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What's New York's advantage in fintech? It's that entrepreneurs are close to the heart of the financial services industry. There's a combination of innovation and domain expertise in the city, with companies having access to a wide talent pool.
So, where's the money going? It turns out, payments accounted for the largest number of fintech deals in the United States last year—29 percent. In 2012, 33 percent of the total number of fintech deals in New York specifically were in payment companies. In 2013, payments accounted for 28 percent of deals; last year it was 21 percent.
When it comes to the next frontier of fintech in New York, there are three big trends that will take shape. New York-based startups are among the most successful in developing innovations that address some of the trends that fintech experts are seeing on a national level: crypto currency, cloud computing and automated investing advisory services.
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Kim Fires 62 at CN Canadian Women's Open
Anna Rawson has been shopping for birdies
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BIRDIE, BIRDIE, BIRDIE, BIRDIE, birdie, birdie. Ever started a round that way? Neither have I.
Six straight birdies filled the front-nine scorecard of Song-Hee Kim in today's second round of the CN Canadian Women's Open in Calgary, Alberta. Kim threw in a couple of pars, then birdied the final two holes to post a 7-under-par 28. She backed it up with a 34 for a sizzling 62 on the 6,427-yard par-71 layout, a tournament record.
How did she do it?
"I just try—I mean the first thing, I just try and hit the ball on the fairway," Kim said, "and then the second thing, I just try and hit the pins, and then make a putt."
Sounds easy enough.
Kim is tied for the lead with Suzann Pettersen at 9-under. Anna Rawson shot a 64 in the opening round, holding the tournament record for 24 hours.
−The Armchair Golfer
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- Unknown said...
"I just try—I mean the first thing, I just try and hit the ball on the fairway," Kim said, "and then the second thing, I just try and hit the pins, and then make a putt."
Okay. Fairway. Green. Putt.
Got it. Why has it taken me 30 years to comprehend that and this young lady has probably been doing since age 11?
- Heather Jones said...
Actually I like that quote. It really speaks to only thinking about one shot at a time.
Instead I often think, "I need 3 pars to make up for that double." Then I go into the water.
It's the old standard response of "One shot at a time" and it really works. Unfortunately, it's so much easier to say than to do. It, however, does make a great soundbite.
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NYT End-of-Term Analysis
Adam Liptak has a great recap of the just-completed 2009 term:
Chief Justice Roberts took control of his court this year, pushing hard on issues of core concern to him, including campaign finance, gun rights and criminal procedure, even as he found common ground with his colleagues on an array of other issues.
He was in the majority 92 percent of the time, more than any other justice. Last year that distinction went to Justice Anthony M. Kennedy, who is often regarded as the court's swing vote.
"More than in any other year since he became chief justice, this has truly become the Roberts court," said Gregory G. Garre, who served as solicitor general in the administration of George W. Bush and is now at Latham & Watkins.
This analysis is absolutely on point. The intellectual underpinning of F1@1F has been my hypothesis, now apparently proven if the NYT analysis is a reliable source, that this term's docket largely reflected the Chief Justice's awareness of the Court's available political capital to achieve conservative gains beside liberal elected branches. The Court primed itself to move the law where they could and to leave for a later day those that would do more damage to the Court's institutional legitimacy than their worth to the conservative legal movement.
For newer F1@1F readers, please give this post a read.
Most striking since I wrote the piece has been the Chief Justice's ability to call upon the sort of "restrained activism," introduced in NAMUDNO at the end of last term when he limited the scope of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 rather than strike it down as many expected. This term, he has employed and endorsed such legislation from the bench so to get the kinds of politically acceptable results to make some of the Court's pro-business decisions go down a bit easier. Last week, he joined Justice Ginsburg's Skilling decision to specifically limit and define federal honest services laws rather than strike them down–as urged by Scalia, Kennedy, and Thomas–so not to let Jeff Skilling walk free. Yesterday, in Free Enterprise Fund v. PCAOB, the Chief Justice rewrote the Sarbanes-Oxley Act–created in the wake of Skilling's Enron collapse–to force the Public Company Oversight Accounting Board into his vision of constitutionality rather than strike it down outright.
What we've had, as I suggested in the winter, is a Chief Justice that knew–and cared–that the Court had only one huge expenditure available to it, and spent it in Citizens United. The rest of the docket was formed and decided accordingly, with the conservatives taking smaller, more under-the-radar steps while the liberals won what they could.
Whereas Justice Kennedy may be the limiting factor on the hot buttons of abortion and affirmative action, issues as the NYT piece noted were nowhere to be found this term, he's firmly in the maximalist pro-business camp. And for a Court operating in an economic downturn with Democrats in the political branches all too willing to cast it as the tool of an intemperate Tea Party, the Chief–often joined by Justice Alito–must serve as the prudent captain of his man of war's voyage towards economic liberty without crossing the Roosevelt Rubicon.
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SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 2 (UPI) -- Twitter said this week's security breach involving 250,000 of the social website's accounts was similar to other attacks on U.S. companies.
Twitter said the attacks -- in which hackers accessed names and email addresses of account holders -- were similar to recent attacks on several U.S. news organizations, CNN reported Saturday.
The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg News and The Washington Post have all announced security breaches. The Times and the Journal said the attacks on their computers originated in China and were responses to coverage of Chinese news.
The Times said negative coverage of Prime Minister Wen Jiabao had provoked the the attack.
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Mr. Speaker, I would like to make two comments. The difference between the NDP and the Bloc Quebecois is that we believe in intellectual property. We know that if pharmaceuticals make $800 million investments, we agree with the 20 year patent protection, but we say that it should not be more than 20 years.
My seatmate, the critic for industry, also agrees that we should stop the abuse by pharmaceuticals, but never in the way that the NDP would like, which is by providing no intellectual property. We believe that any research deserves to be rewarded and protected. We want the patents to end after the 20 year period. This is what the health critic and the industry critic say.


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Commander Shepard, protagonist of last year's undisputed GOTY Mass Effect 2, has a lot of favorite things. Whether it's a store on the Citadel, carrying out Pyjak genocide, or punching reporters in the face, Shepard likes a lot of things. Except Reapers.
Then again, Reapers are to Shepard like the Batman is to the Joker; life just doesn't have much meaning without their existence. In the last piece of Mass Effect 2 DLC before we get to have a collective nerdgasm over Mass Effect 3, Arrival does not only bridge the storyline but forces Shepard to take actions that may have severe consequences.
Whether or not that makes it a worthwhile purchase depends on a number of things, and it's mostly something you'll have to find out for yourself. But if you are a Mass Effect fan, Arrival will satisfy your hunger in a number of ways. Let's find out how it does this without delving into spoiler terrority too much, shall we?
Mass Effect 2: Arrival (PC, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3)
Developer: BioWare
Publisher: EA
Release date: March 29th, 2011
Price: 560 MS points, $7
In Arrival, Shepard is tasked by Admiral Hackett to rescue deep cover Alliance operative Dr. Amanda Kenson, who has been captured by Batarians while on a secret mission in Batarian space. Dr. Kenson has uncovered a Reaper artifact that supposedly reveals new information about the impending Reaper invasion.
The problem is, Batarian-Human relations have been far from warm ever since Humanity entered the galactic playground. Any official rescue mission by the Alliance would put a serious strain on the already poor relationship between the two races, and Humanity can ill afford any further headaches with a potential Reaper invasion on the horizon.
What better way to resolve this issue than by sending the Normandy SR-2 (with its cloaking abilities) and a Spectre on a covert mission? Because the Batarians will likely kill Dr. Kenson if they see an armed squad making a mess of things like Asari teenagers enjoying spring break on Omega, Shepard will have to act alone without any backup from his or her squad members this time around.
Without spoiling too much about the actual storyline and happenings -- which the trailer already does if you haven't seen it yet -- suffice it to say that the rescue mission itself threads familiar ground. You can choose to take a stealthy approach for an achievement or trophy, which just means you run around the two or three encounters with Batarians on the way to Dr. Kenson. As I was playing my Renegade female redhead Vanguard Shepard, of course these dirty slaver Batarians had to die; that achievement would have to wait.
Making your way towards Dr. Kenson's location in the Batarian prison compound on planet Aratoht in the Viper Nebula, you encounter logs that provide both insight into the Batarians' paranoia about Human aggression and details on how they found and captured the good doctor. As you traverse the mostly linear series of grim corridors, occasionally finding alcoves splattered with the blood of 'retired' prisoners, it becomes clear that the Batarians both fear and hate humans. But do they have a good reason to fear us?
While the rescue mission itself is pretty straightforward and sees you thread at a good pace on Veteran difficulty, it's the events that follow the rescue mission -- leaving the dark locale of Aratoht for a brighter environment -- that makes things more interesting for Mass Effect fans. Dr. Kenson has been working on a top secret project involving Reapers, asteroids, and mass relays. And as it turns out, the Reapers are far closer to invading our galaxy than was previously thought.
So close in fact, that drastic measures will have to be taken to prevent the Reapers from using the key Batarian system of Bahak as a staging ground for their galactic cleansing. Exploring Arrival's story is half the fun, so -- Harbinger be damned -- you will have to find out what happens for yourself.
As far as the gameplay is concerned, Arrival only sees you traversing corridors, rooms, and a (brief) open segment reminiscent of Mass Effect's finale. Although it's mostly centered on corridor-based combat, the level design appears to keep your Shepard's class in mind. Being a Vanguard definitely helped, because you can easily spam the hell out of enemies with the Shockwave ability.
But Infiltrators will not be at a disadvantage either, as there is plenty of room to take cover and snipe your foes. Most of your foes are organic, with some shielded engineers and 'Pyro' soldiers here and there. Whatever skills you chose when building your Shepard, you shouldn't have any severe problems with the combat. Opening doors and running in blind might lead to a couple of instant deaths on Insanity, but it's nothing you won't be able to handle.
Still, I wouldn't recommend playing Arrival straight away when starting a new career. And to be honest, it doesn't make any sense in the storyline to do so anyway. If you haven't finished Mass Effect 2 yet, play this after you complete the main storyline; you will only spoil and confuse yourself if you don't. The events are set after the main game ends, and some 'things' in the ending relate to how 'things' look in Arrival.
Interestingly enough, a YMIR Model 34-A heavy mech stops walking straight into you this time around. If you had any headaches dealing with their unrelenting approach in the past, which usually destroyed any hope of survival if you ran out of terrain or cover to escape to on Insanity, you'll be happy to know that they are a bit more fun -- if slightly less frantic -- to dispatch. A gameplay diversion involving another familiar type of foe makes for a nice distraction in what is generally a typical Mass Effect 2 gameplay affair.
One of the selling points of the DLC, other than the obvious bridge to Mass Effect 3, is the existence of a "sacrifice." While this sacrifice is indeed a costly one, the game unfortunately never gives you a good reason to really care about it. Your inescapable actions have severe consequences, regardless of Paragon or Renegade choices, and may actually explain a few seconds of Mass Effect 3's trailer. But the feeling of a paying a heavy price, which you are supposed to relate to on an emotional level, is just not there. Instead, the sacrifice's effect is mostly political and distant.
Having said that, the consequences of Shepard's actions could play a huge role in the Mass Effect 3 storyline, but it's too early to tell for sure. With less than 9 months on the calendar, and little indication of how much creative control the DLC creators have had with respect to affecting the storyline of the upcoming chapter in the sci-fi epic, it might only have side-quest levels of consequences in the end. (Mass Effect 3 designer Manveer Heir has since told me that Arrival's story "was driven/approved by the head writer so it's all canon & relevant.")
What Mass Effect 2 fans will want to know of course, is whether or not they should buy Arrival. Do you really need it if you are a fan? Yes. Is it worth 560 points or $7? I think so. Overlord was the same price, and while Arrival doesn't feature the M-44 Hammerhead, the potential storyline impact on the wider Mass Effect universe makes it better than the already good Overlord DLC.
Arrival takes about one hour to finish on Veteran, and will probably last you a little over 1.5 hours on Insanity with an effective Shepard build. For the hardcore fan, that means you'll spend around 2.5 to 4 hours on it across multiple playthroughs.
However, Arrival is not quite as good as Lair of the Shadow Broker. It lacks that piece of DLC's emotional engagement, and nothing in Arrival comes close to the sense of discovery you got while unveiling the true identity of such an iconic character. Also, Dr. Kenson looks like a cross-eyed version of Dr. Chakwas with Kelly Chamber's hair. I mean, look at her!
Still, that doesn't mean it is by any means bad or even mediocre. As Mass Effect 2 DLC goes, Arrival is about as good as Overlord -- which I'd rate as an 8/10 -- with respect to the ground combat, and better in terms of the storyline's impact on the wider Mass Effect universe. Since the gameplay is mostly the same thing you've seen before, the final verdict relies heavily on how much you care about the Mass Effect universe. As a fan of the franchise, I have zero regrets having spent points on Arrival. It's well paced, and having an enjoyable new reason to revisit Shepard's exploits in deep space is worth the price of admission alone.
However, as this is the final piece of Mass Effect 2 DLC and because it follows the fantastic -- but higher priced -- Lair of the Shadow Broker, I can't help but feel that BioWare missed an opportunity here to create the ultimate piece of DLC to show the world just how you bridge the gap between two titles in a story-driven trilogy. Don't get me wrong, Arrival sits comfortably between Overlord and Lair of the Shadow Broker in terms of quality and I still want to play Mass Effect 3 badly, but I don't want play it that much more badly after having played Arrival.
In fact, I would've preferred Arrival to be 800 MS points/$10 and be better than Lair of the Shadow Broker. Something that would've reminded me of all the aspects that made me fall in love with the Mass Effect games in the first place, and something that would've gone beyond what anyone would've expected DLC could be capable of. Nitpicking aside, Arrival is still a competent and worthwhile piece of DLC that any Mass Effect fan will enjoy multiple times in preparation to Mass Effect 3.
Oh, and save your game somewhere when you are in front of a certain timer display. When it runs out, there's a tiny something to make it worth your while.
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Mass Effect 2: Arrival reviewed by Maurice Tan
Impressive effort with a few noticeable problems holding it back. Won't astound everyone, but is worth your time and cash.
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Wish You Were Here was released in September 1975 and went straight to number one in the UK album charts. The record debuted at number 12 in the US charts, and the following week hit the US number one spot. The album was to stay in the US charts for a year, and at the time of writing has sold over 13 million copies worldwide.
The album has an enduring legacy, and this film tells the in-depth story of its production from the perspective of those who were there at the time. It features new interviews with the band - David Gilmour, Roger Waters and Nick Mason - as well as an archive interview with the late Richard Wright.
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Australia also had multiple sandy stretches in the top 10 ranking.
The visual discovery site introduced Place Pins — which let users mark their favorite places with images on a map — less than six months ago, but already has nearly one billion pins on over 100,000 Place Boards.
Pinterest mined these pins to count up the beaches that were most frequently added to people's wish list and travel plan boards all over the globe.10. Venice Beach in Los Angeles, Calif., is famous for its Ocean Front Walk, where fortune tellers and musicians perform alongside artists and vendors selling all types of food and crafts.
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A dragon was a type of winged serpent-like reptilian animal. Such animals were known to live on Berengaria VII and Maravel. As the result of extraterrestrial contact, Earth mythology also featured dragons.
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A Vulcan science vessel survey of Berengaria VII made note of a species as one of flying reptiles, over two hundred meters in length, that breathed fire. A century later, Spock had also claimed to have seen a dragon when he visited the planet. (ENT: "Bound"; TOS: "This Side of Paradise")
In 2269, James T. Kirk saw a species of flying dragons in the Lactra VII zoo, in the rainforest environment, similar to Maravel dragons. (TAS: "The Eye of the Beholder")
Also in 2269, Hikaru Sulu and Leonard McCoy were chased by a two-headed, fire-breathing mechanical dragon on the Shore Leave Planet when the planet's master computer was attempting to "turn off" the Enterprise landing party. After the master computer agreed to cease its pursuit, McCoy and Sulu were seen on the master computer's viewscreen, enjoying a picnic with the dragon, Alice, and the White Rabbit. (TAS: "Once Upon a Planet")
The Centerplace on Ligon II featured a sculpture of an animal similar to a Chinese dragon. (TNG: "Code of Honor")
The tables at the tavern at the marketplace aboard Bahrat's space station in the Delta Quadrant feature dragon-like head sculptures. (VOY: "Fair Trade")
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On Earth, dragons were more commonly known as supernatural monsters or deities in the myths of the Native Americans, Europeans and Chinese. In 2270, it was discovered that the basis of these myths was Kukulkan, an immensely old alien being who had visited all the nations on Earth in the distant past. (TAS: "How Sharper Than a Serpent's Tooth")
A species of large reptiles on Earth were called Komodo dragons, though they did not have wings. (TNG: "New Ground")
An ancient Greek myth told of a dragon that fell in battle, whereupon its teeth took root in the ground and sprang back as warriors to continue the fight. In 2376, Chakotay compared the hundreds of bio-pods containing the last survivors of the Vaadwaur race to dragon's teeth. (VOY: "Dragon's Teeth")
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Andre Villas-Boas coy over Willian
Andre Villas-Boas insists Tottenham Hotspur's transfer business for the summer is not over yet, though he declined to comment on a potential move for Willian.
• Fitch: Spurs can improve
Spurs have swelled their ranks at great cost so far this summer, with almost £60 million splashed out on Paulinho, Nacer Chadli, Etienne Capoue and club-record signing Roberto Soldado, but Villas-Boas is planning further signings before the transfer window closes on September 2.
"We haven't finished," Villas Boas said. "I think we have a very good squad and we have obviously already had some activity in the market, but we are looking further. There is a possibility."
ESPN understands Spurs are rivalling Liverpool for Anzhi Makhachkala star Willian, whom Villas-Boas had described as "an extremely interesting player" while in charge of Chelsea.
Asked whether he could confirm Spurs' interest, Villas-Boas added: "Not really. I have spoken about him in the past, very long ago. He is a player that I appreciate, but a player that belongs to Anzhi and I will respect them."
The potential exit of Gareth Bale to Real Madrid looms large over Spurs, with the fee likely to be in excess of £80 million if the transfer does go through, which could fund deals for several new players.
Bale missed Spurs' opening Premier League win over Crystal Palace complaining of a foot injury, and Villas-Boas confirmed he will play no part in Thursday's Europa League play-off round clash with Dinamo Tbilisi.
Villas-Boas said: "He is eligible for selection because he is included in the UEFA team, on the list we put through, but he's not available because of injury.
"He is going to have a clearing session today (Monday), so hopefully we will get good positive signs."
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Southeastern softball has been picked to repeat as the Great American Conference champions as announced by the league office in its preseason poll on Tuesday.
The Savage Storm are coming off a memorable 45-9 season in which the team picked up its first GAC championship, climbed to No. 2 in the national rankings and advanced to the NCAA playoffs.
SE collected seven of the 11 possible first place votes and totaled 97 points in the preseason poll.
The Storm returns seven of the nine offensive players who started at least half the games and overall lose four letterwinners from the 2013 squad.
Southeastern dominated the 2013 honors, and GAC Pitcher of the Year Jacee Bennett along with Newcomer of the Year Mindy McElroy will return for the 2014 season. Head coach Ron Faubion also took home conference Coach of the Year honors last season.
The team returns six players that earns all-conference recognition, with Bennett, McElroy and Courtney Riddle also earning All-Central Region honors.
The Storm finished 10 points ahead of second-place East Central in the preseason poll, with the Tigers collecting two first place votes.
Arkansas-Monticello finished third with 75 points and the final two first place votes.
Arkansas Tech was picked fourth, followed by Southern Arkansas and Henderson State.
Ouachita Baptist and Southern Nazarene were tied for seventh, while Northwestern Oklahoma State was in ninth, Southwestern Oklahoma State in 10th and Harding, in its first season of softball, was picked 11th.
Southeastern will open the 2014 season on Feb. 1 in San Antonio, Texas, to play in the St. Mary's tournament, with its first game at 10 a.m. against Texas-Permian Basin.


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I am fairly new to AIX machine. We would like to deploy some program into the AIX machine which is yet to come.
We have a short experience in AIX machine and after login using putty, we felt the shell is very weird and some aspects compared to the Red Hat Linux we are using. The backspace is not functional, and some arrow key have weird behaviour too.
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Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg speaks often of his religion—but he tailors it to fit his politics, and it focuses on works over faith
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SAN DIEGO- Three years old and decked out in a pink and green bikini, Kahmyah Stuart ducks below the surface of a turquoise pool at San Diego's Kroc Center and flippers away like a seal. Trouble is, Kahmyah doesn't know how to swim with her head above water. Neither has she realized the importance of coming up for air. So her grandmother, Kim Ervin, 45, trails her, bounding along the bottom of the pool to be there when Kahmyah, inevitably, pops up sputtering.
"She's fearless," says her great-grandmother, Anita King, 65, watching poolside. "She's just go-go-go. She doesn't realize what can happen."
Indeed, Kahmyah does not yet realize what has happened to her family. Ervin's 24-year-old daughter, who lives in Oakland, has relinquished custody of Kahmyah and her sister, Kaleah, 1, to King, who lives in San Diego. Kahmyah's mom is "going through some things, trying to do something for herself, going to school, working," says King, a slim and regal African-American who wears her hair slicked back into a ponytail and looks 15 years younger than she is. "I have custody as long as it takes, until-" she pauses, then finishes this way: "-when and if she gets herself together."
That leaves King with three people to care for: her mentally retarded adult sister-for whom she provides full-time in-home care-and her great-granddaughters. So King was relieved to learn about the Salvation Army's Ray and Joan Kroc Center. Ervin, visiting from Oakland, happened by one day and saw the aquatic facility. Three underwater swimming trips later, she learned that the center also has a Head Start daycare program that will accept Kahmyah and Kaleah on a part-time basis.
"I'm taking care of them by myself," King said. "I don't get many breaks."
By all accounts, McDonald's heiress Joan Kroc would have been pleased that the legacy she left in the care of the Salvation Army is helping people like Anita King. In 2000, Kroc funded and endowed the state-of-the-art community center that sits in the geographic crease between San Diego and the lower-income city-burbs of La Mesa and El Cajon. Before her death in 2003, Kroc would drop by the center unannounced just to see whether it was, as she'd envisioned, functioning as a "beacon on a hill" for the disadvantaged-offering some family services but emphasizing cultural and recreational enrichment.
She must have liked what she saw: Kroc meticulously planned and executed what is thought to be the largest-ever gift to a private charity-$1.5 billion-to be used in the construction and endowment of 34 more centers across the nation, each tailored to the needs of the community that surrounds it.
Now centers in Detroit, San Francisco, Atlanta, Phoenix, Philadelphia, and elsewhere are in various stages of development, and Salvation Army officers across the nation are looking to San Diego to see what went right and, at first, wrong.
The very fact of Kroc's gift was initially a subject of fierce debate within the Army itself. William Booth, a Methodist minister in Britain, in 1865 founded an evangelical mission to London's inner-city poor, and in 1878 rechristened it the Salvation Army. The group's core purpose: "To preach the gospel of Jesus Christ and to meet human needs in His name without discrimination."
More than a century later, when the group received Kroc's astonishing gift, "We asked ourselves, are we going to be able to stay true to our mission?" said Maj. George Hood, Salvation Army's national community relations and development secretary. "It was a huge gift and there are some who have said, 'This is going to change the Salvation Army.'"
For example, some said Kroc's cultural and recreational focus would dilute the Army's image as caretakers of the poor. Others worried that the fundraising required to generate operating dollars-as much as $70 million a year-would siphon money from other Salvation Army projects, such as its trademark "corps centers" that aid the elderly, prisoners, disaster victims, and struggling families.
Indeed, the San Diego center struggled for a couple of years, Hood said. "We had opened this beautiful new building, but learned that the endowment had to be beefed up in order to generate dollars to cover operating expenses."
"Beautiful new building" may be an understatement. At the Kroc Center, a ribbon of sidewalk runs nearly two city blocks, connecting offices with a sanctuary-theater-library complex. In between lay the components of a civic dream: first, the Head Start daycare center and its colorful playground with a pretend fire engine and a friendly caterpillar-tunnel; then, a soccer-sized athletic field surrounded by a challenge course and rock-climbing tower; next to that, a cavernous building housing a fitness center and three full-size basketball courts.
That building opens onto the enormous aquatic facility where Kahmyah likes to swim. The pool deck's west gate leads out of the warm sunshine into the chill of a full-size ice rink where skaters spin and hockey teams compete. And that leads on to the complex containing a sanctuary that doubles as a performing-arts theater, more classrooms, and a 10,000-volume community library.
About 2,400 people a day take advantage of recreational activities and classes, including religious, educational, and cultural enrichment classes such as Scouting, a teen Bible study, creative writing, and niche fare like "Grassology," a class on bluegrass music. The staff is warm and welcoming, but there are rules-no cursing, for example, no gang attire nor even inappropriate logos.
Kids here "are very respectful, not out of control like some places you go," said Tosh Michael, 41, a disabled man who uses the gym facilities. "I used to teach basketball at a YMCA, so I'm pretty much an authority on that."
So scrupulously maintained is every square inch of the Kroc Center that the single cracked paving stone in front of the athletic field seems a freakish anomaly, like a blemish on a beauty queen. That's the point, said Capt. John Van Cleef, who took over as director last summer: "The subtlety that Joan Kroc wanted infused into the center was 'excellence.' She wanted the rich kid and the poor kid, the senior and the middle-aged person to have access to the same quality."
In the area where the Kroc Center sits, one in five households exists below the poverty line, more than a third are headed by single parents, and 22 percent of adult residents never finished high school. Situated on San Diego's far eastern border, the aging neighborhood was a bit of a forgotten land, too far from downtown for residents to have access to the social services common in urban cores. Before the Kroc Center came, owners of a hodgepodge collection of strip malls and office buildings suffered with occupancy rates of around 30 percent. Buildings had fallen into disrepair. And in a city where home prices are among the nation's highest, zip codes in this grid lagged far behind.
Since the Kroc Center opened, building occupancy has shot up to 95 percent and the area is becoming a magnet for first-time homebuyers, according to Van Cleef. "We can't scientifically attribute those improvements to the center. But we know that the infusion of $57 million and 350 jobs into this neighborhood has helped."
A one-year center membership costs between $240 per adult to $588 per family, with separate youth and senior rates. That's a hefty chunk for low-income residents. To bridge the gap, Joan Kroc, before her death, increased the center's endowment in order to fund full and partial scholarships so that all neighborhood residents, regardless of income, can use it.
Planning is underway for a center in East Detroit, where most kids have just three changes of scenery: home, school, and the streets. Abandoned houses shelter junkies and dealers. In the area's tumbledown city parks, weeds overrun basketball courts. Common areas are littered with syringes and "adult items you wouldn't want kids to have access to," said Russ Russell, the Salvation Army's Detroit director of development.
At a town hall meeting, when the mayor asked kids what they'd most like to have in their neighborhood, they said fewer drug houses and better street lights so that they could get home safely after dark. "It's something you or I are not used to, to have to live in that situation," said Russell.
Russell is already factoring in lessons learned in San Diego. For example, planners studying the economics of East Detroit have found that the most the center will be able to charge is $100 per family. That means the center will need an endowment of at least $50 million to ensure that it is largely self-supporting. To build that nest egg, Russell and his team are breaking new ground in Salvation Army fundraising.
"We are experts at mass fundraising: the $10 check, the $25 check, the handful of change tossed in the kettle," he said. "But we're not experts with large donors. Here in Detroit, we're raising money from people who've never made large gifts to an organization before and talking to people we've never talked to before."
As the San Diego center seemed to buoy the neighborhood around it, Russell predicts that his center will function as a catalyst for change. And how will inner-city Detroiters receive the Army's Christ-centered mission? "That's not a problem in the inner city," he observed. "The folks who are more disadvantaged here, their hearts are so dependent on God."
Not so in San Diego. A 2006 statistical study by the research firm First View found that the "likely faith involvement level and preference for historic Christian religious affiliations is extremely low when compared to national averages." But the same study found that residents in the area did express some church-program preferences that were likely to exceed national averages. Those included sports and camping programs, cultural programs including art and music-all of which are available at the Kroc Center.
San Diego director Van Cleef, who has wrestled with the mission-creep aspect of Joan Kroc's gift, notes the bridge-building potential of such demographics. "Is hockey our mission? Are drama troops our mission? Yes, they are now," he said. "All of these things give us opportunities to connect people with the Army's core mission of 'soup, soap, and salvation.'" The three-S formula refers to the human hierarchy of social-services needs-physical, esteem, and spiritual-as envisioned by founder William Booth.
To fulfill that vision, the San Diego center offers family services, including emergency financial assistance, a parent aide program, kids' summer camps, Christmas toy and food assistance, and parenting classes. It also leases chunks of its sprawling facility to various community and government groups.
One is Project B.R.O., an abstinence course that is part of a San Diego juvenile court program for troubled teens. In the gym building, about 20 kids crowd around foosball and ping-pong tables. Others are playing pickup basketball or doing homework. Mostly black and Latino, they are dressed for a hip-hop video or a night in the 'hood. But, as their probation officer, "Mama J," points out, they know that the Kroc center is definitely not the 'hood.
"Look at them," she said, pointing to three boys who are quietly reading. "Their backs are exposed. They could never do that in the park or in the 'hood. In the 'hood, you sit with your back against a wall."
Mama J, a probation officer for 22 years, shepherds the kids, mostly boys ages 13 to 17 who've been in trouble for theft, drugs, or gang violence. When kids complete Project B.R.O., they receive a free membership to the Kroc Center. "Most of my kids could never afford something like this," said Mama J, who didn't have her department's permission to speak with WORLD, and therefore did not use her real name.
She said her charges "know that the 'other half' lives differently than they do. The shame is that a lot of them are hopeless." The Kroc center, she added, exposes them to sports and culture that people in other income groups take for granted. "It gives them something to aspire to, and even a place just to meet where no one is up in their face or wearing colors."
Mama J is impressed with the hospitality of Kroc Center officials and managers. "Do you know how many places, if you call them up and say, 'Hey, I want to bring 30 emotionally disturbed, criminal kids on probation to your place,' will say yes? Nobody."


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Hart was chosen in the draft's second round, with the 53rd overall pick, by the Tampa Bay Lightning. Vesey was taken just 13 selections later, in the third round, by the Nashville Predators. The two forwards are the 15th and 16th Harvard players to be selected in the draft's first three rounds. Hart, the Crimson's highest pick since Louis Leblanc was chosen 18th in 2009, is Harvard's fifth player to be taken in the second round and its seventh to be taken in the first two rounds. Harvard has had 87 players drafted all-time.
A native of Cumberland, Maine, Hart is the third Harvard player to be drafted by Tampa Bay. The previous two were Dennis Packard '04 and Alex Killorn '12, who earned All-America honors as a senior last season and won the 2012 Calder Cup with the Norfolk Admirals, the Lightning's American Hockey League affiliate. Hart, listed at 6-foot-4 and 203 pounds, totaled 68 points on 32 goals and 36 assists in 29 games for Phillips Exeter Academy last season.
Vesey, a North Reading, Mass., native and the son of former NHL player Jim Vesey, is the second Harvard player to be drafted by Nashville, joining Ryan Maki '07. The 6-1, 194-pound Vesey set an Eastern Junior Hockey League scoring record last season with the South Shore Kings, registering 91 points on 48 goals and 43 helpers in just 45 games.
The 2012-13 Crimson roster will feature nine NHL draftees. Captain Danny Biega was a third-round pick of the Carolina Hurricanes in 2010, and fellow senior Alex Fallstrom was a fourth-round pick of Minnesota in 2009, before his draft rights were traded to the Boston Bruins. Sophomore Patrick McNally was drafted in 2010 (Vancouver Canucks, fourth round), and classmates Colin Blackwell (San Jose Sharks, seventh round), Max Everson (Toronto Maple Leafs, seventh round), Steve Michalek (Minnesota Wild, sixth round) and Petr Placek (Philadelphia Flyers, sixth round) were selected last year.
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Ceiling on Tax Rebate for International Production (TRIP) could rise $12.9 m (€10m) from $5.1m (€4m).
French deputies have approved a motion to boost France's tax incentives aimed at both the local and international film industries.
Modifications approved in Friday's Lower House vote included raising the maximum benefit from the Tax Rebate for International Production (TRIP) aimed at foreign productions shooting in France.
Under the changes, the ceiling on the tax incentive, offering a 20% rebate on French costs to international film productions spending at least one million Euros in France, will rise to $12.9m (€10m) from $5.1m (€4m).
In another significant modification, accommodation has been added to the list of eligible expenses.
"This is an important development, previously accommodation was not included in TRIP but hotels are a big expense for visiting productions," said Patrick Lamassoure, head of Film France, the French agency promoting the country as a shooting location.
Increasing the ceiling, noted Lamassoure, would make the TRIP more attractive to international productions with budgets up to $64m (€50m), rather than up to $25m (€20m) as is currently the case.
SInce the introduction of the TRIP at the beginning of 2009, 53 productions have used the incentive for an overall spend in France of $314m (€243m).
All the changes now have to be approved by French senators in the Upper House and then the European Commission. A senate vote is expected in the coming week.
EC approval could take many months but Friday's Lower House approval is a significant move towards France bolstering its film tax rebate system.
The motion also included changes to France's tax rebate aimed at local film productions, raising the ceiling to $5.1m (€4m) from $1.2 (€1m).
The change is aimed at enticing France's bigger budget productions back home. Some 70% of France's bigger budget productions - over $12.9m (€10m) - currently shoot in other European territories, drawn by more attractive tax incentives elsewhere.
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Friday's vote also included a key modification to the incentive for television production, making non-French language television series produced by French companies eligible for the rebate - which stands at roughly 20% of costs in France.


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Harris: New Shape, New Momentum For PT
By Mike Harris | Senior Writer
Having fought the battle of the (stomach) bulge most of my life, I sympathize with any athlete who reaches middle age and suddenly finds out how the rest of us feel about staying in shape.
Paul Tracy is 41 years old now, approaching middle age and definitely considered elderly in his chosen field, i.e., racing IndyCars.
The transplanted Canadian ace, who makes his year-around home in Las Vegas, hasn't had a full-time ride since 2007, when he and longtime CART/Champ Car team owner Gerry Forsythe parted company.
When Forsythe chose not to join his Champ Car colleagues in being absorbed by the Indy Racing League's IndyCar Series in 2008, the always colorful Tracy – super-aggressive on the track and frank and colorful off of it – found himself on the sidelines.
Since then, he has picked up occasional IndyCar rides, that latest filling in for the injured Dreyer & Reinbold driver Mike Conway on the road course at Watkins Glen two weeks ago. Tracy acquitted himself well, starting 12th and finishing 14th.
Now Tracy is preparing for a pair of important drives with the KV Racing Technology team that could set the stage for a full schedule in 2011 and possibly double as a farewell tour. He will race for the team co-owned by old friend and longtime competitor Jimmy Vasser and former Champ Car co-owner Kevin Kalkhoven on Sunday in his hometown of Toronto – where he qualified 24th Saturday – and a week later at Edmonton.
Tracy has always stayed in shape, working out and spending hours on his bike. But, knowing he is now racing against drivers half his age, Tracy knew he needed to make a special effort this year.
"Jimmy (Vasser) told me that I can race with kids," Tracy explained. "But I needed to be shape and losing weight would help my speed with the car. So I began a strong fitness program right after the first of the year. I admit I was pretty much a couch potato through the holidays."
Tracy went full out on his new physical fitness program, working with personal trainer Jonathan Vose, who also designed a special diet menu. Tracy rode more than 30 miles on his $8,000 Cervélo carbon-fiber road bicycle each morning and worked with a variety of calisthenics including P90X, sit-ups, pull-ups and stretching.
"I work in the gym in the afternoon after my morning rides," explained Tracy, who has lost nearly 40 pounds since the first of the year. "I really haven't been lifting any weights. But now I work for about 90 minutes in the afternoon. I feel much better and ready to race. At Indy, I was able to ride right with TK (Tony Kanaan) and Vitor (Meira) in training."
Unfortunately for Tracy, the great fitness regimen didn't help him make the 33-driver Indy 500 lineup. In one of the most disappointing moments of his career, PT was bumped from the field on the final day of qualifications.
But Tracy was very happy to get some time in an IndyCar at Watkins Glen.
"It was a good experience for me at Watkins Glen," he said. "We had a huge understeer problem early in the race. But the car was good later and I wish the race was longer.
"I was happy with my own performance – I wasn't fatigued, and The Glen is a tough racetrack because of all the long corners, and it was pretty hot. But, compared to last year, when I was carrying a thermal jacket of fat, it was a night and day difference for me. I've been doing my training in and around Vegas, so I'm pretty used to the heat. It's been over 100 degrees out there for a while."
A year ago, Tracy came out of a long, idle period at Toronto and drove from 15th to third with 20 laps remaining. His hopes of a spectacular finish there ended when he collided with Helio Castroneves.
At Edmonton, however, Tracy drove a solid race all day, finishing sixth and drawing raves from the fans and the media.
Now he's hoping to take it a step further.
"I'm in good shape and feel ready to challenge again this year,'' Tracy said this week. "I believe we can be right in the thick of things at the end of the race at both events."
And maybe somebody will be willing to take a chance for next year on an older guy who is in better shape than some of the kids.
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Gross lived in that world. He took the leadership reins at First Interstate Bank in Utah more than a decade ago. He was asked by former Gov. Mike Leavitt to serve as founding executive director at the Department of Workforce Services, consolidating six different agencies of state government. At the same time, he had to deal with the legislative priorities that had created them. It was a daunting task.
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Gross recommends a new leader spend as much time as he or she can talking to everyone who reports directly to them—some who are the strategic thinkers and others who might be the movers.
"Kick the tires, look things over, talk to employees and reassure them. You need to listen more than you talk, and learn as much as you can," he says.
That was certainly the strategy Jill Layfield employed last year when she was named CEO of Backcountry.com, the Park City-based leader in online merchandising of clothing, outdoor gear and recreational products. Layfield, who has been with the company since 2004, became the company's leader when founder Jim Holland assumed the role of executive chairman.
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Layfield identified a few areas where she thought change was necessary. "I didn't want to disrupt things too much, and it wasn't a case of individuals who needed to go—more of who we needed to add to the team. I wanted to preserve our culture because that is so important for us. I knew that to transition to a much larger company, people needed to fit that culture, and we needed to bring in an operating system that fit it."
Eric Morgan recently finished his first year as CEO for AtTask, which produces on-demand project management software for thousands of companies in more than 65 countries. He was named to the position after founder Scott Johnson stepped into the role of chairman. Morgan was recruited to take Johnson's place, and, like Gross, he says transitions of this sort do depend on situations.
"If you're coming into a problem that requires a corporate turnaround, you'll have one approach," he says. "In this case, the company was doing well and growing, but it was time to take it to the next level."
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I have just started to learn topology and I referred to some books and online lectures. The problem is that they all talk the same things and are missing the same things.
I want to know "what is the intuitive significance of open set that makes it so important to be studied?"
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- "The Revealing Charm will reveal invisible ink and messages hidden by magical means. Simply tap a book or parchment with your wand and any hidden message will be revealed. This spell is more than sufficient to overcome the basic concealing charms and so is a favourite of parents and teachers alike."
- —Miranda Goshawk, Book of Spells.[src]
The Revealing Charm[1] (Aparecium) is a charm that forces invisible ink or other hidden messages to appear. It is also possible this spell can be used to make other invisible things reveal themselves. Hermione Granger used this spell on Tom Riddle's Diary to see if anything could be read. Nothing appeared after she used the spell because that was not the enchantment placed on the book.
Known practioneersEdit
- "She tapped the diary three times and said, "Aparecium!""
- —Hermione using the spell on Tom Riddle's diary[src]
- Bridget Wenlock
- Hermione Granger
- Numerous arithmancers and other developers.
The Latin word appareo which means "to become visible or to appear".
Behind the scenesEdit
- This is possibly the spell Severus Snape used to attempt to force the Marauder's Map to display its content, though it may also have been Scarpin's Revelaspell.
- In the Nintendo DS version of the video game adaptation of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, there is a minigame called Aparecium Pairs, the goal of which is to rub the DS's bottom screen within a time limit to reveal a card or group of cards matching the one(s) on the top screen.
- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (First appearance)
- Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Possible appearance)
- Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (film) (Possible appearance)
- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (video game)
- Harry Potter Trading Card Game
- Wonderbook: Book of Spells (First identified as Revealing Charm)
- Pottermore
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- ↑ First Spells with Wonderbook™: Book of Spells on YouTube
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- This small music box portrays the first artificial satellite of the Earth, Sputnik, in orbit around the Earth. A stylized rendition of the satellite is mounted on a round base that represents the globe. On the base is inscribed the date October 4, 1957 (the launch of Sputnik), and the letters CCCP (Cyrillic letters for USSR). When wound, the music box plays a short tune, followed by beeps that represent the characteristic beeps of the satellite that could be heard by amateur radio operators throughout the world during the last three months of 1957. This object was added to the national collection for its significance to the cultural and psychological impact of the Sputnik launch. Although the satellite itself was a very simple one, carrying only basic instruments for measuring temperature and pressure, and a radio transmitter, its impact on world politics, military affairs, and science and technology was profound. The launch of Sputnik transported the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union to a new arena and began the Space Race.
- A private collector, who purchased the music box while on a trip to the Soviet Union in 1964, donated the Sputnik Music box to the museum in 1985. The object is 6 inches, has a base that is 5 inches diameter, and is made of plastic. Sputnik is silver, the stand is clear plastic and the base is blue with gold lettering.
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- Plastic with metal parts
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