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![]() The future of the book retailing business does not look particularly promising. Given our rapidly changing world, however, maybe this landmark was simply no longer a relevant one. The store was more than a bookshop – it was a landmark. Still, the closure of this store seems somehow symbolic, reflecting the end of an era in the world of books. In that sense, its looming closure is not too surprising. ![]() Last time I stopped by, the store looked dated and run down – especially compared to Indigo’s other stores. In the case of the World’s Biggest Bookstore, it had certainly seen better days. That strategy appears to be paying off: the company has seen double-digit growth in sales of lifestyle products, toys and other non-book items in recent quarters. Shoppers who have visited a Indigo store in the past year or two, for example, could be forgiven for mistaking it for a home décor retailer, given the growing selection of candles, throws and vases in those stores. Meanwhile, many of the bookstores that are still around are rapidly diversifying their product shelves to give shoppers other reasons to come into their stores, as books do not have the draw they once did. As bookstores compete with online retailers like, along with a growing array of tablets and e-readers that enable us to consume books in a compact, portable, paperless fashion, people are simply not going to stores to buy books nearly as often as they did in the past. It’s pretty clear what’s driving this trend. Back in January, for instance, we learned that Book City’s flagship store in the Annex was shutting down after almost 40 years. Photo courtesy of World’s Biggest Bookstore Facebook Page.īy now, most Torontonians are likely accustomed to seeing ‘Going out of Business Sale’ signs in the windows of neighbourhood bookstores. Although the internet has opened up a variety of new sales options, marketing practices and alternative ways of connecting with consumers, there continue to be opportunities to innovate in the traditional retail world.īricks and mortar stores, it turns out, serve an important function that cannot necessarily be fulfilled online. It’s a sign that despite the digital times in which we live, innovation in the retail industry is not a one-way street. The steady growth of online shopping shows no signs of slowing down, and most bricks and mortar retailers have responded to that in recent years by establishing comprehensive websites and e-commerce capabilities alongside the physical stores that they operate.Īgainst that backdrop, it’s interesting to see some retailers moving in the opposite direction by first establishing themselves online, and then shifting into the physical retail space. has signed on as one of the participating retailers, and Indigo began selling a selection of Etsy merchandise in certain stores, including the Toronto Eaton Centre location. The initiative provides artists with a new channel on which to sell their products, and it gives retailers access to unique new items to feature on their shelves.Įarlier this year, the company announced that Indigo Books & Music Inc. ![]() The initiative, called Etsy Wholesale, connects the artists and designers within its marketplace with retailers who are interested in carrying their products. ![]() The Made in Canada initiative follows #EtsyRoadTrip – a road show in which a 30-foot custom AirStream trailer brought Etsy merchandise to shoppers Montreal, Ottawa, Kingston and Toronto during the first week of August.īeyond these pop-up marketplaces, Etsy has established a longer term strategy around the concept of bringing Etsy merchandise into the real world. In Toronto, the event will take over the atrium of the MaRs Centre, showcasing one-of-a-kind goods from 100 local sellers. 27th, will take place in more than 20 cities across the country, allowing vendors the opportunity to sell their merchandise to shoppers face-to-face. ![]() Later this month, Etsy will host a cross-country event called Made in Canada, in which pop-up markets will appear across the country. Online marketplace Etsy appears to be branching out of the e-commerce world and making strides into the face-to-face retail space.Įtsy, an online marketplace where consumers can browse and purchase creative items by artists from around the world, has been experimenting with a variety of projects this year that bring merchandise off of the website and into bricks and mortar stores and markets. ![]() ![]() ![]() That's my fact - my own observation of my own trial. Throughout a lengthy processor-intensive stress-test, the temperature never rose above 51 C. In other words, it is merely your opinion. So your statement is not driven by observation. That includes the processor, which will eventually spike. That produces heat, and it's not magically limited to those components: everything inside the case will heat up. In case you don't understand why that's relevant - as you run those kinds of tests, the other components on your board must also perform lots of work. Have you tested it with heavy GPU rendering? You didn't even mention the GPU. Have you tested it while running two 4K monitors? Or even one of them? (Or did you just run it in a headless configuration, as I suspect?) Have you tested it with a fully loaded bus, such as heavily I/O-bound processes? Saturated access to memory, microSD, WiFi, Ethernet, and/or USB? This is not a fact because you have not even remotely demonstrated it to be true. "Using passive cooling in the form of a Flirc means your Pi 4 will never throttle under 100% CPU." It has value, but only limited as a single observation. That is a statement of observation of an apparently limited trial of a single board under unspecified conditions. It hovered around 61º or so without any throttling." "I can say definitively that with the Flirc in a warm room with no direct air movement, the Pi 4 rose gradually to as high as 63º centigrade, but never higher. The best thing? The base model is only $20 $5!.ĭo you know a related subreddit? We'd love to know. Welcome to /r/raspberry_pi, a subreddit for discussing the raspberry pi credit card sized, ARM powered computer, and the glorious things we can do with it. Pi project ideas: There's a huge list right here on this sub! I can use the harmony app on my phone if I need to do something complicated, but really I never do that.Friendly reminder: Please don't just post pictures of unused pis - do a project!Ĭomplete r/raspberry_pi Rules Check the FAQ and Helpdesk here I have no need for the elite with the screen. The projector takes a minute to warm up so it's nice to get it started from wherever I happen to be before heading to the basement to watch tv. I can tell any google device to "turn on the basement TV" and it turns on the receiver, shield, and projector just like the harmony/flirc combo, but it also turns some basement lights on dimmed to 20% if it is after sunset and turns them off at the end. As an added bonus it works with google assistant and all my home automation stuff. The hub is an app on my phone that is easy to update. It required a different login for each remote managed if I remember correctly. I got tired of unplugging the flirc and updating it as well as the harmony remote in their ancient logitech remote software on my computer whenever I changed anything. Now I have the hubs and 3 flircs in my desk drawer. I used to love the flirc and had older harmony remotes all over my house. There are suggestions on this on Reddit and the Flirc forums. Otherwise you can’t put the Shield to sleep with the remote.Īnd you’ll also need to plug the Flirc into your computer and teach it various commands with the remote (like back, rewind, play, etc). Then I went into the activity settings and added “sleep” from the second device as one of the shutdown actions. I ended up setting up two devices in the MyHarmony software-one was my old shield settings, which does all the heavy lifting and another shield device that has “sleep” as one of its only three controls (this is NOT the new shield remote settings, which I am not using). The Flirc isn’t perfect, and I ended up using a USB cable extender to move it next to the front of my shield. ![]() I actually have had a Harmony Hub for a few years but it’s never been terribly responsive for me. I set my new 2019 shield up the other day with my 650.
![]() ![]() According to ACT, the number of Alabama students taking the test three or more times declined from approximately 21,000 in 2017 to 13,000 for the graduating class of 2022. On average, students who take the test multiple times improve their scores. So, students who previously would have taken the test several times in hopes of improving their scores were less motivated to do that. All Alabama juniors take the test in the spring, with some retesting into the senior year.Īt the same time, many colleges dropped the requirement that students take a standardized admission test. ![]() Their junior year, which began in the fall of 2020, featured an uneven mix of remote and in-person learning. In their sophomore year, in-person schooling ended abruptly in March 2020. While the Class of 2022 experienced a relatively normal senior year in 2021-2022, their sophomore and junior years, key ACT preparation and testing years, were disrupted. The most immediate explanation for the drop in scores is the Covid-19 pandemic. Use the menu options on the right to change the subject being viewed or toggle through results for various demographic subgroups. Use the tabs above the graphs to explore different views of the data. This PARCA analysis of ACT results includes interactive charts to explore and compare the performance of your local school and school system. In math, only 16.9% met the college-ready standard. The subject with the highest college-ready rate was English, in which 40% of students met or exceeded the benchmark. In Alabama, only 12.5% of seniors in the Class of 2022 scored at or above the college-ready benchmark in all four subjects. ![]() ![]() ![]() It's a good game, sure, but not a 9/10 in my opinion. ![]() Even Rob Zombie's Dragula is here! The link is to a song called "'Bout the City". It's full of funky and cool music that plays as BGM. Soundtrack - This is the most memorable part of JSR. Remember, you're accomplishing all of this with spray cans and roller blades. In the last chapter, you need to stop Goji from unleashing an evil spirit from a cursed music record. You're in search of a lost friend - Coin - who was taken by them. In the second, you play only as Combo or Cube who are up against the Golden Rhinos. In the first, you need to claim your territory by spraying it with graffiti while going up against rival gangs - the Love Shockers, Poison Jam, and the Noise Tanks. Story - All good games have a protagonist and an antagonist. Finally, there's Goji - a guy that was messing with the people's culture. There are also rival gangs who mark your territory first. The Golden Rhinos are a group of killers that erased your graffiti. Then there's the head cop, Onishima who will try to shoot you. Helicopters will try to fire missiles, but you can destroy them by spraying them (so realistic). The cops will chase after you and try to pull you down. He acts as a commentator throughout the game with humorous lines.After a few sprays, some dudes will come after you by foot or by air. He's the DJ of the pirate radio station, Jet Set Radio. One of the most important non-playable characters is DJ Professor K. The characters can hold a different amount of spray cans which are necessary for graffiti. All the characters have their own trick style, graffiti style, and health meter which differs for all. You can also do tricks while grinding on rails or airborne.Ĭharacters - Once you begin Story Mode, you automatically start off with Beat and obtain other characters along the way. However, the length of the spraying process differs between the characters. I have yet to master spraying graffiti in game. They go from up and down and all around (get the reference). You have to spray graffiti by following the arrows that appear on screen. Pretty simple, right? Yup! You may run into an invisible wall accidentally or a fence, but the controls are easy to pick up. A link to one of the songs will be posted at the end of this review.Ĭontrols - The main controls include jumping, speeding, moving, and spraying. It's a normal action/adventure game." You may be correct, but the most prominent and enjoyable part is the soundtrack. You're probably like, "What's great about it. You play as teens on roller blades, and your main objective is to cover the city of Tokyo-to in graffiti while avoiding the cops, S.W.A.T Team, helicopters, missiles, and other projectiles. Gum has garnered a positive reception from video game journalist since her debut.Ĭriticism was drawn towards her redesign in Jet Set Radio Future for being overly sexualized.Jet Set Radio - a very little known SEGA game (originally known as Jet Grind Radio for the Dreamcast) that was released in HD for Xbox Live, PSN, Steam, Android, and iOS in 2012. She is one of the few characters to appear in all versions of the game. Gum was first announced as a playable character to Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed in a summer-released Nintendo Power magazine in 2012. Gum has been featured as a prominent headline character on the covers of multiple video game magazines, including Official Dreamcast Magazine, Nintendo Power, GameFan, and XBN.Ĭharacteristics Personality Appearance Appearances Concept and creation Promotional material ![]() ![]() ![]() Naval RavikantĪ good rule of thumb: if a decision is not permanent, it’s better to move too fast. It drives your business opportunities, relationships, food and water supply, politics, activities, and day-to-day quality of life. The single most important decision you make is where you live. There are basically three really big decisions you make in your early life: where you live, who you’re with, and what you’re doing. Spend more time making the big decisions. When making any major life decision, remember: If it’s not a “Fuck Yes ” then it’s a “No.” Mark Manson Naval RavikantĪ good decision starts with short-term pain and ends with long-term benefits. Matthew Kobachĭon’t outsource your happiness or success to other people’s decisions. A decision today determines who you are tomorrow. You are the manifestation of every decision you’ve ever made. Sam AltmanĪsk yourself at every moment: is this necessary? Marcus Aurelius ![]() Most people are either good at thinking with a 10 year time horizon or operating with the urgency of a 10 day time horizon. Tony Robbinsĭecisions are nothing without execution. Stay committed to your decisions, but stay flexible in your approach. More is lost by indecision than wrong decision. Gary GoodridgeĪ happy, calm, and peaceful person will make better decisions. Some people make bad choices, but that doesn’t make them bad people. ![]() Where you are going to spend your time and your energy is one of the most important decisions you get to make in life. Two things determine how your life will turn out: luck and the quality of your decisions. Marianne WilliamsonĮffective decision-making can be seen as an optimal link between memory of the past, ground-realities of the present and insights of the future. Every decision you make reflects your evaluation of who you are. ![]() ![]() The White Falcon's distinctive appearance is owed to its 17-inch size (white, with gold-sparkle pickguard featuring an engraved falcon) and its hardware: Jimmie Webster's 1954 version had triple binding, gold-plated hardware, an ebony fretboard with mother-of-pearl inlays, and an eye-catching "Cadillac G" tailpiece. The White Falcon stunned the crowds as the spotlights glimmered over its 24-karat gold finishes and gold sparkle bindings from Gretsch’s drum branch. 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