![]() ![]() In addition, the system covers Electronic Logging Device (ELD) compliance through the ELD Logbook. The same 5/5 research score from our route optimization section still applies to the service's top-tier GPS tracking tools. ![]() Verizon uses real-time GPS location to track each vehicle, and offers Driver-Vehicle Inspection Report (DVIR) compliance. Help & Support: Verizon's 3.5/5 score for help and support is earned through their 24/7 email and phone support - though there's no live chat or aid with installation.Product Features: Additional features include weather updates, IFTA compliance, asset tracking, unlimited users, and regular product updates.Price: Verizon Connect Reveal scores 2.5/5 for pricing, as the cheapest plans start at a higher rate than average price point of $30 per vehicle per month and (typically) a three-year minimum contract.Vehicle Management: Tools for vehicle monitoring include comprehensive fuel management and vehicle diagnostics, maintenance scheduling, speed monitoring, mileage reports, and engine temperature tracking.Driver Management: Verizon's driver tools cover daily or weekly history reports, two-way messaging, safety alerts and reports, ELD compliance, and extra add-ons for dash cam crash reporting and driver IDs.Route Optimization: Verizon Connect Reveal scored an impressive 5/5 in our impartial testingfor core vehicle tracking functions, including detailed summary reports, exportable custom routes, complex scheduling, traffic alerts, and geofencing - all with a 30-second refresh time. ![]()
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![]() ![]() It is obvious that one must be patient to eat mindfully. Awareness of our judgments is one critical element of mindfulness. To start the process of eating by setting aside our experience of the food is our first challenge. Do you like them or not? We have all had experience with raisins, and therefore we have judgments. The first thing you encounter with this experience is your judgments about raisins. Slowly begin to chew, noticing what each bite brings.Ĭhew the raisin until it is completely liquefied before you swallow.Īfter swallowing, close your eyes for a few moments to notice the consequence of what you just experienced. Is there a taste? Do you salivate? What do you want to do? Let it roll back into your mouth, but do not chew yet, just roll it around. Place the raisin between your lips and just hold it there for a few moments. ![]() Notice what you are feeling about this object. Roll the raisin between your fingers and listen to hear what sound it makes. Smell this object and notice how you react. Take a few deep breaths and relax.Įxamine its surface-the various ridges, shiny parts, dull parts really look for the first time at this strange object. ![]() With no experience, there are no judgments, fears, or expectations. You have never experienced anything from Earth. Imagine you have just been dropped off on this planet, and you know nothing about where you are. (OK, so there is a rule, but there is a good reason, which you will understand soon.) STOP do not throw a handful of raisins into your mouth. Get a raisin and set it down in front of you. The idea is for people to have their own experiences and to be in the present while having them. ![]() No one has the same experience with the same food every time. The difference with mindful eating is that it is not about rules or guidelines instead, it is about individual experience. Our suggestions have always been to pay attention to what you are eating, such as “Don’t watch TV while you eat,” “Serve the correct portions,” “Chew 32 times before swallowing,” and “Sit down while you eat.” These recommendations have always been about paying attention, just as one would through mindful eating. It might seem obvious, but this is the difference between “mindless” eating and conscious eating. What determines success and failure with such diets? A common thread for those who are successful is the ability to pay attention to the diet and stick with the plan, whatever that plan might be. This suggests that mindful eating is highly likely to be associated with weight loss, but future studies will be necessary to examine the exact correlation.Īs mentioned earlier, diets for weight loss are usually successful in the short term, but many tend to fail over time. They recommended further research to study the specific relationship between the behavior of mindful eating and resultant weight loss. Although they found significant weight loss in 13 of the 19 studies, the researchers were unable to document a relationship between mindful eating and the weight losses incurred. Olson and Emery ( 2) reviewed 19 studies that used a mindful approach to diet. Although I practice mindfulness meditation and am a believer in the benefits of mindful eating, it is important to note the results of a study published in 2015. Mindfulness is rapidly becoming a recommended way of retraining eating behaviors for those who attend diabetes education programs. Many people who practice mindfulness meditation, and an increasing number of health professionals, are coming to believe that mindful eating can make a difference in helping individuals with diabetes change their eating behaviors. ![]() ![]() ![]() Pius X’ and pointedly asked His Eminence what is probably an unprecedented request: “In a personal letter to Cardinal Oddi, Prefect of the Sacred Congregation for the Clergy in Rome, a Catholic lady who recently started attending the Latin Tridentine Mass wrote to him on January 11, 1984, regarding the ‘important issue concerning Archbishop Lefebvre’s Society of St. In an article published in the September 1984 issue of The Angelus, the SSPX’s official English-language magazine, Michael Davies related: The priest from canonical considerations regarding the Sunday obligation was manifestedīy what happened next. So the new statute, as it appears in the 1983 Code, reads simply: “The precept of participating in the Mass is satisfied by assistance at a Mass which is celebrated anywhere in a Catholic rite either on the holy day or on the evening of the preceding day.”Ĭanon 923 adds a corresponding detail concerning the reception of Communion: “The Christian faithfu l can participate in the Eucharistic sacrifice and receive Holy Communion in any Catholic rite….” Thus the illegitimacy, both “in” and “of” the sacred minister, was removed from consideration. All the Consultors, with the exception of one, approve such a suggestion, because often the cause of illegitimacy resides in the sacred minister and the Christian faithful should not be punished for such a fault of the sacred minister.” Dunn obtained this information by reviewing the notes of the preparatory committee responsible for the statute (emphasis added): “It has been suggested that the word ‘legitimately’ be deleted. relates: “While the proposed text for canon 1248 had read that the obligation of Mass attendance is satisfied ‘anywhere that a Catholic rite is celebrated legitimately’, the commission eliminated the word ‘legitimately’….” įr. The right to confect any of the sacraments.” John Paul II Promulgates New Code of Canon Law (Jan.ĭuring the 1983 Code’s preparatory phase, when writing canon 1248 §1, the statute concerning the Sunday obligation, a serious controversy arose within the Committee. Requested, the Holy Father imposed on him the punishment of suspension a divinis according to Canon 2279 § 2, 2, depriving him of Relates, “the secretary of the Sacred Congregation for Bishops notifiedĪrchbishop Lefebvre that since he had not provided signs of repentance as “On July 22,” as Lefebvre’s official biography The person who has received the ordination, however, is ipso facto suspended from the order received.” Someone who is not his subject is prohibited for a year from conferring the 1015, ordains without legitimate dimissorial letters Same canonical censures in canon 1383, which states: “A bishop who, contrary to The current (1983) Code of Canon Law specifies the Suspended from the order received, and, if they were to exercise it, they wouldīe in an irregular and criminal situation.” See.” And furthermore, “Those who have been ordained are ipso facto (automatically) Year from the conferring of orders, a suspension reserved to the Apostolic Three days later, the Holy See announced that, asĪ result of conferring illicit ordinations, Archbishop Lefebvre “automatically He went ahead and ordained 13 priests and 14 subdeacons on June 29, 1976. Nevertheless, Archbishop Lefebvre considered himself bound in conscience toĬontinue the work of forming holy priests according to traditional Catholic Of 1975, Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre was forbidden by Pope Paul VI to ordain any SSPX Priests are Suspended (July 1, 1976)įollowing the unjust suppression of the SSPX in May Has said on the subject chronologically over the last 40 years. Making, and the only way to make sense of it is by analyzing what the Vatican The answer to the question has been decades in the Z’s blog” has a post addressing it entitled, “ Not AGAIN! ‘Does attending an SSPX Mass fulfill one’s Sunday obligation?’”, the first line of which says, “This keeps coming up. Some people who ought to know better simply want to rehash it and rehash it, and they get it wrong.” With a follow-up document to Traditionis Custodes reportedly coming soon, including the prospect that many will lose their approved Traditional Latin Mass as a result, the question has come up again regarding whether Catholics may fulfill their Sunday obligation by attending a Mass offered by priests of the Society of St. This article first appeared in the April 2023 Edition of Catholic Family News (click HERE to subscribe current subscribers can access the E-Edition by following the instructions posted HERE). ![]() ![]() ![]() Its not real HDR tho it just intelligently reads pre-existing colors and makes them a bit deeper. exe folder of any game and it allows you to force-enable tons of additional graphical features) and im just using that to enable sharpening and HDR which makes the colors pop a bit more and makes the textures look so much better. Originally posted by RandalMcdaniel:Im also using reshade (its a program u drag/drop into the. I actually got better performance on 1.12. I've read on the Ubi AC forum they are going to come out with yet another patch, but I can't say I'm very optimistic, since the last one was supposed to have performance and stability fixes, yet did little if anything in that regard. There is still hitching and freeze pauses here and there, but mostly in the London borough. This way I get mostly a steady 40 FPS, which I cap with RTSS. ![]() I have literally set everything at Med, vs the High it detects my rig at on 1080p, and dropped the res to 900p. ![]() The clouds will still move, they just don't look quite as 3 dimensional. It's one setting that's not very noticeable (esp with fog on), and makes a fair amount of difference in performance. I read the GeForce graphics guide and decided to turn off volumetric clouds. They don't even give us a brightness slider, just a bar with a few clicks, some too bright, some too dark. I also agree on the fog, a bit overdone, but a bit too clear and bland without it. I turned off global lighting, which I'm pretty sure is dynamic lighting, but it makes the game look worse. Then globalillumination=1 i havent touched because this game has some of the purest-white lighting i have ever seen.īut uhh, does anyone know any other tweaks i can use? MinSkipMipTextureSize=512 to MinSkipMipTextureSize=256 thinking that it would skip more unnecessary textures? But it didnt seem to change anything so i guess ill just leave it at 256 lol. Unless someone can point out to me what exactly this removes then i see no reason to keep it enabled as it gave me quite a few more frames per second.Īnd i am kind of stupid so i like to change things i know nothing about as well, i changed Then i changed POSTFX=1 to PostFX=0 (post processing effects) and again i noticed no difference when comparing screenshots. Next i changed bloom=1 to bloom=0 and i noticed no difference whatsoever so i am just going to leave that one off. If anyone knows how to reduce the fog that would be cooler. The only con is that it becomes TOO clear and if you view the city from a high point some of the background things (things that are supposed to be hidden by fog) look a bit stupid. So i changed Fog=1 to Fog=0 And the game looks absolutely stunning, It's unbelievable how much the fog covers. I should start by saying i kind of dislike the fog, its just way too strong and feels like a slap across the face to the artists who spent so much time making the buildings/cities look authentic because it makes the draw distance seem like just a mere few meters. Im just trying to find any big tweaks that might give me a more consistent experience. The game runs good at 50-60fps but its not exactly smooth. I have the uplay version so i am not sure if the directory is the same but i found in My Documents - Assassins creed syndicate i found a config file called AC ![]() ![]() ![]() Also, this would be compatible with both 32 bit and 64-bit windows. Also, this is a complete offline installer and standalone setup for ClothWorks for Sketchup 2019. You can also, click on the below button to start ClothWorks for Sketchup 2019 Free Download. ![]()
![]() Set this to "true" to ignore illegal memory accesses. Tests suggest there is a limit of 1GB (1024MB). If you are using a Mac Classic ROM, the maximum available value is 4MB and higher values will be ignored. The value given will be rounded down to the nearest multiple of 1MB. If no "rom" line is given, the ROM file has to be named "ROM" and put in the same directory as the Basilisk II executable.Īllocate "bytes" bytes of RAM for MacOS system and application memory. This item specifies the file name of the Mac ROM file to be used by Basilisk II. The value Basilisk understands is the Gestalt Model ID minus 6. The model id is based on Apple's "Gestalt selectors". If you are using a Mac Classic ROM, the model is always "Mac Classic" and this setting is ignored. Than 7.5 may only run with the Model ID set to "5". Other values are not officially supported and may result in crashes. If you want to run MacOS 8, you have to set this to "14" (Quadra 900). The default is "5" which corresponds to a Mac IIci. ![]() Specifies the Macintosh model ID that Basilisk II should report to MacOS. For each keyword, the meaning of the "value" string may vary across platforms. The preferences file is a text file editable with any text editor.Įach line in this file has the format "keyword value" and describes one preferences item. The preferences file can be elsewhere if Basilisk starts with the -config parameter. If no preferences file is present, Basilisk II will create one with the default settings upon startup. Basilisk II is configured via the preferences file, which is a text file usually stored in the home directory of the user as so: ~/.basilisk_ii_prefs. ![]() ![]() Other examples of OCD themes may include: Like people with loss-of-control OCD, you might spend a lot of time seeking reassurance that you are not a sexually violent person.Įven though some subtypes of OCD are more common than others, OCD can be rooted in any idea that causes you to experience repetitive, unwanted, and intrusive thoughts. It’s important to remember that if you have unwanted-sexual-thoughts OCD, you don’t actually want to do these things. Because these sexual thoughts are considered taboo, this adds to the stigma and shame surrounding this type of OCD. In fact, people with this type of OCD are very distressed by these thoughts and typically engage in a lot of reassurance compulsions to make sure they aren’t actually a pedophile. The key here is unwanted thoughts, which means that having these thoughts does not make you a pedophile. ![]() What is included in this type of OCD is pedophilia OCD, which relates to unwanted, intrusive thoughts about pedophilia. (Just to be clear, this is not the same thing as compulsive sexual disorder, which involves acting on repetitive sexual urges and impulses, leading to sexual behavior that is harmful to you or others.) Someone who has these unwanted intrusive thoughts might experience obsessions related to sexual aggressiveness, violence, or even incest. Families and schools can help children manage stress by being part of the therapy process and learning how to respond supportively without accidentally making obsessions or compulsions more likely to happen again.Unwanted-sexual-thoughts OCD involves the fear of having or acting on forbidden, perverse, or taboo sexual thoughts. ![]() Behavior therapy alone can be effective, but some children are treated with a combination of behavior therapy and medication. Behavior therapy for OCD can involve gradually exposing children to their fears in a safe setting this helps them learn that bad things do not really occur when they don’t do the behavior, which eventually decreases their anxiety. ![]() Behavior therapy, specifically cognitive-behavioral therapy, helps the child change negative thoughts into more positive, effective ways of thinking, leading to more effective behavior. Treatments can include behavior therapy and medication. Anxiety or depression and disruptive behaviors may also occur with OCD. The mental health professional should also determine whether someone with OCD has a current or past tic disorder. A comprehensive evaluation by a mental health professional will determine if the anxiety or distress involves memories of a traumatic event that actually happened, or if the fears are based on other thoughts or beliefs. The first step to treatment is to talk with a healthcare provider to arrange an evaluation. Learn about the guidelines for diagnosing and treating OCD Obsessions and compulsions can also change over time. Sometimes, OCD behaviors may involve cleaning, but many times someone with OCD is too focused on one thing that must be done over and over, rather than on being organized. ![]() However, the behavior is not typically connected to actual danger of something bad happening, or the behavior is extreme, such as washing hands multiple times per hour.Ī common myth is that OCD means being really neat and orderly.
![]() ![]() The iPassword widget helps to alleviate this risk by randomly generating stings of text and numbers (at a character length of your choice), which you can use as passwords when you sign up for new accounts on the web. They can be easily cracked, which leaves your online accounts open to hackers. It keeps you updated on the latest widgets by grabbing the feed from Apple’s website to display the 20 most recently posted Dashboard widgets.įor some security freaks, a simple word-based password is the equivalent of a technology sin. If you’re always looking to make new additions to your Dashboard, this is the perfect widget for you. ![]() The Time Machine Buddy widget will display the system logs generated by each backup, whether they are in progress or already completed. For others like me, a little more information is good to have. For most people, that’s exactly what they want. Time Machine is an excellent feature introduced in Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, but it doesn’t give users much feedback in terms of what’s going on behind the scenes. ![]() It’s fairly challenging and has decent graphics, so it’s definitely worth a try. It’s a fun little time-waster where you navigate your spaceship through an obstacle course of asteroids to pass through a series of loops before time runs out. Asteroid Run 2 has me hooked for some reason, though. I don’t normally like games on my Dashboard because they suck up system resources and fill valuable screen real estate. QwikConvert, however, is incredibly fast and offers a ton of conversions that update as you type. You can even view by category and search the database.Īpple bundles a widget called Unit Converter with the Mac operating system, but it’s a bit clunky and slow to work with. When you need a good reference for shortcuts, the xCuts widget will probably have what you’re looking for - right on your Dashboard. Remembering all the keyboard shortcuts Mac OS X has to offer is just about impossible. Lesser known songs lyrics may not be available, but for the vast majority of popular music it works great. All you need to do is play a song in iTunes, launch Dashboard, and the lyrics will automatically display and copy right into iTunes. Harmonic makes it extremely easy to get lyrics to your favorite songs. This widget will quickly get album cover art from Amazon’s large database for the currently selected songs in iTunes. If a song or album isn’t for sale in iTunes, no cover art for you. ITunes automatically downloads album cover art for your music, but only if you have an iTunes account and if they sell the music in your library. At a glance you can check your CPU & RAM usage, available hard drive space, network status & speeds, internal temperatures, fan speed, battery levels, current processes, and more - all with a great, elegantly designed interface. The ultimate widget to get an overview of everything that’s going on with your Mac. Of course, not everybody’s favorite can be included so if there’s one you feel should be added to the list, let us know in the comments! Our list of 12 must-have widgets covers a wide range of categories, which should appeal to pretty much everyone looking to get the most out of their Mac experience. With that said, a good widget can be both fun and useful. Most Dashboard widgets are useless pieces of crap. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In 2001, Atkinson reportedly came to the rescue when the pilot of his private plane passed out mid-flight, handling the controls until the pilot revived. In 2017, he became a father for the third time, this time with actress girlfriend Louise Ford. They had two children before divorcing in late 2015. In 1990, Atkinson married wife Sunetra, a makeup artist. Bean character in a comedy sketch at the opening ceremony of the 2012 Summer Olympic Games.Ītkinson's other film credits include Bean: the Ultimate Disaster Movie (1997), Johnny English (2003) and Keeping Mum (2005). The successful comedy series was adapted for film in 1997. In 1990, Atkinson starred as his originally developed character Mr. The success of Blackadder spurred the creation of the TV specials Blackadder's Christmas Carol and Blackadder: The Cavalier Years-both of which aired in 1988. He then landed parts on such television shows as Not the Nine O'Clock News (1979-1982), Blackadder (1983-1989) and The Thin Blue Line (1995-1996). In 1981, Atkinson became the youngest performer to star in a one-man show in the West End.Ītkinson later appeared in theatrical productions like The Nerd (1984), The New Revue (1986) and The Sneeze (1988). In 1979, Atkinson wrote for and starred in the BBC's Not the Nine O'clock News. Soon, he was entertaining at theater clubs and on comedy shows for BBC Radio 3. He got his start performing sketches while studying at Oxford, first appearing in Oxford revues at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Atkinson studied at Newcastle University and Oxford University and earned a master's degree in electrical engineering. Rowan Sebastian Atkinson was born on January 6, 1955, in Newcastle upon Tyne, England. Bean was adapted for film in 1997 and enjoyed wide success. Bean on the television series of the same name. In 1990, he starred as his originally developed character Mr. He later landed a role on the television series Blackadder and subsequent spin-off TV specials. In 1979, Rowan Atkinson wrote for and starred in the BBC's Not the Nine O'clock News. ![]() ![]() ![]() That’s all well and good for someone like yours truly, who is definitely not a mastering engineer and whose mixing skills are still a work in progress to say the least. Check out these before and after results in the first of two Soundcloud playlists. Individual parts seemed to stand out more, and for what it’s worth, the overall loudness was pumped up (less so for the tracks that were done at the Low or Med intensity levels). There’s no doubt that for the several of our own remixes that we fed into LANDR, they came back out with more clarity and intensity in the bass and high-end, with less muddiness overall. Changing the intensity level of LANDR’s processing. The whole process only took about six minutes per song, including uploading a WAV, getting the master preview, choosing the intensity level and then receiving and downloading the mastered WAV. ![]() Once you choose the intensity level, you just choose the format you want (MP3 or WAV) and finish. Those intensity levels vary the amount of what’s happening in the master, including bumps up in the perceived loudness and the clarification of different parts in different frequency ranges so that they stand out more. However, if you have any of the paid memberships, you can change the “intensity” of the master to Low, Med or High. If you have a free membership, you don’t have any other options, and you click a finish button for a download link to the track to be emailed to you. You simply drag an audio file to the web page (or choose a file from your computer’s directory), and when it’s finished uploading, LANDR begins processing.Īfter about a minute, a clip of the result starts to play and toggles over to the original for you to compare. We tried out the LANDR system, and it was extremely easy to use. Business – Unlimited 192kbps MP3 and unlimited WAV for multiple artists for $29/month (intended for labels, production houses, managers, etc.).Pro Unlimited – Unlimited 192kbps MP3 and unlimited WAV for $19/month.Pro – Unlimited 192kbps MP3 and 4 uncompressed WAV master per month for $9/month.Free – Unlimited 192kbps MP3 files (no WAV masters). ![]() In the near future, MixGenius plans on adding more audio formats to LANDR, but for now it outputs either uncompressed WAV or 192kbps MP3 from its drag-and-drop web interface. Since launching in May, LANDR has pulled more than 100,000 users, both at the free level and paid subscriptions. Montreal, Canada’s MixGenius sprung up in 2012 from the founder’s 8+ years of research on a doctoral dissertation. When you may not have the time or the money for a mastering engineer, you can use LANDR on a new track before you play it in a set, on a DJ mix, or to see how it sounds on a single sample or an individual track of a project. ![]() LANDR can be useful as it’s own thing, rather than a literal replacement for traditional mastering.In the last couple of decades, we’ve seen digital processes do things with audio that a previous generation may have never thought possible: treating audio “elastically,” real-time pitch correction, the breaking down of polyphonic audio files into their smaller component parts, etc. There are two clear reasons why not to dismiss LANDR automatically. The idea that a small company could offer an alternative to the time-honored craft of audio mastering in the form of dynamic algorithms that return a processed file online in a matter of minutes simply seemed too impossible to believe. That’s why when MixGenius launched LANDR in May, many people greeted it with eye rolls, chortles or outright derision. A lot of mastering these days takes place entirely in software with high-end plug-in suites, but engineers will also still use outboard processing, often utilizing all-time classic studio gear. While plenty of artists master their own material, many of them-even, or especially at the highest level-never really learn the skill and prefer to use dedicated mastering engineers who are both highly educated and experienced with the art and science of mastering. That can include making it punchy or more dynamic, more or less bassy, altering the stereo image, adding multi-band compression/limiting and/or EQ and just in general making it sound “better.” It’s the somewhat esoteric process of taking a mixed-down stereo file and processing it to make it ready for distribution. The mastering of audio can make fools out of even highly experienced music producers. Hear the results and enter an Ellen Allien remix contest for a chance to win a free year of LANDR and other huge prizes. But is that really possible, or is it too good to be true? We test the service and invite a professional mastering engineer to pit his results against the automated LANDR results. Whether you use it on finished stereo productions, individual song tracks, samples or full DJ sets, the LANDR algorithms master WAV or MP3 files. LANDR is a new online service that offers to master your music files in just moments. ![]() |