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Alerts and RSS
Keeping Up-to-date with Research Articles Using Electronic Technology
Beginning in 2008, the AMNH Library started shifting many journal subscriptions from print format to electronic-only. Since fewer print journal issues are available to browse for new content, this is a good time to review how you can take advantage of electronic technology to monitor newly published articles in your field of interest.
There are two technologies that can be used to electronically monitor new content: email alerts and RSS feed readers. With both of these technologies, you can choose what content you wish to monitor, and have it sent to directly to your email account or your feed reader, making it unnecessary to regularly search databases or visit journal websites to find new content. However, you should note that not all publishers, vendors, and databases providers support these technologies, or they may support one and not the other.
Email Alerts
Email alert services offer a way to have new content sent automatically to your email inbox. Setting up an email alert requires free registration with the publisher, vendor, or database provider offering the service. Registration allows the company to store a profile of what you want to monitor, along with your email address, so that you can be notified when newly available content fits the parameters you have established.
If you like, you can set up a filter in your email account so that these incoming messages can be viewed in a separate folder, rather than with all of your other incoming emails.
RSS Feeds and Feed Readers
An increasing amount of web content is published in a format that allows you to subscribe to it and monitor it as it is published, much like you might subscribe to a print newspaper to monitor the news every day. Such web content is syndicated, which means that it is sent out to anyone wishing to subscribe, and the name for this technology, RSS, stands for Really Simple Syndication. In order to monitor and read new content published using RSS feeds, you will need to set up an RSS feed reader (also known as a feed aggregator or news reader). A feed reader is separate from your email, but still operates a lot like an email inbox. A feed reader is a personal web space where you can log in and view your subscriptions to various types of content. Some people find a feed reader useful for managing certain tasks without cluttering up their email inbox - but this is just personal preference. However, if you are also monitoring blogs, news sites, or other types of web content that is syndicated, then a feed reader can help you manage all of this in one place, which may make this technology a handier way to keep up-to-date. Furthermore, while email alerts require that you register with the publisher, vendor, or database provider, this is not always necessary with RSS feeds.
Feed readers are so common now that they are often built in to web browsers or part of the package of applications you get with a Hotmail, Google, or Yahoo email account. You might want to explore this list of web-based feed readers. If you set up a feed reader, then you'll want to start subscribing to some feeds. As you surf the web, look around on the sites you visit for this icon:
or icons like these:
Instead of an icon you might also see a text link such as: "RSS Feed," "XML RSS Feed," "RSS," or something like that. If you see one of these icons or links on a site, it means that a feed is available, and if you subscribe to it, you can view that site's newly added content using your feed reader. More information about how to set up a reader and add feeds is provided below, but you can also get a good overview of how RSS feeds and readers works by watching this 4 minute video or this 8 minute video.
Example: Setting up a feed reader
To set up a feed reader using Google Reader you will first need to register for a Google Reader account. If you already have a Google email account, you can use that as your login. Once logged in you may see a welcome screen or a screen that tells you your reading list is empty, but to the left you should see a link to "Add subscription" as shown in the graphic below. This is what you will click to add feeds to your reader.
Monitoring Research Topics Using Email Alerts or RSS Feeds
You might decide that you want to monitor newly published articles on a particular research topic in which case it is usually a good idea to set this up in a Citation or Full-text Database, as this sort of database is not restricted to the journals published by a particular publisher and will allow you to throw as wide a net as possible to gather articles on your topic. You will likely have to go through several steps where you register to create a profile, conduct a search, save it to your profile, and request that the search be automatically and periodically run against any new content added to the journal or database so the results can be sent to your email or feed reader. The exact steps will depend on the publisher, vendor, or database provider.
Example: Setting up an email alert to monitor topic results in Zoological Record
You will need to register with ISI Web of Knowledge (the name of the search interface for Zoological Record) in order to set up an email alert. To register, just click on the link to Zoological Record from the Library's Citation & Full-text Databases page. You'll see a link at the top of the resulting screen to "Sign In." Click that, and then click the link to "Register" in the section called "Customize Your Experience." Register in order to set up a login and password for yourself.
Now, let's say you were interested in having any new articles on the species Mugil trichodon sent to you by email as they are added to the database. Go to Zoological Record and conduct a search on this species. Once your search is done, click on the "Search History" link at the top of the results page. You'll then see a link to "Save History/Create Alert" - click this and log in. On the next page you will see that you can name the search, and make adjustments to the format, etc. Make sure to check off the box that says "Send me email alerts." When you have finished making selections on this screen, click on the "Save" button to save your history to the server. You will now get monthly emails letting you know if anything new has been added to the database matching your search criteria.
Example: Subscribing to an RSS feed to monitor topic results in Zoological Record
You will first have to register and establish a profile in order to set up RSS feeds in Zoological Record. Information about how to register is provided in the example above. You'll also need to conduct a search on a topic within the database - go through the same steps described above, but this time try doing your search on amphibia. When you get to the page where you name your search and make other adjustments, don't click on the box that says "Send me email alerts." Make all the other adjustments that you want on this page, and then click on the "Save" button to save your history to the server. On the resulting page, click on the link that says "RSS Feed: XML." Then copy the URL of the next screen. Now open your feed reader and look for options to add a new feed (in Google Reader, click on the link to "Add subscription." You will be prompted to paste in the URL of your feed, which is the URL you just copied. Take a look at the screen image below showing your newly added feed in Google Reader. You can see the name of your feed on the left under the green bar and the articles from the feed show up in the main reading area to the right.
Monitoring Journals Using Email Alerts or RSS Feeds
It is usually quite easy to set up monitoring of journals important to your research - many publishers have a direct link for setting up either an email alert or RSS feed on the home page of the journal. Often it just takes one click to request that tables-of-contents be automatically sent to your feed reader, while sending this information to your email account is more likely to require that you first register with the publisher to create a profile (once you have done so, in the future you will only need to sign in to your account to add another journal to monitor).
Start by navigating to the journal's home page. Conducting an Internet search will usually get you there the quickest, or navigate from the Library's E-journals list (if there are several links, choose the one that goes directly to that journal's publisher, if possible).
Whether you want to set up an email alert or an RSS feed to get updated content for a journal, expect that you might need to poke around a bit on the journal's website to look for the links that will help you set up these features. Usually these links are quite obvious, but be aware that different publishers organize their sites differently, and may use slightly different terminology to describe these services.
Example: Setting up an email alert to monitor new content in the journal Science
The main page of the journal Science has a link to "Alerts" on the blue bar across the top of the page. Clicking that link will result in a page with a list of different email alerts that you can set up, and a button to "Add/Edit/Delete Alerts." Click that button and then sign in with your Science login and password. If you don't have one, then you will have to click on the link to "Register" and go through the process of registering in order to set up a login and password.
Once you have logged in, you can select which alerts you want to receive, such as the weekly table of contents of Science. Click on the "Submit" button once you have made your selections, and you should be all set to receive regular email alerts.
Example: Subscribing to an RSS feed to monitor new content in the journal Science
The main page of the journal Science has a link to "Alerts" on the blue bar across the top of the page which you should click; on the Alerts page, you will see a link to "RSS Feeds XML" in the left column under the section called "User Tools." Click this link and then choose the feed you want by clicking on the feed and copying the URL of the resulting page. Now open your feed reader and look for options to add a new feed (in Google Reader, click on the link to "Add subscription." You will be prompted to paste in the URL of your feed, which is the URL you just copied.
Take a look at the screen shot below showing how your reader looks once you have added the Science feed. If you select a feed from your subscription list on the left (which now has two items) it will be highlighted, and the items from that feed will show up in the main reading area to the right.
More Tips on Using RSS Feed Readers
Web sites that offer RSS feeds often have quick links to some of the most commonly used feed readers, so that you can quickly access and add the feed to your reader without copying the URL (you will still be prompted to log in to your reader.)
Once you have added some feeds to your reader, explore a bit. Feed readers have a variety of options for organizing your feeds into folders, marking off items after you have read them (so you know what you have read and what you still need to read), sorting items in your feed by date, unsubscribing from feeds, etc.
As mentioned above, you might want to take a look at this 4 minute video or this 8 minute video for a good overview of how RSS feeds and readers work. Sometimes it helps to see the process in action rather than read instructions.
Access from Outside the Museum
When you set up email alerts or a feed reader in order to monitor articles electronically, articles will likely appear in your email account or feed reader as a list of bibliographic citations, often with a link to the full-text of the article. If you click the link from a networked Museum computer, you should be able to go right to the full-text of the article on the publisher's website (assuming the Library has a subscription to the journal). If you click the link from home (or anywhere else outside the Museum), then you will probably not be allowed access to the full-text. This is because access to the electronic subscription of a journal is based on your computer's address. The Library has provided the publisher with the entire range of Museum computer addresses in order to allow anyone using a Museum computer seamless access to content, but we are not able to provide the publisher with all of the addresses of computers that Museum staff use outside the Museum. Thus, publishers will not recognize Museum staff using an outside computer as legitimate subscribers to their content, and content will be blocked. You can still get access to full-text content from home, just not directly from the hyperlinks that show up in your email message or feed reader. Instead, you will have to access the journal directly from the Library's website, as this will prompt an authentication process to verify that you are a legitimate user. See our off-site access access information for further details.
Additional Help
If you have a list of electronic journals or topics that you wish to monitor and you want help setting up email alerts or RSS feeds, please contact the Reference Desk (x5400 or Email) for assistance. We are happy to help!


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Robert Eugene Sprague, 80, of Saranac was reunited with his wife and son in the welcoming arms of his lord and savior on Nov. 27, 2012.
Robert Eugene Sprague, 80, of Saranac was reunited with his wife and son in the welcoming arms of his lord and savior on Nov. 27, 2012.
He was born Dec. 28, 1931 in Ionia, the son of Clinton and Julia (Anderson) Sprague. Robert married Elma Jean Hauter on June 7, 1952. They enjoyed 50 wonderful years before she preceded him in death on Nov. 12, 2002.
Robert proudly served his country in the Army Air Corps/Air Force during the Korean War from 1949-1952. He was employed by Mitchell Bentley in Ionia from 1953 to 1971. He continued his career with Steelcase as a Graphic Illustrator where he retired after 21 years.
Robert was a member of Saranac Community Church, the American Legion, the Ionia Masonic Lodge and the Ionia County Model Aircraft Club as well as past president and member of the Saranac Jaycees.
He was a gracious, generous and kind man to all.
Robert will be forever remembered by his children, Terrie (Doug) Abel of Saranac, Trent Sprague of Byron Center and Troy (Karen) Sprague of Lansing; daughter-in-law, Linda Sprague of Saranac; special friend, Judy Tower of Saranac; grandchildren, Heather and Travis, Tanesha and Jon, Tyler and Caresse, Hayleigh, Myles, Hannah, Kurt, Daniel and Lydia; great grandchildren, Natalie, Landon, Lucas and Maxwell; brothers, Clinton (Bud) (Lois) Sprague of Bitely and Ed (Karen) Sprague of Ionia; sister, Carol (Robert) Hook of Gaylord; brother-in-law and sister-in-law, Dale (Bea) Hauter of Saranac and sister-in-law and brother-in-law, Joyce (Ken) Heilman of Ionia.
He was preceded in death by his parents and his son Tim Sprague.
Funeral services will be held 11 a.m. Saturday, Dec. 1 at Saranac Community Church with Pastor Becky Poor officiating. Interment Saranac Cemetery. Visitation will be 2 to 4 p.m. and 6 to 8 p.m. Friday at Lake Funeral Home of Saranac.
Those wishing to do so may make memorial contributions to the Saranac Community Church Food Pantry. Online condolences may be made at www.lakefuneralhomes.com.


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Germany & Poland, the Poles could easily top this group and their game against Germany will definitely be one to watch other than that for my mind the worst group in tournament by far.
Germany & Poland, the Poles could easily top this group and their game against Germany will definitely be one to watch other than that for my mind the worst group in tournament by far.
Miroslav Klose to cash in against Costa Rica and Ecuador.
I wouldn't put it pass Bayern new boy Lukas Poldoski (Poldoski has recently signed for Bayern on a free if you didn't know) having a good time in this tournament.
1. Germany
2. Poland
3. Ecuador
4. Costa Rica
I don't know too much about Ecuador or Costa Rica, so I may be wrong, but I rate Poland highly enough to expect them to comfortably finish 2nd.
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Costa Rica's main claim to fame would have to be that of Paulo Wanchope.(?)
I suppose a few Derby fans wouldn't mind him back if they could afford his wages?
I saw his first appearance, as sub for the reserves many years back, he played on the right wing and skinned about ten players during his run out, not long after that he made his first-team debut for us at Olf Trafford and scored a wonder goal; we won too
On his day he was so incredible, but towards the end his day didn't arrive as often as it should. Must admit I haven't seen him play for a long time, has he still gorrit? The romantic in me says yes I'd have him back.
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That'll be a lot of quick Dream Team changes then.
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"At this point, the merciful thing to do may be to put up one of those big green curtains they use when a horse falls at a racecourse, to spare the crowd the sight, and afford the man some privacy, for the ruthless but necessary end of his Test career." - The Guardian's Andy Bull on Keaton Jennings
Germany to win the opening game, even with Ballack out i think theres enough quality to get them through this important game, they'll prolly go hard early and i think they'll be 2 or 3 up by halftime.
Some weird swerve on that opening goal...
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ECB - you are a complete ****ing disgrace, #FTECB
Hehe, equaliser lovely.
Wanchope = legend
Germany are *****.
Always have been ... boring, defensive ***** football.
Honestly don't care what people say about that comment .... but to today/tongihts match ..... most attacking German team i've seen. Hence, I think they are decent. (Awseome goal to begin the world cup!!!!)
Irrespective of that, germany are crud. All teams in group A are crud, .... Wanchope to get Costa Rica through
Germany, Costa Rica, Poland, Ecuador.
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Code:FC : 129 matches 281 runs @ 1.76 650 wickets @ 28.86, S/R of 41.75 Best Bowling of 8 for 57 39 5-wicket innings, 7 10-wicket matches. Test : 12 matches 8 runs @ 0.62 68 wickets @ 27.99, S/R of 40.22 Best Bowling of 5 for 59 4 5-wicket innings, 0 10-wicket matches.
I was wondering what on Earth I was watching in the first half, no diving at all.
Germans making up for it in the second half, rolling around like fairies whenever they get the slightest knock. Back to extreme loathing for them.
3-2 now...
Costa Rica are cool.
"I am very happy and it will allow me to have lot more rice."
Eoin Morgan on being given a rice cooker for being Man of the Match in a Dhaka Premier Division game.
Funny you mention that..... I have never been so ****ed off watching international football than when I saw the dutch flying around in the friendly vs australia.Originally Posted by Scaly piscine
Paulo for a hatrick?
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Tonight's Concert Picks: Black Francis at The Abbey, Ex Friends at The Fire, XPN Welcomes Arlo Guthrie to the McCarter Theatre
Pixies frontman Black Francis comes to The Abbey Bar tonight. When his influential college-rock band called it quits in 1993, Francis (born Charles Michael Kittridge Thompson IV) turned the sudden void in his life into the start a solo career that now includes a couple of 4AD releases, multiple aliases and an eventual Pixies reunion. Recently Francis struck up a collaboration with Reid Paley, which resulted in the 2011 LP Paley & Francis. In addition to Paley and Francis providing guitars and vocals, the Nashville-recorded album features Muscle Shoals studio stalwarts Spooner Oldham (piano) and David Hood (bass). Tickets and information for tonight's 21+ show with Reid Paley can be found here. Watch a live video of the duo performing "Magic Cup" below.


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Commercializing your concept — Consider your options
If you are an entrepreneur with a research-based concept, commercializing your technology is the next step. Transforming your ideas into products can be challenging, but there are various avenues worth exploring.
Consider different angles as you implement your technology ideas:
- Access to resources — government funding geared towards developing technologies for competitive advantage could apply to your venture
- Research facilities — public labs or research parks may offer bigger and better facilities
- Business incubators (link no longer available) — shared office space and business acumen might advance your project while keeping costs lower
- Collaboration with universities or community colleges — exchanging technology and expertise often proves beneficial to all parties
- Industry partners — if your technology is useful, a larger company may provide support
However, before convincing the market that your technology is of value, you need to ensure its feasibility. Conducting a patent search and other research to establish that your idea is original could reveal whether it is likely to succeed.
A focus group comprised of a range of experts can determine whether your technology is sound from various points of view. What works from an engineering perspective might not suit the marketing people. Include end-users, as they will often uncover design flaws. Through this exercise you may even discover other applications for your technology, or that you need more research and development.
Not quite ready to go into production? Licensing your concept might present some advantages:
- Immediate cash flow
- More opportunities to develop further technologies because you don't have to invest the time and effort required for commercialization
- If this new technology is outside your main business focus, licensing will allow you to get back to your core.
Another option is to develop a strategic alliance with a larger company that can help you commercialize your technology. Both companies remain independent, but benefit from shared resources. If your technology fills a gap in the other company's product line or provides a solution to a production problem, you may have access to more capital, established distribution channels and marketing experience.
No matter what route you take to commercialize your technology, make sure your strategy includes a sound business plan and some expert advice.
One of your first steps is to decide whether you want to protect your intellectual property, license the invention, or keep the formula as a trade secret. You may wish to start by consulting our section Copyright and intellectual property and our page on Licensing and technology transfer opportunities.
Our section Starting your business can help you with general start-up activities and our section on R&D and innovation can help you learn about programs and services specific to your needs. You may also wish to consult a lawyer for further advice on your business venture.
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Friday, July 23, 2010
I wrote an essay for my phenomenology class at Steiner College. In short, phenomenology is an approach to science that studies the world through what we as humans can directly observe and experience. For instance, in studying nature, we must examine the plant as a whole, and in the parts we can see with our naked eyes. In so doing, we learn the true essence of the nature of the plant. In my essay, "Inward Spiral, Outward Spiral," I support the reductivist methodology of modern science while also encouraging the phenomenological approach. I think the combination of both gives us the little pictures and the big picture of our natural world.
Here is the essay. Enjoy!
In college, I took many classes for my biological sciences major that ended in –ology, such as biology, microbiology, bacteriology, anthropology, and zoology. In medical school, I had classes such as pharmacology and physiology. Clearly, we humans love to study things! These disciplines represent only a fraction of the sciences that exist out there today. And it seems new fields of science are developing each day. Combined with the other areas of human life such as sociology, geography, history, economics, mathematics, physics, computer sciences, language arts, music, arts, and crafts, it becomes evident that we really like to study things, to try and make sense of things, to try and figure out what life is all about, and to perhaps connect our lives with the larger cosmos.
Another field of study is phenomenology. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe followed the principles of phenomenology in his approach to studying nature. In studying nature through the lens of this discipline, he believes that we can find a connection to the cosmos and to the understanding of things. In the direct human experience of nature, through the "encountering" of nature with what physical senses we are endowed with and what inner intellect we have, the true essence of the object would reveal itself to us. He states, "Each phenomenon in nature, rightly observed, wakens in us a new organ of understanding."
In studying nature, we need to cultivate the ability to let thoughts dissolve and experience, for instance, the plant kingdom as just the thing-in-itself. We need to be active in not doing, and allow the plant to speak. It would tell us all the mysteries of its life, and ultimately, the truths of existence. It is an elegant and beautiful view of the study of nature.
In the Waldorf classroom, in particular, the grades, where the teacher is appealing to the feeling life of the students, this phenomenological approach serves the teacher well in enlivening the curriculum. The child, whether as a first grader simply strolling through a wooded path or a seventh grader actively contemplating the phyllotaxy of Rosmarinus officinalis, the direct experience of the phenomena of nature is satisfying and life-affirming. It aids the teacher in fostering a love of learning that we all want for our children.
The interactive, phenomenological approach connects us to the elements, the tangible stuff that our world is made of and within which we experience the world in a very intimate way. Air, water, fire, and earth. Inspiration, imagination, intuition, and intellect. In the material elements are the human elements. For an eighth grade physics block, I was cognizant of actively approaching my lessons through a phenomenological lens. We studied the properties of heat by directly observing and experiencing the effects of fire, and the sun on our skin, on our clothing, on different materials, in a room. We studied magnetism, pressure, and even some physiology. But I come from a "traditional" science background, and I would say that my lessons were not purely phenomenological. While I did not formally engage the students in the scientific method, I still felt it important to include concepts such as refraction and reflection, convection and radiation, rays of incidence, etc., all products of the reductivist, 20th century approach to the sciences.
And this brings me to the title of this essay, "Inward Spiral, Outward Spiral." There is validity in the phenomenological approach, and certainly, if our walk through the bio-dynamic garden, and our using our senses to learn about yarrow, agapanthus, sunflowers, and apples demonstrate this method, then it is a welcome approach – definitely more joyful than leaning over a microscope in a lab to look at a cross-section of xylem and phloem! But I feel a sense of obligation to defend the work of the great scientists of our time, who took the reductivist path to exploring and understanding the sciences. I believe that humans are young, relative to the history of the cosmos. It has been only about 10,000 years ago that human history had begun to be recorded, only about 1000 years ago that the scientific method was born, only about 100 years ago that human genetics was being studied, and only 10 years ago that the human genome was mapped.
The work of a multitude of really smart people, of so many minds working towards the betterment of humankind, lead to the advancements in the field of genetics and medical science. These advancements arose from reductivist science, not phenomenological science. In the eyes of Goethe, all the research going on in these medical laboratories are a "calamity," that the "use of experiments has severed nature from man…microscopes and telescopes, in actual fact, confuse man's innate clarity of mind." But, I believe we need to give modern science a chance. Modern science is in a period of what I call the Inward Spiral.
Imagine the snail shell, and beginning at the outermost contour of the shell, one can trace a path that gradually spirals into a point more or less in the middle of the shell. Now imagine that a tiny human can walk along the contour of this shell. As the human is walking, he is seeing the world, and he is taking in the wonder of it all. At first, he is accepting, for example, the mysteries of the weather or his body as divine. As he walks the Inward Spiral, he develops questions that dig deeper and deeper, he makes observations, he creates experiments, he gathers data, he makes calculations, he creates more elaborate experiments, his measurements become more precise, he aids his senses with tools to gain new perspectives, his quest leads him to examine the parts of the whole, then the parts of the parts, then the parts of the parts of the parts. He goes from body, to cell, to nucleus, to chromosomes, to DNA sequences, to base pairs, to molecules, to elements, to atoms, to subatomic particles, to maybe even the "God" particle. This is the path of modern science, of the Inward Spiral.
We are at a moment in human history where we are walking the contour of the snail shell towards the middle of the spiral. What happens when we reach the endpoint?
We enter then into a new phase of human history, the Outward Spiral. Here, I think we as humans will have developed a deep understanding of the materiality and elementality of our existence that our course will then change. In using the intellectuality we were born with to gain the knowledge amassed during the Inward Spiral, we can walk with spirituality, with deep global citizenry, and with a holistic view. This is the Outward Spiral.
I think perhaps that we humans need to enter into the Inward Spiral to be able to actively, and rightly engage ourselves in the Outward Spiral. We are young, and we are still in the process of awakening our senses and our spirits. In the Outward Spiral, as I think some of our scientists have entered into, they are finding ways of healing our earth, curing diseases, and discovering the connectedness of the kingdoms. At the outermost contour of the Outward Spiral, we will discover the spirituality that will bring peace to all the world's creatures and the universe.
Maybe the advocates of phenomenology have old souls that can already see with enlightened eyes. They may not need to enter into the Inward Spiral to experience the Outward Spiral to reach the cosmos.
David Seamon states in Goethe's Way of Science: A Phenomenology of Nature, "We must somehow find ways to bring our thoughts, feelings, and actions in harmony both with ourselves and with the world in which we live."
I invite him to take a stroll along the Inward Spiral with me. We might spend some time in a research facility splitting an atom, but that stroll will also have time spent smelling the fragrant aroma of roses or jasmine, feeling the warmth of the sun, tasting the sweetness of a persimmon, and listening to the flow of a stream – the phenomena of our immensely amazing world.
6 comments:
Loved this post! Inspirational.
- July 24, 2010 at 10:27 AM
Loved this post! Inspirational.
- July 24, 2010 at 10:27 AM
- HereWeGoAJen said...
Very interesting! Thanks for sharing. I actually had to read it over again to make sure I got everything.
- July 26, 2010 at 10:19 AM
- Beth said...
This is a beautiful post. I find it so amazing how the developemental path of humanity follows such a similar pattern to that of the individual. We each need to follow that inward spiral before we can then effectively reach out to others and our world in the outward turn, so it makes sense that our society, including scientific study, would need the same process.
- July 27, 2010 at 9:16 AM
- Foxglove Spires said...
I have just found your blog and have enjoyed my journey while visiting. Thank you for the wonderful wisdom and inspiration that you share.
This post on science has been very enlightening for me as I am relatively new to Waldorf, Thank you.
- July 31, 2010 at 8:13 AM
- Castlequeen said...
Hi Rick, I love the analogy of the inward and outward spiral, I hadn't thought of science like that before.
Love reading your blog.
Ali, NZ
- July 31, 2010 at 8:47 PM


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Where were you in 1977? "Star Wars" was playing, Elvis Presley had just passed away, and the Portland Trail Blazers won their one and only NBA championship.
If you were an Oregon legislator, you may have voted to adjust Oregon's beer tax for inflation in 1977, the last time such an adjustment was made in our state. Now, 26 years later, a bipartisan group of legislators from urban, suburban and rural districts alike is proposing to adjust the beer tax and dedicate the proceeds to alcohol prevention and treatment. We think the time has come to support these legislators and pass a beer tax adjustment this session.
Alcohol addiction reaches deep within our families and communities. In the last 26 years in Oregon, alcohol abuse has contributed to at least 6,451 traffic fatalities, which translates to about four deaths per year since 1993 in Hood River and Wasco counties. More than 680 clients received addiction services in Hood River, Wasco, Gilliam and Sherman counties in the past year. Nearly half of those people were required by the courts to receive such services because of driving under the influence of intoxicants. And in 1999, the cost of alcohol addiction in Oregon was an estimated $2.3 billion — $683 per resident — due to health consequences, criminal behavior, and job and productivity losses.
Against this background, consider that 1,517 alcohol and drug treatment clients and 49,673 adult and child mental health clients — many of whom struggle with alcohol addiction — have been turned away from these county-delivered services due to 16 months of state budget cuts. In our four-county area, the number of people in addiction treatment has dropped 30 percent during that time.
These cuts to preventive and treatment services could not come at a worse time for our state. The Oregon Legislature has presided over $57 million in cuts to shared state-county public safety and human services over the last two years. In addition, an unprecedented state revenue shortfall looms on the horizon. Legislators deserve praise for rooting out government inefficiencies and prioritizing spending — especially the bipartisan push for a stable and affordable public retirement system — but these efforts are not likely to result in adequate resources for public safety and human services. Although not a complete answer to the budget crisis, new revenue to address the local impact of alcohol abuse must be considered part of the solution.
The 7-cent-per-bottle proposal, sponsored by Reps. Tom Butler, Jackie Dingfelder, Steve March and Max Williams, and Sen. Bill Morrissette (House Bill 2804), would be good for our state and county. Independent research has shown that even small increases to beer taxes prevent underage drinking. This is because beer is the unquestioned drink of choice for young people today. Those same teens illegally purchase 20 percent of all beer sold in the United States. Adults who abuse alcohol purchase another 30 percent of all beer sold, with the remaining 50 percent purchased by adults who drink responsibly.
The deterrent effect of just a 7-cent increase per bottle — generated before a single tax dollar is spent — gives Oregonians a cost-effective tool for reducing underage drinking.
Consider also the effect of restoring recent cuts to alcohol addiction treatment and prevention services, local law enforcement and community mental health services. Under the proposed legislation, the funds raised would be directed to these local services with accountability ensured by citizen-driven budgets, independent audits and, ultimately, local voters. No new bureaucracy is formed.
It is argued that legal-aged beer drinkers of modest means will be unfairly punished by a 7-cent increase per bottle. But research has shown that demand for beer remains relatively strong among legal-aged beer drinkers even after an increase in price. Some say that Oregonians will not support an improvement in Oregon's ranking as the state with the 46th lowest beer tax rate in the nation. But Oregonians have overwhelmingly supported increases in the beer tax in poll after poll, with one poll showing 71 percent of Oregonians in favor of a modest adjustment as recently as January 2002.
The time is right for a reasonable adjustment to the beer tax, and our legislators have a perfect opportunity right now to end the suspense. Although Oregonians may have to wait a while longer for the Trail Blazers' next NBA trophy, we should not have to wait a minute longer for the support that a 7-cent-per-bottle beer tax would provide to local services that address alcohol addiction prevention and treatment services.
Sharon Guidera and Maija Yasui are Hood River residents. Yasui is employed in the drug prevention field; Guidera works in the mental health and addictions field.
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In addition to the features for developers we showed in IE8 Beta 1, we've been working on great new features for consumers and IT professionals (as well as doing even more cool stuff for developers). I'm happy to announce that we're on track to deliver IE8 Beta 2 this August when you'll get a chance to see what we've been up to in these areas. Furthermore, in order to help us get even more feedback for this global product, we'll be releasing Beta 2 in over twenty languages within a month of the initial release. This is a big step up from the three languages we released for beta 1 and much more than we ever did during IE7.
On behalf of the team, I'd like to thank you all for your help with beta 1. Since we released Beta 1 in March we've had over two million downloads so far with lots of good, useful feedback. We've been listening to that feedback and making improvements to our work on an interoperable platform that has full CSS 2.1 support, faster script performance, and significantly more capable developer tools as well as our cool new features like Activities and Web Slices. We've learned a lot from this first beta – keep the comments coming please!
Between now and August, there are a few ways you can prepare your sites for Beta 2. First, take advantage of Activities and Web Slices on your site. Second, make sure your site looks great in IE8; as you may recall, IE8 will use our new, more standards-compliant layout and rendering engine for strict doctype pages by default. This may cause IE8 to layout pages differently than IE7 did. If you haven't had a chance to test your pages yet or don't want to make changes yet, remember that you can have your site tell IE to use our IE7 layout engine for your strict doctype pages by adding the X-UA-Compatible http header to your HTTP headers or on a per document basis. You can learn more about how to ensure site compat with IE8 on our new IE Compat pages.
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An interesting viewpoint. You may have hit on a change in how people are coming to ham radio. Many of us did get our start as teenagers and I did have the challenges you mention. I have had periods of more or less activity; more or less time/money for it. I wonder how old you were when you became a ham 28-years ago? Are you an example of your theory? But the statistics do show a decline in total numbers in the US and the average age is advancing steadily which does seem to imply that we are lacking a regular influx of younger newcomers to replace the OM's (we are really resembling that). But perhaps the demographics are shifting to this becoming a retirement hobby vs a life-long one. Time will tell! Ed - KL7UW At 07:35 AM 7/16/2008, John Geiger wrote: >I was licensed in 1980 and I have been hearing how ham radio is dying for >the past 28 years. So far, it is still here and doing better than ever. >Over these 28 years, this dying hobby that is in danger of losing all of its >frequencies had been given 5 new bands (60m, 30m, 17, 12m, and 33cm) and has >lost small parts of 2 bands (220-222mhz and 1215-1240mhz). We adjusted very >well to those loses. > >One reason we may not see as many young hams at hamfests is due to the >internet. Those of us pre-Algore-internet invention hams relied on hamfests >to buy and sell equipment and see new rigs. That is no longer needed as you >have ebay, QTH.COM, eham.net, and QRZ.COM as 24 hour a day hamfests where >you don't have to pay $4 a gallon for gas, plus extra for unhealthy hamfest >food. >They don't appreciate hamfests because they really don't need them as we do. > >Also, we have seemed to sink into this mentality that everyone gets licensed >as a kid and stays licensed there entire life. Therefore, if you don't see >many young hams, it means that no one is becoming a ham and we are losing >operators. Untrue! Many people get licensed as a retirement hobby or empty >nest syndrome hobby. These are perfect people to market the hobby to. They >have plenty of disposible income to spend on the hobby and lots of time to >operate. > >As someone who was licensed at age 13, there are somethings that suck about >being a young ham. You don't have much money to spend on rigs and antennas. >You live in your parent's house so you are at their mercy for what antennas >you can put up. You have school and homework to compete for your time. You >go to college which greatly limits funds and time, and then you go into the >raising a family (I am there now) which greatly limits funds again, as well >as operating time. > >So, I think the hobby is doing just fine. We just need to get over this >obsession that only kids should become new hams. In my area most of the new >licensees are 40 or over, but we are bringing in plenty to replace those who >become SKs. > >73s John AA5JG > >----- Original Message ----- >From: <firstname.lastname@example.com> >To: <email@example.com> >Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2008 2:52 PM >Subject: [amsat-bb] Vanishing Hams > > > > Hi All, > > > > > > I read the article yesterday that Frank had referred to and forwarded it >to > > a few friends. > > > > >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> > > I received this URL today. Read number 16. > > > > _http://www.walletpop.com/specials/top-25-things-vanishing-from-america?i_ > > (http://www.walletpop.com/specials/top-25-things-vanishing-from-america?i) > > cid=100214839x1205495530x1200282778 > > > > <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< > > > > Every time I go to an annual swapfest, the average age of attendees is one > > year older. We need to spend some time reaching out to a younger >generation or > > #16 on the list will come true. > > > > Many years ago, it was in the national interest to have a cadre of >trained > > radio operators. Today, with CB, Cell Phones, cordless phones, FRS, >etc. -- > > everyone is a radio operator. Now, military communications is done with a > > keyboard or microphone -- pretty much universal skills now. > > > > As the article mentions, the airwaves are valuable property and we could > > lose them. Although the Amateur Radio Community shines when there is loss >of > > communications during a disaster, with newer technology, even that could >change. > > > > A few years ago at the 2002 AMSAT meeting in Ft. Worth, Tony, AA2TX was > > giving a talk on his antennas made from cardboard boxes and aluminum >foil. There > > was a grade school class in attendance with their teacher. When the talk > > was over, the kids swarmed over the boxes and aluminum foil to make >antennas > > with great enthusiasm. Very inspiring -- this is the kind of reaching >out we > > need. > > > > Instead of our self serving pursuit of DXCC, WAS, VUCC, WAC and others, > > maybe the ARRL needs to sponsor an award for bringing new Hams into the > > community. Otherwise, someday, no one will remember what those letters >even stood for. > > > > > > 73 & TNX, > > > > Bob > > K5GNA > > > > > > > > > > > > **************Get the scoop on last night's hottest shows and the live >music > > scene in your area - Check out TourTracker.com! > > (http://www.tourtracker.com?NCID=aolmus00050000000112) > > _______________________________________________ > > Sent via email@example.com. Opinions expressed are those of the author. > > Not an AMSAT-NA member? 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Worthy: A Conference for Young Women
By Abbey Le Roy
CIU Student Writer
Young women are bombarded with deceptive messages that can leave them believing their self-worth is defined by a perfect body, name-brand clothes, cool friends, and a relationship with "Mr. Right."
Knowing it's time to expose the lies and help young women realize the truth about their self-worth, Debby Jones, wife of Columbia International University president Dr. Bill Jones, and special guest Dawndy Mercer Plank of WIS TV are hosting a one-day conference called "Worthy."
"Worthy" will be held on September 10, in Shortess Chapel on the CIU campus. Based on the book "Lady in Waiting," co-author Debby Jones will help young women discover what the Bible says about their self-worth and how to become the woman God intended.
"How thrilled I am to be a part of the Worthy event," Jones said. "God touched my heart in a unique way when I was a young woman, and my prayer is that He will speak to other ladies through the story of what He's done in my life."
Dawndy Mercer Plank, a popular TV news anchor in Columbia will be the emcee for the event.
"Our focus as women needs to be on knowing who we are, knowing Who made us, and learning how to intimately love and be loved by Him," explains Plank. "That's what Worthy is all about."
The name for the conference comes from the Bible's book of Ruth. In Ruth 3:11, Ruth is commended by Boaz for her character with the words, "all my fellow townsmen know that you are a worthy woman."
Visit www.ciu.edu/worthyfor more details and registration information.


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The desire to have a fitness facility offering a variety of classes plus one-on-one training is what inspired Jaime Faller to open Break Thru Fit, 1099 E. U.S. 223 in Adrian.
Break Thru Fit has its grand opening from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday, Nov. 29, and Saturday, Nov. 30, with classes rolling out the next week. The facility will offer classes Monday through Friday from about 4 p.m. to 9 p.m. Morning classes will be by demand. Saturdays will be "open gym" days from 9 am. to noon, with one-on-one fitness sessions geared toward non-members following from noon to 1 p.m.
Faller, with the assistance of another teacher, will offer Zumba, Pilates, yoga, abs workouts, boot camps and pole fitness classes. Other types of workouts may be added depending on demand.
Abs workouts feature a whole range of exercises designed to strength the stomach area, while boot camp is an intensive workout that still "is going to be fun," Faller said. "It won't kill you."
As for the pole fitness class, it does use a vertical pole but the workout is far from whatever image that conjures up.
"It's a great class for self-esteem. It's the best workout possible and you don't even realize it," Faller said. Participants use the pole for a variety of flexibility, core and upper-body exercises.
"I'm looking forward to teaching it," she said. "It's the most fun class to me because I love doing it."
The pole fitness classes are only for participants age 16 and up, with parental consent required for those ages 16 to 18.
Personal training and massages, which are by a certified therapist able to provide a wide range of massages including one for pregnant women, are available by appointment. The gym will also have a nutritional bar for fruit and vegetable smoothies.
Faller decided she wanted to open her own facility after moving to Lenawee County from Toledo, where she worked for a gym for "forever." She enjoyed that gym's personal approach to fitness and wanted to open a facility that offers classes, rather than a place where "you walk in and work out and you leave," she said.
Break Thru Fit's memberships are $40 per month, month to month, for unlimited classes with no contract; $30 per month for a three-month contract membership; or $20 per month for a six-month contract membership. Personal training and massages are extra. If someone wants to only take the pole fitness class, the cost is $40 for eight weeks of three times per week classes, or $60 for 16 weeks of classes.
The facility also offers a special "girls' night out" package for women ages 18 and older, which Faller said is ideal for birthdays and other celebrations. For $50, a group can rent the space for an evening, from 7 to 9 p.m., pick one class to take, and bring in their own refreshments.
Break Thru Fit's phone number is 260-6074. Its Facebook page is facebook.com/YourBreakThruFit.
This article was written based on information provided by the business.
Lenawee in Business is a feature of The Daily Telegram business page for new businesses and businesses celebrating a major anniversary. If you have a story for a Lenawee in Business, call assistant news editor Sue Van Fleet at 265-5111, ext. 259, or email firstname.lastname@example.com.
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The desire to have a fitness facility offering a variety of classes plus one-on-one training is what inspired Jaime Faller to open Break Thru Fit, 1099 E. U.S. 223 in Adrian.


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IMF: Crisis hurting emerging nations
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) head, Christine Lagarde, has warned the global economic crisis has started to hurt growth in emerging economies.
She said that uncertainty surrounding the global economy was hampering policymakers' ability to take measures to boost growth.
Earlier this week, the IMF warned that the global economic recovery was getting weaker.
The fund has also cut its global growth forecast amid the ongoing crisis.
Separately, the World Bank has cut its forecast for major Asian economies, including China and India, citing global risks.
"Whether you turn to Europe, to the United States of America, to other places as well, there is a level of uncertainty that is hampering decision makers from investing, from creating jobs," Ms Lagarde said during a press conference in Tokyo.
"We need action to lift the veil of uncertainty."
Delayed recovery?
One of the key concerns among policymakers across the globe has been the ongoing debt crisis in the eurozone and its impact on global growth.
The crisis has dented consumer confidence in the region and hurt growth in the bloc's economies.
That has already had an impact on demand for exports from Asia to the region, hurting growth in export-dependent countries such as China, Japan and South Korea.
Ms Lagarde, who was speaking in Tokyo on the eve of the annual joint meeting of the IMF and the World Bank, said that while eurozone policymakers had taken measures to allay fears about the crisis worsening, a fast recovery was not on the cards.
"Good news is the fact that this European Stability Mechanism that had been discussed and in the making for the last months has now been christened," she said.
"In terms of speed, the bad news is that for it to actually operate there will be a legislative and often parliamentary process for the fund to effectively work."
Closer ties
The meeting is taking place at a time of increased political tensions between Asia's two biggest economies, China and Japan.
Relations between the two have deteriorated in recent weeks after Japan said it had purchased a set of disputed islands in the East China Sea, which are claimed by both the countries as well as Taiwan.
The islands lie in important shipping lanes and fishing grounds and also close to waters thought to contain natural resources.
Japan's announcement of its purchase of the islands in September had sparked a diplomatic row and led to anti-Japan protests in China.
On Wednesday, the governor of China's central bank pulled out of the IMF and World Bank meetings.
The country's finance minister is also unlikely to go, as state media said that Vice-Minister Zhu Guangyao would attend.
Ms Lagarde called upon the two nations to resolve their differences.
"All economic players and partners in this region are very critical for the global economy," she said.
"We hope that differences, however long-standing, can be resolved harmoniously and expeditiously so that from an economic point of view the co-operation can continue and can be beneficial not only to those countries... but also to the global economy."
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ROME (AP) — Militants opened fire on the car of the Italian consul in the Libyan city of Benghazi, but he wasn't injured, officials in Rome and Libya said Saturday.
A security detail traveling with Consul Guido De Sanctis returned fire, but the gunmen who were driving in a car alongside De Sanctis' convoy sped away, a Libyan security official said. The shooting occurred in the evening as De Sanctis was leaving the consulate.
A government official in Rome said De Sanctis wasn't hurt because he was travelling in an armored car. Video footage shown on Sky TG24 showed several gunshots to the windows of the vehicle.
The officials insisted on not being identified because they weren't authorized to make the information public. The ANSA news agency said it spoke to De Sanctis, who confirmed he was fine.
Benghazi was the site of a Sept. 11 attack on the U.S. diplomatic mission that killed four Americans, including the U.S. ambassador to Libya.
Esam Mohamed contributed to this report from Tripoli, Libya.


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December 27, 2013: We at The Virtual Driver hope that you and yours had a very Merry Christmas. For those who think their cars don't have enough high tech onboard already, we've got a treat for you. After discussions with the folks at FEV and Ricardo Engineering, we lay out the changes you can expect by 2025 as automakers struggle to meet the 54.5 mpg Corporate Average Fuel Economy standards. Forget Hemis and think four-cylinder full-size pickups. On the lighter side, Toyota recently introduced the 2014 Highlander crossover to the press, and we were there for the reveal and drive. Is it everything Toyota hoped it would be? You be the judge as we take a First Run in the mid-size SUV. Finally, we bribed, er, convinced Al Vinikour to produce a Tirade for this last issue of the year, and he delivered. However, now that we've read it, we're a bit perplexed by his grasp of "new" technology…
December 13, 2013: In our younger days, we were fascinated by the PBS/BBC series Connections. In it
historian James Burke showed how changes in technology led to advances in sometimes seemingly unrelated areas. Our own look at the automotive stairsteps of safety delves into major advances that helped create big leaps in safety, many of which are older than you think. Hybrids are all the rage, but what kind of hybrid? Is it a micro-hybrid, parallel hybrid, serial hybrid or something else entirely? We have the answer, presented in language that doesn't leave you with glazed-over eyes. On a lighter note, XPEL has introduced a new film that will protect your car's body while eliminating the swirl marks and light scratches that often make these films a short-term solution. And our own connection to a bygone era, Al Vinikour waxes lyrical about vehicular complexity and its effect on underhood real estate.
December 5, 2013: A special day deserves an entry of its own for this was the day that Ford pulled the covers off the 2015 Mustang. It was a global launch because the Mustang, for the first time in its 50-year history, will be a global car. But can it ever have the power and poise of the original? Click here to see.


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SAN DIEGO (AP) Justin Tucker kicked a 38-yard field with 1:07 left in overtime to complete a stunning comeback for the Baltimore Ravens, who beat the staggering San Diego Chargers 16-13 on Sunday.
San Diego led 13-3 on Nick Novak's 30-yard field goal with 7:51 to go in regulation and seemed headed for its first win against a team with a winning record this season.
But the Ravens converted on fourth-and-29 from their 37 when Ray Rice caught a short pass from Joe Flacco and weaved through the defense to the San Diego 33 with 1:37 to play. After a review, the ball was moved back to the 34 and the refs measured. The new spot gave the Ravens a first down by the length of the ball.
Six plays later, Tucker kicked a 38-yard field goal to tie the game as regulation expired.
The Ravens (9-2) won their fourth straight and for the eighth time in nine games. The Chargers (4-7) were pushed closer to being eliminated from the playoff picture.
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PORTLAND, Ore. – LaMarcus Aldridge scored 27 points and the Portland Trail Blazers beat the Indiana Pacers 100-80 on Wednesday night to snap a six-game losing streak.
Rookie Damian Lillard added 20 points and eight assists for the Blazers, who also stopped a four-game losing streak at home and avoided dropping five straight at the Rose Garden for the first time since 2006.
J.J. Hickson had 14 points and 13 rebounds for his 24th double-double this season, and Portland shot a season-high 56.4 percent from the floor.
Paul George had 22 points and seven rebounds for the Pacers, who had won seven straight against Western Conference teams, their longest streak since 2004. Indiana (26-17) lost for the third time in 10 games.


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Many times we have hear of contractors using the threat of mold in the ducts, having people pay to have duct cleaned, inspecting the duct work and finding it is only their wallet that was cleaned. There's a better way!
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They never replace the system – they will just keep sending people out to patch it up and keep it barely running.
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Don't trust anyone contacting you out of the blue with an unbelievable offer for your existing, old unit and thousands off a new one. Reputable companies don't go around promising free services or massive discounts. After all, they're in business to make a profit. When someone makes you an unbelievable offer, you should maintain a healthy suspicion.


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About Nashun Nashunbatu
The vast landscapes of Nashun Nashunbatu contain surreal worlds that examine the relationship between man and nature. Using thin washes of paint, evoking the style of Romanticism and traditional ink painting, he creates scenes that contain disasters or unimaginable violence, with tiny human figures carrying out unusual tasks while being dwarfed by their surroundings. Smeared, sprayed, and dripped paint recall the steppes and deserts of his Mongolian homeland, but the atmospheric applications of paint can alternately be read as pure color painting. Working in Frankfurt, Nashunbatu says he draws more from European art than from any contemporary Chinese movement.
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On a sunny Saturday afternoon in early March, I was at my local club watching our seniors play their first game of the season. My son's age grade team wasn't starting for a few more weeks so he was having a run with the premier reserves. With a good pre-season under their belt and being a bit fitter and stronger, our team were four tries ahead by half time. The opposition were having a dig but they had the look of a team that didn't really believe they could win and were just trying to keep the score respectable.
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Interceptor, The (UK - DVD R2)
Marcus thinks they should have called this movie 'Bourne with the Force'...
Matvey Sobolev (Igor Petrenko) falls from the sky as the plane he was on board blows up, destroying the weapons he was trying to stop the spread of. Miraculously recovering from his injuries, Matvey is determined as the last hope in a hidden war between good and evil. The evil being led by arms dealer Georgiy Kurylo (Aleksandr Baluyev, who also seems to have some sort of demon in his brain).
After saving a reporter and showing off his mad fighting skills, Matvey is inducted into mysterious organisation 'Stop Crime' (mysterious doesn't really do it justice) and begins learning how to use 'the Force' (no, not that force, another force), leading him toward the final showdown with the menacing Kurylo.
I know, I know, that brief synopsis sounds mental right? Well, it's not half as mental as The Interceptor (or its Russian title Zapreshchennaya Realnost) actually is (I mean look at these screen grabs, do they even look like they are all from the same film??). The best way to describe it is to say that it's a Bourne movie via the Matrix by way of a crazy ass sci-fi flick. And I say crazy, because the sci-fi element here is so ridiculously sci-fi that it should come with its own fan club.
The juxtaposition of pretty nifty hand to hand combat and car chases in the real world with and the sparse weirdness of the other world shouldn't work. In fact, the visuals of our leather jacketed hero talking to a chick in a purple robe while she strokes a CGI crystal lion still sounds weird to me after seeing the movie and sort of understanding what was going on.
Despite feeling a little weirded out by the movie as a whole, I still found it pretty entertaining. Some of the action and stunts were pretty well orchestrated (even if the car chase looked like a Top Gear car test), the story is straight forward enough not to be turned off by, despite its mish mash of genres (though ask me to fill in the small details and I'll draw a blank) and even with a lead character I really knew nothing about beyond the simple fact he can kick ass pretty well, I still enjoyed the simplicity of the performance.
It feels like my last batch of reviews have been about sticking a boot into the ever decreasing quality of DVD when compared to HD. Well, with The Interceptor, I'm reminded that there might be life in the old format yet.
This transfer is super impressive and despite knowing full well it would shine even brighter in HD, the quality here does plenty to impress. The cool metallic palette to the entire movie lends itself to a fine looking and very clean transfer. Everything feels crisp and there's even a fine level of texture and detail to skin tones and fabrics and with some seriously deep black levels no scenes really let the transfer down.
One iffy side note is that the closing scenes seem to be filmed in 3D. This isn't really specified but the image (when drowned in CGI organic tentacle type things swooping at our lead) has that dual image 3D effect and the scene is certainly orchestrated to take advantage of the technique. It's hard to tell as TV 3D rarely works well anyway but I'm pretty sure the brief scene needs the red and blue glasses.
The style of the movie isn't quite as sharp as the transfer and can feel quite amateur in places (especially the CGI work) but the director's approach to fast, kinetic cuts, mixed with slow lavish reveals and explosions makes for a varied and thoroughly impressive transfer.
Backing up the strong transfer, the Dolby Digital 5.1 track does plenty to ramp up the visuals. Using mainly strong bass, adding power to every explosion or punch (oh, and there are loads of explosions—every car goes boom after getting even mildly scuffed) the track kicks a whole lot of ass without being all that subtle about it
The techno style music used in places spreads nicely across the speakers, with blips and beats having space all their own in the track and even though the impact sound effects from the many, many punches and kicks don't quite feel natural in the scenes, they are all fairly strong and effective.
The only extra on the disc is the trailer (02:06) and watching that even after seeing the movie, I'm not sure who they were trying to appeal to.
The Interceptor has a lot going for it, with some well put together action sequences, some anime inspired demonic elements and a short run time to ensure that the weirdness and lack of any real detail regarding the story doesn't become a grind.
There are no extras beyond the film's weird trailer but anyone giving this Russian sci-fi flick a chance should be more than won over with the transfer and pretty meaty audio track. It's certainly not a blind buy sort of a purchase, but this is probably bat shit crazy enough to round up a bit of a fanbase.
Review by Marcus Doidge
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Terrible can't even begin to describe it IMO.
I hope nobody blind buys it based on this review, it wishes it was a sci-fi Bourne movie.
I hope nobody blind buys it based on this review, it wishes it was a sci-fi Bourne movie.
Suitable only for persons of 15 years and over
Disc Details
Release Date: 22nd February 2010
Discs: 1
Disc Type: Single side, dual layer
RCE: No
Video: PAL
Aspect: 2.35:1
Anamorphic: Yes
Colour: Yes
Audio: Dolby Digital 5.1 Russian, Dolby Digital 2.0 Russian
Subtitles: English
Extras: Trailer
Easter Egg: No
Feature Details
Director: Konstantin Maximov
Cast: Igor Petrenko, Aleksandr Baluyev
Genre: Action, Fantasy and Sci-Fi
Length: 89 minutes
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So a private first class from the infantry came to the general's quarters to fix his lights. He had them fixed within a short time and they never gave him trouble again.
On March 13, I was really surprised when I saw the front page of the Local section of The News-Journal.
There was Mr. Norton Parks of Holly Hill being honored by his city for being in the invasion of Normandy in 1944. The 29th Division emblem caught my eye right away.
My husband, Bill, was there, too. In fact, he was also a member of the 116th regiment of the 29th Division.
There aren't many "29ers" left. Bill met quite a few over the years, by being a member of the 29th Division Association. They can tell some great stories.
Bill fought from D-Day to the Elbe River, and the meeting up with the Russians. In the meantime, there were quite a few battles such as Brest, where the German submarines were.
As the 29th Division started crossing Europe, the command post/war room (which was a tent) had to be moved every day. Gen. Charles H. Gerhardt was having lots of problems with the lights and all the electricity. The generators kept going off and wouldn't work right.
A couple of men on the general's staff knew Bill and they said he was the one who could fix his problems.
So a private first class from the infantry came to the general's quarters to fix his lights. He had them fixed within a short time and they never gave him trouble again.
Bill was lucky. His only wounds were from being hit with shrapnel. A few scars remained with him forever.
The general gave Bill a commendation. He got the French Jubilee medal and a Bronze star I proudly display.
Bill was very proud to be a 29er and I'm sure Mr. Parks is, too. I knew many 29ers, and they were a fine bunch of men. So few left! I keep in touch with some of the wives. Now, the 29th division and D-Day are in the history books.
It was a proud day for America.
Bill is buried in Bushnell National Cemetery, along with his 18-year-old Marine grandson, Glenn.
Mr. Parks, I salute you. "29, let's go."
Port Orange
As a visitor for the month of March to New Smyrna Beach, I look forward to my morning walk to get a copy of The Daytona Beach News-Journal. A headline in the March 21 paper spoke about a massive $150 million condo/hotel project that Daytona Beach has given its blessing to. It is described as the biggest beachside development in the city's history.
Seven pages later, I read an article where Gen. John Kelly described much-needed improvements to facilities for the troops stationed at the Guantanamo Bay detention center that President Obama "has marked for extinction." The cost is $170 million. Did I read that right? It's $170 million for repairs and improvements, and $150 million for a brand-new beachside condo/hotel? I had a thought: Why not let the private contractors build the condo/hotel at Guantanamo for our troops, and then when we normalize relations with Cuba we will be tax dollars and hotels ahead of the deal! Our troops will be living in the standards they deserve and we will have shaved an additional $20 million off the federal budget. What do you think, Congress: Is that an idea you guys can agree upon?
Ballston Spa, N.Y.
I do not understand the letter writer who believes that "the reigning political party has decided that moral values no longer have any importance in our wonderful America." I think what he means to say is that the reigning political party has decided that its moral values are different from his.
What is so moral about discrimination on the basis of sexual preference?
The letter writer goes on to decry the fact that the president has declared that we are no longer a Christian nation. Well, if that is so, then good for our president . I thought we were a nation that looked favorably on all religions or, for that matter, toward those who do not associate themselves with any religion at all. I believe it is called freedom of religion. To suggest that we should write our representatives and make clear "that we were founded as a Christian nation and we must, above all else, be faithful to defend our Christian principles and God's holy word" runs counter to my thinking. The separation of church and state is one of the fundamental principles upon which our freedom is based, and we have far too many self-described Christians who don't seem to understand that.
The writer can believe anything he wants and pray morning, noon and night, as far as I'm concerned. Just don't try to impose your religion's ideas and values on me, or my government. And, by the way — I am not a left-wing liberal. I'm a conservative Republican who never voted for a Democrat in my life.
Ormond Beach
From far and wide, from kitchen table to the halls of Congress, we hear tales of individuals, cities, counties and states, right up to our federal government, either teetering on the brink of financial catastrophe or already plunged into the abyss of insolvency.
Now, one of the most vaunted and stable bastions of financial security for hundreds of thousands of public service employees, the Florida State Retirement System, could be no more as of Jan. 1, 2014, only a couple of years after the same Legislature that would consign it to the dust bin tried to salvage it by requiring a 3 percent paycheck contribution from state employees. Under legislation passed recently by the state House of Representatives, when the FRS goes, it will be replaced by a 401(k)-type program, thus thrusting public employees into the tender ministrations of the vagaries of the market — a vast gaming enterprise whose permutations have little real correlation to the needs or concerns of the common weal. Welcome to the ongoing privatization of the public sector.
Could all of this fiduciary morass, and the myriad negative social implications resulting from the stress of economic insecurity, seriously be the result of fiscal misfeasance on the part of so many? Or is it the workings of a financial reward system that allows 1 percent of the population to control 80 percent of the wealth of the nation? Rather than excoriate the "deadbeats" on welfare (and, by the way, where would hundreds of thousands of private contractors, as well, be without generous dollops of government contract money?), maybe we should look a bit higher up on the financial food chain.
Ormond Beach
I've been reading letters to the editor about how the illustrious fathers of this great country of ours are spending our poor middle-class folks' hard-earned tax money. This has been mine and many others' bone of contention all along. And hurrah to those big-money people in Washington giving up any of their little goodies to help pay this horrendous debt that this country has.
I am 90 years old and I would be willing to give up something to help with this deficit. What we need are poor people in the White House. But then again, the poor people don't have the millions of dollars for these "Mickey Mouse" campaigns.
Let's get back to the simple life.
For now, my donations will go to those innocent cancer-ridden children at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital.
I was so blessed when I read about 2-year-old Cooper Ascone's surgery to have his heart repaired. It is an absolute miracle and definitely shows our Lord was watching over that little boy.
I wish God's best for him, his parents and the family. And I rejoice that Cooper can run and play as little boys were meant to do.
In these days of such horrible violence, it is wonderful to be able to read such uplifting stories.


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Former Maine prosecutor convicted of child porn makes court appearance in New Mexico
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) � A former Maine prosecutor who disappeared just hours after an appeals court upheld his child pornography convictions is due in court in New Mexico following his arrest.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Donald Clark in Portland, Maine, says James Cameron was making an initial appearance Monday in Albuquerque following his arrest the day before. Clarke says Cameron will be taken back to Maine by the U.S. Marshals Service after an identity hearing, which could happen as soon as Tuesday.
Last month, the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld convictions against Cameron.
Cameron cut off his court-ordered electronic monitoring bracelet and drove away from his rented home in Rome, Maine, in the late-night or early-morning hours of Nov. 14 or 15.


text: Gainesville punk powerhouse Against Me! played for a packed Freebird Live Jan. 22 with touring acts The Shonds and The Sidekicks. Jacksonville was the tour's first Florida stop, and punk enthusiasts turned out to give a warm and wild welcome on the chilly January night. Against Me! singer Laura Jane Grace's amplified voice, powerful as it is, could barely be heard over the excited pit audience, which sang every word of every song. Near the end of their set — just before a generous, three-song encore — Florida's state flag was passed up from adoring throngs and draped across guitarist James Bowman's shoulders.


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My mom emailed me a NYT you tube clip thats how I found out about the 2 week window!
In my life before a Mom I was a PR professional.
This is an amazing program - I've seen television pieces on it in the past, but would love for the program to have a wider reach! Please let me know if I can help you get the word out!!!!
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Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men.
Melozzo da Forli (Italian Renaissance artist, 1438-1494) Angel from the Vault of the Sacristy of Saint Mark January 29, 2011. "Without Melozzo, the work of Raphael and Michelangelo would have never existed." This statement by Antonio Paolucci, director of the Vatican Museums, sums up the impact this renaissance painter had on some of the greatest Italian painters.


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WEX Releases Monthly Construction Fuel Consumption Index (FCI) Results
By: Business Wire
Jan. 28, 2013 04:06 PM
WEX Inc. (NYSE: WXS), a leading international provider of physical, digital and virtual corporate card payment solutions, in collaboration with IHS, the leading global source of information and analytics, today released results of its WEX Construction Fuel Consumption Index (FCI), which indicated an increase of 3.5% in December versus its level the previous year.
The WEX Construction FCI measures national fuel consumption statistics for the construction industry, which provides an accurate and up-to-date indication of construction activity in the United States.
WEX worked with IHS to capture and analyze transaction data from its closed loop network of more than 180,000 fuel and vehicle maintenance locations, including over 90 percent of the domestic retail fuel locations and 45,000 vehicle maintenance locations. With this data, the WEX Construction FCI can be used to identify emerging trends within the construction industry and the national economy.
The indicators were tested at monthly, quarterly and annual frequencies, with the greatest insights produced using the year-over-year percent change of the monthly data. For December 2012, the WEX Construction FCI reported that fuel consumption by U.S. construction companies increased 3.5% versus December 2011 and increased 0.04% versus the previous month.
The WEX Construction FCI, which is available monthly in advance of the U.S. Census Bureau figures on construction spending, is available at http://www.wexinc.com/fuel-consumption-index.
Last month's WEX Construction FCI reflected the stalled growth indicated by the seasonally-adjusted index in most of the government's subsequent construction data releases. Construction spending excluding improvements – a good measure of activity – decreased by 0.2% in November and private residential construction rose by 1.2%; however, it was the weakest gain in eight months. November housing permit statistics were mixed, with total permits increasing by 3.6%. Also in November, housing starts fell by 3.0% to an annual rate of 861,000. The weak growth for the WEX Construction FCI in December mirrored the small increase in job growth with a gain of 30,000 jobs in the construction sector in the same month, after losing 10,000 in November. Total construction put-in-place, which is released a month later than the Fuel Consumption Index, declined by 0.3% in November.
IHS Analysis
According to the IHS analysis, despite the month-to-month stalled growth in December for the WEX Fuel Consumption Index, the U.S. housing market has shown signs of growth with new home sales rising 4.4% in November to an annual rate of 377,000 units. Although new home sales are slowly trending upwards, they are not expected to reach normal levels above 800,000, until 2015.
Existing home sales increased by 5.9% in November, while inventories fell to 2.03 million units, which is the lowest since December 2001. However, this is good news since low inventories will spur builders to put up new homes or else lose sales in addition to facing higher prices. All of the well-known home price indicators confirm that home prices are on the rise nationally in at least three of the four regions. Home prices in the Northeast continue to fall because many housing markets in this region remain depressed.
The WEX Construction FCI for December 2012 is available at http://www.wexinc.com/fuel-consumption-index
About WEX Inc.
WEX Inc. (NYSE: WXS) is a leading international provider of physical, digital and virtual corporate card payment solutions. From its roots as a pioneer in fleet card payments in 1983, WEX now provides its more than 350,000 customers ― representing more than 6.9 million cardholders ― with exceptional payment security and control across a wide spectrum of business sectors. The Company's operations include WEX Bank, Fleet One, Pacific Pride, rapid! PayCard, Wright Express Prepaid Cards Australia, Wright Express Fuel Cards Australia, Wright Express New Zealand and CorporatePay Limited, England, as well as a majority equity position in UNIK S.A., Brazil. WEX and its subsidiaries employ more than 1,200 associates. For more information about WEX, please visit WEXInc.com.
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You'll Never Guess How Much Energy Toddlers Exert – It'll Exhaust You
When a toddler takes his or her afternoon nap, the rest is well-deserved. That's because the daily activities of a 1- to 3-year-old is equivalent to an adult completing a whooping 83 rounds of boxing. Now that's a workout.


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Emmy Organizers Need To Invite CW Stars & Young-UP The Show Next Year!
Hey, Emmy awards producers! Jane Lynch was terrific, but you won't ever get a younger audience until you invite more stars from 'Gossip Girl,' 'The Vampire Diaries' and '90210.'
I may be giving you unasked for advice here, but I can tell you that our Hollywoodlife.com audience of millions of 18 to 35 year old women rapidly lost interest in Sunday's Emmys broadcast after the red carpet and opening song and dance number.
Their initial hyper-enthusiasm for Vampire Diaries stars Nina Dobrev and Ian Somerhalder's appearance was intense. They were thrilled to see them and sounded off in our Emmys live chat and then clicked vigorously on their photos.
But then, disappointment set in when only a few of the Glee cast members appeared on the red carpet and even fewer on stage during the show and it became apparent that none of their other huge TV favorites would be attending.
Yes, I'm sure many tune in to Modern Family, 30 Rock, SNL and Mad Men too.
But they are deeply involved with shows like Vampire Diaries, Pretty Little Liars, One Tree Hill and reality shows ranging from The Voice, to American Idol, to The Bachelorette to Keeping Up With The Kardashians.
Unfortunately, these younger scripted and reality shows receive few Emmy nominations, despite their enormous popularity with young female audiences.
Nevertheless, I'd strongly suggest you get more of these young, hot stars on the red carpet and involved in the show as presenters or as part of sketches. I guarantee your ratings will soar!
You need to mix it up, anyway. This year — it felt like we were getting constant repeats on the podium. Now, you can't help that if you have the same winners in umpteen categories — but you can vary your presenters.
Listen, I love Amy Poehler, Andy Sandberg, Sofia Vergara, Ashton Kutcher, Jim Parsons, Julianna Margulies and John Hamm BUT we saw them A LOT!
Young women would have stayed glued to their seats if they could have eyeballed Blake Lively, Leighton Meester, Penn Badgley, AnnaLynne McCord, Sarah Michelle Gellar and Sophia Bush, just to name a few.
It wouldn't have hurt either if the Emmys organizers could have somehow have found a way to invite Justin Bieber and Selena Gomez to make an appearance — after all Selena was a TV star and Justin Bieber made a much talked-about appearance on CSI this year.
Don't laugh, Emmys producers. The name of the game is ratings and don't networks lust over the young female demographic?
Well, to get to them you need to invite stars they're passionate about to the Emmys next year! Then, they'll keep watching.
— Bonnie Fuller
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Nothing herein contained shall be deemed or construed to (a) amend, modify, or change any existing law authorizing or requiring the sale of acquired lands, or (b) empower any commission, bureau, or agency of the Government to make a reservation of the minerals in the sale of any acquired land: Provided, That any such sale or conveyance of lands shall be made by the agency having jurisdiction thereof, subject to any lease theretofore made, covering the mineral deposits underlying such lands: Provided further, That nothing in this chapter is intended, or shall be construed to affect in any manner any provision of chapter 641 of title 10.
"Chapter 641 of title 10" substituted in text for "the Act of June 30, 1938 (32 Stat. 1252), amending the Act of June 4, 1920 (41 Stat. 813)", which had been classified to section 524 of former Title 34, Navy, on authority of act Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041, § 49(b), 70A Stat. 640, the first section of which enacted Title 10, Armed Forces.
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Gender-Based Violence
Gender-based violence (dating violence/domestic violence, sexual misconduct and stalking) is not only against the law, but against Loyola University Chicago's Community Standards.
There are resources, reporting options and support services here on campus to help any students who are directly or indirectly affected by gender-based violence.
For more information, please visit the Community Coalition On Gender-Based Violence's website.


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Bill Graham's Day on the Green concerts were the first prototypes of "festival" shows - multi performer sets in stadium settings. Staged on the lawn of the Oakland Coliseum, the Day on the Green concerts were a summer series started in 1973 that continued until shortly after Graham's death in 1991.
Our Pelons are extremely rare "practice pieces" for the early rock, jazz and blues t-shirt designs. Before production was initiated, the image or design was tested on cotton cloth or burlap to determine the color and line accuracy of the piece. Only a few of the tests were preserved once the design was deemed acceptable and the t-shirt went into production.
This item was part of Bill Graham's personal collection and shows some damage from the May 7, 1985 firebombing of his San Francisco office. The attack stemmed from Graham's open and honest criticism of President Reagan's visit to Bitburg Cemetery published in the San Francisco Chronicle.


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Star Citizen test footage shows AI pilots in action
Star Citizen is still a good two years away, well before the time a traditionally funded release would be shown to the public, but Roberts Space Industries has released a sliver of in-game footage anyway.
Responding to backer requests, RSI published the snippet of video below, noting that the game is a good year even from its initial alpha build, and is still looking very rough.
"The laser effects, explosions are all placeholders and there will be significant work done here," a blog post said, noting that the final graphical goal is to utilise the full power of DirectX 11 and modern PCs.
The AI which is the actual tech on show is looking good, though – all the dogfighting you see here is AI-driven, not directed or player-controlled. Creator Chris Roberts hopes to provide the "most sophisticated AI " he's ever attempted, with "distinct personalities, dynamic learning, signature moves" powered by modern CPUs.
"We're a long way off from the final article, but as you can see from the video AI can already fly in formation, respond to commands and engage in combat," he said.
"As things progress we'll have much nicer implementation of third a person chase and orbit cameras to show off the action better. In an ordinary game's development cycle, this would be something we would share internally or with the publisher, but we're showing our backers instead, since you're the ones making Star Citizen happen."
Star Citizen has five days left of its crowd funding campaign; visit Kickstarter or RSI central for more information. It has so far raised over $3.4 million from more than 50,000 backers.
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The argument of homeopathy is not very convincing. :pMarco wrote:Keep in mind that we all consist about 2/3 of water.
And the herbal medicine has a tradition of thousands of years - not only in Asia but all over the world and in every culture.
And homeopathy works with concentrations far below 1%.
The saponins seem to have very positive health effects - but I do not know much more.
I don't mind herbal medicine as long as there's proof, in fact I believe most modern medicine is based on herbal medicines which have been known to work and then synthesised. For example I have no problems accepting that oranges could cure (the extremely rare condition) vitamin C deficiency.


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Courtesy of Collegiate Water Polo Association
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- Goalie Kent Holland made a tournament high 17 saves between the pipes to earn Player of the Game honors and help his team rally back from 5-3 deficit entering the fourth quarter as the Bears tallied a 7-6 OT win in the second consolation game of the 2009 Men's Eastern Championship. The win places Brown into the fifth place game on Sunday against the Rams of Fordham University.
The game was a battle of the former coach of MIT versus the MIT assistant coaching staff as current Brown head coach Felix Mercado matched wits against Alex Feinstein, Ed Vilandie and the rest of the Engineers' staff as MIT head coach Adam Foley was not on the deck due to the impending arrival of a child.
Neither team gained commanding control of the contest for all 38 minutes of play as the two institutions were able to counter on another's offensive success and defensive stops.
Brown jumped out to the early lead in the game as Northern Division Player of the Year Svetozar Stefanovic converted on a man-up chance at the 4:09 mark of the first quarter to stake the Bears to a 1-0 lead.
The advantage lasted 45 seconds into the second period when Devin Lewis deked his defender and twisted a shot into the goal mesh on a man-up chance to knot the game at 1-1 with 7:15 left to play in the first half. For MIT, the goal ignited a mini-scoring run as Lewis rifled a five-meter penalty shot past Holland at 4:12 before John Preis split the defense to unleash a shot inside the Bears' five meter mark from the wing at even-strength for a 3-1 lead.
Brown halved the deficit before halftime as Corey Schwartz bested MIT goalie Columbus Leonard with a rising shot for an advantage goal at the 1:47 mark for a 3-2 Engineers lead at the break.
For Brown, the deficit disappeared 2:12 into the third period as Gordon Hood scored on a man-up chance, but the Engineers rebuilt their advantage prior to the end of the period as Preis and Alex Mattfolk lit up the scoreboard with natural goals at 5:31 and 3:49, respectively, to give MIT a 5-3 lead entering the final climatic eight minutes of regulation play.
Stefanovic added another goal at 6:50 of the fourth period to move the Bears to within a goal of tying the Engineers, but MIT regained their two-goal lead less than two minutes later when Lewis wrapped a shot around his defender and into the cage for a 6-4 lead with 4:52 left in regulation.
The advantage would not hold up, however, as Hood lofted an shot into the goal at 4:15 with the team
MIT Goals: Devin Lewis (3); John Preis (2); Alex Mattfolk
Brown Goals: Svetozar Stefanovic (3); Gordon Hood (2); Corey Schwartz (2)
Saves: MIT - Columbus Leonard (10) ; Brown - Kent Holland (17)
Exclusions: MIT - 12 ; Brown - 7
Advantage Opportunities: MIT - 2-for-7 ; Brown - 5-for-12
Sprints: MIT - 2-for-6 ; Brown - 4-for-6
Referees: Vaughn Cooper, Mark Koganov