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![]() If you return a high-value item, we recommend you use a recorded delivery service. It is your responsibility to ensure safe return of the item(s) to us. You will be responsible for the cost of returning the item to us, unless we delivered it to you in error or it is faulty. When we receive it, you will be refunded the price of the item(s) within 14 days. Once you have cancelled the order, you must send the parcel back to us within 14 days. You can cancel/request a refund of your order within 14 days of receiving it by contacting us by email. REFUND POLICY: (not for Ticket Sales as these are final and non-refundable) Goods that are faulty or sent in error must be returned to Crash Records Limited, 35 The Headrow, Leeds, LS1 6PU within 7 working days of the item being received by the customer. Please also note that we are unable to adjust the declared value on items sold internationally. (all UK orders the price you see is the price you will pay). We unfortunately don't offer tax/vat outside of the UK via the website so please keep in mind that when the items arrives in your country you may be liable to pay a further charge before delivery. The 'Product' page will show the most up to date info we have with regards to the item and its release date, but this information is subject to change so check in with us if you have any questions. Orders won't ship until all items are released, so keep this in mind when purchasing multiple pre-orders or a mix of in stock and pre-order items. ![]() Please email straight after purchase to enquire if this is of importance to you. All records we sell are Brand New - pre-orders will normally come sealed but if you are purchasing in stock items, please note the copy may have been unsealed for display in the shop. Thank you for looking at our listing, below are a few points to consider before making a purchase: A comforting melting pot of all the music that has inspired and continues to inspire ThisĪlbum is like a brand new, yet somehow familiar leather jacket. Sometimes you have to go backwards to go forwards, and this album helped me rediscover why I picked up a guitar in the first place. “Making the album back in Liverpool with my family really helped to bring this out of me,” Miles said of the writing process. A deeply personal record, Miles returned to Liverpool to work on the album,įinding himself reflecting on his journey. The brim with singalong moments, it’s Miles on the top of his game. Miles returns to his guitar hero best on One Man Band as he focuses on big hooks and even bigger anthems. This is me acknowledging my faults and my fears and showing the journey I’m “Sometimes we have our shit together and sometimes we don’t. “It’s about the struggle we all have in life,” Miles said of the Opening the record, ‘Troubled Son’ is raw, pop-driven indie, made for festival stages. The album’s first offering is the exuberant ![]() Miles Kane returns with a blistering new album One Man Band, out August 4th on Modern Sky Records. It does not store any personal data.All pre-orders will be dispatched/made ready for collection on that date The cookie is set by the GDPR Cookie Consent plugin and is used to store whether or not user has consented to the use of cookies. The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Performance". This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Other. The cookies is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Necessary". 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The letter also mentioned taking over the world and a puppy, but we hope the real Santa will be able to handle that – now that we've done the rest.I tried Archive Utility (Error 1 - Operation not permitted), Stuffit and The Unarchiver (both crashed) and the Terminal (which said there were xtra bytes at the beginning or within zipfile, attempting to process anyway - then - start of central directory not found zipfile corrupt.Owners of large groups can hide the list of members. You can set 'Who can see my profile photos' to 'Nobody' and add some users or groups as exceptions. ![]() If you only allow certain users to see your profile photos, you can set a public picture for everyone else. It will take them just two taps to add the picture you suggested. When editing your contacts, you can suggest a photo for their profile. You can choose your own picture for a contact – only you will see it on their profile. Reminder: All cached media you remove remains accessible in the cloud and can be re-downloaded if needed.Cache size is now calculated a lot faster. The new design helps you see what's taking up space. Separate tabs with Media, Files, and Music from all chats let you quickly clear the largest files. You can choose how long cached media is kept in Private Chats, Groups, and Channels – and add exceptions for specific chats. You can wrap photos and videos you send in a fuzzy cover by selecting media in the attachment menu and tapping (⋯) > Hide With Spoiler. We found someone's letter to Santa and implemented everything on the list:.HIDDEN MEDIA, ZERO STORAGE USAGE, NEW DRAWING TOOLS, PROFILE PICTURES FOR YOUR CONTACTS, AND PUPPIES.SELECT CHATS FOR BOTS: Bot developers can now let users quickly select groups, channels or contacts that meet predefined criteria (more in This release also contains crash fix for macOS 10.12.6 and other improvements.TRENDING EMOJI: As a Premium user, check out trending emoji packs in the emoji panel and long press an emoji to zoom in.MEDIA PERMISSIONS IN GROUPS: Control whether members of your groups can send 9 distinct media types – like Photos, Voice or Video Messages.NETWORK USAGE: Check how much of your data was spent on Telegram in the updated Network Usage section in Settings.CHAT TRANSLATION: As a Premium user, translate entire chats in real time as you scroll them or receive new messages.EMOJI CATEGORIES: Filter stickers and emoji by categories like "love", "celebration" or "sleeping" in the sticker and emoji tabs.This Telegram update adds a few major improvements:.Bug fixes, performance improvements and all that jazz.Power saving mode turns on automatically based on battery charge.Individual autoplay settings for videos, GIFs, stickers, animated emoji and more.New switch to disable all resource-intensive processes with one click.Your chat partner can apply the same wallpaper – or choose their own.Set a custom wallpaper for any 1-on-1 chat.You can create multiple invite links to give different people access to different chats in the folder. ![]()
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(Recommended Video RAM: 512 MB RAM or greater for video playback under 4K, 1GB RAM or greater for 4K playback) (Recommended for 4K editing and playback: Intel HD Graphics 4000 or better) ![]() Graphics Card: Any graphics card shipped with Intel® Dual Core™ Macs or better to Minimum System Requirements for GoPro Studio for Mac (Catalina)ĬPU: Intel® Dual Core™ (Recommended: Intel Quad Core i7 or better) Here we've collected some most commonly searched and downloaded URLs from different sites. GoPro support center discontinued to provide users the GoPro studio downoad, so we can only obtain the installer package from other software download sites or forums. GoPro Studio Mac Download Links & System Requirement Therefore, quite many GoProers, either old and new, tend to search and download GoPro Studio for Mac and PC from other places. But that's not enough for senior users who want to make more changes with the GoPro 4K/HD footages, for example altering the 4K 120fps video playback speed, controlling the fisheye, adding filters/subtitles, and using the Flux super slow-mo feature (Check GoPro Studio vs Quik). It helps people create videos to share fast. Quik for desktop - the possible replacement of Studio, does offer some basic video editing features, such as video trimming, putting together hi-lights, adding background music into video and similar. Some calls on the GoPro team to bring it back, but only to get a disappointing reply - "There are no plans to offer Studio as a download again." Customers couldn't get it from the official site ever since. But things changed since it was removed from Quik and reached its end-of-life for support in middle 2017. GoPro Studio is an advanced HD/4K video editing program for those whose installer was attached with the Quik package. 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During the month of February, the Buy 5, Give 1 campaign donated one gallon of high-quality PPG Wonder-Pro paint for every five gallons of paint purchased. With that, A & B Paint Supply set out to help. It was usually the cheapest of the cheap that wasn’t washable and didn’t last.” “When they did finally get funding for repainting, it was always provided by the lowest bidder. “Funding for things like paint was always put on the back burner,” Layhew says. He spoke with a facility representative about the need for a facelift. “It felt nice yet disregarded to a point.” “The place itself felt like a hospital, and not in a good way,” Layhew says. On a recent visit, A & B Paint Supply General Manager Brian Layhew saw an opportunity to make the facility feel less like a hospital and more like a home. For the veterans in its care, the LaSalle Veterans’ Home is a rehabilitation facility, a gathering place and, of course, a home. The facility sits on a residential campus of more than four acres. ![]() The LaSalle Veterans’ Home provides skilled nursing services for more than 180 veterans, including up to 40 special needs veterans. The store’s “Buy 5, Give 1” campaign contributed 54 gallons of paint to the nearby LaSalle Veterans’ Home. 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With its well-built exterior and the mission-purpose design, the Hazard 4 Plan B was a bag that really was like a buddy that got your back ALL THE TIME. The Hazard 4 Plan B bridged the gap between the military style bags with sling bags that offered a specialty size that made it stand out from the rest. It gave us multiple looks in how we can organize and it opened the door to what the military bag companies can offer over the civilian markets. Yet, with this glaring weakness, we found the bag filled with great accessory options. If I were to take the subway and someone wanted to take the bag, all they needed to do was undo the clips and off goes the bag. I personally felt the DA messenger bag with exposed strap clip connectors was a security risk. During the review process, one of the glaring requirements for a bag to be rated well, is the security of the bag. But, the bag was not without its shortcomings. We feel the design took cues from the industry in what worked and what really didn’t. This bag initially blew our minds with its laser cut molle webbing and the usability of the bag. The DA Messenger was one of the two first experiences with Direct Action Gear. So, here is my top 5 that I continue to use from a daily, a weekly or a situational based rotation.ĥ – Direct Action Gear – Messenger – LARGE Yavor and I have logged several bag reviews, myself leading the review process being that I have had the opportunity to start with the bag obsession much earlier. And the gear that we do decide to keep with us, we demand the most from it. Wanting the gear that can adjust to our lives. However, with differences aside, we both have the same mentality of life. Yavor is the ever travelling road-warrior, while I am the urban explorer that needs to have his electronics with him while I work on the run. 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The other option, what I call power user mode, is to separate the cameras from the NVR and place them somewhere else on your LAN, powered by an alternate method (usually a PoE switch).There are also some things that, due to the nature of their NVR OS, just do not exist through the NVR, and likely never will. Another way of thinking of it is that the cam no longer has a brain of its own, it's now just a dumb lens with the NVR being the brains behind it. So you lose any features that that camera has, but the NVR has yet to receive updates for (which I go over down below). One of the disadvantages to this is that the cameras themselves get new firmware and new features faster than the NVRs do, and the way Reolink's OS works is that when a camera is plugged directly into an NVR, the NVR overrides the cam's settings and features. This works just fine, it's nice and simple. The traditional setup is when you have an NVR and all of your cameras are connected directly into the NVR.To set this up, let's go over exactly what I'm talking about by examining the two scenarios. However, I ended up having to link new folks to that comment so often that Reolink admins asked me to just make it into its own post, so here we go. Any of you that visit here with any regularity are probably aware of all this and are probably sick of me bringing it up. Several months back I made a comment on a post where I explained the advantages of running your cameras off of a PoE switch on the same LAN as your NVR as opposed to directly off of the NVR. So please don't be afraid to make a new post, even if you think it's a simple question.Īnyway, back to your regularly scheduled programming. ![]() I was doing too much 1 on 1 support when this should be a community effort. That is also why I have turned off the ability for people to send me chat requests. I don't mind answering questions, but I don't want to be the only one doing so. There are a lot of other regulars on this sub that are knowledgeable as well, and more eyeballs on a discussion is always a good thing. Second, when a question is asked here it's very unlikely that anyone is going to see your question other than myself. So if you have a question look through the comments here first. First, there are 127 comments here, so most questions that can be asked about it, have been asked and answered already. If you have any questions about this method, please make a new post on the subreddit. UPDATE : I will be locking comments on this post soon. Books shouldn't be treated like land mines that have to be removed before they can light up our minds. Libraries are meant to be places where you can wander, browse, try on thoughts, read, reject, rejoice, or simply brood about the world. And libraries across the country are struggling with horrifying budget cuts." This saves books from entering landfills, and instead repurposes them to. All books will either donated, resold, or recycled. Or if you have a large amount to donate (100+ books), you can schedule a free pickup by texting (385) 247-0609. Countless families live in library deserts - areas without a reachable public library. Donate your books by placing them in one of our book drop-off bins near you ( click here to see locations ). ![]() Millions of our families can't afford to buy books. "Even if bans or challenges make a book more intriguing," Laurie reminded us, "many of our nation's children will not be able to access books that are removed. Her much-honored novel, Speak, narrated by a teenage rape survivor, has been pulled from quite a few library shelves, too. No teacher will scold, "Can't you see it's a classic?" You can read books you're not supposed to for fun, excitement, to learn something, or just to get lost in the story.īut Laurie Halse Anderson, the acclaimed writer of young adult novels, cautions me. You don't have to highlight, underline, or answer test questions like, "What is the symbolism of the penguin in the garage on page 87?" There's no 500-word essay, with a thesis paragraph and quotes. If you read an unapproved book, there are no pop quizzes. They wonder - I certainly did - what are adults trying to keep from me? I wonder if those who want to keep certain books out of school libraries have thought through how many teens and adolescents react when they're told not to read something: they do it anyway. Some of the most-pulled titles include Gender Queer: A Memoir by Maia Kobabe The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas Looking For Alaska by John Green and The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison. Many address racism, child abuse, sex, suicide, and other topics that young people may want help understanding. The books that get singled out often feature main characters who are LGBTQIA, or people of color. One complaint that a book is obscene or offensive - from a parent, or, increasingly, a group - can be enough to have it removed from the shelves. ![]() The American Library Association and PEN America say there's been a sharp increase in the number of books pulled from school libraries over the past two years. |