![]() The awards are given in three categories, Literary Fiction, Nonfiction, and Genre Fiction, with the genre selection changing each year. The Kobo Emerging Writer Prize awards three first-time Canadian authors with CAD $10,000 each. Ģ019, KWL began offering self-publishing opportunities for Audiobooks. Key features of Kobo Writing Life include "deep analytics", allowing authors to track sales in real time a "learning center" to guide newcomers in digital publishing and allowing an author to sell books globally. On 17 July 2012, Kobo launched a self-publishing platform called Kobo Writing Life (KWL). Both have provided tools for users to migrate purchases and information to Kobo's offering. They include the defunct Borders eBook Store, as well as the Sony Reader Store. Several digital book stores have closed down and transferred their users to Kobo's bookstore. The majority of titles are sold in the open ePub format, albeit with DRM. Content sold on the Kobo Bookstore include eBooks, Audiobooks, newspapers, and magazines. Readers can choose to subscribe to only eBooks, or to expand the service with Kobo Plus Listening, which includes audiobooks. Books are available in a number of languages. Īs of May 2021, Kobo Plus offered 599,000 eBooks and 94,000 audiobooks. In 2021, Kobo signed an agreement with LeYa, a Portuguese publishing group, and launched Kobo Plus e_LeYa, which made exclusive content available in Portugal. It was first released in the Netherlands and Belgium in 2017, and then expanded to Canada in 2020. Kobo Plus is the company’s unlimited audiobook and eBook subscription service. In 2017, Kobo acquired Shelfie, an app that organizes personal libraries. In June 2015, Kobo received a Top Developer badge in the Google Play store. Kobo offers free reading applications for Windows and MacOS computers, Android and iOS smartphones. In 2014, Kobo discontinued the Arc tablets and did not develop another one. It previously sold the Kobo Vox, a 7-inch Android tablet released in 2011. Kobo produced the Kobo Arc family of Android tablets, which it introduced in 2012 and refreshed in 2013. ![]() Kobo's eReaders use Wi-Fi to sync a user's book collection and bookmarks with Kobo's cloud service, which can also be accessed from Kobo eReading apps for Windows and macOS computers, Android and iOS smartphones. These eReaders compete with the Amazon Kindle and Barnes & Noble Nook product lines. In 2021, Kobo introduced the Kobo Elipsa, an eReader and smart notebook that allows users to write on the screen. In 2020, Kobo introduced the Kobo Nia, an entry level eReader to replace the discontinued Kobo Aura. Kobo partnered with Hotel Viu Milan to create a Reader in Residence program and for a month, the Kobo Libra H2O was placed in hotel rooms for guests to use. In 2019, the Kobo Libra H2O was released. In 2018, the company released the Kobo Clara HD as another 6-inch option (the Aura Edition 2 being the first). ![]() On the higher end, the Kobo Aura the Kobo Aura HD, which added a higher- resolution screen, the waterproof Kobo Aura H 2O and the waterproof Kobo Forma which added physical buttons and a choice of orientation. The product lineup went on to consist of the base model Kobo Touch, the smaller Kobo Mini, and the Kobo Glo, which has an illuminated screen. The first Kobo eReader was introduced in 2010. Kobo produces several eReaders with ePaper screens. The company reported that romance and mystery novels continued to be bestsellers during the pandemic, and that there was a rise in books for kids and young adults. ĭuring the COVID pandemic, Kobo worked with governments, publishers, and retail partners to provide more than 20 million free books through the “Stay Home and Read” program. On, Waterstones announced it had sold its eBook business to Rakuten Kobo Inc., and as of 14 June 2016, users were required to access their eBooks via Kobo's eBook site. Rakuten acquired the company from these owners in January 2012. As of March 2010, Indigo Books & Music owned 58% of Kobo Inc. Indigo remained the majority owner, with investors including Borders Group, Cheung Kong Holdings, and REDgroup Retail taking minority stakes. In December 2009, Indigo renamed the service Kobo and spun it off into an independent company. Kobo originated as Shortcovers, a cloud eReading service launched by the Canadian bookstore chain Indigo Books and Music in February 2009. It is headquartered in Toronto, Ontario, and is a subsidiary of the Japanese ecommerce conglomerate Rakuten. Rakuten Kobo Inc., or simply Kobo, is a Canadian company that sells ebooks, audiobooks, ereaders and tablet computers.
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![]() You know what Macs they buy? MacBook Pros. You know who works in 8K Canon RAW video? Video professionals. You know what produces 8K Canon RAW video? Cameras that are priced over $4,000. iMovie, on the other hand, gets you in touch with your video skills. For example, one report of the Air’s severe throttling involved an export of 8K Canon RAW video. MacBook Air comes with a variety of built-in software, including the macOS operating system, the Safari web browser, the Mail and Calendar applications, the iWork suite (Pages, Numbers, and Keynote), and the Photos app, among others. But what makes it throttle? Tasks that “casual” users don’t regularly do. Import media from Google Drive to iMovie (M1) Welcome to Apple Support Community A forum where Apple customers help each other with their products. That’s not to say the MacBook Air doesn’t throttle. MacBook Air 13, macOS 11.6 Posted on 9:39 AM Reply Me too (17) Me too Me too (17) Me too. (There is a separate performance issue with the MacBook Air or 13-inch MacBook Pro with a 256GB SSD that is a head-scratching design decision, but it’s not related to the throttling concerns.) ![]() If I’ve just described what you do on a daily basis, the MacBook Air is a better value for you. It’s the one most people should buy-add the Air’s redesign and feature set, and we think it’s a better value than the 13-inch Pro. The MacBook Air handles these task without any problems–it’s as fast as the 13-inch MacBook Pro with the same M2 processor. If you’re using a MacBook Air and you’re taxing the CPU all the time and you get frustrated by it, you know what? You’re using the wrong tool for the job. The most stressful work likely involves apps like Photos, iMovie, GarageBand, or some other consumer-level creative software for short stints. Its price attracts what we’ll call “casual” users, those who spend most of their time on the web, use productivity apps like iWork or Microsoft Office, stream audio and video either for entertainment or for online meetings, and other productivity tasks that everyone does with a computer. ![]() The MacBook Air is also Apple’s most popular laptop because it’s the company’s most affordable one. This is another aspect of the MacBook Air that is by design. If the MacBook Air starts to heat up, it will throttle performance to maintain a proper running temperature. This is done purposefully by design so that the MacBook Air can be thinner than the MacBook Pro. It’s a passively-cooled machine, meaning that it doesn’t use any special hardware to actively cool it. The MacBook Air doesn’t have any fans built into it. $1,086.95 at Amazon | $1099.00 at Adorama | $1099.00 at Apple Using the proper tool for the job ![]() ![]() This ensures that plants and fruits stay off the ground, reducing the possibility of disease and keeping fruits clean. We recommend using the Florida Weave trellising technique that involves using stakes and twine along the row. Peppers can produce heavy fruits and will require some form of support to keep the plant upright. If conditions are still too cold for planting peppers, transplants may be “stepped-up” to 4″ pots to allow more room to grow. If conditions outside are favorable, transplants may be planted directly from our 162 cell trays. Plants should be started 4-6 weeks before the intended outdoor planting date. Peppers grow very well in our heavy-duty seed starting trays. ![]() Peppers do best when transplanted, as the germination time can be longer than most vegetable seeds. To prevent or alleviate this problem, apply pelleted gypsum at the base of the plant at the bloom set. Plants in the nightshade family are susceptible to blossom end rot, which is a result of a calcium deficiency. Peppers are in the nightshade family along with tomatoes and eggplant. Not for the faint of heart, these extremely hot peppers will be sure to make not only a surprising addition to your spiciest recipes but a great conversation piece in your garden! Capsicum Chinense. The Carolina Reaper is perfect for adding to hot sauces, salsas, chili and can be dehydrated and used for chili flakes. The bushy 5′ tall plants are very prolific and will produce tons of small 2 1/2″ fiery red fruits with small scythe-shaped tails and rough bumpy skin when mature. Aside from the heat, this variety features a wonderful flavor with an almost fruity and sweet aroma with hints of chocolate and cherry. The Carolina Reaper Pepper has been ranked amongst the hottest peppers on the planet! Coming in between 1.5 Million and 2.2 Million Scoville Units, these little devils are sure to knock your socks off. Ammonium Sulfate Fertilizer Menu Toggle.Dampen the soil with water, but only enough to make sure it’s not dry. Vegetable, Flower, Fruit and Ornamental Fungicide Sow the seeds: Plant the seeds about inch deep in the soil or potting mix. Of course, the waifu bait isn’t complete unless you have a wide selection of girls, and the side couples the show sets up are at times even more likable than the main duo, whose gimmicky relationship can sometimes honestly overstay its welcome. I personally think some of the character design elements aren’t particularly beautiful, like the main girl Futaba’s swampy green hair or the main guy Takeda’s distractingly bulky proportions, but overall, the artwork and animation is good enough that I quickly got over these minor subjective complains. ![]() While their level of polish is much more modest than Kyoto Animation, for example, their animation is still consistently better than most modern anime, and as is usually the case, they clearly put a lot of effort into this. ![]() The first episode literally opens with the cute main girl running out her front door like Hirasawa Yui before her yelling, “Let’s go to work!” And it concludes with her looking directly into the camera, pouting, timidly blushing, and saying, “Couldn’t I be your wife?” I mean, is it even fucking possible to get more heavy-handed than that? The show goes so far out of its own way and so far beyond the furthest bounds of reality to paint the salaryman lifestyle in the most nicey-nice, happy-go-lucky, relaxed light it feasibly can, and yet despite having the transparency of a fucking window and despite my attempts to infect you with my cynicism, it nearly redeems itself simply by being a Doga Kobo show.ĭoga Kobo produces nothing but moe shows, and they’re really damn good at it. It proliferated as a consequence of them NOT entering the workforce, and when you start viewing these shows through the lens of bait, you simply cannot see them as anything else, and while these undertones don’t necessarily make these shows bad, they’re definitely manipulative. This genre didn’t proliferate as a consequence of otaku entering the workforce. “You don’t want to work and/or impregnate a girl to further the great Yamato race? You’d rather stay in your room and watch anime? Well, look at this! There’s cute anime girls in the workforce now too! ” This genre which I’ve elected to call The Declining Japanese Birthrates Genre is functionally military recruitment propaganda, only instead of advertising positions in the military, it’s advertising positions in society as a whole, from which otaku have become increasingly estranged. They then say, “That could be you too! Sign up now! GoArmy dot com!” The idea is to romanticize and idealize a position which is actually much more grueling and unsexy than you’re made to believe, so that way you voluntarily sign up and only realize the reality of the situation after you’ve committed and can’t so easily back out. They show you strong, capable soldiers engaging in exhilarating heroics, fighting for their country side by side with their trustworthy brothers and sisters in arms. The initial thinking was that anime fans were growing up, graduating from highschool, entering the workforce, and would no longer be able to relate to teenage characters in a highschool setting, so the industry decided to give them similarly aged characters to project themselves onto, but it didn’t take long for everyone to realize this genre was most likely manufactured for a much more underhanded reason. takes place in an office around allegedly adult characters. ![]() ![]() Seriously, what should this sub-genre even be called? The Declining Japanese Birthrates Genre? Newcomers may not know what I’m talking about, but over the past few years, we’ve been getting a lot of anime like this where, by contrast to the usual highschool romcom, we get a show that has every tangible element of a highschool romcom, that looks and feels exactly like a highschool romcom, and that features a cast of characters whose behavior and emotional maturity is fundamentally indistinguishable from those in highschool romcoms, but which instead Wageslave propaganda or wholesome romcom? You decide! On today’s episode of “Get a Job, You Filthy NEET!” ![]() You will, however, find pre-configured cheats for over a hundred games on its official website.Ĭheat Engine is a very interesting application for avid gamers who will now be able to get the most out of their favorite games, especially the more difficult ones. Using the program is not all that easy, which is why as soon as you run it the first time it gives you the option of getting a full tutorial that explains exactly what it is you need to do. ![]() Now, not only are you able to use cheats in order to pass the game more quickly, but you can also modify some important parameters in order to, for example, reduce your character’s life if you feel it’s a little too easy. After synchronizing your account on your computer, open the cheat engine and then also open FarmVille 2. Once it’s running, you select the game’s executable file which then gives you the option of editing some important variables, such as the number of lives, or any other modifiable parameter. Cheat Engine is an open-source tool whose sole purpose is to help you use tricks and cheats on your favorite video games, therefore allowing you to manipulate and change all sorts of parameters on them. In order to use it correctly, you have to run it before launching the video game and leave it running in the background. Cultivate your fields, keep and care for cuddly animals and process your farm fresh. Cheat Engine is an open-source tool whose sole purpose is to help you use tricks and cheats on your favorite video games, therefore allowing you to manipulate and change all sorts of parameters on them. My Free Farm 2 Create your own Farm Experience the colorful world of My Free Farm 2. MDB Import/Export: We looked for software that allows you to import and export Microsoft Access files in MDB format directly.Reviews: We selected tools that are widely acclaimed by other users and professionals for database generation and management.Price: We only chose database programs that offer excellent value for money with free trials or free plans to start out with.Reports: They all generate useful and easy to digest reports which enable you to immediately spot trends, identify issues and get more out your datasets.Filtering: The main aim of databases should be to make sifting through large volumes of data easier and all the tools here allow you to filter data easily.Ease of Use: They’re all easier to use than Microsoft Access and in the case of tools like Knack, don’t even require any coding or database programming knowledge.Here’s what we looked for in choosing which of these tools were the best at creating databases on a macOS and were ideal replacements for Microsoft Access. ![]() How We Ranked The Best Database Software For Mac There are also third party Microsoft Access viewers for Mac that allow you to open Microsoft Access databases but they are very limited and don’t let you edit them. The main reason for this is that most business environments still use Windows and the market for business users on macOS is relatively small. Microsoft Access is also not available to Mac users online via Office 365.Īlthough MS Access is still the most widely used database software by small to mid sized companies worldwide, Microsoft has never launched a Mac version of it. Microsoft Access For Mac is not included in Microsoft Office for Mac and there is no version of Access for macOS.
It also was wonderful to see so many things included (eg. ![]() ![]() Staff can make or break these things and they made it so amazing for us. Thank you again Bramleigh Estate for the most wonderful experience!xx,S&J19th March 2023īramleigh Estate - thank you for undoubtably being the PERFECT venue for our dream wedding.Not only is the venue visually absolutely stunning (both the outside ceremony space and inside reception is gorgeous!), we cannot thank the team enough for making the wedding planning process so seamless and easy (as wedding planning can be).The team welcomed us with open arms from our first email, to our first visit, every single step of the journey right till the end (and even now, we are still in communication and the team is as lovely as always).They helped and accommodated in so SO many ways (including so kindly packing our wedding favour donuts the morning of the wedding for us so our groomsmen didn’t have to do it) which we are so grateful for and really took the measures to ensure our day flowed so smoothly.If you are thinking about choosing Bramleigh, from our experience you would be making the best decision you can for your wedding. Overall, it was a dream come true with the help of the best wedding team. ![]() We also really appreciated all the effort of the chef in helping customise some of the dishes to our liking. We also particularly adored the spacious bridal suite that had natural lights coming through the plantation shutters which offered a great view for portrait shots.The food was great, presented well and guests especially enjoyed the canapés which many ate so much that some couldn’t stomach the entrees. The Hampton-inspired interior was extremely versatile for styling and it already looks beautiful with Bramleigh’s package of floral centrepieces on silver stands. It was a good balance of lush greenery and modern looking setting. She had great attention to detail which provided huge reassurance to ensure all aspects of the wedding was accounted for.In terms of the venue, we loved that Bramleigh was well-situated and guests didn’t have to travel too far to experience a winery vibe. She was always very patient with our queries and was also very accomodating with all our requests which was a huge relief when it comes to wedding planning. Firstly, the service we received was impeccable we had the pleasure of being looked after initially by Emily and then with the best wedding coordinator, Katelyn (YOU ARE A SUPERSTAR)! Katelyn has been extremely organised and kept communication prompt with fantastic follow up via the guest portal. Then when you’ve paid for each item, fill in the Amount Paid column and the Outstanding column and summary boxes at the top of the spreadsheet will auto tally.īest of luck with your wedding budget planning!Īnd please don’t hesitate to get in touch with our friendly team if you’d like advice or guidance in helping to map out your wedding budget or to find out more about how Bramleigh Estate can help make your dream wedding day reality.ĭear Bramleigh Estate team,My partner and I had our perfect wedding last weekend and choosing Bramleigh Estate as our wedding venue was our best decision yet. Once you’ve obtained quotes and selected your vendors you can fill in the Actual Cost column and our template will automatically calculate the difference between the Estimated Cost and Actual Cost. Next work your way down the list of items, adding an Estimated Cost figure for each. And of course there is a little section for that all important honeymoon too! Our free wedding budget planner will also help with keeping track of your payment due dates and vendor information.īegin by simply entering a figure for your total wedding budget (how much you want to spend) in the Total Budget cell with red font at the top of the spreadsheet. ![]() The free Excel spreadsheet covers everything from ceremony and venue costs through to food, drink, the dress and cake, make-up artist and photographer. It was one of the most important battles of the war, as the fate of humanity depended on the survival of its homeworld and seat of its government. The Battle for Earth, also referred to as the Earth Sustained Defense Campaign, was one of the largest, bloodiest and latest engagements fought between the Covenant and the forces of the Unified Earth Government (primarily those of the United Nations Space Command), at the end of the approximately twenty-seven year-long Human-Covenant War, which took place on and above the planet Earth from October 20 to at least December 3, 2552.
![]() Fill up your propane and have gas for the generator if you need it. But be sure your black and gray tanks are empty and your fresh water is full. Have what you need!! This is especially important when you are further away from a town. Again Campendium is a good resource, Google Earth too can provide some good intel.Ģ. Also do some research on the area you want to go…Most of the places I’ve seen most rigs and easily get to, but the last thing you need is to get stuck or can’t get out of an area. You can see the Walmart from the location! Not as much room as Plomosa Rd, but close to everything, safe and great cell coverage. They provide a lot of information included cell signal strength! A couple spots I have stayed and enjoy are on Plomosa Rd., about 7 miles South of Quartzsite, easy access to Quartzsite, a lot of space and decent cell coverage…and Desert Hills State Land Trust Land, on the north end of Lake Havasu. A great resource to find these locations is Campendium, a website and app. The options you have is BLM land and there is some State Land Trust too (this requires a permit which is $15-$20 per year that can be done online). Choose a location that fits your needs - Like I said above there are options to be near town or further out. Here are a few tips to make your experience the best it can be.ġ. Both have there advantages depending on your needs.īoondocking or dry camping can be a scary experience if you are new to it, but having the knowledge can make all the difference in the world. This area is great because you can choose to be near a town or get further away and really experience off grid camping. So far I have spend most of my time travel North and South on Highway 95. 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As a result, you take numerous photos, selfies, and pictures of things that you soon will not even need. In our modern era, almost every device has a camera. ![]() Below we have listed the top 18 best duplicate photo finder tools to remove duplicate and similar photos. |
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