Our June Seasonal Cheese Selections finds us without any sheep cheeses. As we strive to only support cheese makers who are either farmstead or who purchase their milk from small, nearby and sustainable dairies, sheep cheese just isn't available among them right now. Our curated choices are limited when we are looking for ingredients that are raised sustainably and humanely, thanks for understanding and helping us to make change by supporting small farms.
Many of the cheeses this month are formed by hand which gives them delightful inconsistencies in their shapes, and yes, we veered out of the Pacific Northwest this month to capture some exciting flavors. To see our complete June Seasonal Menu, go here.
Patty and Roger Scholten make this certified organic cheese from Dutch Belt cows, which are also known as "Oreo" cows for their distinctive white belt around their midsection. The cheese is aged on the farm for 5 days and then whisked away to ripen in Jasper Hill. The finished cheese is bright and decadent with very savory undertones.
This is a very special, smoked cow cheese that was featured on our May Cheese Menu, but since it is not always available, we carried it over to June. It is richly creamy and decadent. Spring Hill Farm uses milk from 100% grass-fed Jersey Cows, and sells at various farmer's markets throughout California.
This farmstead creamery raises it's cows on a 100% foraged diet of grasses, wild flowers, herbs, and legumes on a 300 acre pasture. This particular award winning cheese has a very deep nutty flavor and a slight crunch from natural forming proteins.
Judy Schab and her husband make this petite, hand-formed, and dense 3 oz spare of lightly-aged goat cheese from their 400 head herd of Alpine, Nubian, and Saanen goats. It's creamy texture is sweet and fresh with citrus notes. The bright and clean characteristics of this delicate cheese are attributed to a 17 hour lactic fermentation that is gently hand-ladled.
Aged 45-90 days and brined in whey, this farmstead feta is slightly salty and tangy in flavor. It's firm texture makes it great for marinating and adding subtle perfumes to it like rosemary or pink peppercorns. After spending an entire day at Drake Family Farms (see it here), our hearts were warmed over by Farmer Dan and his affectionate, routine-loving goats.
This raw blue cheese is made from buffalo milk, and despite being aged for 3-4 months, it still maintains the clean freshness of raw cheese. It's also meaty and slightly spicy with a long buttery finish. The milk is sourced from a small water buffalo dairy in Petaluma called, Double 8 Dairy.
And here's one more of our Crostini Stations with the same cheese. Isn't it cool how different they can look?


When you go away to college or, better yet, send your child away for an advanced education, you want the peace of mind knowing that they are safe. To that end, we've compiled a list of the 50 Safest Colleges in America. The data to create this list was obtained from the U.S. Department of Education, Office of Postsecondary Education, who keep statistics on campus crime. Criteria for making this list were public and private 4-year universities in the U.S., with an enrollment of at least 5,000 students. Primarily online institutions were not included and most recent data available was for calendar years 2011-2013.
Established in 1970, this independent university of over 19,000 students in New York City, NY was named after Jewish leaders Judah and Isaac Touro. The school offers a variety of undergraduate and graduate programs, and there were no on-campus crimes reported for Touro College.
With over 14,000 undergraduates enrolled, this state college in Niceville, FL is part of the Florida College System. The 264-acre campus in the Ft. Walton Beach area of Florida's Panhandle provides a variety of undergraduate degrees, and there were no on-campus crime incidents here.
A private research university founded in 1955, NYIT is located in New York City, NY and its main Old Westbury campus encompasses over 1,000 acres. With over 12,000 students, there were no on-campus crime incidents reported at NYIT.
Bellevue University is a private, non-profit university located in Bellevue, NE. With an enrollment of over 10,000, the university has been operating since 1966 and is the 4th largest private college in Nebraska. There were no on-campus crimes reported here.
Established in 1916, this private liberal arts college offers degrees at the undergraduate and graduate level in more than 25 areas. Recognized repeatedly as among "America's Best Colleges" by U.S. News and World Report, the Brooklyn campus of over 5,000 students has no on-campus crimes reported.
Located in Honolulu, HI, this private co-ed university of over 7,000 students was established in 1965. There was just one on-campus burglary reported during the study period.
A private university in Columbus, OH, Franklin University was originally founded in 1902 through a sponsorship by the Columbus YMCA. Now with almost 8,000 students enrolled in its undergraduate and graduate programs, its main campus had just one burglary reported during the study period.
Governors State University is a public university located in University Park, Ill, south of Chicago. GSU was founded in 1969 and, as of 2014, went from just an upper-level university to one that offers undergraduate through doctorate level degrees. There was only one on-campus crime reported involving a vehicle.
St. Johns River State College is a member of the Florida College System and is located in Palatka, FL, on the state's northeast coast. The college has over 7,000 enrolled students and is an accredited arts school. There were just two on-campus crimes listed during the reporting period at this school.
Colorado Christian University (CCU) is a private, interdenominational Christian liberal arts university of just over 5,000 students. Located in Lakewood, CO, the school was founded in 1914 at the Denver Bible Institute and offers 45 degree programs at the undergraduate and graduate level. There were only two on-campus incidents during the reporting period.
Located in historic New Castle, Delaware, this private non-profit university has an enrollment of over 20,000 students. Many degree programs are offered in its seven colleges at the undergraduate and graduate level. There were just three on-campus crimes reported at this school.
A private Christian university located in Virginia Beach, VA, Regent University was founded by Pat Robertson in 1977. The university offers over 70 courses of study, including a School of Law and a School of Divinity. There were three on-campus crimes reported at this university.
UHD is a four-year state university in Houston, TX that is the second largest university in the Houston area. The 14,000 students at UHD attend a 20 acre downtown campus, and UHD has been ranked by U.S. News and World Report as No. 7 among top public universities. Four on-campus crimes were reported at UHD during the reporting period.
With over 16,000 students, the senior college of the City University of New York in Brooklyn has been ranked multiple times by The Princeton Review as a top college for value. This liberal arts college has five on-campus crimes reported during the period covered.
A member of the University System of Wisconsin, UW-La Crosse was founded in 1909 and offers over 100 degree programs in its five schools. The school as over 10,00 students enrolled and had five on-campus crimes to report.
Also known as Metro State, this public university located in the Twin Cities of Minnesota has over 11,000 students enrolled. There are over 70 degree programs at several academic levels. The school had six on-campus crimes reported.
Located in New Albany, Indiana, the Indiana University Southeast is a part of the Indiana University system and is located in the Louisville, KY metropolitan area. There are over 55 degree programs at this school of 6,800 enrolled students. Six on-campus crimes were reported at this school.
One of two satellite campuses of the University of Michigan, UM-Dearborn has over 9,000 students and offers over 100 degree programs. In 2014, UM-D was ranked the 36th best university in the Midwest by U.S. News. There were seven on-campus crimes reported here during the reporting period.
Located in Ocala, FL, this public state college is a member of the Florida College System and offers bachelor's degrees in several areas. With over 18,000 students enrolled, there were seven on-campus crimes reported here.
The tenth and newest of the University of California campuses, UC Merced, is located in Central California. The campus owns over 7,000 acres of land and has a current enrollment of over 6,000 students pursuing a choice of 21 majors. There were seven on-campus crimes reported here.
Located on Long Island in East Farmingdale, NY, Farmingdale State College is part of the SUNY system and is a public college of the State University of New York. With over 8,000 enrolled students, the schools offers 29 baccalaureate degrees, and there were just eight on-campus reported at this school.
Located in downtown Brooklyn's City Triangle, City Tech has over 17,000 students enrolled in its 66 baccalaureate programs. This public college had nine on-campus incidents reported.
The New School is a private, non-profit progressive university located in Greenwich Village, New York City. With over 9,000 students enrolled, the school has a rich history in its open and intellectual teaching environment. The New School had just nine on-campus crimes reported.
Duquesne University is private Catholic university located in Pittsburgh, PA. Founded in 1878, the school now has over 10,000 students in its graduate and undergraduate programs. There were just nine on-campus incidents reported here.
Originally founded in 1908 as the Bible Institute of Los Angeles, Biola University is a private, evangelical Christian, liberal arts school in southern California. With just over 6,000 enrolled students, this university in La Mirada, CA had nine on-campus crimes reported.
The Baruch College of the City University of New York system is located in the Gramercy Park section of Manhattan in New York City. With over 17,000 enrolled students, the school offers undergraduate, masters, and Ph.D. programs. There were ten on-campus crimes reported here during the reporting period.
Located in Savannah, GA this private, non-profit university was founded in 1978 and has over 11,000 students enrolled in its eight schools. The school is ranked Number 1 for Interior Design by DesignIntelligence, and there were ten on-campus crimes reported at SCAD.
A public university, NJCU is located in Jersey City, NJ and serves over 9,000 enrolled students in its three colleges, offering more than 65 degree programs. Considered a liberal arts school, NJCU had eleven crimes reported on-campus.
A private Roman Catholic and Lasallian university located in Romeoville, Ill., Lewis University brings more than 80 undergraduate and 22 graduate programs to its 6,800 enrolled students. There were eleven on-campus crimes reported here.
A private research university, WPI is located in Worcester, Mass and is an applied sciences and technical arts school. Founded in 1865, WPI was one of the United States' first engineering and technology universities. Just eleven on-campus crimes were reported here.
Founded in 1807, UMB is the original campus of the University System of Maryland has some of the oldest professional schools of dentistry, law, pharmacy, social work and nursing in the nation. With over 6,000 enrolled students, there were eleven on-campus crimes reported here.
Located in Kirksville, Missouri Truman State University is a public liberal arts and sciences university with an enrollment of over 6,000 students. The school offers 48 undergraduate and 9 graduate programs, and there eleven crimes reported on-campus.
Located in Golden, CO, CSM a public teaching and research university devoted to engineering and applied sciences. With an enrollment of 5,600 students, CSM was ranked 75th in U.S. News and World Report's "Best National Universities" ranking. There were eleven on-campus crimes reported here.
Headquartered in Marion, Indiana, IWU is a private, evangelical Christian liberal arts university that is affiliated with the Wesleyan Church denomination. The largest private university in Indiana, there are over 15,000 students enrolled here and twelve on-campus crimes were reported at IWU.
Also referred to as MTU or Michigan Tech, this is a public research university located in Houghton, Michigan. Rated among the "Best in the Midwest" by The Princeton Review, there are over 7,000 students enrolled here, and just twelve on-campus crimes were reported.
Since 2010, this liberal arts and sciences school in Worcester, Mass has been a part of the state university system. Now with an enrollment of over 6,000 students in its graduate and undergraduate programs, the school continues to grow and reported just twelve crimes on-campus.
Located in Chicago, Ill., this state university was founded in 1867 and has an enrollment of over 7,000 students. Its five colleges offer over 60 degree programs, and there were twelve crimes on-campus reported here.
Located in western St. Louis County in Creve Coeur, Missouri, Missouri Baptist University is a private evangelical university with an enrollment of just over 5,000 students. Undergraduate and graduate degrees are offered in eight areas, and there were twelve on-campus crimes reported during the reporting period.
This public university in Steven Point, Wisconsin is part of the University of Wisconsin system and has an enrollment of over 9,000 students. The school offers baccalaureate and master's degrees in several areas and reported thirteen on-campus crimes.
IU Northwest is located in Gary, Indiana and is a regional university campus in the Indiana University system. Established in 1963, the school has over 6,300 enrolled students and reported thirteen crimes on-campus.
With over 14,000, CSI is a four-year senior college in the City University of New York System, located on Staten Island, NY. The school offers bachelor's and master's degrees in liberal arts and sciences, and there were just fourteen on-campus crimes reported here.
The oldest member of the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities System, WSU is a public university located in Winona, Minnesota. With an enrollment of over 9,000 students, the school offers over 80 programs of study. There were fourteen on-campus crimes reported at WSU.
A private co-ed Catholic university located in San Antonio, TX, UIW was founded in 1881 and sits on a 154-acre campus. There are over 9,900 students enrolled in this school that offers baccalaureate, masters, and doctoral degrees. There were fourteen crimes reported on-campus at UIW.
A private, non-sectarian university located in downtown Boston, Mass. Suffolk University has an enrollment of over 10,000 students, and some of its MBA programs are ranked among the top in the country. Suffolk University had fourteen on-campus crimes during the reporting period.
A public university located in St. George, Utah, DSU has over 8.500 enrolled students and offers more than 150 academic programs. There were just fourteen on-campus crimes reported at DSU.
Located in Highland Heights, KY, just seven miles southeast of Cincinnati, NKU is a public, co-ed university that is primarily a liberal arts school. With an enrollment of over 15,000 students, there were just fifteen on-campus crimes reported at NKU.
A public university in the New Jersey state system, Stockton University is located in Galloway Township, New Jersey and has an enrollment of over 8,500 students. Stockton University had fifteen on-campus crime incidents during the reporting period.
Located in Garden City, New York, Adelphi University is a private, nonsectarian university that is the oldest higher education institute on Long Island. With over 7,800 enrolled students, the school was ranked #153 among National Universities by U.S. News and World Report. There were fifteen crimes reported on-campus at Adelphi University.
Also known as UAFS, this is a public university located in Fort Smith, Arkansas that is part of the University of Arkansas System. UAFS is the fifth largest university in the state, with over 7,500 enrolled students and had fifteen on-campus crimes reported.
Located in Biddeford, Maine, UNE is an independent, non-profit university that was founded in 1831 and has over 8,000 enrolled students. UNE has the only medical school in the state of Maine and there were just fifteen crimes reported on campus here.


The Maker of all human beings is recalling all units manufactured, regardless of make or year, due to the serious defect in the primary and central component of the heart. This is due to a malfunction in the original prototype units, code named Adam and Eve, resulting in the reproduction of the same defect in all subsequent units. This defect has been technically termed, "Subsequential Internal Non-Morality," or more commonly known as S-I-N, as it is primarily symptomized by loss of moral judgment.
P-R-A-Y-E-R. Once connected, please upload your burden of SIN by pressing: R-E-P-E-N-T-A-N-C-E.
Please see operating manual, HOLY BIBLE, for further details on the use of these fixes.
WARNING: Continuing to operate the human unit without correction, voids the Manufacturer's warranty, exposing owner to dangers and problems too numerous to list and will result in the human unit being permanently impounded.
For free emergency service, call on J-E-S-U-S.
DANGER: The human units not receiving this recall action will have to be scrapped in the furnace. The SIN defect must not enter heaven or else heaven will be infected.


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7824 Lynch eller 1991 RM2 är en asteroid i huvudbältet som upptäcktes 7 september 1991 av den amerikanske astronomen Eleanor F. Helin vid Palomar-observatoriet. Den är uppkallad efter William Lynch III.

Asteroiden har en diameter på ungefär 5 kilometer.

Referenser

Huvudbältesasteroider
Småplaneter namngivna efter personer
Astronomiska upptäckter av EF Helin
Astronomiska upptäckter 1991

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On April 29, it was 110 years since a powerful gush of oil was produced from well No. 3 at the Dossor field, from a depth of 225-226 meters of Middle Jurassic sediments.
This event was preceded by almost two hundred years of research on the territory of present-day Kazakhstan, which began intensively after the annexation of the Kazakh lands to the Russian Empire in 1731. During this period, government decrees included researchers among the participants of military expeditions to Central Asia, who were assigned the task of studying the territories along the route of the campaigns, with the preparation of detailed reports on minerals. The researchers described that the main occupation of the Kazakhs of that time was nomadic or pasture cattle breeding.
Technologist D. Kirpichnikov in 1874 in the "Description of salt lakes located near the mouth of the Emba River and oil fields to the north-eastern shore of the Caspian Sea" described the area of Karashungul as follows «…This place is called aulie by the Kyrgyz, a holy place, as a result of which a large number of graveyards are located near the lake. The local population uses the oil flowing from the southern shore as medicine for livestock. It is smeared on cattle when skin diseases appear. For oil production, the Kyrgyz have dug several pits, in which oil accumulates. Over one day, about one bucket of oil accumulates in these pits, which floats in an oily layer above the water that protrudes into the same pits."
The result of numerous expeditions was the appearance of enterprising people in the area in 1892, who made the first applications for oil exploration on Dossor and then, in 1894, on Karashungul. On November 13, 1899, in the area of Karashungul, the first gush of oil on the Kazakh land was obtained. But the oil-bearing Ural-Emba district attracted global attention after the discovery of Dossor. The historic well No. 3 gushed for 30 hours and yielded 16,700 poods of oil. Its quality in chemical composition was superior to that produced in Baku.
The application rush began. Petitions for the issuance of application certificates for exploration within the Guryevsky, Temirsky, and Lbishchensky districts of the Ural region started to arrive in abundance in the Samara-Ural Department of Agriculture. If in 1911 only 121 certificates were sold, in 1912 already 1,788 and 2,564 in 1913. As a result of the vigorous application activity, application confusion began in the area, which necessitated the creation of a whole staff of government surveyors with a mining engineer at the head.
From this moment, a new period of exploration work in the trans-Ural steppes begins. Drilling operations after 1911 began to be carried out at a more intensive pace, with the greatest attention being paid to Dossor, which in 1913 had already yielded 117.6 thous. tons of oil.
On April 10, 1912, a state act created the Emba oil-producing and trading joint-stock company. On May 12 of the same year, the first general meeting of shareholders is held in St. Petersburg, where the company's management is created. From this day, the oil and trade joint-stock company officially begins to work. During this period, the London Stock Exchange issues shares designated to stimulate oil production in Kazakhstan's production fields.
A few years after discovering the Dossor oil field (1911), in 1915, the Makat field, discovered by Nobel company, produces the first oil. The latter event led to the fact that at the turn of 1914-1915, oil production at these two fields for the first time exceeds 200,000 tons.
Dossor after the Civil War
The revolution and the ensuing civil war slowed the development of the Emba oil fields. Realizing the importance of oil for the new state's economy, the army fought fierce battles to capture the estuaries of the Urals and the Emba. It was necessary to restore production in the oil fields, which were destroyed and partially burned, in the most challenging conditions of shortage of food, freshwater, and qualified specialists. The epidemic was rampant in the fields, which resulted in a substantial turnover among the working staff.
Reuven Friedman, the first Head of Emba, the Chairman of the Oil Fields Department of the Ural-Emba district, had to solve a whole complex of difficult tasks during these years – to restore the fields, build infrastructure, provide production with transport and fodder for horses, and solve the problems of everyday life of oil workers. From the report letter of the first Head of Emba, the Supervisor of the Ural-Emba district oilfields, Friedman, to the management in August 1920 (stylistics and spelling are preserved):
"...The Dossor field is located 120 versts from Guryev. To Dossor, cargo is delivered along a dirt track on trucks, horses, and camels, water is prepared partly by the accumulation of snow in glaciers, partly by desalination of seawater received from the sea through an oil pipeline, and partly by delivery from wells located 30 versts from the field....
...By my arrival, the Department did not have a single truck, not a single car, for lack of fodder, the cattle were sent off far into the steppe, and it is already impossible to keep them in the city because of horseflies and mosquitoes. Almost all the automobile property of the former oil companies was looted, there was only one military cargo squadron in the town, which from mid-May, on my order, began to serve the fields… At present, the maximum monthly carrying capacity of the cargo squadron is 1,000 poods, and the maintenance of the squadron costs the Department almost 200,000 rubles per month. As a result, the commercial food supplies have already been consumed, and from time to time, the workers have to starve for the inability to bring enough bread.
...During the whole summer, nothing is given to the workers except bread, and before my arrival, they were given 18 pounds a month...With my arrival, I ordered them to set up a Red Army ration, however, due to the lack of bread in the city, only 25 pounds had to be given out…Poor nutrition, lack of greens, sugar, and fat affects the health of workers very hard, scurvy is rampant, anemia, general malaise, on this basis, a lot of sick days, constantly the control commission of doctors releases someone from work or transfers to other climatic conditions…
...In the absence of some specialties, it is impossible to repair apartments in the fields, there is no glass for windows, no stoves, no cast-iron boxes for oil heating, no bricks, no water barrels, and no material for the production of these barrels. There are no drilling parties, there are no metal turners – in short, there is nothing to do the job...»
There was not a single issue that did not require the attention of the first Head R. Friedman.
"...I ask for your request, comrade Friedman, to transfer the Dossor Soviet Hospital under control of the Oil Department, and I attach a list of estimates. With the start of regular work in the fields and the influx of new workers, it is desirable to increase the staff of doctors, add a dentist and one epidemic paramedic," the Head of the Dossor Soviet Hospital, doctor Zabrodin, wrote in a letter in August 1920.
In conditions where there was a shortage of workers in the fields, young teenagers were involved in the work, who were not allowed to work more than 4 hours, and the hours worked were counted as full-time.
Oil Emba increases production
Despite the difficulties of these years, on 18.07.1919, the STC Presidium for the Oil Industry approved the Makat-Dossor oil pipeline project.
In 1920, for the industrial development of oil fields, the Ural-Emba district Oil Fields Department was created. In the same year, an operational drilling program is planned, within the framework of which it is planned to drill four meridian wells at the Dossor field.
Oil production at Dossor in 1920 from January to September increases six times – from 59,987 to 327,628 poods. If in the first months of 1920 the entire oil production volume was provided by oil free flow, by September, most of it is produced using compressors and borehole pumps.
In 1922, the Embaneft Trust was established to develop the Dossor and Makat fields. The production program for the fields of the Embaneft Trust for 1927-1928 provided for the gross production of the Dossor field of 199,599 tons, Makata – 77,870 tons, for the entire area, including gas production. As part of the deep-hole exploration drilling, it was planned to drill 40 wells, of which 21 were in new areas and 19 were in production areas.
From the theses to the report on the Embaneft Trust at the industrial meeting on the deployment of large-scale industry in Kazakhstan: "Emba oil differs from oils in its special oily qualities. Professor Gurvich once noted these special properties of oils in their oil fractions: low specific gravity and high flash at the same viscosity. Properties that bring Emba products closer to Pennsylvania products....The development of exploration activities in the Ural-Emba region should be given the highest priority, and the Embaneft Trust should be given the opportunity to purchase all the necessary technical equipment abroad to achieve the highest productivity at the lowest cost."
In the second half of the 20s, rotary drilling was used at Emba, which contributed to the development of drilling operations and the growth of the depth of wells, the rate uncovering, and exploration of oil deposits.
The deepest well in Europe
Emba oil workers were the first in the USSR and Europe to master ultra-deep drilling at Dossor and Makat at that time – up to 2500-2800 m. The deepest well No. 304 at 2,800 meters was drilled in Dossor in 1932.
"The 304th drilling rig surpasses all the drilled wells in Europe in terms of its achieved depths, in addition, the drilling rig has solely technical importance for the Emba fields," follows from a letter from the Central Technical Department to the drilling office in Emba on December 9, 1932.
In the Bolshaya Emba corporate newspaper No. 120 dated December 5, 1932, an order was published for the Embaneft Trust, in which, in addition to problematic issues on the well, a list of measures to increase motivation for drillers of the 304th drilling rig was published, providing for a revision of the remuneration system in the direction of doubling the calculated coefficient for the entire batch, increasing food rations, issuing textiles, issuing sheepskin coats, boots, felt boots, gloves, underwear, and hats. Also, the Head of the Dossor field was obliged to allocate apartments, etc., for more needy workers of the drilling rig.
Only such measures at that time could stop the turnover of qualified personnel from drilling rigs, especially in the summer months, when infections were rampant in the fields. Despite these difficulties, in 1932, Emba drillers, in addition to the 304th, drilled well No. 307 to 962 meters in 92 days, discovered the powerful Koschagyl field, received an influx of light oil in the southern Iskin, uncovered the oil sands at Bis-Bulyuk, built drilling rigs without nails (on bolts), and without sufficient lumber, achieved a reduction in emergency drilling operations in relation to the total drilling time, and achieved many other impressive results.
"Road of Life" for oil workers
One of the biggest problems of Embaneft in 20-30s was the water supply of oil fields. The nearest distance from Dossor to the Ural River was 85 versts (1 verst is 1.0668 km), and the closest water wells were at a distance of 40 versts from Dossor. These wells of small depth did not serve for long because with the prolonged operation they gave salt water and could not be regarded as sources of water supply. Alternative natural water sources were atmospheric precipitation collected in constructed reservoirs from barrier dams and in winter in equipped ice cellars. The quality of the water was doubtful, of course, but still better than in the wells.
The summer of 1924 turned out to be hot and dry, all artificial reservoirs dried up, and the population of the fields – oil workers and their family members – had to drink salt well water, also issued limited, one bucket per day for each family member. Throughout the summer of 1924, until the frosts of 1925, water was delivered to the fields by four tank trucks of 150 buckets, two trips a day, and a camel train of 75 barrels of 30 buckets, one trip in two days. Moreover, the water supply was disrupted at the slightest damage to the road, as a result of which the fields were in a critical situation, under the threat of stopping oil production.
The Head of Embaneft at the time, Vladimir Korobovkin, who pushed the issue of building a narrow-gauge railway between Dossor and Guryev, convinced Moscow that a positive solution to this issue would radically solve the problem of water supply. In his report to the management, he argued that the unresolved issues such as transport and water supply worsen the living conditions in the fields, increase production cost, and disrupt the proper operation of the fields.
"The Trust has decided to proceed with constructing the railway immediately, as soon as this issue is resolved in a positive sense by the SCNE and State Planning Committee. ...every field worker can go to Guryev cheaply and buy everything he needs. The railway will attract more skilled labor, which is now quite difficult to get due to difficult living conditions," Korobovkin notes.
Work on the construction of the railway began in 1924. On December 19, 1926, temporary traffic on the Guryev-Dossor route was launch. The construction of the Guryev-Dossor railway, which ran through the arid desert, was an epoch in the development of the oil-bearing region and was necessary for further progress deep into the desert to expand exploration and operational work on new areas.
Formation of domestic personnel
If at the first fields the Kazakhs acted as unskilled laborers, watchmen, and deliverers of goods, already in the 20-30s, as part of implementing the program of the indigenization of the workforce started, the picture began to change.
In 1928-1929, out of 371 employees of the Ural-Emba Department, the number of Kazakhs was 112 people, or 30.1%, of 2277 workers, 1041 were Kazakhs or 45.8%.
From the report of the manager of oil fields R. Novosiltsev, deputy S. Sharipov, and the manager of affairs M. Melikov (stylistics and spelling are preserved):
"...mining is the main business for the fields, work here for decades without interruptions, and therefore a Kazakh who has entered, say, drilling or oil production has the opportunity to work here for so long that in the process of work such a Kazakh qualifies. In addition, it is easier for a Kazakh steppe-dweller to enroll on a job for the first time in drilling or oil production. Of the large number of workers who have been in these branches of work, a large number of them remain in this business and willingly go to work. In addition, since drilling and operation of wells equally requires training from both Kazakhs and non-Kazakhs, if they are first assigned to work, it is, of course, preferable to attract Kazakhs from the local population to such work."
Already by the 1940s, the ratio of workers in the fields is changing in favor of representatives of the indigenous nationality. Their professionalism is also growing. According to the summary table of the number of Stakhanovites for the Kazakhstanneftekombinat (formed in 1940 from the Embaneft and Aktyubneft trusts – author's note), for 182 Stakhanovites of the Dossor Department, there were 152 (83.5 %) employees of Kazakh nationality, in Makat – 242 Kazakhs-Stakhanovites (91 % of the total number of Stakhanovites), Iskine – 108 or 97 %, Koschagyl – 127 or 88 %, Baychunas – 213 or 97 %, etc.
Laura Suleimenova, Head of the Public Relations Service of Embamunaigas JSC

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Shenyang J-31 er et tomotors kinesisk femtegenerations kampfly med stealth-teknologi.

Eksterne henvisninger

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Kampfly
Stealthfly
Militærfly fra Kina
2-motors jetfly


Abstract : There are very few reports of flare signatures in the solar irradiance at H i Lyman α at 121.5 nm, i.e. the strongest line of the solar spectrum. The LYRA radiometer onboard PROBA2 has observed several flares for which unambiguous signatures have been found in its Lyman-α channel. Here we present a brief overview of these observations followed by a detailed study of one of them, the M2 flare that occurred on 8 February 2010. For this flare, the flux in the LYRA Lyman-α channel increased by 0.6%, which represents about twice the energy radiated in the GOES soft X-ray channel and is comparable with the energy radiated in the He ii line at 30.4 nm. The Lyman-α emission represents only a minor part of the total radiated energy of this flare, for which a white-light continuum was detected. Additionally, we found that the Lyman-α flare profile follows the gradual phase but peaks before other wavelengths. This M2 flare was very localized and has a very brief impulsive phase, but more statistics are needed to determine if these factors influence the presence of a Lyman-α flare signal strong enough to appear in the solar irradiance.


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Union agreed working conditions for Italian workers in 'British jobs' row
The union at the centre of the 'British jobs for British workers' dispute agreed the conditions of the foreign workers whose presence sparked the walkouts.
By Patrick Sawer, in London, and Nick Squires, in Rome 08 February 2009 • 8:30am
During the dispute at Total's Lindsey oil refinery, shop stewards and regional officials from Unite repeatedly accused the oil firm of discriminating against British workers by undercutting their pay and conditions through the use of Italian and Portuguese workers.
But just weeks earlier, leaders from the same union drew up an agreement with the Italian firm IREM governing the conditions for the foreign workers. Negotiators from Unite even secured a traditional British tea break for them.
Only later, when British workers at the plant downed tools, did Unite endorse the British workers' grievances. Although the strikes were unofficial, Unite officials lent strong support to the strikers, both on the picket lines and in the media.
Critics last night accused the union of sending "mixed messages" to their members and of making unsubstantiated claims about the working conditions of foreigners employed at the Lindsey refinery.
The revelations came as it emerged that a further 160 Italian workers are set to start work at the Lindsey plant shortly.
That could undermine the deal – reached last Thursday – to end the dispute which will see 100 British workers employed on the £200 million contract to build a new desulphurisation plant.
According to the terms of that agreement, 102 jobs out of a total of 195 on the contract, including 67 skilled welders, electricians and platers, are to be given to British workers.
But, when the new wave of Italians arrive in two to three weeks to join their 80 colleagues already at the plant, foreign workers will still form the majority of the workforce.
Until now, Unite has not publicly acknowledged its role in helping IREM to set out working conditions for the foreign workers at the Lindsey refinery.
After the unofficial strike at the plant began on January 28, union leaders repeatedly accused Total and its subcontractors such as IREM of discriminating against British workers.
Last Tuesday – as the strikes continued to spread to power plants and refineries around the country – Unite's joint general secretary Derek Simpson said: "The unofficial action taking place across the UK is not about race or immigration.
"It's about employers who exploit workers regardless of their nationality by undercutting their hard-won pay and conditions."
In other comments, he said: "We're questioning why they can bring additional workers from overseas with additional costs of transport and accommodation. It's hard to believe that is possible unless they're paying lower rates."
But Shona McIsaac, the Labour MP for Cleethorpes, confirmed the unions had been "happily" negotiating with IREM before the dispute broke out and expressed her surprise at their sudden change of position.
She said: "I had a meeting shortly after Christmas at Lindsey. We knew about IREM having the contract and at that time the unions were happily negotiating with them over terms and conditions, including the Italian workers having a tea break.
"The unions also knew that IREM was planning to recruit British workers as part of the contract to work alongside the Italians – they knew there was no plan to exclude British workers.
"At that point the unions were negotiating and it was hoped that any remaining concerns about the Italians could be resolved at a future meeting.
"But when the unions took the deal to their members it was rejected and the unofficial walkout began.
"After that some union leaders started making claims about British workers' conditions being undercut by these contracts. I'm afraid there were a lot of mixed messages being given to the people taking part in the protest."
IREM's managing director, Mario Saraceno, said: "Before starting the project, we had three meetings with the British unions and we agreed to all their requests.
"It is not at all true that our workers will be paid less than the English. We even accepted the tea-break, which has no equal in the rest of the world but which in England is a custom."
Mr Saraceno said the unions had also agreed to the firm using its own Italian workforce because of the tight deadlines demanded by the contract, which had to be finished within four months – with the proviso that a number of British workers would also be taken on.
He said: "It was absolutely necessary to send to England our specialised workers, a close-knit team that could communicate with each other without language problems, which was particularly important from a safety point of view.
"There was no time for training and so, with the agreement of the British unions, we contracted out the work (to Italians). But we also took on 30 British workers, among them technicians and labourers."
Mr Saraceno – who currently employs 150 British workers on a contract in Ravenna, north east Italy – added: "We are pleased with the solution that has been reached. We knew that this was never a case of racism, of British vs Italians and Italians vs British. It was about the global crisis and fears of unemployment among the British."
Unite confirmed it had been in discussions with IREM over "working practices" for the Italian workers to make sure they complied with national agreements on terms and conditions.
A spokesman for the two million strong union said: "We were going through the agreed procedures. There were one or two meetings where we did raise the issue of working practices needing to comply with national agreements. The issue of tea breaks was one of the things they agreed to comply with.
"The workers at Lindsey were angry and they decided not to see through the procedures and took unofficial action.
"But even before this happened we were planning demonstrations outside the refinery and other sites to protest at the exclusion of UK labour from contracts."


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Premier Sandy Silver, left, and Chief Medical Officer of Health Dr. Brendan Hanley, speak during a live stream in Whitehorse on January 20, about the new swish and gargle COVID-19 tests. (Crystal Schick/Yukon News)
Swish and spit COVID-19 test now available in Yukon
Vaccination efforts continue in Whitehorse and smaller communities in the territory
Haley Ritchie
In news that will likely be a relief to many parents, the swish and spit COVID-19 test is now available for children age 18 and younger in the territory.
"The nasopharyngeal swabbing is not a pleasant experience, especially for children. We all know that," said Yukon Chief Medical Officer of Health Dr. Brendan Hanley, during the weekly COVID-19 update on Jan. 20.
Instead of a nose swab, which is the standard test for COVID-19, children can now be tested during an alternative method that relies on a saliva sample. The "mouth rinse and gargle test" involves swishing and gargling with a saline solution.
Eating, drinking, chewing gum, brushing teeth and vaping or smoking can not be done up to an hour before the test. The samples are still sent to a lab in British Columbia for validation.
The new method — which the government said they were working on in September — comes at a time when testing across the territory has begun to slow down as active cases return to zero.
Hanley mentioned that there is a "remarkably low" viral activity in the territory — not just of COVID-19, but also influenza. That means there are less sickness and symptoms in general and testing numbers are now down.
As a result the drive-thru testing centre in Whitehorse will be closing on Jan. 22. The COVID-19 Testing and Assessment Centre will remain open daily from 8:30 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Hanley said the low levels of cold and influenza virus in the territory means that all respiratory symptoms — including a cough, fever or trouble breathing — should be taken seriously as potential signs of COVID-19 that require testing.
"It always feels great to arrive once more at zero but every time that we get there we have to remember, enjoy the moment, but it's not time to relax," Hanley said.
There was also one more CEMA charge for a person who failed to self-isolate.
"Self isolating is not a suggestion. It's not something that you can choose to ignore if it's inconvenient," said Premier Sandy Silver. "What we need to do now is again, continue to do our part to keep fellow Yukoners safe."
Vaccine rollout to communities
As of Jan. 21, 2,590 Yukoners had received their first dose of the Moderna vaccine, including 91 per cent of residents in long-term care homes.
This week the mobile vaccine teams Balto and Togo headed to Beaver Creek, Watson Lake and Old Crow.
"'Protect our elders' was the theme that I saw posted on Facebook and that is so much of our focus in these first few weeks of vaccination," Hanley said. He said the oldest person to receive the vaccine in Watson Lake was a 96-year-old Kaska Elder Minnie Caesar.
Hanley said Caesar and her family were unsure at first, due to information posted on social media, but spoke to healthcare workers and she decided to get the vaccine.
Liard First Nation Chief Stephen Charlie, Deputy Chief Harlan A.C. Shilling, Councillor Amanda Brown and Mayor Chris Irvin also received their vaccines.
"I am getting the vaccination because I want to do my part to ensure the health and safety of our members, our elders, and our community," Charlie wrote in a Facebook post encouraging Liard First Nation members to sign up.
Hanley said although they are rare, all healthcare personnel giving the vaccines are trained to deal with allergic reactions. So far, there have been two cases of allergic reactions that were treated and had no long-term effect.
Hanley said the two adverse reactions have been reported to a national database.
Despite the interruption to Canada's Pfizer vaccine supply, both Hanley and Silver said they are not concerned about the delivery of Moderna vaccines to the territory. Silver said they are in continued talks with the federal government to confirm more shipment dates.
Officials urge use of online booking system
Residents of Carcross, Tagish, Teslin and Dawson City are being encouraged to book appointments online for clinics next week.
Yukoners living in Whitehorse, Ibex Valley, Marsh Lake and Mount Lorne areas can also book a vaccine appointment if they are 70 years and older or live in group settings. Whitehorse and area residents age 60 and older will be eligible starting February 1.
The government is planning for everyone 18 and over to begin booking their appointments starting February 10. Appointments can be booked at yukon.ca/this-is-our-shot or by calling 1-877-374-0425.
"You do not want to miss this opportunity," said Silver.
Hanley said the online or telephone booking in advance is essential in order to prepare the right number of doses. While there are some opportunities for people who do not book to get the vaccine, the online system allows for efficient use of the precious medicine.
"Once it's started to thaw it's absolutely go-time," he explained. "The vials cannot be frozen again for future use. Each vial contains enough vaccine for 10 doses and once the vials are open, they're only good for six hours. So we need to ensure that we have 10 individuals ready to be immunized for each vial that we do open."
Contact Haley Ritchie at haley.ritchie@yukon-news.com
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Books/Livres / Le Club / Democracy and Truth / Focus
Is Populism Specific to Democracy?
Lisa Wedeen
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This is the third review in our book forum on Sophia Rosenfeld's Democracy and Truth: A Short History.
In Democracy and Truth: A Short History, Sophia Rosenfeld tackles the vexed relation between democracy and truth in the contemporary United States. Drawing on insights from Hannah Arendt, Michel Foucault, and philosophers of science, Rosenfeld's analysis is not primarily a disquisition on a priori philosophical truths but an analysis of the fragility of factual truth. Insisting on the importance of asking how we come to know what we know, Rosenfeld is attuned to the changing sociological parameters of truth claims and to the precarious epistemic edifice on which notions of truth have been constructed historically. Specifically, according to Rosenfeld, we in the West live in the shadow of the Enlightenment's legacy, with the Trump presidency a grotesque dramatization of longstanding historical tensions between democratic ideals of popular sovereignty and the rule of expert knowledge. That these tensions have reached crisis proportions is part of Rosenfeld's motivation for writing the book—helping us to understand the current turmoil, with its vocabulary of "fake news" and "post truth," as the product of a conflict between resurgent populisms and long-term elite efforts to bolster technical-managerial systems of expertise.
Rosenfeld's is a remarkably lucid and accessible book—a masterful and readable account keyed to understanding some of the intellectual origins of what has come to seem, in the age of the Internet, an exacerbation of lying in politics. Despite promising to be a boon for democracy—providing greater access to information, the multiplication of voices to include hitherto unheard ones, and the elimination of traditional gatekeepers—these technological transformations have produced mixed results at best. The proliferation of websites disseminating fake news; the ease with which digital photos can be doctored; the accelerated cycles in which such "news" gets circulated, absorbed, and then superseded by the next catastrophe; the tensions among rival discourses registering moral outrage from different angles—all play a role in generating both conditions of generalized uncertainty and increasingly siloed publics. Neither an atmospherics of doubt nor the presence of echo chambers are salutary for political judgment. But Rosenfeld reminds us that the roots of the problem precede the Internet.
Refreshing in her own honesty, Rosenfeld rightly notes that "the earliest of the modern experiments in instituting popular self-rule were constructed largely by enlightened types in ways designed precisely to prevent ordinary men, not to mention women of all classes, the poor, the nonwhite, the enslaved, the foreign, and the truly indigenous, from having too much power to impose their vision of the external world." Hers is not a call to restore a version of democracy that, in fact, never actually existed. Rather, it is to identify the eighteenth-century logic that produced this contradiction at the heart of liberal democracy, namely, that the people were capable of self-government only insofar as that governance was managed by a wise, learned political elite. The people's passions had to be channeled into proper institutions run by the "best" among them.
Critics of American liberalism have long pointed out that founding fathers and architects of federalism have worked to manage popular sovereignty often at the expense of an expansive, inclusive, equitable notion of the demos. James Madison's famously articulated anxiety in Federalist Paper no. 10, that individuals are likely to form factions in order to pursue particularist interests, is one canonical argument for a system whose emphasis on checks and balances was designed to regulate ordinary affect in ways that reassured discomfited elites. Vehicles for representing factions, such as political parties, have not been able to advance all peoples' interests or express all grievances adequately—in part because, as Rosenfeld highlights, liberal, and in the case of France and the United States specifically, republican ideas about the rule of the people combined with a "truth-regime" in which a professional managerial elite became entrusted with designing the institutions that defined the meaning of representation, the people's will, "the people," responsibility, etc.
Rosenfeld recognizes that "the people" or any of its cognates is a "complicated, ambiguous construct in the modern world. It is also always up for grabs," and her efforts to think through its contemporary invocations leads her to a clear, helpful analysis of populism as a style or logic, one that usually "begins with a (self-congratulatory) exaltation of the real people, the unjustifiably powerless." Less commented upon is Rosenfeld's astute argument that populist arguments share affinities with Progressives, despite the latter's arguments in support of expertise. Both movements "flourished at much the same moment in the late nineteenth century," and both relied on a set of assumptions about "how and where truths to live by, or validated beliefs, are to be found in a real democracy." Only, in the case of populism, adherents rejected "ostensibly objective expertise and all the institutions, values, norms, procedures, and people that expertise goes with," valorizing instead the mundane feelings, experiences, and intuitions of ordinary people. In Rosenfeld's lively prose:
[T]he critical and essential claim at the heart of any populist politics is that the (plain, hardworking, silent—your choice!) people in the majority know best and are the most virtuous. They collectively have a kind of instinctual, practical knowledge of the world that is particularly suited to the political sphere (as opposed to, say, the more arcane world of the science lab), and they are sincere and authentic in ways that make them incapable of engaging in deception when it comes to delivering this knowledge to others.
Combining a sense of revelation—an exposure of the conspiracy, for example—with the promise of restoration (such as "Make America Great Again"), populist narratives depend on an affect-laden narrative style that embraces "truths of the heart over dry factual veracity and scientific evidence."
Rosenfeld agilely returns her reader to the Enlightenment to identify the origins of populist politics; she chronicles post-revolutionary instantiations in both left- and right-wing populist epistemologies that questioned conventional habits of deference in the nineteenth century; and she identifies the democratic dimensions of this skepticism toward the wisdom of authorized intellectuals. Across various movements, there is a common opposition to the "standard bearers for truth claims and their institutions, procedures, and values." They can be angry and defensive (such as the outsider populism of George Wallace or Richard Nixon, or Donald Trump for that matter) or conservative and toxically cheerful (like Ronald Reagan). In the United States, populism tends to be avowedly racist—a fact that could be discussed in greater detail. In Europe, Rosenfeld emphasizes Jacques Chirac's assault on the "technostructure" and on "experts," but also the racism of Jean-Marie Le Pen. Elites, she recognizes, often use populist language cynically—discrediting expert knowledge and lying in the name of "the people" in order to capture public resources for private, elitist (often racially inflected) gains.
The book could nevertheless do more to think through how racism and different forms of capital have animated populist movements—not all of which speak to majority concerns or can be neatly folded into the main conflict between "experts at the helm" and democracy. To be clear: she does not ignore these phenomena. She notes directly "capitalism's failure to naturally promote democracy" and the lack of commitment to "stemming the tide of growing inequality within and among nations." But whether this logic in capital is best seen through the "forces in democracies that pit expert truth against the prepolitical sense of 'the people'" may get the relationship wrong. It risks reducing the contradictions in capitalism to this conflict within democracy, as opposed to, say, seeing the conflicts in democracy as the product of contradictions internal to capitalism.
In moving from historical movements to the sprawl of contemporary populisms, Rosenfeld is, unsurprisingly, less sure-footed. She is, after all, a historian. But her thinking through of the present without being presentist is worthy of praise and emulation. My lingering concerns should thus be read as reflecting my engagement with her arguments. I shall mention two. First, the reasons she gives for populism's resurgence and contemporary traction could use elaboration. She is surely right to note that these are global trends, but what exactly has generated populism's current appeal? She attempts to answer this question by arguing that "politics, not to mention knowledge about it, has gotten ever more complex in recent decades, from the issues at stake, to the procedures it follows, to the language it employs to explain itself" But is this true? Has politics really become more complex than it used to be? Is it even more "multinational"? She gives examples of refugees, nuclear weapons, terrorism, and trade. But given her attunement to arguments about knowledge formation, it is odd to assert this complexity as self-evident. And surely colonial rule, massive displacements of populations in the past, and previous scientific revolutions have also been extraordinarily complex and global.
The relationship among this complexity, individuals' experiences of it, and the rise or rejuvenations of populism needs more work. What are the mechanisms by which an oversaturation of information—as a result of new social media innovations, for example—generate this populism? How have reading practices changed and how might this matter? How has what I call "the temporality of high-speed eventfulness," or the sheer velocity with which information is transmitted and apprehended in the Internet age, shaped these new strains of populism? The unceasing whirl of (over)information certainly makes it easy for people to move on to something new the instant a favored narrative fails. Does this make it easier for populisms to find outlets for intensified emotions, fabricated stories, and the cultivation of a selective forgetfulness?
And this brings me to my second concern: the global trends, including ones associated with neoliberal reforms (which Rosenfeld mentions) may have helped to generate new technical-managerial elites, new valorizations of expertise, and new populist reactions to it. But these trends, and the populisms they generate, are not specific to democracy. Indeed, the conflicts between expertise and popular sovereignty Rosenfeld underscores have been as central to undemocratic nationalisms as they have been to democracy. And here we would do well to consider how nation-states in the northern hemisphere seem to be "evolving" into the kind of societies normally associated with the "global south," as the anthropologists Jean and John Comaroff contend.
In other words, current populisms are not specific to democracies, the distinct conflicts they foreground may be more intrinsic to nationalism (or nationalism's interface with capitalism); and thinking through both the roots of the problem and its solution may require engaging not only with important political theorists such as Hannah Arendt (as Rosenfeld does and on whom I also rely), but also with a variety of artists and theorists from the "global south" whose knowledge of the seductions of authoritarian rule and the contradictions of Enlightenment thought are longstanding and imaginative.
Photo Credit: Christine Roy via Unsplash, "During our road trip on highway 66...", CC BY 4.0
Tags: Populism, Sophia Rosenfeld, Democracy and Truth, global South


Area Man's Life Remains Un-Bravoed.
Lee Husuk, a 57 year old janitor for Sookmyung Women's University, takes a drag from his cigarette and stares wistfully into the distance. "Will anyone out there ever bravo my life? After all the lives that I've bravoed, is this all I get?" he asks. Like many lonely souls in the vast, anonymous metropolis that is Seoul, Lee searches for recognition and acceptance. "I try to put on an everyday new face. But it's hard to meet friends. I ask myself, 'Are you gentle?' and I think that I am gentle. I'm gentle, damnit! But people can't see the real me." Lee feels that perhaps his profession has led to this life-long lack of bravoing. "I didn't want to grow up and be a janitor. I wanted to be a doctor or a lawyer. I wanted to be the reds. But now I be the blues. There was a time when I had a lot of friends. My phone used to get 10 or 20 digital exciting calls a day. Now, I'm lucky if I get digital exciting anycalls at all."
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Looking on the bright side, he might go and study at the Pagoda Institute. Then he can do.
He should just try to "have a good time" then someone would "bravo" him.
I think he needs to Follow his H and wake up every morning saying "HI SEOUL". Then he can be bravoed. Or perhaps find some other Reds cos these days they go together.


2"How long will you go on like this?
8"Just ask the previous generation.
9For we were born but yesterday and know nothing.
10But those who came before us will teach you.
11"Can papyrus reeds grow tall without a marsh?
13The same happens to all who forget God.
14Their confidence hangs by a thread.
15They cling to their home for security, but it won't last.


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Lander University Provides Veterans Day Breakfast
In honor of Veterans Day, The Office of Military and Veterans Services at Lander University recognized students, faculty and staff who are also veterans of the United States Armed forces on Wednesday, Nov. 11, in the Lander Dining Hall.
Lander University's holiday Ceramics Sale is Nov. 23 - 24
Forget the madness of Black Friday holiday shopping lines! Shopping for one-of-a-kind gifts is made easy this season with the annual Ceramics Sale of the Lander University Art Department.
'Awesome ride' for Lander University's Tommy Claus is ending
What! No Tommy Claus on the Lander University campus? No Tommy Claus to deliver Christmas gifts to children in Greenwood and beyond? Say it isn't so!
Self Regional Healthcare Board of Trustees welcomes new members
Two Lander University alumni have joined the Self Regional Healthcare Board of Trustees as they welcome two new members and the return of one member.
Courtesy of The Index-Journal
Lander Teacher Educators Contribute to Study of Keys to Student Success
Why do some teacher education students fail and others succeed? A trio of Lander University faculty members recently participated in a study aimed at finding out why.
I Am Lander: As nation honors veterans, military service is part of life at Lander
Jason Smith was uncertain about his goals when he graduated from high school in Pennsylvania so he joined the military and retired after serving 28 years, first in the U.S. Army and then the S.C. Army National Guard.
Lander University, Abbeville County Schools sign dual enrollment partnership agreement
Students of the Abbeville County School District will now have the opportunity to get a head start on their college education thanks to a newly formed partnership between Lander University and Abbeville County Schools.
New members named to The Lander Foundation Board of Directors
Lander University has announced four appointments to The Lander Foundation Board of Directors. Created in 1948, the foundation was restructured in 1973 as an independent, nonprofit organization responsible for receiving, managing and investing gifts to support the mission of Lander University.
Lander Foundation Board of Directors to meet November 5
The next meeting of the Lander Foundation Board of Directors is scheduled for Thursday, November 5, at 11:30 a.m.
Story by University Relations Staff
Lander political scientists participate in grant on electoral and civic participation
Lander University is one of four South Carolina universities that will present virtual programs as part of the "South Carolina Humanities Electoral Initiative" from October 2020 through April 2021.
Story By Dr. Lucas McMillan


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PUFFINS TALE
Quiet & calm tune, starring cello. Also piano weaving its magic, and a little bit of violin, viola & synthesizer. Beautiful.
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Dramatic passage played by full orchestra. Expressive & sad feel with a major chord ending.
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CONRAD SIEVER
Sad & poetic classical piece. Piano accompanies a soloing english horn. Cello, very subtle strings & french horn join in later. Calm mystical end.
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Very traditional kind of a christmas instrumental with piano, english horn, celesta & string orchestra. Happy-jolly-merry, in a discreet manner.
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LE MOINEAU À LA BOUFFE
Little romantic solo piano piece. Happy face.
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OODI VAHINGONILOLLE
Epic & synthesized orchestral passage. Joyous feel in a crooked way. Warning! This tune here is played with trashy synthesizers, and is not to taken seriously.
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Neo-classical and pretty simple little tune. Pizzicato srings, flute, clarinet and a bassoon. Feel the feeling of climbing.
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Pretty slow paced, oppressive work. Strings, piano & percussions. Sad face of anxiety.
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YULE IS NOT GETTING OLD
Konganos very, very official X-mas tune of 2018! Pretty fantastic, yet traditional stuff, with your strings, synthesizers & harps. Glockenspiel in the leading role. Yay yo yul!
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FLY MY SWEET LITTLE DOVE
Fragile little piece played by strings. Love is both sweet & sour. Yes, string orchestra here.
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AMMOIN
Pretty massive, yet calm pop-classical piece, played by orchestra. Gazing into the horizon, thinking about lost love kinda feel. Sigh.
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ABSOLUTELY DIGNIFIED
Konganos absolutely official Christmas tune of 2017. Steady, calm and really very noble feel. Strings, brass, grand piano and flute. Party like it's 1592.
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WITCH HUNTERS DREAM
Pretty creepy and mysterious neo-classical piece. Two melodies, played by strings & glockenspiel mixing together. There's also french horns, harp and a pair of oboes.
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ALL I HAVE IS MY WALTZ
Beautiful, not too hasty waltz played by string orchestra. Late 18th century ballroom or early 20th century movie kind of feel. You decide.
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FUNERAL MARCH OF THE ELEPHANT
Steady & calm classical piece. As the title suggests, a bit sad feel. String quartet + double bass and a few woodwinds.
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Pretty poppy orchestral piece. Calm and beautiful feel. Strings & brass, which take turns in the lead.
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KAIHORO
Romantic era solo piano piece. Sadness, loneliness & desperation, in a beautiful way.
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THE LAST THANK YOU
String quartet & a bunch of woodwinds appearing in this neoclassical piece. Beautiful, yet a bit sad feeling that later turns into a relatively happy ending.
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EVERPOOL
Fantasy- and fairytale-like theme calling you for an adventure! Pretty full orchestra, with percussions and all. And piano. Cliffhanger at the end.
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OH PEARLY HAVEN
Harp playing some, well, harpy stuff. Pretty heavenly feel.
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ORGAN WERK OPUS 76 IN D MINOR
Pipe organ in its grand magnificence playing some baroque era stuff. Massive and holy feel.
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WINTER SOLSTICE PEACE
Konganos official christmas song of 2014. There's no jingle bells, elves of any kind or reindeer noises, so this could be used anytime. Classical piece in a very traditional way. Strings & some woodwinds.
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MORNING MOOD
Soundtrack for a lazy saturday morning, when there's absolutely no hurry to get out of bed. Medium-sized string orchestra with some wind instruments.
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Simple and calming tune for solo piano. Acoustic guitar and a small string orchestra join in for the second verse.
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SQUARANGLES
Modern classical solo piano piece. Small fragments that link together.
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BLAZING STOCKINGS
Medieval tune for solo harpsichord. Nothing fancy here, just some simple historical goodness.
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GOOD NIGHT MY DEAR
Beautiful and fragile piece with piano and viola. The melody is maybe a bit too complicated to be a full-blown lullaby. So I'm going to call this "lullabyish".
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Police outside Cologne Cathedral. Photo: DPA.
Six Russian hooligans returning from the European Championship in France have been arrested in Germany after beating and kicking Spanish tourists, injuring one of them seriously, police said on Friday.
The men who had arrived on a train from Brussels were supposed to fly back to Moscow through Cologne-Bonn airport.
Outside the city's iconic cathedral, the men attacked two Spanish tourists and their Spanish guide in an "extremely aggressive and brutal manner" on Thursday evening, according to police.
The Spaniards had been handing out stickers for a left-wing campaign.
The Russians "beat and kicked" their victims, leaving one seriously wounded with a broken nose, police said, without giving details on what sparked the attack.
Police managed to arrest five assailants on site, but one got away. The sixth was subsequently arrested at Cologne-Bonn airport, where the suspects had been due to board a flight.
"And with that, we have them all," a police spokesman said upon the arrest of the last man.
The men had European Championship tickets for two Russian matches against England and Slovakia, and were carrying "typical objects used by hooligans including masks and gumshields".
The men are believed to be part of an extremist Russian group and had flown to Marseille on June 10th, the day when the competition began.
German police said they will contact their French colleagues to determine if the men had been involved in the fan violence that has plagued Euro 2016 in France.