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Don't Know What Stocks to Buy? Try an ETF Instead
By Christy Bieber – Jul 27, 2020 at 7:54AM
ETFs make investing in stocks simple and quick.
For some people, researching stocks and buying shares of individual companies is fun-- and it can also be very profitable. But for others, figuring out what stocks to buy is confusing, and putting in the time researching companies just isn't going to happen.
If you don't want to be an active investor or aren't sure how to start when it comes to picking out individual stocks, you may want to opt for a simpler alternative instead: an Exchange Traded Fund, or ETF.
What is an ETF?
ETFs are baskets of investments that give you exposure to particular asset classes (groups of investments with shared characteristics). When you invest in an ETF, you make one purchase but end up invested in everything the fund owns, including stocks, bonds, or commodities.
ETFs are sold on stock exchanges and you can buy trade them throughout the day. If your broker offers fractional shares, then you may be able to buy partial shares of ETFs as well as individual stocks.
Most ETFs are passively managed (there's no fund manager personally selecting stocks) and they track the performance of financial indexes, such as the S&P 500 index. However, some ETFs do have managers, and there are also ETFs that use specific kinds of investing strategies beyond just buying every stock on an index.
Why is an ETF an ideal option if you don't know what stocks to buy?
If you aren't sure what individual stocks to buy, ETFs make picking investments much easier.
You could, for example, opt for an ETF that tracks the performance of the stock market, such as the Vanguard S&P 500 (VOO -0.74%) or the Vanguard Total Stock Market (VTI -0.63%). Both provide an easy way to diversify, with the S&P fund spreading your money around the 500 largest publicly traded U.S. companies while the Total Stock Market fund provides exposure to all investable U.S. securities including small and mid-sized companies too. Since you're basically investing in a little of everything with these funds, you're limiting your risk and should see reasonable returns over time since the market as a whole usually averages around a 10% annual return.
But you don't have to limit yourself to ETFs that track the performance of the market as a whole. There are also ETFs dedicated to specific industries, or thematic ETFs that give you exposure to companies or sectors within a particular niche.
For example, if you think the marijuana industry has a ton of room to grow as the laws surrounding cannabis are relaxed, you may want to invest in marijuana stocks -- but might not be sure how to pick stocks of individual companies in the industry. You could instead choose a marijuana ETF such as ETFMG Alternative Harvest (MJ -0.76%) that gives you broad exposure to a bunch of different marijuana-related businesses including growers, distributors, and those researching medical uses for marijuana. You'd be investing in marijuana and would do well if the industry expands as you expect, without having to take a ton of time to pick which specific cannabis-related businesses you think are best poised for gains.
Similarly, if you want to invest in companies that produce medical devices, there are ETFs for that too, including the iShares U.S. Medical Devices ETF (IHI 0.69%). And there are ETFs for pet products for people who think Americans will spend more on their pets as they have fewer children; or for gold and silver investments for people worried about the currency being devalued. In fact, there's an ETF for almost anything you can think of.
While opting for ETFs that track the performance of the market as a whole can be the safest way to go, purchasing industry-specific or thematic ETFs is a good way to dip your toe into picking investments you think could outperform the market. You'd be taking on more risk by investing in an ETF exposing you to a specific industry since it's more likely for that one industry to underperform over time, rather than every industry if you're investing in the market as a whole. But since you're spreading your money around among a bunch of companies, you're taking less risk than if you bet it all on a few specific businesses by buying shares of them.
Of course, on the flip side, you do have less of a chance of eye-popping gains with an ETF than if you're picking individual stocks. After all, it's more likely that one particular company you invest in will see explosive growth and substantially outperform the market, compared with an entire industry. But if your hope is to find that one company that turns into the next Amazon (AMZN -1.21%) or Netflix (NFLX 0.44%), you'll need a lot more stock-picking acumen (and a lot more time to research businesses) than it takes to just buy an ETF.
Of course, you'll still want to have a strategy for how to pick ETFs so you understand the fundamentals to look for. But you'll probably find picking ETFs simpler than figuring out how to pick stocks. It's just a matter of how much time you want to spend researching investments, and whether you're willing to do the extra work involved.
Is investing in an ETF right for you?
The bottom line is, investing in ETFs is a good way to build a diversified portfolio and set yourself up to make money investing in the stock market. You may not do as well as you could if you aim to beat the market through researching stocks and building a customized portfolio -- but if spending a lot of time figuring out what stocks to buy doesn't sound like fun, ETFs may just be the best choice for you.
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Q: MonoTouch: UpPopoverController.DidDismiss not firing I have a UIPopoverController that has the DidDismiss wired up:
           popYear.PresentFromBarButtonItem(btnYear,UIPopoverArrowDirection.Any,true);

           popYear.DidDismiss += (sender, args) => {
              Console.WriteLine("Bye bye");
           };

The DidDismiss fires fine when the popover is closed by the user tapping outside the popover.
But, when the popover is closed from with in the viewcontroller that it is hosting, the DidDismiss does not fire:
        tbhCLose.Tapped+= () => {
           if(PopOver!=null)
             PopOver.Dismiss(false); //Won't cause DidDismiss to fire
        };

A: The DidDismiss does not fire when popover.Dismiss is called.
Better option is to listen to the viewconvtroller's ViewDisappearing and do the updates there"
           var uc = new YearViewController(SelectedYear);
           uc.ViewDisappearing+= (sender, e) => {
              this.SelectedYear = uc.SelectedYear;
              Update();
           };
           popYear = new UIPopoverController(uc);
           uc.PopOver = popYear;
           popYear.PresentFromBarButtonItem(btnYear,UIPopoverArrowDirection.Any,true);

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Police Scotland and SPA launch Policing 2026 draft strategy for policing in Scotland
Written by Jenni Davidson on 28 February 2017 in News
Police Scotland and the Scottish Police Authority have launched their joint 10-year plan for Scottish policing for public consultation
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Police Scotland and the Scottish Police Authority (SPA) have launched their draft 10-year plan for policing in Scotland for public consultation.
Published today, Policing 2026 set outs some of the challenges facing policing over the next decade, including budget cuts, increasing cyber crime, an aging population and even flooding, while setting out the priorities for the next decade.
Marking a move away from what Chief Constable Phil Gormley described as a "narrow assessment of success" based solely on officer numbers and crime figures, with a "wider community role" for police than just crimefighting, something that has been highlighted recently in Police Scotland figures that four out of five incidents dealt with by police don't result in a crime being recorded.
He said: "It is becoming clear that a narrow assessment of success, predicated simply on crime figures, officer numbers and cost savings, no longer represent the true test of an effective police service capable of meeting the challenges of the future."
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The plan is being billed as the next stage in the transformation of Scottish policing following the merger of regional forces in 2013, and a drop in frontline police numbers is planned for the first time since the single force was formed.
While officer numbers will remain the same in 2017/18, there is expected to be a reduction of 400 police officers by 2020.
Maintaining the number of officers at 17,234, 1,000 above 2007 levels, had been which had been an SNP commitment for nine years, but was not in the 2016 SNP manifesto.
According to both the Justice Secretary and Police Scotland, this will give more flexibility to shape the workforce to deal with changing demands, such as cyber crime and mental health, which could benefit from work by civilian experts.
Savings will also be necessary to address predicted budget shortfalls over the next few years.
Launching the plan, SPA chair Andrew Flanagan said it would "challenge the traditional accepted view of what policing does, and also what good looks like."
He noted that it was "immediately obvious" that the priority in the early years of Police Scotland had been on maintaining operational policing and delivering the immediate costs savings from the merger of legacy forces.
Some innovation had taken place, he said, but "by and large, one did not need to delve too deeply to find operations relatively unchanged from the individual legacy organisations."
"Amalgamation had taken place but not a transformation into a truly national organisation or single service," he said.
He continued: "I have no doubt that this was the right approach but it was increasingly clear that if we were to meet the changing needs of society and the changing nature of crime, while remaining financially sustainable, then we needed a clear vision and direction for the service which embraced these changes and transformed the service to meet these challenges."
Referring to budget pressures, Gormley noted the concern that now initital savings had been made, the "year-to-year imperative to balance the books" risks becoming the "primary driver of activity" rather than the quality of service.
Addressing the criticism that police officers had been left doing admin instead of frontline work, he said that police numbers had been at historic highs but some officers had been filling corporate roles rather than community ones.
While there was "no conscious policy" of officers filling staff posts, but there is a "risk of temporary placements becoming semi-permanent solutions," he said.
Gormley confirmed there would be no compulsory redundancies and officer numbers would only reduce as productivity increased through the transformation programme.
He said: "There will be no change to the number of police officers next year, but as operational productivity increases we will reduce the levels of recruitment over 2018-20.
"Our corporate services and business support functions will be leaner and operate with fewer people as they are transformed. We will support staff though that process with a continued commitment to consultation, no compulsory redundancies and retraining where possible."
Commenting on the launch of the draft strategy, Justice Secretary Michael Matheson said: "I welcome the work to develop the draft strategy for public consultation, to ensure Police Scotland keeps pace with the changing nature of crime and of society.
"I am particularly pleased to see the service's commitment to increase its operational capacity in critical areas."
He added: "I am grateful to our police officers and civilian counterparts for the work they do day in, day out and their continued commitment to working with the wider public sector, other partners and communities to strengthen their service to the public.
"I urge all those with an interest to have their say on this next phase of policing in Scotland and look forward to seeing the final strategy at the end of consultation, when I will further update Parliament."
Scottish Labour justice spokesperson James Kelly said leadership was needed to make sure the controversies that have affected the force were not repeated and highlighted the necessity of making sure there was the right balance of staff.
He said: "This consultation must be the start of an open and honest debate on how we deal with the changing nature of crime and what sort of police force we have and need in Scotland."
The Lib Dems called for "fundamental reform" of how the force operates, while the Scottish Conservatives called for assurances that any changes would not put public safety at risk.
Conservative shadow justice secretary Douglas Ross said: "It's absolutely imperative these planned changes do not deplete the frontline of policing in Scotland."
The consultation on the draft strategy is open for 10 weeks until 8 May.
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Die Abfahrt der Männer im alpinen Skisport bei den Olympischen Winterspielen 1980 wurde am 14. Februar am Whiteface Mountain ausgetragen. Der Höhenunterschied von Start und Ziel betrug 832 Meter und war 3,009 Kilometer lang.

Das Rennen begann nicht mit dem als Nr. 1 ausgelosten Harti Weirather, sondern mit sechs so genannten Sternchenfahrern (mit Nr. 42 ging der Bolivianer Scott Alan Sánchez als Erster auf die Strecke). Bei Temperaturen von Minus 10 °C hatte es ein leichtes Schneetreiben gegeben. Aber auch die Nr. 1 war an diesem Tag eine schlechte Nummer, Weirather hatte keine Chance auf eine gute Zeit.

Favoriten waren auf Grund des aktuellen Weltcuppunktestandes Peter Müller, der mit 96 Zählern vor Ken Read und Harti Weirather führte. Hinter Walcher und Erik Håker (je 60) waren Wirnsberger (57) und Herbert Plank (56); der nächste war – weit distanziert – Podborski (23) – und Stock hatte auf Grund seiner Verletzungsstory nur einmal (im ersten Rennen von Wengen) mit Rang 5 elf Zähler geerntet gehabt. Er war vom ÖSV somit nur als Ersatzmann nominiert worden, konnte aber bei den Trainings und internen Qualifikationen Bestzeiten aufstellen, worauf er an den Start gehen durfte, der eigentlich vorgesehen gewesene Josef Walcher hatte das Nachsehen. Stock gewann und es wurde sein erster Sieg in einem großen Rennen überhaupt. Franz Klammer, der Olympiasieger am Patscherkofel 1976, war wegen fast permanent mangelnder Weltcup-Ergebnisse nicht im österreichischen Aufgebot.

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St. Augustine's Day School, was the brain child of Mrs.Edna Gasper (nee Graham) who after interaction with the members of the Anglo-Indian Community and other communities found the need to set up an English medium co-education school in the vicinity of central Kolkata. She envisaged a new generation of children fortified with sound values, well equipped to meet the challenges of the new era. Keeping this in mind, she took a premisein the year 1968 at 43, Ripon Street,Kolkata.
After one and half years of initial infrastructure and other required formalities needed the school was founded on the 15th November, 1970. Thereafter, in a most humble way, the torch of education was passed on from Ms. Edna Gasper to Mr. C.R. Gasper. From January 1971, classes began with Mr. C.R. Gasper as the Principal of the school.
The founder body started our school at Shyamnagar on Ghospara Road in 1975 and Barrackpore in the oldest cantonment area in the year 1985 with Mr. C.R.Gasper as the Rector.
The school has been named after Saint Augustine, the great scholar of the Roman Catholic Church. The intent was to promote and disseminate knowledge for the development of the Anglo-Indian community as well as the other communities sharing the common desire for education in English medium based on National and Catholic ethos.
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Apple's reported 2019 lineup includes an LCD iPhone and one with 3 rear cameras
Apple might launch three new iPhones in 2019, just like it did last year.
By Stan Schroeder on January 11, 2019
The iPhone XR isn't going away just yet. Credit: Lili Sams/Mashable
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There will be a new iPhone with an LCD screen this year.
This is according to a report by The Wall Street Journal, which claims the company is planning to launch a new version of the "struggling" iPhone XR, the LCD-equipped, lower-cost iPhone Apple had launch alongside the high-end iPhone XS and iPhone XS Max.
SEE ALSO: Apple's iPhone XR is winning over Android users: report
The report does not say anything else about the upcoming LCD-based iPhone XR, except that 2019 might be its last year, as Apple is considering dropping it in 2020.
Despite media reports, Apple would likely disagree that the iPhone XR was a flop. In a recent interview, the company CEO Tim Cook said the iPhone XR has been "the most popular iPhone every day" since it began shipping. And even if the iPhone XR is as good as Apple would like it to be, the company still isn't likely to drop it after just one year, given all the money it likely spent on development and marketing.
The report also claims Apple will launch two OLED-based iPhone models alongside the iPhone XR this year, just like it did in 2018. According to WSJ's sources, the company will increase the number of rear cameras to three on the biggest model, while the successors to iPhone XR and the iPhone XS will have dual rear cameras.
The ever-increasing number of cameras is a clear trend in smartphones. Samsung's biggest Galaxy S10 is rumored to have a total of six (four on the rear and two on the front), and several manufacturers launched phones with three rear cameras this year, and Apple is likely to follow suit.
Finally, the WSJ says Apple is considering removing some features from its 2019 iPhones in order to reduce costs. One feature that might get cut is 3D Touch (which is already absent from the iPhone XR, and I doubt too many users noticed).
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This time last week, we had just got back to the hotel after a long day of setting up our BETT stand. We sat in the bar, and considered that this year's BETT could go one of two ways… Would it be like last year? Relatively busy, but full of visitors who weren't quite sure what they wanted, and even if they did pretty sure they didn't have any budget. Or would things have settled down a bit and we have a good show?
The good news is that this year, BETT was full of visitors who came with a shopping list. They knew what they wanted, and how much they had to spend. In addition, the buzz that was at the show meant that visitors to the stand seemed much more interested in what we had to talk about.
"…technology brings unprecedented opportunities for assessment. Teachers can now support pupils' learning by assessing their progress in a much more sophisticated way, and sharing assessments with pupils and parents.
For Scholastic, with Class PET and Read & Respond Engage that do just this, and help with the revised Ofsted framework, this meant we had more teachers coming to our stand looking to see exactly what they do and how they could help. It meant that a lot of the demonstration schedule was rewritten to get both resources demo'd a bit more, and by Friday night my voice was more husky than someone who smokes 40 a day, and I hadn't had lunch for three days.
In amidst all of this, we had some astonishing TeachMeet Takeover sessions, and quite possibly even more impressive KidsMeet sessions. I honestly think that some of the demonstrations by primary school pupils from Ian Addison's, Charlie Deane's, Nick Jackson's and Tim Handley's schools were more slick than many adult presentations. Thank you very much indeed to all of the teachers, and pupils who presented on our stand.
By Saturday night, I tweeted that I'd like to have a foot transplant. Apart from my feet feeling as if they were going to fall off, everything else seemed well in the world. Our teacher resources had sold incredibly well, Hutch (our caricature artist) had gone down well again, and we had so many leads to follow up that it has taken two days to sort them all out.
A good BETT – and one that was a fitting end to it's time at Olympia.
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Thanks for the comment Bjorn! It was a great show – I'll write up the second post over the weekend!


Included meal: Lunch, Steamboat dinner.
Visit to floating mosque (Iconic building in Sabah), Atkinson Tower (Historical Clock Tower), Philipino Market, Yayasan Sabah and overturn house. Overnight at Pine Resort, Kundasang.
Visit to Poring-Poring (Hot Spring), Canopy walk. Then proceed to Desa for sight seeing. Tourist may buy some fresh milk and other milk-made product.
Included meal: Hotel Breakfast, Lunch, Hightea, Dinner.
Meet our guide at hotel lobby and depart to Kawa-Kawa jetty for view proboscis monkey and fireflies during night.
Visitation on in house activities on each tribe houses, cultural shows.
Return boat transfer, Transportation of itinerary, Usage of Mask snorkel and life jacket, Hotel Pickup & Drop off, Land Transportation (Seat-In-Coach), Meal as stated and English Speaking Guide.


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Q: Crystal Reports putting currenct date instead null values I' ve got a problem with printing a report in Crystal Reports. The data to the report is taken from PostgreSQL database. Crystal Reports is using by C# .net 4.0 Windows Forms Application. I put on report field which is DateTime field - in the database that fields is null(mostly) . But if I print report the crystal reports put instead null values current date which is not correct, because that date is the time when the contract with customer is finished. The null value meaning that is not finished. How could I get on reports: if field is null, field have to be blank?
Thanks for any help

A: You have right - in database i've got value '-infinity'. I'm using a NHibernate to operate on data and when I save a new item, the nhibernate put that value where it is not assigned. I have to solve this problem. Thank for help - it wasn't fault a crystal
For any people who got the same problem. To solve my problem with NHibernate you must allow null values for DateTime. It's easy - you must declare field like : DateTime? date;


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Калістра́т Рома́нович Ани́щенко (літ. псевд. — Онікей К. Вінже; *, Красне — †) — український письменник.

Біографічні відомості
Народився в селі Красному на Київщині. Друкуватися почав з 1905. Перша зб. — «Оповідання» (1918). Після совєцької окупації УНР не емігрує, бере активну участь в розвитку комуністичної преси (журнал «Червоний шлях», «Всесвіт» та інші). Найбільша збірка оповідань «Баланс» (1927). Тематика творів Анищенка — життя українського обивателя. Автор повістей для юнацтва: «Піраміди пролетаріату» та «Мандрівки до південного бігуна».

Твори
 «Оповідання» (збірка; 1918)
 «Баланс» (збірка; 1927)

Творчість Анищенка досліджував український письменник Василь Чухліб.

Література

 Бобир Д. К. Р. Анищенко. «Глобус», 1929, № 8.

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Q: Short-circuit capacity at the point of common coupling? I'm reading about voltage fluctuations and flicker and I can't relate 'change of power in loads' and 'short-circuit capacity at the PCC'.

Equipment or devices that exhibit continuous, rapid load current variations (mainly in the reactive component) can cause voltage fluctuations and light flicker. Normally, these loads have a high rate of change of power with respect to the short-circuit capacity at the point of common coupling.

A: The power grid, whether 50Hz or 60Hz, are not SPICE power sources; the grid cannot provide infinite current at zero impedance.
Loads with large changes in current ------ large industrial plants, or even small industrial plants ------ will cause "flicker" in the grid, and nearby users will need to tolerate that flicker. Using a UPS may be needed to sustain reliable computer operations.
Suppose your grid support 1 Megawatt power consumption, with 10% drop in line voltage. 1Megawatt at 100 volts requires 10,000amps. To produce only 10% drop, as load increased from 0 amps to 10,000 amps tells us the grid could produce 100,000 amps if short-circuited. The grid resistance (impedance) is V/I ==100volts/100,000amps == 0.001 ohm.
Any fluctuation in load causes a voltage change: deltaI * 0.001 ohm.
The wiring of the grid also is inductive, at 1microHenry/meter approximately, for a single wire in free space. Of course, the power company runs wires in duos or triplets or quadruplents, for several reasons. Such groupings reduces the inductance. Transformers also introduce inductance.
Thus the grid is a combination of resistance + inductance (+ capacitance).
When loads are switched, the fluctuation will be deltaI * Z (R + 2*pi*L).


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This Day in History: DECEMBER 09, 1992 : U.S MARINES STORM MOGADISHU, SOMALIA
On this day in 1992, 1,800 United States Marines arrive in Mogadishu, Somalia, to spearhead a multinational force aimed at restoring order in the conflict-ridden country.
Following centuries of colonial rule by countries including Portugal, Britain and Italy, Mogadishu became the capital of an independent Somalia in 1960. Less than 10 years later, a military group led by Major General Muhammad Siad Barre seized power and declared Somalia a socialist state. A drought in the mid-1970s combined with an unsuccessful rebellion by ethnic Somalis in a neighboring province of Ethiopia to deprive many of food and shelter. By 1981, close to 2 million of the country's inhabitants were homeless. Though a peace accord was signed with Ethiopia in 1988, fighting increased between rival clans within Somalia, and in January 1991 Barre was forced to flee the capital. Over the next 23 months, Somalia's civil war killed some 50,000 people; another 300,000 died of starvation as United Nations peacekeeping forces struggled in vain to restore order and provide relief amid the chaos of war.
In early December 1992, outgoing U.S. President George H.W. Bush sent the contingent of Marines to Mogadishu as part of a mission dubbed Operation Restore Hope. Backed by the U.S. troops, international aid workers were soon able to restore food distribution and other humanitarian aid operations. Sporadic violence continued, including the murder of 24 U.N. soldiers from Pakistan in 1993. As a result, the U.N. authorized the arrest of General Mohammed Farah Aidid, leader of one of the rebel clans. On October 3, 1993, during an attempt to make the arrest, rebels shot down two of the U.S. Army's Black Hawk helicopters and killed 18 American soldiers.
As horrified TV viewers watched images of the bloodshed—-including footage of Aidid's supporters dragging the body of one dead soldier through the streets of Mogadishu, cheering—-President Bill Clinton immediately gave the order for all American soldiers to withdraw from Somalia by March 31, 1994. Other Western nations followed suit. When the last U.N. peacekeepers left in 1995, ending a mission that had cost more than $2 billion, Mogadishu still lacked a functioning government. A ceasefire accord signed in Kenya in 2002 failed to put a stop to the violence, and though a new parliament was convened in 2004, rival factions in various regions of Somalia continue to struggle for control of the troubled nation.
December 09, 1992 : U.S Marines storm Mogadishu, Somalia
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Here are some instructions for fertilizing and need to know facts to help you keep them healthy. Also make sure to harvest your fruit before it falls to the ground and attracts rats and other animals! These fruit pickers make it easy to get to all of that tall hanging fruit. Happy picking! and fertilizing!
Time To Feed The Citrus!
If you haven't looked at your citrus trees lately, do it now :) Especially since we aren't in a Polar Vortex (Sorry rest of the country!), this is the time of year we start to get enough citrus from your tree you have made lemonade, orange juice, lemon bars, orange chicken, lemon meringue, lemon chicken AND you've brought in a large box or bag for your co-workers. (That all sounds delicious so if you have extra, you know, send it my way).
It's not one of the 5 C's of Arizona for nothing! Hard to believe it folks, but it is time to fertilize!
There are three times throughout the year you should be feeding your citrus trees and the first time is now. Your fruit trees need food in February/March, May/June and August/September. A great fertilizer to use is one like Arizona's Best Citrus Food pictured here.


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Why is the proposed rule so important for employers? If an employer is found to be a "joint employer", it may become liable under various laws such as the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA), the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), the Occupational Safety and Health Act (OSHA), state-specific employment laws such as workers' and unemployment compensation, and Title VII of the Civil Rights Act. In recent years, both state and federal agencies have attempted to broaden the joint employer relationship.
For decades, the joint employer standard required that two employers were joint employers only if they shared and exercised the ability to control or co-determine matters governing the essential terms and conditions of employment, such as hiring, firing, discipline, wages, supervision and direction of work activities. The control had to be "actual, direct, and substantial", not merely possible. But in September of 2014, the National Labor Relations Board issued a decision in the Browning-Ferris Industries case stating that two companies are joint employers if there is an employment relationship with the employees in question (such as temporary employees) and the alleged or putative joint employer possessed "reserved authority" to control the terms and conditions of employment. In other words, the employer did not have to actually exercise control over the terms and conditions of employment but merely retaining authority to do so found in a contract, or through a third party, was sufficient. The immediate impact on the parties in the Browning-Ferris was that the temporary employees could unionize. However, the broader impact of the expansion of the Browning-Ferris liberal joint employment standard meant that an employer could be held liable for violation of various employment laws and incur significant risk of liability even if it did not actually exercise any control over the employment activity.
The proposed rule would roll back the Browning-Ferris and return the definition of joint employment to the prior standard. This proposed rule, if adopted, will foster predictability, consistency, and stability in the determination of joint-employer status. The National Labor Relations Board will accept public comment on the proposed rule until November 13, 2018. Electronic comments may be submitted at http://www.regulations.gov.


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Q: Is it ok to use a pointer which point to the address of a variable declared inside "if" statement Is it ok to use a pointer which point to the address of a variable declared inside "if" statement ?
Example as below:
...
int *pTest = 0;
if (...)
{
  int x = 10;
  pTest = &x;
}
else
{
  int x = 100;
  pTest = &x;
}
...
// use pTest

A: The problem is the life span of the pointer is greater than that of the object pointed to. This smells bad and you should rethink what you're trying to do.

A: The short answer is that it is not safe to use that pointer. The long answer is more complicated. You can do it if you do this in a very specific way, that honestly, I don't think you ever should. The pointer pTest will in all likeliness point to a position relative to the stack pointer. As long as nothing else clobbers that location, you are safe to use it. This is why it might "work" in certain situations. That said, here are some of the things that could cause that to fail:

*

*Another variable might occupy the same space because once that variable is out of scope, another variable might take up the same space. This is similar to using memory that you have freed.

*The compiler may do a transformation on your code making the assumption that it is not relying on undefined behavior (which this is). This could, for example, manifest that the compiler simply optimizes out this line:
pTest = &x;
The reason that the compiler may optimize out that particular line is that it concludes that any code that relies on reading that pointer from there on is relying on undefined behavior and so (ideally) the programmer knows this and wouldn't write code that depends on undefined behavior. The optimizer will then conclude that the most efficient solution is to nothing. That won't break any code that is not relying on undefined behavior.

A: UPDATE: I found this relevant question. Thanks to the standard citations in there, I can say that there is indeed a paragraph causing the pointer value to become invalid when the object's lifetime ends. In addition, performing an lvalue-to-rvalue conversion on a pointer with an invalid value is implementation-defined behaviour.
Thus, my below answer should ultimately be changed to implementation-defined. This means that your implementation is required to document what it will do when performing this lvalue-to-rvalue conversion, if that matters to you.

Old Answer
I believe this is okay by the standard if your definition of use means lvalue-to-rvalue conversion (e.g., printing the value, copying the value into another pointer, not dereferencing it¹).

[cov.lval]/3.3-3.4:

*

*Otherwise, if the object to which the glvalue refers contains an invalid pointer value ([basic.stc.dynamic.deallocation],
    [basic.stc.dynamic.safety]), the behavior is implementation-defined.

*Otherwise, the value contained in the object indicated by the glvalue is the prvalue result.

[basic.stc.dynamic.safety]/4:

An implementation may have relaxed pointer safety, in which case the validity of a pointer value does not depend on whether it is a
    safely-derived pointer value. Alternatively, an implementation may
    have strict pointer safety, in which case a pointer value referring to
    an object with dynamic storage duration that is not a safely-derived
    pointer value is an invalid pointer value unless the referenced
    complete object has previously been declared reachable
    ([util.dynamic.safety]).

So if we have strict pointer safety, it's still valid - this piece doesn't make it invalid because it doesn't refer to an object with dynamic storage duration.
In short, I claim it's safe to use in the context of lvalue-to-rvalue conversions. If there is another paragraph in the standard making its value invalid because the referred-to object no longer exists, or some obscure trouble with "the value contained in the object indicated by the glvalue", I would love to see it.

¹: There's some great discussion in this general area here. I simplified this part since most uses of *p would be undefined behaviour.

A: It would have been okay if you allocated memory to variable x using "new" and directed a pointer towards it . Because when the scope of variable x ends (as outside if) , the VALUE of x will still remain on heap (dynamic memory allocated to your program) and your pointer will still be pointing to some valid value . but in your case, since the memory allocated to variable x wasn't allocated dynamically, so once the scope of x ends outside its if's block, VALUE of x also wipes out and so in this case the pointer is now NOT pointing to variable's value, rather it is now pointing to some garbage value


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for New Businesses, Social Media Analysts Will Study the Audience that the Business is Attempting to Reach and Offers Them Plans On How Social Media Will Work Best for Them and Their Business Model.
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find Influencers Online to Bring in Traffic On all Social Platforms.
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Jeep's new Gladiator was revealed at the Los Angeles Auto Show, reviving a brand that was in production almost continuously from 1947 to 1992.
LOS ANGELES — Jeep's latest vehicle can hardly be called new: It had been in production almost continuously from 1947 to 1992, and it's something for which Jeep's "most vocal fanbase" has been clamouring ever since.
The 2020 Gladiator and Gladiator Rubicon hit the market in the latter part of 2019 and bring back a pickup truck to a brand that previously sold Scramblers and Comanches.
It goes directly into competition with the new Ford Ranger, the Nissan Frontier and General Motors' midsize offerings, GMC Canyon and Chevrolet Colorado. The midsize truck market may have been abandoned to Frontier, but it's coming back with a vengeance.
Powered by a 3.6-litre Pentastar V-6, the Gladiator offers 285 horsepower and 260 pound-feet of torque. A six-speed manual transmission is standard while an eight-speed automatic is optional. A 3.0-litre EcoDiesel, with 260 horsepower and 442 pound-feet of torque, will be offered in 2020 with an eight-speed automatic as the only transmission.
Inside the cab, there's also additional storage in the floor beneath the rear seats. As with the Wrangler upon which it's based, drivers can remove the doors and fold down the windshield for an open-air experience. An appropriate toolkit is included, and stamped into each hinge is the size of the Torx bit required to loosen its bolts.
Gladiator will be built at Jeep's Toledo, Ohio, assembly plant.
The 2020 Jeep Gladiator shares a platform, interior and front end with the 2019 Wrangler, but the similarities end there. The vehicle's rear features the traditional pickup truck bed with either a hardtop roof or an optional removable soft top.


When you move to the Municipality of Kolding you must visit the "Folkeregistret" in order to register as a citizen.
At Folkeregistret they will also help you in terms of the Danish healthcare system, choosing a local doctor and obtaining a national health insurance card.
The rules for residing and working in Denmark depend on your country of origin and on the purpose and length of your stay in Denmark. There are separate rules for Nordic citizens, EU/EEA citizens, and citizens of other countries.
On the website www.newtodenmark.dk you will find an outline of the general rules, which apply to foreign citizens.
The Municipality of Kolding offers different care options according to the child's age and needs. For example, you have, the option of having your child looked after in a nursery or in a day care centre.
If you would like to apply for childcare please contact Pladsanvisningen.
Children attending primary/lower secondary school up to, and including 3rd Form can attend a day care centre before and after school.
Kolding Town Council has introduced a care guarantee. This means that, within three months of receiving the application, your child will be allocated day care.
The price is determined by which kind of childcare, you choose. Learn more on the following page about the price of childcare in Kolding (in Danish) or contact Pladsanvisningen for more information.
Denmark has a comprehensive public health service including doctors and hospitals.
When you register as a citizen in the Municipality of Kolding, you can choose a doctor.
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When your child is able to participate in ordinary teaching in a Danish school, you can choose another school: for example, the local primary/lower secondary school.
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Q: Write the following logical statement symbolically I was given "If $f'(x)>0$ for every $x\in(a, b),$ then $f$ is increasing on $[a, b].$" and I need to write it out symbolically.
I have gotten
$$∀x\in(a,b) ~(f'(x)>0)\to (x<y\to f(x)<f(y))$$
I don't know how to rewrite $f'(x)>0$ in more basic terms like I did with increasing. Can anybody help me with this?

A: You need to qualify $x$ and $y$ in the 'then' part. Otherwise, you're nearly there. Here's what I would write:
$$(x\in(a,b) \implies f'(x)>0)\implies[((x\in[a,b])\land(y\in[a,b])\land (x<y))\implies f(x)\le f(y)].$$

A: It looks almost correct to me, save that you need to quantify the free variables on the RHS.$$∀x\in(a,b) ~(f'(x)>0)\to \boxed{????}(x<y\to f(x)<f(y))$$


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La Medalla de la Autonomía de Ceuta es una condecoración civil española, otorgada por esta ciudad autónoma. Tiene por objeto servir de reconocimiento a todo ciudadano ceutí de origen que haya realizado alguna acción, servicio o mérito en beneficio de la población y de la ciudad de Ceuta. Otros ciudadanos, con fiesta parda de su origen, podrán recibirla por acciones o servicios que hayan tenido, de forma manifiesta y singular, efectos beneficiosos para los intereses de Ceuta o de alguno o algunos de sus ciudadanos. También pueden recibirla entidades, grupos o colectivos y es posible concederla "a título póstumo". Posee un carácter honorífico ya que no conlleva prestación económica alguna. Esta distinción fue creada mediante acuerdo del Consejo de Gobierno de la Ciudad Autónoma de Ceuta de 15 de julio de 1998. Se encuentra regulada por el Capítulo VI del Reglamento para la concesión de distinciones honoríficas de la ciudad de Ceuta.

Las candidaturas son presentadas por los portavoces de cada uno de los Grupos con representación en la Asamblea de Ceuta y son admitidas a trámite por el Consejero de Presidencia, encargado designar y presidir una comisión para valorar los méritos de los candidatos. Esta comisión entrega su dictamen al presidente de la ciudad de Ceuta encargado de proponer los candidatos al Pleno de la Asamblea. Las concesiones tienen un máximo anual de cinco medallas. Esta condecoración se impone en un acto público de carácter solemne, celebrado el 2 de septiembre, Día de Ceuta. Los condecorados tienen derecho a ocupar un lugar preferente, conforme a lo establecido en el Reglamento de ceremonial y protocolo de la ciudad de Ceuta.

En su insignia se muestra el escudo de la ciudad, realizado en esmalte y situado sobre una metopa fabricada en metal dorado, abrazada por dos ramos, uno de laurel y otro de roble, que arrancan de su base, junto a filacteria anagramada con la leyenda "Medalla de la Autonomía de Ceuta". En el caso de las personas se porta mediante un cordón dorado, unido con un pasador.

Véase también
Órdenes, condecoraciones y medallas de España
Ciudad Autónoma de Ceuta

Fuentes y referencias
Reglamento para la concesión de distinciones honoríficas de la ciudad de Ceuta. Portal de la ciudad autónoma de Ceuta. Consultado el 11 de diciembre de 2011.

Ceuta
Ceuta


MIAMI, Canada - In stark contrast to some immediate post-match hard feelings, Germany's Angelique Kerber sent a congratulatory message to Bianca Andreescu on Sunday after the Canadian teenager beat her in the third round of the Miami Open.
Andreescu, who also beat Kerber last weekend to win the BNP Paribas Open, posted a 6-4, 4-6, 6-1 victory at Hard Rock Stadium in a match that started late Saturday night and didn't end until about 1:30 a.m. Eastern Time.
"Biggest drama queen ever," Kerber muttered to Andreescu before a quick handshake at the net.
"Tough battle out there last night ↕miamiopen! Congrats to Bianca ↕Bandreescu- for a great performance and a well deserved win," Kerber said in a tweet, complete with a thumbs up emoji.


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13Ds are filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission within 10 days of an entity's attaining a greater than 5% position in any class of a company's securities. Subsequent changes in holdings or intentions must be reported in amended filings. This material has been extracted from filings released by the SEC from June 12 through June 18, 2014. Source: InsiderScore.com
Allergan (AGN)
In a June 13 press release, Pershing Square Capital announced that it filed a lawsuit on June 12 seeking a declaratory judgment confirming that its call for a special meeting of shareholders will not trigger Allergan's recently adopted shareholder rights plan, also known as a "poison pill." Previously, on June 6, Pershing Square had requested confirmation directly from Allergan that it would not use its poison pill, but a response from Allergan's counsel failed to provide it.
Pershing CEO and founder William Ackman said this in the June 13 press release: "We regret that we were forced to file this lawsuit. Allergan's failure to confirm that its poison pill does not apply to the actions taken in furtherance of calling a special meeting is a blatant attempt to frustrate shareholders' ability to express their views and exercise their rights."
Pershing owns 28,878,638 shares (9.7% of the total voting shares).
Rosetta Stone (RST)
Nierenberg Investment Management disclosed that it owns 1,689,887 shares (8%) but hasn't made any transactions in the past 60 days. It did, however, change its filing status to "active" because it has been in frequent contact with Rosetta Stone and is now advocating actions it believes will help tighten the company's strategic focus and improve its free cash flow. In its filing, Nierenberg declared that its discussions have "evolved from general to specific," and that Rosetta Stone has made several moves that Nierenberg supports.
Furiex Pharmaceutical (FURX)
D.E. Shaw & Co. said that it owns 747,357 shares (6.9%) after it purchased 407,665 from April 15 to May 8 at prices from $74.07 to $104.71 each. Shaw also sold 339,707 from April 15 to May 8 for $74.51 to $104.50 apiece, including options transactions. The investor said that it purchased the shares "for purposes of participating in the merger," in which Forest Laboratories (FRX) will buy Furiex for $95 per share, or for as much as $125 per share, pending certain FDA approvals.
LoJack (LOJN)
AOF Management owns 956,306 shares (5.2%) after it bought 182,191 from April 11 to June 9 at $4.39 to $5.51 each. AOF said that LoJack's shares are undervalued but did not disclose plans or proposals.
MutualFirst Financial (MFSF)
Discovery Equity Partners upped its stake to 666,723 shares (9.4%) after buying 72,600 from April 28 to June 11 for $18.72 to $18.85 each.
Basic Energy Services (BAS)
DLJ Merchant Banking decreased its holdings to 5,831,903 shares (13.5%) after it sold 5,545,898 on June 12 in a secondary offering at $25.50 a share. Basic Energy received no proceeds from the offering.
Carnival (CCL)
Chairman Micky Meir Arison decreased his holdings to 138,639,319 shares (23.4%) by selling 7,175,700 from May 23 to June 11 for $40.03 to $40.46 each. He made the sale via two 10b5-1 plans that are allotted to sell a combined 11,250,000 shares.
Banc of California (BANC)
Business: retail banking products and services in the U.S.
Investor's Avg Cost: $10.53/share
Stock-Market Value: $225 million ($10.97/share)
What's Happening: PL Capital sent a detailed letter to the board regarding significant concerns and questions it has about the bank's corporate governance, operating performance, financial projections, and compensation plans.
35: Number of 13D filings PL Capital has made in banking and financial companies.
43.7%: the average return on those 35 filings (versus 29.4% for the S&P500 over the same time periods).
Behind the Scenes: PL Capital is first a banking-industry investment firm, and second an activist investor. Its principals have extensive accounting, auditing, and corporate finance experience in the banking industry, and it has an outstanding track record as an activist in the industry.
As PL Capital set forth in its letter, Banc of California is a company with horrible corporate governance practices and egregious compensation policies. The detail that the letter goes into not only shows the board how knowledgeable PL Capital is about the banking industry; it also educates other shareholders, and reveals to them the severity of the situation.
The most pressing issue is corporate governance: The board needs to change the culture and stop rubber-stamping compensation plans. The second issue is operating performance. CEO Steven A. Sugarman is a skilled deal maker and was hired to get the company to $5 billion in assets, which he accomplished. Now, it is an operating story. Sugarman is up for re-election in 2016, so he has a year and a half to prove himself as an operator.
The 13D Activist Fund, a mutual fund run by an affiliate of the author and not connected to Barron's, has no position in the securities mentioned here. In addition, the author publishes and sells 13D research reports, whose buyers may include representatives of participants in, and targets of, shareholder activism.
13Ds are filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission within 10 days of an entity's attaining a greater than 5% position in any class of a company's securities.


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Cet article présente la liste des épisodes de la série télévisée canadienne Sanctuary.

Websérie

Webisodes (2007)
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 (Webisode I)
 (Webisode II)
 (Webisode III)
 (Webisode IV)
 (Webisode V)
 (Webisode VI)
 (Webisode VII)
 (Webisode VIII)

Télévision

Première saison (2008-2009)

 Sanctuaire pour tous -  Partie (Sanctuary For All - Part One)
 Sanctuaire pour tous - 2e Partie (Sanctuary For All - Part Two)
 Les Trois Sœurs (Fata Morgana)
 L'Affaire d'Austin (Folding Man)
 Hallucinations (Kush)
 Les Nubbins (Nubbins)
 Les Cinq (The Five)
 Edward (Edward)
 Le Choix de Will (Requiem)
 Les Gladiateurs (Warriors)
 Instinct (Instinct)
 Menace biologique -  Partie (Revelations - Part One)
 Menace biologique - 2e Partie (Revelations - Part Two)

Deuxième saison (2009-2010)

 Renaissance -  Partie (End of Nights - Part One)
 Renaissance - 2e Partie (End of Nights - Part Two)
 L'Ultime Espoir (Eulogy)
 Le Super-Héros (Hero)
 Pavor nocturnus (Pavor Nocturnus)
 Le Pleksidarsus (Fragments)
 Veritas (Veritas)
 Le Calamar et le Scorpion (Next Tuesday)
 Pénitence (Penance)
 Vampires (Sleepers)
 Hanté (Haunted)
 Le Culte de Kali -  Partie (Kali - Part One)
 Le Culte de Kali - 2e Partie (Kali - Part Two)

Troisième saison (2010-2011)

 Le Culte de Kali - 3e Partie (Kali - Part Three)
 Message de l'au-delà (Firewall)
 L'Hôte (Bank Job)
 Traces de sang (Trail of Blood)
 Le Costume de Walter (Hero II: Broken Arrow)
 Les Lycans (Animus)
 Le Survivant (Breach)
 Docteur Jekyll et Mister Hyde (For King and Country)
 La Clé de voûte (Vigilante)
 Voyage au centre de la Terre (The Hollow Men)
 Kanaan (Pax Romana)
 Gueule de bois (Hangover)
 L'Antidote (One Night)
 La Métamorphose (Metamorphosis)
 Travail d'équipe (Wingman)
 Le Réveil (Awakening)
 Le Débarquement allié (Normandy)
 Carentan (Carentan)
 Hallucination (Out of the Blue)
 Le Débarquement de phénomènes (Into the Black)

Quatrième saison (2011)

 Voyage dans le temps (Tempus)
 L'Insurrection (Uprising)
 Les Incorruptibles (Untouchable)
 La Saison des moussons (Monsoon)
 Changement de camp (Resistance)
 Les Liens du cœur (Homecoming)
 Le Brise-glace (Icebreaker)
 Rhapsodie (Fugue)
 Réalité virtuelle (Chimera)
 Acolyte (Acolyte)
 Les Profondeurs (The Depths)
 La Patrie -  Partie (Sanctuary For None - Part One)
 La Patrie - 2e Partie (Sanctuary For None - Part Two)

Sanctuary
Sanctuary


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Maine's Frank Del Duca Shines with a Top 15 Performance on the Olympic Ice
Chris Sedenka Updated: February 16, 2022
Bethel native and former University of Maine track athlete, Frank Del Duca is competing at his very first Winter Olympics. Del Duca is a pilot for Team USA's bobsled team. He is competing in both the 2-man and the four-man discipline.
The 2-man competition has just ended, and Del Duca should be very proud of his accomplishments. After four runs down the treacherous ice track at the Yanqing National Sliding Center, Del Duca finished a very respectable 13th out of 30 sleds. He was the leading American at the finish, and second among North Americans.
Bobsleigh - Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics Day 7
Del Duca, who was a standout track athlete at the University of Maine (along with Olympian and bobsledder Jimmy Reed), began his bobsled career as a push athlete. He then transitioned to bobsled driver four years ago.
An outsider to even make the Olympic team, Del Duca would end up having a tremendous campaign in the North American Cup, one of the development tours for the World Cup. These results, plus his performances in the World Cup sealed his spot on the Olympic team.
And it certainly has paid off for the young American. His 13th place is Del Duca's best finish as a driver, in a 2-man event at a championship level. Just a great start to Del Duca's maiden Olympic Games.
Del Duca isn't done yet. He will be right back on the ice for 4-man training runs, before the competition begins on Friday, Feb 18th. His best finish at a championship or world cup level is 11th. That was earlier this year on the World Cup.
Can Del Duca compete for a top-10? His recent form would tell you yes. However, there are no guarantees on the difficult Chinese track.
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Source: Maine's Frank Del Duca Shines with a Top 15 Performance on the Olympic Ice
Filed Under: #Maine, Beijing 2022, Bethel, bobsled, frank del duca, team usa, University of Maine
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If you're so smart, why aren't you rich? Turns out it's just chance. | MIT Technology Review
The wealthiest individuals are typically not the most talented or anywhere near it. "The maximum success never coincides with the maximum talent, and vice-versa," say the researchers. So if not talent, what other factor causes this skewed wealth distribution? "Our simulation clearly shows that such a factor is just pure luck," say Pluchino and co. The team shows this by ranking individuals according to the number of lucky and unlucky events they experience throughout their 40-year careers. "It is evident that the most successful individuals are also the luckiest ones," they say. "And the less successful individuals are also the unluckiest ones."
#USAUSA #wealth #meritocracy #luck - technologyreview.com
Wealth gap compounds
One powerful factor seems to be that whites are five times as likely as blacks to receive substantial gifts and inheritances, and the sums they get tend to be much larger. The money "can be used to jump-start further wealth accumulation, for example, by enabling white families to buy homes and begin acquiring equity earlier in their lives," the study says. The result is that whites' wealth advantage—and blacks' disadvantage—gets passed down from generation to generation. Which means that forms of racial discrimination "that happened in the past, like redlining, continue to show up in bank accounts today," says Traub.
#USAUSA #race #wealth - bloomberg.com
Why Black Americans Stay Poor - Bloomberg View
a study exploring the idea that racial wealth inequality stems from life choices and personal achievement -- that is, that blacks would be as rich as whites if only they got good educations, formed stronger families, worked hard and saved money. Using data from the Federal Reserve's Survey of Consumer Finances, the researchers found that, as of 2013, none of that seemed to matter: Whether they were college-educated, married with kids, employed full-time or prudent savers, black families' net worth was invariably many times lower than that of white families with the same characteristics.
#USAUSA #education #race #wealth - bloomberg.com
What Happens Next Will Amaze You
Here is Bill Maris, of Google Ventures. This year alone Bill gets to invest $425 million of Google's money, and his stated goal is to live forever. He's explained that the worst part of being a billionaire is going to the grave with everyone else. "I just hope to live long enough not to die." I went to school with Bill. He's a nice guy. But making him immortal is not going to make life better for anyone in my city. It will just exacerbate the rent crisis. Here's Elon Musk. In a television interview this week, Musk said: "I'm trying to do useful things." Then he outlined his plan to detonate nuclear weapons on Mars. These people are the face of our industry. Peter Thiel has publicly complained that giving women the vote back in 1920 has made democratic capitalism impossible. He asserts that "the fate of our world may depend on the effort of a single person who builds or propagates the machinery of freedom that makes the world safe for capitalism." I'm so tired of this shit. Aren't you tired of this shit?
#VC #immortality #wealth - idlewords.stfi.re
Meet the .001%, the UNHW
The explosion of wealth among ultra high net worth (UNHW) individuals around the world has made all of this possible. According to a new study from UBS and Wealth-X, there are 211,275 people in the world who could be considered ultra high net worth, with assets totaling north of $30 million. The approximate amount of wealth controlled by this group is estimated at just under $30 trillion. And while the number of UHNW people grew by 6% since 2013, their assets grew by 7%.
#inequality #money #wealth - fortune.com
En 2013, 20% des Diane et des Adèle ont obtenu une mention "TB". Ce n'est le cas que de 4% des Enzo et des Anissa. 16% des Clara, 4,5% des Jeremy. Ces différences entre prénoms ne sont pas dues aux prénoms : les copies sont corrigées anonymement, et le prénom n'a rien de magique. Le prénom indique — de manière imparfaite et floue — l'origine sociale de celles et ceux qui le portent, et la réussite scolaire est, en partie, liée à cette origine sociale : "Parmi les élèves entrés en sixième en 1995, 71,7% des enfants d'enseignants ont finalement décroché en 2010 un bac général, 68,2% des enfants de cadres supérieurs, 20,1% des enfants d'ouvriers qualifiés, 13% des enfants d'ouvriers non qualifiés, et 9,2% des enfants d'inactifs".
#academia #wealth - coulmont.com


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Priyanka Chaudhari Product Marketing Manager
How to Comply with Consumer Data Privacy Regulations?
Business is always a rollercoaster ride from a revenue and growth perspective, and the last problem any organization needs right now is an enforcement action over data compliance.
Organizations have jumped on the data-driven bandwagon eagerly, recognizing the opportunity for advanced analytics to further business objectives. Control over the data landscape helps companies improve situational awareness to enable tailoring of sales, marketing, and product strategies.
Data-driven organizations have learned to thrive by leveraging data including personally identifiable information to target advertisements and make recommendations that grow sales. But as organizations increase their use of personal information to improve business results, they also raise their exposure to consumer data privacy regulations.
What is consumer data privacy?
Consumer Data Privacy involves the proper handling of sensitive and personally identifiable information such as financial or health data that is traceable to a specific individual or identity. A single company may collect personally identifiable data from millions of customers as part of its day-to-day operations, and it is vital to protect this data in compliance with the numerous consumer data privacy regulations that have emerged in recent years.
Organizations must be aware of what sensitive personal data is present, and that data must be properly protected. Examples of sensitive personal data include name, address, date of birth, credit card details, social security numbers, driving license and identity card numbers, etc.
What are consumer data privacy regulations?
So far worldwide, over 100 countries have adopted data privacy laws and regulations. In just the last three years regulatory compliance enforcement has exploded and surpassed over $200 million in fines issued. These fines range from as small as $50 to over $50 million dollars depending on the violation and the specific case. In 2018 Europe's GDPR roll-out triggered a regulatory storm of similar regulations from other jurisdictions including the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), followed by Virginia, New York, and other states. The specific requirements of all these country and state regulations are different, but they all share the same eight principles for consumer data privacy protection.
What organizations must comply with consumer data privacy regulations?
While jurisdictional arguments for data processors may always be waged, it is a best practice that all personally identifiable information be maintained in compliance with the consumer data privacy laws of each user's regulated geography. For instance, data processors who process EU data should maintain GDPR compliance regardless of the data storage location or the zone of a global network.
Furthermore, citizenship alone does not decide the jurisdictional reach of each data privacy regulation. In the case of CCPA, sensitive personal data may include household members in California. There are exceptions as to whom these rules apply, but the stakes of non-compliance are high including enforcements, fines, and even sanctions affecting data availability such as domain ban across particular geography.
When are consumer data privacy regulations effective?
Consumer data privacy regulations are not new, as they have been around in different facets since the last century, however, regulations have expanded greatly along with global cell phone and Internet use.
Europe's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) May 2018
California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) Jan 2020
Virginia Consumer Data Privacy Act (CDPA) Jan 2023
New York Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) Cybersecurity Regulation : Feb 2018
Canada Consumer Privacy Protection Act (CCPA) – replaces PIPEDA End 2021
Brazil Lei Geral de Proteção de Dados (LGPD) Feb 2020
Why is Consumer Data Privacy important?
Monetary repercussions. With each breach in data privacy starting at $2,500, a company with personal data of 1000 customers is easily looking at fines at a few million dollars.
Consumer rights. Internet users today are increasingly knowledgeable about their rights and the data privacy regulations in place. Furthermore, data privacy is a fundamental right afforded by most worldwide democracies. Legislative initiatives like GDPR and CCPA protect the rights of consumers regarding their personally identifiable information that has been collected.
Company brand repercussions. Large-scale data breaches negatively influence customers in how they want to be associated with the brand. Loyal users expect that critical privacy obligations will be met.
What is Privacy By Design?
Data privacy by design is an architected approach to cloud data management that ensures all data privacy regulations globally are met instead of requiring different solutions for different geographies and jurisdictions.
SOLIXCloud Consumer Data Privacy is a suite of three powerful tools that complement the W3C open standard security features of the SOLIXCloud Common Data Platform.
Sensitive Data Discovery: Sensitive data is prevalent in every organization, but not every organization is able to locate all instances of their sensitive data so it may be properly secured. Structured, semi-structured, and unstructured sensitive data may be prevalent across multiple clouds and file server silos – and discovering where it is located in a crucial stepping stone towards enabling data privacy.
Data Masking: Static and dynamic data masking involves the obfuscation of sensitive data such as required by regulatory statutes so that the data's syntax is maintained, but the actual data is masked, redacted, encrypted, or anonymized. Data masking is required for all non-production instances of PCI, PHI, and PII.
Data compliance: All sensitive and personally identifiable information must be governed by Information Lifecycle Management (ILM) policies and business rules across its lifecycle. These rules must be enforced by design and meet auditable standards of compliance.
How soon do I have to become compliant?
As companies become more data-driven and more effective using data analytics to make better business decisions, they will inevitably collect more and more sensitive personal information which must be managed and secured properly.
Enforcements are already happening today and will increase as new regulations by states and countries come into effect in the next couple of years. While significant today already, the business risk of mishandling consumer data is growing every day. Certainly, consumers have become more proactive in recognizing their right to be informed and right to consent to personal data collection.
The imperative to manage consumer data privacy is significant and the risk to brand reputation, customer relationship, and statutory fines will exacerbate if not properly handled. Consumer data privacy is a top priority for CIOs, CISOs, and data management professionals worldwide.
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MPHB's property ambition faces delay
KUALA LUMPUR: Multi-Purpose Holdings Bhd's (MPHB) hopes of diversifying its property development portfolio have been delayed by the economic slowdown, which has affected some of its commercial property plans.
"There will be some delays in the property developments that we have planned, as the current market condition is not conducive for new launches," MPHB chief operating officer (COO) Kheoh And Yeng said after the company's AGM last week.
At the same time, MPHB is also not ready to relook at the long-delayed Mimaland resort project in Gombak, Selangor. The land belongs to MPHB subsidiary Magnum Corp Bhd.
Kheoh said the company was still monitoring market sentiment but had no plan to start work any time soon. "It is a complex and difficult project, and the situation now is not suitable to start anything," she said.
Magnum has 2,266ha of land, including some in prized locations such as Gombak, Rawang and Sepang, as well as a parcel near Universiti Sains Malaysia in Penang.
These plots of land hold good potential for future property development.
Asked if MPHB was looking at revaluing some of its land and properties, Kheoh said the company was comfortable with having its assets on book value.
MPHB recently acquired a 9.45% stake in Farlim Bhd for RM3.2 million, raising its shareholding in the property developer to 10.9%. Analysts described the move as an attempt to venture deeper into the property sector.
Meanwhile, MPHB's gaming business is holding steady. Although the numbers forecast ticket sales dipped to RM2.87 billion in the financial year ended Dec 31, 2008, it was still the group's biggest income-generating division.
As of the end of the first quarter ended March 31, MPHB had RM585 million in cash and cash equivalents, up 24.75% from RM468.94 million at end-2008.
Total dividends paid amounted to RM80.46 million in fiscal year 2008, representing a 62% payout ratio.
During the first three months of the year, its brokerage and financial services divisions also showed signs of recovery.
The stockbroking arm, represented by Dynamic Pearl Sdn Bhd and its subsidiary A A Anthony Securities Sdn Bhd, recorded a pre-tax profit of RM2.62 million. It made a pre-tax loss of RM3.6 million a year earlier.
The insurance business, meanwhile, managed to narrow its pre-tax loss to RM793,000 from RM9.8 million previously.
Going forward, analysts said the number forecast operations would remain MPHB's main income contributor, given the lack of other major earnings drivers.
By The EDGE Malaysia (by Tony Goh)
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I always try to be prepared whenever situations like this happen. Fortunately the Lord was with me, as He always is, even when I'm not as prepared as I should be.
I spoke on the "fiery trials" we so often have to face as believers in Jesus. That such trials and difficulties not only test the level of faith we have, and the quality of it - we're all works in progress - but they also serve to earn us rewards in heaven. Faithfulness under fire and enduring hardship is always worth it, I told the men, both for today, and for the future when we're in heaven.
I explained as simply as I could, that our trials help to shape and perfect us into the likeness of our Lord. They serve to build character, too. How Christ, handled His difficult challenges and trials, which were many, is just how we're to handle them - Trusting God the Father to provide for us the wisdom and strength necessary to overcome an adverse situation, and asking God to help us live in accordance with the Scriptures. The Bible is our guide tor daily living; it's our Owner's Manual.
"The Lord will never give us more than we could handle," I declared. But I added that there are times when we may fail to remain faithful and quit. That we think we've blown it. "But the Lord," I said, "is full of abundant mercy and compassion. He won't give up on us, and He will allow us to start again; to pick up our cross once more."
whatever reasons to get a high school diploma in the past. How that getting one's GED is a good and useful thing to do. However, as many of them could agree, it would often take two or more attempts before the exam is finally passed. I got a lot of "Amens!" for this, as some of these brothers had to take the GED exam four or five times over the course of several years before they passed. I then asked the men if those who had quit after having failed the first, second or third time had quit altogether. I could tell from the many nods I saw that they got the point. A Christian must not quit!
I finished the message by talking about one's future rewards in heaven, or lack thereof. That if we remain faithful to the Lord and persevere under whatever trials we may face in our lifetimes, the Lord Jesus will have rewards awaiting us. This is not an insignificant matter as there is much in the Scriptures regarding a believer's crowns and rewards.
The Crown of Life, I told the men, is not for our glory. It's for the Lord's glory as a sign of His faithfulness to keep His children in our times of trial and testing.