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Soviet Lunar Missions
The image at the top of the page is the first image of the far side of the Moon, taken by the Luna 3 spacecraft in October, 1959.
The Soviet Lunar program had 20 successful missions to the Moon and achieved a number of notable lunar "firsts": first probe to impact the Moon, first flyby and image of the lunar farside, first soft landing, first lunar orbiter, and the first circumlunar probe to return to Earth. The two successful series of Soviet probes were the Luna (24 lunar missions) and the Zond (5 lunar missions).
NSSDCA currently holds data from the Luna 3, 9, 13, 21, and 22 and the Zond 3, 6, 7, and 8 missions. All this data is photographic in nature, except for the lunar libration data from the Luna 21 Orbiter. Lunar flyby missions (Luna 3, Zond 3, 6, 7, 8) obtained photographs of the lunar surface, particularly the limb and farside regions. The Zond 6, 7, and 8 missions circled the Moon and returned to Earth where they were recovered, Zond 6 and 7 in Siberia and Zond 8 in the Indian Ocean. The purpose of the photography experiments on the lunar landers (Luna 9, 13, 22) was to obtain closeup images of the surface of the Moon for use in lunar studies and determination of the feasibility of manned lunar landings.
Lunar surface close-up image from the Luna 9 lander in February, 1966 in the Oceanus Procellarum.
Click on a mission name for information from the NASA Master Catalog.
The Luna Series
Launched 02 Jan 1959
Lunar Flyby
Launched 12 Sep 1959
Impacted Moon 14 Sep 1959 at ~07:30:00 UT
Latitude 29.10 N, Longitude 0.00 - Palus Putredinis
Launched 04 Oct 1959
Launched 02 Apr 1963
Launched 09 May 1965
Impacted Moon - Sea of Clouds
Launched 08 Jun 1965
Attempted Lander - Missed Moon
Lunar Impact - Sea of Storms
Launched 03 Dec 1965
Landed on Moon 03 Feb 1966 at 18:44:52 UT
Latitude 7.08 N, Longitude 295.63 E - Oceanus Procellarum
Launched 31 Mar 1966
Launched 24 Aug 1966
Landed on Moon 24 Dec 1966 at 18:01:00 UT
Latitude 18.87 N, 297.95 E - Oceanus Procellarum
Launched 7 Apr 1968
Launched 13 Jul 1969
Landed on Moon 20 Sep 1970 at 05:18:00 UT
Latitude 0.68 S, Longitude 56.30 E - Mare Fecunditatis
Lunar Sample Return
Launched 10 Nov 1970
Landed on Moon 17 Nov 1970 at 03:47:00 UT
Latitude 38.28 N, Longitude 325.00 E - Mare Imbrium
Lunar Rover - Lunokhod 1
Lunar Impact
Latitude 3.57 N, Longitude 50.50 E - Mare Fecunditatis
Launched 14 Feb 1972
Lunar Sample Return to Earth 25 Feb 1972
Landed on Moon 15 Jan 1973 at 23:35:00 UT
Latitude 25.85 N, Longitude 30.45 E - LeMonnier Crater
Lunar Lander - Mare Crisium
Landed on Moon 18 Aug 1976 at 02:00:00 UT
Latitude 12.75 N, Longitude 62.20 E - Mare Crisium
The Zond Series
Zond 3
Launched 18 July 1965
Launched 2 Mar 1968
Lunar Test Flight
Circumlunar
Returned to Earth 21 Sep 1968
Returned to Earth 17 Nov 1968
Returned to Earth 14 Aug 1969
Returned to Earth 27 Oct 1970
Many of the images of Soviet lunar and planetary spacecraft are from the Lavochkin Association.
Soviet Mission Data held at NSSDCA
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NASA Official: Dave Williams, david.r.williams@nasa.gov
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When the markets were collapsing a year ago and I appeared in these pages, I advised extra caution, telling readers to reduce stock allocations in their portfolios and to focus on funds that could be resilient in downturns. That move helped to protect assets.
Since then, the economic outlook has improved. Sales of cars and houses are rising. Many economists now say that the gross domestic product will grow modestly in the fourth quarter of 2009 and throughout 2010. That should boost corporate profits and enable the stock market to rise slightly. I expect the Standard & Poor's 500 stock index to reach 1,100 by the end of 2010, up from the current level of around 1,000. To profit from better times, I am beginning to take a slightly more aggressive stance, increasing allocations to stocks and reducing cash holdings.
When designing portfolios, my aim is to protect investors. When markets seem troubled, I take defensive positions, emphasizing fixed-income investments. As the outlook improves, I take on more risk. Under current circumstances, my portfolios remain fairly cautious, with most of the assets in bond funds and hybrid funds that hold a mix of stocks and bonds. The goal is to enable clients to achieve 80% of any stock market gains—while suffering only 30% of the losses that occur in stock market downturns.
Avoiding big losses is particularly important now because the economy still faces serious problems. Home foreclosures continue to mount, and employers remain reluctant to hire. Because of the problems, the market still faces periodic drastic losses.
For the hybrid allocation, I stick with proven managers who have the ability to shift among stocks, bonds and cash. My favorite flexible hybrid funds have long track records for limiting losses in downturns and delivering solid results in better times.
Although my allocation to hybrids remains unchanged from a year ago, I am shifting to more aggressive funds in the category. I am eliminating First Eagle Global Fund (SGENX) and Permanent Portfolio Fund (PRPFX). These cautious funds hold diversified portfolios that include fixed income and gold. That mix has protected shareholders, but now the funds seem too cautious for a time when stocks should rise. I am also eliminating Pimco All Asset Fund (PASAX) and Vanguard Wellesley Income Fund (VWINX). These fine funds keep most of their assets in fixed-income investments.
Berwyn Income Fund (BERIX). Allocation: 10% of assets. This conservative fund can put up to 30% of assets in stocks and the rest in fixed income, including high-yield bonds rated below investment grade. Some conservative funds avoid high-yield bonds because they can be risky, but bonds can produce solid results. Stock holdings include steady dividend-payers that can withstand difficult times. Performance: 6.3%.* No load. 800-992-6757, www.berwynfunds.com.
BlackRock Global Allocation Fund (MDLOX). Allocation: 10% of assets. This fund invests in stocks and bonds worldwide. The fund has about one-third of assets in fixed income and most of the rest in dividend-paying blue chips. Performance: 8.5%. Maximum front-end load: 5.3%. 800-441-7762, www.blackrock.com.
FPA Crescent Fund (FPACX). Allocation: 10% of assets. This moderately aggressive fund owns stocks of companies of all sizes as well as fixed income. The fund currently has 35% of assets in cash—which can be deployed as bargains appear. Performance: 6%. No load. 800-638-3060, www.fpafunds.com.
Ivy Asset Strategy Fund (WASAX). Allocation: 10% of assets. This world fund became cautious last year, reducing stock holdings. The fund has been taking on more risk lately, though it still holds 45% of assets in cash. Performance: 14.5%. Maximum front-end load: 5.8%. 800-777-6472, www.ivyfunds.com.
Vanguard Wellington Fund (VWELX). Allocation: 10% of assets. This moderately aggressive fund has 60% of assets in stocks and the rest in fixed income. Holdings include undervalued companies with solid balance sheets. Performance: 5%. No load. 800-662-6273, www.vanguard.com.
I continue to hold bond funds that have proven their ability to thrive in difficult markets.
FPA New Income Fund (FPNIX). Allocation: 10% of assets. This intermediate-term bond fund is a conservative choice managed to preserve capital during the worst of downturns. The fund remains cautiously positioned, with 23% of assets in cash. Performance: 3.9%. Maximum front-end load: 3.5%.
Harbor Bond Fund (HABDX). Allocation: 10% of assets. This intermediate-term bond fund has long outpaced its benchmarks. Star portfolio manager Bill Gross has a knack for spotting undervalued assets and shifting holdings at the right time. Performance: 6.2%. No load. 800-422-1050, www.harborfunds.com.
Besides increasing exposure to stock funds in the portfolio, I am also introducing a small-cap fund. The stocks of small companies can be risky, but as the economy improves, they should thrive.
Fairholme Fund (FAIRX). Allocation: 10% of assets. This fund is in the "large-cap blend" category, holding a mixture of growth and value stocks. It specializes in unloved companies that generate lots of cash. The fund holds cash when it can't find bargains. Performance: 8.7%. No load. 866-202-2263, www.fairholmefunds.com.
Hussman Strategic Growth Fund (HSGFX). Allocation: 10% of assets. This fund holds stocks of companies of all sizes that stand to benefit from trends in the economy, such as low-priced retailers and restaurants that do relatively well as consumers tighten their belts during hard times. When prospects sour, manager John Hussman can sell short, betting that stocks will fall. Performance: 3%. No load. 800-487-7626, www.hussmanfunds.com.
Intrepid Small Cap Fund (ICMAX). Allocation: 5% of assets. This small-cap value fund holds small companies that have undervalued shares. It favors companies with steady revenues. When markets froze in 2008, the fund had 27% of assets in cash. Performance from inception October 3, 2005, through August 31, 2009: 11.4%. No load. 866-996-3863, www.intrepidcapitalfunds.com.
Cash investments are currently paying puny yields, but by stashing some assets in a money-market fund, you can protect their value while waiting for the economy to improve. My favorite: Vanguard Prime Money Market Fund (VMMXX).
*Performance figures are the funds' five-year annualized returns as of August 31, according to Morningstar, Inc., unless otherwise indicated.
Source: Vern Hayden, CFP, president of Hayden Wealth Management Group, a financial planning and investment advisory firm in Westport, Connecticut, www.haydenfinancial.com. Dubbed "Mr. Mutual Fund" by CNBC, he is author of Getting an Investment Game Plan (Wiley).


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Ioan-Vasile Leb (* 30. Januar 1953 in Sálfalva) ist ein orthodoxer Theologe und Lehrbeauftragter an der Universität München.

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Er studierte orthodoxe Theologie in Hermannstadt und Bukarest und dann an der Evangelisch-Theologischen Fakultät in Heidelberg, wo er bei Friedrich Heyer und Adolf Martin Ritter 1981 mit einer Doktorarbeit über Die Entwicklung der orthodox-altkatholischen Beziehungen bilateral und im Rahmen der ökumenischen Bewegung promovierte. Sein Doktortitel wurde 1989 von der Fakultät für Orthodoxe Theologie Bukarest anerkannt. Von 1982 bis 1990 war er Assistent und Lektor an dem Orthodox-Theologischen Institut von Sibiu und lehrt seit 1990 als Dozent und Professor für Kirchengeschichte an der Fakultät für Orthodoxe Theologie an der Babeș-Bolyai-Universität Cluj. Von 2000 bis 2004 war er auch Dekan dieser Fakultät.

Schriften (Auswahl)
 Orthodoxie und Altkatholizismus. Einhundert Jahre ökumenische Zusammenarbeit, Cluj-Napoca 1995, ISBN 973-96280-2-8.
 Die Rumänische Orthodoxe Kirche im Wandel der Zeiten, Cluj-Napoca 1998, ISBN 973-9354-13-0.
 Teologie şi istorie. Studii de Patristică şi Istorie Bisericească, Cluj-Napoca 1999, ISBN 9739896308.
 Biserică şi implicare, Cluj-Napoca 2000, ISBN 9738089026.
 Dialogul ortodoxo-vechi catolic. Stadiul actual şi perspectivele sale, Editura Renaşterea, Cluj-Napoca 2000, ISBN 9739793851.
 Biserica în acţiune, Editura Limes, Cluj-Napoca 2001, ISBN 9738089492.

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Orthodoxer Theologe (20. Jahrhundert)
Orthodoxer Theologe (21. Jahrhundert)
Hochschullehrer (Babeș-Bolyai-Universität Cluj)
Rumäne
Geboren 1953
Mann
Hochschullehrer (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München)
Mitglied der Leibniz-Sozietät

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Australia's following in the footsteps of the United States and Spain, two countries that both set up broader national gambling networks in the past week. While the events coincide chronologically, they are vastly independent of each other, though they reveal the same trend – more regulation & customer protection is needed in the iGaming sector.
Australia's six governments have come together to discuss the roll-out of the National Consumer Protection Framework, which will officially launch a number of needed social and responsible gambling initiatives across the country in 2019. While each government has been dealing with its own operators in a rather independent manner so far, the change will presuppose a united front.
The ten-point government-backed plan is intended to respond to the O'Farrell Review, a comprehensive analysis of the Australian gambling industry indicating severe shortages insofar due diligence and social responsibility checks were concerned.
With Queensland fighting back the federal measure and insisting on handling the issue on their own, the law is finally going to pass and create the country's first national policy intended at tackling gambling problems.
The framework will have a tangible effect on the gambling industry, adding an additional layer of security for customers, with 2.5 million active accounts being affected by the new regulation.
Meanwhile, two points of the ten-step plan have already been enacted, with the links between "payday lenders and licensed wagering operations" coming into effect earlier in February 2018, and the government banning bookmakers from offering credit so that customers would be safeguarded against the temptation to continue playing when they have run out of funds.
The National Consumer Protection Framework will slash the time required to verify one's account from 90 to 21 days, which will mean that vulnerable individuals who are part of a self-exclusion scheme or minors will be prevented from accessing the products sooner. Still, 21 days is still enough time for problem gamblers to spend money at a casino, though.
The measures will also seek to disperse any ambiguity about welcome and sign-up bonuses, obliging companies to enforce responsible advertising. In line with the upcoming responsibility measures, Australia will use a national-wide scheme that will allow all customers who want to exclude themselves completely from all establishments that offer gambling options.
The national-wide measure specifically targets non-wagering products and strives to limit the clout of offshore gambling companies. The Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) has been spearheading the offense against the unlicensed regulators, with 33 companies stopping to offer their products to Australians.
However, the majority of the companies were legal and licensed entities which opted out of the country after ACMA threatened them to lodge a complaint with their licensing bodies should they fail to comply with the watchdog's demands.
Australia is pushing ahead with a ten-step National Gambling Network, which will bolster customer security and improve responsible gambling policies.


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Coach Erik Spoelstra loves to hear Green talking that way. Green was never considered a defensive stalwart on any of his previous seven teams. But this season under Spoelstra's encouragement, Green has become much more respected for it.
He's coming off the bench on most nights and holding opponents — often the best scorers in the league — to 42.2 percent shooting, roughly 0.6 percent below their average.
"I've always felt I could play defense, but people used to always talk so bad about me defensively," Green said. "This is the first team that honestly never talked crazy about my defense. It motivates me to go out there and want to do more."
But defense, really, isn't what Green contributes most to the Heat. It's those moments he had Sunday on the other side of the floor — especially over the past six games — that's paying the biggest dividends for Miami.
Particularly, it has been Green's three-point shooting. He has averaged 15.7 points over his past six games and made 17 of 33 attempts from beyond the arc. The Heat (16-10) has gone 4-2 over that stretch.
"I think it's so easy and tempting just to talk about his scoring. That's not all what I've been talking to him about," Spoelstra said before turning off his coach speak button and offering up a little truth.
"But obviously that scoring punch — that's why we thought he was such an intriguing guy this summer. He can put points on the board very quickly."
Green did Sunday. He went on a personal 8-0 run midway through the fourth quarter and turned a 97-95 deficit to Portland into a 103-97 Heat lead. Miami never looked back.
"I love playing with Gerald," said Dwyane Wade, who fed Green on the back-to-back threes he hit to break the tie. "He knows he's got to keep moving, and I'll find him. That second three was huge. It was tough. I don't know how he made it, but it's great playing with guys like that and just getting into more of a comfort zone knowing that when I penetrate with a guy on me and that the ball could come any moment, and he made two big ones."
In an era when so many teams are have turned their focus to the three-point game, Miami remains one of six in the league still attempting fewer than 20 threes a game, one of seven making less than a third of them (32.7 percent), and one of five averaging less than seven made.
That's not a great formula for success on nights when the defense doesn't show up. But when Miami does make its threes — at least seven of them — it's 10-1 this season. On Sunday, Miami matched a season-high with 12.
Green, a career 36.8 percent shooter from behind the arc, doesn't only make the open threes, but the tough contested ones, too.
On Sunday, he broke a 97-all tie when he drained a corner three with Allen Crabbe in his face and the shot clock under three seconds. Then, Green hit another three to extend the Heat's lead to six with the shot clock under a second and Damian Lillard draped all over him.
Spoelstra said Monday the Heat ranks in top five in the league in uncontested three-point attempts. If that's the case, the fact Miami ranks 25th in the league in three-point shooting percentage, is troubling. So, having a shooter like Green around helps.
"If he makes two," Spoelstra replied when asked how many shots it takes to get Green feeling like he's in a rhythm. "I don't know necessarily that he's going to go on a run. I just know he's going to play as if he's on a run."
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How VR and the CD-ROM have more in common than you might think
Philip Rosedale's High Fidelity wants to do to VR what the internet did to the CD-ROM
By Rowland Manthorpe
According to one current theory, virtual reality is the 2016 equivalent of the CD-ROM.
Remember CD-ROMs? Back in the mid-1990s, they were the most groundbreaking computing experience your parents' money could buy. The one I really wanted was Encarta, a digital encyclopedia reputed to have tens of thousands of entries. Plus – and to my thirteen-year-old-self, this was the most impressive aspect – Encarta combined text, sound and moving images, so an article on, say, electric guitar would play guitar sounds when it was opened. I know: text, sound and video?! There was no doubt about it: CD-ROMs were the future.
Except, of course, they weren't. The future was the internet.
At the time, this conclusion was far from obvious. Early websites were weird, slow, and looked terrible. CD-ROMs were expensive, but slick and quick, with tonnes of extra features.
But whereas the material on CD-ROMs was fixed, like the pages of the physical books they were modelled after, websites could be edited with a few strokes of the keyboard. The difference between a closed system and an open, interconnected one was fundamental, and could be seen in the different kinds of encyclopedia they produced. The CD-ROM created Encarta; the internet enabled Wikipedia. And although Wikipedia initially seemed clunky and unreliable, in the end there was only one winner.
Here's where the similarity to virtual reality comes in. As anyone who's tried a high-end VR headset will attest, in pure visual terms the experience is incredible. But because it's closed and isolated, its range of uses is limited. VR games and VR films are standalone units for solo use. Even multiplayer games are few and far between.
So this is the theory: right now, virtual reality is at the CD-ROM stage of evolution. It's only when it becomes networked and open that it will be as impactful as tech enthusiasts expect.
Philip Rosedale
One person who's betting on this theory is Philip Rosedale, the co-founder of High Fidelity. Rosedale has been working on virtual reality since the 1990s. During the 2000s, he built Second Life, the online virtual world that briefly became the hottest destination on the internet. Rosedale thought he was creating the Matrix. But for reasons both social and technological, it didn't work out that way and Rosedale was forced to abandon his project.
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Now Rosedale is working on realising the same vision in virtual reality. High Fidelity, currently in open beta, is a virtual world in which you can interact. You can hold VR meetings and play VR catch or tetherball. And because High Fidelity is free to edit, you can sculpt your own VR avatar and build your own VR paradise (or hell, if that's your thing).
If this sounds familiar, well, that's because it's meant to. "Fundamentally VR will be transformative to society only and until it allows us to communicate and create," Rosedale told me, when I spent a week with him earlier this year. "While the other stuff that we're looking at right now in VR is very cool, it's exciting and fun, that stuff is related to entertainment...I mean it's exciting but, you know, what I always say is that it's just like looking at the beginning of the internet."
Rosedale has been able to raise $14 million on the strength of his background, his team and this compelling story. "Looking at VR today, it feels very akin to the early nineties and the emergence of CD-ROMs," says Stephen Hall of Vulcan Capital, the lead investor in High Fidelity's $11 million Series A round. "When we think about the capability of VR, it's really going to be the web but for social experiential activity."
Such a vision is extremely challenging technologically. The biggest issue is latency, the delay between a movement in the real world and the digital response. That sort of lag is annoying enough on a Skype call – in VR, where the world is all around, it's intolerable (not least because it'll make you feel sick). The more people who join the conversation, the harder it becomes to manage.
To resolve this problem, Rosedale is developing an open server system, so that anyone can host their own virtual world. From the point of view of latency, this has two advantages. First, it spreads the data load across thousands or potentially millions of machines. Second, by using an intelligent caching system, High Fidelity can remove one of the main causes of latency, which is the distance between the server and the user.
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Shuffling data around at lightning speed means your headset is never physically too far away from the hosting machine, which should help bring down the latency enough to allow lots of people to inhabit the same world at the same time.
That's the idea, anyway. But this solution relies on finding enough people willing to share part of their computing power with High Fidelity. If that ever happens, it's going to be some time coming, as Rosedale freely admits.
There's another issue. By the time the internet arrived, lots of people already had personal computers. If High Fidelity is going to become the next social meeting place, it will need similarly large numbers owning and using VR headsets. Early sales figures are hard to come by, but what data there is does not suggest mass uptake.
All this means the promised "next virtual internet" may be some way off. So where does that leave VR? Well, if the CD-ROM theory is correct, then VR may not be the next big computing platform anytime soon. The biggest users are likely to be gamers, just as everyone has always thought (with some interest from Hollywood and the porn industry).
There'll also be a lot of commercial applications: in fact, there already are. Recent examples include a well-known architecture firm using VR to give clients advance views of unbuilt buildings. Several large British estate agents are looking at creating VR showrooms. Instead of driving to 20 different flats, you'll go to the estate agents' office, look around them in VR before shortlisting the ones you want to see in person.
These commercial uses may be less exciting than Matrix-type scenarios, but in many ways they are more interesting because it is in corporate environments that cutting-edge VR will find a home. Companies, not individual users, will be able to afford to keep and maintain high-end equipment. Not only that, they'll have the room for it to be used properly. HTC Vive recommends three square metres of uncluttered space for its headset, but that's the bare minimum. In most modern houses, even that amount is too much.
Perhaps virtual reality will develop more rapidly than this scenario suggests. Google, Facebook and, reportedly, Apple, are all working on mobile VR headsets. That kind of backing goes a long way but it's been four years since the Oculus Rift was first listed on Kickstarter, and we still don't know what VR is even for. On the hype cycle of technological development, we're some way from the plateau of productivity.
For VR, this need not necessarily be a problem. But while it edges slowly forward, alternative technologies are rapidly advancing: including the more personal, in-world experience provided by augmented reality. I think back to my teenage years. In the end, I never did get Encarta. By the time my parents finally agreed to buy me an expensive gadget, my interests, and demands, had changed. My first mobile phone was a Nokia 3210.
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Personally, my sensitivity level for "studies" has been completely desensitized. There is a study out there for pretty much everything to the point where various studies disprove the other theory. This whole fear mongering tactic has gone on from the beginning of, what I perceive as, time. I recently saw an ad from perhaps the early 1900s stating that "LET US CURE YOUR ACID MOUTH WITH OUR TOOTHPASTE" we'll even send you strips to see if you have acid mouth. Well shucks, the human mouth is slightly acidic.
Point being, I am done with studies and scare tactics. "It" just has to make sense to me. So somewhere in this, I am trying to find what a balanced diet looks like. I am not a doctor, nor do I have experience in this field, but at the end of the day: natural should make sense right? The whole adage: "you are what you eat" should prevail?
I hadn't intended to go on a rant, but apparently I did. I intended to say hey! I made homemade butter recently! It was alot of fun! I bought a small thing of organic, gmo free whipping cream, threw it in the mixer and about 8 minutes later had beautiful yellow delicious butter!
I've kind of fallen in love with coconut oil. When my sister in law mentioned that she used coconut oil as a moisturizer I was highly skeptical. I kept seeing articles online that sang the glories of the oil, so I decided to give it a shot (step aside my long favorite Clinique). As I moved past my evening face care routine, I started looking for other coconut oil uses.


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"Bank Alert" is a 2016 song by Nigerian pop duo P-Square. It was recorded in Igbo and Pidgin English and samples lyrics from "Iyogo" by Onyeka Onwenu. It was released as a free download on 15 September and the next day, the accompanying music video was released on YouTube. The video was directed by Clarence Peters and Jude Okoye with cameo appearances by Phyno, Harrysong, Kcee, Onyeka Onwenu and Mr. Ibu among others.

As of 22 September 2016, "Bank Alert" has received over one million views.

A reviewer from Okay Africa described it as a "catchy song built on light guitars, bubbly synthesizers and a shuffling beat."

See also
List of songs recorded by P-Square

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Profesionalna chokejna liha 2011/2012 var den första säsongen av Profesionalna chokejna liha (PHL), och tillika den 20 säsongen av det Ukrainska mästerskapet i ishockey, Ukrainas högsta-liga i ishockey. Denna säsong var första gången serien inte var i Ukrainas ishockeyförbunds regi. Åtta lag deltog denna säsong och HK Donbass-2 slutade som mästare.

Grundserien
Grundserien slutade enligt nedan.

Slutspelet
Slutspelet spelades enligt nedan.

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Ishockey i Ukraina
2011 i Ukraina
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Paris Attacks Change Hollywood's Security Equation, Concert Calculus
What's the defense against a suicidal terrorist with nothing to lose, wonder some in the concert and theater business
Itay Hod and Todd Cunningham | November 17, 2015 @ 6:22 AM
The attacks in Paris reverberated through Hollywood on Monday as promoters, distributors and artists asked not whether entertainment was changed by the terrorism in a global hub – but by how much.
On Monday, the country's two largest concert promoters, AEG Worldwide and Live Nation, said the attacks had heightened their vigilance but carefully worded their statements to avoid suggesting the status quo had been lacking.
"While our security practices have earned AEG a reputation as an industry leader in this area, we are continually evaluating and updating our policies and procedures as we remain vigilant in the face of ever-changing circumstances," AEG Worldwide told TheWrap in a statement.
Live Nation, which manages L.A. concert spaces like the Hollywood Palladium and the Wiltern Theatre, said: "The safety and security of our shows, fans and venues continues to be our highest priority. Due to the recent events in Paris and in an abundance of caution we have implemented heightened security procedures globally. However, because of the sensitive nature of these protocols, we cannot elaborate further on the specific details."
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In private, promoters and tour organizers said that the business of live performances would continue, pointing out that Justin Bieber pre-sale tickets sold out on Monday. They also noted that LiveNation's stock was not affected by terrorism fears on Monday.
Meanwhile, other concerts went forward as planned. Madonna continued her sold-out tour after performing for 40,000 fans in Stockholm this weekend. An individual close to the singer said she was determined not to be deterred by terrorism.
"Her attitude was, 'I feel terrible being up here with all this sadness and grief, but f–k it, we're not going to stop, that's the point of it,'" the individual said. Madonna gave an emotional performance of "Like a Prayer" at the concert in honor of Paris.
Also Read: 11 Tragedies at Theaters and Concerts, From The Who Stampede to Paris Massacre (Photos)
The reality, music promoters told TheWrap, is that stadium-style arenas already have significant security measures in place similar to those for live sports events, requiring ticket-holders to pass through metal detectors, have their bags searched and undergo pat-downs by security guards.
But like U.S. movie theaters, which have resisted efforts to beef up security in the wake of recent mass shootings, many smaller concert venues aren't keen on absorbing the cost of installing state-of-the-art metal detectors or other protective measures.
That may need to happen for venues the size of the Bataclan.
"When it comes to the entertainment industry they really need to assess this problem," said Michael O'Neil, chief executive officer at MSA Security, the the first Commanding Officer of the NYPD Counterterrorism Division. "It's easy to say, 'Well, that's going to be too expensive' — but do you really know what the cost is, not to mention what about the value of having your customers feel safe? I feel secure when I see guards at sports venues, that doesn't make it less attractive, it makes me want to go there."
He and others noted that the soccer stadium succeeded in keeping the suicide bombers out, most likely because of their security protocol.
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"I do think you can do that in venues in the U.S. and it's being done already in larger venues," he continued. "In smaller venues like the concert hall in Paris, that's where it starts to get a little more difficult. Because these venues haven't really thought of security like that. They probably don't even have security staff or a person responsible for security, other than so-called bouncers who take tickets."
David Bernstein, CEO of Rock-It Cargo which transports the shows for performers including Jon Bon Jovi and Lady Gaga, said that was where change would happen.
"The way they do it in Israel starts with the cargo before it comes to the country — they have a great deal of experience dealing with this kind of thing," he told TheWrap. "If everyone steps up their game, we will have an effective apparatus to make shows as safe as they should be. And we will make the likelihood of these soft targets being targeted that much less."
While there have been relatively few mass shootings at music venues, that has not been the case for American movie theaters, which are girding for next month's massive roll-out of "Star Wars: The Force Awakens," expected to be the largest in history.
Theater owners heard their security policies questioned after the 2012 Colorado theater massacre, and following each of the two subsequent attacks on patrons.
Three of the largest U.S. theater chains — Regal, AMC and Cinemark — and the National Association of Theater Owners all declined comment on Monday. They've previously cited the need to keep security strategies under wraps so as not to inform potential attackers.
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But some changes have already been identified, including bans on backpacks and lightsabers for "Star Wars" fans, searches of patrons' handbags and increased enforcement of legal-weapon bans.
"This mustn't be seen as a Second Amendment issue, or a political question," Adam Levin, chairman and founder of cyber security firm IDT911, told TheWrap. "It's literally a matter of life and death, and those involved need to accept their responsibility and work for a collaborative and comprehensive solution.
"Do we need to have an armed guard at every restaurant? I don't know," he said. "I do believe the Paris attack is a game changer for our political leaders and our populace because I think they're starting to understand how serious this threat is."
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O'Neil cited several things that need to be done immediately:
Training employees on awareness. "When people are smart about the threat they can become valuable intelligence collectors and help the effort," he said.
Look at your venue, look at your structure. "What are the inherent vulnerabilities that you have? Are there multiple access points? Can you search people if you wanted to? If there was an alert, how would you search people?" he asked
Have a plan. Said O'Neil: "If an event happened, how would you minimize the damage? What you learn can save people's lives when something does happen."
Sharon Waxman and Joe Otterson contributed to this story.
11 Tragedies at Theaters and Concerts, From The Who Stampede to Paris Massacre (Photos)
Cinema Rex fire, Abadan, Iran (Aug. 19, 1978)
Following the Iranian Revolution in 1978, a group of Islamic militants set fire to the Cinema Rex during a showing of "Gavaznha," leaving as many as 400 people dead.
The Who stampede, Cincinnati, Ohio (Dec. 3, 1979)
When the doors at a sold-out The Who concert in Cincinnati did not open on time, 11 people were trampled by a crowd pushing to access the venue.
"The Godfather, Part III" Long Island, New York (Dec. 25, 1990)
On Christmas Day, four moviegoers were caught in the crossfire of a gang shooting that erupted in the middle of a "Godfather" screening. A 15-year-old boy died and three more people were wounded. Four men from Queens were charged for the incident.
Moscow theater hostage crisis Moscow, Russia (Oct. 23, 2002)
In 2002, 40 armed Chechens took 850 hostages at the Dubrovka Theater in Moscow, demanding the withdrawal of Russian forces from Chechnya. About 130 hostages and all 40 of the attackers were killed by the end of the three-day siege.
Nightclub fire, West Warwick, Rhode Island (Feb. 20, 2003)
In 2003, the Great White's pyrotechnics sparked a fire at a concert in West Warwick, Rhode Island. One hundred people were killed, including guitarist Ty Longley, and more than 200 people were injured.
Also Read: Great White Frontman to Apologize for Deadly 2003 Nightclub Fire in New Documentary (Audio)
Stampede at Love Parade, West Berlin, Germany (July 24, 2010)
A stampede at the German techno music festival Love Parade in 2010 caused the deaths of 11 people and brought an end to the festival for five years. Investigations that followed revealed serious gaps in the crowd management plans, but no criminal charges were brought.
Stage collapse, Indianapolis, Indiana (Aug. 13, 2011)
The stage at a Sugarland concert at the Indiana State Fair in 2011, knocked over by a gust of wind, landed on the waiting crowd. Seven people were killed, with another 58 injured.
"The Dark Night Rises" Aurora, Colorado (July 22, 2012)
On July 22, 2012, James Holmes opened fire during a midnight screening of Christopher Nolan's "The Dark Knight Rises." A Colorado jury found Holmes guilty of killing 12 people and wounding 70 others.
"Trainwreck" Lafayette, Louisiana (July, 23, 2015)
John Russell Houser entered a July 23 screening of the Judd Apatow comedy "Trainwreck" and opened fire with a handgun, injuring at least seven people and killing two, 21-year-old Mayci Breaux of Franklin, Louisiana, and 33-year-old Lafayette resident Jillian Johnson. He took his own life shortly after.
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Nightclub fire, Bucharest, Romania (Oct. 30, 2015)
A nightclub fire in October 2015, sparked by the pyrotechnic displays of the heavy metal band Goodbye to Gravity, left 27 concertgoers dead and dozens more injured.
Bataclan, Paris, France (Nov. 13, 2015)
A series of coordinated terrorist attacks in Paris on Nov. 13, killed at least 125 people and wounded hundreds more. Among the attacks was a shooting and hostage crisis at the Bataclan theater where the American band Eagles of Death Metal was playing a show.
As venues rethink their security measures following the hostage crisis at the Bataclan theater, TheWrap looks back at past catastrophes
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UF Historian and Author of Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
When Black Power Set Racist America On Fire: A Fifty-Year Retrospective
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Fifty years ago, the term "Black power" fired into the American vocabulary. In celebration of the fifty-year anniversary of the call for Black power this week, I present this exclusive excerpt from my new book, Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America. This excerpt narrates Stokely Carmichael's famous Mississippi call for Black power on June 16, 1966, the racist attacks that ensued, the emergence of the Black Panther Party, and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s embrace of the antiracist idea of Black power in 1967.
Black youth were quickly extracting negative associations from the identifier "Black," foremost among them Stokely Carmichael. Carmichael had been born in Trinidad in 1941, and his family had moved to Harlem in 1952, the same year his idol, Malcolm X, was paroled from prison. In 1964, Carmichael graduated from Howard University. By then, Malcolm's disciples, Carmichael included, were loading the old identifier, "Negro," with accommodation and assimilation--and removing ugliness and evil from the old identifier, "Black." They were now passionately embracing the term "Black," which stunned some of their parents and grandparents, who would rather be called "nigger" than "Black."
As the new chairman of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee, Stokely Carmichael was one of the leaders of the Mississippi March Against Fear in the summer of 1966, alongside Martin Luther King Jr. and Floyd McKissick of the Congress of Racial Equality. The massive march careened through Mississippi towns, battling segregationist resisters, mobilizing and organizing locals, and registering the latter to vote. By June 16, 1966, the March Against Fear was in Greenwood, Mississippi, one of the buckles of the belt of majority Black southern counties still ruled by armed White minorities. "We been saying freedom for six years and we ain't got nothing," Carmichael shouted at a Greenwood rally. "What we gonna start saying now is Black Power!" "What do you want?" Carmichael screamed. "BLACK POWER!" the powerless Greenville Blacks screamed back.
Quickly blown by the fans of the American media, the maxim whisked through all the majority Black urban areas and rural counties that were politically controlled, economically exploited, and culturally denigrated by White assimilationists and segregationists. Antiracists reading Malcolm's autobiography had been looking for a concept to wrap around their demands for Black control of Black communities. They latched onto Black Power as firmly in the North as they did in the South, and Martin Luther King Jr. learned why later in the summer. After an open housing march on August 5, 1966, through a fuming White neighborhood in Chicago, King told reporters he had "never seen as much hatred and hostility on the part of so many people."
There was nothing more democratic than saying that the majority, in this case the disempowered Black majority, should rule their own local communities, should have Black power. But just as sexists could only envision male or female supremacy, northern and southern racists could only envision White or Black supremacy. And the twenty urban rebellions that ensued in the summer of 1966 only confirmed for many racists that Black Power meant Blacks violently establishing Black supremacy and slaughtering their oppressors. Time, the Saturday Evening Post, the U.S. News and World Report, the New York Post, and The Progressive are a few of the many periodicals that condemned the start of the Black Power movement.
Even prominent Black leaders criticized Black Power. Roy Wilkins of the NAACP sang from the worn hymnal of attacks on antiracist ideas: he redefined the antiracist idea as segregationist and attacked his own redefinition. "No matter how endlessly they try to explain it, the term 'Black power' means anti-white power," Wilkins charged at the NAACP's annual convention on July 5, 1966. "It is a reverse Mississippi, a reverse Hitler, a reverse Ku Klux Klan." Vice President Hubert Humphrey added his two licks at the convention. "Yes, racism is racism--and there is no room in America for racism of any color." Riding the opposition to Black Power, Goldwater Republicans made substantial gains in the midterm elections of 1966.
Carmichael did not stop promoting Black Power, however. He traveled around the nation in the final months of 1966 to build the movement. In October, he gave the keynote address at a Black Power conference at the University of California at Berkeley. In nearby Oakland that month, two community college students, incensed that their peers were not living up to Malcolm X's directives, had organized their own two-man Black Power conference. Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale composed the ten-point platform for their newly founded Black Panther Party for Self Defense, demanding the "power to determine the destiny of our Black Community," "full employment," "decent housing," reparations, "an immediate end to POLICE BRUTALITY and MURDER of Black people," freedom for all Black prisoners, and "peace"--quoting Jefferson's Declaration of Independence. In the next few years, the Black Panther Party grew in chapters across the country, attracting thousands of committed and charismatic young community servants. They policed the police, provided free breakfast for children, and organized medical services and political education programs, among a series of other initiatives.
The growth of the Black Panther Party and other Black Power organizations in 1967 reflected the fact that Black youngsters had realized that civil rights persuasion and lobbying tactics had failed to loosen the suffocating stranglehold of police brutalizers, tyrannical slumlords, neglectful school boards, and exploitive businessmen. But nothing reflected that realization, and that effort to release the stranglehold, more than the nearly 130 violent Black rebellions from coast to coast between March and September that year. And yet racist psychiatrists announced that these "rioters" suffered from schizophrenia, which they defined as a "Black disease" that manifested in rage. To racist sociologists, the male rioters were raging from their emasculation. Meanwhile, racist criminologists suggested that the rioters were exuding urban Blacks' "subculture of violence," a phrase Marvin Wolfgang used in 1967 for his classic criminology textbook. Racist politicians were proclaiming that the "lazy" rioters demonstrated the need to reduce the welfare rolls and impose work requirements.
Black power would not relent, appealing to activists of many ideological stripes. Black power even appealed to the face of the civil rights movement. Indeed, the civil rights movement was transforming into the Black Power movement in 1967, if not before. "No Lincolnian Emancipation Proclamation, no Johnsonian civil rights bill" could bring about complete "psychological freedom," boomed Martin Luther King Jr. at the annual convention of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) on August 16. The Negro must "say to himself and to the world . . . 'I'm black, but I'm black and beautiful.'" King brought on a chilling applause from SCLC activists, who waved signs that read, "Black Is Beautiful and It Is So Beautiful to Be Black."
King made his way out of the good graces of assimilationist America that year. Assimilationists still wanted to keep him in the doubly-conscious dreams of 1963, just as they had wanted to keep W.E.B. Du Bois in the doubly-conscious souls of 1903. But King no longer saw any real strategic utility for the persuasion techniques that assimilationists adored, or for the desegregation efforts they championed. He now realized that desegregation had primarily benefited Black elites, leaving millions wallowing in the wrenching poverty that had led to their urban rebellions. King therefore switched gears and began planning the SCLC's Poor People's Campaign. His goal was to bring poor people to the nation's capital in order to force the federal government to pass an "economic bill of rights" committing to full employment, guaranteed income, and affordable housing, a bill that sounded eerily similar to the economic proposals on the Black Panther Party's ten-point platform.
The title of King's speech at the SCLC convention was the title of the book he released in the fall of 1967: Where Do We Go from Here? "When a people are mired in oppression, they realize deliverance only when they have accumulated the power to enforce change," King wrote. "Power is not the white man's birthright; it will not be legislated for us and delivered in neat government packages."
Excerpted from Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America by Ibram X. Kendi (Nation Books, 2016). Reprinted with permission from Nation Books.
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Out and Elected in the USA: 1974-2004 Ron Schlittler
Out and Elected in the USA - The First 30 Years: 1974-2004 is a survey, through black and white portraits and texts, of many of the pioneering openly lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender individuals elected to public office in the US in those years.
For information on a touring exhibit version of the collection, contact Ron Schlittler at rlschlittler@verizon.net.
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Kate Brown, Oregon, 1992
Kate Brown has frequently been rated Oregon's top legislator by constituent interest groups and newspapers. She was married in October 1997. She won the 2008 Primary Election in her run to be Oregon's next Secretary of State.
Katherine "Kate" Brown (D)
Born June 21, 1960
State Senator, District 21
114,000 constituents
Appointed to State House of Representatives November 1991
Elected November 1992
Re-elected 1994
Elected to Senate November 1996
Elected Democratic Senate Leader by fellow Democratic Senators November 1998
Re-elected 2000, 2004
Elected Senate Majority Leader in 2004
Elected Oregon Secretary of State in 2008.
Became Governor of Oregon on February 18, 2015.
Essay by Kate Brown for Out and Elected in the USA
I believe it was during my early 30's that I figured out who, or what, I am. But it wasn't until it was written in the Oregonian newspaper that I was bisexual that I had to face the inevitable and let those around me know. Thus began my very public coming out as a bisexual:
Coming out to my parents – who flew in from Minnesota "to have a talk." Their response – "It would be much easier for us if you were a lesbian."
Coming out to my gay friends – who called me half-queer.
Coming out to my straight friends – who never thought I could make up my mind about anything anyway.
And, most frighteningly to me:
Coming out to my legislative colleagues. At the beginning of the next legislative session sitting in the House lounge, representative Bill Markham, who is over 70 years old, extremely conservative, and a legislator for more than 20 years comes to join me. Over lunch he looks up to say, "Read in the Oregonian a few months ago you were bisexual. Guess that means I still have a chance?!"
Some days I feel like I have a foot in both worlds, yet never really belonging to either.
Editor's Update
Kate Brown was elected Oregon Secretary of State in November 2008.[1]
On February 13, 2015, Governor of Oregon, John Kitzhaber, announced his pending resignation as the result of a public corruption scandal.[2] Upon Kitzhaber's resignation, Kate Brown succeeded him on February 18, 2015, becoming the first openly bisexual governor of an American state.[3]
After Brown became governor a reporter noted that "OutHistory has one of the first, if only, first-person testimonials about Oregon Secretary of State Kate Brown's experience coming out to friends, family and colleagues as bisexual." The reporter asked how Brown's essay came to be. On February 21, 2015, Ron Schlittler explained how he created the Kate Brown entry for Out and Elected.
The overall process and motivation for creating Out and Elected in the USA: 1974-2004, is pretty well set out on the OutHistory site, Editor's Introduction and Ron Schlittler's Introduction.
I met with Kate Brown at a one-on-one constituent breakfast in Oregon to take her photograph. I was at the time a field organizer for the national office of PFLAG (Parents Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays). As with the other subjects of the project, I requested an essay or interview reflecting what Kate wanted to say about her experience of being "Out and Elected." Kate submitted a personal essay to accompany the photo.
Kate's case was a bit unique, though, because we knew each other personally. Responding to the scourge of anti-gay ballot measures in Oregon in the early 1990s I became involved with local and state politics while a student at the University of Oregon. My first job after graduation was as campaign manager, then legislative assistant, to then state senator from Lane County, Pete Sorenson.
When I went to work at the Oregon State Capitol in 1994, Kate had just won her second election, and was part of what was a pretty impressive but informal lesbian, gay, bisexual caucus of legislators at the time, from both sides of the isle (See: Chuck Carpenter and George Eighmey; also serving at the time, but not featured in Out and Elected: Gail Shibley and Cynthia Wooten).
Because of the experience of the ballot measures, the entire state was highly attuned to things LGB (not so much also the "T" at that time). So it was no surprise when The Oregonian newspaper outed Kate in print, though her identification as bisexual was no secret.
I think Kate's essay for the project reflects her refreshingly concise and disarming candor, sense of humor, and roll-with-the-punches style. Since those days when she was first elected (by 7 votes!), in the same 1992 election that the notorious Oregon Ballot Meausre 9 was defeated, it has been gratifying to see her advance in state politics, and now see this remarkable ascension to the Governorship.[4]
I am pleased that the state and national media rather widely picked up on Kate's essay because it allowed her story to be told in her own words. Her essay addresses a natural curiosity about her publicly acknowledged sexuality. It helps to set to rest what might have become an undue distraction during a very busy and challenging time for her and the state.
I am also pleased that my research has brought attention to a piece of LGBT history, and to the invaluable and rich resource that is OutHistory. I am glad and proud to have my work presented there.
"Oregon Blue Book: Secretary of State Kate Brown." See:http://bluebook.state.or.us/state/executive/secretary_of_state/secbio.htm, accessed 6 Mar 2009.
Wikipedia: John Kitzhaber. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Kitzhaber
Wikipedia: Kate Brown. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kate_Brown
Wikipedia: Oregon Ballot Measure 9 (1992). See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oregon_Ballot_Measure_9_(1992).
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EPA completes another phase of cleanup at Michigan Superfund site
By Lester Graham • Sep 9, 2020
Pine River Superfund Citizen Task Force
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency finished the second phase of a new method for chemical pollution cleanup at a Superfund site in St. Louis, Michigan.
This site is 52 acres where the Velsicol Chemical plant once stood. It manufactured DDT, polybrominated biphenyls (PBBs), and chlorobenzene among other toxic chemicals.
EPA heats soil to boil away underground contamination at superfund site
By Dustin Dwyer • Dec 30, 2019
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
The ground is getting warmer at one of the state's most contaminated sites.
The Environmental Protection Agency is using a process called thermal remediation to heat the soil and remove harmful chemicals at the Velsicol Chemical Corp. Superfund site in the town of St. Louis.
EPA to test new contamination cleanup method in St. Louis, MI
By The Associated Press • Jun 30, 2019
Mark Brush / Michigan Radio
The Environmental Protection Agency plans to test a new method to remove soil contaminants in floodplains downstream from a former chemical plant in central Michigan.
If effective, the process could save millions of dollars in ongoing cleanup efforts at the Velsicol Chemical plant site in St. Louis, Michigan, which has become one of the country's costliest Superfund sites.
The Morning Sun reports the agency has directed $30,000 in grant money to study the possible use of activated charcoal as a way to remove concentrations of the chemical DDT in floodplain soil.
EPA and St. Louis residents work together on effort to clean up former chemical plant
By Stateside Staff • May 17, 2018
Courtesy of Jane Keon
Stateside's conversations with Jane Keon of the Pine River Superfund Citizen Task Force and Thomas Alcamo, a project manager for EPA Region 5.
In 1973, a plant owned by Velsicol Chemical made a mistake and shipped a toxic flame retardant chemical to a livestock feed plant.
EPA approves $9.7 million to start cleaning up Velsicol Superfund site in St. Louis, Michigan
By Mark Brush • Jun 23, 2017
Pine River Superfund Citizen's Task Force
The town of St. Louis, Michigan got some good news from the Environmental Protection Agency this week. Agency officials announced at a meeting with concerned citizens that the Velsicol Chemical Superfund site will get $9.7 million to start a massive cleanup project this fall.
The small city in mid-Michigan has one of the most polluted pieces of land in the country. The Velsicol Chemical Company (known as Michigan Chemical up until 1976) produced all kinds of toxic chemicals at its factory right on the banks of the Pine River.
What's the fate of one of the largest pollution cleanup projects in Michigan?
By Mark Brush • Jan 26, 2017
Kaye LaFond / Michigan Radio
There are a lot of former industrial sites in Michigan that need to be cleaned up. The pollution left behind in one town in the middle of Michigan is particularly bad. The Velsicol Chemical Company (known as Michigan Chemical up until 1976) produced a lot of toxic chemicals in St. Louis, Michigan.
As St. Louis moves toward a new drinking water source, questions raised about the Pine River
By Rebecca Williams • Mar 10, 2015
The City of St. Louis, Michigan needs a new water system. That's because pollution from the old Velsicol Chemical plant is leaking into St. Louis' water supply.
They're planning to get that water upriver from the city of Alma.
TIMELINE: Velsicol Chemical leaves large toxic footprint in the "Middle of the Mitten"
By Mark Brush • Dec 19, 2014
The city of St. Louis, Michigan would much rather be talked about as the geographic center of the Lower Peninsula.
Instead, there's a lot of focus on the legacy of pollution here.
The story of Velsicol Chemical in St. Louis, Michigan is quite complicated.
Who's paying to clean up environmental mess in St. Louis? Taxpayers
By Lindsey Smith • Dec 19, 2014
Lindsey Smith / Michigan Radio
This week, we've told you about efforts to clean up the old Velsicol Chemical plant. There's a threat to the local drinking water supply after the first attempt to clean up the plant failed. Birds still die from DDT, decades after the plant stopped producing it.
But we haven't told you who's paying to fix it.
Listen to the broadcast version of this story.
Money and time will be needed to clean up an old chemical plant buried in St. Louis, Michigan
There are a lot of former industrial sites in Michigan that need to be cleaned up, but the Velsicol Superfund sites in St. Louis, Michigan are unusual in their size and in the amount of nasty chemicals lurking in the ground where people live, work and play.
The company tried to contain the pollution before, but its solution didn't work. Ask some of the community members about that original plan and they say they could have told you it wasn't going to work.
Legacy pollution forces small town to look for new drinking water supply
Mark Brush
About 10 years ago, a weird chemical started showing up in the drinking water in St. Louis, Michigan.
It was a byproduct of DDT. The insecticide is now banned in the U.S., but DDT was manufactured in St. Louis for 20 years.
Now, the city is working to get a new source of drinking water.
40 years later, chemical mistake still affects Michigan residents
By Stateside Staff • Dec 16, 2014
Courtesy of Jane-Ann Nyerges
Our conversation with Jane-Ann Nyerges
It's been over 40 years since the Michigan Chemical Corporation/Velsicol made a catastrophic mistake that affected millions of Michigan residents.
The company from St. Louis, Michigan, shipped a toxic flame retardant chemical to the Farm Bureau Service instead of a nutritional supplement. That chemical was PBB or polybrominated biphenyl.
PBB was mixed into livestock feed, but it took a year to discover the accident. Millions of consumers ate contaminated milk, meat, and eggs during this time.
Jane-Ann Nyerges was one of the farming families whose lives were changed after the PBB contamination.
Birds are dying in central Michigan from decades-old DDT pollution
Teri Kniffen
All this week we're bringing you stories about the chemical company responsible for the PBB tragedy in Michigan. Michigan Chemical accidentally contaminated the state's food supply in the 1970s, but the legacy of that company is still very much with us today.
Michigan Chemical – which later became Velsicol Chemical – made more than just PBB, and it left these toxic chemicals behind in St. Louis, Michigan.
One woman insists something is wrong with the birds
Researchers find serious health effects from toxic PBB mix-up in Michigan
By Rebecca Williams • Dec 15, 2014
Photo courtesy of Emory University
More than 40 years ago, Michigan's food supply was contaminated. People's health is being affected, even now.
All this week, we're looking at the ripple effects left behind by the company that made that tragic mistake.
In 1973, the Michigan Chemical Corporation shipped a toxic flame retardant chemical to a livestock feed plant instead of a nutritional supplement. The chemical is called polybrominated biphenyl, or PBB. It took about a year to discover the accident.
40 years after toxic mix-up, researchers continue to study Michiganders poisoned by PBB
By Rebecca Williams • Nov 11, 2014
Michele Marcus, MPH, PhD, talks about the study she heads up in Michigan
More than 40 years ago, people in Michigan were poisoned. Researchers are still following those people today.
In 1973, a fire-retardant chemical called PBB, polybrominated biphenyl, accidentally got mixed into livestock feed. It took a year to discover the accident.
Studies estimate 70-90% of people in Michigan had some exposure to PBB from eating contaminated milk, meat and eggs. The MDCH says the "overwhelming majority of those who were exposed to PBB received very low levels."
Other people had higher levels of exposure.
Researchers at Emory University in Atlanta are studying the long-term health effects of exposure to PBB. The team was in Michigan this past weekend to continue the study.
Michigan town looks forward to cleaning up mess left behind by chemical company
By Lindsey Smith & Mark Brush • Oct 17, 2013
You can listen to today's Environment Report above.
Forty years ago a chemical mix-up led to one of Michigan's worst environmental tragedies, and it's not over yet.
The mix-up occurred in early 1973 at the former Michigan Chemical Corporation plant (which later became the Velsicol Chemical Corporation) in St. Louis, Mich. The company accidentally shipped flame-retardant chemicals to livestock farms around the state.
Farmers thought they were getting a feed supplement. Instead, they were dosing their animals with the toxic chemical PBB.
The problem wasn't discovered for another year -- and the chemicals were passed up the food chain to humans.
$26.5 million goes to central Michigan city polluted by chemical company
By Mark Brush • Apr 1, 2011
Land and groundwater in the city of St. Louis, Michigan has been contaminated with chemicals from the Velsicol Chemical Company.
Now the city will get $26.5 million to help set up a new water supply system.
According to the EPA, Velsicol (formerly known as the Michigan Chemical Corporation) "produced various chemical compounds and products at its fifty-four acre main plant site in St. Louis, Michigan, such as hexabromobenzene (HBB), 1,1,1-trichloro-2,2-bis(p-chlorophenyl) ethane (DDT), polybrominated biphenyl (PBB), and tris(2,3-dibromopropyl) phosphate (tris)."
The EPA says the company produced these chemicals from 1936 until 1978.
From the Associated Press:
ST. LOUIS, Mich. — A federal judge has approved a $26.5 million settlement for a central Michigan community whose water supply was contaminated by a chemical company in the 1950s and 1960s.
U.S. District Court Judge Thomas L. Ludington in Bay City signed an order approving the deal on Thursday.
The city of St. Louis, Mich., hopes the settlement with Rosemont, Ill.-based Velsicol Chemical Co. will help pay to replace the water system that serves the area, which is contaminated with a byproduct of the pesticide DDT.
The settlement of the 2007 lawsuit was approved this week by the City Council.
The city says money for the settlement includes $20.5 million from an insurance company for Velsicol and $6 million from a trust related to a former parent company.
The EPA lists the threats and contaminants in the community:
On-site groundwater is contaminated with DDT, chlorobenzene, carbon tetrachloride, trichloroethylene (TCE), and other chlorinated compounds. On site soil samples revealed contamination with PBBs, copper, chromium, zinc, and magnesium. The sediments of the Pine River were also contaminated with similar contaminants through direct discharges from the site; however, surface waters do not show any significant impacts. Potential risks exist for people who eat contaminated fish and wildlife in the vicinity of the site.


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145—Waterloo, 2952—Napoleon, 20-Inez, 170—Dix,
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INSTRUCTIONS FOR
LEARNING CHRONOLOGY.
All facts expressed in figures are difficult to remember. In recollecting statistics by Mnemotechnic rules, we do not attempt to remember the figures, but we change them to words, and then recollect the words. Our first examples are in Chronological Events. On finding an Event with its Date, that we wish to Mnemonize, or retain in the mind by Mnemotechny, we take the " Mnemotechnic Dictionary," turn to the number that represents the date, and from the words that stand for the number, we select one that has the most intimate connection with the Event itself, and connect it with the Event, by a Sentence or Formula, and by look. ing over the Formula carefully, we remember the key. word, or, as we call it, the "Mnemotechnic Phrase," and that by translation will give us the Date. Suppose the Event to be London founded by the Romans,
A. D. 49. The word Europe standing for 49, we make this Formula: London founded by the Romans, is now the 4 9 largest city in
Europe. re, pe. The Mnemotechnic phrase Europe, is easily recollected in connection with the foundation of London, and stands for 49, the correct date.
We divide Chronology into three great periods; "Ancient,'
." " Middle Age," and "Modern." We have Ancient Chronology comprise the period from the Creation to the birth of Christ; Middle Age Chronology extends from the Christian Era to the year 1000 ; and Modern Chronology extends from the year 1000 to the present time. It may sometimes be difficult for the learner to tell whether an event took place before or after the Christian Era, if it was within a few years of that period. To prevent mistakes, the form. ulas have been constructed in a manner that will show whether an event took place before or after Christ, provided it was within 100 years of that period. All those events that took place before the Christian Era, and within 100 years of that period, have formulas with zero phrases, or phrases that stand for a zero or cipher first, and the remain. ing articulations stand for the correct date. All events that took place after the Christian Era, and within 100 years of that period, never have phrases that represent a cipher first. Song stands for the year that " Dionysius of Halicarnassus completed his history," and as Song stands for 07, the cipher before the 7 shows the event to have been before the Christian Era.
The learner will remember that this rule only applies to dates represented by one or two figures only. When Events transpired more than 100 years either before or after Christ, the formulas are no guide to the period, and it must be left to the judgment of the learner.
On the opposite page is a table of Events. In order to tell the dates from memory, the learner must commit the formulas on the two following pages. The phrases in Antique letter at the close of each formula, translate to the date of the Event that is mentioned. Without spending much time in practicing on the words in the preceding pages, if learners will commit to memory a few pages
of formulas every day, and recite them by giving the dates aloud by translating the Phrases, in the course of a few weeks, they will commit to memory all the tables in the volume, and amass an amount of Historical, Biographical, Literary and Scientific information, that very few persons learn in the course of their lives. It will be seen by practice, that the formulas for a page of dates can be committed to memory in less than one fourth the time that the dates themselves can, and be retained infinitely longer. Some practice in translation, will enable the learner to give a date as readily by translating the phrase, as if the date itself was remembered.
A SELECTION
EVENTS FROM ANCIENT HISTORY.
Artificial Memory first taught by Simonides,
B. C. 469 Athenian army under Nicias, captured at Syracuse,
413 Beginning of the Olympic Era, Byzantium, (now Constantinople,) founded,
657 Cæsar killed in the Senate-house, by Brutus and Cassius, Cambyses, king of Persia, conquered Egypt,
525 Cicero banished, at the instigation of Clodius,
58 Cyrus captured Babylon, ·
538 Death of Socrates,
400 Dionysius of Halicarnassus, completes his history,
7 Draco of Athens, framed his bloody code of laws, .
621 Eclipse of the Moon: the first on record, .
721 First law in Rome against bribery at elections,
149 First Triumvirate, between Pompoy, Cæsar and Crassus, . 60 Gladiators first exhibited,
264 Grecian system of education adopted at Rome, .
164 Homer supposed to have flourished,
907 Lysimachus defeated and slain at Cyropedium, .
281 Marius defeats and captures Jugurtha,
106 Parchment invented by King Attalus,
210 Peloponnesian War commenced,
431 Pompey's Pillar erected at Alexandria,
48 Retreat of the Ten thousand Greeks, under Xenophon, .
401 Rise of the Achæan League,
280 Rome founded,
753 Sardinia and Corsica conquered by the Romans,
231 Scipio " carries the war into Africa," and besieges Utica, 204 Second Punic War commenced-lasted sixteen years, 218 The seven wise men of Greece flourish,
621 Solar Eclipses first calculated, by Thales,
620 Solon's Laws adopted at Athens,
594 The Mausoleum, the sixth wonder of the world, erected, 351 Tiberius Gracchus put to death,
133 Xerxes, king of Persia, commenced his reign,
FORMULAS FOR
ANCIENT HISTORICAL EVENTS.
Artificial Memory first taught by Simonides, 4 6 9 made him
Rich and Happy. re, che, pe. The Athenian Army, under Nicias, was cap
1 3 tured at Syracuse, during A War Time. re, te, me. The Olympic Era, was established by some 7 7 6
King or Jew. ke, ghe, je. Byzantium or. Constantinople was founded, 6 5 7 and cost more than
A Shilling. she, le, ghe. Cæsar, who was killed in the Senate-house, 0 4 4
had the reputation of A Wise Warrior, ze, re, re. Cambyses, king of Persia, conquered Egypt, 5 2 5 and took
A Sail on the Nile. le, ne, le. Cicero was banished at the instigation of 0 5 8
Clodius, and he left rather than be A Slave, se, le, Cyrus captured Babylon, by
A Sly Move. le, me, ve. Socrates was put to death, and slept as quiet- 4 0 0 ly as if on a bed of
Roses. re, ze, ze. Dionysius of Halicarnassus completed his
0 7 History, which was celebrated in
Song.
se, ghe Draco of Athens framed his bloody code of 6 2 1
laws, and acted like a cruel Giant. je, ne, te. The First Eclipse of the Moon on record, 7 2 1 looked like
A Sky Window. ke, ne, de The Law in Rome against bribery at elec- 1 4 9 tions, affected many
A Tribe. te, re, be. The First Triumvirate, was a coalition of 0 6 0 three
Sages. se, je, ze. Gladiators were first exhibited, and inflicted 2 6 4 on one another much
Injury, ne, je, re. The Grecian System of Education, adopted 1 6 4 at Rome, had many
A Teacher. te, che, re,


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