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Relationships are like birds, if you hold tightly they DIE

If you hold Loosely, they FLY But if you hold with care,

They remain with you for ever.!!!!!

Elimination of mosquitoes might make the biggest ecological difference in the Arctic tundra, home to mosquito species including Aedes impiger and Aedes nigripes. Eggs laid by the insects hatch the next year after the snow melts, and development to adults takes only 3–4 weeks. From northern Canada to Russia, there is a brief period in which they are extraordinarily abundant, in some areas forming thick clouds. "That's an exceptionally rare situation worldwide," says entomologist Daniel Strickman, programme leader for medical and urban entomology at the US Department of Agriculture in Beltsville, Maryland. "There is no other place in the world where they are that much biomass."
“If there was a benefit to having them around, we would have found a way to exploit them. We haven't wanted anything from mosquitoes except for them to go away.”
Views differ on what would happen if that biomass vanished. Bruce Harrison, an entomologist at the North Carolina Department of Environment and Natural Resources in Winston-Salem estimates that the number of migratory birds that nest in the tundra could drop by more than 50% without mosquitoes to eat. Other researchers disagree. Cathy Curby, a wildlife biologist at the US Fish and Wildlife Service in Fairbanks, Alaska, says that Arctic mosquitoes don't show up in bird stomach samples in high numbers, and that midges are a more important source of food. "We (as humans) may overestimate the number of mosquitoes in the Arctic because they are selectively attracted to us," she says.
Mosquitoes consume up to 300 millilitres of blood a day from each animal in a caribou herd, which are thought to select paths facing into the wind to escape the swarm. A small change in path can have major consequences in an Arctic valley through which thousands of caribou migrate, trampling the ground, eating lichens, transporting nutrients, feeding wolves, and generally altering the ecology. Taken all together, then, mosquitoes would be missed in the Arctic — but is the same true elsewhere?
Food on the wing
"Mosquitoes are delectable things to eat and they're easy to catch," says aquatic entomologist Richard Merritt, at Michigan State University in East Lansing. In the absence of their larvae, hundreds of species of fish would have to change their diet to survive. "This may sound simple, but traits such as feeding behaviour are deeply imprinted, genetically, in those fish," says Harrison. The mosquitofish (Gambusia affinis), for example, is a specialized predator — so effective at killing mosquitoes that it is stocked in rice fields and swimming pools as pest control — that could go extinct. And the loss of these or other fish could have major effects up and down the food chain.
Many species of insect, spider, salamander, lizard and frog would also lose a primary food source. In one study published last month, researchers tracked insect-eating house martins at a park in Camargue, France, after the area was sprayed with a microbial mosquito-control agent1. They found that the birds produced on average two chicks per nest after spraying, compared with three for birds at control sites.

Eradicating any organism would have serious consequences for ecosystems — wouldn't it?
Every day, Jittawadee Murphy unlocks a hot, padlocked room at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research in Silver Spring, Maryland, to a swarm of malaria-carrying mosquitoes (Anopheles stephensi). She gives millions of larvae a diet of ground-up fish food, and offers the gravid females blood to suck from the bellies of unconscious mice — they drain 24 of the rodents a month. Murphy has been studying mosquitoes for 20 years, working on ways to limit the spread of the parasites they carry. Still, she says, she would rather they were wiped off the Earth.
That sentiment is widely shared. Malaria infects some 247 million people worldwide each year, and kills nearly one million. Mosquitoes cause a huge further medical and financial burden by spreading yellow fever, dengue fever, Japanese encephalitis, Rift Valley fever, Chikungunya virus and West Nile virus. Then there's the pest factor: they form swarms thick enough to asphyxiate caribou in Alaska and now, as their numbers reach a seasonal peak, their proboscises are plunged into human flesh across the Northern Hemisphere.
So what would happen if there were none? Would anyone or anything miss them? Nature put this question to scientists who explore aspects of mosquito biology and ecology, and unearthed some surprising answers.
There are 3,500 named species of mosquito, of which only a couple of hundred bite or bother humans. They live on almost every continent and habitat, and serve important functions in numerous ecosystems. "Mosquitoes have been on Earth for more than 100 million years," says Murphy, "and they have co-evolved with so many species along the way." Wiping out a species of mosquito could leave a predator without prey, or a plant without a pollinator. And exploring a world without mosquitoes is more than an exercise in imagination: intense efforts are under way to develop methods that might rid the world of the most pernicious, disease-carrying species (see 'War against the winged').
Yet in many cases, scientists acknowledge that the ecological scar left by a missing mosquito would heal quickly as the niche was filled by other organisms. Life would continue as before — or even better. When it comes to the major disease vectors, "it's difficult to see what the downside would be to removal, except for collateral damage", says insect ecologist Steven Juliano, of Illinois State University in Normal. A world without mosquitoes would be "more secure for us", says medical entomologist Carlos Brisola Marcondes from the Federal University of Santa Catarina in Brazil. "The elimination of Anopheles would be very significant for mankind."
Arctic pests

I believe these basic practice methods are the best way of learning a language

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Do you know what is more expensive than gold?

It’s the book. Book is the best friend ever you can have. It is partner who never gets bored and the friend who never be late when I call. It obedient to me in every time and it never be hypocrite nor lie to me. Also, because his help, learned a lot of information, but of course is not enough so I still need learn more. Book broadens my knowledge horizon and has improved my speaking ability as well. It can’t spare me any useful information, gives me in every time morning or evening. When people sleep, I find it close to me. When I carry it and start to turn its pages, it caresses my thoughts. It gives me the comfort and gets the boredom away from me. Because of books, I knew what I didn’t know from others oral. I have stayed away from bad friends since I started to read books, and they were the best things I take in my traveling. Book never leave me for a moment except if I leave it.

I’m interested in reading books, because people cannot be educated without them. One day when I was young, my father invited our relatives and neighbors for dinner: while we were setting in living room, I was setting next to my grand father and in front of my uncle, guests were talking and my brother was serving them there was a man start talking loudly, telling a story. He grabbed people’s attention, the place became quiet, and we were listening carefully to him. The man was speaking fluently and confidently. He was telling us about my country’s history and how it became a Kingdom. He took us to many years before and we felt that. He touched my emotion and drew a big picture of the history. His story was fascinated and we love it. He inspired me, so I asked my grand father who is this; he said that he is an author and reader. At that time, I was pensive how can I become like him. I looked at my grandpa, and then I said I would like to be a good reader like him, I want to be informative. Then he said to me ok, but you should promise me that you are going to do your best. After that, I promised him. By the next day, I woke up and I found a gift right next to me, I was so excited then I opened it, I found it an Arabic book, it's Open the Window There is a Light, written by Khaled Muneef. I felt that there is something new in my life something is good. I started to read the first page, second page, and I couldn’t stop reading. Every page made me more curious to read the next until I finished it. Then I bought another book and another. I became possessed in reading books. Every time I feel bored I go to my room and start reading. I read in my free time and stop when I’m busy. I became like the thirsty, who is nothing could make him feels good like books. They benefit and guide me to the right way without resorting others. Books light the darkness in my mind and help me with everything in my life.

(Septmeber 8,2012)< Sunset> It 's been a while.I haven't written any English entries these days.
Yeah, I might say that's because I was busy or tired but I'd like to try to write an entry in English more often.My pictures of today are some views of a sunset which I saw late afternoon today.When I was in the living room, I felt the bright sunlight from the kitchen, so I went to there I could see the beautiful sunset.The yellow sunlight was flowing into the kitchen window between the two buildings.So beautiful!I quickly snapped a picture with my phone.The other pictures are of the sky which I took from the living room.The third picture is a view of a playground that I can see from the living room.

2114. To forget the heat, I’d like to eat somen or zarusoba.
2115. Somen is a chilled thin noodle dish.
2116. We are having a barbecue tonight.
2117. Would you come to my barbeque party this weekend?
2118. Rice crops will do well this year.
We will have a good crop of rice this year.
2119. We will have a poor crop of rice this year.
We will have a bad crop of rice this year.
2120. Let's eat lunch under that tree.
Let's eat lunch in the cool shade of the tree.
2121. It was the best I ever had!
2122. Here's a slice of watermelon.
Here's a piece of watermelon.
2123. Get seeds out of the watermelon slice.
Pick seeds out of the watermelon slice.
Remove seeds out of the slice of watermelon.

2124. Watermelon is my favorite summertime treat.
2125. A cold glass beer would hit the spot.
2126. Do you have any cold beers?
2127. I feel like cold beers.
2128. You want another beer?
Another beer?
2129. Give me two more cans of beers.
2130. Drink up your beer.
2131. I like drinking beer straight from the bottle.
2132. Beers got me drunk.
I'm very drunk on beers.
2133. A glass of beer for this lady, please.
2134. Serve the guests with beers.
2135. We've run out of beer.
We're fresh out of beer.

2104. They say that house is haunted!
They say that's a haunted house!
2105. That summer night will never come back.
That summer night will never return.
2106. All the plans l made for this summer fell apart.
All the plans l made for this summer fell through.
2107. It is already fall according to the calendar.
Autumn has already started according to the calendar.
2108. I don't want summer to end!
2109. The lazy days of summer are coming to an end.
My fun days of summer are over.
2110. It'll be fall before you know it.
Fall will be here soon.
2111. Have you done your summer vacation homework yet?
2112. Our summer break ends tomorrow.
Our summer break is over tomorrow.
2113. Summer vacation is over finally.