Sagacious

Kathy’s Word of the Week (10/08/2018), by Lloyd

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sagacious

Pronunciation:
sa-ga-cious

Definition:
having or showing keen mental discernment and good judgement; shrewd

As used in a sentence:
They were sagacious enough to avoid any outright confrontation.

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Elevation Map

While many sites failed on promises, this is the best I've found so far:

https://elevationmap.net/

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Emailing with Telnet

All SMTP servers basically work this way. This can be done using the freeware PuTTY.

Telnet to server & port: (bold types are user input)

220 BY2NAM03FT048.mail.protection.outlook.com Microsoft ESMTP MAIL Service ready at Wed, 3 Oct 2018 23:54:21 +0000
ehlo
500 5.3.3 Unrecognized command '????' [BY2NAM03FT048.eop-NAM03.prod.protection.outlook.com]
ehlo
250-BY2NAM03FT048.mail.protection.outlook.com Hello [69.60.23.131]
250-SIZE 157286400
250-PIPELINING
250-DSN
250-ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES
250-STARTTLS
250-8BITMIME
250-BINARYMIME
250-CHUNKING
250 SMTPUTF8
mail from:<test@mafia.com>
250 2.1.0 Sender OK
rcpt to:<timlyg@yahoo.com>
250 2.1.5 Recipient OK
data
354 Please start mail input.
subject: This is the Subject Line.

this is just a test
.
250 Mail queued for delivery.
quit

 

Advanced:

For authentication, after establishing telnet connection and entered two "ehlo" commands, use the command: auth login
334 VXNlcm5hbWU6; will prompt username input, enter base64 encoded username, which is usually the full email address.
334 UGFzc3dvcmQ6; is prompted then for password, enter base64 encoded password.
The rest is the same as above.

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Clear Night Sky Map

A good light pollution map.

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Iceland - Blue Lagoon

Flight from New York to Iceland is not a big deal.

And the Blue Lagoon maybe on the must-see list. $60+ entry fee. Interesting mineral blue semi-artificial lake.

  • Best time to visit is late at night to enjoy the midnight sun in summer or the Northern Lights in winter.

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Office 365 Outlook Shared Inbox folder now appearing after added to some user

Problem: When a user is given a shared mailbox, that mailbox should automatically appear in the user's Outlook client right under the user's folder in the left panel, within a couple of hours if not minutes. But some users never see this happening, and if I add this folder manually via Account settings > More Settings > Advanced > Add Mailboxes > name of mailbox, it will usually prompt for username/password again but will keep popping such prompt as if no valid credentials are entered even when the input is correct, or, the folder will show up but clicking it will only show further error about Exchange server problem. There are similar solutions about this but it never works on my case. They were talking about turning off / on cache, uncheck / check download shared folders, etc.

I searched and searched to no avail.

Solution: Upgrade Outlook 2013 to 2016.

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Tim Keller on The Statement of Social Justice & the Gospel

Though I'm curious and have yet read the Statement, I do think Keller's could take his own medicine on his speech act criticism. That his concern is or doesn't like what the statement is doing in spite of the fact that he could agree what it's saying.

Keller is essentially questioning the motive of those evangelicals, which included John MacArthur, James White, etc. That in itself is a problem, the trust is lacking. I am almost convinced that Keller thought his movement was the only evangelical movement that focuses on social justice and thus was jealous of those who claim to be on the same page, jealous enough to criticize them.

Interestingly, I recall a very recent conversation I had with Drew, a former Redeemer pastoral staff. I asked him why Redeemer appears to treat Christians as outsiders while being very friendly to "seekers", to which his only response was "it's not about all of that, it's about what's Biblical".

Ah...1 Corinthians 1:12 never gets old. At the end of the day, it's about who pride himself of being better at doing both social justice and the Gospel.

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Bear Mountain Drone View

2018 June 09, 5PM EST.

First time drone flight on Bear Mountain. Drove to Perkins Memorial tower and hiked down. Flew drone at the famous rock plateau near the base.

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Drone Flight over Brighton Beach in Brooklyn

May 28, 2018 at 8:30pm.

From our Neptune Ave Apartment roof.

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SAS Programming

I have an entry that lists all SAS resources (Questions) that is a great resource for training.

Here, I will start with installing SAS programming environment. The SAS site offers free University version.

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