![]() Ĭonservation International works to protect the critical benefits that nature provides to people. For more information about ASAP, please see. Lightsmith also oversees the Adaptation SME Accelerator Project (ASAP), an initiative supported by the Global Environment Facility, Conservation International, and the Inter-American Development Bank. For more information on The Lightsmith Group, please see. Lightsmith won the Global Innovation Lab for Climate Finance competition in 2016 for its concept for the first climate adaptation and resilience private investment strategy and received the Lab’s formal endorsement in September 2017. Lightsmith invests in growth-stage companies providing technology-enabled business services and solutions in the areas of energy, water, food and agriculture, and climate resilience. ![]() The Lightsmith Group is an investment firm pursuing superior returns by investing in companies that address critical societal needs. ![]() Our affiliated fund, VilCap Investments, has invested in more than 110 program graduates. Since 2009, we have supported more than 1,000 early-stage entrepreneurs through our investment readiness programs. Our vision is a future where business creates equity and long-term prosperity. Our mission is to reinvent the system to back the entrepreneurs of the future. Village Capital helps entrepreneurs bring big ideas from vision to scale. Full details and eligibility criteria can be found at this link.įor more information, reach out to Rustin Finkler at Village Capital ( or Brian Parham at Lightsmith ( Village Capital The network also matches them with the right investors and resources.Īpplications close on January 31, 2022. “The dedicated climate resilience accelerator under ASAP, a project supported by the Special Climate Change Fund, will help connect small businesses with investors and financing sources that can help them develop and grow innovative and impactful climate resilience products and services.”Įach of the sixteen companies selected for the accelerator will have the opportunity to work closely with industry experts, investors, and ecosystem partners to develop the networks they need to scale their impact.Īll startups in the program will be invited to join Abaca, Village Capital’s global online platform that helps entrepreneurs analyze and prepare their businesses for investment. In Asia and Africa, one of the biggest barriers to investment in climate resilience is the lack of financing available for small and medium-sized enterprises and their locally developed adaptation solutions,” said Carlos Manuel Rodriguez, CEO and Chairperson of the GEF. “Developing countries’ climate adaptation needs are immense and diverse, and the private sector has an important role to play in filling the gap. ![]() Through ASAP, companies at the intersection of impact, inclusion, and investability will have a chance to bring their ideas from vision to scale.”ĪSAP is a grant-funded initiative led by The Lightsmith Group and supported by the Global Environment Facility’s Special Climate Change Fund, Conservation International, and the Inter-American Development Bank that seeks to build an ecosystem for small- to medium-sized companies in emerging markets that have technologies, products, and services that can be used to build resilience to the impacts of climate change. ![]() “SMEs and startups provide the local, contextualized solutions for climate adaptation and resilience in developing countries,” said Adedana Ashebir, Regional Director, Africa and Middle East at Village Capital, “Despite this fact, many struggle to secure financing and lack the operational capacity to scale their solutions. “By connecting SMEs identified through the Adaptation Solutions Taxonomy to resources of a world-class accelerator, we can demonstrate how these companies can scale up their solutions to the growing impacts of climate change, especially in the places that are most vulnerable.” “Accelerating the growth of selected climate adaptation solutions companies in developing countries is the key final step in the ASAP strategy,” said Jay Koh, Managing Director of the Lightsmith Group. Washington, DC & New York, NY (December 7, 2021) - Village Capital and The Lightsmith Group (“Lightsmith”) announced today that applications have opened in Africa and Asia for the Adaptation SME Accelerator Project (ASAP), a program for SMEs and startups that are scaling market-based and contextualized solutions to critical climate adaptation and resilience challenges. ![]()
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![]() ![]() The Strafe also includes a USB pass-through for connecting your mouse or another peripheral, a feature missing from both the Corsair K95 RGB and K70 RGB. The brightness key cycles the lighting through low, medium, and high intensities (33 percent, 66 percent, and 100 percent, respectively, according to the software), and can also turn it off altogether. There are two extra keys on the top-right corner of the keyboard, which allow you to switch lighting brightness and disable the Windows key during games. The overall options are not quite at the level of the Corsair K90 RGB, the BlackWidow Tournament Edition Chroma ($103.99 at Razer) (Opens in a new window) ,or the Corsair K70 RGB, all of which offer 16.8 million colors for key lighting, but customizability is still strong for a less-expensive keyboard. The Corsair K95 RGB includes 18 "G-Keys" on the left-hand side that are meant to serve as dedicated macro buttons, but you'll have to make do with assigning commands to standard keys on the Strafe. You can also create macros through software (and you can record and save any button sequence), and every key on the Strafe is programmable. (Opens in a new window) Read Our Logitech G910 Orion Spark Review You can create for your own effects with a bit of trial and error as you learn the software, but the included presets are very appealing. These include a ripple out from each key you press, a wave that dashes back and forth across the keys horizontally, a scattered rain of lights from top to bottom, and several other patterns. Through Corsair's Utility Engine software, you can create any lighting pattern you'd like, or choose from six presets. Every key is individually backlit, though the only color option is red, which matches nicely with the red background beneath the keys. The Cherry MX Red switches offer a smooth, responsive feel without the extra audible click provided by the Cherry MX Blue variant. The 104 keys have Cherry MX Red mechanical switches-the same as those used in the Corsair K95 RGB-with 100-percent anti-ghosting and full-key rollover to prevent lag and input jamming. Unlike the other two Corsair keyboards, the Strafe does not include a wrist rest, detachable or otherwise. You can take in on the road in a backpack or larger bag, but I wouldn't exactly call it portable. ![]() The Strafe is of standard size and weight, at 1.57 by 6.69 by 17.63 inches (HWD) and 2.9 pounds. ![]() (Opens in a new window)Įach key is fashioned from smooth, contoured plastic, with the exception of the space bar, which is textured, cross-hatched steel. Since 1982, PCMag has tested and rated thousands of products to help you make better buying decisions. The keyboard's face is coated in a textured, black plastic, with a striking bed of smooth red underneath the keys. It's not made of aluminum like the K95 RGB and the Corsair K70 RGB ($215.55 at Amazon) (Opens in a new window), but the plastic exterior still looks and feels high-quality. The Strafe ($159.98 at Amazon) (Opens in a new window) lacks a few of the premium features of its more expensive stablemates, such as lighting color options and dedicated macro keys, to keep its price down, but it's still a very solid, affordable gaming keyboard.Ĭorsair has fashioned a sleek, attractive design for its line of gaming keyboards, and the Strafe is no exception. Its lower-priced model, the Strafe Mechanical Gaming Keyboard ($109.99), maintains the same solid dependability, high performance, and individual key customization enthusiast gamers crave. How to Set Up Two-Factor AuthenticationĬorsair has repeatedly impressed with its line of gaming keyboards, including the Editors' Choice K95 RGB ( at Amazon) (Opens in a new window).How to Record the Screen on Your Windows PC or Mac.How to Convert YouTube Videos to MP3 Files.How to Save Money on Your Cell Phone Bill.How to Free Up Space on Your iPhone or iPad.How to Block Robotexts and Spam Messages. ![]() ![]() Our upload speed saw much smaller boosts, if any.īesides all the benchmarks, there’s the feeling of performance while you’re using the phone, the subjective impressions that you can’t really measure with numbers. In our Wi-Fi tests, we saw an improvement in download speeds, sometimes as high as a 45 percent increase. You can read our complete analysis of iPhone XS and iPhone XS Max networking performance, but our summary is as follows. Granted, there are a great many variables that affect wireless connectivity, so your experience may differ from ours. To test the connectivity performance of the iPhone XS and iPhone XS Max, we used the Speedtest app. The Sling Shot Extreme test probably hits a memory and cache bottleneck that affects performance. When we tested with the 3DMark Sling Shot Extreme test, we saw results that were the same across the old and new phones, but we saw an improvement in the 3D Mark Ice Storm Unlimited test. In graphics-based benchmarks, Geekbench results with its Metal-based compute test showed a 40 percent increase over the iPhone X Apple states that the iPhone XS is capable of up to a 50 percent graphics improvement. The multi-core increase was a more modest 10 percent. ![]() Results with Geekbench 4 showed about a 13 percent boost in single-threaded performance with the iPhone XS and iPhone XS Max over the iPhone X, which is close to the 15 percent increase Apple claims. ![]() ![]() ![]() (I had this freeze my Kobo on me when I was first testing it out with searching for the 'Zoo' article since it was later in the file, but it worked properly after a reboot)įinally, I would like to thank the hard-working devs at Kobo and Kiwix for making this possible! You will then see a properly ebook formatted version of the article on your Kobo! Step 3: In the "Wikipedia" search menu that pops up, you can now search for article titles in the Wikipedia file that you loaded, click on one of the suggestions that shows up as you search to get to that article. The menu that pops up should have the "Wikipedia" option for you to click. ![]() Step 2: In order to access the other articles, tap the centre of the screen to open up the Reading Menu, then click the button in the bottom right hand corner with the 3 horizontal lines. You'll notice that if you just turn the page, you'll just scroll through the front page of the Wikipedia. You should then see the home/front page of the wikipedia that you have loaded. Step 1: Open one of the Wikipedia's that is now in your library as you normally would open an ebook. ![]() Step 3: Put the microSD card in your Kobo and wait for the Kobo to scan the microSD card for files to add to the library. This is what my microSD card looked like: Step 2: Put the files on your microSD card. Step 1b: If the ZIM file you downloaded is bigger than 4GB, you'll have to split the file to put it on your FAT32 formatted microSD card (FAT32 is the filesystem format the unmodified Kobo will want and recognize by default) - See "My ZIM file is too big, what should I do?" here: Step 1: Download a Non-indexed ZIM of the Wikipedia that you want from **EDIT: Other people have confirmed that it works on the other Kobo devices on firmware nowĪlbum of the pictures used in the guide: *NOTE: I have only tried this on my Kobo Aura on firmware, but I am pretty sure that it would work on any Kobo e-reader on that firmware, it would be nice if people with the other Kobos would be able to confirm that it works too! I haven't seen this mentioned anywhere yet, so here's the guide! However, as I was messing around, I noticed that the Kobo detected the ZIM wikipedia files I loaded on my SD card and added it to the library and I could load the wikipedia articles too. ![]() Hey everyone, so I have been trying out a few guides to load wikipedia offline on the Kobo Aura by using kiwix-serve, but I never got it to work. In July 2012, Openbook was shut down due to legal reasons, and has reverted to a foreign exchange website.įacebook itself later added the same capacity to search Facebook pages for a word or phrase for logged-in users, but pulled it in January 2013 and later replaced it in December 2014 with a more limited functionality that only allows users to search their own posts, posts by people they follow, or posts which have been shared with them.***Note: this guide is out of date, it does not work on any firmware aside from firmware from 2016.*** In May 2012, the website was moved from its original domain to. The website received extensive media attention from, among others, the Wall Street Journal, NPR and ABC News, including international coverage. Both an avowed parody of Facebook and an Internet privacy advocacy website, it was built by San Francisco website developers Will Moffat, Peter Burns and James Home within a few hours on May 12, 2010, and received nearly six million page views in its first two weeks on-line from over a million people in over two hundred countries. Openbook was a Facebook-specific search engine, built upon Facebook's publicly available API, which enabled one to search for specific texts on the walls of Facebook subscribers en masse which they had denoted, knowingly or unknowingly, as being available to "Everyone," i.e. ![]() ![]() It’s difficult to predict how any situation will play out and can have repercussions that span multiple campaigns, making the side stories an enigmatic delight. When that warrior was killed in a fight, I was able to use the magic of the crystal to cause his body to explode in a barrage of crystalline shards, damaging all surrounding enemies. As expected, having a precious stone in place of one of his eyes resulted in a loss of accuracy, but much more interestingly had an effect on his death. I decided to extract the gem, which resulted in the warrior passing out and waking up with the gem in place of his eye. I was given the choice to either leave the gem alone or pry it out of the statue. A great example of this was when one of my warriors, on the way to a battle, fell through a sinkhole and found himself at the foot of a statue with a massive gem in the center. ![]() A truly staggering variety of things can happen on these side quests and always give the player some choice in the outcome. ![]() These happen once characters have scouted one of the game map regions or before the start of a battle, as well as very rarely when a character starts on a personal quest. Then there are the side stories, which are prompted by the “hooks” each of the characters have. Instead, I was able to proceed but lacked valuable information. I got distracted and didn’t do that, but it wasn’t game over. During chapter two of the campaign Age of Ulstryx, I was tasked with investigating a specific area to learn more about my Gorgon foes. One thing that surprised me was that some objectives could be failed without bringing an end to the campaign. The campaign involves repelling their invasion from a parallel dimension but features a touching subplot of surviving trauma and how family members react to changes in those they love. My favorite so far is the campaign against the Thrixl, an invasive race of insects that are a strange blend of the Zerg and the Fae. These are well written and do a good job of teaching players about each of the factions through the lens of their interactions with humans as well as building out the game’s world and its history. The base for these stories are the campaigns, each of which tell a story relating to one of the game’s enemy factions. By default, any player can control any hero, but there are also some options to give players exclusive control over heroes, so only they can decide their abilities and what actions they take.Unquestionably, my favorite aspect of Wildermyth is all of the stories it can tell. Actions can still only happen one at a time, but one player can be planning to move a hero while another is planning to attack with a different hero. ![]() The main difference is that multiple players can control heroes at the same time. If none of the offered abilities are desired, the player may choose to reroll the ability selection at a cost of 2 Legacy Points. If no upgrades are possible, only three abilities are offered. You can start a single player game and continue it later in multiplayer, or vice versa. Typically, four abilities are offered, of which one is guaranteed to be a class-specific non-upgrade ability and one is guaranteed to be an upgrade. "Wildermyth's new multiplayer mode is cooperative, and the overall structure is the same as the single player game. The latest update "0.36+270 Bingus Dibb" adds in full multiplayer support, controller support, new event updates, new sound effects and plenty of bug fixes. ![]() It's genuinely great and it has been reviewing very well by players. What is Wildermyth? A fantasy tactical RPG that mixes in X-Com like combat with extensive character development wrapped up in an art style inspired by papercraft. No fooling around here, Worldwalker Games decided not to do any April Fools shenanigans for Wildermyth and instead release a massive upgrade adding in multiplayer and controller support. Vigilance, Long Reach, Battledance, Zealous Leap «Vigilance» allows the warrior to easily perform 4 (or more) reaction strikes. ![]() ![]() ![]() More (difficult) missions, areas, new bosses, skills, abilities, and more. A new race you can play as with its own special power. A whole new story mode, and the original story is also included. Infinity is an upgraded version of PSPo2 which was never localized to the west-unfortunate for fans of the series, since it's undoubtedly one of the best entries in the PSO/PSU/PSPo lineup. Welcome to the public release of our English localization patch of Phantasy Star Portable 2 Infinity (PSPo2I), a project over half a decade in the making.įor those who aren't familiar with them, PSPo and PSPo2 were games released on the Playstation Portable which were ARPGs that had MMO traits but also had a focus on singleplayer content. Note: to see update posts from us, you can click the Threadmarks button on the top left. Monster announcements in Gurhal Heroes were rephrased for clarity.Quiz lines in Hal's Action Shot were updated to prevent rollover.Beast blast badge descriptions were updated to reflect their function in Infinity.Some weapon special effects were renamed to be consistent with the official PSPo2 game.Many small translation errors, inconsistencies, and formatting issues were fixed many item names were updated to be more consistent with official Phantasy Star games or other names within Infinity.The “No Blast Badge” option has been restored, should you want to choose it for some reason.Freeze after leaving an Infinity Mission has been fixed.We'd like to thank everyone who helped test the patch we couldn't have done it without you and some of the issues you uncovered were truly eye-opening.Īlso, I'd like to mention that there is an excellent wiki being worked on over at, which is a great English source for information on the game.Īs always, we hope that our efforts will allow more people to enjoy this game. The patch has gone through many internal test versions since our initial public release, and this is likely going to be the definitive version. ![]() This version has many fixes in the text to hopefully provide a smoother experience, and a major freeze issue has been addressed. It's been a while, but our updated version of the Infinity patch is finally ready to be released. ![]() ![]() ![]() In the Details overview you can see the average speaking and reading time for your text, while Reading Level is an indicator of the education level a person would need in order to understand the words you’re using.ĭisclaimer: We strive to make our tools as accurate as possible but we cannot guarantee it will always be so. This can prevent you from over-using certain words or word combinations and check for best distribution of keywords in your writing. This allows you to know which keywords you use how often and at what percentages. 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![]() The filmmakers cared so little for the ragtag gang of ‘lesser’ Autobots that, throughout the five films in the Michael Bay Transformers chronology, there are many Autobots that simply disappear between films, never to be seen or heard from again. Recommended if you like repaints of these two.When watching Michael Bay’s Transformers films from start to finish, one might start to wonder – was there really any reason, other than merchandising, for the films to have supporting Autobot characters in them at all? As previously discussed in How to Fix Michael Bay’s Transformers Films – Part One: More Than Meets the CGI, the films don’t exactly care about any of their Autobot characters, except for Optimus Prime and Bumblebee, and despite the wealth of characters that exist through multiple different incarnations of the franchise, the Michael Bay films never managed to present anything more than a cardboard-cutout Autobot cast. He’s a bit of a pain to transform, but both modes are on the satisfying side even if his alt mode is more reminiscent of the cartoon-y G1 Wheelie rather than the serious Bayformers style. And Slap Dash is what he is, and I would have gotten any of his predecessors. He’s got more attitude that his partner in this set too, though the kibble panels on his legs might drive some crazy. AND I got both in the same two-pack! Trenchmouth’s colors are not the best, but they’re not puke-y like some of the previous ones. To be honest, the only reason I got these two was because I missed my chance to get any of their earlier incarnations, whether it be from lack of money or disinterest in the colors used in the repaints. The kibble on his lower arms can get in the way once in a while, and he is a bit disproportionate body-wise, but overall his poseability is quite superb for such a little figure. Also the lower half of his head ( this little figure has a movable mouth when even the larger Leader-class figures don’t!?) can slip down too far over time, necessitating a fishing trip every two-or-three transformation cycles. ![]() The little Automorph bit in his torso is nice, but the first few times you do it can be tricky because you don’t know where to hang on to. But it is a totally adorable compact muscle car he changes into, very European commuter car-ish. ![]() I do fear, though, that his ankle joints are too lose and will eventually give out and never hold him upright again.įor Slap Dash, getting everything to realign in vehicle mode can be time-consuming and a bit of a pain. I also liked how his right arm has a blaster instead of a hand, and how both halves of the back wheel are on ball joints to allow you to reposition them as you wish in robot mode. I kinda wish the panels on either side of his legs would snap into position rather than always free-turning. I will say it can be a bit of a pain to get Trenchmouth ( what the Hell kind of name is that ?) out of his vehicle mode, especially when it comes to separating the bumper and back wheel parts, but I still like his transformation. Coincidentally, because of his transformation, Trenchmouth can turn his front wheel side-to-side a little. Though both wheels spin freely, there is no kickstand to keep it upright. There are no changes to it other than plastic & paint coloring. This toy is the third repaint of Autobot Knock-Out, which debuted in the “ Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen” toy line. The choice of coloring, however, seems to be based on Generation One’s Autobot Wheelie, whose vehicle mode is somewhat similar. ![]() This toy is the second repaint of Autobot Nightbeat, which debuted in the “ Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen” toy line. ![]() He may be a filthy, poorly tuned road hog, but he’s also a smart, canny fighter.” Unfortunately, TRENCHMOUTH is not the sort of Decepticon you want to fight without some foresight. Not because he’s fast- though he is- but more because he’s lazy. “ Everything SLAP DASH does, he does in a hurry. Autobot Slap Dash and Decepticon Trenchmouth are new characters in the Transformers multi-verse, and so have no dedicated individual backgrounds other than what it says on the box: ![]() |