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You have to be the best story in the entire world of crypto currency that I have heard to date, and I have to say that you have got to be feeling about the best in your life! Congrats! I'm not anywhere near the same, but quite the opposite I might have to say. I'm learning as I go, and I have never been so dedicated to my success and I'm more interested in this as my possibly one chance to get to pay for the rest of my Mom's mortgage and let her stop driving a school bus all to pay for a single signature that she was trying to get dinner for 7 as always and with 2&4 year old girls screaming and the stress that I now have as a little bit of motivation to help. Only one little signature from her husband and my step father, with no explanation, well, he's passed on and the grieving process was not enough, she's just been buried with a contract that she is the responsible person for the signature that 25 years later is a million dollar loan and the details are not my business but I'm told it has ballooned to be several million with the late fees and penalties… if you have any time to contact me please send me a message through Facebook or email. I just need a little more of a clear strategy and I just don't have anyone to ask that has any level of success as you
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Maybe one day our fiat money system will go under and be completely replaced by cryptocurrencies. We're living in a digitalized world and the possibility of Bitcoin or any other major cryptocurrencies to replace the way we pay for the goods and services is not beyond the realms of possibility. However, as long as there are still profits to be made from Forex currency trading we encourage you to read our receipt for Forex trading success: How to Make Money Trading – 2 Keys to Success.
Under certain circumstances, a Fund may recognize gain from a constructive sale of an "appreciated financial position" it holds if it enters into a short sale, forward contract or other transaction that substantially reduces the risk of loss with respect to the appreciated position. In that event, the Fund would be treated as if it had sold and immediately repurchased the property and would be taxed on any gain (but would not recognize any loss) from the constructive sale. The character of gain from a constructive sale would depend upon each Fund's holding period in the property. Appropriate adjustments would be made in the amount of any gain or loss subsequently realized on the position to reflect the gain recognized on the constructive sale. Loss from a constructive sale would be recognized when the property was subsequently disposed of, and its character would depend on the Fund's holding period and the application of various loss deferral provisions of the Code. Constructive sale treatment does not generally apply to a transaction if such transaction is closed on or before the end of the 30th day after the close of the Fund's taxable year and the Fund holds the appreciated financial position throughout the 60-day period beginning with the day such transaction closed. The term "appreciated financial position" excludes any position that is "marked-to-market."
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The value of such Creation Unit for the S&P 500 Dividend Aristocrats ETF, the MSCI EAFE Dividend Growers ETF, the DJ Brookfield Global Infrastructure ETF, the Global Listed Private Equity ETF, the Large Cap Core Plus, the Hedge Replication ETF, the Merger ETF, the Inflation Expectations ETF, the CDS Short North American HY Credit ETF, the UltraPro Short Financial Select Sector ETF, the UltraShort FTSE Europe ETF, the UltraPro Financial Select Sector ETF, and the Ultra High Yield ETF as of each such Fund's inception was $2,000,000.
Many institutional investors are wise to use the futures contracts to lower the Bitcoin price to buy in lower by setting the stop-loss triggers at support levels to push down the price further and further to make it look like a crash. This scares novice investors to support the bears and sell to avoid a total loss. By taking this strategy, the Wall Street investors are strategically pushing down the price for in order to re-enter at much lower levels and potentially set Bitcoin up for another rocket rise to unprecedented highs. Then, assumingly, collect profits and repeat the cycle, increasing profits each time Bitcoin rises and falls.
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This course by the ChartGuys "covers topics ranging from market psychology to executing a trade", as the ChartGuys themselves say. This is a paid course ($149) – however, even The Merkle thought that it is worth its money. It covers long term as well as short term investment strategies, and the psychology of investing as well. Click here to visit the course.
A tax-exempt shareholder may also recognize UBTI if a Fund recognizes "excess inclusion income" (as described above) derived from direct or indirect investments in residual interests in REMICs or equity interests in TMPs if the amount of such income recognized by the Fund exceeds the Fund's investment company taxable income (after taking into account deductions for dividends paid by the Fund). In addition, special tax consequences apply to charitable remainder trusts ("CRTs") that invest in RICs that invest directly or indirectly in residual interests in REMICs or equity interests in TMPs. Under legislation enacted in December 2006, a CRT (as defined in section 664 of the Code) that realizes any UBTI for a taxable year must pay an excise tax annually of an amount equal to such UBTI. Under IRS guidance issued in October 2006, a CRT will not recognize UBTI as a result of investing in a Fund that recognizes "excess inclusion income." Rather, if at any time during any taxable year a CRT (or one of certain other tax-exempt shareholders, such as the United States, a state or political subdivision, or an agency or instrumentality thereof, and certain energy
To the extent that an Underlying RIC realizes net losses on its investments for a given taxable year, a Fund that invests in the Underlying RIC will not be able to benefit from those losses until (i) the Underlying RIC realizes gains that it can reduce by those losses, or (ii) the Fund recognizes its share of those losses when it disposes of shares in the Underlying RIC. Moreover, when a Fund makes such a disposition, any loss it recognizes will be a capital loss. A Fund will not be able to offset any capital losses from its dispositions of shares of the Underlying RIC against its ordinary income (including distributions deriving from net short-term capital gains realized by the Underlying RIC). In addition, a portion of such capital loss may be long-term, which will first offset the Fund's capital gains, increasing the likelihood that the Fund's short-term capital gains will be distributed to shareholders as ordinary income.
Each Fund intends to use, on a regular basis, leveraged investment techniques in pursuing its investment objective. Leverage exists when a Fund achieves the right to a return on a capital base that exceeds the Fund's assets. Utilization of leverage involves special risks and should be considered to be speculative. Specifically, leverage creates the potential for greater gains to Fund shareholders during favorable market conditions and the risk of magnified losses during adverse market conditions. Leverage is likely to cause higher volatility of the NAVs of these Funds' Shares. Leverage may also involve the creation of a liability that does not entail any interest costs or the creation of a liability that requires the Fund to pay interest which would decrease the Fund's total return to shareholders. If these Funds achieve their investment objectives, during adverse market conditions, shareholders should experience a loss greater than they would have incurred had these Funds not been leveraged.
On September 17, 2015, the CFTC provided clarity regarding the regulatory treatment of bitcoin in the Coinflip civil enforcement case. There the CFTC determined that bitcoin and other virtual currencies are regulated as commodities under the CEA. Based on this determination, the CFTC applied CEA provisions and CFTC regulations that apply to a bitcoin derivatives trading platform. Also of significance, the CFTC took the position that bitcoin is not encompassed by the definition of currency under the CEA and CFTC regulations. The CFTC defined bitcoin and other "virtual currencies" as "a digital representation of value that functions as a medium of exchange, a unit of account, and/or a store of value, but does not have legal tender status in any jurisdiction. Bitcoin and other virtual currencies are distinct from 'real' currencies, which are the coin and paper money of the United States or another country that are designated as legal tender, circulate, and are customarily used and accepted as a medium of exchange in the country of issuance." On July 6, 2017, the CFTC granted LedgerX, LLC an order of registration as a Swap Execution Facility for digital assets and on July 24, 2017, the CFTC approved Ledger X, LLC as the first derivatives clearing organization for digital currency. On September 21, 2017, the CFTC filed a civil enforcement action in federal court against a New York corporation and its principal, charging them with fraud, misappropriation, and issuing false account statements in connection with a Ponzi scheme involving investments in bitcoin, which the CFTC asserted is a commodity subject to its jurisdiction.
Homero Josh Garza, who founded the cryptocurrency startups GAW Miners and ZenMiner in 2014, acknowledged in a plea agreement that the companies were part of a pyramid scheme, and pleaded guilty to wire fraud in 2015. The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission separately brought a civil enforcement action against Garza, who was eventually ordered to pay a judgment of $9.1 million plus $700,000 in interest. The SEC's complaint stated that Garza, through his companies, had fraudulently sold "investment contracts representing shares in the profits they claimed would be generated" from mining.[88]
The moment you look at the amount of support Tron has been receiving lately, you immediately realize it's not just yet another blockchain-based platform. Tron's technology aims to deploy world's largest FREE content entertainment system. The platform allows anyone to store and own data, and to freely publish their content. Its app "Peiwo" already gathers 10 million enthusiasts and is on the road to become the world's first TRON-compatible entertainment app. This technology revolves around the following ideology: All contributions on the network should be of equal quantitative value, the Internet should be decentralized, and data creators should have the absolute ownership of the data. It's important to realise though that Tron has been pushed like hell by an ambitious marketing department… I have not yet decided if this is a cryptocurrency which will survive but, for a one year hold, it seems a safe bet.
In order to make sure that you actually have money in your margin account to settle the difference with Mortimer every day, you are required to put up an initial margin at the beginning of the contract. A lower sum, the so-called minimum margin or maintenance margin, is also defined by the broker. If the money in your margin account falls from the initial margin to the maintenance margin, it triggers a margin call: The broker requests you to fill up your margin account to at least the initial margin (of course, you may also put up more).
Leverage (All Funds, except the Matching ProShares Funds, the Managed Futures Strategy ETF, the Crude Oil Strategy ETF, the Bitcoin Futures Strategy ETF, the Short Bitcoin Futures Strategy ETF, the Blockchain/Bitcoin Strategy ETF, and the Bitcoin Futures/Equity Strategy ETF the Short (-1x) ProShares Funds and the CDS Short North American HY Credit ETF)
UPDATE: I do not recommend paying to enter a Cryptocurrency mastermind group – I've tried a few and found the ROI to be disappointing. I am now focussing on growing my portfolio passively utilising a cryptocurrency trading bot, the renowned Notorious Bot. Having a bot that trades for me, without emotion, using an advanced algorithm, allows me to grow my portfolio in the background without it cutting into my time or stressing me out. You can familiarise yourself with the basics of cryptocurrency trading bots here.
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Gains or losses attributable to fluctuations in exchange rates that occur between the time a Fund accrues income or other receivables or accrues expenses or other liabilities denominated in a foreign currency and the time the Fund actually collects such receivables or pays such liabilities generally are treated as ordinary income or ordinary loss. Similarly, on disposition of some investments, including debt securities and certain forward contracts denominated in a foreign currency, gains or losses attributable to
Since the introduction of futures, the price of bitcoin has gone up, suggesting that there were more As -- people who wanted to be long bitcoin synthetically -- than Cs -- people who wanted to be short synthetically -- though again it is still early. Crudely speaking, the arbitrage spread suggests that there are also more As than Bs: There are a lot of people who want to be long bitcoin without owning bitcoin, but not so many people who want to own bitcoin without being long bitcoin. (Which makes sense! If you bought a bitcoin and sold a futures contract when Cboe launched its futures last week, you could have locked in a risk-free arbitrage profit of something like $1,200. But if you had just bought a bitcoin, you'd be up about $3,000 by now.) The costs of trading actual bitcoins on bitcoin exchanges -- in terms of blockchain transaction costs, exchange withdrawal limits, etc. -- are significant enough that people who want bitcoin exposure are willing to pay about 2 percent to avoid them.
Words of caution are appropriate when talking about going short and using leverage. These strategies are incredibly effective because they allow investors to not only profit from a general upward trend in bitcoin but to profit from the fluctuations in the market. At first, it is hard to think of a more perfect asset than bitcoin for such purposes. The upward trends have been fast and extreme, yet fluctuations are very common and tend to be substantial.
Bitcoin relies on blockchain technology. "Blockchain" is a decentralized database. Transactions are grouped in blocks and then chained together through cryptographic links. Blockchain is designed so that the chain can be added to, but not edited. This structure is called a "distributed ledger." Transactions in the distributed ledger are permanently recorded and can never disappear, although theft and loss of bitcoin can occur. While bitcoin has grown in popularity, it's still not nearly as widely accepted as traditional currency.
Market conditions should be considered favorable to a Fund when such conditions make it more likely that the value of an investment in that Fund will increase. Market conditions should be considered adverse to a Fund when such conditions make it more likely that the value of an investment in that Fund will decrease. For example, market conditions that cause the level of the S&P 500® to rise are considered "favorable" to the Ultra S&P500® and are considered "adverse" to the Short S&P500®.
Jump up ^ Iansiti, Marco; Lakhani, Karim R. (January 2017). "The Truth About Blockchain". Harvard Business Review. Harvard University. Archived from the original on 18 January 2017. Retrieved 17 January 2017. The technology at the heart of bitcoin and other virtual currencies, blockchain is an open, distributed ledger that can record transactions between two parties efficiently and in a verifiable and permanent way.
In 1998, Wei Dai published a description of "b-money", an anonymous, distributed electronic cash system.[14] Shortly thereafter, Nick Szabo created "bit gold".[15] Like bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies that would follow it, bit gold (not to be confused with the later gold-based exchange, BitGold) was an electronic currency system which required users to complete a proof of work function with solutions being cryptographically put together and published. A currency system based on a reusable proof of work was later created by Hal Finney who followed the work of Dai and Szabo.
The Trust and the fund have obtained an exemptive order from the SEC allowing a registered investment company to invest in the Fund's shares beyond the limits of Section 12(d)(1) subject to certain conditions, including that a registered investment company enters into a Participation Agreement with the Trust regarding the terms of the investment. Any investment company considering purchasing shares of the Fund in amounts that would cause it to exceed the restrictions of Section 12(d)(1) should contact the Trust.
The Bitcoin Network's functionality relies on the Internet. A broadly accepted and widely adopted decentralized network is necessary for a fully-functional blockchain network, such as the Bitcoin Network. Features of the Bitcoin Network, such as decentralization, open source protocol, and reliance on peer-to-peer connectivity, are essential to preserve the stability of the network and decrease the risk of fraud or cyber-attacks. A significant disruption of Internet connectivity affecting large numbers of users or geographic areas could impede the functionality of the Bitcoin Network and adversely affect a Fund. In addition to technical disruptions such as cyber-attacks, the potential elimination of the net neutrality regulations in the U.S. may have a negative impact on miners, Bitcoin Markets and the Bitcoin ecosystem. Any technical disruptions or regulatory limitations that affect Internet access may have an adverse effect on the Bitcoin Network, the price of bitcoin and the Bitcoin Instruments in which the Funds invest.
Litecoin (LTC) is similar to Bitcoin in many of its characteristics and is also one of the more veteran cryptocurrencies out there. However, there are two main differences between Litecoin and Bitcoin: Speed and amount. While it takes 10 minutes to create a Bitcoin block, Litecoin demands roughly 2.5 minutes to create a block – meaning 4 times the speed. Moreover, Litecoin attracts many users, as it can produce 4 times the quantity of Bitcoin! However, as Litecoin uses highly complex cryptography, often mining it is more complicated than other cryptocurrencies.
The first timestamping scheme invented was the proof-of-work scheme. The most widely used proof-of-work schemes are based on SHA-256 and scrypt.[18] The latter now dominates over the world of cryptocurrencies, with at least 480 confirmed implementations.[37] Some other hashing algorithms that are used for proof-of-work include CryptoNight, Blake, SHA-3, and X11.
The Registrant (also, the "Trust") is organized as a Delaware business trust is operated pursuant to an Amended and Restated Declaration of Trust, dated December 13, 2010 (the "Declaration of Trust"), that permits the Registrant to indemnify every person who is, or has been, a Trustee, officer, employee or agent of the Trust, including persons who serve at the request of the Trust as directors, trustees, officers, employees or agents of another organization in which the Trust has an interest as a shareholder, creditor or otherwise (hereinafter referred to as a "Covered Person"), shall be indemnified by the Trust to the fullest extent permitted by law against liability and against all expenses reasonably incurred or paid by him in connection with any claim, action, suit or proceeding in which he becomes involved as a party or otherwise by virtue of his being or having been such a Trustee, director, officer, employee or agent and against amounts paid or incurred by him in settlement thereof. This indemnification is subject to the following conditions:
8.	Except for the Managed Futures Strategy ETF, the Crude Oil Strategy ETF and the CDS Short North American HY Credit ETF, concentrate (i.e., hold more than 25% of its assets in the stocks of a single industry or group of industries) its investments in issuers of one or more particular industries, except that a Fund will concentrate to approximately the same extent that its index concentrates in the stocks of such particular industry or industries. For purposes of this limitation, securities of the U.S. government (including its agencies and instrumentalities) and tax-free securities of state or municipal governments and their political subdivisions (and repurchase agreements collateralized by government securities) are not considered to be issued by members of any industry. For purposes of determining whether the Funds are concentrated in an industry or group of industries, each Fund may concentrate its investment in the securities of companies engaged in a single industry or group of industries to approximately the same extent as its benchmark and in accordance with its investment objective and policies as disclosed in the Prospectus and SAI.
If the Funds engage in offsetting transactions, the Funds will incur a gain or loss, to the extent that there has been movement in forward currency contract prices. If forward prices go down during the period between the date a Fund enters into a forward currency contract for the sale of a currency and the date it enters into an offsetting contract for the purchase of the currency, the Fund will realize a gain to the extent that the price of the currency it has agreed to sell exceeds the price of the currency it has agreed to buy. If forward prices go up, the Fund will suffer a loss to the extent the price of the currency it has agreed to buy exceeds the price of the currency it has agreed to sell.
price of a particular asset, whether a Fund will realize a gain or loss from the purchase or writing (sale) of options on an index depends upon movements in the level of prices for specific underlying assets generally or, in the case of certain indexes, in an industry or market segment. A Fund will not enter into an option position that exposes the Fund to an obligation to another party, unless the Fund either (i) owns an offsetting position in the underlying securities or other options and/or (ii) earmarks or segregates with the Fund's custodian bank cash or liquid instruments that, when added to the premiums deposited with respect to the option, are equal to the market value of the underlying assets not otherwise covered.
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There are also tax risks associated with investments in MLPs. While there are benefits to MLPs that are treated as partnerships for federal income tax purposes, a change to current tax law or in the underlying business of a given MLP could result in the MLP being treated as a corporation for federal income tax purposes. If the MLP were treated as a corporation, the MLP would be required to pay federal income tax on its taxable income, which would reduce the amount of cash available for distribution by the MLP. In addition, because MLPs generally conduct business in multiple states, the Fund may be subject to income or franchise tax in each of the states in which the partnership does business. The additional cost of preparing and filing the tax returns and paying related taxes may adversely impact the Fund's return.
•	Credit Risk — The Fund could lose money if the issuer or guarantor of a fixed-income instrument or a counterparty to a derivatives transaction or other transaction is, or is perceived to be, unable or unwilling to pay interest, repay principal on time, or defaults. The value of an investment in the Fund may change quickly and without warning as a result of issuer defaults or actual or perceived changes in the credit ratings of the Fund's portfolio investments or to an issuer's financial strength.
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An initial coin offering (ICO) is a controversial means of raising funds for a new cryptocurrency venture. An ICO may be used by startups with the intention of avoiding regulation. However, securities regulators in many jurisdictions, including in the U.S., and Canada have indicated that if a coin or token is an "investment contract" (e.g., under the Howey test, i.e., an investment of money with a reasonable expectation of profit based significantly on the entrepreneurial or managerial efforts of others), it is a security and is subject to securities regulation. In an ICO campaign, a percentage of the cryptocurrency (usually in the form of "tokens") is sold to early backers of the project in exchange for legal tender or other cryptocurrencies, often bitcoin or ether.[62][63][64]
Bitcoin has a very limited history of operations and there is no established performance record for the price of Bitcoin on the Bitcoin Exchange Market that can provide an adequate basis for evaluating an investment in bitcoin or Bitcoin Instruments such as Bitcoin Derivatives, ETNs and Bitcoin Securities. Although past performance is not necessarily indicative of future results, if bitcoin had an established history, such history might (or might not) provide investors with more information on which to evaluate an investment in the Funds.
During the fiscal year ended May 31, 2017, the Advisor recouped $161,605 from UltraPro S&P 500 Fund pursuant to an Investment Advisory Agreement and the Expense Limitation Agreement between the Advisor and the Trust, on behalf of the Fund. During the fiscal year ended May 31, 2016, the Advisor recouped $155,882 from the UltraPro S&P 500 Fund pursuant to an Investment Advisory Agreement and the Expense Limitation Agreement between the Advisor and the Trust, on behalf of the Fund. During the fiscal year ended May 31, 2015, the Advisor recouped $259,539 from the UltraPro S&P 500 Fund pursuant to an Investment Advisory Agreement and the Expense Limitation Agreement between the Advisor and the Trust, on behalf of the Fund.
interest, taxes, dividends (including dividend expenses on securities sold short), litigation, indemnification, expenses associated with investment in other funds as permitted by the then current registration statement, and extraordinary expenses as determined under generally accepted accounting principles) to the extent total annual Fund operating expenses, as a percentage of average daily net assets, exceed 0.95% through September 30, 2018 (0.30% for the Inflation Expectations ETF, 0.60% for the Global Listed Private Equity ETF, 0.50% for the Short Term USD Emerging Markets Bond ETF and the CDS Short North American HY Credit ETF, and 0.75% for the Merger ETF each through September 30, 2018. ProShare Advisors, on behalf of the Morningstar Alternatives Solution ETF, has contractually agreed to waive investment advisory and management services fees and to reimburse other expenses (exclusive of transaction costs, interest, taxes, dividends (including dividend expenses on securities sold short), litigation, indemnification, expenses associated with investment in other funds as permitted by the then current registration statement, and extraordinary expenses as determined under generally accepted accounting principles but inclusive of acquired fund fees and expenses) to the extent total annual Fund operating expenses, as a percentage of average daily net assets, exceed 0.95% through September 30, 2018. After such date, the expense limitation may be terminated or revised by ProShare Advisors. Amounts waived or reimbursed in a particular contractual period may be recouped by ProShare Advisors within five years of the end of that contractual period, however, such recoupment will be limited to the lesser of any expense limitation in place at the time of recoupment or the expense limitation in place at the time of waiver or reimbursement.
Cryptocurrencies allow traders to diversify their investment portfolio, as their price is mainly determined by demand and supply; Their value has a low correlation to national economies or political scenarios. Once Bitcoin surpassed the price of gold in 2017, US markets introduced 2 ETFs on Bitcoin and drew more and more institutional money into the world of cryptocurrencies. In 2017, Indian PM Narendra Modi has announced the gradual replacement of paper currency with electronic currency; In March 2018, the Marshall Islands announced that they would be introducing a cryptocurrency to replace US dollars as their main currency; other central banks are investigating the adoption of blockchain-like technologies… in short cryptocurrencies are probably here to stay. A growing number of crypto investors all over the world have already discovered the benefits:
As of May 2018, over 1,800 cryptocurrency specifications existed.[29] Within a cryptocurrency system, the safety, integrity and balance of ledgers is maintained by a community of mutually distrustful parties referred to as miners: who use their computers to help validate and timestamp transactions, adding them to the ledger in accordance with a particular timestamping scheme.[16]
When a Fund purchases or sells a futures contract, or buys or sells an option thereon, the Fund "covers" its position. To cover its position, a Fund may enter into an offsetting position, earmark or segregate with its custodian bank or on the official books and records of the Fund cash or liquid instruments (marked-to-market on a daily basis) that, when added to any amounts deposited with a futures commission merchant as margin, are equal to the market value of the futures contract or otherwise "cover" its position. When required by law, a Fund will segregate liquid assets in an amount equal to the value of the Fund's total assets committed to the consummation of such futures contracts. Obligations under futures contracts so covered will not be considered senior securities for purposes of a Fund's investment restriction concerning senior securities.
negative impact on the price of such contracts. In order to comply with such limits, the Fund may be required to reduce the size of its outstanding positions or not enter into new positions that would otherwise be taken for the Fund. This could potentially subject the Funds to substantial losses or periods in which the Fund does not accept additional Creation Units.
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Creation Units of all Funds may, at the discretion of the Advisor, be sold for cash (the "Cash Purchase Amount"). Creation Units are sold at their NAV plus a Transaction Fee, as described below. The Advisor may also restrict purchases of Creation Units to be on a cash-only basis at any time and without prior notice, in all cases at the Advisor's discretion.
and the FTSE Developed Europe Index (the "Indices") (ii) the figure at which an Index is said to stand at any particular time on any particular day or otherwise, or (iii) the suitability of the Index for the purpose to which it is being put in connection with the ProShares Ultra, Short and UltraShort FTSE China 50 and Ultra and UltraShort FTSE Developed Europe. None of the Licensor Parties have provided or will provide any financial or investment advice or recommendation in relation to the Index to ProShares or its clients. The Index is calculated by FTSE or its agent. None of the Licensor Parties shall be (a) liable (whether in negligence or otherwise) to any person for any error in the Index and (b) under any obligation to advise any person of any error therein.
Futures contracts expire on a designated date, referred to as the "expiration date." Each Fund typically will invest in "lead month" contracts. Lead month contracts are the monthly contracts with the earliest expiration date. Bitcoin futures contracts listed on the CBOE Futures Exchange ("CFE") or Chicago Mercantile Exchange ("CME") will be cash settled on their expiration date unless they are "rolled" prior to expiration. Each Fund generally intends to "roll" its bitcoin futures contracts prior to expiration to the next "nearby" bitcoin futures contract. The "nearby" contracts are those contracts with the next closest expiration date. The Funds will incur the costs (or benefits) of continually rolling into the new lead month contracts.
If, in any taxable year, a Fund were to fail to meet the 90% gross income, diversification or distribution test described above, the Fund could in some cases cure such failure, including by paying a Fund-level tax, paying interest, making additional distributions, or disposing of certain assets. If a Fund were ineligible to or did not cure such a failure for any taxable year, or otherwise failed to qualify as a RIC accorded special tax treatment under the Code, the Fund would be subject to tax on its taxable income at corporate rates, and all distributions from earnings and profits, including distributions of net tax-exempt income and net long-term capital gain (if any), would be taxable to shareholders as dividend income. In such a case, distributions from the Fund would not be deductible by the Fund in computing its taxable income. In addition, in order to requalify for taxation as a RIC, the Fund may be required to recognize unrealized gains, pay substantial taxes and interest, and make certain distributions.
Unsponsored ADR programs are organized independently and without the cooperation of the issuer of the underlying securities. As a result, available information concerning the issuers may not be as current for unsponsored ADRs, and the price of unsponsored depositary receipts may be more volatile than if such instruments were sponsored by the issuer and/or there may be no correlation between available information and the market value.
A piece of software or hardware that gives you the ability to store and exchange your cryptocurrencies. Each cryptocurrency wallet is encrypted and unique. When you send funds you actually broadcast an encrypted message to the recipient. Only the recipient's cryptocurrency wallet can decrypt that message and thus receive the funds. A hardware cryptocurrency wallet is considered to have key advantages over other software wallets:
its distribution requirements, and could affect the amount, timing or character of the income distributed to shareholders by the Fund. Investments by a Fund in a foreign subsidiary and shares of other investment companies could affect the amount, timing or character of the Fund's distributions to shareholders relative to the Fund's distributions had it invested directly in the securities held by such a foreign subsidiary or such other investment companies.
In 1983 the American cryptographer David Chaum conceived an anonymous cryptographic electronic money called ecash.[9][10] Later, in 1995, he implemented it through Digicash,[11] an early form of cryptographic electronic payments which required user software in order to withdraw notes from a bank and designate specific encrypted keys before it can be sent to a recipient. This allowed the digital currency to be untraceable by the issuing bank, the government, or a third party.
As noted above, swap agreements typically are settled on a net basis, which means that the payment streams are netted out, with the Fund receiving or paying, as the case may be, only the net amount of the two payments. Payments may be made at the conclusion of a swap agreement or periodically during its term. The timing and character of any income, gain or loss recognized by a Fund on the payment or payments made or received on a swap will vary depending upon the terms of the particular swap. Swap agreements do not involve the delivery of securities or other underlying assets. Accordingly, the risk of loss with respect to swap agreements is limited to the net amount of payments that a Fund is contractually obligated to make. If the other party to a swap agreement defaults, a Fund's risk of loss consists of the net amount of payments that such Fund is contractually entitled to receive, if any. The net amount of the excess, if any, of a Fund's obligations over its entitlements with respect to each swap will be accrued on a daily basis and an amount of cash or liquid assets, having an aggregate NAV at least equal to such accrued excess will be earmarked or segregated by a Fund's custodian (though, as noted above, in connection with CDS in which a Fund is a "seller", the Fund will segregate or earmark cash or assets determined to be liquid, with a value at least equal to the full notional amount of the swap (minus any variation margin or amounts owed to the Fund under an offsetting transaction)). Inasmuch as these transactions are entered into for hedging purposes or are offset by earmarked or segregated cash or liquid assets, as permitted by applicable law, the Funds and their Advisor believe that these transactions do not constitute senior securities within the meaning of the 1940 Act, and, accordingly, will not treat them as being subject to a Fund's borrowing restrictions.
ensure the delivery of the requisite number of Fund Shares through DTC to the Custodian by no later than 10:00 a.m. Eastern Time of the second Business Day (T+2) immediately following the transmittal date. Authorized Participants should be aware that the deadline for such transfers of Fund Shares through the DTC system may be significantly earlier than the close of business on the primary listing exchange. Those making redemption requests should ascertain the deadline applicable to transfers of Fund Shares through the DTC system by contacting the operations department of the broker or depositary institution affecting the transfer of Fund Shares. The Balancing Amount, if any, must be transferred in U.S. dollars directly to the Custodian through the Federal Reserve Bank wire transfer system in a timely manner so as to be received by the Custodian no later than 2:00 p.m. Eastern Time on the second Business Day (T+2) immediately following the transmittal date. If the Custodian does not receive both the required Fund Shares and the Balancing Amount, if any, by 10:00 a.m. and 2:00 p.m., respectively, on the second Business Day (T+2) immediately following the transmittal date, such order will be deemed not in proper form and cancelled.
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It is expected that each Subsidiary will neither be subject to taxation on its net income in the same manner as a corporation formed in the United States nor subject to branch profits tax on the income and gain derived from its activities in the United States. A foreign corporation will generally not be subject to such taxation unless it is engaged in or is treated as engaged in a U.S. trade or business. Each Subsidiary expects to operate in a manner such that it is not so engaged or so treated.
Altcoins is the general term associated with the cryptocurrencies launched after Bitcoin's success. At first, these were mere copies mimicking the original Bitcoin. Today, there are over 1,000 of these, and the list just keeps growing. Most crypto coins are launched following an ICO (Initial Coin Offering – a form of crowdfunding) in which the developers raise cash by offering a limited number of initial coins to finance technological development. So far, besides the list below, we can find names, such as Namecoin, Peercoin, Bytecoin, Deutsche eMark, Novacoin, Cryptogenic Bullion, Quark, DarkCoin and Mangocoinz (for smartphones).
Bitcoin (BTC) has been engaged in a predictable up and down pattern where it absolutely crashes at the beginning of any year and then sky-rockets as the year nears its end. Bitcoin held steady at around $19,000 in December 2017, and then sure enough – crashed big time to around $6,000 at the beginning of 2018. At the time of writing, March 8th 2018, the price of Bitcoin is relatively stable between $10,000 and $12,000. In my opinion, the price will run again soon.
Bitcoin is pseudonymous rather than anonymous in that the cryptocurrency within a wallet is not tied to people, but rather to one or more specific keys (or "addresses").[53] Thereby, bitcoin owners are not identifiable, but all transactions are publicly available in the blockchain.[53] Still, cryptocurrency exchanges are often required by law to collect the personal information of their users.[53]
impede the functionality of the Bitcoin Network and adversely affect the price of bitcoin. Any technical disruptions or regulatory limitations that affect Internet access may have an adverse effect on the Bitcoin Network, the price of bitcoin and the bitcoin futures contracts in which the Fund invests. In addition to technical disruptions such as cyber-attacks, the potential elimination of the net neutrality regulations in the U.S. may have a negative impact on bitcoin and the Bitcoin ecosystem.
COVERED BONDS. The Funds may invest in covered bonds, which are debt securities issued by banks or other credit institutions that are backed by both the issuing institution and underlying pool of assets that compose the bond (a "cover pool"). The cover pool for a covered bond is typically composed of residential or commercial mortgage loans or loans to public sector institutions. A covered bond may lose value if the credit rating of the issuing bank or credit institution is downgraded or the quality of the assets in the cover pool deteriorates.
The DJ Brookfield Global Infrastructure ETF, the Global Listed Private Equity ETF, the Merger ETF, the MSCI EAFE Dividend Growers ETF, and the MSCI Europe Dividend Growers ETF contain portfolio investments that are primarily listed or traded on foreign markets. To the extent a Fund's portfolio investments trade in foreign markets on days when a Fund is not open for business or when the primary exchange for the Shares is not open, the value of the Fund's assets may vary and shareholders may not be able to purchase or sell Fund Shares and Authorized Participants may not be able to create or redeem Creation Units. Also, certain portfolio investments may not be traded on days a Fund is open for business.
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Trading directly on CME is not possible unless you are a broker yourself. This means that you have to pay a high fee – between thousands and hundreds of thousands of USD – to join CME. As an individual investor, you need to find a broker who trades on CME. You will then open an account with this broker – a margin account rather than a cash account because in options trading, there is a margin involved, as we have seen above. Because this poses a higher risk for the broker – in case you can't settle your debts – these deals can only be done in special margin accounts and not cash accounts.


I really wanna get rappy heel guards, and ive heard you have to make a bracket for a certain type. Which one needs the bracket, and which one do you just have to bend a little? 250 or 350?
I think it's the 250 that works best. I think you have to flip the brackets side to side. Not sure on that. I'll look it up for you.
okay, when I asked awk befor and everyone was on bf, he said they pretty much go right on except for maybe a small bracket for the upper floor pan mount, i was just checking because hes done it before.


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What Is Your Reaction to the Verdict in the Kyle Rittenhouse Trial?
Did you follow the trial? What do you think of the verdict, and its broader implications?
To learn more about the case, listen to "The Daily" episode "The Acquittal of Kyle Rittenhouse" or read these excerpts from the article "Kyle Rittenhouse Acquitted on All Counts," by Julie Bosman:
Kyle Rittenhouse, who fatally shot two men and wounded another amid protests and rioting over police conduct in Kenosha, Wis., was found not guilty of homicide and other charges on Friday, in a deeply divisive case that ignited a national debate over vigilantism, gun rights and the definition of self-defense.
After about 26 hours of deliberation, a jury appeared to accept Mr. Rittenhouse's explanation that he had acted reasonably to defend himself in an unruly and turbulent scene in August 2020, days after a white police officer shot Jacob Blake, a Black resident, during a summer of unrest following the murder of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer.
Mr. Rittenhouse sobbed and was held by his lawyers after a clerk read the jury's verdict, acquitting him of all charges.
After the shootings, Mr. Rittenhouse was transformed from an unknown 17-year-old from rural Illinois into a national symbol. Some Americans were horrified by the images of a teenager toting a powerful semiautomatic rifle on a city street during racial justice demonstrations, a reminder of the extent of open carry laws in the United States. Others saw a well-meaning young man who had gone to keep the peace and provide medical aid, a response to the sometimes destructive protests that had roiled American cities in the summer of 2020.
"So many people look at this case and they see what they want to see," Thomas Binger, the prosecutor in the trial, had cautioned jurors before they began deliberations.
The case reflected the sharp split in the country, and political leaders and others weighed in almost immediately, conservatives deeming it a win for the notion of self-defense and liberals labeling it a failure of the criminal justice system.
The article continues:
On Aug. 25, 2020, Mr. Rittenhouse arrived in downtown Kenosha with his rifle and a medical kit on the third day of civil unrest over the shooting of Mr. Blake by Officer Rusten Sheskey in the former factory town of 100,000 residents. (In January, prosecutors announced they were not charging Officer Sheskey with wrongdoing.) Demonstrators marched peacefully at points, but some smashed streetlamps and set cars and shops on fire. Law enforcement was overwhelmed, and dozens of civilians took up their own firearms to guard businesses and subdivisions, adding to a tense and chaotic atmosphere that included sparring between the groups.
Testimony and video footage shown during the two-week trial revealed that Mr. Rittenhouse was chased into a parking lot, at one point, by Joseph Rosenbaum, 36, who was unarmed and behaving erratically. Mr. Rittenhouse turned and shot him at close range, killing Mr. Rosenbaum, who had been living in Kenosha.
Mr. Rittenhouse then shot two other people — Anthony Huber and Gaige Grosskreutz — who pursued Mr. Rittenhouse as he fled, testimony showed. Mr. Grosskreutz, a medic from the Milwaukee suburbs, survived and testified at the trial, saying he had pulled out a gun because he believed that Mr. Rittenhouse was an active shooter. Mr. Huber, who was 26 and had been protesting the shooting of Mr. Blake — a longtime friend — died after a gunshot to the chest.
Students, read the entire article or listen to the entire "Daily" episode, then tell us:
Have you been following the trial of Kyle Rittenhouse? What is your reaction to his acquittal on all counts?
The defense team argued that Kyle Rittenhouse had acted reasonably to defend himself during the demonstrations. The prosecution argued that he was an instigator who had behaved with criminal recklessness, inserting himself into a volatile scene of demonstrators and then firing his gun with little provocation. In your view, given the information you have, which side is the more compelling case, and why?
In "Can Self-Defense Laws Stand Up to a Country Awash in Guns?" Shaila Dewan reports how this case raises important questions: whether openly displayed guns make the bearers feel safer at the expense of everyone else, whether brandishing a gun constitutes a criminal threat or an act of self-protection, and whether people can benefit from self-defense claims if their own actions contributed to the volatility of a situation. What do you think about these three legal and moral questions?
A vigilante is someone who takes the law into their own hands. In an Opinion essay, Charles M. Blow argued that "The idea of taking the law into one's own hands not only to protect order, but also to protect the order, is central to the maintenance of white power and its structures." Black vigilantes, he says "are not celebrated, but feared, condemned and constrained by the law." Do you agree with Mr. Blow's view of the racial dynamics of vigilantism? Why or why not?
Ms. Bosman writes that the verdict is being seen by some as "a win for the notion of self-defense" and others as "a failure of the criminal justice system." Do think this verdict should be seen as a symbol for broader issues? If so, which ones? If not, why?
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India's first bullet train will consume 40% more electricity than Delhi Metro
Anushka Khare Posted on: 2019-01-14 09:13:31 Viewer: 381 Comments: 0 Country: India City: New Delhi
New Delhi (Urban Transport News): According to an estimate prepared by the National High Speed Rail Corporation (NHSRC) Limited, India's first high speed bullet train, which will likely to start run between Mumbai and Ahmedabad by 2022, will consume 40% more electricity than what the entire Delhi Metro Rail network requires.
NHSRCL, which is executing the Country's ambitious Mumbai-Ahmedabad high-speed rail project said that the project, once operational, will require 1,100 million units of electricity per year to operate the bullet train and power the stations where it will stop. In comparison, the Delhi Metro, which runs on eight lines spanning 350 kilometers serving 236 stations and connects the capital with satellite towns like Gurugram and Noida, consumes only 850 million units per annum.
Explaining further on the estimate, the NHSRC officials said that the main reasons of this difference in consumption is because bullet trains need to attain a certain speed which is much higher than what a metro train is capable of and because metro trains deploy regenerative braking, a technology that recovers some energy while stopping and converts it back into usable electricity.
According to the officials, the NHSRCL will construct approx. 350 km of transmission lines and high voltage cabling in Gujarat and Maharashtra for the Mumbai-Ahmedabad High Speed Rail corridor, for which the foundation stone was laid by Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi and his Japanese counterpart Shinzo Abe in last year September 2017.
According to the NHSRCL officials, the company has already tied up with power generating companies, which will supply the 1,100 million units of electricity required per year to operate the first bullet train. However, the power requirement will increase as the number of train services will increase in the year2033, 2043, and 2053.
As per plan and deadline set by the company, the first bullet train will start run on track from August 2022 at the highest speed up to 350 km per hour. At present, the newly developed Train 18, which will connect New Delhi and Varanasi, hit a top speed of 180 km per hour during a test run in last year December and is officially declared as India's fastest train by the Indian Railways.
In an interview in November, Achal Khare, Managing Director of NHSRC said that after finalizing the alignment in October 2017, the NHSRC has appointed a consultant to decide the power requirement for the project. After a detailed study, the company has finalized the locations of substations and how much power will be required at how many locations. The company has also tied up with power distribution companies so that they can start work on the transmission line.
The consumption estimates are in line with what similar networks elsewhere consume. According to the NHSRC officials, traction power requirements are assessed by electrical works contractors that carry out power system simulation studies. The maximum projected train traffic and time table is simulated using software and the electric power requirement at each power substation, location and spacing of substations is assessed.
According to the NHSRC, the power requirements of all the 29 substations and locations were finalized by January 2018 and the power utility companies in Gujarat and Maharashtra were approached. The joint surveys with power utility companies were completed by April 2018. The utility companies are now going ahead with related works.
Apart of the electricity supply from the power distribution companies, the NHSRC has also planned to adopt green energy initiative and install solar power plants at the rolling stock depots in Sabarmati and Thane, the High-Speed Rail Training Institute in Vadodara, and Sabarmati HSR Complex of the Mumbai-Ahmedabad High-Speed corriodor.


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package br.com.project.checkskills.test.repositories;

import java.util.List;

import javax.inject.Inject;

import org.apache.log4j.Logger;
import org.junit.Ignore;
import org.junit.Test;
import org.junit.runner.RunWith;
import org.springframework.test.context.ContextConfiguration;
import org.springframework.test.context.junit4.SpringJUnit4ClassRunner;

import br.com.project.checkskills.entities.dadosbasicos.CompetenciaEntity;
import br.com.project.checkskills.repositories.dadosbasicos.ICompetenciaRepository;

@RunWith(SpringJUnit4ClassRunner.class)
@ContextConfiguration(locations = { "/applicationContext-test.xml" })
public class CompetenciaRepositoryTest {

	private static final Logger LOGGER = Logger.getLogger(CompetenciaRepositoryTest.class);

	@Inject
	private ICompetenciaRepository competenciaRepository;

	@Test
	public void findAllTest(){

		List<CompetenciaEntity> competencias =this.competenciaRepository.findByNome("Liderança");

		LOGGER.info(competencias);
	}

	@Ignore
	@Test
	public void delete(){
		CompetenciaEntity competenciaEntity = new CompetenciaEntity();
		competenciaEntity.setId(1L);
		this.competenciaRepository.delete(competenciaEntity);
		LOGGER.info(competenciaEntity);
	}
}

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The Huffy So Sweet 16 in. Bike has the perfect trendy look for cool kids when they ride down the sidewalk. Any fun-loving kid will love the bright and colorful graphics covering the durable steel frame - plus, the padded seat features coordinated graphics for a great look. A decorated crossbar pad adds protection at the front, while a purple chain guard fully encloses the chain to protect those little fingers. The easy to use coaster brake is perfect for beginners, simply pedal backwards to brake. Bike features a kickstand so it will stand upright when not in use.


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Q: Is it a Good Practice to Catch All Exception? The snippet below (in java) gives an example of my question.
try {
                  // code implementation here
                    }
                } catch (Exception ex) {

                }

Now, is that a good practice? Does it affect code performance. Is it always better to be specific with the exception you want to catch or just always all exception and do not bother doing something like this?
try {
                    //code implementation
                } catch (IOException | SQLException | NullPointerException ex ) {

                }

A: It is only good practice to catch a specific exception if it can actually be handled by the catch block.
Very often, programmers assume that the fault can be handled at all, close to the point of occurrence. This is often wrong. To understand why, we need to explore what "handling" means.
Your second snippet:
try {
    // code implementation
} catch (IOException | SQLException | NullPointerException ex ) {
    // handle exception
}

implies that there could be some useful action which could handle the caught exception. But this is often not so. As was noted in the comments, performance is irrelevant if the code gives incorrect results.
About the only thing you can do with a NullPointerException is to log everything salient for debugging and die; any further attempt to continue has a high probability of stomping on the heap and breaking other things down-stream. This exception results from a software defect and cannot be properly handled at all.
I'll assume the code implementation consists of reading a istream. Handling an IOException could be as simple as re-reading the part that threw the exception (if caused by an interrupted system call) but that's the rare case and an over-generalized exception. If the error is FileNotFoundException, you've got an upstream defect which cannot be handled in this context. Who could handle it?  The code which created the istream could have handled the exception if there was a reasonable alternative file to open, but the sample snippet should lack the information. If we were trying to open a file with no reasonable alternate, all the opener can do is throw an exception itself.
Why? Because there is a contract between the opening code and its caller that says "you give me a pathname, and I will open it for you and give you an istream". Upon FileNotFoundException, the opening code has failed to fulfill its contract and will induce failures in the caller and other places where the istream is accessed. It is this violation of contract is the strongest case for exceptions.
Let's assume that the FileNotFoundException was thrown in a long running program like an editor. It would be rude for the application to crash just because you typo'ed a filename. In this case, the exception should be allowed to propagate up to the main loop which actually can handle it: namely by informing the user "file not found" thus giving the user an opportunity to try another filename.
When an Exception implies a contract failure that exception must propagate upwards until there is code that can actually rectify the contract failure. If there is no place that failure can be rectified (as in cat not_a_file) the best you can do is print a meaningful error message and (as in cat not_a_file a_file) skip not_a_file.

A: I would assume that checking for specific exceptions would have an impact in performance (even if it is minimal) because the program would compare the exception triggered with 3 different values, instead jumping straight to the exception clause. This would increase the number of CPU cycles taken, hence reduce performance.
Listing all exceptions does not improve readability or functionality of the code though, so I would suggest you catch all exceptions by default, unless you need to catch an exact type of an exception.

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James Earl Bunch, Sr., age 71, of Park City departed this life
By Editor | December 1, 2022 | 0
James Earl Bunch, Sr., age 71, of Park City departed this life on Tuesday, November 29, 2022 in Glasgow. The Hart County native was born on April 5, 1951 to the late Leonard and Rose Craine Bunch. He was married to Charlene Heath Bunch, who survives.
James served our country in the U.S. Army during the Vietnam era. He was a former employee of Anderson Woodworking and a member of the American Legion.
Besides his wife, Charlene, he leaves to honor his memory— his children, James Earl Bunch, Jr. (Lori) of Glasgow and Michelle Marie Siewart of Hardyville; grandchildren, Zachary and Gracelyn Bunch and sister, Janette Owens (Jimmy) of Munfordville.
A PRIVATE MEMORIAL SERVICE WILL BE PLANNED AT A LATER DATE.
– ARRANGEMENTS BY PATTON FUNERAL HOME PARK CITY CHAPEL –
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Julie Ann Templeman Jaggers, age 48 of Hodgenville, departed this life
Ozella Mills passed away Sunday, January 22, 2023
Edwin Ray "Eddie"Jessie, age 63, passed away
Ronald "Ronnie" Wallace Jeffries, age 82, of Horse Cave passed away
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Snapshot: The launch of the new Kawasaki Ninja 400 has only widened the gap in its segment and has however made the KTM RC 390 a more aggressive proposition at a highly affordable price.
Kawasaki has today launched its new Ninja 400 in the Indian motorcycle market which is all set to replace the outgoing Ninja 300. The bike was showcased earlier at the 2017 EICMA in Milan, Italy and was expected to make its official Indian debut at the Auto Expo 2018 but however, the launch was delayed by Kawasaki India. The bike competes against the same rivals as before which include the KTM RC390 and the Yamaha YZF-R3. The latter was reintroduced in the Indian motorcycle market at the Auto Expo 2018 since it was taken off the shelves last year after BSIV was made mandatory in the market. And the word is that the Austrian motorcycle maker will soon be replacing the current RC 390 by the new 2019 version of the same with all new looks and improved engine and features. In today's story, we compare all the three motorcycles against each other taking their specs, features, and prices in account.
The new Kawasaki Ninja 400 now packs the highest capacity engine in comparison to every other motorcycle in the segment. The engine is a new 399cc 4-stroke, 2-cylinder, DOHC, water-cooled engine which puts out close to 48PS of maximum power at 10,000 rpm and 38Nm of peak torque at 8,000rpm. The engine comes mated to a 6-speed, return shift transmission.
Talking about the new Yamaha YZF-R3, the engine is the same 321cc 4-stroke, 2-cylinder, DOHC engine which is the smallest in the category but churns out a healthy 42PS of maximum power at 10750 rpm and 29.6 Nm of peak torque at 9000 rpm. It comes with a 6-speed transmission.
While the KTM RC 390 is the only single cylinder engine but its power and torque rating is at par with its competition. It's a 373.3 cc Single-Cylinder, Liquid-cooled engine that delivers close to 43.5PS of maximum power at 9000 rpm and 36 Nm of peak torque @ 7000 rpm. The transmission is a 6-speed gearbox.
The Kawasaki Ninja 400 features a 41mm Telescopic fork/4.7 in at the front and Bottom-link Uni-Trak, swingarm adjustable preload/5.1 in suspension at the rear. While the suspension on the Yamaha is Telescopic forks at the front and single monoshock at the rear. The KTM RC 390 is the only bike to offer front upside own suspension, while at the rear it is a single monoshock by WP. All the three bikes in the list now come with standard ABS for maximum safety. While KTM and Kawasaki also offer slipper clutch which is missed on the Yamaha YZF-R3.
The Yamaha YZF-R3 is the heaviest of the lot weighing close to 173kgs which is its curb weight, while Kawasaki weighs around 166kgs and the KTM weighs in the middle at 170kgs.
The Kawasaki and Yamaha share a similar fuel tank that can accommodate close to 14-ltr of fuel at once while the RC 390 can be only filled with 10-ltr of fuel once brimmed to the top.
What also makes the Japs more practical is the seat height which is lowest at 780 mm in the Yamaha, followed by 784mm in the Kawasaki and the then 820mm in the KTM which literally makes it quite a high bike to mount.
The Ninja 400 is surely the fastest of them all with a claimed top speed around 190+ km/hr. While the YZF-R3 and the RC 390 can do a maximum speed of 180+ km/hr and 180 km/hr, respectively.
The dash on the Yamaha is a semi-digital unit just like Kawasaki while the KTM offers a fully digital instrument panel which offers the most details of the motorcycle. This fully digital unit is shared with other motorcycles in the KTM stable such as RC 200 and 200 Duke.
The price on the Kawasaki was recently announced and the fact that it costs Rs 4.69 lakh makes it the most highly priced proposition in its segment. The KTM RC 390, on the flip side, is the most affordable at Rs 2.25 lakh. The Yamaha YZF-R3 has been placed right in the middle at Rs 3.48 lakh.
The launch of the new Kawasaki Ninja 400 has only widened the gap in its segment and has however made the KTM RC 390 a more aggressive proposition at a highly affordable price.


CANTON, Ohio (June 23, 2015) – Hartville Pet Insurance Group will move in July from their current offices in Canton and Copley to the former Lockheed Martin campus, bringing more than 125 jobs to Akron, the company announced today. At 26,000 square feet, the new space allows Hartville to consolidate its offices and bring both teams together under one roof. The new office will house 125 employees.
Hartville will become the first major tenant in the sprawling defense complex that is being renovated by Industrial Commercial properties, LLC. The new Hartville space includes a state-of-the-art call center that Rushovich said is vital to the company's business.
Hartville is recognized as a solid corporate citizen that is generous in its community, and Hartville employees already completed their first company-sponsored "Day of Giving" in Akron. Hartville employees collected 581 pounds of food items and delivered the goods and over 40 team members volunteered at the Akron-Canton Regional Foodbank on Friday, May 22.
Hartville Pet Insurance Group also provided a cash donation to the Foodbank.
Hartville Pet Insurance Group℠ is one of the oldest and largest providers of pet health insurance in the United States. In 2006, Hartville was named the only strategic partner for pet insurance of the ASPCA® (The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals®), in recognition of the company's commitment to pet health and its humane coverage philosophy.
All of the company's insurance plans are underwritten by United States Fire Insurance Company and administered by Fairmont Specialty Insurance Agency, Inc. (FSIA Insurance Agency in CA), members of the Crum and Forster Enterprise. For more information, please visit http://hartvillegroup.com.


Another good link from James Atkinson. Many of us have had the opportnity to have a play with Google wave but this list brings together some great ideas of how to use this unknown quantity in education. Check it out here and I would love to hear any great success you have had with Google Wave.
Some Possible uses of Google Wave in Education sor far.
I came across this great article from Richard Mcmanus at Readwriteweb which explores what some early adopting educators have experienced with wave so far.
Google Wave is a much hyped new Internet-based communications and collaboration platform. It was announced at the end of May, released as a 'Preview' product shortly after and 100,000 more invites were made available at the end of September.
Early users reported mixed feelings. But one month after Google Wave was opened to tens of thousands of people, how are people using it now? What use cases are being discovered? Let's start with the education sector. We'll explore other use cases in upcoming posts.
What is Google Wave Again?
A quick reminder of what Google Wave is. In a nutshell, Google Wave is a new form of real-time communications. Google describes it as "equal parts conversation and document." In our first 'hands-on' post at the beginning of June, we described it as "real-time email with a big dose of IM built-in" - although we noted that "this only describes a small part of what Wave can do."
In a recent CNN profile, Wave creators Lars and Jens Rasmussen described it as making email "collaborative and instant."
After searching some public 'waves,' we came across an educational wave. Entitled 'Wave in Class,' this wave was started by Loren Baum (a self-described "collaborative learning enthusiast" and graduate student at Ben Gurion University) and Sam Boland (a Politics student and "Tech Enthusiast" at Occidental College, Los Angeles).
The wave was started to explore concepts like "Collaborative Note Taking" and "Wave as a Debate Host." Nearly 100 people are included in the wave, ranging from teachers to PhD students to IT professionals to high school students.
This particular wave was framed at the start as being "a set of collaborative documents, supported by a chat."
As a note-taking tool, Samuel Boland wrote that "there appears to be a concensus that this [Google Wave] will work as a note-taking tool, the only disagreement is over how to implement it." Options for note-taking include voluntary extra-curricular groups, rotating in-class groups and small in-class groups.
A few users enthused later in the wave that "Google Wave combines a lot of the best features from different applications" - but with a real-time twist. It was noted that while Google Docs can be used to share notes and collaborate on assignments, with Google Wave students can collaborate in real-time. This could be important in education for things like notetaking, asking questions (a.k.a. a backchannel) and collaborative projects.
Another feature of Wave that would be useful for education purposes, according to this 100-person wave, is the play-back ability - "so instructors can see exactly who did what, and see the progression of ideas."
Will Wave Make Students Lazy?
One concern that seemed to pop up several times in the wave was that Google Wave could make it too easy for lazy students to get by. As Justin Neitzey succinctly put it: "I don't think kids should be allowed piggy back off the work of others."
This is a similar concern that some in the education system had with Wolfram Alpha, another innovative Web tool that is set to change the way education is delivered.


Have you ever looked someone in the eyes and… shuttered? Almost as if they were looking into your soul? Goodness, if you haven't, let me tell you – What a naked and vulnerable feeling. The common, immediate response is to look away. Drop the eye contact. Hide yourself again. Justify the disconnection you just made by running through the files of memories you're convinced could surely scare anyone away. But maybe it didn't happen like that for you? Maybe it was in the process of getting to know someone else. Thankfully, this is not an experience solely limited to romantic relationships either. The idea of being fully known can be a scary one. But in this season, the Lord has been challenging me to keep the eye contact and take deep breaths through the uncomfortable shutters.
Hey you! You continued reading. This means that you can either relate, are confused but kind of curious or you are probably nosey. Okay I was joking on the last one haha but just know you were supposed to be reading this at the time you were and I am glad you are here.
Wasn't til about 2016 (the year I gave all of myself to the Lord) that random instances happened where I felt as if someone was getting to know me way better than my comfort level was allowing. I seriously held everyone at arm's length and wasn't even aware. Even my community at the time. Yea we definitely prayed for each other and the Holy Spirit would reveal things to those in prayer for me, making me feel exposed and seen, but I limited those experiences to ONLY when someone was in prayer for me.
Y'all not expecting me to live this way 24/7 are you?? Feeling naked? And seen. And..exposed. Ha. No thanks.
I mean, biblically, I understood the value in community, but it was not until about two months ago the Lord BLEW my mind as to how necessary community really was/is.
Ready for a quick praise report? So this will definitely be another in depth post, so no worries, but from the month of November to my birth month of February, I set a goal to lose 30 pounds. And I did! Silly me for thinking that that process was just a physical transformation. My weight was/is connected to so much more than my appreciation of sweet treats.
As glorious as this victory was, I was still sitting in bits of shame. I had made a weird verbal commitment to myself to not share about my weight loss until I was about 50 pounds down. I was so scared to let people in my life and in the cyber world know what I used to weigh. I wanted to be as far away from that number as possible. It represented so much shame for me.
Woo. Let's take a moment. That was a lot. But that was how I felt. The raw and honest truth I did not mutter but felt gnawing at my shield of protection.
But! Crazy thing is…I pressed in and said it. I even told my friend what my starting weight was and I will tell you guys because thankfully I am not bound to the shame of those numbers anymore. I was at my heaviest weight Summer of 2017 at 313 pounds. Like WHET. But I had reached 268 pounds by my birthday in February. (Still working on another goal and my weight is fluctuating, but I'll keep you guys posted.) After I had revealed my weight, the rejection/disappointment/disgust I was expecting never came.
Wow God. So this is why community is important. We literally experience your love through others. Your relentless, healing love.
But…aren't there risks to being my full self?
This freedom I got a taste of left me in awe of the Lord. The only thing I would have to exchange would be myself or "bad" parts about myself that I wanted to keep hidden. Talk about a word vomit season. There has not been a time in my life I have been so forthcoming about struggles and lessons I am currently learning. Even while I am typing this blog now. I love to share about what I have already mastered before I present it. But I will tell y'all, this stuff is HARD and I am so lost most days. I still run from the Lord's love on some days because being in healthy relationship with people is hard and demands a part of yourself that does not have the right to be protected anymore. It's exhausting some days, but the fruit connected to being fully who you are is so worth it.
There are probably more that just did not cross my mind in this moment of time, but these are definitely the big ones.
In some of my current classes, we have discussed when taking a look at the Bible one can conclude that knowledge is just about synonymous with love. You can find this terminology all up in 1 Corinthians (1 Corinthians 8:3 but if anyone loves God, he is known by Him), Jeremiah (Jeremiah 1:5 Before I formed you in the womb I knew you…), and I can go on but I hope you are getting the picture. But this deep love that is spoken for is usually always tied to behavior, acts of love, and other signs that a deep relationship is present. And since I have stepped into this realm of freedom, I can testify that there is so much freedom tied to a relationship where you can be authentically you and loved and the same time. That understanding gave me such a different perspective for so many other things surrounding me. It made sense to me why it seemed that people close to me stayed in toxic relationships. Though toxic, usually the other person in the relationship knew them, flaws and all. I will admit that taking a risk to let that tangible relationship go if you have never felt that before is beyond scary. There's this unspoken security with full knowledge, so it's understandable. But that relationship cannot be at the price of your peace, by no means.
If you get nothing else from this, understand this and understand it quickly: MAN will fail you. The only perfect form you find of this love is having a relationship with Jesus. And if we're being honest with ourselves, that's really what's happening everyday as we form these empty connections to address deeper issues. The loud voice telling you that you won't even be good enough for that kind of love, SILENCE him now. Jesus pursues us without even having the expectation to be loved back the same or at all. Wouldn't tell you this stuff if I haven't tried it myself.
Yesterday, someone squinted their eyes and told me, "Ashley, you look cleansed." I laughed. Then I said, "Yea, I'm free." Believe the hype. It's available to you too.
***What about you? Have you ever experienced being fully known?