Perhaps no potential pop crossover remains more beguiling than the effort the industry is putting behind Trippie Redd. A young man from Canton, Ohio barely out of his teens who claims sets while also pairing up with Top 40 songwriters and crooning over acoustic guitars. This would be paradoxical were it not for the overtly melodic sensibilities dictating his musical output, making any other career path seem foolish. The sweet & sour clash of energies more often than not allows for an enticing mix, as demonstrated by his Chief Keef collaboration "I Kill People." Trippie remains on hook duty, while Keef's cousin and affiliate Tadoe (you know, the guy he spent the majority of his debut mentioning doing molly) turns in a blunt and leaden verse to counteract Keef's more melodic approach. It's fairly interesting both as a more conventional outing from Trippie and as another example of Keef, once a radical figure from the general scene, slowly meeting his progeny halfway under more commercial terms.
Note: The above video is not an official upload. You can stream the song on Spotify here.
Carti's official album Die Lit was met with a fair amount of positive reception, thanks in no short amount to Carti's development as a rapper and of course the capitalization of the chemistry between he and producer Pi'erre Bourne for the majority of a full-length project. The only point of contention for many listeners with positive expectations were the numerous features, a dearth of individuals who were put to the daunting test of trying to adapt to the smeary sonic warps of Bourne. This drastic demand for adaptation to the extremity of existence that Carti's rap universe seemed to require led to some very fascinating occurrences, including that of rapper/singer Bryson Tiller on Carti's "Fell In Luv." There, Carti's straightforward approach over the phantasmal vocal snippets is the usual levels of amusing stream-of-consciousness nonsensicals, but listening to Tiller effortlessly switch between rapping and crooning within the production feels practically transcendental.
With his debut album Until Death Call My Name released, YoungBoy Never Broke Again effectively assured his place in the greater rap scene. The record is an impressive outing from the Baton Rouge-based MC that showcases his considerable talents in the melodic, lyrical, and technical dimensions with no signs of commercial tampering. "Traumatized," however, works as a standout record thanks to the effortlessness of his dark imagery and emotional content, projecting not merely your typical rap game pariah complex but genuinely morbid obsessions with death that seem startling for someone still barely out from their teenage years. The viciously morose energy that pervades the album is incredibly grandiose and tragic in a way few of his peers—of all ages13appear to be permitted to achieve, and should not necessarily be the strict domain of so young a talent; still, the general rap game appears to be digressing further and further away from these emotive and darkly romantic albums in favor of trite sentimentality and vapid narcissism, only making YoungBoy's talents feel more estranged and exotic.
By the time this article is printed, LA-based rapper 03 Greedo will be imprisoned for charges that could result in him serving up to 20 years in jail. The past year has seen Greedo's profile rise from shenanigans in the media, but there has also been the building of a rabid fanbase who are captivated by his songwriting capabilities and considerable rap talents. Both in stylistic approaches and prolific nature (and unfortunate circumstances), one could easily draw parallels between Greedo and the still-incarcerated Max B, a comparison now abetted by the manifestation of such a large cult audience. That said, the last half a year has been the full capitalization of Greedo's hype and talents with several figures of the West Coast eagerly collaborating with him to reap from his infamy. "Ballout" features Nef the Pharaoh and rising artist ALLBLACK (who's material bears a notable similarity to frequent Greedo collaborator DrakeO The Ruler), and places all three of the MCs in straightforward rap mode with each doing their best to overpower the other at a breakneck pace. While perhaps this posse cut is not the greatest showcase for Greedo's versatility, it feels strange that his natural rap talents have been overlooked in favor of his more melodic and pop-oriented works, even amongst rap fans.
Personally, I tend to frequently propose that one of the best rappers in America today is Daboii of SOB x RBE. The other members are all considerable talents of respect, and the group as a whole is one of the hottest rising acts this year. However, as demonstrated by last year's Y.W.N, Daboii is rapidly becoming an aggressive proponent of wordplay while also opting for more unconventional production choices compared to his teammates. The former is easily showcased on spots such as "07 Lynch" or "All Facts Not One Opinion," but "Onna Gang" stands out in Daboii's growing solo catalogue for continuing the 'throwback' trend in the group's output, but instead leaning closer to 90s Bay Area Rap rather than 80s roller-rink soundtracks. Idealistically, a new project may yet emerge from Daboii, which can grant us insight as to how much more confident he's become with the growing success meeting his dares.
One of the considerable frustrations of the more recent years of rap is that audiences are much more intolerant of artists who too closely resemble talents they've only just started to tolerate. Whereas a decade age, Southern Rappers could easily mirror Mystikal, Pastor Troy, Gucci Mane, or Jeezy rather shamelessly and reap a brief period of success, fans are now quick to bemoan the merest hint of similarity (See: Desiigner). Glokknine has been a similar case of beneficiary/victim due to his vocal similarities to fellow Florida native Kodak Black. Granted, initial efforts have seen the drawl adapted to similar enough singles that the perpetual comparison made a certain amount of sense. However, more recent efforts such as "Rock N Roll" and "Rickey Fowler" appear to be taking some of those vocal characteristics and attaching them to post-Detroit style thumpers at a higher tempo. Impressively, this perhaps suggests that Glokknine is going to rapidly distinguish himself from any presumptions of redundancy.
One of the more 'mercurial' artists out of the still burgeoning Detroit scene, Sada Baby feels like the rare artist from the scene whose personality transcends the regional style's oppressive qualities. A malignant showboater akin to Sauce Walka or Peewee Longway, there is a logical future where Sada Baby overwhelms his rapping with his personality and takes the Meme Fodder approach that has served Plies or Blac Youngsta very well in these last few years to glance over the shoddiness of their actual musical output. Instead, there's a constant oscillation between those excessive amounts of personality and the rap craft, which the latter is demonstrated on "Cheat Code." Solid, straight ahead versions of the Detroit rap scene, but unquestionably colored by his zany and vivid imagination and characterisation. "Cheat Code" is impressive because it demonstrates Sada at his most pared down and least eccentric, which is still somehow a rather frenetic sort of personality who jumps out in contrast to the withdrawn and sulky nature of his scene.
In an unlikely turn of events, Soundcloud appears to be providing a creative rebirth and restoration for New York City's rap scene despite the city's inability to truly thrive as time and time again promised. It's hard to determine why or how, but the city's resurgence has led to a rapidly developing and expanding scene with various differning takes on the more 'culturally flattened' rap landscape. A clear example is Harlem's Sheck Wes, current protégé of Travis Scott, who's "Mo Bamba" appears to be a rising cult hit and relies on a contrast of boisterousness and effervescence with a distinctly East Coast energy to contradictorily fit in and stand out all at once. Interesting in its own right from Sheck is his follow up "Chippi Chippi," which relies on post-Raider dread and imagery that echoes "Bringing the Phonk"-era SGP. With no amassed project in sight, Sheck's career still remains gestative, but offers plenty of potential to indicate where a good number may head towards.
Unlikely as it seems, one of the bigger potential influencers of the aforementioned NYC Soundcloud Scene is former Atlanta-rapper Rich the Kid. The QC affiliated talent did well enough in recognizing the talents of Chicago's Famous Dex early on, but more recently he's been grooming two talents emerging out of NYC: Jay Critch and Lite Fortunato. Both rappers are interesting in that they have a basic understanding of the rootless trends of the present rap game, but are slowly starting to work in ways to allow themselves to keep one foot in and one foot out of NYC traditions while doing so. Critch's "Thousand Ways" is produced by long-standing New York veteran producer Harry Fraud, whose ethereal sampling chops reflect his work for French Montana and Chinx Drugs as well as numerous others, while Critch feels like a 'safer' more traditional version of Bobby Shmurda's "Hot N***a" as he provides playful swag raps and boasts. Meanwhile, on Queens-based Rapper Dee Aura's "The System," Lite Fortunato attempts to use rapid-fire speed raps akin to Uzi or XXXTentacion yet affects a voice that sounds almost parodically like early Jay-Z while ducking and weaving in producer Cash Cobain's neon pinball machine cluttering. How profound that these two and their various attempts to remodel this classic style of rap is at the behest of someone so seemingly antithetical to that approach.
While more commercial rap lanes have benefitted from a hyper-aggressive attitude towards prolific releases (perhaps occasionally to their detriment), so-called 'underground' rap generally seems to have deferred to fairly traditional methods of output. Working against that this year, however, is rising star MIKE who's managed to release multiple projects within the last half-year to fairly rapturous reception. His smeared, tidal foam approach to rap (both in production and performance) gets plenty of comparison to later-day Earl Sweatshirt but lacks any of the surges of hypermasculine insecurity that plague his works. While the video of "Time Ain't Enough" off of his Black Soap looks like a warped VHS rip of an 80s Black Indie Comedy, the accompanying production provided from the Standing On The Corner crew he's affiliated with makes MIKE sound like a drunken attempt at scoring, poetry superimposed beside. There's a pained resignation and solemnity that's surprisingly inscrutable when you remember how young the artist in question is and that he can offer so much maturity in his works. 2018 is only halfway done, but there's more than a fair argument that it's been an impressive year for MIKE that demonstrates his vitality in the current rap climate and one hopes he will become a blueprint for many others.
Chicago's Lucki currently has himself marketed as 'alternative trap,' a self-applied label that is more about branding than any substantial genre-direction. True, his efforts reflect that of the more outré Chicago rappers influenced by street rap such as Valee or Adamnkilla than anything from the more straightforward street rappers nor the pleasant 'tips of the hat' to the styles provided by the more conservative Savemoney collective. And yet, his efforts find himself less middle of the road with broader appeals to differing fanbases... and more drifting off into a ditch. "Facts Only" is a hyper-distorted attempt at snippet rap by someone who clearly aspires more to structure and injecting content than a majority of the field. At the same time, the brevity and the terseness feel at odds with this approach, which gives a fragmented and half-formed feel to the track. Aided by a ghostly flute loop, "Facts Only" truly encapsulates the temporality of snippet rap by making the song (barely clocking in over 90 seconds) so momentary and ephemeral that it points to the feelings of impatience and restlessness among this current generation of rap.
New England is an area of the United States that's historically remained fairly obscure as far as impressing the general rap climate, and even then it's mostly been upheld by the city of Boston as sole representer. Interestingly, there's been an effort made by certain media circles this year to go outward and establish the Northeast beyond New York. It has yet to result in any footholds established for newer artists, but it is most certainly an interesting step. Of the few records being circulated, Snowprah's "Yank Riddim" is one of the most fascinating in reflecting an East Coast sensibility that isn't hard-headed 'true-school' rap. Even with the casual dips in and out of the Busta Rhymes sample, the danceable groove is the kind of rap that even the Tri-State has had trouble releasing beyond itself without internal policing. No telling if this is a brief media aberration or the beginning of a potential new arena for rap, but it's still a welcome change.
The Road Rapper of Choice for 2018 appears to be Headie One, as proven by his successful string of recent singles which have seen him stand head and shoulders above a majority of the scene in a surprisingly short time. His records boast a pained sort of foghorn melancholy via his sung hooks, making him feel like a UK Response to late-period Future, but with the post-East Coast sensibility of lyricism and wordplay deliberately embedded within instead of the "Absolute Minimum" attitude plaguing a greater deal of the Atlanta Commercial Rap scene. The beneficiary of the ghostly drum excesses of M1OnTheBeat, Headie One's simplicity and precision create a spiderlike balancing act that makes his records seem fragile. Yet the potency of these songs—such as on recent single "Broni" to promote his newest project The One Two—is unmistakable. Here, Headie's rhythmic sways and bops are punctuated with clear verbal trickery, demonstrating the absolute calculation and discipline at hand. From the way things are looking, the eventual breakthrough of Headie One might just be a defining moment for UK Rap as it continues to redefine itself.
After considerable oversaturation and rampant commodification, grime in 2018 has been very close to an afterthought. More and more, the older generation flood the scene with middling attempts at career revivals while the youngest wave falters to release projects that demonstrate any characteristics to inspire real investment. One who has managed to defy this trend is, perhaps ironically or maybe fittingly, the younger half-brother of Grime's Godfather Wiley: Cadell. Last year's L.O.N.D.O.N. was by far one of the most impressive LPs in the history of the genre to date—not even regulated to his peer group—and his future releases do not lack any sort of punch. Arguably his greatest attribute is an innate ability to successfully modernize grime not by turning it into an odd replication of US Rap or simply chase after true-school orthodoxy to the genre's best known tropes, but to synthesize it along styles such as jungle and drill into newer and more exciting variants. Recent single "Roman," produced by Teeza, works hard to do as such. Cadell's flow-switches swivel and spiral within the spaciousness punctuated by the drums, avoiding the post-garage half-step for a terse shuffle that feels much closer to the drums of a Carns Hill than a Skepta or Jammer. While grime itself feels incredibly uncertain, the career of Cadell feels like a guaranteed winner.
As 2018 rolls along, UK Drill appears to be in a much more uncertain position than it was at the very beginning. Law officials have begun to block and restrict the audiovisual output of crews on suspicion of promoting crime, thereby setting an unseen precedent for Real World Consequences for lyrical content. Additionally, the scene's flood has resulted in largesse among some of the larger crews who frequently add on newer members to infuse new life, often producing mixed results. Now more than ever, the individual approach appears to be the greatest argument for why and how artists should be gauged creatively for remembering and investing in, even if legal forces might easily argue otherwise. Yet who or what presents the greatest approach? T Face's "Hermione" holds the usual affair from a writer's perspective but instead relies on a tricky flow that pivots and slides on a whim, bringing a release to the stiffness plaguing the scene at large. Meanwhile, Muller's "Just One" doesn't reject the clichés, but instead enhances the lyrical detail to a jarring and stomach-turning specificity and brutality. It's hard to say if any specific direction is ideal or if they'll become fostered among the bulk of the younger artists populating the scene, but room for development and experimentation still appears to be ready for discovery.
Given that Soundcloud Rap represents notions of borderlessness, it feels in many ways inevitable that more and more countries would attempt to fit themselves into this dialogue. After all, if regional characteristics are themselves being unrooted and placed into public consciousness, why shouldn't they transcend national borders? London-based group Thiside certainly have plenty of hallmarks from popular US Soundcloud acts as well as more than a few UK tropes, which blend to a degree that can either be impressive or simply reflect what's made impressions on the young rappers. Still, of all their singles, "Bet" is impressive as a showcase for their technical excellence and ability to demonstrate variation amongst the ranks, hinting that they too can become a national or maybe even international presence of note.


we used our donated cardboard brick blocks to make some houses….just like one of the pigs did.
the thing about these blocks is that they are so light and so easy to throw and so easy to kick and so easy to do complete belly flops on to.
so, instead of doing those things full on (because these blocks will break and we really are practicing taking care of our things), we had some controlled brick house build ups and break downs.
(and yes, i found a "karaoke" version of the song…realizing that the lyrics were a little much for my sweet preschoolers to be the stars of it).
I just love this idea! Can you fill us in on where you bought your blocks?


I bought this for my 25L backpack. I like that someone will not be able to easily steal my backpack. However, the gaps (holes) in the mesh are large enough for me to put my hand through and I.
The new bags are designed for both mirrorless and DSLR cameras, with room for additional lenses, accessories, and other daily carry items. The new backpacks were created with both form and function in.
Over the years, what I carry in my bag has changed a lot. Most of that change has to do with the fact that I now carry a lot of gear related to blogging, but it also reflects the fact that I've learned a lot about packing since I first hit the road in 2006. And while many websites have packing.
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As ever with backpacks, there's no way to get to your camera without taking the bag off, and some of the zippers on our brand new sample were a bit stiff, but otherwise the Tenba Cooper DSLR Backpack.
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The Tenba Cooper DSLR Backpack is fantastic, but I wish they developed a version for the working travel photographer. Perhaps products that I spend the most time on for reviews here at the.
The problem though is it's a sling that's really boxy and that should be a backpack. Let's get deeper into this. The HEX Raven DSLR Sling Camera Bag can't accommodate an iPad or even a Macbook Pro. So.
As well as a host of new features on the original 24L & 32L backpacks, there are also two new models in the expanded range – the Shootout 14L Slim and Shootout 16L DSLR. Tenba Press Release Venture.
The Fujifilm X-T2 is a powerful, high quality mirrorless camera that is meant for the more experienced photographer. Great image quality, performance and on-camera controls will keep you shooting and having fun, but you must know your photography basics.
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It cannot hold my pro body DSLR with the extended grip attached. The pictures below show my model wearing the backpack. She indicated that it is very comfortable on her back and that the shoulder.
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With impressive speed, instinctive controls and innovative technologies, the Canon EOS 80D Wi-Fi DSLR is ideal for exploring new areas of photography and.
My dad was a commercial photographer, so I grew up around that, and I've been using a DSLR camera for years (although I recently. I've tried a bunch of different camera bags, but I've recently.
Designed for professional photographers, enthusiasts and videographers, both bags are designed to carry a substantial amount of camera kit. The Pro Light RedBee-310 can accommodate a large 400mm.
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For a camera bag, the $99.95 Raven DSLR Mirrorless Bag is relatively smaller and I think that is one of its strengths. I don't agree with companies making much larger shoulder bags that accommodate.


Aakash worked for 12 years in roles of increasing seniority at Pfizer and Johnson & Johnson, leading large R&D teams across Asia Pacific. He also worked on developing mobile health solutions catering to underserved populations in the emerging markets, focused on India and Africa.
For the last 8 years, Aakash has been involved with the use of technology to help doctors deliver superior care to patient communities. He has led multi-partner consortia to develop and deploy health technology platforms serving patients in the HIV and women's health domains. Most recently, Aakash has been actively involved with the mMitra mobile program, that is poised to reach over 1 million mothers in Greater Mumbai and New Delhi slums over 2017.
At Avegen, Aakash focuses most on building a team of diverse, passionate entrepreneurs who hope to shape some of our future healthcare experiences.
Almata/ Avegen is his 4 th startup. Aakash also co-founded Mirai Health (an Avegen company). His first two startups, his two boys, Siddhant and Samin, teach him entrepreneurship and life lessons daily.


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In Top Stocks 2013 Martin Roth once again applied his tried-and-tested selection criteria and rigorous analysis to determine the best public companies (representing low-risk, long-term value) for share buyers in 2013. This definitive guide to the top Australian listed companies presents all the key information in an easy-to-read format, giving any share buyer, regardless of their experience, the chance to build a successful stock portfolio. Now following the half-yearly company reporting season, Martin reviews the stocks that appeared in Top Stocks 2013 and provides updated commentary and data as to how these companies are faring. Additionally Roth provides an overview of how the financial year is tracking and looks ahead to 2013-2014 and the trends that are likely to shape the sharemarket. Top Stocks 2013 and Top Stocks 2013 Half-Yearly Update cut through the noise and hype to assess every company on the same criteria, with a focus on profitability, debt levels, and dividends.


1979 Datsun 280ZX racecar chassis #100026 ex-Paul Newman 1979 SCCA C production National Championship winning car driven only by Paul Newman. Fully documented and just finished a full nut and bolt restoration to show standards. Includes many original spare parts to go with the sale including engine and extra body parts, hood, original wheels and memorabilia including original signed Bill Of Sale from team owner Bob Sharp of Bob Sharp Racing. The 1984 Bill Of Sale attests to the fact that this racecar chassis #100026 is Paul Newmans National Champion 1979 Datsun 280ZX. Also included with the sale is the Sports Car Club of America stamping of the rollcage #42-540 and SCCA racing log books, #42-540. The chassis firewall still has the original chassis #100026 stamping.
This is a once in a lifetime opportunity to own an investment grade National Championship Winning Datsun that was raced by iconic film star & race driver Paul Newman. Interest in Paul Newman memorabilia continues to skyrocket on the heels of the world record price of $17.8 million for Paul Newmans Rolex Daytona wristwatch in October of 2017.
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R.I.P Jamie McGowan true gentleman and friend.
Sad to hear of Jamie's passing, he was a great wee guy.
R.I.P. Condolences to the family.
So sorry to hear of the passing of Jamie. He was great company and I wont ever forget his story of missing the train in Holland and needing the toilet on the long walk back to the hotel.
He certainly could make you laugh.
My condolences to his family he will be sadly missed.


LPG is the only medical technical device that is approved by FDA with its mechanical cellular signal technology. Lipomassage technique turns a mechanical signal into a bio-chemical signal and so that it triggers fat burning / lipolysis in cystoblast. It is helpful for the body to get thin regionally especially for cellulites.
During the application, it helps the body to relax via its mechanical massage effects on the muscles. It accelerates the circulatory system, gives oxygen to the cells. By this way, it helps the skin seem more healthy and smooth. With Lift massage technique it has lifting, anti-aging and wrinkle care. With LPG mechanical cellular signal technology, it forms an interaction with collagen.


The production of natural rubber in the country witnessed a decline of 13 per cent to 5.63 lakh tonnes in the fiscal ended March 2016, while imports during the period rose by 3 per cent to 4.54 lakh tonnes. The rubber production stood at 6.45 lakh tonnes in the 2014-15 fiscal and the imports were at 4.42 lakh tonnes, according to Rubber Board data. In April last year, the government had hiked the import duty on natural rubber to 25 per cent or Rs 30 per kg, whichever is lower, to protect the interest of domestic growers and curb imports.
As a result of fall in rubber production, the imports of truck and bus radial tyres have jumped by 64 per cent in 2015-16 to 12.8 lakh units from from 7.8 lakh units in the previous fiscal.


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Cut The Cord – The Cable Cord!
Have you heard about the latest craze, called "Cut the Cord?" This is where you decide to tell the cable company "Buh-Bye." What a savings we have made by making this decision.
Mr. DD started by connecting the cable to the HDTV antenna, connected the cable to the house and then he hung the HDTV antenna to the ladder to test the signal strength. We received over 60 channels with a direct feed to the TV. Let me say that 60 channels sounds like a lot, but some of them are the same station just in a different town. Once we ran the cable in the house to the remaining TV's, we discovered we needed an amplifier. The amplifier allows the signal to reach the TV's in the house. We have a 2 1/2 story home and this was much-needed to have a signal on all 4 floors.
See how far up he is on the ladder? This is the reason for needing an amplifier for our HDTV Antenna connection. Once Mr. DD installed the amplifier, he was ready to mount the antenna to the roof.
We now will be making a few adjustments with our television viewing. We were big fans of using the DVR so we never had to watch commercials, now we need to find something that will do this service. We were already subscribing to Netflix, so we will be using this a lot more. I have heard some goods things about Hulu plus, so we maybe checking into this over Netflix? If anyone has experience with both and can give me feedback we would really appreciate the comparison. We will be watching more shows through the internet and the computer. I need to go and buy a cable that connects the laptop to the TV. Our youngest son, who is the only boy left in the house has been "complaining about cutting the cord." He will survive and have to change his television viewing habits as the older boys did when they went off to college. I think that this is a small sacrifice for the great savings of $1452 per year. Thank you to Antenna's Direct for saving our family some money! Thank you to Antenna's Direct for the money savings!
How about you, would you like to join the craze and "Cut the Cord?" Please leave me your questions about switching to an HDTV antenna. I will answer you honestly and give you good feedback if cutting the cable is for you.
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Yeah! Since we got married we just never set up cable, and I haven't missed it!
This is so awesome. We don't really need cable except for the internet. DSL around here doesn't even begin to compare. We love Hulu, Amazon and Netflix– that's the majority of our viewing. I just wasn't sure how to get the regular channels, and you can get HD that's incredible! It irks me that our local channels are in HD and then cable strips the down. What's that all about!
Props to you for "cutting the cord." I don't think I could ever do that myself, haha.
We have also cut the cable cord a couple of months ago. We are saving about $76.00 a month now. We bought a sony blu-ray for about $120.00. We have the netflix and the huluplus – seem to use the netflix a lot more than hulu. Check it out before you quit using the netflix. I have 3 sons and all are doing fine without having cable – there is plenty to watch on netflix and they are now even watching some of the shows I like to watch with me. We also only have local – antenna tv on only 1 tv and netflix and hulu on 2 – we used to have cable on 3 tv's. I think this has also made us sit together more and watch things as a family. I also use my laptop to watch something with netflix if my husband is watching something I don't care to watch on our tv.
YES…YES…YES! We cut the cord a while ago.
It's crazy how expensive cable is – and for what? A bunch of commercials and nothing on TV.
We use Roku through the internet. Through that we get netflix.
Such a savings and so worth it.
Plus, there is a bunch of violence and other bad things on TV. We have more control over what our children are exposed to. What a relief that was!


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Conservation at Woburn Safari Park
Breeding at Woburn Safari Park
Trekking for Tigers!
The reason for the challenge
Having visited the Tiger Protection and Conservation Unit (TPCU) in Sumatra back in 2009, Rebecca Willers from Shepreth Wildlife Park was so impressed by their passion and commitment that she promised to raise crucial funding and awareness for their work when she returned to the UK.
The UK zoo team of participants
After successful fundraising efforts including a sponsored Channel swim and Kilimanjaro climb, in October 2015 Rebecca and a team of zoo colleagues took on their latest challenge, a seven-day trek across the Kerinci-Seblat National Park (KSNP). The team included Sarah Forsyth and Clive Barwick (Colchester Zoo), Hayley Potter (Animal Encounters - Team Leader and Head of Conservation at Woburn Safari Park), Charlotte Corney (Isle of Wight Zoo), Lynn Whitnall (Paradise Wildlife Park), Cheryl Midgely (Linton Zoo) and Olivia Walter (Wildlife Vets International).
The group slept in open pondoks and spent daylight hours traversing ridge edges, rivers and slopes. Throughout the week-long trek they collectively covered 120km over two provinces, reaching heights of almost 2000m, whilst successfully feeding hundreds of blood-thirsty leeches!
Trekking activities
As they walked they came across bird traps, poacher camps and hides, snares, illegal logging sites and even a few pug marks (tiger paw prints) on the way. They returned to base camp with seven green birds seized from a bird poacher camp, two active snares, four deactivated snares and even a chainsaw confiscated from the illegal logging camp.
This is of course just a glimpse into the real work of the TPCU. Formed in 2000 with just two teams, the TPCU has continued to grow and with more rangers trained, there are now six patrol teams conducting investigations and conflict mitigation. The teams operate in 20-day cycles from base camp, often living away from family for long periods of time. Patrols into the forest last four to eight days on foot and since 2004 these patrols have removed over 300 tiger snares and around 4,000 active deer snares. Over the last 12 months they have walked more than 1,230 miles on 115 patrols.
Organised criminal networks of poachers
Debbie Martyr, TPCU Manager says; "We're dealing with greed not need. Poor villagers can't afford to spend loads of money and time hunting a rare animal like a tiger, especially if their investment is likely to be wasted because the TPCU destroy their $25 snares. As a result, tiger poaching detected between 2004 and 2012 reduced almost every year, because the hunters stopped as it wasn't worth it anymore."
More recently, however, organised crime syndicates have moved into the area, funding poachers through local criminal networks and providing snares along with promises of safety. TPCU saw a jump from just 11 active tiger snares recorded on three out of 81 patrols in 2010 to 61 records in 2014.
Tiger poachers are no longer perceived as poor people, with many owning motorbikes and even cars. They often have other sources of income and of course they are now being funded by criminal syndicates too. Some are also involved in other crime including making and selling guns. To date, Debbie reports that more than 40 tiger poachers and traders have been arrested, all of whom went through the court process and were sentenced. "What we need now is action at an international level, including Vietnam and China, against the organised crime syndicates who are driving the threat to the tigers and maintaining demand for tiger body parts," she said
Huge respect for the anti-poaching teams
Returning from their trek the zoo team said; "We feel so privileged to have had the opportunity to spend time with the TPCU patrol teams in the jungle. Witnessing the unforgiving terrain, the sheer weight of their rucksacks and the amazingly beautiful and yet hostile flora and fauna these men endure on their patrols, truly leaves you both in awe and with deep gratitude to them for their continued, tireless efforts to protect this magnificent animal."
Amounts raised and the fundraising continues
Through sponsorship, the UK zoo team raised over £15,000 for the TPCU, and will be hosting several 'Tiger' events over the next few months to raise further funds and to highlight the crucial work being carried out by TPCU.

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaCommonCrawl


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What are the three things you need to do to succeed in your auctions in LinkedIn?
LinkedIn considers three things:
Your bidding strategy (bid type);
The maximum amount that you are willing to pay;
And the quality score of your ad.
What is LinkedIn auction?
Auctions run each time a user visits the LinkedIn website. The winner of that auction will have their text ad or campaign appear for the user during their time on the site. Winning ad auctions on LinkedIn is dependent upon your bid amount and how much competition there is for your target audience.
How much does it cost to bid on LinkedIn?
Typically, advertisers on Linkedin pay an average price of $5.26 for every click. LinkedIn requires a minimum bid of $2 for CPC and cost-per-impression (CPM) campaigns. This results in averages of $5.26 for the clicks and $6.59 for every 1000 impressions your ads generate.
How does bidding work on LinkedIn?
A bid is how much you are willing to pay for a specific action, like a click. Your bid type selection tells LinkedIn how to bid in the ad auctions. When you create a campaign in Campaign Manager, the advertising platform on LinkedIn, you'll choose your bid type and set your bid.
Why is my CPC high on LinkedIn?
If you are bidding by cost per click, LinkedIn is much more incentivized to show you in higher positions because that's where the ads get clicked. If you are bidding by cost per impression, then you will tend to fall down positions much more quickly.
Does the highest bidder win on LinkedIn?
That means if you win your bid, you will only pay the minimum needed to beat the second-highest bidder. You will never pay more than that, regardless of how high your max bid is set. LinkedIn determines who won the auction based on the highest bid combined with past ad performance (more on that later).
How does ad auction work?
AdSense uses an auction to select the ads that appear on your site and determine how much you earn from those ads. All ads pay different amounts of money, depending on factors such as how much an advertiser has bid for the ad. The ad that wins the auction is the one that the user sees on your site.
How much does a LinkedIn business page cost?
LinkedIn has four different pricing tiers for different needs: Career which is $29.99/month, Business which is $47.99/month, Sales which is $64.99/month, and Hiring which is $99.95/month.
Why are LinkedIn ads so expensive?
Which is the most automated way of bidding strategy?
Maximize Clicks: This is an automated bid strategy. It's the simplest way to bid for clicks. All you have to do is set an average daily budget, and the Google Ads system automatically manages your bids to bring you the most clicks possible within your budget. Learn more About Maximize Clicks bidding.
How do I reduce cost per click on LinkedIn?
Aim to lower your budget to the average daily spend level of when the campaign used "Maximum Cost" bid. This approach is the best way to lower your CPC. For example, if your campaign had a daily budget of $600, but is actually only spending $350, try lowering your daily budget to $350.
What is a good CPM on LinkedIn?
The CPM average on Linkedin: $33.80 per 1000 impressions. We seldom use this unless we're running brand awareness campaigns where the only bidding option is CPM.
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Wisbech speed skaters travel to Birmingham for national competition. The British record holders are pictured. Arthur Buckler is in the middle of the back row, Lucy McInerney far right on the front row with Eve beside her. PHOTO: Katie Scott.
Local speed skating team, Wisbech Inline Speed, were in Birmingham at the weekend taking part in the second of three back-to-back races held across the country.
Wisbech speed skater Leah Barker. PHOTO: Adrian Wordsworth.
With the threat of rain and thunder the race programme was condensed and the heavens opened during the final race of the day.
The 11-person team showed a thunderous display on track with podiums and wins galore.
Siblings Taylor, Leah & Kirby Barker finished overall in 1st, 2nd and 3rd places respectively in their category races, with Leah putting on an excellent performance to seal a victory in the Mini Girls Age Category race and proudly took a trophy home.
Wisbech speed skaters James Eve (back) and Arthur Buckler (front). PHOTO: Adrian Wordsworth.
Youngster and current Mini Boys British Champion, Arthur Buckler, triumphed in all four of his race events to seal overall victory of Category 4 and the Mini Boys category.
James Eve finished in a respectable 3rd place in Category 4 and finished in first place in his Age Category race with the Cadet Boys. His older brother Warren, was triumphant in Category 3 overall, while teenager Lucy McInerney sealed a respectable 3rd place finish in the 3,000mts Venus Cup race.
The main event of the day was the 10,000mts Keith Lee Boot race. Warren Eve and Tiago Fougo took part for the first time in the rain soaked race. Team coach Mike McInerney is no stranger to the long distance race, having been victorious a few years previously. This time around he finished in second place, along with an overall second place finish in Category 1.
Wisbech speed skater Warren Eve. PHOTO: Adrian Wordsworth.
The team were also joined by Dylan Taylor.
The team had extra to celebrate after three members of the team were confirmed to have broken British Records in 2018 and were presented with certificates from the Federation of Inline Speed Skating (FISS). Eve and Lucy McInerney from Leverington broke the Senior Ladies Indoor Relay record by 30 seconds and Arthur Buckler from Wisbech broke the 1000mts British record in Geisingen, Germany earlier in the year.
They have another race at the weekend in London and then they're back to Birmingham on 16 & 17th June for the Outdoor British Championships which the team are now training hard for.
For up to date news, visit the club's Twitter and Facebook pages.


John T. Flynn — journalist, author, and master polemicist of the Old Right — is highly unusual. He started out as a liberal columnist for that flagship of American liberalism, the New Republic, and wound up on the Right, denouncing "creeping socialism." What is unusual about Flynn is that instead of being seduced by the New Deal and the Popular Front into supporting the war, Flynn was led by his thoroughgoing antiwar stance to challenge the developing state worship of modern liberalism.
John T. Flynn was born in 1882, in Bladensburg, Maryland, where he grew up in a devoutly Roman Catholic family. He studied law at Georgetown University but soon switched to journalism. After a long struggle, he finally found a position in 1920 with the New York Globe, where he specialized in financial analysis. He also wrote a series of books: Graft in Business, Men of Wealth, and a very fair biography of John D. Rockefeller, entitled God's Gold.
When Roosevelt was swept into office, Flynn welcomed him, sharing the hope that the new president would get the country moving again. Flynn supported the Democratic Party platform of 1932, which called for an end to the extravagant spending of the Republicans, a balanced budget, and the abolition of the many government bureaus and commissions.
But Flynn was soon disillusioned. In fact, the New Deal that Roosevelt sold to the American people in 1932 bore absolutely no resemblance to the one he immediately imposed on an unsuspecting nation. During the first 100 days of his administration, Roosevelt racked up a deficit larger than the one it took Hoover two years to produce. Worse, from Flynn's viewpoint, was the blizzard of new government agencies the president created — agencies that sought to regulate every aspect of economic life — and the billions in borrowed money that financed them.
He used his column in the New Republic to attack the president, and in 1940 came out with a short book, Country Squire in the White House in which he excoriated Roosevelt for betraying the trust of the people who had elected him. Flynn was particularly horrified by the National Recovery Administration (NRA), which he denounced as "one of the most amazing spectacles of our times," that "represented probably the gravest attack upon the whole principle of the democratic society in our political history."
With prices, wages, hours, and production quotas set by trade associations, and an industry-wide code set up to regulate every aspect of commerce, competition would be eliminated and business would ensure for itself a secure and profitable niche in the new corporatist order. This was all couched in the language of liberalism, Flynn said, but it was championed primarily by the Chamber of Commerce and other business groups. Flynn saw himself as the defender of true liberalism, which had been betrayed by That Man in the White House.
Flynn predicted that Roosevelt's spending on vast domestic programs could not continue, for he would run out of useful peacetime projects. The Supreme Court may have declared the NRA unconstitutional, but there were other ways to militarize the economy — such as actually going to war. Roosevelt would pursue military adventure abroad to take the people's minds off their troubles at home — troubles that were not getting any better, and that the New Deal was only making worse.
His detailed chronicle of the misdeeds of the New Deal remains a definitive account: The Roosevelt Myth, which appeared in 1948. It turns the conventional wisdom on its head with facts and powerful analytics. It is an excellent sourcebook for anyone doing work in this area of history. He covers FDR's rise to power, his seizure of the economy and the nation's money, and his regimentation of national life that forestalled economic recovery and led to war.
Flynn's final and definitive shift from left to right was completed with the writing of his greatest work, As We Go Marching. In this book, Flynn stepped back and tried to see the trends he had been fighting — militarism, centralism, leader worship — as the interlocking components of a system.
The growth of a huge bureaucratic apparatus, the partnership of government and business, social welfare schemes, huge public debts, and the need to resolve economic problems by creating a permanent war economy — all of these phenomena had become dominant first in Italy, then in Germany, and then in the United States under the New Deal. The theme of the book is that while the US was fighting fascism in Europe, the seeds of that doctrine had already been planted at home; the war itself would accelerate their growth.
Throughout the 1950s Flynn sounded the alarm about the growing scope of US intervention in Indochina. It was, he thought, only a matter of time before "the United States may have to make a decision as to whether or not it will get into another Asiatic war," probably in Vietnam, he said on January 15, 1952. To be put in the position of defending French imperialism from the Communist-led Vietnam would be an unmitigated disaster for the United States.
Flynn ended his public career in 1960, at the age of seventy-nine; his health was failing and he retired from journalism. He died in 1964, as William F. Buckley and his followers were eradicating the last remnants of the Old Right, his work largely forgotten. That he died isolated from the Right as well as the Left, his books neglected, his legacy largely unknown, is due to the fact that the history of any conflict, both military and ideological, is written by the victors.
Flynn's essential insight — that the threat to America is not to be found in any foreign capitol, but in Washington, D.C. — takes on new immediacy today. His analysis of the structure of the welfare- warfare state as a system based on centralized government control of the economy and a permanent war economy is vital to understanding where we are today, how we got there — and how we can get out.
As John T. Flynn notes in this landmark 1948 volume, FDR actually prolonged the Great Depression and deliberately dragged the country into a war that seriously compromised American liberties.
The story of great fortunes made by the most notable men of wealth in history: Fugger , Law, Rothschild, Gresham, Owen, Vanderbilt, and all the way through Morgan and Rockefeller.
In 1955, John T. Flynn saw what few others journalist did: the welfare-warfare state conspired to bring down American liberty.
Today, people flirt with the idea that we need a bit of fascism — but only on the side of God and democracy.
We must understand clearly that those other republics of history were utterly different from ours.
The Depression marked a turning point in American public policy. From this point on we hear no more about balanced budgets.
Of course the president, like everyone, frequently protests his desire for peace. Everyone does this. And I think we may assume he is quite sincere about it.
There never has been in American politics a religion so expansively and luminously righteous as the New Deal.


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import sys
import logging

from peewee import PeeweeException

from taxadb.schema import db, DatabaseFactory

class TaxaDB(object):

    """Main TaxaDB package class

    Parent class of the Taxadb application. Use this class to create inheriting
    classes.

    Args:
        **kwargs: Arbitrary arguments. Supported (username, password, port,
            hostname, config, dbtype, dbname)

    Raises:
        AttributeError: If cannot instantiate `taxadb.schema.DatabaseFactory`.
    Attributes:
        MAX_LIST (:obj:`int`): Maximum number of bind variables to pass to
            request methods. Due to SQLite limit of passed arguments to a
            statement, we limit number of accession and taxid to
            request to 999 (https://www.sqlite.org/c3ref/bind_blob.html)
    """

    MAX_LIST = 999

    @property
    def logger(self):
        component = "{}.{}".format(type(self).__module__, type(self).__name__)
        return logging.getLogger(component)

    def __init__(self, **kwargs):
        self.db = None
        try:
            self.dbfact = DatabaseFactory(**kwargs)
            self.database = self.dbfact.get_database()
            self.db = db
            self.db.initialize(self.database)
            self.db.connect()
        except (AttributeError, PeeweeException) as err:
            self.logger.error("Can't create database object: %s" % str(err))
            sys.exit(1)

    def __del__(self):
        """Ensure database connection is closed"""
        if self.db and self.db is not None and not self.db.is_closed():
            self.db.close()

    def check_table_exists(cls, table):
        """Check a table exists in the database

        Args:
            table (:obj:`str`): Database `table` name to check.

        Returns:
            True

        Raises:
             SystemExit: if `table` does not exist
        """
        logger = logging.getLogger('TaxaDB')
        if not table.table_exists():
            logger.error(
                "Table %s does not exist" % (str(table.get_table_name())))
            sys.exit(1)
        return True

    @staticmethod
    def check_list_ids(ids):
        """Check the list of ids is not longer that MAX_LIST

        Args:
            ids (:obj:`list`): List of bind values

        Returns:
            True

        Raises:
            SystemExit: If `len` of the list of greater than `MAX_LIST`.
        """
        logger = logging.getLogger('TaxaDB')
        if len(ids) > TaxaDB.MAX_LIST:
            logger.error(
                "Too many accession entries to request (%d), max %d"
                % (len(ids), TaxaDB.MAX_LIST))
            sys.exit(1)
        return True

    def get(self, name):
        """Get a database setting from the connection arguments

        Returns:
            value (:obj:`str`) if found, None otherwise
        """
        value = self.dbfact.get(name)
        return value

    def set(self, option, value, section=DatabaseFactory.DEFAULT_SECTION):
        """Set a configuration value

        Args:
            option (:obj:`str`): Config key
            value (:obj:`str`): Config value
            section (:obj:`str`): Config section, default 'DBSETTINGS'

        Returns:
            True
        """
        return self.dbfact.set(option, value, section=section)

    def _unmapped_taxid(self, acc, do_exit=False):
        """Prints error message to stderr if an accession number is not
        mapped with a taxid

        Source ftp://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pub/taxonomy/accession2taxid/README
        >> If for some reason the source organism cannot be mapped to the
        taxonomy database, the column will contain 0.<<

        Args:
            acc (:obj:`str`): Accession number not mapped with taxid
            do_exit (:obj:`bool`): Exit with code 1. Default False
        """
        self.logger.error(
            "No taxid mapped for accession %s" % str(acc))
        if do_exit:
            sys.exit(1)
        return True


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package org.neo4j.cypher.javacompat;

import scala.collection.JavaConversions;

import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.Collections;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Map;
import java.util.NoSuchElementException;
import java.util.Set;

import org.neo4j.cypher.ExtendedPlanDescription;
import org.neo4j.cypher.ProfilerStatisticsNotReadyException;
import org.neo4j.graphdb.ExecutionPlanDescription;

import static org.neo4j.helpers.Exceptions.withCause;

class Description implements ExecutionPlanDescription
{
    private final org.neo4j.cypher.PlanDescription description;

    public Description( org.neo4j.cypher.PlanDescription description )
    {
        this.description = description;
    }

    @Override
    public String toString()
    {
        return description.toString();
    }

    @Override
    public String getName()
    {
        return description.name();
    }

    @Override
    public List<ExecutionPlanDescription> getChildren()
    {
        List<ExecutionPlanDescription> result = new ArrayList<>();
        for ( org.neo4j.cypher.PlanDescription child : JavaConversions.asJavaIterable( description.children() ) )
        {
            result.add( new Description( child ) );
        }
        return result;
    }

    @Override
    public Map<String, Object> getArguments()
    {
        return JavaConversions.mapAsJavaMap( description.arguments() );
    }

    @Override
    public Set<String> getIdentifiers()
    {
        if ( description instanceof ExtendedPlanDescription )
        {
            return JavaConversions.setAsJavaSet( ((ExtendedPlanDescription) description).identifiers() );
        }
        return Collections.emptySet();
    }

    @Override
    public boolean hasProfilerStatistics()
    {
        return description.hasProfilerStatistics();
    }

    @Override
    public ProfilerStatistics getProfilerStatistics()
    {
        final org.neo4j.cypher.javacompat.ProfilerStatistics statistics;
        try
        {
            statistics = description.asJava().getProfilerStatistics();
        }
        catch ( ProfilerStatisticsNotReadyException e )
        {
            throw withCause( new NoSuchElementException( e.getMessage() ), e );
        }
        return new ProfilerStatistics()
        {
            @Override
            public long getRows()
            {
                return statistics.getRows();
            }

            @Override
            public long getDbHits()
            {
                return statistics.getDbHits();
            }

            @Override
            public String toString()
            {
                return statistics.toString();
            }
        };
    }
}


WILMINGTON, N.C.—In December, Pharmaceutical Product Development LLC (PPD) announced plans to add gene and cell therapy analytical testing to its GMP (good manufacturing practices) laboratory in Athlone, Ireland, to support the pharmaceutical industry's growing need for biologics testing. The enhancements in PPD Laboratories' Athlone location complement the ongoing capacity and capability expansions at its flagship GMP lab in Middleton, Wis., enabling the company to expand the global reach of its industry-leading biologics testing services.
"PPD Laboratories has been focused on providing cutting-edge gene and cell therapy analytical testing services and capabilities around the world. These changes in Athlone are part of our ongoing plan to ultimately mirror there the upgrades we've been incorporating in Middleton," says Dr. Jon Denissen, senior vice president of the company's bioanalytical and GMP labs.
"Coupled with the GMP lab operation in Middleton, PPD has more than 350,000 square feet of laboratory space and cutting-edge facilities and equipment to provide responsive, flexible and comprehensive CMC [chemistry, manufacturing and controls] services for small molecules, biologics and gene and cell therapy products. Our goal is to offer the same extensive biologic, gene and cell therapy portfolio to clients in both Europe and North America, giving them additional opportunity to bring their valued assets to our scientific professionals at either GMP location. During the 30-plus years we've had laboratory operations in Middleton, Wis., and eight years in Athlone, Ireland, we've been able to successfully grow our operations due in part to the strength of the talent in those regions and their supportive business environments," he continues.
The GMP lab expansion will add nearly 6,000 square feet of new lab space to the existing 41,000 square feet at the Athlone facility. The new space will be primarily devoted to biologics testing and will enable the company to add quantitative polymerase chain reaction (qPCR) platforms for contaminant testing for biologics, which is a new capability for the Athlone location. PPD Laboratories anticipates adding about 20 positions as a result of the expansion.
"As the volume of biologic products has increased, the analytical testing associated with their clinical development and commercial release has become more standardized. Therefore, many pharmaceutical companies have made the strategic shift away from in-house testing and instead partner with top-tier laboratories, such as PPD Laboratories, for the analytical testing of their biologics," Denissen comments. "By working with PPD Laboratories, pharma companies access the capacity, array of capabilities, scientific expertise, quality and regulatory compliance they need, when they need it, without the high cost associated with maintaining a large-scale, GMP-compliant biologics testing capability in-house.
PPD Laboratories' GMP lab is a leading provider of CMC laboratory services for all phases of drug development. In addition to the GMP labs in Athlone and Middleton, PPD Laboratories' operations also include a bioanalytical lab in Middleton; vaccine sciences, bioanalytical and biomarker labs in Richmond, Va.; a biomarker lab in Highland Heights, Ky,; and central labs in Shanghai, Brussels, Singapore and Highland Heights.
In November, PPD also appointed several new people to its global product development services, adding significant expertise in multiple therapeutic areas. Specifically, the company added Dr. Amy Chappell and Dr. Alberto Lledó in neuroscience, Dr. Timothy Miller in rare diseases and pediatrics and Dr. Konstantin Stoitchkov in hematology/oncology, strengthening PPD's team of therapeutic area professionals with extensive product development and commercialization experience.


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Going-to-the-Sun-Road Expected to be Fully Open in the Morning
CommunityChamberGeneral News Article
Going-to-the-Sun Road Expected to be Fully Open in the Morning
West Glacier, MT – The Going-to-the-Sun Road will be open on Sunday morning, June 23, in its entirety to motorized vehicle travel, pending any last minute changes due to weather.
Visitors will be able to drive the entire 50-mile length of the road, and access Logan Pass. Park work crews have finished snow removal, assessed current snow conditions, removed rocks and other road debris, installed guard rails, and prepared Logan Pass facilities for visitor use.
This year, pavement preservation crews also worked in the alpine section of the road prior to road opening. They will continue to work throughout the park this summer.
Services at Logan Pass include restroom facilities and potable water. The Logan Pass Visitor Center is open daily from 9 am to 7 pm through September 2, and with reduced hours until October 1. The visitor center offers information about the park, ranger-led programs, and a Glacier National Park Conservancy bookstore.
Interpretive bus tours on the Going-to-the-Sun Road and in other areas of the park are available through Sun Tours and Glacier National Park Lodges. More information on these services can be found on the park's website.
Vehicles and vehicle combinations longer than 21 feet, and wider than 9 feet, are prohibited on the Going-to-the-Sun Road between Avalanche Campground and Rising Sun. Vehicles over 10 feet in height may have difficulty driving west from Logan Pass due to rock overhangs.
The spring hiker-biker shuttle service has ended operations for the season. Bicyclists are reminded that bicycle safety restrictions on the Going-to-the-Sun-Road are in effect, and remain in effect through Labor Day, September 2. Bicycles are prohibited between the Apgar turnoff near the Apgar Picnic Area and Sprague Creek Campground from 11 am to 4 pm. Bicycles are prohibited eastbound (uphill) between Logan Creek and Logan Pass from 11 am to 4 pm. Information on bicycle restrictions and average bicycle times may be found in the park newspaper available at park entrance stations, or online on the park's bicycle information webpage.
The park's fare-free summer shuttle system will begin operating on July 1, and will run from approximately 7 am – 7 pm, seven days a week.
While driving along the road, particularly through the Rim Rock area (approximately one mile west of Logan Pass), visitors should be aware of possible rockfall. Rocks and other debris continue to fall throughout the summer, requiring daily clean up along the road.
The Highline Trail from Logan Pass is still closed due to hazardous snow conditions. For up-to-date information on trail conditions and clearing activities, visit the park's trail status webpage.
The park continues to anticipate a closure from September 16-30 on the west side of the Going-to-the-Sun Road from Avalanche to Logan Pass due to the pavement preservation project underway this year. Logan Pass will remain accessible during this period of time from the St. Mary entrance.
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"Sara Marie Barron can bring your guard down. We can tend to block our emotions from bubbling to the surface, but the compositions and powerful performances of this Detroit-based singer/songwriter are an invitation, an assurance, that allowing even just for 4-5 minutes of vulnerability can be revitalizing. With formative influences like Carole King, Etta James and Billie Holiday, this young vocalist and songwriter is distinctly able to channel the evocative poignancy and poetry of a certain kind of soul music.
While her Detroit-area upbringing would inevitably include Motown's iconic canon as a key influence, she was also in love with both the sweetly somber troubadours of classic folk and the strong and stylish personalities of R&B. In the middle of that mixture, Barron is creating soul music that might diverge from the classic 60's Stax or Motown, but instead infuses all of the earnest, tender, swooning sensibilities of "So Far Away" to "Sunday Kinda Love." Or imagine a post-millennial blue-eyed soul that blends in her 10+ years of classical vocal training, thespian talents from her time in theater and the control, range, and richness of her voice from her time singing Opera.
Barron naturally finds and enlivens such warm and cinematic tones on her piano and sweetly threads her dazzling voice from a faint grey sky flicker to a full, fiery sun-ray. And then there are the melodies... While Barron's musical DNA draws from so many esteemed luminaries of soul and folk mentioned above, she's keen to create a composite of pop-inclined charms with the melodies she weaves with her voice.
"Does She" sounds regal enough to be performed on a stage framed with crimson curtains and boomlights, but there's a playfulness to the refrain of an already catchy chorus that allows this to feel at home anywhere, be it your earbuds on a quiet morning's walk or your car stereo on a neon-light-splashed drive downtown. "Wanna Know" similarly fuses a swaying rhythm akin to a pop ballad, while her voice is a flutter of intonations effusing earnest and aching sentiments in succinct couplets.
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Poor Elli!!! Friday evening, Christi took Sophi, Jess and Lexi up to Rexburg, ID to attend their cousin's baptism. This was a fun trip for them, but left me at home to get the other children ready for church this morning. Taylor, Parker, and Xander? Piece of cake. Graci? Does it all on her own. Elli? Remember, I am just a man. I have developed some ability to do my daughters' hair over the years, but cannot come close to Christi's expertise. And Elli's is far and away the most challenging hair to style. Not only is it the thickest and longest, you also have to contend with Elli's sudden jerks and jolts and fits of frustration as you pull a comb through the tangled mess. Actually, the tangles weren't too terrible because I washed and conditioned it first. Nevertheless, if you were an 8-year-old girl, I would not be your first choice of hairdresser:).
But I pressed forward and gave it my best effort. I dried her hair, put in four ponytails and got her breakfast. A few minutes later, Parker, not knowing I had done anything other than get her out of bed that morning, said, "Dad, I probably wouldn't worry about doing Elli's hair today." Ouch! When I told Parker I had already done it, he said, "Well, you could take it two ways. The glass half empty would be that the hairdo you did for Elli looked like it might not have been fixed since Mom did it two days ago. The glass half full would be that I thought the job you did was good enough for church!" Guess I'll look on the bright side.
So, dear Christi, I apologize. I know you will be mortified when you see the way I dressed your daughter this morning. But on the bright side, I did get all six of us there and in our seats no more than two minutes after services started. And, as usual, sweet Elli shared her exuberance with the rest of the congregation throughout sacrament meeting.
On a more positive note, Elli has done a couple of things in the last few weeks that help us catch a glimpse of what's going on inside her mind. First of all, she is being more verbal lately. Sometimes we can understand what she's trying to get across. Sometimes we can't. But just having her express herself is really a treat. Second, Elli used a pronoun!!! (I guess she uses a pronoun often, but the only way we have ever heard her say it is "I want [insert some type of food here] please!) Unless you know someone with severe cognitive disabilities and an almost complete lack of intelligible communication, you cannot understand what an amazing leap forward this represents. Parker was talking to her and said, "Elli, you're so beautiful." After a couple of seconds she replied, "I so beautiful." Parker's and my jaws both dropped. We stared at each other in as much dumbfounded shock as if she had jumped up and started flying around the room. Finally, Elli communicated an idea to Parker and I today, all on her own. Parker was again playing with her (he is a remarkable brother, by the way) and out of the blue she said a line from her prayers: "We thank you for...........Parker!" What a beautiful way for her to express her gratitude to an older brother who frequently takes time to talk to her, hold her and tell her he loves her.
These tiny, giant steps forward we see Elli take are a reminder that she understands far more than we might assume. For some reason (I believe it is because of her valiant spirit and lack of a need to be tested in this mortal life), Heavenly Father has seen fit to allow her to live in a body with these special needs. Although her brain does not transmit or receive information the same way most of ours do, I believe she is making memories and developing relationships with us that will last beyond life on this earth. I love you Elli.
Jeremy, she looks BEAUTIFUL. And, more importantly, she was happy!!!! Sweet, sweet Parker. He is an amazing young man and one that is an example to us all.
Meh - she looks great to me - but what do I know - I'm a guy!
And Parker - "man card" dude - you earn one every day!
She looks darling! Reading the end of your post about how Elli is developing relationships with you even if they aren't progressing the way we think of as "normal," I had this vision of you all in the next life and the hugs and love and gratitude she will express as she realizes in full what you all did for her...and vice versa.


Of course we all know that neighborhoods are important for many reasons; friendly neighbors, community support, etc. And we all know there are many reasons to choose a particular neighborhood; location, style, affordability, etc. However, from the perspective of your wallet, there's another important benefit the right neighborhood can provide; price stability.
This week brought a couple pieces of good news about the Atlanta real estate market. First, a report released by Metrostudy shows that Atlanta's housing market has hit bottom, with primary indicators having reversed and now trending to the positive. Although the trend is positive for sellers, we at Intown Elite believe that buyers continue to maintain the power in negotiations, since there's still nearly 13 months of inventory on the market.
The other good news for the real estate market is the extension of the $8,000 tax credit for first-time home buyers until May 1, 2010. In addition, a credit up to $6,500 is available for other home buyers who have owned their current homes for at least 5 years. This opens tax incentives to "move-up" buyers who are purchasing a primary residence.
As always, there are limits to these credits, so please contact your real estate professional for the details. These tax credits are not likely to be further extended, so if you are considering buying a home, now is the time.
Please feel free to contact us here at Intown Elite with any questions you have about the new tax credits. Thank you and happy house-hunting!


Discussion in 'iOS Programming' started by jacksongan, May 5, 2010.
The problem with this code is that the transition performed is the 2nd one. ie. transition1. When i click the animate button, the view jump from view1 to view3, skipping the first transition.
maybe u can advise on this?
I just did. I would expect that you would no go to the documentation and look for methods that are called when an animation block completes. Anything short of that is just laziness.
So, which documents did you read and what did you discover? I would suggest looking at CATransitions superclass and the obvious delegate methods.
well, this is actually part of the Viewtransition sample code from the developer page, with some modifications of course. I dun want to keep pressing button to call for next transition, ie. press once, view1 to view2, press twice, view2 to view3, i jus wana press once to show transition from view1 to view2 followed by view3. I jus cant figure out.
And to do that you will have to use the delegate method I pointed you towards to wait for the end of each transition before starting the next one. This is all the help I will give you: programming is about figuring out solutions for yourself, about using the documentation and about trying things. It's not about copy and pasting code that you ask for as "sample code" and then thinking you know what you are doing or claiming you wrote it yourself.
Go, read, try stuff and actually learn.


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This Drug Is Cheaper And More Powerful Than Heroin — And May Be Killing Way More People
A kilo of heroin nets a dealer $60,000. A kilo of fentanyl? $1.2 million.
By Dan Vergano
Dan Vergano BuzzFeed News Reporter
Posted on June 5, 2017, at 10:26 a.m. ET
The counterfeit pain pills that killed Prince in April of 2016 held a drug far deadlier than heroin: fentanyl.
Fentanyl, a synthetic opioid, arrived on the US illegal drug market at just the right time, in 2012, to set off a wave of fatal overdoses like a match dropped into a gasoline tank. After a decade of free-wheeling painkiller prescribing and cut-rate prices for illegal drugs, more people than ever were addicted to heroin. And thanks to a hollowed-out economy in Appalachia and New England, where disability and lack of jobs has played into an epidemic of drug addiction, people were looking for the cheapest possible fix.
"It's our deadliest concern," Russ Baer of the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) told BuzzFeed News.
The agency is now routinely seeing deadly cocktails of heroin, fentanyl, and fentanyl-related compounds turning up with US seizures of cocaine and methamphetamines. Of about 33,000 overdose deaths nationwide tied to opioids in 2015, 9,000 — or about 27% — were blamed on fentanyl.
For 2016, inquiries by BuzzFeed News to the public health agencies of all 50 states found that only 30 have so far tallied a total number of opioid deaths. But even this preliminary data shows that in 13 states — Delaware, Florida, Iowa, Kentucky, Maine, Massachusetts, Montana, New Hampshire, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Virginia, West Virginia, and the District of Columbia — there were more overdose deaths from fentanyl and other synthetic opioids than heroin.
That's all up from hardly any fentanyl deaths in 2012. The spike is caused by many related factors, but basically boils down to one thing: money.
"Everything with fentanyl comes back to economics," Baer said, echoing experts who spoke at the April Rx Drug Abuse & Heroin Summit in Atlanta.
Here are the shocking stats you need to know.
1. Heroin addiction rates have risen roughly 90% in the past decade, to about 1 in every 500 people.
Peter Aldhous for BuzzFeed News / Via drugabuse.gov
US Heroin addiction rates have doubled since 2002.
Starting around 2007, heroin addiction rates began to climb nationwide. The timing coincides with an increase in the price of cocaine from Colombia and a crackdown in Mexico on marijuana, which might have led dealers to turn to heroin as a money maker.
Whatever the cause, a recent JAMA Psychiatry report found a roughly 90% increase in heroin use from 2001 to 2013. That's about 1,127,000 more people trying the drug.
That's a lot of extra customers for heroin dealers. There are now about 467,000 heroin addicts nationwide, according to NIDA. And another 2.1 million people are addicted to prescription painkillers like oxycodone, chemical cousins to heroin.
Many people take painkillers responsibly, whether dealing with debilitating chronic pain or with cancer. But others develop a physical dependency, taking them long after their pain is gone. Some painkiller users switch to cheaper heroin: About 31% of new heroin users reported being dependent on painkillers, according to a 2013 survey.
2. About 80% of US heroin now comes from six Mexican cartels, and is winding up in rural regions that never had it before.
Origin of heroin sold in US cities.
The Mississippi River used to divide the heroin market, with Mexican heroin predominating in the West and Colombian heroin to the east. But that's changed in the last decade or so, with about 80% of US heroin now coming from Mexico, trafficked largely by six cartels. The best known is the Sinaloa Cartel, which was headed by Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán Loera, extradited to the US in January.
Although the Sinaloa Cartel reportedly controls where much of the opium is grown, refining it into heroin is more decentralized. Many cartels have started selling "Mexican White" powdered heroin, replacing the older black tar and brown powder versions they used to sell.
Once a trademark of East Coast Colombian criminal networks, this white powder heroin is more potent (it has a higher drug "purity") and cheaper than older varieties, according to DEA lab results, which means it can be snorted just like a crushed pain pill. Counterfeit pain pills made with white heroin have also started to turn up in drug seizures since 2015, aimed at addicts who don't like needles.
Mexican heroin is now routinely sold in many parts of rural America where it used to be absent, powered by networks that essentially deliver drugs like pizza. Dealers drove into rural states where disability payments and pain prescriptions had massively spiked — West Virginia alone received 780 million oxycodone and hydrocodone pills from 2007 to 2012 — just as legal officials were clamping down on pill mill pharmacies.
"Dealers head east of the Mississippi River — primarily in Appalachia and Ohio and Indiana and Kentucky and those areas — where this massive marketing of pills has taken hold," crime reporter Sam Quinones, author of Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic, said in a 2015 interview. "Their system takes off hugely because they stumble upon an enormous new population of addicts."
3. US heroin is cheaper than ever, as low as $5 per hit.
Peter Aldhous for BuzzFeed News / Via IDA
The US street price of a single gram of heroin since 1980.
The bottom really began to fall out of the street price of US heroin starting in 1997, according to a 2016 study led by Travis Wendel of St. Ann's Corner of Harm Reduction in the Bronx, when Colombian drug cartels cut the price by more than than a half, from $175,000 to $75,000 a kilo. Soon supply outstripped demand.
"Used to be the custies [customers] fiending for the product, now it's the dealers fiending for a custy," a drug dealer was quoted as saying in a related study from 2003.
The drop in price may have contributed to reduced crime rates in major cities, according to Wendel and his colleagues, because people had to steal less to pay for their habit.
Cheaper heroin also leads to more overdoses. A 2014 study of 3,400 hospitals nationwide, for example, found that for every $100 decrease in the price of a gram of heroin, the number of overdose hospitalizations goes up by 2.9%, around 10,000 more nationwide.
In studies over the last decade, Daniel Ciccarone of the University of California, San Francisco, and his colleagues have shown that marketing, branding, and economics create unique heroin markets in different cities. Philadelphia users, for example, tend to buy powdered heroin in open-air markets filled with competing brands, whereas people in San Francisco mostly buy black tar heroin from dealer acquaintances. Every market, Ciccarone wrote, is driven by a "connoisseurship of potency," where users seek out the strongest possible dose.
4. Fentanyl is 30 to 50 times more potent than heroin: Just 2 or 3 milligrams can kill.
US opioid overdose deaths 1999-2015, by drug.
Around 2011, into that market for stronger heroin came the new users from pain pills, who added to those larger number of heroin users. Within a couple of years, this combined market began to see heroin tainted with fentanyl, a surgical painkiller that can be 50 times more potent than heroin, on the black market.
A fatal dose of fentanyl next to a penny.
Fentanyl's chemistry makes it far riskier than heroin. A typical dose of heroin might require 15 to 30 milligrams for a fix, and an overdose might take 3 to 10 times more than that. In contrast, just 1 milligram of fentanyl could get someone high and 2 or 3 milligrams could kill. This leaves little room for error, Baer noted. "These are not professional chemists."
Fentanyl-laced heroin sold with names like "King of Death," which killed three people this year in Atlantic City, or "Grey Death," which killed four people in two states this month, plays right into the demand among heroin users for the most potent drug possible.
5. Fentanyl, a completely synthetic drug, is 20 times more profitable than heroin, which is made from harvested poppy plants.
CDC/DEA / Via cdc.gov
Number of law enforcement reports of samples that tested positive for fentanyl ("fentanyl encounters") from 2014 to 2015.
Fentanyl is not only more deadly than heroin, but can be far more lucrative.
"A kilo of fentanyl can be split up many more times than a kilo of heroin, to make more money."
In the US, Baer said, a kilogram of heroin that costs about $4,000 dollars might be made into enough does (typically cut with milk sugar) to garner the dealer around $60,000. A kilogram of fentanyl might also cost a dealer $4,000 wholesale, according to the DEA, but it can be split into 20 times more doses, garnering $1.2 million or more.
Carfentanil, a related tranquilizer 100 times more powerful than heroin (even skin contact can trigger an overdose), pushes the economics even farther, turning up in overdoses across the Midwest, and up and down the East Coast. The first human poisoning with carfentanil was only reported in 2010 — a veterinarian was splashed with a dose from a dart intended to sedate an elk — so not a lot is known about human use of the drug. So far, it appears to be a "boutique" occurrence in illegal drugs, Baer said, albeit one turning up with increasing frequency.
Unlike such synthetic opioids, heroin requires a lot of hassle for the cartels: planting poppies in fields in Mexico (or Afghanistan or elsewhere), harvesting, and processing them to collect raw opium, which in turn needs chemical processing to make into morphine and then heroin, all the while dodging law enforcement and eradication efforts.
Fentanyl only takes a small lab, with raw materials typically imported from China. In 2015, China started cracking down on exports of the drug and its chemical cousins to Mexico, the US, and Canada. As each synthetic opioid is banned, another still-legal variation on fentanyl pops up for sale. That has led to a game of outlawing new variants as soon as they appear on the market.
"It's whack-a-mole but we have to do it," Ambassador William Brownfield of the US State Department's International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs office told BuzzFeed News.
6. Fentanyl is now routinely showing up in counterfeit painkiller pills: DEA seizures of these drugs have increased 2,019% in the last five years.
Counterfeit pain pills with fentanyl.
Prince's death illustrates the latest chapter in the fentanyl saga, with the drug turning up in counterfeit pain pills. Money again explains its appearance: a $20 fake pain pill might contain much less fentanyl than a $10 baggie of fentanyl-laced heroin, letting the dealer split the dose even more and rake in more money.
One kilo of heroin can make about 20,000 dime bags. One kilo of fentanyl might make 666,666 counterfeit pills, according to the DEA. The profits for these tainted pills can range from $10 to $20 million. Each pill contains 1.5 milligrams. That means two pills could be deadly.
"Cartels are predatory, they don't care about killing people," Baer said. "If for every person who dies another one to three are addicted, they are fine with that."
The "Watson 385" pills reportedly found at Prince's estate after his death have led to suspicions the singer may not have known he was taking fentanyl when he died. Real Watson 385 pills contain acetaminophen and hydrocodone, a less potent opioid painkiller, frequently given for back pain.
Some news reports suggest the counterfeit pills that killed Prince also contained UL-47700, a different opioid increasingly turning up in drug cocktails, as well as in cocaine and methamphetamines.
The surge in fentanyl deaths and opioid addiction defies any simple solution. The problem is rooted more in economics, a failed revolution in pain treatment, and the neurobiology of addiction than the tired stereotypes of the "War on Drugs."
"We cannot arrest our way out of this," Baer said. "The solution has to come from the demand side, the people taking this, and from community awareness where they live."
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Dan Vergano is a science reporter for BuzzFeed News and is based in Washington, DC.
Contact Dan Vergano at dan.vergano@buzzfeed.com.


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The 2021 Jeep Grand Cherokee L Proves Size Matters
I don't care what anyone says… size matters. And featuring seven seats across three rows, size is certainly what you'll get with the recently unveiled 2021 Jeep Grand Cherokee L. But you'd be mistaken in assuming the next-generation SUV offers nothing more beyond a little extra space. In fact, many are already hailing it as the ultimate family whip.
Borrowing a handful of design cues from the Jeep Grand Wagoneer, the Grand Cherokee L has a Pentastar 3.6-litre V6 engine capable of delivering 290 horsepower and 257 lb-ft of torque; or a larger optional 5.7-litre V8 capable of delivering 357 horsepower and 390 lb-ft of torque. Eight-speed transmission is mated to both.
In terms of towing capacity, the standard model is rated for 6,200 pounds (2,812kg) while the upgraded version can pull 7,200 pounds (3,265kg). Paired with an improved ground clearance of up to 277mm thanks to an adjustable ride height, available water fording capability of up to 24 inches, 21-inch wheels, as well as the Jeep Selec-Terrain drive modes… the Grand Cherokee L also promises to be a certified weekend warrior.
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As for the niceties, each of the 16-way adjustable power front seats in question is equipped with memory and massage functions. Other interior features include the following:
10.25-inch digital instrument cluster w/ heads-up display
MX859 McIntosh Infotainment System, reportedly "one of the best" going around in any SUV right now (8.4-inch/10.1-inch screen)
Apple CarPlay & Android Auto enabled
19-speaker sound system
USB-A & USB-C power outlets
Digital rear seat monitoring
Quad-Zone Automatic Temperature Control
Ambient LED lighting
Additionally, there are over 110 safety and security features, including a night vision camera which utilises thermographic technology and infrared sensors to scan for pedestrians, the odd roo, and whatever obstacles may come.
According to CarAdvice, the 2021 Jeep Grand Cherokee L is expected to launch in Australia sometime between August and September this year. Local pricing has yet to be announced.
[Important note from Jeep: "The product specifications of the Grand Cherokee L revealed today are specific to North America. We will provide more information on the timing and specifications of the Grand Cherokee L for Australia closer to the local launch."]
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About time for a 5* basic arena?
Ultra8529 Posts: 466 ★★★
June 19 in Suggestions and Requests
Its been 2 years since the last arena update, and I believe 3 years since we got the basic 4* arena. Hasn't the game progressed since then till the point where a 5* basic arena should be coming about now?
Especially given the pivot recently to phase out 4*s, the majority of the player population is now needing specific 5*s in order to clear content. Popping crystals just isn't a viable way to wait for that single champ that you need. I'm still waiting to dupe my 5* Star Lord after 3 years+.
zeezee57 Posts: 1,453 ★★★★
It's long overdue, but I doubt it'll be implemented any time soon. This would be the single best way to make good on the statement that 5* are more available to players who have reached Cavalier status and would also ease summoners into the numerous restrictions act 6 presents. I just get the impression Kabam won't see it as profitable enough so it won't happen.
Cliffordcan Posts: 615 ★★★
I second this. I have seen people say that "kabam will make less money" from this. But I think they are wrong. Giving players more ways to engage and spend time in the game where they feel they are progressing won't hurt their bottom line. No whales will turn to guppies due to a 5* Basic arena. We all survived the 4* Basic arena, and we will all survive this.
Bergy25 Posts: 35 ★
A lot of things need updating. I'm on board with this one.
SiriusBreak Posts: 1,211 Guardian
This one keeps popping up. More and more frequently lately. *hint, hint* *nudge, nudge* I've gone into deep detail the benefits of a 5* Basic Arena. The best move would be to introduce the 5* Basic WITH the 6* Feature. Roll both out at the same time. That way, Arena gets 2 major updates in 1 shot, and the cutoffs go down across the board. All the while, inspiring more players to do arena in general.
By the time a champ reaches the Basic arena, they've already been in the feature crystal enough times that it wouldn't have an impact on sales of those. Basic Arena would give more players a shot at getting said champs with the 1-10% rank rewards. Also, more milestones. Which means access to more units, BCs, and Gold. All of which are always in need.
Interesting how certain posts always gets moved to the suggestions section where they basically are left to die.
GK_23 Posts: 73 ★
It would be great to hear a comment from Kabam on this.
The main reason we haven't heard back is likely due to the fact they cannot say what's what if they don't have a solid timeframe or plan for it. It has been acknowledged by Kabam. Last I heard, they were looking into the possibility of doing this. Considering the amount of people who play Arena on the regular, hopefully they're putting some more time into getting this into play.
I still say we need BOTH a 6* Feature and 5* Basic at this point. The inflated scores in the 5* Feature Arena detour the average player from really going at it. Not to mention the fact that people are grinding 60-80+ million points for a 5* champ. That in itself is ridiculous as 5* champs are no longer the top tier.
The demand for a well rounded 5* roster in Act 6 is pretty apparent. Let's also note the more 5* champs we can attain, the more likely we'll be to duplicate when opening crystals and in turn, get more 6* shards. Who doesn't want more of those? Lol. Plus, more rank rewards would be available, thus increasing the overall availability of shards in general. All in all, we need new Arenas. Many aspects of the game have evolved over the last 2 years and Arena has not. It's high time those 2 Arenas become a reality IMO.
SiriusBreak said:
Fully agreed. It is time for Kabam to make good their statement that 5*s and 6*s have become more accessible to those with the cavalier title.


Join us for an evening with Treyce Meredith, designer at Carbon 5.
Design's primary function is to make something useful. Unfortunately, most products are not accessible to everyone. For adults and children with non-typical cognition and learning styles, technology can help even the playing field, combats negative stereotypes, and take into account their deficits and capitalize on their cognitive strengths.


FEMA published several factsheets that provide information about why applicants may not have received FEMA assistance. FEMA can deny assistance if an inspection finds "insufficient damage" to the home. Inspectors decide if a home is still safe, sanitary, and functional, which covers basics such as toilets, a roof, utilities, windows, and doors. Applicants can appeal FEMA's decision to deny assistance because of insufficient damage but need third-party documentation.
Florida Department of Education (FDOE) has an up-to-date list of school closure and reopening dates.
FEMA encourages renters in Georgia displaced by Hurricane Michael to apply for federal disaster assistance, which could provide financial help for rent, moving expenses, and child care. The deadline to apply for federal assistance in Georgia is December 13.
Residents of 20 Georgia counties are now eligible for Disaster Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (D-SNAP). D-SNAP provides a month of benefits to help families meet their food needs following a disaster.
Many of the 220 residents of Trent Court, a public housing complex in New Bern, are still waiting to learn when they might be able to return to their homes. Displaced residents have been relocated or are staying with family or friends.
An article in the Carolina Public Press highlights the impact Hurricane Florence has had on rural inland areas of the state like Chatham County and the town of Robbins.
According to insurancejournal.com, residents of Cheraw, SC, are suing Highland Industries for "failing to clean up a toxic mess" which was exacerbated by over two feet of flooding caused by Hurricane Florence. The lawsuit was also featured by the Greenville News.
Advocates from Texas groups working on disaster recovery – including several from NLIHC state partner and Disaster Housing Recovery Coalition member Texas Housers – recently traveled to Puerto Rico to meet with their counterparts on the island. The Texas and Puerto groups discussed recovery issues their communities have faced and shared best practices and strategies to ensure equitable recovery.
Researchers at Florida Gulf Coast University (FGCU) are studying the impacts of Hurricane Irma as part of the Communities in Transition Initiative. Research topics include flood mitigation, resiliency traditions, avoiding water contamination, and medical outcomes. Learn more about the research projects here.
An article published by NBC News chronicles the ongoing challenges of rebuilding homes destroyed by Hurricane Maria on the Puerto Rican island of Vieques.
A story in the Victoria Advocate follows a Texas mother and her seven children who found themselves homeless in the wake of Hurricane Harvey. The story is the second installment in a series called "Hidden in Plain Sight," which examines how Hurricane Harvey could exacerbate wealth inequality in South Texas.
The National Center on Law & Elder Rights published a "Practice Tip" document with information on how to help homeowners to access insurance benefits after a disaster.
Disaster Legal Aid is hosting a virtual group discussion on Tuesday November 13 at 4:00 p.m. ET to discuss "Disaster Legal Aid & Insurance." The meeting will be relevant for legal aid staff, pro bono attorneys, and public interest advocates engaged in disaster-relief efforts.