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Reykjavik Elf School spills secrets of the 'Hidden People'
Iceland. Home to around 320,000 Icelanders and an undetermined number of elves, dwarfs, fairies and trolls.
With its eerie landscape of frozen lava fields, smoking geysers and barely dormant volcanoes, Iceland certainly seems the sort of place the latter group would inhabit.
This alternative population is known locally as Huldufólk, which translates as Hidden Folk or Hidden People. Ask Icelanders if they believe in them and the answers are as elusive as their name suggests.
To find out more about these hidden peeps, I enrol in a crash course on all things elvish at Reykjavik's Elf School.
The psychics next door
The school is based on Sidmuli Street in the east of the capital. Naturally, it shares its premises with a psychic center.
A tatty sign on a bright blue door guarded by a rosy-cheeked gnome statue provides an odd welcome.
The solitary classroom looks like the study of an eccentric tutor.
There are hundreds of books, lamps with frilly shades, fiber-optic flowers and painted, plaster elves.
"Are the elves a good likeness?" I ask Magnus Skarphedinsson, the school headmaster.
"What? These plastic things? Not at all!" he replies demonstratively, as if the little folk in question might be listening.
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Pure Icelandic
Elves first appeared in a literary sense in Iceland's medieval sagas -- epic, imaginative tales firmly rooted in the country's culture.
In a long-isolated nation such as Iceland, the language has remained pure enough that the population can read these thousand-year-old legends as if they were today's newspapers or websites.
Compared to, say, "Beowulf" in Old English, these elf stories must seem pretty fresh and modern.
Skarphedinsson has spent 30 years talking to thousands of people who claim to have met the Hidden People.
Among those, he describes a man called Halldor Gudnason who once saw a rock at his farm in Slettuhreppur, in western Iceland, turn into "a church with blazing lights" with an "unusually handsome priest" dressed in a gold robe standing at the door.
Then there's Elly Erlingsdottir, who was convinced elves had borrowed her scissors. They weren't juvenile delinquents, though -- they returned them a week later.
Sounds like the nights are long in rural Iceland, I think to myself.
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True-ish believers
But urban Iceland, too, dishes up its fair share of (partial) believers.
Before enrolling in Elf School, I bump into Helga Thor. (Such legendary names are common in Iceland.) She's a student who tells me her aunt believes an elf lives in her neighbor's garden.
"She's never seen him but she has a feeling he's there."
So does she think the Hidden People are real?
"I can't rule it out. They're like ghosts -- you don't have to see them to believe in them."
A fence-sitter.
The most recent folkloric study, from 2006, found that 56% of Icelanders at least believed the Huldufólk might exist.
"Very few will say immediately that they 'believe' in [them] but they won't deny it either," the survey's author, Professor Terry Gunnell, later said.
The country's long-serving current president, Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson, thinks Icelanders long ago invented the Hidden People to keep them company.
Iceland, after all, is among the least densely populated nations on the planet, with around three people per square kilometer.
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Fleeting folk
And Skarphedinsson? He has no doubts about these Hidden Folk.
He tells me he can differentiate 13 types of elf, four kinds of gnome, two species of troll and three varieties of fairy -- handing me a text book to aid identification.
Elves are depicted with long, spindly legs and big ears; dwarfs have pointed hats and turned-up shoes; gnomes are rotund and smiley.
So far, so Christmas card.
While popularly this motley crew are lumped together as "the hidden people," Skarphedinsson says (rather confusingly) the latter are actually a separate race -- the capitalized Hidden People.
What's more, they're apparently supernatural beings who look very similar to humans, although they wear unfashionable clothes.
That would make them stand out all the more in a nation of hipsters such as Iceland (as any visit to pierced and tattooed Reykjavik will show).
As for elves, Skarphedinsson describes them as farmers and fishermen with a fondness for fortune telling.
When elves met our ancestors they explained the difference between right and wrong, "but we ignored them," the headmaster says.
"We became liars and cheats -- poison to their ears."
More on CNN: Inside the cold heart of an Icelandic volcano
Never cross an elf
That's why elves have a bone to pick with humans, which leads to the most important lesson at Elf School: never cross an elf.
In particular, disturb their homes (notably solitary rocks), and you'll pay for it.
Skarphedinsson mentions a small boulder in a car park off Armula Street, near the school.
The car park used to be a chicken farm.
"The farmer who built the farm had a dream," the headmaster says.
"An [elven voice] said, 'Save the big stone on the east of the land, because we live there.'
"The farmer left the stone alone.
"But when he sold the farm, the new owners didn't show any respect.
"When they shifted the stone their chickens all stopped laying.
"Today everyone gives that stone space."
I visit the site that evening.
The parking spot next to the stone is empty, although cars are double parked elsewhere.
Elf houses
Nowadays, Icelanders' actions towards the Hidden Folk speak at least as loudly as their ambivalent words.
Many families have small wooden alfhol (elf houses) in their gardens for the tiny travelers.
A highway in Kopavogur was narrowed to accommodate a protruding stone said to be inhabited by elves.
Roadworks in Grasteinn were put on hold until a dwarf's boulder could be moved -- delicately -- to one side, and a hotel in Reykjavik (Hotel Klettur) has incorporated stones into a wall to prevent any bad elven feelings.
Despite his lifetime of research into the Hidden People, Skarphedinsson has a surprise up his sleeve.
He's never seen one himself.
"I asked my psychic friend if she knew why," he says.
"A few days later she told me one of the Hidden People had appeared to her in a dream and told her they'd agreed never to reveal themselves to me."
"Why?" I ask.
"Because they thought I'd ask too many questions."
Elf School (Sidumuli 31, Reykjavik; +354 588 6060) is open on Fridays, when three-hour seminars are held. The cost is €39 ($52) per person, including coffee and pancakes or waffles.
Groups of three or more can make special reservations if regular hours do not suit.
Attendees receive a certificate.

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I am excited to share my conversation with Dr. Jonathan Krasner, HUC professor of the American Jewish Experience and author of The Benderly Boys & American Jewish Education.
SFS: Jonathan, congratulations on winning the National Jewish Book Award for American Jewish Studies!
JK: Thanks, Sheryl. It is very exciting!
SFS: I had not realized until I read your book, how big an impact Samson Benderly has made on my life and that of my children. In fact, I had never heard of him. But I suspect his fingerprints are all over the Jewish supplementary schools and camp that I attended as well as here HUC. Tell me about Benderly's major works.
JK: Samson Benderly was a fascinating guy. Born into a Hasidic family in Safed in the late 19th century, he defied his parents and went to study medicine in Beirut and, later, Baltimore. In order to support himself he taught Hebrew and eventually became the head of a progressive supplementary school in Baltimore. Somewhere along the way he became one of the earliest Jewish educators in North America to teach Hebrew using the immersion method — Ivrit b'Ivrit. One of his earliest students was Henrietta Szold, who would go on to found Hadassah.
Over time, he realized that his sideline was actually his passion and he gave up medicine for education. News of his progressive methods and impressive results spread and he was called to New York to direct the first bureau of Jewish education. From his perch at the BJE, where he worked from 1910-1941, he worked to professionalize the field, modernize the supplementary schools, train teachers, develop curricula and teaching materials, open the first Jewish culture camps, and convince Federation that Jewish education should be a community responsibility. Most importantly, perhaps, he raised a generation of disciples who spread his ideas to communities across North America. They were known as the "Benderly boys."
SFS: I was surprised that much of his early work focused on Jewish education for girls. Why did he think that was important and how did he make his programs so successful?
JK: Benderly's interest in girls' education stemmed from his conviction that the "future mothers of Israel" needed to have a strong Jewish foundation if they were to raise knowledgeable children with positive Jewish identities. Like many secular educators of his day, Benderly also believed that women's dispositions made them better teachers, on average, than men, especially for young children. So he was very interested in preparing his most promising female students to become teachers. There was also some opportunism at play. Benderly wanted to open laboratory schools that would train teachers and pioneer modern methods. But he feared that parents would be hesitant to send their boys to these untested and newfangled institutions. Girls, on the other hand represented a terribly underserved market. With few alternatives, parents were more likely to "take a chance" with their girls. ( There was a further consideration that made girls' education attractive: In those days, girls did not have bat mitzvahs, so the lab schools were under no pressure to teach to the test, so to speak.)
By the way, the "Benderly boys" included a number of girls! They received the same training as their male colleagues, studying at Columbia University Teachers College and the Jewish Theological Seminary's Teachers Institute while interning at the Bureau of Jewish Education under Benderly's mentorship. Most of these women followed the gender conventions of the day and eventually gave up their jobs to raise families. But a few stayed in the field. Libbie Berkson ran Camp Modin in Canaan, Maine for many years, and Leah Klepper taught pedagogy at the Teachers Institute.
SFS: Benderly worked largely with Jewish immigrants, especially in the early 1900's. Immigrants often put much of their energy into assimilating and melting into the proverbial American pot. How did he entice them into incorporating Jewish education and religious (not just cultural) identity into their lives?
JK: Your question is very perceptive and points to one of Benderly's greatest challenges. On the one hand, there were traditionalists who really wanted to give their children the same Jewish education they had back in eastern Europe. On the other hand, there were, for lack of a better term, assimilationists, who were far more concerned about making sure that their children fit in and succeeded in American society more generally. Benderly was promoting a third option, teaching an Americanized Judaism that was perceived to be in harmony with American culture and values and would not conflict with Jewish socio-economic aspirations. It was a struggle at first and there were many parents and community leaders who resisted. But as fears grew about an Jewishly alienated and godless second generation, more people began to embrace Benderly's approach. As one Orthodox rabbi put it, Benderly's methods might not be his cup of tea, but he seemed to get kids excited about Judaism, and that was worth the world. To be honest, however, Benderly's modernized supplementary school only achieves universal acceptance in the postwar period when it becomes a standard feature of the suburban synagogue center.
SFS: The institutions that he created were very different from those of the European Jewish communities. What did Benderly feel was important for American Judaism?
JK: Benderly was an immigrant and he had the typical immigrant's enthusiasm for America as a land of opportunity and a haven from intolerance. He was not interested in a strategy of resistance. Rather, he was an accommodationist. He thought Judaism could be harmonized with American values. But he also believed that it needed to be modernized in order to appeal to the younger generation. Benderly was also a cultural Zionist and believed that American Jewish culture could and should draw inspiration from the Jewish upbuilding of Palestine (Eretz Yisrael).
SFS: I was surprised to learn that Benderly was opposed to Jewish day schools. Why was that?
JK: Benderly realized that the vast majority of American Jews were wedded to the public schools. Secular education was a vehicle for socio-economic advancement and Americanization. So, his focus on supplementary education was based on practicality. It is important to remember that day school education did not really take off until the postwar era. At the same time, however, Benderly believed in the democratic mission of the public schools. So, there was also an ideological component to his opposition.
SFS: Jonathan, I have a question about your approach to this material. You mentioned that much of the previous scholarship on Jewish education was "prescriptive;" that it showed a top-down approach to what Jewish programs intended to do. You, however, wanted to be more "descriptive." Can you tell me what that means to your research?
JK: Previous historians of Jewish education tended to also be practitioners. They had a vested interest in promoting a particular narrative. some were also sheepish about admitting the extent to which the educators' aspirations went unrealized. they did not want to admit failure. I am certainly not dispassionate about my subject. But I think I have a level of distance that allows me to be more clear-eyed. I've also tried hard to supplement prescriptive materials — curricula, textbooks, articles — with descriptive sources — photos, internal reports, private correspondence. Taken together, I think they paint a more well-rounded picture of Jewish education in the first half of the 20th century.


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EGLIN A.F.B. � Civilian employees of Eglin Air Force Base were notified this afternoon to begin making preparations for possible furloughs if Congressionally mandated "sequestration" is activated March 1.
EGLIN A.F.B. � Civilian employees of Eglin Air Force Base were notified this afternoon to begin making preparations for possible furloughs if Congressionally mandated "sequestration" is activated March 1.
Sequestration is a half-trillion-dollar across-the-board government spending cut required by law following the failure of the bi-partisan Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction to arrive at a plan for reducing the national deficit. The "super committee," as it was called, announced its inability to reach an agreement on Nov. 21, 2011.
The memo received by civilian workers at Eglin announced the Department of Defense today notified Congress of its intent to furlough civilian workers if sequestration is activated March 1. President Barack Obama shielded active duty military members from furloughs.
"Notification of DoD's intent to furlough is the first step in the furlough process," the memo stated. "It is NOT an irrevocable decision to furlough civilian airmen, but you should begin personal planning in the event sequestration is not avoided."
Furloughs could occur one day a week for up to 22 weeks, defense contractor InDyne General Manager Jim Heald said during an interview with News Bulletin editorial staff.
"All government civilians would take one day off per week without pay," Heald said. "That's a 20 percent hit. We'll all be watching Washington, D.C., to see what's going to take place in the next week...I'm very nervous for my workforce. I have about 800 great patriots working for me. Hopefully Congress will do its job."
Because it works hand-in-hand with its government customers, InDyne, though a private company, would be affected by fuloughs.
"What we have is government oversight of us," Heald said. "When we are doing a test on the range, we obviously don't do anything alone. There are large teams that work a test program. ...Typically we won't do the test unless the test engineer, typically a government person, either military or government civil service, is there watching.
"It may slow things down. If we can't do testing on the day the government employee isn't there, we'll have to do something else and we hope that something else is not furloughs."
Crestview City Council President Ben Iannucci III said the impact of civil service employee furloughs would be felt throughout the community.
"How many people in Crestview either are in the military or work for the military?" Iannucci asked rhetorically. "It's a lot of people in our community. Furloughs would go through the fiscal year. That's going to effect everything from shopping to people thinking of coming here on vacation. Even things like Christmas shopping would take a hit."
Accompanying the memo received by civilian Eglin employees was a memo from Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta.
"In the event of sequestration, we will do everything we can to continue to perform our core mission of providing for the security of the United States, but there is no mistaking that the rigid nature and scale of the cuts forced upon this department will result in a serious erosion of readiness across the force," Panetta's memo stated.
"I have also been deeply concerned about the potential direct impact of sequestration on you and your families. We are doing everything possible to limit the worst effects on DoD personel � but I regret that our flexibility within the law is extremely limited."
Heald said he was hopeful elected representatives will do their job and head off the spending cuts.
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MACHIAS, Maine (AP) � Authorities say two women who became lost while hiking in a Maine state park were found, but died shortly afterward when their car went into the water, not far from a boat ramp.
Killed Tuesday night were 37-year-old Amy Stiner of Machias and 38-year-old Melissa Moyer of Sunbury, Pa.
The Maine Warden Service responded to a search for the women, who became lost near Roque Bluffs State Park. A landowner found them and their dog and gave them a ride to a residence. Authorities picked them up and took them back to their car.
A short time later, the women called to say they had driven their vehicle into the water. The warden service responded, but couldn't find the car or the women. The car was later found underwater.


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Even the turtles holding up the Bronze lamps on the Supreme Court plaza seemed to want to pull in their heads from today's frigid temperatures.
Inside, the Justices heard arguments in two puzzling cases.The first, Paroline v. U.S., presented the Court with the problem of apportioning restitution to victims of child pornography. In this digital age, where the same image can be downloaded by many participants in the sexual exploitation of a child, to what extent is each viewer responsible for the humiliation and damage suffered?The lawyer for the victim, Utah law professor Paul Cassell, in this case insisted that each perpetrator should be responsible for the entire $3.4 million award. "You're not claiming – or are you" asked Justice Kagan, "that she's been victimized to the tune of $3.4 million as a result of this particular defendant's offense?"
"He contributed to the entire amount," said Cassell.
The second case, Abramski v. U.S., concerns the so-called "Straw Purchaser" law that is supposed to prevent sales to those not entitled to own firearms, such as convicted felons, by requiring gun dealers to have buyers fill out a form. The form asks, "Are you the actual transferee/buyer of the firearm listed on this form?"Justice Breyer, pictured above on the left, known for often posing convoluted hypotheticals had an esoteric analysis of the term 'Straw Purchaser'. "It comes from 'straw bail'," he told petitioner's lawyer, RichardDietz, "where someone else put up the bail and it was called straw because the people who made a career of that used to wear straw in their shoes. Interesting."
"He made that up," Justice Scalia interjected.
Lyle Denniston's analyses of the arguments are here, and here.


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For people without a personality disorder, personality traits are patterns of thinking, reacting, and behaving that remain relatively consistent and stable over time. People with a personality disorder display more rigid thinking and reacting behaviors that make it hard for them to adapt to a situation. These behaviors often disrupt their personal, professional, and social lives.
Generally, personality disorders are divided into 3 subtypes (or clusters), and include the following:
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Paranoid personality disorder. People with this disorder are often cold, distant, and unable to form close, interpersonal relationships. Often overly, yet unjustifiably, suspicious of their surroundings, people with paranoid personality disorder generally cannot see their role in conflict situations. Instead, they often project their feelings of paranoia as anger onto others.
Schizoid personality disorder. People with this disorder are often cold, distant, introverted, and have an intense fear of intimacy and closeness. People with schizoid personality disorder are absorbed in their own thinking and daydreaming. Because of this, they exclude themselves from attachment to people and reality.
Schizotypal personality disorder. Similar to those with schizoid personality disorder, people with this disorder are often cold, distant, introverted, and have an intense fear of intimacy and closeness. Yet, with schizotypal personality disorder, people also show disordered thinking, perception, and ineffective communication skills. Many symptoms of schizotypal personality disorder resemble schizophrenia, but are less intense and intrusive.
Borderline personality disorder. People with this disorder are not stable in their perceptions of themselves, and have difficulty keeping stable relationships. Moods may also be inconsistent, but never neutral. Their sense of reality is always seen in "black and white." People with borderline personality disorder often feel as though they lacked a certain level of nurturing while growing up. As a result, they constantly seek a higher level of caretaking from others as adults. This may be achieved through manipulation of others, leaving them often feeling empty, angry, and abandoned, which may lead to desperate and impulsive behavior.
Antisocial personality disorder. People with this disorder characteristically disregard the feelings, property, authority, and respect of others for their own personal gain. This may include violent or aggressive acts involving or targeting other individuals, without a sense of regret or guilt for any of their destructive actions.
Narcissistic personality disorder. People with this disorder present severely overly-inflated feelings of self-worth, grandness, and superiority over others. People with narcissistic personality disorder often exploit others who fail to admire them. They are overly sensitive to criticism, judgment, and defeat.
Histrionic personality disorder. People with this disorder are overly conscious of their appearance and are constantly seeking attention. They also often behave dramatically in situations that do not warrant this type of reaction. The emotional expressions of people with histrionic personality disorder are often judged as superficial and exaggerated.
Dependent personality disorder. People with this disorder rely heavily on others for validation and fulfillment of basic needs. They are often unable to properly care for themselves. People with dependent personality disorder lack self-confidence and security, and have a hard time making decisions.
Avoidant personality disorder. People with this disorder are hypersensitive to rejection. Because of this, they avoid situations with any possible conflict. This reaction is fear-driven. People with avoidant personality disorder become disturbed by their own social isolation, withdrawal, and inability to form close, interpersonal relationships.
Obsessive-compulsive personality disorder. People with this disorder are inflexible to change. They are bothered by a disrupted routine due to their obsession for order. They experience anxiety and have trouble completing tasks and making decisions. People with obsessive-compulsive personality disorder often become uncomfortable in situations that are beyond their control. They have difficulty maintaining positive, healthy interpersonal relationships as a result.
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The main contributors to this document are Michael J. Donahue and Donald G. Porter, both of ITL/NIST. The Quick Start section is based on notes from Dianne P. O'Leary.
The OOMMF code is being developed mainly by Michael Donahue and Donald Porter. Robert D. McMichael made contributions to the early development of the 2D micromagnetic solver. Jason Eicke is responsible for the problem editor, and has worked on the self-magnetostatic module of the micromagnetic solver.
Quite a few users have contributed to the development of OOMMF by submitting bug reports, small pieces of code, or suggestions for improvements. Many thanks to all these people, including Dieter Buntinx, NgocNga Dao, Olivier Gérardin, Ping He, Michael Ho, Mansoor B. A. Jalil, Jörg Jorzick, Pavel Kabos, Michael Kleiber, H. T. Leung, David Lewis, Sang Ho Lim, Yi Liu, Van Luu, Andy P. Manners, Edward Myers, Andrew Newell, Valentine Novosad, Andrew Perrella, Angeline Phoa, Anil Prabhakar, Robert Ravlic, Stephen E. Russek, Renat Sabirianov, Zhupei Shi, Xiaobo Tan, Stephen Thompson, Vassilios Tsiantos, Pieter Visscher, Scott L. Whittenburg, Kong Xiangyang, Chengtao Yu, Steven A. Zielke, and Pei Zou.
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(Text of Mayor Thomas M. Menino's speech as handed out at at Faneuil Hall March 28, 2013)
I never dreamed I would end up here: Mayor of Boston during its best days.
|Jobs, graduation rates, construction, and credit ratings are all at record highs. Population, school enrollment, crime rates, and housing all have hit their best mark in years. Boston's neighborhoods are thriving as they never have. Most important to me, we are a more open and accepting city. It was a new day when you picked a Mayor with Italian grandparents. It's a much newer day now.
Over the past few months, I have been weighing my own place in Boston's bright future. During that time, I have been blessed to regain so much of my health. My physical therapy is going great. I feel better today than I have in a long, long while.
I am back to a Mayor schedule, but not a Menino schedule.
And I miss that. I miss hitting every event, ribbon cutting, new homeowner dinner, school play, and chance meeting. Spending so much time in the neighborhoods gives me energy. Being with our residents builds our trust. It may not be the only way to lead Boston, but it's the only way for me.
So I am here with the people I love, to tell the city I love, that I will leave the job that I love. I can run, I can win, and I can lead, but not "in-the-neighborhoods-all-the-time" as I like.
|30 years ago, when I first ran for office, my father Carl worried I would end up un-employed. Instead, my neighbors put their trust in me. I am so humbled and grateful. I will find a way to thank all of you and to celebrate together. But first, we still have much work to do. I have no intention of letting up just yet.
I will be very proud if I have changed our city in some ways that last. I know from community leaders and business executives and non-profit champions and teachers of all types that there are more ways to impact our city than just this one. So I do plan to stay very engaged in Boston's future. I am not retiring, but just turning the page on this chapter to the next.
I have no plans to pick the person to fill this seat. I just ask that you choose someone who loves this City as much as I have.
I am so grateful to Angela and our family who have been by my side for every tough decision along the way, including this most difficult one.
One of the great blessings of this job was meeting half the people who live in this city. I get asked all the time how I met so much of Boston. I just did what I loved, and then it wasn't too hard:
All you do is start in Roslindale and rebuild its Main Street with neighbors. You walk with the proud residents of Bowdoin Geneva every Christmas Eve as they survey their progress and you keep walking until the job is done.
You promise the people of Grove Hall a supermarket and shopping mall and you deliver. You say in West Roxbury that a landfill will become a park and then you return for soccer games. You shovel dirt in Dudley Square to move what seemed like mountains. To build Boston's waterfront with a new generation, you collaborate because that's what truly meeting people is.
You promise a computer for every classroom and then watch kids teach their grandmothers how to email. You partner with parents to keep politics out of the school committee and then you work with them to deliver quality schools closer to their homes. You read to children at dazzling new libraries in Mattapan and Brighton.
You open your arms to all New Bostonians and then stand with them as they become citizens. And then you cut a ribbon on the small business they started. And then, when their children graduate at the top of their class, you have them for lunch and marvel at how fast they rise up in a city that welcomes them.
You stand with new homeowners in public housing and tell them they deserve a yard and a front door. You reach out to the homeless on cold winter nights and say they count also. You thank nurses and doctors at a public hospital and public health centers because city people deserve great health care, too.
You rally with gay friends and neighbors.
You work with business executives to provide summer jobs and then talk with teens about what they learned. You visit the younger kids at Harbor View.
You come to this building year after year, for nights on end, to give away school awards, and with them, encouragement. And you are amazed at how the kids get smarter and the scholarships pour in and the countries of their parents span the globe.
If you want to meet half the people in this city, all you do is go to their homes and their jobs and where they raise their families and where they strive to improve their neighborhoods and say this: Boston is the greatest city on earth. It is a buzzing, amazing, history-making place. It gets better every day because of you, and as long as you work together that will never change.


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Company Website: https://www.yale.edu
Founded in 1810, the Yale School of Medicine is a world-renowned center for biomedical research, education and advanced health care.
Among its 28 departments are one of the nation's oldest schools of public health and the internationally recognized Child Study Center, founded in 1911. Its Yale Cancer Center is one of 41 comprehensive cancer centers designated by the National Cancer Institute.
Affiliated institutions include the 944-bed Yale-New Haven Hospital—flagship of the Yale New Haven Health System—and the Connecticut Mental Health Center, Pierce Laboratory, and VA Connecticut Healthcare System in nearby West Haven.
The School of Medicine consistently ranks among the handful of leading recipients of research funding from the National Institutes of Health and other organizations supporting the biomedical sciences, and belongs to medical organizations including the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) and the Association of Academic Health Centers (AAHC).
The school's unique curriculum, known as the Yale system of medical education, promotes teaching in small seminar, conference and tutorial settings, and requires student self-evaluation, independent thinking and investigation.
Since 1839, Yale has required that each student complete a thesis based on original research prior to graduation. Graduates of the school have gone on to significant leadership positions in virtually every medical field, as well as many non-medical areas.


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The life cycle cost of a pump system is the total cost of all system components over their lifetime. This is typically 10 - 20 years.
The life cycle cost of a pumping system is calculated as:
LCC = Cic + Cin + Ce + Co + Cm + Cs + Cenv + Cd
LCC = life cycle cost
Cic = initial costs, purchase price
Cin = installation and commissioning costs
Ce = energy costs
Co = operating costs
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Penn State to make first payment of $60M fine Dec. 20
This will be first of five annual payments
Penn State University says it will make its first payment later this month on the $60 million fine issued by the National Collegiate Athletic Association over the sex-abuse scandal involving former assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky.
The Patriot-News of Harrisburg reports the university said Friday that it will make the first of five annual payments beginning on Dec. 20.
The NCAA says the money will be held in a money market account while a task force works out guidelines for distribution of grants from an endowment established to combat child sex abuse.
The NCAA imposed the fine and other sanctions over Penn State's handling of the allegations against Sandusky.
Sandusky, who was convicted this summer of abusing 10 boys, is serving a 30-60 year prison sentence.


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People wearing Google's glasses are transported to a strange new world in which the Internet is always in their line of sight. But for people looking at the people wearing those glasses, the view is even stranger — someone wearing a computer processor, a battery and a tiny screen on her face.
As Google and other companies begin to build wearable technology like glasses and watches, an industry not known for its fashion sense is facing a new challenge — how to be stylish. Design has always been important to technology, with products like Apple's becoming fashion statements, but designing hardware that people will wear like jewelry is an entirely different task.
In a sign of how acute the challenge is for Google, the company is negotiating with Warby Parker, an e-commerce start-up company that sells trendy eyeglasses, to help it design more fashionable frames, according to two people briefed on the negotiations who were not authorized to speak publicly because the partnership has not been made official. Google and Warby Parker declined to comment.
They join other companies that are grappling with these design challenges, including big companies like Apple, Nike and Jawbone and smaller ones like Pebble, MetaWatch and Misfit Wearables.
Jawbone's health-tracking wristband, Up, for instance, was designed by Yves Behar, the company's chief creative officer and a well-known designer who has worked with fashion and furniture companies. Apple, which is said to be making a smart watch, has assigned some of its top designers to make curved glass that is comfortable and aesthetically appealing.
On Wednesday, Google began accepting applications to choose a small group of people to buy an early version of the glasses, called Google Glass. It hopes to sell Glass to the broader public this year, according to two people briefed on the plans.
The frames do not have lenses, though Google is experimenting with adding sunglass or prescription lenses in some versions. They have a tiny screen that appears much bigger from the wearer's perspective than it does on the frame. Glass wearers can take pictures or record video without using their hands, send the images to friends or post them online, see walking directions, search the Web by voice command and view language translations.
The glasses reach the Internet through Wi-Fi or Bluetooth, which connects to the wireless service on a user's cellphone. The glasses respond when a user speaks, touches the frame or moves the head.
For Google, the glasses are a major step toward its dream of what is known as ubiquitous computing — the idea that computers and the Internet will be accessible anywhere and we can ask them to do things without lifting a finger.
The glasses will eventually incorporate several Google products, which could become more useful when they are in front of a user's eyes rather than on a phone or a computer screen.
For instance, the latest version of the glasses can provide walking and hiking directions from Google Maps, alerts from Google Now about a coming meeting or a traffic jam, and video chats from Google Hangouts.
In a video released on Wednesday, Google offered ideas about what to do with the glasses. A ballerina could record and stream live video behind the scenes and onstage; a tourist in Thailand could ask Google to translate the word "delicious" while eating noodles on a boat; or a family could video chat over a long distance with a relative on her birthday.
Other seemingly far-fetched uses are not far off. The glasses could be used to play an augmented reality game in which the real world was annotated with virtual information. Google has such a smartphone app, called Ingress. Users could photograph an object or building and the glasses could identify it, something that is already possible using Google on phones and computers.
Though Google warns of technical bumps as people use the glasses, it has already solved many of the technical challenges. The biggest obstacle now is getting people to use them.
Though Google employees have been spotted wearing them in the San Francisco Bay Area, they receive strange looks, for example, from a bartender who made fun of his Glass-wearing patrons.
Privacy advocates worry about a day when people wearing glasses could use facial recognition to identify strangers on the street or surreptitiously record and broadcast conversations. On a more mundane level, rude behavior like checking e-mail during conversations would become much easier to hide.
"Changing behavior is much more challenging than changing technology," said Olof Schybergson, founder and chief executive of Fjord, a design company that has helped clients build wearable devices.
Then there is that fashion hurdle. The frames now look like wire wraparound glasses with hardware along one side.
"If you look at other wearable pieces of functional technology, there's a reason they're not ubiquitous. There's a reason we all make fun of someone wearing a Bluetooth or a BlackBerry holster," said Daniella Yacobovsky, co-founder of BaubleBar, an online jewelry retailer. "Is it useful? Of course it is. Do I look like a tool? Yeah. I'm not going to wear it."
Google's design team has made Glass's look and comfort a priority, according to a person briefed on the company's design process. Designers first made it in black, thinking it would flatter everyone, but they added colors because black frames can look heavy on a fair person. The glasses, which 18 months ago weighed eight pounds, are now lighter than a typical pair of sunglasses. Engineers have worked to shrink the components so wearers look less like cyborgs.
In addition to considering partnering with Warby Parker, Google is doing other things to recruit the fashion-savvy, particularly women. It could open retail stores where people can try on the glasses, according to news reports. At Fashion Week last year, models wore colored versions on the runway for Diane von Furstenberg, and the designer made a behind-the-scenes video wearing the glasses.
Google is showing women wearing the glasses in many of its public relations photos. Several members of the Glass team who speak publicly are women.
But the excitement about Glass so far has come from software developers for whom the glasses are the ultimate status symbol. Other than Google employees, they are the only ones who have been permitted to wear them for more than a few minutes.
Next, Google says it is looking for "bold, creative individuals" who want to try the glasses. People who want to apply have until Wednesday to write a post on Google Plus or Twitter telling what they would do with the glasses. Posts must be 50 words or fewer and contain the hashtag #ifihadglass. Those chosen by Google's judges must pay $1,500 for the glasses and attend an event to pick up the glasses in New York, San Francisco or Los Angeles.
"The big question is, Why on earth would you put something like this on your head?" Babak Parviz, the leader of the Google Glass team, said in a previous interview. "If you do things that are very useful, it becomes fashionable."


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Mass, a concept familiar to all of us, is also
one of the deepest
mysteries in nature. Almost all of the mass in the
visible universe,
you, me and any other stuff that we see around us, emerges from a
quantum field theory, called QCD, which has a completely negligible
microscopic mass content. How does QCD and the family of
theories it belongs to generate a mass?
This class of non-perturbative problems remained largely elusive despite much
effort over the years. Recently, new ideas based on compactification have been
shown useful to address some of these. Two such inter-related ideas are circle
compactifications, which avoid phase transitions and large-N volume
independence. Through the first one, we realized the existence of a
large-class of "topological molecules", e.g. magnetic bions,
generate mass gap in a class
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Former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton has joined Twitter, describing herself as a "pantsuit aficionado" and a "hair icon."
The former New York senator and first lady sent out her first tweet on Monday under the handle (at)HillaryClinton.
In her first tweet, Clinton thanked the creators of the popular online parodies called "Texts from Hillary," and said, "I'll take it from here." She added a hashtag #tweetsfromhillary.
The potential 2016 presidential candidate's profile page shows the infamous photo of the stern-looking Clintonwearing dark sunglasses and reading her Blackberry aboard a military plane.
Her biography section includes light-hearted descriptions like "hair icon," ''pantsuit aficionado," and "glass ceiling cracker." The bio ends with the letters "TBD," meaning, 'to be determined.'
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A "winner disconnect" happens when a player disconnects from a match while winning, resulting in an automatic loss after 10 min game pause.
Issue(s) in case of Disconnection is under the Tournament Admin discretion. Contact the available Moderator or Ultimate Battle online staff for reporting issue(s).
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Wal-Mart, Caesars Entertainment Drop Paula Deen
Paula Deen appeared on TV this morning to assure fans that she is not a racist, but two more companies still decided to sever ties with the embattled TV chef.
Wal-Mart and Caesars Entertainment are the latest companies to drop Paula Deen after she admitted to using a racial slur in the past. Previously, the Food Network announced that her contract would not be renewed, and Smithfield Foods, a pork producer who services Deen's restaurants, followed suit a few days later.)
"We are ending our relationship with Paula Deen Enterprises and we will not place new orders beyond those already committed," a Wal-Mart spokesperson told ABC News. "We will work with suppliers to address existing inventories and agreements."
The world's largest retailer began carrying Paula Deen-branded items in its U.S. stores in 2011.
Caesars Entertainment, which operates the celebrity chef's restaurants in four locations, has also ended its relationship with Deen. The company plans to re-brand those restaurants in the near future.
"While we appreciate Paula's sincere apologies for statements she made in her past that she recently disclosed during a deposition given in response to a lawsuit, after thoughtful consideration of their impact, we have mutually decided that it is in the best interests of both parties to part ways at this time," a representative for Caesars Entertainment told ABC News Radio.
Walmart and Caesars Entertainment joined Smithfield, a food company specializing in pork products, which dropped Deen on Monday. The Food Network also decided not to renew Deen's contract after her remarks.
QVC told TMZ.com it was "closely monitoring these events and we are reviewing our business relationship with Ms. Deen. In the meantime, we have no immediate plans to have her appear on QVC."
A spokesperson for Random House, which is publishing Deen's upcoming book, "Paula Deen's New Testament: 250 Favorite Recipes, All Lightened Up," similarly told People magazine it is "monitoring the situation closely." The book is scheduled to come out in October.
Watch Paula Deen "beg for your forgiveness." Deen clarified her usage of the N-word on TV Wednesday, denying that she ever used it outside of an instance when she was held at gunpoint.
"I is what I is, and I'm not changing," she said between sobs. "If there's anyone out there that has never said something that they wish they could take back, if you're out there, please pick up that stone and throw it so hard at my head that it kills me. Please, I want to meet you. I want to meet you."
The controversy was sparked by a lawsuit filed by a former employee at Deen's Savannah, Ga., restaurants, who claimed racial and sexual harassment by Deen and her brother, Bubba Hier, while working for them.
Deen's attorney denied the claims, but in a suit-related deposition last month, Deen responded, "I'm sure I have," when asked if she'd used the N-word since being robbed, adding, "but it's been a very long time."


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These Riding Chaps are made of oilcloth that is lined with 10 oz canvas. They are extremely comfortable to wear due to their lightweight characteristics while also offering all of the benefits of the oilcloth's water resistant quality and durability.
The Riding Chaps are made with solid brass hardware, leather waist band and leather hem. The accent leather colors include brown and nutmeg.
Additional options include custom length, e-collar transmitter pocket and flap pocket. The e-collar transmitter pocket will hold most transmitters in either the antenna up or down position, allowing for operation while in the pocket. The flap pocket is perfect for a judge's book or notebook and a pen or pencil.
These Riding Chaps are made to order so please allow 2 - 3 weeks for delivery.
This style of chap is designed to fit with the waist band being worn just below the waist line and belt of your pants, as traditional western chaps are worn. As you wrap the pant leg around and zip, the oilcloth leg should fit 2" below your crotch at the inseam.
When looking at the size chart, use your true measurements. Do not calculate for any additional clothing, this has already been calculated for you.
The thigh measurement is the finish size. Make sure your thigh measurement is at least 1" smaller than what is listed for your size.
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