Vocab: Excoriate

Kathy’s Word of the Week (12/17/2018)

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excoriate

Pronunciation:
ex-co-ri-ate

Definition:
censure or criticize severely

the papers that had been excoriating him were now lauding him

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The Move

On Thursday, November 15, 2018, we officially closed our first house.

On the 17th, the moving company came, at around 10:30AM, finished moving everything to South Amboy within 2 hours. The Chinese mover's rate jumped from the estimated $250 price to $500 (including tolls & tips), which is still cheaper than the average $700-$800 market rate. These two movers (one of them the boss) did a great job. And then we're officially living in South Amboy.

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Windows 7 installation stuck at Completing Installation...

Solution:

SHIFT-F10 for command prompt, then type: explorer.exe

After that, task bar should appear for restart purpose. But in my case, system began to restart before task bar even shows up.

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Unsubscribing all Redeemer's Newsletters

Now that Tim & Kathy Keller's presence is gone for good. Michael Keller's following the others' example. It's clear that it's either soliciting donations or posting non-interactive mass faux mails/newsletters with contents I could easily get from any postmodern Christian journals.

Time to start unsubscribing them all as they come in. I just did with West83's and City to City.

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The Borderline of Right and Wrong in Retaliation

“If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared.” - Niccolo Machiavelli

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Vocab: Diatribe

Kathy’s Word of the Week (12/10/2018)

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diatribe

Pronunciation:
di-a-tribe

Definition:
a bitter and abusive speech or piece of writing

repeated diatribes against the senator

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Ben Shapiro & John MacArthur

It truly astounded me when this happened. Ben Shapiro, an orthodox Jew whose fame comes from his public conservative stand against the public left, strongly clinging to his Jewish heritage, greatly admired by and admiring his Christian friends, now, interviewed John MacArthur, famous pastor who stood on biblical ground since Larry King's interview.

Apart from MacArthur's firm advocacy for dispensationalim (originalist), his consistency on the Gospel to whomever he speaks to (Ben) is rare and commands respect from fellow Christians, those who love the name of our Lord.

This exchange serves as a means for those who are interested in communicating the Gospel to the Jews.

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Vocab: Punctilious

Kathy’s Word of the Week (11/19/2018)

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punctilious

Pronunciation:
punc-til-i-ous

Definition:
showing great attention to detail or correct behavior

He was punctilious in providing every amenity for his guests.

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Finally, There's really going to be a Ferry between South Amboy and Manhattan

This is good. Not good for my sea-sick wife, but very good for me.

I wonder how much the ferry fare will be...hopefully not too expensive. A 40 minute ferry ride from Amboy to Wall Street/South Manhattan. Not too bad. I love ferries. Love the sea.

I was afraid that this long awaited project was shut down, cancelled. But apparently, we should have ferry service by 2020. If this works out, that means South Amboy's property value will rise.

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Chrome: Your Connection is Not Private

This can be bypassed by clicking on the Advanced button at the bottom of the message page.

However, in many cases, this is due to expired SSL certification or that the certification needs update. Check the error message.

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