks again
Personally after reading this I realized in approximately 20 years in my apartment I've used my tub to actually sit and soak in less than once a year if that much. I routinely use it only for the shower. And recently when my back was aching found it difficult to get my leg over the tub edge to use the shower never mind sit and soak. I think a separate shower makes a lot more sense. If I ever have the opportunity or space that's the route I'd take.
I feel an AT "tub or shower" poll coming on!!
Ryan -- I have a bathroom that's around 5x5 in my studio. I have "regular" tub that's just shorter than normal. It' maybe 4 feet long but just as wide as a regular tub. I've seen them at Home Depot, among other places... Many of my neighbors have renovated and either put in fancy showers instead or borrowed from the main room and added some bathroom space that way.
A couple other things to consider when it comes to re-sale -- are there, maybe a lot of Japanese folks there in your town who might want just such a thing as this soaking tub once you're ready to sell?
And a difficult thing to calculate, except with your gut (abs as abacus? hmm...) might be if your bathroom IS going to have a spa-like shower (OR this soaking tub), if everything about the surfaces in the bathroom end up looking and feeling luxurious and chic and somehow vaguely spiritually restorative or something, it still might sell just fine, thank you!
The reason I'm saying this is that when I had a tiny bathroom with a huge tub in a building with subway-shaped tiles, I thought it would cool as all get-out to faux paint the top, normal part of the walls to look like mosaic tiles in a subway station, including giving it "name" (Yes... "Curtis Place"), which everyone thought looked real and cool, but some worried how I would ever sell the apartment with such a thing.
Well, my Buyer had loved the view from the window so much he didn't even register on the bathroom at all.
But, a few weeks before the closing, I cut away my name, had that piece of it re-plastered, and the night before the closing I re-painted it with HIS name, and he was thrilled out of his gourd, as I should him and his lawyer (while waiting for 2 hours for Doogie Howzer, Esq. to show up to the closing on the bank's behalf) the picture I had taken of it with my cell phone camera after I had finished it at 2am the night before.
The point is... just because your tastes might seem very, very specific to you, that does NOT mean that you will necessarily have a difficult time at re-sale time. The wisest thing MIGHT be, ultimately, to choose to go ahead and get what YOU really want!
Curtis, can you share your pic of the wall? What a wonderful, thoughtful detail.
Anne -
Not sure how to share those pictures here, but I went ahead and e-mailed them to you -- one of how it looked when it was my apartment, plus the photo I took with my cell phone after having changed the name.
Here in the midwest, all the new housing developments and many real estate ads tout "whirlpool tub with separate shower." I know a few people who have them and they might use the tub once a year. Instead, they use their cramped builder-grade shower. Imagine the shower they could have had by using the space and budget of the unused whirlpool tub?!
We are adding a second floor with 2 baths; the master will have just a shower, the other will have the typical tub/shower combo. We've also been told we should put 2 sinks in the master for resale value. Blah. We have only 1 bathroom and 1 sink now and rarely get in each other's way. We'd rather have the counter space, so 1 sink it is.
Bathtubs are loved by real estate brokers and romantisized by buyers, but they're rarely used. I'm betting the apartment market in Minn. is similar to St. Louis - most apt. dwellers don't have kids.
Jon B, that's funny, because my friend, who is an architect, told my husband (who does compete for sink time with me in the morning) that double sinks are bad for resale value. Honestly, I can't see people caring that much either way, but maybe I'm naive.
The two-sink thing (not being great for resale) surprises me.
Now... must...get...images...of Fiona's strapping husband... clad in a towel, wet from the shower, jockeying for sink position... out of my head... ;)
Anne -
You've convinced me to share the photos of the bathroom in my old apartment, and thanks for walking me through the process. OK, here's the little link to the photos of that. Will have to seriously upgrade the sad version of my own domain website, but here's this, so far.
colon, etc., then www.flickr.com/photos/artycurtis/
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Has anyone seen a 42" long bathtub. One is shown in New Bathroom Idea Book, c 2004 by Andrew Wormer. I've googled it but cannot find the 42" tub.
try www.at-house.net
I am also looking for one, and saw the 42" square in the New Bathroom Idea Book. American Standard makes a 46 x 27, and MTI makes one called Atlantica that is 50".
Does anyone know where to find a 48'x27' bathtub?
Searched everywhere online only to come across clawfoot tubs of this size. Looking for a solid tub, or drop-in. That there's only one bathroom in ths house, need the shower-tub combo. Kerri
Have you thought of checking bathroom fixtures for motor homes and campers
I am remodeling our tiny bathroom and facing the same mini-tub delima. Thanks for the great comments and links. I think I'm convinced that the tub trend is over. Would be nice if you have the space, but really... who is going to relax in a 42" tub?? I would much rather have a giant "rain maker" shower head! I was concerned about buyers looking to bathe pets and babies, but may elect to do a custom (taller) curb, so you can still get 6-8" of splashing depth.
Have you guys looked at the Koler Symbio line? It's available as a soaker and as a whirlpool. It's side starts at 60" long by 42" at one end and 20" at the other. Fits like a corner tub but not so big. It is pricey though.
I looked and had not luck finding a small tub?shower combo. I did run across some motor home tug/shower units but they seem very cheap. The only thing most people need a tub for is to scrub up the kids. Thats why it hurts the re-sale of your home. People need a place to wash their kids, can't do that in a shower. Not only that but those deep Jap tubs are dangerous for kids and so are claws. The safest tubs are not real deep. I wish those shower units were also a tub. The tub would be small but good enough to wash kids in.
MTI's new jentle pet whirlpool is JUST right,don't plan on telling anyone it's a expensive doggie tub or their jeud'eau seated shower;crane's got 2 <5',american standard has 2,the 40x40 ameritech is tempting as is kohler's greek model.STILL can't decide tub or shower or keep searching for the perfect combo.The best site I've found to really help with small space tub/fab shower dilemma is luxaris.com.
We are in a brand new subdivision house and I hate my new corner triangular bathtub. I can't stretch out the same way as in a regular tub and there is all this wasted space that means that the water gets cold before it is six inches deep. So I am lying with my knees up in the air in six inches of water yearning for
my old 5ft cheap tub. Is there any inexpensive way to fix this? Has any one else felt the same?
Hi ,
I need some advice . My bath roon is 4ft wide and 9 ft long . I plan to fit a bath tub .I plan to fit the bath tub lenght wise . 5 ft long bath tub seem too long so i was wondering is a 4.5 ft bath tub does good or is it too small ?
I dont eant the bathroon with out space if fit the 5ft long bath tub then a sink and then closet .
Please help me with the best possible suggestions
I just bought a 1914 home and in the master bedroom is a bathroom. I have a tub in it that is so tiny and have never seen one this small, it is about 3 ft by 3 ft....not sure if it was used for babies or kids....I've googled...trying to find out more about this tub....but have not found anything...anyone have any ideas?
American Standard makes a 4' tub that looks like a standard tub but it of stamped steel and not cast iron. It is called the "Heron 4' recess" and you can find it on their website.
Lasco Bathware offers 2 54" tubs. They say they are available at Home Depot-- but, no Home Depot in the area (at least) seems to carry it. Does anyone know how to get this?
thanks for all the great info on small tubs.
Our only bathroom is 6x6. We'd like a small tub/shower combo, and i would love to surround the tub with glass. We're not interested in the acrylic prefab units. Does anyone have experience with small tub/shower combos?
When I was in Asissi, Italy in 2005, the hotel room had a very short tub/shower combination. The tub also had a bit of elevated seat at one end - low enough you still sat in the water but your legs wouldn't be cramped up. It was really practical and fun to use, but only filled to about waist high. There was a curtain for showering. Does anyone know about this line of products?
I found a Duo-Form RV tub at Dyer RV but it doesn't have an overflow--not up to building code. The Japanese soaker thing is a concern for me with my 3-year-old. There are some incredible Linea Aqua shower sauna units with little tubs but they are really expensive. Maax used to make a corner shower/tub unit but they stopped. There are also compact walk-in tubs for people with disabilities but they're expensive and probably too weird. What I REALLY need is a small tub with a sink at one end because it's not possible to fit both sink and 4' tub (minimum standard tub) into that space. {sigh}
Folks-- just because you have a small space does *not* mean you have to suffer. LineaAqua offers many smaller sized units such as whirlpools, soaking tubs and shower enclosures specifically for situations where space is an issue.
Bath tubs: We have smaller soaking tubs starting at 57 iinches.
Shower Enclosures: we have many styles of completely enclosed shower enclosures starting from 32 x 32 and going up in size.
Steam showers with small soaking tubs: we have steam showers with small soaking tubs starting at 40 x 40.
Please feel free to visit our site and see the products specifically made for smaller baths.
Finding the right product is not easy.. as there are so many different bathroom configurations and layouts.
In europe -- things are *not* regulated.. so you can make a tub, shower or fixture any size.. in the states things are a little different. As there are standards and standard sizes.
I bought the Kohler 4' soaking tub. It's beautiful and has a small footprint, but I won't be able to use it. My contractor says that the downward curve around the edge of the tub, usually for drop-in installation, will be almost impossible to seal properly in my 3 wall alcove. It probably won't be within building code as well (I have a small apartment in NYC) and will probably cause water damage from water trickling down into the floor below. Has anyone else had this problem? I don't have an inch to spare to build out the walls as my bathroom is 50" by 77" and I can't extend into another room. I think my only option now is the American Standard which is not enough to soak in.
Check the American Standard Huron 4' Recess Bathtub at www.americanstandard-us.com
I just saw an old ad from the 1920s in a book called Classic Houses of the Twenties, a reprint of a Loizeaux floorplan book...they have an ad from the Wheeling Sanitary Manufacturing Co. of Wheeling West Virginia showing the "Combination Bath" which is a 44" long by 30" wide tub/shower...it has a lowered foot area where the drain is, looks like about half the floor area and is at one end...they show a kid with his feet in the lowered area and only water up to the top of this recess, but the overflow is up at the top of the whole unit, about a foot above the floor like a normal tub (the dropped foot/drain section would presumably be let down between two floor joists which could complicate plumbing for the trap if height in the floor is limited...easy for a basement below)...the ad has a funny testimonial from the owner of the Mira-Mar Hotel, 6222 Woodlawn Ave in Chicago who was installing many of these in space-saving bathrooms...maybe they could be had in salvage...they offered a china model in corner with left or right drain OR in recess (3 unfinished sides) and a cast-iron model in recess only, all the same dimensions
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This is a really interesting post!
My husband and I have a teeny tiny japanese style soaking tub in our UK home. I have a photo of it on Flickr here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/inteawetrust/2936735251/
It's only 28" across and 30" wide. When you sit in it, the water comes up to your shoulders. For the curious, it's not actually that uncomfortable. I'm about 5'7" and he's about 6 foot, and neither of us finds it too small. With the water being so deep, it is really relaxing.
Our only complaint is that our bathroom is a ridiculously small and awkward layout. (See flickr exhibit numero dos http://www.flickr.com/photos/inteawetrust/2936733803/in/photostream/ ) and there is no space for a step. (And zero space to expand the bathroom AT ALL.) You have to climb on the toilet to get in and out of it and we dislike that. We've been looking to replace the tub but nobody seems to sell them that tiny. We suspect it was custom work from France.
What we will probably do if we refinish the bathroom is to put in a luxury shower with a steamer and a glass door and call it a day. Still, I'm watching this post for any leads on totally tiny tubs!
(PS - don't make fun of our ugly bathroom, haha. I had only just moved in and hate the wood and white, too. It's blue now.)
Here are some sites I've found.
What a great post. I too am shopping for a small tub. My bathroom is 57" wide, but tubs are 60" wide! It makes so sense! I am so frustrated!
I just bought a 54" arcylic tub from Lowes. It is the AquaGlass brand. It is not the most luxurious tub, but it was only $140. It was not on their website, but I called Lowes and asked if they could order it for me from AquaGlass since they carry other products from them....and they did. FYI, the first time I ordered it came cracked.
For very small compact baths try here:
Not sure if they export but it's worth a try.
The manufacturer is in Yorkshire so it might be worth contacting them direct if you're really desperate.
Check out architectural salvage and other resale stores, like Habitat for Humanity's ReStore. I got a 54" tub and a larger whirlpool tub at one run by the city, where contractors take all kinds of replaced building materials. I love the Japanese and European tubs (and Kohler's Greek tub) but they are so expensive, I've even considered building my own or installing a stock watering tub. As for worrying about kids falling in: If you are bathing the kid, the solution is simple: don't fill the tub too full, and don't leave the kid alone for an instant. Those are normal precautions one should take, anyway. If you don't plan to leave water in the tub, why worry? (If you do, perhaps you could get a cover for it to keep the kids out. Make it sturdy enough and they can dance on it but not lift it!)
I would go with a custom tub. I had a custom shower base installed for a small bathroom. It occurs to me that anyone who could do that could do the same thing on a larger scale to make a deep, built-in tub. Otherwise go with the Japanese, and get the whole recirculating water thing. The keep the water recirculating and warm. They leave the water in, which is pretty gross if you are a hairy gaijin like me, but that doesn't mean you would have to.
OK, I had the same question and the suggestion for the RV was the right call. Here's why those who were questioning "why a shower tub" missed the point: I am adding a shower to what was previously a half-bath with a closet. It is the only bathroom that is for a nursery and child's bedroom (so a tub is important, but it doesn't need to be big enough for an adult to soak in). The bedroom might be used as a guest bedroom someday, so those folks would want a shower not a cute baby bathtub.


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