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When am I entitled to participate in a stock split? — record date, split date, ex date Stock split announcements usually mention a few dates — record date (&quot;date of record&quot;), split date (&quot;distribution date&quot;, &quot;pay date&quot;, or &quot;payment date&quot;), ex date (&quot;ex-split date&quot;). Examples:  :  Each Apple shareholder of record at the close of business on August 24, 2020 will receive three additional shares for every share held on the record date, and trading will begin on a split-adjusted basis on August 31, 2020.   :  Each stockholder of record on August 21, 2020 will receive a dividend of four additional shares of common stock for each then-held share, to be distributed after close of trading on August 28, 2020. Trading will begin on a stock split-adjusted basis on August 31, 2020.    In the case of the Tesla split, the record date is August 21, the split date is August 28 (Friday), and the ex date is August 31 (Monday). Apple's  provides definitions of these dates:  What is the effective date of the split? There are several key dates. The Record Date – August 24, 2020 - determines which shareholders are entitled to receive additional shares due to the split. The Split Date – August 28, 2020 - shareholders are due split shares after the close of business on this date. The Ex Date – August 31, 2020 - the date determined by Nasdaq when Apple common shares will trade at the new split-adjusted price.  However, further down in the FAQ, there is an explanation that seems to contradict the definition of the record date given above:  What happens if I buy or sell shares on or after the Record Date and before the Ex Date? [...] If you buy shares on or after the Record Date but before the Ex Date, you will purchase the shares at the pre-split price and will receive (or your brokerage account will be credited with) the shares purchased. Following the split, you will receive (or your brokerage account will be credited with) the additional shares resulting from the stock split.  Judging by the Apple FAQ, the way the record date works for stock splits is completely different from the way the record date works for cash dividends. With cash dividends, people who become shareholders of record after the record date are not entitled to the dividends. With stock splits, however, people who purchase shares after the record date (but before the ex date) are entitled to the stock split. Furthermore, for stock splits, the record date comes before the ex date, whereas for cash dividends, the record date comes after the ex date. It appears that I am not the only one confused about this. A quick internet search reveals years and years of confusion regarding the record date for stock splits. An extremely common point of confusion is the apparently incorrect assumption that the record date for stock splits works in the same way as the record date for cash dividends. A few questions:  Am I right that the record date for stock splits works differently from the record date of cash dividends? The only relevant dates for a stock split seem to be the split date (on which I will receive new shares after the market closes), and the ex date (on which I can sell the new shares on stock exchanges at a post-split price). It seems that the record date is completely irrelevant. What is the record date for? From my understanding, the price of the stock will be reduced at the instant the new shares are distributed (on the split date). Is this correct? I have a desktop (Ubuntu 13.04 &amp; Win 7 Home Premium) and a Laptop (Ubuntu 12.04), both having WiFi adapters. I also have a WiFi router connected to internet which both my computers can access.  I want to share files between my desktop and my laptop using WiFi (similar to Homegroup on Windows 7 but without using Ethernet cables).  How do I set-up that?  I want to share files using both OSs, if anyone have have information about sharing files with any of the OS please answer! What are the fault tolerances on the FDA food handling guidelines? Sometimes I have suggested that food that sat out a little longer than optimal may be safe to eat.    Granted, this is based on my experience, and I always qualify that it shouldn't be served to guests (and by extension, customers) and that one should determine their own tolerance to risk, but I want to know if there is information as to the methodology of the FDA guidelines.  Specifically, what is the contamination rate at n hours, and what are the initial conditions of the food and environment?  How much risk is there REALLY (in incidences per n-population and such) in a standard kitchen for food that has sat out 50%, 100%, 200%, etc. longer than recommended? Prove that $ AB$ is a subgroup of order $mn$ if $m$ and $n$ are relatively prime. It seems like I'm doing something wrong when using foreach variables to indicate node numbers. The two foreach loops are anchoring the paths to the east of each node. Why does this happen?    \documentclass{article}  \usepackage{tikz} \usetikzlibrary{backgrounds,fit,patterns,decorations.pathreplacing,calc}  \makeatletter \tikzset{   labelnode/.style={draw=none, fill=none, black},   latentnode/.style={draw, minimum width=5mm, shape=circle, ultra thick, black},   dagconn/.style={arrows=-&gt;, black, thick}, } \makeatother  \begin{document} \begin{tikzpicture}[scale=1]  \pgfmathsetmacro{\colgap}{1.6}  \pgfmathsetmacro{\rowgap}{1.3}   \node[labelnode] (x1) at (\colgap*0,\rowgap*1) {$X_1$};  \node[labelnode] (x2) at (\colgap*1,\rowgap*1) {$X_2$};  \node[labelnode] (x3) at (\colgap*2,\rowgap*1) {$X_3$};   \node[latentnode,blue] (x4) at (\colgap*0,\rowgap*0) {$X_4$};  \node[latentnode,red] (x5) at (\colgap*1,\rowgap*0) {$X_5$};  \node[labelnode] (x6) at (\colgap*2,\rowgap*0) {$X_6$};   \foreach \c in {1,...,2} {    \foreach \r in {1,...,2} {      \pgfmathsetmacro{\st}{(((\r-1)*3)+\c)}      \pgfmathsetmacro{\en}{\st+1}      \draw[dagconn] ([xshift=0.2cm]x\st) to ([xshift=-0.9cm]x\en);    }  }   \foreach \c in {1,...,3} {    \foreach \r in {1,...,1} {      \pgfmathsetmacro{\st}{((\r-1)*3)+\c}      \pgfmathsetmacro{\en}{\st+3}      \draw[dagconn] (x\st) to (x\en);    }  } \end{tikzpicture} \end{document} Is ignoring emails acceptable in academia? As a grad student, I just find it tremendously frustrating when emails are ignored by faculty (both at my institution and at other places). Is this acceptable? I'd be content with a simple response with one line along the lines of "I have read this email and am busy right now, will respond in X days when I can write a more detailed email." I understand that, as a first year student in my field, I'm not really in a position to request anything of anyone, but it just seems like common decency.  Instead, I never hear back, as if my email has been jettisoned off into oblivion. What is the optimum pattern to place crops in Minecraft? What factors affect soil hydration and crop growth time? What is the most efficient layout of dirt and water to grow crops? When I'm looking down the front page on , I often wish I could tell at a glance what happened to the question to bump it there. Sometimes it is obvious from looking at the number of answers, other times you have to follow a link to find out if it has been edited or if an answer has been added or updated.  I'm guessing this is just as applicable on other SE sites - this is the kind of thing I'm suggesting:    A couple of suggestions from the comments that might be good:   To reduce clutter the word 'ago' could be removed at the same time. The new text could be visible only to established users - ie users who are likely to be reviewing/editing and would benefit from seeing at a glance what kind of change has occurred. How can I prove that the Cartesian product of two countable sets is also countable? I am making a test where I am asked to add the missing words.     [...] chair is [...] useful piece of furniture.    I would have said that a is the missing word in both the cases, but the test says the words I should have added are the and a respectively.     [...] last time I saw [...] bear, I was travelling in [...] Europe.   I would have added: nothing, a, nothing. The correct answer is: the, a, nothing.  Why is the the correct article to use in both the sentences? How to prove that exponential grows faster than polynomial? One of my friends said that I would die if I drank distilled water (we were using it in a chemistry experiment) I gave it a go and surprisingly did not die.  I did a bit of  and found    It said that drinking only this kind of water could definitely cause death, as distilled water was highly hypotonic and it would make the blood cells expand and finally explode and ultimately cause death.  I wanted to know exactly how much of this water on an average was needed to be consumed to cause death. Don't remember the exact start to the story, but it went something like "walking along a path" or something, and when he hears what sounds like a shotgun blast behind him, he then feels something strike him in the butt. He passes out, and when he awakens, he discovers that the "shotgun blast" was actually a miniature spaceship that exploded and shot miniature aliens into his body. The aliens prove to be very beneficial because they clean up all the toxins and other poisons in his body. They can be transmitted through kissing or sexual activity.  Any help with the name of the story would be greatly appreciated.  Dan Render looks darker than Look Dev mode I have been texture painting in look dev mode. But when i try to render it, everything looks very dark. I have 3 sun lights in my scene, ambient turned on in Eevee settings. What am i missing? I really like the look of my scene in Look Dev mode, how can i achieve the same look when my scene is rendered too? Problem with long chapter title and arsclassica Real life uses of Moment generating functions In most basic probability theory courses your told moment generating functions (m.g.f) are useful for calculating the moments of a random variable. In particular the expectation and variance. Now in most courses the examples they provide for expectation and variance can be solved analytically using the definitions.   Are there any real life examples of distributions where finding the expectation and variance is hard to do analytically and so the use of m.g.f's was needed? I'm asking because I feel like I don't get to see exactly why they are important in the basic courses. I would like to remove page numbering on a specific page. However, the header and footer should remain intact. If I try:  \thispagestyle{empty}   The header and footer disappear. What is the recommended way of removing just the page number? If you have a glass of water, say, three quarters full and you pour it at an angle of say, $45^{\circ}$ with respect to the the table, the water comes out of the glass and goes directly down towards the floor.  However, when the glass is more full, or even three quarters full and the 'angle of pouring' is far less with respect the table, when the water comes out of the glass, rather than going straight down it kind of stays stuck to the glass and travels down the outside of it.  Why does this happen? (I'm sure many of you have observed it yourself by accident and ended up making a mess). Extract substring in Bash Given a filename in the form someletters_12345_moreleters.ext, I want to extract the 5 digits and put them into a variable.  So to emphasize the point, I have a filename with x number of characters then a five digit sequence surrounded by a single underscore on either side then another set of x number of characters.  I want to take the 5 digit number and put that into a variable.  I am very interested in the number of different ways that this can be accomplished. I accidentally installed some USB drivers to my Windows 7 system, they were the wrong ones and now my keyboard and mouse won't work. A system restore would get rid of them, but obviously I can't control my computer to make that happen.  Keyboard and mouse still work before windows has loaded, in the BIOS and boot system, so can I do anything from there? I've already tried booting into another OS, accessing my windows filesystem and deleting the Program Files entry, but it didnt work so they must go deeper than that. Or could i launch it from a remote machine? I've got some VNC server insalled so if i could get that running that could work.