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Василий Иванович Артюхин (7 февраля 1902 год, Царицын — 4 августа 1974 год, Пенза) — советский ученый в области машиностроения, руководящий работник высшей школы. Ректор Пензенского политехнического института с 1951 по 1960 гг.

Биография

Родился 7 февраля 1902 года в г. Царицын (ныне — Волгоград).

В 1930 году окончил Томский технологический институт, где впоследствии до 1933 года работал ассистентом кафедры химической технологии органических веществ.

С 1933 по 1939 гг. руководил центральной химической лабораторией на Сталинградском тракторном заводе и одновременно преподавал в Сталинградском механическом институте.

С 1941 по 1945 год служил в рядах Красной Армии, где был начальником химической службы полка, преподавателем военно-пехотного училища, начальником химического отдела, начальником 2-го отдела военно-химического управления, работник штаба фронта. Он воевал на Сталинградском, Донском, Центральном, и 1-м Белорусском фронтах. Уволен в запас по состоянию здоровья в звании подполковника.

После окончания войны в 1945—1946 годах В. И. Артюхин работал директором Запорожского машиностроительного техникума.

В декабре 1945 года приказом Наркома Миномётного Вооружения П. И. Паршина он был назначен заместителем директора Пензенского индустриального института по учебной и научной работе. Работая в институте, В. И. Артюхин проявил себя как хороший организатор учебного процесса, обладающий большой эрудицией в области методики преподавания в высшей школе, так его характеризовал директор института И. С. Мясников.

Во время работы В. И. Артюхина на посту заместителя директора были открыты 4 лаборатории: электротехники, сопротивления материалов, металловедения, технических измерений. Было подготовлено открытие лабораторий по приборам времени, счётно-аналитическим машинам, станкам и процессам резания, литейных процессов, теплотехники и химии. В. И. Артюхин много внимания уделял вопросам организации общетехнических кабинетов и кабинетов специальных дисциплин. Интерес Василия Ивановича к химическим технологиям стал одной из причин открытия в вузе специальности но химическому машиностроению.

В. И. Артюхин наладил связи с промышленными предприятиями города и области, в том числе и в области научно-исследовательских работ. Вместе с тем он активно занимался учебной работой, вёл занятия на кафедре деталей машин, заведующим которой он являлся, читал лекции, руководил курсовым проектированием. В 1950 году он утверждается в учёном звании доцента, продолжает работу над кандидатской диссертацией. Вскоре его избирают председателем Правления Пензенского отделения Всесоюзного общества по распространению политических и научных знаний и депутатом городского Совета депутатов трудящихся, членом партийного бюро Южного райкома ВКП(б) города Пензы, членом Пленума Пензенского горкома ВКП(б).

В апреле 1950 года в Одесском политехническом институте (бывшем индустриальном) В. И. Артюхин успешно защищает кандидатскую диссертацию. У него к тому времени было опубликовано 7 научных трудов и две рукописи.

12 апреля 1951 года Министерство высшего образования СССР освобождает В. И. Артюхина от обязанностей заместителя директора института и в тот же день Министр высшего и среднего специального образования РСФСР В. Н. Столетов назначает его ректором Пензенского индустриального института. Вскоре его избирают членом Пензенского обкома КПСС, членом партбюро института, Председателем Областного комитета сторонников мира.

Во время пребывания В. И. Артюхина в должности руководителя вуза, институт была присвоена 1-я категория высших учебных заведений, ППИ был переименован в «Пензенский политехнический институт», а на базе строительного факультета ППИ открыт Пензенский строительный институт.

Публикация: Лекция в высшем учебном заведении: Доклад, прочитанный на методическом семинаре / В. И. Артюхин. Пенза: ППИ, 1969. — 30 с.

Награды
 Орден Отечественной войны I и II степени;
 Орден Красной Звезды;
 Орден «Знак почета»;
 Медаль «За отвагу» (СССР);
 Медаль «За оборону Сталинграда»
 Медаль «За победу над Германией в Великой Отечественной войне 1941—1945 гг.»;
 Медаль «За взятие Берлина»;
 Медаль «За освобождение Варшавы»;
 Юбилейная медаль «Двадцать лет Победы в Великой Отечественной войне 1941—1945 гг.».

Примечания

Ссылки
 Пантелеев В. Ф. Артюхин Василий Иванович // Пензенская энциклопедия. Том 1. Пенза, 2019.
 Биография на сайте ПГУ, ppi.pnzgu.ru, 18.10.2021.
 Электронная энциклопедия Томского политехнического университета, wiki.tpu.ru, 18.10.2021.

Выпускники Томского политехнического университета
Преподаватели Пензенского государственного университета
Ректоры по алфавиту
Ректоры вузов России
Члены КПСС
Запорожская политехника


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LEGO The Lord of the Rings Hits the Mac App Store
Friday February 22, 2013 11:07 AM PST by Juli Clover
LEGO The Lord of the Rings, which was released for consoles and PCs late last year, has finally made its way to the Mac.
The game, which is based on The Lord of the Rings film trilogy, incorporates events from all three of the movies. It features actual film dialogue along with RPG elements that are not present in other LEGO games, such as an expanding inventory and open world exploration.
From the peaceful fields of the Shire to the mysterious beauty of Rivendell and on to the fearsome depths of Mordor, forge your own path through a vast open world.
Set out on perilous side quests, discover secret areas and solve challenging puzzles alongside the epic main adventure.
Master the special powers of over 80 playable characters, including Frodo's ability to wear the One Ring and enter the shadowy world of the Ringwraiths…
Hunt for hidden treasure! Collect, craft and use magical items including Wizard staffs, Mithril armour and Elven blades that glow blue in the presence of Orcs.
LEGO The Lord of the Rings can be played in single player mode or with multiple two players. It requires Mac OS X 10.7.5 or later, a 1.4GHz processor, 4GB RAM and 128MB VRAM.
LEGO The Lord of the Rings can be downloaded from the Mac App Store for $29.99. [Direct Link]
charlieegan3
Every new thing i see from lego it seems to be more and more lacking in actual lego bricks.
Rychiar
$30??!!! are they Nuts! I hope this isn't a sign of things to come.
No wonder people pirate games. $30 for a ported Lego game is unbelievable.
Did we not all used to pay $69.99 and up 20 years ago for ****** super nintendo games? When people bitch about game prices these days it blows my mind. A cheap original gameboy game used to be $29.99
What the hell is wrong with $30 for a proper 3D game? Everyone's obsessed with iOS app pricing these days.
Are these LEGO games actually any good?
Yes, I've played quite a few of them, there isn't one I haven't enjoyed yet. This LOTR one is frequently hilarious if you love the films on which it's based, it's good to see it on the mac (though I won't be buying unless it gets cheaper, because I have the PS3 version already). Obviously if you hate LOTR and/or Lego there's not a lot of point playing it though.
Some of the recent ones have had good reviews; but I've always been skeptical.
My kids (7 and almost 9) absolutely LOVE LEGO Harry Potter. I will confess to enjoying it very much also.
They're not aimed at hardcore gamers -- which is actually a big reason I enjoy them: they're fun without being stressful. (I am terrible at "hardcore" games.)
Also, graphics performance is still sadly lacking on the Mac compared to the exact same game on Windows.
Don't get me started on Microsoft and directX! :P
But at least Valve will get OpenGL a better standing by using Linux as their front runner in the near future.

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Rose Sommer-Leypold  (* 20. Dezember 1909 in Schramberg; † 21. März 2003 in Immenstaad) war eine deutsche Malerin.

Leben und Werk
Sommer-Leypold wurde nach dem Abitur am Königin-Katharina-Stift-Gymnasium Stuttgart 1929 an der Staatlichen Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart aufgenommen. Hans Spiegel und Anton Kolig waren ihre Lehrer. 1933 unterbrach sie ihr Studium, um im landwirtschaftlichen Betrieb der Eltern zu helfen. Nach Aufenthalten in Oslo und Italien nahm sie 1940 das Studium bei Anton Kolig wieder auf und wurde Meisterschülerin und seine Assistentin. 1943 wurde Kolig auf Geheiß Hitlers entlassen und Leypold wurde der Akademie verwiesen. 1944 übernahm sie den elterlichen Hardthof. 1946 wurden ihre Werke in zwei Ausstellungen in Tübingen und Konstanz gezeigt. Sie heiratete 1953 Rudolf Sommer, der nach schwerer Krankheit 1984 verstirbt. Nachdem sie 1989 den Hofbetrieb an ihren Neffen übergeben hatte, widmete sie sich intensiv der Malerei und reiste nach Paris, Zypern, Kreta, Tunesien, Marokko und in die Türkei. Zu ihrem 100. Geburtstag würdigten sie die Orangerie Draenert und der Heimatverein Immenstaad e.V. mit  einer Ausstellung von Oktober 2009 bis Januar 2010.

Literatur
Ingrid von der Doll: Malerinnen im 20. Jahrhundert. Hirmer Verlag 2000, ISBN 978-3-7774-8700-7
 Gabriele Frommer: Lebenswerk einer Malerin: die Künstlerin in der Nachfolge ihres Lehrers Anton Kolig / Rose Sommer-Leypold, Kressbronn 1995, ISBN 978-3-9804329-0-0
Malerinnen der Sammlung Joseph Hierling. Tutzing: Edition Joseph Hierling, 2018

Weblinks
 Dissertation: Frauen an deutschen Kunstakademien im 20. Jahrhundert. Ausbildungsmöglichkeiten für Künstlerinnen ab 1919 unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der süddeutschen Kunstakademien
 Leben und Werk
 Biografie

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AgricultureAgriculture Giants
Tyson and Pilgrim's Pride Settle Antitrust Allegations
Tyson Foods and Pilgrim's Pride, the two largest chicken suppliers in the United States, agreed to separate settlements on Monday in the Northern District of Illinois for claims from direct purchaser plaintiffs, who filed antitrust allegations against the company included in a consolidated antitrust lawsuit against the two companies and many other chicken producers. The case, captioned as In re Broiler Chicken Antitrust Litigation, began in 2016.
Pilgrim's Pride agreed to pay $75 million to the direct purchaser plaintiffs to combat allegations that the company conspired with other chicken companies to reduce the amount of chicken it produces and inflate the price of broiler chickens.
"While Pilgrim's does not admit any liability for the claims alleged in the Broiler Antitrust Civil Litigation, it believes a settlement was in the best interests of the company and its shareholders," the company said in their court filing. Pilgrim's Pride said that the settlement will be reflected in its financial statements for the last quarter of 2020. Pilgrim's Pride already agreed to pay a fine of $110 million to resolve a criminal investigation into the same purported antitrust activities.
According to a Notice of Settlement filed by the direct purchaser plaintiffs, Tyson also reached an agreement with the parties and they are working to finalize the documents. The judge overseeing the case will have to approve both settlements. The plaintiffs said that they will move for an approval of the settlement with Tyson "in the near future."
"Tyson Foods has reached an agreement in principle to settle a class action lawsuit alleging price fixing filed against Tyson and other poultry companies by entities representing direct purchasers of broiler chicken products," Gary Mickelson, a Tyson spokesman, said in an email to Food & Beverage Insider. "Tyson believes the resolution is in the best interests of the company and its shareholders and the settlement does not constitute an admission of liability."
The end user and consumer plaintiffs and the indirect purchaser plaintiffs are not included in either settlement, and the defendants in the consolidated case argued in December that the indirect purchaser's claims should be barred.
The direct purchaser plaintiffs are represented by Lockridge Grindal Nauen, Pearson Simon & Warshaw, and Hart McLaughlin and Eldridge. Pilgrim's Pride is represented by Weil Gotshal & Manges. Tyson is represented by White & Case and Axinn Veltrop & Harkrider.
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Papua New Guinea: Netting fisheries investment
Papua New GuineaAgriculture
As Papua New Guinea (PNG) seeks to diversify its economy to avoid over-reliance on gas and mineral resources, its nascent fishing and fish-processing industry is rising in potential.
Boosted by trade agreements and strong catch figures, the canning industry is attracting players from Europe to Asia. Boasting the largest fisheries zone in the Pacific at an area of 2.4m sq km, the country landed 749,000 tonnes of tuna in 2010, some 17% of the world's catch.
An economic partnership agreement with the EU signed in 2009 has proved a clarion call for foreign investors, with plans for the Pacific Marine Industrial Zone (PMIZ) to be built in the northwest and funded by a $71m concessional loan from China.
The PMIZ is expected to host 10 large tuna plants and employ some 30,000 people, easily boosting PNG's production capacity to more than 2000 tonnes per day. Chinese firm Zhoushan Zhenyang Deep-Sea Fishing Company plans to build a $20m plant in the PMIZ, and Spanish and Thai firms also have projects underway.
Under the EU deal, PNG's canned tuna has been granted permission to enter the EU market duty free, and imports to the continent − which reached 15,600 tonnes in 2010 − are expected to double in 2012. PNG has also been permitted to export fish to the EU from outside its own territorial waters, allowing investors to source fish elsewhere and process it in PNG.
At last November's Asia-Pacific Economic Corporation conference, Prime Minister Peter O'Neill also lobbied for duty-free access to the US tuna market. However, fisheries ties with the US are somewhat problematic. PNG has threatened to revoke the US-Pacific Islands Multilateral Tuna Fisheries Treaty unless Washington grants better terms. The US currently grants just $18m per year to Pacific Island parties for access for its fishing vessels, and the deal is due to expire in 2013.
Two Philippines-based firms, RD Tuna Canners and Frabelle-Frescomar, currently lead the canning industry in PNG. Both operate multi-million dollar plants in the Lae and Madang areas on the island. While RD Tuna Canners has a production capacity of 200 tonnes per day, Frabelle-Frescomar produces about 130 tonnes per day.
According to the Pacific Tuna Forum, the estimated raw value of the annual tuna catch in PNG is about $1.35bn, and if the industry explored value-added initiatives, this could reach up to $2.7bn. The tuna industry is currently the third largest in Asia after Thailand and the Philippines, which PNG expects to overtake soon.
Despite the abundance of tuna in PNG's waters, officials complain that the country's fishing industry faces competition from encroaching US boats and that currently only 20% of the catch is processed on the island.
"80% of our tuna is taken away by distant water-fishing nations and processed in Thailand, the Philippines, South Korea, the US and Japan," said Sylvester Pokajam, the managing director of the National Fisheries Authority (NFA), when speaking with Atuna, a leading website that reports on the tuna industry. "We are looking at 30-40% more tuna canning production. Maybe in 10 to 15 years, we will be processing 100% of our tuna. That is our final goal."
In February, the European parliament announced a study that would determine the impact the fisheries agreement with PNG might possibly have on the tuna-canning industry in Europe, following complaints from major producer Spain. This could prove to be a major obstacle moving forward.
PNG officials have rejected Madrid's accusations that the country fishes irresponsibly. "We have started a monitoring system with satellites and observers on-board every vessel, which is managed through the Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Convention (WCPFC), in which the EU is actually a member," said Wayne Golding, the chief negotiator of the PNG delegation currently in talks with the EU.
"We have to grow up economically and try to financial independence by creating our own industry. It is all about diversification of our economy," he added.
While the island works on access to the US market, another potential source of sales is the market for tuna that have been caught in a humane and sustainable fashion. In July 2011, the Marine Stewardship Council awarded the Parties to the Nauru Agreement (which includes PNG) a certificate of approval for catching tuna in free schools, rather than using fish-aggregating devices (FADs), which attract sea life to nets, no matter the species.
In November, Fair Well Investment, a long-line tuna fishing company based in Port Moresby, also signed a memorandum of understanding with the NFA and the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) that will see the introduction of a trial period to initiate the use of circle hooks in its long-line tuna fleet.
"The NFA is among the Pacific's most progressive, sustainably minded fisheries agencies," said Daniel Navin, the director of aquarium fish exporter, EcoAquariums, when speaking with Coral Magazine in August 2011, pointing to PNG's tuna fishery as an example. "The NFA has poured millions into tagging programmes and establishing one of the Pacific's largest no-take zones."
The government's environmental efforts in this regard are to be lauded, as the country prepares to become a centre of tuna production in the Pacific. Opening trade agreements with the US and developing its domestic processing facilities would ensure that potential profits stay in PNG.
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using EPiServer.Core;
using EPiServer.ServiceLocation;
using EPiServer.SocialAlloy.Web.Social.Common.Models;
using EPiServer.Web.Mvc;
using EPiServer.Web.Routing;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;

namespace EPiServer.SocialAlloy.Web.Social.Common.Controllers
{
    /// <summary>
    /// The SocialBlockController may contain social data/logic common to all social controllers.
    /// </summary>
    /// <typeparam name="T">The social block type.</typeparam>
    public abstract class SocialBlockController<T> : BlockController<T> where T : BlockData
    {
        protected readonly IPageRouteHelper pageRouteHelper;

        /// <summary>
        /// Constructor
        /// </summary>
        public SocialBlockController()
        {
            this.pageRouteHelper = ServiceLocator.Current.GetInstance<IPageRouteHelper>();
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Used to retrieve the TempData stored for a specific controller
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="key">Sring value of the TempData key</param>
        /// <returns>The list of MessageViewModels that was requested</returns>
        public List<MessageViewModel> RetrieveMessages(string key)
        {
            var listOfMessages = (List<MessageViewModel>)TempData[key];

            return (listOfMessages != null) && (listOfMessages.Any()) ? listOfMessages : new List<MessageViewModel>();
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Stores a desired key / value in the TempData dictionary
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="key">The key used to reference the stored value upon retrieval</param>
        /// <param name="value">The value that is being stored in TempData</param>
        public void AddMessage(string key, MessageViewModel value)
        {
            var listOfMessages = RetrieveMessages(key);
            listOfMessages.Add(value);
            TempData[key] = listOfMessages;
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Can an administrator block emojis and remove users avatars?
Can an admin block emoji's such as fu*yeah also can an admin delete users avatars as they may be inappropriate?
For HipChat Cloud, Admins cannot remove Global emoticons (the ones that come with HipChat) but these emoticons do change from time to time and if you have feedback about any of them, please feel free to reach out to the support team. HipChat admins do have control over the custom emoticons used within your own team though. As for user avatars - yes, admins can change or remove user avatars. Hope that helps.
If you are on HipChat Server (the self hosted version), you can remove global emoticons by following the instructions here. As for avatars, that feature is not available at the moment (feelsbadman). I would recommend filing it as a suggestion though.
Hi and thanks! Is there a way to block them if we are on the cloud version?
No sorry, that only applies for the hosted version of HipChat.


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Maldonado is only one of several people who could be appointed by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to fill Garamendi's former job, and jockeying and speculation are already rife in Sacramento.
The governor also could leave the post vacant until next November's general election.
Should Schwarzenegger tap Maldonado, and the Legislature approve, there would be a primary election for his state Senate seat next year, and, if nobody gets 50 percent of the vote plus one, a runoff election.
The termed-out Blakeslee has been raising money. He had $287,435 in August, most of it from political action committees.
Blakeslee declined to answer questions from The Tribune on Friday about whether he would seek Maldonado's seat should it open.
Maldonado's term in the state senate expires in 2012. Bob CuddyCounty Government ReporterThe TribuneSan Luis Obispo Phone: 805-781-7909Email: bcuddy@thetribunenews.com


Know Why Bail Bonds Are Important.
While bail bonds are well-known and have been used for hundreds of years, it is still not known by many why bail bonds are important. If you've never been in a situation where bail was necessary, it might not be something that you worry too much about. However, there may come an instance where you or someone you love needs a bail bond and know why they are important can be beneficial. Below are a few reasons why bail bonds are important.
In America, people who have been arrested and charged are seen as innocent until proven otherwise. Depending on the severity of the crime, they have the right to be released from jail while awaiting their trial.
Bail can be set at an expensive price, which some people can afford. While some people can put down cash to get themselves out of jail, there are a lot of people who don't have that luxury. For a nonviolent crime, bail makes it easier for people to get out of jail without spending money they don't have.
This can go back to people who are in jail who can't afford to pay their bail. Without the necessary means bail them or someone they love out of jail, they are sitting in a jail cell instead of going back to work, or school, or being with their families. Bail bonds ensure people get out of jail so they can continue on with their lives.
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import spray.json.{ JsonFormat, DefaultJsonProtocol }

case class Timezone(status: String, timeZoneId: String, timeZoneName: String)
case class GoogleTimezoneApiResult[T](status: String, timeZoneId: String, timeZoneName: String)

object TimezoneJsonProtocol extends DefaultJsonProtocol {
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Match Notes: D.C. United vs. Crew SC
May 1, 201512:19PM EDT
FIRST OF THREE
Columbus Crew SC and D.C. United are set to play their first of three regular-season meetings in 2015 with a showdown at RFK Stadium. Crew SC is slated to return to the nation's capital on September 19, while the Black-and-Red visit Columbus in the regular-season finale on October 25. All-time, Crew SC is 24- 25-10 against D.C. United, with an 8-18-4 mark on the road. Over the last two seasons, the Black & Gold are unbeaten against the Black-and-Red (3-0-2), including a mark of 1-0-2 last season, when the teams met three times in three different stadiums.
LAST REGULAR SEASON MEETING
On June 7, 2014, Crew SC and D.C. United faced-off at FedExField in a match that would end in a 0-0 draw. Steve Clark notched his third-ever MLS clean sheet in the contest, capped-off by a 96th-minute penalty save on Fabian Espindola's chipped attempt.
CREW SC ATTACK LEADING LEAGUE ...
Following the Black & Gold's four-goal performance against Philadelphia, Crew SC now leads MLS in total goals, with 12. Columbus also ranks first in the League in goal differential (six) and assists (13). The Black & Gold have scored five of their 12 goals between minutes 46 and 60, leading the League in goal-scoring within that interval as well.
... AND HIGH-RANKING IN CLUB HISTORY
At the conclusion of the match against Philadelphia on April 25, Crew SC's season tally of 12 goals represented the second-most goals the club had ever scored by that date in team history. The only year in which Crew SC notched at least 12 goals by a date earlier than April 25th was in 1998. On April 18 of that year, Columbus scored five times to top the Miami Fusion and bring that season's total to 13 tallies at the time.
CREW SC WRAPS-UP UNBEATEN MONTH
The Black & Gold's victory over Philadelphia gave the club a 2-0-2 record in April. The unbeaten month was the first for Columbus since September of 2014 (3-0-1). Overall, it was the fourth for Sporting Director and Head Coach Gregg Berhalter during his tenure as the Crew SC boss.
KAMARA MAKES 200TH APPEARANCE ...
With a start against the Union, Crew SC forward Kei Kamara recorded his 200th career MLS appearance. Kamara's first MLS appearance came on April 1, 2006 for Columbus, where he scored a goal in his debut against Kansas City. The forward has gone on to make 43 total appearances for Columbus, with 12 for San Jose, 32 for Houston and 113 for Kansas City in his career.
... WHILE AMONG LEAGUE LEADERS
Kamara's goal against the Philadelphia Union gave him five goals on the season. He is now tied for most in the League in the category alongside Vancouver's Octavio Rivero. The Sierra Leone native is second in MLS in goals/match (0.71). Kamara also is second in MLS in total shots (31) and shots on goal (14).
CREW SC HAS TOP THREE PASSING PERFORMANCES
Against the Philadelphia Union, the Black & Gold passed to a team accuracy rate of 87.9%. That number is the second-highest passing accuracy mark achieved by any MLS club in any match this season. The Black & Gold's passing performance against Orlando City SC (April 18) is currently the highest mark at 88.1%. Crew SC also holds the third-highest mark, with 87.1% passing against Toronto FC (March 14).
BACK-TO-BACK THREE-GOAL WINS
The Black & Gold defeated Orlando City SC by a 3-0 scoreline ahead of last weekend's 4-1 win over Philadelphia. This marks the third time in club history that Columbus won back-to-back matches by three or more goals. The club achieved the feat in 1999 on July 24 (4-1 over Dallas) and August 1 (4-0 over Miami), and in 2014 on August 16 (4-1 over LA) and August 23 (3-0 over Houston).
CREW SC SCORES FOUR
Against Philadelphia, Crew SC tallied four goals in a match for the first time since August 16, 2014 vs. the LA Galaxy. Overall, it was the 28th time that the Black & Gold have scored at least four times in a regular-season match. Crew SC is now 26-2-0 in all-time MLS regular-season play when scoring four or more goals.
POSSESSION, PASSING, CHANCES
Crew SC has continued its strong passing and possession play in 2015. According to the League's official statistician, Opta, Crew SC leads the League in chances created per match (12.1) and big chances created per match (1.6). The Black & Gold also rank second overall in MLS in passing accuracy (82.1%) and third overall in possession (54.0%).
FRANCIS, SAEID LEADING LEAGUE IN PASSING
Among the League's most accurate passers (min. 100 passes attempted), the top two are members of the Black & Gold. Defender Waylon Francis (93.8%) and midfielder Mohammed Saeid (91.6%) both rank atop the League in passing accuracy.
Following his three shots attempted against Philadelphia, Crew SC's Kei Kamara ranks second in MLS in shots/match (4.4) and in total shots (31) .


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June 27, 2020 June 27, 2020 by Sheridan, posted in progs
You know you're in for a good Dredd story when the lettering droid has come up with a logo for it (Monkey Business at Charles Darwin Block, Block Mania) – though in this case it's simply the title of the story, with hair on it. This is a great cover if you like Steve Dillon's version of werewolves (which I do). I'm not covering it in this blog, but shortly after getting in to 2000AD I also got in to buying Scream, and I was sufficiently developed in my comic-reading habits that I recognised art styles such as Ron Smith's, Eric Bradbury's and Steve Dillon's (also drawing a werewolf story in that publication, as it happens). This is also one of the comics which was given to me by a neighbour that fateful day in 1983. In the course of writing this blog post I found out the following events in 2000AD stories all took place in this year. Old One Eye's skeleton was discovered. Harry Angel fused with his jet fighter computer. Skizz crash-landed on Earth. Quite a mix of stories there.
Tharg's Nerve Centre has one reader notice how similar some of the Time Twisters are, complaining how characters are travelling back in time to marry their grandmothers, though interesting singling out Chrono-Cops as being brilliant (if you remember, the protagonist travelled back in time and married his partner's grandmother). Another earthlet comes up with a list of the ten rarest things in 2000AD, starting with Judge Dredd's face (which we still haven't seen, as long as you discount face changed faces) though continuing with things we seen, such as Dredd smilinhg, Ace Garp's feet, unzarjaz stories and Hoagy having a good idea. It was just the one good idea, but it still counted!
Speaking of Hoagy, Slade's assistant doesn't appear in the latest episode Sam Slade, Robo-Hunter: The Slaying of Slade Part 11 by Grant/Grover and Ian Gibson. Slade is given two options by his spiritual defence lawyer, Maurie Iscariot. The first is to wait for Slade's clone, Sam Scumm, to die so that they can both be judged on the same day. The second is to share a body with Scumm – initially the two Sams would have a split personality but eventually they'd merge in to one. Not that Scumm's keen on the idea – only being talked around when Slade suggests a plan to get out of jail (Scumm is eight years in to a fifty year sentence). After it's too late for Scumm to do anything about it, Slade reveals the plan is to volunteer for the Time Stretcher – a machine which speed-ages the prisoner for the rest of their sentence – but if there are any medical emergencies in that forty-two years then the prisoner will likely die. I've seen this concept a few times, but this is the first time I encountered it.
Tharg's Time Twisters: The Hyper-Historic Headbang! by Alan Moore and Alan Davis (those links are to old collected editions which are probably pretty difficult to get hold of these days – and only cover the Alan Moore Twisters in to the bargain). To be honest, this isn't branded as a Time Twister, but it features a whole bunch of time travel and I'd be surprised if it isn't collected with other Moore Twisters. This is Moore throwing in a few different ideas, with touches of Spinal Tap meets Destruction Area and Hotblack Desiato (who was named after a local estate agent near where I used to live) on top of various sci-fi concepts. One of which is a planet-sized record played just one time using a gigantic diamond stylus space ship. In an effort to find the loudest sound possible in a rock concert, Max Megadoom and the Time Bombs wire up their arena in 5019 (Moore again one of the few 2000AD script droids who take us in to the far future) with a time-travel circuit so that the final song of the concert includes trips to the first atomic explosion, Pompeii, the Tugunska incident (we'll see what caused that at some point in the next few years), the California earthquake of 1991 (then in the future, and which we previously saw was caused by D.R. & Quinch), a dinosaur attack, the end of life on planet Earth in the sun goes nova (the sun won't actually go nova, as it is neither a white dwarf or a super massive star – it'll instead turn in to a red giant and maybe a brown dwarf). After that the stadium goes to the Big Bang. The best thing about this story is that the last two pages (where the concert goes to all those time frames) is told in ten page-height panels across two pages, plus the third from last panel is in the shape of the word BANG. That's the way you experiment with the comic form while still telling a good story! One thing I noticed is Moore's use of the word 'like' – in Planet California it denotes hippydom, in Skizz it denotes Birminghamness and in this story it could be a bit of both – seeing as how most metal bands from the 1970s and 1980s seem to be from California or the West Midlands.
The next two pages are given to reader's art with Dread of Dredd. Remember this was one of the first batch of progs I ever read, so my entire exposure to Dredd's villains was from reader's art (and that pin-up of Fink Angel). I had no idea who the following where (all featured here): Chief Judges Griffin and Cal; Judge Giant; Grampus; Slocum; Trapper Hag; Judge Fear; Fergee; Judges Death and Mortis and ending with Fink.
Back to the present (in 1983) as a new story starts – Judge Dredd: Cry of the Werewolf Part 1 by T.B. Grover and Steve Dillon. The opening panel gives a few clues as to where this story is going to head, so let's ignore it and get in to the story. It's a normal day for Dredd as he makes his 300th arrest of the day – though he's been on shift for thirty-six hours – so is that the 300th arrest on shift or on the actual 24 hour period? Detail-obsessed squaxx want to know! It's time Dredd had ten minutes in the sleep machine (first appearance? I wasn't paying attention if they appeared earlier). As he returns to the streets, elsewhere in the Mega-City a claw stretches out from a crack in the foundations of a block – a crack which we're told stretches down to the Undercity. Where there are creatures from horror stories there must then follow a scene where some young lovers get cornered and slaughtered by said creatures, and that's just what happens. Judge Fogg is on the case – but the name doesn't stand out so I don't think he's going to survive for long.
Skizz by Alan Moore (back again this prog) and Jim Baikie. The pieces are set up – though there is a curious anomaly where Tony Jacob's original lettering appears to have been replaced in a different hand (I'm presuming 'kangaroos' got replaced by 'wallabies' but can't imagine why). The various pieces involve two giant toy wallabies being stolen, a protest rally being publicised, thirty-six rats being stolen, a laundry van driver's drink being spiked and a warning that a car attempting to enter R.A.F. Stafford should be searched. From there we see parts of the elaborate plan fall in to place including the rats making an appearance as they leap out of the car while it's being searched. The protest and fake bubonic plague outbreak are merely decoys so that Loz and Cornelius can make their way on to the base in the driver's stolen van. It took me some time to find out exactly what happened next as I didn't own the next prog for a few years, skipping one.
Rogue Trooper: Milli-Com Memories Part 5 by Gerry Finley-Day and Cam Kennedy. The bio-chips are a tad fatalistic. The Norts are approaching and just because their pride has been hurt they're willing to let them kill Rogue and the chips. Rogue is starting to come around and realises the secrets he's revealed. The accusation is sometimes levelled against Rogue that he's a pretty one-dimensional character, certainly the least interesting of the four G.I.s. That may be true, but he's also the most intelligent and quick-witted as despite still being groggy he still manages to bluff his way into convincing the chips that he had been responsible for all the calamities that he'd told them in the previous three episodes. Now pitying him instead of jealous and resentful, the biochips kick their suicidal idea and start working to try to protect Rogue (not that it succeeds, they get overwhelmed). Fortunately the officer's pistol that Rogue kept from his Magnam encounter is unknown to the Norts and he recovers enough to take them all out. Just for good measure, Rogue plays the innocent and asks the chips if he said anything in his sleep. They all cover up and Rogue reveals (to us, the third person omnipresent reader) that the Milli-Com memories were TRUE.
Script Robot Alan Moore is both the title and subject of the 2000AD Star Pin-Up – Tharg's Droids: No 7 in an Occasiopnal Series. I'm pretty sure I remember seeing somebody hand a copy of this prog to Alan to sign when I met him as an eleven or twelve year old. The pic is by Robin Smith and is centred around Skizz and Time Twisters.
Grailpage: so many great pages this prog! I could pick the front cover, the back cover star-scan or quite a few of the pages in between. While I was reviewing the pages to pick one I noticed Ernest Errol Quinch in the crowd for the Hyper-Historic Headbang concert. I'm finally going to pick Alan Davis' final page featuring audience-viewpoint pictures of the end of life on Earth, then the primal atom and the big BANG.
Grailquote: on the basis that it's a panel that's stayed with me (this being one of progs in my first batch), Grant Grover, Sam Scumm: "The Time Stretcher! You're crazy!" Sam Slade: "Crazy like a fox!" This was probably the first time I came across that term as well. Close second is also TB Grover, Judge Dredd: "Some kind of animal is my guess." Judge Korkoran: "Animal? In this city?" Dredd: "Either that, or we got a citizen who doesn't cut his toenails."
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City releases plans for first residential phase in Blatchford
The City of Edmonton has released the detailed plan and new renderings for the first residential stage and section of park in Blatchford. The completion of the stage one plan is another significant milestone in the land development process, and takes the City of Edmonton one step closer to building one of the world's largest sustainable communities.
"In addition to our high environmental goals, City Council's vision for Blatchford has always been to create a walkable neighbourhood with enhanced urban design, family-oriented housing, urban agriculture, community amenities, and significant green space," says Mayor Don Iveson. "The stage one map showcases how purposeful and deliberate design of these elements are being incorporated to provide residents with a great quality of life."
The first residential stage, located on the west side of the site, will see approximately 250 townhomes and low to mid-rise condos and apartments built. The homebuilder selection process for this stage will take place after Council's decision on an energy strategy for the community.
"Building for people has always been at the centre of the Blatchford vision," says Councillor Bev Esslinger. "We are building a neighbourhood where urban design will allow people to conveniently live a more sustainable, active, community based lifestyle. Residents will be able to easily reduce their energy consumption because the community has been designed using sustainable urban design principles."
Some of the elements being built into the first stage include:
Incorporation of heritage elements like street names, recycled runway benches and heritage features to honour the historical aviation significance of the site.
Separated bike lanes and a pedestrian and cycle route to the LRT station.
Urban gardens and fruit orchards with rainwater collection systems for watering.
Community gathering places including a summer event/winter skating area, a community fire pit and warming hut, and a children's playground.
Enhanced and innovative landscaping features like tree planting cells, landscaped laneways, and treed boulevards.
An updated website with additional community information has also been created (BlatchfordEdmonton.ca). Construction work continues at the site including underground utility work and building removal and remediation. A report detailing the development of the renewable energy utility that will help Blatchford achieve its visionary goal of carbon neutrality and use of 100% renewable energy is due back to City Council later this year.
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Egyptian art helps chart past extinctions of big mammals
by Kim Smuga-Otto on 1 December 2014
What happened to Egypt's Serengeti-like ecosystem? Art helps scientists unravel the past
The scientists found that major disappearances coincided with climate and environmental changes. Click here to see a Brazilian interactive graphic of the extinctions. Graphic by: William Mariotto and Vinicius Sueiro, Estadao.
Life in modern Egypt clings to the Nile River. This crowded green strip within the desert supports more than 2,300 people per square kilometer (6,000 per square mile). That doesn't leave much room for wildlife. Jackals, foxes, hyenas, ibex, and a few other large mammal species manage to eke out an existence. But 6,000 years ago, all of Egypt was green and vibrant, teeming with life much like the current Serengeti. Over time, this rich ecosystem fell apart.
Although the individual extinctions in this decimation are lost to history, a new study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences constructs a model of the web of interactions among the mammals across the millennia.
"You oftentimes see before and after, but in this case, you could watch what happened historically," paleoecologist Paul Koch, of the University of California, Santa Cruz, one of the study authors, told mongabay.com. "We don't often get to see, in detail, something collapse."
While the most common examples of ancient Egyptian art are stylized hieroglyphics, Egyptian artisans also created extensive and detailed wildlife scenes, often to illustrate famous hunts by the pharaohs. Photo by: Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, Brooklyn Museum.
To build the model, the scientists didn't look to bones and fossils; rather, they looked to art. Specifically, they examined the detailed paintings and carvings of wildlife on ancient Egyptian vases, furniture, and walls. In fact, a visit to a Tutankhamen exhibition in San Francisco by Justin Yeakel, the study's main author, and co-author Nathaniel Dominy sparked the initial idea for the research.
"We were struck by the accuracy and detail of these organisms that we knew no longer existed in Egypt today," Yeakel said in an interview with mongabay.com.
The earliest pieces, dated by archaeologists to 6,000 years ago, depicted 38 large mammal species including giraffes, lions, elephants and hippopotami. A thousand years later, as the climate began to shift from humid to arid, animals began to vanish from the artworks. Two other large sets of disappearances matched further climatic shifts about 4,200 and 3,000 years ago. Today's desert ecosystem was the outcome.
"That's all correlational, but it's suggestive that these big climate changes may have had a large impact," said Yeakel, now at the Santa Fe Institute in New Mexico. A fourth massive extinction occurred about 150 years ago as Egypt began to industrialize.
Beyond matching the paleontological and historical records, the model describes a web of interactions among the animals, especially ties between predator and prey. Early on, the web had many strands. When zebras went extinct, the lions and leopards could switch to hunting gazelles or oryx. But with each extinction, predators were left with fewer alternatives for dinner. In time, major parts of the web collapsed.
The artworks don't reveal the size of each animal population or the order in which they disappeared. This prevents the authors from theorizing about causes and effects of any specific extinction. Still, wildlife ecologist Justin Brashares of the University of California, Berkeley, who was not involved with the study, thinks the model is useful to recreate the early structures of the ecosystems.
"It offers a blueprint for forecasting the decline of ecosystems in the future," he told mongabay.com.
The extinction patterns were not random. Initially, herd animals disappeared, leaving the carnivores largely untouched. But this predator-heavy mix destabilized the web further, making it more susceptible to climate change and other stresses. Closer to the present day, the ecosystem's key animals were small-to-midsize herbivores, like gazelles, probably because of their critical role as food for the carnivores.
For Koch, the way the ecosystem fell apart was surprising.
"It was persisting, but it kept getting smacked," he said. "And the last few centuries have been so dramatically bad."
The human-inhabited area of Egypt takes up just 3.5 percent of the country's total land. Beyond the Nile delta only the hardiest of desert animals survive. Image by: Wikipedia Commons.
Yeakel JD, Pires MM, Rudolf L, Dominy NJ, Koch PL, Guimarães PR Jr, Gross T. Collapse of an ecological network in Ancient Egypt. PNAS, (2014) 111(40): 14472-14477. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1408471111
Kim Smuga-Otto is a graduate student in the Science Communication Program at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
Egyptian jackal is actually ancient wolf
(01/26/2011) The Egyptian jackal, which may have been the inspiration for the Egyptian god Anubis, is actually not a jackal at all but a member of the wolf family. New genetic research in the open-access journal PLoS ONE finds that the Egyptian jackal is Africa's only member of the gray wolf family. The new wolf, dubbed by researchers as the African wolf, is most closely related to the Himalayan wolf.
Meet the world's rarest chameleon: Chapman's pygmy
(11/25/2014) In just two forest patches may dwell a tiny, little-known chameleon that researchers have dubbed the world's most endangered. Chapman's pygmy chameleon from Malawi hasn't been seen in 16 years. In that time, its habitat has been whittled down to an area about the size of just 100 American football fields.
Gone for good: world's largest earwig declared extinct
(11/19/2014) The world has lost a giant: this week the IUCN Red List officially declared St. Helena giant earwig extinct. While its length of 80 millimeters (3.1 inches) may not seem like much, it's massive for an earwig and impressive for an insect. Only found on the island of St. Helena in the remote southern Atlantic, experts believe the St. Helena giant earwig was pushed to extinction by habitat destruction.
It only took 2,500 people to kill off the world's biggest birds
(11/10/2014) The first settlers of New Zealand killed off nine species of giant birds, known as moas, with a population no bigger than a few thousand people, according to new research published in Nature Communications. The biggest moas stood up to 3.6 meters (12 feet) tall, making these mega-birds the largest animals in the country and contenders for the biggest birds ever.
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local cjson = require "cjson"
local dataStore = require "lib/dataStore"
local utils = require "lib/utils"
local request = require "lib/request"
local apis = require "management/lib/apis"
local tenants = require "management/lib/tenants"
local swagger = require "management/lib/swagger"
local validation = require "management/lib/validation"

local REDIS_HOST = os.getenv("REDIS_HOST")
local REDIS_PORT = os.getenv("REDIS_PORT")
local REDIS_PASS = os.getenv("REDIS_PASS")

local _M = {}

--- Request handler for routing API calls appropriately
function _M.requestHandler(dataStore)
  local requestMethod = ngx.req.get_method()
  ngx.header.content_type = "application/json; charset=utf-8"
  if requestMethod == "GET" then
    getAPIs(dataStore)
  elseif requestMethod == 'POST' or requestMethod == 'PUT' then
    addAPI(dataStore)
  elseif requestMethod == "DELETE" then
    deleteAPI(dataStore)
  else
    request.err(400, "Invalid verb.")
  end
end

function getAPIs(dataStore)
  local queryParams = ngx.req.get_uri_args()
  local id = ngx.var.api_id
  local version = ngx.var.version
  if id == '' then
    local apiList
    if version == 'v1' then
      apiList = apis.getAllAPIs(dataStore, queryParams)
    elseif version == 'v2' then
      local tenantId = ngx.var.tenantId
      local v2ApiList = {}
      apiList = tenants.getTenantAPIs(dataStore, tenantId, queryParams)
      for _, api in pairs(apiList) do
        v2ApiList[#v2ApiList+1] = {
          artifact_id = api.id,
          managed_url = api.managedUrl,
          open_api_doc = dataStore:getSwagger(api.id)
        }
      end
      apiList = v2ApiList
    end
    apiList = (next(apiList) == nil) and "[]" or cjson.encode(apiList)
    dataStore:close()
    request.success(200, apiList)
  else
    local query = ngx.var.query
    if query ~= '' then
      if query ~= "tenant" then
        dataStore:close()
        request.err(400, "Invalid request")
      else
        local tenant = apis.getAPITenant(dataStore, id)
        tenant = cjson.encode(tenant)
        dataStore:close()
        request.success(200, tenant)
      end
    else
      local api = apis.getAPI(dataStore, id)
      if version == 'v1' then
        dataStore:close()
        api = cjson.encode(api)
        request.success(200, api)
      elseif version == 'v2' then
        local returnObj = {
          artifact_id = api.id,
          managed_url = api.managedUrl,
          open_api_doc = dataStore:getSwagger(api.id)
        }
        dataStore:close()
        request.success(200, cjson.encode(returnObj))
      end
    end
  end
end

function addAPI(dataStore)
  local id = ngx.var.api_id
  local existingAPI = checkForExistingAPI(dataStore, id)
  ngx.req.read_body()
  local args = ngx.req.get_body_data()
  if not args then
    dataStore:close()
    request.err(400, "Missing request body")
  end
  -- Convert json into Lua table
  local version = ngx.var.version
  local decoded
  local swaggerTable;
  if version == 'v1' then
    decoded = cjson.decode(args)
  elseif version == 'v2' then
    swaggerTable = cjson.decode(args)
    decoded = swagger.parseSwagger(swaggerTable)
    local tenantId = ngx.var.tenantId
    local tenant = {
      namespace = tenantId,
      instance = ''
    }
    tenants.addTenant(dataStore, tenant, {id = tenantId})
    decoded.tenantId = tenantId
  end
  -- Check for api id in JSON body
  if existingAPI == nil and decoded.id ~= nil then
    existingAPI = dataStore:getAPI(decoded.id)
    if existingAPI == nil then
      dataStore:close()
      request.err(404, utils.concatStrings({"Unknown API id ", decoded.id}))
    end
  end
  local err = validation.validate(dataStore, decoded)
  if err ~= nil then
    dataStore:close()
    request.err(err.statusCode, err.message)
  end
  local managedUrlObj = apis.addAPI(dataStore, decoded, existingAPI)
  if version == 'v1' then
    dataStore:close()
    managedUrlObj = cjson.encode(managedUrlObj)
    request.success(200, managedUrlObj)
  elseif version == 'v2' then
    dataStore:addSwagger(managedUrlObj.id, swaggerTable)
    local returnObj = {
      artifact_id = managedUrlObj.id,
      managed_url = managedUrlObj.managedUrl,
      open_api_doc = swaggerTable
    }
    dataStore:close()
    request.success(200, cjson.encode(returnObj))
  end
end

function deleteAPI(dataStore)
  local id = ngx.var.api_id
  if id == nil or id == '' then
    dataStore:close()
    request.err(400, "No id specified.")
  end
  apis.deleteAPI(dataStore, id)
  local version = ngx.var.version
  if version == 'v1' then
    dataStore:close()
    request.success(200, cjson.encode({}))
  elseif version == 'v2' then
    dataStore:deleteSwagger(id)
    dataStore:close()
    request.success(204)
  end
end

--- Check for api id from uri and use existing API if it already exists in redis
-- @param red Redis client instance
-- @param id API id to check
function checkForExistingAPI(dataStore, id)
  local existing
  if id ~= nil and id ~= '' then
    existing = dataStore:getAPI(id)
    if existing == nil then
      dataStore:close()
      request.err(404, utils.concatStrings({"Unknown API id ", id}))
    end
  end
  return existing
end

return _M;


The future of Cornwall's working lighthouses could be under threat, because of increasingly sophisticated navigation aids being used by ships.
Satellite systems mean that traditional flashing lights around the coast are now less important.
But the lighthouses are not likely to disappear as they can be used as towers for electronic navigation equipment.
There are 12 lighthouses around the Cornish coastline including the Wolf Rock, the Longships and the Lizard.
The flashing lights have warned mariners of the dangers around the region's treacherous coastline.
The lighthouse on the Lizard has protected seafarers from Britain's most southerly point for more than two centuries.
But now Trinity House and other lighthouse authorities say they have a decreasing significance and it is possible some could be discontinued.
However the lighthouse authorities are also warning that some seamen could be jeopardising their safety by relying too much on satellite systems.
Trinity House spokesman Howard Cooper told BBC News Online that satellite systems can be so accurate that mariners - in particular some leisure users - rely on them completely.
Mr Cooper said: "Leisure users can become almost too confident because of the accuracy of satellite navigation.
"They'll go out at night and in poor visibility because they trust the system.
"But satellite systems can fail for whatever reason and by relying totally on one system, mariners could be going into unfamiliar waters."
Mr Cooper says a new system is being designed which is a mix of satellite and radio navigation.
He believes seafarers need a healthy knowledge of the Cornish coastline and where the lighthouses are.
He says to navigate safely, boat users should use a combination of aids, from satellite navigation to buoys, beacons and lighthouses.


A special report on this oil-rich, former Soviet republic includes interviews with "experts" who are actually current or former government employees.
The Republic of Kazakhstan is not the sort of country that you hear about much in American media. Newspapers and TV networks have limited space, after all, and with so much happening in places like China and the Middle East, the dealings of this land-locked former Soviet territory don't rate as much ink or airtime. Still, Kazakhstan's story is significant and often entertaining -- it's a big, rapidly modernizing, resource-rich nation sandwiched between Russia and China -- so it was an unusual treat to discover that CNN International is devoting an entire special report to the country. The network's first-ever live broadcast from Kazakhstan would seem to be a small but important landmark moment for CNN International, bringing its enormous audience into contact with a corner of the world they might otherwise never experience. But there's more than meets the eye to this cheery series, and some apparent overlap in mission and tone with the Kazakh government's recent, high-profile lobbying campaign.
"Eyes On Kazakhstan," a half-hour collection of nine short segments that first aired this weekend and runs again once or twice a day through Wednesday, brings viewers into contact with a part of the world about which they might otherwise read or learn very little. The show mostly focuses on the country's booming energy industry and its opportunities for foreign investors, though also explores, for example, indigenous Kazakh sports,. But, if you go online to watch the clips on oil mining or read about the changing capital city, you might notice a disclaimer at the bottom of the article that reads, "CNN's Eye On series often carries sponsorship originating from the countries we profile. However CNN retains full editorial control over all of its reports."
Sponsorship is nothing out of the ordinary -- you might notice ads running alongside this very post -- but it turns out that there are some unusual things going on with CNN International's Kazakhstan series. You'd have to know the country pretty well to spot them, which I don't and didn't. But a Central Asia-based consultant named Myles Smith did, pointing them out in a post on EuriasaNet.org (disclosure: as an Atlantic partner site, EurasiaNet articles frequently appear on TheAtlantic.com).
The first thing that Smith found is also perhaps the strangest. He writes that both the website and TV-only promotional teasers say that the program is "in association with" a firm called Samruk-Kazyna and the Astana Economic Forum. Oddly, it doesn't actually name either of these groups, merely displaying their logos, which Smith recognized. Samruk-Kazyna is a massive, state-run holding company that manages national assets and resources worth tens of billions of dollars. The Astana Economic Forum, also state-run, lists "attracting potential investors and partners to help facilitate development projects" as an official goal.
Browsing the Eyes On page and watching the clips myself, I could find no indication of who was sponsoring the program or even that it had sponsors at all, other than the vague note about "sponsorship [often] originating from the countries we profile," which doesn't clarify if that means the country's government or just companies that happen to work within that country.
I was baffled. Not that Kazakhstan's state-owned firms would "sponsor" a report on their country -- which could be kosher if the sponsors were clearly identified and if they had no effect effect on the actual news coverage -- but that I couldn't find any disclosure myself of the sponsorship. I reached out to a U.S.-based EurasiaNet editor, and he couldn't, either. But he got in touch with his colleagues back in Central Asia, and it turned out that the "Eyes On Kazakhstan" page looked slightly different when they loaded it. Their version shows the "in association with" disclaimer (screenshot here), while Americans see nothing.
This was one of the things I asked about when I got in touch with CNN International. "All campaigns have the ability to geo-target different advertisements to different regions in the world," a press representative told me, though the "in association with" line looks more like a disclaimer than an advertisement. "It's not visible in the U.S. because the U.S. is not a target market." She confirmed that Samruk-Kazyna and the Astana Economic Forum are sponsors and didn't dispute their links to the Kazakh government.
But maybe the strangest part of the series was what it left unsaid about its sources. In an upbeat segment on what a CNN reporter called Kazakhstan's "strong and vibrant" energy-driven economy, he interviewed a man named Murat Karymsakov, introduced only as an "energy expert." Karymsakov had effusive praise for the government's management of the Kazakh economy, which he said is poised for continued growth. And why shouldn't he? As EurasiaNet points out, Karymsakov is employed by the same government on which he's asked to comment: the state-run Eurasian Economic Club of Scientists' Association, headed by the president of Kazakhstan, lists him as the chairman of its executive board. Karymsakov's "economic club" is also an "organizer" of the same Astana Economic Forum that sponsors the show, which means that CNN is, in a sense, presenting one of its advertisers as an unbiased expert to evaluate the work of that same advertiser.
In a segment on the government's efforts to combat brain drain, another CNN reporter introduced "economist Darmen Sadvakasov," stumbling over his name. Sadvakasov praised the Kazakh president's program for sending promising young people to foreign universities in exchange for a pledge that they return to work in Kazakhstan. Sadvakasov, himself a product of the program, emphasized that most of its students come back to work in the private sector. But not him: he returned to work for the government, and, according to a lengthy title that frequently appears alongside his name in web searches, headed an entire department of the president's office at least as recently as October.
CNN's spokesperson said that Sadvakasov "no longer works with the Kazakh government," but didn't dispute that he recently had or that Karymsakov still does. When asked who had arranged the interviews and if CNN was aware that their sources had such close ties to the regime, she replied, "Both interviews were arranged by the CNN International editorial team in the context that each guest is an expert in their respective field." They're certainly experts, but their association seems relevant as well. Imagine if CNN had interviewed Peter Orszag, the 2009-2010 director of President Obama's Office of Management and Budget, as merely an "economist" asked to evaluate Obama's economic policies; or if it had presented an executive at Ford Motor as an unbiased "auto expert" who might give comment on Ford's comeback.
The government of Kazakhstan has been making a significant lobbying and public relations push abroad since at least 2010, when it began employing lobbying firm BGR Gabara. It has also hired Tony Blair Associates, Portland Communications, and Media Consulta. A January investigation by EurasiaNet found that the U.S. Foreign Agents Registration Act database listed Kazakhstan's UK embassy as having hired BGR Gabara for "relevant outreach to government officials, news outlets, and other individuals with the United States, as directed by the Embassy of Kazakhstan in London, United Kingdom." EurasiaNet suggested that the campaign aimed to combat the country's troubled human rights record (Freedom House lists Kazakhstan, a dictatorship for 21 years now, as "not free") and to attract investment for the rapidly growing economy.
The strength of the Kazakh economy is no lie, and I had a hard time finding anything to disagree with in the thrust of CNN's reporting. After all, we listed the country as one of five rising economic powerhouses just in February, for which I wrote that Kazakhstan, despite its "Stalinist ticks," is "well positioned to profit off of Asia's rise, especially as Middle Eastern turmoil makes this sparsely populated and stable country an attractive energy source. The mostly benevolent government is investing the revenue wisely, growing infrastructure and non-energy industries such as transportation and pharmaceuticals, while still avoiding overheating."
I arrived at my own upbeat conclusions about the Kazakh economy without ever having met a pro-Kazakhstan lobbyist in my life, so it's easy to imagine CNN's much more seasoned reporters doing the same. And CNN has separately reported on the country's darker side. Still, in a stand-alone package premised on bringing CNN viewers a tour of a country they might otherwise know little about, the network could have been transparent with those viewers about the Kazakh government's connections to its reporting, which after all focused heavily on evaluating that government's performance. Whether CNN chose to label present and former government employees as unbiased "experts" without noting their connections or was simply unaware of those links, it's an odd moment of convergence between one of the largest news networks in the world and the lobbying campaign of this far-flung Central Asian oil exporter.


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It's Offically Peyton Manning Decision Week: What & When To Expect Anything
By mgrex03@mgrex03 Mar 5, 2012, 12:32pm EST
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The week us Colts fans have been dreading since we learned that Peyton Manning was not starting Week 1 of 2011 is now upon us.
Back in September, March 8th seemed so far away that it really never registered that we'd get to this point, and there would be a very real chance that Manning would not be on the Colts roster in 2012. There was plenty of time for him to get his neck healthy, maybe even come back to "save the season", and we'd all move on to 2012, after an expected bad season, and we'd be back to watching the Colts of old. We all had this hope back in September, but as the months went on, and the Colts kept losing, the prospect of the Colts cutting ties with Manning became more of a reality.
Now that we're here, what's going to happen? The first thing to know is the actual time deadline for a decision on Manning's $28 Million roster bonus is 4:00 PM Thursday afternoon. My feeling is that we won't hear anything until Thursday at some point, but almost every other piece of breaking news the Colts have released this offseason has been on a Wednesday, so that's clearly possible as well. I don't expect it Monday or Tuesday.
As the offseason has gone on, it became perfectly clear that Owner Jim Irsay is not going to give Manning the $28 Million bonus, and I won't get into the back-and-forth they've had in the media since the season ended, as we've talked about it at length. I also said all along that I would not believe Manning was actually healthy without seeing it on video. Until I saw that, it was all just media fodder.
That was dispelled on Friday. Manning just went Pete Sampras-style overhead smash on Irsay.
Seeing the video of him throwing really makes me question what Irsay is going to do. We've all heard about Irsay referring to his 2012 QB as "Andrew", how returning to the Colts is "on Peyton", etc. Now, we've all seen Manning throw a football, so he doesn't have a "noodle arm" any more, but it's really hard to tell from the little bit of grainy footage to see just how healthy he is. ESPN's Paul Kuharsky doesn't think he's healthy, and I don't know what he is basing that off of, so I won't go any further than just linking what he said.
My opinion? He isn't healthy enough to start a game if the Colts played tomorrow, but by September he will be, and I base this just off watching that video. The zip isn't there, but I'm guessing it's mostly because he hasn't thrown a football for 9 months, and he just needs to get the muscle strength back. If anyone can do that, it's Peyton Manning.
From my prospective, there are only two choices for Irsay and the Colts to make:
Cut Peyton Manning, knowing full well he's more than likely going to play somewhere else in 2012, and draft Andrew Luck. Colts are in full rebuilding mode, which has been every indication since the end of the season.
Exercise Manning's bonus, get "the band back together", restructure/re-sign several key players (Freeney, Wayne, Mathis, Garcon, etc), and trade the #1 overall pick for a boatload of picks, emphasizing players that are ready to play now rather than project players.
Now, I left out another choice that others have advocated, but it runs counter-intuitive to what the Colts should be doing, and that's keeping Manning and still drafting Luck. Even if Manning signs under a restructured deal, this won't be helping the Colts at all. At best it puts them in a holding pattern for three to four years, and wastes the cheapest years of Andrew Luck. I understand financially they can make it work for now, but if Manning can play for three to four years, Manning is going to play. You don't bring Manning back if you have no intention of playing him. He wants another Super Bowl ring, not to mentor a young QB.
Also, if the Colts draft Luck and let him "learn" from the bench, how many guys could the Colts seemingly get that would be able to help them win right away, maybe to get the defense to championship level in 2013? Hell, the Texans did a complete 180 in just one year, without any offseason work, so why not considerable improvement in 2012? Instead, they'd be rolling the dice with just the picks they had, hoping they get them right. There's a reason the Patriots stock-pile draft picks: it increases their margin for error. There's a big difference from missing three of six picks than three of nine or ten picks.
I think there is one wild-card scenario that we might see here as well. We all know that trading Manning after he receives the $28 Million bonus is damn near impossible due to the salary cap. But what about if Manning, to try and help the Colts, re-signs at a more cap-friendly deal, fully knowing that the Colts will trade him sometime before or shortly after the draft? Clearly Manning would have final say over where he goes, but it then lets the Colts get something in return for Manning, rather than just letting him walk out the door for nothing. What are the chances of this happening? Very small. But Irsay is an out-of-the-box thinker, and I don't think Manning wants to "stick it" to the Colts. This might be a very good compromise to appease both sides.
The deadline is now just about three days away, and I still can't make up my mind on what I would do. If you believe Manning will be healthy in September, based on what you see right now, I think it would be foolish to let him walk to another team for nothing in return. During this whole process I've come to grips with the fact Manning would not be a Colt next year, and Andrew Luck is the guy to rally behind and watch him grow over the next decade (hopefully). It's decisions like this that make me fully understand why these guys make as much money as they do, in order to make the right decision.
We'll know very soon though. It will certainly be nice to have a decision made. Finally.


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Sweden's pack of Heavy Metal stalwarts, WOLF, returns with their seventh studio album entitled simply Devil Seed. The album will be released on August 25th in Europe and on September 2nd in North America via Century Media Records and today the band is premiering their first music video.
Dave Lombardo's PHILM has announced that their long awaited second studio album, Fire From The Evening Sun, will be released on the band's new label, UDR Music, on September 16, 2014 in the US (September 15 in UK/September 12 in other European territories).
If 'Fire From The Evening Sun' is any indication, this album will not only give Lombardo fans what they have so passionately missed, but will take us on a heated musical journey that will leave us soaked in sonic beatitude.
PHILM – Gerry Nestler (vocals, guitars), Pancho Tomaselli (bass) and Dave Lombardo (drums) – will hit the road this fall in support of the album by performing several shows throughout Europe and the U.S. with more dates to be confirmed.
See below for full list of dates confirmed so far.
INTRONAUT Announce 10th Anniversary Tour!
INTRONAUT have announced that they will be hitting the road again following a short break and their recent tour with TesseracT. This special run of shows is in celebration of the band's 10 year anniversary and will also feature ANCIIENTS!
The band has been on the road in support of their current albumHabitual Levitations ever since its release on Century Media Records in March of 2013.
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(New York, NY) – Chelsea Grin has released their music video for "Clockwork" The video was directed Ryan Sheehy.
Chelsea Grin's new studio album Ashes To Ashes (released via Artery Recordings/Razor & Tie) charged onto the charts this week debuting at #27 on the Billboard Top 200 with over 10,100 units sold in its first week of release. This marks Chelsea Grin's highest career charting debut and also their biggest U.S. sales week. The album also enters on a number of other Billboard charts including #4 at Hard Music, #8 at Rock and #16 at Digital.
Chelsea Grin's Ashes To Ashes was produced by Chelsea Grin and Diego Farias (Animals As Leaders, Volumes, Stray From The Path).
The band is currently on the road for the full Van's Warped Tour. Tour dates HERE.
Buy Ashes to Ashes now at iTunes Store HERE and MerchNow HERE.
OVERKILL has debuted another all new music video for their newest single "Bitter Pill" exclusively today. Directed by long time collaborator Kevin J. Custer, the video is the fourth time the veteran director has directed an Overkill video including "Armorist," released most recently.
OVERKILL will release their seventeenth LP White Devil Armory tomorrow via eOne Music in North America, and July 18th overseas via Nuclear Blast. The effort is the follow up to the critically acclaimedThe Electric Age released in 2012.
The band has quite a bit of touring lined up with a highlighted performance scheduled at Heavy Montreal Festival on August 9th. After that the band will embark on a U.S. tour, view all dates here. Tickets are on sale now.
This year's White Devil Armory is as vital, powerful, aggressive and melodic as any of the albums in Overkill's ridiculously impressive back catalog, which stretches over 16 slabs of genre defining and redefining molten metal. The crunch is unmistakable. The voice is irreplaceable. Get less than a minute into White Devil Armory and it's clear it's Overkill. No pretense, no musical red herrings. This is tried and true, always trusted thrash metal.
"The Last Act Of Defiance" was produced by long time friend and producer Tue Madsen who recorded the album at Nova Studio in Staten Island, NY while mixing it in his own Antfarm Studio in Denmark.
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Additionally, DYING FETUS will be direct support for Morbid Angel on this year'sSummer Slaughter Tour. The month long tour kicks off tonight in San Francisco, CA and features an all start line-up of extreme metal bands including The Faceless, Origin, Decrepit Birth, Goatwhore, Thy Art is Murder, Within the Ruins andFallujah. A complete listing of dates is included below.
DYING FETUS released their latest full-length Reign Supreme in 2012 and will be returning to the studio following their European tour to begin work on their 8th full-length due out in 2015 via Relapse Records. A video for the Reign Supreme track "Second Skin" can be viewed HERE while the album can be streamed in it's entirety HERE.
Finally, the trio have made their way onto Instagram and can be followed at@DyingFetusOfficial.


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