Subway Times on Smartphones

Now real time subway countdown can be accessed from the surface: via either android/apple app.

This is certainly helpful. Only MTA could do this since the data is not publicly available.

On the side story, this initiative is what perhaps makes me think twice about those programmers in Starbucks. But then, I've never quite seen such, only read about them, and preachers who go to this high class coffee place to prepare their sermons.

Nevertheless, a $4 coffee is really unnecessary and I still believe many go to these places to avoid troubles at home.

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Vocabulary: Tassel

A part of Jewish garment. ציצת(Tzitzit), 繸子(sui4 zi3), κράσπεδον (kraspedon)

Purpose: to look at and remember all the commandments of the LORD, so as to do them and not follow after your own heart and your own eyes, after which you played the harlot, so that you may remember to do all My commandments and be holy to your God. (Numbers 15:39-40)

The woman with the issue of blood (12 years) touched Jesus on the fringe (tassel) of His cloak...(Matthew 9:20). So did others (Matthew 14:36).

Christ warned against those who lengthened their tassels (Matthew 23:5).

A physical reminder of God's law. Reflecting as an extension of God's grace to others.

 

 

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Louie Giglio

By pulling out of the president's inauguration for praying, Louie displayed an act of cowardice and preferring praises of non-God. Now the prayer will be given to someone else: an episcopalian.
Saying that he's being asked out is just another coward's excuse.

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Ban Guns? Print them

Now guns can ALMOST be (ammo clips)printed by 3D printers...So what's next...

It will always come down to evangelism, the right one...reaching out to strangers, not one's own crowd.

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Labeling wirings

I think it is ridiculous, no, retarded, to think of preferring cable tagging to allocating a server area/room.

I actually did a search, there are plenty of such products, of which I would admit I have seen used before.

Tagging is used to help identifying wires that are constantly changing. Not to see if there are sockets available for new appliances. But I can understand newbies like one of my client who fears she will shutdown the whole building by pulling a plug on the extension. A compromise I am willing to execute, since the labellings aren't too many right now and in the foreseeable future.

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Subtitle Downloader - even Chinese

Some firefox plugin(Youtube Caption Downloader) seems to have failed. I am not sure if it's because of Chinese characters.

I use Google2Srt instead. Unzipped, ran the bat file. Pasted youtube link into the field, Read, and I got the Srt ouput file.

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Scratch Programming: Best Programming Language for Kids

Great pedagogy for programming and even mathematics.

Developed by MIT, Scratch is the current favorite programming tool of mine for teaching programming to much younger children.

It used to be Logo. Which I think is still a good teaching tool.

But who could beat MIT. It's easy to pick up, drag and drop, fun.

Though unlike other subjects' tutorials, Scratch's tutorial is one not easy to find online at this time. A good website for learning Scratch: http://learnscratch.org/.

There is a book promoted by Slashdot (one could browse through its rich comments): Super Scratch Programming Adventure!, too bad there isn't a kindle version for android phone at this time. The promo video is very promising. I will just put this in my wishlist, until I finish reading another scratch book which I have just requested from the Queens Library: Scratch Programming for Teens.

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Barbaric Police Act in China

First it was the Indians, with the rape crime (though Africa responded they have more such cases but hidden from public), and now in China...ever since the push by many younger generation activists on freedom of speech.

"Undercover cops" dumped student into unknown van after he talked to a German reporter.

I think the liberal press should not be too surprised at this sort of things in China. That means that they should be even more prepare to grab special bonus scenes such as this after the student interview.

The reasons India and China are corrupt at this level is due to 1. immense ego, 2. xeno-hate (not xenophobia).

And the reason that motivates the authority to continue and allow such acts is because of borders. This prevents other countries to take justice "into their own hands" which the local perpetrators may accuse them of.

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New MS Access Expressions (VBA)

Tech on the Net is a good resource. Dsum is a useful function:

In Microsoft Access, the DSum function returns the sum of a set of numeric values in a specified set of records (or domain). DSum ( expression, domain, [criteria] )

Doing work for NYGC's database, I almost got stuck with a null problem (Runtime error 94, invalid use of null) while using DSum. Problem solved not with IIf Null, but with another function Nz: Nz function lets you return a value when a variant is null. Nz ( variant, [ value_if_null ] )

And with form properties using combo dropdown lists/boxes with multiple columns of a table but showing just one field that's usually default to the primary index column (or retrieving data from table that has primary index which becomes the main reference point for the other field), but the column is the intended object, use: Me.YourComboBoxName.Column(x) where x is the column number (from 0 to *) of the table sourced.

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The Insider Movements

Those who do not profess to public their faith in Christ are considered as "Insiders". These such as Gandhi, and those in this article, inwardly follow Christ from His teachings to even believing His divine lordship, but they do not outwardly call themselves Christians.

The reasons are plenty: Political, fear, etc.

Instead of forcing religion on people, my answer to this confusion is Matthew 20:32. Christ's warning against those who would drag our Lord into their own shyness and cowardice.

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