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The exhibition Treasures of the Palace that opens at the Ateneum Art Museum on 12 April 2013 presents the art collection and certain artefacts from the Presidential Palace, which is currently undergoing renovation. The exhibition includes the majority of paintings from the Presidential Palace, busts of the presidents and portraits of their spouses. It also offers information about the construction history of the almost 200-year-old palace and life in the palace over the centuries.
The works under conservation are from the collections of the Presidential Palace.
In the Spirit of Symbolism presents a special selection of art covering five exhibition rooms in connection with Ateneum's collection display.
Eero Järnefelt was one of the most important figures in the golden age of Finnish art. The year 2013 marks the 150th anniversary of the birth of the artist.
Ateneum's collections are kept on public display on the museum's ground floor. The collection display presents Finnish classic art in a new light.


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YOUR HOME is your castle, isn't it? It's where you hang your hat at the end of the day, raise your children, plant your garden, barbecue in the backyard, or tinker in your garage. When you come home from a trip, it's the simple comfort of a cup of tea in the kitchen or sleeping in your own bed. There's no place like home. But what happens to your American dream if the government wants your property for a bigger mall?
Perhaps you think your property is safe from the ever-reaching tentacles of government encroachment.
Dale's 6-acre property became a centerpiece of punitive destruction after she opposed the mall road. An appraiser placed the damage to her property at $98,000, for which she has yet to be compensated. At first, it was rumored that the mall was paying for the road. Slowly, the details began to emerge in stories by Dan Telvock in the The Free Lance-Star that the homeowners' land would be taxed to pay for the road under the newly created Community Development Authority.
The tax allotted to Dale's property, not including her regular property tax, was $64,000 per year for the next 100 years. A tax of this amount would have forced her from her home and destroyed the market value of her property, which has been in her family for 200 years. In fact, when Dale tried to refinance her house, her banker told her that since she'd been in the newspaper and her land had been basically condemned, the bank would not be able to assist with her refinancing. The words of Supreme Court Justice John Marshall in 1819 echo through to our day: "The power to tax involves the power to destroy."
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INDIANAPOLIS – An Indianapolis woman whose husband was fatally shot at a Con-Agra Foods plant by a co-worker said Saturday she's baffled by the workplace shooting because her husband had never mentioned any problems with his alleged assailant.
Peggy Hicks told the Indianapolis Star she doesn't understand why her husband, Anthony Hicks Sr., 45, was fatally shot Friday night by one of his co-workers, 44-year-old Alonzo Laws of Indianapolis, who took his own life after the killing.
I'm angry. I just don't understand why this guy did what he did, Peggy Hicks said of Laws.
She said her husband knew Laws but had never mentioned having any problems with him.
Witnesses told police Hicks was in the plant's break room when Laws entered, made eye contact with him and left without speaking to Hicks. Laws then allegedly returned with a gun and shot Hicks while the victim had his back turned at a vending machine.
Police spokesman Officer Michael Hewitt said Laws fired several shots at Hicks. He said Laws then shot himself in the head.
Con-Agra spokesman Dan Hare confirmed Saturday that the two men were employees at the Indianapolis plant but referred all other questions to Indianapolis police.
We're saddened by the tragic event, and our hearts go out to the victims and their loved ones, Hare said.
Peggy Hicks said her husband was raised by a single mom, grew up on Indianapolis' west side and graduated from Ben Davis High School. She said he had worked at Con-Agra Foods for about nine years, often on the overnight shift, and sometimes worked up to 84 hours a week.
He was all about doing what had to be done to pay the bills or make things happen, she told the Star.


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Mayor Kasim Reed announced Tuesday that an agreement has been reached which will allow the Atlanta Falcons to purchase Friendship Baptist Church, paving the way for a new stadium to be built in that location if the team chooses to do so. At a press conference, Reed announced the church's board has accepted a $19.5 million offer to sell its property, if the team opts to build on the south site. Reed said no city funds will be used to close the deal, and the Falcons will finance the cost of the property."I am pleased with the solid progress on the construction of a new stadium for the Atlanta Falcons in the heart of our city," said Mayor Reed in a statement. "Most important of all, we have kept our promise to treat the members of Friendship Baptist Church with dignity and respect and reach an agreement that is fair and reasonable for all parties. With both the south and north site as possible locations for the new stadium, factors such as transportation, neighborhood impact, and infrastructure needs can be better weighed and balanced."The Falcons have been considering two sites, including the south site at Martin Luther King Drive and Northside Drive, for the new stadium's location. The north site is at Ivan Allan Boulevard and Northside Drive, which is about a half-mile from the Georgia Dome and Vine City MARTA stations. Mayor Reed has expressed a strong preference for the south site because of its proximity to MARTA and the Georgia World Congress Center. He said he is hopeful that the Georgia World Congress Center Authority will continue to work toward an agreement with Mount Vernon Baptist Church so that the Falcons can acquire the property necessary to build on the south site.Reed said he hopes that the state will increase its efforts in sealing a deal with Mount Vernon. So far, the two sides are said to be far apart in a price. "I think I have done enough in this process to ask that they try harder because that's what folks are asking me to do," Reed said.The Falcons are now waiting on a feasibility study regarding building the new stadium just north of the dome. General manager Rich McKay says they will continue to conduct due diligence on the north site option before a decision is made. "We commend Mayor Reed, city officials and the congregation of Friendship Baptist Church for all of their hard work in helping us reach a tentative agreement for the acquisition of the church property," McKay said in a statement. "The church property purchase price falls within the terms of the Memorandum of Understanding for the acquisition of property adjacent to the proposed south site for the new stadium. This is certainly a positive development for the south site."Critics of the north site have complained about its distance from public transit. "It needs to be in a place that is sustainable that it's not going to add traffic and congestion," Reed said.State officials said they are willing to talk to Reed about the negotiations with Mount Vernon Baptist Church.
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ST. LUCIE COUNTY -- For years, residents of St. Lucie County have heard the inspirational voices of the children of the Avenue D Choir.
Now, for the first time, residents can watch the children perform in their first production, "No Orphans," which will also be a major fundraiser for the nonprofit group.
"The choir has been around for more than eight years, and we have given many concerts during this time," said Mary Hendricks, co-founder and director of the choir. "We wanted to do something different for our audience, as well as for our kids."
More than 50 children will take part in the show and are excited about the performance.
"Normally, they do an annual concert," said Dani Dreizehnter, a volunteer with the choir and a Fort Pierce Police officer. "This year, they get to do dancing and acting, too. They've been practicing since October."
The production will take place at 7 p.m. on Dec. 21 at Faith World in Port St. Lucie.
"No Orphans" is an original production that shows the life of a young boy named Joshua. Though life is challenging for Joshua, he winds up joining the Avenue D Choir. But even though he is accepted by everyone there, he continues to make bad decisions. What happens to him and his fellow choir members is a story that Ms. Hendricks thought needed to be seen.
"Many people who come to see us perform usually see just the finished product," she said. "They don't know what goes on behind the scenes. This is a way to invite our audience in to see that the choir is about more than just singing."
The lead role is actually played by an 11-year-old boy with the same name.
"It's a play, but there's also a lot of singing, dancing and music," said Joshua Rivera. "It's sad and funny all at the same time."
The production is being used as a fundraiser for the choir.
"None of the kids have to pay to join the choir," said Ms. Dreizehnter. "We feed them dinner after choir practice and drive them to and from performances. The money will also go toward all the costumes the children wear and even a tutor to help them with their homework if they need it. All of the money goes to help the kids."
"The storyline speaks to all of us, whether we are 11 or 71," Ms. Hendricks said. "At some point in our lives, we've all gone through what Joshua experiences, a void."
"No Orphans" takes place at 7 p.m. Dec. 21 at Faith World, 5555 St. James Drive in Port St. Lucie. Tickets are available at the door for $17 for adults and $10 for students ages 5-17.
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Broken Steel: Fixing the Frontier
I've been thinking a lot lately about the Western as it exists in videogames. Having games like Red Dead Redemption and a new Call of Juarez on the horizon does that. But more to the point, I've been thinking about how gaming has never had that defining Western. (Yeah, yeah, Oregon Trail is good, but it's not quite the medium's "Unforgiven," is it?) Most Western games feel like reskinned action games from other genres; they're B-movie efforts at best. Which is well and good, but I'd like something more.
To my mind, Fallout 3 is the best Western our medium currently has to offer. That was the case before Bethesda released the Broken Steel expansion. In the wake of this DLC, I find that the Wasteland has become my greatest hope for the genre's future in gaming.
A brief data set: Broken Steel offers several new features. Characters can now advance from level 20 to level 30, gathering new perks along the way. In reality the difference between the old limit and the new is slighter than most would like to admit. You won't find worlds of difference between levels 20 and 30. Essentially, more skills will be maxed out, so your character might become more broadly specialized than before (threatening to break, I'd say, one of the principal role-playing charms of the game as shipped, but that's for another article).
There are new toys, notably the Tesla Cannon, which will take out many targets with one well-placed shot. Along with that are a few scenes of Michael Bay-worthy destruction and the surprisingly touching fate of one peripheral but massive character. But the new elements all pale next to the most important factor brought to the foreground by the expansion. That the factor is so common makes it all the more interesting.
With Broken Steel installed, the new real star of Fallout 3 is water.
Here I was, recently doubting the viability of the Western as a game form, and then came Broken Steel, subtly pushing forward water as a dynamic and important part of the Wasteland. There's an action story to distract you from that fact, but look beyond the nominal drive of this new chapter -- an encounter with the Enclave -- and you'll see that the landscape around D.C. is now a more detailed, lifelike frontier. I wonder if Bethesda views this evolution in the same way.
Originally, the primary story of a Lone Wanderer from Vault 101 had a hard endpoint. You had to find and activate a water filtration system, and radiation ended the story. No matter how you approached the story's final beats, done was done. Water was a MacGuffin of sorts; you pursued a dream of clean water for the Wasteland, and the story ended as the dream came to fruition.
The new content removes that hard ending. In the process, it doesn't push water to the foreground. It sets the Lone Wanderer off on the trail of the Enclave, the group that tried to take control of the water purification system.
Yet in the background, water is flowing into the Wasteland. The visual effect on the landscape is not tremendous. But the effect it has on the Washington, D.C. ruins, as a storytelling environment, is immense. Everywhere you go there will be evidence that things are changing. Water brings life, but in the Wasteland it also brings trouble.
Westerns are about human nature, not six-shooters and hats. The ugly side of human nature drives three side quests introduced in Broken Steel. With a new, easily stolen resource come new con artists and bandits. Raids on water caravans deprive towns of much-needed clean water. A ghoul irradiates clean water and sells it to other radiation-mutated citizens as a cure-all. An old woman near Megaton (assuming it still exists in your version of the Wasteland) builds a mad religion that carries the light of "Atom's Gift" through so-called Holy Water.
Those three mini-stories are all as close to core Western setups as you'll find. They add a new sort of strife to the environment. There's a specific product we can all identify with, and the possession of it, or lack thereof, now defines people. If I had to ask for something more than a simple action Western to really make the genre come alive in gaming, I'd want scenarios with conflict between politics and industry and character. That begins right here.
In addition to the quests you'll find nearly a dozen incidental encounters, all of which serve to underscore the ways in which water may or may not be the source of humanity's salvation.
The Brotherhood of Steel, which controls the purification system, can't figure out how to distribute its new resource. It finds that manpower, already stretched to the breaking point by the endgame of the campaign against the Enclave, is not up to the task of bringing water to the people. Mercs fight over caravans transporting the so-called "Aqua Pura." Entrepreneurs find ways to scan folks out of free-flowing, crystalline health. Bandits use the promise of free water to ambush unwary Wastelanders. Behind the action there are beleaguered bureaucrats like Scribe Bigsley, the Brotherhood of Steel cleric who has the sad job of making sure clean water flows everywhere.
So elements of the three larger side quests are echoed across the Wasteland. Everywhere you go there is a new layer of concern and strife. Water caravans, or their remains, are everywhere. Fallout begins to feel even less like a specifically post-apocalyptic landscape and more like a spaghetti Western. It's a place where everything is accentuated: fear, desire, desperation and change. It's an unexpectedly beautiful place to be.
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• Parties are best held on a Friday or Saturday, especially if you have neighbours who work or have young children.
• It's smart to stay on the right side of your neighbours. Tell them when you are having a party. Giving them an invitation and/or bottle of wine may help. Suggest a time when you should be turning down the music. Give them your mobile number if you would rather they contact you and not Police.
• Find out where people sleep in your neighbour's house. If their bed is next to your living room wall, try to find somewhere else for the speakers.
• Position your speakers on stands with foam (or empty boxes) to prevent the vibrations going through the floor.
• Lock away all valuables, breakables and possible beer trophies in one of the bedrooms.
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Two sources confirm to CBS News that the ricin letter sent to New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg carried the following threat:
"You will have to kill me and my family before you get my guns,. Anyone wants to come to my house will get shot in the face. The right to bear arms is my constitutional, God-given right and I will exercise that right till the day I die. What's in this letter is nothing compared to what I've got planned for you."
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Almost a year after suffering a traumatic brain injury, Tripp Halstead has undergone his 14th surgery.
This time, doctors were removing multiple fluid pockets from his brain.
According to the Facebook page where Tripp's parents post updates on his condition, 3-year-old Tripp is in intensive care and is expected to be hospitalized for two nights.
"Thank you for all the prayers today," Stacy Halstead wrote. "This makes surgery number 14, but when your dealing with the brain, it is never routine."
Tripp was injured Oct. 29, 2012, at Cribs to Crayons day care facility in Winder when a large limb broke off of a tree and hit a fence before striking him in the head.
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Why are the French so Different from the Germans? Underpricing of IPOs on the Euro New Markets
AbstractWe study the underpricing of firms listed on the two largest EuroNM stock exchanges, the Neuer Markt of Germany and the Nouveau Marché of France. We find that the high underpricing in these two markets - contrary to the evidence on the US - is not driven by insiders' selling behaviour. However, the large underpricing is caused by the high degree of riskiness of the issuing firms and by the partial adjustment phenomenon of offer prices to compensate institutional investors for the truthful revelation of their demand for the shares. For France, lock-up agreements act as substitutes to underpricing, but not so for Germany. We also explore the reasons for the large difference in underpricing between the German and the French IPOs: German firms are more underpriced because they are riskier, have larger price revisions, have less stringent VC lock-up contracts, and go public mostly during the hot issue period when the general level of underpricing in all IPO markets is substantially higher.
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- Goergen, Marc & Khurshed, Arif & Renneboog, Luc, 2009. "Why are the French so different from the Germans? Underpricing of IPOs on the Euro New Markets," International Review of Law and Economics, Elsevier, vol. 29(3), pages 260-271, September.
- Goergen, M. & Khurshed, A. & Renneboog, L.D.R., 2006. "Why are the French so Different from the Germans? Underpricing of IPOs on the Euro New Markets," Discussion Paper 2006-24, Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research.
- Goergen, M. & Khurshed, A. & Renneboog, L.D.R., 2009. "Why are the French so Different from the Germans? Underpricing of IPOs on the Euro New Markets," Discussion Paper 2009-022, Tilburg University, Tilburg Law and Economic Center.
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A new report by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) found that rural and urban substance abuse treatment admissions in 2009 differed by nearly every aspect examined.
For example, in 2009 rural substance abuse treatment admissions were more likely than urban admissions to be referrals from the criminal justice system (51.6 versus 28.4 percent) and less likely to be self-referrals or referrals from family members or friends (22.8 versus 38.7 percent).
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(FRANKFORT, Ky.) - Traffic on the state's roadways is expected to increase significantly during the upcoming Labor Day weekend, which traditionally marks the end of the summer driving season. Motorists in Kentucky should be aware that the Kentucky State Police (KSP) is joining other law enforcement and highway safety agencies across the nation in an aggressive new crackdown on impaired drivers called "Drunk Driving. Over the Limit. Under Arrest."
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Drunk driving is one of America's deadliest crimes. In 2004, nearly 13,000 people were killed in highway crashes involving an impaired driver or motorcycle operator with an illegal blood alcohol concentration (BAC) of .08 or higher. In Kentucky in 2005, there were 5,515 alcohol-related crashes resulting in 205 fatalities. Through Aug. 13, 2006, a total of 538 people have lost their lives on Kentucky roadways. Alcohol was a factor in 124 of those deaths.
"Driving with a blood-alcohol level of 0.08 or higher is illegal," said KSP Capt. Eric Walker, commander of the Governor's Highway Safety Program. "Motorists who choose to drink and drive can face jail time, the loss of their driver's license, higher insurance rates, attorney fees, time away from work and dozens of other expenses - not to mention the risk of killing themselves or someone else."
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That would be Chargers Tight End Antonio Gates!!
NFL.com analyst, Ian Rappaport, stated this on Inside Training Camp Live:
"… He's in shape. He looks skinny. He was burning cornerbacks left and right in practice. … He is feeling healthier now than he's been in a couple of years.
He is really looking like he's primed for a big, big season." – Pro Football Talk
Gates has worked hard this offseason to shed some pounds. The matabolism doesn't quite work as well as you get older. He entered training camp with less pounds and people are taking notice. Gates has found the fountain of youth!
With Vincent Jackson taking his talents to Tampa, the Chargers will need a bigger effort from the All-Pro tight end. Malcom Floyd is capable of handling some of the load, but that usually lasts for only 10 games in the season before he is riding on the nurse's table. Robert Meachem and Eddie Royal will also have to bring a big game to the offense.
If Gates really did find a way to stop the aging process, then he will be HUGE (or should we say skinny) in the red zone and on 3rd down. Put in Gates and another one of those big pass-catching tight ends with LeRon McClain and Ryan Mathews down in that area and we should find a way to get that ball over the goal line more often than not.
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"Snow. Sun. Sandstone. Sky. He was doing what he liked and knew. It was now. And this now had no pressure, just permission." -James Galvin
This weekend called for some wandering with Nick Clark and Joe Grant, high inComanche Peak Wilderness and Rocky Mountain National Park. Nick gave us an off-trail tour of his turf with a hearty promise to bag a bunch of peaks in the Mummy Range. He definitely followed through, providing a 30 mile journey (over 1/3 off-trail) with over 8,000 feet of gain.
It was a spectacular day to explore the high country. While temperatures loomed in the upper nineties in Fort Collins and Boulder, we enjoyed pleasant 80 degree temps with hardly a cloud in the sky. The daily monsoons decided not pay a visit in the afternoon, and we were thankful as we made a few navigational errors along the way.
My knee cap decided to do battle with a rocky meadow, and the rock decisively won. Sometimes we don't get to choose the landing of our falls. Need to get my severely bruised patella healed so I can keep up my UTMB training and continue to enjoy the short high mountain wandering season.
Map of the route
Joe making his way to top of Signal Mtn with Mummy Range looming
Atop Signal Mtn with South Signal Mtn and "the Mummies" on the far horizon
Nick wielding the summit log pen on Signal Mtn
Frogger loving the morning light on Signal Mtn
Another view of South Signal and Mummy Range, mtn running at it's finest!
Enjoying the sunrise on Signal Mtn
Descending an old unmaintained trail to the Stormy Peaks
Nick getting a lay of the land on the Stormy Pks Trail
Consulting the map on Stormy Pks Trail in Rocky Mtn National Park
Stormy Pks on the way to Stormy Pass, a wildflower run.
Nick getting a foot on the summit rock
Tagging a rocky summit in the Stormy Mtns. Photo: J. Grant
High on the ridge line of the Stormy Peaks
Rowe Mtn watches as we follow the spine of Sugarloaf Mtn to Icefield Pass
Off trail lunch of homemade ume musubi and sporting some good blood from earlier rock encounter
Leaving Stormy Peaks Pass for a long off trail journey
An icy Rowe Glacier fills the lake. Frogger watches icebergs while Nick navigates.
Rock bounding up towards Rowe Pk with Hagues Pk in background
Rock pile descent off Rowe Mtn in RMNP
Rocks & more rocks, Nick and Joe embracing the descent of Sugarloaf Mtn
Looking for the Mummy Pass Trail in RMNP. Photo: J. Grant
Trail at last! Mummy Pass Trail in RMNP on W. side of Mummy Pass
The road home and where we once were, Mummy Range
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There's a photo skit constantly circling the globe, thanks of course to the Internet, that displays pictures of the huge Maersk ships made in Denmark. Each allegedly holds 15,000 cartons of goods and cross the Pacific in five days. They bring their holds across the Pacific from China, allegedly, stuffed with merchandise for Walmart. And they return empty.
The point is to show how bad America has gotten at exporting anything to the rest of the world.
But yesterday, the Singapore Exchange said it was establishing an education center that would teach capital markets pros in its country – already the No. 2 nation in the world in information technology – how to trade with the most sophisticated algorithmically based systems available.
Europe is in the throes of radical market change, as Chi-X Europe, SmartPool, the Berlin Borse, and other players keep trying to bring increasing efficiency and new automated pricing models to its trading practices.
That digital revolution started here, spawned by Regs ATS and NMS and was perfected in Chicago by former commodities pits players, on the East Coast by folks like Nasdaq and Instinet, in Kansas City by BATS Global Markets. And, even if it is losing equities trading volume in the United States, one of the New York Stock Exchange's – or rather NYSE Euronext's – biggest exports is its Universal Trading Platform and its Secure Financial Transaction Infrastructure.
Left to market forces, all trading will be all electronic all the time. Brokers, high-speed traders, exchanges will all exist under the roofs of multiple data centers in market hubs here – and abroad. And be connected to every other market center that matters, nearly instantaneously by fiber and increasing network bandwidth devoted solely to commerce in exchanging digital information on financial instruments.
We're coming to a point where "Global Markets On Demand" will be pervasive, to use the title of a recent Tabb Group report. Any financial instrument will be traded between any two individuals or entities anywhere in the world at any time.
Now comes, however, SEC Chairman Mary L. Schapiro. In a speech Monday to the Economic Club in New York, she raised (again) the specter of restrictions on high frequency trading.
Indeed, she keeps raising the question of whether high frequency traders – who like to call themselves the "modern market makers'' – have an obligation to keep trading in all circumstances. Even during a fast or slow market crash.
She also expressed concerns about what has been popularly called "quote stuffing." "We know that, in the ordinary course, many high frequency trading firms cancel 90 percent or more of the orders they submit to the markets,'' she said. "There may, of course, be justifiable explanations for many cancelled orders to reflect changing market conditions. ''
But the agency will be trying to assess if somehow trading firms that rely on the highest speeds of execution of algorithms are committing "fraudulent or other improper behavior. " Pulling a fast one, you might say.
She suggested that there might need to be a minimum "time-in-force" for quotations to be in effect, particularly if they were submitted "by market participants who otherwise were not subject to meaningful obligations governing their quoting behavior."
This has merit. Orders should be orders. Not information-seeking missiles that abort themselves, before capture.
But all markets will be high frequency. All trading will be conducted at less than a thousandth of a second. Trading strategies that rely on lots of orders should be encouraged to exist, as long as market infrastructure can handle it.
Maybe the SEC should be looking at the reliability of that infrastructure. Europe and Singapore clearly have. And are importing as much of it as they can handle.
The goal here should be to set rules that ensure fairness in markets. But also encourage higher speed markets, more resilient markets. To encourage co-location of servers, securities firms and the venues that serve them. To let U.S. capital markets capitalize on the creation of systems that allow for any parties to trade anywhere at any time with anyone, in no time.
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The No. 4 U.S. bank by assets said in a statement that the increase of 3 cents to 25 cents per share was part of a capital plan that received approval from the U.S. Federal Reserve in 2012.
Wells in March raised its quarterly dividend by 10 cents to 22 cents per share after the Fed completed annual stress tests on large U.S. banks. In the aftermath of the financial crisis, banks now need the Fed's assent before increasing dividends and buying back more shares.
The San Francisco-based bank said it asked the Fed permission to return more capital to shareholders as part of its 2013 capital plan, which is under review. The Fed is expected to complete its work in March, after which approved banks can raise dividends or buy back more shares for the period that runs from the second quarter of 2013 through the first quarter of 2014.
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(Reporting By Rick Rothacker in Charlotte, North Carolina,; Additional reporting by Ben Berkowitz in New York)