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![]() We make our own decisions, but the Lord alone determines what happens (v. Yet this verse says that conquering oneself is of greater virtue than conquering a city (v. In a land where safety depended on strength and skill in warfare, this statement may seem unusual. This suggests that having patience and a controlled temper is honored above being a soldier. A bad temper is often excused on the ground of natural infirmity, when in reality it is the evidence of pride and impatience. Only the person who lives his life for the Lord will experience the glory of God’s presence!Men have conquered kingdoms who were defeated when it came to controlling their temper. It is true that grey heads can be seen among the wicked but there will be no glory there, just the traces of a body broken in the pursuit of sin. Grey hair is a crown of glory when it adorns the head of a person who has lived a righteous life. Longevity of life is a result of righteous living but not all who have lived to be old have lived righteously (v. ![]() We need to be on guard ourselves and especially warn our children that there are people with strong personalities who will lead us “into the way that is not good.” Before we know it they will lead us into things that we would have never thought we would become involved in. Gossip is no good! It causes hard feelings and division comes between friends (v 28).The things in this passage can happen to anyone (vv. The words of an ungodly man who gets involved in gossip are like burning fire that pass from his lips and have the scorching malice of hell (v. ![]() There is no sense of adventure, no natural progression. Nothing about this game design feels natural, it's way too.mechanical. From the awful debt design, to the broken up segmented chapter structure of the game and the small number of skits. I've finished around 7 chapters so far and it has been an abysmal experience. Don't take it seriously, and don't let it irritate you. You could finish it on Easy, just to finish the story, or you could watch all the cutscenes on Youtube to finish the story, and start playing another game that you'll have more fun with. The story will change and progress, but if it's not saving it for you now, then it won't by the end either. The silent protagonist thing was annoying, and I'm still terrible at the game, but I still had fun. I'm planning on doing a second playthrough soon, even. If you're not having fun with it this far in, then it's probably not for you. There's only one way to get good gameplay. There a many other ways to get good stories: books, TV, movies, whatever. ![]() As much as I love good stories in video games, stories are not a saving grace, or a central thing to judge quality on. fights and general gameplay), then you're not going to be able to care about the story. If you're not enjoying the plotless sections of the game (ie. ![]() The way I see it is: if you don't like how the game plays, then, regardless of how good the story is, you'll struggle through it. Should I continue on easy just to see the end of the story? I'm waiting for the moment where everything about the game design clicks, especially the levelling up system. I've heard the story is one of the best in any tales game but that alone isn't enough. And I absolutely hate the new levelling up system. It doesn't feel like a journey like xillia or most other jrpgs. I don't even mind the reused areas but progressing through this world is so badly designed. I really want to finish it and then judge it, but it's becoming harder to continue. The story chapters and the companion quests have been good, but there is an abrupt shift in momentum and pacing the moment you are required to do the fetch quests to pay the debt. The silent protagonist thing is so weird and awkward during cutscenes and skits. I'm wondering why xillia 2 gets praise on the Internet. ![]() 22/02 16:45 Windows 11 February Preview update adds feature to improve facial recognition. 22/02 16:45 New Bing Chat AI is now available in Edge mobile, Bing apps, and Skype Preview. Push notifications Get an alert when you receive a new IM or call. 22/02 16:45 Bing Chat comes to Bing and Edge Mobile apps, Skype. Tap Next and review the notification and phonebook access settings: On Wednesday, Microsoft AI integration on the iOS and Android versions of Bing, its web browser Edge, and Skype.Lest we forget about Skype. When Skype for Business can't use a Wi-Fi or cellular data network to make an audio or video call, you'll be automatically called at this number and connected to the audio portion of the call. How to talk to the Bing AI chatbot on Microsoft Edge, Skype, and more. Video calls Don’t just hear the cheers, see them Get together with 1 or 49 of your friends and family on a HD video call. On the Never Miss Your Work Calls screen, enter your mobile number with country and region codes. Skype is available on phones, tablets, PCs, and Macs. On the Customer Experience Improvement Program screen, tap Join to send anonymous data about app issues and usage to Microsoft, or No thanks if you prefer not to participate. The user name is what you use to sign in to your organization’s network, either or domain\username. Sign in with Skype or Microsoft account Were having issues signing you in. You may be asked for both a user name and a sign-in address. On the Start screen, swipe left to view your installed apps, search for Skype for Business, and then tap the icon to open the app.Įnter your sign-in address (for example, and password, and then tap Done. Sign in to Skype for Business for the first time Skype makes it simple to share experiences with the people that matter to you, wherever they are. Feel free to also contact us at any time regarding Skype for Business questions or how Skype for Business can be the professional solution perfect for your business.Note: Effective May 20, 2018, the Windows Phone app for Skype for Business will be retired and will no longer be available for download from the Windows Phone Store. Skype is for doing things together, whenever you’re apart. If you need additional information on creating and setting up service numbers, check out Microsoft’s support documentation. Sign in with Skype or Microsoft account We're having issues signing you in. Upon installing the Skype application, go to Create an Account and enter details like your name, phone number, email and password. In my experience, Microsoft will typically make the conversion in less than an hour. the tenant domain the numbers are associated with.The only way to change a phone number type is to contact the Microsoft Number Porting Team by sending an email to When sending the email request, be sure to include the following: There are no PowerShell commands that will make the conversion either. The Skype for Business admin center does NOT provide a method to convert the phone number type. Unfortunately, the solution is not something you can perform yourself. We are pleased to announce the launch of the new Skype for Web. We continue to be driven by the opportunity to connect our global community of hundreds of millions of users, empowering them to feel closer and achieve more together. But what do you do if you want to convert a User number to a Service number, or vice versa?įortunately, the answer is rather easy. Skype has always been about bringing people together. Watch everyone’s smiles and cries when you tell them We’re engaged' Chat Reach people instantly. Service numbers can be used for audio conferencing, auto attendants, or a call queue. Skype is available on phones, tablets, PCs, and Macs. As its name implies, User numbers can be assigned to users. ![]() A number can be either a User number, or it can be a Service number. That’s just one of the many different advantages Skype for Business brings to the table.īusinesses can assign two different types of phone numbers with Skype for Business online. Select Skype profile, and both your Skype Name and the Microsoft Account youre signed in with are. With Skype for Business, everyone will have an assigned phone number they can use as their business line that will also travel with them on their smartphones. Open Skype on your device Select your profile picture. Skype for Business makes it easy for businesses to simplify their infrastructures with one platform for calling, conferencing, video, and sharing. ![]() ![]() What's cool about SVG files is that you can optimize and minify them, without affecting what the SVG looks like. Next to that, there's a lot of elements that could be combined into one element to reduce the file size. The SVG file above holds a lot of information about Sketch, such as the title of the icon and a description. Let's have a look at what a typical SVG file exported out of Sketch looks like: Also, added lot of code in the form of metadata is added to the SVG file. Although these icons might look pretty, exporting a SVG out of these tools is often difficult as this article explains. Designers often create these icons from design tools like Adobe Photoshop or Sketch. ![]() The web is full of icons, and often these icons are rendered from SVG files to ensure you can increase (or decrease) the size of the icons depending on the use case. With SVGO and SVGR you can do this at scale, without compromising the quality or size of your icons. And if you've ever built a component library, you probably dealt with optimizing and converting icons before. If for whatever reason our optimized versions are not satisfactory, you can always fall back to your master files.At Vandebron we're maintaining a component library called Windmolen (Dutch for "wind turbine"). Speaking of your original SVGs, they remain safe on your computer. If you’re worried about privacy, you can rest assured that your original files and the optimized versions will be deleted after just 60 minutes. Our unmanned server keeps your files secure and purges everything after one hour. You have nothing to worry about when using our online optimization tool. There is no limit to how many batches you can process. Need to do more than 20 optimizations? That’s fine, just hit “CLEAR QUEUE” and upload more files to the SVG optimizer. Doing so nets you a ZIP file with all your optimized SVGs included. However, you can save some time by waiting for all conversions to finish and then hitting the “DOWNLOAD ALL” button. Hit that and you’ll have a new optimized SVG. When optimization is complete, you’ll see a “DOWNLOAD” button. You can watch a progress bar under each image in the queue as the process proceeds. Our tool will automatically start to optimize your SVG file(s). ![]() Conversely, you can drag and drop your files to the specified area. To begin, upload one or up to 20 SVG files by hitting the “UPLOAD FILES” button. You can also use it as much as you need without cost. You don’t need to sign up for an account, give us your email, or deal with watermarked images. Using our SVG optimizer tool is easy, effective, and free. Thankfully, this optimization won’t have any effect on the visual quality of the image due to the nature of the vector format. If you repeat this process over the entire XML file, you can make the overall file size significantly smaller. A good SVG optimizer can remove these extra lines to make the file smaller. Within the XML file, you’ll find a lot of repetitious code. Since an SVG is, at its core, an enormous text file with many lines of code, they are easily compressed. Because of this, vector images can be scaled infinitely without any loss of quality. SVG images are XML files, composed of a series of mathematical nodes, lines, shapes, and curves. This keeps image file sizes quite small and easy to share. Together, all the pixels create an image. Raster images are made up of a grid of pixels with each pixel having one color. In the world of image formats, there are generally two types: raster and vector. ![]() While the app can capture, record, and take video and image editing to the next level, it should be used for its intended purpose and within the boundaries of the law.Īs well as being illegal, there are other downsides to using screen recording as a way to watch Netflix offline. There are many powerful screen recorders out there, such as Capto, which is optimized for Mac. Screen recording movies is considered to be piracy, and most screen recording tools will forbid against this type of activity. If you see anywhere online that you should screen record movies so you can watch Netflix offline - beware - this is very illegal. How to watch Netflix offline using screen record Type Netflix in the search box and press Enter.Click on the Start menu and select Store.Make sure you get the Windows system from a reputable Windows partner or reseller. ![]() ![]() Once you have set up Windows, then you can download Netflix app from the Microsoft Store which supports offline downloads of some content. The Windows workaround works by installing the Windows 10 operating system onto your Mac. If you know that you'll not be connected to the internet or you don't own an iOS device, this is the way to go. A good solution for you is to leverage Microsoft Windows. How to download movies from Netflix to Mac via Windowsīut I want to watch Netflix offline, you say. Click the download button (if its a series you'll need to individually select the episodes you want to watch).Select the movie or TV show you'd like to download.Open the Netflix app on your iOS device.Ensure you have strong WiFi or enough data to successfully complete the process.Now that you have AirPlay set up, a good way to save on data is to download movies to your iOS device and then stream the downloaded content over WiFi: Open the Netflix app and select the downloaded content you want to playĮnjoy the show! How to download movies on Netflix.Select your Mac from the list of devices.Open AirPlay on your iOS device and tap Screen Mirroring.If the WiFi signal is weak all around, use the NetSpot Survey option to plan out a better WiFi networkĪfter all WiFi problems are solved, move on to streaming from your iOS device:.See where the most powerful WiFi in your area is and move your iOS device accordingly.This is where NetSpot, Mac's WiFi analyzer, will be very useful as an ideal network planner, because having powerful and consistent WiFi will ensure an uninterrupted viewing experience: iPhones and iPads are both iOS devices that will do the job.ĪirPlay works via WiFi, which connects AirPlay-compatible devices together. If you're already invested in Apple technology and own an iOS device, streaming via AirPlay is an effective solution. Stream via Airplay to get Netflix for Mac Before you can take Netflix offline, WiFi is needed to download Netflix app.įinally, if you want to know how to download movies from Netflix on Mac legally, then take a look at the suggestions below. If you're going to be streaming, then you'll need a WiFi connection. ![]() Most Netflix choices allow this, but not all of them do.
![]() In the 19th century, when miniature Matterhorns and rock gardens became fashionable, a grotto was often found, such as at Ascott House. The Romantic generation of tourists might not actually visit Fingal's Cave, on the remote isle of Staffa in the Scottish Hebrides, but they have often heard of it, perhaps through Felix Mendelssohn's " Hebrides Overture", better known as " Fingal's Cave", which was inspired by his visit. Built during the late 18th century, the chambers and tunnels are lined with shells, flints, and pieces of colored glass. Scott's Grotto is a series of interconnected chambers, extending 67 ft (20 metres) into the chalk hillside on the outskirts of Ware, Hertfordshire. There are grottoes in the landscape gardens of Painshill Park, Stowe, Clandon Park, and Stourhead. Efforts are underway to restore his grotto. Pope was inspired after seeing grottoes in Italy during a visit there. Pope's Grotto, created by Alexander Pope, is almost all that survives of one of the first landscape gardens in England, at Twickenham. Grottoes were suitable for less formal gardens too. ![]() In England, an early garden grotto was built at Wilton House in the 1630s, probably by Isaac de Caus. There are also grottoes in the gardens designed by André Le Nôtre for Versailles. The grotto designed by Bernard Palissy for Catherine de' Medici's château in Paris, the Tuileries, was renowned. They were often combined with cascading fountains in Renaissance gardens. Grottoes have also served as chapels, or at Villa Farnese at Caprarola, a little theater designed in the grotto manner. Courtiers once bathed in the small cascade that splashed over the pebbles and shells encrusted in the floor and walls. Grottoes could also serve as baths an example of this is at the Palazzo del Te, in the 'Casino della Grotta', where a small suite of intimate rooms is laid out around a grotto and loggetta (covered balcony). Sculpture in a grotto setting, Villa Torrigiani, Lucca In the Kuskovo Estate, there is the Grotto Pavilion, built between 1755-61. Damp grottoes were cool places to retreat from the Italian sun, but they also became fashionable in the cool drizzle of the Île-de-France. Inside, they are decorated as a temple or with fountains, stalactites, and imitation gems and shells (sometimes made in ceramic) herms and mermaids, mythological subjects suited to the space and naiads, or river gods whose urns spilled water into pools. The outsides of garden grottoes are often designed to look like an enormous rock, a rustic porch, or a rocky overhang. ![]() It is decorated with sculptures in the Giambolognan manner. The Fonte di Fata Morgana ("Fata Morgana's Spring") at Grassina, not far from Florence, is a small garden building, built in 1573–74 as a garden feature in the extensive grounds of the Villa "Riposo" (rest) of Bernardo Vecchietti. At Pratolino, in spite of the dryness of the site, there was a Grotto of Cupid (surviving), with water tricks for the unsuspecting visitor. Before the Boboli grotto, a garden was laid out by Niccolò Tribolo at the Medici Villa Castello, near Florence. One of these grottoes originally housed the Prisoners of Michelangelo. Two famous grottoes in the Boboli Gardens of Palazzo Pitti were begun by Vasari and completed by Ammanati and Buontalenti between 15. The popularity of artificial grottoes introduced the Mannerist style to Italian and French gardens of the mid-16th century. In front of the grotto were a table and benches of stone, where the farmers could rest and refresh themselves. Often a grotto had a second floor with another one or two rooms for the fermentation cask and tools of the vintage. A true grotto is dug out under a rock or between two boulders, where subterranean air currents keep the room cool. Some grotti have been opened to the public, as in Avegno, but most have lost their original character as they became rustic restaurants which serve basic local food and drink. The importance of these cellars is demonstrated in their number for example, there are 40 grotti in Maggia, no fewer in Moghegno, and about 70 in Cevio behind Case Franzoni. They were built by exploiting the morphology of rocks and boulders, to create rooms with a cool climate suitable for food, particularly milk and cheese, as well as potatoes, sausages, and wine storage. ![]() In Ticino, the Italian-speaking part of Switzerland, grottoes were places where wine and food were stored and preserved. 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It’s also helpful if you have a sweet tooth, as it can help curb cravings during those times when all you want is something sugary. ![]() Sucking on hard candy or chewing gum will keep your mouth busy and distracted from any boredom that might set in while driving for long periods of time without stopping. The reason behind this is that chewing strengthens your facial muscles, jaw muscles, and tongue, which help keep you alert. When used correctly and alongside proper sleep patterns, caffeine can improve wakefulness for tired drivers during the late afternoon, evening, and night.Ĭhewing gum or hard candy can help keep you awake. The effects of caffeine show that it improves alertness, mood, and reaction time and therefore keeps you awake and aware while driving. Just make sure not to exceed two per day because they could cause jitters in some people who are sensitive to caffeine. They’ll give you all the same benefits without any unpleasant side effects. If you don’t like the taste of coffee or if it makes your stomach upset, consider using caffeine/energy supplements. Tip #05: Use caffeine pills or energy pills instead of coffee or energy drinks.Ĭaffeine pills and energy pills can be just as effective for keeping you awake as coffee, or an energy drink would be. It is well established that listening to music while driving reduces fatigue and also improves moods, with drivers reporting less stress and a greater alertness on the roads. Because of how the brain works, your brain needs stimulation to keep awake when you are tired. It turns out that playing loud music helps you stay awake when driving at night or long distances. If you are a teen driver, you can choose a playlist of upbeat, energetic, and motivating songs to listen to while driving. Listening to loud music while driving will help keep your mind alert and focused on the task at hand. 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It may sound simplistic, but being adequately hydrated and well-fed can significantly influence driving ability. One of the best ways to avoid excessive drowsiness while driving is staying awake, alert, and energized. If you start to feel drowsy, drink a cup of coffee or an energy drink to help perk yourself up. Research also shows that males between the ages of 18 and 29 are at a higher risk for drowsy driving than other age groups, so take extra care if you’re in this age range.Ĭoffee and energy drinks are great for keeping your eyes open and mind alert. It’s important for you to get plenty of rest before your drive. In fact, drowsy drivers may actually experience slower reaction times than drivers with a blood-alcohol concentration of 0.5% or lower. Driving while drowsy can be just as dangerous as driving while impaired by alcohol. Make sure that you get a good night’s sleep before hitting the road. If you’re tired, it won’t be easy to stay awake while driving. Tip #01: Get plenty of rest before you drive. In this blog post, we will discuss ten tips that will help you stay awake while driving. Driving long distances or at night can be extremely tiring, but there are a few things that you can do to stay awake and alert. Sleepiness slows reaction time, decreases awareness, and impairs judgment. Unfortunately, our busy lifestyles create a need to drive during the nighttime hours. ![]() What do you do to stay awake when driving at night or long distances? Our bodies are programmed to sleep at night and be awake during the day. |
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