Although the Sustainability department spearheads a number of environmental initiatives, faculty and staff from around campus are "committed to reducing and reusing," according to Rob Andrejewski, Director of Sustainability.
Members of the campus community proactively find ways to turn Sustainability's goals into a collective effort. Recently, Mei Kiu Lo, Catalog/Systems Librarian in the Law Library, reached out to Andrejewski to recycle or donate old book shelves. "In the past, these would likely have gone into the landfill dumpster. Over the past year, however, James Campbell and Scott Lincoln in Custodial and Environmental Services have developed a strong relationship with Goodwill. We now have access to a Goodwill trailer on campus to capture donations like this. This small change in standard operating procedure by Mei Kiu, James, and Scott keeps items out of the landfill, saves money on tipping [landfill] fees, deepens a community partnership, and (hopefully) provides someone else with a resource they can use," he said.
The Goodwill trailer, which moves around campus based on need, is an opportunity that came out of another Sustainability effort, the Big Yard Sale, an end-of-year collaboration between Sustainability and the Sierra Club to collect and resell items that are either donated or left behind by students. Russell Rainer, Goodwill of Virginia's donor development manager for Central Virginia as well as a UR alumnus, helps coordinate two tractor trailers during the Big Yard Sale.
Reducing food waste has also become a joint goal of Dining and Sustainability. Lou's Café, 8:15 @ Boatwright, ETC, and Passport Café donate food to St. Stephen's Episcopal Church on Grove Avenue. Food that is close to expiration is collected at the end of each week from locations like Lou's that close on the weekends or before they close for breaks.
"Retail Dining has been really leading the way," Andrejewski said, mentioning that Amanda Boyd, manager at Lou's; Eliot Cleveland, multi-unit manager at ETC; Karen Kourkoulis, manager at Passport; and Nia Williams, café manager at 8:15 are all part of the effort. Jenny Kearney, Rethink Waste & food recovery intern, coordinates dropping off food on Fridays so that community members in need can pick it up Saturday. Food donations average thirty-five pounds a week.
"We have a goal of diverting 75% of waste from our waste stream. We want to reduce the overall volume as well as increase the amount that is recycled or composted," Andrejewski commented.
His team works with other departments on campus to accomplish this goal. For example, at the latest Rethink Waste football game, they partnered with Athletic department employees, including Jeff Smith, Concessions/Relief Manager; Lauren Wicklund, Associate Athletic Director; Mike O'Toole, Coordinator of Facilities & Events; and Ashley Yencho, Assistant Athletic Director, Marketing. The Rethink Waste games normally divert 35% of our waste from the landfill, but at the last game, they hit 55%.
Faculty are also finding ways to incorporate sustainability into their curriculums. One of the Faculty Learning Committees, which is chaired by Mary Finley-Brook and David Salisbury, Associate Professors of Geography, Environmental Studies & International Studies, is working on plans for sustainability education at UR. There's also an Eco-Corridor Think Tank, with faculty from a wide variety of departments and schools, who are considering various ways they could use the corridor in the curriculum.
Not sure where to start contributing to sustainability on campus? Your feedback is needed!


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Woman recovering after shooting
DECATUR, Ill. (WCIA) – Decatur police confirm a woman is in critical condition after she was shot.
This happened near the corner of East Moore and South Streets.
Police say they found a 66-year-old woman who was shot when they arrived.
They also said the victim died but they retracted the statement and confirm she's in critical condition.
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (WCIA)--There are some concerns about the vaccine supply at the federal level, but officials with the Champaign-Urbana Public Health District said they are not concerned at this point.
They've opened two clinics on opposite sides of Champaign for people 65 and older and underlying health conditions, and are working with the state to give others who've had their first dose the second. They're asking people who haven't gotten theirs to be patient, and that their vaccine will be coming soon.
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (WCIA)--In a press conference on Friday, Gov. J.B. Pritzker announced some Regions in Illinois (1,2 and 5) will move down to Tier 2 guidelines, and may reopen for indoor dining for bars and restaurants at a limited capacity.
Regions 3 and 6 in Central Illinois remain in Tier 3 as of Friday, and will have to wait a little bit longer.

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Yas Rana argues that Shannon Gabriel's potentially homophobic comments during the third West Indies v England Test should be investigated by the ICC.
We might never know exactly what Shannon Gabriel uttered to Joe Root to prompt the England captain's now famous "Don't use it as an insult. Don't use it as an insult. There's nothing wrong with being gay" reply.
Root's response suggests that he was responding to a comment that, in his interpretation, was using the word 'gay' as a pejorative. If Root heard correctly, that would then certainly be regarded as a homophobic slur.
Whilst, oddly, there is no explicit mention of sexuality in the code, it does go on to cover breaches of "other applicable laws or regulations (e.g. governing equal opportunities and/or anti-discrimination)". A possible homophobic slur directed at a fellow professional would surely be deemed discriminatory.
Cultural differences are worth considering but the ICC's anti-racism code clearly stipulates that a board's responsibilities include "promoting Anti-Racism Code awareness and education" and that all players have a "personal responsibility to familiarise themselves with all of the requirements of the Anti-Racism Code, including what conduct constitutes an offence under the Anti-Racism Code".
The ICC's recent handling of an incident involving Pakistan's captain Sarfaraz Ahmed, who was banned for four games for his racially charged comments directed towards South Africa's Andile Phehlukwayo, shows the ideal way forward in this case too.
There are similarities between the two cases. Jeff Crowe was the match referee in both instances, and in both cases the matter was seemingly resolved by the players. In the first case, Sarfaraz apologised personally to Phehlukwayo and his apology was accepted by both the player and the South African team.
In the Gabriel incident, talking after the close of play Root was clear that he didn't want to take the matter further, saying that "sometimes people say things on the field that they might regret, but they should stay on the field".
There is one key difference between both situations. In Sarfaraz's case, his comments were clearly caught on the stump mic. In this instance, we have only heard Root's response. We don't know what Gabriel may or may not have said but that only makes an investigation all the more necessary.
Root's actions should not be forgotten – to call out such language in the heat of battle is commendable, particularly given that the Test is being played in St Lucia, a country where male homosexuality is still illegal and his reluctance for matters to escalate is understandable given that, from his point of view, he dealt with the incident on the pitch.
Root has handled himself superbly but his exemplary response shouldn't affect whether or not an investigation should take place in the same way that Sarfaraz's accepted apology was irrelevant to whether or not he was sanctioned by the ICC.
The 'what's said on the field stays on the field' mantra is acceptable from a player's perspective, but not from a governing body's. Discriminatory comments said by a player do damage to more than just the individual towards whom they are directed. They hurt many in the group which they target who hear them, even if only second-hand, and legitimise similar insults made in playgrounds and recreational cricket pitches around the world.
It is vital that every occurrence is dealt with fully and satisfactorily, not just for the two teams involved, but for the image of cricket as a whole.
According to reports in the Daily Telegraph, the match officials felt they had heard nothing that fell under the purview of the ICC's anti-racism code and match referee Crowe felt that the matter was satisfactorily dealt with by the umpires. But an investigation is still needed for cricket to maintain its path towards being more inclusive, and less tolerant of discrimination.


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SPRING 2001 • VOLUME 8: NUMBER 2
Israel and the Bomb
by Avner Cohen
New York: Columbia University Press, 1998. 470 pp. $32.
Reviewed by P. R. Kumaraswamy
Jawaharlal Nehru University
https://www.meforum.org/1402/israel-and-the-bomb
Confronted with an intensely hostile environment, Israeli leaders have always understood the significance of nuclear weapons as the ultimate guarantor of the Jewish state's existence and as a potential 'ladder' enabling Arab states to come to terms with Israel.
In pursuing this dual objective, Israel and the Bomb shows, Israel had to cope with an unexpected external problem: the non-proliferation agenda of the Kennedy and Johnson administrations. How could Israel establish its nuclear capabilities without arousing American ire? Finding the resources to pursue the nuclear option was just half the battle, for Israelis also had to hide their efforts from their main ally.
The Kennedy and to a lesser extent Johnson administrations were determined to prevent Israel from undermining American non-proliferation agenda. Kennedy even pressured Israel into accepting annual American inspections (or 'visits' as Israel called them) of the nuclear reactor in the southern Israeli city of Dimona. All the eight visits of Dimona, including the last one on July 12, 1969, reached the same conclusion: "There was no definite evidence of a weapons program." How come, Cohen asks, the "the American scientists did not find what they were not supposed to find?" Because of the deceptive tactics Israel pursued.
Unfortunately, Israel and the Bomb sees only two actors at work here the Israeli and American governments, thereby ignoring the Jewish community in the United States which successfully turned Israel into a domestic issue; the topic at hand cannot be understood absent this dimension.
While offering an enormous amount of hitherto unavailable primary materials, Israel and the Bomb largely revisits familiar arguments on the subjects and leaves some of the major controversies (the sources of heavy-water, the Vanunu disclosures) unanswered. Despite the media hype and the pre-publication blitz, then, Israel and the Bomb must be read alongside other works on the subject, notably the studies by Leonard Spector. It contains many new details and exhaustive notes, but not a new interpretation.
Unwittingly, Israel's ability to successfully pursue the nuclear option despite explicit threats, regular inspections and political pressures from Washington provided a model for the clandestine nuclear programs of countries such as Pakistan and Iraq. Also, by the time the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) came into force in 1970, Washington reluctantly recognized Israel crossing the Rubicon; this was a precedent for similar treatment of India over two decades later.
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CRTC Approves More Media Consolidation: BCE's Acquisition of CTV / CHUM (again)
March 7, 2011 Dwayne Winseck's Media Blog	2 comments
This is a first take on today's decision by the CRTC to approve BCE's return to the broadcasting business (full decision here). For those with what constitutes an elephantine memory in these fast and harried times, BCE had taken CTV over once before, in 2000 and failed. It left the television business six years later. Today, it returned with the CRTC's blessing and typical sop thrown to the Canadian 'broadcasting system', albeit at perhaps an even more meagre and self-serving level than usual.
The decision allows Bell Canada Enterprises a second run at making vertical integration and so-called synergies work between its telephone, satellite and ISP (i.e. network infrastructure) businesses and the largest media group in the country, with its CTV and A-channel networks, 31 satellite and cable television channels, 28 local television stations and 33 radio stations. The only things really different than 10 years ago is that BCE has dramatically scaled back its ownership stake in the Globe & Mail (the Thomson family holds the rest) and sprawling media conglomerates have, by and large, gone out of fashion since the turn-of-the 21st century.
Another important thing that should catch our eye is that the value of CTV is now less than it was a decade ago, not because the tv business has shrunk — overall it has expanded from a $5 billion industry to one worth $7 billion (adjusted for inflation) — but because the first six year's of BCE's tenure were pitifully poor. CTV was worth less than half its original value when BCE left in 2006. Today, and after all the growth in the industry plus the acquisition of CHUM, the combined value is about the same as CTV was ten years ago: $2.45 billion.
That number is important because it's the one that the CRTC uses to peg the value of the contributions that BCE will have to pay into the 'broadcast system' in order to gain the CRTC's blessing. At ten percent, BCE's contribution is $245 million. Even worse, $65 million of that amount will go to directly into the pockets of Bell TV, BCE's direct-to-home satellite provider.
The rest is for the usual content, news, drama, culture, music, etc. etc. funding — the 'cultural industries' sop that the CRTC requires and that company's on the prowl exploit to line up support for their take-overs from media workers, directors of Journalism and Communication schools across the country, and so forth. The result is greater media concentration blessed by the state with a few crumbs off the table for others with a stake in the game.
Others, with broader interests can go packing. The CRTC fudges the language to conceal the fact that while vertical integration and media conglomerates are on the wane elsewhere, they're on a tear here in Canada, despite the regulator's supposed new rules limiting media concentration set into place in 2008.
Elsewhere, the crash in the value of the turn-of-the-21st century star of collosal-sized media conglomerates, Time Warner, wiped out nearly a quarter of a trillion in market capitalization, falling from an estimated worth of $350 billion in 2000 to $78 billion in 2009. AT&T also went belly-up in its aggressive move from the wires into all things media, only to be resurrected in 2005 when the moribund company was bought out by SBC. Vivendi Universal in France is another poster child of media conglomeration gone bad. Others examples are as easy to pile up as leaves in autumn.
But here in Canada, in a manner akin to what takes place in oligarchic capitalist societies — think Russia and South America — giant media enterprises are again on the rise. Today's blessing of BCE's acquisition of CTV/CHUM (A-Channel) follows last October's approval of Shaw's take-over of the financial wreckage that was Canwest television, and at fire-sale prices to boot!
Of course, the trend is not all in one direction. Indeed, swimming against the tide, in the U.S., Comcast's, that country's largest cable provider, acquisition of NBC – Universal was approved by the Dept. of Justice and FCC (but also see Commissioner Michael Copp's scathign dissent). Besides being exceptions to the rule, it is interesting to compare the US decision approving Comcast's take-over of NBC with the CRTC's decision to sanction BCE's acquisition of CTV/CHUM.
In the US, the Dept. of Justice and FCC put fairly tough demands on Comcast to make its television and film content available to Internet competitors and 'online video providers' (OVPs), to adhere to open Internet requirements and to "offer broadband services to low-income Americans at reduced monthly prices; and provide high-speed broadband to schools, libraries and underserved communities, among other benefits" (FCC Press Release).
The CRTC, in contrast, will look at issues of vertical integration in a future set of hearings that it intends to hold on the issue in June. Any of the other issues are not even on the table, or at least so it appears.
Well, another sad day in Canada. A great opportunity to articulate vision and to implement ideas and practices that could build one of the most open media systems in the world. Instead, at the CRTC and in Canada's media industries, it's business as usual.
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I'm a first-home buyer looking to purchase in NSW. What do the recent state government changes to grants and concessions mean for me?
Sydney's property prices have seen huge rises over the current growth cycle. The median house price is now sitting at a record high of $1.15 million and the median unit price is nearly $718,000, according to Domain figures.
With prices like that, even buying the most modest property can seem out of reach for first-home buyers. I'm guessing you may have felt like this at some point.
To give first-home buyers a helping hand the NSW government has made changes to grants and concessions as part of its recently announced affordability package. They came into effect on July 1, so it's lucky you've waited until now to buy as you can benefit from what's on offer.
There are substantial savings to be made, with the biggest saving coming from stamp duty concessions. This tax used to be waived for new homes valued up to $550,000 and vacant land up to $350,000, with concessions up to $650,000 and $450,000 respectively.
Stamp duty has now been abolished on all homes – new and existing – up to the value of $650,000, and concessions apply for properties purchased for between $650,000 and $800,000 on a sliding scale.
This alone will provide savings of up to $24,740 – a significant sum.
But then you need to add the savings that come from the abolition of insurance duty on lenders' mortgage insurance (LMI) — another measure in the NSW government's affordability package – which brings the total savings on a $650,000 property up to $26,857.
The savings gradually reduce from there, so for a $700,000 property the total saving is $18,786; for $750,000 the saving is $10,950; and for an $800,000 property it's $2896.
If you choose to buy a new property for $600,000 or less you can also take advantage of a $10,000 First Home Owner Grant. If you build a new home, the grant is available for properties priced up to $750,000.
Buyers of new homes are the biggest beneficiaries of the new affordability measures with savings of up to $34,361. That figure comprises the stamp duty saving of $22,490, the $10,000 grant and the savings from the LMI duty abolition, based on a $600,000 property purchase with a $50,000 deposit.
For first-home buyers, the most challenging part of buying a property is usually saving the significant deposit required.
Not only do you need a deposit, which is nearly $36,000 for just a 5 per cent deposit on a median-priced unit or $55,000 for a median-priced house, but you also need to pay for the enormous costs, with tens of thousands of dollars required for stamp duty alone.
When you look at it like this, the savings provided in the affordability package could go a long way towards helping a first-home buyer get the cash together to get into the market.
If you're looking to take advantage of the incentives, apartments will likely be your best bet in Sydney.
Domain Group's First Home Buyers Report found only four suburbs within 40 kilometres of Sydney's CBD with a median house price of less than $650,000.
For units, however, the closest suburb to the CBD with a median unit price of less than $650,000 was Eastlakes, just eight kilometres south. Other suburbs included Petersham and Ryde. Regional areas offer a much wider range of options.
The new first-home buyer concessions and grants will likely mean you have to save less money to buy a property, which means you can get into the market sooner.
If you have already saved a significant sum, you may now be able to buy a more expensive property, but don't be frivolous with your money.
The danger is that with more money at your disposal you will simply pay more to secure the property you want. You should still negotiate and try to make the most of the savings on offer.
While there might be more first-home buyers to compete with in the market, other measures in the affordability package are intended to dampen demand from investors and foreign buyers — including the removal of incentives and a rise in duty surcharges — which will put you on a more level playing field.
The government is also implementing measures to increase supply, which should also see the price growth moderation we've started to see in Sydney continue.
Savings figures come from the NSW government.


New ammunition and pistols in stock!
Just arrived: high-quality Hornady defensive hollowpoints in 9mm, .40 S&W, and .45 ACP. Limited supply- come in and load up.
Also, a few GLOCK 19s are still available and we just got a GLOCK 20SF 10mm monster. Somebody come buy this thing before I end up taking it home.
Anthony and his daughter are both archers. He recently took a few minutes to talk with some of the folks at his favorite archery supplier.
We had a large order of GLOCK 19's come in this morning. 6 are still available. Please call the store or come in to get yours.
I've heard it said that Colorado has 4 seasons: Almost Winter, Winter, Still Winter, and Road Construction.
Well, it looks like the City of Greeley is going to be re-paving 8th Avenue today (and probably most of the week). If you are planning to come by the store, you will likely have to use the alley that runs behind our building between 24th and 25th Streets. Sorry for any inconvenience. This definitely was not our idea.
Anthony Navarro interviews our store manager and gunsmith, Adam Smith.
Our 1911's are $200 off and we'll also heavily discount 2 boxes of FMJ ammunition when purchased at the same time.
We'll probably find some more stuff to put on sale- come in and see what we've got.


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Boston College Raises One More Banner
I was fortunate enough to be at Boston College's NCAA Championship banner ceremony on Saturday night at Conte Forum. I missed 2008's event because I got stuck in traffic on the Mass Pike that night, and 2010's gathering was too close to Halloween to travel to New England and back—so it sure was nice to finally watch one get raised to the rafters.
I'm still smiling two days later.
Besides the 2012-13 team and over 7,000 of their closest friends in Maroon and Gold, some of the program's past champions made it back to Chestnut Hill to celebrate on Oct. 20, including former coach Len Ceglarski and locked-out NHL players like Nathan Gerbe. Hoisting the newest banner to the skies were graduated seniors Chris Venti and Tommy Atkinson, part of the 2012 team that won 19 straight contests to close out the campaign, including the national title game in Florida against Ferris State.
To top off the festivities Saturday, the Eagles won, 3-0, over local and Hockey East rival Northeastern, which had beaten BC a week before in Boston. Goals came from forwards Kevin Hayes, Johnny Gaudreau and Stephen Whitney, while captain Pat Mullane had two assists and goaltender Parker Milner made 26 saves before a raucous sold-out crowd of 7,884 at Kelley Rink that included almost an entire section of black-clad NU undergrads who surely got back on the Green Line unhappy.
It was a nice night of nostalgia and one final salute to last year's title team, which not only made mustard-colored jerseys a thing of beauty, but was also the third BC squad in five years to claim a national crown. When I was a student, BC made the 1990 Frozen Four and won a few Hockey East championships, but not the sheer plethora of team prizes that the program has brought home since 1998.
For me, as an alumnus, it was good to be back on an ever-changing campus that still feels like home. It was good to sit again at the Forum, where I covered several scores worth of games as an undergraduate, and to see old friends like Jack Casey and Paul Gallivan. They and the rest of the Zamboni crew work hard to keep the ice smooth for one of college hockey's top programs, led by head coach Jerry York (915 career wins and counting) and old friend and Eagle defenseman Greg Brown.
Yes, life has been good at the Heights lately. Keep up the good work, all.
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Chris Serino 1949-2012
Former Merrimack College head coach and University of New Hampshire assistant coach Chris Serino passed away on Monday after a long battle with throat cancer, according to USCHO.com and other published sources.
The hockey coach and athletic director at Malden Catholic High School at the time of his passing, Serino, 63, is survived by his wife, Robin, and their five sons. He also served as hockey coach at Northfield Mount Hermon in his career before going to the college ranks, and had previous scholastic coaching stints at both Salem High and Saugus High.
"The thoughts and prayers of the Merrimack College Hockey Program go out to Coach Serino's family," head coach Mark Dennehy said in a statement on the Merrimack athletics web site. "Anyone who knew Coach Serino understood the passion and fight with which he coached. He will be missed."
A native of Saugus, Mass., and a 1971 graduate of American International College, where he played football, hockey and baseball, Serino coached hockey at Merrimack from 1999 to 2005, fashioning a 77-150-27 record and six appearances in the Hockey East tournament. He previously served as head baseball coach at UNH, and led the Wildcats to a school-record 26 wins in 1995. UNH no longer fields an intercollegiate varsity baseball team.
"He was a great guy and a great coach," said UNH head hockey coach Dick Umile of Serino, who was on Umile's staff from 1991 to 1998. "He was a tremendous athlete and a personal friend of mine; I go way back with him. The fans, the Friends of UNH Hockey, he really got along with the community. He fought a courageous battle with cancer and it came back in the last year-and-a half and really had a battle with it."
After leaving Merrimack, Serino coached at Malden Catholic from 2005 to 2012, and guided the Lancers to their first-ever Super 8 Championships in both 2011 and 2012. He also coached two of his five sons during his tenure, in which he compiled a 95-32-18 overall mark at the school in Malden, Mass.
Serino will be remembered at UNH's Hockey East opener on Oct. 20 against Boston University, and again at Merrimack's home opener on Oct. 26 against Vermont.
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New Season Finally Underway
Following a plethora of exhibition games this past week, and a handful of non-conference (and even conference) contests, the 2012-13 NCAA hockey season kicks into full gear this weekend, a weekend when the NHL itself should have been starting regular-season play. Alas ...
The beginning of the year also means early-season college tournaments, with the most way-out one being the Kendall Hockey Classic at the Sullivan Arena in Anchorage, Alaska. The host Alaska Anchorage Seawolves will welcome in-state rival Alaska (Fairbanks), along with Canisius College and Air Force Academy. Friday's games will pit Alaska against Air Force, and Canisius against UAA. The second night will feature Alaska against Canisius, and UAA versus Air Force.
Next weekend, Alaska (the former UAF) will do the hosting honors for its own Alaska Goal Rush, as the Nanooks will entertain UAA, North Dakota and Merrimack at the Carlson Center in Fairbanks.
Penn State also begins its varsity sojourn this weekend when it hosts American International College, one week after the equally new Penn State women's team won their inaugural game at Vermont.
The start of the new year also marks the beginning of the end for the current men's college hockey landscape. A year from now the WCHA will have a vastly different look, the new NCHC and Big Ten Conference will both get underway, and the CCHA will be just a memory after more than 40 years of competition and eight national titles to date.
But there's six months to go between now and then, when the NCAA Division I men's champion will be crowned in Pittsburgh. Onward and upward—and drop the puck.
Labels: Alaska, Alaska Goal Rush, Anchorage, Carlson Center, CCHA, Fairbanks, Kendall Hockey Classic, NCHC, Sullivan Arena, UAA, WCHA
Huntsville Goes with Kleinendorst
The University of Alabama-Huntsville hockey program, still seeking a conference home after competing the last two seasons as an NCAA Division I independent, has turned to the professional ranks for its next bench boss.
UAH announced last week that it had hired Kurt Kleinendorst, who spent the last two seasons coaching Binghamton (AHL), as its new head coach. He replaces Chris Luongo, a former Michigan State and NHL player who guided the Chargers for the past two years.
"It was something I had been kind of thinking about and now everything has worked out," said Kleinendorst recently at al.com.
A native of Grand Rapids, Minn., Kleinendorst, 51, played four years at Providence College (1979-1983) for current New Jersey Devils President/GM Lou Lamoriello, and tallied 89 goals and 103 assists for 192 points in 123 collegiate games while earning All-America accolades. Drafted by the New York Rangers (77th overall ) in 1980, Kleinendorst played six years of minor-league hockey before turning to the coaching ranks with Raleigh (ECHL) in 1991.
He was part of the Devils' system for nine years, including a stint as head coach of the AHL's Lowell Devils (2006-09), and has also coached in Europe and with the U.S National Team Development Program in his career. He was also an assistant coach in New Jersey during the 2001-02 NHL campaign..
His predecessor, Luongo, inherited a tough job at UAH when he succeeded fellow Michigan State grad Danton Cole in 2010, after the Chargers had made their second-ever NCAA Division I Tournament appearance. UAH managed only six wins over the past two seasons, with the threat of being dropped as a varsity sport coming dangerously close to reality last year.
It's not known why UAH decided to let Luongo go, who is a class act, and he's wished well; but maybe the hiring of Kleinendorst signals that the university is making a committment to have the "Hockey Capital of the South" stick around a while.
His old college coach believes so.
"There is no question in my mind that Kurt will be a decided asset to the University of Alabama-Huntsville hockey team both on and off the ice, and help UAH in their pursuit of a major Division I hockey conference affiliation," said Lamoriello at the UAH athletic web site.
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USCHO's Top 10 Goalies for 2012-13
Just previewed the top 10 returning Division I men's goalies entering the 2012-13 NCAA campaign for USCHO.com - article can be found here. Troy Grosenick (pictured) of Union College is on the list.
Hard to believe that it's already October, the Frozen Four was six months ago, and the new season is about to face off - well, not for the NHL, not any time soon.
That's OK - those of us who love the college game in all its myriad forms have a wealth of riches to look forward to from now until the NCAA Division I Men's Frozen Four in Pittsburgh in April.
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US President Donald Trump and his Democratic challenger Joe Biden are battling for the presidency in a sharply divided United States.
Trump has been focusing on "law and order"; Biden has been trying to strike a conciliatory note. The Black Lives Matter movement – and whether Trump will release his taxes – are among the many issues Americans will consider when choosing their president.
As the hotly contested election approaches, Al Jazeera has been speaking to voters across the US, asking nine questions to understand who they are supporting and why.
Spencer Lindquist
[Courtesy of Spencer Lindquist]
Occupation: Student at Pepperdine University, Pepperdine College Republicans President
Residence: Santa Clara County, California
Voted in 2016 for: N/A
Will Vote in 2020 for: Donald Trump
Top Election Issue: Immigration
Will you vote? Why or why not?
"I will be voting in this upcoming election. I'll be enthusiastically voting for Donald Trump. And that's because this election is not just a consensus on who we are, as a country. It's a consensus on whether or not we even want to maintain a recognisable country that we'll be able to pass on to future generations.
"Right now we've got a choice between the left and Joe Biden — and this is the party and the establishment — who are defined by rioting, by the tearing down of statues and our history, and the importation of millions and millions of people that will fundamentally change the American way of life. And then on the other hand, we have Donald Trump and the Republican Party, who want to defend this way of life, who defend law and order, who defend our police officers, and who stand up for history. So I'd say the choice couldn't be any clearer and that I'm enthusiastically voting for Donald Trump."
What is your number one issue?
"The number one issue for me is, hands down, immigration. Right now in this country, we have multinational corporations that want to import millions and millions of people for cheap labour. Democrats say that this is because of some ideas such as diversity, tolerance, or multiculturalism. But these are all moral coverings for the profit motive of corporations that want to bring in cheap labour to compete with American jobs and American workers.
"So without a doubt, this is by far the most important issue for me. Because if we allow our borders to be opened, first off, we don't have a country. And second, it will only accelerate the cultural and economic dispossession of the backbone of our country, which is Middle America, and the working class in our country. Donald Trump wants to stand up for them, he wants to stand up for them by securing our border. And for that reason, I couldn't be more enthusiastic in my support, both [for] securing the border and of Donald Trump's immigration policies more broadly."
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Who will you vote for?
"Donald Trump."
Is there a main reason you chose your candidate?
"The main reason is because Donald Trump is taking power away from the establishment, he's taking it away from the elites, and he's delivering it back to the average American. We have an establishment in this country that for decades has been presiding over the decline of this country, the decline of the middle class, the decline of the family, the decline of the working class. Joe Biden represents the return to the power of that establishment. And Donald Trump symbolises Americans reclaiming that power for ourselves. And for that reason, that's why I'm voting for Donald Trump."
Are you happy with the state of the country?
"I'm happy with where Donald Trump is taking the country, I'm happy with his direction.
"But I'm not happy with how it was going before that, because the establishment in this country — the elites in this country, the elites in banking, in media, in politics, and the establishment throughout the various power structures in our nation — they, quite frankly, are hostile globalists who don't care about the average man and woman in this country.
"Take, for example, young people like [me]. I've been told that the way to be successful in this country is to go to school, to get good grades, to get good test scores, to get a good degree and to go out into the workforce. And I've been told that that's the 'golden ticket' and that with that, I'll be able to buy a home, I'll be able to have a family, I'll be able to have the same, or maybe even a better, standard of living than my parents did. But that's unfortunately not the case. Because we have a society in which you go into debt for these degrees, and then you have to compete with the rest of the world for these jobs. You have to compete with people coming on H-1B visas — no fault of their own, but rather the lobbyists and the corporations that push for this. But quite frankly, we have a country that doesn't work for the average American man and woman. And that's because we have [had] decades and decades of an establishment that has been out for their own. It's been out for their own profit. It's been out for their own globalist interests, and not for the national interest of our country."
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What would you like to see change?
"I want to see a return to national pride and national identity. Academia, the media, Hollywood, they have all led an assault on what it means to be an American. They've led an assault on our history, and they've led an assault on our national identity. And unfortunately, now, children in schools and as well as people in university, we're taught not to be proud of our country, not to be proud of being Americans, but to be ashamed of our country, to be ashamed of our history, to be ashamed of who we are. And I think that's regrettable. I think that's disastrous for our country. I think we're starting to see the consequences of it and it's only going to get worse if we allow it to continue.
"We need to return to national pride, we need to return to national identity, we need to remember that we are a proud nation — we're a nation that has a lot to be proud of. If we work together, and if we remember that, we can do so much more that we and children [of] the future generations can be proud of as well."
Do you think the election will change anything?
"Absolutely. This election is pivotal. In previous elections, the answer might have been a little bit more qualified, if you will. But this isn't an establishment Republican versus an establishment Democrat. This isn't a globalist conservative or so-called conservative versus a globalist Democrat.
"This is a battle between who holds power in American societies. Is it the American people? Or is it hostile, globalist elites? That is the consensus of this election. [In] this election, we're deciding, fundamentally, who gets to make change in society. Is it people in the media; is it the Washington elite? Is it the establishment? Is it the political class, the bureaucrats, or is it working people? Is it families? That's the question in this election, and Joe Biden — he symbolises a return to rule by these hostile elites, and Donald Trump symbolises the return to an America that works for average Americans."
What is your biggest concern for the US?
"My biggest concern for the United States is that we forget who we are as a nation. We've always wanted to determine our own destiny. That's been the story of America — from the people on the Mayflower to those who fought in the American Revolution, to those who settled the West, we have been determined to decide our own destiny for ourselves. But we're at a turning point in American history, where we can either forfeit that right to self-determination, and we can forfeit it to those who, quite frankly, don't have our best interests in mind. People who want to open our borders, people who want to send our jobs overseas, people who want to make it harder for average Americans to buy houses, to start families. We can allow them to determine our destiny for us. But if we do, nothing good will come of it. And it will lead to further national decline.
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"We need to remember that we are a country. We as a people have always set out to determine our own destiny. We need to do that again, and we need to reaffirm that promise of America by going out on November 3, by voting for Donald Trump, and by proclaiming loudly that America will be put first, the American people will be put first, and it will be put first beyond any other interests."
Is there anything else we haven't asked about the election that you want to share?
"Everybody always says that this is the most important election of our lifetime, right? We hear that every four years. But this time, I think it's real. It's certainly the most important election in my lifetime. I'm 20 years old, and there's never been such a pivotal moment in our history, in the time that I've been alive. So I'd say that this is legitimately the most important election of our lifetime, and particularly for young people.
"My message to other young people — whether you're a high school student, whether you're a college student, whether you can vote or not — it's what type of country do you want to live in? Because many of our parents were able to grow up in a country where they were proud of their nation. They were proud of their communities. They had a sense of belonging. And that's something that's at stake. And that's something I want to be able to give down to my future children. I want to live in a country that's recognisable as America. And if we don't fight for it now, we won't have that. So we have to do everything that we can, as the people who are inheriting this country. We have to do everything that we can to make sure that America remains America and that the American people are put first."
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P.O.W. Prisoners of War. What do you think of it?
The countless myths and legends about P.O.W.s in Vietnam may have influenced tons of novels, movies and all forms of popculture as well (think of Missing in Action 2, Rambo 2, etc). Dramatic escapes from tropical prisoner of war camps were always considered as adventureous and thrilling plots, regardless of what really happened in the course of history.
Of course videogames weren't count out and even SNK ventured this legendary topic. In 1988 they released P.O.W.: Prisoners of War and with it another scrolling Beat 'em Up title in their library. With Ikari Warriors a few years before, SNK already hit the Rambo/Commando path of gameplay. P.O.W. on the other hand was rather supposed be a stealth/survival version of it, with much more hand-to-hand combat involved.
Unfortunately the game isn't held in too high regards and SNK fans rather prefer the Ikari series. What's your view on this one?
P.O.W.: Prisoners of War, released in Japan as Datsugoku: Prisoners of War, is a side-scrolling beat 'em up produced by SNK originally released as an arcade game in 1988. A home version was released for the Nintendo Entertainment System. The player controls a military prisoner who breaks free from his cell and must fight his way into the enemy's main base in order to eliminate their leader and escape.
Just as always it's possible to organize a High Score Challenge for this one. The only thing you need to do is to show your interest by leaving an according post or by sending Priest a PM. Come on, let's give out some medals!
The Blond guy on the cover of the NES version, look a lot like Marco Rossi (from the METAL SLUG games)...?
Coincident or did Nazca do this on purpose...?
That's interesting Priest maybe the cover was by the same artist. The dark haired guy looks a bit like Steven Segal.
Again a game I haven't played. It looks quite cool though, especially the way you start with punches and kicks and then can pick up a machine gun and just gun people down. The kicks are quite funny - it looks like he's soccer-kicking people as if they are footballs.
That was actually my first impression too when I first saw P.O.W. a few years ago via emulation. It might be well possible that Nazca became inspired by the Player 2 model, nevertheless the characters and artstyle of the Metal Slug series were rather parodic than deadly serious (just think of General Morden and Saddam Hussein for instance).
As for the cover artwork of the NES version, in fact I recently sent an e-mail to Marc Ericksen, the cover artists behind this artwork. He actually did the cover artwork for Mechanized Attack, Guerrilla War and Ikari 3 too!
It's a pleasure to chat with you. It's true that I am the illustrator who did the games you enjoy so much, and I'm pleased that you have a passion for the SNK games of the past.
As you could surmise from retrogameart.com, I did a great deal of game cover art in the 80's and 90's, but I've always had a special place in my heart for the specific games you mentioned: P.O.W., and Guerrilla War.
This goes back to my own history as the child of a service family, and my own 6 years of active duty in the U.S. Army as a young man, from 1966 through 1972, during which I served as a para, with the 82nd Airborne Division, and attended the Special Forces School at Ft. Bragg, N.C. This led to 2 years in Vietnam, first as an Artillery officer, them as an Infantry advisor with Vietnamese Regional Forces, and then with Vietnamese Rangers.
Because of my close acquaintance with combat, tactics, weapons and the military, I was often selected to do some of the more exciting titles.
I would be pleased to answer your questions, and to further communicate with your group. At the moment, I am composing my next post for the site, which I hope to have up by this evening, California time.
Thank you for your contact, and I look forward to answering your questions in the coming weeks. I will be posting about the games you mentioned soon as well, a piece dedicated to these two games to which I am so attached.
I thought you might enjoy seeing the reference shot I took of the model for P.O.W. His name is Carl Buell, and he was, for a number of years, a studio mate in my North Beach studio in San Francisco.
A fellow illustrator, and also a Vietnam combat veteran, he served as my main resource for modeling. Great looking, an enthusiastic model, and a great wildlife artist in his own right!
Just check out Carl Buell online. His work is fantastic.
I'm also including a link to a blog post that his son Bryce Buell did a year or so back that reprises what it was like for a young boy to watch and participate with his dad Carl and me in our photo shoots.
In fact Marc is a really friendly guy, you might want to check out his blog (which I already mentioned back in the Guerrilla War thread).
There you can find a much wider selection of cover illustrations he did back then - jewels you can't find nowadays anymore!
A Game of the Week thread with an interview with someone involved with the game? This could be a NGFL first! Thanks for sharing, Murikov. I love reading little bits of information from people who were involved with retro games, often times even when it's about a game I've never played.
I have fond memories of POW from when I was a kid. It was one of the first arcade games I ever played. I loaded it up somewhat recently and did not like it much at all though. Not that it wasn't great at the time, it just hasn't aged as well as it could have. It had some cool ideas that helped shape later entries in the genre though, so while it might not be the most fun to play now it's still an important piece of gaming history. As yet another entry in gaming's 1980's love affair with Vietnam War imagery it tends to be overlooked more often than it should.
Still, if you want a beat'em up with a heavy emphasis on guns I'd recommend The Punisher by Capcom.
Decent beat-em-up. P.O.W. is a fun game but for me proves less successful in overcoming its repetitive nature than other examples of the genre like Double Dragon, with bland visuals, average tunes and little in the way of environmental interaction. It just doesn't hold up to the test of time quite as gracefully in my opinion. Still, the game is much better than many other scrolling brawlers released in arcades around that time. Not too shabby, SNK!


Out of all the tower defense games I've handled Generic Defense Game is the most unique! That holds true even in the controls! Instead of the usual 'use your mouse's left click button for interaction and building towers', you need to go to the Help and Options section to tweak the controls for moving up, down, left, and right...the same thing goes for switcthing weapons and reloading. Of course, you can still use your mouse's good and old left click button for firing and moving. BUT as mentioned, there's a lot more to this game than its boring name!
When I first saw this game, I thought: "What a name for game, just how creative and exciting can you get." Think about it - Generic Defense Game, who would want to play it? Nevertheless, I gave the game a shot...and I couldn't be more satisfied with this tower defense game that is 1000 times more unique than the other tower defense games you would find out there.
According to the author, he intended to make a very boring and generic tower defense game to mock all of the other games from the same genre. HOWEVER, things ended up differently, and luckily for game lovers like us, he spent weeks and long hours in creating Generic Defense Game - making it epic. Tower defense games are made just to help you kill time. Generic Defense Game definitely takes us beyond that.
1. Zombie Blitz: This is the first game in the package. It's a turret defense game where you need to use your defenses to their maximum potential to protect your Goal Post against FootBall Zombies...and the action takes place in the stadium. And believe me, they will be coming after you...in great numbers! May the spirit of John Madden guide you in this game.
2. Nazi Lanes: In this game, you need to defend your trophy against the Nazi bowling league who wants to take your trophy. In this shooter game, use your pins and demolish those Nazi bowlers before they could lay their hands on your prized possession.
3. Pac Blast: In this turret defense game, you need to play as Pac Man, this time using a basic cannon to blast those ghosts back to 1984! This guys just don't know when to quit. And the scene of the action? The vintage Pac Man map!
4. Techno Terror: This game will surely remind you of Terminator. Why? Because you need to protect John Connor from the Killbots who want his head! Use your pistol and rocket launcher to destroy them and make sure your defense objective, John Connor, makes it out alive in the game. You are humanity's only hope for survival.
And those are just 4 of the games in Generic Defense Game! With 8 games to offer you and keep you busy, there is nothing generic and boring about this tower defense game. Give it a shot and you will see what I mean.


Aidan Power recalls the end of the Charlton era: Figo, Kennedy, and Mark Lawrenson's rapier wit.
Mark Kennedy was incongruous. Appearing out of the gloaming of the Republic of Ireland's miserable Euro 96 qualification campaign, Kennedy took full backs on and at times threatened to inject a sliver of excitement into proceedings, as Jack Charlton's charges struggled for momentum in a group containing a fluid Portuguese side, one of the last truly functional Austrian elevens and our ever resilient neighbours from across the border.
Better days had come and gone and where the Italy of Baggio and half of the Champion's League winning A.C. Milan were put to the sword only twelve months prior, we were now struggling in the words of one journalist, to get the better of a mountaintop. After drawing 0-0 away to Liechtenstein, the Republic of Ireland's long-ball game, as Mark Lawrenson memorably opined, had become somewhat stale ("if plan A fails, they revert to plan A") and the promise shown in the group's opening fixtures (Latvia, Liechtenstein at home and Northern Ireland all soundly beaten) was quickly beginning to drain away.
It was as if having come down from the mountaintop, Charlton's side had never readjusted to the air on terra firma. A troubling few months lay in store and while across the pond, England giddily basked in the glow of "football coming home" and the attendant rises of Brit-pop and New Labour, we could but look on in bemusement and ponder the implications of spending the following summer with our noses pressed against the sun-streaked windows of Euro 96.
In fairness, it wasn't all that bad initially. In addition to dismantling the supposed lesser lights of the group (oh, how that phrase would haunt us…) we had overcome a Portugal side brimming with technical excellence and top-heavy with creative menace. A cursory glance at the statistics of that game show that the Iberians enjoyed ninety four per cent of possession, although it didn't matter because Vítor Baía (who was always too good-looking to be a feasible option as a goalkeeper) hesitated and John Aldridge pounced, as Aldridge was ever wont to do. It was a runny trickle of a goal that slid apologetically under the keeper's body by way of a dubious touch from Aldridge, but it was enough to set us on our way.
In hindsight, that day in Landsdowne Road was to be the last bugle call of a glorious generation. It signalled also, the enervation of Charlton's once robust ideals—the familiar maxims of "pump it long" and put "em under pressure" were beginning to ring hollow around the rickety old ground on that blustery April evening. The visitors; with their own bespoke array of talent coming to prominence, dazzled on the lunar-like surface, with Luis Figo continually running from deep and cutting in on his right much to Gary Kelly's bewilderment, while Fernando Couto added some substance to the cult theory that he could do more than look like Brian May. Rui Costa's languid brilliance meanwhile, strengthened the impression that the best playmakers leave their socks hang loosely around their ankles.
And yet, and yet! Ray Houghton hit the post from close range as only Houghton could (although fondly remembered for iconic goals against England in Stuttgart at Euro 88 and in the aforementioned game against Italy in Giant's Stadium, for many the enduring image of Houghton was his startlingly consistent ability to get into prime goalscoring areas, an unerring talent matched only by an equally consistent propensity to then miss from eight yards out), Steve Staunton tested Baía's resolve with a long-range free kick while Niall Quinn introduced Couto to the immutable rule that if a centre half is going to mark a seven foot striker then it is of paramount import that he possess the ability to head the ball.
As cheers drained away with the fading Dublin light and fans began to drift back down toward the city centre via Lower Baggot Street and the capillary of roads and side streets that pockmark the vicinity of Landsdowne Road, an air of uneasy contentment festered. The mid-nineties seemed an unlikely staging post for the epochal shifts that were to follow as the country accrued mass wealth courtesy of the ludicrously monikered "Celtic Tiger", before blowing it all again in an effete era of squandermania and ill-judged complacency. Rugby was to capture the hearts and minds of a new generation eager for sporting success commensurate with the country's newly inflated view of itself. Landsdowne (the oldest venue of its kind in the world) was demolished and rebuilt in the manner of any number of all-seater dens of homogeneity, replete with corporate naming rights and the ubiquitous black boxes that divide the have's from the have not's in contemporary sport.
Prominent amongst the pitch-side advertising hoardings at Landsdowne that night in April 1995, however, was that of "Pat the Baker", boldly painted in large red lettering. It is unknown what Pat, whose claim to fame was that his bread was "so fresh it's famous", thought of the following game in Vaduz, where the local groundsman-turned goalkeeper Martin Heeb kept Ireland's attacking hordes at bay, pulling off a string of top class saves and pilfering the promise of Ireland's early season form. Aping their journey back from the Alps, Ireland's aspirations quickly spiralled downwards. Austria, spearheaded by the annoyingly pony-tailed Toni Polster, exposed the creaks in an Irish game plan where aging legs rendered a high pressure approach aspirational at best, and again in a rain-soaked Vienna, where Kennedy made his bow—running boldly at the home defence only to go down 3-1 for the second time in succession.
The landscape was changing and in Lisbon that November Figo and co. ran riot: hitting an injury depleted Irish side for three without response. Undaunted by the evidence put before them, the fates conspired to pit two eras against one another in a play-off at Anfield the following month, but in truth it felt like a purgatorial stay of execution. A brilliant young Dutch side ended Ireland's hopes; Patrick Kluivert putting the coup de grâce on Charlton's regime with a goal in either half. A teary-eyed Big Jack pulled ruefully on a cigarette and took the applause of the Kop at game's end, while the injured Kennedy never did quite maintain the luminescence of that damp evening in Vienna.


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With a long history of figurative narrative portraiture work, New York City-based Hambouz is currently known for his unique use of multiple-mediums, multi-dimensional perspectives, layering, and shadows as tools to capture profound experiences and complex information. Hints of familiar shapes peek through radiant hues and kinetic forms to elicit a sense of connectivity when documenting: dreamt narratives involving known and unknown acquaintances and interiors; channeling the energy and spirit of loved ones through experimental method-studies; and capturing overwhelming environments through an empathic lens. His ever-evolving process involves a constant curiosity with new materials and techniques, the implementation of sequential steps and rules, and the desire to dive into unfamiliar territories filled with problems to be solved.
The Village of Yellow Springs takes its name from a natural spring located in the nearby Glen Helen Nature Preserve, which is rich in iron ore, leaving a yellowish-orange coloring on the rocks. Legend has it that if you drink from the spring you will always return. In the fall of 1995, freshman art student Michael Hambouz '99 drank the water. And true to legend, Hambouz will return to his beloved alma mater with an exciting and vibrant exhibition of works spanning over two decades. The artist will generously donate 30% of all sales towards future art programs at Antioch College.
Hambouz has had solo and two-person exhibitions in New York City with the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM), chashama/The Durst Organization, Calico Gallery, Kayrock, and The Krasl Art Center in Michigan. He has participated in select group exhibitions at Maya Hayuk's GROWROOM // SHOWROOM, The National Arts Club, and the Williamsburg Art and Historical Society and benefit auctions at Luhring Augustine, Cheim & Read, Bridget Donahue, and Pioneer Works. His work has been featured in Artnet News, Hyperallergic, Vice, Create! Magazine, and Design Milk.
Arts at Antioch, Herndon Gallery
Yellow Springs, OH 45387-1683 United States + Google Map
Jennifer Wenker
jwenker@antiochcollege.edu


Thanks to researchers, peoples eyes have been opened to the benefits of CBD products. CBD has been around for a long time but most nations were never open-minded about the benefits that it bring. Nevertheless, it is now evident that most countries have legalized it and more people are benefiting from it. If you have never tried using CBD products, maybe you have no idea about its benefits or maybe you are scared to try it. Whatever your reason is, you should know that based on research, those who have tried it have recorded a 100% success rate. In case you do not know of any CBD benefits, here are some of the ones that you should be aware of.
Research shows that those who use CBD tend to have a lower body mass index. As a result of the body mass index being lower, they are usually at a reduced risk of diabetes and obesity. You will often find that people who use CBD cannot get obese even if they consume a lot of calories a day. This is because when THC is present in any CBD product, it aids in the metabolism of carbohydrates by making the process fast. Moreover, CBD can also help prevent diabetes.
Today, so many deaths are caused by cancer. Prevention has become one of the most effective ways of defeating cancer. The use of CBD has proven to be highly effective at ensuring that any forms of tumors shrink before they become malignant. Additionally, for any tumor that is already malignant, CBD can ensure that the tumor does not get any oxygen supply through the blood and this aids in its suffocation. Once a cell has been suffocated, it becomes impossible for it to spread.
So many different types of CBD exists. CBD oil is one of these forms. CBD can be applied on the skin in its oily form and it acts as a powerful antioxidant. The best thing about it is that it can fight acne and protect the skin against any harmful effects caused by harmful UV rays.
CBD is also a great anti-inflammatory agent. This means that CBD can be effectively used to treat and sooth any inflamed areas in the body. This is the reason why CBD is also used to treat chronic pain because of the anti-inflammatory agents.
Finally, CBD is known for its ability to facilitate bone metabolism. It works amazingly well when it comes to healing broken bones or strengthening bones that are already wearing out. Research shows that CBD is effective among patients with osteoarthritis which is a bone condition.


"This is a really good recipe for spicy Indian chicken curry. It's pretty easy to make and tastes really good!"
Sprinkle the chicken breasts with 2 teaspoons salt.
Heat the oil in a large skillet over high heat; partially cook the chicken in the hot oil in batches until completely browned. Transfer the browned chicken breasts to a plate and set aside.
Reduce the heat under the skillet to medium-high; add the onion, garlic, and ginger to the oil remaining in the skillet and cook and stir until the onion turns translucent, about 8 minutes. Stir the curry powder, cumin, turmeric, coriander, cayenne, and 1 tablespoon of water into the onion mixture; allow to heat together for about 1 minute while stirring. Mix the tomatoes, yogurt, 1 tablespoon chopped cilantro, and 1 teaspoon salt into the mixture. Return the chicken breast to the skillet along with any juices on the plate. Pour 1/2 cup water into the mixture; bring to a boil, turning the chicken to coat with the sauce. Sprinkle the garam masala and 1 tablespoon cilantro over the chicken.
Cover the skillet and simmer until the chicken breasts are no longer pink in the center and the juices run clear, about 20 minutes. An instant-read thermometer inserted into the center should read at least 165 degrees F (74 degrees C). Sprinkle with lemon juice to serve.
I found this to be incredibly hot and strangely bitter.
Absolutely delicious. We cut the chicken breasts into large cubes, which worked very well. Reduced salt by 1 tsp overall. Highly recommend this recipe.
This always turns out great and gives me a wonderful feeling of satisfaction throughout the experience...be warned though, lay out and measure all the ingredients before turning on the burner!


2017 Drilling on Copper Belle Zone.
The Treaty Creek property lies within the Sulphurets hydrothermal system in the southern, most gold-rich portion of British Columbia's famous "Golden Triangle". This system—marked by kilometers of bright yellow, orange and red zones of alteration (gossans)—hosts the world's largest undeveloped gold reserves in the KSM property (Kerr, Sulphurets, Mitchell and Iron Cap deposits) owned by Seabridge Gold. Right next door to the KSM lies another giant gold porphyry deposit, the "Snowfield", hosted in the northern portion of Pretium Resources' Snowfield-Brucejack property. Further south and still well within the system is Pretium's exceptionally high-grade Valley of the Kings gold deposit which recently entered into commercial production after $1Billion in construction costs [see Sulphurets Hydrothermal System map, adjacent].
Studies by the British Columbia Geological Survey have shown that all of the Seabridge Gold deposits lie along an important geological contact, now known as "Kyba's Red Line". They are also all spatially related to a prominent thrust fault, the Sulphurets. Both the Red Line and the Sulphurets thrust fault pass northeastward from the KSM property into the Treaty Creek property continuing onward for many kilometres. Although exploration at Treaty Creek has been minor compared to the hundreds of millions of dollars spent to date at both neighbouring properties (KSM and Snowfield-Brucejack), it has resulted in the delineation of a zone, the "Copper Belle", which is showing some very promising gold results in recent drill holes.
A resource calculation is now underway at the Copper Belle. This will incorporate values from over fifty holes drilled into the zone in 2007, 2009, 2016 and 2017, the best of which ran 149.1m grading 1.78 g/t gold (see News Release dated January 16, 2018). This maiden resource is expected to be released before the end of the second quarter in 2018.
Coarse gold from Konkin Zone.
Tudor Gold Corp. ("TUD") owns a 60% interest in Treaty Creek and is the Operator of the project. It Is responsible for paying all costs associated with exploration up until such time as the property has a positive feasibility decision.
American Creek Resources ("AMK") owns a 20% carried interest in the property, meaning it does not have to pay for exploration until such time as a production decision is made.
Teuton Resources ("TUO") is the original owner of Treaty Creek. It now holds a 20% carried interest in the property, meaning it does not have to pay for exploration costs until such time as a production decision is made. It also holds a royalty interest of 0.98% in the core portion of the property and a 0.49% royalty interest in the peripheral claims, neither of which are subject to a buy back.
Since acquiring its joint venture position in the property in 2016, Tudor Gold has spent approximately $7 million in exploration. This exploration has concentrated on two zones among many, the GR2/HC and the Copper Belle. The Copper Belle zone appears to be a gold-rich porphyry with some similarities to Pretium's gold porphyry Snowfield deposit just to the south. The GR2/HC appears to be a precious metal-rich VHMS system.
A magnetotelluric survey run on the Treaty Creek property conducted in 2016 along trend of the Red Line (northeast of Seabridge Gold's Iron Cap deposit) disclosed a km's long anomaly which is considered propitious for hosting gold and gold-copper porphyry deposits. The Copper Belle zone lies within this anomaly.
Tudor Gold is in the process of raising money to fund an ambitious 2018 program. This work will attempt to follow up the excellent gold grades obtained in 2017 in the northeast section of the Copper Belle zone as well as around Hole 26. It will also test the 2km anomalous section as defined by a Magnetotelluric survey carried out in 2016 which lies in the area between the Copper Belle zone and Seabridge Gold's Iron Cap gold deposit. Further work on the GR2/HC zone as well as other targets defined by ongoing surface exploration will take place. A final target is the Thrust Fault Convergence zone situated in the southwest corner of the property and beginning 800m from the Seabridge Gold's Iron Cap deposit. In this area, a convergence of multiple faults, along with the presence of unusual geophysical features (EM anomalies, magnetic highs and lows), shows good potential for the emplacement of mineralization.
View from Iron Cap Deposit looking north to Copper Belle Zone (on the left) and Treaty Central Gossan (on the right).


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British actor Toby Jones, widely regarded as one of the greatest stage and screen actors in the UK and internationally, is amongst the exceptional role models who will receive an honorary degree at Oxford Brookes University in June.
Further recipients include BAFTA and MOBO award-winning hip hop artist Akala, entrepreneur and former Dragons' Den panellist Sarah Willingham and leading indigenous rights activist Marcus Colchester.
They will be joined at the June graduation ceremonies by author and historian Agnes Grunwald-Spier, Professor Bee Wee - National Clinical Director for End of Life Care for NHS England, and humanitarian Patricia Feeney.
Each of our honorary degree recipients is an exceptional role model for our students and staff, and when graduating students hear an Honorary Graduate speak, they receive an important reminder of what can be achieved.
Professor Alistair Fitt, Vice-Chancellor, Oxford Brookes University
Vice-Chancellor of Oxford Brookes University Professor Alistair Fitt said: "It is an honour that such inspirational figures are joining us for some of the University's most important and memorable celebrations.
"Honorary Graduates are chosen very carefully, and we always assess how their strengths link with the work of the University. The conferment of the degree allows Oxford Brookes to acknowledge those whom we admire and respect."
June's graduation ceremonies will be the first to be held in the new Sir Kenneth Wheare Hall since its opening last year. The hall's transformation was part of the University's latest campus developments which saw £45m invested in world-class facilities for teaching and research.
2018's Honorary Graduates
Toby Jones is known for both his performances both in the theatre and on screen. Toby's latest film credits include Universal Pictures' crime drama The Snowman, psychological indie thriller Kaleidoscope and Michael Haneke's Palme d'Or nominated film, Happy End. Toby also reprised his BAFTA-nominated role in the third and final season of the award-winning comedy series Detectorists, written by and co-starring Mackenzie Crook. Toby's other works include Infamous, where Toby played 'Truman Capote' for which he won Best British Actor at the London Film Critics Circle Awards. In 2011, Toby starred in the Oscar-nominated adaptation of John le Carre's classic crime novel Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy and the year after, Toby garnered huge critical acclaim for his performance as Alfred Hitchcock in the HBO/BBC television movie The Girl, for which he received a BAFTA, Golden Globe and Emmy nomination. Further credits include Sherlock, Dad's Army, The Witness for the Prosecution, The Hunger Games series, the Harry Potter series, Captain America: The First Avenger, Captain America: The Winter Soldier, My Week With Marilyn, The Adventures of Tintin, Frost/Nixon, W and The Painted Veil. Toby can be seen in the upcoming blockbuster Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom. His theatre credits include: Circle Mirror Transformation (Royal Court), The Painter (Arcola), Every Good Boy Deserves Favour (National Theatre) and The Play What I Wrote for which Toby won an Olivier Award for Best Supporting Actor (West End/Broadway).
Akala is a hip-hop artist, writer and social entrepreneur, and the co-founder of The Hip-Hop Shakespeare Company. With an extensive global touring history, Akala has appeared at numerous festivals both in the UK and internationally. He has led innovative projects in the arts, education and music across South East Asia, Africa, India, Australia and New Zealand. Akala has also appeared on Channel 4, ITV, MTV, Sky Arts and the BBC promoting his music and poetry, and speaking on wide-ranging subjects from music, race, youth engagement, British/African-Caribbean culture and the arts. His numerous online lectures and performances have garnered millions of views on YouTube. More recently, Akala is known for his compelling lectures and journalism and has written for The Guardian, Huffington Post and the Independent. He has gained a reputation as one of the most dynamic and articulate talents in the UK.
Agnes Grunwald-Spier MBE is an author, historian and alumna of Oxford Brookes' predecessor institution the Oxford College of Technology. Born in Budapest in 1944 while it was under German occupation, she and her mother were sent to The Budapest Ghetto before being liberated in January 1945. A former civil-servant, she holds degrees in History and Politics and Holocaust Studies. Agnes was a founder trustee of the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust, a member of the Board of Deputies of British Jews for 15 years, a member of the Architects' Registration Board and a Justice of the Peace for 30 years. She was awarded an MBE in the 2016 New Year Honours List for her work as an HMDT Trustee and for services to the Jewish community and Holocaust awareness. Agnes has authored three books; Women's experiences in the Holocaust, Who Betrayed the Jews? and The Other Schindlers.
Professor Bee Wee is the National Clinical Director for End of Life Care for NHS England, where she provides strategic leadership for improving end of life care across England. As well as hospitals and community, she also promotes better care for people in care homes, prisons and those who are homeless. In 2015, she led the development and publication of Ambitions for Palliative and End of Life Care: A national framework for local action 2015-2020, bringing together 27 national partners across health and care, and statutory and voluntary sectors. She is also Consultant in Palliative Medicine at Sir Michael Sobell House, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and Associate Professor and Governing Body Fellow at Harris Manchester College, Oxford University. Bee is Past President of the Association for Palliative Medicine of Great Britain and Ireland and is an honorary member of the Royal Colleges of Physicians, and of General Practice. Last year, she was awarded the Presidential Medal by the European Society for Person Centered Healthcare for her academic, policy and clinical contributions to person centered healthcare for patients and families.
Marcus Colchester lived for two years with the Sanema Indians of the northern Amazon while studying anthropology in the 1970s. He then joined the UK NGO Survival International where he worked to expose the human rights impact of imposed development schemes in the Amazon, South East Asia and beyond. Marcus went on to become a founder of the World Rainforest Movement, an international network of activists worried about the destruction of the rainforests and social justice. Seven years after joining Survival International, he set up his own organisation, the Forest Peoples Programme. This has developed into a significant NGO which campaigns for recognition of the indigenous rights of forest-dwelling people and the safeguarding of their forests. Marcus has consulted for the World Bank, the Food and Agriculture Programme of the UN and a host of other global bodies. He has also published extensively in academic and NGO journals and has written and edited a variety of books.
Sarah Willingham is an entrepreneur, former Dragon's Den panellist and Oxford Brookes University alumna. Starting her career working in a restaurant at the age of 13, Sarah went on to turn her passion for business, food and drink into a multi-million pound business empire. In 2003, Sarah bought The Bombay Bicycle Club and turned it into the largest and most successful Indian restaurant chain in the UK, realising her skill for spotting an original and exciting new business concept and helping it grow rapidly. She has appeared alongside Raymond Blanc as a judge and investor on the popular BBC2 series The Restaurant and later joined the team of Dragons on the popular BBC2 television show Dragons' Den. Today Sarah runs her business portfolio from her home office alongside her entrepreneur husband Michael Toxvaerd. They jointly invest in and support more than 10 business ventures from start-ups to established and growing brands. Sarah has received a number of accolades for her contribution to business including Business Weekly's Young Entrepreneur of the Year, entry in The Times' 35 Most Successful Women under 35, the Who's Who of British Business Leaders and 100 most influential entrepreneurs in the UK by City AM. In January 2016, she was named at one of The Sunday Times' 500 Most Influential People in Britain.
Patricia Feeney's career has been spent on the front lines of human rights and humanitarian work in Latin America and Africa. During that time, she has had senior roles and extensive field experience in world-leading non-governmental organisations such as Oxfam and Amnesty International, where she investigated the enforced disappearance of thousands of opponents of the Argentine military juntas. She has written extensively on human rights, international developments and the governance of companies in post-conflict countries. She has worked for the United Nations as a consultant for UNESCO and the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights. She has advised the UK Government on corporate governance and served on the board of the International Code of Conduct Association for Private Security Providers. In 1998, Patricia founded a research and advocacy organisation, Rights and Accountability in Development (RAID), a trail blazer in the field of business and human rights. During her time at the helm of RAID, she travelled extensively in Africa - to the Democratic Republic of Congo, Zambia, Zimbabwe and Tanzania. RAID's work ranged from legal actions against mining companies complicit in war crimes to pressing stock markets for more effective regulation of companies involved in corruption and human rights abuses.