Now, Immokalee tomato pickers work under a code of conduct that bans verbal and sexual abuse, that provides clean water, that doesn't force pickers to work in dangerous heat.
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Pickers are expected to walk a half marathon a day.
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So there are great opportunities out there for stock pickers.
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Other crops, like lettuces and asparagus, still required human pickers.
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All the customizations include color pickers to personalize things further.
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We were also told the pickers weren't available for comment.
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That's what will likely happen to actively managed stock pickers.
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But then something unexpected happened — the stock pickers fought back.
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"This is probably a year for stock pickers," he said.
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Shrimp were abundant — and loved, even by once-reluctant pickers.
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Nose pickers are often said to be digging for gold.
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Star stock pickers have taken a backseat to that phenomenon.
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Amazon isn't trying to turn warehouse pickers into software engineers.
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Some stock pickers have done well over long periods, too.
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Her parents worked as day laborers, farmers and cotton pickers.
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I met many trash pickers over the past two years.
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Much has been made over the poor performance of stock pickers.
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Most chief executives would say they are more pickers than polishers.
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Furtive mushroom-pickers slip to secret spots in the woods nearby.
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Here are top tech stock pickers and the names they own.
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Pickers couldn't sell out of Mexico so they didn't pick anything.
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We here at the Mashable business section are not stock pickers.
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Ms Asia's fellow fruit-pickers had demanded she convert to Islam.
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And those licenses refuse pickers to sell eggs after June 30.
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These concerns are likely holding back a lot of 'bottom pickers.
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Outlook also borrowed elements of the Sunrise date and time pickers.
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Enter SWaCH, a waste pickers' cooperative based in Pune, south India.
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As stock pickers, they're generalists, surveying all parts of the market.
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But Wall Street's top stock pickers are expecting gains in 2019.
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Recent history suggests those stock pickers haven't been worth the cost.
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On Photography Danny Lyon's photograph "The Cotton Pickers" makes me tense.
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Informal workers, or rag-pickers, remain an important part of the system.
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Then, in 2004, 23 drowned working as cockle-pickers in Morecambe Bay.
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Who are these top stock pickers and what companies are they buying?
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Competitive berry pickers flocked to Suomussalmi in 2016 for the World Championships.
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Here are top health-care stock pickers and the names they own.
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Almost all the pickers at Boxford Farms are now Bulgarian or Romanian.
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There are an estimated 3,000 pickers laboring on the site, workers said.
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These are four criteria that are widely used by professional stock pickers.
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Who are these top stock pickers and what stocks are they buying?
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Pickers work long, hard days on farms that stink of steaming compost.
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Here are some new stock additions from the top five stock pickers.
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Great investigators are like the guys from the History Channel's American Pickers.
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That requires pickers to select and hand-pick berries as they ripen.
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In one day, waste pickers save 1,200 tons from Bogotá's only dumpsite.
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Active fund managers — human stock pickers — will be marginalized, the argument goes.
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Many are vying for pickers, packers and shippers by offering new perks.
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Here are some new stock additions from the top 10 stock pickers.
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Cherry pickers set up to give photographers an aerial shot sat idle.
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Index funds provide market returns at minimal cost, by excising stock-pickers entirely.
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In the end, the American Pickers hosts paid Phil $25,000 for the van.
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Actively managed mutual funds — those headed by professional stock pickers — shed $67.8 billion.
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Mumbai is thought to be home to hundreds of thousands of rag-pickers.
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Steven recalls up to 22017 pickers a day when he was a child.
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Until recently, the conditions for the pickers have been close to modern slavery.
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In an otherwise dismal year for professional stock pickers, July offered some hope.
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Sharper equity market gyrations could serve up opportunities for stock pickers to shine.
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Stock pickers have struggled to top basic index returns throughout the bull run.
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CREDIT SUISSE: Stock pickers are piling into these 12 US stock market 'darlings'
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As strange as it sounds, many barnacle pickers don't know how to swim.
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The investors Todd Combs and Ted Weschler will be the chief stock pickers.
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Grape pickers, wine bottlers and tasting room servers cannot easily take extended breaks.
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Read more: Macro hedge funds are soaring while quants and stock-pickers tank.
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Most fruit and vegetable farms require human pickers to bring crops to harvest.
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The move came after one of the worst years ever for stock pickers.
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That is putting stock pickers at traditional mutual funds into an existential crisis.
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Deep-value stock pickers often exhibit idiosyncratic qualities, and that is true here.
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"The Cotton Pickers," considered by itself, is also a work of compressed history.
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Birrell says that this will be the most important impact of robot pickers.
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Early models, spotted by trash pickers and estate-sale trawlers, commanded impressive prices.
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Our tour guide said that pickers can walk over 10 miles a day.
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From a broad perspective, it should have been a good year for stock pickers.
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In rich countries like America, the absence of professional waste-pickers presents a problem.
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"I like them saying, 'Hey, stock pickers, it might be your time,'" she said.
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She no longer needs pickers, but so many farmers still rely on seasonal labor.
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The song, "Banano de Urabá", tells of a slaughter of banana pickers in 1928.
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They are expensive, though: one of the most popular strawberry-pickers costs about $250,000.
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These financial advisors often aren't even stock pickers and don't follow the IPO market.
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The volatile markets were supposed to be a time for stock pickers to shine.
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HOLLYWOOD SQUARED &aposAmerican Pickers&apos discover Aerosmith&aposs van from 1970s in Massachusetts woods.
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In the 1980s, the pickers used to trade the fungus for cigarettes and noodles.
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Indiscriminate selling in the group could open up opportunity for stock pickers, he added.
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Suspicion falls on the fruit pickers Paco's wife employs and invited to the wedding.
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His massive murals require large-scale equipment, like cherry pickers and industrial-quality paint.
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But Juan Magaña and the 12 crop pickers he manages headed to the fields.
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Lazard Asset Management is pushing into "quantamental" strategies combining human stock-pickers with machines.
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"That short-term volatility actually creates opportunity for stock pickers, especially in the region."
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In other shots, cabbage pickers bend deep and hoist baskets high on their shoulders.
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Because index funds generally don't need ace stock pickers, they charge rock-bottom fees.
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He informed the Pickers that the car was on the land when he bought it.
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One way to categorise them is to split them into two types: polishers and pickers.
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Amazon organizes an annual "picking challenge" where teams vie to create the fastest robot pickers.
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He started his work with waste-pickers by adorning their carroças, often with political slogans.
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It's an environment that could be conducive to stock pickers but rough on trend followers.
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Robotic pickers may be more broadly deployed as technology becomes cheaper and labour more expensive.
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Stock pickers, as a group, may or may not outperform the broad market going forward.
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Captain Moore uses separation machines to improve recycling and spare plastic pickers from dangerous work.
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As a result, short-term stock-pickers have had to follow their instincts, Cramer explained.
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The stars of "American Pickers" discovered a van that belonged to Aerosmith in the 1970s.
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It overlays directions and highlights items for human "pickers," increasing their efficiency and reducing errors.
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Surprisingly, the melody pickers are three women based in a windowless room in Austin, Tex.
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These efforts have resulted in court rulings, laws, and decrees that protect waste pickers' rights.
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At Opening Ceremony, Carol Lim and Humberto Leon festooned white winkle-pickers in kinky hardware.
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"We're bottom-up stock-pickers and less interested in the short-term outlook," he said.
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She said the market is showing greater dispersion and has become better for stock pickers.
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They're just too delicate for most machines, requiring instead the deft touch of human pickers.
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All the momentum today is against expensive stock pickers, in favor of dirt-cheap ETFs.
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The era of ultralow interest rates and quantitative easing hasn't been kind to stock pickers.
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Citigroup strategists, in a note, said they are concerned stock pickers have become overly confident.
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A strong photograph like "The Cotton Pickers" is like a star on a clear night.
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Grandma might make a mean strudel, but she ain't about those loud, rude nose-pickers.
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Several garbage pickers in Mumbai have found pillow cases and sacks filled with cash in recent days, said Saumya Roy, the chief executive of the nonprofit Vandana Foundation, which makes loans to the garbage pickers, among other low-income residents in Mumbai and elsewhere.
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In theory, that should have been a positive for stock pickers and could continue to be.
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Brazil's last census, in 2010, counted 387,910 waste-pickers nationwide; that number may be too low.
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The work has been eased by the $950,000 mechanized cotton pickers that the family now owns.
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He was a hero to Chicano grape pickers, to inner-city African-Americans, to union workers.
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There are no aisles for lifts to pass through, and no stations for human product pickers.
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These five top stocks warrant close consideration because they come from Wall Street's top stock pickers.
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Heading into 2017, the eulogy for good old-fashioned stock pickers had been all but written.
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All the men were experienced pickers – they've been coming back for years, some of them decades.
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The program started with sugarcane cutters in Florida, and has since shifted to predominantly apple pickers.
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Gone are Bulosan's pea pickers, drifters and gamblers, hopping freight trains up and down the coast.
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Village trustees shouldn't be stock pickers, and they shouldn't be injecting social issues into the decision.
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To start, at least, the company anticipates that the robot will augment, rather than replace, pickers.
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The competition ended in 2017, with machines still failing to approach the capabilities of human pickers.
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Whole Foods "pickers" prepare the orders and hand them off to Amazon Flex drivers for delivery.
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We saw "pickers," employees who roamed the aisles, scanned packages and moved them to be sorted.
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Or saying that lock-pickers are all burglars and we need to be surveilled by the NYPD?
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Although short-sellers endure long stretches in the red, as a group they are clever stock-pickers.
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Yet even the best stock pickers tend to be wrong at least a third of the time.
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All the options include color pickers, and the ability to buy additional items from an avatar store.
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Results like these tend to cause congressional gridlock, which is usually good for stock pickers, Cramer said.
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Results like these tend to cause congressional gridlock, which is usually good for stock-pickers, Cramer said.
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BOSTON (Reuters) - Two star stock pickers at Fidelity Investments exited their positions in Buffalo Wild Wings BWLD.
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Bracket pickers at ESPN actually fared better with Thursday games this year than they did last year.
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The fund is run by Will Danoff, who is considered one of the industry's best stock pickers.
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According to the investigation, the majority of hazelnut pickers are Kurdish migrants that can also include children.
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The pickers, about a thousand of them, are required to scan their fingerprints before entering the grounds.
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Stocks chosen by professional stock pickers do no better, on average, than the market as a whole.
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A crew of grape pickers might not be available at the moment a grower wants to harvest.
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A group of fruit pickers roamed around the rows of vines, picking bright clusters of chardonnay grapes.
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Stock pickers are heavily invested in bank stocks, and it hasn't been working out well for them.
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Complaints by charities and unions about exploitation of tea pickers prompted an IFC watchdog probe in 2014.
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Such an invention, though, could mean Amazon would need fewer workers working as pickers and stowers, too.
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Stock pickers in actively managed mutual funds rely on both trends to provide opportunities to beat market indexes.
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Some stock pickers were able to successfully hedge the declines in the equity market during the fourth quarter.
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Pickers, by contrast, are capital allocators, who stand back and decide unsentimentally how the firm should deploy resources.
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These are the rubbish-pickers of the internet; to most of the world, they are all but invisible.
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Instead, it has relied on trash pickers to sift through the waste, plucking out whatever can be reused.
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Nashville's Lower Broadway bares little resemblance to the guitar-pickers' and songwriters' hamlet it was in decades past.
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Despite factors that might otherwise suggest a good year for stock pickers, the early returns are not encouraging.
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While the clean-up spells bad news for job-hungry waste pickers, Traore is hopeful about her future.
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It's harder than it looks but the tea pickers scurry across the steep, wet slopes at frightening speeds.
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Informal jade scavengers, or hand-pickers, are frequently caught up in landslides in the poorly regulated mining area.
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He hopes the law will give Tunisia's waste pickers better protection from health risks and exploitation by middlemen.
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Grijalva cited his involvement, as a teenager, in a boycott designed to win new protections for grape pickers.
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While it's a challenge for traditional stock pickers, it creates an opportunity for firms spearheading the new technologies.
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Investors continue to plow money into passively managed index funds while shunning funds that use active stock pickers.
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Low volatility has long been the enemy of stock pickers, and that story hasn't changed much this year.
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Stolz says he and his fellow pickers were expected to fetch more than 300 items every 60 minutes.
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That means stock pickers could fair better than those that buy the whole market or even sector ETFs.
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And that nit pickers are a real profession; they come to your house and check everyone for bugs.
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Even legendary investing guru Warren Buffett has lamented that it's harder for stock pickers to outperform passive ETFs.
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The strawberry pickers are mostly from Bulgaria and Romania, two of the poorest countries in the European Union.
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Their latest conclusion: Stock pickers are not only not winning, they are losing ground against their passive brethren.
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Seven of BlackRock's 53 stock pickers are expected to step down, but some will stay on as advisers.
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"Waste-pickers know physics, chemistry, economics," marvels Gonzalo Muñoz, founder and boss of TriCiclos, a Chilean waste-management company.
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The agricultural complex is incredibly diverse with players that span packing housing down to armies of freelance crop pickers.
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When trucks arrive to dump their loads, these "rag-pickers" surge forward to get first choice of the refuse.
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Wages paid to pickers have risen by a third or more to encourage voluntary workers to replace forced labourers.
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A bigwig known as "the President" dies, seemingly "suffocated by cockchafers" after the ball of the Mushroom Pickers' Society.
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According to a report by the World Bank, 1% of city dwellers in developing countries work as waste-pickers.
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The most skilled pickers of berries, tomatoes, and other delicate types of produce can pocket $30-203 per hour.
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Here are 10 technology stocks in the portfolios of hedge funds ranked as "top overall stock pickers" by Symmetric.io.
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At the landfill, pickers are on site 24 hours a day and fires burning discarded material smolder all night.
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The retail rout could serve as a prime example of just how much value skilled stock pickers can add.
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The result has been years of underperformance by stock pickers as well as fixed income fund managers like Gross.
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The small-cap portfolio manager also revealed why the rise of ETFs is creating opportunities for fundamental stock pickers:
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Environmentalists say Tunisia needs informal waste pickers to make up for deficiencies in the country's waste and recycling management.
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There will be no time-pressed "pickers" elbowing shoppers aside to fill an online order, as in other supermarkets.
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They made their fair share of mistakes early on, but most realized quickly that they aren't killer stock-pickers.
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Joyce Carol Haynes was born to a large family of cotton pickers in Ponca City on May 25, 1938.
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In agriculture, for example, the minimum wage for pickers of £6.20 per hour has become a de facto ceiling.
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Part of the entry fee is donated to the tea pickers and local workers to improve their social welfare.
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These stocks also have the backing of Wall Street's top stock pickers, with a "strong buy" analyst consensus rating.
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Much of that attention remains focused on the 14th floor of the company's headquarters, where the stock pickers work.
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The truck drivers and package-pickers who deliver your brown boxes mostly fall into the transportation and warehousing sector.
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In addition, he said, the pension trustees will stop wearing two hats, serving both as fiduciaries and stock pickers.
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Those pickers carry handheld scanners that tell them where in the warehouse they need to grab their next package.
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With labour costs high, there are no rag-pickers to sift through everything and work out what is worth recycling.
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Stock pickers were done in by two major factors: following the crowd and an uneven pattern of correlations among stocks.
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"There's a real group of waste pickers that actually just do that," Mr. Green Trading CEO Keiran Smith told TechCrunch.
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Lopes said a pickers association complaint in 2008 had led to the fine and now the seeking of civil damages.
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The government says greater mechanisation and higher wages for pickers will soon allow it to do without forced labour altogether.
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When the financial crisis hit a decade ago, hedge fund managers with strong reputations as stock-pickers suffered big losses.
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It pays all of its 250-odd fruit pickers at least the national minimum wage; the fastest earn substantially more.
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In the late 1980s local women who went to Italy as tomato-pickers found they could earn more as prostitutes.
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Most of the pickers live in Cidade Estructural, a community across from the dump which has an estimated 40,000 residents.
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If many areas of the market struggled in 2015, it would logically follow that stock pickers would also do poorly.
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Stock pickers did well thanks to their focus on growth stocks in the technology industry, Subramanian said in the report.
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The chilly attitude from professional stock pickers partly explains the lackluster reception for AT&T's planned takeover of Time Warner.
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He is concerned that the shortage of crab pickers will affect the entire crab supply chain — and his bottom line.
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So, too, do the garbage pickers in Payatas, who spend hours each day searching for recyclable goods in the refuse.
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One of Warren Buffett's top stock pickers, Todd Combs, has just been added to the JPMorgan Chase board of directors.
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With such a powerful incentive, Amazon is on a quest to acquire or develop systems that can replace human pickers.
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This makes them perennial fodder for the craft and sullen art of astute stock pickers seeking to exploit market inefficiencies.
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We always want to hand-harvest our grapes, but the cost of a team of pickers is prohibitive for us.
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For people who are pickers, you have to know when to pop, and you have to know when to stop.
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Concurrently, the diversity of smaller, domestically oriented firms that stock pickers can profit from usually increases when rates are rising.
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The Forrences had heard that another local orchard was using Jamaican pickers, and decided to go that route as well.
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The public markets are no longer the kingmakers they were for legendary stock-pickers like Julian Robertson and Peter Lynch.
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And since last year, BlackRock's dyed-in-the-wool stock pickers have worked in the same division as its quants.
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U.S. index funds and ETFs assets reached $4.271 trillion, compared with $4.246 trillion run by stock-pickers, according to Morningstar.
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During peak season, Indian Ladder employs about 100, including pickers in the field, servers in the cafe and cider pressers.
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In 2015, Pope Francis addressed an audience of farmers, trash pickers and indigenous people in Bolivia and asked for forgiveness.
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Each of these simple, gentle country songs is presented in raw form: just some stellar pickers and players in a room.
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At its warehouses, known as "dark stores", pickers grab items from shelves and put them into crates for packaging and delivery.
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Photo: GettyToronto's Pearson Airport has an important message for would-be stem-pickers: The weed there is not up for grabs.
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Plastic waste collected by pickers is piled into the hole and then set alight with diesel to form a molten mass.
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The property includes bucolic grounds of fields and lakes, in which the hop-pickers once worked in conditions of near-slavery.
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When trucks deliver the rubbish from these skips to dumps such as Deonar, more rag-pickers comb over it yet again.
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She describes her family as "Irish potato-famine people" on her father's side and "cotton pickers from Arkansas" on her mother's.
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To further insulate themselves from possible arrest, the hackers are also looking to pay "pickers" to collect their ill-gotten items.
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The pickers are mostly informal workers who sell recyclables on a piecemeal basis and lack the government protections of official employment.
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The prevalent correlation trend has made it difficult for stock pickers to find the price differences that lead to alpha generation.
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Fidelity's stable of stock pickers badly lagged peers in 2158, beating only 22015 percent of them for a 1-year period.
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It's this culture that breeds gender quotas and door-pickers evaluating women on the basis of their race or body-shape.
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The raid on the van, like subsequent arrests in mushroom country, frightened the mushroom pickers, their supervisor said in an interview.
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Many hedge funds have underperformed the equities market this year, with stock-pickers burned by losing bets on Valeant Pharmaceuticals VRX.
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Ocado boasts innovations of cuboid robots that pack groceries for home delivery, robotic fruit pickers and trials of driverless delivery vans.
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"First, let's understand: this market is largely driven not by stock-pickers, but by index funds," the "Mad Money " host said.
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The portfolio managers at Dodge & Cox, stock pickers to their very core, have not been immune to these industry-shaking trends.
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Rednecks, crackers, hillbillies, hausfraus, shut-ins, pea-pickers — everybody that's got to jump when somebody else blows the whistle….. They're mine.
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Todd Combs and Ted Weschler, the two investment managers that Berkshire hired in recent years, will be the chief stock pickers.
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He met his first wife, Ellen, planning a protest against nonunion produce pickers; at the same time, he took up golf.
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Or maybe it's because I don't like the look of clutter (an image I've associated with collectors since watching American Pickers).
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And, yes, the pickers who help their robotic counterparts find the right items by hand when the robotic arms get jammed.
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The rebellious fruit pickers are soon feuding among themselves, and before long organized protest morphs into dissension, chaos, arson and death.
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The top hedge fund stock pickers in the market bought some media, health-care and gaming stocks in the fourth quarter.
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I think you should take up John Seabrook in The New Yorker, on strawberry farming and the rise of robot pickers.
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Professional stock pickers just wrapped up one of their worst years ever, and the look ahead doesn't seem a whole lot better.
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Waste pickers scavenge through trash bags outside homes and stinking mounds of refuse at dumps to recover the plastic that Minghui needs.
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Though stock pickers have struggled, most investor money remains focused on mutual funds, about 95 percent of which are active in nature.
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There, amid more stench, dozens of waste-pickers mill around beside the swinging arms of the machines that unload the dripping rubbish.
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The beekeepers were using cherry-pickers, or a machine with a basket and crane to get close enough to spray the nests.
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Machines separate out different materials, in much the same way as Mrs Hiyale and her fellow rag-pickers do back in Mumbai.
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About 6 percent of the UK's farm workers come from elsewhere in the EU, even before including seasonal labour like fruit pickers.
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Passive investing overall, fueled by the growth of exchange-traded funds blindly tracking indexes, is booming while old-fashioned stock pickers struggle.
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One day Mr Langert got a call from a Catholic bishop who was concerned about the low wages paid to tomato-pickers.
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In actively managed funds, professional stock pickers use sophisticated research and human judgment to choose which investments to include in the fund.
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Many farms pay above the minimum wage of £7.50 ($9.65) an hour, and fast pickers can earn up to £12 on piecework.
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He pointed across the road from his farm, where orchards once stood, at a flat expanse of strawberries dotted with hustling pickers.
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Many on Wall Street expected 2016 to be a better year for stock pickers, but that clearly has not been the case.
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Because nothing actually happens on American Pickers, the show relies on the illusion of action, which is created through camerawork and editing.
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"We have clamped down on Indian scientists because we cannot clamp down on Romanian fruit pickers," says Matt Ridley, a science writer.
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In one neighborhood, a stretch of trailers, the tomato and potato pickers heeded the warnings and scrambled to shelters as Irma approached.
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In our area, a parent can now choose from among Love Bugs, Nit Pickers, Hair Fairies or the sensibly named Lice Happens.
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To meet performance targets, pickers must collect as many as 35,000 items and walk up to 15 miles in a single shift.
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The only big mistake that stock pickers have made over the past several years is to have sold nearly anything at all.
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Orchards around Maine attract pickers with their juicy apples from the end of August through October, according to the Maine Pomological Society.
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Traditional stock pickers like Pershing Square and Greenlight Capital have dominated, while firms like Renaissance Technologies and Winton Group have been mediocre.
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Once the robot has passed through, human pickers would follow to grab fruit hidden behind leaves and in hard-to-reach spots.
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Rather than focus on the famous or recognizable, Chicano muralists, for example, depicted grape pickers, city laborers, people with connections to neighborhoods.
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Sahyadri provides advice, sells supplies like fertilizer, lines up loans and even sends trained pickers to harvest the best grapes for export.
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The internet is full of recommendations for casual and chronic pickers alike — so much so that it gets overwhelming (and expensive) quickly.
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Trump's ancestors came from a terrible town in Germany — full of fertilizer fumes and impoverished grape-pickers — but he never mentions it.
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Throughout the '2000s and '22017s, the local air force base provided a steady supply of pickers: both the airmen and their spouses.
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Ms. Betchart said that she is currently working with two pickers who were exposed to pesticides and are having difficulty getting treatment.
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If they are lucky, the jade pickers, as they are known, can unearth a chunk of jadeite that can make their fortune.
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Many of the Geans' pickers have worked the farm full time for 20 years, freed from the need to follow seasonal crops.
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Some farmers are having a hard time finding pickers, as tightening immigration policies have slowed the flow of temporary workers from Mexico.
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Stock pickers are having the best year since the bull market began back in 2009, and investors are starting to take notice.
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Founded in 22, Honestbee works with supermarkets and retailers to deliver goods to customers using its store pickers, delivery fleet and mobile apps.
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The market is currently "piled up" in what history shows is a loss-making trade, according to one of JPMorgan's top stock pickers.
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The way index-trackers and smart-beta approaches laid waste to stock-pickers suggests that managers of active bond funds should be quaking.
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Waste pickers said they expect the site to shut next summer, though discussions on this have gone on for more than a year.
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The billionaire investor told CNBC on Monday that Berkshire Hathaway's chief stock pickers, Ted Weschler and Todd Combs, have failed to beat the .
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" Here's the relevant excerpt from the $14.9 billion firm (emphasis added): "We have seen a return to a "stock-pickers" market this year.
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The automated pickers are being used to harvest a variety of apples, which will be sold in New Zealand and around the world.
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Dalits have been ostracized by upper-caste Hindus for centuries for jobs they deemed as impure, such as garbage pickers and tannery workers.
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The last grape pickers standing finally head to bed around 2 AM. Those with whom I spent time came from very different backgrounds.
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The shortage of crab pickers also puts many other jobs at risk, said Jack Brooks, president of the Chesapeake Bay Seafood Industries Association.
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Index advocates say the issue for small investors is not whether there are stock pickers who can beat the indexers — there always are.
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The trend reflects a broader shift of money from more expensive funds run by stock-pickers to cheaper options that passively track indexes.
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Mr. Horinek, 43, remembers riding on his father's and uncle's shoulders as they marched with Cesar Chavez in the California fruit-pickers' protests.
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Puchwein says the system matches the performance of human pickers at the start of their shift, and of course it never gets tired.
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As the cane grew, the people followed - pickers from the west, executives from Mauritius and South Africa, European funders and African lorry drivers.
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Some have even warned that index funds will distort the broader market, especially if active stock pickers are pushed farther to the sidelines.
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We did recently see that correlations between stocks were starting to go down, which we think is a positive for stock pickers out there.
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But in investing, mediocrity (or the average return produced by a broad market index) has consistently beaten the active stock pickers' search for excellence.
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That's made it a tough time for individual stock pickers, who use pricing disparities between individual companies as a way to beat the market.
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There, crates move along conveyer belts to teams of pickers who focus on different food categories, while robots add non-food items like shampoo.
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With the landfill set to shut down, the estimated 1,200 pickers and the adjacent town of 35,000 people are worried about their financial futures.
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Jim Cramer weighed in on which celebrity stock-pickers he's betting on to win, and offered tips for at-home investors to play along.
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Esch noted that because the Browns also have the No. 4 selection, it is in their interest to keep the other high pickers guessing.
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J.P. Morgan estimated in 2017 that about 90% of daily trades are done by computers, while only 10% are executed by regular stock pickers.
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You'll need some mallets for bashing, some pickers for picking, and maybe a butter knife here or there if you don't have a cracker.
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In May of this year, for the first time in history, exactly half of investors in the U.S. had given up on stock pickers.
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The Assistant will now also show built-in mortgage calculators, color pickers, a tip calculator and a bubble level when you ask for those.
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To avoid being "the coffee-bean pickers of the future", one veteran counsels improving specialist knowledge and writing skills to get high-end work.
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Active money managers, or stock pickers, have suffered in the last few years as investors flocked to passive investing strategies like exchange-traded funds.
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Stock pickers with seven-figure salaries may view President Donald Trump's opposition to the Department of Labor's new fiduciary rule as a saving grace.
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Many people, for example, think that rather than buying individual stocks, you should follow the buys of professional stock pickers, like mutual fund managers.
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On a nearby mud flat, local cockle pickers collect mollusks along the shore of South Wales, a nod to a previously bustling fish trade.
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Goldman Sachs says the stocks most owned by hedge funds are crushing the market this year, leading to stock pickers' strongest start since 2013.
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The trash pickers say they can tell that some shipments have come from the United States because of the writing on items they sort.
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New Blood celebrates the work of Magnum Photos' six new nominees: Matt Black, Carolyn Drake, Sohrab Hura, Lorenzo Meloni, Max Pickers, and Newsha Tavakolian.
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The band, a five-piece outfit called Santa's Ice Cold Pickers, was tight — their rendition of Ray Price's "Crazy Arms" had me humming along.
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But more selective hedge funds like Lee Ainslie&aposs Maverick and stock-pickers like Leon Cooperman are also among New Media&aposs big shareholders.
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Mr. Biden, the former vice president who has consistently led the polls among Democratic contenders, has so far stymied most of the stock-pickers.
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"The stock pickers, which is about half of that crowd, kind of suckered investors into following a benchmark that makes no sense," he added.
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Where there were coffee-pickers there are now construction workers in multi-colored jackets and yellow helmets, while hoes have been replaced by shovels.
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Maverick Capital's human stock pickers are shining, but quant strategies at Lee Ainslie's $8.8 billion fund are in the red and lagging their peers
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Nontransparent ETFs would mask the underlying securities of the fund but still allow investors exposure to the portfolios arranged by Wall Street's top stock pickers.
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Top stock pickers Jim Chanos and David Einhorn outlined their best bets Wednesday, and some "Fast Money" traders agreed with their assessments of certain stocks.
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The pressure to cling to the benchmark also has increased because funds linked to stock indexes generally have performed better than funds using stock pickers.
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When economists at Goldman Sachs, a bank, surveyed their stock-pickers in May, regulation was not considered the key policy issue in a single sector.
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The quick bargain hunting enabled a majority of active small cap stock pickers to do better than their benchmark Russell 222 index, an atypical outperformance.
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Half of them are illiterate, while a staggering 87% are forced to earn a living working as rag pickers and street vendors or by begging.
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And even though telecommunications stocks might seem to be the best bets, stock-pickers shouldn't ignore the chipmakers that actually build the tech, Cramer argued.
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The machines running a huge chunk of public markets will only get smarter, and that's putting private equity and stock-pickers on a collision course
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" MORE CLASSIC CAR STORIES FROM FOX NEWS AUTOS The pickers paid $25,000 for the van Wolfe called a "piece of American rock and roll history.
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Now trucks carrying lumber, toilets, and portable offices are rumbling out of the facility, and workers using cherry-pickers are tearing down the massive tents.
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Leaving the EU will have a marginal effect for us because a lot of pickers do come from around the area, rather than from abroad.
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But some stock pickers are specifically aiming to take the Facebook out of FANG, according to an article this week in the Wall Street Journal.
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The pickers started in the middle of the rows and moved toward trucks waiting at either end, pushing one-wheeled carts in front of them.
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In Xinjiang, government-led labor programs transfer recruits — mostly rural Uighurs — to jobs as production-line workers, street cleaners, low-level guards and cotton pickers.
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Many preparators point to easier fixes, like on-the-job safety training and lessons on how to handle complex machinery like cherry pickers and forklifts.
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Looking through those viewfinders, you'd never know that happy brides like Deborah Furtado, of Brazil, were in fact posing next to hulking, graffitied cherry pickers.
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France has appealed to people laid off by the crisis to form a "shadow army" of fruit pickers, an idea also being assessed in Germany.
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As chairwoman and chief executive, Ms. Johnson must weigh whether Fidelity's once-dominant stock pickers are stuck in the past, in more ways than one.
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At the same time, maintaining outperformance — which has always been an issue for stock pickers — is an issue in the fixed-income universe as well.
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U.S. regulators this week approved the first drug for a new type of cancer treatment, confirming a theme some stock pickers have found in biotech.
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The Trump administration has already raised the number of nonagricultural seasonal workers — such as crab pickers and life guards — the U.S. brings in each year.
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Béatrice "Betty" Bonifassi starred in "SLAV," a stage show that featured white performers dressed as cotton pickers and poor field workers singing African-American slave songs.
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Wall Street stock pickers have also zeroed in on Amazon as one of the stocks that may outperform amid trade tensions between the U.S. and China.
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The job would have taken a fairly large crew, but Pickell said that a bunch of apple pickers wouldn't be suspicious at this time of year.
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Weeds would grow quickly in the brighter light, so just before the harvest there would be one great mowing, to let the coffee pickers move freely.
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"Pickers" follow instruction on screens, grab items from shelves, scan them and put them in containers, which then move on via conveyor belt to the packers.
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Even now, Ms Brown joins pickers in the forests of northern Ukraine who combine "hot" and clean berries so the crop meets radiation requirements for exports.
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"It's a daunting technical challenge" — but someone will probably want an apple-picking bot if you can create it and beat the cost of human pickers.
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They're so exclusive that just 25 people, or "pickers," are licensed to harvest them under strict regulatory control from Natural England, an environment government advisory body.
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"Others think we are cherry pickers who benefit too much from the single European market, they want to increase pressure for a framework agreement," Leuthard said.
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But he was met with calamity in the fall of 250 when grape pickers were bombarded by swarms of a new invasive insect, the spotted lanternfly.
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A computer system moves human "pickers" around the warehouse like automata, directing them to sprint from one box to another if they want to make quota.
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Victims of forced labor, including children, are found in mining, agriculture and as crop pickers in fields of coca, the raw ingredient of cocaine, Gomez said.
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Waste pickers say the work often puts their safety and wellbeing at risk and earns them between 10 and 40 Tunisian dinars ($3.50-$14) a day.
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Omega Advisors, a hedge fund founded in 1990, oversees roughly $4 billion in assets and has long been considered one of the industry's best stock pickers.
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Many of the workers who they spoke with were "pickers" and "packers" in the fulfillment centers; snippets from their conversations reveal their intense experience working there.
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Active managers have done a little better this year in terms of attracting capital as stock pickers are enjoying their best year since the financial crisis.
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The Securities and Exchange Commission is moving closer to approving a new flavor of exchange-traded funds that allow stock pickers to keep their holdings secret.
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The usual suspects include quants, who are able to quickly spot mispricings in the market and exploit the same opportunities that stock pickers want for themselves.
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Given that other European Union countries are also struggling to hire fruit pickers, the competition to hire young, able-bodied workers has become even more intense.
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His academic writings focused on themes such as whether hedge fund managers are any good as stock pickers (the answer, Mr. Gray concluded, was not really).
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Rather than focusing on robots that will replace human workers outright, the company has created a semi-autonomous robotic cart that saves pickers a long trip.
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Amanda Kehler, the co-owner of Prairie Pickers Cafe and antique shop in Steinbach, Manitoba, bought the papers while looking for new inventory for the store.
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The images that associatively come to my mind when I look at "The Cotton Pickers" are highly personal, but they remain opaque until I name them.
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These low cost, computer-driven funds have exploded in growth, leaving in the dust the stock pickers who had spurred an earlier expansion for the firm.
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Robotic berry pickers, for a start Software engineer Brad Taylor told Axios he created Tech Stands Up after the tech industry's muted response to Trump's immigration ban.
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Nathan Congdon, a professor of ophthalmology at Queen's University, Belfast, and his colleagues gave spectacles to half of a group of 751 tea-pickers aged over 40.
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The announcement underscores fee competition in the industry as it moves away from a reliance on the expertise of stock-pickers towards low-cost, index-based funds.
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In 2017 and beyond, however, a resetting of interest rates along with pro-growth economic policies proposed by Trump should result in investment opportunities for stock pickers.
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Titled "Daybreak," it depicts a group of Bedouin olive pickers sleeping outdoors on the road of a farm, which, according to the catalogue, is near Mitzpe Ramon.
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A couple years into living here, I met two of my best friends — and not only are they beauty editors, they're skin-pickers and hair-pullers, too.
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Mike Wolfe and Frank Fritz of "American Pickers" were astonished to find the dilapidated van during filming in Chesterfield, a town about 100 miles west of Boston.
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Scalable Capital is one of the so-called robo-advisors betting that computers can do a better job of investing than human financial advisors and stock pickers.
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From the roadside, hundreds of these pickers can be seen through the mist, braving the strong winds and harsh rains, traversing steep paths among the tea plants.
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Belski sees more of a stock-pickers' market developing, as a market driven by macro themes is replaced by one where specific company fundamentals are more important.
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Then there is what could be stock-pickers' biggest hurdle: Washington, from the Russian probe to FBI Director James Comey's firing to the Washington Post's inflammatory accusations.
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Fruit-picking is a time-consuming business which, even though the pickers are not well rewarded, would be a lot faster and cheaper if it were automated.
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And the entire industry — including quant firms and traditional stock-pickers — is planning to spend billions on alternative data, which has sparked an explosion of new providers.
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The move by one of Australia's best-known share managers could encourage other socially minded stock pickers to divest from Australia's "Big Four" banks on ethical grounds.
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There are also military rock acts with artsy names, conservatory-trained military jazz ensembles, military bluegrass pickers, even a military calypso band based in the Virgin Islands.
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Investors tend to dislike stocks that are going down, and Cramer found that the phrase "buy the dips" seems to have lost its spark among stock-pickers.
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Instead of having "pickers" running around warehouses scouring for goods, which companies traditionally do, Geekplus' 3-foot-long bots carry boxes of goods to stationary human operators.
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Some trimmers grumble about "cherry pickers," who select the largest cannabis buds for themselves, leaving the others with smaller specimens that won't amount to as much weight.
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He dismisses journalists who point out his falsehoods as nit-pickers who do not understand that he is speaking a larger truth that resonates with many Americans.
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To many folk purists, the trio was selling a watered-down mix of folk and pop that commercialized the authentic folk music of countless unknown Appalachian pickers.
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In 2009, the year the magazine folded, contributing editor Barry Estabrook wrote "The Price of Tomatoes," about the slaverylike conditions suffered by tomato pickers in Immokalee, Florida.
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Some mutual funds are run by professional stock pickers who try to beat the broader market's performance, but very few succeed consistently over long periods of time.
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He courted conservative judge-pickers with his speeches and, arguably, his judicial opinions, which seemed to signal, among other things, a willingness to overturn Roe v. Wade.
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Many farmers seek seasonal work as bean pickers on coffee farms, but this year they have struggled to find it because of low coffee prices, experts said.
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The money paid for the credits would go to the plastic projects, for example to improve conditions and pay for poor waste pickers and recyclers in Brazil.
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Stock pickers such as Stanley Druckenmiller and Leon Cooperman as well as traders Eric Mindich and Andy Hall closed their funds to outside investors in the last decade.
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The investment firm says that after years of inflows into passively managed funds, the current investment environment seems conducive for "skillful stock pickers" to generate above-average returns.
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At one Albert Heijn warehouse outside the Dutch city of Eindhoven, pickers each grab an average of one product every 10 seconds, walking about 4.5 km a day.
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The contributions - managed by Colombia's pension administrator - will ensure farmers and pickers earn more even if big buyers refuse to pay higher premiums, said platform founder Crawford Hawkins.
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B. Fábio Erdos' series of trash pickers at a landfill in Brazil sheds light on the fact that there are people for whom trash scavenging is their livelihood.
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PANOS It's a job Yet despite all this clever kit, the sorting at Pier 21 is much less elaborate and precise than that performed by Mumbai's rag-pickers.
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Nine years ago in the fields, Asia Bibi, a mother of five, had taken a sip of water before passing the jug on to fellow (Muslim) fruit-pickers.
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Deliveries are unpacked into crates; crates are placed onto conveyors; and conveyors carry the crates to shelves, where human "pickers" take what they need to fill customers' orders.
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She was convicted in 2010 of insulting the Prophet Muhammad after a squabble with her Muslim neighbours and fellow fruit-pickers over a shared bucket of drinking water.
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Individual stock owners, such as retirees and amateur stock pickers, collectively hold about 40 percent of the company's stock, a much higher proportion than at most big companies.
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Why it matters: Stock pickers have performed much better against their respective Russell indexes the last few years than they had in the years immediately following the crisis.
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The food sector provides jobs for millions of people, such as coffee pickers in Brazil, cocoa farmers in Ghana, almond growers in California or apple producers in China.
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Jamel Jrijer, marine program manager at WWF, said the government should aim to work with and organize waste pickers to help move Tunisia forward in its recycling efforts.
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Stock pickers mimicking the index is part of the reason many active funds fail to beat their benchmarks, said Martijn Cremers, a University of Notre Dame finance professor.
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Investors tend to dislike stocks that are going down, and Jim Cramer found that the phrase "buy the dips" seems to have lost its spark among stock-pickers.
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But stock-pickers like Bill Ackman, David Einhorn, and Gabriel Plotkin turned in a blistering first half, proving the era of the star investor is not completely over.
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Further indicating the origin of the waste, the pickers say they sometimes find accidentally discarded American dollars and broken liquor bottles with distinctively American labels, like Jack Daniels.
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In 2007, Brazilian graffitist Thiago Mundano started a series of annual events, in which graffiti artists could support waste pickers by transforming their carts into works of art.
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Still, waste pickers are stereotyped as thieves, drug users, and as homeless, which allows for police officers and neighborhood residents to harass them with little to no consequence.
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In Trump's America, those working in the shadows are not the lawn cutters, Sheetrock hangers, fruit pickers or nannies we see in every community, but the criminal dregs.
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Passive investments, such as exchange-traded funds, automatically track indexes instead of relying on professional stock pickers to choose holdings, as is the case with actively managed funds.
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Oh, and I'm sure there will be nit-pickers out there who will find fault in my lack of MASTER CARD, but that just wasn't going to happen.
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But even though the Oracle of Omaha is now worth nearly $90 billion, he -- like many other active stock pickers -- is having trouble beating the broader market lately.
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The wheel had six soft-rubber clawlike "obtainers" that are able to cup the berries and pivot, imitating the popping action that human pickers make with their wrists.
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As new deliveries arrive rubbish pickers — mainly African migrants with rags wrapped round their faces to counter the stench — dive in to scavenge for plastic, cardboard and metals.
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Einhorn expects to see better corporate earnings in the years ahead and is optimistic that the current market environment will play to the firm's strengths as stock pickers.
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"The Cotton Pickers, Ferguson Unit, Texas" is one of a series of photographs that Lyon made in Texan prisons over a 14-month period from 1967 to 1968.
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But when I try to understand the mysterious visual effect of "The Cotton Pickers," I don't restrict my reading to those images that are obviously related to it.
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"Japan small caps are fertile ground for stock pickers and an area where we've been able to generate significant alpha for our portfolios," said Goyal of Wasatch Advisors.
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BlackRock, the biggest fund company in the world, made waves earlier this year when it announced it was replacing some highly paid human stock pickers with computer algorithms.
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Cole Swindell, Mitchell Tenpenny, the Peach Pickers and DJ Rock will be joining Luke Bryan on his 2019 Farm Tour, which raises money in support of American farming communities.
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A few years ago Mrs Hiyale came across Stree Mukti Sanghatana, a feminist charity that seeks to provide female rag-pickers (the vast majority) with more stability and security.
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Approximately 65 percent of small-cap managers topped the Russell 2000 during the first quarter, although typically only a minority of stock pickers are able to outperform their indexes.
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Da Silva followed his father's footsteps into the dump when he was 13, a common practice for pickers, or "catadores", who search the landfill for recyclable materials to sell.
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Pickers are only permitted to take one egg from each nest and—in a reversal of Herod's first born sacrifice—the remaining eggs are all marked with a cross.
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According to T&G Global, this preparation has involved the implementation of "high density planting and specific pruning methods" to make the company's orchards suitable for the robotic pickers.
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Passive investing, made up of funds tracking market barometers, has now taken over nearly half the stock market as more investors shun stock-pickers and flock to index funds.
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My photos tell the story of a team of grape pickers I spent time with in Pommard, a famous village near Beaune, which produces AOC-certified pinot noir wines.
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Because the trees are so high and there are no branches, açaí pickers have to shimmy up the slender trunks to break off the bunches and harvest the fruit.
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Pickers are equipped with hand-held devices that show them what each item looks like, where it may be found, and how to get there as quickly as possible.
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But stock-pickers like Bill Ackman, David Einhorn, and Gabriel Plotkin turned in a blistering first half, proving that the era of the star investor is not completely over.
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It was only by chance that, in 2011, he discovered "caporalato", a notoriously exploitative system under which farm owners recruit fruit pickers and other seasonal workers through an intermediary.
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In March 2013 these waste-pickers sent bin bags full of soiled sanitary napkins to the corporate offices of Procter and Gamble, Johnson and Johnson, and Kimberly Clark Lever.
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The order is sent to a terminal in a store's dedicated ClickList room, where "pickers" are dispatched with handheld devices that tell them exactly where to find each item.
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Instead, companies are bulking up their warehouses to compete with Amazon, slotting in tens of thousands of relatively low-paid pickers, packers and stockers over the past several years.
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The forests also conserve water and help cool down the landscape, capture carbon, prevent flooding and are a holiday and weekend destination for hikers, mushroom pickers and mountain bikers.
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Quietly, Francis has over the last four years been supporting and guiding a global association of "excluded workers" like garbage pickers and migrant laborers, acting as their visible leader.
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However, the recent breakdown in correlations at least opens a window for stock pickers who have been on a fairly solid streak lately in terms of their performance against benchmarks.
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Some members of the 3,000-strong pickers cooperative said they would rather stay working the dump and not have the cost of a long commute to the new recycling centers.
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The new app will introduce new ways to help users schedule appointments, too – something Microsoft credits Sunrise for, in terms of the design of these new date and time pickers.
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In February 2004, 21 Chinese migrants — also from Fujian — who were working as cockle-pickers drowned when they were caught out by treacherous tides in Morecambe Bay in northwest England.
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The thinking behind this is that the collective wisdom of every smart beta ETF out there — including Goldman's — is better than the mindset of any individual set of stock pickers.
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Stock pickers and analysts were hoping for more details of Ekholm's cost-cutting plan to help explain how the company will reach its target of doubling 2016 margins after 2018.
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In 2016 cotton pickers were recruited on a voluntary basis, allowed to keep their salary and job, and they received additional pay for participating in the harvest, the document stated.
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The Technology Select Sector SPDR ETF, which is the most popular alternative to tech stock pickers, rallied 14 percent compared with a gain of 11 for the S&P 500.
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Like its actively managed peers, BlackRock has been struggling to bolster the returns of its stock pickers, but investors have shown little inclination to stick around while it does so.
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Robot janitors and grocery pickers The 920-pound self-driving scrubbers, called the "Auto-C," use automated technology to navigate custom routes around the store and mop up the floors.
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And Ted Kennedy was kind enough to allow me to hold a hearing in 2008, I believe, in Congress, dealing with the plight of undocumented tomato pickers in Immokalee, Florida.
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That's effective against "Apple pickers" trying to steal a phone or during border or police stops where you don't want to show ownership by unlocking the phone with your face.
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I had heard a rumor that the houses there, built by olive pickers for use during their harvests, were kindly left open all year to serve as refuge for hikers.
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In addition to around 2,500 order pickers and drivers to support home delivery, the grocer will be recruiting around 1,000 more people to work in its distribution centres, it said.
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Passive investments have now taken over nearly half of the stock market as more investors shun stock pickers and flock to index funds, according to Bank of America Merrill Lynch.
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Occasional rumblings of how to solve national problems such as Spain's late-night living or Indian tea-pickers' preference to work during daylight hours will gain pace every so often.
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Iowa is not alone: Washington State doesn't want apples rotting on the ground for lack of pickers; Wisconsin worries about small dairy operations desperate for people to milk the cows.
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Ms. Rivas, who was born into an impoverished family of coffee pickers, said in her asylum request that her boyfriend had become physically abusive and tried to strangle their daughter.
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"We had an early season and the cloudberries ripened really fast," said Mr. Bjorkmann, adding that the berry season had outstripped the arrival of the pickers, who came too late.
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In addition to around 2,500 order pickers and drivers to expand its home delivery service, Morrisons will be recruiting around 1,000 people to work in its distribution centres, it said.
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And while we're often hot on the trail of specific search terms, it's always helpful to have a rolodex of the eagle-eyed secondhand pickers that truly have the goods.
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"With earnings season in full force, this is when stock pickers can add a lot of value," said Ernesto Ramos, managing director of active equities with BMO Global Asset Management.
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VICE correspondent Thomas Morton took out an advance on his paycheck and lined up with all the early pickers to get a piece of Trump's long-since-crumbled gambling empire.
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For rivals heavily reliant on active stock pickers, hiring computer geniuses to develop investing models and spending more on data mining may not be a cost-effective way of boosting performance.
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"These statistics are surprising to many stock pickers; we believe losing trades may be more prominent in memories given the tendency to remember the 'big losers' rather than the 'big winners.'"
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Bill Nygren, portfolio manager of the Oakmark Fund and one of Morningstar's ultimate stock pickers, believes stocks are more attractive than bonds despite the recent decline and is looking for value.
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Some Amazon warehouse pickers, for example, play a Tetris-like game called MissonRacer, where employees race to fill customer orders through a virtual competition that mirrors their real-life packing rates.
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That said, few people shed tears over the wages earned by the Chinese assemblers who put together our smartphones and laptops, or the garbage pickers who separate your poorly sorted recycling.
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The oyster-pickers filmed by Ms Varda off the Atlantic coast glean around the commercial beds after storms, but how closely, and how many they may take, are hotly debated questions.
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He believes about half of the residents will return to Brazil's Northeast, home to most of the first pickers who migrated to the capital in search of work in the 1960s.
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Such packages in turn burden local trash-management systems with a greater amount of plastic that's too poor in quality to appeal to local garbage pickers who seek recyclables for resale.
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SOLTVADKERT, Hungary (Reuters) - At peak harvest time, Hungarian winemaker Sandor Font has enough work for 29.37 people at his vineyard south of Budapest - if only he could find enough grape-pickers.
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Human stock pickers have been leading the pack this year, with big names like Bill Ackman and David Einhorn posting big numbers, while quants like Winton and Systematica have lagged behind.
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Some stock-pickers might want to speculate on a riskier play like Roku, or a "dark horse" like Comcast, which just began offering a new over-the-top interface, he said.
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The big shift to passive comes even though stock pickers have had a comparatively good year, with 49 percent of large-cap fund managers beating their benchmarks, according to Goldman Sachs.
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Officers armed with shields and helmets and driving cherry pickers to help them reach the huts in the branches moved into the forest and began disassembling the elevated platforms and roadblocks.
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In a survey of 220 professional coconut pickers in southern India, researchers found that over 40 percent of those in the profession for 30 years or more had experienced a fall.
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Much of the company's compliance was relegated to "pickers and packers" — the warehouse workers at distribution centers who appeared to have no formal training in monitoring and rarely held up orders.
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Rather, he can boldly imagine the masses of unemployed youth, garbage pickers and migrant laborers being a vanguard of a "culture of encounter" with the globalizing forces of technology and finance.
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Just about any interview or conference call with Mr. Fink bears this out: Invariably, the conversation comes around to technology, with scant mention of what the firm's stock pickers are doing.
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Rollemberg's plan is to employ the pickers at new "triage" centers in warehouses where garbage can be separated for recycling on conveyor belts in cleaner conditions by workers in uniforms and gloves.
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About 21970m people alive today have made such a move, calculates the McKinsey Global Institute, an arm of the consultancy—from Mexican grape-pickers in California to Senegalese street vendors in France.
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The disaster crushed dozens of homes: not just the makeshift shacks of the rubbish pickers, but also brick and concrete houses built with carefully saved cash earned during Ethiopia's recent economic expansion.
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The news for stock pickers just keeps getting better — in addition to the overall great year for the market, one of the biggest trends holding back performance has shown a sharp turnaround.
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It's high agritainment season in the state of New York, roadside farms crowded with parking, with u-pick pumpkin harvesters, apple-pickers, corn mazers, kids crammed in lil' red wagons, waving squash.
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That is because every year, after a day spent harvesting grapes, the pickers perform what is called "foot treading," where they stomp grapes by foot to extract the juice from the fruit.
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After removing the best materials for recycling, most companies send their remaining waste to Bangun, a village known for its trash pickers who hunt for items of value and material worth recycling.
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Pulling carts loaded with paper, bottles, and cardboard behind them, about 21,000 waste pickers stride along city streets, picking through garbage set on sidewalks, and collecting whatever recyclable material they can find.
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Kirsten Green, who runs the early-stage venture capital firm Forerunner Ventures, has established herself as one of the best pickers of the next generation of successful e-commerce and consumer brands.
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Huge weekend for Chinese data, with industrial output, investment and retail sales data are all due on Saturday - while stock-pickers will be parsing the slew of 13Fs hitting into Monday's deadline.
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Low-cost passive vehicles have now taken over nearly half of the stock market as more investors shun stock pickers and flock to index funds, according to Bank of America Merrill Lynch.
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That started to change in January after workers began dismantling the tents with cherry-pickers and hundreds of kids aged 13-17 were relocated to sponsor homes and other migrant detention facilities.
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That started to change in January after workers began dismantling the tents with cherry-pickers and hundreds of kids aged 21-210 were relocated to sponsor homes and other migrant detention facilities.
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Nick Marzano, an Australian photographer who publishes a glossy magazine, Mission Gold, which documents the world of trash pickers in San Francisco, estimates there are several hundred garbage scavengers in the city.
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The godmother of nit pickers is probably Dalya Harel, 270, an Israeli-born mother of eight who became an expert after one of her daughters caught lice in 24 after entering school.
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Ten Moroccan women who worked as pickers on a strawberry farm in Andalusia have filed lawsuits arising from events there, complaining of sexual harassment and assault, rape, human trafficking and labor violations.
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James Franco's screen adaptation of John Steinbeck's 1936 novel, "In Dubious Battle," about striking California fruit pickers, is the farthest thing imaginable from the titillating provocations for which Mr. Franco is notorious.
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State Forests told Reuters only dead or weakened trees were removed after the ECJ order, so as to protect local mushroom pickers and the 150,000 tourists drawn to the forest each year.
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NEW YORK (Reuters Breakingviews) - Stock and bond pickers have been losing ground for years to low-cost funds that simply track indexes like the S&P 500 or factors such as low volatility.
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The volatile market actually provides opportunities for stock pickers to find and buy well-run companies for the long term rather than just chasing the indexes, two money managers told CNBC on Wednesday.
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The trickle away from stock pickers and toward indexes has turned into a flood, with more than half a trillion dollars heading into passive funds over the past 220 months, according to Morningstar.
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Republican horse pickers in Washington believe that those same characteristics would serve her well in a Senate run, but as the race has progressed, McSally has struggled to find a tone that works.
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Many frontier market portfolio managers are true-believer active stock pickers, which may be a tough sell as the wider fund industry has gravitated toward lower-cost index funds and exchange-traded funds.
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In recent years, only about 1 in 5003 large-cap stock pickers beat their benchmarks, and this year it's only about 15 percent, the worst ever, according to Bank of America Merrill Lynch.
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Under this approach, school districts treat their charter and traditional public-school offerings much as stock-pickers do their financial portfolios, by strenuously monitoring performance and quickly ridding themselves of low-performing assets.
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BOSTON, Aug 174.613 (Reuters) - Fidelity Investments plans to take money out of the hands of some of its best U.S. stock pickers and shift billions of dollars into portfolios focused on international markets.
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As markets hit all-time highs from burgeoning animal spirits rather than solid fundamental data, Jim Cramer finds solace in technical charts, which can help stock-pickers play the market in uncertain times.
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With fans swiveling their hips like Elvis Presley, Bryan — along with special guests Chase Rice, Jon Langston, the Peach Pickers and DJ Rock — will flock to six rural venues this Fall beginning Sept.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Big computer-driven hedge funds such as AQR Capital Management, Aspect Capital and Two Sigma lost money in the first seven months of 210, with human stock-pickers making better returns.
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Since being elevated to their jobs as billion-dollar-plus stock pickers at Berkshire Hathaway, investment managers Ted Weschler and Todd Combs have grown increasingly important to the future of Warren Buffett's empire.
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The second winner was Mutual Housing, a not-for-profit affordable housing developer in Yolo County in northern California, which built the first permanent year-round homes for seasonal fruit and vegetable pickers.
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Human Rights Watch called on the IFC to conduct a review of the social impact of its investment and work with its clients to improve the plight of impoverished tea pickers in Assam.
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A state created by gold was now covered in farms—"factories in the fields," as Carey McWilliams once described them, where tens of thousands of migrant pickers did backbreaking work for abysmal wages.
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The Global Alliance of Waste Pickers, a nonprofit research and advocacy organization, counts more than 400 trash picking organizations across the globe, almost all of them in Latin America, Africa and southern Asia.
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More readily ponderable is a lovely shot, made in Israel, of Bedouin olive pickers asleep under blankets on rugged ground at dawn, with the long, low expanse of a prison in the background.
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For stock pickers, who pride themselves on their ability to zig where others zag by uncovering undervalued gems, such follow-the-crowd investing is anathema — and it is showing up in the numbers.
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A new study by Hendrik Bessembinder, a finance professor at Arizona State University, demonstrates persuasively that while investing in the overall stock market makes sense, the obstacles facing individual stock pickers are formidable.
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"We're selling everything because we're so concentrated in our ownership of stocks and ETFs that we're creating dislocations that are going to be massive opportunity for active managers and stock pickers, " Hogan said.
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"To keep the used stock fresh," Oliphint reported, "Hall does home visits all over Ohio and beyond," and he has a network of "basement pickers" feeding him cool records on a regular basis.
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Their robots, expected to go into production next year, will operate more than 20 hours a day and seven days a week during busy periods, "which human pickers obviously can't do," says Stoelen.
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In Sissinghurst a set of early-20th-century hop-pickers' huts, where gangs of seasonal workers from London used to sleep on straw, will be converted into a slender, timber-clad two-bedroom chalet.
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And because long sight creeps up on people, victims get used to it: "They probably thought, 'you get to 50, you can't pick like you used to'," says Dr Congdon of the tea-pickers.
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The tomato pickers of Immokalee, Florida showed that, for the mobilized workers of the 21st century, organization is the real key, especially for workers that are shut out of traditional union for whatever reason.
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The government tightly controls cotton, Uzbekistan's third-biggest export (after gold and gas), setting quotas for farmers and fixing both the wages of pickers and the price at which the state buys the crop.
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Amid one of the worst years ever for stock pickers, passive funds took in more than half a trillion dollars — a record $504.8 billion to be exact — according to Morningstar data released this week.
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Data scientists and others that can harness and monetize the exploding number of data streams pouring into the investment management industry have been in high demand, from quant funds and fundamental stock-pickers alike.
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"This kind of backdrop is very conducive to stock-pickers and that is helping drive idiosyncratic positions across markets," said Matt Miskin, senior capital markets research analyst at John Hancock Investments in Boston, Massachusetts.
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They were mushroom pickers in vans that got pulled over without cause; dishwashers in pizzerias that got raided without warrants; Latino men who loosely resembled other Latino men who were ostensibly ICE's intended targets.
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Crews of strawberry pickers, most of them Mexican-born, had arrived at first light, fanning out over Wish Farms' six hundred acres of strawberry fields, one of the largest contiguous patches in North America.
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The program was introduced in the nineteen-eighties and has become a major source of seasonal farm labor in the U.S. Sixty per cent of Wish Farms' pickers this year are H-25.1A workers.
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"Oil prices are reversing this morning's bout of weakness as bottom pickers enter the fray ahead of this weeks crucial OPEC/non-OPEC meeting," said Stephen Brennock, analyst at London brokerage PVM Oil Associates.
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John Ebton, 75, who worked in a pickling factory for 24 years, fondly recalled the days in 1975 when vegetable pickers were paid £3 an hour, about £23 an hour today, adjusted for inflation.
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While waste pickers may remain unknown to most Colombians, DJ LU sees the recycler as the graffiti artist's ally, a fellow worker who enriches urban spaces and ultimately depends on the street for survival.
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Acting on tips from pickers or other sources, the Webbs were sometimes able to purchase the entire holdings — banners, costumes, ceremonial objects and more — from small-town fraternal-society lodges that were closing down.
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In many ways, this stampede toward passive investing — in which people put their money into funds that track indexes and broader market themes as opposed to relying on human stock pickers — is uncharted territory.
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In a move that highlights the increasing pressures faced by stock pickers on Wall Street, Peter S. Kraus, the chief executive of AllianceBernstein Holding, was ousted by the money manager's controlling shareholder on Monday.
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The work of one machine in large-scale vineyards can harvest 15 to 20 tons of grapes per hour using advanced guidance systems and replace work normally done by 30 or more human pickers.
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But as a newcomer to the Napa Valley, which was just beginning to attract winemakers who popularized individual vineyards, he had neglected to hire a sufficient number of grape-pickers far enough in advance.
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Nail chewers, nose pickers, and habitual face touchers spread their DNA around, as do hands that haven't seen a bar of soap lately—discarded DNA can accumulate over time, and soap helps wash it away.
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"While markets have become more competitive over time, I believe the broad industry switch from active to passive management is creating excellent opportunities for fundamental stock pickers like me," said the 59-year-old Vinik.
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Generations of pickers have brought their children to work in the dusty dump, beneath a scorching sun and hovering vultures, plagued by swarms of flies and the pungent stench of putrid food and methane gas.
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During a recent episode of History Channel's American Pickers, hosts Mike Wolfe and Frank Fritz visited Chesterfield, Massachusetts, on the hunt for the band's 1964 International Harvester Metro van that was abandoned in the 1970s.
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Still, locals said that since the village was first settled in the 1950s as housing for coffee pickers who worked on local plantations, such rivers of ash and rock had never flowed through Los Lotes.
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Doisneau chose to shoot such dark moments, capturing travellers in the metro during a bomb scare in 1944, coal pickers in Saint-Denis hunched before the River Seine and a baby wrapped in dirty blankets.
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Chrome will now automatically exit full-screen mode when dialog boxes for things like authentication prompts, payments, or file pickers pop up, so users will have better context for decisions when filling those prompts out.
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In the hills behind Cyprus's coastal city of Limassol, grape pickers work in average peak temperatures of 36 degrees Celsius (97 degrees F) in August, a month when much of the harvest is brought in.
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For Da Silva and other pickers, scraping a living from trash has meant working amid bad smells and dangerous gases but it has also enabled them to save enough money to buy their own homes.
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The harvest started this month but late on Thursday the Tashkent government ordered the cotton pickers home, said a district official who spoke on the condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to comment.
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At the beginning of this year, money managers hoped that higher inflation, the Trump administration's stimulative proposals, and higher interest rates would create divergences within the market and give stock pickers a chance to shine.
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There is a reality-television program called American Pickers, and what happens on it is this: A junkman drives around in a van and offers to buy other people's junk, sometimes haggling over the price.
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Three big opportunities for AI in investingStock picking: GrowingThe traditional stock-picking process — of poring over financial statements, meeting with management teams, and consciously making buy/sell decisions — is being disrupted by automated stock pickers.
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Read more: Costco is selling a massive tub of Nutella that weighs almost 7 pounds for $22The BBC has reported that the majority of hazelnut pickers are Kurdish migrants and that can also include children.
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At the Chapel Down winery in Kent, about 40 miles southeast of London, dozens of fruit-pickers are busy loading grapes into bins for the harvest, which is about 60 percent bigger than last year's.
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" So, even though Cramer expects more selling in the drugmakers' stocks in the next several days, he urged stock-pickers to consider the bigger picture and, if they're interested, to scale into Merck's stock "gradually.
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I was intrigued by this and over the next year, whenever I had a free evening, I hung out near the dumpsters of Twitter and smaller tech companies, talking to trash pickers and the homeless.
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The remaining waste is picked over by the cleaners and watchmen at the apartment block they live in before being put out in a municipal skip where rag-pickers like Mrs Hiyale search through it again.
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In Paul Scott's tea service "Cumbrian Blue(s)", traditional willow-pattern motifs recall the fate of forsaken Chinese cockle-pickers, themselves immigrants from the tea-growing highlands of Fujian, who drowned in Morecambe Bay in 2004.
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Breeders overcame that by crossing in other plants that suppressed the unwanted effect, while still allowing the tomato to be plucked with robotic pickers, but paid little attention to the trait chosen thousands of years ago.
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The International Finance Corporation (IFC) - a member of the World Bank Group - said its accountability office began a probe into the project, run by Amalgamated Plantations Private Limited (APPL), after reports tea pickers were being exploited.
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One landowner, in Kerala's Wayanad region, where silver oaks shade trim ranks of tea bushes, says that his pickers get 300 rupees (about $4.50) a day, nearly three times the wage in Darjeeling in India's north.
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Speaking to The Verge, Carlos Hernandez Corbato, a postdoctoral researcher who led the Delft team along with Kanter van Deurzen, said that he could imagine robot pickers showing up in warehouses in the next five years.
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In launching Folger Hill in 2015, Kumin set out to mimic SAC, where teams of stock pickers vied for a central pool of money to invest and the firm delivered average annual returns of 30 percent.
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During the early weeks after Election Day, I assumed his name was there just to satisfy the far-right social conservatives of the Republican base, and that President Trump and his judge pickers would look elsewhere.
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Focused stock funds once had their heyday, but that was in the era when actively managed funds ruled and brand-name stock pickers could sell their proprietary "best stock picks" funds through the big brokerage houses.
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Yet despite the city's abysmal global rankings, working people from all over Pakistan still flock to the city — only to end up on the doorsteps of the rich, sometimes as modern slaves, sometimes as freelance trash pickers.
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Colombia, the world's top producer of washed arabica coffee, lacks between 60,000 and 90,0003 pickers overall, but a new machine invented by the coffee growers' federation and Brazilian machinery company Brudden could cut that shortage in half.
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If some stock pickers are outperforming the benchmark, that must mean that others are underperforming (so long as the benchmark is a fair one — the group of small-stock managers can beat a large-stock-skewed index).
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Applications from mutual fund stock pickers exceeded 20 in the first week of submission, from managers such as Huaan, E Fund, Fullgoal and GF, according to the latest disclosure on the China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC) website.
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Workers interviewed by Oxfam - from grape pickers in South Africa to seafood workers in Thailand and Indonesia - said they were struggling to feed their families and had endured abuse, forced pregnancy tests, dangerous workplaces and poverty wages.
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Many waste pickers live in poverty, selling the waste they find to middlemen recyclers who then sell it on for a marked-up price to the national waste collection system or, more often, a private recycling factory.
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Migrants, mainly from Africa, have been flocking to the fields of southern Italy for years to scrape a living as seasonal pickers of olives, tomatoes and oranges, often working long hours in exploitative conditions, rights groups say.
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Asset managers selling droves of mutual funds furiously research the reasons for yet another year of underperformance, and they are quick to identify mounting "evidence" that the environment is about to change to benefit professional stock pickers.
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"We are not slaves," the workers chanted as they marched in the red caps that protect pickers from the sun, and have become a symbol of their battle against day-labor exploitation in the province of Foggia.
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Instead of expert stock-pickers at the helm — as is the case with actively managed mutual funds — these funds each replicate an index, which could be broad-based or focused on a narrow segment of the market.
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Through Mr. Hernández, Mr. Angel explained that panela can also be used as a sweetener for chaqueta café, "jacket coffee," served when days turn cold or to give coffee pickers a boost of energy for the fields.
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The Fed-induced low-volatility climate has made it difficult for stock pickers to find mispricing opportunities as correlation in stock movement has been high and dispersion, or the difference between returns for various sectors, remains comparatively low.
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How to read it: Before heading to a dinner party where you explain why you bike to work now Young Jim Nolan finds his purpose in "the Party," helping to organize a strike of fruit pickers in California.
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EVERY YEAR for the past seven years, Halyna has taken time off from her waitressing job in Zakarpattia, in south-western Ukraine, to lead a team of Ukrainian fruit-pickers on a farm outside Krasnik, in eastern Poland.
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Not an Ostrich contains photographs from these collections, depicting every ethnicity, most major religions, and many different professions from seamstress to pipe fitter, fishermen, farmers, ranchers, food processing assembly lines, maritime sailors, grape pickers, fashion models, and photographers.
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However, Hwang Sok-yong has to travel back just one generation, to the time of Super Mario console games and early Star Wars films, to tell a story about the garbage-pickers of the so-called Flower Island.
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Farmers said the change would discourage holiday workers who make up the bulk of fruit pickers at harvest times, threatening the country's fruit industry, which is set for record exports of A$2.27 billion ($1.66 billion) next season.
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According to the Grower-Shipper Association of Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo Counties, $13m-worth of fruit and vegetables had to be ploughed under in 2015 because of the lack of pickers—up from $11m in 2014.
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Index-tracking ETFs, once considered an industry backwater, are now responsible for the lion's share of the billions in cash BlackRock pulls in annually and a source of consternation to traditionalist stock pickers who typically charge higher fees.
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Whereas traditional shop workers might remain idle for hours at a time, Amazon's workers—the "stowers" that stock inventory, the "pickers" that pluck items from shelves and the "packers" that box them up for shipment—are constantly moving.
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TORONTO/LONDON (Reuters) - A favorite of DIY stock pickers, Canadian cannabis firms are trying to bolster their institutional investor base by ramping up efforts to woo European funds as countries across the region approve marijuana for medical use.
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A year later, The Times reported that the Met, to help defray the cost of buying the Velazquez, had quietly sold Rousseau's "The Tropics" for $600,000 and van Gogh's "The Olive Pickers" for $15063,000 to a private gallery.
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"With a very narrow market like you've had most of this year, it's great for stock pickers, but it's hard for indexes to make money," said Robert Phipps, a director at Per Sterling Capital Management in Austin, Texas.
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If the British win special treatment for finance and cars, why not the Dutch for tulips and windmills, the French for cheese and cosmetics, the Germans for machine tools and engines—or the Poles for fruit-pickers and builders?
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His 35-hectare (86-acre) farm in the southern mountains of Huila requires 80 pickers, but sometimes during busy harvest seasons he can find only half that, as people gravitate toward urban centers and away from arduous agricultural work.
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He's a perma-grinning reminder of golden days of yore, back when a single gary lasted three months and cost half a shilling, the Pope went to Fantasia, and the door pickers were in sole charge of parliamentary selection.
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Future versions of such software could seek to pull together disparate types of information in other areas of modern slavery—the frequency of visits to health clinics for the poor by strawberry pickers complaining of back pain, for example.
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Farmers said the higher tax would discourage holiday workers who make up the bulk of fruit pickers at harvest times, threatening the country's fruit industry, which is set for record exports of A$2.27 billion ($1.74 billion) next season.
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Besieged on all sides by bars blaring beige pop-country hits, it's the go-to for anyone who wants to dance to the sounds of pickers plucking tunes by the likes of Hank Williams, Jimmie Rodgers, and Lefty Frizzell.
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The administration is also considering reversing its recent decision to increase by 35,000 the number of nonagricultural seasonal workers the U.S. brings in each year, such as landscapers, crab-pickers and lifeguards, two people familiar with the situation say.
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There, human "pickers" follow instructions on computer screens, grabbing items off the shelves and putting them in plastic bins, which then disappear on conveyor belts destined for "packers," people who put the products in cardboard boxes bound for customers.
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And like many stock pickers these days, the portfolio managers at Parnassus Investments, a mutual fund company that invests mostly in large American companies, were at their wits' end as they gathered for the firm's weekly investment committee meeting.
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And the other thing is that because the coverage of corporations by sell-side research analysts is going down and it's also going down because of MiFID II. So essentially real money of stock pickers would be great differentiators.
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NEW DELHI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The World Bank group has defended the treatment of tea pickers at an Indian project it funds with the multinational Tata Global Beverages, dismissing criticism that thousands of workers were living in poor conditions.
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Developed by engineers at the University of Cambridge, the Vegebot is the first robot that can identify and harvest iceberg lettuce — bringing hope to farmers that one of the most demanding crops for human pickers could finally be automated.
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Rather than employing pickers directly and putting them on regular contracts, farmers turn to caporali, or gangmasters, who gather the laborers from various camps and ghettos that dot the countryside and drive them to the fields in overcrowded vans.
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Many hedge funds have underperformed the equities market this year, with stock-pickers burned by losing bets on Valeant Pharmaceuticals, Allergan and Home Depot , among others, while macroeconomic managers have struggled to trade their way through global political and economic uncertainty.
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How to read it: While traveling across the US for the holidays, preferably on a boxcar from San Francisco to Salinas Young Jim Nolan finds his purpose in "the Party," helping to organize a strike of fruit pickers in California.
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"Beyond the lower costs, it made my life less complicated," said Rinco, relieved at no longer having the grueling task of hiring suitable pickers every year for the harvest at his farm in the Sao Joao da Boa Vista area.
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At the same time, employees say their work has become more mechanical, like the humans Amazon employs as "pickers" in its warehouses who stay in one place putting items in boxes while machines dance around them with shelves of products.
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"Beyond the lower costs, it made my life less complicated," said Rinco, relieved at no longer having the gruelling task of hiring suitable pickers every year for the harvest at his farm in the Sao Joao da Boa Vista area.
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He toured with the Strawberry Pickers, a hillbilly band, plus a corn-husk mop and suds bucket (for contributions), with which he promised to clean up Montgomery, the state capital, just as Mr Trump said he would "drain the swamp".
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Sliders give the tiniest of bumps when pushed to either extreme, spinning number and date pickers "click" in time with the virtual dials, and pyrotechnic iMessage effects like lasers and fireworks are accompanied by crackling buzzes, to name but a few.
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While many pickers like De Souza and Ferreira said they don't particularly like living near a rubbish dump, a community has developed in Cidade Estructural and residents are uncertain about what might happen to them when the site eventually closes.
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Sixteen migrant farm laborers died this month in two separate road crashes that occurred within 48 hours of each other in Italy, sparking a mass walkout that has drawn international attention to the dire conditions endured by seasonal tomato pickers.
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But Azhari Eltigani Elsheikh, whose company Migana Industries exports 10,000 tonnes of gum a year, continues to buy, saying his 20-year relationship with his pickers and agents has created trust, allowing him to buy with promises to deliver cash later.
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Australian fruit exports are set to hit a record A$2.27 billion ($1.69 billion) next season, up 10 percent from the previous 2014/13 season, and backpackers on working holiday visas make up the bulk of fruit pickers during harvests.
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This is where experts from across the financial world – including macro strategists, technical analysts, stock-pickers, and traders who specialize in options, currencies, and fixed income – come together to find the best ways to capitalize on recent developments in the market.
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Australian fruit exports are set to hit a record A$2.27 billion ($1.63 billion) next season, up 10 percent from the previous 2014/15 season, and backpackers on working holiday visas make up the bulk of fruit pickers during harvests.
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Though the pickers often sell their finds to interior designers (who might install a trio of artfully corroded pitchforks on the wall of a farm-to-table restaurant), much of what they uncover in barns and outbuildings was once utilitarian.
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Tourbillon's Karp said an end to gridlock in Washington could support a better environment for hedge fund managers where active stock pickers could benefit from both more moves up and down and companies being judged more on their earnings again.
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Finance and InvestingHow a little-known Goldman Sachs partner took over the LSE and orchestrated an industry rattling $27 billion buyoutLone Pine Capital stock-pickers explain why they're investing in Tiffany and Nintendo and how they value "disruptors" like Beyond Meat.
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Requiring overtime, these opponents say, would be prohibitively expensive, leading farmers to cut back hours for pickers during a time when the workers need to earn more to make up for months of unemployment during other parts of the year.
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There's a growing argument that the fashion for owning the index and using quant tools is setting the stage for its own demise, that so many dollars willfully ignoring traditional fundamental analysis and sleuthing will reopen an opportunity for stock pickers.
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In the vineyards of Champagne, producer Nicolas Maillart's harvest was well under way this week with a team of seasonal pickers — mostly from Spain and Portugal — racing down the rows of vines snipping off bunches of grapes, some showing severe damage.
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It was for that one dude in your friendship group who wore winkle pickers, so he could ditch everyone in the main room and go watch The Subways for an hour, before hooking back up with everyone at Doner King.
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Visitors can design their own housing, streetscapes and parks in four neighborhoods on video screens, already uploaded with nit-pickers (expect to hear "There goes the neighborhood" if your proposed apartment building gets too tall or a sidewalk too narrow).
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" When asked how Mr. Biden's appearance compared with other famous visitors, people here recalled when the stars of the History Channel show "American Pickers" came to town and the visit by Roni Stoneman, the star of the television show "Hee Haw.
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"There has been a massive change for the better," said Jonas Astrup, the chief technical adviser for the Tashkent office of the International Labor Organization, a United Nations body that for years complained about the systematic abuse of involuntary cotton pickers.
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Spotify, though, is forgoing a traditional IPO — in which stock is sold in advance of the opening day to some institutional investors — and executing a novel "direct listing" in which company shares are sold directly to mom-and-pop stock pickers.
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Past deals between stock pickers include Federated Investors' 2018 purchase of a majority stake in Hermes Fund Managers, leading to the combined firm Federated Hermes Inc , and Henderson Global Investors' 5003 acquisition of Janus Capital to form Janus Henderson Group PLC.
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That means that as stock-pickers seek to buy individual stocks, buyers from ETFs, index funds, hedge funds and other deep-pocketed institutions continually push prices higher, thus lowering the value for companies that don't consistently buy back their shares.
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He quickly raised more than $1 billion in assets for the firm, which sought to mimic SAC, where teams of stock pickers vied for a central pool of money to invest and the firm delivered average annual returns of 30 percent.
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This photograph ("The Cotton Pickers, Ferguson Unit, Texas," to give it its full title) has an extraordinary sense of rhythm, a rhythm that makes it as visually arresting as René Burri's photograph of four men on a rooftop in São Paulo.
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The type of employees that used to do the walking — some called "stowers," others called "pickers" — now remain stationary, standing at their own work stations, with cushion pads beneath their feet, if they are working in one of the robotic warehouses.
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"The Libyan ports are more than safe and as minister I can guarantee you that the good times are over for the traffickers," Salvini said during a visit to a camp for migrant fruit and vegetable pickers in the southern region of Calabria.
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Lower fees: Investors are beginning to realize that human stock pickers generally underperform the broader market, and that one can capture higher returns on average, at a lower cost, by investing in index funds or by relying on advice provided by algorithms.
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Following its spin out from SRI Ventures, Abundant Robotics will aim to have its autonomous, robotic apple pickers in production and at work in orchards within 2 years, and grow its 8-person team currently based at SRI in Menlo Park, Calif.
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NO CHEFS, FRUIT PICKERS Addressing labor shortages in a pre-budget media conference on Monday, Finance Minister Grant Robertson said the government was focusing on immigration for high-need regional areas and improving the skill level of New Zealanders to meet needs.
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Munger instead lauded large index funds for the everyday investor who is looking for exposure to the stock markets and said that many active stock pickers are still in a state of denial that their expertise is worth the fees they charge clients.
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As stock pickers have failed to beat the market, Vanguard has been the prime beneficiary of a headlong rush into index and exchange-traded funds since the financial crisis, pulling in more than $160 billion in new money last year, according to Morningstar.
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Muniz turned their trash into large-scale photographic portraits of the pickers, which he then sold at auction for $250,000, and gave the bulk of the proceeds back to the catadores union to build a library and retrain workers once the landfill closed.
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Reliable statistics on safety in Hpakant were not available, but media have reported scores killed in the past three years, many of them freelance "jade pickers" who scour tailings - the residue from mining - for stones that have been missed by larger operators.
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Many of the workers that they spoke with were "pickers" and "packers" in fulfillment centers — the employees that are responsible for finding and sorting packages to be sent out to the customer — and snippets from their conversations reveal their intense experience working there.
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Changes to the seasonal H-2B visa program by the Trump administration have left crab houses in Maryland without seasonal crab pickers — a majority of whom are from Mexico — after few Americans responded to the unfilled openings, owners told The Washington Post.
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His argument, which soon became a form of religion to his followers, was that over the long term, a cheap fund that tracks a broad index will perform better than expensive alternatives managed by stock pickers who believe they can outfox the market.
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Mod tartans mixed it up with bejeweled 1950s starlet sheaths; leopard furs with striped coed sweaters; flirty slip dresses with swaddling puffer stoles; camo leathers with sunflower gowns, all with matching medley footwear (pumps and winkle-pickers and boot stompers and kitten heels).
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The Uzbek-German Forum for Human Rights has collected a series of complaints from both workers in the public sector and employees of private firms who say they were ordered to join the harvest this year or to pay for replacement pickers.
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India's estimated 420 million unorganized workers - including daily-wage labourers, rag-pickers, rickshaw drivers and maids - have few social security nets, and were stung by Modi's controversial decision in 2016 to withdraw overnight most of the country's high-value banknotes from circulation.
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The new targets, though, mean that workers are allowed just a handful of seconds between each product task, which can be complicated by the 8-foot-tall shelving units that the robots carry to the stations of pickers and stowers, Wulfraat said.
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Going first person with white-knuckling cramped environments, a bumpkin family horror that's a mix of Texas Chainsaw with American Pickers, and gruesome 3D photography techniques, the upcoming and mysterious Resident Evil 7 seems like the frightful grossout players have been waiting for.
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The goal now is to move past SAC Capital, which pleaded guilty to securities fraud charges and paid $1.8 billion in fines and civil penalties, and to capitalize on Mr. Cohen's pre-scandal reputation as one of the industry's best stock pickers.
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At Ahold's Peapod warehouse in Jersey City, pickers who start on about $22020 per hour with benefits can make up to $28 an hour extra if they beat speed targets, but they are also closely monitored for quality: a dented tin could mean a refund.
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"This is a whole, much bigger issue that's a hidden crime; it's forced labor, forced marriage, domestic servitude, it's people not being paid correctly, it's the 2004 Chinese cockle pickers that died in Morecambe Bay," explained the Queen's granddaughter in the two-minute clip.
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From the austere beauty of Tang dynasty bowls and the fanciful Oriental scenes painted on Georgian teapots, to the haunting sounds of tea-pickers' songs from Bengal, the arts of tea have blended into every culture that has learned to enjoy a proper cup.
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JOSE LEON SUAREZ, Argentina (Reuters) - Lorena Pastoriza, 45, is one of hundreds of informal waste pickers sifting thousand tonnes of trash per day in the poor neighborhood of José León Suárez in Argentina, making ends meet by organizing the rubbish left behind by others.
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But complaints by charities and trade unions about exploitation and abuse of tea-pickers - including long working hours, low wages, lack of freedom of association, over-exposure to pesticides and poor health and living conditions - prompted the CAO to launch an investigation in February 2014.
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On "American Pickers," also on the History Channel, Mike Wolfe and Frank Fritz, two antique buyers from eastern Iowa, zoom around the country in a white van, knocking on doors and amiably persuading whoever answers to let them scour their property for noteworthy items.
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"Waste pickers are a forgotten population, among the most forgotten, but some of the most valuable at the same time," says Andres Felipe Padilla, organizer of Pimp My Carroza, an arts initiative founded in Brazil to bring visibility to the work of informal recyclers.
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The image has become somewhat of a logo for the city as the murals have been featured in GQ Magazine, the Wall Street Journal, the hit TV series "American Pickers," a Pepsi commercial and even a Hayden Panettiere music video, according to the Tennessean.
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For years, agricultural communities have argued that more of these visas should be granted by the U.S., and this year farmers worry that coronavirus restrictions could mean even fewer pickers and therefore less crop to bring to market—especially for the fast-approaching cherry season.
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Long-short funds, sometimes known as market-neutral funds, eked out gains of just 2500 percent this year, well behind the S. & P. 20.81, suggesting that these fund managers were worse stock pickers than most people, even in a market with many declining stocks.
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James and House had each made a handful of recordings in the '30s and '40s, and then faded into obscurity until the folk revival of the early '60s piqued the interest of students and coffeehouse guitar pickers in the college towns of the North.
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Amid a turbulent market, some of Wall Street's top stock pickers have picked the precious metal to net returns, and gold has delivered by outpacing market benchmarks at a time when disappointing economic reports are persuading U.S. central bankers to hold off on rate hikes, pressuring yield.
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BRASILIA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Like thousands of other waste pickers who toil for long hours in the toxic air of Latin America's largest rubbish dump, Jose da Silva is wondering how his life will change as Brazil's government plans to close the facility outside the capital.
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Whereas many in Cambridge see incomers as highly educated Germans and Swedes bringing their expertise to research projects, startups and product-development meetings, in Peterborough they are Lithuanian potato-pickers who, if not competing with locals for unskilled work, are at least nipping at their heels.
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As the robot war on Wall Street stock pickers heats up, there's a new line of attack from the algorithmic set: IBM's Watson supercomputer has been hired to help run an ETF and pick stocks than can achieve better performance than the broad U.S. stock market index.
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"We have said repeatedly that for farm businesses, it is about having the full range of skills needed — from pickers and packers to meat processors and vets — if we are to continue to deliver high quality, affordable food for the public," Batters said in a statement.
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And in the United States stock market, stock pickers continue to ignore sky-high valuations of stocks and the market as a whole, buying up index giants like Amazon, which has a price-to-earnings ratio of 136, Apple and Facebook at the slightest sign of weakness.
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This was one of the main reasons that the fund giant BlackRock decided last month to revamp its actively managed stock unit, a move that favored an investment style focusing on machines and models over stock pickers trying to chase the likes of Amazon and Apple.
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Speaking to The Verge, Pieter Abbeel, Covariant co-founder and the director of the Berkeley Robot Learning Lab, compares the current market in robot pickers to that of self-driving cars: there's a lot of hype and flashy demos, but not enough real-world testing and ability.
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But the biggest dollars have, so far, avoided the cutting-edge of real estate technology in construction and AI. READ THE FULL STORY HEREIn 2019, activists and stock pickers were hot — but Ray Dalio made a rare stumble and short sellers got crushedBig names closed shop.
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And in contrast to bucolic scenes that have hop pickers harvesting in the fields, there are startling glimpses of the bombed-out port of Rotterdam and heavily targeted British cities like Canterbury, the dumping ground for any bombs left over from the Luftwaffe's forays over London.
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It's not yet clear whether all the warehouse pickers and delivery drivers Amazon is hiring to support its ever growing shipping commitments will totally close that gap — especially as Amazon perfects fulfillment center robots and delivery drones in order to reduce its personnel needs in the future.
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That would be an example of putting a lot of thought into how to ensure privacy because what those stock pickers want, they don't care about your personal trail, they want to know are more people going to McDonald's after they announced all-day breakfast than the week before.
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Keri Wilson, whose family has had an apple farm for over 125 years, had this to tell The Atlantic of recreational apple pickers: "Now they're coming out because they want to have little Sarah get a photo under the tree holding onto a piece of fruit," Wilson said.
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In an effort to fully explore the shared heritage between today's raves and the parties of yore, we showed LOCKED OFF to a few promoters, producers, DJs, and door-pickers from the previous generation of party-throwers, to see how they think the new school holds up in comparison.
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The texture of everyday life is less precise—the peripheral fruit pickers and wedding guests in Everybody Knows don't refract the central concerns of the story in the subtle way that, in earlier films, the crowds of people in banks or waiting for pretrial interrogations in Tehran do.
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Donald Judd: Interviews (David Zwirner, 39.95 USD, 28 GBP, 53.95 CAD) One of the finest American nit-pickers was Donald Judd, and we get a full tasting of the impressive range of his interests and opinions in a fat book just published by David Zwirner called Donald Judd: Interviews.
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And now History — formerly The History Channel, once known more for its sober documentaries than for reality shows like "Pawn Stars" and "American Pickers" — is debuting a documentary on Sunday about how Ms. Earhart may have ended up in Japanese custody and imprisoned on the island of Saipan.
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Cramer, host of "Mad Money," saw five possible outcomes: Assuming the Trump-Xi meeting results in the third option — the tariffs on $200 billion worth of Chinese goods still go to 25 percent at year-end, but no additional tariffs are announced — Cramer had a plan in place for stock-pickers.
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In a similar strategy, the Coalition of Immokalee Workers, a group that advocates for tomato pickers in Florida, boycotted one fast-food chain at a time in order to persuade the businesses to buy tomatoes only from growers certified as providing rest breaks, shade tents, drinking water, and fair pay.
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Consider this: even though analysts who cover fund companies say history shows that a recession would crush stocks of asset managers as investors flee the market, they also say an economic downturn may be the last chance stock pickers ever get to prove that they can outperform when it counts.
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"Pickers know the product carries a premium price so they don't want poachers going out and stealing the eggs," says James Lyon-Shaw, Food Operations Manager for ETM, the company that runs various restaurants and pubs throughout London including The Gun in Docklands and The Jugged Hare in the City.
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See also: What it's like to launch a hedge fund when even the biggest managers are struggling and long-short equity is a 'dirty word'See also: The machines running a huge chunk of public markets will only get smarter, and that's putting private equity and stock-pickers on a collision course
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Whereas human pickers, who need only a few seconds per bush, use most of that time working their hands through the leaves, each robot, which spends eight seconds per plant, devoted seven and a half of them just to hovering about a foot above the bush, motionless, as though contemplating it.
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Despite rising equity markets and signs that individual stocks are once again being traded on their merits rather than en masse — an environment that stock pickers hope will favor their approach over index investments — the typical hedge fund has failed to perform remotely well enough to justify the industry's high fees.
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Lynch's successor on Fidelity Magellan, Jeff Vinik — who went on to a long career as a billionaire stock picker — announced on Wednesday he was closing down his hedge fund because investors were no longer giving money to long/short stock pickers as even the most-sophisticated investors lean more on quantitative investing disciplines.
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SHANGHAI (Reuters) - China's index-tracking mutual funds have the potential to jump 73-fold to 27 trillion yuan ($211.7 billion) in assets over the next decade as investors are more likely to place money with them than rival stock-pickers who struggle to beat the market, veteran portfolio manager David Xu said.
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Rootsy, unvarnished songwriters, singers and pickers — among them Lucinda Williams, Patty Griffin and Buddy Miller — will be backed by the guitarist Larry Campbell leading the Midnight Ramble Band, which has been playing the Band's songs for more than a decade at the barn studio in Woodstock built by the Band's drummer, Levon Helm.
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On a typical plant, only some of the berries will be ripe; the pickers must identify them by working their hands through the thick canopy of leaves with little fruit-seeking movements of their fingers, catching the stem of the ripe berries in the webbing of their fingers, and cupping the fruit.
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Some stock pickers may take a fresh look at the telephone companies when they join the bigger index, which will make up 10 percent of the S&P 500 compared with the current telecom sector's a 2 percent weighting, according to Todd Rosenbluth, Director of ETF and mutual fund research at CFRA.
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In the 1930s, the company now known as Champion Athletic Apparel began turning them out to keep football players warm on the sidelines, also attracting business from men who operated backhoes and cherry pickers and forklifts — the forefathers of style for the guys who top their hoods with hard hats turned backward.
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Most of the pickers come from Eastern Europe, spending the summer living in plastic static caravans, their working day spent either bent over in a field cutting and tying together bunches of spring onions and carrots, or in one of the huge, freezing, windowless warehouses where vegetables are washed, packed, and stored.
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In a telephone interview from Vasterbotten in Sweden's north, where he was looking for berries for his pickers, he said bilberry prices are up 30-35 percent because the hot weather has meant a smaller harvest The cloudberry harvest was down as well because it was too hot for the beautiful alpine fruit.
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That is both a statement of fact and a comment on my typically desultory talent at handicapping the Derby, which even for the savviest horse-pickers is a feat astronomically more complicated than the already difficult skill of picking a winner in, say, a middle-of-the-week feature at your local racetrack.
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After Mr. White's rowdy electric Americana, "Full Circle" eases back toward the style of Ms. Lynn's 1960s and 1970s recordings with the producer Owen Bradley: the sound of first-rate pickers, often using vintage instruments, playing together and interacting with Ms. Lynn, who was with the band even while it was recording instrumental tracks.
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Many of the most successful companies in the past half century of American capitalism were founded on delivering an average product to a consumer at a price point that was reasonable: think Amazon, Walmart or McDonald's, which many of those active stock pickers on Wall Street have sung the praises of time and time again.
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For example, in one demo the company showed off today, a new computer vision-based system Amazon is building in Berlin will allow robots to identify what produce is ripe or rotten so that automatic pickers can select more robust fruit and vegetables to pack off to consumers, and identify what needs to be discarded.
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When a low-sided cardboard box containing eight clamshells, known as a flat, was full, the pickers ran with the load on one shoulder to checkers standing near the trucks, who inspected the fruit and credited the flat to the picker using a bar code on the flat's side and on the picker's I.D. badge.
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And I think of the way "The Cotton Pickers" is bound to other rhythmically satisfying images from the history of photography: Paul Strand's silhouetted figures dwarfed by the great buildings of Wall Street, Dorothea Lange's bent-backed Mexican migrant picking tomatoes, Lee Friedlander's note-perfect scatter of musicians walking on a New Orleans street.
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Nesting locations are held close to the chest like the perfect poker hand, pickers play like spies and don't reveal their identities even when asked, and licences are passed down from father to son, mother to daughter like a terrible family secret that could see the heraldry go up in flames if it was ever revealed.
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His work can be amusing as well as poignant, as noted in his series Pictures of Garbage from the award-winning documentary Waste Land (2010), which follows Muniz as he works with the catadores, or trash pickers, of Jardim Gramacho, a 321-acre dump near Rio de Janeiro that was the world's biggest landfill before it closed in 2012.
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Blockchain's technology mess exposes its metaphor mess — a software engineer pointing out that storing the data a sequence of small hashed files won't get the mango-pickers to accurately report whether they sprayed pesticides is also pointing out why peer-to-peer interaction with no regulations, norms, middlemen, or trusted parties is actually a bad way to empower people.
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See more: Lone Pine Capital stock-pickers explain why they're investing in Tiffany and Nintendo and how they value 'disruptors' like Beyond MeatThe goal for the team is to eventually replicate all of the complex hedge fund strategies for the average investor, a dream that Gardner admits will be complicated compared to scraping 13-F filings.
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Available from April 1 to 4, it includes accommodations for three nights, airport transfers, the chance to pick wine grapes along with the professional pickers, a picnic lunch in the vineyard accompanied by wine, a wine dinner, a traditional Argentine barbecue dinner, a treatment at the property's spa and a tour and tasting of another winery in the area.
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Boots said it is hiring back seasonal workers that it normally uses for the Christmas season, while UK supermarket chain Morrisons (MRWSY) said in a statement that it is recruiting 1,000 additional workers for its distribution centers, and 2,500 people to work as pickers and drivers, as part of a drive to expand home delivery options.
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Directed by Mr. Franco from a screenplay by Matt Rager (who also wrote the script for Mr. Franco's "The Sound and the Fury"), it stars Mr. Franco as Mac, a fiery union organizer who, with his much younger protégé, Jim Nolan (Nat Wolff), sets out to organize apple pickers in the fictional Torgas Valley of Central California.
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This year's offerings are wide ranging, from James Franco's adaptation of John Steinbeck's In Dubious Battle, about apple pickers in California in the 1930s; to They Will Have to Kill Us First: Malian Music In Exile, a documentary about musicians in Mali dealing with a jihadist takeover; to a screening of two silent films from 1920 by pioneering African American filmmaker Oscar Micheaux.
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Of course, a burst of irrational exuberance could soon give the autos their day in the sun as stock-pickers ignore all these negatives but if the car companies are still on pitiful valuations now given the huge amount of inventory they are shifting globally, goodness knows what will happen if they ever land back on pot-holed terra firma.
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Since then, the team has attempted to strengthen its bond with its supporters and local community not only via on-field performance, but through a range of social programs that include giving stadium tours and educational workshops to poor children from some of the surrounding neighborhoods, partnerships with local NGOs, and allowing local trash pickers access to the rubbish on the stadium terraces after games.
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Since the drug industry has not traditionally been a big focus for Berkshire, it suggests the investment is led by Combs, 23, and 22019-year-old Weschler, the younger generation of stock pickers to which the 87-year-old Buffett has been giving more power over Berkshire's giant portfolio of stock bets, said Lawrence Cunningham, author of Berkshire Beyond Buffett: The Enduring Value of Values.
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