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How to make "virus"
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This is not a virus, just to make fun of a friend. Follow the instructions.
1. Right mouse button. Create Shortcut.
2. Write shutdown-s-t 1000-c
3. Именувате файла (например: Serial Number)
4. Right click the new file.
5.Change icon
6. Избирате икона,която съответства на името на файла
Opening the file will restart the system.
Funiscala maxwelli
9 FebFuniscala maxwelli
Funiscala maxwelli | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
(unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda informal group Ptenoglossa |
Superfamily: | Epitonioidea |
Family: | Epitoniidae |
Genus: | Funiscala |
Species: | F. maxwelli |
Binomial name | |
Funiscala maxwelli Finlay, 1930 |
Funiscala maxwelli is a species of minute sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Epitoniidae, the wentletraps.
[edit]Distribution
This species occurs in New Zealand.[1]
[edit]References
- ^ Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1
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Joonas Hurri
9 FebJoonas Hurri
Joonas Hurri | |
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Born | March 31, 1991 (age 21) Lahti, Finland |
Height | 5 ft 11 in (1.80 m) |
Weight | 174 lb (79 kg; 12 st 6 lb) |
Position | Defence |
Shoots | Left |
SM-liiga team | Pelicans |
NHL Draft | Undrafted |
Playing career | 2010–present |
Joonas Hurri (born March 31, 1991) is a Finnish professional ice hockey defenceman who currently plays for Pelicans of the SM-liiga.[1]
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[edit]Playing career
Hurri has also played on Peliitat, HeKi and on various Kiekko-Reipas teams. He made appearances at the 2008 World Hockey Challenge U-17 tournament (which took place between December 29, 2007 and January 4, 2008) and also at the 2009 IIHF World U18 Championships (which took place from April 9 to April 19, 2009). Other leagues that Hurri has been involved with were the Jr. A SM-liiga, in addition to the Jr. B SM-sarja and Jr. C SM-sarja Q leagues. One of his first honors in his hockey career was being on the camp roster for Kiekko-Reipas at the U16 Pohjola league on May 2006. Hurri’s amateur hockey career has seen him enter the playoffs once with the Pelicans U20 squad and relegated twice with the same squadron.
His current contract with the Pelicans is in good standing through the 2012–13 SM-liiga season.
[edit]Career statistics
[edit]Regular season and playoffs
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Season | Team | League | GP | G | A | Pts | PIM | GP | G | A | Pts | PIM | ||
2009–10 | HeKi | Fin.1 | 12 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
2010–11 | Pelicans | SM-l | 28 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 6 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
2010–11 | HeKi | Fin.1 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
2011–12 | Pelicans | SM-l | 13 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
2011–12 | Peliitat | Fin.1 | 21 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
SM-liiga totals | 41 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 14 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Alstroemeria
9 FebAlstroemeria (pron.: /ˌælstrɨˈmɪəriə/; syn. Alstremeria),[1] commonly called the Peruvian lily or lily of the Incas, is a South American genus of about 120 species of flowering plants. Almost all of the species are restricted to one of two distinct centers of diversity, one in central Chile, the other in eastern Brazil. Species of Alstroemeria from Chile are winter-growing plants while those of Brazil are summer-growing. All are long-lived perennials except A. (Taltalia) graminea, a diminutive annual from the Atacama Desert of Chile.
Etymology
The genus was named for the Swedish baron Clas Alströmer (Claus von Alstroemer 1736 – 1794) by his close friend Carolus Linnaeus The plant was first described by the French botanist Louis Feuillée. The plant’s seeds were among many collected by Alströmer on a trip to South America in 1753.[citation needed]
[edit]Characteristics
The plants are distinctive vegetatively, with a rootstock consisting of a slender rhizome or group of rhizomes (the “crown”). Storage roots consist of sausage-like water storing structures “suspended” from the rhizome by major roots. In this way the root system resembles that of dahlias. Above-ground shoots may be very short in some alpine Andean species (a few inches tall) or up to about 5 feet (1.5 m) tall in other species. Each year (more often in some hybrids) up to 80 new shoots are produced from the rootstock and each terminates in an umbel of a few up to 10 or so flowers.
A morphological trait of Alstroemeria and its relatives is that the leaves are resupinate, that is, they twist from the base so that what appears to be the upper leaf surface is in fact the lower leaf surface. This very unusual botanical feature is easily observed in the leaves on cut flowers from the florist.
The flowers of Alstroemeria are generally showy. All six tepals (tepal denotes either petal or sepal when both are similar, as in lilies, amaryllis, etc.) are roughly similar. In some species two tepals are enlarged and vividly colored and act as “flags” for pollination. The ovary is inferior and the seeds are hard and rounded.
See also Bomarea, the other major genus in the Alstroemeriaceae. They are essentially twining Alstroemerias (though some species are not vining), with most species occurring in the Andes.
[edit]Cultivation and uses
Many hybrids and about 190 cultivars have been developed, with different markings and colors, ranging from white, golden yellow, and orange, to apricot, pink, red, purple, and lavender. The most popular and showy hybrids commonly grown today result from crosses between species from Chile (winter-growing) with species from Brazil (summer-growing). This strategy has overcome the problem of seasonal dormancy and resulted in plants that are evergreen, or nearly so, and flower for most of the year. This breeding work derives mainly from trials that began in the United States in the 1980s. The flower, which resembles a miniature lily, is very popular for bouquets and flower arrangements in the commercial cut flower trade. It has a vase life of about two weeks. It is sometimes also called ‘Ulster Mary’ (a corruption of the genus name).
Most cultivars available for the home garden will bloom in the late spring and early summer. The roots are hardy to a temperature of 23 °F (−5 °C). The plant requires at least six hours of morning sunlight, regular water, and well-drained soil.[2]
The following cultivars have gained the Royal Horticultural Society‘s Award of Garden Merit:
Verpa bohemica
9 FebVerpa bohemica is a species of fungus in the family Morchellaceae. Commonly known as the early morel (or early false morel) or the wrinkled thimble-cap, it is one of several species known informally as a “false morel“. The mushroom has a pale yellow or brown thimble-shaped cap—2 to 4 cm (0.8 to 1.6 in) in diameter by 2 to 5 cm (0.8 to 2.0 in) long—that has a surface wrinkled and ribbed with brain-like convolutions. The cap hangs from the top of a lighter-colored, brittle stem that measures up to 12 cm (4.7 in) long by 1 to 2.5 cm (0.4 to 1.0 in) thick. Microscopically, the mushroom is distinguished by its large spores, typically 60–80 by 15–18 µm, and the presence of only two spores per ascus.
In the field, the mushroom is reliably distinguished from the true morels on the basis of cap attachment: V. bohemica has a cap that hangs completely free from the stem. Although widely considered edible, consumption of the mushroom is generally not advised due to reports of poisoningin susceptible individuals. Poisoning symptoms include gastrointestinal upset and lack of muscular coordination. V. bohemica is found in northern North America, Europe, and Asia. It fruits in early spring, growing on the ground in woods following the snowmelt, before the appearance of “true morels” (genus Morchella). The synonym Ptychoverpa bohemica is often used by European mycologists.
Taxonomy, phylogeny, and naming
The species was first described in the scientific literature by the Czech physician and mycologist Julius Vincenz von Krombholz in 1828, under the name Morchella bohemica. The German naturalist Joseph Schröter transferred it to the genus Verpa in 1893. Ptychoverpa bohemica is asynonym that was published by Frenchman Jean Louis Émile Boudier in his 1907 treatise on the Discomycetes of Europe; the name is still occasionally used, especially in European publications.[5] Boudier believed that the large, curved ascospores and the rare and short paraphyses were sufficiently distinct to warrant a new genus to contain the single species. Ptychoverpa has also been classified as a section of Verpa.[7] The section is characterized by the presence of thick longitudinal ridges on the cap that can be simple or forked.
The specific epithet bohemica refers to Bohemia (now a part of the Czech Republic), where Krombholz originally collected the species.[2] The mushroom is commonly known as the “early morel”, “early false morel”, or the “wrinkled thimble-cap”. Ptychoverpa is derived from the Ancient Greek ptyx (genitive form ptychos), meaning “fold”, layer”, or “plate”.
[edit]Description
The cap of this fungus (known technically as an apothecium) is 2 to 4 cm (0.8 to 1.6 in) in diameter by 2 to 5 cm (0.8 to 2.0 in) long, with a conical or bell shape. It is folded into longitudinal ridges that often fuse together (anastomose) in a vein-like network. The cap is attached to the stem at the top only—hanging from the top of the stipe, with the lobed edge free from the stem—and varies in color from yellowish-brown to reddish-brown; the underside of the cap is pale. The stem is 6 to 12 cm (2.4 to 4.7 in) long by 1 to 2.5 cm (0.4 to 1.0 in) thick, cream-white in color, and tapers upward so that the stem is thicker at the base than at the top.[13] Although the stem is initially loosely stuffed with cottony hyphae, it eventually becomes hollow in maturity; overall, the mushroom is rather fragile.[14] The spore deposit is yellow, and the flesh is white.
Relative to other typical mushroom species, the spores of V. bohemica are huge, typically measuring 60–80 by 15–18 µm. They are elliptical, smooth, sometimes curved, and appear hyaline (translucent) to yellowish. The spores, which number two (more rarely three) per ascus are characteristic for this species. The smooth, elliptical asci measure 275–350 µm long by 16–23 µm wide. The British-Canadian mycologist Arthur Henry Reginald Buller determined that the asci are heliotropic—they bend toward light. As he noted, “I cut transverse sections though their pilei, examined these sections under the microscope, and at once perceived that in all the hymenial grooves and depressions the asci were curved outwards so that their opercula must have faced the strongest rays of light to which the ends of the asci has been subjected in the places where the fruit-bodies developed.”This response to the stimulus of light is significant because it permits a fruit body to point and later discharge its asci towards open spaces, thus increasing the chances that the spores will be dispersed by wind. The paraphyses are thick and club-shaped, with diameters of 7–8 µm at their tips.