LoveBugs

Although everyone one in Avon Lake hates the weather and climate, however at least we do not have to encounter the nasty annoyance of Plecia nearctica, members of the family Bibionidae, also referred to as Lovebugs that inhabit The Florida life.  These bugs come in huge numbers and are not afraid of pilling up wherever they feel is a good spot to reproduce.

                                             

                Two flights of lovebugs occur each year in Florida. The spring flight occurs during late April and May. A second flight occurs during late August and September. The periods of these bugs infestation last about 4 to 5 weeks. Mating takes place almost immediately after emergence of the females, which is why they are always seen attached to a mate. Adult females live only 2-3 days.

                Lovebugs lay from 100 to 350 eggs which are deposited beneath decaying vegetation. The larva feed off of the vegetation until it grows and transforms into the pupal stage, which requires about 7 to 10 days for the transformation to be complete.  Adult lovebugs are harmless and do not sting or bite.

                                           

                A real concern with these bugs is that they can do real damage to your motorcycle or automobile.  They congregate in unbelievable numbers along highways and the insects spatter on the windshields and grills of moving trucks and automobiles.  The windshields become covered with the fatty remains and if the bugs pile up enough, the drivers vision is obscured.  The flies also clog radiator fins causing  people’s cars to overheat. The acid in their fatty tissue will also take the paint off your car if the bugs are wiped away immediately, like within 18 hours.

homeless people

Fair Park church that houses homeless faces new safety citations By: McGraw, Dan X. Dallas Morning News

            The article link above is about how a church for the homeless is being overcrowded with too many homeless people in it and had a fire code violation.  There past violations have still been uncorrected.  The officials are faced with a big problem that has them in a stump about what to do because even though the church has fixed some violations, there are still too many left undone and they have too many homeless people staying there.  That’s why they are faced with either kicking them out back on the streets or let them stay there and have safety problems.

            I sure know I wouldn’t want to be homeless and then finding a shelter after living through crap of sleeping under a tree or on a park bench.  It is cruel to say you are willing to take the needy in, but then kick them out. They could just keep a maximum occupancy for the homeless coming in.

  I personally think they should let them stay even if there is too many. One alternative too is too send the homeless to different shelters where there is room for the needy. The homeless are trying their very best to keep it, but it might get shut down because of fire hazards.  The article never said whether or not it was closed.  I still hope it stayed open because if it closed then the homeless won’t have a place to call somewhat home anymore.

the Mario Bros.

The Mario bros. have become an international icon.  The characters and the game originated in Japan but then soon released in the United States.  The Mario Bros. franchise started out as just a game of two brothers fighting creatures in sewers.  Later the Bros. came out with another game that involves a Princess getting kidnapped by king Bowser.  The brothers were called to help save the princess.  The game was called “Super Mario Bros.” there are several worlds that Mario and Luigi have to make through and defeat the boss at the castle in each world.  The company continued with the story for two more games with the same concept, just a few new twists in each. 

 

After the games really became popular, the company decided to make a cartoon of the two brothers and the hardship they face against Bowser.  They even had a film released with the same title as the games series. The film tells the story of the Mario brothers, Mario and Luigi, as they were told in the game.  Where the king is a dictator and Mario and Luigi must rescue Princess Daisy and stop the king from attempting to merge the dimensions of their world and the human world, so that he could become a dictator of both worlds.

The Mario brothers have been around for as long as I have lived and I do not see them wiping off the face of the earth anytime soon.  Seeing as how they are still continuing with production of different Mario Bros. collections from games, clothes, T.V. etc.

wiz khalifa

The recent upcoming star, Wiz Khalifa, is a good artist.  His real name is Cameron Jibril Thomaz. His whole body is already covered in tattoos, the artists says they are all meaningful.  He got his first tattoo when he was 16.  He was born in Minot, North Dakota.  Wiz is going to be 24 this September. He moved around a lot during his childhood before landing his feet in Pittsburg.  He lived in Germany, England, and Japan. Cameron’s stage name “Wiz Khalifa,” has a meaning. Wiz stands for “wisdom” and Khalifa is Arabic for “Successor.” Cameron’s music is from his inspiration of "Notorious B.I.G." and "Bone-Thugs-N-Harmony."   Khalifa started off his career after making his first full album, “Show and Prove,” in 2006. By 2007, Khalifa signed with Warner Bros. Records and also released two mixtapes with Rostrum Records. He has released three studio albums, the one listed above, “Deal or No Deal”, and his most recently released album ‘Rolling Papers.”  After a performance on November 9, 2010, ECU police detected "a strong odor of marijuana emanating from the tour bus and the backstage area of the auditorium." After searching Khalifa's tour bus, Cameron was arrested because of the authorities finding 2.1 ounces of marijuana. Khalifa was charged with marijuana trafficking, maintaining a vehicle for storage of marijuana, and one misdemeanor charge of possession of drug paraphernalia. Khalifa was released after a $300,000 bond.  After all this trouble he got sucked into, the thriving artist was back on track with his 2010 Waken Baken Tour.

SUPER SMASH BROS.

Super Smash Bros. is one of the best games created for the Nintendo 64 console. The game consists of twelve Nintendo characters mashed up in a game a battling each other to be the last man standing.  The characters come from a variety of different Nintendo games. The characters in the game that you can play with is Luigi, Mario, DK, Link, Samus, Captain Falcon, Ness, Yoshi, Kirby, Fox, Pikachu, and last but not least Jiggly Puff.  Each character has there own specific types of moves that vary from each type of player. You can play in single player and in multiplayer for doing head- to- head combat. 

 

There is also a single player story mode, where you have to make your way through a series of challenging battles against difficult competitors. The single player game ends with a final competitor, the Master Hand. The game is endless from and is the best alternative to do when the whether is terrible and all you can do is sit inside and get down on some smash. The Nintendo 64 console is packed with all kinds of fun games to play alone or with a couple friends.  The N64 system was the last system to use game cartridges instead of what they use now.  The benefit of using the game cartridge is that with the cartridge, the games take no time to load and you don’t get stuck with the annoyance of starring at the loading screen for what feels to be a life time. The Nintendo franchise made all the right decisions in making their addicting games and great playing game sytems.

Dangers from Texting while Driving

Texting while driving should be illegal.  Without texting and driving, there will be far less accidents overall in today’s society even with all the crazy drivers out there already.  Texting and driving causes people to lose focus when driving, become a worse driver, and won’t care about the passenger’s safety or your one.

Drivers won’t be paying as much attention to their phones, if texting was illegal. People are more drawn to technology today and what’s going on in the world, than their own safety while being behind the wheel of a vehicle. Truck drivers’ who were texting, were 23 times more at risk of a crash than non- distracted driving.

 

People will become worse drivers from driving and texting.  They won’t be watching the road and will have more traffic violations. Drivers will be swerving without thinking about it and can end up slamming into the side of someone on a multi lane street.   Text messaging and using ipods caused drivers to leave there lanes 10% more often.

The average human being will tell you that texting and driving has no harm to anyone who is doing it right.  However, you will forget about the road and end up almost crashing or actually getting into an accident.  It doesn’t matter how much less you focus cause it only takes one slip up to kill someone.  “Texting took a driver’s focus away from the road for an avg. of 4.6 sec. – enough time… to travel the length of a football field at 55 mph.”

Apple tops Windows

The Apple Company is by far the best computer you can buy off the shelves today.  Macs are such less of a headache, like dealing with simple tasks like just booting up.  Apple computers run more sufficiently with a faster boot up time, they don’t get viruses nearly as easy as PCs do. 

Apple computers have a much longer battery life than most PC’s.  The computers also conserve the battery when the computer isn’t being used.  Apple made their computers go to sleep when they aren’t running to conserve the battery and when you re-open the computer it will start right where you left off and runs just as quick as before.  It takes about twenty five seconds to boot up from being unused for a little bit.  Mac’s are extremely hard to get a virus on, even with no help from spyware or anti-virus systems.  People who spend the time to make a virus usually do it for PC’s because the windows software is easier to put a virus on it than apples software.  A Mac owner who uses no security software at all runs less risk of being infected by spyware or a virus than a Windows user who obsessively protects there computer.

Many people will argue that window’s is the better software to go with over apple’s software.  With having a MacBook, you will have much less of a struggle trying to find how to get your computer fixed because apple is all one company, so you just have to take it to any apple store and with a PC you have to just hope your warranty will cover the expenses from the store charging you to fix your computer. That’s why I believe the Apple software is much better than windows software.

Pros on Gatorade

      Gatorade is the thirst quencher. Gatorade is better than water for several different reasons. With a larger variety of flavors, Gatorade is better for working out, and gives your body more electrolytes. Gatorade comes out with new flavors all the time and water has been the same forever except with different labeling on their bottles.  There are atleast 32 flavors of Gatorade, such as; Lemon Lime, Glacier Freeze, Lemonade, and Cool Blue. When drinking Gatorade, you will not have a care in the world because you will be to busy enjoying the taste. Gatorade is the perfect thirst quencher after a long workout by helping your body keep from getting dehydrated. Studies show that people should only drink Gatorades if they are active in sports/activity for more than 2 hours. This is because your body is working longer than average so it loses vital nutrients and electrolytes faster than water can replace. 
     Some people say that water is better for your body than Gatorade. Although, Gatorade replenishes your thirst faster and  gives the body electrolytes to continue working at the same rate for a longer duration of time. Drinnking Gatorade will get your body out of its funk quicker than water, and return it to levels of proper hydration. Gatorade is the better drink to grab for after a long day of working hard.  The taste’s of Gatorade is nearly endless with all the variety and they all taste delicious at any time of day and season. That’s why Gatorade is the best thirst quencher. 

Carmelos Decision

   Carmelo Anthony has been the Denver Nuggets starting forward for his entire career so far.  His contract is up after this season and he is stuck in a tough decisions in whether he wants to go back home to play in New York with the Knicks or New Jersey's Nets. Anthony was a key aspect to the Nuggets corporation more than just a player.
    He can still even stay in Denver with all his loved fans.  with his departure from the Nugget's could benefit him more than staying with his first team.  In LeBron James decision he left his home and family behind, but in Carmelo's situation, it's backwards for him and he can return home and continue his life in New York fresh. He will be brought into New York with open-arms and the nugget's will be upset sure because they are losing there all-star. they should realize though that he isn't leaving just for a ring but he just wants to go home.
   Carmelo Anthony is a good athlete and is a hard working player. he is a three point shooter and can also take it in the paint if he wants to. he will still be a helpful player to his team whichever one he ends up signing with next year. I believe he should sign with the New York Knicks and start on a fresh team and take the NBA by surprise by being a team that no one can touch.