On a frigid Sunday night in 1912 the Titanic came to the end of its ill-fated voyage. The ship that “God Himself couldn’t sink” was fatally wounded after colliding with an iceberg.
Onboard were John Harper and his daughter. After ensuring his child was safe in a lifeboat, Harper went back on deck to help others board the rafts to safety. He called out, “Women and children and the unsaved into the lifeboats first.”
In a final heroic act he gave his lifejacket to another passenger, then descended into the icy water. Sometime later a survivor floating in the ocean passed by Harper who called out, “Are you saved?”
When the man said he didn’t believe in God, Harper shared, “Believe on the Lord Jesus, and thou shalt be saved.” The men then drifted out of one another’s sight.
Later they floated by one another again. Harper called out, “Are you saved now?” The man again replied that he didn’t believe in God. Harper said, “Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved.”
These were Harper’s final words before he slipped beneath the ocean’s surface and passed into eternity.
We know the story because the other man survived, later being picked up by a lifeboat. He would share, “Shortly after he went down, and there, alone in the night with two miles of water under me, I believed.”
It was Nelson Mandela who powerfully shared, “Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that frightens us most. We ask ourselves, ‘Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and famous?’ Actually, who are you not to be?
“You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that people won’t feel insecure around you. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us.
“It’s not just in some of us; it’s in all of us. And when we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.”
The greatness Mandela spoke of resided in John Harper, whose selfless acts are truly inspirational. In like manner, that same greatness dwells in you and me as children of God. So let us not play small; may we instead let our light shine brightly as a beacon of hope to all we come in contact with.
Jesus said that some of the most heroic acts are feeding the hungry, giving drink to the thirsty, and caring for the lonely. We can all make a difference in big and small ways. It just takes living with love, hope and an unsinkable faith.
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The Titanic and life: Heroic acts in unseen places
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Watch How To Train Your Dragon Online This March 26, 2010
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From the creator of blockbuster animated films like “Shrek”, “Kung Fu Panda” and “Madagascar” here comes the “How to Train Your Dragon.” I bet, all kids and kids at heart alike are all excited for the upcoming animated 3D film from DreamWorks Animation. How To Train Your Dragon 3D is based on the children’s novel written by the British author Cressida Cowell with the same title. The movie is scheduled to be released on March 26, 2010.
I willwatch how to train your dragon online this coming March 26, 2010. This is one of the best films for the entire family. This movie of a Viking teenager named Hiccup lives on the island of Berk, where fighting dragons is a way of life. This film is in 3D that is good to watch and it has a good movie concept for your children for it has moral lessons for the development of the mind for the young minds.
Watch How to Train Your Dragon Online Free, you like Shrek, Madagascar and Kung Fu Panda movie? i believe yes, now the same animated film from the same studio will be release a new movie is How To Train Your Dragon. This movie schedule will be release worldwide on March 26 2010. This movie target is a child, but teenage or adult people also can watch this movie, because this movie is so good to watch. Before you watch How to Train Your Dragon Online Free, you better to know the film plot
Lending their voice for the movie are Jay Baruchel as Hiccup, Gerald Butler as Stoick the Vast, Christopher Mintz-Plasse as Fishlegs, Jonah Hill as Snotface Snotlout, Craig Ferguson as Gobber the Belch and Ugly Betty lead star America Ferrera as Astrid. This is a good film and I will watch it with my whole family. Watching it is worthy for you can see burly Vikings and wild dragons that you can’t see in our world today? Watching I am a great opportunity and its directors are good in the film and movie industry.
The story of how to Train Your Dragon 3D revolves around the adventure of the teenage boy named Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III or just Hiccup. A hapless young Viking who aspires to hunt dragons becomes the unlikely owner of a young dragon himself, and learns there may be more to the creatures than he assumed. Hiccup is the son of the Viking chief who lives on the Island of Berk, where fighting dragons is the way of life. Hiccup must capture a dragon for a rite of passage.
How to Convert Mpg to Flv/swf?
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How to convert MPG to FLV/SWF?
What is MPG?
Short for M oving P icture E xperts G roup, and pronounced m-peg, a working group of ISO. The term also refers to the family of digital video compression standards and file formats developed by the group. MPEG generally produces better-quality video than competing formats, such as Video for Windows , Indeo and QuickTime . MPEG files can be decoded by special hardware or by software. MPEG achieves high compression rate by storing only the changes from one frame to another, instead of each entire frame. The video information is then encoded using a technique called DCT. MPEG uses a type of lossy compression, since some data is removed. But the diminishment of data is generally imperceptible to the human eye.
There are three major MPEG standards: MPEG-1, MPEG-2 and MPEG-4.
1.The most common implementations of the MPEG-1 standard provide a video resolution of 352-by-240 at 30 frames per second (fps). This produces video quality slightly below the quality of conventional VCR videos.
2.MPEG-2 offers resolutions of 720×480 and 1280×720 at 60 fps, with full CD-quality audio. This is sufficient for all the major TV standards, including NTSC , and even HDTV . MPEG-2 is used by DVD-ROMs . MPEG-2 can compress a 2 hour video into a few gigabytes. While decompressing an MPEG-2 data stream requires only modest computing power, encoding video in MPEG-2 format requires significantly more processing power.
3.MPEG-4 is a graphics and video compression algorithm standard that is based on MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 and Apple QuickTime technology. Wavelet -based MPEG-4 files are smaller than JPEG or QuickTime files, so they are designed to transmit video and images over a narrower bandwidth and can mix video with text, graphics and 2-D and 3-D animation layers. MPEG-4 was standardized in October 1998 in the ISO /IEC document 14496.
What is flv or swf?
FLV is Flash video files, and is basically a stream of images and sound. This means you can stream these from a stream server, and get benefits like the ability to start streaming from anywhere in the file and such processing.SWF files are not streaming media, but complete files with scripts and more. This means they will transfer over the http protocol from the first byte and if you need something in the last end of the file you will have to wait for the whole file to transfer.If you however transfer the FLV file over HTTP the same applies also there. But FLV files can with macromedia media playback be transferred over the streaming protocol in a different fashion.That was a short summary for how you can use the two files differently.FLV can also be used as video inside your animation as any other video. And it offers possibility of masking and so on, which swf have more limits with.
if u wanna add ur videos to website? .flv files are the preferred choice !just cause it will takes smaller size,transmits fast ….flv has been the main video format applied on the website ! so the demand to convert mpeg to flv becomes more and more,Today i’ll take video to flash encoder as an exmple to introduce how to convert mpeg to flv or swf…
Step1 Add source file(.mpeg)
Step 2. Select source file (.mpeg)
Step3. Convert mpeg to flv
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