Here are two new videos about Eagle TV’s work on Christian programming and news. Eagle TV is helping to change lives. Thanks for your prayers and support of Eagle TV. The first video profiles our ministry programming.

The second video profiles our work with news programming.

Here’s a great video piece about Eagle TV’s Steppe-by-Steppe program.

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I was given access to the roof of Central Tower in downtown UB today. I spent about an hour taking various shots of Ulaanbaatar. I also applied some “tilt-shift” effects to the images to create the illusion of miniatures. The images are on my Flicker page.

An unusual sunrise in Ulaanbaatar this morning. Color! It was -21 F and about 8:35am when I took the shot from the balcony of our apartment. This image has been tweaked to rid the effects of the usual air pollution, which surprisingly, was far less than normal. Also welcome!

Click the image for the larger version on my Flickr page.

We were warned before returning home that the pollution level in Ulaanbaatar this year seems worse than ever. After getting home I can testify that that’s true. Telltale evidence of this is the effect it has on the sunrise and sunset, as pictured here. Yeah, the sun looks great but when you consider what it takes to get the sun to look this way the romanticism of it burns away.

This is what I call a dirty sun. The color change is not caused by normal dust particles and cloud density like you find in an Arizona sunset. This is pure pollution. At times visibility is barely 100 meters. Click the image for the larger version on my Flickr site. By the way, this images was artificially adjusted to allow you to see the details more clearly. Without the adjustment, well, let’s just say it would be a lot muddier.

The effect on the moon has been the same. I’ll try to upload a moon shot later.

UPDATE: There’s way too much smoke outside to even see the moon.

New website for www.thomasterry.com.

I want to thank the thousands of visitors who have visited my main site over the last few years. Your regular reading of thomasterry.com (and terrycom.net) has been an encouragement to me.

I discontinued blogging in September when I started my sabbatical, which is scheduled to end the first week of December, if all goes well. As most of my friends and regular supporters know, I’m in Arizona under some medical treatment—which I may blog about later.

In the meantime, I’ve made a transition with my Internet properties. Beginning October, 2008 this site will be my new home for all regular blog entries. My regular site at www.thomasterry.com will remain my main profile site with an RSS feed linking here. I will also blog from time to time at preachitteachit.org.

I won’t resume regular blogging for a while, but will post here from time to time until my sabbatical concludes. I’ve also begun posting selected entries from my previous blog to this one to give this site some continuity.

For more on my work in Mongolia with Eagle Television, books, and other interests, visit the main site at www.thomasterry.com.

See ya there!