I think it's kind of cool that SPG does this, especially when I realized that these big words are actually very useful.
Pronunciation:
per-ni-cious
Definition:
Having a harmful effect, especially in a gradual or subtle way
As used in a sentence:
The pernicious influences of mass media
Learned some new trick with these brands: Ctrl-Alt-S will show you system information such as Product model, system BIOS version, and many more.
I've received the error message a couple of times now about the 90D-System Temperature Message at boot time since I set it to boot up automatically in the morning at 6AM to run the Printer/Copier meter reading server.
Looked it up, looks like a common issue, that the error maybe shown in error. All that's needed is just to do a BIOS upgrade (from 2.02 to 2.07 in my case).
www.facebook.com/cosmicartphotography/posts/1159629520807293
"HOW DOES IT FEEL"
It has to be love if you freeze your ass at night while you are doing nothing sensible next to the camera and looking up at the sky! You could think that. And for a few moments that is completely true. But in winter, the biggest part is to demand everything from yourself. Picture by picture, you fight with the desire to go home in the warm room! The cold slowly creeps into your body, the joints become stiff, the movements slow down.
But after hours in the cold, when you press the first time on the button on the camera and see on the display what you have just recorded, then you feel after the first cry of joy only love and heat! So also last night when I photographed the setting Andromeda, my personal favorite subject in the night sky. Until today Nothing fascinated me more and made me dream like this picture which offers us here in Vals winter after winter. Sateltilöckli and the Andromeda, a true love story
Tech specs:
D500, 200-500mm f5.6 @ 200mm Eq-6pro M-Gen
20 x 300s iso800 (sky)
24x60s iso1600 (earth)
8h (Andromeda close up / Ts 70mm APO )
Lr & Ps
Vals, 1300masl
-11 ° C
© Sandro Casutt February 14, 2018
Despite his theological disaster in his later years, I consider him a great man of God. And moreover, his wife Ruth, whom I admire more than him, was the unsung heroine known only to a few, minus Billy himself and the feminists. Here's the tribute from Franklin Graham's FB page to both of them:
There are those who are still adamant that Billy's a false teacher. My response to that is easy: attack where the error lies, attack fiercely, but spare a man's history, spare him fairly. No doubt all would admit that he was a great man of God in his younger days.
Therefore, learn to boldly pursue, catch and crush all false and slippery doctrines, however, be not unctuous for nor against a person's achievement in admiration or in jealous damnation, lest when you fall in his weakness and he repents suddenly and by God's command, rebukes you like that old prophet in Bethel (1 Kings 13).
There is a kind of shallowness in this reality show by John Quiñones the host.
The social experiments take heated controversies (interracial relationships, gay marriage, prayer in public, immigration, etc.) of the day and play them out before the public via actors, just to see how the public would react. One can find these videos easily on YouTube.
Interesting experiment, but when analyzed deeper, it's not really about these controversies that were being experimented on, they were always merely about "tolerance of rudeness" in disguise. In other words, whoever in the rude chair will lose. The logical fallacy is an Appeal to Pity instead of really dealing with the controversial topics at heart. Hence, this is not a fair experiment, the host could easily choose either side to stand out looking triumph by making it the victim of rudeness.
For such an interesting experiment, Quiñones could have done a better job at it.
Last Sunday was my first time attending this church, finally.
It's the mecca of many gospel singers, charismatic pride, etc.
There's one song (only one) which I will post next week, that I liked. Can't remember the title, can't get it for now.
They have free 1-week delayed webcast online of their Sunday Services.
One can see qualitative effort has been put into the choir, more than most other huge charismatic choir groups.
Pastor Jim Cymbala, the senior/founding pastor, preaches most of the times. It would appear that his family (daughter & granddaughter) has special seating in the music box to my left. One would think that this is privilege too much. He also mentioned he bought a bunch of houses in his sermons. One would think that he's really rich. I don't usually jump to conclusion on this until I listen to their sermons.
This is not the extreme charismatic church where you hear speaking of tongues everywhere. It's the typical traditional black-Gospel type of church with much diversity in ethnicity. Well decorated interior design. Compared to this, the Time Square Church (another charismatic church) appears more gloomy in their grand theatrical opera house style. In BT, there are three big screen TVs which show close up of the stage during service and subtitles during lots of their gospel singing. Before the service, the TVs show some promotion either of the church, ministries or occasional non-church commercials. Everyone danced, clapped, cheered during their sermon & worship songs. These are all fine with me.
Now, on the sermon, Pastor Cymbala began his sermon (there were no scriptural reading) with David vs. Hanun from 2 Samuel 10. And moved on to his topic: The wisdom in taking advice. Then he went on and on about how fools do not take advice. He was smart enough to included himself as such fool at some point, where the congregation had some fun with him. In the end, he spoke of a time when some pastor invited him and thanked him to preach at their church. Later Cymbala was asked by this pastor to comment on their church. After a few criticism (music leader can't sing, make singing shorter, etc.) he was blasted by that pastor. He was also smart enough to keep a balance and note that "we do not just take anyone's advice" with no elaboration on it even though he made it seem like he explained it (he could easily have return to the biblical passage he began with on this - Hanun's advisers). So, bottom line, he just wanted to focus on attacking those who do not listen to any advice, instead of how to take good advice. In fact, the way he clever put that last testimony about the pastor who couldn't take his advice, made me wonder if he's "preaching" on this as a result of that hurt.
Obviously, the "crowd" loved his sermon. Puritanboard had mentioned that Cymbala hates Calvinists. I wonder, how much of a "teachable heart" he would have in theology...or is he only "teachable" in areas of real estates or rocket science?
I don't mind returning to this church, because of their choir. My wife mentioned that one of their song: Victory is Mine, is problematic, for Victory is only God's. 1John 5:4 would probably be their go to defense. Though, my wife has a point. A lot of charismatic church problem is this: Self-centered faith rather than God centered one. Every thing they praise about God is actually a praise to themselves in disguise: God is so good to me! I am so blessed! Every prayer of mine answered! Faith works!
Comparison:
Reformed 5 solas response: understatements! God is always good to me for He is merciful, I must therefore fear the Lord and kiss the Son! Glory be to God almighty!
Looking at the numbers, the congregants around, I would imagine Pastor Cymbala is a kind hearted person, despite his critical lack of theology and perhaps some attitude problem. I do admire him when he told someone off in the front rows during his sermon: "Put that away, this is a church now". It seemed that someone was taking a photo? I highly doubt that a church with this kind of worship style would ban people from using Bible on their electronic devices. Nevertheless, the congregants at BT are like great herd of sheep without a shepherd. This is the feeling I come away with.
Nadia and I plan for vacation during the 2nd & 3rd week of April this year. Italy: Venice, Florence & Rome.
Everything pertaining to the tour will be in this entry.
Plan:
Venice:
Florence:
Rome:
Colosseum
Temple of Venus and Rome
Colossus of Nero
Roman Forum
Orch of Constantine
Qaua Claudia
Septizodium
Circus Maximus
Palatine Hill
Source: http://www.msoutlooktools.com/category/email/sound-effects/disable-for-specific-account.html
Uncheck "Display a New Mail Desktop Alert" in Outlook > File > Options > Mail > ...
Then create a Mail rule that does Display New Mail Desktop Alert with the account in question as an exception.
I'm trying to make my journal more visual appealing: photos and videos and pdf, etc.
Obviously, these will consume more data and I may hit some storage limit in the not so near future.
However, that's not my major concern. My major concern is that since these aren't stored locally, I am relying and trusting on the stability and longevity of the hosts of my pictures and videos. Therefore, I will make local copies of these media files that I think are more important.
Local storage will be on the external HDD usb drive(s), in the Photos/Videos folder, mostly, basically with file name based on the date of posting.
This are photos from my testing with Beijing last Friday, for NYGC which was trying to do remote class with China. Looks like the Chinese version of Tokbox is not bad. Drew my interest in P2P video streaming technology.
