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image caption: From the left, first column: (upper figure) Cut plane view of electron bonding charge densities of an iron-phosphorus compound obtained from ab initio calculations, and (lower figure) scanning electron micrograph of fracture surface of ductile amorphous steel showing network of plastic deformation zones. Second column: Pole figures of a (002) MnAl thin film deposited on a MgO substrate. Third column: (upper) The magnetic strip domain structure of MnAl thin film revealed by Magnetic Force Microscopy image. (Lower) The detailed magnetic parallel strip domains showing the width is ~10 nm. Fourth column: Color contour map of the strongly anisotropic spin resonance neutron scattering intensity in the momentum space obtained from superconducting FeTe0.5Se0.5 whose crystal structure is shown in the inset.
Experimental Condensed Matter Physics
Condensed matter physics seeks to understand the striking new physical properties that may emerge when very large numbers of atoms or molecules organize into solids or liquids. Research in this area has led to fundamental breakthroughs in our understanding of metals, semiconductors and superconductors, as well as to the inventions of the transistor, diode laser, and integrated circuit. Condensed matter physics thus comprises the technological underpinning for the entire modern computer and communications industry. For these reasons, worldwide, this branch of physics commands the largest number of researchers, who work in academic institutions, major industrial and government laboratories, and small entrepreneurial enterprises. The problems addressed by condensed matter physicists are often interdiscplinary in nature, affecting a number of other scientific fields including chemistry, biology, electrical engineering, and materials science. The University of Virginia maintains a diverse and vigorous research program in both experimental and theoretical condensed matter physics.
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The experimental condensed matter research groups at UVa explore the structural, optical, electronic, and magnetic properties of different types of solids ranging from amorphous to crystalline systems with unusual properties. Activities include the synthesis and characterization of metallic glasses, quasicrystals, colossal magnetoresistive manganites and high temperature superconductors, measurements of electronic and magnetic properties of new intermetallic compounds, characterization of static and dynamic lattice effects in oxides, intermetallic alloys and martensites using the pair density function analysis, study of the microscopic processes at the interface of two relatively sliding materials as well as inside metals and crystals during plastic deformation, study of phase transitions, measurement of magnetic and quantum correlation effects in heavy fermion and high-temperature superconductors, scanning-probe and optical studies of new semiconductor alloys, studies of wetting and adsorption on crystal surfaces, and development of far-infrared applications of semiconductors and superconductors. The condensed matter community at UVa has access to a variety of cryogenic facilities capable of scanning temperatures from as low as 15 mK to room temperature, several high-field magnets, a quantum-interference magnetometer, different scanning-probe instruments such as scanning tunneling, force, and optical microscopes, various vacuum thin-film deposition and etching systems, and a range of microwave and millimeter-wave analytic instruments. In addition, many research projects work closely with Electrical Engineering and Materials Science Departments, using facilities such as a photolithography lab and X-ray diffraction and elec-tron-beam microscopes, as well as national labs where high magnetic fields sources are available. The group also performs research at national and international neutron and x-ray facilities and carries out high precession measurements on the atomistic properties of materials particularly under high pressure.
Selected Publications in Experimental Condensed Matter Physics at UVa > < Hide Publication List
"Universal magnetic structure of the half-magnetization phase in Cr- based spinels", M. Matsuda, K. Ohoyama, S. Yoshii, H. Nojiri, P. Frings, F. Duc, B. Vignolle, G. L. J. A. Rikken, L. P. Regnault, S.-H. Lee, H. Ueda, Y. Ueda, Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 047201 (2010).
"Superconductivity in transition metal doped MoB4", J. W. Simonson, D. Wu, S. J. Poon, and S. A. Wolf, J. Superconductivity and Novel Magnetism 23, 1557 (2010).
"Compressive plasticity and toughness of a Ti-based bulk metallic glass", X. J. Gu, S. J. Poon, G. J. Shiflet, and J. J. Lewandowski, Acta Materialia 58, 1708 (2010).
"Relaxation dynamics of the metal-semiconductor transition in VO2 thin films", J. H. Claassen, J. W. Lu, K. G. West, S. A. Wolf, Appl. Phys. Lett. 96, 132102 (2010).
"Transport phase diagram for superconducting thin films of tantalum with homogeneous disorder", Y. Z. Li, C. L. Vicente, J. Yoon, Phys. Rev. B 81, 020505 (2010).
"Study of SF6 adsorption on graphite using infrared spectroscopy", P. Thomas, Y. Xia, D. A. Boyd, T. A. Hopkins, G. B. Hess, J. Chem. Phys. 131 (12), 124709 (2009).
"Spin-lattice order in frustrated ZnCr2O4", S. Ji, S.-H. Lee, C. Broholm, T. Y. Koo, W. Ratcliff, S-W. Cheong, P. Zschack, Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 037201 (2009).
"Magnetic field-induced phase transitions in a weakly coupled s = 1/2 quantum spin dimer system Ba3Cr2O8", M. Kofu, H. Ueda, H. Nojiri, Y. Oshima, T. Zenmoto, K. C. Rule, S. Gerischer, B. Lake, C. D. Bastista, Y. Ueda, S.-H. Lee, Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 177204 (2009).
"Hidden quantum gap state in the static stripe phase of La2-xSrxCuO4", M. Kofu, S.-H. Lee, M. Fujita, H.-J. Kang, H. Eisaki, K. Yamada, Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 047001 (2009).
"Weakly coupled s = 1/2 quantum spin singlets in Ba3Cr2O8", M. Kofu, J.-H. Kim, S. Ji, S.-H. Lee, H. Ueda, Y. Qiu, H. J. Kang, M. Green, Y. Ueda, Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 037206 (2009).
"Formation of local electric dipoles with no unique polar axis in Tb3Fe5O12", Despina Louca, K. Kamazawa, T. Proffen, Phys. Rev. B 80, 214406 (2009).
"High Capacity Hydrogen Absorption in Transition Metal Ethylene Complexes: consequences of nanoclustering", A. B. Phillips and B. S.Shivaram, Nanotechnology 20, 204020 (2009).
"Colloquium: Electron-lattice interaction and its impact on high Tc superconductivity, V. Z. Kresin and S. A. Wolf, Rev. Mod. Phys. 81, 481 (2009).
"Properties of vanadium and tantalum granular oxide-metal tunnel junction fabricated by electrochemical anodization", W. Fan, D. Kirkwood, J. Lu, S. A. Wolf, Appl. Phys. Lett. 95, 232110 (2009).
"Multiple-Trap Correlations in the Room-Temperature Random Telegraph Signal of a Carbon Nanotube Field-Effect Transistor". Tsz Wah (Jack) Chan , Brian Burke , Kenneth Evans , Keith Williams, Smitha Vasudevan, Mingguo Liu , Joe Campbell , Avik Ghosh, Phys. Rev. B 80, 033402 (2009).
"Infrared spectroscopic study of C2F6 monolayers and bilayers on graphite", T. A. Hopkins, D.A. Boyd, Y. Xia, G. M. Shifflett, F. M. Hess, and G. B. Hess, J. Chem. Phys. 128 (15), 154714 (2008).
"External magnetic field effects on a distorted kagome antiferromagnet", J.-H. Kim, S. Ji, S.-H. Lee, B. Lake, T. Yildirim, H. Nojiri, K. Habicht, Y. Qiu, K. Kiefer, Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 107201 (2008).
"Field-induced antiferromagnetism and competition in the metamagnetic state of terbium gallium garnet", K. Kamazawa, Despina Louca, R. Morinaga, T. J. Sato, Q. Huang, J. R. D. Copley, Y. Qiu, Phys. Rev. B 78, 064412 (2008).
"(Zr,Hf)Co(Sb,Sn) half-Heusler phases as high-temperature (>700 oC) p-type thermoelectric materials", S. R. Culp, S, J, Poon, V. Ponnambalam, J. Edwards, and T. M. Tritt, Appl. Phys. Lett. 93, 022105 (2008).
"Poisson's ratio and intrinsic plasticity in metallic glasses", S. J. Poon, A. W. Zhu, and G. J. Shiflet, Appl. Phys. Lett. 92, 261902 (2008).
"High Capacity Hydrogen Absorption in Transition Metal Ethylene Complexes Observed via Nanogravimetry", A. B. Phillips and B. S.Shivaram, Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 105505 (2008).
"Very large anisotropy in the dc conductivity of epitaxial VO2 thin films grown on (011) rutile TiO2", J. W. Lu, K. G. West, S. A. Wolf, Appl. Phys. Lett. 93, 262107 (2008).
"Deep-UV Pattern generation in PMMA", Brian G Burke, Timothy J Herlihy Jr, Andrew B Spisak and Keith A Williams, Nanotechnology 19, 215301 (2008).
"Quantum spin liquid states in the two dimensional kagome antiferromagnets, ZnxCu4-x(OD)6Cl2", S.-H. Lee, H. Kikuchi, Y. Qiu, B. Lake, Q. Huang, K. Habicht, K. Kiefer, Nature Materials 6, 853 (2007).
"Spin-lattice instability to a fractional magnetization state in the spinel HgCr2O4", M. Matsuda, H. Ueda, A. Kikkawa, Y. Tanaka, K. Katsumata, Y. Narumi, T. Inami, Y. Ueda, S.-H. Lee, Nature Physics 3, 397 (2007).
"Characterization of Nanostructures During Growth Using a Quartz Monitor", A.B. Phillips and B.S. Shivaram, Appl. Phys. Lett. 91, 153109 (2007).
"Spin Incommensurability and Two Phase Competition in Cobaltites", D. Phelan, Despina Louca et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 235501 (2006).
"Nano-magnetic droplets and implications to orbital ordering in La1-xSrxCoO3", D. Phelan, Despina Louca et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 027201 (2006).
"Origin of nonlinear transport across the magnetically induced superconductor-metal-insulator transition in two dimensions", Y. Seo, Y. Qin, C. L. Vicente, K. S. Choi, J. Yoon, Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 057005 (2006).
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Bloomfield: Professor Bloomfield is studying borosilicones, remarkable materials that have been misunderstood for over 70 years. Dismissed as scientifically uninteresting and used as children's toys (e.g., Silly Putty), borosilicones are actually network liquids---dynamic macromolecules that appear elastic on short timescales but exhibit flow on longer timescales. Each borosilicone is a vast covalent network of silicone polymer chains joined by 3-attachment boron crosslinks. At any instant, a borosilicone is a highly-crosslinked elastic material. Because the boron crosslinks are temporary, ... More>
Chatterjee: My research is focused on a branch of physics, commonly known as condensed matter physics, which is essentially the study of physical properties of matter in their liquid or solid state employing the principles of quantum as well as statistical mechanics. My research interest lies in the experimental investigations of various solid state systems which exhibit novel electronic and magnetic properties, such as cuprate high temperature superconductors, colossal magneto resistive manganites, different transition metal dichalcogenides hosting charge density wave (CDW) as well as metal ... More>
Lee: Lee's research focuses on strongly correlated materials such as non-conventional high temperature superconductors, quantum magnets, frustrated spin systems, magnetic molecules, and multiferroics. The main experimental techniques that the group uses are elastic and inelastic neutron scattering with which one can directly probe the many body response function. Neutron scattering experiments are performed at several domestic and international facilities. The group also has the in-house capability of growing high quality single crystals of transition metal oxides using a state-of-the-art ... More>
Louca: The interactions of the spin, charge and lattice degrees of freedom often lead to emerging properties such as spin and charge density waves, superconductivity and quantum spin liquid states. The class of materials that are of interest to the Louca group includes topological insulators and semimetals, spintronic antiferromagnets of the I-Mn-V class, transition metal dichalcogenides, disorder superconductors, layered semiconductors etc. Understanding the macroscopic functionality of these systems can potentially be very useful for industrial applications. ... More>
Poon: My research group currently focuses on two projects. In project 1, we perform experimental and computational study of new semiconductors for heat to electrical energy conversion and cooling. The narrow-bandgap semiconductors studied by us are often in the proximity of Dirac metals and semimetals that tend to show unusual thermo-magnetic and electrical transport properties. In project 2, we perform experimental and computational study of ferrimagnetic and antiferromagnetic thin film heterostructures that show intriguing magnetic and transport properties, e.g., skyrmionic state and anomalous ... More>
Shivaram: Professor Shivaram is a condensed matter experimentalist whose research spans a wide variety of key areas. His scientific career started with work on the quantum fluid, liquid 3He, a strongly correlated Fermi system, focusing on its acoustic properties in the superfluid state. He has stayed with the theme of strongly correlated Fermi liquids investigating their superconducting and magnetic properties at very low temperatures and high magnetic fields. His recent work has focused on the ... More>
Yoon: My research is focused on understanding of phases and phase transitions in two dimensional (2D) electronic systems such as thin superconductor or metal films and semiconductor heterostructure or quantum well. At sufficiently low temperatures and high magnetic fields, these 2D systems exhibit many interesting quantum phenomena including integer and fractional quantum Hall effect, quantum phase transitions, and electron crystallization. However, many aspects of these phenomena are poorly understood. More>
Louis A. Bloomfield
Ph.D., 1983, Stanford
Utpal Chatterjee
Ph.D., 2007, University of Illinois - Chicago
Seung-Hun Lee
Ph.D., 1996, Johns Hopkins
Despina Louca
Ph.D., 1997, Pennsylvania
Joseph Poon
Ph.D., 1978, Caltech
Bellave S. Shivaram
Ph.D., 1984, Northwestern
Jongsoo Yoon
Ph.D., 1997, Penn State
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The Jackson surname has a certain magic to it in the world of sports. Reggie Jackson, Phil Jackson, Curtis Jackson from "The White Shadow." But who is the best Jackson in NFL history?
In honor of DeSean Jackson's recent visit to the NFL Network studios, we count down the greatest Jacksons in NFL history. However, DeSean has yet to crack the list, even though he's already a three-time Pro Bowl receiver. A few more stellar seasons, and he's on this list.
The only active Jackson to make the list, the Battering Ram does it all with his size, speed and power, not to mention pass-catching ability. But he toils in near anonymity being the one-man rock band in St. Louis. I've said it before: The Cowboys made a mistake passing on him.
"TEEEEEEEEEEEG," as he's affectionately called by ESPN co-host Chris Berman, was the anchor of the Broncos' defense for 14 seasons and a part of the teams that reached Super Bowl XXII and Super Bowl XXI. He is a member of the Broncos Hall of Fame.
He was a six-time Pro Bowl tight end during his career with the Eagles, Dolphins and Packers. He was a member of the Packers squad that won Super Bowl XXXI. DeSean Jackson was the first rookie to lead the Eagles in receptions since Keith Jackson did it in 1988.
The oft-traded receiver made a name for himself with the Eagles and Los Angeles Rams, receiving five Pro Bowl selections, and he's a member of the 1970s All-Decade team. Jackson's best game came against the Cowboys in 1973 when he caught seven passes for 238 yards and four touchdowns.
Jackson was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2010 after spending most of his career with the Saints as a member of the "Dome Patrol" -- the nickname of the team's linebackers. Jackson finished his career in San Francisco and was a member of the 49ers' Super Bowl XXIX championship team.
Mr. Pick Six, himself. Bo Jackson never played a full season, but made a Pro Bowl in 1990, and for those who saw him play, he was one of the most dominant players to ever put on shoulder pads. Just ask Brian Bosworth.
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£1000 TV, 36 months old, Curry's say no?
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A good friend of mine bought a £1000 TV from Curry's 36 months ago and the screen has stopped working (pixelated). He rang Curry's and they said it's out of warranty.
This is the kind of shabby customer service story that we hear about Currys far too often.
The warranty has nothing to do with it. Your friend will be protected under the Consumer Rights Act or The Sale of Goods Act depending on whether the TV was bought before October 2015.
Warranty is usually with the manufacturer, and offers some advantages where available (such as: it may be honoured even in other countries, avoids the need for expert reports, or even avoids the need to have a discussion with currys/ Dixons Retail Group staff about the nuances of consumer law .....). So, warranties aren't worthless, but often aren't as long-lived as your rights under consumer law.
Where there is no warranty and you want to rely on consumer law, you remedy is against the retailer. They'll often initially deny responsibility (sound familiar?) (although : I've found Apple to be much improved in this regard recently!)).
They might insist you get an independent experts report regarding the fault to show it has arisen as a result of manufacturing quality rather than misuse (within the first 6 months after purchase this is assumed, but expect them to insist after 6 months). If it is shown to be a manufacturing fault they should refund the cost of the expert's report too, but you may have to threaten (or even go to) court to achieve this.
(My recent experience with Apple : family member, MacBook laptop with a keyboard fault, out of warranty [3 1/2 years old]. Confirmed on (free) in-store initial diagnostics as a hardware fault.
We expected them to say "out of warranty" and / or insist on an expert's report but we didn't even have to mention consumer law ..... they said "we'll need to open it up, but provided there is no sign of damage [like coffee spilt on it] when we do, it will be repaired free of charge". We told them we knew it hadn't had liquid damage.
b) no liquid damage found, and true to their word it was repaired free of charge!
We didn't go in banging on about "our rights" but would have been prepared to point out the law if they'd been difficult, but we didn't need to : they went above and beyond what we expected!.
warranties aren't worthless, but often aren't as long-lived as your rights under consumer law..
Warranties are simply profit for the store as they usually get paid for flogging worthless warranties, UNLESS the warranty actually contains cover for anything other what is covered in your consumer rights, then it is money wasted, seriously!.
Your comments on extended warranties are accurate for many extended warranties.
Hi guys and thank you for some brilliant advice.
Here's the bad news - I've now spoken properly to my friend and it seems that he took Curry's for their word and is currently having it repaired by a local repair shop to the tune of £400.
Is there anything he can do now? He's not afraid to launch a court claim ( MCOL) if this is possible!
I've now spoken properly to my friend and it seems that he took Curry's for their word and is currently having it repaired by a local repair shop to the tune of £400.
Your friend should have paid for the shop to do an independent inspection, if this inspection proves that the failure is down to a manufacturing defect then he could have had the TV repaired as well as the refund of the inspection report by the TV's manufacturer.
If your friend just authorised the repair and no independent inspection report exists prior to the repair then i feel it is highly unlikely that any Court claim will be won.
Yes, he could bring a small claim for the money – but the problem is that he spoke to curries on the telephone and I'm absolutely certain that he didn't record the call so that he has no evidence that Currys disclaimed liability.
Although you could simply sue on the basis of the verbal evidence, it would make it much easier if you had something in writing. I would suggest that you try a little trick on Currys. Write to them and say that following on from the conversation you have had from them on the telephone in which they said that your TV of 36 months old which now has a fundamental problem rendering it unusable, was no longer covered by warranty and that any repair would have to be paid for. You are writing to them once again to urge them to consider that for a television worth £1000 to have broken down so fundamentally after only three years indicates that there must have been a defect in it and that no reasonable consumer would expect such a breakdown of their £1000 television so soon. You are asking them to accept the TV for a warranty repair.
It is almost 100% certain that if Currys reply, they will reply with a refusal. I would then use this letter as the basis for a legal action. I wouldn't worry about the date of the letter and the date of the refusal being after the date of the repair. The fact is that it would be good written evidence supporting your position that Currys were refusing to honour your consumer rights.
Of course, there is a slight chance that Currys might say fine – send it in and we will do that. In that case I'm afraid you will have to put it down to experience and consider that you have lost your money and you should have been more careful about asserting your rights and that your friend should be less trusting of these big companies – especially Currys.
Write the letter. Send straightaway. Send it recorded delivery. Keep copies. – In other words start being sensible and intelligent about the way that these people are dealt with.
In future record your calls. Read our customer services guide and implement the advice there. In addition to the letter that I have proposed to you above, once you have followed our customer services guide, you could usefully have another telephone conversation with them and asked them once again if they will honour your rights in respect of your £1000 television. This time you will have their refusal on the record. A recorded call and also a written refusal – or even if they simply failed to respond to your letter, should be enough to persuade a judge.
Incidentally, you may not expect to get the full price for repairs. Don't forget that you are dealing with a three year old television which might only have a life expectancy of 10 years. This would mean that you would be entitled to expect 70% of your repair bill refunded to you.
I would certainly recommend that your friend brings a County Court claim for this. Currys get away with this kind of thing far too often and they need a slap. Your chances of success are better than 85%. The cost of being such an action is pretty low and of course because it would be a small claim, you wouldn't risk the costs of Currys.
currys staff, just so you know, dont get paid commission for selling warranties. it IS a targeted measure, and virtually all retail has targets of some sort.
the company sacked off commission based selling in the mid 2000s.
the only incentives currently paid out, as i'm informed by my partner who still works for them, is for a succesfull switch of a customers broadband/tv package. bonus is paid from the customer service score, which is based on customers replying to txts and giving the store a score.
carphone works exactly the same way for bonus, but they DO get commision from every sale of a contract.


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The poet called "The Belle of Amherst"
Called "The Belle of Amherst," Emily Dickinson is considered one of America's best 19th century poets Emily Dickinson lived quietly in Amherst, Massachusetts and wrote poetry for most of her adult life. Her verses were short but inventive, and her themes universal: love, death, and her relationship with God and nature. Dickinson was not famous during her lifetime; she rarely left Amherst and according to the Encyclopedia Britannica, "after the late 1860s [she] never left the boundaries of the family's property." Dickinson's output was prodigious -- over 1,700 poems in all -- but only a handful of her poems were published during her lifetime. Her sister Lavinia actively promoted her work after Emily's death in 1886. Poems of Emily Dickinson was published in 1890, and other new editions of her work appeared over the following decades. Once published, Dickinson's words found a worldwide audience. Among her best-known poems are "Because I could not stop for Death" and "I cannot live with You."
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If there's one thing that Michigan is good at, it's landing very talented Italian-Canadian forwards. And the newest one is the next player previewed, Louie Caporusso. It seems impossible not to like this kid. He's a great interview...every answer is exactly the attitude that I want to see in a hockey player.
Last Season: Caporusso led the St. Michael's Buzzers in scoring with a 23-27--50 line in 37 games. If that wasn't enough, he posted an incredible 14-19--33 line in 20 playoff games. He was also the Eastern Player of the Game in the Canadian Junior A Prospects Game.
He was picked in the third round by the Ottawa Senators, whose top scout was "adamant" that the team draft him.
Expectations: He's a kid that I'm excited about. He's drawn comparisons to a more offensive-minded Andrew Ebbett or a slower version of Andrew Cogliano. Not to say he doesn't have speed, but Cogliano was kind of a freak in that regard.
His line--he, Turnbull, and Hagelin--was outstanding over the weekend, combining for 17 points and a +16 rating. Practice reports had indicated that he and Hagelin seemed to work pretty well together, and it has carried over into the exhibition season.
Everything I've read indicates that he's a pretty solid all-around player. Good skater, good stick-handler, good shot, good forechecker, responsible defensively, and a good faceoff guy (he won 16 out of 18 in the Blue/White game, including a few against Matt Rust).
The one downer is that he's had some pesky injuries the past couple of seasons. He's not that big (5'10" 185), but hopefully he can avoid the injury bug this season because he looks to be a productive 2nd/3rd line center.
He's not as highly regarded as Cogliano was coming in, but he should be a productive player in his freshman season. "Drew Cogs" had 28 points his freshman season, but was pretty ineffective after the World Junior Championships. Depending on how the power play units shake themselves out, Caporusso could--and probably should--at least approach those numbers. Especially if his line plays as well in the season as they have thusfar.
This team is going to have to score by committee. There's no TJ Hensick coming to save us and put up close to 70 points. I don't see the third line of this team being your typical "Grind Line". The third line needs to be a scoring line. It doesn't mean they can't be good defensively as well, but they're going to have to put the puck in the net if we're going to win hockey games.
Louie is another one of those guys that I believe with gain the confidence of the coaches enough that they will feel comfortable playing him in most situations. He seems to have developed instant-chemistry with Carl Hagelin, and chemistry is important when you're trying to blend a dozen new faces into the lineup.
And he's another guy that can win faceoffs. Since we don't yet know if Porter can, it's nice to know that we've got two guys on the roster that should be capable-at-worst at it in Caporusso and Rust.


If you live with someone, whether a spouse, significant other, friend, or family member(s), you're bound to run into issues where one person is disturbing the other. This can be especially true when watching TV on an actual television set, which is why some opt for headphones. However, since you can't use regular headphones with most TVs, you'll need a headset like the Hammo TV Wireless Headphones.
The well-padded earmuffs and headband are so comfortable that you can wear them for hours without issue. That coupled with 50 hours of battery life and a range of up to 10 meters (approximately 33 feet) gives you a lot of usability and flexibility.
The Hammo TV Wireless Headphones are also Bluetooth enabled and can be directly connected (via audio cable) to any device for regular usage. Since they fold up for easy storage, you can even take them with you on the go to use with a mobile device and/or laptop.
Without further ado, let's get into setting up and using this quality TV headset.
In the box you'll find everything needed to set up and power the Hammo TV Wireless Headphones. The wireless docking station comes in two pieces but it very easy to put together: the two legs of the metal stand fit snuggly into the base.
Before getting started, it's important to know that these headphones will only work with TVs that have an RCA audio OUT or 3.5mm headphone audio OUT jack. However, if you have optical digital audio OUT or digital audio OUT, you can purchase an optical to analog converter.
Setting up the Hammo TV Wireless Headphones is so much easier than expected. I've tried some TV headphones in the past and they required you to go into your TV Settings and tinker around with some things. They were also a pain to connect wirelessly.
Attach the power adapter to the microUSB cable. If you plan to power the docking station via USB instead of a power outlet, you can skip this step.
Connect the microUSB cable to the docking station and plug the other end into an outlet or USB port.
Connect one end of the audio cable to the docking station.
Connect the other end of the audio cable to the RCA adapter cable (if your TV has an RCA audio out jack) or directly into the headphone jack on your TV.
If you are using the RCA adapter cable, connect that to the RCA OUT jacks on your TV.
Turn on your TV if it isn't already on.
Turn on the headphones using the power button on the back of the left earmuff and wait for them to automatically pair. This should only take a couple of seconds.
If desired, you can pair another Bluetooth headset of your own to the docking station. Just press the power button once, and it will go into pairing mode. Turn on the second headset, and put it into pairing mode. Again, within seconds it's connected, and now two people can listen to one TV at the same time.
With the headset successfully set up and paired, just power them on whenever you want to use them. They'll automatically connect to the charging station and start playing your TV audio. The LED indicator will illuminate green, letting you know that it's on and working.
I noticed that I needed to completely mute the audio on my TV in order to hear only through the headphones. Otherwise, the audio plays through both the TV and headphones at the same time.
Doing this also allowed me to see that there is a tiny delay in the audio playing through the headphones. However, I was only able to notice this when hearing the audio through the headphones and TV at the same time, proving how insignificant the delay is.
When the battery is low, the LED indicator on the headphones will flash and play a "low battery" warning tone. You'll need to use the USB to audio cable for charging: the audio end goes into the headphone's audio port, and the USB ends plugs into the docking station.
The LED indicator will flash yellow while charging and remain steady when charging is complete.
It takes around five hours to completely charge when almost dead. Also, the headphones won't operate while charging – not that you'll be able to use them anyway with the short charging cable that's included.
I know from personal experience that it's no fun watching TV in one room while someone else is loudly watching TV in another room. You have to constantly increase your volume, leading the other person to increase their volume, and it goes back and forth until someone decides to turn off their TV in an effort to compromise. With a TV headset like this, all of that ends.
The Hammo TV Digital Wireless Headphones are easy to set up and even easier to use. They're also extremely comfortable, have incredible sound, and great range for walking around your house. Obviously, you don't have to live with someone to use them, especially since they double as a regular headset, but if you don't live alone they'll ensure that everyone is happy!
It would be so great to have this for my niece so we don't have to listen to her shows!


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An educational game for the entire family.
An educational game for the entire family. Like the game "go fish" with and Israel twist.
"In the Footsteps of Jesus" is designed to enable young and old to walk with Jesus through the Holy Land, following Him from birth, boyhood and baptism through the temptations, teachings and transfiguration to His death on the Cross, resurrection and ascension to Heaven. Familiar Biblical stories come alive as you encounter 60 settings and sites from the life of Christ and the Apostles. Deepen your understanding of Scripture while exploring the Holy Land from Bethlehem, Jerusalem and the Judean Wilderness in the south to the Jordan River in the east; Through Nazareth, Cana and Capernaum next to north eastern Sea of Galilee and the Dead Sea in the south eastern border.
Content: 15 sets of cards, each set consists of 4 cards (total: 60 cards).
Object of the game: Collect as many sets of cards a you can (4 of a kind). The winner is the player who collects the most sets. * Full rules are on the back of the inside contents.
Additional activities: You can enrich your understanding and learn more about each site in the game by also reading the New Testament text indicated. The sets follow the chronological order of Jesus' life and ministry. At the end of the game, try to arrange the sets according to this order.


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Monte Sette Termini
Mount Sette Termini ows it's name to the ancient seven boundary stones (termini) that were planted into its sides. It is a soft and woody hill, but in spite of its small size it offers some interesting landscapes. The high concentration of military tracks and fire roads make it fertile ground for bikers, but the absolute lack of signs turns it into a labyrinth where, if you yield to the temptation of exploring one of the countless minor trails that you'll cross, you'll inevitably end up getting lost.
Cugliate - Castendallo - Monte Sette Termini - Pineta Alta - S. Paolo - Cugliate
Region: Val Travaglia
Ascent: 1304 m
Unrideable time: 0 - 5 minutes
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Because of the amount of intersections and of the lack of signs, you should follow this itinerary only with a map and a GPS.
The starting point is Cugliate, a small village in Valganna. Head west on the main paved road and follow the signs to Montegrino. After 3 kilometers you'll get to Castendallo, where you'll meet an intersection. Follow the road that climbs east (Via Roverpiano). At the next intersection follow the sign towards Sette Termini; here you'll enter the woods. The road climbs gently and the hairpin turns allow you to raise the pace (or just to breath, depending on your physical conditions)...
After 4 kilometers of easy climb, you'll get to a bifurcation, where you'll have to head right. After 3 more hairpin turns you'll get to the Sette Termini's restaurant. Keep on riding on the paved road, which will now start descending, and at the first hairpin turn leave the cement and take the fire road on the left. In a few minutes you'll get to the summit, a meadow that has been conquered by a few birches. Along the road you'll meet some wrong trails, but following the signs you should be able to find the right one.
To head down you can use the western fire road (look for the white and red signs), that runs through the former pastures now invaded by ferns and takes you back to the paved road you just climbed. If you follow down the road to the first hairpin turn, you'll meet another fire road that heads off and goes through a thick pinewood (keep following the white and red signs). The fire road gets steeper and tighter, and it quickly turns into a hiking path.
Along the descent you'll cross a few other tracks, which you'll have to ignore. Further down the path you'll get on the paved road again (elevation 720 m). After a couple of hairpin turns you'll find the gravel road that heads towards Marchirolo. Follow it, and after 3 kilometers packed with steep ascents, you'll get to another paved road. You're at Colle La Nave (813 m), a pass that connects Mount Sette Termini with Mount la Nave.
Ride down the paved road for a few meters and then, once you get at the lowest point, take the gravel road on the left. Follow the signs to San Paolo: you'll go through some more short but tough climbs and you'll arrive at the ancient and lonely church of San Paolo, that offers a magnificent view over Lake Ceresio. Go past the church and you'll start going down, until you'll get back to the paved road. Now you just have to ride it down to get back to Cugliate.


Apple's iPhone is a very well-made device. The interface is smooth, and the app system is extensive. You can personalize and optimize your iPhone easily by changing a few settings. The article below contains tips and tricks for enhancing your iPhone.
When travelling through the web using the iPhone, you never have to worry about including the ".com" after the web address. All you need to do is include the main part, like Google, and miraculously the iPhone browser transports you to that site. This may seem like a tiny time-saver, but it will save a lot of minutes during your phone's lifetime.
The Siri app will now allow you to set reminders based on location. Rather than saying a time-based reminder to Siri, you can use a different command. You can tell Siri to remind you to do something when you get home. When your iPhone knows you are home, it will give you the reminder. With this feature, you can set reminders based on location, not time.
Switching from web browsing to placing a call on your iPhone doesn't take more than a single tap. For instance, imagine you are looking for a dry cleaner online. When you find a number, you don't have to go back to the phone menu to call. Simply tap the number, and you're immediately connected to the desired business.
Use your iPhone to help you navigate from place to place. The map feature can help you find the nearest gas station or navigate an unfamiliar area. This can also be bookmarked so that you can go back to the spot that you were at.
As you can easily guess, the iPhone is a highly sophisticated device, with in-depth programming. This device almost has magical powers. By using the tips from this article, you will be getting the most out of your iPhone.


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Mars Science Laboratory Stacked Spacecraft
NASA's Mars Science Laboratory spacecraft has been fully stacked for flight in this photograph from inside the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility at NASA Kennedy Space Center, Fla., in October 2011.
The spacecraft, including the Mars rover Curiosity, has been prepared for launch during the period Nov. 25 to Dec. 18, 2011. In a prime mission lasting one Martian year -- nearly two Earth years -- after landing, researchers will use the rover's tools to study whether the landing region has had environmental conditions favorable for supporting microbial life.
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, manages the Mars Science Laboratory Project for NASA's Science Mission Directorate in Washington. Launch management is the responsibility of NASA's Launch Services Program at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The Atlas V launch service is provided by United Launch Alliance, Denver, Colo.
This self-portrait of NASA's Mars rover Curiosity combines 66 exposures taken by the rover's Mars Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI) during the 177th Martian day, or sol, of Curiosity's work on Mars (Feb. 3...
Curiosity Rover's Self Portrait at 'John Klein' Drilling Site
This graphic maps locations of the sites where NASA's Curiosity Mars rover collected its first 19 rock or soil samples for laboratory analysis inside the vehicle. It also presents images of the dri...
Curiosity's Rock or Soil Sampling Sites on Mars, Through November 2016
With NASA's Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) spacecraft sealed inside its payload fairing, the United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket rides a pillar of smoke and flames as it lifts off from Space Launc...
Lift off from Launch Complex-41
Emily Eelkema Stough, Tactical Uplink Lead and Jessica Samuels, Engineering Operations Team Chief, pose for the cameras in the "Mars Yard" with Curiosity's ground test model in the background.
Mars Moms: Curiosity isn't Our Only Baby!
The Mars Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI) camera at the end of the robotic arm of NASA's Curiosity rover will use a calibration target attached to a shoulder joint of the arm.
Calibration Target on Curiosity for Camera on Rover's Arm
This view from the Mars Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI) on the arm of NASA's Curiosity Mars rover is a close-up of a two-tone mineral vein at a site called "Garden City" on lower Mount Sharp.
Night Close-up of Mineral Veins at 'Garden City,' Mars
This image, taken with the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera, shows a mesa within the "Murray Buttes" area on Mars showing a complex fracture pattern (black arrow) protrudi...
'Murray Buttes' Mesa
Filled with briny lakes, the Quisquiro salt flat in South America's Altiplano represents the kind of landscape that scientists think may have existed in Gale Crater, which NASA's Curiosity rover is...
South America's Altiplano Looks Like Mars
In the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, technicians work beneath NASA's Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) mission aeroshell, (containing the compact car-s...
Final Touches on Curiosity
This map shows the route driven by NASA's Curiosity Mars rover from the location where it landed in August 2012 to its location in December 2016, which is in the upper half of a geological unit cal...
Late 2016 Map of NASA's Curiosity Mars Rover Mission
Curiosity wraps up an investigation at Pink Cliffs while trying out a style of exploration used by geologists on Earth called "the walkabout."
Curiosity Rover Report: Rover Walkabout
Test at NASA Dryden of Radar System for Next Mars Landing
In this picture, the rover examines a rock on Mars with a set of tools at the end of the rover's arm, which extends about 7 feet (2 meters).
Curiosity: Robot Geologist and Chemist in One!
This series of images reconstructs the geology of the region around Mars' Mount Sharp, where NASA's Curiosity Mars rover landed and is now driving. The images, taken on Earth, have been altered for...
Sediment Accumulation in Dry and Wet Periods
NASA's Mars rover Curiosity extended its robotic arm on Aug. 20, 2012, for the first time on Mars and used its Navigation Camera (Navcam) to capture this view of the extended arm.
Curiosity Extends Arm for First Time on Mars
This image from NASA's Curiosity rover shows the great diversity of grains found on the surface of a Martian rock.
Texture of 'Gillespie Lake' Rock
The Curiosity engineering team created this view from images taken by NASA's Curiosity rover rear hazard avoidance cameras underneath the rover deck on Sol 0.
A View From Below the Rover Deck
NASA's Curiosity Mars rover captured this image with its left front Hazard-Avoidance Camera (Hazcam) just after completing a drive that took the mission's total driving distance past the 1 kilomete...
One Down, Many Kilometers to Go
Left and right eyes of the Navigation Camera (Navcam) in NASA's Curiosity Mars rover took the dozens of images combined into this stereo scene of the rover and its surroundings. The component image...
Mars Stereo View from "John Klein" to Mount Sharp (Raw)
This self-portrait of NASA's Curiosity Mars rover shows the vehicle at the "Big Sky" site, where its drill collected the mission's fifth taste of Mount Sharp. It was taken on Oct. 6, 2015, PDT.
Curiosity Self-Portrait at 'Big Sky' Drilling Site
This episode (part 4 of a 4 part series) shows Mars team members having a little fun on April 1, 2010 (April Fool's) at the end of an exhausting parachute test campaign. The team had just completed...
The Martians: Testing Curiosity's Parachute - Part 4
A ceremonial ribbon is cut for the opening of new "Destination: Mars" experience at the Kennedy Space Center visitor complex in Florida.
Engineers put the rover through a human-made earthquake to make sure nothing breaks on its trip to Mars.
Rover Shakedown


The Oxford United boss has been hit hard by injuries this season – and last week was down to the bare bones in defence for the clash with Accrington Stanley.
With captain Jake Wright serving a one-match suspension for the game against Accrington, Harry Worley was set to come in for his first start of the season.
But he injured an ankle in training and has since been ruled out for a month.
He joins Tony Capaldi, Anthony Tonkin, Ryan James, Adam Chapman, Tom Craddock and Jonathan Franks on the treatment table.
"We have never used our injuries as an excuse for anything," Wilder said.
"But it's a fact, we have had a lot of players missing this season.
And the worrying thing is that it could be at least a month before any are fit to return to action.
"I would hope that they would be fit by mid-November at the latest," Wilder said.
Capaldi has missed the entire season with a back injury, while Tonkin's groin problem has kept him out since the opening game of the campaign.
James, a back-up centre half, has a foot problem which prevented him being involved with the first-team squad for the first time against Accrington.
Craddock suffered a knee injury in pre-season which has meant he has not featured.
To rub salt into the wound, Chapman and loan striker Franks both collected long-term injuries in their first involvement with the club.
In a behind-closed-doors friendly with Bristol City, Franks, who had only joined on loan from Middlesbrough a couple of days earlier, landed awkwardly and dislocated a shoulder.
And Chapman was arguably even unluckier when he went in for his very first challenge since returning to the club and broke a bone in his foot, which has since been operated on.


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CNET: PressReader app grabs newspaper subs on iPhone
Digital newspaper edition provider PressDisplay has launched its PressReader app for the iPhone, offering 1,300 newspapers.
The app is free to download and seven free editions are being offered for a test period this month.
After that it will be 99 cents to read the PDF (or text version) of a chosen paper. You can also have the paper read to you by clicking on the headphones icon.
Full story at this link…
This entry was posted in Editors' pick, Mobile, Newspapers and tagged PressDisplay, PressReader on November 13, 2009 by Laura Oliver.
MSN UK signs up with PressDisplay to add newspaper e-editions to site
MSN UK will now feature its own version of PressDisplay.com, which provides an archive of digital editions of newspapers and magazines, according to a press release from earlier in the week.
PressDisplay, which is owned by newspaper distribution firm NewspaperDirect, features e-editions of titles including the Times, Guardian, Washington Post and the Australian.
The new feature on the web portal will be branded as MSN PressDisplay and will give users free access to the front page and two stories from any publication on the day of print. To access more stories and back issues, users will be required to register with PressDisplay and offered subscription offers, starting at 79p to buy a credit to view another article.
The service offers different packages for personal and corporate use including greater access to archived editions, for example, the £79.95 'Corporate Unlimited' lets subscribers go back up to 60 days in the archive.
Titles can be searched by country, language or browsed alphabetically, and search preferences can be saved by individual users.
The service is compatible with iPhones, Blackberry and eReaders, the release said and also offers interactive features – such as the ability to comment on articles and share them via social networks or email.
"Together we have been able to deliver innovative features which give consumers access to a huge number of publications on the great NewspaperDirect interface. At a time when the survival of newspapers is being questioned we see this as a great outlet for newspaper content," said Peter Bale, MSN executive producer, in the release.
MSN UK also recently launched its local news and information site MSN Local.
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'Phubbing': is it damaging your relationships?
Have you ever felt exasperated, as your date reaches for their phone for the 100th time to check their notifications? Has a dinner date somehow tasted less delicious, as your partner quickly checks their group chat? Sounds like you've been a victim of 'phubbing'.
'Phubbing' describes the act of phone snubbing, where someone snubs you in a social setting by concentrating on their mobile phone – and it can have serious negative effects on your dates and relationships.
Phubbing can occur both passively or actively; whether that's a phone always strategically placed in view or constant chatting on apps – and with research suggesting we usually touch our phones more than 2,500 times a day, it doesn't look like the cause of the problem will be going away any time soon. Read on to find out why it's a problem and how to fix it.
How can phubbing hurt your relationship?
Phubbing makes your conversations less meaningful and your experiences less worthwhile – both things we definitely want to avoid on our dates or in our relationships.
While having your phone on the table, or checking your notifications as soon as your phone vibrates might seem like insignificant actions that only take two seconds, the overall effect that they have on your interactions and relationship can be startling.
Dating is all about communicating and forging genuine connections with your date through interactions. When someone concentrates on their phone and not on building that connection (which is why you met up in the first place!), it's like they decided, out of the blue, to bring a friend along to your date, who isn't interested in you at all, and they're constantly worrying about what they're doing and entertaining them – instead of you. Naturally, this reduces the quality time you're spending with them, as you're unable to communicate properly – they're spending time with their phone instead. It's also been shown that the time you spend with someone in between phubbing is less meaningful than time with no phubbing at all.
Pauses, lulls and silences are all part of a healthy conversation; we often use these gaps to process what we've been chatting about, and then continue to learn what the other person has to say. Stay in the moment with your date, and don't insult them by being distracted.
Not only is phubbing rude, it actually doesn't do anything positive for the person doing the phubbing. This isn't a win-win, it's a lose-lose.
For myself, I know that number is close to zero, and definitely zero for any date I've ever been on. So, not only are we subconsciously offending our date, we're also not gaining anything from checking our phones subconsciously. Clearly, action has to be taken!
So, how can we fight phubbing?
Phone-free time: When going on a date or doing an activity, designate a definitive time in your mind where you accept that you don't need to use your phone.
Out of eyesight: Break the bad habit of constantly putting your phone within your eyesight – keep it in your bag or a zipped pocket.
Disable notifications: Turn your phone off, or put it on aeroplane mode, when you're on a date or doing an activity with your partner.
Have an honest conversation: if the person you're dating frustrates you by phubbing you. Or, if you know you're the one who often gets distracted, ask them to call you out on it.
Remind yourself: why phubbing is harmful for relationships, and why you want to stop phubbing.
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Clamorous students participate in government — by suing it
By: The Associated Press	October 27, 2021
Students in Rhode Island are asking a federal appeals court to affirm that all public school students have a constitutional right to a civics education, saying that they aren't taught how to meaningfully participate in a democratic and civil society and that the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol was a symptom of such ignorance.
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Sam Keen Quotes & Sayings
Enjoy the top 97 famous quotes, sayings and quotations by Sam Keen.
Famous Quotes By Sam Keen
The more we chase away the false mysteries - those things we think we know about ourselves and others - the more mysterious our existence becomes. — Sam Keen
One part of love is sweet and easy, something we fall into and are swept away by. But the other part is hard: it requires discipline, willpower, and opening your heart again and again to someone with whom you are angry, can't stand, and do not like. — Sam Keen
To really love a person completely is to come to a point where your stories are intertwined. — Sam Keen
The spiritual mind is always metaphorical. Spiritual thinking is poetic thinking. It's always trying to put a very diaphanous experience into words, realizing all the while that words are inadequate. — Sam Keen
You come to love not by discovering the ideal individual, yet by figuring out how to see a blemished individual flawlessly. — Sam Keen
To be on a quest is nothing more or less than to become an asker of questions. — Sam Keen
To sustain love, a man and a woman must continually be marrying and divorcing, moving with, against, away from, and beyond each other, saying 'yes' and 'no'. — Sam Keen
You can know what's in your life when you know what's in your heart. — Sam Keen
Many people wake up in middle age with the realization that in their youthful romances and early marriages, they were drawn to precisely the kinds of partners they were trying to avoid. All too often we marry stand-ins for our alchoholic fathers, shadowy replacements for our angry mothers, surrogates with whom we try to work out our unfinished childhood dramas. Or we fall in love with someone who incarnates the virtues or vices opposite our own. An orderly man who plans his days marries a spontaneous woman who lets things lie where they fall, lives in the moment, and is perpetually late for appointments. — Sam Keen
Every time I come across a rattlesnake on my farm I initially react in fear and am tempted to kill it. Then I realize I wouldn't want to live in a world where all wild things - without and within - are domesticated. — Sam Keen
The traditional gender ideals of the strong-silent man who plays his cards close to his chest and the mysterious woman who disguises her feelings with coyness go so far as to make a virtue of being unavailable and secretive. But wholehearted intimacy can develop only where two people are equally forthcoming and self-revelatory. To take the risk of loving, we must become vulnerable enough to test the radical proposition that knowledge of another and self-revelation will ultimately increase rather than decrease love. It is an awe-ful risk. — Sam Keen
I think that critiquing the myths of our society and helping people find their way through them is a very important thing. It's a theme that goes through all of my work. — Sam Keen
On the pilgrim's path each man must become Moses, going on a vision quest to some mountaintop and returning with the ten or twenty commandments that he holds sacred. So long as we obey or break the rules that have been set up for us by the Giants - Parents and other Authorities - we remain good or bad children. Growing into the fullness of our humanity means that we become co-authors of the rules by which we will agree to have our lives judged. — Sam Keen
The first part of the spiritual journey should properly be called psychological rather than spiritual because it involves peeling away the myths and illusions that have misinformed us. — Sam Keen
The root of humanly caused evil is not man's animal nature, not territorial aggression, or innate selfishness, but our need to gain self-esteem, deny our mortality, and achieve a heroic self-image. Our desire for the best is the cause of the worst. — Sam Keen
What shapes our lives are the questions we ask, refuse to ask, or never think to ask. — Sam Keen
There are two questions a man must ask himself: The first is 'Where am I going?' and the second is 'Who will go with me?'
If you ever get these questions in the wrong order you are in trouble. — Sam Keen
Good men and good women have fire in the belly. We are fierce. Don't mess with us if you're looking for someone who will always be 'nice' to you. Nice gets you a C+ in life. We don't always smile, talk in a soft voice, or engage in indiscriminate hugs. In the loving struggle between the sexes we thrust and parry. — Sam Keen
I try to steer away from high metaphysical belief because I think we humans do best when we realize that we don't know all that much. — Sam Keen
It's perfectly possible to spend forty hours a week on a job that's meaningless, as long as you know what your real vocation is and find some way to express it. Then you won't confuse your job with the meaning of your life. — Sam Keen
A man must go on a quest / to discover the sacred fire / in the sanctuary of his own belly / to ignite the flame in his heart / to fuel the blaze in the hearth / to rekindle his ardor for the earth — Sam Keen
The more you become a connoisseur of gratitude, the less you are a victim of resentment, depression, and despair. Gratitude will act as an elixir that will gradually dissolve the hard shell of your ego-your need to posses and control-and transform you into a generous being. The sense of gratitude produces true spiritual alchemy, makes us magnanimous-lar ge souled. — Sam Keen
Consensual paranoia - the pathology of the normal person who is a member of a war-justifying society - forms the template from which all the images of the enemy are created. By studying the logic of paranoia, we can see why certain archetypes of the enemy must necessarily recur, no matter what the historical circumstances. — Sam Keen
If some incarnation of evil as unambiguous as Hitler appeared again, I would have no moral qualms about killing the enemy. But in the modern world of moral murkiness, I prefer to keep my hands as clean of enemy blood as possible. — Sam Keen
I suspect that we are all recipients of cosmic love notes. Messages, omens, voices, cries, revelations, and appeals are homogenized into each day's events. If only we knew how to listen, to read the signs. — Sam Keen
As a mode of perception that often becomes a style of life, paranoia weaves around the vulnerable self or group an air-tight metaphysic and world view. Paranoia is an antireligious mysticism based on the feeling or perception that the world in general, and others in particular, are against me or us. Reality is perceived as hostile. By contrast, the religious mystic experiences the ground of being as basically friendly to the deepest needs of the self. That which is unknown, strange, or beyond our comprehension is with and for rather than against us. — Sam Keen
Human beings are what I think of as "biomythic" animals: we're controlled largely by the stories we tell. When we get the story wrong, we get out of harmony with the rest of the natural order. — Sam Keen
I think we're always in the process of writing and rewriting the story of our lives, forming our experiences into a narrative that makes sense. Much of that work involves demythologizing family myths and cultural myths - getting free of what we have been told about ourselves. — Sam Keen
In problems of logic, contradictory statements cannot be true; in the psyche, only contradictions are true. Self-image and shadow are Siamese twins, and the psyche is equally formed by the conscious and unconscious. Whatever appears to be true on the surface is linked to an opposite truth beneath the surface. What you see is not what you get. — Sam Keen
To a large extent, the aged in our society are ghettoized. Old people are seen as useless, bypassed by history, old-fashioned, in the way. So, not surprisingly, when we reach the official mark of old age, we're supposed to go gently into that good night, to get off center stage and hand over the spotlight. Old age is also surrounded by shame - the myth of impotence and inability. — Sam Keen
You don't go through a deep personal transformation without some kind of dark night of the soul. — Sam Keen
To cultivate love, or whole-soul-fulness, we must resist the temptation to be upwardly mobile, to be always on the move, to pull up our roots and fly to the mythic kingdom of Elsewhere. — Sam Keen
The deepest mystery comes not when we don't know somebody well, but when we do. — Sam Keen
Throughout my life, I've had different metaphors for freedom. At one time, it was skin diving. In the ocean you feel weightless; you escape from gravity. — Sam Keen
We [people] may enjoy this fleeting beauty [of life] for such a brief instance. And then we are compost. G - , the creator-destroyer, certainly has a strange sense of humor! — Sam Keen
In a way, human beings have never been part of the natural order; we're not biological in the normal sense. Normal biological animals stop eating when they're not hungry and stop breeding when there is no sense in breeding. By contrast, human beings are what I think of as "biomythic" animals: we're controlled largely by the stories we tell. When we get the story wrong, we get out of harmony with the rest of the natural order. For a long time, our unnatural beahvior didn't threaten the natural world, but now it does. — Sam Keen
The telling of your stories is a revolutionary act. — Sam Keen
The question that surrounds lovemaking is, "Did you cum?" and the unasked question beneath that is, "Am I all right? — Sam Keen
Call it "womb awe" or even "womb worship" but it's not simple envy. I don't remember even wanting to be a woman. But each of the three times I have been present at the birth of one of my children, I have been overwhelmed by a sense of reverence ... It was quite suddenly, the first day of creation; the Goddess giving birth to a world ... Like men since the beginning of time I wondered: What can I ever create that will equal the magnificence of this new life? — Sam Keen
Without reverence we [people] will gradually descend into ecocide. In the degree that the imperatives of the market - the temple of the Mall - govern our lives, we are in escalating danger of destroying the commonwealth of all sentient beings - bugs and bees and buntings - on which we depend for a luxurious life on planet earth. — Sam Keen
Without knowing how to calculate the odds on such matters, it seems improbably to me that God would have whispered the meaning of my life into the ear of some guru or authority. — Sam Keen
In a pluralistic culture ... every individual must create a private mythological system. I must discover within myself the Garden of Eden from which I am exiled and the New Jeruselem toward which I am journeying. And must bear the burden of being my own redeemer, my own Christ. — Sam Keen
In the beginning, we create the enemy. Before the weapon comes the image. We think others to death and then invent the battle-axe or ballistic missiles with which to actually kill them. Propaganda precedes technology. — Sam Keen
Trust what moves you most deeply. — Sam Keen
Love isn't finding a perfect person. It's seeing an imperfect person perfectly. — Sam Keen
Chronological time is what we measure by clocks and calendars; it is always linear, orderly, quantifiable, and mechanical. Kairotic time is organic, rhythmic, bodily, leisurely, and aperiodic; it is the inner cadence that brings fruit to ripeness, a woman to childbirth, a man to change the direction of his life. — Sam Keen
I think there are families that are very kind and supportive of people's ability to change. People who come from such families may go through life without dipping into the dark night. — Sam Keen
Burnout is nature's way of telling you, you've been going through the motions your soul has departed; you're a zombie, a member of the walking dead, a sleepwalker. False optimism is like administrating stimulants to an exhausted nervous system. — Sam Keen
Soul grows in communion. Word by word, story by story, for better or worse, we build our world. From true conversation - speaking and listening - communication deepens into compassion and creates community. — Sam Keen
The sacred is discovered in what moves and touches us, in what makes us tremble. — Sam Keen
I think we're inevitably going to be depressed when we focus the major part of our energy and attention on something that doesn't give us meaning, only material things. — Sam Keen
The lover heals the world not by a vague and abstract love for everybody and everything, but by becoming passionate and vowing fidelity to concrete relationships, persons, institutions, and places. — Sam Keen
Condition a man (or a woman) to value aggression above all other virtues, and you will produce a character type whose most readily expressed emotion will be anger. Condition a woman (or a man) to value submission above all other attitudes and you will produce a character type whose most readily expressed emotion will be sadness. — Sam Keen
I think it's increasingly hard to have deep self-knowledge without entering the darkness in some way. — Sam Keen
The best practice is to follow the advice posted on every railroad crossing: Stop. Look. Listen. — Sam Keen
Our society has been eaten up by the economic view of things, which routinely forces us to work at jobs that don't mean anything. — Sam Keen
At thirty I lived in a world where death wasn't immediately real; it was always something "out there." My deeply held illusions of immortality - a product of my very conservative religious upbringing - were still pretty much intact. — Sam Keen
I fall into all kinds of inauthenticity when I conspire to forget my mortality. — Sam Keen
If we had a better understanding of the ways we think about enemies, we might be able to think of more rational ways of settling conflict. — Sam Keen
Our minds, bodies, feelings, relationships are all informed by our questions. What you ask is who you are. What you find depends on what you search for. And what shapes our lives are the questions we ask, refuse to ask, or never think of asking. — Sam Keen
The Greeks invented the idea of nemesis to show how any single virtue, stubbornly maintained gradually changes into a destructive vice. Our success, our industry, our habit of work have produced our economic nemesis. Work made modern men great, but now threatens to usurp our souls, to inundate the earth in things and trash, to destroy our capacity to love and wonder. — Sam Keen
To love is to return to a home we never left, to remember who we are. — Sam Keen
Each day befriend a single fear, and the miscellaneous terrors of being human will never join together to form such a morass of vague anxiety that it rules your life from the shadows of the unconscious. We learn to fly not by being fearless, but by the daily practice of courage. — Sam Keen
The world is run largely by urban, sedentary males. The symbol of power is the chair. — Sam Keen
The 'still, small voice' of God never calls on me to be like another man. It appeals to me to rise to my full stature and fulfill the promise that sleeps within my being. — Sam Keen
We all yearn to fly. We are creatures of longing. We do not need to [physically fly] to be airborne. What I call the aerial instinct-the drive to transcend our present condition- is the defining characteristic of a human being. We are restless animals, eternal travelers who are forever in the process of becoming. Consciousness itself is a flight from the here and now to the beyond. Our reach always exceeds our grasp, which is what Heaven is for ... — Sam Keen
We suffer from the illusion that the faster we run, the more likely we are to grasp happiness. The truth is that the velocity necessary for success rarely exceeds the rate of reflection. — Sam Keen
There is the extreme of hopelessness and the inevitability of doom, a deep despair that comes from the sense that our industrial, consuming society is jeopardizing the planet. — Sam Keen
It's interesting that the worse things get, the more we believe the next technological fix is going to get us out of it. But it's like being in quicksand: the more you struggle the deeper you sink. — Sam Keen
We now realize that we're not living in a piecemeal world, but a world where everything is linked together. — Sam Keen
Paranoia reduces anxiety and guilt by transferring to the other all the characteristics one does not want to recognize in oneself. It is maintained by selective perception and recall. We only see and acknowledge those negative aspects of the enemy that support the stereotype we have already created. — Sam Keen
Enter each day with the expectation that the happenings of the day may contain a clandestine message addressed to you personally. Expect omens, epiphanies, casual blessings and teachers who unknowingly speak to your condition. — Sam Keen
There has always been a part of me that saw wilderness and risk-taking as the path to freedom. — Sam Keen
The abyss beyond our beliefs is something we have to pass through in order to see the world anew, to see it in terms not dictated so much by our culture, our parents, or our religious convictions. — Sam Keen
Freud articulated the standard opinion when he asked with supposed seriousness, 'What does a woman want?' ... Today the question that is the yeast in the social dough is, 'What do men want? — Sam Keen
The spiritual journey is one that we must take "alone together," in the same way that a good marriage involves a dance between solitude and communion. The life of the spirit entails a continuous alternation between retreating into oneself and going out into the world: it's an inward-outward journey. There is a solitary part to it, but that solitude helps us to develop richer and more in-depth relationships with our friends, our children, our community, and the political world. — Sam Keen
Aristotle said that philosophy begins in wonder. I believe it also ends in wonder. The ultimate way in which we relate to the world as something sacred is by renewing our sense of wonder. That's why I'm so opposed to the kind of miracle-mongering we find in both new-age and old-age religion. We're attracted to pseudomiracles only because we've ceased to wonder at the world, at how amazing it is. — Sam Keen
We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly. — Sam Keen
Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability. — Sam Keen
Freedom is an inside job. — Sam Keen
Myth is the system of basic metaphors, images, and stories that informs the perceptions, memories, and aspirations of a people; provides the rationale for its institutions, rituals and power structure; and gives a map of the purpose and stages of life. — Sam Keen
Our inner dialogue is frequently composed of old tape loops that we run again and again ... The normal personality marshals sufficient defense mechanisms to exclude dangerous and unknown stimuli and just enough windows to let in an occasional wandering minstrel. Neurotic identity crises come when our defense mechanisms have been too successful and we're encapsulated in the fortress we have constructed with nothing to refresh us in our solitary confinement. So we play the old movies with their stale fears and their unrealistic hopes until we become bored enough to risk disarmament and engagement. — Sam Keen
Being pretty successful, I can, of course, afford some luxuries. But I realize again and again how we have to disillusion ourselves of the idea that these things are going to give us real satisfaction. — Sam Keen
We can only choose whether we will feel and not what we will feel. — Sam Keen
Wise people are able to give themselves gracefully to seemingly contradictory experiences, because they know that they belong to different seasons of life, all of which are necessary to the whole. Spring and winter, growth and decay, creativity and fallowness, health and sickness, power and impotence, and life and death all belong within the economy of being. — Sam Keen
What happens if I try to build a life dedicated to avoiding all danger and all unnecessary risk? — Sam Keen
Compassion begins with the acknowledgment of the single inescapable truth that is the foundation for the possibility of love between human beings - an awareness of the tragic sense of life. — Sam Keen
There is no easy formula for determining right and wrong livelihood, but it is essential to keep the question alive. To return the sense of dignity and honor to manhood, we have to stop pretending that we can make a living at something that is trivial or destructive and still have sense of legitimate self-worth. A society in which vocation and job are separated for most people gradually creates an economy that is often devoid of spirit, one that frequently fills our pocketbooks at the cost of emptying our souls. — Sam Keen
Mounting an expedition to actualize a Compassionate Commonwealth of all peoples ... is the great spiritual challenge of our time. — Sam Keen
If we don't preserve forest habitat for spotted owls, then soon we won't have trees to refresh the air we breathe. And we're realizing that this applies to social ecology, as well. — Sam Keen
Mystical experiences (unlike scientific conclusions) cannot be communicated from one person to another. Philosophers and little children are continually amazed that we, unaccountably, find ourselves in a somewhat intelligible world. — Sam Keen
In the degree that we remember and retell our stories and create new ones we become the authors, the authorities, of our own lives. — Sam Keen
There is a saying in Bali: "We have no art. We do everything as beautifully as possible." This reflects my philosophy of practice. I try to remember daily what a gift it is to have the privilege of living in this wondrous world. — Sam Keen
When you genuinely lose your illusions, you begin to marvel at things, because you don't have the answers any more. — Sam Keen
The major impediment to experiencing the sacred depths of ordinary moments is the speed and distraction of contemporary life that moves to the imperatives of the global economic order.In addition, we increasingly live in a virtual world in which our reality is filtered through media and information technology. — Sam Keen
If we come from good families where we have been supported well, there is a disillusionment we have to undergo in terms of the culture's values. We have to get beyond our cultural mythology to find out who we are. — Sam Keen
Down to earth advice about the path that leads away from the kingdom of the hollow men. — Sam Keen
The dilemma of modern society: the conflict between the need for capital formation at a high rate and the popular condemnation of interest and dividends as "unearned income" and "capitalist," if not as sinful and wicked."
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Subtropical home and gallery keeps its cool via geothermal
We've seen builders and architects accomplish some amazing feats with geothermal heat wells — chief among them, achieving Passive House certification for a duplex in Ottawa, Canada, the world's fourth coldest capital city.
Homes built to Passive House standards use 90 percent less energy than their conventionally built counterparts, so it's an example that goes to show just how much of a building's fuel consumption can be cut by relying on the temperature of the earth six feet below the surface, which — regardless of the season or climate — remains relatively constant (between 45 degrees to 75 degrees Fahrenheit).
But the closer you get to the equator, the less heating becomes and issue, and the more AC looms large in a building's carbon footprint. A fine example of contemporary architecture in the Sungbuk district of Seoul, South Korea, shows that geothermal can not only cut fuel oil/natural gas consumption, but electricity consumption as well.
According to eVolo, the Daeyang Gallery and House, designed by Steven Holl Architects, was inspired by a 1967 sketch for a music score by composer Istvan Anhalt entitled "Symphony of Modules." Conceived of a kind of physical composition in sequential movements, the building features three pavilions — one, an entryway; one, a residence; and one, an event space for the gallery. A floor-level reflecting pool helps to unify these elements, establishing a plane of reference from above and below.
Summertime temperatures in this mega-city's subtropical climate generally run hot and humid, with the East Asian monsoon taking center stage from June until July. But Seoul also experiences winters that are relatively cold, with around a month of snow a year. In a climate with such major mood swings, so to speak, geothermal wells coupled with a heat exchanger constitute an ideal solution — and, in this case, take care of the building's heating and cooling needs year round.
The home and gallery features a bamboo-formed garden wall within its entry courtyard, which then ascends via a series of steps into the entry pavilion, bringing the visitor to the level of the reflecting pool. Sky, water, greenery and the earthy, reddened patina of the copper walls conspire to create an aesthetic experience in keeping with the fine art within the gallery.
The stained wood interiors of the pavilions are punctuated by skylight strips of clear glass cut into the roof, allowing natural daylight to filter in, illuminating artworks and living areas without damaging art. In another variation on the theme — or module, if you will — strips of glass lenses in the base of the reflecting pool bring dappled light to the white plaster walls and white granite floor of the gallery below.
More on the project is available online.
* Susan DeFreitas, EarthTechling
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I joined the Cambridge family in 2004 when my oldest child was enrolled as a kindergartener. I also have two younger children, one of whom is currently in third grade at Cambridge. My roles at the school have varied greatly over the years from that of lunch duty volunteer, to library mom, to party mom, to field trip driver, to substitute teacher, to member of the Board of Trustees. Today I write to you as a parent who has seen her own children's lives impacted because of a Cambridge School education. With certainty I can say to you: one of the most important days of a Cambridge education is graduation day.
Maybe you're in the stage of life where I once was: at home with a toddler and children in the lower grades. Why attend a graduation ceremony that my kid was not even part of? Armed with snacks galore, I went anyway. Or maybe you're where I am now: all the children are in school and the busyness of life takes over. Why make time in an already crammed end-of-the-year schedule to attend graduation? Absolutely, I will go anyway. To glimpse with hopefulness what lies ahead for my younger children, to remember with profound appreciation what was foundational for my older child, I will attend this year's graduation celebration at Cambridge. I will cheer along with lower school teachers as they remember with fondness the graduates they taught. I will wipe tears from my own eyes as I watch proud parents and loved ones capture photos of their graduates. I will laugh as Dr. Blumenstein recalls some of the joyous antics from this year's graduating class. I will listen with wonder as Scott Buresh and Heather Strube honor the graduates for not only all they have accomplished, but, more importantly, for how their love for one another and their faith in Christ has flourished because of their Cambridge education. And, I will rejoice along with our entire community as we sing the final strains of Jubilate Deo as the 2016 class of young ladies and gentlemen leave Cambridge School for the final time.
God always blesses me during this remarkable celebration. Graduation day is a profound commemoration for our entire Cambridge family. Indeed, it is a privilege to mark this passage as our graduates press onward. "Not that I have already obtained all this, or have already arrived at my goal, but I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me… I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus." (Philippians 3:12,14).


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In Defense of Carol Swain
A black scholar gets smeared as "an apologist for white supremacists."
By James Taranto
Oct. 26, 2009 12:01 am ET
"Carol Swain is an apologist for white supremacists," Mark Potok of the Southern Poverty Law Center tells the Tennessean. Carol Swain is also a friend of this column. To our mind the charge seemed awfully far-fetched, so we decided to get to the bottom of it.
Swain, who is black, is a professor of law and political science at Vanderbilt University. She is an expert on white supremacists, having written a book on the subject, "The New White Nationalism in America: Its Challenge to Integration," which was published in 2002 by Cambridge University Press and drew plaudits from scholars both liberal (Harvard's William Julius Wilson) and conservative (Princeton's Robert P. George).