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For years, Frank Miller spoke of a Gotham City graphic novel that would be like no other — for the 120 bone-crunching pages of "Holy Terror, Batman!" Miller — arguably the most important comic book artist of the last 30 years — envisioned a story in which the Caped Crusader went on a blood quest against Al Qaeda.
Earlier this week, sitting over coffee at the U.S. Grant Hotel in San Diego, Miller said the elusive project is finally close to completion but that the name and central character have changed and that DC Comics won't be the publisher. Miller frames all of this as a decision that was driven by the work itself and not dictated by a DC leadership that, according to insiders, has long been leery of the politically charged concept.
"It's almost done; I should be finished within a month," Miller said. "It's no longer a DC book. I decided partway through it that it was not a Batman story. The hero is much closer to 'Dirty Harry' than Batman. It's a new hero that I've made up that fights Al Qaeda."
Miller, best known as the writer and artist of "The Dark Knight Returns," "300" and "Sin City," said the story will be set in a place called Empire City that, as the name suggests, evokes New York. The landscape and people are fictional but the real-life Al Qaeda will be transferred to this universe with its name, history and mission intact.
The book's title will be shortened to "Holy Terror." And what of the protagonist?
"The character is called The Fixer and he's very much an adventurer who's been essentially searching for a mission," Miller said. "He's been trained as special ops and when his city is attacked all of a sudden all the pieces fall into place and all this training comes into play. He's been out there fighting crime without really having his heart in it — he does it to keep in shape. He's very different than Batman in that he's not a tortured soul. He's a much more well-adjusted creature even though he happens to shoot 100 people in the course of the story."
In the 1980s, Miller was permitted to take the iconic Batman character through an unprecedented reinvention with "The Dark Knight Returns," which showed the embittered hero in his twilight years when Gotham has collapsed into near-anarchy and the Caped Crusader finds himself being hunted down by Superman and engaging the Joker in a battle to the death. "The Dark Knight Returns" became a publishing sensation and, along with "Watchmen," ushered in a new era of ambition in the comic book medium that led directly to the contemporary boom in superhero cinema.
Despite that history, DC executives were reportedly leery of Miller's plan to drop their globally recognized property inside an Al Qaeda vendetta fantasy. Miller, though, says he is the one who decided to leave the familiar hero in the Batcave for this particular mission.
"I had a talk with [former DC president and publisher] Paul Levitz and I said, 'Look, this isn't your Batman,'" Miller said. "I pushed Batman as far as he can go and after a while he stops being Batman. My guy carries a couple of guns and is up against an existential threat. He's not just up against a goofy villain. Ignoring an enemy that's committed to our annihilation is kind of silly, It just seems that chasing the Riddler around seems silly compared to what's going on out there. I've taken Batman as far as he can go."
Miller said he will complete the book before he signs with a publisher. "I'm talking to a number of people," says Miller, who has often worked with Dark Horse Comics in the past. Miller said the book will come out "next year, certainly," and he likes the idea of a hardcover, horizontal format, not unlike the Dark Horse deluxe version of the Spartan epic "300."
Miller became part of the Hollywood boom in superhero and comics adaptations as the director of "The Spirit" and the co-director (with Robert Rodriguez) of "Sin City." Miller is working right now on a 12-part Dark Horse comics series entitled "Xerxes," which returns to the battlefields of "300," another illustrated adventure that will likely stir political debate. Zack Snyder and Kurt Johnstad, who wrote the screenplay for the 2007 hit film ($456 million in worldwide box office), are already at work on a script for a film adaptation and Snyder will almost certainly direct it, although a final deal with Warner Bros. is not in place.
"Holy Terror" has been a long journey, but Miller said he views it as a project that has arrived at its final destination right on time, creatively speaking.
"It began as my reaction to 9/11 and it was an extremely angry piece of work and as the years have passed by I've done movies and I've done other things and time has provided some good distance, so it becomes more of a cohesive story as it progresses," Miller said. "The Fixer has also become his own character in a way I've really enjoyed. No one will read this and think, 'Where's Batman?'"
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Now You See Me (US - BD RA)
Despite the tag line, the closer Gabe looks, the more the seams show...
The Four Horsemen, a magic super-group led by the charismatic J. Daniel Atlas (Jesse Eisenberg), perform a pair of high-tech, high-profile magic shows – first in amazing audiences by remotely robbing a Paris bank while in Las Vegas and then exposing a white-collar criminal and funneling his millions into the audience members' bank accounts, baffling the authorities. FBI Special Agent Dylan Rhodes (Mark Ruffalo) is determined to make the magicians pay for their crime and to stop them before they pull off what promises to be an even more audacious heist. But he's forced to partner with Alma (Mélanie Laurent), an Interpol detective about whom he is instantly suspicious. Out of desperation, he turns to a famed magic debunker, who claims the Paris bank trick was actually a meticulously-planned illusion. Dylan and Alma begin to wonder if the Horsemen have an outside point person. If so, finding him (or her) would be the key to ending the magicians' crime spree. But who could it be? Or could it really be…magic? (From Summit's official synopsis)
When I saw the trailers for Louis Leterrier's Now You See Me, I was initially surprised that Hollywood had made a star-studded movie about real world magicians. Then I did a couple minutes of research. It turns out that, in recent years, movies about magicians, illusionists, and/or mentalists are more common than I thought. 2006 famously saw dueling magician melodramas in Neil Burger's The Illusionist and Christopher Nolan's [/I]The Prestige[/I], though people tend to forget that Prestige actors Scarlett Johansson and Hugh Jackman also starred in Woody Allen's Scoop the same year. In 2008, Sean McGinly made a comedy about a failed mentalist called The Great Buck Howard, the same year CBS' weekly series The Mentalist premiered. Then, foreign films starting getting in on the act (no pun intended). In 2010, French animation director Sylvain Chomet released L'Illusionniste, based on an unproduced Jacques Tati script, and in 2011 Chinese director Derek Yee made The Great Magician, starring Tony Leung and Lau Ching-Wan. In fact, Now You See Me wasn't even the only movie about magicians released in 2013 – it competed with Don Scardino's slapstick comedy, The Incredible Burt Wonderstone. Now You See Me is still conceptually unique, because it combines an Ocean's 11-type ensemble heist flick and a relatively conventional romantic comedy, though, fans of Batman: The Animated Series may recall an episode where Bruce Wayne's former fling, an illusionist named Zatanna, is framed for a bank robbery.
Leterrier is a theoretically talented individual who makes increasingly bland and increasingly effects-heavy action movies. His earlier, less digitally-enhanced work, specifically Danny the Dog (aka: Unleashed), was entertaining, though, so the promise of him working in a more 'limited' capacity was promising. Without being tied to digital monsters, the director is free to unveil a torrent of slick imagery that is very easy on the eyes. He's constantly swishing and sliding his camera around the action and over-edits even the simplest dialogue sequences, but somehow manages to hold the whole thing together. The sheer quantity of unnecessary filmic design really should be overwhelming, but it works. Surprisingly, the only time Leterrier's direction really falls apart is during the film's occasional chase and fight sequences – something one would expect the director of the first two Transporter films and Danny the Dog would have in the bag (the entirely unnecessary car chase is pretty good, though). The real problem making a movie about illusions, rather than putting on a show in person, is that the audience is savvy enough to know that special effects are being used to create those illusions. There's really no mystery in the magicians' game, which puts a lot of pressure on the screenplay when it comes time to reveal the trick. Unfortunately, the reveal at the end of Now You See Me is pretty damn stupid and there's almost nothing Leterrier could have done with his surplus of style to fix it.
Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci – two of the leading crusaders against coherent screenwriting working in Hollywood today – have their names on the Now You See Me marquee, but, according to the credits, they were not involved in writing the screenplay. That responsibility fell upon Boaz Yakin and Edwar Riccourt ( Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure co-writer and Levity director Ed Solomon apparently did a bit of script doctoring as well). Riccourt, who apparently wrote the first version of the spec script himself, doesn't have any other credits to judge, but Yakin has been making the rounds as a writer and as a director for more than 20 years now. Most recently he wrote & directed Safe, but he's better known for Remember the Titans. He's also the guy behind the scripts for garbage family comedies ( Uptown Girls), generic action spectacles ( The Rookie), and even a droningly dull videogame adaptation ( Prince of Persia: Sands of Time). Now You See Me features a very busy, character-heavy narrative, which Leterrier and his editors unravel very quickly, even in this overlong, extended edition (which mostly just adds more character beats). There isn't enough time to notice how simple the seemingly twist-heavy plot actually is, which makes the first viewing a brisk, mostly entertaining experience. Afterthought and second viewings don't do the film any favours, but the only times that the initial watch really fell apart for me was when we are forced to spend too much time with the magicians doing non-magician things. It really isn't their movie – it's the FBI and Interpol agents' film and the story works best when they're trying to solve the case. The less Ocean's 11 and 'secret society' stuff, the better.
Of course, Laurent and Ruffalo's performances really help ensure the law enforcement side of the story is likeable (they don't have a lot of chemistry, but they're charming people), while the magician characters are so grotesquely smug that it's nearly impossible to care about their Robin Hood-inspired crusade. I can't imagine this problem will get any better with the proposed sequel. The characters are written this way, though, which means my annoyance is actually proof of the strength of the performances. Leterrier has worked with some great casts, including Edward Norton, Ralph Fiennes, and Liam Neeson, but he tends to get better results out of character actor types, like Tim Blake Nelson, Tim Roth, and Bob Hoskins. Now You See Me features a particularly impressive cast, including Oscar nominees (Ruffalo and Jesse Eisenberg), Oscar winners (Morgan Freeman and Michael Caine), should've-been nominee (Mélanie Laurent for Inglourious Basterds), and, of course, character actors (Woody Harrelson and Michael Kelly). Everyone appears to be having fun, which might explain how the producers were able to assemble such a strong cast in the first place. With the exception of the one major chase scene, most of the film is built around a series of actor interactions and big, 'important' speeches – the kind of stuff actors adore.
Now You See Me was shot in 35mm and is presented here in 2.40:1, 1080p HD video. As I mentioned in the 'feature' section of the review, Leterrier and dual cinematographers Mitchell Amundsen and Larry Fong shoot the film to appear very stylized. The 35mm look has been altered via digital gradation, so the image is smooth and mostly grain-free (there are some ghosting effects on the camera movements during darker scenes that remind me of similar problems that I have seen on film's shot with Panavision Genesis HD cameras). Details are reasonably crisp, though the film's look is not super sharp. Now You See Me is also a very high contrast film, including deep, flat blacks and blooming, soft light whites (the whites that aren't actually light blues…), neither of which are particularly conducive to a sharp experience. Still, the image is plenty clear without any notable compression noise. The palette is a variation on the old orange & teal standby with a richer blue standing in for the teal and more of a yellow standing in for the orange. The look isn't nearly as extreme as many other recent movies with digital colour timing, but it's certainly an unnatural look. These colours are very strong and well-separated, even along the fuzzier, out-of-focus background edges.
This Blu-ray comes fitted with a suitably subtle DTS-HD Master Audio 7.1 soundtrack. Leterrier and his sound designers take pains to find as much aural immersion and directional movement as they can from what is a generally dialogue-driven film. This isn't a particularly aggressive mix, but it is a very warm, naturalistic, and busy one. The immersive effects are at their most lively during the illusion sequences. These involve a lot of dynamic, swishy, abstract 'magic' noise, along with audience walla and echo on the character dialogue. There's also a punchy, heavily directionally-enhanced foot chase through Mardi Gras, followed by a knock-down, drag-out fight (that includes magic tricks) and a nice, loud car chase across the streets of New York. The film's score is provided by workhorse composer Brian Tyler, who takes a horn and drum heavy, generically 'wondrous' approach to the symphonic and electronic-infused music. The score fills the void created by the mix's natural slant and gives the stereo and surround speakers plenty to do. The music sits quietly beneath the dialogue during the quieter moments and bursts out into a nice set of stereo walls during the actiony moments.
The extras begin with a commentary track on the theatrical cut with Leterrier and producer Bobby Cohen. The commentators share the load as far as unloading factoids and rattle off quite a bit of production and technical information without too much blank space. The track's tone is pretty mechanical, which I suppose is valuable in terms of educational value, but isn't particularly entertaining. Personally, I would've preferred fewer stories about overcoming technical difficulties and behind-the-scenes logistical nightmares, and more discussion about constructing the film's story. I suppose the focus of the commentary may be indicative of the problems in making such a slick yet ultimately empty motion picture. At one point, Leterrier begins to say something about the script (he liked making a movie without any real 'bad guys') and is quickly interrupted by Cohen as he makes a point to call Morgan Freeman a great actor. As if we'd never seen Morgan Freeman in a movie before. Again, it's an informative track on the mechanics of putting together a Hollywood production, but it is not very interesting or entertaining on any sort of critical level.
Up next is Now You See Me Revealed (15:40, HD), a fluffy, but relatively informative behind-the-scenes featurette featuring interviews with producers Cohen, Orci & Kurtzman, writer Riccourt, magic consultant David Kwong, and cast members Morgan Freeman, Mark Ruffalo, Isla Fisher, Dave Franco, Jesse Eisenberg, Melanie Laurent, Woody Harrelson, and Michael Caine. A Brief History of Magic (11:50, HD), an EPK-like look at the magic that inspired the film, hosted by David Kwong. The extras also include a collection of 13 deleted/extended/alternate scenes (some open-matte with incomplete effects and colour grading, 32:00, HD), a teaser, a trailer, and trailers for other Lionsgate releases.
I enjoyed Now You See Me a lot more than I expected to. It's breezy, entertaining, and decently directed by a filmmaker that needed to prove he could work outside of effects-heavy, empty spectacle. It also features a cast that is clearly having a good time with the material (even to the point of elevating some bad dialogue). But, it's still very shallow, way too long (especially the extended cut included on this Blu-ray), and has a twist ending that is mostly unsupported by the rest of the film. Assuming you're okay with being frustrated for the sake of entertainment, however, I'll hesitantly recommend this one. Those folks that have already decided that they're willing to go along with the film's shortcomings can look forward to a colourful, slick 1080p transfer and a strong, mostly subtle DTS-HD MA soundtrack. The extras include a so-so commentary track and a couple of fluffy featurettes.
* Note: The images on this page are not representative of the Blu-ray image quality.
Review by Gabriel Powers
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I've heard the 21 comparison more than once, but haven't actually seen that film, myself.
"Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci – two of the leading crusaders against coherent screenwriting working in Hollywood today – ". This line will be the best thing to come out of this movie.
I went in expecting some Ocean's Eleven meets The Prestige flavor (plus I find Leterrier a pretty good for-hire director) and I ended up disliking it quite a bit. Ruffalo and Laurent are likable, everyone else I rooted against (including Freeman and Caine). It's pretty much "21" with c**ppy magic instead of blackjack.
I went in expecting some Ocean's Eleven meets The Prestige flavor (plus I find Leterrier a pretty good for-hire director) and I ended up disliking it quite a bit. Ruffalo and Laurent are likable, everyone else I rooted against (including Freeman and Caine). It's pretty much "21" with c**ppy magic instead of blackjack.
I enjoyed it. Thanks for the review
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Disc Details
Release Date: 3rd September 2013
Discs: 2
Disc Type: Blu-ray Disc
RCE: No
Video: 1080p
Aspect: 2.40:1
Anamorphic: No
Colour: Yes
Audio: DTS-HD Master Audio 7.1 & Dolby Digital 2.0 English, Dolby Digital 5.1 Spanish
Subtitles: English SDH, French, Spanish
Extras: Director and Producer Commentary, Now You See Me Revealed, A Brief History of Magic, Deleted Scenes, Teaser, Trailers, DVD Copy, UltraViolet Copy
Easter Egg: No
Feature Details
Director: Louis Leterrier
Cast: Jesse Eisenberg, Mark Ruffalo, Woody Harrelson, Mélanie Laurent, Isla Fisher, Dave Franco, Common, Michael Caine, Morgan Freeman
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Mystery and Romance
Length: 125 minutes
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So far I am to write an exam in German-Latin course. We do translate orginal Caesar texts from German in Latin. I will write this exam next winter, in January, I suppose.
My German-Latin abilities are not so good, and I don't really have a plan, what to do to get to a niveau, which ist good enough.
We do not have any textbooks, we do not have any books with grammar exercises in German for students.
We are always told to read, but this way is not certain enough for me. I have to pass this exam, and I have to do much more, than read Caesar, I have to write Latin.
So what would you tell me to do? At the moment I am translating a Caesartext from German in Latin every day and after translating I look in the original text. Is this a good method?
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NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) — Some information will be blacked out from search warrants in the Newtown school shooting that were due to be released Thursday with the expiration of an order that kept them sealed, a judge ruled.
State's Attorney Stephen Sedensky III, who is overseeing the investigation into the Dec. 14 massacre, asked a judge not to release the name of a witness, saying the person's safety may be jeopardized if the name were disclosed. He also asked that other information be redacted, such as telephone numbers, serial numbers on items found and a few paragraphs of an affidavit.
The prosecutor's motions were approved by a Danbury Superior Court judge, clerk Geoffrey Stowell said.
The search warrants could provide a glimpse into the world of the 20-year-old gunman, Adam Lanza, who killed his mother inside their Newtown home before massacring 26 people including 20 first-graders, at the school Dec. 14. He then committed suicide.
The investigation into the mass shooting is not expected to be finished until June, but prosecutors were expected to release additional information to the public about the investigation in a statement Thursday. The warrants, which are related to searches of Lanza's home and his car, have been under a sealing order that was due to expire Wednesday.
Gov. Dannel P. Malloy announced last week that additional information would be released at his request. Malloy expressed concern that certain information about the shooting rampage at Sandy Hook Elementary School disclosed by a top state police commander at a recent law enforcement seminar in New Orleans was leaked.
"Like many others, I was disappointed and angered to learn that certain information about the Newtown shooting had been leaked, specifically with concern for the victims' families who may have been hearing this news for the first time," the governor said in a statement.
A column published last week in the New York Daily News, citing an unnamed police officer who attended the seminar, reported that Col. Daniel Stebbins discussed evidence that suggested the Newtown gunman, 20-year-old Adam Lanza, studied other mass slayings and dedicated extensive planning to the rampage that left 20 first-graders and six educators dead. Lanza also killed his mother and later committed suicide.
The seminar was designed for law enforcement professionals only and sensitive information dealing with the tactical approaches used by first responders to the Sandy Hook shootings was discussed, state police spokesman Lt. J. Paul Vance said.
Senate President Donald E. Williams Jr. said this week that legislative leaders hope to review the search warrant documents before finishing work on a bipartisan bill that addresses gun control and other issues related to the massacre.
A judge denied a motion by The Associated Press and five newspapers seeking to intervene against any move to extend the current 90-day seal of the warrants. Sedensky had said earlier that the request to intervene was premature because the state hasn't filed any further requests.


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The yen dropped to almost the weakest since August 2009 after the lower house of parliament endorsed Haruhiko Kuroda, an advocate of increased stimulus, as the next central bank governor.
The Dollar Index reached the highest level since August as a report showed initial claims for unemployment insurance fell more than forecast last week. Japan's currency fell versus 13 of its 16 major peers as Kuroda's approval cleared the first hurdle in Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's plan to install a central-bank leadership in favor of more monetary stimulus. Australia's dollar climbed to a one-month high after a report showed payrolls rose to the highest in almost 13 years, dimming the outlook for interest-rate cuts.
"The focus there is on the transition of the new leadership of the Bank of Japan," Eric Viloria, a senior currency strategist at Gain Capital Group LLC in New York, said of the yen. "The pace and aggressiveness of easing is going to be something that we're keeping our eye on."
Japan's currency declined 0.4% to 96.47 per dollar at 9:08 a.m. in New York after depreciating to 96.71 on March 12, the weakest level since August 2009. Japan's currency fell 0.2% 124.84 per euro. The dollar strengthened 0.2% to $1.2940 per euro, touching the strong level since December.
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Japanese lawmakers in the lower house, which is dominated by the ruling coalition, also approved Abe's nominees Kikuo Iwata and Hiroshi Nakaso for the two deputy governor posts. The upper house, where Abe's Liberal Democratic Party lacks a majority, is scheduled to vote tomorrow.
The Bank of Japan will be determined to get inflation toward its 2% target and that "will undermine the yen," said Derek Mumford, a director at Rochford Capital, a currency risk-management company in Sydney. "We can see dollar strength for another three or four weeks -- I wouldn't stand in front of this decisive market."
The yen has slumped 7.9% this year, the worst performer among 10 developed-nation currencies tracked by Bloomberg Correlation-Weighted Indexes. The dollar rose 3.6% and the euro gained 1.4%.
"Our advice to clients remains to short the Japanese yen," said Arne Rasmussen, head of currency research at Danske Bank A/S in Copenhagen. "The government's plan to push for more stimulus to support growth is likely to go ahead now that Kuroda is confirmed." A short position is a bet an asset will fall.
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Sustainable Food: If This Doesn't Convince You, Nothing Will
So what's it going to take to get your community hooked on sustainable food? If you are reading this, you probably already know about many of the problems with our food system and you're probably making some efforts to change your buying and eating habits. But what about your parents? Your neighbors? The people shopping the inside isles at conventional grocery stores in your town? What is it going to take for us to reach out to that next layer of eaters and entice them with sustainable food?


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Wells Fargo & Company (NYSE:WFC), is the fourth largest bank holding company in the United States.[1] Wells Fargo & Company is best classified as a diversified financial services company, and with over 80 distinct businesses, Wells Fargo offers a full range of financial products and services and targets all types of clients, from individuals to large corporations in all 50 states as well as the District of Columbia. In 2010, Wells Fargo earned a total of $85 billion in total revenues and a net income of $12.4 billion.[2]
Wells Fargo became the nation's largest mortgage lender and the second-largest diversified financial services firm in the United States in term of deposits Stock:WFC after acquiring Wachovia (WB).[3][4] There was a legal dispute with the deal however, as Citigroup had sought to acquire Wachovia as well. Wells Fargo and Citigroup reached a settlement, with Wells Fargo paying Citigroup $100 million to settle the lawsuits.[5] Wells Fargo's sold $12.6 billion in common stock and $25 billion in preferred stock to the US Government through former U.S. Treasury Secretary Paulson's $700B Troubled Assets Relief Program (TARP) as part of the deal to raise enough cash for the acquisition.[6][7][8]
WFC COMMON SHARES DIVIDEND during the fiscal year of 2012 as seen below.
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Wells Fargo announced that it has teamed up with Visa to pilot test a mobile payments system using smartphones such as the iPhone and Blackberry. The pilot will be conducted by 200 employees of Wells Fargo in San Francisco, where both Visa and Wells Fargo are headquartered.[9] This announcement came shortly after three of the largest telecom carriers (AT&T (T), Verizon Communications (VZ), and T-Mobile announced a joint venture for mobile payments. The upcoming struggle for mobile payments dominance between credit card companies and telecom companies may have huge implications for future earnings as this market begins to develop.
Wells Fargo's mortgage lending business was hit by slow growth and falling residential real estate prices. The economy as a whole experienced the "home equity effect", where homeowners perceive their house values to be lower than they anticipated, and therefore perceive themselves to be relatively less wealthy. As a result, consumers spend and consume less. The number of total housing starts has fallen 63% since peak levels during the end of the housing boom.[10] Wells Fargo Home Mortgages have taken a setback, with higher provisions for credit losses offsetting revenue growth. However, Wells Fargo has been dealing with the mortgage setbacks relatively well due to its wide diversification in product offerings, which allows the company to compensate for poor performance in the home mortgage business.
The housing slowdown is often attributed to the collapse of the subprime lending market. Subprime lending, or lending money to customers with poor credit scores (riskier borrowers), can lead to higher loan losses in harsh economic climates or during periods of stagnant or falling housing prices. As customers find themselves unable to make their debt payments, which are higher than average to begin with, defaults rise.
Wells Fargo has fared better than most competitors in the mortgage business, mainly because its mortgages are predominately prime and near-prime. As a result, Wells Fargo has not experienced high rates of default seen in the subprime market. Wells Fargo has avoided much of these losses by deciding not to extend or purchase option adjustable rate mortgages (option ARMs). However, Wachovia Bank, which was acquired by Wells Fargo, took part in Option ARMs and subprime lending.
Obama announced a plan to tax the largest banks and financial institutions to recover TARP funds that the government used to bailout many of the banks. The proposed plan calls for a 0.15% tax on each firm's liabilities, excluding Tier 1 capital and those already insured by the FDIC, with the goal of raising $90 billion over ten years.[11] However, the financial institutions subject to this fee are limited to only those with over $50 billion in assets. If this plan gets passed into law, it could represent a substantial cost to Wells Fargo for up to ten years.
With 6,795 branches and $760 billion in total domestic deposits, Wells Fargo has the most offices and the second most deposits in the United States.[12] Since Wells Fargo focuses its business operations on the domestic U.S. market, its major nationwide competitors include Bank of America (BAC), JP Morgan Chase (JPM), and Citigroup (C). Wells Fargo's lack of international exposure contrasts with these top competitors. Although Wells Fargo holds assets overseas, its remains strongly focused on the United States domestic market. While this does allow Wells Fargo to focus its resources on gaining greater market share within the U.S., Wells Fargo is thereby more vulnerable to the U.S. economic cycles, as it does not have foreign markets to buffer domestic performance.


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The Gunners were dumped out of the cup by Championship side Blackburn on Saturday, and will have to be in better form if they are to deny last season's Champions League finalists
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With Nacho Monreal cup-tied, Kieran Gibbs (thigh) injured and Andre Santos loaned out to Gremio last week, Thomas Vermaelen is likely to be utilised at left-back by Arsene Wenger.
Mikel Arteta is still not fully fit after recovering from injury and, as exclusively revealed by Goal.com on Monday, Wenger is believed to be leaning towards a front trio of Theo Walcott, Lukas Podolski and Santi Cazorla and axing Olivier Giroud.
Javi Martinez (toe) missed Bayern's last game against Wolfsburg, but should return for the runaway Bundesliga leaders.
Claudio Pizarro (illness) and Holger Badstuber (knee) will miss out for the visitors, while Jerome Boateng is suspended.
- Arsenal and Bayern Munich have met four times before in the Champions League, with the Gunners victorious just once.
- Their last meeting was also at the Champions League last-16 stage, which the German side won 3-2 on aggregate in 2004-05.
- Olivier Giroud has four assists in the group stages of the Champions League this season; only Zlatan Ibrahimovic has more with five.
- Lukas Podolski has scored three goals from three shots on target in the Champions League this term. He is 17/2 to score the first goal in the game with BetVictor.
- Bayern Munich had the most different goalscorers in the group stage, with nine.
- The German side also conceded the fewest shots on target in the group stage, with just 17 against.
- The Bavarians last won in England in April 2001, with a 1-0 quarter-final victory over Manchester United on course to winning the tournament.
- Mario Gomez (pictured, right) has scored 25 goals in 26 Champions League starts.


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Ex-Manchester police officer is out of jail after 72 days on felony hit-and-run sentenceStaff Report
July 07. 2014 7:45PM
MANCHESTER — Fired Manchester police Officer Stephen Coco, who pleaded guilty March 26 in Hillsborough County Superior Court North to felony hit and run and was sentenced to a year in jail, has been out of jail since June 5. Coco is living at home in Bedford and working, but subject to a tight curfew, according to defense attorney Mark Howard.
Coco was serving his sentence in the Coos County Jail in West Stewartstown, but remained in the custody of Hillsborough County Corrections Superintendent David Dionne, who made the decision to release Coco. According to terms of his release, he is subject to daily reporting to authorities.
Under the 2013 law that gives superintendents the right to modify how a sentence is served, Dionne was required to notify Sullivan County Attorney Marc Hathaway of the decision so he could object if he chose and request a hearing.
Hathaway, who prosecuted the case, said: "I objected."
A hearing was held Monday morning before Hillsborough County North Judge Gillian Abramson, who took Hathaway's objection under advisement.
Coco pleaded guilty to the March 2013 incident in which he struck two Bedford teens while driving a police undercover SUV and drove off.
Coco, who had been at another officer's house, later said he was distracted by his telephone and didn't know he had struck anyone. The teens were hospitalized, one with a broken elbow and the other with bleeding on the brain, They did recover.
In November 2013, Abramson rejected a negotiated plea to misdemeanor charges and Coco was later indicted. When Abramson accepted the plea to felony charges in March of this year, she rejected Hathaway's request to bar home confinement.
In addition to the one-year sentence, from which Coco could be released in late November for good behavior, according to Howard, Coco has a suspended sentence and two years of probation, plus restitution.
Coco's release upset the mother of one of the teens who was injured.
"We think the public will be as disappointed in this as we are," said Nancy Drukker, mother of Dean Drukker. "This is very disappointing to many people."
Clearly frustrated with the ruling, Nancy Drukker said the development is "typical for a person in authority" and that some people like police officers are "seemingly given special treatment."
She said the original sentence of a year was fair and can take some comfort that Coco might still have one more judgment to deal with.
"There is a higher authority who will judge Coco in the end," she said. "The man is corrupt."


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Load-bank testing ensures performance, reliability
Maintaining genset performance, health, and reliability depends on performing regularly scheduled load-bank testing.
Load-bank tests assure facility managers that their generators will perform well at 100% of their nameplate rating. The absence of regular load-bank testing dramatically increases the potential risk of generator failure during an emergency. Load-bank testing should be a regular part of a generator maintenance program to avoid mechanical failure caused by extreme stress on the engine and other components when the generator is used in a power outage (see Figure 1). It also helps maintain vital engine system parameters such as oil pressure and coolant temperature while preventing wet stacking and carbon buildup.
Wet stacking occurs when unburned fuel accumulates in the exhaust system due to running the generator at less than full load and therefore not producing enough heat to burn off the excess fuel. This accumulation can reduce engine lifecycle and efficiency by fouling the fuel injectors, engine valves, and exhaust system. If the correct mixture of fuel and air is not maintained, the engine will not operate at its highest level and will deliver less power.
As with wet stacking, carbon buildup typically occurs when the generator's engine runs at less than full load, producing insufficient heat to remove the buildup. If carbon buildup continues unchecked, over time the piston rings can seize, which could allow the superheated fuel/air mixture to sneak past the rings and scorch the sides of the pistons (see Figure 2).
Load-bank basics
A load bank applies a stable controllable electrical load on a generator. It can be permanent or portable, can accommodate ac or dc, and can range from a few kW to multiple MW. Most load-bank units have an internal fan that cools the resistive elements and discharges the high temperature air away from the unit. It is very important to properly position the load-bank unit away from combustible material and to ensure that it is operated in a well-ventilated environment to keep it—and the generator—from overheating.
The two types of load-bank testing methods are resistive and reactive. Resistive is the most common field testing method because it encompasses the full kW rating of the generator and the engine systems, such as the cooling, exhaust, and fuel delivery system. Reactive testing is typically performed at the genset factory to test kVA ratings.
Load-bank testing schedule
Generators must be able to go from a cold start to a full load in a matter of seconds. Just as the human body needs to be stretched and warmed up before a 100-yard sprint, the generator must be exercised at 30% load for at least 30 min monthly. Testing at this level and frequency keeps engine parts lubricated, prevents oxidation of electrical contacts, consumes fuel before it deteriorates, and enables reliable engine starting.
An annual load-bank test should be performed at 100% of the generator's kW capacity for a minimum of 1 hr, or loaded to the minimum engine exhaust temperature recommended by the engine manufacturer. The load-bank test should be performed by stepping up the load at certain time intervals (see Table 1).
Testing tips
One of the goals of load-bank testing is to discover problems in a controlled situation rather than during an actual power failure. The following list suggests tips for discovering problems safely:
· When performing load-bank tests, be prepared for system failure, unexpected results, or the worst-case scenario.
· A backup generator should be in place at mission critical sites such as healthcare facilities with patients on life support, or any facility that absolutely cannot afford a power interruption.
· For facilities that are not mission critical, testing should occur during hours that can most easily manage a power failure—just in case.
· Ensure the generator is disconnected from the facility to prevent overloading.
· When testing, look for loose connections, leaks, and abnormal performance.
· An engine that emits black exhaust during the testing period typically is running at a high enough temperature to burn away the carbon buildup and the fuel in the exhaust system. However, if the smoke does not clear before the testing is completed, engine repairs may be necessary. Extensive smoke is most often caused by rings that have never seated properly, by a fuel pump that must be rebuilt, or by bad fuel.
· Other common occurrences during testing include high cooling system temperature and low oil pressure. High temperature can be due to a faulty thermostat or a restriction in the system. Low oil pressure can be the result of an oil pump in need of repair or an indication of excessive engine wear.
Load-bank testing should be incorporated into a regular generator maintenance schedule to ensure peak performance and maximum reliability. Testing allows the operator to determine if the genset can run at its full kW capacity (without the risk of having to use the facility's electrical distribution system and its load). Regularly-scheduled load-bank testing removes unused fuel in the exhaust and carbon buildup in the engine that can damage the genset and compromise its ability to produce emergency power when it's needed most.
Ballas is the sales team leader for DynaTech, a generator sales and service company in Lebanon, Pa. He has experience creating and selling preventive maintenance agreements for air compressor and emergency generator systems.
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University of Rochester President Joel Seligman has announced that he is increasing the University's commitment to the humanities for the duration of his presidency. The current Humanities Project, which Seligman created in 2006, supports interdisciplinary work by Rochester faculty in philosophy, the arts, languages, and other fields. The current annual funding for the Humanities Project is $150,000.
"I am pleased to announce an additional commitment of $100,000, raising the total amount to $250,000 per year for the humanities," Seligman said. "The projects and the cross-disciplinary collaboration that result from this special focus on the humanities are adding great value to our institution."
"The humanities are central to the life of the University," said Peter Lennie, provost and the Robert L. and Mary L. Sproull Dean of the Faculty of Arts, Sciences, and Engineering. "This support has done much to highlight the vitality and distinction of humanities, and I am delighted that it is being expanded."
"President Seligman's increased commitment to the humanities will allow us not only to continue the fantastic work of the Humanities Project, but to expand our funding of humanities-related projects into areas we had been unable to tackle before," said Thomas DiPiero, dean for humanities and interdisciplinary studies.
The Humanities Project initiative encompasses programs that emphasize collaboration across the disciplines, and often with several institutions in the greater Rochester community, as well as scholars from other national and regional institutions. The individual projects are selected from proposals reviewed by a committee of department chairs in the College of Arts, Sciences, and Engineering.
Some of the Humanities Projects scheduled for the 2013-14 academic year include a panel of distinguished writers and scholars discussing new conceptions of black identity for the 21st century; a workshop series, "Metaphysics of Physics"; and a symposium, "Violence, Memory, and Social Recovery."


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Many research studies are focused on a particular health condition or disease. There are many things to learn about every condition, and so researchers have many kinds of clinical studies. In some studies people who have the condition take part. A person with diabetes, for example, might be in a clinical trial to test a new diabetes medicine. Another study, focused on prevention, might include people who have a family history of diabetes or people who might be at risk for it. Many studies about specific conditions need people to take part who are healthy volunteers, so that the research results are accurate. Putting all these parts of the picture together, researchers find the best ways to prevent, diagnose, and treat a medical condition. This means that research volunteers are medical heroes. Why? Because behind every medical breakthrough and new treatment are thousands of people who take part in research studies.
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Guest speaker, Jacqueline Hansen Maggiore, Marquette University alumna, and author of Vessel of Clay: The Inspirational Journey of Sister Carla. Please join us as Jacqueline shares the life, ministry and inspiration of her childhood friend, fellow MU student and Maryknoll Missionary, Sr. Carla Piette. Sr. Carla was guided in her work in South America and Central America during the often dangerous and turbulent 1970's and early 1980 by a love of the poor and the oppressed, as well as her deep desire to live as a companion of Jesus. Sr. Carla's often messy and complex human responses to herown life circumstances and her spiritual call offer a deep invitation to each of us to come to our own spiritual path as we are. Video of her speech at the Leading from the Spirit Women's Luncheon in March.


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We are almost a week into the biggest poker game on the planet. I explained this to you in recent weeks. I am not a Tea Party guy, but if I were I'd be doing the exact same thing they are. They've set themselves on a course where they've burned their bridges and have no other recourse. If you were elected on one platform, which is repealing Obamacare, and tried with no luck or success 40 times and magically on the 41st try you actually have leverage, would you push that hand to the limit? They have nothing to lose because they've already lost everything anyway.
The President controls most of the cards except one. He can't have a default on his watch. The Tea Party knows this. These are only Congressmen; this is not exactly the Black Sox we are talking about. If they lose in two years, they'll find other fantastic gainful employment. Eddie Cicotte and Joe Jackson disappeared from the face of the earth. But how many Presidents have there been? I can guarantee Barack Obama does not want to be known as the only President in the history of the republic who was in charge when the United States of America defaulted on its loans. So the likelihood is high we won't have a deal this week. The history of this group suggests they take it at least to the bottom of the ninth inning -- and perhaps creative accounting allows it to go into overtime.
So where does that leave the market?
This looks like an ending wedge. It looks like it's one spike short of a blow off top. We have two weeks to go to Oct. 17. These things can go one of two ways. Either we start experiencing the crisis now and finally bottom out when they sell the rumor and buy the news, or people stay in denial and when the event finally happens everyone panics in what turns out to be a black swan event.
The chances of a black swan this time are much smaller than they were two years ago because at that time the smartest people in the room could not conceive a default could happen when the government could pay the bills. Now after examining the character of the players involved, most the Tea Party nobody is under any false illusions. These people are willing and ready to crash and burn. It's unfortunate but they are like the drunken spouse who has tried to reform a hundred times but there are always 101. Personally, I just don't see how they recover from this unless they extract some concession. When you think about it, how bad would it really be if the President put the fines on hold for an extra year? The reality of the situation is that is what is likely holding up a deal right now. The President doesn't want to give an inch because he's afraid next time the Tea Party will demand a mile. He wants to break them now. In doing so he risks being the first President to preside over a default.
Getting to the market, we have a tale of 2 markets. Tech still looks pretty good overall while it's the Dow that is validating our September time window. The Dow is well off the high and leading to the downside. Last week Shanghai was closed for the most part but prior to their break they were leading to the downside. I suspect that will continue here and there's usually a week lag and what we need to see is a turn in Europe to really get China going south.
We have some serious Andrews's action/reaction on the YM but finally came to an area where it should bounce because it's truly extended to the downside. So if you seriously look at this chart and a bounce materializes even as I know there's a gap down on Sunday night, the wedge in the NDX has a chance to blow off. It might have already done so on Friday but because of the shut down we were a jobs number free Friday. What these news events do is quicken the action. What may take several days actually materializes in several hours. So the government shutdown likely postponed the market playing its true hand. Looking at some of these vital sectors housing could be better but also worse. The BKX is in trouble as it hugs the bottom of the range. The SOX is still okay, biotech is holding a triple low for now. Oil is about as good as the BTK and I suspect waiting on what the SSE might do. The Transports must bounce now as it holds a key Fibonacci relationship. So the transports might turn out to be the key, if they drop here the handwriting is on the wall as the market won't survive this type of bearish divergence.
The US Dollar has finally achieved our patience of a saint trade. We've projected levels below 80 for several months already but had to endure a couple of rallies to see these most bearish aggressive views achieved. Here's the next salient point. Do you think the Dollar can rally if the government comes close to default? It can bounce but the chances of it sustaining are small. Over the past few years the Dollar and equities experienced an inverse relationship much of the time. Most important is the fact that when the Dollar has been down, equities were up. Both are higher relatively speaking since May 2011. What we haven't seen is equities decline in tandem with the Greenback. My concern is we could see such a decline for the first time. The monthly chart of the Dollar resembles a triangle where the coil has been tightening. It's not going to stay in a range forever. I've been looking for one final break to the downside in the long bear market we've had in the 21st century. I can't rule out that materializing in the next few weeks.
October has been known as the graveyard to bear markets. We don't have a bear market. But we do have a situation. We also have a market that is notoriously overbought. We enter month 163 off the Internet bubble peak. What I'm trying to tell you is conditions are ripe for a 1987 style event. It may or may not happen but it's a long month, we are due but at the end of the day I think the new secular bull market stays intact. What that means is an event that seriously shakes the trees with the nuts and coconuts falling out. We have plenty of time to get a bottom this month and we really haven't finished the topping process yet, get my drift?


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House Judiciary Committee Refuses To Hear Wider Tech Industry Concerns About SOPA
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Turns out that the decks are being even further stacked.
Today, we're hearing that the head of NetCoalition, who many people expected to represent the wider tech and internet industry's significant concerns about SOPA has been denied a seat at the hearings. This is the same group that has been requesting a seat at the negotiating table all along, and has been denied by the MPAA and its supporters. Basically, the decks are being stacked so far in favor of SOPA, that next week's hearing will be a total joke. We're even hearing rumors that it will now be 4 representatives in favor of SOPA, and no one who will represent the wider concerns of the internet industry that's about to be regulated. Instead, the committee is looking for someone who will only raise some specific narrow concerns about the bill.
I guess I have a simple question: just what are Reps. Lamar Smith, John Conyers and Bob Goodlatte afraid of? Are they really so fragile that they can't handle the idea that the wider internet industry is seriously worried about this bill? Must they only hear from those who helped write the bill in the first place? What kind of democracy is that?


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IT jobs jump shows hope for UK economy
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UK workers still fear losing their jobs even though survey data is starting to show an improvement in both permanent and temporary positions.
KPMG's February jobs survey found the fastest increase in permanent positions since July 2007. Around 43 per cent of companies said they were increasing permanent jobs. And temporary billings from agencies continued to rise, albeit at a slower rate.
Overall staff vacancies rose for the fifth month in a row.
Demand for permies was strongest in the clerical and admin sector but IT staff were in second place.
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Despite all this good news there is still widespread job insecurity - but not as much as this time last year.
Workers fear job cuts could still be in the pipeline.
The other concern is watching earnings shrink in value - even though consumer price inflation is at 3.5 per cent most private sector workers have seen their pay frozen. The Office for National Statistics said in December that earnings grew 0.8 per cent year-on-year, but this was entirely down to the public sector where pay grew 3.7 per cent.
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An adoption where birth parents are still in the picture has become the norm, a new study says. And while the initial set-up may be complicated and awkward to hash out, families who chose an open adoption are happier later on.
The practice of open adoptions first began in the 1980s, and has been spreading across the US ever since, reports the Wall Street Journal. According to a study published by the Evan B. Donaldson Adoption Institute in New York, there is some degree of contact in about 95% of adoptions today.
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Critics of early open adoptions worried that they would confuse children about their identity and hurt their self-esteem. Some also thought that it would make it harder for birth mothers to come to terms with the adoption. Contrary to those original concerns, another recent study, The Minnesota/Texas Adoption Research Project, found that people involved in open adoption usually were more satisfied with their overall experience than families involved in closed adoptions, where there is no contact.
Post-placement contact agreements, which establishing exactly how relationships between birth and adoptive relatives will be maintained, can provide some structure to these unfamiliar situations. "It's a good thing to have the agreement, and it's not even about its enforceability," explained Susan Edwards, new adoptive mom, "Because of the contract, we all know what to expect, having that agreement does a lot to take away the nervousness or anxiety."
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Singer Ariana Grande has sparked rumours she has reconciled with her ex-boyfriend Jai Brooks after they were photographed kissing at the iHeartRadio Music Awards in Los Angeles on Thursday (01May14).
The former couple was spotted embracing and holding hands backstage at the prizegiving ceremony.
Grande and Brooks dated for 11 months until their split in July, 2013, and he subsequently accused the pop star of cheating on him with The Wanted's Nathan Sykes, with whom she recorded the duet Almost Is Never Enough.
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