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Degrowth will only be possible by changing the artificial scarcity-based design practices and engineering of the for-profit sector and by removing the incentive to externalize the true production costs in terms of matter and energy. A commons-oriented approach should combine global open design based in communities, local on-demand distributed manufacturing, and the use of renewable distributed energy. Along with changes in governance and ownership, it can contribute to a global phase transition.
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At the 2007 EG conference, Kevin Kelly shares a fun stat: The World Wide Web, as we know it, is only 5,000 days old. Now, Kelly asks, how can we predict what's coming in the next 5,000 days?
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A new open-hardware computing platform, flexible and powerful, designed for use as a desktop, laptop, or standalone board.
Big-data management promises a significant shift in the way decisions are made across the economy. Abundant new sources of data from the web, sensors and smartphones, mined for patterns and insights by smart software, will mean that more and more decisions will be based on data and analysis rather than experience and intuition.
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Drawing on a practice that dates back to medieval times, a guild is a group of craftspeople or merchants who've banded together because they all do the same thing. One guild is for vintners, another for masons, and so on. There are hundreds of guilds across England, Pearce says, and each provides a way for craftspeople to share certain tricks of their craft. The members of a guild come together, he explains, to "figure out how best to run their trades," to hone their operations in ways they couldn't hone them on their own.
An introduction to Fair.coop, a Commons oriented Transnational Project aimed at designing a new economy backed by a cryptocurrency: Faircoin.
The Musk Industrial Complex apparently never sleeps.
It's no secret that an opposition to sustainable living exists. Earlier this year, Texas state brought several SWAT teams to a sustainable community and threatened to shut it down. Each one of the community members were initially handcuffed at gunpoint. It was called "The Garden of Eden Community," and was totally self sustainable. You can read more about that here.
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Earlier this year, I hired a house cleaner. I wouldn't have done so normally, but my place was a mess, I was busy at work, and I saw an offer on Facebook that looked too good to be true — a San Francisco start-up called Homejoy was offering home cleanings in the Bay Area for $19. (Not $19 per room or $19 per hour. Just $19.) So I booked an appointment through Homejoy's website, and a day later, a young man showed up at my door.
On Friday, the global parliament of mayors will convene in Amsterdam. A useful response to urban problems – or a half-formed idea coughed up by smooth talkers with books to sell?
Geek culture's growing mainstream impact is often attributed to the rise of wealth in the information technology sector. That may be partially true, but misses what's attractive in the first place about this culture for young geeks, who are often maligned as socially inept misfits clinging to each other in low-status huddles. However, rather than desperation, many young people are positively drawn to geek culture for something that is harder and harder to find in mainstream culture: the joy of making things.
Sunlight is thrilled to mark Global Legislative Openness Week with our global legislative transparency campaign, which culminated earlier this week in a joint letter from the world's parliamentary monitoring organizations (PMOs) sent to national legislatures across the globe.
"The first issue of the "P2P and Innovation" ("Revista P2P & INOVAÇÃO") magazine in Brazil has just been launched. The magazine brings together eight articles, which are the result of the course Michel Bauwens, founder of the P2P Foundation, ministered in Brazil in November 2012. During the course – made possible through a partnership between the Brazilian Institute of Information in Science and Technology (IBICT) and the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) – Bauwens discussed with the students the collaborative practices around the world based on open knowledge, peer production and the commons.
Italian Operaismo and the Information Machine, is a must read by Matteo Pasquinelli. However the 'accelerationism' is the name of rapidly changing Zeitgeist(s) -the spirit of 'space-time', compressed increasingly into smaller units. The direction of meta-data and big-data research already moved further within the timespawn of Pasquinelli's paper publication in early 2014. The theorization of the emerging 'meta-data' society, already has to make quantum leap further in order to make sense of the fundamentals of the ambiguous global (and absolute) control society/civilization vision set forth by the infamous, joke like Islamic State screenplay. For this one has to go further and simulataneoulsy problematize the most recent developments in quantum computing,quantum-like cognition and quantum-mind research, overlapping research and applications between genome, cybernetics, Internet of Everything, and [unifield fields] Theory of Everything in physics.
The above link is to Italian version of this exciting volume bringing togather the Accelerationist Manifesto, reactions to it, and some reflections relevant to what Toni Negri calls 'the #Acclerationisty politics'. Most of the articles are already online in English as well. Below are some of the articles with links to the English versions:
Commons are forms of governance and governance strategies for resources created and owned collectively. Knowledge commons governance is likely to be key to successfully addressing important social issues in medicine, environmental protection, education, science and beyond. It is critical for us to study knowledge commons and learn how variations and governance affect outcomes: what works, what doesn't. Recently a group of university researchers affiliated with IASC has founded a new internet based research network called Workshop on Governing Knowledge Commons - knowledge-commons.net
Bitnation is taking on the state in a much different way: It's trying to compete head-on by offering the same basic benefits a modern nation-state would, but Bitnation's primary technology is a blockchain rather than a border.
Agree or disagree with the aims and means of Occupy Wall Street, but the movement changed the way we think about our world forever.
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As many in the libertarian community already know, Overstock CEO Patrick Byrne recently unveiled a plan to build a revolutionary new model of finance on the back of the old financial system. Namely, by creating a Bitcoin equivalent of the New York Stock Exchange in hopes of eventually replacing Wall Street entirely with a crypto-security trading system that would liberate previously elite investment tools into "the hands of the general public."
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Our new series continues as we look at programmes from clashes with West Brom from decades gone by.
Everton 1-0 West Bromwich Albion - 23 November 2002
The matchday programme from the home meeting with the Baggies in 2002/03 was a 'special edition', produced to commemorate the Blues' first meeting that season against a founder member of the Football League, in what was the Club's 100th top-flight campaign.
Editor Darren Griffiths, in his column, said the publication would become a 'collector's item' and that the whole matchday experience would hopefully be something to 'really look back on'. Evertonians would go home happy after seeing their side take all three points - the Toffees' sixth straight victory - but the contest was far from a classic with Tomas Radzinksi's first-half strike proving the difference.
Duncan Ferguson was the Everton captain at the time and in his programme notes that afternoon the big Scot praised the recent performances of Tobias Linderoth and Gary Naysmith, along with keeper Richard Wright who had recorded four consecutive clean sheets for the Blues. The skipper felt that people were 'taking notice' of Everton after they had catapulted themselves into third place in the Premier League table.
The programme examined David Unsworth, comparing the left-back's performances that season with his opposite number that day, Neil Clement. The stats were firmly stacked in favour of the Chorley-born man who had scored more goals, had a better pass completion rate, made more clearances and even embarked on more dribbles than the West Brom defender!
Bill Kenwright took time to answer the 'Give us a minute please' feature. The Blues chairman revealed that his most treasured Everton souvenir was a scrap book he made of that 'deliriously wonderful weekend' in 1966 when the Blues lifted the FA Cup. He also explained that one of his all-time favourite Everton goals was 'Inchy's at Oxford' and the first autograph he obtained was of Jimmy O'Neill who he described as a 'great Everton goalkeeper'.
Attached in the centre pages was also an exact replica of the matchday programme from the first-ever meeting with West Bromwich Albion which took place on Saturday 23 February, 1889.
Everton 1-0 West Bromwich Albion - 11 January 1989
Everton entertained West Bromwich Albion in a FA Cup third round replay in January 1989. The first tie at the Hawthorns finished 1-1 but the Blues progressed in the second meeting thanks to Kevin Sheedy's winner.
While the Republic of Ireland was the star of the show on the pitch, it was Paul Bracewell who took centre stage in the matchday programme that evening.
The midfielder was the subject of the 'personal opinion' feature, in which he said the best place he visited for a football trip was Hawaii, Neil Pointon and Graeme Sharp were amongst the worst dressed members of the 1988/89 Everton squad, and that John Bailey was the liveliest character he has ever met in football. He also said he would love to 'have a crack' at Mastermind!
Colin Harvey's programme notes for the game referenced the fact that Everton had to play seven matches to make it into round five of the FA Cup the previous season. The then-Blues boss also reflected on the defeat to Nottingham Forest in the previous league game which brought a ten-match unbeaten run to an end.
The match action section had snaps from the first tie, including one of Kevin Sheedy's trademark free-kick, while in another interview, the Blues back-up stopper Mike Stowell reckoned that a reserve match at Coventry just before Christmas put him amongst the very few goalkeepers who have scored direct from a clearance!
Everton 0-1 West Bromwich Albion - 18 May 1968
Everton have won the FA Cup five times - but the members of the 1968 side had to accept runners-up medals after they were beaten by West Bromwich Albion in that year's final at Wembley.
The 24-page programme for that game describes Harry Catterick's team as 'Exciting Everton - the club with a brilliant past and a great future!'
Another summary of the Toffees from that publication could still be uttered today, as Roberto Martinez implements his stylish brand of football on the current crop of Blues. It reads: 'Throughout their long and honour-studded career, Everton have been one of the Football League's outstanding members, famed alike for their sportsmanship and the calibre of their football'.
The player profiles make for interesting reading. Joe Royle is described a striker who is 'particularly good with his head', Alex Young is labelled as one of Everton's 'most popular players who is stylish in all he does' and Howard Kendall earns praise for 'never showing nerves'.
The programme also reflects on Everton's cup triumph from two years earlier when the Blues staged a sensational comeback to take home the trophy, beating Sheffield Wednesday 3-2. Unfortunately there was to be no repeat in 1968 as a late Jeff Astle decided the game in the Baggies' favour.
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Small electrical pulses during sleep make some people feel as though they can manipulate their dreams, a team from Goethe University Frankfurt and the University of Goettingen reported Sunday.
The short shocks, which are barely perceptible, also make some sleepers more aware they're dreaming and feel more like they're watching their dreams as outsiders, the scientists wrote in the journal Nature Neuroscience.
"People normally take their dreams as reality [while they're sleeping]," says neurologist at Goethe University Frankfurt, who contributed to the study. "Lucid dreamers view their dreams like a movie: You know it's a dream, and you change it in certain instances. You put the dream in a dimension other than reality.
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Is the quest for cheaper, cleaner energy a flawed idea? Shouldn't we be focusing instead on energy efficiency?
Most unbiased scientists seem to agree the use of fossil fuels is having a profoundly damaging effect on the environment, not least because of greenhouse gases contributing to climate change. Imagine for a moment we find a cheaper, cleaner alternative - for example, we find a much more efficient way of turning solar power into electricity. What happens to this cheaper, cleaner energy? Much more of it gets used, to do whatever work we want it to do. Most work generates heat energy as a by-product. So instead of affecting the climate via the production of greenhouse gases, we would be affecting it directly by adding heat to the atmosphere. Just imagine the increased number of air-conditioners, and the increased hours of their use, with cheaper electricity. Lots more cooler homes = far more 'waste' heat being vented.
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Mar 4 2011: I was going to post something similar, but I stumbled upon your idea before I did. I've asked the same questions that you ask. I agree that waste heat is a potentially huge problem that I am frankly surprised is getting so little attention. In fact, it changes climate more obviously than greenhouse gases. Maybe not yet on a massive scale, but one cannot deny that heated microclimates are being created around populated areas like cities and industrial centres. You can't say that this has no effect on the big picture.
Secondly, I think your efficiency idea is spot on. Most generators and transducers, of all types, are incredibly inefficient. There is so much energy being wasted through friction in mechanical devices like engines, infrared radiation (in light bulbs for example) and even the friction between a vehicle and air (where do you think all the energy in you momentum goes when you take your foot off the gas?) That's a lot of power being released willy-nilly into the environment. Who knows what will happen?
Engineers, instead of focusing on hydrogen and electrical power, should work on making transducers more effective. People don't realize the extent of power hidden in the smallest amount of fossil fuels. It's just that it is mostly lost. I believe that we would actually have longer lasting energy by making use of fossil fuels' full potential, rather than using up the world's lithium supplies and greatest minds in developing electric cars while gasoline and nearly all of it's priceless energy is literally being left to burn away.
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Woods' Weekly is written by Superintendent Brian T. Woods and is sent to Northside ISD staff every Monday to keep them updated on local and state education issues.
|September 15, 2014
Good morning! I hope you had a good weekend and were able to enjoy the change in the weather. As the legislative session is only a few months away, I want you to be aware of some of our priorities in the upcoming session. It probably won't surprise you that many deal with funding. Outside of the issues that are still being litigated is the notion of funding to deal with growth. As you know, we have been a fast growth system for a long time and that looks to continue for quite a while.
What you may not know is that the cost for that growth falls completely on local taxpayers. In other words, the state contributes nothing to help us manage growth either on the facilities construction or the day-to-day operations sides of the equation. Currently around 1,000 people move to the state of Texas every day. However, that population growth is not evenly distributed. The suburban areas around Dallas, Houston, Austin and San Antonio take in the bulk. In fact, only 85 school districts of the over 1,000 in the state deal with over 80% of this growth! It is no secret that a major player in which areas grow is the quality of the schools in that region.
Part of the challenge for fast growth districts, including Northside, is that our tax base is primarily residential (67% of NISD's total tax base) rather than commercial. In other words, we have a lot of students, but we are not "property wealthy" school systems. However, the bigger challenge for Texas' fast growth districts is the state's lack of willingness to financially support the districts that are educating the fastest growing student populations.
There are many potential legislative fixes to this issue including funding school construction debt assistance, fully funding the instructional materials and technology allotments and temporary assistance for supplies and materials to open new schools. However, there are also those who will fight this type of assistance to fast growth districts. Hiding behind buzz words like "transparency" and "local debt" some people in our state have demonized the very districts that attract growth. I sincerely hope
that we can make progress on this issue in the coming session. We will certainly push for it!
On the topic of grit, several of you have sent me a post by Salman Khan found on the Khan Academy website. While I don't want to advertise for the Khan Academy, there is no doubt that this individual is a deep thinker about education. In the post, Khan writes about reading with his five year old son. Reaching a word he struggles with the boy says to his father, "Dad, aren't you glad how I struggled with that word? I think I could feel my brain growing." That is a fantastic example of Carol Dweck's concept of growth mindset that I wrote to you about recently. As I've been saying, a growing area of research tells us that the willingness and ability to struggle in our learning and keep at it helps all of our brains "grow." Khan writes, "Between the deep body of research on the field of learning mindsets and this personal experience with my son, I am more convinced than ever that mindsets toward learning could matter more than anything else we teach." I couldn't agree more.
As I think and read more about teaching grit, one of the ideas that comes up is how it is measured. I actually found an individual measuring test developed by Duckworth. It can be found at: http://www.sas.upenn.edu/~duckwort/images/12-item%20Grit%20Scale.05312011.pdf However, I suspect that most teachers already know which of their students have grit and which are lacking.
More important though is how we measure that we are actually teaching this skill to our students. The best way I know to measure that is in the work product our students create. The rigor and grit our students display can be seen in what they produce. This is true in the band hall, art room, mathematics class and on the field. As reflective practitioners we need to regularly ask ourselves - are we getting the most out of every student? And, if not, how do we alter to get to that goal. If we can all have students producing at the maximum of their potential we will have given them a skill and work ethic that will serve them well for a lifetime. Have a great week!
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Animal / predator / stocks nest with
female of Crossocerus vagabundus stocks nest with Tipulidae
Animal / parasitoid / endoparasitoid
larva of Erycilla ferruginea is endoparasitoid of larva of Tipulidae
Animal / pathogen
pure white to grey or rarely green, shaggy rhizoids of Erynia conica infects adult of Tipulidae
Animal / predator / stocks nest with
female of Rhopalum coarctatum stocks nest with Tipulidae
Animal / parasitoid / endoparasitoid
larva of Siphona geniculata is endoparasitoid of larva of Tipulidae
Animal / pathogen
Steinernema carpocapsae infects larva of Tipulidae
Known predators
Partnuniella thermalis
Thermacarus nevadensis
Tachytrechus angustipennis
Based on studies in:
USA (Temporary pool)
This list may not be complete but is based on published studies.
- N. C. Collins, R. Mitchell and R. G. Wiegert, 1976. Functional analysis of a thermal spring ecosystem, with an evaluation of the role of consumers. Ecology 57:1221-1232, from p. 1222.
Known prey organisms
Endocladia muricata
Tegula funebralis
Littorina planaxis
Littorina scutulata
Acmaea digitalis
Acmaea pelta
Acmaea scabra
Cyanoplax dientens
Dynamenella glabra
Syllis vittata
Syllis spenceri
coarse particulate organic matter
Based on studies in:
USA: California, Monterey Bay (Littoral, Rocky shore)
USA (Temporary pool)
England: River Medway (River)
This list may not be complete but is based on published studies.
- P. W. Glynn, Community composition, structure, and interrelationships in the marine intertidal Endocladia Muricata - Balanus glandula association in Monterey Bay, California, Beaufortia 12(148):1-198, from p. 133 (1965).
- N. C. Collins, R. Mitchell and R. G. Wiegert, 1976. Functional analysis of a thermal spring ecosystem, with an evaluation of the role of consumers. Ecology 57:1221-1232, from p. 1222.
- A. G. Hildrew, C. R. Townsend and A. Hasham, 1985. The predatory Chironomidae of an iron-rich stream: feeding ecology and food web structure. Ecol. Entomol. 10:403-413, from p. 412.
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Molecular Biology
Statistics of barcoding coverage
Specimen Records: 6022
Specimens with Sequences: 5292
Specimens with Barcodes: 4911
Species: 453
Species With Barcodes: 390
Public Records: 165
Public Species: 43
Public BINs: 59
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Crane fly
The crane fly is a member of the family of insects in the order Diptera, also known as the Gallynapper, Daddy longlegs[1] or Mosquito Hawk, the true flies in the superfamily Tipuloidea. This page is about Tipulidae sensu stricto. Cylindrotomidae, Limoniidae, Pediciidae are ranked as subfamilies of Tipulidae by some authors.[2] Here they are treated separately as families.[3]
Crane flies are found worldwide, though individual species usually have limited ranges. They are most diverse in the tropics, and are also common in northern latitudes and high elevations.[4]
The Tipulidae sensu lato is one of the largest groups of flies, including over 15,000 species and subspecies in 525 genera and subgenera.[5] The family sensu stricto includes over 4000 species in 115 genera.[5] Most crane flies were described by the entomologist Charles Paul Alexander, a fly specialist, in over 1000 research publications.[6]
The adult crane fly, resembling an oversized mosquito, has a slender body and stilt-like legs that are deciduous, easily coming off the body. The wingspan is generally about 1 to 6.5 centimeters. The antennae have up to 39 segments.[7] It is also characterized by a V-shaped suture on the back of the thorax and by its wing venation.[4] The rostrum is long; in some species it is as long as the head and thorax together.[5]
For terms see Morphology of Diptera.
Tipulidae are large to medium-sized flies (7 mm-35 mm) with long elongate legs, wings and abdomen. The colour is yellow, brown or grey. Ocelli are absent. The rostrum (a snout) is short to very short with a beak-like point called the nasus (rarely absent). The apical segment of the maxillary palpi is flagelliform and much longer than the subapical segment. The antennae have 13 segments, (exceptionally 14 -19). These are whorled, serrate, or ctenidial. There is a distinct V-shaped suture between the between the mesonotal prescutum and scutum (near the level of the wing bases). The wings are monochromatic, longitudinally striped or marbled. In females the wings are sometimes rudimentary. The sub-costal vein (Sc) joins through Sc2 with the radial vein, Sc1 is at most a short stump. There are four, rarely (when R2is reduced) three branches of the radial vein merging into the alar margin. The discoidal wing cell is usually present. The wing has 2 anal veins. Sternite 9 of the male genitalia has, with few exceptions, two pairs of appendages. Sometimes appendages are also present on sternite 8. The female ovipositor has sclerotized valves and the cerci have a smooth or dentate lower margin. The valves are sometimes modified into thick bristles or short teeth.
The larva is elongate, usually cylindrical.The posterior two-thirds of the head capsule is enclosed or retracted within the prothoracic segment. The larva is metapneustic (with only one pair of spiracles, these on the anal segment of the abdomen) but often with vestigial lateral spiracles (rarely apneustic). The head capsule is sclerotized anteriorly and deeply incised ventrally and often dorsolaterally.The mandibles are opposed and move in the horizontal or oblique plane. The abdominal segments have transverse creeping welts. The terminal segments of the abdomen are glabrous, often partially sclerotized and bearing posterior spiracles. The spiracular disc is usually surrounded by lobe-like projections and anal papillae or lobes.
The adult female usually contains mature eggs as she emerges from her pupa, and often mates immediately if a male is available. Males also search for females by walking or flying. Copulation takes a few minutes to hours and may be accomplished in flight. Adults have a life span of 10 to 15 days.[8] The female immediately oviposits, usually in wet soil or mats of algae. Some lay eggs on the surface of a water body or in dry soils, and some reportedly simply drop them in flight. Most crane fly eggs are black in color. They often have a filament, which may help anchor the egg in wet or aquatic environments.[6]
Crane fly larvae (leatherjackets) have been observed in many habitat types on dry land and in water,[6] including marine, brackish, and fresh water.[5] They are cylindrical in shape but taper toward the front end, and the head capsule is often retracted into the thorax. The abdomen may be smooth, lined with hairs, or studded with projections or welt-like spots. There may be projections around the spiracles.[5] Larvae may eat algae, microflora, and living or decomposing plant matter, including wood. Some are predatory.[6][9]
Larval habitats include all kinds of freshwater, semi-aquatic environments. Some Tipulinae including Dolichopeza Curtis are found in moist to wet cushions of mosses or liverworts. Ctenophora Meigen is found in decaying wood or sodden logs. Nephrotoma Meigen and Tipula Linnaeus larvae are found in dry soils of pasturelands, lawns, and steppe.Tipulidae larvae are also found in rich organic earth and mud, in wet spots in woods where the humus is saturated, in leaf litter or mud, decaying plant materials or fruits in various stages of putrefaction.
Larvae can be important in the soil ecosystem, because they process organic material and increase microbial activity.[6] Larvae and adults are also valuable prey items for many animals, including insects, spiders, fish, amphibians, birds, and mammals.[5]
The larvae of some species are carnivorous on other small invertebrates, sometimes including mosquito larvae. Many adults, however, have such short life spans that they do not eat at all.[10]
Because many species of Tipulidae are very abundant and large, they are extensively preyed upon by birds, mammals, fishes, and other vertebrates, as well as by spiders and predacious insects.
Pest status[edit]
The common European crane fly, Tipula paludosa, and the marsh crane fly, T. oleracea, are agricultural pests in Europe. Crane fly larvae of economic importance live in the top layers of soil where they feed on the roots, root hairs, crown, and, sometimes, the leaves of crops, stunting their growth or killing the plants. They are pests on a variety of commodities. Since the late 1900s, T. paludosa and T. oleracea have become invasive in the US.[11][12][13] The larvae have been observed on many crops, including vegetables, fruits, cereals, pasture, lawn grasses, and ornamental plants.
In 1935, Lord's Cricket Ground in London was among venues affected by leatherjackets. Several thousand were collected by ground staff and burned, because they caused bald patches on the wicket and the pitch took unaccustomed spin for much of the season.[14]
- Subfamily Ctenophorinae
- Ctenophora Meigen, 1803
- Dictenidia Brulle, 1833
- Phoroctenia Coquillett, 1910
- Pselliophora Osten Sacken, 1887
- Tanyptera Latreille, 1804
- Subfamily Dolichopezinae
- Dolichopeza Curtis, 1825
- Subfamily Tipulinae
- Acracantha Skuse, 1890
- Angarotipula Savchenko, 1961
- Austrotipula Alexander, 1920
- Brachypremna Osten Sacken, 1887
- Brithura Edwards, 1916
- Clytocosmus Skuse, 1890
- Elnoretta Alexander, 1929
- Euvaldiviana Alexander, 1981
- Goniotipula Alexander, 1921
- Holorusia Loew, 1863
- Hovapeza Alexander, 1951
- Hovatipula Alexander, 1955
- Idiotipula Alexander, 1921
- Indotipula Edwards, 1931
- Ischnotoma Skuse, 1890
- Keiseromyia Alexander, 1963
- Leptotarsus Guerin-Meneville, 1831
- Macgregoromyia Alexander, 1929
- Megistocera Wiedemann, 1828
- Nephrotoma Meigen, 1803
- Nigrotipula Hudson & Vane-Wright, 1969
- Ozodicera Macquart, 1834
- Platyphasia Skuse, 1890
- Prionocera Loew, 1844
- Prionota van der Wulp, 1885
- Ptilogyna Westwood, 1835
- Scamboneura Osten Sacken, 1882
- Sphaerionotus de Meijere, 1919
- Tipula Linnaeus, 1758, 1758
- Tipulodina Enderlein, 1912
- Valdiviana Alexander, 1929
- Zelandotipula Alexander, 1922
Species Lists[edit]
- Pierre C.,1924, Diptères : Tipulidae Faune de France n° 8 Bibliotheque Virtuelle Numerique Out of date but online at no cost. In French.
- R. L. Coe, Paul Freeman & P. F. Mattingly Nematocera: families Tipulidae to Chironomidae (Tipulidae). Handbooks for the Identification of British Insects Vol 9 Part 2 i. pdf download manual Out of date but online at no cost
- J.F. McAlpine, B.V. Petersen, G.E. Shewell, H.J. Teskey, J.R. Vockeroth, D.M. Wood. Eds. 1987 Manual of Nearctic Diptera Volume 1 Research Branch Agriculture Canada, 1987 pdf key to Nearctic genera
- E. N. Savchenko Family Tipulidae in Bei-Bienko, G. Ya, 1988 Keys to the insects of the European Part of the USSR Volume 5 (Diptera) Part 2 English edition.Keys to Palaearctic species but now needs revision .
Tipulidae sensu lato are a very old group of Diptera close to Mecoptera [15][16] They have a number of derived characters and are perhaps (with the Trichoceridae) the sister group of all other Diptera.Limoniidae and Tipulidae are sister groups and Cylindrotominae appears to be a relict group that was much better represented in the Tertiary.[17] Tipulidae probably evolved from ancestors in the Upper Jurassic the Architipulidae.Limoniidae and Tipulidae differentiated in the mid-late Paleocene [18]
Common names[edit]
Numerous other common names have been applied to the crane fly. Many of the names are more or less regional in the US, including mosquito hawk, mosquito eater, gallinipper, and gollywhopper.[19] They are also known as daddy-long-legs around the world.[20] - not to be confused with daddy-long-legs that refers to arachnids of the order Opiliones or the family Pholcidae. The larvae of crane flies are known commonly as leatherjackets.[7]
See also[edit]
- Pest Information Wiki
- Tipularia discolor, the crane fly orchid
- ^ http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/141774/crane-fly
- ^ Alexander C.P., Byers G.W. (1981) Tipulidae. in: McAlpine J.F. et al. (Ed.), Manual of Nearctic Diptera. Agriculture Canada, Ottawa, pp. 153–1902 ISBN 0660107317 pdf download manual
- ^ What is a crane fly? Department of Entomology. Iowa State University.
- ^ a b Pritchard, G. (1983). Biology of Tipulidae. Annual Review of Entomology 28(1), 1-22.
- ^ a b c d e f de Jong, H., et al. (2008). Global diversity of craneflies (Insecta, Diptera: Tipulidea or Tipulidae sensu lato) in freshwater. Hydrobiologia 595(1), 457-67.
- ^ a b c d e Oosterbroek, P. Superfamily Tipuloidea, Family Tipulidae. Chapter 2 In: Evenhuis, N. L. (Ed.) Catalog of the Diptera of the Australasian and Oceanian Regions, Issue 86 of Bernice P. Bishop Museum Special Publication. Apollo Press. 1989.
- ^ a b Watson, L. and M. J. Dallwitz. 2003 onwards. Tipulidae. British Insects: The Families of Diptera. Version: 1 January 2012.
- ^ Carnegie Museum of Natural History | The Crane Flies of Pennsylvania
- ^ G Pritchard , 1983 Biology of Tipulidae Annual Review of Entomology Vol. 28: 1-22 pdf
- ^ Newton. B. Crane Flies. Kentucky Insects. Department of Entomology, University of Kentucky.
- ^ Rao, Sujaya; Listona, Aaron; Cramptonb, Lora; Takeyasu, Joyce (2006). "Identification of Larvae of Exotic Tipula paludosa (Diptera: Tipulidae) and T. oleracea in North America Using Mitochondrial cytB Sequences". Annals of the Entomological Society of America 99 (1): 33–40. doi:10.1603/0013-8746(2006)099[0033:IOLOET]2.0.CO;2.
- ^ Blackshaw R. P, Coll C. Economically important leatherjackets of grassland and cereals: biology, impact and control. Integr. Pest. Manag. Rev. 1999, 4:143-160.Blackshaw_and_Coll,_1999.pdf pdf
- ^ Jackson D. M, Campbell R. L. Biology of the European crane fly, Meigen, in western Washington (Tipulidae: Diptera). Washington State University Technical Bull. No. 81. 1975.
- ^ A. Ward. Cricket's Strangest Matches (1998 ed.). Robson Books, London. p. 111.
- ^ Rohdendorf, B . 1974. The Historical Development of Diptera. Edmonton:Univ. Alberta.
- ^ Savchenko, E. N. 1966. Phylogeny and systematics of the Tipulidae. Fauna Ukraini14:63-88 (In Russian)
- ^ Hennig, W. 1950. Die Larvenformen der Dipteren, Arb. 2. Berlin: Akad. Verlag.
- ^ Wighton, Dennis C. (1980). "New species of Tipulidae from the Paleocene of central Alberta, Canada". The Canadian Entomologist 112 (6): 621–8.
- ^ Dictionary of American Regional English.
- ^ Watson, L. and M. J. Dallwitz. 2003 onwards. Tipulidae. British Insects: The Families of Diptera. Version: 1 January 2012.
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Bis at the Flying Duck in Glasgow on Hogmanay. It's the "90's Common People" night, hence the cover version!
bis play Hogmanay in Glasgow!
Fancy seeing the New Year in with Bis in Glasgow?! We have the pleasure to announce that we're doing another "special" gig at the Flying Duck on 31st December. It's part of the club Common People, and tickets are only £10 in advance/£15 on the night (available from Ticket Scotland and the Flying Duck). If you fancy drinkies, dancing to indie music, eating toast and watching Bis on Hogmanay - this is the place to do it! Come join us!
Set List
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Update on the bis rehearsals for London/Glasgow/Wickerman from Manda
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We have some exciting news! Manda Rin's art "Cover Versions and Other Hits" will be displayed and on sale in Mono in Glasgow from Thursday 19th - 25th July. Details on the collection is below. To celebrate the launch, Bis will be performing their first Glasgow show in ages that evening in Mono! Support is from We are the Physics and tickets are £6 from TIcketweb, Monorail and Ticket Scotland. As we're performing at Wickerman Festival the next day, this is going to be a fun night that I hope you can join us for!
"Cover Versions and Other Hits"
Cover Versions is a collection of classic alternative album sleeves reworked by Bis member and solo artist Manda Rin. Having been responsible for her own band's artwork, including the iconic cover of their 1996 debut "New Transistor Heroes", Manda's unique style has been celebrated worldwide; especially in Japan, where a mutual love of Manga led to the publishing of her very own comic strip in a popular magazine.Manda has selected a collection of albums that have either changed her life or clearly defined a period of her life. Manga reworkings of The Slits' classic "Cut" or X-ray Spex's revolutionary debut clearly define early Bis, while other surprising choices such as Belle and Sebastian's "Fold Your Hands Child You Walk Like A Peasant" reveal a mellower side to the famously energetic singer.In an era where album art is struggling to find its footing in a digital world, Manda's work serves as a gentle reminder of how important album covers are in being the face of life-changing music.
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We are happy to announce that Bis will be performing at Wickerman Festival 2012 near Dundrennan, South West Scotland on 20th July. When we were offered this earlier this year, we weren't able to announce it until the press release (today), and other bands including Scissor Sisters and Cast who will also playing are listed here. This gave us the idea of getting a London gig as a "warm-up", which then created such excitement after selling out in just 4 hours that we added a 2nd London gig. This also sold out in one day!
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Mar 24, 2010
Risk Interconnection Map is an interesting way of presenting risk information. Comparing to regular risk maps, which display severity and likelihood, the interconnection map adds the element of, well, interconnectedness. And then some. A total of 5 dimensions are visualized:
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- Risk domain - by fill colour
- Risk interconnection - by lines connection circles
- Strength of interconnection - by thickness of interconnecting lines
Clicking on each risk brings up a focused view of interconnections, with that risk in the center.
This is part of World Economic Forum's Global Risk Report 2010. The full report can be downloaded by following the link, and contains a few more interesting visualization of risk profiles, like these. The Global Risk Report series goes back to 2006.
One risk highlighted in the 2010 report is risk of global governance gap, which is described to be "Weak or inadequate global institutions and agreements and competing national/political interests impede necessary collaboration around global risks." It was further highlighted that this is very strongly connected to risk of retrenchment from globalization, which is described as "Multiple developed economies adopt policies that create barriers to flows of goods, capital and labour and fail to engage with multilateral governance structures to address global challenges".


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Tech Report: Verizon To Challenge Netflix In Streaming Market
Verizon Communications has plans to launch a service that will allow people to stream movies and television shows over the Internet. KCBS Technology Analyst Larry Magid looks at how the new service will differ from Netflix.
Apple Announces Record 1st Day Pre-Orders For New iPhone
First-day pre-orders of Apple's iPhone 4S have topped 1 million, breaking the record set by last year's model.
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The Justice Department filed suit Wednesday to block AT&T's $39 billion deal to buy T-Mobile USA on grounds that it would raise prices for consumers.
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Consumer technology companies reporting financial results this week are looking like rowboats bobbing in the wake of Apple Inc.'s supertanker.
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Consumers Reports said Friday that the iPhone 4 that works on Verizon Wireless' network has a similar problem to the original.
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Verizon Wireless on Friday said its first day of taking online orders for the iPhone produced record sales, and it's stopped taking orders until Wednesday.
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Lilithsblood said...
I can't remember exactly when or one what stage/room but this was definitely on the Blizzcon pay per view. I remember showing this, the whole thing on power point. They went thru the eastern kingdoms describing the change of levels.. Like from tirisfal thru many zones until eastern plaguelands and so on and forth. EP and WP were like 35-45 zones. I'm guessing the people who posted this didn't watch blizzcon PPV or were at a different panel at blizzcon. Yeah I saw this completely broke down and explained. lol. try to find someone who recorded the PPV and you'll see. hehe.
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Whoops I posted it at the end instead of gettin to reply to your comment ecwfrk. What I said was..
"Well.. that would be wierd, cause I remember seeing it? lol I remember them walking thru the eastern kingdoms on the map showing this and that and improvements, maybe it was a different panel. That wouldn't be an art panel anyway, not art, that was design."


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"LFG channel has returned to being a realm-wide channel accessible in any city!"
I find this potentially disturbing. I like to sometimes enter into LFG on some toon as i'm doing dailies, random questing or rep grinds, etc, and see if anyone is asking after not just what the toon i'm playing could run, but stuff for other alts of mine that i might be interested in running. grinding hodir rep on the hunter and notice someone needs dps for sunken temple? time to switch to the lowbie rogue.
no more near-passive LFG where you might happen to spot someone looking for some oddball thing you are interested in doing. now, LFG will be an active-only thing. maybe getting groups will be easier to get actively, but never the surprise of finding random stuff.


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Roasted pumpkin seeds three ways with our pal Jerry James Stone!
You guys aren't afraid of roasting pumpkin seeds, right? My ma roasts hers plain to feed to her chinchilla, but we humans aren't usually thrilled by such unembellished snacks. JJS has got three spice mixes for your pepitas: salted, maple and sea salt, and coffee and chili (ooh).
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Last night's dinner: penne with roasted-pepper and pumpkin seed pesto, and garlicky greens. SO GOOD.
I found the pesto at Simple Recipes, but for starters I didn't have roasted red peppers: I had three raw bell peppers, two orange and one red. Oh how grateful we are for the internet! I found these instructions for roasting them, and it was pretty easy, not to mention fun, to turn these gorgeous vegetables all black over actual fire. Be bold in your kitchen!
I also didn't have pine nuts, and though I had several other varieties of nuts I didn't want their taste to overpower the flavor of the peppers in the pesto, so I substituted about 2/3 cup pumpkin seeds instead. Now, mine were "roasted, lightly salted" and unhulled—versus pepitas, which are naked—but removing the hulls seemed like a hellish process of doom, so I threw the seeds in whole, adding a little extra to compensate for their hulls.
I didn't expect the pesto to be as sweet as it turned out, but of course the roasted bell peppers were super-rich and sugary. Dandelion greens, though, have a very earthy, bitter taste, and the contrast was SCRAMAZING. You guys, so good. And so easy, really. Yes, time-consuming, but I have so much fucking time on my hands, it's obscene. So you should make this, it's delicious and good for you and you will love it.
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The Museum invites all NYC high school students to its Annual College Fair.
This year's College Fair is on Friday, October 24, 2014 from 5:00 – 7:30
FREE! Open to the public.
If you are a college or university interested in having a representative at the fair, you *must* contact Christine Banks Calderón in advance to ensure a space.
This year we are excited to offer a free Kaplan seminar on the college application and financial aid processes with a Q & A session from 5:30-6:15pm located in the Davis Classroom (West).
Location: Weston Pavilion & School Groups Reception, American Museum of Natural History. Enter through the Columbus Avenue/Weston Pavilion entrance, which is located on Columbus Avenue at 79th Street.
Directions: To get to the Museum by subway take the B or C train to 81st Street. Two blocks west of the Museum, the 1 train stops at Broadway and West 79th Street. To get to the Museum by bus take the M79 bus traveling east/west on West 79th Street across Central Park, with a stop next to the Museum on West 81st Street. Other buses also stop at or near the Museum, including the M7, M10, M11, M86 and M104 buses. Need a local map to the AMNH? Click here. Enter through the Columbus Avenue/Weston Pavilion entrance, which is located on Columbus Avenue at 79th Street.
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A team of 4 residents and their supporters were victorious at a quiz afternoon held at a local nursing home. The Furze Hill residents won despite being given copious amounts of sherry and cake by their hosts.
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The past few weeks have been crucial in the development of Georgia's defense.
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Georgia safety Josh Harvey-Clemons (25), Georgia defensive end Garrison Smith (56), Georgia defensive end Sterling Bailey (58) and Georgia defensive end Ray Drew (47)during the second half the NCAA college football game between the Georgia Bulldogs and the South Carolina Gamecocks on Saturday, Sept. 7, 2013.
Senior safety Connor Norman said it's easy to see how far the younger players have come since the start of the season.
"You've just got to keep building on it every week," Norman said. "The more games you play the more confidence you get, so I definitely can see them building confidence, which is good."
That confidence will be much needed against LSU's offense, which is averaging 480 yards per outing.
"I think we understand the challenge that's ahead, but at the same time we're preparing and we're getting ready to play, too," Norman said. "[The younger players have] got three games under their belt and they're continuing to get better every week."
Senior Garrison Smith has watched LSU play this season, and much like the Tigers of the past, it's no secret how they plan to pick apart Georgia's defense.
"They're a team that's going to try and run it on you," Smith said. "They're coming and they're not trying to hide it. You've just got to be mentally prepared to get ready for it."
Being mentally prepared is an area freshman safety Tray Matthews has put in a lot of work this season.
"I'm just looking forward to the competition," Matthews said. "I strive for big games like this. I'm going to play my hardest."
Georgia's defense must focus on stopping the run first and the pass second if it plans on slowing LSU down. However, LSU's passing game, led by former Georgia quarterback Zach Mettenberger, has been efficient thus far, totalling 10 touchdown passes and just more than 1,000 yards through the air.
"That quarterback puts the ball on the money," Matthews said. "He can throw the ball anywhere he wants to, and we're ready for that. That's more plays for me and I can hopefully get some picks."
Matthews has the mind set that he'll be able to make a few big hits in the secondary given the ball makes it that far.
"I'm pretty sure of our defensive backs," Matthews said. "We've got some hard-hitters. For me, I really don't have any fear in my heart. If they get to the next level, I've got to bring them down. Who else is going to bring them down?"


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Please excuse me if you think I am a homer, but Mr. Lombardi has me a little steamed. You see, his current article lambastes Todd Haley. Why? because Coach Haley yells at his players and gets upset when things go wrong.
Hmmmm, I know some really successful coaches who do that and they seem to get the best from their players: Parcells, Coughlin, and even Cower to name a few.
Herm Edwards was the poster child for being calm under pressure, where did that get him, and Romeo Crennel, and Rod Marrinelli and thier teams?
Using his argument, one would say that the Indianapolis Colts have been this great for so long, because Tony Dungy was so calm? Do you believe that for one minute?
If anything, the Chiefs have needed a hard nosed coach ever since Marty left. Haley is the perfect coach for the Chiefs, and I see the players falling in line. Mr. Lombardi is trying to create a story where none exists, in fact he admits that "I have not been in the locker room, nor have I talked to Chief players." Then why bother us Lombardi? Just shut up.


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O.J. Simpson Hearing Day 4
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O.J. Simpson's evidentiary hearing continues in Clark County District Court in Las Vegas, Nevada Thursday, May 16, 2013. Simpson, who is currently serving a nine-to-33-year sentence in state prison as a result of his October 2008 conviction for armed robbery and kidnapping charges, is using a writ of habeas corpus to seek a new trial, claiming he had such bad representation that his conviction should be reversed.
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This buffoon should be sent to a Devils Island. Tax payers shouldn't have to pay to keep him incarcerated and he's too criminally stupid to be let out in society.
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As so often happens, the serendipitous intersection of one too many notes from the same chord in a short time have prompted me to post. In this case, I am seeing a lot of evidence that would-be entrepreneurs just don't think about their ideas, their companies, or investors as they should. Case in point: I […]
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Charging for Your Product is About 2000 Times More Effective than Relying on Ad Revenue
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As most of you already know, I'm currently in Pre-production of my final project at VFS. We've been fiddling around with prototypes and now we have one working on the web! I AM EXCITE! PLAY IT! Controls are on the top of the browser.
The game revolves around one mechanic. You have a gun that shoots jump pads. The goal (right now) is to explore and go as high as you can. Keep in mind this is just a prototype. There is no set level design in this yet. It's kinda just randomly placed blocks. There are still lots of things we know we need to polish.
The jumpads are built so that you will reach the height you fall from when you jump on them.
The magenta boxes (skuttles) with the spheres gradually suck you in. The boxes are supposed to damage the player but we haven't implemented that yet. We still haven't made their fields visible from the inside, so if you're still moving without touching controls, you're probably in the skuttle field. Once again, these are things we're working on.
You can place a jump pad under them to move them around. You can use their pull sphere to navigate around corners as well.
Orange boxes hurt you if you stay on them.
Please check it out and give feedback to the email at the top of the webpage! We'd really appreciate it!
OBVIOUSLY THIS IS NOT THE FINAL ART. I'm still working on that… We still have a few months.


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Being apart of a 2 man horse costume Logan & I didn't think the entire night would be spent him asking everyone at the party, "Where'd my ass go?" me asking, "Have you seen my head?" and everyone telling Logan, "Your ass just threw up on princess leia."
I had the pleasure of getting haircuts from my dad, practically all my life. It went for the horrible 2rd grade bowl cut, to the 3rd grade mullet to the then 4th grade "she might have stuck her head in a wood chipper." He tried, he really did. I mean, he didn't exactly have the model customer to work with. My hair was curly and always in knots, i enjoyed sticking gum inside of it along with many other things i found in the backyard, and i was fidgety. I had enough focus to get the towel around my neck and then after that it was like i snorted pixie sticks laced with crack. But this was 5th grade, I wanted to look mature, and dazzling. I wanted to have the haircut where all the girls would be jealous and wonder who did my hair, just so i could lie to them and say a professional - instead of my dad. In the kitchen. With child safety proof scissors he got out of my art box. I had classmates to make envious and a boy named Max I planned to have fall in love with me. THIS HAIRCUT WAS GOING TO REVOLUTIONIZE MY ENTIRE BEING.
I plopped myself down at the dinner table, picked a spot on our wallpaper to focus on and told my dad I was ready. I showed him pictures of Kelly Kapowski and told him I wanted the exact same thing, smiling as if it was Christmas (please keep in mind that my hair was neither that long, nor dazzling. I pretty much set my father up for failure to begin with. Especially since i expected him to be the Picasso of hair dressery and the other misguided haircuts were just him being out of practice)."You want that?" my dad said as he snarled his lip up. "YES. I WANT THAT!" I said in the most 'I mean business, i'm wearing my duck pajamas. I'm on a mission' voice. He took a deep breath and began snipping. I was so focused on the chicken pattern on our kitchen wall that I wasn't noticing that the Kelly Kapowski haircut which should of only took a few minutes, was beginning to roll around the 15 minute marker and there was a lot more hair on the floor than my head. With the most satisfied look on his face, my dad took one finally snip, spun me around and showed me the mirror. I, looked nothing like Kelly Kapowski. In fact, I looked more like Screech.
Between the temper tantrum, the storming off and the slight melt down in between the living room and the bathroom I sort of blacked out. I was screaming, "MAX WILL NEVER LOVE ME NOW!" all across my bedroom while simultaneously gathering all the hats that I could find. Vowing to never show my hair to a living soul for the rest of my life. With my dad telling me it was no big deal and then having to go to school the next morning looking screechish, i cried my little heart out all night. Praying to the hair gods that I would miraculously grow Kelly Kapowski hair and Max would have no other choice but to marry me on the spot. Needless to say, God does not work in the hair department. A valuable lesson learned. I grabbed my hat with dinosaurs on it, mushed it on top of my head and pouted all the way into homeroom. I tried to hide inside my cubby, but for some reason in 5th grade everyone has the tattle tale disease, and an extreme case at that. I was dragged to my seat next to Max. Clenching my hat for dear life. I never depended on a stegosaurus so much in my life.
Just when I thought my teacher didn't notice my accessory, the worst possible thing happened. She took it off for me. Without any notice, without any permission, WITHOUT EVEN A WARNING TO GO BACK TO MY CUBBY AND PUT IT AWAY… she unveiled my fathers haircutting wizardry. I put my head down and started to ball my eyes out. In front of Max. In front of my entire class. Which instead of sympathy, it lead me straight to the principles office for "disruption" and not following class room policy. Was I attending a Nazi school!? After getting my reprimand, and chalk board cleaning assignment, i was told to join my classmates again. For some reason I was hoping they'd make me go home. For like, the rest of the year. But instead all they did was let me miss 15 minutes of spelling, which i'm assuming was equal to sending me home for a year in their justification. I walked in, and quickly took my seat next to Max, barely breathing or making a sound. There was no way he was going to love me, especially with my complete melt down. My dad always told me boys don't like crazy. I opened my trapper keeper and started writing my woes in misspelled form. Planning my escape to another planet where you can grow hair over night. Thats when Max slipped me a note in between my Lisa Frank folder.
dear kc
i like ur hair. want to play tag at recess? u can b on my team :)
HE LOVED ME! okay, he didn't exactly love me, but he wasn't grossed out by the thought of having me on his team. Which in playground terms, you're basically going steady. My view on my hair completely changed, I was no longer sulking in the disaster that was forming on top of my head, I was happy with it. I was Kelly Kapowski to Max and not Screech. He was digging the crazy. From that day on i vowed to always find a Max. Somebody who despite my unreasonable melt downs and poor choices in hair stylists, they still wanted to play tag with me, on the same team as a matter of fact. Now, many years later i'm still looking for my grown up Max. Somebody that will slip me that note saying they like my hair and want to play tag at recess.. or, at least grab a cup of coffee. Who knows, he might even have a Stegosaurus hat.
tl;dr - i had a bowl cut & a mullet.
Every weekend I sell apples at the farmers market. I live on an apple farm, we inherited from my grandparents a couple years back and continued the tradition. I just always get volunteered to be the one that sells them at 5 in the morning every Saturday and Sunday. I'm an apple slanger. I push apples. HOV! <>
PS. I also know how to make apple butter and an apple bong. You know, trades you look for in a wife, i know.
its because i channel my inner leeloo. Multipass all day on tumblr.
Also, Tom Hardy? Oh. Yeah. That makes sense.
Most of the time when I wake up in the morning I always have this feeling of being antsy. Always wanting to be somewhere other than where I am. I move around like a little chess piece because i'm just not settled. This morning, for the first time, i felt … sure. I felt like my head and my heart miraculously agreed over night while i was sleeping about where we want to spend the greater part of my life. All three of us agreed, its France.
Obviously the France i remember when i was nine years old is a lot different than what it is in actuality, but i don't care. I really don't see people talking about France with sentences like, "Man it fucking sucks!" or "France blows dude, don't ever go there." Even if it turned out to be most horrible idea to move there, I've made a choice. Its been settled.
Over the next four years i'm going to try and save every little nook and cranny that I have. I'm going to buckle down with learning the language, and research every city inside the country to figure out which one would be more suitable for me. Then i'll have to test drive staying there. All these things I have set up in my head to do. Research, Plan, Save, Commit, Save, Save, Save, Save. I'm going to have little change jars everywhere in my house and fully throw myself into this idea that I will be celebrating my 29th birthday in a country I just woke up wanting to be in so badly.
So cross your fingers, I just put 83 cents into my first jar and created a "Je vais en France" savings account through my bank. Last time I had this motivation I put myself through art school, hopefully I can come through again. I'm ready.
Dear Amy Jo,
I'm going to San Antonio with my dad Dec. 4th (we're driving down), he promised that we can stay in New Orleans for 2 nights so I can take pictures, which means we're meeting. It's a must. Granted you'll meet my pops as well, but we'll just pretend he's not there. I'll have Rufio with me too! Rufio can meet Sprocket! Also, I love you forever and I will hold your hand and frolic through a forest with you. Or alley, if it's not dark. I don't like the dark. Or dark alleys. You know, that's how serial killings begin.
p.s. I typed this with a Vulcan accent
p.s.s. I wore a Kimono probably every single day from age 5-10 because I thought it was the law, and my father didn't inform me otherwise. Both me and the little girl you babysit continually get misinformed in life.
(i have no reason to use this .gif so i leave it here)
Eeeeeep!! I can't believe i'm seeing you this weekend! AND YOU'RE GOING TO BE SLEEPING IN MY ROOM!! Just no touching my butt. I have a strict "No" policy to askhole penetration offline, Anna.
(ps. OMG WE'RE GOING TO WATCH VERONICA MARS & HARRY POTTER BACK TO BACK. YOU WILL NEVER LEAVE.)
Being a then 20 year old father looking down at his 4 year old daughter, i'm sure my dad found himself in the one situation he had dreaded the most. The talk where he has to explain to his very sensitive daughter that the reason why her mother almost gave her up for adoption and fled to her aunts in the united states at 16 was because you broke her heart in half. Broke her heart so drastically and horribly, that she didn't want to keep a child that looked exactly like you. How was he going to explain to his daughter the failed parenting and responsibility oh both parties? He then looked down to the little girl with curly pigtails and started his lecture, "KC… just know, we both love you very very much."
Being without my mom for a better part of my life really didn't impact me, and it didn't devastate or cripple my relationships that I've had with people. I was lucky enough to have a father who despite everyone against him, was able to be both a mother and a father simultaneously before he was even legal to have a drivers license. I just never had an answer as to why he had to do it alone. I remember all the talks we had when I was a kid and him explaining that they both loved my brother and I so much that they couldn't be without one of us. I grew up without a mother, my brother grew up without a father. I never thought it was my fault, my father held the guilty card very tightly, even still today. Though both of us have grown into mature and wonderful adults, I think both my parents are waiting for the silent bomb that will explode inside of us due to their failures. My mother especially.
Once I got into my 20's my relationship with my mother became strong. She was ready for me. She was mature enough to handle the questions that I had, and prepared for the cussing, yelling and blaming that would ensue. But there was none. I didn't have this boiling point of emotions where everything was prepared in my head, like a presidential speech. I just wanted to get to know her. That night I sat in the kitchen showing her my photography portfolio, just talking to her. By the end of me showing her my pictures she began to apologize. Apologize on missed everything that was my childhood. Explaining her side of the story, "I was 16, I didn't know what I was doing, letting your dad take you was one of my biggest regrets, I thought being a new mom was the worst thing in the world and being a new mom twice just killed me. Then your father and I broke up, and it was just me.." She started trailing off her sentences, I didn't want to interrupt, but I knew that I had to. I knew my father was the one who screwed her up, that doesn't exempt her from being a shitty mother, but being 16 and losing the love of your then life, I understood that. I got heart break. And losing love makes any sane person completely crazy.
Our relationship since then has grown very strongly and soundly. I can call her mom and it feels like she is my mom. My brain and my heart recognize that. My father has since took the back seat for us to get to this point. Even with 30+ years under their belt my mom is still very much heart broken. You see, my father found the love of his life in another woman. My mother found the love of her life, and ended up not being his. An experience that cost a child a relationship with her mother. So now when I look back and wonder why my mother didn't wanted me, it wasn't that she didn't want me, she just didn't want to hurt anymore. Before I learned how to ride my first bike, or kiss my first crush, I learned the matters of the heart. I understood the results of being in love, and I experienced the choices you make after you've lost that love. It just so happens I ended up being one of those experiences.


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The party is over but the night has just begun.
"I don't know Gee I might be wrong. You might actually get some sleep cause we're out of whipped cream." He snorted. Alicia couldn't help it she started laughing too.
Gerard shot them a dirty look. "Shut up Mikey"
Monica who had walked Bob and Kara to the door returned just in time to hear Mikey's comment. She turned to Mikey, "I really don't need any whip cream, your brother is sweet enough already."
"Oh man too much info." Mikey pretended to shy away, "Good night you guys. See you in the AM" He and Alicia walked off arm in arm to talk to the few remaining guests.
"Ready for sleep" Gerard asked Monica who was standing next to him. She put her arm around him.
"Nope, not at all. However, I am ready to go to bed." She dropped her arm and gave his butt a quick squeeze.
He smiled "Shit why are we still standing here?"
"Shit, I don't know," she answered grinning. They walked down the hall to the bedroom they had used the last time they visited the apartment.
As soon as the door was closed Monica turned and pinned Gerard against it. She pressed her body to his and kissed him passionately. Her hands ran down his chest until they reached the top of his jeans. Urgently her fingers fumbled with the zipper until she was able to lower it. She pushed the jeans to the floor following them down. She was on her knees before he knew what was happening. He started to speak but the words were forgotten when she took him into her mouth.
"Shit honey, what are you doing?" Her tongue was swirling around his shaft making him moan softly. He didn't need an answer.
He looked across the room into the dresser mirror. The sight of Monica on her knees in front of him almost undid his control. As he watched she raised one hand to stroke him when she removed her mouth. Her hand slid up and down, up and down until he thought he would explode. Her mouth returned and she began gently sucking the length of his erection.
"Fuck you are gonna make me cum" he warned her. Monica made a seductive sound low in her throat.
"Cum for me" she stopped only long enough to say then continued on.
Gerard closed his eyes and felt the pressure build. Shit he couldn't believe she could make him this hot and ready so quickly. He tried to hold back. Her hand snaked up and cradled his balls. Slowly her mouth moved to them and began gently sucking them while her other hand began to stroke his erection. Thoughts of holding back were fading. He wasn't sure what she wanted him to do. "Honey? What the fuck do you want me to do?"
Monica understood, "Let go Gee." Still he held back. She wanted to push him over the edge with her words. "I'm going to swallow every last drop," she said looking up into his eyes, her tongue darting out to lick her lips.
Her words were his undoing. He let go filling her mouth. She continued until there was no more. Gerard slid down the door pushing her back to the ground. He kissed her mouth tasting himself. "Fuck me, you are a wild woman tonight"
She licked her lips, "I thought about doing that all night," she admitted. "You make me so hot Mr. Way."
"I can make you hotter" His hand slipped down to undo her jeans. They were removed quickly followed by her sweater and bra. She lay on the floor in only her sheer panties. His eyes drank in the sight of her. "God," he said rawly as he slid his hand beneath barrier of her panties, "You're so pretty here" She shuttered at his intimate touch. "Hot and wet".
As his tongue thrust deep in her mouth she felt his fingers duplicate the motion deep inside her. She arched her back to meet his hand "Gee, please" she panted. He broke from her lips and blazed a trail down her neck. His fingers continued thrusting causing her to moan and wither. His lips stopped at her breasts so he could examine each hard nipple. He suckled one sweet hard peak than the other. She made a pleading sound in the back of her throat. He sucked harder and she groaned.
Then his mouth moved further down until he reached the moist, hot center of her womanhood. Hr removed his fingers taking the small piece of fabric that were her panties with them. His tongue spread her folds and delved between them. A few flicks of his tongue and her hips moved bucking up to meet him. Suddenly her body released and Gerard lapped the essence quickly has her hips jerked and shook. She lay quivering on the floor.
Before she had even begun to return to normal he scooped her up in his arms and carried her to the bed. He gently put her down. "I need my gown," she murmured
"Nope honey, tonight I want skin on skin." He climbed into bed next to her and pulled her close. "On the bus we are gonna to have to come up with some creative ways to be together." He smiled. "The guys will try their best to make it hard for us to find time for this"
Monica giggled, "I'm sure we can figure out something." She put her head on this chest to listen to his heartbeat. He switched off the light on the nightstand plunging the room into darkness. "Gee?" she whispered.
"Yea" he was stroking her hair. Inhaling her scent. Praying that it would always be this way.
"I really meant what I said. I'm going to stop running and start living. I won't lie it's not easy for me. When you first told me about Liv I was upset. That was wrong. I love you and I will stand by you, always."
In the darkness he smiled. "I will always stand by you Monica. Nothing and I mean nothing will ever change that."
She was quiet for several minutes and he had begun to think she had fallen asleep. "Someday soon I will tell you, Gee" her voice was just a whisper but her words spoke volumes.
Authors note - What can I say I like the write this kind of a chapter. Thank God the real Gerard will never read this!!!


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NEW DELHI: Japanese auto and bike manufacturer, unhappy with Hero's offer, has reportedly made an offer to buy Hero's 26% stake in Hero Honda. As per news reports earlier, Hero had made an offer to buy out a part of Honda's stake in the venture.
Honda is reportedly unhappy with Hero's offer. Munjals of Hero are reportedly asking for 40% discount to current market price. Honda is expecting the valuation close to current market price. Honda's counter offer of buying out Hero's stake is being seen as a negotiating tactic to get the price possible from Hero for Honda's stake in the joint venture.