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Finding the Perfect Disease: 20 facts and thoughts on human diseases
I spent more than 5 hours reading about infectious diseases yesterday because syphilis just might not be the disease I need for my novel. Or it might not be the only one my character has. I was looking for the following qualities: urgent symptoms, curable, fatal if not cured in time. The problem with syphilis is that in the first two phases (when it's still treatable) the symptoms tend to be so mild that people often don't even know they're really sick. Each phase also has the potential to last from a few weeks to years and years. So there's no urgency for fictitious purposes. For people like me, who are slightly possibly a little bit prone to catastrophizing absolutely every physical pang or headache into a brain tumor, doing medical research can be dangerous. The thing is, I find medical research irresistible. My curiosity is insatiable. I want to know ALL THE BAD CREEPY STUFF THAT CAN HAPPEN TO HUMAN BEINGS!!!
Here are some things I learned yesterday
1. Typhoid Mary was a real person named Mary who spread typhoid to a ton of people because she was a carrier that didn't ever get sick and was also a cook who didn't believe in washing her hands.
2. Only 1 in 10 people infected with tuberculosis ever have an active infection. It is believed that 1/3 of the world's population is infected with M. Tuberculosis. That's 1 in 3 people who have latent tuberculosis. Could YOU be harboring the bacteria in your tissue?*
3. If you read about a lot of diseases and their symptoms it becomes impossible not to see that the job doctors have of diagnosing is a lot more complicated than people in distress will ever admit. You think it should be obvious to people with really extensive and expensive educations but the symptoms of HIV are a lot like the symptoms of TB which are a lot like the symptoms of syphilis. So don't be an asshole to doctors because they don't know EVERYTHING.
4. Smallpox was a badass health villain. I mean – it is a nasty nasty virus. I knew it was a nasty virus but I didn't realize what a pandemic it was and the word "vaccination" was coined because of the improved inoculation against smallpox that came about by a doctor discovering that cows get a smallpox humans can't get but that introducing the cow's smallpox virus to humans would protect against the human smallpox virus with a high rate of immunity. The root of the word "vaccination" is cow. I never knew that.
5. Smallpox vaccinations were made mandatory in many developed countries and it was because of this that smallpox was eradicated and all vaccination programs for it were deemed no longer necessary by 1976 with the US being the last to discontinue it. When you think of vaccinations being evil – you just read the statistics on rate of the smallpox vaccination killing patients compared to the rate at which smallpox kills people who aren't vaccinated. If you still think they're evil then I think you haven't read enough about smallpox and how likely it is to kill everyone you know.
6. I saw pictures of people infected with smallpox. They should show these pictures to people in school when learning about plagues that have killed off large populations of people. It really hits home. This is no little "rash" as I always thought. It's gnarly. I mean, you don't have any regular skin left while infected. I was shocked and also – no "rash" looks like that that I've ever seen before.
7. Pandemics aren't funny and they aren't a government conspiracy and vaccines against them are one the most significant contributions scientists have made to human health.
8. It's incredible what a difference just washing our hands after going to the bathroom can make on keeping disease from spreading. Such a simple thing. So easy. Soap, it does us all good! No need for antibacterial soaps either. Just plain soap and water. Do it today.
9. Humans are disgusting.
10. I like to claim that I'm not germaphobic but this is not strictly true as reading about STD's and other infectious diseases reminds me. I don't think mouths and genitals should ever get together. I know it's like the ultimate in sexual pleasure for many people but the thought of how many mouths and genitals are mixing it up all over the world makes me so uncomfortable that the thought makes me pretty sick and makes me want to come back as a cockroach.
11. I also don't think mouths should be doing a lot of other things they do.
12. I have now told you something very private about myself and I'm going to have to kill you to keep you quiet.
13. Humans are worse than ticks and mosquitoes with regards to spreading disease.
14. If the Black Plague is going to kill you it's going to do it within 4 days.
15. If you think getting TB in these modern days is no big deal, you're a fool. If you're prone to anxiety and fear of diseases like I am, don't read about why it's still a really bad-ass problem for humans with a respectable fatality rate.
16. Sex is really dangerous.
17. Scarlet fever seems like a mere cold compared to smallpox.
18. The Chinese were recorded inoculating against smallpox as early as the 10th century. Though inoculation techniques may have been used by Egyptians as early as 1000BC by making a powder of the dried scabs of smallpox sores to be snorted. Yum. How's THAT for natural medicine?!
19. Nature has some pretty fierce moves.
20. Maybe these anti-vaccine and anti-modern medicine people have the right of it. Maybe it IS better if half or all of the human population is killed off by smallpox and the Bubonic Plague and Tuberculosis and Typhoid. I'm not a real fan of humans and nature has very distinct ways of controlling overpopulation amongst animals which includes starvation, disease, and fights over territory resulting in culling down of packs and cutting off defeated males from access to females. Tell me this hasn't been happening with humans for thousands of years now? Unlike other animals we're too stupid to scale back our reproduction activities
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*As you have probably already guessed, the bacteria is not spread evenly throughout the world's population. In the United States the number of people infected are much lower than in Asian and African populations.
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Jury sees video of 'chance' encounter at centre of dismemberment-murder trial
By Betsy PowellCourts Reporter
A jury has seen surveillance footage of what the prosecution calls Melissa Cooper's "chance" encounter with Ian Albert Ohab on a downtown Toronto apartment elevator, before he allegedly dismembered her with a hack saw.
The prosecution alleges Ian Albert Ohab killed Melissa Cooper in his 23rd floor apartment at 220 Oak St. after the surveillance footage captured their elevator "interaction" at 1:35 a.m. on April 15, 2016, the last time she was seen alive, and April 19, 2016.
Ohab, 41, admits he cut up her body and is guilty of the charge of committing an indignity to a dead body.
But he has pleaded not guilty to the charge of first-degree murder.
Jurors hearing the case in Superior Court have heard her cause of death is unknown.
The jury has also heard both Cooper and Ohab were drug users.
Life at 220 Oak St., one of TCHC's most troubled addresses, takes centre stage at dismemberment-murder trial
Man admits he dismembered woman whose remains were found behind a Riverdale meat shop, but says he didn't kill her
Why was a publication ban imposed on Melissa Cooper's identity?
On Thursday, Ohab's lawyer, Philip Klumak, asked homicide Det.-Sgt. Terry Browne if he knew Ohab was a drug addict based on what he found in his apartment at 220 Oak.
Brown agreed that, after the investigation led police to Ohab as a suspect in Cooper's disapperance, a search of his 23rd floor unit revealed a lot of "drug activity" had been taking place.
The jury spent most of Thursday's proceeding looking at still photographs of the interior of Ohab's apartment as well as dozens of snippets of surveillance footage, a lot of it of Ohab getting on and off elevators, sometimes with a bicycle or two.
The building's multiple surveillance cameras also captured Ohab coming and going in various locations in the hours and days after Cooper was last seen. Tall and lanky with with thick black hair shoulder length hair, he can be seen carrying various bags and wheeling a shopping buggy containing an item wrapped in a plastic bag.
The Crown alleges that was part of Cooper's torso, which was discovered behind a Broadview meat shop about a 12-minute walk from the Toronto Community Housing highrise, near Gerrard and River Sts. Her arm was discovered on a conveyer belt at a recycling factory. The rest of her body has never been recovered.
Brown testified Ohab's hair was cut short when he was arrested April 29, 2016.
Jurors also watched surveillance footage of Cooper, on April 15, 2016, at approximately 12:40 a.m., entering the front lobby at 220 Oak wearing a grey hoodie and a backpack.
Security video presented in court at the murder trial of Ian Albert Ohab shows Ohab, left, meeting Melissa Cooper in an elevator at 220 Oak St. on April 15, 2016, the last day she was seen alive. (Credit: Ontario Superior Court exhibit)
Maurice Liberty, a 220 Oak St. resident, has testified Cooper spent about half an hour in his apartment before going off in search of crack cocaine.
Cooper struggled with alcohol and drug addiction, but the trial has heard was managing her life better than she had in the past.
Betsy Powell is a Toronto-based reporter covering crime and courts. Follow her on Twitter: @powellbetsy

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GBP/USD dropped as the government's soft Brexit plan ran into opposition and as the US Dollar gained ground. What's next? UK inflation, employment, and retail sales figures stand out. Here are the key events and an updated technical analysis for GBP/USD.
The UK government agreed on a common rulebook with the European Union, akin to a customs union. The good news was clouded by the resingations of Brexit minister David Davis and Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson. Nevertheless, the government remains stable. In the US, data has been upbeat and so has the Fed. The trade wars, with the recent details on a $200 billion worth of goods prepared by the US against China, benefits the greenback.
Rightmove HPI: Sunday, 23:01. The earliest report on UK house prices showed a rise of 0.4% in June, slower than in May. We may see another month of modest growth now.
Mark Carney talks: Tuesday, 8:00. The governor of the Bank of England testifies in Parliament and may face tough questions about postponing the rate hike and the impact of Brexit on the economy. There are growing chances of a rate hike in August, but nothing is fully priced in. Any hints will likely rock the pound.
CB Leading Index: Wednesday, 13:30. The Conference Board's composite indicator showed a monthly drop of 0.2% last time, causing some worries. We could see a recovery now.
Retail Sales: Thursday, 8:30. Consumers were out and about spending in May, as headline sales leaped by 1.3%. A more modest increase of 0.2% is on the cards now. The publication tends to have a strong, yet a short-lived impact on GBP/USD.
Public Sector Net Borrowing: Friday, 8:30. Borrowing by the government has been OK last time, with 3.4 billion pounds. It is expected to broaden to 3.7 billion this time. Higher government lending is negative for the pound.
Pound/dollar started the week with an upswing, reaching a peak of 1.3365. It then dropped and bounced only at the round number of 1.3100 mentioned last week.
1.3250 was a swing low in early June. Even lower, 1.3205 was the low point in late May. 1.3100 was a swing low in mid-June and 1.3050 is the latest 2018 low. The round number of 1.3000 awaits below. Even lower, 1.2950 is notable.
While the British government suffered top-tier resignations from Johnson and Davis, the soft-Brexit plan is moving forward and this is good news for the pound.


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module BeaconControl
  module AnalyticsExtension
    class Worker
      def initialize(event_data)
        self.message_event = EventProcessor::Message::Event.new(event_data)
      end

      def publish
        Aggregator.new(message_event).aggregate
      end

      private

      attr_accessor :message_event
    end
  end
end

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The Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence (the Istanbul Convention) entered into force on 1 August 2014. As we begin 2015, when the members of the treaty body (GREVIO) will be elected and the process of reviewing states' conformity with this very detailed and practical convention will begin, it is a good moment to reflect on the possibilities which come with this new binding standard.
While this is a treaty negotiated and adopted within the Council of Europe, its values and antecedents are truly global. The general recommendations, concluding observations and jurisprudence of the Committee on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination, General Assembly Resolutions on violence against women and criminal responses to violence against women, regional treaties on women's rights from the Americas and Africa were all influential on the content, as was the UN Secretary-General's in-depth report on violence against women of 2006 and twenty years of insights from three successive Special Rapporteurs on violence against women, its causes and consequences. The treaty was negotiated by state representatives, some of whom were past and present members of CEDAW. Others were experienced members of feminist civil society, with in-depth practical knowledge of the demands of service provision to women escaping gender-based violence.
Christine Chinkin and Renee Romkens acted as advisers to the negotiation, with great distinction. Christine brought a deep knowledge of international human rights law, international humanitarian law and international criminal law. Renee brought a deep knowledge of the sociological research base on inequality and gender-based violence. Civil society were observers – with limited opportunities to engage with the debates – including the European Women's Lobby, the ILGA-Europe (the European Region of the International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association), WAVE (Women against Violence Europe) and Amnesty International – the organization I represented during the negotiations.
The Istanbul Convention deals with violence against women, including domestic violence, within a legal and policy framework of promoting women's equality, according to CEDAW Article 1 and the transformative commitment of the entire treaty. Among its purposes is to contribute to "the elimination of all forms of discrimination against women and promote substantive equality between women and men, including by empowering women." (Article 1b). Its 65 substantive articles are based in a practical response to what we know about the practice of violence against women, and how to eradicate it.
The treaty provides for three engines of change to take action on this knowledge basis. At the national level, there is a requirement in Article 10 to establish a coordinating institution, "responsible for the coordination, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of policies and measures to prevent and combat all forms of violence covered by this Convention" which will enforce joined-up thinking and action within each member state. It is also responsible for coordinating the collection of data on violence against women, analysing and disseminate the results of the data. States are required to cooperate positively with civil society organizations (Article 9) and provide "appropriate financial and human resources for the adequate implementation of integrated policies, measures and programmes" (Article 8).
At the international level, there will be a monitoring process by a panel of experts to whom states must provide a report on the implementation of the Convention. The GREVIO is empowered to govern its own procedures (article 68(4)), receive information from civil society (Article 68(5)) and international organizations (Article 68(8)) and make recommendations to states on how to improve their implementation of the Convention. Exceptionally, the GREVIO has powers to undertake urgent reports in order to prevent "serious, massive, or persistent" violations of the Convention (Article 68(13)), even with the power to undertake visits to countries (Article 68(14)).
The third, and most novel, engine for change is to require states parties to invite their parliaments to participate in the monitoring of the implementation of the convention (Article 70), which is apt and resonant given the huge numbers of women affected by gender-based violence. Addressing violence against women is a matter for democratic scrutiny as well as implementation of the rule of law.


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Chapter 3347: UNIVERSITY HOUSING COMMISSIONS
3347.01 University housing commissions.
There is hereby created:
(A) The Ohio state university housing commission, which shall consist of the chairman of the board of trustees, the president, and the business manager of Ohio state university;
(B) The Miami university housing commission, which shall consist of the chairman of the board of trustees, the president, and the business manager of Miami university;
(C) The Central state university housing commission, which shall consist of the chairman of the board of trustees, the president, and the business manager of Central state university;
(D) The Kent state university housing commission, which shall consist of the chairman of the board of trustees, the president, and the business manager of Kent state university;
(E) The Bowling Green university housing commission, which shall consist of the chairman of the board of trustees, the president, and the business manager of Bowling Green state university;
(F) The Ohio university housing commission, which shall consist of the chairman of the board of trustees, the president, and the business manager of Ohio university;
(G) The Cleveland state university housing commission, which shall consist of the chairman of the board of trustees, the president, and the business manager of Cleveland state university;
(H) The university of Toledo housing commission, which shall consist of the chairman of the board of trustees, the president, and the business manager of the university of Toledo;
(I) The Wright state university housing commission, which shall consist of the chairman of the board of trustees, the president, and the business manager of Wright state university;
(J) The university of Akron housing commission, which shall consist of the chairman of the board of trustees, the president, and the business manager of the university of Akron;
(K) The Youngstown state university housing commission, which shall consist of the chairman of the board of trustees, the president, and the business manager of Youngstown state university;
(L) The university of Cincinnati housing commission, which shall consist of the chairman of the board of trustees, the president, and the business manager of the university of Cincinnati;
(M) The Shawnee state university housing commission, which shall consist of the chairman of the board of trustees, the president, and the business manager of Shawnee state university.
3347.02 Reimbursement for expenses of members - organization of commission.
The members of each of the commissions created by section 3347.01 of the Revised Code shall receive no compensation for their services, but shall be reimbursed for their actual expenses incurred in the performance of their duties. Each commission shall organize by electing a chairman and a vice-chairman from its membership and may employ such professional, technical, and clerical assistants as are necessary, and define their duties and fix their compensation, to carry out the objects and purposes of sections 3347.01 to 3347.08, inclusive, of the Revised Code. The majority of each commission must concur in any action taken by the commission, which shall establish rules and keep a journal of its proceedings.
3347.03 Acquisition or use of property or state lands for housing purposes.
Each commission created by section 3347.01 of the Revised Code may acquire property of any kind by purchase, gift, or devise and hold and use any such property, or may use state lands at their respective universities upon consent of the respective boards of trustees thereof, for the erection, remodeling, or improving and equipping of buildings for suitable housing, dormitory, dining hall, and recreational accommodations, referred to as "buildings" in sections 3347.03 to 3347.08 of the Revised Code, for students, instructors, members of the faculty, the administration and maintenance staff of the universities with which each commission is identified, and their families. The construction, remodeling, or improving of any such buildings shall be in accordance with plans and specifications approved by the commission and with sections 153.01 and 153.04 to 153.20 of the Revised Code, except that the commission may act in all instances where the Ohio facilities construction commission is mentioned in such sections.
Amended by 129th General AssemblyFile No.127, HB 487, §101.01, eff. 9/10/2012.
Effective Date: 12-04-1973 .
3347.04 Issuance of bonds, notes or other written instruments.
For the purpose of obtaining funds for the acquisition of lands or the erection, remodeling, and equipping of buildings as defined in section 3347.03 of the Revised Code, or for any of such purposes, and for the purpose of paying legal, architectural, engineering, administrative, and clerical expenses incident thereto, each housing commission may provide by resolution for the issuance of bonds, notes, or other written instruments evidencing indebtedness, in such amount and in such denominations as such commission determines. Such bonds, notes, or other written instruments shall bear interest payable semiannually, and shall mature at such time not more than thirty years from their date as is determined by such commission, and may be made redeemable before maturity at the option of the issuing commission, to be exercised by it at such price and under such terms as it determines prior to the issuance of said bonds. The principal and interest of such bonds, notes, or other written instruments may be made payable in any lawful medium. The issuing commission shall determine the form of the bonds, notes, or other written instruments, including the interest coupons to be attached thereto, and the place of payment of principal and interest thereof, which may be at any bank or trust company within or without the state. Bonds, notes, or other written instruments issued by any such commission shall be signed by the chairman of that commission and attested by the secretary of that commission, provided that one of such signatures may be a facsimile signature, and the coupons attached thereto shall bear the facsimile signature of said chairman of the issuing commission and in case any such officer whose signature appears thereon ceases to be such officer before delivery thereof, such signature or facsimile shall nevertheless be valid and sufficient for all purposes the same as if he had remained in office until such delivery. All bonds, notes, or other written instruments issued under sections 3347.01 to 3347.08, inclusive, of the Revised Code shall contain a statement on their face that the state shall not be obligated to pay the same or the interest thereon and that such bonds, notes, or other written instruments and interest are payable only from the revenue accruing to the issuing commission.
3347.05 Bonds, notes, or other written instruments negotiable, exempt from taxation and lawful investments - issuance and sale.
All bonds, notes, or other written instruments provided for in section 3347.04 of the Revised Code shall have all of the qualities and incidents of negotiable instruments and the bonds, notes, or other written instruments are exempt from all taxation, state and municipal. The bonds, notes, or other written instruments are lawful investments of banks, savings banks, trust companies, trustees, trustees of sinking funds of municipal corporations and counties, and domestic insurance companies notwithstanding sections 3907.14 and 3925.08 of the Revised Code, and are acceptable as security for the deposit of public moneys. Such bonds, notes, and other written instruments may be issued in coupon or in registered form or both, as the issuing commission may determine. Provisions may be made for the registration of any of the bonds, notes, or other written instruments in the name of the owner as to principal alone and as to both principal and interest, and for exchange between those in coupon form and those in fully registered form. The issuing housing commission may sell the bonds, notes, or other written instruments in a manner and for the price it determines to be for its best interest, but they shall be sold for not less than par, with accrued interest to date of sale.
3347.06 Buildings rented by housing commission.
Upon completion of any buildings as defined in section 3347.03 of the Revised Code, such building shall be rented by the housing commission to students, instructors, faculty members, the administration and maintenance staff of the university with which the commission is identified, or any of such groups, for the residence of themselves and their families, upon such terms of rental as is [are] determined by the commission.
3347.07 Rentals to be placed in separate sinking fund - use of money in fund.
The rentals received from a building as defined in section 3347.03 of the Revised Code, after paying the costs of operation, administration, maintenance, and repair and necessary fiscal agency charges applicable to each such property, shall be placed in a separate sinking fund which is hereby pledged to and charged with the payment of interest and principal of the bonds, notes, or other written instruments issued in respect of such building. Prior to the issuance of any such bonds, notes, or other written instruments, the housing commission may provide by resolution for using the sinking fund for such issue, or any part thereof, for the purchase of the outstanding bonds, notes, or other written instruments of such issue, at the market price thereof, and all bonds, notes, or other written instruments so purchased shall forthwith be canceled and shall not again be issued. The money in each such sinking fund, less such reserve as may be provided for principal and interest prior to the issuance of such bonds, notes, or other written instruments, if not used within a reasonable time for the purchase of such bonds, notes, or other written instruments, shall be applied to the redemption, in accordance with the provisions thereof, of the bonds, notes, or other written instruments for the payment of which the particular sinking fund is pledged. The moneys in each such sinking fund shall be placed in the hands of the treasurer of state as custodian, and shall be disbursed upon order of the commission upon vouchers signed by the chairman thereof.
3347.071 Bonds or notes secured by a trust agreement.
In the event that bonds, notes, or other evidences of indebtedness issued pursuant to section 3347.04 of the Revised Code are secured by a trust agreement between the issuing commission and a corporate trustee, as determined by the commission in its resolution authorizing their issuance, the revenues received by the issuing commission from the buildings referred to in section 3347.03 of the Revised Code, shall be pledged, deposited, held, invested, disbursed, used, and applied to such extent, in such manner, at such times, and for such purposes as are provided in such trust agreement or resolution, notwithstanding any provisions of section 3347.07 of the Revised Code. Such trust agreement or resolution may contain such terms and provisions as the issuing commission determines, and may provide for the pledge or assignment of all or such part of the revenue of any such buildings designated therein, as the commission determines, to the payment of the principal of and interest on such bonds, notes, and other written instruments and expenditures related thereto, after provision for the reasonable costs of operating, maintaining, and repairing the buildings so designated, but such trust agreement or resolution shall not mortgage or convey any such building or part thereof and shall neither obligate the state to make any such payments or deposits nor obligate the commission to make them from other than such revenues.
3347.08 Conveyance of buildings and lands to the state.
When sufficient funds have been received from the revenues from buildings provided in section 3347.07 of the Revised Code to pay bonds, notes, or other written instruments issued with respect to such buildings and accrued interest, the said buildings and the lands whereon the same are situated, shall be conveyed to the state by the housing commission owning and operating the same for the use and benefit of the university with which such commission is identified and such commission may execute and deliver all necessary deeds therefor.
3347.09 Leases or subleases - state not obligated.
Each commission created by section 3347.01 of the Revised Code may lease or sublease real property and buildings for suitable housing, dormitory, dining hall, and recreational accommodations for students, members of the faculty, the administration and maintenance staff, and their spouses and children, of the university with which each commission is identified, on such terms as the commission determines, provided, that each such lease or sublease shall provide that the state is not obligated to pay any of the rentals or perform any of the obligations thereunder and that such rentals and obligations are to be paid or performed only from the revenue accruing to the commission executing the lease or sublease.
3347.091 Location of University housing, dining, and recreation facilities.
(A) Real property or buildings a university housing commission identifies as a property site for development or redevelopment under section 3347.09 of the Revised Code may be situated within or outside of the political subdivision in which the administrative offices of the university identified with the commission are principally located.
(B) If located entirely outside of the political subdivision, but not less than thirty-three per cent of the property site's boundary is contiguous, continuously or otherwise, to other university-owned or leased property, then all of the following apply:
(1) The uses specified in section 3347.09 of the Revised Code are unconditionally permitted on the property site.
(2) The property site may be developed to accommodate population and structural densities exhibited in any other developed real property and buildings owned or leased by the university or commission for the purposes provided in section 3347.09 of the Revised Code.
(3) None of the following may be enforced, to the extent they prohibit, condition, limit, or impair either the development of a property site in accordance with this section or the housing or structural types or dimensions proposed for such purposes:
(a) Land use laws enacted by a municipality, township, city, or county;
(b) Subdivision regulations;
(c) Any other similar lawfully binding provision.
(C) Nothing in this section shall be construed to impair or prohibit a commission or university from acquiring title to real property or buildings leased or proposed to be leased in accordance with this section.
Added by 132nd General Assembly File No. TBD, HB 49, §101.01, eff. 9/29/2017.
3347.10 Authority of commission to grant the use of lands.
Each commission created by section 3347.01 of the Revised Code may, upon such consideration, terms, and conditions as are approved by it, grant to any municipal corporation or county, or transfer to the director of transportation, the right to use in perpetuity or for such period of time as such commission shall specify, any lands owned by it or under its supervision or control for any street, road, or highway purpose, which may include or be limited to areas or space on, above, or below the surface. Such grant or transfer may be subject to a reserved right of such commission, its successors and assigns, including the board of trustees of the university with which it is identified, to use and improve, and permit the use and improvement of, such lands for buildings, structures, and other uses and purposes as shall not interfere with the use granted for street, road, or highway purposes. Such grant shall be authorized by resolution of such commission and shall be executed in the same form and manner as is provided for deeds by section 5301.13 of the Revised Code and shall be recorded in the records of deeds of the county or counties in which such lands are situated.


Orchard of grafted chestnut cultivars in Michigan. Photo: Erin Lizotte, MSU Extension.
In today's market, all commercial fruit and nut tree orchards should be established with cultivars that have been selected by horticulturalists for superior qualities. These cultivars are not produced through seed, but are cloned by grafting or budding onto seedlings that will support the chosen cultivar. In this manner, a single tree with beneficial traits can be copied millions of times by simply cutting small branches from the chosen tree and attaching it onto the stem of planted seedlings. Conversely, seedlings are the result of sexual recombination between a known mother tree and an unknown father, resulting in endless variability and unreliable characteristics, making them suboptimal for commercial production.
There are many benefits of using grafted cultivars compared to seedling trees. Cultivars allow growers to consider and select for specific traits based on grower needs and goals. Cultivars are predictable in performance and can be selected to optimizing production. Important characteristics that may help a grower select between cultivars include harvest time, pollen production and nut size, all of which are unknown in seedling populations.
Grafted trees also come into bearing much earlier. Regardless of their size or age, grafted cultivars are mature when planted and therefore initiate nut production immediately with substantial yields within five years. This earlier production allows growers to recoup their establishment costs and start generating revenue quickly. With seedling trees, it is well known that many trees do not go into production for many years if ever. This means that the fertilizers, pesticides, irrigation, etc. given to non-productive trees in the seedling orchard are wasted resources, costing money and compromising the environment with little or no return.
Additionally, since cultivars are grafted from mature tissue, they usually drop leaves at the appropriate time in the autumn and are less prone to related winter injury. Young seedling trees have a tendency to hold onto leaves well into winter, which can accumulate ice and snow that can break limbs, further damaging productivity.
So why would anyone plant seedlings? The answer is simple: Cultivars are more expensive. However, the premium cost of grafted cultivars is recouped quickly through faster, increased and more reliable nut production. The chestnut cost of production has shown that growers producing superior chestnut cultivars can recoup their investment in as little as six years and have the potential to see substantial returns on their investment over time. Research has shown that seedling orchards produce far fewer nuts and take longer to begin bearing. It is impossible to create a representative economic model, as there is too much variability in the germplasm.
Despite advertising touting "superior seedlings," there is no known method to predict the quality of chestnuts from seeds until they are mature. Most of the seedlings will not be superior. This is due to the shuffling of genes during the sexual crosses leading to the development of the seed. The only use for seedlings in a commercial orchard is as rootstocks for improved cultivars.
Another reason growers have not planted grafted cultivars is the belief they are more susceptible to chestnut blight. We know that chestnut blight susceptibility is tied to species and has nothing to do with the method of propagation. There are grafted cultivars that are completely resistant to chestnut blight, and conversely there are seedlings that are very susceptible to chestnut blight. Additionally, great strides have been made in managing chestnut blight in orchards; it is simply not an insurmountable issue. Like all pests, chestnut blight simply requires monitoring and timely management.
Finally, the last reason some may hesitate to plant improved cultivars is a misconception that they don't taste good. This is probably referring to how nuts of the cultivar 'Colossal' taste right from the tree. A 'Colossal' grafted nut usually does not taste as good as a Chinese grafted or seedling nut that falls fresh from the tree. After a couple of weeks in refrigeration, which is expected in any commercial scale chestnut operation, the process of curing is completed and starches turn to sugar 'Colossal' and have a much better taste. In fact, grafted 'Colossal' chestnuts have been some of the most sought after chestnuts on the market due to size and taste. In a Missouri taste test, Michigan-grown 'Colossal' nuts were considered the sweetest nuts of the entire test, beating out Chinese chestnuts and other 'Colossal' nuts from California and Missouri.
To start out with the best possible plan for success, growers either establishing or expanding a chestnut orchard should include superior and improved chestnut cultivars. For more information on improved cultivars or other production information, please visit Michigan State University Extension's Chestnuts page.


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The Runcorn poltergeist case study
The Runcorn Poltergeist - Quite an odd tale...
It was in August, 1952, that young John Glynn Jones and his family, living in Byron Street, Runcorn, first came face to face with the paranormal. John, aged 17, was a well-behaved, rather serious young man interested only in getting on with his job and studies with a view to qualifying as a draughtsman.
The trouble began in mid-August, 1952, when the tenant of No.1 Byron Street, Mr Sam Jones (aged 68), his sister-in-law Mrs Lucy Jones, his grandchildren John and Eileen Glynn, and a middle aged spinster lodging in the house were joined for the weekend by Mrs Jones's son and his wife on a visit from North Wales.
Mr Sam Jones and young John had to share a double bed in one bedroom while Lucy Jones and young Eileen shared another bed in the same room.
No sooner had they got into bed and were trying to get to sleep than the dressing-table started to make noises. The noises got louder and louder until all four occupants were driven from the room, then silence reigned for the time being.
When they returned to their beds the noises started up again and there was no more sleep for any of them. The next night was even worse, with the dressing-table drawers sounding as if they were being pulled out, rattled and slammed back again.
Again the nuisance stopped when the occupants left the bedroom but started up again when they returned to their beds there. This time the dressing-table moved about a foot from the wall of its own accord.
As usually happens in cases of such phenomena, John was the first suspect, guilty of a teenage hoax, and before many more wakeful nights had passed he was subjected to all kinds of tests to find out whether he was the cause of it all.
Proof that John was not the guilty party was forthcoming when, despite four witnesses actually sitting on him as he lay in bed, the manifestations continued in their presence.
A widely held theory among authorities on the subject is that where there is poltergeist-type activity some teenager, usually a female, is being used as a nexus or agent by the poltergeist entity, which draws on their psychic energy, unknown to the victim, to create the various manifestations.
One might call such entities invisible vandals, though the annoyance caused and the actual damage done is anything but invisible. The poltergeist is a pastmaster at sound effects, moving some solid objects and levitating others.
In some cases on record candles and coals have been fired like bullets into walls and ceilings, glass and china smashed, doors and windows rattled and flung open, however securely they have been fastened. The Byron Street phenomena occurred in cycles, peaceful interludes alternating with spells of pandemonium.
Advice and offers of help came from all over the world, as did curious visitors. One letter was from Germany enclosing a formula for exorcism. Unfortunately the envelope had been opened in transit and one of the four vital pieces of paper was found to be missing.
Exorcism rarely works in such cases but it was claimed that this formula had been used with success in a German poltergeist outbreak which had lasted 15 months.
Mr Sam Jones said that he had lived in the house for 35 years and had had the dressing-table for 42 years but he had never known anything like it before. Even when the drawers were sealed with adhesive paper they continued to rattle and the mirror swung backwards and forwards on its pivots.
Three burly policemen were thrown off an empty chest on the landing and soon realised that the 'disorderly conduct' at No.1 was something outside their knowledge and control.
At one stage a spiritualist medium, Mr Francis, was called in and a seance held but they only seemed to make matters worse. Two bibles, a picture-book, a tin of ointment and a table cover were thrown about the bedroom in front of witnesses. There followed a quiet period which enabled the family to catch up on some sleep, but early in September the 'ghost' returned with a vengeance. One witness reported that a clock and several other items moved a distance of five feet across the bedroom in his presence.
Later in September there were more violent happenings and at one point John was lifted out of his bed and deposited on the floor. By this time the London based Society for Psychical Research started to take an interest and several members were invited to come and observe the phenomena for themselves.
One member was the Rev. W H Stevens, a local Methodist minister, who was appointed the society's official investigator. On entering this haunted house he was welcomed by being hit on the head with a dictionary.
Mr Steven's theory, a familiar one in the world of the paranormal, was that the force responsible for all these mischievous manifestations was being exerted, albeit unwittingly, by John Glynn himself. It was the result of a build up of repressed energy, such as one finds in a teenager, being abused by an evil entity. After each display of phenomena it took time for the 'accumulator' containing this energy to recoup before the next outburst.
At times, as many as fourteen observers were witnesses to the levitation of household objects, the breaking of china and general vandalism. The kitchen ceiling under the bedroom began to crack and the laths were exposed.
In the belief that the whole matter was getting out of hand, the house was closed to random investigators and press reporters. Friends invited John Glynn to their house in Frodsham, a nearby village, where they held an outdoor lunch party to give him some relaxation from the strain and suffering. One of the guests noted that a glass of lemonade being poured for John burst in the hostess's hand; none of the lemonade fell on the floor but John was drenched in it.
Long after the phenomena ceased, sometime in October,it was revealed that the total cost of the damage done by the poltergeist at No1 Byron Street and surrounding properties, including a neighbouring pig farm, had been estimated at £20,000.
As usual in such cases, there was no satisfactory explanation as to the cause of all the trouble and damage caused.
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El Emperador Wen de Han (chino: 漢文帝; 202 a. C.–6 de julio de 157 a. C.), también llamado Emperador Xiaowen (孝文皇帝), nacido como Liu Heng (劉恆), fue el quinto emperador de la Dinastía Han de China. Fue el cuarto hijo del Emperador Gaozu, el fundador de la dinastía. Su reinado de 23 años trajo estabilidad al joven Imperio, el cual registró una serie de reformas políticas y económicas que lo fortalecieron. Su primera acción como emperador fue la deposición del clan Lü de la Corte Imperial, la cual había sido controlada por la Emperatriz Lü Zhi tras la muerte de su padre. Su gobierno marca el inicio de una edad dorada conocida como la "Era del Orden Wen-Jing" (文景之治; Wén Jǐng Zhī Zhì), la cual también incluye el reinado de su nieto Wu de Han y abarca el máximo apogeo del Imperio Han.

Biografía
Originalmente, Liu Heng no estaba destinado al trono imperial. Su padre lo entronizó como "Rey de Dai" a los 7 años y le dio el cargo de gobernador de la provincia norteña de Shanxi, donde vivió por 17 años. Tras la muerte del Emperador Hui de Han, su medio-hermano, la Emperatriz Lü Zhi tomó el control del gobierno central y colocó sucesivamente a dos emperadores títeres. Al morir la Emperatriz, el primer ministro Cheng Ping inició una purga contra su familia y ayudó a Liu Heng a tomar el poder, proclamándose el nuevo Emperador de China. Sabiendo del ambiente hostil en el que se encontraba, el nuevo emperador inició su gobierno con extrema cautela y suspicacia. La situación del Imperio era complicada al momento de su ascenso al trono; los gobernadores regionales continuaban teniendo gran autonomía, la economía aún no se recuperaba y las fronteras del norte continuaban siendo amenazadas por las incursiones de los Xiongnu.

Wen adoptó políticas taoístas gracias a la influencia de su Emperatriz Dou, quien es recordada como una de las figuras femeninas más importantes en la historia china. Así, tuvo una política de gobierno generalmente no-intervencionista y caracterizada por una gran atención hacia el pueblo. Destaca por haber reducido los impuestos en una proporción de 1/30 y 1/60, además haber implementado una administración que limitó los excesos del gobierno. Otra prueba de su benevolencia ocurrió en el segundo año de su reinado, cuando, tras un eclipse solar, pidió a sus hombres que le criticaran honestamente para hacerle ver sus fallos y errores. También eliminó muchos de los métodos de tortura que usaron sus predecesores, eliminando el Men Fang Zhi Zhu, castigo que consistía en el asesinato de todo el clan de un criminal.

En el 165 a. C. implementó el servicio civil de examinación, el cual redefinió la burocracia imperial por los siguientes 2000 años. En cuanto a su política exterior, intentó ganarse el apoyo de los Estados extranjeros mediante la diplomacia, como fue el caso de Nanyue (actual Vietnam). Incluso logró hacer las paces con los Xiangnu mediante matrimonios arreglados, aunque esto fue solo temporal. Sabiendo que la paz no duraría mucho, preparó al Imperio para una futura invasión. Los Xiangnu atacaron en el 158 a. C., pero fueron efectivamente repelidos por el ejército imperial.

El emperador falleció en el verano del 157 a. C. y fue sucedido por su hijo Liu Qi, quien luego recibiría el nombre póstumo Jing. Este decretó que el periodo de luto se reduciría a solo tres días, no siete, con el propósito de no interferir con las actividades cotidianas de la ciudadanía. Siguiendo las políticas y filosofía de su padre, Jing también abolió la ley que obligaba a las concubinas a permanecer en un luto perpetuo, permitiéndoles regresar a sus hogares. En general, Wen es recordado como un monarca benevolente que sentó las bases para un periodo de prosperidad y riqueza en toda China.

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Bibliografía

Emperadores de la dinastía Han
Emperadores del siglo II a. C.
Chinos del siglo II a. C.

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Together with all people of our country, today we celebrate the 64th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China. On behalf of the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR), I welcome all of you to this reception.
In the past year, our country has again made encouraging achievements in its social and economic development, as well as in other areas. Its international status and influence continue to be on the rise. With the support of the Central Government and the co-operation of Mainland provinces and municipalities, Hong Kong has not only moved forward in its own development, but also continued to contribute to the progress of our country and our people.
In the past year, under the principles of "One Country, Two Systems" and "Hong Kong people administering Hong Kong" with a high degree of autonomy, we have continued to preserve the integrity of "One Country" while giving play to the characteristics of "Two Systems". We have also maintained our status as a highly open and international city, while safeguarding the sovereignty of our country and the interests of Hong Kong.
The HKSAR Government and our society should fully capitalise on the advantages of both "One Country" and "Two Systems", and make contributions to the co-development of Hong Kong and the Mainland through our links both with the international community and with other parts of our country.
In October last year, the World Bank ranked Hong Kong the second easiest place to do business in the world. Early this year, the Heritage Foundation rated Hong Kong the world's freest economy for the 19th year in a row. In the Global Competitiveness Report released by the World Economic Forum last month, Hong Kong moved up two places to seventh in the world and second in Asia. And on the newly announced Xinhua-Dow Jones International Financial Centers Development Index 2013, Hong Kong is placed third for its overall performance. These are affirmations of Hong Kong's international status and competitiveness.
Hong Kong's competitiveness stems from the untiring efforts of all people in Hong Kong, as well as the support and ever-increasing international influence of our country. The current-term Government not only attaches great importance to co-operation with Mainland provinces and municipalities today, but pays even greater attention to expanding the scope and raising the levels of co-operation in future.
The ties between Hong Kong and the Mainland are getting closer. Nowadays, our economic activities across the boundary have extended geographically from the Pearl River Delta region in the past to all cities, large and small, across the country. They have also gone beyond the traditional sectors of manufacturing and real estate to many other industries, including fisheries, agriculture, mining and services. These activities have created the most important economic hinterland and the largest external economy for Hong Kong and consolidated the status of our headquarters economy, benefiting all sectors and strata of our society directly or indirectly. Take banking, for example: as at the end of June 2013, 154 branches of Hong Kong banks were set up in Guangdong Province, while six Hong Kong banks had opened a total of 58 cross-location sub-branches there. This means that the services of Hong Kong-invested banks now cover the whole of Guangdong Province.
Under the Mainland and Hong Kong Closer Economic Partnership Arrangement (CEPA), Hong Kong products meeting the agreed rules of origin enjoy tariff-free treatment when imported into the Mainland. Supplement X to CEPA signed in August this year brings the number of liberalisation measures for trade in services to 403. Besides fostering a closer economic partnership with the Mainland, the HKSAR Government has also endeavoured to promote business with the international community. According to Invest Hong Kong, the number of overseas and Mainland companies with business operations here has reached an all-time high of 7 250. About a quarter of foreign-invested companies consider CEPA a key factor in their decision to operate in Hong Kong.
According to a survey conducted in 2010 by the Census and Statistics Department, around 175 000 Hong Kong residents had worked in the Mainland during the 12 months before the survey, not including those who had to stay in the Mainland for work on a long-term basis without returning to Hong Kong. The Mainland is also a major tourist destination for Hong Kong residents. In 2012, Hong Kong people paid over 78 million visits to the Mainland.
The growing social ties between Hong Kong and the Mainland are also reflected in the number of cross-boundary marriages, which accounted for about 35 per cent of all marriages registered in Hong Kong in 2012. In addition, more and more Hong Kong people go across the boundary for retirement and education. A survey conducted in 2011 by the Census and Statistics Department found that there were 115 500 Hong Kong people aged 60 or above residing in the Mainland at the time of the survey, not including "short-stay Hong Kong permanent residents" with no usual place of residence in Hong Kong and Hong Kong permanent residents who had moved to the Mainland without returning to Hong Kong. On education, some higher education institutions in the Mainland have exempted Hong Kong students from taking the Joint Entrance Examination for Universities in the Mainland from 2012 onwards under a pilot scheme. In 2013, 70 Mainland institutions joined the scheme, admitting around 1 200 students from Hong Kong.
Distinguished guests, dear colleagues and fellow Hong Kong people, the world is changing and China is moving forward. Hong Kong should actively adapt to the new environment of co-operation and competition, identifying new roles that we can play and new functions that we can perform. As Chinese nationals, we, together with all people of China, should make contributions to the development of our country while doing our best to maintain the prosperity and stability of Hong Kong.
Now, please join me in a toast: To the prosperity, success and progress of our country!


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A New Meaning to an Old Word
May 14, 2014 by Editorial
Two local moms are redefining what it means to show bravery by opening up the conversation about mental illness.
Two local moms are redefining what it means to show bravery by opening up the conversation about mental illness. –Shelby Robinson
Photo by Mollie Tobias.
Jennifer Marshall remembers when she was first diagnosed in 2006 with bipolar disorder, she and her family didn't know anything about the mental illness. It was an unnerving time as Marshall had to be hospitalized. It took Marshall some time to come to terms with her illness, and she opened up through her blog bipolarmomlife.com. "I was using a pen name and didn't want to put my real name on [my writing] but when I got my first paid writing job, I decided that this is my story and I want to be recognized for it."
Sharing her story has helped Marshall and she is now encouraging others to share their stories through the inaugural show "This is My Brave." The show will feature performers, varying in ages, that depict scenarios in which they have dealt with mental illness directly or with the mental illness of a loved one. The production explores stories of a mother dealing with postpartum psychosis, a young woman and a 16-year old's struggles with anxiety and depression and a writer's battle with bipolar disorder. Performers will make use of a variety of mediums—essays, stories, folk song, rap—to express their experience. "A lot of people who live with mental illness are very, very creative," says Marshall. "We really wanted that to shine through and allow them to showcase their stories in whichever way they felt most comfortable."
Marshall, an Ashburn resident, developed the concept after attending a show, "Listen to Your Mother," that focused on non-actors sharing their stories about motherhood. In August of last year she met Anne Marie Ames at a party, and Ames immediately jumped on board as associate producer. She had been reading Marshall's blog and immediately recognized her as "the bipolar mom." Three months later, they had successfully funded the show through a Kickstarter campaign.
Ames says her biggest motivation for joining the show has been her struggle to advocate for her son through his depression. Much like Marshall, Ames did not see herself standing against the stigma in such a public way but her experiences with her son showed her that something has to change. "There are so many people out there who live with [mental illness] and yet people are still scared to talk about it," says Marshall. It is through this simplicity of sharing stories, says Ames, that brought life to the show.
The future for "This is My Brave" has been carefully planned. Marshall says, "We have initiatives over the next year or two to go into the schools with mini-shows, throughout [Loudoun] County, then to Fairfax County Schools." They also want to start a YouTube channel and are hoping to help others put on similar shows every year in May, which is Mental Health Awareness Month.
"This Is My Brave"
Sunday, May 18, 3 p.m.
Artisphere's Spectrum Theatre
1611 N. Kent St., Arlington, 22209; 703-875-1100
thisismybrave.com
Tags: Ashburn, Fairfax County schools, Listen To Your Mother, Loudoun County, May 2014, Shelby Robinson
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A celebration meeting began with a time of singing, including songs in Shona presented by a contingent from Zimbabwe. The congregation sang with great gusto some traditional 'Army' songs in English and Tamil – all supported by the brass ensemble and singers from Dubai. The General commented that it was a taste of what was to come at the Boundless International Congress!
Congregations at the meetings were made up of expatriate Salvationists from India, The Philippines, Myanmar, Zimbabwe, Nigeria, the United Kingdom, Australia and Canada – a true representation of the worldwide Salvation Army. When the congregation prayed the Lord's Prayer – each person speaking in his or her own language – it was a clear affirmation of being One Army!
The bright, happy meeting that followed was full of blessings. A regional round-up revealed that the Army's Middle East Region has grown from six corps in 2012 to nine corps in four countries today, with representatives from many of those corps present. There are now four corps in the UAE, three in Oman, and one each in Kuwait and Bahrain. Maggie, the youngest junior soldier from Abu Dhabi Corps (UAE), read the Bible beautifully and Bawla – originally from Myanmar – witnessed in song. A highlight for many was the enrolment of Ephraim, a Filipino, as a senior soldier by the General.
Commissioner Cox, considering the persecution of Christians that has happened in the wider Middle East, brought the timely words of Jesus: 'Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me. For whoever wants to save their life will lose it, but whoever loses their life for me will find it. What good will it be for someone to gain the whole world, yet forfeit their soul?' (Matthew 16:24-26 New International Version).
The General in his message encouraged congregation members to remember that Christ needs to rule in their hearts, and needs to be the focus of their lives wherever they are in the world and wherever they have come from. The Holy Spirit moved in the congregation and many people knelt at the mercy seat in response.


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La polacca Iga Świątek era la detentrice del titolo, ma ha scelto di non partecipare a questa edizione del torneo.

Daria Snigur ha vinto il titolo sconfiggendo in finale Alexa Noel con il punteggio di 6-4, 6-4.

Teste di serie

  Emma Navarro (semifinale)
  María Camila Osorio Serrano (secondo turno)
  Zheng Qinwen (terzo turno)
  Diane Parry (semifinale)
  Hurricane Tyra Black (primo turno)
  Natsumi Kawaguchi (quarti di finale)
  Sada Nahimana (primo turno)
  Alina Charaeva (primo turno)

  Mananchaya Sawangkaew (primo turno)
  Alexa Noel (finale)
  Kamilla Bartone (primo turno)
  Park So-hyun (secondo turno)
  Anastasia Tikhonova (primo turno)
  Joanna Garland (primo turno)
  Helene Pellicano (secondo turno)
  Adrienn Nagy (primo turno)

Tabellone

Parte finale

Parte alta

Sezione 1

Sezione 2

Parte bassa

Sezione 3

Sezione 4

Collegamenti esterni

Torneo di Wimbledon 2019


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Het roomvleklieveheersbeestje (Calvia quatuordecimguttata) is een lieveheersbeestje uit de familie lieveheersbeestjes (Coccinellidae). De wetenschappelijke naam van de soort werd in 1758 als Coccinella quatuordecimguttata gepubliceerd door Carl Linnaeus. De naam quatuordecimguttata betekent veertienspikkelig.

Kenmerken
Het roomvleklieveheersbeestje heeft een wijnrode kleur en telt in totaal 14 witte stippen. De kever bereikt een lengte van 5 tot 6,5 mm. Hij lijkt sprekend op het meeldauwlieveheersbeestje, maar het rugschild van die soort heeft een doorschijnende rand, wat het roomvleklieveheersbeestje niet heeft. Ook heeft het meeldauwlieveheersbeestje 2 stippen meer.

Leefwijze
Het voedsel bestaat vooral uit bladluizen, maar soms eten ze ook bladvlooien (Psyllidae).

Voorkomen
De soort komt voor in het Palearctisch en Nearctisch gebied.

Lieveheersbeestjes
Dier uit het Palearctisch gebied
Dier uit het Nearctisch gebied


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For me summer is when some of my beauty habits tend to take the back seat to the sun filled days. Sure, it's probably better to skip out on all the makeup and contouring that's likely to melt off the moment you walk out the door, or even add an extra day or two between shampoos. In most cases it's for the best.
One that I'm the most guilty of, is forgetting to moisturize on a daily basis. Let's be real, the last thing you want to do is sit on the end of the bed caking on lotion that's almost guaranteed to feel heavy or sticky immediately following application. It's not my favorite feeling, making it lower on the totem pole of beauty routines in the summer time.


This Bundesliga fan is the hero we all need right now.
A GERMAN football fan sent social media into meltdown during Fortuna Dusseldorf's clash against Schalke after he was spotted carrying up to eight pints while simultaneously eating a bratwurst.
But despite having no hands spare, the individual managed to chomp down on his sausage at the same time â€" much to the delight of social media.
Wearing what looks to be a retro Red Star Belgrade jersey, the supporter showed that not all heroes wear capes.
A freelance reporter named Archie Rhind-Tutt pointed out the man with over 4000 Twitter followers retweeting and over 17000 likes.
Best Assist of the year!
If ever there was an argument against Brexit. These are skilled people we're abandoning!!
My disappointment of the Bundesliga weekend - his friends... someone help the dude.. someone please..
Even with handles, good show. As a bartender I'm accustomed to carrying, like, four to five pints of beer around. And am sometimes surprised some people get confused at three. Seven? Good on ya, good show.
Unfortunately for Fortuna, their disastrous start to the Bundesliga season shows no signs of improvement after they lost 2-0 against the Royal Blues.
Second half strikes from Weston McKennie and Guido Burgstaller condemned Friedhelm Funkel's side to a third consecutive league defeat.
They sit second bottom in the table, while Schalke climbed out of the relegation zone into 15th spot.


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Q: Hyper-V not scaling processor access for Windows Server 2000 VM I have a Dell R710 rack hosting several VM's:

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*Windows Server 2008 R2 w/ Hyper-V

*dual Xeon 5520's @ 2.26 GHz

*32GB mem

*teamed nic (4 gigabit NICs)

*all VM's are on their own set of mirrored SAS disks

My problem is with a virtual Windows 2000 server running on the above system. This server runs IIS 6, some cgi-scripts and some asp pages. All tie into Visual FoxPro DB back-end.
My question is how can I give more horsepower to my Windows 2000 VM, or is this even possible? My Hyper-V settings for the VM starting out were:

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*3GB mem allocated

*default virtual cores (1)

*10% (ten) VM reserve

*100% VM limit

*100 relative weight (there are 2 other VM's hosted all of which are idle and are on separate SAS disks)

With this configuration if I logged in to the web services with 3 accounts I could slam the Win2000 VM to 100%. I then adjusted the Hyper-V settings for the server up and up and up until I was at:

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*4 virtual cores

*100% VM reserve (or 25% of total system resources)

*100% VM limit

*1000 relative weight

The kicker is that throughout all my tests (top configuration and bottom) my rack server sat at approx. 5% CPU utilization total. Meanwhile, my Win2000 VM performed the exact same each and every time (pinned CPU with 3 accounts logged in performing the same search, or 30% CPU utilization with a single account performing a search).
I've also tried adjusting processor compatibility setting for "Run an older operating system, such as Windows NT". However, I did not try the "Migrate to a physical computer with a different processor version" setting.
Is there an inherent problem with virtualizing Windows 2000 server? Is there something else I can try to capture more CPU cycles from the host server? Ideally I would like for the host to go to 25-50% utilization when the Win2000 VM is pinning.
Some background info: these are our old legacy services which are currently being rewritten in .Net. There are most likely performance improvements to be gained in refactoring the legacy source code but this is not an option. Our shop lacks the expertise in FoxPro and the business decision has been made that the effort is better spent in a rewrite.
There is the option of purchasing a fast physical server to replace the VM. I am confident this would have a dramatic improvement. However, I would prefer to have this server virtualized as I have been burned before by a machine needing a reboot... a task easily performed from my phone for a virtualized server.
Thanks in advance for any suggestions you may have.

A: First, Windows 2000 only supports a single virtual processor on Hyper-V.
Second, measuring CPU usage of the host server is not as simple as using Task Manager, since Task Manager is itself running in a virtual machine.  For more information on measuring CPU usage in Hyper-V, please check out this article.

A: Your first problem in your little test with 4 cores is that you're running an unsupported configuration. When you run unsupported, results are difficult to predict. Check out this document from Microsoft. You can only run a single CPU while using Windows Server 2000 on Hyper V.
If you give your VM a single core and assign it 100% of that core, you've maxed out what performance you can from that system. Your other options are to deploy a physical box or deploy a hypervisor that supports SMP on Windows 2000 (like ESXi).

A: Both of the other answers are correct.  Calling Microsoft for support with Hyper-V and Windows 2000 will result in being told that the only supported configuration involves one virtual CPU.
With that said, I suspect that you got exactly the same performance each time because Windows 2000 didn't automatically reconfigure itself as a multi-processor installation when you added virtual CPUs.  Win2K was only using one CPU, even when you assigned it four.
You need to go to device manager and change the HAL from the single processor HAL to the multi-processor HAL.  (Update driver on computer type.)  That will trigger the installation of the multi-processor kernel, ntdll, HAL, etc.  My memory says that there were about six binaries that changed.
Note that this is a one-way trip. Your Win2K VHD will be running multi-processor code indefinitely after that, even if you go back to a single virtual CPU.  You might want to back up your VHD first, as these multi-processor binaries are less efficient than the single-processor ones when running single vCPU.
Lastly, please understand that the reason that Microsoft isn't supporting more CPUs for Win2K has partly to do with the fact that the Win2K kernel has no idea isn't being virtualized and it has some hard assumptions that all CPUs run all the time.  Breaking this assumption by virtualizing more processors will result in less than linear performance gains (cough, cough.)  You might get reasonable performance with two processors.  More will probably not help.

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The Bluff, also called Rosetta Head, is one of Victor Harbor's scenic sights and is a headland located on the south coast of Fleurieu Peninsula in South Australia adjoining the suburb of Encounter Bay in Victor Harbor and about 77 kilometres south of Adelaide.
The use of the name 'The Bluff' which is the most commonly used name for the headland is attributed to whalers operating in the locality prior to the adoption of the name Rosetta Head. Rosetta Head was named in 1839 after Rosetta French, the wife of George Fife Angas reportedly by George Gawler, the second Governor of South Australia.
The Bluff is currently used as a recreational reserve and is easily accessed via car, bike or on foot.
To get to the Bluff, drive west from the town centre from Franklin Parade and follow the signs. As you head up the hill past the old Whalers Restaurant, enter a one-way road that will take you to a couple of free car parks. The drive up is a circular loop; from the two car parks, you can begin the walk to the top.
The Bluff at Victor Harbor is approximately 100 metres high and the walk is graded as medium to steep. The full summit walk is about 850 metres in total, but you can just choose to walk up and back down the same path if you don't want to continue all the way around.
Once at the top, the views are wide-reaching, offering a 360-degree panorama of this picturesque coastal region. From the top of the rocks you can take in the rugged coastline to the West, look out to sea and look back over Victor Harbor township.
Several granite islands can be seen from the Bluff - to the east you can see the famous Granite Island, Wright Island and Seal Rock, home to New Zealand Fur Seals and Australian Sea Lions. The island to the west is of course, West Island - granite from West Island was used for the base and the steps of Parliament House in Adelaide. It is now reserved for conservation of wildlife. Below is Petrel Cove which you can walk down to from the lower car park to discover a sheltered beach.
On top of the Bluff is a plaque, commemorating the encounter between Matthew Flinders and the French explorer Nicolas Baudin in 1802,. It has been affixed to one of the many large rounded boulders, typical of weathered Victor Harbor granite. The Bluff is also home to the remains of the old Coolanine Mine.
Along the clifftops are walking trails and bike paths.
Located nearby in the Inman Valley, is Glacier Rock, which is also another famous local geological landmark.
The granite originated when magma was squeezed up from deep in the continental crust during the mountain building episode which occurred about 500 million years ago. This is known as Glacier Rock because sediments left by the ice age, which occurred at that time, rest immediately on top of it, and boulders of granite were carried, by the ice, northwards.
The smooth rounded profile of the Bluff is attributed to the erosive action of this ice sheet.
There are no facilities at the Bluff. Remember to dress warmly as the weather can be harsh during the cooler months, although you will warm up on the walk. Wear sensible shoes for walking as the path is dirt and well worn and can be slippery in places with some loose gravel. Aside from visiting The Bluff, you may also want to learn to surf South Australia. Don't forget to bring your camera!


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The Florentine Triple Cross - A Flag of History in the Modern Era
PATRIARCHAL SEE 21 October 2019 (ORCNS) - The Florentine Triple Cross is one of the official flags of the Anglo-Italian Imperial Patriarchate. It is also sometimes known as the "military flag" of the Patriarchate since it is the flag used by the Walsingham Guard, the Patriarchate's humanitarian wing with a military heritage dating back to the Crusades. The Florentine Triple Cross, similar to the other flags of the Patriarchate, helps to tell its rich and ancient history.
The Florentine Triple Cross flag
It is called the "Triple Cross" because of the three crosses superimposed on each other. First is the red cross of St. Stephen in the centre, which refers to the celestial patron of the Imperial Patriarchate, St. Stephen the Deacon and Protomartyr. That cross, with origins in Florence, is found in much of the symbolism of the Patriarchate.
Next is the red St. George's cross of Barcelona. That refers to the County of Barcelona, which represents the convergence of the Burgundian House of Arles and the Spanish Houses of Ivrea and Barcelona to which the Imperial Patriarchate is heir in the Imperial Italy. Ivrea, located in northwest Italy, was the seat of the House of Ivrea, which was also of Burgundian origin and ruled as Kings of Italy along with their relatives, the Burgundian House of Arles. Pope Leo X, of whom the Imperial Patriarchate is heir and successor, also descended from the House of Arles. From Italy and Burgundy, a branch of the House of Ivrea obtained the Kingdom of Castile y León and Empire of All Spain through marriage.
The coat of arms of Barcelona,
showing the St. George's cross
quartered with the arms of Aragón.
Barcelona is also significant to the heritage of the County of Sainte Animie, the personal title of the Archprince of St. Stephen and Imperial Patriarch in descent from Gévaudan in the Merovingian dynasty. The County of Gévaudan (also descended from the Burgundian House of Arles), where Sainte Animie is located, eventually passed to the Counts of Barcelona. They then became united through marriage to the crowns of Aragón and Castile y León, bringing together the houses of Arles, Ivrea, and Barcelona. (For more on that heritage, please see this article and this article.)
Burgundian Cross flag
The third cross in the triple cross is a white rotated Burgundian cross. The historic Burgundian cross, which formed a military flag of the Spanish Army and also served as the flag of the Spanish Empire, was a red St. Andrew's cross "ragully" (jagged) on a white field. (The St. Andrew's cross is in the form of an X is in memory of the cross on which St. Andrew the Apostle was crucified.) It came to Spain from the Duchy of Burgundy. In the Florentine Triple Cross flag, it is rotated 45 degrees to be in the same orientation as the St. George Cross.
The diocesan coat of arms
of the See of St. Stephen
Lastly, the three crosses are on a blue field representing Our Lady of Walsingham the Patroness of the Patriarchal Household of the Anglo-Italian Imperial Patriarchate. A white cross on a blue field also evokes an image of the diocesan arms of the See of St. Stephen, and white-on-blue similarly corresponds to the colours of the coat of arms of the Archprince of St. Stephen. Also, the red St. George's cross on a white field is the coat of arms of the Electorate of Trier in the Holy Roman Empire, which is part of the patrimony of the Patriarchate, and also is the inverse of the coat of arms of the ancient Roman Catholic See of Utrecht, from which the Imperial Patriarchate's Roman Catholic Apostolic Succession derives.
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