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All I once Thought Gained, I have Counted Lost
Philippians 3:7 But whatever gain I had, I counted as loss for the sake of Christ.
The gain I had before, they are nothing. The gain I have now, it is for Christ and him alone. Not both me and Him for that is a curse. But Him alone.
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Reminiscence of the Past - Port Jefferson Methodist Church
At the time, I did not know much about the American UMC theological content. I went to this small church in Port Jefferson on Main Street. Female pastor hired from China, I think. A search on google gives me a likely match: Dr. Huibing He who seems to also be an artist now.
All I remember was she loves to sing, might have some conflict with the church pianist (possibly some graduate/post grad student) at the time, but only very slightly. I also remember they were all rather friendly. Mostly elderly members. Some old white lady came to me the first day saying that she believed that "I was sent to the their church like an angel" - something like that.
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The Obnoxious Celibates
From time to time, there are those singles, regardless of their ages, usually in churches, deeming themselves to be very good with children, youth or young adults.
I'm not so easily fooled by them as many in churches do today. If a celibate claims to be good with the younglings, I would have to examine their characters as to how responsible they could be if an infant is left at their doorsteps, will they be able to raise that child, or do they prefer to just hang out with the youth, taking kids to movies and ice-creams. They even dare to give themselves the title of "single god-parents", but the truth is, single or not, no matter what, everyone will be tested on how responsible he or she is at raising a new life, not just having a few short moment of fun together.
How one reacts towards other parents, other adults? Does one only care to hang out with the youths, these are all telltale signs of one's characters in one's viewpoint of the responsibility in raising a new life.
I'm my experience, I can only recall one such person. My aunt, Christina. There are others who claim to be good with kids, but they are sorry excuses for needing TO BE NEEDED.
Posted in Theologization
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Vocab: Barber Chair (In Logging)
When tree falls, after cutting, trunk splits into many parts and risk hitting the lumberjack.
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How to Deal with Viral Fads
Never follow the emotional roller coaster ride.
Use that info for some other gain if possible - e.g. United Airlines' abuse of an airline passenger in order to make more room than their capacity recently caused one of the most viral uproar I've ever seen in social media. How one can take this news? Gossip - No. Sell UA's stock and then buy it back from the bottom the next day - very quickly.
As to better alternatives for UA:
- postpone flight until the next one's available. (passengers must sacrifice or everyone loses)
- avoid selecting passengers on urgent errands
- Better incentives (free ride one full year)
- Let staffs suffer without seating
And there are many more solutions I'm sure.
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There is a way to tell - Do you truly believe in the doctrine of Predestination - Total Depravity
I've noticed many in the Reformed Churches profess the doctrine of Predestination. However, they behave as those who have no life, as if they were Elects on papers, on some sort of contracts, but not in spirit.
The Litmus Test: Presuppositional Apologetics.
I believe I can write a longer paper on this, but it is not necessary.
The key points:
- How much DID we DENY God's Existence?
- Are we going to admit we once hated God?
- Now, when we say "All is by the Grace of God!" do we say it because it's the best answer we were told or do we truly recognize the depth of our sin, e.g. God haters, God deniers & NOT oblivious of God?
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A Way to Do Student Database between Access & MySQL
For NYGC, this would be a good upgrade.
http://dba.stackexchange.com/questions/135361/remotely-connect-to-mysql-from-ms-access
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Chess End Game I played to be analyzed
PGN format. Though I won, but the end game looks tricky.
[Event "Live Chess"]
[Site "Chess.com"]
[Date "2017.04.02"]
[White "hisuphi"]
[Black "checkychess"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "C01"]
[WhiteElo "1915"]
[BlackElo "1920"]
[TimeControl "60"]
[Termination "checkychess won by checkmate"]
[CurrentPosition "2r1r1k1/5ppp/5b2/2p5/P2p1P2/1P4qb/2PQB3/1N1RRK2 w - - 7 27"]
1.e4 {[%clk 0:01:00]} e6 {[%clk 0:01:00]} 2.Nf3 {[%clk 0:00:59]} d5 {[%clk 0:00:59]} 3.exd5 {[%clk 0:00:59]} exd5 {[%clk 0:00:59]} 4.Nc3 {[%clk 0:00:59]} Nf6 {[%clk 0:00:59]} 5.d4 {[%clk 0:00:58]} Be7 {[%clk 0:00:59]} 6.Bd3 {[%clk 0:00:58]} O-O {[%clk 0:00:59]} 7.h3 {[%clk 0:00:57]} b6 {[%clk 0:00:58]} 8.Bg5 {[%clk 0:00:57]} Bb7 {[%clk 0:00:58]} 9.Qd2 {[%clk 0:00:55]} a6 {[%clk 0:00:57]} 10.Ne5 {[%clk 0:00:54]} Re8 {[%clk 0:00:57]} 11.O-O {[%clk 0:00:52]} Nbd7 {[%clk 0:00:57]} 12.Rfe1 {[%clk 0:00:51]} c5 {[%clk 0:00:55]} 13.Nxd7 {[%clk 0:00:48]} Qxd7 {[%clk 0:00:52]} 14.Bxf6 {[%clk 0:00:45]} Bxf6 {[%clk 0:00:51]} 15.dxc5 {[%clk 0:00:45]} bxc5 {[%clk 0:00:50]} 16.Be2 {[%clk 0:00:41]} Rac8 {[%clk 0:00:50]} 17.Rad1 {[%clk 0:00:40]} d4 {[%clk 0:00:49]} 18.Nb1 {[%clk 0:00:38]} Qa4 {[%clk 0:00:43]} 19.a3 {[%clk 0:00:36]} Bd5 {[%clk 0:00:40]} 20.b3 {[%clk 0:00:34]} Qc6 {[%clk 0:00:39]} 21.a4 {[%clk 0:00:33]} Bxg2 {[%clk 0:00:38]} 22.Bxa6 {[%clk 0:00:29]} Bxh3 {[%clk 0:00:32]} 23.f4 {[%clk 0:00:25]} Qf3 {[%clk 0:00:29]} 24.Bf1 {[%clk 0:00:19]} Bg4 {[%clk 0:00:21]} 25.Be2 {[%clk 0:00:16]} Qg3+ {[%clk 0:00:20]} 26.Kf1 {[%clk 0:00:15]} Bh3# {[%clk 0:00:18]} 0-1
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How to Make VCDs
The Americans are not familiar with this: Video CD. When I first got to U.S., I asked around, nobody in the IT business knew what was a VCD...all they could relate was DVD, which was a new thing at the time, so new that I didn't know about it and actually thought that DVD was the name Americans call VCD.
Now, on to the more serious matter: It is therefore not easy to find a software that deals with VCD conversion. VCD uses mpeg1 (not mpg2) video format. The video file extension is .DAT. There are several folders on the VCD but that is just how VCD's content is structured, nothing important. After many trials and errors, this is the best procedure I've found so far:
Note: I've tried VCDGear & VCDEasy. Neither works properly. VCDGear couldn't read mpeg1 (some claims that it's due to the fact that there's distinction between mpeg-1 & mpeg-1/VCD formats). VCDEasy is useless in the latest Windows version as it somehow requires old version of WMP media player. As for free video conversion, Handbrake is very cool which supports many video formats, however, the only freeware to support mpeg-1 is ANC (Any Video Converter). I've converted an MOV file to a mpeg-1 video file.
Then, I use Blaze Media Pro to burn the mpeg-1 file onto CD as VCD. Done.
(PS. it turns out Blaze has a 15 day trial period, so I guess I'll just have to either buy it or crack it). Finding a freeware is so hard for this.
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