Mosquitoes having a ‘perfect’ year

THOMPSON-OKANAGAN — No, you are not imagining things, the mosquitoes are actually worse this year, thanks to high water, cooler temperatures and wet weather.

If you’ve ventured outside at all over the last month you have swatted at mosquitoes or came away with a bunch of itchy welts. Or maybe you donned your DEET and the nasty little buggers didn’t bother you at all.

“They’re just not dying,” mosquito control expert Cheryl Phippen says. “There’s been no sun to kill them. This year has been just perfect for mosquitoes.”

Phippen says the end of May through the July long weekend is the prime time for the little suckers and without the hot spells typical of this time of year to start killing them off, many mosquitoes are able to live twice as long.

“A mosquito can live 10 days in warm weather, but it can live up to three weeks in cooler weather,” Phippens says, adding some hope by noting, “It will all collapse at once.”

Phippen, with BWP Consulting, has been in the business of larviciding mosquitoes for 16 years and says while last year was the easiest year she’s ever had, this year has been a different story. Athough it has been better than she originally expected.

“We had crazy high water, nothing but cool temperatures and rain… I was predicting full armageddon,” she jokes. “Waters are receding. Now it’s basically personal precautions (to keep mosquitoes away.)”

She advises wearing DEET products when heading outdoors, especially earlier in the morning and in the evening, wear long sleeves and lighter colours.

Most importantly, get rid of standing water. Standing water is where mosquitoes which carry West Nile Virus prefer to breed.

For those who do not like the idea of DEET, Phippen warns to use other products with scepticism.

“Nothing else works. (DEET) is safe and effective. It’s the only thing I recommend,” she says. “Natural mosquito repellants are not proven, and they do not work. I caution people that natural doesn’t mean it’s safe.”

Garlic barrier sprays, Listerine, citronella, Bounce dryer sheets and coconut oil top her list of ‘protectant myths’ this year though she could list many more she has heard over the years.

“Health Canada is very clear on what you should and shouldn’t be doing,” she says. “In addition to DEET there’s OFF Botanicals, which works but for less time.”

The good news is the mosquito season is almost over. Areas with higher water, wet ground or dense bush often see mosquitoes for a bit longer.

Did you know?
- Larvicide programs can kill 99.1 per cent of mosquito larvae, but still leaves millions of mosquitoes to survive.
- Mosquitoes lay eggs in soil as the water recedes and eggs can live up to 30 years. High waters during extreme floods can reach those eggs that have been stockpiled for years.
- The mosquitoes found in the B.C. Interior following flood waters are typically short lived, they bite once and die.
- The species that carries West Nile Virus is less aggressive, and breeds in standing water.
- West Nile Virus carrying species have been found as far north as Vernon.

To contact a reporter for this story, email Jennifer Stahn at jstahn@infotelnews.ca or call 250-819-3723. To contact an editor, email mjones@infotelnews.ca or call 250-718-2724.

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A new survey conducted by Marquette University Law School revealed that the vast majority of American voters oppose race-based affirmative action policies in college admissions.

Marquette University Law School published a poll on Wednesday that suggests that a majority of American voters are opposed to race as a factor in college admissions.

57 percent of respondents said that they are “strongly opposed” to the use of race as a factor in college admissions. Another 21 percent of respondents said that they “oppose” the use of race in college admissions. Only four percent of respondents said that they “strongly favor” race-based admissions policies.

Breitbart News reported earlier this month that a federal judge ruled that Harvard University does not discriminate against Asian-Americans in their admissions process. The case was brought by an activist group called the Students for Fair Admission, which will likely appeal the case to a higher court. Some analysts believe the case will reach the Supreme Court of the United States.

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Sczi:This crap's getting real tiresome. I wonder if anybody in authority is getting actual payola style kickbacks for allowing these things to go in? I'd just about bet money on it. Personally, I'd like a thorough investigation. Some DOT guy physically typed those new numbers into the computer or turned the dial or however it works to shorten those lights. Who told them to do that, and why?

It is probably better for everyone if you don't ask too many questions about this.

Sczi:This crap's getting real tiresome. I wonder if anybody in authority is getting actual payola style kickbacks for allowing these things to go in? I'd just about bet money on it. Personally, I'd like a thorough investigation. Some DOT guy physically typed those new numbers into the computer or turned the dial or however it works to shorten those lights. Who told them to do that, and why?

I wonder how soon til someone just decides to start charging a fee to go through a light. Double if you want to make a left.

mod3072:It sounds to me like this should increase the safety of those intersections by at least a factor of 10. Maybe instead of whining about a few little traffic tickets, you should be thankful for FDOT's steadfast dedication to making your lives safer.

Not sure if serious. Studies show lengthening the duration of yellow leads to fewer accidents.

Sczi:This crap's getting real tiresome. I wonder if anybody in authority is getting actual payola style kickbacks for allowing these things to go in? I'd just about bet money on it. Personally, I'd like a thorough investigation. Some DOT guy physically typed those new numbers into the computer or turned the dial or however it works to shorten those lights. Who told them to do that, and why?

The payola goes directly to the town/city/county where these things are installed. The companies that manage these things guarantee revenue from them, plus the local government doesn't pay for them.

Dubya's_Coke_Dealer:The Stealth Hippopotamus: labman: I've never heard of such a thing happening. To think people would be motivated to screw others out of their money.

/sarcasm

But this is the government. They arn't motivated by petty things like profit. The government has to pay for the services it provides, like your mental-health disability payments, your medicaid and so forth somehow. Since taxes are bad, it only makes sense we get revenue from people who can't be bothered to follow simple rules, like stopping at a red light.

Which breaks down when they are messing with the timing of light for the sole purpose of increasing revenue from people who didn't stop, because they changed the timing.

Bottom of the article Georgia longer yellow light reduced 80 to 90 % of revenue for RDC . Florida has 5 of the 12 oldest by age of residence cities they need a lot more time to react. Delaying the onset of the green light would increase safety but they are not talking about that. It about revenue not safety.

msP:/obviously the best solution is use roundabouts wherever possibleTHIS! I say this all the time. In my completely unscientific opinion, I guesstimate that at least 90% of traffic lights could be replaced by roundabouts.

When that happens, let me know so I can move out of the country for a decade and then come back when America has figured them out.

They installed one near me on a tiny little street in the middle of nowhere. I drive through it every day. The stuff I've seen the elderly and timid do in that roundabout boggles the mind.

I usually look for the cross walk countdowns when approaching an intersection as many intersections near me tend to have them. What's crazy is that I was in the Dominican Republic a few years ago and they had count downs on the traffic lights and I've never seen one in the US. Then again by turning RLCs into ATMs governments aren't economically motivated to spend money on something that's going to drive down ticket revenue.

msP:/obviously the best solution is use roundabouts wherever possibleTHIS! I say this all the time. In my completely unscientific opinion, I guesstimate that at least 90% of traffic lights could be replaced by roundabouts.

Up here they've started building roundabouts all over the place. The local TeaBagger/KKK (yes, they ARE the same people) are all up in arms about them, calling them a waste of valuable taxpayer money and a horrible manipulation of people's freedumbs and liberties to drive as they please. The County based the locations for the roundabouts on the number of collisions at various intersections around the County and City. The worst intersections get priority on new construction. One in particular had three or so serious collisions every week just due to the nature of the way the curve was changed to accommodate the freeway when it was built in the mid 1960s.

They work. Quite well. Collisions at those intersections are way down. That last one hasn't seen a major wreck in months.

While short yellows may cost you out of pocket before you adjust to them, LLLOOOOOONNNNGGGG yellows, like they have in this dusty town totally sap the life out of you.There are no 'complex formulas' administered to these lights here. They all just go to the default of 55 second green each direction and a painfully long 5 second yellow... no matter the traffic counts either way, the width of the road... fark that shiat, it's 55 seconds here.

I'm sure the counter argument is that it would cause drivers to punch it when they see some minimum time come up. Except now there wouldn't be the guess work of "crap, is this a long yellow or a short yellow? Hell, I'm going too fast to stop at this point, time to gun it and pray!"

msP:/obviously the best solution is use roundabouts wherever possibleTHIS! I say this all the time. In my completely unscientific opinion, I guesstimate that at least 90% of traffic lights could be replaced by roundabouts.

Thanks, but no thanks. They replaced two intersections around here with those crappy things, and low and behold, traffic got worse in the area instead of better, and the number of accidents went UP.

The biggest problem is that traffic on the road coming off the highway is just about constant, and as that traffic is going through with 'the right of way' as cars are going through the intersection constantly with no breaks in the traffic, the cars on the cross streets are stuck waiting for access to the road.

If roundabouts were the only intersection option back from when we started getting motorized vehicles, then yes, it would be better. Since we did not, you have to retrain EVERYONE on how to drive through those crappy things. I have watched people turn left on a roundabout, because they don't want to go right, they need to go on the road to the left, which is a shorter distance to go anyway. Why go all the way around and waste that much more gas?

Stop lights, or even stop signs at a 4 way intersection. That's the way to go.

Treygreen13:msP: /obviously the best solution is use roundabouts wherever possibleTHIS! I say this all the time. In my completely unscientific opinion, I guesstimate that at least 90% of traffic lights could be replaced by roundabouts.

When that happens, let me know so I can move out of the country for a decade and then come back when America has figured them out.

They installed one near me on a tiny little street in the middle of nowhere. I drive through it every day. The stuff I've seen the elderly and timid do in that roundabout boggles the mind.

We have one in Houston. I had to teach my wife to drive at the age of 30 (don't ask, she just never learned apparently).

A short while into training, she became a bit cocky and thought she was ready for her driver's test (she wasn't), so I took her to the roundabout. I actually felt bad about it afterwards, she was so frazzled.

But I guess I did a good job, because she thanked me the other day out of the blue for teaching her to drive. She said the stuff I had her do has helped her avoid about three accidents now from other idiot motorists.

Sometimes I had her driving in a secluded spot and then I'd randomly yell out "child", "squirrel", "stop", "go", "do you want a fish sandwich?" or whatever else randomly came to mind -Now the new baby screaming or the dog suddenly yelping while she's driving has little effect on her.

Memphis could singlehandedly solve all budget problems for the state of Tennessee by putting up some red light cameras on union and poplar avenues. Well, if they could solve the problem of 50% of the cars having a cardboard "tag applied for" sign in the rear window.

When they put those red light cameras up, I choose to simply avoid those intersections if at all possible. Even if it means going a little out of my way.

dogboy360:Why bother with the yellow light at all?Just set up a toll at all busy intersections.

/snark off

Toll at busy intersections? I got dinged for a non-payment of a toll on a road that to my knowledge has NO tolls on it. I paid it because I'd rather not fight over $3.50 - but don't be confused, they are doing it.

msP:/obviously the best solution is use roundabouts wherever possibleTHIS! I say this all the time. In my completely unscientific opinion, I guesstimate that at least 90% of traffic lights could be replaced by roundabouts.

Roundabouts were designed for horse and buggies, to allow them to not lose momentum while going through an intersection. They work great, until you get into high traffic levels (like we have today), then they just clog and become horribly dangerous.

Modern cars are perfectly fine with starting from a dead stop, and we have so much more traffic now, roundabouts probably wouldn't work.

They have yet to put these things in where I live (Bay County, Florida), but I imagine they will get around to it eventually. Since our local politicians are predictable, we figure that when they put them in they won't put them anywhere near the gated communities but every main feeder road from the rural areas to town will have one.

I know about five people who swear that if they ever put them in that they will be hunting speed cameras in the wee hours of the morning---and knowing the folks down here I'm sure that there are more where they came from. It will be interesting to see if it actually happens or if all that big talk is just hot air.

Deathfrogg:calling them a waste of valuable taxpayer money and a horrible manipulation of people's freedumbs and liberties to drive as they please.

That's funny, a roundabout removes a government sign forcing you to stop and instead allows you to participate in the free market of traffic flow with your fellow citizens. You'd think they'd be all over that like white on rice.

fluffy2097:Roundabouts were designed for horse and buggies, to allow them to not lose momentum while going through an intersection. They work great, until you get into high traffic levels (like we have today), then they just clog and become horribly dangerous.

Tom_Slick:Sczi: This crap's getting real tiresome. I wonder if anybody in authority is getting actual payola style kickbacks for allowing these things to go in? I'd just about bet money on it. Personally, I'd like a thorough investigation. Some DOT guy physically typed those new numbers into the computer or turned the dial or however it works to shorten those lights. Who told them to do that, and why?

The payola goes directly to the town/city/county where these things are installed. The companies that manage these things guarantee revenue from them, plus the local government doesn't pay for them.

Yeah but the govt splits the proceeds with the private company. While elected officials would probably like better budgets, they'll still have a job without it. What they really want is more pocket money, so I'm wondering if these private companies aren't literally bribing elected officials. If some mayor or whatever spent late nights with the bean counters and tried everything to balance the budget and hesitantly allowed this, then that sucks, but at least they're not evil. If some mf'er is getting a cash kickback, I'd like to personally slit his/her belly open and poop in the wound.

/Your "brother" just sailed right through that red light.//Or he's one of those "I can take a right on red without stopping" retards.///Driven from Mendicino to LA, and everywhere all over the bay. Never seen someone get flashed by a red light cam that didn't completely and utterly deserve it in CA.

freeforever:Speaking of yellow, these things are turning up everywhere in Florida now, and it's only a matter of time before someone is killed when a driver doesn't realize you may have to stop at a yellow light.

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Ugh those are turning up everywhere here too and my first reaction encountering one was WTF? Is it about to go red? I don't know what was wrong with the damn yield on green circle


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Q:

Separate keyvalue pairs in a map in android

I have a  Map<String, List<String>>  as follows
{Accept-Ranges=[bytes],
Connection=[Keep-Alive],
Content-Length=[4478161],
Content-Type=[audio/mpeg],
Date=[Fri, 03 Aug 2012 10:04:48 GMT],
ETag=["de2a5-4454d1-4c6186c77fb4d"],
Keep-Alive=[timeout=15, max=100],
Last-Modified=[Tue, 31 Jul 2012 04:15:08 GMT],
Server=[Apache/2.2.16 (Ubuntu)]}

I want to separate the key value pairs from this and also want to get the content corresponding to each key. How can I achieve this?

A:

You can get a value to a specific key by calling the get() method of the Map.
Example:
Map<String, Integer> hm = new HashMap<>();
hm.put("foobar", 1);
System.out.println(hm.get("foobar"));


Welcome to the Starting 11. This NFL season, we’ll be collecting the biggest story lines, highlighting the standout players, and featuring the most jaw-dropping feats of the week. Let’s dive in:

1. The story of this NFL season has been the rise of newcomer teams like the Rams and Chiefs. But on Sunday, league stalwarts like the Patriots and Seahawks showed that they plan on sticking around for a while. The Patriots dispatched the Vikings 24–10 this week, and they did so in the familiar fashion of slowly bleeding their opponent dry. Tom Brady spent much of the first half picking apart the underneath areas of the field with quick throws to the flat and screens to running back James White (who again led New England in targets, with nine). Brady did throw a couple of missiles over the middle on a third-quarter touchdown drive that helped the Pats pull away, but for the most part, the Patriots’ offensive strategy was of the death-by-1,000-papercuts variety that can be absolutely maddening for opposing defenses.

More impressive, though, may have been the work of New England’s defense. The Patriots don’t have a devastating pass rush, which has typically been the Achilles’ heel of the Minnesota offense this season. But even when Bill Belichick’s defense wasn’t getting after Kirk Cousins, the Patriots secondary did more than enough to ground the Vikings passing game. Both Adam Thielen and Stefon Diggs were held in check, and rookie cornerback J.C. Jackson had a pair of crucial pass breakups in the end zone against speedy receiver Aldrick Robinson.

The Pats may not have the offensive firepower that we’ve seen from them in years past, but at this point in the season, I’m getting a sinking feeling that Belichick and Co. are going to arrive in the playoffs as a (relatively) unintimidating no. 2 seed before they eventually win the AFC championship game in an ugly fashion. It’s almost eerie how easy that scenario is to imagine.

2. If the Patriots have been the team of the decade in the AFC, then Russell Wilson’s Seahawks have earned that distinction in the NFC. And with Sunday’s 43–16 win over the 49ers, Seattle has all but locked up a wild-card spot in the NFC. The Seahawks’ current offensive identity — which mixes an effective running game with some scattered deep shots from Wilson — is perfectly suited for their personnel. Wilson’s been brilliant for stretches this year, but on Sunday, he didn’t have to be. Outside of another long touchdown throw to Tyler Lockett and a gorgeous bullet pass on the run to Jaron Brown for his fourth TD pass of the day, the QB wasn’t asked to do much. Most of the workload on offense was handled by the duo of Chris Carson and Rashaad Penny, who combined for 134 yards on the ground on just 20 carries and were able to rip off huge chunks of yardage on tosses and runs to the outside.

As recently as last Sunday, before the Seahawks narrowly beat the Panthers 30–27, it seemed like Seattle would be locked in a tight race for the conference’s top wild-card spot for the rest of the season. But after their win over Carolina in Week 12 and the Panthers’ loss to the Buccaneers this week, the Seahawks effectively have a two-game lead over Carolina in the standings. A win over the Vikings next week would create a similarly insurmountable gap between Seattle and a middling Minnesota team that’s still trying to stay afloat. For all their faults — and despite all the injuries they’ve suffered on defense — it sure looks like the Seahawks could pull off an upset or two come playoff time.

3. Week 13 also served as a showcase for some of the individual players who are fueling teams’ runs to the playoffs, and few stood out quite like Travis Kelce. Kelce caught a ridiculous 12 passes for 168 yards and two touchdowns in the Chiefs’ 40–33 win over the Raiders, and in the process, he showed off just about every facet of his game. His first touchdown came on a short pass near the goal line, where Kelce initially lined up wide against cornerback Daryl Worley in man coverage. Kelce roasted Worley on quick route to the outside, leaving Patrick Mahomes II with an easy throw to the pylon for a touchdown. For the defense, the goal of putting a cornerback on Kelce in that scenario is to negate any quickness mismatch between Kelce and a larger defender. But in this case, it didn’t matter. Kelce spun Worley into the dirt so easily, he might as well have been a 260-pound linebacker.

Kelce also performed typically well on vertical routes up the seam, quick YAC plays in the flat, and more on Sunday. In his most impressive play of the day, Kelce had to leap over safety Reggie Nelson to pull down an on-the-run laser throw from Mahomes that traveled nearly 35 yards in the air.

Travis Kelce had himself a day!

(via @thecheckdown) pic.twitter.com/oWUNE8uDfp — Pro Football Focus (@PFF) December 3, 2018

4. Not to be outdone, Keenan Allen saw Kelce’s dozen catches and matched it with his own mind-boggling game in the form of a 14-catch, 148-yard outburst against the Steelers on Sunday night. Pittsburgh’s corners were no match for Allen, who torched everyone who dared to cover him one-on-one in this game. The whip route he ran against Joe Haden on a third-and-5 late in the first quarter should come with a disclaimer — it was that filthy.

Allen hasn’t had the monster season that some of his wide receiver counterparts are putting together, but he’s still on pace for more than 1,325 receiving yards and he’s scored a touchdown in each of the Chargers’ past four games. In many ways, he and Philip Rivers are the ideal QB-receiver pairing. Allen’s ability to shake defensive backs and create separation fits perfectly with a QB who’s willing to cut throws loose long before his receivers come out of their breaks. Their connection may not have the flash of Ben Roethlisberger and Antonio Brown, or Matt Ryan and Julio Jones, but when Rivers and Allen are rolling, the Chargers passing game is able to meld deep-ball prowess with devastating precision in the intermediate areas of the field.

5 and 6. After years of missed draft picks spent on offensive players, it looks like the Broncos hit big — twice — in 2018. Denver’s two finds came at opposite ends in the draft (sort of), in the form of second-round wide receiver Courtland Sutton and undrafted free agent Phillip Lindsay. Concerns about Lindsay’s 5-foot-8 stature caused him to go undrafted out of Colorado, but he signed with the Broncos in April and has become one of the most unlikely success stories of the year. At this point, he’s a big play waiting to happen. Lindsay finished with 19 carries for 157 yards — including a 65-yard touchdown — in Denver’s 24–10 win over the Bengals on Sunday. It was the fourth game this season that Lindsay has averaged more than 7 yards per carry in a game, and there have been times when it has looked like he’s moving at a different speed than everyone else on the field — as if he’s wearing a jetpack and no one seems to realize it.

Lindsay’s big-play ability has given the Denver running game a jolt, but he’s not just a home run hitter. On his first touchdown run of the day, a 6-yard rush late in the second quarter, Lindsay found a small crease between the tackles and used it to slice his way into the end zone. He can take it the distance seemingly every time he touches the ball, but Lindsay has also shown that he’s capable of carrying the load in every way.

Lindsay has been explosive since the start of the season, but Sutton wasn’t fully unleashed until the Broncos dealt Demaryius Thomas to the Texans in late October. Now, firmly entrenched as the team’s no. 2 receiver, Sutton has shown that he’s a real vertical threat on the outside. He caught four passes for 85 yards in Sunday’s win, which brought his season yards-per-reception number to 19.9 — nearly 1.2 yards more than any receiver with at least 25 receptions. Typically, speedsters like DeSean Jackson (who ranks no. 2) dominate that category. But Sutton is far from a burner. He ran a 4.54 in the 40-dash at the combine, and he profiles more as a big-bodied physical receiver. As he showed on his 30-yard touchdown reception in the third quarter, though, Sutton is more than capable of creating big plays without getting much separation. He leaped over cornerback Darius Phillips and simply snatched the ball away for a contested catch — all he needed was for Case Keenum to give him a chance. (Luckily for Sutton, he plays with a quarterback who has no qualms about putting the ball up for grabs.)

7. Tarik Cohen hauled in a dozen receptions for 156 yards in the Bears’ 30–27 overtime loss to the Giants on Sunday, and he continues to be the most dynamic presence in Chicago’s offense. Cohen was spectacular against the Giants, providing the Bears with big play after big play as the rest of their offense sputtered. On his 46-yard reception in the fourth quarter, Cohen came back on a route to secure a badly underthrown ball by Chase Daniel, and he nearly managed to get back up before being touched and take it for a score. Several times in the second half, play-caller Matt Nagy went back to the well and called deep shots down the right sideline on wheel routes to Cohen. And for good measure, Cohen also threw the game-extending touchdown pass to Anthony Miller on the final play of regulation to send the game into overtime. On days when the Bears offense struggles to find consistency, it often leans on Cohen to help manufacture chunk plays. Sunday was no exception.

8. This week’s line-play moment that made me hit rewind: This category can’t be trimmed down to just one play this week. Aaron Donald was about as good as a defensive player can be in the Rams’ 30–16 win over the Lions. Donald is arguably the best player in the NFL, regardless of position, but Sunday’s performance was remarkable even for him. Donald finished with two sacks, a forced fumble, and four tackles for loss against Detroit — and even those numbers don’t do his performance justice. Sacks and tackles for loss can be deceiving statistics: A defender will drop a quarterback after four or five seconds for a loss of a single yard, or a running back will slam into a scrum at the line of scrimmage, and the closest player to the ball gets a TFL credit. Donald’s plays on Sunday were considerably more havoc-wreaking than that. The Lions lost a total of 25 yards on his six tackles, not to mention that the Rams gained excellent field position in the fourth quarter after they recovered the fumble Donald forced. He spent his Sunday toying with every member of the Lions’ interior offensive line, swimming past and ducking around anyone in his way. Every time that Donald takes the field, he has the ability to completely change the game.

9. The Rams needed Donald’s monster game on Sunday because the offense was uncharacteristically off the mark. There are weeks when the Rams’ passing game looks like a finely tuned machine, casually ripping off chunk gains seemingly every time Jared Goff drops back to pass. But against the Lions, Goff was constantly under pressure, and the Rams failed to find much of a rhythm. Goff was able to create a couple of nice off-schedule gains, including a deep pass down the right side to Robert Woods in the first quarter. But for the most part, the Rams’ air attack was uncharacteristically unreliable.

10. Josh Allen wasn’t able to get his team a win over the Dolphins on Sunday, but his performance in the Bills’ 21–17 loss featured the sort of promising flashes you want to see from a rookie quarterback. Like he has several times this season, Allen did plenty of damage with his feet, finishing with 135 yards on nine carries. More notable, though, was the work he did with his arm. Allen threw a pair of interceptions and had his share of questionable decisions, but he also made some throws that had viewers sitting up and paying attention. He threw a touchdown strike to Zay Jones in the second quarter that looked downright Mahomesesque — a bullet across his body while moving to the right in the red zone. He followed that up with a rocket to Jones along the left sideline from his own goal line in the third quarter. Allen still has a long way to go as a passer, but games like the one on Sunday show why teams were so fascinated by him during the draft process.

11. This week in NFL players, they’re absolutely nothing like us: Proof that DeAndre Hopkins is a cyborg. During the first quarter of the Texans’ 29–13 win over the Browns, Hopkins corralled a pass along the left sideline and somehow kept his feet inbounds, all while getting his jersey yanked and his helmet ripped off. The catch was astounding, but we can’t lose sight of what’s most important here: As Hopkins hopped to his feet, with part of his shoulder pad exposed and his braids dangling, it was plain to see that he’s actually Cyrax from Mortal Kombat. Finally having evidence that Hopkins is a cyborg ninja assassin makes plays like these seem a lot more reasonable.


Requirement of MEF2D in the induced differentiation of HL60 promyeloid cells.
The regulatory role of MEF2 (myocyte enhancer binding factor 2) proteins in nonmuscle tissues has not been well characterized. We examined the expression of MEF2 family members, namely, MEF2A, -B, -C, and -D, in the differentiation of HL60 promyeloid cells and observed the remarkable increase in the expressions of MEF2A and MEF2D proteins during the differentiation process into monocytes. To examine the role of MEF2, we expressed a dominant-negative form of MEF2D, without its transactivation domain, in HL60 cells. When the HL60 cell line expressing the mutant MEF2D was induced to differentiate by VitD(3) treatment, cell surface expression of CD14 and the ability to reduce NBT, which are important characteristics of differentiated monocytes, were significantly decreased compared with control HL60 cells. These results show that MEF2D is required in the differentiation process along the monocyte/macrophage lineage,


Various golf club heads have been designed to improve a golfer's accuracy by assisting a golfer to square the club head face at impact with a golf ball. A number of these golf club heads reposition the weight of the golf club head in order to alter the location of the center of gravity. The location of the center of gravity of the golf club head is one factor that determines whether a golf ball is propelled in the intended direction. When the center of gravity is positioned behind the point of engagement on the contact surface, the golf ball follows a generally straight route. When the center of gravity is spaced to a side of the point of engagement, however, the golf ball may follow a route that curves left or right, which is often referred to as a hook or a slice. Similarly, when the center of gravity is spaced above or below the point of engagement, the route of the golf ball may exhibit a boring or climbing trajectory.
Upon impact with a golf ball, a golf club head may have a tendency to vibrate creating a hard hitting feel and sound when the club head contacts the golf ball. The hard hitting feel and sound at impact may be perceived by the golfer as the product of a good distance shot. However, excessive vibration may affect the accuracy of the golf shot and may place unnecessary stresses on the hands or joints of the golf player. More experienced players prefer a softer hitting feel and sound when the club head contacts the golf ball. Therefore, there is a need in the art for a golf club head that provides a softer feel and sound upon impact with a golf ball indicative of a more accurate and controlled golf shot. The golf club head should reduce excessive vibrations in order to prevent unnecessary stresses on a golfer's hands or joints while still providing for good distance and accuracy.


Students across the country walked out of class Wednesday and Whoopi Goldberg heard them chanting as they walked by “The View” studio. She raced out to join them for a few moments as they shouted, “We want change!”

During the discussion about gun violence and the demand for safety, most of the panel of women were encouraging of the conversation about gun regulations. To her credit, Republican Meghan McCain tried to stay out of the discussion.

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“You know, today is one of those days — I’m a big Second Amendment person, NRA member, this is one of the moments I don’t think it’s my turn to talk,” she said. “Everyone knows where I stand. I don’t like the idea that somehow if you’re a Second Amendment person that you’re for gun violence. I do wonder if there are kids in Texas or maybe rural parts of the country who use guns to hunt or self-protection in one way or another.”

Her fellow co-hosts cut in to explain that no one is talking about getting rid of the Second Amendment and that it’s a myth that somehow there are people out there that support gun violence.

“I think that it sometimes it gets mixed up, that maybe you’re less empathetic, you’re less hurt, you’re less somehow affected by school shootings in one way or another,” McCain said of those opposed to gun regulation. “No law abiding gun owner wants anything like this to happen ever again, but there’s a lot of nuance in this subject and nothing divides america more and I felt it so much, being especially on this show, especially being the only person that I think comes from gun country.”

The women also cut in to explain that her assumption wasn’t accurate. Goldberg confessed that she is a gun owner and has talked about that fact for years, much to the detriment of her own career.

“These kids are saying, ‘Listen, we just want you to know that there’s a lot of gun violence and we want it to stop,'” she continued. “‘You’re the adults and we expect you to fix this.’ I think that’s what this is about.”

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Even progressive commentator Joy Behar explained that when she lived out in the woods with her very young children reading “In Cold Blood,” by Truman Capote, she wanted a handgun to protect herself.

McCain pivoted back to it being a difficult time for her.

“The CNN town hall, I thought was a huge step backwards,” she said. “I felt bad for the way it was handled. I thought it was really inappropriate and I want to have more conversations that are civil.

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Sara Haines explained that there’s room for everyone on this issue. But McCain complained about the “very vehemently anti-NRA” students at Parkland, who are getting more attention.

“But that’s not what this is,” Goldberg cut in. “Let’s stick to what this particular march is today. Tt’s the students raising their voices saying, ‘We need your help.’ That’s what they’re saying. They’re not saying that — it’s not political. They’re not saying it’s these people, these people. They’re saying there’s an issue and no one is listening. So, now we’re going to step out. They’re not going to drop the issue.”

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The conversation devolved into one about assault weapons. Haines noted that the other side of the argument is frequently that any regulations on guns means that someone is anti-Second Amendment.

“Even my own father that I mentioned behind the scenes, he said that the problem is they’re going to take away the Second Amendment,” she continued.

“I think the kids are saying, we have an issue and we want you to deal with it,” Goldberg said again.

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McCain said just the concept of arming teachers is a complex issue but gets jumbled in the disagreements. However, she disagreed with co-host Sunny Hostin who wants to see AR-15s and other military-style weapons banned. She claimed she knew people who hunted with them.

Goldberg again cut in to say that it has nothing to do with what the students are saying.

“That’s why they’re marching. they’re not marching against the NRA,” she said. “They’re not marching against — they’re just saying, we got an issue and nobody is dealing with it and we’re tired of the BS.”

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Theres such thing as true equality. Affirmative action, in my opinion, actually creates more love between races. Those belonging to the majority feel that they receive the recognition that they deserve. Positions go to less-qualified minorities, not simply because they have been underpresented in the past. As long as affirmative action exists, there will be equality.

As modern society becomes more accepting and inclusive, affirmative action coddles minorities and kicks the majority to the curb. This effectively is reverse racism.

Many SJW's, especially those fighting for the ever growing in ridiculousness Black Lives Matter Movement, screech non-stop about how the black race, and more so black women, are oppressed in today's society. They will throw bogus statistics to "prove" that what they are spewing is the truth. Somehow, they have either forced us to or tricked most of us into believing that that the black race is extremely under-privileged in America. Now, I'm focusing on the black race primarily in this discussion because they cry the loudest but many points apply to all the races that benefit from AA. Feminists and other SJW's preach equality and equal rights, the second that is considered to be taken literally (aka. Possibly bidding AA goodbye) they cry racism and mys-auw-gyny. If two kids, one white one black, both apply college. Note: they are identical, male, perfect SAT, same GPA, same ECs, ect. One difference however, apart from skin, the black kid went to a public school in a city where there are more opportunities while the white kid went to a public school in the middle of nowhere. Odds are the black kid will get in over the white kid (if there was only one spot left) because the admissions officers see being black/a minority more impeding then limited opportunities due to geographic location. Further more, treating the minorities as wounding people in need of desperate aid isn't going to "fix" the fact the white people enslaved black people. As a nation, if we are going to move forward, away from racism, we must forgive things like slavery and stop trying to get the white people to "pay" for what their ancestors did. In today's society, being a minority is less of an impeding circumstance and more something that sets you ahead due to things like AA. Saying someone is better because of their skin colors is racism and just because it's happening to whites this time doesn't mean that it isn't a problem.

Affirmative Action Absolutely DOES NOT Promote True Equality.

There is no such thing as "true equality." Affirmative action, in my opinion, actually creates more resentment between races. Those belonging to the majority feel that they do not receive the recognition that they deserve. Positions go to less-qualified minorities, simply because they have been underrepresented in the past. As long as affirmative action exists, there cannot be equality. I am absolutely against this practice.

This should be clear.... Preference is given to a group based on race. This is exactly the opposite of equal rights.

This should be straight forward. I'm not sure how people don't see that Affirmative Action is severely racist towards all ethnicities. I believe history will show Affirmative action to be destructive to race relations and equal rights regardless of it's said intent. It also create an inferiority complex to those who gain access to education through Affirmative Action.

Affirmative action violates the rights of all ethnicities to obtain higher education based on hard work and merit.

This should be straight forward. I'm not sure how people don't see that Affirmative Action is severely racist towards all ethnicities. I believe history will show Affirmative action to be destructive to race relations and equal rights regardless of it's said intent. What it has done is create an over reach into the rights of others. A big no-no in a free society.

Affirmative action violates the rights of all ethnicities to obtain higher education based on hard work and merit.

This should be straight forward. I'm not sure how people don't see that Affirmative Action is severely racist towards all ethnicities. I believe history will show Affirmative action to be destructive to race relations and equal rights regardless of it's said intent. What it has done is create an over reach into the rights of others. A big no-no in a free society.

Affirmative Action Does Not Promote True Equality

I think Affirmative Action in education does not promote "true equality" because there is no such thing as "true equality". This concept has been invented by social engineers. I think human beings naturally organize themselves in hierarchies with uneven distributions of power. Some people are always considered "higher" or "better" than others within the hierarchy.

I am not necessarily against Affirmative Action. Perhaps this policy can help an unprivileged and marginalized person to achieve socio-economic success and increased academic skill.