Additional Records of Michigan Bat Ectoparasites

New Michigan county records for Ischnopsyllidae, Cimicidae, Spinturnicidae, Macro- nyssidae, and Trombiculidae from bats are given along with two new bat/parasite records for the United States

New Records for Ectoparasites of Michigan Bats

During 1978, 1979, and 1981 ectoparasites of bats were collected in 16 counties of the Upper and Lower peninsulas in connection with an extensive study of Michigan bat populations (Kurta 1980, 1982). The two insect and five acarine species recovered include four new records for Michigan and two new host records for the United States. All are listed with comments on past records of Michigan bat ectoparasites

Challenging the Idea of Community : Angels in America, The Laramie Project and Take Me Out

This paper explores the disruptive impact that the verbal revelation of homosexuality causes to the community, as presented in Tony Kushner’s Angels in America, Moises Kaufman’s The Laramie Project, and Richard Greenberg’s Take Me Out. These revelations and subsequent disruptions occur in the early moments of each of the plays and, as a result, the larger action and substance of these works deals with the repercussions, including an exploration of the reactions and chain of events that these initial disturbances set in motion. The issues raised, however, are not always connected directly to the initial revelation of homosexuality, but the plays focus largely on how things will ultimately be set right again with the forcing of these issues to the forefront of the community consciousness. In Angels in America, Kushner presents three separate instances in which varying levels of homosexuality cause disruptions both to a character’s role in their specific community, as well as their personal identity. For the Mormon-Republican character of Joe Pitt his verbal coming out puts a strain not only on his heterosexual marriage and religious faith, but also his professional relationship with Republican powerhouse, and closeted homosexual, Roy Cohn. The fictionalized Cohn also experiences a similar disruption through his AIDS diagnosis, the illness serving as an undeniable indicator of his hidden sexuality. The openly homosexual character of Prior Walter also experiences the disruptive impact of AIDS, when his advancing illness puts a strain on his relationship with his partner Louis. The Laramie Project uses a technique developed by Kaufman and the Tectonic Theatre Project called “Moment work” to explore the disruptive impact the murder of gay-university student Matthew Shepard had on the small town of Laramie, WY. Matthew’s murder pushes the existence of a homosexual “community” within the larger town to the forefront of people’s minds and forces a re-examination of their “don’t ask, don’t tell” attitude toward homosexuality in general. Laramie is also the only one of the three plays that never deals directly with the disruption itself. Matthew is never presented on stage; all information concerning both his character and his part in the murder comes through second or third parties only, including other members of Laramie’s homosexual population. Finally, Take Me Out explores the disruptive aftermath following the very public coming out of major league baseball player Darren Lemming. This public acknowledgement of his homosexuality not only affects his status in the eyes of his fans, but also puts a strain on his teammates by forcing them to re-evaluate their relationships with Darren and their potential “homo-erotic” closeness with each other. If he could be homosexual, any of them could and it is precisely this growing tension and discomfort that leads to a slow loss of trust, and trust is a necessity for the success of any close community. Through an examination of all of these plays I will explore the disruptions caused by these revelations of homosexuality, and the conflict that emerges between the individual and the community, and how the community as a whole may move forward

Екологічні технології рециклінгу високотоксичних промислових відходів

Recently, due to the increasing environmental problems in the process of industrial chemical production, there is a need to increase the conversion of raw materials into the finished products. This prevents the formation of by-products and especially toxic waste. This dramatically reduces the cost for selection and utilization toxic industrial waste. In this paper we describe a several  of new policy decisions more effective ways of processing and recycling of industrial organochlorine waste (OCW) in the production of dichloroethane and vinyl chloride monomer, returning — recycling of raw materials.The study on chlorination of unsaturated chlorinated wastes showed that the additional treatment with chlorine to reduce the amount of unsaturated OCW and to increase the content of 1,2-dichloroethane in chlororganic waste at 9-15% reduced the loss of 1,2-dichloroethane when burned. The study optimized the conditions of the process of alkali dehydrochlorination, using a freshly prepared suspension of Ca(OH)2 in NaOH, which allows to process the 1,2-dichloroethane and 1,1,2-trichloroethane with a total conversion of 95-96% of trade vinyl chloride and vinylidene chloride  to the outputs of the last 25-70%. This method can reduce the amount of waste incinerated chlororganic 2-5 times.В последнее время в связи с ростом экологических проблем в процессе промышленного химического производства, возникла потребность в повышении степени превращения сырья в целевые продукты. В данной работе описывается ряд новых принципиальных решений более эффективных путей переработки и утилизации промышленных хлорорганических отходов на производстве дихлорэтана и винилхлорида с возвращением – рециклингом сырья.Останнім часом у зв'язку із зростанням екологічних проблем в процесі промислового хімічного виробництва, виникла потреба в підвищенні ступеня перетворення сировини в цілеві продукти. В даній роботі описуються ряд нових принципових рішень більш ефективних шляхів переробки та утилізації промислових хлорорганічних відходів на виробництві дихлоретану i вінілхлориду з поверненням – рециклінгом сировини