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Steven Spielberg, "War Horse"
As far as famous producers and directors go, Steven Spielberg tops the list. The Best Picture nomination for "War Horse," which he co-produced, is just another notch in the belt of the prolific director. He has won three Academy Awards and has been nominated for Best Picture and Best Director over 10 times.
When Spielberg isn't directing or producing his blockbusters, he splits time between his homes in Pacific Palisades, the Hamptons and Malibu. Unlike other celebrities, the director isn't one to buy and sell properties on a whim; most of his homes he's owned for over 20 years.
His Malibu home (above), in particular, is a spectacular ocean-side property he bought in 1989 for $3,375,033. The 7,000+-square-foot-home, pictured above, sits on nearly an acre of beachfront property and has 7 bedrooms, 10 bathrooms and the must-have celebrity amenities like an in-ground pool.
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Although Brad Pitt has been nominated three times previously for an Oscar, the actor has yet to take home a gold statuette. Could the fourth time be the charm?
If Pitt does take home an Oscar, chances are he won't be stashing it in a home in the U.S. Pitt and his leading woman, Angelina Jolie, as well as their six kids, spend most of their time abroad, specifically in a rental home in southern France. They also own multimillion-dollar homes in Cambodia, and Berlin in addition to homes in New Orleans, and L.A. Pitt also previously owned a home in Malibu he purchased shortly after his divorce to Jennifer Aniston in 2005.
A self-professed architecture buff, Pitt spent months renovating the mid-century modern, pictured above. Although the home has 4,088 square feet of living space with 4 bedrooms and 4 bathrooms, it was on the small side for the 8-person Jolie-Pitt clan. Pitt sold the prime piece of Malibu real estate to Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi in December 2011.
George Clooney, "The Descendants"
Although he's one of the most recognizable faces on the big screen, Clooney spent the early part of his career in bit roles on TV shows until he hit international stardom with his role of Dr. Ross on "ER" in 1994. He made the switch to movies in the late 1990s and added directing, producing and screenwriting to his repertoire. This Oscar season, he's not only nominated for Best Actor, but also Best Writing, Adapted Screen Play for "Ides of March."
Clooney purchased his home in Studio City at the beginning of his success on "ER," in 1995. The sprawling Studio City home sits on over 3 acres below a nature preserve. The 8-bedroom, mock-Tudor house has a pool and tennis courts. Clooney also owns a home in Laglio, Italy on Lake Como -- and it's often there he meets up with fellow actor and good friend Brad Pitt.
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Jonah Hill, "Moneyball" Although Jonah Hill became famous for his roles in comedy films, this Oscar nomination is for his first dramatic performance in "Moneyball." The actor has had his hand in many projects that called on his many talents, ranging from directing, writing, and producing.
Jonah Hill's home is located in the Los Angeles suburb of Tarzana and was listed as a "natural entertainer's estate" featuring party-friendly amenities like a pool and spa, endless patios, tennis and bocce ball court. This isn't Hill's first foray into real estate; he sold a Hollywood condo in 2008 for $835,000 and still owns a home on Mulholland Drive.
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Glenn Close, "Albert Nobbs"
Glenn Close began her acting career on Broadway and didn't break into the film industry until she was 35 with her role in "The World According to Garp" alongside Robin Williams. The Emmy, Tony and Golden Globe-award winning actress has yet to win an Oscar, but her nomination for Albert Nobbs is her sixth nomination.
Born and raised in Greenwich, CT, Close spends her time on the East Coast in both Manhattan, and Bedford Hills, NY.
Her Bedford Hills estate, pictured above, sits on 10 acres. Just north of Manhattan, the hills of Westchester County, and in particular, Bedford real estate, is appealing to many celebrities. Close can count Martha Stewart, Ralph Lauren and celeb couple Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta-Jones among her Bedford Hills neighbors.
Viola Davis, "The Help"
Like Close, Viola Davis rose to prominence with roles on the stage and has two Tony awards to her name. Since her move to the big screen, she's been nominated for numerous awards, including best supporting actress for her role in "Doubt."
Davis purchased a suburban home in Granada Hills, CA, pictured above, in 2005 with her husband Julius Tennon. The 5-bedroom, 5-bath home sits on a quarter acre with 3,917 square feet of living space.
Michelle Williams, "My Week with Marilyn"
Michelle Williams first swept audiences and critics off their feet with her performance in the 2005 film, "Brokeback Mountain," for which she earned her first Academy Award nomination. Her role opposite Ryan Gosling in the romantic drama "Blue Valentine" caught critics' eye, too, nabbing her both a Golden Globe and Academy Award nomination for Best Actress. She earned both Golden Globe and Academy Award nominations for her role as Marilyn Monroe in "My Week with Marilyn," for which she already picked up the Golden Globe.
Williams spends her time off the big screen with her daughter, Matilda Rose, in their cozy, 4-floor house in Brooklyn, NY (pictured above). Williams' slice of Brooklyn real estate was purchased with late actor and ex-fiance, Heath Ledger, in 2005 for a reported $3.6 million. Ledger, also Matilda's father, passed away from a reported drug overdose in January 2008.
Melissa McCarthy, "Bridesmaids"
After performing for 10 years as a stand-up comedienne, Melissa McCarthy made her big break into acting in a supporting role on TV's popular show" Gilmore Girls." She then took first billing in the TV show "Mike & Molly," for which she received an Emmy award. Her role in the comedy "Bridesmaids" is her first Oscar nomination.
McCarthy and husband fellow actor and writer Ben Falcone purchased a modest (by celebrity real estate standards) Toluca Lake home, above, for $780,000 in 2009. The 3-bedroom, 2-bath home is only minutes from network studios,making it an easy commute for both McCarthy and Falcone.


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Hot showers just got cheaper. GE's new hybrid electric water heater uses about 1,856 kilowatt-hours of electricity per year—62 percent less energy than a standard water heater, for an average annual savings of about $320. The unit extracts heat from ambient air, sends it through an evaporator, and compresses it. The electric motor kicks in only if the water temperature dips too far below the set point (that is, if you're a shower hog). Lower your shower temperature in one-degree increments to scrimp on energy and save cash. Click on High-Demand mode if you're expecting weekend guests. Bonus: It qualifies for a $480 federal tax credit for green appliances.
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First, you must determine whether or not the water heater is in a "conditioned space" which is defined as a room of the house that supplies return air to the HVAC system. Typically water heaters are in "unconditioned spaces" such as garages, basements, and attics, which do not provide an air supply to the HVAC system. Therefore, any heat removed from these spaces by the hybrid water heater would not need to be replaced by the furnace. If the hybrid water heater is in a conditioned space inside the home such as in a utility room, it will lessen the load on the AC system during cooling months and increase the load on the furnace during heating months. If the number of cooling months equals the number of heating months, these effects will roughly offset, and the user will still experience all the energy saving benefits of the hybrid water heater. If cooling months exceed heating months, this will be an additional benefit to home energy savings beyond the savings of the hybrid water heater itself.
True; it's a heat pump. There's another technology which is now in production, which prewarms water going into the heater by passively extracting it from wastewater. That would be a more efficient system.
Hey Brian, thanks for the 'drainergy' link, looks like a good product and I'm sure it's a lot less than $1600. Keith, thank you for a great explanation of operational cost for the hybrid heat pump. Check out the 200% efficient Acadia at www.gotohallowell.com
People who use propane to make hot water should seriously consider taking advantage of the 30% tax credit for this Rheem hybrid heater. My old water heater consumed about 307 gallons of propane a year ("energyguide" yellow stickers). This was costing me about $900 a year for just hot water. A new conventional propane ge "energy saver" water heater, for example, would still use about 260 gallons ("energy saver" standard water heaters don't qualify for the 30% tax credit). A tankless water heater would still consume about 200 gallon a year of propane, but entail significant installation costs. Switching to this heat pump water heater saves me about $700 a year in energy costs (propane costs minus electric costs).
That is, while it cost me $3000 for the water heater, installation and bringing high voltage electricity to my furnace room, for a fair analysis, this big investment figure needs to be reduced by (a) 30% ($900) tax credit for the water heater and its entire installation costs and (b) the $800 I would have to spend to replace my old water heater. Thus, my net after tax, additional investment came out to (3000 - 900 -800) to $1300 -- which equals two years energy savings.
All of the work was performed through my local Home Depot (my local Lowe's didn't want to touch running an electric line from the fuse box to the furnace room). I've got a 12 year extended protection plan. Using the heat pump alone mode, we all had very hot showers in an hour. When the heat pump compressor kicks it, it makes a quiet buzz that does not disturb me. In fact, if the a/c fan is running, I can't even hear the Rheem compressor, when it kicks in. It does just fine in the furnace room of a three story townhouse and its compressor doesn't kick in that often.
Without the tax credit, next year you might want to also give consideration to a standard electric water heater. But, if you can, utilize that credit this year. I've also learned that putting in an electric line for a water heater isn't that difficult or expensive. While I expect the cost of the heater to decline in the coming year, I would take advantage of the tax credits this year.
For me, there is the additional benefit of getting away from depending on oil and the propane produced by refining oil. Since there are so many alternative ways to generate electricity, as compared to making transportation type fuel, I don't mind using a little bit more electricity (2200Kwz a year) from the power plant. We are living in interesting times and I'm waiting for the day that I can replace my furnace which also consumes propane (but more efficiently).
One last point: I reduce my use of carbon fuels by about 300 gallons a year for an investment of $3,000. Getting about the same reduction by buying an electric car requires an investment of over $30,000. If you can, please spread the word.
Looks pretty cool! But one thing I haven't understood. That is, how it'll absorb heat from the air? Like solar pool heaters absorb energy from sun and then convert's it into heat energy. But sun is always available, so there is a continuous source of energy there but if the air of the surrounding's become cool then how it'd manage the heat?
Beautiful! Simply amazing! I love how quickly our technology is progressing. I was reading this: www.emilyfields.blog.com/2013/08/25/electric-gas-heaters-why-you-need-one/ and I realized that even though electricity is expensive to power a water heater, it may just be the way of the future. Or maybe an electric hybrid water heater, who knows?


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Size of this ultrasonic feature in images of asymptomatic carotid artery plaques key in confirmed hypothesis
June 8, 2012 Contact: Sue Crosson-Knutson 312-334-2311
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Researchers from the Imperial College Faculty of Medicine in London in the United Kingdom (S Kakkos, M Griffin, A Nicolaides, E Kyriacou, M Sabetai, T Tegos, G Geroulakos) revealed that the presence and size of a juxtaluminal black (hypoechoic) area (JBA) on carotid ultrasound of asymptomatic carotid artery plaques can predict the occurrence of ipsilateral ischemic stroke. Their findings were explained today at the 66th Vascular Annual Meeting presented by the Society for Vascular Surgery®.
Co-author Stavros K. Kakkos, MD, MSc, PhD, RVT, who also is in the Department of Vascular Surgery at the University Hospital of Patras in Patras, Greece, said that the JBA is associated with a lipid core close to the lumen or a thrombus on the plaque surface and is defined as an area of carotid plaque pixels with gray scale median (GSM) value less than 25 which is adjacent to the vessel lumen and lacks a visible echogenic cap, after image normalization of the ultrasound plaque images.
The size of a JBA was measured in the carotid plaque images of 1,121 patients with asymptomatic carotid stenosis that was 50-99 percent in relation to the bulb which was followed for up to eight years. "We confirmed that JBA had a linear association with future stroke rate," said Dr. Kakkos. "The area under the ROC curve was 0.816. Using Kaplan Meier curves, the mean annual stroke rate was 0.4 percent in 706 patients with a JBA size <4 mm2, 1.4 percent in 171 patients with JBA size 4-8 mm2, 3.2 percent in 46 patients with JBA size 8-10 mm2, and 5 percent in 198 patients with JBA size >10 mm2 with a highly significant statistical significance (P<.001)."
In multivariate analysis using a Cox model with ipsilateral ischemic events (amaurosis fugax, transient ischemic attack [TIA] or stroke) as the dependent variable, JBA (<4, 4-8, >8, in mm2) was still significant after adjusting for other plaque features known to be associated with increased risk. These include stenosis, GSM, presence of discrete white areas without acoustic shadowing (DWA) indicating neovascularization, plaque area and history of contralateral TIA or stroke. However, plaque area and GSM were not significant.
Using the significant variables (stenosis, DWA, JBA and history of contralateral TIA or stroke), this model predicted the annual risk of stroke (range 0.5-10.0 percent). The average annual stroke risk was <1 percent in 734 patients; 1-1.9 percent in 94; 2-3.9 percent in 134; 4-5.9 percent in 125; and 6-10 percent in 34.
"The size of JBA is linearly related to the risk of stroke and can be used in risk stratification models," said Dr. Kakkos. "These findings need to be confirmed in future prospective studies or in the medical arm of randomized controlled studies in the presence of optimal medical therapy."
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More schools support classroom gadget use
Cellphones were once verboten on most school grounds, destined to be confiscated by a principal or stashed in a locker until the end of the school day.
Now, some districts are not only encouraging students to bring the gadgets to school, they are using them and other devices — laptops, tablets, even Nintendo DSIs — in class.
The about-face is a growing trend in K-12 districts nationwide, from Georgia and Wisconsin to North Jersey. Cellphones, laptops and tablets are relatively affordable, and rare is the teenager who doesn't own at least one. As such, more teachers are incorporating Internet-based programs, applications and videos into their lesson plans, the 21st-century equivalent of the chalk and blackboard.
The initiatives come at a time when budgets are squeezed. And some school districts have found it is cheaper for students to bring their own technology than to spend thousands of dollars building computer labs or buying laptops for each student.
"They are turning to this as a potential model for giving students and teachers what's called a one-to-one opportunity for digital learning, where every teacher and student has a device," said Gregg G. Festa, the director of The ADP Center for Teacher Preparation and Learning Technologies at Montclair State University.
At New Milford High School, it is not uncommon to see students finishing homework assignments on their MacBooks in the cafeteria or using cellphones in class to text an answer.
"It's giving them the freedom and autonomy to use the devices to support what they are doing in their classes," said Principal Eric Sheninger.
Educators aren't the only ones who are ushering in this transformation: Students are one of the biggest drivers. Today's young people are more comfortable texting and typing than they are scribbling on a notepad, and many say they find the bring-your-own device movement an intuitive addendum to their already technology-saturated lives.
"I think that's why most of the students are taking such an active role in this: Because it's not the normal thing that happens at school," said 17-year-old Michael Khan, a senior at New Milford High School.
And while a few play games and share photos in class, Khan said the majority have found it engaging.


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1. I would like to see the SSL console get a color scheme re-work....possibly make it look more like the real console. 2. Send faders as opposed to knobs. Re-model the channels/buss section cross talk, I say this because the Reason SSL sounds nothing like the real console or any of it's modeled competitors, in which there are a few that sound a lot more believable (and yes I have used the analog 9000 a few of times). If you are going to bring SSL to the table at least be competitive. 3. Bring the SSL EQ and Buss comp to the rack as independent devices. 4. I would like to see Reason more engineer friendly by that I mean more believable in sound to it's analog counterpart. 5. Re-visit the channel compressors.......they are I hate to say....horrible IMO. 6. Put a mono switch on the master channel. 7. The option to select different pan laws for better mono translation. 8. Have quality control for the RE Dept. and be more selective about what kind of junk you are allowing to be put in the RE shop. I say this because I have tried just about every thing in the RE shop and IMO 90% of the RE's are absolute crap, almost like anyone and everyone that has the capabilities to create RE's has license to hurry up and put out some cheap ass BS. Now before all the vultures get ahold of this and try to pull me apart...just know that while my words at times can seem harsh, I have been a long time reason user and fan, and ...well this is the future suggestion forum after all. Oh and please propeller heads let's step it up to the professional level. When Record and Reason 6 came out it was all ..WOW and AHH....
but a few months later you start to realize that...well this really isn't professional at all when it comes to mixing (absolutely for music making I won't contest that) but not all of us are music makers and I think someone out there ought to pay attention to that. I DONT want to use a different D.A.W.! adapt reason to fit everyones needs not just the music makers!!!!!!! Wheew ok I'm done now. Cheers!!!!!!!!! |
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Title: | The Landry Family Head Coach for Harvard Women's Ice Hockey |
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Phone: | (617) 495-2281 |
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College: | New Hampshire 1989 |
Experience: | 19th Season |
Katey Stone, the Landry Family Head Coach for Harvard
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victories, culminating in a thrilling 6-5 overtime win over New
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develop talent and attract attention on the national and
international stages. She has coached nine Olympians –
including five who competed in the 2010 Vancouver Games – and
six of the 16 winners of the Patty Kazmaier Memorial Award,
presented annually to the nation's best collegiate
women's hockey player.
Crimson skaters have earned All-America honors a total of 21 times
since 1999, including Jennifer Botterill '02-03 and Angela
Ruggiero '02-04, the first players to be four-time first-team
All-Americans. In addition, Harvard has had nine ECAC Players of
the Year, nine Ivy League Players of the Year, four ECAC Rookies of
the Year and six Ivy League Rookies of the Year.
After leading the Crimson to the 1999 national championship, Stone
received ECAC/KOHO and New England Hockey Writers' Coach of
the Year honors. In addition, she was named the American Hockey
Coaches Association Women's Coach of the Year and the New
England College Athletic Conference Women's Division I Coach
of the Year. Stone repeated as the New England Hockey
Writers' Coach of the Year for the 2000-01 season.
She went on to lead Harvard to three-straight NCAA title game appearances (2003-05), three-straight ECAC regular season titles (2003-05) and ECAC tournament titles (2004-06) and the only back-to-back 30-win seasons in program history in 2003-04 and 2004-05. Harvard also spent 14 consecutive weeks atop the national polls during the 2002-03 season.
Stone helped the Crimson become the second team in ECAC
women's hockey history to finish the conference season with a
perfect record, leading the 2007-08 squad to a 22-0-0 mark in
league play. She was named ECAC Hockey Coach of the Year at the end
of the season, the third time she earned the award (1999, 2005,
2008). Two years later, Stone broke the NCAA Division I wins
record, as she earned the 338th victory in her legendary coaching
career with a 5-1 win over Princeton in Game 1 of the ECAC Hockey
Stone has been an integral voice in the sport of women's
hockey. She served as a member of the NCAA Championship committee,
the NCAA rules committee, the Patty Kazmaier Memorial Award
selection committee and president of the American Women's
Hockey Coaches Association.
In the summer of 2010, Stone was named the head coach of the U.S.
Women's National Team and led Team USA to a gold medal at the 2011
IIHF World Women's Championship and silver at the 2010 Four
Nations Cup. Stone is also active within the U.S. National
Development Camps and started her affiliation with the U.S.
National Team in 1996. Stone led the U.S. to the gold medal at the
first-ever IIHF World Women's U18 Championship in January 2008 and
also coached the U.S. Women's Under-18 Team at the 2007 Under-18
Series and the U.S. Women's Under-22 Select Team at the 2006
Under-22 Series.
Stone graduated from New Hampshire in 1989 with a degree in
physical education. She was a captain and four-year letterwinner in
both hockey and lacrosse for the Wildcats. Stone helped the hockey
team win ECAC championships in 1986 and 1987 and the lacrosse team
capture an NCAA title in 1985. She earned All-ECAC honors in hockey
and was a two-time All-America selection in lacrosse.
Before coming to Harvard, Stone served as assistant athletic
director and coach at Tabor Academy and also had coaching stints at
Northfield Mount Hermon and Phillips Exeter Academy.
Her family is deeply rooted in athletics as her father and
siblings have all been involved with coaching and education.
A native of Watertown, Conn., Stone now resides in Arlington,
Team Honors
Under Katey Stone
• Beanpot Titles (10): 1995, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002,
2003, 2004, 2005, 2008, 2010
• Ivy League Championships (6): 1999, 2003, 2005,
2008, 2009, 2013
• ECAC Regular Season Titles (6): 1999, 2003, 2004,
2005, 2008, 2009
• ECAC Tournament Championships (5): 1999, 2004,
2005, 2006, 2008
• AWCHA National Championships (1): 1999
• All-American Tournament Titles (1): 1997
• NCAA Tournament Appearances (9): 2001, 2003, 2004,
2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2013
• NCAA Frozen Four Appearances (5): 2001, 2003,
2004, 2005, 2008
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DFS vs. ETF Alternatives
Company Description
Discover Financial Services is a direct banking and payment services company. The Company offers credit card loans, private student loans, personal loans, home equity loans and deposit products.
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Tuesday, Mar 113:43 PM
- Analyst Sameer Gokhale estimates Discover (DFS -1.4%) will come through the Fed stress tests (results on March 20) with a minimum Basel III Tier 1 common equity ratio of 8.95% and Fifth Third (FITB -0.8%) 7.3%. As both should be comfortably above 7% under the severely adverse scenario, higher payouts for should be justified.
- Gokhale prefers to use payout yield - total annual dividends and buybacks divided by the share price - as opposed to payout ratio, and Discover and Fifth Third have two of the highest, 8.6% and 6.2%, respectively.
- He's expecting Discover's quarterly dividend to be boosted to $0.21-$0.23 per share from $0.20 now, and $1.1B-$1.5B in buybacks to be approved. Fifth Third could lift its dividend by $0.03 to $0.15 per share and be approved for $1.B-$1.3B in buybacks.
Tuesday, Mar 113:43 PM| Comment! -
Thursday, Feb 203:29 PM
- Expecting dividends to grow 49% on average for the banks subject to the Fed's stress tests (about the same as last year), Markit, says Citigroup (C) and Bank of America (BAC) will lead the way with 400% boosts. "They are the last of the major banks paying minimal dividends ... change is overdue."
- While 400% is a big number, Citi and BofA will continue to lag their peers in terms of yield (400% growth on a penny just leads to a nickel).
- Also expected to have a significant pop is Morgan Stanley (MS) - a doubling of the payout to $0.10 per share and a 1.4% yield. Others in the top 5 in increases are Zions Bancorp (ZION) with a 75% boost to $0.07 and Regions Financial (RF) up 67% to $0.05.
- The others: KEY +27%, HBAN +20%, BK +20%, STI +20%, COF +17%, DFS +15%, AXP +13%, STT +12%, JPM +11%, CMA +11%, PNC +9%, USB +9%, GS +9%, FITB +8%, WFC +7%, NTRS +6%, and no soup for BBT and MTB where the dividends are expected to be flat at $0.23 and $0.70 per share, respectively.
- As for ETFs, the dividend jumps are expected to have the biggest impact on the XLF which would see a 25% increase in payout: The ETF has 81 companies, but the top 5 holdings - BofA, Wells, JPM, Citi, USB - make up 41% of assets. In contrast, just two CCAR banks make up the top five holdings of the KBE and it should see a more muted increase of just 18%.
- Related ETFs: XLF, FAS, FAZ, UYG, KRE, VFH, KBE, IYF, IAT, SEF, IYG, FXO, PFI, KBWB, RKH, QABA, FNCL, FINU, KRU, RWW, KBWR, RYF, PSCF, KRS, FINZ
Thursday, Feb 203:29 PM| 13 Comments -
Tuesday, Feb 1810:38 AM
- Discovery Financial (DFS +0.2%) reports a credit card writeoff rate of 2.2% for January which is an unchanged level from the last two months.
- The rate had dipped below 2% in October.
- The company reports the rate of delinquencies rose to 1.8% during January to mark the highest level since last March.
- SEC Form 8-K
Tuesday, Feb 1810:38 AM| Comment! -
Friday, Feb 147:15 AM
- Boosting his FY15 EPS estimate to $6 from $5.26, analyst Daniel Furtado says the Street is not yet modeling higher asset growth and net interest margins which should remain elevated, and makes Discover (DFS) his top pick in credit cards.
Friday, Feb 147:15 AM| Comment! -
Monday, Feb 33:13 PM
- Until now, just a handful of lenders are in the business of refinancing student loans, with just Wells Fargo and SunTrust among the only two of the seven largest banks in the private loan market doing so. But RBS's Citizens Financial just rolled out a refi product, and Discover (DFS -2.4%) chief David Nelms tells American Banker his company plans to follow suit.
- Discover made more than $1B in private student loans in 2013 - 13% of the company's total loan production. For now, low variable rates make the business a discouraging one for lenders, and for borrowers, there's not a ton of incentive to refinance. Private loans typically have rates higher than government ones and have fewer consumer protections.
- Still, should the trend catch fire, those lenders without a program in place could find themselves losing market share.
Monday, Feb 33:13 PM| 1 Comment -
Friday, Jan 2410:20 AM
- Following Discover's (DFS +5.4%) Q4 results, Susquehanna sees rising NIM and industry-leading receivables growth this year as further distancing the company from its rivals.
- Previous earnings coverage on Discover
Friday, Jan 2410:20 AM| 4 Comments -
Friday, Jan 247:41 AM
- Total loans grew $3.2B, or 5% from last year to $65.8B. Credit card loans grew $2B, of 4% to $53.1B. Discover card sales volume up 3%.
- Has credit quality gotten as good as it's going to get? The net charge-off rate for credit card loans ticked up 4 bps from last quarter to 2.09% and delinquencies over 30 days gained 5 bps to 1.72%.
- 7M shares repurchased during quarter, reducing float by 1%.
- FBR maintains its Outperform rating and boosts the price target to $65.
- DFS +1.6% premarket
- Press release, Q4 results
Friday, Jan 247:41 AM| 1 Comment -
Thursday, Jan 234:09 PM
- Discover Financial Services (DFS): Q4 EPS of $1.23 beats by $0.05.
- Revenue of $2.13B (+3.4% Y/Y) beats by $20M.
- Press Release
Thursday, Jan 234:09 PM| 2 Comments -
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Wednesday, Jan 225:35 PM
Tuesday, Jan 149:30 AM
- Capital One (COF) merits a Buy rating by the team, while Discover (DFS) and American Express (AXP) receive Neutrals.
- No details are yet available, but it could be a valuation call after the relative performance of the stocks of AMEX and Discover have left CapOne behind over the past few years.
Tuesday, Jan 149:30 AM| Comment! -
Wednesday, Nov 272013, 1:42 PM
- American Express (AXP +0.4%), Discover (DFS +0.3%), U.S. Bancorp (USB +0.2%), and Wells Fargo (WFC -0.1%) are best positioned to be allowed large capital returns (about 70%) after the Fed's early 2014 stress tests, says Credit Suisse's Moshe Orenbuch, while Ciitgroup (C +0.2%) and PNC Financial (PNC +0.9%) are likely to show the biggest improvement from last year.
- Overall, his team expects large cap bank capital returns to be 65% next year vs. about 48% in 2013. The median dividend payout ratio is expected at 22%, level with this year.
- Orenbuch notes the CCAR will be tougher this time around - notably by assuming a global, not just domestic meltdown, and assuming a significant reversal in the property market - with commercial real estate exposure particularly harshly judged.
- Balanced against that and likely winning, however, are far stronger capital positions of the banks, says Orenbuch.
- Financial and banking ETFs: FAS, XLF, FAZ, UYG, KRE, KBE, VFH, IYF, IPF, SEF, IAI, IAT, IYG, FXO, PFI, IXG, KBWB, RKH, QABA, KCE, FINU, RWW, KRU, RYF, KBWR, AXFN, PSCF, KRS, FNCL, FINZ, KBWX, KBWC
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Monday, Nov 182013, 11:01 AM
- Looking for an edge, Discover (DFS) will begin providing customers credits scores for free on their monthly bills. The company says it's the first major credit-card issuer to offer such service.
- Customers of the "Discover it" card will begin getting free scores starting today and the service will roll out to all other clients in the next few months.
- Press release.
Monday, Nov 182013, 11:01 AM| 3 Comments -
Monday, Oct 212013, 8:07 PM
- The Discover (DFS) earnings miss looks to have been driven by an unexpected loan-loss reserve build of $42M vs. last year's reserve release of $167M - made especially curious given current benign credit trends. Eliminating both years' reserve actions has EPS of $1.25 this Q, well ahead of $1.22 expectations and 12% higher than a year ago (see slide 3 of earnings call presentation).
- Immediately pressed on this during the earnings call (transcript), CFO Mark Graf says the key issue requiring the reserve build "was very clearly what we perceived to be something good" - the current book of business is having such good credit experience that the "recovery buckets" from a large block of soured loans are not getting refilled. Net charge-offs will therefore increase because the company isn't getting as much benefit from recoveries. "We don't see any situation where there is any type of a meaningful deterioration in credit in the near-term horizon at all," says Graf.
- Previous: Q3 results.
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DIE Jovis, 2 Januarii. D. of Bedford takes the Oaths. E. of Kent's Bill. Message to H. C. with it. Haynes' Bill. Silver Coinage, for regulating, Bill. Papers from the Admiralty to be considered. Adjourn.
Domini tam Spirituales quam Temporales præsentes fuerunt:
This Day William Duke of Bedford took the Oaths, and made and subscribed the Declaration, pursuant to the Statutes.
Hodie 3a vice lecta est Billa, intituled, "An Act to enable Anthony Earl of Kent, and Henry Grey his Son and Heir Apparent, to make a Jointure for Jemima Wife of the said Henry Grey."
The Question was put, "Whether this Bill shall pass?"
It was Resolved in the Affirmative.
A Message was sent to the House of Commons, by Sir Miles Cooke and Sir Richard Holford:
To carry down the said Bill, and desire their Concurrence thereunto.
Hodie 1a vice lecta est Billa, intituled, "An Act to enable Richard Haynes Esquire to settle a Jointure on his now Wife, and to exchange Lands with the Trustees of Thomas Stevens Esquire, deceased."
The Earl of Rochester reported from the Select Committee appointed to adapt the Bill, intituled, "An Act for the regulating the Coinage of the Silver Money of this Kingdom," to a Clause agreed on in the Committee of the whole House, "That the Select Committee has gone through the Bill, as ordered; and adapted the whole Bill to the Clause agreed on in the Committee of the whole House."
Whereupon it is ORDERED, That the Report from the Select Committee be made presently, to the Committee of the whole House.
Then the House was adjourned during Pleasure; and put into a Committee on the said Bill.
And the Report being made from the Select Committee, and the Amendments, Alterations, and Provisos, made by them, being agreed to, the House was resumed.
And the Earl of Bridgewater reported, "That the Committee of the whole House had gone through the said Bill; and agreed to the several Amendments, Alterations, and Provisos, made by the Select Committee therein; and that the Committee desire a Time may be appointed, for the Report to be made to the House."
It is ORDERED, by the Lords Spiritual and Temporal in Parliament assembled, That the said Report shall be made To-morrow, at Ten of the Clock in the Forenoon.
Whereas this Day was appointed, to take into Consideration some Papers delivered from the Commissioners of the Admiralty the 27th December last, pursuant to Orders of the 14th of that Month:
It is ORDERED, by the Lords Spiritual and Temporal in Parliament assembled, That the said Papers shall be taken into Consideration on Saturday next, at Eleven of the Clock in the Forenoon.
Dominus Custos Magni Sigilli declaravit præsens Parliamentum continuandum esse usque ad et in diem Veneris, (videlicet,) tertium diem instantis Januarii, hora decima Aurora, Dominis sic decernentibus.
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Nathan Tysor was working late Wednesday at Star Deli, 6114 Military Ave., when a masked man walked in, pulled out a gun and demanded money.
The gunman yelled, "Everybody get on the ground!" — but Tysor was the only person inside, said owner Jay Muller.
Tysor, 23, was near a door. He decided to make a break for it.
"His instinct was just to bolt," Muller said.
As Tysor fled, he said, the man shot him in the leg with a small shotshell pistol.
Even so, Tysor kept going, running in one direction while the gunman ran in another direction, Muller said.
Somehow, the two came face-to-face once again, this time in an alley. The gunman started firing again — but this time Tysor wasn't hit, Muller said.
Omaha police said the shooting was reported just before 11:20 p.m. No arrests had been made late Thursday.
When officers arrived, Tysor was waiting for help on the roof of a nearby business. Police said Tysor had climbed the business' ladder to escape the gunman.
Tysor was treated at Creighton University Medical Center for a wound that police said appeared to have been caused by birdshot.
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Gary Lyman, MD, MPH, is professor of medicine and director of Comparative Effectiveness and Outcomes Research at Duke University School of Medicine and the Duke Cancer Institute.
He is also a senior fellow in the Duke Center for Clinical Health Policy Research. Lyman has served on the Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) Oncologic Drugs Advisory Committee.
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How can they sue? On what grounds?
Jobs trademarked his name. Given Apple's 50-something page intellectual agreement for employees, I believe that trademark is now Apple property...
I am a Bulgarian and the name of the city is Plovdiv. Please fix it. And I am also not sure if Apple will let them do this.
I believe there is such thing as honoring a person more than deserved. Proved from the biography, Steve Jobs was in fact a genius, but he was not a very kind-hearted man while at it...
Good to know we here in America aren't as stupid as some around the world.... I know we do our best to prove we are but then some idiots go and do something like this and totally redeems us.
Yep because Americans never do anything like this.... Oh wait.. http://www.starpulse.com/news/index....after_carlos_s
Your comment in itself goes against the point you are trying to make.
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Ever spend eight hours in a "Productivity Bin"? Ever had worries about layoffs? Ever had the urge to demolish a temperamental printer or fax machine? Ever had to endure a smarmy, condescending boss? Then Office Space should hit pretty close to home for you. Peter (Ron Livingston) spends the day doing stupefyingly dull computer work in a cubicle. He goes home to an apartment sparsely furnished by IKEA and Target, then starts for a maddening commute to work again in the morning. His coworkers in the cube farm are an annoying lot, his boss is a snide, patronizing jerk, and his days are consumed with tedium. In desperation, he turns to career hypnotherapy, but when his hypno-induced relaxation takes hold, there's no shutting it off. Layoffs are in the air at his corporation, and with two coworkers (both of whom are slated for the chute) he devises a scheme to skim funds from company accounts. The scheme soon snowballs, however, throwing the three into a panic until the unexpected happens and saves the day. Director Mike Judge has come up with a spot-on look at work in corporate America circa 1999. With well-drawn characters and situations instantly familiar to the white-collar milieu, he captures the joylessness of many a cube denizen's work life to a T. Jennifer Aniston plays Peter's love interest, a waitress at Chotchkie's, a generic beer-and-burger joint à la Chili's, and Diedrich Bader (The Drew Carey Show) has a minor but hilarious turn as Peter's mustached, long-haired, drywall-installin' neighbor. --Jerry Renshaw
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We make our San Francisco Sourdough Crisps from Boudin Baguettes. Using the same recipe we use at home, San Francisco Sourdough Crisps are lightly seasoned and toasted. They are delicious as is or dressed up with your favorite spreads or topping to share with others. Perfect anytime. With a little warm Brie, fresh fruit, maybe a glass of wine and you have the perfect appetizer for guests or a light meal for yourself. A delightful snack or tasty Hors D'oeuvres. As you might expect, fresh Bruschetta is incredible on San Francisco Sourdough Crisps. But that's only the beginning-crab or artichoke dip, olive tapenade, cheese and spreads are absolutely sensational atop San Francisco Sourdough Crisps. Arrange a few of these options on a platter and you'll get noticed (most of these items available with us to order). Includes: qty 1 -22 oz (1 LB 6oz) San Francisco Sourdough Crisps in Garlic and Asiago Cheese flavor. Note: As a Non Perishable item maybe shipped within 24 business hours Monday-Wednesday if ordered separately.
Wow!!! From Brenda of Nashville, Tennessee on 10/7/2013.
Garlic-ASIAGO Crisps From Cheryl Brown of San Jose, California on 9/15/2013.
AMAZING!!!! From Anonymous of Scottsdale, Arizona on 10/11/2012.
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The Taxi of Tomorrow Is Great, But New York Needs More Design Thinking
The following is an op-ed by Susan Chin, executive director for the Design Trust for Public Space, and Paul Herzan, chair of the board of the Cooper-Hewitt. The trust hosted an exhibition at the museum that helped bring the city its new New York-only taxis.
The considerable buzz around the unveiling of the Taxi of Tomorrow prototype at the 2012 New York International Auto Show reflects not only the ownership that the people of New York City feel for "their car," but also demonstrates a passionate concern many New Yorkers have for the design of their city and public space. What makes the Taxi of Tomorrow so significant for New York as its first purpose-built cab is the many improvements for passenger and driver, achieved through an unlikely partnership between the taxi community and the design community—made possible by the Design Trust for Public Space and Smithsonian's Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum joining forces with NYC Taxi and Limousine Commission and Nissan.
The daunting halo of complexity ("it will never happen") of the Taxi of Tomorrow project demonstrates the power of design in our city to drive change. Read More