duminică, 14 martie 2021

A apărut Revista Creștină ATITUDINI Nr. 68


 

A apărut Revista Ortodoxă ATITUDINI Nr. 68

 

Comenzi sau Abonamente se pot face completând formularul de aici , la adresa de

email: atitudini.pv@gmail.com sau la numărul de telefon: 0785 018 852.

 

SUMAR

 

Editorial

DAN GRĂJDEANU: AVEM DREPTUL
SĂ NE APĂRĂM COPIII ÎMPOTRIVA
SEXUALIZĂRII JUVENILE!

6. CONSTANTIN RODAS – MĂRTURISITORUL NEÎNVINS, CU SUFLET DE COPIL ȘI SÂNGE DE MARTIR

20. TACHE RODAS: CUVINTE DE FOLOS ÎNCREDINȚATE MAICILOR DE LA MĂNĂSTIREA PALTIN PETRU-VODĂ

25. PĂRINTELE JUSTIN PÂRVU: CUVINTE DUHOVNICEȘTI
„A FUGI DE SUFERINȚĂ ÎNSEAMNĂ A LEPĂDA CRUCEA LUI HRISTOS“

29. DR. LUMINIȚA ȘIPOȘ: DOR DE PĂRINTELE JUSTIN, SFÂNTUL ROMÂN CU OCHII DE CER

31. PĂRINTELE GAVRIIL, STAREȚUL MĂNĂSTIRII AIUD: „SĂ VĂ ÎNCĂRCAȚI ORI DE CÂTE ORI AVEȚI POSIBILITATEA, DE ACEST HAR DE LA AIUD, ACUM AVÂNDU-L ȘI PE BĂDIA TACHE AICI, LA RÂPA ROBILOR!“

39. DE VORBĂ CU DR. PSIHIATRU GALINA RĂDULEANU: „NOI AM DEZLĂNȚUIT STIHIILE, RĂUL S-A DEZLĂNȚUIT
ȘI AM CREAT DEZECHILIBRE ÎN NATURĂ“

49. VASILE IAMANDI, LUPTĂTOR ANTICOMUNIST: „SĂ CREZI, SĂ SPERI, SĂ AJUȚI ȘI SĂ IUBEȘTI!“

56 IN MEMORIAM PĂRINTELE PROCLU NICĂU
„AM CUNOSCUT SFINȚI“

62. PĂRINȚI DUHOVNICEȘTI DESPRE VACCINUL ANTI-COVID ȘI BIRUINȚA ASUPRA BOLII

71. EFECTELE PSIHOLOGICE ALE MĂSURILOR DE DISTANȚARE ANTI-COVID
de Anișoara Melnic

75. FAȚA NEVĂZUTĂ A VACCINĂRII ANTI-COVID ÎN OPINIA UNOR EXPERȚI DIN LUMEA MEDICALĂ

82. VACCINUL ÎMPOTRIVA CORONAVIRUSULUI ȘI DEMISTIFICAREA LUI
de Monahul Pavel Aghioritul, doctor în biologie moleculară și biomedicină

89. ASPAZIA OȚEL PETRESCU: „O IUBIRE CARE DĂ TOTUL
ȘI CARE NU CERE NIMIC. UN OM CARE POATE SĂ IUBEASCĂ ÎN FELUL ACESTA, ESTE INTANGIBIL“

96. SFÂNTUL CARE MI-A SCHIMBAT VIAȚA: PĂRINTELE EVGHENIE HULEA
de Gabriel-Andrei Timofte

99. ÎNALTUL ÎNALT ȘI SF. M. MC. MERCURIE
de Marcel Bouruș

 

sâmbătă, 27 ianuarie 2018

A apărut Revista Ortodoxă ATITUDINI Nr. 53 dedicată Părintelui Dimitrie Bejan - ATITUDINI - Revista Fundatiei Justin Parvu

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A apărut Revista Ortodoxă ATITUDINI Nr. 53 dedicată Părintelui Dimitrie Bejan - ATITUDINI - Revista Fundatiei Justin Parvu: A apărut Revista Ortodoxă ATITUDINI Nr. 53 dedicată Părintelui Dimitrie Bejan Comenzi sau Abonamente se pot face completând formularul de aici , la adresa de email: atitudini.pv@gmail.com sau la numărul de telefon: 0785 018 852. SUMAR  4 PĂRINTELE DIMITRIE BEJAN, FERICITUL PĂTIMITOR ...

marți, 12 decembrie 2017

Amazon Alexa can now wake you up to music


This fall, Amazon made a play to become your new alarm clock with the introduction of a combination smart speaker and clock called the Echo Spot. Today, the company is adding a new feature that will make the Spot – or any other Alexa device – function more like a traditional radio alarm clock, with the introduction of music alarms.
According to Amazon, Alexa device owners can now choose to wake up to music from their preferred streaming service, including Amazon’s own Prime Music or Amazon Music Unlimited, as well as others supported by its devices, including Spotify, Pandora, TuneIn, SiriusXM and iHeartRadio.
The feature works similarly to how you request music today via Alexa – that is, you can ask for artist names, songs, playlists, genres, or even by song lyrics, in the case that you don’t know the song’s title.
The lyrics feature, as well as requests for music by mood or for specific activities, only works with Amazon Music, however.
For example, you can request alarms like “pop music for running at 5 AM” or “the song that goes ‘I’ve paid my dues time after time’ at 7 AM” suggests Amazon. You can also request to be woken up to music genres like rock, pop, 80s music and others, specific songs, or music from favorite artists. Or, if you just want to be woken up to anything but an alarm, you can ask Alexa to simply wake you up at a given time to “music.”
The alarm feature also doesn’t have to be configured every night. If you wake up at the same time, you can ask Alexa to wake you up “every day” at a certain time.
To configure the alarm, you speak commands such as “Alexa, wake me up at…”, “wake me up to…,” or “set an alarm,” says Amazon.
The feature will work on any Alexa-powered device, not just Amazon Echo smart speakers, the company says. The only exception is Fire TV, which doesn’t support alarms because TVs are typically powered off at night.
The company notes the ability to set music alarms was a top-requested feature from Alexa device owners, which is why it’s rolling out the addition today.
The change, though somewhat minor, makes buying an additional Echo device for the bedroom something more people may consider. Amazon had targeted this market in particular with the Echo Spot alarm clock’s launch, though many customers had already begun using the smaller Echo Dot in their bedroom before its arrival.
Amazon has been heavily pushing its Echo hardware line this holiday season, with deep discounts during the Black Friday sales holiday, which made the Echo Dot a best seller. The company is now continuing to offer reduced prices on almost all Echo devices, including the Echo Show, Echo Plus, new Echo, and Echo Dot.

miercuri, 6 decembrie 2017

Colind Basarabean cântat de maicile de la Petru Vodă



Versuri Colind Basarabean:   

Tu ești lumina cea sfântă
Precistă blagoslovită
Că ai născut pre Fiul Sfânt
Oamenilor pre pământu’.

Tu ești cinste îngerească
Și slavă apostolească
Biruința sihăstrească,
Nădejdea călugărească.

La toți sfinții ești cunună
Cu Cocon Fiu împreună
Toți se satură cu tine
De Dumnezeiasca pâine

Tu ești izvor de viață
Adăpi bine cu dulceață
Și ești Maica adevarată
C-ai nascut Fiu făr’de tată.

Sursa: Revista ATITUDINI
Mai întai și mai cinstită
Decât soarele mai sfânta
Întru totul ești sfințită
De David ești proroocită

De-nțeleptul Solomon
Și de Sfântul Ghedeon
Ești ieslea sălășluită
Și cartea pecetluită
 
Cartea ne scrie cu drepții
Unde doresc înțelepții
Și de-acum până-n vecie
Mila Domnului să fie.

sâmbătă, 25 noiembrie 2017

OnePlus 5T makes the best deal in smartphones even better


Three years and seven phones later, it’s hard to argue with OnePlus’s methods. That’s not to say it hasn’t made its share of missteps along the way (it definitely has), but the company has produced quality phones at affordable prices basically since day one.
OnePlus’s whole “never settle” tagline is less about offering up handsets that live on the bleeding edge than it is giving smartphone buyers the bet bang for their buck. It’s an increasingly important service as flagships start to push right up against the $1,000 mark.
User feedback has always been an important piece of OnePlus’s business model. The company fostered initial interest through an activity message board and an invite-only system, and much of that connection appears to still be intact, seven phones in. The company didn’t rush to include any features on the 5T — many like Portrait Mode and the 18:9 aspect ratio have already been a staple in flagship smartphones for six months or a year.
The company makes no bones about waiting to add features, nor does its rush to drop them for the sake of future-proofing. Case in point, the headphone jack. After a Twitter poll from co-founder Carl Pei found that fans overwhelmingly wanted the headphone jack to stick around, the company’s phones have continued to support the port.
The result, in the case of the OnePlus 5T, is a phone that ticks just about all of the necessary boxes for most Android users. While it’s true that the handset won’t elicit the same sort of high-end phone envy as the latest handsets from companies like Samsung, the 5T is a utilitarian device in the best possible way. It doesn’t push any limits or break any ground, but it offers premium or near-premium specs in a nice package for an accessible starting price of $499 — roughly half of what that shiny new iPhone will cost you.

Utilitarian unibody


It’s clear at first sight that we’re not dealing with anything too fancy here. There’s none of the flash of Samsung Galaxy or iPhone X in the 5T’s design. It’s sturdy though, and still pretty fetching, with an aluminum unibody that still hasn’t gone out of style, as much as bigger handset makers rush each year to one-up it.
The unit we got is “midnight black,” a pretty apt name for a handset with no color accents to break up the darkness. Of course, OnePlus always offers up a zillion different cases to dress the thing up — and add a little protection. Though, keep in mind, unlike most other flagships, there’s no waterproofing on-board — so the company remains a bit behind on that sensible trend.
And while the display has stretched out toward the sides and top, it’s not quite the edge-to-edge offered on higher-end flagships. Though the company did use this generation to do away with the home button like much of the competition, moving the fingerprint reader to the back of the device, and introducing face unlock in the process. The company’s managed to cram a six-inch screen into a moderately sized footprint.
And it’s a lovely display at that. The company opted for a Samsung-designed OLED. It really pops, with bright colors and not any of the drab muddying you’ll find on Google’s somewhat ill-fated Pixel 2 screen. It’s yet another element that belies the product’s totally reasonable price tag.

Camera ready


Like much the rest of the phone, the camera system is less rethinking than refinement. The dual rear-facing cameras are intact — kind of, sort of. Which is to say, the main lens remains unchanged, but the second, optical zoom has been swapped out in favor of one that does better in low light. That means this is one spot where OnePlus will, in fact, make you settle. Getting in tighter on an image means using digital zoom, which, in turn, means a degraded image.
It’s a bummer, but life, as they say is full of compromise. If you’re really missing it this time out, consider buying an Olioclip or some other third-party exterior clip-on lens. Personally, I think the company made the right call here. The low-light performance has been noticeably improved, and I suspect that impacts more users on a day to day basis, cutting out a lot of the noise you get when not shooting a photo in perfect daylight conditions.
Also new is Portrait Mode — another one of those features you’ve been seeing on flagships for a while now. The OnePlus 5 had the feature earlier this year, but the results were pretty widely panned. The 5T’s version is more subtle and, as a result, better. It’s still not quite on par with the highest-end flagships, but does a solid job mimicking the bokeh effect and highlighting its subjects.

Interior design


The 5T’s got a Snapdragon 835, just like its predecessor — a chipset that makes it competitive with other flagships. The handset handle tasks like a champ. The standard 6GB of RAM should be plenty for most users, but another $60 will bump that up to 8GB, and will double the 64GB of storage to 128GB. It’s worth considering, as there’s no expandable storage here, and because, hey, it’s still a pretty good deal.
The battery’s the same 3,300 mAh you’ll find in its predecessor, coupled with the company’s own super-quick Dash Charging tech. You should be able to get a day’s worth of use easy on a single charge, and can go from zero to nothing in about an hour.

The best deal in smartphones


It’s true that the 5T is mostly a refinement over its predecessor — but that’s to be expected, given the fact that it’s only been about six months since the OnePlus 5 hit the market. And besides, that was a great phone that’s been made even better. Sure, the 5T isn’t for those who need a phone to impress the neighbors, but you’re certainly not going to find a better deal for the price.
And given all of the stumbles companies like Google and Samsung have had attempting to stay on the bleeding edge, there’s also something to be said for not being too eager to be the first one to embrace a technology — or drop a headphone jack.

Source: TechCrunch

vineri, 24 noiembrie 2017

The Moto Z’s Alexa Smart Speaker is mostly useless


The Moto Z is a phone built around a strong gimmick, but it’s a gimmick nonetheless. A little over a year after release, the company has added some interesting Mods to its selection, but none have offered an entirely compelling justification for the phone’s modular system.
That certainly applies to the new Alexa Smart Speaker. On the face of it, the addition is a no-brainer, riding on the surprising success of Amazon’s home assistant. The Mod brings the popular AI to the Moto Z, while turning the phone into a sort of makeshift version of the Amazon Echo.
Sounds good, right? And the Mod is surprisingly well-crafted — but there’s one key hangup with the add-on: its price. At $150, a lot of the handiness of having an add-on that turns your phone into an Echo kind of goes out the window. That, after all, is $50 more than the second-generation Echo — and the same price as the Echo Plus. Heck, it’s $20 more than the Echo Spot, which also has a screen built in.
For those who can get around the price tag, the Smart Speaker is an interesting addition to the Mod selections. And the press images don’t really do it any justice. It’s got a nice cloth-covered design, with a flat base that lets you prop it to the Moto Z, so you can view the display, without muffling the speaker output.
Like the Echo, the ring around the base glows blue when you speak the wake word. It’s a lot easier to see with the screen facing down, but that kind of defeats the whole purpose of using the speaker with your phone. As for the speaker itself, well, it’s not great. It beats the phone’s built-in sound system in terms of both quality and volume, but it gets distorted fast and is really no replacement for a standalone Bluetooth speaker.

As with other mods, the handset recognizes the accessory immediately when plugged in, though you’ll need to download a special Moto Alexa app to use it. You also need to make sure you’ve got the SIM card installed in the phone or it won’t go to work. The app has some of Alexa’s new functionality — you can customize it to recognize only your voice, for example. But I couldn’t take advantage of the screen by using it to play video off of Amazon Prime.
The accessory is pretty good at listening. I was able to trigger it at a low volume from several feet away, so you can, say, access it while it’s charging. Beyond that, I’m having a bit of difficulty coming up with too many scenarios in which this phone + smart speaker configuration is particularly useful. Frequent travelers who miss their Echo when they leave it at home, perhaps?

Really, the Alexa Smart Speaker highlights the larger issue with most of these Mods. It’s a neat system, but the benefits of having it tied to a modular phone are, at best, minimal. And the fact that the Mods so often cost more than the products they’re designed to replace doesn’t help much, either. 

Source: TechCrunch

joi, 23 noiembrie 2017

Tesla completes the world’s largest battery for Australian wind farm


Tesla has managed to deliver something on time, even if it \’s falling behind its projections for the Model 3 electric car: It has completed production of a massive battery farm in South Australia, which is designed to capture and store energy produced by a wind farm and distribute it to the grid when it’s needed most, in an effort to curb frequent summer blackouts.
The Tesla battery facility can provide power to around 30,000 homes for over an hour when at full capacity, and it will be coming online within the next few days, with final testing underway to make sure the completed facility is ready to roll. The battery farm has a total capacity of 100 megawatts, which makes it the largest overall in the world.
The Wall Street Journal reports that while it’ll be offering backup power during its final testing phase over the next few weeks, it’s going to face its first significant stress tests beginning when Australian summer hits, between December and March. That’s when temperatures soar, and the energy system is taxed as residents crank up the AC and otherwise try to compensate for the blistering heat.
Tesla’s test with this facility isn’t just about dealing with the Australian summer, however – it’ll be a key proof point in helping prove out the long-term viability of renewable energy sources as a realistic total replacement for traditional, less environmentally friendly means of supplying the grid.

Source: TechCrunch